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ON THEIR WAY The Boll Weevil Will be Here In Elgli Years. GOVERNMENT FIGURES Kip^rlnirnts to I'lnil Substitute for 4 WHton in MisNiNxIppi, Whore lloll Weevil l'ltiys liaviM1?Thinks Kico Would Thrive in Thai Territory as Abundant Liik?\s Ai-o Helpful* That is will be oijjht years before the boll weevil will reueh the South Carolina cotton lields is the estimate which John 1\ Slattery, of the United States Agricultural Department, who is in ClmHi*mI 011 on i vluit 11\ relatives and friends places upou the eastward movement of the insect which lias played such havoc with cot.tou in the Southwestern States and which is gradually making its way east. It is also the opinion of Mi. Slattery that the holl weevil will not do the harm iu the eastern part of the cotton licit that it has done in the west on account of the different conditions, attending the cultivation and growth of the plant. The opinion of Mr. Slattery, who is,m charge of an experiment station at Greenville, Miss., will he interesting and featuring u> the South Carolina farmers, who are counting the seasons when the terrible boll weevil strikes this section of the country. It is generally said that the boll weevil should reach the coat-x section in five years, hut Mr. Slattery, whose opinion is worth a great deal, says that this is loo fast t record for the travel of the insect, under existing conditions, auil he does not believe that the crop in South Carolina can possibly he reached. by the insects before eight years. Mr. Slattery lias had experience wiih the boil weevil ami in fact the purpose of the experimental station, whic.ii Mr. Slattery is conducting under government auspices in Missis sippi, is to find substitute crops for cotton in a section of country whero the boll weevil lias played havoc. Hice is one of the crops with which Mr. Slattery is demonstrating, and with the many lakes through that section of the country, Mr. Slattery tliittkJ* that hy the use of pumps for irrigation, the area of rice cultivation lias been affected by the insects. The boll weevils thrive, Mr. Slattery said, on the high growth of the cotton plant of the west. In this section, the plant does not. grow as tall, is not as thick in its foliage and with less shade and protection from the sun, Mr. Slattery thinks that the boll weevils will lose some of their terror. Slattery Is interested in the rico industry of this section, and is hopeful of the coining crop proving a success. Until a few years ago, Mr. Slattery was himself a planter of rice, having a lurge farm in Colleton county, but then he disposed of hfs property and went west, working for the government. His absence from South Carolina has not, however, made him forget his for raer friends and interests, and he is gind to return to Charleston to spend ? time and renew old associations. * l Cfl?tf.MSON~ WAISTS Till'! KDITOUS Anil They Art* likely to Gather at the College. It is likely that the South Carolina Press Association will hold its 1910 meeting at Clemsou College. The college authorities have extended the editors of the State ;t cordial invitation to come to the college then and spend a week, the college authorities to pay the expenses of a week's entertainment out of their own pockets. This Is done because of the recent discussion that has been going on over the State about the management of Clemsou. The college authorities say they want the newspaper men to come there and personally inspect the plant and workings ot the college, and write afterward* lust how they feel about the matter This will appeal strongly to man) 01 me newspaper men over the State* and it is thought the* Press Aasocia t.joxi will aecpet the invitation. * BTKAMKli .STRUCK HY SHOT. Badly-aimed I'l^jwtUo Hits (Quartermaster's Vessel. A wild shot from ono of the guns at Fort Williams, Mo., struck the United States quartermaster's steamer Alfred W. I>row Sunday during aub-callibre practice at the fort and, scnaahiug through the wooden sides and bulkheads of the steamer, penetrated one of the boiler plates. A hard at the time wore artillerymen and observers frm the fort ,fratcbing the results of the practice. * I**'. SfcLLS BAD MtAI aowmmumanw aowt fays ik im1nvm f AIM h. He MkLm U??r? (Awrfmt in ? I/ettei < ti>ww(ery ?f lp,lml(ur? Jamei WllMB. After eighteen months service m j a Unite# intated neat InBpctor li Ku^t. Hi. Ileitis packing house, J. F I Harms has reaigaod, he Buys, wrltlnj j a letter ta iSecretary of Agricultun I James Wilson, demanding an lnves tigation of the meat inspection nys tent in the national stock yards. Mr. Harms a.sesrt.H that lie resign I ed because he could not toleruti i comltions and that insnetors it chart;** of the bureau of animal In dustry were too lenient with th< packers. Harms in his letter says. "The inspection at the Natloua stock yards, Illinois, is costing th? people approximately J 10(1,000 r year, and It is not actually wortl $1 to them. For when the word i: passed from the inspector in charg* to the inspectors actually doing tin work on the doors that they are get ting too many condemned anlamls