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W NOT AGREE Ie Republicans in Iowa Are Divided We Hsdik Camps AD HATE EACH OTHER This War Between the Insurgent and Standpat Republicans Gives the Democrats a Good Cthane of Mak Ing Gains of Congresnwn in the State at Least. Zach McGhee is writing some very interesting letters to The State of the political conditions out West. In his letter. from Sioux City. Iowa. Mr. McGhee says: The old Democratic party is a con venient thing to have close at hand. is the way both factions of the wide ly split Republican party look at it. in all of these Middle Westarm 'Jates there is a good sprinkling of Demo crats. not enough to get anywhere very much. and for'this reason ameu able to various kinds of overtures from Republicans of this persuasion or that. In large numbers the Democrats go into the Republican primaries and hrp choose the candidates. Then they try to beat the men they've voted for, but generally fall. The Re publican candidates naturally make appeals to Democrats in one way or another. and this whole condition of affairs has been steadily annihila ting the bitterneqs between the ap Treles. Especially has the old-time party antagonism been dissipated by the growing bitterness between the two factions of the Republican party. But the Democrats are used by the Republicans in another way. Near ly every old line. or regular. or stand pat Republican out here who has studied or is supposed to have stud Sed the congressional campaign will say, and seems rather to enjoy say hng, that the Democrats will most likely have the house of representa tives in the next congress. My ob servation In politics has taugit n'e that among politicians nearly a.ways the wish Is father to the thought. The old line Republicans enjy the contemplation of a Demo--a -r victory in November because tane think the defeat of the Republicvi party would in large measure vindi cate their position. Having no higa er conception of politics, or states manship. or whatever else you ci1 it, than the preservation of their party's hold on the government and rule by those men .who call them selves Republicans. they want to teach the leaders of the insurg'nt movement a lesson. "If we had been able to have our way.' they will say. "the Republican party would have remained in complete possession of the government. Now see what you have doue; you have given over the government to the enemies of the party.' Observe always that with the gen eral run of old-line Republicans the party is everything: the country. nothing. Of course, giving them cred it for patriotism. for the rank and ftle of real Republicans, even of the old school, must be credited with their share of patriotism. the theory of the Republican party is that what is good for the country, and the continugl success of the G. 0. P. is necessary for the welfare of .the country. Let us assume, then, out of charity, that the reason they do not say much about the good of the country and so much about the good of the party Is that everybody knows that they are the same. Now, every body does not seem to know it. not at least in this part of the country. and so a great many are going to vote-the Democratic ticket. The rank and file of the insurgent Republicans, as a matter of fact, care very little about party integrity. The eld stand-patters admit this, and that they say, is the trouble and the dan gert the people should be taught to remain loyal to party rather than e-n couraged to break away. But, they say, If these insurgents who are wreciking the party insist on hanging themselves, we will give them the whole rope and let them hang them selves quickly and to the queen's taste. Then, think the stand-patte's. the old-line Republicans. these reck less fellows like Cummins. Bristow. La Follette. Murdock and the others, will quit their foolishness, and let some real political leaders take hold of things again. There is nothing new in this. It is generally known that the old-line Republicans are intrenching them selves in the position to say. "I told you so."' But I have just been talk ing at considerable length with one of the known and most representa tive "standpatters" in all this part of the country, and all I have said above is suggested by what he said He told me openly that it looked very much as though the Democrats would have the next national house of representatives He thinks that the Democrats will gain at least two, and possibly three, districts in Iowa. H-e was even frank enough to admit that he did not think that this would be any great hurt-to the Republican party, he meant, you must bear in t. T o: it is for the party that he and his kind are concerned. But he does not say that he wants the Insur gents to be taught a lesson: evidently he wants that. but he was too con siderate to say it. His Idea is that the Democrats. should they have the house, would not be able to do anything, and hence! there would be no re:-- Democratic Sadvantage in gaining the house. while the lesson which the Republican in surgents would be taught would have the effect of putting a stop to thle Insurgent foolishness. He goes even further