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THAT BIG FEE That the Dispensary Commission Was To Pay - T HAS SWUNK AWFULLY Like the Darkies' Catfish-Col. Stevenson Sets Forth the Facts s Concerning the Share Going to o: Gen. Anderson, Col. Felder, Major Rountree and Capt. Wilson. The following letter explains h itself: The Atlanta Constitution: I notice that in an article in your paper of Thursday last you state e the following: "From reliable p sources it has been learned that the a Atlanta law firm of Anderson, Feld er, Rountree & Wilson will receive 1 between $150,000 and $200.000 as e their fee for their services in win ning the famous South Carolina dis pensary case recently decided in fav or of their clients, and involving n about a million dollars in cash on r hand, and between two millions and i three millions in claims. This will no doubt be the record fee in the South. "When this firm was employed in I the case, it is understood they were 4 given a cash retainer fee of $100, 000 and made a contract for a com mission of so much on the sums t recovered." This statement is entirely mislead ing and puts the commission in South Carolina in an improper at titude. If it merely concerned my self I should pass it by, but it mis- f leads the public, many of whom take your paper in South Carol* -a, and is largely untrue notwithstanding the source of your information may c be reliable. In the first place, the fund in voled was only $600.000, the en tire claims being asserted in that I litigation against the fund being only $250,000 instead of $3,000,000. i In the next place, no retainer fee was paid the Atlanta firm at all. but they simply were given the con- 1 tract at their own solicitation, to be paid 10 per cent of the amount which they might reduce the claims I by evidence which they would furn- i ish a. their own expense. The total amount of claims originally being $600,000 and the possibility of re duction, therefore, not being over $600,000 and if the claims had been entirely eliminated, their fee for that branch of service could only be $60,000. As a matter of tact. claims have been reduced thus far some thing like $100,000, which, on that branch of the case, would entitle the Atlanta firm to a fee of $20,000. In addition to that they were to have 50 per cent of what they received back of money that had been paid sway illegally and lost, they to bear all of the expense and the commis sion to have absolutely no expense with regard to this. Up to this time nothing has been recovered back, but I will say that these gentlemen have been very ac tive and spent a lot of money and I am very much pleased with their work in that line and believe that they will receive a very considerable amount of money in the long run, but you will see from this state ment that the commission was done a great injustice in stating that they had been paid $100,000 retainer fee and that the fees would probably run np another $100,000 to these gentlemen, but I am sure from my very pleasant association and con nection with them, that they could not have been consulted before you made the statement. In addition to that my private affairs and those of Col. Abney seem to have been in vaded in that you state that I, ast general counsel for the commission, receive a stated sum fc.z my servic es. That is only partially true, for: litigation I r'eceive the usual fee, for advising the commission I re ceive a contract price. You say further of these gentle-f men "by winning this case the At- 1 lanta firm has won one of the most sweeping victories ever announced e from the supreme court of the Unit ed States. When you reflect that the Atlan- s ta firm were not employed by they commission even to assist in the a proceeding in the United States su preme court but appeared for the reason that they had a personal in terest in the matter because if the courts retained jurisdiction they would be unable to carry out their contract so as to earn any consid erable commission, you will see that you have done the other attorneys an a injustice in the matter. The fact e is, that the firm of Stevenson & Mat- n thewson, and the firm of Abney & c Muller were the representatives of h the commissionk and 'the Atlanta nr firm represented their own interests ei which was entirely contingent in the p: matter and the litigation was so far t< controlled by the attorney general na and the two, iirms named, that, al- al though Mr. Rountree of the Atlanta b1 firm insisted strenuously in prepar- h< ing the petition for certiorari that w the very question upon which the w State has won should not be set forth in the assignments of erorr, and came to Columbia for the pur pose of taking up the matter with us, he was there overruled by us,T so you will see that the Atlanta firm is not entitled to the sole credit of the victory as it was one In the face of the position taken by the w. firm that the very Question on which su it was won should not be raised in F: the