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101 HANIS NERO TAES Eill FROE LANUNS JAIL TO IS DEATH ATTAGKED YOUNG LADY Iynchers Remain Deaf to Plea of Of gers of the Law and Batter Down Three Iron Doors, Securing Pris oner-Body, Riddled With Bul let, Hangs From Trestle. Richard Puckett, a negro about twenty-five years old, suspected of having attacked with criminal intent a young white woman while she was driving to Laurens Monday morning, was taken from the jail at Laurens about 10:30 o'clock Monday night and lynched by a determined mob of at least 2,000 men. The crowd carried out its purpose despite the pleadings of Sheriff John D. Owings and Solictor R. A. Cooper that the law be allowed to take its course, the solicitor proming a speedy trial for the negro at an extra term of court. For two hours before the lynching these officials talked to the efoyd In an effort to prevent the con summation of the latter's plans, but only deaf ears were turned to their entreaties. Pucketti.as taken to a point near the union depot, about three hun dred yards from the jail, swung from a crops beam of the railroad trestle and his body riddled with bullets. After taking the life of the prisoner the-mob, apparently satisfied, quietly dispersed, and half an hour after wards the only thing to indicate that s'tragedy had been enacted was the ifieless body of the negro swinging from the trestle. At one o'clock Tuesday morning it had not been re moved. Soon after Puckett's arrest on sus picion there were signs of Impending trouble, for which the sheriff prepar ed by swearing in a number of depu ties, about ten in all, to guard the Jail from the expected attack. The mob rapidly increased In numbers, and when It was decided to take the negro the officers were powerless to prevent. The mob first broke through an iron gate, thereby gaining entrance to the jail yard and sweeping the of feers aside. They then ascended a fight of stairs leading from the yard to the second floor of the Jail, where the negro was locked in a cell. Breaking through two steel door -and securing their prey was the work of but- a short time for the hundreds of lynchers, and soon be 'gan the march to the scene of the lynching. Although it is said that Puckett confessed his guilt in .the afternoon to. -Sheriff Owings, he denied all knowledge of the crime just before being sent into eternity. Puckett had been In trouble before, having served a term on the chain gang. SThe victim of the crime for which *the life of the negro was taken is a young widow of prominent family connections in this county. She is -about .thfrty years of age and has a son.abeut five. She was on her way to Laurens to see a sister,'who Is Ill at the hospital, when attacked. She 1sreported to be in a highly nervous state, due to fright, although hez condition is not serIous. Better Remedy for Malaria. Some sixteen years ago an arms doctor on duty In Cuba found out -that a pesky mosquito, biting frozn man to man, carried malaria as well as yellow fever that, as you put the anopheles insect out of business, you~ likewise~ reduced the liability tc "flush and shakes". What he didn't learn was what made the mischief in the skeeter's bite. Dr. Wade Brown. a University of North Carolina pro. fessor, has fIust uncovered that. It's a colored -poison called hemi tin. The little bug which the doctors -call the malaria germ, concocts that pigment somewhere in its minute sys tem and once it gets into the blood of a human being it quickly spreads throughout the body, producing the straw malarial tinge. Dr. Brown has also discovered a way to make this colored poison. He and numerous other researchers are now at work on mice and guinea pigs Inoculating them with hematin, pre. 1tminary to seeing whether they can't find a- dope that will take the place of quinine as a specific for malaria. Luckily the anopheles skeeter Isn't very common, and If you're careful to drain your swamps or keep them well coated with kerosene, the malarial germ won't have much of a show. But It would be fine to be able to take a swig from a little bottle con taining something not quite so bitter as quinine and bid the hematin distri butor to do Its worst. Three Japanese Killed. At Salem, Oregon, with their heads almost severed from their bodies, Koye Kowa and Mrs. Tami Koda and her child, all Japanese, were found murdered in an alley near a restau rant owned by the woman's husband, Y. Koda. Beside the bodies were found two bloody knives and a revol ver. Koda and a companion were arrested. Convict Drowns Himself. Surrounded by a sheriff's posse, John Balkan. a negro, who shot Dep uty Sheriff Matthis several weeks ago, drowned himself in Lake Jack son. Fla., rather than be- captured alive. His body was recovered later and showed that he had been wound ed three times. Chicken Alone Alive. With no life but a chicken aboard, the sponging steamer Mobile, picked up 100 .miles west of Tampa by the oil steamer Standard Saturday was towed Into Tampa Tuesday. There was no sign of Its crew, although when found the ship was under full sal Falls Asleep and Dies. James Coombs, twenty-six years old, engineer's helper in the electric light plant at Norfolk. Va., was elec trocuted Monday when he rolled from a bench on which he was sleep ing and fell on I Hv~e 'wire near thle .wltcbhaard. NEGRO KILLS HIS WIFE SLAYER THEN ESCAPES AND MANHUNT IS BEGUN. Georgetown Negro Shoots His Spouse When She Uefuses to Leave Georgetown With Him. Monday afternoon