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VOL. XXI. MANN ING, S. C., WEDN,,-ESDAYp JANUARY8097NO18 LIEN LAW GOES. The House of Representatives Has Repealed It. NO LONGER NEEDED. Having Srved lIs Purpose, But Now Said to be Standing in the Way of the Indeoenderce of the Fa; m ers and laborers of the State. The Hcuse of Representatives in Columbia Thursday did act consider many bills, but the membrs voted out a law that has been cn the stat ute books for many years by a deals ive majarity. Arguments extending over three hours on the propcsltion to repeal the lien law took up the time of rhe members and aruacied general .ttention from senators and roboss in tLe galleries. Year after year an ef fort has been made to repeal the lein law. It has beer defeated In either one branch or the othsr of tie gener si assembly but the friends of the measure belicve that it will pss this year. Tile vote in the hcuba to pas It from a second to a third reading was 78 to 32, although an effort was made to substitute a bill by Mr. De Vore which is more specific in its ap plICatIOn as to farm contr 8. The bill which passed, to tiird read Ing was introdted by Mr. Rchardt and mercly oalls for a repca1 of the lien law nL x_ January a i no' stands. When reached on ts calen dar Mr. Rucker asked that It be post poned, stating that hbe wisbd to ex preis his views n it but was r ct phy sically able to speak. Mr. R'chards insisted, however, that the bil be brought up, statlng that he _h d pass ed the -bi cvar day after day at the request of mere b:rs and unlues it was disposed of now Qhe diapenary fight next week might effectually side track Mr. DeVore asked that his bil be tak-u up also, which rae a, e!ed t by the house. Mr. R.chars ske -. i refcnse of his bill. He said i.e de mand for a repoal of the Iaw came from all classes and it was t4ie for the State to act If it ever inter ded to act.- Both the fsrmer and undicre i would be benefited thereby and nec compromise measure will be accepted I by the pepe. Mr. Rucker cpposed the b . He C said it simply meant that t. i poor I man wouldbe tu-ned over toti e land- I lord and with no lien law V-e ten ant would have no choice. - B : would have to accept what was offertd him at any price fixed by the muc .ant or landlord. Mr. Ayer and Mr. Hydrick favored the repeal of the lein law aad Mr. Mann said that character was theC only tasis of credit a man should have. The law should be repened and the tenant arv1 landlord put cn a cash ~ basis. Mr. Yeidell spoke ain.zg kneC same lines' - Mr. S'ekers, who had made ti e mo tion~ to surike~ out .e enacting wvords, ppsdthe passage of the bl~l strong 17 s did Mr. Grris, who said that he has yet to see any good rea'-on ad-I manced as to why the law s'-culd be repealed. A bank in Denmark, he suic. v.-ith 310,003 capital, lOnLed c.ut $45,000 on liens and tess than 23.0001 of this was loaned to negrees. The repeal'of tne loin la-e meant the es tabishment of a landed aristcoracy with a hopeless tenant class. Mr. DeVore, who had a substiute bill, applying particu'arly to farm contractS, tald the landlords wanted the lien law repealed because it would keep the laborers down. He ex9lained the legal points in the two biilsand urged that the Richard's bill be ate feted, Mr. Gary said he bad heard the cry coming from the farmers for the re peal of thbelaw, It was amistake to say that its repeal would strike down the poor mnan. "On the contrary It would gsva him indenendence and would free all classes from the shifty negro laborer. It is on the latter now that the farmer has to depend be cause of this law but on its n peal It is a case of work or starve. Mr. Verner said mention has been mde of the prosperity of the State. It was not because of the lien law but in spite of it. He wanted ia repealed at once. Mr. Carey favored the DeV Ore bill. There were legal matters to ce con sidred in & bill of this kind and the wholesale rep al of the lai meant only trouble for the farmer. Several othrs spoke on the same L'r e and at :15 o'cloek an aye and nay -dote was taken on the mcticn to strike out the enating words. The vote was as fol lows: YesaE-Beattle*, Carey, Clary, Clink scales, Darham, DeVore, Dear, Doug lass, Fraser, Garr's, Good init, Greer, Harrison, Hemphill, Harle3, McAr thu, M-:Narter, Marshall, Miller, Nesbtt-, N'cbols, Reans, Rcenardson, ucker, Scrugra, Sellers, K Smith, Thomas, VoiKinit~z, W alie.:, Wal lace, Wimberie;-32. Nays-Speaker Whale'r, Arnoid, Ayer, Bailey, Ballentine, By .Is, Be thune, Boyd, B:autley, A. Gi. Brice, -T. S. Brice. Bryan, Cannon. Carson, Courtney, C ax, Carwile, Crow;, Caller, Dic, Dingie, Dixon, J. 11 Dodd, Eps, Epting, Frcst, Gary, Geuze, W. , Gibson, Glassoook, Gyles, 2!.J, Har mn, Harris, Hughes, Hydx ek, John stone, Jones, KellehaD, Kirvrn, Lane, Lawson. Lester, Leitner, L ytre, Lit ter, McCall, McKeewn, Mar-', Wiley,. Morrell, N'ioleson, NmC , Parker, Patterson, R'chards, RA'.nsonl, Saw yer. Saye, Scarborcugn, Sh-r p, Shipp, Sauglter, I. L Smnith, D E. Smitb, Stilwell, Stubbs. Tatumn, Tompkins, Vanderhorst, VUruer, Wn:, White, Wiggin's, Wods, Wyche, Yelde'l, Youman-7-8. Gavi, Twenty. Jao. D. Rockefeller, tbe oil kIDg, attended a negro church in Augusta on innday week, and droppe-1 $20 in the colcilon basket. STATE DISPENSARY. The Stato Senate Votes to Abolilh the InstitutioD. The State Senate after a brief de bate on Friday voted to adopt the Smith resolution to