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BRUTAL FATHER Whips His Daughter to Death With a Whip. T THE BRUTE IN JAIL So Severe Was the Beating Given h the Girl by Her inhuman Father w That Her Ski.11 Was Fractured by " .. Ti It, From the Effects of Which She Died. L A special dispatch from Lamar to the Columbia Record says word reached there on Tuesday afternoon c that a young negro woman. daughter 6f Ellis Woods, who lives on the place of Mrs. Board, near Carters Ville, was dead under suspicious cir cumstances. Sheriff Blackwell. of Darlington county, upon being notified appoint ed Trial Justice J. W. Boykin to act as coroner. Judge Boykin went to the scene about 6 o'clock with a erowd of others and a coroner's jury was empaneled. d Witnesses were examined and it C developed that Ellis Woods had beat his daughter, a girl of 18 years. un til she died from the treatment. Another daughter of Woods testi fied that he had beaten the dead wo man with a wagon whip. There were cuts and bruises on her face and head u and it appears that her skull was fractured. 0 Woods claiins that his daughter T was complaining of feeling sick and p that she fell out of the door and s killed herself. The jury rendered a verdict to the effect that the deceased came to her death at the hands of her father. Woods was carried to Lamar and placed in jail for safe keeping. DOWN ON THE DOGS. C Biting of Child in Greenville Causes t Prompt Action. A dispatch from Greenville says!'. the unfortunate accident in which s the child of Mr. Galloway was bit- C ten by a dog supposed to have beer affected with hydrophobia will cause } the city authorities to take some action immediately, requiring tha' all persons owning dogs in the city C of Greenville either confine them at home or muzzle them securely in or der to prevent a recurrence of this I unfortunate affair in Greenville. c "While it is a very nice thing to have s pet dogs," a citize, said to a repre-| sentative of The News and Courier, "it must be rememberec that the life| of one child is worth more than ev ery dog in existance, and besides. the terrible anxiety of parents in cases| of this kind, the expense entailed in fighting againbt that dreaded dis-| ease is of small consideration. and * there is no use to take the chi'nce when it can be avoided by a littlel forethought on the part of our city authorities." --LEAPS TO DEATH, .Jumps From Window of Eye and Ear infirmary.I While a nurse was in an adjoining - ward at four o'clock Tuesday morn-1 William Powers, thirty-five years old, a patient in -the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Second avenue and Thirteenth street , gnawed th& "restraining sheet" that kept h-im strapped to,hi cot. and made his. way- unseen to a window on the Sec- t ond avenue side.Ii Several patients saw the white robbed figure open the window, climhb to the sill and leap out into space. I The .alarm was gi,ven and doctors. '2 nurses and orderlies ran to the s street, where they found Powers ly- i ing dead on the stone area. l Powers, who was a laborer, liv- t r ing at No. 1572 Third avenue, New It York. was suffering from mastoid,! a trouble. FATAL GEORGIA QUARREL. l It Occurred About a Man Visitinge a Young Lady. As a result of a bitter quarrel Tuesday between Thomas Poole, a well known Dodge county planter, and' his neighbor. WV. A. Miller,- the former was instantly killed. Poole it is-said, had been paying attention to a daughter of Milier and had been requested to stay away from the Aliller home. Poole persisted ,it is , said,- in paying court to the young } woman and was taken to task by -( -Miller. A fatal difficulty resulted. in .which Poole was killed as above stated. CHASED AND) KILLED) h By a Buzzsaw That Broke From' .rE -lts Fatstening. Walter Terry. a woodsaw operator. ~ was pursued and cut down by a woodsaw insecurely fastened that broke away from a, wagon bed on which it was mounted, at Ashland, re Oreg. The saw was whirling at a R high rate of speed and when it broke from its fastening it ran at Terry, re who fled. The saw overtok him and ki ripped his back for a long distance M and completely severed his right leg w just below the knee. Terry was tak- M en to the hospi~zl at Ashland, where everything possible was done for him, t it he died within 30 minutes, Killed in Runaway. While Frank H~enry and w ife, of Menlo. Ga., were out driving Sun day afternoon, tbhe horse became I frightened near Mineral Spring~s and~ ran away, turning the burg'- ove and injuring both. Mr. He{nry di ed about 8:30 and his wife is in~ a se rious condition. Mr. H~enry is of a - prominent family of Chatrooga coun An Expensive Notice- pa Pat--"What he yer charge for a tar funeral notice in ye? paper?" I a Editor--"Fifty cents an inchb." h Par--"Good heavens' Ar'n" m.'poor'e GRAFT GALORE )W TH.E PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ROBUE.D OF MILLIONS. ie A-.touixding Revelations Made by Senator Beveridge About the Stealing of the Tobacco Trust. No r.