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MORE BOOZE T Prehition Does Not Affect the Consumption of Liqnor. ' c ? c MORE USED THAN EVER ' c * a , According to (lie Annual Report De- , spite the Closing of .Many Saloons ( In Various States, Production of c I I Intoxicating Liquors for 1010 Kx' reeded That of 1DOO. The last annual report of the com- t mlssloner of internal revenue, show- 1 Ing that there had been a large Increase both in production and con- . sumption of intoxicating liquors dur- t ing the year 1910 over 1909, raised 1 an interesting question in the session " of Congress just ended as to whether . the closing of saloons really tended to increase consumption, says the * Washington correspondent of The News aud Courier. The House committee on Inter-State and foreign commerce gave a number of hearings I concerning the question. Many persons were brought before the committee and otherwise a large amount of data was closely examined. Congressman James. H. Miller, joint author of the Miller-Curtis bill in the House, was asked for an expression of opinion just before he went to his home in Kansas today. His statement is especially significant not only because he is a member of the committee which has been investigating tlie subject, but also because the Slate from which he comes, Kansas, has in recent years been the battle ground of many hot lienor contests. ; "It is not denied," Mr. Miller said, i "that the amount of both distilled and fermented liquors produced and consumed during the last fiscal year has increased over the amount for 1909. It is highly interesting to note, however, that there is a very material decrease in both the consumption and production of liquors ( In the revenue districts, comprising prohibition States, while the increase is largely in three or four of the States where the license policy pre- ' vails. "It is important to notice also that while there is an increase in the total production and consumption of li- v quor, as compared with the year be- * fore, yet there is u substantial decrease in comparison with the fiscal ' year of 1909 The reason for this ~ showing is indicated by the fact that while during 1910 there was no backward step, and some additional coun- ( ties" 'and communities wore in tae *dry' column, yet the number of these 1 districts that liecamo 'dry' during 1910 was not so large as the aggie- ( gate of those which went 'dry' during either of the two previous years; subsequently the amount of decrease in the sections that were add?d to the ( no-license list was not suflicient to ofTtnt I - - ? 1 ..... vuiiniiucii iiini iiai' ill i lie largo cities and license States. "During the fiscal year of 1010 there were the following decreases. Alabama and Mississippi, 176 gallons: Georgia, 7.21 5; Kansas and Oklahoma, .1.77: Maine, Vermont and Now Hampshire, 597; North Carollna, 271,160; Tennessee. 460,181. "In contrast to these figures those 1 containing the three largest license cities in the United States aro as follows: New York, increase, 2,100,701; Pennsylvania, 1,528,1-17; Illinois, 224,005." Upon being asked !n what manner the varicus States might he enabled to stop the Inter-State shipment of liquor, Mr. iMillor said: "As we view the problem, three or four possible ways by which the State may be given the necessary relief. 1. Action, such as is contemplated by the Miller-Curtis bill, which now attempts to remove an impediment which now exists by reason of the absence of a specific utterance, on t)ie part of Congress, thus allowing imported liquors to fall within the juris- ^ diction upon arrival immediately within the boundary of the State to which consignment has been made, and thereby become mingled with the common mass of property within the State. 1 2. Action by which the Tnter-State 8 shipments of intoxicating liquors may i j -i? ... ... i uu iui uiuut'ii miogeuier, ns in tne * case of lottery tickets. f 3. Action forbidding partial Inter- v State shipments of liquor when con- ' signed to those who are not author- ' lzed by State law to dispose of them. 4. The adoption of an amendmsnt n to the Inter-State commerco clause v of the Constitution which, without question, will give Congress full power to take whatever action is necessary In giving relief to the State. y "This latter suggestion is condl- 11 tional on the possibility of Congress v failing to take further action on the b ground of unconstitutionality. If. b lt however, the public sentiment already aroused on the question shall tfl he compelled to resort to this ex- a treme, it is problematic where the d demands for constitutional changes A will end. e "The bill in question proposes to S constitute Intoxicating liquors as a S