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VOL. XXVII MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 5. 1911 LIQUOR LAW PA$SES li6ES CUARLESTON RIGHT TO SELL LICESES UNDER CERTAIN RULES Conditions in Charleston Are e uiewed, Which Shows That Pres eat Law Has Never Been Enforced, and Points Out the Beneits Under . lan rroposed in BilL W a vote of 66 to 45, the House Thursday night passed to third read ing Mr. Rittenberg's bill to provide a liquor lcense system for the city of Charleston. The message was tak en up Thursday morning and 'Mr. Rittenberg spoke earnestly in favor ef his bill. He asserted that it was purely a local matter and that all other methods of dealing with the li quor question in Charleston had fail ed to accomplish the desired results. Other members of the House took the opposite view and held that it was not a local question, and that the evil effects of the license system In Charleston would spread to oth or eounties. Further debate on the question -was postponed until Thurs day night by the arrival of the hour to consider Mr. Rembert's bill. When debate was resumed Thurs day night on Mr. Ritteuberg's bill, Mr. Barnwell made the opening argu ment, which was clear-cut and effec tive. He asserted emphatically that the contemplated law will relieve conditions which have become intol erable. The situation demands re lief, he said, and Charleston Is try ing to work out her own salvations Mr. Whaley discussed Charleston's unique position in the State, both as to its citizenship, which Is cosmopol itan, and as to topographical and geo graphical location. It is Impossible to stop shipping of illicit liquor into that city, he said. Mr. Whaley ar gued strongly that the lalwbreakers of Charleston are getting rich under the present regime and that the dis pensary is an absolute failure. Taking up -the question of lawless - ness, Mr. Whaley said that if the law was enforced by the Governor .r by tde Mayor or by th-juries of . Charleston, they would not have blind tigers, but neither or these of .&ials-bas dne lt and Charleston has siered. He argued that If license at $1,000 each were Issued to ifty liquor dealers they would act as de teetives and would see that no one engaged in the sale of liquor with out a license. The blind tigers of Charleston are ( Eghting the bill, was information which he had received, and members had been told that the tigers would not let the bill pass the House. This made him all the more eager to show = that the Charleston tigers did not< run things. He said the bill could hurt no one and ought to pass. The question was on Mr. HIott's 1 motion to strike out the enacting words of the Rittenberg bill, which,1 with amendments, had been accept-1 ed by the delegation. The result1 wa 66 to 45 againat kining the bill. This is a real, modern miracle, a maiority voting~to give Charleston a - license system, or at least against i killing the pending bill. Those who voted for the motion to strike out 4 enacting words were as follows: 4 3. W. Ashley, Atkinson. Baskin, Belser, Bethea, Bowers, Boyd, Browning, Brice, W. E. Laughter. Epps, Evans, Friday, Fripp, Gasque, 1 Greer, Haynesworth, Hlott, Hunter. Hutchinson, Hutson, Irby, Jones, Kibler, McCravey, McDonald, Mc Queen, Kalpass, Means. Mower. Nel son, Nicholson, Pegues, Ready, Rid dIe, Riley, W. M. Scott, W. W. Scott, Sherwood, Shirley. White, White bead, Wyche, Youmans and Speaker Smith. Total-45. The nays were as follows: Addy, Ashley, K. J., Barnwell, Blackwell. Busbee, Clowney, Creech, Cross. Daniel, Dick, Fortnor, Goodwin, Gray, Haile, Hall, Hardin, Harrel son, Harvey. Holley, James, W. A.. James, W. E., Johnston, Kelley, Kir by, Kirk, Lee. Lumnpkin, Lybrand. McMinan, Massey. Melfi. Miller, Mit chell, Mlxson, Moore. Mosely, Mu ray. Odom, O'Quinn, Pyatt, Rembert. Rlttenberg, Robertson. RobinsoL. Rogers, L.. Rogers, W. S. Jr.. Sap'. Shroder, Senseney, Smiley, Stanley. Strickland. Sturkie, Thompson. Tin dal, Vanderborst. Walker, Warner. Warren, Welsh. Whtaley, Wilburn, Williams. Wyche. Total-66. The full text of the bill was pub lished in The News and Courier on the 13th, the chief amendments are to provide for a license for brewers and bottlers, at $5,000 and graduat ed down, reducing the salary for the license commissioners from $1,800 to $1,000 each: the wholesale H cense is to be $3,000 and retail li cense $1,000 each. No liquor Is to be shipped outside Charleston; no liquor can be sold by licensed dealers In less than half pints. There was a question about allowing the right to manufacture liquor or beer until It was shown that this right is now gIven. The amendment provides for pablication of names of all appli cants for licenses and no application can be granted until duly advertis ed. Mr. Il1bler said there were so many amendments that they should be printed and studied before a final vote was taken. Mr. Whaley took chrg f the parliamen1tary Rtna tion and Insisted on finIshing with the