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MADE IDLE RICH Thais Is What Carnagie Says He and the Thieving Tariff Did. NOW OPPOSES THE LAW Kavin<; KoI>1hm1 the People of this Country for Fifty Years t'nder its Provisions of Many Millions of ? ?i " ><i Vom riiinh< 11 It I'd r/nriim i ?\<> <? n )ittw Should He Modified. In his Washington letter to The State Zach McGhee says your Uncle Andy Carnegie admitted to a number ?of newsjxaper men Tuesday nigiu at the National Press club that Ill's success in piling hp his millions through Mie steel trust?though, of course, he did not admit it ?vu a trust?was due to the protective tariff. "Not until 1 found out Mia*. Imth ' democrats and Kepue.icanj were voting for a protecti *3 <ar!tv e sr. el would 1 go into it," !?.?-. said in substance. As long as a protective duty on steel was liable to be taken of. by a change in party in Washington, he said t.here was nothing in it for the steel manufacturer and he cited nu" ? ?. ~ i,,i merous instances 01 men w uw nan failed in steel before bis time. Just .after the War Between the Sections, he said, the United States giovern ment realized that in order to be independent of Europe steel rails and other steel manufactures had to be made here, and the only way to insure their being made here was to give a large bounty in the form of a tariff to the manufacturers. This was d/one and Andy got the benefit of it. "And they say I am responsible for 4 2 millionaires," he said with a grin of great satisfaction. "There is no more need of a duty on steel now," he said later, "than for a duty on wheat." But this is n.ot the opinion of the steel magnates, some of those 4 2 millionaires Andy by tariff graft has helped made. They say that Andy does not hanker after any further protection on steel for the very good reason that he has no longer any stock in the steel trust, having only niinn whir.h t he an nan 1 7 per iiuo it |/w.? cent, must be paid, tariff or no tariff, I profit or no profit. And these millionaires were here before the ways ?nd means committee demanding protection last December, and trying to decry Andy's contention. Forty-two millionaires made by a tariff on steel, think of it! That is what Mr. Aldrich, Mr. Roosevelt, Mr. Taft and the rest of the protectionists call "prosperity." And the tariff is for the laboring man; don't forget that. Yet it was in this very samel steel trust that revelations were made last fall of men being ground down day and night for something Jess than a dollar a day. I It is in the territory of this samel trusts of 42 millionaires that strikes are frequently beard of, due to discontent of the workmen with their share of the profits from the steel works, or their share of the "protecion" swag. It was Andrew Carnegie himself, as we of a passing ^generation can recall, who was at the head of this stel concern, the Carnegie steel works then, when soldiers and workers at Homestead shot one another down. That was somewhat about 1 892, but it h$s not been forgotten. Our Uncle Andy, the library giver, was at that time engaged in piling up bis millions and making his 42 millionaires, while everybody in this country who bought a pen or a penknife, who used the product of any machine in America or who rode on a railroad were paying toll to him. a toll authorized and "protected" by the United Suites government. But Andy is a great man now, and as an evidence of his greatness be ? ?? iw? lo wiuiwtn<%i hiP boasts IK) US l Hill IK- .O .v.,,,* for 42 millionaires. Hut what about] the paupers for which he is also re- j sponsible? Ob, well, he gives these libraries now. VIbillT I'lSTQL IM Kh. Oil Railway Platform ami Roth ReI reived Fatal Wounds. In full view of the passengers that had just arrived and a score of people who had gathered at the De koveii station, at Sturgls, Ky., "Laze" * f)m>lritw IVlllirht a Henry ana jamcn revolvor duel on the station platform*.. Each s.hot once and both bullets took effort. Henry, a mail carrier, who- drives the hack to the station, was wounded just above the heart.' Perkins, a liveryman sustained a perforation of the intestines. Both are past middle aye and men of families. Neither, it is belivod, will sufvlve. What led to t.he trouble is not known. + ? Killed by Snow. One hundred Japanese were killed April 3, when an avalanche overI whelmed the village of Nlshimoyamuta and burled it and the adjoining valley for a long distance under snow an6 debria ! STORK IN YANKEELAND i AliINN HACKS SHOW MAHKKI) IXCKKASK IN CONNECTICUT. Birth Hate Among Native Stock Is in the Decline.?Lathis Lead all Foreign Knees. The report of the Bureau of Vital : Statistics of Connecticut indicates ' that t.'iat state, once the home of the New Kngland Yankee, is becoming a foreign community. Study of the tabulations concerning births reveal that the native stock of