Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SBOTH WERE SHOT Weaihs of Two Bmettsib L sl Vere F ilk a RaCh EDORACCIDEN Leessn Rome 'o7 tbursday for a '~- Thairving Da, HInUs. .Prentib Xoorm and Guy Rogera No Ifeard From util Sechlng PartievFind Their Remains BM BrW& - Th dead bodies. of .Guy Rogers and ?rentis Moore were 'fdund Sat Lrday moring about ten -'c lock. The tWo boys left their houieh'Bepnetts ville early Thursday inrning for a hunting trip. They- went to Gardner's Bluf hitched thei" horse and buggy and nothing defnite could be learn ".ed of their whereabouts#izntil the bodies were found. Prentiss Moore. aged I. the son of M EmiL tore. was found lye on the southibde off branch about Ave feet detp. His feet were toward the bottom of' -he branch 'and he clutched a' briar between hi* -ngers. Examination showed thht the load from a, shotgun had enterp the sidt near the edge.of th&shouldex blade and raned toward the middk of thea pssinlg thTogh the daThie enti Iod shot and wad -a' lying Bderneath his clothes n4/ front of the chest. - ar Rogers. aged15. son et N.B Rogers, county treasurer, was foode Lthe bottom of the branch. only a tesw feet- from the body of littk Mo :e. His face was -turned to the -rn his body was nearly in a n siton4. rith the head Ir the edh'of the. water. in a puddi' .11, too. was wounded wit' Vhe load entering dieti ntoi the heart from the front : t he -Cheb"t.. -had eInU ML the -backsd..sm hragthemselves, in the sklr the bete& .t . . . . . ...that between the powde' m'oundinside the shir The wound : was found on the ~4C~U'~t te lbrandhe the muzzle ~A ,-thea& o~tzlcocked and* Ir angbt a smanl part oung pogers. o - ~~Vt'o'wth the cocked trig Sademt -the oicnr m+ k euqa she. An mptfahelrom found withtr cbm of the 'muzle of the mhenne ans-through a broa a losaontthe theselaxerthre othe Nointlntiere the bo Mtcb~ *'ozisewas about a quar ~ iale~f 'weretheir bodiei anFdTria;morn tmbg% prtswere out look-' A~eboys. The party was in 1~a~i'ridaynight and with ~ ~ ~%en aw swamp on thfr was again formed Satn -3 g man wh a been gstveewing'the search na the place 'where zast -seen. with the - that idam to'-spread -'tae.,eey foot of ~ 7h~~Z~u was assigned to a. - iamg 'whom weeFrn -dW. Cj. Cartrsle. Mr as ridng horseback ut ~t~~chwhen be saw the body o! ~ ~~odi ermained as they were the coroner empaneled whnthey were moved and~ __ anmade by Dr. W. J1 ~ The jury made a thor ug m~~anntIon and took the testi noisr eer one ia the immnedlate vinity.It ka practicall impossible 's armoie facts with the theory ofaden+ - yet nothing has develop. el1opoint conclusively tothe theory ctfiurder. TU'1i7boya. Guy Rogers, aged 14 inoof Cdunty Treasurer N. B. Rog e ra. and Prenties Moore. aged aborz 12.years, son of Mrs. Wiley Moore Sleft homne on a hunting trip Thurs day morning and have not returned It is feared that they have beet. drowned in the Pee Dee. been los: 'la'the swamp or have met with tan They left Bennettsvlle early -Thursday drove to Gardner Bluff. -hMihe their hors, and entered the swamp, it is supposed. When they falle-1 to return home in the after noon, relatives and friendis began a search; others joined the party. but no trace could be had of the boys. A large party has been scouring the swami~s. Friday nxght the party had been increared and every effot t possible has been made to find them. The swamp is several ml!es wide. and many miles long, and is very den.y Parties from Cheraw and Soci-t y HPi are also in the swamp. While thi-re will be no means left unased to Sad them, many have' des:paired of end lng the boys allva.* Shos Him About Re'nt. As a result et .,carre we-r sore rent cdtton gen their " ice. M':: Hall shot and fata1lly wo.unded .s.s. Hall. The men quatrrelle'd W' 'nas day and next mnornin: Matt Hat .-n tered the at?. re of..- H all a t Thompson. Ga.. and! --mpted ' inadi~ of' buckshot in:' i'.- la:t.r's left side Accide-ntally Mhot. At Spartanburz. Virgl Hlgin. aged 14. was killed by b~s coma tioA..barlia when the lntter-s gun ton Thursdas when n'.