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LEST WE FORGET P c1 Senator Bacon Tells Why the do ut South Will Remain a si, t TRUE TO DEMOCRACY - de to He Calls Attention to the Fact That the Efforts of the Republican Par- tC ex ty to Convert the South Into o: cl Another Hayti Was Defeated by w the Democratic Party.~ t bi Senator A. 0. Baeon, of Georgia, a in a letter to the Savannah Press, a makes striking answers to the in- a vitation of the Republican Coders a for the Southern people to join the e Republican party. We present be low some extracts from Senator Ba can's letter. He says: t< We have of late been advertisei ' by Republicans high and Republi- o cans low, that it is their purpose ti to seduce the South from its alle- u giance to the Democratic party, f which has kept faithful watch and 1 ward over its dearest interests h through forty years, and to convert 1 it to the party of governmental e spoils for the favored few, the parts of absolutism and of centralization t of power. the party of profligate ex- h travagance and of oppressive tax ation. And this is to be accomplisn- 4 ed through the superior wisdom of 9 these high pnd low Republicans in pointing out to the people of th. S South how they will be blessed by being taken ixito the loving arms of I a political party which, so long as f there was a possibility of snecess in 4 their efforts, strove desperately to s destroy everything that was worth t living for in the South. The pre- 1 sumptuous claim that Republican C policies and Republican rule are ne-/. cessary' for the development of the S South is the veriest rot. Where in all time has' there ever been such 1 - development of the wealth and re sources of a country as there has been in the South during the last t forty years of uninterrupted Demo cratic rule. Who that turns the pages that tell of this wondrous De mocratic rule? Who that turns the pages that tell of this wondrous wealth of many thousands of mil lions of dollars, who that passes through our fruitful land and views our cities and town, our broad. fields t with their white and golden harvests. our warehouses and barns bursting with the garnered cotton and grain. our stores of merchandise and myr lad industries, can fully realize that this scene of present marvolous de velopment and abounding wealth was forty years ago but a bed of desolate- ashes. The Republicans and the South. The prime factor in the 'creation of all this wealth has been the great agricu-ltural production of the South - which has overflowed into the pro motion and creation of all other In dus'tries-attd agriculttral 11roduc tion of many hundreds. of millions of dollars each year, 'w ch while It has entered most largeiy into the preservation of the balance of trade for the whole country; has had no assistance from the Republican par ty or its policies, but has depended for .its gigantic success upon the rule of the Democratic party in the Southern States, preserving social order, insuring honest and econom ical local governmjnlt, and protect ing A.ll in the rights 'of property. When the Democratic party in its rule in the Southern States fails in these- particulars, it -will be time etiough to. listen to the presiimpiuous offer of 1the Republican party to undertake through its policies and *guidance, the material devilopment of the South. The alluring contention that the ~protective policy of the Republican * party is necessary of .the 'develop ment of the enterprises of the South -is plausible but fallacious. At the outset the proposition is met by the fact that the largest and most Im portant part of the productive bus ness of the South is that of ag iculture, in which, with a very smiall- exception, t~lere can be no aid from the operation of a protec tive tariff. On the contrary, under that system the agriculturists of the South, while compelled by reason of the tariff to pay two prices for all they consume and use other than food supplies, must of necessity sell their products of cotton, etc., Uin nprotected markets and at unpro -tected prices. And again, as to all 'other enterprises which could be ef fected by the tariff, the simple re ply is this: Those who ad'vocate1 *the benefits to be derived from the protective tariff base their argu ments upon the assumption that the alternat~ire is: between a high pro tective tariff on the one hand, and *no tariff at all on the other hand The enormous amount of revenue which is neoessary to support this -, *government will always require a higher tariff than we could wish, in I order to supply the revenue. No , one recognizes that actual free trade is a possibility. The revenue must be raised and the tariff cannot be reduced below the point necessary y to raise it. Republican contention. The contention is urged by Re publicans, both high and low that the dangers to the South growing 1 out of the reconstruction measures c having passed, there is no longer rea- k son why Southern men should not become Republicans. In otherwords, k the effort of the Republican party I to convert the South Into anothe' Hayti having been defeated by the Democratic party, there is no rea son now, the danger being thus re-r moved, why the South. 