the commonwealth is being overwhelmed by the superior numbers of the invading races from oversea. Italians, Slavs, and Austrians are beginning to figure prominently in t.he payrolls of Connecticut factories, and they are also raising crops and families on worn out farms 011 which Yankees find it difficult to provide a decent living. The extent of the injection of imported blood and the shifting proportions of new racial elements are creating marked changes in the population and the citizenship of Connecticut. in its Connecticut rounds t.he stork prefers to visit alien households. In 1908 there were 26,694 births in the state. The nunilber of cases in which i)ol h parents were foreign born foots to 14,130, establishing a new hig.h record. The percentage of foreign births in the past decade has increased from 4 1.7 to 52.9 per cent. Meanwhile the percentage o f birth where both parents are native born has undergone irregular decline. In other words t.he percentage of purely American births in Connecticut suffered a shrinkage of 7 per cent, during the ten year period, while the ratio of purely foreign - - ^ - A- T U ^ births mounted l l.z per cen>. mi' percentage of births when one parent is returned as native born and the ot.ber foreign born was 12.3 in 1 908, while in 1.2 per cent, of the cases the nationality of the fathers and mothers was not given. The Italian race is supreme in the number of foreign children born in 1908. Of the total of 14,130, just 4,421 were of Italian origin. Russian born parents, most of whom are Jews, contributed 2,364 babies in 1 908. T.he decline of the immigration of Irish and German stock is also noticeable. In 1 899 the Irish led the percentage. In 1 908 that nationality was third in the list. Slavs, Hungarians and Canadians show an ' increase in population, especially in the manufacturing centers. Twenty-six towns in Connecticut show an excess of deaths over births for the year 1 908. In most of these the old native stock predominates and the infusion of foreign blood has been small. In the rural town of Andover, for example, three birth certificates were filed during the year. All t.he births were or American parentage and all the decedents were American born. Of the 1 (I births which occurred in the farming town of North Stoningham in New London county, all were from Yankee born fathers and mothers, while 22 out of 25 decedents were native Americans. In Nort.h Branford, to cite one more illustration, eight of the eleven, babies born during the year were of purely American parentage and 17 of the 19 persons who died were of native stock. * < DRANK MURIATIC ACII). Throe Year Old Hoy Tliought It Was Soda Water. Herbert Horn, the three-year-old son of Daniel Horn, of Spartanburg, drank through mistake a quantity of muriatic acid Friday afternoon and died at 10 o'clock Saturday as a result. Some tinners were at work aluout tJie place and had the acid to use in their work. It was in *i soda water l>ottlo and the lad thinking that it was soda water drank the I entire contents of the l>ottle. Phy sicians were hastily summoned and worked over the yout.h all night, hut death came in spite of their heroic efforts. The drug literally burned the child to death. * ? II.AD ll.AHI) lit'CK. ? Columbia Mail is Kitten Second Time Ily Mail Dog. The Pasteur Institute was Thursday called upon to treat Alfred Wallace, Jr., of Columbia, bitten tho second time bv an aliased rabid doir. but the patient believes that the treatment taken alst December, protected him. Wallace was bitten the first time by his own dog, when his mother and grandmother were also bitten. He saw his dog bite K. i Berkeley Bryan's great dane and warned Mr. Bryan to kill it, but Mr. Bryan has not even had a vetenarian to see the Great Dane. i , ? Killed Himself. Down in the vault of the Jefferson bank at Korsythe and Canal streets in Ney York, George W. Hose, as' sistant receiving teller of the bank, took his own life by cutting bin throat and hands with an ink eraser ? The suicide left no indication of th( r reason for his act. His salary was j recently reduced. BIG COTTON DEAL ABOUT TO TAKE PLACE OX THE COTTON EXCHANGE. Hears Trying to Force Hulls to the Wall, but Hulls Say They Will Meet Issue. iFriday was "notice day" on the New York Cotton Exchange and the financial world turned its attention on that day to that commodity mart to glean news of the settlement of the reported "corner" in May contracts in cotton. Shorts in cotton giving "notices" Friday will make their deliveries on Monday, but the final outcome of the May deal will not be known until the end of May. According to estimates shortly before noon, the boars at that time had issued notices for the delivery on Monday of 200,000 bales on May co-nt'*acts. This is more than double the amount of transactions on any previous day in the history