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_S VO0L. XI V _MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMNBER 5 99N. SAYS COOK LIED When He Claimed to Have Been to the North Pole PEARY'S VAIN BOAST That BM Aloe. Beached the Goal is No5 Strange, Bu t is Not .meepted as True by Mauy Scien tic Men, Who Award the HoMr to Cook Al=e. The lie was hurled Wednesday concering the discovery of the North Pole. and the foundation laid for a controversy unparalleled in his tory. Commander Robert E. Peary is makin uncertain progress south ward off the coast of Labrador in his shlp, the Roosevelt, but there came from him Wednesday a mes sage as direct as his homeward jour ney has been slow. It challenges the veracity of Dr. Frederick A. Cook. of Brooklyn. and further com plicates a situation which the whole world is discussing In effect Peary discredits Cook's claims with the intimation that he (Peary) and he alone. planted the American flag at the North Pole on April 6, 1909. and that Dr. Cook who asserts that he ukfurled the flag at the pole on April 21. 1908. must substantiate his claims. Pearys statement reflecting on Dr. Cook's achievement came 97st to the Associated Press early Wednes day morning. dated Indian Harbo-. Laborador. the point through whicz he first reported his success by wire les. It had probably been delayed In transmisson and read as follows: "I have naled the Stars and Stripes to the North Pole- This is authoritative and correct. Cook's story should not be taken to serious ly. The two Eskimos who accom panied him say that he went no dis tance north. and not out of sight ot land.- Other members of the tribe corroborate their story." To the Associated Press Peary had sent the dispatch. replying to an urgent request for an authoritative statement and some comment con crning Dr. Cook. While Peary's assertion is of a nature that makes Dr. Cooks position one of defence. the Brooklyn explorer yet has sup porters both at home and abroad. Many of the Continental scientists are marking time, pending develop ments. while those who have formed no decided opinions in this country have assumed a similar stand. STANDS BY COOK. Oe et Peary's oemet Surgeous Defends cook. Dr. Thos. H. Dedrick, of Washing ton. N. J.. who was surgeon of the Pesry expedition in 1898-1902. promptly came to the support of Dr-. Cook Wednesday. He said: 'The charge (referring to Peary's statement) may lesson Mr. Cooks andin In popular estimation until his defence can be heard, but the scientific world winl be affected only by scientifie discrepancies. Dr. Cook will undoubtedly have scien tific records and observations with out Eskimo proof. -if Eskimo proof is needed. there are enough admirers of fair play In the world to send impartial Inter preters to the tribe." analyzing the Eskimo character. Dr. Dedrick Is inclined t think them unreliable. -with 'a temperament which would lead him to agree for savIty's sake and because of Imme dite benefit with a man on the spot. having a ship loadei with what Is most dear to an Eskimo's heart. This would be especially true." ar gues Dr. Dedrick. "if their former benefactor had departed homeward as Cook did on a sled with no halc of a ship's prestige." In conclusion Dr. Dedrick said: "Suplaose (look next year went up and distributed presents as shipe do. and asked If his rival had got ten out of sight of land and they aid 'no.' what matter would it make to the publie?" Other Important parties may yet be heard from- 'The whalers which arrive at Dundee this fall may alsc know what the Eswimos say. Declare Peary a Fakir At New York among the friends of Dr. Cook who rallied to his de fense was Capt. B. S. Osborn, sec reary of the Arctic Club, of Ameri ca. who In an Interview, said: "Peary In making these charger i digging his own grave. He Is a colossal fakir. and his statements arE a fabric of untruths. As soon as he sets foot In New York. Mr. Bradley and myself will give out afadaVit? In support of our position. "I have an affidavit stating that Peay opened Dr. Cook's trunks and data and that he opened a letter Dr. Cook had written to Mrs. Cook, read it and then sealed It up again. Peary also wrote Mrs. Cook telling her baldly that her husbanid was a fakir." Another Cook Supprt Prof. Win. H. Brewer. -of Yale. honorary president for lEfe of the Arctic Club of America. of which both Peary and Cook are .nembers. telegraphed to New York as follows: "I believe that both Cook and Peary have reached the pole." Figures Were Wrong. In our Tuesday's Issue, we stated that there was about $1.500 worth of cotton sold at North. Since theb we have received a letter from a resident of that place. who say's that the sale for Thursday. Friday and siha of last mieek wsere$15,000. WHAT COOK