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INTEREST KtPT UP1 / I SPARTANBURG LAWYERS TALK OF COMING SURPRISES. TO TRY BABY'S SLAREBS i Solicitor Declares Ho Has More Kvidenco Which Will Astound the Pub- c lie?Clement's Attorney Claims He j ll'lll III... %? 1. ( If 111 A'lVV mill XAIB& Uin illUl II f Sympathy. i That Clyde C. Clement, the former [ Wofford Fitting school student, will ! claim that he accompanied Miss Fleta Pendleton to the outskirts of Spar- t tanburg a week ago Thursday in the belief that sho was going to lay their ( two-inonths-old baby daughter, Virginia, beforo the door of a dwelling house, and that she, without his knowledge or consent, threw the in- ( fant into the mill pond, from which the body was recovered tho next day ' ?this was surmised by persons who are unable "in any other way to account for Clement's unequivocal denial of the girl's statement that he drowned the baby. Witnesses have come forward to corroborate in every detail, except the actual slaying of the child, Miss Pendleton's story of their sinister journey from Mrs; W. M. Hodges' boarding house in Greenville to the creek, and their return to Mrs. J. T. llell's boarding house, in Spartanburg, where they spent the remainder of the night. Mrs. Hodges saw them leave her home with tho child. Jeff Williams, the negro hackman, says he drove the couple and the baby to within a short( distance of the creek. H. C?. Bolter, the street car conductor, says ho saw them board his car on the edge of the city, near tho creek,* without tho baby, and brought them hack to near Mrs. Bell's home. They were indifferent to the rain, says Boiter, and held their heads close together as they conversed in low tones. Mrs. Bell says Ihey came to her house at 9:30 o'clock, with clothes dripping, and I i i ? .? 1 ? ,J .. ! .. r? .. !?i. * 1 VII 1UI lilt: lll^lll. "T am innocent," says Clement. "When all the facts are known, not only the jury, but the general public will be convinced that he is not guilty of the crime charged," says Samuel J. Nicholls, his attorney. When Robert C. Clement, the Polk county. N. C., merchant, came to see his son after the latter's arrest, he addressed the youth, it is reported, as follows:' "Son, you have never been afraid to tell mo the truth. Did you do this thing?" 1 "I didn't do it," answered the son. "I believe you," said the father, "and I will stand by you. If I believed you had done it I would have washed my hands of you." An indignant denial was Miss Pendleton's answer when asked if she had been intimate with other men besides Clement?the men "higher up", who Mr. Nichols says will probably be involved In the case. Lawyers have raised the point that undor the common law Miss Pendle An let r1! nm /\n t 'r? n?l f a el n o A V* r? vwai io Vyiumcut n >v lie:, nmv *; 11 c n *cu with iier in conjugal relationship during a considerable period of time in Greenville, Spartanburg and Charlotte, introduced her as his wife in boarding houses in all three cities and professed to be her husband. As his "common law wife", the attorneys say, she is entitled to the same privileges as if a ceremony had been performed, and can not be compelled, against her will, to testify against Clement, her "common law husband". This contention is disputed by other attorneys. It is pointed out, on the other hand, that Clement, under the statement of boarding housekeepers in Greenville and Charlotte, where the couple lived as man and wife, is liable to indictment in the Federal courts for violating the Mann white slave act. which forbids the carrying of a woman from one State to another for Immoral purposes. Should Clement carry out before he is brought to trial his alleged promise to Miss Pendleton to marry her when their baby was disposed of, or should she protest as his "common law wife" (and be sustained) against her confession being used against him, Solicitor Albert R. Hill would have still another card to play. Her accusation of Clement having been made in the latter's presence t the hearsay evidence of witnesses to her confession would bo competent testimony, it is said. Solicitor Hill asserts, however, that even without Miss Pendleton's confession he has ample testimony to convict both of the defendants. Ho asserts that he has much evidence in the form of affidavits which has not been made public and that when the . . . - I- ? M I 4 I complete story or tne crime is mm u will ho too horrible for publication, lie refuses to give a hint of the nature of the affidavits. .The mysterious intimations of the opposing lasvyors, Solicitor Hill am! Mr. Nichols, of a shocking story af yot untold, have keyed public interest In Spartanburg up to the highest Pitch of intensity,, and the case if discussed in all circles from evorj angle. Miss Pendleton continues to be rl rO FIGHT HOG CHOLERA J JSVKR