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VOL. XXIII MANNING, C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1909 NO.29 BAD OLD MAN Is Duncan Cooper Now on Trial For Murder. CHIEF OF A BAD GANG Mixed Up in the Robbery of the State of Tennessee With Treasur er Polk-Assassination of Ex-Seh ator Carmack Was the Only Way to Silence His Pen and His Voice. Atlanta, March 4.-In a letter to the Journal Mrs. W. H. Felton. who is a very close observer of men and events, says the history of Duncan Cooper throws light on the politics of Tennessee for the last twenty years, and the people who throng the court house in Nashville to listen to the testimony, which is certainly convicting, the men who assassinated ex-Senator Carmack are brought face to face with the deeds of certain men who have used their political offiees to rule or ruin everything in front of them. - The criminal court of Nashville may save the necks of the assassins, but their escape will undoubtedly be credited to the influence of certain men in high office who are tarred with the same stick. Tennessee is a great State, but it has been afflicted with glaring im posture, in the persons and acts of a number of its prominent officials. Many of our readers will reeall a Justice Snodgrass, who sat on the, bench to shoot at his enemies. Oth ers will remember certain Tennes seeans who cimmitted a glaring fraud on the treasury of the United States in the conduct of the noted, and I may truly say, the notorious Methodist Publishing House claim before congress. The defaulting State treasurer who robbed the treasury of Tennessee of large sums of money, in conjunction with this Duncan Cooper, now on tri al before the criminal court, will not be overlooked in the story of Ten nessee's affliction and humiliation. But fiction is outdone-outelassed -in the story of Cooper's connec tionI with Tennessee politics, which has culminated in the assassination of ex-Senator Carmack. as the pos sible way to curb Carmack's pen ,and take his life), in the opinion of this hoary and disreputable politic ax, who is desperate and deadly In hate. So violent and so tyrannical have been his methods that he has finally shoved his only son into the dark shadows of the gallows to car ry out his foul plans. I am sorry for the son because he has been brought up under the in fluence of a father who had no re spect for the presence of a nice young lady, and poured out such filthy abuse of Carmack before he started out to kill him that she could not repeat the obscenity when called as a witness against him. He is a self-confessed gambler, and a notorious embezzler, when occupy-. ing a seat as chancery judge to whom had been committed money belong ing to widows and orphans, as shown by court records. When Tennessee was robbed by Treasurer Polk of many thousands this same Cooper was exploiting a silver mine down in Mexico with oney furnished by Polk as his active partner. We have read of morphine fiends, who scarred continuously their own bodies with hypodermic inl jections until the entire epidermis was tattoced and disfigured, but here the governor's office in Tennessee for the past year who is searrea with evil deeds, evil thoughts and murder ous intents, and yet has gone un scathed and defiant until haled be fore the criminal court for conspir acy to murder ex-Senator.Carmack. Backed by official infiuence, he cofergd with Tenessee's chief ex ecutive before he went forth tO kill. and he was in no wist deterred by the pre'sence of Mrs. Eastman, when he eaught up with his intended vic tim. and saw his own son do the murderous deed. conspiring with his own parent. also armed, to kill. What a sight for men and angels to look upen. To show the extent of this wreh ed men's infatuation and degrada tion and dihonesty he made public boast on his oath that he donated over a thousa~nd dollars to a poor Confeerate soldier a short time ago and yet was forced by hIs own coun se to go back and again testify on oath that the donation was less than fifty dollars. This cloak of Con federate sympathy, so often abused, and misused, was attempted -to be applied by this man (catching at straws) to influence the jury to save his neck. It gots without saying that Ten nessee. under her present trouble. will either repudiate the entire gang of conspirators or receive the public scorn and contumely that her imbe cility and impote'ncy will merit. Killed H~is Father. Jonesboro. Ala.. March 3.-:Poweli Earnest. 16 years old, shot and killed his father, C. 0. Ernest. yesterday afternoon while the father was beat ing him. The youth was tracked ith blood hounds and captured at Bessemer. Wilson Rejected. Washinrton. March 3.