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THE TARIFF LAW Now Aldrich and His Allies Pass This Bold THIEVING MEASRRE By Which the Great. Rich States of the Middle West and the South Wil be Ground Iletween the CP per and Nether 3iLstone to En rich the Trts. Characterizing Ne.on A. Aldrich as "general manager of the United States." and as by far its "most po tent and powerful legislator,' Judson C. Welliver. in the July Hampton's Magazine. arraigns the Rhode Island Senator and his tariff-juggling allies in the most scathing analysis ever made of "Boss-of the Senate." Rep resenting only fourteen States of less than seven m1llion inhabitants. "the Aldrich phalanx.' declared the ar ticle. "rules the Republican majority in the Senate. and through it to rule the Senate: and through the Senate to make a tariff law. "That law will give to the partic Ipating States, such as Maine, New Hampshire. Vermont. Connecticut, Rhode Island. Delaware. Montana, Wyoming. Colorado. Idaho. Nevada, Washington, North Dakota and Wesl Virginia. all the protection they want. The lumber of Washington. the lead of the mountain States. the citrus fruits of California. the hides of tht ranges, the cotton and woolen and silk and shoe mills of New England, the Iron and steel of Pennsylvania these will be cared for. The great rich States of Middle West and Sout! winl be 'ground between the uppej and nether millstones.' as Nelson o Minnesota declared on the Senatt floor. "The combination of the sma: States of Far East and Far West formed and directed by the cold. cal culating genius of Aldrich. is th4 power behind this tariff revision Senators representing only seven mil lions of people furnish the powei with which this colossal boss. fron the smalest and the most corrup State. makes a tariff for our popu lation of ninety millions. "Yet even with this devoted arra at his back. Aldrich dared not t openly avow his intention of grindinj the eighty-three millions between thi millstones of the seven millions The New England cotton and woolei mils were to have protection-and therefore, their profit-power-in creased. It was unsafe to do thi! openly and frankly. So Aldrich re ported a bill in which, he said. ther< was no change in their schedules. I was true as to the fgures. But Sen ator Doltiver sat up a few night with some experts. and found tha without changing a flgure, Aldric1 had. by silently rewriting the defini tion of cotton cloth. increased the du ties throughout. Aldrich and hi followers denied it: but Dollive proved it. And then he proved. fur ther. that Aldrich and his lieutenant did not do it: they called in the skill ed agents of the manufacturers and let them fix up the details. so tha the provision would be sure to serv< the-purpose! -That is typical of tariff-makim .under Aldrich. Jokers, snakes. in directions, cos.eealed meanings. de finitions which seem to mean ont thing and really mean another, jug glings of phrase, concealment of grain of purpose in a labyrinth o language-these are the sure sys tems with which the Business Sen ator plays his game. Regarding the charges that Rhod< Island legislatures have at times beei -openly ad.. frankly purchased out right. Mr. We~lver Quotes Col. A K. McClure. of Philadelphia, whi alleged that 'in making the suga: schedule of the tariff bill Aldric] gave the Sugar Trust the benefit o one mill added duty on refined sus ar, which enabled the trust to dra' down abo'at three million dollar: Nadditional profits per year by the ~herfuI process of taking that mud! more from the people by adding I to the price of sugar. "Handling a tariff or any othe great measure is to Aldrich wha mapping out a campaign would b4 to a board of strategy. He works works, works, paying interes again . Interest, making deals and concessions and compromnises, til he is sure of votes en...gh on al essential propositions. He staves of the tests till he has mado a com bination with which to meet eacd one. He knows, fer Instance. that with the dominant party pledged tc revise the tariff,. a bill must be pass. ed. With that to start on. he mnst organize one fe-ce to protect his steel schedule, another to defend sugar, another to carry through his textile duties, and so on through the list. Some of the men who are with bin on the steel rates, he discovers. wilJ desert when it comes to sugar. Some who are with him on steel .and woolen wfDl go over to the ene my when it comes to cotton. So his srmy Is a shIfting and changing force. but he has resources form which he almost invariably commands the necessary majority. He never uncovers all his forces save In time of need. It is always possible for him to go over to the Democratic side of the chamber and muster a handful of the political opposition to pull threngh a propo sition in which he is deeply inter ested. So. If be finds himself unable to pass his textile schedules with Republican votes, he will draft a few Democrats who bave cotton mills in their States: or If sugar is doubt ful. the sugar Senators of the South and West and Middle West will bave to furnish the recruits to make up the defection.'' Struck by a Train. At Greenville Friday morning Thomas Jamison. a farmer from the Dacus'rille section of Pickens coun ty dra lug to mill two mules. 