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WANTS IffT Goveror Blease As That an Investi gation Be Made into the DISPENSA~ i 1L. U. Wants the Legislature to SgkfOut Fvery Transaction of the WindinA - jp Commision, and Jints at Ir regularities on the P:irt of Mem bers and the Attorney-General. Governor Blease sent to the gen eral assembly Tuesday afternoon a message which startled the legisia tors with an eugent demand for a thorough investigaon of the dis pensary %wdinaugup commission. Numbers of speeflfransactions sup posed by 'el overor to have been made by the commission are men tioned. with the insistent recomnien ,dation that each be carefully looked into. The message in full follows: To the General Assembly: JuIst after my nomination as governor. I noticed in the papers (and as I have noticed no correction. I take it to be true) that the comnmission for winding-up the affairs of the State dispensary had a mteeting at which I was freely dfseussed. an! expressed fears as to thenselves. when I be came governor. If they had done no wrong I see no reason why ther should fear any harm from me. If they are guilty of wrong-dcing. it is up to you to investigate them. I would like for you to investi gate them fully and find out for the people of South Carolina what dic become of the large amount of alco hol that was on hand at the time this committee tock charge: to whom it was sold, at what price, and what was the regular price at that time. so as to see if the State was not a heavy loser in that transaction. Also, what salary. or how much fees each member of that commisin has received. since he has serveai on the board, an,, how much per iem they have received for their services on that day: if car fares. railroad fares and other er'enses h:Ve been charged against the State which were not incurred by the member receiv ing payment therefor. Also how much actual cash has been turned over to the State treas urer: how much has been paid out and how much is left as profit to the taxpayers. What criminal cases have been compromised and what were the conditions of the compromise? Has the attorney general received any money. and if so by whom was it paid and for what? Why the com mission kept the Clark lot of whis key after Governor Ansel had dis missed the fo-mer members of the board of control for buying this same whiskey? Did Clark rebate tepresent commission? If so, where is tge rebate money? How much more thniYM did Farnam nay and where is it? What were the conditions of the Goodman compro mise? What were the conditions of the Fleischmann co:upromise? If -mc~ey was paid in these transac ti1whr is 't? What was the grdT had with ex-Governor - John Gary Evarns and ex-State Chair man H. H. Evans, for information given by them at conference held in Atlanta, between these gentlemen. Attorney General Lyon and Attor ney Felder? Why were other mem bers of the various boards_ of con trol not indicted? What became of e rsenort of the detetives to the comnit'te7e ~~iai-.embers of the house and senate and why was this report not made public? What were Felder's fees. end why was be not prosecuted, when it was known that he was attorney for a liquor house and was favored with purchases from _dispensary boards and rebates were paid for these purchases? What criminal prosecutions have been brought, who has beer convicted and what has it cost the State? A thorough investigation of this entire matter. gentlemen. will give a great deal of s::tisfaction to your constituents. There are those who believe that the State has lost more through the win-ling-up eommission than it has ever lost through the State dispensary syst em. Whether this be true or not. it is not for me to say. I hotdl my belief as to cor ruption, but the people of South Carolina are entitled to the fullest and freest investigation on your part before the report of these men it receivnd -,nd tnw. are discharged a~ public officials. South Carolina is paying bonds to day for debts made by scalawars anc carpetbaggers, for things which hei citizenship never received the benefi therefor. Under her Democratic gov ernment, she bought whiskey at price and sold it, made a profit on i1 and now repudiates the debt made b: her sons, white men and Demoeca.s If she can repudiate this intlebted ness with impunity ard without scar upon her honor, why could she not repudiate the debt of thieves an< scoundrels who were not her owi people? I repeat, gentlemen, laying asid' political feeling. aygniliusxzfiflfffilffi political feeling, laying aside person al feelings and animosity, and a: true citizens as you are, who loy your State. love her. past tradition. and are proud of her future pros pects, should thoroughly investigat this entire matter, clear up suspi cion against those who are innocen and prosecute those who are guilty whether the, be members of pas1 boards or present. Very respOect'ully, Cole L. Blease. Governor. . Killed Coinr' to Fire. At St. Louis ae rsndinz to fire alarm~ Charia Of Cnnein, agec 42. a horse tune eri the loca, department, was thrown from hi wagon and instantly kied. The ir, damage amounted to $'..00. Killed in Wreck. Herman Irons. br~lemnan, wa killed and Enzinecer \Viien