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FARMERS UNION Huld laforaal Met ling ia Columbia tod Heir Goad Talks Froa WELL KNOWN SPEAKERS The Lergf Gathering Wan Called to Order by Preaidene Porrltt, of tin* Utate Farmers Union, Who Intro^ i/f/imt Uikitaf/ki* ttntilh avwf ( W Vim*s ^ |1V\. ** nV>l<XIA/a Mima M ??'? V >-*? Who Made Speeches. The State says a large number of tho Farmers' union members who wore attending tho Srate fair on Farmers' Union day assembled in the Richland county court house Thurs day night. The meeting was called to order by President Perritt of the union. With a few introductory remarks as to the nature of the meeting, the president introduced J. 1J. O'Neali Holloway who had been at work in the Piedmont section as a field rep reeentative of the Farmers' union. Mr. Ilalloway spoke of the inter est that lie found In that section oi the State. His work had been along educational lines to revive ano strengthen the union. Ho emphasised the interest that he found in the schools -and the educational development. Education is at Lhe feundation of the whole social structure, in the opinion of the speaker. The future of the Farmers union depends upon the proper edu cation of the boys an 1 girls, of today The farmer of today must use hisbrains. Let the farmer apply tinsame business principles and scientific methods that the merchant, tinhanker or the manufacturer puts into bis business. He will then see ;? wrf 111 r<.volnfion In the results I lira \V. Williams was then introduced. He spoke of the great work of the Farmers' union in educating the farmers of the State. Much 01 the ere lit Tor the revolution in the methods of fanning exerted by fir* United States farm demonstration work is due to the Farmers' union The union helped to put the work before the people and get them in terested was the statement by Mr Williams. The organization was .1 rwy powerful factor in introducing this educational development. Tutoorn contests of the boys all over tiu State grew out of work of the union, he said. He spoke of the Importance o! - ii ii *. keeping up tne organization. w ishould not '?e deceived by prosperit> and be tempted to become carelesiin this respect. The moral force o! organization in of great valtio. The union is a power In the land. Senator E. D. Smith was then in troduced by the president in complimentary terms. Senator Smith emphasized the importance of being independent. A nan who is -at the beck and call ot another is not a full human being? he is simply a biped. lie must rise aborc the level of mediocrity and become something of force and power Three steps?wealth, leisuie learning?necessary to the acquis* tion of power. Wealth is secured b\ increasing productive power. How many of the farmers realij kaow all the products of their cotton and the markets and how it is bundled from start to finish? How nianj know all the products of cotton seen and how they are handled? {Knowledge is power. Let us know more about our resource?, then w? will be in a position to be more independent. X. J. Watson made a short ad dress. "We are now closing a most prosperous year," said the speaker. 11? emphasized the importance of edu rational work In the agricultural development. For many years the farmer* sent a very large part of the money receive T for cotton om of the State for food for both man and beast. The corn crib wue out W?at. "We are now moving the corn crib to this State," he contiued All the forces are now combining to educate the farmers. Great increase in the production of corn Much rotten and unsuitable corn na?. been kept out of the State by lawh recently enacted. There has been great advance *n the live stock industry in the State "This year marks the greatest advance that has been made in agwroulture in any single year in our pact history," he continued. The farmer is the keystone to the economic arch of the country, in the pinion of the commissioner. The local union, he said, shou.d be made a live place for educational work A6 well as for business purposes. The union is a valuable organisation, and its power ana strength, the speaker continued, should bo increased by the active work of the individual members. ?. Harris, former president of the State union, spoke. He emphasized the importance of diversification of crops. "Hy means of thin wo maj become independent," he said. He stated that