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BODY Of MAN IS FOUND NEAR WATEREE RIVER. DIED 11DW BEIN SHIfT Benj. John is in Camden Jail Charg ed With Murdering Abraham Mi chael, Both of Whom Posed as Ministers From Turkey Raising Money for Christian Churches Abroad. A dispatch from Camden says Ab raham Michael was shot to death near the Wateree River Monday about noon, and it is alleged that the shooting was done by Benj. John, both representing themselves as min isters from Turkey, touring America to collect funds for Christian churches in the old country. The killing has been the chief topic of conversation on the streets. 'Both IMichael and John appeared before Mayor Brasington Monday and asked permission to solicit church funds. Mayor Brasington told them to present their creden tials to a Camden minister and if favorably passed upon, he would con sider the request. They left Cam den later by foot, following the Sea board track in the direction of Co lumbia. They passed Section Master Sanders and a force of hands on the road. -Later John returned from across the river alone. Upon being questioned by Mr. San ders as to the whereabouts of his companion, he said- that he left him at the crossing near Lugoff. Later in the day Mr. Sanders started to wards Lugoff on his hand car, in specting the track. When crossing a culvert,-near Mr. Kennedy's planta tion, he noticed the water backed up in the culvert's entrance and a pair of feet projecting from same. Upon investigation, the bullet-rid died body of Michael was found. The coroner and sheriff were notified. Several persons reported that they saw a foreign looking man hurrying towards Sheppard. Sheriff Hucha bee had Constable IMDowell to ar rest John at Bethune. He was piac ed ,in jail at midnight and protested his innocence. Flora Kershaw, who lives on the Kennedy plantation, says she saw the two men fighting on the track and saw one shoot the other to death and then place his body in the cul vert, placing the dead man's coat over his head. John changed his clothes near Sheppards, and it is said they were found in the woods nearby and :were saturated with blood. When arrested $385 was found on his person, together with five pocket knives, seven pocketbooks and a lady's band bag. Robbery is thought by some to have been the motive of the. alleged murder, although both men seemed to have collected other things'besides church funds. G. G. Alexander Jr., has been re tained by John to defend him. Sev e ral .Assy'rians Interviewed John In jail and said that they were of the opinion that the men were Imposters and _were either Greeks or Turks. STANDS BY PARTY PIEDGBS. Seistar Tmmn Bids Protected In terests to Beware. * Senator Tilman told The State's correspondent at Washington 'Monday that although he had received many requests from various sources to have -the duty on different -articles In the tariff bill restored to their former rates that he proposed to stand by *the bill. "This is Wilson's bill," he said, "futhermore It Is a Democratic bill through and through and I mean -to abide by It. "I would like very much to ,be able to accommodate those who are try ing to have former rates restored, but as I have just said. i mean to stand by the bill -that the senate and the finance committee agree upon. That Is the Democratic way and the right way as I see It, to look on the matter and that Is the course I shall follow" Should be Very Careful Many women want the marriage service as used in some churches al tered by leaving out such portions that seem to Indicate the inferiority of women. Certainly such sentences may well be dispensed with if they do teach inequality of position in the home for the true home is that in which the partnership Is equal and all the members of the family living in peace and love. But Insofar as the~ demand for revision may indicate a desire to loosen the marriage tie it Is too be deplored. The safety of a na tion depends not upon wealth or numbers but upon the family, for It Is the family and not the Individual that is the unit of society. Present tendencies as to the home call for a strengthening of family ties, not a loosening, and we had better be very careful about changing old customs in the marriage rite. Women have more to lose by the loosening o.f the marriage tie than men, and for that reason they should see to it that no demand of theirs to change the mar riage service will tend that way. It makes very little difference to the true man what the marriage service may say, he will always treat his wife wIth respect and the highest consideration regardless of It. After all It depends upon the husband and wife as to what the home will be. Looks After Charleston Tard. Senator 'Tillman called on Secre tary of the Navy Daniels In person to back uiy his strong written appeal sent to the department Saturday in behalf of'~the Charleston Navy Yard, which Is having difficulty in keeping skilled machinists necause other yards offer them higher wages. The Senator also urged the department to send more supervisory officers to Charleston. Mistook Acid for Whiskey. Mistaking a jug of carbolic acid for whiskey, 3. W. Aldridge, foreman of a woods camp at Fargo, Ga.. took a big drink of the poison Monday night and died a few minutes later in great agn.m He Is said to have been MYSTERY IS CLEARED MAN FOUND MURDERED IN LAN CASTER KNOWN. Body Found Three Weeks Ago Be lieved to be That of Harry Hyman, -oung Jewish Peddler. The Lancaster correspondent of The News and Courier says Sheriff John P. Hunter Sunday received a letter from L. Slesinger, a merchant, of Bishopville, S. C., making inquiries concerning the body of the unknown man found on the banks of Twelve mile Creek, about three weeks ago, near Osceola, Lancaster county. The body was discovered after having been in the water about ten days. There was a wound in the head made by some blunt instrument, and the verdict of the coroner's jury was that the deceased came to his death by the hands of partses unknown and his body thrown in the creek. The letter follows: "Sheriff of Lancaster County, Lan caster, S. C.