a negro laborer at the mills of the Atlantic Coast Lumber Corporation at Georgetown, by the name of Robert Richardson, drew his money at the pay office, stating he intended to leave for Al colu, his former home. Turning to his wife, a native of Georgetown, he called upon her to pack up and go with him on the next train. Upon her refusing to accompany him away from Georgetown, he drew a pistol and shot her twice at close range, one bullet taking effect in the back and the other enterng the ear and passing entirely through the head, causing instant death. Thereupon Richardson took flight for the woods, with several negro men in pursuit. Twice the pursuers were fired at by Richardson, but bravely' continued the chase until the woods were reached, when the fugitive disappear ed in the dense undergrowth. Word was at once sent to County Supervisor G. D. Anderson, who had gone to Sampit Bridge, where the chain gang is at work, to send the county blood hound, which arrived shortly thereafter in an automobile. The dog was put on the trail by Dep uty Sheriff Prevatt. The negro was tracked through the swamps and marshes for a considerable distance. until he came to the creek, when all signs of him disappeared. The negro population was much moved by the occurrence, and a mob gathered at the scene of the tragedy, women and men calling for ven geance against the perpetrator. Ev ery effort Is being made to capture Richardson. Face to Face. Sad mortal, couldst thou but know What truly it means to die, The wings of thy soul would glow, And the hopes of thy heart beat high; Thou would turn from the Pyrrhon ist schools, And laugh their jargon to scorn, As the babble of midnight fools Ere the morning of Truth be born: But I, earth's madness above, In a kingdom of stormless breath I gaze on the glory of love In the unveiled face of Death. I tell thee his face Is fair As the moon-bow's amber rings, And the gleam in his unbound hair Like the flush of a thousand springs: His face is the fathomless beam Of the star-shine's sacred light, When the summers of Southland dream In the lap of holy night; For IL earth's blindness above, In a kingdom of halycon breath I gaze on the marvel of love In the unveiled face of Death. In his eyes a lieaven there dwells, -But they hold few mysteries now, And his pity for earth's farewells Half- furrows that shining brow; Souls taken from Time's cold tide He folds to his fostering Lbreast. And the tears of their grief are dried Ere they enter the courts of rest; And still, earth's madness above, In a kingdom of stormless breath, I gaze on alight that Is love In the unveiled face of Death. Through the splendor of stars im pearled In the glow of their far-off grace, He Is soaring world by world With souls in his strong embrace; Lone ethers unstirred by a wind At the passage of Death grow sweet, With the fragrance that floats behind The flash of his winged retreat; And I, earth's madness above, 'Mid a kingdom of tranquil breath, Have gazed on a luster of lovre In the unveiled face of Death. But beyond the stars and the sun, I can follow him still on his way, Till the pearl-white gates are won In the calm of the c. tral day. Far voices of fond ac .aim Thrill down from the place of souls As Death, with a touch like flame, Uncloses the goal of goals; And from heaven of heavens above, God speaketh with bateless breath: My angel of perfect love Is the angel men call Death. -Paul Hamilton Hayne. Colored Man Touched a Live Wire With Piece of Iron. At Greenwood George Davis, color ed, was instantly killed Thursday at the power house when he touched a live wire carrying 23,000 volts. The negro was in the small brick trans former house, where the heavy volt age from the Savannah River plant is reduced to the voltage used on the Greenwood transmission wires. He started to show Engineer Deadwyler, who was with him, a place where the heavy wires had an uninsulated spot, and in doing so he pointed to the place with a piece of wire which he held In his hand. Without knowing It, he touched another unin'sulated place on the wire and was instantly killed. Death Caused by Shock. Howard Dili, aged twenty-two, was shocked to death Friday after noon and his lifeless body hung from an arm of the power company's tow er for an hour in sight of his seven teen-year-old bride of one week, near Coldwater, Ala. Dill climbed the tower to cut off the power and it was turned on again while he was on top. Cloudburst Causes Damage. Damage estimated at $100.000 was caused by a cloudburst in Colo rado Monday. of which Colorado city bore the brunt. Crops were badly damad. county rounds were so bad y washed that they will require thousands of dollars to repair and Iat least fifty families were rendered homeless by the flood. There is a very big difference be tween this Democratic Administra tin and the 1int ne. A WONDERFUL PROCESS dAN SAYS HE CAN ARTIFICIALLY IATURE COTTON. 