certiorari proceedings. The At- wi lanta firm filed a brief, and we were Vi glad to have them do so. They fo: had a personal interest to be con- ho sulted in the matter, but the case ne was argued by Mr. Abney, who open- ed ed, and by myself, who closed. Mr. mi Rountree was not even to appear he in the argument, but the court hay- - ing granted thirty minutes additional do: time, he was given that time to make of an oral argument, which came in or( the midst of the arguments for the an< attorneys for the other side. art It is disagreeable to go into the ] papers about these matters, but the as rank misstatements which have been anm given wide currency in South Caro- an( lina and which is ca -ing criticism MUST SERVE TIME THE PENITENTIARY FOR IS KILLING SON-IN-LAW. lie State Supreme Court Has so 31 Decided in the Case of S. W. Stockman. Among the cases recently decided the supreme court was that of gi W. Stockman. who was convicted d: the killing of his son-in-law. C ampton J. Hartley, during Christ as, 1905, in Lexington county, says a 'a te Columbia Record. Stockman will now have to serve h is sentence of sr-ven years in the -ate penitentiary, the supreme court a Friday having affirmed the de sion of the lower court. This ise has attracted more attention e ossibly in Lexington county than ri ny case in recent years. Hamp Hartley was one of the rgest d-ealers in turpentine in the >unty, and by hard work and close -onomy had secured a goodly por on of this world's goods. le mar ied the oldest daughter of Stock ian, who is a well-to-do farmer and t] rominent in the community. He t4 ; a member of the wealthy Stock ian family of Newberry county. 0 On the night of the tragedy. Hart- h ?y went to the home of Stockman. 0 [e was under the influence of whis- , ey, it was alleged, and a general 0 ow arose. At the trial the defense ried to make it appear that Hartley a ad attempted to insul his sister-in aw, Miss Stockman, and that the r illing was the direct result of this. . But from the testimony of the j tate's witnesses. it was shown that y tockman was himself under the in- t uence of whiskey, as was a man by he name of Taylor. who was a guest t the Stockman home. Taylor has since been killed by his wn son at his home in Saluda coun y. The first time the case wa-s call d, the jury failed to agree. At the econd trial Stockman was convicted >f manslaughter and sentenced by rudge Dantzler to serve seven years n the penitentiary. ' Stockman is nearing the 60 mile t )ost and is said to be in failing 3 iealth. It is not known when he I vill begin his sentence, but it is upposed that he will make prepara- i ions to leave home within the next I ew days. LOUSANDS OF PRESCRIPTIONS. t )octors Making Money Which Went to Saloonmen. The anti-saloon people of Morgan own. W. Va., were given a rude t hock this week when District At orney Boyd declared in open court hat he is going. to begin prosecution igainst the leading physicians of the ~ommunity. He had evidence to how that one doctor issued 10,000 prescriptions for liquor during the I ast year. An effort will be made I :o include druggists in the prose :tion. Counting Sundays the number of whiskey prescriptions written by this ne physician reaches 27 a day. The :ustomary price that is paid for :Lese prescriptions is $1 each, so that :he physician made $10,000 a year. while the druggist probably made alf of that amount. Similar con litions are said to exist all through he "dry"' districts of West Vir ~inia and Ohio. THE WAGES OF SIN. 'Game of Cards Caused Murder and Suicide. At Chicago Joseph Heck, a roomer or twenty years at the home of H. 3 ~esterman, was shot to death early C his morning by Hesterman, who a noment later committed suicide. 1 The men were the best of friends. I iad been playing cards and the quar el arose, it is 'supposed, over the ~ame. Hesterman, who wvas 61 ~ ears old, secured a revolver and ired a sltot which penetrated his own Lead, causing instant death. Peter Hesterman, son of the sui ide, was awakened by the shooting nd running <to ithe room. foundF oth men dead. The cards were cattered around the table. The C oung man declared he heard no C rgument. C BLACK HAND SOCIETY harged With Assassination of G Florida Man.H L The assassination of Ginseppe Fic- LA rrota, a wholesale grocery mer- O bant' and orw of the most prt ni ent and weal by members of the lo- S il Italian colony of Tampa, Fla.. as added the third to a series of turders here which have been charg i to the black hand during the resent year. Ficarotta was going Shis home from his place of busi ss at a late hour Monday night F. id was shot by *wo men from am sh with shotaans loaded with savy slugs. He was instantly killed eapons and fled. eapons fled. at MURDER OF MOTHER ~ an ly Charged Against a Young Man wI at Erie, Pa. fr< At Erie, Pa., Delmar J. Young se is arrested Monday on a warrant t 'orn out by County Detective ank H. Watson. charging him th the murder of his mother. Mrs. nnie Young. whose dead