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WHAT SHlE SEES1 SI Famus Paris Witch Says Nations Be Upheaved During Nat Year MUCH TROUBLE AHllAD Predicts Defeat of the Republican Party in the United ~tates Next G Year, that the German Emperor Wi Loose His Crown, and That Z France Will See Blood and Fire. tb r2 Mme. De Thebes, of Paris, "the witch of the Etoile quarte," the world's greatest seeress, has issued 0 her forecast for 1932. The famous G pythoness to whom nearly every r well-known man in France has jour- w neyed "to have their fortunos told," 01 predicts havoc all over the world. rc Next year is to .be the "Black Year." Nations will be upheaved; e, a great European war is to be b: fought; the high cost of living is to io go higher; Paris will probably top- h, ple into ruins; babies won't have vi enough milk; Kaiser Wilhelm of is Germany will lose his crown, etc. d< You, perhaps, laugh at "fortune tellers," Mlle. Lantelme, the beau- i tiful French actress, felt that way H about it, and when Mme De Thebes told her "to beware of the water," i she only smiled. Mlle. Lantelme was 0] drowned off her houseboat on the Rhine last summer. Anyway, Mue. De Thebes' "pro- E phecise" are strangely interesting Even If she be not inspired, the fact, remains that wherever she gets her information, however, it is that she tears aside the curtains for she peek into the future, she often hits the I bull's eye. If she isn't a real propi .tess she's a good guesser. She mays, in part: C "Last year I called 'the twilight year;' next year-as night succeeds the twiligt-will be the 'black year.' C But there will be streak if light. Not a single star wil; rise over Paris. All will be dark, save now and then vIvid streak if lightning will cut the shadows preceding the resound ing booms- of thunder. "Mercury and Mars will dominate the heavens.* * * Men of af fairs, diplomats, will try their ordi nary affairs, but they will have to leave the last word to the military force; force and cannon will speak when the business men and diplo mats get muddled. "For France everything points to war, but I believe this will come not before the latter nort e. .. oreseen Is so o geat, so widespead, that it is .dan- n gerous even to speak of it lest it be a precipitated. Not only will it turn ,a Europe upside down, ,but other con tinents 'as well, notably Asia. We t will be forewarned by a trembling 3 of the earth and we shall know that t the-'end of our trouble Is in sight I, when most of the necessities of life u are wanting; especially will milk beg scarce. TI - "A hard winter is ahead, a sullen f< springtime, heavy summer and bit- a, ter fall." 13 Blood and fire will surround France throughout the year, accord- t! ing to the future-reader. Brest, Tou-p ing and Paris will be especially curs- d ed. Paris will have epidemics, floods, si attempts against the lives of well known people, and, "If those men, o: whose intentions are good enough, t< cannot get together Paris will be in w ruIns." o This Is taken to mean that since a * the government has done little to ward deepening the bed of the Seine t. the floods. Mmne. De Thebes fore- ~ tells,awill leave Paris In a sad plight. ci There Is to be an uprising of some et nature or other in Paris, the partic- si ular quarter not beirg indicated by ci Mmne. De Thebes. "There will be," she says, "numerous deaths, as if a n volcano suddenly opened. But in the ti midst of this torment Paris will not b Interrupt the trend of her daily life.n It will continue to have its full share o of crimes of passiou, its society dra-. mas and singular adventures. * * see a famous stage beauty, at a boul evard theatre, who will kill herselfI after she has killed someone. Spain will have lively doings; here will be plots, but Alphonso will save his crown. Emperor William of Germaniy will not be so lucky, it would seem. "There will be across the Rhine no t dominating Hoh~nzollern nor any 'E other Prussian; that Is what Berlin d will get for her violent and political I barbarismns. I have said, andi I re- st peat, that the days of the emperor b: are numbered and after him all will s change In Germany. I speak of his 0 reign, not his life. " s * England has a bad destiny in store n fo'r her; there are to be deaths, fires, g etc. But It is the same everywhere Y It will be the "Black Year." The 'United States is no exception TI of the rule. The present government, 14 It seems, will be knocked down and n rolled In the dust of defeat. A new 14 set will take up the reins. Mmdie. di Do Thebes did not say so, but wise- hi acres here simply substitute for "a Ja new set" another word--"progres- si sives" or "Insurgents." ti "Can I be mistak~en?" the sooth sayer of the Etoile asked musingly, gazing at a peculiarly thiseled stone. elephant standing in the iddle of a a table encumbered wIth books, retorts e and papers. "No, I am not wrong," S she said. And the device, in small S letters in the base of the elephant t rad: el "Je ne trompe pas; j'avertis:" (Ilh do not deceive (trumpet) ;I warn!" I The word "trompe" has a double meaning. Forewarned is forearmned. Thieves Stole Judge's Clothes. t A gang of burglars that has been : H terrorizing Huntington, W. Va., be- c came bolder than ever this week IC - when they entered the home of t Judge J. F. Douglas and stole all his s wearing apparel. Next morning the pa judge had to cancel his weekly trip to church. Child-ren are a heritage and no par out has the right to play the part of g; an. absentee landlord and leave the lb ..careo bi hna'n to an agent. I e FORTY-NE INJURED :A.BOARD FLYER DITC9MmD- A'7 GLOSTER, GEORGIA. reek Was Caused by a Broken Rail, -Several From This State Ar4 Amor.g the Hurt. Forty-one persons were injured L.rday night in the wreck of train ). 