'should not .abandon the Democratic party and join the Republican party. Indeed t a curious logic this! Especially is it an interesting proposition when it is recalled that the last Republi can national convention said in its platform. eC "We declare once more and with- er out reservation for the enforcement he of the thiirteenth, fourteenfth and co fifteenth amendments to the' consti- AE tution."I- la The present complete enforcement th of the fifteenth amendment, as or- Ct iginally designed by the framers of it, would still convert the South in to another Hayti. I repeat what 1 have said upon a former occasion m<l2 that there was never In all history we a blacker or more infamous crime Ifoi .e effort which the Republican par- C made in the years succeeding thr ril .r to overthrow the rule and By iwer of the intelligence and virtne the South. and to place them un r the enforced domination of the terly ignorant and debased in their in. idst. It was a crime against so- to ety and civilization, unsurpassed. of iequaled and unprecedented in all bri e ages to endeavor by legislative ha actment to take millions of black ;h, en. the most inferior in blood and .velopment of the human race. ut rly wanting in the equipment for >verning themseires or others, and plaoe them in governmental pow and control over the white people I the South-a people of education. . ilture and refinement-a peopW ho. not only by their own charac r, attainments and achievements. it by the character, attainments id achievements of an ancestry of thousand years. justly ranked as not inferior part of the foremo id most illustrious race of all the rth. - What the South F'eaped. I repeat that if the South is not >day another Hayti., it is becaut Ie Republican party failed in a des rate effort to make it so. An.l ie Republican party in its latest tterance says that it is in favor of ie present enforcement of the fif- k Ten.th amendment, the chief agency y which that degreda''on and de ruction of the South was attempt Let those forget it who will, but ie men who in that darkest day of eroic effort and unstinted sacrifice us saved the civilization of the outh. never will forget it: and their :s to whom has been beaueathei hat civilization thur preserved nevei C. huld forget it. ca I take no pleasure in r-ecalling the to orrors and animosities of that fil rightf:ul period in our history. I aF rouid prefer that that dead past re hould remain dead. but when with in he promises of the reward of po tical favor and power, the people ti; f the South are njured to ally at hemselves with the party that thus dE ought to destroy them. there is pre- th ented again the time for plain sneak- C ng. When the time comes for 2 A range of political parties in the si outh. her people may well say to c he Republican party. of "Take any shape but that!" The political .solidarity of the' J< outh does not bring to it political ui solation, as has been suggested. G The Democratic party is not a sec- ce ional party. The Southern Demo- ti rats are in political asso- N ration with the Democrats of b( he North. who constitute a t najority in some of the Northern m States, and nearly half of the vot rs in most of the other States of be North. The Republican party s the isolated, sectional party' which exists only at the North. and which practically has no membership Lt the South except to hold federal )ffices and furnish delegates to the iational Republican conventions. P With some Republicans there does ai iot seem to be a realization of the ai act that the Southern people. in e heir long and painful vigil of forty sa rears ,have been influenced and sus- a aned by a higher purpose than that n which animates the spoilsman. For et e Republican, either .at the North ti >r South. who believes in the princi- T: les and policies of the Republican Si arty. I have no criticism further A han for what I conceive to be the B ~rror of his political judgment, but t1 :o the suggestion, now so freely el nade, that those men of the South g who believe in the principles of th-- i Democratic party and who revere its 7eat past, should for political power nd spoils of office, abandon thes' rinciples and dishonor tb.s self-, acrifling record of forty years, 1 w'ould reea11 the example of the !aster when he was shown the ~realth and power of all the earth. nd was teld that all shiould be h!,s I f he would bow down to that which e e knew to be evil. * f Reaped a RTih Harvest. n Pake Palmiat Robbed These WTho Took His Advice. , t b Atlanta, Dec. 16.