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PUBLISHED TRI-WEEKL HINTS ATGRAFT fi?7. ?fease thhh T *? /' Too Hoch Moaey Behind ,0% / BE HAS NOT LOST HOit ? 4 ? In Letter to the Governor of Iowa as to the Pejialogical Conditions in This State, Blease Gives His Views On Statement of Penitentiary Di rectors. . Governor Blease on 'Monday gave his first impression upon the Peni tentiary situation since the directors made public their letter informing the Governor they purposed standing by the hosiery mill contract. Tha views of the governor were expressed in a letter to Governor Carroll, of Iowa, replying to inquiries con cerning penalogical conditions in South Carolina. Prisor labor is employed in part, the letter says, on farms and roads, | but "in part, I regret very much to say, in 8 hosiery mill, located within the walls of the penitentiary, whicn {mill) 13 a common nuisance and a death tr ip caused by tuberculosis. I am now doing my best to get rid of the hosiery mill, but it seems there ?Is too much money behind it, and I am having a hard fight. However, I have not lost hope and have appealed to the solicitor of this circuit and asked him to bring suit to abate tte nuisance. Why the board of directors are figthig me, I am unable to say, unless it is personal political prejudice." ! The Governor says that if this is not the reason he would not care to state what he "and a good many of the people" believe to be the reason; but "anyway their action is certainly peculiar." The letter follows: His Excellency, B. F. Carroll, Gov ernor of the State of Iowa, Des Moines?Dear sir: Your letter of July 14 received, in which you ask: "How many penitentiaries and refor matories have you in your State?" In reply, I t eg to say that we have one Penitentiary and connected therewith a reformatory for colored youths. We also have an industrial school, or reformatory, for white 'boys.., . . ,... .... . . r? .. ! The Penitentiary is self-supporting and last year turned something like $85,000 over to the State In profits. The reformatory for white boys is In its infancy, and has not yet had a faftr chance to show what it can ac complish. In reply t" your question, "How is your prison labor employed?" On the farms, on the roads, sometimes in shops, and, I regret very much to say, in a hosiery mill, located within the walls of the penitentiary, which is a common nuisance and a death trap caused by tuberculosis, this having been reported by the State board of health and condemned, by my having called attention to It at the last meet-j lng of our General Assembly, and I am now doing my best to get rid of the hosiery mill, but it seems there 5s too much money behind It and I am having a hard fight. However, I have not lost hope and have appeal ed to the solicitor of this circuit and asked him to bring suit to abate the nuisance. Why the board of direc tors are fighting me on this matter I am unable to say, unless it is perso nal political prejudice. I would not care to state, if this is not the rea son, wha I and eoolilliiiiilliili oho son, what I and. a yood many of the people believe is the reason, but, any way, their action is certainly pecul iar, knowing, as they do, that it Is a death trap and a menace to our peo ple. In reply to your last question, "What is your prison population?" I cannot give you exact figures, but I suppose to be about ten or twelve hundred. It would have been much heavier, possibly, but in the last six months I have reduced it considerably by exercising executive clemency, and will reduce it some more now soon along the same line.. Any other information which I can give you I will be pleased to do so. Very respectfully, Cole L. Blease, Governor. Columbia, July 17. Attacked in her Home. At Rockingham, N. Y? Mrs. M. E. Beck, a well-known widow lady of 60 years, is in a serious condition as the result of an attack by a man, who broke into her home early Sunday morning, entered her bed room and choked her into insensibility. The Identity of her assailant has not yet been discovered. The mayor and citi zens offered a reward of $800 for his arrest, which has been supplemented by an additional $400, authorized by Gov. Kitchin. At Rockingham, N. C, Mrs. M. E. Typhoid Girl Guarded. Miss Rose Beersma, known as the typhoid girl, is being guarded by a city detective on a dairy farm south of Chicago and may be quarantined for life, according to health depart ment officials. Although enjoyingper ect health, she is said to be a carrier of the disease germs and directly re sponsible for three deaths and fifty cases of ever in the south divlsoin of