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Lade 4si C asn Ba-. tAdmisito#A Statement 4ue frt . edia par$ent of "imam ;4&L,br. Washington, Morch 7.--A state Mest was issued by the department.of ustice today concerning an opinion ubmitted tQ 'President Roosevelt by' Attorney 'General Bonaparte as td whether certain immigrants who were landed in South Carolina, last fall are legally in Ithis country. The opinion in effect is that the immigrants were entitled to admission to the United States and that they are in this.coun. try legally. The opinion agrees with that rendered on the same case by Solicitor Earle, of the department of commerce and labor. The Attorney General holds furth er, however, that under the provisions of the recently enacted Immigration Act the' immigrants in question could have been excluded. The. statement says: "It appears ;rom statements fur nished by the department of com merce and labor that the Legislature of the State created the office of im migration commissioner an'd made an appropriation of $2,000f ro its ex. penses, for the express purpose of on couraging immigrants to come into that state. It also appears th,at cer tain private parties made up a fund, amounting to about $30,000, which was placed in the hands of Commis sioner E. J. Watson, and with these resources he went abroad, and by ad vertisements and otherwise collected a considerable number of laborers or artisans who were willing to migrate to South Carolina, where labor, it is understood, was in great demand. Oould Reject Employment. "He piad the passage of these peo ple by an agreement, which was after ward cancelled, that they should re pay him.out of their wages from em (ployment he imight procure for them. Under the terms of the agreement, signed by the immigrants and Com missioner Watson, the latter promised to find employment for the former, but the immigrants themselves were free to reject any particular offer of employment that might be made to them. ''The Attorney General holds in effect that the original provisions of the alien contract lab%r law of 1885 were not repealed by the immigration law of 1903, and that after 1903, whenever passage money had been paid of any alten laborer who came to this country, under a previous con tract to perform labor here, such alien laborer was not entitled to admission into the United States. ''Second. This did not operate, however, to include laborers in ques .tion, because, according to the con struction placed upon the Act of 1885 by the Courts; it was an essential con dition to a violation of that law to perform labor, and these laborers (10 not appear to have beecn uder any *such enforceable contract. ,Aliens not Liable to Exalusion. , ''Third. T1hat although the passage of these laborers may have been paid in -pursuance of an offer or solicita tion of employment, and in violation of the provision of the Act of 1903, this would not~ render the alieqs them selves liable to exclUsion, as this Act did not contain any provision exclud ing from admission those whose pas sage money had been p)aid in violation of its provisions. 'Fourth. That if, however, the Ia borei's in (question had been other wise excluded from admission, the fact that their, passage was paid by the commissioner of the State of South Carolina would not have chang ed the result, since, in the first place, the commissioner apparently did not act in an' officeial capacity for the state, but under permission of the state to act as the representative of citizens who contributed money to aid in brinig~g over the immigrants; and as state commissioner, and paid the money from the state treasury, the result apparently would have been the same, as the only exceptions made in the Contract Labor Act in favor of states is the exception with reference to advertisements by the states pub lished in foreign countrie.3 sta.ting the inducements they.Affer for immigranti, * and in ' the other provisions of the contract labor laws prohibiting all persons from prepaying the passage 7ney or otherwise assisting aliens ning witkfr thie inhibition of the ~ttlitere is no exceptin made yrof any inglividital because he acting ae the Pagent of the Attorney.General holds, in ef evethat under the provis She new Immigration Act, k approved by the President v,the Immigrants in ques 've been eroluded." Barbers are S14 to bo the lot Sup. ekstitious hPol en rT "Some of ther Poculiaritles. Chioago Record-Herald. "Superstitious? I should say, yes. They wont admit it to any.one excepi members of the.craft, but barbers ar( the most superstitioua people in the world. The man in -charge of the second chair at one of the large hotel sliopE stiroped his razor and loquaciousl3 continued: "You see that mew man down at the endof the chairl He just came tc kvtork here this morning and he'll have a nice large can tied to his coal tonight;, Why? Because he's lefl handed. If he remained here ever3 barber in the shop would quit befor( the week was out. "A left-handed barber is a hoodoc