ar. Fireman Rowiette. uCnu:o~rr .T Gleen andi :motner trainnan v injured in a wrec of im or:a freizh train of the Southern raihay, . -Meherrin. Ta. Don't fear to so:i y-our hands helpfulness if you would avoid de MULLER RESI PRESIDENT OF STATE NEGRO COLLEGE IS OUSTED1 i '"Pericious Activity in Poiitics" Given as Cause of Caninn'u for Res I-ation by !liease. Co':. :b'ase iri y demde'i the resignariea of T tmas i. -'.i&ir. the~i w\hih is loc:tied at : asked Mile- to resign within twemy four hours. This action was taken without a resolution on the part of the board of trustees which was in session at the time in the ofliCe of the chief ex ecutive. Following the action by Gov. Blease. the board of truste cs passed a resolution asking that Miller re sign immediately. end he resign'cd. Gov. Blease. when asked on ihat grounds he had asked the resiana tion of Miller. he said, "Pern;ii activity in plities. Just what the activitles have been and along what linns wtrenotsar ed. He further stated that com plaints ha-d been made to him Y negroes in he State as to the cot duct of Miller at the irs:ir ion- He would make no oflie: 'amnt. Thie resignation of Mliller will take effect on June 30 of the present year This date was named in order that ho mi*ht have time to vind up the affairs of the institution before turning the work over to his succes The hoar d of trustees which met Friday at noon in th omri-e of Cov. l'lease decided to bold another iet ing jiust after the aidjournrlent of the present g-aceral rssembly when su1cessor to tierw i h Miller has been president of the institution for several years and draws a salary of $2.000 a year. It is expected that N. F. Nix. a colored Baptisi preacher of this cit%, will be nared by the board of tru tees to svC'eed Mller. KILLED lly A !.r'dAN. I ,tory Writer Shot by Man Who Com its Suicide. David Grah-m Ph:iA'ps. editor. Dublicist and nwvlist, vas shot six times Monday as he appcached the P-inceton club in New York by Fitz hugh Coyle Goldsborough. a Har vard man, who imnediately after committed suicide. Phillips died at the hospital where he was carried Tuesday afternoon. "There you go." snapped the as sassin, as he opened fire, and "?.ere I go.'" he echoed, as he sent a bullet into his own brain. He used a ten shot .3,2 caliblre' automatic pistol and all six shots aimed at Phllips took effect. One of them perforated the abdomen; another pereed the right lung and acme out at the back: a third shatteved the left wrist and a fourth drilled the right thikh. 1Harrison W. Phillips. David Cra ham's younger brother, said that Goldsborouigh had been both~erimz David with letters and telephone' calls to rhu Princeton club for a month or six weeks. but that his brother had never been able to learn what the maa's grievance was. H~e thought perhaps they h'ad met at a Socialistic .::athering and that Golds borough had insisted Phillips ought to "do something for the cause." LEOPARDl CAUSEs~ TE~IutOX Deourer of Six Natiwes Tries to Get From Cage. Forty wild animals from East Af riaarrived Tuesday at New York on the steamer .\innetonka of the At lantie Transport Comopany'. One of the captives. a leopard, is known to have killed and devoured six natives previous to niis capture. On the trip across, when two days out from South~ampton, the arimtal early escaped from its cage. The leopard made its attempt at dea l of ni"ht, and the uproar of the other animals when it bent aside a bar and tried to squeeze out of the cage aroused the keepers. who forced the beast back with pikes and toar'hes. IThe animaois are a part of the consignment of six hundred wild ani mals obtained for Ringling's circus and shipped by Jordan & Co.. of Nairobi, East Africa. They were brought over by Dr. Ernest W. Toul mn. M. R. C. S., L. R. C. P., of the Lniversity of T~ondon. Dr. Toulmin prefers the excitement of capturing wild animals to the practice of medi Huband's Woe Ends and He an~d Wea~ie Are Reconciled. Recnse hesai:d. that 11is wvif insited tat he sic p u.h the fox terrier. John Dannenweiter, a baker, of No. 411 Seventeenth street. Brooklyn, left homee, Magistrate tDooley was iaformced in the Domdes tic Relations Court. Mrs. Daanenweiter said that after she was deserted she had to support - i Because it was not becoming to herself. Dannenw.eiter adlmitted that he had left home. Why did he do rhs dignity to sleep with a dog. - "Whre is the dog'?" asked Dooley. "Lost," said husband and wife in -a det. "Then01 I don't see wvhy you should quarrel," exciedmr K!strate. ILittle Muff'erer' Passes. The one-year-old infant of Prof. A. H-. McCrac'ken. of Sparranbu. iurned a kettle of boiling water ove:' on itself severai days ago ad~ dlied Snday as a result of burns. The entire body of the ch ill was covered with blisters and death jut an end to0 the u~nbearab 'le su^ t The Spartnbr TournalI thinks about "the be -t answ:-r of the dis lKensary "'in''n'-un cmmission to; Govraoi iBl'e'-es.~ '-h is to poin o the man-y' '5::sm: of do ars D'e wrli' clari\m seldom want to gou to FUEN1S LEFT INTACT TIHE HOUSE REFUSES TO CUE TAL C.EMSON'S 1NCOM1C. Measure to imkit Collee t' Share of INveniie From Tag Tax illed by Vote of 73 to :U. In the Tause F'1ay Mr. M1itchum . a o, and hard fight to limit income of Clemson College from t:e pri'T<-' tax. ir. ery. Cf Ovnet, onposed any i-rfrens w, 1 the r-esources of C:emson Ccllege. He criti-ised the rrport of the legislative committee iat invst i::tatd the State colleges. Mr. 3it!