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akat Home Baking Easy . m "akik? POWDER Absolutely Pure Tho only baking powdor mado from Royal Grapo Gream of Tartar NO ALUM,HO LIME PHOSPHATE ^MORE BOOZE Prohition Does Not Affect the Consumption of Liquor. w MORE USED THAN EVER * According to the Annual Report Despite the Closing of Many Saloons in Various States, Production of Intoxicating Liquors for 1910 exceeded That of 1900. The last annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue, showing that there had been a large increase both in production and consumption of intoxicating liquors during the year 1910 over 1909. raised an interesting question in the session of Congress Just ended as to whether the closing of saloons really tended to increase consumption, says the Washington correspondent of The News and Courier. The House com mittee on Inter-State and foreign commerce gave a number of hearings concerning the question. Many persons were brought before the committee and otherwise a large amount of data was closely examined. Congressman James. H. Miller, joint author of the Miller-Curtis bill in the House, was asked for an expression of opinion *just before he went to his home in Kansas today. His statement Is especially significant not only because he is a member of the committee which has been investigating the subject, but also because the State from which he comes, Kansas, has In recent years been the battle ground of many hot liquor contests. "It is not denied," Mr. Miller said, "that the amount of both distilled and fermented liquors produced and consumed during the last fiscal year has increased over tho amount for 1900. It is highly interesting to note, however, that there is a very material decrease in both tho consumption and production of liquors in the revenue districts, comprising prohibition States, while the increase is largely in three or four of the States where the license policy prevails. \ "It is important to notice also that while there is an increuse in the total production and consumption of liquor, as compared with the year be fore, yet there is a substantial decrease in comparison with the fiscal year of 1909. The reason for this showing is indicated by the fact that . .. i 1 < ft ii. ~ .. ? Willie (luring f ' u mere wu? nu utt-civward step, and some additional counties and communities were in tne 'dry' column, yet the number of these districts that became 'dry' during 1910 was not so largo as the aggrej gate of those which went 'dry' durvLjng either of the two previous years; ' subsequently the amount of decrease in the sections that were added to the no-license list was not sufficient to offset the continued increase in the large cities and license States. "During the fiscal year of 1910 ^ there w.ere the following decreases. Alabama and Mississippi, 176 gallons; Georgia, 7,245; Kansas and Oklahoma, 357; Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire, 597; North Caro]U Una, 271,160; Tennessee, 460,181. / "In contrast to these figures those containing the three largest license cities in the United States are as follows: New York, increase, 2,100,791; Pennsylvania, 1,528,147; Illinois, 234,005." Upon being asked in what manner the various States might be enabled to stop the Inter-State shipment of liquor, Mr. iMiller said: "As we view the problem, three or four possible ways by which the State may be given the necessary relief. 1. Action, such as is contemplated by the Miller-Curtis bill, which now attempts to remove an impediment which now exists by reason of the absence Of a specific utterance, on the part of Congress, thus allowing im- r ported liquors to fall within the jurisdiction upon arrival immediately within the boundary of the State to which consignment has been made, and thereby become mingled with the common mass of property within AGAINST HIS PARDON. ^ ' People of Barnwell Want Kennedy to Serve His Time. Representative James E. Davis, of Barnwell, presented to Gov. Blease on Tuesday afternoon a petltipn counter to that which was recently filed in behalf of J. Chester Kennedy, the white man who was convicted of procuring the murder of a neighbor, Perry Usser^r, by negroes on the square of Barnwell and who was sen tenced two years ago to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Mr. Davis, a former solicitor, was one of the attorneys assisting Solicitor Byrnes in the prosecution. Tie supported the petition with a strong personal appeal to the Governor, not to pardon or parole Kennedy ana turn him loose again upon the community. Mr. Davis said he had procured the signatures of some of the best people of Barnwell county to the petition.'Among the endorsements is one by Magistrate T. S. Dunbar, of Four "Mile, who swore Gov. Blease into office?"For God's sake don't grant it." Kennedy is a man of about 24 years. His father died recently. A Healthy Public Sentiment. Oniurn. of course, has been one ol the greatest evils with which the new China has had to grapple, and her almost marvelous success in dealing with it gives ground for the belief that she will be able to master other weaknesses as well. A fellow-passenger on my Yangste steamer a few days ago spoke enthusiastically of the rare beauty of a Yangste river trip in the poppy-blooming season a few years ago, immense fields aflame with gorgeous coloring, but this spectacle will probably never be seen again. In most provinces the bloom of