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p MOVED FOR CAUSI CHIEF OF WHEATHER BUREAI MOORE IS OUSTED REASON NOT YET KNOWP ? . Hut the Fact* to Data, It In Said JuBtiflen the I'rwidont in Suimnar ily Dismissing Him For Ills Actioi in Socking the Ofllce of Socrotar, of Agriculture. Prof. Willis L. Moore, chief of th weather bureau since 1895, and ai appointee of the Cleveland adminis tratlon, Wednesday was summaril; removed from oflico by Presiden Wilson. His resignation recentl; had been accepted to take offect Jul; 31, but after an investigation of hi alleged efforts to become Secretar; of Agriculture in the present Cabi net grave charges of irregularis were preferred and the Presiden Wednesday withdrew his accoptanc* of the reignation, dismissing Prof Moore. Later he referred the subjec to the department of justice for in quiry. Secretary Houston, of the agricul tural department, conferred with the President before the removal of Mr Moore was announced. The Secre tarv then Issued the following state ment: "Immediately after the res ignation of Prof. Moore, of the weather bureau, was submitted to th< President and accepted by him charges were illed with the Secretary of Agriculture by responsibly mer within the service. These charge: were of such a grave nature that tin Secretary of Agriculture called upoi the department of justice for an in vestigation. "The Investigation is still undei way, but the fact so far secured am laid before the President Thursday were suliicient to warrant him In de clining^to withdraw his acceptance o ? Prof. Moore's resignation and re move him summarily, which has beoi done today. The President hai also directed the Secretary of Agri culture to suspend Mr. Charles T Hums, an employee of the weathei bureau, pending a further investiga tion of his case, take such discip linary measures as he may deen necessary with such other employee, of the weather bureau as may b? found to have been unduly active ii using the public service for privati and personal ends." The President's letter to Secrotar; Houston directing Mr. Moore's re moval was not made public. ITnofll cially it was said at tho White Hous< that the campaign to make Mr - - * ?? u>uui u uci-i cii?i j oi /\gricuiiure na( been extensive; that members o Congress in various parts of thi country had been canvassed, and tha a letter-writing campaign had beei conducted among weather bureai employees. Prof. i.Mooro has been a target foi attack in Congress. Representative Fowler, of Illinois, introduced a res olution a few days ago, calling or tho Secretary of Agriculture to advise Congress regarding the appropriations for oflicial traveling expenses for the weather bureau, what amount of the lump of salaries in the weather bureau was expended foi promotions of weather bureau employees during last January and February and the. comparative figures for the preceding four years. The resolution asked for information as to what journeys were performed by Charles T. Burns, under official orders and under what instructions between July 1, 1912, and Februay 2 8 last, and also called for data regarding circulars and other matter printed at Government expense and "used by the chief of tho weather bureau in his campaign for Secretary of Acrlculturo rlnrtiif thn last fiscal year". The House committee on expenditures in the agricultural department had planned last year an exhaustive Investigation into the weather bureau, but was prevailed from making it on account of the Wiley inquiry, the Florida Everglades case and other special matters. Representative Moss, of Indiana, and Democratic members of the committee, take up special charges filed against Prof. Moore by James Berry, a former employee of the weather bureau, which related to misuse of the contingent fund. The committee, Mr. Moss said, never found enough in these charges to press them for further inquiry. It is proposed, however, to conduct a thorough investigation of the bureau \ as soon as the committee is organized, which probably will not be until the regular session next winter. (Double Hanging in Florida. At the Duval County, Fla., jail Friday morning, Duggar Whitehead and | Henry Cook, negroes, will bo hanged, F both having .been convicted of murder. Whitehead killed George Osborne, a white storekeeper, on November 4, 1912. Henry Cook killed [ his wife last January. The double hanging will be private, ? ? ? The Wew York Herald has nominated Oscar Underwood for president In 1916 on hie tariff bill work. If r he lives the Congressman will be a bard man to beat for the nomination , when President Wilson retiree. L : NOTED CASE RECALLED J . NEAR M. HAYES SEEKS DIVORCE I) FHOM HIS WIFE. Couple Formerly Acquitted at Whitei villo, N. CM tlio Murder of Robert Floyd Some Years Ago. A dlBpatch from Wilmington, N. If C., says Noal M. Hayes, formerly of Columbus County, but for some ' months a resident of Wilmington, has instituted in Superior Court there for divorce from his wife, Rosa I). Hayes. y The complaint has not yet been filed, but the notice by publication sets out uiDiicai grounds for the divorce. 