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COST OF LIVING Will be Increased by the Payne Tarriff Bill The DEMOCRATS CLAIM The Farmer Would Get No Belief s Should the Bill Be Passed, It Is Alleged, While the Standard Oil Trust and Other Trust Interests t Are Looked After. Washington, March 22.-That the Payne tariff bill would increase the cost of living; that it Is crude, inde fnite, sectional and prohibitive, and that It is an open challenge to a trade war with every other nation on earth, are some of the criticisms of that measure made by the Democrat Ic members of the ways and means committee in the minortty report submitted to the House by Minority Leader Champ Clark today. The report is a severe arraignment of the revision which the Payne bill proposes. The countervailing duty provisions for coffee and petroleum, the maximum and minimum features, the Cuban reciprocity clause, the woolen, glass, agriculturel and sugar schedules are bitterly attacked. "There are many changes-for the most part minor changes," says the report, "of the Dingley rates, some up and some down. Most of the changes in a downward direction are reductions more apparent than real, the Payne rates being as prohibitive In their results in many cases as the Dingley rates." Declaring that a tariff Is .a tax paid by the consumer, and that the only function of a tariff law is to raise revenue to supply the needs of the Government, the minority members of the committee insist that Instead of an increase of taxes or a new Issue of bonds, the correct remedy for the growing deficiency in the revenue is the cutting down of the expenses of running the Govern ment. "The bill is In many respects crude,' Indefinite, sectional and prohibitive. It seems to us from our examination. which was necessarily hasty, that on the whole it increases the cost of living. For example, it will Increase the price of hosiery about 30 per cent, and certainly nobody will claim that hosiery Is a luxury in this day and generation. In numerous in stances the protection exceeds the entire labor cost of production." The report maintains that the tar Iff arrangement with the Philippines should be considered In a .separate measure and not in the general tariff bill. The claim that the bill is a sectional one, made by the Demo cratic members of the committee, is based largely on the cotton schedule. The report contends that the bill does not lift any burdens from the shoul ders of the Southern farmer, al though the manufacturer of cotton goods is protected by heavy tax, it claims. "The treatment ef the farmer by this bill is along the same lines as have characterized Republican meth ods in the past," says the report.' "He gets practically no relief, and the laborer and producer have great er burdens imposed upon them. Every article of food the laborer must have to live comfortably is heavily taxed; even the salt on his table is not exempt. This schedule (agricultural products) was evident ly prepared by the same mind which has dominated this bill-a mind cer tainly not unfair to the great trusts. "That the bill Is a sectional one is shown by the failure of the ma jority of the committee to lift any burden whatever from the shoulders of the Southern farmer. The grower of cotton must sell his product in the open markets of the world. In order, however, to benefit the manu facturer of cotton the Republican party makes him pay a heavy tax on every pound of it that is exported and comes back into the Unit-ed States in the shape of manufactured goods. Thus he sells in free trade markets and buys in a protected market. Not only have these burdens not been lifted, but addition al ones have been placed upon him. By an lately discovered process, a fabric known as 'mercerized- fabrics"~ Is now being made. This is a very much like silk, and is largely worn. In order to further enrich the manu facturer and to further tax the mass es of the people a tax has been laid on these goods. "Cotton hose has fallen under their greedy gaze and the tax on it. already too high, has been greatly increased. Cotton goods are more generally used than any other class of goods by the masses of the Ameri can people, and every cent of duty laid on such fabrics is an additional tax on the people least able to pay it. "The Standard Oil Company is as handsomely cared for in the Payne bill as in the Dingley bill," the re port continues, "and by reason of the: provision in Paragraph 637, popular ly known as the '.joker,' continues to be protected by a tariff duty of< 99 per cent, which enables it to dominate' and exploit the American market and to levy trouble upon1 the public, thereby piling up millions of dollars of ill-gotten gains." 