many animals brought here for exhibition at the fair had been sold at the owener's own price The owner could make his own pric? ??4 get It because of the fact that PEON KIDNAPS GIRL LABOKKll STKAIaS HKAUT1FVL AMKHKUX GIRL. ? Young I.?dj of Nebraska Staying on a Ranch With Her Parents Mysteriously Disappears. A kidnapping, such as one has been wont to read about In novels of adventure has takon place in Mexico, a young American girl being the victim of a treacherous Mexican. Miss Grace Rolph, the 17-year-old daughter of I)r. and Mrs. Itolph, of Pender, Neb., was kidnapped last week, from a ranch near Checoy, Mex., by a Mek'o.n peon named Segunda. The ranch is owned by G. S. Harris, of Lincoln, Neb. lie is a friend of Dr. Itolph who for years was one of the prontlj nent residents of Pender. A year ago | tlie doctor's health became such that i?e felt the need of a change of climate and -accepted the offer of .Mr. Harris to hake his home for an indefinite time 011 the ranch. His a ntwlifpr hltrhlv cultured and of attractive appearance. Segunda has long been In the employ of Mr. Harris, and Is more than twice the age of the girl lie kidnaped. lie once killed a man, but Mr. Harris did notr ogard him as vicious and trusted him. Segunda was the ranch hunter, being exceptionally skillful In bringing in venison and other wild same Ho prided himself on his marksmanship and horsemanship. He is very Illiterate and unable to speak a dozen words in English. Mr. Harris, who recently returned from his Mexican property, said at Lincoln a few days -ago, that Segunda had never, so far as he knew, shown any particular fondness for Miss Itolph, and if ne had lu; was quite sure it was not reciprocated. The country around Cheeoy, while wild and inhabited chiefly by Mexicans of the lower class, hus never been regarded as lawless, and Mr. Harris thinks Segunda will not be protected by the natives. There are a few other American ranchmen in the country, and those, Mr. Harris believes, will band together and run down the kidnaper. The eon of Mr. Harris, who is manager of his ranch, has posted a reward of $1,000 for the apprehen sion of Segundu, and communication has been opened with Mexican o/iicials at Mexico City, the United States ambassador there and the State department ofllcials at Washington. A QIUKK MIX L'i*. ? A Daughter Steals Her Mother's llusbaml From Her. Mrs. Johanna Husselmann has been awarded $9,800 damages from her daughter, the wife of Dr. William Decker, in the Circuit court, at Milwaukee, Wis., in a $25,000 alienat ioii-of-a flections suit of mothei against daughter. iMts. Husselmann and Dr. Decker were married in Chicago on March 17, 1900. "ho was then 46 years old. He was 31. She had two daughters. One of them was Mrs llattio Bott, aged 26. Mrs. But. was then living in St. Paul. Hei husband was Dr. Henry C. Bolt. Shortly after the marriage Mrs. Bott went to Milwaukee to visit ai the home of her mother and her new stepfather. The result was that 011 Sept. 29, 1905, Mrs. Becker and her husband separated. On Nov. 3, 1906, Mrs. Husselmann got a divorce, resuming the name of Husselmann. On Nov. 9, 190G, Mrs. Bott began suit for divorce from l)r. Bott. She got the divorce Nov. 24, 1 907. Five days loter, according to testimony, Mrs. Bott and her stepfather were marked. The mother said, among other things, that nor daughtei "willfully, maliciously and wickedly" gained the affections of Dr Becker and sught to entice him to desert his wife. NOT WOitTI! A DING." That's What Geraldine Farrnr Says About Dukes. >Miss Geraldino Farrar, the American Opera Singer, is evidently not going to marry a titled foreigner, at least not a eUike. The soprano was Informed, on her arrival Wednesday in New York on the Kaiser Wllhelm der Grouse, that it was reported (hat she would wed a duke. "Dukes!' asked Miss Farrar. "I've met many of them, and believe me, taking them individually and collectively, they are not worth a ding." Heads Upside Down. Charles W. Searles, of Milbury. Msrs., reads newspapers and magazines upside down as a matter of choice. When a boy in school he adopted this method of reading to prevent people from reading over his shoulders and making him nervous. Now he is 80 and clings to the old habit. ho had diversified his productive power on his farm. After some announcements and conference about appointments foi meetings, the meeting