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PUBLISHED THEEE T GOT VERY MAD Bailey Rfsigias Btcaose fie Could Not Bass, Bat Withdraws It. ._ ! ', ?? ?;. r..' ?? ? HIS INFLUENCE GONE The Texan Has Recently Been Re pudiated by His Colleagues and This ia Said to Have Stung Him to j the Quick and Prompted His Sud den aal Unexpected Action. Senator Joseph W Bailey added to. the excitement and to the extra ordinary episodes surrounding the adjournment of the sixty-first con gress Saturday by resigning his office as senator from the state of Texas and a few hours later withdrawing his resignation. Angered by the attitude of his Democratic colleagues in favoring the resolution approving the new constitution of Arizona, to whose radical features <Mr. Bailey has de clared his undying opposition, he wrote his resignation and took it to the vice president with the request that he announce it to the senate. Mr. Sherman declined to have any thing to do with it: Senator Bacon, importuned in like manner to an nounce it, took a similar position. Thereupon the Texan telegraphed it to Gov. O. B. Colquitt, of Texas, who promptly refused x.o accept it, re plying as follows: "I decline to accept your resigna tion as a senator from Texas and re spectfully ask you to withdraw it. Please wire fuliy." Meanwhile, the resignation was . the subject of excited discussion about the capitol. Many of Mr. Bai ley's Democratic colleagues expressed regret at his action and those who talked with him urged him to re consider his action. ' Not a. few prophesied that he would think better of his decision "after he cools off," and would withdraw his resignation. He did withdraw It and Saturday evening made public the following telegram sent by him to Governor Colquitt: "You know how unalterably I am opposed to these populistic heresies, lcnowr. as the initiative, referendum and rifcall, and I would not be will ing to remain in the senate or in any branch of the house service If a majority of the party friends as sociated with me were willing to give their approval to them. "I construed the vote of the demo cratic senators in the senate this morning on the resolution approving the constitution of Arizona as giv ing their support to those vagaries and under that impression I prompt ly tendered my resignation. The ablest and most conspicuous demo crats who voted that way have given me their assurance that they did not intend their votes to be so construed and have made, through Senator Ba con, a statement in the open senate oxpressly declaring that they utterly disapprove them. "Under these circumstances and at their earnest request, as well as at your own request, supplemented by many messages from my friends in Texa-i and some iJrom other states, I have concluded to withdraw my res ignation. I am willing to work to the jimit of my strength so long as I can serve the public and at the same time obey what I understand to be the commandment of democratic principles, but no office could tempt me lor one moment to compromise with a policy which I am certain would in the end destroy the govern ment established by our fathers." Senator Tlllman, of South Caro lina before he heard that Mr. Bailey had withdrawn his resignation, is sued a statement in which he ex pressed profound regret at the Tex an's action, characterizing it as "precipitate and unwise: the result of passion which he will resret as Soor as he cools off." He declared Mr. Bailey "the ablest man in the sen;.:e without exception, and one of the b'-st equipped men in public life," and said that he had known for years there was "a coterie in the senate envious of Mr. Bailey and plowing against his assuming lead ership." "The senator has played into their hands by his action," Mr. Till man said. "I knew (Mr. Bailey was mad," said another senrtor, "but I never thought he would use his rage as a hatchet to split open his own head." Hieven of the Democratic senators sent to Governor Colquitt the fol lowing telegram. "We, Democratic ?enators, speak Inj: for ourselves and for other Dem ocratic senators, regard the proposed re-'-ignaiiun of Senator Bailey as a national calamity and we urge upon the people of Texas to demand that he withdraw the same and that he continue to serve in the senate, in which he is the undisputed and most conspicuous leader." This telegram was signed by Sen ators Bacon, Foster. Overman, Talla ferro, Payncer, Bankhead, Percy, Johnston, Taylor, Watson and Fletch er. While Senator Bailey predicated his resignation upon the vote of the Democrats on the Arizona constitu tion, many of his friends looked upon that vote as the "last straw" in a series of snubs intended to show Mr. Bi.iley the futility of aspiring to the Democratic leadership of the senate. Close observers of recent develop ments la the senate know that a DESERVED LYNCHING MANY CRIMES TRACED TO THE HAND OP ARTHUR YOUNG. Mulatto Who Shot Policeman Gun nels at Greenville and Who Was Lynched for Killing a Conductor. The last chapter In the checkered life of Arthur Young has been writ Ida with the sending of his body from (Greenville to Fountain Inn, where the remains will be Interred by his family, says the Greenville correspondent of The State. The cor respondent goes on to say: Within the last seven days the shooting of Policeuan Gunnels, the robbery of the po?tofflce at Easley, the robbery of the depot and a num ber of stores at Williamston, and numerous other crimes in the Pied mont neighborhood have been traced to this mulatto and the guilt finally and positively fastened upon him by a most unusual chain of circum stances. Two weeks ago when the Pinker ton detective reached Greenville to ferret out the mu' .lerer of Policeman Gunnels, he mado. brief examination of the probable clues found in this city, and then made a short trip to Willi'amston and later went to Eas ley, where he secured sufficient evi dence to lead hira to the belief that the man wanted '.'or the killing of the Greenville officer was none other than a bright mulatto named Arthur Young, alias W. R. Ross?the latter being the name under which the ne gro had ordered his make-up mater ials and his yegg outfit. The evidence leading to these con clusions was gataered piece-meal and when finally collected under the guid ance of the local officials dovetailed so closely and well that it was de cided to start the hunt at once for Arthur Young. Officer Rector of the local force, who had arrested Young on several previous occasions:, was dispatched on the bunt, finally lo cating his man in Augusta. On the night the officer reached the Georgia city, however, he heard of the lynching of a bright mulatto in Warren county, Ga., he having shot without provocation a conductor on the Georgia railroad. He left Au gusta at once for the scene of the lynching. On his arrival, however, he found that the body had been sold to a medical college in Atlanta. Going to that city he had little difficulty in identifying the negro, though his body was considerably mutilated. Officer Rector immediate ly made arrangements to bring the body of the lynched negro to Green ville. After its arrival in this city the body was identified by a number oi citizens, by the Easley postmaster, by Williamston people and the final result is that another mystery has I been cleared. *i MURDERERS APE CONVICTED. One to Hang, One Gets Life Sentence and Two Ten Years Each. The court of general sessions at Gaffney was engaged for the most part Friday ?n sentencing the prison ers who had been convicted. The iury came in that afternoon and ren dered a verdict in the case of Gay ther Byars aud Amos Byars, the two mort negroes who were being tried for killing Davidson, a young white man. j The jury in this case was out for about a day -ind a night and returned a verdict finding both of these men guilty of manslaughter. Thus the case winds up by one negro being sentenced to hang, one sentenced to the penitentiary for lifetime and these two t; the penitentiary for 10 years each, all for the same crime. The judge sentenced Luther Curry to be hanged on the second Friday in May. Wright Byars, who was charged with murder and convicted of man slaughter, was given ten years in the : penitentiary. These were for the most p:<rt all the important sentences j that were passed Friday. I movement against him has been growing on the Democratic side dur-j ' ing the past few weeks, and many \ people believe now that the filibuster led by Senator Stone, of Missouri, and backed by a large Democratic | following, was due partly to a desire I to show Mr. Bailey that his influence was waning. By withdrawing his objections o the tariff board bill in order to g<. I an agreement for a vote on the Lorimer contest, Mr. Bailey alienated considerable of his follow in?. When the LoHmer-tariff board compact was made it was the belief on the Republican side that there would not 1)0 a filibuster against the legislative portion of the agreement. Otherwise the insurgent Republicans, who were a unit against Lorimer, [would not have agreed to the ar rangement. A vote was taken on the Lorimer ease and almost immediate ly obstructive tactics were begun by Democrat.