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PUBLIf^ED TRI-WEEKL^ BULL VS SEAR Waj tSae Gafdrameot Prosecutes Oae and Let the 0 her Go Free. GIVES A POOR fXCUSE Why the Man Who Tries to Raise the Price of Cotton Breaks the Law, While the Man Who Tries to Low er the Price Does Not Break the Law. The following correspondence ex plains itself: -? Abbeville, S. C, Oct. 31, 1911. Hon. Geo. W. WickerBham, Attorney General, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: I note that the case against the Wall street "'bulls" charg ing them with cornering cotton is still In the courts and assume that you will push the prosecution to a conclusion. While I do not concur in the opin ion that it was the proper function of the government to interfere with the enhanced value of a commodity that meant so much for tho wealth of this country, I assume that you can Justify the prosecution legally. If then the go vernment had a legal right to proceed against a combina tion of speculators whose purpose was to Zoree it has the same legal right to proceed against a combination whose purpose is to force down the price of the same commodity. Of the American cotton crop, ap proximately one-half is sold in for eign markets. A decline of two cents per pound means the loss to this country of $60,000,000 and to the Southern farmer of $120,000,000. It Is certain that "bear" pressure on Wall street has forced a decline of fully three cents per pound in the present market, thereby robbing the South of approximately $ 105,000,000, and giving it to foreign spinners. This decline has been brought about. by the bear element overselling the mar ket, publishing false or misleading1 statements, and combining to keep buyers out of the market. With no extensive knowledge of exchange methods, I think it is safe to say "that if a- combination may advance the market, a combination may like wise depress it, and the fact is, it is now being done. Then should' not the government interpose? If it was right In the former instance it is right in this; and. when the wealth of the nation Is threatened and the competency of j Southern homes lu being absorbed by the foreigners, should not the govern ment at least place the weight of its influence and power with its own cit izens? An investigation of "bear" tactics would probably reveal ample ground for criminal action against the leaders and prosecution would probably dissolve the unfair combi nation and allow cotton to resume Its normal price. At any rate it seems incumbent on the government, In the premises, to throw the weight of its power with the people. This lei *r is not written in any carping spirit, but in the hope that you may see the other side oi the question, as the cotton producer sees it, and use the arm of the law, as far as possible for their relief. I would rather to have an expres sion of opinion from you, as to wheth er such a prosecution would, in your judgment, be entertained by the courts, and if it would, what likeli hood there is, It any, of the depart ment of justice taking such a step. Living in this section where cotton is the prevailing crop, it is a great disappointment to me that the pro ducer should be robbed of his legiti mate profit on that crop. If the gov ernment can extend any aid, it could never come more timely. Respectfully, Wyatt Aiken, M. C. Mr. Wickersham's Reply. Office of Attorney General, Washington, D. C, Nov. 6, 1911. Hon. Wyatt Aiken, M. M., Abbeville. South Carolina. My Dear Sir: I have your favor of 31st ultimo. I quite agree with you on the general proposition that, it cornering a product which is dealt in interstate commerce, for the purpose of increasing its price, is illegal, sim ilar cornering for the purpose of de pressing its price is likewise illegal. The formation of a corner for the in creasing of the price is easily under stood. A number of men get togeth er and, by their combined means or credit, buy up enough of the commod ity to controll the market, withhold it from sale until the demand for it forces the price to the point at which they are willing to let it go, and thereby impose upon the manufactui er, who must use the product, the burden of an artificial price. It is not so clear by what process a "bear pool" is organized or conduct ed, and I have no evidence in this de partment of a tangible character which enables me to form the opinion that any designated individuals have combined to depress the pri.:e of cot ton below its normal figure. More over, it is not quite clear in my mind how such a "bear pool" can operate to restrain interstate commerce. I suppose