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YORKYILLTTNOUIRER. ISSUED SEMI-WEEKLT. i m. grists SONS, PubU.h.r,.} & 4amilS ?euJspapen: ^or fhg promotion of th< political, ?oqial, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of tkg |eop4. { Tt"V,;o'i" .tv'r^c.N0""1 ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 191-j. IsTO. 88T THE FIELD How The Great Progri CONDITIONS MORE Because Many Old Landr Maps are Out of Date is Next to Impossible. All things come to an end, but some of them seem an unconscionably long time doing It. Not so with our present campaign. Perhaps you do not agree with this statement. It all nn ?Vio nnlnt of view. If VOU UCpCUUO VII %?*v w- . were impatient to know the result it seemed too long. But if you enjoyed the fireworks it did' not seem long enough. In any event, it is almost over. We are in the short rows, as the corn plowere used to say. Maybe they say so yet. I have not plowed corn for so long I do not know. Better get out the old tar barrel and make ready for the bonfire. Somebody is going to do a lot of Jubilating on the night of November 5, and it may be you. Well, it has been a great fight. It has educated the American people toward new and higher ideals. We cannot lose ail of the lesson, however the battle is decided. The campaign had Its tragedy, but even that is turning out well in tne ena. we nave a. iui ui crazy people In this country, and some of them get the hallucination that th*?y must shoot public men. Some day we may take care of our defectives and lunatics so that they will not b-i a menace, but until we do the remainder of us may well refrain from violence of word that may incite the weak minded to violence of deed. In this case Colonel Roosevelt is mercifully out of danger, and the edge of bitterness has been taken from the campaign. "Thus good comes out of evil. Old Landmarks Gone. As to the outcome there is little even now on which to base an estimate. It is easy enough to guess at the result. * * to Ha Dui wnai is iiic use. ? ing that and using up good paper and much atmosphere In the operation. And paper and atmosphere remain the es. In other words, the prophecies are es. In other words, the prophlcles are sound and fury signifying nothing. It is all right for campaign chairmen to make predictions. That is their business. But the rest of us who have any regard for accuracy may as well keep out of the game. All the old landmarks are down, and there is no way to judge. The only elections that might indicate the trend were those of Vermont and Maine, but the face of the situation has largely changed since they were held. As for straw votes, they are notoriously untrustworthy. The same is true of polls this year because there is such a large silent vote. There is no precedent for this campaign, and the political maps are out of date. Personally I would not hazard a prediction. I know how I want the thing to go, but any forecast I might make would simply mirror my wishes. And this, I suspect, is the case with practically all of those who are making predictions. No man knows which way the 1912 cat will jump. If any one tells you he does know hand him a blank application for membership in the Annanias club. In a last survey of the field before election there is only one great fact that is certain. Any possible result will mean a momentous change from nnHtipni conditions. Few of us realize just how fast we have been moving politicaly in the past few months. As to where we are bound for or when we shall get there, he is a ^ wise man who can tell. "We don't know where we're going, but we're on our way." Beginning of a Now Era. Without being an alarmist, it is my private opinion that before we are through we may wind up in socialism, in a revolution, in a near monarchy, in the millenium or most * any old place. It is my hope, however, that out of It all may arise a new republic, or rather, the old republic made new, better and greater than before, rebaptized, rededicated and redeemed. " * -- V* o la a n_ Mere is one umei lati ?. <?<. >? parent: This is no ordinary presidential election. It is the beginning of a new era. and that will be found J true whoever happens to be elected in this particular struggle. The old conditions will never again be possible. There has been a psychological change in the people that is none the less vast because invisible. We have passed a milestone and turned a corner. We cannot go back. For more than twenty years I have watched national politics more or less closely, sometimes from the inside and again from the butside, now as a worker and then as a newspaper writer, through the Populist 'movement, the Bryan campaigns and the presidency of Roosevelt, but never have I seen the great masses of the people moved so profoundly as now. The most significant thing about it is that the movement is confined to no section or party. The Populist uprising and the Bryan strength were limited largely to the west and south and did not Immediately Influence the party in power. The present upheaval is also ir. fho past and influences parties. It is the return of the wave, but vastly increased in force and volume. Concerning the result on Xov. 5 perhaps the best we can do is to present the claims of the various parties and form our own conclusions. Better have the salt bag handy. Claim Taft is Gaining. The Republicans say that the drift is now toward President Taft. The people have had time to take a sober second thought, and every day Is heard good news of those returning to the fold. Detailed figures are given out of the states Mr. Taft is expected to carry. The president himself is making no campaign speeches, but is writing articles and giving interviews stating his position. Chairman H'Mis is making statements and campaign arguments almost daily, and an army of spellbinders is charging the foe, or, rather, the foes pre IN REVIEW. Political Battle Is sssing. ORLESS CHAOTIC. aarks are Down, Political , and an accurate Forecast i , _ seilUIIB