-velation of the extra session is been more startling than that hieh Senator Beveridge made about .e almost unbelievable graft of the :>bacco trust for eight years. says Lt Washington Tim'-s. That was a tse of legislative partnership with trust in a project to fleece the peo' Somebody must have been ixed." "Greased," "oiled." It is in >uetivable that congress will plead Iilty to such sublime innocence and conipetence as would be testified the explanation that nobody in yngress saw what was being given the Tobacco trust. Here is what happened: When the panizh war taxes were imposed. the ternal revenue duty on tobacco ent up. The law was so arranged iat tobacco dealers were permitted > sell underweight packages, de cting enough from the weight to ympensate them for the increast the internal revenue tax. Thus a tobacco pound' was considerably .ss than a 16-ounce pound; but it -as legal because of this legisla on. The tax was thus carried down > the consumer, and nobody partic larly felt it. But when the war and the need f war taxes passed, what happened? he additional tobacco tax was re ealed. but the trust's privilege of elling underwaight packages was ot stopped. The trust was left col ,ting the war tax from the people. ut pocketing it instead of turning . into the Federal treasury. By this process, in eight years. the ust has got away with $184,000, 00 of the people's money. Thai ioney ought either to have been left 2 the pockets of the tobacco users, r else to have gone to the Federal reasury. In fact, it went to tht offers of the Tobacco trust. It is manifest that to repeal thi ar tax, but to forget'to repeal tht hortweight privilege must have beer ifficult and complicated. Somi killed person or persons must hav teered that thing through congrest ith consummate cleverness. WhC .id it? Was he an "inside worker' ,r an "outside man?" If'he was ar sider, his identity ought to b( :nown. so that he can be duly de eated next election by a betrayed onstituency. If he be merely mart lobbyist, he should a' least b4 uestioned about tble meth,. s b; chich he induged committees an( eaders and organizations to permi .uch a tremendous steal. Senator Beveridge has gone abou his business in a fashion which idi ates purpose to stick by it till th< ihole inwardness of this strang< ransaction is bared.- The presen: ;25.000,000-a-year largess of the To acco trust should first be taker .way: then the process by which con :ress was either befooled or corrupt .d should be investigated. It is a wondrous interesting cir :umstance that the trusts whici eem most influential with congres! re those which most often apper n the criminal courts as defendants 'he Sugar trust has seldom bgeen oun f the criminal courts in the las wo decades-, on one charge or anoth r or defrauding the government ts reward is the privilege of takins 660,000,000 in twelve years fron he people.. WVhy should such a special Aivi ge be freely given to a crr'inal of he most fixed and persistent crim aal habits? The American Tobacco Company I: tow defendant in a great casq rought by the government under the nti-trust laws, charging it with con piracy in restrain of trade. That :is actually, if not techinally guilty, Sthe common knowledge. Does it ot seem strange that it, too. should e able to have conferred upon it special delegation of the taxing ower? Does congress have any particu ir preference for the great crimi ais? Its distribution of its favors ~es to suggest something of the ind. PITCHED BATTLE AT CHURCH. be Moseley Stabs John Allen at White Pond. There was Quite an exciting tim. Enong the negroes at their church WXhtt. Pond in Aiken county on nday. Pistol balls flying in every rection, women and child.'en reaming and failing between bench to shun the balls, all resulted fromu oqvarrel between Abe Moseley add hn Allen, :he former stabbing the tter in the back with his knife. using a fatal woond. Sheriff Ra in was soon upon the scene, ar sting negroes for carrying conceal weapons, but did not get Moseley. he ran to a nearby swamp, and s not been captured yet. Reue to Open Case. The Supreme Court has refused to open the case of the State against A'. Adam;, thus finally disposing one of the remarkable criminal cords of Coileton county. Adams led Henry JacQues abou-t five years a, and after considerable trouble is caught, tried for murder and nt to the penitentiary for life. Kills Man and Mule. A bolt of lightning killed Jim rd. a negro plough hand, on the intation of Mr. J1. A. Clinksteales, th of Anderson. and the line mule was working. Same Clink?('ab:s. Syoung son of Mr. Clinkscales. 1 was ploughing two hundlred ds away. was knockted down and Ily stunned. and his mu'le was also ock-d down by the~ bot. Vierim of Lightniin;g. tiliam Camp. a farmer. w'as k' by lightning at his homer on \Norh :let River. 19 miles from Spa hurg Tuesday afternoon. WXI - Shimons and his fanilyv of five dron in tho same section were rily shoekod by a boil' 'hats WRECK FOUND Of A British Warship Missing Eight Years in THE PACIFIC OCEAN The Condor, With a Crew of One Hundred and Forty Men, Sailed From Esquimalt and Has Never Been Heard From Since Sailing Until Found a Short Time Ago. The wre-ck of the British sloop of war Condor, whose fate and that of ,he 140 officers and men forming her company have been one of the mysteries of the sea since Decem ber 3. 