Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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REP. LEVER'S COTTON BIL DESIGNED TO ELIMINATE GAM LING ON EXCHANGES. Levei* Says Practices of New Yo Exchange Costs Fanners $100,000,000 a Year. Wachineton. June 29.?The Hou today substituted the chief Lever b for regulation of cotton exchang through prohibitive taxes for the Se ate measure proposing regulation means of prohibiting the use of t mails and the telegraph for so-call gambling transactions. The House put the bill through u der suspension of the rules by a vc of 84 to 21 and sent it to the Se nto Tf the Senate fails to agree the substitute the differences will taken up in conference. Senator Smith, author of the Se ate bill, is now campaigning in Sou Carolina, and consideration of t substitute may be delayed until i return, though Senator Smith, Georgia, or some other Southern se ator may call it ujj in the meantirr Both the Senate and House mea ures aim to regulate alleged evil prs tices of the coton exchanges which t cotton producers contend keep dov the price of cotton. The Senate bi through the postoffice department ai the interstate commerce commissior jurisdiction over the telegraph, wou prohibit the transmission of quot tions and lists of sales of cotton th did not comply with the requiremen as to standardization prescribed the bill. Both bills would regula thoueh they would not prohibit tran actions in futures. Costs South Millions. "I believe that the practices of tl New York coton exchange cost tl Southern producers anually $100,0( 000," declared Representative Lev? of South Carolina, chairman of tl V T agricultural committee, author of tl bill. "The purpose of this bill is eliminate the practices which cons tute such an enormous burden. Ai man voting against it puts himst v in the attitude of favoring a conti uanceof practices that have been d nounced in every cotton growin Sta ' in the Union." Representative Wingo, of Arka sas, insisted upon legislation aloi - f the lines of the Scott bill. "Bring in what the cotton farme of the South have been demanding he said, "and it will go through tl Senate like the grace of God throuj a camp meeting." R5" A Substitute Measure. The Lever bill was agreed to as ^ substitute for the measure drafted 1 Senator Smith, of South Carolina, ai passed by the Senate. The Sena bill would prohibit the use of tl mails for contracts-that do not me conditions of standard grades ai commercial differences. That provi ion is omitted from the Lever bi The Senate bill would not tax co tracts for future delivery. The Hou bill levies a tax of 1 cent a pound < all contracts for future delivery th do not meet standard grades and cor mercial grades as set out in the bi . This tax of 1 cent a pound is intend< to be prohibitory, amounting to $5( a contract. There are a number other provisions on dealing in cottc futures designed to eliminate certa practices of the New York and Ne Orleans exchanges. Representative Aswell, of Louisi na, sought to introduce, as a subsl tute for the Lever bill, a measure similar intent framed by the office of the National Farmers' Union, bi ;f was ruled out of order. The Aswc bill would levy a tax of twenty cen a pound, instead of 1 cent, as tl Lever bill provides. Aj^Great Drawback. Representative Heflin. of Alabam favoring the bill, declared g&mblii in cotton one of the greatest dra1 backs to the cotton industry. Representative Hughes, of Georgi opposed the bill. He declared the were good and bad points in the Le er bill, and he opposed it because ce tain features were detrimental to cc ton growers. He recognized the nei of some such legislation, however, d claring that the cotton producer fu nished the stake for the gambling i dulged in by the exchanges. T New York Cotton exchange, he sai had manipulated and controlled cc ton prices for many years and hi "made themselves the self-constiu ed guardians for the Southern fa mer." Progressive Leader .Murdoch. Kansas, also opposed the bill. He 1 vored more drastic legislation, su as that proposed in the Smith bill. Murdock for Smith liill. "T!