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WILL SOON LEAD Semthem Textile liRs WiD Soon Out rank Northern is IN COTTON CONSUMED Commisioner Watson Talks Most Inerestingly on ludu.Itry.-SnY% the United States I Exportin;t S31.X,.366 Worth of Cotton Manufartures. "Have you stopped to realize that the United States is only sending 0 export $3l.S7S.56' worth of coi >n manufactures, while she is importn; approximate'y $7.0.4'th.qtw worth o cotton nu..rifactured products -ot the use of her peo, e. This statement is rather signifi cant in its nature and of peculiar in terest just now on account of tht cotton situation in this State wa. made recently by Commissioner Wat son. Many of the mills of South Car olina are running on short time tnc there is a general policy of curtail. ment on account of the prices in th4 cotton goods market and the pr> duct. In the past month more than half dozen large cotton mills na - oeen chartered in th* State. In a recent address the commis sioner made several very intern..t ing statements bearing on the :--4 ile industry in this country. The possibilities of Southern man ufacture are becoming more an. more pronounced as he is reveale by a study of the consumption o bses of cotton in the texile plan. of this country. However, as earl; as ISSO. the Northern states war, operating over 10.000.000 spindle while the Southern States were r-'M ning but a little more than half million It was not until 1893 that th Southern states had increased th number )f spindles to 2.000.00t while at that time the Norther states were operating 13.40o.4i , spindles. In 1909 our industry ha grown until we are now runnin 10.429.000 spindles against th North's 17,589.000. and we are u: ing today 2.554.000 bales of cot'o against the North's 2.6S7.000. A early as I S90 the Northern mili were using 2.000.000 bales when w were using but half a million. In 190S the North was using 165 000 more bales of cotton than th South. This year that lead has bee reduced to 143,000. and if cond tions are not materially changed diii ing this year it is not unlikely ths the South will. by the end of 1911 have overtaken the North in th matter of consumption. And remember that we are sent ing out' of the country today S417 390.665 worth of domestic cot and that we are sending In cold cas to other countries for raw cotto imports the princely sum of abot $14.000.000. In South Carolina our progres has been rapid. for in 1S60 we r.a only 30,890 spindles and 525 loon consuming 3.97S.061 pounds of co ton: in 1SS9 there was S2.334 spit dies and 1.676 looms. consumin 15,610.055 pounds of cotton; th.: pass by another decade and Sont Carolina's industry had develope until the music of 1.431.319 spii dies and 42.663 looms was bein heard, consuming 230.053.807 :h of cotton.. Now another nine years has elapt ed, and this state today stands se@ ond in the American Union In te:1 tiles, with 3.S46.117 spindles an 96.281 looms. consuming 327.551i 099 pounds of cotton. Nowhere the world has there been such a ra; id development. Today mills In thi state are consuming 769.966 balt of cotton, or practically four-flfth of the state's entire cotton crop. The texile plants of the nation at turning out about $450.000.000 a product, while In this state aloni something like $75.000.000 worth q cotton manufactured goods is no' being annually produced. Of this country's cotton crop. her in the South. we are now cons it ing in our own texitiles 5.19S.96 500-pound bales, but we are srti aending to export S.S89.724 bales c over 66 per cent of the crop. and w are actually importing about 175."0 bales of long staple cotton. cot'a that we hope to be able to raisei the very near future. REX ERSES THE JUDG~E. Can't Seize Whiskey Intended to Personal Uise. Attorney General Lyon has give: an opinion in w.hich he holds tha whiskey tor private or personal us can not be seized by any officer. Thi decision is directly opposite to th, ruling by Judge Memminger. give: in his charge to the jury In Sumte County when he declared that whil key for personal use was liable to i5 seized. Tne ruling by the Attorne: General was given on the request o J. L. Gillis. a Magistrate o Remnbert in wihch several question: were asked concerning the seizure o whiskies. Who is right. Memmnin ger or Lyon' %ECTFION HANS) KILI.ED. Struck by Engine While Standing ot End of Croatie. Arthur Alexander. a colored seec tion hand on the Southern Railway was knocked down an~d fatally in jured by Passenger Train No. 46. al Btrawley street crossing in Spartan burg Tuesday nmorning. The negro with eter hands. stepped aside tc let the train pass, but stood oni the end of the crosstie and did not get out of th.