0 Two or three years ago Hayes and j his wife gained considerable notoriety, following the killing by Mrs Hayes of Mr. Robert Floyd, of Horry t County, South Carolina. She claimed y that she slew Floyd in defence of her y honor. She fired several shots into H his body after he fell mortally y wounded from the lirst bullet. The people of Columbus were not y satisfied with her explanation of the ( shooting with the result that the cora oner conducted a rigid investigation. The woman was arrested on the ( charge of murder and her husband and her fifteen-year-old brother were arrested and charged with complicity in the killing. The boy was discharged without his case going to the jury. Hayes [ and his wife were tried at the same time and a verdict of not guilty as to both were returned. The trial at, tracted nation-wide Interest and a number of newspapers and news I ni'oniiina ti n /' ~ ? ? ? - - . * .irtvi i tjoiuiiuiives ai Whiteville to "cover" the trial. The couple came to Wilmington soon after their acquittal and Hayes secured a position ns barber, which trade he had followed for some years. They lived there several months and then moved away. It is reported that while Hayes was down with an attack of sickness Mrs. Hayes left him with the care of the two children. The children are said to be in an orphanage in South Carolina. The present whereabouts of Mrs. Hayes is unknown. After leaving Columbia she is said to have returned to Wilmington for a short time, and then to have gone to Philadelphia, where she may bo living now. Hayes is now living in Wilmington. HOLDS A LI 13X8 TO HANSOM 8 9 Mexican Terrorizing Chihuahua by l 0 His lawless Course. A dispatch from Chihuahua, Mex^ co, says Vacovio Hcrrera, with 4 00 followers, is terrorizing the country near thero by demanding ransom n from foreign residents. He declares * he is opposed especially to Americans. According to advices Herrera's * O ? * - 1 " uaiiu uii ouuuiiy entered me town or Ck Naica and sacked stores and residences, taking prisoner Jose lloxio, an Italian subject, 'Boxio was released 1 only after the payment of $2,400. Later the bandits entered the camp r of workingmen building the Conehos river dam, demanding $25,000 under threat of killing the English heads of 1 the construction works. J. W. Fuller the manner, refused and was tied to a brace, which ITerrera threatened ' to send down the mountain. Ho was | offered $5,000, but the bandit inslst| ed that the sum ho doubled, which was done after much parleying. Then the bandits looted the homes , of the foreign and American workmen, robbing the company stores of $7,000 in merchandise. STANDS BY PARTY PLEDGES. Senator Tillman Bids Protected Interests to Beware. , Senator Tillman told Tho State's correspondent at Washington Monday that although he had received many requests from variouB sources to have the duty on different articles in tho | tariff bill restored to their former rates that he proposed to stand by 1 the bill. "This is Wilson's bill," he said, . "futhermore It is a Democratic bill through and through and I mean to ( abide by it. , "I would like very much to ,bo able j to accommodate those who are try- i ing to have former rates restored, ' hn t o n T L o i?