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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-16
Testimony Sounds Like
Dime Novel.
Yeggman WHO Sent Ruddy
Rabens Behind the Bars
Tells an Interesting Story
at the Trial.
Special to The State.


Walhalla this week by John F.
MCCARTHY, the reformed safe
blower, was thilling and there
fore interesting. H. Rudolph
Ratens was being tried for re-
ceiving part of the money taken
from the safe of the Courtney
Manufacturing company at New
ry, when it was robbed by yegg-
men in 1901.
Mccarthy once was notori-
Gus safe blower, and only in the
past two or three years has he
reformed. He did business in all
parts of the United States and
many were the rewards offered
for his capture. He, with his con-
federates, cracked many safes in
South Carolina, one being the
Courteney safe at Newry in 1901,
and the trial at Walhalla this
week was about the Courteney
safe, Rabens having been one of
the confederates.
When Mccarthy took the
stand he testified in detail how
the Courteney safe was cracked.
He told how a spy was sent in
advance to investigate and how
the gang of three finally succeed.
ed in making away with $1,000
or $4,000. He told of other safes
they had cracked in South Car.
olina and in other States.
When Mr.. st. John Courtenev
took the stand to tell what the
robbers took, he said besides the
$4,000 there was a diamond
brooch taken. This brooch had
been placed in the safe by his
mother for safe keeping. When
Mr.. Courteney came down off
the stand, Mccarthy went to him
and told him that he had that
brooch in his safe in Baltimore
and would take pleasure in send
ing it to him just as soon as he
returned 10 his home in Balti-
more.
This brooch was stolen in 1901
and it is right singular that it
should again come into Mr..
Courteney's possession and the
way that it comes.
Mccarthy is a man of 26 years
He is handsome and intelligent
lie was sentenced twice in North
Carolina, one sentence being for
10 years. He escaped from the
penitentiary and was later can
tured and sentenced in Vermont.
Postoffice inspector Gregory
heard of his capture in Vermont
and went to the federal peniten-
tiary there to talk with McCar-
thy because he knew MCCARTHY
was in position to tell of the safe
crackings in South Carolina.
which were numerous several
years ago.
In the mean time, MCCARTHY
had determined to lead differ
ent life and turned States evi
dence. He came to Charleston
with Mr.. Gregory as a convict
and there took the stand in sew.
eral celebrated cases. and il vas
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-16

All headache5 go
When yon grow wiser
And learn to use
An "Eariy Riser
DeWltts Little Early Risers, safe, sure
pills. Crawford Bros
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-16
Dress Ginghams.

We now have display line of A. F. C. Gnghams
Tor early spring These goods in neat patterns and solid
coors and as long they last will be sold at 10c the yard
case 13c Madras Gnghams sbecia for this sale y
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-16
Suitings.

Our showing of Sutings in wool and cotton
IN beautiful aids the thing for early spring suit
these goods before buy will pleased with them
They only 25c the yard.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-16

luC NUNS for others. VSg Whgg
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The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1907-02-16
COlOred Madras.

We are showing good selection of Madras Goods There
nothing nicer for early spring shirt waists and suits We
have these goods at 10c, II lie and 15c the yard
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
WILLIAMS OR CLARK.

The shadow of partisan politics re-
lating to 1908 is already seen in the
contest between John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi and Champ Clark of
Missouri for the house minority leader
ship in the next congress. The contest
though heretofore carried on quietly,
is represented as determined and
acute, involving practically the atti-
tude of the democratic party in the
lineup for the presidential campaign.
While ostensibly objection to Will
liams is on the score of physical de-
fects for the arduous part of leader, it
is no secret that the real motive is to
secure a thick-and-thin follower of Mr..
Bryan and thoroughgoing radical. In
the st. Louis convention Mr.. Williams
held up a strong hand against the Ne
braska statesman, and in leadership in
the house has shown pronounced in
dependence of his dictation.
A party's record in the congress
preceding a presidential election goes
far towards foreordaining the action
of its national convention, both as to
ticket and platform, or, If Its action be
otherwise foreordained, towards favor
ably disposing circumstances for IL in
the ensuing campaign. As Mr.. Will
liams is among the foremost democrats
who have publicly and unqualifiedly
repudiated government railroad owner
ship and are known or strongly sus-
pected to be opposed in Judgment to
another Bryan candidacy, 1t is natural
that those elements already active in
preparing therefor should seek to sup
plant him in the important place
which he occupies.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
our IN COLORADO.