the city. YELPS OUT AGAIN HEYBURN MAKES A POOL OP HIMSELF ONCE MORE. 4^ the Chronic Kicker's Antics ^.senate Takes up Bill for a Con federate Monument. The bitterness between Senator Heyburn. of Idaho, and Senator Wil liams, of Mississippi, on the subject of the Confederacy, broke out anew in the senate recently. Senator Hey burn objected to the taking up of a bill apppopratlny $100,000 for a Con federate naval monument in the Vlcksburg military park, but Senator Williams won its consideration by a vote of 29 to 19. The Vlcksburg park commission and the senate committee on milltar> affairs approved the measure. Mr. Williams said it was desired to have the monument complete or the semi centennial "blue and gray" reunion at Vicksburg in 1913. Senators Cum mins of Iowa and Works of California urged its passage as proper recogni tions of men who exhibited brav ery in a cause they believed right. Senator Heyburn again attacked the principle of federal recognition of - Confederate acts. He declared it was "intolerable" that the deeds of Confeder<te armies should be re cited in laws .that call on the public treasury or contributions'. Ho char acterized the history of the War Be tween the Sections as "history of murder." -He attacked the newspa pers of the country, declaring many of them disloyal "and delighted to express their disloyalty." He had been characterized as waiv ing the bloody flag in the senate, he said, and had been so misrepresented that he was receiving scores of anon ymous letters from "cowards" threat ening him with physical violence be cause of his opposition to uselng gov ernment funds to recognize Confeder ate service. He displayed a letter he had receiv from Little Rock, Ark., the envelope of which bore a Confederate flag. He said the post-office department said there was no law to prevent the use of the flag on mall matters. "No law ought to be needed," said Heyburn, "there Is but one flag in this nation entitled to such represen tallon. Senator Williams abruptly left the chamber when Heyburn began to bray -and s*-Senator Taylor, t)f Tennessee, took up the 'ssue, and scored Hey burn. "The war is over," he said, "time has pulled down the forts and healed the wounds. The men who wore the gray delight to honor the men who wore the blue, but they do not to delight to honor the men who never smelt powder, and who stand here and unlimber their batteries of bitterness against the simple proposal to erect monuments to Southern he roes." The senate immediately adjourn ed by a vote of 26 to 25 and the ques-1 tion was eft unsettled. 1 ? ? ? ?? EIGHT FORK SHARK CAUGHT, j By Some Young Men in the Harbor cf Charleston. A Charleston dispatch to The State says two big waterspouts and the catch of an eight-foot shark afford ed the harbor people something to talk about Friday. The monster shark was caught by a party in a motor boat off the jetties. The shark wt:s hooked by Edward Eve, who was assisted by Edmun Shelby, Philip Eve and Edward Means in landing tue monster. It was hard work landing the big fish, which at times would leap 15 feet out of the water, threat ening to carry the boat out to sea or down to the "bottom of the channel. The waterspouts were seen off the Stono phosphate works. The spout moved along the river for a consider able distance; fortunately the river was clear of small craft at the time. GOT LOST ON THE SEA. For Four Days They Were at the Mercy of the Waves. Buffeted about on the ocean by the high rolling waves of the choppy sea. between San Pedro and Catilina, Cal. in a small gasoline lauch for four dahs and suffering untold agonies from thirst and hunger, because there was neither food nor water aboard, were the awful experiences sufered by O. L. Grimsley, a million aire fining man of Los Angeles, and his wife, until they were picked up by Capt. Kittleson, of the steam lum ber schooner Chehalis, en route to San Diego, and carried in an almost unconscious codition to San Pedro. After assistance and careful atten tion they were able to return to their home in Los Angeles. Were Blown to Atoms. At Tulsa, Okla., Barney Sullivan, a prominent oil man, his horses and buggy, were blown to atoms when a large quantity of dynamite acciden tally exploded. For miles around the windows were broken and build ings shaken. Many persons thought the explosion was an tarthquake. Gave Up the Fight. Leaving a note in which he stated there was "too much boss from moth er-in-law" in his family and that his wife sided with her mother, R. W. Luebke, of Cinclnnattl, O., committed ORANGE] THEY OUTWIT LAWS OFFICERS KEPT Bl'SY WATCHING FOR FRAUDS. How