special class of commodities, to be s' admitted to and carried In Int- r- e State commerce on condition that the p Inter-State commerce character of ft j AGAINST HIS PARDON. Vople of Rarmvell Want Kennedy to Serve His Time. Representative James E. Davis, of larnwell, presented to Gov. Rlease >n Tuesday afternoon a petition ounter to that which was recently , iled in behalf of J. Chester Kennety, the white man who was convicted >f procuring the murder of a neigh* >or. Perry Uesery, by negroes on the iquare of Barnwell and who was sen eneed two years ago to life iniprismment in the penitentiary. Mr. Davis, a former solicitor, was me of the attorneys assisting Solictor Byrnes in the prosecution. lie supported the petition with a stron*: lersonal appeal to the Governor, not o pardon or parole Kennedy and urn him loose again upon the comnunity. Mr. Davis said he had procured the signatures of some of the best peo>le of Barnwell county to the petiion. Among the endorsements is one jy .Magistrate T. S. Dunbar, of Four Mile, who swore Gov. Blease into office?"For God's sake don't grant t." Kennedy is a man of about 24 rears. His father died recently. FltEE 10 YEA ItS, GOES BACK. Escaped Xortli Carolina Convict Captured in Kentucky. After heing at liberty for sixteen rears, T. B. Whitson, who on Fcbniirv 27, 1 S9a, escaped from the Stale prison at Raleigh, X. C., where he ivas serving a sentence of thirty rears for murder, was arrested at Lexington. K\\, Thursday, and will lie taken back to North Carolina to serve out his term. Residing in Letcher county, Kentucky, as "Saninel Jones.'* lie lias amassed a co.n'jrtablc fortune. He was sentenced LO death March IB. 1893. for the nurder of C. C. Ryrd at Bakersville, \\ C., but on a second trial he was ;iven thirty years' imprisonment. A Healtliy Public Sentiment. Opium, of course, has been one ot he greatest evils with which the new 'hina has had to grapple, and her ilmost marvelous success in dealing vith it gives ground for the belief hat she will he able to master other veaknesses as well. A fellow-pasicnger on my Yangste steamer a few lays ago spoke enthusiastically of he rare beauty of a Yangste river rip in the poppy-blooming season a ew years ago, immense fields ailame vith gorgeouB coloring, but this ipectacle will probably never be seen igain. In most provinces the bloom >f the opium poppy is now a red lag of danger for its owner: an oflfi:cr of the law will take heed concernng it. Formerly, too. it was the custom 'or the host to offer opium to his inests, just as it was formerly the ustom for the average Southerner o offer whiskey; but the Chinese tiave now quite a changed public seniment. because they recognize that opium is ruining the lives of many of their people, and lessening the efficiency of many others, because they regard it as a source of weakness to their country and danger to their ions, it lias become a matter of shame for a man to be known as an oplumimoker, even "in moderation." To tie free from such an enervating dissipation is regarded as the duty not !?nly to one's self and one's family, lint to the country as well, a patriotic fluty. I saw a cartoon in a native* Phlnese paper the other day in which there were held up to especial scorn ?nd humiliation the weakling officials who had lost their offices by reason of failure to shake off opium. In short, the opium smoker, instead }f being a sort of "good fellow with luman weaknesses"?a'"', with possibilities, of course, of going utterly 0 wreck?has become an object of jontempt, a bad citizen. The C.ernan Emperor in a speech to the joys in his navy last week urged hem to let whiskey alone because 01 he nation's need for strong, clearleaded men unweakened by dissipaion, and in her anti-opium crusade 2hina is successfully making the tame sort of appeal to her citizens.? Clarence Poe, in Raleigh (N. C.) progressive Farmer. Worked Ham Circuit, At New Orleans Ananias Penny, tegro, is under arrest, charged witn dealing $600 worth of hams from 1 packing concern. It is said that 1 " enny has been operating a "ham ircuit" for a month peddling bis i vares at reduced prices. Clerks becked up the stock this week and '< ound the shortage. Penny declares io is sure he did not get $600 worth, s he only took about eight hams a i reek. i ? ? 1 Circular Saw Hurst e?