38 of the Seabord Alr line, near oster, Ga. The wires to the scent ere torn down and it was not until mnday morning that details of the railment became known. None oj e injured will die, according tC ilroad officials. Gloster is 25 mllei )rtheast of Atlanta. The trai - left Atlanta at 8:3Z clock for Washington. It was go g 40 miles an hour when near th( oster station it struck a broker M1. The engine and several car. cnt over safely but a Pullman ani ie first-class passenger car left th adbed and went into a ditch. The injured were in these tw< rs. Their hurts consist of cuts an *uises. If there had been more ser. us consequences the railroad woulc ive had difficulty in caring for th ctims, as the surrounding countr sparsely settled and few if an: >ctors were at hand. A train with physicians and wreck g apparatus was dispatched fron owell's station. The tracks wer eared by daylight. Mob - th< Lured live in Georgia and the Car inas. They include: P. M. Cain, Washington, D. C. G. W. Brewer and Miss Brewer lberton, Ga. C. M. Parish, Raleigh, N. C. C. F. Leffler, Rutherfordton, N. C Mrs. Ella Moon, Comer, Ga. Miss Bert Watscn, Comer, Ga. F. F. McNaughton, wife and fli ildren, Burgaw, N. C. Mrs. Floy Tally. Sanford, N. C. Mrs. j. F. Thornton, Abbeville, S J. W. Bolt, Laurens, S. C. Arch McCormick, Wilmington, 3 G. P. Waddell, Wilmington, N. C. J. B. Allman, Mullins, S. C. C. A. Haigler, Abbeville, S. C. W. Bright, Mullins, S. C. W. P. Childress, Laurens, S. C. A. A. Champ, Winder, Ga. J. W. Steel, Waxhaw, N. C. C. P. Holmes, -- , N. C. LI!ANY CRDIES 3AR HOLIDAY. orst Christmas in Fourteen Years Says Police Chief. "The wor-+ 'i my four was Chie londay I: -ers, say )mmentei and a] wat they 'hai Mr seen a Christmas to equal tha f 1911. Seventy-eve arrests wer, .ade up to 11 P. IM. ThIs is prob bly a record for the departratent fo ne day's work. Almost every crime that one call > mind is on the police dockel eginning with men who merely de ined for safe keeping, the cata >gue of wrongdoing runs all th ay to :murder. Shooting scrape alore were pulled off in fine style he Hospital got its share. Ver: w, however, were Injured by fire orks during the day, none serious Lawlessness seemed to . reign o: e streets and the double details v licemen had everything they couli o to stop fights as soon as the :arted. In utter disregard. of the safet: fpeople walking on the streets, pis >ls were fired at random and fire orks set off on the principal thor ughf ares. Thirteen arrests wer ade on this charge alone. It is reported that several "blin gers" were compelled to close thei laces early yesterday afternoon be tuse of the three days of Christina slebration had cleaned out thei: ock and It was impossible to se re more. Many people said that they hat ever seen so much drunkenness oi ie streets of Charleston at any tim< efore. Ordinary cases of drunken ess were not interfered with, ni ae being arrested who was able ta te care of himself and was no ~aing trouble for anybody else. THEY SHOULD BE PENSIONED. emarkable Anti-Race Suicide Rec ord of Oklahoma Couple. Complaining that the railway sta on waiting room at Boynton, Okla. 'as without fire on a bitterly coli ay, 3. Li. Jackson filed a protes 'ith the corporation commission an< ~rutiny of his allegations Saturda: rought the discovery that the Jack >ns are parents of thirteen childrei orn in three years. Their eldest, >n is now fourteen years of age aking the personnel of their pro ency list fourteen in number. Fivi ears ago in the increase in thi ackson family became marked wins are now five years old. Trip :ts succeeded twins In twelv< tnths, and in another year trip ets, came five children on the sam< ay. The five are still alive, but th< ealth of the whole family, declare: ckson, was impaired by the ab nce of warmth in the Boynton sta on waiting room.. The Unwritten Law. At Rome, Ga., Douglas H. Harris ged 5, was shot and instantly kill :ensay night by Uriah L teatravelling salesman taes Immediately surrendered t< le police. He made a tsatemen a'rging that Harris had wrecke is home and declaring that he wa: appy in getting his revenge. Probably Fatally Burned. Playing Santa Claus in flannel at re and towsled bempen hair, Geo .Sawyer, aged 14 years. went to< ose to the lighted candles on the ristmas tree in his home in Clif ndale, Mass., Christmas day and itffered burns which are expected t< rove fatal. Fatal Clash in Morocca. An oflicial dispatch from Meilla orocca, rep~orts an extsended en ~geent with tribesmen on Decem r 22. The Spaniards lost 9 killec CIMNESE TROUBLES MANY FLEE FROM THE RURAI DISTRICTS TO CITIES. English Missionary and Wife As saulted by Brigands and Left foi Dead, but Escaped. Eighty missionaries, a