-humi insisted that Clem son was spen-dina too much money. r. (ar-y said Clemson was not standing still and needed money for e::tensins and growth. If Clemson is to stand still then they noed na more than .1 75.001. but thuy shiould e allowed to gro:. ~here were things at Clemson he did not like. ont t'his bill would! do no good. Let Mr. Isl'y said he was against en m so much money, but SVi-: cemnsor and hadhis eyes o n nd was in favor of Clemosoni ge-tinr all this money. If anything to be done let the tax he reduced. but he ur-:ed that Clemson he lft ertirely alone. He wanted Clemson left alone this year. Mir. Meown. of Chester. said semething of this kind came up ev ery year. !1e. too, thought it unfor tunate that the legislative report s'oald come in today and he. too, criti .d .he comn position of the commttee-all iawyers. There was no use to talk about crippling Clecm son, and he agreed with MIr. Ashley ihnt if th tax were too high let the Mr. %yer wanted to know if Clm sen were a State institution or not. and .hther the tax is constitution al. Cletson og:zht to be supported as bthers are by direct appropriation. He saggested that all hills on the .- .- ,- taken up togethet. This was denied. .tr. Tl-tk&:'y knew the g00l ea'son wa's deinz. He feared .Mr. Mit-hntm had not tone into the lemi! n)hse ofathe ninestion. There is no Sto iat :-' the pe vil-ze tax. iio foa~ -sat thos. who wanted to have :-h blIs had blood in their eyes for Ccmison. 'Mr. Vander Horst spoke for the ,eislative investigating committee. He explaincd that the delay in sub mitting the report was purely un avidlabe. and as everyone knew. without intention to influence any one. The fact that he and others were lawyers was a fact and hardly worth discussing. but he would like to aru: any question or point made in the report. On a ;ea and nay vote the bill to limit the income of Clemson fron the privilege tax to $175,000 was kiled by a vote of ~.' to 24. * NUMlBER OF BALES G!NNED). Report of thle Census Bureau on the Cotton Crop. Cotton of the zrowth of 1 91 0 ginned prior to January 15th, ac ording to the report of the census bureau, issued at 1 0 o'clock Monday morning wvas 11.254.115 bales. compared with 9.78~.592 in 19u9: and 1 2.00l6.20?, in 1908. The per cent of the 1909 crop ginned prior to January 1 6 was 97.2 while that of the 1 908 crop was 96.8. Round hales included this year are 110.815 compnred with 146,378 in 1 909 an-d '12.51 0 in'3 9O8. T'y States the number of hales inned were: Alabama.. .. .. ...... ,7, Arkansas.. ......... 4(,7 Forida.. .. .... ..... 2. Georgia.. .. .... .... 79. Louisiana.. ......... 4.1 ...is.n........... ,5,6 North Carolina.. .. ... 7189 Cmkahonma.. .. ....... 0. Soth Caro'ina.. .. .... ,7. Tfennesse.e... .. .. ... 27.0 Tex's. .. . .. . . All the Staes......,74.278 Florda......... ....S796 Geogia.............24.62 Souh Crolna.........1,1936 Allor othe Lyntes.. or ..r 74h7 tion hats: la ohsn e Gro.rged. ..it the ..u..d.45.43 SoutheCarna.I.I . ..h.r.y. white.9a daoy mof Lnching boyrided Wh h Kll iadlaer bredan. on that apptt tearChtonie tefnt nfr maiongto theia Johnson. a re hr. hrged eith the mrder tof Brakisem Jomhsn whte. antf Avera. eGa.S ol w-i ce ey pur aythortind as poyrlaed itai Hadlyt ad ae hournpsed, wscn moinuinn spcaol difptch from:t tat trwn ato te jailonelpwetnih Accrdn o-i to o the te etre evera hee.u fi shownotring im hiey w na tre.t The br~ o gc~ to ts ome Jihblsomd. a fort tio scape. wa hen a kindled athVoitie laes ad rlaced jail Hardy hd was huredssed, then a moo numlrin aonutd fit mar uId :Ind foor cblybtookd oe, nr him n t a1 .tr. Thie.bd a Afire of mbrdh ias then kirntded and v'wenthe fiaes hadt ried auf gro's od Mowa byure pt ino than almoet roall consmed the mur \"enh pun F ior SietfO Gui.; r o reahdefndnft d rewath sverit ore e 'torskield, 1,aby thprt in tha' e:s- ofus W-ait A. ile andiGold Sm . cae with the dt murer t ofa life is netwr eo mlmed k- eacr derendalt. ~vTh ar: uta iout see hus BM FRMED I Which Will Fight For Establishment of Popular Government. WHAT THEY WANT TO DO The Prog.'ressivc Republicans Organ ize Theiselves into a League for I the Purpose of Enforcing Their Ideals About Reforms That Are Needed in the Government. Organization of the Republican Progressive league by progressive Republican senators, representatives, governors and others-an organiza rin which wiil fight for the estab ;.:t.ent of popular government !nnnounced at Washington on Mon Plans of the new league, which have been rder way since the as semiling of con.gress, were con eltded1 at a meeting Saturday night, -',t which a declaration of principles was signed. a contitution adoptetd and the following officers were elect ed: President, Senator - Jonathan Bourne. Jr.. Oregon. First vice president, Representa tive George W. Norris. Nebraska. Second vice president, Gov. Chas. S. Osborne, Michigan. Treasurer, Charles R. Crane. Chi cagG. Expentive committee. Senator Mose . Clapp. Minnesota: Senator Jos T. Bristow. Kansas: Representa tive E. HT. Hubbard. Towa: Rewresen tative Irvine L. Lenroot. Wisconsin: IUresntatlive-elect Wmi. L. Kent. Cat ornia: Gifford Pinchot, Penn svlvnia: Georze L. Record, New .Tersey. and the president. vice presi dent and the treasurer, menibers ex ofre.