/\ T A ~ wnu ua i lime jubi nam, X muiill lO ( stand by the bill that the senate and 1 the finance committee agree upon. \ That Is the Democratic way and the right way as I see It, to look on the matter and that la the course I shall , follow." j Tim White Slave Law. I At Augusta Walter Pounds and j Clarence Rhodes, prosperous farmers, \ were found guilty of violating the federal white slave law. Pounds , was sentenced to 2 years in the At- ? lanta prison and Rhodes to 2 months f In the Augusta Jail and $500 fine. c Tho men were charged with taking three girls from Rath, S. C., to their plantations and detaining them forcibly. * g Mistook Acid for Whiskey. ^ MiRt&King a jug of carbolic acid d for whiskey, J. W. Aldrldge, foreman o of a woods camp at Fargo, Ga., took a big drink of the poison Monday night and died a few minutes later in great b agony. He Is said to have been p, drinking. In % WOOL UN FREE LIST IIEMOCRATS REFUSE TO PUT ANY TAX UN IT THEY STANII BY WILSON 'oMgrctfstiiuit I'ndcrwood, the Democtutir House Loader, in Defence ?f (ho Kill, Says the President Millie (llllv Tuo Vi,..r<r?u?l ,? - i v/ui/ or i our Thousand Items. The Democratic caucus voted delsi\ely late Wednesday to support he wool schedule of the Underwood tariff bill, placing raw wool on the tee list, after Representative Undorvood had made a stirring appeal for the support of the caucus. Ry a vote of 190 to 42 an amendment offered >y Representative Dies, of Texas, to place raw wool ou the dutiable list, was rejected. Representative Dies' amendment proposed to place a duty of 15 per cent, ad valorem on raw wool, he .ind other champions of dutiable wool asserting that this was the judgment of the ways and means committo before President Wilson saw the bill and suggested a change. Majority Leader Unde-wood, in winding up the discussion, warmly defended hot the committee and the President. Ho declared the President had a right to make suggestions to Congress relating to tho tariff, but that tho bill as a whole met with tho Chief Executive's approval when he first read it as it came from tho committee. "Out of four thousand and more items in the bill," said Mr. Underwood, "tho President only made two en trcrnol U\??o * * ""fibv oi'u,ii,i uiubb anecung mo sugar and wool schedules. It seems to me that we should accept those suggestions from tho President of the United States." Representative Hainey of Illinois, and Harrison, of Now York, also spoke on behalf of the committee, defending Its action and the attitude of the President. The attack upon the committee and President began aB soon as the insurgent Democrats be;nn consideration of the bill. Representative Alexander, of Missouri, declared the committee overstepped all proper hounds in holding up President Wilson as a club over the heads of the members and that the President had exerted "undue influence" in having wool placed on the free list in the bill. Representative Montague, of Virginia, a new member, defended tho President in a spirited speech, declaring that it was his "constitutional and inherent right", to suggest what should go in a tariff bill, and that neither ho nor tho committeo were subject to critcism for their co-operation in framing tho bill. Representative Dies insisted that tho Government was made up of three distinctive branches with separate duties to perform. "It is not only tho right of Congress," ho said, "to originate revenue measures, but its exclusive right, and any attempt from another branch of the Govomment to dictato or interfere with that right should not be permitted by this body." The debate on this phase of the tariff fight was heated and prolonged. Among the principal supporters of the Dies amendment for a 15 per cent, duty were Representatives Ashbrook, Post and Batlirick of Ohio; . erguson of New iMexico; Adair ana ' Clino of Indiana, and Stout of Montana. The forty-two Democrats who voted for the 15 per cent, duty were; Adair, Barnhart and Cllne of Indi- ana, Alexander of Missouri, Ashbrook, 'Iiathrick, Claypool, Francis, Post, Sharp, Whiteacre and White of Ohio; Broussard, Dupro, Elder, Estopinal, Lazaro and Morgan of Louisiana; Bell of Georgia; Brown of West Virginia; Burgess, Calloway, Dies, llayden, Slayden and Stephents of Texas; Dersham of Pennsylvania; Doughton, Gudger, Page and Small, 3f North Carolina; Evans and Stout ? :>f Montana; Ferguson of New Mex- 1 Ico; Fowler of Illinois; Lo.beck of Nebraska; Metz and Underbill of New York; Murray of Oklahoma; D'Shaughnessey, of Rhode Island; Burke of Wisconsin; Kettner of Cal- " e i ~ luruiil. Before reaching wool the caucus llsposed of the cotton and flax schediles, voting down all amendments to ower or Increase the duties proposed n the committee biil. It is expected < that more rapid progress will be nado in caucus consideration of the )ill from now on. Representations concerning the >111 file i with the State department >y foreign diplomats havo not been j aken up by the ways and means ommittee, but may be condisored at meeting of the committeo. Show Woman Fatally Shot. At Huntsvlllo, Ala., Mrs. Cora B. ~ mlth, an attacheo of an amusement * ompany, was fatally shot Wednesay night by the accidental discharge f a target rifle In the shooting gal^ry. The bullet was fired In the carIval crowd and she fell fainting. The nllet having entered her right side, ? snetrated a vital organ. Her home A in Cincinnati. CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND! FARMERS EXCHANGE POULTRY AXI) EGOS. Indian H miner Ducks White Eggs? Bargains. L. Pollock, Hohenwald, i Tenn. Mart ford's ltoupe Oure? Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Sueade, Kla. Ram ' * - -n uno vuuiu Hens, Indian Runner ducks. Mating list free. Powell's Valley Farm, Jonesville, Va. single Comb lthode Island Reds, exclusively, eggs $2 for 15, $3 for 30, $8 for 100. Mrs. K. H. Hill, Washington. (la. For Sale?Pure Rerkshire pigs 10 weeks old; fine specimen; perfect health; $5 each. H. F. Hendrlx, Leesville, S. C. For Sale?Pure white eggs from pure White Indian Runner Ducks. $3 per 12. Mrs. Sue B. Walker, Cass Station, (la. Indian Runner Duck Eggs? Kxmor strain, white eggs, $1.00 per 13; $3.50 per 50; $6 per 100. Mrs. Virginia Ward, Helle Haven, Va. White Leghorns?Large handsome birds; great layer winners at many shows. Eggs, $3, $2 per 15. WhPe Runner Duck eggs $2.50, Fawn and White $1.50; Penciled $1. Mrs. Sarah (Iray, Lebanon, Tenn. For Sale?Sweet potato plants. Early Triumph, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico Yam and Norto Yam, at $1.75 per thousand, (live me your otder for choice plants. J. W. Staf, Waldo, Fla. ' rial Reduction on Barred Rocks Hamhurgs, and Runner ducks. Eggs ~ * AX.t ??, uu 11 pi icu aw uus au will not appear again. Write for circular. Valley Head Poultry Farm, Big Rock, Tenn., Route 2 H. In all laying contests at the top of the list. Try my fine and laying strain of Rose Comb Rhode Island Reds. Win whenever on exhibition. Fggs for hatching, and baby chicks at reasonable prices. J. Spencer, lllackstone, Va. ' Special Fgg Sale" from first prize Winners White OrpingtJtis Imported direct from ICnglanO 1.00 for 15. Black Orpingtons 1.00 for !". \Vhite Wyandots 1.00 15. J. P. Keilett, Fountain Inn, S. C. For Sale?Fggs for hatching from thoroughbred Fawn and White Indian Runner Ducks (white eg? 1 strain), Imperial Pekin Duncks and White Leghorn Chickens at $i..VJ for 15; fertlligy guaranteed. Ililierest Poultry Farm, Greenville, S. C., Route 3. PLANTS. Velvet Bean Seed?$1.75 per bushol. Box 5, Blanton, Fla. Trio Beautiful White llunner Ducks, $5. Mrs. T. R. Gritlln, Dallas, Ga. t roinato I'lants?In 1,000 lota; $1 per 1,000. C. F. Whitcorab, Umatilla, Fla. Cockes Prolific Seed Corn?Has been aelected for five years. $2.50 bushel. Clarence Choate, Pineville, N. C. Batt'.s Four Fared Prolific Seed Corn ?peck $1, bushel $3. Indian Runner Duck Eggs $1 per setting. O. P. Stalltngs, Enfield, N. C. Sweet Potato Plants? Early Tri- ' umphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Norton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1,000. H. H. Thomas, Earleton, Fla. * For Sale?A few bushels of Russell's Improved Big Boll. Selected for ten years. Five bales to three acres. At $3 per bushel. M. L. Chandler, " Scranton, S. C. Mammoth Yellow Hoy I leans?Recleaned, new seed, select, cowpeaa. Any quantity. Buy now and save high prices. Burrua & Company, New Bern, N. C. For Sale??Crystal White Indian Run- _ ner duck eggs; stocks direct from , Fischel and Patton; the all white egg strain, $2 for 12. O. Ik Hartzog. Greenville. 9 n Velvet lleans?From grower to _ grower. Save the Jobber's profit. ? $2.50 per bushel f. o. b. Qulncy, Fla. One-half peck 90c delivered. Owl Commercial Co., Qulncy, Fla. Velvet IVeans?2,000 bushels select _ home grown Velvet Bean seed at , $2.50 the bushel f. o. b. Lowell; 50 head registered Mule Foot pigs, $10 each. Raysor Farms, I>owell, Fla. 4 )hio Forty Car?powerful, sturdy, silent. Will demonstrate on hill or _ level. Factory overhauled. Fx- ^ oeptlonal bargain. Photos, particulars. Write L. A. Prince, Sumter, S. C. Hg Supply very best potato plants ready now. Prompt shipments. _ Porto Rico, Triumph, Red Provl- ? dence, N. Hall, $1.75 per thousand. Cheaper in largo lots. F. M. Morris & Sons, Ona, Fla. \>r Hale?