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pIRS =lE To ARRS PROMISES PROTECTION Declares That the Orts That the Trouble on the South (arolina End of Augusta-Aiken _ Trolley Line is Caused by Strike Sympathizers From Georgia. "Reports come to me that sympa thizers with strikers are from Geor gia side, and as they have violated our Statute law, you should proceed to swear out warrants and arrest them is found in this State. Present situation would not -justify me in sending militia at heavy expense to State," said Governor Blease in a tel egram to Sheriff Raborn, of Aiken County, in reply to a request from the Sheriff for assistance. Here is Sthe Governor's message in full: -T. P. Raborn, Sheriff, Aiken County; Aiken, S. C.-Your wire. I -would^ suggest to superintendent with whom you--have been conferring not to attempt to run cars on this side of river, as they do not carry necessities of life or United States mal, unti people quiet down. Re ports come to me that sympathizers with strikers are from Georgia side, an& as they have violated our Stat ute'law; -ou-should proceed to swear - out warrants and arrest them if found in this State. Present situa tion-would not justify me in sending m:iltia at heavy expense to State. If cars do not run and strikers begin to injure track or destroy property, I will see that it is protected. "Cole Ia. Blease, Governor." The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says Govern or Blease is keeping in close touch with the situation in the Horse Creek Valley. and on account of the situa tien there cancelled an engagement 'he had to speak at- the Pendleton Fair. The Governor will remain at - his oca and keep in touch with the situation, and is doing everything in his power to allay trouble. -Mr. Thos. J. Cheeks of Bath, was in the city in conference with the Governor regarding the situation on the South Carolina side of the river. Mr. Chegkz was emphatic in his statement that the people did not want any m-litia called out, and that while they v-e-e in sympathy with the strikers no violence would be offered to track or property. He said if no attempt was made to run cars every thing would be quiet, but he stated r ~ vey that the people were *ainst calling out any militia. Another Aiken ounty gentleman v ho vas present referred to the sit ration in Augusta. when several citi - rs were shat by militiament after that city had been put under martial l w Ly ?overnor Sown, of Georgia, and he said t hat the people there wera ,;o. bitter against the action or the Governor as a result. Actions of the parties in North Au gutat in forcing the superintendent o0 .g back to Augusta and In pulling *a strike-.breaker off a car that had been run over on the South Carolina side added interest to the strike on SAPi-'n-Augusta Trolley Road. No acts of violence are anticipated by -the South Carolina authorities, but Governor Bjease will keep in close touch with the situation and do ev erything in his power to keep down trouble.. *A dispatch from Aiken says fol -lowing -the riot in North Augusta Sunday afternoon, in which it is stated that at least 600 persons par ticipated in an attack .upon strike breakers and guards operating a car to Belvidere, from Augusta, on the Alken division, Sheriff Raborn wired Governor Blease for assistance. evi dently intending to suppress, through force of armed men, the mob vio lence and lawlesszness now* broken forth on this side of the river and in Alhen County, as a result of the strike among the street -car men. -The wire was sent to Gov. Blease Sunday night and Sheriff Raborn re eyed the above dispatch on Monday aforning. The Aiken dispatch further says that. where conditions and informa tion~ rwrrant same, Sheriff Raborn will certainly pursue to the letter the course suggested by Governor Blease and arrest all disturbers of the peace, -unes they slip over the line into Georgia, and even then they can doubtless be easily secured through 'the proper requisition proceedings. Cotton Crop Otulook. The News and Courier says "if the laws of supply and demand are to govern this year, as we are always assured that they must govern in the years when bumper crops are record ed, we are .at a- loss to see how the price of cotton can fail to -advance very materially within the next few weeks. Careful estimates of the world's needs place the probable de mand for American cotton at not less than 14,000,000 bales, and there are not a few who contend that there will be a call for as much as 15,000, 000 bales. On the other hand, only under the most favorable conditions from this time forward will it be pos sible for a crop of 14,000,000 bales to be gathered." Whether or not this can happen, says the Wall Street Journal, "will depend In large measure upon the ability of the four important States of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina to approximabg their performance of'1911 when they together contributed 7,209,699 .bales as their share of the mammoth crop, although their average for the five years between 1905 and 1909 was 4,640,872 bales, or 41 per cent. of the crop." The planted area in these States is 2,536,000 bales less than last year. The crop got a late start, with scarcely any preparation, whereas in 1911 the land was morE thotoughly prepared than ever before. The quantity and quality of fertilizer us ed wore both very much reduced. It is inevitable that the crop in these States must fall far below that of 1911, even if it approximates the general average for the last seven or eigth years. The Wall Street Jour nal thinks that a late frost might save the situation to a degree, but it admits that none of the States nam ed is well prepared to face this dan ger. There is not a probability that the cotton crop now being gathered will exceed 12,000.000 bales at the outside. It is much more likely to be as low as 11,000,000 