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MUST DELIVER IT * BOl'ZE MAY BE SHIPPED FROM OTHER STATES ? INTO SOUTH CAROLINA No Statute Against Importation of Whiskey for Personal I'se, Says South Carolina Supreme t'ourt, llut Webh Act (Jives State llight to Pass Such Law, Opinion Adds. There is no statute by the State prohibiting the importation of liquor from another State for personal use, and tho Webb Act gives the State the right to enact such a statute if it so desires, Is the opinion of the South Carolina Supreme Court, in deciding a case testing the constitutionality of the Webb Act, which was passed by Congress withdrawing the protection of the interstate commerce from whiskey shipments from one State to another. The opinion holds that the old Dispensary Act, forbidding the ordering of liquor for personal use from other states, having been declared unconstitutional before the passage of the Webb Act. could not he vitalized by the passage of the Webb Act. "It is not the intention of the Webb Act to interfere with the policy of the State in regard to the importation of liquor, but merely to provide that the enforcement of a State statute would not be interfered with, or hampered by the interstate comim ree laws," says the decision. "In other words, the Act in this respect is passive,'' continues the decision, "while it is encumbent on the states to enact legislation of an active nature, if they are desirous of prohibiting the importation of liquors for personal use or other purposes. Hut even if Congress had undertaken to give validity to an unconstitutional state statute it would have been 1 beyond its powers. "While the Legislature cannot pass an Act, validating the provision of the dispensary statute which we liavo declared to he unconstitutional, so as to give it a retroactive effect, it, nevertheless, has the power to adopt a statute with similar provisions, having a prospective effect, prohibiting aivobolic liquors from being imported into this State. Such a statute would not contravene any provision of the United States Constitution. "As wo have already said, the recent Act of Congress divests intoxi-l eating liquors of their interstate commerce character, and invests the respective States with power, either to prohibit the importation absolutely or allow it only for sale and use through a dispensary. The classification of the counties so as to allow the sale of liquor in some of them, while it is not prohibited in others, would not be violative of Section 1, of the 14th amendment to the Consti -tution of the United States, which provides that no State shall deny to any person within its jurisdiction the full protection of the laws." The case arose in Richland County through W. W. Atkinson bringing suit to secure an injunction against the Southern Express Company from enforcing its order refusing to deliver shipments of whiskey in South Carolina for personal use. The injunction is granted by tbe Court, the opinion being written by Chief Justice Gary and concurred in bv Asso ciate Justices Woods, ITydrlck and Watte. Associate Justice Fraser says: "I concede that the al>ove statement, so strongly made, is correct, but I dissent from the judgment. The regulation complained of in the petition refers exclusively to interstate commerce, and I think this Court has no jurisdiction to interfere." A test case was brought under the same conditions in Kershaw County, and the Court grants the injunction in this case on the same grounds as in that from Richland. MEXICAN TliOOlVS ItOt TED. ? State Troops Kc|>orted to lluvo Made Haul. The Federal forces have been routed and all are fleeing toward the gulf, according to flov. Pesqueira of Sonora, Mexico, who arrived Wednesday at Hermozillo from the front above (Juayamas. He said State troops had captured rifles and ammunition. Another report from the front says that seven cannon and seven machine kuiih aiHo nave Deen captured. Estimates of the killed remain at about GOO, with 300 taken prisoners. Confusion is so great throughout the State, especially at Ortiz, to which point the telegraph is operating, that only meagre details of the happenings about Guayamas can be obtained. A strong detachment of federals under Col. Barron is reported cut off from retreat and besieged in the hills by the insurgents under Col. Hill. Barron was wounded. Hon. Richard I Manning is confident of being elected Governor next year. None could