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DOUBT PEARY~ Additional Proof Required by Committee of His Claim that be REACHED NORTH POLE Until Tills is IK>ne Peary Will Not lie Recipient of (ViiiKi'CKsioiial Reward.? Congressman Macon Declares Himself "Skeptical About Peary's Having Discovered Pole. Until Commander Robert E. Peary furnished other proofs that ho discovered the North Pole, no reward will be bestowed upon him, as the result of a practically unanimous vote of the congressional substitute committee of the House committee 011 naval affairs Wednesday. A speech in opposition to the proposition of honoring Peary was made by Representative Macon of Arkansas, before the committee. Representative Macon declared to th/e committee that the explorer could not have made the distance he said he did in his dash for the Pole. Mr. Macon said ho was "indignant at the thought of being called upon as a Representative of the American people to confer a high honor upon any one of its citizens in the dark." I All legislation by Congress, he said, "night to be open and above board. "I confess that 1 am exceedingly sceptical about Mr. Peary's ever having discovered the Pole," declared Mr. Macon, "and I am going to protest against any honor being conferred upon him by Congress until he has established beyond reasonable doubt that he did discover it, and it must be established in the open, and not in the dark." Mr. Macon said he wanted to direct attention to one "discrepancy in Mr. Peary's story." This was the speed he made from the time Capt. Bartlett left him until he reached the Pole. Mr. Peary said that for five days he made 2 6.4 miles per day, but Mr. Macon said this appear ed very singular, in view of the fact that the Peary party had made but 9.06 miles per day up to the time Bartlett left. During this part of his journey, Mr. Macon said, "no white man was with him as a witness, his only companions being his negro valet and four Eskimos. "He claims to have made an average of forty-four miles per day on his way hack from the pole to Bartlett's camp, and 28.6 miles per day from Bartlett's camp to Cape Columbia. "The greatest speed he had made before Bartlett left him was 9.06 miles per day, so Peary must have made nearly three times as great speed after Bartlett left him as ho did before, in order to reach the Pole." Mr. Macon declared that Mr. Peary's own statements showed that he equalled this speed hut twice during the entire journey to the Pole. The first day he started from land ho made 26 miles, and on another day made 29 miles in fourteen hours of forced march, "which Mr. Peary has told us was about the limit of human endurance." Mr. Macon quoted Lieut. Schakleton, Gen. Greely and other to show that "10 to 12 miles per day, or slightly more, perhaps, is considered the limit of human endurance traveling over Polar seas." M A \ KILL SELF.* After Wife Leaves Policeman Coin liiits Suicide. His \vi> vne, his life .vrecked. /.rthur Brown, form<ir1y of the Atlanta police for*;? but n?\v livir.g at Gilnioro, (la., decided that life was not worth while and used a revolver with fatal effect. Going into a bathroom of" h'.s home, Wednesday ho shoi; himself through the head with a thirty-eight calibre revolver. The shot was heard and neighbors rushed into the house and entered the bathroom, but were unable to save the man's life. Mr. Brown was formerly a member of the police force of Atlanta, and at one time was a secret agent of the United States government. He is survived by his wife, mother, sister, brother, and one child. His wife quit him some time ago. Many Wanted Babies. Wednesday was the day they gave babies away in New Orleans. A car load of little tots arrived from New York foundling and orphan asylumn with an eager crowd of claimants awaiting their arrival. In addition to those who have previously made successful claim to a baby, many Dressed about the, car in the hope that there* might he some "left over," but those who applied in advance got every baby in the car. Coing to the Capital. W. E. McQee, the traveling passenger agent of the Southern, was in Rock Hill Thursday making arrangements with President Johnson for a trip to Washington, D. C., to be taken by the senior class at the college. Thlft trip the girls will pay for and there will be no expense to the col. !i. M m HtlBTItll mill I i ' r ?n WILL INSPECT SEED GETTING READY TO MAKE WAR ON T1IK 1IOLL WEEVIL. Tito Uw Recently Passed by the Legislature About Seed Inspection to be Enforced. A conference of the seed bouses