the opium poppy is now a red flag of danger for its owner: an officer of the law will take heed concerning it. Formerly, too, it was the custom for the host to offer opium to his guests, just as it was formerly the custom for the average Southerner to offer whiskey; but the Chinese have now quite a changed public sentiment. Because they recognize that opium is ruining the lives of many of their people, and lessening the efficiency of many others, because they regard it as a source of weakness to their country and danger to their sons, it has become a matter of shame for a man to be known as an opiumsmoker, even "in moderation." To be free from such an enervating dissipation is regarded as the duty not only to one's self and one's family, but to the country as well, a patriotic duty. I saw a cartoon in a native Chinese paper the other day in which there were held up to especial scorn and humiliation the weakling officials who had lost their offices by reason of failure to shake off opium. In short, the opium smoker, instead of being a sort of "good fellow with human weaknesses"?and with pos siDiuues, or course, ol going utieny to wreck?has become an object of contempt, a bad citizen. The German Emperor in a speech to the boys in his navy last week urged them to let whiskey alone because 01 the nation's need for strong, clearheaded men unweakened by dissipation, and in her anti-opium crusade China is successfully making the same sort of appeal to her citizens.? Clarence Poe, in Raleigh- (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. * Worked Ham Circuit. At New Orleans Ananias Penny, negro, is under arrest, charged with stealing $600 worth of hams from a packing concern. It is said that Penny has been operating a "ham circuit" for a month peddling his wares at reduced prices. Clerks checked up the stock this week and found the shortage. Penny declares he is sure he did not get $600 worth, ns lift onlv took about eierht hams a week. tfte State. 2. Action by which the Inter-State shipments of intoxicating liquors may he forbidden altogether, as in the case of lottery tickets. 3. Action forbidding partial InterState shipments of liquor when consigned to those who are not authorized by State law to dispose of them. 4. The adoption of an amendment to the Inter-State commerce clause of the Constitution which, without question, will give Congress full power to take whatever action is necessary in giving relief to the State. "This latter suggestion is conditional on the possibility of Congress failing to take further action on the ground of unconstitutionality. If, however, the public sentiment al ready aroused on the question shall be compelled to resort to this extreme, it is problematic where the demands for constitutional changes will end. 'The bill in question proposes to constitute intoxicating liquors as a special class of commodities, to be admitted to and carried in Interstate commerce on condition that the Inter-State commerce character of the shipment shall cease at once upon arrival immediately within the boundary of the State. By this proposed Act Congress is not asked to help enforce the police regulations of any State, or to do anything which the States can do for themselves, but simply to protect the States in the exercise of their police powers at a point where such exercise is not now]' fully guaranteed." THEIR DEATH KNELL | PREDICTS REALIGNMENT OF POLITICAL PARTIES. finv. Fork fiavs Failure of the Senate to Respond to People Demands Hastens Its Downfall* A realignment of political parties in this country was predicted by Gov. Eugene N. Fobs in the course of an address before the Holyoke Hoard of Trade Wednesday evening. This, he declared, would come as a result of the failure of the Senate to pass the McCall Reciprocity bill. "The action of the Republican Senate," said Gov. Foss, "in rejecting this opportunity to carry out the principles of its party platform, the request of its President and wishes of the people; its support of Lorinier and its opposition to other progressive measures of legislation but emphasize the necessity of securing legislation that will make the Senators more responsible to public sentiment by their election by the direct vote of the people. The Republican leaders by their action have J 1 xl. -1.. Jl iU 1 sounueu ineir uwn ueutii mien. "It means, in my judgment, a realignment of parties. This is in fact already going on. It is taking place now. The only thing that the progressive wing of the Republican party can do is to join hands with the progressive wing of the Democratic party and secure legislation that will be in the interests of all the people and not of special privilege." The Governor declared that the United States" has much to gain and nothing to lose" from reciprocity with Canada. Urging the necessity of getting ready for the result of reciprocity, the Governor advocated the enlargement of transportation facilities in Massachusetts' and particularly the development of inland waterways. Referring to the proposal to dredge .the Connecticut river, so as to extend navigation from Hartford to Holyoke, Gov. Fobs said: "The computations of the expense and the benefits seem to justify all in asking that 'the Government proceed with this work." ? THE DEMOCRATS UNITED. What Champ Clark Says About Political Situation. A statement made at Pittsburg, Pa., Wednesday night by Congressman Champ Clark of Missouri, speaker of