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WERE IN PRISON Seaman Had Been Mourned For Dead THEIR SHIP SEIZED An H soaped Prisoner From Venezuela Tolls a Strafe Story About the Missing Captain and Crew of the Whaling Ship Carrie Knowles Thought to Have I5een lost. 11 mnv ) hi Ihnt P'ih) Pnllitt Utm.il ? v m i ituv v/u j/c. v-/Ui i i ii kiirjnr enson and the crew of the American whaling ship Carrie 1). Knowles, I long since thought to have been lost j ut sen, are still in a Venezuelan ! prison. An American seaman, who gives the name of Payne, an escaped prisoner from Venezuela, has made his way to Kingston, where lie laid hefore the authorities an astounding story of the seizure of the Carrie 1). Knowles at a Venezuelan port, where she arrived five years ago in distress, and the incarceration by the Venezuelans of the captain and his men. The authorities at Kingston have taken steps looking to a speedy and thorough investigation of the case. On January 27, 1904, the Carrie f 11. Knowles sailed from Provinceton, Mass., on a whaling voyage. Her captain was Collin Stephenson, and her first mate, H. A. Martin. In addtion she carried a crew of about a dozen. Payne asserts positively that all are at the present time confined in a Venezuelan prison. The vessel was supposed to have been lost in a West Indian storm, with all hands. Some of the men belonging in St. Vincent, and after all hope was given up of their return, their relatives put on mourning and the local insurance company eventually paid the claims against it, on * the assumption that the sailors were dead. The story Payne told to the police authorities caused great excitement. Pavnft declared that the whaler had been disabled in a storm off the Venezuelan coast and had made port in distress. This was five years ago. She was at once seized and the captain and crew were made prisoners and thrown into jail. The details of Payne's escape from prison are not known, as the police have him in charge. 1)11) NOT FORGET HIM, A Young Roy Reft a Rig Sum of Money by His Father. A dispatch from Aiken to The Kew8 and Courier says little Willie Rosenburg, son of Mrs. Daisy Rosenburg, who resides near this city, is made heir to a large portion of his father's large estate, by his will, made before his death, several days ago, and the sum of $57,500 is left to him. A telegram was received in the city informing Willie of his father's death in Atlantic City, and of the provision made in his will, leaving his son this sum. Mrs. Rosenborg Is a native of Aiken, and was married some years ago to Mr. R. W. Rosenborg, who, after living some time with his wife, became estranged from her, and before his death, became divorced. | Willie, their son, is a lad of eight or nine years, and the will of the late father, filed a day or two ago in Pittsburg, of which place he was a resident, shows the he was never forgotten. GOV. McSWEEXEY ILTi. Suddenly Stricken by AtUu k of Imlidigestion. A long distance phone message from Hampton to The Stato says while returning from his office to his home Tuesday about 3 o'clock, exGov. M. B. McSweeney was suddenly stricken and fell unconscious. His two young sons were with him at the time and summoned help. He was taken to his home, where he was rouna 10 no in a very serious condition. Tuesday he had not recovered consciousness. Acute indi gest.lon Is Riven as the cause of his attack. The former governor has been in had health for the past several months. Tt Is said that there is very little hope that he will survive the attack. School libraries. The school library does awake ar interest in the pupil. It gives him a good appetite; it stimulates. It open? the channels of usefulness. It haF a powerful tendency to keep the bo> In echool longer, and thus in the above enumerated ways aids in the development of those traits of charI acter that will be beneficial to the ! men and women of the future and alao to those with whom they come in contact through business and social life. How to mark table linen?upset the gravy. WANTS FREE TRADE ON LVMHKIl AM) ON COTTON : TIK8 AND HACGING. Senator Till man Says the Sap of Protection is Net Worth What It Costs Democracy. "A special dispatch to the Columbia Record says Senator Tillman favors free trade in lumber and will vote for it. lie believes that in the ..11,1 niMIIAl.l'ntln l?.,? C ? .1 v?a\i i'v 111 w v i (i i i v wiivtuuua i i 