'as struck by a freight train on the. Southern railway and suffered a frac-: ture of the skul! from which he will probably die. One mulec was killed SHE KNEW HIM YOUNG LIDY IDENTIFIED FIEND VERY READILY. The Sight of the Scoundrel Shocked Her and A--ked Her Father to Kill Him. The State says: John Jeakias. O alias "Slippery Jim." the negro charged with attempting criminal assault on a young lady in George town county. was identlned by the :ady. The negro was brought to Co lum'ia Saturday night and lodged in the penientiary for safe keeping. It was decided Sunday to oring the younig lady to Columbia and accord- , ingly she came. accompanied by her father. and made oath that Jenkins was the negro who dragged her from the buggy and attempted the crime. F She brought with her a written 1 statement which was filed with Mr. A. J. Bethea. private secretary to to Gov. Ansel. The statement car ries ou: practically what has already I been given in the newspapers and, t gives no new facts as to the attempt- I ed crime. N When she was shown Jenkins she begged her father to kill the negro and was absolutely prostrated as a result of the shock. This is the t first case of this kind in that section of the country and efforts will be made at once for a speedy trial. t Mr. Geo. W. Watts has written Gov. Ansel. who was out of the city. 4 requesting a special term of court. There was at no time any danger of violence and the people are con vinced that should the law be al lowed to take its course there will be no dimculty at the trial. NEGRO IN LADY's ROOM. Tried to Prevent Her From Calling For Help. Some excitement prevailed at Ridge Springs on last Friday when It was learned that a well known young lady of that place had awakened dur- 1 ing the night to find a negro in her room. The negro placed his hand over her mouth to prevent her cry ing for help, but she succeeded in arousing the favaily. but the negro escaped. It is not known whether or not the brute was attempting to commit an assault or robbery. and perhaps thinking the young lady awake had placed his hand over her mouth to prevent her from calling for help. The negro is described as being a dark. ginger cake boy. about sixteen years of age. weighing about 125 pounds and was barefooted. carrying a sack containing his shoes. a hat and cap. The officers ..re on the look out for him. DA.MAGE SCIT DECIDED. Railroads Responsible for Overwork ing Men The stat.. Supreme Court Friday affrmed the Circuit Court's decis iion in the case of McCreery vs. the Sothern Ra~ilway Company. in which a judgment was rendered for $9.9~00. This was a very unusual case. -The contention of the plaintiff's attorneys was that L. L. McCreery. who was a flagman on the Southern. had been over-worked and was kill ed while asleep on the track with ja flag in his hand. The point in volved was that the man was alleged -to have been on duty over-time, and ffor this reason the road wasre -sponsible for his death. The suit was for $10.000. and $9.:00 was secured. This case was a very similar one to the well-known case of Reid vs. Southern, which was tried in Dorchester a !ew years CIN E -MISSION AT DISCOUNT In New York on Account of Hor rible Murder. Werk for decent women in the slums of New York has had a set back in a very horrible case recently come to light in that city of great crimes. The Sigel family, the head of the! family being a son of Gen. F'rank Sigel. are plunged in the very great est of distress and shame becausel of the terrible result of "encourag ing" the Chinese. The father of the unfortunate girl said that this fearful~ example' ought to be a lesson to other) young girls not to mix with others than their own kind. Wants New Trial. Miss Lena Castanle. of St. Louis. Mo. participated in a Virginia reel, and the United Railway company now wants the verdict for $12.000. ob tained by her against the company.I Iset aside and a new trial granted: Miss Castanie alleged that she was made permanently lame by falling off a street car in Septenit~r. 190. 1 The motion for a new trial was made when it was learned that Miss Cas ;tanie had taken part in a dance. claiming that this would have b en impossible had she been permanently KindnesS Repaid. Because of kindness shown to H~ar y Green. an aged Civil war pen ioner, 1 3 years ago. Joseph R. s C heesman. of Burlington, N. J.. thist eek, received a bequest of $3.000.a Green. who was very d'af. was em-h played as an expert shoe cutter 15i e years ago. but because of his deaf- i ess had few companions. Cheese- o man however, became his friend, and d1 aided the old man in many instanc- n s. *h Makes Actor Insane. :b At Worthington. Ind.. this week. uy M'ercer. a- actor starting i "Dr. Jekyll and .0 Hyde." became prt in one-night M.ands for two ears and th.- strain had undermin-; years and th.- strain had undemin ed his reason. After his breakdown h continued to play the part off tI th stage. * " Mayor Hibbard. of Boston. will ask the Legislature to pass a bill provid- t inn for the pensioning of all employes who have worked for the city twent'y MOTIVE FOUND F )r the Murder of Elsie Sigel in Now York City. INSANE JEALOUSY u the Part of One Chinaman Be cause the Girl Went With Another it Chinaman it. Now Suppowed to j u Have Causel the Terrible Murder of the Girl. A dispatch from N.