1901, has been located, sub nerged in comparatively shallow wa ,r, about one and a half miles off ,hore at Long Beach, mid-way b -ween the southern entrance to Berk eley Sound and the settlement of Calyoquot. on the west coast of Van couver Iland. The wreckage is .tbout fourteen miles distant from ,he village of Clayoquot and seeming .y rests upon an uncharted reef, of vhich there are many in the vicini :y of Long Beach and Wreck Bay, which adjoins it. The news of the discovery of the long missing sloop of war was :)rought from the coast by Bonney castle Dale. an English naturalist and journalist, who has communi ..ated his discovery to the British Admiralty. He regards the evidence of identity as incontrovertible, and it is extected that immediate inves tigations will be made by the admi rality upon his report. The principai obstacle in the way of salvage oper ations is believed to be the prevail ing heavy swell-met within this lo cality in the calmest weather. A surface wave beyond the line of he barrier reef that fronts the bay marks the spot where the vessel is supposed to lie. A few weeks ago a spar stamped with the admirality mark, with nitches patched with cop per in naval style, after being vis ible four days. floating attached to the wreck beneath, drifted ashore. Upon the same beach some time ago there drifted a jib boom spar stamp ed "Condor," a' life buoy similarly marked and several signal rocket cases marked with the name of the ill;starred vessel, mute testimony of the whereabouts of the long missing sloop. About a mile and a half out from Long Beach the surface ripples over the ship that is supposed to be the opulchre of one hundred and forty officers and. men of His Majesty's navy. At high tide it is hardly visi IbIle but at extreme low tide the sea -boils abont ''.he obstruction. Half tdozen residents of the west coast v'ho have gone out to the spot in smooth water ands-at low tide declar ed that the hulk of the submerged 1 ship is plainly visible.. On the morning of' December 3, 1901, the sloop of war Condor, in ~ompany with H. M. S. Warship, left - sqiuimalt, the former never to re turn. The Condor was bound for qonolulu and Tahiti heavily laden with coal for a lo-ng cruise and carry :ng a large consignment of mails for the British inhabitants in the isolat -d South Sea Island. In the straits a strong southeast gale prevailed and the war ships 9arted company, the Warspite con inuing on- her way south and the condor starting to carry Out gun :>ractice at the entrance to the straits prior to making for Honolulu. Whether this gun practice was car -ied ou: has never been ascertained. )utside the straits that fateful night iterrified storm was raging, which :ompelled every vessel in the region o fight for life, and in this storm .he Condor was seen for a brief noment, laboring heavily and flying ;ignals of distress, by Captain James Boyd, now of the Bank line steamer Aymeric, and then in command of *he south bound lumber ship Spring dank. Naturally the name of the strug-. :ling waship was not made out, but :here was no doubt of her identity *n the minds of Captain Boyd and 31s officers. They did not go to .he supposedly disabled gun boat's tssistance. Indeed, they' gave her scant thought or attendion at the time, as they were having all they -ould .do to save their own ship and -heir lives. This was the last seen >f the Condor or any of her com any. The Condor never reached iiono!nlu and gradually her name ->assed into history as identified with meI more of the~tragic mysteries of The sea. Toward the end of that December i. stern sqiff and iifebuoy with the name "H. M. Condor' on were )icked up in the neighborhood of Wreck Bay. Theories are numerous is to the fate of the vessel and the 40 lives she carried. The saume night was responsible ert anotwer mystery of the North Pacific. The collier Mattewan left Nanainmo for San Francisco on De :embher 2 and never 'reached her nort. Some helieve she foundered. some say. she crashed into the Con deor and both vessels were sunk. The Condor was of similar type to he Algerine and the Shearwater, iow at Esquimnalt Station. She had a~ very lo w free board, and the the-I ory has been advanced that she ship sed a tremendous sea, and before 'it had time to run through, the scup :aers were struck hy another, which 'aused her to founder. Another fa cored theory is that her coal cargo ~hifted in the gale, and that she urne'd turt.'. An investigation of the wrack beneath the waves off Long Beac'h may throw light on the mys-I ""riTs ha'ppening and will do ubtles iiselos" the hodios' '.r mnany or t11e Miiejacke'~ts po'nned honoath decks. wh,:n the ships wvent to -heir doom. F The Gentleman of the C'ourt Room. "Ar\ e you the defendant?" asked a man in the cfourt room, speaking to an2 Old n,.gr'o. "No. io-s.' was the reply. "T ain't r lone nothin' to be called names like e dat. I'se got a lawyer here -he does r' the defen'irng."'t "Then who are you?" A SOLID SOUTH k Paper On the Subject by Mi John W. TomIlnson HITS THE MARK Should and Will the South Remai Solid is His Text-How Are W4 to Be Helped by Division?