- reach of the entire. -x ci:y. where he died a few hours tat yr. Kroeneu (an Ex pkake.. Gracie Reamsi. aged S. and Orval, her -4-year-old broth.er. w--r-- burn..d to death at F-ort Wo rth. Tex.. Tues day, when their horm. was dest royed by fire. the result of an expinion o a can of icerosene. The little' gir! was atteminting to buildi a fire in the kitchen sto'.e. using kerosene. wheu MANY WERE SHOT AN INSANE MAN KILLS HIS FA11 II.Y AND A FIRFMAN. Discharged Member of San Diea'b Ie partment shoots Former Comraes and Then Slays Wife and Child. Shooting himself through the head after killing three persons. in cl-:ding his wife and child. morta'ly wounding a fourth and seriousiy wounding a fifth. Mert. S. Durham. a dischar;zed en;ploye of the .ar Diego. California. lire department. t Monday ended the hunt for him. :l1. death was alntst instantaneous. Durham nursed a grudge agai:n-t Capt. Saminps.ell of the fire dtpart nient. under whom he had for metly worked as en.:ine driver. and upnn whose complaint he had been dii chrged from the services for i;.sa. ordination. Durham Monday no' ing sent in a false alarm from the outskirts of the city. and when Capt Sampsell ard the engine crew drove up he opened fire upon his former workmen with a revolver. At the first shot Fireman Don Grant fell from his seat dead. with a bullet in the head. At the second shot Horseman Guy Elliott pitched to the ground with a buliet through the stomach. Durham then leveile, his revolver at Sampsell and fired twice. both bullets piercing Saw:n sell's lungs. Two more shcts fired at other members of the crew went wild. Durham then drew another revo! ver aDd with it he covered his r treat as he. started to run from Aa sisiant Chief Senecador. who had driven up in answer to the fire I alarm. As he disappeared in the darkness. Durham shouted back to s the chief: "Tell my wife 1 am go ing to kill myself." The victims of the qhooting were rushed to St. Joseph's hospital in - one of the hose wagons. Operationt - were performed on Sampsell and r1 liott. The surgecns say Sampsz1 e suffered a severe hemorrhage and the hold out no hopes of his re covery. Elliott has a chance. Within half an hour after the shooting. a score of police offi:ars s and deputy sheriffs were on the scene in automobiles and had begun a man hunt. Durham eluded the - pursuers and reached home. Afer slayi-g his family. the mad man ran s out and escaped. a During h!s service in the depart e ment. w-hich terminated some time ago. he had a reputation for being quarre'some Firemen with whoa e he worked though him insane. At a i hospital it was said Sampsell will - die, but that there may be some hope - for Elliott. . RURAL DELIVERY IN DANGER. Moement to Abolish it for the Old - Star Routes. SThe R. F. D. News, published al SWashington as the national organ of the Rural Letter Carriers' Associa tion. sounds an alarm in these Sterms. "Right now preliminary plani are being made to abolish rural fret delivery service and provide in its stead a daily delivery to the farmer by what is known as the star-route, or cantract system. This plan has ~been the subject of serious consider ation by thePostmaster General for dmore than six or eight months past and .he hopes to be able to furnist SPresident Taft wil ample reasons for the change before the latter sendi his annual message to Congress nexi September. it is the belief of many postal officials that President Tait will readily approve of the suggest ion of the Postmaster General in the -matter, and for the sake of econ omy, make a recommendation zc SC:>ngress to enact the necessary laws s for the change. Already Postmaster SGeneral Hitchcock has consolidated Sthe division of star-mail routes and division of rural free delivery into Swhat will hereafter be known as the Sdivision of rural mails. This is thi first step toward making the two ser Svices similar.'' WARSHIPS BECOME JUNK. Criers Minneapolis and Columubi 1 ~Are U'seless. eA naval board by Rear Admirni ~Thomas. began the task at th~e Phil iadelphia navy yard Tuesda:y of pass' .i ing upon the fate of three cruisers which but a few years ago were the undisputed leaders in their classes. The vessels are the armored cruis er Brooklyn and the protected cruis ers Columbia and Minneapolis. built as the commerce destroyers of the navy. The three cost over SS.50o. 000. exclusive of their: armanment. SThe Columbia and Minneapolis are in danger of bein~g consigned to the junk pile The Brooklyn. Admiral Schley's flagship In the Spanish SAmetricanl war, is in better shape and is likely to be ordered over'iauled and modernized. D)IED) AT FIXED. TIME. --I Have Just Seven Minutes to Live" the Man Wrote. "I have just seven minutes to live." a well dressed man wrote in a saloon. at lDurham. N. C.. and be fore thie time had expired, shot him self twic". He was hurried to a hospital, where physicians said on Friday night that he would die. The' man is said to be Aquilla Powell. a son of E. E. Powell, of Scotland Neck. who recently was convicted of th--' mursi.'r of Chief of Police Dunn adthe wounding of State Senator Edward Travis and Paul Kitchin. a brother of the G;over::or. It is be ieved thlat worry over his fathier's position p'omipte-d thre young man to attem'npt to take his lif. * Drought Bruken. A disp::te'h from St. Joseph. Mo.. says :he r::in in six we'eks in thnat locality b--'an Tuesday mornin;: and is of great benefit. The drought has damage'd corn i:: some places beyond Three- Amuerin Killed. INews was received of the assas s:aion on July 20 in the Yaquai ~valley near Coccorit. Mexico, of Mrs. Jennie Shoudeler. an American wo TORRElS SYSTEM WHICH HAS BEEN ENDORSED BY THE FAILIERS UNION. It Simplifies the Transfer of land front One Owner to Another and Irssen., the Cost. The State Farmers 'nion ,,t its late meeting in Columbia gave the Torrens sy::tem of land tenures its endorsement and will ask the legis lature to adopt it at its n.