SAYS HE DECLARES HE CAN AND' WILL PROVE HIS CLAIM. Will Send for His Eskimo Compan Ions and Assertb That Peary Took Food Stored for Him. At Copenhagen. Cook, shown Peary's statement Wednesday night stood by his gun, declined to enter into a debate and calmly asserted that his records would sustain him. He said: "I have been to the North Pole. As I said last night when I heard of Commander Peary's success. if he says he has been to the pole. I believe him. "I am willing to place facts. fig ures and worked-out observations before a joint tribunal of the scien tific bodies of the world. In due course I shall be prepared to make public an announcement that will effcectually dispel any doubt, If there can be such, of the fact tha. I have reached the pole. But know lug that I am right and that right ust prevail. I will submit at the proper time my full story to the 1 Court of last resort--the people of the world. "I will not enter Into any contro- E versy over the subject with Com- s mander Peary. further than to say t that if he says I nave taken his e Eskimos. my reply is that Eskimos 1 rs nomae.. They are owned by C nobody, and not private property f either Commander Peary or my- b self. t "As to the story that Command- e r Peary says I took provisions star- I d by him. my reply is that Peary C ook my provisions. obtaining them S rom the custodian on the plea that V had been so long absent that he 'I was going to orgarize relief stations or me In case I should be alive. S For this I have documentary proof.-' b This Is Dr. Frederick A. Cook's t ply to Commander Peary. Com- b g so quickly upon other dramatic c [ncidents of the week. Commander u Peary's dispatch denying that Dr. T ook has achieved the triumph for which he has been feted and honored r n Copenhagen. beyond the lot of F any other private person. has been t ead there with feelings of amaze- t ment and concern. But Dr. Cook c imself seems in no wise disturbed. b [e was perfectly cool and apparent y unmoved when confronted with telegrams from the United States J aying that Commander Peary had n enounced him as an imposter. His 1: emeanor has not changed in the S slightest from the day he' landed a Lt Copenhagen. d When it was suggested to him E at his chances of proving his case ti lght be ruined unless he made a p satisfactory statement Immediately, a e smiled-his usual quiet smile- b and asked how could a man bai ruin- o d by popular clamor calling him d n imposter when he had proofs F f his case which could and would a e published, as he had oft times jJ 'epeated, when they were in proper I. orm to be given out. Regarding the .controversy over i is alleged taking of Peary's stores. ir. Cook asserts that he has written. j and other satisfactory evidence, that 14 Peary took his stores, perhaps be- I lieving him deadi. "Harry Whit rey is personally acquainted with all S he facts. and perhaps what he has e o say when he returns may be in terestig" added the explorer. Dr. Cook told Capt. Sverdrup and S nother friend the day after he had I Landed that be hoped there would be e io unpleasantness over supplies with S the Peary party; that he bad found 8 ome of Peary's men in possession i one of his depots and had turned I 'hem out uncermonioulsly. It is settled that Cook will senai C ran back to bring to America the 'I ;wo Lakimos who accompanied him I 'a the last stage of his journey to d he pole, as well as so.ne of the party t rho were sent back when the start I af the stage begun. Capt. Sverdrup ay command the expedition: It is ( )r. Cook's desire that he shall do I ', and they conferred for several 3 iours a few days ago. Murder and Rubbery. A ba" of robbers, masked and -med with bombs' and revolvers, at ked the postoffiee at Miass. Rus Ia. Wednesday night and af:ar -llling the night watchman 'and bree policement looted the office 'nd made their exape with $40. '00. Ten men were more or 1e53 eriously wounded la the fighting The robbers cut the telegraph wira' 'ind fled up the track on a locomo ie. After traveling some miles, 'he stopped the engine and distp 3 eared into the woods. Cannihals Eat Them. Advices received from the Fee 'ongo say that cannibalism is ram 'ant in the Matab and Sanghar re-j 'dons. where the blacks are in comn-I !ete revolt. They have kIlled and1 -aten a number of factory emnplo:. esl in .telegraph operator was slainl u his key and devoured. Natie ''achents. headed by four Frnc'' fiers, have left for the scene to -unish the cannibals. Brothers in Fatal Fight. As the result of ani encounta- ' e ween two brothers in the McG 't. ess farm 10 miles south of Salem. 'rud., Luther McGinness, aged 4S. s mortally wounded and Horace 'fcGnns, aged 45. lies at his home 'n a serious condition. Since the. 