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. "jffllTV ! 'B 9 9RK / AWFUL CRMiir S?w Vile British Fiend Assaults and Murders a Little Child. FOUGHT DESPERATELY Th?-Maltreated Ilody or a Ten Year Old tilci. Missing Since W'ednes* <t*y, Discovered in New Jersey Woods on Last Sunday Afternoon by Chance. The horribly maltreated body of little Mario Smith, a school girl of ten years, who had been missing since wcanefiaay last, was found at dust Sunday In a clump of woods not far from her home, at Asbury Park, N. J. Some InsJLinct. Boomed to warn her mother of how the search had end ?d, for. although an effort was made to shield her from the truth, she rushed from the house and looked Into the full horror of the fact hefore ehe could bo withheld. (Half fainting, half In convulsions, she was carried into the houRe, and there is grave fears that she will die and with her the life she was soon to have brought Into the world. Chance discovered the body as chance had hidden It. There seemed to have been no effort at concealment. The wind had strewn fallen leaves upon the body and their co'or so matched the brown of the child's dress and her brown hair, that .as she lay face downward she was nearly indistinguishable from her shroud. Searchers had passed again and again within twenty feet of her In full daylight, during the past severa days, and It was only a random glance, shrewder than the rest, that happened to rest on her with discerning vision. Thomas Williams, known in the neighborhood as Black Dl&nioud, a negro wood chopper, employed bv the girl's aunt, had been missing since the same day on which Marie disappeared. A warrant was issued for - him and an alarm for his capture eent out broadcast throughout the country. His axe was found near ihe body. It did not require an autopsy to show criminal assault. The child was small for hor years, and not strong, but she had fouyht to utter exbut she had fought to utter exhaustion. The broken Istlcks and trampled ground around her showed that, as did her injuries. Her gray skating cap and the blue blhbon she wore in her hair had been tied tight about her throat, but she had also been beaten on the forehe?d with Rome blunt instrument and the leaves under her face were frozen together with her blood. In the struggle she had been grasped by the hand with such force that a gold ring she wore had been flattened Into the flesh. Her arms were badly scratched and thero wsh a wound in the cartilage of her nose, which surgeons say muBt have been caused by human teeth, shut down on it to cut off her breath. Marie Smith was laRt Been at 11 o'clock "A'ednesday morning on her way to scnooi, two blocks from hohomo. The spot where her body w >s found is off her path and either she must have been enticed into the woods, or picked up and carried bodily. As a result of the arrest warning sent out Williams was arrested in Jils room. The police went there to search for evidence and found their man Instead. Williams admitted that he had not left the room since last Thursday, and the appearance of the room bore him out. His suspenders were stained with what looked like blood, and a towel was found, on which bloody hands seemed to have been wiped. When placed under arrest the negro was in pitiable terror, and would neither admit nor deny the crime with which he Is charged. He was taken quietly to Jail, and there was no attempt at lynching, though sen1 linent ran high against him. Twety-One Drowned. Twenty-one persons were drowned in the wreck of two Ashing vessols during a severe storm 'n the English channel Friday. One of the crafts collided with a coast steamer. Two other fishing vessels foundered and It Is feared that their crew? were lost. A boat occupied by four custom agents Is missing (iiiaril tlie Jail. At Augusta. Cla., T. William Murray, who killed Thos. Mitchell, a young white man Saturday night, was captured Sunday. Tho police feared trouble and made hasty preparations to prevent his being lynched.. At midnight it was announced by the police that danger of a lynching was over. Wanted a Home. (At New York Peter I.illiJIhn, who wrote a threatening letter .o John D. Rockefeller demanding $50,000 was held in $1,000 ball for the grand Jury. Tho prisoner said ho wrote the letter because he had no home and wanted to bo arrested that he might have shelter. ^'1 TILLMAN PLEASED