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Good BUSINESS FOR 1912
PRESIDENT ELECTION WILL NOT
SERIOUSLY AFFECT coNoi-
TIoNs IN COUNTRY. 81
Real Business of the Country Is on
~ AFFIRM Basis, Say Well
Ps Informed Men. EEs.

New York.-"Not even a. presidenc
tial election will1be able to make BUSH
ness bad in 1872" declares a close
observer of business conditions:
There may be Aurries in Wall street"
he continued; speculation may be
hampered and Wall street may not
enjoy the year as much as it might,
but the real business Of the country
is on a firm basis and is going to be
good" s.sI
And this pretty we'll represents the
general idea among men who are In
touch with conditions throughout the
country.
The big crops mean good business
for the railroads; this in turn goes a
long way toward insuring the steady
demand for steel. With the railroads
and steel mill probably busy, hard
times would be difficult to bring
about. ,..i%.
Then the copper business is in fine
shape and the other great underlying
Industries Of the country face a good
outlook and money is in plentiful sup
ply for legitimate purposes. Taken
altogether there is good ground for op-
timism.
Warehousemen throughout the city
report that business in nearly every
line of trade is now more active than
it has been in several years.
o. AS the warehousemen diagnose the
condition, they have their fingers on
the pulse of the business world-this
revival is not local. but It: quite gen
eral.
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CONGREGATION MODS PASTOR

Tampa Minister Roughly Handled oy
Members of His Church.
Tfmpa, Flat the conclusion OF
~-ryices Rev. r. E. L. Kirland, pas.
tor of the First Congregational
church, was the storm center in a
near riot in which the police inter
fered, .arresting six persons.
In a written statement he declar-
ed he had been kicked by some OF
the women.
The cause of the outburst was an
attack made by Reverend Kirkland
in his sermon on a former pastor In
connection with alleged m%isappropri-
alton of church funds. Reverend
Kirkland's subject was "If Christ
Lived Today, Would He Be a Social
lst?" His text a MY Fathers
house ls a house of prayer, but We
have made it a den of thieves
Strained relations have existed be-
tween Reverend Kirkland and mem
bers Of his congregation for some
months. 81 arr ~
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HITS SOUTHERN POLITICS
Senator LaFoIIette Says Southern
Sentiment Opposes Popular
Government.

Saginaw. Mich.xAfter speaking at
Flint and Bay City, Senator Robert
M. LaFoleItte wound up his first
days campaign in Michigan in the
interest Of his Progressive" candi-
dacy for the Republican: nomination
for president with an address at the
Masonic temple here. He discussed
the, trusts and their relation to the
tariff, the money trust as the climax
of all and the necessity Of returning
the government, as he said, to the
hands of the people, he asked the
support Of all, Republicans and Dem
ocrats alike, In doing this.
The Dingley tariff law, he said, by
raising the tariff high enough to elm
mate, foreign competition, opened the
way for the trusts. In describing
their rapid growth since 1897, when
the Dingley law was passed, the SEN
ator said trust capitalization had In
creased "oyer "a per cent. during the
-four years Of the preceding admins.
tration. despite the fact that a num-
Der Of prosecutions had been begun.
Alexander Hamilton, Henry Clay,
and William Mckinley" said senaT
] tor LaFollette, would never have
spoken OF the tariff as they did II
there had been no competition. The
stand-patter today Is the worst enemy
! of the protective system.
He declared that few men In
Wall street who have no politics, but
who are interested only in business,
control the affairs Of the country, and
that the big progle mnow Is to re-
turn control to the people. =
"If 1 did not believe the Republi'
can party was the best instrument for
getting control into the hands of the
people," he said, IT would leave 1t. IL
I believed the Democratic party was
a better instrument I would Join It.
# i thought a new party would be
more effective would form it. But
I think the Republican party 49, the
best instrument there is.
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u.n.n Murders Son-in-Law.