majority oi whom are Scandanavians and Ameri cans, have arrived at Kankow fron the Lachow and Fan Cheng district: in the province of Hu Peh. The mis sionaries were escorted from theii stations by revolutionary troops and afterward by Imperial soldiers. The: report that the elties in the provinct are peaceful but the country is Li fested with robbers. The Rev. C. W. Landaht, a mis sionary of the Hague's Synod mis sion in Tai Ping Tien, at the reques of villagers, took command of an im provised militia for protectioi against robbers and with the assis tance of the people captured a rob ber spy. The people in spite of Mr Landaht's efforts killed the spy, afte: which men, women and children dip ped their bread in his blood with th< idea that by doing so they would be come brave. The revolutionists sen out a small cavalry force and kille< many of the robbers. The remain der of the band then submitted an Mr. Landaht departed for Hankow. Consular reports from Cheng Tu Capital of the province of Cze Chuen dated December 5, say complete an archy prevails in the surroundinj country. There has been much rob bery and the people have buried thei money. The British consul at Ichang, prov ince of Hu Pel, writing on Decembe 21, says that there is serious dange of an anti-foreign outbreak there. A letter from Sain Fu says tha the Rev. Donald Smith, a missionar of the English Baptist mission, ani his wife attempted to take the Chi nese schoolgirls to their homes in th north of Shian Fu. A band of rob bers attacked them, seized Mr. Smith broke both his arms and stunned hin They then gashed his wife on th leg and left them both for dead, bu they revived and were conveyed bac: to Shian Fu. Wang Tien Chung, a notorious bri gand, who has committed many rot beries In the western districts of th province of Hunan, Is reported t have ccllected a band of 2,000 or 3, 000 followers. HE TOOK THEM ALL IN. Pretended Deaf and Dumb Man In posed on Good People. "'Some roast duck, please; som cold sliced turkey, brown potatoe! some coffee, and, oh, just bring m a good meal. You know I am hungr and tired." The State says this order wa drolled out to a waiter on a, dinin car entering Columbia Tuesday nigh r om Charleston by a young mar The waiter complied with the ordei Some passengers strolled in frox the day coaches to get something t eat, and they found this young ma: eaitng and chatting and they wer astounded, for they had just contril dted to what they thought to be worthy cause. The young man I: question had just made a round C the train, pretending to be deaf an dumb. He had collected over $7 frol the unsuspecting ones. The passen gers were Indignant and protestet 1A~n officer was called when Columbi was reached. Being questioned by the officer th young man said that his name wa Henry Hymens, and that he calle Memphis his home. He declared tha te had boarded the train at Wests near Charleston, where the race trac: is being constructed,.and that he wa a follower of the races. He was nc arrested. r KILLING AT SUMtMERVTLTE. STwo Officers Tried to Arrest Hiz and He Shot at Them. Monday afternoon at Summervill Special Officer J. Stevens, assisted b Constable Sam Miller, while attempi ing ,to arrest one Arthur McCant were forced to shoot him as he fire upon them at close range. McCant died instantly. McCants had been terrorizing th rneighborhood around Taylor's briec yard, in the eastern part of town, a: day, with threats and firing off: shotgun. Officer Stevens was sen for and taking Constable Miller wit him to assist in the arrest, the: found McCants near the corner c Gum and Third South streets, fiour Sishing a shotgun in a drunken an Sdisorderly manner, threatening t 1kill any one who interfered. Th constables were approaching hit from the rear, when his wife warne< him from a distance. He turned sud Ldenly and fired, both effleers return ing the fire. McCants being kille i nstantly by a, bullet entering th right side of his face and penetratin the brain. FELDER TO TAKE THE STUMP. The Atlanta Lawyer to Make Speech~ es in Caro~lina. The Spartanburg Journal asks wi) Tom Felder take the stum9 agains Coleman Livingston Bleases in thi latter's race for re-election next sum men? That's an interesting ques tion and it remains to be seen wha 'will come of it. A gentleman wh< has just returned from a westeri trip spent several days in Atlanta Ga., and while there secured soms interesting Information on thi: score. He was informed by the bes kind of authority that, in addition t< the book Felder is writing on Blease the Atlanta lawyer states that ha will make three or four speeches fron the stump-in South Carolina durinm the race for governor next summer Felder is anxious to meet Bleast race to face while making these speeches, is the trend of the news thi: Spartanburg man brings back wit] him. In speaking of the book Felde: is compiling this gentleman said "Yodi can put it down for fair tha Felder has 'got the goods.' H-is boo] will cause the governor to say, -'O that mine enemy had not written: book.'" HappyNew Yea toal rin n On a Loug Voyage Kills a Sager and the Others Live in Terror THEY ALL WORK IN FEAR Monster Escapes From Crate and on c Fourth Day Out of Oalcutta Stings a Man, Who Dies, in Great