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STAKI OUT WELL Democratic C?asus Meet and Select Cbamp Clark Speaker. PRESIDE OVER HOUSE Itopi'csciitntivc t'mlorwoori, of AlaI bama, Selcdcd as Chairman of Ways (Hid Moans Conuiittco?In Fact, Km ire Slato, as Forinuri.v Aurcrd I pon, Cues Through The Democratic members elect ol the ne\t congress met in Washington Th orsrt v '.jght and niappil out certain things \ >. the coming a(m'o i. About 21b Democrats wore present. Mr. Hay, of Virginia, presided, and Mr. Ash brook, of Ohio, was seci eta rv. Francis Durton Harrison, of New York, called the attention of the caucus to the fact that the name of Theron . \kin, Representative-elect from New York, had been caiiod twice in tlie opening roll call. Mr. Harrison announced that lie had information that Akin had declared that he would not enter the caucus tonight and that Akin had said lie would vote with the Republicans. Mr. Harrison then asked that Mr. Akin's name be stricken from the roll of Democrats. The Harrison motion to strike Akin, of New York, from the Democratic roll was adopted. Mr. At kin was elected on an in^ .i,mid 'hnd the ell C1C'])6I1" fIJ l ntnci ....? ?... dorsement of the Democrats. .Mr. Lloyd, of Missouri, chairman of the Democratic Congressional committee, then placed Champ Clark in nomination for Speaker. Messrs Ansburry, of Ohio; I'on. of North Carolina; Ad'imson. of Georgia; Rainey, of IIlino's; Sulzer, of Now York; Uefiin, of Alabama, and others, seconded the nomination, and it carried by acclamation. Mr. Chirk, with a broad smile, stepped to the front of the chamber and formally accepted the honor. "From the bottom of my heart I thank y ,u for your generous endorsement. for (he high oflice of Speaker of the House of Representatives," he said. "1 shall endeavor to discharge the duties of that great position so fairly, so justly and so impartially that you will never have cause to regret what you have just done. "Ihe caucus was called for the Jmrpbse of selecting the Democratic Contingent of the ways and means committee for the f>2d Congress, in order to expedite the tariff legisla>?* corMirimr as speedily as pos VI VM1 W,i 0 fcible the date on which to introduce bills we believe will promote the prosperity of the whole country. The quicker our plans are formulated the better for nil concerned. "E ?ch member of the caucus should have opportunity to express his opinions fully, and whatever is done should he marked by good nature, kindly forbearance and an earnest desire to be of service to the party and the country, for we should never forget that the best way to serve our party is to serve our country." Mr. Clark's speech met with vociferous cheers. One of the significant i speeches was by Mr. Ansburry, of Ohio. "On behalf of the sixteen Democrats elected to the 02d Congress from the great State of Ohio." said i Mr. Ansburry, "the State which will at the next Convention of the party present the name of Judson Harmon for the Presidency, 1 second the nomination of Champ Clark, of .Missouri." At mention of Mr. Harmon's name several Democrats applauded, but there was little cheering at the mention of Mr. Clark. Mr. Clark's friends fearing that cheering in thai conKeetioi j ig] t lie interpreted to mean cheerily. !'ov the Ohi.an. who is conspicnlc-'s'y mentioned for the Presidential nominal ion. Renr. tentative Prank Clark, in an impaironod speech, struck the first discord; nt note by objecting to the fixed p;a>' raiv;me. He said he understood a urogram had In en mapped out, ni 1 he protested against it. Mr. Henry, of Texas, conspicuously mentioned for chairman of the next rules committee, made the for 1 1 'O ?'