5ubjects Green Bolls to Chemical I Treatment and In Few Hours Cot ton is Fully Developed. Every now and then the world is urprised by the perfection of some great invention, but we feel sure that sone has been more wonderful than ,ne claimed by Prof. John B. Hall, e 3f Philadelphia, in a talk at Barn- C well. He came to Barnwell, referred to Col. Harry D. Calhoun, by Com missioner E. J. Watson, in order to try bolls for experimental purposes it his station in Pennsylvania. We :opy the following from The Barn well People of Thursday in regard to bis visit to that city: That with a new process that he bas only recently perfected he can lo in two hours what it takes Nature weeks to accomplish and do it better At that, was the assertion made by Iohn B. Hall, of Philadelphia, to a umber of planters and representa tive business men in the directors' room of the Home >8ank of Barnwell Friday evening. For an hour or more Mr. Hall told of the results that tave been accomplished and it was like listening to a fairy tale, wherein the good fairy waves her magic wand and unheard of things happen. But that he was in earnest no one doubt ed. He was not trying to sell any thing; he had no apparent rason to wish to humbug any one ;as not asking for something foe- . thing n the contrary, he paid and was willing to pay well for what he want ed; I. e., green bolls of cotton. He bought several hundred pounds of short and long staple cotton bolls at from five to seven and a half cents a pound, depending on the variety of the cotton, and In addition made ar rangements for the purchase of sev eral thousand pounds more to, be shipped to Philadelphia, where the experiments are being carried on at a government station. Mr. Hall exhibited a number of open bolls of cotton which he said were matured by his process. One of them was partly rotted, while an other had been punctured by the boll I weevil In several places. Yet they I had opened and .by dyeing the staple J a part of It can be used. The boll I weevil has cost the farmers of the i southwest millions of dollars by de stroying the .bolls before they have i reached maturity. Mr. Hall claims i that with his process the boll weevil I will be starved out. At present the experiments are be ing carried on secretly as letters patent have not yet been secured, but the method of procedure Is as fol lows: Instead of waiting until the bolls have fully opened and the cot ton is damaged by the weather, the green bolls are picked "like roses". It doesn't matter if they are one, two, three, four or five weeks fromi maturity. They are then poured Into an Immense hopper and pass into the machine where the maturing process Is done. Then the seed cotton Is separated from the .boil and Is car ried to the gin. But what is just as wonderful is that Mr. Hall states that the by-pro ducts that can be made from bolls and stalks are as valuable as .the cot-1 ton itself. Ele stated that an excel-1 lent grade of rubber, paper pulp and gunpowder are among the by-pro ducts. Now, If he can "make good" on hisI claims he is perhaps the most won derful man of the age. Think a min ute what it would mean. A saving: of waste by eliminating immature or frost-bitten bolls and of the cotton that is blown off by the wind after maturity. The saving of labor, for, by picking the whole bill from the plant one workman could do the work of several. It now costs some thing like $100,000,000 a year to gather the cotton crop of the South and by cutting this In half there would be a saving of .$50,000,000 yearly. -= It is claimed that the plants could be placed closer together and more grown to the acre than is now the case, and that the farmers would be more careful in their seed selection. Now as to the texture of the staple that ih 'rtificially matured: Mr. Hall claims that it is far superior to the same grade of cotton naturally ma tured "because cotton as matured now on the field while waiting to be picked, Is subjected to the dews or chill of the night followed by the heat of the sun next day or possibly some days of rain or climatic condi tions of some kind, together with the dirt or dust blown on the cotton. The gloss on the artificially matured cot ton would be of a brilliancy and whiteness, free from all weather stains, far superior to that possible on any cotton naturally matured and exposed to deteriorating weather con ditions. The fi.bre also would cer tainly be much stronger for the same reason." It is pointed out that by1 picking the bolls three weeks or a month before maturity the strength of the plant would would be increas ed and the remaining bolls would grow larger from the increased sub-1 stance they would obtain from the plant, and in addition the bolls would be saved from the weather and Insect pests. The use of this process would also result in the saving of the top crop, which is so often killed by frost. The time consumed in maturing byt the Hill process Is said to be very 1 short, ranging from two to three1 hours. It is estimated that one man< can mature from six to ton bales a day, according to the size of the ma- 1 chine. "England expects every man to do I his duty," said Lord Nelson as the Brittish fleet was about to encounter the French fleet at Trafalgar. This1 is what the good women of Orange burg County are silently, but pray fully, saying to the men of Orange- I burg County: "The mothers, wives< and sisters expect you to do your 1 duty on Tuesday." Oh, men, shall < we fail these guardian angels of our i homes? About the worst liar known is the man who sits in the grand stand and says he doesn't care whether the] home team wins or not, just so the I game Is played well, says th.e Chatta- I WIFE SLAYS HUSBAND [OTHER OF NINE KILLS HDM ID SELF-DEFENCE. Eerself Dangerously Wounded Sh says He Beat Her and Stabbed He: in Chest. Using the pistol with which he usband, Henry Clay Grubb, killei .er brother, Obadiah Davis, eigh ears ago, Mrs. Grubb shot and kill d Grubb early Saturday at the hom f the couple, six miles fron Salis ury, N. C. He was worth $500,00 nd had had many strange