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BRYAN WILL RUN. But Says He Is Not Seeking the Nomination. WILL LEAD OR FIGHT In the Ranks as the Party 'May De sire.-If the Democrats Wants Him to Make the Race He Will Do So. No Matter How Forlora the Nope. He Says the Party Must Decide Who Shall LIead. William J. Bryan will accept the Democratic nomination for Presi dent in 1908, but he will neither ask nor make a fight for it. He says that for a year or more he has been press ed to answer the question "Will you accept the nomination?" and he be lieves the public is entitled to an an swer and to know the position he oc cupies. The question that ought to weigh most, he says, is whether his nomination will strengthen the Dem ocratic party more than the nomina ti -n of some one else. Not only will , a not seek or ask for the nomina tion, but he will not assume to de cide the question of availability, and if the prize falls to another he will neither be disappointed nor disgrunt led. At the same time he denies that he has waited this long in a desire to see whom the Republicans are likely to nominate, or to ascertain the chances of victory. Mr. Bryan says: "Now that the election in 1907 is past and plans are being made for next year's campaign Mr. Bryan feels that a statement is due to the public. Those who prefer another candidate are entitled to know his position and those who favor his nomination have a right to demand an answer to the question so ofter put, 'Will you accept the nomina tion?" His refusal to answer th< question has led to the circulation o: many false reports and unfriendl: newspapers have taken advantage 0: his silence to misrepresent his atti tude. "Mr. Bryan will not ask for o: seek a nomination and he will not assume to decide the question of hi. availability. He has been so ampl: recomposed by his party for what h< has done and for what he has en deavored to do that he cannot claim a nomination as a reward; neithe: should his ambition be considered for he has had honor enough fron his party to sa!.isfy any reasonabl< ambition. The only question tha ought to weigh with the party i whether the party can be strength ened and aided more by his nomina tion than by the nomination of soME one else. If he can serve the part: by being its candidate he will accep the commission and make the bes1 fight he can. If. however, the choie, falls upon another he will not be dis appointed or disgruntled. His avail ability is a question to be decide< not by him, not by a few leaders, no even by the leading newspaper tha call thsmselves Democrats, but b: the votes of the uarty, and to then he entrusts the decision of the ques tion-they are the Supreme Court ii all matters concerning candidates, a they are in all matters concerninf the platform, "He assumes that they will no select him unless they desire to mak< an aggressive fight for the applica tion of Democratic principles to pre sent conditions, and he also takes i for granted that the organization o: the party will be in harmony witi the platform and will be composec of men whose political records wil invite confidence and give assuranet that a victory, if won, will not be barren victory. "The Republicans must nominat< either a reformer, a standpatter o: one whose position on public ques tions is unknown, and the course o: the Democratic party should be th< same no matter which element con trol the Republican Convention. Th< Democratic party must make the fight for what it believes. While i may take advantage of Republicar mistakes. it must depend upon its own merits for success and not upor the error of its opponents. "The action of the Republicat Convention may have its influence ir determining the relative availabilit3 of Democratic candidate, but it ough1 not to have any influence in deter mining the question whether the one chosen by the Democrats should ac. cept the nomination. If the rank anc file of the Democratic party desire Mr. Bryan to make the race, he wil: make it, no matter who may be the Republican nominee. "No one can estimate the chances of the party in the next campaigt with sufficeient accurracy to make his candidacy dependent upon the out look. While the Demrocrats have rea son to be encouraged by the fact thai Democratic principles have grown ir popularity and that Demccratic poli cies are now praised by many whc denounced them a few years ago, and while further encouragement is to be derived from the fact that the Democratic party is more united than it has been for many years, and the Republican more divided, still the action of the Democratic party cannot be made dependent upon the prospect of success. Thie prospects now seem excellent, but a Democrat ic National Convention will be held, a platform adopted and candidates nominated, whether the prospects are bright or gloomy, and 1 he p art y must make tne best fight it whether it enters the- campaign with fear or with confidence. De noerats be jeve that Dem xeratic , i:cip e. ar - sound a~d tha. Democ:ti: ->mi eies are neeassary: they shord I. there tve. ado:-se those prine- p 