Agony, t and Men Refuse to Unload the Steam Ship at Boston. In the long voyage from Calcutta to Boston the crew of the German steamship Estterturm lived in hourly terror of death from a big cobra, whose sting is fatal. The deadly character of the reptile's bite was only too vividly proved on the fourth day out of the voyage, when the men of the forecastle and the officers heard a sudden, sharp scream of ag ony. It came from a sailor who had been moving along the deck in the darkness. He was bitten on the leg and a few hours later died in convul sions, suffering most poignant agony. The man had on4y the merest glimpse of the snake as it squirmed out of sight and into hiding. Sunday night the deadly cobra was still alive and aboard the ship. It is believed to be coiled and hiding somewhere among the jute bags in the steamship's hold, driven to shelter by the nipping cold r that has probably reduced it to a state of lethargy. But not a member of the nerve r racked crew can be secured to vol unteer to seek out and kill the poi sonous creature. They are held back by the horror of the remembrance of their comrade's cry the night he was bitten and the spectacle of his ag onized death. In closely boarded crates the Es tterturm took 124 snakes aboard at Calcutta on an assignment to a New York animal dealer. The cobra had a box to himself. The snakes were fed from time to time by dropping live rats into the crates, the rodents being caught by traps set in different sections of the ship. Such was the sinuous strength of the cobra that it was able to rip open the stout slat that caged it within the box. No discovery of its escape came until the night that the sailor was fatally bit ten. Officers and men made two or three hunts for the deadly creature, but as there were hundreds of places aboard the ship where it could coil in hiding, the snake was not found. e Every night became one of terror to , the sailors, therefore. Some flatly e refused to go out on deck at night, y and those who did moved cautiously along, picking their way and flashing s lantern lights ahead of them. Now g and then a terrified sailor reported. t having seen the snake darting across tthe deck in the darkness. The lurk -uig, deadly danger that was about a them night and dai brought some of a the sailors into port on the verge of a nervous collapse. e Once the killing of the snake was -almost affected. Half a dozen sail a ors armed with long clubs searched a and beat every cranny of the super f structure of the ship, and finally i started the cobra from under a coil 2 of rope. Once or twice, as one or - two of the men aimed the clubs and E.were ready to strike, the cobra rear a 'ed and darted its fangs back at its pursuers in rage and the men scat e tered, shouting in dread an fear. s This time the snake disappeared I down a ventilator and it is suposed t found its way down into the cargo ,in the hold. k Since the steamship neared port s and the weather grew decidedly cold t the snake has lain dormant. Or, at least, it did not reappear on the deck. None of the other 123 snakes got out. But the Estterturm faces a serious predicament, for when the 2story that the terrorized sailors told when they got ashore came to the cars of the stevedores, th-ey went on strike, refusing to handle the cargo a in the hold because of the presence of 7 the snake whose sting is certain -death. I QUITE A HEAVY COUPLE. A Man and Wife Weighs Over Seven SHundred Pounds. SIt is not true tibat nobody loves t a fat man as is sh'own by the mar a riage of Samuel C. Drew and Miss SRose Lavigue in Dover, N. H. His p457 pounds demanded a seat all to himself on a train during their hon e ymoon, and his wife, who was Miss SRose Lavigue, had to have another tO acconmodate her 278 pounds. This Sprecluded all idea of the whispered Iexchange of remarks suitable for a honeymoon trip. Then again when they left the train each had to have Ia taxicab apiece. Even when they got home, where their coming was Sexpected, the town could not furnish another rig but a hayrack in which they could ride. BODY GROUND TO PIECES. Railroad Carpenter Killed in A. C. L. Yards at Florence. t Norphie Pleasants, a white carpen ter, who was employed in the car repairing department of the Atlantitc Coast Line shops at Florence, was run over by a Coast Line work train in the freight yards at Florence Sat urday night and instantly killed. His body was literally ground to pieces by the wheels of the train, which was backing through the yards. Coroner Cooper held an inquest and the verdict was that Pleasants came to his death by being struck by a Coast Line train through his own carelessness. The body was shipped to his old home at Aberdeen, North Carolina. Sunday morning. Hangs Five Days by Arms. After falling into a crevice be -tween two ledges near Southbridge, I Mass.. James Leek bung for flye days nnd nights by his arms and with one leg suspended backward. He was unconscious when found, but will1 recover. The man who goes through life with -uncertain aim will never gain 1 KILLER SOON LYNCHED MEORGIA COMMUNITY SHOCKED, BY DOUBLE TRAGEDY. 