- 1a-'er-s run' was discharged. WOMKED THE BOOOO GAME. nId %epo Woman FUlm Flamnmed Out of Her Money. Ann Thompson. an old colored wo nan. who lives a few miles from his city over in the Fork. claims to tave been flim flammed ou. of $75. which she had laid aside to-vaX a lebt. by a slick rascal of ier ow' :olor. whom she entertained one Oight. and who claims to be a hoo loo doctor. with powers to make al' hings come to pass. Ann believec n him at first. buz she doesn-t an., nore. It seems that the slick rascal camt aong about last Thursday and tnocked at the hospitable door %: nn Thompson. who occupied n sosy cabin with her hus~bandx. whor ihe-bad married .only a -few weekt eiqre. The szranger was taken 'in ind somehcw he found out that Ant 2ad V75 saved up with which she was to pay a debt she owed a whit, tentleman of the neighborhood to ;upplies or rent. or both. He :hen let out by accident ths: he was a hoodoo doctor. and if Anr would commit to his care a few min ttes her $75 she would -find wher ;he went. to- pay her debt that het )7S had increased to $100. which vould leave her $!5 after her deb was jald.. She gave him the P75 xafeh. after many incantations anc 4oodoo mumblings, he pretended ? vrap up in a bag. and told Ann t( et It 'remain 'unorened fpr a da: ,r two. Ann agreed to do*'this anc ,l1 uent.happy to bed. Next morning when Ann and he iusband went out they found tha heir guest had departed during th. dight, and. as the sequel proved hai -arried the $75 with him. As sowi is tha' stranger was missed, the: ook down the box In which he ha. laimed to have put Anns $75. an< %l they found was some old te aceo -tag: and pieces of bright tin 'o trace of the flim flam artist cow, e found. He had gone with Ann 75.-and she Is now somewhat poo: r. but wiser about hoodoo docte -The Orangeburg Times and De. crat. - HUREYLNG THE CANAL. 'ig Panama Ditch May Be COemplet ed Yearbead of Tise. There is- every reason to believ hat the Panam- canal will be con. 4eted by December. 1913-a yea head of time- and that the firs f the year. - 914, will f'td ship: teaminr through the locks. al though the formal opening will not .e until Jan. 1. 1915. This Is wh%.. ':ol. Goethals, the army engIneer * Aharge of the gigantic operation. In 'ormed President Taft on the lat er's-recent visit to Panama. and i rought a smite to the Chief Execo -Iye's face that had not worn o* hen be arrived hone thla week ol. Goetbala also informed the.Prea dent that- the canal will to, bull or the otiinal estimate of $.33. '00,00, and not a penny'"more Thereat the Presidential smllesar, The comapletion' of the work de end~s on the situation at the Cole 'ra cut. Col. Gnethals probably wil ecommend 'the construction of re sining walls In the cut bea-use. o pprehension that there may be fur :he slides of. earth. The chief'en~gineel also recoin aended the esabhishmeant of grea 1ry docks, the maintenance of th. 'resent machine shops and big -anp 'ly depots. so that not only the Unit "d States navy kut the commerce c be sworld -can -dock. coal, victual btc.; at the Government plant. Im -orcant ,mcials say this Is the only imeans of makring the canal pay an' 'uccessful. If tolls are high ant 'upplies are cornered, ships wil -urely go elsewhere. The. Presiden s conmldering this and will discuss : n 'his 'coming message- -to Con FOUND HIS DEATH CASE. laifled Detective Killed Himmelf Be fore Admitting Defgat. In practical admission that h( :onid not solve a case which had beer ntrusted to him. Barnard (Ike) Lax trus. one of the famous detectives n .he country, committed suicide by hooting in a hotel at Rochester *a.. last week. He had been r-unning a private de ect're agency, and some time agc ras given a case of systematic the' 'rom a big firm to ferret out. H< ould make no headway, and in des -eration made fiood his lifelong boas: bat If he found a case he could not .oive he would commit suicide.* DIE NOVEL HERO. iets Fire to a Neighbor's House by Flame-Tipped Arrow. Geo. Bomp. a 15 years old boy. I4 tader custody at Glendale. Long Is and, charged with using a flame ipped arrow to set fire to the hom< .f a wealthy neighbor. The lad lur d the mistress of' the house away b3 elephoning her that her little sor .xas sick at school. The fire did 32. 100 damage. The fire niarch'al de :lares that the boy started the i >ecause he has beetn r.-ading nor.'1 tbout how !ndians, set fie to tht abins on their way white enemties by neans of fire on arrow tips.* some Quick Work. At Nashville. T'-nu.. a new chureb auildin: wast constructe~d from th-: oundmation painte'd and fuirn.ture in .talie'd in o.,. day. throusta the comn ine'd ..'Uor-' o: three Christian~ hurc'hes. at a sert ice hcid in. it hat nigtht. There were about 130J .corkrs and the tarak was finished it> ten hours. .