to. any shop, and there's no getting away from it. You may think that'E only a prejudice that barbers hav< for left-handed kinghts of the razor, hard luck if that fellow stayed her( any length of time. I once worked in a Now York shop where there was v left-haiinded barber, and almost every day an accident would happen t soime of the others. We told the pro prietor where the trouble lay, but ac lie was not a barber he couldn't un derstand what difference it -made whether a 'man shaved with his left or his right haind. ''One day a runaway horse plunged through the plate glass window, an-1 another (lay a mad dog ran into the shop, followed by a policeinan, whic killed the beast under the left-han ed man.'s chair. Without any appar ent reaF))n the hlot wAter faucetF would get cold as ice, and the razors would refuse to work properly. Cus tomers who for years had been in the habit of getting shave three or foul times a week stopped coming and it was all due to that left-handed bar ber. During all the while he stayed there not oc of us won a bet on pol icy, although the porter used to dream some of the best numbers I ever saw. This fellow I speak of had red hair, and that, of course, made it worse, We finally induced the boss to fire him, and just as soon as h was gone things began to get good again. ''Now, this fellow on the end, whc drifted in this morning, looks to be v pretty good barber, but just as sooti as the boss saw him strop a trazoi with his left 'mitt' it was all foi Julius. In most shops before a mar is hired lie is asked whether the i, right or left handed. ''Left-handed men who learn th( trade get onto this after a while. ani theln they switch to the riglit hand that is, if they can make good witl the right. I'in scared to death thal somebody is gOing to get killed aroulI here before. 8 o'clock tonight. wher iis 'nibs' will take off lii. coat and take it away with him. 'Anlother peculiarity about barber,~ bers is that th'ey doln't wanit to shlav the first cnstomer that comes in or Monlday morning. That's a sure- sigr for poor business for the unlucky bar. her all tile week. Of course, 'some1 b)ody hlas got to shave tile first mar inl, bult you don't see tile barbers rushling madly upl to tihe eulstomfl andl beckoniing to the customer. Youll .see one of thecm go for a drinki of wvat. ,er, anothler too buisy' rdidinlg Ith spor-ing paiges to look up, a.& th< others arc all doing someothinlg thai occup)ies thleir- time. Whatever echaii the customer climbs inlto the barbei who rudls it is hoodooed for the week 'Another p)ecular'ity albout barbers is that one of the craft can tell - fellow tradesm an by sh avinlg hlim, al ~ - * 7 THILNMAs P though he'may never have. sei the, nan ibefore. The. way a barberr 1ig I n chair whe''he is getting sh.ated, and the' way ho unoon"ciously assists < the. man..with. the razor tips him off I every time. He will turn his. head from side to side in a different way than oth6r mei who are not barbers, I and when the razor is on his neck he will rais'e his chin in a way cannot I be counterfieted. I never missed out i on calling the turn on' a barber in my life." IMMIGRANTS FROM sPAIN. Ten Families Landed at New Orleans Promptly Placed on Sugar Plan tations. New Orleans Picayune. The first immigrant argosy set afloat by Colnoel Charles Schuler, Louisiana state commissioner of im migration, came safely into port Tuesday, when the Spanish steam ship Catalina tied up at the foot- of Lafayette Street and discharged a number of families, men, women and children, who came from Southern Spain in res)onse to the propaganda of Colonel Schuler, a representative of whose department has been in Malaga for some time depicting the adavantages of Louisiana as a place of residence. The people who arrived were agri culturists and all -were admitted with out trouble by the United States im migration officers. They came from the sugar cane district of Spain, near Malaga, and the kind of work they wanted to get was sugar plantation work. State Immigration Distributer Reg inal'd Dykers offered them enough locations,in five minutes to have ab sorbed ten 'times the number of peo ple, the entire shipment consisting of only some eight or ten families. One lot of the j cople elected to go to the Glenwild plibitation of John N. Pharr & Sons, in St. Mary parish, while all the rest went dowN-n on the lower coast in Plaquemines parish, and were lo TOBAOOO .S a delicious chew, Amade from the best North Carolina leaf; a leaf that has a spec ial texture, a special flavor and which makes RED EYE a specially fine and satis fying chewingtobacco. I Most people prefer it to pobcc costing one Ask your dealer for it and insist on him keeping it. MERCHANTS - Write for Special Prices.' I I II ??O3ACCO PJA AHOUSE MA,RCH 18, 1907. fated on the Beliar and Poydras plan ations. Mr. Dykers said that the arriTa of thqse Spaniards wai an event of he first importance, viewed from pr Onmigration standpoint. He consid red the Spanish jeasant a desirale tmigrant