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TEXTILE WORKERS. In the Wlide State There are 55,71 of Them. There are 55,715 textile worker employed in South Carolina, accorc ing to statistics gathered by th United States census bureau and cor tained in the annual report of Con missioner Watson, which has bee prepared for the general assembl; The population of the textile vi lages was 119,596. Textile plani are located in 28 counties out of tb 44. V. Following table is given: Mill Mi Population Worker: Abbeville 1,300 65 Aiken 1 6,200 2,60 j Anderson 15,395 6,49 Bamberg 400 12 Charleston 48 Cherokee 3,577 1,84 Chester 2,750 1,40 Colleton 500 15 Darlington 2,700 70 DilLon 725 48 Edgefield ,350 14 Fairfield 425 25 Greenville 16,270 9,04 Greenwood 4,200! 2,08 Kershaw 875 50 Lancaster 2,000 98 Laurens 4,800 1,85 Lexington 1,025 52 Marion 300 9 Marlboro 1,750 1,10 Newberry 4,450 2,07 Oconee 2,190 1,12 Orangeburg 469 25 Pickens 4,775 2,45 Richland 8,165 3,19 Spartanburg 20,678 10,26 Union * 7,350 1,82 York 6,049 2,95 ^ 119,596 55,71 EXHIBIT AT SAX FRANCISCO. Senate Passes Bill for Display b State. Bv i Columbia, Feb. 14.?The senat passed and ordered sent to the hous amended the bill of the late Mr. Rem bert, providing for the participatio of South Carolina in the Panama Pacific exposition in 1915. The bii I carries with it an appropriation c $12,000. E. J. Watson, commh aioner of agriculture, commerce an industries, is to have charge of th exhibit. The senators who voted fo Sfc v ' the exhibit were; Ackermann, At pelt, Banks, Christensen, Croucl Hall, Hardin, Hough, Johnstone Ketchin, .Lawson, Manning, Man Mullins, Nicholson, Richardsor Stuckey, Sullivan, Weston an Young. "I never heard of any results fror any exhibit made anywhere," declar - - - .. . . ed Senator (janisie, in opposing in passage of the bill. "Whenever Soutl Carolina exhibits it merely exhibit our comparative poverty." It was pointed out that it was no a question of making a big display but of showing the :indeveloped re sources of this State. It was said tha emigrants do not seek a land alread; developed and that South Oarolim has unlimited resources that are uu developed. "The United States government ha made a survey of the soils of thi State and if this bill does no mor than distribute literature showing th valuable soils here it will be wort] while," said Senator Appelt. Senator Weston said that the $12, 000 was appropriated simply for th purpose of transporting and properl SllUWlilg IUC tJAJUlu.il. aucau; 5uu1v.1v/ together by the department of agri culture, commerce and industries. THE COLONEL AXI) THE PORTED ___ Idea of Mere Passenger Criticism Pullman Monarch! One naturally would think that Co' Frank Supplee, 62 years of age and former commander of the Four! Maryland Regiment in the Civil Wai was a man of considerable know] edge, says the New York Globe. Un doubtedlv he is, but we are surprise . that he has yet to learn one thin which we supposed pretty nearl everyone knew?namely, the respec . a traveler should show to the Puli man porter. . When the Wolverine Express rol! t ed into the Grand Central Terming yesterday Colonel Supplee was carl ed off to Bellevue Hospital. He ha four scalp wounds and a half doze more or less severe abrasions an la^omtirms nf the head. It seem the Colonel had found fault with th manner in which his shoes had bee polished by the porter, by name M: Benjamin Harrel. Such presumptio on the part of a common person n self-respecting porter could tolerat< Mr. Harrel quickly showed his di: pleasure. Colonel Supplee was lucky to g( off with as little damage as he di( Our sympathy is extended to M Harrel. who was unceremonious] dragged off to a dungeon cell on charge of felonious assault. "Old Clayton's sons never amoun ed to much, did they?" "No. One of them's a poet and tfc other's got a government job."?Lif? JUMPS FROM CAR WINDOW. 5 Prisoner Seeking Liberty, Probably ] Finds Death. >s Florence, February 14.?Tipple Lewis, a negro who killed a white i e man in Emanuel county, Ga., in 1911, s 1_ was tried and convicted in October, ] 1912, and who was in the Emanuel 1 n countv. Ga.. jail at Swainsboro i ? awaiting a pending appeal, and who 1- broke and escaped from that jail on Christmas day, in 1912, came near e being killed by jumping from the Palmetto Limited train, No. 83, southbound, over the Atlantic Coast 11 Line between Sellers and Latta, s. Thursday morning.' 3 Lewis, after breaking jail in Geor5 gia, left the State and was recently 7 located in Camden, N. J. Deputy 6 Sheriff E. L. Currie, of Dublin coun1 ty, Ga., an adjoining county to 3 Emanuel, was sent to Camden for 5 Lewis. Just after leaving Richmond 9 Lewis was noticed to be making an 2 effort to escape, but the deputy 6 made additional fastenings to Lewis. 