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HOLD UP GAME By the Suar Trust Withthe As sistance of the REPUBUCAN PARTY Under the Present Tariff Law the Sugar Trust Is Given the Right to Take Eighty-Three Million DOl lars Out of the Pockets of the Consumer. The masses of the people know very little about the iniquities of the protective tariff, and consequent ly have little idea of the immense sums of money that the lumber and other trusts are allowed to rob them of each year. As a sample, take the sugar trust and the sum of money it is given the right under the pro tective tariff to rob the masses of. Here are the facts as given by a writer in the Commoner: One of the heaviest burdens car ried in the tariff bill is that of sugar, and the persons who carry it are the consumers. Sugar is a universal ar ticle of diet in this country. The poor man uses as much of it as does the rich man, and, there being more poor men than there are rich men, it is easy to figure out which class is most affected bY the tariff on it. As some one has put it, it taxes poverty in proportion to its needs and the more tax poverty pays the more wealth gains in un just exemption. It is easy of demonstration that the only real beneficiary of the tarif is t4e sugar trust. The growers are deluded into the belief that if it were not for the tariff the trust would pay them less for their cane and beets. Yet it would be difZcni for anyone to conceive why * the trust, which dominates the market and fixes all prices, would pay moN under any circumstances than it wa compelled to do. No balder, bolder bit of briggand age than the sugar schedule revealD can be found in the whole taril bill. The American people consum4 annually a per capita of eighty-on pounds of sugar. Every pound o this passes through the bands of th< sugar trust and the other reftnerie. that accept its price dictation and never warring with it, may well b< assumed as a part of it. The ,tariff on refined sugar o standard quality is $1.90 a hundret pounds, which is just a little les than It costs to manufacture a hun to shut out refined sugar. That i deliberately placed that high in orde to shut out refined sugar. That i is effective is shown by the fac that in 1907 but 219 tons were im ported. while last year there wer but 430. In order to still further entrenel the trust in its position, the tarif bill provides that no sugar may b imported unless it is of a eertai standard color, whieh means that I must be in a certain state of rawnes that renders it unsalable except t the sug'ar refiners. This is importas because three-fourths of the suga .we consume is imported. So impor tant is It that the price of all suga is based upon the price of thi "Dutch standard" in New York. An examination of the sugar sched tile proves the truth of the conten tion of Senator Clay of Georgia I1 his recent speech, when he said tha the tariff is so adjusted that to every dollar collected in duties, tb trust can and does exact more tha: a dollar of profit from consumers Here G how the tariff on sugar, necessity of'life, affects price: The average wholesale price 11 Hamberg in 1908 was 2.84 cents in New York it was 4.96. The trus has 'frequently sold sugar for exi port, its surplus, for three cents pound, because the tariff shut ou the foreign refiner from the homn market and enabled the 'trust t< compete elsewhere. That the trus gets the greater part of the tax i proved by this computation: There are approximately 90,000, 000 persons In the United States each of whom consumes eighty one pounds. The average differene in price of sugar between Hamberj and New York for ten years has been 1.89, cents a pound. Mfultip12 this by the amount of sugar con sumed and it means a difference o $136,000,000 a year. Of this sum the government col lected and received by reason o0 the tariff $53,000,000. The othei $33,000,000 was taken by the trus as its share of the tariff loot. Stated in other terms if the tariff were re moved entirely, it would cheaper the cost of sugar to every consume1 nearly 2 cents a pound and deprivi the government of but $53,00,001 of revenue. I! the schedules wer' fixed upon a strictly revenue basis sugar would be reduced about 2i per cent in price. Protection to the extent of $83, 000.000 a year is given the trust which stands convicted of robbing its beneficiaries by short weights The schedules as now arranged givi it the lawful right to exact tha1 amount in tribute from the consu mer and its character as a monopol: makes It possible for It to decidi how much of that amount it will give the cane and beat growers. Wife Beater Slain. Frank Crawford, a farmer living near Selma, N. C., was struck or the head .and his skull crushed by an axe in the hands of his thirteen year-old son Monday morning. Craw ford had his wife down and was beat. ig her and the boy, not being able to get him off without force, used the axe. The boy has been placa in jail at Smithfield. Suicide at Greenville. At Greenville Monday afternoon a negro woman named Lizzie Clark went into the kitchen of the Blue