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THEY MADE GOOD The Dements Redeeaieg the fledge Th*g lade the Pceple BEFORE TBE ELECTION t * Reports to that Effect Over the En* h lilt Country Hare True Foundation at the Scene of Hostilities In the City of Washington Where the VB muie ivo^m. "The Democraic house Is making good." That's the sum and substance of what you hear on every side In Washington and judging from the press of the country the democratic congress Is regarded in the same light all over the United States. The amazing thing about it al) Is ' that this congress is doing things. Proceeding with a harmony, a caution and a wisdom, yet surely and steadily, the Democrats are proving a bitter disappointment to the Republicans, who predicted chaos and discussion and disorder just as soon as Champ Clark was inducted into * the office of speaker. And throughout the country the "doubting Thomassoa" who prophesied that just as soon as the Democrats took charge g of the house with tariff leglBiauon pending, business and every thing thing would go to the "demnitlon bowwows," cannot be found. If la oa<iv Anrtncb to HftV the Democratic house is making good. That's too general and may mean a great deal or very little. A man may pass your corn field, riding in a day coach of a train, and at a distance view a few rows of growing corn and the next time he sees you tolls you that your corn <c,rop Is looking fine. Again some man may run across your son who is off In another city at college. He may see the boy on the street and chat with him and come back and tell you that hoy of yours is getting on fine. That sounds well, when the facts may be * that that boy of yours is more interested in baseball or pool than in trigonomotry. | ^ So why is it that the impression thus early is gaining ground that the Democratic hpuse is making good? It's because the majority party In the lower branch of congrf $ are carrying oue effectively the ni lifest wishes of the people of the United States?pr-lection promises have actually become post-elections obligations which are being met v. squarely and fairly. And in this - - m * i-i? 4ia v nar. WOTK OI leglHiUllUU IUU liiaji/nv ty is showing a capacity and efficiency that is surprising. Beginning with a committee on committees to select the proper men for the various house committees instead of leaving this power in the hands of one man, the Democrats inaugurated economy by abolishing ' one hundred useless positions about the house of representatives, thus saving the taxpayers $180,000 per year. And by reporting that Canadian reciprocity bill to the house and agreeing on its passage, they have elevated themselves in the eyes of th'& entire people. 'And this move is good politics, i too. It will be the means of entering the wedge that will effectively open the high tariff block. Just as soon as the Canadian reciprocity bill is enacted by the house, the Democratic "free list" bill, which has already been reported out from the * ways and means committee and which has been published, will be passed. The free list will offset the clamor of the western farmer as to taking his protection from him and yet keeping It on all the necessary things he has to purchase. And the Republican party has buncoed the farmers of the west so long with the fairy tale of heaping up protection on everything that he produces that they \ believe. Rut in the face of a practif cal remedy to offset the Canadian reciprocity pact he will not lag behind in the march of better times and a more equal chance for all. The Democratic house passed the /resolution providing for the constitutional amendment for the election of United States senators by the direct vote of the people. The campaign publicity bill, to require that all campaign contributions be published prior to elections and not subsequent to elections will be paseed by the house. If the Democrats sustain their gait in shaping and pass such remedial legislative bills through the house, the country will in all probability turn the Republicans out of power at the senate end of the capitol and from the executive mansion in 1912. Shot in the naric. Near Hazelhurst, Ga., fearing that w the man front of his store at whom a dog was barking, was a robber, p W. I. Crumley, a farmer in that councounty, shot and instantly killed the man, :M, A. Grant, a blacksmith, Crumley's friend. Crumley surrendered and was ordered held under the charge of murder by a coroner's jury. Brute of a Father. Because his seven-year-old son mispelled a word, George VanStone, of Goderich, Ont., beat him to death. He was sentenced to life in