adjourned. QUfcfcK SiOKY Woman Claims That She is the Lawfal Wile tf a Catholic PriesL IS SEEKING A DIVORCE She Claim** That Louii> T. Hare, Hot Husband, Itcally the lie v. Louis T. McGinn, and to Prove Her Marriage She Now liriiiKX a Suit for Divorce. Alleging that her husband, Loui3 T. Hare, is in reality the Uev, Louis T. McGinn, for years widely known as a Ho 111an Catholic priest in Brooklyn, Mrs. Helen F. Hare will sue for divorce this week in Keno, Nev. The plaintiff, whose father was Hendriqk Ilaste, a wealthy butcher of Brooklyn, will charge desertion and non-support. Airs. Hare's story of love and bitterness is stranger than any the Reno courts have divulged, it begins thirty years back, when she and her husband were pupils in St. Joseph s parocvhial school, Greeupoint, and runs on through his education for i h n/\/i n t Oi 1 / t L n ' o f Vt 1 lntnt liiC ]/1 ir:i5 t J1UUU (11 k} I U vjii II o Willoughby and Lewis avenues, to his appointment as assistant pastor of St, Anthony's Greenpoint, in 181)5 and his assignment to tlje Church of St. Mary, Star of the Soa, Court of Luquer streets, Brooklyn, in 19UU. All this time, Mrs. Hare says, their affection for each other continued, and on Nov. 13, 19 02, the priest persuaded her to go with him to the home of the ltev. Dr. Frederick Mortimer, rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, by whom they were married. Because of his vows, she adds, Father McGinn assumed the maiden u..me ol' his mother, and she became Mrs. Louis T. flare. Dr. Mortimer, she says, had no suspicion of the identity of the man whose marriage tie was solemnizing. Mrs. Hare went to live two blocks from St. Edward's Church, St. Edward's street, to which Father McGinn had been transferred. One night her younger brother discover ed the priest in her company. She took her brother into the secret am. pledged him to keep the knowledge to himself. By and by a baby girl was born, and to avoid detection by her other urouiers anu our ituuiB, iiui pciiejius being dead, Mrs. Hare moved to another part of Brooklyn. There sin lived until May, 1904, when the relations tliat existed between her and Father McGinn were disclosed in such a way that they were brought to the attention of Bishop Charles E. Mellon nell. Bishop McDonnell took Immediate iction, Mrs. Hare says. Oil May 14 her husband received $100 and was ulaced aboard a steamer for Europe. He went by direction to a Trappisi monastery in Ireland and remained or several years. He then returned to the United States, being sent, Mrs liare says, to a parish in the Soutn. How long lie remained there sin does not know, but she believes In, s now somewhere in the West. In Brooklyn it is said he came back .or a visit not many months ago. Mrs. Hare, who is now forty yeart old, h. s been in Reno since last April. She lias not been known as a member of the divorce colony and even among the friends she made there her story was not known unii a week ago. At the time of hei marriage she was about to go on the stage, she fays. She had taken a course at tin American Academy of Dramatic An and had signed a contract to play an ingenue p..rt. But she had taken part iu only a few rehearsels before she became the wife of Father McGinn, her story runs. The charge in her suit for divorcw will be restricted to desertion and failure to provide. Depositions from friends of hers in Brooklyn will be offered in evidence to show, she saya, that even before her mama2e became known she was compelled 10 support herself. llor baby died within a year after birth. Father McGinn won a wide circle of friends in Brooklyn. Ilia power over children was especially marked, and his first great success came when he was placed in charge of ttie Sunday school at St. Anthony e. lie was popular too as a preacher. When at St. Mary a he took delight in driving a speedy horse. When he left St. Edward's unexpectedly his parishioners were told he was going into retreat in Ireland. i-amer iwcuinn was tan, HicMMiur, dark hatred and bright eyed?altogether a striking figure. But on his last appearance in Brooklyn, it is said, he had changed eo greatly that many who had known him intimately did not recognize him. Father McGinn's family was wellknown in Greenpoint. One of his brothers, Jainea L, McGinn, was ch'ef clerk to Edward M. Grout when that man was President of Brooklyn Borough. Another brother, Aloyslus