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ESTABLISHED IN 18 TAFT'S TRAVELS Secretary Of War Seldom In His * Office. ROUND THE CIRCLE Cobwebs Aernmnlute o? Official Door While Private Business Receives First Aid?The Prospective Presi dential Candidates. Tariff on Wood Pulfl and the Price of Print Paper. By WILLIS J. ABBOT. Secretary Taft, who has been seen very little about the war department. Is onca again making a long jour ney. Ostensibly the trip is simply a visit to Panama. Why the secretary is needed there is not known. We have five commissioners paid $12.000 a year each to attend to the work there being done. Of course, if it is absolutely nec essary to add to this galaxy of talent the secretary of war of the United j States, nobody must question the fact. Yet It would seem that if the commis sioners, who have been described as the most brilliant able, hardworking officials in public service, are not able to handle the work on the isthmus without monthly visits frjm Taft there must be something wrong with their methods or their energy. Mr. Taft went to the isthmus on the cruiser Prairie. When he comes back he will be landed either at Pensacola or at Charleston. , It is apparent the place ox' landing de pends upon the political needs of the moment. From hi? landing place he will make another stumping tour through the south. In the meantime the cobwebs grow over the office of the secretary of war. Mr. Taft'? Travels. In the last year Secretary Taft has seldom been in his office three days in succession. There is hardly any spot on the civilized or even the uncivilized world that he has not visited. Other candidates for the presidency," like Speaker Cannon, Senator Knox and Seuator La Follette and ,Vice President Fairbanks, have refused to accept any Invitations to speak outside of Wash ington while congress is in session; But Secertary Taft, holding an office which should demand all his time, Is never seen In that office and finds ex cuses to travel r.U over the world. A humorous representative in con gress on reading the statement that Taft would neither attend to his duties nor resign suggested a ?artoon showing Mr. Taft looking contemplatively upon the cobwebbed door of the secretary of war's office and under it.these lines from Goldsmith: Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see. My heart untraveled fondly turns to thee. In six months Mr. Taft has hardly l>een in his office one week at a time. Here is a summary gathered by a Washington newspaper which is worth printing: 1907. March 10.New Tork March 18..'...New Haven March 30 to April 30.West Indies May 3.Dayton. O. May 7.Jamestown exposition May 25 to June 1.St. Louis June 8 to 21.South Dakota and Kansas July 4 to Aug. 10.Murray Bay. Canada Aug. IS to Dec. 21.Around the world Dec. 24.Cincinnati, O. Dec. 30.Boston IMS. Jan. 10.v..Xew York Jan. 14.Philadelphia Feb. 7 to 15.Michigan and Missouri Feb. 21.Buffalo Feb. 26...New Ensland March 14...New England and New Jersey March 31.Nebraska and Ohio April 18.New York That is the record. It is official, and it is fair that It should be set forth in order that the American people, who pay the salary of Mr. Taft and the expenses of his department, who are daily impressed with the idea that the ability of the secretary of war is so great that the department could not proceed without his direction, should be given just a notion of how much time William H. Taft, secretary of war. has been giving to the depart ment of which he is the nominal head and how much to the globe trotting and the political stump speaking of which he seems to be so fond. The Political Antagonists. It might as well be understood that the candidates for tho presidency be fore the American people this year are going to l>e on the Republican side Mr. William H. Tai1-, secretary of war, and on the Democratic side Mr. Wil liam J. Bryan, a man who ^as no pub lic office whatsoever. Of course there is much outcry about antagonism to Taft. There are men opposed to him; there are contesting delegations go ing to Chicago to destroy; there are at tacks made upon him in the United States senate and house of represent atives. But. after all, politicians in Washington recognize the fact that he will Ik' nominated, in his own party other men are mentioned. Speaker j Cannon has bis state, with fifty-four votes; Senator La Follette has his state; Vice President Fairbanks has his state. But not. oue of theni all has one single vote outside of bis own IKditlcal bailiwick?that is to say, out side of his own state. Secretary Taft has picked up all the delegates in the south and in the middle west and stands today as the leading candidate. So it seems fair to say that Taft is certain to be the Republican nominee. Now, on the other side, in the Demo 69. erotic parry Mr. William J. Bryan, has Instructed for him 20S delegates. More