Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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OUT IN THE COLD % ' No Census Jobs for Democrats in this State. WILL GO TO NEGROES And Those White Men Who Are Willing to Help President Tuft lluild lTp a White Republican Party in the South and Can Cet the I losses to (). K. Them. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says applicants for positions as supervisors of the census in South Carolina should apply to L. W. C. Blalock and J. G. Capers. For some time The News and Courier correspondent has made repeated efforts to ascertain what line of policy Director Durand, of the census bureau, would follow with regard to the appointment of census supervisors in the South, especially in South Carolina. Mr. Durand has apparently been as much in the dark as any one else, but gradually little by little his plans are unfolding. To members of the South Carolina delegation in congress, who have import lined Mr. Durand for some indication as to what he would do, the latter has been exceedingly stingy with his information. A few days ago, however, it was learned through one of the South Carolina members that Democrats are to fare very poorly when the appointments are made, if, indeed, any at all arc recognized; that all applications, whether from Democrats or Republicans, must have the Lllalock-Capers "OK" before they will be given consideration; and that lastly, in counties like Beaufort and Charleston, where there is a large negro population, the latter are to be rewarded with appointment as enumerators in many of the sections where the negroes outnumber the whites. Representative Patterson, who saw Director Durand a few daya ago about the matter, informed the director that it would not do to appoint negro enumerators, and he further informed him that so far as the white people of Ileaufort and other counties in South Carolina are concerned, they would not stand for it. It was then practically decided that negroes should work only in negro sections and white men in white sections. It came out in the interview that Capers and Blalock would probably advise all applicants before final action. Mr. Capers has acted with con/ siderable courtesy to the members of the delegation who have approached him about the matter, taking into consideration the fact that he could hardly be supposed to fall in with their plans for the appointment of Democrats. There is no fault therefore with him. From all over South Carolina applicants for these places are pouring in, but no appointments would be made, this correspondent was informed, before October 1. P. H. McG. ATTACKS TARIFF MEASURE. n Champ Clark Prepares Statement fm Campaign. Representative Champ Clark, oi Missouri, minority leader at Washington, is preparing a statement dea.ing with the tariff bill as it passeJ the House, as amended by the Senate and as finally agreed to in conference and adopted by the House The statement will be sent out b> the Democratic campaign committee Mr. Clark endeavors to show thai the 1)111 can not be called revision .downward as the people were promised, and that it is more protection in spots than it is a tariff for revenue. And, furthermore, the bill in Mi. Clark's opinion is not a revenue measure pure and simple, bul rather a measure authorizing bonds to raise revenue to meet the expen ditures of the government. This feature of the bill, it if claimed by the Democrats, is a confession on the part of the Itepubi inono whn formed it that it wil not produce sufficient money to rur the government. Gloom Follows Gladness. At almost the hour set for hei wedding in All Souls' church, Rrook lyin the funeral of Miss Elizabetl Rowerre, a popular young woman took palce from the home of he W" sister. Miss Lowerre, who was t< have been the bride of Edwin C Sherwood, of Rridgeport, Conn., wa T* taken suddenly ill at Winthrof Mass., last Thursday. Texas Town Destroyed. Marysville, Texas, was destroye by fire a few nights ago. The tow was inhabited chiefly by quarryme in the employment of the Foi Worth and Denyer' Railroad. i. number cf them narrowly eeoape< HITS US HARD SOI Til DISCRIMINATED AGAINST 1IY REPUBLICANS. I^K'ni; and Tics Used by Our Farmer** Taxed, While Twine Used by Western Farmers is Free. Thursday morning after the vote on the general tariff bill, in which i bagging was laced upon the dutiablo i list, Senator Culberson offered an amendment to a resolution introduced by Mr. Aldrich restoring it to the free list. After some remarks by Mr. Culberson, Senator Smith of South Carolina said: "After the promises made by the Republican party, or at least that element of it supposed to be represented by Mr. Taft, that the new administration had entered upon a period of reform and that there would be no sectional differences, and in all legislation and administration so far as was possible there would bo absolutely no sectional differences, yet when the question of granting favors to the different sections arose, the Western farmer? where there was a Republican sentiment? was given free binding twine, while the Southern farmer was denied free bagging. it must be born in mind that this twine and this batrcinir are made i out of identically the same material. | The argument