'eath of WIlliam McGinness. father' f the men, who was found dead in i b rn weeks ago. Ei festng ha eine'd hat"'ee: the hy'oth&era. I GRAFT CASES Called and Eleven Men Are In dicted by Jury FOR ALLEGED FRAUDS In the Management of the State Dis pensar--Some Damaging Teski mony Brought Out-Joseph B. Wylie, Former Member of Board, and Three Whiskey Men Testify. The State says the dispensary graft :ases have been brought irto court. Sen once given commission of of lee by the State of South Carolina iow stand accused of crimes and of enses against the State. Bribery. onspiracy to defraud and other se -ious crimes are alleged. Not all of the indictments have een handed out, but the prosecution ppears to have considered well its ase and to have made a move to et a conviction in the cases in which he State has the most conclusive vidence. The indictments were anded to the grand jury in the orning by Sclicitor W. H. Cobb, epresenting the State of South Caro Inl. Attorney General Lyon. who as been at work on these cases for hree years. is assisted by Mr. W. . Stevenson of Cheraw, former peaker of the house or rpresenta ives, and by Mr. R. L. Abney. gen ral counsel for the Southern rail ray in South Carolina, and a lawyer f recognized ability and forc. The grand jury at 3:30 p. m. eard the witnesses and shortly iereafter returned a true bill In ach case. The witnesses were Joe . Wilie and Henry Hamuels of hester, J. A. Valentine Schmidt of t. Louis. J. G. Thorpe of Aiken. T. 7. Collins of Columbia and Jno. . Early of Cincinnati. Wylie is a former director of the tate dispensary and is allegea to ave turned State's evidence. al iough, of course, the proceedings efore the grand Jury were in se et session. Henry Samuols. now tayce of Chester. and close friend of .ylie's: Schmidt is bookkeeper for ie Anheu.er Busch concern, long presented in this State by Jas. L. arnum: Earley for years s'J to ie State dispensary the pro<.ucts of ie Flelsebmann Company of Cin nati. and Thorpe and Collins were Dokkeepers at the State dispensary. The Persons Indicted. The persons under indictment are: as. Farnum. who.is alleged to have iade thousands of dollars unlawful , selling beer and liquor to the tate of South Carolina: John Black. former shipping clerk and later rector of the dispensary; L. W. oyken, a former dispensary inspec r and later member of the dis ensary board: .oe. B. Wylie. who -as a member of the dispensary nard; Jno. Bell Towill, a director f the dispensary; W. 0. Tatum, ispensary commissioner: Jodie M. .awlinson. a dispensary director. nd the following liquor salesmen: no. T. Earley. M. A. Goodman. H. e~r Solomons and Dennis Weiskopf. The indictments in brief are as yllows: First. State against James S. 'arnum, bribery, the bribe being al 'ged to have been given to Joseph .Wylie in the sum of $1,575. Second, the State against James .Farnum, bribery, the bribe alleg I to have been -given to Joseph B. 'ylie in the sum of $1.125. Third. the State against Jatnes Farnum. 3. M. Rawlinson, Joseph .Wylie and John Black, being a rnspircy tco cheat and defraud the tate of South Carolina out of $4. Furth, the Stain against John lack. accepting a bribe and rebate. Fifth. the State against N. A. oodman, John T. Fairey. Dennis 'elkopf, L. Whit Boykin. John elI Towill and W. 0. Tatum. in itment for conspiracy to defraud be State of South Carolina out of 2:.500 in the "label deal." Sixth. the State against E. A. oodran. James S. Farnum. John C. arley. H. Lee Solomons. 3. B. Cylie. John Black and J. M. Raw nson. indictment for conspiracy to efraud the tSate of South Carolina nd to accept and to pay rebates a the sum of $133.000. The Label Deal. In the renowned "label case" it a charged that in March. 1905. L. PChit Boykin and John Bell Towili. nembrs of the board of directors. .nd W. 0. Tatum bought $25.000) worth of labels, which purchase, it s alleged, was illegal. fradulent *nd unlawful, and at a greatly ex essive price, to wit.: $22.500 in *xcess of the value whereby the ;tate was defrauded as the result put of the sum of $22.500. Dennis Weiskopf. M. M. Goodman. .Whit Boykin. L. W. Wowill and .ilam 0. Tatum alleged to have 'een in this conspiracy and to have ,eneted financially therefrom. eiskopf. who printed the labels. sas the proprietor of a glass and' yox factory, and the label transac ion was something new for him, it ,s alleged. Scale of Rebates. The scale of rebates alleged in -e larger conspiracy 's: "That the !aid Jedie M. Wawlin son. Jos. E. Wy!!e and John Black were to accept and receive for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.47 per gallon. $1.59: for every barrel rf whiskey purchased at $1.50 per gallon. $2: for every barrel of whis key purchased at $1.50 per gallon. $3: for every barrel of whiskey pur