-Dear Sir: We receiv ed news concerning a person that was murdered about fifteen miles north of Lancaster, and from the information received from the party, he seems to think that the description that the foreman of the jury of inquest gave him, was H. Hyman, (Harry Hyman as we all knew him.) This party H. Hyman-is 21 years old, clean face, very dark skin for a white man, rather Indian color, a Jew and weighs about 135 pounds. He had an operation last fall on one of his toes and the nail was taken off. He was about five feet,-seven inches tall, or under. If he had any papers on him or letters that bear his name they are in the Hebrew language, or if he had a check-book, this might lead us to think he was Harry Hyman. How long had this body been dead and on what day was it found? If this party does not answer to the description and if he was a Jew, please let me know. Also please inform me when and where you buried the body. "L. Slesinger." After receiving the above letter Sheriff Hunter renewed his efforts to unravel the mystery. The Governor has offered a reward of $75 for the apprehension and conviction of the guilty parties, and Sheriff Hunter has personally supplemented this amount with $25. About two weeks before the body was discovered Con. stable John Caskey passed a peddle' in the road in that neighborhood, who, he says, fills the description given by the foreman of the jury of inquest and -that of Mr. Slesinger. He asked the man his name, and he said it was Hyman. 'He also told Mr. Caskey he was on his way to Lancas ter to get a license to iddle in this county. He did not reach Lancaster, however, as the clerk's books do not show that any license was granted to a man by that name. HOLDS ALIENS TO RANSOM Mexican Terrorizing Chihuahua by His Lawless Course. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mex co, says Yacovio Herrera, with 400 followers, is terrorizing the country near there by demanding ransorn from foreign residents. He declares he is opposed especially to Americans. According to advices Herrera's band on Sunday entered the town of Naica and sacked stores and residen ces, taking prisoner Jose Boxio, an Italian subject, 'Boxio was released only after the payment of $2,400. Later the bandits entered the camp of workingmen building the Conchos river dam, demanding $25,000 under threat of killing the English heads of the construction works. J. W. Ful ler the manner, refused and wass tied to a brace, which Herrera threatened to send down the mountain. He wn. offered $5,000, but the bandit Insist ed that the sum be doubled, which was done after much parleying. Then the bandits looted the homes of the foreign and American work men, robbing the company stores of $7,000 in merchandise. WRECK OF THE HOME. Liquor Plays the Leading Role in the Awful Drama. Drinking by an overwhelming ma jority, is the cause of the wrecking of most homes whose affairs came under the Chicago court of domestic relations in the past year. Three thousand six hundred and ninety nine cases were heard that year. Fol lowing are the causes of domestic trouble as tabulated by Judge Gem mill: Liquor, 42 per cent. Immorality, 14 per cent. Disease, 13 per cent. Ill temper, 11 per cent. Wife's parents, 1 per cent. Married too young, 4 per cent. Laziness, 3 per cent. Miscellaneous, 6 per cent. "More than $150,000 has been col lected and turned ove to dependent wives and children dunng the year," said Judge Gemmill. "Perhaps the best feature of the court's record is that reconciliations have been brought about in 50 per cent. of the cases of separation that came before it."# HURLED TO HIS DEATH. Met His Death in Trying to Save Life of His Friend. At Birmingham. Ala., B. B. Brooks, a telephone lineman, met a heroic death in sight of hundreds of baseball trolley passengers Friday afternoon when a shock from a live wire hurl ed him forty feet to the ground, where his brains were dashed out on the curbstone. Gilbert Aaron, his friend, was first shocked unconscious on top of the pole, but his body clung to a cross arm. Brooks took a rope up to rescue him and had tied it around Aaron's body, passed it over a cross arm to the crowd below, when he himself touched the wire. Aaron is recovering and is not seri ously hurt. Prisoners to be Released. After twelve years' confinement in Mexican prisons, Leslie E. Hulburt, a lawyer, his brother-in-law, William Mitchell. and their alleged accom plice in insurance frauds involving murder, Dr. Charles H. Harle. of Abi lene Tear to inbe released. PLAY IIONCO SAME