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CHARL1SB W. BIIICBMOBI, PROPRIETOR. VOL. 28 'THE HAND OF THE QILIGENT SHALL ROLE' IKKMM. ?1 .36 rK ADV AN CI TBR AKKTM, CAMDEN. KERSHAW COUNTY. B. C.. TUESDAY. MARCH 4 . 1013 ! NO 21 FIND THEM TRUE REPORT IS SUBMITTED ON OLD SOLDIERS DOME. CONDEMNS CONDITIONS Legislative Committee Declare* Prac tically All Chargec* Brought Against Management of Confeder ate Infirmary at Columbia Have Been Sustained by the TY*#Ui?iouj". The legislative committee appoint ed to Investigate the Confederate In firmary, or home, made Its report Thursday to the general assembly. The report reviews the testimony taken at several seeBlous of the com mittee and callB attention ta a num ber of changes It thinks should be made in the administration ot its af fairs. The committee thiuks there is lack ?f discipline at the institu tion and condemns the practlc-i of members -)l the commidB'on electing themselves to sallaried positions, Btatlng that this was never the in tention of the act. The committee making the report consisted *>f t.ona tors Plough, Epps and Crouch and Representatives Jamos, Nelson nnd Greer. The report Is given l.-elow: Your committee, appointed under a concurrent resolution to investigate "certain reports concerning tho man agement of tho Confederate Verer ans' infirmary," and to report "tlie results of its investigation at this session of the general assembly," begs leave to submit tho following: Three afternoons were spoilt In ex amining wItuoBseB. A stenographer was found to be necessary and A. M. Deal was employed to take the testi mony, which is herewith fubmltied, consisting of about 225 pages of type written matter, and the same la made a part of this report. Among the witness^ examined wore MaJ. H. W. RloTHfF \hnn, C'^pt. J. P. Cladwell and Dr. Butler. We likewise took the testimony of a number of the Inmates of the Boi lers' home, as well as the testomony of others. Among the complaints of charges alleged wer?: (a) That there was drunkenness and profanity allowed on the part. of a few of the InmateB to the discom fort of others. (b) Partiality In some respects In the treatment of the lnm&tea. (c) Lack. of proper discipline, sick. ? --v.* v . (e) Bad bread fiirniahed, or bread I made from musty meal, for a short] time last summer. (f) That the home, or some o I the rooms, are allowed at times to get in a very filthy condition. Aside from these charges there were others of a petty nature and testimony was taken along the lines The results yeached by your cofia mittee are as follows : (a) That the charge of drunken ness on the part of some of the In mates and unbecoming conduct re sulting therefrbm. seems to be bus-* taiued by testimony. It appears that the pension money received by many of the inmates goes for whiskey (see testimony of MaJ. H. W. Richardson, page 31). It also appears from his testimony (page 31 ) that tfee inmates "have no use for It ,(the pension money) except for what they consl c'.or luxuries," and that the "luxur ies" alluded to are "^hiskey and a little tobacco." (b) As to the charge of partiality tho testimony Is conflicting, but Capt. J. P. Cladwell, on pages 91, 92, 93, testifies that during last summer he saw what ho regarded as partiality used. (c) The testimony convinces the committee that there Is great room tor Improvement in the matter of dls-r clpllne, as well as in other matters, MnJ. Richardson In his testimony (see pago 37) says: "I will admit that wo all have been too lax in dis cipline. I have been." The conclu sion forces itself on the committee that If the ofllcoB of treasurer and commandant were bestowed upon one man?a man of executive abil ity and a strict disciplinarian ? con ditions generally would be Improved and the saving of several hundred dollars per annum to the Htato would be effeoted. Capt. Otldwell In his testimony states that the $100 a month iiotf paid to MaJ. Richardson la "thrown away". (Page 97 of testimony), lie also says that Capt. Starling performed all the duties now supposed to be porformed by hlrasrilf and 'MaJ. Rlohardson. The inference is that two mea are being employed to do what one could do, and if, as stated, a man of good Executive abll. Ity wore chosen, matters could be improved and money saved to the State. At present, judging from the testimony, there does not seem to be hoad to the Institutions- such employoe Is rather a law iiinto him self. And In thin connoctlon wo wlah to out the sUmp of our dtaapproTal up on tho practlco of member* of the nommlMlon ?looting themaolvc* to or holding salaried position*. We art compelled to believe that this prao tlco in not only contrary to tho act orating the homo, but la responsible 1n Some measure for tho trouble* re ferred to In this report. It la not a good thing for an employer and em ployee to be tho same person tMken he had tho right to fix both telfcry and duty, i %,?? +? & '& J$ ? W Kn short, your committee 1? of tho opinion that too mnoh of tho appro priation for the old homo foot for] snlarlos. Ono man of tho right kind could perform all of tho dutloa now supposed to bo performed by Ma). Illrfhardson and Capt. Caldwell, and I' ho possessed proper executive abil ity, considerable Improvement In the management of tho home and a large increase in the produott of the farm ?