the method by which such a combination would operate would be to throw upon the market at a given time a quantity of a commodity in ex cess of the demand which would re sult in its being taken only at prices JAIL SENTENCE FOR ABDUCTOR OF YOUNG GIRL. Her Preacher Affinity Doffs His Dis graced Ministerial Garb for Prison Stripes. A dispatch from Shelby, N. C, says Rev. B. L. Padgett, the holiness min ister indicted under several charges for illegal relations with pretty Miss Carrie Stockton of Kings Mountain, was convicted of the most serious of the charges against him in tbe su perior court of Cleveland county at that place. Judge Webb sentenced .Padgett to two years in the State 'penitentiary, and Solicitor Wilson cancelled the other indictments against him. Padgett is a tall, rather handsome man, with an intellectual face. He first knew the Stockton girl when she was a mere child, twelve years ago, end has been going to her home in Kings Mountain since that time. Some time ago he held a series of meetings there and boarded at the Stockton home, several members of the family boing members of his church. He seemed to be infatuated with this lit tle daughter and made gifts of cloth ing and jewelry. There are other indictments stand ing against Padgett in Burke County, N. C, and Greenville, S. C, both growing out of. his relations with the Stockton girl. The charge against him at Greenville is for kidnapping the girl, the arrest having been made In Atlanta. He will be turned over to the Greenville authorities when he j completes his sentence in North Car 'olina. The charge against him in 1 Burke County is a more serious one I than that on whicih he was convicted (at Shelbj', having been a capital of fense prior to a charge of statue a few years ago. During the trial Mrs. Padgett and hhi daughter sat besides him and lis tened intently to the evidence. Many people wera at Shelby from Kings Mountain., where the sentiment is strong against (him, and the court room was.crowded throughout the hearing of the evidence. The Stock ton holding a position as superintend ent of the spining room in one of the large mills there. which the purchasers thought would enable them to sell.at.a profit. I don't at all know what the prac tice is among the cotton growers In your State, for instance, respecting the sale pf their product. When I last had occasion to examine the question, which was a few years ago, the crop was pretty generally Bold to the cotton factors before it was pick ed, the price being based upon the prevailing price of the previous year, and increased or decreased according to the ratio between the crop produc ed in the country the preceeding year, and the estimated crop of the current year. Generally speaking, I take It that the "bulls" and "bears" are the bro kers Wiho, on the cotton exchange, at a given time, are seeking to increase and depress prices respectively. The "bears" are trying to beat down the prices in order fo buy at a lower fig ure and the "bulls" are trying to run prices up in order to sell at a higher figure. The interests of the spinners would be, generally, with the "bears," and the interests of the factors, or cotton dealers, would be with the "bulls." A "bear" movement would be initiated if, for example, concerns dealing in cotton had borrowed very largely on a close margin and, for some reason or other, were compelled to sell for the purpose of meeting other loans, and a movement, once begun, toward the lowering of prices, would be apt to gain headway because other peo ple, having cotton ou margin, would be fearful of greater loss if they wait ed until the price went lower, and so would rush into the market determin ed to get rid of their product at a given time. How a "bear pool" would operate, I confess I do not quite understand, nor do 1 know of the existence of any such pool. By- pool 1 mean a group of men who, for the purpose of con trolling the price of a commodity, in their own interest, buy a sufficiently i large amount of the prop*';;- to en able them to control the price in the market. I write, giving you just my impressions of the subject, because you may have fuller knowledge than 1, and I should be very glad to have you give me any detailed information available to you, going to show the existence and operation of any combi nation formed for the purpose of de pressing the price of cotton, j In the proceeding against those en I gaged in the so-called "bull cotton j pool"' which the government brought a year or so ago, the United States circuit court In New York held that "corners" were illegal and