Foe* Stuffs of all Kinds Are Adulterated by Dishonest Manu facturers. The efforts of the government and the various States to provide pure food for the people of the country has brought about a higher quality of foodstuffs, hut it has not deterred the inventive genius of country from try ing to work out schemes for substi tutes and adulterations'. ODr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the Kansas Board of Health and chief food and drug inspector of the state, is receiving- no Jess than a doz en letters a day telling of schemes whereby one pound of butter may be made into two and scores of other circulars from alleged chemists and get-rich-quick men in Eastern cities who would make grocers and butch ers their tools. Probably the worst adulteration that has come to the attention of the Kansas department and is to be sup posed to the Pure Food departments in other states, is a butter emulsion which will cause the butter to absorb its exact weight in water and still pre vent the .butter eaters knowing it. Take a pound of butter and a pound of water and a spoonful of this emul sion, work the three together for a bout ten minutes, and there is two pounds of butter and water. The average houswife could not tell the difference between this watered but ter and the real article. A man in Tennessee has developed a scheme by which he can make a pure apple-cider vinegar at an actural cost of four cents a gallon, and using one apple for each gallon. The fraud could not be detected except by an ac tural chemical test. The same chap also has a scheme for making apple butter with one apple to the gallon of butter and at a cost of one-fourth the real article. A nan in Rochester, iNT. Y., develop ed a plan of treating sawdust with molasses to use in adulterating spices One part of the real spice and three parts of sawdust made the product which could not be detected .by the eye or tongue. Frauds in flavoring extracts and maple syrup have been common. A Vermon man has offered a recipe to Kansas grocers so that they can make the maple syrup the purchase into an fraudalent syrup to one-half gallon of the real syrup. There are numerous other schemes for increasing the weight of parched coffee, preserving e?gs, useless bak ing powders, making mincemeat and tomato catsup at reduced cost by us ing little meat or tomatoes. The gro cer, to get the recipes, must pay for them. The price is usually $10 and a pledge of secrecy. KILLED WITH A BRICK. Two Negroes Have a Fight and One Was Fatally flit. The Columbia Record says John Young died at noon Sunday in that city from paralysis as the result of a lick in the head dealt by Tom Wise, another negro. The quarrel between the negroes, who lived at Hyatt's park, arose over an alleged insult to the daughter of Young. The daughter told her father of her treatment at Wise's hands, it is said, and Young took up the matter vigorously. A fierce puarrel ensued, which ended by Wise grabbing a brick, which h broke in two arid used one half to disjoin Young's head from his spinal column at the back of his neck. Wise is held in the county jail, having been appre hended Friday night. Young was carried immediately after the occur rence to the hospital. When he ar rived his body from his shoulder down was paralysed. MANY KILLED IX WRECK. Train in Germany Jumps the Track Near Mullheim. A through express from Basel, Switerland to Berlin, crowded with a Jieavy tourist traffic, was wrecked at Mullheif Monday. The latest es timate is that 14 persons were killed, while scores of others were injured, manu of them seriously. The acci dent occurred as the train, coming from the south was entjRng the sta tion. The locomotive was derailed and was followed from the tracks by four cars, a first class, a second class, and two third class coaches. These cars telescoped each other. At the same time the remaining cars thrown to the opposite side of the track and piled up against a train standing on the southbound rails. Not a passanger in the first three cars of the train escaped injury. Engage in Fatal Fight. At Detroit, Michigan, in a running fight one Italian was instatly killon, another was probably fatally hurt, and a third received a serious wound in the back. The dead man is Ce sare Gassissi, aged 19. Sam Danna was shot twice through the back. To ny Cassisi. uncle of the dead man, who received a bullet in the back, told the police that while he and his companions were walking along Pell street, three men ran up behind them and opened fire. 3URG, S. C, THURSDAY, JUI DOUBLE JURDER Mill Eogioeer Kills Bis Wife and Her Farther at Anderson. PROUD