will bo called to meet soon to discuss the act passed at the last session of the general assembly calling for the inspection of all seed sold in inis siaie, j. in. uarper 01 v>iemson college was in Columbia Thursday for a conference with Commissioner Watson. Prof. Harper has already commenced the preparations for the inspection of the seed at the experiment station. Miscropic tests will be made. The act provides in part as follows: Section 1. That on and after the approval of this act, no person, firm or corporation shall by himself or themselves, his or their agents or representatives of any persons, firms or corporations, sell or offer for sale or distribution within the State of South Carolina, for seeding purposes, any lot or package of agricultural seeds exceeding one pound in weight unless the same, when put in either open or closed packages, shall have attached thereto a label on which is plainly printed or written in the Fnglish language the following: ( t ) Name and kind of seed. (2) Statement of purity of seed contained therein. (4) Germinating power of seed. (5) Locality where seed was grown if known. Sec. 2. For the purpose of this act the term "agricultural seeds" shall include seed of the red clover, either medium or mammoth clover, white clover, alsike clover, burr clover. crimson clover, lespedeza, alfalfa, tir thy, orchard grass, Kentucky blue g s. red top, bromis inerimis, oat g: ss, fescues, the millets, the vetch : other grass and forage plant seeds. i!ax, rape, sorghum, rye, barley an i other serials and cotton. Sec. 3. No agricultural seeds, as defined in section 2, shall be sold or offered for sale or distributed J.- At r?A _ j I ? wiiniii iiiu r>uue wnicn contain 111 greater numbers than 30 to 1,000 seeds under examination, the seeds of such noxious weeds as clover dodder, field dodder, white mustard, wild oats and such other weeds as may be designated in the regulations promulgated by the state department of agriculture and the state experiment station. Where the seeds of the weeds so designated are presented in fewer numbers than 30 to 1,000 of the seed being examined a statement shall be made on the label attached to the package numbering the weed seeds present therein. Sec. 4. The seeds of such weeds as sheep sorrel, green and yellow fox tail, yellow trefoil, chick-weed and such other weeds as may be prescribed in the regulations adopted by the state department of agriculture and the state experiment station, and stated in circulars, shall be classed as impurities in agricultural seeds. When such impurities or any -of them present in quantity exceeding 3 per cent, of said agricultural seeds the approximate percentage of each shall be plainly stated on the bag attached as specified in section 1. Section 5. Sand, dirt, sticks, broken seeds, other seeds than those mentioned in the foregoing sections, or uii.v oilier iongn matter, snail Do considered as impurities when mixed witli agricultural seeds sold, offered or exposed for sale in this State for feeding purposes. When such impurities are present in seeds exceeding the standard fixed in the regulations of the state department of agriculture and the state experiment station the name and approximate percentage of each shall ho stated on the label as specified in section 1. Sec. G. The department of agriculture and the state experiment station arc hereby empowered to prescribe regulations designating when seeds shall be considered mixed or adulterated of misbranded and as germinating power standard, Sec. 7. The provisions of this act shall not be contracted as applying to: (1) Any person growing, possessing for sale or selling for food purposes only. (2) Persons selling seeds containing Impurities execpt as defined in the regulations, providing such seeds are sold to merchants to be recleaned before exposing for sale upon the general market. (2) Seed that is in store for the purpose of recleaning and which is not possessed, sold or offered for sale for seed purposes. (4) Corals, grown or sold and delivered from the farm by the owner thereof, buyer himself to use The seed for seeding purposes, or fcr resale to local merchants, who may resell. (5) Mixtures of seeds for lawn purposes except that the sale of such mixtures is sold subject to restrictions and regulations made therefor by the department of agriculture and the stato experiment station Sec. 8. For the purpura of this act seed shall be deemed pure when it complies with the foregoing provisions and contains no cormunleahle disease. The enforceme it of the