Out in Colorado they seem to play
politics very much as they do in some
other states.
AS soon as 1t became known that
the republican majority of the Colo
RADIO legislature had agreed in caucus
to vote for Simon Guggenheim for
United States senator, the democrats
became suddenly imbued with an itch
ing desire TO investigate certain ru-
mors which they had themselves been
circulating. To bring the matter to a
head one of the democratic senators
introduced a resolution with a long
succession of whereases, intimating
that he had heard various stories about
Guggenheim to the effect that he con-
tributed $4,000 to the campaign of
Governor Peabody two years ago to
put himself in line for future political
honors; that he contributed to the
campaign expenses of candidates for
the legislature who were to vote for
him, and that he had in his business
accepted railroad rebates, concluding
with a resolution that committee be
appointed forthwith to investigate,
with power to send for witnesses.
books, papers, checks. stubs and doc
uments, and report what they might
find. The investigation resolution, of
course, received widespread publicity
in all the newspapers. with specially
big headlines in the democratic or
gans, and the next day it was laid on
the table without debate.
All this has just happened out in
| Colorado.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
INCOME TAX IN NEW YORK.

A serious movement in New York,
tax system must at this juncture be
regarded as significant. 1t is the more
significant because not the result of
sudden impulse. The stress of the re-
port of the special tax commission APP
pointed under an act of the legislature
passed two years ago to revise the
whole tax code bears upon a scheme
for a graduated tax on incomes, al
though many other changes are also
proposed, including an extension of the
inheritance tax. On the main point
bill has been elaborated by the COM
mission for the benefit of the sitting
legislature exempting incomes below
$500, and imposing tax of l per cent
on incomes up to $4,000, then 2 per
cent to $25,O0O, then per cent to
$50, 900, then 10 per cent to 100000,
then 1 per cent to 5000, 900, and 20
per cent over that figure, with drastic
means for listing and penalties for vio-
lation.
That such measure in the state of
greatest incomes should thus be put
forward is tangible proof of strong
and growing public sentiment in favor
of it's principle. Even in the cities and
in the metropolis itself, the centers of
fixed incomes, there is less opposition
and criticism than were naturally to
be anticipated One important reason
undoubtedly is the preposterous spec
tacle presented by the personal prop
erty tax in New York. The revenue
from this tax has been steadily shrink
ing during a long series of years when
the total value of personally. has no.
toriously been prodigiously increasing,
so that SO far as it remains effective
1t has tended to become a tax on YER
acity rather than on personal property.
Moreover, the matter of revenue is
becoming vital in New York both as
regards the state and the local treas
uries, and 1t is urged that a graded in
come levy of the kind proposed would
be fruitful revenue producer. the
plan being to apportion one-third of
the avails to the state treasury and
two-thirds for local purposes. While
the system is proposed exclusively as
revenue measure, the recommended
graduation would work in with the
| Swollen fortune" phase of the subject
which President Roosevelt has within
year enforced upon public attention.
And the adoption of the system in the
state of greatest income density, or
even It's becoming critical issue there,
would certainly impart a tremendous
impetus to the general agitation and
/ discussion.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
A SWEEPING DECISION.
Increased vitality Put Into the sher-
man Antitrust Act.
Washington Post,