llltr muiu ui mc aumuuouatlon, predicting the dangers of radical tariff changes, defending the constitution and appealing to Republicans to uphold the party. It is claimed that the phenomenal prosperity of the country will help the party in power. Business men are campaigning for the president. It is stated that the voters are returning to sanity and that by election day the bulk of Republicans and many patriotic Democrats will decide to let well enough alone and put in Taft ballots. The Progressives are certainly making a vigorous fight. Their speakers have the zeal of new converts and are active In every corner of the land. The Bull Moose managers claim new converts daily, saying that they will get an enormous labor vote, that the old soldiers are for them, that they will have a majority of the Republicans and thousands of the progressive Democrats, that their program of social Justice and humanitarian meas+Ha<?* oton^o rH UI C3 19 vt limine IV ilicu v. ...v best thought of the land, that Colonel Roosevelt has a larger personal following then ever before and that the das. tardly assault upon him will bring multiplied thousands of votes through Indignation and sympathy, that stAw votes taken In many sections show him far in the lead and that he will sweep the Pacific coast and the middle west and will break into the east and possibly the south. They have the fire of crusaders and talk of nothing but victory. As for Taft, they dismiss him as a dead issue. All they have to do now is to beat Wilson, and they are going Joyfully about the task. Democrats Claim Every State. The Democrats are making their fight on high prices, the trusts and the tariff. They claim that Old Man Mo nopoly from his stronghold in DOin the trusts and the tariff Is the boy that Is troubling the country. They assert that Wilson will hold the Bryan vote and go several hundred thousand better. With their own side united and the Republicans split wide open between Roosevelt and Taft, they are sure there Is nothing more to it. They believe for every Democrat their candidate looses he will gain one or more Republicans and that it is all over but the shouting. Some of the more enthusiastic prophets even predict that Wilson will carry every state in the Union. They point to their gains in Vermont and Maine as compared with 1908, jubilate that a poll taken by a New York paper in a majority of the states shows Wilson far in the lead and assert that the betting favors their candidate by long odds. They expect to carry not only the presidency. but both houses of congress. In this connection a story is told that fits the Democratic view of the situation. In the old days, when Kentucky was a Whig state, there was one district that was especially rockribbed in its Whiggery. Much to the surprise of everybody in Washington this Whig Gibraltar once sent a Democrat to congress. When the new member reached Washington he was congratulated on his personal popularity that had enabled him to overturn the great Whig majority. Well, he said he did not want to boast, but that he had beaten two Whigs in that election and could have beaten three if they had been running. Fight in New York. It is impossible to present the situation in all the states in so brief an article, and little more can be done than to refer to the campaign in a few of the pivotal states. New York, having the largest number of electors, is naturally the state in which the fight is being waged most fiercely. The Em pire state enjoyed the novelty this year of having "unbossed conventions" in all the parties. The result Is that the three candidates for governor are popular. They are William Sulzer (Dem.), Job E. Hedges (Rep.), and Oscar S. Straus (Prog.-) Sulzer has been a congressman for twenty years, having been elected all that time in a Republican district. Once Tammany refused to nominate him, and he ran as an independent, beating both old party candidates. He is chairman of the house committee on foreign affairs and as such framed the resolution denouncing the Russian treaty. He also introduced the parcels post bill in the house. Job E. Hedges is one of the best after dinner speakers in New York and a popular campaigner. He was once a United States treasurer and has held other jobs; also has refused a few. Job is a philosopher, with humor oozing between the cracks of his philosophy. Everybody knows about Oscar Straus. He has served under four presidents, mostly as ambassador to Turkey, but once in the cabinet. He a fomllu a f forviAna nVi i 1 o n - UCIUU5S IU <X laillllj Vi iaw>vua thropists and is Its most famous member. The Socialist candidate is Charles Edward Russell, an old time newspaper man, who used to be called "Iron Face." All of these candidates expect to be elected, except Russell, and he is having such a good time he doesn't care. Governor of New Jersey Busy. There is no campaign for governor in New Jersey this year, the governor being busy in other ways. The chief Interest centers in the fight for United States senator, in which Frank Obadiah Briggs, the present incumbent, is opposed by Congressman Billy Hughes who beat former Senator Smith in the primaries. Briggs unfortunately suffered a recent breakdown in health. Hughes has been known as a labor member of congress and at the time he resigned to become a judge in Passaic county was a member of the powerful ways and means committee. In Massachusetts Governor Eugene N. Foss is fighting for re-election and is being' opposed by Joseph Walker, Republican, and Charles Sumner Bird, Progressive. Governor Foss has twice been elected in the Bay state, but the remainder of the officers chosen were Republicans. President Taft carried the primaries by a slight plurality over Roosevelt, but the Bull Moose is strong in the state. A successor is to be elected to Senator Murray Crane, who has announced his withdrawal. Pennsylvania only elects minor officers, and on these the Republicans and Progressives are united. Following a long drawn out