's and prese "ose policies and than s2 lect as th- canc idates those who, in their judg .ent, will give the par ty the greates: assurance of benefit in case of victory. "If the members of the party be lieve that Mr. Bryan's nomination will help the party, its principles and its policies, he will accept the nomi nation whether the indications point to defeat or victory. A defeat can bring no disgrace where the cause is a just one, but cowardice would be disgraceful, especially in one who is as deeply indebted to his part of Mr. Bryan is. "The next campaign will be an ap real to the public conscience. Tne in yes: igations have shown nout only the corrupt use of large campaign funds. but the only source fromi whieh they tions that seek to convert the Gov ernment into a business asset. The Democratic party stands for the doc trine of equal rights to all and spec ial privileges to none, and therefore not promise favors to favor-seek ing corporations. If it made such promises to the corporations it would be guilty of duplic'ity. for it would have to betray the votets as the Re publican party has done, in order to reward these corporations as the Re publican party has rewarded them. "The Democratic campaign must be carried on by volunteers who v;ill work because they desire the triumph of Democratic ideas. We cannot hope to appeal to the sordid or to buy the purchable. even if such a course would contribute toward Democratic success. No one should favor Mr. Bryan's nomination unless the party is willing to open it books and show where its contributions come from and for what the money is expended. The Republican party ought to be challenged to conduct its campaign in this open and honest way. and if the Republican leaders refuse to accept the challenge the Democrats can well afford to leave the issue with the public. "An appeal to conscience is politi cally expedient, as well as morally right, for the conscience is the most potent force with which man deals. The national conscience has already been aroused. and a large majority of the voters have been educated to the necessity of real reform-a re form that will make this Government again a Government of the people by the people and for the people. It only remains for the Democratic party to convince the voters that it can be entrusted with the work of reform, and nothing will do more to convince the public than a refusal to negotiate with predatory wealth and an honest appeal by honest methods to the honest sentiment of the coun try." TRAMPS KILL FOR LOOT. Three Murders In Indiana Are Charg ed Against Hoboes. Through a discovery made in Buf falo, N. Y., evidence has been ob tained that three men, whose bodieE have been found along the Lake Shore Railroad, in Northern Indiana in the last week, were murdered b3 tramps. J. W. Murphy, forty year. old, of Colorado Springs. was found dead in South Bend, Ind.; Ralpl Kyle, twenty years, of Edgerton Ohio, whose body was found neai Goshen, Ind., and Henry Rank, sixt3 years, of Berrion County, Mich. whose body was found in La Porte Ind.. are the men who were reurder -ed. The finding of a pool of blood in i car at Buffalo, in which Murphy wa supposed to have ridden with a con signment of horses, and the evidenc showing that he had been robbec after a struggle, led to an investiga : tion, which showed that all thre - men had been robbed and murdere( by tramps. It is expected that ar rests will be made soon by the rail. road detectives, who are working or the case. Kyle was the first man to mee1 death. Until the discovery n.aade it Buffalo, it was supposed that he ha( fallen from a train and was run over He was killed November 2. Ranl. d was killed last Tuesday, and Murph3 met death Thursday night. The ca) in which Murphy had been riding withl the horses was found spattered - with blood, and several small coin: were found on the floor. There wer4 other evidences which showed tha1 he had struggled for his life. He was killed by tramps at South Bend, and his body was thrown from the train. BRIGHT FUTURE FOR COTTON. English Spinners Write Presiden1 A bout Recent Visit. President Roosevelt Thursday gave pub]icy to i letter he has received from C. WV. Macara, president of the International Federation of Master Cotton Spinners' and Maufacturers A.ssociation, dated at Manchester Englarnd, November G. Th e letter speaks in most optimis ti: terms of the future of the cottoc Indu'stry in the United Sates and the benefits derived from the Atlanta Convention and the Southern tour of the membhers of the Federation. The letter follows: I beg to acknowledge thte rece'pt of your valued letter of Oc-tober 18. "The interest which you have s how'n in the aims of the Imternation a] Fedeat ion of Master Cotton Spin ner'- and Manuiifacturtrs' Association, ~under wh1ose auspices the delegation, representing the cotton using coun tr ies of Europe, visited Amcrica, will be a matter of intense satisfaction, n ot only to the delegation itse: , but to ev ery member of the International Federaa'ion. "The Convention which was held tat Atlanta October S and 9 was