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BA?JNGEn PRIVATE GRAFT. RJBPHESEN TAT IV E HITCHCOCK OF M-HHAsR.V F1LEH CHAKGES AGAINST SECRFTAHY. Committee or House Will Probe Mat? ter?Will Ismie Subpoenas In Or? der to Determine Truth as to Sec? retary's Alleged Misuse of Land Office Appropriation. Washington. Jan. 17.?Somewhat waning Interest In the Investigation of the so-called Balllnger-Plnchot controversy was quickly revived In Congress today by sensational charges against Secretary Baliinger of the interior department and other officials. filed by Representative Hltchcoek (Dem.) of Nebraska, with ths committee on expenditures In the Interior department, and incidentally by the senate's adoption of the Inves? tigation resolution as agreed upon in conference. The house will adopt the resolution tomorrow. The most Important allegation of Mr. Hitchcock is that funds of the in? terior department were improperly used in paying private traveling ex? penses of Secretary Balllnger 9 neph? ew. The secretary and other offi? cials of the Interior department will be served with subpoenas to appear before the house committee on ex? penditure, to which Mr. Hitchcock's charges were addressed. Secretary Balllnger late tonight Is? sued a lengthy statement in which he denied eatsgoricalfy the charges of maladministration made by Mr. Hitchcock. His denial was sweeping and emphatic, several of the charges being characterised as "ridiculous," while others were said to be "ridicu? lously false." The statement came as a surprise, as Mr. Balllnger dur? ing the afternoon disclosed a dispo? sition to let the matter go unanswer? ed until the joint investigating com? mittee la organised. The statement asserts that when Mr. Balllnger became commissioner of the general land office, the posi? tion he held before entering the cab? inet, he reduced the salary of Law Clerk Wright so that Wright's $1.000 salary "could bo given to Jack Bal? llnger. his nephew, not ender the title of law clerk, but under ths title, created by Mr. Balllnger's order, of confidential clerk, I have been told Wright died of disappointment and humiliation soon thereafter.*' Jack Balllnger remained a year in the service, the statement sajj, his manner of living, about the time his uncle rsigned. In March, 1908, being alleged to illustrate "the reckloss ex? penditures of the land office." "It was announced," the statement goes on to say, "that young Jack Bal? llnger was leaving the land office to resume law practica in Sei.ttie. In order that he might receive a final rake-off be was designated as special temporary Inspector of offices, an evi? dent outrage on the treasury This enabled him to draw traveling expen? ses from Washington to Seattle and par diem also. Within two weeks af? ter he reached Seattle he resigned, as understood In advance, and re? sumed law practice. Including, of course, practice before the land of? fice out there, and also In Washing? ton." Mr. Hitchcock declared this to be only one of many outrages on the treasury, which csn be found. The statement was presented by Mr. Hitchcock at a meeting of the committee called to permit him to substantiate his charges of extrava? gance in the Interior department. The committee decided to Issue subpoenas on Secretary Balllnger. Commission? er Dennett of the general lan 1 office and all others Interested in the charges to appear as witness before the committee next Wednesday morning. The statement alleges Im? proper use of the million dollar ap? propriation "for the protection of the public domain against frauds" by the purchase of expensive furniture, "amounting in the tens of thousands of dollars." the erection of a "certain larce brick chimney for a land office at considerable expense." the employ? ment of some 80 additional clerks." "salaries Increased snd 1n one Case at least doubled, out of this million dollars under (citing the case of Chief of the Field Service Srhwartz , as this Instance) selection of special agents not all qualified." etc. Mr. Hitchcock suggested to the committee that certain employes of the general land office be called to fumlfth specific information, explain? ing thnt he was "persona non grata-' with the Interior department and that the committee was In a hotter pas, tlon to obtain the facts towtjnti?nsj 80-odd elerkM performing ordinary clerical dothan not connected In any Way With the protection of the pub? lic domain. thotiKb