than that, does this stand pat leader, with respect to the effect a Democratic triumph In Nevember would have. He the'ks. just: as m--M rof the Republican icaders think, or pretend to think, that the Democrats would be apt to do something foo! ish. and so make the c-ountry- an~x Ious to return to comple:e Repu:bi can domination. Contractor Bankrupt. . W. A. Esson, a contractor, who at one time was heavily interested in Southern contracts, filed a petition 11URN THE RASCALS OUT rHAT S WHAT THE PEOPLE WILL HI DO IN NOVEMIBER. Accordling to the Predictions of the 15 New York World the Republicans Will i; Routed. If the predictions of the New York World comes true the Repunlicans will be routed horse. foot and dra goon next November. Here is n ha! the World predicts: Z The size of the Democratic v: --ry that will be announced on the n or i- w ing '.f Novembier 9 next will b- stag- at gerin-.. It will include an over- C whelning majority in the hb)ase of ; representatives and a gain of mary n United States senators. Onjo. t'h.- C president's own State. will be lost --, tl the Republicans. New York. the w State of the ex-president. will be ft sweepingly Democratic. Majoritio-s will be so large that people will tire of computing them. 'Not through Democratic virtues e: and abilities but in spite of Demo- a cratic blunders and weaknesses are 1< thosE things to come about, not be- E cause there are more Democrats ! than Republicans. but because there f; are more Arn.;rican progressives than c: standpatters: not a= a rebuke to d this man or that man in particular. 1 but a condemnation of many men: n not as a rejection of one policy but s< as a repudiation of many policies: f: not as an evidence of momentary in- f< dignation. but as voicing the demand of a great and free people for light. t; for truth. for economy. for peace: p What ire these bitter Republican e quarrels but attempts in advance to o escape the judgment which all konw L is at hand? There is a mad rusa 1, for safety. Responsible men are pos- a ing as irresponsibles. Old offenders t: masquerade as innocents. Sacrifices a are oftered up in the hope that the b popular wrath may be appeased. b There Is talk even of a third term in the White House for the vocifer ous and lawness person under whom Cannon and Aldrich and Payne and Sherman and Dalzell got their stran gle grip on party and country. In spite of all this there will be no mistake about that which is to take place in November. It is to be C more a Republican defeat than a a Democratic victory: more a popular - uprising against plutocracy and priv ilege than a party revival: moree a matured verdic t on Rooseveltism . than upon Republicanism: more a re buke of Taft as proxy than of Taft d as president: more an expression of e hope in Democracy than of faith in c Democracy. MR. BLEASE FOR GOVERNOR. 1 (Advertisement) e Mayor Blease-s friends in Newber- t ry. as elsewhere throughout the State. are delighted with the magni- ~ ficent vote which he received in the t Srst primary on Tuesday. arl are confidently expecting him to win by ' a large majority in the second prim ary. With about 95 per cent. of the S total vote of the State heard from. ~ he is severa'l thousand ahead of Mir. ~ Featherstone. his nearest opponent. ~ and he and Mr. Featherstone will ~ make the second race. The heavy vote received by Mr. Blease on Tuesday was not confined to any raection, but was general[ throughout the State. Starting out with a handsome majority in his home county of Newberry. and lead ing in the surrounding counties of Laurens. Sal uda. Lexington. Union ~ and Fairfield. he received the flatter- C ing endorsement of his fellow-citi- C zens of South Carolina without re gard to geographical lines or to vo-C cations in life. U Mfayor fllease has been ca..s..entb in the positions which he ha's taken in politics. He is today a local op- g tionist on the whiskey questio and we believe the great majority .of thet people of South Carolina are today ' in favor of local opion-letting mej present law alone-because we be- i lieve they are tired of the liquor -: gg tation. and are convinced *ha- thej interests of temperance will i~~ be subserved by local option. But it was not on the liquor questiobn th the people gave Mr. Blease th'e *ead in the first race. They recognized his ability, and they want a good S economical, business adn-inisttrat.r. without extravagance on the o'e hand or penur' on the other With hia lead in the first race 3r. Blease goes into the second raced with every prospect of his be..ag ti. c next governor of South Carolina. He~ has made a clean campaig., and] w i continue to do so. Stad he will nake 7 li a good governor. He~ has been sig-, nally honored by his home people ' and has served th.:m, .ith abaility and credit to hinmself and to themn in the numerous positions whicn ne has filled. That he has the c.onfi dence of the people among wh->:n hen has spent his life Is shown by his election as mayor of the city last fall, and by the vote which Netwher ry county gave him on Tuesday. h New berry Herald and News. WORK OF A CRAZY MAN. Shut His Wife Up in a C'ave With SI Two Hug'e Snakes. That her husband had imprisoned her in a cave int which there were re two huge snakes, from which she SI hariv .