(-. T-,n declartion of princip.es si ed by nine Pepublican United 'Sta senntors. the governors of six TM-ohien mties. I 2 n.hers of 2 on land :e! rs. is as follows: "We. the undersigned. associate mirselves trether as the National Prornssive Repuhlinan league. "The object of the league is the proiotion of popular government ani progressive legislation. "Ponular government in America has been thwarted and progressihe let!slation strangled by the special 'interests wh*ch control caucuses, del egates, conventions and party organ :zations. and. through control of the machinery of government, dictate non'in atIons and platforms, elect ad min istrations. le:isl: tors. representa tives in congress and United States senat6rs and control cabinet officers. "Under existing conditions legisla tion in the public interests has been baffled and defeated. This is evi deneed by the long struggle to secure laws but partially effective for the control of railway rates a'd services, the revision of the tariff in the in terest of the pro iucer and consumer, statutes dealing with trusts'and comn bina'is based on sound economic piniples as applied to modern in dns'trial aind commercial condit-i , a wise. comprehensive and impartia1 reconstruction of the banking and m-o'erary~ laws, the conservation of coal. oil, gas, timber, water powers and other natural resources belong in o the people, and for the enact "ient of all legislation solely for the "stin proportion as popular .gov enent hits in certain States super eded the delegate convention sys tenm and the people have assumed control of the machinery of govern r at, has government become respon sive to the popular will and progres sive logislatio, been secured.. I"The Progressive Republican league believes that popular govern ment is fundamental to all other questions. To this end it advocates: "The election of United States sen ators by direct vote of the people. "Direct primaries for the nomina tion of all elective officials. "The direct election of delegates to national conventions with olppor tunity for the voter to express his choice for president and vice presi dent. "Amnendmient to State constitu tins providling for the initiative, referendum and recall. "A thorough, general corrupt prac tices act. "The league will cooperate with proressives in the several States and w'herever acceptable will render assistance in promoting the organiza tion of State leagues. "Wh\ ene-:er requested by any pro. gessie State league or by progres* sive ieaiers in State legislatures, the~ National Progressive Republican legue will aid in the preparation 0] appropriate hilis and resolutions- and w i furnish speakers and literature in uior of l..aietion on the prop o-i9ons enum~eratedl in the five num brd 'nararaphs set forth in tati foregoing declaration of principles. The namnes signed to the declara tion include the leading progressive Republicans and many private per. sons proninent in the party. Took; her Own Life. ~t attiesburg. Miss.. Miss Mannr Hinan. a prtt 1S-year-old girl, dspe::lent >ecause of ill health and: the thougi-ht of being separated from~ ve swetheart. telephioned the latter T'or: ony. Saturday night. ant n ::eydrimnk an ounce of car bolic acid. She died Sundlay at noon \n unknow)'~n nPIgro tramp) was fa ~n ijured. three trainmen wert art and six freight cari -'.t-ei"eOe. alongz the track as th<t ofC :Lflo between an cx ra2 fr- ..h ,raini. No. .l2G. :nd locd riht No. G?,. at Kilians, 15 mile north of Columbtia. Tuesday P!-syed With a Pisto1. A Sumirer dis~patch says Corone Flow.ers Saurday nirht was sum moned to Shiloh to investigate th t fH erbert Nelson who hat bni iled :y a pistol shot. shilo: n t- e:at reme eastern part of th ,.1y. Nlsfm had been playit ni wh en it went off, kill im .1 !fn:i2nly x. and the verdic rc - as in accordance with th - Don't~ npet to find peace in lif .u- from your neighbors. WILL DO THE WORK THAT IS WHAT is CLAIME) FOR THIE COTTON PICKER. Full Description of the Machine Written for the Technical World Magazine. The following description of the new Complete Cotton Picking Ma chine written for the Technical World Magazine by Carl Crow will be read with interest by all, as we are interested in the picking of cot ton: "In my opinion Mr. Campbell has invented a machine that will mean as much to the cotton producer as the harvester has been to the grain producer. It will mean that one man can go into the field and pick as much cotton in one day as 20 or 30 nan can pick by band in one day, and the total operating expenses of the machine in one day. in my opin ion, based on my actual experiences, will not exceed $10 a day.