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i i?flF UTS HONEA PATH ID TORNADO DOES DAMAGE IN UP STATE TOWN UT NO LIVES ARE LOST Graphic Description of the Tornado and the Havoc it Wrought is Given by Kye Witnesses?Houses I mooted, Church Steeple Blown Down, Automobiles ()verturned. A tornado of gigantic proportions id revolving at a territlc rate of ?.~,i r............l ..l? ...l.. ecu, uiu u<t\niiii^ lumiuu oiuni}, vooped down on the town of Honoa itli, Anderson county, about 1:30 clock Tuesday afternoon, doing nsiderable property damage. Luckt there were no fatalities so far as n bo learned, lionea Path is cometely cut oil from wire communitions. Passengers arriving on the interban from Greenwood at 2:30 clock, who watched the tornado as advanced on lionea Path from a ?int two miles south of the town, y that the tornado, in its usual fun>1 shape, came from the direction st south of the city of Anderson, id that it touched the ground for e first time in the business district lionea Path, smashing plate glass onts in the stores and doing other mage. One side of the brick store room cupied by the Latimer Clothing impany was blown out. The steeple id roof of the Haptist Church was .rtially demolished. The seed and ithouses of the oil mill were turnover, as were the smoke stacks of e mills. Many small houses in the wn were knocked down. Pricks id sticks were flying in the air and e man, a lineman of the interurhan, is hit in the head, causing considable pain. One or two automobiles id other vehicles were overturned, rowing the occupants out and causg some injuries. Terra cotta roofing of the interur.11 passenger station was badly dam:ed, while the roof on one side of e frame warehouse of this road was actically destroyed. This damage emed to have been wrought as an terthought by the tornado, as after had passed over this building, a ist of wind forming a suction of eat strength reached hack and literly sucked a hole, at least twenty et square in the roof. It looked as a projectile had been fired through e room from the inside. Several freaks are reported. A >rse was blown against a box car on e interurban yards and was instantkilled. A box car left on a side ack was picked up by the wind and irled over the derail on the main le. Then it was forced back at a rrific rate of speed on to another le track, jumping another derail, thing which is considered practicalimpossible. So far as can be learned, with all res down, the tornado did no dame before reaching llonea Path. The ;iount of damage wrought beyond >nea Path and on this side of the luda River is not known. Rain fell torrents during the visit of and ter the tornado had passed over >nea Path. Witnesses on the interurban car, llch was stopped when the tornado ok off the electric power, say that ey could see the tornado approaclig for several miles; that it extendfrom the ground in Honea Path ty up into the heavens, until enely out of sight. The tornado, as it came in contact th other clouds, would burst thorn U) pieces, hurling pieces of the >uds for several hundred yards. iu twi iiciiiu war> mudl DJiUUliU'U 151T d yet very uncanny. FIND IirSIlAND'S HODY. + us Caught in Sand Slide and Smothered to Death. Frank Martin, a miner, was killed a landslide while working- on his operty along the Feather river, nr Oroville, Cal. lie was found enaibed in the dirt by his wife, who mt to hunt for him when he did t return to his home at the usual ne. Martin owned some mining claims tich he had been working himself, e other night he failed to put in appearance at the usual hour, and t wife, becoming anxious, went out search for him. She saw the caveand becoming alarmed hastened to s claim. She made her ghastly discovery d found her husband crushed and ad, buried in the earth and rock it had fallen on him. She returnto her cabin for help and with the 1 of her children dug the body from untimely grave. Killed in a Wreck. Ten Italian laborers were killed d three in lured at Don fJniiv w (.?? Tuesday, when a Baltimore & <lo passenger train plowed through Mr gang. The men, employed on i.lroad improvement work, running Vm a blast, dodged a westbound Mght and ran upon the second track front of the eaatbound passenger. L THAT CAMPAIGN FUND SKNATOK WII-MAMS I'Oltt'KS A COXFKSHIOX * From Darwin I*. Kingsloy, PiCHidoiit . of the Now York Life Insurance I Company. Darwin l\ Kingsley, president of the Now York Life Insurance Company. appeared Monday before the Senate iinance sub-committee working on the income tax section of the i'nderwood tariff Dill to discuss provisions relating to insurance companies. Mr. Kingsley had a spirited exchange wit It Senator Williams over campaign contributions disclosed in the Hughes investigation several years ago. "WMtnn vAitt* .,nLl ? - A >1 II V II j u U I Will JK1IIJ J > <lin M ) '7|* 000 to a campaign fund," asked Senator Williams, "none of that money ever was participated in by the policy holders, was it?" "Xo, it was not," said Mr. Kingsley. "Then that proved that your company's assertion that policy holders participated in all the earnings of the company was false, didn't it?" "It proved," Mr. Kingsley returned, "that the judgment of the company's officers who paid this campaign contribution thinking it was necessary to protect the assets of the company, was bad." "It proved more than that," .asserted Senator Williams. "It was absolute dishonesty. 