-; against the tariff board bill. The only explanation Senator Bailey could make was that he was unable to call oft* his colleagues. In this state of affairs it took little to arouse his anger to flame. All it needed w;;s the open slap given him when he advised against the adoption of the Owen motion in regard lo Arizona statehood. Although that motion was defeated, its defeat was due almost entirely to Republican votes. The Plague and Famin? Kills Thousands is China Every Day. DETAILS ARE FEARFUL No Epidemic Like Plague Has Vis ited China Since the Middle Ages and It is Predicted That One Mil lion Persons Will Die Before An other Crop. Both famine and plague is sweep ing China, says a dispatch from Pek ing, the capital of that stricken country. The known deaths from the plague number 30,000, and official statistics show a daily death rate averaging 200. But the officials have little knowledge of conditions in the in terior, or if they have they are not permitting the facts to get out. There are few or no foreigners in the Interior, and therefore conditions there are not attracting much public attention. It is impossible even to estimate the number of deaths from lack of food. People die by the thousand every day. Dr. Samuel Cochran, an American, engaged in the work of relief, writes: "One million people will die be fore the first crop is harvested. This will be scanty, because the people have not the strength to till the soil and no animals remain for plough ing." The Chinese are directing their ef forts to control the plague chiefly along the railways and frontier for political reasons. Since the recent Russian request for permission to cross the border and quarantine Chi nese towns along the Amur China has been trying to check the plague along that border, but the Russian legation says the work has been done Ineffectively, because no doctors there are familiar with modern methods of sanitation. In former epidemics the local au thorities, including the police and soldiers, left the people to die; now they do not care or do not know how to maintain adequate sanitary meas ures. Although the central govern ment: has Issued numerous explicit orders, both supplies and funds are lacking. Japanese and Russians have both offered assistance, but only in a few places have these offers been accept ed, the Chinese not liking to receive favors from foreigners whose politi cal motives t^ey distrust. Physicians combating the disease think warm weather will kill the germs, although there may be only a temporary respite. If the plague were of the bubonic type, Stimmer heat would augment it, bubonic be ing conveyed by fleas, rats and other vermin which thrive in warm atmos pheric conditions. But the pneu monic type is transmitted through the respiratory apparatus, and when the Chinese emerge from their win ter quarters into the open air they will escape much contamination. 'Medical authorities say that such an epidemic as the present one, which is entirely pneumonic, has not visited the world since the Middle j A?es. Owing to the political questions involved and the presence of for eigners along the railways tho plague in Manchuria is receiving greater attention than the famine, but the death rate from the famine is 'many times greater ithan that from the plague. The famine is the result of the ae struction of the crops by a fall of sixteen inches of rain in two days last August in a district where the people ordinarily live from hand to mouth. As soon as the first pangs of hun ger were felt the people left their homes, but many could not get be yond the borders of the devastation. They returned and took up the death stru^tile beside their homesteads. A relief committee composed of foreigners at Shan thai is collecting money. Japan and America are the only foreign countries that have con tributed so far to aid the sufferers. Hut even the extensive assistance from the Uu'.ted States is entirely in adequate. It is estimated that 2,000,003 peo ple are without food and are exist ing on roots, grasses or anything that agords the slightest possibility of nourishment. Those possessing ?rain guard it night and day. * Wall Pel! on Them. [ Caught in crashing brick walls of a small building from which they were carrying dry goods menaced by flames, six persons perished at Cen tn-, Texas, Saturday. Many others were hurt, some of them fatally. A score or more persons volunteered to aid firemen in removing goods from the blazing building. In the midst of the work, brick walls, weakened by the flames, collapsed. They Semi Help. The Chinese of San Francisco have sent more than $20.000 to their countrymen in the famine districts. Friday's donations, sent by cable, consisted