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VOL.. TALKED TO MUM HERRINTON 1HO CALLED FOI REMOAL OF E'REYNOLDS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY Having Criticised His Official Super for Harshly the Government Gives Him a Chance to Explain Whil Summarily Suspending Him as Special Agent. Clayton Herrington, Federal inves tigator of white 'slave cases for the United States department of justice who gathered evidence in the Diggi Caminetti cases, and who called upon President Wilson to remove Attorney General McReynolds from offce foi his action in delaying the trials, was suspended from office Wednesday on an order from Washington. The or der iwas igned by A. B. Bielaski chief of the bureau of investigation department of justice and was as fol lows: "I am advised that telegram has been received by President of the United Staes sent by you seriously reflecting upon the Integrity of At torney General. You are hereby sus pended from duty without pay pend ing receipt of any explantion yot may care to make." This action, it is said, is to give Herrington an oportunity to explain his telegram. If the explanation is not satisfactory officials declare thal the special agent wil be summarily dealt with. Herrington is a former Judge and is in charge of the Fed era Government's bureau of investi gation at San Francisco. He helped District Attorney McNab to prepare the Diggs-Caminetti white slave cases the postponement of the trial of which resulted in McNab's resigna tion and his sensational charges against the Attorney General. Just prior to receiving his suspen sion Mr. Herrington had dispatchec the following night letter to Presiden1 Wilson: 'As a citizen of California I charge that officials in the department o: justice and of commerce and labor in disregard of judgments of ,the Courts and in violation of law, hav prevented the depoation of Frencb prostitutes in this Case. I demand, an Investigation of these matters, com plete information as to which is in the files at Washington. On Marci 14 Secretary Wilson was informed about some of these cases." In a public statement issued Wed nesday night Mr. Herrington said: "The president approves In word1 the way in which MjoReynolds deal1 with the Diggs-Caminetti and West ern Fuel case. He disapproves in deed by ordering the immediate trial of al the defendants, Including those Me Reynolds tried tio save. He ought therefore, to dismis McReynolds anc retain McNab. "To sustain a Washington offcia whose decision he overrules ani blame another for doing what hi himself now orders done is not onl: inconsistent and unjust, but Is a hu miliating evasion of the responsi bilities of his high station. "McReynold's ewplanation is evel more pitiable. He protests that he il 'profoundly conscious that hIs acti were free from unworthy motive.' 54 was Lord Bacon, who acepted brib< money, because it would not influ ence him. There are Influences othe than .financial ones. "McReynolds needs a better mem ory, as much as the President need a better Attorney General. Howeve my object has been accomplished. Th Attorney Genearl has been compellei to order the cases to trial forthwitl and the sinistei- influences to whici he had yielded were frustrated." TO PROSECUTE AT ONCE. President Recommends Several Mei to Replace McNab. President Wilson Wednesday rec ommended to Attorney General Mc Reynolds the names of Francis .1 Heney, Matt I. Sullivan, Thpmas Hay den, and others, for appointment a special prosecutors in the Caminetti Diggs white slave cases and the Wes tern Fuel Company coal cases. Ni final selections were made. The whole subject was deferred oi account of the congested engagemen list of the President, practically ever; moment oZ his time from early morn ing until late at night being occupie with conferences on currency ano de partmental matters. It Is expecte that the Attorney General and th President will confer at an earl date, however, and settle finally o: two and possibly three men to con duct the prosecution of the cases. No further comment was tortil coming from the White House or th department of justice on the statc ments of the United States distric attorney, John L. McNab, whose rc! ignalon was acepted by the Pres: dent. Peace Costs a Lot. The imperial German parliamer read a second time Thursday tb German military contribution bi: aimed to meet the concurrent cos of $50,000,000 in connection with th increase of the German army. Th measure has been changed. It no' hits all persons having incomes C $1,250 and upwards on a graduate scale of from 1 to 8 per cent. Ambassador to Russia. It was reiterated Thursday s Washington that within a yes Charles iT Crane, of Chicago, woul become antbassador to Russia. Prai tically the only European posts fc which no choice has been made ai Lisbon, Constantinople and the Ba MEETING OF FIREMEN THOUSANDS WITNESS THEIR RACES AT ABBEVILLE. Newberry