McGinn, is connected with the New York and New Jersey Telephone Company. Hendrick Haste, Mrs. Hare's father, owned much property aloiv* Cumberland street. Elm place and neighboring streets. THtK WILL QUI! I Geiertl Exodus tf Republicans Expected If Democrats Wia. WHICH IS VERY LIKELY Heroic Measures Are Now Heine Adopted by the Republicans to I Prevent a Democratic landslide in tiie Congressional Flections, But They Admit that Hope Is Slight. P. II. McGowan, the Washington correspondent of The News and Courier, says if the efforts of the League of Republican Clubs, with headquarters in Washington, to stop the Democratic stampede is any indication of the coining landslide, then the deluge to get close to the home of the long-eared donkey will closeb resemble the situation when Roosevelt carried the country by storm in 1004. Democrats who have fougnt valiantly for six years to once again set within hailing distance of the White House see their fondest hope-> about to he realized, while on lb? other hand, the Republicans aro in a blue funk and are all but ready to quit. If they lose control of the NJnttnnnl Hn r?f T? pni'CKP 111 ?t i v<--# in the elections uf next week the? will be ready, many of them, to leave the G. O. P. like rata from a Pinking ship. The organization already referred to as the League of Republican State Clubs is supposed to be the life and centre of the young Republic* i. 1:? purpose ;s to get the 9,000 Government employees in Washington who are followers of the G. O. P. to believe there is some use to g > home and voce cn election day. i *. is an organization hacked by the Administration, with all its powerful machinery, determination to canvy the country lor the Republican cause or die. At the "headquarters" or "bureau" at WaslPngton there in much activitv? at least on the par4 of the an age is- -to got oil4 the vo?.o, bul to the outsider who reads the plain tivo appeals appearing in big re letters and reach half way across an ordinary street, it looks like the jig is up. Saturday night's meeting of the *va.i perhaps the best attended of any of the regular "smo-nv*" yet hf/d. Spellbinders like John 0. Capers, formerly commissioner of 5n ternal revenue, and others close t<> the Administration, were on hand to tell of the everlasting giories of th? '1. O. l\ i * vlio j)ledg5 I':i?- l?ten taken to stand with the faithful. It wa~ Connecticut night, so the big sign read, tliere was speaking, smoking and refreshments in the na ture of real Connecticut pie. Thei edibles on hand suggested that thcr" were other kinds of "pie" than the I brand of pastry made in the Nutmeg State. The truth about the situation is that many honest Republicans admit that they see their last hopes going Chey have lost ground rapidly durn<r the month?in fact so rapidlj that it has staggered them; more, t ia a n? >;i 11 i ti ir nnd tliov rpallyo TlriVV' that even the wonderful personality of Col. Roosevelt, the Moses who was to pull them from the political quagmire, has not been equal to the occasion. Col. Roosevelt not only fell down :>n the job, but what is more, is endangering his party every time he opens his mouth. There is genuine .'ear of him throughout the country. Mis radicalism on certain issues is . egarded as dangerous, and even men of his own party are swinging nto the Democratic line, so fearful ;re they that should he again bo:ome President his erratic policies might bring a money panic upon the country. Meantime, while Roosevelt ha? been ;:oing up and down the country, talking first upon one subject and then another, wherever he could get an audience, President Talt has maintained a dignified silence. ID has said little, but clearly does nol like the drift or events. His state mem, inane a nay ur iwu uku. uiai lie thought "the Jig was up," jusi about fits the situation. The Jig itup?or soon will be. All over the country, judging l>> what one learns at Washington, the people are preparing to give a Democratic Congress?the House this fall and the Senate just as quickly as vacancies will permit of Democrats succeeding Republicans. Tbat such a situation is aoon to be realized few will doubt. It ? the same old story ? told from one end of the country to the other?distrust of the party that has fooled the people so long with broken promises, unfulfilled pledge* and unredeemed resolutions. This with the ram mint? of