amendments. In his remarks (Mr. Whaley's) reference to the non enforcement of the dispensary law referred to no particular. Governor nor mayor, the non-enforcement was general, he said, and he believed the people would back up a restricted 1U egnse system. The House refused to .aditm en Mr. Kiblel's motion and KILLED BY A SINGLE VOTE SENATE REJECTS LEVER AGRI CULTURAL BIL The Manr Will be Brought Up in the Next Congress When it Will Pass Both Houses. The vote of Senator Obadiah Gard ner, of Maine, who Is generally be lieved to be slated for Secret:y of Agriculture In the Wilson Cabin:, defeated the Lever agricultural ex tension bill in the Senate Wednes day. Thirty-one Senators voted- to substantitute the Page vocational bil for the Lever bill, and thirty Sen stors voted against the substitute. Four Democrats, Senators Chilton. )f West Virginia; Gardner and John son of Maine, and Martine, of New Jersey, supported the Page subst tute, while six Republicans, Senators Esourne, of Oregon; Bristow of Kan as; Burnham, of New Hampshire; Burnton, of Ohio; Cummins, of Iowa, md LaFollette, of Wisconsin, vote-i In favor of the Lever bill. Other wise, the division was strictly on party lines, the Republicans as a )ody standing by their Vermont col eague. When seen after the vote, Repre entative Lever said: "I am not din rouraged by the situation because he Page bill was passed by one vote td included the substantial features >f my bill, as the latter was unani nously. adopted by the House. I rave not determined whether to have he matter referred back to the Bouse committee on agriculture or ;c ask for a conference. I do not ow what the attitude of the House will be, as the Page bill has never teen considered on that side." The Lever bill is confined to agri ultural extension and is a contin ation and development of an estab ished policy, while the Page bill also acludes vocational and inJustrial eatures and means the beginning of in absolutely new line of activity by he Federal Government. Again; un tr the Lever bill, South Carolina would have to spend only $70,000 secure the benefit, while the state would have to put up about $350,000 uder the Page bill before getting a ent. If the Lever and Page bills are eferred back to the House commit es on agriculture, there will prob fbly e no further action on them t this session. If they go to confer ne there is a bare chance that some greement may be reached. The eneral view is that the subject is at 6 standstill for this Congress. IENATOR TILLMAN RE-ELEC1ED. iets the Entire Vote of the Members of the Legislature. Senator Tillman's re-election was Wednesday officially confirmed. It tow remains for the governor to :ertify the result of to the Presi Let of the Senate of the United tates, with the "0. K.>' of Secre ary of State McCown. First, the enate east its 37 votes for Senator rillman, then the House cast its 114 rotes. Wednesday the clerk of each branch read the result and Lieuten tnt Governor Smith announced that is a result of the unanimous vote of >oth legislative branches haviny meen cast for the re-election of Sen Ltor Till,an, he was re-elected Unit d ta'es Senator' for the full temr >f six eare. beginning Miarch 4 uest 5enator Tillman was in Columbia ednesday', attending to work in :onnection with Clemson college and attend the Corn Exposition. SENT BABY BY POST. Fhe Postage on it Was Fifteen Cents and it Went Safe. The newly created parcel post now as the record of having accepted md delivered a live baby. The honor 'or this goes to Vernon, 0. Lytle, ,arrier on a rural free delivery route :ut of Batavia, 0. The "package", baby boy, weighing ten and three luarter pounds, just within the 11 pound limit, is the child of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Beagle. The "package" was well wrapped and ready for mailing" when the carrier got it. -measurements reached 71 inches, o just within the law, which makes 72 inches the limit. Lytle de ivered the "parcel'' safely to the ad dress attached, that of its grand mother. *Mrs. Louise Beagle, who lives about a mile from the little one's home. The postage was 15c, and the "parcel" was insured for $50. ELECTION OF OFFICIALS. By the General Assembly at Com-. bia on Wednesday. The following are the result of Wednesday's election by the General Assembly in joint session: Superintendent of penitentiary Capt. D. J. Griffith. of Columbia, who was elected to succeed himself. Directors of State penitentiary John G. Mobley of Winnsboro, A. K. Sanders of Camden, and Jasper M. Smith of Colleton, who were re-elect ed to succeed themselves. Trustees University of South Car olna-W. Md. Hamer of Dillon and A. P. Wilox of Florence. in place of Julius H. Walker of Columbia, resigned, and W. P. Hamer of Dillon, d~eceased. went on adopting delegation amend Mr. James, of Bishopvllle, wanted twenty-five per cent. of the license fees to go Into the State treasury: on this Dr. Wyche asked for an aye and nay vote, and