Wins Wagon Event and Sumter Leads With Hand Reel. Columbia Does Well. Some six or seven thousand people flocked to the Abbeville firemen's race course Wednesday to see the running of the events which carry with them the title of supremacy in South Carolina. Newberry and Sum ter divided first place honors, New berry wining in the hose wagon race and Sumter in the hand reel event. Sumter also scored- second in the hose wagon race, while Columbia and Darlington came in third. In the hand reel event Columbia won second place and Georgetown won third. These two races, with the firemen's parade in the morning, made up the program which attracted the large crowd. C. D. Brown, J. T. Boseman and F. G. Godfrey were the judges. The firemen's parade formed at 9:30 at the lower end of the public square and proceeded up Main street to the race track, headed by the Sec ond regiment band. Following the band came an automobile carrying Mayor C. C. Gambrell, President Louis Behrens and the governor. Then came the other officers of the firemen's association, following by the hose wagons and racing teams. Racing began immediately after the parade. The time for this event follows: Abebville, hydrant 17 seconds, water 31 seconds; Marion, hydrant 16 2-5, no water; Chester, hydrant 15 3-4, water 34; Anderson, hydrant 14 2-5, water 33; Darlington, hydrant 17 1-4, water 29; Bishopville, No. 2, hydrant 15 4-5, water 30; Columbia, hydrant 17, water 29; Bishopville, No. 1, hydrant 15, no water; Green wood, hydrant 15, water 30; George town, hydrant 16,-water 30; Sumter, hydrant 16 1-4, water 28 3-5; Union, hydrant 17, water 31 1-2; Bennetts ville, hydrant 16 1-5, water 30 1-5; Newberry, hydrant 16, water 28 1-2. Newberry thus won first money of $150 and Sumter second money, $100, while third money was divided between Columbia 'Palmetto's and Darlington. The fastest time to the hydrant, 14 2-5 seconds, was made by Anderson, the only team driving a pacer. In the afternoon the hand reel races were pulled off, Sumter winning first money, $75; Columbia second, $50; Georgetown third, $25. The time for showing water: Sumter, 20 seconds; Georgetown. 21 4-5; Colum bia,"21; Newberry, 22 2-5. A moving picture expert of Athens, Ga.,.took the parade and all of the races. The picture will make a 500 foot film which will be shown all over the'State in about two weeks. Greenwood won the second game of base .ball Wednesday afternoon, 8 to 4. Batteries: Greenwood, DuBose and Lumley; Abbeville, Smith, Har mon and Ruff. GATHERING AT GETTYSBURG. Veterans Who Fought Fifty Years - Ago to Frolic. Gathering fromr north and .south for the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, several hundred Civil War veterans arrived at Gettys burg, Pa., Thursday, coming early, they said. in order to avoid the great rush of the early part of next week. Mingling with the blue uniforms were some in gray and the men from the South were given a hearty gree+ ing. With their uniforms of gray, topped by campaign hats, the South erners soon became central figures on the streets and scarcely a person they passed failed to stop and ask the privilege of a hand-shake. Warm er than all others was the welcome extended them by the Union veterans, many of whom are here for the open ing of the state encampment.. Thursday night the historic old Adams County court house witnessed a reproduction of the wartime camp fire, with Its stirring patriotic songs of the days of '61-'65, and many speeches in ghich reminiscences of days gone by were mingled with sug gestions and plans for the obervance of the coming week. Final arrangements at the big camp were completed Thursday. Prac ically everything is in readiness to eceive the first arrivals on Sunday, and Thursday many veterans visited he place, inspecting the tents and furnishings, together with arrange ments for mess and sanitary arrange ments. Sugar Schedule Discussed. - Senator Ransdell resumed debate against free sugar when the caucus opened Wednesday, while Senator J ames was ready to support the schedule. Discussion of both the wool and sugar schedules was to end at 4 Sp. m. when a vote was to be taken. With those questions settled adminis -tration leaders expect the bill to be reported to the Senate early next week. tFor Healthy Homes in Georgia. eA bill providing for eugenic mar riages in the State of Georgia was in ttroduced in the Georgia State Sen eate in Atlanta Thursday by Senator . T. Hixon. The bill would prohi Sbit the marriage of all persons who fars addicted to the use of alcoholic cliquors or drugs, those who are men tally unsound or are afflicted with Iany virulent ailment. tSmuggled an Aeroplane. rAdolfo Vallareal was arrested at ciLos Angeles, Cal., Wednesday night by the United States marshal's office ron a charge of violation of the neu etrality laws in connection with the -smuggling into Mexico of an aero lane uedr by