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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL*! FARMERS ONION Hold a lost Interesting Metiing is the City of Colonbia. FAVOR THE CORN SHOW Several Important Resolutions Adopt ed.. The Membership Has Increas ed.. Action of Senator Smith in Cotton Report Endorsed. .Death of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp Deplored. The South Carolina State Farmer's union, which met in Columbia on Wednesday adopted a number of resolutions of State-wide importance. The nnion indorsed the National Corn how to be held in Columbia, and urg ed upoL. the local unions to cooperate with the Columbia Chamber of Com merce to make the show a success; ' Indorsed the action of Senator Smith in calling the attention of Secretary of Agriculture Wilson to the evil ef fects of the premature report on the probable yield of cotton, recommend ed the work of Dr. Harvey E. Wiley in his work of enforcing the pure food laws; deplored the death of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, the late head of the United States farm demonstration work, and proposed a monument for him to be erected in Washington. The sessions of the union are be ing held in the hall of the house of representatives. The first session was held Thursday afternoon, com mencing at 4:30 o'clock 125 dele gates from every county in the State are present. The following is the programme for, Thursday. Minutes' of previous meeting. Election of Officers. Report of coramitees. Report from national meeting. Unfinished business. 4:30 p. m.?Address fiy Clarence Poe, editor of Progressive Farmer. The following are the officers of the Union: President?A. J. A. Perritt, La mar. Vice President?E. W. Drabbs, Route 1, Mayesviile. Secretary-Treasurer?J. Whltner Reid, Column la:'- ? Chaplain?W. E. Bodle, Wards. Conducto ??W. E. Hopkins, Hop kins. Sergeant- a.(.-arms?W. P. Caskey, Lancaster. Doorkeer 3V?A. P. Calvert, Abbe ville. Executivi committee?A. D. Hud son, Newbe ry, Route 1; Douglas Mc Intyre, M;.rion; L. C. Padgett, Smoaks, Rc ate 2. The tol. owing committees were named: Credentials?J. Whitner Reid, S. F. Parrott, C. W. Haddon, and J. H. P ice. Education?W. A. Stucey, S. A. Barns, H. iv. Beall, J. O. Jacques, T. L. Manninr-. and C. C. McAliley. iGood of the order?J. Swlnton Wlhaiey, A E. Rogers, L. B. Frlck and J. H. Claffy. Memorials?J. H. Price, C. A. 'Mc Fadden, J. H. AdamB, and W. Bright Bowie. Resoluti ms?W. C. Brown. O. P. Goodwin, . . B. Sansbury, C. F. Ka ger, and C P. IMoorer. Committee to meet President W. M. Riggs-A. D. HudsonrW C. Fox worth. Commit ee to meet Clarence Poe? L. C. Pad* ett, S. F. Parrott. Press ee mmittee?E. W. Dabbs, L. C. Padgei-. J. H. O'Neall Holloway. Among he matters included in the report of t h.e State executive commit tee, the u don was congratulated on its good f- rtune in securing the ser vices of J. B. O'Neall Holloway as State organizer and general field rep resentativ ?. The committee is grati fied in st; ting that the work of Mr. Holloway. has beer; so satisfactory that seve: al counties have been re vived and many reorganized. B. F. Keller an 1 E. W. Dabbs have done some special work, the former in Al ken and Charleston counties, and the latter in v\ illiamsburg comity. The result of :iese workers was satisfac tory. The rero:*t of the secretary-treasur er shows a healthy cash balance in the treasury after meeting all obliga tions up to the end of fiscal year, end ing June C O, 1911. A. C. Eavis. national secretary treasurer in his report to .7. Wbit ner Reid. State secretary-treasurer, shows th it there has been a gratify ing inert aje in the membership in our State The committee thinks this increase is due to the representa tives str?ssing the basic principles of the o ganization, namely, educa tion, cooperation and general up lift worV iamong the farmers in the the Stat?. The committee believes that the increase in those three States is due to emphasizing warehouse and general < ooperation. The u lion held a most interesting session Kit night. Among the in teresting features was the address of W. Is'. Riggs on "The Aims and Extent c f the Usefulness of Clemson College.' B. F. Keller, deputy or ganizer reported on his work in Chariest Hi county. J. B. O'X. Hol loway, d iputy organizer, made a very interesti ig report of the work he has done. His picture of the condition of many of the farmers is far from encoura ring and appeals most strongly for an active campaign for a more borough organization. The (fficers for the coming year were ele :ted as follows: E. W. Dabbs, Sumter, president; B. F. Keller, Col-1 I Ium, vice president; J. Whltner Reid, Columbia, secretary and treasurer; W. E. Bodie, Saluda, chaplain; con ductor, C. W. Suber, Columbia; ser geant-at arms, W. P. Caskey, Lan caster; A. F. Calvert, doorkeeper, Abbeville; H. T. Morrison, Charles ton, member of executive committee for three years. J. B. O'Nrall Hollo way of -Newberry was elected as a delegate to the national convention, which is to held at Shawnee, Okla., on Sept 5. 