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DISCOURAGE ACTS OF VIOLENCE GOVERNMENT TO I sK III - sotmh oi Mnwnox, Attorney General Gregory I'rgcs Au? thorities to Be Vigorous In Dculin ?, With I.UUlCSSIlCKH. Washington, Nov. 21.?OHUial im tlce of the government's intention to employ ull Its ronources In running down those responsible for factory ex? plosions. Intimidation of labor and other acta of violence against Ameri? can Industries Is coupled, In a state? ment Issued tonight by Attorney Gen? eral Gregory, with an appeal to State authorities to be equally vigorous in dealing with lawlessness In violation of the federal statutes. "Information Indicating attack upon lawful American Industries and com? merce through incendiaries, tires and explosions In factories, threats to in? timidate employes and other acts of violence." says the statement, "has so often developed during the past few months as to demand searching in? vestigations and prosecutions. The department of justice will continue unremittingly to Investigate all such acts and prosecute all violations of federal statutes seeking indictments under the federal law prohibiting the interstate transportation of explosives, the Sherman law, the law relating to conspiracy to commit an offense against or to defraud the United States, and the laws relating to crime on ships and on the high seas. "Because, however, of our dual form of government the federal criminal laws are extremely limited in their scope. Many crimes of violence, such as arson, malicious destruction of property, etc., can in general be pun? ished in the federal court only where the United States has special Jurisdiction. It follows, there? fore, that such attempts to Injure and destroy American industries must us? ually be prosecuted by State authori? ties. "These conditions, so destructive to the commerce and labor of the United States require vigorous action on the part of all agencies of the State and federal governments. It Is therefore, earneetly to be hoped that State offi? cials will be equally active. "I have Instructed the agents of the department of justice whenever they discover evidence of violation of State criminal laws to place the evidence at the disposal of the local State offl Seals; and 1 assume that such offi? cials will cooperate in acquainting the federal officers with all Information tending to show the commission of federal crimes." There have been various official in? timations during the past few days of the government's purpose to be more than ever active in seeking out offenders agilnst the neutrality and criminal laws of the United States. A recent department of Justice state? ment told of plans for further investi? gation of the activities of Austrian Consul General von Neber at New York, and his associates, and said that Information had been obtained which probably would lead to additional in? dictments for passport frauds. ?>?? ? - . Planting Sugar Cane. Sugar cano Is planted, not sown. A small piece of the cane, long enough to Include two or three of the rings, or nodes. Is laid lengthwise or stuck In a slanting direction, along a fur row which runs the length of tbe flsld. In some sections the primitive fashion of planting in holes is still em? ployed. When the trench Is planted (be pieces of cane are lightly covered with earth. In a few weeks they show growth above the ground, the germ buds at the rings having begun to ?hoot out in the form of young cane, the ring having at the same time thrown out rootlets into the soil. The parallel trenches are made far enough apart, say at least threo feet, to en? able the workers, when the wide spreading canes are getting ripe, to go between the rows and remove the dying leaves which burden the ripen? ing cans, thereby ensbllng the asked eane to mature faster. His Desire. The business manager of an ama? teur attraction In a Kansas town made modest demands on the manager of tho opera house. "What kind of a set? ting will you want?" the theater man? ager asked. "Well." replied the other, "we'd like to havo seats for everybody that comos." On the Safe 8lde. "Why are you so anxious to be friendly with old Smuthe?" we ask our acquaintance. liven If ho were your friend he wouldn't do anything for you." "1 know that," replied our acquaintance, who occasionally tics up his money In stocks. "What I want to do !? to have him so friendly