the Sonora rebels. B0YS KILL FRIEND PUT TUBE OF COMPRESSED AIR MACHINE IN HIS MOUTH VIOLENCE IS INDICATED Arrested and Held for Trial the Boys Maintain That it Was Only a Prac tical Joke, Which They Attempted Without an Idea of Harming Their Comrade. At Camden, N. J., Joseph De Fine, an eighteen-year-old employee of the Victor Talking Machine plant, locat ed there, died Monday night in an ambulance that was taking him to the Cooper hospital. Two boys, one seventeen and the other sixtee. now under arrest, have admitted to the police that without realizing what would be the consequences of their act they persuaded De Fine to put the brass tube of a compressed air machine into his mouth and then turned on the air full and violently into the lad's body, rupturing his stomach and the intestines. The boys are Eugene Byscher of No. 211 South Fifth street, Philadelphia, and Walter Simon of No. 2923 High street, Camden. Young De Fine liv ed with his parents at No. 704 Chis tian street, Philadelpnia. It was during the noon hour at the plant that De Fine was tortured. Three new compresed air machines had been placed in the plant in the morning and the boys, in the idle noon hour, spent some time seeing how the machines worked. There was none to witness what really oc curred when De Fine received his in juries. The other lads came runni ng into the office, saying that De Fine was sick. The men who went to in vestigate found him unconscious and gasping, his face empurpled. The superficial examination made by an ambulance physician indicated that the boy was suffering from heart disease in conjunction with a fit. It is believed that the frightened tor turers lost considerable time before calling for aid in efforts they them selves made to revive their victim, but in any event De Fine's injuries were so terrible that he could not have recovered. He was dead before the ambulance had gone three blocks on the -way to the hospital. When the body was stripped fR. examination at the hospital Coroner Bentley and physicians noted the greatly swollen condition of the body and later, it was said, that marks of violence were found on the boy's arms and throat, which may at the Coroner's inquest be adduced as con tradicting the story that Byscher and Simon tell. They were arrested and committed by Justice Huyett in default of $1, 000 bail each oh a charge of atro cious assault. The detectives say the boys protest that they had no grudge or Ill-will against De Fine and that their only notion in submitting him to the powerful shock of compressed air was by way of playing a "joke" on him. They assert, despite the marks of bruises on his arms and neck that they did not force the tube down his throat. They deny that they held him down and forcibly kept the tube in his mouth after they had persuaded him, as they say, to insert it. - a. THE REASON WHY. Secretary of War Garrison Tells of Militia Row. Withdrawal from South Carolina of the support given by the federal government to the organized miltia of all other States and territories brought many inquiries to the war department Wednesday and caused Secretary Garrison to Issue the fol lowing statement: "With respect to inquiries made of me concerning this department and the governor of South Carolina, the facts are briefly: "Those in control of the National Guard of South Carolina were not complying with the law entitling them to federal aid. The attention of the governor was called to this and a rather sharply worded reply received. Fearing that there was some misunderstanding, I wrote a long explanatory letter to the gov ernor stating the law and the partic ulars in which his State had failed to comply and suggesting that upon this being brought to his attention It was supposed that he would desire to comply with the law and continue to receive the federal aid. In response I have received another sharply worded letter reiterating his previous posion and practically stating that South Carolina did not wish any fed eral aid and would not do those things necessary to secure it." Ate Colored Chalk and Died. Mary Tribble, aged seven, of At lanta, Wednesday lost her long flgflt for life, physicians believing that her death was caused by eating tinted crayon at school. On June 13 she was taken violently ill and since that time had remained on a state of par tial paralysis, with accasional feeble rallies. The case completely puzzled the physicians. The child's school mates said that they had seen her cat colored crayon. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg. For three days the greatest confiet on Ameri can soil went on. and not until the end of the third day of determined fighting was the end apparent. Up in Pennsylvania veterans of the bat tle will assemble next week to talk over the bygone day's. and meet com HITS LABOR UNIONS SAYS THEY ARE MOST AGGRES SIVE TRUSTS. Governor Brown of Georgia, Criti cises Organized Labor in Farewell Message to Legislature. A caustic arraignment of labor unions in which it is charged that i they form the "most widespread and aggressively exacting trust in Ameri ca", is contained in the farewell mes sage of Governor Joseph M. Brown, presented to the Georgia legislature at its opening session in Atlanta Wednesday. Governor Brown's criticism of or ganized -' Is made in connection with 1-' - inent for the enactment C of 1: lul: ing compulsory arbitra tion - employees and employ ers. .ates this recommenda tion u,,. he strikes of employees of the Georgia Railroad and the Augusta Street Railway Company last fall. Both of these strikes, the Governor declares, were "manifestly indefensible and condemnable", and "the strikers placed themselves in a state of open rebellion to the laws of Georgia". "We are brought face to face with the fact," the message continues, "that these unions or combinations of employees on public service and oth er corporations have forced their wages above those received by work men in all other departments of life who have not formed these aggres sively militant combinations. "The trend of the laws of the pres ent day is to suppress combinations or trusts in restraint of trade. Yet t while it is a matter of public note t that the labor trust is the most wide- t spread and aggressively exacting in q America, politicians pander to it, be cause of its voting power. 9 "The labor unions, by combination, j which they work through strikes and I kindred methods, are aggressively t levying a toll upon all other ele- c ments of out citizenship. They have a organized a trust and demand that i all other people buy labor at what- I ever price they choose to put upon it. a And contemporaneously, they are try- t ing to force from employment all 3 similar workmen who do not join thei orders. "I do not declare that all of the z members of the labor unions are will ful violators of the law. Yet they are t the victims of a system which is 1 breeding anarchy, which already has r put the State's Constitution in con- I tempt. which has relentlessly wrong- s ed hundreds of thousands of their fellow citizens. "Thousands of their fellow citi- t zens, who have not offended them, f which in plain words has applied i lynch' law methods to millions of dol- I lars' worth of property. a POWER TO RECIPROCATE. d In Tariff Reductions' Proposed For President Wilson.C Urgent desire to arm the president with a tariff ",big stick" of stronger and greater proportions than pro vided in the amendment suggested by the finance committee majority de veloped Thursday in the Democratic caucus of the Senate on the tariff bill. Discussion of the proposed count ervalling duty on wheat and flour, which the committee recommended, led to a gen'eral debate on retalia tory and countervailing tariff rates and Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia. urgently proposed the adoption of an amendment that would give the1 president power to enforce- counter- 1 valinig tariff rates on all commodities of commerce against any nation re fusing to deal with the United States on a reciprocal tariff basis. The amendment proposed would in many respects take one place of thet maximum and minimum clause of the Payne-Aldrich tariff law. Sena tor Smith advocated a provision that would be broader than that, one that would give the president the author ity at any time to interpose against any nation which might discriminate against the products of the United States the same tariff rates exacted on American goods. Such a clause In the tariff bill, it was argued, would place the United States in a positiont to defend the country against any 1 unreciprocal action or attempt to shut off its foreign trade. Lightning Destroys Church. The First Baptist Church building at Edgefield was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. The steeple was struck by lightning, which caus Ied the fire. The building was com paratively new and cost about $10, 000. Almost all of the pews with the other furniture were saved, but the pipe organ recently installed at a cost of $2,000, was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $15,000, with $5,200 insurance. The building will be immediately replaced. The Anti-Tuberculosis Movement. An index of the remarkable growth of the anti-tuberculosis movement in the United States is given in a pam phlet published by The National As sociation for the Study and Preven tion of Tuberculosis, which shows that the number of agencies engaged in the fight against consumption in the United States numbered over 2. 