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PUBLISHED THREE HUMAN TALKS To the Members of the Farmer's Union of Chester THE SENIOR SENATOR Discusses the Legislature, Denounc es Compulsory Education, Speaks Pleasantly of President Taft, De fends demson and Scored Some of the Newspapers. A special dispatch from Chester ito The News and Courier says an audience variously estimated at from ??.2,500 to 4,000 persons gathered on the grounds of Union A. R. P. -church; near Richburg/ Tuesday .'to attend the rally of the Chester Coun ty Farmers' Union and to hear Sen ator B. TU Tillman and the other speakers engaged for this occasion. The senior Senator seems fully re juvenated and spoke with all his old-time force and fire. He jumped on the mileage system in vogue in this State by which the railroads sell a passenger a mileage book for $20 and then compel the passenger to waste much valuable time ana patience in attempting to exchange mileage for a ticket. He said the whole thing is the fault of the legislature and cautioned the people against putting too many rail Toad lawyers and freiends of cor porations in the law-making body. "'An infernal fool arrangement," he called the present practice. He said he did not know much about the Farmers' Union, but thinks it a good thing, only he beg ged to warn the people against al lowing the organization to become a lever to advance the fortunes of Ipoliticians. He described his mis sionary work in the North, and his endeavors to convert the Northern people to the sane and Southern way of viewing the race question. . He denounced the efforts of those who favor compulsory education as a scheme to give the ballot to negroes, "which it surely will, he said, by com pelling them to go to school and overiome the educational qualifica tions, which alone stand between them and the ballot. President Taft,- he said, is a splen did gentleman, a great improvement over his predecessor, but Is ?"spread <ing all the molasses he can to catch Hies." ? ? He descrbed conditions at the North as regards social problems ?nd drew a beautiful picture of the com parative purity that obtains In the South. The divorce evil he particu larly denounced and called on his hearers to hold fast to the present practice In South Carolina on this subject. Touching on Clemson College, the Senator denounced the newspapers that have been meddling with the situation there, as he desribed it, for the sole purpose of stirring up discord, and offered to compare rec ords of life trustees with those of elected trustees. He also said that no instance could be shown where life trustees had lned up en masse on one side of a question and the elected trustees on the other. He hoped that certain defects at Clemson have been reme died, and the future of the Colloge made brighter. Certain political foemen In South Carolina, he said, want to write his obituary, but he is well and hearty and won't go until he has to. He warned the people against the "ras cals" and bade them keep their eye on the State Legislature and the lawmakers at Washington. Other speakers were Editor W. F. Caldwell, of the Chester Lantern; Solicitor J. K. Henry, Col. T. B. Butler, of Gaffnoy; Mr. J. G. L. White, president of the Chester County Farmers' Unon, and Prof. W. S. Morrison, of Clemson College. The day passed off quietly, the most perfect order prevailing. Masked Robbers. Four maked men entered the home of Charles Burlew, a store keeper at West Pittbon, Pa., and going to a room occupied by a mer chant and his wife, demanded of the former the money he received from his sales on Saturday. He refused 1 and was knocked insensible. The intruders then bound and gagged Burlew and his wife and ransacked j the room. After securing $300, the men set fire to the house and fled. ! Burlew and his wife were rescued. ? I Three Died in Mine. All the missing miners in the Har aiso shaft of the Camelia mine, near Pachuca. Mexico, have been account ed for. The total casulty list is three men killed and 20 injured. Work in the mine has been resumed. Fire broke out in this mine last Saturday, and a sdore of miners were reported at first to have been killed. Killed Near Williston. Dan Gaines was shot ana instantly killed by another negro, named Pet er Green, near Williston Saturday night. The men were playing, when Green pulled out a pistol, saying, "I believe I will shoot you." Gaines said. "Well shoot," he did so, with deadly effect. It seems that it was an unprovoked murder. TIMES A WEEK. GOES OVER FALLS NIAGRA RAPIDS SWALLOW UP ONE MORE VICTIM. Young Man's Brave Efforts Prove Useless, Giant Waves FinaDy Over coming, Driving Him Under. Niagara rapids claims one one more victim. A dispatch, from there says August Sparer, an eighteen year-old boy, a resident of Niagara Fells, went to his death Monday in the whirlpool rapids after a gallant battle with the giant waves between the lower bridges and the pool. With three companions Sporer went for a swim in the river. He struck about at once for the middle of the stream and then turned toward the bridges. His companions called to him. to turn back, for the current is very swift at that point, but he kept on down stream and was