-In execu tive session the senate today re jected the nomin~ation of Joshua E. Wilson to be postmaster at Flor ence. S. C. Wilson is a colored man, and he was rejected at the request of nator Tillman HOUSE SET ON FIRE AND TEN PEOPLE MET FIERY DEATHS. Blackmailers, Baulked, Burned the Building, Which Was Full of Wo men and Children. New York, March 3.-An incen diary fire in the five-story brick ten ement house, 374 Seventh avenue, early today caused the death of ten persons and the injury of a score of others. An Investigation showed that the stairs and halls from the basement to the top floor had been saturated with kerosene oil. Six months ago the owner of the building had re ceived a threatening blackmailing letter. The dead: Lillian Filicati. 50 years old. Rosa Tlacia, 7 years old. Lena Tlacia, 13 years old. Francesco Grupti, 58 years old. Mrs. Josephine Trazisano, 50 years old. Joseph Trazisano. 20 years old. Mrs. Carolina Fansone, S0 years old. Lena Trazisano, 32 years old. An undentified man, 40 years old, and unidentified boy, four years old. The injured: W. Robert Fantzson, of engine com pany No. 26, right hand nearly cut off by falling mass. Nicholas Bardilia, 20 years old, burned about head and face. Miss Matilda Maaad, 20 years old, burned about face and body, New York hospital. The fire started in the basement and raced to the roof following the 1 trail of oil. The firemen were delayed in reach lng the blaze loecause of the Penn sylvania railroad tunnel and had to o in a round about way to reach the t scene. When they arrived the entire building was in flames. Scaling lad ders were used and many of those who had appeared at the front win dows were carried down by the fire- c men. C After the fire was extinguished and c a search of the building was made, I the ten dead bodies were found on i the upper floors. The members of t the Trazisano family were found t grouping around the bed in a little s room in the attitude of prayer. p VICE PRESIDENT HONORED. s rhe Senators Give Mr. Fairbanks Sil- 3 V yer Service. a Washington, March 3.-Behind losed doors the senate today- paid t to Vice President Fairbanks one of 3 the most remarkable tributes ever 8 given a presiding officer. He was presented with a magnificent silver service costing $1,185, as the gift of 3 the entire body of senators, and with t loving cup as the present of the g emocratic memb-zrs. 12 The presentation of the silver ser- 1 ice was made by Senator McCumber. d enator Daniel spoke for the minor- r ity declaiming upon Mr. Fairbanks' } uniform fairness. He suggested that a If at any time Mr. Fairbanks should I tire of the monotonous service in the a Republican party the Democrats i would be glad to welcome him. b He factiously suggested that it t would not be well for Mr. Fairbanks to take more than one daught from c the flagon before breakfast, If it i ihould happen to get filled with oth- a er than milk.~d s WOUNDED BY CALLER.t t Girl Shot in Thigh After Quarrel ~ Over a Game. c t New York. March 3.--Agnes e Welch, a seventeen-year-old girl em-r >oyed by the Western Union Tele graph Company. Is in the hospital to-t day after having been shot in the I thIgh by Harold Miller, an electric-t Miller was calling on the girl at her home in Brooklyn, and they quarreled while playing a game ofa parchesi. The police say that he became angered because of her ref-i erence to another young man. and uggsted that they decide whether he was to cafl by threwing dice. . A struggle followed, in w:hich the girl was wounded. She saidi after ward that she believedi Miller did not 4hoot intentionally, but the police placed him under arrest. HANGED FOR ASSAULT. 1 Fiend Pays the Penalty of His Heinous Crime. Wilmington, N. C., March 3.--Wil liam Ward, a negro half-breed, was hanged at Clinton, N. C.. privately today for a criminal assault upon Mrs. Mollie McLeod, a white woman, near that place. He made no con fession. A party of curious specta tors who had climbed a tree to wit ness the execution inside the jail~ enclosure were precipitated to the ground by the breaking of a limb. and several of them were slightly injured. BLOWN FROM TRAC~K. Gale of Wind Plays Strange Prank With a Train. Wilmington. N. C.. March 3.