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\ HE TALKS OUr Clapp Lectures His Fellow Republican Senators TARIFF BE REVISED Downward, Says the Minnesotian, Otherwise Congress is Engaged in a Farce, and Two Years Front Now the Democratic l'arty Would lie 1*111 in a Position to llevise. The debate on (he tariff is getting warm in the Senate at Washington. On Friday Mr. Clapp, a Republican Senator from Minnesota, commented upon the policy of protection, and referred to distinctions between a protective tariff and a tariff for revenue only. The promise of the Republican party, Mr. Clapp declared, was that the tariff should be revised downward, and be asserted that this promise had been made in response to a positive demand. He said that the position on the part of the protective interests was that we should let well enough alone, and on the part of the consumers that the tariff should be revised. "You ean't tell me," he said, "that the latter demand did not mean that the tariff should be revised downward. To take any other position is mere boy's plav, nothing less than a farre. and if 1 did not believe tlie duties \\'< re to be lowered in response to this execution, I would pack mv grip and go home, for as a Senator T am not required to participate In such a farce as the mere re-enactment of the Dingley rates. The people understood that we were to have a revision downward; the men who made the platform understood it; we understood it; everybody understood it. and no amount of sophistry can otherwise explain the popular demand and the party promise. "If this promise," he said, "was for a revision that would mean the maintenance of the Dingley rates, then wo are confronted by the ridiculousness of the Chief Executive call ing Congress together to revise something that should stand unchanged until the end of time. "When tho people made the demand for a tariff revision downward there was no suggestion that these industries were not sutlleiently protected. If the demand for revision ^'d not mean changing the duties < . ownward it did not mean anything, and we are indulging In a farce now." TTe declared that if Congress should fail now to lower the tariff rates, the Democratic party would he pur in position to so revise It two | years hence. VETEKANS' HOME HEADY. Institution for Homeless Confederfttes Completed. At a meting in Columbia Friday the commission charged with the duty of planning, erecting and furnishing the Confederate Soldiers' Home in that city finished its work and turned the institution over to Commandant W. D. Starling complete. It is furnished and provisioned and on Monday will receive its first oc> cupants. The law provides for the admission of not more than two Veterans from any one county. Many applications are on file, but no action on any of these has yet been made public. A member of the commission said that tho institution cwu.w, .. necessary, take care of fifty or morr Veterans with comfort. * M11 jlilON AI HE A SAILOR. Young Pittsbui'ger Finds Money I)oe* Not Count Between I>eeks. Addison Eysle Crow, the 23-year old son of Mrs. Edward B. Crow of Pittsburg, with an annual income of $4 0,000 and an estate worth $1. 000,000, is doing duty as a plair sailor on the Galveston, in Hon; Kong, China. TTe writes friends ii Pittsburg to use their influence t< get him out of the'navy, but hi: mother declares he has had his fui and a little roughing will do him n< * harm. It is now 11 months since he dis ' 1" 41 o nnrl a i n O appeared in Cincinnati, w., ??.? ? that time until a few days ago, hi mother knew nothing of his where abouts. Cynical Bachelor Dead and Buried. The body of John H. Hase, hate of women, scoffer of all religion! and unbeliever in marriage, was ir terred in Shiloh, 111., this past weel A Tlia sister will receive no part of h $100,000 estate Until she becomes widow. All persons who attcnde his funeral were paid. f Capers Resigns. A dispatch from Washington sa; Ttoyal B. Cabell of Richmond, V? has been selected to succeed Jol O. Capers of South Carolina as cor rnissloner of internal revenue. W Capers some weeks ago sent ip h ' resignation, effective July 1. M Capers is very ill in Washington. BIRDS AND GAME T11 Kill CJIIEAT VALUE TO THE l*EOI*liE OF THE STATE. What tlio Au<1uIh>u Society is Doing ami Why It Is Doing It?A Good Work. The plan of the Audubon Society embraces the saving