-The police of' h :his city are anxlous to locate "Pro- s ~essor" Frank West. alias Prof. May. w lleged palmist, medium and reader., w gainst whom charges of theft we-e ied by several persons., He is alleged to have prevailed ipon his subjects to hand over to ir articles of jewelry, money, etc. , o be placed in a ba; fasteneca Lround their seeks apd worn uatiig uch time as he might direct.. Following West's disappoarance rm the eity this week several ofg s subjects opened the "conjur ' ag, and, to their 'dismay, instead - f finding the articles or- cash which a hey were led to believe the "Pro 'essor" placed therein, they ound wads of paper. etc. One victim, Levi Armstrong, T laims that he lost three $100 bilis al y this process, while Miss Jessie by Ialey says that West robbed hei ~ f two diamond rings and a diamonr1 i rooch valued a4 $!00. Another tI roman alleges that West "treated"' P2 ter at her residence, and as a re ut a lot of silverware is missing. KILLED WHILE HUNTING. be~ th romient Young Lawyer Meets Ce sU With Accidental Death. fo Blackshear, Ga., Dec. 1 7.-E. r~ ,awton Walker. newly elected so- th citor general of the Brunswick cir it, this state. was almost instantly illed in the hunting fid this after oon, near Waikersville. Mr. Wal- B: er and three friends were follow- a ig u a scatercd covey of birds to hen the load from the gun of col ickson, one of the hunters, entered co r. Wailler's head just back of the te] ght ear. He fell to the ground un nscous and died within a few utes. The shooting was en rely accidental. * at he: Another Vessel Sighted. bei The Hague. Dec. 15.--It is report- ert here that the Dutch warships. oip ating on the coast of Venezueh. noi ye ca : ured another Venezuelan ast aard vessel, known as "2 iayo."' The Mayo's crew *was ? ided on the Venezuelan coast and Foi vessel herself is proceeding to in: racao in charge of a prize crew. brit Seven Men Drown. St. Pierre, Mcq., Dec. 15.-Seven i mbers of the crew of the French ibr rship Admiral Aube. who starteli Firi -the shore last night are missing. OkI EURCED WITH E1X asRDERS Poison in the Last Three Years or So. ?omerville, Mass., Dec. 17.-Pend the result of an examination as the sanity of Mrs. Mary Kelleher. this city, now in jail at Cam dge, District Attorney Higgines. s ordere4 an investigation into carse of the dcth of .ix mem -s of Mrs. Keileher's family Jur the past three years. yhe specific charge against Mr. Peher is that of arson., but the lice called the atiention of the trict Atornc. to rep'1ri which re in circulation as to th- deaths he.r famiiy. it is sa!.M that the urance on the lives of the deeets was paid to .rs. H. Xr-lleher. The list or deaths ani the ee:seo e-ihed follow: Mrs. Bridget Knowles. sister-in died June 30. 1SC, rheuna m. Annie T. K nowics, sister-in-law. d March 1, 1S06, bronchi;. Stephen V. Kelleher, husband. d May 15, 1906, pneumioida. Mary Kelkher, daughter, died ;ve:iber 21, 1906, bronchitis. William Kelher, sou died Jan ry 1 . I SOS, heart. diL'ease. Katherine Kelleher, daughter, d July 22, 1908, ptomaine poi aing. JONES REFU ED BATL. dief Justce pope Reversed by Oth er Justices. Columbia, Dec. 1S.--The Supreme >urt today fiiod its order in the se of W. T. Jones, refusing bail the defendant-petitioner, and also ed the formal order dismissing the peal from Judge Hydrick's order fusing bail to Jones and sustain g Judge Hydrick. In the latter decision Chief Jus :e Pope, and Associate Justie3 Gary Ld Jones all concur, but in the or -r refusing bail en the motlox in e original juris/diction of the Court. ief Justice. Pops does not concur. ssociate Justice Woods does not gn either order, being unable to nsider official business by reason illness in his family. The result of these orders is that mes must remain in jail at Union itil the next term of the court of eneral Sessions at Union, hen the Lse in which he is .harged with Le murder of his wife will be called. 'hether or not the case will then tried is. of course, yet to be de rmined, as other motions may be ado. BIGH SALARY FOR FARMER. iissla Wants A.merican to Make Profits on Corn Crop. Washington, Dec. 1g.-An appro riation for some highly educated d thoroughly practical American ,ricuturist is offered by the gov rument agricultural society of -Bes trabia, Russia, which wants su'ch man to take charge of an expe? ent station' which it proposes to stablish. The purcpse of the s'.a* on is to demonstrate the possibili rof corn as a profitable crop for outh Russian farmers. Special genit Dennies, in a report to the ureau -of Manufactures says that ie society will pay the right farm S$4,000 a' year and furnish himf ras a comfortable home to live DROP'S BOMBi1S aid Shows How a City Could1 be Destroyed. Los Angeles. Dec. 1.-To demon rate .how easily *a hostile force qipped with a fecet of airships ight destroy an American cy, y Knabenahue, tihe navigator. last ight circled over Los Angeles in is dirigible balloon and from the arkness above dropped .harmless >bs on the roofs of the ct:y hall, 1 courthouse and other public ildings. Neither Knab-nshue nor is craft could be seen fromi the reet. the only intination of his hereabouts coming from the bomnbs, hich took E::e as they fell. * Fatal Drunken Fight. Wress, Ga.. Dec. 15.