over, there are eight delegates from Rhode Island who, though not In structed, are for him?are Bryan men. The only other instructed delegates come from Delaware. They number six and are instructed for Judge Gray. So far Bryan, with 20S, and Gray, with six, are the only candidates that have been mentioued in Democratic conven tions. In the Pennsylvania eonlest fifty-one out of sixty-four delegates were curried for Bryan. As not all newspaper read ers understand methods., It may be stated here that a delegation to a na tional convention is elected by congres sional district conventions. Of these there are thirty In Pennsylvania; The thirty district conventions elect sixty delegates to Denver. They have elect ed fifty-one delegates for Bryan. The state convention is yet to be held, and It has the power of electing four dele gates at large, but it is yet to be de termined whether they will not be out and out Bryan delegates. If the voters of the state of Pennsylvania have been able to elect so enormous a majority of the district eommitreemen to Denver, It will l>e curious if the state convention shall not be responsive to the will of the voters. Tho Two Conventions. The time of the two conventions. Re publican and Democratic, is drawing near. Both will be interesting; both will be worth while seeing. There can be no better education for a youug man in American politics than to at tend either one. There is always a feeling that the stranger cannot get n ticket to the convention. I have bad some experience regarding this matter, and it is unquestionably true that the stranger without a "pull" has hard chances of getting a ticket to the first day's session. After that tickets are easily obtained, and there are no meet ings of any sort that give so clear an illustration of the American system of government as these national conven tions, whether it the Repuhlk'an or the Democratic convention. The man vho Is fortunate enough to go to one of these conventions need not think of the house of representatives or the sen ate. He finds In the convention the en thusiasm, the devotion and the purpose which control, at the last,- American government. He does not find a man with a gavel controlling the delegates, but he sees in both the Democratic and the Republican conventions true democ racy, fair debate and thorough discus sion of every poIBjfealsed. Illinois In the Bryan Column. The latest state to declare . itself lor Bryan In eonven-ion was Iilinois., It has instructed for the Nehrnskan and directed Its delegates to us all honor able means to secure his nomination. While It is entirely true that there have l>ecn some factional auiagonisins In the state, the action of this conven tion has quieted them all. The Illinois delegation Is and will be a Bryan dele gation at Denver. It will cast fifty four votes lu the national convention and will be a very considerable factor in determining the action of that con vention. The Democratic state conventions are coming slowly, but .North Dako ta, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Il linois and Indiana have already in structed for Mr. Bryan. And if you look at the east, the state of Massachusetts has been carried ab solutely by the Bryan element. Mas sachusetts will send an instructed dele gation. Democrats throughout the United States might asWell figure now that the convention is going to be con trolled by the friends of Mr. Bryan and that the nomination will-be made within the first three ballots. Publishers and Politics. The committee of newspaper pub lishers recently iu Washington found themselves treated with scant courtesy by the committee appointed to coDfider their demand for the repeal of the duty on wood pulp and on print paper. I have talked at some length with a member of this committee. What puz zles him is that when the publishers and owners of newspapers, of whom he Is one, reached Washington they found that 6lx congressmen, no one of whom was a newspaper owner, had mo?%knowledge of the paper business than anybody, except the purchasers of print paper for a newspaper, could pos sibly have. This might be indicative of extraordinary intelligence on the part of the congressmen on the com mittee, headed by Mr. Mann of Illi nois. But there seems to be a general feeling that it is more Indicative of the. fact that there was some quiet influ ence at work to put the committee In a position of antagonism to the mem bers of the Newspaper Publishers' as sociation who addressed it. Of course the committee, being Re publican, did not wish the question of the tariff reopened through the demand of the newspaper publishers for free paper and free pulp. That is a matter of notoriety. But here is auother suggestion which has been made in Washington and which Is not without its plausibility. The papers that are suffering from this wood puli) tariff are the oue