-and the cost of picking the same amount of cotton by hand, figuring on one-half bale to the acre, would be not less than $48. I believe it would not take a Sol omon to see that this difference would mean a net profit of $3S on one day's operation. to say nothing of the trouble that the producer is compelled to go to to secure these ihand pickers and to provide a pIlace for them to live, and many other an noyances that are familiar to the man with a larle cotton acreage." During the cotton picking season of 1910 the Price-Campbell Machine was in almost continual operation in Texas. moving from one farm to an other. much as the self-bind-ers or the threshing machines move in the Northern States. During the Texas tate fair. which is held in Dallas daring each October, the machine gave daily demonstrations - which I were visited by thousands of skepti cal farmers, many of them suffering from "misery in the back" because of many seasons of cotton picking by hand. I A more skeptical. doubting iury was never before empaneled than this one, yet their verdict was un anim-ous in favor if the machine. Farmers 'from a hundred cotton planting neighborhoods visited the machine every day and went back home to tell their neighbors that at last the impossible had been accon plished with the invention of a m chine which would pick cotton. The machine itself is built on a chassis of about the dimensions of a 60-horsepower. automobile. The wheels are steel traction and the axles are high enough to pass ovez the cotton stalks without breaking them. Tn the places where the dash board of an automobile would be are the interlocng steel fingers which pluck the cotton from the opened bolls and a conveyor which carries the locks to two bins or sacks sis pended from the rear of the ma* chine. As fast as filled -these sacks are detached and replaced. In front sits the one operator with a steering wheel and throttle in easy access. The engine is mounted .iust to- thE rear of the driver and is connected by means of a chain drive. - Many oblstacles are found to the successful operation of a cotton pick ing nyachine. In the first place. cot ton does not ripen all at once. as is the case with wheat and corn anc other crops. In July the bolls whici: are nearest the ground and therefort the farthest advanced may be ready for the pickers. On top of the samie plant will be many bowers and greer bols. It is important that the picket take the locks from the ripened bol! wvithut harming the flowers, tin Sreen bolls or the plant itself. Agair the cotton plant, though sown it parallel rows, like corn, has a greal lateral growth and ripened bolL may be hidden by the more rapii growth of branches of the plati above. The machine must not onl: pick all that is in sight. hut it musi do more: its steel finaers must creel beneath the branches and pick ou that which is hidden. This the Price-Campbell machin< does. Just how its flexible steel fin gers acquire this almost humat touch I do not understand. thougi I have seen. I believe that if Angui Campbell had invented the cottot picker 200 years ago he would han been hanged as a disciple of E~he devi and his machine burned in front o the nearest cathedral. As I undlerstand it. the Price Campbell cotton picker does not em body any strikingly novel features Indeed, every mechlanceal dis'ove'r; had been utilized by former invent ors. Different ones sought to sc'' the problem by using magnetism eectricity and pneumaties. One o the latter class of inventors pre ceded the vacuum eleaner by patent i a machine designed on the sam principle. The contraption provided two seat in the rear for boys who aimed th< point of the business end of the sac tion pipes at the opened bolls. secur ing their swift transportation to th< wheezing interior of the machinE IThe machine was a success. hut & much dependled upon the agility o Ithe lads who handled the suctio ppes that it never proved any faste thnthv ordinary negro p!ke-r. The Price-Campbell miachi ne sem to be a success because of the ftc that the inventor has worked care fully over every detail of the con s rutin for eleven years. Of c'ourse Ithe machine is not perfect. but test have proved it to he far superior ti the old hand-pickinlg method. No lonz ago two bales of cotton wer' '- iked from the' same Tey:as field one hy negroe's. the other by the man ch(:ine. The bales wearc' -:innd soparatel: -ami then sent to the WVamsuttn millh at Newv Bedford. Mass., for a thor ouhi test. Accurate aceount wa kpt of the waste in all the processe a the nill and it was found that th p~rcetage was in fa; er of the ma chine-picked cotton, its percentam ben .0792. while the hand-picke hlshow.e'i a loss of .o9:10 per cont Furthr tests showed that the break~ n strength of the mahineC-picke eof is greater. IThe wa.ste in the cotton field ha 0, tmomflnedl nive to t-n 'e Sc~nt whh i s usually no larger tha ben the average shiftless n?':fro emloed to do the work. Being traction machine, the picker eimn nit Soperate on soft ground, but rain ..