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THE CRUEL CLAN That Tennessee's Military Power j is Now Rounding Up. IT SWORE ITS OATHS i In Dripping lllood, Kitformi lis Orders With Torture mid Wunton Murder, and Lived I'p to Its Motto, t4l)ead Men Tell No Tales," Knforeing Without Merey. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. 7.?Dead men tell no tales. Neither do the oath-hound members of the dread Night Rider clan, men who took their obligation in the wild forests around Reel foot lake and signed their names in dripping blood, while about them the stillness of a night as dark as lCrehus was bro nun uniy oy i nc weird scream of the heron or (ho loud too-hoo of the swamp owl. But the terrible secrets of this tierce clan are being given up?and by the living. Lips that have been sealed through fear of death, through fear of the silent riding band of masked men and horses with inutlled feet; lips that have feared the oaths, the threats of the nuduight assassin, the noose, the swing of death. The bloody rule of the night riders was enforced by torture and wanton murder. It was unchallenged while the sufferers were residents of the wooded country surrounding the lake. It promises now to be broken by the power of the State backed by the flashing bayonets of the national guard. Crimes local in their character had been safe. When the red-handed outlaws lynched Captain Quintin Rankin and attempted to kill Colonel It. Z. Taylor they awakened the law-rcspeeting sentiment of the State and brought their leaders to thi shadow of the gallows. "Thank Cod, 1 can talk at last; i and i will." was the cry of a mother in the Iteelfoot lake country who \ she beheld the soldi rs and realized that, law was to supersede the rule of murder. She was the mother of a lad who had b. en forced to join in a raid to Hickman, Kv., wh< re a family of negroes was wiped out by the night riders. This hoy, who went unwillingly, never returned, and after the ouuiiurs arrived a story leaked out of a newly made grave in the woods. A sweet-faced girl, wearing black in memory of the lover who lay in the grave, came to camp and the secret of that raid was revealed. "Tid" Burton, who was induced to turn State's evidence, is a hunter and fisherman. For hours lie was silent and defiant, but the temptation of the promised reward of $10,U00 and a feeling of safety inspired by the presence of the soldiers won him over lo the side of the State. He revealed the secrets of the night riding clan, and this and other information gained by the authorities his resulted in the arrest of 100 men. /Governor M. K. Patterson, who is personally directing the work, believes that the ring-leaders are among the prisoners, and that the blood of Captain Itankin will be avaiLged. Tom Johnson, who is said to be the captain of the night riders, s one of those taken into custody. He has maintained a dogged silence. His time is spent in pacing the narrow confines of his cell, while he gazes furtively and longingly toward the recesses of the forest. While the grand jury investigation is held secretly as possible, it is said that the constitution and by-laws of the Night Riders clan have been offered in evidence. The penalty for betrayal of the obligations imposed by the ritual is death. The names of members are signed with their own blood. The clan decreed that members should not employ negroes after June, 1909, that banks should not exact over (5 per cent interest on loans, that merchants should not make over 10 per cent profit, an l that cotton and other commodities should not bring less than a certain figure. Many of the men who have settled on the lake are said to have left y for other regions between two suns. In fact, at Reel foot, as in the Pan handle of Texas, it is said to he "bad form" to ask some peopje where they came from, a breech of ethjuet that will be promptly resented. Crack shots, men who know not the sense of fear, men convinced tint ^others of means were depriving them of their just right to make a living? of such are the night riders of Heelfoot. . It is believed that prompt and effective action by Tennessee will tend to stamp out the scourge of night riding that has spread from Kontucky over a wide area of the South. * ' Our farmers will please