Mobile, Ala.-Arrested within a
few minutes after the bloody remains
~ her son-in-law, Frederick Wasser-
serlaben. had been found in a pond
no,r the western city limits, Mrs.
Mary IT. Godau made a full confes,
s,on NJ the deed. Wasserlaben had
heen shot three times, twice through
the head and one through the arm.
The killing occurred at the home of
Wasserlaben after, according to the
confession, insulting remarks made to
Mrs. Godau. She has been married
three times.
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ROOSEVELT WILL NOT TALK.
5~Ex.President Refuses TO Affirm o.
rjenv AnyaRumors.

Ex-President Refuses g
Deny Anyshamofs
New York.-With asgenefall relu :
al to confirm. or deny any fumo,
[Col. Theodore Roosevelt decilned 70
discuss a report that movement
was afoot In New jersey 70 piaes
his name on the presioenlial pl
mary ballots. n FORMER prestuene
wask asked II ne had oeen spps t. )
ed by any n OF = os witS
thority in New Jersey pohucs WIZ
q view to having ms anne placsa \
on the ballots,
That necessary 49, e oonaa.
ton OF the phrase ahs3ohe go -
quence or authority, 5ne repileu
mast decilen TO connlm " usn
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Rrvan Not a Candidate.

Tampa, Fla cannot conceive
INV condition that would make it pos
sible for me to consider the question
of nv becoming a candidate for the
presidential nomination OF the Dem
ocratic party in 1872" said w. J. Bry'
an. who arrived here. Asked as TO
what he thought of the movement
Of the Progressive Democrats OF Ohio
who pushed his name to the lore
Colonel Bryan smiled. Il have not
read the press reports yet, and hard
w know what to say" he replied.
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Rich Field For Marine Biology.

That Charleston harbor offers a
rich field for the investigator in ma
rine biology and that it is entirely
possible that many discoveries Of real
interest to the scientific world may
be made here is the opinion ex-
pressed by Prof. Paul M. Rea. direc-
tor of the Charleston Museum, after
the first two dredging expeditions
made here in more than half a CEN
fury. Something like fifty years ago
Profs. Simpson and McCrady did
some work in local waters and &C
complished important results.
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Taft Refuses to Help Morse.

Washington.-It was announced at
tho white house that the report OF
the army medical officers who have
oxamined Charles w. Morse, convict
ed New York banker, serving sentence
IN the Atlanta, Ca, Federal peniten'
tiarv does not warrant immediate In,
reference by the president and the
nardon will not be granted at this
time. The physicians made a physical
examination of Morse in the military
hosnital at Fort Mcpherson, where
the. banker is being treated under
guard. .
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pleaded Guilty and Took Poison.

Memphis, Tenn.-Five minntes al
ter he had pleaded guilty OF having
secured $500 under false pretenses'
G. + Stafford, declared at Il time
~ have been a curb banker in New
York city, and who was also known
as 7 f. Anderson, swallowed a guam
tity of carbolic acid in his cell al
notice headquarters here. He died ~
minutes later. Remorse and a desire
to snare his wife the humiliation that
would attend his conviction prompted
him to take his life, the man explain
ed in a letter.
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TRUST QUESTION
STILL UNs0I.VED
SECRETARY OF COMMERCE AND
LABOR NAeEL MAKES HIS
,a ANNUAL REPORT.
IS NEED or REeuLATIoR
Mere Breaking Up Of Large Combine
ttons! Does Not Suffice, Accord
ing to Secretary.

~ = EH'H 49, Hg4H. - - -
mountaineering mere !
up of large combinations into q num-
Der Of separate parts by no means
meets the whole tr,st o,est,onn saws
seorr, : nar+ms I,
se,
eonneice ana iapor ~ ma
report transmitted TO President Taft.
Secretary, Nagel declares that the
Sherman law has been proved TO be
an effective statute beyond all doubt,
and that a degree continuation OF
capital is quite necessary; but ne
adds that the Supreme court decis.
ions IN the Standard Oil and Tobacco
cases have demonstrated that the
next step in the control OF great I'M
dustriat corporations Will be the Gre
alton of a permanent Federal agency.
How much control shall be e~xercis.
ed, whether by CONS dssioni Federal
incorporation or othe means, which
have been advocated recently by
Judge. Gilbert H. Gary, George W Per-
kins and other fnanciers before the
senate committee which has been
conducting hearings TO determine
what changes would be desirable in,
the antitrust laws, Secretary Nagei
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pn,s;. Planning New Treaty.