Ridge Hotel and called Henry Brew ton out of the roon~ to speak to him. While te-dng to him she turned her back and drank a dose of carbolic acid, which killed her a few hours later. The woman was married, but her. husband lied in Waihalla. COMMITS SUICIDE S NREQUITED LOVE CAUSES A VERY SAD TRAGEDY. Gersham Fendelson Shoots Him self Because a Young Lady Reject ed His Suit. Gersham Fendelson. a young white man of CoIumbia, aged twenty-four years. committed suicide Monday night, and Coroner Walker. viewing the body Tuesday morning, decided that there was no need to hold an inquest. Unrequited love is given as tk- cause of the suicide. A clear statement of 'the cause of cor the tragedy was g!ven by Miss Mamie. He Watts, who lives with her step-fath- ;: er, Mr.Ferguson. at 2,005 Wilson t street. almost directly in the rear of the Granby Methodist church. Sat urday afternoon the young man re turned a photograph which she had oc given him. He also sent her word -e by her younger sister and sought th' return of a scarf pin and a ring that he had given the young woman. Sb( declined to return them except to hin' directly. Feadelson boarded with Mr. Jenk- po ins, whose house faces the street ge on which the church is located, and an the back yards of the two houses ad- mi join. He had been living in Colum bia since February and went there -u from Darlington. Rooming with hizr -1 were some young men whom he had. co known. Monday afternoon while ha Fendelson and some other boys were re 1ooking at some post cards. he pick- *m ed up a .32 calibre Colt's magazin' j gun and put it in his pocket. statiug !a, that he had to go over on the Pal- je metto mill hill in the evening and some of the boys over there had it of in for him. The pistol belonged tc . Willie Mims. who was not In the at room at the time. and the other .-c boys did not stop Fendelson. for he claimed to have permission to get ~c it- -o Fendelson went over to see Misc bt Watts early in the evening, and they I with her mother went to preachin; at the church on the Palmetto hill. x He talked to the girl bpt little and -If was with her mother most of the y time. On the return to the house the girl took off the scarf pin and m ring and offered them to the youn m man. but he declined them, saying . that he would never have any fur- a ther use for them. Miss Watts stat- e ed that he seemed sad and spoke ti strangely. Finally he took from his pocket a photograph of himself and said it was for the girl's mother to e I remember him by, as he expected to a die. - Wit' that he walked out of the g t house. and in a moment there was i r the report of a pistol. The -girl call ed her mother. She was not alarm e d, but thought Gersham was just , trying to worry her. But the moth- e er had observed with a closer intal- a tion and declared her belief that the a boy had really harmed himself. The o girl went to the door w'ith a lam c and, peering out into the darkness, a i saw the for mof the yonung man strug- p t gling in the death throes. s Thoroughly horrified she then a aroused the neighbors, who summon- a td Policeman Salters from his beat. The offier did not hear the report t - of the pistol as a train was coming n in. but one of the wlatchmen in that neighborhood told him that the rE port was heard at fifteen minutes to ~ t o' clock. BOGUS LORD ALMOST MMMY. S Body of Sidney Lascelles in Ashe - ille Establishment. t Standing erect in a case in the rear room of the undertaking estab ishment of Nolan, Brown & Co.. of Asevlle. is the embalmed and now almost mummified body of the man known as Sidney Lascelles, the bogus Lord Beresford.1 SThe body was embalmed six years ago and is now as stiff as a board and when laid between two chairs.,t with only the head and feet touching It will not bend. The undertake; -says that the man came here from Norfolk, claiming to be Lord Ber esford and they embalmed the body on the supposition that wealthy rel -atives would care for it. Cablegrams were sent to Lord Beresford in Eng land, but no response was received. The undertakers now admit the man was an imposter and are keep ig the body as a proof of their skill in embalming. They have re f'used to sell the body to shows, be-S n. offered $2,000 for it. te THRILLING EXPERIENICE. st te Man Falls Three Thousand Fire Hundred Feet. b A local inventor dropped~ 3.500'o feet in a crippled aeroplane at~ Barwyn. Neb., Tuesday. He was not seriusly hurt. T'he amateur avia-j tor was U. Sorenson, a blacksmith, ~ who in view of several hundred townsmen, made the ascent in a bal ic~on and then attempted a descent in an aeroplane that he had co structed after several months labor. js When he cut the aeroplare loose it began to descend at a terrific speed, turning over and over as it dropoed. The inventor clung to the craft, and when it struck the ground he wa.s o in a sitting posture. 'The aeroplare Si was damaged, but Sorenson, although ta knocked senseless and sustaining C numerous bruises was soon revived, ra not seriously worse off for his ex- t perience. Killed in Explosion. Four men were kiled and four injured in an explosion in the power; plant of the Denver Gas and Electric1 Company, at Denver. Col., a few days ago. The plant was badly dam Sixth Set of Twins. By the birth Sunday of a set of wi twins. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rogers, r who live eight miles from Asheville. th N. C.. are the parents of six sets of twins. They have been married except the twelve twins. Eight are in1 [EALS A PLANK U m rhe Democratic Platform 4 of Last Year. Yol "AFT IS THE THIEF Turns His Back on the Repub Nel ican Platform and Plants Himself eve quarely on the Last Democratic ten nAtform. Hoping by so Doing to dri ful ;aye His Party. si )nce more, says the Washington ma respondent of the Spartanburg mi rald, the Republican party has ed und it necessary to adopt a plank ea? M the Democratic platform, in er that it may save its face. This be, z become so frequint and com- er a of late, however, that it has th. Tu Lsed to cause surprise. The lat- dr instance of the Republican 'heft he Democratic campaign thunder Is lai the compromise on the income of L proposition, by which it is pro ed to submit the matter to the a ple in the effort to secure an endment to the constitution per- ha tting the levying of such a tax. In recommending to congress the bmission of a constitutional ar iendment expressly authorizing the te lketion of an income tax Mr. Taft s1( an s turned his back on his own a ,rd and planted himself squarely the Democratie platform of 1908. t the Denver convention. July 10. t. the Democratic party made this claration: .1 "We favor an income tax as part fr our revenue system. and we urge e submission of a constitutional nendment speciffcally authorizing a agress to levy and collect a tax >on individual and corporate in- W mes., to the snd that wealth may r its proportionate share of the irdens of the federal government." The Republican convention at C lcago in its platform was silent t this subject. but in his speech acceptance at Cincinnati, July 28, r. Taft volunteered this statement: s "The Democratic platform de auds two constitutional amend- a, ents-one providing for an income Oj x and the other for the election of a, ators by the people. In my judg- o, ent aa amendment to the consti- S trion for an Income tax is not ne- e4 ssar. I believe that an income ft x. when the protective system of e, stoms and the internal revenue o, ax shall not furnish income enough n, ir governmental needs, can and 1 :ould be devised, which, under the a ecisions of the supreme court, will ynform to the constitution." ti Senator Bailey has been making i me efforts In the direction of se-p arng; such a tax, and these efforts t ave met with such approval among iembers of the senate that it is an s pen seeret in Washington that the c :mpomise which was decided on J fter numerous conferences among a epublicans, one with the president. a -as vigorously sought by Aldrich G ad his followers, who did not want o y such tax. e This compromise will put the mat er "up to" the people. It will be eessary that two-thirds of the tembership of hoth ihouses shall ivor the submission of the consti- C 2tional amendment to the people f the forty-six States, and that the ~gislatres of three-fourts of those tates shall express themselves in E ivor of Ine adoption of the amend- a ent. P' is tbusa seen that the Lhi ig c tis :-o 2.crviceabl? 1:2 the Rtpun- 'T can party-indefinlite delay--wif1 s e secured. E It is not generally known out- t< de of senatorial circles just how g uch trouble this Income tax prop- fi ation has caused the members of ie "Aldrich gang." They have had ri umerous conferences and consulta- h ens, and hare even taken polls of te :e senate, and sounded men on the t: reposition, to ascertain their atti- ii ide. The results of these sound-| y, igs revealed a support of Senator l s alley's income tax proposition (to hich Senator Cummins succeeded having his name attached) that as anything else than pleasing to ie leaders. And so the activity A as begun which has resulted in the ~mpromise proposition.' Naturally the "straight-ontt" in >me tax advocates are much per- j o irbed over the present state of af- de airs, and they propose to carry I ie fight further. They claim that A mator Aldrich has a very narrow Iti argin of majority who wji support ti ie compromise, and they hcpe yet* secure enough votes for a h alght-out income tax amendment o the tariff bill to carry their point. b The proposed amendment to the y nstitution, which was introduced w Senator Nelson. provides for the I ibmisson to the several States of e question of amending the consti rtion of the United States so as to ye congress the right to levy a x on Income. The proposed amend- 1' ent is as follows: "That congress shall have the wer to lay and collect direct taxes incomes, from wha'tever source ti 'rived, without apportioning the.' at me among the several States." * p. Swift Justice. Between breakfast and noon din- la r. Ed. Bynum, the negro who shot v ieriff Corley, thirty days ago, was ken from the State penitentiary at lumbia. carried to Lexington. ar :gned, tried and sentenced, and ken back to Columbia to begin h ting his sentence of ten years. * er Going for Calhoun. h Prosecting Attorney Henry is lay- Tr git heavy on Pat Calhoun in Sanm -ancisco graft cases. He says that pa ry hair on Calhoun's head is guil-c and that there is evidence enough f ainst the South Carolinia't to sink p m into the bottomless pit.