-m reta hand pickingr as wel Neither can it operate on hilly coun try for the same reason that early i automobiles could not cl-imb hills. Doubtless Iuch of the heavy weight its :b-horsepower engine now car ries will later be eliminated, just as the weights of the other machines have grown gradually less. You could scarcely lift the first typewriter from the floor, but you can buy good one now with a weight of less then six pounds. The g'il leys which now would impede the passage of the machine through the average cotton patch may be filled up or repl'aced with tiliag just as has been done with wheat fields. There are not enough hills in the cotton producing country to con stitute any serious obstacle to the general use of the machine. When Campbell started in to in vent a cotton picker he didn t stop with that one task accomplished. While studying the growth of the cotton plant, with a view to invent ing a picker he saw that much of the other work done in connection with the crop could be performed with a machine. To make a machine pick cotton was the most difficult, so after he completed it to its present stage of perfection he made it a handy man of all work around the farm. It will break up the ground with a disc attachment, then plant it, chop it out after the seeds have come up, pick it when it matures, chop up the stalks when the crop has been picked, and then when the season is over it can be put in the barn and with a belt around its by wheels, its 0 horsepo ser can be used to run anything from a power churn to a cotton gin. BLEASE IS RIGHT. One of His 'Jessages Hits the Nail on the Head. The Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Post says Crov. Ples's last message will meet the approval of everybodv who knows anythinzy about the conditions at the State House. which are about as un satisfactory as they could be, and are urged by sanitary authorities to be unsanitary in the extreme. The Gen eral Assembly has been very stingy in the matter of appropriations for the State House, giving the most meager sums for the care of the house and grounds. Large sums have been appropriaL ed to buy furniture for the legisla tive halls and for carpets and other miscellany, but an appropriation for the building or grounds would throw the legislators into fits. Far be it from any one to suggest that the appropriations for the furniture mi.ght have been encouraged by the fact that the members also agreed to sell to themselves the old furni ture at 1.r'ees that set the teeth of the dealers in second-band stuff on edge. It is very funny to note the fact that some of those men in the House last session who urged that the dig nity of the State -was suffering from the shabbiness of the desks and chairs, and that no man could reas onably be asked by the State to sit at a desk and in a chair desecrated by the negro occupancy some years ago, have those same desks and chairs in their parlors and bed rooms and offices today, having bought them for $3 and the new ones cost about $25. * BE.WTY WAS FATAL. How Tt Wrecked the Lives of Three Brothers. Some time ago, at Rome, Italy, Afredo Marinette, a librarian, met and fell in love with Signora Glusep pina Shordont, a beautiful widow of twenty-eight. They became engaged soon afterwards, and the marriage was to 12 'e taken place next month. Alfreo'.. two brothers, both un married. were delighted with their future sister-in-law, and they con gratulat.ed the lover on his choice. Then one day Cesare, the youngest of the three. left Rome without a word of explanation. Alfredo was dely affeted, .but whenever he brther. Gennaro, the latter was sul len and silent. It was not until the other night that the mystery was solved. Gen naro was found in his lodgings with a bullet through his head, and be sb' him was a letter, informing his brother that he had resolved to die b ecause of his love for the beautiful Giusseppina. and that a similar pas sion had driven Cesare into exile. AIfred~o's sweetheart was so, over coer'e with grief at the tragedy which she had unwitrinTrly brou.ght about that she hroge oc her engagemernt. STAIN 1W THE REBELS. letails of the Massacre of the 3Mex ican lRegulars. One hundred and fifteen Mexican soldiers were caught in a trap and ,massacred by the insurrectos a few days ago. The massacre took place -near Cuchillo. The correspondent with the insurgent forces inter virwed sev'eral captured government soldiers, and all of them give prac tically the same account of their F:neses. JTose de La Cruz Sancbez :nd Torileio Orega. Mexican ranch orners..omm:mded the insurgents. All the Federal soldiers under Col. Drante. numbering nearly 400 men probably would have been massacred -had not the insurrectos exthausted -their aimmunition. The soldiers were entrapped in the mountains and for nearly three days were uner the fire of the insurrec to. The~ ;nsurgents captured thir ty-two Mauser carbines and nineteen wounded rhen. Twenty horses be oging 6o the revolutionists were 1b r in a' canyou three miles from the b~ tle ground, and in their retreat the Fed eral soldiers confiscated them T~[he government troops re trated in disorder to Coyama and enitrnched themselves. * - lys in Good Luck. The Senate passed Friday a joint Iresolution providing free scholar shis at Clemson College for Jerry H ITMoore and Archie Odom. Jerry :1is the Florence county boy who maised more than 22:3 bushels of corn son one acre. Odlom is from Marl >ro, and was a prize winner in the rovs' Corn Club contests. The schol 5arships are for four years. * When the church acts like a cir scus the side shows always swallow SEVERE BATTLE fore Than One Hondred Soldiers Killed