no paid. Concerning the office of chief of the field service, notnjntnd by if. 11 Schwartz, tho statement allcg^n that position was created for Mr. Srhwartz, without warrant <>f law. his salary being raised from $2.000 a* spe( |aj agent to $4.200 an chief of field ser? vice, or $700 more thnn his Imme? diate superior, the assistant commis? sioner. Mr Ultch.oik recommend-d In? vestigation of statements made in an anonymous letter to him that declar? ed Mr. Ballinger's system of files hss so mixed, confused, bcfoggled the clerku, flics and records that there Is now absolutely no one who knows anything about anything that apper? tains to the office, requiring over 100 dcrku against 15 under the old sys? tem. NEGRO SHOT AT AIKEX. Livery Stable Hand Probably Fatally Wounded >y B. Monroe Weeks. Alken. Jan. 17.?Joe Jones, a ne? gro, was shot this afternoon by B. Monroe Weeks, a prominent white man, and probably fatally wounded. Jones was employed by Weeks, who Is proprietor of the Weeks Livery and Transfer Company. This after? noon he sent the negro out driving with a customer, and in a few minutes it Is said the customer returned, say? ing the negro was drunk. Another boy was sent with the man. A little while later the negro became inso? lent, and upon being reprimanded by Weeks is said to have made at Weeks with a pitchfork, whereupon Weeks picked up a shotgun and shot him in tie stomach. The negro is still alive, but will probably die. PKICE OF SHOES TO RISE. High Price of Leather and Materials Given as the Cause. Boiton, Mass., Jan. 17.?The price of shoes is going up. The official an? nouncement to this effect was made today by the National Shoe Whole? sale?' Association. The Association says that the existing high price of leather and materials makes the In? crease necessary, but that the new prices will be so adjusted as "to per? mit the addition to each grade of such value as will compensate the wearsr for Increased cost." Ths Association's approval of the repet.1 of the duty on hides was unan? imously voiced. Spare Rib Pot pie. Cut the Tib into pieces about four lnchoa square and cook In water to cove; , until tender. Pour off the liquor, cool, and remove all the fat. Cover the bottom of the pot with a layer of the ribs, seasoning with salt, pepper and a little sage. Add a layer of thick slices of potato, seasoned, then one of tiny baking-powder bis? cuit. Continue until all the meat is used having the last layer of the bis? cuit. Pour In enough of hot, strain? ed liquor In which the ribs were cooked, and water to come nearly to the fop of the biscuit, but not to cov? er t.iem. Close tightly and cook thre''-quarters of an hour, before re mov ng the ltd. Take up the potato and meat on a platter, thicken the gravy with a tablespoonful of flour rubfced smooth with a tablespoonful of tutter?cook until smooth and pour over the meat.?The Delineator. The long considered plan of mak? ing coal gas In vertical Instead of horb.onal retorts is being tested on a large scale at St. Helens, England, and the results with the new plant are being compared with those of a very complete equipment Including ISC horizontal retorts ten feet long. With the cheap coal used, costing about $3.00 per ton, the old method yielded 10,000 cubic feet of gas per ton, and the new process gave 11, 550 cubic feet. The new process yields more tar and ammonia, coke of higher selling price; and gas free from naphthalene, while it offers great economy In land and buildings, in Ubor, and In wear and tear. In the last half-century the de? velopment of the machinery of war as everybody knows, has kept pace with that of the appliances used In the arts of peace. Sir A. Trevor Damson notes that progress has been aided by the metallurgist, who has developed Improved steel making, the chemist who has produced more powerful propellants and high ex? plosives; and the mechanical engi? neer, who has devised new methods of utilizing power and adding to ac? curacy and efficiency. In 1864 the most powerful twelve-inch gun was a muszle loader, twelve calibers in length, weighing about 23.5 lone, Its charge of powder weighed Slghty-flvi pounds, the muzzle velocity of the 614-pound projectile was 1.300 feet per second, and it could perforate sixteen inches of WTOUfht iron armor at the muasle, <>r sight Inches at the Baaalmam range of 1,004 yards. The twelve-Inch gui of the pit-sent Is. ? lot ?blander, Rfty calibres long, its projectile weighs HQ pounds, the muzzle velocity is 3,noo feet per se c<?m!; its pertoratlve pOWSr is iifty twa Inches ol wrought iron at the mnaale, thtrty-eevsn at 1,000 yards, and 17.:, Inches at |4,u00 yards. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always bought SENATE DISCUSSES WHISKEY. SENATORS GRAYDON AND CAR? LISLE IX DEBATE. Bill Dedarlng Unlawful Sale of Al? coholic Liquors to bo a Nuisance Precipitates Preliminary Whiskey Fight?Xumber of Normal Stu- J (letltl I? University to be Increased. Columbia, Jan. IT.?A preliminary battle of words that closely verged gain upon a general discussion of the whiskey question was the feature the session of the senate this eve ng. The principals In this discus- I on were Senators Graydon and Car? lisle and the matter came up when e bill providing that the unlawful sale, etc., of alcoholic liquors shall be a common nuisance was reached n the Calendar. The bill was not disposed of, debate being adjourned ntil tomorrow on the measure. Senator Graydon claimed that the bill is practically a State-wide meas re. He said: "What's the use of passing prohlbl- I tlon bills when prohibition is a fraud and a farce." He added that ail Georgia is now ide open and there is no pretence of enforcing the law and thought the same would be true of this State. "We can't legislate people," said Senator Graydon, "from drinking liq? uor. The tighter we make the law the more drinking there will be. The Missouri compromise Act of 1900 was great blow to temperance." Sena? tor Graydon referred to the raising up of a set of hypocrites who are pre? tending to be enforcing the law and at the same time are drinking mean blind tiger liquor. Senator Carlisle warmly defended the bill which he said was a com? panion measure to the injunction bill discussed in the senate Friday. The bill which declares the unlawful sale, barter, storage and keeping In pos? session of alcoholic liquors a common nuisance, is, said Senator Carlisle, merely an enforcement measure. In? junctions are needed in certain sec? tions for the enforcement of the liq? uor law, said Mr. Carlisle. He refer? red to the system in vogue in Char? leston as to the fining of blind tigers and quoted an editorial from Th3 News and Courier as to the handing out of Indictments of certain whiskey cases, at the same time paying a trib? ute to the editor of that paper. Senator Carlisle said that In time the same system might prevail In other of the larger towns of the State If laws were not passed for the en? forcement of the whiskey statutes. In the course of his discussion of the bill Senator Carlisle touched briefly upon the claim of the Pro? hibitionists as to the working of pro? hibition In this and other States, and said he would later meet the argu? ments of the Senator from Abbeville. Senator Clifton objected to the bill on the ground that In conjuctlon with the injunction measure an alleged dealer In whiskey could be onjolned and the injunction follow him about the State, the property permanently enjoined and a further violation sub? ject alleged offender to line or Im? prisonment for contempt and deny him the right of trial by Jury. Fur? ther debate was postponed. The greatest radium mine, that near Joachimsthal, twelve miles northwest of Carlsbad, has disting? uished Itself by a product of half an ounce of radium bromide, and oy showing water that promises to devel? op a great radium cure. The mine once supplied sliver, but for half a century has been worked by the Aus? trian government for pitch-blende, a mineral yielding a larger percentage of uranium, one ovide of which Is used to tint glass a delicate green* Ish-yellow, while the black oxide serves as a pigment in porcleain painting. Consul W. L. Lowrie re? ports that 100 men are mining an? nually twenty tons of pitch blende, equivalent to five tons of uranium ore; and after the uranium is ex? tracted the residue of each ten tons of pitch blende yields one gram of radium bromide. Metallic radium is never seen, only the bromide and OlOlidi being known. For extracting the gram of bromide, 11,000 pounds of chemicals and 110,000 pounds of water are employed, and a thousand er>stalizatlons and reductions may be made, each requiring from a few boms to several days. The 13 grams of radium bromide lately sent t'J Vienna have been valued at more than half a million dollars. In a m w Investigation, Director Joseph Step, Of ths radium