* The U'nited Dry Goods Company. th a capital of $51.fl00.flfl was retly organized. John Claflin is du , chief genius of this great trust. st4 pa Every tIme so-called Democratictr ngressmen or Senators get veryfe 'imat with the Republicans they av KES DEADLY DRUG 'AUSE OF DISAPPOINTMENT IN LOVE IN AIKEN. ing Man From Charleston At empts to Commit Suicide But 'V'as Saved. . dispatch from Aiken to. The vs and Courier says late Monday ning Ed O'Neil. of Charleston. at pted to commit suicide there by aking several drachms of lauda n. The quick presence of a phy an saved his life, though the a avows his intention of yet com ting the rash act. He was plac in the city jail to prevent him rying out his avowed intentions. YNeil is a young man who went Aiken from Charleston. He has n in the city for some time. Sev 1 days ago be was heard to say it he Intended taking his own life. sday evening he went into Hall's ig store on Main street. and said had toothache, and bought some danum for the purpose, he said, easing it. He then seated himself at a table d calTed for a soft drink from the la fountain. Instead of drinking m the soda glass he drank about f the contents of the laudanum ttle. and in a few moments he >se, threw a note across the coun to the clerk and swooned. A phy ian was with him in a moment, d after a great deal of effort he Ls made to drink an emetic, and he >8 recovered from the effects of e laudanum. But he still insistei that he would 1 .himself; said he would jumD )m the hotel and kill himself. ac rdingly he was locked up for the ght. The note was addressed to young lady of Aiken, and disap intment in love seems to have :4ghed too heavily on his mind. SEVERE STOR'M IN VIRGINIA. miderabi. Damage Was Dan* in the State. A special from Big Stone Gap, Va., 'ys: File deaths are reported and dam e to property estimated at upwards $100,000 as the result of rains d electrical storms which swept rer that section Saturday night and inday. Railroad tracks were wash I out, causing landslides and a ten ot rise in the sluggish Powell riv in two hours. The heaviest storm curred Saturday night, breaking Big Stone Gap, along the nes of the Louisville and Nashville, ad the Inter-State Railroad. The Inter-State Road lost more ian two miles of road in the six ile stretch of track between Ap alachia and Stonega. A passenger 'sin was left stranded near. Arno, ith the track impassible on either de. Big slides occurred in deep ats at .Appalachia and Dorchester nction. The Powell Valley Light ad Power Company's plant here. hich furnishes lights for Big Stone ap and other towns, was put out commsion by lightning, and ops were injured. RALBIGN MAN A SUICIDE. B. Edwards, Well Enown Printer, Cuts Eis Throat. A dispatch from Raleigh says C. Edwards, Jr., committed suicide tPulleni Park a few nights ago by atting his throat with a shoe knife. he body was found about 10 o'clock aturday. He was the son of C. B. dwards, of the Edwards & Brough n printing establishment and was eneral foreman of the printing of Edwards left no y ord as to the ason for the act, but has been a eavy drinker and had made an at mpt on his life before. He had Lken treatment for the whiskey hab a number of times. He was 38 ears old and leaves a wife and five nall children. BITTEN BY RABID DOG. Little Eight Year Old Boy Was the Victim. At Abbeville the eight-year-old son Mr. Tom Nickles was bitten by a g that has since been pronounced ade by the Pasteur institute in tianta. Dr.- C. C. Gambell will get e virus fresh every day and treat ee boy at home. Early in April ee South Carolina State board of 'alth authorized the establishment a Pasteur Institute in Columbia. f it seems they are not in position t to treat patients. It is not known hether the dog bit any one else or OUTHERN PU~BLISHERS MEET. mious Subjects of Interest to the Profession Discussed. The Southern Publishers' Associa i met Tuesday in annual session Birmingham. Ala. President J. Cadwell, of Charlotte. N. C., pre The attendance is said to be as -e as that at any previous con Tore Father's Will to Piece. Dr. William M. C. Millan, an em >ee in the United States custom ue at New Orleans. tore his fath 'S will to pieces -when he discov ed that it gave rmore property to. m than to his younger brother. i fact was disclosed when the ilated documem., that had been tehed together, was filed in the V District Court in New Orleans r robate. The amount of the >erty involved is about $7,300. Crushed by Roller'. Pet~r Zuaino, a watchman whose ty it was to walk ahead of a *atroller owned by an asphalt vg company -and warn pedes bins of their danger. Tuesday night iinfront of the machine at North nuuc and Halmead street. in Chii-1 STREET FIGHT wo Dead and Five Others Are Badly Wounded. MAS BLOODY BATTLE rhis Was the Fequel of Anoth er Tragedy That Grew Out of a Political Contest in Meadville, Miss.