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FINISHES LETTERS SENATE COERITTEE REAEHESEND of IRLALL LETrERS UNDERWOOD 6iYES UE Democratic Leader Also Calls Him lackmaier and Denies Having Bad Anything to Do With Him Identification of Letters Has Beem Completed. Martin M. Mulhall practically fin Ished Tuesday at Washington his identification of letters he wrote and received in the ten years he claims tc have been the lobbyist for the Na tional Association of Manufacturers. N;ow the Senate Investigation com mitteewin turn its attention to ex amination of Mulhall and attorneys for the-association and for the Ameri can Federation of Labor, also involv ed In the correspondence, will begim erosexamination of Mulhall. Members of the committee will at tempt to strengthen Mulhall's story of his political activities in Washing ton and' throughout the country -while the attorneys -will endeavor t( break It down. Questions by the law yers, under the committee's rule, wil be iltered to the witness through it ehatman. Mulhall's last day as an Identfie of letters proved the most exciting o his two weeks on the stand. He wal caled a "liar" and a "blackmailer' by, Majority Leader Underwood o the House and he swore he had trie< to get Chairman Wilson of the labol ebmmittee interested In the story h4 is now telling and that Speaker Clarl and Representative Mann, minorit: leader of the House, and turned dowi an-opportunity to conduct an investi - gation of his activities. The speaker and Mr. Mann, hl aid, had been approached on thil subdect by Representative James '7 -McDermott of Illinois. "Neither Mr. McDermott nor any body else ever showed me the Mul bal letters and papers," said Speake Clark -in a statement issued lat -Tuesday. "Neither Mr. McDermot nor anybody else ever spoke to m about them. I never knew that Mul ball had any letters or -papers unti I saw in a newspaper that he ha< sold them to a New York paper." Mulhall brought the day to a cli mx by swearing that McDermot bad acqnowledged to him that he hal signed Mulhall's name to a check fo $250. Mulhall made this statement whel be was questioned about a trip t Chijeago In April, 1912, to help Mc Dermott In the primaries. He SP;; Harold F. McCormick, son-in-l.w c John D. Rockefeller, had promised t contribute $250 to the McDermot e, ampaign. He said McCormick mad out a checlk to him for this amouni but that he did not receive It unti after he returned to Baltimore. H - ashed this check in Baltimore, bn later the bank there and the one I: Chicago on which It was drawn Ii formed him that a duplicate bearin his signature had been honored als< He told the committee he never kne' what bad happened until McDermot told hin. A. letter read later showed tha Muha11 took te$250 given him b McCormick and used It himself, al .though he said McCormick had give t for the McDermott campaign. Mul all explained .that he had spent -lot of money In Chicago and that Mt -Dermott had never paid him back. Mu~ha11 told during the day the he left the National Association- c Manufacturers late In 1911, but let ters of 1912 and 1913 showed hit still about Washington Interested I: the makeup of committees and in leg Islaton. He apparently was lobby -ng on his; own hook and other let te showed an evident desire to ge back with his old employers althougl he did not admit that he wished ti ecure his'old berth. One of the last letters put in th -record was dated May 26, 1913, an addressed to former Representatlv James E. Watson of Indiana, whor Muhal frequently during the in quiry has mentioned interms fa from flattering. In this letter Mul "Ea 1 asked Watson to interest himsel himself with D). M. Parry. forme president of the association, in hi behalf. It was only a few days late that the Senate committee started It lobby investigation and that he bega1 *to negotiate for the disposal of hi correspondence. Representative Underwood appear ed 'before the committee to deny tha Muhall had ever talaed to him abou 'isa'ion before congress. Afte: c'ne look at the witness he said: "I never saw him before In m: WILL WORK FOR LIVE STOCK. B. H. Bawl Coming to Soath Caro lina Soon. B. H. RowI, chief of thd dairy divi sion of the department of agriculture left Washington Weonesday after -noon t'o take up with Col. J. A. Bankt and others interested at st. Matthew: on Thursday the matter. of the organ Izaton of a co-operative associatioi for live stock raising in South Caro lina. This will be the first attemp of the department of agr-iculture t< encourage, in a substantial way. th ive stock industry of the State. Shoots Two Negroes. Vernon Hough, a negro eighteei years of age, was lodged In jail a Lancaster Sunday, charged witl hooting two other negroes, Yande Adams and Amos Adams. one da) last week near the Taxahaw sectior of the county. *Tender Cut in Two. The tender of the Governmer lghtship off Cape Lookout, N. C. -as cut in two by the Savannah Lint steamer City of Atlanta. and three o: Its occupants were drowned last Fri day afternoon. Falls tnder Train. A. Richard Beard Jr.. aged twenty seven, a shoe salesman, died at Nash vlle, Tenn., Sunday from Injuries re ceived late Saturday *ht when hie fel under a passenger train at War. tene. - REMEDY FOR SOCIAL ILLS CO3MON GOOD MOVEMENT GAINS GREAT DIPETUS. Prospects Excellent and Hearty Will ingness to Help is Shown by Lead ers in Various Fields. 