-sea:ped with her life, and st that later he attempted to t.ie her e handis and feet andI place her on a k :-ed-h.'t sto..e. was the testimony glv en by .\rs. Fannie S. Wood. of D~en- jor ver. Cal . n the dist rict court inl her p suit for divorce from Cheste.r L. * Wood yes-rdayv. She s-cu red her ul] lecree. Wood became insane sever- c al months ago and whe-n officers came s to take him in charge took refuge av. in a culvert half filled with water. where for se' eral hours he put upm a desperate fi? hi nally overcomte ch after he had received severe injuries. Co _________________ta Victims% of Wood Alcohol. Wood~ ab-ohol. mijxed with beer and whiskeyv at a foreign christen- l in. almn.t si!'d nut theity livee, ' .londav .izht at Fa.st Pit tsburg. As result .!r.hn Wr~d-dsv. Stephen Vor sik:. Was.-' ntavdoboski and Am irew Mlule" are not expected t" so recoer. The alcohol was found Is where somee painters had left it. da and was p-it into the drinkables by Pc iom-o ath uests. hn A GLOOMY OUTLOOK GH AUl.THORITY SAYS ENGLAND i s H E(ANING C01)LESS. iuan Catholic Priest Says the Peo ple WVon't Go to Church.-The Empty Church and the Cradle. Father Bernard Vaughan. the most ominent Roman Catholic priest in agland. in speaking of people not ing to church. says: "English people don't go to church hen knowin:ly and willing'y they e playing nine pins with the Ten >mmandments. They do not really lieve in a personal god who de ards of them life worthy of a ,ristian calling. II they were a oroughly believing people they ould e practical in their reliion r they are preeminently a practical tople. --At present the English race is tween the empty church and the upty cradle: and, of course, they t and react on each other. The w birth rate is simply appalling. ngiand. one known among nations ; the land of beautiful homes.' is Lst becominig the land of empty -adles: and. as was the case in the ays of decadent Rome. so now in acadent England-the unfit are the tost fertile. We have become a 'If-centred. material people. loving -ivolity. folly and amusements be re duties. "England is suffering from apes sy from God. If from every pul it in the land there went forth the ry. 'Come back to Christ.: instead r "Come back to the land." there aight again be hope for this deal nd. It is with a nation as with n individual: if the nation abandon ie worship of God. if its churches re empty. its souls will be empty: e3ven will be empty and hell wil e full of my countrymen.' A WARM MEETLNG. Mni-Saloon League President De nounced by Senator. The county campaigners of Union ounty spoke in Union Monday. with bout five hundred votcws present. 'he day pased without excitement ntil towards the end of the speak g. when matters assumed a some that serious aspect. The Hon. L. J. Browning. candi ate for re-election to the House barged that the Rev. .. L. Harley tate agent for the Anti-Saloon Lea ue. had said that Brownin.g had een drunk during the session of the .egislature. This the prooacher. who ras seated upon the pla form. deni d when given a chance to reply af er the meting adjourned. During the speech of Hon. B. F. 'ownsend. who seeks re-election to be Senate. the speaker pointed to be Rev. Mr. Harley. and said: "You re a scoundrel, come here to poke our nose into matters that are no oncern of yours." and :more to the amne effect. After the meeting was dourned by Chairman W. W. John n. the croy'd. almost to a man. re sained to hear Mr. Harley's state ient. ARRtESTED) ON DEATHBED. bying Columbian Accused of Bigamy at W1ashington. Butler Grinmsley. aged 25. of Col mbia. S. C.. was arrested Monday n a charge of bigamy while lying n what may prove to be his death ed. suffering from typhoid fever. rimsley went to Washington Aug st S. the police allege, accompanied y a comely young girl of 1S. whom e introduced as his wife, and en aged an apartment. Grimnsley, it is claimed, married ie irl, who was Miss Ella Arehart, fer desgrting his wife and little irl in Columbia. S. C. Deputy Sher F Miller of Neew Brooklyn. who on onday night returned to Columbia ith the girl, avers that Grimlsey rduced a marriage certifcate under le name' of Henry Timmons. uiNOW No INSURGENTS. erman Sayb His Party's Meinbers WilI Not Recognize Themx. \'ice Pres'dent Sherman. before a >pany of St. Louis Republicans at inner there Sunday night. declared iere are no insurgents in the party. uaifying his statement, he said yod Republicans did not recognize tsurgents. He was about to explain irther when he discovered newspa er men in the room. He ref used to continue beecause he id, he had been assured by the lo Republicans than his speech would yt be reported. "I would not have it said that I ade a political speech Sunday night. >t for anything in the world." Mr. ierman told the newspaper men as Swas about to take his train. LIGHlTNlNG KILLS THREE. ruk Church Steeple in North Car elins Sunday. According to a dispatch whic'h a'h'd Charlotte. N. C.. from Hot 'rings M-tdison. C.'unty. lightnong ruck the steeple of Baldwin's chap ,1 4 miles from that place Sunday. !ing three people. Three othe'rs were stunned and Sof them. Joe Raney. is not ex rted to recover. The storm, which s one of unusual violence, came just as the serv'ices of the lithe urch were concluding and the wor iprs -athered around its doors to :ai'. its passing. Lihtnng struck the steeple de 'ishing it and badly wrecked th'e irch creating a panic. When the! gregatioin gathered courage to ke stock six men were found in the eckage. three o'f them stone dead. Idwin rbap.'