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WRECK IS FOUND VAl of Schme DtI& PaMW MWh NU sa... &AKa Near Beste iarber CLARS UP A MYSTRY The Caputn and the Entire Crew of Eleven Men Went Down With the Palmer--Aother Disaster Added to the Long Lit of Those Caused By the Storm. The wreck of the ve-masted schooner Davis Palmer was located Tuesday morning just outside of De vil's nank buoy. north of Commis sioners Ledge. at the entrance to Broad Soun.. Boston harbor. The big vessel lies submerged. but the mast heads project from the water. It is thought that the Palmer touch ed a shoal spot early Sunday morn ing. the seas during the terrie storm sweeping the decks clear and carry ing the crew of twelve men to their death. The Palmer was bound from New .port News for SostOn. with a cargo Of coal, and carried a crew of twelve men. The vessel lies in the channel. and is a dangerous menace to other vessels. The loss of the Palmer be came known Monday when wreckag* bearing her name was found on Pull Beach. The discovery of the wreck or the Palmer was followed by the re port-of another wreck in the outer harbor. This second victim of the great storm, which swept New Eng land Saturday night and Sunday. wa reported by Capt. Kemp. of the tug .ArI. who asserts that he saw three of a schooner projecting above tMe water near the shoals known as e-the graveS." Ailthough Capt. Kemp locates the Vewa-l three miles east of the wreck of the Palmer, some marine authori ties think that he may have been mistaken In his bearings. an8 that he saw the Palmers masts. Saearing men. who believe that the tug boat captain is not in error about his bearings, are dUssine the possibility of a collIsIon between the Palmer and the unknOwn schoonl er. Probably the last person to see the Palmer before she sank.was Capt Sook-mtx, of the barge B4VkCOS which. ocked 'at Lynn from Mobo ken. He reported passing the Palm er off Cape Cod late Christma after noon- At that time the Palmer's sailors were on deck singing and cel ebrating the holiday In true sea-fash ion. aU unknowing of the fate that awaited them within a few hours at the entrance of their home port. .eday's roll of wrecks was in crea.sed Wednesday. The schoone: Ada K. Damon. the sole supporo of -her aged master, Capt. A. K. Brew ster. of T..rk. Maine. w.:nt ashor' near Ipswich. She will probably b' a total loss. Her crew managed tC reach shore safely. In Chelsea. where a tidal wav4 broke a dyke and flooded the homes of 2,000 people, a high tide opened two new breaks. M(any of the cellan on higher ground which had bee: pumiped out by fire engines weri again flooded. It will be weeks be fore the people in the eighty. acres which are under water every higi tide. will be able to return to their homes. -~ TRAINS CRASH. * Fe Trainmen Die in Bailroad .iqa -In Indians. -Five trainmen were kiled ad twi were fatally hurt Monday In a head on freight collission - on the Balti more and Ohio Southwestern railroad near Fort Rmtner. Ind. The dead are: Lwrence Amich. engineer; J- L Rott and Jacob Emly, firemen: Fin by Lee and Frang Hattabaugh, brakemen, R. 3. Conley, brakeman, and Frank M. Walls, engineer. weri faetl hurt. The trains met on i sharp curve, apparently because 01 minderstandinlg of orders. Loco motives and cars were swinded and their wreckage was piled high. The Injured suffered terribly in the cold before help reached them. WALL OP ff7ORE PALIB. The Frost of Building at Blshopvflie Tumbles Down. Saturday about two o'clock in the afternoon the front of two stores occupied by the McLeod Drug com pany and J. D. Hill furniture store. at Bishopville, fell to the sidewalk. This front wail which was about ten feet high gave way and fell with out any cause apparently other tha's ~%~&itewind which was blowing. Fortunately no one was on the side walk near and therefore no damage was done other than to the building Itself. Had it fallen at any time the day before, Christmas eve. it prob ably would have killed and injured a score or more people as the sidewalk was crowded all that day with the Christmas. shoppers. . Didn't Knuow 'Ibeir Danger.. Fire was discovered in the hold of the White Star liner Celtic Wednes day when the vessel was four days out from Ne-w York. When the liner arrived at LUverpool Tuesday. the fire was still burning but Its presence was unknown to the 400 passengers aboard. The flames started in hold ix, filled with cotton bales. Above deck there was no evidence of any thing unusual. The hold has been flooded. Pinchot score Interst. Giord Pinchot. chief lorester of e nied States, declared in a seech at New Yoric Monday before a number of prominent publishers at the Univerlty club that special in trest have made repeated attacks on he United States forest service and these attacks have increase'l in v.a lnce just in proportini as the ser rie has offered effective coppositio&' to predatory wealth. ' B-glr Shot. 