'Prospects for the approaching Conference for the Common Good are exceedingly bright and encouraging," according to a statememnt issued Tuesday. "The movement is steadily gaining in weight and momentum. Messages of sympathy and cheer are being received from all sides. The hearty support and willingness to help which are everywhere being manifested are most hopeful and stimulating. As one of the oamphlets which Is being widely cir .lated by the committee puts it: "In overy man there exists a willingness, even the desire, to help, could be found an easy, practical way to go about it.' "We love our State and want to serve her. Service is simply love in harness. South Carolina is blessed with many constructive men and wo men, and all are proud of our pro gress. in many directions; but there is a great deal of waste and lost matter in the movement for State better ment. "Now, nearly all the special prob lems and difficulties we have to face elsewhere. The thing to do is to take stock of our chief needs and then to find the most effective remedies the collective experience of the world can offer and apply them patiently and hopefully for the betterment of our State and for the common good. "It is to find these most effective remedies that the conference has been called. Much thought and care ful planning have gone into prepar ing the program. The leading points to be discussed are: Co-operation for rural -development, permanent homes for our people, education and child welfare, problems of citizenship. Be sides these topics, special minor con ferences are being arranged as fol lows: On the work of the church in county development, on health, con. ference of farmers and business men on marketing, and credit 'on woman's work, on co-operation between col leges and high schools, co-operation of chambers of commerce for rural development. "From these various and Impor tant subjects every one can find work to do and'an opportunity to aid. Men of national reputation have been se t cured to give the fruit of their ripe experience and wisdom in short, live addresses. It Is certain to be a not able and inspiring .body of men and women that will gather in Columbia on August 6 and 7." Who's Your Friend? f Is whiskey your friend? We don't know, you never visit him in the light t of day, but as the thief sneaks under the cover of darkness, you too may steal away to pay him an occasional Ivisit. If he's your friend, stand by Shim, he'll take from you the money tthat a poverty-stricken home cries Sfor, he'll blight the life of the woman -trat trusted all to your care, he'll Scurse un~born children with a drunk en inheritance, he'll waste your en rergy, destroy your will, and leave you tbankrupt and destroyed. You'owe him a big debt-no other tfriend has done quite so much for ~you. He's rid you of all petty scru -ples of honesty and purity, In tact. he 3has made a new man out of you -the eye that once gleamed and spar Skled is now bleared and dalfl; the -cheeks once so healthy and tinged with the ruddy hue of young mn thood is bloated and seared with dis fsipation; the hand that once guidel -the 'pen so smoothly and deI~cately Iacross the page now jerks its crook ed way trembling and reeling across -the sheet; the legs upon which you -hunted and fished now stagger an'1 -stumble under their load: and the mind that once reasoned so accurate ly remembered so perfectly, under sto'od so plainly now blunders regu larly, reaches its hazy conclusions slowly, and gropes in darkness among Ithe simplest problems. SIt's a big debt you owe your friend, 1but you need never worry about pay -ing it. Broken hearts, ruined lives, forsaken Ideals, diseased bodies, wasted opportunities, and souls eter nally damned, make up the currency with which your debt is paid, and of these you have no concern. If whiskey is your friend, Godi help AEROPLANE WRECKS BOAT. Tampico Safd to Have Been Destroy ed by Rebel Aviator. The Mexican federal gunboat Tam ico was destroyed Monday by a omb dropped from an aeroplane ov er Guaymas harbor, declares an of icial insurgent message. It was said that Aviator Didier Masson made three flights over the harbor before he succeeded in hitting the boat. While It was reported during the Italian-Turkish war that a war yes sel was sunk by a bomb dropped from an aeroplane, the report was never onfirmed. There is said to be no ther report of a similar feat on rec ord, although many bombs have been dropped in military camps during the B alkan war. Masson has made vari ous attempts to damage the forts and ships of the Mexican army and navy at Guymas, but has met with indif ferent success. Cut His Own Throat. Dr. John McPherson, one of the wealthiest and most prominent physi cians in Alamance County. North Carolina, committed- suicide early Monday morning by slashing his throat with a razor. He was forty years old. nidentified Dead Buried. Attended by thousan:ls4 of mosurn ers, many cf them elaitives or close friends of victimsl. the funeral of the twenty-one unidentinied ,lead. nho lost their lives in the Binghamton Clothing company fire, was held Sun Firemen Killed in W~reck. Fireman Will Harrison was crush ed to death and -two negro brakemen seously burned and sealded when a central of Georgia freight engin~e was deriled and turned turtle near Kel. ]ANKS HURT BONDS' ECRETARY Of THE TREASURE WAUOO ISSUES STATEMENT