washington fOst'
Decisions of the federal courts have for
several years past, in cases where the con-
tentions or pretensions of mergers, com
blnes or trusts have been at issue, been
extremely discouraging to both the capital
lists and the legal talent in their service.
BEGINNING with the great victory won by
Attorney General Knox in the Northern
Securities case, there has been an almost
continuous series Of decisions by the SUI
preme and district courts in favor OF the
government. The latest and one OF the
most important of these is that of Judge
Lands in the United States district court
of Chicago, delivered last week, which
means that the publication of rebaters
through an Immunity bath" will here
after be impossible. The suit was brought
against the Standard OIL company for &C
cepting preferential rates on shipments OF
oil Judge Lands overruled the demur-
rers brushed aside all technicalities and
struck out for the heart Of the question.
The repeal of the Elkins act, he said, did
not exculpate any who had violated that
act and escaped indictment. The more
stringent law, with heavier penalties, which
was enacted in its place, he said now APP
plies. He stated the object OF the act OF
the present congress in terms that are as
Ineligible to the general reader as to
persons learned in the law. What was
the purpose of congress-" said he, ''in re-
pealing the Elkins law and passing rate
law still more strict and carrying heavier
penalties? The thing sought by congress"
he declared. was a fixed rate for all ship
pers The thing prohibited was depar-
ture from that rate 1t begins to look as
II the rebate law would be found much
less difficult of enforcement than has gen
orally been expected. very prominent
attorney In Ohio is quoted as having said
that Judge lands has done for the in
terstate commerce act, by his decision,
lust what Secretary OF War Taft did for
the Sherman antitrust act as a Judge
in Ohio He has put life into the act end
made Il a real power. II will come to be
known as one Of the most sweeping de-
cisions ever given on the subject of cor
porate control" Relating has long been
a source OF almost unlimited outrage. ut
terly fatal to competition, and the ruin Of
many honest business men. It's prevention
is quite as necessary as is the prevention
OF burglary; in fact, It is more so, for
the burglars operations are on a scale
which, compared with that OF the rebater,
is insignificant.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
A DAILY ROMANCE.
UnfaiIinE Record of the Needs and
Habits of the People.
NIax., vnrt, yUorld

New York World.
The small classified advertisement popu-
larly referred to as a, want ad" has be-
come a daily record of customs, manners
needs and habits of the people. Buckle
said history could not be written with
out statistics; a page of want ads 10
a page OF statistics. Without reference
to the advertising columns of the news
papers of today no future historian can
write fully the story of our times.
AS money Is a medium Of exchange so
a want ad" is a medium OF communica-
ton. It is the real republic of letters
where the rich and the poor, the power
full and the distressed. the corporation
and the Individual meet on equal terms
and have an even chance of obtaining what
they wish. .t
To find O wife or 10 get a baby for
adoption advertise; TO find a fiat or a
house suitable in size, price and situation,
advertise; TO buy or sell furniture, books,
pictures clothing-all the necessities, COM
forts and Injuries of life-advertise; TO
find missing heirs, runaway sons. maynard
daughters, ADVERTISED; to summon the es-
tranged to a deathbed reunion. advertise,
Such has become the general practice.
To know the wages paid and the hours
required in almost any given branch OF
industry, to ascertain whether a majority
of shops I'm a given class of employment
are union or open, what seasons are busy
and what dull it is necessary to read the
want advertisements. They are a daily
compilation of the law OF supply and de-
mand.
The want advertisements constitute a
calendar Of their own. The approach OF
winter is shown by the advertisements OF
Florida and California hotels; Of summer,
by the advertisements of country and sea-
side boarding places, OF boats and fishing
tackle; of fall, by the announcements Of
schools, colleges and mountain resorts.
September and October are unerringly in
dicated by the appeal of the housewife
for domestic help-an appeal heard less
often Just before Christmas than at any
other time OF the year.
The advertising column is the temple to
which the honest people go to announce the
finding of that which belongs to others
Il is the recourse OF those who have lost
things for the recovery OF which they
are willing TO pay reward. Its voice
can reach the ear Of the thief and stay
the hand that would melt family heirlooms
in order to make the disposal OF stolen
property more easy and less dangerous.
The want ad." costing little and mean
ing much-Often the stepping stone from
despair TO hope, from idleness 10 employ
ment, from distress TO comfort-has be-
come, quite as much as the presentati ton
Of the news itself a feature OF twentieth
century Journalism. Its tales, like truth.
are stranger than fiction. They reveal All
the elementary passions. love and hate
ambition and dependency, gratitude and
seIfishness. the desire 20 acquire and the
/ instinct 10 trade. They are all things Ia
all men. as true a self-Tsyelation as man
kind ever made.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
Personal NOTES.