|. I At Jacksonville Daniel Johns, 21 1 ears old, was killed instantly this 1 nornlng at the Tlurke Dumber Mills, ' k hen a circular saw liursted and, af- ' er passing entirely through a two- ' y-four plank, cut his body in twain. J lie shipment shall cease at once upon 1 rrival immediately within the bounary of the State. By this proposed ct Congress is not asked to help nforce ihe police regulations of any 1 tate, or to do anything which the t tates can do for themselves, but a Imply to protect the States in the j xercise of their police powers at a a oint where such exercise is not now t illy guaranteed." . ti / THEIR DEATH KNELL PREDICTS REALIGNMENT OF PO. : LITICAL PARTIES. Ciov. Foss Says Failure of the Senute ] to Respond to People Demands Hastens Its Downfall. A realignment of political parties In this country was nredleted hv Rnv. 1 Eugene N. Foss in the course of an ' address before the Holyoke Hoard of 1 Trade Wednesday evening. This, he ' declared, would come as a result of ' the failure of the Senate to pass the McCall Reciprocity bill. "The action of the Republican Sen- 1 ate," said Gov. Foss, "in rejecting ' this opportunity to carry out the ' principles of its party platform, the 1 request of its President and wishes 1 of the people; its support of Lorimer ! and its opposition to other progressive measures of legislation but eni- ! phasize tLe necessity of securing 1 legislation that will make the Sena- 1 tors more responsible to public sentiment by their election by the direct vote of the people. The Republican leaders by their action have 1 sounded their own death knell. "It means, in my judgment, a realignment of parties. This is in fact already going on. It is taking place now. The only thing that the progressive wing ef the Republican par- 1 ty can do is to join hands with the progressive wing of the Democratic party and secure legislation that will be in the interests of all the people and not of special privilege." The Governor declared that the United States" has much to gain and nothing to lose" from reciprocity with Canada. Urging the necessity of getting ready for the result of reciprocity, the Governor advocated tlie enlargement of transportation facilities in Massachusetts and particularly the development of inland waterways. Referring to the proposal to dredge the Connecticut river, so as to extend navigation from Hartford to llolyoke, Gov. Foss said: "The computations of the expense and the benefits seem to justify all in asking that the Government proceed With tills work " THE DEMOCRATS I'MTKI). What Champ Clark Says About Political Situation. A statement mado at Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday night by Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri, speaker of the next congress, severely arraipnos Republicans and newspapers of the country who are alleged to he predicting a split in the Oemocrntic party. In part the statement follows: The strangest political phenomenon of our times is the persistence with which Republican newspapers try to create the impression that there is, or is about to he, a great split among Democrats. They work at the game as industriously as any rattlepate ever worked to discover perpetual motion. "All this hullabaloo about 'Democratic splits is to hide the wide and irreconcilable splits among Republicans. Democrats are united for vietore in 1 (11 O ? * iv..,. wi . ^ _ ,iim uni'i warus ior many years to come." Where the One-Ilor.se Farmer Loses. Says one of our correspondents: "I rarely find that my two-horse tenants more than double the crops of my one-horse tenants on double tie land and with double the stock." Therefore, he concludes that onehorse farming is best. It seems never to have occurred to him that the labor of the man in the case is worth anything. Does not any man who will think for a minute know that if the man with two horses does produce only twice as much as the man with one horse, he is far ahead of him in what he receives for his own labor? Even if a man's labor is worth no more than that of a horse, there are two workers in the one- | horse layout and only three in the i two-horse. Hence an increase of .10 i per cent in gross returns will even ' matters up. Now, there isn't a farmer in the South who doesn't regard his labor as of more value than that I of a mule, and, of course, ho is riuht about it. There may be, as we have i said, times when a man must do his I work with one horse, but we can not < see why any man should be willing, < for that reason, to consider himself 1 a "one-horse farmer" and be content [o remain so. It isn't a matter of i pretty theories or ingenious argu- 1 inents, but, as we have said, a mere < matter of mathematics. The more 1 horses, the larger the farmers' earn- < Ings in practically every State in the 1 I'nion; and the fewer horses to the < man, the more expensive the work t lone whenever other conditions are < M|nai. Against such incontrovertiole t facts as these, all the theories of i hose who argue for one-horse farm- < ng amount to very little.