abolish the State Dispensary by the following vote: Ayc-Senators Appelt, Bass, Brice, Brooks, Carlisle, Carpenter, Christen sen. Crouch, Hardin, Holliday, Maul din., McGowan, O;ts, Sinkler, Smith, Sullivan, Toole, Williams, Bates-19. Xay-Senators Bivens, Bisck. Blease, Clifton. Earle, Edrd, Greydon, Grffla, Kelly, Laney, Rogers, Stack house, Talbert, Townsend, Walker. Wcsta- 16. The pairs viee Wells with McKeith an, Raysor with Haynes. Messrs. Wells and Raysor were present and would have voted against the iesolu tion. Messrs. Hough and Johnson, who were also absent, are State Dis pensary men. The olumbi. Record says the dis pensrwy people do not appear to be discouraged. Senators Smith and Talbert have expressed themselves as opposed to the Carey-Cothran bill, and it is said Senator Carpenter will vote against it. This would make a Lie, with the deciding vote to be cast by the president, who has always been a firm eupparter of the State dispen stry system. The orig'nal Smith resolution di rected the joint Eenaze a.-d house in liciary committses to report by a bill L meazure to take the place of the tate dispensary system. Nlow what ;hat j3int committee will report and rhat either or both houses will do is as uncertain as what a woman will do Zhe next minute. Ti-e senate j:dl. !ary Is certainly pro-dispensary. The Smith resolution as amended and passzd calld upon these joint :ommi: t~es to draft and report a bill io carry out local option as between 3;unty dispensary and county prohi )ition. Ne3r!y Ai iafled. The steamer Otern has arrived at Rantlago from Klagston landen with mfuges. Mr. Turner, of the Rija toga school, who went to Kingston wit supplies, returned on the Oteri. I le says that the whole city is ruined qot a single hcuse is serviceable, and I iveryone will have to be pulled down. t :t is not believed that any attempt i: ill be a.de to rebuild, as the city is t 'cugLt to b5 scwly sinring. Farth- I Trmre, nearly all the business men t rare killed, and there Is no money If ,Tailable for rebuilding a city for a .bout fifty thousand people. Many of 1 he white residents have no shelter ' eyonI rutned houses. . Luckily there t las been no rain. The supply of pro I Isions cn hand Is sufficient for five 3 .ys and only small supplies are oom ag from tha country, People are liv- a ag on whatever they can obtain. I Death UCmpact. At B;Iltimore a dcata ocmpaot be ween two women was brought to E Ight at the Rotel Hewitt 600 Hart- p art avenue, where a few minutes t 'ter 3 o'clock Mary Crane, 38 years a ld, and E ielyn Kline, 28 years old, b ere found ic a room together In an a nonsrcus condition, with the gas a urned on full. The Crane woman g led shortly after the discovery was a aade, but the other recovered, al- o hcughi she is still very ill from the q ffects of the gas. To Coroner Caru-1 hers Frdday morning the Kline wo- 1j uaau acimitted that she and her com- I ;non had enternd into a compact to nd their lives together. She said c hat each had decided that life was b o longer worth living, and It was i rith that thought that they turned c n the gas. Takes His Own Lire. Mr. Earnest M. Tisdale, aged twen y.even years, depot and express ~gent at Summerton, died Tnursday f laudanuma poisoning taken the day ~ >efore with suIcidal intent. His con Iltion was discev red about two hours ifter the poison was taken all that nedical skill ould do availed nothing ind he died about 3 o'clock Friday ,i norning. In a Dote addressed to a member of the I amily Mr. Tisdale as dgned financial troubles as the cause ~or the rash act. Universally popular', >f a genial and jovial disposition, the raws ot his death came as a severe ihock to his friends whom he number si1 by his acquaintances. He leaves a. nother and lather, a wife and two sildren to mourn their less.1 Cotton Ginnea. The cansus report shows 12.167.873 1 bales of cotton, counting round as balf bales, ginned from the growth of 1904, to January 16, 1907. The num ber of active ginneries this year is 2,525. By states, the amount of cot on ginned of the growth of 1906 is< the following in bales: Alabama, 1,- < 215,673; Florida, 60 428; Georgia, 1602.713; L-isiana.. 837 837; North Darolina, 583.315; South Carolina, 887.192; Tennessee, 252.501; Virginia,1 13,631. Sea Island cotton ginned to1 January 16, 1907, distributed by states: Elozida, 23 666 bales: Georgia, 24,775; South Carolina, 7.761. Leaps F'rom Steamer. The Clyde steimebip Comanchie, which had the misfortune to be run down by a sailing vessel on her last rip north, lost a passenger by suicide on her following trip South. While still In sight cif Sandy Hook lightship, just about dusk Tuesday, a steerage passenger named PatrIck Burns was seen to leap from itne forward rai into the sea. A buoy and line was thro rn at once, but the man paid no need to it. The ship was stopped and a boat with the second otficer In charge was Quickly put down but after an hour the search was given uo and the Commanche proceeded to 2barleston. Burns was alone and bcoked for Jack sonvlle. Price Increase. An increase of prices in all grades of fine writting D'nper, amounting ap proximately to 10 per cent, will soon be made', according to the announce-t met of one of the largest writing pa-I per manufacturrg companies in the! country. Bailey Elected. Bailey was re-elected Senator by Tei:s legislature on Wednesday by a THE IORTAL LE.E. TlHE SOUTH'S PEERLESS LEADER HONORED EVERYWHERE. North