WHOLESALE CIVAL SERVICE FRAUlD IS ALLEGED IT WILL BE LOOKED INTO Senator Overman and Others Assert that Many Government Clerks In the Department Are Credited to States They Never Even Visited in All Their Lives. That a large number of Govern ment clerks are on the rolls of the Civil Service Commission accredited to states they never saw was emphat ically declared Saturday afternoon by dir. Overman and other Senators. All agreed that this condition must be terminated. The Democrats of the Senate, led by Mr. Overman, started in earnest after the Civil Service Commission and the classified service. A disposi tion was manifested to weed out many clerks, possibly thousands, now employed in the various executive de partments who are alleged to have se cured their positions by misrepresent ation. It is also proposed to prevent the future blanketing into the classi fied service of employees by any Pres ident, or the waiving of examinations by Executive order. Earlier in the week Mr. Overman offered a resolution calling on the Civil Service Commission for a mass of detailed information covering all Executive orders since its creation and the present roster of clerks by states. The resolution came up for action Monday afternoon. Mr. Overman produced a letter from Gen. Black, President of the commisson, saying it would be an ex pensive and endless task to supply certain portions of the data desired. Gen. Black dwelt on the matter of expense, saying a large force of addi tional clerks would be required and the cost of printing the list of 297, 472 names would aggregate approx imately $29,000. This anticipation of action by the Senate greatly irritated Mr. Over man, who insisted that the "bluff" of the commission be called at nn matter what cost. Speaking of t- large number of persons on tL . a ser vice rolls accredited to sta. -s in which it is alleged they never lived and in some cases never saw, Mr. Overman said: "I do not charge fraud, but if half of what is said concerning the admin istration of the civil service be true, there should be a full investigation. I do not believe it will cost ten cents a name to furnish the list of clerks; I think $2,000 as the total cost would be more nearly correct than $20,000." Mr. Overman spoke especially as to conditions in relation to North Carolina. What is true of North Carolina is true of all other states, said Mr. Smoot. Appl~eations were filed and affidavits made alleging res idence in states never seen by those securing the Government positions, he asserted. He denounced this as dishonesty, said It should cease and the beneficiaries be removed from of fice. Several Senators expressed horror at the suggestion that large numbers of clerks had committed perjury to obtain their places. That there must be a thorough hojisecleaning was the general expression of opinion. Senator Cummins not only approv ed all that had .been said but went further. He desired laws enacted so that no President could grant exemp tions from examination or cover classes Into the service. He thought that authority never should have been given, either directly or con structively. No person should be free from examination, he declared. He said the list of employees changed daily, and he believed It would be of little value within a brief period after Its receipt. In order that the Overman resolu tion might be perfected and made to accomplish the best results with the least expense, It was referred to the Committee on Civil Service and Re trenchment. It Is the purpose of Democratic Senators to obtain-all the information desired from the Civil Service Commission and carefully ex amine It. It is planned to base on the facts disclosed on investigation of the entire system and the manner of its administration. The Idea Is that each Senator, after reviewing the list of Government clerks from his state. can pick out those who are not bona fide citizens. Woman's Best Friend. The Sumter Herald says: "We see that the Clarendon medical associa tion is going to ask the women of that county to raise funds to be used for the statue the medicine men of the State wish to erect to the memory of Dr. J. Marion Sims. We hope Clarendon women will refuse, and If the Sumter doctors make a similar request we hope the Sumter women will refuse." The Herald is wrong. Dr. J. : -.rion Sims devoted his talent almost entirely to the relief of wo men. By his discoveries numberless women the world over were rescued from a disease worse than death, and restored to health and happiness. Of all the people in the world, the ones that should be most Interested in erecting a monument to Dr. 3. Marion Sims should be the women, for whom the great surgeon did so much. No more appropriate monument could be erected than one by the women to this great and good man. May Bring Test Case. The Japanese Cabinet at Toklo re ported to the Emperor Monday that President Woodrow Wilson's decis ion not to interfere with Californian land ownership legislation makes it necessary for Japan to present a test case before the Supreme Court of the United State, proving that the Ja panese are not of Mongolian origin and are, therefore, entitled to citizen ship in the United States. New York Gets Big Sum. New York State will receive be tween $3,000,000 and $4,000,000 in inheritance tax from the estate of the late 