body was at nd in her cellar last Wednesday. rribly mutilated and hidden be- th4 ath a pile of old carpet. He enter- th; a plea of not guilty and was corn-fi ted to jail without bail for a kit aring next Thursday. an in ng so. and I am sending a copw this to the Columbia Daily Re wlw:ch pubiil'ed your editoria| ( I commented on it in two column on icde- cou: lease insert this as conspicuously for: you did the article referred to boa I send me a copy of the p)aper, cha l greatly oblige, pul Yours most truly, cid4 CUDHAY COMPANY ('iARIGE'D WITi[ VIOLATING REVEN 'E LAW. (alt Packing Concern Accused of Coloring Oleomargarine and Sell ing it Under Law Tax. At Topeka. Kansas. the Federal and jury returned indictments Fri ty against the Cudahy Packing >mpany, of Kansas City, Kansas. S7:37 counts for defrauding the >vernnient out of $80,000 for vio tions of the internal revenue laws. The charge is that the company Ld defrauded the Government of er $80,000 in revenue on oleom -gerine. The maximum fine on ch of the counts is $1,000. The revenue law provides that ich pound of uncolored eleomarge ne must bear a revenue stamp of quarter of a cent, but that each )und, to which coloring matter has e(n added to give it th" appearance butter. a 10-cent revenue stamp -ust he attached. The indictments charge that the udhay Packing Company has sold ie colored product under the quar 'r of a cent tax. It is claimed by the Government Ticials that the Cudhay Company as succeeded in monopolizing the Lemargerine market by selling the )lored prodnet and paying the tax n the basis of uncolored. District Attorney Rone will bring civil action in the Federal Court ,zainst the company to have the lant and machinery used in the ianufacture of oleomargarine con scated. The oleomargarine man facturing plant is connected with ae Cudahy Packing Establishment i Kansas City, Kansas. * HUGE EGG OMLET. sig Mass of Cooked Hen Fruit Stops Train. A dispatch from Yorktown, Pa., D the Philadelphia North American ays: Railroad traffic through this own was delayed for seven hours esterday by a huge omlet, which locked the tracks. The omlet was caused by a fire. everal hundred thousand eggs had een stored in a refigerating plant n the main line. The building aught fire and early in the blaze he floors gave way, dropping all he eggs to the ground floor and >reaking all of them. The intense heat caused them to well, and as the omlet grew it push d its way u1pon the tracks. For a ull hundred feet on both sides of he burning structure this gigantic imlet filled the right of way. At first it might have been pos ible to push a locomotive through be mass, since the omlet was very ight and frothy. But by the time he fire was extinguished the omlet iad become sad and dropped into a eavy, solid mass, which was as ough as a rarebit. A wrecking crew was sent for. :hains w'ere atached to one end of he mass and a locomotive got into ction. The omlet was rolled up and hoved to the side of the tracks. * SALES SHOW FALLING OFF~. )ispensary Auditor's Report for March Made Public. Dispensary Auditor West's report or the month of March, made public Thursday, shows total sales of $2 63, 05.23 as against $296,587.00 for larch of last year. At that time Colleton, Chester and .urens counties were "wet," their larch sales amounting to $29,322. 7. So the gross sales for this arch are off only about $4,000 as ompared with the same month last ear. For March, 1909, Charleston ads with sales of $6,110.60, Rich ind coming next with $40,974.60; iken $26,699.30. Following is Mr. West's statement f sales: 1909. Sales. .bbeville .... .......$ 11,389.65 iken.. ......... ...26.699.33 eaufort .. ...........9,71.35 amberg .... .... ....7,422.22 arweli........ .....12,099.00 erkley.. .... ......5,685.35 olleton .. ............6,025.65 alhoun.. .... .......3,948.69 harleton. .. .. .. .... 46,110.90 orchester ...... ....5,474.65 aireld .... .. ........5832.37 ornce .... .........11445.28 ershaw .... .... . 67. eorgetown .... ......10,132.60 amton .............4,693.65 ee .... ..........6,540.57 xington .... .... ....5,632.96 rangeburg .... ......15,372,46 ichand ............40,974.60 imter.. ..........15,395.95 'illiasburg .. ........6,269.42 Total .... .......$263,605.231 J)EFIEI) OFFICERS. 