-? - . ? SHE WANTS HEART BALM YOUNG WOMAN SUES FOR THE LOSS OP HER LOVER. Blame* the Telegraph Company, ' Wliich Failed to Deliver Telegram in Time, She Claims. At Charlotte Miss Anna DeMoss has entered suit against the Wes tern Telegraph Company alleging that the negligence of the telegraph company In falling to deliver a mes sage to her lover, one Joseph Flynu apprising him of the fact that she was en route to Charlotte "ready, willing and anxious to enter Into tho holy bonds of matrimony" as pre viously agreed upon, resulted in the breaking asunder of the aforesaid ties which In turn occasioned groat mental anguish to wit $2,000. Extracts from tho complaint aro herewith reproduced: "That the de fendant, Anna DeMoss, further al leges that on or about the 20th of December, 1912, she had agreed and contracted to become married in law ful wedlock within the course of ;i few days to Joseph Flynn of the city of Charlotte and had made arrange ments with a priest of tho said city to conduct the ceremony. "That on the 2 4th day of Decem ber, Bhe went to Burlington with full arrangements aa to the wedding, save as to the date. "That on the 2 8th day of Decem ber she received letters from Joseph Flylnn, asking her to leave Curling ton the next day. The plaintiff wir ed In reply that she could not do r.i requested. This telegram was deliv ered in proper manner. "That on the 2 9th day of Decem ber plaintiff found that she couM leave Burlington at 11:17 In th" morning and go to Greensboro. Sh ? then sent a telegram to Joseph Flynn apprising him of her Intent to arrive in Charlotte that night his telegram was not delivered until a week later but, acording to Information wa ? left In the custody of a ticket agon'. "Wherein," the complaint contln ues, "the plaintiff contends that the telegraph company was unduly an-i grossly negligent in not making proper and reasonable effort to lo cate tho eald Joseph Flynn and de liver said telegram to him In person. "The plaintiff further alleges thai because of the negligence of the said defendant In not delivering tho said telegram the said Joseph Flynn be lieved that the Bald plaintiff had n-j desire to become married to him aa they had before agreed and that she wanted to -withdraw from the mar riage contract entered into. That do a result of the aforesaid negligence of the defendant company the said Joseph Flynn quarreled violently wl?h the plaintiff and broke off the engagement and withdrew from the contract entered Into with the plain tiff. That as a result of the defend ant company's negligence, the abovr mentloned break between the plain tiff and the said Joseph Flynn result ed and the eald plaintiff 1b deprivo-1 of the company and afTeotion of the said Joseph Flynn for life, that sno has endured much mental and phys ical anguiBh and Is damaged in tho sum of $2,000." could be made. (d) The testimony shows lack of proper nursing for the sick. (o) The testimony eliowB to our satisfaction the charge that for a short time some time last year there was bread furnished to the inmates made out of musty meal. (See page 90, Caldwell's testimony.) This was likewise testified to by others. It is but proper to add, however, that such bread was served only for a very short period of time. (f) As to the charge that the home is permitted to got in pretty filthy condition at times, or portions of It, thla is perhaps truo. It is also likely true that this condition would Improve were the rules of the homo properly enforced. As to the other charges referred to at the outset as "petty In their na ture", we do not wish to refer to them specifically, but your committee would call attention to tho testi mony concerning these matters. Your commltteo Is Inclined to thn opinion that $35 per month would be good pay for the physician to the old home, Bince It appears from tho tes timony that about all that can bo done for tho Inmates, on account of their lack of recuperative power, ns shown by Dr. Butler's testimony, Is to give them cathartics occasionally and "something to ease pain." The practice of dealing out dally supplies of whiskey to a certain ele ment at the old home, It appears to your committee, should bo discour aged. Hunting for Old Fiend. Nowb of ft crlmlnul nssftiilt up(?n a tweWe-yoar-old negro girl, allogorl to havo boon committed by nn oi.l negro 70 yoarfl of hro, on Mr. J .J. flrltton's place, about nevon mllrs south of SUmtor, reached thorn