500 on May 1, 1913, as contrasted to about 1,500 two yeatrs ago, a gain of 50 per cent. A man once declared in a public address that he had discovered per petual motion. It was the continual fow of Southern money northward for manufsactured goods, which he said we ought to stop. A more rapid perpetual mogon than that he over-] looked-the fi<M of money to the dis tilling centers and the inflow of PLAYING POUTICS EPUBLCAN HOLD OVER'S GRAND STAND PLAY IE GIVES UP HIS OFFICE 1 Hold Over Republican District At torney Makes Serious Charges Against Attorney-General McRey nolds, Which is Completely An swered by the Officials Concerned. United States District Attorney ohn L. McNab, of California, a hold ver Republican, announced at San rrancisco on Saturday, with a great lourish of trumpets, that he had re igned. In a long telegram to Pres dent Wilson, which he made public .t the same time, McNab said he felt t necessary to resign because orders rom the Arttonye-General tying his lands in 'the prosecution of the )iggs-Caminetti white slave cases nd the indictments against officials f the Western Fuel Company. Maury Diggs, former State archi ect, and Drew Caminetti, a son 4f ormer State Senator A. Caminetti, rho recently was appointed commis toner of immigration by President ilson, eloped to Reno, Nev., last rinter with two high school girls of acramento, leaving their wives and abies behind them. They were rought back to California and In lctments were found Against them nder the Mann White Slave Act. MdNab says: "I am ordered by he Attorney-General, over my pro est to postpone until autumn the rials of Maury Diggs and Drew Cam netti, indicted for a hideous crime, hich has ruined two girls and hocked the moral sense of the peo >le of California; and this after I ave advised the department of jus ice that attempts had .been made to orrupt the government witnesses nd friends of the defendants are ublicly boasting that the wealth and ,olitical prominence .of the defend ts' relatives will procure my hand o be stayed through Influence at ashington." The Facts In the Case. Secretary Wilson, of the depart ient of labor, said: "The attorney,general postponed rial in the Diggs-Caminetti case sole y upon my request. I am therefore esponsible for the postponement. fr. Caminetti has but recently as umed the -duties of commissioner eneral of immigration. lIe has not -et fully familiarized himself with he duties of the office. He asked me or'leave of absence in order that he night return to Ca for4a to be present at the-trial of his son. I in isted that he remain here until he vas sufficiently acquainted with the uties of the position of commission r general to be able to properly in pect the immigration stations at acific ports when he returned to alifornia. -I therefore suggested hat I would ask the attorney :eneral to postpone the trial of he case until the next term of court. t s nothing unusual for the district .ttorney of that or any other dis rict, or the attorney-general, to rant a postponement of trial in uch cases when an immediate trial ould seriously inconvenience either arty. The suggestion and the re uest came from me purely in the In erest of the public service." Satisfactory Explanation. Assistant Attorney General Harr fonday night assumed full responsi sility for the order to Attorney Mc Jab to postpone the trial of Robert ruce, and Sidney V. Smith, direc ors of the Western Fuel Company, in charges of customs coal frauds. 'is postponement mentioned- In Mr. &cNab's telegram of resignation to he President was ordered, declared fr. Harr, to prevent a possible mis :arriage of justice. The trial of the entire Western uel case was not ordered postpon d," said Mr. Harr, "but only the rials of Bruce and Smith, who were dicted with three other directors if the company. Bruce and Smith rere only directors, while the other hree defendants were officials as el1 as directors. I carefully studied he evidence in the case submitted :y United States Attorney McNab nd reached the conclusion that ruce and Smith, who seemed men of ugh character, probably were inno ent, as apparently they were unf a niliar with the operations of the ,ompany. In order to prevent a mis arriage of justice, I recommended Ld Attorney General McReynolds equiesced, that it would be better .o try first the three directors who vere officials, because this trial un loubtedly would develop the extent f the connection of Bruce and Smith ith the alleged frauds. "It seemed unwise to run the risk >f convicting two Innocent men along ith three men who might be guilty when the ends of justice would be ully satisfied by later trials If the ~overnment received evidence whIch t did not then possess of the guilt >f Bruce and Smith." Champion Shot Dead. Frank Fromm, champion revolver hot of the nUited States in 1909, md his wife were found dead in a :ent back of theIr home at Spokane. Wash., Tuesday. From a note in the lead woman's handwriting the au horities believe Mrs. Fromm shot ier husband through jealousy - lilled Teacher and Pupils. A school teacher and two children ere shot dead, another teacher and ;hreo children were fatally wounded m! three ot:'er children less serious .y hurt