Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A QUEER MER b,16wokity,Werea Tai&W .Was Fad Dead's lis Lat. ISSuBFFOCATEDBY GAS The VICtin Was Bound to a Chafr, the Chir Was Bound to a PIlar, the Gas Was Turned on, and the Man Was Sitting Uprght Stone Dead. At New York on Sunday Morris Nathanson. a well-to-do. .middle aged rea estate holder and clothinr manufacturer. was found dead In the 'oft of his factory, bound hand and foot to a chair with a half inch rope. He had been dead for hours, and the vast vacant loft was Alled wth escaping gas from a broken pipe just above his head. Therm were no marks of violence. Nathanson faUed to return home the night before, and when midnight came. his wife reported his absence to the police. A search was Insti tuted the following Morning. Mrs Xathansan called up her husband's partner. saac H. Gold. and he, his wife and Mrs. Nathanson went down to the factory. Gold, the only per son except Nathanson who had a key to the loft. opened the door. A rush of gas met him. but before he had time to close the door again. Mrs. N&thawnon saw her husband dead in the chair. She shrieked and fen in a faint across the thres bold. Minute examination showed that the body had been thrice wound with haf inch rope under the arms. and bound to the back of the chair. Both legs were fastened to the legs of the chair. The right arm was free, but the left was bound with two twists and so firmly knotted te an arm of the chair that the cor or said be could not believe that a man with only one free hand could have tied the knots. The hands and rope were both red with a sub stance net blood. The chair had been backed up against a pillar and the loose ends of the knot that bound the body to the frame had been knotted again behind the pil Jar. Thus the body was bound to the chair and the chair bound to the pe~ar. W, the Boor were a few loos coins. There was no money in the pockets, which had been turned in side out and Nathanon's key to the lock was also missing. His desk, which adjoined his partenr's wai open and littered with torn and crumpled papera in the wildest con iaon. On a sample table was a woman's fur lined kid glove, tor and partly tu.ne inside out. The safe was locked. Near it lay Na tGanson's hat and above it the gat lamp had been broken. Nathansom so far as is knowl2 bad no reason to commit suicide Hes'was 4) years old and in the besi b C ealt, and spirits. His businemd * as solvent, he had ample outside rubources, and he lived happily wit1l his wife and daughter.. Two sons, Benjamin and John, are In busi ness at Fayettevifle, Tenn. The -polie detainefl Gold on the strength of what the police ay h 'agreet between hls own sto ry ofhsmovements that night andi that told by his wife. However, before the coroner Gold was so frank and willing i!I hia statements that he was released The loft where the body was found is n Warren street. In the down 22own jobbing district. cold Wave Again Rampent in the BEer States. A cold wave swooped down upon the east from the artreme north est shortly after midnight Tuesday. Anl along the Atlantic seaboard in the north the mercury dropped fast, In New York falling from 32 de Then it was still going down. Two deaths had been reported at that tbne. Suffering in New York was In tense. Seventeen. woman and 326 men and a child, all homeless, took refuge, In the municipal lodging house, where one man died on his arrival and another collapsed and Is in a critical condition. Every other charitable dormitory in the city was thronged, and early Tuesday relief work was taken up in all parte of The situation was made worse by sharp winds blowing with the force of a gale. Tuesday's rain turned most of the snow left over from the re ent blnsed into slush, and then the cold and wind came along in time to turn the water into Ice. Scores of miles of the city's streets bore the signs of Ice. SOtT'EERN CATTLE BaRRED. IPorids Importation on Account of Texas Fever. Owing to prevalence of Texas fe ver among Southern cattle, a pro clamation was issued by Governor Deneen prohibiting Importation Into Iinois of cattle from California. Ok laoma. Texas. Missouri. Arkansas Louisiana. Mississippi. Tennessee. Al abama, Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina. Georgia an. Flori da between February 1 asad Novem er 1, 1910. unless the cattle are accompanied by certificates from the inspector of the United States bu rea of animal Industry that they are free from fever. Favors Raising of Ma*n"^ A dispatch from Washington says President Taft Is heartily In favor of the plan to raise the battleship Maine from Havana harbor and suit ably inter the remains of the sado'rs who went down with the ship. The president has Informed Representa tive Loud of Michigan that he de sired to see the latter's bill enacted into law, and that he stood ready toer any sort of support to the proposition that could be suggested. TAT LIVES TO HIGH SPENDS TOO MUCH OF THE PEO PLE'S MONEY HIMSELF. Congressman Adair Criticises Ex penditures Made at .the White House on the President. A d!spatch from Washington says had the President's daughter and son. Miss Helen and Robert Taft remained in the House gallery a' few