bales. Teddy ought to have money, enough left over from his last cam paign to amply finance his present !RAUN -MEN TURNED BACKS AS BANDITS WORKED Blew Open Two Safes of Express Car on Kansas City Southern in Wild Section of Oklahoma. Three masked men who held up and robbed a north-bound Kansas City -Southern passenger train near Potegn,l Oka., at 6.30 o'clock Satur day evening appear to have gotten safely away. Government secret service men and local deteetives have been unable to get trace of them. The bandits blew open two safes in the express car with nitroglycerine keeping the baggageman and express messenger cov4red with revolvers while both .bandits and trainmen hid behind trunks waiting for the two safes to blow open. Part of the saf :s went through the root of the car. The robbers did not molest the passengers or the rest of the train crew. They boarded the train at Frico railway crossing, a mile north east of Poteau. At this point Willie West, a boy who lives near by, saw the trio enter the express car. Willie shouted to the passengers that "there's robbers on the train," but no one paid a.ie'tion to him. At Tarby Prairie, two miles fur ther on, the train was brought to a stop at the order of the bandits. J. L Williams, baggageman, and I. H. Kerr, an express messenger, were held up at the revolver nuzzles of two of the bandits, and the trainmen -ere compelled to turn their backs. While the two worked on the safes the third waited outside the car. After tearing open the envelopes of the registered mail the robbers opened a flour bag which they had brought with them and dumped their loot into it. Nothing was overlook ed. As they were leaving the train one of the robbers forced the train men to empty their pockets. Ex press Messenger Kerr had $7. "You wouldn't a laboring man. would you" Kerr asked reproachful ly. The bandit looked at him hard for a moment and then returned the $7. While the bandits finished up their work they ordered Kerr and Williams to join the head brakeman, who was being guarded by the third bandit outside the express car. The engineer and fireman took no chane as and remained docilely in the cab. A rear-end collision with a freight train, which was following -the pas senger. was prevented by a brake man,who risked the bullets of the bandits and ran down the track to -et out a lantern. The freight same to a stop only a few hundred feet a way from the passenger train. - The robbers quickly disappeared ;r the darkness up Kavanaugh Moan -r'n, firing three shots in the air as bey ran. The country is very wild thus favoring their escape. I'HE WILSON CAMPAIGN FUND. ,hat Each County in the State Has 6o Far Contributed. We publish below the amount bach county so far has contributed to .he Wilson Campaign Fund. The 'ollowing is the amount each county as so far contributed: Richand.. .. .. .. $1,702.60 Newberry .... .. .. ...357.45 Sumter.. .. -.. .. 315.25 Darlington. .. .. .. ...301.75 Marion.. ...........285.25 Orangeburg .. .. . 261.00 Lancaster.....'. .. ..256.60 Marlboro. .. .. .. ...232.42 Florence. .. .. .. ....225.60 Anderson.. .........223.75 Spartanburg .. ......166.25 Dorchester. .. .. .. ...165.65 Lexington.... .. .. ..150.50 Calhoun.... .. .. .. ..143.80 Laurens. ........ .. 140.35 York.. .. .. .. .. ...140.00 Greenwood... .. .. .. 130.75 Barnwell.. .. .. . ...128.45 Fairfield. .. .. .. ..124.75 Williamsburg. .. .. ... 115.75 . Dillon.. .. .. ..-. . 114.64 Chester.. .. .. .. ...111.00 Kershaw .. .. .. .....98.75 Greenville . .... .. .....90.50 Abbeville. .. . ... ...88.90 Oconee. .. .. .. .. ... 88.50 Chesterfield........ .. 87.25 Aiken.. ...... ......78.75 Lee.. ........ ....76.00 Horry .. ...... ....67.00 Cherokee .. .. .. ....6.0.00 Saluda. .. .. .. .. ...59.20 Charleston.. . ... ..... 52.00 Edgefleld...........49.00 Clarendon. .. .. .. ...46.35 Pickens..'...........42.00 Bamberg..........36.75 Union.. .... ......36.75~ Hampton..........24.75 Colleton...........18.00 Georgetown..... .. .. 11.00 Beaufort............9.25 Berkeley...........8.35 Jasper.............3.00 In addition to the amount named from that county above, Charleston has sent on $1,800, and wIll raise at least $200 more. Richland C.ounty will also raise $2,000. This will make $4,000 for Charleston and Richand Counties, and .surely the balance of the State should raise at least twice as much as those two counties. Death of the Little Ones. Among the exhibits at the National Hygiene congress at Washington. was one which most effectively told the story of infant mortality. In a booth draped in black there was an electric globe into which light flashed every ten seconds. Beneath was a notice which said that every time the light lashed a child died somewhere in the civilized world. This means that 360 children, less than one year of age, die every hour; 8,640 every day: and 3,155,760 every year. This num ber of deaths is largely due to im proper care of Infants. The congress, among other things, undertook to prescribe proper care. But there is arother cause of such enormous in fant mortality. This cause is found in the lives of the parents, in their Incorrect habits, in the father's "wild oats", and the mother's obedience to the demands of society and devotion to style. Unhealthy fathers and n'others cannot produce healthy chil dren. Neither can science make unhealthy children healthy, when it has to contend with causes so far re moved. This fact was fully demon strated by their exhibits and by tests that were made during the discussion of this subject, which was one of the most important on the whole pro gram. Mrs. John Epps was recently re leased from an Indiana prison where she had been for twewy-three years for killing her husband. A few days ago her husband's .brother died and on his deathbed he confessed that he had slain his brother and that the wife was innocent. What a monster that man must have gieen to let an T IN HIS HME NEWBERRY FARMER KILLED IN PRESENCE OF FAMILY. SHOT THROUGH WINDOW The Victim Was See i His Home ii G When the Fatal Load Wa- ttired, and He Expired In....edI.ately in the Presence of His Wife and -Lit- ' a tle Son. A special dispatch to The News and Courier says news was received i1 in Newberry early Tuesday morning i of the horrible assassination of 1 Spurgeon Johnson, a white man, in the northwestern section of New- u berry County,, near the Laurens line, at about 9 o'clock Monday night. 