1 was a policy holder and a Democrat, and you took part of my money and gave it away to protect me against my own party. Hut has all that sort of thing been done away with in the insurance business?" "Absolutely," replied President Kingsley. lie explained laws which prohibit it. President Kingsley submitted a dotailed statement of his company's business and resources to show that it conducted business actually on a mutual basis. The total assets of the company last year were $71 9,000,0 0 0, and he declared not a dollar was kept back from the fund in which policy holders participated. AllOl T HANDLING COTTON. Important Bulletin Issued by The Bureau of Railway Economics. The bureau of railway economics has issued a bulletin relating to the handling of cotton and in it the statement corroctly made that cotton has been the most slovenly handled of all of the agricultural products of the United States. The farmers often leave it exposed to be damaged by rain and infiltrated by mud. Even when offered for shipment it is sometimes in this condition. All too frequently it is loosely baled and inadequately marked. It lias been said that upon receipt at foreign ports hales of cotton look more like rag bags. For many years the railways have sought to have the cotton shippers exercise greater care, but the railways in this country have no such autocratic power as those of Germany, where no shipment is accepted unless it is packed and marked in accordance with rigid specifications. Government experts have estimated that of the cotton crop of the United States there is between the gin and the spinner a wastage and damage amounting to $50,000,000 per annum. The Greenville Piedijiont says the Japanese several years ago ruled that they would not accept cotton that was not clean, securely packed and plainly marked. They get what they want. The possibility of losing the fliutnm r\f o ? \/i ?v uaiiuii inaivt'o <i iniieronce. The trans-Atlantic linos who In recont yoars havo been mulcted in heavy damages because of the poor condition in which cotton has been delivered to foreign countries have now taken action that will re-enforce the efforts of the railways. From September 1, 1912, to March 2 1, 1913, on the average one hnle of cotton out of every Hix offered at the South Atlantic and Gulf ports was condemned; one bale out of every ton was improperly marked, Tleginning July 1, 1913, their requirements will be rigid; higher charges will bo exacted for cotton loosely baled. The information is given in the bulletin referred to above that the railways in the cotton growing regions are therefore redoubling their efforts with cotton compressors, cotton ginners, farmers and shippers. When those concerned in cotton growing and shipping find that shiftlcssness reacts upon their pocketbooks it is probable that a better order of things will come about. Not only the money hut the good will of the foreign consumer is worth while, especially in these times when he is endeavoring to stimulate the growth nf I ? * ' ui vuuuii in inner uuuiiines man me United States. ? Killed at Target Pit. At Raleigh, N. C., while looking from behind the wall surrounding the target pit at the close of the Third regiment shoot Monday afternoon, Lewis White, a well known Raleigh boy, was shot through the head by a stray bullet and instantly killed. ( TARIFF IN StNATE + METHODS OF THE RLPUBLICIANS ARE SHOWN IP. SMOOT IS THE KINO BEE The Tariff Hein^ !ievise<l in tlie In(erest of the l'cople Much to the ( hujrrin of tlie Republican Senaators, Who Are the Active Agents Ml' I I><> TniiiU Iii 0110 of liia weekly Washington letters Savoyard says: The Hon. Penrose, a senator in congress from the State of Pennsylvania and a disciple of the political school of the lato Boss Quay, lias worked himself into a state of niiiul over the tariff question. iMr. Penrose is the leader of his party in the United States senate, head of the Republican contingent of the finance committee, thus succeeding William Pitt Fessenden, John Sherman, Justin S. Morrill and Nelson W. Aldrieh in that station. Pennsylvania, the plum orchard, is a stall-fed State, living olT provender supplied by nonprotected communities, and as a mendicant its hat is about as full as that of New England. It is the home of the steel trust, of the coal trust, of the tin trust, of the carpet trust, and numerous other insatiate tariff beggars. 