minutes longer Wednesday. they would have heard their father round ly criticised by Representative Adair. of Indiana. for alleged extravagance of the executive department. Mr. Adair said the president's salary should not have been Increas ed to $75.000 a year. adding that a president "with practically no ex pense. who could not save from an income of $50.000 a sufficient sum to live in ease the balance of his life. in my judgment. does not have sufficient business capacity to direct the affairs of this great nation." Attacking the president's allow anee of $35.000 for vehicles, stables. etc.. Mr. Adair argued that this was $30.000 too much, and he also as serted that one-third of the $9.000 ailpwance ?or care .of the White House green house would "furnish the president with all the flowers he can possibly use." Without depriving the president of any of the comforts or luxuries which properly belong to the Whito House. Mr. Adair said the appropria tions of the executive department. which were $329.420 last year. could be reduced at least $75,000 per year. Mr. Adair declared that appropria tions for all purposes could be re duced at least $100.000.000 a year without Imparing any part of the government service. "Extravagance and waste permeate everywhere through the Federal servi&" he said. amid Democratic applause. "and Congress has been voting away the people's money until we have reached a point where the revenues ar not sufficient to meet our enor mous expenditures." He asserted that while the population had in creased about 40 per cent since 1S90, expenditures had increased 100 pei cent. VIOLENCE AND ACCIDENT Cbamned Several Victims in Nev York on Sunday. Last Sunday was remarkable it New York for the unusual numbe: of deaths by violence and accident The coroners' offices handled thirty cases, of which one was a possibl' murder, one an unusual suicide b3 shooting, one a death due to a crimi, nal operation, six were suicides b3 gas. and three fatal accidents. The man who shot himself chos4 the marble steps of a life insurant company. in Madison square. Hi had cut every mark of identificatie? from his clothing exoept the name o1 a Newark, N. J., haberdashery o! his collar, but he took pains to writ4 a courteous note of apology to th' corrner for the trouble he was about to cause. In Brooklyn, the toll of accidental death and suicide was particularly heavy. One girl drank carbolic gcid and died; a man met a similar death, through accident; a man was found dead in a snow bank; another diedc in a hospital after falling uncon scious in the street, and still another infieted fatal wounds on himself with a knife. Three men commit ed suicide by Inhaling gas, two wo men died likewise, while cases o1 persons being overcome either acci dentally or In an attempt to end their lives ran more thian half a dosen SBOT FROM AMBUSH. Governent Witness in Nzght Rider Trial Meets Death. About the time James Middleton. principal government witness in a night rider trial, set for hearing in the Federal court at Mobile a few days ago, was assassinated at his home in Baldwin county. Ala., Sat urday 'tight. unknown parties fired into the home of D. L. Comstock, plaintiff in the case. Comstock's six year-old son had a narrow escape from death. Indictments against five men recently were returned in the night- rider case, growing out of the killing of sheep belonging to Coin stock. Middleton, it is said, Identi fied the alleged night riders. Ac cording to the reports, excitement is intense In Baldwin county and pos se of citizens are aiding the sheriff in the hunt for the aesasins. FATORED RACE SCICIDE. So His Actress Wife Left Him and Seeks a D~irorce. "I left my husband because he believed In race suicide." said Mrs. Marguerite Waiker, a New York ac tres, in her suit for divorce again~s? Clarence J. Walker, a New York business man. "We never had a quarrel during our married life." said Mrs. Walker, "but I longed for children of my own, and it made him angry when I talked about them. Otherwise he was a good husband and treated me kindly." Judge Houser denied Mrs. Walker an interloculatory decreo on the ground that her husband had con sented to her leaying him and go ag to Los Angeles to live. The Walkers were married in New York July 18. 1901. Leaps to Death. At New York Samuel Paris. aged fifty-three, committed suicide lath one night recently by jumping from the roof or a six-story tenement. Nearly every bone in his body was broken. Paris lived with a dauch ter. He had been ill and had talked of suicide frequently. Man's Throat Cut. At Nashville. Tenn.. Lizzie E. Crenshaw, aged twenty-eight years. severely wounded Jiohn M. Jennings. bookkeeper, cutting his throat. Jeal ousy was the motive. Later the wo MODEL SCHOOL For Winthrop'College Is Now an Assur ed and Pleasant Fact WL COST GOOD AMOMT President Johnson, by the Aid of Morgan, Carnegie and Other Gen tlemen, Raise Five Times the Appropriation Made by the Leg islature at Its lAst Session. A special dispatch from Rock Hill to The State says the people all over the State who are interested in Winthrop college can again say. "Hurrah for President Johnsony For he now has in possession a cer tificate