prison. * A PAIR OF FOOLS' BOY AND GIRL LOCKED UP IN THE COLUMBIA JAIL. Girl Attempt* to Jump from Window Rather than Return Home or Testlfj Against Boy. The St&te ear* that a pretty girl, Mies Lillian Reed, who says she le only a few months past 13 years old and a youth of 17. both from Augusta, are held In the Richland county jail. It seems that the young man, whose name is R. II. Watson, has been in Columbia for several days. He and the girl were registered at a boarding house as Mr. and Mrs. Watson. Everything went well for the cou 1 - ? * 11 iltA Inn/lta^v nraa (A IH A f th Ik pio UUi.lt iUT; lauuinu/ nua i.v.u v. true state of affairs. She telephoned the girl's mother. In the meantime friends of the the pair "tipped them off." They promptly moved to another boarding house. Chief of Police Cathcart was wired to arrest them. This was done on Main street, the two young persons going to headquarters with Detective Richardson without any trouble. Watson endeavored to get a notary public of Columbia to marry them and he consented t.o do so. While he went after Miss Reed the officer appeared on the scene and nabbed the couple on their way to the notary's office. C. C. Reed ,the father of the young girl, came to Columbia and promptly went to police headquarters, where he secured his daughter's release. The young man was detained and turned over to Magistrate Fowles, being indicted under the charge of carrying a minor from her parents. Sobbing as though her heart would break, Lillian Reed, said to be a mere child in age, although she looks much older, stated frankly to Magistrate Fowles that she would not return to her home with her father " ? n t\t\AO r on o txt f dliu MIIU nuuiu uuu a|/|/uai UO c% niv ness for the prosecution, should the case be brought to trial. In the midst of the excitement she dashed for the window and would have jumped to the ground below, hut was prevented from accomplishing this purpose. She tried to break away a second time and throw h 2rself out of the window. (Miss Reed was required to gi\ bond to appear as a witness, and not being able to do so was sent to jail with Watson. In Augusta Watson worked as a soda dispenser. The girl said that Watson bought a ticket and sent it to her to come to Columbia, while it is stated that Watson said Miss Reed followed him to Columbia. Wednesday night they both spent in the Richland county jail, and there they will stay until some satisfactory settlement can be made. C. C. Reed, the girl's father, went 4o Augusta, Wednesday night. HKIIO YIEIJtti UP I JFK. Young White Man Dies Trying to Save Negro Roy. H. G. Brown, the brave sewerage inspector who jumped into the manhole on Calhoun street in Charleston on Tuesday to rescue the colored boy, died Wednesday morning at the Riverside infirmary, without having regained consciousness, in spite of the hard work of a number of doctors and nurses who stood over him from the time of his admission into the Institution. D. R. Blakely, the medical student, who finally affected the rescue of the boy's body and brought Brown to the surface, is himself in a bad way, according to the report made by the doctors of his condition. The verdict of the coroner's juries was accidental death in both cases. The body of Brown, who was well connected in Charleston, was taken to Norfolk, his home, Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by Mr. Dunlap, sewerage engineer. MEETS AWFUL DEATH. Two Year Old Child Crushed by Fall ing Crossties. The most shocking death ever in Elbert county, Ga.. was that Wednesday afternoon of the little two and a half year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Tucker, who was crushed to death under a heavy crosstie. The child was playing near the house and when called did not reply. Search was mado and the child was found crushed to death under a pile of crossties which had slid down over her, pinning her to the ground, crushing out her breath. The accident occurred in thirty feet of where the father and the minister had been sitting and they had heard no cry from the baby. The parents are heartbroken. ? Wipes Out Family. At Youngstown, O., Pearl Rlckert, aged 8, and Raymond Rickert, aged 7, died from injuries inflicted by their father, Grant C. Rickert, making six lives the toll of his murderous fit of insanity. Rickert took his own life by shooting after he had killed his wife and daughters, Charlotte, aged 11, and Helen, aged 15. His son, Edwin, escaped from the father, who had struck him on the head with an axe, and will survive. TOWNS OF STATE Their Pepalatiea as Revealed fey Ike Ceases Takea Last Year. ? STEADY GROWTH SHOWN