the *most remarkable gathering ever held in connection with the cotton indus try, as it embraced representatives of American and European spinners of Cotton Exchanges of the world, and of the cot ton planters of the South ern States of America. It undoubt edly marks an epoch in the history of the cotton industry. ~As stated in your letter. the In ternational Cotton Federation aims at the promotion of stable conditions through the world for the cotton in dust ry. and I feel certain that it is impossible to over-estimate the bene fit which may accrue to one of the greatest international industries by the frank interchange of opinion, w.hic h took~ place at the Atlanta Con vention. "The opportunities afforded of re thi'rughout :h. tour of the' outhern *tae. mi a l o be. prodit.ctive of gra hr.r. he n 1n th'e producers and i > . he - pi me.- and manu racturers. e certainiy found wher-over we we-nl in the ati:< St t's that gi eat changes ase bein; inianrurated, and we tr-ve t-r:ted 1io:e feeling that yvaur won'erful cot i nt. PertE limited resources in many respcc. and especially in regard to the po duction of cotton. We believe our visit will have in some measure stimt ulated the cotton planters to tuke fuller advantage of their splendid op. portunities. "We shall always re member with pleasure the hearty wel come accorded to us wherever we fjourneyed The hospitality and kind luess of the Americanl people were --Our chi'f regret on leaving the Tnima States wais thai we had not the honor and pleasure of meeting you. whose services to humanity have evoked so mu'.ch amiration through ImPORTANT 31EETING. Tje President Invites All the Gov ernors to Meet HMil. President Roosevelt has invited the governors of the States and territor ies to nieet him at the White House, May 13. 14 and 15, next, to discuss the question of means to conserve the natural resourcez. of the country. Invitations are to be extended to the members of hoth houses of congress and to the Inland Waterways com mission. The importance and man ner in which the sul)ject is to be onsilercd are indicated in the presi C1.I's Iter to the governors, which was made public at the White House. In his letter the President says: The matters to be considered at this conference are not confined to any region or group of States, but are of vital concern to the nation as a whole and to all the people. These subjects include the use and conser vation of the mineral resources, the resources of the land and the resour ces of the waters, in every part of our territory. In order to open discussion I shall invite a few recognized authorities to present brief descriptions of actual facts and conditions. without argu ment, leaving the conference to deal with each topic as it may elect. The members of the Inland Waterways commission will be present in order to share with me the benefit of infor mation and suggestion and if desired to set forth their provisional plans and conclusions. "Facts which I can not gainsay force me to believe that the conserva tion of our natural resources is the most weighty question now before the people of the United States. I this is so, the proposed conferenec, Which is the first of its kind, will be among the most important gatheringm in our history in its effect upon the welfare of all our people. Cuts Whale in Two. A whale, about six feet long. waE run down and cut in two off CapE Hatteras by the steamship Admiral Farragut, which has arrived at Phil adelphia from Jamaica. SIG BEAR ESCAPES. Old Bruin Has Fun With Pigs anf Poultry. A big bear escaped from som< show people at Florence on Wednes day night. When they awoke nex morning they found the great bij bear had made tracks for the wood! or swamps. Luckily for them it ha !rained and it was an easy thing t track the wanderer. "Panther," thi big dog, a pet in the show, was take along to trail "Old Bruin." and abou four miles from the city he was locat ed, going in the direction of tho swamp that follows Black Creek. H< was retaken and brought back t< the city and replaced in his cage While at large the bear had quite frolic of it, for when he struck thi city limits he knew he was "monarel of all he surveyed" and proceeded t< slay chickens and the like, at on place managing to capture a gooi sized "shoat." "WHAT WE TRADE ON." The Importance of the Cotton Crop t< - the Country. In a spirit of irony The Saturda Evening Post, in an editorial entitle! "What We Trade On," says: "I seems to be a kind of treason thi: fall for planters to withhold thei Icotton from market in the hope o: forcing higher prices. Not only i money tight. but at this writtini foreign exchange is right, involving a threat of gold exports. "We must depend principally upor cotton, which Europe wiil buy ir great quantities, and which runs int! money very fast, to overcome thi menace and turn the tide our way That, in view of such a public need planters should hold cotton for mere by personal gain is truly reprehensi ble. We read that the banks gener ally will keep them in the path oj duty by refusing to extend loans 0r stored