this resulted 9't to 28 against the amendment. The bill was then ordervd to its third reading -amea+ ama a Mdtis vnte. EN; ROBT E. LEE HE IS OUR HERO AND IDOL, BUT HE IS OUR IDEAL IS HIS LIFE OUR GUIlE, An Eloquent Sermon on the life and Character of the Great Southern Soldier and Ideal Christian Gentle man by Rev. M. Ashby Jones, D. D., at Augusta, Ga. The Herald says one of the most eloueqnt sermons ever preached in Augusta was delivered by Dr. M. Ashby Jones at the First Baptist Church on Gen. Lee's birthday on the topic: "Is Robt. E. Lee the South ern Ideal?" There was a large num ber present. Dr. Jones Is peculiarly well qualified to speak on the life of the great leader of the Confed eracy, not only because of his own brilliant attainments as a thinker and an orator, but also because his father, Dr. J. William Jones, was chaplain in General Lee's army. The eloquent Augusta minister knew General Lee personally as a boy, Mid had heard his father often talk of the great leader of the armies of the "Lost Cause". Here is the sermon, and we hope it will be read by our young men speoially: 'M.\y friends, the name in which this service is held is its own justi fication. It is fitting that in this house, on this day, there should be emphasized a life that so exemplified' the teachings of Jesus Christ. "I measure my words and speak without excitement or exaggeration when I say that I believe in the South, at least, the name of Robert E. Lee Instantly suggests that oft Jesus Christ. And divesting myself of all prejudice my judgment is that In all these centuries of the Christian Era there has been found no name and no life that so fully expresses } the beauty, life and truth of. the' Lord and Master as that of the be loved captain of northern Virginia. "It would seem to be throwing away an occasion and an opportunity when the birthday of Lee and the resurrection of the Master were unit ed In the beauty of the winter sun shine. "We should strive to measure our selves by Robert E. Lee and to test our civilization by his. "I come with humility to-night to ask with you is Robert E. Lee the Southern ideal? I grant you he is our hero-I grant you he is our idol -I grant you he is the sweetest sen timent ever cherished in the hearts of the people-that we shall swear by him-that we shall revere his memory-but I am not asking this I am asking if his life is the domi nant element of the spirit of the, South of to-day? and if his character is the model by which we rear our boys? Oh. tragedy of history, men have garnished the tombs of the prophets, yet stoned their descend ants? Men have shouted in praise of the dead, yet crucified those who foretold their coming! So I am ask ing you to consider three epochs in his life. If we are to search for the real Lee we will find it in his three decisions. When a man decides upon a course of action we can find the man If we can discover why he made the decision. It does not matter wat decision a man makes, but why he makes it. I am not interested to night in the question of the judg ment of Lee. but of the moral pur pose of the will of Lee. Why did he choose the Southern side? We can arrive at an intelligent answer to. that by the process of elimination. We will answer in the negative first -he did not fight for slavery, he did not believe In slavery. No ardent Boston abolitionist ever believed in slavery less than Robert E. Lee. Lee on Freeing the Slaves. "He wrote to General Scott, say Ing, 'If four million slaves were mine I would free them in a moment to preserve the Union.' I love to read a private letter to an abolitionist friend of his In which be says: 'I am as anxious for the freedom of the. slaves as any of you but am trust ing to the sunshine of love to melIt the bonds of slavery-he is no friend of slaves who makes an enemy for them of a white master.' "Neither did Lee cast his for tunes with the South because of sec tional hatred to tbe North. He loved the army of the North with a pas sionate loyalty-his old comrades. were officers in the army and when they met in war time would clasp hands with a love that male the en Isuing battle seem the irony of the fate of men. Not even after four years of carnage, not after all the horrors of reconstruction, not even when he was refused the general~ amnesty offered by that brave sol dier, U. S. Grant, not even when threatened with an indictment for treason-did no person hear him ut ter a word of unjust criticism or abuse either of the brave foe that met him on the field of battle. or of the cowardly politician that fought him in secret. Not Because of Personal Ambition. "Lee did not make his chokce be caue of personal ambition. Hie and Lincoln both seem to have had pro phetic vision, and he predicted that the war would last four years. and that the South would fall. He saId to Gordon after the surrender: 'I never expected any other result.' And yet when In 1860 he received the offer from Lincoln of the su preme