-xt session. The following synopsis of the law. which we take from the State. will give our readers a good idea of what t.h.- system is and how it would work: 'he Torrens syst--m was devised by Sir Robert Torrens. and first put :o oper.ation in Australia. where se many modern political and legis Iative reforms have had their be ginni: gs. The syst.m :t)olishes most or all distinctions bet ween real estate a::d ;ersonal property. and its chief object is to remove the diffi culties. delays. and expenses inci dent to the transfer of real estate under the old English system de veloped out of the feudal tenures. In Australia there ia. a registrar's office with whom the owner of a tract of land. held by the old ten tire. depos.its a description of his property and obtains a certificate of ownership. The re:istrar's office ex amincs the title carefully and the certificate guarantees its legality. whether as absolute or with condi tions attached. If the title were to a life estate. the certificate would so state. Each applicant for a cer tificate pays a small fee out of which an insurance fund is created. From this fund t.he State protects itself when a title guaranteed by the reg istrar is attacked and the State is called upon to idemnify the holder of the certificate. After the land owner has exchang ed his muniments of title under the older system and received a certifi cate from the registrar's office. he may transfer the certificate by en dorsement as he would a share in a bank or cotton mill. Of course. he may pledge the certificate for money borrowed as he w ould a per sonal security. Registration in the registrar's office with erch transfer of the certificate is required. for which a small fee is charged. The necessity for the examination of tit les, it will be seen ib eliminated. be cause the State guarantees the title described in the certificate. and the expense and delay of foreclosure pro ceedings are removed, because t.he certificate may be disposed of ;;re cisely as may a certificate of shares in a corporation. The system, with medifRcation. has been adopted in Illinois. Massachusetts. Minnessota and possibly other state and also in New Zealand and several of the Ca nadian provinces. The argument in favor of the system is obvious. Ev ery borrowing farmer Is familiar with the expense and difficulty at tached to using his land as security in a bank. A bank, on account of the expense and delaps in foreclosure proceedings. is reluctant to lend more than .half or three-fourths of the value on a small body of real estate: and when a borrower has paid the cost of examining the title and drawing all papers, his interest charges are in effect materially in creased. One argument against the plan altho...h based on the weakness of human nature, is not without force. it may be said tLhat he very difficul ties of disposig of lana. work to keep it in possessior. sometimes of men who would lose it if they eculd sell it as easily as t.hey sell a horse or a hog. Th.- manifest answer to this is that the removal of the obstacles to the selling of land v .,uld make It more valuable. L;;wyers and courts' fees under the present system are a heavy tax subtracting from the vai ue of the 1hnd itself. There fore as the land is made more valuable the incentive to hold it grows stronger. Besides, the progress of society nughnt not to be delayed for the sake of the improvident man who can not take care of himself. WVORIElbS StlPP15 SHORT. .Amount, in Sight i'. 300.000 Baels Behind. Secretary .Hester's s:atement of the world's visible supply of cotton made up frmom special cable and tele graphic advices compares the figures of the week ending August 6th with the same week last year and the year before. It shows a decrease for the :week just closed of I19.5 IS against a decrease of 197.230 last year and a decrease of 121.151 year before :Last. The total visible is 1.796.062 as against 1.195S0 last week: 225. 459 !ast year arnd 1.9~6.307 year ne fore last. Of this the total of Amer ian cotton is 951.062 against~. 022.5$0 last week: 1. 729.459 last year and 1.250.261 year before last, and of all other kinds, including Eg ypt. Brazil. India. etc.. S45,000 as against $93.004e last week: 556.000 last year and S31.046 year before last. The world's total visible supply of rotton as above shcws a decrease. compared with last wee-k of 119.51$ a decrease, compared with last year. of 459.".97 and a decrease. compar--d with year before last of I16".245. Of the world's visible supply of coton as above there is now afloat a:d h'.ld in Great Britain and conti netal Europe S70.00 against 1.647. ')'.' last year and 1.126.000 year be fore last: :n Egypt 53.00 against 57.0e last year and 75,000 year bc fore last: in hrdia 531.000 a;:ainst 263000O last year and 443,000 year before last: and in the United States 42.0:,0 against 31 $.000 last year and ':I2.60.. year before last.