Wed neflday. Tom McFftdden. ft nflqro who has Borved Bovoral torms on thn gnr? Vhd ton yoarB In tho penitentiary, ' \ the negro Alleged to hnvo committed tho crime. ?? ?, ? nin<kont Crlmo In History. Oon. Gulessoppe Oarlbadli, grnnd Bon of tho Itnllnn Liberator and io! dler of fortune, who In In New York, In much ft ff or tod by tho donth of Mn doro. "T consider tho killing of I'res Ident Madoro ono of tho blackept or I in on In hlntory," ho said. "At pros ont I do not Cftro to day anything further." > I tain Ofttmon OfMt Imtw. At T^oti Angolog, Oal., ono life was tost and much damago w?b wrought by the rainfall of the Inst two days, the greatest In the history of that region, fltroot car lines In some sec tion of the city are out of commis sion, and fl0,000 school children were glren another holiday because Of thf) floods, COLE SETS HIM FREE TURNS OUT MAN WHO TOLD BIH ABOUT ELLIS CASE BROUGHT HIM LIBERTY F. J. Nichols, White Convict Who Wrote IUca^e Concerning Alleged Cruel Treatment of a Negro Con vict, Handed a Parole by tlie Gov ernor While Testifying In the Case. That F. J. Nichols, a 0110 armed white prisoner, wrote the letter to Gov. Iiloase containing the charges of cruel punishment of the negro, Simeon Ellis, because the latter spoke to tilt* Governor in spite of the guard's refusal, was brought out be fore the committee on penal and charitable institutions, which is In vestigating tlio charges, at the hear ing Wednesday afternoon. The let ter was smuggled out of the prison through a prisoner, but who, it was not stated, it was written on the let ter head paper of the State Senate. The investigation took place In the hall of the House of Representa tives, Senator Laney presiding. Gov. Hlease was present and read the let ter of Nichols to him about the al leged treatment of Ellis and then nave the author. Nichols had been brought from the Penitentiary and was sitting in the rear of the hall. The Governor called him to come forward and when ho did Gov. Rlease said: "Nichols, you are a free man," and handed him a parole. The committee examined the ne gro, Simeon Ellis, whom it is alleged, was unmercifully beaten in a com mittee room as to the nature of his beating. Hefore the committee in open session the negro repeated the charges contained in the letter print ed Thursday morning, making the ad mission that the "battery treatment" given him by Dr. Jennings was for an epileptic fit, to which ho was sub ject, and that ho had often been given this treatment. It '"as stated by Nichols in his let ter to the Governor that the cries of Ellis when he was being given the "battery treatment" could be heard all over the grounds, and It had been made to appear that this was a form of punishment, Ellis himself admit ted that It was given him for fits, and that qo burns had resulted. P. J. Nichols, a one-armed white convict, a native of Michigan, form erly employed by the Southern Jlaji road as a telegraph operator, working in Atlanta, Chattanooga and Colum bia, and who was serving a second term in the penitentiary, having serv ed one from Richland for larceny, and Bervlng a socond from Fairfield for housebreaking and larceny, fol lowed the negro Ellis when under the treatment of the "battery" in the hospital and that he had gone to his cell' and seen the impressions of the lashes on his back. He did not tell who smuggled out the letter ho wrote the Governor tell ing him of the thrashing of the negro and admitted that he had never seen the "battery treatment" Imposed; however, charging that It was fre quently given for^punlshment, accord ing to what other prisoners had told him. He said that prison officials had treated him all right, except once he had been "tanned" in the "lonthor house". Nichols Bald that he has two children who are now living in Georgia. The negro Simeon Ellis, testified that he had been placed in the stocks in the "leather house" and beaten with a leather strop about two feet long all over his back, from head to foot. He said that it was on Sun day that ho was called from the chapel by Guard Boykln, who had been In charge of the detail when he was working on the streets Satur day and had spoken to the Governor without permission; that Hoykin car ried him before Capt. W. H. Sondley, related the occurrence of his speak ing to the Governor, and the latter ordered him to the "leather house". Ho said that Mossrs. Roykln, Wil son and Grant accompanied him to the "leather house", where ho was stripped, placed in the stocks and then given 75 lashes with a leather strop in the hands of 'Mr. Wilson. Ho said that once ho was knocked flown In the stocks by tho licks and then was whlppod from the other side. Ho said that on "Monday, when ho wan takon to tho shop to bo shackled ho foil Into a flt and t.hon wa? takon to tho hoRplta! and glvon tho "bat tory treatment". Ho didn't seem to roniombor much what