with me that he won't do anything to nie," Literary Impression. After wading through tome of the flUgsxfnee. a man gets the impression tlst as long as a magazine editor can get a picture of a pink woman wear lag a September A. M. gown for the front cover, he doesn't care a hang snout what Is printed Inside?Clncln aatl Enquirer. STORE COTTON SAYS MANNING I ltens rsi: or federal R? HH1 system. Facilities Availublo for Slow Market? ing?Wim Growers Against Conn try Ihutiugc and Fire LOSS nit Their Staple. Columbia, Nov. 22.?Guv. Manning ShM yesterday in reference to tin warehousing and marketing of cot? ton : ' lb o ntly wo have seen a depres? sion in the price of cotton, which, from our information, both as to the siao and demand for the crop, is, in my judgment, unwarranted. It is possible that this slump was caused by reason of the fact that a largo number of sellers placed their crop on the market, and for the time being the supply was greater than the de? mand. It is therefore of the utmost importance that we market the crop slowly and gradually in order to main? tain a higher scale of value and pre? vent another such depression in price. "I fully realize of course that debts are due and must be paid, and in order to meet these obligations, our farmers must realize ready cash. In order, therefore, for those who have cotton on hand to market it slowly and gradually, and at the same time meet their pressing obligations, I would suggest that the resources ob? tainable through the federal reserve banks are ample to enable the farmer to hold his cotton and make short term loans on same at reasonable rates of Interest, so as to hold the cot? ton off the market until an advance in price takes place sufficient to make it profitable to the farmer. "It is necessary, in order to secure loans from the federal reserve banks, that the cotton be properly ware? housed and insured. In my judg? ment, it is necessary to properly warehouse and insure the cotton, whether money is borrowed or not. I would, therefore, urge our people not to allow their cotton to be ex? posed to the weather and the dangers from fire, especially at this season of the year. We have made a short crop, and it is of great importance that it be protected in every way possible. We must realize tr full value of this crop. This we can do if we will take advantage of the op? portunity that Is offered for cheap money through the federal reserve bank and warehouse our cotton and market it slowly." Art Unadorned. I like my art unadorned; thought and skill and the other strange quality that Is added thereto to make things beautiful?and nothing more. A far thing's worth of paint and paper, and behold! a thing of beauty!?as they do in Japan. And If it should fall lato the Are?well, It has gone like yester? day's sunset, and tomorrow there will he another.?H. 0. Wells. Industrious Turkish Women. The Turkish women a/e to be count? ed among the most industrious of the earth. They certainly do a va?t amount of work. They make carpets, screens for doors, workbags, horse clothing and blankets. A Turkish girl makes all the klbitka or tent domestic carpets and other household requisites before she is married. If she gets married without completing this task It is expected that she will, by her own labor, refund the money which her parents have given her as her dowry. This dowry usually consists of ona hundred sbeep and a certain amount of money, which a bridegroom usually pays down in a lump sum to the parents of the bride. An import? ant part of the ceremony is to decor? ate a camel with the handsomest trap? pings, which are sent to the bride's tent. On this she goes forth to re? ceive congratulations of her relatives and friends. It is on this she is car? ried away by the female relatives of the bridegroom. She and jer attend? ants feign to resist the act by throwing raw oats at the other women. < i Resurrecting a Dsp i Battery. A clock having an electric contact stopped with the contact closed, so that when it was started up a couple of hours later, the battery was so far polarlied that It could not operate the I ma?net to which It was connected. I To wait till the battery could recu? perate would mean leaving the mechan ism out of use for some hours. The l 111or>- consisted of three Icelandic tells, Five dry cells wero brought in? to use. Connected in series, the ter? minal wires were touched