*" ontlfninsr J lie order of Ill (1 I I V/l IW.. w .. c, business. His plan carried. This involved tlie selection of the personnel of the ways and means committee, as informally agreed upon in ad vanee by the leaders, as follows: Underwood of Alamaba, chairman Randall of Texas, Harrison of Nov York, Brantley of Ceorgia, Shackle ford of Missouri, James of Kentucky Kltchin of North Carolina, Hull o Tennessee, Dixon of Indiana, ltaine of Illinois, Hammond of Minnesota Hughes of New Jersey and A. Mitel ell Palmer of Pennsylvania. Mr. Foster, of Illinois, introduce a resolution providing for the ele< tion of the standing committees < the House by the House. He pr< posed that Democratic members ( the ways and means committee oho en at this caucus he authorized l nominate the majority of membe: of these standing committees of tl next House to the adjourned caucu ^ Under his resolution Democrats c the ways and means com mitt would be ineligible to serve on ai 9 WAS BEATEN BY JAPS. I'TLLEK DKTAIIaS OF THK ATTACK ON AN AMERICAN. Vice Consul Williamson Struck Willi a Stick and an American Girl At. .tacked I>y a Jap. Reporter. Details of the assault *n United States \'ice Consul Williamson at Dalny, Manchuria, by Japanese 011 December 21},' briefly reported so Washington by cable, were received by the steamer Mallainashire. Mr. Williamson, according to the advices, went to inspect the fish market recently opened by Japanese at .,..,1 n h i??h ?f;i!i(l I 'i I 1 11 > illiu n (I u I'll i. ...... watching an auction sale when a number of Japanese and Chinese fish mongers pushed into the market. Mr. Williamson was almost pushed off the stand. He was straightening himself up in the crush when several Japanese, including the secretary and a clerk of the market, it is said, began scolding him for being there and at the same time pushing their way toward him and seizing him by the arms and pulling him from the stand. Mr. Williamson asked why it was wrong for him to watch the sale, saying he would leave after they gave him a reason. Then the Japanese rushed at him. He pushed one of them over in selfdefense and the crowd rushed at him. A Japanese thrust at him with a bamboo pole, wounding him 011 the chin. Another Japanese threw a block of ice, which cut his head, blood flowing freely. Several threw fish at him. With blood trickling down nis clothing, the victim made his way to the police station half a block distant and some Japanese policemen accompanied him back to the market, where the two Japanese who first, attacked him were found. The consul asked that they be taken <0 the police station. According to the version received here, the police did not take them. Mr. Williamson made a protest to the Japanese administration at Dalny and sent telegrams and letters to Washington reporting the assault. Several Japanese newspapers commented upon the affair as well as on an attack made about the same time on a Miss Hayes, an American at Yokohama, by a Japanese newspaper reporter who, it is alleged, struck her violently about the bead several times without apparent cause. STARTLING STATKMEXT. ? Tree and Rirtl Expert Say English Sparrow a Nuisance. John Dnvey, a noted tree culture and bird expert delivered a lecture in Charleston the other night on the culture of trees. Perhaps the most interesting and certainly the most startling statement made by the famous tree surgeon came near the close of his lecture, while he was aicr-iiHai 11 er the relation of trees to birds and llie Rood work that, the I latter do in keeping down the hordes of pestilential insects which would otherwise destroy all green things The English Sparrow, ho sa'd, is so real a menace that it actually threatens humanity with extinction. It is estimated that there are live billions birds of this species in America today. At the normal rate of increase4, this number will have increasto thirteen trillions in the next five years, and should this increase continue in the same ratio, starvation and death will stare the human race in the face. The English Sparrow does nothing ed to thirteen trillions in next five trees, but it does have a disastrous effect upon all other birds that are useful in this respect. We must do something lo check it, or else suffer the consequences. At present, it is doing what King George tried and failed?conquering America. Huge Tomato < Top. The Columbia Record says "an instance of the good work of the government farmers' work, in that branch known as the girls' tomato cl"b, is that of Miss Katie Gunter, near Samaria, 8. C., a detailed report of whose