of the New York Cotton Exchange, the record until Friday being 97,000 bales. Friday's transactions represent a money value of approximately $15,000,000. There was some excitement on the lloor of the exchange, but it was seen early that the bulls were prepared to take cotton as fast as it was delivered and after an initial upturn In May quotations, prices fell off. JOugene N. Scales, one of the "big four," as the leaders in the bull moveiiieiiI are calieu, said that the bulls would turn over to the spinners every bale of cotton delivered. "Not a bale will go to speculators, he said. "The gamblers will have to look out for themselves." Cotton has been piling up for May delivery during the last t.hirty days, including 50,000 bales that were brought back from Liverpool after they had been exported, at a loss, it is said, of $4 or more a bale. Large shipments also were received from the South. The notices issued Friday caused no further liquidation in May, suggesting that the bull leaders and the other delivery of all the cotton tendered. Prominent interests in the trade estimate that by the end of May at ' least 300,000 bales of cotton, .valued i at $22,000,000 will have changed | hands in the New York market. Some] predict that if the bull leaders are able to find a ready demand from spinners for all the cotton taken during .May, they will require delivery of fully as much more in July. They are already heavily long on July contracts, their interest in the aggregate being fully 450,000 bales. It is estimated that not less than $0,0 0 0,000 will be required to finance the cotton delivered Friday morning, that amount representing the volume of money which the bulls must produce in addition to what the banks will loan to them on the cotton which now passes into their hands. The first May notice day had been looked forward to for more than a J month as likely to prove a severe * ~ C 4 ^ % 1 1 /-?r\ m.i\ O I or 11 llllt it iq r OS I o I iiju? u ii 11 v(iin |/ci i^n, >/ it v . v - ^ nt regarded as a final test of the ability of the short interests to deliver cotton on all contracts held by the hull leaders. The interests short of May have until the end of that month to make good their contracts, but it is felt that auv shorts now remaining must either be protected by cotton available for delivery at New York later in the month, or very strongly financed. * MUST SKRVF TIM 10. Murderers of Mrs. Bingham Goes to State Prison. For the murder of Mrs. Ruth Crisp Bingham, W. B. Avaivt and Dr. G. C. 'Bingam, the husband of the woman, will have to serve a sentence of three and one-half years in the state penitentiary, the supreme court 'handing down a decision in whfc.h the Georgetown court is affirmed. The two men shot the woman on a lonely beach and claimed that they thought she was a ghost. Since his conviction in Georgetown last year, the w.hereabout of Dr. Bingham have never been known. Avant spent several months In the penitentiary pending an appeal to the supreme I court. * Another Cotton Failure. Closely following the failure of Knight, Yancy and Company, of Decatur, Ala., the Steels Miller and Company spot cotton firm, with head quarters at Corinth, Miss., and several branches at other towns ovei eastern Mississippi, went into bank ruptcy Friday. ? Four at a Birth. When the stork visited Mrs. W'i! Ham Rife, Staunton, Va., it k?fi fo?r children in the Rifo home, but to Uu dj??tres3 of the' parents, one of tin lhtie visitors died almost on arriveal The remaining three, two lM>ys and i girl, are doing well, as is the mother who is thirty years old. ' ? Democrats Applaud. Democratic applause filled tin i house chamber when James S. Tlav ens, the newly elected Democrati > representative of the Thirty-Secern 5 New York district, appeared to tak the oath of ofllce on Friday. ROASTED HEARST Mayor Gaynor Skinned the Turncoat Before a Large Audience + CREATED A SENSATION Extraordinary Occurence at Newspaper Banquet in New York on Thursday Night.?llearst Absent and His Business Manager Kef used Permission to Speak. TJie annual joint banquet of the Associated Press and the American Newspapers I'll Uiisiiyrs nssuv,iiuiun at New York was thrown into riotous and prolonged disorder Thursday night, when Thomas T. Williams, business manager for W. R. Hearst, was refused permission to speak as, he rose to reply to biting criticisms Mayor Gaynor had just made on Mr. Hearst's part in journalism. dfor twenty-five minutes the uproar continued, while men stood in their chairs and women craned from the balconies of the banquet hall. "Mr. Hearst is not present. I am his friend and have a right to be heard." I shouted Mr. Williams, climbing onto I the speaker's table and shaking his j fist in the face of the mayor. "Put him out," "shut up." "free speech," came from all parts of the t hall. T.he toast