chased at $1.75 per gallon, $6: for every barrel of whiskey at $1.85 per gallon. $S: for every barrel of wa" er' piurchased at $2 per gallon. HAVOC OF FLOODS PRIESTS BRING NEWS OF DE. STRUCriON IN MEXICO. Towns Entirely Wiped Out and Thousands of People Drowned by Mexican Freehet Advices from Monterey, Mexico. is to the effect that a number of village priests. after making jour neys over miles of devastated coun try, have arrived there. bringing the fIrst news of the destruction wrought by the recent floods in the outlying districts. Their stories indicate that the havoc is more widespread and terrible than was at first be lieved. The priests of Arramberi have informed Archbishop Lenares that Arramberi was destroyed, and today his people are wandering over the country in search of food. The de struction of the roads has made it impossible to send on relief sup plies. The story brought in br the priest of La Ascension is to the effect that this town and its population of 2,000 souls have entirely disappeared. The people, he says. may have taken to the hills, or they may have per ished. "Not a stone was left upon a stone In La Ascension." the priest said. '*Where there was once rich farms Is now nothing but water." Another priest from Allende says that place also disappeared with large loss of life, and that the nelgbboring fields have been con verted Into lakes. The priests were more than a week In making their way into Monterey. rhey describe the destructign as the most awful ever experienced in Mex co. Aid Is urgently needed in thesv utlying districts, particularly as the iuthorites are busy with Monterey ML* its vicinity. Bustamemnte and La Escondida ave been added to the list of de troyed villages. COOK'S STORY IS TRUE. ciendsta Agre That PeaWy's Find ings Confirms It. Scientists in New York comparing ommander Peary's achievement with the reports which Dr. Cook ias sent out, were very generally greed that Peary's fndings seem to ,onflrm Dr. Cook's story In several ignicant particulars and thus far se no points of disagreement. The cientists were more positive than tver that the controversy can be set led beyond reasonable doubt by an nquiry before a reco&na.-d scientifc dy. Their almost undivided opin on was that Dr. Cook should not e condemned until his story has een proved false by unmistakable vidence. "Peary's rapid traveling,"~ ad Anthony Fiala, the Brooklyn splorer. "is the most important ~vidence thus far presented in sub tantiation of Dr. Cook's claims." William L. Cook. of Broowlyn, rother of the explorer, was urged . make public the text of three af idavits In the keeping of the Arctic :lub. in which charges are made ganst Commander Peary. He de :lined to do so. however. The af idavits are said to have been made y Francke. Dr. Cook's companion n his last voyage to the north, and y two members of the crew of eary's ship, the Roosevelt. White. s'eward. and Johnson, a seaman. 'Fracke came here and told me hat he had seen."' said Cook's rot her. "and I had him reduc" his ~tatemnts to writing. They can iot be mad1e public, however, until Dr. C'ook reaches America." John A. Hogers. chairman of the 3rooklyn committee of 100 organiz d to tender an official reception to Dr. Cook on his arrival here, comn rnentng on the aspersions cast up mn lr. Cook by Commander Peary, said: "Dr. Cook can recover heavy iamages. His honor is at stake in this controversy and I will advise him to sue Commander Peary to vindicate it." * Crew Mas'sacre'd. The captain and crew of the French schooner Quality, engaged in recruiting laborers, have been mur dered by natives of Mallicollo Island. in the New Hebrides. The vessel was driven ashore by a storm and while stranded sbe was attacked. In spite of their stubborn defense the rew were massacred to the last man. A British war ship is investigating the occurrence, key. $15: whiskey at $2.25 per gal Ion, $17.50 per barrel: at $2.50 per gallon. $20 per barrel; at $3 per gallon. $25 per barrel: barrel of beer. 10 dozen quarts. $1 per bar rel: each case of c'hampaigne, $2 per case: all wines. 50 cents per case. "That tin consideration of such payment and receipt of rebate and oxtra compensation. it was agreed by ant between the said JIodle M. Fawlnson. .toseph B. Wylie and John Blake as chairman and mem ers of said board of directors of the State dispensary composed as aforesaic. should award the contract to the persons, firms and corpora tons represented by the said James S. Farnum. John T. Eary. Morton A. Goodman and H. Lee Solomon ~nd diverse other persons to the jurors unknown. "U'nder the schedule It is charg ed that this board on March 22. 