I. 8AYS THE FROPLK OUGHT TO HAVK DONE IT LAST TIME. Thinkii It Is Mors Than a Strp at Teddy, Whose Pernicious Activities Didn't Have the Uight Effect. The Chronicle says Senator Benjamin Tillman, of South Carolina, was In Augusta "Friday on business, and while there he talked with a representative of The Chronicle on the recent Democratic victory. The senator was particularly mild in speaking of Theodore Rooseveit. ! whom he has dubbed "the greate3t iamr on eariu, nui me very quietness of his voice lent additional scorn and contempt for the ex-preaident. Senator Tillman wbb asked for an expression of the Democratic victory, and what he thought of "the slap in the face to Mr. Roosevelt.". "It was more than a sTap In the face." said the senator. "The recent victory of the Democratic party is evidence of returning 3ense on the part of the people, in a realization of that change particularly needed now, If we expect a good government, and God knows it's bad enough. The corruptions that are entering Into It now ought to make a good patriot tired. "As to the causes of the election. The tariff had somethlug to do with it. The pernicious activities of T. R. didn't have the effect he desired, but Just the revrse. The tariff, of course, cut some figure, as shown by the election of Foss In Massachusetts anci the congressman In Buffalo, where they turned Republican strongholds upside down and walked off wltu 'em. "But the new grace of roraraon sense is the essential fnctor in the success, and the pejople ought to have done this In the laBt election. But, like all the rest of us, th^ir hind Bight is belter than their fore sight." Senator Tillman seemed delighted at the outcome of the election, and frequently chuckled to himself, probably at some memory stirred by present events. The senntor seems much Btronger after his recent illness. Senator Tillman left Friday afternoon at -1 o'clock for his home. In Edgefield, S. C. * RAILROADS HELD RESPONSIBLE. Liable for l)amagv? When 1-ocoinotivea Cause Flnwt. That it is an error to grant a nonsuit on the ground that there was no evidence of negligence, when the testimony tended to show that damage was caused to property by sparks from a locomotive. la the substance of a decision handed down Friday, by Justice D. E. Hydrick. of the State Supreme Court, In reversing the decision of J. M. Itirt, against the Southern Railway Company. Justice Hydrick points out that prima facie presumption is that there was negligence, whence the burden Is placed upon the railrond company to show that the engine was constructed. equipped and managed with du?? tare. This decision, which came up on a case In which a non-suit had been ordered, is of much Importance n causes arising out of damage to proyerty from sparks from locomotives. I It is also pointed out by Mr. Hydrick tliat a complaint setting ou: I negligence may be amended, durinc i trial, to come under Section 2,13.r>, of the code, which make railroads liable for damaes for lire from enSlnea (except In caaea specified I wltho?:t regard to negligence. Take* lH>ae of l*ot*o.n T. Butler Ferguson, a well known citizen of Laurens county, living be moon Clinton and Renno, took an overdose of strychnine which broueht on death. Mr. Ferguson has been in uad health for a long time and had been accustomed to taking strychnine tablets for some affection of the h?art to which he was subject. (aught in Fire Trap. At New York two persons were killed arid four injured Friday in a fire which destroyed two upper floors lu the Rosalind apartments. VYm ii. A/iitiK, h real estate operai or forty-five years old jumped from a fifth floor window to his death. M.b Abott v is burned to death. Others trying to tU*e front the flanioti suffered injuries Fatal Mistake. At Annlston, Ala., Grady Clarrett, i aged 1&. was burned to death on a Islag pile near one of the large furneces tht re Saturday night, lie was a watchman for the Louisville and Nashville railroad and It is believed that when he sought a warm place ?o sleep he was asphyxiated. Ml* body w.i* burned nearly to a crisp. A Small Margin. The official count of the J2tn Pennsylvania district shos's tba! Robert K. I.ee, Democrat. Is elect ?d over Tlobert Hen ten by 49 vot^s Fely, Socialist. polled 4,707 votes in I the disD ict. *' * .... . _ r. THE PEOPLE WIN rtoifb ibe Deaocratic Party They Rebake tbc