and South His Memory is Re vered Because He Was a Great Man. All over the South and in somo parts of the North the centenial of the birth of Gen. Robert E. Lee was observed on Saturday. At Wash Ington, D. C., a letter was read from President Rooevelt regreting that be could not be present, and extall ing the virtues and grander of the life of Rtobert E. Le.. At Charlotte ville, Va., an eloquent address was de livered by Charles Francis Adams, one of the foremost men of Massechuetta, and who was an cifloer in the Union army during the war. Daring his speech he said had the been in Gen. Lee's place at the commencement of the war he would have done exactly *hat Gen. Lee did, although be may be called a traitor for saying so. As the Columbia State says last Sunday in a most admirable editorial: "Although only a little more than four decades lie between us and the great war that stirred all the depths )f sectional prc jadice and hatred, and udthough there still survive thousands )f thoe that fought on one or the >Vhsr side of that terrible fratricidal trife, who would naturally cherish Vill sometbing of the gall and worm wood of such a bitter conflict, yet the whole country, reunited in sentiment, olned Saturday in paying horor to he man who was the commanding enius of that war. To North. little @as than to South, Robert E. Lee tands today as the greatest of our rilitary chieftlans, the peer of the kblest of our o Viz ns and patriots. So arch and so kindly has the hand of ime and the rebirth of a national entiment smoothed away the asperi lesof war. Saturday the people of this coun ry presented a noble spectacle io the world for all time. They taught the rorld one of the highest lessons that an be taught. They were seen pay ng due homage to the lofty virtues I nd the radiant genius of a man who or four years endeavored to sunder i he union of States, which is now held a reverence by the people of all sec ions. The era of hate and rampant g rejudies has passed; and we are able D recogn;Z3 the sincerity the patriot ;m, the virtue of those that fought > furiously and bitterly against us. Ihis is true as to all sections; true ith respect to the South'd apprecia on of such characters as Grant and inoln; tine with respect to the orth's appreciation of such men as e and Jackson. It is to our credit D s a people that we have this noble & msnto teach, and that, before teach g it to the world, we must have Lught it to ourselves. So universal is now the respect for E 'bert E. Lee that hardly a newspa- c or published in the country failed to )in in the expression of appreciation t sd honor. Hardly a public msn, who r ad occasion, failed to voice his ad- I iration, and thousands of men, who are lately denouncing the South of a lie secession era and its leader s, vol. b ntaily sought occasion to expreses in- e re respect for the great leader. We f note the following from Collier's eekly. as It seems to us to express t this case the best sentiment of the forth an-at "A hundred years ago, on the 19th c f this month, Robert E. Lee was an. America nas had no nobler cit an. All that is best in the South, In the country, seemed to centre in E is grave, strong, devoted man. Be re the war he was looked upon ais he most brilliant officer in the army. [e regretted the approaching confict sdly he took his place In It. He stcod orughout as a tower of stre gth, a , ntre of inspiration, and he lired his 1 Lfe afterward as a model of psaceful ud self-respCcting manhood. Some thoities think him the greateet eneral the war brought forth; some o not. Nobody can fall to see in him man in whom every part of our coun-a ry must rejoice, of whom North and outh should alike be proud. When leader is so virtuous and so great he ecomes a heritage for every Ameri-t an In'succeeding time, whether that merican dwell on one side of the P0 man or the other." This is, we think, typical of the 4est and most respected judgment of (orthern and Eastern writers and binkers. It is practically what Theo lore Roosevelt said of Lee some time Lgo, though Mr. Roosevelt's judgment 1 expressed, as usual, in a more posi le manner and with less reserve: 1 "Robert. B. Lee," said Mr. Roose relt, "will undoubtedly rank as with ut any exception, the very greatest f all the captains that the English peaking people have brought forth< -and tois, although the last and chief1 f his antagonists may himself claim o stand as the fuil equal of Earlbor oro and Wellington."j This had already been the expressed] udgment of authoritative military ritis, and it will remain unreversed mtil some future war produces a reater military leader who may rank, with the first captains of the world Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Napo Leon. Next to thenm, with Frederick md one or two others, but above such edoubtably commanders as Cromwell, ai boro, Welllngton,Turenne, Conde, ~tands the titanic though illustri ous and noble and altogether gentle igure of Lee. The State points elsewhere today less than tithe of the outpouring of1 praise of Robert B Lee on the ocea ion of the centenary cf his birth, but nough for the reader to form ie ust estimate of the respect, in which Lee is held throughout the civilizea world-the reverence in which we cf the South hold and will forever hold im. One of the most remarkable expresons is, doubtless, that made by Charles Francis Adams at the uni versity over which the great chief tain