pror yon is left with the commlssUner of agriculture. The act further says: "Sec. 9. The enforcement of the provisions of this act is hereby placed under the direction of the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries of South Carolina, and he is hereby empowered to appoint such Inspectors and assistants as may be necessary to execute Its provisions. All examinations of seeds shall be done at the State experiment stations under the supervision of the director thereof and from the funds raised by this act upon tho approval of the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries tho expenses of examination shall be paid by the State. "Sec. 10. It shall be the duty of thr? i nstipcloru :i ml :i ut m n t u fr? ool. left samples of agriculture seeds in the open market and forward same to the experiment station, where they shall be examined and analyzed In conformity with the provisions of this act and the standards fixed by the regulations provided for herein. The insepctors and assistants are vested with till necessary powers for the proper execution of their duties and to note all violations of any provisions of this act and to bring action in the proper court or tribunal for prosecution of such violation when directed so by the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries. "Sec. 11. The results of all tests of seeds made by the experiment station shall be published in bulletins of tiie department or the station, together with the names and postofllce addresses of the persons, firms or corporations from whom all samples tested were obtained. "Section 12. For the purposes of this act a sample of agriculture seed shall consist of not more than founr nor less than two ounces of t lie seed to lio examined. "See. 13. Whoever violates any provisions named in the section of this act, or who shall attempt to interfere with the inspectors or assistants in the discharge of the duties named herein, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not less than $10 or more than $r?0 for each and every offense. "Sec. 14. A fee of 25 cents shall be collected by the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries from tlm seedsman, person, firm or corporation oeffring the seed for sale or selling same for each sample tested under the provisions of this act, and the proceeds from such fees shall be paid out of said special fund upon the warrant of the comptroller general, upon the presentation of itemized bills approved by the commissioner of agriculture, commerce and industries. CAUSES DAMAGE. Lightning Plays Strange Pranks Hut Hurts No One. At Somerville, N. J., the telephone, electric light and fire alarm service is crippled as a result of the most severe electric storm ever experienced in this section -of New Jersey. A dozen residences and an equal number of barns and outbuildings were struck by bolts, but no serious fires resulted. The lightning played some strange pranks. A bolt came down the chimney of the new residence of William Arkenberg and traveled around the dull gilt moulding on the walls throughout the house, leaving it with a surface like newly burnished gold. In another house a bolt which struck a projecting gable divided into several branches on entering the house and lighted eight small fires in as many different rooms. ? WANTS NECK HltOKE. Shot Two Women I localise They Hefuse to Marry Him. At Marion. I ltd.. San ford T.nvn called at the homo of fiance, Miss Lottie Murden, Thursday and shot her twice, once in the rbeast and in the hack. She will die. Bight years ago, Love shot another young woman, Nora Miller, to whom he was engaged to be married. She recovered. Miss Murden, after a quarrel with Love, had broken her engagement with him and lie shot her after she returned the letters he had written her. Love is 2 8 and Miss Murden 18. lie surrendered to the police. Jerked Oil' Fingers. At Chester Wednesday afternoon John J. Pcay was the victim of a horribly painful accident. He was riding in a buggy and leading a mule near the York county Hue. The mule became frightened and pulled back violently and the first joint of the forefinger of Mr. Peay's right hand was jerked off, together with a tendon more than a foot long, reaching almost to the elbow. Mr. Peay was brought at once to the city and the wound wan mmfniiv dressed. lie is resting comfortably. Doctor Sentenced. At Detroit Wednesday Dr. George A. Fritch was sentenced to serve from seven and one-half to fifteen years in the penitentiary for causing the death of Mabelle Mlllman, of Ann