The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, December 13, 1911, Image 8

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Cougrsssman Lever Wil Try to Ammend the Law on Reports of the GROWING COTTON CROP His Object is to Make the Census Reports on the Growing and Mc. tured Cotton Crops of Real Bene fit to the Cotton Growers of the South. A dispath from Washington to the Columbia Record says Representative Lever will introduce a bill, for the preparation of which he came tc Washington in advance of the ses sion, and whose purpose is to make more accurate the reports of the bu reau of statistics of the department of agriculture, relating to cotton. The bill simplifies the present method ol gathering the reports, and abolishes certain features of the system with a view to greater accuracy. "It is not intended by this bill,' says Mr. Lever, "to create the im pression that the integrity of these reports of the department, relative tc cotton, is called into question. O the contrary, I am satisfied that the reports are fairly gotten up with nc Idea of giving special advantage tc either the producer or manufactur er of cotton, but are predicted upor the idea that there shall be some dis interested source from which shal] issue reliable data upon which the cotton trade may act. Since the un fortunate Hyde affair, no one has questioned the personal integrity of those whose duty it is to issue these reports. "During the past 11 years the de partment of agriculture has made 13 crop estimates, five of which were slightly over-estimated, and six 0: them slightly under-estimated. It years of over-estimates, the average error was 2.1 per cent; in those ol under-estimate the average error was 3.1 per cent; for the entire 11 years the average error was 2.7 per cen1 and the balance of the over-estimate and the under-estimate shows for the entire 11 years a net under-estimat of .9 of 1 per cent. The I-roducer it the 11 year period has had the .bene fit of .9 of 1 per cent. When It I. remembered that the reports of thi department of agriculture are esti mates and not enumerations the fig ures here indicate as near an approx imation of .accuracy as the presen system is capable. It is impossible t( forecast with absolute accuracy th4 yield of any given crop; the best ex pected is to continue to perfect th system with a view of Teaching th nearest approach to accuracy. "I am unwilling to abandon a sys tem of some kind of crop reporting after it was inaugurated and built Ui at the instance of the producers t< protect them against the biased an< unreliable reports of the cotton gain -bler. Such an abandonment at thil time, or in the future, will place th< producer again, as formerly, entirel; at the mercy of the speculative ele ment 4hose business it is to makt his reports in accordance with thi side of the market upon which he il gambling. "I am Interested, however, in im proving the system and in making these reports represent as nearly al possible the exact conditions, boti with reference to the growing cottox and final yield. This bill purposes t< rid the system of some of its cruditie! and inconsistencies and to place I1 upon a more reasonable and sensibl< basis. Under the present system th( acreage report is issued the first o June of each year, as the 25th o: May. That the .number of acres ii cultivation on the 25th of May of given crop year represents accuratel3 the number of acres that will be con tinued in cultivation is preposterous on its face; and yea, the report as t< the acreage at this time has a sentit mental effect during the entire croi year and does, in a greater or less degree affect prices. Those familia; with the cotton business know tha1 during the month of June for reasons innuemerable hundreds of thousand! of acres of cotton are abandonied The present report does not accoun1 for this abandonment of acreage unti the first of December, when the fina estimate Is made and when the re port is too late to be of value to he producer. My bill makes he acreage report on the first of July' when the acregae then in cotton will more nearly represent the acreage that wil continue to be cultivated. This, regard, as a substantial Improvement "Again, the present system makes the report as to the condition of cot, ton on June 1st as of May 25th. ThIs report I have always regarded as at absurdity, for I am too well acquaint ed with the actual growing of cottox not to know that no matter what the conditions of the crop may be on May 25th, it can .be on the 25th of Sep tember when the crop has ripened. could never see any reason for this report, and yet it does have a senti iental effect 'which is hard to over. come, because in the cotton trade, Il Is the first impression that is the most lasting. The same reasoning