of the insecteating birds of the country, protection of enough game to insure per peiuuy, ana mo protection or tlsli in order that the supply may not bo wiped out. Taking for its authority on crops the United States department of agriculture at Washington. I). C., (the accredited authority in this country), the Society finds that insects inflict damage on the crops and forests of j the country each year to the extent of hundreds of millions of dollars. Last year the department put the figure at above one billion dollars. The departim nt attributes this, in the main, to the destruction of the insect-eating birds of the country. How fast such slaughter goes on is i hardly realized by the avearge man. One hundred and fifty million birds are used up each year in the feather trade of Kurope. That means enough birds to stock six States equal in area to Massachusetts. Seven million robins were accounted for as having been killed in a single season in the South two years ago. The white heron, once common, is about gone. Cardinals, nonpareils, bluebirds, m< k'ngbir is, in short, every bird that Pies, are slain in vast quantities annually by irresponsible gunners. When the entire country is brought to realize the value of the im,, -eating birds, public opinion will stoo the slaughter. This is the lirs! part of the Audubon plan. The readers of this paper know the value of fish as a food supply, and should therefore w-Iconic any intelligent protection or them. This parr ot the ttorietv s cinv wpp laid nn it bv the General Assembly of ?outh Carolina. The Society has -ought to discharge that duty. The protection of game in ^uc>1 a way as to insure a permanent supp'y 5s the third part of the .Society's dut v. There are one or two observations f;i '.e made here for the benetH of friends of the cause. Those must he understood before action n;\n lie fruitful in results. First of all, any protection of game must call for mutual concessions among sportsmen. No man can have everything exactly as he wishes it and still en.iov the benefit of protective legislation. ' Everybody must give up a little in order that, all may have more. This is too often forgotten. In the second place, it must, be remembered that long seasons work in favor of the pot-hunted and potfisherman and against the working man. The idle pot-hunter can go every day; the business man cannot. That, ought to ho easy to see, but runny sportsmen do not see it. Tn the third place, while there are as many theories as to how game should be protected as there are sportsmen, there has been hut one plan that worked in practice and that plan is the Audubon plan?that is, the plan of enlisting men to join an organization pledged to see the laws onforeod. Put game protection in the hands of the ordinary consta1 bulary of a State and there never will be fat least there never ha? 1 boon) any 'probation laccorded tc game. There must be an intelligent 1 organized protection, directed by wholly disinterested parti s. There you have the Audubon Society. Past year, with a total workine capital of $4,1 88..r>9, the Audubor Society of .South Carolina, convinced a hundred men of violating the gamr * laws. Probably not that many mer have heen convicted by the Stat( itself for fifty years, although tie - laws were on the books and the con stables had all needed power. Th' rest of the States have had similar * experiences. So it makes no difference hou i much money the State might devot< ? to protecting game, game will lacl i protection until the sportsman joins > the ranks and puts that much of hi: a shoulder* to the wheel, i It Is not hard to find the reason 5 Men who violate game laws are most lv good fellows in a sense. Thei _ friends do not wish them prosecuted 0 although believing in the law as ai s abstract proposition. Just there the Audubon Societ * draws a sharp distinction. lt> doe 1\/\1 lotfo In ne/\ooAiitln or o n /I f A Knl UUIICYD 111 |/l VOCVyUtlllft (1 U\|| VI1U UV^ I ter the fellow, the harder It wishe to hit him. If leniency is eve r shown it is extened to helplessnes 3' and ignorance, never to power an high connections. In drawing i game law the prime object with th Society is to save the game, not t ^ pacify some prominent sportsma !