'While attempting to force an en trace ito the home of C. M1. Donald at Lexington. Ga.. on Tuesday night. Jim Nelson and Harley Smith were LEFF HIS WF AND CHILD IN COLUMBIA FOR ANOTHER WOMAN. J. Thomas Franklin. Clatming to Represent a Church Paper. Wanted on Serious Charge. The State says that J. Thomas Franklin. a former resident of Col umbia, is wanted there to answer to a charge of wife desertion. and Sher !ff W. H. Coleman Tuesday sent re quests to officers In a number of cities. which will doubtless result in his speedy arrest. A warrant issued by Magistrate T. J. Roberts and sworn out by Mrs. Mamie H. Frank lin charges the accused with the de sertion of his wife and infant child in Columbia. September 13. 1909. Franklin is. or represented himself to be. a traveling representative of The Christian Observer. a wel known religious publication issued by Con verse & Co.. of Louiscille. Ky. It is to be. a traveling representstive of desertion, he may be also con fronted with a bigamy charge as hl has married again since leaving hil wife in Columbia. It to alleged that he dame to Co umbia last September and succeedet In Inducing his wife to let him haw certain money that she'had in thi 'bank here and since that time haa not returned. Shortly after leaviw on this trip. he i said to hare mar ried again and removed his resideae to another State. - The second marriage. not harin occurred in South Carolina. nothina has been done on the bigamy charg, and Franklin Is wanted to answe to the charge of desertion. But thee is some indication that he has eve1 af-third wife. and that at least tw live In this State. That will mak out a csse of statutory bigamy I the facts can be established. It Is also said that he h's been criminal before, and wili not be i1 the toils for the Irst tim'. havi* served two terms In the pefitentiar for forgery. Representing such well known publicat-in as The Chrii tian Observer. which has been fa many years a visitor to -umerou Christian homes. indicated' that h was above reproach and the news c the warrant issued in Columbia wi be a surprise In many parts ot th] State and elsewhere where he is sul posedly well known. Sheriff Colo man Tuesday communicated wit Converse & Co.. telling of the charg against their representative. CHECKS FOR ANY AMOUNT. Thre is no United States I.w P hibiting You. Draw your check for ten centi if you hzve the money, and It wi Sbe no violation of the law for th Ibank to honor it. SIt was just a tempest in a tei ipot, after all, this business about new law making It a penal offeni to draw a check for a smaller sa: than S3.. But the whole businei |has the country puzzled and ther is no doubt about that. IBut now comes an aut? ritati statement from the departs..ent < justice In Washington, maying It all wrong, and one can draw a chec for any amount they want withot - etting entangled in the meshes < the law-provided the funds are i the bank. Here is what the authorities I Washington state, In reply to a quel ry from a newspaper, the paper di siring to make the matter clear: **There is no law whatever 'prc hibiting any person from drawin a check for a sum lees than 3: He or she may draw a check on bank or similar institution for te cents If desired. "The uncertainty which has artV en In the public mind on this poiz arises no doubt from the fact tha when the criminal code was cod, fled, and approved by the last cot gress, section 178. which had bee in ezistance for mere than 45 years was amended. This section applie to fractional currency, which ha not been 5ssued for very many yeas In fact, ceased a few years ate the clos0 of the eIVIl war. Th amendment has no reference what ever to present banklng custom: The Uited States government ha no objection to any person drawin a cheek fb.- as small an amount les than S1 as he may desire." ATTACKED BY A PIEKD. Brave Youg Womaa Faced Death te Save Her Homor. With both feet so frozen that the probably will have to be amputate< and suffering from shock. Miss Nelli< Strayer, twenty-two years old, Is a the home oif an uncle in Eau Clair !Eutler county. Pa.. following a des perate experience in which she bray ed death to save her honor. The young woman arrived at Par ker station during the night and en gaged a young man to drive her t< her uncle's home. Instead the maz drove in an opposite direction, an< when in an Isolated spot attacke< Miss Strayer. After a fight in which she says shi was divested of nearly all her cloth ing. Including her shoes, she escapec and fled down a hill. through deei snow to the river. After wanderina around all night she was discovered in the morning and given aid. Offi cers are searching for a young mat who is said to have disappeared fron his home in Parkers. iHorse sandl Mules Burned. The barn and stables of 3. D. Moore. near Cokesbury. were burned Thursday night, together with 26 head of horse and mules, all his corn, forage, wagons and agricultur al implem.