representing $100.000 with which to build the proposed new moel school for Winthrop. It will be recalled that the legis lature two years ago appropriated $20,000 for this purpose, expressly conditioned upon Dr. Johnson rais ing an additional $25.000. At that ti-.ne Dr. Johnson thought that a $-15.000 building would be ample. But he soon drew away from these modest plans and made up his mind to give the State of South Carolina a $100.000 model school, the equal of any in the country in beauty ol construction and thoroughly equip ped With this purpose in view. h promptly raised the $25.000 required by the State legislature. This gave him $45.000. Then he went to Nev York and, had an interview witt Mr. J. Plerpont Morgan and Andrev Carnegie. the multi-millionaires Mr. Morgan gave $25,000 and Mr Carnegie gave $15.000-but both o these subscriptions were conditionec upon Dr. Johnson raising the entirn $100.000 by January 1. 1910. With these two subscriptions. Dr Johnson then had in hand and prom ised $85.000. He felt that he wa. nearing the goal. So he put fort! extraordinary efforts-and thi meant much, for Dr. Johnson is th most successful "begger" in thi country. His next trip was to ap pear before the meeting of the Pea body board. That body gave hin $5.000. This put the fund up ti $90.000. Then came the real hard work getting that other $10.000. Martin Moloney of Philadelphia gave him $1.000. G. L. Winthrop. a member of th Peabody board, made a personal con tribution of $500. Col. Leroy Springs of Lancaste sent his check for $100. That made the amount $91.600 and in the last ten days the balane of $8.400 was promptly subscribe< by friends of the instit,.'Ion in ia rious parts of the State. So it is now a fact that Winthro; college will be able to present ti the State a model school values at $100,000, for which the State ap propriated only $20,000. It is: great victory for President Johnsom OOTTON JOU7RNAL SVSPENDS. Stockholders Will Lose All The; Had in Paper. The Southern Cotton Journal, on. of the best known trade publica tions in the South. the official or gan of the Southern Cotton Associa tion which was organized some fou years ago with Harvey Jordan a president and Richard Cheatham a secretary, is no more. The pape was publIshed in Atlanta, and th Journal of that city gives the fol lowing short history of its career: Harvie Jordan was editor-in-chie of the Cotton Journal and Richarc Cheatham was business manag,'r The latter was the main financia spirit and he Invested quite a iarga sum of money in the publication For months the paper was apparent ly in a prosperous condition. A largi staff was employed and every effor was made to secure a big circula tion. About two years ago the Cottot Journal Issued $200.000 worth o: stock. All of this stock was sold It was stated in the prospectus thal the Cotton Journal Publishing Comn pany intended buying a plant anc printing other publications and that it would derive a substantial profil thereby. Presses and equipment were pur chased and the offices of the papei were moved from the Brown-Ran dolph building to the Andrews build ing on Marietta street. Among the publications printed was Tom Wat son's Jeffersonian. The company needed money and Mr. Watson advanced it something like $7,000. taking a second mort gage on the plant. This note was due last November and was not paid. Mr. Watson took over the plant and is now operating it. With the taking over of the plant the Southern Cot ton Journal was suspended. Those who subscribed to stock have noth ing to show for their money except some nicely engraved certificates. The plant is valued at approximately $1S.500O and Mr. Watson In taking it over has, It is stated, assumed cer tain outstanding obligations against it. It is understood that a majority of those who took stock in the Cot ton Journal are well known farmers of the South. Animals Burned. At Wedgefield Messrs. Jas. H. Aycock and sons sustained serious loss a few days ago by reason of a fire on their farm. One of their lare barns was burned, destroying the building compietely and all o! its contents, including six mules, two cows, a lot of farming implements and a quantity of forage and grain. Getting Proof. At N--w York William L. Cook. brother of Dr. Fre-derick Cook, de clared a few days ago that Mrs. Cook has joined her husband. "Dr. Cool has not abandoned his intention to prove that he reached the North Pole" said the brother. What convincts a woman she has a grudge against another is not to PALACE TO ALMS HOUSE HER RICHES AND FRIENDS HAVE DESERTED HER. The Wife of Former President Barn rias of Guatemala, Now an Ob ject of Charity. From a palace where she presided as first lady of the land to an alms house refuge-such is the fate whict has overtaken Senora Barrios. wife of a former President of Guatemala With an almost complete impa!r ment of her vision, penniless. an. without means to earn a livelihood Senora Barrios knocked for admit tance at the Touro-Shakespeare alm! house at New Orleans New Year' Daj. Her husband. Jose Maria Ren< Barrios. was assassinaT>ed a shor time after his accession to the Presi dency. Senora Barrios then went t Europe. where she remained