immoral, but that a combination formed to corner and enhance the price of cot ton did not operate in restraint of in terstate commerce even though, as was alleged in the indictment, the necessary effect, as well as the intend ed purpose, of the combination was to increase the price which the spinners had to pay .and. as a matter of fact, by so increasing the priie a large per centage of the spinners had refrained from manufacture and had thereby been restrained in commerce among the several States. An appeal from the judgment of the court, sustain ing a demurrer to the essential counts of the indictment, has been argued in ORANGEB SAYS HE WAS THE MAN ATLANTA JUDGE SAYS GAME WAS WORKED ON HIM. The Case of the Want Ad. Wooing Preacher in Atlanta Seems to Be Mixed Up. An Atlanta dispatch says the Fer ren matrimonial case is holding the minds of people of that city puzzlied, as one development follows another in surprising succession. Letters have been received by Judge Nash R. Broyles from Gaffney. S. C, indicat ing that the man who appeared be fore him last Thursday saying he was the Rev. W.A. Ferrell was an im-' personator who simply wanted to clear the name of Ferrell. On November 1 a man giving his name as Rev. W. A. Ferrell was ar rested on complaint of a young lady, the man having answered anony mously an advertisement she placed in the paper asking for a position as bookkeeper and offering to marry her. The case was dismissed as the man's proposition seemed to have been sincere. Last Thursday another gentleman presented himself to Judge Broyles with letters showing he was Rev. W. A. Ferrell and declared that the first man was an imposter who had used his name without authority. The judge gave him a letter of exonera tion. Letters just received indicate that a friend of the real Rev. Ferrell who was in fact tried in Atlanta, came to Atlanta and obtained the exonera tion by deception. A picrore was sent in one of the letters?a minia ture of Rev. W. A. Ferrell?and it is pronounced by the judge and court attendants as a photograph of the man who was tried at Atlanta for his want-ad wooing. i The case seems to be much mixed up. Mr. Ferrell may have to ap peal to his conference, which soon meets at Bennettsville to look into the matter and exonerate him. This is the best course for him to pur sue if he was not really the man who was tried before Judge Broyles at Atlanta. ESCAPES WITH WRONG TWIN. Planned to Wed Mary, But Took Sis ter Betty by Mistake. Capt. Harry R. Edward3 of the schooner May H. eloped from Kent (sland Monday night with Miss Betty Harrison, daughter of G. F. Harrison, a farmer who lives near Anapolis, Ind. Edwards spent his vacation last summer at a house near that of the Harrisons, who had twin daughters. People living on the Island have often mistaken one of them for the other jnd that was what Edwards did when he eloped Monday night. He landed from the schooner intending to elope with Mary Harrison. He met Betty drst, and thinking ?he was Mary hur ried her off to a parson and then aboard the schooner. The schooner is somewhere in Che sapeake Bay, with Edwards and his wife aboard, headed for Baltimore, while Mary is mourning the fate that leaves her a single woman. It was re ported last summer that Betty was jealous of the attention paid her sis ter by Edwards, and it is believed she learned Edwards was going to marry 'Mary', and decided the best way to stop it was to marry him her self. YOUNG GIRL WAS KILLED And Her Body Wus Thrown in the Miami River. A Miami, Fla., dispatch says that Hattie Parcel the 15-year-old girl whose body was found in the Miami river was dead when thrown in the water, was the principal testimony brought out at Tuesday's trial of P. C. Cox, charged with the murder. The evidence was given by Dr. A. G. Post, who conducted the post mor tem examination. According to Dr. Post, the girl's wounds indicated that she had been killed with a sand bag and that she had been dead about twelve hours when found. The con dition of the body indicated that it had been in the watch only about ?ight hours, as there was no water in the lungs or stomach. It is expected! that it will he several days before the State's evidence is completed . the supreme court of tho United States and ia now under considera tion. If the court shall decide the essential question involved and not let the case go off on a technical mat ter of pleading, we may have some light which will be of aid in the en forcement of the law against other combinations of a like character. But, aside from that, my greatest difficulty I should have in dealing