adven res. The woman has not been arrested he was dangerously wounded i 7hat she says was an encounter forc d on her by her husband. Accord ng to her story he returned home runk, soon after midnight, beat hei lipped off a piece of her ear an tabbed her in the chest. To save her own life, she allegei he drew the pistol that had ende ter brother's life and with it ende hat of her brother's slayer. He tory is, the police state, partly coi oborated by the stories of her chl iren, of whom there are nine. Grubb was forty years old and ur il North Carolina went dry, was istiller there. Then he moved hi >usiness to Florida and Virginia. H mas the leader in many fights I oone Township, the last "feudal ownship in interior North Carolini -e was acquitted of blame in th lling of his wife's brother. It wa L duel. On the-way home, just afte )avis died, Grubb was, shdt by tw Legroes and was almost killed. Then his home was burned. H >nce fought a street duel at Salii >ury with Jim Green. He also ha Lttacked Assistant Superintendent c ublic Instruction when the lattE vas making a public address. Grub ras the wealthiest man in Davidso ounty. FARMER ROUTS BANDIT. )rives Automobile Over Man Wh Tried to Hold Him Uu. The State Chester corresponder ays W. B. Ferguson, a well know >anter of that county, while motoi ng home in his touring car nea xreat Falls Wednesday, was al >roached by two highwaymen. B ilowed his car down a little, but th nen ordered him to stop. At first b -efused. To stop a fusillade of whii cey and ginger ale bottles that wei lying at him from the two men, b as forced to stop. As he did so oz > the highwaymen walked in fror >f the car and pointed a revolver I is face and told him that if he dare ,o run his car another foot he woul ill him. Apparently the highwayman b4 leved that he had Mr. Ferguson no mnder control. After a slight lull I he man's speech, with lightning-lih uickness Mr. Ferguson threw on a ;he speed his high powered car coul :ommand and in a second the higi rayman had been hurled to tlh ~round and run over by the car. H onfederate escaped to the wooc iearby. Realizing that the highiwayma was hurt, Mr. Ferguson ran his cs >ack to him, where he was found I e in a serious condition. A phys ian was summoned and it was foun hat three of his ribs were broke mnd that he had received sevei :ruises. He is still seriously ill. H amie has not yet been ascertainei [f he recovers he will be carried I LIND LANDS SAFELY. To Opposition is Met by Wilson Special Messenger. Not the slightest opposition wi lanned by the port authorities vera Cruz to the landing of Joh ind, who was expected to arrive a oard the battleship New Hampshi2 tout noon Tuesday. Awaiting Mr. Lind's arrival wer he American Consul, Win. W. Cai da, and Dr. William Bayard Hali ersonal representative of Presider ilson. Mr. Lind proceeded casuall o Mexico City, and there his recej ion was uneventful. The attitude of the authorities aken generally as a reflection< hat may be expected at the Mexica ~apital. They regard Mr. Lind sin >ly as a private traveler. The publi liscusses his coming languidly wit uo indication of resentment. BEATS TRAIN IN A RACE, viator Gets From New York I Washington First. C. Mirvin Wood, the America viator, who Friday attempted ton-stop race in his monoplane wit train from New York to Washing on, and thence to Fort Myer, Va or exhibition flights, reached hi estination late Friday afternoon a: er he had ben compelled to interrul ls flight on a farm near Gaither! >urg, Md., sixteen miles from Wasi ngton. Wood won his race with th rain, making the landing at Gaiti !rsburg at one minute after nin 'clock, forty minutes before th rain rolled into the union station. Muhall is a self-confessed corrur inist, as Senator Townsend claima >ut we fail to see how that helps th lepublican manufacturers who c< iperated with him in corruption tha hey might profit by it. and who a nembers of a great party devoted t *ome of the forms of corruption con >ained of, made jobbery and priv ego respectable for many a year." The Greenville News says "Mrl ish 'gave a ball at Newport. Iti aid that he gems worn by the guest ere worth approxin atel y twel v nillion dollars. And'in the tenemnent f New York. and all over the Ian' eople are living in abject poverta yen starving." These are the cond ions that brought on the Frenc levolution. We tremble when we think c chat might be the conseqluencesi oosevelt was President. This eour ry would be at war with Mexico no f he was at the head of the natlox At s be thankfnl inr Wilson. LOOKS LIKE MURDER I BODY OF COLLETON MAN FOUN] WITH HOLE IN HEAD. 3 Discovered In Swamp by Searcher After Failure to Return Home Man in Jail on Suspicion. What may prove to be a sensi I tional and horrible murder wE t brought to light late Sunday aftei - noon, when the body of Aquil Blocker, a young man of twenty-o - years, was found in a small swami about six miles from Walterbor - with a gunshot wound in his hea I. M. Lemacks, another young ma of the same community, has bee i committed to jail charged with tl - supposed crime. - Blocker left home on Saturday, is said, with a considerable sum money to purchase cattle. He d I not return that night, but his pe ple were not alarmed until his mu and dog returned on Sunday mor I ing. I A search was Immediately institu r ed. A lady in the community, it - said, remembered seeing Lemacl - and Blocker enter a small swan nearby and later heard a gun fir - which, at the time, she paid no