'The convention adjourned Thurs day night after one of the most har monious sesnlons in the whole his tory of the order in this State. Mat ters of great moment were discussed and a business plan for handling the coton crop was adopted. Clarence H. Foe, editor of the Pro gresive Farmer, of Ralel?h, N. C; delivered an address on "Sducation and Cooperation," and explained' the working of the Torrens system of registration of land titles. The un ion indorsed the Torrens system. A strong committee was appointed on bbe cotton marketing plan. On farm life and school the fol lowig committee was appointed to report at tie January meet <ng of the union by bill or therw??: H. H. Beall, A. J. A.. Perritt a&d W. A. Stucky. The legislative committee is W. A. Stucky, J. H. Claffy and Dr. W. C. Brown. The union called on the legislature to provide for a tuberculosis camp. It alBO passed resolutions condemn ing The State for its readiness over tile summary of crop conditions two weeks ago, claiming that the headlines were misleading. Dele gates from some counties stated that conditions in their localities are very serious. The Union adjoured to meet at about the middle of January. The next annual meeting will be held in Charleston on the fourth Wednesday in July, 1912, upon the special request of the board of trade pf Charleston. The executive committee mapped out an aggressive campaign of or ganization for August and Septem- j ber. The following delegates attended the convention: Abbeville?A; F. Calvert, W. B. Bowie. Anderson?S. A. Burns, T. H. Bair riss." Bamberg?J. E. McMillan. (Beaufort?W. C: Vincent. C?lhopn?B. F. Keller. Cl^ar|eston?H. T. Morrison, J. S. Wnaley. Cherokee?E. Hardin, S. F. Par rott. Oester?0. C. McAlIley, A. G. Westbrooks. , , Darlington?J. I. Thornwell, J. B. Melton. Clarendon?C. A. McFaddin. Colleton?A. S. Varn, J. D. Risher, John Beach, C. F. Koger, J. 0. Jacques. Darlingto?J. I. Thornwell, J. B. Sansbury. Dillon?Frank Sanderson, T. .L. Manning. Dorchester?C. P. Moorer, D. L. McAlheny, J. B. Whetsell. Edgefield?J. H. Courtney, W. R. Parks. Fairfield?D. L. Stevens. Florence?W. R. L?ngsten. Georgetown?W. H. Curry. Greenville?T. H. Foster, R. A. Dalton. Greenwood?W. H. Clegg, W. C. Haddon. Hampton?J. H. Adams, J. W. Smith, T .D. Wtilllams. Horry?J. A. Lewis. Kershaw?Newton Kelley. Lancaster?C. L. McManus, U. A. Funderburk. Laurens?O. P. Goodwin. Lee?W. A. Stuckey. Lexington?G. B. Wingard, James W. Shealy, L. B. Frick. Marion?A. E. Rogers, M. D. Mc Rae, W. C. Fox worth. Newberry?R. T. C. Hunter, W. C. Brown. Oconee?J. W. Alexander. Orangburg?J. H. Claffy. J. H. Price, J. D. Wiggins, S. H. Inabinet, J. B. Traywick. Rich land?C. W. Suber. Saluda?George B. Lester, J. C. Riley. Sumter?J. M. Brogdon, H. W. Beall. Union?J. M. Greer, J. O. Harris. Williamsburg?J. C. Everett, W. 0. Camlin. York?J. F. Ashe. STRANGE MARRIAGE CUSTOM. Practiced by Natives of Dutch New Guinea. Describing the work of the expe dition to Dutch New Guinea. Captain G. C. Rowling, at a meeting of the Royal Geographical Society, at Lon- j don, gave bis impresions of the na-! tives. During a years sojourn with! : them the travellers obtained oonsid erble insight to many of their cus-j i tonis. Marriage was only witnessed Ion one occasion, in this instance the' men who escorted the bridge up the] [river betaking themselves to their homes, while the bride, preceeded by an o'd woman, crawled through the ] j mud and up the bank on her hands and knees, and in this degraded po-j sition disappeared into her future j home. Neither in marriage or in birth were any festivities undertak en. White Gets Parole. Governor Blease has paroled John White, a former penitentiary guard who was, convicted in Richland county in 1909 as acessory to the killing of Eber Ashford. ORANGEE TAFT IN A HOLE The Democrats and Insurgents Rent the Standpat Republicans. THE WOOL BILL PASSED After Defeating Underwood and Orig inal LaFollette