work was received at the office of State Agent Ira \\\ Wii' liams Wednesday morning. Miss i Gunter produced r? 12 quart cans of tomatoes, ten quart jars of pickles - eight pint Jars of pickles, six pint - jars of catchup, ei.'ht pint jars o preserves, and five quart jars of pre : serves. All this was produced oi v one-tenth of an acre of ground, thi - being the largest yield at the count, , fair." r ? y other committee. i, Mr. Fitzgerald, of New York, the i- made his expected move by offering substitute resolution empowerin d Champ Clark, as Speaker, to desu nate the Democratic members of )f tentative committee on ways an > means, thus paying tribute to M jf Clark as one in whom the membet s- had unbounded confidence. Mr. Clar to opposed the Fitzgerald resolution, rs In a substitution for both tl ie Fitzgerald and Foster resolution s. Mr. Cox, of Indiana, introduced a re m olution providing for a nomlnatir ee committee to recommend names i iy 'the Democratic caucus for appoin AS IT SHOULD BE THE NEW TARIFF BIRR WIRR BE DEMOCRATIC. ? J Framed l?y Underwood It Will Be Without Taint of Protection WI1FI1 Home Mi^lit Fear Will Characterize It. Editor W. E. Gonzales, of The State, writing to Iris paper from \Vashingtou. says: Oscar \V. Underwood of Alabama, J whose letter indorsing The State a view of the potency of the national ]d:ir fo-ni in guiding party men ?n con Tress was published on Tuesday, will bo th 5 chairman of the next! w: ys and means committee and as rich he will write the next tariff bill. 'Mr. Underwood is quiet and modest, a listener rather than a talker, and there was simple earnestness not assertiveness in his declaration ;o me last evening in Haltimoro t' a. "any measure I prepare will be strictly a Democratic revenue bill.'* There will be no cloaks for protection; no Democrat in protected wool. There will be fourteen Democrats on the Democratic ways and means committee and the only one of the o r, t., i ,11 >k f n an v vote w.ll he Willi (b num. vw Brantley of Georgia, long a member of the committee. The question of dropping Gram ley because of his vote for a duty on lumber in disobedience of the Denver platform, has been under consideration, since co ig?*ess met, but I understand from several sources thai through tho efforts of Champ Clark atid other old and strong friends, and in consideration of his acknowledgement of orror in voting for a duty on lumber, the caucus will uot cut the ground from under Brantley. Tho next ways and means committee will put the stamp of disapproval on tho action of those who "jumped" the platform by pointedly indorsing die free lumber plank in the Denver platform. There 's sharp division among Democrats on two questions. Senator Bailey is a leader of the scnool, advocating a duty on raw ma:ei.pl and also ''or revising the tariff as a whole. From the present outloor In* is in the minority of both. The Texas delegation 13 badly split 011 both tf tho party is to accomplish anything in tariff legislation these questions must be kept off the floor of the house. They will have to be jettled in caucus, and the losers accept t..e majority decree. Representative Underwood is convinced a revision sch dule by schedule is the only practical way of getting results and proventing "trading." 1 ? I - * /'/v/w.mio l.CM.I .Ml While at play on the farm of J oil 11 W. Harris, four miles from Tallapoosa, fia., a day or two ago, a child discovered a large nugget of gold and further search by older persons led to the finding of a considerable quantity of the yellow metal. The] farm is in the center of the Georgia gold belt and the discovery is regarded here as an important one. Hold Posse at Hay. Armed with revolvers and firing scores of shots, two boys, Charles and Henry Roberts, 18 years Old, who escaped from the Tennessee industrial schools 011 the Murfreosboio pike, held at bay a posse of 11101 e than 100 men yesterday afternoon. After a miniature battle laV.ing a irnnri nortlon of the afternoon they made good their escape. ? Struck by I'low Point. While sharpening a plow point on an emery wheel at 11 o'clock Thursday morning, X. I\ Abrams, mana