! !s located in an iso d c'ove in the mountains, and Hot rings. is the nearest settl.'ment. Killed While Hunting. Frnk Anderson. the 12 year old , of Mr. W. WV. Anderson of Wil ton. was acidentally killed Mon y morning a few miles from White nd. in Aiken county, while out SIZES UP TEDDY Speeches of Rioeset Severdy Criticis ed by Wm. Barnes, Jr. TWO ROGUES FALL OUT New York Republican Leader De clares in Statement that "Hyste ria Ha.s Itun RMot Throughout this Country" and Inferrentially Places Responsibility. The old adage that when ro::ues fall out honest men will get their dues. is on the way to verification in the State of New York. wixre the Republican leaders are gunn'.s; for Teddy, who has fallen like a firebrand in their midst. It is to be hoped that the fight will be a veritable kilkenny cat affair. The people would be benefited. Wm. Barnes. Jr.. Republican State committeeman and leader of Albany issued a statement Friday night, in which he declares that *hysteria ha,; run riot throughout this country.' and that the question to be decided at the coming Republican State Con vention at Saratoga. is "*whether the Republican party will fight the dis ease or succumb in the interests of politicians seeking office or tempor ary acclaim..' The character of the recent ad dresses of Theodore Roosevelt in the West. he says. "has startled all thoughtful men and impressed them with the frightful oanger which lies in his political ascendency." When he talked with Col. Roose velt, after the meeting that selected Mr. Sherman temporary chairman of the Convention over the Colonel and learned his attitude toward public matters." Mr. Barnes says he told the former President he never could have voted for him. 'Mr. Barnes' statement in part says: "At the coming Convention it will be determined whether the Repub lican party of this State. officially. through Its chosen representatives In Convention. intends to bow Its head to the political agitation of the hour. which Is the cause of the palsy overhanging the business world to day or will stand firmly and in un mistakeable terms by its rock-ribbed conservative principles, which have when it Is in power. given confidence to the business world and encour aged enterprises. "Hysteria has run riot through out this country. expresasing itself -n one form or another. such as 'direct nominations.' the 'Initiative and re ferendum.' the initiative and recall' -it matters little what particular form hysteria takes-the question to be decided at Saratoga is wheth er the Republican party will fight the disease or succumb in the In 'terests of the politicians seeking of fice or temporary acclaim. "The recent attack on the Su preme Court of the United Stattes by a keen witted and aspiring citizen could not have been made without a purpose well considered. It was an appeal to passion. If this appeas against judicial decision is popular and not rebuked there is no reason whatsoever, if a direct primary law shou-ld be enacte din this state, why candidates for judicial offices, com pelled to run the gauntlet of a dis trict or Statewide primary, would not. In order to appeal to the tem porary sentiments of the moment. declare In advance their attitude up on matters which come before them for judicial review, Instead of men of long legal experience and judicial training, there would be as candi dates for the Bench lawyers who mould no: hesitate to make that kind of appeal to the people, which would be a disgr'ace to their pro fession." Takes Up For Teddy. When Mir. Barnes' statement was communicated to Lloyd C. Griscom. president of the New York county Republican committee, at his coun try place at Fairfield, Conn.. Friday' night, he dictated the following re ply: ".\r. Barnes Is trying by words to make the public forget he and his closest associates have recently been caught In an ugly and deceitful at tempt to obtain control of the coat lng Republican State Convention. The Republican party In New York State will have a welcome opportun ity at the Convention to reprove such methods."* MILL~ OPERATIV'E WINS SUIT. Supreme Court Sustains V'erdict in Rhodes vs Granby .Mills. The tirst serious clash between Ia bor and capital In South Carolina has be'en settled by the Supreme Court in~ granting Olin Rhoees. a cot ton mill operative, the sum of s7. gnef because his nazrpe was on a "blacklist' sent out by the Granby Cotton .