4 While sitting in a room of his C home, in company with his wife. hif i: little son and an aunt, Mr. John- i: son was shot on the left side of the g hcad, about the region of the ear, . with a shotgun, the load coming C through a window and killing him a instantly. b Mr. John'son home is on the plan- : tation known as the old Jim Hill r place. He was about 35 years of age. The peace officers in Newberry re ceived telephone messages telling of s the tragedy at about 1 o'clock Tues- i: day morning. Sheriff Buford, ac- p companied by his two rural police- a men, left immediately for the scene e in an automobile driven by Mr. For- c rest Summer. Constable and Sheriff-elect Cannon e G. Blease wainted in Newberry until r about 5 o'clock Tuesday morning for n bloodhounds, which had been re- a quested from Columbia, and driven c by Mr. Waldrop in an automobile, I he. left with the bloodhounds imme- F diately upon the arrival of the train. i: A message from the section of the c killing Tuesday morning to newspa- b per men there was to the effect'that a Mr. Johnson had just come in the c house, after hauling some cotton, and sat down near a window, when the u fatal shof was fired. It is said he had f had no trouble with any one recently, e and the perpetrator of the deed and e its motive are unknown. 0 The message stated that a negro, t Billy Thomas, had been arrested in e connection with the affair, but later was released after he had shown con clusively that he was 'possum hunt- C .ing with white gentlemen Monday night. It was stated Tuesday morning that the bloodhounds carried to the t scene had trailed from the house e here the killing occurred to the pub- t lic road, a distance of some six hun dred yards, and had there lost the r trail. The scene of the killing is o about eight miles this side of Cross t Hill. * - Coroner John Henry Chappell held t an inquest Tuesday morning, the ver- a dict being that Spurgeon Johnson g came to his death at the hands of un- i known parties. Early Tuesday morning, while in l search of a negro who was suspected o in connection with the killing, Mag- c istrate -William Dorroh and a partya were attempting to enter a housea when they were fired upon by a ne- i gro in the house. The fire was returned and 0. S.t Atkin and his son, both colored, were 1 wounded. Both were shot in the fleshy parts of their legs, and neither 1 wound is serious. The party was be ing conducted to the house by thee wife of the negro who was suspected.s This negro has not yet been located.s Sheriff Buford and Constablev Blease returned to the city Tuesday afternoon. The rural policemen re-a mained on the scene to continue the I investigation into the affair. They are assisted by a number of citizens. BRUTIISH FIEND IS CAUGHT s He Confesses to the Murder of Two i Little Girls If the story which George Brown Spengler told Monday night proves to be true, then a crime mystery ~ which has puzzled the Detroit police for nearly three years has been clear ed up. Spengler, a laborer, 30 years old, described as a moral pervert, was arrested in connection with the murder of 1 2-year-old Matilda Reis, I whose mutilated body was found in ~ an alley near her home in Detroit ~ last Tuesday. He confessed not only ~ to having killeid and mistreated this child, but told the police he also mis treated and murdered Helen Brown, ' 11 years old, whose body was found a in a coal yard on December 12, 1909. 2 Four other girls have been attacked in Detroit in the last 13 months. ~ One of them was permanently injur- 9 ed and the other less seriously hurt. 1 Spengler admits responsibility for two of these offenses. In each case the child was attacked as she was a sleep in her parents' 'home. Campaign Fund Scandal. The revelations that have been brought out about the scandal cam paign funds before the Senate com mittee appointed to look into the matter is simply amazing. It was known that great sums had been rais ed from time to time for the Re publican party, but very few suspect ed that the corporations were such liberal contributors as the evidence taken by the committee shows the m to have been. The contributions to Roosevelt's campaign in 1 90.3 by the corporations -was very large. "It was known of all men that Col onel Roosevelt would easily win. In the face of .this, however, it now de-I veops, that Wall Street-includingt Standard Oil, Mr. Harriman, and Mr. Morgan, gave the National Republi an committee. at that time, $1,500. 000. That this immense gift was ade to insure the election of Col onel Roosevelt is out of the ques tion. That they were made in the hope of favors to come''is the more '" reasonable explanation," says the Augusta Chronicle. The Chronicle thinks that Sena- n tor Dixon's statement before the d committee "that he had received dol- p lars by the hundreds of thousands Bi for the pre-convention campaign of In Colonel Roosevelt and had spent ft them as he saw fit and best, keeping di nc books and making no records of al receipts or expenditures," proves that s< the exaction of publicity to campaign el contributions as now provided by Ipa law, is little less than rediculous. r1 As the Chronicle says "so long as it t'ere are political campaigns, just k: m long will there be money expenl- ci ditures. To relate this expenditure gi -to expose it and its source to the o> public gaze-will be a difficult task. ti The present publicity law is a start. Ifr It may be that the statute can bew perfected to accomplish the end de- b< sired. At least tongress should s WILL DO THE WORK HE COTTON PIOKER HAS BEEN MADE NEAR PERFECT. t Will Now Be Manufactured and Put on the Market for the Next Year's Crop. "Is the solution of the cotton-pick ag problem near at hand?" asks the reenville Piedmont, which goes on D say: "It seems almost too much 3 even hope that such is the case ut there are indications that it is." 