- Raleigh < i N. C.) Progressive Farmer. * < An I'uiiMinl Alarm. < 1,. M. McCool, of Columbus, Tnd., ' las a cat that wakes him tip every norning regularly at o'clock, .lust is the clock strikes the hour the cat umps 011 the bed, it is said, and rubs d 1 paw over McCool's lips, continuing 1 o do this until McCool is fully t iwake. t TALE OF WOE TOLD MORE DETAILS OF THE CHINESE FAMINE REACH US. Missionaries Working Kuril and Have Attacked Problem of Relieving Sufferers. "More gruesome stories of the hor ors of the Chinese famine reached he state department Thursday from he consul general at Shanghai, who lescrilveb conditions at the beginning 3f February. One traveler reported passing 1 rt lead bodies in 13 minutes. Others tell of the natives eating cakes made if leaves and stents mixed with millet chaff, which they buy with the allowance from the government of three cents apiece. Trees have been stripped of the bark and eaten. An American Presbyterian missionary declared that in the whole afflicted region there were 2,000,000 starving people. In one village of 100 families one-third were dead of hunger and pestilence. Snow was falling and many were without proper shelter or clothing. The missionaries have attacked the work of relief with the greatest system and directness. The families in the province of Puchow, for instance, were divided into four classes and enumerated with this result: Those who had plenty numbered 18,995; those who could exist till harvest on wheat grain they had, 209,037; those who had a little grain, but would be in need before the end of February, 15G.301, and those really destitute and in need of immediate relief, 1 95,0." 1. One thousand dollars raised by the Chinese relief committee of the chamber of commerce of Cincinnati was cabled to Shanghai Thursday by the American National Ked Cross. Shot Himself on Itoof. Standing on the edge of the root of a tenement house in New Yoik Thursday an unidentified man sent two revolver bullets into bis head. The body crashed to the street, live stories below. That the suicide had intended to make sure of dying if his revolver failed him was indicated by fl.n n r. a i r, ir ? ?. ' - < - ' . .... uuuiua UII i lit* IHUI U1 U UUU1J filled with a powerful acid. The <?rent Wall of China. Tint it would have been well worth while to make the trip if we had gotten nothing else but the view of and front the (Ireat Wall at the end of the journey. About two thousand miles of stone and brick, twentyseven feet high, and wide enough on top for two carriages to drive abreast, this great structure built two thousand years ago to keep the wild barbarian Northern tribes out of China, is truly '.the largest building on earth," and one of the world's greatest wonders, it. would be amazing if it wound only over plains and lowlands, but where we saw it this morning it climbed one mountain height after another until the topmost point towered far above us, dizzy, stupendous, magnificent. Ry what means the thousands and thousands of tons of rock and brick were ever carried up the sheer mountain sides, is a question that must excite every traveler's wonder. Certainly no one who has walked on top of the great wall, climbing among the clouds from one misty eminence to another, as we did today, can ever forget the experience. Perhaps it was well enough, too, that the weather was not clear. The mists that hung about the mountain-peaks below and around us; the roaring wind that ? - ... ....v i urn mi' i minis, now driving them swiftly before him and leaving in clear view for a minute peak after peak and valley after valley, the next minute brushing great fog-masses over wall and landscape and concealing all from view?all this lent an element of mystery and majesty to the experience not out of keeping with our thought of the long centuries through which this strange guard has kept watch around earth's oldest Empire. Dead, long dead and crumbled into dust, even when our Christian era began, were the hands who fashioned these earlier brick and laid them in the mortar here, and for many generations thereafter watchmen armed with bows and arrows rode along the battlements and towers, straining their eyes for sight of whatever enemy mivht be boid enough to try to cross the mighty barrier. However unwise the spirit or the lim in which the wall was built, w must admire the almost matchless laring of the conception and the alnost uniiaralleb'fJ Iiuinatru "f ???'> ? . ..muuvi/ v/i i lie rA" >eution. Beside it the digging of our Panama Canal with modern machinery, engines, steam-power and elccrieity -considered as a feat of Iler ulean labor is no loncer a subject or boasting. To my mind, the ver/ act that the Chinese people had the nurago to conceive and attempt so olossal an enterprise is proof enough >f genuine greatness. No feeble folk ould even have planned stu b an unlertaking. Clarence I'oe, in Raleigh N. C., Progressive Farmer. * Killed for Burglar. Ri.