Bills, Senate Coal ition Puts Through Compromise ?Measure Providing for Reductions in Wool Duties. Out of what had appeared to be chaotic condition in the Senate, there suddenly arose Thursday a coalition of Democrats and Insurgent Republi cans, which bowled over the regular i organization and passed a compro mise bill for the revision of the wool len tariff, by 4 8 to 32. This new force In the Senate unit ed on a reduction of tariff duties all down the line and, flushed with vic tory is threatening not only to enact the so-called House "farmers' free list-' bill Into law next Tuesday, but to put through a cotton bill as well. The insurgents want the sugar and steel schedule included in the pro gramme. The House Democratic leaders are not willing to accept ihe compromise bill as it passed the Senate, but they are more than willing to meet the Senate conferees. Chairman Under wood, of the House ways and means committee, expressed the belief that a bill satisfactory to both houses was more than likely to be agreed upon. This would put the wool issue up to President Taft, and there is much speculation as to what his course v/ould be. While Mr. Taft would make no comment on the situation, lhere have been strong Intimations from the White House within the past few weeks that he would not hesitate to use the veto on any tariff schedules passed in advance of the report of the regular tariff board. Assumption of power by the Dem ocratic-insurgent combination was the outgrowth of a similar coalition formed on June 21, to send the wool en bill to the finance committee with instructions to report It hack July 10. The standpat Senators then ad mitted that their control of the ud per House of Congress had been broken and that they would no long er hold themselves responsible. The finance committee, shifting the re spondbility to the floor of the Sen ate, reported the bill back adversely the next day. Senator Penrose, chairman of the finance committee, freely predicted that Mr. Taft would veto any wool measure that might come out of the conference. 'Both Democratic and regular Republican leaders seem to feel that a veto would not be to their disadvantage. The bill as passed by the Senate was drawn by Senator LaFollette and was a compromise between the Underwood bill, which passed the Democratic House, and the original LaFollette bill, both forced out of the .way. Some Idea of the compromise may be hud from the proposed rates on raw wool. The House bill proposed a rate of 20^ per cent, ad valorem. The original LaFollette bill proposes 4 0 per cent. The compromise fixes the rate at 35, per cent. It is pre dicted that the conference will put it at 30 per cent. The progressive programme Is to remain in session until action may be had on the several schedules named. The agreement under which the wool bill was put through extends to the "farmers free list," in modified form. The Democratic Senators are neith er so unanimous or as enthusiastic as the insurgent Republicans for a continued revision. They say that much will depend on the President's attitude. MANY FOOLISH WOMEN*. Man Who Made Bigamy a Business Sent to Prison. In sentencing George William Lu cid, alias Leslie, Moran and Lay, to seven years penal servitude for big amy and heartless frauds on a large number of women, Judge Rentoul, at the Old Bailey in London, the other day declared: "I think the earth never contained a more infamous scroundrel than you." A clerical looking, plausible mas of thirty-nine Lucid, through matri monial advertisements, became ac quainted with many women from whom he received sums varying from $5 to $300 by promising to marry them. In his rooms were found no fewer than 2,700 letters from more than seventy different women. At one time he was sending love let ters interlarded with appeals for mon ey to thirty women. Widow Gets the Money. At New Haven, Conn., Burr S. Peck, a wealthy retired manufacturer, r^ged SO, who recently eloped with a pretty waitress, Miss May Bryne, aged 20, is dead. Peck created a sensation when he eloped with the waitress. They lived together a few days when Peck instituted divorce proceedings. The suit was afterwards withdrawn. An estate, valued at $100,000 goes to the young widow. iURG, S. C, SAT?RDAY, JUL GIVE THEIR VIEWS RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED BY THE FARMERS UNION. Express Themselves on Several Sub jects at Their State Convention Recently Held. At their recent meeting in Colum bia the Farmers State Union adopt ed