-John Kitch 's and his son, Monroe Kitchens. o live in Jefferson county, near ere, became involved in a drunken atrel, while here today, the row armiatig in a duel with shot :s. Monroe Kitchens fired a ad of shot into his father's breat ist elow the heart, killng him most instantly. Keeps Mosquitoes Away. Chicago. Dec. 18.-Dr. Alorzo C nney says that eucalyputs trees e a safeguard against an.noyance -mosquitoes when placed near hui an habitations. He has suggested an address that soe of the.se ces be plantedsin the~ proposed .rk bet in Chicago. * Will Get Good Sum. Washington,-Dec. 15.--It has juset en announced by the Seeretary of Interior that the State of South trolina is entitled to receive the m of $35,000 from the government r the promotion of schools of ag uture atnd mnechanical arts, under a Act of 1862. Coe Up for LIfe. Jackson, Miss., Dee. 15.-Thomas idsog, slayer of Dr. A. B. Fitte. >rominent 'hysician of Ilazlehurst. lay enterzd a plca of guilty in se 7dance with an agreement betw'een isel and was aiven a life sen Ice in the penitentiary. Horses are Burned. ndianapolis, Dec. 17.-In. a fire: the stock yards Wednesday 80 rses were cremated. two larae -ns were burned and other prop v destroyed. ho loss is $50,000. Cause of fire known. * Collapse of Bridge. 7arinsburg, W Ya., Dec. -17. r perso's were kiled Wednesday the collapse of a span of the new Ige across the Patomac here. Blew Up itank Safe. IcAlster. Okla., Dec. 15.--Rob Stoday dynamited the safe of the at National Bank of Eufala. a.. and escaped with a sum said' CHRISTMAS AND HOME WE SHQUL) MAKE EACH OF 1 THEM MEMORABLE. t And Kindle in Souls Lights Which Will Shine Radiant and Beauti ful Forever. The following beautiful , prose poem is from the pen of Mr. A. B. Williams, the accomplished editor of the Richmond News-Leader, and who is well-known in South Carolina. It will do you good to read it: Through many souls the rever herations of the bells of the coming Christmas will fall in the faint and mournful tones of a distant dirge. Hearts will be burdened by sorrow not to be defined nor weighed but so heavy that no human strength may lift it, will be darkened by clouds which none can see, but bringing with them the blackness and chill o= a starlegs winter midnight. No desert is so lonely, no wild waste of ocean waters so desolate as Christ mas time for the absent from home who have known Christmas times at home. Wanderer, outcast, stranger or ex ile, each sight and sound of the sea son is a new' bitterness. By merci less, mysterious transmutations old nleasures of past happiness become present miseries. The more intense. the nearer perfect the joys once known, the deeper and sorer is the lack of them, the more dreary the recollection. The laughter of by gone days is dead and silent, but the ghosts of it come in the sighs which mean more sorrow than any others because nobody hears nor heeds them, the tears which sting more than any others because they do not find vent from the eyes. Each Ch'ristmas light for these strange and lonesome hearts throws a darker shadow, the voices from festal homes are' mocking remind ers of. privation, the exulting. thrill ing of the Te Deum becomes an in coherent wail for the lost and gone. In every part of the civilized world people are at home or on their way there for Christmas. How many kinds of people, how many dif ferent circumstances and conditions they present and yet, how many of them have the same stories, hopes and expectations and will know the same experiences! There are the young men and women, who are gd ing home after their first indepen 'dent Ilights Into the big world. Some of them carry bad consciences, the dismally oppressive sense of wrong done, opportunity wasted, failure and disaster threatening. Others are taking home triumnhs over lit tie successes, looking large now. destined to look pitiful and trival when looked back to a few years hence. Older people are returning after long absences, hearts crowded 'with old retrospections born of renewed thought, of once familiar places, fac es and scenes. Some go -back beat en and bruised from the great battle. disconsolat~e and needing the tender touch of friendly hands, the heal ing balm of loving sympathy and caressing voices. Others, victors on large fields or small, are going to have the pleasure of the winning sweetened and hallowed by the gern erous affection and adulation we find nowhere else as at hqme, per haps. secretly looking forward to taking some tribute of the envy and freshly developed honor of old ac quaintance3. They are carrying home weariness to .be refreshed, sore Iwounds- to be scothed and bound up, mournful stories of defeats to meet -onsolation, boastful accounts of vic tories to, be gloried in. Some arrogandt and eager to dis play their success, some ashamed and seekfng strength and comfort, many