* Fought the Officers. One nearo is dead, one is dying ad two others have bullet 'vouna as a result of a battle with o1thee: on the outskirts of Pelbam. Ga.. Tuesday afterroon. It was re-ported to th~e omfieers that a dozen negr -es were garnblingt ir. .. houijw the e ?nt on the pla-e. Several D~rowned. At Munich, in Bavaria. nine young men and six girls were drowned in the lake of Traun. by the capsizing| of a b.a... ;., a .st .... -r....., . MAY NOT RUN FOR RE-ELECTION AS GOVERNOR OF TENNESSEE. The Result of the Late Judiciary Flection Had Blasted Governor Pattermon's Hopes. While Chairman Nathan Robert son of the regular State Democratic headquarters as Nashville. Tenn.. had given out no statement Friday. ti. leaders of his. the Patterson fac tion. practically admit that the In dependent judiciary ticket has car ried the state by 25.600 majority. Chairman Vertrees. of the Indep.end ent faction. in an unofficial state ment. said he saw no reason for changing his forecast made severai days ago. of a majority of 4A.00) in the State for the Independents. Other Independent leaders place the majority as high as 50.000 votes. Returns irom the outlying counties are coming in slowly. and it will be several days before the exact figurfs can be given. East Tennessee. the Remublican stronghold ic Tennessee. proved the Waterloo of the regular Democratic ticket. Advices from that section art that the Republicans stood almost to a man benind the independents. Carter Ccunty. a rock ribbed Re publican county. and the former home of Senator Robert L. Taylor. rolled up a majority of two thousand for the Independents. According to advices from West Tennessee. that division will show a good majority for the independents The race in Middle Tennessee is close. in favor of the independents. Wilson county. the home of Chair man Roberson. of the regular Dem ocratic committee. gave a majority for the independents of 475. while Chairman Vertrees. of the independ ents. lost this. his county, by a large majorty. It is claimed at Nashville that th( overwhelming defeat of the regulai judiciary ticket throughout the State has blasted the hopes of Governot Patterson for re-election and somf go so far as to predict that he wil withdraw from the race for Govern. or. It is understood that in returi for the assistance lent by the Re publicans in electing their judiciar3 ticket the independents will solidl: support the candidate named by th4 Republicans for Governor. "THE SOtTHERN FIELD." August Issue of Official Organ of th Southern Railway Out. A complehenaive picture of the ad vantages to be found in the frui growing sections of the southeasterr states Is presented in the August is sue of "The Southern Field." th< official organ of the Land and Indus trial Department of the Southers Railway and associated lines, the cir culation of which will begin in few days. The leading article o this issue is devoted to a discussioi of fruit growing in Virginia, t~he Carolinias. Georgia. Alabama, Ten nessee and Mississippi. The story of the development of the growin; of apples, peaches, berries and smal fruits in this territory is fully tok and the opportunities for future de velopment pointed out. The farmer interested in frui growing who reads this issue cai not fall to be impressed with thi great opportunities which await him in the Southeast. In addition to th. article on fruit growing w.hich it sptendidly illustrated there are oth interesting articles, Editorials cal attention to the opportunities foi profit in stock raising in the South the value of the cotton crop to th< country, and the increase in valu< of Southern lands. What can bs done in the Eant Tennessee countr: is shown in an article on pork rais. ing. "A Spartanburg Farmer" teil of results on a farm in the Piedmoni section, atnd the success of Canadian: in Northeast Georgia is told in ar interesting manner. Thousands of copies of this maga. zine will be put in the hands of far mers In the North and Northwest who are considered desirable set tlers. Persons already in the South who have friends living in other sec tions of the country whom they wish to interest in this section can hav'e copies of 'The Southern Field" sent them by a request addressed to M.'. Richards. Land and Industrial Agent of the Southern Railway. Washing ton. D. C. Good, Sound Doctrine. Whether or not one agrees with Hon. Hoke Smith in all his political ideas. there should be few to dissent fron his sound doctrine so effective ly phrased !n the following: "That people will reach the highest stan' dard of citizenship where the larget proportion own homes, and especial ly where they live upon them and make a living out of them To en courage su.h a policy is to help make possible a population thr':y and prosperous. not of men of great wealth, but of a great number of men of sufficient means to be inde pendsent. I long to see Georgia ratnk first among the states as havingg the larrest number of citizens owning land in proportiou to residents." The Progressive Farmer says it would like for all our public me-n to ert this ideal for our Southern States-the ideal of a splendid demn ocracy of thrifty, intelligent home owners, each man sitting under his own vine and fig tree. This is what will mak.