- .J. Moore, a young farmer, shot tnd killed his sister, Mrs. Lottie Wilnon, at an early hour Thursday at heir home near Dallas, Texas, mleaking her for a burglar. BRYAN REJOICES. ' Tlint Reforms He Il?s Advocated Are Being Adopted. Declaring that it was a greater ^ pleasure than being President to sit back and see the reforms he had advocated for years being adopted by the \Vo6t, most slowly accepted by the East and publicly supported and proclaimed by Col. Roosevelt and President Taft, William Jennings Rryan Wednesday nisht addressed a * thousand members of the Boston City Club. Mr. Bryan upheld the Canadian reciprocity measure, declaring it would be the end of the Republican party, and ho said that reciprocity would bo finally adopted. In closing he said he would not again be a candidate for the Presidency. , KOKHKltS AHK CAUHHT. * \ Conductor Identifies Men Who Held l"p His Traiu, I W. A. Pinkerton, head of the Pink- ' l erton detective agency who is in Mobile. was notified Thursday in a tel- i egrara from Chicago of the capture in the woods of Michigan of the rob- \ hers who robbed the mail train on the i Oregon Short Line some time ago. The men arrested are Thomas O'Hara < and Victor Close. At the time of the robbery one of the porters on the train was shot to death and anothei i wounded. The men were traced to the woods of Northern Michigan but | the arrests were not made until the ' conductor of the train was taken to < Michigan and identified the men. < More Poultry for the Farms. No careful observer can fail to 1 note the increased interest in poultry raising in the South during the 11it year. I.ike all other lines of live stoek raising, it is especially receiv- 1 ing attention in the area being invaded by the boll weevil. It is simply astonishing what capacity this little bug- the Loll weevil lias loi making men think and even act. All 1 lines of live stock are receiving more 1 attention than ever before and poui- 1 try is coming in for its share of increased attention. But, strange as it may seem the greater part of this in- '' crease in poultry interest is among ' th<? people in the towns and to a 1 much less degree among the farmers. This appears to us wrong. Surely mere is no piaee win re the opportunities for raising strong, healthy poultry at a minimum of cost, are so good as out on the farms. Not only is this true as regards the production of utility poultry?eggs and birds for food?but it is especially true of the production of fancy poultry and birds , for breeding. Hv much care, constant work and intelligent feeding and management, good poultry is produced on the small lots in or near the towns; but it requires more intelligence and poultry knowledge to raise good birds under such conditions than it does to accomplish the same results on the farm. Why then, is most of our best poultry raised in the small towns or near the cities? The range which may he given thebirds on the farm, except perhaps during the breeding season, is almost unlimited and this means a variety of feed, such as poultry require, and .ample exercise, two things most essential to the economical production of vigorous birds. It requires some knowledge to raise good poultry and this can only he obtained by reading and studying the experience of others as set down in poultry journals or agricultural papers and in hooks, and b> actual personal experience in the handling of the birds. In the past this has been thought too small a business for the farmer, but if that is sLill the idea, we insist that the women and children should In? given an eppor- , tunity to add this additional industry , to the farm. Xor would we limit them to the production of eggs an.l ( the growing of birds to he used as ( food: hut would insist that where tlie inclination exists they ho given a , chance to produce the best, to he sold as breeders, or eggs to he sold for , hatching.?Raleigh (X. C.) I'rogres- , slve Farmer. * | * j . Found Tied to llorse > . ( With his wrist tied to the tail of i a wild horse, the body of a Fapago I Indian was found yesterday by a detachment of the First i'nlted States cavalry at the edge of the Gila river near Mesa, Ariz. In order to secure the body it was necessary to shoot the horse. It is believed the young Indian had been condemned to die In this manner because of having violated some law of the tril>e. Sets Him Free. Tzrael T.azarus, a negro, who was f I.. . >! i uiit'iuii ruumy on rue ? charge of manslaughter, in March i of lb 10, and sentenced to throe ye.tis t 011 the chain Ran?, has been