command of the United States army-loving that army as he did, not even approving of the war; between states (writing in a letterI to his son he said: 'Secession is mad ness; revolution-and I would give all to do away with the coming hor ror of such a war) with all this yet this man left the war offIce thatj (tluer~nan ob last page.) GIRL TRAVELS AS HOBO SHE PASSED HERSELF OFF AS A MAN ON THE ROAD. Her Sex Was Only Disclosed When She Objected to Take a Path at a Rest Home. Masquerading as a hobo in order to reach the bedside of her sick mother, Miss Edith Pogue, the nine teen-year-old daughter of Henry Pogre, of Maysville, Ky., was taken into custody by the police at night when her sex was discovered upon her refusal to take a bath after she hal applied at the Wayfarers' Rest fcr shelter at Louisville, Ky. Miss Pogue traveled from Cairo, Ill., t St. Youis, and from St. Louis to Louisville over the Louisville and Nashville railroad, a 500 mile trip that it took four days to make. All of the last day she held to the rods, standing on the bumpers, with the rain beating mercilessily down upon her until the water literally ran in streams from her clothing. Frang O'Brien, 21, accompanied the girl from Evansville to Louisville, but thought she was a man. O'Brien was astounded when he heard that "Willie Anderson", as he knew Miss Pogue, was a girl. "Don't think hard of me," the young woman said to a reporter, "I was working in Cairo when I heard that my mother was dangerously ill at home in Maysville, Ky. I felt I ought to go home. I had no money. Then I decided to go home at any cst. "I rigged up in an old suit belong ing to the man' in whose home I had been working as a nurse girl, and had my hair cut off. I left Cairo and went to St. Louis. I took the Louisville and Nashville train out 'or Louisville. It was cold, and most >f the time It has been raining. "Mr. O'Brien? He got on the same train with me at Evansville, and knew so much about the road that we decided to travel together. He didn't know that I am a girl. Be lre I got to Evansville I rode part >f the way in an engine cab. The reman asked me to help shovel coal, but I couldn't. He may have guess ad my secret. He was nice to 'me tnd didn't put me off. I had a hard time petting anything to eat on my ravels. I had little money and I roulln't by-e." The identity of Miss Pogue was iscovered, as stated, at the Way arers' Rest when ( as is customary eith new-comers, the young woman vas asked to take a bath. A half lozen homeless men were engaged in couring themselves in the bath rooms, and the attendant met with in absolute refusal from "Willie An lerson." At the same time he notic ct the crimson color mounting the 'tramp's" cheeks. Coupling the re usal, blush and the soft musical voice of the supposed young man o-gether, the attendant guessed the tranger's sex. From appearance with her face overed with grime for four days' -iding on freight trains, the wayfarer s a man. But the instant she re roves her cap or speaks suspicion Is noused. After the girl had washed Fier face all doubt was removed. * MOURNED AS A SUICIDE. ohn McGowan Jumped From East River Ferry Boat. Mourned at a suicide, John Mc iowan, who leaped from an East iver ferry boat at Ne'w Yurh. on Wednesday evening, turned up at his enement home late ?,+!ay night rhile his young wife with her baby, as searching the river front for his body. A vision of his little fam ly left to starve or accept charity turned McGowan's intended self-de struction toeagerness to live. A photograph of the wife and baby vs four.d on the ferry boat after he nd leaped overboard. Reporters were waiting at his home Friday night to learn further of the suicide, vhen, during Mrs. McGowan's a. sence in search of the body. McGow n. a tall muscular chap, walked in. "I simply couldn't stand being oitt f work." he said. "I went on the ferry boat and waited until It was in the middle of the river. Then I took off my coat and dived into the water. I must have been pretty close o the bottom of the river when I realized what a coward I was. Then [ got on my back and took deep hreaths and struck out for shore. Men at the electric light station put e in the boiler room and gave me hot cdrinks and when I left them hursday they fitted me out in a coat and hat." MEN WASHED INTO SEA. From the Deck of a United States Submarine Boat. The News and Courier says the names of the two men washed over board from Submarine D-2, off the Florida coast Tuesday morning, men tion of which was made in The News and Courier of We~ines-iay, were J. Campbell. electrician, first class, andi T,. Hurst. machinist's mate, second cvss. Submarine D-2 was one of a flotilla of submarines which left Charleston last Friday en route to acksonville and Key West under onvoy of the tenders Vastine and Twapah. No particulars of the acci dnt were obtainable at the Navy Yard WVednesday, the officials of the yard having received through the wireless station only