3. P. Morgan, according to pre liminary estimates made by attaches of the State comptroller's office. The estimate is based on a report that the total estate will be about $100,000, MAY BE APPOINTED SOON. The Attorney General May Pick th District Attorney. The Washington correspondent o The State says Attorney General Mc Reynolds Friday took up for consid eration the matter of appointing ; successor to Ernest Cochran of Sout) Carolina as district attorney for tha State. The commission of the latte will expire February 1, 1914, an there is considerable interest showy here In the question as to whethe Mr. McReynolds will at this time ap point Francis H. Weston, who ha been recommended by Senator Smiti or William J. Thurmond, who ha the Indorsement of Senator Tillman or will allow Mr. Cochran to serv out the remainder .of his term. The State's correspondent hear( Friday morning that Mr. McReynold was ready to take up the case Fri day. Thereupon the matter was fol lowed up, and it developed later o: that this was correct and that he ha( asked some questions regarding th matter, which might indicate tha action would be taken at an earl date. Mr. McReynolds would mak no statement concerning the appoint ment one way or the other, but ther is no doubt that he gave it seriou consideration. Wanted to Get Right. Thomas Connelly twenty years ag committed a burglary that nette him four hundred dollars. He : ) bed a poor woman of her all, but hi sin weighed heavily on him. He wa seventy-two years of age, a raggec unkempt wanderer, when he died I: Chicago the other day on his way t the County Hospital. ,Among hi canty effects was found a letter to Catholic priest "For the love of God, father, fin nna Jane Gallagher of Escabana, woman with brown hair," he wrott "I stole $400 and a beautiful praye book. I sold the juelry and gc tome goods and started to peddli .nd I mde money, and now I an lying and I want to pay back thi noney, for I sold all her things only the prayer book-and I saved i I want to get rite with God. Giv .ier the money sewn in my clothes." His old faded clothes were exam ined and nearly fourteen hundre lollars was found sewed up in then A search was made for the woma nd she was found in Escanaba an a few days later was given the mone by the Probate Judge of Cook Count :o whom it had been given. Beside the amount he left to Anna Jane Ga lagher Connelly had in the ban twenty-five hundred dollars. Connelly, the thief, wanted to ge right with God, and to do so b knew that he had to make restitu tion. This thing of making restitu tion is a hard thing to do. but n one who has wronged another in an way can ever get right with God unt he does. God will not pardon ou sins as long as we have in our pot session that which does not belong t us. whether we got It as Connell did or by shark practice or unfai means, which may be regarded a legal. President Wilson Endorsed. The first indorsement of Presider Wilson's Administration comes froi Massachusetts. which Is somewhx significant. On Tuesday an electio was held In the thirteenth congre: sional district of that State to elet a successor to Congressman Week: who had been elected to the Unite States Senate to succeed Senatc Lodge. The voting resulted in th election of John H. Mitchell, Dem< crat, who beat his Republican oppox ent over four thousand. Last November the same distric elected John W. Weeks, Republicax by over two thousands pluralta There was a change of several thot sand votes from the Republicans t the Democrats since the election I November. In the district are sea eral shoe factories, the Walthax watch factory and many textile fat tories, which employ thousands C men. President Wilson's Admini: tration and the tariff bill now befor Congress were the chief topics di: ussed In the campaign. The returns show that both wer indorsed by the voters. This Is et couraging, as it shows that the pec pe are disposed to give the Dem< crats a fair chance to work out thel policies. After the tariff Is adopte and put in operation the benefit t the people will be so great from that we believe they will give th Democrats a long lease of power. I the meantime, all loyal Democrat should hold up. the hands of th President and the Democrats in Cot gress in carrying out the promise made at Baltimore. Hope It Will Cure. It is too soon to decide whethe the "cure' of Dr. F'riedmann is th success Its discoverer claims o whether It is a fake as so loudly ax serted by its detractors. One thin is certain which is that it is a grea pity that professional jealousy ha been aroused. The white plague Is a destroying that every treatment fo it when advanced by a reputable phy sician should at least receive sympa thetic attention. To be sure, so man advertised "cures" have prove worthless that it is no wonder man medical men have assumed a skepti cal attitude towards every one wh professes to have found a certai remedy. But all the same such remedy will ultimately be found an it is not at all Impossible that to Dh Friedmann may fall the honor o being the discoverer. Most certainl it is to be hoped so for consumptio: is the worst disease the white rac suffers. The next few weeks wil probably show whether the distin guished German physician is success ful or whether his treatment will b numbered among the many that hav failed. In the meantime