The prince of Monaco is again afioat on
science bent. This time he has sailed for
Spitsbergen to prosecute his Investigations
as to the currents of the upper air.
The Pittsburg milk combine. which raised
its prices when II thought the people were
not looking. chme down with dull thud
when its customers would not longer buy.
That is a pretty good way to break up .
combine.
Milton II. Smith, president of the Louis
Vile g. Nashville Railroad company, will
resign on March 8. His advanced age Is
the reason assigned for the step: he being
now II years old. He will be succeeded
by Vice President George b. Evans.
A st. Louis millionaire, f. s. Ludington,
will crafty a personal within by spending
$4,000 to see in st. Louis a reproduction
of the Campanile of Venice. The tower
is to be 200 feet high and will be situated
between the Auditorium and the chapel
Of the Second Baptist church.
Senator Albert ]. Beveridge, the youthful
statesman from Indiana, is the most indus
trlous magazine writer in congress He
contributes regularly to certain publications
| and says that but for the money he earns
in this way It would be Improbable for him
| to remain in the senate Last week Sem
ator Beveridge wrote three articles for
magazines, for which he received $500.
Henry White the retired American am
bassador OF Italy, has presented Queen
Helena complete collection OF United
States postage stamps. sent to her by the
postmaster general at Washington, with
the approval of President Roosevelt. She
expressed desire to have this collection.
Fifteen men are known to be still alive
who served as confederate congressman
John Goode and Roger A. Pryor, Virginia;
A. s. Colyar, J. d. c. Atkins Joseph b.
Heiskel and John v. Wright. Tennessee;
Hiram P. Bell, Georgia; Henry c. Jones,
Florida; John l.. Pugh, Alabama; s, b. Call
lahan, Indian Territory; ]. A. p. Camp
fbell. Mississippi; s. II. Ford. Kentucky;
w. II. Tibbs, North Carolina.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
MR HArEMEYER's EXPLANATION

Mr. TEMETERS EXPLANA TON.
In his annual report to stockhold-
ers, President HRvemeyer of the Amer
lean Sugar Refining company pro
pounds singular. but suggestive, ex-
PLANTATION of the trusts course in plead
ing guilty to rebate indictments and
paying fines to the amount of $780,
900, very shortly after it had been
tried, found guilty and sentenced to
pay $4,000 under other indictments
for similar violations. with all re-
spect for the court" says Mr.. Have
meyer, its decision failed to convince
the (Sugar trusts board or its coun-
sci of its correctness, but in view of
Nthe whole situation the board con-
cluded that it was in the interest of
the stockholders to settle on the basis
of pleas of guilty"
Whatever the stockholders may
think of 1t, the public will hail as a
wholesome sign the fact that typical
trust violators, like less magnificent
offenders, concur practically with
courts and juries to the extent of
pleading guilty and submitting to
heavy penalties, however they may see
At theoretically to dissent. 1t is pre-
cisely the view of the whole situa-
ton" which 1t is one of the central
purposes of an aroused public senti-
ment to produce in the trust managers.
Indeed. only one modification of that
view is desired, namely, such as will
prevent them altogether from violat-
ing the law. And to make it more
binding, the law was fixed at the last
session of congress so that Mr.. Have
meyers board could not plead guilty
and have the penalty paid out of the
pocket of the stockholders, but those
guilty of the same violations would
have to face the penitentlary. a ma
terial fact which must henceforth be
included in view Of the whole situa-
ton"
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
RAISING THE LIMIT.

A general disposition is being mani
Tested by nearly every branch of our
municipal government to raise the
limit Of the funds which the charter
at present permits to be appropriated
for the work under its special charge.
There is such a thing. however, as
OVERRIDING the limit raising. 1t may
be reasonably inferred that whenever
the limit is raised the next appropria-
ton sheet will go close TO the top fig-
ure as soon as an increased tax rate
can be imposed to bring in enough
money to honor the acquisitions.
The purpose OF establishing limits
to the different funds is TO hold the
tax rate down and prevent extrava-
gance for indulgence In luxuries the
community cannot AFFORD. At the
same time it should be. and is. recog-
mixed that Omaha is a growing city
and that the demands upon it's city
government are steadily increasing.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14