-nts. The loss is estimated at about $10.004. The mules prob ably cost $200 each. The barn and stables were new and very large, the building being 200 by 60 feet and three stories high. There was only $500 insurance on the building, and nothing on the stock. Kills His~ Rival. A few inuates following the mar riage to Miss Rose Butler. Gabriel Len. a farmer, was shot and killed by Joe Jackson. a rejected suitor. near T-on. Ga2 m' Wadneay. RFICN OF GRAFT New York Jurist Dedares That Patrisic Age Is No Mere. DOLLAR USURPS HOMAGE Supreme Court Justice Wesley 0. Howard. of New York, in an Opia ton Reducing Compensation Com misioners. Declares that Graft is a Product of Our Times. "The age of patriotism has yield ed to the age of commercialism. U-ppermost in the human mind today is not the Stars and Stripes, but the dollar mark." Such was the declaration of Su preme Court Justice Wesley 0. How ard. of New York. in an opinion Tuesday reducing the compensation of members of a commission appoint ed to appraise damages to property resulting from the construction of Ashokan reservoir in Ulster county, which is to furnish a water supply for New York city. "While the commission furnishes avenues for the reckless escape- of many dollars. there are other chan nels of leakage as wastefully appall Ing." said the judge. "It is greatly to be regretted that no public enterprise can be projec! and consummated without this ap palling loss, called 'graft.' Graft h not necessarily an Illegal expendi ture of money. but it is that unnee. essary wasteful use which character ises the construction of every publli venture. At least 40 per cent.-of al the money appropriated for publi use is lost in graft. All could b possible if this frightful leak coul be stopped-roads. canals, libraries asylums and hospitals. L "Graft is a product of our time ) and instItutions. It is, the peopl1 9 who are responsible. They expee F 'graft.' and even spoil and booty. t4 leplete their resources whenever an: great undertaking is ventured b. r them: and then look with complac 5 ence and toleration and indifferene ' at ravages upon their property. Graf ,fis as much an element to be reckon I ed with In computing the cost of i 8 public structure. as is cement o lumber. It has come to be a matte of course-this rake-off-a loss re b cognized by all who make estimate of cost in such cases. A public struc tare built honestly would be freak." Justice Howard declares that th, "whole project of the condemnatdo . of the land in the Ashokan valley I characteriz.'d by waste, disorder an confusion." Ni EW POST CARD8 eAre Now on Sale and May be Ha< - at AlU Offees. e Distribution was commenced Fri n day of the new design postal cards s and it is likely that they were pv e on sale in many postoffces Nel Year's Day. e While the new card bears a hea f of McKinfey. a better likeness C s the late president has been selecte k and the border design has been its t proved. f On the new small card. intende a for index purposes and for socia correspondence. the head of Lincoli a will appear. The two-cent intel -national postal card will bear a por - trait of Gen. Grant. The double or repiy card will con - tainx a new feature. On the origina ; message half will appear a likenes .of Gen. Washington, and the stain a on the reply halt will contain a pie 'a ture of Martha Washington. Postoffce department offelais sa: - that the borders of the stamps 01 t all the different cards will presen .t an attractive diversity of design. O0 - all the cards the words "Posta -Card." required by the Universa a Postal runion Convention, will a; . pear In the border of the stamp in i stead of a separate inscription. .POLL TAX FATAL. 8 3. J. Wemphill Misse. a Good Fe L Job for Paying It. The payment of his poll tax ib South Carolina has eost ex-Represen tative John J. HemnphiHl a $5.000 dol ' ar position in the service of the government as a commissioner of th District of Columbia. It is stated on good authority Mon Sday night that the president has de finitely decide'd not to send Mr' Hemphill's name to the senate be cause of the fact that his eligibilit: is questioned. The Star Monday night said: "The Squestion of the eligibility of John J Remphill has been decided againsi Mr. Hemphill. The president prefer. lng to do nothing that will establisi an unsatisfactory precedent thal might cause citizens of the Distric1 trouble in the future." Killed by Step-Son. At Radford. Va.. Tuesday W. L. Luck was killed by Otho Snyder, husband of his step-daughter. Luck had been drinking several days and his wife went to the home of her daughter. Mrs. Snyder Monday night. W.hen Luck appeared at the Synder residence early Friday morning and was denied admittance he began bat tering down the dpor. Synder fired two shots at Luck, both of which took effect. Luck died in a short while. Burned to Death. Legare, the three-year-old son of Postmaster Wilmot L. Harris. of Charleston. died Sunday from the re suIts of burns receiveq~d at the Christ mas tree celebration at his home. The little fellow was playing with i sparkler which was said to be safe when his clothing ignited and before the flames could be smothered. l'a gare was burned so badly that mnedi cal skill could nor avail and death came to his re'li.'t at an early hour. McauriiInK's ucreor G.NolTuesday' announced the appointment of Col. James Jordan of Oklahoma. as United States Senator from Mississippi succeeding the late Snator McLaurin. who died a few SWEPBYSORM S~ ONE OF THE WORST BLI7ZARDS A IN TWENTY YEARS. The Whole Coast Enfolded in the Grasp of the Ice King on Christ mas Day. The blizzard that started on Xmas day is said to have been