1 The report further contends that a similar "joker" in the paragraph providing for the free entry of coffeec places a duty on coffee equal to the export duty imposed by the country e from which it is imported, and that r the consumer must pay both, the ex port duty of the other country andt the import duty of the United States. I The tax on tea is also attacked, th3 y claim being made that the $7,000,- r 000 which it is proposed to raise by 14 imposing a duty on tea, represents t the amount by which the cost of c living wili be increased by this tax. n Criticism Is made of the metal is schedule, and it is contended that t< hides having been placed on the free - list, the duty on leather, shoes, har- b ness and other leather manufactures II should also be removed. r. Referring to the reduction of 5-100 fi of a cent in the duty on refined sugar Ii provided by the Payne bill, the re - port declares: tU "Theretially th trust receives a a: THE LUCKY MEN 'ACTORY INSPECTORS ARE AP POINTED BY MR. WATSON. a Selecting Men He Desired to Rec ognize Clemson's Textile School as Well as Organized Labor. Columbia, March 22.-Commis toner Watson today named the two actory inspectors provided for in he recent act of the legislatire. 'here were over 300 applicants for he jobs, telegrams and special de Ivery letters coming in even as late s this morning. Mr. S. M. Sloan, one of the ap >ointees, is a native of Anderson, >ut now living in Greenville. He is L Clemson graduate of 1900 and is he son of Treasurer P. H. E. Sloan f that institution. He has had a ariety of cotton mill experience, rom the bottom rung up to super ntendent. As he was employed by he cotton mill association to super ;ise employment of labor, he will iaturally be regarded as the cotton nill owners' representative in the ippointments. Mr. Alex McDougall, of Columbia, :he other appointee, has for ten Fears or more been a conservative representative of organized labor in .his city, and is looked upon as a raluable and capable young man. "In the making of these appoint ments," said Commissioner Watson, "there has been but one thing for me to consider-the best interest of the State and of the work I have been .directed by the General As to undertake." Both appointees are now in the employ of the Southern Railway. COWARDLY ASSASSIN Shoots and Kills a Man Through a Store Window. Wilmington, N. C., March 23. Jerry Bigford, a young white farmer and store keeper, living near Free man's, Columbia county, this State. was murdered last night by an as sassin, who fired upon him through a window of his home, where he lived alone near his store, his body being found weltering in blood by a negro woman, who went to the store this morning to make a small pur chase. The sheriff was notified and bloodhounds trailed the supposed as sassins to and across Cape Fear river, where Cleveland Russ and Stilmore Russ, brothers, were arrest ed, one of whom, it is alleged, be ing a rival of young Bigford for the hand of a Miss Squires, of an ad joining county, whom the dead man was to marry tomorrow night. The Russ boys are held pending a cor oner's inquest. ALMOST A FIGHT. For'dney and Byrd Involved in Hot Controversy. Washington, March 26.--Through a misunderstanding Representative Byrd (Miss.) and Representative Fordrney (Mich.) almost came to blows on the floor of the house today while the latter was making a speech :m the tariff. Mr. Fordney, in re sponse to numerous questions rela tive to the existance of a lumber trust, was contending that no com bination of lumber manufacturers 3xisted. Mr. Byrd asked Mr. Fordney if it was not true that a combination ex 'sts among the retail dealers of Mis =issippi, to which Mr. Fordney's firm. erhich is operating in that State, was i party. Mr. Byrd added that he knew whereof he sopke when he sharged the existance of such a comn bination. "The igentleman doesn't know a jamned thing about it,'' shouted Mr. Fordney irritably. Immediately Mr'. Byrd made his way towar'd Mr. Fordney, but several Democratic members stopepd him be fore he could reach the former. Mr. Fordney immediately apologiz ad to the house for the profanity and said that if he had offended the 'entleman from Mississippi he most humbly apologized. He added, how ever, that Mr. Byrd could not say that his firm was a member of a lumber trust. Mr. Byrd then explained that it was not his intention of make such a charge, and the tincident was closed.* MYSTERY ABOUT SUICIDE. Queer Action About Notes Left by Mers. Lorillard. Washington, March 25.--Nothing so sensational as the suicide here esterday by asphyxation of Mrs.~ Pierre Lorillard, Jr., Wife of the' tobacco magnate, has occurred in the natio-nal capital for years. The prominence of the family and :he air of mystery surrounding the ra~gic affair lend a peculiar interest ;o this case. Intimate friends of the 'amily here heard of the woman's ragic death late yestrday, but it was ot until today that the news be ~ame general. The coroner stated that he had n his possession a sealed envelope 'hich Mrs. Lorillard left pined on he outside of her clothing, andr rhich read, "To be buried with me iiopened," as well as another en elope which was left in the room ontaining a note, but, he says, he g ill not make public the contents of ~ ither of these because he had been I equested not to do so.s At half-past twelve a number of he most intimate friends of the orillard family gathered at t'ie Hill er