ROTECTS SMALL BANKS )eclares That Decline of Government Two Per Cents. Is Due to Campaign Waged by New York Banks to Cause Uneasiness About Securities In Order to Defeat Currency Bin. Secretary McAdoo issued a state nent Monday flatly charging that the lecline of government two per cent. onds to 95 and a half-a new low -ecord-was due "almost wholly to .hat appep -s to be a campaign wag d with every indication of concerted action on the part of a number of In luential New York city banks to ause apprehension and uneasiness about these bonds In order to help them in their efforts to defeat the yurrency bill." Banks throughout the country own li:ost entirely $730,882,130 of the 2 per cents. Their market value to day was approximately $30,000,000 less than when the banks bought them. Almost all the entire issue is used as security for national bank notes. At the present price, however, the discrepancy between the market value and the issues of notes against the bonds is covered by what Is known as the five per cent. redemp tion found, deposited by the banks with the treasury to care for retire ments of national bank notes. Secretary McAdoo announced it was not his intention to require the banks to charge off the present depre ciation below par, .but that the banks might continue to put In the bonds at par In their statements to the comp troller of the currency, at least "un til some material change in condi tions should compel the adoption of another course". In his statement Secretary McAdoo declared two per cent. were worth par-notwithstanding their decline in the New York market, and con tinued: "The Idea seems to be that the country banks which hold about two thirds of the 2 per cent. bonds, and use them as the basis for their circu lating notes, may be induced to unite with the New York city banks in op position to the bill if they can be made to believe that the proposed currency measure Is going to injure these bonds and cause losses to the banks. This is, of course, unfound ed. "Meantime, it is folly for any bank to sell government 2's at a sacrifice because of any apprehended legisla tion adverse to government bonds, as no such legislation will result. In the 124 years of Its existence the government has kept faith scrupu lously with Its creditors, and It Is not going to change Its honorable char acter now. If the necessities of any bank oblige It to sell bonds at de pressed prIces, that, of course, Is an other matter-a matter solely for the bank to determine." The secretary said that not only had nothing occurred to Impair the value of the 2 per cent. bonds, but that the amendr mnt already adopted by the banking and currency com mittee of the House enhances their intrinsic worth: "1. Because the banks end all other holders of 2 per cent. bonds are given a privilege, not now pos sessed. of exchanging the 2's for 3's without the circulation rights at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum of their holdings, present or hereafter acquir ed. So long as they do not make the exchange, they may retain or sell and buy the 2 per cent. ,bonds and exer cise the circulation privilege attach ed thereto. "2. At the end of twenty years, the government will pay at par and interest all 2 per cent. bonds which t that time remain outstanding. In view of the fact that the 2's have no due date, and are payable after 1930 only at the option of the government. the definite promise of payment at, the end of twenty years Is distinctly, beneficial to the holders of the 2 perI cent. bonds."' The secretary spoke with amuse ment of the grave statements sent out from New York to the effect that if the currency bill shall pass and government deposits are put in the federal reserve banks, the 2 per cent. bonds now used to secure deposits will be thrown on the market and their value thereby Impaired. As only $13,900,000 of the 2's out of a total of $780,8S2,130 are used to se cure deposits, they can be used for additional circulation. "Nearly all of the 2's are owned by the banks. If the price is marked down, It is because the .banks them selves are putting the pressure on the market and depressing the value of their securities. The fault is their own. It would seem that part of good sense and good business not to do It." The secretary expressed the hope that the process. if continued. will not be carried to a point where the department will have to take ac "There is and always has been a narrow market for the 2 per cent. bonds. .iust as there is for many inac tive although high grade corporation bonds and every one knows how easy it is to put up or down the quotations for such bonds, especially when a favoring state of mind has been skil fully created. "The department has, because of its relation to the banks and its ne essarily important part in the finan cial affairs of the country, a deep In terest in the welfare of the banks, in the stability of the financial situation and in a continuance of the prosper ity now attaching to agricultural and industrial enterprises and general business." For these reasons, the ecretary said he had hoped that the banks would not consider a sugges tion from him impertinent. In conclusion, the secretary said with emphasis that there Is not going to be any financial trouble and that the large crops now in prospect are going to be moved without difficulty; and that the powers