the pres-' ent robber tariff down the throats of the people?workingmen and other* ( ? has cause the proverbial worm to turn. The people, the masses, are determined to give the Democrats and long-earsed mule a chance. They can not do worse than the Republicans have done. At least it's the voice of the people crying throughout the land to turn the rascals out and at least give the Democrats another trial. They've got the G. O. P. ?le KUN DJWiN tNlilNt DEAF AND DUMB BOY SO BADLY HUIIT THAT HE MAY DIE. Clyde lU)gcra l*r<?bably Fatally Injured When Struck by Southern Shifting Engine Near Fair Forest. The Spartanburg Journal says on Monday Clyde Rogers, a 14-year-old hoy of Florence, who is a student at Cedar Springs Institute, a state institution for the education of the deaf, dumb and blind, had a boyisn uuarrol with some of his fellow stud ents. He ran away from school aiui was seriously injured by a train 01. the main line of the Southern about live or six miles, from the school. Some clays aijo the hoy and sever al of his companions quarreled, am. J Monday morning about (! ocloek tin lad left the sciiool without telling anyone of his intentions. lie was deaf and dumb, and it is not thought to have had any means of gottiufe to Spartanburg. As soon as the officials of the institution learned of his departure: they instituted a search for the bo%\ and some of tliein went down tiu Southern towards Columbia and tin others came to Spartanburg. The police department was notified, but no trace of the lad could he found. About twelve o'clock Monday a shifting engine struck the boy, who was walking along the track. Tiu accident occurred between Spartan burg Junction and Fair Forest. A largo hole was cut In the boy head and he was otherwise injured His bod** was placed 011 the er.gim and carried to the Southern station in Spartanburg. An ambulance \va: snnimoned and the injured boy taken to the Spartanburg Hospital, when ho is being given medical attention Jt developed 011 examination that tin boy's skull had been crushed. Hi condition is very serious and little hope is held out for his recovery. SEA GIVES VI* IIODIES. Corpses of Storm Victims Washed Up on lhvach. At Punta Gorda, Fla., the bad iaof 7 men, all victims of the recen. hurricane, were washed up by tin waves Monday. Six of the seven were sailors on four Spanish fishia; sniacks which went to pieces near Boca Grande during the height oi storm. It is also believed that ; seventh Spaniard was drowned, bu nothing has been seen of his body The other fatality was a negro, bad ly decomposed, who is believed u be die same who drove his loam inU the Peace river off a bridge, whici washed away as he got half way There nre many more men missin. in tills vicinity, and it is likely thai the toll or the hurricane will reacn ten drowned. FATE VET IN DOUBT. No Word from Girl Kidnapped l>j Mexicans Days Ago. The fate of Grace Rolph, the 1 6year-?old Nebraska girl, kidnapped several days ago from a ranch p. the State of lamalpias, Mexico, wasstill in doubt Tuesday night. No word has come from the posse which went in pursuit of the desperadoes Mexican aut.h es have sent out squads o" Mex'.'P;. mounted national police with instruction to search tin country thoroughly. SKIUOI S MISTAKE. Woman Nought (jiasolcnc for Vinegar ami l'se<l It. At Evansvillo, Ind., when Mrs. ijouige voiaei seiu nor son io a grocery store Thursday to ?et vinegar to make pickles he brought back gasoline instead. Mrs. Voikel poured the gasoline over the pickles on a hot stove -and flames llled her kitchen, the house catching a lire. She seized the pickle pot, ran out of doors with it and threw the contents into the next yard, setting lire to the house next door. High Price for Cotton. A New Orleans cotton firm Thursday paid 17 3-4 cents a pound for 1,0 00 bales of cotton produced on the State convict farms in Mississippi. The deal involves more than $00,000 and is the highest price recorded for spot cotton this season. The Mississippi deuta cotton is more valuable than the ordinary short staple cotton. - - ? l>?rc Proves Fatal. In taking a dare as to how much pain he could stand, Edward Williams, a young nvan of Chicago, slowly ran a hatpin Into his knee. The point broke off when attempted to extract it, and an operation was necessary. But tetanus developed and the young man died later in a hospital. pliant on the move