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KEOWEE COURIER (ESTABLISHED 1*4?.) _ Published Every Wednesday Morning ?nbecriptlon $1 Per Annan?. Advertising Rates Reasonable. -Hy STECK, SHEIiOK & SCHRODER. Communications o? a personal chan; Beter charged for as advertise ments. (Dbl tn a ry notices and tributes of re gpect, of not over one hundred words, will be printed free of charge. All over that number ni ist be paid for at the rate of one , < ul II word. Cash to- ac company man usc ri pt. WALHALLA, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST tl. IDHI. WASHINGTON SWEPT HY STORM. Wim), Hail, Hain mal Lightning (?ive j City a Had Scare. Washington, July 31. Like a giant Hail, a cyclonic storm of wind, rain and hail whipped back and forth across the nation's capital Wednesday afternoon, leaving death and ruin in its wake Three dead. BCOres injured and hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of prop erty destroyed was the toll recorded in the hurried canvass made when the city aroused itself from half an hour of helplessness in the grasp of the (dements. Out of the blazing sky. under ?which the city was sweltering with the temperature at 100 degrees, caine the storm, roaring from the north, driving a mass of clouds that cast a mantle of darkness over the city. The gale readied a velocity of almost 70 miles an hour, swept the streets clear, unroofed houses, tore detached small structures from their foundations, wrecked one office building, overturned wagons and car riages in the streets and swept Washington's hundred parks, tearing "?aue branches from trees and even uprooting sturdy old elms, land marks of a century. As the wind wreaked its havoc the rain caine, and in flvo minutes the temperature dropped from the hun dred mark to between sixty and sev enty. Then tho rain turned to hail and hailstones battered on roofs and crashed through skylights and win dows. For half an hour the city cowered, paralyzed, under tho beating of the storm, every activity suspended. Trolley cars, street traffic and tele phone service were halted, and gov ernment departments suspended oj)- : erations. Tho wind wrecked a three-story brick building occupied by the B. S. (Saul Company, real estate, and 15 persons were carried down in the crash. W. B. Hilton, vice president of the company; Thos. H. Fealey, 65 years old. a clerk and an uniden tlflod man who entered tho building to try to rescue thoso caught In the .wreck, were taken from the ruins dead. Half a dozen were taken to hospitals seriously injured and a dozen men were treated for slight : injuries. The neatly kepi lawns of the White House were devastated. Three tinge elm trees, uprooted by the wind, were thrown bodily across the lawn and up to the ver> poi iiT of the building, blocking the drives. President Wilson was seated In the executive office when tho wind crash ed through several windows in the White House proper. At the Capitol Heights. The Capitol, set high above the city, caught tho brunt of the wind, rain, hail and lightning. The Sen ate was In session when the hall swept down With a deafening roar, beating on the glass roof of the chamber. Tho tumult made further business impossible, and. hurrying to the Vice President's desk', Senator j Kern megaphoned with Iiis hands a motion to recess. The motion was put, and although tho Senators could hear nothing the Senate quit work for 1", minutes, in confusion. When the storm broke 35 paint er- were ai work on the dome of the Capitol, ..warming over the curving surface or swinging high on shaky j scaffolding. William Reese, the foreman, hurried to the dome and gol most of his nun to shelter in side the big inverted bowl. But Jim Boyle, John.Ford, Noble Balley and Bruce Iones were too late. Hailey and Jones succeeded In scaling the dome in the wind and rain and gain ed a sheltered ledge, whero they weathered tho storm after trying1 in vain to get inside. Hoyle and Ford wvre caught on a swinging scaffold Just under tho eaves of the dome, and there they swung, buffeted by the wind, beaten by tho hall and soaked by tho rain, while tho flashes of blue lightning trickled around tho dome, down from tho platinum lightning points on the head of the Goddess of Freedom :hat surmounts the struc ture. When the storm was over they crept, shaken and bruised, to safety . Inside the dome. Hero and there throughout tho etty panic appeared. Horses, driven frantic by the wind and hail, dashed through the streets in terror until they were stopped by collidion with some other wind-strewn object. In some of the office buildings and the government departments disastrous punies were narrowly averted. At the bureau of printing and en graving, where hundreds of women are employed, the wind, sweeping through a high window, sent a storm of broken plate glass hurtling through the big press room. Eight or ten women were cut by falling glass, and one printer Buffered severe scalp wounds. While tin? excitement was al it? height the wind caught a bundle of 1,000 one dollar bills, half finished, and swept it through the broken win dow. Tho bundle was ripped to pieces and the bills scattered far and wide. Itlrector Ralph hurried oui a force of scouts, and after ((?nibing Potomac Park and the grounds of the Washington monument for miles and fishing in the tidal basin nearby, all but $7."