cent papers of large circulation, usually Democratic. The suggestion is made that such papers as John R. McLean's Cincinnati Enquirer, ." cents a copy, aud bis Washington Post at ? cents a copy, the New York Herald at I! cents a copy, the New York Sun at 2 cents, and its annex, the Chicago Inter Ocean, whosp editor is very close to Congress man Mann, may possibly be furnishing to the committee considering the paper trust situation their information. This, at any rute, is the story that comes to me. and it may be worth consideration by the people. Either there must he a reduction in the price of print paper or the readers of newspapers will have to pay 2 cents where they now pay 1. Washington, D. C. Killed by a Rooster. Max Crockett. Jr., fifteen years old died Wednesday at Lewisburg of a wound inflicted by a rooster. OEAKGEBt WANT BRYAN The South Carolina Democracy! Will Vote For Him/ THE DETAILED VOTE. [A Majority of the Delegates to the State Convention Instructed to Vote for Instructed Delegates to the National Democratic Convention I Who Will Vote for the Great Com moner's Nomination. There will be 332 members of the State convention, two for each of the 42 senators and two for each of the 124 representatives. Of these 332 there are 170 who are instructed by their county conventions to vote for] delegates to the national convention who will support Win. J. Bryan for) the presidency. This is a majority of S. definitely instructed. The Columbia State says of the 162 delegates from counties which have not instructed delegates, there are quite a number who will vote to instruct for Bryan. In some coun ties the matter was not brought up I at all, in other counties resolutions! of endorsement for Bryan were adopt ed, but the delegation to the StateI convention were not instructed. In [ Richland, for instance, the conven tion took no action, and these 10 votes are placed in the uninstructed column, although it is known that five and probably more of the ten will vote for an instructed delegation. Ex-Gov. D. C. Heyward jaid that | he will go to the St&t? I emncratic convention a Bryan man. He is not entirely wedded to the idea of in structing the delegates to denver, but he does believe in endorsing most heartily Mr. Bryan's career. Gen. Wilie Jones, who is a candi date to go to Denver, is outspoken for Bryan. Both Gen. Jones and Gov. Heyward have attended national con ventions before. Therefore it appears that the majority elected from Rich and county will favor endorsing Bryan, the county convention having failed to instruct the delegates one way or the others, resolutions on i both sides being tabled simultaneous-) ly. There was a strong Bryan senti ment in Barnwell, and Chester, and Williamsburg, Lexington endorsed Bryan. Nothing has been heard from Georgetown and these counties, there fore, are put in the uninstruoted col umn, although as a matter of fact there are perhaps a score of the 1C2 which may be counted upon for in struction and a few others may bei hissed as "doubtful." but are classi fied as "uninstructed" in order to err | on the side of liberty. Tns. \hbeville.'. ? 8 \iken. Anderson. lamberg. Sarnwell. teaufort. 8 Berkeley. Charleston. berokee.. .'.. C Chester. Chesterfield. 6 Clarendon. Colleton. Calhoun. 4 Darlington. Dorchester. Edgefield. airfield. 8 Florence. 8 eorgetown..: .. Greenville.: ? ? 12 }recnwood. 8 Hampton." Horry. " Kershaw. 6 ..ancaster. 6 Lee. 6 Unins. 10 12 G 8 8 IS 8 8 S 8 ?1 RG, S. C. FEI DAY. MA A MODERN MILES STANDISH. WILL FIGHT PLAGUE. PHYSICIANS WHO WILL WAGE WAR ON TUBERCULOSIS. Names of the Physicians hi Each Connty Who Will Look After the Matter. Dr. Walter Cheyiie. the very effi cient and popular secretary of the South Carolina Medical association, has made public the names of the physicians, one from each county in this State, constituting the committee on formation of the Anti-Tuberculosis league of the State Medical associa tion. This league is the authoritative and professional organization which will take the necessary steps to sun press the spread of tuberculosis in, South Carolina. Each of the physicians below nam ed, who have been appointed by Dr. John L Dawson, the chairman, under authority in him vested by the State Medical association, will supervise the proper organization in each coun - ty under scientific and professional supervision as the representatives of the State Medical association. Committee on formation: Dr. John L. Dawson, chairman: Dr. C. A. Neufer, Abbeville; Dr. W. A. Nardin, Jr., Anderson; Dr. FMlmore Moore; Alken; Dr. T. T. Clckley, Bamberg; Dr. R. C. Kirkland; Barn well; Dr. W. R. Eve, Beaufort; Dr. B. B. Steed ly, Cherokee: Dr. Frank Lander. Chester; Dr. T. E. Wannamaker, Jr., Chesterfield'; Dr. W. M. Brooking ton? Clarendon; Dr. W. A. Kirby, Colleton; Dr. William Eggleston, Darlington; Dr. F. Julian Carroll, Dorchester; Dr. R. A. Marsh, Edge