- a people great, and we should like for our other So'uthern Comonweaths to vie with Georgia for first rank among the States in proportion of citizens owni'ng their own homes. One of the worv fea tures of factory life is the destruc tion of the home-owning influance. and the immigrants we need a:e Those who will help us realize the ideal set forth by Gov. Smith. First of the Kind. At Sunderland. Enzland. wh: making a fliiht at the Bolden race ourse MIle. Frank's biplane nver turned and crashed into a crowd of spectators, killing a boy. Mile Frank was dangerous wounded. Thta Is the first accident of its kindl ri MOB AFTER HIM Cash Betwee a Editor and a Preach er Causes Serions Row. EDITOR DRAWS IS GUN On a Mob That Followed Him to Hi% Homne.-Sermon in Answer tc Continued Editorial Attacks l're. cipiated the Trouble. and Came Near Causing a Riot. Elizabeth City. N. C.. was th< scene of a sensational affair on las Sunday night in which an editor anc a preacher participated. "Stand back or I will shoot to kill." weiq the words said by W. 0. Saunders editcr of The Independent. as n< stood In his yard with a pistol afte firang five times in the air. Th was said to have occurred Sunda; night, following the close of servic at Blackwell -Memorial Baptis church when Pastor 1. N. Loftin ha( preached upon "The Ind.-pendent the Ring Around it. and W. 0. Sautt ders." A* the morning service M Loftin had preached on sensationa subjects dealing principally witj Saunders and his paper. Many reports are in circulatioi and it is impossible to get accurat information. Saunders was preser at both services. As he left chur. that night and started toward, hi home many people were on th zareets returning home. One re port had it that several of Saunder; bitterest eneriJes followed him an when he had gotten inside the yar yelled out some threats about givin him a certain time to get out < town. Immediately five or seven shot rang out and Saunders ordered h alleged pursuers tr Ieeep back. Wc men and children were panic-strici en and rushed to cover. some fain ing. and the greatest excitement pri valled. Some claim that Saunde: was shot at by some party on th street. However. no one was h and the police soon disperced whi little crowd was left after the shoo ing. Saunders was next mornim arrested for carrying a conceale weapon. O. W. Gilbert. proprietor of a b department store and brother-in-la of Loftin. was arrested on the san charge. together with some five c six others for following Saund. with intent to assault and distui the peace. They were bound ov to trial justice court Tuesday mon ' ing. The unfortunate fall-out betwei Saunders and Pastor Loftin is sa - to have come from Saunders' co tinued bitter attacks on Loftin a acount of a certain seduction e. some months ago in court. A Ia of the city was brought into dispu and it narrowed down to the vera Ity of either the lady or the paste The deacons of Blackwell Memori -sustained Pastor Loft in and expe] Sed the lady. Saunders went at th action with unheard of editorial giving Loftin unfavorable notoriet Pastor L.oftin decided to prea< upon the great evil that Saunde .and his paper were to Elizabeth Ci and crowds gathered from every se Ition of the city and even from tl Icounty to hear his arraignmei Printed circulars were distributed a over the city Saturday and the se sational subjects were the source much comment. Miany citizens fre ly predicted that bloodshed or least trouble would result. The u fortunate trouble is deeply deplort by all citizens and it is hoped th the law will be allowed to take course. Big Profit in Autos. "It has always been a forego: conclusion that the manufacture< automobiles is a profitable industr hut.'' says the Augusta Chronicl "some real figures. from what ni be considered an authentic source a concern making automobiles not short of surprising. For t stance, the statement is made th. the profits on cars sold by this or concern alone, for delivery next ye i will amount to at least 4uI per cein and. though such a profit 'may souri exagm-ated.' it does not mark ti iend of the hope for earnints ent taine'd by the makers. Indeed. tti 'statement is ma'le that 'in 1912 .1: returns abould be around 60i p' Icent. "As an illustration, the statenru: is made by one of the manufacture: that 1.2 cars have been orde're for 1911 delivery. representing $2 812.250l in business. on which th concern will make a profit of S.96 500 In the same statement is cot tained the information that an ir vestment of $5.f00 in one of the at tomobile manufacturing enterprise of this country represents a value tion today of $140.00ui in additiont whikh cash dividends have bee paid to the amount of $69.73'a. o that In four years t.he company' stock dividends have b.'en 447 1 per cent on the inve'stment. "Another concern, one of the lar;; er ones, shows ever a more remark able profit eartning. One of ..t stockholders of this latter compan; is reputed to hav'e invested $ I ii.e'e three years ago and for which . h;ts very recently refused a 'ash of fer for his .holdings. an inc-rease o just 20 to I on an investment ii the space of three years. "A recital of these facts is one - n illustration of the unlimite~d es. tc'nt to which a fad has carried otn of the com'mercial e'nterpr ises of ti& world. The qu:estion: of whether o: not the people of the 'ountry wil ever get tired of paying~ tw:'.