street residence for a brief fu-s eral ceremony. For reasons un nown the Lorillard family observed de greatest secrecy in regard to the eremonies, their servants even de ying that any were being held. It ;said that the body would be taken >New York during the afternoon. * low 'between the eyes.' Really this it ifinitesimal reduction of the Dingley di tte will not reduce the price of re- ti ned sugar-a prime necessity of h: fe-to the consumer in any degree is hatsoever. Certainly that reduc- w n may be prnnerly rienominae1 m ;OGENT REASON hy The South Is Democratic Given By a Georgian VANTS EQUAL RIGHTS 'ongressman Adamson on the Floor of the House Says Jeffersonian Principles of Government Keeps the South in the Democratic Col umn, Where She Will Stay. Washington, March 26.-Judge Ldamson, of the Fourth Georgia dis rict, is one Georgia congressman vho takes his Democracy straight nd who has been able to give a ound reason why the South is Dem cratic. It has been a rather noisy laim by Rephilicans of the North, Lnd to a too large extent acquiesced n by public men of the South. that he South is Democratic because of he presence of the negro and the 1ecessity of preserving white civili :ation. Judge Adamson in his- speech n the house on the tariff gave a nore intelligent and a more accurate -iew of it. Said he: "The Republican party and pro :ection are so mixed up and inter woven that the party could not live beyond an election without the doc trine of protection, and protection :ould not survive a single session )f congress without the Republican party. Sometimes through igno rance, but oftener from malice, peo ple deplore the South's sectionalism and partizanship, basing the slande on our steadfast adherence to tl' party of tle jconstitultion and ita consistent and peramount demand tor local self-government and honesi taxation. It is true that we ar( more solidly and permanently Dem ocratic than some other States, bu1 it is because from environment, edu. cation and conditions affecting Im migration we have a igreater pe: cent of native, upright, intelligent honest voters than favor most oth er States. (Applause.) Rererrinj all questions to fundamental princi pIe, we not only Tote right on polit! cal questions, but present the bes and purest type of Americanism nov extant. Our integrity, purity an unswerving devotion to principle wil prove the bulwark of conservatisn and good government, the mainsta; of the republic in dark days that ma: come when madness, confusion. mal ice and reckless desperation destro: peaceful c,onditions in some region and plaigte our country. (Loud ap plause.) "We have suffered most grievousl: and without provocation the shaft of sectionalism aimed at us, our so cial conditions and our commercia and political ascendency. It has al flicted us with every conceivabl form of insult, indignity and robber~i We have calmly, firmly, honestl and bravely resited sectionalism, ani for this have been called sectional We ask nothing inconsistent wit: the good of the people of all part of the republic. We want no specia favors and advantages, but, in turi we object to their being conferre on others. We support the onl national party ever prominent in thi country, the only part that offer fair conditions and honest govers ment and equal protection to a: parts of the country alike. We di not care what you call a party. I other people prejudiced against th name 'Democratic' would only ope: their eyes and wake up their con science so as to co-operate with ui in restoring the application of cor rect principles to the administratio of this government, we would, if nec essary to please them, be willinj even to go back and take up our ol1 name 'Republican.' which we discard ed long ago, though the practices o the party in power under that nam< have brought -it into considerabl< disrepute. (Loud applause on th< Democratic side.) "The enormity of protection migh in some measure be mitigate< through some device permittinag th4 treasury to share the profits the privileged class is; enable to extor from the people. Fifty per cent o: the net profits ought to provide th4 beneficiaries princely incomes; th< other half would keep the treasury overflowing with money. The nec essity for further exactions upor the people to replenish the treasury would be eliminated. The automatic arrangement might prove more pop ular and even remove the systen from partisan politics. For such a soft snap In perpetuity as the trans ferred power to levy tribute on .a1] rur people ad libitum the barons should be willing to divide profits with the treasury. In kingly coun ~ries it used to be fashionable to farm out royal prerogatives, some hing being paid to the crown for he concession. If it is competent .o transfer the taxing power gratuit >usly, it would certainly be equally roper to farm it out on halves or ome other reasonable per cent. It s thought the steel trust could ~asily support the postffice depart nent: the Standard Oil Company ould finance the army and navy; the pool-thread trust and all other hriving brood of protection ould easily meet the expenses of LI1 the other departments of the overnment, improve all our rivers nd harbors, connect them by canals. estore and maintain our merchant arine, drive from the seas by pro ection, erect a public building at very county site in the United tates, dig Panama canal, in a few ionths pay off the public debt, and ~ave in the treasury at all times ufficient loose change for spending ioney. (Laughter and applause.) "Let those who at first blush re ard this as a joke analyze it and atisfy themselves." * STMID CLOSE HOME. n Old Woman Dies Near Place of Her Birth. Pensacola, March 24.