* Money In Cottan. The win1 of lM.Q' T Inman. wh Or man' 'e".rs w... one- -' t.' bes: noe "",,-ton Traders mf -he' %Soutn. I.illed in froitt-al3 G -.' no' cade"- and an :ndepnds-n: Te'ar. cnrpose'd of Gilhert P:ratory THE BOLL WEE2 CM ABOUT FOUR YEARS IT WILL REACH THIS STATE. Our Farmers Should Begin to Pre pare t Fight and Throttle Tbs Great Peit. The Augusta Herald says the boll weevil is a tangible evil, a terribie )est. Tne farmers of Texas 'hae -ealized this years ago. The Nr ners of Louisiana hare learned it ;ince. and the farmers of Mississippi ire learning it now. This terrible nasect doesn't destroy all the cotton. -jut wherever it makes its appeai tni'e lCs ravages so greatly reduce *he yield that cotton growing Oe -omes unprofitable. Ever since its first appearance n Texas a fight has een made ou it. Indirvdual farmers have done ab .hey could to check its spread. The state governments of the states a* 'ected aided In the work. and the ederal government went to the lim t of its resources aiding in the figh'. 1ut all to no avail. No method has "een discovered to exterminate these veevils where they have once ap -eared. nor even to check their ad ;ance. This has been steady. From the listr( - first infested the boil weevil ias moved eastward and northward teadily and almost regusarly. ao hat it now only appears now that -he entire cotton belt will be affect -d. but almost the time may be set 'or its apearance in any county, or -Then there shall be no uninfested listrict left. . As yet there are no bool weevils u Georgia. but unless a method ir *ound for fIghting the pest., more sue -essful than any so far discovered. he time is near when Georgia also vin be the loser by Its ravages. In ntielpation of this coming ealam ty a great convention Is to be held n the near future In Atlanta, at -hich .the situation will be fully dis ussed and the best protective course mapped out. On this same line the Southern -alwa'v. so greatly interested Ind! -ectly.iu the success of cotton grow ng. has issued a circular giving ad fee as to the best course to pursue fter the boll weevil shall have made ts appearance. This Is. -1. The destruction of the weevils nutbe. fall by burning all rubbish -nd material In and about the field which might serve for hlberna'n tuarters of the weevils. 2. Breaking (plowing) the soil as leep as conditions will allow. 3. The shallow winter cultivation ,f the soil if no cover crop Is used. 4.. Delaying the planting 'till the oil and temperature are warm mnough to make It safe. 5. The planting of - early-matur ig varieties of cotton. . 0. The use of fertilizers. - 7. Leaving more space between -he rows, and on ordinry uplands iavlng a greatei- distance between )lanats in the row than Is usually al 'owed. 8. Thi se of the eection'harro-w 'efore and after'planting and on -he young, cotton. 9.. Jntensive shallow cultivation. 1.0.. Agitation of the stalks by -neans of brush atached to the cul -ivtor. II. Picking up and burning the quares that fall under 'the weevil ondlitions, especially during the "rat thirty or forty days of infesta tion. 1?. ControllIng the~ growth of 'he- plant If excessive by deep and :lose cultivation. 13. Selecting the seed. 14. '1he rotation of cropw and .be use of legumes. As soon as cotton can be gathered. 'f the stalks are still green an-l trowing. kill all unhatched weevi.s a squares and Immature bolls, and it the same time deprive the adalt veevils .of food and breeding trounds by immidiately cutting and 'urning all the cotton stalks. The earlier this can be done the better. Where a sufficient number ,f cattle can he turned into the field o eat it clean In a few days 'this -nay be done, instead of cuttig and iurping the stalks. In heavy soils, where the winter -aiital Is heavy. 5t may answer to -ult the stalks and plow them under. 'ut care must be taken to have the talks completely covered and turn d as deeply as possible. This section Is still remote f-Ja. he infested district, and. It is to be "oped that some method will be iscovered for exterminating thi -est, before it shall reach here. OFFERS TO DIE FOR $2100. Chcagto .Man is Willing to Kill 11Am self and Sell His Body. Tiared of the struggle to eke out an nCistence, but wishing to have a "ood timo" before he ends his life. Robert Tyler. startled the Chicago ,olice by offering to commit suicide for- $200. "I mean It. "saId the man. "You may thIng I'm crazy.' but I'm not. If any medical collet" n Chicago gives me $200 I wi!! :ucree that my body be giv'en to it for dissecting purposes. Two hundr.d dolars would enable me to live lke i king for about two weeks, and at the end of that time I'd be ready t'. quit here.''" Chicken Sh."er. --Chx'ken shower" is the iatest onnecticut novelty in ministrial onati'on parties. Seventy membe's of the Torrin Ford CongregationaI :hrch at Stanford called on :heir. ,"w pastor. the R -tv. W. E. Face. Monday nitht. eeach person carrying! a live chicken. The flock w'ill sinck ~-vil stock the pastor's hencoop' to he pasto'r's hencoop overfiowlu;. Thr'ee, l~rowin in flay. A *2--3.tr' -:El on JTamica ba.' re '-d -1 '..