'he solution comes in the form of a iachine, invented by Theodore H. 'rice, well known the country over. 'his machine was invented several ears ago but not until this year has reached a state bordering anything :ke upon perfection. There are any faults to be found with it yet ut according to those who have seen work, it is sure to be in general se in a short time. Mr. Price gave a demonstration rith the machine near Charlotte, N. ., last fall. In the year, which has atervened, he has made sore more aiprovements in it and this -?el he ave a demonstration at Laucinburg, C. Editor Wade H. Harris of The harlotte Observer, saw the machine t work near Charlotte last fall and ,e saw it at work last week at Laur aburg. The conclusions which he eaches are most interesting. Mr. Harris states that to all ap earances the machine is about the ame as it was when it was operated a Charlotte and that on the first icking it does about the same char ter of work. On the second, 'how ver, it leaves less than 3 per cent. of otton in the bolls or on the ground. Mr. Harris says that the machin ry of the picker seems to have a lore rapid and more dependable aovement and that it does better rork is maifest. "However," he ontinues," it is not yet perfected. t is only improved in efficiency. Mr. 'rice conceived the idea of perform ag a second picking for the benefit f the large number of farmers, usiness men and capitalists who had ssembled to see what the machine culd do. The result increased faith in the tility of the machinc. As in the rst going over by the picker, neith r the green leaves, nor the unop ned bolls were injured by the sec nd picking, and the rows gone over he second time were practically lean of cotton. The percentage un .icked would not be over 3 per cent. 'ossibly it would be less than that. )ne hand employed to gather the otton unpicked or knocked out, ould easily accomplish the work. "One notable improvement is that he picking machinery has been low red so as to catch more of the bot om bolls. As was the case last year, he machine in passing over the ows, would bend the stalks for rard. The stalks would sweep back o an erect position as the machine ould pass, but it is this bending of he stalks that leaves any cotton at .11 unpicked. It is like drawing a love through the hand. The fold ag limbs prevents the fin'gers of the icker from getting ta :'. 'his is a detail whic:t will be yet rorked out. That done, the Price otton picking machine will be about s near perfection in the cotton field, s the Mergenthaler machine now Is ' the printing office." One interesting piece of informa ion given by tur. Harris is that Mr. rice expects to have the machines nade in the South when he shall tave been enabled to assemble the ecessary skilled labor and machin ry for the purpose. He is prudently low in booking ordeys. From t~ls eason's try-out he expects to gain aluable experience that will result a progress In the improvements that .re bound to come so it' will natural v follow that the machine of 1913 ill do better work than the machine .ow on the market. MIr. Harris concludes: "Those who aw the operations of the machines the Laurinburg field appeared con inced of two things. That the Price machine will pick cotton and that a uccesful machine picker, one adapt d to any cotton field in the south, Is .t hand. It might be said that the xpermental stage has been passed, he skeptics have grown fewer in umber and faith In Price and his 2achine has risen to about par." Gathering the cotton from the elds has become one of the greatest 'roblems of the year with the south rn farmers. In the ol4en days cot on-pickers were plentiful and their .re cheap but now they are so scarce hat much cotton is per necessity al wed to go to waste each year. In 'exas this year the situation is re 'arded as critical. The planters are nable to secure laborers for neither love nor money". Business men re closing their stores and going ut in the fields to aid In the gather ag of the crop. So that Mr. Price's machine comes s a blessing if it is to be what those rho have seen it in operation say. County Papers andl Personals. Some of the city newspapers often ake fun of country newspapers for tailing the oming and going of ople and other personal mention. ut if that be an offence tlie city wspapers are even more culpabl" >r in their society notes and other rpartments they are lavish in their ounts cf the doings of so-c'alled ciety people. Tho princinie die r ie between the country r'n'! cit:: r( ss is simply in th -n'a P' *.h' ial newspaper c'hronicles the move cnts of people who ar'e generally anwn in the community while th. ty press tells of people whom the rest la~iority of its rend"rs kno' aly by namie. In its pemoaal meI,. on the rural press is singularly free 'om class IAing and flunkeyism, hile there is a strong feeling' that >th characteristics are found in the >cial happenings recorded in the: umns of lnare city dailies. TALKS ON OOD ROADS WHAT THEY MEAN TO THE FAR MERS OF THE COUNt*RY. Question of Transportation Analyzed by President W. W. Finley of the Southern Railway. President Finley of the Southern Railway Company, who was one of the principal speakers at the annual convention of the Alabama Good Roads Association at Birmingham, Ala., on Tuesday, spoke on "The in terest of the Farmers in Hightway Impi