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By STECK, SHELOR & SCHRODER.
New Series No. ?00.-Volunto DXIV.-No. 52.
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Our Good Wishes!
To ALL OUR CUSTOMERS, FRIENDS
AND READERS OF THE COURIER :
We Wish You the Merriest Kind
of a
Merry Christmas
and the Happiest Kind
of a
Happy New Year,
C. W. & J. E. BAUKNIGHT,
Walhalla, S. C.
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Money is Power !
Labor is Power !
You work a week for $10.00.
That ten dollars represents a week of your life
work. You are a week older, and as the weeks,
months and years go by your strength is gradually
exhausted; you have put your strength into dollars*
What nave you done with these dollars? Have
you spent thc a as fast as you earned them? If you
nave, you are poor indeed; but if you have spent only
a part of the dollars and kept some of them, you have
in these dollars stored up energy and strength to
provide for you in your old age.
How much better still is your position if you have
put these saved dollars to work for you 1
A good way to do this is to deposit them in some
good, strong bank.
The Westminster Bank,
WestminMter, ?S. O.,
is a good place to put these dollars.
W. P. ANDERSON, P. P. SULLIVAN,
President. Cashier.
J. M. NORRIS. Assistant Cashier,
Mad Otoo Will Bo Dethroned.
Record individual Dank Daiance.
Munich, Bavaria, Dec. 20.-Prince
Ludwig, the new prince regent of Ba
varia, will become king and the
mad king, Otto, who has never
known that he was a royal person
age, will be dethroned, In all proba
bility, next year.
Tho Bavarian premier to-day in
formed the speaker of" the Bavarian >,
diet and the leaders of tho various j "00'000 cash? the lftl?est sU,n of tho
A dispatch from Albany, N. Y.,
says:
\The estate of Louis A. Heinsheim
er, of New York, who died three years
ago, has boon appraised by the State
Comptroller's ?frico at $14,600,000.
Tho appraisal shows that Mr. Heins
heimer had a bank balance of $3,
parties in tho assembly that an
amendment to the constitution would
be .submitted to thc government ata
sp?cial session of the diet In Janu
ary, by the terms of which tho re
gency would bc abolished and Lud
wig would receive the title of king.
kind over recorded here. Mr. Heins
holmer virtually was unknown out
side of tlic Wall streot district. He
had spent bis lifo there, rising from
a messenger boy to membership in
the Arin of Kuhn, Loci) fi Co. Ho was
48 years old.
BAKINGPOWDER
Adds HealtMfllOnallllestothelinfl
Prof. Prescott, of the University of
Michigan, testified before the Pure
Food Committee of Congress, that the
acid of. grapes held highest rank as an
article of food and he regarded the re
sults from baking with cream of tartar
baking powder as favorable to health.
Royal is the onfy Baking Powder made
from Royal Crape Cream of Tartar.
GINNER'8 COTTON HEDORT.
Texas Shows Mammoth Crop-In Rest
of Reit It ls lAftht.
Washington, Dec. 20-The seventh
cotton ginning report of the census
bureau for the season, Issued at 10
o'clock this morning, announced that
12,424,852 bales of cotton, counting
round ns half bales of the growth of
1912 had 'boen ginned prior to Fri
day, December 13, to which dato.dur
ing the past seven years tho ginning
averaged 89 per cent of the entire
crop. Last year to December 13tb
there had been ginned 13,770,727
bales, or 88.5 per cont of tho entire
crop; in 1908 to that date, 11,904,
2G9 bales, or . 91 per cent, and in
190G to that dato 11,112,789 bales,
or 85.G per cent.
Included in the ginning? were 75,
772 round bales, compared with 9 2,
790 bales last year, 10G.48G bales in
1910, 1 40,024 bales in 1909, and
215,050 bales In 1908.
The number of bales of sea island
cotton included was 58,804, compared
with 9S.0&6 bales last year, 85,177
bales in 1909 and 80,3 IG bales in
1908.