of the depart nent will be exercised in their great ist amplititude. for the protection of .lie buines tea tSf of the coun NEGRO IS ARRESTED ,O EXCITEMENT FOLLOWS, AL THOUGH CHARGE IS SERIOUS. Bloodhounds From Penitentiary Suc cessfully Follow Trail of the In truder Near Bennettsville. A man entered the home of a citi zen of Brightsville in Marlboro County, Sunday night and attempted an assault upon his daughter as she slept in her room. She was awaken ed by the man and jumped from the bed and called her father. The man ran from the back door of the house through which he had entered-by breaking the lock. This occurred about 2 a. m. Henry Hubbard, deputy sheriff, re ceived a telephone message at the jail about 3 a. m. He immediately telephoned to the penitentiary in Co lumbia for bloodhounds and Officer Robbins left with the dogs on an early train. They arrived at about ten o'clock and left immediately for Brightsville. Sheric Patterson. Deputy Hubbard, T. C. Chavis, rural policeman and a large number of citizens from Brightsville, Bennettsville and other parts of the county joined in the hunt. The dogs were put on the track and followed it for over a mile east ward. tow-- "hibard's creek. They lost the trail where the man had ap parently entered a buggy. Suspicion had pointed to Wilson Rogers, a six teen-year-old negro, son of Jake Rog ers, who lived on E. W. Liles' place about two miles from the scene of the attempted assault. Deputy Hubbard went to the house and as he approached Wilson asked, "Are you looking for me?" Wilson and two or three other negroes were told to go to the creek. The dogs followed Wilson until they caught him. He was then arrested and brought in an automobile to Ben nettsville and put in jail about two o'clock. The negro denied all knowl edge of the crime. - GIRL SLAIN IN OFFICE. Shocking Crime Mystery Engages Dallas Police Force. Police were called upon Monday to investigate the death of Florence Brown, aged twenty-seven, whose body was found in the.wash room of a real estate office at Dallas, Texas, with the throat cut. When discover ed the body was still warm. Blood was spattered over the walls and floor of the room and discolored water had been left In the wash .basin where some one had apparently washed bloody hands. - No instru ment with which the ac+ could have been committed was found. Miss Brown reported for work at 8:30 and was known to have been alone in the office for half an hour. KILLS HER HUSBAND. Then Young Cuban Woman Shoots Herself, Dying Quickly. First tying him securely in bed as he lay asleep, Mrs. Avelina Rodri guez, a comely young Cuban woman, shot her husband to death at their home, in the eastern part of Tampa Saturday morning.. When she saw his life had fled she cut the bonds from the body and, stretching herself beside him, fired the remaining shot from the pistol into her own heart, and was dead when neighbors rushed into the house. The pair lay side by side, and the slender ropes which still partly held Rodriguez's body to the bed, and the pistol grasped in Mrs. Rodri guez's hand told the story. STRUCK FIVE TIES. Lightning Hits Arkansas Home Many Times in Hour. In an electrical storm Saturday the home of J. WV. Baxter, of Fayette ville, was struck by lightning five times within an hour. The first bolt knocked off a chim ney. The second entered through a telephone and knocked Baxter un conscious. Scarcely had he recovered before the third knocked his wife senseless.' The fourth stunned his mother, and the fifth hurled the house from its foundation. .Killed by Old Pistol. A revolver which was hanging be hind a picture on the wall -of a room at the home of Guiseppe Gastano, at Tampa, Fla., accidentally exploded and killed six-year-old Rosia Gas tano. With a playmate the child had been swinging the picture by push ing it with a broom. The picture and the gun came down from the wall and the revolver exploded as It struck the floor, the ball entering the little girl's brain. They Will Arbitrate. The threatened strike of 80,000 conductors and trainmen of the forty five Eastern railroads for higher wages and improved working condi tions will not be called. Articles of agreement to- arbitrate under the Newlands act, the questions at Issue, were signed Saturday by the em ployees' representatives at the con ference committee of railroad man agers. Fifty-Foot Fall Fatal. Joseph Echols, aged sixteen years, employed by the Birminghom Boiler Works Company, while at work at Thomas' furnaces of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, fell off the structural work Monday morning and was instantly killed. He fell fifty feet. Soldier Kills Himself. Thomas P. Fashey, aged thirty nine, -of Mingo Junction, 0., a pri vate in Company G, Seventeenth Uni ted States Infantry, committed sui.. cide Thursday at Fort McPherson by shooting himself in the mouth with his army rifle. Mad Dog Bites Dog. F. L. Lane and Minor Mahaffey, of the Camp Creek section of Lancaster county, two of Mr. Lane's daughters and two other young girls of the samne neighborhood were bitten by a mad dog one day last week and are naw takin the Pasteur treatment. WIFE KIllS SELF FORAN LEAPS TO HER DEATH IN CHESTER MILL STREAM FIES ROCK IN APRON rhen Jumps in Water Attracting At tention of Boys Fishing Nearby, Who Make Search and Find Her Shoes-They Spread Alarm and Search Reveals Body. With