1 nipregnably intrenched in her monopoly of the American market, Pennsylvania enjoys free trade in labor, and here are some of the nationalities of the "American labor" she imported and put to work at scant wages in the mines, furnaces and shops of the steel trust -Arabian, Austrian, Bohemian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Dalmatian, Finnish, Japanese, Korean, Massadonian, Magyar, Montenegrin, Polish Roumanian and Russian. The trust imnortod these erentrv li :n abroad, and each one of the , thousands of them got the job of an merican laborer, and here they are ?Penrose, (iallinger, Alden Smith, Hoot, Oliver, Burton, the entire layout of the henchmen of privilege, in the United States senate?^prating about the "dignity of American labor". Mark you, I have no objection to healthy and legitimate immigration. On the contrary, I approve it. Penrose is not pleased with the way the tariff was treated in the house of representatives. Of course he is not; the protected interests did not write it. It was made by the representatives of the American people in the interest of those who pay the taxes, and not for the benefit of those gorged with tariff graft. That is why Mr. Penrose objects to the bill, and he will fight it to the last ditch. That is the only mission he ever had in politics?to tax one citizen for the benefit of another citizen. That is the only mission the Republican party has had in politics the past third of a century, and that is what killed it. The Underwood bill was made in the open and when it becomes a law it will beefit fifty where it will injure one. It will hurt nobody, but somebody who ought to be hurt. For example, those manufacturers who are employing antiquated machinery and poorly equipped plants will have to go out of business or improve their facilities. It is tho worst sort of husbandry to use a machine that, with the same labor, will produce only onethird what a later and up-to-date machine will turn ftiit ? .. ... w?* 11 win, wi mi; DiiliiC illtide. It is a hardship on the entire community and a piece of stupidity on the part of tlie concern that practices it. That is one of tho offices of protection?to make an old and wornout and ill equipped manufacturing plant profitable. It is the very meaning of the word "protection". It implies inferiority. It. was developed before tho Stanley committee that many of the plants of the steel trusts are out of date, fit only for old junk, incapable of competing with the latest and most improved machinery, hut the steel trust, having a monopoly of the American market by virtue of the tariff, continues to operate those antiquated plants and American consumers of its wares pay the outrageously enhanced cost of production. The Democratic tariff will force every manufacturer to go out of business or build the best mill and equip it with the most efficient machinery than can he had. That is for the common weal. It will benefit the manufacturer even more than the purchaser of his wares. It is good husbandry. It avoids watse. It is the soul of economy. Monopoly is not energetic. It requires competition to get the best results of human enj deavor. Doss Penrose?that, is, ho was a boss?is distressed because of the] "Spanish Inquisition" that he imagines the Democratic party has fetched into confess. Dope, dope, dope, That is the way they made the Dingley law and it is the way they made the Payne-Aldrich tariff. Doth those measures were writ by the manufacturers. So much fat was fried out i of them to buy the elections and they were permitted to write so much graft in the tariff bills. It was a bar HOUSE BILL WIL L PASS SENATE MAY AM KM) IT IN SEVERAL SCHEDULES. Hut the House Will Insist on Its Hill iii Conference and Will Win Out in the Kim I. Democratic leaders in the senate now fully expect that the I'nderwood bill will bo amended in important particulars in the Senate if not sooner in the finance committee, or the Democratic caucus. The belief is growing that the bill when it leaves the Senate will carry a duty on sugar of between 70 and SO emits per hundred pounds, and that wool will be taxed 20 per cent, instead of being on the free list as at present. It is further expected that when the tariff bill comes back from the committee free wool and ultimate free sugar will have been restored as in the bill at present. It will then be up to the Senate to engage in a tug of war with the House over the acceptance of the conference report. The Republican leaders in congress have information which leads some of them at least to believe that the shrewder of the Democratic leaders look forward to such a result as the best solution of the troublesome problem presented to them by the sugar and wool schedules in the Sonate. They realize that at least two Democratic senators will vote for an amendment to put a duty on wool when the Republicans offer it in the oenaic, and mat the two from Louisiana will vote for a duty on sugar. Indications are that these four Democratic