attei a tion to. s 'The searchers, hearing this alle e ed statement, entered the swamp at a found the body of Blocker, with hole through his head. It was al . brought out at the inquest that L e macks was seen to enter the swan s again on Sunday morning. r Lemacks, on Sunday, had join( a the search, had visited at the hon of Blocker's parents, and was pre e ent and testified at the coroner's i: i- quest held late Sunday night. TI I verdict of the jury at the inquest w f that iBlocker had come to his dea1 r by gunshot wounds at the hand of b M. Lemacks, whereupon Lemacks, a an early 'hour Monday morning, wi lodged in jail at Walterboro. Both young men are well knov throughout the country, and bo have large numbers of friends. Help the State Fair. As we see the matter the Sta t Fair is one of our most important I stitutions, and all the countics the State ought to do all they can r make it a grand success. The. Sta Fair is a valuable educational agen, along all lines of agricultural and i e dustrial advancement and the peol e of the State should take advantal e of it as such. It is not an enterpri of Columbia but .belongs to the whn e State, and the whole Stata shou e give it cordial and substantial e t couragement and support. To encourage the different counti d to take more interest in the Sta d Fair the management has offer valuable prizes for county exhibil This should stimulate a healthy ri alry among the several counties, ai a help make the State Fair this fall t] best and most complete ever hel 11 The different counties should p dtheir best foot foremost and let t) outside world know what they can in the way of raising crops and stoi eof all kinds. Such exhibits would sthe respective counties a great de .smore good than they would the Sta Fair. "' In many County Fairs that ha r been inaugurated in the State shou 0 not be conducted on an antagonisi Lbasis to the State Fair, but as au d iliaries to it. There should be no a Stagonism on the part of the manai e ment of any County F'air to the Sta a Fair. Greater success for the Sta - Fair means greater success for eve 0County Fair held in the State. Bo State and County Fairs are valuat as ed'ucators to all our people, al both should be encouraged and hel ed as much as possible by all tl *s people. No observant man, it makes no d ference what his calling may be, ev attended a State or County Fair wl sdid not come away -benefitted by t: tmany thngs he saw there. The too, mixing up with and coming contact with other people .broadens eman out and makes him a better ai emore public spirited citizen in eve eway. For this reason, all who ci should avail themselves of the educ tional advantages offered by tl tState and County Fairs by attendii them and investigating the ne things they come in contact wi there. s The farmers are the backbone the State, and for the benefit themselves as well as for the bene of the State, they should keep abrea of the times in all things that ten to increase the productiveness their farms and make their burde: lighter. This they can do by atten ing the State and County Fairs a: exchanging views and methods wi o farmers from all over the State. this way new ideas and plans may1 learned that would be of inestimab value, not only to themselves, but a their respective communities. In t multitude of counsel there is wi dom. The farmers should not' onlya tend the State and County Fairs, b they should make exhibits at the t and thus give others the benefit their ideas and methods. The W! liamson plan of raising corn has bet lof great benefit to the farmers of t -State, but if Mr. Williamson had n generously let others know of it1 publishing his formula and his ext rience very few farmers would ha been benefitted by it. So all oth farmers who may have somethi: that may benefit other farmers shou let it be known. t He Shot Quick. s Dr. W. J. Cioniz, a prominent ph sician of Alexander, N. C.. wats sh - and almost instantly killed there la .Monday, by 0. M. West, a rural m: carrier. The tragedy occurred front of the post offce. where Wes ,it is said, met Clontz and began fi s ing after saying: "I hear you a s going to kill me; throw up yo e hands." t nder the Wcbb law pa 'd1 ,Congress Renxth Crolina ean l'1 . the shipment of liquor into dry a ties. When this is dohno. neithor il railroads or the express compani: will handle liinors intend'l for po f pe in dry counties for the 5 impie r~ f son that a heavy penivty attaches - them for doin~r so. That means pr ibition. as soon ea the T.rori~latu passes the proper law, V'hi - it v ~neit Tanmmey.. TELLS SORID TALE t - , tr D oh -4 REPRESENTATIVE WDERMOTT IS oc THE CHIEF FIGURE b Ia lai cr fa HE TOOK MUCH MONEY ' h al W LS House Lobby Committee Startled by th Disclosures Made in Testimony of m e J. H. McMichaels, Dismissed Page, th iho Says Representative From Illinois Threw Him Down. at n nc Dn In a dramatic statement, J. H. Mc- ta Le Michaels, dismissed chief page of the a House of Repreisentatives, Saturday er it night presentedpto the House lobby or f investigating committee a sweeping al d charge of corruption against Repre- cc sentative James- E. McDermott, of Il- fo le linois, for years his sponsor. With k( 1- intense earnestness McMichaels, in tj picturesque language, corroborated t- the allegations of M. M. Mulhall p] is against McDermott and made addi- ti, :s tional charges, at times shocking the sc p committee and spectators with out- ti, e, bursts of profanity and slang. in - The witness declared