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ISSUED SEKI*WEEKLT. l. x GRIST s SONS, PubUiher.. | % ^amil8 DwspW 4?r 'M promotion of (hit gotiticat, Social, &grieul<ui;al and O'ommcr.cial jfntmsls of (h< geopl*. | ESTABLISHED 1855. ^ YORKV1LLK, B. O., TITE8DAY, JULY S, 1913. NO. 53. (STATE Ci ? Candidates Continue Roui Following: is the Columbia State's story of the Horry campaign meeting of last Friday as reported by McDavId Horton. Conway, June 28.?A shout from J. A. Lewis, county chairman, "Everybody to the oak, gentlemen," was the signal for the assembling today of several hundred citizens around a stand built about the base of a venerable moss draped live oak on the bank of the Waccamaw, the occasion being the ninth meeting jf the state political campaign. Horry, polling about 3,500 votes 1n the primary, gave Blease a majority over Featherstone in 1910. Jones and Blease both claim prospects of victory here this year. Undoubtedly Blease was more freely cheered, though a greeting was given Judge Jones with which that candidate expressed himself as highly gratified. Nothing distinguished the speeches of Messrs. Jones and Blease today from addresses delivered by them ?? nartiona the greater eisewnere e*cr|;i ? ? degree of attention devoted by eacn to the separate coach legislation of the early nineties as bearing on the race issue. Excellent Order Kept. Excellent order was kept. No new features whatever were introduced Into their respective arguments for election by the candidates for state K treasurer, S. T. Carter and D. W. McLaurin, or those for railroad commissioner, John H. Wharton, James Cansler and John G. Richards, Jr., except that MaJ. Richards said he was astonished that Mr. Wharton should criticise the railroad commission be? cause of high express rates from Flor* ida and to North Carolina, when he must know that the commission has nothing at all to do with interstate traffic. A Joke related by Mr. Cansler evoked the first laugh of the meeting and MaJ. Richards was accorded the first applause. J. R. E&rle, first to speak today from among the four candidates for attorney general, read a statement attacking all four of the newspaper staff correspondents traveling with the campaign party. He denied he had said he had been always supporting Attorney General Lyon, declaring he _ had qualified this by saying he had m supported the attorney general when he was right. Whatever Mr. Earle may have intended to say, no one of the four newspaper men can recall that he did until today make the qualification which he contends was made. B. B. Evans spoke to much the same effect as formerly. Lyon Talks Back. The attorney general, J. FVaser Lyon, was proceeding to explain his work against grafters, after briefly denouncing what he termed the "vile slanders" of Mr. Evans against the Murray commission, when an Interruption from the crowd led to a brisk ^ exchange of language. J. A. Schwerin of Sumter, who is installing an Ice plant at Conway, asked Mr. Lyon why owlHonno was in his hand8. he had not prosecuted Thos. B. Felder of Atlanta for grafting. The attorney general said no scintilla of evidence * against Felder had ever been in his hands. On the contrary, a duly constituted grand Jury of Newberry county had thrown out an indictment against Felder and said the charges against him were all false. "But that was a fake," replied Mr. Schwerin, and persisted in interrupting the speaker, though Mr. Lyon asked him to desist, until finally Mr. Lyon to remarked: "Yes, Tom Felder prosecuted a lot of grafters in South Carolina. and I fear that is what hurts my friend." "That's a lie," said Mr. Schwerin, "What's a lie?" "If you associate me with grafters ^ or .Torn Felder." "You are a dirty liar," retorted Mr. Lyon, "and nothing but a miserable coward would take the advantage you are taking. You are a dirty dog and an infamous scoundrel, and let me tell you in the presence of this audience, that, though I regret this interruption, I will be off the stand after awhile and if you are not satisfied with it you can find me at my friends. I was born a man. Somebody may be physlclally m able to overcome me, nut I want to to state right here that while he Is doing it I am going to endeavor to keep the flies off him." Another remark which the men at the press table could not catch brought from the attorney general the admonition: "I don't want any trou ble with you: I warn you here and now that it would really be well for you not to attempt any violence here today." Peace officers took Schwerin away and cautioned him. He returned after a time, but did not again disturb the meeting except to fire a question or two at Judge Jones and to voice his f approval of sentiments expressed by * Gov. Blease. Thos. H. Peeples, the fourth candidate for attorney general, spoke sunstantially as heretofore. The crowd dwindled considerably when John T. Duncan, the last speak^ er of the day, was Introduced. Judge Jones in Good Form. Judge Jones was in excellent form and s|K>ke with great vigor and effect. "Anybody who says," he declared, "that I have ever by my vote favored social equality between white and black, or tried to make white women occupy the same seats with negro fer men or women, use the same drinking! glasses or the same toilet conveniences usually found in coaches, says that f which is as false as hell itself. That is the cheapest claptrap and demagogy ever heard in South Carolina Such things said about him he I* branded as "dirty and contemptible." Otherwise he discussed about as heretofore the other issues of the camnaien. Gov. Blease featured the race issue, newspapers and corporations in his speech. He said Judge