-'h. they are wnrth, upon the statem'~i of their makers." Ilied From Fall. At Pitsrooro. N. C..Nanc'y$curlock. a negtro girl M years of age, fouz::d a snake in tho yard and ran to th. barn for a pitchfork to kill it wh:i. but when she starte'd up a zlad'i leading to the loft she feil over and IDined Rlebels. Mirs. Miary Weaver. of Pover. r. the woman who had the distinction of having fed three Southern gener als 47 years ago, wh.'n part oif the Southern army bivoucaced near her home, is dad. She was 3 yars old. SOME GOOD NEWS ANTI-C.ANNON HOUSE PRF.DI.*'TED I HY ST.AN19-.T E1ITOlt. -Old Hill" Nei%un. Owner ofi kan%.a I City Star. Exchanges Greetings With Taft. (ol. Wisliam R. Nelson. owner of the Kansas City Star. "dropped in ' on President Taft at Burgess Point Friday af-rnoon. On his way out to the Pre'sien's cottage the colonel said -he wasn't zoing to talk politics if he couid help himself. Subsequent reports indicated that a hearty exchange of greetings was quickly followed by an earnest dis cussion of recent events in the po litical wo";d. Pr.-sider.t Taft and "Old Bill" Nel son. as he falililarly refers to the Missouri editor, have been friends a long tine. "What about the result in Kan sas?' was the opening chorus from the newspaper group. "Oh.'' laughed the colonel. "my heart is not broken." "'And Iowa?'' - "Well I am managing to hold up under that pretty well. too." he re plied. "What do you think of the possi hiiities of the next house of repre sentatives being Democratic?' "*It looks as though it would either h 1e Democratic or insurgent. At any I rate. you can bet it will be anti S Cannon." " Kansas."* added the Colonel. "is filled with men who either made th" State or the sons of men who made it. They think progressively out there, and they act progressively. Zeople in the East don't understand 'f Kansas." ".\any Republicans." continued S Col. Nelson. "seem to think that the Republican party is made up of a - raj.rity of '!,.- ,ot-rs ,f this coun -try. In t.har they are wrong. The Democrats have never put. up a can didate for president whc. ought to 's have won that they did not win. Take e Cleveland and Tilden for example.' it "Ali tnis doesn't mean that you Lt are going to support Judson Har mon. does it?'' queried a venture 9 some reporter. d "Not against Theodore Rooevelt." "Do you think Col. Roosevelt can 'come back'?" W"Come ack?" snapped the colon e el. "Why he would sweep the coun r try. iut I do not think he will run s unless he .has to." b Co!. Nelson then spoke of his r friendship for President Taft. *"Do you thing -he will be elected?" "Now. boys." laughed the colonel. "you must not ask me foolish ques ions."* Will Save Niagara Falls. e This is an utilitarian age and as -a consequence most thi':gs are look e ed at from the practical standpoint rof dollars and cents only. This is even true as to some of the most beautiful '2ature spots in our coun try. If 4t is some charming rapid or wat.rfall some "promoters" come along with paper and pencil and Sigure out how much power is going to waste, and how that pow y er may butlzdin the prroduc U'In many cases that is a good thing for it it by such men and me~ Ithods the prosperity of communi ties is advanced. But sometimes this commercial spirit is carried too far, and places hallowed by his tory and u~entime~nt as well as by the charm of beauty are threatened witn destruction in order that some big trich corporation may get richer and bigger at the public expense. sIt is this lust for financial gain stifling the finer sensibilities which in recent years has menaced Niagara, out of the gradest, and for more e thsn a century the most popular na t ural feature on this continent. -Therefore every lover of beauty and -' everyone who believes in retaining unspoilt such spots for future gen -erations to admire must rejoice that Sthe governments of the United States Sand Canada have come to an agree iment whereby this end will be at 'e :ain~ed. -Are we in danger of' losing our republican simplicity in both man (ners and speech. The daliy press Csays that Andrew Carnegie is now - in residence at Skibo Castle. Scot e land." Trute, one swallow doesn t C niake a summer, neither does one expression ncsaiyindicate a aping after old world forms and rlunkeyism. but the words "in resi dence" breathe the atmosphere in Swhich the aristocracy of England and the idl~e rich of Newport live, move and have their being. -At a meeting of the bankers of -Oklahoma. as reported by the Hob,.at G (iebes. S. '). Hogan said: "The bank ers of Oklahoma are a set of moral cowards. :hat ia the reason they a.-e not receivia;: justice at the hand sofl the lawnmikera. You f.'llows don think that a se: of resolutions will do any good with a bunch of pen' atoars ha'.e been led to believe that o'f the Farmer!s' t'rion. Th~ - ing tor the bank'.rs to do is to fmr.d bo.: h.' o17ive .;eeke'r stands, and put the fixing to mhim.' Then the bankers :)ropos.'d ii(,gan for governor. The me.n who handle the money know al so how t. handle the politician. And you farmner 'nd workers, too. Ready made languages do not ap pear' to wear well. Esper'anto. ilke its pred!ecessors in the same line, en joyed ephemeral popularity. but like t.h.'m. again, it does not meet with e'neral acceptance and prohaly nev et' will. Langua:.es evolve and that 'language which in the course of de velopmtent is found most effective i-: commerCtcC and trade and as the med