- dro~wnin-: Friday of br- mwnlo a fourth was rescu' --d n 3 rio-condition. The' d.wi -in w'.'e a! r-'isidents of Prnok!yn. rhe were drowned when :-t anciih --a7nsied off Rockaway. po: HonrcadIe in Pic'ke'n. red ..'ernoon. aNout : o'cck er I.; 't" ienry Fogge qhot and .; y.ar old. and it is said r'ereI drnkr.- They are promine,tlv I PHYLLdS'S ENGAGEMENT "Am I disgracefully late?" whisv ored Phyllis's mother to our mother. Ls she came into the church alone. (Phyllis it stayin:t with an aunt in Australia.) 'I had :ve4 letkers from Australia. and I .imply had to read hem all before I could start." "Really?" whispered our mother with unfeignaed interest. "Yes. five." said Phyllis's mother. benming. "Aid I do hope your rheu matism is L, tter. . . . "Phyllis is enad." said ; our mother :o us a: lunch. *At last:" sa:d Sister Amy. "How relieved Pyllis's uuther will oe." Iaid Sistcr -;.g. *low do you know?" s.id 1. -ili :::oth-r told me that she had five letters from Australia this :nornmg." wmud o.u' mother. as if no turtht.r evidence was required. "But . . . . said I. *I could see by the way she said .L Of cou'se si. is eng.ed. "Of coui.se she is." said Amy. -"Of course." said Margy. There .tpon r witwdrcw. as I was clearly in tended to withdtraw r'on active part in the conversaOon "One of the letters would be from Phyllis." said AmLy. *wr1:t n buur he proposed. She would say that it was still raining and she was :n.'oy tng herself frightfully and d!d.'t want to come home a bit. She wca-2. write that in the afternoon, and th". would go out and post it togetb-rr. On the way back he would propose and she' would write another le.ter to catch the same mail. They woz:a go out and post that together- S wo'dtd be so pleased that sue would u . mind the estra stamp a bit. t'nd he would think it was the nices; pil Lar-box he had ever seen." "Two.'' said 3argy. "The third would be from him, saying what a lucky man he was, and what a sw et girl Phyllis was, and might he come to England to see Pyllis's mother. and Phyllis said if he did he would fall more in love with her than he was with her, and what a sweet uirl Phyllis was, and what a lucky man he was." -The fourth would be from the aunt, telling Phyllis's mother at: about his family. with just a post script to say bow glad Phyllis's mo:h er will be and what a blow it wiil be to lose her daughter.' "The fifth would be from the uncle with just a few words about th- fti ancial position and all the rest about his cold." -Whose cold?" r asked "The uncle's of course. I suppos Phyllis's mother will write to Phyl its. saying she cannot bear the idea of losing her." "Having sent her out for no other purpose." and though she doesn't want to. spoil Phyllis's happiness sh. cannot promise anything yet. Thetn she will write to him a letter. mor? kind than enthusiastic. saying Vhat a treasure Phyllis is, and that she does not know whether she can see her way' to parting with her daugh "Isn't it possible . r ? said I. boldly.. "No, it in't," snapped Am:. "Leave him alone. he Is only a man. I wish he would go on overeating himself, and not interfere in things he does't underbtanid. What shall we wear. My sisters went to tea with the De Wintons In the afternoon (with intent) and the De Wintons always sup with the Priestleys on Sunday nights. Violet Priestley is engaged .o Jack Haymmond, and I' met Grace Hammond in town on Mlonday after "I have some news for you." she said, "If you will promise not to tell . souL I oughtn't really to tell any -one, but you are different." I did not promise anything, but that did .ot seem to make any dir~erence. Phyllis is engaged. Isn't is a good hing? Pancy, if she had been sent jut all the way to Austria for noth - "Or worse still, to Australia." said "He is a tall dark man with a black moustache. His father is a judge, and his family is the oldest in the colony. Phyllis had written to her mother about coming home. and he went wIth her to post the letter. On the way back she told him what tne letter was about (wasn't it clever of her?) and he proposed then and there. He has ~rtten to Phyllis's mother, and promised to settle on Phyllis.. ut I mustn't say how much. Phyl is icouaing borne at once, a'nd he :s go:ng so put his farm straignt and 'olow by the next boat. The wed din will .be early In January. and immeatly 'arterward they are ;o in back to America." "Why .non't they try Australia?" I suggested. "tdam.