REPORTS RILL. TO SKCURE APPROPRIATION. v ? louth Carolina ConRrMsman Pointa Out the Need of Immediate Aid for ^ (ho Campaign. Showing that the annual loss to South Carolina alone aggregates the 5norinou8 total of $i'.l8,914 from raviges of the hog cholera, Uepresenta,ive Lever, chairman of the House joinmittee on agriculture, reported 'avorably from the committee Wedlesday the hill appropriating $r>00,)00 for the prevention of hog cholera ind $100,000 for a fight on dourlne. Phis is an emergency appropriation tl withdrawn from tho general agricul- >' .ural appropriation bill to enable tJie ti lepartment to perfect its organization d to meet the ravages of these diseases b which being in the early summer. h Tho report shows in substance that r the country is losing annually ? through tho ravages of these diseases o at a conservative estimate, some- s thing like $70,000,000, and this loss ? is distributed throughout the whole e country. It also shows that last year an appropriation of $75,000 was s made by congress to meet this situa- t tion and although it was absolutely c inadequate remarkable results were 1' secured by the department in the four s States in which tho experimental c work was done, and it is believed that 2 with an adcquato appropriation and f with a strong co-operative organlza- f tion among federal, State and local 1 authorities the disease may be re- c duced, controlled and substantially eradicated. i Tho report forcefully sets forth ( tho fact that pork, hog meat and ( hog products compose the basis of the ( everyday meal of tho average citizen, t and that as hogs and hog products t are to a large extent the subject of I interstate traffic it is incumbent upon I tho federal government to take urgent ? steps toward the control of (he di- f sease until the department can build 1 up a permanent co-operative organi- I zation with the several States looking toward tho final eradication of < tho disease. '< The report also shows the presence i of dourlne among horses in tho Northwestern States and that about 10 per cent, of the range horses are afflicted with this disease and points out the danger of-a general spread of it throughout the country unless vigorous efforts are made to stamp it out. The report recommends an appropriation of $100,000 for this purpose. PASS HIGHWAY MM A SI HH. * Shackelford Hill Appropriates $25,000,000 for Good Koads. The Shackelford bill, under which the federal government would distribute $20,000,000 for good roads among the various States conditioned upon a dollar-for-dollar appropriation by each States, was passed by the national House Tuesday by a vote of 282 to 4 2 and awaits action by the Senate. Its passage followed sdveral days of debate, during which most of the hundred and more speakers advocated the project in the interest of the farmers, while a minority attacked the project as .a dangerous opening wedge for heavy future inroads on the treasury. Democratic Leader Underwood, Republican Leader Mann and Representative Hinebaugh of Illinois, the rank Progressive in the House, all voted for the measure. Representative Mann declared that the cities could well afford out of their wealth to contribute taxes to aid the country in their construction of roads and other improvements. Most of those 1. ? . * 1% ^ Kill Avrtl n I ? n ,1 I WHO vuiuu tu^ uin uAjMtuiiru their opposition was not to feJeral construction of highways but to the j method proposed in tho pending measure. llnby Hoy Fatally Burned. Luther Massey, tho two-year-old son of J. S. Massey, of Woodruff, received burns Wednesday morning while standing before tho fire, from which he will die. His mother was dressing him when tho accident occurred. t ????????????????????????the object of much pity. The fact that tho Clement family, with whom ' she was on terms of warm friendship, and whom sho visited at their home in North Carolina the day before her arrest, have not only left her to shift for herself, but, according to report, aro endeavoring to put the entire blame for the crime upon her. is much commented upon. The 1 failure of members of her own fam ily to visit her or come to her assistance is the cause of even greater surprise, though it is ronierto. that they ',inav not have heon informed of her plight. She asked that the news be withheld from them if possible. Since she started to earn her own living, first as instructor In a Spnr* tnnburg school of telegraphy and I later as a telegraph operaior, she has '.had no communication, it t3 said, with her parents. She has brothers. * however, who It la believed, would * come to her aid If they were Informed \ of her predicament* One Is an ' orange grower in Florida and Is said * to be wealthy. OR RURAL CREDIT" * f, KDKHAIj GOVERNMENT TO IlECOGN1ZK FARMERS WORTH. KILL PROVIDE FOR THEM ' ermany, France, Austria and