had been made that j in case the duty was removed from j bagging the American factories would be destroyed and that the for- , eigti manufacturer would so raiso | the price that the American consumer would pay more for his bagging than he was doing at present. If that were true, then the question would have to be answered why the Western farmer had got his binding twine after it was placed upon the free list at half the price he was paying before it was placed 011 the free list. The truth is that is is the same old sectional difference, and the Southern cotton grower as well as other Southern interests which are peculiar to the South are to bo discriminated against in favor of other sections of the country. "Under the operation of the law of population and wealth the time will come in the fullness of justice when the South will have the privilege of retaliating and I hope it will not do it?for I believe that the doctrine of the Democratic party and the character of the men who stand behind it are broad enough and American enough that if the Occasion Should ovor como no ! n?m V W. wv a a X. I ?4C7 I L TT III come, when they are In power, they will apply their laws to all sections equally, in spite of the provoking examples of the partizanship of the Republican party." children stolen. Father is Prosperous and so Is Uncle. The kidnapping of two children within a week from the same family has led the police of New York to believe that efforts are being made 1 to blackmail the parents. When Stephen Guardino, four years old, was stolen from in front of his home in Spring street on Sunday afternoon, kidnappers apparently stole the wrong child, because he was released the following morning and was picked up on a strange street and returned to his parents. At 2 o'clock the same afternoon, Stephen's six-year-old brother, ' Anthony, was sleeping in a bedroom of the Guardino flat when a strange man entered and carried him away without awakening him. At the time the other members of the family were visiting a neighbor. Anthony has not been found and . the whole police force of New York ' eity is seeking him. The father . is prosperous and owns the lease of L the tenement house in which the family lives. He has a brother in Brooklyn, who is> rated as wealthy, i and the family believe with the po lien that a demand will be made , for the missing child's ransom. SCORES WITNESS SUICIDE. I 1 Young .Man Wounded in Effort to i Save His Friend. A hundred passers-bv in a busi * ness street at Albany, Ga., a few ' days ago saw Homer Santipher, aged 1 24, shoot himself in the breast with a pistol after a friend, Walter Keaton, had vainly struggled with the young man to prevent the act. r Kefiton was shot through the left - hand in a desperate effort to deflect 1 a bullet Santipher tried to send into , his own body. Keaton'g wound prer vented him from saving his friend, o The two men were sitting quietly !. together talking when Santipher s suddenly jumped to his feet, cried, ), "I believe I will kill myself," and pulled his pistol. The second shot he fired struck beneath his heart and he will die. d ? n Ptomaine Poisoning. n Ptomaine poisoning caused by eatrt ing lobster killed Capt. C. G. NewA bury, at Groton, Conn., ona day last 1. week. CUT IT OUT Drug Stores in Many Towns Selling Near Seer IN VIOLATION OF LAW Wagon liOtuls of tin' Stulf Doing Handled by the Drug Stores in Greenville?The Drink Contains j Three I'er Cent of Alcohol and Intoxicates. The Columbia Record says they have found a soothing balm for prohibition pain up in (Ireenville in the form of a sort of near beer known as Wurtburger Malt, which is destined to become rapidly popular throughout the State if its seizure is not ordered by the State administration. A Columbian in Greenville a few days ago saw a two-horse load of the stuff in barrels being unloaded at the rear of one of the Main street drug stores, and investigation disclosed that this supply was expected to last this particular store only three days, and that it was being sold at scores of places throughout the city at 15 cents a bottle, and was eagerly sought as a substitute for beer. He was Informed that the Greenville sheriff and mayor had agreed that it could be sold as a tonic regardless of its being used as a beverage, though the dispensers of it wore cautioned not to allow it to be drunk on the premises, and it is not being kept on Ice. The Record further says that Chairman Murray of the dispensary commission frankly stated Thursday that his wholesale drug company is selling this malt in various parts of the State, but he was not advised that it was being sold as a beverage or used as such. The Columbia druggists are not selling it, being ordered last spring to cut it out. The drink contains three per cent of alcohol, and Attorney General Lyon Is under the impression that he has rendered an opinion aganst the sale of it under the name it now bears, but he could not get at his records handily Thursday morning to confirm this. Any way, if the stuff contains any amount of alcohol, and is being used as a beverage, whether sold as such or not, Its sale is in violation of law, and the venders are liable to the penalty under the new law providing for a fine of not less than $100 for