-Born with ten miles of the place where she ed, having left there only three mes during her career, and never tying left the county of her birth the record of Mrs. Mary Fitts, ho is dead at McKinville, twenty iles from this city, at the age of HOW THEY GOT HIM THE LAD TELLS HOW HE WAS STOLEN And Carried Off, and How the Kid nappers Treated Him While They Had Him. Cleveland, Ohio, March 22.-Ful ly 2,000 gathered in the hallways and lobbies of the hotel when it became known that Willie Whitla had been surrendered to his father at the Hollenden Hotel this evening as related in another column. Those who were unable to get into the hotel stood on the sidewalk and shouted for a glimpse of the boy. Again and again they called him by name and implored his father to bring him out and let them look at him. Whitla acquiesced to the request of the crowd, and carrying the boy on his shoulder, walked down into the lobby. Mountin'g a raised platform in the centre of the lobby, Whitla gave every one a chance to see both father and son. Cries of "speech," caused Whitla to say a few words as follows: "This Is my son. He was lost and is found again. If I live a thousand years, I never can do enough to re pay the press, the police and the peo ple who all have done noble work In helping to find my boy and in extend ing their sympathy to me and my family and relatives." ' The father then sought to induce the child to say a few words in re sponse to the crowds demand, but frightened, Willie began to cry, so the assemblage cheered him again and desisted in its efforts to make him speak. Later the boy related his story M is father and the newspaper men, a-. :ollows: - "A man, tall and with a black &tustache, came to the school hou-e. Thursday and told my school teach er, Mrs. Anna Lewis, that you want ed me at your office. I went out to a buggy with him. On the way down town, he asked me to address a let ter to you. I did this, and then dropped It Into a small box. He was awfully kind. "We went from Sharon to War ren. The man, who was the same one who brought me to the car linE tonight, was nice to me. He tucked I the robe about my legs. Gee, hE 1 was good. "When he got to a place the mar said was Warren, the man left the buggy in the road. Then we got or what I think was an electric car. ] was sleepy when we got on the car 3 "When we got to a town that th4 - man called New Castle they took m( to a big building and turned me ovei to a woman. She was good to me The hospital, or whatever the build ing was, was a clean place. Ther( I was a man there who I think was 2 doctor. He looked like a doctor, be Scause he had short, merry whiskers "The people In the hospital toli vme that I must do just what the: Stold me to do. If I did not obey then they said they would take me to Splace called the piest house, wher( folks that have smallpox have to go I twalked the chalk just like a -gooi boy, papa, like you've told me t< S"On Saturday night I was taker Saway from the hospital, and I thin) Swe went to a town called Ashtabula -We traveled in a buggy and on foot IEarly in the morning we went bac1 Sto the hospital. I heard one of the Smen say: 'There will be nothini Sdoing tonight, I guess.' S"They told me I was taking little vacation. I was not going tc b e hurt, they told me, so I just acted nice and had a good time playing around the hospital. I knew I would get back home all right, and jus Ssuppoged 'Mr. Jones' was one of m3 father's friends, who was treating me nice because you wanted him tc rtreat me that way, papa, dear." SECOND TRAGEDY AT GREER. Both Caused by Accident, If I~ I Claimed by Some. Spartanburg, March 22.--Joh Gwinn shot and killed John Tram mnell at Greer late Sunday afternoon at Sloan's store. Gwlnn was arrested immediately after the homicide and brought to Spartanburg and lodge'l :n jail. Hie ce: s that t: shooting was unintentional. It seems that Gwinn and several of his companions were in Sloan's store Late yesterday afternoon, with the door closed. Trammell came to the door and gave several raps, and Gwinn, ac cording to his statement,' seized one of the pistols that were said to be on t-e counter and, aiming it at the door, pulled the trigger, think ing that the weapon was unloaded. The pistol was discharged and Tram meil fell dead, with a bullet in his breast. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that the deceased came to his death from a pistol ball wound in the hands of John Gwinn. This is the second tragedy at Greer within the week. A few days ago PerrI Leister was accidentally shot and killed by Sam James. DEATH ON STREET. The Black Hand Charged With One More Murder. New York, March 24.-Another killing, which the police declare should be added to the list of crimes of the "Black Hand," was committed on the streets of Brooklyn today when Joseph Genaro, a cigar maker and supposed to be the father of the vaudeville performer of that name, was shot down and killed in a fusillade of bullets that followed a meeting of Genaro and a crowd of seven Italians. PTOMAINE POISONING. Two Children Dead After Eating of Canned Ham. Deal's Island, Md., March 24. Two children of Hosea Webster, a merchant of this town, are dead as a result, it is thought, of ptomaine poisoning, caused by eating canned ham, and other members of the fam ily are in a critical condition, among whom are Mr. and Mrs. Webster and wo daughters, Dorothy and Esther. The dead are Thomas, aged three. LAD COMES BACK Little Willie Whitla Restored To His Father's Arms BOY OF EIGHT YEARS Who was Stolen From Sharon, Penn., School Last Week, Returned t< His Agonized Parents-Was Founi at Cleveland-Whitla's Detective. Say He Paid the $10,000 Ransom Cleveland, Ohio, March 22.-Littl< Willie Whitla, who has caused th( police of the country endless worr: since he was kidnapped from schoo in Sharon, Pa., last Thursday, wa: returned to his father at the Hol lenden Hotel here tonight at 8:31 o'clock. Shortly after noon Mr Whitla left Sharon for Cleveland. He was unaccompanied. His im mediate family and the private de tectives he had in his employ he ar prised of the proposed secret meel ing, but insisted that he make th trip alone. Every one of them wa warned that he must be allowed t go unheralded and no attempt at th capture of the kidnappers now b made. Whitla was certain that I he spoiled the plans of his son's cal tors tonight, he would never see tb lad again. About 2 o'clock this afternoon b went to a candy store in the Eat End. With him he carried the $10 000, expecting that it would be d( manded of him there. He was m( by a woman, who detailed to him t1 terms of the kidnappers. With a the eagerness of a distracted parei Whitla agreed to them L mediatel Detectives in his employ say that 1 paid the money, but on this poih the father declines to commit hir self. Half an hour later he returi ed to the Hollenden Hotel and awai ed developments. As he waited in the hotel lobl and corridors Whitla was in a high nervous condition. A few newspap men walked over to talk to hi' "In heavens name, men, do not s: anything to me. I am on the verl of nervous prostration," he sai "I expect the boy will be back t night, but I cannot state positive whether he will be returned safe ai sound. Do not ask'me to reveal tl alleged settlement. That might ru all of the plans." In the meantime little Willie w; being treated kindly, and even this time does not realize what dan er he was in. The woman in t] candy store had done her duty. S] communicated with the captors the boy and told them that the fat er had made no attempt to. tr them. The boy was brought from I unknown hiding place to a car Iii in the east end of the city. A few rods from the car line tl man stopped the boy. Pulling a pa of smoked glasses from his pockt 1he adjusted them to the lad's he: with the remark: "You'll look be ter in these." The sides of the blaa yarn cap were pulled carefully ov the boy's ears. A slip, which Will was to hand to the conductor, w put in the boy's pocket. It rean "Send this boy to the Hollendi Hotel double quick." Willie says the man told him th if anybody asked him who took hi to the car line to tell them it w Mr. Jones." "All right, Mr. Jones," answer: W~illie. Presently a car came into vie and the mysterious Mr. Jones dre the boy close. to him., "Well, Willie. you are going dov town now and you will se your pa: pretty soon," he said. onThis delighted Willie. He swui onto the car quickly, according the conductor. "Mr. Jones" pa the boy's fare and then got off tJ car and disappeared after wavii a frIendly adieu. Presently Edward Mahoney, agd 17. sat down in the seat with tI boy. Mahoney, like most every att er person in Cleveland last night, w; looking for Willie Whitla. So I started a conversation. "What's your name." he querlel "Jones." answered Willie, as h kidnapper friend had told him to d But Mahoney was not to be foole He called his friend. Ramsey. ovi from another part of the car ar showed him Willie. He suggeste that it might be the missing chih Then Willie showed them his tran fer slip, saying that he should be et off at the Hollenden Hotel, and the were convmneed it was he. The boys trok Willie to the hot? He skipped through the doors ahes of them, and into the lobby. Willie did not see his failer, mot i er or sister !n the lolbv. Walkin over to the clerk he asked: "Hav you seen my papa?" "Who is he. boy?" he was asket "Oh. I'm Mr. Whitla's Willie," h~ replied. The crowd nearest the boy wh heard the words rushed in arouni him. The father and his boy wer then brought together and the rapid 1y increasing crowd gave franti cheers for them both. Father and son went to the former's room. Then through the door came thesi words, spoken by the father to the boy's mother. on the long distane telephone: "Oh, mother. I have Wil lie here in my arms. He is safe Glory to God, mama. It is the hap pest night of my life." "HERO OF FORT FISHER." Col. William Lamb, Brave Confeder ate, Has Passed Away. Norfolk. March 23.