that for years u: he had exerted every effort to-support tr - McDermott, had loaned him money, al d had helped him in his campaigns. t, a Now, he said, McDermott had h, 0 "thrown him down" and he felt he ir e- must tell the truth. b kp In addition to the charges already ti made, McMichaels swore that the Chi- c< d cago Representative told him that he it e received $7,500 out of a fund of $10,- c s- 000 raised by the pawnbrokers of tj c1- Washington to oppose a bill possed in e the last Cor gress regulating interest p] ts rates in the District of Columbia. Iii t! Lh this connection McMichaels told of a E I trip to New York, when McDermott ti at conferred with a member of an asso- a, as ciation of brewers, and with George sa H. Horning, a local pawnbroker. ti 11 Concluding his testimony McMi- a th chaels testified that Congressman Mc- di Dermott since the Mulh.all expose, p, had endeavored to get him to conceal S McDermott's alleged part in the p: te transaction. el n- "I met McDermott in the hall of in this office building," said McMichaels, to his voice unsteady with emotion, L3 "and he said, 'My God, I am a ruined a y man. What am I going to do? Do p 3- you suppose anybody will believe this B le old guy?' I said to him, 'I've worked a, ;e hard for you for six years, harder c se than I ever worked for any man. I a le tried to elevate you and help you to d a big position.' I told him I had f4 a- done all I could for him. He said, 0 'You've got nothing to lose, you don't b es live with your wife. I'm a Congress- c :e man and I've got a wife and children. y d Say you wrote these letters unbe- p s. known to me and that I didn't know v- anything about it. Even if they G id prove that you committed perjury d Ae and forgery they can only send you I d. down the river to the ark for two b ut years and I'll pay you $100 a month - e while you are there.' ti 1o "I said to him, 'yes, you're willing n k to pay me $100 a month to go to jail b lo for you, but you won't pay me the al wages you honestly owe me. I've got g te eleven dollars in my pocket, that's all 11 I've got to show for six years' work, 13 e but I won't do this for you."b d Apparently struggling to control c :ic himself, McMichaels told the com- li - mittee of furnishing $75 to take Mul- p - hall to Chicago to aid McDermott in d :e- the 1912 campaign. f: te "Where did you get that money?" b te asked Representative Garrett. .. ry "My mother had just died," said tl h McMichaels. "and I was executor for le my mother's will. The money was in n d a bank here to the credit of the es- h p- tate and I gave Mulhall a check for it. a e I had to hustle to put it back. I ti never got any of it from McDermott." tl If- McMichaels told at length of mak er ing trips to various pawnbrokers in c io Washington to secure money either ie for McDermott or hImself-.s n, "McDermott told me," he said, n "that the pawnbrokers had raised 1, a $10,000 to fight the loan shark bill ri d and later he told me he got $7,000 y out of It. When I asked him why he u .n didn't pay me what he owed me with a a- a part of it, he said, 'My God, man, I s e had to pay it on debts and I still owe t1 g $9,000.'"p w The witness said that he, McDer- h th mott and Mulhall, after conferring at i, the Capitol, would adjourn to a din- E of ing room in a small hotel, near the h f Capitol, for "extended sessions". He s: fit described the room provided in the y, st Capitol for the conferences asaa ds "good place to sleep off drunks". ti f "How would you or McDermott g s know about the other having money d- after these conferences?" said Chair- b d man Garrett.a h "We'd just smile at each other." In he said. "Both of us was careful not be to let the other know about how I le much money we had. If Mulhall t< to gave me two bills I'd hide the larger r, e one and flash - the smaller one, be - cause every time I flashed anything b over two dollars he copped half of it. tHe would go to the cashier and give t< Ut him his money and draw two dollars r and come back to where I was. He'd of say to the cashier. 'For God's sake a l don't lot Mac see this.' We were t' n both doing this." d e Attempts by Mulhall to dispose of a a~ collection of ailldavits, ul.ich, Mc- ci SMichaels said showed that Burns' de- a tectives had committed perjury in a tl counte rfeiting case, were detailed at tl length. After Mulhall had left the gNational Association of Manufactur ld ers, the witness said, these affidavits tl were offered to the corps of attorneys c: dfendinz former Senator Lorimer in il he Senate for the purpose of discred- si y- iting tie evidence of Burns' detec- a: t tives. Later, he added, he and Mul- tl to hall tried to get McDermott to turn ir i over the affidarits and other docu- n in ments in Mulhall-s possession, includl- d - ing th~e correspondlence recently made d rpublic, to a committee of the House. nr e to Samuel Gompers, president of the s: ir Aericani Federation of Labor, and p io Clarence Darrow, defending the( MNamara brothers in the dynamit ying cases on the Pacific coast. e< t McMichacls told of a conference V - early in 1912. at a saloon near the Tf Ca'pitol. when he said he. McDermott e1 as and Mu!hall drew up a resolution pro- n o- vidina for t1iiiiblication of the Mul- e< - Uil c.'rrespondence anid documents. R~ o IT said that Mc~Derm"!, agreed to ci .. ~e Sneaiker Clark. Ma iority Leadrir e i-'rwood and Republican Leader 1 nn, and if they were favorably in-w ine to indue the mninrinin in hi Money to Move