Jones had shown bad judgment in employing the same language in the presence of ladies in Conway that Blease had been criticised for using at Florence. This was in reference to sanitary arrangements in passenger coaches. The governor denounced as a liar and cow^ ard a man in the audience named Hunt, who had, he said, been sent by the State to hound him up and down the state and tell lies on him. Mr. Hunt, in answer to questions from the governor, said that he had made a remark to a citizen that he understood 4 a lady in South Carolina had a letter from a woman friend in Chicago, admitting that the Chicago woman had put up JIH.OOO to get Stobo Young out of the penitentiary, which was a rumor and he had so described it. The governor said also that a man "claiming to be a Methodist preacher," named Allan McFarlan, had been telling people in this section that Blease would not pay his debts. The governor displayed a note for $96.J?4 signed by Mj\ MacFarlan and a letter from the owner of the instrument. M. C. Harrelson of Mullins, saying the debt had been | incurred for -meat, meal and flour, "such merchandise as he used in his house." As to the Horry court, the governor said the two circuit judges, Messrs. Copes and Memminger, were disengaged, and it was Chief Justice Jones, 0 not Blease, who entailed needless expense on the county. The Georgetown Meeting. The following report of the Georgetown meeting on Saturday was made VMPAIGN. j About the Usual tine. by S. E. Boney, a staff correspondent of the News and Courier: County Chairman L. S. Ehrlch called the meeting to order in the yard surrounding the Winyah Indigo Society Hall, a temporary platform being used by the speakers, the first of whom were Messrs Cansler, Richards and Wharton, candidates for railroad commissioner. At the outset it became apparent that a few men in the au[ dience wanted to know whether or not the candidate is a Blease man. "Are you a Blease man?" was asked of Col. Wharton. "In the first place I am for Woodrow Wilson for president and John Wharton for railroad commissioner." replied the speaker. The crowd were awfully stingy with applause for the first three speakers: In fact, most of the noise was in derision. Mr. Barnard B. Evans presented his usual argument, reading figures from the reports?both of the Ansel and Blease winding-up commissions, finally asking the question. "Where is the money?" He does not accuse anybody of stealing, but says If the figures are wrong he is not responsible. Applause for Lyon. Attorney General Lyon was the first candidate who was received with applause. In a few words he made his usual disposition of the charges brought by Mr. Evans, and then devoted some time in telling of his stewardship as attorney general. In the course of his discussion regarding the corporation tax case, Mr. Lyon paid the state supreme court a glowing tribute. The speaker closed amid hearty applause, and" again today he received a bouquet of flowers. Mr. Thos. H. Peeples denied that he was party to a conspiracy to defeat the present attorney general or to efTect an alignment between the grafters and the honest men of the state. Mr. Peeples promises that when he becomes attorney general he will give the appointive offices at his disposal to "honest. poor persons who need them." The speaker won loud applause when he said that he would enforce the law against white persons teaching in.negro schools, when such a law is passed and when he is elected attorney general. Mr. Peeples closed amid generous hand-clapping and cheers. Earle's Form of Attack. Senator J. R. Earle gave most of his time to-day to an attack upon the record of Attorney General Lyon. Mr. Earle at a previous meeting declared that he had always supported and upheld the present attorney general. Mr. Lyon thereafter cited a number of Senator Earle's votes in regard to the old state dispensary to show that just the reverse was the case. Today Mr. Earle, in explaining his votes against the contentions of Attorney General Lyon, said that he so voted because he "did not think South Carolina ought to pay for bootblacks, shaves and hotel bills." He said he objected to "paying attorneys to do the work the attorney general ought to have done." Futher, Mr. Earle did not want to slap in the face Federal Judge Pritchard by opposing that Court's effort to get hold of the old dispensary funds. In substance, the principal attacks made today by Mr. Earle are the same as made by Mr. B. B. Evans two years ago. Senator Earle said he hoped later to get all the facts before the people by some means. "I have tried to get these things fairly before the people." said Mr. Earle, "but the newspapers present them to suit themselves." Messrs. McLaurin and Carter had some little trouble In keeping the crowd quiet; there were numerous hurrahs for Jones and Blease. They presented their claims, however. In their usual speeches. Loud Cheers for Blease. There was loud and continuous cheering when Governor Cole L. Blease was introduced. Gathered about the stand were some two hundred men who were decorated with Blease streamers, some in the form of hat bands. "Cole L. Blease" some read, and the others bore the single word "Blease." The governor's first remarks were devoted to the term Bleaselsm, which, he said, he had not invented, but which had made him a bigger man I thnn he had ever hoDed to be. "I had only hoped to be governor of the great state of South Carolina." said the speaker, "but Is was beyond my fondest dreams that Bleaseism should so sweep the state." Some More Crow. Paying his respects to his enemies, the governor declared that he did not want them to vote for him; he wasn't trying to