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GIFT IS PICKED Silver Service Will be Given to The Battleship NAMED AFTER STATE The State Commission, Headed by Governor Ansel, Selects the De signs for the Gift Which the State WiU Make to the Ship That Will Bear Her Name. The commission to select the silver service for the new battleship South Carolina has made its selection of the general designs that are to be used, and naturally expects beautiful work. The commission has made ex cellent selections as the outline of the specifications indicate. Governor Ansel is a member of the commission, and is giving consider able time and thought to the work. Messrs. John B. Cleveland, of Spar tanburg, and George D. Bryan, of Charleston, are the appointive mem bers of the commission, and Megsrs. E. Marion Rucker, and Col. W. L. Mauldin are the ex-officio membe:s. When Col. Cleveland came to the first meeting of the commission at which the general scheme of the de signs were discussed he had a pretty well worked out series of illustra tions and decorations. The whole matter was fully and freely discussed by the members of the commission, and with the artists, who were pres ent. The large and centre pieces are to be decorated with three historic events. .One piece Is to have the scene of Jasper replacing the flag at Fort Moultrie. Another is to have an engraving of the dinner Marion is said to have given the British officers. and which has been used in a picture by White, and the third is to be a picture of Mrs. Motte destroying her own home, near Fort Motte, Calhoun county. An examination of the specifica tions indicate that the designs are to include the palmetto, pine, cypress. Magnolia. rice, tobacco, strawberry. melon and peaches. In fact, the idea is to incorporate the trees and plants indigneous to this State. The flags of the State, the coat-of-arms and other Insignia of the State are to be used wherever the general design will admit. The commission has given the pub lic the complete details of its de sign. Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., of the State historical comimission, in a letter to The Sunday News, suggests that the events intended to be re corded in the silver service lack historic corroboration, and went into interesting details. He says that some of the events did not happen, as far as history records. The com mission will explain further its po sition and reason for selecting the events that are to be used as the central pictures. In the meanwhile the exact specifications, which the artists have been asked to use, are here given: Specifications covering silver serv ice to be presented by the State of South Carolina to the United States battleship South Carolina: Competitors to submit designs on or by the 16th-day of June, 1909; all tenders to be within the appro priation of $5,000; the metal to be of uniform fineness, standard grade, sterling silver. The propositions to give the ca pacity of all hollow ware and the weight in ounces of each piece sepa rately. Workmanship to be of the best and to follow in all details the de signs submitted. Propositions to embrace the fol lowing pieces: One punch bowl, seven gallons. One plateau for punch bowl. Twenty-four cups, one-half pint. One ladle for. punch bowl. One centre piece. One water pitcher, three quarts. One tray for water pitcher. One tea set, consisting of five pieces and a kettle and tray for same. Two fruit dishes. Two roast dishes, one with well and tray; one without, both same size. One fish dish. One salad bowl. Two bonbon dishes. Two compotiers. Two vegetable dishes with cov ers. Two entre dishes. One Humidor cigar box, made of native wood, cedar, to hold three hundred cigars, silver mountings and ornaments. The general design to be plain -and simple as far as is consistent with the ornamentation specified. The dsigns to consist of a com bination nautical in their suggestion. and the tres, fruits and flowers in digenous to this State, for instance, palmetto, pine, cypress, magnolia, jessamine and trumpet vine; corn, cotton, rice and tobacco, strawberry, melons and peaches. These can be used on the borders and around the bases. On the 'sides of the large pieces and in the botoms of the trays and waiters, arms and seal of the State, flags of the State and navy, and of the United States, in combi nation or otherwise; State House, palmetto trees, with the national em blem, eagle, et cetera. The following historical designs are to be used on large pieces: Jasper at Fort Moultrie. Marion's dinner to the British of ficers. Mrs. Motte's destruction of her own house. Etchings of Gen. Sumter, Gen. Marion, Gen. Moultrie, Col. William Washington, Gen. Morgan, Gen. Pick ens, Commander Ingram, the United States battleship "South Carolina," and the following emblem: "Pre sented by the State of South Carolina to the Unfted States battleship 'South Carolina.'"