presided after the war. Of Lse as a general-speaking of him along with his invincible lieutenant, Stone wall Jackson-he said that these w brilliant soldiers completely outclass ed their adversaries -"sometimes ter ribly, sometimes ludicrously, always hopelessly. This is the mature judg meu of a New mriande of a. typi cal "bred-!n-the- bone Yankee," as he calls himself. It serves to mark the long march that humanity has made in forty years. But, when all the praise is said, when the paeans have all been sung, when the greatness and the majesty and the splendid power of the warrIor have been adequately weighed or measured or apprehended, how do we think of Lee? In what aspect does he most deeply and tenderly and lov ingly appeal to our hearts? Not chief ly as the mighty victor, nor as the towering genius whose great soul, dif fused into his soldiers, was able to counter balance and overwhelm the superior numbers of his enemies; but as the man, the simple-minded, great bearted man, father and brother and son, patriarch and prophet and ex emplar. We think of him as the gen lus of the South, its lofty and fira pure spirit. He is ours-ours; though we gave him to the nation and to man kind. Said Mr. Adams, in the speech we have alreaiy quoted: "Speaking ad visedly and on full reflection, I say 'hat of all the great characters of the ivil war, and it was productive of many whose names and deeds posteri iy will long bear in recollection, there was not one who passed away in the erene atmosphere and with the gra licu; bearing of Lee." No other man in our history had hat serenity of character, that gral )us bearirg of Robert E. Lee. In these tualities he was superior to Wash ngton, as he was far superior to him n military genius and in moat quali les. It Is a crown of glory to a coun ry to have swo such men-both outherners, both Virginians-to the rotherhood of man. When the war C nded and the shadow of disaster was arkest, Lee was still the leader of his mople. He represented at its best and I ighest the new spirit of the land. He urned to the no less renowned and far c bler victories of peace, and in pri ate life, as citizan and as teacher of D outh and age in all the lessons of E be lecture-room or the the cares of 9 fe, triumphed even more splendidly i an on any of his magnificent fields a x war. It is for this, more than for 0 is martial victories, that the South Lonors and loves him. a et his great example stand c olossal, seens of every land, Lnd keep the soldier firm, the states man pure: ill in all lahds and through all hu- d man story he path of duty be the way to glory.- 2 0 WANTED TO FIGHT ,bout the Marriage of the Vtce-Pres- C ti Ident's Son. At Steuhenville, 0io, on Wednes ay, men high in the town govern ent and in legal c!rcles of the state > far forget themselvss in court as to idulge in personalities, pass the lie n nd then to cap It all, try to land on ch other with clenched fists once utaide the ccurt room. I The encounter was brought about y y some reftrence made slightingly : agarding the recent indictment of I rred O. Fairbanks, son of the 'vica resident, who is under indictment-, arged with perjury in taking out ta s marriage license some time ago this city. There was some little s rmality to go through witn thee pa- D rs in the ca.se in court, and Prosecu- 1 ng Attorney W. N. Allan and ex robate Judge H. Kerr met with [ayor- Scott and some others in 1 urt. Allan Is pushing the Fairbanks case t nd he has taken several flings at ex ud ge Kerr. In open court he acous Kerr of unfair dealing in examine. c ion, and then before he could be sioop t ed, accused the ex-judge cf term of fice as judge by the illegal traffic in t arriage licenses. "You are a lIar!" thundered ex- I udge Kerr, as he started across after 1 e prosecuting attorney of J, fferson unty. "I repeat that you are a( ia:! If there has been anything un air here, It seems strange that itt ol11 take you four years to find itC u. You are only making a grand and play on this Fairbanks case, 1 ~ecause he is the son of the vice pres- f en). By this time friends ware between e angry ex judge and the prosecut-1 ng attorney. However, when court I j yurned they met outside and each I red to get at each other, striking everal blows a piece, either in de I 1r er landing on tne shoulders of 1 ayor Scott or mn~e of his friends, ho threw thsmselves into the fray 1 order to save the town from fur-C 1her disgrace. The raayor threaten- 1 d to lock up both the ex-judge and I he prosecuting attorney if they did I iot quit trying to wvhip each other Voted it Dowa. The attempt to form a new county ut of Greenville, Laurens and Spar-e ~anburg, with Fountain Inn as the ~ounty seat, was defeated in Tueb lay's elction b) a considerable ma ority. At Fountain Inn there were L80 votes for the new county and - Many Starved. A cablegram received at New York I a the Amenican Bible socIety from I tev. Jno. R. Hykes, the agent of the t occiety in Ohina, says that there have 'een millions of deaths among the 1 )hinese from starvation Caught utim. Philander H. Fitzgerald, a wealthy awyer of Indianap:ol1s, Ind.. pleaded 1 ~uilty on Tuesday in the federal ourt to the charge of using the mails o defraud and was fiued $500 and Several Killd. T wenty three parsons were crushed r burned to death in a railroad col ision between a passenger and a reight train at Fowler. Ind., on ~atuday and ten others were seri usly hurt. Four