iumi of intere'urse between peoples is the language wh:ch ultimately wili donina:e. a::d this position the Eng iish lan::uage evidently holds. Foolish Young Woman. -i wi marry him or kill myself. was the derKaration of a pretty :.row n-eyed girl in the register ofr die-ds- oflic" at Einraheth ('ity. N. C..' that s- was under arest for tryi ng t to olope. Hecr father took 'her heme.r The soap-bubble is a very pretty thing till it hursrs; arnd that Is truer A GREAT SUCCESS IVE MEN RELEASED FROM CITY JAIL ARE C'REI). Result of the Move to Give Pauper Inebriates Free Treatinent Was Satisfactory. The State says the five inebriates who have been taking the McKanna rhree Day Liquor cure furrished free by the city of Columbia. have been pronounced cured of the drink disease and will be let out of the ward. where they have oeen since last Thursday. The men were sentenced toe a term in the city jail on the charge of drunk and disorderly. Mayor W. H. Gibbes will grant a pardon to each of them and they will not be required to serve the remainder of their sentences. As soon as they vacate the ward. three men. now in the city jail on like charges, will be taken out and given the treatment. The five men who will be releas ed took their last drink of whiskey Friday afternoon. Ever since than they have refused to taste it. al though it has been constantly offer ed to them. To allay any suspicion that the whiskey might be "doped.' a new bottle was gotten sealed from the dispensary. But they re fused to drink this also. Beer has. been kept on ice in the ward. where the men could get at it whenever they wanted it. but since Friday af ternoon they have nct touched drop of anything containing alcohol. Posations have been secured by Mayor Gibbes and Dr. 0. E. Thomas president of the McKanna company of Columbia. for all the men. They will go to work at once. The men to be released are the first to take the McKanna treatment for the liquor habit which hereafter will be arinistered free of charge to all pauper inebriates arrested and jailed In Columbia. The record of each of the men. treated by the city, will be closely watched. Purity of Diction. The excellency of some portions '4 the Englis Bible as a text book ir English literature Is well known ,et not sufficiently acknowiedged. A.- a sample of its purity of diction '.r the first two verses of the thirt, second chapter of Deuteronomy. a form a part of the song of Moses. "Give ear. 0 ye heavens, and I wit' speak. and hear. 0 eart.h. the wor,-. of my mouth. My doctrine sha.t drop as the ruin. my speech sha.. distil *s the dew, as the small ram, upon the tender herb. and as ile showers upon the grass." This is a majestic song expressed in loftir-Z strain. Yet all of the forty-seven words. save three. are Anglo-Se4. Many speakers and writers ^ - search thme dictionary throngh f words of five and six syllables mi~ra learn with profit by a study of LN above quotation to simplify their speech. The beauty of the verses ae enchanced by the skill use of th a letter "d. ' ''M7 doctrooe shall dlre as the rain, my apeeci. shall dmst.. as the dew.'' Thast se tence could ,.o; be improved on. Why They Don't Marry. Many reasons are given why the marriage rate has fallen off so great ly in recent years and why people marry later in .ife. Most of the rea sons have more or less truth in them. but one of the most common is the fact that far too many yoti.sg pob pie want to begin married life where their parents le~ft off. That is. they want at the beginning of married life all the comforts. luxuries and advantage's their parer-ta secured or ter years of experience and work. and because they cannot they defer marriage and ultimately abandon the thought, It !s a mistake. It would not be good, in the great majority of instances, for young married pen pie to hav'e everything at their co.n mand. It would enervate them and lessen their satisfaction in life. Far petter for them to begin humbly and simply, as in the probiabriit:y their parents did. atnd t.hen would come to thenm through their con stant e-.dle:vor and ambition the joy and satisfactvion or gradually risinut ~in the domestic scale. G;ood by. H ousefly: H~ealth boards cry You must die. You carry germs U'pon your feet. And drop them in The things we eat: Iw-posit nmicrobes On our plates. And scatter them On shinny pat".s Hurtful atoms You dispose U'pon W~opsy Popsy's nose. G'oodiby. Housefly: There's reason why. You must di. Declaring that th.. Northern milis will put 1 'i.u0 cot on buye~rs in th e Southern field. Hion. F. H. Hyatt sounded a no:.- of alarm and warn ed the voters of Harry Friday that a coron mill tru~st is likely to place where the tobaco trust has placed tobaco. The "lbaded" Gun. At Athens. Ga.. he.'ause he did rnot knouw it was Jonded. Do.e Jores. a 6-ear-old-.bo. lev.'led a gun a; his' baby sister andi pull--d the trger. The baby's head was blowni comj plately ofT. hurled throuzgh a door1 ad portions where plastered on a aall twenty fe--t distant. 'Shot the Sheriff. Sheriff lidmond Dull, of Monroe. affeb.. who was shot hv an 'uniden ified nonro near Er:e. Mich . is near lath :n .a i'eal hospit;al. Dull tried n arreset the 'e::rn for rob.ert whe'i he latter shnt him three times. H nade his escape. I usna't forg.