Statistics for One Hundred and Fftjrlive Cities, Towns and Villages In South Carolina Shows Steady Growth In Most of Them Since the Last Census. Statistics of population of 155 incorporated towns and cities in South Carolina, as contained in the advance sheets of the census report for 1910, contain some features of considerable interest. Most of tne statistics ior larger towns have already been published, but for the sake of convenience they are reprinted along with the smaller places, which have not been given before. The statistics for towns and cities follow: Town. 1P10 Abbeville 4,459 Aiken 3,911 Alcolu 458 Allendale 1,453 Anderson 9,654 Appleton 156 Bamberg 1,937 Barnwell 1,324 Batesburg Beaufort 2,486 Belton 1,6 5 J Bennettsville 2,64 6 Bethune 317 Bingham 196 Bishopville x 1,659 Blacksburg 1,119 ? * 1- io? IJiaCKBLOCK. jv/? Blackville 1,278 Blenheim 228 Bluffton 577 Bolen 160 Bowman 327 Bradley 279 Branchville 1,471 Brunson 610 Calhoun 215 Calhoun Falls 296 Camden 3,569 Cameron 421 Campobello 255 Carlisle 3 67 Central 886 Chapin 3 45 Cliappels 150 Charleston 5 8,833 Cheraw 2,873 Cherokee Falls 591 Chester 4,754 Chesterfield 618 Clinton 3,272 Clio 780 Clover 1,207 Cokesbury 756 Columbia 26,319 Conway 1,228 Cope 174 Coronaca 199 Cottageville 418 Cowpens 1,101 Cross Hill 558 Darlington 3,789 Denmark 1,075 Dillon 1,757 Donalds 268 Dovesville 169 Due West 672 Duncans 190 Easlej' 2,983 Eastover 23 7 Eau Claire 1,23 4 Ebenezer 190 Edgeneid i, /1 x Edgemoor 113 Erharclt 315 Elko 114 Ellen ton 367 Elloree 540 Estill 460 Eutawville 405 Fairfax * 491) Florence 7,057 Foreston 115 Fork 134 Fort Lawn 204 Fort Mill 1,616 Fort Motte 392 Fountain Inn 979 Gaffney 4,767 Georgetown 5,53 0 Glenn Springs 178 Govan. . 111 Gray Court 284 Geelyville 630 Greenville 15,741 Greenwood 6,614 Greer 1,673 G rover 67 Hampton 748 Harleyville 190 Hartville 2,365 Heath Springs 452 Helena 425 Hendersonville 319 Hickory Grove 285 Hodges 266 Holly Hill 342 Honea Path 1,763 Inman 474 Irmo 267 Iva 894 Jacksonboro 54 Jefferson 390 Johnston 943 T /% % Amrt 11/> IIUIICOTIUU i v Kelton * 92 Kemper 62 Kershaw 682 Kingstree 1,372 Kline 199 Lake City 1,074 Lamar 592 Lancaster 2,098 Landrum 449 Latta 1,358 Laurens 4,?18 Lees vl lie 980 Lewiedale 162 Lexington 709 Liberty 1,058 Linconville 841 Little Mountain 440 Little Rock 99 Livingston 168 Lori* 229 Lowndeovllle 350 Lowryvills.. . . t , . . . 343 Lucknow 139 Lynchburg 466 McBee 187 McColl 1,628 <McConnels 279 McCormick 613 Mallory 96 Manning 1,854 Marion 3,844 Maryville 473 rm.* 111 _ 7K1 uuayvBvitie . Vx Midway 96 Modoc 108 Moncks Corner 232 Monetta 122 Moultrievllle 1,011 Mount Carmel 264 'Mount Pleasant 1,346 Mountville 160 Mullins 1,832 Neeces 143 New Drookland 900 Newberry 5,028 Nichols 13 8 Ninety-six 768 Norris 180 North 561 North Augusta 1,136 Norway 315 Olanta 230 Olar 350 Orangeburg 5,906 Pacolet 410 Pageland 3 60 Pages Mill 15 7 Parksville 15 7 Patrick 9 8 ? # n r Faxvllle j t .> Peak.. 1 S3 Pendleton S22 Perry J J 9 Pickens 897 Pinewood 424 Plum Branch 14.r? Port Royal 3t>3 Princeton 182 Prosperity 73 7 Reevesville 20? Reidville 177 Richburg 245 Ridge Spring 5OS Ridgeland 330 Ridgeville 300 Ridge way 3 70 Rock Hill 7,? > Rowesville 5 08 Ruby 194 St. George 95 7 St. Matthews 1,3 77 St. Stephens 4 08 Salem 13 9 Salley 311 Saluda G10 Scotia 189 Cranton 308 Seiglingville 113 Sellers 458 Seneca 1,313 Shandon ^93 Sharon 37 4 Simpsonville 521 Smyrna 109 Snelling 33S Spartanburg 17,517 Springfield 43 8 Summerton 078 Summerville 2,35b Summit 87 Sumter 8,109 Swansea 523 Sycamore 90 Tatum 225 Timmonsville 1,708 Tirzah 128 Townville 225 Travelers Rest 00 Trenton 257 Trio *98 Troy 233 ITlmers 190 Union 5,623 Vances 97 Varnville 542 Wagner 362 Walhalla 1.595 Walterboro 1,677 Wards Is3 Waterloo 191 Wollford 3 70 West Union 328 Westminster 1,576 Westville 84 7 White Rock 85 . Whitmires 1,045 Williamston 1,957 Willington 365 Williston 024 Winnsboro . . . 1,75 4 Woodford 190 TXT rn fP 1.880 ! Yemassee 250 Yorkvllle 2,326 Zion 195 STKAMEK IS WRECKED. -? Eight Persons Drowned in Transferrins Passengers. The Portuguese mail steamer Bueitania is piled up on Bellows Rock, two mile southwest of the Cape of Tinnn Kierht nersons were drowned during the transfer of the 800 pasengers and crew from the wreck to the British warship Forte and a government tug. Those lost were four men, two women and two children, occupants of two small boats which capsided. Their companions were rescued. The Lusitania was bound from Mozambique for Lisbon when she struck on the sunken rocks. There is no hope of saving her. Arkansas' New Way. The Arkansas State Legislature on Friday adopted