\ills. of Columbia, in June 19'07. and thereby was alleged to have deprived Rhodes of a means of earning a livellyhood. Evenr more far reaching than the actual settlement of the case, is the principle laid down by the court which, in effect, that no combin~a dons ma' be formed that tend to d" ;.rive others of their rights of b'eing ":mploe.d or will injur" others through threats 0 fintimidation or othe'rwise'.I A concurring opini('n by Jtumie C. A. Woods goes to the point of eon demningt such ''agreements" he twoen mils for the puir;ose of injur ing employees. G~eorgian Shot by -Judge. Badly wounded by two bules. M1. .\. Dewit. a prominent man of Ed.'u. Ga.. is at a Savannah ho.pital as the result of a difficulty with Judge J. Hartidge Smith of the city court of Eden. It is said Dewitt passed the lie and the' shooting followed. De witt may die. Horsee lKills Raby Falling from a buzzy in which it ws riding with its paronts,.TJoeph. I C-months~ld soen of John .1. Rouke 'of Sa.vannah. Ga.. was inistantly killed by a horse following the buggy Mlon cay afternoon on a country road. The orse, attached to another buggy. HURTS THE PARTY APOSTACY OF CERTAIN DEMO CMATS DELIGHTS THE Republican%, Who Are Making Cap ital Out of the Votes of The Dem ocrats to Ta Lumber. Etc. In his letter to The State from Iowa Zach McGhee says there is. un questionably. a widespread impres sion in all parts of the country. but more particular!y out here. that the Democrats can always be depended on to do the wrong things at the right tini for the Republican party's advantage. These sentiments are freely expressed by Republican stand patters, and eveL. insurrents are im bubed somewhat with the same idea. Insurgents and Democrats alike seem glad that certain Democrats voted for tariff duties in which their States were supposed to he interest ed. The insurgents are making much capital out of the votes on lumber. sugrr. and iron ore by certt:In Dem ocrats. These insurgents tell the people that these votes show that the Democrats are just as bad when it comes to protection as the stand-pat Republicans. In fact. these Demo crats are freely referred to as "stand pat Democrats." the other kind of Democrats being called "progressive Deinocrats." . The Democratic cause naturally suffers from this. The Democrats are really misrepresented. their vot ing for protection greatly exaggerat ed. but it is effective. On account of these votes In the new tariff session of congress and the tu-n given to them, thouaands of Democrats are voting for insurgent Republicans. and many thousands who have been Republicans. hut who are disgusted with the policy of protection and who would. under normal conditions, join the Democrats. are lining up with the insurgent Republicans instead. The stand-pat Republicans, like wise. are taking keen deligut because of these Deeinocratic votes for duties on lumber. iron ore. pineapples. su gar, tea. certain melicnal barks pro duced in Virginia. and sea island cotton. From the stand-patters' viewpoint. these votes indicate that the whole country has come around to the protectionist principles, that the south. as well as the North. is clamoring for protection, and that there should be an end to all agita tion on the subject of the tariff. This. on the surface, looks like a gloomy picture of the Democratic outlook. But it is not so gloomy as it appears. It will undoubtedly be hard for the Democrats to make R publicans put confidence in them. But there is so much dissatisfaction with Republican rule. and both the insurgent and the Republicans, in various districts, scattered through out this part of the country, have so many grievances against one another that they may be willing that their congressman shall be a Democrat. It will not take many districts like this for the Democrats to carry the house, and it appears that there are two or three in Iowa. WOMAN AND MA\' LYNCHED. A Negro and a Negress Hanged on a Railroad Trestle. Dangling from a trestle just out side of Greenwood. Fla.. Friday was found the bodies of Ed Christian. a negro charged with shooting depui~y Sheriff Allen Burns and Hattie Bowman. a negress, wh~o had b'.en arrested on the charge of being im plicated in the crime. The negroes were taken from the local jail by a mob which had little trouble over powering the guards. Several days ago a warrant was sworn out for Christian charging him with the theft of a watch from a local physician. When Burns. ac companied by the physician, went to Christians home to make the arrest his call for Christian to come out was greeted from within with a vol ley of shots, one bullet strikin;. Buirns in the breast and another in the arm. Ilis condition is consid ered critical. As soon as the physician spread the news posses were organized to capture Christian. but he had made good his escape. The Bowman wo man, however was piaced in jail, ac cused of having had a hand in the shooting of the officer. I ate yester day Christian was brought back from Dothan. Ala.. where he was captur.-d. He and the Bowman wo man were led from the jail with a rope arotund their necks hbut no ef fort was made Friday night to ascer tain what the mob did with them.* SAV'ES CHILD FROM DE.ATH. Woman Stands for Eight Hours in (Istern Until Help Comes. Stainding in five feet of water in a cistern at rer home near Sedan. Kan.. .