Republicans. BOUSE IS DEMOCRATIC New York. Now Jersey, Ohio, Ma?w chasetts, Connecticut, Indiana, Nebraska and Other Heretofore Re publican State* Have Enrolled Themselves Under the Ihnnocrotic Banner for the Country'* Good. The elections held in the different Stales on Tuesday of last week resulted in a political convulsion of far reaching extent, similar at many points to the famous tidal wave of 1892, and possibly more widespread in efTect. In many States, heretofore considered Republican strongholds, that party has been driven from power by the outraged people and the Democratic party enthroned. In New York State John A. Dlx. Democratic candidate for Governor, waB elected over Henry L. Stinison, Republican, by a plurality of about 66,000, reversing the Republican of 70,000 in 1908 for Governor The Democrats also gained ten congressmen, and carried the legislature, which ensures s Democratic Senator in place of Senator Depow, Republican. In New Jersey Woodrow Wilson, Democratic candidate for Governor, was elected over Vivian M. Lewis, Republican, by about 30,000 plurality, reversing the previous Republican plurality of 8.000 for Governor Fort. The Democrats elected eight congressmen out of ten. being a Democratic gain of five. Tho Democrats also control the Legislature on joint ballot, which will give them a 1'nlted States Senator in place of a Republican. In Massachusetts Eugene N. Fose Democratic candidate, has defeated Governor Ebon 9. Draper, Republican candidate for re-election, by about 30,000 plurality, reversing a former plurality of Governor Draper f\t B AAA TKn - > * ? vrk w,vvv. i uu i/cuiuLi nio tJiri:n*u Mix congressmen out of fourteen, being a guin of two. In Connecticut Judge Simeon fc. Baldwin, Democratic candidate, was ji?ctod| Governor over Charles A. Goodwin, Republican, by about 4,000 plurality, reversing the previous Republican plurality of 16.000. The Democrats elected one congresuman, which is a gain of one. In Ohio Governor Judaon Harmon, Democratic candidate for re-election, appears to have carried the State by about 60,000 over Warren G. Harding, Republican candidate. The l*emocrats will control the Legislature, which will elect a Democratic Senator to succeed Senator Dick, Republican. The Democrats gained seven members of Congress In Indiana Gov. Marshall. Democrat. was re-elected with the entire Democratic State ticket, by a majority of over 30,000. The Democrats carried the Legislature which will elect Kern. Democrat, to succeed Reveridge, Republican, in the United States Senate. The Democrats nearly made a clean sweep of congressmen, electing twelve out of thirteen, which Is a gain of one. In Tennessee Hooper. Republican, candidate for govornor. defeated Taylor, Democrat, by about 12,000 majority The Democrats carried tho legislature and elected all their congressional candidates except one. The delegation In congress will remain as at present, eight Democrats ind two Republicans. In North Carolina the Democrats carried the State by about SO,100 majority, electing all ten congreaenicn. which is a gain of three, and making gaina of probably ten Representatives for the already overwhelmIn? Democratic majority in the lower house of the General Assembly and possibly four Senators. No State officers were voted for. except Judges and Commissioners of Public Worka. In West Virginia the Democrats carried tho Legislature, which will elect a Democratic! United Stales Senator In place of Senator Scott, Republican. They have also elected four congressmen out of five, which Is a clean gain In Nebraska Dahlman. Democrat, candidate for Governor, was defeated by Chester A. Aldrich, Republican, by a safe majority. The rest of the Democratic State ticket was elected and the Democrats control the Legislature which will elect Congressman Hitchcock. Democrat, to succeed Rurkett, Republican. In the United States Senate The congr<*eslonal delegation will remain as at present, three democrats and three Republicans Dahlman was fought by the prohibitionists. In Maryliul the Democrats carried the Legislature by a good majority snd elected five congressmen out of six, being a Democratic gain of two. Thomas Warren, Republican, saved the Fifth district for his party, which lost Ita representatives in the Third j uud Sixth districts. i Jn Rhode Island the Republicans \ THEY NEVER TALK THE TRAPPIST MONKS LIVE IK ABSOLUTE 8IIJ5NCE. Dfrotf 81* Hoant to Pn?yw and De otioo. Tea Hoam to Work and Eat One Meal a Day. The expulsion of the religious orders from Portugal and their imminent expula'on from Spain will drive many monks and nuns to this countrv whom IKaw o?ni ??' *? ?" *? _7 ? ?