^? Smith bill."said Mr. Murdoc "estops them from using the mat The exchange is made up of 250 350 kid-gloved gentlemen. The Ami ican people want a halt to the gambling practices. To do away wi the fixed differences and to do soi of the other things provided in tl bill are all right, but they are n enough; the bill should go furtliei Representative Tribble, of Georg declared the Lever bill was not in t CONDITION OF COTTON 78.6 C( Journal of Commerce Figures Based jj0| K" on 2.0(H) Reports. New York. June 29?The marked ( rk tendency to reduce acreage in Texas jev and Oklahoma has caused a general age reduction amounting for the whole j10t belt to 1.7 per cent. Of the impor- ed tant States only Mississippi and Lou- car 186 isiana showed an increase, being 4 wai lJ11 per cent and k per cent, respectively. wif :es Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and wa5 !n~ Tennessee remain the same as last j by year. Owing to unfavorable condi- sui, be tions in the early half of the month jjV e(* and the general lateness of the season hea the percentage of cotton advanced bUS n" but slightly, being 7S.6 per cent, njg >te against 78.2 per cent a month ago, ear n" or an advance of 0.4 per cent. This nio; to compares with 80.9 per cent in 1913, mei 8 13 nor ront in 1912. 85.9 in 1911. the and 80.6 for the ten-year average. <jur n" These reports are based on the re- j0b plies of over 2.000 special corres- the poudents of the Journal of Commerce, cjei 11S bearing an average date of June 22. of The condition in South Carolina is Wt n" reported at 77.9 per cent, an advance ie* of 0.7 points. LS- ? L0- RECOVERS EMBLEM. 1 zen he fro ^.n Charlestonian is Restored to a Long,, Lost Fraternal Pin. *rc _____ ual a, A Masonic emblem pin which he Sta 1 ? lost 33 years ago has just come back tra to Wiliam M. Bird, of this city, from QU( a" Madison, Wis., having been restored is at by a Mason of that city who picked it the up two years ago in the railroad sta- Ho n tion at Chicago, says the Charleston she te Evening Post. v*n lS~ About two weeks ago a letter was ens received at the Charleston postoffice hoi addressed to the secretary of Solo- ho^ te mon's Lodge, No. 1, of Charleston. wh te As Postmaster J. M. Poulnot is the s?' secretary of Solomon's Lodge, the let- ne !r? ter came very readily and promptly UTe te into the hands of its addressee. It feri te was from P. B. Turner, of Madison, ma t? Wis., who stated that he had a small u?r ti- Masonic pin, inscribed with the name nie *>' of W. *M. Bird, Solomon Lodge, and le? -'If asked if there was such a person in ?f n-1 Charleston and if he could identify tru e" [ the pin as his property Mr. Turner res te: would like to send it to him. Secre- cer | tarv Poulnot was, for many years, as- 1 n- j sociated in business with Mr. Bird citi ig j and had also sat many times with the j him in Solomon's Lodge, of which ma rs both are past masters. He put the ?T letter into Mr. Bird's hands at once >'?u te and Mr. Bird comunicated with Mr. inn ?h Turner, identifying the pin as his. By an early mail it came to him, to- this gether with a letter from Mr. Turner anc a j telling the circumstances under which wh< t>y it came into his possession. con id In 1881, that is to say 33 years a p te ago. the pin, together with a pendant tha ie belonging to Mrs. Bird, were missed wh' et from a dressing table in Mr. Bird's of id residence shortly after some work- per 6- men had finished a job of repairing, cer: 11. It is presumed that one of the men me: n- j took the articles, but no clue to them aws se i could be found nor anything to war- to in j rant arrest. Long since hope of re- ins at covering the jewels was abandoned, an i u- j The Masonic pin had been given to sol< U. I Mr. Bird by a friend in New York and 00C ;d I was marked with his name and that 2,0 )0 j of his lodge. It was a small gold em- der of: blem showing the square and com- ter, ' ^ - A 1 OT11 )n 1 passes aiiu me w uwei, ?ui Mug iuuis in ! of the Masons. Ion w Mr. Turner