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MORE USED THAN EVER
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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
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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.
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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
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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."
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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. ' *
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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.
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BUY AN REJOICES. <
That Reforms He Has Advocated Are
Being Adopted.
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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.
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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
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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
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APPOINTED BY BLEASE
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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. \
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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.
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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.