tangle, the electoral situation was ironed out by the Roosevelt electors withdrawing from I the Republican ticket and running: as independents. After Roosevelt's smashing: primary victory in Pennsylvania , conditions are so uncertain that all , three elements claim the victory. Three Cornered Fight in Ohio. The president's own state of Ohio has three distinct tickets all along the . line. The candidates for governor are ' Congressman Cox for the Democrats, j General R. B. Brown for the Republicans and Arthur L. Garford for the Progressives. There is no senatorship at stake, but there are hot fights for . congress, with three candidates in most of the districts. Things are pretty much torn up politically in the Buckeye state, and almost anything may happen. Taft's friends claim that he is gaining, the Democrats say they can't lose, and the Progressives point to Roosevelt's big victory in the primaries as a prophecy of the way things will fall on election day. Indiana's governor is also quite busy this year, but nevertheless the state is in the middle of a campaign to elect his successor. The three fcandidates are Samuel L. Ralston, Democrat; exGovernor Durbin, Republican, and former Senator Beveridge, Progressive. There is always oratory on tap in an Indiana fight, and more of it than usual in the present battle. Beveridge and Landis are stirring up things for the Bull Moose, Senators Kern and Shively are helping the Democratic candidate, while the Republicans have a full quota of orators Xalking prosperity. The old days, when New York and Indiana were the pivotal states, have in a way returned, and the presidential candidates have made the Hoosler state a battle-ground. Illinois is also fighting oreUnmr + Vi nnt nnl v tnrontv.nlno Vvi i iwi / | " mi iivv vutj mvuvj ii?hv electoral votes at stake, but two senatorships, as well as twenty-seven congressmen, governor and state officers. Illinois is in the very center of the Progressive territory, and this fact is making the fight one of the fiercest ever conducted in the state. Oeneen's Fight for Re-election. The candidates for governor are Charles S. Deneen for the Republicans, former Mayor Dunne of Chicago for the Democrats, and State Senator Funk for the Progressives. Lawrence Y. Sherman is the Republican nominee to succeed Senator Cullom and James Hamilton Lewis, the Democratic. The Democrats of Chicago are divided into the Harrison and Sullivan factions, but both are supporting Wilson and the state ticket. There are also three candidates for governor in Missouri?Attorney Gener al Major for the Democrats, John C. McKlnley for the Republicans and Judge Norton! for the Progressives. The Democrats predict confidently that Missouri will this year return to the fold, but both other parties are fighting desperately. Despite the fact that he led the battle to seat the Roosevelt delegates at Chicago, Governor Hadley has finally declared for Taft The Champ Clark Democrats were naturally sore at his defeat at Baltimore, but the speaker is valiantly supporting Wilson. Hot campaigns are also being made i in Minnesota, Iowa, Michigan. Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska and in fact' in < all of the northern and some of the southern states. There is not space to , go into all of them here. Neither has ] there been room to say aught of the | Socialist or Prohibition fights. It is ? generally conceded that Chafin will at ] least hold his own, and there is no , question in the mind of any one who , is lniormeu ma.i ucua win maicitanjr increase his strength of four years ago. An enormous total vote may be expected. as registration is generally increasing over 1908. Who will win? Walt till Nov. 5 and I will tell you. But don't forget to prepare for that bonfire. Collar Buttons as Tacks.?Considering man's present advanced stage of culture, and how the torch of science has been brandished and borne about with more or less effect these 6,000 years, the light of which, in these modern days, may be augmented by anything from electrical lamps to sulphur matches and cigar lighters, it is appalling to the reflective mind to consider how unequal has been the distribution of this improvement. Women's hats and motor carriages have taxed the arm of progress until tVio memhpr froniipntlv shows slETlS Of cramp and rheumatism, while other articles quite as necessary to complex- 1 ities of society under which we now ! live are yet as crude as in the ancient > days when the recorded de6ds of man grow dim in the gathering mists of an- i tiquity. For instance, consider the collar but- 1 ton. The indispensable requisite to any man's toilet in this enlightened 1 day is still the crude, inefficient implement it was when man flaked the first of its kind from a bone. There have been many suggested Improvements, but the most political remedy for this great and universal deficiency seems to lie in a suggestion from our friend, "Red" Martin. "Red" is a true Democrat, but as a friend of humanly, with reluctance, has made the details of his plan for the non-losable collar button public. The plan is simply this: To construct a button which, when dropping from the dresser's hands to the floor, immediately transfers itself into a carpet tack, point up. To find it, all that is necessary is for one to remove his shoes, turn out the light and start ?