-Troops Rushed to the Scene to Prevent Rioting. There wos a bloody street battle t Meadville, Miss., on Tnesday af ernoon, in which two men were kill x1, two perhaps fatally wounded and three others slightly injured. As a result of the unfortunate af fair, feeling at Meadville ran high and State troops were rushed there from Brockhaven Tuesday night to guard against a possibility of riot ing. Those killed in the affray were Dr. A. M. Newman. clerk of the Chancery Court, of Franklin coun ty, and Silas G. Reynolds. Dr. Le nox X.",man. a son of one of the slain urt.n, Is believed to have been fatally injured, and Herbert Apple white, an attorney. may not recover as the result of his wounds. Em mett Newman, another son, was shot in the leg. The three were taken to Natchez for medical attention, after having been formally placed under arrest. Two men named Boyd and Parr, alleged to have been involved in the affray. were slightly wounded, but escaped and have not been cap tured. L. P. Pritchard, a brother of Cornelius Pritchard, whcm Newman killed seven weeks ago, was arrested and charged with complicity in the tragedy. The killing of Pritchard by New man was the first bloodshed to mark a feud that had existed between the two men, relatives and friends. for months. This bitter factionalism had its inception in a political cam paign in which Newman and Pritch ard were opposing candidates. Newman was tried a few weeks ago for Pritchard's murder, and was acquitted. This served to arousv even more bitter feeling among thf relatives and friends of Pritchare and the Newman family and faction Tuesday's fight occurred almost or the same spot where Pritchard wa slain. Apparently Newman was first fir ed upon as he was passing the But er building in his buggy. The sho came from one of the rooms on thi second floor of the building. It fail -ed to take effect, and Newman jump ed from his buggy, rushed to thi front of the building, drawing hi: pistol, it is asserted, in the mean time. It is claimed that as Newma: reached the sidewalk he was at tacked by Reynolds and Applewhite Sons of Dr. Newman, who were ntear by, rushed to the scene and engage< in the duel. Numerous volleys wer< exchanged, but it is apparently matter of doubt who fired the fata shots. The gragedy is thought to havy been a direet result of the killinj of Cornelius Pritchard by Dr. New man seven weeks ago, and Dr. New mans acquittal recently on the charg, of murder. The feeling between Applewhiti and Newman is said to -hav~e bees very bitter. On several occasion it Is reported that Newman had or dered the attorney from the chan cery clerk's office. Applewhite wa: wounded in the Newman-Pritchart encounter. The encounter, from the meagr< facts known, were fiercely wraged and the lives of numerous bystand ers were jeopardized. FIRE ON AM.ELIA STREET. House and Contents Almost Totall: Consumed in Blaze. At about 8:20 o'clock Friday evening an alarm of fire was rung ix from box No. 28. The fire was ix the undertaking establishment o: Bythewood and Ballard, No. 8 Wes Amelia street, at the foot of Mid dleton. When the department ar. rived the flames were burning fierce ly owing to the infiamable materia stored in the building, the building also being a wooden structure and it looked like the fire boys were ur to a hard proposition to preventa serious confiagration. WTithin five minutes after the alarm was sound ed a steady stream of water was play ing on the fire, followed in a few minutes by another, and the Elliott with their magnificent team and truck, hada extended ropes and thrown their extension ladder or the building. The usefulness of rop ing off the fire was demonstrated Friday evening, as the firemen did not have to fight the crowd and fire also, and could work to beter ad vantage. The fire was confined to the building which was badly damag Insurance. $1.000 on building: $300 on stock. which was also badly damaged by fire and water. The firemen are to be congratulat ed on their good work at this fire. EFT ESTATE TO SWEETHEART. Trained Nurse, of Roanoke, Va., Gets .$2,000O Bequest. Mrs. M. E. Mayo. a trained nurse. of Roanok0. Va., has been notified y a Danville. Va.. lawyer that Capt. . H. B!ackwell. who die-d th'e. rcntly, left his estate, worth $25. 