Crops. For the first time in the history of e United States Government the easury department recognizes its ligation to the agricultural inter ts. The determination of the Dem- B ratic Administration to let the nkers of the South and West have rge sums of money to move the ops will be of great benefit to the rmer and all others in these sec mns. This is in direct contrast to e policy .of the Republicans. They ways loaned the public money to all Street Instead of lending it to S e banks in the South and West to 3ve the crops. This means a great easing up in e financial situation. It means that oducers, dealers, millers and ex rters of grain and cotton will be le to sell and handle the new crops ow being harvested to better advan ge than for many years. It means greater demand for what the farm has to sell, and plenty of money credit with which buyers may be . >le to promptly pay for grain and 14 tton. It means easier conditions a r farmers throughout the crop mar ting months during the balance of e year. It may not mean higher prices to -oducers or consumers, but this ac on of the treasury department will facilitate all legitimate transac ns in buying and moving, market .g and moving, marketing and man acturing grain and cotton as to emendously benefit all the people well as farmers, bankers and the . -ade. This new action also will C ve an important effect in encourag g the progress of currency and mnking reform. For the first time e United States recognizes prime mmercial paper, at 65 per cent. of s par valua, as the basis of current edit or advances of money from the easury. This is a recognition of the princi e of credit currency, in contradis nction to a bond subject currency. very student of the subject knows at when Congress finally enacts an requate banking law which shall fely provide for a credit currency, is country will be almost insured rainst panics and will leap into a minating position as the financial ower of the world. Orange Judd outhern Farming says that every rinciple of sound banking is observ I in this transaction. "Please Send Us Daddy." "Governor, please send us daddy," ,rote the two little tots of David A. :inard, of Bamberg, to Governor lease Monday morning in a letter companying their photographs. 'ne was a- little girl two years old ad a little boy four years of age. "Daddy" was In the penitentiary r ten years for killing another mill perative, William Marvin in .Bam erg last spring. The governor ac ded to the request of the children, ad sent "daddy" back home with a arole in his pocket. This would have been all right if overnor Blease could send the dad y of the little children of William [arvin, who was killed by Kinard, ack, but he can't do that, and they ill have to suffer on and shift for emselves. Why should not the tan who took their daddy from them e punished? Why should he -be turned loose to o and kill the daddy of some other ttle children possibly because his ttle children wanted their daddy ack? -Kinard ought to have thoughtr f ihow he would be missed by his ttle tots when he was about to de rive the little tots of Marvin of their addy by sending him into eternity,t oro whence he can not be called ack. ae House. "Three days later," said the wit ess, "MoDermott told Mulhall that e had seen the leaders and that they dvised against the introduction of ae resolution. McDermott lied about tat. He hadn't seen the leaders." "How do you know he lied?" asked hairman Garrett. "Why he'd rather lie than eat," aid McMichaels. The chairman had some difficulty i restoring order in the committee oom after'this outburst. From the. fall of 1909 until Jan ary, 1912, McMichaels said he was imost constantly oa the pay-roll of accessively Democratic chief page of ae House, attendant in the House ress gallery and elevator conductor the Capitol. He told of introduc ig Mulhall to Representative James |.McDermott, of Illinois, for whom e worked as a kind of secretary, and aid that McDermott worked with1 [ulall and provided the latter with roo min the basement of the Capi ,1, where McDermott, McMichaelst nd Mulhall conferred. "Did you ever see any money pass etween Mulhall and McDermott?" sked Chairmana Garrett. "I never saw any money actusly ass between them," sai-d the witness, saning back in his chair and pausing >purr at his cigarette. "But I hadt eason to .believe that plenty of it was assing. I got mine open and above' oard." "Why do you say you had reason >believe money was passing?" The witness leaned forward and!i ounded on the committee table: "I m not a fool." he continued. "Whent svo guys like me and McDermott sit own to a table and the two of ust in't got a penny, and a thirdgu ames in and we have eats and drinks nd get up with the dough. I know j. -iat dough don't grow on trees, or on 1e tables." All the trouble that has come to e Wilson Administration has been used by Republican holdovers in nportant offices from which they iould have been removed months iro. The stand-pat Republicans that ie Democratic Administration found! I many important offices will miss o opportunity to embarrass Presi ent Wilson in the discharge of his uties. Every one of them should he ade to walk the plank and men in rmpathy with the AdministrationI ut n their places. President Wilson has at last been >mpelled to repu-liate Henry Lanet ilson. late ambassador to Mexico.' the President had put a good Dam- i 'rar in Wilson's pla ce severalt onths ago he would have been spar the embarrassment this hold-over h