-w York sa;s i th.: love letters 0! : Siei o v i wo Chhiaren ii foun i tht moL11 P >r the gruesome mnurder of Gen 'ranz SIgel's granddaughter. The ight the body was discovered wedg- 0 d into the old trunk in the rooms f Leon Ling. in E!ghth avenue. the . olice found a score of more of let ers. which the girl had addressed to im. They were endearing in tone ,d indicated a friendship more than t olatonic. In searching Chinatown. the de ectives raided the private rooms of shu Gain. owner of the famous P:rt S .rthur Chinese restaurant, and there hey found about 200 letters which had been addressed to him by Elsie gel. These letters were even more mndearing in tone than those found n Leon Ling's room. In these she ddressed him as "My own dearest eloved." and *my own dear Chu.. -ever your loving Elsie." she fre uently signed herself. The Chu ,ala letters gave the first informa ion as to the motive for the mur ler. Miss Sigel told Chu Gain, in some > the letters. of her conduct with ,eon Ling. told him not to be Jealous. ind explained her object in maintain ng her friendship for Ling. The po lice will not give out the full con ents of these letters. It Is now supposed that Leon Ling lecided tragically to end the romance >f the girl he loved and his rival Her affection for Chu Gain was' known. as is shown by the letters receiren by Chu GIrin, in which he and the girl are threatened with eath unless their relations ceased. The murder was apparently the ex pectation of that threat. The Chinatown mission, popularly known as the girls' recreation rooms. was closed a few nights ago for the first time since they were opened eight years ago. No explanation was given for this action, but it is sup posed that the murder of Elsie Sigel was responsible. It was in these rooms that Miss Sigel first undertook misionary work in Chinatown. and it was here that she was brought in contact with many of the resi dents of that section. The young girl missionaries of Chinatown. like Elsie Sigel. use these rooms in which to meet the unfor tanate women of Ch'inatown and there talk religion with them. On stated occasions Chinamen were in v'ited to the rooms. and there they met the young girl missionaries. In that manner many Chinamen were induced to attend Christiar. Sunday shools in different parts of the city and from these first meetings many romances have developed, the China men marrying white women. The first of these weddings which oc crred eight years ago. created much comment, but recently there havo been so many such alliances that lit tie attention is paid to them. Although the mission in China town where Elsie Sigel formerly taught, has been closed, a meetingh of Chinese who have been converted to Christianity was held in a Doyer street mission to discuss plans for raisIng a fund to be offered as a reward for the capture of Elsie Sigel~'s slayer. No definite sum was dcided upon, but a committee will go through Chinatown soliciting sub scriptions. The Rev. Fung Y. Mow acted as chairman. Theories as to the motive of the murder all coincide on the jealousy of Leon Lilng. That he killed the girl becaure of her apparent friend ship for Chu Gain, who is still de-, ~aned as a material witness, is the predominant belief. In support of this explanation. Mirs. Florence Todd. one of the most piominent women workers in China town. who knew Elsie Sigel and her :nother intimately, said: " knew Chu Gain, who is underj mrrrest, very well. He is one of theI ew Chinamen whom I would trust wth my life. Mrs. Sigel and Elsie ilso knew him for many years. They were introduced to hIm through an 2ncle of his. 'I believe that Elsie was in love rth Chu Gain and would have mar ied him, but that he -.ould not mar y h er.' Here Mrs. Todd went into the most inifcant -part of her statement. hat bearing on Leon Ling. She "Within the last year. despite her ove for Chu Gain. Elsie became ap-. >arently infatuated .with Leon Ling. 3ut I know it was only a flirtation.' je. I know, asked her to marry him. mt she refused him. In fact, she old me that she refused him. Her 2other knew all about it' Despite b-- statement. Mrs. Todd aid she was not inclined to believe hat Leon committed the murder. nd she went on to relate that she ad a dream that Elsie Sigel had mmitt.-d suicide. Chu Gain, she :-i. came to her on the morning t June 14. five days after the mur .is supposed to hare been comn ut.d and told her that be. too,. ad ad a dream. In this dream. ti bu Gin. according to Mrs. Todd. t :d:ed S*Dthe form of the girl, appear store him crying. "Chu. save me. his seemed to worry the Chinaman eeatly. because ElsIe was missing ato Explosion on Launch. At Columbia mn accident marred e launching of the ;tasoline launch i (Clrvana" Friday afternoon. A' atch flame caused the explosion of pp!zed gastline and several of e part in th" boat were painful- n huned. includin;: Messrs. William i rr. S. IB. McMurray. .Jr. Tor-'l DON'T BLAME FATE At YOUR FAILL'RES AND SHORTCOMINGS LN LIFE. 