happened nt tho hospital, oxcopt that he eald sov ernl^mon wore sitting on him and tho electric current wan applied. He Raid that ho yolled and screamed, al ro thnt Dr. Jonnlnga, Dr. Dobbin a, Mr. Wllslon and two other men woro In tho party. Ho admlttnd that tho ?treatment waR givon him for fits and no btiriiR resulted. Tho nogro charg ed that ho had boon whipped many tlmos. Dr. DobblnR Raid when Wills wan brought, to tho hospital he thought ho was "faking" about hlR having a fit, but tho troatmont. wnn given him as a tost and was novpr given as a punish ment. Ht?to Wild l>nrks. ThouRnnds of wild ducks, caught by tho cold and hold prisoners In RoduR Hay, Lake Ontario, aro bolng fed by Now York Htate. flame pro tootors notified the State Conserva tion Commission that tho ducks wore dying from lack of foort and wore promptly ordered to buy grain to food them. Romalns of Olnnt Dlnosanr. The remains of a lizard elghty-fonr feet long Is being excavated on the banks of the Oroen River In Utah, ft will be sent, to the Carnegie TVfu seum at Tlttuburg, Pa. TRAPPER WAS STARVED * ' HE BECOMES INSANE AND TURNS TO CANNIBAL. Food less for Eight Days, Kills His Sleeping Companion and Eats Part of His Body. Tortured by the furies of an Alas kan winter, subsisting thirty days on skins of dead animals and finally driven insane by an eight-day period of starvation, Henri Le Caire, a French trapper, killed and partially ate the body of Len Leraleux, a guide of tho HudBon Bay Company, near Mile 63, B. C. Such waB the tale unfolded in a letter received at Cleveland, O., from a former Cleve land, Frank Richardson, twenty three, of No. 3 3 91 West Twenty-fifth street. In the letter to his father, from a log cabin at Mile 53, Richardson gave a graphic word picture of the suffering undergone by men on the snowy trails when the wind sends fllnt-llke flakes of snow driving into a man's face until ho is nearly blind ed. Tho elder Richardson, who Is stage director at the Euclid Avenue opera house, also received a half dozen pictures, one showing the dis membered body of tho murdered guide. Richardson Jr., has f^r a partner in British Columbia Emmett Thorpe, formerly captain of the Lincoln High School foot ball team. Both depart ed In 1912 with an engineering -crew, but have since given up that work and are now contracting on their ( own initiative. * In his letter telling of the tragedy, Richardson says the trapper and the guide, Lemleux, departed from Mile 52 on an extended hunt, and as they had but a small supply of provisions' they were warned against making the trip. This was In December. A, third member of the trapping party dropped out at the start and tho guldo, Lemleux, and Le Calre con-' tlnued on their way. A storm overtook them, and when miles away from the nearest settle ment they were compelled to travel with tho morcury at 52 degrees be low xoro. Finally they stumbled on a doserted cabin about seventy-five* milos from tho settlement. Here scratched with a knife point on wood,, was written the last chapter of a gruesome tragedy. For elsrht days Le Caire and Lem leux taBted no morsel of any kind. While the wind howled and snow banked up against the cabin walls, the men were starving. By day they sat at the bare table, each man fur* tlrely watching hia mate. By nlghti they were afraid to sleep, but terror] and suffering closed their eyee an<\^ at times both men slept for a fe^? hours. Eschman, afraid of the oth, er, awaited a chance to kill. For the killing of one meant food for thd other. -+ As the ninth night came on Lb, Calre watched Lemieux nod and fall asleep. With a bound the trapper] was on hl? guide burying his knife In the Bleeping man's heart eight times. Twonfy-three other knifd wounds were also Inflicted. ' ' - ? Le Calre ate parts of the dead man's .body and then scratched with his knife on the cabin door the story of Lemteux's death. The carved part of the door now 1b In the hande of Ken McKenzle, an engineer froih Montreal, but Le Calre has not beep found. A picture forwarded to Cleveland by the younger Richardson depicts the finding of the body, the wooden box In which It was placed and the burial ground. DISTILLERIES DESTROYED. Eleven Thousand Gallons of Dflei* |h Seized at Them. The Greenville Piedmont says tfce seizure of eleven thousand gallons .of beer, besides a quantity of whiskey, and the capture of two alleged "moonshiners" Is the result of a rild In Oconee county this week by Di?