fill the place any better than he could. STYLES FOR WOMEN C COM>KMNKI> HY Till-: KPISCOPAL. CIjKKCiYMKX. p Certain Popular Dances, Says (lie Clergymen, Also Teml to Corrupt the Young People. The News and Courier says much comment, especially among women, lias followed the Diocessan Council's m i urn in resolutions inai condemn the prevailing styles in dress and in dancing a* tending "to break down chastity and purity". The Kpiscopal clergymen are directed by th?' resolutoins to preach on the subject before the session of the 124th Council. The deputies to the Triennial (lenoral Convention in New York ^ are required to ask that body to take a suitable action expt easing its opposi- c tlon to modes that are not considered 1 modest. The resolutions were pre- p sented by the Rev. Walter Mitchell, rector of the Porter Military Acad- a einv. Their text follows: "Whereas, the prevailing style of dress and some of the recent ways of ' ^ dancing tend to break down chastity ri and purity; therefore be it "Resolved, bv the Council of the ' Diocese of South Carolina, That it is P' the sense of this Council that our a church people generally, but parents ? and the clergy in particular, ought to K do all in their power to improve these ^ conditions. "And be it further Resolved, That the clergy be requested to preach against them once before the meet- ? ing of the next Council. P "And as these things are not pcculiar to our own State, but are making a their influence felt over all the na- 11 I ion : t hernfnrn ho it "Resolved, That the Bishop and delegates to the (loneral Convention P he requested to secure suitable ac- d tion, if possible, by that body." !l According to a woman of fashion, many Charleston women personally 11 endorse the spirit in which the Conn- :i cil has made its protest, but she said " that women were all but powerless f since the decrees of fashion are blindly followed. "The narrow-bottomed b skirt, the slinky petticoat," she con- if tinned, "is an abomination. Women ? are not graceful in their movements it when they wear some of the current n styles. My friends and 1 have often c discussed the matter, but we cannot ti stick to the old ways unless we vol- u unteer to retire. As a matter of fact, 1 the women of Charleston and other V South Carolina towns have not adopt- h ed the extremes. Some of those who c I want to appear up-to-the-minute in (' affairs of dress have displayed ad- v vance costumes, but, taken enmasse, the women of this section have not a gone the length of their sisters of the o Eastern and Western parts of the t country. "As everybody knows, designers ? in Paris and Vienna dictate the i styles. The 'Balkan war furnished v them with an excuse for introducing v costumes that smack of the Near- a East. These are not pretty. They s are all but shapeless. But, to my h mind, tlio Ralkan vogue is preferable a to that which makes general the ( wearing of hobbles and tubes and v other such costumes in which a wo- j man is not really comfortable. Many ^ women would like to get away from t the styles the Episcopal clergy are condemning, but they can't. i "As to the dances, it is unfortu- t nately true that the craze for dances c that owe their origin to resorts of a f more or less questionable nature has li spread in this section. The wretched 1 turkey trot in all its variations has d invaded Charleston and many nice d girls profess to see no harm in the li dances. Society leaders have in va- s rious places tried to place the ban on li dances of this sort, but they have h been unable to gain headway. It is a > tendency of the times and a slender a body of women can't overcome the a ways of a great majority." The resolutions are of a kind with (' those passed by other religious organizations, the members of which believe that present day styles and r| present day dances are corrupting manners, the danger spreading. Rut 1 resolutions, addresses and editorial h articles have not had appreciable effect 011 the women who follow the ? fashions. S d I'KOI'IiK OP THIS SOUTH. f , " c Ih-yau Says Pleasant Things About ^ Them at Itanquet. t "There is no place where the ideals d of the people are so firmly fixed and I SO hiclllu onf CO nm i -> 1 ~ 11? .......j ?v>v c?o ai c HIW lU?aiB U1 II1C fl people of the South", declared the f, Secretary of State, VVm. Jennings Bryan in an address Saturday night 1 before the Southern Society of Wash- e ington. His si)eech throughout was