0(0 and unencumbered, to her. As a girl Mrs. Mayo and Black well were sweethearts. She married another man and was ten years ago lft a widow. Some years later she ursed Blackwell through an illness nd be renewed the suit. Last November the marriage was indefinitely postponed. Woman Shoots a Man. A negro woman shot a negro man at Greenville on last Monday night Wuse of jealousy. The woman THE PEOPLE ROBBED I TARIFF FOR THE PURPOSE OF Rf PROTECTION IS GRAFT. It Gives a Few the Privilege by Law. In of Preying Upon the Rest of the People. Former Governor Joseph W. Felk. stopping in Denver after a trip St through the West gave an interview to the Denver News in which inter view he said: "From what I have cc learned in my trip through the West, la I can say that the Democratic party will undoubtedly win out in the next ye presidential election. And tariff is in at the bottom of it all. The dis- b: cussion of that great national and cu international topic has made it clear p to the people that the tariff is a tax. is "They are awakening to the injus- v! tice of 80.000,000 people being tax- tt ed to make a few very rich, and, that c] it is more important that all of the si people be prosperous than some of V the people be extremely wealthy. a Instead of protecting monopoly I< against the people, the demand now t is that people be protected against monopoly. A tariff for the purpose g of protection is graft. It is a privi- f lege conferred on the faw to prey s upon the rest of the people. t "If the Democratic party will stand t for the real principles of Democracy, f which are opposition to the privilege 1( of lawlessness and privileges con- h ferred by law, it will succeed. The i trouble has been that so many who q call themselves Democrats voted f against the party's prineiples when d they see a chance of geting a part of the graft 'for their own States or t districts. This must stop," he in- r terjected emphatically. The great fighter of graft and 1 crime took occasion to criticise se- I verely the stand taken by a number I of Democrats in the present congress. 1 He insisted that recent votes in that body indicated clearly that they had < deserted the teachings of their own party and had declared without the least hesitation for the monopoly tariff as framed by the Republic= : party. "As a matter of faet." he said, "the tariff discussion in congress seems to have degenerated into a game of grab, with many of the senators -and representatives trying to get a part of the loot for their own districts. The Democratic party must stand squarely against the mo nopoly tariff and for equal rights to all. otherwise it stands for noth ing. And then, if the party declares - bodily for the rights of all, as op posed to the privileges of a few, it will win." SHOOTING SCRAP IN MARLBORO. One Man Killed and Another Se verely Wounded. In a shooting scrape in the upper part of Marlboro county Sur-day -morning, Sandy Purvis was killed and George Robinson wounded In several places. The homicide oc curred Sunday morning about 9 o'clock. and Coroner McCall had sa I Inquest Monday afternon, but none of the particulars were known until SMonday morning owing to the fact Sthat the coroner did not get back - to Bennettsville until late Sunday night. George Robinson is ix jail with gunshot wounds, small shot in his right eye, breast, arm and stomaeh. 1He has one wound on his left knee, which seems to have been caused - by a pistol. - It seems that Robinson and his wife had some trouble last week. Iand she had gone to her peple, with whom Purvis boarded. Mrs. Robin son, with their children, went back home Sunday morning for some clothing, but remained only a short time. She started to return to her people, and her husband accompa nie'1 her part of the way. Ihe tried to detain her and Purvis came up. Robinson and Purvis got into a fight and separated, each go ing for his gun. The difficulty was resumed and Purvis was killed, the shot having entered his back. Rob inson says that Purvis shot first, but Emma McLean, the sis'ter of the wife of Robinson, says that she fired the first shot that hit Robin son. Sandy Purvis boarded at the home of Emma McLean. MEET AFTER MANY YEARS. Broter and Sister Reunited in City of Chicago. A reunion of brother sad sister after forty-two years of separation ha made a redletter day for one Chicago family. Charles Fisher, with a fortune, after five years of arduous toil, de termined to find his long lost rel atives. He went first to New York, where his investigation directed him to the home of Mrs. J. P. Clyens In Chicago. They became orphans in Syracuse, when Charles was two years of age. He was adopted into one family and other friends cared for the sister. The boy drifted West and his ven tures in placer-mining were unusu ally successful. DEPUTY KILLS PREACHER. Officer Shoots Minister who Resist ed Arrest. A special from Pocahontas, Va., says at Boissevain, \'a., a few days ao the Rev. John Phillips was shot 1a and killed by Denuty Sheriff H. N. t Morris. Phillips had a difficulty with a a man named Proffit Saturday night.; Pofft went to Pocahontas and got a a arrant for the preacher. When a Morris went to serve the papers unday Phlllips resisted and drew a reoler, and it is said was in the ! act o shooring Morris when the lat tr fied on Phillips. killing him in- a Brai'ned With An Axe n a fight near Wilson. La.. Mon day morning between John Palz.o and George Brat, the latter brained p te former with an axe, death being e Instantaneous. It is said that both D of thc men were under the influence ti COTTON REPORT SULTS OF THE STUDY OF AN EXPERT PUBLISHED. mreased Demand for Upland Cot ton Has Resulted in the Develop ing of Better Grades. Daniel