says that two years ago ent while he was waiting for a train in not a- Chicago, he picked up the pin from *'bi ;i- the floor of the railroad station. He dti of intended to take up at once the resto- pea rs | ration of the emblem to its owner the at hut had forgotten about it and only act ill recently recalled it when he came ttlu ts across the pin in a box where he had to : ie put it away. How the pin came to ..j Chicago and through what hands it has passed since it was taken from ~ i o a Mr. Bird's house in Charleston a third j of a century ago. would, no doubt. | make an interesting story. The only evidence the pin gives of its having anc a experienced vicissitudes is the absence off( re of the handle of the trowel. 011 which ous v_ was the catch for the fastening, and sue ,r_ it is not unlikely that the breaking as )t_ of this was the cause of its falling izei e(j ing in the station in Chicago, whereby 1 ig_ it came into the hands of Mr. Turner sac [r_ and so back to its rightful owner. the n- ? Lin he Precisely So. Ion d, Let Wife: "In a battle of tongues a ^0( olu-Qi'c liolrl lic?r n\vn ** ^ ?uiua;i vcw cw ........ .....v. ~ an( Husband: * But she never does." ,, it- _ m __ Ha ir" A Common Opinion. ',p' _____ con of From the way things are shaping 01 a_ up it would be well to keep an eye va c*h on "Old Clink."?Georgetown Times. on( ????????????? as interests of the farmer. sac :k. Representative Harrison, of .Missis- wil Is. sippi, favored it, but explained that oui to he was against all dealings in cotton hoc ;r- futures on exchanges. ent se "I favor abolishing these transac- ent th tions." he said, "I am willing to vote cib tie'for this bill to help the situation." We lis j Representative Sinims spoke ,ot (against the measure and Representa- jtive Candler, of Mississippi, favored vel ia.Jit "because some law on the subject sig hejis better than no law at all." An V i - ........ i JLUMBIAX TAKES OWN LIFE. K] ?ert Kelley, Merchant of Capital Ink City, Commits Suicide. Columbia. June 29.?Robert Kel- 1 , of this city, about 3") years of see !, walked into the lobby of a local of el at 5 o'clock this morning, seat- Yoi himself at a writing table, drank wes bolic acid and died shortly after- La. rd. .Mr. Kelley is survived by a Baj e and threee small children. He fitt< 5 originally from Hartsville, S. C. ico Co motive can be assigned for the Vet :ide. .Mr. Kelley is said to have and td happily and in the best of trai ,1th. He owned a local grocery to iness on Gervais street. Last and ht he slept quietly, and his very and ly departure from his home this | the rning excited no attention from blo< aibers of the family, as he was in a n custom of going to work at 6.30 1 ing this season of the year. The the by of the hotel was deserted when the poison was taken, only the night has k being present at the time. Thi Che iy the Department of Christian \ Citizenship? - his tO ! rhe department of Christian citi- har iship views the liquor traffic not bri( m the standpoint of suffering, the and ?ng, the degradation of the individ- ienj primarily, but of its danger to the feel ,te. The menace of the liquor 0ut ffic to the State and the conse- hon mt duty of the Christian citizen i its distinctive field. Its appeal, to refore is an appeal to patriotism, so w effective that appeal is all history to iws. Let our people be once con- frie ced that any real danger threat- stri ; the nation, or that in any way its or i lor is compromised and we Know tint v, as with an electric shock, the gat ole nation is stirred. The call for par diers brings thrice the number he ided and wealth pours its treas- F s unstinted into the nation 3 oof- the: 3. Convince the manhood and wo- and nhood of this country that the li<i- Che traffic, by debauching our young moi n and women, by corrupting our ed ! islatures, by destroying the sense tern public honor, threatens in very tiar th the life of the nation, and the ene ponse wil be neither slow nor un- Wh tain. tret Jut the department of Christian C zenship does not confine itself to er < duties