the next congress, severely arraignes Republicans and newspapers of the country who are alleged to be predicting a split in the Democratic party. In part the statement follows: The strangest political phenomenon of our times is the persistence with .which Republican newspapers try to create the impression thai there is, or is about to be, a great split among Democrats. They work at the game as industriously as any rattlepate ever worked to discover perpetual motion. "All this hullabaloo about 'Democratic splits is to hide the wide and irreconcilable splits among Republicans. Democrats are united for victory in 1912 and afterwards for many years to come." Where the One-Horse Parmer Loses. Says one of our correspondents: "I rarely find that my two-horse tenants more than double the crops of my one-horse tenants on double tlm land and with double the stock." Therefore, he concludes that onehorse farming is best. It seems never to have occurred to him that the labor of the man in the case is worth anything. Does not any man who will think for a minute know that if the man with two horses does produce only twice as much a3 the man with one horse, he is far ahead of him in what he receives for his own labor? Even if a man's labor is worth no more than that of a horse, there are two workers in the onehorse layout and only three in the two-horse. Hence an increase of 50 per cent in gross returns will even matters up. Now, there isn't a farmer in the South who doesn't regard his la'bor as of more value than that of a mule, and, of course, he i3 right about it. There may be, as we have said, times when a man must do his work with one horse, but we can not see why any man should be willing, for that reason, to consider himself a "one-hdrse farmer" and be content to remain so. It isn't a matter of pretty theories or ingenious arguments, but, as we have said, a mere matter of mathematics. The more horses, the larger the farmers' earnings in practically every State in the Union; and the fewer horses to the man, the more expensive the work done whehever other conditions are equal. Against such incontrovertiole facts as these, all the theories of those who argue for one-horse farming amount to very little.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. * An Unusual Alarm. L. M. McCool, of Columbus, Ind., has a cat that wakes him up every morning regularly at 5 o'clock. Just as the clock strikes the hour the cat jumps on the bed, it is said, and rubs a paw over iMcCool's lips, continuing to do this until McCool is fully awake. ' * % TALE OF WOE TOLD MORE DETAILS OF THE CHINESE FAMINE REACH US. Missionaries Working Hard and Have Attacked Problem of Relieving Sufferers. More gruesome stories of the horrors of the Chinese famine reached the state department Thursday from the consul general at Shanghai, who describes conditions at the beginning of February. One traveler reported passing 13 dead bodies in 13 minutes. Others tell of the natives eating cakes made of leaves and stems mixed with millet chaff, which they buy with tlie allowance from the government of three cents apiece. Trees have been stripped of the bark and eaten. An American Presbyterian missionary declared that in the whole afflicted region there were 2,000,000 starving people. In one village of 100 families one-third were dead of hunger and pestilence. Snow was falling and many were without proper shelter or clothing. The missionaries have attacked the work of relief with the greatest system and directness. The families in the province of Pucliow, for instance, were divided into four classes and enumerated with this result: Those who had plenty numbered 18,095; those who could exist till harvest on wheat grain they had, 209,93 7; those who had a little grain, but would be in need before the end of February, 15 6,301, and those really destitute and in need of immediate relief, 1 95,651. One thousand dollars raised by the Chinese relief committee of the chamber of commerce of Cincinnati was cabled co Shanghai Thursday by the American National Red Cross. Shot Himself on Roof. Standing on the edge of the root of a tenement house in New York Thursday an unidentified man sent two revolver bullets into his head. The body crashed to the street, five stories below. That the suicide had intended to make sure of dying if his revolver failed him was indicated by the finding on the roof of a bottle filled with a powerful acid. The Great Wall of China. But it would have been well worth while to make the trip if we had gotten nothing else but the view of and from the Great Wall at the end of the journey. About two thousand miles of stone and brick, twentyseven feet high, and wide enough on top for two carriages to drive abreast, this great structure built two thousand years ago to keep the wild barbarian Northern tribes out of China, is truly \the largest building on earth," and one of the world's greatest wonders. It would be amazing if it wound only over plains and lowlands, but where we saw it thi3 morning it climibed one mountain height after another until the topmost point towered far above us, diss zy, stupendous, magnificent. By what means the thousands and thousands of tons of rock and .brick were ever carried up the sheer mountain sides, is a question that must excite every traveler's wonder. Certainly no one who has walked on top of the great wall, climbing among the clouds from one misty eminence to another, as we