_..v .uv7 mil orea rt'lUKt' ID tho various monasteries and convents in tho United States. Tho expulsion of the religious orders from France, years ago, led to the founding of the first places of refuge in this country and among these was the Monastery of GethBomane, the Order of tho Silent brotherhood. 12 miles from Bradstown, Ky. It was established iu 184 8 and is to thlfc day one of the mosf visited religioub resorts on the continent. The only other monastery of the kind in America is at Oca, a few miles from Montreal, Canada. The Trappist order was founded in the Twelfth century and is to-day the least known of the religious orders of America, possibly because few people would care to enter the ranks of the order and subscribe to their rules. A Trappist never speaks, lie la under u vow of absolute silence. He never reads anything but the books In the library at the monastery. It is doubful if any one of the 90 odd men iu the Kentucky monastery knows who is the President of the United States or the governor of Kentucky. Forgotten by the world, they theoselvos forget the world. They eat no meat, fish or egcs at any time and drink no wine. One meal a day must satisfy their hunger and that consists of vegetable soup, boiled bread and rice. They pray six hours a day. the first session being at 2 a. m. They arise at 4 a. tu.. summer and winter, ana work ton hours out of every 21. They retire at sundown and sleep on a plank with a hard pillow. Such are some cf the many rules of the order, all of which tend to place the physical In the back-ground to enable the monks to develop the spiritual side of their being. To enter the Trappist monastery Ik to 'take a step backward 1.000 years for the spade and the hoe and the scythe and tho cradle are still used in tilllns tho soil which le rich ulid productive. Hut tne Tropplsts are good farmers and the products from their dairy are much sought oa Southern marketH. Under vows of perpetual alienee, extreme poverty, charity, separation, patience and Bubmission some of the noblemen of Europe are living as monks with the Trnppists in Kentucky and it is safely predicted that if events take more unfavorable turns against religious orders in Europe hundreds of devoa" men and women will seek refuge in America where there is real freedom for all sorts and conditions of men to worship as they will. ' 'ost heavily, re-electing Governor I'othler by a scant 1.20D votes, as against his plurality of ubout 12,000 in the last election. Senator Aldrlch's successor will bo a Republican. In Oklahoma the Democrats won by 25,000 mujorlty. They gained one congressman and have good majority in ihp legislature In Missouri the Democrats won. thus bringing her back in the Democratic. The Democrats carried the Legislature and gained one congressman. In Oregon. Wyoming and N'orth Dakota the Democrats elected their governors and other State onlcers by majorities ranging from l,r>00| to 3.0C0. In Te\a*. Louisiana. Aiub .ma. Mississippi . (Joorgia, Florida. South Carolina and Virginia the Democrat# had their usual majorities and elected nearly every one of their candidates from coroner to governor. In Kentucky the Democrats made gains all along the line and elected ail the congressmen except two. making the delegation eight to two. a Democratic gain of one. In California, South Dakota. Iowa. Pennsylvania, Vermont. Illinois. Minnesota, Michigan. Nfevada, Kansas. New Hampshire and Washington the Republicans elected their tickets, but at greatly reduced majorities. Tfc' Democrats made gains in congressmen in several of these above States ranging from one to aix in some of them This is the greatest political upheaval that has occurred in this . mini; ivon, nun en(,wa that the people have at last aw>ka to the fact that they are being plundered by the laws passed by tut Republican party for the lenefl. of t'ie trusts. The Democrats are in r.? stay if they make the proper use of th?lr opportunity. Hums in Jail. A white farmer named Wilbur, living near Townville. in Anderson county, was arrested Saturday night for some minor