in Thret Days Fight. WERE CAUGIT IN TRAP %nd the Mexican Troop Were Liter ally Mowed Down by the Insur gents, Who Had Posted Them selves in the Cliffs and Crevices of the Mountains. Advices from Mexico say that more ,han 100 soldiers were killed in a :hree days' battle between the Mex can federal troops and insurgents in .he mountains between Ojinaga and .uchollio Parrado. Two hundred soldiers under Col. Dorantes with :wo machine guns went to the res %ue and these troops also engaged. The government troops were aught in - trap and were literally nowed down. by the storm of bul ets which swept their ranks from hree direitions. The insurgents oc mupied the cliffs and mountains and 'he soldiers were in the road with ,nly one way of escaping and that uarded. Of the 200 men who went nto the pass only 40 escaped, as far Ls known. They joined the column ander Col. Dorantes. The reolutionists' loss was slight, only five men being killed, according to the insurgent reports. The bat tle was the most severe fough', dur ing the preseznt trouble and later re ports indicate that the federal sol diers are retiring slowly to their for tified camp at Ojinaga, pressed on every side by the rebels. The fight ing started on the 16th when a small band of insurgents was routed -at Coyama. A. column of 200 soldiers pursued the fleeing insur.gents and walked into the trap set for them. The road winds through a narrow canon forming a "cul de sac" into which the government troops march ed. When all were in the pass, the insurgents swept down the moun tainside in the road behind them and the firing began. It is believed that about 200 insurgents were en gaged. They lay behind rocks and poured a steady fire into the govern ment troops. A detachment of in surgents was seen after the fight with 32 captured Mauser rifles. The battle lasted all day January 17. On January 18. Col, Dorantes advanced from Ojina~ga with rein forcements. He circled about, avoid ing the deadly pass, and entered the mountains from the west. He dis covered the insurgents and a contin uous fight for two days followed. Dorantes has retired into the foot hills and is awaiting reinforcements. Last night another column of 100 soldiers left Ojinaga for the relief of Dorantes. Several wounded insur gents and a number of wounded sol diers have been taken to San Juan. The insurgents had cared for the wounded soldiers, treating them w'ith the same consideration shown their own men. There are about 800 sol diers and armed citizens of the gov ernment forces near Ojinaga and the insurgente have about the same num ber in the district. Insurgents who were in the fight last Tuesday declared that 150 sol diers were killed. A federal arniy officer with the reinforcements re ports that 100 federals were killedl. No reports have been received re garding the casualties in the fighting Thursday and Friday. FIVE DIE IN FIRE. A Lady, Her Three Children and Maid AH Perished. At Toronto, Ontario, five persons were burned to death early Sunday morning in a fire which destroyed the residence of Percy C. Brooks, manager and treasurer of the Canad ian F'airbanks Company, and the. Morsa Canadian Manufacturing Com pany. The house was at 435 Indian road, in the western end of the city, a fashionable residence section. The dead are: Mrs. Brooks, her three children, Percy, Jr., 7 years old; George, 4 years, and Wendel, 3 years, and a maid serant whose name is not known. The only other occupant of the building, the second maid, saved her life by jumping, but was seriously burned and will probably die. She was unable to r~ive the police any ac count of the tragedy. HE WANTED TO GO. Wealthy Georgia Planter Takes Hit Life At Last. After being defeated in his effort to commit suicide with a razor. James Maddox, aged 60, a wealt:iy planter, Of Butts county, cut his throat with a pocket knife, anid then finding death coming too slo .v ly, he rammed -a pair of long sc's sors down his throat. Death resulted in a few minutes. Maddox's attempt to use the razor was frustrated by his three sisters, who overpowered him after a hard strugle. Just as the women turned to leave him, ho ever, he drew a long-bladed knife from his pocket and cut his throat from ear to ear. As his sisters again rushed to his side. Maddox snatched up a pair of scissors and shoved them into his mouth, slit ting the windpipe. Maddox had been ll for a long time. Will Land Him. Congressman Lever has received the solid endorsement of the South Carolina delegation in Congress for chairman of the House committee on agriculture. This will no doubt land him at the Jiead of this important committee. Bomb Explosion in Chicago. At Chicago a bomb explosion Mon day wrecked a drug store owned by Artzio Stinano and Guiseppi Nami ana at 1001 Larribe street. The druggists had previously received letters demanding money. No one was injured. Much Liquor Money. Columbia got $92,915.99 in excess of its estimated income. -The dis pensary income was estiiuxared at $60,000, while the actual income was $124,262.97, from tis one RACE CONFERENCE EGROES HOLD MOST INTEREST ING MEETING IN THIS CITY. ,peecies Made by Prominent White and Colored Speakers From This State. The colored race conference