get their votes; that he was going to beat them, and on August 27th they would have to eat the biggest mess of crow they have ever eaten. "It will be a mess of buzzard," yelled out an admirer of the governor, and the crowd laughed and cheered some more. Waxing more than ordinarily defiant, the governor declared that he was not addressing himself to the "other side, for they haypn't got sense enough to take it in." He was particular^' proud of the fact, he said, that he was in position to appoint a county superintendent of education in Georgetown, in the person of Mr. J. Walker Doar. whom, he knew a certain crowd didn't like. "Rut," said he, "I was proud to stick it down them." The governor also referred to his appointment of J. B. Johnson as sheriff and H. D. Munnerlyn as supervisor. In that connection he declared; "I never expect to sign a commission for any man for a single appointive office unless I know he voted for Cole I* Rlease." The governor took occasion to say some complimentary things about Dr. Olin Sawyer, who is this year a candidate for re-election to the house of representatives. Governor Blease told the people they would make no mistake in re-electing him, and there followed generous cheering for Dr. Sawyer. The State Senate. Referring to his fight with the state senate. Governor Blease said that body tried to force him to "make ap point ments that tney <ini nm rmvr sense enough to know I would not appoint. The trouble Is they were trying to run the governor's office." "Great God!" sang out a voice near the stand, and the crowd set up a yell. A little later the same voice spoke thusly: "Great God! You done right." A Rousing Appeal. When the governor began his well known talk in regard to "niggcss." telling the people what ideas he held regarding lynching, his remarks were punctuated with "That's the idea. Hlease:" "that's hot stuff:" "give it to "em:" "damn the niggers," and similar remarks front the audience, and then there were "eh. hoy," "anyhow." "go it, old hoy" galore. In fact, the crowd was fermenting in great style The chief of police kept some quiet when they had too many remark's to make, for at certain stages there was danger of there being three or four speakers at the same time. "Jones voted with your nigger Anderson against the separate coach law." said Governor Hlease. and the crowd broke loose with ear-splitting yells. "Damn the nigger." shouted a voice. An Oratorical Climax. And following this. Governor Hlease (Continued on page two.) Bl iWB WILLIAM JENN ittiscfllanrouo Sraditii). LAFOLLETTE FLAYS ROOSEVELT Say> Colonel Got in With Progressives to Destroy Them. Senator LaPollette has published the following editorial in the current number of LaFollette's weekly: "Until Roosevelt came into the open as a candidate for the presidency five months ago there was a strong and rapidly growing movement (progressive) within the Republican party. It was based on clearly defined principles. It stood for Taft as the representative of modern political thought on fundamental democracy. It had assumed national proportions. It was united. "Into this movement, when it gave promise of national success, Roosevelt projected his ambition to be president a third time, he spent weeks carefully planning a spontaneous call for himself. He responded by announcing that he would be a 'receptive candidate.' His candidacy began to drag. He and his friends were in despair. Then came his defeat In North Dakota. He became desperate. Fund Raised. "An enormous campaign fund, was raised. Headquarters were opened in New York, Washington, Chicago, and states east and west. Newspaper writers were engaged at large prices to boom his candidacy. Special trains were hired and the 'receptive candidate* started in frantic pursuit of the nomination. In the history of American politics there has never been In a primary campaign for a presidential nomination an approach to the extravagant expenditures made in his cam|>aign. Men notoriously identified with the steel trust and the harvester trust became his most active supporters. Leading reactionaries, stand-patters and political bosses of the Hanna and Quay sort became his closest political friends and representatives in many states. "A number of the newer recruits to the Republican Progressive cause, men who before 1909 with three or four exInna Viq/1 nlthor hp<in iriri I ffMrf*nt or opposed to the progressive movement became the nolsest supporters of Roosevelt, the 'winner.* It mattered not to them that Roosevelt had cooperated with Aldrleh on legislation during the entire seven years he was president. They forgot that it was only when Roosevelt was in Africa, that the efforts of men who had been fighting specific causes that the pro, gresslve movement became an issue. Was for Taft. "That Roosevelt was for Taft in 1910 when Taft was denouncing all Progressives as traitors, that he waited till a little more than a year ago, balancing the chances before deciding whether to cast in his lot with the Progressives in this year, counted nothing with the class of Progressives who wanted to win not a real Progressive victory, but just a victory. "And they did win precisely that kind of a victory. They carried overwhelmingly the great stand-pat states of Illinois and Pennsylvania. That stamped the Roosevelt candidacy with its true character. No real Progressive could have secured anything like such a vote In either of those states. It has, however, the outward seeming success?the kind of success that Intoxicates, that catches the crowd. It enabled Roosevelt to win In two or three really Progressive states. Fortunately. it did not enable him to secure the nomination which