Arbor, last August by means of an unlawful operation. Fatal Fight. One man was killed and two others fatally wounded in a pistol fight at Ilearea, Ky., Monday. ? The boy of today is a pretty good follow, and not half as soft as he looks. % THE LAND STEAL Ex-Secretary Garfield Makes Same Sensational Statements BALLINGER SHJWN UP Garfield Connects Him Directly With a Calse Afliduvit Gotten up in the Who Attempted to Bunco? the Who Attempted to Bunco? the (Government. James It. Garfield, former secretary of the interior, was finally excused from the witness stand at the Ballinger-lMnchot investigation late Thursday afternoon. His final half hour before the committee furnished the sensation of what had been up to that time a decidedly dull day. Mr. Garfield stated that r. Ballinger, after having been commissioner of the land office, submitted to him on Septemeber 17, 1908, an affidavit signed by Clarence Cunningham, containing the statement that the Guggenhelms had no interests whatever in the Cunningham group of coal mines in Alaska, while as a matter of fact, the records of a recent hearing before the senate committee on territories show that prior to the making of the affidavit th"? Guggenheim syndicate had been given an option on a half interest in all the Cunningham claims. Attorney Brandeis, who was questioning Mr. Garfield, followed up these declarations by reading from Secretary Ballinger's report to President Taft on September 4, last, con coming the Glavis charges, the statement that Mr. Balling.cr had suggested to Mr. Cunningham an amendment to an affidavit made prior to the one which he presented to Secretary Garfield in September, 1908, and that Mr. Cunningham made the amendment by explaining in detail what lie meant yb certain terms used in his former affidavit. .Mr. Garfield said Mr. Baliinger, in giving him the affidavit left the impression on him that his action was entirely casual and that he had been requested by friends in Seattle to leave it on file or whatever it might bo worth. Mr. Brandeis then called attention to the fact that the name of Mr. Ballinger's law firm was printed on the backing of the affidavit. The former secretary of the Interior was examined and cross-examined as to his administration of the office which he gave up to Mr. Ballinger on March 5, 1009. Mr. Garfield, in explaining what he did in the matter of the withdrawal of lands without specific provisions by law, declared he was working in the interests of the people and to prevent monopolistic control of power sites and consequent extortionate prices to the consumer. The former secretary took issue with Mr. Ballinger as to certnin statements made by tlie latter in liis reply to President Taft regarding tlie various charges made against him. Mr. Garfield said he could not recall any conference with Mr. B'allinger regarding the Cunningham coal claims, although Mr. Ballingor said he had immediately conferred with Mr.* Garfield after the receipt of Glavis' protest against the clear listing of the Alaska claims. Mr. Garfield admitted that in urging general coal legislation by congress early in 190S he had made the statement that ho was willing to condone fraudulent entries in Alaska provided the entrymen were compelled to pay an increased price for Mw. U...1 i ~ n.-. - me iiimi in inu government. HANK CASHIER SKIPS. With Ten Thousand Dollars of the Hank's Money. Savannah lias a sensation on hand. James M. Doyle, teller of the Hibernia hank and first lieutenant in th? Irish Jasper Greens, is short $10,000 in his account with the bank and is a fugitive from justice. It has been found that Doyle, though married, was intimate with a woman who is now supposed to he in Atlanta. He came much excited on Friday night, when he found the woman had gone, and said he was going to find her. IIis cash was recently checked up and found to he correct. He is believed to have taken the money Saturday afternoon late. It was all in large hills. Smile and he llappy Smiles should be a part of ourselves every day of the week. Do you know we esteem those persons our best friends who greet us with *i smile and a kind word. A community composed of individuals who look always on tho bright side of everything would, in our opion, ho an ideal community. What we need in this life is sunshine, and a srront deal of it. Fears War With Japan. A note of warning was sounded Monday by Jocob H. Schiff, the New York banker, regarding the situation in the far oast, and the possibility of war with Japan was discussed In many banking