s> eulogistic of the South and laudatory C of the men of that section who have a taken part in the formation and the g affairs of the nation. Ho pointed to h their ideals as an illustration of those w whoso "convictions are such that they n don't stop to count how many stand with them. "I hope the day will never come, ' he added with emphasis, "when a dollar hill will look so V largo that a man's good virtues are k small in comparison." ft r< The sweet-girl-graduates will soon si be with us. The boys are ready to al welcome them. d Ml FRLt SUGAR i KOTECTION DEMOCRATS ASSAIL SCHEDULE ?. AhI S SHUT AT WILSON letter Characterizing Advocates of No Duty as "Accursed, I'npardonnlilc A|K?stles <?I' Democratic Faith" I and Sugar Schedule as "liuoiucrang' to Knock Out DenuK'ratic I'arty". Using an "original Wilson man" rotn Michigan, with a fluent pen, for 11 oracle, the anti-tree sugar Demorats, led by Senator Ransdell, of .ouisiana, assailed the Underwood agar schedule in the Senate Wednosav, despite strenuous efforts of Sentor Simmons and other Democrats 3 stop the flow of the attack. Republicans enjoyed the efforts of 10 Democratic leaders to prevent the ending of a long letter submitted by enator Itansdell, written by Lewis . Rowley, of Lansing, in which free agar advocates were characterized s "accursed, unpardonable apostles f Democratic faith" and the free agar schedule as "a boomerang to nock out the Democratic party". With Republican votes Senator lansdell was aided in getting the )ng epistle before the Senate as part f an argument against the proposed ugar tariff. It precipitated lively iscussion between the Louisianian 11(1 Snti'ilnrc I'M""" . r?s ? .... ... i iii*/1 .7 .1 ciiuv .iicjui's, minions and other Democratic loaders. In his plea from Michigan Presient Wilson's attitude on sugar, the arty platform pledge's and the Presl< nt's campaign pledges not to hurt nv legitimate industry were recalled, le writer declaring "there is allost imminent danger that in his lniost hilarious enthusiasm for the emocratic ideals the President will ry to do too much'." The Democrats also were forced to ear from this same tronchent Mich?an protestant that "the statesman r party leader, who, in formulating nportant legislative measures, does ot take into consideration the phyhological effect as well as the ultilato practical results of these nieasres, is a raw hand at the business." le said he did not believe President Wilson was "that kind of immature ?ader". "I refuse to believe," he ontinued, "that the President will ommit the party to radical courses ihich?however sound theoretically are calculated to alarm and aliento large numbers of voters in many f t lie most populous agricultural secions of the country." Republicans applauded when tlie lenate clerk read "is free trade, too, ascribed as the party gonfalon, chieh erstwhile bore the immortal watchword of free silver?" And gain, when the admonition was ounded that the "Democratic party ind better effect changes moderately nd safely rather than hastily and at he dictates of a caucus, too many of chose members leave their private udgments and consciences where the lussulman leaves his shoes- -outside he door." Senator Penrose later injected levty into the proceedings when Senaor Simmons, on behalf of tha finance ommitt.ee, tried to get an agreement or a vote on the question of public earings on the Underwood bill. The Vnnsylvania Senator emphatically en ied that U<~> lmd o,,,, r ..... V ..u 1I1IV1 llllj 1UCU U1 I'OIl* ucting a filibuster on the issue. lie ad asked for public hearings, he aid, because he conscientiously beieved that they should be held and e felt sure that the Senator from forth Carolina had not entertained ny idea that he ever had captained ny "legislative piratical craft". While Senator Simmons was eneavoring to fix a time for a vote the ime for the consideration of tlie mater expired and it went over until Miursday, when the Democrats eneavored to bring tlie reference of ho bill and the Republican public earing amendment to a vote. Discussing the attitude of the Demcratlc party toward the sugar tariff, enator James asked Senator Ransell if he did not think that the platorm of the party gave fair warning o Louisiana. Mr. Ransdell emphatially replied, "no." The Kentucky enator then proceeded to read from he platform endorsing what the pary did last year and demanding relictions to reduce the cost of living, n tliis