fo some time. The fortune which sh inherited from her husband was dis sipated through mismanagement o those In charge of it. At the office of the Guatemala consul it was declared that if th wife of the former President wouli return to Cuatemala to live sh would receive a pension from th zovernment equal to the salary pal, her husband. This, it was assert ed. she had refused to do. It wa stated that $50 a month was pal to her for a considerable time b the consulate under instruction from the President of Guatemala. The Guatemalan government I now bearing the expenses of the edt cation of Consuelo. daughter of Bai rios. at a school in London. Mme. Barrios before her marriag was Miss Algers Benton. a nativ of Virginia, but it was while livin in New York that she met Gen. Bai rios and married him when she wi 14 years ola. KILLED IN FLIGHT. Leon Do La Grange Meets Deat Under His Monoplane. Leon De La Grange. the Frenc aviator, whose achievements durir the past two years had won for hi: a high place among those who hai )et out to conquer, the air, was i1 stantly killed at Bordeaux a fe days ago. while making a flight I the presence of a great crowd i spectators. A strong uncertain wind prevaile, but with characteristic daring I La Grange faced it in the same moi oplane in which he made a recor r of 53 miles an hour at Doncasto meeting last October. He circle the aerodrome, seeming to have goc control and yet at times. It heelt danegrously to the wind. On ti third round, when at a height of b tween sixty and seventy feet. I increased his speed. He swut Swide at the turns. but at the low4 end of the aerodrome he attempt< to describe a sharp curve. The m; Schine was seen to sway. The le wing was broken and the right wir immediately collapsed. The aeri plane came plunging to the earl and it turned half over as it fel rwith the avlator clinging to tI seat. In this way it crashed to tU ground with De La Grange beneat: the heavy motor crushing out h life. The mechanicans are at a loss 1 explain the exact cause of the a cident. They are marely able i say that it resulted from manoeuv ing too quickly in the puffy win The monoplane was doubly brace at the essential points before ascent ing. ROBBED OF HER HMIR. Lady Knocked Down in the Stres and Shorn With a Raysor. 31rs. William J1. Ehlen, 28 yeai old, whose five feet of blond hal had been the envy and admiratio of St. Louis women for years, we knocked down, rendered unconsciou and shorn of her locks by an unide: tifed man as she was leaving he home. Her hair was shorn off clos to the scalp with a razor. Mrs. Eblen was dragged, uncor scious. into the hallway of her horn and lay in that condition for a hour before she was found. He condition is serious. ThIs attack was the third a tack in two weeks to steal Mir: Ehlen's hair. She was stopped o the street on the previous occasion by a man. He first offered her met ey for the hair and the next tim unsuccessful attempted to clip o: the tresses with shears. KILLED IN EXPLOSION. Grain Elevator at Buffalo Shattere With Fatal Results. At Buffalo. N. Y., three men wer killed and nine were frightfully burn ed in an explosion and fire, whic1 destroyed the plant of the Buffal< Cereal Company Tuesday night, caus ing $75.000 damage. The explo slon occurred in the yellow cor: mill. A concrete and brick elevator 140 feet high, adjoining it was shat tered by the explosion and fel through the roof of the mill. 0 the twelve men employed in the ele vator not one escaped injury. Th' explosion is believed to have bee' caused by spontaneous combustiox in grain dust. At the hospital it was said that eight of the injured me: have but slight chances for recov ery. Heavy Divorce Record. For every eleven marriage Ii cnes issued in Phiadelphia !as: year one suit for divorce was filed This is not only an increase in the number of divorce suits. but also n sliht increase in the percentage o1 suits to the number of marriages. In the general course of court pro cedure about 95 per cent of the suits filed are granted. To Issiue MIore Bonds. The Seaboard Air Line railway has made application in Atlanta. Ga.. to the State Railroad Commission for permission to issue $i1'S0.000O of bonds. The money will be used TAFT Wmi GANG Who Are Holding Up ad Robbing the People for the Trusts. HE IS A WUItG TOOL Of the Interest.S Which is Repre sented by Aldrich and Cannon and Desciples, the Insurgent Republi cans WTho Dare Stand Up for the Common People Against the Trusts Zach McGee. in his Washington letter to The State, says with the reopealig of congress Tuesday. the Republ!can machine renews it3 efforts to whip the so-called "in surgents' back into camp. and Mr. Hitchcock. postmaster general. and Taft's political wire pulier, is manip ulating the whip cords. Mr. Hitchcock is reported to have informed certain Republicans who have been opposing the Cannon ma chine in the House that they are to be ignored in the matter of fed eral appointments. This. it is un derstood, is at the special Instiga tion of Speaker Cannon. who has determined thai. the "insurgents' shall be disciplined and who has se cured the co-operation of the admin istration. Mr. Taft started out his caree in national