'e May Not Ma.ster Destiny Entirely. But We May Play a Part in Shap ing Our Life. Occasionally you run upon a man ho will teli you that he is a help ss creature in the hands of fate namex through any action of his wn to change his destiny. And ius he would account for all his :ortcomings. his failures and his weliciencies. Fatalism is a one ded philosophy. The fatalist be evt s that everything is arranged. redestined. ordered from the be inring of creation-that he is a awn in the great chess game of fe. and that nothing he may do rill in the least alter his future. Success will change this belief. ,.-t him acquire money or reputa ion and he becomes convinced that ,e did influence fate, after all: that .e managed. by the exercise of re arkable will power, to modify des iny, to struggle in the grasping and of fate until he influenced its aovement. Le't him continue through life as failure, and he is still a fatalist till persuaded that he has been the port of circumstances, the victim of nvi ronment-unable to change the owward course that he has fol owed through his shiftless, useless areer. When we look upon the great tide f humanity sweeping past us we an see excuses for the position of he fatalist. The b'ustering poet vho shouted that he was the master if his fate. the captain of his soul. vas more fond of words than of hought. All of us are to a large extent n the hand of fate. We are in luenced by environment, by asi ocia ion. by birth, by Inherited habit. The crow cannot learn to slug. ior the glow worm to fly. Lacking he artist's eye. a man cannot make L cartoon. Lacking the musican's ar, he cannot become a violinist. What our destiny is we are not >ermitted to see. We may crudely predict the future, basing our pre lictions upon the past. None can rortell it with any degree of ac :racy. Beyond the fact that we are part >f a great plan and a mighty pur >ose. we know little. It is incon eivable that a man can brag who as ooked upon a mountain or a hunder storm. or that any one can be satisged with himself and his achievements who has read the his lory of even a brief span of the pro gress of civilization. Ambition often carries one far ang the road to achievement; often it is thwarted by some trifling cir emstance or accident. Fortunes, piled rup by patient toil. are frequently swept away in an hour. Tomorrow keeps its secrets. We may guess at them; we can never know them till tomorrow comes. But no man, however firm he fan ces is his belief in fatalism, will stand in the path of a street ear. !eaving to fate to decide whether he shall be run over or not. Circumscribed as we are by en rronment and ,,circumstanc. every nan is given tire opportunity to guide his own career, to play a really im portant part in his own destiny. Fatalism, were it generally accept ed, would block all progress. Man cannot be like the lilies of the field. and take no thought as to what he shall eat or wherewithal he shall be :lothed. All about him are millions of oth er men, each eagenly seeking food and clothing, and possessed of nough selishness to take more than their share if they are permitted to. We cannot live, open-eyed, in the world without learning that industry brings toad and shelter, and that bhought brings advancement. We cant.ot study the lives of great en without becoming convinced that they would never have been reat had they left the matter en :irely to the disposal of fate. Indeed, It has been fighting fate :hat has developed the greatness in hem-rsing undiscouraged out of alure after failure, and learning oomethng from each failure, that at ast enabled them to turn failure to success. In a poem which will last as long is there is language. Thomas Gray a'ull many a gem of purest ray serene. The dark, unfathomed caves of ocean bear. ull many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. ome village Hamden. who with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields with stood. ooe mute, Inglorious Milton may here rest, Same Cromwell, gu!iltless of his country's blood. Those two stanzas hare done as uch mischief in the world as any nes that have ever been penned by poet.I Scattered throughout humanity on will find countless "gems of urest ray serene." who fancy tnat' 1ey are hidden by the "dark, un-I ithomed caves"~ of environment. There is scarcely an unrecognized iter who does not think he Is rsting his sweetness on the desert1 ."or a verse maker languishin;g obscurity who is not convinced at he is a "mute. inglornous Mil "We are in the band of fate." ey sigh. "bidden by blanketing livio. denied the opportunity to try our message to humanity. bich will continule on its heedless 3a. eer suspecting our existence." Tomas Gray would have himself en a "mute.jf inglorious Milton."