connection the Louisiana Sentor referred to a statement in the towley letter, which said: "Neither in his campaign for the Inmncpnll/i ' ? nuiiiiiiciiiuii iiur jor ills lection did Mr. Wilson pledge hinielf to give the country free sugar. >n the contrary, whenever he was sked about his position on the suar tariff, he distinctly declared that e was against any tariff changes that fould injure or destroy any legltilate industry." Fought Fatal Pistol Duel. In a pistol duel at Girard, Ala., /ednesday night, H. C. Elliott was illed and W. B. Perry was probably itally wounded, according to advicee sceived. Perry and Mary Lou Web.er, a young white woman, who Is lleged to have been the cause of tie uel, both are under arrest. DISCHARGES CONSTABLES IlIiHASH ASKS WHISK IS Y OFFI('Kits TO RESIGN , Says Action of Supreme Court oil Webb Hill .Makes Discharge of Constables Necessary. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says as a re suit of the decision of the Supreme Court on the Webb law, announced yesterday afternoon, Governor Blouse said this afternoon there was no use for him to continue to keep State constables in operation and he addressed a letter to his constables, telling them that he would have no use for their services after the 1st of June. There is no statute by the State prohibiting the importation of liquor from another State for personal use, j and the Webb Act gives the State the right to enact such a statute if it so desires is the opinion of the South Carolina Supreme court. When asked about the decision of the Supreme Court iti the Webb case, and its effect upon his policy, the Governor said: "1 have had more trouble and worry in the last two or three months with complaints as to blind tigers than one pooi* fellow can stand. I have had my constabulary force full, my detectives at work, and recently counties have been calling on me to send them special men, and I have been tightening the screws. I had presumed that the Attorney General's views would he sustained, or, if not, that the members of the Court, who I presume are prohibitionists?certainly politically, if not otherwise the majority of them would help me out in this light, by holding the decision. even as it was rendered, until I could get the situation somewhat in hand; "But, lo and behold, they shoot the decision hack with lightning-like rapidity and say to the blind tigers, 'on with the dance, boys, the music will be furnished.' "Now, it is up to the people to I>nrun -ill#! ol.non .?? e ..... ...... me, hm iiuu-tMl lUrt'Cnient of lho law, whon everybody knows 1 am helpless and no power on earth can enforce the dispensary law' in this State, and keep down the blind tigers so long as white men furnish the liquor and have free negroes to sell it for them, and then go around to lawyers' odices and hire lawyers to defend these negroes and at the same time whisper to the lawyers^ 'don't let me he known in connection with the matter.' I "1 am not criticizing the Court. I accept their decision as the law, but as they have delayed in so many other matters, I wish they had delayed just a little while in this. 4'1 see nothing for me to do now but to withdraw my constabulary from Charleston and Columbia and all over the State. There is no use for people who pay taxes to pay constables and detectives under any such conditions as we are living under right now, and it certainly is disheartening to a man who has done all he could to try to enforce the law. And, I hope the people will understand that when the blind tigers'are roaming over their communities that it is not the fault of the Governor of South Carolina. If parties will write me I will take the matter up and do the best I can, and if they will go to a magistrate and make aflidavits to to the illicit sale of liquor 1 will see that the magistrates do their full duty, hut under the law of personal use I do not see how we can seize any shipments. THIRD TO ( I T WAY OCT. Sweetheart Hands a Convicted HtirKlar a Knife. When Harry Evans had been convicted of burglary in the Chicago municipal court Wednesday, Harnett Fairfield, a cabaret singer, his sweetheart, passed him her handkerchief. Evans extracted an open knife from the handkerchief and started to carve his way to freedom. Detective Donchulte was severely cut in the neck and Deputy Hohaber was stabbed in the breast before Evans was overpowered. The girl was arrested. Only the presence in the court room