master. C. X. Wright, of the Cleveland Leader, hammered in vain for order, while Mr. Williams stood impassive, but obstinate, and waited to be heard. "This is a disgrace to the press of the United States. It must end,' shouted Adolph S. Oehs. proprietor of the New York Times, as ne stood on his chair behind the toast master and begged for a word. " Mr. Williams, I promise you, has less than forty words to speak, let me say them for him." "No, 110," yelled the diners. "Mr. Williams says," began Mr. Oehs ? ?. "Xo, 110," broke in Uie thoroughly angered diners, with added insistence. Mr. Oehs sat down, while the orchestra thundered "Dixie," but Mr. Williams still kept his feet and a semblance of calm was not restored until the Rev. Xewell Dwight ilillis. j of Brooklyn, with a witty and felicitious speech brought laughter that drove out anger. The directors, executive members " A1? v ?~o ,-wi Proas and the Of lilt? *. American Newspapers Publishers' Association had met at their annual joint banquet at the Waldorf Astoria. Several hundred sat down to the banquet tables. Mayor Gaynor, the guest of honor and first, speaker, took for his subject 'The Press in its Relations to Public Officials." He spoke as is .his wont, and as he had been invited to do, without mincing words. "Those having power," he said, should use it justly, kindly and moderately. That makes their acts a'! the more effective. I measure my words in saying your power for good is immense. Your power for evil is not so great as some may think. "The public official w.ho tries his best to do right and who knows how to do right, cannot be hurt by you. n\av ammo him. even lie and forgo about him, but they are powerless to hurt .him. You can neither make nor unmake an honest and competent official. "The press as a whole is just to public officials. When the election is over, its wholesome wish is to see that the one who is elected gives good government and to help him do so. Hut if a publisher or editor be himself a perennial office seeker he may desire to assassinate every one in his way and then, alas, what a disgrace .he brings on journalism." These references, unmistakably drawn from the mayor's own political experience in a campaign of unexampled bitterness, just passed, he drove home with names and specific instances, in an attack of almost unexampled bitterness on W. Randolph Hearst, wiho ran against him for the mayoralty, and w.ho has since his administration sharply, he applied epi thots seldom heard in public speaking. Then followed the seeno here-tofore described. When order was re. stored, Wood row Wilson, president of Princeton University, emphasized the decline of the editorial in power, and t.he growing importance of prompt, accurate and unbiased news gather ' ing. (lignntic Meteor. News come from the mountains ir the vicinity of the Mormon coloniei south of K1 Paso, Texas, in Mexico that the Indians and many Mexican! ? are greatly disturbed over the fail 1 ing of a gigantic meteor. It burs and spread oul in four directions * and some of the fragments starter , a considerable forest fire. Will Die in Kleetrie Chair. At New York Albert Wolter, con 5 victed of the murder of Ruth Wheel - or, was sentenced today by Judg< c Poster in general sessions court t< * die in the electric chair at Sing Sin; e prison during the week beginnlui on June t>. Charlotte, N. C., F mous May by declaring herself free and I thus arousing the other twelve adelphia Declaration followed . a whole of the depressing elT< is becoming more and more i Lee's Headach gia Re enabling every American by its i from tlie yoke of all kinds of h< also giving to the Burduco Ln The use of which so arouses a i I once throw off the yoke of nin sour stomach, dyspepsia, loss i troubles ami thus enabling one the depressing and dangerous < Price 25c each. Mfg. by Hunvi A SKIUOl'S CHARGE. Two Drummers Arrested for Assault on Voting Woman. Following the finding by the police of Miss Honor Starr, of Newman, Oa., lying semi-conscious and hysterical, partially clothed, in a room at the Terminal Motel, in Atlanta, Sunday afternoon, Hugh Kenny and T. B. McNeel, two travelling men of J Xew York, are held by the officials on a charge of attemtped criminal assault. T.he police were notified that something was wrong Sunday afternoon by H. W. Mitchals, a hardware man who travels for a Savannah firm. He says that all afternoon he hoard the girl pleading and begging to he let i alone, and that F.he struggled vlo-1 lently with one of the men who was aided by another girt named Bertha Hubbard. Mitchell says that finally , Miss Starr, as Tie heard the sounds, became hysterical, and it was then that he summoned the police. Quite Cool in the Clouds. Kites at Mt. Weather, Va., reached an altitude of 23,000 feet above sea level last week. The temperature at that height was 17 degrees below