~ he hadl permitted that sort of1 jvance to possess him.1 Gray ad talent, and that talent ss long unrecognized. But he wasi t he ort to submit tamely to be- I wallowed up in any dark un h omed cave.I TELLS OF PERIL CL~MWY OPPOSE GIRLS WORK ING AMONG CHINESE. They Say 'Publication of Number of Miionaries Ruined by Their Pu piLs Would Shock Country." The bruta: murder of Miss Elsie Sigel. a young missionary in New York City among the Chineee of that city, by some of the people she was trying to lead to the light of the gospel. has created a great sensa tion among all clasw-av of people. The New York World has inter viewed a number of leading New York ministers. including the Rev. D. Asa Ulackburn of the Church of the Strangers. Dr. Blackburn is a former Columblan and brother to the Rev. Geo. A. Blackburn. pastor of the Second Prrsbyterian church of that city. The World says: *Any mission plan that calls for a white girl for every Chinese is atro clous.' said the Rev. D. Asa Black burn of the Church of the Strangers. "I have always been sternly opposed to it. When Dr. Deems was alive this church, in common with many others. undertook work with the Chinese. but in the 15 years of my ministry we have had none of it. Members of my church who develop ed Interest in that direction have had to offer their services to outside missions. I think that interest has subsided among my parishioners. "Yet many good people believe in the sort of mission work of which the tragic episode now in the public mind is a natural result. It is quite useless to argue with such people that a Chinese is no more en titled to special instruction than is an Italian or other foreigner who come here ignorant of English. We do not give a girl Instructor to every Italian who comes among us. and we ought not to hold out that induce ment to Chinese. All the same, it is done and it will be done. A way should be found to stop it. --If the World would employ its great facilities for gathering news to obtaining a list of the mission girls ruined by Chinese whom they were teaching it would perform a service for which all the churches would be supremely grateful. There have been enough cases of that kind to fill an entire page in the paper. That list would be read everywhere as an awful object lesson in depravi ty. I believe its publication would so shock the country as to correct the evil at which it would aim. Nothing short of some such exposure will stop it. The people need to be hor riied. I shall be in sympathy with any measure. however shocking. to save our young women from a con tinuance of this infamy, and with what feeble force I have I will speak for It." Train Kills Autoit. Glenn H. Dobbs. aged 46, of Lin coIn avenue. Collingswood, N. 3.. was Instantly killed when an automobile. which he was driving was struck and demolished by an express train on the West Jersey and Seashore railroad, at Ferry avenue and City line. Camden Wednesday. came to him one evening as he medi tated upon the lives and deaths of the obscure vIllagers in as country hamlet He knew that he could make a great poem of it. But he was unsuccessful at first He could not do justice to his sub ject. Ant- ior seven years he toiled over that poem, writing, rewriting, re jecting whole stanzas, trying every word until he found those which expressed 'the exact shade of his meaning. Three verses which would distin guish any other poem ever written he deliberately omitted, after ex pending great labor In writing them. They are verses of much charm and beauty, but he finally so altered the poem that he found no plag~e for them, and only by 'accident were they preserved and handed down to posterity. Read them, ani judge of the great nes of a poet who could write such lines and be content to deny him self forever, as he thought the credit of creating them: Him have we seen, the greenwood side along. As o'er the heath we bled, our labor done, What time the woodlark piped her evening song With wistful eyes, pursue the set ting sun. Hark! how-the sacred calm that! broods around Bids every fierce tumultuous pas sion cease. In still, small accents, rising from: the ground, A greatful, earnest of eternal peace. There, scattered oft, earliest of the; year, By unseen hands were showers of' violets found. The redbreast loved to build and warble there, And little footsteps lightly print' the ground.I But for the tremendous toil he bestowed upon his poems Gray! would have been numbered among the thousands who think that they feel the fingers of fate closing about them so tightly that they can only resign themselves to a life of use lesesss. Hie had talenit. to begin with, but his talent 'ouila have been of no; se to him had he not also had in dury and enough courage to toil In the face of discouragement, and until it brought him success. The braggart, crying that he is master of his fate, boasts Idly ands a-ithout reverence. But even he is better than the weak, listless creat Ire who drifts with the tide of cir- - o mstance. whining that he cannot .a help himself: that he is powerless to : 'esist the forces that carry him downb tream, and that, sent weak mItO e 'he world, it is the fault of his~ haker if be makes a wreck of his i n life and brings sorrow to those rho have a right to expet help and p FREE LUMBER E enator Tillman Explains His Lumber Votes 4f4 )ON'T WANT IT TAXED rhe Senator Say% a Duty on Lumber Only Helps the Lunber Trust. bt Wich Has Bought Up -111 the Timber Lunds in the State, and Rubs the Farmers and Others. d< We present below Senator Till nan's remarks in the United States fa Senate on iast Monday on the lum Lter schedule. in which he explains is