the bare state ment that the men mentioned above were overboard from D-2. CYhoose sSuicide to Theft. Ivan Arlovski, aged nine years. committed suicide in St. Petersburg. Russia. recently, because his parents ordered him to go inte the streets stid stea fur a Uving. SENATE IS DEMOCRATIC HAVE TWO MAJORITY NOW IN THAT AUGUST BODY. Can Carry Out Their Measures Aith out the Aid of Any of the Pro gressive Republicans. With the election Wednesday ..f Willard Saulsbury as Unitea States senator from Delaware, the Demo cratic strength in the next senate swung from the precarious figure of 47 or exactly one-half senate to the safer total of 49, a majority of two. Mr. Saulsbury's election,.added to the victory recently secured in Ten nessee, assures the Democratic party absolute control of the senate after March 4. The vote of Vice Presi dent Marshall would have been the I deciding factor in any event, but the 1 addition of another Democratic vote 1 to the column gives the party leade's 1 what they believe to be a safe margin for tariff and legislative action. Contests still exist in the legisla- 1 tUres of New Hampshire, West Vir- 1 gihia and Illinois with a total of four 1 senators to be elected about whose 1 political affiliations doubt now exists. 1 A victory in any one of these States would so materially strength the Democratic party that the senate would be completely removed from the elembit of uncertainty. The attitude of the Progressives and the progressive Republicans up on tariff matters is as yet unknown, but the margrin of strength promis ed to the Democrats makes it un necessary, it is believed, to count 1 upon any combinations with the Pro- I gressives. Of the entire membership of 96 1 senators, 63 will hold over beyond March 4. Of these 32 are Republi cans and 31 Democrats. The terms of 32 senators expire in 'March, and there is, in addition, one vacancy in e Illinois. Thus far 17 Democratic s senators have been elected and the c election of Senator Bacon in Georgia is certain, making 18 Democrats to t take the oath of office March 4. 1 The opposition forces, including s both the Republicans and the Pro- f gressives, have elected 11 new sena- c tors. The senate, after March 4. will f stand as follows, if the deadlocks are t not broken In Illinois, New Hamo shire and West Virginia: Democrats, 49; Republicans and Progressives, 43; vacancies, 4. C TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN FLORIDA. ' - Two Children Die Prom Snakebites s and a Third Drowns. A horrible tragedy occurred in the Rolesson family on the banks of the Suwanee River, in Lafayette County, I Fla., Wednesday afternoon, whe' three children met death, two froc snke.bit?. the third from dr-w iing. f Mrs. Rolesson sent her litie b",v tc deliver a message, but before the t child had gone very far his strea:ns attracted the mother, who, busy with t her baby, sent a younger chiad to ascertain the trouble. Presently the screams of thae gt.. cd child attracted the mother, who t put her baby on the floor anid ran tot their assistance. As she approat~heel she saw a monster rattle mfalke sink-e lag its fangs into the sm'ille"'-iad. t After beating away the snare M'r. t Rolesson gathered the chil Iren ir' I her arms and started for hor'ee. t where both died within a few w~n- I utes. In the meantime, the baby, left at home alone, fell into a tub of water and was drowned.t TILLMAN IN COLUMBIA. Senator in Fine Shape, Physically snd Mentally. Senator Tillman was in Columbia Wednesday and Thursday. He looks far better than he has In years. Much of his ruddy color has r,.urned to his face and he gets about pretty well. He says he feels that he Is better than he has been in years, be cause he can think as he used to. and is in the frame of mind that concocts questions to fire at senators. He says that he is very much in hopes that the legislature will get down to work and quit trying to fo ment strife. He is ready for fighting if It has to be done, but does not think it for the good of the State. He thinks the Federal Congress will do very little before the inaugu ration of Woodrow Wilson. because the Republicans are trying to leave as much over as possible to handicap the Democrats and make them act on the appropriation bills and there y defer action on the tariff. WI ' N TWENTY 110'AJ-UI'9 Bandit Confesses and Then Dies From Shot Wounds. Peter Boore. a young Chicago ban dit who was shot by Clarenrce '.lc- t Sweeney, a police telephone opera'or Thursday night, admitted haviov < participated with his brother Albert i in more than twenty hold-ups on the 1 South side during the last six weeks. Shortly after making the confession he died. The brothers stopped Mc-i Sweeney as he was returning to his home late at night. 