would have compromised the Progressive movement and defeated real achievement for years. "Upon Theodore Roosevelt and his followers rests the responsibility of having divided the Progressives in their first national contest. Stimulated by an overmastering desire to win. they denounced loyalty to conviction and principle as stubborn selfishness. In the convention they put forward no platform, no issues. They made no fight against the reactionary platform adopted. They substituted vulgar personalities and the coarse epithet of the prize ring for the serious consideration of great economic problems and for the time being brought ridicule and contempt upon a great cause. "Rut the Progressive movement does not consist of a few self constituted leaders. It consists of millions of thoughtful citizens drawn together by ~ nnrtoln ttrinpinloQ it i?rm i hi %% ?? r. ...? .r.?w. They will permit no combination of special interests and political expediency to secure control of the Progressive cause which is ultimately to redeem democracy and restore government to the people." HOW THOS. F. RYAN GOT IN. I Became Delegate Through Concession of Wilson Men. Paltimore. June 27.?One of the features of last night's roll call on the Ohio unit rule question, when the Clark-Tammany-Taggart combination was overthrown temporarily, was the failure of Virginia to respond. When the name was reported. Senator Swansun asked that the (>ld Dominion be passed until the delegation could be polled. Ib-hind this action was the determination of Wilson men in the delegation to smoke out Thomas P. Ityan, who sat as one of the four delegates from the 10th Virginia district, holding one-half of one vote each. Ityan voted in favor of the unit rule in < ?hio, although four of the twentyfour of Virginia were cast against the INGS BRYAIi rule and seven votes were not cast at all. In order to get Mr. Ryan Into the delegation of his native state without any uproar at the time, the organization had to make a concession of half' of the 10th district's strength to the Wilson people. Then they made the proposition later that the district delegation be increased to four men with one-half vote each, instead of the regular two delegates, and offered to let the Wilson men name two of these four. Suspecting nothing, or possibly preferring to accept the opportunity to get a couple of Wilson votes in a district which could have been carried entirely by the anti-Wilson organlza.tlon if it had come to a fight, the Wilson advocates agreed and named their two men. One of the other two men named by the machine was the multimillionaire industrial magnate, generally believed to reside in New York, but who Is a native of Virginia and has his voting residence and country estate there. When Senator Swanson asked last night that his state, be passed by until its delegation could be polled, a husky Texas delegate, wearing a yellow coat, guessed at the situation and cried out from across the hall: "Send Ryan home." This brought out some cheering and some laughter, both at Virginia's expense. But when the Old Dominion's name was called again after the poll and the majority of her delegation was reported to be against the unit rule in Ohio, the galleries and many of the other State delegations were surprised. When Virginia voted, however, It was plain that the Harmon people had lost the contest on the rule. Just what the Virginia vote would have been if it had been decisive of the result is quite another story, though it would have been Impossible in any event to apply the unit rule In the Virginia delegation on this question. The strong Underwood sentiment among the anti-Wilson men In the Virginia contingent was offish on the unit rule proposition, fearing that It might work in the end agamst them. ?K. Foster Murray to News and Courier. WORK OF FAKE REPORTERS A Wholesome Lesson Read to a Reprehensible Class of Gentlemen. Careless reporters are responsible for a great deal of harm that comes from circulating stories that, having A fAAi AAA A.LAII.. ?~ IAIAA A u musis ui liiui, uic wnuuy iiiisitruuIng. A large number of reporters are furnishing "news" to papers who ought to be plowing or doing something else that calls for silence. They Jump at conclusions and pad their stories to suit themselves. A case in point was the conviction of Eugene Hayes of Surry county, a wealthy moonshiner, before Judge Boyd, who was said to have been endorsed .y the moderator and clerk of the Baptist church of Mount Airy of which Hayes was represented to be a leading member. Of course the moderator of a Baptist church was an office created in the fertile imagination of this resourceful reporter, and Hayes' membership in a reputable and influential church added a peculiar flavor to the story. We happened to be in Mount Airy recently and took occasion to inquire about this gentleman. We were Informed that he is not a member of the Mount Airy Baptist church nor of any other missionary Baptist church. That his home is twenty miles from the town of Mount Airy, that he is not wealthy, but a poor and ignorant man and that, stripped of all its finery, the case was very commonplace and if it had been truthfully told would have attracted no attention whatever. Another class of reporters, however, go a bow-shot further, and ought to be arraigned In the courts. These reporters do not require any basis of fact whatever to build their stories on, but manufacture their material out of the whole cloth. The story of a woman whose children were bitten by a rattlesnake and whose body was rlrmvnprl in n wnahtnli fu on lllnatrn tion of the latter class of reporters. It is now stated that the whole thing was a