~ "Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribv be." The designs to be different on each piece and to be so used as to avoid crowding, simplicity preferable to or nateness, less attention paid to show than elegancy, the general motive simple, elegant and dignified. The successful bidder to deliver the service, properly packed, riot lat er than the 15th day of January, CANNOT BE SOLD SWIFT & COMPANY MAY SHIP CONDEMNED MEAT. Car Containing Damaged Food Will Be Sealed by City Inspector and Opened at Factory Tank. A dispatch from Greenville says City Meat inspector Smith and City Attorney McCullough were in con ference Monday afternoon with rep resentatives of the Swift Packing Company regarding the disposition of the 70,000 pounds of meat con demned Saturday, owing to its hav ing been soaked in sewage. At a meeting of the board of health held at 5 o'clock Dr. Smith reported that the packing company would be al lowed to ship the meat, which is valued at over $4,000, to one of its soap plants, with the understanding that the car be sealed here by the inspector and opened at the soap works and consigned to the tank by a governinant inspector. The co. ...mning of the meat and its disposition have caused consider able agitation in Greenville. When the packing company's representative arrived he gave out the statement that he was constrained to follov any suggestion Inspector Smiti might make in the matter. but not withstanding the authorities will take every precaution to see thai the inspector's orders la-e carried out to the letter. Acting in the mat ter Dr. Smith not only had the loca' authorities behind him but he was backed up by Dr. Williams of th( State board. A number of towns iT the State wired asking for Informa tion concerning the disposition of th( condemned meat. Spartanburg ani Columbia being among the cities t< make inquiry. In an interview G. W. Chandler manager of the Southern business o Swift & Co., said that his concerz had no idea of endeavoring to sel the meat which was condemned Sat urday by Inspector Smith. He de clared his willingness to make an: disposition of the meat that is de sired by the city authorities. FORGIVES SON'S SLAYER. Will Do All Possible to Secure Re lease of Dr. Boyajian. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich, says Hagood Gastanlan of Lynn Mass.. left for his New England hom Monday evening with the body o his son, Harotoon Gastanian, wh was fatally shot Friday in the De troit police court by his uncle, Di Garabed J. Boyajian. Speaking of the crime the dea youth's father said: "Dr. Boyajian is nearer to m than a brother. I blame him nol even though he has slain my soT I will do all I can to release him frox prison. It Is the will of God, an I bow before it. I believe my bo was innocent, but do not blame th doctor for what he did. because h believed him guilty. When our pec pie marry, they marry for good, nc for a short time like the America people seem to do. Any off ens against the home is punishable b ,death." GOV. McSWEENEY ILD. Suddenly Stricken by Attanc of Ind digestion. A long distance phone messag from Hampton to The State say while returning from his office to hi home Tuesday about 3 o'clock, e: Gor. M. B. McSweeney was suddeni stricken and fell unconscious. H. two young sons were with him the time and summoned help. H was taken to his home, where b was found to be in a very seriou2 condition. Tuesday he had not rf covered consciousness. Acute ind: gestion is given as the cause of hi attack. The former governor ha been in bad health for the past ses eral months. It is said that ther is very little hope that he will sut vive the attack. Turn Them Lose. Parents do wrong in keeping thei children hanging around home, shel tered and enervated by parental is dulgence. The eagle does better. I stirs up its nest when the youn eagles are able to fly. They are con pelled to shift for themselves, fo the old eagle literally truns them oui and at the same time tears all th down and feathers from the nesl 'Tis this rude and rough experient that makes the king bird of bi:~is s. fearless in his flight and so exper in the pursuit of prey. Convicted of Killing Wife. Chester Jordan was found guilt: in the first degree on a charge o murdering his wife at Cambridge Mas. bond in the sum of $2,000 to mak deliery at the point to be hereafte to be designed, on or before the dat' named, and have the service insure. at his or their expense until pre sentation is made. Formal contrac to be entered into between the suc cessful bidder and the commission the commission reserving the righ to reject any or all bids and designs After the execution of the worl the design shall become the propert: of the State of South Carolina, anc turned over to the State historica commission. Payment for :aid serv. ice to be made as follows: Cash on delivery of the service and ac ceptance of same by the commission. Done at Columbia, S. C., April 27 1909. M. F. ANSEL, Chairman of Commission. The con~mission has no axe to grind. It wants to render the best possible service to the State, and the discussion, if there is to be any had, better come before the work it done rather- than after the designs have been~ - acepted, and the engraving finished. The commission wants to have good reasons assigned