[p uty Collector of Internal Revenue )F5. A. Aiken, of this county, assisted b> Deputies Orr and Reed of Ocoftee county. Five distilleries were do- 1 stroyed, two on Bunrlay and three on Monday. The stills were of m^re than ordinary capacity. The men Ar rested were Blonn Buttle and Faad Buttle. It is said that sufficient evi dence was secured by the offlcers'to cauno steps f<or prosecution befog taken against' three other 9*en* The prisoners were arretted a still nine miles west of Walhtfla, and were epied by the revenue ot|lc erB as they wore shouldering their sacks of meal to their alleged plant. The officers followed the motmUtfn eers and, it is said, arrested them In the plant. ,T Gorman Aviator Meets Deaths At Muelhausen, Germany, a Aor mnn military aviator, Bergt. Helffirs nlder, was killed and and his cbm pnnlon, Lieut. Llnke, serlouellyf In jured Wednesday. Their aeroplane foil while they were flying roundlthe military aerodomo. Helfersnjdor took one of t.ho>?vfifl too fthafrnly and tho machliA toppled over bjick wards. Defended II In Mother. After he'd knocked his moth oik In law on a hot stove, and terrorized other members of the family witli an army sword, Gilbert M. Lehue, for merly a sergeant In the army, was shot, and killed at Louisville, Ky., Mondny by Hen fieach, the woman's son. Tvoach was arrested on a chfcrge of murder. 6 A Succumb* to Ills Injuries, * t 3. D. Derosler, holder of *11, the motorcycle records from 35 to'jJOO miles, died at. his home field, Mass., Wednesday nlgfht. He was 23 years old. Derosler'# death was tho result of Injurle* sustained during a racing moot In I^os Angela last summer. PERIL IN FILM POSING TIIAGEDIES THAT MARK MOTION PICTURE PRODUCTION. It Is Not Such rh Knny Thing as Poo pie Tliink, ? Much Danger is Kn countered. Acting in front of the camera for ?b I? ?tU,re l8Q,t QUlte 80 8oft ? Job as people are apt to Imagine Grave risks have to be taken and more or lees serious accidents are ta]?ym?n' SometlmeB th08? result lu 0ther dajr' ,or "ample, a man named Bittner descended in a para ghuto from the Column of Victory in hJerlin with a view to" being cine matographed as he was falling, but something went wrong with his ap paratus and the pa-arbutlst wh8 dashed to death. Similarly, a picture player named Dunne was klllled on the railway while acting a part. The unfortu ate man was only supposed to be run ovor by the approaching train, it be ing the Intention to substitute a dum my at tho last moment. l)ut the rails were slippery, the driver was unable to pull hi> engine in time and the actor was mangled to death be neath the wheels. Not long ago an actor plalvlng tho part of a cowboy in Chicago fell and was killed during the rohersal. ?MIbs Alice Holllster, whoso face and figure ore familiar to 'rc.iuvnt ers of picture shows nearly I jut in r life while rehearsing In Egypt. At tired la the voluminous draperies of an Arab phesant woman, she was ??ated on a primitive wooden wheel which brought up from a deep well water for irrigation purposes. At acertaln moment sho had to bring the camel which worked the wheel to a halt and descend from hot Beat. Unfortunately tho camel re sumed Its walk too soon, tho wheel Started revolving again and Miss Holllster was Jerked Into the well, which was more than 100 feet in depth. Luckily her cumbersome garments caught a projecting stone in tho side, and, being of athletic build, Bhe managed to hang on until she was rescued by means of a rope in th? hands of her dragoman. (Rut it was a narrow escape. No one viewing on the scroen the superb riding of Alice Joyce, expo nent of "cowgirl" parts in WoBtern drama, would supposo that any horse could ever Bucceed In throwing her. As a matter of fact, however, Bhe has met with several accidents. Miss Gene Gauntler, a moving pic ?*?<llng woman, >haa been exceptionally unlucky. Only re cently she was attacked by Bedouins In the Sahara and had to fight hard to get away. In Florida sho was nearly engulfed In a quicksand. In a battle scene she was kicked by a horse and nearly killed. In another war scene there was a premature ex plosion of a caisson that hurleld her high Jn the air, and the fall made her unconscious, but it made a great picture. Once when she was to bo rescued from a burning house, the company bought an abandoned farm houso in the country and set it afire. The fire burned more rapidly than had been provided for In the rehorsal, and Miss Gauntler was unconscious and almost dead when the rescuerB chop ped a hole in the roof and pulled her out. They had intended to take her out through a window, but the real thing made a muck better picture. A naval lieutenant Is anothor pic turo player who has had many nar row escapes, his latest exploit in this direction being a fall from a high cliff near Brigton, England. Once, too, he was badly wounded in a sword duol with a picture player an tagonist. Of course, the Injury was quite unintentional and accidental. Alfred Brighton, a young Ameri can picture player, lost his life in tho Hudson river, a year ago. He had to loap into the water and res cue a girl who was supposed to be drowning. While swimming toward her ho was observed to throw up his arms, sink once or twice, and strug gle franctically on coming to tho sur face. Tho spectators on tho bank ap