field; Dr. Samuel Lindsay, Fairfield; Dr. B. G. Gregg, Florence; Dr. W. M. Gaillard, Georgetown; Dr. Davis Fur man, Greenville; Dr. C P Neal, Green wood; Dr. C. A. Rush, Hampton; Dr. J. A. Norlan. Horry; Dr. J. W. Cor bett, Kershaw; Dr. T. L. W. Bailey, Laurens; Dr. C. W. Harris, Lee; Dr. C W. Barron, Lexington; Dr. A. M. Brailsford, Marion; Dr. W. J. Cross land, Marlboro; Dr. P. C. Ellison, Newberry; Dr. A. E. Hines, Seneca; Dr. L. C Shecut, Orangeburg; Dr.] W. A. Tripp, Pickens; Dr. A. Earle Boozer, Richland; Dr. E. B. Frontis, Saluda; Dr. G. A. Bunch, Spantan burg; Dr. L. M. Parlor, Sumter, Dr. D. H. Montgomery, Union; Dr. Y. B. Durant. Williamsburg; Dr. R. A. Bratton. York. Calhoun county committeeman yet to be named. Perhaps the most important work done by the State Medical association at its last meeting was the inaugura tion of this systematic and intelligent warfare against tuberculosis. While nothing has as yet been actually ac complished beyond the preliminary steps toward organization, neverthe less the fact that the physicians of this State have agreed tu go into a campaign of education in which the ?nasses of the people arc m receive free instruction in the methods oi' preventing the. spread of this dread disease will be received with grati tude and unusual interest by the people of this entire State. Laureus . . . Lexington . . Marlboro. . . Marion . . Newberry . . Oconee .. Orangebtirg. . Pickens. . Richland. . . Saluda .. Sumter.. Spartanburg. Union. Williamsburg York. Totals 8 S S G 10 6 10 G 10 14 8 170 162 Lr 8, 1908. ?Kessler in St. Louis Republic. HUMAN SCORES New York Banquet Where Whites Dined With Negroes. WILL HURT BLACKS Says the Senate, Who Declares the Incident Makes Progress Toward Inevitable Catastrophe. He Asserts that Northern Feeling Differs Veiy Little in the Race Question From the Southern. Senator Tillman gave on last Fri day to a representative of the Atlan ta Journal a ringing interview in which he spoke In his c?aracteristic fashion of a banquet recently given 'in New York and attended by white and negro men and women, who sat side by side at the banquet tables. Senator Tillman was severe in his condemnation of the banquets, and stated that the speeches made were not for New Yorkrs, but specially for southern consumption as was indicat ed by some of the orators of the oc casion. The story of the banquet which evoked the sentiments expressed by Senator Tillman appeared recently in the Washington Post, the Philadel phia Telegraph and the Washington Times, and all the eastern and west ern dailies. The entertainment was given under the auspices of the Cos mopolitan society of New York. White women were sandwiched between ne gro men, and listened to speeches by negroes which advocated intermarri age as a solution of the race problem. Some of those present were Harold G. Villard, editor of the New York Evening Post; William H. Ferris, a negro graduate of Harvard; "Cap tain" H. A. Thompson, a negro who said he was a poldier at San Juan Hill; Miss Mary W. Ovington, a white woman prominent In settlement work in Brooklyn, who sat between two negro men, and Edward C. Walk er, president of the Sunrise Club, which sanctioned the recent "af finity" idea of F. P. Earle, who took a notion to quit his wife for another woman he liked better and whom he designated as his "affinity." Such ideas Senator Tillman stated that the south would forever resist, at every hazard. He said that the best way to eliminate the suggestion of social equality was to remove politi cal quality, and that the best way to do this is by the repeal of the fifteen th amendment and the modification of the fourteenth. This not having been done, it was pointed out that the states of the black belt, with the single exception of Georgia, bad taken legal steps to disfranchise large num bers of negroes, and that it was the duty of Georgians to join her sister states by the passage of a similar law. "My views on the nice problem," says Senator Tillman. "are so well known, by reason of the great num ber of lectures I have delivered on the subject, thai I do noi know that ii is worth while to discuss this lat est phase of it. But this nncident, (rival in itself, only marks the rapid progress we are making toward the inevitable catastrophe. I have con tended for years that existing condi tions can inevitable have but one end ?bloody race conflicts. ?'This banquet, or dinner, or what ever you call it, at which a few fanatics like Villard and other white men of that ilk, had drummed up a lot of denegrade or lunatic white wo men, to illustrate their practice of social equality and launched the pro paganda of amalgamation between the race, will do no harm in New York, and it was not intended to affect conditions there. It was de signed for southern consumption and to affect the south. For instance, Dr. Ferris, the