of $10,000 from the Chi nese Six Companies, a benevolent as sociation, and $1.000 from Cue Young China Newspaper, which raised the money by arranging Chi nese entertainments in the city. JBG, S. C. TUESDAY. MA BANDITS GO TO PRISON THEY "WERE CONNOTED IN QUICK TIME AND SENT UP. Within Eight Hours Anderson Draws TwentyYear Term and the Others Fifteen Years Each. George Anderson, alias "Old Bill" Miner, George Hanford and J. E. Hunter, accused of being members of the gang which held up the United States fast mail, a Southern railway train, near White Sulphur Springs, Ga., on the morning of February IS, J were convicted at a special term of the Hall county superior court held at Gainesville, Ga., Friday and sen tenced to prison, Anderson for 20 years and Hanford and Hunter for 15 years each. After being sentenced the prison ers arose and thanked the judge for not imposing heavier sentences. An derson saying: "Thank you, judge. Robbery is robbery and here's an other case." The selection of a jury, introduc tion of testimony, argument by at torneys and rendering of a verdict re quired only a little more than eight hours. Upon being arraigned Ander son entered a plea of not guilty, but Hanford and Hunter pleaded guilty and turned State's evidence. On the witness stand they stated that An derson was the leader of the gang which was organized, in Pennsylvania, they said, with the avowed purpose of committing a train robbery in this State. Anderson is wanted in Victoria, B. C, to serve the remainder of a term for train robbery, but his conviction here means that he will not be sur rendered to the Canadian authorities until after the completion of his sen tence in Georgia. As he is 65 years old, he probably will never be re quired to complete his term in Can ada. The robbery in which the prison ers were implicated took place soon after midnight February 18. Five men, for two of whom the officers are still searching, boarded the train and blew open a safe in the express car, securing about $2,000. Only two shots were fired during the hold-up and they were for the purpose of frightening passengers who left the cars to ascertain the reason for the stopping of the train. The bandits made their escape but five days later two of them, Hanfqvrd and Hunter, were captured not far from the scene of the robbery. The next day Ander soon fell Into the clutches of the of ficers. * BURNED THEM ALIVE. Some Awful Scenes Being Enacted in Chinese Towns. (Made desperate by hunger, bands of hundreds of starving refugees are roving through the famine area of China plundering and killing, and a reign of terror prevails, according to persons who have just arrived here from the Orient. At Kuoshan, a walled village fifty miles from Shangal, the villagers, after a raid in which stores were looted and many killed, meted out punishment peculiarly Chinese in its callousness to the raiding refugees. A band of more than 500 are report ed to have been surrounded In a compound and burned to death. The refugees had taken possession of Kunshan and for two days ran sacked the stores of everything eat able, killing or wounding all who resisted. Many villagers were slain and others were taken prisoners and held for ransom. When the raiders moved on to plunder the next village the Kun shan people held a council of war and offered to purue the fugitives. They came up with them in a small village and surrounded the houses. The gates were locked and the houses fired. The refugees took five prisoners into the compound in view of the besiegers and threatened to kill them unless the siege was raised. On the villagers pressing them back to the burning buildings, they slowly hacked the five men to dea'h. Three other prisoners were tied to stakes ii the burning building and burned with their cantors. * BABIES BURN TO DEATH. Twin Children, n Boy and a Girl, Burned in a Cradle. A little boy and a little girl, twin children of Mr. and Mrs. \V. T. Mc Dowell of Inman, were burned to death at their home Friday after noon, and their mother, in her ef fort to extinguish 'the flames that en veloped her babies, was painfully burned on hands and neck. The 'children were only eight weeks old and, wrapped in their blankets, had been left by their mother in a cradle drawn near the open fire. Their blankets caught from the fire and were in flames when the mother re entered the room. Funeral in Sign Language. At Kansas City. Mo., a funeral in sign langnage was held Friday when Rev. .1. II. Cloud, a deaf mute minis trr from St. Louis preached the ser vice over the body of Chas. L. Minor, a d'eaf mute, who died Sunday. Mrs. Minor, who also is unable to hear or talk, made the arrangements for the benefit of a large number of fricnd3 who are similarly afflicted. JJCH 7. 