Chillings prior to December 13 by
States, with comparisons for last
year and other big crop yoars fol
lows:
Alabama
1912 . 1,223,336
1911.1,501,136
1908. 1,265,953
1906. 1,018,955
Arkansas
1912. 700,874
1911. 746,802
1908 . 847,312
1906. 673,030
Florida
1912 . 52,882
1911. 81,952
1908. 64,131
1906. 55,916
Georgia
1912.,1,666,899
1911.2,617,857
1908. 1,868,063
1906.1,514,637
Louisiana
1912. 364,113
1911 . 340,304
1908. 435,603
1906. 764,850
Mississippi
1912 . 884,992
1911 . 996,601
1908 . 1,441,947
1906. 1,184,914
North Carolina
1912 . 820,249
1911. 913,944
1908 . 615,736
1906 . 54G.524
Oklahoma
1912 . 90 1,347
191 1 . 862,838
1908 . 514,535
1906 . 643,667
South Carolina
1912 . 1,127,480
1911 . 1,423 383
1908. 1,134,183
1906. 838,828
Tennessee
1912. 331,341
1911 . 360,510
1908 . 302,627
1906 . 220,552
Texas
1912 . 4,370,540
1911 .3,862,143
1908.3,368,874
1906 .3,485,665
Other States
1912. 77,800
1911 . 103,257
1908 . 63,956
1906. 47,462
The next ginning report will be Is
sued Thursday, January 9, at 10 a.
m., and will announce tho quantity
of cotton ginned prior to Wednesday,
January 1.
MO KILLED IN BATTLE,
Mexican Rebels Toke Town and Com
mit Outrages.
Guadalajara, Mexico, Dec. 19.
One hundred rebels and forty rural
guards and towns people were killed
ill a fierce battle at lluejuqullla yes
terday. Tho town was sacked by the
rebels, who committed many out
rages.
A force of 600 rebels, commanded
by Gen. Cheche Campos, yesterday
morning attacked Huejuqullla, Jalis
co, near the boundary of Zacatecas.
Fifty rural guards and armed citizens
held (hem off for thirty hours, until
the store of ammunition was ex
hausted. Then the rebels forced
their way and committed every kind
of outrages, according to reports.
Some hours later reinforcements of
Federal troops arrived and drove the
rebels out after killing a large num
ber of them.
Killed by C. A' G. Train.
(Anderson Intelligencer, 20th.)
Larkin Held, a white man, 60 years
of age, carpenter by trade, was run
down and instantly killed by train
No. 17, Columbia to Greenville, Sou
thern Hallway, at Wllllamston late
Tuesday afternoon. This train was
ordered to moot No. 16 at Wllllam
ston and took the siding. No. 16
passed and Mr. Reid followed lt down
thc railroad, going toward his home.
Ho got on a tall trestle and No. 17
backed out of the siding and down
on him. The conductor was stand
ing on tho rear platform and was a
witness to tho horrible accident. Mr.
Reid stumbled and foll and the
wheels of the rear coach passed over
him, horribly mangling his body.
ASHS 111 (KASK FOR BODY GUARD.
Millionaire Clinlonci', of New York,
Occupies Peculiar Position.
(Columbia Cor. News anti Courier.)
. John Armstrong Chnlouer, the New
York-Virginia millionaire, whoso in
carceration in Dloomlngdale Asylum,
in New York, on tho charge of lu
nacy, and bis subsequent escapo to
Virginia, and efforts to recover his
New York property, which had been
turned over to a committee appoint
ed by tho courts win n bo was sent to
the asylum, brought Into national
prominence by bis fight on lunacy
laws, has written Governor Blease
asking for a safe conduct and a body
guard during a visit bo wants to
make to Columbia. The letter was
received at tho Governor's olllce
along with a lot of newspaper clip
pings detailing the lectures of Mr.
Chaloncr on tho lunacy laws.
Mr. Chaloner, ln^ his will, left
$000,000 to Virginia and North Car
olina universities and $40,000 to
South Caixdina colleges. Ho ls con
sidered sane In North Carolina, Vir
ginia and South Carolina, and he
takes refuge in the first two States.
As thing's now are be ls under the ban
In New York, where so much of his
property now exists:
To Interview Dr. Mitchell.
It is, says Mr. Cbaloner h. bis let
ter to/the Governor, for the purpose i
of holding an Interview with the I
president of the University of South j
Carolina, that ho wants to come to ?