(J who wants a week or so longer fc sports. The Society, of course, is pure democracy. Any man or womn on belong to it and have his, ( ys her, say. The officers act mere in an executive capacity. Every o ln fleer is bound by the will of the S n_ city. There are more than foi 'r hundred thousand men in South Ca ollna, of whom some four hundr< belong to the Audubon Society. * would seem that at least one p DANGER SIGNAL Senator Commins Predict Dire Things if The OCTAPUS PREVAILS II** Says tlio Common People Are 1 a Factor, and Predicts That They Will ltisc in Their Might It' u 1 World Trust Is Fver Formed by ' the Monopolists. One of tlin lw>?t sniiflfhno vnt #l.?_ 1 livered in the Senate against the tariff bill was made by Senator Dolliver, It- publican, from Iowa, a few days ago. Commending the course of his colleague in his attack upon ' the pending tariff bill, Senator Cummins, also a Republican, Thursday in opening his speech upon that measure, turned to Mr. Aldfich and ' said that the man who challenged the Republicanism of Senators because they seek to revise the schedule of duties 4 0 years old was taking j a most remarkable course. Mr. Cummins scouted the idea that adherence to the wool schedule | was necessary in order to maintain the protective principle. He said he 1 had been one of the Republicans who had fought for a revision of the . tariff. "And I intend to defend mv faith." tie continued, "with all the ! vigor of vhieh 1 am capable. "The finance committee, composj ed of honorable, intelligent, brightminded and experienced men. Is still not the ark and the covenant of Republican doctrine. It 'Is not the only repository of Republican faith." Not a singl" member of that committee. he said, had been among those Republicans who had demand; od a revision of the Ringley bill, j They did not believe revision was necessary and it was no wonder that they should not now favor changes in duties. Senator Owen Int^vrimlnd whlln Mr. Cununins was stating that ho had had special opportunities for 1111j derstanding the affairs of tho American Stool and Wire Company with I an inquiry as to how ho had acquired such special information. | "I was attorney for the company," replied tho Towan. Mr. Scott inquired whether the senator had received his fee as al| torney in money or in stock. "If T had lived in West Virginia," responded Mr. Cummins, "and had hoon surrounded with tho influences prevalent there, I fear I would he ashamed to answer. Hut as I live in Town where there is an honest atmosphere, I can reply that my pay was in cash, and 1 had nothing whatever to do with the capital stock issued by that company." Responding to a question by Mr. Depew, Mr. Cummins said that, he had not ventured to look forward "to that disastrous day in which the industries of the United States and of the world are concentrated in a single hand or a single board of directors." When, he said, the day should dawn that a single man shall direct the energies of the earth and control the fortunes of mankind so far as manufactures are concerned, "there will still remain the lamp posts and the common people, if the law has failed, in order that the country he rid of those monopolists .?!?? ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ * U ^ ??r S-v 1 si ? ? * w iiu rurnT lilt- v> liuir wui iu. I T) A KING ROBBERY. > 1 >njr TiOng Tunnel reading Under the , ' Treasury. 1 A daring plan to rob the treasury J of Gori, Russia, in which $1,000., J 000 are kept was discovered SunI > day evening, the scheme of criminals, - five men and a woman was to dig a * S tunnel Into the building from the % , I outside. They had progressed a dis| tance of 350 feet and had reached a j point directly below the cellar, when the bookkeeper heard the sounds of [ j excavating and summoned the police , i to investigate, with the result that I all Fix were captured. Sleeping Sickness Kills Missourian. r George J. Owens is dead in St. {[ Louis, Mo., following an attack of what the physicians say was "sleepv ing sickness." Owens declared he s had never been in the tropics, to _ j which the malady is peculiar. ? j r I cent of the population would he wil ig : Hng to help save the State's resourc(1 es in birds, game and fish. With a one per cent the Society would N e independent. o The Almighty gave these gifts tc n *he whole people of the State, and >r there ought to be one per cent o! a them sufficiently sensible of the valu< n of that gift to help preserve It. >r The Audubon Society takes hear Iv of