er of L. W. Floyd's plantation, nine miles west of Newberry, was struck in the head by (he point, which was wrenched ''roin his grasp by the fast moving belt, indicting a ghastly wound. lie was rendered unconscious. There is little hope of his recovery. -* .? . I "sod .Much I leer. rjreater Xew York consumed <*,">00,000 barrels of beer during tne year 1!M0, according to a report just made public. This is about an average of two barrels a year for every man, woman and child in the city. Throughout the United States, , the year's consumption reached a to . tal of nearly sixty millions. (>irl Will Hang. I At Waynesboro, (hi., Kosalie Smalt f a negro girl, was tried and convictet _ of tlio murder of Harvey Jones, i i white merchant and farmer on Jan s nary 11. The girl and Calvin John y ston, a negro man, convicted of th same crime, were sentenced to han on February 8. In the man's trie 4 the jury was out three minutes; i n the girl's, three hours. The girl ha a confessed her share in the crime an o implicated Johnston. > a Must Servo Time. d The United States supreme cou r. dismissed for want of jurisdictic \s the appeal of 0. Wash Hunter fro k his conviction of manslaughter I South Carolina. Hunter was sei le tenced to the penitentiary for eig] s, years. He was accused of havir s- killed ElbeiI F. Copeland, near the ig homes in Laurens county, S. C., to 1006, while playing cards. Hunt t- entered a plea of self-defense. FAKE LAND SALE The Fraud Was Easily Delected by CoUmbia Pbatograpkers HOW CAME WAS WORKED Th? Prospectus Carried Puked Pnot<graphs, the Pictures Ileiug Made to Sho\v liaiidsonie Buildings, \VI??i'o Only I'ino Itnncns, Willi Standing Trees, Exist. Neither being able to furnish the $f?,000 bail demanded of each, J. C Masters an 1 I. C. Sibley, arrested in Jackson, Miss., for using the mails 10 defraud, in connection with a concorn they were promoting, called the Albemarle Development company. Albemarle, N. C., have been remanded to jail, at Jackson, to await removal to the jurisdiction of the i Dnited States court for the western district of North Carolina?all of '.vhich, says the Columbia Record, is Interesting to a number of Columbians, several blocks to Albemarle stock having been placed in tins any by a plausible young man, giving his name as B. I). Langdale. The Record says it was in fact a onner Columbian, now manager of i news bureau in the Southwest, anu i firm of Columbia photographers, hat first suspected the promoters of the Albemarle concern of fraud. At the request of the news bureau man<ger, newspaper men here consulted the photographers and learned that r angdale had sold to them?or rather had exchanged with them for two dozen photographs of himself, valued at $24?a "participating certificate," Xo. L-754, in the Albemarle I)evelopment company. Langdale had failed in his effort to part the photographers from any cash, because they detected evidences of fraud in the handsome prospectus that he displayed. In f.ho prospectus there were, besides the usual roseateword pictures, several illustrations, purporting to be from actual photographs, showing considerable progress linon the development of the Albemarle tract into a pretty suburb, vith large notH, stores, costly residences and the like. It required only superficial examinations of these pictures by a photographer to show that they were cunningly made composites of photography and drawing. Actual photographs had heen taken of the woods on the tract and the i aiirl Ihpn half colli ?vti V CI ill i^icfti uif," i...v .. plot.erl buildings had been drawn in at. the proper places and the doctored picture itsolf had been photographed and from this second picture the electrotype reproduction used in the prospectus had been made. The work had been skilfully done, but It. is next to impossible to give to these synthetic pro luctions such appearance of genuincsness as to deceive a photographer. Langdale, confronted with this evidence of fraud, said he knew the pictures were misleading and had strongly urged his superiors not. to ' esort. to 3uch methods.' He insisted, however, that the proposition under