very pathet ic are the stories of consumptive begging piteously that his serum ma: be given them. Court Justice Killed. Justice Henry Bischoff, of the Nes York State Supreme Court, plunge! olevn stories down an elevator shaf to his death Friday afternoon in thi Emigrant Savings Bank building whre he had offices. He was near sighted. A Georgia legislator has been plan ning a measure, the purpose of whic! Is to get cheaper school books for the children. This ought to be done il South Carolina and every Southeri State. Education should be put with SPEAKS TO LARGE CROWDS. & Bryan Talks on the Benefits of Reli girnn and Training f Secretary of State Bryan address - ed two large audiences at Philadel - phia Sunday on the benefits of reli gion and the necessity for training 1 the young. At the 'Bethlehem Pres byterian church, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary ne cited his be I liefs and incidents in his own life to 1 prove the value of religious training E in youth. "As I look back over my own life," 3 he said, "I can not find that I have 1 added anything to my moral princi 3 ples since reaching manhood's estate and in separating the credit I find lit tle that I can boast of as my own." Mr. Bryan told his hearers how a I dislike for swearing, gambling and 3 drinking had been impressed upon - him by his parents in his early days. - This dislike, he said, has continued 1 ever since. I "Gambling," Mr. Bryan declared, a "is even more demoralizing than t drink and harder to defeat. The gold P cure-may take the taste for liquor out 3 of a man, but only God can take the - cure of gambling out of a man's a heart." 5 "American diplomacy is not of that kind where you have to make a man drink to deal with him," declared Secretary Bryan in discussing tem perance." During my long career, in cluding more than a quarter of a cen - tury in active politics there never has s been one day when I thought it bet s ter to take a drink of alcoholic liquor even in moderate degree. In foreign i lands I have adhered to the same principle, and I have yet to hear a sin s gle criticism of my actions eitb't at i home or abroad." In his address at the Second regi i ment armory on "The Making of a i Man." he urged the necessity of building moral character upon reli r gion and a loyalty to Christ and His t teachings. S MILLIE CHRISTIN"E DEAD. Dual Formed Negress Who Has Been e Seen Here. The News and Courier says appli cation was made Tuesday to Judge Bryan for letters of administration n of the estate and effects of Millie Christine, the dual formed negress, who owned property in Charleston, and who died recently in North Caro lina. Because the paper was not signed by three witnesses, as requir ed by the laws of South Carolina, Judge Bryan refused to issue letters. t Millie Christine was a good exam e ple of two female individuals having their bodies connected inseparably from birth, being joined by a thick o flesh' ligament from the lower end v of the breast bone, so that they stood in an oblique position to each other. r It is said that (Millie Christine died . leaving her property willed to her o sister. The sister, however, died a few hours later. Such was the death r of the famous Siamese twins, Eng s and Cheng, who also lived in North Carolina. Cheng died in 1874, while his brother was asleep, and Eng died a few hours later, t -Millie Christine was well known all over the country, having been t exhibited in every state and almost every country in Europe. Judge Bryan, in regard to the Millie Chris t tine will, has issued notice that the kindred and -creditors of the deceas ed appear before can on the 30th to r show cause why the said administra e ion should not be granted. - At one time Millie Christine lived -in Colleton county just below Branchville with her manager, a Mr. t Smith. During one of the carnivals ,held by the city she was on exhibition .in this city, and was seen by thou -sands of our people. She was very affable and' talkead well. - .KILLED BY THE POLICE. Atlanta Horse Was Bitten by a Mad Dog and Goes Mad. EAn Atlanta dispatch says just as a variation on the dozens of mad dog calls police officers have had during e the last two or three weeks, there - came a telephone call from 58 TIn - dali street Wednesday morning, that a horse, recently bitten by a dog, had r gone mad and was kicking the stable i to pieces. When the policeman got D there he found that the horse was foaming at the mouth and was so e wild that nobody, dared enter the a stall he was in, nor even the stable. The animal had already kicked the e stall to pieces and smashed out sever - al planks in the barn. After tele phoning the veterinary to make sure there was no other way, the police man raised his long barrel 38 in the sill of the door and put a couple ce! r bullets in its head. 4*| r People Elect Senators. -The last State needed to make the direct election of United States Sen ators a fact has been secured, and from now on the people will elect the Senators and not the different legisla rtures as has been the custom. The -struggle has been long and some -times bitter, but the advocates of di rect election have made steady ad vance with the result that the goal is Sat last reached. It must be admittorl -that those who have favored the con Stinuance of the old system have play 1ed