senators, and probably more, have reached an understanding, or will reach one shortly, by which they will pool issues, and be able by joining with the Republicans to amend the bill in the Senate. The Democratic leaders believe that when the final test comes on accepting or rejecting the tariff bill as a whole, after it has been returned from the conference committee carrying free wool and ultimate sugar the recalcitrant Democrats will yield and accept, the bill practically in the form in which President Wilson has approved it. This course would allow the Dem urram: senators to save their faces with their home folks. Realizing the possibility of such a denouement, the Republican leaders are planning to put the responsibility squarely up to the Democratic senators who profess to bo ardently in favor of a duty on wool or on sugar. gain and sale. The people of the United States were put on the block and knocked down to the highest bidders ?the trusts. There was no concealment about it. It was open transaction. The G. O. P. turned the government over to the people who had repeatedly bought the presidency for the "Party of Great Moral Ideas". Everything is grist that conies into the Republican hopper. Once it stigmatized the Mormon church as the twin relic of barbarism along with African slavery. Now that church is become the very citadel, the last ditch, of the party of Lincoln and Grant, of Aldrich and of Cannon. Reed Smoot, the high priest of the (Mormon church, is the ablest and best trusted champion of the G. O. P. in the United States senate. "When he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still." 011 the Republican side. He is the authority 011 all matters economic. And, by the way, a devilish smart man is the Hon. Smoot. He carted the Mormon church into the camp of the G. O. P. Vermont and Utah, faithful ever. Here is the way Schedule K was made. The wool trust sent its secretary here, a Mr. North. He wrote Schedule K. Aldriph li 1 nionl f /li/l know what it was. Not a single senator or representative of either party knew what it was. Only the wool trust and Mr. North knew anything about it. It became the law, and the wool trust was so delighted with the work of its henchman that U voted Mr. North $f>,000 in excess of ills salary. And that was not all?the wool trust forced a Republican president to make Mr. North director of the census. And do you know, it is worth a heap to the tariff grafters to have the census supervised by one of their henchmen? Fact. Well, this Democratic tariff is not made that way, and that's what's the matter with Penrose. Why fiddle, senator? Rome is not afire. NINETY MILKS OF INSECTS. ? A Mighty Column of (irasshoppers Seen in New Mexico. Travelling northeastward, a column of grasshoppers five miles wide and eighteen miles long is reported in Northeastern New Mexico Monday. Reports that the millions of grassVlOimn.rH spom trv o l .1 nn * I ? ? p?vu> vv ?)> vim cio im;jf travel, ,ind also the appearance of smaller bodies of grasshoppers In sections of West Texas, have caused fear of a general grasshopper pest in the Southwest, especially in Texas, Western Oklahoma and New Mexico. Government, State and railroad experts have combined forces in New Mexico to light the grasshoppers by using poison. FIGHT BILL HARD SWARM OF LOBBIST WORKING LIJE BEAVERS PEOPLE HAVE NO VOICE ? President Wilson Says the Public Should Know of the Schemes of These Lobbyists and That the Cioveminent Should be Relieved of the Intolerable Harden of Lobbyists. President Wilson stirred Congressional circles Monday with an emphatic statement denouncing the "industrious" and "insidious" lobby in " i> aoiiiilf^lUll tl 11III {) 1111g lO (TClltO public sentiment against certain features of the Underwood tariff bill. This was accepted at the Capitol as referring to the unusual efforts being made against free raw wool and free sugar. While the President was declaring it his opinion that the public should be relieved "from the ^intolerable burden", Senators and Representatives were viewing on every hand the evidences of the lobbyists which beset them; and significance was attached to a statement made by Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance committee, which now has the tariff hill in hand, that, in his opinion, the lobbyists were not making any head- j way. Tho President's declaration that the lobbyists were so thick "that one i could not throw a brick without hit- j ting one", revived interest in two bills recently introduced in the j House and Senate to regulate lobby-j ing 011 pending legislation. Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, and Representative C. R. Smith, of New York, have declared their intention to press bills they have introduced which would restrict the work of lobbyists, require their registration, and require that they be licensed to appear before any committee or to j carry 011 a campaign for or against proposed legislation. Heavy penalties would be imposed for violations. Democratic loaders were almost unanimous in support of the President's statement, maintaining that they are well able to handle the important pending tariff legislation, and I that sugar and wool will be thoroughly considered and discussed by tho finance committee and Democratic caucus before it is reported. No change of policy relating to either schedule has yet been determined, , however, it is emphatically declared oy me members of the committee. , The President later issued the following statement: "I thing that the public ought to know the extraordinary exertions be- , ing made by the lobby in Washing- j ton to gain recognition for certain 1 alterations of the tariff bill. Washington has seldom seen so numerous, I so industrious or so insidious a lobby. The newspapers are being filled with paid advertisements calculated to mislead the judgment of public men not only, but also the public opinion of the country itself. There is every evidence that money without limit is being spent to sustain this lobby and to create an appearance of a pressure of public opinion antagonistic to some of the chief items of the tariff bill. "It is of serious interest to the country that tho people at large should have no lobby and be voiceless in the matters while great bodies of astute men seek to create an artificial opinion and to overcome the interest of the public for their private profit. It is thoroughly worth the while of the people of this country to take knowledge of this country to take knowledge of this matter. Only public opinion can check and destroy it. "The Government in all its branches ought to be relieved from this intolerable burden and this constant interruption to the calm progress of debate. I know that in this I am speaking for the members of the two liAiiooa "1 1 J_J ,.v,,.0^o, iyiiu wuuiu rejoice as ranch as T would to lie released from this unbearable situaVm." I The Japs have no idea of having any trouble with the United States because they know they would get a good thrashing. BANK Oi Conwa HAS LARGEST CAPITAL AND SUI1 COUNTY. MORE THAN THE COM! ALL OTHER BANKS IN THE COP CAPITAL ST OCK. . . . SURPLUS LIABILITIES OF STOC SECURITY O F DEPOS1 TAT T) TV uii\la ROBERT B. SCARBOROUGH. M. L. ZUCK, GEORGE J. HOLIDAY. WE OFFER OUR CUSTOMERS AOC COUNTS WILL JUSTIFY, AND WE Robert 1L Scarborough, D, President. WE CONTINUE TO PAY 5 PEK CE THE HORRY HERALD CONWAY. S. C. I TIH'KvSDAV, JINK r>, 101 it. PKOFKH8IONAL CAKDft. H. H. WOODWARD Attorn*/ and Councilor At La"?CONWAY; 8. O. /_ ?, B. BCAKHKOL'UU CON WAy, 8. c. Attoraey at Law. ML H. ItlHHOKaitt iCbj*lcl?R and Burgoo* CON WAT, 8. C. IV. E. McCORD, lX'iital Surgeon CONWAY, S. C. % HKMO RAVKNKIi Land Surveying and Drainage Sjdvey Building Conway, 8. O. MlWUHLUS GHtAflM StWlNG MACHISJ Bk I I dHT Diimmimi? QTfoa wnnt el Iher a VI brn 1i n g Hhut tie, RotauV fibattle or a Single Thread [C/min titUcMl > Bowing Machine write to i. 9m CCW HOME SEWINQ MACHINE CQMPJUff Orange, Mass, MMQTMwtnr machine* are made to Rcl1regardlew*|l . ?a*litr, but the New 11onio i* made to area* * Our guaranty never runs out. I |||MI %t MlhoristHl dealer* ?a|^ | v fOB *AL? m * J 'IX) ADDllESS IWIAIETTO PRESS* Norman liapgood Orator for Editors* Meeting in ('hnrleston. Norman Haneontl. nwnou *wi* w w .. *1 \>i ivavi evil" | tor of Harper's Weekly, will make the annual address before tho South Carolina Press Association in Charleston on Juno 27. Mr. Hapgood is one of the best known editors in the United States, and the fact that he is; to bo the speaker will add interest to the approaching press meeting. For several years Mr. Hapgood edited Collier's Weekly. In the last campaign 'Mr. Hapgood was an ardent supporter of President Wood row Wilson, while tho owners of Collier's were backers of Theodore Roosevelt. Differences, it is said,, arising from this coused a break and Mr. Hapgood resigned his editorship. Recently ho bought out Harper's Weekly, and will on the 1st. of June assume editorial charge. A highly educated and intellectual man, Mr. Hapgood will bring to the South Carolina press a message which is certain to be one of the best ever heard by that body. He will receive a warm welcome to Carolina. II oiso Runs Into Train. The Spartanburg Herald says a runaway horse, drawing an empty buggy, ran into a freight train crossing Kast Main street at 130 o'clocik Monday morning and was so badly injured that Policeman Alverson ended the animal's suffering with a bullet. The nnmn r\f " ' mn uwiiur oi tne horse I was not ascertained. ' hohry, y. s, c. LPLUS OF ANY iBANK IN HORRY 1INKD CAPITAL AND SURPLUS OF INTY. $50,000 12,500 ? TKHOLDERS. . .. 50,000 TORS 112,300 ;tors W. A. .JOHNSON, WILL A. FREEMAN, D. V. RICHARDSON. JOMMODATION WHICH THEIR ACJ SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. ,V. Richardson, Will A. Freeman, Vice-President Oaahler* . .* -