by a former teacher named schmidt, who with six revolvers, en Med a Catholic school at Berlin, see'f35y ndi sitad firing. MAKE HER FIRST TRIP LARGEST STEAMSHIP IN THE WORLD ARRIVES. Some Facts About the "Imperator" That Shows What a Great Ship She Is. The following facts about the "Im perator", the largest ship ever built, which made her first trip from Ham burg to New York last week, will be read with interest: Length, 919 feet; beam, 98 feet; height of bridge above water, 90 feet; gross tonnage, 50,000. Commanded by five captains, with Hans Ruser in supreme charge. Four captains do bridge duty; one maintains watch over all other af fairs apart from navigation. Has three wireless operators, who work eight hours a day each. Ap paratus is so strong that it is never out of touch with land on one side of ocean or other. Has r nine decks, seven of which are for first-class passengers. Has a battery of six elevator, which are kept constantly busy. Has lifeboats enough to accommo date more than 4,000 persons, and has power launches to tow lifeboats. Has a complete telephone system from stateroom to stateroom through a central exchange. Has an imperial suite of twelve rooms, with a private, glass-inclosed promenade deck of its own, for use of the Kaiser, if he ever comes here, or any one else who can afford to pay a few thousand dollars for a six day trip. Has a Ritz-Carlton restaurant, a grill room and three private dining rooms, besides the public saloon. Also has a garden with growing flowers and shrubbery, a theatre and a ballroom as large as that of the average New York hotel. Has an automatic device for drop ping life raft overboard, and has a special station for a lookout in the eagle figurehead at the bow. Has five anchors, the heaviest weighing 26,445 pounds, the lightest 4,960. Carries a crew of 1,180. Started with 48,000 eggs, 121,000 pounds potatoes, 3,000 pounds fish, 10,050 pounds game and fowl, 12, 500 quarts milk, 400 Do tea, 7,000 pounds coffee. Brought heri 3,450 passengers. Made the trip'i: days, 5 hours, 14 minutes. FIGHT OVER PROHIBITION. Precipitated in Georgia Legislature Thursday Morning. The prohibition fight promised the Georgia State legislature took defi nite form in the upper House Thurs day, when Senator Hixon, of the Thirty-seventh District, introduced a bill to make the federal Webb law applicable to Georgia. Senator Hix on's measure, he declared, has the hearty approval of the Georgia Anti Saloon League and other prohibition organizations, and was introduced at their behest. Briefly, the measure provides that "no malt, spirituous or vinous liquor can be brought into Georgia by any common carrier". Following the in tant of the Webb law it will prevent all liquor shipments into the state of Georgia, notably from Tennessee and Florida. The Webb bill was Intended to confer upon states the right to legislate in this manner and not 'be in violation of the Interstate commerce laws. The measure means the precipita tion of a straight-line prohibition ight in the legislature. Senator Hixon, sponsor for the bill In' the upper House, will, with Senator W. E. H. Searcy, lead the fight for the prohibitionists. Representative J. E. Sheppard, of Sumter, doubtless, will lead -the prohibition forces In the lower House. Upon this bill the prohnibitionists, it is understood, are pinning their whole hopes. No other anti-liquor legislation will be sent In with their support, it Is said. The whole fight will be directed towards the passage of the bill which makes the Webb law applicable to Georgia. HAVE HO'' WORDS. Congressman Warm Up Inu Presence of President Wilson. Though efforts have been made to keep the fact from getting out, it Is known in Washington, says a dis patch from that city, that the con ference at the White House last Fri day evening between 'President Wil son and the Democratic members of the banking and currency committee of the House was the occasion of some stormy scenes resulting from the feeling of certain members that they had been Ignored by Chairman Carter Glass, whose bill was prepared and published before It was submit ted to the committee for considera tion. It Is understood that a particular ly hot attack was made upon the chairman by Representative 3. W. Ragsdale, of South Carolina, who un dertook to "Read the Riot Act" to Mr. Glass In the presence of the President. The peppery Virginian replied sharply to the Impetuous South Carolinian and for a time it was feared by some of their col leagues that they might actually come to blows. Mr. Glass was not inclined to admit the propriety of Mr. Ragdale's criticisms and expressed himself in a way by no means apolo getic. Saved from Watery Grave Emile DuBonnett and Welby Jour dan, two aeronauts, who were par ticipating in a long distance balloon race from Paris, two miles south of Ventnor, on the south coast of the Is| oanf Wright. ARE ON FREE Li WOOL