for any change, and will no doubt accept any suggestions in the best of spirit. where such suggestions are not mere ly captious and is accompanied by "somthing better.' There will, how ever, be no change unles there he good reasons, it Is safe to say. A T'GnT' KOHN. DANGER SIGNAL Senator Commins Predict Dire Things if The OCTAPUS PREVAILS He Says the Common People Are a Factor, and Predicts That They Will Rise in Their Might If a World Trust Is Ever Formed by the Monopolists. One of the best speeches yet de livered in the Senate against the tariff bill was made by Senator Dol liver, Republican, from Iowa, a few days ago. Commending the course of his colleague in his attack upon the pending tariff bill, Senator Cum mins, also a Republican, Thursday in opening his speech upon that measure, turned to Mr. Aldrich and said that the man who challenged the Republicanism of Senators be cause they seek to revise the sched ule of duties 40 years old was taking a most remarkable course. Mr. Cummins scouted the idea that adherence to the wool schedule was necessary in order to maintain the protective principle. He said he had been one of the Republicans who had fought for a revision of the tariff. "And I intend to defend my faith," he continued, "with all the vigor of which I am capable. "The finance committee, compos ed of honorable, intelligent, bright minded and experienced men, is still not the ark and the covenant of Re publiican dottrine. It is 'not the only repository of Republican faith.' Not a single member of that com mittee. he said, had been among those Republicans who had demand ed a revision of the Dingley bill They did not believe revision was necessary and It was no wonder tha1 they should not now favor changew in duties. Senator Owen interrupted whil Mr. Cummins was stating that h( had had special opportunities for un derstanding the affairs of the Ameri can Steel and Wire Company wit] an inquiry as to how he had acquir ed such special information. "I was attorney for the company,' replied the Iowan. Mr. Scott inquired whether th senator had received his fee as al torney in money or in stock. "If I had lived In West Virginia, responded Mr. Cummins, "and ha been surrounded with the influence: prevalent there, I fear I would bo ashamed to answer. But as I liv< in Iowa where there is an hones atmosphere. I can reply that my pa: Swas in cash, arnd I had nothing what Sever to do ,with the capital stock is Ssued by that company." eResponding to a question by Mr eDepew, Mr. Cummins said that he had not ventured to look forwar< t"to that disastrous day in which thi Sindustries of the United States and o ethe world are concentrated in ysingle hand or a single board of di rectors." When, he said, the da: should dawn that a single man shal direct the energies of the earth ani control the fortunes of mankind sq far as manufactures are concerned "there will still remain the lam1 posts and the common people, if th law has failed, in order that th Scountry be rid of those monopolist *who coerce the whole world." STRANGE ATLANTA MURDER, yGreek Fruit Dealer Slain in Allel S Neighbor Heard Struggle. eC. Costelo, a Greek fruit vender edied at the Brady hospital in Atlant; a few days ago from injuries re -ceived at the hands of a murdere Slast Saturday night. He had finished his day's work an< ehad driven his horse and wagon int an alley on Luckie street. Mrs. J1 Sharkey who lived in an adjoinini house heard several blows. Lookin, out she asked Costelo what the trou rble was. - Oh, nothing." was the reply "The horse kicked me. that's all. He was asked if he was hurt, an< the reply was that he was not, bu rwas going to call a doctor in a few moments. SSuspicioning the voice, the lad: airoused her son and sent him int< the alley to investigate. He founc Costelo lying heside the wagon un conscious from several blows that had been rained upon his head The form of another man was dis cernable in the darkness, but he es caped before he could be recognized The injured man was taken to the hospital, but did not recover con sciousness. Owing to the similarity of the attack, it is suspected that it came from the same source as that made upon Mr. and Mrs. Wittles, causinI Mrs. Wittles' death, several weeks ago. -Wittles was also a fruit salesman. DID NOT FORGET Hi. N Young Boy Left a Bi'g Sam of Money by His Father. A dispatch from= Aiken to The News and Courier says little Willie Rosenburg, son of Mrs. Daisy Rosen burg, who resides near this city, is made heir to a large portion of his father's large estate, by his will, made before his death, several days ago, and the sum of $57,500 is left to him. A telegram was received in the city informing Willie of his father's death in Atlantic City, and of the provision made in his will, leaving his son this sum. Mrs. Rosenburg is a native of Aiken. and was married some years ago to Mr. R. W. Rosenburg, who, after living some time with his wife, hecamne estranged from her, and be fore his death, became divorced. Willie. their son, is a lad of eight or nine years. and the will of the late father, filed a day or two ago in Pittsburg. of which place he was a resident, shows the he was never forgotten. EGYPTIAN COTTON SENATOR FLETCHER URGES THAT IT BE TAXED. Egyptian Cotton, Grown in the Nile Valley, Competes Seriously With Southern Long Staple Cotton. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says in a speech on the floor of the Senate a day of two ago, Senator Fletcher, of Florida, declared that South Ca:'o lina long staple cotton was the best raised and commanded a better price on the market than that grown aay where else in this country. Ia adding to this he threw considerable light on long staple growing along the sea slands of -the South Atlar.tic coast generally. Speaking of this industry the FZor ida Senator said: The production of cotton on an important scale began about 1789, when we produced 3,000 bales and the price was 28 cents per pound. in 179 we produced 46,000 bales and the price was 44 cents. In 1:800 the production was 73,000 bales and the price was 28 cents. In 1320 the production was over 300,000 and the price 17 cents. From 1840 to 1850 it reached the low price of 5 cents per pound, and again atout ten years ago. The introductior of the factory, the utilization of the seed and by products, the use of cot con in place of wool and silk and hemp in increasing quantities have made the crop today worth more than double what it was ten years ago, and the increase in the value of the crop in one year, caused by the presence of factories at the fields, doubtless would more than pay for all the spindles in the South. Even now the grower, labor and supplies having gone up, is making no tre mendous profit. The value of the exports from this crop amounts annualy to $482,(100, 000. It is said that if Europe had stacked up all the gold and all the silver mined from the earth for the past six years and shipped it to the South she would still owe us $200, 000,000 for our raw cotton alore. The protection given to cottol yarns and cotton cloth may to ;om( extent help the price of cotton. ] question if the former is benefittee thereby materially. There is but lit tle of the short-staple cotton import ed. There is produced in this coun try, however, the sea island or long staple cotton, which competes wit that grown in the West Indes anc in the Valley of the Nile. On the free list in the pending bil are "cotton and cotton wiste o flocks." The annual e- P of long staple cotton fluctuates, but the aver age production may be fairly esti mated as follows: Florida, 31,000 bales; Georgia 52,000 bales, ind South Carolina 12,000 bales--of about 400 pound each. The Growing Area. The producing area being abou Chavleston and extends down thi coast to the Georgia line, and thei it leaves the coast and extends sout] through Georgia into Middle Flori da. About one-third of the Sout1 Carolina crops gives a staple 2 ti 2 1-2 Inches long, and It is sold gen erally for export at from 40 to 81 cents per pound, it Is the finest stapl produced. The "East Florida" sta pie is 1 3-4 to 2 inches long; th "Florida" 1 5-8 to 1 3-4 inches. Th "Georgia" staple is 1 5-8 inches long but not so fine as the "Florida. Fineness is a factor with the spinner and only the superlative fine fibr brings the fancy price. 'Outside th islands of South Carolina the pric is about 20 cents per pound. Egyptian Cotton. The West Indes is the origina home of the plant and produces abou~ 4.000 bales annually. It was in 1781 that the plant was transplanted 01 the American Continent from the West Indes. There is produced il the Valley of the Nile a cotton wh' is capable of competing with our se; island cotton. This rich region prc duces about 1,500,000 bales of 404 pounds each annually. It Is a long staple, fine fibre cotton, -and abou 150,000 bales of it are imported,b: American mills every year at a prici ranging about 15 cents per pounc It spins well and wastes about 8 pe: cent less In going through the va rious processes of preparation for the spindle than does the sea island cot ton. The Egyptian cotton waste: about 25 per cent, while the se. island wastes about 33 per cent. The Egyptian staple is about 1 5-8 inche: long; but is preferred to the Ameri can for some purpose because of les: waste and greater strength and it: color. It seems that while the Egyptiai cotton is a near relation of the se; island, it cannot be grown 5In oui country. A duty of 5 cents a poune on the lint cotton would yield a reve nue of $3,000,000--150,000 bales be ing 60,000,000 pounds. This cotton is used in the manu facture of mercerized silks and fine1 goods of the highest and most ex pensive class, on which this bill pro poses a duty of 54 per cent, while the total wage cost is about 20 per cent. The actual cost of producing the cotton is about $21 per acre. The avearge yield is about 10 to 150 pounds of lint to the acre. The price now is less than 20 cents per pound. South C"' id Supply the World. Sevente ,'ties in Florida are ow pro- long-staple cotton. It can b g er ai more than half the cour. M e State. Suitable soil, clin i and conditions exist in Georgia, South Carolina and Flori da, and, to