promotion was legitimate and gave Albemarle bank references. Those the photographers did not trouble to verify, as they had hut a small investment at stake and were willing in these circumstances to take thoir cha nees. The stork certificate they hold is signed by Masters, one of the men now under arrest, as "secretarytreasurer." n is dated November 18 and tho postmark shows it was mailed November 21 from Albemarle. Tho application for it was signed hero September 27. Langdale was a young man of good appearance and made easily a favorable impression upon his acquaintances hero. He claimed to have been educated at Harvard and said his home was in New Haven. Masters and Sibley were arrested in Jackson on warrants issued upon the affidavit of Postofllce inspector J. \V. Hulla of North Carolina, wn< presented documentary evidence ii support of tho government's conlen tion that the development com pan: was helium promoted by rrauo. in spoetor Bulla is quoted as sayinf that on an investment of $1,000 ii 100 acres of land near Albemarle 111 ? promoters have taken in about $2.*>0, 000. lie said that Sibley bad beei connected with a similar scheme a Whitoboro, Texas, about, five year , ago. Th"?y have recently operate i in both the Carolinas and in Ala * hama, as well as in Mississippi. Winthrop Student Marries. 0 Miss Jessie McCeod, a student ; K Winthrop College, whose home is ? Bishopville, was married at Ciiarlott n * * 1 " ~1 " TA ?/%/] I I Anniivnn On MOnuuy iu r I t'll nun in^aii, young man of that city. The your lady had recoived permission to f over to Charlotte to have her oy< treated, but it. developed that she lu an affection of the heart. The your rt lady was a member of the freshim in class. in ? In nrent to the committees, this noir 11- nating committee to be composed lit one member from each Domocral lg State delegation and none of the ir to be chairman of other conimllte< In the nominations to be subject er change by a majority vote of the ca cue. i: Burduco Li\ f v ' A scientifically prepared ren 0 stipation, Dyspepsia, Nerv X Coated Tongue, Bad Tast 1 > <> | Mild and | No Griping | Makes a Swee I Pretty Co ! J> <*> Sold by all medicii | BURWELLI | MANUFAC I Charlott* CUSSIFIfc'O CO'.UMN ? rushed OysKM' ShWK for t^oulfry.Ono hundred pound*, atx.'y een<< five hundred pound*. $li.50. Ilrne / r onHiftnOt. M, f!n Wavoi" I lUlltJI | Uaiv.'Ill/VH,. ??. ^vr., Mills, S. C. Rice Flour, 100 ton* fresh. Ric Flour, Hay, Grain, Bran, ChopvC. S. Meal and etc., Albert Bla choff and Co., 31 Elizabeth Street Charleston, S. C. Women, sell guaranteed hone. 7? per cpdt. profit. Make $20 uail> Full or part time. Beginners investigate. Strong Hosiery. Bo* 4029, West Philadelphia, Pa For Sale?Single-comb Rhode island Red cockerels; well marked; good colors; free of "smut"; at $1.00 and $2.rto each. Eggs, $1.50 per 15. R. P. Gillespie, Hartsvllle, S. C. Girl or Woman, each locality. Good 1 pay made, acting as representative Address envelopes, fold, mail circulars; material, stamps furnished free. Rex Mailing Agency, Loudon, Ontario. The High Point Detective Agency o Columbia noe? a general umw;uv business. Whit? and colored d* tectivea at your convenience Write iiB. W. S. Taylor, Man a*** Columbia, S. .C. Dohha* Single Comb Rhode Ttian< Reda and "Crystal" Whit? OrpRiv tons win and lay when otbe*? fail, stock and eggs for 8<?i?. wen fcr mating Hat. G. A. Dobbs, Box B. 24., Gainesville, Ga. Fnrni, Fruit and Truck Lands In Hillsborough County, Florida. Write me your desires. Can 1111 any requirement. J. E. Snyder, Limona, (near Tampa) Florida. Correspondence solicited. - I } North State Lite IiiKiii'anre t;o., or Kingston, N. C.. operates only in the two Carolines and ha* more ' Carolina lives insured than an\ other Carolina cofpany. Agonts wanted where the company 'i not now represented. Mammoth Itemize Turkeys for sale Won first prizes at Piedmon fail and extra prize of $18.00 lamp Hatched last of May. Young toms weigh from 10 to 18 pounds, nice hens, $7 oo per pair. Oliver .1 Conrad, It. F. 1). 