AND SuA. SEHEDULE ARE AGREED' UPON' DY DEMOCRATIC CAOCW This Makes Sure That Two of the Hardest Fought Schedules of the Proposed Tariff Revision Bill Wil) Be Retained-Lively Fight Expect ed Over the Agricultural Section. Free sugar In 1916 and free rau wool are now established in the tar [if revison bill, having been approvet late Wednesday by the Democrati< caucus of the Senate, after a twc days' fight. The sugar schedule as re ported by majority members of the nance committee and practically it passed the House was approved by a vote of 40 to 6. Free raw woo) as submited by the majority anc just as is passed the House, swept the Senate caucus by a vote of 41 to- 6. This ratification of President Wil son's tariff policy, he having- insisted upon the wool and sugar proposition, before the ways and means commit tee in the beginning, came after a long series of developments since the tariff bill passed the HMuse, in which the President was an active partici pant. When the fight of the anti. free sugar and the anti-free wool interests was getting hot the Pres ident issued a public statemnt d& claring th.at any sugestion on the wool and sugar schedule was to be absolutely out of the question and later he stirred all administratior leaders to action when he made hi, charge about the existence in Wash ington of an "insidious loby," inves igation of which has brought re suts regarded as favorable to the tariff bilI. The six Democratic Senators whc voted aginst free- sugar on the final vote approving the schedule were Hitchcock, Nebraska; Newlands, Ne vada; Pansdell and Thornton, Louis Lana; Shaffroth, Colorado, and Walsh of MontaL.. The six who opposei free raw wool to the end were Chamberlain of Oregon; Newlands Nevada ,ansdell and Thornton Loulsla K, Shaffroth and Walsh. No af t was made in the caucut today to 'bind the members to the ac tion of the caucus. The question will Dome up when the entire bill has beer passed. Some members fought it, bui administration leaders said to-nighi they believed only the Louisiana Senators would ask to be released from the caucus pledge if one is submitted. The general opinion it that a binding resolution will be of fered. Discussion of the issues was livell all day. Senators Ransdell, Thompsor Thornton,.Newlands, Lans and Shaff roth took up most of the time for the opposition, while the chief Adminls. tration defenders were Senatori James, Thomas and Pomerene. ThE arguments iwere not long and tatE weather hot, and most of the Sen tors removed their coats in the priv acy of the caucus room. When sugar and wool had beer disposed of the caucus ratified thE committee amendment, placing hali of the Angora goat on the agricultu al schedule was then resumed and i dispute at once arose over the com* mittee amendment puting a coun tervailing duty on wheat and flour As the discusion developed the op position grew and decision of thE question went over. Some Democrats asserted followiug t1.4 adjournment that the countervailing duty woulc be stricken off leaving wheat on thE unrestricted free' list on a parity witI cattle and meats. Genius That Counts. Wha~t most people call genius i chiefly a capacity -for hard and intel ligent labor. Sir Hiram LMaxin laughs at the Idea that he is a geniu: and ascribes his great success to hard work. This same quality accounti for the great achievements of Edisor and other masters In the various de partments of the world's activities This is an encouragement or ought tc be an encouragement to many r young man who may have the wrong Idea that genius Is something not de pendant on work but is born with a man, and that he who has It not car never hope to excel. Every young man Is a genius at something. Ii may take hard work to bring It out but the posibilities are there, anc can be developed. The trouble Is thai so few of us are willing to give thi labor that Is necessary to develop thi traits In us that would put us in thi genius class. Charged With Forgery. 3. Luther Crout, of Gilbert, Lexing ton county, was arrested by Sherif Miller and placed in jaid Wednesda: evening on a charge of forgery pre ferred by the Home National Bank of Lexington. The sheriff also has ii hand two other warrants agains Crot from Columbia, charging hin with issuing bogus checks to thi amount of forty dollars. ' I Talking about Southern chivalr3 you ought to see how it works ii Georgia ,politics. Two of the thre4 candidates for Speaker of the Hous4 bowed themselves out and turned i over to their rival. end soon after wards one of the two candidates run ning for President of the Senate al phonsed out of it and left it to "hi dear Gaston." I Cotton Crop of Turkey. The efforts to develop cotton grow ig In Africa, Turkey and othe countries to deprive the Southeri States of their natural monopoly o this staple do not seem to have ha ...y maeca degree of . succes NOTHING CAN BE' DONE WITHDRAWAL OF MILITIA