Italy ^ Have Methods of ljendlnj; Money to ^ 6 Farmers on Short Time?At Fast j, America ?eems lleady to Help the fi Farmers, C d There are 12,000,000 farmers in f tie United States, and their labors ( leld over $8,4 00,000,000 to the na- ^ tonal wealth each year. They are oing this on borrowed capital of $0,- t 4 0,000,000 on which $510,000,000 0 iterest is paid annually. That is a ate of a little better than eight and v no-half per cent. The United States ^ vnnrlnrl ^ 'I Q T* HOA fl 11 lT u? Art It t\C f /wnl. tuffs last year, yet the sum barely { qualed 7 5 per cent, of the interest j harged on the farmers' debt. c Take these same farmers and these j amo figures on production and set ^ hem down in Germany, where they an borrow money for three and one- N lalf or four per cent., and they will . ave almost $250,000,000 in interest , barges each year. The United States, ] !0 years behind the times, is now , acing the problem that European ( armors solved before the close of tho ^ ast century. President Wilson rec- t igni/.es its importance. , New measures for trust regulation \ s the task before Congress at pros- \ ;nt, but when this is completed the piestion of rural credits will be tak- ? m tip and pushed to completion by i lie administration. It may be a mat- i ;er of a year or two before a law is ] >assed and the system is working ef- ; fectivelv, but it is 011 the way. Two agricultural credit bills, each the remit of special study of the situation, iiave already been introduced, 0110 in the Mouse and 0110 in the Senate. Rural credit is simply tho ability nf the farmer to borrow at a reasonable rate of interest the money he may need for the cultivation of his farm. It can be done; Europe has been showing us this for 2 0 years. How? Co-operation, plus a gentle push by the government to set tho wheels 111 motion, and a little supervision afterwards. Germany has tho most highly organized and perfected agricultural system in the world. This it what it ennhloe. tho knisnr's ilnm.nin to <lo* Support 07,000,000 people and produce 05 per cent, of the foodstuffs they consume; and this on land centuries old and which was never rated any too good. Credit is the founda- ' tion on which this wonderful structure of food production has been built. A German farmer has at his command two kinds of credit, short term money on' his personal note?money loaned him for a few months to cover the expenses of planting, harvesting, selling, labor, etc.?and long term loans on a farm mortgage?money which he puts into permanent development and improvements. Co-operative personal credit is the secret of the German agricultural credit system. They call it the Landschaften, and it is nothing more than thousands of small agricultural societies. These, in turn, aro bound together in regional societies, and tbe^o, in their turn, in on big, central society. Give all these societies, big or little, many of the functions of a bank and you have the German system in a nutshell. Germany is doing a business of $5,000,000,000 a year in these rural societies or banks?as much as the regular commercial banks aro doing ?and it i^ the development of agriculture duo to the farmers' financial system that lias enabled the land tillers of that empire to become the most scientific agriculturists in the world. France has in L.e Credit Agricole a system similar to that of Germany In the 20 years existence of this society it has lent to the farmers $9G,000,000 at interest rate of four per cent. During this time th?* annual value of the crops in Franco has increased $500,000,000. Le Credit Agricole is composed of 4,000 credit associations combining 200,000 farmers. And France has an area less than that of tho state of Texas. Austria also has farm credits down to a science. The 0,000 rural banks have a membership of 750,000 and do an annual business of $90,000,000. Italy has GOO of these banks, and to date they have loaned $200,000,(700. Belgium boasts of 450 establishments with a membership of 28,000 and an annual business of $5,000,000. While* foreign nations have been perfecting methods of protecting the farmer from high interest rates than his business will stand, the United States has done nothing. The result "bf this throttling of the American farmer has been the natural one?a falling off of tho country's agricultural products. Compare German's record with that of the United States. In this country the number of farm owners is decreasing and that of farm tenants increasing: farm mortgage debts are rising: tho exportation of foodstuffs Is diminishing and the Imports grad LOSES HER IDENTITY *OKGET9 AGE,- PLACE, HIHTII ANI) ADDRESS. 