\rs. John Bturah, wife of a farmer, for eight hours held aloft her two-year-old cbild until the ar rival of her .husband Friday. The child had fallen into the cistern an<! the mother immediately sprang af ter it. seized the baby in her -trms. raised it above the surface of the Wat.-r and called for help. No one was within h.-arin.g of the woman's calls. ande she waited for the return of .her husband from his work in the field. .\fter heit'g taken from the cistern. Mirs. Bu' a collapsed and is danaeroi:-ly it:. but the child suffer ed no illness. *4 Electric storage Rattery. Thomas A. Edison au3nounc-es that he has perfe.cted the electric storage nattery and his announcement may oc ac'cept.ed as s'mbtantially in ac cord with the fact. What this achievement should mean in the wa of perfecting horseles traction, of every kind and driving railrad :rains and steaimboats is diffles',. t conceive. P'olice inspector Killed. A nativA poiiler inspeetr'r. .r'arar 'andra. n':cn shot and prebabl' fa ally nn'mnded 'rriday at P-a'rra. British Indi:.e. wherec a num er of yountt Indians are on trial for con spiracy' against the government The assailants of the inspector are oths of -ood fammaies* YLARS IN ICE TOMB ------ - rouRiSTs AND GUIDES WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN SNOW. The Bodje% of the Mont Blanc Vic tim,. May be Recovered Some Time This Month. Early this month the village of Chamonix. lying among the foothills of Mont Blanc. is expected to witness the final act in an Alpine tragedy which 40 years ago thrilled not only the old world tiut the new. says the London Daily Express. Three tourists and eight guides were overcome by the cold. and suffered a slow and agonizing de7ath near the summit of Mont Blanc. on September 7. 1870. One of the victims was John C. Randall. treasurer of a savings bank at Quincy. Mass., whose life ambi tion was to climb Mont Blanc. He did it, and death was the price. Mr. Randall's body has lain for 40 years within the great Bosoms gla cier. a corfi of ice, progressing inch by inch downwards a few hundred feet every year. About him are the bodies of five of the guides. The bodies of the two other ton rists. Dr. James Bean. an American. and the Rev. Qeorge McCorkindale. a Scottish minister. and three more guides were recovered not many days After the tragedy. Mr. Randalls's widow died 19 years ago. but Miss Edith Randall. the s-cond child. Las been twice in recent years to Switzerland to vis it the slow-moving tomb of her fa ther. The villagers of Chamonix are waiting and watching. First an al penstock may be recovered, or an axe Then the thining ice may reveal the body. which can be released by cut ting through the glacier surface. Pathetic. indeed, is the story of Mr. Randall's visit to the country where he met his death. In his diary, under date May 25. 1870. the day when he left his home in America, appears the following entry: "Today I begin the realization of the dream of my whole life. After many misgivings and doubts I de cided a few days ago to visit Eu rope. said good-bye. and kissed m3 dear wife and babies." It was on September 6 that Mr. Randall began the ascent of Mow Blanc from the Grand Mulets inr with Dr. Bean, Mr. McCorkindale and eight guides. The weather was bad and the wind frizhtful. People in the Chamonix valley recognizing the danger. endeavored to watch the progress of the part3 through telescopes. Early in the af ternoon the climbers were seem through a rift in a smirling snow storm throwing themselves dowr from time to time to prevent beini swept away by the force of the gale With the exception of one mor glimpse nothing was seen of the sum mit of Mont Blanc for eight days No one reutrned. and the people 0: Chamonix knew a disaster must have overtaken the party. On the 16th a search party of 2: men set out from Chamonix and the following day the bodies of Mr. Mc Cork indale and two of the guides were discovered about 750 feet frogr the summit. Three hundred feel higher Dr. Bean and another guide were found, sitting, the former witk: his head supported by one hand and the elbow on a knapsack. A thor ough search was made by 24 addi tional guides, but not a trace of th-: rest of the party could be fo.z.i~ The bodies which had been f->und~ were brought down to Chamonix, and after a service in the village church were buried in the graveyard. A note.--.ook was found in Dr Bean's pocket, in which appeared the folowing penciled message to his wife: "My Dear Hessie: We have been on Mona Blanc for two daws in a terrible snowstorm. We have lost our wa:., and are in a hole scoope.1 out of the snow at a height of 15,. 00 feet. I have no hope of descend ing. .. .. ...W.e have no food, mv feet are already frozen and1 I am .' hausted. I have only strength to write a few worris. a die in the f:': of Jouas Christ. wito arfectionae thoughts of my family. My remen' brance to all." M3EETS TRAGIC DEATH. Man Thuches ILive Wire and Is In stantly Killed. At Spartanburg on Friday after non Hiarry Krimmin ger. lineman. met a tragic death while working on a telephone post in front of Aug. W. Smiths reside.nce. on east Main stre"t. H1is right arm and side en countered the high :ension wires of the- City Railway. Gas, and Electric Co.. and an alternating current of :. 