to the ter? minals of tho exhausted battery, zinc to zinc and carbon to carbon. After M seconds of this reverse current the battery was fully restored and ready lor business Magnets for Mine Detection. Magnetic attraction Is now being ap? plied, moro or less experimentally, to the detection of mines laid at sea. An electro-magnet, supported on a long arm extending forward from a ship's bow, ran bo made to t i rnal the pres? ence of a mine. Could tho current be made strong enough to deflect a tor? pedo, another terror of the deep would gradually disappear.?London Dally l/.hrnnp'lS NEGRO KILLS WHITE MEN. BEN PARKER AND BEN JOHN? SON SLAIN IN MARLRORO. West Coon Cnptured i>y Sheriff After Chase and Lodged in Jail at Ben? nctt?\ Me?DilBculty at Johnson Home. Bennettavllle, Nov. 11.?West Coon, a negro, today shot and killed two white men, Ben Parker and Ben John ?on. The double homicide was at Mc Ltod'l mill, in the upper part of Marlboro county, near Kollock. The shooting occurred this morning about 7 o'clock and Coon was captured 12 hours later. He is now in jail at Ben nettsville. 0 Johnson was about 35 years of age. He is survived by his wife and four children. Parker was about 32 years Of age and is survived by his wife and one child. An inquest was held over both bodies today, the verdict being that they came to their death from gun? shot wounds at the hands of West Coon. The negro is or'ginally from Cayce, in Lexington county. The negro is said to have gone to Johnson's house, about 100 yards from his own house, last night when a diffi? culty arose. Mrs. Johnson ordered the negro away when he is said to have drawn a revolver and threatened her with the weapon. Ben Parker took the revolver from the negro and it was in turn taken from Parker by Johnson, who used it to beat the negro over the head. The negro is said to have left, to return later with a gun, which he snapped at Johnson several times without succeeding In firing it. He is said then to have gone to the home of Lovett Davis from whom he secured another gun. This morning about 7 o'clock Par? ker and Johnson were walking near Johnson's home when the negro is said to have killed them with shots from the single barreled shotgun secured from Lovett Davis. The shells were loaded wit' B. B. shot. The negro escaped for the moment, but was arrested tonight at 7 o'clock by Sheriff U. J. Patterson, who found him hiding in the loft of his father-in law's barn on the plantation of O. M. Pegues. With Lovett Davis, Coon was brought to Bennettsville and placed in the Marlboro county jail. ? wrr ? - * rl>v*1 Whan Things Fade. A powder comes for the purpose of restoring faded color to thin fabrics without dyeing them. It is sold in little pasteboard boxes in all the light colors?lavender, pink, blue, ecru and other pastelle shades. After you have wanned the faded fabric until it is clean, you sprinkle some of this pow? der in the rinsing water and rinse the fabric until it has absorbed enough of the color. Of course, the powder has to be used each time the fabric is washed. But it is much eas? ier and more satisfactory than a dye, that must be boiled in, for some things. Crepe de chine underwear, for in? stance, or negligee of a fragile sort, or flimsy blouses can be wonderfully freshened and brightened with this coloring powder. The Thistle of Scotland. On tho origin of the adoption of the thistle as the emblem of Scotland his? tory is almost completely silent, but tradition is as glib as ever. Accord? ing to one story, the Danes were steal? ing barefooted through the darkness towards the Scottish camp (in spite of their rule which regarded a midnight attack upon an enemy as unwarrant? able), when one of the soldiers sud? denly trod upon a thistle. Involuntar? ily he uttered a cry of pain, and the Scotchmen, being aroused, leaped to their feet, hurled themselves upon the Danes axd inflicted fearful slaughter upon their foes. Torsion-Testing Machine. One of the Interesting exhibits at the San Francisco exposition is a machine for testing the twisting strength of cteel, which records au tographically the torsion curve of tho piece of metal under test. Hereto? fore this measurement has been cal? culated, with more or loss accuracy, by the person making the test. It has a capacity o! 230,000 inch pounds, and will test srEimens rang? ing from ono-eighth of an inch to two and a half inches