- thing." sha said. "What do you think of it all, andi what am I o wear?" Lter I rnet Phyllis's mother. "'Th'y tell me," I said. "that you la tive leteS tom Australia yes trdni. Let : w' congratulate you "Thank you r-: v much." she said. I loe- ket:"rs :r. .n a distance, and it is nlice to hear' fromt oae's little nephews and nmaces. Five se'parate etters describing~ a children's party hey had tee"n to. But I do' wish 'h' y'd tell mte somet:hinc abotut Phyl is and when she' think~s of comting homie."-Frc'm P':r.'h. Short Mleter Sermlon%. Many a man's apparent di::nity is de to a stiff neck. A lucky muan is always hanin: on his sperior judnmert. Even the Iowy dlealer in old ji:n'a i apt to be a muan of meta!. Many a woman's sec-on' huband mourns the d.-mise' of her firet A woman is-n! nr'c'essarily wie h" r'a'- se c'an innol: foo! mnan. A womna".'- id'-i of ' br'::-- is any :nn who deinam's :.' tat ter h'er A woman 'an *rand1 a lo& of suffe' te'. ' ioes Florence ','.' un'The i'. WAS DEATH TRAP Twenty-Five Young Women Cruelly Burn ed or CrAshed to Death T ON STONE PAVEMENT Horrible Scenes Witnewted When Young Women Employed in Four a Story Factory Building Attempt to s EFcape from the Blazing Structure by Leaping from Vpper Stories. A-%z Ne wArk. \-:. -j.. :a'ar- n iin; .!a -.4ziw nu ,: '.went y-,.e -: : women were burned alive or crush ed to death on the pavement ,-. leai ijg from the windows and tire es capes of the four-story brick facto:y I at the corner of Orange and Hi;:h I Streets. Fifty were taken to hospi tals. two of whom may die. Among the injured is Jose E. Sloan. a fire chief. who was overtaken by the fall in; walls and buried in brick rub bish. He is badly hurt, but may re cover. Th.- ruzh of the flames was so in creditably swift and threw such un reasoning terror into the hudd!cd working girls on the top story that the body of one was found still seat ed on a charred stool heside the ma chine at which she had been busy when the first cry of "Fire:' petri fled her with fright. dilorrible as must have been what went in the smoke of that crowded ,:pper room. what befell cutside in the bright sunlight was more hor rible yet. The building was extreme ly innfammable and the first gush of flames had cut off all possibility ol escape by the stairways. The eleva tors made one trip. tIut took down no passengers and never came back. The only exit was by two narrow fire escapes. the lower platforms of which were 25 feet from the pavement be low. On these overcrowded and steep lanes. scorched. dancinug hot by the jets from lower windows. pressa-I for ward a mob of women. blind with panic, driven by the fire and the oth ers behind them. A net had been spread beneath the windows and the -t.rls began to jump. "Like rats o:t of a burning bin"* was the way a fireman described the descent. They boiled out of the windows like a thick treacle, rolled on the heads of those below them and cas caded off the fire escape to the pare ment 60 feet below. Some of them stood in the windows outlined against the flames and 3--.iped clear; others from the landings: still others from the steps where they stood. The alt was full of them and they fell every where-into the net. on the necks or firemen. and 15 of them on the trd stone slabs. When the awful rain ceased the'-e were eight dead in the street and the gutters ran red. Seven more were so badly crushed that they died in hospitals. Fifty are still under sua geons' care. Ciouds of smoke and shaurers o' burning embers spread over the city and rained down on nei~thborir..s roofs. As the news flew-and it lost nothing in th' telling-pank spread to other factories where marny of the girls in peril had friends ar-r: relatives and several firms b'a. 