-Col. Willianm Lamb, aged seventy-three, soldier lawyer, editor, merchant and poli tican, died here today. He~ wa' best known as "the hero of Fort Fisher" in the Confederate war, when in the seige of three days he held the fort near Wilmington, N. C.. with I,900 men against the at tack of 10,000 Federal troops on land and 600 .guns on water. Students Killed. Wiehita Falls, Texas, March 25. Reports received today are to the ef fect that the tornado, which swept across Oklahoma late yesterday. struck the Howard school house three miles north of Grand Field, CITIZENS WARNED Against Companies That Do Not Comply With Law. Columbia, March 24.-The Record says a number of unauthorized in surance companies seem t'o be seek ing business In this State. As these companies come under notice of Com missioner McMaster, he reports them to the insurance commissioner of their home State, and in some cases these commissioners take action to restrain these companies and require them to comply with the laws of South Carolina. In other instances Commissioner McMaster is reporting these concerns to the fraud order, department of the postoffice in the hope that this department will re strain them from the use of the mails. It is not meant that In either case these concerns are Irresponsible, but they are not licensed to do bus Iness in South Carolina, and policy holders in this State would have no recourse to secure payment of claims. Commissioner McMaster reports that one of the most active unlicens ed companies In South Carolina Is. soliciting business through the mails Is the Pennsylvania Life and Acci e dent Association of Philadelphia. He has reported this association to the insurance department of Pennsylva e nia, but the insurance commissioner e of that State says that he has no e jurisdicition over such organizations as the Pennsylvania Life and Acci e dent association and therefore he can not aid Commissioner McMaster In e preventing this association from so t liciting business in South Carolina. WILL ISSUE BONDS. ' Newberry Keeps Abreast in Her 11 School Affairs. it r Newberry, March 24.-Special: In e an election here today on the ques It tion of Issuing $40,000 of forty-year 1- bonds for the enlargement and' bet ter equipment of the city school sys t. tern, the vote stood 172 for the bonds and 95 against. The vote also ,y carries with it an additional special ly levy of two mills for maintenance. r This will permit Newberry to make a. lier school system second to none yin the State. The city has outgrown e the present equipment and Is greatly j. In need of additional buildings. It - is hoped to have the buildings ready v for occupancy at the opening of the id next session. Two additional build I Ings will probably be erected and a in thorough system will be establihed, including the high school. The re Is suit of this election means much at for Newberry. 9- SHORT OF FUNDS. of Postmaster at Pee-Dee Leaves For h- Parts Unknown. tp is Marion, - March 25.-Mr. C. R. ie Moore, postmaster at Pee-Dee Junc tion, this county, was found short 1e |yesterday by a postoffioe inspector, ir |it Is alleged, but before the examina ~t, |tion of the office was completed he Ld left for parts unknown, telling the t- linspector that he was going to Flor j ence, ahout twelve miles away, to er |secure money to make good the short le |age. He has not yet returned and as jthe inspector found, when the exami :nation was completed, that the short age amounted to $703.15. It is said that Moore left a note to his wife, at which was found after he had gone, m saying that it was said he was short, b ut that he was not, and told her that if they found his body to give It a ddecent burial at Centenary, his old home, below this city. SPARTANBURG GROWING. nPostoffice Will be Placed in the First a - Class. ig Spartanburg, March 22.--The to Spartanburg postoffice will be placed Ed in the list of first-class offices by the ie Postmaster General within the next few days the receipts of the office for d the year having exceeded the $40, te 000 requIrement. There are now 1- only four first-class offices In the is State, Spartanburg being one of ie therui. The fact that this city is to be In the list of first-class offices will I. Increase the interest of the twenty is or more candidates who want to be 3. postmaster to succeed Col. S. T. i. Poinler. r A Storekeeper Has Broken Window Eto Prove Story. y Kansas City', March 26.