go.ng becaus~e 'eof the pure, strong yearing of honest and clean hearts for home and home people and the sharing with them of the Christmas impulses and feelings the many thousand from every quarter cf the earth are bound for homes In every part of it. Poor peo pe who have pinched and accumu lated little by little are using their savings that they may be once more in the simple homes to which their hearts have been 'turning all the months or years of absence; and the rich are returning to splendors and luxuries, moved by the 'same beau tiful ~and holy spirits. For the other thousands who can - not go home or who have no home to' look to, there 'is the sadness f desolation, the vain, vague yearning for intimacy and love- and the rest ulness and warmth of home and home circles and firesides. No mat ter. It .may be fate and It niay be fault. It may be estrangement. weakness or wickedness, easual cir cumstances or d.eliberate ehoice. Howver it may be. for all these the Christmas must bring the sense of loss and lacking, of being exelud ed. shut out, apart and deprived. banished from the 'dearest glory and the sweets light of the time. Most pitiful of all the homeless are those who are homelss at home, who shut their hearts against love and light, warmth and laughter, who environ themselves with cold and darkness, woe look from behind their barriers of selfishness, anger or pride, chilling happiness- where they can, . refusing to share in it. The outoast, ashamed. -abandoned. des~iised, may look wiith hopeless wistfulness from the outside through the glowing windows at the cheer within, hut the loneliness and mis "ery are individual. Those who, be ing part of tet home circle, spread discomfort and resentments through it. too seldish to keep to themselves the consequences of their own wrong are the worse and most wretched of the enemies the home can know. Hearts go home when bodies can not. From far and near we are si lently calling to each other, through the darkness of the long night. through the hours of the day dis regarding distance and the obstacles intervening. Old friendships are re called, old affections revived, mem ories rouse to gentle life. It is in the homes that the great holiday is glorified and sacrificed and givcn the human association which brings I the divine meaning so close to u..t Homes cannot endure and familiesc must scatter. The young mother e crooning softly in ' the firelight to her baby, with its soft cheek pressed t against her bosom, knows that pres- r oust grow up and go away from t. When she Is older and looks upon Ler brood she begins to realize with H< linking heart that the time for >reaking the circle and dispersing ts members Is coming. Each gen ,ration the boys and girls grown of o men and women go forth, carry- m ng with them the teachings and he memories, thoughts, principles, w tandards and hopes they have gath- hi red in the home, the thousands of 5t *eminiscences of the Christmas in rimes they have known there. And be eneration after generation the ti< iearts of all these at this. time of :he year turn back to the homes Lnd journey swiftly along the years, -eviewing the Christmas recollectioa re rom the earliest dim and blurred a] mpression of the child to the vivid hi icture of yesterday. The dwellings that shel'ter one tb amily after another, and around wihieh so many associations are gath !rer in so many memories, present ly decay and fall in or are pulled e Iowa and carried away. The fami ies scatter over the earth and dis- 0 appear and are forgotten in the g places that knew them. With the building destroyed and the family c [t sheltered gone, the home yet lives; for the home Is more than brick, s mortar and timber or the assem blage of the dwellers In it. The t. spirit,, the teachings, the impiulses. the love and memory make Its reali ties and life and are illustrated and expressed in lives and careers through all time and' succeeding gen erations. Because the Christmas time Is the most noted and remembered of all the year, because of its meaning to G all our race and to each of us, it p is chosen: for planting the deepest h and the most enduring impressions, R which should be the happiest, sweet- J est and brightest. Therefore, with patience and self-sacrifice and love. t with earnest purpose, -with thought a for the Christmas seasons of thee future when we will not be here t and nothing will remain. of us but the memories we mai for ourselves. it Is the part of each of us to make - each Christmas memorable In the home. It is for us to kindle in souls lights which will shine radiant and beautiful forever; to fill them with t music which will live and sing, which will swell to sweet and solemn jubi lation with every coming of the great festival; to beautify them with affections, aspirations, asso ciations and hopes 'brilliant and un fading.. CRIMES IN THE PIEDMONT. Homicides in the Up-Country Stir the People. Spartanburg, Dec. 16.