's shut down for the day. Thousands focked to the scene and made the work of the firemen and police mor difficult. Italian silk workers fe3 in the street and prayed and lame:+r ed pitably. -Priet and clergymen -v ,rked their way through the press to grive the last c- nsolationse to those of theIr different faiths. Ambulance-- and~ automobiles commanzdeiered for emUee gency service were hurryi: 'n oppo siton directions to the hospitais an ! back again. The ballding war ? four v e. y brick stru-:tuae :e: -.oied on -b two: lower floors by the Newark L'ap 'r box compan'y and the A. A. '?.: 'aper B't Co: o-t -he th-'-' !>or where the fire stat'cd. by the ..-chor La p C ampany 2.nd the . --:. i-'lec tric company and on the top floor, where ths death list ran heri:.: by the World Manufacturing com pany, makers of underwear.I The waoden floors were "oake-1 with oil drippings from the machin ery and the flames ate through theas lik pasteboard. When warped and weakened. the weight of 'r'e ns.u chnery t --a ti-em from t.he n~ 's and they fell anto the basement in :: hr Irible tangle of hot :ron and ::n::i--d humanity. Sadie Benson, an employe of the Aetna Electric company. was eletn-u ing an electric light fixture in a: gasoline, bath. The gasoline took fire-she does not know how-and trickled in a lIttle rivulet of :hmties on the floor, where stood a fuzll can o: gasoline. The can exploded and the burning liquid flew far and wide. Lewis Coxe. an employe of the box factory on the second floor. a standing in the hail at the time 'f the explosion. The shock was si ron:: enounh. he said, to hurl him a~taint the wall. but the girls upstairs .it their whirring sewing macain- did not hear the explosion. Fireman Brown, who turn.ed in he alarm. wa at work dire:y 0;' posite th' b~uildinit. ele:nin-:-. windows of the engin.- house wher he is statione'd. Het s:aw a gIlr ut of :he factory into the. s:r.e sramingt and wringin;: h.-r hands. -There :s a fire in ther--. 's cried. t'ointin: bac-k to :h-- il had left. Brown turn"'d in an~ alarm ai tlen dashed 1:p th.e tire -sea:. .ady he founri fortv u.::r forth story windotw. sam' o! ard with :..rrour :i>a-ih h.. wi to pu!! dow-n th cmnb oult. ttrown smas'-hedl PINK FRANKLI'S CASE l*'VORITS To Vi.iE HIM 'ARUI>oN ED> \t i 1.1. EN iE MAiE. .e .1pir-al in the Cai.e to le Aban doned and Gov. Ansel Asked to Turn Him Looe. Ter-- seers to le an effort on th. art of some white people. of mttore r less prominence in Columbia to av.- Pink ranklin. who brutally hot down and murdered 'a co41 ood Censtable Va!entine sorn . :o near Cope. from the just puu.sh ient for nis crime. The State saye. --Th.: Gov. Ansel will be asked ardon Pink Franklin or to commu' us sentence of 4eath to life nipr nment is practically certain should her.- be -n adverse decision in tih as: appeal. The case of Pink Frank :n is in the hands of white att*,: ieys. lie is now represeated I% lauv!e Sawyer of Aiken and Benj -lagood of Charleston. The negr tterneys. Moorer and Adams. ha. een withdrawn. "There is an appeal before the sut reme court to have a new trial f10 -mnkiin on the grounds of after-dz -overed evide'nce. Franklin was con icted in Orangeburg county sevor .ears ago on the char-e of kiiling : onstable by the name of Valent!n 4t, was sentenced to hang. An ap eal was taken to the supreme cour ind the verdict of the Orangbur; ounty court was affirmed. *Next the case was carried to Unit ?d States supreme .court to settle : 'onstitutional question as to jury The appeal was returned by the Unit ad State supreme court and the su >reme court of South Carolina order ed that a new day be set for the exe ution of Franklin. Later the at orneys for the negro appeared i the Orangebura county court am asked that a new trial be granted o1 the plea of after-discovered evidence 'hiz was denied and another appea was made to the supreme court" The State goes on to say that it i Pxtwcted when the case is called thi week that the attorneys will an nounce that the appeal has bee: ibandoned. and that then a petitlo for pardon will be filed with Goi Ansel. The State. a'short time age ublished a long editorial in whic it claimed that Franklin killed th constable in defense of his home. .Then came the announcement tha the two negro lawyers in the cas was to abandon it and their r!ace taken by white lawyers. This. -ac cording to The State. has been don but instead of the white lawyer press!ng the case on the pretense c after discovered evidence thporv. 