-Jules I. Buermann, constable of Meranee (1 township, and a storekeeper in El lers-.ille, Mo., tells a wonderfu' tory of what a high wind in Missouri may edo. He says that he was sitting in front of his store one day last week watching a gathering storm and e that shortly after he went inside he noticed f-eathers flying through the air. A second latpr three ducks , broke through his display window e and lay breathless on the floor. - Buermann says all he had to do was e draw the ducks and cook them. I After the storm had passed he found two more picked ducks on the jarbed wire fence in the rear of his store. They too were lacking of all feath ers. * SELL NEGROES ONLY. Threaten to D~o That to Spite Her Rich Neighbors. New York, March 24.-Mrs. Caro line A. Dow. the widow of a real -es- ( tate operator who first opened up ai suburb of Yonkers, New York, known as Yonkers Park, thireatens to sell I her property holdings there in a fash 1ionable neighborhood exclusively to negroes be'cause the name, of the suburb has been changed to Crest wood. She has authorized a real estate agent to sell her residence provided the purchaser conspicuously posts the following signs: Boarding house, Exclusively for a Negroes. i "Laundry for Negroes. t "Road House for Negroes. S Undertaking and Embalming. Ex. t< clusively for Negroes." t The residence is at present occu- 0: pied by Eva Booth. of Salvation tl Army fame. A negro physician has H already offered to buy the house, T The Only Baking made from Royal Gra Cream e from Gra A Guarantee of Healthul, Deliciou I4URDER AND SUICIDE1 V1RS. CULBERTSON TOOK HEER OWN LIFE AFTER Arranging a Dramatic Situation Calculated to Throw Suspicion on Another Woman. Vincennes, Ind., March 26.-Mrs. Jessie Lee Overton Culbertson, young woman of mystery, a bride of three months, was not ;urdered. She slew herself after arranging an ar tistically dramatic situation to throw the murder on another woman. Her husband and relatives tearfully ack nowledged today that their suspicions that she was killed at the instigation of another woman for jealous re venge were unfounded. The body of a minature skeleton, which had been attached to s skull found in the pocket of Mrs. Culbert son's apron when she was discover ed gagged in a shetd near her home, last Wednesday, after swallowing car bolic acid, was found 'Ate today near the shed beneath a pile of debris. This toy skeleton Mrs. Culbertson had in her possession months ago. Proof that the suicide wrote the anonymous threatening letters to herself was also established today. A letter she wrote to her husband at Bridgeport, Ill., is inscribed on stationery just like that on which was penned the anonyomus notes. When the water mark of the let ter was shown to the husband and his parents they asserted their belief that no murder had been committed. - It was Miss Etta Longwell of Chi cago, formerly of Vineennes,. whom the Culbertson charged with causing the death of Mrs. Celbertson. Now they wish it made 'plain that they were mistaken. "Her name should be cleared by all means," said Culbertson. "I can not understand why Jessie should kill herself. -She was strange, though, now that all this has hap pened to recall many things. She never would tell me about her past. She said her father and mother were dead. I have heard that she former ly lived in Waco, Texas, and in Dub lin, Texas, where she~ is said to have had a brother. I have tried to com municate with relatives but can not get any word from them."* ADDRESS TO COTTON GROWERS. Urged to Beduce Acreage at Least Ten Per Cent. To the Cotton Growers: A year ago I strongly urged you to reduce the acreage in cotton and grow more feedstuff. It seems from the acreage report last- year that only a part of the growers reduced their acreage and in some sections a small increase was shown. The result has been about as I predicted, the lowest prices we have had for several years. It now looks as if the crop will bring around $550,000,000, or over $50,000,000 less than last year's crop, which was nearly 2,000, 000 bales smaller; and, taking the cost of growing the extra 2,000,000 bales into consideration, It means a loss to the South of over $100, 0 00.0 00. The time has arrived when you must decide on the acreage for this season. I strongly urge you to re duce your acreage in cotton at least 10 per cent and raise more grain and hay, so you will be more inde pendent at marketing time. When enough cotton grown to supply his needs he is very Independent and will only buy at cheap prices. With a possibility of a shortage he Is a very eager buyer. When the con sumption for the first half of the cot tcn year ending Ma'h will likely be a little less th - ' half the crop, the consumption t half will be very much <xr, so that we will ikely have ,out the same visible supply rih': we had last season, so that we should raise next year at [east 1.000,000 bales less than the :onsumption in order to get good prices for it. Now, don't think that every one' ilse will reduce and you can plant nore and get a big price, for that Is ;vhat too many of you did last sea on. It w ill take a uniform reduction n order to get the proper results. l'ou should only plant enough so :hat with the most favorable condi ions the crop would not exceed 12, ~00,000 bales and then If weather onditions reduce the yield to 11, '00,000 you will get more money for' t than if you raised 12,500,000. J. A. TAYLOR, 'resident National Ginners' Assn. Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 1'7, 19'09. CONSULT SENATORS EoeMaking Important Appoint-. mer ents South. Washington, March 23.-There re further indications that Mr. Taft itends to consult as far as posible 2e wishes of Senators from the outhern States in which offices are be filled. He had a lengthy in-: s ~rview today with Senator Smith, f: South Carolina, and it was said fi ~at he would consult with Mr. Till- I: an about South Carolina of~ces. 1F hie same rules, it is declared, w~ill ci )YAL A iO POWDER dately rure Powder of Tartar Pure, s Food BOTH IN JAIL THE WOMAN SHOWS NO-CON CERN OVER HER PLIGHT. Her Aged Father is Grief Stricken Over the Disgrace That Has Over taken Her. Pittsburg, March 25.-A confer ence Is being held here at the ofmiee of Detective Perkins by Chief of Po lice Crain, of Sharon, and Sheriff Chess, of Mercer county, as to the next move to be made in the Whitla kidnapping case. James Boyle and his wife, the alleged abductors, who were brought to the Allegheny county Jail from Cleveland last evening enjoyed a good night's rest. It has not been decided whether the Boyles will be taken to Mercer, Pa., today or toinorrow. The woman is apparently unconcerned regarding the serious trouble she is now in. After a conference by the Mercer and Allegheny authorities, it was-de-, cided to take james Boyles to Mer cer at 1 o'clock, but detain-Mrs. Boyle here, as there -are no accom modations for women prisoners in the Mercer jail. Former District Attorney Coeh ran, of Mercer county, counsel for Mr. Whitla, said that he has evi. . dence which wi. absolutely connect Mrs. Boyle with the Pennsylvania end of the kidnapping. Identifies Woman in Case. Cleveland, March 26.-The Cleve land Leader 'this .morning says: The woman known to the police .as Mrs. James Boyle and believed to be the brain behind the kidnapping of "Billy" Whitla, was ,Identified yesterday by a Cleveland vessel own er as Anna McDermott. She was born In Chicago. Her father Is a well known business man there and she has a brother who is a banker.- She was educated in a convent. Three years ago she' disappeared from home. Since then her family' have been In Ignorance of her where about. She Is twenty-twO years old. The vessel owner's half sister Is the girl's mother. A sister ,of the woman visited here a short time ago. Father Grief Stricken. Chicago, March 26.-That Wii 11am McDermott, a retired member of the Chicago fire department, is the father of "Mrs. James ~H. Boyle," who, with her husband, Is charged with the kidnapping of Willie WhitIa, was confirmed today by the grief stricken father. A son of Mr. McDermott is a bank clerk. , * THEY STAND BY H~I. Rev. R. A. Sublett .Endorsed by Pastors' Conference. The following was adopted by a unanimous vote of the Baptist Pas tors' Conference, of Greenville, March 22, as expressive bf their opinion of Rev. R. A. Sublett. The motion was also carried that this statement be published in the News and Courier, The State, The Colum bia Record, Greenville News, Man ning Times and The Baptist Courier. Other papers 'that published the strictures are also requested to copy: In view of cefrtain strictures passed upon Rev. R. A. Sublett in some of the daily paj, ;rs, we the members of the Baptist Pastors' Conference of Greenville, while not familiar with the details in the case recently decided 'in the Supreme Court, would like to place on record our esteem for Bro. Sublett as a man and a preacher. Rev. Mr. Sublett is a member of this Conference and is held in high esteem as a minister of the Gospel, and enjioys the entire confidence, of the pastors of the city and the mem bers of this body. ton Street church and is in hearty ac Street church, and is in hearty ac cord with the pastor and members of that church inall of the work and duties that devolve upon a iaith ful church member. He has been in the ministry for thirty years or more.. During these years he has served in the pastorate of churches in this and other States, and for a number of years has been engaged in evangelical services. In this work he has had remarkable success. God has blessed his minis tr7- He is still in the pastorate and ilso doing evangelistic work. We do not regard him as a fail are. The fact that a case in court went against him does not imply :hat he Is a failure in the ministry >r that he is a dishonest man, and n this case it appears from the writ en testimony presented that witness is of high and honorable characte' estified in favor of his contention. Ve are giad to make these state nents concerning our brother in Ihrist and to put them on record. Blew Train From Track. Chicago, March 24.--A blizzard of leet and snow has Isolated Denver rom outside communication. Con rmation has been received at Rock sland, Ill., of a terrifice windstorm Kansas. At Edison, Kan., nine trs of a freight were blown from