11 j 11 tilt' declarations of the party platform will give the victory to those Republicans desiring a duly, but he expreses hims( If as far from the opinion that such a forecast justifies Democrats in falliing into line with the party in power. A vote for protected lumber, in his opinion, is a vote against forest preservation and also a vote against the claims of Democracy to control the house of representatives two years hence and the whole country after President Taft's term. "What's the use of hurrahing 'round the country for the safeguarding of our forests," he said, "when you are crying at the same time for a duty on lumber that will keep foreign timber from coming in sparing our own trees for the next generation? You have seen the destruction of our forests in the past few }\ears. >jfc>w, importation lumber from Canada would save some of our trees from being cut, i while this duty they are demanding, keeps the foreign lumber out and makes us cut down our own forests." With forests as far awav from the j Southern pine fields as Canada, Sen- i ator Tillman does not believe the free importation of lumber could ( affect the profits of South Carolina ; mills, while it might materially lower 1 the price of lumber to the consumer. 1 As to who owns the South Carolina i standing timber he Is not certain, though he is inclined to agree with < Senator Nelson that a part of it at i Innot tu tn thn hands of Mich I can > corporations and holders in the far ? Northwest. Tt is through the influ- ] ence of these Northwestern men that ! the price of lumber in South Carolina i would he raised under a protective duty, though in the local field a tariff of itself have no such effect. . "Two-thirds of the white people of i South Carolina," said Mr. Tillman, i "live above Columbia. Nearly all i the yellow pine and every bit of the < loblolly is below Columbia. Now, why should T vote to impose a higher j cost upon those people up there when they want to build houses and barns?" Senator Tillman was sitting in the room of the committee on the five civilized tribes, of which he is chairman, when I found him to ask about the tariff. He was barricaded behind a pile of books, all of sombre binding, the most dashing of which was entitled "The Romance of Steel," a volume telling of the manufacture of iron in the melodramatic fashion of a treatise on chemistry. "I am trying to find out something about cotton ties," said the senator, "and there seems to be a lot of it." In regard to cotton bagging, there is apparently reasonable hope that Senator Aldrich will let that go on the free list, if the Southern Democrats work together for that end, but on ties, while Senator Aldrich has asked Mr. Tillman for information, he expressed himself as doubting his ability to grant the request. The senator from Rhode Island, said Senator Tillman, was under the impression that ties are made chiefly in Chattanooga, Birmingham and other centres near the Southern mines and he felt that ample protection ought to be accorded these new manufacturing districts on an article like ti"S for which they would have a large local demand. It was to meet that objection that Senator Tillman devoted himself to light literature of the "Romance of Steel" sort. The information he found encouraging. Ties, ho discovered, are manufactured almost exclusively in Pittsburg and the great iron and steel centres of the North, there being only one small plant at Atlanta. The fact that ties are made by plants turning out enormous quantities of other steel goods, all heavily protected, leads Senator Tillman to hope that Mr. Aldrich will consent to a removal of the duty. i Signs of a Fine Town. How quickly can you tell a live 1 town from a dead one by simply looking over its newspapers. A poor 1 skim milk sort of a newspaper with a few small advertisements, and those looking ns though they were run at half nrlce. betokens a dead town jiifit as sure as a corpse indirates a funeral, while a good, lively, { well-printed newspaper, filled with 5 good, fresh ads, and displayed locals, j shows that the town is prospering r and thriving. It never fails. ^ _ _ i Stamp Out Black Hand. Determined to stamp out the Black > Hand, a number of wealthy Italian I residents of New York City are repi resented to have offered $2,500 a year to Thomas Colesanto, a detective of Waterbury, Cona., to go to New York and, as far as possible, take the place of Joseph Petroslno, who was assassinated in Blelljr. EGYPTIAN COTTON SENATOR FLETCHER LUCES THAT IT HE TAXED. Egyptian Cotton, Crown in the Nile ! Valley, Competes Seriously With Southern Long Staple Cotton. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says in a speech on the Hour of the Senate a clay of two ago, Senator Fletcher, of Florida, declared that South Carolina long staple cotton was the best raised and commanded a better price on iito market than that grown any-j \\ hero el be in this country. in mining to this ho throw considerable light 011 long staple growing along the sea islands of the South Atlantic coast generally. Speaking of this industry the Florida Senator said: The pi eduction of cotton on an important scale began about 17 89, when we produced 3,00<J bales and the price was 2 8 cents per pound. In 1799 we produced 415,000 bales and the price was 4 4 cents. In 1800 the production was 73,000 bales and the price was 2 8 cents. In 1820 the production was over 300,000 and the price 17 cents. From 184 0 to 1850 it reached the low price of 5 cents per pound, and again about ten years ago. The introduction of the factory, the utilization of the seed and by products, the use of cotton in place of wool and silk and hemp in increasing quantities have made the crop today worth more than double what it was ten years ago, and the increase in the value of the crop in one year, caused by the presence of factories at the Holds, loubtless would more than pay for ill t tin cnliirllni: 1n t lin Snnlli Tilvon now the grower, labor and supplies having gone up, is making no tremendous profit. The value of the exports from this ^rop amounts annualy to $482,000,000. It is said that if Europe had stacked up all the gold and all the diver mined from the earth for the past six years and shipped it to the South she would still owe us $200,000,000 for our raw cotton alone. The protection given to cotton varus and cotton cloth may to some extent help the price of cotton. I 1 uestion if the former is benefitted thereby materially. There is but little of the short-staple cotton imported. There is produced in this country, however, the sea island or longstaple cotton, which competes with that grown in the West Indes and In the Valley of the Nile. On the free list in the pending bill are "cotton and cotton waste or flocks." The annual crop of longstaple cotton fluctuates, but the average production may bo fairly estimated as follows: Florida, 3 1,000 bales; Georgia, 52,000 bales, and South Carolina, 12,000 bales?of about 4 00 pounds each. The Growing Area. The producing area being about Charleston and extends down the coast to the Georgia line, and then it loaves the coast and extends south through Georgia into Middle Florida. About one-third of the South v.'d i WI I lift l.iups it Sill pit? 6 IU 2 1-2 inches long, and it is sold generally for export at from 4 0 to 80 cents per pound, it is the finest staple produced. The "East Florida" staple is t 3-4 to 2 inches long; the "Florida" 1 5-8 to 1 3-4 inches. The "Georgia" staple is 1 5-8 inches long, but not so fine as the "Florida." Fineness is a factor with the spinner, and only the superlative fine fibre brings the fancy price. Outside the islands of South Carolina the price is about 20 cents per pound. Egyptian Cotton. The West Indes is the .original home of the plant and produces about 4,000 hales annually. It was In 1780 that the plant was transplanted on the American Continent from the West Indes. There is produced in the Valley of the Nile a cotton which is capable of competing with our sea island cotton. This rich region produces about 1,500,000 bales of 400 pounds each annually. It is a longstaple, fine fibre cotton, and about 1 50,000 bales of it are imported by American mills every year at a price ranging about 15 cents per pound. It spins well and wastes about 8 per cent less in going through the various processes of preparation for the spindle than does the sea island cotton. The Egyptian cotton wastes about 25 per cent, while the sea island wastes about 33 per cent. The Egyptian staple is about 1 5-8 inches long; but is preferred to the American for some purpose because of less waste and greater strength and its color. It seems that while the Egyptian cotton is a near relation of the sea island, it cannot bo grown in our coAintry. A duty of 5 cents