a certain extent and de ree, the Mississippi Delta. to supply the world, and as a revenue-pro ducing item is would prove one of the best among all the schedules. It is an important industry. If I em ployed the language of the authors of this measure, I would say the farmers engaged In it very justly contend that they ought not to be forced to abandon It by competition with Egyptian cheap labor in the fertile Nile region. We pay from 81 to $1.25 por day for labor, which In Egypt ranges about one-tenth that. The land there is very rich and does not require fertilIzing like ours. When we say the country needs the revenue which a tariff on that for eign product would yield, and such a tariff is required to help equalize FOUR MEN HANG' Young Turks Execute Thirteen More People PLANED BY SULTAN Evidence Discovered That Abdul Hamid Knew Beforehand of the Adana Massacres-List orf Houses With Notes of the Kind of Loot to Be Found. Thirteen civilians and soldiers sentenced by the Military Court to death for murder were hanged in different parts of Constantinople at 4 o'clock Monday morning. Major Youssef, his son and three other men, who killed the Syrian deputy, Emir Mohammed Arslan, in front of the Parliament building, were executed on the spot where they committed the crime. Five others were hanged at the entrance of the ministry of war and three men at the Stamboul end of the Galata bridge. Upon the breast of each criminal had been placed a large placard in Turkish, setting forth the sentence of the Court. Around the foot of the gibbets on the bridge the early morning buyers of fruits, flowers and vegetables pro ceeded as usual, while the bodies were in full sight of the great crowds that made their way over the bridge between Stamboul and Galata. Major Youssef was commandant of the 1st battalion of the 7th reg iment. Among the non-commission ed officers executed was Hamid Bin Yechar, a sergeant in the fourth hat tallion of the Saloniki chasseurs. The men executed on Galata bridge were guilty of the murder of Lieut. Elis. Major Youssef was the man who. after the murder of Deputy Arsian, made his way to the house of Par liament, and in a speech denounced the members for acting against the laws of the Koran. Yechar was the man who planned the details of the revolt of April 13. and was commander-in-chief and practically dictator of Constantino ple for the two days following. The other eleven men worked under Ylchar. Mourad, editor of the newspaper Nizam, was tried by court-martail to day. I A minember of the court-martial read the Sultan's firmin, confirming the sentences of each place of execu tion, and priests prayed with the condemned men for two hours before their execution. The bodies were left hanging until 2 o'clock and were seen by at least one hundred thousand of the popu l.tion of the city. Documentary evidence has been discovered among the records of the telegraph office here of the kn'wi edge of the Constantinople authori ties that massacres had been planned for the Adana district, and that th~ey were to coincide with the political events here. 2Other papers have been found in 2dicating also that the conspirators at the palace acted in the Sultan's name in preparing the military muti Sny of April 13. Lists of houses, with .niotes of the kind of loot to be found therein, were discovered on some of the prisoners now in custody. The arrangements included a general massacre of foreigners in Constanti nople, including the diplomatic rep resentatives on April 24. REHEARING NOT ASKED. Attorneys for Creditors of State Dis Ipensary Have Filed no Petition. 3The Washington correspondent of i The News and Courier says although it was expected that a petition for a rehearing in the South Carolina d (ispensary case would he filed Mon d (ay, no such steps had been taken lip to the hour of closing the clerks office of the Supreme Court. The Wilson and Fleischman interest will have Tuesday also in which to file such -a petition should they desire to do so. The case was decided April r , and the custom of the Court is not to issue its mandate until thirty d iays have expired, which would be Wednesday. The Court took a re 'ess Monday hntil May 17. Upon that date it will take another recess until May 21: then it will go into a summer recess. If a petition for "ehearing is filed it is almost certain :hat it will not be acted upon until some time next ftall. Signs of a Fine Town. How quickly can you tell a live town from a dead one by simply ooking over its newspapers. A poor skim milk sort of a newspaper with a few small advertisements, and hose looking as though they were run at haff price, betokens a dead :own just as sure as a corpse indi cates a funeral, while a good, lively, well-printed newspaper, filled witl good, fresh ads, and displayed locals, shows that the town is prospering and thriving. It never fails. Cuts Price on Oil. A reduction of five cents a barrel was announced a few days ago by the Standard Oil Company in the price of all grades of crude oil, ex cept Ragland, which is unchanged. This is the first change lii the pricae of most of the othier grades since May. 1907. since which time Penn sylvania crude oil has been quoted constantly at $1.78.' that at home. there would seem to be sufficient stated to show the pro priety and justice of the claim we make from hoth standpoints. In the year ending June .'10, 1908 cotton was imported into this coun try free to the amount of 70,994. 