1921. WILL BE SHOT Forfy-Five Supporters of Zelaya in Nic aragua to be Executed. ARE AGAINST ASTRADA These Men Are Charged With Having Conspired to Overthrow the Pres ent Nicnraguan Government and Recall Zelaya, Who Fled to Europe a Few Months Ago. According to cable advices received here from Costa Rica, Dr. Rudolph Esplnosa, well known throughout Central America, and forty-four oth ers are to be shot by the Estrada government of Nicaragua for alleged complicity in the plot against the ad ministration. No official announcement of the ex ecutions has been made and friends of the condemned men fear that of ficial announcement will be delayed until after the executions are accom plished. As that is generally the way they do things down in South Amer ica. The United States ministers to Cos ta Rica, it is said, has been ask d to make official request of President Es trada for definite informatijn of his intentions towards the prisoners and cablegrams will be sent to President Taft and Seoretary of State Knox seeking their assistance. The forty-five members of the Lib eral party in Nicaragua who have been condemned to death for partic ipation in the plot to kill President Estrada and overthrow the govern ment, include many who were prom inent in Nicaraguan political affairs during the reign of J^se Santos Ze laya. Mail advices received at New Or leans say that the men are now in chains in various penitentiaries in Nicaragua. The date of execution is being kept secret. Dr. Radolfo Esplnosa is accused of being the leader in the plot and with directing the destruction of the am munition barracks at Managua re cently. Many of the men under death sentence are Masons, and the Masonic Grand Lodge at San Jose is using ev ery means to prevent the executions. Others of the forty-five condemned men are Dr. Octavio Gomez, Adam Espinosa, Dr. Lucian Gomez, Felix Pedro Zelaya, Dr. Manuel Maldonado, Dr. Hildebrand Castellon, Dr. Benja min Zeledona, Jose Maria Lessage, Telemaco Lara, Dr. Solomon Delgado, Dr. Rostran, Jose Maria Zelaya, An tonio Fonzca, Jose Santos Ramire, Gen. Fernando Rivas and Dr. Jose Dolcrez Gomez. Dr. J. Basillo, a German, is also said to be under sentence of death for complicity in the plot. He is in the penitentiary at Greneda. * KILLED BY A NEGRO. Great Excitement Caused by Tragedy in Newberry. Through a dispatch to The State we learn of a bloody tragedy which took place Friday at Jno. C. Hipp's Old Town plantation, 12 miles west of Newberry, In which James S. Gil liam, a white man, cut a negro wo man, Maybell Rook, on the neck and jaw and her mother, Clayton Boozer, on the hand with a knife. Gilliam himself was shot and killed by Sam Boozer, the husband and father of the women. Gilliam lived on Mr. Hipp's place, aa did the negroes. This morning Boozer and several other negro men on the place came to Newberry and were in the store of Geo. C. Hipp get ting plantation supplies when John Hipp sot a phone message that Gil-1 Ham had cut a negro woman's throat ' and telling him to come at once. He and the negro men left on'the 2:4S Southern train Friday afternoon and j it was shortly after they reached the J place that the shooting occurred. A large crowd has gathered and there is much excitement. The sher iff and coroner have just, gone to the scene. Mr. Gilliam was 4:! years old and leaves a wife and four children.) The difficulty started by Mr. Gilliam refusing to let the woman wash at the well. He is said to have been drinking. Witnesses say that Gilliam I put his hand behind him as if to draw a pistol, but he had no pistol. Boozer made his escape. ? STANDS BY HIS FRIENDS. Blease Appoints Commissioners Who Voted for Him. Hon. J. M. Lengnlck, chairman of the Beaufort legislative delegation, states, In reference to the local coun ty appointments, that the nominees of the primary were all endorsed by the delegation and appointed by the governor. The delegation recom mended township commissioners, as required by law, but the governor did not appoint, as required by law. Instead he appointed commissioners recommended by Mr. Thomas Tal hird, representing a faction which op posed the present delegation in the last primary and supported Candidate Blease. The delegation's recom mendations for township commission er's were by custom based on the rec ommendations of the several clubs. The Talbird recommendations disre gard the clubs where they do not fav or his faction. * CIVIL WAP STORY ABOUT TWO JUDGES THAT READS LHvE PURE FICTION. It ' ells How Judge Harlan, Federal, Banged Away at Judge Lurton, Confederate, Fifty Years Ago. Gen. John H. Morgan, the raider, along about 1863, swooped down upon the Federal garrison at Harts ville, Tenn. Morgan had only about 1,200 men, while the Union forces numbered about. 