into the hands of the other side. LThe scandals, corruption. and expen sive delays associated. with the elec -tion of many senators have disgusted Sthousands of voters. Then, too, it is ~'justly felt that some men have enter 1ed the senate through the door of bribery-men who were so inferior that but for their wealth they could -not have been chosen. Boy Was Fatally Hurt. -At Lancaster Frank McKinney, a colored boy aged about 15 years, was Scaught in a shafting at the Wilson & Nisbet Roller Mills Saturday and fa tally injured. The boy was attempt ing to throw on a belt when his cloth ing caught on a set screw and he was hurled around the shafting at the rate of more than 200 revolutions a minute. Fortune Lost onf Tablet. Setting aside evidence in the n a ture of a marriage record cut on a tablet in a temple in Amoy, China, the United States Supreme Court. Monday held Sy Quia, a millionaire KChinaman of the Phillipines. hari not been married in China and awarded all his property to his children by a, IFilipino woman. FREE WOOL HELPS IN NEW YORK WORLD CONMRISS MAN HARRISON POINTS OUT BENEFITS Says it Means Cheaper and Better Clothes and Asks the Support of the People in the Assault Made Upon Privilige in the Halls of Con gress. In the New York World Congress man Harrison says free wool means cheaper and better woollen clothes. That is why we hope that the people will uphold President Wilson in his fight for free wool and against the great wool and woollen combination. Free wool would also mean the death knell of this great combination, which has for forty years burdened the American people with extortion ate taxation. He then goes on to say: This combination between the wool-growers of the West and the woollen manufacturers of the East has for the great part of forty years had votes enough in Congress to keep the taxes sky high on woollen clothes. The combination was too strong for President Taft; he frankly told the people of the United States that this combination was powerful enough to prevent the Republicans in the Payne Aldrich tariff from lowering the du ties on woollen clothing. This admission by President Taft was fatal to his party. His speech at Winona, in which he made this frank and startling announcement of the power of the combination, admitting that it was stronger than President Taft himself and the Republican Congress, and stronger than the Gov ernment of the United States, under Republican rule, caused the people of our country to take away from these people the administration of our country and give it to the Democrats. Now the Democrats are engaged in the fight against this same combina tion. Forty-five years ago the wool growers of the West and the woollen manufacturers of the East agreed that each was to have all the protec tion asked for through the tariff, and that the public might be damned. This alliance is still in force, and we call upon all good citizens to help President Wilson and the Democratic Congress in the fight for free wool. We are going to succeed where the Republicans failed. The combination will not be strong enough to over throw our determined assault upon this great stronghold of privilege. .Manufacturers of woollen cloth in our country can get only three-fifths of their wool in the United States; for the other two-fifths they are obliged to send to foreign countries and bring it into the United States by paying a tariff which adds nearly half to the cost of the wool. This has kept many grades of wool out of the United States entirely. It has raised the price of such wool as they could import and has induced American manufacturars to use sub stitutes for wool, instead of wool it self. That is why our manufacturers so largely use shoddy and cotton sub stitutes for wool; that is why a man's suit wilts like a tired plant when he goes out in the rain; it is because his suit, although sold as an all-wool suit, contains a great deal of inferior material which will not stand rain or the wear and tear. Free wool will mean that the American manufacturer will be at liberty to make as good woollen clothes as the manufacturer in other lands, and that when a man buys a suit of clothes hereafter as an Ameri can he will be certain to get a suit that lasts as long as the foreigner's suit and is made of just as good material. That is why the people should help us In our fight for free wool. Foreign-Made Clothing Lower. Our bill proposes a 35 per cent. rate upon woollen clothing. The Re publican rate averaged 90 per cent.; in other words, the Republican tariff nearly doubled the cost of woollen clothing brought from abroad and made a corresponding though not quite so high a raise in the cost of woollen clothing here. Our rate of 35 per cent. will permit an American, If he finds clothes too high-priced in our country, to buy foreign-made clothing here under a tariff which would add only one-third to the cost, instead of doubling the cost, as the Republicans made it..a But it means even more than this. The Republican 90 per cent. rate particularly kept out all foreign clothing: in other words, it was a prohibitive tariff. There was no use for the foreigner trying to compete in our market over such a barrier as that. He could not pay the duty and compete with t'.e American clothing manufacturer. Under our rate he will have a chance