1 trmer Got Drunk and Terrorized the Town. Louis Truhn, a Berrien county, ch., farmer, after drinking heavily nday night, dynamited a building, tempted to stab his father-in-law d four other members of his fami :barricaded himself in his home. Lere he had stored dynamite and n powder, and defied the posse >m which he had escaped. After *eral hours. Sheriff Johnson cap. -ed Truhn and took him to jail. Kenilworth Inn Burned. Fire of unknown origin broke out haf-past two o'clock Tuesday rning at *Knilworth Inn, one of f best known hotels in the South. r< Ce miles from Ashev'ille. The : is alleged to have started in the o: chen. The guests were roused. F ias far as is known all succeeded p< making their escape. i di Killed Himself. fil )n the eve of his second trial i the charge of embezzling Broome nty funds, Arthur W. T. Black. rer clerk of the Broome county rd of supervisors, and form-er aJ irman of the Broome county Re- of lican committee, committed- sul- Y by shooting himself through the as TARIFF FIGHT iow On In Real Dead Earnest In The Senate ROUSE VOTE MERELY Voiced the Sentiments of the Dif ferent Sections-Senator Smith Gives His Views on the Meaning of the Democratic Platform on the Tariff Question. The Washington correspondent of the Columbia Record says all inter est in the tariff bill has now shifted to the senate, where it was known all along the "Payne act" would in reality be drafted. The votes in the house on the variouk schedules have merely given voice to the senti ments of the sections represented. but in the senate each vote will leave its mark in the final reading of the bill when it goes to the president for his signature. The significance of these senate votes Is underscored by the fact that the president has made it clear that he has no idea of vetoing the Payne bill., whether its real author be Mr. Payne or Sen ator Aldrich. Aside from the general interest the ultimate consumer has in the prices of all articles he consumes, the only paragraphs that are of any immediate interest to South Caroli na, now that the duty on fertilizing salts has been dropped out, are those relating to sea island, or long staple cotton and to lumber. The Payne bill, as It passed the house, fixes a duty of half a cent a cubic foot on hewn sided or squared timber, of 50 cents a thousand on sawed boards and $1 a thousand on sawed lumber not specifically mentionea. Cotton and cotton waste are left on the free list. Democratic senators are planning a fight to put a duty on both these articles, though Senator E. D. Smith is emphatic in his statement that he will not lend his support to any measure that means protection even for local industries. He will vote for duties on lumber and sea island cotton, but only. a duty fixed at a revenue basis. Both these articles, he said, ought to pay their share to ward the support of the government, but there is no reason, in his opinion, for taxing the whole mass of con sumers to benefit the comparatively small number of people owning the timber supply or raising sea island cotton. It is a question of the great est good to the greatest number, he said, and that, translated into prac tice, means a government supported economically with taxes equaly and equitably levied upon all classes and sections. As to the exact rate of duty this equal distribution of the burden of taxation would imply for lumber or sea island cotton, Senator Smith is not yet quite ready to say, though he is going through the imports, ex ports and statistics of production of both products to ascertain a rate satisfying his mind as fair. The $1 a thousand on lumber carried in the Payne bill, he said, might prove fair on Investigation the figures might show that the industry could carry protection of $2 a thousand, and the same thing is true of his attitude on cotton. The Democratic platform does not in Senator Smith's opinion, forbId a Democrat's Imposing a revenue tariff upon lumber. His Interpreta tion of the Denver document is that the present duties on 'lumber and its products must be reduced to a fair basis of taxation. "I haven't any idea the Democratic convention meant to say that lumber should be absolutely free of duty," he said. "but simply that it should come down froms its present exorbitant taxa tion. The paragraph in the Democratic platform to which the senator re ferred reads: "We demand the Immediate re ;''a of the tardft on wood pulp, p':j' paper, lumber. timber' :and iogs, and that these articles be. placed P-on the free list." The plan of the DemocratIc sena tors in general is one desirnud to harmonize the conflicting elements of the party with a view to present ing a solid front in the coming fight. They intend to bring in senators from those States interested in a duty on lumber and those interested in a duty on hides by imposing rev nue duty on both of these articles, and in this way they hope to avoid -he desertions from the party that rade the Democratic fight against the Payne bill so pitiable in the house. Prohibitory duties wil be brought down to a revenue basis, if the Democratic plan carries :hrough and free list will be moved 2p bodily to a revenue basis. The central idea in this plan is :o give to individual senators their ndividual demands and yet preserve I he seeming of a broad principle--a ariff for revenue only. And in oting this revenue duty, senators a rom lumber States will be voting at rotection to lumber and senators rom cattle States will be voting pro ection to hides. The same thing .ill be true of sea island cotton. JUMPED TO HER DEATH 'rom a Ninth Story Window in New r s York City. In New York City Mrs. Anita D. [amilton, said to be the wife of a tired capitalist, committed suicide