a concurrent resolution directing Gov. Donaghey to interfere with the proposed execution ' of Henry Peary at Ashdown. WILL HELP SOME Democrats First Reform Measure Formally Pretested. THAT FREE LIST BILL Designed to Help the Farmers Reported to the House by the Chair man of the Ways and Means committee. The majority report of the ways and means committee on the "farmers' free list bill," submitted to the house Wednesday by O. W. Underwood, chairman, is a merger of Democratic polJtfoal argument and an analysis of the proposed duty exemptions. The report shows that the bill would reduce the tariff revenue by $10,016,495, based on the importance for the last fiseal year, an amount described as "inconsiderable in comparison with the great saving and advantages to all of our people from the additions to the free list provided for." Quoting President Taft's recent Canadian reciprocity speeches, the report seeks to convey the impression that the administration is convinced that protective tariff rates are too high. "In several public addresses,'' it ? i N 1 ? ,1 says, "he (the president; hub uumitted that tariff rates are too high, that such rates have resulted in excessively high rates felt especially in the increased cost of living which now bears heavily on our people, and that they have not received the long promised lieneflts of domestic competition under high protective duties." Referring to the president's statement that the Repuoncan party had modified its tariff policies so as to limit it for purposes of protection to the difference in cost of production here and abroad with a reasonable profit to the American producer, the committee report says: "This is a confession, as was the Republican platform of 1908, that the theory of high protective Outies as put forth by the Republican pan* has broken down, that combinations and trusts which prey upon the people have been fostered by the tariff, and that under tariff protection American manufacturers have forced unreasonable profits from the people." Again the report declares; | "The Canadian reciprocity agreement now before the house is a re| cognition on the part of the administration of the injurious effects of | the extreme protective policy which has so long been imposed upon tve country, and is an effort to mitigate 1 ID The reciprocity argreement, asserts the committee, can not afford the American people all the needed relief from high protection. "Action on the agreement involves the necessity of further and immediate action on revision a number of duties on imports from other countries in order that justice may he done to the great army of agricultural producers who in the Canadian agreement are to have the alleged protection removed from tnelr products without a corresponding or reciprocal removal of the protective duties most burdensome on the commodities they must purchase as necessary to sustain their lives and industries." The report takes up in detail the classified list of articles included in the free list bill. Regarding agricultural implements, it says their manufacture is controlled by tsusts and combinations that have sold in foreign countries at lower prices than at home, building up tneir roreign trade from $3,859,184 in 189 0 to $28,1 24,033 in 1910. Bagging and baling materials, essential in the transportation of agricultural products, the report says, can not receive benefits of protection in home markets and duties on them "have annoyed and burdened the farmers to add to the profits of exacting trusts and combinations." Concerning hoops, bands and ties of iron and steel, barbed wire for fencing, etc., the report says the high duties make the people dependent upon the "giant steel industry," which for years has sold products abroad lower than to domestic consumers, and declares that placing them on the free list will be a "long delayed measure of equity and justice." The placing on the free list of all forms of leather from cattle, hides and skins, together with boots, shoes, harness, saddlery, etc., the committee argues, will be of advantage on manufacturing and necessarily of benefit to agricultural producers as well as to all the people. The "beef trust" is assailed in discussion of the free listing of fresh meats and meat products, ?rne existing duties on meats and meat products," it is asserted, "are for the advantage of this combination only" ?a combination that "controls the markets both in buying and selling, and the result is a substantial addition to the high cost of living from which the people suffer." Removal of duties on these products, it is assured, will place the farmers in