-Wha Are the Democratic Principles In volved? in the current issue of the Nationa Aonthly Mr. John W. Tomlinson, o Alabama, discusses the Solid Sout] in the following article: This question was agitated by th Republicans during the recent Presi dential campaign. They played it a a long shot with the hope of possi oly winning one or two of the Soutb ern States. Local conditions wer expected to help. Mr. Taft swun through the South. A few over-al: prehensive Democrats urged th Democratic National Committee t have Mr. Bryan do likewise. Thi was deemed entirely unnecessar3 The result showed the committe was right. The South remained, an will continue, solid in its adherenc to Democracy. And yet the echo of this questio still sounds in some quarters in th South. Newspapers discuss it as it teresting speculation for the entei tainmeut of readers. A few tak the affirmative, possibly hoping t curry favor with the powers that bi Still a few others conscientiousl think that it would be for the South best interest to be divided politica ly. All these fepresent a very sma minority. The Southerner is a Den ocrat only to maintain white supe: macy. The negro question is i longer a menace. It has been solve by the South itself. Its solution ha demonstrated the necessity and va ue of that Democratic foundatic principle, local self-government, i is being show'n now in the Pacif Slope States in the matter of ti Japanese and the :schools. Those who contend that the soli South should be broken suggests th; such is the only method by whic the South can get into the game < Federal government. They seem i think the country is hopelessly R pt:blican and the only way out i the dilemma is to join the Repub] can party. We believe that Dem, cratic principles will ultimately tr umph in the nation; that the contes ed States in the North and West ai Democratic; that influences are use however, in those States to thwa the will of the people; that - tl enormous corruption funds that ai used in each presidential 'year do th that in the South no amount of me: ey can tbuy an election; that tI South stands today as a bulwat against such methods; that the tin will come when such methods wi not be tolerated anywhere; that party that is against the publici! pf campaign committees wi.ll n< be allowed to collect or use any mo: money than is necessary for payir the legitimate expenses of the call paign. It is furthermore urged that c account of its sonldity for Dem cracy the South is not given propi recognition in the Democratic N tional conventions or in Democrat couincils. This is untrue. The Soul is entitled to and does get prop< recognition. A Sootherner was tU ehairman of our last Democratic N: tional convention; an Alabamian we chairman of a sub-committee of ti national committee having in chari the work of organization -during ti: campaign; a North Carolinian wi chairman of the press bureau of ti Democratic National Commiittet another Southerner was chairman< one of the most important commi tees at our eastern headquarters; ot Southern Senators, RepresentativE and prominent Democrats took most important part as speakersi the contested States. It is urged -that the Democrats c the South show cowardice in adhei ing to their party. This is not ture If there is any cowardice displayec it is on the part of those who ar really at heart !Republicans, bu have not the courage of their cot victions. They should join and affi liate with the party in whose prin ciples they believe. They should nc remain in the Democratic party seeking at all time and on all o easions to undermine and overthros that party. If two parties in 'th South divided on matters of princi ple, all right. But to suggest th splitting up of the South in orde to get into the game, or for an; other matters of expediency, is un worthy of consideration. How is the South to be helpe< by division? What Democratic prin ::iple or policy is, detrimental? W4 ire told we must progress, yet wher Democratic principles are applied t< he solution oT present problems we ire warned to get back to old fash oned Democracy. On the othet iand, when a protest is made against Republican measures striking at the oundation of our form of govern. nent. we are charged, with being >bstructionists. In the meantime, he gratuitous advice comes from the ame sources to split up the solid south in order. forsooth, that some uture Southern Republican may be. ome a cabinet officer under a Re Eublican administration! Such is the ogic of Mr. Julian Harris and oth rs who have written recently on his subject. President Taft's proposed policy owards the South. as outlined in is recent utterances on thes sub r-et will have little' h.'aring upon the nestion. His policy toward Dem crats who are untrue to their party .11! not, in my opinion. tend to trengthen the cause of his party in he South The only way for the :epublicans to iuild up their party 1 the South. in my opinion, is to mnvince D'emocrat that Republa in policies are the best. Then, for ich as are convinced, to join the epublican party holdly and advo ite its principles and receive -Its 'wards. Democrats are not going >he split up by the undermining recess of rewarding those who MORE DAYLIGHT THE 31OST VALUABLE THING IN At THE WHOLE WORLD. Why Not Have Two Hours More of It When It Does Not Cost You 0 One Cent? If, on May 1st of each year, the H4 standard of time throughout the United S-.ates was advanced two hours, so that what is now five o'clock become seven o'clock etc., and changed back to our present standard on October 1st, it would add - gretaly to the health, comfort and pleasure of all, through the sum L mer, without necessitating any change as to daily habits, or create any more confusion than if a West cra men went to some