plauded, Imagining It to bo part of the performance, and the operator kept turning tho handle of the ma* chine, while shouting to the drown ing* man, "Koep It up!" Only when he had nunk for the third and lant time did anybody nunpect that any thing waa wrong. ? -Chicago Tribune. ANOTHER ANTARTKJ TRAORDY. Two MV>re Victims Mnst be Added to the Jx>ng Titst. Another was added to the lint of tho Anartlo tragedies by tho news received at Sydney, N. 8. W., Wod noflday, of tho doath of two tnembern of the expedition commanded by Dr. Douglas Mawflon. Tho party loft Tas mania In 1911 with a largo body of scientific men to explore the reglonn around tho Southern Magnetic Polo. The dead are: Lieut. D. R. Nlnnln, a British officer, who Is an export, and who was In charge of the Bur veylng and sledging, and Dr. Morz, of Switzerland, a prominent scientist sportsman. According to n wlrolonR from Mawnon, tho principal objocta of the expedition were attained. Un fortunately Mawson and six of hie companions after they had boon pick ed up. by tho steamer Aurora un dertook another expedition but wore utiabia to rejoin the shl-p which wan oompelled to leave them and they had to spend another year In tho Antarc tic. Itunrtrert* of Olilnenc Killed. Hundreds of Inhabitant!* of tho province of Ku Klen, Ohlnn. have been killed during tho pant week or ?6 while offering armed resistance to tho government troops engagod In destroying poppjr-plants. ANTI - FUTURE BILL SENATOR E. D. SMITH PLEADS CAUSE OF FARMER DEMAND EQUAL CHANCE The South Carolinian Stirs Up Hor nets' Nest by Pressing for Actio l on the Measure to Piaco the Cot ton Buyers and Sellers on Same i/ovel. Senator Smith of Soutn Carolinu stirred up a hornets' nest in tho senate Wednesday morniug wheu he endeavored to get action upon his bill to regulate contracts 'or Mi'.' fu turo delivery of cotton. Afte.' ad dressing the senate for moro ;han an hour on tho subject, Senator Smith moved to have the committee on the Judiciary discharged from fur ther consideration of the house meas ure and his bill substituted therefor, the bills being of similar purport. This brought Sen. Clark Wyoming, chairman of the committee on judic iary, to his feet with vigorous oppo sition to the motion, claiming that the committee had n?t had an oppor tunity to give tho bill proper consid eration. Senator Clarke of Arkansas came to the support of Senator Smith, urg ing that some action be taken upon a measure so important to tho South and to the country at large. Senator Hoke Smith and Senator Gronna, a Republican, also joined in the de mand for a vote on the motion. This was oposed by Senator Percy of Mis-, slssippi, who said that whilo Senator Smith had not overstated tho im portance of the proposed legislation, he was opposed to tho measure on constitutional grounds. Senators Lodge and Warren ob jected to Immediate consideration on the ground that the cotton exchange people were entitled to a hearing be fore action was taken. This objec tion was met by Senators Smith of Georgia and Gronna of North Da kota, both members of the commit tee on agriculture, who stated that the New York and New Orleans cot ton exchange interests had been giv en a full hearing before their com mittee. At this point Senator War ren still further pressed his objec tion by reference to the pending ap propriation bills and the brief time in which thoy have to bo considered. It was agreed to allow the matter to go over until Thursday for final disposition. - Senator Smith spoke foi^more than an hour, elaborately discussing In detail every phase of the cotton sit uation from the time the ground is broken for the seed until the whito, fleecy staple is carried to the gin, then on to tho mill, where it comes out In cloth. There was no feature which he left untouched. In part he said: "Wo are reckon ing with a force to-day that the law of heredity and habit and the conse quent inertia make us slow to real lzo. Wo are living in an age unpar alleled by any other age; not that human nature has changed, and I am glad that it has not, but the means of expressing the desires and hopes and ambitions of each heart are more porfect than evor. The facilities for transportation and communication and education aro so perfect that tho man in tho woods who has been the victim of tho shrewd and the heartless becomes liko the man who walks the Btreets of tho city and with better training and with faith ful work, with honest mother and father, ho has had ground into his bones tho intrinsic principles of honesty and integrity. Uo demands no more, ho will accopt no less, and tho government has yet to reckon with that class of our pooplo who es tablished it. "The bill that I proposo, reduced to its Bimplo terms, means that a buyer and seller shall have tho same chanco; that what a seller proposes to sell shall bo spociflcally and def initely named, both