holds with reference to the July re port of the present system and tC remedy these defects, my bill pro poses to abolish the condition re pcrts of -June and July and make the first condition report on Augus1 the 1st. when I think all will agree the condition of the crop at that time does give a fairly accurate forecast of what we may expect finally of it. The September and October reports of the present system are continued, be cause I regard them as of great value in advising the public as to the ulti mate outcome of the crop. The far. mner should have this that he may the better sell his crop and if the govern. ment does not furnish it to him in a thoroughly unbiased and unprejudic ed way, the speculator will, in such manner as best serves his own pur pose. The final estimate of December is continued and this estimate has prov en in the past to those who are well informed of great benefit to the trade. I am confident the changes uggested .by my bill will male these reports more reliable and more sat isfactory and I have hope of favorable action upon it. "I am now preparing another bill trough which it is intended that as -eae given reports a to the po REBELS LYNCHED GOMEZ AND EIGHT OTHER MEN PUT TO DEATH. Citizens Take the Unfortunate Men Out of Jail, March Them Out and Shoot Them. A dispatch from Mexico City says "Che" Gomez, whose rebellion at Juchitan resulted in a clash between President Madero and the gn-vernor of Oaxaca, was lynched Tuesday af ternoon at Rincon Antonio. Eight of Gomez's partisans inet a like fate. Gomez, who was on his way to the capital accompanied by ten of- his followers, was taken from the train at Rincon Antonio, Oaxaca, Monday afternoon and placed in jail by order of Gov. Juarez, in spite of the fact that he had been promised safe con duct by the president and bore a passport signed by the executive. He and eight of his followers were taken from the jail by a mob of residents of the little town ,augmented by hundreds from the neighboring reg ions, marched two miles from town and shot to death. Noting the ugly temper of the peo ple and anticipating trouble, the lo cal authorities reported the situation to Gov. Benito Juarez, who was in San Geronimo, about 40 miles from Rincon Antonio. He secured the consent of Gen. Merodio to send troops to the village. Before the troops arrived, however, the guard of nine rurales constituting the entire military force of the town, which had battled with the mob of 1.000 or more, had been overpowered by the rabble, and the prisoners were car ried off into the hills. The mo had stopped with its pris oners at a little station. As the train appeared it was recognized as a troop train, and without waiting longer the prisoners were riddled with bullets an'd the assassins fled Into the hills. Only the bodies of their victims were er.countered by the soldiers when they alighted from the cars. Reports from San Geronimo to night were that mobs of Oaxacans Iaraded the streets shouting "Viva Juarez," "Viva Oaxaca libre," "Inde pendence" and "Death to Madero." Among the lynchers were many of the former followers of Gomez who declared he had betrayed them. Nu merous commissioners are reported to have called upon the governor and assured him of their loyalty and sup port. ANOTHER GOOD ROADS TRArI. The Atlantic Coast Line Railway to Operate One. That there is no end of benefit to acrue from good roads is a fact which cannot be denied and a fact which is recognized all over the country. So much importance is at tached to this subject that the two -leading railroad systems of the south have taken up the matter of educat ing the people along this line and have sent out good roads trains. Already one of these trains has visited this city and within a little more than a month another such train will be here being sent by the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. The Southern Railway sent such a train here during the summer gone which was operated out of Richmond. The one from the Atlantic Coast Line Railway will be sent out from the same point and is scheduled to reach this city on the morning of Jan. 9. The train will spend the greater part of the day in this city. The train is made up of several coaches which are fitted up with the latest devices for road building and traveling with the train will be sev eral government experts who will make addresses and show those who visit the train just how to build roads and how to keep them Intact after they have once been properly constructed. FOUND DEAD IN WATER. Mystery Surrounds Death of Strang er at Beaufort. Friday morning a man's body was found face down in the water near the western short of North river, about three miles from Beaufort, N. C. The man had evidently taken off his outer clothes, as they were