the strings of a gingham apron tied around her neck and a seven pound rock secured in the body f her apron, Mrs. Mary Robertson, wife of Sam Robertson, leaped to her death from the bank to fifteen feet of water in the mill race at the Manetta mill at Lando, near Chester, Monday. After much diving by Fred Hefley the body was recovered thirty-five feet down stream. The village of Lando. in Chester County, was stirred by the affair. Mrs. Robertson left Wylie Camp bell's house at Lando about three o'clock, apparently in a state of great nervousness. She borrowed an apron from Mrs. Campbell, which was af terward found tied around her neck at the bottom of the stream. Mrs. Robertson is said to have made threats recently to kill herself but the villagers paid little heed to her. On Sunday her husband left for Columbia to stay some time and this seems to have precipitated the deed. She is said to have claimed that she had no friends and that the only and dearest friend in the world was going and she thought the sui cidal course the speediest way to end her suffering. She removed her shoes and had she not left this clew it might have been a week before her body would have been recovered. When she leaped into the stream the noise at tracted considerable attention from some boys that were fishing further down the stream. They immediately made an investigation, which led to the discovery of the shoes on the bank. The alarm was spread and an im mediate search instituted. Mr. Hef ley, an expert diver, was near, and he began diving and ,soon brought the body to the surface. This made the eleventh person that he had pull ed from the water. -It was at -first thought that the drowning had been the result of vio lence on the part of some oiltsider and Sheriff D. E. Colvin and C< - ner J. Henry Gladden, along with L pL-v C. Y. Young, were rushed to scene in an automobile. Coroner 'Gladden made a careful investigation of the body after empaneling a jury, with G. B. Heath as foreman. He could find no marks of violence save a contusion on the nose which was attributed to its striking a root. PELLAGRA MOVES ON. Incurable Disease Invading Territory in the West. Pellagra, for which physicians have found no cure, Is invading new territory, according to officials of the United States public health service who base their belief in the statistics of the iprevalence of the disease in Arkansas. Oklahoma and Texas from 1907 to 1912, which were made pub lic Saturday. The figures indicated an increase in the disease during .1912. The total number of cases in Oklahoma during the six years was 472, with a death rate of 100 cases of 54.91; in Texas 2,628 cases, death rate 46.61. and in Arkansas 945, death rate 61.90. The figures for Arkansas for 1912 were incomplete. PEACE-MAKER HAS TO FIGHT Is Attacked While Stopping Fight So He Takes a Big Hand. A few miles east of Landrum, near Collinsville, there occurred a shoot ing affair Sunday. It is said that while Melvin Patterson and a Mr. Robertson were engaged in a fight in his front yard, C. Foster ran out to act as peacemaker. Just then Patter son turned on him with a knife, in ficting several ugly gashes in ,the neck. Foster, It is said. acting in self-defense, drew his pistol and shot three times, each shot taking effect, the last perforating the left lung. Dr. . 3. Wall was summoned. but the wounded man only lived a few hours. Patterson was considered a desperate ENTIRE FAMILY WIPED OUT. Police Say it May Have Been Mu? der or Suicide. George Robinson, his wife and two children were found shot to death ini their farm house near Rumsey, Al berta, Monday. The bodies of Robin.. son and his youngest child, a three year-old girl, were in one room, his wife and twelve-year-old son were in nother.1 There was a shotgun across Robin sn's body and three empty shells lay on the floor nearby. The house show ed evidence of a fierce struggle. The police have not determined whether the family was attacked or whether tt was a case of murder and suicide. Trains ills "Ilan. L. H. Hammond. a f-orme&r rnsidlinZ several miles north of 'Easley, miet in stant death Monday afternoon when 1 be was struck hv a southbound pas enger train. The details c'ould not be ascertained, but it is believed -n the man stepped from the track and hhought that he was far enough away to allow the train to pass when the tep of the engtns~ tender struck .im in the back of his heatd. Series of A.cidents. 1 George Hogg, a farmer of Seai. ['scaloosa county. Ala.. lost three hldren in a series- of unusual acci lnts. While l' was cuttine wood his axe flew fro'm the helve and tck his infan+ in the heid. kmPin tt instantly. He carried the body to 1 u home. and t'"'" 'n-'rnni t'M**t 'o u his young E"'E Nd been hiclhed to t HUSBAND CUTS WIFE 7IGHT DEADLY BATTLE AFTER CUSTOM OF THEIR TRIBE. 