notice th Taft.'s election has not helped the price of cotton. We believe that corton will go up later, but the election of Toft will have no more to 1o with Jt than the sneezing of the man In the moon. But keeping It off the market will. # THE NEXT HOUSE DEMOCRATS GAINED NINE SEATS THIS ELECTION. The Democrats will Have I7?S Representatives and Republic"ins 1SIU, According to laitest Figures. The Republican party will, accordlug to present returns from all Congressional districts in the United States control tho next national House of Representatives by a majority of 4 1. The figures so far received show the election of 21 tl Republicans and 175 Democrats, a gain for the latter party of 9. The majorities in several districts are reported as extremely close, and it is possible that in a few instances the official count may change the figures given above. The following table shows the number of Representatives elected from all the States: State. I)em. Rep. Alabama 9 Arkansas 7 California S Colorado 3 Connecticut 5 Delaware 1 Florida 3 Georgia 11 Idaho I Illinois G lit Indiana 11 2 Iowa 1 10 Kansas 8 Kentucky 8 Louisiana 7 Maine Maryland 3 Massachusetts 3 Michigan 1 Minnesota 1 ? Mississippi N Missouri 1 1' Montana 1 Nebraska & 1 Nevada 1 New Hampshire i\ew Jersey J 7 New York 11 3*' North Carolina 7 3 North Dakota Ohio ' ! 1 Oklahoma 3 .5 Oregon Pennsylvania -* 37 I > 1 1 ? 1 * iuiuiii1 i si iiiui 2 So ut h Carolina 7 South Dakota* 2 Tennessee 8 2 Texas 10 Utah I Vermont 2 Virginia U 1 Washington 3 West Virginia f> Wisconsin 1 10 Wyoming 1 Total 175 210 COXSTAIILK KILLS NKUHO, Wlio Attempted to Outrage a Pennsylvania White (airl. Uniontown, Pa., Nov. 5.?While attempting to arrest Jesse Uice, a negro at ttiverside, near here, last night, Constable llrown shot him dead and was himseuf fatally shot in the abdomen by the negro. Nevis llrown, a son of the olllcer, was also shot in the arm by Uice. Two months ago a warrant was issued for the arrest of the negro on a charge that he had committed an asualt on a young white woman at Masontown. Uice, however, disappeared, and yesterday Constable , llrown, of this place, learned ho was living at Riverside. The officer went there to make the 1 arrest and the shooting followed ?m ii iiiu negro oiierea armed resistaneH. lillYAX CAHHIKS GEORGIA. Got Over Thirty-two TIioumuhI More Votes TIihii Taft. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 5.?Complete returns from 139 of the 146 counties in Georgia give the followiug result-) in the presidential election on Tuesday: For Bryan, 73,GOG; Taft, 41,268; Watsoa, 17,514; r?el>s, 7G7; Chafin, 4 S3; Ifisgen, 83. This shows a total of 133,238 votes aud gives Bryan a majority over all of 9,632. Bryan's plurality over Taft is 32,638 votes. Not over a half vote was polled. Had all the votors turned out Bryan's plurality over Taft would hare been near 80,000. The Democrats elected evory Congress iiiitu uy boou majorities. TKHUII1IJ0 TltAGKDY. A Crazed Hotel Man Kills Wife and Son. John Hagan, 50 years old, propria- ? tor of a hotel at Scranton, N. Y., on the outskirts of HofTalo, near the Lackawanna steel plant, shot and in- ' stantly killed his 17-year-old son, 1 George, and sorloualy wounded his ( wife, Carrie, at ten o'clock Thursday ' morning. Hagan Is in tho custody of 1 deputy sheriffs and tke district at- I torney has gone to the sceno of the t shooting. ThJa man la believed to be Insane. , , t f LESS WE FORGET TWO HOOKS SOUTHERN HOYS NllOt'lil) KKAl). So as They Will Know What Our l'eoplc ICmlured for Ten Years After the Close of the War. The following letter was taken from the Keowee Courier: Wo wore asked a short while ago if we did not think that "The Leopard's Spots" was overdrawn? We declare that it is not, while it may l)e tinctured a little with fiction, hut even that is based upon solid facts. Road, if you please, a history written by I)r. Roland, of Greenwood, S. C., called "A Voieo from South Carolina." This book was written in about the years 1 872. Then you will agree that tho Leopard's Spots" is a true story. "Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as tho blood ye gave; No impious footsteps here shall tread The herbage of your grave; j Nor shall your glory be forgot j VlUllln '"m" ? * * ....vj Ktiiic lit-1 record Keeps, Or honor points tho hallowed spot Where valor sproudly sleeps." This Is one cf the verses on a beautiful monumen' wo looked upon with tearful revere'ee while walking through Koseinont cemetery, at Newberry. 