a pound on the lint cotton would yield a revenue of $3,000,000?150,000 bales being 60,000,000 pounds. This cotton is used in the manufacture of mercerized silks and finer I goods of the highest and most exI pensive class, on which this bill proI poses a duty of 54 per cent, while the total wage cost is about 20 per . cent. i The actual cost of producing the I cotton is about $21 per acre. The I avearge yield Is about 10 to 150 A WEIRD STORY. Trained Pack of Wild Animals Eat Vp a Child. A weird tale of the lonely northland is brought to civilization by Fred Allingham and two companions, James and Mack J. Curtln, of Raska| toon, Sask., who have b?cn spending the winter around Moose Lake, northwest of the Pas, according to the Indianapolis News. A traper secured a number of young timber wolves which he trained for driving, as they developed remarkable endurance and speed. On one occasion the traper was away on a long journey. After finishing up a naru day s run in wnicn the animals had not received any food, as is the way of treating dog teams while traveling, as the driver and the femn approached the shanty that was their home, his little three-yearold ehild ran out to meet them. The famished animals jumped on her in a ntsh and she was devoured hefore tdie father could raise a hand. Seizing a sharp axe from his "boat," the trapper went at. the wild creatures and never stopped until lie had killed the entire lot. GOING TO Tt'RKKY, Former Secretary of Commerce and Labor O. S. Straus. Oscar S. Straus, former secretary of Commerce and Labor, at Washington. has been selected for ambassador to Turkey, and W. W. Rockhill for ambassador to Russia. Mr. Rockhlll was formerly assistant secretary of State and latterly minister to China. Mr. Straus was twice before minister to Turkey. He succeeds Ambassador Leishman, who goes to Rome In place of Lloyd S. Griscom, who has expressed a desire to come home. Mr. Rockhlll succeeds Ambassador Riddle at. St. Petersburg.' Mr. Straus telegraphed from New York his acceptance of the mission to Turkey, to Secretary Knox. Tt is not known at the State department when he will take up his diplomatic duties. FORGIVES SON'S SLAYER. Will f>o All Possible to Secure Re lease of I)r. lioynjinn. A dispatch from Detroit, Mich., says TTagood Gastanian of "Lynn, Mass., left for his New England homo Monday evening with the body of his son, TIarotoon Gastanian, who was fatally shot Friday in the Detroit police court hv his uncle. Dr. Garabed J. Boyajian. Speaking of the crime the dead youth's father said: "Dr. Bovajlan is nearer to me than a brother. T blame him not, even though he has slain my son. T will do all T can to release him from prison. Tt is the will of God, and I how before it. I believe my bos was Innocent, but do not blame the doctor for what he did, because he believed him guilty. When our people marry, they marry for good, not for a short time like the American people seem to do. Any offense against the home is punishable by death." pounds of lint to the acre. The price now is less than 20 cents per pound. South Could Supply the World. Seventeen counties in Florida are now producing th^ long-staple cotton. It can be grown in more than half the counties of the State. Suitable soil, climate, and conditions exist in Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, and, to a certain extent and degree, the Mississippi Delta, to supply the world, and as a, revenue-producing item is would prove one of the best among all the schedules. It is an important industry. If I employed the language of the authors of this measure, I would say the farmers engaged in it very justly contend that they ought not to be forced to abandon it by competition with Egyptian cheap labor in the fertile Nile region. We pay from 81 to $1.25 per day for labor, which ir Egypt ranges about one-tenth that The land there is very rich and does not require fertilizing like ours. When we say the country needs th( revenue which a tariff on that for eign product would yield, and sucl a tariff is required to help equaliz* the cost of production abroad witl that at home, there would seem t< be sufficient stated to show the pro prlety and justice of the claim wi i make from both standpoints. In the year ending June 3 0, 1908 i cotton was imported into this coiin i try free to the amount of 70,994, 968 pounds, the value of which wa $14,1 64,406, at 20 