as to quality and price, and that ho sTiall deliver that and shall deliver it at tho price agreed upon and tho grado agreed upon; that tho sotting asldo of fair competition shall coaso and that so far as interstate commerce is con cerned, and in so far an congress can regulate that commerce, tho law of supply and demand shall obtain. "It is an easy matter, It seems, to dismiss thin question and leave the farmer to take care of himself. It seems to bo the sentiment of some that ho is doing very well; that ho ought to bo satisfied with what he has and thank Clod that. It Is no worse. Ono reason that this senti ment Is prevalent is because tho far mer has not yet realized that ono rea son that he is in tho condition that ho Is, Is thot tho legislators of this coun try havo been really Indifferent to his welfare. "It !s an eatfy matter for a man In easy circumstances to take an opti mistic vlow of things in general and of the Individual or people who nro In a bad fix particularly, but wo are going to have this legislation. "In conclusion, I deslro to say that tho senator from Massachusetts (Mr. Lodge) the other day stated n thing that struck me ns being so forcible that I recognized Its truthfulness at once? He said thnt tho poet by vlr tuo of his high genius and his Intui tion, saw deeper Into tho heart, of things than another, and In vorse ho was very often able to expross It more clearly and tersely and power fully than another. I came across this verso sul>sequent to that and it was so appropriate that I fthnll quote It. We sit. hero in hotter clrcum stances and do not. feel the cry, of poverty and the humility of Its at tendant evils. We are optimistic In general, and we aro forgetful of our moi*? unfortunate fellows. Theso were tha lines that Illustrate tho attl tnde of those who can help the far ARRIVES WITH REMEDY I>K. FIUEDM.YX W!) HIS Tl llKH. CI I/OSIS Cl'KE. Says Ho Is Not .Mercenary, Hut Wishes to Help the Whole World With Invention. The United States government took official recognition ct the claim of Dr. Frederick Friedman n to tho discov ery of a euro for tuberculosis when, by order of tho surgeou general of tho United States marine hospital ror vice, Dr. Milton Porter was scut meet the doctor on tho stoamor Kron Prlnzessin Cecelia. At the request of tho government surgeon, Dr. Fiiedtaar.n, after halt an hour's conference on boar 1 the steamer on tho trip' up to New York from quarantine, consented to turn over a quantity of his bacilli to be tested by the government and to de monstrate the efficacy of his cure be fore physicians of tho hospital ser vice. Dr. Friedmann, who conies to this country at tho Invitation of CIils. K. Finlay, a New York banker, who hopes the physician will be able to cure his son-in-law of the disease, declared that his remedy was not a secret and that he purposed to make known "to all the world" the uu :hod by which it was created and the man ner in which it was administered. It consisted of bacilli taken from a turtle into which tubercular bac cilli from a human b? ic?; hud been in jected, lie explained. "1 have been working upon the cure for four years and in the last two and a hall' \ ars 1 have treated from L\C>00 to 3,000 patients," lie asserud. "How many 1 have absolutely cur ed 1 can not estimate, but their num ber has run into the hundreds. The remedy cures all forms of tuberculo sis except such cases as are quite :iopeles8 ? that i?, ou the point o: death. The process is a slow one, but the effects are to be seen two or three weeks after inoculation. The time when an absolute cure can be said to be effected is a matter of months. The method of administer ing is 50 per cent, of the cure. "I want all mankind to benefit by my discovery. I have already turned over Bome of my bacilli to the Ger man government, and I am very glad to turn it over to the American gov ernment. " Dr. Friedmann denied that he had been offered $lt0')0,000 by Mr. Fin lay if ho would cure 95 out of 100 patients in this country. He admit ted that he was to receive a substan tial compensation in tho. ovent he cur ed t-ho banker's son iu-lkw, Ray Paris of this city. "I am not mercenary," ho said. "All I caro about Is sufficient reward to enable me to demonstrate my cure to tho world." ORDERED HIM MURDER. Startling Story "f tho Death of n Walking Delegate. At New York Abraham Steinberg, , a walking delegate, waB murdered \ on orders of buttonholo contractors who feared his labors would Injure their business, according to the al leged confession Wednesday of Har ry Wngner, tlio man charged with the killing. Wagner, who was arrested shortly after the murder on January 7, con fessed to the polico, they say, that ho committed tho crime for a reward of $50 under a threat that he would be prosecuted for forgery. The object of the contractors was to prevent the signing of a contract by Steinberg