2 Just after leaving Latta the deputy 0 stepped out of his seat for a moment 9 and in the twinkling of an eye Lewis 4 had lifted the sash and out of the 7 window he flew. The conductor who 4 was sitting by attempted to catch 5 him by the feet as he went out but he 7 missed his mfirk and "cuff" went 4 down with "flying colors" to the ditch 0 bank. 9 The train was stopped and backed 9 to where Lewis lay, and it was found 7 that he was paralyzed from his neck 5 down, and he was brought to Flor7 ence and placed in the Coast Line's 8 negro hospital where he is thought 9 to be in a dying condition. When 2 Lewis left the train by the "bird ~ route" old "83" was fairly flying at a gait of something like. "60 per," U/NM. f liot fnlnw. licnce Uic ciuaugcicmcui. uiai 1UIU.T ed. y Deputy Currie is with his prisoner c and will remain with him until he t gets better, or is able to take his r e "corpse" along down to Swainsboro e for identification and for vindication t- of the Georgia law that he broke r n when he killed the Georgia citizen. I t- I 11 TWO CADETSHIPS OFFERED. 1 if S Examination for Annapolis and Ap- 6 d t pointment to West Point. g Washington, February 16.?At a I- c ^ date to announced later Repre' sentative Whalev will have a com- , \ t petitive examination in Charleston ' early in April to select a principal j and alternate for an Annapolis cadet- . u C ship, which has become vacant by . resignation. The examination will , a t be held in time to alLow the winners to take the examination at Annapolis ? April 21. ti v Representative Byrnes has sent to . war department the designation of J. t A. Stansel, of Elko, for a .West Point cadetship, and of J. W. Folk, of Bamberg, and W. P. Martin, of Williston, t as first and second alternates, respectively, for the same place. The appointments followed a competitive exa . c animation. i: 1 g s Rest Periods for Women. ^ The last official act of John Skel0 ton Williams as acting Secretary of e r . the Treasury, just before he took , [1 c the oath as comptroller, will commend him not merely to the employees of the treasury department, v but to all lovers of humanity. In adj dition to the lunch hours Mr. Williams directed that there should be rest periods in the money and stamp counting divisions which will give the women employees breathing spells from 10.30 to 10.40 each morning g and from 2 o'clock to 2.10 each afternoon. . Incessant application, it was I. ? found, impared the accuracy of these ^ women employees. The work is unusually exacting, and puts a heavy ' - - ?.i -?n r siram upon uie eyes <mu nci ?cs ui <m the workers. The rest periods will L- r , relax the tension. The relief will a j ^ enable them to keep their health and, * incidentally, bring briskness and ac- c ' curacy to the work of the departi ment. I" 2 The government has been very , slow to adopt the humanitarian prol1 gram which has been inaugurated by many private concerns. Many 1 ^ corporations have found real economy in the establishment of a pension ,, retirement system. Manv of them c u j have established schools for their eme ployees. rest rooms, gymnasiums and bands, the theory being that the emr ployees should l>e in good physical " and mental health. 1 Good health and contentment are o assets to the employer. One big ~ i ? u ; mnnnfmtnrinir nnnr>DVT) in I , (JiUMULlg lUGUUiav-iunus vuui.viu ??? , Philadelphia clears the second floor { ^ of the building at noon every day. r j and has installed a mechanical or- f * chestra so that all the employees ( may dance. The proprietors say the ( a employees work better, and that it c would be hard for a rival employer ] to win them away. Employers gen? _ or-allv- dTr>. ror>oprni7inpr that t.heir in- t terest in the employers should not i le stop with an inspection of the work f e. and the payment of salaries. 1 WANT TO GO CAMPAIGNING. j p Lawmakers Working for Adjourn- U ment on June 1st. Washington, February 15.?Aduinistration leaders in congress, seeking to speed up the legislative program, will make an effort this veek to dispose of more of the appropriation measures. In the senate, ;he postoffice appropriation bill will pe taken up whilet he house is completing work on the Indian bill. With the session now nearly three tnonths' old, and new problems presenting themselves, democratic chieftains are growing apprehensive about the possibility of an early adjourn- | ment, so members can get into the I coming congressional campaign. It is I All T -1 I ess tnan rour monms umu uuxie jl, ;he tentative objective point for ad- II journment, and much work remains. [J 3o the word has gone