piled on the bank, and waddee into the irier clad In underwear, hose and shoes. and fallen on his knees in the shallow water. The clothes contained only a watch, pocket drinking cup and 20 cents in silver. The dead man arrived in Beaufort on the 11 o'clock train Thanksgiving Day. He went to the Innlet Inn, where he registered as C. Hanber, Washington, D. C., had din ner and was shown to a room. His body was found next morning at the abere place by a MIr. Fulchet. No letter or papers were found to the clothes an nothing but toilet ar ticles in his bag at the hotel. The man was evidently a German of good appearance and well dressed. He was about 50 years of gae. duction, it is a matter of justice to the producers that we should give them a full report as to the mill takings, mill holdings, warehouse holdings, consumption and demanad. This is only fair, though the prob lem of arriving at the figures is much more difficult. It will be re membered that several years ago I had passed a resolution directing the bureau of the census to issue quar terly report along these lin'- These reports are being issued as arected by law, but time has proven that they are not sufficiently comprehen sive nor are they issued with' suffici ent frequency. I have taken this matter up with the director of the census and in conference with him and the chief of the division of agri culture we are endeavoring to work out a plan by whiz~h we can furnish, along with the ginners' report, a com prehensive report as to consumption and demand, and the like of cotton. I hope to have this bill in readiness for introduction early in the week." Found in Federal Prison. The finding of twelve loaded re volvers and four sticks of dynamite in the federal penitentiary yard at Fort Leavenworth. late Friday prob-. ably prevented a wholesale outbreak FIELD OF LAGOR Where the Methodist Preachers Were Sent ter the Coming Year. A NUMBER OF CHANGES There Are Several Changes Among the Presiding Elders, Many of the Preachers Go to New Charges, While Others Are Returned to Old Ones. The Methodist Conference of South Carolina, which met last week at 3cnnettsville, adjourned on Monday evening. Just before adjourning Bishop John C. Kilgo, after % mag nificent address, read out the ap pointment of preachers for next year ?s follows: Anderson District. Anderson District-C. B. Smitb, presiding elder; Anderson. St. Johris. 8. A. Donahoe; Orrville and Toxaway, A. Sassard; Bethel, J. W. Neely; Au treyville, P. K. Rhoad; Calhoan Falls, J. E. Taylor; Clemson and Seneca, P. A. Murray; Honea Patb. G. W. Davis; Lowndesville, J. C. Chandier; McCormick, N. G. Bailenger; ?lzar, W. S. Myers; Pendieton, A. V. Har bin; Starr, J. L. Singleton; Towuville. J. E. Cook; Walhalla, G. C. Leonard; Walhalla circuit, W. D. Patrick; Westminster, M. 0. Latham; Wil liam3ton and Belto7 J. L Stokes, aa..I G. T. Harmon. supernumerary; Wl 1:-.mston circuit. M31. M Brooks. Charleston District Charleston District-J. W. Daniels, presiding elder; Allendale, J. W. Wai ling; Appleton, E. Z. James; Beau fort and Port Royal, J. H. Noland; :Bethel circuit, R. C. Boulware; Black Swamp, W. W. Williams; City of Charleston, Bethel, W. B. Duncan; Trinity, R. S. Truesdale; Spring Street, G. T. Harmon. Jr.; Cumber land, J. T. Peeler; Mount Pleasant and Young's Island. W. V. Dibble; Cottageville, J. P. Inabinet; Cypress. J. R. Copeland; Ehrhardt, H. W. Whitaker; Estill, F. E. Hodges; Hampton, 0. M. Abney; Henderson ville, W. C. Kelly; Lodge, W. P. Meadows, Jr.; Ridgeland, W. S. Hen ry; Ridgeville, J. W. Elkins; South Hampton, J. E. Carter; Summerville, E. A. Wayne; Walterboro, H. J. Cauthen. Cokesbury District. Cokesbury District-W. P. Mead ows, presiding elder; Abbeville, W. T. Duncan; Abbeville circuit, J. M. Lawson; Butler, F. G. Whitlock; Cokesbury. G. F. C!arkson; Green wood, Main Street, J. W. Kilgo; Greenwood Mill3, J. B. Connelly; Greenwood circait, M. T. Wharto-a; Kinards, W. P.. Vouknight; New berry, Central, J. F,. Ca-lisle; Oak land and Jalaiin, to be supplie-; O'Neale Street and Mollohon, A. iM. Gardner; Newberry circuit, 3. M. Friday; Ninety Six, F. E. Dibble; Parksville, B. H: Covington; Phoe nix, Foster Speer; Prosperity, S. C. Morris; Princeton, R. M. Duboise; Saluda, E. P. Taylor; Waterloo, 3. T. Miller: Wvhitmire, 0. A. Jeffcoat and R. E. Mdood; Lander College, 3. 0. Wilson, president; R. A. Chilci, financial agent. Columbia District. Columbia District---W. M. Duncan, presiding elder; Aiken, 3. E. Tray wick; Aiken circuit, D. E. Jefcoat; Batesburg, S. 0. Cantey; Bath and Langley, A. R. Phillips; Columbia, Washington street, E. 0. Watson; Main street, T. G. Herbert; Green street, A. E. Holler; Granhy, B. A. Wilkes; Brookland, W. C. Winn; Edlgewood, W. M. McLendon; Shan don, Hamlin Etheridge; Waverly and Bethel, J. A. Campbell; EdIgefield, J1. R. Walker; Fairfield, C. M. Peeler and E. W. Mason, supernumerary; Gilbert, C. S. Felder; Graniteville and Vaucluse, 3. Hi. Thacker; John ston, E. H. Beckham; Leesville, A. E. Driggers; Lessville circuit, G. *K. Way; Lexington, 3. E. Rushton; Lex ington Fork, C. WV. Burgess; North Augusta, C. E. Peele: Ridgeway, 3. P. Winningham; Springfield, S. H. Booth; Swansea. 