Ct Petersburg.-Having accepted
IN an eouable spirit the notification
IF tho American ambassador that the
treatv of commerce and navigation
entered into by the United States and
russia in 1882 would be abrogated
IN January !, 1913, officials of the
Russian government are now direct
ing their attention to the question OF
a new treaty. 1t is recognized that
diplomacy of The most experienced
kind will be required, especially by
the Americans
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io,+ ,s Handed Harmon.

Columbus. Ohio.-The Progressive
democratic League of Ohio came into
heinv here at a conference of Demo-
crats Of nearly every county in the
state Although many of the confer
ees had entered the gathering with
Vowed intention of declaring against
tho presidential candidacy OF Gov
hudson Harmon, his name was men,
tioned only indirectly and the organ
ization urged the members to work
against the choice of any delegate
who had not proved himself a true
Democrat.
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matte govt, the aged fighter seemed
to have shaken of the burden OF his
advancing days. He displayed high
spirits at breakfast and ate a hearty
luncheon at noon.
While in his library the admiral
was stricken. Instantly his family
sent for DR.. s. s.. Adams. who on his
arrival found the patient in great
pain. After treatment, Admiral Ev'
ans fell into a restless sleep and It
was thought that, the danger had
passed. Shortly after four o'clock
however, he, awakened and, raising
himself with difficulty, announced
that he was choking.
81 cannot get my BREATH he said,
and sank back.
oT canont get my breath" he said,
and. sank back. At 4:45 o'clock ne
died, conscious to the end.
One of the iron links that bound
the old navy to the new, a command
ing figure in each, was Roniey u;
Evans. He did not take kindly to the
sobriuuet of Fighting Bob for al
though of gruff exterior, he was a
man of the kindliest impulses Fhus
It neyer was used in his presence by
his friends. By the dauntless courage
IN times of great emergency; the
grim determination with which ne
faced Overwhelming odds and the sto,
icism with which he bore his wounds
and gazed %unfinching in the race OF
death made the title SO appropriate
that as Fighting Bob" he was known
wherever the English language Is
snnken. -. IL
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Tariff Reform Paramount Issue.

New York.-The National Demo
cratic, club launched to make a tarln
reform the paramount issue of the
coming presidential campaign at a
largely attended dinner with GOV.
woodrow Wilson of New Jersey as
the principal speaker. Governor VIII
con insisted that the time had come
for the country to set itself free from
the burdens of the protective larin'
The club has appointed a committee
To lead a systematic and progressive
campaign tariff reform.
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New Year at the White House.

Washington.-The greatest throng
that has passed the portals iof the
white house at any new year recep.
ton of recent years greeted President
and Mrs, Taft at the third public re-
ception given by them since entering
the executive mansion. When the long
line had passed the official counter
said that S,O92 diplomats, officials and
citizens had shaken hands with the
president. DR.. Mary Walker, in silk
hat frock coat and trousers, was
among the first of the citizens to
greet the president. 4
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Raby Emperor Quits Capital.

: NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. without for
NAL advices on the subject the state
department officials are Inclined to
believe that China's infant emperor,
probably the last Of his dynasty, al
ready has been spirited away from
Pekin by his father, Prince Chun,
and is now being conveyed to the
summer residence of the court at
,Jehol. about $50 miles northeast Of
Pekin, in the province Of Chilli. or Is
bound for the ancient Manchurian
capital Of Hardin. The place of resi-
dence chosen for the young emperor
is important.
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FIGHTING b0bEMNS
STRIKES HIS FLAG
ADMIRAL ROBLEY D. EVANS, NOT.
ED SEA FIGHTER, DIES
.s.. SUDDENLY.
WAS PICTURESQUE FIGURE
Admiral Evans Started BattleshiP
Fleet on Its Memorable Cruise
Around the World. ~

Washington.-Rear Admiral Rob-
'ey, D. Evans, Fighting Bob" to an
admiring nation, died suddenly at his
nome in this city. Acute Indigestion
-nded the career of one of the most
popular officers in the navy. He was
Ill less than two hours. i4
Admiral Evans, born sixty-fve
years ago in Floyd county, Virginia;
arose apparently in better health and
spirits than he had enjoyed in some
time. For years a sufferer from old
wounds sustained in the Civil war
and from recurrent attacks of rheu-
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60 ooo Tax to Sell Beer.