point East, having a :ime one or two hours fast er than *hat to which he was ac- at customed, but would give two hours additiona' light for recreation and health-giving, and the use of two of it the coolest and best hours of the day for labor. Americans, in this manner, would obtain what those a in England greately enjoy today,| 6 namely, :wo additional hours of light. This would leave the same number of hours for business and sleep as now, and would give two better hours h for the day's work, and two addit ional hours of daylight to the even ing hours, which today are too short to be of much benefit to those liv ing any considerable distance from e e their place of business, and. as the a hours after business are the only f portion of the week-day devoted to b pleasure and exercise, the lengthen ing of same would be appreciated by n all. Nothing is more conducive to health than outdoor exercise, such t as ball, tennis, goif, boating, bath 0 ing, gardening, etc., so why not read d just the hours devoted to business, S sleep, and pleasure to the benefit of - all? I Thousands of families would, un- t s der tfiese circumstances, move into e the country or suburbs, who are now e held back by the fact that the men at the present time could not reach b d their homes until too late to get Lt much benefit from a move of this h kind. if As elderly persons and children e o are given to early rising, the break fast hour will become more regu- S )f lar, and many annoyances of today a i- will be avoided- and, during the t )- heated term, it should prove of b i- special benefit to the school child t- ren. U .e As a rule, nearly every proposed i i, rule, law, or custom works a positive s t injury or hardship to many who i le club together and bring about much t -e opposition; it delays and discourages d is those interested in its passage, but, n i- in this case, as no property is de e stroyed or depreciated, no one can k be interested in opposing it, and it .e is one of the few changes that coulde 11 be made to benefit all citizens ofe a each and every state in exactly the a .y same proportion, and not call for >t the expenditure of money by the gov- ~ -e ernent, State or people. Railroads i g would not be compelled to -changef i- their time-tables, as all trains would a leave in future at the same~hour ast n today. Local travel would'be great- a ~- ly increased, additional money put n ~r in circulation by the purchase of i: t- such things as are used for pleasure c and recreation, and additional value g h would be given to what already ex- e ~r ists in the way of parks, play r .e grounds, gardens, resorts, boating i L- and bathing facilities, tennis courts. t ? automobiles, carriages bicycles, etc., t *e etc. -s e In England, though they enjoy in a summer time the benefits to be de- 3 *s rived from a movement of this kind, f e they are endeavoring to establish at custom to more closely follow the h~ movements of the sun, which would S enable them to gain millions-of dol- f r 'lars paid out each year for artificial n s right. This change is being opposed. g a however, by every gas and electric 4 n light company, and their stockhold- h ers in every village and hamlet c Sthroughout the kingdom. so that the t proposed movement in America I' should not be confused with that being agitated in England, and 0 e should be accomplished at a compar-!t tatively early date, from the very fact - that is injiures none and would be - 'of great benefit to millionis. ci - To be beneficial and not confusing, 0 t is is necessary' that the law or cus tonm become universal throughout - the United States. It has no politicai u significance, so all should lend their a; aid to the movement. Talk it up. i I - See that your friends thoroughly un- t Sderstand it. Remember that mil 'lions in England, for centuries, have a; rbeen accustomed to exactly these 01 -j same hours and its benefits. If you a do not need these additional hours t Efor .recretonr on yourself, aid in u. - obtaining itfrthose who do. p MULE KILLED BY LIGHTNING. st Two Colored Men Driving it Had Narrow Escape. IX The Columbia Record says a mule or belonging to Wilson Herbert. color- S ed, was killed on Sunday afternoon rh by lightning in the road near Mrs. $ E. S. Herbert's farm, in Mendenhall re township. The mule was being driv- w< en along the road by Wilson Her- in bert's son. John Henry. and Hiram ma Nelson. There came a blinding flash ha~ and a terrific report, and the mule foi fell dead. Herbert was rendered un- d11 c'onsc(iouls for a good while. Nelson So was thrown about ten feet out of the .