3. U. Inabinet; Wagener, W. D. Quick; Columbia College. W. W. Daniels, president; Epworth Orphanage, W. B. Wharton, superintendent; student to Van der bilt University, J. W. Lewis. Florence District. Florence District-W. A. Massa beau, presiding elder; Bennettsville, Peter Stokes; Bennettsville circuit, M. W. Hook; Brightsville, M. F. Dukes; Bethlehem. J. G. Farr; Che raw, M. Auld; Chesterfield, L. L. Bedenbaugh; Darlington: Trinity, R. B. Turnipseed; Epworth, F. S. Hook; Darlington circuit, E. R. Ma son; East Chesterfield, T. B. Owens; Florence, R. E. Turnipseed; Harts ville, R. G. Murphy; Jefferson, 3. A. Graham; Lamar, B. $[. Robertson; Liberty, J. H. Moore; Marlboro, 3. B. Weldon; McBee, 3. L. Tyler; Mc Cll, 3. T. Fowler; Middendorf, W. C. Bowden; Pageland, 3. A. GicGraw; Timmonsville and Pisgah, W. E. Wig gins; Timmonsville circuit, W. B. Baker: assistant Sunday-school edi tor, L. L. Beatty. Greenville District. Greenville District-P. F. Kilgo, presiding elder; Clinton, 3. E. Ma haffy; Easley, P. B. Ingraham; Foun tain Inn, S. T. Blackman; Gray Court, 3. P. Attaway; Greenville: 'Buncombe street. M. L. Carlisle; St. Paul's, E. S. Jones; Hampton ave nue, J. M. Rogers; West Greenville., L. L. Inabinet; South Greenville, 3. T. McFarlane; Bethel and Poe, D. W. Keller; Greenville circuit, 3. G. Hug gins; Greer's, E. T. Hodges; Lau rens, First Church, L. P. McGhee; Laurens circuit. 3. C. Davis; Liberty, D. R. Huff; North Pickens, B. L. Thomason; Pickens, G. F. Kirby; Piedmont. WV. L. WVait: South Greer's, W. M. Owings; Travellers' Rest, Joe D. Bell; West Easley, A. A. Merritt. Kingstree District. Kingstree District-H. L. Hloiroyd, presiding elder; Andrews, W. O. Hen derson: Cades. 3. L. Mullinax; Cordesville, 3. B. Prosser; George town, Duncan, Henry Stokes; West End. L. E. Peeler; Greeleyrille, W. H. Murray: Hloney Hill, 3. C. Taylor; Johnsnville and Prospect, E. P. Hut son; Jordan, W. T. Patrick; Kings tree, W. A. Fairey; Lake City, C. C. Derrick and W. S. Stokes, super lumerary; *cClellenvill e, W. P. Way: New 7ion, J. R. So~iourner: Pee-Dee. 3. 0. Carraway; Pinopolis, V. C. Gleaton; Rome. T. J. Clyde; W. H. Perry; Scranton, J..W. Bailey; South Florence, J. M. Gasque; Sum merton and St. Paul, J. R. '1. Major. Marion 'District. Marion District-R. H. Jones, pre siding elder; Blenheim, S. J. Bethea; Britton's Neck, W. A. Youngblood; Brownsville, J. I. Spinks; Bucksville, W. R. Barnes; Centenary, R. R. Doyle; Conway, A. D. Betts; Conway circuit, E. F. Scoggins; Clio, C. C. Herbert; Dillon, A. N. Brunson; Gal livants, D. H. Everett; Latta, A. T., Dunlap; Latta circuit, J. H. Graves; Little River, R. F. Bryant; Little Rock, M. Dargan; Loris, S. T. Creech, and H. L. Singleton, supernumerary; Marion, S. P. Harper; Marion cir cuit, J. M. Meetze; Mullins, W. C. Kirkland; Mullins circuit, W. A. Beckham; North Mullins, W. C. Ow ens; Waccamaw, W. M. Hardin. Orangeburg District. Orangeburg District-M. L. Banks, presiding elder; Bamberg and Bam berg Mills, W. H. Hodges; Barnwell, W. J. Snyder; Branchville ,W. S. Martin; Cameron, J. P. Simpson; Denmark, T. E. Morris; Edisto, T. W. Godbold; Eutawville, S. D. Vaughan; Grover, S. W. Danner; Harleyville, A. S. Lesley; Norway, W. S. Goodwin; Olar. to be supplied: Orangeburg, St. Paul's, H. W. Bays; Orangeburg circuit, S. W. Henry; Or ange, T. L. Bilvin; Providence, J. J. Stevenson, and J. F. Way, supernum erary; Rowesville, J. K. Holman, and G. W. Dukes, supernumerary; Smoaks, J. C. Counts; St. George, J. W. Ariail; student of Vanderbilt Uni versity, L. E. Wiggins. Rock Hill District. Rock Hill District-T. C. Odell, presiding elder; Blacksourg, J. P. Patton; Blackstock, H. B. Hardy; Chester, J. C. Roper; Chester circuit, J. H. Montgomery; Clover circuit, H. G. Hardin; East Chester, R. A. Yongue; East Lancaster, G. T. Rhoad; Fort Mill, T. J. White; Hick ory Grove, W. B. Justus; Lancaster, M. M. Brabham; Lancaster circuit, C. P. Carter; North Rock Hill, J. A. White, Richburg, D. A. Phillips; Rock Hill, St. John's, E. K. Hardin; Rock Hill circuit, L. T. Phillips; Van Wyck, F. L. Glennan; Winnsboro, G. C. Hutchinson; Yorkville, J. F. An derson. Spartanburg District. Spartanburg District-A. J. Cauth en, presiding elder; Belmont, L. W. Johnson; Campobello, R. L. Xeaton; Carlisle, 0. N. Rountree; Cherokee, R. A. Brock; Clifton and Cowpens, J. N. Ivins; Enoree, Elzie Myers, Gaffney; Buford