S [onday by leaping from the window e [her ninth-story apartment on FB ifty-eight street. According to the c< lice, some mystery suurounds the tI entity of her husband, whose name e es not appear to be known in w aancial circles. It is said that he. ul traveling in the South. Petrosino Honored. New York paid its tribute of grief a Ld respect Monday to the memory m Lieut. Jos. Petrosino, of the New K ark police department, who was e sassinated recently while engaged m secrt sevicein Ialy )EATH OFMR.CAUSEY N AN AUGUSTA HOSPITAL FROM HIS WOUND. fe Was Clerk of Court of Hiamp ton County and Was Shot by a Negro. The Augusta Chronicle says Mr. 7W. B. Causey, Clerk of Court of lampton County, died on Monday Lfternoon a little before six o'clock Lt the Margaret Wright hospital, iaving been carried to Augusta the lay after he was shot. Mr. Causey was talking on Sat srday last with a negro known as Peg Leg" Hughes, on the streets >f Hampton, when, without any warning, the negro fired upon him with a revolver. The bullet enter ed the right side, passed through the lower part of the right lung and left the body in the back. He was carried to Augusta by Dr. J. L. Folk and Dr. J. B. Harvey. both of Hampton. At 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon an operation was performed and Mr. Causey lay be tween life and death until Monday afternoon. The case seemed prac tically hopeless from the first. Mr. Causey's wife and his sister, Mrs. Harvey, accompanied the party to the city and remained at the hos pital with him until his death. In order to prevent a lynching the negro was taken to Columbia from Hampton county last Sunday night, and lodged in the penitentiary. Hughes Is accused of attempting to assassinate Clerk of Court W. B. Causey, and he also shot Jesse Sheppard, who was with Mr. Causey at the time. Hughes had recently completed a sentence in the peniten tiary for killing a negro. . The negro secreted himself In a ditch near where the shoting took place. Hughes would have been lynched had he not been hustled off to Columbia. CHARGED WITH LUNACY. Bride of a Few Months Locked Up In Savannah. A dispatch from Savannah to the Augusta Herald says Mrs. John Artley, a pretty bride of three months. and a sister of President Harmes of Newberry college, -South Carolina, is locked up in the county jail on a lunacy charge. Her hus band is John Artley, well known as a member of the Savannah football team, and of a well-to-do Savannah family. The young woman Is residing at a local hotel and is ver: positive she is not insane and has no inten tion of suicide as alleged. She was given the benefit of an investigation by Judge McAlpin and was released, but was again locked up. She was told at the hotel that she should walk out and take some exercise. She complied and was led to the county jail, where she was placed behind the bars. Mrs. Artley's marriage occurred in January. Previously she was Miss Lillie Harmes. BURNED TO DEATH. Six Men Lose Their Lives in a Steamer Fire. The Captain, which has just ar rived at New Orleans, reports the loss of six lives as a result of an explosion on the Hamburg-American saetmer Carnia, at Port Limon, April 1. The Sarnia, which plies between New York and Central America ports, was tied to a pier at Port Li mon when the explosion occurred. Several hundred cans of kerosene oil were stored In the forward hold, and It Is believed that a leak from one of the cans caused the explosion. Five negro laborers and a sailor . on the Sarnia were burned to death In the .hold. The flames were sub dued before a great deal of damage had been done to the steamer, but a large portion of the cargo, prin cipally cotton, was thrown overboard and much of it lost. AFTER MANY YEARS The Supposed Murderer of a Woman is Found. From a family photograph of Ro sie Tritt, who was murdered 32 years ago at Terre Haute, Ind., Sylvanus Burnham, wealthy white-haired Tex as ranchman, banker and Sunday school superintendent of Tulla, Tex., s now charged with the murder. A arm hand who committed the deed hrough jealousy a third of a cen ury ago, is now declared to be Burnham, who figures as a new Jean 'aljean. Non Partizani Census. It is stated that President Taft ias directed Director North of the' ~ensis bureau f(o disregard party ines in securing suitable men for upervisors and other appointive laces under the new census act, in tructions, It is said, have reference o the South. Severe Earth Shock. At Lima, Peru, a severe earth hock was experienced at three 'clock Tuesday morning. The iovement was from east to west, nd was accompanied by subter mean rumblings. No casualties re lted. D~ecember and May. t S. L. Tutle, a well-to-do farmor of akes county, N. C., aged 47, elop- l1 I with the 14-year-old daughter of c .A. Tulp, a merchant of the same t. unty. When the couple got off f e train at Germantown they were t et by the irate father of the bride, f ho attacked Tuttle, beating him imercifully. Killed in Runaway. Mrs. W. C. Langnau, the