fabrication from beginning to end, and what pleasure a lie so monumental gave to the man who told it we cannot see. It was not even original, for a liar some years ago Invented a story and sent it to the papers which was identical with this one. Not only does such a story bring needless pain to sensitive natures but It shakes the confidence of the public in the papers that are imposed upon. There ought to be some proper punishment provided for so reckless and degenerate a purveyor of falsehood.?Charity and Children. But Why Would they Caucus?? Gov. Blease said in his speech at Chesterfield on Saturday: "During the press convention in Spartanburg they had a caucus on Blease, The majority opinion was that the newspapers had better keep cpiiet. Others said they had better give Blease hell from the start." How in the world did he find that out? He must have had one or. two of bis detectives on the watch. The Observer editor was present from tile beginning to the end otthe press convention and attended every session, and heard nothing of any caucus. In fact we never heard the governor's name mentioned at any meeting of the association, and scarcely heard it mentioned in private conversation. If the press convention held an antl-Blease caucus, it is rather strange they left the editor of the Observer out of it.?Newberry observer. , whose fields may be attacked. The farmers are energetically attacking the worm, and there Is reason to be1 lleve successfully, since we have no report that fields that have been . treated with the remedy for the worm haven't been freed of the pest. We assume that the worm that is doing so much destruction is the one that, at intervals In recent years, has appeared In the forests and stripped the trees of their foliage. If It Isn't the same kind of worm it is similar to It. The worm that infested the forests didn't travel far fronj the place In which It made Its appearance and died as soon as it had stripped i the trees In that vicinity. If that proves to be the fate of the worm that is now attacking the cot1 ton and corn the total damage It will do will not be great, though a good many farmers may suffer a total or partial loss of their crops.?Savannah Morning News. UNITED STATES SENATE. A Useless Body and Should ba Abolished. A good deal has been said about the advantages that would accrue from the deadliest living thing Either Man Must Kill the Fly or th? Fly Will Kill the Man. "Either man must kill the fly or the fly will kill the man." The above sentence printed In blazing red letters on placards Is being used In many American towns and cities in the war against the typhoid fly. In 1900 more than 50,000 people In this country died of typhoid fever. Flies killed practically all of them. Not any fanged, clawed, venomous and stinging fly that came and went mysteriously. The death dealers were Innocent looking little house flies that swarm over manure heaps, alleys, kitchen windows and milk crocks. That same year about 4,060 folks died of gunshot wounds. Railroads killed 6,930 during that same twelve months. Everyone knew that murders and railroad accidents were helping to remove the population. Everyone knew that some man or woman In the next block had the typhoid but It didn't worry them. They were used to typhoid. A baby sat In a high-chair pushed up close to a screen less window. He was a "bottle baby." The bottle had been scalded and the milk had been sterilized. Apparently the baby should have been safe enough. A fly came up out of the alley filth. It lit on the bottle and the hands of the baby. Ten days later a little white coffin was carried out of the house and placed In a snowy hearse drawn by milk-white horses. Alas! Flies help to keep the graveyards fat, the grass In the graveyards green. Here is typhoid as an Instance. People used to watch the milk supply only when they were trying to dodge typhoid. There was a house upstream from another where half a family lay sick with this burning disorder. Their milk supplies were from different dairies. ' There was no chance of Infected sewerage, as water does not and will not run uphill. The wind was blowing up the valley. No harm In that, as germs do not ride on the wind to the distance of a mile or more. Flies do. Musca Domestlcus (high-brow name of the fly) took a little saunter from the polluted premises one morning, was caught In the wind current and landed in the upstream neighbor's open milk bottle before noon. In a few days there was another typhoidInfected house in the valley. Musca Domestlcus is about the deadliest creature that crawls, swims or flies. He Is in the same class with the dog whose jaws drip hydrophobia. He ranks with the timber rattler, who carries cold death In his flat head.' He Is as dangerous as a cocaine-maddened negro with an automatic revolver. Tou can crush him with a tap of the finger if you can catch him, but he multiplies by the million, the billion, the trillion and the quadrillion, and every one of these quadrillions carries a load of germs around on his hairy, glairy body. Catching him is just the trouble. He Is so common that he Is looked upon as one of the necessary- evils of summer. Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Texas began fighting the house fly months ago. Tennessee Is offering gold medals to the champion fly murderers of the state. Kansas was the home of the first state-wide campaign against the fly. New York city has started in to keep down the summer death rate among the children by wiping out the breeding places of the fly. Two or three years ago L. O. Howard, chief entomologist of the United States department of agriculture, said: "The Insect we now call the 'house fly' should In the future be termed the 'typhoid fly' In order to call attention to the danger of allowing It to breed unchecked." The country took him at his word. The term "typhoid fly" has come Into general use and much of the mystery that once hung over the spread of that fever has been dispelled. Filth, flies and fever became a sort of unholy trinity. The house fly is the terror that stalketh by noonday. He and hismuN tiple feet dripping with germs are all over the premises. He plants a few germs In your bread. He buries them in the butter on your table. Out in the milk bottle he drowns a few millions of them, but they are hale and healthy. He sows the seeds of death In and on everything that he touches. Last March if you had killed the first fly you saw you would have In fact killed 5,000.000,000 of these pests of the community. They breed faster than an adding machine can keep track of the increase. Mathematicians have spent weeks figuring how long it would take for the fly tribe to literally inherit the earth if they had no natural enemies. They discovered that the flies would swamp humanity in less time than it would take the mathematician to figure out the exact date. We really ought to have started the war of extermination last March. The fly is abroad in the land now, terrible as an army with banners, only he is very quiet with all his deadliness. Kill one now and you cut off a few million flies from any chance of life, but there are already so many abroad that what the one fly might have done will hardly be missed. The Flyless Age may come in the future. The flies will pass out of the world along with the horse and the Btable. About ninety-eight per cent of all these pests are born in somebody's manure heap, alongside or in a stable. The other two per cent come out of the garbage piles and tjie refuse heaps. Walk down an alley any hot day and see for yourself. If the alley Is unclean the swarms of black and green bellied flies will nearly choke you. Ten days after Mamma Fly has deposited her eggs in the manure heap the filthy babies have progressed through the worm stage and are trying their fledging wings. They are full members of the Ancient Order of Germ Distributers as soon as they are able to make their wings work. Then they begin sqwing death, and it is not their fault if the seeds do not flour ish. They will be establishing chairs in the medical colleges for the study of the fly next. It practically amounts to that now. Following up the brilliant work done by Gorgas and others in the fever zones where the fly and the mosquito vanished, taking a lot of disease with them, local health hoards have been waking up and tackling the fly. Next year the fly war will begin a little earlier and last a little longer than that of this season. The death rate already sagging a little, will sag more. Once flies were considered as a nuisance. Now they are known murderers of infants and slayers of strong men.?St. Louis Republic. The Worm in Georgia.?Judging from the many reports the Morning News is receiving from widely separated parts of the state relative to the damage that is being done by the worm that Is devastating fields of corn, cotton and other plants it isn't surprising that the farmers generally are much alarmed by this insect. There is a ray of comfort in the report on the worm that was sent out from Washington a day or two a>go to the effect that It Isn't the army worm, but what is known as the grassworm. If this information Is correct the worm will soon disappear and the damage it will do will not be widespread, though It may destroy whole fields of corn and cotton in the localities in which it appears. There is no doubt that the worm will cause heavy loss to many farmers. in fact, it has already done so. but the farmers generally find satisfaction in the report by government experts that it will soon disappear, and that its ravages will not include any considerable part of the state. That, of course, doesn't help those electing United States senators by direct vote of the people instead of by state legislatures. But can any one tell why It would not he a much more excellent idea not to elect them at all? In other words, isn't it about time we got rid of the senate altogether? What's the use of It? Did It ever do any good? None. It is an anachronism. It is a hold-over from utterly outgrown arlstocratlcai social conditions. The two-house idea was natural enough In a day when there were two distinct, well recognized classes of citizens?nobles and commons. The upper house, as the lords in England, represented the upper class, the endowed class, who did not have to work for a living. So long as such a class existed It was proper enough that they should have a voice In governing. In America there is no such class; at least none such recognized. Then why keep an upper house? There Is no reason. It is a survival. It is as useless as the vermiform appendix, and as dangerous. We wear a senate for the same reason we wear a stovepipe hat; because the Europeans do. Furthermore, read over your American history and you will see that every crime against the people, every unfair privilege, every obstruction to progress and liberty has been championed by the senate. It was advocated In the flrst place Dy mat party wnicn rearea popular government and thought there could be no stability except In aping aristocratic institutions?by Hamilton and his group. It was the bulwark of the slave oligarchy. This I mention because it Is past. Other things I may not mention, they are mixed in present politics. But this much can be said: There is no form of privilege that is not rooted In the senate, defended