street. G. P. Wat sone- Limestone street, 'B. G. Vaugh an; Gaffney circuit, J. A. Bledsoe; Inman, J. A. Cook; Jonesville, W. H. Ariail; Kelton, J. H. Manley; Pa colet, A. H. Best and R. 0. Lawton; Pacolet Mills, C. B. Dawsey; Reid ville, E. L. McCoy; Spartanburg: Bethel, J. W. Speake; Central, R. E. Stackhouse; Duncan and Glendale, B. J. Guess; North Spartanburg, W. H. Polk; West Spartanburg, J. W. Shell; Union-Buffalo and Green street, B. D. Jones; Grace, J. L. Dan iels; South Union, J. H. Danner; Woodruff, J. H. -B-rown; Conference secretary of missions, M. B.. Kelley, Southern -Christian Advocate, S. A, Nettles, editor; J. L. Ray, assistant publisher; superintendent .Anti-Sa loon League, 3. L. Harley; mission ary in Cuba, H. L. Powell; industrial institute, D. E. Camak. ~Sumter District. Sumter District-W. I. Herbert, presiding elder; Bethany, T. F. Gib son; Bishopville, G. B. Edwards; Camden, H. B. Brown; Elloree, 3. E. Strickland; Fort Motte, J. V. Davis; Heath Springs H. C. Mouzon; 1Ker shaw, S. D. Bailey; Lynchburg, 3. S. Beasley; Manning, F. H. Shuler; Oswego, T. W. Munnerlyn; Pinewood, J. B. Wilson; Providence, 3. N. Wright; Richland, George Lee; St. John's and Rembert's, R. E. Sharpe; St. :Matthew's, J. M. Steadman; Sum ter: First Church, D. M. McLeod; 'Broad street, R. W. Humphreys; Wateree, Oscar Spires; transferred, C. A. Norton, to- North Georgia Con ference. A DISTRESSING ACCIDENT. Burned to Death by Dropping an Oil Lamp Before Fire. At Darlington Mrs. Leila Withers poon, of Sumter, who was on a visit to the family of her father-, D. M. Smoot, for Thanksgivig ,met a horri ble death Friday morning about 7 o'clock, :following burns received Thursday night about 10 o'clock. Mrs. Witherspoon had retired for the night, but had gotten up and was in the act of lighting a lamp and plac ing it back on the mantel where it stood when it fell in front of the open fire, and her clothing was ignited. Before help could be obtained she was horribly burned. She was a wid ow and leaves three children. TRYING TO GET R10H QUICK. Some of the Foolish Things People Lose Money In. Money must be easy when such a crude scheme as the United Wireless could sell $2,000,000 of worthless stock to a confiding public, when the Radio Telephone could sell $1,000, 000, and the Columbian-Sterling and Hampton's magazines $2,00(0,000 more. The postoflice deparrtment did no better work than when it got af ter the dealers in gold-brick securi ties. It is said that the Wireless crowd have $700,000 hidden away to make them happy when they get out of the penitentiary. The Govern ment might well get after this mon ey and distribute it among the duped. Hong Kong is Chaotic. A cable message from Hong Kong, China, says although the reign of piracy on the West river has been checked by the vigilance of the guards on board the river steamers, the situation on shore is utterly cha otic. The Hong Kong government has adopted the sternest measures to repress all outbreaks of rioting. Heavy Sea Causes Death. A tremendous sea which swept the decks of the Fabre Line steamship Santa Anna caused the death of four seamen and the serious injury of three others. News of the disaster was brought to New York when the liner arrived Monday from Marseilles~ and Naples. The elevator man is a genuine hu manitarian. He spent his day in WILL NOT HANG rhe Slayer of Twenty-oNe Persons Sea to State Prison for Life. FOR DYNAMITE CRIMES The Above Was the Punishment Meted Out to James B. McNamara, While John J. McNamara, Who Blew Up the Llewellyn Iron Works, Was Given Fifteen Years. A dispatch from Los Angeles, Cal., says James Barnabas McNamara and John J. McNamara, brothers. natives of Cincinnati, Ohio, Tuesday felt the strong hand of justice which they long had sought to evade. J. B. McNamara was sentenced to imprisonment for life, for murder committed in dynamiting the Los Angeles Times building and killing twenty-one persons, and his brother to fifteen years in the penitentiary for blowing up the Llewellyn Iron Works. It was the retaliatory action of the law against those lawless methods which John J. McNamara, secretary and treasurer of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, pursued in fighting employers who kept open shops. Though the younger brother, James B., in formally presenting his confession to the Court Tuesday, de clared that he intended no murder when he placed sixteen sticks of dyn amite beneath the Times building, on October 1, 1910, John J. McNamara, recounting to his attorneys his prin ciples, broke down as he muttered that he fought against great odds in the best way he could.. It was a sequel to the Court scene earlier Tuesday when he received his sen tence in tears of abject surrender. A few hours after the sentences were pronounced by