did today, can ever forget the experience. Perhaps it was well enough, too, that the weather was not clear. The mists that hung about the -mountain-peaks below and around us; the roaring wind that shepherded the clouds, now driving them swiftly before him and leaving in clear view for a minute peak after peak and valley after valley, the next minute brushing great fog-masses over wall and landscape and concealing all from view?all this lent an element of mystery and majesty to the experience not out of keeping with our thought of the long centuries through which this strange guard has kept watch around earth s oldest Empire. Dead, long dead and crumbled into dust, even when our Christian era began, were the hands who fashioned these earlier brick and laid them in the mortar here, and for many generations thereafter watchmen armed with hows and arrows rode along the battlements and towers, straining their eyes for sight of whatever enemy might be boid enough to try to cross the mighty barrier. However unwise the spirit or the aim in which the wall was built, wj| must admire the almost matchless daring of the conception and the almost unparalleled industry of the execution. Beside it the digging of our Panama Canal with modern machinery, engines, steam-power and electricity?considered as a feat of Herculean labor?is no longer a subject for boasting. To my mind, the xery fact that the Chinese people had the courage to conceive and attempt so colossal an enterprise is proof enough of genuine greatness. No feeble folk could even have planned such an undertaking.?Clarence Poe, in Raleigh (N. C., Progressive Farmer. * Killed for Hurglnr. Sig J. Moore, a young farmer, shot and killed his sister, Mrs. Lottie Wilmon, at an early hour Thursday at their home near Dallas, Texas, mistaking her for a burglar. f. BUY AN REJOICES. < That Reforms He Has Advocated Are Being Adopted. % Declaring that it was a greater pleasure than being President to sit back and see the reforms he had advocated for years being adopted by the West, most slowly accepted by the East and publicly supported and proclaimed by Col. Roosevelt and President Taft, William Jennings Bryan Wednesday night addressed a thousand members of the Boston City Club. Mr. Bryan upheld the Canadian reciprocity measure, declaring it would be the end of the Republican party, and he said that reciprocity would be finally adopted, in closing he said he would not again be a candidate for the Presidency. ROllBEKS A HE CAUGHT. Conductor Identities Men Who Held Up His Train. W. A. Pinkerton, head of the Pinkerton detective agency who is in Mobile, was notified Thursday in a telegram from Chicago of the capture in the woods of Michigan of the robbers who robbed the mail train on the Oregon Short Line some time ago. The men arrested are Thomas O'Hara and Victor Clo.se. At the time of the robbery one of the porters on the train was shot to death and anothei wounded. The men were traced to the woods of Northern Michigan but the arrests were not made* until the conductor of the train was taken to Michigan and identified the men. ? More Poultry for the Farms. <No careful observer can fail to note the increased interest in poultry raising in the South during the last year. Like all other lines of live . i. _ -1- 1.1 1 A. i ? .. 1 1 .. . . r slock raising, 11 is espt'cutily receiving attention in the area being invaded by the boll weevil. It is simply astonishing what capacity this little bug?the boll weevil?has toi making men think and even act. All lines of live stock are receiving more attention than ever before and poultry is coming in for its share ot increased attention. But, strange as it may seem the greater part of this increase in poultry interest is among the people in the towns and to a much less degree among the farmers. This appears to us wrong. Surely there is no place where the opportunities for raising strong, healthy poul iry at a iiiiuiiiiuxu 01 uuhi, are su ^uuu as out on the farms. Not only Is this true as regards the production of utility poultry?eggs and birds for food?but it is especially true of the production of fancy poultry and birds for (breeding. By much care, constant work and intelligent feeding and management, good poultry is produced on the small lots in or near the towns; but it requires more intelligence and poultry knowledge to raise good birds under such conditions than it does to accomplish the same results on the farm. Why then, is most of our best poultry raised in the small towns or near the cities? The range which may be given the birds on the farm, except perhaps during the breeding season, is almost unlimited and this means a variety of feed, such as poultry require, and ample exercise, two things most essential to Uie economical production of vigoro'is birds. It requires some knowledge to raise good poultry and this can only be obtained by reading and studying the experience of others as set down in nnultrv iournals or norricultural papers and in books, and by actual personal experience In the handling of the birds. In the past this has been thought too small a business for the farmer, but if that is still the idea, we insist that the women and children should be given an opportunity to add this additional industry to the farm. Nor would we limit them to the production of eggs and the growing of birds to be used as food: but would insist that where the I inclination exists they be given a chance to produce the best, to be sold as breeders, or eggs to be sold for hatching.?Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer. * . -T*- Found Tied to Horse * ? With his wrist tied to the tail of a wild horse, the body of a Papago Indian was found yesterday by a de taehment of the First United States cavalry at the edge of the Gila river near iMesa, Ariz. In order to secure the body it was necessary to shoot , the horse. It is believed the young Indian had been condemned to die in this manner because of having violated some law of the tribe. Sets Him Free. Israel Lazarus, a negro, who was i convicted in Colleton county on the < charge of manslaughter, in March 1 of 1910, and sentenced to three years i on the chain gang, has been pardoned by Governor Mease. The pardon was recommended by Solicitor Peurifoy, who prosecuted the case., Lazarus killed another negro. Almut 3,000 New Notaries. Approximately 3,000 commissions have been issued for notaries public since the revoking order of the Governor. Governor Mease said recently that he would very probably rocommend next year to the Genral Assembly that an annual fee be required of notaries public. * TAKEN TO COURT Men Named far Secured aa Injunction Against Those ) APPOINTED BY BLEASE ?... \ Supporters of the Beaufort Delegatiofi Nominees for Commissioners, \\ ho Were Ignored by (iov. IJlease, and Others Given tfie Places, Brought tlie Action in the Court. Judge Gary Thursday at YValterboro issued a temporary injunction against the men recently appointed township comimssioners in Beaufort county by Gov. Blease in opposition to the recommendations of the legislative delegation, and they are cited to show cause why the temporary injunction should not be made permanent. Gov. Blease, in appointing the township commissioners, entirely ignored the recommendations of ii\? legislative delegations in six of tn? seven townships in spite of the provision of the code that he- shall appoint them upon the recommendation of the delegation. The appointments were made, it is understood, after a conference with Thomas Talbird, a political follower of tho governor, who opposed the election of the members of the Beaufort delegation. The governor's action caused indignation in Beaufort and as it is believed that the appointments made 'by the governor are illegal it was determined to take the case to tho courts. It is especially necessary that there be no question as to the legality of the township commissioners because they are to be entrusted with tho spending of $300,000 for the erection of a bridge from Beaufort to the opposite island. \ Now that the restraining order has been issued the case will have to bo argued upon question of making the order permanent and the decision of this case may be a precedent thai will settle the other disputed appointments in the State. REFUSES TO OBEY BL.EASE. \ mm i . a _ *ri?l T\ VI a. _ /^11 ff*_ Magasiraie mrny iwciines w uivc i y His Office. I Magistrate A. H. Kirby, of Spartanburg, has received a letter from Gov. 'Blease ordering him to vacate his oflice as magistrate and turn over his records to Malcomb Bowden, the governor's appointee. Maj. Kirby has said that he will do nothing of the kind. Though the major is 83 years old, he says he is not ready to retire at this time and holds that the governor has no right to remove him trom office. His attorneys advise him that he can hold over, since Mr. Bowden, whom the governor appointed to succeed him, has not had the indorsement of the county delegation nor been recommended by the senate. Botli Maj. Kirby and Bowden are transacting business. What the developments will be is the question in which the city is much interested. , ) Holds On Also. \ The latest developments in tho magisterial situation at Greenwood is a letter received Thursday morning from the governor by Judge lverr. In this letter Magistrate Kerr is told that "his successor having been appointed, his commission is revoked and is null and void." Previous to this the governor had advised bis appointee, .T. W. Can field, to go ahead transacting business as magistrate and if at the end of 30 days (Magistrate Kerr had not turned over his books to him, Mr. Cantleld, it would be in order to have a warrant sworn out for him. The notice of revocation of Magistrate Kerr's commission is another move which Mr. Kerr says can not be sustained as the cause given, the appointment of his successor, is not one or tne tnree causes specined Dy, law upon which his commission cs be revoked. Press Association Meeting. Wood row Wilson, Governpr e?i New Jersey, will address the .South Carolina Press Association at its meeting: in Columbia this spring:. The date of the meeting: will bo fixed by the executive committee, of which the Editor of The Times and Democrat is a member, on Friday at a meeting to be held in Columbia tor the purpose. All newspaper men of the State are cordially invited to become members of the association if they have not already done so. ^ ^ 0 %i What It Means. A Washington dispatch says all doubt as to the purpose of the government in sending 20,000 troops to. the Mexican border has at last been swept away. The United States haa determined that the revolution in Mexico must end. The American troops have been sent to form a solid military wall along the Rio Grande to stop filibustering and to see that Wiore Is no further smuggling of arms and men across the international boundary.