in diameter, and of any length up to eight feet. Too Wet to Go Home. A story is told of a lecturer who. on one very rainy night, addressed an audience that might have been much larger without taxing the seat? ing capacity of the hall. Naturally, says the Tattler, he was willing to curtail his address, and, having reached what he considered the prop? er moment, said: "I'm afraid I've kept you too long." Whereupon a voice from the audience replied: "Go on please; it's still raining. ' Stationary Science. A medical student once asked the lato Prof. Parker Cleveland if there were not more recent works on anatomy than those in the college library. "Young man," said the pro? fessor, "there have hern very few new bones added to tho human body i during the last twenty years." ADVERTISING 'TEDDY" AGAIN. Report of Offer of Command in Ca? nadian Army and Denial Come to? gether. Winnipeg, Nov. 19.?Sir Samuel Hughes, minister of militia today of? fered Col. Theodore Roosevelt com? mand of a Canadian army division. Says it is Absurd. J New York, Nov. 19.?Col. Roose? velt declined the offer and issued a statement through his secretary that the report that he would go to Eu? rope to fight are absurd and ridicul? ous. STENOGRAPHERS TO MEET. Association to Gather at Columbia on Thanksgiving Day. The South Carolina Stenographers' Association will meet in Columbia on Thursday, Thanksgivng Day, for their semi-annual session. Elaborate plans have been made for the reception and entertainment of the association and a big time is expected by all. A large attendance is anticipated from all parts of the State and the meeting will be fraught with interest. Officers of the association are, John J. Brennan, Sumter, president; James W. Wingate, Georgetown, vice-presU dent and treasurer; Ernest L. Allen, Alken, secretary. The program for the meeting will be as follows: 10.30 A. M.?Meeting Executive i Committee. 11 to 12 Noon.?Registration of Members and Guests. 12 to 12.45 P. M.?Acquaintance meeting all members. Mezanine Gal? lery. 1 P. M.?Association Luncheon, guests Columbia Chamber of Com? merce. 2 P. M.?Meeting called to order. Inovocation, Rev. Andrew A. Black wood. Address of Welcome, Hon. L. A. Griffith, Mayor of Columbia. Address of Welcome on behalf Columbia Chamber of Commerce, Mr. John W. Lillard, Chairman. Response on behalf S. C. Shorthand Writers' Assn. Mr. Miles Wood. President's Address. Mr. John J. Brennan. Report of Secretary-Treasurer. Mr. Ernest L. Allen. "Need of Local Shorthand Clubs." Mrs. Johephine B. Morris. . "The Woman Stenographer." Mrs. W. T. Rlson. "Question of Rates." Mr. Olin B. Anderson. Discussion of Examination test for new members. "Greatest Good our Association can I accomplish." Mr. James W. Wingate. "A plea for the competent Steno? grapher." Mr. E. K. Carter. Demonstration of typewriters, note books and other office accessories. "Increasing Membership." Miss Marguerite Bradford. Compensation of Women Stenogra? phers in South Carolina." Miss Edith Porcher. Paper. "Shorthand in the Schools I of Sumter, South Carolina, kindly pre? pared by Prof. S. H. Edmunds, Super? intendent of Sumter Schools. New Business?Selection of next meeting place. Appointment of Committees. Resolutions. Reading of Communications. Adjournment. At 5 P. M. visiting members will be guests of our Columbia Friends in an automobile ride over the City of Co llumbia. 8 P. M. Banquet Jefferson Hotel. Among those to attend from Sumter are: R. A. Bradham, R. C. Bradham, John J. Brennan, Miss C. Bessie Hughson, Miss Theo S. Lopez, William L. Marshall, Miss Natalie A. Norman, Miss Frances L. Williams and Lewis E. Wood. TEACHERS ELECT OFFICERS. Sumter County Association Organizes For Another Y'ear. The Sumter County Teachers' Asso? ciation organized for another year on Saturday by electing officers and ap? pointing a committee to formulate a program for the next meeting of the association. Mr. H. H. Brunson, principal of the Mayesville school, was elected president of the association and Mr. W. H. Smith, principal of the LynChburg school, was chosen vice president. Miss Stella Glasseoek of Baker school was chosen secretary. Tho teachers' conference closed Sat? urday morning at the close of the or? ganization of the teachers' associa? tion. During the morning an interest? ing discussion of methods of teaching English grammer was held, Prof. w. H. Hand and Supt. S. 