1906. awarded contracts for liquor. ad that Wylie. Black and Rawlinson did accept and receipt from the said James S. Farnum, John T. Early. IM. A. Goodman c.nd H. Lee .meesn a~ otheia $24:06. * TRYING TO tXPLAIN PEARY'S ACTION IN TAMPERING WITH COOK'S MAIL. Bridgman, His Particular Fried Admits That Peary Saw the Men Who Had Cook's Letter. A dispatch from Sydney. B. C., says Herbert L. Bridgman, secretary of the Peary Arctic club, who is to meet Com'nander Peary, arrivsd there Friday evening. Mr. Bridgman denies that he had seen any communication to Prof Helm of Dresden. but said that it was perfectly evident that Comman4 er Peary and Harry Whitney were together for several days and that it would be a resonable zieduction that Whitney had informed Petry ' f Cook's cl'.s and that Peary would gather all available testimony to refute the claim, having he:d the Eskimos' stories that Cook "hrd not been out of sIrbt of land." "I do not think," continued Mr. Brd-gman. "that Commander Peary is bringing Cook's two Eskimo boy witnesses or he would have men tioned the fact. It woud not be an easy thing to bring them down, as they might die. Their testimony would be no more valuable In the United States than as given before the members of the Peary party while north. It will be impracti cable for Cook or any one to send a steamer up for the Eskimos before next year." With regard to the offer of the United States coast and geological survey to arbitrate the controversy, Mr. Bridgman said: "I know that Commander Peary will be perfectly satisfied to abide by its verdict. Peary has a commis sIon from the survey to take certain abservations and data, and will sub mit his results to that board. "Cook's two witnesses," continued Mr. Bridgmand, "are from 16 to 20 years old. The other six Eski mos who declined to go returned with Cook's letters to his wife, John R. Bradley and Rudolph Francke, dated Capt Thomas Hub bard. Commander Peary, .In a se ries of conversations with the na tives, found that the letters were not written where dated. The Es kimos told of the number of sloops passed since they parted company with Cook, but it may be the na tives did not te' the truth to Com mander Peary. It will depend large ly on the natives' testimony whether or not Cook was where he claims to have been." In further exphnation Mr. Bridg man said b- s-:p.sed Francke show ed the Cook 'etters to Peary. which naturally aroused curiosity to ques tion the natives who brought them south. PRICE IS FIXED. Parmers Ask and Should Get Fif teen Cents for Cotton. The Farmers' National Union met at Birmingham. Ala., last week. The report of the committee on min imum price of cotton was accepted 1nd the executive committee was !nstructed to "reveal or raise, or lower the fixed minimum at their own discretion," at Friday nights ression. When the committee report was firet submitted there was jspirited iiscussions and the report was sent back to the committee for amend mntn. The amended report was the one finally adopted. Nothing could be learned as to the minimum fixed. but it is believed to be about 15 eents. This shows that the farmers are very 'modest in their demands. Considering the shortness of the cot ton crop this year, fifteen cents is a modest price to ask for the staple. It can be easily had if the farmers will not rush the cotton on the market. Market the crop slowly and fifteen cent cotton will be realiz ed in a few weeks. Members of the union were in structed by the convention to use their best efforts to get all cotton warehoused immediately after gin ning. Members were also instructed to be liberal to brother members in making loans on distress cotton. The Alabama delegation present ed a beautiful silver service to Mrs. Barrett. wife of the president of the union. President Barrett appoint ed the trustees and' executive com mittee of ithe National Farmers' college, which is to be erected with in the next few years. The executive committee is com posed of C. S. Barrett. chairman; H. S. Mobley. secretary: R. F. Duck worth. P. W. Cox and A. C. Shu ford. The trustees are H. S. Mobley, of Arkansas: R. F. Duckworth. of Georgia: A. C. Shuford, of North Carolina: S. H. Knigh't, of Florida: 3. J' Fobinson. of Alabama; J. E. Montgormery, of Tennessee; John Grady. of Kentucky: T. W. Burkett,. of Illinois: T. 3. Douglas. of Mis souri: 3. .K. Armstrong. of Ogiaho ma: A. F. Dornblaser. of Texas; Mr. McCollater. of LouIsiana: S. L. Wil son, of Missisrippi: P. W. Cox, of Washington, and 'R. W. "allicotte. of Co'mrado. Killed by Airship. At Juris sur Orge. France. E. Lefebvre. the French aviator, was killed by a tall in his aeroplane in whIch he was practicing over the av~ation field Wednesday afternoon. M. Lefebvre sustained mortal in' juries when the machine crashed to the ground. Ald was rendered him but he died soon after. The can~sE DODGED TARIFF that