--A gale of what, which, accompanied by gale of wind, which, accompanied by morning, struck the middle of a 55-1 ar Wilmington-hound Atlantic Coast Line train which was standing at a water tank at Dudley. near Golds boro and blew five of the cars clear ff te line and overturned one on the.trac. Ther wa no other dam TEDDY RETIRES And Turns the Government Over to W, H. Taft in a TERRIBLE BUZZARD Which Upset All the Plans for the Occasion, Denying the Two Hun dred Thousand Visitors the Privi lege of Seeing the Actual Inaugu ration in the Senate Chamber. Washington, March 4.-With all the homage that assembled thous ands. representatives of every State, almost every hamlet, of the nation :ould pay; to the accompaniment of martial music, the rhythmic tramp >f soldiers feet, the echo of saluting ;uns, the unchecked enthusiasm privileged only to a free people of a great republic, William Howard raft, of Ohio, became the twenty eventh president of the United tates. Second only to the inauguration of he man who will be both ruler and ervant of the American people for he next four years, was the induct on into office of James Schoolcraft Iherman. of New York, as - Vice ?resident, a position carrying with t always the grave responsibility )f succession to the presidency hrough death or disability of the xecutive. And not without its influence upon he day and the epoch-narking event vas the exit of Theodore Roosevelt, eralded today by countless admir rs. for seven years past the most cturesque, the most virile, and one f the greatest figures ever upon he stage of American public life. This afternoon the retiring presi . Y., while upon the spot occupied . Y., while uopn the spot occupied y him four years ago stands Presi ent William H. Taft reviewing one f the most magnificent military and ivic parades in American history, is dominant figure the command g presence in a cheering multi ude of more than two hundred ousand patriotic American per Ons. Tonight a new ruler of 90,000,000 eople will wend his tired but hap y way into the long sousht seclu ion of the White House, and the ost magnificent Inauguration ever itnessed by a republic will have en its formal end. President Taft had arrived in ashington from New York the af ?rnoon of February 27, and until arch 2 with his family was the uest of Miss Mabel Boardman. of e Red Cross Society, at her home, 801 P street northwest. Yester ay he accepted the invitation of r. Roosevelt which had been ex eded some tIme ago, to be his uest at the White House the day fore inauguration. The Taft fain y went to the White House yester ay afternoon and lunched with the etiring president at the usual hour. e slept in the White House last ight, and was up bright and early. ~reakfast was served there at 9:30 ,im., and the incoming presi~dent ad practically nothing to occupy im until the time came to make e start to the capital. Wmn. Howard Taft took the oath l office as 27th president of the ~nited States in the senate chamber t the capitol shortly after noon to a. Owing to the snow and sleet torn it was necessary to modify e arrangements for the adminis ration of the oath on the platrorn' the east entrance to the capitol. An endeavor was made to carry t the original program concerning e inauguration parade, but on ac ount of the storm only the regular 2ilitary organizations were in line. Immediately after the inaugura Ion ceremonies were concluded, ex ~resident Roosevelt proceeded., to e union station. there to wait for train to New York, which the of Icials of the Pennsylvania railroad xpected to be able to start out bout 3 o'clock. It was after 10 o'clock tI~s morn g when the first nassenger train ver the Pennsylvania due at 8:15 clock, arrived here. At the union tation it was not known when the 'ennsylvania would be able to snd ut a passeng'er train north. or in act in any direction, although every ifort was being made to get a train hrough for ex-President Roosevelt. ho was scheduled to leave t'te capi o at 10:25 for the union station, here he was to take a train for )yster Bay, N. Y. At 10:25 o'clock the first comnmu ication with the outside world was o blished by telegraph through aires working to the South. No aires were working northward at hat time. although both the Western nion and Postal Telegraph Compa ies had hundreds of linemen at ork between here and Baltimore nd elsewhere repairing the lines as fast as possible. The telephone ompany also had no lines working ut of Washington beyond Alexan ia and it was said that it was not known when communication with points outsidle of Washington would be re-established. Although doubts had been express ed about the possibility of carrying out the program of the day it was decided that the general arrange ments should be followed as closely as possible. Accordangly the veteran escort division ga'hered near the White House at 9:15 o'clock to es cort the president and president elect to the capitol. Promptly at 10 oclock President Roosevelt and President-elect Taft left the White House for the capitol. escorted by the vcterans and troop A of Cleveland. Mrs. Roosevelt and Ms. -ra rod in the carriage with their husbands. i It was exactly 11 o'colck when the retiring and the incoming presi dents of the United States entered the president's room at the senate where they were met among other, by a delegation of prominent men from New York, including Senator Chauncey M. Depew and Senator E. 