houses. Mr. Schiff helped finance Japan in her war with Russia. { SOME AMAZING FACTS SOUTH HAS LESS ANIMALS THAN FIFTY YEARS AGO. There Has Been Opportunity to Recuperate, but the Opportunity Has Not Been Improved. Sometime ago the Macon Telegraph gave its readers official figures showing that in Georgia there are fewer cattle (excepting milch cows), sheep and swine in 1910 than in 18G0?before the war. This was amazing, yet true. The Manufacturers Record has gone further into the question and gives us the figures in all the? Southern States. They show that there has been a loss also In fifty years in the other Southern states of Alabama, Maryland, North and South Carolina. In the fifty years between I860 and 19 1? the population of the country increased from 31,500,000 to 89,000,000, and the population of the South from 11,000,000 to 28,000,000. In tho same period, according to official figures and allowing for valuation in census schedules, the raising of livestock used for food has not kept pace with the growth of population in the whole country, and in the South has actually declined in the case of sheep and swine. In 1 860 the South had 8,542,190 meat cattle, not including milch cows and in 1910 she has 13,834,000; in I860 the South had 6,081,000; in 1S60 the South had 18,28 1,2 IS hogs, and in 1910 she lias 1 5,089,000. This is not a creditable showing, and proves that our farmers have pretty well abandoned almost everything else for cotton. In the case of sheep, the South now has 10,000 fewer than in 1860, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee showing the most marked decreases, their average being too great to overcome the increase of $1,1 65,000 in Texas, added to the slight increases in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland and old Virginia. Swine made even a worse showing than sheep. The increase for the whole country in the fifty-year peri (i fl \vns n n 1 vr nt Hia >>otn a # A o . . . J Ul> 1,11V I CUV 171 1 ? 1??" 1 cent., against an increase of 197 per cent, in the population, but against an increase of 172 per cent, in the population of the South the number of swine decreased by more than 3,000,000, in the face of an increase of 1,883,000 In Texas, of 1 84,000 in Florida, of 1 09,000 in Louisiana and of 27,000 in Alabama, the only four I states of the fourteen Southern states showing an increase. Of course it is understood that the meat animals (as well as horses and mniles) in the South had to do service for both of the contending armies. The foratge, the wreck, the destruction, the conflict of four years left the South practically barren of these animals. Hut there has been time to recuperate, as other things have recuperated. There has never been a time more propitious than the present for live stock raising in the South. Facts, conditions and the promise of fat rewards call aloud for it. * LKAIHOKS AIJ K WOKIUlOl). New York Republicans Admit that the Situation is Serious. A dispatch from Oswego, N IT., say that political leaders and legislators, national and State, who were in attendance "on the funeral of former United States Senator Thomas C. Piatt, found an opportunity for an exchange of views on the political situation at Albany. The Allds-Conger bribery scandal, and the Senate leadership contest were quietly discussed by former Governor Odell, Chairman Woodruff, of the Republican State Committee; Representative Dwight, the Republican "whip" in the lower house at Washington, and representative Sloat Fassett, and other Republican legislators from Washington and Albany. The delegation from Washington brought word that the feeling in Administration circles favored Hinman's election. Albany retorted that such action was unlikely, and it was hinted that a hitherto unmentionod candidate might be put forth as a (Compromise. It is apparent that Senator Cobb's supporters, who include Chairman Woodruff and Wm. Barnes, Jr.,'the Albany leader, intends to press his candidacy at the conference at Albany. That the sitution within the Republican party at Albany is causing grave concern was adlmtted by the leaders. Shoots Herself. Near Milledgeville, Ga., Miss KfTle Simpson, twenty years old, beautiful and accomplished, shot herself in t ho Vinni'f of - * uvui *, ut uci iiomu jit ivn eariy hour Thursday morning. She had lioon teaching school at Eastman hut resigned on account of ill health. She was a member of a prominent family and her rash act created a great shock. They call it embarking on the sea of matrimony, but unless Elanor Robson stays hitched