? worth of the bills wee re covered. Another panic was threatened at the pension office, where the light ning ripped a corner off the roof, and crashed in scores of windows. Ano ther lightning bolt tore a hole ill the roof of the post o ince building and ripped open one face of the big clock in the tower. The wind ripped fifteen heavy panels from the door of the historic old Acqueduct bridge, and a horse was blown into tho liver, though the driver escaped. "Nudity Would Ile Better." Absolute nudity in women is [(ref erable to tho present fashion of dressing, according to Rev. Stephen A. Nettles, editor of the Southern Christian Advocate, which publica tion in last week's issue strongly de nounced what the editor calls "sen suality In woman's dress." Mr. Net tles says: "Somehow lt seems that many wo men love to display their forms; it i '?s gone so far that in some cities laws have been passed forbidding the appearance of women upon the streets In certain styles of dress. "Really, we believe it would be morally far better for the women to follow the custom of many African tribes, who are robed lu nothing more than beads of perspiration, than to wear these suggestive dresses that many are now adorning their bodies with. * "Let the press and the pulpit and the city councils and the Siate Legis latures, and the truly modest women of our land do all in their power to avert the destruction being called down upon our country by these dev ilish costumes." Mr. Nettles says he believes that "one of the chief sources of this de generacy of modesty In our women is found in the bathing custom and cos tumes." Would Prove Croat Accession. (News and Courier, July ?ll.) Rev. M. G. G. Scherer, pastor of St. Andrew's Lutheran church here, was yesterday elected by the board of trustees of the Lutheran Theolog ical Seminary, at Columbias a member of the faculty. Dr. Scherer is at present on a vacation, and it was not possible last night to ascer tain bis attitude toward the call to the seminary. Members of his con gregation are hoping they will not lose his services as pastor. He has been notably successful In his work in Charleston, and St. Andrew's has been achieving splendidly since he assumed charge of the parish. The oilier professors of the seminary are Kev. A. S. Voigt, I). I)., and Rev. L. C. M. Miller. I). I). Dr. Scherer is considered one of the church's strong est theologians and would, it is be lieved, make a great accession for tho seminary. ('hester Woman Drowns Self. Chester. July ;i 1. Mrs. Mary Rob ertson, of Lando, commit ted suicide Monday afternoon by jumping In tho mill race, after having carefully tied a rock weighing 7 M> pounds In her apron and having fastened this apron around her neck. Some boys a short distance below where the woman leaped in heard the slash and rushing up the stream found her shoes on the bank, which caused thom to sound the alarm. After 40 minutes of diving Mite body was brought up by Fred Heffner, who lays claim to having either recovered or rescued eleven persons. Mrs. Robertson was 26 years of ago and was a native of Waxhaw, N. C. She was apparently In the best of health, and the cause that led her to commit suicide ls not known. Love may make the world go round, but sometimes it takes mar riage to square it. ^TtuTBcst Hot" Weather Tonic GROVI{'S TASTI{i,ltftS chill TONIC c ti riche? the blood, build* up Mi? whole ayntem and will won (Terfully strengthen and fortify you to withstand Un d?pre??lna ?Sect o( the hot summer. SOc. FAMOUS FIST 1 IN HALLS Historic Pugilistic^ Fyents men Have Engaged-On that Between Tillman a (Wash i ugh The now seating arrangement in tin? Representatives' Hall suggests a llonian circus, and the sittings ot the Rouse may furnish a ?Reinad holi day. Tim 436 members sit on benches arranged In semi-circle, and rising in steps to ?Ive ?ill a (har k:iew of Hie arena in trout of the Speaker's desk, where the leaders in debate take their places, and con duct the legislative contests. This new arrangement may conduce to more orderly consideration of tariff legislation, and it may not. It will, however, centralize the proceedings, and it' they become dramatic, with physical