cents per pound Waste or flocks Imported frc amounted to 10,728,268 pounds, val ued at $446,261.14 at 42 cents pe pound. Duty should be imposed on al cotton imported so there could b raised no question regarding prope dlslgnation at, say, 5 to 8 cents pe pound. At 10 cents per pound th I Importation last year of cotton, no counting waste or flocks, would hav yielded a revenue of $7,099,496.80. > Don't forget that the best way t > silence your conscience when it die i' turbs you is by obeying it, - ? SEWING MACHINE INVENTED BY GOULDING BUT HOWE GOT THE CHEDIT. (lOiildiiiK Was a Native of South Carolina, and Designed tlio Maeldno While at College. An interesting story that has more than the ordinary earmarks of truth was tumbled upon by the Greenville Daily News correspondent while rambling around in the vicinity of historic old Abbeville, llere is the story: Hack in the .Id's there were in the I old university at Athens, Ga., two i young men who both became after- I ward Presbyterian ministers of more than local renown. One was a quiet student, who devoted his heart and mind to his books and afterward became, in connection with his mlnls* teriai work, a professor in old Erskin College at Due West. The other, a young man of restless, energetic, inquiring turn of mind, was always trying to solve some problem, the solution of which would lighten the burdens of the working people. Among his "new tangle" machines was one which would do the needlework of the family in much quicker time than many seamstresses could accomplish it. lie was enthusiastic about his invention. It was a crude machine, but it did the work?a simple lockstitch mechanism turned by hand and mounted on a stand table or whatever was convenient. His pride in his machine was such that he showed it, and discoursed upon it on all occasions. There came one winter between 1830 and 1831, a young man from the North to winter in Georgia. The Inventive young student, who was o ft.vn. .. T? " ?- '? ? ici nam mi: ivi'V, I' IUUCIH IV. ViOUKI" ing, of Georgia, showed his machine to his Northern friend after their acquaintance. He was struck to see its possibilities, and its value and upon his return North appropriated the design, mechanism and whole machine to his own use without the advance or consent of his Southern friend, and patented the first sewing machine. The young Northerner was Elias Howe. Young Goulding was amazed and horror struck at what deprived him of his rights, for being a boy of but moderate means he had not yet funds to take out letters patent on his machine. This story was told by the daughter of young Goulding's classmate above referred to, the late Rev. William McWhorter. In his teachings in schools and colleges whenever he saw Elias Howe mentioned as the inventor of the sewing machine, he would always close the book and tell the class the story above given, always ending with the statement: "Now, boys, always remember it was not Elias Howe who invented the sewing machine, but the Rev. Francis R. Goulding, a South Carolina boy at Athens, Ga., University, whose design was appropriated without leave or license by Elias Howe, who saw it while on a visit to Georgia." This story he urged his daughters, who became teachers, to tell their classes also. That justice might be done to the geinus of Francis R. Goulding, a student of Athens University between 18 30 and 1835, who was the inventor of and maker pf the first sewing machine. William McWhorter and Francis R. Gould ing graduated at Athens, Ga., in 183 5. The two daughters of the Rev. William McWhorter lived near Abbeville and have often heprd the story from their father's lips, and , know that he was a fellow student ( of Mr. Goulding. ? The Greenville News would like r to hear from any of the decendants > of the Rev. Francis R. Ooulding, and , with them assist in making a some? what tardy atonement to his honor. i EX-GOV. McSWEENEY BETTER. 1 Condition Still Serious, but Rocove} ry is Possible. 