~ T-nom Tn tho cilmnlirltv of the scheme lies assurance of its success.?St. Louis Republic. Couldn't Fool Her.?"Is that really the Rock of Gibraltar?" inquired the lady tourist of the captain as the ship from New York was entering the Mediterranean. "It is, madam," said the captain. "Then where is the insurance sign?" she demanded.?Exchange. Pisffllanfous #radinj). BUSINESS OF FARMING. There ie as Much Room for Development a* in Other Line*. "Southern Farming," published at Atlanta, had the folowing letter from Mr. Ira B. Dunlap, cashier of the National Union Bank, in its Issue of September 28: Sir: Our bank has offered prizes for the greatest average yield, and also for the greatest net profit made on fnn T* o r>roo a tha formnro ' r\f on r tor. I ritory. Each contestant was required to plant one acre in cotton, one in corn, one in potatoes, and one in cane. The editor of Southern Farming asked me to explain in a few words Just what led up to the offering of these prizes. In the first place, there were so many different suggestions .made during last year as to how the price of cotton could be held up that we ourselves could not help but think some along that line. The cotton farmers might form a syndicate large enough to corner the cotton, and in that way necessarily raise the price. They might also one year reduce the acreage to a sufficient amount to cut off the production, but if people will only think about this for a little while they will see that both of the above propositions can only be temporary. The farmer is like everyone else. ^ Just as soon as he sees where he can maxe a guua prom, wnewier in planting cotton, corn, or anything else, he Is going to plant the crop from which lie finds he can make the most money, 3o if we should raise the price of cotton one year by buying all of it in sight, or by curtailing the crop, the next year every cotton farmer would 3o his utmost to raise every bale possible, and in this way destroy any good that might have been accomplished through either of the above plans. My idea is to show that there Is more rooney in planting other crops, and that is the reason we offered the prizes for a four-acre contest. There are irery few farmers who take the trouble to figure out the profits on the differ- , ant crnnq thev nlnnt and verv few of them realize that the cotton crop Is >ne of the most expensive crops to raise. [ believe that our contest will demonstrate that there Is considerably more noney in planting feed stuffs at their present prices than there is In planting :otton. While we do not expect a large lumber of them to take advantage of the information gained by this contest, i good many of them will, and in this way our local farming interests will >e improved. Few people realize the enormous 1 imount of capital which the south las invested in order to put the cot- , ton in marketable condition. There ' ire very few towns in South Caroina of any size that have not $500,)00 to $1,000,000 invested In cotton nllls. There Is not a town in 'South Carolina that has $1 invested in a rranary. The same conditions exist all jver the south. If we had invested in rranarles and roller mills one-tenth as nuch money as we have invested in :otton mills, you would see that the jouth's farm lands would be worth 'rom $100 to $150 and acre where they ! ire now worth from $10 to $20. These things of course, are all going :o come in time, and we cannot expect jverything to be done at once. The , sest thing that can be done is for those vho have influence to lend that lnflu- 1 ;nce in the right direction. Ira B. Dunlap. ???* ; BEARD ARRAIGNS TILLMAN Secretary of the Bull Moose Rubs It In to Senior 8enator. Spartanburg Journal. Columbia, Oct. 29.?Bristling with vitriolic statements, Secretary W. P. Beard of the state Bull Moose party, today Issued a reply to Senator B. R. rillman In answer to the recent open letter of Senator Tillman, In which persons who voted In the Democratic state primary and who intend to vote for the national Bull Moose ticket were arraigned. The reply of Secretary Beard is a scathing arraignment of Senator Tillman's public record and a bitter attack on him for his attitude toward the Bull Moose, especially the senator's references to Colonel Roosevelt. The reply reviews the senator's record and pitilessly heaps charge after :harge upon him and denounces him In bitter terms. The reply says in full: Statement in Full. "Because of a fierce and unreasonable attack upon myself and tho$e associated with me In this new white man's party, made by B. R. Tillman in Ills characteristic style, I offer this statement in rebuttal: "As the Democratic senatorial nominee and standard bearer, so to speak, it Is to be expected that the senator should call upon the people to support the ticket at the general election, but that does not give him license to pour out the 'vials of his wrath' upon the heads of honorable white men in an attempt to strike the only man that has been able to catch the esteemed senator with the goods on. "I do not stress the senator's lack of consistency in his ambiguous claim of honest government following so quickly his recent attack upon Governor Blease and his administration. It is but a waste of time for the senator's whole political course is living proof of the statement contained In the well known quotation, 'Consistency, thou are a Jewel most rare.' "If Senator Tillman will read the declaration of the Progressive party of South Carolina, he will no doubt be surprised to learn that* we do what neuner oia line pariy aares 10 ao ai this time: put the negro on notice that he is not wanted at all. Carroll a Speaker. "After kindly recommending his good mulatto friend, the eminent (?) negro preacher. Richard Carroll, as a suitable campaign speaker in the middle west for Dr. Woodrow Wilson, the senator's reference to 'mixing negroes in our politics" sounds ludicrous in the extreme, relieved only by the later reference to Cuffey's liability as a voter, to get "a finger in the public pie.' The senator having had a monopoly on the 'pie' proposition for so many years and having grown gray in the enjoyment thereof, it is no wonder he hates to divide, except perhaps with Richard Carroll and others of the 'better class of negroes.' "Senator Tillman ahow8 a surprising temerity in thus attacking others, when his own record Is so vulnerable. For Instance, has he forgotten that in 1891 he constantly threatened to lead his followers out of* the Democratic party unless they adopted the measures he advocated, and helped carry the party to the verge of destruction on the impracticable free silver chimera? In those days fhe senior