and sustained there. And the United States has no other enemy so deadly as privilege. It would be money In our pockets to pension the senators for life and send them home. We need a senate about as much as a cat needs two talis. We need it precisely as much as we do the entirely ornamental "electoral college." The problem of government in the early days of democracy, when the people of Europe were Just out-growing kings-and had not yet become used to self-government, was to prevent the popular will from acting too hastily. For that purpose upper houses were invented. They were brakes on the national wagon. Nowadays our need Is opposite. Our problem is to get the national will easily and quickly carried out. There are other brakes much more up to date, and much more safe. Let us take off the clumsy old upper house brake.?Dr. Frank Crane in Atlanta Journal. WHAT FELDER RECEIVED. Smooth Georqian Worked South Carolina for Big 8takss. Many people have asked for definite information as to what amount of money T. B. Felder, Jr., the Atlanta lawyer, received In this state. The following from the dispensary commission's official report, shows what was received: "Fifty-one thousand, one hundred and seventy-four dollars and forty cents was deducted from the amounts of claims due by the state dispensary on account of overcharges on those claims, and $122,297.72 was deducted from the same claims .on account of overjudgments found ' against the claimants in the matter of old and ??in? '? 1 "a tiooHo a fhn afoto si I anon aary, as Is shown by settlement voucher No. 881, of Anderson, Pelder, Rountree & Wilson. Adding these three last Items together, we find that the entire and gross amount of "graft" and reductions of accounts amounted to 1311,866.02, plus $23,013.75, amount of claim of Carolina Glass company, making a total of $334,897.77. The excises of the former commission, as shown in Exhibit "C." amounted to $280,981.83. Among these expenses, as shown by the reports, resolutions and books of the former commission, there was paid as attorneys, fees and expenses and detective services, $181,183.87, and in addition to this amount $15,000 of this fund has been appropriated and placed at the disposal of the attorney general by the general assembly for the prosecution of violators of the dispensary law, making the total for attorneys, fees, expenses and detective service to be $196,183.87. Of this amount it appears that the firm of Anderson, Felder, Rountree & Wilson received from collections made by them as fees for their services, the sum of $145,338.29, of which $125,083,043 was paid by the commission in cash and the balance, by them as fees and commissions on $20,254.86, was withheld and retained amounts collected by them."?Anderson Intellgencer. The Tie That Bound.?Archaeologists have discovered the palace of Jezebel, who, it will be remembered, was an ancient dame of uncertain temper, mostly bad. In the palace the grubbers found more tnan nve tnousund cooking utensils, which might go to show that despite her violent outbreaks the ancient dame was a good cook and a provident housekeeper. And this suggests a Lincoln story. When the great emancipator was practising law in Indianapolis a client came to him and wanted to know if something couldn't be done to protect him from his wife. He said she locked him out nights, threw dishes at him and battered him up with a club. She scolded him day and night and consistently and continuously made life miserable for him. "Have you thought of getting a divorce?" inquired Lincoln. "No, no, I don't want a divorce. Why. I wouldn't leave th' old woman for anything." "You wouldn't! After all that abuse? And why not?" "Because, squire, that old woman of mine can make the best flapjacks in Sangamon county!"?Cleveland Plain Dealer. Photo copyright by American Press Aa JUOSON I "IRISH LACE" MADE IN AMERICA Product of tho Now York Tonomont District. "The 'real Irish lace* that we get here Isn't made in Ireland. It Is made In New York. What is more, It Is made in New York tenements." One of the investigators of the national child labor committee has spent a large part of the past few months in "tracing" the Irish lace sold in this city. And she has found, she says, that almost all the Irish lace sold here has never been anywhere else. "The centre for the manufacture of Irish lace seems almost to be coming, for Americans, from Ireland to New York," she said. The Irish lace that is made in the tenements here is not sold under any false pretences. It is advertised and sold as "real Irish lace," and "real Irish lace" is exactly what ft is. It is hand-made?every inch of it. It Is made in the original Irish patterns, with the roses and the shamrock of Dublin lacemakers. And some of it, at least, Is made with the reaj Irish thread. Only it isn't made by Irish DeoDle! "When the Irish thread is used the Irish lace from America is quite as good as Irish lace from Ireland," the investigator explained. "The American thread with which some contractors supply their workers is not so fine for lacemaking. "With the exception of a very small quantty of actually imported Irish lace, every bit of Irish lace and embroidery sold in New York is made in the tenements here. All that is made in the city is, so far as I have ever been able to discover, made in tenements by women and children. There are no Irish lace factories. "The centre of the Irish lace-making industry is the up-town little Italy, around 110th street on the East side. ! In the past few months the lacemaking has spread to the Italian tenements in the Bronx, up 153d street way. Irish lace is nearly all made by Italian women here! "Of