caught in the great sweep, the first break from the smoother waters to the rapids. The boy struggled for a time against the current but to no avail. Then, realizing that he was beyond human help and was to be carried through the rapid which took the life of Capt. Webb, and which have resisted every unaided human effort at passage, he deliberately turned down stream and began a grim fight for life. Not in all the history of the river has such a brave effort been witness ed. Although but a frail boy, he went into the rapids swimming strongly and held his own until he struck the giant wave which curls up opposite the Old Battery elevator. Then he went under and for a sec ond was lost to sight of the score of people who stood on the lower arch bridge. Again and again he disappeared only to reappear, each time fighting desperately against the terrible cur rent. Then when within 300 yards of the whirlpool his strength gave out and he sank and was lost to view. Even then he had swum perhaps 100 yards farther than did the great English swimmer, Capt. Webb. * THEY WERE SENT BACK. Uncle Sana Detains a Runaway Couple From Prague. At New York the Immigration of ficials have shattered the romance of nineteen-year-old Beatrice Mayer, who left her husband of a few months and eloped to this country with her first .sweetheart, Adolph Grohman, a youth of twenty-three. The young couple who have a plenti ful supply of money, and whose re finement apparently verifies their claims to kinship with prominent families at Prague, arrived in New York on Monday. Mrs. Mayer was accompanied by her maid and all of them had first cabin passage. They would not have been disturb ed In their desire to land had not a cablegram preceded their arrival. It was from Mrs. Mayer's husband, and asked that they be detained at New Yorn. A special board of inquiry has decided that the man and Mrs. Mayer and her maid must be deport ed. Before the board, Mrs. Mayer made an impassioned plea to be al lowed to land. > "Adolph was my school compan ion, and we have loved each other for years," she said. "We wanted to marry, but my folks objected. I resisted as long as I could, but in the end they forced me Into this objectionable marriage. I never lov ed my husband, but I do love Adolph. After four monchs of marital trouble, I decided that the only way to avoid a life of trouble and unhappiness was to run away with Adolph." RELICS OF TRAGEDY. Fifteen Skeletons Are Found in Ex cavation. In Washington fifteen skeletons lying together in such a position as to Indicate hasty burial and three English copper coins bearing the date 1720, found with them during j the excavating for the United States j Medical School Hospital near the ! banks of the Potomac, brings to t light, it is believed, some Indian or piratical tragedy uf early American days. As authentic history sheds no il luminating ray on the case, the finger {of suspicion wavers in its pointing looking first toward the rem man, who stole silently along the wooded Potomac banks a century and a half {ago, then to a mythical pirate crew which is believed to have made Us rendezvous in the upper Potomac, and lastly to a mutiny-infested cave trading vessel. But the bones may remain forever as silent as when they were in their grave. ? Fiend Will Hang. Rogers Merritt, a negro, was Tuesday convicted in the Superior court at Atlanta of criminal assault ppon Miss Maggie McDermott, 1C years old, on the night of June 20 last. The negro will be sentenced to hang. The assault occurred In the heart of Atlanta. Miss McDer mott being en route to her home when the negro attacked her. ORANGEBUB?. S. RESCUED SAILORS SEVEN SNATCHED FROM DEATH BY THE LIFE SAVERS. Captain of Schooner Drives His Ves sel on Shore Thinking Hotel Glare Was Liner's Light. Long IsP^^S W^M? six hours' DVCmr^S^S^ tory against the sea to their long list of remarkable rescues Tuesday, when they brought safely to land the cap tain and crew?seven souls in all? from the three-masted schooner Ar lington, of Boston, which went a&hore early Tuesday morning in the driving rain and fog off Long Beach, ;on the South shore of Long Island. The eighth member of the crew, Madden Pierson, a Swede, put off from the'schooner on a- raft a line, but was swept out to sea and loot sight of. It 1b believed that he per ished. The rescue from the schooner was witnessed by cheering guests of the Nassau Hotel at Long Beach and by hundreds of cottagers. The ho tel was indirectly responsible for the vessel's ^plight, for Capt. Ira Smith, after having lost his bearings, mis took the glimmering lights in the structure for those of a liner in mid ocean, and thus misled ran aground. The'schooner, heavily laden with Anthratic, bound from New York for Mayport, Fla., struck a sand bar. Pounded by a heavy sea while a terrific easterly gale was blowing, she began to yield immediately. The captain and crew climbed out on the bowsprit. The life savers reached the scene soon after daylight. They worked frantically, but in vain trying to shoot a line to the wreck. The high wind and seas made made this mpossible, but after six futile attempts they succeeded in getting a surf boat through the breakers to the