and he's getting away just as fast as feeble conditions will permit. His keepers ire sick, too, and many of them admit it. 1 HAKD TO SULVf Dr. C. H. Lavioder Talks ItlmiliBglj Pellagra. ; ! NO SPECIFIC REMEDY 1 I>r. IiAvinder Loss Devout In Ills ?to? lief About Spoiled Corn Causing the Disease?l'nil?d State Govern ment KvjK'it Holds a Clinic tor Physicians of State at Asyiuiu. The Stale says wnlle the pelagrra clinic Thursday at the State Hospital for the Insane at Columbia was not so well attended as the previous one, it was 110 less interesting md in all about twenty cases of the lisease were demonstrated. The meeting was very informal, resolving .t-self largely into a matter of questions and answers and the exchange of individual opinions and experi nc-neea. In reply to the question of toe causation of pellagra Dr. C. 11. Lr~" voider said that he was opm-minde 011 the subject and ccrtsmlv loss !? vout in his belief in the spoiled cot theory that he was a year ago. li thought the diagnosis of pellagra dlfllcult without the skin symptoms. In other words, that the presence or history of skin symptoms was essential for the diagnosis. The Italians, however, made the diagonis regardless of the presence or absence of the skin lesions. It had ooou wen sain unit unm me skib tymptoms appeared, the ease was liku in unsigned letter. Hie skin s^rupoins were the signature by whicJn he letter was identified. Of course, tentative diagnosis can be made aad treatment instituted. The disease in Italy was very mild Dr. Lavinder sum there in two of three mouths several hundred case* of which only throe or four could be onsidered really ill. In Italy the geography of the disease is shifting and appears to spreading southward. Dr. vinder considered a generous dietary, careful attention and a good mrsing highly important a3 we ha* 10 specific remedies. The speaker again deprecated th | ;loomy outlook usually taken by th | uiblic regarding pellagra. He doe lot entertain the opinion that pwiayra is communicable. Jle would not hesitate to bring a pellagrous patient in his own house. He also thought that the general practitioners of South Carolina have .1 great opportunity for studying ti?3 epidemiology of the dtsease; that Is, lo collect data regarding the home mrrounding of patients, their dl^firy end habits. ?ueh data would prove of great aliui in lii'lninc tn snlvt* th#> invs tery surrounding pellagra. Samboa .11 inks the disease occurs in I ue loofcnills, near swift-running streams, ao ording to the speaker. Dr. J. J. Watsan st?ated he ha* men cases from all pans of the Stat? from the mountains to the sea, but nost of them came rroni the Rio*nont section. In Italy, the speaker said, the disease was largely confined to the peaomtry living in the country, hut in this country pellagra patients were nortly urban and suburban and from those in the best circumstances, physically, financially and socially. I-lis patients had for the most pa? * eat?B shipped corn. As a Ire a.-?;.* noted wit a us the disease differed from the Italian in intensity. Over SO per coat of his cases were women. The disease was further diseased in many of its phases by Dr. Napier Thompson, J. H. Taylor, Duckott ltice, E. R. Sanders, R. I*. Sunders and others. Smoak I'ntlor Arrest. J. K .Snrouk, for several yearn a Columbia policeman, is in the police station, charged with attempting U kill his wifo Thursday at thoir home on Dlv'ne street. They had been separated for some time and Smoak was under a heavy peace bond, lie found his wife in her room and shot at her several times. Were Dead from (?a?. At Chicago on Monday the jw lice broke into the iouid of Micha* Slovenky, forty years old, and l'ou? him and his friend, llyman In Gel*, years old, dead. The children, six and seven years old, respectively, were unconscious, but were revived by physicians. A brokeu gas tube \? blamed for the accident. lioses an Arm. Mr. vvnuer nouuum, n juuiir white man living near Lowell, N. CL, had his left hand torn off In a corn shredder which he was operatiivg. The physicians found it necessary to amputate the arm Just above the elbow. ? ? ? Took His Own Life. When Bank Examiner Chambers appeared at the State Bank, at Weir, Texas, Monday afternoon, to examine into the condition of the Institution. Cashier J. I. Lester stabbed himself in the throat with a knifo lie died within a few minutes.