out to com- JJ nittees to work as rapidly as possible and floor leaders have been urgid to limit debate to a minimum. A Fight in Store. While the senate usually disposes )f appropriation bills rapidly, there s a fight in store on the postoffice P )ill, owing to the committee amend- 1 nent which would take the power 'rom the postmaster general to ;hange rates, weight limits or other eatures of the parcels post system, kittle will be accomplished early in :he week, owing to the death of P senator Bacon, whose funeral will be 1 leld Tuesday. Though the death of he Georgia senator will deprive the oreign relations committee of its eader, no change is contemplated in he program to begin consideration of he eight general arhitration treaties )ending. These will be taken up in ixecutive session of the senate Tues- < lay, the leadership in the discussion ?f the demands falling on Senator shively, of Indiana, second demo:rat in rank on the foreign relaions committee. Senator Stone, the ( anking democrat, is ill. Expired Treaties. The conventions to be pressed for atification and extension are the exured treaties with Great Britian, Ja >an, Italy, Spain, sweaen, Norway, Portugal and Switzerland. Senator U Ihively to-night said there undoubt;dly would be opposition to the reaties^ but he confidently expected ill to be ratified. Immigration legislation will be :onsidered throughout the week by he senate committee on immigraion. Revision and perfection of anti- II rust legislative bills will continue IJ tefore senate and house committees, t having been determined that all the ~ entaive measures must be changed. Senator Walsh's measure to pro- M ide government control of radium pq vill be the subject of further hearngs by the senate committee on nines and mining. Anti-Trust Hearings. The House anti-trust and comnerce regulation hearings program or tomorrow includes Louis Bran- ( lies, of Boston, before the judiciary |i ommittee to discuss price fixing and | nterlocking directorates and a dele- I ;ation of bituminous coal operators | / *?<-.? ? flio I'ntDrototo fnnimprpfi com- I CIWIC 111^ luvviobuvv nittee. E! The pension appropriation bill is U eady and the army appropriation ^ >ill carrying $94,000,000, a radical [ eduction from the estimates, will be eported to the House when it meets o-morrow. The House committee on naval afairs will vote February 24 on the taval building program, for which he Administration asks two battlehips, eight destroyers and three subnarines. The naval appropriation bill is beng prepared by a sub-committee, vhich is considering a plan for a lavy department commission to in'estigate the Government armor date plant project and report at the 11 text session of Congress. ^ Decision as to whether the pr.o>osed $3,000,000 dry dock shall be at ? Norfolk as recommended by the navy m lepartment, or at Philadelphia, will | )e left to the full committee. 8 Because of complaints of misman- I igement of the ten branches of the I Jnited States Soldiers' Home, the I louse committee on military affairs I s conducting hearings 011 a bill to B ransfer the administration of these I rlomes from the present board of ? :ivilian managers to the war departnent. BABIES BARREI) FROM MAIL. w department Rules That'They Can't V lie Sent by Parcels Post. 1 Washington. Feb. 13.?Babies vere barred from parcels post in a jostoffice department edict to-day. The question arose over a request rom a postmaster for a ruling by the lepartment as to whether a patron )f his office could send a two-year)ld child by parcels post from Twin ^alls, Idaho, to Stratford, Okla. Second Assistant Postmaster Gen- m ;ral Stewart ruled that all human be- L ngs and live animals are barred i 'rom the mails. The one exception, lowever, is the queen bee. /J 11 11 Concrete W a I have employed an ex] plumber and am now ] pared to do all kinds of f class plumbing at reason; nrices and on short ho ? % Yc id] Wc gr Ci rei l ALL WORK P. A I i 3i ii ino^ We wi) POUND l fo I Pound of Dr koirm an i ai int/i i Bambe ii Vrite us for Casl lizers. We can STEWART COTT( ork w? u nd Plumbing I , pert j j pre- U' 4 irst-, :" S| Btble 1 1 " v f . ? ! > i 6 Hp- | im also prepared to do all I nds of Street Paving, Side- I ilk, Septic Tank, Under- I /j ound Systems, Coping, J ^ lrbing, and all kinds of Inforced cement work :: bhm? 1 $ GUARANTEED II IATCHELLI ,' ' * j ???,j ^H HI ^H IH HS 11 11 give a R *i ; Vj? OF MEAL I ' j?' *, ).. - yi r a -^m f Cotton Seed 8 1 . .. ,- \.: ; ;^|| r * r ; Gin lo.il J .: >?. U ^Jf| ~ . ' '; 'Zii a B?i 5 -$bv M ^ j^a ^" ^^^1 s i6 SB M JB JB Iff fft I W ak H MbkmSL _ V^V'^ -J^ ' V ' '$ i n n - -lil a fnces on fernsave you Money I wrn ? , ? i m Oavannaii, ua. J