Columbia, and he asks for safe con- |
duct and a body guard for tho pur- ;
pos^. He says that he has willed i
fclftOOO to tho University of South
Carolina, $10,000 to the College of I
Charleston, $10,000 to tho Citadel
and $10,000 to Clemson. He wants
an interview with tho Governor and
asks' that he send a body guard to
Hamlet, N. C., to meet hlpi there, and
he will come to Columbia, transact
bis business here and return to Ham
let the same night.
The Governor replied, through his
private secretary, that he did not
think Mr. Chaloner needed a body
guard, and cited him to the fact that
he couldn't bo arrested and taken
from thia Stato without a requisi
tion.
Mr;. Chaloner says that ho bas rel
atives In Charleston, who bo fears
would rush him off on a yacht and
have him returned to New York and
Bloomingdalo Asylum.
His story of the origin of the feud
between him and bis family ls that it
was wiiile he was paying attention to
Miss Amelia Rives, tho novelist,
whom ho later married, and who is
now Princess Troubestkoy, that ber
[novel, 'The Quick and tho Dead," ap
! peared in a magazine. Ills brother,
Winthrop Astor Chauler, wrote
"sarcastic comments" on tho margin
of a copy and mailed it to him. As a
result only one member of the Cbal
oner family of his seven brothers and
sisters was Invited to his wedding at
Castle Hill, in Albemarle.
Wants Judge Impeached,
It was Federal Judge Holt who
committed Chaloner to the asylum,
and be ls trying to have the judge Im
peached. Ho says that bo has scat
tered petitions throughout Virginia,
North and South Carolina asking the
people to sign and forward them to
Congress for this purpose. He has
also addressed a letter to President
Taft, asking for a safe conduct, so
bo can go to Washington and lay lils
fight against tho lunacy laws before
the judiciary committee of tho House.
Mr. Chaloner ls ono of tho most
Interesting figures before the country.
Horn of a wealthy family in New
York and inheriting a considerable
fortune, be fell out with bis family,
who thought lils doings so eccentric
that they applied for a writ to have
him palced in an Insane asylum, and
his property to bo managed by a
committee to be appointed by the
court. Ho was pronounced insane
and committed to Dloomlngdale
Asylum, from which be effected bis
escape and went to Virginia, where
he had landed Interests. From bis
retreat there be conducted lils fight
to have tho New York courts declare
him sane and to return his property
to him. This bo bas not yet accom
plished, although ho ls held to bo
sane In Virginia. North and South
Carolina, and New York can't get
him.
Changed His Name.
When be went to Virginia ho
changed his name to Cbaloner, and
is well known throughout that State.
lils fight against the lunacy laws In
New York and other States has at
tracted natlon-wldo attention, and
he is to-day declared to he the best
authority on this subject in tho
country. Ile bas lectured throughout
Virginia and North Carolina, and is
at present in Raleigh, N. C., the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. William J.
Andrews, and at a large reception
given in his honor there last week
over 1.r>0 guests, including Governor
and Mrs. Kitchin and Judge Walter
Clark, Chief Justice of tho Supreme
Court, attended.
Mr. Cbaloner ls a widely travelled
and wonderfully read man, having
attended school In England and vis
ited many parts of the world.
Dig Dlazo In Dirminglmm.
Birmingham, Ala., Doc. 20.-The
six-story plant of the Birmingham
.Paper Company, on First avenue, was
totally destroyed by firo to-night with
a losa estlmatod at moro than $200,
000.
MURDERED FIGHTS TO THE DAST
Hold Entire Police Force at Hay Four
Hours-Three Shot.
Memphis, Tenn., Dec. 19.-While
10,000 people crowded in the streets
below and cheered, n force of polico
rushed Adam J. Border's room in a
down-town lodging house at noon and
killed him. He had fought thom con
tinuously for four hours. Ile fired
ten shots from two revolvers at tho
police after they had forced their
way into his room and shot him live
timos. Behler was hunted down for
tho murder of his wife.
The murder occurred during the
evening. At 3 o'clock this morning
the police located Behler. Five pa
trolmen entered tho ballway leading
to his room. At the approach of the
olllcers BeMov opened lire and fatally
wounded Patrolman Wooten.
The olllcers summoned aid. Fifty
policemen and a volunteer force of
100 men responded. Sergeart Brett
thought bo saw Behler emerging
from the room. Ile tired and killed
Spalding Parsons, a druggist.