to sell his foreign made goods here, which will oblige the American manufacturer to im prove the quality of his goods and lower the price. And this does not mean only the outser suit. Our bill makes tremen dous euts in all products of woollen manufacture, such as underclothes, stockings, sweaters, caps, hats. gloves, overcoats, carpets and blan kets, not to mention all the other necessaries of life which are made, or should be made, out of wool. Take blankets, for example: The rates in the present law allowed no reasonable-priced woollen blankets to come in from abroad. A few import ations which were attempted proved at the Custom House that the Repub lican duty on blankets was 180 per cent.: our bill makes the duty on these blankets 25 per cent. Very few Americans now sleep un der all-woollen blankets. Our people have to shiver under blankets made mostly of cotton or other substitutes. so that American manufacturers might charge a higher price for wool len blankets. Hereafter foreign blankets can come in and give the American consumer a chance to pur zhase the same kind of blankets as the people of other lands can buy. The New York Herald has nomi riated Oscar Unclerwood for president in 191i on ha tariff bill work. If e lives the Congressman will be a, hrd no'n to bed for the nomination HOT BISGU hot cakes ROYAL Ba are delolo ful and em THE DEMOCRATS WIN LECT CONGRESSMAN FROM MAS SACHUSETTS. John J. Mitchell, Democrat, Elected to Succeed Republican Who Was Elected United Senator. A Boston dispatch says John J. Mitchell, Democrat, was elected to Congress from the 13th district uesday three-cornered contest, in which tariff discussion figured prom ently. Mitchell's plurality over Alfred H. Cutting, Republican, was 4,148. The vote for Norman H. White, Progres sive, fell 3,200 short of that for Cut ting. Tuesday's special election was necessary on account of the election of former Congressman John W. Weeks to be United States Senator. In the election last November Mr. Mitchell, who was successful Tues day, was defeated by Mr. Weeks by 2,351 votes The total vote Tuesday was; Mit chell, 12,991; Cutting, 8,843; White, 5,678. The vote last November stood, Weeks, Republican, 15,934; Mitchell, Democrat, 13,583; Flel, Progressive, 5,853. The tariff, and recently the Under wood bill, were practically the only topics debated in the campaign. All three candidates, and their support ers on the stump placed their views on the different schedules before the shoe workers of Marlboro, the watch makers of Waltham, the texile oper atives in the small towns and the home dwellers in the residential sec tions. A Washinton dispatch says news of the election of'another Democratic congressman from Massachusetts was received by President Wilson with keen satisfaction. A bulletin an nouncing the result came while the President was at a theatre. He left his box long enough to send this message to Mr. Mitchell: "I very heartily congratulate. you on your splendid victory." Democratic leaders regarded the election of a Democrat in Massachu setts just at this time, when the tariff bill with its reductions in pro tctive duties on New England pro ducts Is under consideration,. as pe culiarly significant. SUFFERS SERIOUS IJURY. Florence Man is Attacked by a Bold Highwayman. Duck Anderson, a well known cit izen of Florence community, was as saulted brutally on one of the most traveled highways of the State about noon Thursday. He had left the city, having in his possession some money, how much Is not known, but evident r enough to tempt some bandit to attack him. He was struck on the nose and mouth, and was horribly cut. The attack was made with a piece of .board, whicn was picked up near where he fell. Evidently the man who attacked him went off with out robbing him. Mr. Anderson was left for dead in the middle of the road on the Jeffrys Creek causeway, not two miles from the city. He was found there by J. W. Cary, a very short while after he was struck, and Mr. Cary revived him enough to learn that he had been attacked. He carried the stricken man into the city for medical attention and- he is now at a local infirmary. Died Not in Vain. Quite frequently people who meet death in some great disaster like these of the great floods that played havoc in Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and other states, and the wind and fire that devastated Omaha, die vicari ously. While it is not true that every disaster Is due to the negli gence of men, very often it is. One has but to recall the Iroquois theatre fre, the fire in the Collinwood school in Ohio, the General Slocum steam boat disaster, the explosion and fire in the Cherry mine in Illinois, and the sinking of the Titanic to realize the truth of this statement. In all probability not one of those catastrophies would have occurred ifproper attention had been given to safeguard human irres, but those safeguards were not taken and as a result thousands of precious lives were sacrificed. Yet they did not die in vain, for the horrors of It all led to proper steps being taken to pre vent any recurrence of such trage .ees. Such catastrophies will hardly happen again soon because of the erible loss of life that occurred in these that did happen, which put peo-' e eon their guard to prevent them in the future. Travel on the ocean is much safer ice the Titanic sank last April with aearly two thousand souls. Theatres and schools, coal mines and excur oonboats are not now the traps they eee before the above mentioned dis ttrs took place. Therefore in a rrereal sense those people died that ters might live. Pity it is that cety needs such ghastly lessons to oect itself. It ought not so to be, dndwill not when men fully realize hat human life is more sacred than -pperty, and act accordingly. We -e glad to say that time seems to be Drowned in Escaping. At South Dayton. 