politics. playing the rol( of fence straddler, catering to boti sides of the Republican schism. but now he has practically joined hands all round with the Cannon-Aldrict crowd, which controls the machine This disappoints the progres e sive ring of the party-that is. thal e wing -which has been -progressin; towards Democracy and away frou the old-line Republicanism. In oth er words, the president is with thi "stand-patters" or machine men and is lending his aid in makinj federal appointments to the strength h ening of the machine. Taft is being censured for It an( is said to be putting his head fur ther and further into the noose, bn there is satisfaction In knowing ex actly where he stands. There : no longer grounds for him to clair e to be with the new movement in tho I- party, which Is for tariff reform ant other policies which would benefl n the country at the expense of so called "depredator Interests." Tb< story is told on good authority a how a body of Republican "insur gents" visited the postmaster gen eral. where they were frankly tol' d that they were to be considered a r outside the fold. d War without quarter will be waget d between the Taft administration an d such Republican "insurgents' in 'con ge ;ress as are now opposing. and wh< -oppose in the future, the Taft le islative program. The battle is no gwith those tariff insurgents. wh rquietly sheathed their blades afte ddefeat. but with those who hay .nursed disappointment and are whet t ting the~r knives publicly in antic] . pation of continued connlict. The battle broke suddenly a fe' bdays ago. At Srst it was a sing]< .shot: then a scattered firing; swift]: the thing spread, until now it ha taken on the aspects of a genera engagement, the consequences o swhich cannot be foretold. The sub stance of it is that the senators an< ~congressmen, who have tak~en: stand against the present adminis tration and who continue to aligt themselves with the opposition to ths president's policies are to receive n' consideration in matters of patron age. Utterances such as that made b: Senator Cummins at a recent din ner in Des Mtoines. by Senator Bris tow in previous speeches. Anti-Taf articles in Senator Lafollette's mag azine, and a recent interview by Sen ator Clapp on the price of foo< stuffs are said to have stirred the president to action. It had beel rreported further that some of the Republican insurgents in the Hous' have tried to secure appointment un der the administration of men morn or less openly out of harmony wit] the Taft regime. Mir. Taft's closesi friends advised him that it wouli be impolitic for him to afford sin ews of war to those who they warn ed him. might even co-operate wit] the Democrats in congress. against the Taft legislative '-rogram, and it the country at <large by creatin; Anti-Taft sentiment in advance of the 1912 convention. It is said without reserve tha1 the president has listened to such advice, and has decided to follow .Representative Mriller. of the eighth Miinnesota district, was th< man chiefly instrumental in "blow' ing the lid off'' of the situation. He did it by a stat'ment to the effect that Postmaster General Hitch !cock had informed him a few days ago that his (Miiller's' recommnen dations for presidential postmaster' ships were being held up because of his insurgent activities In the Hous". He quoted the postmaster general as saying, in substance: "A great deal of pressure is be ing brought to bear upon me to withhold from th'.e insurgent Re publican congressmen the patronage in their districts. I am very loath to do this, and the matter is still under consideration."~ Mr. Miller said that he told the postmaster general he intended t'o carry the thing to the open floor of the House: but that Mr. Hitchcock urged him to defer any such act!on until the subject could be further considered, whereupon Mr. Miller areed to wait full developments be fore precipitaing an open fight. As soon as th' congr'ssmnan's statement became known the post master general called him on the tl.hone and took him to task for not having regarded the conv'ersa tion as confidential, to which Mr. Miller replied that he had not so understood it and felt that he had violated no confidence. Postmaster G'aneral Hitchcock was sient on the whole subject, nor would any other official representing the administration discuss it. Anoth er feature of the attitude of the party leaders toward insurgent merm hrs of the House was hinted at in disclosures. It was currently r ported that the "rebelious"~ Repuh lican~ members of congress were soon 1910 ASTRONOMICALLY WHAT WILL HAPPEN DURIG THE PRESENT YEAR. Eclipses Recorded-Other informa tion Along This Line That Will Be read With Interest. Those who have taken the tima to pursue the almanac for the year 1910 have discovered that some un usual things will happen up among the stars and that the holidays will also run out of the ordinary chan nel. There will be four eclipses this year. two of the sun and two of th' moon. This section will not re ceive the full benefits of these oc casions. A total eclipse of the sun E will occur May 9. Invisible to th, United States, but visible to Aus tralia and adjacent oceans. A