position on that question. There has been a great deal said about the w Senator voting agaInst free lumber a: Read what he says below and you p: will see that the Senator has alwayb w b-e'n in favor of free lumber as we s have claimed: Mr. Tillman-Mr. President. be- ir tore the lumber schedule passes from u the attention of the Senate, I want 0 to make a brief statement. When p it was in the Senate before, two or t1 three weeks ago, I voted for the n amendment proposed by the Senator ti from Alabama tMr. Johneon) to put lumber and all building materials i on the free list. In the discussion I - remarked that I was In favor of a free lumber. When the Senator from ii North Dakota (Mr. McCumber) of- t, fered an amendment, which did not t give us free lumber. leaving the duty I on whitewood, sycamore and bass- i wood at 50 cents a thousand, i voted 1 against Zt. because it did not give t us free lumber. The Senate adjotirn- c ed immediately afterwards, giving I me no opportunity to vote for free lumber. There has been no oppor tunity to vote for free lumber. There c has been no amendment proposed for s free lumber today. Mr. McCumber-The Senator will I recall that some time ago I intro duced an amendment for free lum ber, and .it was defeated. Mr. Tillman-I was not present. Mr. McCumber-Oh, yes; it was argued here for days and then de feated by a 7ery decisive vote. Mr. Tillman-If the Senator will 4 look at the Record. he will see that he did not offer any amendment for free lumber. but only one for "sawed lumber not specially prov'.ed for.' and so forth, leaving in the bill 50 I cents a thousand on bass wood. syci more, and so forth. Mr. McCumber-I did not change that, it is true. Mr. TillmAn-I voted against the McCumber amendment.' It was de feated by a very decisive vote. 55. I think, or something like that. to 30. or around there. I still think we 4 ought to have free lumber, and I will give my experience and my reasons for that belief. I know, of course. we can not get it. Twelve years ago, when the Ding ley bill was on its passage. I voted for a $2 tariff on lumber, and re marked, very much to the disgust of some people and the edification of1 others. "it there was to be stealing. I want my share." I have found out that I can not get my share: that the conditions of the South are such that the artIcles and products of the region which are capable of be in~g protected are so few in number that if we were to throw around everything down there a hig~h pro tective tariff, we would not get any thing like a proportionate benefit with the New England and manufac turing States of this Union. In regard to this matter of lum ber I hia~e watched the rerult of the duty. Immediately afterwards our timber lands, which 'nad previously been neglected so there were com parativ'ely small lumberIng industries down there, began to be in demand. Men from WIsconsin and MIchigan and other northern States where lumbering had practically denuded the forests of timber, or were about to finish them up. came into the State and bought up very large tracts of timber at a very small price. They did this all over the South. Large mills were e'stablishled and the lum bering Industry began to pick up. showirg investment of capital and a large export. At the same time the price began to rise, a little fast er, apparently. tian the industry it self. Now. consider for a moment that 'he people of South Carolina are a ia about this shape: the State being a tri~ngle. thr' upper part cutting off ik'e the letter "A" is largely the white section of the State. Nearly to-?t'dsj of the peple. altho-igh It is only one-third of the area, live a :here. They are consumers of !-::n ber and 'hey have no yellow pine or '-er.y little. They' have been .um -:.ri~it that lumber -'rom the lowee a half of counties next to the sea, and that region is occupied almost whol ly by the n egores: that is, the ne-~ groes outnumber the whites in Beau fort county, for instance. 10 negroes h to 1. Colleton 7, Georgetown 7. Wil- t. liamsburg 4. Sumter 6. and so on. In this coast region the lumber in dustry has taken root and is now_ very extensively carried on. I notice after three or four years i of this introduction of lumber on et an extensive scale that the price went I ' steadily up, up. and it very soon ; became noised abroad. I do not 'a ~now on what foundation, that these g umber men had formed a combina- in :ion and they would not sell under Isa ~ach other to the consumers in the p .pper part of the State. t Lumber is not a luxury. It is a c '-ee-siy. It is one of the neces- b .artes of l!fe. Whe'n I saw that the armers. who had to build housesle d f,-ne's and hamns in the whole in rppr country. were being charged I eadly inc:reasing prices for their e umber. I began to change my opin- Da on as to whether I was getting miy i bare of the st.-anrg or not. It look- ha d like son2.bod-- not very far away u ras getting an unreasonable profit men ut of our trees. which had cost them u very smia: sum of money relative rSo my opinion in regard to the ':0 enefits of the :ariff in our State for anged very radicaily. 