Men Killed.] Four men were killed and 12 injur d near Albany, N. Y., on Tuesday by a collisiod between a locomotive nd a caboose filled with laborers. Knocked in the Head. Will Kennedy, aged 20, was struck on the head with a plow handle by Emer Mahan, aged 13, at Rome, Ga., o on ~ra and killed. WINS AGAIN. THE GREATEST YIELD OF CORN IN THE World Per Acre last Year Was Gath ered From a Clarendon County Farm. South Carolina again wins the hampionship in the matter of raising the greatest yleld of corn per acre. The priz3 yield was 182 bushels to the acre and Mr. A. J. Tindal, of Claren Con, is the successful competitor. A few years ago in a similar c-neest, South Carolina won the first priza, Mr. Drake, of Marlboro, having produced 257 bushels to the acre. The State says this is a great adver bisement for South Carolina .and a ;reat feather In the cap of the bureau )f agriculture and immigration which Ldvertised the contest and worked up nteitst therein. The bureau has Lchieved several notable successes in he last 12 months, this and the ar -ival of the Wittekind being the most onspicuous. Notwithstanding be Is pardonably roud of the accomplisihment of his leprtment during this year ir- estab shing the trans-Atlantic service to barleston and securing the far-reach ng decision of Secretary Strmus In the atter of immigratiou, both of which natters have brought South Carolina , prominently to the front in pioneer - roik and have accomplished so much a the way of widespread advertising if the State, when the news came ver the wires that South Carolina il ad won the national record of the a roduction of corn per acre In the na ional contest of The American Agri uturist. Commissioner Watson felt hat this happy result of the efForte b 2de by the department to have I outh Carolina farmeti In this contest E rould have as far-reaching an effect 3 the matter of advertising the re- r Durces of this State as either of the u ther achievements. k He said that such a victory coming t t such an opportune momept would t e the means of substantiating the n lams of this State as a desirable sec S ion for agricultural settlers, and Wi hen it Is corsidered that aside from y other publicity given It the full i etails of the victory will be seen by ft 30,000 readers of the farming class b f one set of publications alone, cover- t] ig this entire country, the value of is be securing this record by a South a rolina, farmer cannot be estimated t( 5o highly. The following is a copy ti the telegra'u received by Commis- w oner Watson yesterday morning: a Springtield, Mass., Jan 23, 1907. s 0 E. J. Watson, Commissioner, Co- ti lumbia, S. C. The largest corn yield 182 bushels b et one acre in American Agricultur- c1 t contest raised in your State. t weepstakes divided Equally among ti De crop each South Carolina, Ohio, ej Dwa, Connecticut.. Graduated report b our contestant follows, CoUgratula- b ons. MYEIOK. a 'resident Board of Managers Grain si Contest. d Commissioner Watson at once wired c > Mr. Myrick:a "Yours received. Information most al ratifying and welcome. Kindly wire d i at once name of man who raised 11 82 bushels. WATSON." a in the afternoon the answer came: 2 "A. J. Tindall, Clarendon county, f, 82." t1 Mr. Tindall was given the news In he following telegram. To him at lanning In Clarendon county: "You hole best record in national ontest corn growing. 0-ongratula-1 ions.* WATsoN" " Among the counties represented in he contest were Orangeburg, Fior i ne, Hampton, Kershaw, Colleton, y [arlboro. Clarendon3, Anderson, Dar- b Lngton, Bamborg, 2Rchland, Barn d well, Sumter, Marion, Williamburgs. 3 Ihesterfield and Saluda. In speaking of ths :esult of the con et and the victory of Mr. Tindall, e lommsioner Watson said: "I have realized ever since I begar, a his work the Immense value of the act that in the last national contest 5 years ago the largest yIeld of corn a ier acre In the United States or else, where was by Capt. Drake, of Marl poro county, in this State. When It, recame known that there would be i nother contest for this world's record a his year I hastened to recomir end to 3 he general assembly an appn priation a if $500 for the purpose of a State con et In corn raising, thereby enabling , ntestants In the State contest to a articipate In the national contest. e eeling sure that we could win, and nowng full well that if we could we a would reap a splendid harvest in the way of valuable advertising, such a rictory recalling the previous victory n the minds of the masses in this and ither countries, and accentuating the ower of that victory. "I was gratifying when the legis ture unhesitatingly made the appro- 1 iriation and created the cor a contest I ommission. and It was more gratify- a ng when contestants representing the3 a~jority of the counties of this State led their entries and began opera- I ions in a manner that bespoke a de- I ermation to win. It is even more k f an advertisement to win this con t et for the reason that the contest r 5 years ago was based solely upon c eid per acre. while in this the scale if points consideret- there has been nuch more involved. This scale has ieen: 1, purity and selection of seed, C .0 points; 2, methods of culture, 25 C >olnts; 3, records of manual includIng 5 ~Iearess, completeness. accuracy, st., 15 points; 4, yield, 25 pointE; 5 uaUty, including market grading, ~ ,aabilty, feeding value, 10 points; 6 >rofits resulting