ovement," treating his subject in a broad way as covering the en tire transportation system of the United States and embracing water ways and railways as well as the country highways. He said in part: "The value of any commodity is dependent in large measure 'upon the facility with which it may be de voted to human uses. * * * A bale of cotton would be absolutely with out value to a farmer if grown In a field from which it would be a prac tical impossibility to remove it. It has value because of the fact that means are available for carrying it to a cotton mill and for carrying the products of the cotton mill td their final consumers. "I know of no commodity that bet ter serves to illustrate the importance of transportation than cotton. It Is in demand wherever clothes are worn and by far the greater part of the world's supply is produced in our Southeastern states. The price of cotton on the farm is fixed by the relation of the total supply to the world demand and the effectiveness of the demand is dependent upon ability to carry the raw cotton and to carry the cotton mill products irto every inhabited locality in the world. "An Alabama cotton grower is, therefore, interested in transporta tion, not only in his own county and in his own state, but throughout the United States, across the ocean, and in all countries. Onthe other hand, every family in Alabama uses to some extent commodities gathere from dis tant localities in the United States and from foreign counties. Thus we are all interested in the efficiency of world-wide transportation. "More directly we are interested in the transportation system.. of the United States, which embraces three kinds of highways-the waterways, ..he railway, and the wagon road, each having an important function to crform and each supplementing the c hers. With respect to each of these nighways every citizen in a land of :>pular government nas an individu i responsibility." Mr. Finley pointed out that, as the 'tountry highway is the road over which commodities from other local ities must be distributed through an agricultural region and over which all farm products must be moved in the first stage of transportation to market, if any agricultural region is to attain the highest degree of pros perity it is essential that it shall be provided with a system of improved wagon roads. He cited illustrations of the ad vantage of road improvement in spe cific Southern localities and quoted rom a farmers' bulletin issued by the United States Agricultural Depart ment an estimate that such Improve ment of the wagon roads in the eot ton belt as would reudce the cost of hauling 5 per cent. would mean to saving of nearly $2,000,000 a year to the cotton grower. After telling the progress already made in Alabama, tMr. Finley empha sized the importance of each county adopting a definite plan for road im provement so as to benefit the larg est number of road users, pointing out that this would Involve the im provement primarily of the roads radiating from a market town or shipping station. He strongly advised the impor tance of expert supervision in the building of highly improved roads and In the improvement and mainte nance of the outlying roads that could not be rebuilt at once and ex pressed the opinion that it would be profitable for each county to put all or Its road work under the direction of a congetent highway engineer. He suggested that It would general ly be desirable to provide funds for road Improvement by issuing 'bonds and limiting current road taxes to the amount necessary to provide for maintenance, for Interest charges, and for .a proper sinking fund. Con tinuing. he said: While carrying forward the work of improving the country highways and supporting projects for the im provement of the waterways we should not overlook the third ele ment in our transportation system the railways. Even though our water ways and wagon roads should be ims proved to the highest state of effic iency, we would fall far short of hav ing an adequate transportation sys tem without the railways. Our responsibility, with respect to rail transportation Is, therefore, to advocate and support such federal and state policies as, while providing for regulation within its proper field, will assure to our railways an oppor tunity to share in the progress of the country, and so to strengthen their resources tha~t they may be ena,bled to provide adequate facilities and properly to perform their duties as common carriers. Robbers Made Water Hauls. Three robbers early to-day blew the safe in the State Bank, of Krem lin, Okla., and wrecked the bank fix tures, but were friglytened away be 'fore they obtained any loot. Two hours later three men believed to be the same men entered Douglas, blew the safe in the State Bank, of Doug-i las, and again escaped empty hand Wilson and Sulzer Leads. lRetting In the political situation in Wall Street, New York, still fav ors Sulzer for Governor. The odds ae: Suzler, 2 1-2 to 1, Strauss, even, and Hedges T to 2. The bet ting in the presidential situation is unchnged; Wilson 3 to 1; Taft 1 to 3. and Roosevelt, 1 to 4. The betting is not brisk. Another Aviator Killed. Mothosia Kondo, a Japanese avia tor, aged 27 years, was killed Mon day, near Savona, N. Y. The aero plane that he was trying out struck the derrick of a large windmill and the aviator fell about 40 feet, frac turing his skull. Kondo came from San Diego. Cal.. where he obtained his pilot's licena last winter. Snake Chased Marse. A big blue racer sna" e pursued a mouse itno the parlor of C. P. Lam pert's home, at Brighton. Ill., and. paying no attention to ti -a rreams of Mrs. Lampert, kept aftfe - e gmouse 1nd caught it. The woman ran from :he house hysterically calling for 'ie1n. Her husband killed the snake. LAKRE SUM FOUND DIVER FINDS TRAE Of FIVE IL. ION DOLLARS CANNON NEAR THE GLD Bullion Lost