senator, his soul afire with love of liberty, Imitated In reverse the order of the famous Greek philosopher Diogenes, who, with a "Km. in me DrocLu aayume, sougni ior an honest man. Only Tillman crouched| in the darkness of night, knife in hand, ready to drive it to the hilt into the vitals of his now beloved Democratic party and waited 'for a light in the west.' Dictates Morals. "The senator now condemns the voters who refuse to give up their manhood by allowing he and his satellites to not only dictate a code of morals to them which they themselves do not observe, but by specious sophistry try and convince them that their silly proposition of an implied pledge' is more binding upon Democrats who wish to vote the Progressive ticket than upon national Republicans. "The Democratic party of South Carolina arranged the primary oath as it is at present for the express benefit 6f the national Republicans who desired to participate in state affairs while at the same time voting on principle in the general election as to national affairs. Now we claim the same right that has for years been conceded to Republicans and it raises a storm of lander and vituperation from the practiced pen of Tillman. Yet, granting for argument's sake, that his premises are correct, Is he the one to launch this bolt? Record in 8enate. "Did he not, In defiance of the party platform and caucus, vote for a protective tariff on tea and lumber? Did he not force the dispensary upon an unwilling people, who had registered a popular majority for statewide prohibition? And he seems to fear so much the 'colonel's unscrupulous ambitious designs.' I will Jog his memory along that line and ask about his own. Did he not, while governor, endorse the then new dispensary law In so crude and drastic a manner as to bring this state to the verge of civil war? Has he forgotten the dark stain of the 'Darlington war* that was placed upon the fair escutcheon of South Carolina, when the proud Palmetto state hung Its noble head In shame, while at the autocratic mandate of Senator Tillman ana nis satellites, jonn uary nivans ei al, the drooping leaves dropped innocent blood? "And yet he speaks of honor and honesty, with the bleaching bones of his political friends affording the rungs of the ladder by which he climbed to place and power. Bah! the proposition coming from the source it does is nauseating. I am unable to make a properly just reply, restrained by the thought that perhaps, after all, his lurid fulmlnations emenate from a mind perhaps Impaired by physical Ills. "I and our faction accept the senator's challenge and assure him and his conferes that It is to be expected that there will be a death grapple In the next state convention between the two opposing political factions that have existed ever since this same Tillman's pyrotechnlcal fulmlnations brought It Into existence, and that in the course of human events a fight will develop there which I expect to lead against the senior senator and his friends that will go down in political history as 'some fight' and make the recent lurid campaign pale into insignificance by comparison. I agree with the senator that 'eternal vigilance is the price of liberty,' and confidently declare that had that course of action been strictly adhered to by our people twenty years ago that B. R. Tillman would have remained in obscure retirement, where his talents for mar-plotting and lack of constructive genius naturally places him. "It is easy to locate the cause of the honorable senior senator's venom towards the leader at 'Armageddon' when one recalls the 'Prince Henry of (ttnMAnf alnri tr nHth thft 'DrP x i uooia iiiviuvii k, imv?o gon land deal,' coupled with the fact that when placed hors de combat by the then president, Theodore Roosevelt, he was forced to seek a line of retreat that was Ignominious on the floor of the senate and forced to admit that he was 'perhaps a little dlslngenlous' In respect to the Oregon land fraud Investigation. " 'Ltest we forget it' it Is also recalled that the eminent senior senator from South Carolina, In defiance of decency and regard for clean politics, voted to seat that arch corrupter of public morals, Lorimer of Illinois, who was afterwards unseated because of the proven scandal attached to his election to the United States senate. We Progressives can tolerate a reasonable and proper opposition, but we object to men who have habitually used the "livery of heaven to serve the devil" in taking us to task on a question of political honor, with which their whole life furnishes proof that they are unacquainted." Travels of Two Casks of Wine.?If wine could talk there are two casks of It T*-Vil/?h naoao/1 thrnnch Houston re cently which would tell an interesting story. This wine, consigned to a firm in Baltimore, was aboard the El Sud when that boat sank just out of Galveston sometime ago. Three days ago the casks were picked up by lifesavers of the United States lifesavlng station at Point Isabel near Brownsville. They were brought to Brownsville and turned over to the St. Louis. Brownsville and Mexico railroad. J. A. Brown, general freight agent of the line, ordered the goods shipped on to the firm to whom they were originally consigned. The address of this firm was still visible on the casks and there was no mistaking to whom thov should be sent There is some doubt existing in the minds of railroad officials as to whom the liquor should be checked. It is the first case on record of goods being driven up by the sea to a railroad company and there is no book in the office for keeping track of this class of freight. The wine was originally sent by the Italian colony of southern California.?Houston Post. REMARKABLE PRI80N BATTLE Fight at Rawlins, Whan Prisoners Made Break for Liberty. There was a time?and not so very long ago, either?when Cheyenne, now the staid and respectable capital of Wyoming, was famed far and wide as the wickedest spot In America. It was a capital of outlawry then. Homicides