contests, it will he ea:-: to conflue the actors to the ring, and give all the members a hotter view than under the old arrangemen ' ? Time has been when statesmen on the hill used the old argument of physical force and pugilistic skill, and in most of these instances the* dramatic features were marred by tho lack of pro|>er rules to keep the contestants in the ring. They had a weakness for fighting anywhere in the hall, and with anything that was within reach, and there have been a number of such contests which were witnessed by few of the members because there was no ring and no rules and no program. There have been tights on the floor with fists, with finger nails, with canes and pokers, with books, pens and ink wells, and they have so far Ignored the rules as to engage in hairpulling and scratching and biting. But with no ink wells or pens or books or pokers lying around, there will be less abuse of the rules governing fair fighting. The Speaker can bet ter referee the contests, too, as they will be down in front of his desk, where he can see every move made in the ripg. Champ Clark has con fessed that his early ambition was to be a prize fighter, and he may now have an opportunity to act as ref eree over fights In the new circus of the House of Representatives. Historic Lyon-ti ris wold Fight. This would bo no reflection upon the Speaker at a time when we are reviving, or attempting to revive, and restore the Democratic slfhpliclty* of the earlier and better days of the Republic. It would be in keeping with a precedent established by Speaker Jonathan Dayton in 1798. Speaker Dayton was from New Jer sey, and a graduate of Princeton. He was a soldier as well as a college man. He was a strict parliamenta rian, and he was also a stickler for the rules of the ring when men tried to settle their personal differences in the good old way. Speaker Day ton insisted on fair play in a fight, even when it took place on the floor while the House was in session. 'He divided his attention between efforts to keep the House in order and in refereeing the light. The Incident which demonstrated Speaker Dayton's Impartiality was one of the most sensational that is recorded in the history of the House. .Matthew Lyon, a Representative from Vermont, spat in the face of Representative Roger Griswold, of Connecticut, and the House had a very serious time Investigating that affair. Lyon was a hot-headed Irish man who had been prominent in the anti-revolutionary agitation in Ver mont, deputy paymaster In the Con tinental army, Clerk of the Court of Confiscation In 1786, and was af terwards elected a member of Con gress. There were rumors of irreg ularity in connection with his ser vice in the army, and one day. while the House was considering charges of impeachment against Mr Hlount, of Mississippi, and the members were gathered In groups chatting, as a voto was taken, Mr. Griswold taunted Mr. Lyon about his war rec ord. Mr. Griswold had not been in the army, he had graduated from Yale, studied law, been on the bench, and was now a student of Congress. He was not a fighting man, and when he referred to Lyon's war rec ord as discreditable the bluff Irish man spat In his face. Griswold, either through surprise of humilia tion, did not resent the insult at that time, but left to his colleague, Rep resentative Sewell, of Massachusetts, the lespons'billty of bringing the matter to the attention of the House. Mr. Sewell felt that the humilia tion of the Connecticut member should not be given undue publicity, and he requested* the House to' go into executive session to hear a re port he had to make touching a vile assault committed on one member by another. The Speaker at once ordered the galleries cleared, the House went into secret session, heard what Mr. Sewell had to report und then not agreeing that the mat ter should bo considered behind ?IGHTS OF CONGRESS in which Country's States ly Real Fight in Senate md McLaurin in 1902. Hi P08t. I closed doors resumed its public ses sion to consider a resolution to ex pel Mr. Lyon tor a "violent attack and gross indecency committed on the person of Roger Griswold In the I presence of tho House." After some debate the robolutlos was referred to the committee on privileges and election, with instructions to Investi gate and repftrt. The publicity given to the insult had a greater effect on .Mr. Griswold than the insult, and two weeks later as he entered the House and seeing .Mr. Lyon sitting at his desk, he rushed upon bini, striking him over the head with a cane. Mr. Lyon was not a man to take punishment without resistance. Ile managed to extricate himself from tho combina tion of desks and chairs, ran over to tho big fireplace, grabbed up the brass tongs and went into battle. With cane