'nraged at Slaying of Policeman, Mob Wreaks Vengeance, Pouring Bullets Into Victim's Body. C. A. Roberts, chief town marshal f Donaldsville, Ga., was killed by a .alf drunken negro there Saturday ,fternoon and the latter was shot o death by , mob that sought re enge immediately afterward. The trouble started In town at .15 o'clock. John D. Warren, the egro, came to town and after par aking of too much Christmas li uor, quarrelled with Gus Newberry .nd finally drew a revolver and hreatened 'to kill Newberry. The Legro was finally chased out of town iy persons who had seen him flour sh a revolver. Marshal Roberts heard of the af air and he, with J. D. Mosely and J. V. MdMullin, jumped into and auto obile and started in pursuit. They >ertook the negro on the outskirts f the town and the marshall order d him to stop and climb out of the agon. The negro turned in his seat and >pened fire on his pursuers. Mar hal Roberts returned the fire, both nen being wounded. The marshal umped from the aotomobile and rasped the negro and dragged him rom the seat. Roberts fell dead rom the wounds that he had sus ained as the negro dropped to the round. The negro was taken in charge by 4osely and McMullin and they at empted to take him back to town. But the mob that had been closely ollowing overtook the party and rove Mosely and McMullen away rom the negro. Then the members )f the crowd shot the negro full of ullets. He was too weak from vounds previously received in his uel with the marshal and too full >f liquor to make any headway at ,etting away. The town was full of Christ shoppers. All business was paralyz d because of the lynching. Marshal Roberts leaves a wife and family. rhe negro, Warren, had been In trou ale once before, .but his father is one )f the best known and most promi ent negroes in Southeast Georgia. 3ESSAGE TELLS OF MASSACRE. aid Party Captured by Indians Ex pected Soon to Die. What is believed to be 4vidence of an Indian massacre-which took place in the earliest pioneer day of Oregon bas been uncovered by the little daughter of L. C. Denison, at Salem, re. While playing in the basement of the home the young girl picked up a bottle which had been imbedded in clay containing the following mes sage, written on a soiled piece of paper: "x10-1 840--We are captured by Indians-expect to die any minute. You will find Purk's body under the tree north, and" What more the writer intended to say will never be known, as the mes sage stopped after describing the burial place of the man Purk. The bottle Is a four-ounce contain er and shows evidence of having been bured or washed under the ground many years. The paper within bore the message of pending death and in jury at the hands of the Indians in lead pencil writing. Mr. Denison states that he will take the message and bottle to Port land and present It to the Historical Society and will make an effort to 1o cate the grave of the man referred to in the note. I. I ROBBERY BY CHINESE BRIGANDS Highwymen and Murderers Terror ize Inhabitants. A Warbin, Manchuria, message says a band of Chinese brigands at tacked an Imperial convoy which was on the way to Kirin with a large amount of bullion. The robbers car ried off a, sum of $S50,000. The aummber of brigands In the province of Kirin has increased rapidly since the beginning of the political distur bances throughout the the kingdom. Many soldiers have deserted from the army and have .joined the ranks of the brigands and now live openly by plunder. IMurders occur frequently among the highroads and the brig ands even attack settlements of con siderable size, in which they loot the stores and do not hesitate to murder he inhabitants if they offer any re sistance. YEGGMEN MAKRE GOOD HAUL. Secure $10,600 in Stamps and Papers in Postoffice Robbery. At Hardin, -Ky., a band of yeggmen ot $000 worth of stamps and $10, 300 worth of notes and stocks, when :hey blew the safe of the postoffice ary Sunday. The explosion of the aeavy charge of nitro-glycerine, used .n blasting open the safe, shook the ntire town and caused a panic mong the residents, many of whom rushed half-clad from their beds. Al :hough a posse was formed, no trace )f the robbers could be found, and loodhounds will be put on the trail is soon as possible. The paper taken y the yeggmen were the personal >roperty of Postmaster Stark, and iome of them are negotiable. Old Woman Dropped Dead. Much excitement was caused at attney Saturday afternoon by the leath of a respectable old colored wo nan, named Prudie Wright, who ropped dead among a great crowd > Christmas shoppers about one 'clock in front of the National Bank f Gaffney. The cause of her death vas acute indigestion. Swallowed False Teeth. Herman .Koch, aged 24 years, a vimer living near Grand Rapids, Vis., swallowed his artificial teeth c-hile eating supper one night. He vas hurried to a Milwaukee hospi al, where he was operated on, but lied the next day. The best ground runs to weeds if mtilled, and the best mind becomes mn..,itfil-if undeveloped. RAISE HOME SUPPLES SOUTHERN FARMJERS SHOULD DO THIS NEXT YEAR. Thus Keeping Millions of DoUars at Home and Raising Cotton at a Good Profit. The government prediction of a crop -of 14,885,000 bales of cotton has caused no consternation, nor ev en surprise. The crop was the logi ca.1 outcome of conditions the most favorable that have ever been known. And, moreover, the