in the British Frigate Lutine at the Entrance of the Zuiy der Dee Over One Hundreds Years Ago May Be Raised From the Deep Waters. A cablegram from London says one million pounds in bullion, which! has lain buried for more than a cen tury in the watery safe deposit of the Zuyder Zee may be recovered' from the deep within the next few 1 days. Fine weather alone is stated' to be the factor upon which this rec ord salvage is dependent. If the work of the next ten days is successful it will br ing to completion one of the most romantic stories of 4 treasure hunting known to history. The British filgate. Lutine sank at the entrance of the Zuyder Zee in i October, 1799. She had then on! board $6,085,000 in bullion and mon ey. The Dutch government claimed the wreck and granted one-third of the salvage in 1801 to bullion fish-j era. After much discussion and occa-! sional recoveries, the king o0 the Netherlands ceded half the wreck to Great Britain. About 99,893 pounds was recovered at various times, lenv ing about 1.175.000 pounds within' the hulk, but during the lapse in sal-I vage o rations the site was obscur ed by silt. Many attempts have been made in the last fifty years to re locate the *reck, but only recently I has this ibeen successfully accom plished. For two summers Captain Gardin er of the National Salvage associa tion, at the head of a band of gold seekers, had fought upon the salvage ship Lyons the fierce currents that run between the islands of Vieland and Terschelling. The men on the Lyons still feel the thrill of the wordsof Diver B. T. Baillie, who only recently came up from the wreck with great tidings. W hen they unscrewed Baillie's hel met he turned to Captain Gardiner, "I believe I have found the gold," he said. .Daillie and another diver found a fourth cannon belonging to the Lu tine. Every one of these guns are muzzle losders and are filed with grape shot, with the wooden plug. driven home, all ready for firing. The cannon was hoisted aboardl the Lyons, but no work could ,be done till the following Saturday. On that day Baillie struck what he be lieves to be the treasure. The discovery was made with con s!derable risk. Many times have the divers. been swept off their feet by the tides. By digging and using the same pump the divers have crept under the' only part of the great hulk that re-. mains intact. Baillie, who knows the wreck as well as any man says a great number of the beams in the hull are as good now as when they were built in the frigate. On the decks lie masses of can non ball and shot, but along her ribs are holes and rents showing the brok en, jagger ends of planks and tim-' ber. It was by investigating in one of these crevices that the diver found the bullion. . He had crawled on hands and knees along to the opening and tried to get Inside bodily, but the ragged rents, threatened his life lines and air tugbes. Had the edges of the bro ken timber pierced his driess he would never have seen daylight again. Still he groped on like a blind man. Fifteen times he failed. Eventual hold of some part of the interior. Fifteen times he failed. Eeventual ly, while stretching as far as he dlould around the corner of gaping timber, his hand touched something- hard and square. Baillie knew the "feel" of them. There was, however, no moving the precious metal, so after a vain attempt Baillie signaled to the men above when they sent down a line, and- with this he fastened a -buoy to the hole in the side of the Lutine. They pulled him out of the sand and hoisted him aboard--the man who had stood next to a million pounds at the bottom of the sea. The fall of the deck has impris oned the treasure In the strongest chest imaginable, and it will require a "pill" of dynamite to take it from the grip of the fifteen Inch thick beams. So the Lyons men wait day and night for the wind to go down and the lighthouse for Terchelling fish e in the darkness over the bleak Is land and the wrecks that lie buried in the sand. BANK ROBBED OF CASH. Two Men of Cheap , neert Com pany Suspected of drime. The Bank of Wesley, Ga.. was e' tered by burglars Wednesday nig' t, and after blowing up the safe, the! thieves made away with $1,200. This! robbery occurred j-ust a week after! the robbery of the Bank of Register in the same county. Tuesday the marshal at Wesley had arrested two; men belonging to a cheap concert inpany which had shown in Regis ter the night of the robbery there and in Stillmore IMonday night when w~ unsuccessful attempt was made1 to rob the Bank of Stillmore. He. turned them loose about dark, as he had nothing to hold them on. That night the bank was ro~bbed and thej two quandam suspects were nowhere to be found Thursday morning. GEORGIA BANK IS ROBBED The Robbers Got Only Nine Hundred Dollars in Gash. Safe blowers robbed the Farmer's State Bank, of Register, Ga., earlyt Monday morning, getting away with $9 00. They piled large boxes in thet street for a barricade In readiness I for a fight. The first of the two exC plosons that wrecked the safe arous-I cd F. P. Register, president of the I bank, and he tried to get a shot at 1 one of the robbers from the wido of his home, but obeyed when com-I manded to put out the light in his C house. No arrests have been made T No one seen to know where the rob- C bers came from or whore they went. a BreaiE Father-in-Law's Skull. t A dispatch from Kershaw to The News and Courier says as the result of a family quarrel, Mr. Roddick West is fatally hurt and not expect- ) ed to live. Mr. John Hough, his son- e in-law, during the quarrel struck Mr. t West over the head with a stick, '1 breaking his skull. The affair oc- i orred about six miles out of Ker- a TY THAT I$ DEAD tRUGES, FAMED IN HISTORY AND ART, IS NOW DYING. 