one of the worst in recent years. the worst that we have had in December for a long time. The death roll is mounting high in the northern latitudes. Ship ping has suffered terribly, and among the ships to suffer is the Iriquois of the Charleston-New York lin. Here the blizzard hardly amounted to anything more than making peo- 1 ple uncomfortable and freezing water pipe. but in New York and New England. many people froze to death. communication with different parts of the country was cut off or serious ly interrupted. The United States weather bureau announced Tuesday that the snow storm had been the heaviest for De comber in nearly twenty years. Be ginning at 11 o'clock Saturday more- 1 Ing snow fell continuously for twenty four hours to a depth of more than I ten inches. The maximum wind ve locity for fire minutes in this time was fifty-eight miles an hour. The storm covered all the countr. east of the Miasissippi Valley and in creased in intensity as it moved from the interior toward the Atlantic coast. The wind blew harder and the snow fell faster in New York than anywhere-else. First Assistant Fore. caster E. 8. Nichols at the New York station. No. 100 Broadway said: "Away back on Dec. 26 and 27. 1890. we had a fall of fourteen in ches during twenty-four hours. That is the only snow fall durtm- Decem ber that compares with the present on. "The greatest snow fall on record for New York for twenty-four hours occurred on Feb. 17 ant. 18. 1893. seventeen and eight-tenths inches t fell. On Jan. 24. 1908. nine and a half inches fell. That's the only storm during recent years that com r pares with this." MADE RESTITUTION. A Mau Is Converted and Returs L Money He Had Soea. r The Hamilten. Ga.. Journal says about twenty years ago Messrs. C. H. and John A. Cook were doing bus4 ness in Hamilton under the name of Cook Brother. One day a sack con taining silver coin to the amount of at least $185.00 was mysteriously stolen from their store, every effort to recover the same proving a fall are and the money long ago given up as forever lost. Last week a letter from Mont gomery written on a letterhead of the Montgomery Bank and Trust 5company, and containing a draft drawn by this company on New York exchan'ge for $199.00. was receive-I . by Mr. C. H. Cook for the former firm. 3 Trie letter is unsigned and reads jas follows: "Montgomery. Ala.. Dec. 14. 1909. SCook Brothers. Hamilton, Ga., Dear SSirs-This money comes to you from a man who was converted under - my ministry, you will never gnow who. Nor do you know' me. This Sshows you wpat the Christian relig Sion can do. Now we owe one-tenth Sof our income to God. If you want one-tenth of this used for the Lord send it to Mr. A C. Davis. M->ntym ery. Ala. It will be applied properly. -He is not a preacher. You will never know who is sending this Smoney even though you shoumd come to know me. I pray it may be a -blessing to you spiritually. "Yors--' DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. Shoota His Mother-in-Law. His Wife admnit. - At Macon. Ga., Mrs. Martha Ezum. -who was shot hr her son-in-law. Ed ward B. Altord. Monday night, died Tuesday. the bullet. which entered the neck, resulting in complete par alysis of the body. This is the se cond death resulting from injuriei ingicted by Aiford. his wife having been shot and almost instantly kill ed at the same time he shot Mrs! Exum and himself. Doctors gave out the statement that Alford cannot live through the night. The deputy sheriff, who has tuarded him since he was sent to the hospital. was relieved from duty Tuesday afternoon, the surgeons stating that death would bar the law from Its course. STATE SUES STATE. Mach Ante Bellum History and Ci vil - War Incidents Revived. An argument bristling with antA bellum history and later incidents of the Civil War in Virginia and West Virginia. involving a claim of $50. 000.000 on b.-half of Virginia against the latter state was heard in New York Tuesday before Charles E. Lit tleeield. as special master in equity1 of the United States Supreme Court.1 The case is to determine the ques tion of the apportionment of the in ternal debt of Virginia at the time< when We-st Virginia was a part of1 the "Old Domilnion.' . A special report on the case will ultimately be filed in the U'nited States Supreme court by the master In equity. Lighthouse Burned. The Thimble Shoal lighthouse. i's lower Chesapeake bay, was burned Tuesday. The keeper of the ligh: and his family are believed to have escaped in lifeboats. The cause of i the fire Is unknown. One of thes scout cruisers lying in Hamipton a Roads sent a relief cr.