1 A special dispatch from Hampton 3 to The News and Courier says Ex3 Gov. M. 13. McSweeney, who was 3 stricken down while on his way from . his office to his residence on Tuesday q evening, and who has since that time been in an unconscious condition, !t is much improved. Although the . doctors in attendance entertain hopes _ of his recovery, still they will not 4 U * i I,* 1? -..4 - ? J rnl. . g rni.v mm iiw i? uui oi uitnger. ine [. trouble seems to be acute indigestion, e but the former Governor has been l_ in failing health for the past two r yearR, and his condition is still very serious. II e Cuts Price on Oil. r A reduction of five cents a barrel r was announced a few days ago by ? | the Standard Oil Company in the t I price of all grades of crude oil, ex? cept Ragland, which is unchanged. This Is the first change in the prica of most of the other grades since o , May, 1007, since which time Penn? , sylvania crude oil has been quoted constantly at $1.7*. *. 4 * ?iCiaaaa??m HODJIN SAVED Moslem Marauders Put to Flight by Troops Y* LIVING ON GRASSES Attempt to Set Firo to tlie City Frustrated?At llarni Everv Mnn \v as Killed, the Mohammedans Sparing the Women and Children Vnder Ten Years of Aire. ft. A dispatch from Hodjin, Asiatic Turkey, says notwithstanding the presence of the troops here, the situation is d< sperate owing to the lack of food and medical supplies. The troops arrived just in time, as the besiegers had succeeded in setting fire to a house oil the edge of the city. The fire spread, but as the breeze was blowing away from the town, only five buildings were destroyed. A heavy rifle tire was kept up against those who tried to extinguish the flames. The Mohammedans outside the walls who seemingly numbered many thousands, pushed their attacks energetically against the inhabitants, killing and wounding many. They were so eager to get inside the city and plunder the place that they did not observe the approach of Loufti Hey and his troops until they were close upon them, whereupon the Mohammedans fled precipitately, carrying off all the cattle outside the city. A I 4 - ' ?' <-?. ivuci rcceiveu Dy messenger from Harni says that every man there has been killed. Only women, girls and boys under 10 years of age have been left alive. The churches and houses were plundered and most of them were burned. The letter, which is from the widow of a clergyman says: "We have nothing to eat or wear. We are living on grass like animals. Worse than this, the Moslems are trying to force the women and girls 5 to become Mohammedans. Already ' *1 some of the women have been carried away." T,ucius O. Lee, a missionary here, says: "We are trying to send food to Harni, although it is dangerous, and to bring away the women as well." Much excitement has been cuased here by the attempts of the authorities to arrest some of those who have murdered Christians. REHEARING NOT ASKED. ^ Attorneys for Creditors of State l)is- ^ pensary Have Filed no Petition. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says although it was expected that a petition for a rehearing in the South Carolina dispensary case would be filed Monday, no such steps had been taken up to the hour of closing the clerks office of the Supreme Court. The Wilson and Fleischman interest will have Tuesday also in which to file. \ such a petition should they desire to do so. The case was decided April 5, and the custom of the Court is not to issue its mandate until thirty days have expired, which would be Wednesday. The Court took a recess Monday until May 17. Upon that date it will take another recess until May 21; then it will go into a | oiiiuurr i II cl pBUtlOIl TOP j rehearing Is filed It is almost certain thnt. it will not be acted upon until some time next fall. WOMEN -LEAVING HAREM. Abdul Humid Palace Held Many Fair Prisoners. A dispatch from Constantinople says it is said that the Sultan contemplates making a tour of the Asiatic provinces of the Empire. Since the deposition of Abdul TTamid there has been a daily exodus of the women of the imperial harem . from the Yildiz Kiosk. Nfc Monday forty-five carriages, each containing two or three women, and later fifteen more, were seen proceeding to Stamboul. Tt is evident that the total number of fair prisoners in the palace must have been prodi Kiuuw. Tn tho Chamber of Deputies a telegram was read announcing a revolt of Druses, a fanatical religious sect of Syrians, In Hauran, a district of Syria, east of the upper Jordan. ^ Troops have been ordered to proceed there at once. Wagon Driver Slain. The strike >f tha bakers at Chii cago Thursday resulted in the mur der of Henry TeetUbohm, a bakery , wagon driver. He was shot and i fatally wounded while on his wagon. i . ' Neither a boll nor a cabbage amounts to anything unless It comes to a head. ^ 'j