'opuhadion Once Two Hundred Thou sand is Now Fifty-Two Thousand -Fifteen Thousand Are Paupers. A special correspondent of the few York World says the sleepiest, lirtiest, poorest, and yet one of the nost picturesque cities in europe uch is Bruges, once on the North lea, now seven miles from the coast. The story of the rise and fall of 3ruges is pathetic. Once, many cen :uries back, the premier commer :ial city of Europe, not excepting enice, Bruges has, for generations >ast, lived on Its artistic visitors, who come thither to paint the finest >f old world scenery. Now gradual these are leaving! What will be ome of the good people of Brug ;aould the exodus continue, heaven mly knows! Already there are 15, 00 paupers among a total population' >f 52,000. A year ago there v-ere 5.000 for sign artists resident in the town, in .uding 3,000 English men and wo ven. Now but 3,000 remain all told. krt buyers have tired of purenasing he same old pictures of Bruges with . noto-!orsly hideous folk and leepy, filthy canals. And not too ioa, it.would seem. It Is calculated .bat 80,000 paintings of Bruges are )aced on the market annually, the ;reater number quite commonplace mnd worth less than $10 or $20 each. In all, some 2,500,000 paintings of ruges are said to be in existence. Bruges in the thirteen and four .eenth centuries had a population of .ore than 200,000 eoulds; it was the -ieheat and gayest eity in Europe; its Inhabitants were noted -for their wit ;nd beauty and for their magnificent mu e. People flocked to Bruges for the best of everything just as they !ock to New York, Paris or London o-day. What a change has come aver the town since those glorious lays! And just because year in and year )ut the waters of the North Sea re :eded, inch by inch, foot by foot,. till Bruges was no longer .a seaport! Canals were built, but only for smal' hipping, and now the coast at Blan kenbeighe is seven miles away. The ireariness is awful. The streets are enpty enough by day, at night After B o'clock no one is seen abroad at all. A solitary threatre is in keep ing with the general tone of melan ,holy, for here the good burghers .an see the latest thing in tragedy. There Is no such thing as wealth L Bruges-that is just what is so ac coodating for foreign residents wh'o manage to live in absurdly cheap style. The food and hotels at Bruges are known far and wide as the worse in Europe; no one has a halfpenny to spend there. Centen arians abound. There are more than 100 in the town-as many as in France and England together. Though Bruges is the city of beggars, par excellence, there are never any to worry the pedestrian. They are all carefully looked after by the state, the old women living in a sort Df almshouses superintended by the Roman Catholic clergy. Such is "Bruges in morte," dying more and more each day. An attempt has been made to revive past pros perity by b' lding a great canal to the coast, Wut this erpensive move It would cost $3,000,000--hs so far not had the desired effect. Bruges is past salvation. CIGARETTE CRaZY. Colorado Girl Set Too Fast a Pase for Herself in New York. Having accomplished the feat of smoking 300 cigaretes In 24 hours, Miss .Pauline McKenzie, young laughter of a wealthy mine owner of Boulder, Col., is in a hospital at New York undergoing treatinent. 'She was taken to the institution after a policeman had found her making an ncoherent speech to a crowd of men snd boys. Upon her arrival from Colorado, eager to see the bright ights of Broadway, she learned that New York women smoked. She de ided to smoke herself and bought 500 cigarettes to begin on. ',rding to statements made at ber hotel when Miss McKensle had finished about 100 cigarette., she went out on the street and brought in a five-year-old boy, telling her fel Low-guests she had adopted him. An our later the mother of the boy was susng a riot in the hotel. Miss Mc Kenie surrendered the youngster snd then calmly went out and get ~other. Riot No. 2 followed. Still the girl from Boulder was not dis ouraged. She continued to smoke m~d wandered away from the hotel in the early morning and a police an picked her up. NOT HEARD FROM IN YEARS. ipartanburg Minister Who Disap peared From Home. Suit has been .brought in the courts yf that county to have Rev. W. P. Wolfe, a minister, who disappeared rom Spartanburg 13 years ago, ad Judged dead in the eyes of the law, hat his estate may be divided among lis children whom he left and who ave not heard of their father since :he day of his departure from home, aying he was going to Asheville. When he left he owned three lots md two buildings at the corner of offord and Wolfe streets, the latter iamed in honor of the departed min ster. From the day Mr. Wolfe left partanburg until now no word has ome to his family, either directly or ndirectly from the man. He has been ~ompletely swallowed .up by the ~arth. The five children heirs want *o divide the property and settle the ~state. VIATOR SAVES DROWNING afAN. n Aeroplane, Speeds Half Mile and Effects Rescue. Rescued from drowning by an avia or, who came to his aid in a hydro .eroplane, was the adventure of Wal-| er Sstrohbach in Hempstead harbor riady. says a dispatch from Seal liff, N. Y. Stroh~bach, a poor swim-| ner, fell from a row boat a half| nile off shore. His plight was 'rought to the attention of Charles Vald aviator. Wald was tuning his nachine preparatory to a flight. He overed the half mile in less than a1 inute, tossed a life preserver to ~trohbach and dragged the drowning J an into the machine. Then heL ade the return flight, with Stroh-1 ach as a passenger. General Strike May Be Called. There may be a general strike in Lugusta as the result of the action Sthe merchants Friday in advising 1 he people to ride on the street cars. 'he carpenters quit Saturday morn: ig as did the tinners. Between four1 F1EY 0TI NO BOOTY FOUR BANDITS FOILED IN AT KTEFT TO ROB TRAIN FOUGHT ROBBERS HARD grave Express Messenger Thwarts Bandits in the Car.