HE KILLED WIFE Only Regret is He Had to Shoot His Wife's Father, With Whom |She Lived, and His Wile's Sister, Who Was Sleeping With His Wife When He Shot Her. "I went to the home to kill my wife and I succeeded. I'm well pleas ed with my little deed and am ready to die for it any time; my cny re gret is that I had to shoot my wife's farther and that I accidently shol; her little sister. The old man caught me from the rear and I had to shoct him in the tussle that followed. I did not know the little girl was in the bed with my wife and did not know I had shot her until the officers told me this morning that I had done sc." These few words from the mouth of Samuel N. Hyde sum up the ma terial points of a double murder com mitted by him in the village of Orr Cotton, mills at Anderson at an ear ly hour Tuesday morning. The dead are: M. V. Beasley, aged 55 years, and Mrs. Emma Beasley Hyde, aged 25 years. The wounded is Miss Wil lie Beasley, aged 15, but her wounds are not serious. Hyde is 26 years of age. He surrendered to Sheriff King immediately after the shooting, and when at the jail this morning gave out the following .Interview, which has been substantiated by oth er witesses of th.> dreadful tragedy: "My wife and I had been separated about three weeks. My father-in law, Mr. Beasley, told me not to come around his house, as it would cause trouble. I love my wife, and I wanted to see her Since I could not live with her, I was resolute to kill her, and put an eDd to the af fair. I fully made up my mind in the matter Monday afternoon' before sun set. In order to carry out my pur pose, I went to the house of a friend, who lives just below the city, and while he was away from home I we$!t Into his room and into his trunk where I found his 32 calibre pistol. I iput. the^ pistol is m??POcket and then returned to the^cuy. * At TO o'clock I hoarded the Orr mill car de termined to carry out fy intention. I got off the car and walked past the home of Mr. Beasley. The lights were burning and I could hear voices I went down in the mill village to give the people time to go to bed. I passed the house two or three, times beore I finally decided 'that they had retired. "It was my wife's habit to keep a dim light burning In her room, ana when I saw that the lamp had been turned down, I knew that everybody was asleep. I went to the rear of the house, took off my coat, shoes and hat and placed them on the porch. I then got a ohair and forced an en trance through the kitchen window. I passed through the kitchen and hall to to my wife's room. I didn't know which bed she occupied, so turned up the light. As I did so, she raised herself on her elbow and called out to know what I was doing and what I meant by coming there. I didn't an swer her., but began firing. I emp tied my pistol?five shots in all. At the third shot she fell back in bed. "I then turned and started through the hall. Her father had been at tracted by the shots and he grabbed me as I passed out of the door. He grabbed me from the rear, and in the tussle I put one cartridge in my pis tol. I aimed the pistol under my left* arm and fired. The ball pierced his heart, and he fell dead to the floor. I then rushed out of the house. It was my intention to come to the jail and surrender, but so many people gathered that I decided to take to the corn field just in the rear of the house. "A friend of mine joined me in the field and he went to telephone the sheriff A little while later the sher iff came down the road in his buggy. I reiognized him. I ran out In the road and hailed him, asking to be taken in the buggy. I got in with the sheriff and he brought, me to the jail. My wife was a good woman?the best that ever lived. Xo one can say a mean word about her. T loved her with all my heart, and when I found out T couldn't have her to live with me, I decided to kill her and end the affair. I'm glad the deed is over. I hadn't taken anything to drink. Samuel Hyde was a character well known on the streets of Anderson. Six years ago he enlisted in the Unit j ed States army. He was assigned to artillery service and served out his I enlistment. In 1 OOS he and the slain ! woman were married. To them was born one child, a boy. In 1909 Hyde decided to return to the army After serving a l'ttle less than one year he i tired of the life and bought his dis charge. Since returning to Anderson he and his wife have lived together ex cept on two or three occasions when her father would interfere and take her back to his home for protection. Hyde drank heavily at times, and her father feared bodily injury. Hyde state that