crop was made in response to a reasonable and ur gent demands of the commerce of the world which had been suffering from the greatest cotton famine since the civil war. The crop of 1904 approximated nearly the crop of 1911 than any other, with a total 13,438S,012, exclu sive of linters, was grown. The crop of 1910, which was 11,608,616 bales, with a value of $963,180,000, was a world-beater as regards the a-mount of money it brought to the country. The crop of 1911 was made under conditions as near perfect as could be. From the first day of January of that year there was scarcely a day when the active operations of the farm were interrupted by the weath er. Consequently there was more land broken by the first of April than the entire years before. The land was put into prime con dition, was highly stimulated by fer tilizers applied in the most scientific manner. Intensive methods'of culti vation were employed and the high est results obtained. The demonstration trains of the agricultural colleges went touring round the different states, teaching the farmers the best way to do exact ly what they did-how to get thE greatest yield from the smallest acre age. They also taught hog and hom iny in abundance. *This the more provident have don( and located their corn cribs anc smoke houses on their own premise, and that class is now in good finan cial condition and holding a portot of their cotton crop till it brings .bet ter prices, which it is sure to do. Thi less fortunate are at the mercy of th4 bears and still keep their supply de posit in the West. Thus it must be seen t.hat the muel advised and greatly railed at cottoi planter has made no mistake. Na ture has given a grand demonstratioi of the potentialities of the soil an< the crop that they produced was to( bulky and unwieldy for the bank: and warehouses to handle and mar ket conservatively. But there is nothing in this to dis hearten the South or set her back - particle. On the contrary, there i; every reason for her to take hear and go at it with greater determina tion than ever, now that they se plainly their limitless possibilities a well as where their danger lurks. It is said 'that the~ total value o the South's agricultural productio3 for 1911 will exceed the total valu, of the agricultural production of th Union in 1890 Dy $100,000- It i also true that the present cotton cro] will bring more money than an: previous crop with the exception o the crops of the two previous years. The British spinners know tha cotton is too cheap and -they are jus now laying in a supply thaY will las them two years. American mills tha curtailed their production by shut ting down for four and six month threw the hands out of omployment who were consequently forced to g. into the cotton fields and swell th enormous crop then making. Both the British mills and th American mills were after cheap cot ton. They had been suffering froz high-priced cotton as well as no cot ton at all. They went after pleat: of cotton and low-priced cotton an' they got both. And now they ar making goods at a profit and enjoyini a season of great prosperity. When they got through spinnini up the stock of dheap cotton the: are now buying, they will boubtles has improved their financial conidtiol t such an extent that they will bi able to pay the advanced price to cotton that is inevitable. The world was clamorinig for a bi; crop when this crop was pitched Nothing was said about the price which was at that time 15 cents. Bu after it was found that the crop tha had been made was too big for the South to manage, they knocked th< price down to nine cents, and lowe: grades still cheaper. There are ,two lessons for the Southern farmers which are empha sized by the experience of 1911, an< they are: First Raise everything at home possible that is needed for consump tion, for the maintinence for th< home and farm and make cotton surplus crop. Second-Be careful not to .maki more cotton than can be gathered readily and economically. Those Southern farmers who havi adhered to these two principles art now luxuriating in plenty. Some o: them have their cotton stackec around their gin houses waiting to: 15 cents, while they with their tam iles are liv-ing on thc fat of the land ROOSEVELT IS D)ANGEROUS. If He Was Re-Elected, But There is No Chance of That. If Roosevelt should be returned tc the presidency he would "Diazify the ofice and Mexicanize the republic,' according to Col. Henry Wattersoni the veteran Southern editor, whc spoke at a banquet at Charlotte Fri. dya night. MIr. Watterson declarec he did not share in the alarm tha1 Col. Rloosevelt really is a candidate arid expressed the belief that ever hould a stampede mrovement for hini succeed in the coming national Re publian convention, he woi~ld not carry a single State in the Union. Thousands of Cattle D~rowned. More than 1.000 head of cattle have drowned in Cameron Parish, La.. during the past few days be cause of floods and submerged lands, according to Morris Rosenthal, a .ake Charles. La.. hide dealer. He said that C. F. Henry, one of Cam eron's largest cattlemlen, had lost nearly 1,000 head and that other HITS US VERY HARD TURNING OF CRLINALS LOOSE IS DOING Us HILN Governor Blease's 'Wholesale Pardon ing of