cotton." "Cotton makes nearly one-quartei of our total exports. Much more than anything else, it is what keeps our trade with the world going. W4 must, each year hurry out the great staple in order to meet our balance in Europe. The function of the cot ton industry in financing our foreigr trade is so important, inden .al one might expect to see a bill in gress---introduced by a gentlems~ from Pennsylvania and backed by the stand-pat league-forbidding planters to withhold a single bale that was ready for export,", "Export of iron and steel in all forms." says the Post, "amount tc only one-sixth the exports of stufi produced on the farm. It is the un protected producer upon whom WE must depend to settle for the articles we buy abroad. Unprotected cotton and food stuffs, comprising about sixty per cent of our totol exports enable us to do business with the world."_________ SOLID ON STATE RIGHTS. United States Court Refers Case to The State Courts. She case of C. B. Boyett and oth er charged with intimidating ne* groes "because they were negroes contrary to the provisions of sections 1,977 and 5,508 of the revised statu tes of the United States, was decid ed by the supreme court of the Uni ted States favorably to Boyett and his co-defendants. The alleged offense was commit ted in Bradley county. Arkansas, in 190.5 when Boyett and other white men were charged with having con spired to drive away a number of negroes employed by the Arkansas Lumber Company. This result was accomplished by posting notices of warning to the negroes and firing guns in their vicinity. The whites were tried in the United States dis trict court for the eastern district of Arkansas and each was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and serve a year mf prison. The decision of the trial court was reversed. The announce ment of the court's judgment was made by the chief justice, but there was no written opinion. The decision of the court was bas ed on the decision of the last term in the case of Hodges vs. the United States, in which it was held that as negroes are citizens they must rely upon the state courts in such cases as this rather than upon the federal courts. In that case the court held that it had no jurisdiction of a charge of conspiracy made in a state to pre vent citizens of African descent, be cause of their race and color, from makwnr contracts to labor. SMOT HIS RIVAL And Married a Girl Within an liour After. Half an hour after Clarke Norton killed William Franklin, at White Rock. N. C., Monday, he and Miss Elizabeth Gentry. for whom thiey were both suitors, were married at Asheville. Norton was not arrested until the following day, when he was taken in jail at Marshall, N. C. He was ac companied by his bride, who begged to be allowed to go to jail with him, but was refused. She and Norton assert that Norton shot and killed Franklin in self-defense. They say Franklin had found out that Norton and Miss Gentry were going to be secretly married, and had gone to the girl's home for the pur pose of preventing the marriage. Franklin had said that Miss Gentry and Norton should never wed. When Norton made hi sappearance. Frank lin, it is alleged, started the trouble. and Norton opened fire upon hint. his first shot taking effect in Frank lin's heart and killed him almost in stantly. Bryan and Roosevelt. Col. Geo. Harvey. editor of H r pers Weekly, thinks the financ al flurry of the past few weeks "marks the beginning of the end of the po litical careers of both Roosevelt and Bryan, and that a sane man will be elected President one year hence." The Charleston Post does not agree with Mr. Harvey. The Post says "now and again somebody rises up, like Col. Harvey, with a fine academ ic protest against the way of things and is greeted with applause, and it looks as if a stand is going to be made for the principles of the fath ers of the republic. But just as the figzht begins to take shape the chief shouters go up to the White House to make terms and the President takes a new lease of power." Now, according to the Post, "that is just what has been happening re cently. Mr. Morgan, it is said in Washington, has been visiting the White House by night for conference with Mr. Roosevelt, and Mr. Gary and Mr. Frick have gone up boldly by day to ask him if they will be per mitted to absorb the Tennessee Coal and Iron properties into the steel trust without interference by the government, and they are all saying smooth things about him, as they come away satisfied that they may have their way for a while." "Mr. Roosevelt is considerably tamed. He doesn't like to be point ed to as the destroyer of prosperity, and the captains of finance have about persuaded him that the specu ators' panic is a genuine chill of na tional industry. They have moved the President to revise his messag. to Congress and it is said that the document will be very mild in its re commendations of legislation rela tive to the corporations. Further more it is promised that the cam paign against the trusts will be press ed discreetly, not to say negligent IThe New York World