grace from the fact a mightle f- cause had smaller following som o- two thousand years since. But wlt1 nr two thousand years of added knowl r- edge and experience better thing sd might reasonably he looked for. It JAMES HENRY FTCE, JR., er Secretary. FATAL MISHAP M\K l?EKSONS DUOWXKI) WHILE ON AN OI TINO. How Boat on the Kiisquchaiia, Containing Six Men, a Woman ami Two Oililitren Capslxcd. Six men, a woman and two childam wore drowned Sunday afternoon n the ttusquehana river, near Wilkos>arre, Pa., by the capsizing of a row ?oat, In which they had started for in outing. The dead are: Thomas Andrews, A'111. Andrews, Theodore Andrews, [ Tank Marlnosky, Adam Stukus, Frank tianolTskv and his wife and wo hoys, John and Michael. While the nine persons, who srnrtd out in the small craft remained dose to shore, all went well, hut as the boat drifted into the swift current. it began to (lip water. The occupants became panic-stricken and called frantically for assistance. Some boys at play on the bank heard the screams, but before a boat could be secured! the rowboat in midstream had tilled and sank. None of t he occupants could swim, and were swept down the river to their death by the running current. 1NSI KAX( 10 STAT 10M10NT. Amount of Business Done in South Carolina. Commissioner McMaster has compiled statistics, showing the amount of business done in this State by all kinds of insurance companies. The following are the figures showing the business done, including lire, life, etc., insurance: i< h?e: Risks written . . . . $ 1 7S.032.2S2.60 Premiums received . 2,202,5 I 8.Gil Losses paid 1,20 5,1 05.1 5 Losses incurred .... ,300,581.46 Fire: Number of policies issued during year 100S 7 8,216 Amount, of same .. 22,457,061.70 Premiums received . 3,553,053.05 Losses paid 1,4 42,661.00 Losses ncurred .... 1,420,805.34 Losses incurred .... 1,420,805.34 Accident: Premiums received . 21 3,433.56 Loses paid 28,277.60 Fidelity, Casulty, ICtc. Premiums received . 21v,433.50 Losses paid 102,804.32 Fraternal Orders: Premiums received . 462,624.46 Claims paid 346,871.04 TIIROXGS VISIT HATTLFSIIIP Mississippi, Which Lies Oft' City of New Orleans. Lying off New Orleans at anchor, in the great stream whose name it hears, the battleship Mississippi was hoard and inspected by a throng of visitors Friday. T,it tie interest was taken among the ofllclals of the battleship in the resolution of Congressman llolligs I worm, or unio, questioning tlie placI ing of the picture of Jefferson Davis on the silver service, to be presented to the Mississippi next month. While the officers were adverse to making statements for publico'.ion on the subject, they left the inference that, they were not at all in accord with the terms of the resolution. All endorse the general expressed sentiment that "sectional feeling among the officers of the navy haa entirely disappeared." * NAVAL NOT SECTIONAL. Cupt. Fremont Does Not Object t<i the Portrait. Capt. John C. Fremont, commanding the United States battleship Mississippi, does not object to the placing of the portrait of Jefferson Davh upon the silver service which the wai vessel is now on her way up the Mississippi to receive from the State in whose honor she is named. Responding to a telegraphic request at to whether he and the other of fleers of the Mississippi were in sym pathy with the antagonism which th< placing of the likeness of tho dea(" chieftain of the Confederacy upor 1-.^ nllirA. had nrnnaoil Cbint mr 011 tci nui t ??? ~ Fremont wired The News and Conr ier as follows, his dispatch beinj dated New Orleans: "The navy 1: without sectional prejudice, and it) pntrotism knows no boundaries sav< those of the great country a large." 1 BRAVE MAN DROWNS. i ???? i Saved One Roy and Was Trying t i Save Another. | At Jackson, Miss., A. 0. Andersor j aged twenty-two, a divinity studer at MiHsape College, and Willie Boy< t aged twelve years, from the Methot r ist Orphanage, wore drowned in tt p Country Club lake, five miles ea h of Jackson on aSturday. The tv . small hoys upset a boat in de< s water. Anderson saved one, at swam hack for the other. He becar exhausted and sank with the b< * clinging about his neck. SHOT HER LOVER Where She Had Gone to Meet Him Clandestinely ' J MADE A CONFESSION To tli?? KlVci'i Tlmt !?