AID STANDS. Our Delegation in Congress Expresses Regret at State of Affairs But Can Not Help It. The withdrawal of financial aid to South Carolina State troops has elic ited expressions of regret. Among the members of the south Carolina delegation in congress Wednesday, the greatest regret was expressed when the existing condition of affairs became thoroughly known. Senator Smith said it was almost inconceiv able. Senator Tillman, when asked if he had anything to say regarding the matter, replied that as he saw it there was nothing he could do to up set the orders of the war department, but he would be willing to do what ever might be possible if he should be requested to act by responsible par ties in South Carolina. "I shall probably have something to say regarding this matter," Sena tor Tillman said, when queried about the situation, "but until some one makes complaint to me, or I have something to work upon, there is nothing I can do." If the members of the different companies affected by the determina tion of the war department to lend no further assistance, which virtually means that the command must be dis banded unless the legislature sees fit to appropriate, take the matter up with the South Carolina delegation in congress, it is barely possible that something might be done, provided that the governor shows a disposition to receive further government aid. Unless this is done, however, there is but the remotest chance that the troops will be placed in their former' position and be allowed to have the same help they have had before the' decision of the war department was announced. The fact that many of the oldest commands. In the State, some -of which date back many years, are to '. be denied further financial assistance from the government, for reasons now already known, is regretted not only by the members of the South Carolina delegation by former South Carolinians resident in Washington and by war department officials, but by all who are conversant with the facts in the case. PREVENT HOG CHOLERA. Clemson College Expert Gives Rules to Prevent Spread. Mr. Ray Powers, one of the expert in charge of the Clemson College Ex tension work, gives the following rules to prevent the spread of chol era: By failure to properly dispose of the carcasses of dead hogs. Buz zards, dogs, and other animals feed upon these carcasses and carry in fection to other premises. All car easses should be 'burned or buried im mediately. (This is now required by State law) and buzzards should be destroye'd In communities where they are not protected by law. In com munities where these scavengers are thus protected, the law should be re pealed and the birds destroyed. By persons walking through yards or fields where sick hogs are kept and carrying the Infection on their shoes and clothing to other premises where healthy bogs are confined. It should be remembered that dis charges from a, hog infected with cholera are very infectious, and own ers should not go, or allow any of their help to go on premises where there are sick hogs. Neither should they allow neighbors to go among their hogs when cholera exists in a community. Healthy hogs should be cared for by persons who have not been where the disease exists and no one else should be allowed near the healthy drove. By streams receiving draninage from Infected premises. If streams running through hog lots are drain ing Infected premises, the hogs should be Immediately moved to oth er premises. By buying hogs from premises where the disease exists or from pub lic stock yards. Hog cars and stock yards mnust always be considered dangerous. By allowing neighbors the service of your stock hogs. This Is a dan gerous practice. By failure to Isolate newly pur chased hogs until their freedom from disease has been ascertained. New hogs should ,be Isolated for a month. If they have cholera or have been ex posed, the disease will develop In this time. TO PROTECT AMERICANS. Texan Assured That Government Has Troops on Border. Representative Smith, of Texas, appealed to President Wilson Wed nesday to see that Americans In El Paso would not suffer In the threat ened battle at Jaurez between the Mexican Federals and the Constitu tionalists, who are steadily advanc ing upon the city. The President re ferred Mr. Smith to Secretary Gar rison, who told him that two full reg Iments of cavalry could be assembled on the Texas line within twelve hours. Already at Fort Bliss, .inst across the Rio Grande from Jaurez, are five - troops of the Second cavalry In addi -tion to, the machine gun platoon of that regiment. The remainder of the Second cavalry is doing patrol duty between El Paso and Sierra Blanca, while the Thirteenth cavalry is -guarding the border between El Paso and Lang's Ranch, New Mexico. Brig. Gen. Tasker H. Bliss has full authority to concentrate his forces wherever necessary for potection of Amerian lives.