--Though Bra tay Beaten he Refuses to Tell . Where He Hides Money.--Shoots One Bobber But Misses the Othe, Four masked bandits bungled in ar attempted hold-up and robbery of a northbound Kansas City Southern. passenger train between Hatfield and Mena, Ark., Friday. One was wound ed anu captured and the other ban dits escaped after a battle with Ex press Messenger Merrill Burgett, of Kansas City, Mo., in which Burgett exhausted his ammunition and was badly beaten about the head and shoulders and refused to disclose the hiding place of 'valuable packages. Burgett shot the robber who was discovered an hour later after his companions had deserted him. The robber is being conveyed to Mena. Fifty more men in an armed posse are pursuing the bandits. Burgett is ir a hospital at Mena. His recovery is expected. The train, known as No. 2, arrived at Hatfield, Ark., about 2 o'clock. The train started and Burgett was busy in his car when the bandits clambered up the side door of the car and. smashed the glass with their revolver butts. Burgett sprang to his most valua ble packages, estimates of the mon etary value of which vary, and, while the robbers poured into the car a deadly hail of lead, secreted them. Once, the messenger says, a bullet pierced his shirt during the interval. The packages hidden, Burgett turned his attention to the invaders, who had now abandoned for a time their firing Into the car. As Burgett fir ed at them the robbers managed to reach through the small apertures made by smashed glass and undid the catch securing the door from the in side, and sliding back the door, sprang into the car, firing on.Bur gett at brief intervals. The messen ger leaped to shelter behind a pile of baggage and met the robbers' on slaught, shot by shot with revolver and shotgun. The train had attained a speed of about 30 miles an hour and apparent ly none of the train nor locomotive crew knew that a hold-up was be ing attempted. A last shot fired by Burgett .before the robbers gained the inside of the car wounded one of the bandits who cried out that he was hit. One robber assisted the wound ed man and as the others sprang in to the ear and cut off the air, the two leaped to the ground. A few more shots and Burgett's shells were gone. The robbers closed in on him and by sheer force of numbers over powered him, although he gave bat tle to the three, wielding the butt of his short shotgun effectively until conquered. The bandits clubbed the messenger repeatedly over the head, crashed their fiats into his face and belab ored him over the shoulders, mean time demanding to know, "Where's that package of money?" Bleading, Burgett crouched in a corner of the car while the robbers 'brutally beat and kicked him, abut the messenger did not reveal the hiding place of the valuables. The train conductor turn ed on the air and the train started or. again. The robbers varied their search for the supposed money pack age with beating and kicking the messenger. They searched the car carefully but Burgett had been too wily for them and they could not find what they sought. Again they cut off the air and made another careful search for the val ubles. This time the conductor feared something was wrong and be gan an investigation. As the con-r ductor came forward with his a trn the robbers took flight and fled in haste. In answer to repeated knockings on the door of the ex Dress car by the conductor, Burgett struggled to his feet and staggered to the door, which he unlockled and fell in a heart at Conductor Lock wood's feet. He was revived. long enough to give a brief story of the attempted .hold-up and the train rushed into I~ena, where physicians attended the miessenger -and a posse was organized to pursue the robbers into the bille. A special tralin hore the posse to the scene. Near there the wounded rober was found. By daylight the hunt was on, and later in the. morn ng the posse was augmented by scores of others Dressed into service by tia authorities. So far as is known the robbers took absolutely nothing from the express car. Tae' ecunded robber. who is unidentife'. rcived a charge of shot in the left breast, near the heart. He will prob ably die. The Turk Must Go. The example of Montenegro in de claring war on Turkey has been fol lowed by Servia ad Bulgaria, and Greece will do the same thing as the war, which is bound to follow, opens up. The Balkan people are nearly all ighters and Bulgaria and Servia have armies that compare in effective. force with some of the most promi nent military powers. The Turk is universally admitted to be a first class fighting man. He has been said by competent authorities to .be the'best soldier in Europe. But, as The Charleston Evening Post predicts, they will doubtless, in the end, get the worst of. the contest, so far as results are concerned-as they deserve to. The misgovernment of Macedonia, the atrocities in Ar menia, the COnstant trouble and dis satisfaction throughout all the Grec ian settlement, have their foundation In the incompetence and oppression of Turkish rule and of Moslem intol rance. The Turk, in spite of his many good characteristics, is a misfit i Europe, and he will have to go. The once great empire of the Turk has crumbled and his power for ef ~eetive rule is broken, and he remains n anomaly and an aggravation. The tates which have wrested their free 1cm by severe struggle and held it y ceaseless vigilance have never been ermitted really to enjoy and improve :heir iberty, because of the selfish 'ess of their great neighbors who tave kept Turkey fixed in Europe meaue each feared the others would hare too generously of her fragments hould she be thrown from her seat. Baptist State Convention. The Baptist State Convention will neet in Abbeville December 3 to 6. nclusive. and the members of the ~aptist Church thdre are making ar 'angements for the entertainment of be 400 -ministers and laymen, who