-Nancy Hall and Dooly Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Mlssionaty and Ecelsior __ Strawberry Plants S2 ner thnnaonH Write or wire. Southern plant S Company., W. J. Hawkins, iMgr., Plant City, Fla. ; fancy Hall Potato Planta. Buy dir- j ect from grower and get freeh t li i u iiaftAau A > ? * i. I <? - plants. Orders filled In any quanIty. $175 per 1,000 10,000 or more. $1.50 per 1,000. A. G. Lancaster. Pine Castle, Fla. Sweet Potato Plants?Nancy Hall and Porto Kico, $1.75 per thousand, I am pushing the Porto Rico | because they are better; they yield greater and from four to six weeks earlier than any I have ever tried. J. A. Wilkes, Pine Castle, Fla. Sweet Potato Plants, Nancy Hall and Triumph, $1.75 psr 1,000. 1 can fill your orders in any quanity. Give me your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under irrigation. G. D. Moore, Hawthorn, Fla. Sweet Potato Sprouts?Nancy Hall, Providence. Porto THr?r? o?/? , .VIVW UIIVA 1 i l~ umph, ready for immediate shipment. Single thousands, $1.75; 5,000 and over $1.70; 10.000, $1.65. Tomato plants, $1.50 per thousand f. o. b. Florida. F. F. Hull, Rock Mill, S. C. 15 Kggs $1?Pure strain Barred Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, Black Minorcas, and Fawn and White Runner Ducks. 12 eggs, $2 -?Prize-winner pure White Runner Ducks. 15 eggs, $1.50?Cook's Buff Orpingtons. Satisfaction guaranteed. Jasper Fletcher, McCall, S. C. I'otato Slips for Sale?Knormous Im proved Golden Beauty and Nonc> Hall; will begin shipping abou' April 1 or 15 to July 1; $1.60 per 1,000 for less than 100,000; $1.5' per 1 ,000 for lots of lCLOOO oi im re: 25 per cent, to accouipan order, balance before the plants an shipped. C. M. McKlnney. Graham Potato Slips For Sale-? Hnormous, improved Golden Beauty and Nancy Hall; will begin shipping abut April 1 or 15 to July 1. One dollar ami fifty cents per thousand all around. Safe delivery guaranteed. Largest plant bed in the South, four acres. You will make no mistake in placing your order here. Sen ! in your orders in for May and June. Millions of plants for sale. Special prices to dealers. C. M. McKlnney, Louise, Fla. Potato Plants?We are booKuig oi dera now for spring delivery ol Nancy Halls and Porto Rico yams Let us have your orders early so wt can arrange to fill promptly. Or dors received In January must enclose 10 per cent, of full amount those In February 20 per cent.; bal ance 10 days before shipping date March orders cash In full. 500,$1; 1,000, $1.75: 5,000 or more, $1.50 Write ua for prices on other trucV plants. Taft Harden Co.. Taft. Fin EGOS A\l) POULTRY. Fifteen Eggs and one yoar'e subscription to leading poultry journal for $2. Ruff Leghorns, Anconas, the great egg machines. W. H. Williams, Durham, N. C. White l^egliorns, BufI Orpingtons, White Plymouth Hocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. Bacon & Haywood, 205 Springfield Ave., Guyton, Ga. Prize Winning White Indian Runner duck eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $f>. Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 22 for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs, $1.50. M. B. Grant. Darlington. S. C. i MISCELLANEOUS. Hartford's Ronpe Cure?-Guaranteed ' 5 0c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Kneads, Fla. Wanted?You to have your mer- , chants get our prices on peas. Palmetto Brokerage Co., Greenville. Phono 822. 1 We pay the postage?Send your col- i lars by mail to the largest laundry 1 in South Carolina. Capital city, t Columbia, S. C. , [>atest Facts from oldest authority, j showing that Christ was not immersed, 16c. Mahaffey Publishers, Batesburg, S. C. "'or Sale?One 2 5-horse power en- ( gine and boiler, shafting and pul- I leys also. Fifty thousand insulator i pins, at Roebuck, S. C., D. W. Swit- t zer. ^ Vo have customers for farm and tim- \ bered lands if you have any farms { or timber for sale write us quick. Bookter-Burkhalter, Room 8, Mimnaugh Building, Columbia, 8. C. c tuhbcr Stamps that print, Aluminum ~ Trade Checks, Badges. Key Chocks ? and Seals. Also magic and trick novelties. Send for lists and catalogues. National Sales Co., Dept. J., Ilox 31, Florence, S. C. farry if you are lonely. The Reliable __ Confidential Successful Club has large number of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. roadqimrtors for Gasoline System IiightB, Mantles and all othcip ?nn. piles, also Self-Heating Sad-iron and Ascetylene Rumors. Quality, high?prices, low. M. L. Pomnier, 642 King St., Charleston, S. C. *Agents wanted. weet Potato Plants?Nancy Hall and Oolden Beauty. We will deltv- ^ er from March 15 until June l! ' Book your orders now. Price $2 J1 per thousand delivered express pre- 1 paid. Satisfaction guaranteed. En- U