with the case you mention is what I have outlined above. Very respectfully, Geo. W. WIckersham, Attorney General . Client Thrashes Lawyer. When he lost his case in the police court at Richmond. Va., Encole Su breizi. a tailor, turned upon and vio lently assaulted hi? lawyer, Walter Rhodes. Justice Turner ordered Sub reizi imprisoned for 20 days, but the forgiving attorney sought clemency for his client, and saved him from Jail. ? URG, S. C., SATURDAY,--N0\ TAFT HIT HARD Dtmccrals Have Jn$l as Hccb to Crow About as ReDGblicacs. RESULTS OF ELECTION Tho Opinion in Washington is That the Administration Can Console It self But Little by the Returns from the Late Election Throughout the Country. While both Republicans and Demo crates in Washington, which includes a few senators and representatives who happen to be there, are able to point out plausible grounds of com fort in Tuesday's election results, all admit that there is.in them but slight consolation for the Taft administra tion, j , Republicans here are felicitating themselves upon the General Assem Dly elections in-New York and New Jersey, and upon the victory of Golds borough, Republican, over Gorman, Democrat, in the race for governor of Maryland. All this the Democrat's discount by insisting that these par ticular results carry no national sig nificance whatever except a growth in popular revulsion against machine politics. Jn New York, they assert, there was the oft-recurring revolt against Tammany, which follows as day the night the triumph of that organiza tion; that there was popular objec tion to Tammany seeking political power and controll beyond its owii Manhattan bailiwick, which it has striven to accomplish in the present legislature; that in New York, as in I New Jersey, at the very worst for the Democrats, the Republicans have merely regained legislature districts which they have habitually dominat ed. For themseleves, iUhe Democrats cite -Massachusetts, where, under the leadership of Senators Lodge and Crane, with all the Federal adminis tration forces, the Republicans made almost frenzied efforts and appeals to Ray State voters to elect their ticket and repudiate all encourage ment for Democratic vitcory next year. Jn no statv -fvJection in an off year was a national issue ever more clearly and unmistakably forced than by the Republicans in Massa chusetts, when this year tlhey thrust the salvation of the protective tariff to the front as the paramouut issue. Foss, the Democratic candidate, met the issue squarely and defiant ly, reminding voters that he was per sonally interested In manufacturing industries in the state and that he waB not going to favor any policy of rule or ruin, but would insist up on equal opportunities for consum ers and producers alike. In Massa chusetts the most desperate argu ments were used to rally the Repub licans to the support of President Taft in this election as significant of next year's result. In that state only, Democrats contend, was there in the tariff issue a campaign of real national importance, and naturally they are highly elated over the re turns. Looked at in the presidential pros pect, the election results are even more interesting as affecting the per sonal fortunes of aspirants for the White House. For President Taft the results in 'Massachusetts and in Ohio hold bitter cups to his lips; but there is nobody to be heard doubt ing that he will be nominated, not withstanding Che comment that his long trip through the West and his numerous speeches, widely and fully published as they were, have injured, instead of helped him. The La Follette Republicans are unfeignedly pleased with the disap pointment visited upon the adminis tration and it is not doubted they will redouble their egorts to gain strength in the Republican national conven tion. There is even talk among them of making an organized effort to got delegates for the Wisconsin senator in the Southern states. As to the Democratic aspirants, it is generally conceded that if any Democrat has been hurt by Lhe result is it Woodrow Wilson in New Jersey, I because of the defeat of certain mem bers of the legislature for whom he made particularly earnest efforts. If any Democrat has been aided in his aspirations toward the highest honor it is .Tudson Harmon, It is conceded. The repeated successes of the Ohio Democrats since they chose Harmon for their leader, signalized again by the brilliant municipal election vic tories In Cleveland and Cincinnati, were common topics here and it is realized that Harmon stock is bound to grow stronger. Senator Robert L. Taylor express ed himself