and believes that there iE to reason why they should not come tore in constantly increasing numbere is soon as those who have now arriv id report back horTe favorably, as he >wlieves they will do. Being asked if any more peoplc vere on the way, Mr. Dykers said hat about 10 men, women and chil. Iren were expected to sail from the *nary Islands the latter part of February, at least the agent of the itate immigration department therc tad cabled to that effect. The Ca. iary islanders are similar to the ;paiiiards and speak Spanish. Thickness of an African's Skull. knderson Intelligencer. Tradition credits the negro witb taving a remarkably thick and strong kul, hut the fact was demonstrated n Anderson Tuesday night, whei rannie Williams was struck over the end with a sledge hammer of sub For T *R( TRADE MARK REGISTERED P. S. ROYS Sdhnapps Tobaccc Tobacco Gr The Irni Qua Hundreds of imitation on sale that look like S bacco. The outside of 1 plugs of tobacco is flue cu as Schnapps, but the in: with3 cheap, flimsy, heavi air ~cured tobacco. Oi Schnapps will satisfy toI longer than two chews bacco. The color, size of the tags, plugs and certain imitation brandt have been made so Schnapps that they hav< accepted by buyers undi that they were getting Sufficient proof has b to establish the fact brands are infringements lation of the trade mark tradei will continue to upon by tlAesp inifritigers already entered and7 noi protect Schnapps is great many of these in R. J. REYNOLDS T stantial size and weight, the hickory t handle' of which broke in two. The t negro's head was, of course, badly a bruised, but it is stated by physicians that had an ordinary white man re- a ceived the blow his head would have been crushed like an egg-shell, and he would have died a horrible and in stant de'ath. Fannie was struck by anothtr neg ro, John Williams by name. The two had an altercation over a woman and John delivered the decisive lick when .he swung the big sledge hammer against Pannie's head. To the sur prise of both the handle snapped, as Fannie very suddenly sat down, some- - what dazed. Though her head is con siderably swelled as a result of the blow, she was able to appear before the mayor Wednesday morning. At 1 the trial another negro was also ar- 1 ranged, charged with doing some loud h1 'ecussing" at the same scrap. The mayor charged the bunch $25. til Willie Also Discovers. 0 A teacher in charge of the second primary gra(le at a Denver school was telling the children about Co- a lumbus one (lay not long ago. She CI wenty-one )yster', rtliize have been the because they a from honest rr See that the tr is on every bat genuine without ~TE~R GUANO CO., N is Made ENTIRELY own in the Piedme tation Brands Have S lity Only On the' Out Of the Plug brands are claimed to chnapps to- Schnapps, b1 ;he imitation uine Schnap red the same on the tag, side is filled under the tal ly sweetened, and then y ie chew of wholesome acco hunger, just enough of such to-' the mild, jui and shape the leaf toba packages of that this flu ;of tobacco in the famo much like quires and te often been, any other r the belief stimulatin Schnapps. chewers. een secured If the tol that certain don't satisfy and in vio-. habit of exj laws, yet the yourself and be imposed Schnapps is until the suit formerly bo v pending to to $r.oo p lecided. A sold at soc. iitations are strictly I oc. OBACOO COMPANY, WIE >ld them all about the home life of le discoverer of America and all bout his peop1,,. "His relatives," she said, "were ool combers.'' The Aext day Columbus was dis issed again. "By the way, children,' tid the teacher, "do you remember hat his relatives were?" There was a moment of profound tillness. Then a little fellow in te rear of the room raised his hand. ''You may tell us, Willie," said to teacher. "They wits barbers," said the boy. -Denver Post. . Datarrh and Oatrarrhal Headaches re quickly relieved by Nosena. It >othes the 'congested membranes al tys inflammations and thoroughly eals and cleanses. It keeps moist all to passeges whose tendency is to iieken and become dry. Cures colds, iroat troubles, hoarseness, hay fev e, "stopped up" nose, breathing irough mouth while sleeping, offen ve breath, etc. It is antiseptic and mtains 110 chemicals or (ru11gs having narcotie effect, or t1hat caNi cause le "9(drug habit." Years S rs. standard Lre made iaterials. ide mark r. None it. orfolk, Va. from Flue Cured nt Country. chnapps side be "just as good" as it there is only one gen ps. Be sure the letters tnd stamped on the plug g spell S-C-H-N-A-P-P-S ou have it-the most tobacco produced, with sweetening to preserve cy, stimulating quality of cco. Expert tests prove e cured tobacco, grown tis Piedmont region, re ikes less sweetening than mnd has a wholesome, g, satisfying effect on acco you are chewing you more than the mere >ectorating, stop fooling chew Schinapps tobacco. like the tobacco chewers ught costing from 75c. er pound; Schnapps is per pound, in 5c. cuts, and i5c. plugs. FSTON-MALRM, AT. C'