of the patriot in the one a c tter of the liquor traffic. "Do ev- are thing and do it al the time," "Pool The ir issues," the watchwords of our wht norta! leader, epitomize the truth Fell ich long years of experience in seci 3 war have taught us. Evil is one. ure I all evils so closely connected that enti en you atack one, lo! you face the deri ibined forces of all. There is not find roblem of all the crucial problems eas; t confront us as a nation over T ich does not appear the slimy trail pan the liquor serpent. Therefore, und force, the temperance army is con- the ned with them all. The depart- dots nt of Christian citizenship would doo iken the patriotism of the people ped the great and crying need of liv- the for the nation. It is especially bef< ippeal to youth. Of the 2,500,000 his liers whom Lincoln enlisted, "2,- gro i.uuu were uncier zi. ui inese auu 00,000 there were 1,000,000 un- ploj 18 years of age and of those lat- T , 500.000 were under 15. To that P?oj husiastic spirit of youth which cat? gs for action, which is fired with "Pr husiasm when an opportunity for as. >le adventure presents itself, but catc ich curbed and restrained, fills our Wit es with crime, to that spirit we ap- Pin .1. It is our high misson to direct sup exuberant youth of our land into divi ivities which shall equal the en- tion siasm of their spirits. It is ours dow show them that pen s great to be out there where the p fight is strong, .. thei be where the heaviest troops be- e- j lons' stri d to fight there for man and God." 1 thdt the field of battle does not sa^t ?r such opportunities for strenu- tra< ? and glorious action, not make tl>e :h demands for lofty patriotism ^ does the life of the peaceful cit- test a. ' r?d ^et them see the glory and the hur rifice and the danger of fighting ^an< "beast" of our jungle as Judge tdsey is doing, and he will no ger fight his battle single-handed. r0\ ; them realize that to stand as terasevelt and La Follette and Wright |?on 1 Glen and Folk and Johnson andipos nly and Burke have stood against jand itioians. demands a more splendid ljs t irage than ever to clinil) the heights j San Juan Hill and we shall not --71 it long: for recruits. When men I in 1 e realize not only "that sixpences j well as lives must sometimes be (of rificed" for the nation, not only . the: 1 the sixpences he forthcoming hut'the Christian patriots, our splendid littl ly of young men and women, will old er into the contest with all the blo< husiasm which made them invin- co le on the battle-field.?Isabella bb Parks. * Re] 1 Hai shipment of initial cards and en- o^, opes just received. Beautifully de- HA ned gold initials. Only 23c a box. J y initial can be supplied. J?n ? IVALS FOB LAFITTE'S GOLD. eirest A train Aroused in the Pirate's Supposed Buried Treasure. 'wo parties are now at White Lake king the supposed buried treasure the pirate, Lafitte, says the New :k Sun. White Lake' is in the .tern part of Vermilion Parish, , twenty miles north of Vermilion r. There is a tradition that La5 sailed up from the Gulf of .Mexto Vermilion Bay, thence up the milion Bayou into White Lake, [ there buried his treasure. One lition is that the treasure amounts $7,000,000 in American, Spanish I English money, gold and silver jewels. Another tradition is that m ts S01.000.000 in Spanish dou ons. Each prospecting party has lap or chart. 'he man who is prospecting for $91,000,000 says that he found chart in the treasure vault. He the chart, but has lost the vault, s is the story as told by Price >ate, the treasure hunter. Vhile he was hunting alligators canoe grounded. In attempting shove it free his paddle struck a d substance, which proved to be ik. He examined the obstruction found a brick vault, six feet in 5th, six feet wide and about five ? - '' * ^ 1 : high. From the vault ne iuok a haudful of doubloons and went ae. 'hen he set about to get assistance build a canal and a large boat, that he could bring the gold out the mainland. He would let a nd in on the ground floor, in the ctest confidence, for $?50, $500, is much as he could get. He conted this for several months, and hered in about $10,000 from his tners, each of whom believed that was the only on^. 