*.. \t* Husband Held a (inn to tin* ( Throat ot' His Victim and .Made t tlm Krring Wife I'ull tin* Trigger of tlu? (inn. I A letter from Hattiesburg, Miss., says a great deal of interest is muni- , fested in the fate of C?. I<. Croby and his wife, Minnie Crosby, who will be tried for the brutal murder 1 of J. It. MeShann at the term of the Forrest county circuit court beginnings here next Monday. The crime, which was one of the most sensational in the history of this section, and presented many unusual and interesting features, was committed on Master Sunday of this year. As both Crosby and his wife have made complete confessions, it is expected that the trial will not consume much t i me. According to the confession of the murders the crime was planned by Crosby, the wronged husband, who conc? ived the fiendish idea of compelling his unfaithful wife not only to lure her lover to his doom, but actually to become particeps critninis in the widest sense of the word. She pressed the trigger of the shotgun which her husband aimed at the defenseless victim. When the partly decayed body of MeShann. mutilated by hogs and vultures, was found in a s eluded spot near the Hnwio at i-nnf ? ? i ? ? V < IM Ml^r III I jt'il I rivor swamp on April 21, Coroner Fairly <*; 11 <>?| a jury and hold an inquest. As there was evidence that Mrs. Crosby had hoon intimate with the inurdorod man. sho was arrested and submitted to an examination hefore the coroner's jury. Sho denied all knowledge of the crime and was remanded to the county jail. There sho made a full confession to Deputy Sheriff D. (?. McfJilvery, who Induced her to appear again before the coroner's jury and repeat her confession the same evening. Mrs. Crosby admitted that she had been intimate with MeShann and had met him secretly many times near the Bowie street bridge, while her husband, a saw filer in the employ of the Mclnnis Dumber Company at Petal, was working with the logging crews in the woods, staying away from home tor days and weeks at a time. Her husband became aware of her unfaithfulness by intercepting her correspondence with MeShann. Ho threatened to kill her, but spared her to make her an instrument of his revenge. Under threats of death, Mrs. Crosby said, her husband compelled her to agree to his fiendish plnn of revenge. At his dictation she wrote a letter to MeShann, asking him to meet her on Faster Sunday morning at 1 1 o'clock, at the Bowio street bridge. Two days before the day of the murder Crosby and his wife went to the swamp near the bridge and concealed a loaded shotgun under a log. Sitting on the same log the two arranged the dtails of the plan and Crosby Insisted that his wife, as a punishment for her unfaithfulness. should pull the trigger of the shotgun, while Crosby aimed it at McShanr.'s throat. On Easter Sunday morning, at an early hour, Crosby and his young wife, who is only a little more than fifteen years, left their home in Petal, a suburb of Hattlesburg, and went ' to the swamp. While she waited at the bridge for MeShann, her husband penetrated farther into the swamp until he reaehed the log tinder which the gun was concealed. MeShann came promptly and seemed pleased ' to find Mrs. Crosby there, waiting for him. She induced him to leave 5 the rather exposed ground near the ! bridge and led him toward the spot where her husband was waiting for ? his victim. When they had arrived within a " few feet from the log. Crosbv arose * from his crouching position and rom' manded McShann to throw up his 1 hands. The trapped victim obeyed, * as Crosby threatened him with his shotgun. While Crosby was taking ; careful aim at McShann's throat, * Mrs. Crosby walked behind him and s when he Informed her that, he was 3 ready, she reached over his shoulder and pressed the trigger. The load of shot struck McShann squarely lr the neck and lower part of the head killing him in a few moments. Nol until Crosby and his wife had reach o ed home did it occur to them tha they had left the gun upon the seen* of the murder. During the nigh j both returned to the spot and re covered the pun. When Crosby was informed tha his wife had made a full confession he refused to believe it at flrsi ie When he was convinced, however, h 1 also consented to appear before th fo ' coroner's jury, where he substantia' JP ed practically every dtail of his wife 1(* previous confession. He also cou pletely exonerated E. L. Woodru ?y and wife who had been arrested c suspicion of having been Impllcat* SLAYED HIS FRIEND ' rilK MI HDKHOI S I>KKDS OF A MANIAC IN ALABAMA. ilioots One Friend to Death and Thru Turns I'i.stnl on Anotlirr, \\ ho llo Wounds. An awful tragedy took place a* luutHville, Ala., on Friday, by whicu )iie man lost his llfo and another was mdl.v wotiiuii'd 11. ? <?ic iuu paricula rs: J. Itobert Jones, senior member of the insurance firm of Jones & Itl?