('< buiggy. The~ mule was a valuiable 311 one'. In th'e same section of the county, only a ile away, a ('ow be ong ing to .Jake. Kinard. colored, was ha< str'uck by~ lightnine and killedi inpr Mr.I oulware's pasture.or No W'itniesses. inc "Y ou are charged with stealing on niie of Colonel Hen ry's hens lastha night. Have you any witnesses?" Ani akd the juIstice sternly. ma "Nssah" said Brother JIones och humbly. "T s'peeks I's sawtah Pe- the cia r dar-ituh-way', hut it ain't never h'oen miah custom to take witnesses rec, along when I goes out chicken steal-: Gr' SomnEtimes a "pirited" thought te PLAIN FACTS lout the Tariff bill Told by Senator Smith N FLOOR OF SENATE Skoldly Declares That the Whole Tendenct of the Present Legisla tion is to Give the Manufacturer Undue Advantage Over the Pro ducer and the Consumer. Denouncing the pending tariff bill giving the manufacturer an undue tvantage over the American farmer id working man, Senator Smith, South Carolina, unequivocally ex essed his faith in a free trade poli in an extended steech while the tton schedule was under consider ion in the Senate on Tuesday. The llowing write-up of the speech was irnished The News and Courier by s Washington correspondent: "Tne whole tendency of this leg lation has been to cheapen the raw aterial and raise the price of the aished article," said Mr. Smith, Lhereby giving to the protected anufacturer -a double advantage, *sening the price of what he has buy and raising the price of what e has to sell. "I am not pleading for, nor shall vote for, protection for th6 raw Laterial. I believe a thing is worth hat it will bring in the open mark :s of the.world. What I shall vote gainst is the iniquitous and inde msible system of legislating a profit y artificial methods. I believe that merican skill and the wonderful iechanical devices operated by team, water and electricity, our earness to the source of supply for ie raw material maxes it possible yr us to compete with the nations of ae world." Senator Smith said it was also itely idle to talk about the protec ye tariff being a benefit to the cot >n and grain growers of America. fisupport of his position, Mr. Smith uoted, though not by name, a "lead ig manufactarer of the South," who, e said, had told him that he be eved it was right and just that the rotective feature of the tariff on otton goods should be entirely wip d out. The protection of the Gov rnment, assertc'd Mr. Smith, giving uch a margin of profit, has invited nd brought into the cotton manufac uring business "a lot of financial uccaneers and plungers -^.. oy the iarvelous profits that c- be 'fig red, possibly on'paper, put on foot mipossible schemes, which have re ulted disasterouly to the milling adustry of the country." He said hat what is true of the cotton In ustry is largely true of every other 2anufacturing industry. "The monstrous injustice of this ill is made in two particulars," con inued Mr. Smith. "This bill de lares that it is for the purpose of ncouraging American industries nd guaranteeing to them a reason ble profit, while on the other hand, a sharp contrast with it in the bill, incorporated a tax on the very ertilizing element upon which the gricultural laborer is dependent for he en'hichment of his soil. This mmonia, or this nitrogenous ele aent that is so costly and so essential a the production of this crop, must e taxed because of a few coke and as companies, who, already protect d and making their, millions, can ot be denied the privilege of mak ag other millions Out of that which be Government ought to see that he farmer gets at the lowest pos ible price." During the course of his speech Ir. Smith read some interesting gures to bear out his contention bat the protective~'tariff worked a ardship upon the people of the outh, wrhog had to pay most severely >r the prosperity enjoyed by the anufacturers. The eleven cotton rowing States last year produced 716.352,2(5 worth of raw cotton, e said, and $90,000,000 worth of >tton seed. This cotton they had put upon the market at a price mzed by Liverpool. That price was xed in Liverpool upon the basis the cost of labor in Europe and ie price at which they sold the aished produets "Therefore the whole- American >tton crop is sold upon the basis free trade," said Senator Smith so that, in the cotton growing :ates, according to the census fig res of 1900, there are engaged in tricultural pursuits 4,000,000 peo e, and their average earnings for e year .are $133. "Taking the outcome duties on ticles imported, such as are used the farms, there are consumed >out $66.3~>7.000 worth. Taking' e consumption of domestic man actu red goods, the proportionate Lrt of the South is $2.885,000,000. ie indirect tax paid on this con-. miption, dute to protection, is 5F5.000.000. Now this, for the-en -e South. regardless of the work gaged in. Dividing this by' the lpulation of the South, the taxation r capita due to these duties paid domestic and foreign articles is 1 in round numbers. Deducting is $61 from the $133 there is lef:t 2, representing the actual value leived by the laborer for his year's m'k. He could purchase for $71 Europe, where the price of the1 sv material is fixed, what he would ve to pay $133 for here, There -e,. out 'of the ss00,000,000 pro ccod by the cotton growers of the or h. practicallyv $400,f.fl.00 of it as into the coffers of the protected Mr. Simit h- said it was not only Sthat the Southern cotton firmer to p.ay about $6 a ton more toC >duc- his 'olin f or' fertilizer in "r to give a little additional profitd an already prosperous protrwLdi nistry-. hmt he mist also pay a duty I' his bagging and ties in order to g Id tip a lagging industry on eriean soil, where no rawv jute s terial was produced, and on the V er hand to add to the profits on e great Steel Trust. Jr. Smith cited the fact that then uat election of L. W. Parker, of 0 ecnvilia. S. C.. at Richmond last ti k to be the head of the Manufac-- S r'Association on an anti-pro- h ive platform for manufactured a CAN'T AGREE LND