'Such acts as the murder >r Crozier are some of the things thai keep a man from forgetting the war. Does history record any noo.er sacrifice? Damon was the friend of Pythias, 1 >111 this man Bowers was a stranger to Crozier Much more of this pathetic story is recorded In the "Annals of Newberry." Crozier yielded up his life that another might not suffer. The memory rf that, day is of a tragedy never to bo forgotten. The war had ended, and t.he soldiers of the discharged Confederate army and paroled prisoners were passing through South Carolina to their homes in the West. Among them was Calvin Crozier, a Texan, who arrived at Xowherrv on September 7th, 1865, and was delayed there over night. lie had some ladies under his care, and, as hotel accommodations were very meagre, they decided it would be best to pass the iiikiii m mo car on which they had traveled. Late in the night some ii"gro soldiers, under the command of Colonel Trowbridge, who had arrived at Newberry that day entered the car whore Crozier and the ladies under his care were qu'etly reposing, and made themselves very offensive to the ladies. Crozier requested them to leave, but they refused to do so, and a difficulty ensued. In the scutllc which followed one of the negroes was slightly cut by Crozier with his knife. The regiment to which they belonged was encamped in a graveyard near the depot, and very soon after the difficulty occurred a mini her of them appeared .at the depot bent on revenging the one who had been dealt with by Crozier. In their madness they seized Jacob S. Bowers, who was then General Superintendent of tin Columbia and Greenville Railroad, and were about to lynch him When Crozier learned what they were about, without, a moment's hesitation, he presented himself and told them that he had wounded the negro soldier. He was ut once tied arc' taken to the camp mentioned nbov and was shot to death by the fiends. His body was thrown in a shallow grave, and they dhnced in ghoulish glee noon his nnw.m?'i? .. iUUMO hl ilVt', I I1G oflicers of the pegro regiment principaly white, woro appealed to in behalf of Crozler, but in vain. Throwbrldge, the colonel of this regiment, declared that he took upon himself all the responsibility of the act. Prince Rivens, a negro ofheor, wishing to save the life of Crozler, went to him and begged him to deny the fact that he cut the negro, but he refused. Seldom indeed do we And such heroic, solf-saeriflee as *s embodied of this noble Texan. lie might have gone free to his far Western home had he permitod an innocent man to suffer. How fondly he may have dreamed of his ariiva at. his Texas home, Galveston, and lie greeting of loved ones there! lie gave it all up and laid down ids life that another might live. No ignoble spirit could have acted as ho did, and where lie now sleeps must be holy ground. His body remained there where it was burled by the negro soldiers until 1801, when the neonle of MpwI.?!> ? i?"'' -1 i j nil 111 IS I'l!* mains buried in ltosemont cemetery, and erected an enduring monument to ills memory. In erecting this monument they have honored themselves. These are stubborn facts known to this writer, and are in keeping with tho "Leopard's Spots." Every Southern boy (and girl as well) should read a book written by Or Ueland, of Greenwood, called a "Voice from South Carolina," and tho "Leopard's Spots." They will hen learn what the Southern people mdured for ten years after tho war intil they all rose up as one man in 1876, with tho immortal Hampton as ? heir standard bearer, and threw off i he iron heel of despotism. i As we have stated before, titlouthern peoplo are the product of a SOME GOOD ADVICE DON'T FATTEN MOOS ON COHN ALONE. Vou Are Losing Money if You HaveNot Blunted Some Legumes for Them, Says a Bulletin. Bulletin No. 143 of the Alabama; Experiment Station, gives the results of a three-year feeding test, conducted with ninety hogs, and compares the results of feeding corn alone and witli other feeds. Somo very interesting facts were brought out by this experiment. For