as delighted with the re sult in Kentucky, where he said he had helped Ollie James to "shell the woods." Leg Cut Off by Box Car. While standing on a passenger track at Spartanburg Junction Tues day afternoon, watching a south bound train pull out, Genera] Fore man J. W. Rideout, of the Southern Railway, was struck by a box car, which was backed up against him. He was dragged ten or fifteen feet and his left leg completely severed from his body. ^BMB-^OSi 1911. TILLS AWFUL SIORY ENGLISH OFFICER WRITES OF ITALIAN CRUELTY. Lieut. Herbert Montague Declares That European Troops Are Prac ticing Barbarious Atrocities. A cablegram from London says agi tation against atrocities by Italians in Tripoli, which has sprung up in the British press and is supported by a few members of the house of com mons since uncensored reports ar rived from English newspaper corre spondents concerning recent occur rences in Tripoli, received fresh im petus through a telegram received by a news agency from Herbert Monta gue, a second lieutenant in the Fifth Fusiliers. He telegraphed from Soulkeli, via the Tunis frontier: "I feel it my duty to send to you the following telegram and beg you in the name of Christianity to publish it throughout England. I am an Eng lish officer, now a volunteer, serving in the Turkish army here. "As you know already about the ferocious resistence which the Turks and Arabs are offering the Italians. I will only express my admiration for their bravery and fortitude, which would warm the hearts of any Eng lishman or of any true soldier in the world. "Imagine my feelings when, on en tering and driving the Italians cut of Arab houses, which they had fortified and were holding, 'we discovered the bodies of some 120 women an chil dren with their hands and feet bound, mutilated, pierced and torn. Later on we found a mosque filled with bodies of women and children mutilated almost beyond recognition. I could not count them, but thera must have been 300 or 400. "Can not England do something to stop such horror In our Christian times you can hardly believe it, but Is true nevertheless. I myself have seen it, so I know. Even now we are getting news of further massacres of women discovered on different farms lately occupied by Italians when they slaughtered the innocents obviously was one of revenge for their heavy losses in battle. We ar at this point under a heavy shrappel of flro, so you must excue me If the sentences are somewhat disjointed. There Ib also an aeroplane circling over our posi tion and directing the enemy's gun firij on us." ? ? THEY WANT FIEND'S LIFE. Angry Mob Threatens to Lynch As sailant of Young Girl. At Meyersdale, Pa., hundreds of enraged citizens surrounded the bor ough jail Friday night, threatening to lynch isaiah Dorman, aged 22, a ne gro, who is alleged to have attacked Ethel Morgan, a white child, aged 9 years Thursday night. After mak ing two attempts to get the negro to the county jail at Somerset, Pa., the authorities were compelled to rush the prisoner back co the borough jail. At each attempt the mob intercepted them and almost secured the negro. At 9:30 they decided to barricade the jail and try to keep off the mob un til reinforcements arrive. Recruits ore pouring in from the country dis tricts to aid the mob, while men are being summoned from all parts of the country to protect the negro. * SUGGS ABDUCTED A GIRL. Arrested in Darlington and Carried Back to Florence. Winston L. ?uggs, a white man about 2S years of age, was arrested in Dar!in.<;ton Tuesday, charged with abducting a young white girl who Is a member of a well known family of Florence. Suggs was taken up on a warrant issued by the mother of the child, and taken to Florence for a hearing. A preliminary was held be fore Magistrate McClenegan, and Suggs was committed to Jail to await trial. It is stated that Suggs mar ried into a prominent family in Flor ence. WAS KILLED IN GIN. Two Brothers Met Death at Ditferent Times Same Way. Mr. Wyatt II. Wiggins, a prosper ous farmer and a prominent citizen of Coats, N. C, was killed instantly Wednesday, when ho was caught on the line-shaft of his gin. Mr. Wig gins was working near the gin and in some manner his clothing was caught in the shafting and he was hurried to his death before the ma chinery could be stopped. Mr. Wiley Wiggins, a brother -;f 'ho -je<*eased,j was killed in Georgia about twenty J years ago in exactly the same man-; ner. Farmers Holding Cotton. Many counties are making reports; to the Slate Farmers' union at Co lumbia on the cotton holding plan. A score of farmers report that 502 hales