lee of the wreck and the rescue of the imperilled sailors followed. Aside from a broken ankle sus tained by the cabin boy and the Buf fering incident to exposure, which all sustained,, no one was seriously injured. The Arlington will be a total loss. LUNATIC KILLS HIMSELF. Was an Inmate of the Hospital for the Insane. A Columbia dispatch to The News and Courier says Emanuel Boland, a middle-aged white man from Alken county, an inmate of the State Hos pital for the Insane, who tried to kill himself several months ago while on a railway train in the custody of a guard, on his way to the insti tution, committed suicide late Mon day by falling thirty feet from the lattice work on a porch to one of the Asylum buildings. He lived only a few moments after striking the ground. The unfortunate man was suffering from suicidal melancholia and had been carefully watched since he entered the Institution. It is stated that he was in the yard of the Asylum Monday after noon with several other patients and two nurses. While the attention of the nurses was distracted for a mo ment he climbed the lattice of a veranda to the third story and either let.go his hold or jumped backward. It is said that the nurse ."led to per suade him to come down when he was about half way up. The acci dent although deplorable was una voidable. No blame can be placed on any one. Last spring when Boland was being carried to the Asylum on the train, he borrowed a knife from some one and, while manacled, plunged It into his throat, inflicting an ugly wound. When he arrived in Columbia he was in a desperate condition. He recov ered from this self-inflicted injury, only to end his life Monday. FAMILY FOUND STARVING In the Great City of Ciiicago in Midst of Plenty. Starving In sight of plenty is the sad fate of a family in Chicago. John Fitzgerald, 18 months old, is dead of starvation, and his mother, Mary Fitzgerald, is ill from the same ?cause. Three other children, all ill from lack of food, passed Monday night in the care of the police, and will be taken to the juvenile home. These children are Helen, 10 years old; Lilian, S years old, and Irene, 4 years old. Mrs. Fitzgerald and her family were deserted by her husband on June 10. For the last few weeks family has had nothing to live on except what was contributed by obtained by pawning articles from the home, which already had been nearly stripped of its furnishings. * Wild Story Afloat A dispatch from Charleston to The State says a wild report was circu lated over the country Tuesday to the effect that Charleston had been destroyed by an earthquake, bring ing many telegrams of inquiry from press associations and newspapers. The report is said to have started from Atlanta. The foundation was probably the suspension of tele graphic communication Monday af ternoon by the wind and thunder storm. Om THURSDAY. A?GUS POLICE GRAFT In New York Amounts to a Mil lion of Dollars in HARD CASH PER YEAR f ; General Bingham, Police Commis sioner of New York, Says That He Could Hare Made at Least Six Hundred Thousand Dollars in His First Twelve Months in Office. "I am asked to estimate the money value of graft and blackmail in New York each year. No one can make such an estimate with accuracy, but my belief is that the total is not less than $100,000,000. During my first year at the head of the police department ?t would have been an easy matter? for me to have made $600,000 In bribe money, and $1, 000,000 would not have been an ex cessive figure at all." Thus writes 'General Theodore Bingham in an article to be publish ed in the September number of the Hampton's magazine. It is the first public statement made by General Bingham since his removal by May or McClellan from the office of Po lice Commissioner. He writes: "The power of Tammany Hall rests, and has rested for forty years, upon its ability to control the po lice, by fair means or foul. A strong honest, fearless Police Commission er, supported by Police Magistrates of ability and integrity and a mayor big enough to conduct his office without fear or favor, can sap and utterly destroy Tammany influence in ten years or even less, provided he is empowered to dismiss and transfer his subordinates for cause, without recourse to the courts. "I do not believe 1 am unfair in estimating that from fifteen hun dred to two thousand members of the force are unscrupulous grafters, whose hands are always out for easy money." That this is known by the head of the department and apparently ignored is because the commissioner is only nominal head of the force, he states, while a policeman has of fice for life. Discipline and the question of vested interests should be kept separate, he declares. Graft is hidden in most city ordinances, he says and were enacted to be brok en so that some one could make money from them. He continues: "One day, shortly after my ar rival at Police headquarters an ac quaintance dropped into my office. "Commissioner," he said. "There is a house at No. -West Thirty third street, run very quietly. It will be worth $10,000 a month to you"?but the sentence was never finished to my knowledge. "As a matter of fact, the place had never been opened, and the man had