Several municipal departments are
badly handicapped and hsmpered from
lack OF funds and the taxpayers are
not unwilling to provide the remedy
on condition that their acquiescence is
not abused.
Those connected with each depart
ment naturally think of themselves
alone, but the lawmakers who are re-
sponsible for charter changes must
look at the situation as a whole n
what is demanded by each department
were TO be granted without question
the city tax rate would be jumped up
to an alarming height, with conse-
quences disastrous to the city in Its
standing both at home and abroad.
In raising the limit It will be we'll to
go slow by easy gradations.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
Making war ON Lobbyists.
Louisville Courier-Journal.

According to the reports professional
lobbyists are likely to fare badly hereafter.
Various states have legislated to make their
business less easy or to prohibit IT. The
Nebraska house Of representatives has
passed a resolution for ejecting all lobby
lists from the floor, forcibly II necessary.
We must wait to see how well these laws
will be enforced and whether they will
cure the evil. There is such thing as
seeing a legislator elsewhere than on the
floor of the house and sometimes he is
seen" to the great advantage of the lobby
lists and those whom he represents. 1t
may turn out that legislators are not so
much foes of the lobby as they pretend.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
BASIS OF COMPETITION.
Humorous Features OF the Formula Of
TraHc Manager Stubbs,


Trafic MANAGER Stubbs.
PittsburE Dispatch.
Competition has been reduced 10 a formu-
la by J. c. stubbs. director general Of traf-
nc on the Hartman lines. The Inter State
Commerce commission. which has been en-
deavoring TO discover whether Mr.. Harri-
mans absorption OF competing roads was a
combination in violation Of lag. has been
plying witnesses with questions intended
to bring out whether competition continued
after assimilation Usually. when the wit
nesses were pinned down 20 the fact OF
joint ownership, they we're unable to prove
that the keenest competition was to be Sc
cured by man competing against himself.
But that never worried stubbs Harrt-
man ownership of competing lines, he said.
would not make any difference Mr. HIN,
probably the leading railroad man IN the
country, he said, could not. II he would. de-
stroy competition between the Great North
ern and Northern Pacific because he must
employ vice presidents and general man
ayers and these men have their reputa-
lions to make and to uphold. They will.
according to the Stubs theory. work for
their own line against other lines and COM
petition is unavoidable. Otherwise Mr.. Hill
might as well supplant these high-priced
men with 500 clerks.
The abashed commissioners should TO
and abate themselves. How ridiculous their
theory that man cannot compete with
himself in the light OF this revelationl
The fact that these vice presidents so
streuuously competing against each other
to uphold their reputation, may be repre-
scented by the same agents at traffic points
Is entirely ignored by the explanatory
Stubs. So, too, is the probable fate OF
either vice president who in his mad COM
petition against his rival should so far
forget himself as TO impinge upon the
profits of their Joint boss. The chances are
that the underling who undertook to get
business by the methods OF competition
usually followed by competing lines to the
detrlment OF his own competitor would
soon find himself out of a Job.
These inquistions on the railroad kings
are a serious business but they OCCASIONALLY
have their humorous episodes and stubba
is one Of them.
Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-01-14
LOOKING BACKWARD.
New YORK Sun.

New 1ork Sun.
cannot buy the old foods, .r..
/ cannot find them now;
/ cannot get can OF milk
That never saw a COW.
wish that l could find the man.
Who knew another man
That lived next door to him that nut
New labels on each can.
From cocktail cherried / am kept.
likewise from cocktails fne)
Because the color on the fruit
Is only aniline.
/ cannot touch the cereals rtf
Without digestive muss;
The breakfast foods are labeled, too
It's getting serious.
The pies that mother used 70 make'
OHOw closely did ! watchD
Must now have all their insides tagged
30 must the highball Scotch,
What IL the use OF living thus,
dreary. dull divorce
From all the things used TO love?
This Is reform perforce.
For olive now Is eottonsesd,
And corn is merely Dat;
While Mocha n barnyard blend,
And whisky creosote.
Oh, give me back unlabeled days,
And times for which weep,
When l could eat AL sorts OF stan
And then drop on 70 sleepl