of cotton have been pledged in Anderson county. * Yacht Missing. The steam yacht Alvina owned by Jos. F. Cole of Duluth, Minn., has not reported her whereabouts since the "big blow" of Saturday and early inquiries Tuesday failed to give any trace of her. GREAT PANIC AT MOT TAOTAI CHANG FLEH TO HONG KONG DURING NIGHT. Fear of Poisoned Wells Allayed by Arrival 'of Amc and British Warships as City Passes to Bebels. The Republican tri-color waves over Amoy, China, now. There is no disorder, the shops remain open and there is a general feeling of relief. Early Tuesday morning crowds be gan to assemble for a conference with the revolutionary leaders. At 2:30 o'clock the gunboat Quen kai, flying the dragon flag cast off her lines and steamed out of the har bor. Then about 1 000 revolution ists formed in line and marched to the walled city where they raised the Republican emblem over the Taotai's palace at 2:05 o'clock. Simultaneously a few tri-colorSi were displayed in other quarters of, the city. Many Japanese and white! flags also appeared. Excitement that preceded the: change of government was quickly! allayed. Fear of excesses had kept the populace in a nervous state. For several days there had been no local | government and the maintenance of public order devolved upon volunteed guards recruited from the best fam ilies. On Sunday representatives of the conservative element who favored the temporary independence of the city made a futile attempt to compro mise with the radical faction which demanded the surrender of the city to the revolutionists. 'Monday night it was plain the radicals were in con trol and, alarmed at the possibility of mob rule Taotai Chang fled to Hong Gong. Throughout the night a feeling of uneasiness prevailed and this was in creased Tuesday morning that the wells of the city had been poisoned by Manchus from Foochow. Later in the day quiet prevailed. The ar rival of the Ann rlcan cruiser Sara toga, the monitor Monterey and the gunboat Quires and the British tor pedo boat i destroyers Janus and Virago this morning helptd to restore confidence. Thirteen vessels of the Imperial fleet went over to the revolutionists at Shanghai Tuesday morning, hoist ing the white flag between 9 and 10 o'clock. One of the largest cruisers steamed up the river past the settle ment and dropped tho white ensign in salute to the foreign warships, to which none of them responded. POISON IN BODIES EXHUMED. Stronger Case^Against Chicago Wo man Now Near Death. Poison found in the viscera of two more of the ten persons who had died mysteriously beneath the roof of Mrs. Louise Vermilya, Chicago, made more than tangible Friday the suspicions and accusation made against the wo man. She still is at the county jail hospital, where she lies ill from at tempts to take her own life. Toxi cologist Walter L. Haines Friday no tified the coroner's office Uiat arsenic was present in large quantities in the viscera of Conductor Richard T. Smith and nf Frank Brinkamp, the latter being Mrs. Vermilya's son. In the case of Frank Birinkamp, Mrs. Vermilya's favorite son, the fiancee of the boy induced an investiga tion. * DEMOCRATS WIN NEW MEXICO. Elect All State Officers nnd One United States Senator. In her first election New Mexico goes Democratic. The entire Demo cratic State ticket headed by W. C. McDonald for governor, as well as congressional candidates H. B. Fergu san and Paz Valverde, have majori ties bc-Lween five and six thousand. With many outlying districts un heard from, interest in Tuesday's elections centers in the neck and neck race between the Republicans and Democrats and Progressive Republi cans' coalition for the control of the legislature, which elected two United States senators. Latest returns give the Republi cans 3 3 out of 72 votes in the joint assembly and the coalition '.','> with four seats in doubt. Should the co alition control the legislature, it is expected that one of the new senators will be a Democrat. KILLED IN GIN SHAFTING. A Picken? Man Caught und Crushed to Death at Gin. Mr. Riley Porter, of the Mountain View section of Pickens county, was killed Thursday by being caught in a line shaft at Iiis brother's ?in. Mr. Porter was working at the gin at the time of the accident. He went to put a belt on a wheel and his right arm was caught and broken off above his elbow. He was carried twice around the shaft and received inter nal injuries. He lived about seven hours, and remained conscious until! he di.