1 is announced that they will abondo that plea. withdraw the case frot the Supreme Court and petition Go1 Ansel for a pardon for Franklin. Was the white lawyerm employ. in the case for this purpose. instei of presenting the socalled after dit covered evidence to the Suprem Court" There has been a great det of quibbling in this case on th part of the negro lawryers that ha t in charge before the white lawyet appeared on the sta?.e and pushe the negro lawyers behind the cul tan. Now the white lawyers at to use their persausive eloquence o Gor. Ansel. There are some thi, zonnecte with this case that the public woul like to know. First of all, who ha mspirc'1 this great interest in behal of a negro murderer who oughtt have been hung years axv? Seconi ly. who employed the white lawyer and from whence will come their fee Thirdly, why did the white lawyer abandon the socalled after discovere evidence, take the case out of coui and petition Gor. Ansel to pardC their client if he is not guilty of tt murder? t1'hls paper has no parta-uiar de sire to see anyone hung, but it be bl.eves that should Gov'. Ansel Ir terfere in this case and save thi murderer from the just punishumer of his crime, which is the inflictic of the death penalty, he would deina a grave injustice to the peoni of this vhole county, and particulai ly to th- n'eople who live in the set tion of county where Franklin m-n dred an officer of the law. whil in the discharge of his duty. and w ber him not to do it. All the subtorfuges in the wori en-t destroy the fact that Fran; in is guiity of an atrocious mnurdel for which h.- should be hung. Tc many murders escape punishmen: nd we hope' the law will be allo-. d to take I-s course in the casec Franklin. IV he is to be allowedt o free. :t w'!1 he an incentive fo t~he people ?o take the law in thi atds anrd met.- out justice to sur :riinals :-s Franklin wihout regar o iaw. litfore taking any action the case. Gov. Anseel should he.i froo 'Ih people of th -section 'hic ih the murder was commit:ta -Oran:.urg Times aind I)--mioca: \r ('h~cago, while her fiance. t)av d1 Natha.n. was :n th.e ounty build * *ar-: a marriage licnse !o h. woniditnz that was to have tak'; 113.-- T.:totdav. Miqs Annie N..yter: -ln-a - quarrel with her pros nit of rim-- weddcinrg plans ojded The.y S'aw~ Him Hunm. In, -h'e pre-ence of the. horrifie ~a.-ne'-r and c-rew of th*e trtam. 8.' -t:h-as. a negro. charred with as al t Srs. F. Snowd.'n. n--ar P.-" lota. Fla . ,..-:eral month -:o wne ,'e ko rom :htim train at G-! Poin r.*".an lyntch-d.4 by r he .ide C T.n mi urned lkhimng. FINE COTTON CROP 0tARF-S F01RTV-I)NI-: u. This 1, the l:icord .nile by a Farsn er in liamptn 0.unty .Accur'ling to Ih I ei 64 rt:. A cr-:oin-writing !o th? *Au;.:ua ! ea!fonAledmsy e . ent :o ::s -own for :he spe4c .'c pi:rpose of ::,eting the cotton rop of .lr. Jo%:h W. Wakr. who at Co-- a s:nali stat:ou on th >outh'rn Rta:lwaz:- bout n.- inil Sruim AX::.d. The fo'iouing isi a co)rr'-,::dent says .lout -.1 Walkers rot crop: .r. Valker showed nie two pat hen of otton wi:n a coained area w : 1Trs. of of which he had eVk.-d nearv 'wo bales to the acre. 1th tho- --!main inz remnant he con 'Idantly expec'vd would make a to :.l of forty-oue bales gathered from n'net-en acres I do not hesita.e to say that 1 share with Mr. Wal -ter the confidence he expressed. 1 r..ay have seen as fine cotton. for I have seen nanv of the finest speciuens of intensive farming that -his tction affords. but I never saw .fid of such luxuriant growth rt-d fruit:ite. with every boil on the stalk mature. oper. :nd picked. The cetton is planzed in five-foot -ows and locked in the rows. It rm.-d to avorae about five feet a:d ran very regular all over the fie:d. ZThe round perfectly lev -1 ad free froni ;rass. giving evi tence of careful culture. The stalks are full of empty burrs from bottom to top. and no .half-rown bolls of any consequence. Mr. Walker says he rathertd more than a bale at a )!ckin. and if he gets as much as - re taes additional. which he is a! -nost sure to do he will have forty ane tles fron nineteen acres. The land in this vicinity is natuc tWy ;ery soft and pliable. being. for he usost part. a sandy loam. wita occasunally a light mulatto subsoil. It breaks up into small clods that read ly crumble and pulverize like t Sues. .Mr. Walker broke his land up x h 24-inch plow. bedded and put !n 7,141 :>onnds to the acre of the Southorn Cotton Oil Co.'s S-3-2 :nade at th- Allevdale plant. Next he ntate an ap;plication of 40A pounds of their Top Dream. or 4-7 1-2-4. and then a econd application of 404) pounds of Top Dream. He used no nitrate of soda and ur lot manure. He ascribes the great sjnumber of fully matured