2., Winston- SalI em, X. C. i Attention Farmers?Do you want, to raise more cotton with less fertilizer, se: d and labor t han you ever did before? If so, send for particulars of the Hunch System of Cotton Culture and learn how r to double your yield per acre. A postal brings it. Address A. I?. Couch, 00 W. Itussell St., Orangeburg, S. C. n s Cent* Wxiited?Make big money *>, d lug photo pillow tops. Aftr. br i- mides. 25c; portraits, 35c; olW.tei 3 0c. Wo produce works of ar guaranteed, lowest prices, largM itudlo, prompt service, credit git lt * samples; portrait, and frnn. tv -.ataloRue free. Rltter's Art 8tn tG dlo. 121K Madison. Chicago, Til a ....... (?<khI hive Agents wanted In ever; ?0 town to sell a meritorious line o medicines extensively advertise" 1(1 and used by every family and li the staMo. An exceptional oppol *n t.nnlty for the right. parties t. make good money. Write at one for proposition to L. B. Martlr 1 Box 110, Richmond, Va of ' ,1c ,m In order to Introduce my high jrrsd Succession Flat Dutch and Wak< to field Cabbage Plants to those wb y. have not used them before I w! give with each first order for ? ? er Powder. | J nedy for Billiousness, Con- <; ous and Sick Headache, <> e, and Stomach Diseases. 4 > j! r Gentle. j; | | r?o Nausea. I ^ ^ V A X ? ? ? ?t Breath and |Hk mplexion. | Jl tie dealers at 25c.' < t f'' i DUNN CO. 1 i tturers, i hI. a N C I ^v 1^1. v/? ^ ,, , M,,||,, | , || || | | II I iiiou?dlid plants ul a $1.2w, a (lot* ?'- *?-fh "f voi/fitKitlH and flow?j r v..,. . .. teed absolutely free. W. R. Hart, Plant Ornwftr. Enterprise P. 0.? a n 7yZ. 4' 7 i if Wanted?Every man, woman an# K child in South Carolina to kno* '.hat the "Alco" brand of Sash Doors and Blinds are the bast and are made only by the August* Lumber Company, who manufaeture everything in Lumber and Millwork and whose watchword is "Quality." WrPo Augusta Luroher Company, Augusta, Georgia, for prlcpr on order, larg* s.1, .?.*<>?11 1^1 No remody will deaden tho pain or take the soreness from Cuts 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. Edward Ryan, who has been employed at the Old Dominion Iron and Nail Works in Richmond, Va., for about fifty years, makes the following statemerit: "While working at my trade (iron work) I get bruised and cut frequently, and 1 find that Noah's IJnirnent takes all the soreness out and a heals the wound immediately. Ilavo also used your remedy for rheumatism with the best results, and recommend it to anyone suffering with aclics and pains." i_j Jr Noah's Tjlnlmcn* is the host remedy for Rheumatism, Sciatica, Eamo Rack, Stiff Joints and Muscles, Sore Throat, Colds, Strains, Sprains, Cuts, Rrulses, Colic, C r u m p s , ""TTlTEKZ 1 Neuralgia, Tooth- cO^*V ache and all VeTI Nerve, Rone and uh **' .' tjAI Musclo Aches and jM Pains. Tho gen- "-Va Inl ulno has Noah's ^nyulll Ark on every tgjjj] Sold by dealers in * f W Vj ? {l<a medicine. S a rn - J |. 1 V / k l n Eyfc 1 pie i>y mall I ree. eL"-'v- x\r~ hrbBM No,-ill Remedy Co., I m # 5| JHi b H Richmond, Va. 1 i ? P I M I "I i lB , MHTIIOIKKT CIIAl TAUQUA. V I ? f Movemenl .\iii horizon I>y Conference Takes Shape. . ? ? it. - R What may bo regarded as ine nrst I definite stop to\><ud r.no estabiishuiont of 'ho Methodist. Chautauqua 1 at. Wuynesvil le, N7. C., as authorized by the General Conference of the Metho tist Episcopal Church, South, was taken Monday at Waynesville, y when tlie incorporators of the South; ern Assembly Company met and or- jr ganized, with the election of the fol- s lowing oflioera: President, Bishop James Atkins; vice president, John R. Pepper, . Memphis, Tenn.; secretary, S. A. t ! Scatterwalth, Waynesville, N. C.; j treasurer, B. J. Sloan, Waynesville, m n tronftrnl sunerintendent, Dr. I I v" ' *" James Cannon, Dlackstone, Va.; su' perintendont of Bible Conference, i Dr. F. W. Tilett, Vanderbilt Univert sity; superintendent evangelistic ^ t work, Dr. Gene Stuart, Cleveland, TVnn; superintendent missionary training school, the Rev. James E. McCulloch, Nashville, Tenn. I The Assembly has purchased 1,000 f 1 acres of land near Waynesville, with u i an elevation of 2,600 feet and plans 1 .have been formulated to develop and t beautify the property at once.