terprise Plant Co., Meggetts, S. C. nl MOORE GIVES HIS SIDE ft OLA 1MB THAT TIIK OLD CJAXG IB \ AFTKK HIS HIDE ?t That Attempted to Disgrraco and Ho- \ move Dr. Harvey \V. Wiley From His Office. Prof. Moore issued, a statement Wednesday night declaring that the same influences that attempted to ^ "disgrace and remove Dr. Harvey W. Wiley were responsible" for his removal and branding as "infamously false" any intimation tliht he had coerced employees of the weather bureau in supporting him for the secretaryship, or that public money had been expended in his candidacy. His statement follows: "I am in receipt of a letter from the President saying that an investigation of my conduct of the business of the weather bureau discloses such irregularities on my part that the interests of the public service demand my immediate removal. "In reply. I will say that it is the same old influences that attempted to disgrace and remove Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, without letting him see the charges against him or confront hie accusers that is now driving me from the public service. "As an aspirant for the secretaryship of agriculture 1 announced that I would, if appointed, revoke the benzoate of soda decision, abolish the Kemsen board or any other extra judicial body in the department that I thought had been designed for the purpose of minimizing the effectiveness of the pure food and meat inspection laws rather than aiding in their efficient enforcement, and I would restrain the activities of the solicitor's oflico to reasonable prerogatives and reorganize the department. "1 was not selected, and. of course. nave no complaint 011 that ground Hut Secretary Houston, almost immediately upon entering the ofhoe, demanded that I forward to the President my resignation without ever having set foot in the office of the weather bureau, without honoring my request to see such charges as might have been filed against me or ^ permit me to face my accusers or to be present in person or by proxy and examine the witnesses whom he summoned against me. Literally, third ^ degree methods were applied to my friends in the weather bureau under such penalties that they did not daro to speak to me and then a report made to the President that had for its object the driving nie into disgrace from a service where I had hud an honorable career for over a third of a century. "I do not believe that me great commercial, agricultural, marine, educational and labor organizations that have known me for nearly twenty years as the chief of the weather bureau and who largely endorsed mo for a Cabinet place, will be satisfied that I have done anything dishonorable until the light of publicity is met and Secretary Houston's RussianSiberian methods given way to American fair play. "I brand as infamously false the intimation that any man in the weather bureau has been coerced into supporting me for the Secretaryship, any man promoted for serving me or a dollar of public money expended in my candidacy. I worked for the place and spent my own money, and so did many of my friends. Is this a crime under the new dispensation of things? "I shall gladly welcome any investigation to which the press is admitted; and why limit the inquiry into the weather bureau? It has always iiad a clean bill of health from every nvestigating committee that has looked into its affairs, which is something which cannot he said of several bureaus in the department to tvhlch Secretary Houston's methods lave not applied." Serves Secretary Ilryan. It will be of Interest to South Car>liniaiiB to know that Mr. Bryan's >rivate stenographer at the departnent of State is John H. Prince, of he Spartanburg neighborhood, who vas at one time stenographer to Govtrnor John Gary Evans. Mr. Prince ias recently secured a promotion in he Government service because of efficiency, and the advance has hrown him into very distinguished ompany. ? *arcel Post Egg Shipping BoxesAdopted by U. S. Government. Can use repeatedly. Boxes holding one dozen, 5c each; 2 dozen, 8c; 3 dozen, 10c; 4 dozen, 12 l-2c, and 5 dozen, 15c. Orders filled promptly. Theodore Kohn, Orangeburg, S. C. THEBAILEY-LEBbY Cu 1 RUBBER HOOPING. CHARLESTON, S. O. 1 Drowned in Escaping. At South Dayton, O., Chas. 8. Por>r, his wife and six children were 4 rowned while attempting to escape '^L ora their wrecked home. The wagon wS k which they were being conveyed d| > a place of safety overturned and I 11 lost thslr Uvea.