968 pounds, the value of which was $14,164,406, at 20 cents per pound. Waste or fiocks imported free amounted to 10,728,268 pounds, val ued at $446,261.14 at 42 cents per pound. Duty should be imposed on all cotton Imported so there could be raised no question regarding proper disignaton at, say, 5 to 8 cents per pound. At 10 cents per pound the Importation last year of cotton, not counting waste or flocks, would have WANTS FREE TRADE )N LUMBER AND ON COTTON TIES AND BAGGING. enator Tillman Says the Sap of Protection is Not Worth What It Costs Democracy. X special dispatch to the Colum ia Record says Senator Tillman fav 3rs free trade in lumber and will mote for it. He believes that in the nd Democratic defections from the :eclarations of the party platform will give the victory to those Repub licans desiring a duty, but he ex preses himself as far from the opin ion that such a forecast justifies Democrats in falliing into line with Lhe party in power. A vote for pro tected lumber, in his opinion, is a vote against forest preservation and also a vote against the claims of Democracy to control the house of representatives two years hence and the whole country after President Taft's term. "What's the use of hurrahing 'round the country- for the safeguard ing of our forests," he said, "when you are crying at the same time for a duty on lumber that will keep foreign timber from cOming in sparing our own trees for the next generation? You have seen the de struction of our forests in the past few Vears. fow, importation 10f lumber from Canada would save some of our trees from being cut, while this duty they are demanding, keeps the foreign lumber out and makes us cut down our own for ests." With forests as far away from the Southern pine fields as Canada. Sen ator Tillman does not believe the free importation )of lumlber could affect the profits of South Carolina mills, while it might materially lower the price of lumber to the consumer. As to who owns the South Carolina standing timber he is not certain, though he is inclined to agree with Senator Nelson that a part of It at least is in the hands of Michigan corporations and holders in the far Northwe-st. It is through the influ ence of these Northwestern men that the price of lumber In South Carolina would be raised under a protective duty, -though in the local field a tariff of itself have no such effect. "Two-thirds of the white people of South Carolina." said Mr. Tillman, "live above Columbia. Nearly all the yellow pine and every bit of the loblolly is below Columbia. Now, why should I vote to impose a higher cost upon those people up there when they want to build houses and barns?" Senator Tillman was sitting In the room of the committee on the five civilized tribes, of which he is chair 'man, when I found him to ask about the tariff. He was barricaded behind a pile of books, all of sombre bind ing, the most dashing of which was entitled "The Romance of Steel," a volume telling of the manufacture of iron in the melodramatic fashion of a treatise on chemistry. "I am trying to find out something about cotton ties," said the senator, "and, there seems to be a lot of it." In regard to .cotton bagging, there is apparently reasonable hope that Senator Aldrich will let that go on the free list, if the Southern Demo crats work together for that end, but on ties, while Senator Aldrich has asked Mr. Tillman for informa tion, he expressed himself as doubt ing his ability to grant the request. The senator from Rhode Island, said Senator Tillmian, was under the im pression that ties are made chiefly in Chattanooga, Birmingham1 and other centres near the Southern mines and he felt that ample protec tion onght to be accorded these new manufacturing districts on an article like ties for which they would have a large local demand. It was to meet that objection that Senator Tillman devoted himself to light literature of the "Romance of Steel" sort. The information he found encouraging. Ties, he dis covered, are manufactured almost exclusively in Pittsburg and the great iron and steel centres of the North. there being only one small plant at Atlanta. The fact that ties are made by plants turning out enormous quantities of other steel goods, all heavily protected, leads Senator Till man to hope that Mr. Aldrich will consent to a removal of the duty. ARRESTS FOR CUSTOM FRAUDS. The Government Gets Behind Al leged Smugglers. Four arrests were made Tuesday in New York by United States Mar shal Henkel on charges arising out of the seizure of smuggled trunks at the port of New York about a year ago. The persons taken into custody were George C. White, a dealer in dressmiakenrs' supplies, Fbrty-fif-th street and Fifth avenue; Lorne B. Walker. a former employe of the customs department; W. H. Kliga mon. former salesman for George F. Crowley, West Thirty-fourth street, and Elizabeth *Kilgamon, his wife. They were arraigned before JTustice ough in the United States circuit MILLIONAIRE A SAIL'OR. oung Pittshurger Finds Money Does Not Count Between Decks. Addison Lysle Crow, the 23-year old son of Mrs. Edward B. Crow. of Pittsurg, with an annual income 4 $40,000 and an estate worth $1. 