'inally one partner heard that re was another, and still another, they began to compare notes. >ate was arrested for obtaining iey under false pretences, plead;uilty to six charges, and was senced to six years in the peniteny. By good conduct he shortd his term and is now back at ite Lake looking for that buried isure. :apt. J. F. Stratton. a cotton buyof New Orleans, and M. Pearson, ivil engineer of Houston, Texas, the men behind the other search. ;y are working with the help of it they believe is a map drawn by ton or Fulton, who was Lafltte's etary. The map locates the treasin a lake twenty miles from the ranee to a shell mound. The hol3 of the map believe if they can the, shell mound they will have r sailing to the treasure, 'he manner in wkich the Stratton ty became possessed of the mao er which they are operating is usual pirate's story of handing n documents when at death's r, Felton had organized an exif Is\in Von- VnrL- coornh f nr I treasure, but died at sea. Just jre he died he gave the chart to faithful negro servant. The nedrifted to Louisiana, and when ut to die gave the chart to his em- == er, Capt. McGee, at Opelousas. _ 'he Stratton party recently emred a divining rod expert to lo> the treasure. The services of of." Drummitt, of Houston, Tex- ] were secured, as his lame as lo- j >r of minerals had spread abroad. J :h Engineer Pearson he visited e Island, where the treasure is posed to be. He unlimbered his ning rod and waited for indicais. Finally.it moved, pointing nward. There it it," exclaimed the ext. "It is about six feet." 'earson dug down eight feet and n sank a steel rod to a depth of . it feet in the soft soil without king the treasure. The expert lained that there was gold in the water and that his rod was at;ted by the metal in bulk or in minutest particles. 'earson did not wish a further , having lost faith in the divining * But he firmly belie\es that the , ied treasure is on one of the is- | :1s. Self-Restraint. altv was on a visit to DoncasAn old Yorkshire woman had ^ ?. +\\t\ OAiircn tY*v tlifi cnlp nil V e of seeing England's greatest, she called out excitedly: "Which he King? Which is the King?" 5' There he is." said someone near. _ lat's hint with the handkerchief f\ lis hand." i Ah!" gasped the old lady, a touch j reverent awe in her tone. Just n liis majesty, who had a cold in ^ head, performed a commonplace le operation. "Goodness me!" the " lady exclaimed aghast, "he?he ~ ivs his own nose!"?San FrancisArgonaut. JcCormick Mowing Machines and lairs. Hay Rakes. Cultivators, rrows. and Lawn Mowers. Paints, s. and Varnishes. Hl'XTER'S RDWARE STORE.?adv. nice spotted pony for sale at es Bros', stables L PERFECT BROILING A steak broiled on the New Perfection Oil Cook-stove is tender and delicious. n V-r..v The New Perfection has a special broiler, a hood that ' sits away from the flame but ' which gets all the heat. It eirl/ae of nnr a (|i UlUllO uyux OIUV/O Mb wuvvi I All the navor of the meat is saved. N&v Per/Sctioft T7T>I im j Oil Cook-stove means easier work and a cool, clean kitchen. Made with 1,2,3, and 4 burn- ?-l _i_- . ers; ciiso d new siuvc wiui fireless cooking oven. 1,1 -M At all hardware and department stores. STANDARD OIL COMPANY Washington, D. C. (New Jersey) Charlotte, N. C. Norfolk, Va. BALTIMORE Charieslc a, W. Va. Richmond Va. Charleston, S. G. .. r? relephones ! on Farms 1 50c per Month and Up , , 7y"S ' '! If there is no telephone on your farm write for our free booklet telling how you may get service at j ? small cost. Address FARMERS* LINE DEPARTMENT OUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE ND TELEGRAPH COMPANY {|4&2 ^ S. PRYOR STREET ATLANTA, GA. xjjjjgjgr J. F. Caller B. I). Carter GRAHAM & BLACK ( CARTER & CARTER Attorneys-at-Law f AttorneyS-at-LaW ^Vill practice in the United States and GENERAL PRACTICE ? State Courts in any County BAMBERG, S. C. in the Stote' j BAMBERG, S. C. ^ a.