the first offense, and imprisonment without fine for from one to five years for subsequent violations. If this is the same near-beer that is being sold in Georgia it should be cut out. It is as bad or worse than lager beer, and should not be allowed to bo sold anywhere in the State. The Governor should have the matter looked after at once. STABBED DURING PLAY. Mile Da/.ie Unable to Assist Company Becuuse of the Accident. I Mile. Da/.ie, an acress, will not bo ablo to hor ..or... * ** *l w v 1IVI V^WllJ JHlllJf 111 lilt? production of a pantomime for some time, following a serious stab wound she received in the breast In full view of the audience in a theatre at Rock a way Reach, N. Y. Mile. Dazie's jealous rival on the stage was supposed to stab her to the heart with a dagger, and for this purpose two weapons were employed, one with a shining steel blado to impress the audience and the other with a rubber blade for the actual use of the jealous rival. In some manner the rival, Mile. Lina, grasped the wrong dagger at the critical time and plunged the steel blade into the breast of Mile. Razie, inflicting a wound four inches long. The audience on hearing the shriek of the wounded actress and seeing the blood, became wildly excited, but was calmed by a statement from the stage manager. Doctors in the audience dressed the wound, and said that while it was not mortal, it was sufficiently serious to prevent the actress' public appearance for sonic time to come. Freakish Work of Lightning. Lightning did some freakish work at the home of Mr. David Strother at Johnson Wednesday. Beginning at a corner of the house it tore up the weather hoarding and knocked off plastering. Darting from tlie upper story into the kitchen it shattered the safe door and did injury to other woodwork. A negro girl was in the kitchen washing dishes' hut was not even shocked, neither were Mr. and Mrs. Strother, who were in the house as the electric current ran from room to room. Confiscating Contraband. They are rnbbing it into the blind tigers in Columbia. Raids at foifr places by the police Thursday yielded several two-horse wagon loads, valued at $1,200. and a joint raid by constables and police at seven other places was productive of about tbe same quantity. WANTED MONEY AM) TIIUKATKNEI) TO UIA>\V IT A KAlLllOAl) TO MKT IT. A Very Hot I/Otter Written by Him to the President of the Pennsylvania Knilroud. This is a declaration of war. My lifo i? nix>nl v mi t h ? rnwnlt for I am prepared to meet you at any time and place you may name. The weapons 1 shall use are dynamite and other high explosives." Thus wrote Abram C. 10by, mayor and referee in bankruptcy, of Rurkeville, Va., to the "president of the Pennsylvania ltailroad, Philadelphia," on July 2d, naming $45,000 as the ransom for the safety of the railroad, its steamships and the travoiling public and otherwise threatening tho Pennsylvania Railroad. Following a carefully laid plot of tho i Federal postal detectives, Eby was ' arrested, while in company of Oswald J. Deroussc, chief clerk to President McRae, who acted for the latter in inveigling Mayor Eby to Phil adeiphia. Ho was given a hearing before United States Commissioner Craig and held in $10,000 bail for . September term of court. At the hearing Win. L. Calvert, postofllce inspector, of Richmond, j Va., furnished evidence showing that Eby mailed threatening letters on the Richmond and Charlotte Railroad postofllce. All through the hearing Eby sat unmoved, and said simply that he , could not furnish bail. In his letter Eby said ho would meet no one except the president or j some high oflicial of the road. ITo | designated the sign of a secret or- ' dor to bo used in the insertion of a . "personal" as an answer in the ! Richmond Times-Dispatch. A "personal" was Inserted by j postofllce detectives and Eby's do- | mand of $150 and transportation to J Philadelphia was acceded to through j Mr. Derousse, Eby reached Philadel- i plila Wednesday night and wrote to J Mr. Derousse, making an appoint- j ment to meet him at noon Thursday. About 12:30 o clock the men j met, and Mr. Derousse took Eby to tho Third National Dank, where he secured a certified check for $30,000 and $300 n cash. These he offered Eby, but the latter refused saying: "Keep them for awhile. ' Chief Postal Inspector Cortelyou then made the arrest. Inspector Calvert said: "Mr. Eby is not crazy. He has long entertained a spite against the ' Pennsylvania Railroad. His father held stock in a branch road In Virginia, and Mr. Eby believes that by the reorganization of the road through the Reading and Pennsylvania influence his father lost some $200,000." SINGULAR CASK OF MIL HARRIS Why Ills Friends Think He Has Not Reen Guilty of Any Criminal Act. Ther are no further developments in the Calhoun Harris alleged embezzlement case at Anderson, other than that several friends put up the $22,500 bond, and he has been released. The accountants are still checking his books in their cotton mill office and have not announced any further irregular results. Harris secured an expert accountant to represent him in the audit of the books, but tho accountants left Anderson Wednesday afternoon without taking part in the work. The accountant claims that he was given no