'McSweeney be gun shooting. Three nullets struck Peter Boore who returned the fire, one bullet striking McSweeney in the hip but not seriously wounding him.1 Albert Boore escaped but later was captured.1 Jeweller Drinks Poison Despondent over the loss of a 1 $100.0 00 fortune in speculation. ' Samuel Newberger, once a prosper ous jeweler, ended his life in the balcony of an uptown theatre in New York during the performance Friday night. He drank poison and the end came so silently that few .p....n. arnndt hm knew he was BILL WAS KILLED IOUSE REFUSED TO PASS IT TO THIRD READiu IFTER HEATED DEBATE L'he Employers' Liability and Work men's Compensation Bill is Prob. ably Killed by Refusal of the House, on Close Vote, to Pass the Measure to Third Reading. The joint resolution in the house roviding for a commission to inves igate the question of employers' iability and workmen's compensa ion, when taken up Wednesday on he' Calendar, provided the contin adion of the interrupted speech of ['uesday of Mr. Miller of Richland. dr. Miller eulogized the lawyer mem >ers of the general assembly as being rery competent. Mr. Miller claimed hat the passage of the liability ould do away with the "peti-fog ring" lawyer who receives the major ortion of all moneys received from successful suit. He claimed that negro would get justice before the ommission, just as In a court of law. 'he speaker claimed that the com ission would do good at little cost. Mr. Miller said that the commis ion will consist of two capitalists nd two laboring men who will be .ppointed by the governor; two mem ers of the senate appointed by the resident of the senate and three or ire members of the house appointed ry the speaker of the house. On tuestion, Mr. Miller asid he was tilling to limit the cost of the com cission to $1,000. Mr. Welch of Richland then gain d the floor of the house and pre ented a vigorous argument in favor if the passage of the resolution. 'Mf. Velch said that at first he thought hat he would have nothing to do rith such a resolultion, as it took way a lucrative source of revenue rom the lawyer, but, later thinking f the whole matter, he rose above etty selfishness and would help in he passage of resolution on the high rounds of humanity. air. Welch said that a liabiity bill vill help the laboring man, and will ot redound to the benefit of the orporations,. as had been charged. 'he speaker stated that only two easons could be advanced in oppo ition to the resolution-ignorance nd selfishness. Mr. Welsh, in his ar ument, read extracts from an arti le in Collier's, telling of a test case rought by the Buffalo Railway cem any. The speaker, reading an excerpt rom a work by Woodrow Wilson in avor of employers' liability and rorkmen's compensation, spoke ese words: "I do not suppose the entleman from Cherokee will say hat Woodrow Wilson champions the ause of railway companies and oth r corporations." Mr. Welch vehemently asserted hat the question under considera ion s a big question; that only by a piit of "get together" could an quitable bill be drafted. Mr. Welch hen took up the question of indus rial arbitration, characterizing it as he largest question now looming on he political horizon of the State. le deprecated the enormous loss of noney and time during a strike, as erting that arbitration could stop his waste. -- Mr. Welch, in his argument, quot d statistics from a report of five atal court cases settled out of court. ['he report showed that the corn laintants received $9,000 after law er's fees had been paid, under lia ility and compensation act they ould have received $12,975; the tverage' amounts received, less the awyer's fees, were $1,800. under the ompnsation act it would have been 2595%1 the average time for recov ry was 22 1-2 months, under a lia )ility commission the claimants ould have received compensation t once. Mr. Irby of Laurens said that he 'as in favor of some of the features f the resolution; but opposed it be ause the resolution favors corpora ions. Hie claimed that the corpora ions are being forced to pay out nuch money annually on account of he court's continually failing to rec ynize contributory negligence; and bey want some measure to overcome his judicial tendency: that an indus rial regulation as proposed in the esolutlon is just what the corpora ,ons want. Another asser~lon by Mr. Irby is bat a fixed amount for injuries and leath will be specified in a liability it; that the corporation will take ut insurance on the life of their enm l oyees-somrething that they cannot 1 now, because of the uncertainty f jury verdicts-and if one is killed e corporations will pay absolutely othing. Mr. Irby caustically criti ised all commissions as doing noth ng exept for themse'ves-going on runketing trips, etc. Mr. .Thompson of Charleston said hat the resolution for a commission s a compromise on several bills: hat no agreement could be reached >n several bills, and by the forma ion of such a commission all inter Ists could be heard, and from the nass of information received a good il could be drafted. Mr. Thomp on said that 1 5 states of the union lavo compensation acts, and South "arnlina needs sneh