were so frequent they passed almost unnoticed. The six-shooter was the ATlltF no/1 a A f In nr nrn a on forno/I 1/111/ V. UUv KJL low UlOk WOO ClUUItCUBut In all its days of disrepute and its nights of terror Cheyenne never endured such a reign of lawlessness as that which put its neighbor, Rawlins, on the map about a week ago. What happened in Rawlins is unique in history, west or east. Briefly, the 350 inmates of the state prison lynched one of their number, a negro. He had assaulted a woman 78 years old, who had endeared herself to the prisoners by her kindness and her good deeds. The negro probably would have been lynched If outsiders could have gotten at him, It is said, so the convicts' swift justice seemed likely to be unpunished. But their act, once accomplished, had a psychological effect on these caged men. Prisoned men, like wild beasts in captivity, are animals of primitive passion. These convicts at Rawlins tasted blood when they lynched this man. Also their act showed them an amazing thing; something they had not sus pected?that they were more powerful than their keepers. A cagreful of tigers is kept in subjection by fear. Once that fear is gone the man with whip and revolver is lucky to escape with his life. Nothing kills fear like blood lust Therefore it is no wonder that the 350 convicts In their cage of stone and Iron muttered and plotted all through the days that Immediately followed the realisation of their strength. They were as furtive and whispering as tigers creeping and crouching ready to spring. The lynching was October 2, the mutiny started ten days later. Led by "Butch" Dalton, a murderer and outlaw, twenty convicts dashed out of the prison stockade and fled Into the rough hills back of it They were pursued Ineffectually by some of the guards. This showed the less resolute among the remaining prisoners that escape was more than possible. Early in the af ternoon of Saturday, October 13, a party of life-termers, led by Antonio Pascuale, a Mexican, overpowered the cell house keeper, took his keys and released their comrades. Every prisoner willing to risk a battle with the guards made a rush for the gates. What happened inside the prison walls after that is not known, except as to general results. Probably it is better that It should not be printed in detail. Their backs against the gates, fighting for their lives, stood a handful of guards. They were like the trainer in the cage when his wild beasts have tasted blood, but there were none with hot irons to prod back the ferocious animals. The guards had no thought of getting outside and saving themselves. Three of their number lay dead at their feet. The living keepers were of the stern, cold, fearless type of the old west They stood face to face with 300 men, most of them ?armed with cleavers, knives and pistols. All that the world outside the walls knows of that desperate battle that ended in driving the convicts, cowed and terrorized, back to their cells, was what they heard?a fusillade of shots, a bedlam ' of shrieks, and yells of rage and agony that lasted half an hour and then diminished until now and then the silence was punctuated at long: intervals by the crack of a revolver. Then the prison was still. The beasts had been driven back into their cages. Victory in every battle, little or big, hangs in the balance for a moment. One side or the other falters. If the convicts had the courage to grasp their chance the moment it presented itself, they might have left the prison tenantless except for its dead. But they were stunned for a moment with the prospect of liberty, and in the end the old instinct of obedience asserted it self. But bitter as was the battle Inside the walls, the ferocity of those who escaped and dashed Into the streets of the little town was almost beyond picturing. Rawlins Is a place of about 4,000 population. The principal thoroughfare faces the railway station and runs parallel with the tracks. Hills and rolling prairie are round about Rawlins, and the foothills of the Continental Divide form the rim of the bowl that touches the horizon. The twenty convicts who escaped in the first day's outbreak fled mostly to the hills. Some, weaker spirited, or with the habits of long confinement overpowering them, sought burrows In the town. Seven of these who were I captured were found In cellars and I outbuildings, and the eighth was run down while fleeing breathlessly afoot across the prairie. The other twelve, fully armed, were not heard from except In the way of distant firing later In the day, when they attacked a ranch and stole some horses. The second score that broke out the day following, led by the Mexican outlaw, were bolder and better armed. Together they dashed down the main street Dranoisning men guns emu knives. They knew exactly where they were going. A few citizens tried half-heartedly to~stop them, as men on the sidewalk rush out and wave their arms at a runaway horse. The convicts did not deign to pay attention to these, but made straight for the largest livery stable in the place. A western livery stable runs more to saddle horses than to docile carriage animals. The convicts left a huge negro on guard outside. . They rushed in and overpowered the owner of the barn. A barber, Charles Stressner by name, heard the commotion. Though his occupation was peaceful to a degree, he had a heart that was big with courage. He came running down the street, shotgun in hand. He saw the negro, but before he could fire the negro shot him through the head and he fell headlong, dead. Inside the barn the convicts had been busy grabbing up saddles and cinching them on the horses that were nearest at hand. At the sound of the negro's shot they swarmed outside, some leading horses and some afoot. The owner of the stable, followed them out, and Pascuale, the Mexican, turned and stabbed him. The mounted men fled toward the hills, but those who had been left afoot fourteen in number, rushed to the railroad yards, where 100 freight