-w to the scene. I Thimble light marked the shoals a'? I proaching Old Point Comfort and-i was the guide to all Chesape-ake hay I steame-rs. Holds Pos'. at Bay. At Memphis. Tenn.. .Tames V. Roach. who shot and probably fatal- g ly wounded his mother. Mrr.. Sailie a Miller. following a quarrel over a money matters. on Tuesday held p IKNS OF STORM ad Shattered Wreckage Tels of Grim Disaster at Sea VESSELS GONE TO RUIN [any Ships Am Stranded on the New England C oost and Flotwan From Big Schooner Leeds to Grave Fears for the Safety of the Crew of Twelve Men. With the news of the probable oss of the big fie masted schooner )avis Palmer with her crew of 12 nen, off Boston harbor, and the rrecking of nine other vessels along ,de Massachusetts coast, the open ng chapter of the toll taken on the iea by the great storm which swept qew England Saturday night and iunday was bared to the world on ruesday. Cape Cod is still cut off Lad with the restoration of communi ration it is feared that a tale of narine disasters and storm damage unequaled in years will be related. Wreckage borne into Boston har bor is believed to be the mute evi dence of the loss of the schooner Davis Palmer. Newport News, for Boston. somewhere near the entrance to the harbor. A signal box among the wreckage contained a burgee with the Palmer's name as also did 2 quarter-board found near. The wreck itself has not been located. The three-masted schooner Natas ket was hurled ashore at Situate and probably will prove a total wreck. Voluntee life savers with the breech es bouy rescued her crew of ten men. With a cargo of lumber she was bound for Boston from North Caro lna. The scftooner Belle Halliday is ashore at Barnt Point. Natucket. The fate of her crew is unknown, but it is believed that they have been res cued. She was from Philadelphia loaded with railroad iron. On the rock shores of Martha's Vineyard. two water-logged schoon era are being swept by every sea. They are the A. K. McLean. a British vessel, bound from Perth Amboy to Halifax. and the Stonington (Me.) schooner Maude Steward. Port Red Ing from Provincetown. The crews of both vessels have been taken off. At Provincetown the sloop Bonita is aground and in the fats of Ply mouth harbor are four small schoon era similarly distressed. The work of filing the gaps in telegraph and telephone wire sys tems and in railroad and trolley lines which bad been opened by the blizzard is proceedIng. The telegraph companies report a capacity of about 25 per cent. of the normal while the telephone and trolley line schedules were largely filled, although delays of from onehalf to three hours wera noted on railroads trains. Southeastern Massachusetts. Cape Cod's sandy peninsula particularly. and Rhode Island suffered most from the storm and are still in the most demoralized condition as far as wire and transportation service goes. Many places in southeastern Mass achusetts have not witnessed the ar rival of a train for two days. New Bedford and Fall River have been cut off from telegraphic commt~nica tIon with the outside world since Sunday morning. ERSKINE SUFFERS. Wylie House. Girls' Dormnitory, Burn ed to the Ground. The Wylie home, the dormitory for girls, on Erinkine campus at Du2 West was burned Monday morning at two o'clock and but little cf the furniture and almost no trunks wee saved. Only o"e of the boarders and the matron, Miss Belle Preqsley. were In the building at the time,. all the girls having gone of to spend the holidays. The furni'.are anud trunks on first doe' w-re all that could be taken from the barning home, and the contents of almzot every room above the stt Soo' was complete loss. This dormitory was given to Ers kin. college by Mr. Jos. Wytte. de esed, of Chester some years ago and has been made the home for girls since coeducation was accepted for Erskine. The estimated loss is $10000. with insurance amounted to about $5.000. It is supposed that a new building will in time replace this one but nothing of course is known at this hour. WILL LOSE BOTH FEEir. Tried to Walk Twelve Miles to Christma~s Celebration. Rev. W. F. Bostwick. a post graduate student at the University of Chicago. will probably lose both feet because of his courageous effort to walk miles through a driving mowtsorm last Sunday night to reach he Christmas celebration of the lit :le Baptist church at Yorkville. The attending physician at York ille says there is but slight hop.. f.saving the patient's te.-t. A pa hetic feature lies In the fact th.it be might .haile been saved great sufering had he. not been turned tway from the door of a firmr,'s ouse, at which he had appli-'i int helter and assistance after he ha-l ecome exhausted in the d.-p sno.w Lfd felt that he was freezingt.* Dragged to His Death. At Augusta. Ga.. Edward A. prings, a driver of the Augusta fire epartment. was thrown from his eat on the encine Sunday afternoon nd both wheels Dpsse~d over his edy. causing instant death. The orses balked and then lounged for ard. one of them breaking the co! ar. Springs had his hands in the rips on the lin.