and to change the grading, It meant that the whole thing is a farce Mr. Secretary, tin? packers are get ting today from 70 to 80 per cenl of meat that ought to bo condemned and destroyed. "1 have seen from 1,200 to l,50i pounds of lard spill and run into ai open sewer in the floor, the sewer outlet quickly blocked, and ?iid lard taken up from the floor and out oi the sewer, both ot which were un clean and unsanitary; and your doctors passed same to the packers on o\or the protest of the inspector* on that floor, and It went to the pubHe Miurlti-t ' 11' SI 1 iisiM>otivl mwl n.n.c. cm!.' "Some of the filthiest things intagl uuble are practiced in the sausag* depurtnients,' such as using bladders lor casing without thorough washing or cleaning, the use of tilth tripe ir sausage, the use of slimy hog atom aches for catdng or containers, th? usoing of meats that have fuller oil the floor arid are taken up anc Ur?cd without any pretense of clean lng. "These are all permitted by thos* In charge. If ail inspector calls theii attention to any of the wrongs, h< is told as 1 was, that the people \vh< eat sucli stuff are too lazy to prepare anything for themselves uni ought to have such stuff. "I will give you another instance that happened elsewhere. The meal Inspector in Die ment held some 6.000 or 7,000 pounds of cured meats for being sour, and, mind you four or live other inspectors werr called in and they all pronounce thf meat sour. Your Dr. Meadors released it to the packer. OUTltAUH ON IlKLPLEHS WOMKN Masked lloblxirH Tiirtruv and A bust Three Victims. A. brutal outrage perpetrates! b> unknown robbers at Belmont, Pa. has uroused the community, and a lyuehiug is threaten if tho men an captured. Five men, all masked broke into the homo of Mrs. Minnie Ashe, aged l?0, a nd ransacked the place. With the aged woman were her daughter, Mrs. Mary Ober, Git yeait old, and her grand-daughter, Miss Minnie Ober, years old. Tho met found only $:>.r>0 in the house and, believing there was more, they bound the three women and subjelted them to merciless torture. The men tore wire from tho pir tures hanging ou the walls and fastened the three women to chairs The men then held lighted candle* to their victims' bare feet. Par tlally unconscious, tho women wen otherwise abused. Before leaving th< house the burglars released Mlw OI>er, who late Wednesday afternooi recovered sufficiently to summoi help, I ISII SAVK8 KTKAMSUIP. Plugs ? Hole in Vessel anil Stops Had I,e?k. Capt. Young and crew and aboti Gf> passengers of tho steamshi I . Concho, which arrived in Galvestoi Tokuh, last week, attribute their e* ' cape from a watery grave to a larg . fish which was in some manne sucked into a had leak in the vessel' side and plugod the hole throug which the water was filling the vej nnl The leak appeared to bo stoppe and the vessel woe able to mak ' port. The mysterious stoppage c the leak could not be explained an It remained a problem to the cre^ they reached i>ort where diver found the big fish wedged tlgh in the hole so effectively as to pre vent the inflow of water when th vessel was 100 miles from land. OruMhcd In Klevator. On her first visit to New York am on her first ride in an elevator, Mis Lena Schoonmaker, wns crushed ti death Monday afternoon. DUUBu LYNCHING - twi raonobh haxovb a&? mmmtrnt with huh | r llwfr Wm cWrsH Wifk ?b? 4?r *f Mr. Hauxtk mI W?r? IMmb lira Olcvn ?f th? Uw. h A dispatch from Flraachrllte ta 1 The New* aid Courier nav* at a lata hour Friday alght a crowd of about s? one hundred farmera and other clti. zona of Colleton county, took two aeeroow awav from t hi* of thai law, hung thorn to a tree, near tho railroad track, and flrod round after Ei 1 round into thior swinging bodies. - The negroes, who wore killed wero 3 Prank Samuel and Qulllio Simmons, and the crimo for which dauth was 1 4 moted out to them was the murder " on May 29 of young Mr. Benjamin Smoak, a member of a prominent Colleton family, and a merchant of tho town, which bears his name. Tho dispatch says early Friday night word was received at Branchvlllo from Smonk's stating that Conj stable X. M. Maxey had arrested four negroes who, It was alleged, word concerned In tho murder of Mr. , Smoak. Those four wero Frank I Samuels, Qulllie Simmons, ,Connie Stokes and another whose name h ts ( not boon lenrned. It wil l>o romoinbere.l that when Mr. Smoak wus . killed, just as he was closing his I store for tho night, tho assassin, or assassins, secured about $95 In cash and checks. It was those checks which led to the arrest of the four ! negroes, two of whom met death . Friday night at the hands of the mob. * Young Ben Minus stepped up b<vhlnd the stables of Samuels, who . had a farm about a miles and a half ? from tho town of Smoak'u and saw i him dividing the stolen money with j the other negroes. Minus Immodl i ately returned, told what he had Keen . and heord, and doBcrlbed the hiding , place of tho missing checks. A i prompt search 1<m1 to the discovery j of the checks, and Constable Maxey . at ouoe arrested Samuels. Sub-sequently the other negroes were also . arrested, and the constable and his r