--Law-abil ing citizens of this county and sec tlon are worked up over a perfect wave of crime that has prevalk.. during the"last few days. The rec ord stnioe Friday night is three homicides, one murderous , assault and robbery and one stabbing that is likely to prove fatal. George MIntz, white, has been ar rested on. charge of knocking, Mrs. Sallie Green, who lives at Camp obello, in the head with an -are and ~robbing her of $75. The old lady is not expected to live. On Saturday night Dump Dorroh, colored, shot and killed Jess Leak, also colored, at Switzer'. 'Dorroh was arrested. On Saturday night Griff Parks and a colored man Damed Kilgore became Involved in a quarrel mn Laurens county, just across the Spartanburg line. Parks shot and killed Kilgore. Two white men, employed In con struction work con the .Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio, fell out about some work and one man drew hi knife and stabbed the other. The ~injured man- Is expected to die. On Saturday two, white men em plyed at Leonard & -Beckman's. camp on the C. C. and .O., enlgagedI in a quarrel and one killed the otn Mrs. Thomas, an aged lady of .this city', while walking ,through Spring street late on Saturday even ing after a shopping tour, was strue.k down and robbed by a negro, who made his escape. One white man -shot and killed i another over In Cherokee. FIENI) CAUGHT.t Who Attempted Criminal Assault OD a We man.J Raleigh, N. C., Dec. 15.-The us ay quiet county cf Stanly Is in a state of Intense excitement tonight over the first case In the history of the county of criminal assault of a white womani by a negro, and it isj feared that there. may be mob vio--i lence -before tomorrow at Alber mnarle, .where Henry Young, color- I ed, is in jail, having been beaten in to unconsciousness ,at the home of f John R. Moss, near Whitney, late today by Moss and George Leffer. 5 who, attracted to the home of Moss by the screams of Mrs. Moss, foundi her in the clutches of the negro, making desperate efforts to reach the telephone to call for help. When the negro attacked Mrs. Moss, she ran into the house and ~ locled the doors. Thung br'oke, down a door and entered, and seit ing the woman, a desperate strug gle ensued. Upon the arrrival of t Moss and Lefier, they had a strug gle and fist fight with the negro be- t fore they subdued hirm. Sheriff Green was called and took the pris- c oer to the jail at Albermarle. ATTEMPT ASSAULT. n Young Girl in Street of New York City. pl New York, Dec. 17.-A scene more often enacted South of Mason q, nd Dixon's line occurred in Harlem n 170th street last night when a a: iegro seized fifteen-year-old Minni3 Kley and attempted .to drag her in- m :o vacant lot. The girl struggled >ravely and her screams drew a h :rowd. The negro fiend pursued by mob, but escaped. The girl's w: hroat and arms were lacerated dur ng the struggle- is Want Editors Known. - i Washington, Dec. 15.-With the di -iew of letting the public know what nfluences operate upon it through wl he press. Representative Cooper he f Texas, today introduced a bill to xclude newspapers and magazines ou rom the mails unless the names of th he owner and editor or oficers, di ectors and stockholders be printed fo WANTS HIM TO SPECIFY. >se of Representatives Calls on Teddy for Facts. Washington, Dec. 17.-The House Rrepresentatives today by unani Dus vote, adopted a resolution re testing the president to supply it th any evidence that may be in s possession that will justify th. tement in his last annual message relation to the attitude of mem rs of congress toward appropria mns for the secret service of the vernment. Following is the res ution: "Resolved, That the president be quested to transmit to the House ty evidence upon which he based s statements that the 'chief argu ent in favor of the provision was at the congressmen did not them ives wish to be investigated by cret service men,' and also to ansmit to the House any evidence nnecting any member of the House Representatives of the 60th con 'ess with corrupt action in his of ial rapacity and to inform the ouse whether he has instituted pro edings for the punishment of any ich individual by the courts or has ported any such alleged delinquen es to the House of Rrepresnta ves." * 'AFT IS HEARTILY GREETED. reat Throngs Surge About Him Up on His Arrival. Augusta, Dec. 18.-A vociferous -eorgia welcome was extended to resident-elect Taft on his arrival ere. The "train shed was crowded 'ith people who cheered lustily as udge Taft appeared - on -the * car latform. Official welcome was ex ended him by a large committee. [rs. Taft also was cheered by the rowd which surged around the par i on its way through the station o the waiting automobile- of Mr. nd Mrs. Thorne, whose house guests he Tafts will be until Monday 'when hey will occupy the Terret cottage. As the automobile moved away a ompany of Georgia's mounted mili a fell in behind as an escort of Donor. Taft acknowledged the dem nstrations both at the station and s he was driven through, the city iy raising his hat and,making i pentiful distribution of the "Taft mile." * VALUE OF 'OUR CROPS. devised Estimate of Farm Products for This Year. Washington-Dec... 15.