wife of wealthy manufacturer and the S other-in-law of former Mayor Mc- rt :sson, of Cleveland, OhIo, was kill- d: In a runaway accident Monday X9 arning. Several of her relatives pi re in-jnred but none seriously. bi THE TAX BILL )ennonced by Governor Judson Harmon of Ohio At THE ANNUAL DINNER Of the National Democratic Club in New York, the Ohio Governor Protests-Against the Present Tariff Legislation, the Encroachment of, the Federal Government. Denunciation of the principle of protection and of the tariff legisla tion now pending in Congress as a pretence and a sham, formed the keynote of the addresses at the an nual dinner of the National Demo cratic Club at New York Tuesday night, in celebration of the one hun dred and sixty-sixth anniversary of the birth of Thomas Jefferson. A portrait of Jefferson hung over with American flags, dominated the guest table, at which Qovernors u Harmon, of Ohio, and Marshall, of ir Indiana; Senator Chamberlain, State n Senator Grady; John Foy, the club's e president; Richard Croker, Alton B Parker, Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tammany Hall, and former State Supreme Court Judge Morgan J. O'Brine and D. Cary Herrick sat. 0 Elsewhere at 6 longitudinal tables a sat four hundred of the elect of the Democratic party. 0 A protest against what he declared t were growing encroachments of special privilege at Washington, es pecially as embodied In tariff legis lation, was the keynote of the ad dress of Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio. Asserting that the reduc- t tions in the pending tariff bill would E he but a mockery of the demand for C relief. .Tudge Harmon declared that 0 real relief never would be secured except under a Legislature and Ex- e ecutive following Jeffersonian rules 1 and treating taxation as a means of preventure and not of private gain. The steady tendency since the civil war has been to exalt the Federal Government at the expense of the I State. said the speaker, one result being the neglect of economy and the embarkation of the Government in to extravagant enterprises. He in stanced the action of the last Con gress in appropriating two millions I of dollars and the raising of salaries I of officials in the face of a growing shortage of revenue,. and con tinned: "Now instead of seeking methods of retrenchment to meet a present confessed deficlt, hf more than a hundred millions, the President and Congress are dev'islng additional tax es to exact from the diminished means of the people and proposing to issue bonds besides. State of- I ficials who would propose such a course would not dare to go home to their constituents and would be for ever disgraoed if they should take 1 it . "A fter twelve years of false pre tences, at last confeWssed, which havec bred and fattened countless monop olies and trusts. It is proposed not to shake off their grip, but just to loosen it a trifle here and there soe the people may not be utterly de youred."t Of the way the party lines havee been obliterated In the fight In Con- v gress over the tariff Judge Harmon said: 3 "It is hardly fair for Republicans,u at least, to charge with Inconsistency s Democratic Congressmen who take a ' hand in this selfish scramble. In d the last campaign the Republican I candidate for President, openly of- n fered a share of tariff spoil for e Democratic votes. When special fa- t: vors are the order of the day, it is s: natural for a Representative to think t he ought to secure a share for in- L terests at home. To do otherwise tl requires high courage, and we are proud of the many who show It in E the face of the demoralization which cj legislating for private instead of n' public interest always produces." f( Judge Harmon attacked the policy t1 of spending hundreds of millions of ti dollars for a canal at Panama on i the part of what he said was a coun- E try practically without ships, taxed pl against the possibility of buying any, ti and yith the only proposed means T of encouraging shipping, the pay- T: ment of direct subsidies to a favored tl few out of money raised by taxes on Ir all the people. The speaker added: sy "And why tax the people to build It a costly canal and secure ships for ai foreign commerce. while a tariff di system is maintained whose purpose gi and effect are to discourage or kill at foreign commerce, except such as to consists in selling our products th abroad at less prices than are impos- st ed on our own people. What State he Governme~nt ever committed such th folly?" th an FIGHT FOR FREE POTASH. mi su [ot of Advertising Has Been Given to it Gratis. Bditor The Daily Record: M All the talk about the victory of 3 certain congressman from South larolina concerning potash in the ariff bill is not true and not fair. ['he congressman and certain Co umbia parties kept the wires hotfo tout the wonderful fight they were at naking, when, as a matter of fact, . ertilizer people in Europe, Charles- stc on, Savannah, Wilmington andth