resolution on several subjects.. The first was in reference to Dr. Wi ley as follows: "We, the Farmers' Union of South Carolina, do heartily endorse the ac tion of Dr. Harvey E. Wiley in his work of enforcing the pure food law, and we hereby request the 'president to continue him in office, and that a copy of these resolutions be for warded to the President." The following resolutions which was adopted provides for a legislative committee: "Resolved, That the president ap point a legislative committee of three persons to loof after all legislation .in which the union is interested for the next twelve months." The following in reference to a tuberculosis camp was adopted: "Resolved, That this body do hear tily indorse the movement now on foot to establish in our State a camp for tuberculosis, and that we agree individually and as county unions to try to influence our respective legis lative delegations to aid this cause by an appropriation." The following resolution on the text book adoption was passed: "Resolved, That we do hereby earnestly protest against the whole sale change In the public school books by the state board of education at its recent meeting, as such change was, in our judgment, unnecessary and imposes a burden upon that class of our citizens least able to bear such burden." The next was one endorsing Sen ator Smith calling down the fake cotton estimate as follows: "We, the members of the Farmers' Union, in convention assembled, do hereby endorse the action of Senator E. D. Smith in calling the attention of Secretary Wilson to the evil ef fects of the premature report on the probable yield of cotton for the pres ent season and demanding that no such reports be sent out without the indorsement of the department of ag riculture." The National Corn Exposition was indorsed: "Resolved, That the State Far mers' Union of South Carolina notes with great satisfaction the condi tional announcement that the author ities of the National Corn exposition will hold the next national corn show in the capital city of our State. "Resolved, That the State union urge unon all county and local .un ions the most vigorous cooperation in the efforts to comply with the nec essary conditions for the reason that the holding of such an exposition in South Carolina will be of incalcula ble value to the agricultural inter ests of this State." The following, indorsing the Torens system was adopted: "Whereas, the farmers and land owners are entitled to get credit as easily as city property-holders and owners of manufactoring properties; and Wheras. this is not true now but would be helpful all the time, and is especially important now that the farmers are trying to arrange to fi nance the coming cotton crop; there fore, be it "Resolved, That we do heartily in indorsed the Torrens system register ing land titles by means of which far mers who wish may get their land titles registered and guaranteed, so as to make the property easily ne gotiable and avoid the necessity of paying heavy lawyer's fees each and every time a title is passed upon. The following preamble and reso lutions were adopted in honor of Dr. Seaman A. Knapp: "Whereas, since the last annual meeting of the State Farmers' union death has claimed that devoted la borer for the public weal and true Christian gentleman. Dr. Seaman A. Knapp, the head of the United States farm demonstration work; and "Whereas Dr. Knapp was the first man to hear the call of distress from the cotton belt states when the boll weevil came and preceeded forthwith to organize and put into operation the most effective work for the cause of agriculture ever atempted in the nation's history, a work w*hich is to continue its onward and upward movement for ages to come: and "Whereas, it was this illustrious patriot's most cherished desire oft expresed to live long enough to make South Carolina the object lesson j State of the South in agriculture; now be it I"Resolved. That the State Far mers' Union of South Carolina deems it a special privilege to inaugurate a movement among the States of the cotton belt indeed in the whole South for the erection in Washington, D. I C, the*nation's capital, of a monu-i ment to the man and his life work in the cause of humanity and agricul ture. "Resolved further, That a commit tee of three of the South Carolina State Farmers' union be named to take this matter in charge, communi cate with' the officials of the other State unions, and urge their vigorous activity in support of this moemenL