is *bat Mr. Bryan Says of President Taft IN SPECIAL ARTICLE In the Atlanta Journal the Great Commoner Discusses the Differ. ence Between the Words Revised and Reduced and Puts Tariff Out rage Up to the Republican Party. In a letter to the Atlanta Jour'l discussing the tariff, Mr. Bryan says the Republican platform was ambig uous, and the Democratic party plat form specific. The Republicans in their tariff plank used the word "re vised." The Democrats in their par ty platform demanded a reduction of the rates. The word revision is subject to a double interpretation, while only one construction can be placed upon the word "reduction." The Democratic senators and rep resentatives who had voted for the imposition of duties had made a mistake, and whether elected upon or before the adoption of the plat form of the party, ought to feel bound by Its declarations. I most heartily approve the reso lution offered by Senator Gore, of Oklahoma. proposing an Investiga tion as to the responsibility for the high cost of living. Senator Gore Is entirely right. The high tariff Republicans have tried to shift the responsibIlIty from the manufacturers to the mer hants. This is Important, and It is only right that the public should know the truth. It has been found by experience that unless a party formulates a -'atform. Its representatives in office cannot agree upon a definite policy. owing to the Influence brought to bear by favor-seeking corporatdona Even when there are platforms th'ey are minonstrued unless they are positive and specific. Sometimes positive and specific platforms are violated, but a positive and specific platform is not apt to be violated. and when they are violated the guilt can be fixed and the guilty punish ed. The trouble with the Republican platform of last fall was that It was not specific and definite. The tariff plank used the word "revised" in stead of the word "reduced," and now Senator Aldrich and his crowd construe it to mean an Increase while some of the western Republicans asist it contemplated a decrease In tha rates. Mr. Taft dodged the question. So. far as I could learn from his speech es the nearest he ever ,came to a nstruction of the platform was 1o eclare, when In the west, that it eant an "honest revIsion," at one ime declaring that while some chedules ought to be raised and some lowered, the revision would robably be downward. The Fepublican national conven ion was at fault In accepting so ndefnite, so evasive and so decep tve a word as "revIsion" as a quf icient promise. The voters ougrs to ave known that "the friends of the ariff" will never give us any ma erial reduction. As to the Democrats who voted fo:- the imposition of duties, they ave as a rule defended their con dct on the ground that the duties oted for were revenue duties, and hey have not been high duties. teasured on an. ad valorem basis, he duty on lumber and on iron ore re but a small portion of the price. E think that the Democrats who vot ed !or the duty made a mistake. The Democratic platform demand d free lumber, and I believe a plat form is binding upon all who run upon it, and it ought to have weight with the members of the party who were elected before the platform was adopted. Those who voted for a duty on lumber did so. I presume. because of lumber interests in their districts anC States, but in doing so I think they gave the preference to a few wners ot timber lands over those who buy lumber. There Is no State in the Union where the consumers of lumber do not outnumber the per sons who profit by the tariff on lum ber. and the man who votes for a tariff on lumber votes to tax a ma jority of the people of his district and State for the benefit of a minor ity of his constituents. But the men who get the bentfit of the tax are more active In presenting their demands than the consumers are n presenting theIr protests, and as long as this is true, the tax eaters will have the advantage over the tax payers. If the taxpayers 'would take a little more Interest in the tariff question and chastise the representa tives who. Ignoring the interests of the ?consumers, follow the agrice of the protected interests, relief would come somer. As to the dUty on Iron ore, the Ichief objection to it is not that it Is a high rate of duty, but that It heli' people who do not need help. and gives an exetie for higher du ties on manufactured Iron. The man who owns a bed of iron has such an enormous advantae over the man who owns farming land that It Is hardly fair to make the farmer pay tribute to the oie owner. Every duty placed upon raw ma terial is a burden upon the manufac turer unless he is permitted to trans fer It to the consumer. A tariff Ion iron ore, therefore. is likely to be tranferred to consumer. A duty put upon raw material increases as It proceeds, interest being added each step-It grows like a snow ball n te swewa- a 1 mn worn eectiOn WILL BE PROBED SHOOTING OF MRS. G. C. BIGHAM LEADS TO ARRESTS. Coroner Swears Out Warrants for W. B. Avant, who Shot Mrs. Big ham, and for Her Husband. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says Coroner C. J. Fletcher Tuesday swore out a warrant for William B. Avant as principal, and for Dr. J. C. Bigham as accessory for the killing of Mrs. G. C. Gigham. wife of '. - latter, a Murrell's Inlet, on Saturday night last. The verdict of the coroner's jury reads as follows: "That the de ceased came to her death by a gun shot wound at the hands of W. B. Avant and G. C. Bigham as accessory thereto. both men laboring under great mental excitement and fear at the time of the deed." It is the strong opinion of every one in this neighborhood that the shooting was inexcusable in its gross carelessness, and deserves to be in vestigated to the bottom. It Is re ported that one of the probable caus es of the men shooting at the un known object was because Sunny side house was said to be haunted. and they thought it a ghost. The deputy sheriff is expected to arrive with the two men tonight. Dr. G. C. Gigham. ot Ceorgetown county, who was Implicated by the coroner and Jury in the killing of his wife at Murrell Inlet, was ar rested at the home of his mother. Mrs. M. S. Bigham. at Forestville, Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Harrell. Dr. Gigham was carried to Florence and placed in jail upon telegraphic Instructions from the sheriff of Georgetown. PHWMCIANS FIGHT PRTLAGRA. Campalgn AdaInst Supposed Germ of the Disease. Alarmed by the number of Cases of pellagra that have occurred at Durham, N. C.. the physicians of that city began Wednesday experiments to locate the origin of the disease. Six deaths from pellagra have oc curred In that section. A dispatch from Durham says: "An examination of the blood of a powerful negro who has the dis ease in most aggravated form re vealed a distinct organism and speci -nens were sent to Richmond and to Johns Hopkins for more careful analysis. "If a germ is found. as physicians are inclined to believe, some ani mal will be inoculated and a cam paign against pellagra ^n the germ theory will be waged. The theory that the disease has its origin in corn has been abandoned by the physiins at Durham, but a fierce war against the importation of Wes tern corn is being conducted. "Dr. McCampbell of the State hos pital has written a paper treating with 12 cases of pellagrous insanity and death. Three-fourths of the cas s were among women, which is un asual, it is said, as the disease oc urs more frequently among men. None of the cases which have devel ped in that section has been trace able to cornbread. One victim was a boarding housekeeper, but none of the boarders contracted the disease." DRAGGED BY TRA~I. The Narrow Escape of Conductor Davis From Death. A special to the Augusta Chroni le from Columbus. Ga.. says John H. Davis. a Central of Georgia rail road conductor, residing in Colum bus. while walking along tho top of his freight train r'n Lee county. Ala., Wednesday. lost his balance and fell between two coal car. ust as he struck the track he grasped the grab iron of one of the cars and was pulled along in this manner for three miles, his feet dragging the ground. When the train approached a trestle he man aged by superhuman effort to pull himself up and threw himself out between the two cars, fortunately clearing the track as he fell. His left ankle was cielocated and he was severely bruised, but he will recover. DEATH OF A HERMIT. For Forty-six Years Bad Not Left His Premise. Basil Hayden. who died recently at Gree:.brier. Ky.. had not stepped outside the picket fence that bound ed his y.ird since President Lin coln freed the slaves. It is said that he shut himself in a little room that day in 1863, after hIs sweet heart died, and looked no more up on men. An overseer of Hayden's estate named Borders was the only human being whom the anchorit4 raw, and he took care of Hayden s property until a mistake in account ing made by a bank clerk exasperat ed the hermit. Thereafter the ro cluse hid an estate which will amount to nearly $100,000 in chinks and pillow slips and cast off cloth Ing. Died on the Rail. Identified by a letter from their mother. two young men. J. J. and P. Hf. Chastain. if Pelham. Ga.. were killed three miles east of Lumnkin. Ca., while asleep together on the Seaboard tracks. The boys had stamboat tickets from Columbus. Ga.. to Eufaula. Ala.