that ias been in session in this city dur ng the past week adjou:ned Thurs lay night, after a most enjoyable and, successful session. Tne ccuference was largely attended and tL ex penses of- the conference were all aasily raised during the session. Richard Carroll, of Columbia, pre ided over the conference and was presented with a gold-headed walk Ing stick by the conference in appre .iation of his services in working' fo the betterment of the negro race The sessions were held itr~AUitW ethodist church, Mount Pisga Baptist church and at Claflui Univer slty. No fees were charged for ad mission, only collections being tak n. Addresses were delivered during the conference by Hon. McGowan Simpkins, a member. of the legisla ture; Col. J. A. Banks, .Dr..W. H. Aoses, Dr. R. P.. Wych, H. S. I!ur phy, Dr. W. D. Chappell, W. T. An drews, Dr. M. M. Mouzon and- a re- . turned woman missionary- from. At rica. - Among the white-peakers who were absent were Gov. Cole L..Blease and Prof. Ira. W. Williams. Booker T. Washington's wife was to ha e dressed the conference but wasn able to attend. Tuesday night, Hon. McGowan Simpkins, if Edgefield, delivered an excellent address before the confe~ ence at Trinity Methodist chuRe:.. The speaker 'was introduced b A. D. White and 'Mr. Siinsi tois as his subject, "Good Citizenship an the Formation of Character."A though he. spoke 'for more than a hour, still his speech was e re ceived and was loudly applauded throughont. Rev. D. A. Christie made a motion at the close of the address-that a.ris ing -ote of thanks be extended Simpkins by the conference. This motion was seconded by a ringLn.g speech by Dr. W. H. .Moses. Th audience arose and gave the Chin tauqua salnte. The waving of..400 or 500 handkerchiefs presented :an Interesting scene. y The speech Thursday night b Col. J. A. Banks, of St. Matthews president of the South Carolina Stae Fair Assoclation, was a good one aid Col. Banks won his -audience. The conference adjburned Thursday nig after a banquet at Claffin University Music was furnished by -the-.Clfiln band and orchestra. On Tuesday morn- n ference a very importi tmeeting of the stockholders o4 the Colored Fair Association was 1Md at Trinity Methodist church. 'this ~ mesting was well iitended andwas called to order by Richard CarroHl. In the beginning President Carroll, -of tied State Fair Association, read his r;es ignation and made a -few reaki thereupon. Carroll then left ~I ~' chair and during the electi fiers, Dr. W.- D. Cha4 The eectioibt-f Offce tered-into'd the g ere ..' nominate prt1esidney: Dr W. D. .h~~ of Columbia, Dr :d. D. Let, of Rock Hill; E. JSaw yer, of~Bennettsvillep Dr .:.'JH Goodwin. Di-. W. D. Chapp'ell an~d'' Dr. J. H. Goodwin withdraw -3 ames and the election for the sidency resulted as follows: yer, 49; M. D. Lee,.T . was partaken of onybshaeb . ers. - The election of Sawyer was ma unanimous. Dr. W. D..,Chappell-w elected vice president; .T. A. -Wt lams, treasurer, and Dr.~,T.H. Gdbd win, superintendent. The'following board of directors was elected: 1 terson, Dr. M: D. Lee,'G. C. Williaa . J. Frederick, 3. E. Blanton. -Wednesday morning another meet - ing of the stockholders "of the -Fair Association was held at Mt: Pisgh Baptist church on d-reen street. The following additional members were elected to the executive committee: ev. C. . Brown, W. Mv. King, Rev. Hook in. M. D. Lee; C. -G. Gar rett. The following committees were appointed: Legislative apprppriations-Rich ard Carroll, J. H. Goodwin, IL E Lowery, E. J. Sawyer. -Fair Ground5-M. D. Lee, C.- G Garrett. J. H. Goodwin, L.. A. Haw kins. W. M. King and B. J. Sawyer .-The Times and Democrat. Hookworm Spreadin. Five million Americans -have hooworm. This is the fact of pri mary importance disclosed ~through the investigation of the-migin and orogress of the disesse by t-ae corps of experts of the Rockefellek comn mnision. Hookworm is spren.ne~. The commiss-ion has discovered evi demees of the development of tis parasite in Arizbia, California and other Western States. Ignorance is the principal diffleuu ty the physicians are meeting- in the South. The only way to .stop the spread of the disease is by teaching the poorer people to keep themselves clean and introduce sanitation,.into their homes and schools and fac tories. That the hookworm germs are being carried almost every day into new territories has been estab lished by the conimisiion. The fun~d of $1.000,000 .donated by John D. Rockefeller for the erad ication of the disease was given' to extend over a period of five year. Members of the comi~ion say It will take at least 20 years to begi to~ stamp out the disease. So far the Democratic legislators elected list fall have acted wisely in choosing United States senators. It is encoura.;ing. Senator-elect Martine, of New. Jer sey. gave onut a statement after his -- election in which he said his can didacy "personified an eternal truth of government which was vitalied by public opinion." The victory, he said, was not that of an individual but of the people and added tliat he did not spend one dollar in seek ing his election. -Don't expect to have the love of heaven within you if you are indif feret to the sorrows of men. -