Resolved, further, That the State union urges upon eery couny and local union in South Carolina, active work in behalf of this movement. ' ,Y 29, 1911. RETAIL PRICES What the Text Books Recently Adopted Will Cost the Children. STATEMENT OF AMOUNT Names of the Text Books Adopted by the State Board of Education.? Name of Publishers, and "What They Will be Sold at Retail for All Ol er the State. J. E. Swoaringen, the State Super intendent of Eduration, Wednesday announced the contract retail price of the text-books adopted by the State board of education. Below is printed a full list of the text-books with the retail price of each and the names of the houses publishing the work." American Book Company?Hunt's Progressive Speller, complete 1 Sc, book I 13c; book II 13c; Webster's Primary Dictionary, 41c; Webster's ?om:non school dictionary, 65c; Web ster's High School Dictionary, 90c; Webster's Academic Dictionary, $1. 35; Brooks English Composition, book I, 68c; Milne's Progressive Arlthmetie? first book 3.0, second book 36c, third book 41c; Maury's New Elements of Geography, 45c;-' Maury's New Complete Geography, 88c; White's Beginners' History of the United States, 40c; Gleason's A Term of Ovid, 67c; Pearson's Latin Prose Composition, 90c. Atkinson, 'Mentzer & Grover? (Supplementary) Rope and Paper: Applied Arts Drawing Books, Nos. 21 22, 10c; Nos. 23-28, lie. B. D. Berry & Co.? (Paper covers) Berry's Writing Books?Book One, 28 pages, 5c; Book two, 24 pages plus 28 pages, 5 c; Book three, 36 pages, 5c; Book four, 36-pages, 5c; Book five, 40 pages, 5c: Book six, 40 pp..:os, 5c; Book seven, 28 pages, 5c; Book eight, 28 pages, 5c, Book nine, 24 pages, 5c. Literary and social Forms. Educational Publishing Company (Besal) Flexible Manila; Aueburg's Drawing Teachers' Manuals, Noa. I, II and III, each 25c; Pupils' Practice Tablets, Standard Course, Not. I to XII, inclusive, each 15c; Pupils' Practice Tablets, Shorter Course, No&. I to VIII, inclusive, each 15c. Teachers' Lesson Outline?free. Ginn and Company.?The Hill Readers, Book Four, Supplementary, 35c; The Hill Readers, Book five, Supplementary, 40c; Snyder's Selec tions from the Old Testament, 30c; Collar and Daniell's First Year Lat in, 94c; Montgomery's Leading Facts of English History, $1.06; CVIyer's Short History of Mediaeval and Mod ern Times, $.104. D. C. Heath & Co.?Woolley's Hand Book of Composition, G3c; Thompson's History of the United States, 70c; Wells Algebra for Sec ondary Schools; Pocket Edition, (Complete), $1; Part I, 68c; Part II, 45c; Wells' New Plane Geometry, 75c; Wells' New Solid Geometry, 75c; Wells' New Plane and Solid Ge ometry, $1.25; Gildersleeves-Lodge Latin Grammar (School Edition), 75c; Heart of Oak Readers (Basal), Book III, 32c; Book IV, 35c; Book V, 35c. Hougjhton, Mifflin Company?Se lection from Riverside Series for S$c-th Grade 3Sc; Selections from Riverside Series for Seventh Grade, 38c; Riverside Literature Series, Sin gle Nos.. 35c: Double Nos., 40c; Tr pie Nos., 50c; Quadruple Nos., 60c. B. F. Johnston Publishing Com pany?Payne's Common Words Com monly Misspelled. 22c; Supplemen tary Classic?The Yemasee, 6 Sc; Supplementary Beading?Hall's Half Hours in Southern History, 75c. W. H. Jones?(Paper): Thomas' Blanks for Written Spelling, Graded Se.-ies No. 2 ,eaeh 5c. The MacMillan Company?Klnard Withers English Language?Rook One, 32c; Book Two, 44c; Dhggar's Agriculture for Southern Schools, 60c; Tarr's New Physical Geography, SSc; Bailey's Botany, Elementary, 99^: Botsford's Ancient History for Beginners, $1:20. 'Xewson and Co.?Buehler's Mod ern English Grammar with Composi tion, 55c. Rand, McNally & Co.?Story of Cotton (Supplementary), fiOc; Rob inson's Commercial Geography $1.12: Te'ler and Brown's Business Meth od i, 70c. Renj. H. San born & Co.?Johnson & San ford's Caesar's Gallic War, Rooks I-V, 85c; D'Ooge's Select Orations of Cicero. S3c: Faircloth & Brown's Virgil's Aeneid, Rooks I VT, $1.10. Charles Scribner's Son??(Supple mentary): The Scribner English Classics, each 25c; Minis and Paynes Southern Prose and Poetry, R5c. E. B. Setzler?Setter's Advanced English Syntax. SOc. Silver Burdett & Co.?Stepping Stones to Literature?Supplemen tary: A First Reader. 20c; A Second Reader, 25c; A Third Reader, 30c; White's the Making of South Caroli na. 50c. Parker P. Simmons?Manilla: American History Leaflets, 10c; A Record of My Reading, 6c. The Southern Publishing Company ?Wallace's United States Civil Gov ernment, 45c; Wallace's South Caro ?.'na Civil Government (With South Carolina Constitution and Index), ,60c; Wallace's United States and South Carolina Civil Government (Combined), 75c. W. H. Wheeler & Co.?