tichmond were communicating with ongress about the matter and the kei tepuls>ican leaders had given as- a urances that the item would be thr aken out of the bill. I happenedfi Sbe in Washington at the time and I now that two other South Carolina I ngressmen had worked on the mat- ln r and had it practically settled be >re the wires were made hot be teen Washington and Columbia >r advertising purposes. FAIRPLAY. con Richmond, Va., April 14. ' wa~ ______________moi Youthful Murderer. a fi At Winstom-Salem. N. C., Marion elton. age 16, made a sneering mark Tuesday about some mules S ~iven by Oscar Woolwine, age 18. autl hen the latter resented the as- urg. ~rsions cast upon his long eared ety asseltonm shot and killed him. .van ES, from their most health roperties, give ROYAL its e and principal ingredient 17 Pwoder AkdTr late~rirn' .0 ;e Royal Baking Powder d money. od -is required no other ming agent can take the of Royal Baking Powder. VERY SAD DEATH. Young Business Man Dies From Blood Poisoning. A special from Abbeville to The News and Courier says Mr. C. C. *Nabers, a young business man of that city, died at his residence today as the result of an injury received a few days ago. Mr. Nabers ran a large bottling plant in the city, sup plying many adjoining towns with bottled coco-cola and other soft drinks. A few days ago he started out on one of his wagons 'oaded with the cases of bottled beverages. In turning the wagon in some- way It was overturned. The horses became frightened, and in attempting to stop them, Mr. Nabers becanie -entangled in the running gear of the wagoni and was dragged for a considerable. distance, sustaining severe Injuries. The flesh on one arm at the elbow was scraped off to the bone.: in its contact with the ground. His face was badly lacerated, and there was evidence of Internal injuries. How ever, not thinking that he was seri ously injured he did not consult a - L physician Immediately. On the fol lowing day a hpysician was called, . and It was found that he was suffer . ing from blood poisoning as' a r'e sult of his wounds. For the last few days he has suffered great agony. Mr. Nabers came here from Elber ton. By strict attention to buinesis he had made a good start in life. He was married and Is survived- by 7 a young wife and two small children, besides his parents and several broth ers and sisters -in Elberton. His death is a source of .deep regret to his many friends In this place. BUYING CONGAREE VALLEY. The Santee River Lumber Mml Reaching Out. Santee River Sypress Lumber Comn pany has a corps of surveyors at work surveying the entire valley of the Congaree river, and It Is said that the purpose of this work -looks to the acquirement by this company of all, or most, of .the timber con tiguous to the Congaree river. This company now owns over 200, S000 acres of land, and offers are now pending which may result in greatly enlarging this territory. When It is considered that this acreage is largely in excess of the constitution al requirement for the creation of a county, iits magnitude can be ap preciated. The interest of the city of Colum bia is involved to an extent in the growth of this great lumbering cor poration, because its advance Into the Congaree valley just below Co-. lumbia -may sound the death knell of the hopes of the Capital City for -the establishment of spoke, handle and veneering works, which other wise would locate at Columbia and utilize the Immense grcowth of hard wood timber near at hand. It does seem that It would be a reproach to the business enterprise and sagacity of Columbia to permit timber standing within sight of the. capitol's dome to be transported toe Berkeley county to be manufactured into lumber, and the profits go to a corporation which does not even held its charter under the laws of our State and whose -principal or sole owner is a resident of Chicago. Game of Bluff. Servia has just had a humiliating experience in being compelled to acquiesce in the annexation of Bposi na and Herzegovina by Austria. When Austria first made Its inten tion known Servia called out her troops, protested against the annexa tion and threatened war. Of course a small kingdom like Servia, un assisted by a larger power would have not the slightest chance against the dual monarchy. This was so obvious that it was generally felt that some nation, presumably Rus sia, was backing her. There Is no doubt that Russia and Austria are jealous of each other and sooner or later they will probably engage in confiict for supremacy in the near east. -But Russia Is not at present in any condition for war and If she encouraged Servia to protest and threaten against Austria it must have been a game of bluff which did not succeed, and now Servia knows the humiliation of defeat and the bitterness of relying upon a pro fessed friend that does not 'make good. Whole Family at One Birth. The wife of a farmer named Turier, residing near the Forsyth county, N. C., line, has given birth to five