'he I believe in tne greatest good to e 2 greatest number: and w-hen I D w that the peopl- who uso' lumber. a ractically four-fifths of them, we're noe IUSINESS FARMING HAT THE EDITOR OF THE S(-WTIERN CULLIVATOR. orgia's Leading Agricultural Paper Saw on a Recent Visit to South Carolina. lie says we have the following asses of farmers in the South: 1. Farmers who inherited their ::. Farmers who can not do other uds of business. Farin-rs who like the free m and ease of the country. 4. Farmers who are poor rent s and must make a living for their milies. 5. Negro farmers. 6. A few business farmers. In our travels over the country E end now and then a few who e making farming a business roposition. and are going at it th the same energy: with the Lme push and with the same sound rinciples that they would exercise , any other calling. These men are sually engaged in other lines, and ur regular country farr.zers are rone to disparage the success of e6e men. claiming that they spend iore than they make. Sometimes ils Li true, and sometimes not. On a recent trip to South Carolina re visited two such farmers and re want to tell you a few things bout one of them. While in Co mbia we went out to the asylum a see Mr. J. W. Bunch. the efficient rasurer and farm manager. Mr. lunch was elected treasurer of this stitution several years ago. and be duties of farm manager has een gradually assumed on account ,f his natural love for farming and is peculiar fitness for it. When Le took bold of the farm of a Dout 60 acres lying within the city limits > Columbia this farm was not self ustaining. By chargIng the farming to all abor. fertilizers and other expenses nd then crediting it by the pro luce grown at regular prices. he leared on this farm last year 320, 100. His gross proceeds were $32. 100. His labor bill $9.000. He grew [1.000 bushels of corn, averaging 2 bushels per acre. We were shown ne crib containing 5.000 bushels! >f ear corn. such a sight we had ever seen before. They bad 175 iead of dairy cattle and about 75 iead to kill. They were all fat and Ine. You ought to see the manure hey make and the two madure preaders putting it over the Land rhis was how he grew such crops >f corn. Mr. Bunch has two of the largest ilos we have ever seen. He cuts tlI the corn stalks into silage. Some ill want to discount Mr. Bunch's 'fforts by saying he has the State's noney to back him. But if you will to there he will show you every tem of expense and also each item >f credit. Mr. Bunch's success for ver refutes the statement that you -an not grow corn in the South at profit. Seventy-two bushels of corn >er ecre is much more profitable than rould be a bale of cotton per acre. Bulletin Bubbles. Exclusive circles - engagement -ings. The summer girl often dismisses fellow In a summary manner. The dressmaker does more than he doctor to make some women look The summer man who never pops s not likely to be at all popular. It is a pretty poor detective that s afraid of his own shadow. No woman is original enough not o say. "Where am I?" when she omes out of a faint. It is always the seat of discord rhen some people get sat down up The person who Is too heavy hink regretfully of the light of other Even the baker might be boiling tand when on a Cook's tour. You might say that the "bearded romans claim to having whiskers a bear-faced lie. Don't ask for panned* velvet in he tin goods department. SI ever got a chance I would take bat tariff ~. That Is all there Is bout it. '1do not feel 'that it is my busi~ess here to protect the in ustry of lumber which perhaps. in oles the Interests of 50.000 good nd worthy peopile, as against the 0,.000 equaily good and worthy eople who have to use lumber, and e would not be saved from an ex rbitant price, because. I think, those cople formed a combination and greed that they would not under l each other. The only reason why we were able, r will be able, to get lumber at reasonable rate was due to the ct that there were some old field inc second growth left in the up rpart of the State and small tches. or small areas two or three ndred acres or 50)0 acres, al! rough in the middle lower region tat the lumbermen had not bought could not buy at the high pric-cs -4 maan the great lumber compa es. with their raillrads. and an at sort of thing, running out into e swm.- The o-zy r.:aso". wby *e upper-country p-'ple couldi get mnber at decent prices was because little one-horse sawmill. costing .500 or at most $2.000). would go to these little patches of pine and w the timber up and furnish the opie this necesary. as against ~ ee great combinations of I pital which had absorbed our tim- d I have felt that it was my privi. - pto explain whby I am apparently t contradition with myself. because voted agtainst the aimendme'nt of ed by the Senatcr from North I kota Mr. .McCumnbr . IHaviny P :ted that I wanted fra- lumber. 