Judge Bordwell, word went forth that subpoenas would be issued for both McNamaras to appear before a Federal grand jury to divulge further details of their dynamiting censpiracies. The United States Government will demand of them information con cerning Inter-State trafficking In dynamite, which is alleged to have resulted in more than 100 explosions at bridges and factories where labor welfare was involved. Something of the same fear of ter rorism brought by those explosions flitted through a crowd of nearly 15, 000 persons Tuesday, as it surged back and -forth around the jail, ex pecting to see the McNamaras taken to the Hall of Records, where previ ous scenes in the trial had been en acted. But the Court and counsel, taking cognizance of possible law lessness, held the final session in a Court room adjoining the jail, and the prisoners were taken thither over an interior bridge passageway. "I never carried a g':n until to day, since the McNamara affair start ed," confided Samuel L. -Browns, chief official of the State department of Investigation, when his detectives reported to hgn that suspicious char acters by the scores were scattered in the crowd. Judge Bordwell changed his mind several times, but tcok final precau tion and held Court in the small chamber beside the jail. Outside the crowd begged for entrance. An army of policemen fought its efforts. To the Hall of Records, not far distant, the mass of humanity moved back and forth in confusion and even many who really were entitled to ad mission were denied that privilege. In the Hall of Records, floors and stairways were choked with the cur ious. Only a hundred persons saw the two brothers le*d through the narrow passageway into the chamber beside the jail. Ie * HOW TO CURE HAMS. This Formula is Given by the Pro gressive Farmer. Trim them neatly and make a brine strong enough to- float a fresh egg. Put them in this and let them remain for four or five days to draw the blood. Then take them out and boil and skim the brine and when cold return them to the brine, adding enough fresh brine to cover them, and then add for each 100 pounds of ham a pint of black molasses and an ounce of saltpeter, and let the hams remain in the brine two or three weeks. Then take them out and hang and smoke well with hickory wood or corn cobs and smother the fire with green cedar brush. When 'well smoked, take them down and paint them all over with a mixture of black molasses and black pepper. Wrap in stout brown paper and put each in a cotton sack and dip it in lime wash and hang in a dark smoke house. The hams will improve till a year old. -I treat shoulders the same way, and sides, except that the sides re main in the brine half the time the hams do. Jowls treated mn this way are fine for boiling with turnip greens in the spring. Eludes Dogs and Men. Though all the county officers and three hundred volunteers searched far a-nd wide Wednesday, T. B. Walk er, the negro condemned to die on the gallows at Washington, Ga., Wednes day, but who escaped from officers Tuesday night, is yet at large. He was handcuffed securely when he es caped. Dogs followed his trail for miles, only to lose it, and there is no clue now as to where he is. I ' Bet They Will Not. D.John D. Rockefeller and Rev. Fred D.Gates, manager of Rockefeller's charities, were invited by Chairman Stanley of the House to tell the trust investigating committee to appear be fore the committee next Monday, if they care to do so, to reply to the charges by the Merritt brothers of, M~innesota. Held Up and Robbed. At Kansas City a negro and a white man with his face blackened Satur day night held up employees in the cashier's office of the Missouri Pacific freight depot, and after shooting two men, one probably fatally, escaped with $132 in cash and checks amount i n to or~S WORKED FOR MORGAN HONDURAS OFFICIAL ACCUSES THE UNITED STATES OF Forcing Morgan Loan on Southern Republic Under Threat of causing Rebellion. In a 200-page bcok published at tral American republic will mean rades, former minister of fnance of Honduras, declares the state depart ment at Washington encouraged the Bonilla. revolution in Honduras last winter in an attempt to force the Honduran government to sign the Morgan loan agreement. Parades as serts the Washington state depart ment virtually submitted to Presi dent Davila of Honduras this state ment: "The protectorate and the Morgan loan, or the revolution." President Davila, Parades declares in his book, was forced to agree to the loan proposition and ordered the rmistice signed. Correspondence that passed among the governments of Great Britain, Honduras and the United States Is published in Parades' book and in this connection he asks: "Is it the intention of President Taft to subjugate Honduras, and