legislatin. The peakr, on behalf of organized Ia or. vehemently spoke in favor of the ,assage of the resolution. Mr. O'Quinn then moved for the previous question, which is a motion o recommit. By a vote of 54 to 52 the house refused to recommit. On roll call the house refused to pass the bill through its third reading by vote of 563 for and 59 against, and, t ae ... +enimmm. kined. The vote THEY GO TO AUGUSTA CONVICTS ARE ELE ASED AF TEE LEGAL DETENTION. It is Charged that the South Caro lina Authorities Are Negligent in Sending For Them. The Augusta Chronicle says Police Lieut. E. B. Hatcher is responsible for the statement that Augusta is ov errun with crininals from South Carolina, and that in the greater number of instances, the city author ities are powerless to act. In the first place, he says, there are any number of pardoned crim inals, who have found their way into the city from "across the river", and in the second place, the authorities are lax in sending for escaped con victs when they are apprehended and held in the city. Whether the recent excessive num ber of burglaries are attributable to any of the escaped or pardoned con victs, Mr. Hatcher would not say, for if there were any evidence against apy of them the situation would take on a different aspect. Mr. Hatcher referred particularly to a recent case wherein two con victs escaped from the South Caro lina chain gang. The customary no tics was sent the Augusta police de partment, and the two men were arrested. The South Carolina author ities were formally notified, but the men were never sent for. One is said to have been a more or less prominent burglar, and the other was held for robbery. They were detained at the Augusta headquarters as long as the law al lowed, or a longer period, and were finally released. South Carolina has not sent for them yet, and unless they have left the city within the last twenty-four hours, they are still walking the streets "within the law". GANG OF THIEVES AT WORK. Said to be Operating in This Seetion of the State. The Herald says on Wednesday night of last week the store of the Bamberg Furniture and Hardware Company in Bamberg was broken in to and robbed of about $100 worth of goods, among the articles taken being a fine shot gun, 'knives, razors, and the like. The thieves made their entrance through a rear win dow but went out the back door. The next afternoon a telephone message was received from Alken saying one of the robbers had been captured there, he being arrested by Mr. H. W. Kearsey, a game warden, who found the negro, John Green. in company with two other negroes. However, he only arrested Green. who carried the shot gun taken from the store there. Green has been brought to Bam berg and lodged in jail His story is that he did not assist in the rob bery, but came to Bamnberg with the other two negroes Wednesday night. That they walked to Denmark and took the early Coast Line train to Augusta, irhere they pawned a watch taken from the store, and were back in Aiken county when arrested by Mr. Kearsey. He says the other two negroes are the ones who did the stealing. No doubt all are guilty, and Mr. John Cooner, secretary and treasurer of the hardware company, has offered a reward of $25 each for the capture of the other two negroes. Green says there is a regular gang of negroes organized for robbing in that 'section. and that the two negroes wanted to belong to It. were as follows: Yeas-Speaker Smith, Barnwell, Baskin, Belser, Bethea, Bowers, Boyd, Brice, Charles, Clowney, Court ney, Delaughter, Dick, Evans, Fripp, Goodwin, Greer, Harper, Haynsworth, W. A. James, W. E. James, John ston, Kirk, Lee, Lumpkin, McDonald, McMllan, Malpass, Massey, Means, Miley, Miller, Mitchell, Mower, Nich olson, Odom, O'Quinn, Pegues, Pyatt, Rittenberg, Robinson, L. M. Rogers, Senseney, Shirley, Stevenson, Thomp son. Tindall, Vander Horst, Walker. Warren, Welch, Whaley, C. C. Wyche, C. T. Wyche, Youmans, Zeig ler-5 6. Nays-Ad.dy, .J. W. Ashley, M. 1. Ashley, Atkinson, Blackwell, Brown ing, Creech, Cross, Daniel, Dantzler, Epps, Fortner, Friday. Gasque, Gray, Hall, Hardin, Harrelson, Harvel, Hok. ley, Hunter, Hutson, Irby, Jones, Kellehan, Kelly. Kennedy, King, Kir by, Lybrand, McCravey, McQueen. Main, Melfi, Mitehunm, Moore, Mose ley, Murray, Nelson, Ready, Rembert. Riddle, Riley, Robertson, W. S. Rog er Jr., Sapp, Sanders, Walter ~. Scott, W. W. Scott, Sherwood, Smil ey, Stanley, Strickland, Sturkie, War nr, White, Whitehead, Wilburn, Williams-59. Plant a Garden. You don't need to be an expert to make your spare land a source of revenue. Neither do you have to know anything about botany to ba gin raising flowers. Your land is, good for something, no matter how unpromising. If you can't do any thing better, put a niekel's worth of Sunflower seed or wild cucumber between the ash barrel and the back fence. Then watch results. If you once begin gardening, even in this modest way, you aren't likely ever to