1 ~ volts passed through his body. ieath was almor-t instantaneous. Krimminger had on his safety helit and also wore the lineman's spurs and was fastened to his farzi perc-h long after the current did its work, It is thought that he slipped on his sp'urs and to prevent falling or to keep himself balanced threw out his arm and it e.ncounteredi the hgrh tension wires of the lig~hting company. The current that went through Krim-minger's body left its de'ath dealing marks, one on his right arm jutst above the wrist and anoth r on h:s right side. The flesh other wis.' was not discolored and there were no other hruises or marks. This is the first accident of the kind that has --v.-- occurred to any eploye of the Spartanh.urg Rail way. Gas -ind Elec'tric Company.* DID FR~OM HOG HITE. A Farmer Attacked By Great u hite| Chester Roar. John H. Rarlett. a farmer, is deadI at his home in Dalton. Conn.. .is the rslt of a hog hire He was3 a'tack ed three days ago by the hor. - white Chester boar weighi.g 40^ pounds. and received a slight wound in his leg before he rould escape. The eg snnn began to swel' badly. .nd o"nd poison developed. At Sutf feid. another nearhy towan. Pauzl Jones :s under the care of surgeons with a severe case of blood poisoning which followed a mosquito bite on the ankle. It will be necessary to SEND FOR THEM BULLE TINS EVERY FARMER SHOULD GET AND IEAD. Write a Postal Card to Senator Snith or Congrsswan 1A-ver and Aak for Those You Want. The United States Government has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in preparing authoritative Farmers' Bulletins on nearly every important farm subject. These bul letins are offered to any farmer who will take the trouble to ask for the ones he wants. We publish below this invaluable list of bulleins publications of more value than any of the gaudy and high sounding sub scription books for which we pay $2 to $5. Look over the list of sub jects and pick out six or eight in which you are most interested and ask for them. They are free abso lutely, and you can get them by writing either your Senator or Repre sentatIve in C->ngress. or the Secre tary of Agriculture. Washington. D. C. 22. The Feeding of Farm Ani mals. 28. Weeds: And How to Kill Them. 32. Silos and Silage. 34. Meats; Composition and Cook ing. 35. Potato Culture. 36. Cottonseed and Its Products. 4 2. Facts About Milk. 4 4. Commercial Fertilizers. 4S. The Manuring of Cotton. 49. Sheep Feeding. 51. Standard Varieties of Chick ens. 54. Some Common Birds. 55. The Diary Herd. 61. Asparacus Culture. 62. Marketing Farm Produce. 63. Care of Milk on the FaFrm. 64. Ducks and Geese. 77. The Liming of Soils. S1. Corn Culture in the South. 85. Fish as Food. 86. Thirty Poisonous Plant. 91. Potato Diseases and Treat ment. 93. Sugar as Food. 96. Raising Sheep for Mutton. 99. Insect Enemies of Shade Trees. 100 Hog Raising In the Soupth. 101. Millpts. 104. Notes on Frost. 106. Breeds of Dairy Cattle. 110. Rice Culture in the United States. 113. The Apple and How to Grow it. 118. Grape Growing In the South. 121. Beans. Peas, and Other Leg umes as Food. 126. Practica I Suggestions for Farm Buildings. 127. Important Insecticides. 128. Eggs and Their Uses as Food. 134 Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds. 135. Sorghum Sirup Manufacture. 138. Irrigation in Field and Gar den. 142. Principles of Nutrition and Nutritive Value of Food. 50. Clearing New Land. 152. .Scabbies of Cattle. 154. The Home Fruit Garden. Preparation and Care. 155. How Insects Affect Health in Rural Districts. 156. The Home Vineyard. 157. The Propagation of Plant's. 164. Rape as a Forage Crop. 166. Cheese Making on the Farm. 17('. Principles of Horse Feeding. 174. Broom Corn. 175. Home Manufacture and Use of r'nrermented Grape Juice. 177. Squah Raising. 179. Horseshoeing. 1$1. Pruning. 182. Poultry as Food. 1S3. Meat on the Farm: Butch ering. Curing. and Keeping. 1 85. Beautifying Home Grounds. 187. Drainage of Farm Lands. 192. Barnyard Manure. 194. Alfalfa Seed. 195. Annual Floweroing Plants. 198. Strawberries. 2'M. Turkeys. :'03. Canned Fruits. Preserves and .Jelli'es. :!ns. P'ic Managemen?. ::06. Milk Fever ar~d Its Treat ment. 215. Raspberries. 218. The School Garden. 2:!0. Tomatoes. 224. Canadian Field Peas. 2:28. Forest Planting and Farm Management. I229. The Production of Goodj Seed Corn. 231. SprayIng for Cucumber and Melon Diseases. 252. Okra; Its Culture and Uses. 324. The Guinea Fowl. 235. Preparation of Cement Con crete. 236. Incubation and Incubators. 239. The Corrosion of Fence WIre 241. Bu:tter Making on the Farm. 242. An example of Model Farm ing. 245. Fungicides and Their U'se in Preventing lDiseases of Fruits. 245. Renovation of Worn-out Soils. 246. Saccharine Sorghums for Forage. 248. The Lawn. 249. Co'r.al Brealkfast Foods. 250. The Preventioni of Stinking Smut of Wheat and Loose Smut of Oats. 253. The Germination of Seed Corn. 255. The Home Vegot-inle Garden. 256. Preparation of Veretables for the Table. :'57. Soil F.-rtility. :58. Texas or Tick Fever and Its 'rvent ion 26". S..d of R'd Clover and its impurities. 