been used as an agent to feel out the department. "A few months later I was of fered $5,000 in cash and $500 a month merely to be seen shaking hands with the proprietor of an up per Broadway cafe." General Bngham states as his be lief that gambling cannot be elimi nated, but that a reasonable law, imposing heavy licenses and ironclad restrictions can Jje enforced. Con cerning the Rogues' Gallery, the controversy over which proved his stumbHng block, he states that It is necessary to photograph criminals, but adds that it should be settled by a law not drawn in the interest of criminals. FEET TOUCH ON BODY. Man Thus Located Under Water and Was Rescued. When Miss Ruth Rogers leaped feet foremost from a raft on Man hattan beach at Chicago she touch ed one of her feet on a body lay ing in the bottom of the lake. Her cries when she reached the surface brought former Congressman Chas. S. Wharton. Dr. W. H. Falke and Dr. H. B. Clapp, who were swim ming near. M . Wharton dived and assured himself that what Miss Rogers hau touched was really the body of a man and after repeated efforts the rescuers were successful in bringing it to the surface. They were aston ished to find that breath still re mained, although the victim was un conscious. When he had been resuscitated after an hour's work, he said he was John Tuzhocki, twenty-three years old. He was unable to say how he came into his plight, but it is be lieved by those who were at the beach that in diving from a post he struck a great rope stretched as a life line and was rendered uncon- I scions. Killed by Lightning. Two men were killed by lightning at Trion Factory, da., on Tuesday. , Seven men were sitting in a row in front of the depot when the bolt 1 descended, killing Sam Ray and Clar- j ence McCants and seriously injuring Jeff McCants. Other men were knocked down, but not seriously in jured. Lightning damaged the de-' pot of the Central of Georgia and a livery stable near by. j T 19, 1909. DESIGN ACCEPTED FOR MONUMENT TO THE NOBLE WOMEN OF THE SOUTH. Beautiful, Elevating Portrayal of Self-Sac rificelng Devotion of Noble Women of "Lost Cause." , Befitting In nobility of conception and beauty of execution the subject it is to commemorate, the design for the monument to women of the "lost cause" has been completed. It is the work of a Dixie girl, Miss Belle Kinney, of Nashville, Tenn., and has been accepted by several States. . It is. probable that all the States which left the union in the Civil War will adopt the design and that repicas of the monument will be placed in the capitols of each. The design for the proposed monu ment is very beautirul and elevating. The central figure, of heroic size, id the Goddess of Fame. At her right, the ? reclining figure, delicately fea tured, beautiful,.but with an expres sion of exquisite sadness, represents the self-sacrificing Southern woman of the war time. Fame is represent ed as placing a wreath upon the Southern woman's head, while sh-2 supports, at her left, a dying and emaciated Confederate soldier, to whom the Southern woman Is ex tending, even in death, the palm of victory. The design is such that it readily lends itself to reproduction either of marble or bronze. A year or more ago the Daugh ters of the Confederacy and the Sons of Confederate Veterans decided up on the erection of these monuments in every State capitol in Dixie. The work was to have been done by an Italian sculptor. When his design was submitted at the late Confede rate reunion in Memphis, it raised a storm of protest. The artist had pictured the Southern woman as a militant and amazonlon figure, carrying in one hand a sword and in the other the banner of the Lost Cause. This conception was so foreign to the gentle, suffering and patient wo man of the Southland as those who loved her had known her, that the design was rejected by an over whelming vote. The artist declined to submit another and Miss Kinney was appeaied tc. Tennesaos hij ap propriated $2,500 through the Daugheters'and Sons of the Confed eracy for a bronze cast of the design. Other States are raising fuuds for the purpose and it is believed by fall each of the former Confederate States will have followed suit. Miss Kinney, the artist, is but 22 years of age and is already a sculp tor of more than national fame. She was recently awarded the con tract for a heroic statute of the late Senator Edward W. Carmack, of Tennessee, killed by the Coopers. When but a child she received a prize at the centennial in Nashville for a bust of her father. She received her education in art at the Art In stitute at Chicago and later studied abroad. She was awarded the con tract for twenty Igorrote figures at the Field Museum and has attracted a great deal of attention in art cir cles throughout the world. ? STRIKES HIM ON ENGINE. lightning Severely Lajnres a Man in Hia Cab. The Spartanburg Herald says Frank J. Mooney, fireman on freight train No. 71, Southern railway, was struck by lightning in the South ern Railway yards Sunday night about 11 o'clock during the severe rain and electrical storm. Mr. Moon ey was severely injured. At first it was thought that he had been killed, but an examination by physicians