zero. At the surface it was 71 degrees above. No remedy will deaden the pain or take the soreness from Guts and Bruises quicker than Noah's Liniment. It is antiseptic and the best pain remedy. One trial will convince you. Noah's Liniment penetrates; requires but little rubbing. Here's the Proof Mr. Kdward Ryan, who has boon employed at the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works in Richmond, Va., for about fifty years, makes the following statement: "While working &t my trade (iron work) I get bruised and cut frequently, and I find that Noah's Linlment takes all the soreness out and heals the wound Immediately. Have also used your remedy for rheumatism with the best results, and recommend It to anyone suffering with aches and pains." Noah's Liniment Is the best remedj for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Lame Back Stiff Joints and Muscles, Sore Throat Colds, Strains, Sprains, Cuts, Bruises Colic, Cramps, rrr ' Neuralgia, Toothache and all Vr; Nerve, Bone and Muscle AcV.es and JU\ Pains. The gen- U I!u ulne has Noah's I Ark on every 'T*C> Mffl Sold dealers In medicine. SamNoah Remedy Co., ll^lluU^hi Richmond, Va. L3JUULlJUa3JLlJ| : Twe carrymmm ! jj OHLEN, ',: 1 ;: HOE. and 1 ; SIMOND'S jj INSERTED ; ; I TOOTH SAWS I ? ^ < Columbia Supply Company, ? K O 82.*? W nervals St., S j[ Columbia, S. C. rirst Became Fa20, 1775 fS ndependent of Great Britain colonies to action and the Philfuly 4tli, 1770 ridding them as set of British nomination. She 'umous by the manufacture of e and Neuralimedy. ^ use to declare themselves free ?udaches and neuralgiu and by rer Powder. torpid liver am to cause it to at ousncsrf, constipation, jaundice, of ap|>etite and all similar ' "i to declare themselves free from >lf<K?ts following such diseases, sll Ai: Dunn Co., Charlotte, N. O. CLASSIFIED COUIMW For Sale.?500 bushels fine cottoa seed, La ten strain. $2.00 per bu. f. o. b. H. E. Edward's, Elloree, S. C. Our $1 Adding Machines save time and worry. Guaranteed. Thousands sold. A gen ts wanted. Haynes Mfg. Co., Rutherfordton, N. C. Kden Watermelon Seed for Sale aft 75c. per pound. The best tlavored shipping watermelon grown. J. M. Farrell, Blacksville, S. C. For Sale?Milch cows Jersey's, grade Jerseys and Holsteins. All of the best breeding. Registered jeraay male calves. M. H. Sams, JoseaI ville, S. C. | ? Thoroughbred Single Comb "Cherry Red" Rhode Island Red and R. C. Snow-white wyandotte eggs, 15 for $1.50. II. H. Summey, Stone Mountain, Ga. Teachers wanted for excellent posl' tions now vacant. Trustees supI plie-l with Teachers. Attractive booklet, 'A Plan" free. Southern Teachers' Agency, Columbia, S. C. White Wyandotte Hggs, 10c each. Big blocky birds, bilow white, Fishe strain, trio buffs, trio whites, pair Columbian's. S. A. Fernell, It. 1, Columbia, S. C. Agents Wanted.?$2 to $5 daily assured selling our harness attachment line holder. Lightning seller; cheap; exclusive territory given. Write today. National Specialty Co., Dept. S., Lexington, Ky. l>nto Seed Potatoes for sale, "New Dixie." Good keepers and croppers. Practically bug and blight proof. I made 970 bushels 011 5 1-2 acres planted July 14 and 15 last year. Price 75c per bushel f. o. b. Claroniont, Va., if ordered 011 or before May 15. J. M. Hughes, Claremont, Va. lOggs in any quantity from hoadquartnro ulnniic.,1 liu nvnroau niul frr?m I our prize winners, at $3 per 15, $5 per 30; get a sotting and start { now, from our lino bred B. Rooks. S. C. R. I. Reds, Brown and White Leghorns, the money making laying kinds. We can start you right. Belmont Farm, Smyrna, Ga. Pedigreed English Setters, Puppies, and Pure Gordons, Setter Puppies, at prices that will please the lover of bird dogs. Also Barred Ply' mouth Rocks and Rose Comb Rhode Island Red eggs from best j of pure stock. $1 and $1.50 for > 15 eggs. Write B. II. Middle- ? > [ brooks, Yatesville, Ga. I up-to-date goods has spread far out r Bargains in Pure Bred Stock?rick . and rare Berkshire Boar Plgg, monina oici rrom regular stock At $15 each. (One Bred Sow (Chin* Betsey No. 119177) Due to farrow in April, at the small sum ot $75; has farrowed twice, first litter 10 pigs, second 11. S. C. B. Deghorn Eggs?15 for $1; 30 for $.90; 100 for $5. In answering this ad mentioD this paper. A. . Sloop, China Grove, N. C. I IMPORTANT NOTICE. < For a short while we have decided 0 to save our future customers agents' <' expenses. This will save about twenty o per cent, on Organs, and about ten per cent on Pianos. < > Organs, from $75 up. ^ lManos, from $225 up. o Less the discount as stated above. \\ Write at once for catalogs and terms <? o the old established. \\ MALONE'S MUSIC HOUSE, o Columbia, S. C, - *| ??i i ???? j[ Senator Hale, of Maine, sees the ii hand writing on t.he wall, and ho anII Republican and voted for a duty on * didato for re-election.