2,000. Still, Mor gan usually knev? what he was about?result: Several hundred Federals killed and the rest cap tured. As soon as the battle was over, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean, the Confederates recrossed the Cumber land River. Among the rear guard was Private Lurton, of the 3d Ken tucky cavalry. He was the last man to recross the river and just ahead of him was the last Confederate wagon, loaded with Federal muskets, and other captured articles. In the meantime the sound of Morgan's guns had disturbed the slumbers of another Kentucklan. This one was a Union soldier, Harlan by name, and he was colonel of the 10th Kentucky infantry, at Castalian Springs, six miles from Hartsville. He immediately started with his regi ment to the relief of the garrison at Hartsville. Harlan and his regiment reached the top of a bluff back from the river just as Lurton and the last wagon ot the Confederates was in the middle of the Cumberland. Harlan had a field.piece along, and he pointed it at the Confederate cavalryman and banged away. He didn't hit the cav alryman; so he tried again and kept trying. Nevertheless, Harlan's sheila hit the river in the immediate vicinity of cavalryman and wagon, and they made a mighty splash. The driver cut loose his mules and made record time to the shore. If Lurton tarried, there is no record of it. Today, in black robes, the colonel behind the cannon and the private on the horse sit side by side-on the bench of the most august tribunal of the world. For the Federal was John Marshall Harlan and the Con federate was Horace Harmon Lurton ?and both are Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States of America. This United States of ours Is a great country?and it is just such things as this Harlan-Lurton affair that make us sure of it. When one of these Kentuckians banged away at the other our coun try was In the throes of the fiercest and bloodiest civil wars of all history. And that was just about half a cen tury ago. In these 50 years we have grown to be the wealthiest and most pow erful nation of earth. But, better still, we have outgrown the things that set Union soldier against Con-j federate until the presence of these two fighting men of the civil war side by side upon the Supreme Court bench is truly typical of a sectional strife forgotten and a country re united. It takes a great country and <i great people to make such things not only possible, but actual realities. * OLD VAULT OPENED. Body of Woman Who Died One Hun dred Years Ago Found. The Augusta Chronicle says: Dead a hundred years but unchanged by passing years, the body of a woman encased in a strong metal casket has been found, on Shad Island near Sa vannah in an old vault in which also were other caskets. The finding of the body recalls the old Shad family, the last of whose members Is said to have died more than SO years ago. Every indication about the old vault bears out the belief that the unknown woman whose face is as fair and whose hair is carefully parted over her smooth brow as It was when she was laid to rest long before Commodore Peary fought the British on the Great Lakes, has lain in her coffin for a century. In the little, forgotten colony of the dead ?-re said to be eight caskets all containing members of tins ex tinct family. The other caskets will he examined later and it is probable that some care will be taken of the old vault. A heavy glass covers the face of the young woman whose body was the first to be found. Through it her face is plainly seen. She looks as if she had just died. There are no ruins of a house vis ible on Shad plat yet it is said the family resided on the island for many years, probably before and during the war of the revolution. * Given Longer Holiday. Through an amendment to the postoflice appropriation bill, offered by Senator Swanson, of Virginia. Friday and adopted, rural letter car riers throughout tiie country will hereafter be entitled to thirty days leave of absence each year, with full pay. At present they are entitled to but fifteen days. ? They Fight, for Food. According to dispatches twenty one persons were trampled to death at Shah-Yang, Huapch province, Fri day when a horde of starving Chi nese fought for the food which mis sionaries were attempting to distri-' bute. A great many were injured. * 0 rO CENTS PEK