turn the country over to the dominance of Wall street? Will dollar diploma c3 go this far? "The subjection of the little Cen New Orleans on Monday, Juan E. Pa the abandonment of the Monroe doc trine, the destruction of the Pan American union, a reproach to the United States-which has so long championed the rights of independ ence, freedom and democracy-and a source of -bitter feeling and hatred between the races on this hemis phere." Parades was opposed to ratifica tion by the United States senate of the Morgan loan treaty and his bool is intended for presentation to sena. tors and congressmen at Washington THE SENATOR AT HIS POST. He Was in His Seat When the Senate Opened Monday. When seen at his hotel in Wash ingto Monday evening Senator B. R Tillman appeared to have stood the trip to Washington very well and showed by his conversation that he had already begun to put himself ii touch with government matters. He attended the session of the Senate where he was warmly welcomed b3 his colleagues. The Senator says h( will "go slow" for a while, unde: the advice of his doctors and friends but that he will keep a watch oE proceedings as well as he can with his limited ocular equipment. Afte: a stay of about a week the Senato: will return to his h?ane in this Stat( until after the holidays, as in hi opinion there will be no serious worl before the new year, when he wil go back to Washington. A POOR OLD FOOL. Japanese Man Killed Hmself fo Delaying the Mikado. .Giving his life as atonement be cause the Emperor of Japan wa forced to spend an hour in a comma: waiting room, Mojii Shijiro Schmidzt a train superintendent, threw him self under a train, according to ad vices ;brought by the 'steamer Aw; Maru. Shimidzu was in charge of th arrangements for the emperor's jour ney from Kyushu, where he wit nessed the big army maneuvers an' the imperial train was detainel as; result of the derailment of a car riage due to a misplaced switch. Smimidzu left a letter saying h considered It his duty to give his lif, to pay for the emperor's embarrass ment. The emperor was much dis tressed when the incident was report ed to him. RATS DESTROY HIS FORTUNE. President's Aid Sought in Redemp tion of Bank Notes. The life savings of Jack Simpson of Aitken, Minn., amounting to $2,. 565, securely hidden from burglars were reduced to pulp by hungry rats and mice, and in a letter received b3 President Taft he ,appealed for thE r-edemption of the pulverized fram ments .by the Federal treasury. His wealth accumnlated to buy a farm. Simpson explains, was placed In a box and deposited between the up stairs floor and ceiling. No human being disturbed It, but when he tools it from its hiding place he found it had been reduced to dust .by the rav ages of rodents. The Poultry Yard. It is not good for hens to dust in coal or wood ashes only, some folks claim, but we find that a few ashes lighten up the dirt. Noon is a good time to supply the stock with some green stuff, such as cabbages or roots of any kind. -The latter can be cut in half, and the hens will then pick them to pieces. Have the floors of the houses well bedded with some light litter, so that the biddies will be irnduced to scratch, and thus warm up their bodies these cold, frosty mornings. Drafts in the chickens' home are more dangerous when the rowis are quiet on the roost than when they are stirring around during the day; but a cold air current sweeping through the house is a bad thing at any time. Poultry feeding has been much Im proved and simplified by the intro.. duction of the hopper method. The old-fashioned way of preparIng and mixing a wet mash is done away with, on account of its tedious and need less expense of time and labor. The hopper is filled with a variety of ground grains, and places wuere it is accessible to the fowls axt all timeg. With this arrangement the hens need never go to roost without sufficient food. Murderers Publicly Hanged. At Palatka, Fla., Mill McCoy and Edgar Youmans, negroes, were hang Ed in the jail yard at noon Friday, having been convicted of the murider of a man and women of their own race some time ago. Fully 2 1500 people gathered to wuness the er. Used and praised he most competent and cul pas try cooks the id over The only Baking Por made from Royal Grapeiam of Tartar-made frograpes CHASE OF BOLD THEF ISP ROBBED A STORE WHERE LITTLE Cottop Has Brikon All Prias GAML WAS CLERK. [ls .1 Fo-mcr Years. After a Long Run, One Rascal Was chot, Captured, But tre Other DEED STATEMENT Made His Tscape. With a severe flesh wound in the left leg, just below the Iee, caused rteen M On Baes Glmed .by a pistol ball from the weapon of Ujhe First of December, one of his captors, Flux Suber, a negro, was lodged in the Lexington WIs the Heaviest Ginning tp jail Friday