'hysioians In Kentucky Say She Is Not Insane, Rut Her Mind Was Made by Drugs. Ileart-soro people, mothers espeially, are visiting or writing to the Kentucky stato hospital for the inane at Ilopkinsvlllo, and seeking to lentify an inmate committed recenty from Union county. She was ound just about the time Jesslo Mc'ann, the New York social worker, isappoared and it was thought for a ew days that sho might ho Miss Mc'ann. Rut, even beforo the body of liss McCann had been found and denuded at Coney Island, it was cerain the girl in Kentucky was anther. The patient, who is only 2 4 or 25 ears old, physicians, is not Insane, >ut her mind is a blank. She can't ecall her name, age, place of birth or ho town where sho resided last. >hysicians believe the lapse is due ither to a blow on the head or to laving been drugged heavily at some ime. Judging from visitors at Hopkins*i 11 o and letters of inqury received it tho asylum, thousands of families nust have missed daughters since December. Nearly every state is rep ocr.titrwl In hn rnrntncf o fni* In f/Munn. ion. Tales of sorrow that would vrlng the hardest hearts are told in heso letters, which indicate the appallingly large number of girls who lavo forsaken their homes or have peon lured away. Vet none of these has offered the slightest clew to the identity of the young woman who was found in LJnlontown, Ky., In December, and has since been unable to give any account of herself. The unidentified girl Is five feet five inches tall, weighs 125 pounds, itwell proportioned, though of slender build. She has blue eyes and brown hair. I lor eyes, head, nose and ears ;iro normal. She talks freely, most I v in response to questions, and her language is free of rough or slang) phrases. She was reared evidently ii a house of refinement, and recelvet good school advantages. She says her name is Alma, tha sho traveled with a chum Jiamet Jones, but was deserted. Even thes< details were obtained by suggestioi and are not relied upon. ually increasing; tho movement fron the country to cities and towns i augmenting, and tho production o food supply is approaching steadily t the point where tho country will sooi have none to export, and where heav importation will becomo a neccssit to supply tho home demand. The average farmer in tho Unite States earns about $700 a year?les than $2 a day. Is it. any wonder tlia the young men aro rushing to th cities? There they can make tha much in eight or nine hours diggin holes in the ground or handlin freight. No 12 or 15 hours a day a the hardest work there is. No seeh ing to rise to independence through sodden blanket of 12 per cent, into est charges. Tho neglect of tho United State farmer by tho Federal governmei: has been tho cause of a constantl increasing protest. The inferiority c American agricultural methods t those of Europe has becomo a cryin shame, and a few years ago protest began to take definite shape. Agr cultural experts soon diagnosed th fundamental ailment?the bloodsucl ing system of credits for tho farmc ?and this was made tho point of a tack. During tho close of the Taft admit istration tho farmers' demand f< r.. i .. ?i?.f ?/x i 4 iw. i 4i, L (111 I'lUjr UUUUIIAU 1 11 o I o L* 11 t I 11 < I I til president appointed a commission t visit Europe and study rural cred systems. This commission sailed i 1912 and spent almost a year abroai examining the methods 14 Old Worl countries use in aiding their tillei of the soil. The commission returi ed to the United States eight montl ago, crammed so full of the subjei that it has not yet finished its repor Senator Duncan U. Fletcher ( Florida is the chairman of this con mission. As the result of its wor he has already Introduced in Congrei a rural credit bill which, if passei will give the United States a syste patterned after those of other n; tions, taking, however, only the be from each. ? Reduces Five Terms. The governor Tuesday reduced tl terms of five prisoners serving tern in the State penitentiary from Ham ton and Abbeville counties on tl condition that the men be sent to tl countv chain ennits ? Throe Deaths from Cold. Tho cold snap which Wednesdi descended on New York and sent tl mercury below tho zero mark, h( caused three deaths up to a late hoi Thursday night. ? ? 4 Unset Diamonds Stolen. Unset diamonds valued at $8,ft* were stolen in New York Thursdi by two men from a carriage whii stood In front of the store of a W? Side Jeweller. m jjjj|| 22ml District No 1 School, v. The Victor in shows the ^ the Victor for The fact that the Victor is the schools of more than 450 c shows what an important fact oCchiltlrcn. And if the Victor is of such it is clearly evident that your fitcd with a Victor in your 1 them in thei^ school work, an to a proper appreciation of in Brine: the children in and wc of the short rote songs that arc a poems and jingles that every chi games that tlie children love. \\ the selections arc rendered, and t they show will convince you of tl Victors $10 to $100. Victor-Vict your convenience, if