he and his wife ha never had any serious trouble since they were married: that they had lived quietly and peaceably. Hyde worked in butcher shops here for several . Y 20, 1911. MARS GEIS A FALL AVIATOR PROBABLY FATALLY HURT AT ERIE, PA. . The Doutors Hold Out Little Hope For the Recovery of the Well Known Airman., At Erie, Pa., "Bud" Mars, well known American aviator, was probab ly fatally injured here shortly after 5 o'clock this afternoon when he lost control of his air nachine during a' flight and crashed from a height of several hundred feet to the ground. The heavy biplane dropped on top of him. His Injures are of such a na-. ture, it is said, that there is practi cally no hope for his recovery. The aviator's wife witnessed the accident and her condition is serious, due to the shock. Mars was in the air for the second time when the accident occurred. Several thousand spectators n-ere watching him. He circled the field a number, of times a'; a height of sev eral hundred feet. Suddenly the ma chine made a dip downward and Mars made an attempt to regain control of the machine. It was a futile .ittempt, however, and an instant later, the biplane' struck the ground. The machine was completely wrecked and Mars lay under it. He was covered with blood and at first it was believed he was dead. He was carried to an improvis ed field hospital. , The serious natu *e of Mars' injur ies was evident and he was rushed to a hospital. His physiccians issued a statement saying that his chest was tained concussion of the brain and badly Injured and that he had sus suffered internal injuries, while he is also bruised from head to foot The aviation meet there was given under the auspices of a local news paper. Mars started the second flight a few minutes before 5 o'clock. He had not been in the air long, when, for some reason, he started to descend. The machine same down ward with terrific velocity. The amazed spectators stood still for a moment. There was a scream when the aviator's wife rushed to wards the wrecked machine. Before she reached her husband's side, how ever, she was overcome with grief and was carried from the field. 'A later dispatch nays that the hurts of the aviator are not as serious as was at first supposed, and that he will recover in about ten days. KILLED ON GOLF LINK. Lightning Struck Him Down in Pres ence of Many. Before the eyes of scores of soci ety men and women well known in offical life, and almost within a stone throw of the Chevy Lhase Club house near Washington, T. B. Johnson, or New York, recently appointed solici tor of the navy department was kill ed by lightning Monaay. Johnson had been playing golt with a companion and was in the open when the boit struck. His com panion and the caddy, a dozen yards away, were knocked down, but were uninjured. Johnson's body was badly .burned. Surgeon general Stokes of the navy, who was at the club, declared that death was instan taneous. The club is one of the best'known country clubs south of New York. President Taft, Vice President Sher man, most o the members of the cab inet members, and many of the mem bers of the diplomatic corps are members. FELL BACKWARD INTO WELL. Negro Killed Near Lancaster anil \ White Man. A special dispatch to the State from Lancaster says a tragedy occur red Thursday on the premises of Lew is N. Montgomery in the Creek sec tion, a worthy and respected negro, Nathan Mcllwain losing his life in a well. Mcllwain had been down in the well, which was being made deeper by blasting anc: was coming up on a rope to eat hi-i sreakfast when on reaching the tcp he apparently faint ed and fell backward, landing at the bottom. His head and chest were crushed and d<ath ensued in an hour or so, shortly after he was brought to the surface Hial Dees had a nar row escape from a similar fate. He down in the well with Mcllwain and In falling the latter's feet struck the breast, hurting him severely. Jest Ended Fatally. George Harper, contractor of Ben ton, Tenn., w is shot and almost in stantly killed at 4 o'clock Sunday af ternoon on the public square at Ben ton by John Harbison, proprietor of a pool-room and near-boor saloon. The men began playing with each other and finally became enraged and Har per struck Harbison with a beer bot tle and the latter drew his pistol and fired two shots, both of which took effect in Harper's body. Bull Kills Two Men. Damon Guptlll, a farmer, and his hired man, Horace Luce, are dead near Dover. N. H... as the result of being gored by a mad bull. " months, but lately had been employ ed at the Gluck Cotton mills The tragedy has created great excitement