showed that his injur ies were not fatai, and he was sent to the Spartanburg City Hospital. A report from the hospital Tuesday night said that Mr. Mooney was get ting on nicely. He was conscious, but could not speak. Mr. Mooney was standing on the tender of the engine filling the boil er with water when he was struck by lightning. Strange to say, there was no scar anywhere in the flesh. Shoots Young Lady. At Portsmouth, Ohio, enraged be cause he had been jilted, Harry Bliss, 18 years old, Tuesday shot and fatally wounded Miss Minnie Clarke, 17 years old, at a crowded street corner. When Miss Clarke refused to return a ring, Bliss drew a revolver and shot her through the back, the bullet penetrating the right lung. Bliss was arrested. Drowns in Swolen Stream. News was received Monday of the drowning near Shaffer, Tex., Satur day of United States Deputy Collec tor of Customs John Donaldson and Immigration Inspector Robert Huide. The carriage in which they were crossing a swollen stream was over turned. Drank a Quart. A victim of the heat and liquor, Jefferson Cauley, a Charleston team ster, was- brought home unconscious at an early hour in the morning and died Saturday without regaining con sciousness. He drank a quart of I whiskey. ESCAPED BY MIRACLE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF TWO LADIES AND A CHILD. Lightning Wrecked Their Home But They Were Not Hurt Beyond Be ing Frightened. Further particulars concerning the striking of Capt. W.. M. Gra ham's residence, at McClellanvRle, by lightnlag Wednesday prove the damage wrought to have been very serious, - indeed, and the escape of Mrs. Graham and Mrs. S. S. Fr?ser ?and her little' daughter, Mabel, of ?Georgetown, who aer spending the summer at- McClellanviUe, to have been nothing, short ? of miraculous: A- letter from Mrs. Fraser to her hus band -gives ?*&< very graphic descrip-! tion of the-occurrence. ? About- half-past two o'clock a ter rifically -black - cloud loomed up on the- horizon and settled over the town. Soon an electrical storm, accompanied with blinding rain, broke loose with great fury, and all the blinds and sashes were closed to resist the violence of the wind and water. The two ladies and the children were the only inmates of the hou&e, Capt. Graham, being at work and other boarders away from home at the time. The little party gathered together for safety in Mrs. Fraser's bed room, when the latter remarked that she did not like to be in a room with a chimney open ing during such a fearful storm. Mrs. Graham laughed at these fears, but, nevertheless, suggested that they go into her room, across the hallway, in which there was no chimney place, which was Immedi ately acted upon. No sooner had they entered the other room and seated themselves than a terrific crash occurred. There was the sound of breaking glass and fall ing plaster, and the room seemed filled with fire, and the odor of sul phur and brimstone was almost un bearable. The air was dense with blue smoke. Mrs. Fraser said she felt as if struck on the bead with an axe. The little girl screamed, "Fire burn me," and continued -to scream -in fright. Mrs. Fraser and Mrs. Graham 'looked at eacjh ether In blank astonishment and the former exclaimed, "We are struck." Mrs. Graham replied, "The house Is on fire." ; In ta dazed conflQton they started to investigate the situation! ?They- found the stairway and hall covered with debris and in a wreck ed condition. Down-stairs the front door of glass was broken to pieces, the door post torn out and carried into the yard, and the dining room was gutted; The bolt is supposed to have divided as it struck the chimney and gone down every flue, carrying devastation with it. Visi tors to the scene say they never saw a house so badly wrecked by light ning. One bolt came down into Mrs. Fraser's bed room, where they all were at first tearing the bureau to pieces, ripping open the ceiling and walls and breaking all the panes of glass in the windows. Had the little party remained in the room a few moments longer none of them would have escaped. Mrs. Fraser traces the course of the two bolts as follows: "The bolt struck the chimney; one bolt came down in my room, passed out of my door and down-stairs, threw down and burnt a picture In the parlor, ripped the ceiling as it went, entered the dining room, crossed the passage and burnt Its way out over the ice box at the back door. The other bolt came down the chimney, crossed over the shed and entered my room to the rear of my dresses, tearing things wide open and came out above my couch, burning an im mense place in the wall." This bolt made its escape through the front door, tearing things to pieces in its course. * RUTLEDGE COUNTY DEFEATED. Both WilHamsburg and Clarendon ! I Voted it Down. A dispatch from Lake City, which town expected to be the county seat of the new county, says the propo sition to form the new county of Rutledge out of portions of Wil liamsburg and Clarendon was voted on by the voters in the sections af fected Tuesday and the result was j a victory for those who are opposed j to the formation of the county by j a little over two hundred vtes. The Williamsburg portion of the propos- I