Griffin, Ga. One of the biggest
t.xes ever paid to sell near beer in
the United States was paid by ]. M.
Rassett & Co., who turned $4,000 over
n CITY Clerk Thomas Nall for a IL
oonso 70 conduct a near beer saloon
here during the year 1912. In addition
70 this amount the firm pays a state
license Of $500 and a evenue tax of
con IN the same business. This was
supposed to be a prohibitory tax and
No one suspected that anybody would
ATTEMPT to take out a license at that
high figure.
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,.,.,, Hammers LaFoIIette.

Lansing, Mich.-Gov. Chase Osborn
toot charge of a meeting Of Progress
sive Republicans that had gathered
r. hear Senator Robert H.. LaFol:
lette, who failed to appear and de-
Iivered an address. Some Of the aud
TORS objected to the governors re-
marks in referring to Senator LaFol-
lette. The governor asked both Taft
and IaFollette to withdraw from the
ace and join in nominating former
senator A. J.. Beverage OF Indiana
mr. former President Roosevelt.
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Governor Aids cenviets.

Little Rock, Ark.-Scores of men
in the convict camps in Arkansas will
be liberated if Governor Donaghey
carries out the threat he made to
free them if contractors do not use
methods more humane in handling
them. 81 give notice to the contrac'
tors" the governor Indignantly de-
clared, that / will ~depopulate every
convict camp in the state il this cru
elty is not stopped. will turn the
prisoner out as fast as they are
brought in unless conditions are
changed" he exclaimed.
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Run over BY Train And Killed.

James ]. Besssingers So years old,
was run over and crushed to death
within 200 yards of the union station
at Fairfax, by passenger train No. "a
on the Seaboard Air Line railway,
Mr.. Bessinger attempted to cross the
railroad track when the train was
within a few hundred feet of him
Being very deaf, he could not hear
it, and as it was raining and he was
carrying an umbrella, he could not
see it. Mr.. Bessinger leaves a wife,
two sons and other relatives.
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e.. pardons Two Nesroes,

Observation-Disclosures Tart COM
muted to expire, at once the lie sen.
tence Of Arthur Adams and Robert
SAWYER, two negro British subjects
convicted at Wilmington, N. c.. IN
1905, of murder on the high seas
In a confession before his execution
Henry Scott, another negro, conyict
ed Of and hanged for the same crime,
completely ex%onerated Adams ano
Sawyer. Originally Adams and saw.
YER were sentenced to death, but
this was commuted by President
p~ooseve,t to life imprisonment.
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Nav Have Committed The Crime.

May Have COMMITTED h Crime.
Lou Wright and Bob Williams, two
negroes who live within n hundred
yards Of the little storeroom in which
David Hutto, the aged Confederate
veteran, was brutality murdered sew
eral days ago by having his head
and face mashed to a pulp, were ar.
rested Of suspicion and lodged in the
county jail. At the coroner's inquest
the two negroes testified and the fact
that they were fully conversant with
Mr.. Hutto's habits and actions and
notified the police of the crime, put
them under suspicion.
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Several Candidates Seeking Place.

Several candidates are seeking the
position OF superintendent of Charles.
ton schools, made vacant by the re.
cent death of Prof. Henry P. Archer.
The board of city school commits.
sioners will fill the position and also
elect a vice principal which was
made vacant by the elevation of Mr..
Rogers to the place of principal OF
the Courtenay school. The election
will be held at the regular meeting
when the two new members Thomas
]. Sweeney and &. w. Seignious, will
take their seats in the board room.
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When Kansas City footpads hold

When Kansas City footpads hold u
q victim they rob him OF his falls
teeth, if he has any. Different cite
have different customs. No typics
Chicago ~highwayman would take !
mans false teeth away from him.
not satisfied with what he finds in hi
pockets. he merely beats the tar GU
OF him and proceeds on his way.
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Several Cincinnati schoolgirls have
succeeded in living on seven cents a
day. 1t is hard to tell whether they
did It in the interests OF science or
merely to catch husbands.
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south Carolina New Enterprises.