1 ving had no chance to get free nber. I still am against th'- amend- " nt. because it did not offer free II That is al! I want to say. I did '- to.1appear 'o he at war with r T wei!. nor do I say this h.wause of a R -hue and cry raised in some qu'ar- !1 s that I have not stood on the :nocrati platform. I am here as it Democrat. - TI my Dlemoc-acy 'is B above suspic-ion I do not want sc ROP LAST YEAR ome Interesting Fgures About the Cotton ROP OF THIS STATE 'he Number of Bales Produced and Aggregate Value of the Same. Acreage for the Past Year was Largest in History of the State. Other Facts. According to Agures by Commis ioner Watson the 1908 cotton crop vas 1.242.012 running bales. Includ ng linters and uea island or, proper y. exclusive of linters 1.215.848 )ales. comprising 8.8 per cent of the :otton ginned in the Cnited States. rhe production exceeded that in 1907 )y 52,991 bales. South Carolina ias now fallen to 1ifth place, her rourth place attained in 1907 being taken by Alabama. It is estimated by Mr. Watson that there are 3,380 bales still unginned. The average weight per bale was 483 pounds against 481.2 pounds in 1907. Sea island bales weighed on the average 351.8 pounds and linters 470.6 pounds. The South Carolina sea Island sold in 1908 at an average of 23.39 cent6 per pound. while that grown in Georgia and Florida averaged 17.92 cents. In 1906 South Caroll na's average price was 36.70 cents. and in 1907 35.5 cents, these being the best prices since 1901. This year it was lower than in 1902 or in any year In the seven year yield. The South Carolina crop was ginned in 3,481 ginneries, about the aver age number. The aggregate value of the South Carolina crop was $61.964,522. against $72.657,817 in 1907 and $49.888,619 in 1906. The 1908 crop was the most valuable In money the State has ever had save the two crops of 1907 and 1905. According to Mr. Watson. of act ual cotton linters the total value for 1908 was $52.329.430. represent ing 553,762,491 pounds of upland worth $51.167,654. 4,967.190 pounds of sea island, worth $1.161.S26. Of cottonseed there were 521.659 pounds. worth $9,635,042. the larg est value since 1901 with the ex ception of the 1907 crop. The acreage was the largest in the history of the State-2,545,000. the next largest being 2.531.875 in 1904. Since 1904 more than 2.000, 000 acres have been regularly planted ir. cotton. Anderson. with 63.183 bales, con tinues to be the chief producing coun t'. having assumed the lead when Calhoun was cut from Orangeburg. Spartanburg. Marlboro'Mork, Masrion and Greenville, Darlington ad Sum er are the otner chief pr'oducer-. The stocks on hand in Sotuth Car olina on March 1 amounted %. 427, 763 bales. of which 220.429 were in the hands of the manufacturers and 126.285 in independent warehouses. including compresses. The rest was in the hands of transportation com panies. The mills of 'ho State are consum ing 793,396 bales of cotton annually. turning out product worth about 377.000,000. The yield per acre in 1908 in the State was 219 pvounds, versus a l10 year average of 189. It Is estimated that the acreige planted this year (1909) is 2.498, 000 against 2,545,000 in 1908, but the real acreage Is probably about the same as last year. Cotton on March 1, 1908. was bringing on the average In South Carolina 9.2 cents while at the same date the preceding year 1: was bring ing the average price of 11 cents. Mr. Watson in making the estimate has issued the following statement: "In making the 1908 estimate for the Association or Southern Commis sioners of Agriculture as early as November 24 1 used the figures furn ished by each Southern commission er, while mentioning the fact that if conditions after that date remain ed the same as to the picking and ginzning as the average for the pre ceding four seasons we ought to hare a crop of at least 13,234,157 bales. Assuming that the conditioni gave every estimate on the date named at 1:.551.086 running bales, exclu sive of linters, or including linters, at practically 13.000.000 bales-to be exact 12.897.212 bales. The actual crop exclusive of linters with everything accounted for was 13, 086.005 bales, under which our No remiber estimate fell 534.919 bales. This difference is almost exactly ac counted for by the underestimates furnished the committee from the four States of Georgia. Texas, Ar cansas and Alabarna. which we w ish d to but did not feel authorized to raise. Had we done so we would ave struck the final crop almost :o a bale." Labor World. A Hebrew local of the typographi ~al union IS to be formed In Boston, lass. A pplication has been made to the L. F*. of L. for a charter from the trotherhood of Railroad Signal Men. The secretary of the South Wales oal Owners' Association has given otice of a five per cent reduction in rages. The unemployed colliers in South I.ales are so numerous that 3.000 ounds was voted to relieve their ist ress by the federation. A referendum rote is being taken y the Theatrical Stage Employes on se question of founding a monthly agazine for the order. San Francisco. Ca!.. Stablemen's nion has decided to start a cam ainr for the unionizing of all men ithe stables of the city. Three~ Kinross (Scotland) miners ere each fined $10 or thirty days' ,prisonment for having matches in eir possession in a colli.'ry. Winnipeg. Canada. ele'ctric street lway offers an increase of a ce'nt hour to employes who have b'een enty-five years in their serrice. Concerted effort is to be made at e New Orleans convention of the -otherhood of Railway Clerks 'o cure next ye:ar's meeting for Mem