of an unusually large number of the bailiffs and detectives prevented a double murder and the release of Evans and Albert Jensen, ' who had been tried with Evans for burglary, according to Municipal Judge Cooper. A number of friends of the two men were in the court room, and it is believed that they had planned to go to the prisoners' aid, but were frightened by the number of men who met the attack of Evans and Jensen. Child and Old Woman Hurned XT TT . nancy nan, colored, and her little granddaughter, aged 7, were burned to a crisp at 3 o'clock Thursday morn ing in a fire which destroyed the old Sandifer house at Rrown's Bridge, eight and one-half miles from Richburg. The fire is supposed to have caught from an old stove and and the | flames spread rapidly. , ( Somebody nominates Teddy for f King of Albania. Hope he will tako 1 It. Would suit him fine. i WANT HOUSE BILL WILSON COMES OUT FOR FREE SUGAR AND WOOL WANTS NO COMPROMISE IlfKanls It as the Duty of the Demo. J ii- r' v rum .MHjuni} 111 I lie Ml'liaie lO S-*ti 1!i 11 tlio Platform Pledge l?y Kn< acting tin' House Tariff Hill Into La w. President Wilson came out strongly Thursday as the champion of froo wool and free sugar in three years as provided for in the tariff bill recently parsed by the House. Ho announced j emphatically that ho was not considering compromises of any sort; that hi' stood squarely behind the measure as it passed the House and that he regarded it as the duty of the Democratic majority in the Senate to fulfill its platform pledge by enacting the House bill into law. "1 am not the kind," said the President, "that could ask compromises when I once take my position. I have taken my stand with the House leaders for the present bill. Enough sai !. 1 am not loking for or accepting compromises." The President's utterance was made a half a hundred newspaper correspondents who gathered as usual at the White House for the semi-weekly conference. Practically at the same time the Senate was engaged in protracted debate at the end of which an agreement was reached to vote on the question of public hearings on the tariff hill. While the President smilingly let it be known that lie was expressing no opinion whatsoever on the proposal for hearings and that this was a subject for the Senate to dispose of. his statement of unqualified support for the House bill was taken generally to mean that Mr. Wilson considered arguments from special interest on the tariff schedules to have been closed when the measure passed the House, lie is understood to regard the effort to obtain hearings as a filibustering device. The correspondents wore about to l< ave the office when the President asked if it were true that reports were being circulated of compromise on the wool and sugar schedules. All day there had been rumors that concessions of some kind would be made on the principal schedules in order to satisfy opposition in the Senate. The President had been told by friends that in some sources there was an expectation that a duty would be put on raw wool or that the provision for free sugar after three years would be dropped. It was to counteract these statements that he. took occasion to make his position clear. Of course, it is expected at the White House that ther ewill he minor changes in the bill made by the finance committee, certain equalizations and corrections which have been approved by House leaders since the hill left their hands, but in the principal schedules, such as wool and sugar, the President is determined that there shall he no change if he can prevent. There were even intimations that he might veto a bill that came from the Senate with amendments on wool or sugar. AUSTIN 1IAS BUKX CAl*?HT. Said to Have Been Taken in Custody Way Out in Ohio. W. C. Cathcart, chief of police of Columbia, received a letter last week, signed W. Jackson, Toledo, Ohio, to the effect that a man, who says his name is "Dick" Austin, is in that city, and that the writer hoHovna hn is the negro wanted for the attempted criminal assault on a white woman at T,uray, and the resultant killing of three white men and the wounding of two others week before last. The letter was referred to Sheriff J. B>. Morris, of Barnwell county. Although it is hardly probable that this is the Hampton desperado, Sheric Morris wired Jackson to hold the suspect, and that a full description of Richard Henry Austin would follow by mail. Accident to Taxlcab. One