Convicts Commented on by Richmond Paper. The Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch says Gov. Blease of South Carolina, celebrated Christmas by pardoning 30 prisoners, establishing a record. for setting lawbreakers at liberty. Elev en of these prisoners were life prison ers. Nine were convicted murderers. One was convicted on the charge of burglary and larceny, another on a charge of arson. Seven were convict- C ed on a charge of manslaughter, the sentences ranging from five to twen- c ty-six years. Samuel Roe was among- those par- a doned. He killed his 'wife as she lay p sleeping in her bed at home. -A jury of his peers said that he should spend his life in the penitentiary-a sen a tj tence none too light-but Blease, in the heavy rule of the chief pardoner; P wills that this man shall go free and C c wander about the community, a living monument to the kindness and -po liteness shown to a wife-'murderer i e South - Carolina. Murderers, burglars, incendiaries, tbieves, gunmen, drunkards and sec ond-story men have been loosed by Blease to inspire the people of the State with respect for justice and order and to encourage them to up hold the law of the land. Convicted criminals go back to their communi ties to laugh in the faces of just judges and conscientious -jurymen, and, incidentally to vote for Blease. Tha,t was what the governor of the State of South Carolina did as a -Christmas gift to criminals. In strik ing and significant contrast stands out the refusal of Gov. Mann of this commonwealth, to pardon any con vict on Christmas day. This is a law-abiding State, wherein the people believe in the law and choose magis trates who will exercise their authori ty on the side of justice. Gov. Blease thinks that It is the function of the chief executive to re hear and retry cases; Gov. Mann does not. Extreme I1l health is practically the only consideration which now moves Gov. Mann freely to pardon a man who shot his wife as she lay in her bed; Gov. Mann refuses to par don wife-murderers. There is a vast chasm between the la-w as It is administered in South Carolina and the law as It is ad-min;' istered in Virginia. Judges and ju ries here are swifter and more severe than they are in South Carolina, and the chief executive of Virginai would never dream of -freeing convicts, wholesale as this man Blease has done. In South Carolina, criminals on whose hands the "damned spot" will not out, walk abroad with proud car riage;- in Virginia, they~ die in the chair or spend their lives in cells. In South Carolina, the pardoning ,power is used in such a way taat it Is not exemplary; In Virginia, it is. Crime is encouraged in South Carolina when almost every day infamous lawbreak ers- are freed, while in Virginia the minimum use of executive clemen cy is a wholesale deterrent to would be cri-minals. A In theefinal analysis,, people alone are responsible for the administration of justice. The law-abiding people of Virginia would not and* could not elect a man .to the governor's chair who would abuse the pardoning pow er, but the people oZ South Carolina are not so careful as. to their choice. Once in South Carolina the law was a thing sacred--but the times have changed and the governors with them. The administration of justice -in South Carolina is a shame, and reproach upon the South and the nation, but whether the people of that ancient State will destroy this ever-flowing cornucopia of pardons by their votes next .summer 'seems a doutful thing. Justice is swif't and terrible in Vir ginia, and the law is a luminous, liv ing thing. It is so, because Vir ginans are a law-abiding and law fearing people, and because they will elect none bult high an'd honorable men as their magistrate. There was a day when the righteous were in authority in South Carolina, and for a return of that era its people may well and fervently pray. STRANGER IN STRANGE LAND. Siberian Cats Wrist, Neck and Breast With Penknife. At Greensboro, N. C., William Rodenkirchen, a foreigner, register ing at a local hotel as "Rodenkir chen, Adrian, SiberitL," was discover ed by a hotel clerk Friday morning groaning and vigorously jabbing his throat with a penknife. When dis armed it was discovered that Rod' enkirchen - h11d: slashed each 'wrist thrice, stabbed himself just above the heart and had dug a large hole ini his neck. Rodenkirchen left a note saying that he was all alone in a strange land and homesick. On another card, evidently scratched in the man's own blood, were .these words:. "This is me death. It is finished." A memorandum showed that Rod enkirchen had $300 on deposit in a savings bank in Barr'e, Vermont. He willed $90 to the poor. There is a chance for the man to live. DIED TRYING TO SAVE DOG. an Struck by Train Trying to Get Animal From Track. Attempting to save his dog from death .beneath a locomotive, Mr. Geo. F Biackwell of Columbia, but a. nat ive of Elberton, Ga., was struck and instantly killed by a Southern Rail way train just outside the city lim its. Mrr. Blackwell with one of his sons were out hunting. Returning they were ovetraken by a train on a small trestle. They stepped out on a latform to await the passing of the train but just as the engine ap proached one of the got up on the track. While attempting to pull the animal back Mr. Blackwell was struck by the pilot of the engine. The Only Way.1 Hewitt-- "I want him to stand bacl I of what he says." Jewett-"Then you's i better get him to say It by telephone.' IANY SET FREE.., I eas. Trs Thirty Cuuicts Looe on Christmas Eve iggest Batch of Convicts Liberated in South Carolina in Years.