pardoned by Governor Itlease. The pardon was recommended by Solicitor Peurifoy, wlio prosecuted the case. Lazarus killed another negro. (l *. * t About Jf.OOO \ch Notaries. Approximately il.ooo commissions < l ave been issued for notaries public since the revoking order of the fJov-jt ernor. tioxornor Hlease said recent- ] t ly that he would very probably roc- t ommend next year to the C.enral A - -' t senibly that tin annual fee lie re ; quired of notaries public. * si taken to court flea Named for Secured an Injunction Against Those ? ? APPOINTED BY BLEASE supporters of the ltenufort Delegation Nominees for Commissioners, Who Were Ignored by Gov. lllcnse, and Others Given the I'laees, Drought tho Art inn in the Court. Judge Gary Thursday at Walternoro issued a temporary injunction igainst the men recently appointed ownship commissioners in Deaufort county hy Gov. Please in opposition to the recommendations of the legislative delegation, and they are cited to show cause why the temporary injunction should not be made permanent. Gov. Please, in appointing tho township commissioners, entir? !v ig nored the recommendations of uk legislative delegations in six of ;n< seven townships in spite of the provision of the code that he shall appoint them upon the recommendation at* the delegation. The appointments were made, it is understood, alter a conference with Thomas Talbird. a political follower of the governor, who opposed tho election of t lie members of the I tea ufort delegation. Tho governor's action caused indignation in P. aufort and as it is 1>?>licved that tlie appointments made hy tho governor are illegal it was determined to take the case to tho courts. u is especially necessary tli.it there lie n?? question as to the legality of Hie township commissioners because they are to be entrusted with the spending of $1500,000 for the erection of a bridge from Deaufort to the opposite island. Now that the restraining order has been issued the case will have to ho argued upon question of making tho order permanent and the decision of this case may be a precedent thai will settle the other disputed ap pointments in the State. ItKFt'SKS TO OllKY HI.F.ASK. Magistrate Kirby Declines to (Jive l"p His Oflice. Magistrate A. H. Kirby, of Spartanburg. has received a letter from (lor. Blease ordering him to vat ato his office as magistrate and turn over his records to Malcomb Bowden, tho governor's appointee. Maj. Kirby has said that he will do nothing of the kind. Though the major is ST. years old. lie says lie is not ready to retire at this time and holds that the governor has no right to remove him trom office. His attorneys advise him that lie can hold over, since Mr. Howden, whom the governor Appointed to succeed him, lias not had the indorsement of the county delegation nor he< n recommended 1?v the senate. Hotli Maj. Kirby and itowd n ato transacting business. What the developments will he is the question in which tlie city is much interested. Holds < In |so. The latest developments in tho niagistt rial situation at (Irecnwood is a letter received Thursday morning from the governor by Judge Kerr. In this letter Magistrate Kerr is told that "his successor having heen appointed, his commission is revoked and is null and void." Previous to this the governor had advised his appointee, J. W. Canfield, to go ahead transacting hu im ss as magistrate and if at the end of 30 [lays Magistrate Kerr had not turned over his hooks to him. Mr. Canfield, it would he in order to have a war rant sworn out for him. The notice of revocation of Magistrate Kerr's commission is another move which Mr. Kerr says can not lie sustained as the cause given, tho ippointment of his successor, is net me of the three causes specified by law upon which his commission ct je revoked. Press Association Meeting. Wood row Wilson, Governor <?< *Cew Jersey, will address the South 'arolina Press Association at its neetinc in Columbia this spring. I'he date of the meeting will bo ixed by the executive committee, of vliich tho Kditor of The Times and )emocrat is a member, on Friday at i meeting to lie held in Columbia or the purpose. All newspaper men k f tl.A .. .hit m?it: are rurcuaiiy invited to loconlc members of the association if hey have not already done so. \\ lint It Means. A Washington dispatch says all lonbt as to the purpose of the gov rnment in sending 2<>,0n0 troops to he Mexican border has at last been wept away. The 1'nited States has leterniined that tiie revolution in klexlco must end. The American roops Have h en tit to form a solid ni'itary wall along th H'.o tlrando o stop fllihusterin and to see that hero is no further smuggling of irms and men across the internationtl boundary.