-s and was dragg'-d rom his seat and under th-e wheels. About thls time rougress usually ets the notion that ir it raises the id to pay the government clerks I nd distributes the usual number of ublic boijings, the country can TAIG THE ENSUS NTERVIEW WITH THE SEPEE VISOR OF THIS DISTRICT. good Men Wanted Everywbere as Enumeraaors to Ensure an Ac curate and Fair Count. "The simple test which candidates for enumerators' places will undergo February 5 does not take away the supervisors' right under the census law to designate suitable persons for such positions." said Supervisor of Census Ernest M. DuPre. of this dis trict, at his office in Columbia. S. C., recently. "It is designated to aid the super visors in the exercise of that dis cretion and to enable the Census Director intelligently to use the pow er of approval of the supervisors' designation conferred upon nim by law. "It is very well understood that President Taft. Secretary Nagel, and Census Director Durand all hold the supervisors responsible for the enu meration. There is no doubt, th-re fore, that our first and most impor tant duty is the selection of honest, capable and active persons to make the count. "The census will be takes, not by the census bureau officers or the supervisors, but by the enumerators. They are the ones who come In con tact with the people and get the facts. Unless every single enumer ator does his whole and proper duty there can not be a correct census. There can not be anything of greater scientific value to this country than accurate statistics as the basL of a study of the existing conditions re garding our population, agriculture. manufactures, and mines and quar ries. "All persons, unless specifically dis qualified, are entitled to apply to take the test. Only those under 18 years of age and over 70. and those who have not become citizens of the United States, are barred. Otherwise, all persons. regardless of sex and political affiliations, are eligible. It is left to my judgment whether it is wise to appoint wo men in my district. They can dc the work. I have no doubt, especially in certain parts of the district. There were a good many employed all over the country In the Twelfth census. "The time for closing the consid eration of applications is January 26. Those received after that date will have to be Ignored- Applications should be addressed in writing tc me at this office and not to the Con. sus Director. I will send inquirer: the necessary form and instructionw concerning it. Afterward I will send those on the list, prior t' the test, a set of directions for f1l. ing out the test papers. This wil1 enable everyone to come well pre. pared. Nothing could be fairer o: better calculated to Insure a satis factory applicant passing the test "The test itself. need not dete1 anyone. Any persons with conm': sense and a common school educa. tion can pass it. All it consistw 01 is giving the candidates sample popu lation and agricultural schedules upon which are to be written in the proper columns the required details which are found in printed descrip tions, in narrative form, of typic's families and farms supposed to be is a district. There will be setne in stances requiring the exerc:se el judgment to decide whether a give: entry should be made under om column heading or another. Yot can see how simple and elementary it is. "The test will be held all ove' the country and in every supervisor's district February 5. There will be several places in each diatrict fot taking it. One place would be in suffcient. It would not hold afl the candidates. As supervisor, I shall have the direction of all, and the test examination at each, ne matter under what offcial agency it is held, will be that sole and simple one prescribed by the Census Dl rector. "I am given until February 22 to rate the papers In a very simple way, and to gain an idea of the quaili cations of those rated as having pms ed. Next I will forward the paperi of the successful candidates, with my recommendations Or designatione, to the Census Director. He will, It satisfied that suitable persons have been selected, give his consent to their appointment, and they will be commissIoned. The middle or lat ter part of March should see every thing settled, and the selected and commIssioned enumerators will be sent more circulars and books of in structions relative to the interpre tation or meaning of the questions on the two schedules. "April 1; the Census Army will move forward in the enumeration. "'Certainly the Federal census taking is as necessary and as honor able as jury duty, and, as all good and useful citizens do not hesitate to respond to the call for:such duty. I therefore ask the same high-grade citizenship to come forward and help me have the census taken accurately and expeditiously. "As President Taft has said. the pay is not large but the work Is worth doing well, and some day we shall all fe~el proud in the conscious ness that we had a part, however humble, in taking this census."* Was" a Had Man. The death of King Leopold of Bel gium removes a man who gained an unenviable notoriety by the looseness of his private life. H-e belonged to a type of monarchs far more common a century or more ago than now. He ranked in the same class with Charles II and George IV of England and Louis XV of France. In those days public opinion was not so potent as today and kings did pretty much as the'y liked both in private and public life. Happily the standard of morals is higher now and public opinion counts for more and most kings and rthe'r rulers have to act accordingly. For this reason it is very' doubtful w~hether any country w-ill in future. tolerate a monarch such as Leo-! pold was. The world is better off sith such human monsters in their :raves. The greatest wonder Is that FRENZIED FINANCE. EEKS