totaI eclipse of the moon is scheduled for May 23-24. This will be 4sible to North and South America, the At lantic and Pacific oceans, and in part to southwestern Europe, the western portions of Africa and the extreme eastern part of Australia. On November 1-2 will be pre sented a partial eclipse of the sun. invisible to the United States. This will be visible to the greater part of Alaska. the northeastern portion of Asia and the northern Pacific ocean. A total eclipse of the moon will be a disappearing stunt on tap for November 15. This will be vlsi ble to Europe and Africa and in part to North and South America and southwestern Asia. The new almanac tells of many things that will be interesting Washington's birthday, the first le gal holiday after New Year's. falls on Tuesday; Easter Is March 27; July 4 on Monday; Thanksgiving Day is November 24. and Christmas Day falls on Sunday. and what a wail from the little ones for the noise of celebration Incident to the visit of Santa Claus will have to be subdued. Labor Day is September 5th. Not a single "Friday the 13th~' will occur in 1910 and the super stitious ones will have an easy time this year. Numerous narrow escapes will be recorded, for many Thursdays and Saturdays have 13 as the date. Easter Sunday is March 27. Oother Church days for the year are: Epiphany. January 6; Septuagesima. January 23: Segagesima. January 30: Quinquagesima, February 6; Ash Wednesday. February 9; Palm Sunday. March 20; Low Sunday. April 3; Ascension Day, May 5; Whitsunday. May 15; Trinity Sun day. May 22. Most Popular National Air. Kings and rulers have at times -given orders for the production of Inational anthems, but the result has | not generally been encouraged eith r er as to words or music. As a mat | ter of fact great national airs usual -ly originate with a spontaneity that - is necessarily wanting In the made to-order variety. Their authors' i composing them never dream of the immortality they and& 'their sons i ultimately attain. |The "Marseillaise" of Rouget de | Lisle was the spontaneous outburst | of a patriotic soul, and in the pas sionate white heat of national fervor | whidh it breathes, the French sang and fought themselves to victory. | The rising of the storm threatening 1 Germany in a great crisis in her his tory made the immortnl "Watch on the Rhine" spring from the soul of Schneckenburger even as a sword leaps from its scabbard. 1Our own country boasts several airs that have reached a national |popularity, but it may surprise some |people to know that "Dixie" is re puted to be the most popular of all. If so it but bears out our state I raent as to spontaneity, both In its origin and in its adoption as a bat tle song. Composed by an Ohio Iman, Daniel Emmet, in 1859 as an Iattraction for a minstrel show it was adopted by the South as its princi pal war song after a memorable Ispectacular meeting in New Orleans at the beginning of the Civil War. "Dixie" may never displace some other national songs in the affectioni of many people, but there is a brightness and alluring quality about its music that appeals to all. Writ ten by a Northern man, adopted by the South as its chief raliying song. a great favorite of President Lin coln. and now sung everywhere In the land, it no longer speaks of sec tionalism but happily reflects the real unity of the nation. The High Prices. No subject is more discussed over the dinner table, in the work room. in the parler. than the high cost of living. No one questions it, the only problem is what to do. Some class es of workers have had advances, but the majority, dependent on fixed salaries or wages, are simply squeez ed between the upper and 'nether mill stones of trade. We are not among those who see any immediate| reliief. One fundamental difficulty is the using up of the government' supplies of fre-e land. There has seen a great advance in the price of farm lands in the Central States within a few years. 4,ue to the fact that the time has gone when the settler can get desirable farms merely by applying to the government. The cutting of the cattle ranges has some.thing to do with it. Nowadays it takes capital to go into farming. The farmer has to pay mfterest on that capital. When he gets his farm paid for, he becomes more indepen dent. He can hold his product for hich prices. And he is doing it,. as the groeat consumingt populations know to their sorrow. Meanwhile here is an economic problem of the b <tnps signinican-e. worthy of th best Thought of all legislators and ecnmss No party can ignore it. Twelve Men Dlrowned. The Brltish steamers Ayrshire.' F for D)urban. and the Arcadium, forh Glasgow. collided in a fog in the Irish channel. The Arcadian sank I: in five minutes. All of her crew il scrambled aboard the Ayrshire, but twelve Lascars returned to get their t money and were drowned. C ty organization against them In their a HE TALKS OUT I] Hief Forrester Piachot Upholds Qlavis in His Late Severe ATTACK ON BALINGER ,tter From the Chief of the Bu reau of Forestry to Senator Dol liver Read in the Senate Causes t a Sensation, r.ud Makes Friends of President Taft Mad. In an unexpected manner th Bal Inger-Pinchot controversy was madi