in Anderson, especially in the Orr mill village. GOOD COITON CROP [CONDITION OP STAPLE INDI GATES A BIG YIELD. Fields Are Clean and Some Sections Expect Much Larger Yields than in Several Years Past. Due, in a great measure, to the rains of last week which relieved the drought before it had done serious damage, except possibly in scattering sections, the 1911 cotton crop in South Carolina, from present stands, promises to be equally as good if not better than last year. No section of the State, from reports, has suffer ed materially; but to the contrary, in a number of counties larger yields ?are expected than in ia number of years past. Taking the State as a whole the condition up to the end of last week indicates that the cotton crop this year will not be off on account of the drought that for a timi everybody feared would materially affect the yield. Conditions may be said at this time to indicate a 100 per cent, crop, although in some scattering sections where cotton was; replanted and did not get a good stand the yield will not be more than two-thirds or three fourths; but in other sections from 15 to 25 per cent, more cotton is ex pected than last year. Heavy fertiizatilion and the unusu ally fine preparation of the soil, deep er plowing and the application of new methods is telling this season, but for it is safe to say that 'the drought would have proved a greater damage but compared with last year at this time the crop is in a better condi tion. The fields are clean, there is no grass, and indications are that a much larger crop will be picked this year than ast. Last year at this time the fieds were full of grass, making the cost of production greater than this year, and, indeed last year the farmer had a hard fight to keep the grass from over-rnning the cotton. What grass follows the recent rains will be easily kept in check this year. If the conditions at pres ent can be compared with conditions existing at this time last year, the wo seasons being, absolutely different the one extremely dry and the ocher extremely wet, farmers of the State are, from reports received, in better shape now than then, and the indica tions for a full crop are a great deal tor tha last year. IMPORTANT DECISION. Each Liquor Sale is Separate Offence Says Court. Another decision bearing on the present whiskey law has been given by Associate Justice Hydrick in the case of the State vs. W. P. Kelly, Sumter county, who was convicted on two charges of violating the whiskey law, recaivlng an alternate sentence on the first violation and a sentence of one year for the second vioiati**, as provided by the act. The State says the sentence of the Sumter county-court is affirmed. The case first was submitted to the su preme court at the November term in 1910, but was dismissed because the attorneys for Kelly failed to file ar gument. A satisactory explanation having been made, the case was again filed W. P. Kelly was tried on June 3 0, 1910, for selling whiskey on October 15, 1909, and was tried on July 1, 1910, for selling whiskey on June 23, 1910. The defendant was given an alternate sentence in the first case and was given one years imprison ment on the second charge. This of fense was treated as the second sub sequent offense under the act of 1 909. "In this State," says the supreme court, "each sale of whiskey is a sep arate and distinct offense for which the guilty party may be convicted and punished." NEGRO FOUND ALIVE. He Was Shot by n Mob in Georgia and Left For Dead. Morris Daniels, a negro charged with having assaulted an aged wo man in Randolph county, Georgia last week, was brought to Moultrie Saturday morning nearer dead than charge by a mob having been taken fn charge by a mib of less than a dozen 1 men Friday night near Har:sville. j The negro was shot and left in the I road for dead. He was not discover ed until the sheriff and coroner were I notified by unknown parties to go jut and hold an inquest It is stat ed that the matter will be presented to the grand jury as the identity of the negro had not been established. Dynamit <? Exploded. j While endeavoring to dynamite I fish in the Chattahouchee near New ; port. Tenn.. Monday, James Wiggins, |30, foreman of a lumber camp, v.