'Payne. At this time Mrs. Taft was es corted into the senate by Capt. Butt, aide to President Roosevelt. Charles P. Taft and his family entered a few moments later. Robert, Miss Helen and young Charles Taft, the president-elect's children, entered the visitors gallery at the same time as did Mr. Henry Taft and his wife. Rear Admiral Sperry and Mrs. Sper ry were also among -'he arrivals. As the hands crept near the hour of twelve the president and presi dent-elect, the cynosure of all eyes, entered amid a wave of applause. Each caught the eye of his wife in the gallery and bowed in that direc tion first. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Taft were escorted by the cc-ngress ional committee on arrangements, who a moment later re-entered the chamber as escort to the vice presi dent-elect. He received an ovation. The president, the president-elect, and the vice president-elect took the seats reserved for them on the rostrum, facing the immense throng, Mr. Roosevelt, still chief executrve, occuping the right. Vice President Fairbanks, in his most Impressive manner, then ad ministered the oath to his successor. The venerable senator chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, of fered prayer, the subdued murmur of hundreds joining in the final in vocation of the Lord's Prayer. This impressive feature over, Mr. Fair banks handed the gavel over to Vice President Sherman, the retiring vice president taking a seat near Speaker Cannon. Mr. Sherman then began his short inaugural address. As the last person took h's seat Chief Justice Fuller advanced slowly oward Mr. Taft, who arose to meet him. The supreme moment had ar rived. Holding a Bible between the two chief figures stood James H. Mc Einney, clerk of the supreme court. A quiet fell over all. Slowly the hief justice began to speak the oath. William Howard Taft repeating the ords that made him president. rh usands leahed forward in breath tesi expectancy as he said: "I do solemnly swear that I will althfully execute the office of presi let.t of the United States, and will :o the best of my ability preserve, rctect, and defend the Constitution f the United States." T hen he reverently kissed the open ages of the Bible and stood facing .h people-their chief magistrate. When the tumult and the shouting ari died he began his inaugural ad ress which appears elsewhere. rhat over, there was another de ncnstration, hundreds pressed about :o grasp his hand, until at last he lipped away to the president's room n the senate where he rested a few oments before beginning the re u n to the White House. The re :ir'ng president, loath to divide the aoonor with his successor, quietly >egan the journey to the union sta :ion. where he took a special train 'o Oyster Bay. The inauguration proper was over. rbe parade, the spectacular scenes .n honor of the new executive, were ib:>ut to begin. MAIL POUCHES STOLEN. F'ound Cut in Shreds In a Ditch at Denmark. O'n Tuesday night one of the mail pouches bound for Augusta was ound in a ditch, near the depot, ut into shreds and with a number 'af lettres lying scattered on the ground near by. Ordinarily the pouch contains be rveen 300 and 400 lettres, and the o rson who stole it from the Den mark depot is supposed to have ap ,opriated all except the thirty that were found. There is no clue to the idt ntity of the mall robber, but the a.thorities are working on the case. The Seaboard Air Line train from New York to Florida is due at Den ark at eight minutes after 1 o'clock in the morning, and It leaves several p)uches of mail there, to be picked o by the Southern train from Charleston to Augusta, which is due it Denmark about 2 o'clock. The pauches contain no registered mail ad are sealed and in charge of the aggage master from Denmark to A ugusta. While they are at Denmark a ne gro porter at the depot was supposed to watch them until the Southern ound train for Augusta Is due. On Friday morning last, when the train headed for this city arrived at Den rark, there was one pouch missing. and it was not found until the police rnan picked up the fragments in a ditch Tuesday night. THE EVER READY GUN. hooting Scrape in Lancaster Caused by Nothi'ng. Lancaster, March 3.