reports that the President is a changed man ever )in anpearance, as those who saw him as hie passed throu~gh New York or election day are prepared to testify. The events of the past two weeks ir the financial world," says The World, "have had remarkable effect upor Mr. Roosevelt. The crash of banks, the cry of strangled business, the Ifrightened hoarding of money have deeply impressed him. If final argu *ment were needed to complete the remarablechange in the nation's che eeutive, it was furnished by the sight of Manhattan's besiegec sky scrapers of finance as his tugboat 1passed by the foot of Wall street andc skirted the Battery." "No doubt," says the Post, that is a true depiction. Mr. Roosevelt iL an emotional man, and he would very likely look upon the frightened herds of New York's speculators a' typefying panic in all the land, and think that he was looking upon the ruins of an empire wrought by his all powerful word. That is the idea that the financiers are trying to cultivate in him, and they are succeeding, no doubt. It is said that Mr. Root has the President's ear again, and we know from what sources Mr. Root has come. It would even be possible to persuade the President that his atcsupon wealth were becoming unpopular, and if that could be done :here would be an end of them." "On the other hand," says the Post," "there is Mr. Bryan unop posed in the Democratic party save by a few voices calling out in the wilderness. He seems to be practi cally certain of the nomination of his party for President, because no in telligent effort to keep him out of it is being exe:-ted. Now, Mr. Bryan has the courage of his convictions, however uncertain his convictions may be, and he is unhampered by any traditions of friendship or any actual obligation to the great mon eyed ineests. If he set out to war upon wealth he wouldn't let up when the rich began to squeal; indeed that would probably spur him to redoubl ed effort. He could look upon a mon ey panic with considerable equani mity, if not with satisfaction, as his enemies will believe. "Mr. Bryan is, at least, no molly coddle, wre he in the White House today the magnates would not find it easy to stop him from hitting them when they were down. He would have no Elihu Root at his elbow to whisper moderate words into his ear. In short Mr. Bryan would come very near to being the real thing which Mr. Roosevelt pretends to be. Let us be perfectly sure that the men who are now howling against Mr. Roosevelt would shout most lustily for him to save them from Mr. Bry an if there should appear even a pos sibility of the Nebraskan's preva lence. "So, it will depend upon whether the appetite of the people for radi calism has been appeased as to whether or not Mr. Roosevelt and* Mr. Bryan are to pass from the stage next year and make way for more quiet performers. If it be reason abiy certain that the Democrats will nominate Mr. Bryan at the time the Republican convention meets, and signs point to the gathering of a for midable following after him, the Morgans and the Garys and the Frick, and the Harrimans, who are practical men, and even the Hlarveys, perhaps, who can be persuaded to reasonably practical views, ma~y learl the cry for Mr. Roosevelt to take the field once more. When it comes to choosing b~itween two radicals they will every time take the one who can be stopped short of doing things and that one is Mr. Roosevelt."--Or COTTON AND FINANCE. The Fleecy Staple as a Factor in American Trade. interesting Array of Facts as to Cot ton and Its Importance in Our Business and Financial Affairs. A recent pamphlet entitled "Cot ton as a Factor in American Trade," issued by William A. Law. vice-pres ident of the Merchants National Bank of Philadelphia, contains an in teresting array of facts as to cotton and its importance in connection with the business and financial status of the country. The deductions from the figures given are startling when they are collated. For instance: "The value of the cotton crop, in cluding cotton seed, for the last sev en years, has exceeded by over a million dollars the world's total gold and silver production for the same period. Approximately thirty mil lion acres are utilized in the cultiva tion of the cotton crop in America. The textile industries of the United States, which are mainly cotton, em ploy over $1,740,000,000 of capital and 1,156,000,000 wage earners, ex ceeding every other industry excepi that of iron and steel manufacture which employs about 33 1-3 per cen1 more capital, according to the figur es of the census of 1905. "The cotton crop for the year end ing August 1. 