TO RECOVER FWE THOU SAND iOLLRS FROM Aiken Banker, Who Was to Give Ten Thousand Dollars Stock in a Bank for It. A special dispatch from Boston to the Augusta Chronicle says fren zied finance in South Carolina was described in a lurid manner in a bill in equity brought in the su perior court of that city by Waiter S. Roberts, a wealthy resident of Boston. B. Sherwood Dunn of Aik en. S. C., was named as defendant. Roberts seeks to recover $5.000 which he deposited in the C!ty Trust Company of Boston in connection with an alleged agreement entered into between himself and Dunn whereby a chain of savings banks were to be started in South Carolina. The plaintiff says that Dunn was to start the banks which were to be subordinate and connected with the Aiken Savings Bank. The- suc cess of the latter bank, Roberts al leges Dunn said, was assured be cause he could borrow money from the First National Bank of Aiken which he controlled and this bank was to be the backer of the entire chain. The bank was to begin business on October 15 last but this has not been done. Roberts claims that for every thousand dollars furnished by him he was to received from Dunn $2,000 of stock in the bink. Dunn. it is alleged. stated that the Eliot National Bank of Boston was to furnish capital for the scheme and that $2.500 was already on deposit in the Eliot National Bank in that city. These statements Roberts claims are untrue. The Aiken Eun& A 46ispatch from Aiken to Th Chronicle says Dr. B. Sherwood Dunn is vice psesident of The First Nat ional Bank which he organized in Aiken recently. The bank is capi talized at $50,000. and a paid i surplus of $12,500. The bank wa to open up for business on Septem ber 15. but the opening has beet postponed from time to time because according to statements of Dr. Dunn some of the stockholders had not yei paid up their subscriptions. The corner room In the Hotel -Aik en building has been leased for fin years and is being arranged for thi bank. Several local people are stock. holders in the First National Bank Dr. T. G. Croft Is president and Mr R. L. Gunter is cashier. The boari of directors include other local anc country business men. It Is under stood that every dollar for stoci is held biy Mr. Gunter. the cashier In connection with the First Nat Ional Bank. Dr. Dunn also secure a charter for the Alken Trust anc Savings Company. capital $100.000 Little is known here of the affal:1 of this concern as the books of sub scriptions were never open in Alken SDr. B. Sherwood Dunn is not ii Aiken at present and could not b< seen by the correspondent of I'h< Chronicle. Dr. Dunn's family is i Alken occupying their cottage. HUMAN BODIES BURNED. On the Battlefield of Rama Dowi in Nicaranga. A dispatch from Bluefield, Nicar auga. says hundreds of dead ar4 burning on the Rama battlefet Tuesday. With pathetic speed, piles of bodies have been incinerated dall: for the last few days, and reports re ceived by the provinical governmen state that the gruesome work is near ly done. Stacked like railroad ties and saturated with oil, the bodies o! the victims are set- afire. Man: children and some dead women werw found among the dead of the gov enent troops. Famine is Increasing the horror' of war in the interior of Nicarauga The situation in a score of towns ii reported to be serious. The opera tions of the Zelayan troops befor' their defeat near Ramt- by Gen. i~h trada prevented traffic in suppliei during the weeks the governmeni troops were stationed there. The drain on the country's re sources-meagre at the best in mnany distrits-made by the governmeni commissary in its futile attempts te keep the army in condition depleted the natural supplies greatly. This development is an important factor In the insurgents' fight. The people place the blame on the Zelaya and Madriz factions and advicee from the hill towns say that insur retonary spirit is rife. The situation in Blueteld is in proving under the constant labor of tbe American surgeons. Sanitation is better but suffering in the hospi tals is still .Intense. Scout parties are still bringing wounded and pris oners from Rama. A D~anger to the South. The Progressive Farmer sounds a most timely warning, in urging Its readers not to be dazzled by the pres that in planning for your 1910) gressive Famer tells Its eaders: ".Cot ton is high, but don't forget that all oher farm products are also high. Don't get swept off your feet. there foe, and go wild about cotton next sping, The average yield this year was only 1->6 poucds of lint per acre: three years ago it was 202 pounds per acre -nearly 3 1-2 per cent. more. With such a yield per acre this y.ear. w.