11. Edmunds be? ing the chief speakers on this import? ant subject. The conference was well attended and several Interesting talks were made to the teachers by Prof. Hand and others. The Rural Bchol Improvement As? sociation of Sumter County was form od with Miss Lila McLean, Oswego, Pr?sident; Miss Bessie Flynn, Concord, vlcf-presldent, and Miss Ballte Rills, Plaaeaut Grove as secretary. TO FORCE CHANNEL. Gocthals Would Send Ships Held up Long Time on Way as Soon as Pos? sible. Panama, Nov. 18.?Owing to the tying" up of the Panama canal by the recent slide many employees, mainly in the operating division, are being furloughed or given vacations. This is taken here to indicate that the canal will remain closed for a much longer time than first expected. It has been learned that Gov. Goe thals, of the Canal Zone, intends to force a temporary channel through the slide as quickly as possible and pass through a few ships waiting since the canal closed and then again shut all ships off until the slides have ended. This probably will be not less than six months, according to the best available estimates. FAVORS EV' O?ATTNG DARDA? NELLES. Lansdowne Tells Ribblesdale Govern? ment Has Sent Kitchener to Investi? gate. [ London, Nov. 18.?Baron Ribbles? dale said in the House of Lords to? day, in addressing a question to the ; Marquis of Lansdowne, that he un jderstood Lieut. Gen. Sir Charles C. i Monroe, commander of the British ex? pedition at the Dardanelles, had re? ported in favor of the withdrawal of the British army at the Dardanelles. The Marquis of Lansdowne an? nounced the government asked Earl Kitchener to visit the Eastern Medi? terranean because, in its opinion, the report of Sir Charles Monro and the evidence accompanying it did not seem sufficient to enable the govern? ment to come to a conclusion upon the great questions of policy involved. A dispatch from Athens yesterday said that Earl Kitchener, British sec? retary for war, had left Mudros, in the Aegean Sea, for the Gallipoli pen? insula. CORONER CONDEMNS DOCTORS. Effort to Manufacture Sensation in Chicago Continues. Chicago, Nov. 19.?That the Bol? linger baby was permitted to die with no one kwiowing whether or not it would be mentally defective, was the declaration of Coroner Hoffman and that the deformities could have been rectified by operations. The jury of physicians is expected to make a for? mal report tonight. REPORT FROM STORM. Two Negroes Killed in Georgia and Much Property Destroyed. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 19.?Reports of yesterday's storm show that two ne? groes lost their lives from falling trees near Waycross. There was much property damage along the coast and communication is still crippled. The storm today is central around New York, with a sixty-eight mile wind blowing. Marine traffic is at a stand? still. BANK CASHIER HELD UP. Masked H<m Bet $1,600 and Make I Escape. I McAlester, Okla. Nov. 18.?Two masked robbers today held up C. E. Wager, cashier of the First State Bank at Adamson, Okla., secured $1, 600 and escaped. The cashier and citizens in the bank at the time were locked In the vault. HILLSTROM SHOT TO DEATH. Salt Lake City, Nov. 19.?Joseph Hlllstrom, poet and philosopher, was shot to death by a firing squad at 7.41 this morning. The efforts of President Wilson and thousands of organizations and individuals to save him were un? available. He paid the penalty for the murder of J. G. Morrison, a grocer and his son on January 10th last year. Just before the execution Gov. Spry received a telegram signed "Dusky," from Seattle, stating that the writer was with Hillstrom on the night of the murder and the condemned man was innocent. A hastily called meeting of the pardon board decided that the telegram was only an effort to delay the execution. Hillstrom ate a hearty breakfast and requested not to be blindfolded. This request was denied and he was almost In a state of col? lapse when he took his seat in the execution chair. At the word of com? mand four rilles cracked out, and llillstrom pitched forward dead. The executioners received forty dollars each. Five rifles, one of which contained a blank cartridge were fired. Defend? ing himself With a broomstick Hill? strom fought desperately to prevent being taken from his cell. He was finally overpowered, and died main? taining his innocence. Dresses for Mrs. Gait. Paris, Nov. 19.?French dressmak? ers will present Mrs. Gait with six of the latest style gowns. HALF MILLION DRTTr. 