-Some From Penitentiary, Others From County Works.-Offences From Non-Sdpport of Family to Murder. Thirty persons held in the- South arolina penitentiary and In the Tuntyd4ail recei'ed their liberty-Sat rday at the hands of the. governor f South Carolina when a record for, ardons and paroles was made, says 2e State. Briefly stated, there were 11 life [me prisoners freed. Nine of these risoners were convicted on a charge, f murder. One was convicted on the harge of burglary and larceny, and be other on a. charge of arson. Se a were convicted on a charge of mnslaughter, the sentences ranging rom-ive to 25 years. Several had een convicted on minor charges, and, ie was pardoned to restored citi-' enship. Viewing the act of - the governor- I rom an.' economic standpoint, and onsidering the -pardon record for a, Lay made possible by the constitution f the State, it means that this. State - vas deprived of the service of con iets aggregating 239 years. This Is - or unexpired terms. The estimate a made upon an average .of 20 years or a lifetime prisoner. Thie average ength of service is probably longer. L liberal estimate of theyvalue re eiv'ed by the State for the service of convict for one year Is $100, whfch vould make a total of $23,900 lost n labor. - There was clemency granted in 30 ,ases.- Legal statisticians have esti nated that it costs about;$500 to con-. rict a prisoner In this State. This vould mean an additional $15,000 - :ourt, expenses incurred. Taking the um total of the expenses and value :o State, the governor expended $38, )00.. Of the 11 lifetime prisoners to re :eive clemeney- at the hands of. the governor, Samuel Ree, the Chester :ounty wife slayer, is probably the ost known than many o'thers. He ias convicted in November, 1899;-for tlling his wife while she slept in his iome. The case at the time. at ,racted a great deal of attention, and public sentiment was against- the man. He has served 12 years of a life term. The parole was gra ated luring good behavior. The papers granting the elem' to the prisoners were made up in the governor's office Saturday morning--)' and sent to the secretary of state'saof ace, where It required mnore than onel hour to amx' the great seal of. the] State. The papers were then sent tog the penitentiary and there was a-gen-p eral exodus -of . prisoners. The governor of South Carolina as- " sumed offce on Januai-y"17; and sfnied" tha~t time he has granted celmeficy 1 317 cases, which are as follows: Pardons.. ........-...18'& ParcIes.~ ......... ..180 Taking the estimate of statisticians' of $500 for a conviction, this means that this feature of the clemency rec ord has cost South Carolina $158, 500. The governor, soon after enterig offce, dispensed with the State board. of pardons, and -announced that .in3 the future he would decide all cases> presented for celemency. ATCS OF THE HOLY BOTL R. Woman Thought She Could Wlalk on4 Water and Was Drowned. ~ There Is a contraversy on betweeny the offcials of the First Presbyterian. hurch at Macon, Ga., and the local,, nt of "Holy Rollers,"~.or, as they4 prefer to be known "Children of God." For two Sundays the "Holy Rollers," led by two prominent young' Macon women and Prof. J. R. Mose-a ley, who recently left Christian. Science for this new faith, have wor shipped at the First' Presbyte church, and this congregation, de lares It.has been annoyed and of fended by the "Holy Roller" pec utterances, frantic and violent -gesti ulations and excitable demo tions. A.nother unusual feature occurr. Sunday morning when the "Hol Rollers sought to restore life to a& woman "Holy Roller who drowne herself In -the river Saturday -In th belief that she could walk on th water. The services lasted fo hours, and at the end of the the woman was still dead. Somes prominent men and women of Maco are identified with the "Holy Rollers' sect there. A COUNTRY OF SUICIDES. Over Fifteen Hundred Commnitteed Saxony In One Year. - The kingdom of Saxony, which, fo many years. has shown a dispropo ionate number of suicides over mo ther countries, comes again to t ront of the German states In statistics of 1909, for which .year :he kingdom's year-book has ins been issued. In that year there were n a population of about 4,500,000 L,521 suicides reported, of which 35 ;vere women. The cause given in 47 ases Is despondency of "gene veariness of life." Suffering fro lisease resu~lted in 262 suicides, whil n "injured sense of honor" led 2 ersens to make away with the elves. "Christmas," wrote Dickens," he only holiday of the year rings the whole human family In :ommon communion." We are s :ered in many lands, yet the bond~ inon that has long held us toge eems to strengthen with years. M hristmas anniversaries have co Ld gone since we first assembl n spirit if not in presence, to he holly and pledge our faith riendship, and each recurring Ch as time has found us more cl