factory, has found that the radio-activity of the mine wan ts Is quite extraordinary, and scores of times ureater than that of ino?t r?f the Carlsbad, Marienbad and Prans t?t sbad springs, The wate*' believed t.? bhVe important curat Ivo powers con n'Ofl radio-active gas, winch H ton svoi? i.. i' ? <>ii exposure. Don't Miss the Great Demonstration Sale of Eye Glasses and Spectacles Given b> TME HOPKINS OPTICAL CO. or Baltimore, Md., at the Bumter Drug More, No. *jo s. Main It. To Some Philadelphia Sparrows. (Jeannette Marks In "Success Maga? zine.) Men say unfriendly words of you, poor brids! And I? I praise you for your saucy Joy On dusty streets, I love you for your twitter In vines that cling to heated city walls; Your noisy congregations on the trees; Unchurchly ways of saying this and that About your brother men; your gai? eties in parks near by a fountain's drip? ping brim. Men say your manners are not fine. And, too, They call you scavengers, they call you thief And enemy to other prettier birds. Perhaps we are one feather, you and I! I would not hold it any grief to be Your brother bird upon the city street. I love your chatterers! Yet I have heard The lark in other lands, the thrush in this. Dull many a day had been without your din, Your wrangles under foot, your shameless ways. Men say unfriendly words of you. Of me They speak unkindly, too. Yet see how gay We are! Ah, well, we are one feath? er, you And I! We have the city streets for plunder, The eaves for wonder, and above there is The sky! Public Opinion Is the Insurgents' Main Backer. Now, what is this new senate movement going to do? asks J. C. Welliver in Success Magazine*. Is it merely a temporary ebullition, a local rash which will yield to treatment, a casual disorder that will be suppress? ed? I do not think so. The men on whom the future of the movement depends are not enlisted for a skir? mish. They have started In for a war. They have resources of public confidence at their back. Their credit Is going to be good at the bank of community opinion, In their various States, Just so long as they keep on fighting in good faith. It isn't ap? parent how they can turn back. They have nothing to gain at Washington, and everything to losp at home, by giving up the struggle. And anyhow, they are not quitters. Not one of them. ?, They will gain recruits, and they will win some victories, In the coming session. They will require more and more to be reckoned with. They will not revolutionize senate procedure very soon. They probably don't ex? pect to do that. But they are in the way of very early convincing the an? cient leadership that it must take ac? count of the public opinion these in? surgents represent; and that will be revolution in all but form. How She Was Neglected. Six-year-old Ruth was very un? happy because one of her many wants had been denied. Her papa was giving vier a lecture and said, 'You av everything that most little girls iii and I don't think there Is another little girl in town who has more than you." "Oh, yes," said Ruth, "Alice has," "What has she that you have not?" said papa. "Weih I guess she had a ride to her grand? ma's funeral.?The Delineator, ?Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is a very valuable medicine for throat and lung troubles, quickly relieves and cures painful breathing and a dangerously sounding cough which Indicates congested lungs. Sold by W. W. Sibert. Rapid Transit. In response to a growing demand in his home. Henry Kltchell Webster, author of "The Sky Man," once went to his father's house, borrowed the family highchair and started taking it home by hand. He had to wait lonj? for his car, and when It finally came its conductor was a humorist. "Aren't yon pretty big for that chair?'' that ollicial ventured. "Yes,'' admitted Webster, wearily. "I grew up While waiting for the car." ?The busiest and mightiest little thing that ever was made is Cham? berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablet?. They do the work whenever you re? quire their aid. These tablets change weakness into strength, list .-sness into energy, gloominess Into joyous ness, Their action Is so gentle one don't realise they have taken a pur? gative, gold by VV. W. Sibert._ H. L. B. WELLS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Money to Loan on any Good Security. Notary Public With Seal. Offlee Over Sumte? 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