- should have had a yield three or four million bales larger and prices corra-sponding low er. Cotton is high, but so are corn and meat and grain. Dont forger fnt high pric'e of coTtom~ The Pro crops." Wrihts Not to Fly for Trophy. A dispatch from Dayton. Ohio. says the Wright Brothers will not again contest for the Michelin cup awarded to Wilbur Wright in France over a year ago for the record long distance flight in an aeroplane. This was announced by Orville Wright. who added that for some tie the Wrights will make . no flghs at all. When they begin. again Orville said. it nill be in Flor ida where they expet to have an aviation cours'. Life is a checkerboard, on which Tr., m r.. UW d Fat-e d6m Are hi eL THE CARS ARE BURNED Locomotive of a Rock Island Pas segW Train Plough. Over an Fmbankment. Carrying Paaseuger Coaches and Sleepers . With It, Fire Then Bresking Out. Three persons were killed and 45 Injured Friday by the derailing and partial burning of a westbound Rock Island passenger train south of Tren Eon, Mo.. which probably was caus ed by spreading of the rails. While the train was running at a high speed the locomotive and tender plunged over a five-foot embankment. dragging two baggage cars, car and a standard sleeptMg car with them. While passengers In the wrecked cars were struggling to escape from the debris fire started from the re boik. The splintered cars burned rap idly a* the three slain passengers were partly burned. Scores of per sons were rescued as the ames were scorching their clothing or. burning their flesh. David Siegel, of Cleveland. 0.. wai held by the wreckage for an hour while the fire burned within a few feet of him, but was eventually rescued, although he may lose an arm. Heroic rescues were numerous. Men and women who escaped un harmed. rushed into the burning wreckage to rescue the less fortunate passengers. The train was derailed at 8.40 a. m.. while passing through a stretch of ice-covered country at high speed. The huge engine, a standard Pull man sleeper and the tourist sleeper caught fre and were destroyed, and a portion of the chair car was burn ed. The Pad inclu*e two women whose bodies were taken from the chair car. Most of the injured also were In this car. All the passengers in the burned Pullman escaped. and aside from bruises and slight cuts, none of these were hurt. The number of those who lost their lives in the tourist car Is Iu doubt. None Is known positively to nave escaped from this car, and, It Ist, believed all of Its passengers were cremated. Those passengers and members of the crew who escaped injury Ime diately went to work to aid the in jured. Many were draff-d from the I chair car. while those In the burn i lg Pullman generally escaped una .ssted. The flames that attacked. the Etourist- sleeper burned fiercely, forc ling back the rescurers, and they stood lay in the Ice and snow, pow I erless to render aid.. The cause of the wreck Is not knowi. The engine suddenly jump ed the track and plowing through the road bed landed upside down. 50 feet from the tracks. Following closely came the mall and baggage cars. These two cars doubled ahead Ipast the engine. Both were badly smashed. Ohn Through Window. The first shock of the wreck over, passengers began clambering through 1windows while farmers living near by ran to the scene. Men entered the burning chair car and dragged half-stunned and bledng' passeng ers to safety. From beneath the wreck of the engine other rescuers dragged the body of Fireman rLininger, burned and mangled almost beyond recogni tion. When the wrecking train arrived from Trenton, the cars on each side * of the three burning coaches were drawn out of the reach of the flames. The tourist and the first Pullman eere soon redueed to a pile of twist ed Iron and ashes. In the belie! that the destroyed tourist car held the bodies of pe haps a dozen or more persons, the 3iassengers that lined the tracks stood by in awed silence.* THIS STATE WRUsJA Results of ~061. W~so's Work Ia the West Appearing. South Carolina is well advertised ,throughout the West and Middle West and the office of Commissioner Watson is being flooded with letters from people of that section, who wish to invest in real estate in this State. A week ago the address of the commissioner before the Nation al Farm Land congress was publish ed in one of the largest papers in Chicago and other Middle West 'ities. Since the publication, many letters have been received. "I read your speech in one of the Chicago papers," says one of the letters. "and I had no idea of the great resourc es of the South, and especially of south Carolina. "I intend to locate in the South. - and I don't believe that I could iftii L better State than South Carolina. Please send me Information as to different sections of the State." Another writing says: "I am com ing to South Carolina to live. The advantages of the State have never been shown before I read your speech In one of the Chicago dailies, and I am satisfied that I will like your State. Please send some detailed nformation as to the advantages of fered." Many letters have also been re eer..d from the far Western States. asking for information concerning South Carolina. The commissioner. while in the West with the delegates to the National !rrigation congress, distributed literature illustrative of South Carolina. and the results have been material.* Carnegie offers to give eighty million dollars for peace in Central America. He may as well keep his money. Those people down there would rather fight than have all the money in the universe., If reformed foot ball is .ot suf Sciently honricidal to suit the crowds, the colleges may find a rood