C. Roper, of the United ates census bureau, has just pre red a comprehensive report on the tton industry in the United States St year. The increased demand in recent ars for-superior staples is develop g better varieties of upland cotton - seed selection and more careful itivation. The United States de rtment of agriculture has been and now rendering very valuable ser ce in assisting the growers along *ese lines. The long staples grown iefly in the portion of the Missis ppi Valley, which extends from icksburg to Memphis, a region :out 57 miles wide and 200 miles ng, are receiving more attention ian heretofore. The fiber of much of the cotton -own in jthis -territory measures 'om one and one-fourth to one and venth-eighth inches in length, and ie avearge yield is about one balc ) the acre. The seeds of thesi ancy varieties have been planted ii >calities outside of this region th( Lst two or three yearz with gratify ag results, as the staple not infro uently commands a premium o: rom 5 to,10 cents a pound over mid dling upland. Unfortunately, few of the locali ies producing this cotton are sup lied with the ginning faci'ities bes uited for the pro;sr treatment o he fiber; saw gins, which Liut ani >reak the fiber, are generally em >loyed. In contrast with this prac ice attention is directed to the fac hat the Egyptian and sea islan, ottons are treated by roller gins hich contribute to regularity an iniformity in the fiber. The incr'ease in the imports c 'oreign cottons which come in con yetition with sea island and othe uperior cottons grown in this cout ry has aroused the American gro% rs, as is evidenced by the fact tha hen the Payne tariff bill was . r( :ently under consideration, represei tatives of the growe'rs of sea islan :otton and of the best varieties pr< duced in the Mississippi Valley p4 titioned Congress for the speedy ei actment of an amendment to t' tariff laws, by which an import dul of not less than 40 per cent woul be imposed on the marked valuatic of all foreign grown cotton importe into America, which can be used a substitute or competitor by Ame ican mills against similar grades rai ed in this country. It may be stated in this conne tion that the importation of foreig cotton for the year ending Augu; 31, 1908, amounted to 143,490 bal of 500 pounds each, of which 122 170 were imported,- direct fro Egypt; the prodhection of sea islar cotton in 1908 was 93,858 bales, at that of the superior varieties grow in the Mississippi Valley has bei estimated at about 300.000 bales. The following are the figures the number of bales of cotton of a kinds raised in each. of the countil of South Carolina in 1907 and 1901 1908. 190 A bbeville. .. .. .. 34,572 41,8: Aiken .. .. .. ... 34,587 34,75 Anderson. .. .. .. 63,183 65,14 Bamberg .. .. ....21,897 16,54 Barwell .. .. ....41,599 39,0: Beaufort. .. .. ...6,916 7,51 Berkeley .. .. ....18,173 17,64 Calhoun.. .....23,973 22,14 Charleston. .. .. . 13,126 11,7: Cheroiee. .. .. ...14867 14,9: Chester ..........26,90" 27,3! Chesterfield.. ....22,726 16,64 Clarendon. .. .. .. 29,889 29,6( Colleton .. .. .. .. 16,315 14,74 arlington .. .. ...39,724 31,1: Dorchester.. . . . . -.~= 10,.2 Edgefield.... .. .. 26.201 31,6f Fairfield .. .. .. ...28,662 28,4i Florence .. .....t,885 28,04~ Gergetown. .. .. .. 3,713 2,34 Greenville .........40323 40,61 Greenwood .. ......34,360 37,45 Hampton ......... 15,974 14,35 Horry .. ... ......8,372 6,6: Kersha w.. .. .... 21,341 18,0 5 Lancaster. .. .. .. 25,313 22,5( Laurens .......... 42,439 46,43 L. .. .. .. .. .. 35,136 26,62 Lexington ... .. .. 21,934 23,25 Marion .. ....... 49.032 44,65 Marlboro .. .....58,598 53,34 Newberry.... .. .. 37,501 40,65 conee.... .. .. .. 17,979 16,74 Drangeburg.. .. .. 53,724 43,03 Pickens. .. .. .. .. 19,410 18,95 Richland.. .....15,655 14,73 aluda.... .. .. .. 22,935 24,35 partanburg ......59,705 60,96 umter.... .. .. .. 35,186 28.81 nion.. ........19688 19,52 Williamsburg ....28,470 26,29 fork ............43,132 43,52 UEER AGREEMENT PROPOSEI tlanta Woman Tells of Husband Proposition. In a suit for divorce on the groun >f penury. Mrs. E. L. Douglas, ealthy Atlanta woman, Monda iled a petition setting forth an agree nent which she alleges her husban, Lsked her to sign. Article "four eenth" of this agreement reads a allows: "Neither party shall under an: lrcumstances speak or act in a dis araging, petulant or unkind way a, or of the other under a forfei ure. or penalty of making a humbi pology, either public or private, at be offended party shall elect, and Iso submit to be kissed by the othe: arty one hundred times, or less t option of said party as to tim( The other articles. numbering aenty-four. covered the financial re itions of the couple in detail. Mrs. ougas said she refused to sign thi! greement. Chaplain General. Gen. Clement A. Evans. command -in-chief of the United Confederate eterans, Friday announced the ap intment of Dr. R. Linn Cave, as iplain general of the organization. r. Cave, who is pastor of the Chris an church. Nashville. Tenn.. suc .a th la nr. . William .Jones. * FATAL