-t that when it c'o~mes tot aising things the yeast cake is not i. WANT M OUT gtfuer's Presence in the Cahint is Giving Seie Troble TO THE REPUBUCANS Ihe Leaders Say the Secretary Is Proving an Embarrassment in the Congressional C0mnpaign and He Hasi Been Asked to Resign for the Good of the Party. A dispatch from Beverly. Mass.. %ays there was increasing evidence there Tuesday that the recent bom bardment of the President with let ters from Republican leaders in all parts of the country. protesting that Secretary of the Interior Ballinger was proving an embarrassment in the laying of plans for the coming Congressional campaign, is beginning to have an effect. if not upon the President himself. at least on the advisers who are closest to him. No attempt was made to deny the reports that Senator Crane. at the very outset of his political pilgrim age in the West. had probably sug gested to Secretary Billinger. at Min neapolis Monday his duty to the party might require that he sacrifice his place in the Cabinet. All Secre tary Norton would say. after -having considered the matter nearly all day. was that it would be necessary to ask Senator Crane. The statement was re-iterated. however. that President Taft would not so much as lift his little finger. if by so doing he could secure the retirement of Secretary Ballinger as head of the department of the in terior. In addition to the letters he has received the President has -heard ver bally from a number of party lead ers regarding the sentiment toward Secretary Ballinger. They have talked frankly with Mr. Taft on the subject, it is said, and while they have agreed with the President ap parently in his position that nothing has been proved against Secreaary Ballinger. they Zave put the matter purely on a party basis and have said that the campaign would be much easier with the Ballinger issue elim insted. There was no disposition in Bev erly to treat the meeting of Senator Crane and Secretary Ballinger In Minneapolis as "accidental." It was clearly iatimated. however, that whatever move was being made against Secretary Ballinger had its inception and being with the actire party leaders. and not with Presideot Taft. The President. it can be posi tively stated. will never ask Mr. Bat linger to resign. If the Secretary should feel called upon to resign, however, there is said to be little doubt that his resig nation would be accepted. Wh'lt Ballinger Says. Secretary Ballinger Tuesday de nied that his conference with Sena tor Crane. at Minneapolis. Minn.. re lated to or would be followed by his resignation. He said the matter dis cussed was not even of direct inter est to him. He denounced his foes in strong janguage and said he in tended to ignore them entirely. His denial was issued after zeading the dispatches from Bererly. which in dicated that Senator Crane's mission to the West was to carry the hint that .\r. Balinger would aid 'he party in forthcomin: elections by withdraw'ing at thi' time. "There is no resignation on the card. I can tell you." was Mr. Bal -i.--' e -yy t) this. Co ...urng. ---.id. "I am ?impl!s r~n my way to the coast for a l.Lle re.t. Sor-- want me to make " -- s' perinaneent. but it will n't . . s, ..s long as the Pres ile-:t is 4' s.1-3 met Craiue ses terday morning. througth no arrange ment of mine, and the matter we discu..sed -politics. of course-was nothing which iinterested me directly at ali. Mr. Crane wished to consult me on he matter, and came to where I was.- that'st all. There's nothi-:g mysterious about it. I guess he-s gone back Kast now. All this vigorous attack by un scrupulous men. back.'d by newspa pers with even less scruples. aoes off me like water off a duck's back. That never w!lI induce me to resign." MAKE BIG CORN CR01P. Ten Thousad Bushels on One Hun dred Acres. A dispatch from Columbia to th3 Augusta Chronicle says that farm lng pays in South Carolina with the proper fertilization and cultivation i" shown by th'e fact that 10.000 bushels of corn will oe Droduced on I 00 acres af the asylum farm this v--ar. This is the indicat~ons now and the prediction will no doubt be over exceeded provided the seasons prove just right. The field of corn on the asylum farm is one of the most beautiful in the State and is attracting much at te'ntion. Some of the land shows over 2..0 stalks to the acre. yhe great crop is being produced under the manageme'nt of Capt. J. W. !4uich. the treasurer of the asylum. It was thought at the first that the field had been planted too thick. The success cf the corn is attribute? by Capt. Hunch to deep ploughtng. Burned by Blue Vitriol. ?'ourteen persons. most of them :.iAldre'n. were hadly burned iby 'blue ri'rioI at Philadelphia on Tuesday Ltternoon. caused by the upsetting of fnre department supply wagon. Two >f the children will die and sev'eral >thers are believed to be fatally surned. Shot Her Suitor. Annoyed by his nersistent demand hat she become his wife. Miss Rosy 'cerino. aged 15. of Chicago. Ill.. hot and perhaps fatally wounded vr.tonio Rossi. He is in the bospi al and ir. expected to di. (liildreo ('u'hed. Three children are reported erttb dI to death and three more missing i a cave-in of an excavation for a uildi:.g at Howard avenue and roadway. Brooklyn. Tuesday after'