oubly intense by tae reading in the enate Thursday of a letter rldre.as d by Mr. Pinchot to Senator Dol iver, In which the course adopted )y L. R. Glavis with the assistance >f Messrs. Prince and Shaw, of the )ureau of forestry. were warmly ipproved. In this communication he chief forester not only upheld the criticism of Secretary Ballinger. but suggested that the president himself had been mistaken In the facts when he remo-1 Mr. Glavis from the public service. Mr. Pinchot's letter called Senator Hale to his feet with a severe re buke to the chief forester for hav ing ignored a recent order by the president directing that no subor dinate officer should give informa tion concerning affairs of the govern ment except to his superior officers. The reading in the senate of Mr. Pinchot's letter caused a sensation. He said that Messrs. Price and Shaw had prepared an official report upon their actions which he was transmitting to the secretary of agr culture. "This report shows that Messrs. Price and Shaw made public certain information regarding the so-called Cunningham claims for coal lands In Alaska," said Mr. Pinchot. "The effect of the publication was to di rect critical public attention to the action of the Interior departmenL "It shows also that they counte nanced the publication by L. R. Gla vis of certain facts concerning these claims after he had been dismissed from office and that in other ways they endeavored to direct public at tention to the imminent danger that the Alaska coal fields still in gov ernment ownership might pass for ever into private hands with little or no compensation to the public. This Information. Mr. Pinchot adds, was of a nature proper to be Made public. After saying that these officials had acted on Informa tion they had concerning the danger of the loss of the Alaska coal fields. Mr. Pinchot continues: "Action through the usual official channels and finally even an appeal to the president had resulted (be cause of what I believe to have been a mistaken impression of the facts) in eliminating from the government service in the person of Glavis, the most vigorous defender of the peo ple's interest. Furthermore, the re fusal of the secretary of the interior to assume responsibility in the cases had left their conduct wholly in] the hands of subordinates, each of whom was apparently committed in favor of patenting these claims" Price and Shaw. he said, deliber ately chose to risk their official po sitions rather than perimit what they. believed to be the wrongful loss of public property. Having violated a rule of propriety as between the de partmens, Mr. Pinchot said they de served a reprimand and had receiv ed one. "Price and Shaw," Mr. Pinchot said, "successfully directed publica tion to a national danger." "Price and Shaw conceded that what they did transgressed proprie ty," continued Mr. Pinchot. "But measured by the emergency which faced them, by the purity of their motives and the result~s which they accomplished, their breach of propri ety sinks well-nigh to insignifi cance." Mr. Pinchot said he disclaimed any Intention or desire to shirk any part of his own legitimate respon siility for what was done by the two subordinates. While Mr. Pinchot's letter was ba ng read and discussed the presi dents message transmitting Atto' ney General Wickersham's report up on the Ballinger-Pinch -. case was lying on the desk of the vice presi dent. Upon the conclusion of the discussion it was 'laid before the senate, but Mr. Wickersham's long report was not read. It was referred to the committee on public lands. Senator Nelson, chairman of the committee on public lands, has call ed a meeting of his committee for 1:30 o'clock Saturday morning t' consider the several resolutions re :atng to the investigation of the Ballingr-Pinchot controversy. Commits Suicide. Baxter E. Woolen. 27 years old. ~ecretary of a Sunday school and prominent In church work, commit ted suicide at Thomasville, N. C.. Ionday morning by hanging himself. :o his bed post. No motive for the leed s known. Pointed Paragraph. The man who wears the ties his wife picks out for him has the reatst contempt for the man who >arts his hair the way his wife makes Next to weddings and funerals a oman gets the most satisfaction >ut of religion. It's imnagination that makes peo Ie believe they are having fun when hey are just being plain fools. Gossips multiply everything they tear by two. One man's hobby may be another uan's nightmare. People who are superstitious about c'k ar.