COPY DWELL IN CAVES k Steamer Boarded by Strange Tribe hl the Mageilian Straits. ARE KNOWN AS ALACUFS Wears No Clothing and Live on Raw Fish?Do Not Know How to Make a Fire?A Hint to Civilized Methl ers Whose Babies Are Given to Crying. The British steamer StratheaSv which is discharging a cargo of :fer* tilizer at the foot of Columbus street, had a most interesting voyage be tween Iquique and Charleston, and she encountered many strange peo ples, says The News and Courier. But the strangest of these was the tribe of Alacufs, met by the vessel in the Straits of iMagellan. This tribe came out to meet the ship from the north ohore of the straits, while the vessel was lying at anchor. The officers were thus enabled to learn many of their customs, and to ex change gifts with them. It was at a late hour of the night that it was reported to the captain of the vessol that a party of strange looking natives were approaching the ship in "dug-outs," uttering loud cries and gesticulating wildly. Their actions were easily described by the watch, because of the fullness of the moon. All hands were called on deck, and they prepared for trouble. However, the natives came alongside, and showed signs of wishing to have friendly intercourse with the men on the vessel, and they were accordingly allowed to come aboard. The men only came on board, leav ing the women in the boats. All that any of tue natives wore was a very serene amlle. The men on the Srafc hesk began a search for old clothes to give to the natives, but when the garments were finally distributed, the natives were ignorant of their proper use, and many ludicrous situations resulted. For Instance, when the second officer presented one man with, a pair of old sea boots, he immediate ly took th3m to the spouse and the latter held them up for a short in spection and then placed her baby In one of them. One tall, swarthy fel low drew a stiff hat from ths pile of clothing, and went away with the hat on his head and a very satisfied look on hds face. The officers did not state whether or not he had anything on the rest of his body. These natives were most primitive In their mode of living, and appeared to be little removed from monkeys. They dwell in caves, and, as has been mentioned before, wore no clothing whatever. The men of the Strathesk are not sure whether or not the na tives have yet acquired the art of making a fire. At least, they did not see any fires from the ship, and they did see that the people never cooked their food. They appeared to live chiefly on raw fish, which they caught by diving into the water, and their principal beverage was a kind of tea brewed from herbs, which they called matt. Their inventive or creative art ap peared to be at its highest In the carving of rude matl cups from [grounds. These were the only things i besides raw fish, which they had to j offer the men of the Srathesk. The latter noted many queer customs among these primitive people, one of the most singular of which was the action taken by a mother to stop the crying of her baby. When the in fant began to squall, the mother Im mersed it up to its neck in the icy water along the shore, and this treat ment would hush the cries at once. * SEND IN MIS LIST. Names of Those Blease Wants for Special Judges. A list of "eligibles" for commission as judges or justices has been sent out by Gov. Blease to members of the supreme court. News received from Florence gave the list of those "learned in the law," who would be considered when the recommendation for commission comes from the chief just Ice. The list includes a number of well I known attorneys and Gov. Blease states that should any of these not lie considered he has others he could suggest. The exact wording of his letter could not be ascertained, but the list is as follows: Leroy Lee, Kingstree; W. P. Pol lock, Cheraw; S. McG. Simkins, Edge field; George W. Brown, Darlington; J. E. Breazeale, Anderson: Thomas G. McLeod, Bishopville; T. I. Rogers, Bennettsville; W. B. Graydon, Abbe v.'lle; Arthur Best, Barn well; Charles Carroll Sims, Barnwell; T. B. Butler, Gaffney; G. W. Ragsdale, Winnsboro; J. M. Cannon. Laurens; B. F. Kelley, Bishop vi lie; Thomas F. Brantley, Or angeburg: .7. P. Carey, Jr., Bickens; J. F. Peurifoy. Walterboro; R. H. Welch, Columbia; it. 0. Purdy, Sum ter. Breaks Reno's Record. A record was established by the superior court at Macon, Ga., Thurs day afternoon when one jury, with out removing from its seats, granted eight divorces in 25 minutes, hear ing all of the evidence and signing the verdicts in that time, an average of one divorce for every three min utes. ?