1an Had Questioned Faithfulness of the Woman and She Demanded the Test of Blood. Samuel Palecia and his wife, Ve entalia, are in a hospital in Denver, j )oth suffering from wounds sustain d in one of the strangest duels ever ought in this country. The husband iad accused the woman of unfaith ulness to her marriage vows, and he demanded that they settle it as hey do among the tribes in Mexico, rom which both come, by a fight to he death with knives. They fought intil the police, summoned by neigh ors, broke hrough the locked doors, eparated them and called an ambu ance. Each received many, but not langerous wounds. When the woman demanded the inel in defense of her name, and the an acquiesced, they locked the loors of their home, cleared an en tire room of the scant furniture It ontained. took off their outer gar ments and began the carving match. Palecia had given his wife tne longest and sharpest knife, and he lso had asked her- to tie one of his arms behind his back, in order that they should be more evenly matched. As the result the woman got in the first blow, a slash across the back of the man's free hand, from which the blood flowed freely. 'But she held the advantage only for an instant. The man made a feint, then recovered quicker than the woman and drew the razor-like blade across the entire length of her forehead. Blinded by the blood which gushed into her eyes, the wo man threw caution to the winds and leaped upon her husband. Her slash ripped open his forearm, but she paid dearly, for Palecia stabbed her again and again, until she fell to the floor. She screamed as her husband prepared to finish her. Neighbors heard her and summoned a passing policeman. I. ' Progress of the Smith Plan. The News and Cgurier says "the report of the Federal experts that 'a loss of almost $108,000,000 a year to cotton growers in Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee and Florida would result from the adoption of the plan pro posed recently by Senator E. D. Smith, of South Carolina,' for check ing the boll weevil Is not to .be inter preted as meaning that it would cost the Government at Washington any thing like this amount of money to put the Smith plan into operation. No estimate as to this has yet been furnished. The present report has reference only to the loss of revenue from cotton which the growers In the States named would experience should they be restrained from plant ing cotton. It leaves ort of account the fact that the lands would not lie idle but would be turned at once to other purposes. Of course It would not be an altogether easy mnatter to discover at once crops which could be raised and marketed at a profit on all the hundreds of thousands of acres now devoted to cotton in the area which would be affected; but the first year would undoubtedly prove a hard one for many farmers. The experi ence gained the first year, however, would prove very valuable and there after the cost of the undertaking should be materially reduced. One of the chief difficulties would be that of securing an honest and equitable-' distribution of the Government funds." a. i SINS LEADS TO DEATH. Woman Takes Poison But Man Leaves Hotel. A suicide pact is believed to have led to the death of Ross Fivanson, aged twenty, of Hartford, Conn., who was found in a hotel room at1 Boston, Sunday, a victim of poison ing. The police are looking for a man who registered with the girl at the hotel. Sunday morning the man, who seemed Ill, went to the hotel office and inquired the address of a doctor. Half an hour later groans wertheard from the room, and the girl was found near death. A fragment of paper clutched in her hand bore the name "G. W. Man. Shelbyville, Ind.," and asked the police not to blame 'Billy". "I am tired of the life I am lead ing and am doing this with a clear mind," the note said. The girl was raken to- the city hospital, where she died. The police think the pair in tended to die together, but that the man after his first sip of the poison :hanger his mind. THREATEN POTATO CROP. Federal Experts Urge Growers to Fight Tuber Moths. Warning against a pest that -hreatens every dinner table In the land was issued Monday by the de-t partment of agriculture against the i potato tuber moth which Is workin0. avoc with the potato crop in num arous parts of the country and whoseC 'avges threatcn to prevent the I alanting of the vegetables in many >lces for the winter supply. The pest is especially prevalent in alifornia and Texas, the department s eports, and through shipments of t 'arly potatoes it is being introduced i iroadcast throughout the Unitedt states. t Experts of the bureau of entomol >gy urge potato growers they dig E nd destroy every potato and vine s hat shows the slightest signs of the e noth. Accidentally lKilled. b As she was packing away laundry h n a trunk in which a revolver was s ept. Mrs. Beulah Alridne, wife of b 'nployee of the Southern railway i~ encer, N. C., was instantly kill- t1 d by the accidental discharge of the r'eaoon. Her six-months-old baby v'as in the cradle nearby. Arrested in Pulpit. With a Bible in his hands and in he act of delivering the invocation f t he evening services in church. h~ 19-:. Virgil B. Slater, of Y'ourston,~n v 3we arrested Sunday iNht bw rdo- V ctives on the charge of no n' 'LEADS OR PURITY THE PRIMARY ELECTIONS 1N THIS STATE ETTER FROM TILLMAN 'he Senator Shows the Importance of Protecting and Safe-Guarding the White Primary to Save the State From Being Controlled by Bad White Men and Negroes. The following open letter from enator Tillman to the editor of the Valterboro Press and Standard will e read with interest by all Caro inians who love their State: Washington, July 31, 1913. fr. R. M. Jeffries, Editor Press and Standard, Walterboro, S. C. Mr. Dear Sir:-I have just receiv d your valued favor of July 30 and iave read it with great care. After iting my recent interview about the