course, the making of Irish lace In the New York tenement districts has Increased immeasurably in the past year, since Irish lace collars, cuffs, jabots and frills became so popular. It is the fashionable thing now, you see. And it is possible to buy 'real Irish' in the shops at a very low price. There is no way of estimating the number of women and children making Irish lace in New York city, but It runs away up Into the hundreds, and, of course, there are thousands of yards being made. Some 'contractors' have as many as fifty women working at one time. "The workers are paid about five cents an hour for making the lace. I have at my office an Irish lace collar for which the woman who made It was paid fifty cents; it took her ten hours to do it. For the inch-wide insertion with the shamrock pattern the lace-makers are paid 15 cents a yard. I know one little girl who works at lace-making every night, and makes just about a dollar a week. Sometimes the lace-making earnings of the whole family will be about $4 a week?oftener about $2.50." Although most of the Italian women make lacework of the pppular Irish patterns, some few lace-makers from Italy make and sell to shops and i "contractors" the intricate design of Italian lacework. The real Italian pillow lace, made Just as It is made in the villages of Italy, is made In the tenements here. "I know of one woman who makes the Italian pillow lace, charging $1.25 for a collar," said the child labor, committee investigator. "And lnto| every collar that sne sens sne puis seventy hours of hard work!"?New York Times. ? Macon, Ga., June 26: The Macon Chamber of Commerce today petitioned Governor Brown to call a conference of southern governors and business men to be held In Atlanta, July 10, to give consideration to the plan of the Southern States Cotton corporation for the marketing of the cotton crop on rr?; ? - ? $?&: WK..... mu Lr nr Yorkvill#?King's Mountain 8traat I isoeiatlon. 1ARM0N. a fifteen cents basis. Four southern governors already favor the conference. The Southern States Cotton corporation is already organised in sixty Georgia counties and forty counties in Texas have been organised. Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma are now the campaign centers. THE CINEMATOGRAPH 8otnt of tho Tricks of ths Moving Pioturs Man. A trick picture is usually the combined efforts of the comic-plot writer and the expert cinematograph operator, says the Strand. The operator is continually puzzling his brains for new effects with the camera. He conveys these to the plot-writer, who works them up in the form of a very short story. When we see the finished production on the screen it is, to most of us, a work of complete mystery, and it is asked "Are they really takep from life?" We often see, for instance, omnibuses traveling at a speed of a hundred miles an hour flowers which Jump from a table and arrange themselves in a vase, or a man diving with the greatest ease head first out of a river and landing on his feet on the bank. "How are these things done?" In order to discover, these secrets permission was obtained to join a picture company who were then engaged in the production of a film entitled "The Uncanny 8cot." The party consisted of a stock company of a dozen or more actors and actresses, a stage manager, a photographer and some stage hands. The work to be done consisted chiefly of outdoor street scenes, and a Journey was made some fourteen miles out of London in order to avoid the unpaylng audiences which such strange scenes always bring together. The plot of the picture in hand was given to us to read, and although some of.lt was perfectly Intelligible, the plot contained such mystifying notes as "Stop," "Reverse," "Turn on stops," and "Sub dummy." These were the stage tricks we had come to investigate. The work commenced outside a cigar store and each scene was most carefully rehearsed. A youthful actor, as an errand boy who was engaged in opening the shop, brought from it a dummy Scotchman in the act of taking snuff, and placed It in position at the shop door. At this point the stage manager, who was conducting the operations, wlew a whistle and Instantly the boy remained motionless and the modus operandi of the first trick was rehearsed. The company understood by the whistle that they were to cease the slightest movement, and the photographer that he must instantly stop the camera. The dummy of the Scotchman was now removed and an actor identically dressed was arranged in precisely the same position. The whistle went again and the boy resumed his work. When next passing the Scotchman he received a kick from him, which caused him to bolt into the shop in terror. The whistle now sounded again, and a turther substitution of dummy for man was made by the stage hands. An actor-tobacconist came out of the shop, and the boy explained what had happened, but was dumfounded when the master turned the figure upside down and thus showed it to be lifeless. The Bcene proceeded, with many stops and changes from the live Scotchman to the inanimate dummy. Stopping the camera simultaneously with the cessation of all animation insured that the effect on the screen would be perfectly continuous, as, of course, the film would be run through without any break. In Search of Useful Information.? Donald and Jeanie were putting down a carpet. Donald slammed the end of his thumb with the hammer and began to pour forth his soul in language befitting the occasion. "Donald, Donald!" shrieked Jeanie, horrified. "Dinna swear that way!" "Wummun!" vociferated Donald, "gin ye know ony better way now Is the time to let me know it!"?Current Literature. Looking North. ' SbH Sa