pulic'an has caused him by criti-r sing a friendly power. The man who eaves'arops will bear \ atching, as an honest man would Irdl tnon to snch a 1emr nlane L UMIAR WliAEB ------ f VOTE Of 79 TO 45 AFTIR AN ALL NlliT SESSION (IFE TAKES ALL BLAME ble Confesses That She Used Part of His Campaign Funds Without His Knowledge, but Her Eleventh Hour Statement Failed to Halt the Impeachment Proceedings. Governor William Sulzer was Im eached at 5:16 o'clock Wednesday torning by the democratic majority i the assembly of the New York leg lature at Albany. The vote, 79 to 5, came after ai all-night session nd after the governor's wife had iade an eleventh hour effort to save im at the risk of bacrificing her own ep.utation. After marking time all day Tues ay in order to allow absent mem ers time to arrive in Albany so a to have enough votes to carry the npeachment resolution the New 'ork legislature went into session at levent o'clock Tuesday night. The first roll call indicated that he organization had the votes to arry out its program to impeach the overnor before ad!ournment. One undred and twenty-two - members nswered to their names as follows: )emocrats, 85; Republicans, 35; rogressives, 2. Of the 85 Demo rats, the majority leader was confi .ent that 78-two more than a bare iajority-would vote for the im 'eachment resolution. On Tuesday afternoon fearing im ieachment proceedings against her usband Mrs. Sulzer told Senator almer that she had dabbled in tocks with the campaign money, but hat. the governor knew nothing of ter dealings on the Exchange until he Frawley committee began its.in restigation. When he first heard the evelations, his friends said, he re used to believe, but ridiculed them Ls a hoax and branded them as an at empt to secure his resigiation. L. *er, when it was seen that the rawley committee was iv earnest in ts investigation, Mrs. Sulzer, it is leclared, told the governor of her ac ions -and volunteered todmake a pub ic statement detailing them. This, t is said, Governor Sulzer refused to >ermit. When the testimony con :erning. the Wall street transactions, vas brought out, Mrs. Sulzer again nsisted, according to the story, that ihe tell all and save .her husband. Governor Sulzer consented to per nit Mrs.. Sulzer's declaration to be :ome public late Tuesday night, only hen he found that he could not pre rent it and that it lived as a rumor n the lips of every member of the semply. At one o'clock Monday morning overnor Sulzer, of New York, who aces impeachment on a charge of s ng campaign contributions contrary o law, and who is also charged with iavng sworn incorrectly to his ex >ense account, gave out the follow ng statement: "In view of the fact that the Fraw ey committee is about to make its -eport of the investigation it has been naking, I am advised that it would >e unwise for me at this time to nake any detailed statement in reply o the matters that had been brought o the attention of that committee, ~ut having promised that I would fur ish the press a statement, in fulfill nent of that promise I make the fol owing brief reply to the matters that am informed had been brought be ore such committee. "I -deny that I used any campaign ontributions for personal use. "I deny that I speculated in Wall treet or used money contributed for ampaign purposes to buy stock eith r in my own naie or otherwise. "I never had an account with Ful er & Gray or 'Boyer & Griswold. I iever hearo. of these firms, do not now the members, and knew noth ng about the transactions with these irms testified to before the Frawley :ommittee until recently threatened with exposure, and the alleged trans tctions were brought to my attention y the Frawley committee. "The stock matter with Harris and uller was not a speculative account >r matter, but a loan made upon stock collateral, which stocks had een acquired and paid for years be ore my nomination for the office of lovernor, and from other sources han Harris and Fuller. "Certain checks given to me for ampaign purposes were deposited to ny personal account, and thereafter paid the amount of said checks to ny campaign committee. "In filing my statement of receipts od disbursements with the Secre ary of State I relied on information urnshed me by the persons in im nediate charge of my campaign, and n whom I had and have the most mplicit confidence, and I believe the tatement furnished by them to me o be accurate and true." Since his occupancy -f the Execu le office Governor Sulzer has de lred he has been subjected to con inual espionage. Spies invaded his ~ousehold in New York before his nauguration, friends declared, and ollowed him to Albany. Many private documents belonging oth to the Governor and to Mrs. ulzer, have disappeared. Speaking of the Mexican situation he Houston Post says: "Let states nen talk now and fools keep in the ackground. Fools may get a chance o show their bravery later on." The n#n who go to the front are not ools, but patriots, it makes no dif erence what sort of a pretext their ountry may be plunged in war. As - . eeneral thing the statesmen who iring on war stay in bomb proofs hile It goes on. The Philadelphia Press is impa lent. "It might help some," it says, if those Democrats down at Wash ngton would let us know just when hey will reduce the cost of living, as roised." The Press must remem er that it will take some time to get d of the laws passed by its party :hieh increased the cost of living, as e now have It. It looks as if Wall Street has hetn