-The. pro uction in. 1908 and farm :value of )ecember 1 of important .farnl pro lucts, according to the final 'revised stimates of the department of ag -iculture, announced today, was as ollows: Corn, 2,668,651,000 bushels; farm ralig, $1,616,145,000. Winter wheat, -407,908,000 bush ,s; value, $10,330,000. Spring wheat, 226,694,000; $204, 46,000. Oats, 807,156-,000 bushels; $321,. 71,00,0. Barley, 166756,0'QO bushels, .$92, 42,000. Figures for other crops included: Rye, 31,856,000 bushels, $23.. 655,000. Buck wheat. 15,874,000 bushels; 12,004,000. .*. Flax seed,. 25,805,000 bushel; 30,577,000. Peas, 21,890,000 bushels;. $17,. r71,000.. Potatoes,. 278,985,000; $-197, )39,000. . Hay,' 70,798,000. tons; $635,423 Toac,718,061,000 pounds; 75,180,000. THEY LIVED) LONG. i Remarkable North Carolina' Fam-. ily of .Pensioners. Hlendersoville, N. G., Dec. 17. 3. M. Justice, who is 75 years' old, is brothers John and J. R., whc tre 70 -and 76 respectively, and :heir father, who is 95 years old, tre all pensioners of North Carolifa. dr. C. M. Justice,- who Is still ex remely active, is a resident of this own. He enlisted In '62, 'in Capt. '. P. Jones, company, iand served is country until the surrehder. Mr. rustice was in town last Saturday nd received his Christmas gift from he people of North' Carolina in the orm of a pension' clam.-The Hus. ler. W ise Words. Worry is half ofs weariness. TParadise is Dot fodn. b y fleeing i..m pain. Revenge never is so sweet as when rregone. The critical eye remains longe.t a ignorance. No man is undone' as long as' he as a work to do. You cannot bless men until you elieve in them. - He Is lost already to whrom sarei ce appears as folly. The saddest slavery is that of be ig ruled by our pleasures. The sins we wink at today are e ones we wed tomorrow. Spiritually the most hlpless art ose who refuse to help. Life barriers that resist all force umble before friendship. The fool Is known by offering his rethough after the event. Tomorrow's burdens always prove >o much for today's back. You have no right to set up your Ld as another man's faith.. Keep the heart healthy and hap ness wifl take - care of itself. Nothing heals our own wounds ficker than helping others. Men are to be known by thei ms rather than by their origins. If you would be far.-sighted you ust learn to live on the heights. It's a sad day when a man lets s Interests determine his principles. The secret of success lies some ere between wishing and willing. The weariest man in this world the one who is running fromn work. Some times fleeing from the devil only a pretext for fleeing from Lty. Religion has no home in the man io does not sho whis religion at mne. Our own sins grow fast behind r backs while we are gazing at a faults of cur neighbors. It is better occasionally to do a ylish act of charity than to corn BAKING The only baking Royal Grape Cri officially'appro a wholesome, 1h hcre Is greater deception In the s Cosely observe the label a BEATS THE RECORD ONE MAN FATHER OF FORTY ONE CHILDREN. He Had Three Wives and Is.Noi Only Forty-One Years of Age Is of Newberry County. Columbia Dec. 19.-The Recor of yesterday afternoon 'stated tha Elmer Mayer, of Newberiy count; who is serving -a sentence in th penitentiary for complicity in th burning of a -barn, s the fathe of forty-one, children. The man ha practically lived In obscurity; an the wonderful 'story came to I1igb only my chance, and' they world migb never -have had, the knowledge' c the unusual case of a prodigous .fac ily had not a reporter learned c ,the facts through, a casual conve] sation as he passed through the .ca= itoJ grounds where Mayer 'is wiro ing with other fellow convicts. When Mayer began to give a -fe, facts a'bout his ife and made th astounding statenient. that he is tb -father of nearly half -,. a hundre children, the .reporter began to:9 up and take notice and a few word of Inquiry brought forth the follos ing remarkable facts: John Mayer,:the hero of the stori is forty-one years of age, and, ha lived in -Newberry ' county al li! life. His home is in the countrj No 7 township. He has taken- int imself as manyas '"three- zwivei ,which also adds another interestin feature 'to his life; -From- the' fira marriage 20 'children were -born, te sets of twins. Eig-hteen children-r4 sulted. froin the second union, .tb number also being twins. -The' thir wifle, who i's now living in Newberr county, is the plother of. thirtee children.: The -children at birth' were ea normal in size and -the: youngest, boy, weighaed '188 pounds at the ag of '11 years, which is. another .re markable feature of this wonderft large family of children. - .Mayer thought there was nothin unusually .interesting in connectio 'with his life, so .he never told th president about it,.