colored Harvard graduate, emphasized this, when he said: " 'This means more to the negro of the black belt of the north.' The incident is a revival of the old scheme of those radicals who, with Thad Stevens and Charles Sumner, caused the re-construction ~ devlltaj- in the south in '68. That Stevens practiced miscegnation, and Charles Sumner endorsed it, and nothing but the im perial manhood of the southern white people?men and women alike?sav ed our civilization then. "The negro newspapers throughout the country will publish and send broadcast over the south this story of black men and white women sitting down to diuner, with what results I need not. say. Roosevelt's luncheon with Broker Washington caused un told mischief, and, as onr of these speakers said, 'conditions are going to get worse hi the south before Lhev get better.' When the colored people, get educated, th whites in the South will have to recognize them.' Closing his statement with assertion that' 'de portation is impossible, then it must be amalgomation and education. "A few statistics will indicate what this means, South Carolina has 225, 000 more negroes than whites; Mis sissippi, 265,000 more negroes than whites, and the six southern stales of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florda, Mississippi and Louisiana, constituting the black belt, have 30. 000 more negroes than whites. War own slate of Georgia has over 1.000, 000 negroes and less than 200,000 white majority. "If this program of the Vi! lards' should he carried out, the future trav eler through the heart of the Confed-1 racy, when the mixing of the races has been completed, could discover j nothing here except mulattoes, or even a darker admixture. It is need less to say t hat this will never occur, because, if deportation is Impossible, the destruction of the black race is not. And those who sow the wind, may live to reap the whirlwind. "I know better than any other souhern man for I have tested it, that the northern feeling on this question differs very little from our own. And if the Republican natio al convention shall adopt the Ohio program of reducing southern repre sentation it would be the duty of the Democratic convention to meet it with a plank declaring 'this is a white man's country and white men must govern it.' " In answer to the question whether such a plank would gain us votes in the North, Senator Tillman said "if the Republicans should press the issue, I have no earthly doubt of it. Southern men would only have to go among the northern people and dis cuss the question as I have done, boldly* and frankly. No Republican speaker can meet the arguments and facts that can be presented, and the feeling of cas*ce, race sur>erlc-ity is as indelibly fixed there as here. -The question 'never will se settled until the North shall agree to the re peal of the fifteenth amendment and modification of the fourteenth, so to set at rest once for all the negro's aspirations social equality, by taking from him political equality, or leav ing it to each state to settle." When asked if the action of South Carolina in regard to negro suffrage was unanimous Senator Tillman said "in a manner yes, and then again, no, because there was considerable dis cussion and threats in certain quar ters of mobilizing the negro vote and controlling the state constitution al convention by those who claimed to be the guardians of vested interest and corporations. If you should ev er have a death grapple in Georgia I along these lines and your negroes are not disfranchised, you can readily understand how many thousands of them would have their taxes paid so that their votes could be used at the polls. "It is well understood now by a great many northern people that the negroes are the balance of power in many northern and border Btates, such as New York, New Jersey, Del aware^ Maryland, Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas, and there is intense bitter ness of feeling in Washington because of the impending control of the nat ional Republican convention by ne gro delegates from the South, who, said to me, can deliver no electoral votes, but will nominate a man for the safe Republican states to elect. "The South, and least of all Geor gia, cannot afford to yield one inch or father in this conflict. Our civili zation, and everything which makes lfe worth living, depends on it. And all other issues sink into insignifi cance in comparison. TRAGEDY IN GEORGIA. Two Young Men Shot and Killed Near Eastman. A dispatch from Eastman, Ca., says Tom Spiers shot and killed Os car Stuckey Wednesday afternoon about, dark. Tt seems from reports that an altercation arose over some work on the farm of Mr. J. S. Stuck ey. which resulted in Spiers shooting and killing the young men. The Stuckeys are among the best families in Dodge County, being highly re spected and esteemed as quiet and law abiding citizens. The com munity is very much wrought up over the affair. A deputy sheriff and posse left for the scene of the kill ing. Texas For Bryan. Texas decided by a large majori ty in the primary election on Tues day to send a solid Bryan delega tion to the National Democratic con vention. 