1907, has been estima ted by the New York Fin ancia Chronicle to be 13,550,760 bales which at 11 1-2 cents per pound fo: Middling Uplands, probably a fail average, is worth over $800,000,000 When it is remembered that fo seven years exports of cotton amount ed to slightly more than the world' production of gold, approximatel; $2,500,000,000; that Europe take two thirds of the country's produc tion, exports last year amount to up I wards of $480.000,000 worth of cot ton; and that the United States pro duces two-thirds of the world's tota supply, the figures indicate that th hope of the ending of the "mone; famine" in New York rests with th freer movement of cotton. In fact the refusal of the farmers to sell a what they considered too small price may well have played an irr portant part in postponing the infloi of gold from Europe which is de pended upon to ease the financial sii uation. As we pointed out recently, how ever, the situation is peculiar in th fact that, while the hope of the f nancial situation rests with the fai mers' selling of their cotton, th money stringency is itself tending t lower the price below that whic they considered to be too low whe they inaugurated their holding pol: cy. Such farmers as can do so ow it to themselves in the present crisi: to continue to hold for the highE price that must ultimately rule whe the demands of the spinners becom imperative. In the meantime sue farmers as have obligations that wi compel them to turn loose their siti ation by drawing gold from Europ< even though they do so at their ow injury. And as we pointed out at anothE time, the farmer who does sell co ton owes a higher daty to his ow section to put the proceeds of suc sale in the banks to which he mus look for financial help either directi or through the merchant with whoi he deals. Every farmer who hoari his money, hurts the situation n< only by keeping money out of circi lation but by making it more diff cult for the price of cotton---depres: ed along with all other products an out-put---to rise. And, in this coi nection the banks of the South the are feeling the "money famine" oni because they have helped the fan crs to hold their cotton for bette price, will be benefitted by the at ceptance by farmers of the Nes York ex change offered them by th~ spinners in payment of their crop! With money in New York bein. hoarded by the banks, with mone for the cotton coming in from Et rope in gold shipments, the only wa in which the spinners and the Souti ern banks may get the money to pa for cotton is in the medium of Ne' York exchange. The exchangei good as gold for all purposes. is at cepted by the banks and taken by th merchants in payment of debts. Th farmer who has cotton to sell an, who ref useE for it any thing but cast simply in'r'ases the trouble whic: has put down the price of his cror makes it more difficult for the bank to supply the money and consequent ly for the home spinner to buy cot ton freely and at a liberal price. The entire situation with respec to the South and its present harves nrobem is a baffling one; but, afte: he paramount issue of obtaiaing fo. his year's work as nearly as possibbi what it is worth, the chief obliga tion of the farmer who sells cotton i: to so use the proceeds that they shal go towards increasing the money ii circulation in his own section, as wel as towards bringing money into th< country to ease the general situatio1 and to make for better prices of al products both agricultural and in dustrial. MAJ.Y FALL VICTIS To Wild Beasts and Poisonous Rep tiles in India. Consul E. H. Dennison, of Bom bay, quotes a report of the Govern ment of India which deals with the mortality from wild animals: "The total number of persons. killed by wild animal in 1906 was 2,084, as against 2,051 in 1905. Wolves are reported to have killed 178 persons in the United Provinces, and in the Madras Presidency tigers were responsible for the greater mnor tality reported, while a mad wolfe in the Sholapur district, Bombay, caused sixteen deaths. In Bengal the number of persons killed by elephants rose from nine in 1905 to eighteen in 1906, and a pro posal has, it is stated, been made by the magistrate of Cuttack for the organizatior. of khedda operations in that district. Tigers killed a large number of persons than in 1905 in Madras, Bom bay, the United Provinces and Bur mah, and steps have been taken for the destruction of man-eating tigers in these provinces. Three man-eating tigers were destroyed in Sambalpur, Angul, and Mandle in 1906. The persons reported to have died from snake bite numbered 22,854, as againt 21.797 in 1903. the increased mortality being aseribed to floods, which drove snakes into houses and TWO HUNDRED BABIES SAVED. They Wrer Found Floating in a Steanier's Flooded Steerage. The story of the thrilling midnight rescue from death at sea of 200 little babies, with frantic mothers, and sev eral hundred others, cast away on the Russian steamship Lituania, off the Sweedish coast, was told Thursday by Purser Jens Jorgenson, of the wreck ed liner, who arrived in New York on board the Scandinavian liner United States. The Lituania, of the Russian-East Austrian line, running from Libau to New York, sailed Monday, October 23, with a crew of 105 men and a passenger list of 726. The majority were women, coming to the United States to join their husbands. With them they had 200 Russian babies. When off the Swedish coast the great vessel reeled under a terri ble shock. She had run between two great rocks, and a hole eleven feet across had been