stop. From things needing no care you will go to others needing a ittle, and by and .by, working in the garden, feeling the soft ground un der your feet, getting the fresh fra grance of the morning air, wathching the little green shoots come up and develop, seeing the brilliant colors take the place of the dirty browns and grays of winter, will be more fun than anything you have done since FOUND INA $WIP FOUL MURDER INDICATED BY THE BODY Of A MAN WITH HIS NECK HACKED Stiff and Cold, His Neck LitereIly Cut to Pieces, Isaac Duitose, Mid. dide-Aged White Man, Was Found Dead Wednesday Morning Abat One Half Mile From Bath. What seems to be a foul murder has been discovered over in Aiken County. Stiff and cold, his neck :lt erally cut to pieces, Isaac DuBose, a respectable, middle-aged white man. was found dead at Bath Wednesday morning, the body having been di 'covered just after daybreak In a swamp, or branch, about a half mile from the mill village, where it had lain apparently for many hours. The dead man is survived by a -rife and small son. Without any clue to the affair, It i;: believed that the man was foully done to death some time Tue'sday' night, and one of the most atrocious crimes in the annals of Aiken County is indicated. The whole affair Is en veloped In mystery. Sheriff Henry H. Howard, Rural Policeman S. E. Holley .and a phy. sician hastened to Bath when the news was received .at Aiken. at noon Wednesday. There they were join ed by Coroner A. G .T. Spradley, who started an inquest, but this was ad journed until Saturday. The cor oner's inquest, as far as it has gone, served to reveal only one possible clue that may ultimately reveal th - identity of the dead man's assailant. or assailants. One witness, a Bath preacher, tee tified to having seen four men late Wednesday evening travel le.isurely toward the swamp where DuBose was found dead; that DuBose was one of the four, and the only one whom-he, the witness, knew. Later three men emerged from the swamp and went away. This Is all that the authorities have, as yet, connected with the crime. However, they will continue to Investigate and the resumption Saturday of the coroner's, hearing may develop something of interest.- . GIRL WAS SOLD TO GYPSY. For Whom She Says She Worked For Eight Long Years. Startling charges that she was sold when seven years of age by an or -hanage superintendent to a gypsy :cr $800 and that for eight years ith, has served him as a slave were made to the police and humane offi cers at Los Angeles, Cal., by Alice Mitchell, fifteen years old. She declares she has since been compelled to pose as a fortune teller and dancing and singing girl, giv ing her earnings to the man and suf fering frequent beatings. The girl for some weeks had been telling fortunes In a lIttle booth on Main street, between First and See ond streets. The other dlay, she says, she earned $21, which she took to her alleged master, but the latter was not satisfied with this, she declares, and she was compelled to go to some place, the location of which she does not know, and dance and sing before men uhtil a late hour. The arresting officer was told of the case by a girl In whom the child had confided. The Humane Society was called In, the child turned over to the Juvenile Court and an invee tigaticn begun. The police are seek ing the gypsy. . 0 LOVED TO MAK~E MONEY. But Did Not Care Much About Spend ing What He Made. David H. Wilson, a farmer who ived for sixty years at Oregon Mills, Il., workring his grounli unceasing 17 almost until the time of his death, was worth more than $1,000,000, it has been learned. He left no will., nd efforts are now being made to ind who Is entitled to the estate. During the years he toiled in over als on his farm he had v'aluale se curities in a vault in a Chicago bank to which he apparently paid no at tention, aside from paying rent on the box. Among the securities are oil stocks that since their purchase have risen in value 500 poInts, stock in Chicago banks at not far above par with thousands In accrued dividends, rail road stocks showing years of untak en profits and several securities which have been the subject of "stock melons". Democrats WIn in Delaware. Willard Saulsbury, Demiocrat, was Wednesday elected United States Senator from Delaware to sreceed Senator Harry Richardson,. Republi can. Mr. Saulsbury's election came after a week's Democratic deadlock, caused byfour memibers of the Leg iatre 'who refused to support the Dmocratic caucus nominee, because they wanted the Senato'ship to go to their own county. Young Groom and Old Bride. At Fullerton, Ky.. Mrs. Della Ktts, 71, thrice a widow and the mother of 18 children and a number of grand-children, has lust married Manford Nelson, 18 years of age. Nelslon is younger than a number of his bride's grand-children. Seventy Persons Drowned. Seventy persons were drowned at Rangoon. India, by the foundering of a launch in the River Rangoon o.. Thumeder *ht.