ed county gave 823 votes for the' new county and 415 against. The Ciarendon voters, whoso precinct was Sandy Grove, gave 4 5 for the new county and 25 against. The new county to have won required 831 votes In Williamsburg county and 51 votes in Clarendon. So the ' proposition was voted down In both ! Williamsburg-and Clarendon coun ties. Mail Clerk Arrested. | Frank J. Stewart, a negro railway | mail clerk, running between Augusta and Atlanta, was. arrested Tuesday I afternoon by Deputy United States Marshal J. P. Murray, charged with embezzling a decoy letter. Regis tered mail has been missed on the Georgia Road on a number of oc casions recently and the officers claim that they will be able to trace I mueh of the stolen gods to Stewart. O CENTS PEBCOPY HIDEOUS CRIME Hidden by Charity's Cloak \m New York City. WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC Carried on by People Who Pretend to Be Honest and Friends of Their Victims?Shocking Discovery I? Made by the Detectives of the Im migration Department. The crusade against evils in ths management of immigrant aid soci eties'in New York, which began Tuesday with the barring of two pooietles from Ellis Island, has shown conditions which officials de clare will be called to the attention^ of' Congress, at next session. la an interview a few days ago Repre sentative S. Bennet, a member of the> commjisaion appointed by congress in 1907 to investigate immigration, problems says that an inquiry by the commission has shown that 75 per cent of the so-called homes in New York have perverted the purposes for which they were organized. The most serious charge made by Mr. Bennet is that agents for disre putable resorts have been able to go to the homes and obtain girls, newly arrived from foreign coun tries, who believed that they were about to find employment in desir able places. The agents have paid from ?10 to $15 a piece for the girls thus recruited, he says. The commission In getting at the facts here and in other cities, em ployed detectives who posed as agents fof) questionable resorts. They had no difficulty it is said, in obtaining girls from the officials of certain homes. Similar evils have been found by the commission to exist in other American cities, and the crusade against them s likely to extend to several parts where large numbers of Imigrants arrive. The commis sion will report to congress early next March. The communication made public by Commissioner of Immigration Williams, in which he called atten tion to certain evils existing in im migration homes in this city, revok ing the privilege which two of them had long enjoyed of sending their representatives to Ellis Island, only scraped the crust of a situation, the details of which are appalling. The Investigation of the immi grant homes is not confined to the immigrant authorities here. Presi dent Taft has been informed of the" evils existing, and both he and Sec retary Nagel of the department of" commerce and labor are anxious that the most stringent methods be em ployed to stamyp out. For many months the immigrant commission which is separate and distinct from the immigration service, has been in vestigating these matters and today Representative Bennet told some things of what It had done. In getting at the facts the commis sion employed its own detectives? women who posed as agents for ques tionable resorts. They had no diffi culty getting girls, and Invariably when these girls were questioned, it developed that they thought they were going to a place of quite anoth er character than they had been hired for. In applying for girls to work for them the agents of the disreputable resorts, Mr. Bennet says, did not stipulate that they wanted them to go as inmaes. "They didn't need to go In to the life unless they wished to," the agents were careful to say. Mr. Bennet was not ready to give the names of any of these homes, which he gave so black a character, but it is safe to say that the reports of the commission, when it is made, at Washington, will be a startling one. It is also to be expected that the homes which have perverted the avowed purpose for which they were organized will be put out of busi ness with scant ceremony. TAFT MAY VISIT STAE FAIR Columbia Wants to Change Dates With Augusta. A dispatch from Columbia to Ths Charleston Evening Post says It is entirely agreeable to have Colum bia and Augusta swap days for en tertaining Mr. Taft, so as to bring him here on the closing day of the Carolina fair and in Augusta on the opening day of the fair there. This is the result of a conference between Chamber of Commerce and Fair So ciety representatives. Mayor Reamer wrote Secretary Carpenter along this line. If the change is made Mr. Taft will come to Columbia from Charleston on Saturday morning early and go to Augusta on Saturday afternoon and remain there through Monday. Hung for Three Months. After hanging for about three months to a tree near a public road, near Pittsburg, Pa., along which hundreds of persons pass daily the body of a man, apparently about 70 years of age, was found a few day3 ago by berry pickers. No clue as to the Identity of the supposed sulcida was found on the body. ?