1ENDS. Largo Number in United States Ad dieted to Use, Says Medical Author? ity. New York, Nov. 18.?Fully 500,000 pcoons in the United States are ad? dicted to the use of drugs, according ? o Dr. T. D. Crothers, president of the New York Medico Legal Society. Dr. Crothers told the members of the so? ciety in a meeting last night that us? ers of drugs are always more or less incompetent, impaired mentally and unable to judge of their own acts. "The fact that they do not commit overt acts," he said, "is no reason why they are not dangerous. In a large majority of cases they do things eventually that cause injury to oth? ers. Laws of protection and control must be enforced. The brain of a drug taker is suffering from palsy. The victim must be treated accordingly." BOLL WEEVIL IN CHESTER COUNTY. J. \Y. Wilson Finds Pest on His Plan? tation?Several Acres of Cotton Ruined. Chester, Nov. 18.?J. W. Wilson of Hazlewood township told today of the appearance in his section of the boll weevil. Mr. Wilson Is one of the county's well known planters and is familiar with the appearance of the boll weevil by having seen some of the insects that were brought here a few years ago from Texas, and is of the opinion that the insects that bored into his ^otton bolls and acted In the way the weevil is said to do are without a doubt boll weevils. This summer Mr. Wilson had some additional boll weevils sent here from places troubled with boll weevil. They were sent in glass bottles. Mr. Wil? son took these boll weevils and put them beside those that he had on his farm and they were the same. He thinks that they came here in seed shipped from the boll weevil sections. At least that is the only way that he can account for their appearance on his farm. He had several acres of cotton ruined. BIRDS WORTH A BILLION. Destruction of Them Said to Coat Farmers of U. S. Immense Sum. Chicago, Nov. 18.?Destruction of birds, according to Colonel O. O. Shields, president of the League of American Sportsmen, costs the United States a billion dollars a year. Col? onel Shields made the assertion in an address before the Chicago chapter of the Daughters of the American Revo? lution. "Cotton growers," he said, "lose ?10,000,000 a year by the boll weevlL Why? Because the quails, the prairie chickens, the meadow larks and other birds which were formerly there in millions have been swept away by thoughtless men and boys." The chinch bug costs wheat grow? ers another $100,000,000, he said, and the Hessian fly $200,000,000. "It takes more than 24,000 chinch bugs to weigh an ounce and nearly 50,000 Hessian flies to weigh the same," continued the speaker. "A quail killed in Ohio had in its crop 1,200 cinch bugs. Another killed in a Kansas wheat fleld had 2,000 Hessian flies." Colonel Shields added that potato growers pay $17,000,000 a year for spraying poisons and remarked that a quail slain in Pennsylvania had 127 potato bugs in its crop. He said that Mrs. Margaret M. Nice, of the faculty of the Massachusetts State University after long study, estimated that a quail destroys 75,000 bugs and 6,000, 000 weed seeds annually. APPEAL FROM DR. HEX AMUR. Urges Parcel Post Facilities for Ger? many and Austria. Philadelphia, Nov. 18.?Dr. C. J, Hexamer, president of the National German-American Alliance, today is? sued an appeal that petit'ons be sent to President Wilson and congress urg? ing them to do all chey can to have the United States furnish ships for transporting parcel post mail to Ger? many, Austria and Hungary. The ap? peal states that the American postal authorities suspended the dispatch of such mail to those countries because the "few neutral steamship compa? nies still plying their trade refuse to accept parcel post mail on account of lack of facility for handling it" The appeal is addressed to all American citizens. Bazaar by Trinity Church. The Civic Society of Trinity Meth? od ist Church will give a bazaar on Thursday, December 2nd, at Yates' old stand on West Liberty Street. The public cordially invited. Many use? ful articles will be on sale. New Law Wanted. Washington, Nov. 22.?Attorney General Gregory will artt congress to pass laws enabling the department to cooperate with the States in prose? cuting violations of neutrality, such as blowing up munition factories.