from entire scre, 15 ,oints, making a total of 100 points. ~otwitstadng the crops encoun ered storms In the late summer and ~ he early fall, we have been able to 3 >nce more surpass all competitors in rield per acre. "In this cereal contest: The Amer can Agriculturist offered $5.000 alto ether in cush prizrs. Exactly how 1 nuch Mr. Tindal will receive of -e national side of the matter I -annot say without carefully look ig to the records. There have :>een about 35 contestants fromt South Carolina participating, andc wr. Tinal' report at first indleated 191 bushels. Contestants In Marlboro, Florence, and Bamberg counties have followed Mr. Tindall very closely and In the order named In the matter of number of bushels. The State commis sion, of which Dr. Mell, Prof. Harper and myself are the members, has not yet considered the reports filed, hav. ing waited the grading records as compiled by the experts in charge of the national contest. The commission will doubtless meet very soon now and d1stribute &he prizas in the State oon. %st as arranged and announced last ffarcb. It is practically certain, how aver, that Mr. Tindal will receive 1200 from the State contest. It it probable that the commision will make some changes in the amounts ipportioned for prizes to school chi Iren, as this feature of the contest 3ould not be satisfactorily developed Wuring the year. "Before the gratifying news of Mr. indal's victory had been received I iad already recommend in my annual eport the continuance of this appro )riation for entering the contest dur ng 1907 and had called particular at iention to the stimulation of interest n corn growing by reason of the sue ,essful demonseration of the results of he Williamson plan. In this nonnec ion It. is noteworthy also that the orn crop in South Oaroilna, has in reased from 13,129.000 bushels In 900 to 23 013000 bushels last year.' HAD A ROUGH TIME. L Seaman Adz Ift in an icy Sea For Hours. Seaman William Lorenzen, of the arkentine Frances, which was ran aito by the Clyde steamer Com. ache last Friday night week cif Hat. eras, arrived In Charleston Thurs ay, having been picked up at sea and rought to Charleston by Capt. John [arrison, of the schooner Gracie D. 'uchana2. Upon arriving Captain Harrington, i %ported to his consignee, the picking p of the seaman of the disabled bar. entine, who had probably been lcught to be lost. Lorrezen wa iken from some wreckage fifteen Liles southwest by weat of Diamond boals lightship, after he had been in le water for nearly three hours. Lorerzen was in bad shape when he as picked up. Wet to the skin and t water which was icy cold, with a I teak wind striking him and making ie cold all the more penetrating, it to be seen that his e xposu;e was of kind which might have proven fatal > a less hardy seaman. Under Cap tin Harrington's attention Lorer zn as soon gotten into good conditi-n ad today he bears no evidenc' of the tock and strain of the exposure in :e cold water. Lorrenzen was on the deck of the I arkentine when the collision oc rred and was knocked overboard In 2e breaking of the superstructure of ae barkentine. The collision occurr I in a fog, both vessels coming on a )ws foremost. The Comanche wa- I Dund from Charleston for New York 2 ad the Frances for Fernandina. The ling vessel was of course the worse imaged of the two boats, but the omanche was also badly used up, as ready stated, having had a hole love in her bow above the water line, ock rails smashed and one of heri fe boats damaged. The barkentine ras hunted for by the revenue cutter [!minole and towboats and finally ~und by one of the latter and towied 3 Norfolk. Romance Ends in Oourt. The termination of a romantic mar tage came In Greenville when the rite of Dr. F. H. Newton sued for sparation and support. Dr. artd Mrs. lewton have been married a year. )r. Newton is a Virginian and Mrs. [ewton Is from Pjrtage, Wis. They ecamne acquia.nted thrcugh the me 1dm cf a matrimonial paper, and irs. Newton, who was a Mrs. Bianche 'ugh, iff 3red, according to the dcc or's statement, to give him $3,000 sh on the day the knot was tied. )r. Newton was. a struggling young ptician and was anxious te secure ufflclent capital to develop saveral atents, so the young woman's propo tion was accepted. Dr. Newton ent to Portage, the marriage was lerformed and the bride returned ith the groom to Greenville. Here hey began housekeeping, and pres ntly along came an alleged sister of irs. Newton, then a horse, a nephew aid finally a friend of the alleged sis er, but no money came the doctor's ay, so he alleges in his rebuttai to is wife's complaint. Mrs. Newton, omplainiant, alleges desertion, cruel y, non-support and infidelity. The ut Is for $5,000 alimony and seeks a ermanent injunction against the ayment by a local bank of a sum of money which is on deposit there to he credit of Dr. Newton. Hied in Wreck. Four men were killed and at least 2 injured Thursday afternoon on the se York Central, Mohawh division, bout half a mile west ol Albany, N. ~., by the collision of a light engine ith a caboose filled with railroad la orers. The workmen, about 25 In all ad been at work at Carners, between .e and West Albany, and were on beir way back to this city. All the ien killed and Injured were residents f this city or Reunselaer. Committed Suicide. Harry Falkenau, forty-three years Id, well known in Chicago as a musi mi critic and Biblophile, committed