and tongs the two men fought ui> and down the aisle while the other members crowded around to witness the struggle. The battle reached its climax on the steps to the Speaker's desk and there the men foll with Lyon underneath and Gris wold on top. The Speaker had watched the struggle with as much Interest as any of the members, di viding his attention between the rules of the House and order on the floor, and insisting that the rules of fair fighting should be strictly ob served. When the men fell several members rushed in ai.d grabbed Griswold by the leg to pull him off, but the Speaker called them sharply to order and insisted that it was un fair to seize any man by the leg while he was lighting. They mus! take him by the shoulder in their ef forts to remove him from the bodj of his antagonist. Hnlr-Pulling Enrages Speaker, Speaker Drayton would permit ru striking below the belt. Followlnj his ruling the peacemakers tool Griswold by the shoulders and pullet him off. Others helped Lyon to hi feet and the House began to con sider the second breach of peace While so engaged Lyon and Grle wold met at the water cooler on th opposite side of the chamber and re newed tho fight, this time with fist and halr-pulllng and very tittle r< gard for the Queensbury rules. Thi so incensed the Speaker that whe they were separated he had thei brought to tho bar of the House an compelled them to g'vo th?lr pei sonal pledges that they would In future observe the rules of the Hom and settle their personal quarrel elsewhere. The Speaker did not pr< pose to act as referee between me who would indulge in hair-pullin or ot.-er disgraceful and unman! demonstrations in a personal ei counter. The investigation of the chargi against Lyon were resumed, the cor mittee disagreed on the resolution expel him, and the House refused v?t<? for censure. Tho delay in Gri wold's resentment seems to have lo him sympathy for the insult he hi accepted in silence. Lyon was d teated at the next election, moved Kentucky, and was several tim elected to the House from that. Stal Thc dramatic and significant featu of this first fight on the floor of t House was the firm attitude Shaker Dayton in enforcing t Marquis of Queensbury rules at t same time he was enforcing the rui of Jefferson's Manual. He esta Ushed a precedent that may be v? uable for Speaker Clark and enal him to referee a fight at the sat tim. . is presiding over the delila atkins of the House. Attack on President's Son. There have been other contests the House that were not strictly pj liamentary and some affairs outs! tho chamber which called for inves gatton. In May, 1 K*J8, John Adar son and private secretary of Pre dent John Quincy Adams, delivei a message to the House, and as was leaving Russell Jarvis assault him at the door. The President reded the attention of the House this outrage on the Executive ir special message, and there wan Investigation. Jarvis admitted assault, and Justified lt on ground that tho President s son 1 insulted him at a White House ceptlon,. and tho rotunda of the C Roi was no more public place punishment than was the pl where the insultvwas given. Th was a long debate and divided co ells In the House. One faction slsted that the House should ret an Insult to the executive ol when committed In tbat.nart of Capitol under the Jurisdiction of House. Another faction conten that the House could not punis citizen for contempt when the Trea to the treat welcomed, b> THE COCA-COLA COM sault was not on a member, but on the President's secretary. A resolu tion was Anally adopted, declaring that "the act was a violation of privilege and merited censure, but that no further proceedings be taken." . Again, in 1832, Samuel Houston, the turbulent patriot whose name adorns Statuary Hall, waylaid Repre sentative Stanberry, of Ohio, and punished him for some remark in debate a few days before. Hous ton had sent a challenge to Stan berry, which was ignored. Ho then met St toiberry on the street and struck him with a cane. Stanberry reported the assault to the House and -A'I investigation was ordered. Tb.;* raised the constitutional point as to whether a member of Congress should not be protected under the guarantee of the Constitution that he :ould not be held to account any where for words spoken in debate. Houston was called to the bar of the House and put on trial. He admit ted the assault and sought to justify it, but he was censured hy the House, j He had been a member of Congress from Tennessee, but had resigned, afterwards went to Arkansas, then to Texas, became commander-in-chief of the Texas army, was elected first President of the Texas Republic, and first Senator from the Lone Star State. Houston's attorney in the contempt prosceedings before the House