murity of elections in our State and lefending and safe-guarding the pri nary, you say: "We take the liberty if asking you for a statement con erning the recent election in the rirst Congressional District to name successor to the late Hon. George 1. Legare." You go on to say, "There as been much said concerning the ise of money in the First District, nd we are writing this to ask wheth ,r this matter has been presented tc rou." Furthr, you ask whether this natther has been officially brought o my attention, and whether I am i )osition and intend to do anything it he premises. In other words, it eems that you desire me to discusi he conditions in the First Congres ional District brought about during he recent primary. You close by saying, "We are con rinced that the last election in thi )istrict was a disgrace to our elec :ion system," etc. Briefly I can not go into details oi :over all the points your letter woulC suggest, but I have this _to - Not .being a iuember of the Hous( )f Representatives I can not with an3 ;how of reason be expected to active .y enter into the matter in that body would regret exceedingly if any 01 :he members from South Carolinz should feel called upon to press foi n investigation of the conditions anc harges of bribery which obtained it he recent primary. There are bet :er ways to safe-guard our primary -han to ventilate that election here go one knows better than I do thal nless we do purify it and make it rerdict more tustworthy and reliable ,he people will have nothing to d( with it. It will be destroyed as I1 should be, and those who want hig] ,ffice in South Carolina will be left t< ight it out at the polls when tho Legal election comes off in November This wound inevitably result ii bringing the negroes back into oul politics. All of them that could reg ster would be registered and carriec :o the polls, led by white men anc rotected by white men. Unless wt eform the entire system of crimina rocedure so as to guarantee convic ion and punishment for violations oi aw, as well as guarantee freedon rom promiscuous pardoning of crim nals, the State would soon grow s< orrupt and debased and its politic: ; debauched that there would be nC .iving in it. Whatever else happen e us see to it that the white peopl4 ontinue as they now do to be th4 )nly arbiters in our-politics. We car iot afford-it would be a crime if wi should do it-to have the negroe nobilized and become the controllini ator in our elections. Even if wi ire not able to stamp out the use o noney altogether-which we wil aeeer be able to do if the negroes ge :ontrol of our State governimenl rgin-we can purify our- election: ind safe-guard them, if the Legisla ;ure of South Carolina will only d( t duty when it meets again in Jan jary. Men are at work now, as aappen to know, preparing a bil ,vhich will do this according to the aw and 'Constitution. This bill wi11 safe-guard the ballot of every whit4 nan entitled tO vote. No good citi enn wants to disfranchise any whitE nan; at the same time no good citi en wants white men not entitled t rote to have anything to do with oul I am enlisted in this fight for the >alance of my life, and will do all >ossibly can to bring about sucha aw and the creation of a public senti nent behind it that will compel its nforcement. This generation of younger South larolinian knows nothing about the iorrors of negro domination and ne tro political activity. I passeli a. hrugh it from 1S63, the first yes' n which they voted, to 1S76, th: .ear in which we overthrew the car >et bag government. If the Legislature will do its du'a ve will never have any more troubh n our primaries such as we had las: umer. If it does not do its duty hen all good Democrats must see tc t. that a convention of the Democrat e party shall be called early nex eaar to make such changes in th( ontitutionl of the party as will safe ard and purify the primary. You say, "We do not propose to let ut few editorials printed immediate' y after the election be all we have tc ay concerning the matter." I .beg hat you do not let that be all you ave to say, but continue to agitate he matter and educate the people up s their duties. I have heard so much that sadden" d me and caused me to blush with hame about the corruption and brib ry in the last Congressional race in our district that I have been forced cononludle that there must have een fearful demoralization. If there ad ben a contest for .Mr. Whaley'F eat by one, the facts would all have een brought out under oath. As it nothing was done or can be done ant I know of, at least not by me. Very sincerely yours, B. R. Tillman. U. S. S. Takes Fall Easily. AAferalling one hundre'l fe'et rom his halloon throuah the ranches of a pine three at iho T'ni Prsity of Florida ;rrounds at iht lle. , Th ursday afternonl. Fredl I. wens arose calm'ly, lit a cir:,rett' .,i derlare that the was not hurt. MODEWN RIP VAN 2.