mlsdemanor and placed in the lockup. Sometime during the night he set Are to the building. which burned to the ground, cremating its colitary occupant. BEAT ALL BOYS Jerry Mtore Makes Tws Hudrtd aid Tieaty-Eifkt Barkds if CORN ON SINGLE ACRE. The Fifteen Year Old Hoy Farmer Write* the Btorjrof How He Man Kea co nuke the Biggest Corn Yield of any Boy in the Whole World. Jerry Moore, of Florence county, the champion boy corn grower of the world, has written a story of bow he produced over 228 bushels of corn on one acre of land. The yield is substantiated by affidavit?. Me made a profit of $130,70 on the acre. It cost his $123.05 to secure the yield. The story gives a complete description and full accounts of the care of the corn. He is u member of the boys' corn club and was under the direction of the United States farm demonstration work and A. H. Casque, county superintendent of education of Florence county. In a clear manner Jerrv Moore tells the following story: Light gray, sandy upland: top soil about three or four inches deep, with just enough drain for the water to run off. Cotton was grown on the land in 1909, producing about 1,200 pound of seed cotton. During tho 1st of March, 1910, spread 300 one-horse wagon loudB of rich dirt on this acre. Followed this with 50 one-horse wagonloads of stable manure scattered broadcast. On March 25 land was broken with Dixie plows. One Dixie following the furrow of the other, and with the two breaking about ten or twelve inches deep. The soil was so well pulverized did not harrow, rebroke like It was first time. March 29, harrowed and laid off In rows three and one-half feet wide with Dixie plow. Distributed GOO pounds of guano, containing elgnt per cent, of nhosnhorlc nrl<t 1 cent, of nnionla and 3 per cent potash In Dixie furrow and covered with furrows making a small ridge. March 30, open ridge with shovel plow and dropped three gallons of liato's Four-Ear proline corn, dropping by hand und almost sowing. Covered corn with small shovel plow 2 1-2 Inches deep. On the .same day sowed 800 pounds of acid phosphate on rows and harrowed surface all over, leaving it level. INo rain since land was broken and land so dry and dusty corn did not come up readily. Stand good by April 20. April 20, wpather continues dry. April 24. good rain. April 25, sowed 700 pound kainlt along rows and harrowed with Little Joe harrow and going twice to the row. Harred off with Dixie plow. May 5, I made a mixture of GOO pounds cotton seed meal, 200 pounds of acid phosphate, 200 pounds of kalnit and with a cold distributor sewed on each side of rows, aud har rowea wun little Joe Harrow ana going twice to the row leveling surface as much as possible. '.May 10, made a mixture of 600 pounds of cottonseed meal, 200 pounds of acid phosphate and 200 pounds of kainit, and with u cold distributor sowed on each side of i he rows, but four inches further from the corn than the other application, and harrowed with Little Joe harrow going twice to the row. iAIso sowed 200 pounds of nitrate of soda along tht rows. May 17, harrowed, going twice to the row, thinned ccrr. to o.r. inches in row. iMay 24, harrowed, going twice to the row. May 26. good rain. May 27. nsing a cold distributor sowing in the centre of middle 1 ,000 pounds 8:2:2 guano and harrowed with Little Joe harrow, going twice to the row. (Same day, sowed 200 pounds of nltrat of soda along the row Juno 4. harrowed, going twice to the row. June 5 and fi. pood rains. Juno 8, sowed 800 pounds of nitrate of goda and harrowed twice to row. Frequent showers and torn prow Ing rapidly June 10. storm and corn blown down. June 11. net corn ns, coru about six feet high and beginning to Bilk. June 15, harrowed very Ightly with IJttle Joe harrow, going twice to the row. June 22, harrowed lightly; corn now In full Bilk; ground perfectly clean. Since June b ralna have been frequent. Corn doing Its best. No sign of firing or fhilure of any kind. July 4. no lack of rain so for. and corn almost matured. Almost every stalk haw an car and many of them two or three. There Ib on the acre about 24.000 stalks and more than 30,000 ears. Gathered fodder middle of August. Corn at thla time very ripe. 1 Gnthored ofT the acre 1.200 bush * , .r'vtraa ' . \ ENTERS NEW STATION THK ATLANTIC COAST LJNH M.AKKS AN ANNOUNCEMENT That All Their New York Train* Will Enter the