* able than the ad valorem rate leried upon the unished produet. GONE TO REST CoL James T. Sacon Passed Away on #ednesday WAS BRAVE SOLDIER And Brilliant Writer, Col. Bacon Fought Bravely for the South In. Ing the Civil War and Ably La bored for South Carolina With His Pen for Many Years. Col. Jas. T. Bacon, after a linger ing illness, died at his beautiful home in Edgetield on Wednesday af ternoon, and a disDatch says all Edgefeld and throughout the district is sorrow and shadow, for he was the best known and most universal ly beloved man in the county, and his name was synonymous with all that is pure. genercus. noble and good. Col. Bacon had attained his TSth year. He was descended from splendid Revolutionary stock. His ancestors came from Virginia, where the family had been prominent among the colonists for over a cen tury. Edmond Bacon. for many years a brilliant member of the Edgeteld Bar, and the "Ned Brace" in Longstreet's Georgia scenes, was his grandfather. Edmond Bacon. although a Geor ;Ian by birth. In early life moved to South Carolina, and he, with Col. Arthur Simkins, settled the town of Edgefleld. He had four children, the second, Edmond Speed, being the father of the subject of this sketch. his mother being Sarah Bacon. a cousin to ber husband, she having married twice, her last husband be "'g the Rev. Arthur WigfaliL The Bacon family has been closely con nected with the county's and State's history. Col. Bacon had one brother, the Hon. John E. Bacon, who was secre tary of legation at St. Petersburg when Governor Pickens was minis ter, and afterwards minister to Uruguay and Paraguay under Pres ident Cleveland, and a full sister, Mrs. Baker, of McClellanville, S. C., lnd two half-sisters, Mrs. Kate W. Cheatham, of Edgefield, and Mrs. Dr Trezant. formerly of Columbia. A dispatch from Edgefield to The News and Courier says Col. James T. Bacon was born here. and his long and useful life was spent amidst the scenes of his nativity. After receiving an academic education at this place, be completed his studies ir Germany, making a specialty of music, in which he excelled, and which was one of the joys of his beautiful life. After his return from Germany. he taught music here, and at Anderson, but it was to fournal ism that he devoted his splendid talents. in which field he won for himself a name and reputation, sel 'om equalled in this country. After s~erving with conspicuous bravery in the War Between the States, he re turned home, and assumed the edi torship of Jhe Edgefield Advertiser, and the fies of that paper will best tell how ably and brilliantly he performed the duties of that of~ee. Gentle as a woman, yet brave as a lion, he could write with all the soft ness a.7-. sweetness of Washington Irving. but when necessity and duty demanded it, with all the boldness and fire of Wendell Phillips. During Reconstruction times, when Federal troops were station ed here, and the negro and scala wag held high carnival. Col. Bacon printed the Advertiser in red let ters. and his "Leader" was filled with such patriotic fire and defiance 'is to cause offence to tne Federals. For this he was arrested, and taken to Charleston. but no harm befell him, and he returned home only to continue the bgrave fight for Anglo Satron supremacy. He was a game cock in those stirring days. as he ever was, and never did his red plume lower its crest. After leaving the Advertiser, he. with his nephew. Mr. L. W. Cheatham, conducted the Edgefield Chronicle, a paper that is loved and read by every man, wo man and child in the county, because back of it has been the brains.. wit, and eloquence of Jim Bacon. 'tis correspondence to the Columbia State and special articles to The Sunday News attest the unique style, versatility, and brilliancy of the man. Many of his close friends here have- often urged him to collect and prin-. his writings, but his innate modesty forbade--they would make a volume worthy of his wit and genius. Col. Bacon was never married, but he was beloved and courted by all for his magnetic personality, social attributes and brilliant conversation of powers. One beautiful trait of his character was his lore and loy alty to his immediate family. His venerable mnother, the late Mrs. WIg fall, as well as other members of his family, would often urze him to seek broader fields, where his talent would have won higher distinction and greater pecuniary reward, but he preferred to remain with them. and with his life-long friends and at the home he loved so well, and adminIster to their happiness and support. Now that he Is gone. Edge field mourns for him. as never dId she sorrow for man before. He has left a void that cannot be filled. Swept by Floods. A dispatch from La Paz. Lower Califorrnia. dated September 6, says that that place was overwhelmed by Ia r!ood. No deta~ls as to the damaze wrou;;-t were gIven more than that |.e posonC b&'a was destroy