Patrolman Charles Davis made a
dash for Beti Ire's door and was fatal
ly wounded. The Aro department
was called. One of the firemen bored
a hole through the door of Holder's
room and Injected formaldehyde.
Later the entire dav and night
shift of the police force was called
out. Tho firing continued steadily
for four hours. .More than 1,000
shots were exchanged. Behler bad
5,000 rounds of ammunition, three
rifles, a dozen revolvers and two shot
guns.
Finally the police ripped a plank
from the flooring. Behler was kneel
ing on his bed. The police shot him
Ave times, and be fell firing a revol
ver. A sixth sh/t killed bim.
Child Tells of lulling.
Behler, who carno to Memphis
from Indiana in a houseboat, attack
ed his wife, from whom he was sepa
rated, in a boarding house-where she
had apartments with her. four-year
old daughter. Other occupants of the
house beard the two scuming, but the
only witness to tho killing was the
child, who met the officers summon
ed with tho announcement that "papa
hos killed ninnimn." Tho woman
was found lying on tho floor, ber
throat slashed. She died within a
few moments. According to the
child, Behler, after cutting the wo
man's throat, deliberated ? moment,
washed hts hands, and left before the
policemen arrived.
Behelr was traced to his rooming
bouse on Main street, where he bad
entrenched himself alter driving his
room-mate from tho room. A demand
that he surrender was replied to with
a bulelt through tho door, and a mo
ment later Parsons, attracted by the
shooting, appeared on a balcony of an
adjoining building. Brett, armed
with a riot gun, was standing guard
on tho street, BO yards distant, and
when he saw the figure of tho man
and heard an exclamation of warning
from a bystander, opened fire. One
of the bullets lodged in Parson's ab
domen, another in his leg and ano
I thur in his thigh.
Third Victim Yields Life,
j Mern ?ibis, Dec. 21.-Spalding I
Parsons, 33 years old, drug clerk,
died to-day, the third person to yield
his life in n series of tragedies in
I Memphis earlier in the week.
THE STATE FA KM WHS TO MEET.
President Dubbs Issues Call for Meet*
lng January {.??.17.
The following announcement has
been made by E. W. Dabbs, president
of the State Farmers' Union:
"A special meeting of tho South
Carolina State Farmers' Union will
be held In Columbia Thursday, Janu
ary 16, 1913, at 3 p. n.., and will
probably continue in session through
tho 17th.
"This announcement has already
been given to thc press and lt ls now
our desire to state tho place of meet
ing. Tho president of the University
has given the State Union the use of
the ball in LeConte Collego building
for the meeting. This building ts on
tho University camput, at tho corner
of Pendleton and Bull streets.
"By meeting on the University
grounds an opportunity will bo af
forded the officers aud men i.ers of
tho State Union to como Iii closer
touch with this great Institution and
Us work.
"All county unions are urged to
send delegates on tho usual basts of
representation. All members of the
union who can do so are Invited to
attend. This is an important meet
ing and a full attendance ls desired.
"Secretaries are requested to send
tho names of delegates to the State
secrtary ns soon as they aro elected.
Sonio nnmes have already been
sent In, E. W. Dabbs, President.
"J. Whltner Reid, Secretary."
Postage stomps Dy the Mile.
Washington, Doc. 21.- Postage
stamps in mile lengths soon will bo
printed by tho government as tho re
sult of the Invontion of a machine by
Bonjamin Ft, Stlcknoy, of the bureau
of engraving and printing.
Tho now machine will print, perfo
rate, gum, dry and clthor cut into
sbeots or coll in milo lengths tho pro
duct of Hie press. It will save the
government a vast sum of money, for
lt is churned by tho invontor that it
will cut down the cost of producing
stamps at 'cast 57 por cont.
THAIN WRECK BEGAN ROMANCE.
Miss Gould nn<l Mr. Shepard Met
When Trains Crashed.
St. Louis, Mo., Dec. 19.-A story
was current here to-day that the en
gagement of MIBS Helen Millor Gould
and Finley J. Shepard, assistant to
President Bush, of the Missouri Pa
cific Railway, was hastened, If not
brought about, by a l'allroad wreck
on the morning of October 2, when
a west-bound West Shore train on
which both were traveling was
wrecked near Crittenden, N. Y.
Attached to tbl? train was a pri
vate car in which Miss Gould and ber
party, including Mr. Shepard and E.