complained that one of the of ficers of the House controlling the press had prejudiced the case. He said: "While the accused is held In silent and submissive durance by one of the officers of the House, another of Its officers ls daily pouring upon him all tho overflowing of his wrath and doing everything to excite a de gree of indignation against him which would make a fair hearing of his caso impossible." Houston's assault on Stanberry grew out of the feud between the friends and opponents of Gen. Jack son, and such assaults were common in that period. Sometime? the quar rels were between members of the House, and sometimes between mem bers and outsiders, who did not hesi tate to call men to account for words used in debate on the floor, Qene rally resentment took the form of a challenge to a duel, and If the mem ber did not choose to fight he was liable to attack and punishment as a coward. One of the most serious results of a quarrel over words spo ken in dol?ate was the death of Rep resentative Cilly, of Maine, in a duel with a personal friend, Representa tive Craves, of Kentucky. The two men had no quarrel, and no other ex cuse for a duel than the niceties of tho code. A New York newspaper had made charges of corruption against certain members of Congress, and in moving a resolution of In quiry Mr. Cilly made statements re flecting on the character of the edi tor, Jam?s Watson Webb, who came to Washington and challenged him. The challenge was carried by Rep resentative (?raven, but Cilly refused to receive a challenge from Mr. Webb or anyone else who undertook to call him to account for language used In debate on the floor of tho House. The refusal to accept the challenge was Them of treat9 - always r all, everywhere ith life-delight ng-supremely -Refreshing Quenching ie Genuine in bit i tutes. * I* rc? Booklet LP AN Y, ATLANTA* CUL accepted by Mr. Graves as a reflec tion upon himself, making him a party to the offense against a mem ber acting under his constitutional rights. He felt called upon to take up the quarrel, and challenged Cilly to fight with him. The challenge was accepted, the duel was fought on February 24. 1838, and Cilly was killed. After a long investigation and heated debate, in which the duel became an excuse as well as a cause, the wheic matter was dald on the table. It wag contended that dueling by members had been frequent and ignored by the House. It was fur ther contended that Mr. Graves had not challenged Mr. Cilly for words spoken in debate, but because he had been innocently the messenger of -Mr., Webb, and by the code he waa com pelled to tako up tho quarrel of his principal when Cilly refused to fight with that gentleman. A Fight with Quill Pens. The troubles of the floor were not always between members of the House. In the summer of 1836 the fight was between two newspaper men who had been admitted to the floor to report the proceedngs. They had a disagreement, which became a fight with quill pens, and then with canes, and they fought all around the hall, among the members, until the sergeant-at-arni8 took them into cus tody. They were censured by the Speaker. The anti-slavery agitation preced ing tho Civil War produced many J personal enocunters. In 1851 Rep resentative Brown, of Mississippi, made a speech defending State's r ghts, and Representative Wilcox, of the same State, took issue with him. charging false statement by his colleague. Brown slapped the face of Wilcox, and they had a fight then and there, but both afterward apolo gized to the House, and that ended tho matter. In ISM! Representative Galusha Grow, of Pennsylvania, and Repre sentative Keith, of ft ou th Carolina, had a bitter controversy, In which the latter called Grow a "Republican puppy," and Grow retortec with "ne gro driver." There was a free fight on the floor, and among those who be came Involved were Elihu B. Wash burn, of Illinois; his brother, Cad wallader Washburn, and Representa tive Potter, of Wisconsin; Represen tative Barksdale, of Mississippi, and several others. In this instance pas sion gave way to ridicule when Cad wallader Washburn seized Barksdale by the hair and lifted the whole poll from a perfectly bald head. Waving the wig In the air as a wild Indian might wave a scalp, Washburn danc ed about the floor until the whole House was convulsed with laughter, and the fight was forgotten. Potter was afterwards challenged to mortal combat by one of the Southern men, and he named Boston Common as the place for the duel, with clapboards for weapons. This sense of the ri diculous again spoiled the serious ness of the quarrel. There have bc^n few personal en counters in the House during the sessions In recent years, although there have been many sharp ex (Continued on Seventh Page.) V