-A difficulty ccurred here this afternoon between two young white men. Claude Small. on of Leonard Small, a well 'inown farmer of this vicinity, and J. W. Gregory. of Yorkville, in which the latter fired four shots with a re volver at the former. Small, how ever, was struck by only one bullet, which lodged in the shoulder. The wound is not considered fatal. The shooting originated over the most trival matter. There were three young men in a wagon. The wind blew off Small's hat and In catching it he knocked off Gregory's hat and the shooting followed. Blind tiger whiskey, no. doubt, was the cause OUR SOLDIER BOYS WILL BE INSPECTED BT OFFIC ERS TIS WEEK. Date on Which the Different Com pani':s -Till Be Visited by the In spectors Given Below. The inspection of the National Guards begins this week. The com pany here will be inspected on Fri day and the company at Elloree will be inspected on next Monday, the 15th instant. These are now the only two companies in this county. The inspection will be made for the war department by First Lieut. Charles H. Cabaniss, Jr., U. S. army, retired, and for the State by Col. William T. Brook, assistant Adjutant and Inspector General. The boys will give these geatlemen a warm welcome when they come Friday on their official rounds. Officers and general staff corps and departments, regimental and battal ion, field and staff officers, non-com missioned staff officers, and individu al members of bands and of hospital corps detachments, not herein other wise provided for, will report for in spection, in uniform, dismounted, at the same time and place as the or ganization nearest to their home sta tion. - The following schedule for the in spection will be observed and no changes whatever will be made from it: Edgefield, March 8-Company F, 2nd infantry. Aiken, March 9-Unassigned com pany of infantry. Bamberg, March 10-Company I, 3rd infantry. Barnwell, March 11-Company E, 3rd infantry. Orangebrug, March 12-Company L, 3rd infantry. Elloree, March 15-Company G. 3rd infantry. Sumter March 16-Company L, 2nd infantry. Timmonsville, March 17-Compa ny I, 2nd infantry. Conway, March 18-Company H, 3rd Infantry. Georgetown, March 19-Head quarters, 3rd infantry, Company F, 3rd infantry. Walterboro, March 22-Company K, 3rd infantry. Charleston, March 23, 24, 25, 26 -Companies A, B, C and D 3rd in fantry; 3rd detachment hos~ital corps. New Brookland, March 27-Com pany M, 2nd infantry. Columbia, March 29, 30, 31, April 1-Gencral headquarters; headquar ters 1st' brigade; headquarters 2nd infantry; Companies B, C and D, 2nd infantry. Florence, April 2-Company H. 2nd infantry. Darlington, April 5j-Company K, 2nd infantry. Hartsville, April 6-Company G. 2nd infantry. Bennettsville, April 7-Company E, 2nd infantry. Cheraw, April 8-Company F, 1st Infantry. Camden, April 9-Company A, 2nd Infantry; 2nd detachment hospit al corps. Lancaster, April 12-Unassigned obmpany of infantry; 2nd detach ment hospital corps. Lancaster, April 12-Unassigned company of infantry. - Liberty Hill, April 13-Company B, 1st infantry. Rock Hill, April 14-Company H, 1st infantry. Fort Mill, April 15-Company K, 1st infantry. Winnsboro, April 16-Company M, 3rd infantry., Cornwell, April 17-Company G, 1st infantry. Yorkville April 19--Headquarters 1st infantry; Company L, 1st infan try. Spartanburg, April 20-Company , 1st infantry; band, 1st infantry. Union April 21-Company M, 1st infantry. Clifton, April 22-Company C, 1st infantry. Greenville, April 23-Company A, 1st infantry. Anderson, April 26-Company E, 1st infantry. Laurens April 27-Company D, 1st Infantry. Unless otherwise authorized, the olive drab, service uniform, will be worn at inspection; while gloves will not be worn by either officers or en listed men. KILLED HIS FRIEND To Get Money to Learn to Run an Automobile. Hutchinson, Kans., March 3.-To obtain money to attend a school and learn to be a chauffeur, Orville Fol and, 19 years old, murdered Jesse Haymaker, a friend, who had charge of the Hutchinson express office at confessed In a plea of guilty enter ed by Foland. Foland was sentenc ed to life imprisonment. The murd er was committed early last Wednes day morning. SAW MISSING SON In Moving Picture and Finds Hm Where Seen. Lafayette, Inr., March 3.