(Basal): Wheeler's Graded Primer, 25c; Wheeler's Graded First Reader, 25c; Wheeler's Graded Second Reader, 35c. World Book Company?Primer of Hygiene, 35; Primer of Sanitation, "A complete official list of all the 10c; Human Physiology, 60c. adoptions has been furnished the- R L. Bryan Company of Columbia, which firm will serve as manager of the central text-book depository. Un der the text-book contract the man ager of t'he central depository was to be selected by the publishers and ap proved by the State board of educa tion. All local dealers in text-books should therefore communicate at once with the R. L. Bryan company in order that arrangements may be made for Introducing new books re cently adopted. SAW THE HUMAN SOUL. Tells of Many Experiments He Has Made at Deathbed. Dr. Duncan MacDougall, of Haver hill, Mass., who has been long a stu dent of physico-psychical phenoma, declares his belief that the human soul weighs from one-half ounce to nearly an ounce and a quarter, and further that the soul substance is blended with the plotoplasm of the brain and spinal chord in life. Dr. MacDougal says it has been his experience in a dozen instances to stretched on a bed that was part of a delicately adjusted scale, and to hear as the patient's last breath leaves the body the noise of the dropping weight. Again sitting in a darkened room, he has watched the strong ray of white light rest along the body of a dying man, converting him like a silver bar from head to feet and over the face. Dr. MacDougal and his assistants has made closese obser vation of the light to sec if that in tangi-shape in cloud or in wavering tints see a man or woman from he outworn body. THEY WON'T GET RICH. The Scale of Wages Paid the Work men in the Orient. Clarence Poe, in the July World's Work, gives some interesting fi.mres concerning the pay of laborers in various oriental countries. In China a member of tihe emperor's grand council told me that the average rate of wages throughout the empire is probably 18 cents a day. In Japan it is probably not more, and in Jndia it is much less. . The best mill workers in Osaka average 22 cents aday; the laborers at work on Che new telephone Uno in Peking get 10 cents; wheelbarrow coolies in Shanghai, $4 a month; linotype operators in Tokio, only 45 cents a day; presmen, 50 cents; po liceman, 40 cents; the iron workers in Hankpv average about 10 cents a day; street car conductors in Seoul make 35 cents; farm laborers about Nankou about 10 cents. The highest oriental wages are paid in the Phillipines, where the or dinary laborer gets from 20 cents to 50 cents a day. WANTED TO KILL EVERYBODY. Hindu With Rifle Ran Amuck in Crowded Chicogo Street, While the police were planning to send him to an asylum for crimi nal insane, N. Hausin, a Hindu, and former member of the British army, who wounded five persons and caused a panic in Chicago's crowded down town street Wednesday by discharg ing a rifle at the passing throng, sat in a cell and jeered at his guards. "I bought the rifle to kill all the bad people in Chicago." he said, "I hate all of your white American faces. You have been cruel to me, and I wanted to kill everybody." Hausin came to this country from India four years a?o, and worked in a steel mill in Piitsburg before com ig to Chicago. Poerty and loneli ness are believed to have affected his mind already possibly deficient from a wound he sustained while a soldier. FATAL FAMILY FIGHT. A Man and His Wife Killed in a Gen eral Kentucky Row. In a family fight, at South Quick sands, four miles from Jackson, Ky., Sunday two persons were killed and another seriously wounded. The vic tims were William Simms and his wife, Mrs. Eliza Simms, who were killed, and Alonzo Allen, who was se riously wounded. Norman Allen, a son-in-law of the dead couple and a brother of the wounded man is at large. The Aliens, it is said, attack ed tho old people. Simms fired and wounded Alonzo and in the ficht that followed he and his wife were killed. Mrs. Simms was foremost in the shooting, according to Alonzo Allen, who was carried to a Lexington hos pital Monday suffering from four bul let wounds. Three Were Drowned. Charles Dixon, of Kansas City, his son, aged 16, and daughter, aged 14, were drowned by the upsetting of a canoe in Like Michigan at Macatawa Fark late Monday. One son, aged 11, was rescued in time to resusci tate Mm. TWO CENTS PER COPY. 