FIGHT Between Dr. H. A. Edwards and Mr. John Kirby QUITE NEAR DILLON All Accounts Agree That Kirby Made the Attack and Was Shot Four Times by Dr. Edwards, Who Claims That He Acted in Self Defence. In a personal difficulty Tuesday between Dr. H. A. Edwards, of Latta, and John Kirby, of Dillon, Dr. Edwards was painfully hurt and. Kirby dangerously shot. Kirby was at Dr. Edwards office in Latta Tuesday morning, 'where sharp words passed between them, growing out of -some previous mis understanding. Dr. Edwards and Kirby met again a few hours *after at the home of Jule Kirby, brother of John, at Dothan. four miles from Dillon, where Dr. Edwards was at tending one of the family. The difficulty was at once renew ed. Kirby closing in. and throwing Dr. Edwards to the floor. Kirby% is physically much the stronger-man. Dr. Edwards, it is said, felt that his life was in danger and drawing his pistol, placed the muzzle against his antagonist, firing four times in rap id succession, all the, shots taking effect, three of them in the left side and front, about the short ribs. Three of them passed entirely.. through Kirby's body just to the. left of the spinal column. The t fourth struck just below the left arm-pit and lodged in the chest cavi ty. The physicians regard his con-. dition as exceedingly grave. Dr. Edwards is painfully but Is not con sidered seriously hurt. It is said that Kirby, who was in r a drunken rage, was angry - with" Edwards and before he arrived at Jule's home had made threats that he, Kirby, would give Edwi-ds one of the worst beatings he ever had. Upon Edwards' arrival he began curs d ing' him and Edwards, seeing John's condition, told Jule he would see him later and started to leave. John attacked Edwards, pinioning his arms to his side and catching his right ear between , his teeth. d Edwards struggled with him, but, seeing he was soon to be overpow ered.. freed his right arm and sliot LS Kirby four times, all the shots tak ri ing effect in Kirby's body. Dr. Edwards was seen later and said the affair was unavoidable on his part and he regrets it very mucb His ear is badly torn.- Further par tticulars are unobtainable. - COTTON CROP IN BAD SHAPE. d No Crop in Central Texas and Farmers in-Dad Fix. a The New Orleans Times-Democrat, ,in its first report on the cotton crop, .11 summarizes conditions as follows: a"There has been a moderate de E crease in acreage-probably about 5 -per cent. -"Taking the belt as a whole, the 0 condition of the plant leaves much to be desired. 2 "The supply of labor is fairly ad 2 equate, as a rule, though there is a good deal of complaint in some sec 8 tions." SAmong the reports from the cot 'ton belt of unusual features is the 5~ following from Austin, Texas: 1 "That Central Texas Is without :a cotton crop, with half of the montif 8 of June gone by, may be a state ~of affairs difficult to imagine, yet 9 such is the case, and to farmers of Sthis section it is a sad reality. 4' "This is generally 'admitted 4 throughout the rural precincts, .and Sit is believed that the same condit-t S ions exist throughout the State and 0most of the Southwest. The State 6 department of agriculture In this 0 city confirms this statement. In fact, 3 there is so- lttile cold ground that 4a comparison between the acreage 1~ of this year and that of..ast,. is next 1 to impossible. About the only cot 4ton well grown at the present timie 0 has been raised almost exclusively by the 'hot house' method." 6 This is certainly a gloomy outlook 6 for the Texas farmers, and means a 1 great reduction in the cotton crop of 2 that State. As far as heard from, the crop in Orangeburg county Is do 9 ing fairly well and with good sea 3sons from now on, a fair crop will 1 be made in this section. S Only a Bluft. S The monied men of Great Britain 8who declaimed so violently against the budget because of .the additional -taxes upon incomes, inheritances and land are not at all consistent. They s protested that it would compel them to live in other lands and to invest their money entirely in foreign se curities. But when the London a County Council recently issued a call . for a loan of two and a half million nounds these same monied men al most fell over one another to take it up, and the total amount offered the Council was one hundred and twenty-five millions pounds. At the same time the German government .asked for forty millions and made a much better offer, and yet the total amount offered was but seventy-four millions of pounds. A'11 of which goes to chow that the threat of fi nanciers to desert England was a mere bluff made to scare the gov ernment. Balloon Accident. IAt St. Petersburg, Russia, the enCunt Chamberlain .Palitsin was killed. his wife was fatally injured and two other persons suffered se vere injuries, in a balloon accident there a few days ago. * . To prevent bed sores, wash the patients back and heels every day, and rub on. with the palm of the hand. a little mnethylated spirit. Peo pe hav0 been compelled to remain tin bed for many years. and by thus using mnerhviated spirit have been