-While attending a moving picture show yes terdany afternoon where scenes from a* Florida ostrich farm were being presented, Mrs. Hannah Mendelsohn recognized her son in the pictures. She had not heard from him fox several years. She telegraphed him and today received a reply saying that he was at the ostrich farm and THEY MEET AGAIN After Being Seperatad for About Fifty-Five Years. AFTER MANY YEARS Two Brothers Greet Each Other in Columbia-One Served in the Union and One in the Confederate Army-A Very Unusual and Inter esting Reunion Was Held. Columbia, March 4.-To have a man, apparently an entire stranger, approac. suddenly and announce that he is a brother whom one had not seen In 55 years is an experience out of the ordinary, to say the least, but that is what happened to Mr. S. A. Horn, at his home, 1419 Assembly street, as he was sitting on his front porch yesterday afternoon. Mr. Horn was quietly enjoying the sun of a beautiful day when he ob served a stranger meandering along. looking closely at the houses on the street. The stranger went into Mr. Horn's daughter's house, which Is next to his own, and then coming out passed only to retrace his steps and stop at the gate. Mr Horn called to the man, asking if he was looking for some one's house, re ceiving the reply that he was looking for a Mr. Horn. Mr. Horn replied that that was his name, and then the stranger rush ed in and asked, "Is this Sam?" "What's left of him," replied Mr. Horn, whereupon the other replied, "Well, I'm Bill." And so it proved, his brother Bill. The two had not seen each other in 55 years and had only been in communication with each other since last August, when another of the brothers, Bernard, died in San Jose, Cal. It was then that Mr. S. A. Horn found that his brother, -William N. Horn, was still alive and in Portland, Ore: Since that time they have been exchanging letters but Mr. S. A. Horn of Columbia had no information of Mr. W. N. Horn's presence in the city until he came to the house. Mr. Wm. N. Horn is on his way from Portland to visit the old home place in Maine, but will remain in the city for a week, the guest of his long separated brother. The Horn family lived in Gardner, Maine, until 1857, when S. A. Horn, at the age of 15 came to South Car olina. During the War Between the Sections he was a member of Hamp ton's cavalry, while his brothers, among the number W. N. Horn, were soldiers in the federal army. The brother now in the city was a mem ber of a Maine regiment, serving un-, der Gen. 0. 0. Howard. Shorty after the conclusion of the struggle the reunited brothers went West while S. A. Horn returned to his honme in the South. The broth ers had not met during the war and no communication was established between the two until August of last year, when the death of a brother caused a correspondence to com mence between the two families. Mr. Horn, deciding to visit the old home again, concluded to surprise his brother while en route and did not apprise him of his coming until his arrival at his door step. Fifty-five years' lapse had not dull ed the ardor of the brotherly af. fection, one for the other, and the two are elated at being reunited. Each is nearing his alloted 70 years. SEVEN MEN HANGED. Louisiana Had a Regular Hanging .Bee on Friday. New Orleans, March 6.-Seven men, all of whom were negroes, were legally exocuted in the State of Louis iana Friday. At Port Allen, west Baton Rouge parish, three men died on the same scaffold. Two of those, Wallace and Ben Jones, were brothers and were accused of killing C. H. Hall, a rail road conductor, while the other. Chas. Davis, murdered W. H. Boat ner, a guard at the State peniten tiary, Davis, at the time being a con vict. Chaarles Madison committed theI crime of assault and was hung in Calcasieu parish. The others, all murderers, were Jack Ratier, St. Mary's parish; Wil lie Williams. Jefferson parish; An drew Washington, Madison parish. Jim Collier, who was to have been hanged today for murder in Madison parish, was granted a reprieve.* CHARGED WITH ARSON. Two White Men Arrested for Burn ing a House. Greenville, March 3.--Warrants have been sworn out for the arrest of two white men, charging them with burning the home of William Britton, a white man, who was con victed at the recent term of the Gen eral Session Court of murder and sentenced to life. Britton's wife was living in the house and narrowly es caped being burned with it. She~ says the men burned it because she reported their stills to the offcers. Killed by a Tree. Clinton, N. C., March 3.-Several houses here were unroofed and some Iblown down by a high wind. At a Isawmill four miles from Clinton, a tree was blown down, killing a De TIDE TURNS SOUTH I SAYS A PROMINENT COLORADO FARIMER. Who Says the West Has Had Its Day, In a Letter to Commissioner Watson. Columbia, S. C., March 4.