'Vernier Asqnith Hakes Plain England's 4ttiiode About Morocco. WANTS ISSUE SETTLED Speech Delivered in the Honse of Commons Indicates Nearness of a Crisis in Dispute Between France and Germany Over the Morocco Matter. A cablegram from London says the most pessimistic view regarding Lhe aruteness of thj Moroccan, situ ation was taken Thursday in the comment of the prime minister, when >he delivered a speech o the House of Commons which had been carefully prepared. He stated that Great Britain proposed to stand for wihat she considered her rights and to maintain the balance ol power in Tu rope. Further testimony to the gravity of the situation Is given by the fact that the prime minister had taken the leader of the Opposition into the Government's confidence, and Mr. Mr. .'Oalfour's declaration was no less firm than Mr. Asquith's. The prime mjnisterls statement is couched in strong terms. At the very opening he said: "It is obvious that this Moroccan question has reached a point at which it will become increasingly difficult embarrassing and anxioua unless a solution is found." Later he said: "We thought it right from the beginning to make clear that failing of a settlement such as I have indicated, we must become an active party In the dis cussion of the situation. That would he our right as a signatory to the treaty of Algeciras, as it might be our obligation under the terms of our agreement of 1904 with France. It might he our duty In defense of British interest directly affected by further developments." In promsing the support of the oposition to the government Mr. Bal four said: "If there are any who supposed that we would be wiped off the map of Europe because we 'have our dif ferences at home, it may he worth while saying chat they bitterly mis take the temper of the British peo ple and the parlotism of the opposi tion." Such plain speaking on a question frought with possibilities of a great European war has not been heard in the British Padliament in a great many years. The outcome of the siuation appears to rest almost wlhol ly on Germany's shoulders. If as some German papers say, Germany has reached the stage of national de velopment where the necessities of her population demand that she en large, and imposes conditions on France which Great Britain thin* threaten hey Interests, the only re sult, so far as those best informed see it, will be the oft-threatened and long averted European war . The majority of the German news papers profess to think that Mr. Lloyd-George warning was not ad dressed to Germany, but a sort of general proclamation of principles. The prime minister made it plain, however, that Great Britain would not consent to some of the ideas of Germany. Great 'Britain feels that Germany thought she co?ld take ad vantage of the crisis, and that Eng land was busily engaged ki home af fairs?too busy to pay attention to other questions. The politicians and the public earnestly hope that Ger many's programme is not one which may bo impossible. The British prime ministers statement In the House of Commons was greeted in Paris with the great est satisfaction). The ?jpinion ex presed fo-night is one of confidence in a satisfactory settlement of the controversy between France and Germany. Premier Caillaux conferred with I M. Desolyej., minister of foreign af j fairs, and afterwards with the minls i tern of war, marine, public, works and finance. Later M. Caillaux said that prudence and cool heads were morethan necessary to all parties. The Temps say that although the French ambassador to Germany, and Baron Von Kiderlen-Waechter, the German foreign secretary have taken on a tone of greater cordiality, they have not resulted in advancing the situation. Very Old Town. Near Osimo, in Italy, Professor Hall 'Osso, has discovered the re mains of an important Gallic settle ment datin.; back as far as the year 1G00 B. C. The buildings are circu lar In shape and contain numerous domestic ucensils. weapons, earthen ware olvects, etc., denoting the pas sage from the neolithic to a more ad vanced stage of civilization. Praise Sonthern Press. Mayor Gaynor told a number of editors, representing the Georgia Weekly Press association, who called Monday in New York, that the pa pers of the South were well edited.. "You tell the truth," he said, "and. your papers are moderate In tone." The mayor's secretary took the par ty to Coney Island on a big sight seeing automobile ri4e.