bolls that , characterizes his cotton.to the "plant ood" -ontained in the Top Dream. [t sets the stalk with fruit that open before t-e killing frosts come. ana -onseque .tly. his cotton is now fill .xd with empty burrs from bottom .0 top. d He showed me an adjacent eld where lot manure had been freely used. It was very fine cotton, and tu marked contrast with the cotton of the surrounding country, but the g reat number of half-grown bolls. qnear the top that had not opened and never would open. was most dnoticeable. I examined a number of them to see if there was any possi bility of their ever opening. and in -every instanco I found that the rain had soasked into them and soured. rit o Crazed by Jealousy is Said to be the sCaus- for the Act. Frank Rickets shot and killed his d wife and .\rs. Neille Britton. with -whome she h.id boen livin,t in an apartmrenlt in the business center of Anderson. indiana. Thursday. Rick e ets. who was arrested. declared that he had shot the two womien atte his wife had shot at hinm. Rickets was Imaddened with .;ealousy because his ife had beenf s'eparated from himr for several mzon:.hs. A ;>oicrmtant a~ttred by the souznd of s!to?' r::shed to the' huild Ii,. 1oundv I~skets with a revolver in hisa h.d an' :d the bodies of ti.. aomen lyina !n an up~er hallway. Rickets attem::.'d to shoot. himself, bri th pe!~o:c.'man snatched the re volver' fron hm.* THE: "t-\-1..1!>.'' G'. Gts In Its. Fatal Wo4rk in Forest 0 m~rt. New~ York. .The coroner :s :t:.7 investienatine f the deatl of (-h:nriv- Mtz:.e. a t y year-old boy. w heo wie shot and ki! - Sed by a comtpat:t': of :he .smet age. SCharlos J.trnes. n--:r their home in !i Forest Port. N. Y.. Fr:d..c. The' two d had he+:n hii.-: ;.rad w.'r:- on their Sway home' ab. the. shoo:;n:. occur rred. ~ Are-"'. to * the -co-y told the .4 coro:-r.j J =- p'ointed hisshtu . :dayfuly at .'dley :--:linat hin t .- 'I - -n d. ,-- .hros ::in: i n tmwiie Three~ il: ho. Arze lte-<.uedl Fromn on.-ode Ir'at.d te - o.:::.: tuen of' - - - *n. a.!. .nan This is the chief requisite for making Perfect Bake Day. Foods. Baking Powder Absolutely Pare The only Bahng Powdr made from Royal Grape Cream ' Tartar --made from grapes No Alum No Lime Phosphate House of Lords in Danager!. In spite of rumors to the con rary the conference between the ords and commons over the veto qestion has ended in a disagr ~ment. Perhaps that Is just as w21 for a compromise on a question in hich principle is Involved is usual ey unsatisfactory to all concerned. ow the matter will have to be hreshed out in another general elec tion in the near future. and the robbilty Is that the Liberals will e returned with an increased ma jority. if such should prove the case drastic dealings with the lords ould naturally follow. With characteristic blindness to their own true Interests and those f the people the lords have persist ently blocked the way of reform. md now the inevitable judgment wais them. The whole question 8 f more than passing~ Interest to mericans because of the growing iscotent with the present method of ehoosint r-nited States Senators. hile the ques:ion with us is not nearly so acure as the British find heirs yet the feeling exists that di rect or popular election of senators w!ll prove an advantage ina many as. The House of t..ords are In danrer. ngtland. wh~ile having a monar hical forza of government has in tact one of the most Democratic go' ernmnts in the world. The House f Lords seem to have lost sight of this and have determined by ob ructing reforms which the people are demnanding. to -omranit political auIcide. The indications are that in he near future the. present heredi tary H~o"se of Lords W:il be abolish i and a Senate simnilar to ours. with 2xe mernbers elected by popular vote will take its place. !t is a wonder a the Poeuse of Lords has stood s nn as it hais. butt it is n.ow (loeld. How .-iv it woi:.! hav.e beenf to .\oioan exe-e- for jIngolssm. a OUil.. :Mre. w:as '>len~tv of i - ;fth.- .u: horiti.-s and of the nation . I.e'en admier:Obic and :akes. for a: infactory sett 'umen: of differ -~e..s. In thes* daMs instead of m:nd~n. the :csm t a: every 1:1 ie r-:bh' th- re 's 'n v r h itr i a an f.,er in:--rna~ticnia :ra-le Than t thlar- in .an .a:i.ern sta-e a vtc says tha-t :n th.e l.iislat :re Se:. to raie:' rhe devil.' wi. a.n v n-K !tin that a i'e-I a The a t. m;. - ' --or -.inu--s i proof~ of tit i. ;d n: -n'.te'on :ha' evry no t. i part-- b at haar- the . :'.