266 Minageme'n' of 54'ils to Con .erve Me'isnure. 27'. Mo1iern Conve-niv'nces fort the Farm tiome. 272. A Successful Hog and Seed Corn Farm. :77. The Cse of Alcohol and4 Gasoline in Farm En.:ines. 28. Ler'uminous Crops for Green Manuixrinc 79. A Methodl of Eradicat:n; Farm. 2sK; Comparative Value of W\hole'' Cotton Seed an~d Cortonseed Meal inie :7. P'oultry Matna~-ement. 291. Evaporation of Apples. 292. Cost of Filling Silos. 293. I'se of Fruit as Food. '95. Potatoes and Other Root rops as Food. 29.8. Food Value of Corn and ora Products. 299. Diversified Farming Under 'lantation Sys'em. 301. Home-grown Tea. 302. Sea Island Cotton: its Cul ure. Improvement. and Diseases. 303. Corn Harvesting Machinety 310. A Successful Alabama Di -ersification Farm. 311. Sand-clay and Burnt-clay Roads. 312. A Successful Southern Hay Farm. 313. Harvesting and Storing Corn. 315. Progress in Legumnv inoca lation. 318. Cowpeas. 319. Demonstration Work In 0, Operation With Southern Farmers. 321. The Use of the Spll'.-lo Drag on Earth Roads. 324. Sweet Potatoes. 323. Small Farms in the Corn Belt. 326. Building up a Run-down Cotton Plantation. 333. Cotton Wilt. 338. Macadam Roads. 339. Alfalfa. 343. The Cultivation of Tobacc' in Kentucky and Tennessee. 345. Some Common Disinfectants. 346. The Computation of Rations for Farm Animals by the Use of Energy Values. 347. The aepair of Farm Equip ment. - 348. Bacteria in Milk. 349. The Dairy Industry in the South. 350. The Dehorning of Cattle. 351. The Tuberculin Test of Cat tle for Tuberculosis. 354. Onion Culture. 353. A Successful Poultry and Dairy Farm. 356. Peanuts. 359. Canning Vegeta'ales in the Home. 363. The Use of Milk as Food. 364. A Profitable Cotton Farm. 367. Lightning and Lightning Conductors. 369. How to Destroy Rats. 370. Replanning a Farm for Profit. 372. Soy Beans. 375. Care of Food In the Home. 77. Harmfulness of Headache Mixtures. 378. Methods of Exterminating the Texas Fever Tick. 379. Hog Cholera. 385. Boys' and Girls' Agricultur al Clubs. 387. The Preservative Theatment of Farm Timbers. 389. Bread and Bread Making. 391. Economical Use of Meat in the Home. 393. Habit Forming Agents. 397. Bees. 398. Farm Practice in the Use of Commercial Fertilizers in the South Atlantic States. 400. A More Profitable Corn Planting Method. GROWTH OF CHICAGO. One of the Most Renlarkable Things of History. It was only eighty years ago--Au gust. 1830--that William Thompson mode the first map, or plot, of Chi -ago. At the time the great "Windy City'' to be had about fifty inhabi :ants and some eithteen or twenty log dwellings. Around the' dismal hamlet stretched the mosquito infest 4d marshes, and with every storm -he waters of Lake Michigan threat --ned It with destruction. But it had :t map, and an area of three-eights of a square mile, and a motto which Three ,,ears later the town covered 60 acres, and boasted of 550 in ha,bitnats, with 19& buildings. It was the beginning of the most phe nomienal growth in all history. In corporated as a city in 1837. it had a population of 4.1 70. The popula r ion in 1830) was 30.000, in 1860 109.000. in 1880 500.000. In 1890 1.200.000. in 1900 1.600.000. while its population today is somewhere around :.:'"0.000. The little hamlet of which Thomp -on made the map eighty years ago is today, in population and commer eial importance, the second city in the U'nited States and the fourth in the world. London. New York and Paris alone exceeding it. It is the areatest railroad center in the world. and, although located a thousand miles from .he sea. its shipping is exceeded only by two other places on earth. New York and Liverpool. Realizin: that this amazing result has come about within a single life time. Chicagoans may well feel quite juistiled in calling their city ''The Miracle of History.'' LEP1oS WO.MLN IN GO)THAM. Negres Hs Been A.sociating With People for Years. A negro woman with an advanced case of leprosy has been living in New York for more than seven years. asocIating const.antly with peopl' of her own race. The nature of h ,r ailment did not become known until last week, when she applied at the Bellevue hospital for treatment. The doctors at o-nce diagnosed her ailment as one of the worst cases of leprosy which had ever come to their attention. The declared that she could live but a short time. The woman told the doctors that she had ome to New York from the WVest In dies mo*re than seven years ago and was sick then. Five years ago she aried. and a year later her only ~hild, a son. was born. She had been narried only a short time she said hen her husband deserted her and he had never seen him since. According to her story, she has potthe last few months wander nr about the city with her child. leeping in the parks at night. Their mnly food was wh at she cu-ld be; or id. The doctors were not prepared o state positively whether the boy s a leper. The two will he sent to oin the small leper colony at Black Lcl's Isla~d. Keti.4 wealth' manf Pid a rev' price fnr a special car in a hich e mirhr travel with his dog from ne side of the continent to the oth r. It is to be hoped the- dog ap recated the favor. He is one, or