81.50 PER ASnS~?M. TALE OF HORROR Eleven Bodies Found Buried in Farmhouse Yard. HAD BEEN MURDERED. Anxiety of John Helgelein Over Dis appearance of His Brother Leads to Discover}- of Murdered Bodies of Two Men, a Woman juid Two Children in Yawl of Woman Re cently Burned to Death. A dispatch from Laparte, Ind., s?/s one of the most grewscme murder mysteries ever unearthed in that sec tion of the country came to light Tuesday when the bodies of five per sons, all of Urem murdered, were found in the yard in the home of Mrs. Belle Gunness, who, wittr three of her children was burned to death, on the night of April 28: ?, So far only two of the bodies have been identified. These are Andrew Helelee, who came to that city front Aberdeen, S. D., for the purpose of marrying Mrs. Gunness, whose ac quaintance he had made through a matrimonial bureau. Tht other is that of Jennie Olson GunneSs, a-Chi cago girl, who had been adopted by Mrs. Gunness. She disappeared in September, 1906, and it was said had gone to Los Angeles to attend school. The other bodies were those of a. man and two children, apparently 13 years old. The body of Helgenein was dis membered and the arms, legs, trunk and head were buried in different parts of th yard. It is believed by the authorities that Guy Lamphere, who has been under arrest since the burning of the Gunness home, on the charge of murdering Mrs. Gun ness and her family, committed the Helgelein crime, Lamphere is a car penter and the manner in which tho body of Hlgelcin was dismembered leads to the belief that it was done t by somebody familiar with the use of a saw. In some quarters it is believed that Mrs. Gunness may have known some thing of the murderers of the five, people. A possible solution of the Gunness I farm mystery, which was deepened Wednesday when four additional bod ies were found in the barn yard, de veloped Wednesday night. Evidence tending to show that the nine dis membered corpses une arthed Tues day and Wednesday had been ship ped to Laporte, probably from Chi cago, came to light. The testimony of draymen who had carted trunks and boxes to the Gunness home lent \ color to this supposition. The La porte police also received information that two trunks, consigned to ,'Mrs. Belle Gunness, Laporte, Ind." are help in an express office in Chicago. Two of the nine mutilated bodies were identified with reasonable cer tainty. Anton Olson, of Chicago, viewed the body supposed to be that of Jennie Olson, 16 years old, foster daughter of Mrs. Gunness, and pro nounced it to be that of his daughter. A sister of the girl, Mrs. Leo Olan der, of Chicago, confirmed the father's identification. . Ask K. Helegein. whose inquires regarding his missing brother, An drew, led to the first dscovesies on the death haunted farm, became sure that the largest and best preserved of the corpses is that of his brother. Against this identification, however, is the result of the autopsy perform ed on this body by Dr. J. H. Meyer. He found conditions which, to hia mind, proved that the man perished long after Andrew Helegein disap peared last January. Dr. Meyer said the corpse showed evidence of having been in the ground less than two weeks. Ask Helegein, however, re fused to be convinced by these find ings, and hisNcertainty led the coroner to accept his 'Identificatlcn for the -present. -j FAST BlClwLE RIDING 1 Cansed the Death of a Colored Boy aft Spartanburg. 1 A colored boy about 13 years old was killed Monday morning in Spar tanburg by being thrown from a bi cycle. The boy was riding down the street at a great speed when he came in collision with acolored woman and was thrown over the handle Im.s, re ceiving such a severe blow on the left side of his head that death re sulted in a rew u.inutes.. Tha col ored boy was employed at Wrighton's market, and had been up South Church street to do some errand. Coming back he speeded down Kirby Hill, which is the custom of nine tenths of the cyclists. The ire wa gon was standing In tho street, and Mrs. Connor's servant girl was get ting a piece of ice. As she turned from behind the wagon the bicycle was upon her. There was no time for her to get out of the way, or for the boy to turn his wheel, so there was a collision. Strange to say, the woman was not injured. Chance to .Make Money. Senator McLaurin has introduced a bill in the United States Senate on. Tuesday providing that the govern ment shall offer $50,000 to be paid to any person who shall within two years, discover practical means foe the extermination of the cotton boll weevil. j