00.000, is doing duty as a plai-1 wilor on the Galveston, in Hong Kong. China. He writes friends in Pittsburg to use their influence to -- nimit of the navy, but his mother declares he has had his fun and a little roughing will do him no It is now 11 months since he dis onneared in Cincinnati, 0., and since that time until a few days ago. his rnother knew nothing of. his where abo uts.* Three Sets of Twins. The stork is being kept quite busy iv Mr. and Mrs. JToseph Smith, of ifc~eesport, Pa. They are each .30 rears of age and have had 12 chil Irn. On three occasions the stork1 1as brought twins, making his last rip last waek. Makes deliciot griddle cakes, ro The only Bak Made from Royal Gra THEY ARE MYTHS EVENTS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN MAY BE Represented on the Silver Service That the State is to Give the Bat tleship South Carolina. In a letter to The Sunday News of Charleston, Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., secretary of the South Carolina His torical Commission, criticises the de cision of the Commission appointed to select a silver service for the bat tleship South Carolina. He says: "Only a few days ago a commis sion, composed of some of the ablest and most honored men of this State, met in Columbia and selected the design to go on the silver service that the State of South Carolina is go ing to present to the battleship South Carolina of the United States navy. It was decided to engrave on the service a number of historic scenes and portraits of distinguished char acters. Not one of the scenes se lected can be depicted save from' imagination; one of them cannot be authentic at all, and another can be fully disproven by the very best of evidence. "The story of Marion inviting the British officer to dine on sweet pota toes cannot ye authenticated. It first appeared in Weems' 'Life of Francis Marion' in 1809. Gen. Hor ry, one of Marion's officers, at once pronou'nced the. book fiction, and Weems admitted in a letter to Hor ry that he had written his book 'in the form of a military romance.' From cover to cover the book can be shown by the best evidence to be absolutely false. The ancestors of Marion were manufactured by the enterprising romancer, and every oth er scory in the book bears the true Weems trade mark. Judge W. D. James, another of Marion's former cfficer's, also gave the stamp of falsity to Weems' book in his account of Marion's brigade. Gen. McCrady's history shows the incident could not have occurred; that Marion and the British officers did not exchange mili tary civiliti'es; that when Marion first sent a flag of truce to a British officer he imprisoned him and Marion retaliated and put an end to all such Intercourse. There are a half dozen volumes of memories by Brit ish officers who served in South Car olina and an equal number by Amer ican officers, and not one has a word about such an episode; nobody tells the story of the noble British of ficer who resigned rathe.r than fight people who lived on roots before they would forego Independence. The laws of war would make the act punishable by death, and there is in evidence no record of such a ca'se among all .the thousands of docu ments that have been handled by his torians in all these years. The only authority is Weems, and he has been discredited as to everything else, and the facts are against him in this case. "The sarne of Mrs. Motte at the burning of her house will be a re versing of established fact. Every single reputable historian who has ever written of the episode of Mrs. Motte and the arrows, asserts that the house was not burn-ed. Col. Lee and Judge James were eye-wit nesses who so state. Mr. C. C. Pickney, Mrs. Matte's grandson, the Rev. Dr. C. C. Pinckney, her great grandson, and Mrs. Harriett Horry Ravenel, her great great-granddaugh ter. have all written accounts in which they say that the house was not burned. A newspaper In the Charleston library contains a men-. tion of the accidental burning of the house a few years after -the close of the Revolution. "Several times In the past I have cited the Greene-Sumter correspond ene to show that the alleged ride of Emily Geiger could not have taken place: that those two officers never having occupied at the same time the relative positions assigned to them by the story, it would have been physically Impossible for the ride to have taken place: that there is no contemporary record in evi rence to show that Emily Geiger ever took a ride at all. After years of earch I have not been able to find the scratch of a contemporary p-en o show that such a person ever ex isted. and, therefore. I would be glad to have Mr. Davis