person was fatally Injured, three received Injuries which may re- * jult In death and two were hurt near Columbue, Ohio, Wednesday, when i taxi cab crashed through a fence and tiurled them down a 15-foot embankment at a sharp turn. CLASSIFIED COLUMN AND FARMERS EXCHANGE PLANTS. "Carolina Hico MohI"?'l'he fine stock J food. West Point Mill Co., Charleston, S. (J. . For Sale?Lookout Mountain Seed Irish Potatoes, $2 per bushel. J. R. Thackston, K. I, Powder Springs, Cla. Pastern Yam Potato Plants, $1.50 per M; special price to dealers. Can fill your orders promptly after May 10. W. J. Deal, Maiden, N. C. 1 Sweet Potato Plants?Karly Triumphs, Nancy Hall, Porto Rico, Norton, and Providence, $1.75 per 1 ,000. H. H. Thomas, ICarleton, Fla. hir Salt'?Crystal White Indian Runner duck eggs: stocks direct from Fischel and Patton; the all white egg strain, $2 for 12. C). B. lfartzog, Greenville, S. C. Itatt's Four Fared Prolific Seed Corn ? peck $1, hushel $2. Indian Runner Ruck Eggs $1 per setting. O. P. Stallings, Enfield, N. C Peas?Clean mixed peas In good sacks. Rest, for hay. Your last chance to buy at $1.00 per bu. f. o. b. Address 1). W. Watkins, Granite Hill, Ga., or T. 10. Watkins, Helton, S. C. J For Sale?Nancy Hall and Hooly I Yam Sweet Potato Slips. $1.50 per thousand. Missionary and Ecelsior Strawberry Plants $2 per thousand. Write or wire. Southern Plant Company., W. J. Hawkins, Mgr., Plant City, Fla. Nancy Hail Potato Plants. Buy direct from grower and get fresh plants. Orders filled in any (inanity. $175 per 1.000 10,000 or more. $1.50 per 1,000. A. G. Lan| caster, Pine Castle, Fla. Seeet IV.ato Plants, Nancy Hall and Triumph, r 1 7 5 p^r 1,000. I can till your orders in any (inanity. Give me your orders for prompt delivery and choice plants grown under Irrigation. G. 1). Moore, Hawthorn, Fla. POl'LTRY ANI) FGGS. Singh? Comb Rhode Island Itcds, exclusively. eggs $2 for 15, $2 for 20, $S for 100. Mrs. lv. !!. Kill, Wash- . ingtou, Ga. IOO W hite Indian Runners?To make room for 2,000 young stock, will sell for $10 a trio for next thirty days. Alabama Leghorn Farms Co., Mulga, Ala. White Indian Runner Duck Eggs from prize winning CarlisleFishel-Patton strains, $1.50 dozen; from Imported Penciled, $1 dozen. W. (). Brownfleld, Opelika, Ala. Sweet Potato Plants, express prepaid to South Carolina, 1,000 to 3,000 at $1.7a per 1,000, 4,000 to 10,000, $1.05; Nancy Hall, Triumphs, Porto Rico yams. C. F. Whitcomb, Umatilla, Fla. White Leghorns, Buff Orpingtons, White Plymouth Rocks. Vigorous, hardy stock. Eggs for hatching and baby chicks. Mating List Free. Bacon & Haywood, 205 Springfield Ave., Guyton, Ga. special Reduction on Barred Rocks, TTnmburgs, and Runner ducks. Eggs at half price as this ad will not appear again. Write for circular. Valley Head Poultry Farm, Big Rock, Tenn., Route 2 II. "Special Egg Sale" from lirst prize Winners White Orpingtons Imported direct from England 1.0 0 for 15. Black Orpingtons 1.00 for l".. White Wyandots 1.00 15. J. P. Keilett, Fountain Inn, S. C. Prize Winning White Indian Runner duck eggs. 11 for S3: 9 9 T , V". Bronze turkey eggs, 11 for $3; 2 2 for $5. 5 Toulouse goose eggs, $2.50. White Orpington eggs, 1.50 for 15 and up. Fawn and White Indian Runner duck eggs. $l..?0. \l. B. Grant, Darlington, S. C. MISCELLANEOUS. Hart ford's Uoupe Cure?Guaranteed 50c delivered. Poultry Remedy Co., Eneads, Fla. Ask for Our Specials in Dinner Sets? Big money saved by our "factory to buyer" plan. Carolina Novelty Co., Box 47 1, Raleigh, N. C. Broken Auto?Crank cases, cylinders, transmission cases, or anything made of metal welded back as good as new. Prices reasonable. The Bridgers Co., Florence, S. C. Personal?Ladies, when delayed or irregular use Triumph Pills; always dependable. "Relief" and particulars free. Write National Medical Institute, Dept. 5., Milwaukee, Wis. Piles can be relieved at once?Send ^ 15c for liberal sample, ''Lino Pile Remedy," and be convinced. Largo size, 50c, G for $2.50. H. M. Knight and Co., Manufacturing Pharmacists, Lancaster, Penn. Marry if you are lonely. The Reliable Confidential Successful Club has large numoer of wealthy eligible members, both sexes wishing early f marriage. Descriptions free. Mrs. Wrubel, Box 26, Oakland, Cal. Oer Married ? Matrimonial paper containing advertisements marrlageble people from all sections; y rich, poor, young, old Protestants, Catholics, mailed sealed free. The "Correspondent," Toledo, Ohio.