>n. was shot and killed by Wrn. I.. Halsey, president of the Haisey Wholesale (Irocey Company. A. I). McDowell, sh lupins clerk In the llnlsoy establishment, was fatally phot and is expected to die. Mr. Ilalsey is in jail and is said to be insane. The shooting occurred In the Tla 1 spy store, where Mr. Jones had gone to adjust some matter relative to Insurance. No quarrel occurred so far as known, and the shooting was as unexpected to Mr. Jones as to Wm. L. Ilalsey, Jr., son of the slayer, who sat In the ofllce and was the sole witness besides McDowell. McDowell was shot several mlnu1 es alter Mr. Jones was killed. He had telephoned for a doc*or for Jones and then perceiving that. Mr Halsey had gone Insane, attempted to escape from him. He was shot ?: t the back, the bullet coming out In his abdomen. Hal-ty has been under treatment for incipient Insanity for some time, and his affairs have been managed ty >iis sen. Before going to see him Jones said Ik v >,s "afraid of the job." The '.wo men were scnaolhovs together and have been life-long friends and business associates. McDowell, who is a young married man, has been employed by Halsey several years and was a favorite with him. * SOU >IF,US AUK It AO. Crave Charges Made Against Amer4HI II TlKiiMVu 1 ? I >1 ? ? I J t "?" in i a i i i 1111 pi 11 ->. The statement. of an American soldier, a hospital apprentice of tho first class, may throw some light on the reason why the American soldiers, especially thlei pi(ivajte8, are so fiercely hated l>v the Phllippinos. According to Stanley's disclosures it is the habit of a great many of tho privates to contract temporary marriages with Philipplno women, liv ing with them until their enlistment expires and then deserting them when they return to the United States. The native men, Stanley asserts are afarid tho Americans will steal their women. While some of the American soldiers have legally married Philippine women, It Is the declaration of Stanley, that the majority only take t|hem as "mat rjmon|ir*s." This Is nothing more nor less than a license to live with a Philipplno woman as long as you wish, provided you support her. Tt Is not necessary to take her in public, or to introduce her as your wife. These "matrimonies," Stanley says, can be obtained from a justice of the peace. When the soldier's enlistment expires, he can return mi me iiiid leave ms matrimony nehind. Tn tho eyes of the law ho has committed no offonso. Many of tho soldiers who aro loading this kind of a lifo have wives and children in the United States, but this does not seem to deter them. They even go so far as to spend all their money on their "matrimonies" and leave their families in America in want. LYNCIIFR IN FLORIDA. Mob Wreaked Vengeance oil a Negro Fiend. Mrs. John Deas, wife of a well known farmer, residing at Camden, fifteen miles from Jacksonville, Fla., was criminally assaulted early Sunday night by an unknown negro, who was later captured by a mob of citizens and lynched. Mrs. Dease was driving her cows home in the afternoon when the negro sprang upon her, forced her to tho ground and accomplished his fiendish purpose. Mrs. Dease's screams attracted the attention of her son, who came to her rescue, but the negro had made his escape from the scene. The sher1 iff, in Jacksonville, was notified, but when he reached the scene the mob ' had captured the negro. Mrs. Dease 1 has identified him and his throat ' had been cut from ear to ear, and his body riddled with bullets. Tho sheriff could gain no information as to tho Montitv of the mob and no > I ( one seems to know the negro, claiming that he was a stranger in those parts. The hotly was carried to Jack^ sonvllle. I? I, This whole protection business Is o little short of legalized robbery. It n robs the farmers, who are the hack* t- bono of the whole country, for the 's benefit of the manufacturer. l ff In the murder. They were promptly >n released and Crosby and hl9 wife .'d ere held for trial.