South Carolina New Enterprises.
The secretary of state has issued a
charter to the Mount Holly Develop
ment Company Of Charleston, with a
capital stock of $3.50, 200. The COM
pany is given the right to do a gen
eral real estate business, buy and OPP
crate drainage canals and conduct a
general mercantile business. The Of
ficers are: !. L. Montague, president,
and E. w. Durant, Jr.. secretary and
treasurer. This is the largest COM
pany Of its nature in the state and
was the first to secure, a charter in
1912. A commission has been issued
to the Saluda Development Company
of Saluda, with a capital stock of
$4,000. The petitioners are Eugene
W. Able and w. N. Padgett. The
company will do a general real estate
business. A commission has been is.
sued to the James F. Condor & Sons
Co. of Charleston, with a capital
stock, of $40, 600! The petitioners are:
James F. Condor. James J.. Condor
and M. A. Condor. The company will
do a general real estate business. a
charter has been issued to the Har-
den Company of Allendale, with a
capital Of $4,000. The officers are:
w. H. Harden, president, secretary
and treasurer, and O.. B.. Harden, vice
president.
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Will Try To Have Bill Passed

Gen. U. r. Brooks will endeavor
to have passed during the next ses.
sion of the legislature a pension bill
that will affect many Confederate
veterans throughout the state. Gen.
Brooks said that the Confederate Sol
diers' home is inadequate to accom-
modate all the old soldiers that ap-
ply. The bill, as contemplated, will
pension all INDECENT Confederate SOL
diers over 10 years of age that are
renters and are unable to pay rent.
If the bill is passed each veteran will
be given $11 per month.
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A Judge in Seattle has ruled that /
dog has a legal right to bite a mai
who treads on his tail. 1t may be add
ed for the benefit of those whom |
may C that few dogs are likel.
in the emergency cited, to wait TO
their legal right to be tested.
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A woman g~et-rich-quick promote,
aas been arrested. She may have tn,
credit of proving that in swindlini
fields hitherto regarded as ~exclusivel.
mans province the female Of the spe
ries gathers victims as sticky as thu
male
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A farm journal says the. result oil
the experiment Of mixing wine with
feed for chickens was to increase the
yield Of eggs by 100 per cent Prob
ably the hens were unable to count
straight -
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Word comes from Chicago that two
burglars bound and gagged a woman
IS she played the piano. Never hav.
Ing heard the lady play. we find 1t i'm
possible to Judge whether they were
burglars or simply neighbors.
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TAFT is IN THE RACE
President Says Nothing But Death
Can Keep Him from Running.

President Says Nothing But Deat''
Can Keep Him from Running.
MISUNDERSTANDING but death
can keep me out of the fight now
President Taft is reported to nave
made this statement to white Gus
callers and,to have. added that he had
no objection to the statement being
made public.
1t undoubtedly vas intended to SCI
ar rest all reports that Mr.. TAFT
might withdraw from the race for the
Republican nomination for presldent
in favor of Col. Theodore Roosevelt.
The president is said to be tnor'
oughly aroused to the gravity OF the
situation in the Republican party anu
determined to let his attitude be gen
orally understood.
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Dispatches from the east tell US that
/ ton OF oil recently was taken from
the tongue of a whale. We have not
been able to learn the details,
but we have a bunch that it was a lady
whale. >.r
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To Prepare Statistical Statement.

Commissioner Watson has agreed
to prepare for the Southern CONNER
cial Congress, for its meeting in
April at Nashville, Tenn, to be read
along with similar papers from each
of the Southern States, a statistical
statement of the agricultural advance
made by South Carolina from 1850 to
1910, the idea being to show the
advance of the South in the period
named. All of the papers will be
printed in booklet form.
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A man and a woman who had ,
lovers quarrel ~thirty-five years agt
have just been married in Ohio. II 4
Is going tc take them that long in eacl
case to make up they are not likel,
to-have many family Quarrels.