aloide Thursday at his some, Coloma, lich., a town on the shere of Paw 'aw Lake. He swallowed carbolic cid and died~three minutes after a hysician arrived. Mr. Faldenau has ad troubles with insomnia for years. Cen't Have it. The supreme court of the United |tates handed down a decision on zuesday sustaining the state supreme curt in denying to ex-,TudgeBuchanan 1 he addition of 1500 a ycar to tthey alary he received while he was!: udge. He contended that the reduc ion from 83.500 to 83,000 did not ffect him. -Killed Bis Man. .Tohn Foster was shot and killed a he home of Mrs. Swink in Franyla ounty, Va , on Friday night WIT VIOLENT DEATHS. The Remarkable Record of Two In timate bFamules. The Columbia Record says Rufus D. Johnson, the Atlantic Coast Liie engineer who was killed In the colli sion at Yemassee Monday night, was well known in Columbia, having run Into and out of this city for a number of years. A strange fatality seems to follow his family and that Into which he married. There were three of the Johnson brothers, all engineers on the Atlant~c Coast Line. His oldest brother. Willis P. Johnson was killed -ix years ago by his engine leaving t~ie track and turning over down the I Igh embank ment at Hampton's pond, a few miles south of this city. - R3of Johnson mar. ried the daughter of Engineer James Williamson. who was killed In a colli- i sion between a wrecking train and a 3 work train iust "utside the -Florence. - yards. Arthur ~ 'lliamson, a brother who ran on the outhern for years, was thrown out of a buggy near Elm wood cemetery and killed some years' back. Roland Willamson, still. an. other brother, was killed in a collision between the pay train and a passen ger train twenty years ago,'six miles north of Columbia on the Southern, 1 near Dent's. There was another brother who met his death by acci dent while a guard at the State peni ientiary. His gun went off and killed him. Another brother- went West Z rears ago and has. never since been beard of. The third Johnson brother 6 t running on the Atlantic Coast Line. ' VOTED AGAINST TILLKAN. i Wanted Some One Else for United E States Senator. 1 A dispatch from Columbia says Rp- s esentative Coke D. Mann Injected V ome life Into the session of the House a if Repreeentatives Tuesday when b hings were dragging a bit by refus 9 ng to vote for the confirmation of a ;enator Tillman's -re.election, send- r ng up these "reasons" written on a i heet of paper to the speaker's desk, rhioh the reading clerk called out in ierfunctory tones: G "I wish to state my reasons for not ri ,oting for the Hon. Ben). E. Tillman # o succeed himself in the United I tates senate. n "First. "he made a wanton and ma r, icious attack upon the ministry of h louth Carolina, charging them with >eIng in league with the ex barkeep- S ,rs of the State, with Col. James A. t loyt. as the standard bearer of the b >rohibiticnists, to defeat and destroy v he dispensary law in South Caroli - d Chis he knew was false and an out age on common decency. "Second. Before I could vote for V rim I should have to know how much A aoney he returned to Mr. Hubbell as d, ebates allowed the State of Souta , )arolina. I contend that as governor a te was handling the money of South a larolLna and hehad no rightto re iurn the money to the liquor house my more than the present board of lirectors has the right tio appropriate ~ i0 their own use, or to such other a purposes as they might see fit, re mates belonging to the State." Several of Senator Tillman's friends mere on their feet before the reading a slerk had finished. Finally Representative B'chards1 was recognized. He said he wanted the 'reasons" stricken from the record. 'because the people of South Carolina won't stand for any such sentiment.''" Speaker Whaley Induced him to wait till the vote was tabulated, 1 which showed all voting. 114, had 1 "voted for Mr. Tillman." Mr. Richards' motion was then put md the house adopted It by a large, mo j ority, perhaps half a dczen "no" vzlcts among them. After Bucket shops. I By a two to one vote Thursday the Sate Senate passed Senator Carlisle's 1 bill cutlawing bucket shops in this State. The bill makes Iti a misde weanor for "The keeping of any room1 or place where contracts are made for the future delivery of any stock, bonds, cotton. grain, meat or any oth er arnimal, mineral or vegetable pro duct of any kind, without the seller bing the owner and without any In bention on the part of either the sell er to deliver or the buyer receiving the same." slick Thief. The many friends of Mr. W. H. Leopold, grand keeper of records and .eal of the Knights of .Pythias of &eorgia, will regret to learn that a r maeak thief entered his home in Sav-y inna~h on Monday night and stole two aundred dollars worth of jswelry. The ] ehief was a young man. He met a r young lady as he left the house and e temsrked nonchalantly that her o trends were waiting for her upstaIrs. b lie then disappeared. Trial Begun,. The trial of Harry Kendal Thaw, she young Pittsburg mill'naire who :liled Stanford White, about his wife, .nl ex-chorus girl, began in New York ~n Wednesday. Two hundred news paper men-some of them from fore gn countret-applied for admission so report the trial, which Is expected g o be a most notable one. Thousands e, >f persons were turned away from the c sourthouse for la.ck of roc m. b kie Was a Shooter. | In a single handed combat near C4 dontez'ima, Mexico, Bert