show; that his duty as pointed out by auditors of the American Audit Company was to sanction their work as they progressed. The attorney for the mills said that there is on the minutes a reso lution adopted by the board to allow Harris, his attorney, or expert accountant to be present at all times and watch the audit of the books. Harris' friends are disposed to think that he has brooded so much over his mistakes that his mind is unbalanced. They say that many things have been unearthed that would not have been done by a sane man, and that the discovery of so much money stored away in old boxes and hags in the vault, with every appearance of having been there for years, shows that there was no criminal intent on Harris' part. Harris is at his home on South Main street and insists stoutly that the accountants will find that not a single dollar has been misappropriated when they complete their audit. President Hammett said: "Even if the shortage is found to he flffv thousand dollars, the Orr Mills will not be crippled at all. We have a our* i\ Inc. - 11**1- *1 * oui j/iuo u i a iiliiu inure U1HI1 10111 hundred thousand dollars, and the shortage ran be charged off without depreciating the value of the stock. Our mills are capatalized at eight hundred thousand and are worth one and one-half millions." Lightning Holt Kills Two. Lightning struck a fodder stack on a farm near Madison, Fla., a few days ago, Instantly killing Napoleon Artls and his son, colored, who were rushing to get the fodder stacked before the storm broke. y; TAFT SAYS BILL Fuiifiils Campaigns Pledges of Republicans MADE TO THE PEOPLE I'?ut Apologizes to the Country h) Saying That While the McaNUif i J i.s Not a Perfect TarllT Hill, or a f Complete Compliance With tho ' Promises, It Will lluvo to l>o. { President Tuft pave out a state- J nient Thursday nlpht emhodylup his views of tlie new tariff net which ( is designated otliclally as the "Payne ' bill" in accordance with past cus } totn of giving recognition to the franier of the mesnure in the hou.-e , of representatives. I The president declares that w ille > the bill is not perfect by any menu . nor "a complete compliance with promise made, strictly interpreted," | it is nevertheless a sincere effort on < tile part of the party to mabo a j .ImililKn ,vl I,-!.... .,..-1 ~ ii n hi u i r \ inwu aim ui v?'i i i m y I witn the promises of the platform. The statement in full follows: "I have signed the Payne tariff bill i because I believe it to be the result of a sincere effort on the part of ttu Republican party to make a downward revision, and to comply with ; the promises of the platform as they , have heen generally understood, and | as I interpreted them in the campaign before election. , "The bill Is not a perfect tariff , bill, or a complete compliance with | the promises made strictly interpret- ( od, but a fulfillment free from crlt- | ii istn In respect to a subject matter , involving many schedules and thou- | sands of articles could not be ex- . ported. It sufllcos to say that except , with regard to whiskey, liquors and ( wines and in regard to silks and as . to some high classes of cottons? all of which may be treated as lux- , uries and proper subjects of a revenue tariff?there have been very few Increases in rates. . "Ileal Decrease.'' "There have heen a great number < of real decreases In rates, and they ( constitute a sufficient amount to Justify the statement that this bill is a substantial downward revision, and reduction of excessive rates. "This is not a free-trade bill. It was not intended to be. The Republican party did not promise to make a free-trade 1)111. "It promised to make the rates protective, but to reduce them when they exceed the difference between the cost of production abroad and . here, making allowance for the greater normal profit on active investments here. I believe that while this excess has not been reduced in a number of cases, In a great majority the rates a re nt ~ -? ? u,.v? ? o <ii c nrvcn* jsary to protect. American industries, but are low enough, in case of ah| normal increase of demand, and raising of prices, to permit the possibility of the importation of the foreign article and thu^ to prevent excessive prices. "The power granted to the executive under the maximum and minimum clause may be exercised to secure the removal of obstacles which have been interposed by foreign governments in the way of undue and unfair discrimination against American merchandise and products. "The Philippine tariff section I have struggled to secure for 10 years last past, and it gratifies me exceedingly by my signature to give it the effect of law. I am sure it will greatly increase the trade between the two countries and it will do much to build up the Philippines in* to a healthful prosperity. "The administrative clause of the bill and the custom court are admirably adapted to secure a more uniform and a more speedy final const ruction. "The authority to the president to use agents to assist him in the application of the maximum and minimum section of the statute and to enable officials to administer the law, gives a wide latitude for the acquisition, under circumstances favorable to Its truth, of information In respect to the price and cost of