assistants started with his prisoners } for Walterboro. > Meanwhile the mob had been gath. ering rapidly and silently, and beforo 1 long nearly a hundred determined men had started In pursuit. Tho of> fleers were overtaken near tho railt road lino nnd, being greatly oub[ numbered, they wore unablo to of1 for effective resistance. The terrl, tied negroes were seized, and tho * leaders of the mob questioned them ? briefly as to their connection with tho . killing of Mr. Smonk. Two of them apparently managed to clear themselves and were set free. Samuels . and Simmons were then marched to the railroad track, hanged to a tree and their bodies riddled with * bullets. At present everything Is quiet. It is not known whether Samuels and r Simmons confessed their guilt, after , falling into tho hands of tho avengk ers, since tho mob, as soon as It , completed its work, scattered, and those who took part In the lynchlag > returned to their homes. It Is , known, however, that the town negroes had previously admitted that they knew something about the c.rie, , though they swore that they did not , do the actual |shootlng . Samuels { stated that h? generally used No. 8 shot la his gun. and shot of that size [ were found in Mr. Smoak's body. { Both negroes bore evil reputations. * MUTINY ON ISLAND. ( Part of Philippine Constabulary Com* piuiy at I>?vao Rises. 3 3 A dispatch from Manila says a * portion of the Second company of 1 native constabulary stationed at i l)avuo. in the island of Mindanao, mutilated on the night of June t>, and attacked the company quarters which they captured after wounding one of tho native officers. a Alter a fight lasting two hours on tho following day, in which one man named Libbey wns killed, aud four it others wounded, tho mutineers took P to tho mountains on tho approach of i, a company of tho constabulary sta. tlonod at Mnpi, which hurried to tho relief of tho besieged Americans and ? loyal natives. >r # * CIIKWKJ) UP IIKKK GLAH8 n (>ii a Wa^r and Dies After Buffering Agony. e >f A freak wager in New York that d ended fatally wa? brought to light w when James Shea, a laborer, thirtyH olght years old, died at his home in t Brooklyn as the result of eating a H beer glaas on February 10. Since ? that time ho suffered intensely as * the broken glass penetrated Uij yystem and came ont in different parts of his body. Doctors wanted to op3 orate upon him. They said he could s not live otherwise, but Shea woul-l j not allow them to do so and the ead came a few days ago. # r-rwami^ J TAKtN 10 TASK u?L bryan latks at the Preticura to enterals. OPtN 10 CRITICISM Bj VtOic ft Tax J^uiuber in Direct Viokttrtna ?f tb? Flu (form of Their Pwijr?They Must bo I*repar?<l to Their Vote on the Merit? of the ^QMtioK. In the last iseuc? of the Commoner Col. W. J. .Bryan says the DeiuocratH who vottsl against free lumber have Voted to repudiate the national platform of the Democratic party: Voted to encourage the destruction of our forests: Voted to raise the price of one of the chief n<*cessaries of life: Voted to ta^c a material that enters into a multitude of Industries, and thus to place an unnecessary burden upon these industries: Voted to tax the people of tho whole country for the benefit of a comparatively few owners of timber lands; and Voted to tax a majority of their own constituents for tho benefit of a minority of those constituents. To east such a vote a Democrat must have arguments that have not yet been given to the public and must be prepared to present these ! arguments to his constituents The Democratic platform adopt-! od by unanimous vote at Denver last July, contains the following tariff plank : ?'\lf ^ . 1 ~ * v I - 1 - 1 ? ???' wvicvme t?o uviHit'd promise of tariff re-form now offered by the Republican party as a lardy recognition of the righUH>usne.HH of the Democratic position on this question. Hut the people can not safely entrust the execution of this lmi>ortaut work to u party which Is so deeply obligated to the highly proti-cted interests us Is the Republican party. Wo call attention to the significant fact that the promised relief is postponed until after the coming olfaction?an election to succeed in which the Republican party must have that same support from the beneficiaries of the high protective tariff as it has always heretofore received from them; and to the further fact that during yours of uninterrupted power no action whatever has been taken by the Republican congress to correct the admittedly existing tariff Iniquities. *'Wre favor immediate revision of the tariff by tho reduction of import duties. Articles entering into competition with trust controlled products should be placed ujvon the free list; material reductions should ( be made in the tariff upon the necessaries of life, especially upon articles competing with such American manufacturers as are sold abroad more che-aply than at home, and gradual reductions should he made in such other schedules as may be necessary to restore the tariff to a revenue basts. "RxiHting duties have given the manufacturers of paper a shelter behind which they huve organiJWMi combinations