healthy children, three boys and two girls. The weights of the children range from four to six pounds. All of them are living and thriving and the mother is doing nicely. The birth rate in this family eretofore has been normal A let :er says the quintetts' birth has cre ted considerable interest through yut that section. People from all irections are journeying to Rock ngham to see this wonderful thing. Prominent Artist a Suicide. Ill health led John Wolst, former y a prosperous New York artist, o commit suicide by poison at Los BRAP activ ANkd It s economy to tu It saves labor, health am Where the best & baking powder or leav place or do the work 4 WORKERS' PENSIONS. hat the Printers Are Doing Along This Line. The International Typographical nion has ever been found foremost the advocacy and introduction of easures for the benefit of the toil . In many fields of innovation il as taken the first step. This i 'ue of its determination to provid( y a system of assessment among its wn membership pensions for thi ged and dependents of its ranks 'he experiment-for it Is looked up n as such by those who are ii Duch with the trade union move ent-is the object of deep Interes n the part of all labor leaders. I: proves a success the example wil e followed undoubtedly by othe: .ternational organizations. A sys m of pensioning worthy member ay become at no far distant da: ne of the most important feature! f the labor movement In this coun y. It all depends upon the out ome of the efforts of the Typograph al union. So important is this matter tha tate Commissioner of Labor Johi illiams of New York State devote< onsiderable space to It in his bul tion of labor statistics. Commis ioner Williams remarks: "The progress of this effort of thi *ssociated journeymen printers wil e viewed with Interest by nationa nions of other trades, and if thi ian is successful the movement ti rovide a stipulated allowance fo embers in their declining yearE hus obviating the dread of penury 'ill doubtless become general amonj issociations of labor in the Unite< tates." The experiment has been in oper tion for eight months, and ther, re 476 pensioners on the rolls uring the eight months $120,224. 6 was collected and ' $19,193.0: id in pensions. An analysis of the age of the pen oners develops the notable fact tha B80, or 58.8 per cent of them, ar< tween sixty and seventy years; 17: r 36 per cent are septuagenarians nd twenty-one, or 5 per cent, ar< tegenarians, while one is a non enarian. The latter memberi Tiliated with "Big Six" of Nes ~ork city. In spite of his years h n still write a firm hand and thu: pressed his appreciation In a let r written to the clerk of the ben fit board: "On the 1st day of No mber next (1908), God willing, all then enter my ninety-fourtl ar and my seventy-third as a typ< ionist, forty-two of which I havy ent as a member of New Yorl 'pographical unnion--'Big Six.' em it an honor and a great bless, g that the officials of the Inter ttional Typographical union deem. d me worthy of being placed upoi e pension fund." Among the pen :oers is one woman who Is sixty .o years old and who has been ember of typographical unions for ~irty-two consecutive years. While the Amalgamated Society ol gineers and the Amalgamated So. ety of Carpenters and Joiners, both ith headquarters In England, have r a long period paid pensions' to ieir old members, "the first distinc ely American trade organization," the language of Commissioner illiams, to inaugurate an old age ~nsion for its members is the In ~rnational Typographical union. e enterprise is a worthy one. bere is nothing so commendable as care of the infirm and the aged. European countries the pension stem has proved of great benefit. is a species of Insurance to a man ~ainst want and absolute depen ncy in his declining years. It yes the vigorous and the healthy i the prosperous an opportunity set aside for themselves a fund t will aid them on the final retch of life's span when they will e possibly neither the ability nor opportunity of providing for mselves. It is a worthy cause. the Typographical union should et with the greatest measure of cess in its efforts. STOOD LONG FOR LAND. y U. S. Farmers Have Become Canadian Homesteaders. The Canadian land office at Ed nton, Alberta, opened last week the distribution of 464 home-j ads, some of the land being valued $20 to $30 an acre at present es. Some of the home seekers d outside the office door for e days and nights' in order to p their places in the line and get ik of tihe land. A Galician and c half-breed Frenchmen had the tfour selectiors. any of them were Americans. fact, Western Canada is being. ded with men from South of the Hits Him Hard. Lt Atlanta, Ga., C. M. Callaway, icted of running a blind tiger, Monday sentenced to twelve iths on the chain gang or to pay ne of $1,000. Sobriety for New Officers. enator Johnson, of South Dakota, ior of the anti-canteen bill, is g President Taft to make sobri- jI ne of the requirements for ad-t