example, It cost to make one hundred pounds of gain on the hogs used in the tost, $7.63 when corn alone was fed; $5.75 when the ration was two-thirds corn and one-third cottonseed meal; $o.l8 when it was nine partB corn to one of tankage, and $f>. I 1 when it consisted of corn and cowpeas half and half. "When corn was fed alone but 4 8 cents was realized for each bushel used." To feed 7-cent corn profitably one must, if ho feeds corn alone, get seven cents live weight for his hogs. Cottonseed meal gave good results, reducing the cost per hundred pounds of gain to $:>.7o, when used for onethird of the ration. There is danger in its use, however, and one who j feeds it must be prepared to assume this ri.-k. Four deaths occurred as I a result of the use of cottonseed meal; but all these took place afte?" the hogs had been taken off the meal and placed on other feeds. This suggests that, something yet is to be learned about the effects ot cottonseed meal on the internal machinery of a pig. Tankage proved to be a cheap and satisfactory feed. Hogs fed on one part tankage to nine parts corn meal made a gain of 1.04 pounds per day, the same as those fed on the corn and cottonseed meal. Those fed on corn alone gained only .60 of a pound daily. The cost per hundred pounds of gain was also reduced $2.4r? by the use of the tankage. Cowpeas are a profitable feel when they cost eighty cents to a dollar per bushel. Alter they reach $! .Of) they cease to pay. They were fid with an equal quantity of corn. The cheapest gains were obtained from the use of corn along with peanut and soy bean pastures. To make one hundred pounds of pork with a peanut pasture cost only $2.14, and with soy bean pasture $2.74. This is after taking the cost of raising the crop into account and crediting it with the fertility added to the soil. This was estimated at * ; r. a ,w... ?- - i?v;i ?n;i? in eacn case. Sorghum and chufa pastures use 1 in connection with corn made a very poor showing. The hogs grazed in the sorghum gained only .37 of a pound daily wheh fed on corn alone, and .46 of a pound daily when fe 1 on the corn and cottonseed meal combination. In the first case the gain cost $11.90 per hundred pounds and in the second, $7.7 9. Chufas and corn gave a gain of only .7 2 of a pound per day and cost $8.8"> per hundred pounds of grain. The cost of raising them was charged the same as with the legumes; but no credit was given for any returns they made to the soil, for, alas! there was nothing to credit. A good long sermon?several of them for that matter?might be preacljed from this text; but what's the use? These are the results of actual and accurate experiments. The quesiton is; Will you try to fatten your hogs on a one-sided ration, as corn alono is, or will you supplement it wim cottonseed meal, tankage, or some other nitrogenous feed? Then next year will you or not have a peanut, a cowpea or a soy bean pasture for your hogs? MOTIIEH AND SON POUND DEAD. Woman Shot Through Head aiul Son ]>ead from (ins. At New York Mrs. P. Voit and her son, J. Nelson Volt., a Wall street broker, were found dead In their rooms in a large apartment hotel on upper Broadway late Wednesday. The mother had been slu t in the head and her body was iii her bedroom while the son was lying suffocated by gas on the floor of the bedroom, with pillows under his head. The door of the bathroom was locked and this was held as evidence of probable suicide on his part, follau'l o J 1 ' " nit- uitHi.il or nis mother, probably at his hands. TILLMAN WHITING A HOOK. John Porter 1 loll is Unpaged lu Research for the Senator. John Porter Mollis, a Wofford graduate, Is in Washington for a few days, engaged in research work for Senator Tillman, in connection with his forthcoming book dealing with the race question. nation which could not wear a yoke. The Anglo-Saxon was born to govern, to bo free, to create, to build a ?ociiil and political structure, mighty and masterful. J. RUSSELL WRIGHT Walhalla, S. C. ! . TARE ON COTTON THE WEIGHT OF MAGGING AND TIES. Some Suggestions About this Mat* ter Tliut Cotton Makers Should Think About and Act On. There is almost as wide variation in the weight of bagging and ties used as a covering for tlie cotton crop as there is in the different names and