-d. ? Defies Blease's Parole. At Columbia Mayor Uibbes took is sue with the governor of South Car olina by refusing to release Bratton Pettigrew, who was paroled, having been convicted in the recorder's court on a charge of drunkenness. Petti grew was a frequent offender. ? TWO CENTS PER ZOPY. SAME OLD GAME rra>r P^p!e Using the Uinal Teclics tf 8?a> Dfmocratic Patty. BUSINESS DEPRESSION Being Sprung to Frighten Voters of the Country Into a State of Mind That Will Make Them Fear to Put In a Power an Administration Which Will Cut Tariff Duties. The Washington correspondent of the Greenville Daily Piedmont says the trust game of bringing out the old Dogey Man called "Business De pression"?who always is kept right up in the front part of the stage when ever an election approaches? is being played again. Frctn Wall street comes the cry thai Damocratic investigations, and Supreme court de cisions, and the cry for low tariff, and a dozen other such calamities aro constantly threatening business. The purpose of the wails, it is be coming more and more apparent, lb to gradually frighten the voters of the country into a state of mind that will make them fear to put in power an si J ministration which will cut the high tariff duties. The trusts pretend to be greatly wrought up over recent suits against some of ther number. They pre tend, for instance, to be in a panic because of the suit against the steel trust, and are trying to make the country believe such activities as these against Big Business will re sult in a general industrial depres sion. And while they are sending out these alarms they know that the suit" against the steel trust will amount to nothing as long as a Re publican administration is in power to prosecute it' Similar suits w.jre filed against the beef trust by a, Re publican attorney general eight years ago, and that suit hasn't progressed an inch aince it was filed, notwith standing that it* has been held up dozens of times as a "horrible ex ample" of the way the politicians were disturbing business. ? } ? If the suit against the steel trust were prosecuted with all reasonable despatch it would require two or three years to get it before. the'Su1 preme court, hence the cry that this suit "alarms business" becomes re diculous. The real reason business is alarm ed, if it is true that business is alarmed?which is a question that is open to argument?is the fear of those business men who operate on a moderate scale that the money trust is getting a grip on the industrial situation which no political party will be able to break. These small business men are ap prehensive only in the degree that they fear the money trust controlled by Morgan will make some move to discipline those who are crying for a low tariff, and for some relief from the abnormally high cost of living. The Morgan crowd is standpat Re publican to the core, and regardlesf of what Wall street talks about now, there is little doubt that what it is thinking about is the possibility of a tariff cut by the Democrats. To fore stall this menace the billionaires are stirring up the old cry of "danger to business," and getting ready to make their usual attempt to coerce an other Stand Pat Republican victory a year from now. The tariff is still the issue on which the two parties must fight it out next year. Knowing this, Wall street is already laying plans and since the only weapon these money barons know how to use, since they have neither facts nor justice to aid them, is the threat of slack business. Their present wails simply are prac tice stunts to get the old bogey in working order for the coming cam paign. DODGES FANGS OF DEATH. Bronx Zoo Keeper Ducks and Cobra Strikes the Ground. The New York World says a ten foot king cobra at the Bronx /.oo gave a performance Sunday that was en tirely unlocked for by the throng gathered in front of his cage. Tho spectators had been attracted by tho snake's hostile attitude toward a small black snake, which he waa handling in the manner in which a cat teases a mouse. Keeper Charles Snyder opened tho d(>:<r in the rear of the cage to assist the black snake. The cobra coiled and (lung himself toward Synder. Tho keeper ducked and I ho snake landed on the ground. Then there was action, enjoyed by the crowd safe in front. A snake fears a shovel or a broom. Attendants soon had ono of each at work, but at that it requir ed an hour to get the cobra hack in to his cage. Died in a Little Pond. Thomas Kstridge, a white man, about 45 years old, committed suicide Friday by drowning, jumping into a pond near the Lancaster cotton mills. A party saw him when he jumped into the water and attempted to res cue him. He was in the last stages of pellagra. He leaves a blind wife^ i