B. Pryor, one of tho receivers of tho
Wabash, were traveling from Now
York to Chicago. Mr. Shepard bad
joined the party at tho last minuto.
Ho was in Chicago preparing to re
turn home when a message from Mr.
Bush directed him to go to New York
and escort Miss Gould to Ghlcngo,
where she was to attend a convention
of tho Railroad Y. M. C. A. On ar
riving In New York Mr. Shepard ar
ranged tho details of the trip, and
on tho afternoon of October 1st the
parly started.
Found a Common Interest.
Then lt was that Miss Gould learn
ed that President Bush's assistant
was as Interested lu tho Railroad Y.
M. C. A. work as sbo. Ho. know nil
about the work, and ho had lout his
energies toward its advancement.
Miss Gould and the railroad presi
dent's assistant had mot boforo, and
from tho moment of the meeting she
bad liked him. She liked him bot
ter as he told of his .'n te res ts,' his
work and his ambitions.
Until Syracuso was reached Miss
Gould's car was the last on the train.
Then Col. Roosevelt's private . car
was attached. It was explained that
it was going only ns far as Buffalo,
whero lt would be taken'?ff.
At 2 a. m. thero carno e. grinding
of wheels, a sudden smnsh and the
train came to a halt. This was fol
lowed by tho hiss of escaping steam.
Miss Gould and the yo?ng woman
with her dressed quickly. Mr. Shep
ard and Mr. Pryor left the train to
learn tho cause of the trouble. They
learned that their train had crashed
into the rear of another, that a num
ber of persons wore hurt, some prob
ably mortally. Mr. Shepard turned
to carry the news back to Miss
Gould, but sh?? was not in her car,
and be began a search for lier. He
found ber bending over bleeding and
suffering men and women. ,
Worked Together nt Rescue.
Mr.. Shepard was no more pleased
with seeing the heiress to the Gould
millions in this work than she was
at seeing him. At times tho two
worked together and at times they
were separated, but never long. After
the wreck had been cleared, In the
darkness of the early morning, so the
story goes, Mr. Shepard told of his
love for thc heiress. At any rate, it
ls said the engagement dates from
the morning of the wreck.
Luck favored Miss Gould and Mr.
Shepard In more than ono way in
that wreck. It was said afterward
that, had not the heavy Roosevelt
car been attached to the other private
car, the latter almost certainly would
have been thrown from tho rails, as
other cars on tho train wore, and
Miss Gould and her party Injured."
The weight of the Roosevelt car hold
thc car ahead on the rails.
DLACK SPOT FOR CAROLINA.
Negro Charged Witli Minor Offense
is Lynched by Few Men.
Orangeburg, Dec. 21.--Last night
a negro, John Felder, was takeu from
the guard house at Norway, Itt this
county, by unknown persons and
lynched. A warrant charging Fel
der with obtaining goods under falso
pretenses was issued by Magistrate
Baggott, of North, and tho negro
was arrested yesterday by Magistrate
Tyler, of Norway, and lodged In tho
guard house at that place.
Later Magistrate Tyler received a
message that the case against Felder
had been sottled, but before tho ne
gro was discharged ho was taken by
unknown persons and shot to death.
An Inquest was held this morning,
but after thc jury took some of tho
testimony it adjourned until noxt
Tuesday.
Statement from Magistrate.
Norway, Dec. 21.-John Felder,
nogro, was arrested and locked up
yesterday afternoon on a warrant
for obtaining goods under falso pre
tenses. The guard bouse was broken
opon last night and the prisoner
taken out, tied, Carried about two
miles from town, and lynched. Tho
body was left lying on tho sido of the
road. In the absenco of any testi
mony the Inquest was adjourned un
til next Tuesday. D. S. Tyler.
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Campaign Expenses, Two Cent?.
Washington, Dec. 19.--The Social
ist candidate to Congress from tho
First South Jakota District, E. M.
Jacobson, of Sioux Falls, rpont two
cents for his campaign, accord ng to
his report to tho Houso to-day. This
was the prlco of tho stamp that
brought his oxponso statomont.
~Ilonies for Delegates.
Homos will bo provided for alt
delegates that attend tho union
meeting at Rocky Knoll church on
December 28th and 29th, 1912.
J. W. Abbott, C. 0.