cars were standing. In a few minutes armed citizens, deputy sheriffs and penitentiary guards came up and attacked them. They shot to kill, and Pascuale, the blood not yet dried on his knife, was killed with the first volley. Other convicts were wounded, and the little band numbered only eleven when it made a break from the box cars and rushed to the rocky hills to the south of town. There they separated, striving to escape into the almost impas sable stretch of country toward the Colorado line. Then one of the most desperate man hunts In the history of the west was on. All this outside the prison walls took in its happening but little more minutes than It does to read it here. When It was over, the people of Rawlins were terror-stricken. They knew the desperate character of the men who had escaped. The wildest rumors flew from house to house. People were afraid to stay indoors and equally afraid to go out. Imagination peopled every cellar and every closed room with outlaws armed to the teeth. So it was ail that night. It was as if man-eating tigers were loose. The governor was telegraphed to and asked to order out the state troops. He was away on an electioneering tour and the message did not reach him for two hours. He hurried back to Cheyenne, telephoning in advance to have the troops assembled under'arms against his arrival By the time he reached the capital the later reports Indicated that the escaped convicts appeared to be all in the hills and that the town had little or nothing further Jd fear. By nightfall the more courageous citizens had got over their panic. Posses of armed men were formed to ride in all directions. Throughout the night a rattle of shots In the distance told of the Droaress of the man hunt About sunset four convicts were located In a canyon about a mile from Rawlins. They had barricaded the narrow cut in the mountains and were ready for battle. The officers decided it would be too dangerous to attempt their capture in the dark and surrounded their stronghold. At dawn they were surprised and overpowered without a shot being fired. All that night couriers kept riding into Rawlins telling of the state of terror that existed in all the country round there. Every lonely ranch house was barred and barricaded as it used to be half a century ago when the Indians were on the warpath. In the next few days all but seven of the forty that had escaped were either recaptured or killed. The orders given to the deputies were to bring them back dead or alive, it didn't matter much which. The seven that are still at large probably never will be caught by the hand of man. No doubt most of them will perish in the wilderness. The cold and snow come early In high altitudes, and men who have been long in prison are not likely to be able to withstand the rigors of winter. Therefore after the first blizzard the ranchers will rest easy.?New York Press. CUP THAT LIPTON WANT8. How America Won the Trophy in the Famous Regatta Sixty-one Years Ago. The "news interest" in the announcement that Sir Thomas Lip ton is coming to America, planning a final effort to lift the yachting cup, ia a* reminder of the famous regatta sixty-one years ago, in which America gave Great Britain its first lesson in sailing. For several years Sir Thomas has attempted to sneak up and clasp the cup which the New York Yacht club has valiantly defended and retained for America. In fact, England has never quite got over the defeat of 1851, for that was the'#hltial Jolt to its boasted superiority in the saling of the racing yachts. Buf styles in water racing craft, lll^e motor car models, change slightly from time to time, and no one can help admiring Upton's pluck, nor say for sure that this time he will not be successful. The exciting International yacht race sailed off the Isle of Wight in Queen Victoria's day, was the fitting finale to the "Exhibition of Industry of All Nations" held In London. The "Infant industries," fabled In tariff bills, were really being fed out of the bottle, wearing swaddling clothes and crying lustily In that day, so that the United States made a poor showing at the exhibition. Its exhibits did not cause England or Germany any nights of Insomnia, but It was in the International regatta that the United States bounded up as Opportunity and rattled the doorknob. England scarcely knew at that time that there was a yacht club In New York or anywhere In America, In fact But for months preceding the great race the "Yankees" naa aeiermmea iu go in to win. Fittingly, it appears, there came forward George Steers, of Brooklyn, on whom was placed the task of designing and building a yacht with which America hoped to outsail old England. He turned out a clipper yacht of 170 tons burden that was a decided departure In speedy craft. Commodore John C. Stevens, of New York, was chosen to sail It. No Englishman dreamed that America could produce a yacht that could match the products of the famous shipyards and the plans of Its renowned designers. So the America did not arouse any very particular interest when It sailed one day in August, 1851, Into the harbor of Cowes, Isle of Wight after crossing the Atlantic first to Havre. But the English offered every courtesy to the Americans, opening their customs house to them and sending their admiral on board to pay his respects to the visiting commodore and his crew. The waters about the Isle of Wight are very dangerous to the navigator ?1? J * InHmQtAlv who uutra not Auun ... v.. There are tides and cross-currents that one without knowledge of the channels would be helpless against. Hence the American commodore was somewhat worried about the pilot question until England came forward and offered to lend Commodore Stevens a man familiar with the dangerous waters. But before the race Commodore Stevens got an anonymous letter warning him not to put too much trust in this pilot He disregarded this suggestion, with the statement that he had entire confidence in the man chosen by the British