a free market as to foodstuffs and food products. For the MIGHTY SUBMARINE ? I SHE IS A VERITABLE UNDER WATER DREADNAUGHT. I Carries Hydroplanes, Wheels and m Heavy Rudder as a Safety Device. May Cross the Atlantic Ocean. The largest and most formidable submarine ever constructed for the United States government will bo^tven a trial trip soon. If the cralt proves a success it will have a large bearing on the future of the navy, will tend to increase the importance of surface war vessels, and at the same time to lessen the importance of the great battleship. The experiment will be watched with the keenest interest in navy circles. It is the intention to cruise to New York with the boat on her trial trip and then to Bridgeport. Later is it expected the strange craft will be sent across the Atlantic. Among the features of the new submarine are hydroplanes. These correspond to the planes of an aeroplane and are designed for the purpose of steadying the boat and holding it even when under water. Another feature is the drop keel, which weighs several tons, and can be released in case of an accident, thus adding to the buoyancy of the vessel. On the botton of the boat are wheels calculated to protect the bottom when the vessel drops down to the bed of the ocean. Various other features are important in the construction of this typo of submarine. Enough storage air is provided for forty-eight hours under water. The vessel is provided * ? l ^-.w,^llM A enoinna Wlin powenm ^dsuuuo cu^iuvu, which propel her when running at the surface. Hut under the water the power is furnished by storage batteries. Its length is 161 feet and its displacement about 53 5 tons. The Government contracts calls for 14 knots speed, but it is expected to make 16. jThis is when the submarine is traveling on the surface. The submerged speed called for by the contract is nine and a half knots. It is designed to travel alone. The armament consists of six torpedo tubes and room aboard is provided for ten torpedoes. The crew will consist of about 22 members. Lieut. Kenneth Whiting of the navy is now in command. If the Seal bears out all the representations made concerning it, it is easy to see that naval warfare will be to a large extent revolutionized. I SERVED THEM RIGHT. ? ) Storekeeper Made to Day for Vsing Lady's Photograph. Members of the Supreme toun ui the United States Wednesday put their heads together to determine if a pretty woman, particularly a pretty New York woman may prevent the use of her photograph for advertising: or trade purposes. Photographers,, newspapers and moving picture men are said to be vitally concerned. The Court was hearing, the case of Mrs. Alda T. Rhodes, of Brooklyn,. N. Y. One day, arrayed in her wedding gown, she had he ? photograph taken for a birthday present for her husband. Not long afterward, her sister-in-law remarked, "I saw youf picture to-day in the window of a trading stamp store." Mrs. Rhodes got from the company exhibiting her photo a $1,000 judgment. Now the Supreme Court is asked to annul, as unconstitutional, the New York statute making it a misdemeanor to use a photo for advertising or trade purposes without the consent of the subject. reason that the public desire "that no artificial shelter bo maintained to protect abnormally high prices on food articles in any form." The bill also seeks exemption from duty on wheat flour, semolina, rye flour, buckwheat flour, eornmeal and all prepared cereal foods, biscuut?, bread and similar articles not swept, ened. In discussing free lumber placed in the bill, hardwood excepted, the report maintains that the ownership of timber in this country has become practically a monopoly and passed for the most part into the hands of great corporations and those who are speculating on the increasing scarcity. President Taft is again referred to, the report quoting from his speech of February 26, 1911, in which he said: "Ily giving our peo diA n AiiAnd r\ Po n o il { n o f Al*Aoio n. a. |>iv IU vciiictuiciu IUI vmo n? shall reduce the consumption of our own, which in the hands of a comparative few owners now have a value that requires the enlargement of our available timber resource?." Sewing machines, the report avers, are sold abroad by American manufacturers cheaper than at home, and should not be protected. The manufacturers would have by the proposed bill the additional advantages of free lumber. Salt, also included in the free list, the report urge?, should be free from artificial enhancement in price, the domestic supply being dependent upon a limited number of natural deposits controlled by concentrated interests.