- seldom lucky. Comnpliments should he thoroughly 'letherized before they are swalt Observe a married woman close- I and y.ou will see a wistful look t Some people's morals are like t .eir best clothing-only worn on 9 ttraordinary occasions. A woman dislikes being jealous c !most as much as she lIke mak- ! WHAT WE NEED WERSIFIED FARMING WILL MAKE THIS SECTION RICIL --- he South Can Compete With the World Growing Corn, and We Should Grow It. While the general tendency of uman efforts nas been towards Ispecialization," the cry of those who ave assumed the duty of advising he farmers of the South has been diversification," says the Progres ive Farmer, which goes cm to give he following good advice on the ubject of corn planting: Unquestionably, it is advantageous o specialize. The man who makes ;hoes only will learn to imke bet er shoes than he would If he made 'hoes, harness, plows, wagons and all the other things needed and ised by man. It seems that this may be accept .d as a fact. and if it be. then there :s a limit to which the farmer will Ind it advantageous to diversify. We ire not one of those who believe that the farmer to be successful must necessarily return to primitive conditions and produce everything. If with a given amount of money Dr effort we can make an amount of cotton which, when sold, will buy more corn than we can make with the given amount of labor and -non-' ey used In the production of the cotton, then does it pay to raise corn? If this were all there is in the question of diversification and crop rotation, common sense would plainly dictate that under such a. condition it will not pay to grow corn. But while a man may make cot ton to buy corn profitably one year,. he cannot do It for a term of years for the simple reason that the grow ing of one crop on the land Is not oonducive to large yields. Again when the crop of corn is given the same attention in respect to its requirements as cotton receives, corn will be as good a crop for the Southern farmer as cotton. To make the best yields of cot ton may require as good land as to make the best yields of corn, but a. crop of cotton that will pay expens es, and a little more, may be made on land and with management which will not produce a .paying crop of corn. To grow corn profitably bet ter land and more intelligent man agement are required than are nec essary to grow cotton that will pay a small profit over cost of produc tion. Because of these facts, and the further ftet that most Southern lands are too poor to produce corn profitably some Southern planters and most of our friends to the North. erroneously conclude that the South is not adapted to the growing of corn, The only reason the South is not adapted to the growing of corn-and just as well adapted to thlhs crop as the so-called corn States of Illinois, Iowa, Missouria, etc. are that we have not given enough attention to building up and main taining the fertility of our lands and that we do niot apply the same agricultural knowledge to its pro duction. That there is nothing in our cli mate and nothing In our soil except lack of fertility-which may be easi ly supplied-to justify the state ment that this section of the country is not well adapted to the growing of corn, is unmistakably shown all over the South. and frequently by school boys. When school boys in North Carolina. Alabama, Mississip p1, and Louisiana make 125 to 150 bushels of corn to the acre, and make it at a cost of from 15 to 25 cents a bushel, and when men make 226 2-3 bushels on an acre as Mr. Batts, of North Carolina, did this year. or 254 bushels on an acre as did Mr. Drake, of South Carolina, some years ago, It is absurd to state that this country is not as well adapt ed to the growing of corn as any other section. When we improve our lands, as we may easily do. and give that In telligent attention to its production ,rhich corn demands, this will be a corn-producing country, and until we do that, no crop will be pro duced profitably by the average man. We do not advise the grow'D~ -of wheat, and soa~other Tood crops which we use, as money or sales crops, nor do we advise growing some of them at all unless the indi vidual farmer first demonstrates that he can grow them cheaper than he can buy them; but we do contend that corn, meats, fruits, legumes, and miany other crops which we might mention, can be grown by the Southern farmer cheaper than any other people on earth can grow them for him, and that, therefore, he should grow these crops for his own use and for sale. Even under present conditions it has been demonstrated. time and again, that the Southern farmer can produce hogs at 3 to 4 cents a pound. live weight, and make money oni them.. If this be so, and it is, then why should he not rejoice at the fact that live hogs are selling at 8 cents a pound. and by growing hoga-.-' as a money crop reap a rich har vest? We need diversification because it is necessary. Or at least conducive to Increasing soil fertility, and be :ause we can produce many of these :hings cheaper than we can buy :hem. We do not need to grow ~verything we use, but we do need ~o grow those things of which we ~se large quantities and which we 'an produce cheaper than other peo ile can produce for us. Of these :rops we stand pat on corn, meats, Lfd fr-cits. We can compete with the world n the growing of these crops, and as long as we buy them at from two o three times the cost at which we an produce them, we are not using :ood farming or buainess sense.* "But why in the name of corn 20on sense." says the Savannab~ Newq. should 125.000 people want to live a Charleston and Its suburbs when be trains are running, and the walke. 1g Is good?" The Xews can laugh * ow. but the day is not far distant -hen Savannah will not be much iore than a big co'mntry village in ymparison with Charleston. What ie News wants to do is to watch