0.. Chas. S. Por r. his wife and six children were one while attempting~ to escape 'rnitheir wrecked home. The wagon w hich they were being conveyed . aplace of safety overturned and made wit *ing Powder cue, IwaIU, srl made. PAID HIM TO HELl SIFARS GOVERNOR'S NEGRO 'OR TER 60T FEE FOR PAROLE OF HER SON Anna Blair, a Colored Woman, Pro. duced Receipts for Ten Dollars Signed by John W. Gilliam, Who is the Negro Porter in Governor Blease's Office. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says Anna Blair, colored, mother of Willie Blair, paroled Saturday by Governor Blease from the Richland County chain gang, declared to two detectives of the Columbia police department--S. S. Shorter and James E. Ford-that she had paid money to John Gilliam, colored porter in the Governor's of flee, in accepting his proposition to help her get a pardon for her son. According to the story that the Blair woman related in talking about the matter, she said she called at the office of the Governor and told Gil liam that she was seeking a pardon for her son, and - that Gilliam replied that he would help her for money, advising her not to waste money in employing a lawyer. Being anxious to get her son off the gang, the woman said she paid Gilliam $10 and exhibited receipts of which the following are copies: (Written on a Western Union Night Message BJank.) 3, 1913 received of anner blair 5 dollars to give James Bragman. John W. Gilliam. Columbia, 3, 1913 Received of Anner Blair 5 dollars. John W. Gilliam. So far no action has been taken against Gilliam by the police or other authorities. The woman asked the police to help her get hor .money back. She called at headquarters Saturday morning. Anna 'Blair lives at 414 Blanding street. Willie Blair, her son, was convicted in General Sessions Court. at the September term and sentenced to serve one year for the stealing of a bicycle. In taking executive -action in Blair's case and granting him a pa role during good behavior, April 12, 1913, Governor Blease made the fol lowing written comment. "Willie Blair, (colored). "Convicted at the September, 1910, term of Court for Richland County of larceny of a bicycle, and sentenced to one year imprisonment upon the public works, or- In the State Pen! teotiary. "A petition was presented, signed by several people, and' accompanied by the following letter from Hon. W. Hampton Cobb, solicitor: " 'Columbia, S. C., April 12, 1913. "'His Excellency, Governor Cole L. Blease, Columbia, S. C.-Dear Sir: This boy, Willie 'Blair, pleaded guilty to stealing a bicycle. The property was turned over to the authorities by the -boy's mother, who has impressed me as being a good, responsible col c.-ed woman. " ' rIs only a boy in his teens, and his eohave assured me tha~t if he is given a c hat he will go to work and keep ou~trOable in the future. I, therefore, recom mend a parole during g~od behavior. "'Respectfully submitted. (Signed) "'W. Hampton Cobb, "'Solicitor.' "Upon this showing the defendant was paroled, during good behavior, April 12, 1913." When shown a copy of the receipts Anna Blair alleges she received from John W. Gilliam, a negro porter at the Governor's oflce and at the Man sion. Governor Blease made an In vestigation of the matter and illicit ed the following facts: Gilliam claims that Anna Blair for some time has been getting her meale from his family without paying for them; that she approached him In the endeavor to secure a pardon for her son, who was convicted in the Richland County Court for stealing a bicycle, and that he promised to help without asking for renumeration. He also told the Governor that he had secured the services of another negro, James Bragman. to circulate the petition; that he told Anna Blair she would have to pay 'Bragman $5 for his services. This she agreed to do. Gilliam claims that he only col lected $5, which he turned over to Bragman; that his services were giv en gratuitously. Governor Blease said the petition. did not influence him in granting the parole to the negro boy Blair Satur day; but that the letter from Solici tor Wade Hampton Cobb was the cause of his action. Shoots Woman and Himself. At Goldsboro, N. C., Cleveland Prince, a Wayne County farmer. Mon day shot and killed Mrs. May Carter Lomax, wife of a railroad baggage master, and then committed suicide. Mrs. Lomax was confined to her bed in a hospital as the result of injuries sustained in an automobile accident while riding with Prince and others. Killed in Street Car Collission. At Jacksonville. Fla., W. A. B. Woorley was killed Tuesday night in a head on collission with a street car. It is said Worley was travelling at a fast rate of speed and in some man ner lost control of his steering gear and crashed into the trolley. He was a prominent automobile dealer.