\I i%ii-Z-~ Some remarkable Long naLs That Have Baffled Physicians Among the problems which have baffled modern dostors and scientists is that presented by people who have servants to awake them from their fallen asleep for a number of years, defying all the efforts of the greatest heavy slumbers. One of the most re remarkable of these cases is that of Caroline Ollson, a native of the little island of Okuo, off the coast of Sweden, who fell asleep in 1875 and did not awake until 1907. The case was recently discussed by Dr. Froderstrom, of Paris who made a detailed examination of the case. It appears that for the first 11 years of her life Caroline Olison was in perfect health. Then she fell Ill and ultimately sank into a tance, from which no one could awaken her. Food was artificialy administered, and for years she exhibited no interest in any one or anything. Then she awoke, and the most careful eximination failed to reveal the slighest weakness or mental defect. Since she has en joyed exceptionally good -health. This seems to be the longest nap on record, although there have been several instances of sleeps lasting 20 years. Another case in which the sleeper regained normal health is that reported from Minnesota, where a German some time ago completed a sleep which, with the exception of a solitary week, continued for 23 years. He went to sleep quite natur ally one night, but the following morning remained in bed, and from that time for over a score of years he scarcely ever roused except for the purpose of -being fei with his diet, consisting of a little milk which was poured down his throat. Immediately this was done he was fast asleep again. Doctors utterly failed to ac count for this or to arouse him thor oughly, and not even electric shocks would awaken him. Ultimately he awoke of his own accord and re gained his lost strength. Equally remarkable was the case of Margaret Bonyenval, the "dor mouse -of Menelles," as she was known, who, after being in a tran& for 20 years died In 1903. In 1883, when 21 years ofta eshe became iunoufsexvu. as the result of a prac tical joke played upon her -by a friend and was never again aroused from ier comatose state. She was fed by a tube, and after a time became the most talked of woman on the conti nent. Medical celebrities from all ov er the world visited her, but failed to diagonose her particular case -or bring about any remedy. In another case a young woman who had been asleep for 17 years awoke suddenly at the sound of a bell which she im agined had 'been rung for breakfast. This calls to my mind the case of the woman in Belgium,-who after be ing asleep for 17 years, was aroused by the discordant ,bells ringing in consequence of an outbreak of fire. When she awoke she was in perfect normal condition in min'd and body, presented a heathly appearance, and remembered perfectly events which had taken place 17 years previously. From Spain come the story of the wife of a -farmer near Burgos, who was some time ago waked from a trance which had lasted thirty-one years. The case was under the close observation of medical experts during the whole of that time, and variotfs means were employed to restore her to conscious ness, but they failed Ultimately she distinctly incidents of her girlhood. regained her senses and remembered Philadelphia Ledger. Why They Want War. There is no demand from the American missionaries in Mexico, or the students or investigators over there from this country, for interven tion on the part of the United States. The Americans who want war with Mexico are for the most part in Mexi co with their money. They have agents in Mexico and employees in Mexico, but personally they are ab sent. When we hear of the fabulous value of Mexico's undeveloped re sources we should not forget that it is not necessarily gold or silver or copper or cattle or wool that Induces Americans to put their millions Into the industry of that country. It is men. It is men who will work for a pittance. There is not in all Mexico a richer undeveloped resource than its sturdy but Ignorant and often misguided men. These Americans are In Mexico, therefore, primarily because labor there is cheap, says the New York World. They knew, the risks they were taking when they made their investments. They knew that disor der prevailed and that life and prop erty were not secure. But they took the chance, because when too many revolutions were not in progress they could hire men to work for a few -en< a day. In this way we are to account for *nant of the big American ranches ni big American mining enterprises n Mexico. When peace prevails, the 'mportant ? merican capitalists who -wn these properties sometimes pro eed in state to their feudal domains, 'iut chiciy they are represented in peace and in war by superintendents tnd overseers, some of them natives. Pfo'e we talk seriously of war with Mexico we must be sure that \mericans have been wronged In that ountry because they are Americans. A war in behalf of Americans who re attempting by proxy to add to their wealth by peonage akin to slav or would not be highly popular even -tmong our professional lingoes. There was no fire hose in the burn d Binghamton, N. Y., factory, in which sixty young women operatives lost their lives. Nor was there any jail removal of waste. Both of these nmissiols were a violation of the law. Then, too, there was only one fire acane. No wonder that there wns rret loss of life in such a fire trip as It would be an outrage on jnst" iff rink. t~e superintendent of tha Slan pencil factory, charged with otraging and murdering a yo1n" rrl onerative of the faetory. suerooAs ' escnig the gallows hy festenmfl his iadial crime on an ig'norant nro empl"yee of the factory by a famp tin. This is what he seems to " tryins to do. p'~ jc; not :,nt. 1'~~ -t \T-r the represenltad'~ of the