WILL ARBITRATE THEIR 'K DIFFERENCES. rhe Georgia Railroad and the White j Firemen Will Soon Settle Their Trouble. Unable to agree on terms of a settlement, says a dispatch from At anta, the officials of the Georgia Railroad and of the Brotherhood of Firemen have invoked~ arbitration under the Erdman law. It was near y 7 o'clock Monday night when Commissioner of Labor Neill and Chairman Knapp, of the Inter-State commerce commission, reluctantly gave up the battle to bring the war ring elements together. Commissioner Neill notified both parties to the dispute to select an arbitrator within five days. These cwo men will select a third. TIe Erdman Act provides that should the two arbitrators be unable to agree upon the third member of the com mission, he will be named by Knapp and Neill. The decision of the arbi trators is made binding upon both parties by law. As expected the disagreement came over the retention of negroes. The firemen first demanded the dis missal of all negroes. This was re fused flatly by the railroad. After considerable labor on the part of Messrs. Neill and Knapp, the fire men submitted another proposition. They agreed that those negroes now employed or who were employed pri or to April 10. should be retained on their present footing. Recent promotions of negroes had been can celled before the men returned to work. They demanded that all white fire men should have seniority over' all negroes. That is, if a white fireman was employed today, he would rank ahead of all negroes no matter how long they -were in the service, when it came to promotion to better runs. In addition, they asked that at no time should the total number of ne groes employed exceed 25 per ceit of the white firemen on the compa ny's pay-roll. If at ;any time the number of negro employees dropped below 25 per cent no more were to be employed. It is said that the Georgia Railroad might have con sented to this were it not for the op position of the terminal company. When it was seen that agreement was impossible the Federal officials gave up the fight and ordered that the dispute go to arbitration. When the men returned to Vrork Saturday afternoon the road agreed that the status of April 1 should be restored. It was upon that date that the trouble began. The company had then promoted several negroes to good runs and removed white fire men- to make room for them. Al retZdy the company has restored the white firemen to the runs they held or April 10. All other disputed l.oints. and demands were conceded except the seniority of white men and the limitation as to the number of ne'gioes employed. Th~e white firemen claim that 'ne gro firemen are not held to a strict enforcement of the rules as are the the whites, and they Intimate~ that the policy of the road seemed to be 'to discharge whites at every oppor tunity and replace them with blacks, who get less wages. General Man a-ger Scott denies this and declares his willingness to agree to a strict enforcement of all rules against the negroes. BILL PASSED FOR BABIES. pegislature Goes on Record as Fav oring Them. Discrimination against babies by cold-blooded landlords was stopped at Chicago., Ill., when the Illinois legislature passed a bill, this week, providing that no lease for a fiat or apartment shall contain a clause prohibiting children from living in flats or apartments. Gov. Deneen says he will sign the bill. .Women, as well as~babies, come in for protection from the legisla ture, which has passed the "10 hour law," a bill providing that wo men and children shall not be re quired to labor more than 10 hours in 24. This bill is a blow aimed by organized labor at the sweat-s hops. Cyclone Passes Denmak. A small cyclone passed about one mile northwest of Denmark about 6 o'clock Thursday evening, wrecking the home and stables of Mr. Asa Baxter and a tenant house of Mr. J. W. Baxter. Mr. Asa Baxter's eld est daughter was slightly infured. No one killed. Shooting at Union. At Union Tuesday Muinroe Ward fired two balls into H. R. Miller, the balls entering the left side, one near the heart, and the other slightly towards lower down. The physic lans are unable to say just how se rious the wounds are, but from their location of the balls, little hope of its recovery is entertained. Literally True. "What have you got in the shape f cucumbers this morning''" as-ked he customer of the new grocer. "Nothing but banannas, ma'em," jE w'as the reply. For stealing one kiss, Man oft remains For the rest of his life In Cupid's chains. It takes more than a sinecure to uire most people of their sins. ury, was the best possible evidenceK hat the cotton manufacturers of the, ountry wanted no such duty on their. oods. Whr-n Mr. Smith concluided his pe.ech she' received the congratula- a ons of practically a!! of the Demo ratic mcembers of the Senate. who ~suured himi that what he said was or o:dy very in'eresting. but would of great benleft to the tariff ques on generally. Several Republican anators also came across the cham- pi 'r and congratulated Senator Smith. a niong whom were Beveridge, Nelcon ofc GRAVE INJUSTICE '0 THE SOUTH POINTED OUT BY MR. N. L. WILLET. low the Cotton Farmer is Injured by the Cotton Crop Estimates of the Government. The Agricultural Department at Vashington in sending out cotton 'rop estimates, always uses the term Cotton Bales." 