to raise tho price of pulp and of paper, thus imposing a tax upon tJb? spread of knowledge. Wo demand the immediate repeal of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper, lumber, timber and logs, and that those articles be placed upon the free list." It. will be noticed that the last sentence of the last paragraph of the plank contains a definite and spoofJfc demand for "the immediate repeal of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper, lumber, timber and logs, and that those articles be placed upon the free list." j No language could be more clear; 1 no platform promise could t>e more explicit. If the Democratic party is committed to anything. It is committed to the repeal of the tariff on wood pulp, print paper, lumber, timber and logs. In the tariff contest in congress a number of Democrats in the Senate and house have voted for tariff on lumber, and have attempted to dofend their action in so doing. Two questions are Involved, .and the Democratic party must be prepared to meet these questions and answer them to the satisfaction of the country. First, a platform promise binding? We are now charging that the Republican party is guilty of breach of promise in not revising the tariff downward. Hut how cun the Democrats criticise the Republicans for construing the word "revise' to mean an increase in the tariff if Democratic senators and congressmen deliberately repudiate a plain and unmistakable promise of free lumber? The Democrats who voted against free lumber will, of oourse, bo called upon to defend themselves, and to do so they must deny that national platforms are binding, or they must insist that the national platform was not binding upon them. It they say that platforms are not binding, they attack a well settled Democratic doctrine, namely, that ' r * \ Southern States /V ma Jj&S?. iyi? e h 1 ra r? M: hHIMMMMSjfriw 11^1 lilli Plumbing colum1 tka Tstexe cas instruct tldr r^presentatlre*. A platform tkat ta aat bladims la worse tbaa so platform at all, becauso It misleads the rotera. It la better for a party to make no promlAea than to make a promise and then break It. If those Democrats who hare opposed free lumber opposed It ob the ground that, while platforms are geaerally binding, this platform was not binding upon them, It La Incumbent upon them to show either that they , were eieciea before this platform wiw adopted, or that In their campaign they openly repudiated the platform and gave notice of their j adherence to a different doctrine. Even the senators elected before the platform was adopted might Gpol justified in giving some consideration to a platform endorsed by so large a vote at the polls. The Demerat who sets his Judgment up against the declarations of his party assumes the burden of proof to <>- ?tablish the. righteousness of his owa positlou and the error In the i>osition taken by his party. Aside from having to meet the question of platform, the antl-free1 umber Democrats will have to bo prepared to defend their votes upon ' the merits of the question. Wilt J they insist that as a national proposition a tariff on lumber is desirable? Or will they defend their action on the ground that they speak for the interests of their States or districts? Even if they uttempt to justify a tariff ou lumber as a national proposition, and without regard to local interests, it will probably be found that the national argument only has weight with those who represent constituencies where there is a local sentiment in favor of a tariff on lumber, and the public will doubtless weigh the local interest in deciding upon the motive of the sen- j ator or congressman la voting | again: t free lumber. j Thci'? IM nnthfnir ' . w uiui r u'ltrwhUi y j to the welfare of all the people than lumber. To put a turitT on lumber j is liko putting a tax ou salt. and the salt tax hu.s oven been considered a hardship, and It has always been resorted to by despots, for no one can escape such a tax. But lumber is not only a necessity, but It La a vanishing product, and a tariff upon It simply stimulates further destruction. If there la any one product that ought to go on the free list. It La lumber. Not only la lumber one of the necessaries of life?not only do oar timber lands need ouch protection as can be furnished them by the free importation of lumber?but a tax on lumber Imposes a heavy burden 1 upon all the people for the benefit of a very small percentage of the I people. What proportion of the! American people can possibly bt j benefitted by a tariff on lumber. Tho , percentage Is exceedingly smalL Kven in tho States where there are lumber Interests, the majority af the people are buyers of lumber rqfcke# than producers. ^ FINE FARM FOR SALE For sale, 200 acres of land on Bluff Public road, 18 miles from Columbia, S. C, This I place has no ponds or waste land. Thero aro about 100 acres cleared. It Is about two miles from Gadsden, 2 1-2 miles from Weeton, and C miles from Hopkins, on the Southern Railroad. It Is five miles from Congar ee and 8 from Kastover on the Atlantic Coast Line Hallway. 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