New Pennsylvania " Railroad Station in That City. The Atlantic Coast Line makes an announcement that all their New York trains will enter the new Pennsylvania Railroad 8tatlon Sefenth avenue and thirty-second street. NOV Vorlr ow ~ 1 - '"* * * vu duu Hiier AOfismDer 27th, and that the West Twenty third street ferry and the Brooklyn annex ferry will be dicontlnued on and after thut date. .The "Florida and Went Indian Limited" will leave from the new station at 10:16 a. m. and drrtve 2:15 p. in. The "Palmetto Limited" will leave at 3:38 p. m. and arrive 1:50 p. in. and the "Coast Line Florida Mall" will leave at 9:30 p. m and arrive 5:59 a. m. Upon the Inauguration of the "New York and Florida Special" January 9th, that train will leave New York 1.26 p m., and arrive 4:06 p. in. It will be seen from the foregoing that paseengers will have considerable advantages not only from the convenience of reaching the station, which 1b certainly located and adjacent to street car lines, extending to all pnrts of the city, but in a lat?>r departure and an earlier arrival in the city. The travel on the down town sec tion will be provided for by trains from the Manhattan Transfer Station, located near Harrison, N. J . and at which all through trains from the South will stop. They will be taken to the passenger station In Jersey City and can reach the lower Manhattan by the Hudson an?l Tubes or by ferry to Cortlandt, of Desbrosses streets which service will be continued. Passengers to and from Brooklyn willl transfer in Pennsylcania station, to and from Flatbush avenue Brooklyn, via the Tubes under the Fast River thereby saving much tinio and annoyance. Under the new arrangement, effective Novero ber 27th, all Pullman cars operated to and from New York over the Atlantic CouHt Line will be electric lighted equipped with electric fane The location of the station appeais directly to the hotel guests, the shopper. the umuseincnt seeker. tlue bus. ness man, the professional man and every class of travel to and from Now York, over the Atlantic Cojs. Line, as the new station Is In th'? very heart oT the hotel district on'y one block from Broadway, t?? blodks from Fifth avenue, and one block from the centre of the reta'l goods section, which Is supposed to be the busiest part of New Vrok els of fodder, weighing 3,000 pounds, worth $30. Five men?J. M. Leach. 11. P. Has elden, W. B. Bailey, J. T. Bailey and Roger Williams?measured 'he land and weighed the corn, whoaa certificates are in the custody of the county superintendent of education. The corn was weighed In the shucks and weighed 16,388 pounds. They took 200 pounds of corn from the n.-r?. at Rundown, shucked and shelled, and got 165 poundR of shelled corn and 45 pounds of cobs and shucks ThlH phowa 77 1-4 per cent, of corn and 22 1-2 per cent, of cobs and shucks. This percentage makes & yield of 228 3-4 bushels. At the market value. $1 per bushel. the corn from the acre 1? worjii $228,75; 3.000 pounds fodder.$3 0 Total value crop, $258.75. Cost of rent $6.00 Cost of preparing seed bed 4 00 Cost of planting . .2 OtL Co?t of manure. ?f. f?o Cost oi commercial fertilizer. 66..?t> Cost of cultivation 11.60 Cost of gathering corn. . .. 8.00 Cost of gathering fodder . . . 6.00 Total cost $128.05 The total value, $258.75; leas the total expenses, $128 05, leaves a net profit of $130.70 . "The stable manure used was very trashy (much straw In It) and li t mn'O' ? * " ' * -w.w. uiuic inau i?u rents a load. As thr dirt has no commercial ('a!uo I did not count it in the list lot expenses and the land hue been improved at leant IfiO.nn by the dirt ?nd stable manure What I have done has been more of an experiment than doing what I knew to be wise. About Octot**r I at Mr Williams, ai'ent for the State, Mr. Wlllip. county agent for Mr. (lasfjiie. county superintendent of education visited me To them I am under obligations for helpful Instruction and l greatly appreciate the interest they have shown in my little enterprise. Hoping to do better in the future, I am, yours truly, "Jerry H. Moore " Another Auto Victim. At Savannah the first .'a< i 1/ en the grand prize race course occurred when a Sharp Arrow overturned 'nvtantly killing Albert Fuchs, the mechanician and badly Injuring Wm If. Sharp, designer of the cannd Injuring Wm. H. Priger, regular driver of the car on Thursday * * -I