-r.s I almost instantly killed when a stick of dynamite exploded in his hands. His neck was broken and a gash torn ' in his breast through which his heart j could be seen. Roth hands were blown off. Bandits Burned Canadian. For refusing to divulge the hiding place of a horde of wealth owned by Mexican railroad, Robert Swanzey, a Canadian, was burned at the stake by a gang of Mexican bandits at Sumter TWO CENTS PER COPY. BAILEY OUSTED Brilliant Texan Looses Hold On Senate Democrats. -? NO LONGER THE LEADER Bailey's Following Among the Demo, erats in the Senate Have AH De serted Him. .His Vote in tho Lor imer Case Was the Beginning of His Trouble. A dispatch from Washington says the star of Joseph Weldon Baney as the intellectual leader of the Senate democracy is waning. No longer is Mr. Bailey permitted to speak unchallenged for his demo cratic colleagues. His assumption of the 'Cffice of spobesman is being re pudiated daily, his statements are criticised, and even denied, t, id his opinions are flouted. The Texan has been placed in such a position by the verbal assaults of his colleagues that hereafter he will l>e regarded merely as one of th sen ators from the Lone Star State, ant* as expressing his own views rather than those of the combied democracy in the senate. His support has dv/indled to two senators?Simmons of North Caro lina, and Thornton of Louisiana. To these three men has been deri3ely ap plied the appellation of "The Three Musketers," with Pailey as Athos, Simmons as Aramis, and Thornton as Porthos. It had been apparent for some time that the fall of 'Mr. Bailey was im pending. Equipped w'th a superb mentality, a gifted orator, and ab!e to handle himself effetively in debate, there were few senators, until the present congress, disposed to cross swords with him. His adroitness in emerging unscathed from an unfor tunate position he had adopted, his quickness in turning verbal somer saults and his use of irony and pa thos, of sarcasm and appeal have been a source of admiration to the senate and the galleries and of confu sion to those who interrupted him. The Texan never has been troubled by the need of being consistent and his course in the senate has been marked by astonishing ahout faces which in the case of a man of weaker mentality would have precipitated his political ruin at once. The first serious blow to Mr. B*ai ley's assumption of leadership suffer ed was in connection with the Lori mer case last winter when only ten Democrats voted with him to retain the Illinois boss in the senate. The Texan was unable to hold even this following on March 4, when at the instance of Senator Owen of Ok lahoma, the senate voted on the prop osition to approve the constitutions of Arizona and New Mexico. Only two Democrats voted with Bailey, and the Texan became so piqued that he resigned his office pf senator, but upon reflections with drew his resignation a few hours la ter. Senator Stone of Missouri alwayB has been a thorn in the side of Bai ley and never has hesitated to ques tion the Texan's democracy. The new democratic senators, who assume^ their seats at the beginning of the present extra session, have followed the tactics of Mr. Stone, with the re sult that Mr. Bailey is being subjected to some rough handling in debate He early announced his opposition to the Canadian reciprocity agreement but has been able to obtain only two recruits?Simmons asa Thornton. The Texan has found himself as sailed by Reed of Missouri, Hitch cork of Nebraska, and others and re cently found his democracy attacked by John Sharp Williams of Mississip pi. Mr. Williams has not the smooth oratorical flow.of Bailey, but he Is unquestionably one of the best rough and ready debaters in either branch o congress. While a member of tho house he had ample opportunity for practice, and as minority leader, made a record which proved of value to the democracy. Mr. Williams and Mr. Bailey differ on the tariff and Mr Williams, who is a deep student, and a man of wide reading is undoubtedly the better In formed on this question than is the Texan. Moreover he is a good law yer and has a lot of nerve. The results of the bouts up to date have been favorable to the Mississip j plan and the anti-Bailey democrats, I who have long been looking for some lone able to cope with the Texan, are j wearing broad smiles of satisfaction, j From now on it may be expected . that the daily sessions of the senate will be enlivened by frequent tilts' ! between Mr. William? and Mr. Bal ! ley. The men opposed to the latter ; make no secret of their purpose to expose his demoerary and to make it I clear to the country that he is not ; their representative and that If he I claims to be he is making a false rep I resentation Struck Their Boat. At Milton, Fla., Oeorge E. Carroll and his twelve year old son were in stantly killed by lightning Friday. They were rowing and had turned' to head for the shore at the approach? of a thunderstorm when the craft was struck. : < ?