which would havo eliminated them as middlemen and caused tho cloth ing manufacturers and tho National Buttonhole Makers' union to deal di rectly with each other. Wagner, the. police say, named Ab raham Flalkoff as the buttonholo contractor whose name he had forg ed to checks. Fiulkoff, his 1 8-yoar old daughter and Louis Welnstoin, also a buttonholo contractor, wero arrested, the men charged with homi cide and the girl with being an ac cessory after tho fact. Enter Damage Suit. The Dorchester Eagle says: "Jos eph Murray, Esq., and his wife have entered suit, through their attorney. Col. R. 1-on Weeks, against the South ern Bell Telephone Co., for damages in the result of alleged misconduct on the part of one of the operators dnrlng a conversation between Mr. Murray and Mrs. Murray before they were married, the conversation be! n % between St. CeorKe and Columbia." It is said a man at. I'.ranchcllle broke in on the conver: itiou, and refused to desist, when requested. rnor. The attitude of those who are Indifferent to him is aptly expressed in these lines: "The toad beneath the harrow knows exactly where the tooth point goes; The butterfly upon the road preaches contentment to the toad." SWEPT Br STORM GREAT DAMAGE DONE B1 IT IN THREE STATES FOUR KNOWN TO BE DEAD Alabama, Georgia anil Florida Feel FfYects of Cyclone Accompanied by Torrential Downpour ? TwelVe Fe male Prisoners Injured In Collapse 01 Building on Georgia Convict Farm. * Four persons are Known to havo perished, several to have boon Injur ed and property valued at several hundred thousand dollars to have been damaged by a severe wind and lain storm which swept Alabama, Georgia and Florida Thursday. The only known fatalities occurred at Omaha, Ga, where three negroes were killed when a building in which they were working collapsed during the height of the storm, and iu Cren shaw County, Alabama, where ltufua .Mitnmcrliu, was killed in a building collapse. At Milledgevillo, Ca.. many build ings were demolished. Twelve ! e :nale pricoturs were Injured when the Stale structure at that place col lapsed. Forty children in the Hope a ell school, near MililedgeviUe, had a miraculous escape when the build ing was blown down. Only ono child was injured. Three children were seriously in juied * lien the Bridges School, near "ordele, (J a., was blown down. I'l.cie were more than i'.o In the school house when the accident oc curred. Many buildings were blown down ? nd large damage sustained in Onr? ??al Alabama. The heaviest losses ne reported to bo In the city cf Greenville and Crenshaw and llutler 'ounties. The property damage in Flordla iccording to late reports, was net ? rious. A (ia-nulo palo swept tho a ction of the State in the neighbor hood of .Jacksonville. No loss of lifo .v;.s reported in that vicinity. Mayor Maples, of Omaha, Ga., Is sued an appeal last night for tinan cial aid to the poor and homeless, saying the destruction of property 'a very heavy and many persons n>u homeless. CUAlUiK HIM W ITH Ml'ltDEK. Huggageinastcr Who Killed tho Con^" duct or Is Held. At tho end of its third meeting Tuesday tho coroner's Jury which heard the evidence in regard to the shooting of Walter L. McNeill, con ductor on a Seaboard train, near Swansea Inst Friday, returned a ver dict to tho effect that the railroad man came to his death by a gunshot wound at the hands of A. V. Lee, the baggagemusler on the train. The case against Mr. Lee will be tried in tho Lexington county court of general sessions next J line. The coroner's jury delayed Kb ver dict to hear the testimony of C. F. Hutto, tho express messenger on the Seaboard train and the only eye-wit ness of the shooting, which, Mr. Lee claims, was accidental. Tuesday Mr. Hutto appeared before the jury. He said he was checking up his e xpress when illr, Loo entered the car. A few moments later Conductor Mc Neill came In. "Tho first thing that attracted nv attention was a pistol Lee was waving in the air," said Mr. Hutto. "McNeill was In front of him with his hand on his shoulder 1,00 appeared be mad f-nd uf an oath which 1 thought was addresed to McNeill. I tried ?o pet the pistol from Leo and he threatened to shoot me." I Mr. Hutto teslifled that when the first tfhot was fired lie noticed tnat ! the oistol was pointed toward tho floor of the car. The second rhot r a 1.10 a few seconds later. He also said that while he and Lee were sup porting McNeill and wiping the blood a7/ny, Lee declared that ho had hur. the best friend ho had. Medical Meet. Is llel<l. The National Association of Ameri can Medical Colleges began Its annual convention at Chicago Monday In tho Congress Hotel. The sessions woro addressed by medical experts and teachers from various parts of tho country. Including several professors from the University of Chacigo. How Our Men Voted. 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