-or had his- pit ture printed in-othe papers at tb time when Ro'oseyvelt's noted' Y' marks before the -woman's congres brought forth 'iany stories of larg families to prove that the nation' chief magistrate, was in error whe: he uttered hIs warning against rac suicide. . He toils day by day wit the guard's gun always in sight, th garb of a felon' about hiin, a scori stant reminder -of his violatlo against .his country's laws', and, bean lug his distinction in silence. WANTED TO GO TO HADES. And Doubtless He Got His-. Wan Supplied. Charlotte, N. C.,; Dec. 17.--Henr Harvey, a negro, who' was h'angei at Rockingham, N. C., today fo murder, refused the attentions of'thi ministers who- approached him thi: morning to administer spiritual com fort, telling them that he desIre4 to go to hell for a special piiropse On the march to the gallows chicken flew over the heads of ' th< party and the condenined man'e claimed., - laugitingly: "Som~ebod: cateh that chicken." Harvey's crime 'was the slaying of Hugh Price; ale< "nloreen, at Rockingham last summer Both the deceased and his murderE were from Roanoke, Virginia. ' The Little Boy's Baby Prayer. Dear God,. I need' You awful bad; I don't know what to do; My papa's crosr., my mamma's sick; I hain't no fren' but You. Them keerless angels went an' bring, 'Stid of the boy I ast, -- A4 weenchy, teenchy h'aby girl. I don't see how they dast! Say, God. I wish 't You't take her baick. She's .iust as good as new; W~on't no one know she's secon' hand. But 'cenin' me an' You; An' pick a boy. dear God. Yourself. The nicest in Yer fold; But please don't choose quite so young. I'd like him 5 years old. --Lippincott's. President of Hayti.. Port au Prince, Hayti, Dec. 17. Gen. Simon. leader of the last revo lution in Hayti. was unanimously lected President of the republic by 5I Puo powder made m am of Tartatne red ingredient for igh-class powder ie of baldo powdersjha~ever before. od be certain of, getn'Ryal. The Tree of .the Cross. The G6lden Star oke d down and smiled } Upon the Virgin and. her Chid; . It spread its s plud r a crown Upon the Toofs of BethlehaowD. (Oh, little 'tree!. ObftttC ~ -~ Why semest thou ins agony?). r The shepherds, rbiding tt sheep, t Hearkened, as men aiipti leep To strains celestial, whie their eye - Saw chofring hosts of Pte l (Oh, little treer " 'lttle tree{s; . t .Dost thou behold GroCoss tb ,: The honored oxen, mute with air y Peeped them fron out their sta e andsaw' r The -wise men lay at feet s Their unctuous oils and spices a et, ( Oh, little=tree! Oh iittletre't Does some one whisper "Ca t The world- that rmght wit0i f release' - From death through nlm, he"'ztace of Peace, Who "in the-m layat ret' 8 Upon his happy mother's breast - - (Oh,. Ilttla tree Oh tti . t , Seems if t 'aMne'snsaled one v--ue 11f.Bestfl.ii iincott. Awed 'by srpl~tan That str and'hzIlTh if'ue! plaing -tured by the ius erfoa8rnee From alismen ds Bln ir o thbis cow stab:e door Throng sir pie peasants, wia Erch'gif.s of rankincense anid nr-rrh To4 aid -neir worshiing. FFor on'- rapt m'omre'as spa.o STheir glances sweep thea shnat N ote the iow raft trs ar-d the littered e 'For Waking on 'their ught -Has burst a 'ina otceies'gz rb Where~Hles, sarde dim . SThe tBabe ofBethleheI>j e, tittle they d-eam or Shepherd' and sage - e edlow6 - What pat hs opanthese- bb~e~ smust (read SWhat crowns must deck It Not theirs~to pierce the rift, SOf our years where i gmGloftIa * crosses lift, -~ STa know .this Babe of Bethlhe -.m'ustb-e The Christ of Calvary! - ',' -Hilton R.A Greer - Can You Beat t? He held her fitle ladin hls She waitedifor;'the quzestidn; t And' do you ~know 'the darn 'oot talked - About his inigeston Killed 'by Kick. Atlanta, G.-Wblle playing~ ~n chasing a mule about~ his. fathei's lot little Kirby Eassen, of Coee Park, was kicked to "death in hig - stomach. ' -Gen, Cazwile Dead. Edgefleld, S.. C., Dec. 17.-Majot General Thomas W. .Carwile; of this' place comminder innehief of the' Soilth. Carolina:.ivision of: the' Con federate .Veterans, died .uddenlj at' his home this- afternoon at abou I o'clock., ' * Asphyxiated- in Hote . - . Norfolk, Va., Dec. 15.-C. E Spencer,'aged 54, of Hugo, Va., was found asphyxiated '4n a hotel her Tuesday evening. He is suppiosed to have only partly lighted as gas' heater-in 'his room, the gas from the unlighted burner killing him.' War Declared. .Washington, Dec. .1'.-A dispatcft ,as been received at the state der partment from Paxton Hbin, sec retary or Tegition at Blogtoa; Colum bia, In which it is stated- that Ven ezuela has declared war agalnst H >I land. Threre's nothing makes a girl's father so suspicious if a man is- try Ing to marry as for the fellow not. to be able to support h-er. What a man likes about 'gambling. is if he should happen 'to win he could tell everybody it. was twice as. much, except his wife, who would want to spend it. If you are not, prepared\ to diet,