desired, \Y K I T h< FOll INFOTTM Sims BookS i k OKWOUltlS .C ; i - ? r If MAIL 0! i 1 No need to send to the big : ! i you want. We have it here at t [i I er. You owe us a trial anywa " I require and let us Figure on it. o I selves out to execute mail or " I prompt attention. ILORICK & LOW HARDW COLUMB1 1 DEADLOCK ION IH01>. Wilson Sends Names of Weston ?n<l ' Sims td the Senate. ;s it President Wilson Monday ended y the long drawnout contest over the >f South Carolina federal district attor- ' o neyship by sending to the Senate the g name of Francis II. Weston of Cots lumbia to fill the former position, i- and the name of James L. Sims ol ie Orangeburg to fill tho latter. These c- nominations will probably be con;r firmed within the next ten days, t- Senator Tillman was seen in An gusta Monday night ami made thi. 1 i~ statement: "While I wanted tin >r president to nominate Mr. J. Willlan te Thurmond for the position of district} 2 o attorney, I do not bitterly oppose the c it nomination of Mr, Weston and I will t n not oppose tho ratification of ids i :1, nomination. Mr, Thurmond is from id my owfl county, Edgefield. Mr. Wes- t -s ton is from Columbia. x i- "As regards Mr. Sims, his nomi- j is nation meets with my approval?I f ct advocated his nomination, in fact. I (i t. tliink both of tiie gentlemen nomi- \ -,f nated will lie suitable, but I think i 1. that if Mr. Tliurmond had been nomi- f ^ nated and elected to tho position of \ district attorney he would have made t j a better man." j m * * v DAXIElifi CHAISES LEVER. st ? Tiie Secretary of tiie Navy Speaks lie- i Y. XI. C. A. Men at Creenville. I 10 When told that tho Lever Agricul- 1 ls tural bill had nassed the Sonata with. 1 p" out a dissenting vote, Secretary of ,e tho Navy said at Green vile recently: ic "That is the greatest contribution made by a South Carolinian in many, < many years. It means a great benefit 1 to the farmers of tho nation." 1 iy In ids speech at the Y. M. G. A. ie banquet Secretary Daniels elaborated id somewhat upon the I.ever bill. "South ur Carolina does not have to go back to tho days of Calhoun," said ho, "to number her statesmen. A man who can draw a measure of such Impor[)ft tanco as the I.evor bill can work year ay after year for its success, and finally ch get it through Congress without a dls:st senting vote, reflects glory upon his State." . . .. 1 . .NS^'"" t k51>?* an?l Dancct % , Milwaukee, Wis. * . | the schools 1 ralue of your home today ia practical use in ities in the United States or it is in the education I great value in the schools, children would be bene- I ionic?that it would help d serve to educate them nisic. Ml gladly play for them some 1 delight to children, standard I Id should know, and singing atch the children's faces as he interest and appreciation he value of the Victor. J rolas $15 to $200. Terms to suit A._ RDERS 1 mail order houses for what lie same price?if not cheap- U y. Send a list of what you We have specially laid ourders niul you may rely on j RANCE, INC., /ARE A, S. C. LAN IAM,\VMS MINKS. ? Vviator Discovers Thom at an Klevation of 1,500 Feet. Lieut. Towers, a navy aviator, late Tuesday afternoon demonstrated tho act that submarine mines planted in larbors are discoverable from aeroplanes at an elevation of 1,500 feet. vivo mines were planted at the enranco of the harbor at Pensacola, ^la. Tlie aviator, in his daily experinents, reported the location of the nines upon his returning to earth. Later Lieut, Bellinger, without <nowledge of the report of his fellow pfheer or the fact that mines had men placed, ascended to a height of 1,000 feet, at which elevation he not mly discovered the mines tho second ime, but traced the chains to each ndividual anchor. Navy officers attach great imporanee to these developments in the ise of airships and claim that they ndlcate the importance of aviation md aviators in future wars. The liscovery of these submarine mines, it s explained by aviators and their brother officers lies in the fact that it great heights tho reflection upon he water tends to make It more ;ransparent and of a highly magnifyng tendency. Invalid Killed by a Train. Wandering from her home at Roaioke ,Va., early Friday Miss Blanche CiOldbcrg, who has been an invalid Tor many years was killed by a train when sho attempted to cross the track. lloiler llxplosioii Kills Two. Frank Pennington and Robert Buyer, of Urban, Ky., were instantly killnrl nrl,lo.f ?in v.. ? 1 imu.t n lieu (V iMdlfl 111 tl saw mill exploded, completely wrecking tho entire plant. Prisoners llreak Away. Nineteen out of 2 5 prisoners In tho Lee county, Ala., jail Wednesday es cnped. Charles Shipley, jailer, was overpowered and tho'keys taken. Why is it that whenevor a subscriber who is in arrears settles up ho always asks that the label on his paper be changed at once?