production of goods at home and abroad, which will throw much light i Jon tho operation of tho present tariff and be of primary importance as officially collected data tif?on which future executive action and executive I recommendations may be based. I "The corporation tax is a just and J equitable excise measure, which it is I hoped will produce a suffieent J 1 amount to prevent a deficit and j 1 which incidentally will secure valuI able statistics and information conI corning the many corporations of the I country, and will constitute an lmI portant step toward that degree of I publicity and regulation which tho I tendency in corporate enterprise in I the last 20 years has shown to be I necessary." People who think they were born , I to regulate the world are always 1 afraid they will die from being | overrighteoue. SOML N?W LIGHT ON TIIK \VII>KKI*ltKAI> AM) FATA I < IIOOKWOKM DISK ASK. Which Is Contracted Through Soil Solution ami Other Insanitary Surroundings of the Home. A sensational report on the Now tVoi'ld hookworm, technically known is Necator. Americans ? "The \merican murderer"?has been nado to the marine hospital service >y l)t\ Charles Warileil Stiles, the >mineiit authority on this destroyer >1 humanity, this declinator of the >oor white and the negro in the $outh. The present report of Dr. Stiles teals with the disease among the ngroes of the South, although ho uiys he has had far less experi>nce with the disease among colorsi people than among white. His :oncMisions are unique in that he t>eieves the hookworm disease is not -o destructive among negroes as inioug whites. lie accounts for this on the mm Position t f 1 a I thi? negro has become somewhat immune to it. owing to its prevalence in his race iu Africa hundreds of years lie fore this- country was discovered. Hut in both races it kills, directly and indirectly, 1 housauds of people each year, probably equaling the ravages of consumption. The Old World hookworm is relatively rare in the I'nited States, and it is the American post luii is claiming the thousands of vict ims. The hookworm is one-fourth to >ne-half an ineli long and about as Illicit as a small hairpin. It has hard jaws, by which, when well intrenched in tiie system, it adheres to the walls of the intestines and -lowly saps the life away, weakening the victim and bringing an meamic condition that is often atributed to malaria and other causes. Children are subject to the disease more than adults. In the South the disease Is contl'iieleil ttirnmrli ...?1 ? I-- * . . v.. . .. . nun |IUKI( IUII iV'KI insanitary surroundings. The *4<rgs ind young ones thrive in the r.oil pollution. Tlie young worm ent.eis the system through two methods, rho tirst is by the swallowing of contaminated food or water. Tho second is by boring through tho b hi n. After entering the skin the ymig worms make their way to the blood, and pass with the blood through the heart to the lungs. From the lungs the parasite pass tip the win 1pipe, down the gullet into the stomach, through the stomach to the bowels, where they shed their skins several times very much like a snake, all the time becoming mature. They then heging the work of injuring the walls of the lntestlnos by sticking the blood and poisoning the victims. Children become undeveloped physically and mentally, the skin becomes dry and sallow, tho hair is dry, there is ground itch, the patients are weak and indisposed to work. This condition predisposes to tuberculosis and many other diseases. Dr. Stiles is confident that if a campaign should be made In the South against the disease the death rate in many localities would be groately reduced. Tho ? _ ..V/ \?IOV IIO^ in rarely found north of Maryland or west of the Ohio river. A warm climate Is essential to Its existance. The medical authorities In Manila, when they discovered the disease among the prisoners of Rihlibid prison, reduced the death rate from 2S per 1,000 to 13.5 per 1,000, all by sanitary regulations and the use of thymol. The treatment for the disease H not expensive. The doses of thymol to he given will depend entirely upon the condition of the patient and should he prescribed by a physician. T)r. Stiles, however, places a campaign against soil pollution as far above anything else In the prevention line. The greatest care should ho taken In this respect. Buildings lUxked by '(^uakc, An earthquake has been reported from Brest and vicinity, says a dispatch from Paris. A number of buildings were rocwed by the 'quake and people were thrown into a state of panic, but so far as is known the disturbance ts not serious. I/M? \iiMMi i?y Train. The body of Harrison Cline, who Saturday night went to the home of his father-in-law, \V. F. Gordon, and attempted to kill his wife after she refused to return and live with him, was found Sunday morning badly | mangled, near the tracks of the Southern Railway, three miles east I of Winston-Salem, N. C. He threw 1 himself under the train. 1 Cow Milked by Fish. I Timothy Sullivan, of the Osburn* 1 turnpike, near Richmond. Va., naif 1 been noticing that one of his cow* jdid not give any milk, an i. aC.er I closely watching the animal, it was I found that as she waded into the 1 creek, fish hung to her udder until she had been milked dry.