numbors used by cotton firms and exchanges to designate the various grad<?s of cotton, says the Cotton Journal. With regard to bp ging and ties there is an allowance of 0 per cent off, or 20 pounds to the bales for tare by the foreign trade, in Savannah there is an allowance of 7 yards of two and a quarter pound bagging. The New England spinners have agreed to an allowance of 2 2 pounds of bagging anl ties to the bale, while Interior buyers insist on only 6 yards of bagging and 6 ties. The majority of farmers buy light bagging, so that the average weight of the bagging and ties on a bale of cotton delivered by farmers to buyers amounts to about 21 pounds. In this wide complication of differences in the weight of bagging and ties the farmers as usual get the worst end of the bargain. Nearly 65 per cent of the crop goes abroad, and in tine price paid for export cotton the farmers have to stand a loss of 2b pounds to the ba'e for bagging and ties, so that if they put on 21 pounds they lose !> pounds of lint in addition to bagging and ties they pay for ar.d put on the bale. . Spinners do not pay for bagging and t ios. The buyers do not pay f ll It f !1 ?-lv?lr?t-o f ? ? ......wio ini,t IIIIIIK IUT naggnii? and tics. No farmer lias ever sold a pound of bagging and tics to anybody. The bagging and tics on a baie of cotton is a net loss to the man who had the bale ginned. The cotton growers of the South are losing millions of dollars annually on account of their indifference or ignorance regarding this question of bagging and ties. There is but one correct, fair and business-like method of settling this matter on a basis of equity to all parties at interest, and that is to sell cotton strictly on net weight, just as the spinners buy it from the cotton fac-1 tors or exporters. The weight of all bagging should ' be uniform and the same numb r of yards used on each bale. Good, heavy weight bagging should be used ami under existing regulations every farmer should put on the full allowance, else he loses a portion of his int. This is a serious matter which should he remedied by mutual agreement of all parties at interest, the grower and the spinner. There is too big a margin left for graft, call it legitimate or what not, which the farmers should no longer stand for. We have called attention to this matter many times and the farmeis are getting sufficiently organized to secure a sentiment of the tare question on a fair and systematic basis. We are continuously noticing articles in papers devoted to cotton information stating that the farmers ninlfo !? ni'nfit iwO.. i-.. 1 .. t>n uifir u<igging an'i ties. This is a delusion, which onlv reflects on the Ignorance of those making the assertion. As a matter of fact, more than the average value of the bagging and ties is always deducted front the price paid the farmer, the same as freight and all other fixed charges. Governor Threatened. Nashville, Tenn., Nov. G.?The stand taken by Governor Patterson in his attempt to suppress recent night rider outrages in Lake county and other sections of the State has i been followed by several anonymous ? threatening letters to the goveronr but they are causing him little worry. 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Complete returns from a third of the counties and scattering precinct returns from most of the remainder show that Bryan Will have a plurality of not fewer than 10,000 votes and Shallenborger, Democratic, for Governor, and the rest of the Demo, cratic ticket will have about 9,000. But the Democratic victory do>38 not stop there. Five of NebraskWx six Congressmen are Democri^^^ only one Republican, Hlnshaw, in the 4th district, escaping defeat *>y 700 votes, although his district gave Bryan a plurality. The greatest surprise of all 1b the overwhelming majority the Democrats will have in the Legislature. Of the 133 Senators and Representatives elected, the canvassers of returns could find only 18 Republicans who had won. Lancaster county, In which Lincoln, Bryan's home city is located, which for thirty years has elected none but Republican members to ( both branches, this year sends 3 Re- V| publicans and three Democrats ' - , CLASSIFIED COLUMN T EACH 10 US?TR USTEEH. 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