---"The ' tide has turned to the South, the West has had its day," is the text of a letter received by Commissioner Watson from a prominent farmer, near Denver, Colo. After months of painstaking labor in advertising this 'State and section the returns are beginning to come in. The s letter states that a party of Western d farmers will visit South Carolina E in Aprial and wish to look over some unimproved land with the idea t of buying it and cultivating it with - the improved Western methods. Commissioner Watson was partic- t) ularly gratified with the letter. It Is b one of a large number he has re- a ceived lately along the same lines which proves that the advertising of c the State's resources in the West % has brought results. AS stated in s his last reports this work has now t( reached a stage when the immigra- a: tion work will no longer be neces- P sary and from indications many set- 0: tIers from the West and Northwest tl will be secured within the next few months. t< As a result of the work of Prof. p, Ira B. Williams and Commissioner iI Watson in field work and demon- P: stration farm methods last year. c( every county in the State is taking an active interest in the plans. t< There are now in this State 26 field al agents working under.Prof. Williame d and since the first of the year ar rangements have been made in the Ic counties of York, Lancaster, Lee, & Sumter, Darlington, Clarendon and Si later Florence, for the work, this b. in addition to the counties already w operated. Before the end of the s year Commissioner Watson hopes to have the work going ahead in every tc county in the State with the ex- cE :eption of about seven, that are not ai ctively interested in agriculture. eC Efforts will be made for a cred- ci [table exhibit from this State at el he Corn and Cotton Exposition tc b( be held in Chicago during the fall. e jommissioner Watson has received tuthority from the general assembly hJ o use such parts of the celebrated re south, Carolina display as he may i wish and he will take up with thc a] manufacturers of South Carolina the te aeed for a display of the products of tc :orn and cotton with a view to se- p( :ring sufficient contributions tc .ake the exhibit to -Chicago and 'a maintain it there for a short\ time. te rhe expense would be very light and 0i t is believed that the exhibit would tc e a paying investment for the en- Cl ire State. There are no funds as n the hands of the com nission or for the work and there- th ~ore he will ask the people most in. w erested to contribute. * ra 3t RESCUES COLORED CHILD. 9) Engineer on Fast Moving Train Acts the Hero. Rocky Mount, N. C., March 4.- ai he Record says heroism, as Is pic- )i: ured by the novel, the like of which s seldom seen, was that displayet y Engineer George Bailey Monday orning at a point one mile south f Jamesville, on the branch linE f the Atlantic Coast Line from this ity to Plymouth. His act of hero sm saved the life of a child at the =2 eril of his own, and many a person 1i as been styled a hero who didn't en- -n anger his own safety half so much y s did the act of the engineer. Monday morning he was the engin- ': er in charge of passenger train No. 35 bound for this city, and his trair. j was running about 25 miles an hour, when it rounded a curve and he no iced, not a hundred yards ahead, olored child, too young to be aware f Its impending danger, playing on he track. The engineer knew thait o apply emergency brakes woulc inpril the lives of every passenge: n the train, for the tax on the traclh would most likely result In a derail ent, so he cut off the steam from his engine and made a dash for thc running board and from this to r position on the cow-catcher of train and as the engine reached the child playing on the track he caught its :ress and pulled the child .upon the engine from its Impending danger and saved its life. WHAT IT DID COST. Fairbanks Paid For and Took That i t1 Ink Stand. Washington, March 6.--When he P leves office today, Vice President Fairbanks will take with him the bautiful inkstand, which has orna- e mented his desk for the past four r years. This inkstand has been the ' s bjEct of considerable interest be- ~ ca use of the published stories that i it had cost $500.c According to custom the presiding oficer of the senate is privileged to dc sign and have manufactured such oranmental ink receptacle as he fan- I ci s and the one procured by Mr. F. irbanks was- made by a manufact- i U] ng jeweler of New York. The criticism of the reputed cost of this stand has rankled in Mr. i F irbanks' heart for four years, and te iay he sent to Secretary Bennett a check for $200, which was the ac ual cost of the ornament, and an-, nr unced that he would take it with NORST IN YEARS 'he Atlantic Coast From New York to Nrifork BURIED IN SNOW 'he Storm is Very Destructive to the Telegraphic Lines and Large Areas Are Practically Isolated-The Fi nancial Loss is Well Nigh Incal culable-Three Are Dead in N. Y. New York, March 4.