night. According to the TO IPeriod Ever Before IKnown story told by the officers, Suber and Oscar Cook, another negro, entered the store of P. H. Stallings, th, well known dry goods merchant -)f Brook- Tlbsus bureau's sixth cotton land, Friday afternoon about 2:3v glnniit of the season, Issued o'clock, and proceeded to take pos- at 1 r session of the store, when they found nub ringybalesouing that only -one clerk was In the store at the time-a young girl. rouncalf bales, of cotton of the While one of the aegro(s. was pre- growt1911 ginned prior to De tending to look at sonme socks the Icembi with comparative statis other picked up a half dozen pais tics toorresponding date for the. pants, the best quality that was n the shop. When the negro who was Past tyears looking at the socks was told by the Unitates: 12,814,832 bales, young lady clerk that she could not comXpith 10,139,172 bales last make the proper change to complete year, 187.7 per cent of the entire the purchase, he said that was all crop 'inned prior to December right he would take two pair, thus 1;, 8,486 bales in 1909, when saving her the trouble to secare the 88.1 ent was ginned, and 11, change. 008,66es in 1908, when 84.1 per At one time the young woman, who cent ened. was very -much frightened, attempted GeoiNorth Car6lina and South to leave the store to report the oc- Caroliiave ginned. thus far this currence to the next door, but was year 3i cotton than ever before met at the door by one of the ne- was g within their borders. gr6es who had a drawn knife. Fin- Eveitton growing State except ally, however, the negroes rushed ArkanMississippl, Oklahoma and out, one of the mcarrying the bunch Tenneelready have ginned more of pants, and the clerk at once re- cottoni was grown In the States ported what had happened. last yea. the year before, accord In a very short while, it is said, a lng to. tensus bureau's cotton re large posse was in pursuit, and so hot POrt i'st today sbowing' the gin Sbecame the chase that the pants were ning p1o December 1. dropped by one of th eculprits. Af.j To i date there had -been ter a long chase across hill and dale 'ginned te United States a. total of the men in pursuit came upon Suber,'12,814,(bales, exceeding the to who was commanded to halt. Instead tal seasi ginning of every year Sof stopping the fugitive is said to except 1 11906 and 1908 and com have gotten faster and faster, and lug withk7,000- bales of the total It was necessary to shoot him in the ginned it)4, the record year. -leg to effect his capture. Cook man. lDurine period between Novem -aged to escape. ber 14 apecember 1, ant average SSuber was carried back to Brook- of 107,25 bales of cotton was land, where his injuries were looked ginned .ogry working day. Safter by Dr. Geiger. Suber had been The nrer of round bales In -off the gang only a short while, hay- cluded weg87,567 compared with ing completed a sentence for larceny. 101,718 bi last year, 134,.393. .For a while there was Intense excite- bales in 1~ and 201,480 bales in Lmen~t in the little town, and it looked 1908. like the negroes were in danger of Thke nun. of bales of sea island being sumdarily daelt with for their cotton inegd were 87,457, comn dastardly attempts. pared witb6S,696 bales last year, 77,591 balla 1909, and 68,396 USED UP BY THUGS. bales in 191 Ginning i?tates, with compara Man Beaten and Robbed in the tive statistiand the percentage of .the total o ginned prior to De Streets of Chicago. cember 1 inevous years, follow: A half hour spent in a West Side theater in Chicago, waiting for a gneo rp moving picture show to begin Friday 11 ,3,5 night, brought a restless audience a190 06,8 performance wholly unexpected. At19..1 the end of that time Charles 0. Har- 10. ding, proprietor of the place, who, as an usher explained to the restless 11 8,4 crowd, was on his way to the the-1906526 7. ater with films, stagged down the ~6399 8. aisle.1987641 8. His clothing was torn; he wore no hat nor collar and his face and hands1917,8 were cut and bleeding. He did not 11...... 5,9 have the films. "Icould not get here any sooner,"199. .... 5632 9; he said, "and I apologize for the fact that there will be no moving pictures191. ... 2,377 tonight." 11..... 16553 8. Then Harding explained that he 10..... 16332 9. had been attacked by two brothers.10..... 17967 8. who took his films together with two valuable diamonds and his money, his 11...... 3364 .. toMa1 loss amounting to about $1,400 11...... 2796 8. besides the terrible beating which he 10...... 2863 9. suffered. .10..... 349& 8. One of the diamonds taken was in spl a tight fitting ring which the ban- 11.:..... 9,8 dits .threatened to get even if they 11...... 9066 8. had to cut off the finger. 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