'A foot note, how ver, always states that a certain tumber of these supposed "Cotton 3ales are "Linters." In a letter to he Augusta Chronicle Mr. N. L. Villet says: The South has Aong lontended hat Linters are not -cotton bales; hat the agricultural department is riolating its own rule, under the >ure food law, in putting an untrue abel on an article; that the present method presents figures that are fic .itious and which give us larger imounts of cotton bales tlian are actually made; that this fact bears ,he cotton market; that such over estimation injures the South. Linters at one time were much superior to what they are now, ow ing to tfe fact that the cotton seed oil mills - did not cut the lint off so closely as they do at the present time. Early in the history o'f de linting most linters showed a very fair staple, and could be spun Into a very fair grade of yarns, the price usually ranging about 1-2 to 2-3 of the price of New York middling this makin the linters' price, according to color and length of staple; to be from 4 to 7 1-2 per pound. At the present time, however, very few spindle linters are to be found; the .quantity indeed -has be coie so insignificant that most of the linter spinners have gone for materials to other stocks, not bp ing able to get a sufficient quantity of high grade linters. Besides this spinning, lint'ers have ~always been used, more or less in the manufac ture 6f . cotton batting, comforters, and felts for mattresses. They would be used nore largely for this pur. pose, if they were graded better. The staple is now so short, however. and the zolor so dark, that they are being discarded largely even for these purposes. And where they are used in the better grades of mat tresses and batting, the manufactur ers are compelled to bleach them ;5" order. to get the necessary, colo; which process, of course, whitens them, but has a tendency to destroy the elasticity, and also to weaken the fibre. Taking afl these things into con sideration, and'the larger amount "f lint produced by the present pro cess as compared with the processes used a few years ago, and .the very large amount of seed that is being used by the oil mills at the present time, the price of linters has been largely reduced;. prices 'now range (rom. 1-2c per lb. to 2 1-2c at the outside. A fair average linter, suit-. able for carding and felts could be bought today freely at* 1 1-2c .per lb. The presents linter machine with a few minor changes is' of the same* construction now -as it 1w3s several years ago .when lint brought high prices. More lint per ton of se, is now secured, because the seed to day are linted more closely. The process is simply to keep the linter saws sharper, and to run the linter faster. Dudd -saws and slow run ning make high grade linters. But someone found out that by running the machines faster, and by keep ing the saws sharper, they could get 50 to 60 lbs. of lint off every ton of seed instead of the old time 15 to 25 lbs. of lint. 'This new pro cess became generally known, and now today, it is almost universally practiced. The result has been that the price of lint has d gadually 'de clined, because the product is be coming Inferior e'ach season, and the amount produced annually greater. A few mills today lint seed twice first run produces a better staple; the second run means anything that the linter pilla off the seed and the result means anywhere -from 1-2 to 1 1-2c per lb. lint. A fair defidition of a cotton'hale, might be as follows: Baled spinable cotton lint, as cut or pulled from a saw or roller gin, with staple three fourths to two Inches in length, and fetching from 8 to 40c a lb. It does seem from the above that agricultural department at Washing otn could not justly and -truthfully label the degraded linters of today as being .cotton bales. We are annually making-now some 400,000 bales of linters. To class. this degraded. and largely unusable and valuless product or waste when pressed, as a cotton bale, Is not only antrile,- but is is an untruth that Is manifestly most unjust and unfair to the South. Will not the agricul ~ural department do JustIce to the 'Cotton Bp~le?" EOUNG LADY'S HORRIBLE FATE. Burned to Deata Tr-yivg to Kindle Fire With Oil. News of a most distressing ac. :ident near Kings Mountain Tuesday 'cached Gastonia, when the informa ion came that Miss Julia Ware, a Laughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Vare, and a sister of Mr. 3. White Vare, of Gastonia, died Tuesday vening at 8 o'clock as the result of urns sustained Tuesday morning arly. The accident occurred at the onme of Mr. and Mrs. Ware in the 1 Bethel neighborhood and was wit essed only by the 'unfortunate oung lady's mother who, in her rantic efforts to save her daughter, erself sustained very painful though ot necessarily very serious burns. Timely Reinforcements. A boy rushed to a policeman and lid: "Say. there's a man around aere what's been fighting my with ty father for almost an hour!" "Why didn't you call me before?" 'ked the policeman. "Well." said the kid. "paw was attin' the best of it up to a few inutes ago." Buried Under Gravel. As a result of a cave-in of a gravel t at Olive Branch. Miss., a few days o0. five. negroes were killed. Tons rev'el fell on them, crushing