Seeley- an &rizona cowboy, shot and klle~d sia c~ i: xtcans. He killed three each in two leperate fights, and then escaped. e: Death of an Officer. . Midshilpmanl Isaac W. Hayne, son >f Mr. P. T. Hayvne of Greenville. lied on board t?3e Uoited States ship n JbarIC8tOnl at Magdalena Bay, Cal., g >n Soiday. He graduated at the 2aval academy at Annapolls In 1905 mud was a young man of dine pro nie. Miade a HauJ. pieopschts rcbbei Chas. F. Hart to retail grocer of Little Rack, .rk of 26,000 Whilm he was s'.epping trom)tran atew Albany, Ind.,1 oannday. - A TI DAL WAVE Drowned Fifteen Hundred People on Island of Simal. FEARFUL \DI SASTEI. linadreds' Drowned on Other Near-by Islands. Simaln Island Has Almeat - Disappeared. Greatest Disas ter That has Visited Thst Section of the World. The tidal wave which devastated 1ome of the Dutch East Indian is ands, south of Atchin, as announced ran. 11, practically engulfed the Is and of SImalu. Aacorling to the atest information Simalu has almost lsappeared. It is said that about 1.500 persons lost their lives. Violent iarthquake shocks cent!nue to be felt aly. The civil governor of Atchin as gong to the scene of the catas rophe. According to the brief c fMical dis atch which first announced the de %station wrought by the tidal wave M some of the Dutch East Indian stands, 300 persons periahed on the fland of Tana and 40 on the island of limalu. Pada Badi or Simain is sit ated cff the northwest coast of the dland of Sumatra and south of the 'rovince of Atchin. The tidal wave was caused by, a reat earttquake shock out at sea ear this group of Islands. Fortu ately for Kingston the eart quake bock was on land and noton sa. Itherwise the whole city as wellas be island upon which it Is located light have been destroyed. There as been a considerable number of vere earthquake shocks In difeent arts of the world already this year, cd the year is not a month old yet. 1et us hope that the United States di be spared any such calamity. Stole a Whole Ster. The Columbia State Says John reen, a young negro man, was ar .sted by Policeman Broom Monday 3r larceny committed in Branchville aturday night and Wednesday after Don Deputy Byrd of Orangeburg car led the negro to Orangeburg, where e was placed in jail. The police de. artment received informatinn from heriff Dukes, of Orangeburg, that be store of Mrs. Byrd had been roken into Saturday night at Branch Ille and a large amount of merchan Ise taken. They advised the local uthorities to look out for a negro. .coordingly Officer Broom went to ,ork on the case and landed his man. ,fter the negro saw there was no use snying the theft he admitted break ig into the store at BrauchviUe. and rrying off a big amount of stuff, td at the same time implicated an ther negro. The police have succeed d In locating some of the property aid to be stolen, consisting of several airs of s~hoes, a coat and est, bars of aap, lead pencils, pocket knives, bot les of cologne and other articles of aerchandise of the kind carried by a auntry store. Green evidently mneant business when he entered the'store ad from the property so irecover-. d made a gcod haul. Tiniman'. Speeen, in writing about Tilman's great peech to the N1ew York American, Fuian Hrawthorne says: "To-day will ~e remembered long by those .who ave followed the-eourse of the Senate ni Washington, and many years from oday students of our national Con cress, and men who wish to read for hemselves how much of the main nergy and elcquence which made It enowned In the era or Clay and Web ter, Calhoun and Benton, will find In he latest utterance of Tm~man, of outh Carolina, words and thoughts which will make them know that here is still at least one statesmaa ef b who has force, sincerity and that iatural and spontaneous ekcquene which is seldom heard ab any time, ut which, when It is heard, stamps iself upon the mind and feelings in a way which time cannot efface." Legislature Election. In the joint assembly Wednesday lolicitor John S. Wilson was elected tidge of the third circuit over Bepre entative J. B. Fraser, by a vote of 4 to .76. Capt. ID. J. Griffith was e-eleoted superintendent of the pent entiary without opposition. For hree penitentiary directors Messms I~chly, Kirby and Sanders were nomi ated for re-election and E. H. Cain, f Richmond, and Jasper W. Smith, I Calleton, In opposItIon. The first allot resulted: Sanders 105, Mobley 42, Smith 107. Etrby 72, Cain 88,. lesars. Sanders, Mobley and Smith: rere elected on the first ballot. Robbers Captured. Sheriff Weeks' posse captured four ank robber3 In the woods eight mIles. at of Green Cove Springs, Fla 'uesday afternloon, and recovered: L:500 and papers stolen from the rean Cove~ bank. A pistol duel was )ught by the posse and the robbers. no of the latter was wounded in the sad and shoalder, and the others sur ndered. The wounded man will re >vcr. The robbers feared a lyncbing hen taken to town, seeing the owds gathered on the streetn. Two. sv their~ name of R'Jey and the oth -s refuse to tell who they are, One 1,ys he Is from Texas. WHi Coem3 Again. The Whittekind sailed from Bre ion for (Tharleton on Wednesday rIth about four hundred carefully elected immigrants for South Caro na. Tue trip will take from four sen to elghteen days. Shot by Thieve. Bobbsrs tried to blow cpen the safe ,a Midiale, Ga., on Friday wIR Lynamite. Ciahin 0. W Poe was shot three times by the rbos nd wil probably dia