up to August Relnvont longer than the marriages of most actresses, we should call It the rivulet of matrimony. HELPED FARMER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY DID A GOOD DEAL FOR THEM. It Gave Money to Support Various Things that the Farmers of the ? State Needs. Farmers have no reason to complain of their treatment at the hands of the recent Legislature. A survey of the bills enacted Into law shows that the General Assembly adopted this session some very progressive and diversified legislation. Provision was made for the inspection of comermcial foodstuffs, the income to go to the Department oi Agriculture, commerce and industry, of which Col. E. J. Watson is ^ the aggressive head. A special appropriation of $4,000 for the general expenses of the department was also given, this being a splendid recognition of Col. Watson's untiring and successful eflorts for the development of the State. An up-to-date pure seeds law based upon the Wisconsin statute was also adopted. For the farm demonstration work, so successfully managed in the Stato by Mr. Ira W. Williams, an appropriation of $5,000 to supplement the national appropriation was made? a good example for other States. For the great corn show to he hold in Columbia this fall $1,000 was given, conditioned upon $4,000 being raised in tho State at large. And this is assured, Mr. A. E. Gonzales, having pledged $1,000 of the amount. It is also gratifying to note that the Legislature appropriated $500 for the support of the work of tho State Corn Breeders Association, which works along the lines of tho most progressive of such organizations in the West. NEC Ito PREACH EH LYNCHED. "Parson" Wallace Dragged from His Home and Swung l'p. At Gracewood, Miss., "Parson" Wallace, a negro preacher, was lynched by a mob early Wednesday, which sought revenge for the serious wounding of Patrolman J. W. Slack by the negro late Tuesday night. The negro was badly wounded in his flight with the officer and when ho fell into the hands of the mob, it was necessary to drag him to tho telegraph pole to which he was hanged. Slack Is said to have gone to tho llPirn'o linnan t~ ,.111 ?U,_1 0. u uv/uov |U I/UII' L ll 1)111 WHICH he claimed the negro owed him. It is alleged that when he spoke to the negro, that, he was struck and knocked down and in the tusslo which followed, the negro got the otlicers pistol and shot him through the wrist. Several other wounds were inflicted on the officer who finally got hold of the pistol and shot the ne- f gro several times. Charles Colenmn, another negro had by this time come to the officer's assistance and the fight was stopped. The negro lay on the porch of his home while a mob gathered and talked of lynching him. Leading citizens of the town pursuaded the mob to disperse but they later gathered and dragged the negro out into the street and swung him "up to the polo. ROmtMI) IX THE STREET. Held up Woman and Child in tlio '~"T Centre of Charlotte. At Charlotte, NT. C., and on one of the principal streets, negroes Sat111* f 1 Q IT Iwvl /I " -1 ' ' * ...v.c.r .n:m up iinu assaulted a wliito woman and child and robbed them of their pocket books, dontainlng sums of money. These bold robberies came as the climax to a long series of nightly hold-ups in which women have been invariably the victims. On the boulevard in Dilworth Friday morning, an aged woman was knocked down and severely hurt, the negro escaping with the woman's pocketpoob. That afternoon on the main street of the city a child was knocked down and robbed of a purse. The police chased both crimnals with bloodhounds and automobiles and made two arrests. Great crowds followed each prisoner to the station, but no violence was attempted, although for a time great excitement revailed. Will Soon Ho Out. A dispatch from Washington says rSenator Tillman's recovery is most htarked. He is now strong enough to walk around in his room without assistance, and is able to give personal attention to some of his corresdenee. He has visitors almost, every day and carries on a conversation without showing any evidence of fatigue. The Senator and his family expect to return to South Carolina the latter part of this month. Was Found Dead. At Anderson Paul K. Ayer, twice candidate for Mayor of nitv o?a V..V VIVJ w?*u brother of Hartwell M. Ayor, of Florence, was found dead In his bed at a boarding house Wednesday at noon. Mr. Ayer remained in his room Tuesday and when he failed to come out Wednesday his landlady called a nofllcer who entered his room and found him dead. 1