-As the re ilt of a March blizzard which swept own unannounced during the night, ie middle Atlantic seabotrd from ew York to Norfolk found itself >day buried in an avalanche of snow nd swept by destructive winds. For a time here today conditions semed to threaten a. repetition of ie great blizzard of March 12. 1888, ut tonight the storm sunk to less [arming proportions. For the telephone and telegraph mpanies the storm was one of the 'orst in years. The worst of the iow hurricane struck a wedge of rritory which included Washington ad Baltimore. The region south of hiladelphia was wellnigh a blahk a ihe map for the greater part of* ie day. Reports from Perryville, Md., said ight that for 30 miles beyond that )Int every wire is down. These lines clude some of the best and most cpensively constructed wires in the )untry. The first train from Washington reach Jersey City today arrived 5 o'clock this afternoon and it was ae at 7:08 a. m. In New York city three lives were at in the sinking of six Baltimore. Ohio coal barges at St. - George, aten Island. In New York harbor rges under tow were blown ashore, hile tugs and small beats went urrying for cover. Between Baltimore and Washing n hundreds of telegraphpoles were rried down by the weight of snow id ice and the wind. North and st of the city trains are merely eeping along without aid of tel raphic orders. It may be a week fore normal conditions are restor At no previous time in the city's story has the street car service ceived so severe a blow. The fi' Lncial' loss is incalcuable. Thous Lds of people .who expected to at nd the Inauguration in Washing n where unable to obtain trans >rtation there. Washington was swept by the bliz rd early this mornin'g, which in rfered very materially with the in iguration program. President Taft ok the oath of office in the Senate iambel- instead of in the open air is customary. The snow covered everything and e wind was biting cold. Those 'who ere on the streets to see the pa de, and the paraders themselves, ifered very- much from the 'cold. iow and slush filled the streets to .e depth of a foot or more In places. ie wind threshed niany of the city's ettiest decorations to threads. ae immense reviewing stands along e line of march were made su'el2 gh untenable, and many of them Ld to be deserted. WILL HAVE TO BORROW. >ptroller General Shows Need for r Tax Law Reforms,' Columbia, March 6.-The Record .ys because of additional appropria ns after the ways and means com ittee had reported the bill to the meral assembly, there will be a de it of about $15,000 over and above e estimated revenue. This is the timate by Comptroller . General nes after an examination' of the >propriation bill. / The revenue of 1909 based on a vy of 5 1-4 mills will be $1,424, 32 and to this are added the fol wing incomes: Insurance -depart ents, $58,000; secretary of State, 15,000; license fees from comp oller general, $88,000; income tax, ,500; board of fisheries, $7;500; ilroads, telegraphs and telephone >mpanies for the support of the ilroad commission, $11,700, mak g a total of $1,613,252. The nount of appropriations for 1909 'as $1,627,339, leaving a dpficit $14,127. The State of South Carolina must rrow the constitutional limit of 500,000 this year until the taxes for 909 are available. In the opinion 'the comptroller general this bor wing will continue until the legis ture puts a sufficIent penalty on ie non-payment of taxes to force very property owner to payments romptly. The semi-annual interest of the ublic debt is due on December 31 nd at that time there will not be nough money in the treasury to eet the payments so that a loan ;absolutely necessary. This loan in not be returned until some time i February or March when the rest f the 1909 taxes are sent in.* Seven Days in Trance. Boston, March 5.-Clara La arche, 14 years old, daughter of rs. Onesime Lamarche, of Ware, lass. has recovered consciousness fter being in a state of coma for even days. During that time she either tasted food nor drink. * Dead in a Mine. Butte, Mont., March 3.-Four men vere killed in the Diamond mine, brough the premature discharge of