admiral. Cowes had never witnessed so bril- J llant a scene as that spread before lt[ on the day of the race. Flags and bunting were everywhere. Steamers dressed In their tray colors, sailing craft, vessels of every description were gathered there, while British royalty and thousands of visitors from England and the continent flocked Into the town and aboard the craft In the harbor to witness the event Eighteen yachts were entered and England had easily the best chance to win. Precisely at 10 o'clock one bright August morning, the signal gun was urea mr me si&rc. xi was a Deauurui sight when the line of graceful yachts with sails set to catch the faint breeze then blowing, moved away from the starting line. They were like so many race horses jockeying for position. The only yacht that lagged back was the America. The Oipsy Queen, with all its canvas set, took the lead, with the Beatrice next and the Volante, Constance, Arrow and a flock of others following. The America sailed along easily for a while with only a part of its full complement of sails broken out to the wind, while the competing craft were already carrying every stitch of cloth that they had set to catch the breezes. But the America soon began to creep forward. In a quarter of an hour it had passed and left behind all the oth era excepting the Constance, Beatrice and Gipsy Queen. Then came a freshening puff and the America slipped forward past the Beatrice and Constance. Another puff and It had overtaken the Gipsy Queen. Just then, however, the wind left Its sails and the light little Volante skimmed past with a stupendous Jib broken out that took all the wind from the America's sails and gave the Volantic the lead. A great cheer went up for England. But the wise sailors present shook their heads. The wind was quickening,'and the America was picking up its heels, passing other yachts one by one, but still falling to overhaul the Gipsy Queen or shake off the Volante. But again came the stiffening of the wind. By 11.S0 the America had left behind all its other competitors and come up with the fast flying Volante. Then Commodore Stevens hauled down the Jib as much as to say he would give the Volante the advantage. Then lae storm clouds gathered on the distant horlson, the white caps began to roll and the "Yankee" stepped out ahead of the procession and fairly flew over the water. The English looked on in amazement The America's canvas was of a different cut from that carried by their own yachts. It did not belly out in the wind, but lay flat with the stiff wind behind it that seemd to raise the craft out of the water and stop u aiong on uie sunace. 11 was noticed, too that while the English yachts plowed Into the "sea horses" and drenched their decks, the America's crew of 21, with their commodore, sat comfortably aft on a dry deck with apparently little to do but let her run with th? Tvlnd. Along toward ( o'clock the America ran abreast of the royal yacht Victoria and Albert, and though It was not usual for a racing yacht to take notice of royalty in a race any more than a jockey would pull up bis horse and wave his cap at the owner, still an Interesting touch of courtesy was shown. As the America passed the royal yacht Its ensign of blue with white stars was lowered and the commodore stood up with uncovered head, the crew following his-example until the royal yacht had been passed. Oiidr ha/I mthere/1 when a sun boomed out the announcement that a vessel had crossed the finish line winner. The waiting yachts and crowds In Cowes harbor waited eagerly to catch the name of this fortunate vessel. A steamer returning from the finish was hailed anxiously. "Is the America first?" sang out an excited voice. "Yes," came the reply from the steamer's deck. "What's second?" again came the query. Then came through the gathering darkness, the laconic reply that dashed away all Britain's hope: "Nothing!"?Kansas City Times. DIDNT WANT PICTURE TAKEN. Mother Bear Adds Excitement to a Camera Hunting Trip. The Rev. Dr. Chauncey J. Hawkins, pastor of the Central Congregational church, Jamaica Plains, has just had an adventure with a big black bear that would delight the heart of any small boy?to read about?and which, now that 1t is over the doctor does not regret, although It nearly put an end to his adventurous camping trip. Dr. Hawkins has been in New Brunswick for several weeks hunting wild animals with a camera. News of his adventure was brought out to civilization by his guide, who came out the first of the week to meet Mrs. Hawkins and George B. Clark of Boston, who were Joining the doctor. The story Is that Dr. Hawkins and his guide were waiting in a blind for bears to come to a bait of meat and molasses which had been put out to tempt old bruin's palate. But the bear was wary and they had been waiting several days, when at last they saw a big bear and two cubs approaching the bait When the bear was within about fifty feet Mr. Hawkins snapped his camera, expecting to see the bears run when they heard the shutter of the ^ompra fall. But this was a mother with her little ones to protect, and without halting to see what would follow the unknown noise she lunged straight for the harmless hunter. She came so quickly and so straight that the doctor could not move and his camera was knocked out of his hands and part of his clothing was torn away by huge claws. The guide, who had an ax In his hands, sprang to the rescue and swung for a mighty blow, but the old animal brushed it aside easily, just getting a wound on her paw. However, it diverted her attention from the doctor and grave him time to draw his pistol, a 22-caliber pistol with a twelve-Inch barrel. As the bear turned on the guide the doctor fired, the bal^pierced her brain and she fell dead at their feet.?Boston Globe. A Curious Word.?There is a word in the English language the first two letters of which signify a male, the first three a female, the first four a great man and the whole a great woman. The word is "heroine."