or any one else furnish the slightest proof that she did hefore I can believe that 'she sleeps in a secluded spot up near here the Congaree creek mingles its clar waters with the mnuddy tide f the Congaree.' "The writer has been particularly critical of the people of Mecklen burg county for their adherence to an xploded myth; he has won high praise from many of the ablest and hest known historical writers and critics In America for his work on that mooted question: he will not lay himself open to criticism for In onsistency by not protesting against the perpetuation of long discredited myths as part of the history of South Carolina." Ofered Bbay for Sale as Meat. William Suell entered a restaurant ii Oakland. Cal., and offered a pack ige of mneat for sale a few days ago.t t was found to contain the body ofe newly born babe. Suel1 declared he ad found the package in a loft and id not krnow the icontents until > Povw [s hot biscuit, Is and muffis. ing Powder pe Cream of Tartar HE TALKS OUT Clapp Lectures His Fellow Repub lican Senators TARIFF BE REVISED Downward, Says the Minnesotian, Otherwise Congress is Engaged in a Farce, and Two Years From Now the Democratic Party Would Be Put in a Position to Revise. The debate on the tariff is getting - warm in the Senate at Washington. On Friday Mr. Clapp, a Repiblican Senator from Minnesota, commented upon thu policy of protection, and re ferred to distinctions between a pro tective tariff and a tariff for reve-. nue only. The promise of the Repablican party, Mr. Clapp-declared; was, that the tariff should be revised- down ward, and he asserted that this prom Ise had been made In response to a positive demand. He said that the position on the part of the protec tive interests was that we should let. well enough alone, and on the part of the consumers that,. the tariff should l'e revised. "You can't tell me," he said, "that. the latter demand did not mean that the tariff should be revised down ward. To take 'any other position is mere boy's play, nothing less than a farce, and if I did not believe the duties were to'be lowered in response to this execution, I would pack-my - grip and go home, for as a Senator I am not required *to participate in such a farce as the mere re-enact ment of the Dingley rates. The peo ple understood that we were to have a revision downward; the men wbo made the platform understood -it we understood it; everybody under-. stood it, and no aino~unt of sophistry. can otherwise explain the popular demand and the party promise. "If this promise," he said, "was for a revision that would mean the maintenance of the Dingley. rates, then we are confronted by the ridicu lousness of the Chief Executive call ing Congress together to revise some thing that should stand unchanged until the end of time. "When the people made'the de mand for a tariff revislopi downward there was no suggestion that these industres were not~ sufficiently pro tcted. If the demand for revision did not mean changing the duties downward It did not mean anything, and we are indulging in. a farce now." He declared that If Congress should fail now to lower the tariff rates, the Democraticpatwol be put in position to 'b iseo w years hence. * WOMEN LEAVING HAREM. Abdui Hamid Palace Held Many Fair Prisoners. A dispatch from Constantinople says it is said that the Sultan con templates making a tour of the Asiatic provinces of ..the Empire. Since the deposition of Abdul Hamid there has been a .daily exodus of the women of the Imperial harem from the Yildiz -Klosk. Monday forty-five carriages, each containing two or three women, and - later fifteen more, were seen proceed ug to Stamboul. It Is evident that the total number of fair prisoners in the palace must have been prodi gious. In the Chamiber of Deputies a telegram was read announcing a re volt of Druses, a fanatical religious sect of Syrians, in Hauran, a district of Syria, east of the upper Jordan. Troops have been ordered to pro ceed there at once. School Libraries. The school library does awake an interest In the pupil. It gives him a good appetite; it stimulates. It opens the chanrnels of usefulness. It has a powerful tendency to keep the boy in school longer, and thub in the above enumerated ways aids in the development of those traits of char acter that will be beneficial to the men and women of the future and also to those with whom they come in contact through business and so cial life. Sleeping Sickness Kills Missourian. George J. Owens is dead in St. Louis. Mo., following an attack of hat the physicians say was "sleep ing sickness." Owens declared he had never been in the tropics, to which the malady is peculiar. * Died on a Pullman. Seized with a hemorrhage, Louis Vasher, a well-known merchant of few York city, died suddenly near freenville, Ala., Friday morning on Pullman car. Accompanied by his on and daughter,.Mr. Washer was 'n route to his home in New York rom New Orleans.* Don't try to measure a life by he distance between its early pov rty and its later Income. Don't try to use a great truth for holly selfish ends lest you make a