torn in her port bow. In less than five seconds she had 13 feet of water in her forward compart ments. The officers, including Jorgersen, rushed below. Before they could reach the steerage it was flooded, and they actually saw babies floating about in the water nearly waist high. Jorgensen and the men formed a line and they were passed along in an endless chain. All babes were res cued. Then only did the officers of the steamship permit the men to look tc the safety of the adults. The wire less operator communicated with Copenhagen, and forty-eight hourE later two sea-going tugs took the passengers off-a perilous task in the heavy sea. The passengers babies and all, were taken to Copenhagen and after a delay of several day, brought to the United States. AMPHIBIOUS AUTOMOBILE. Runs on Land or Water With Equa Ease. "Waterland" the amphibious au I tomobile invented by Jules Reveiller of Paris proved its ability in a tes to travel as perfectly through th rough waters of the Hudson, as ove roads so rocky and uneven that or dinary motor cars could not follow. L It pushed through soft sand, ove boulders, and with one side on har ground and the other on soft. Afte an exhibition on land, the auto en tered the water. The wheels car ried it through the shallow wate half a dozen yards. Then the propeller kicked upi great spme astern. She ran straigh - ahead for a hundred yards, turned i e once her length, backed, halted, cut figue eight and then came shore S.ward. Driving straight into the shallow at full spead, her nose pushed upo e the beach, the wheels began to r( volve with rapidity, as they took hol r of the ground, the propeller whirle in the air, and the strange creatur e climbed ashore. h The return trip to Fiftieth stree 1New York, put the machine to a tes as a hill climber. It never refused mount, and came back in as goc order as when it started. r TOOK TO THE WOODS. Triplets Proved Too Much for a ItIllinois Farmer fWhen the stork left triplets at th a home of John Cavanaugh, Blooming b ton. Ill., he took to the woods an - has not been seen since. Cavanaug -was a hard working farmer and er - deavored to give his family all th comforts possible. When the stor! - brought the eleventh child to hi ~home he believed that the numnbe fully entitled him to a membershi in the anti-race suicide club, an, when the bird left triplets, increasin the number of his children to four Vteen, he decamped, first turning hi oat crop into cash. The neighbor rallied to the assistance of the moth er, and an effort will be made to ii duce the father to return. HIGHLAND COUNTY BEATEN. Did Not Get Even a Majority of Tot Cast. eThe effort to form a new count: out of portions of Spartanburg an< Greenville Counties to be known a Highland County was defeated a the polls on Tuesday. In Spartan burg County every box, with the ex ception of Arlington and Wood5 Chapel, voted against the new county The vote in Spartanburg county i 433 for the new county and 56% against the movement. The vote it Greenville County as far as heart from Tuesday night stand 886 foi and 669 against the new county. Fate of the Universe. In the universe there is but one per petual and unchanging fact, and thal Is-change. Nothing stands stil\~. Ev. Ierything is moving either forward oa backward-from death to life, frona chaos to order and back again to death and chaos, to turn again in time to ward life and order. And so the ever lasting drama goes on. Solar systems nd sundowers, worldis and worms, must alike return to the dust from whieh they came. tt is the law of change, the endless march around the circle of birth and death, death and birh.-Newv York American. JOHN R. Walsh, of Chicago, one of the gold Democrats who posed as one of the defenders of the national honor in 1896 and voted against Mr. Bryan is now being tried for stealing millins of dollars from those who trusted their money in one of his banks. There are others. A tender hearted jury in Newberry ICounty sent a negro man to the pen itentiary for life for killing two ne gro women in the most brutal man ner. Wonder how many 'people a murderer would have to kill before that jury would think he ought to be hanged?________ SoMIE people are under the impres sion that the banks are holding up the money. This is a mistake. The banks are doing their best to get money to move the crops. but it is Inot to be had anywhere. F you have any money stored away at home put it in your nearest bank and help out the money mar ket. It will be perfectly safe. THE Charleston Post says if Mr. Bryan was in the White House today he would come very near to being the real thing which Mr. Roosev !t pretends to ne There is no u.oubt WILL MOVE COTTON CROP. President Roosevelt Promises Gov ernment Funds to Help. The Washington correspondent of The News and Courier says Leroy Percy of 31ississippi called on the President Thursday in reference to placing Government funds in the banks of the South and Southwest to move the crop and relieve money stringency. After his conference he stated that he was not at liberty to disclose what the President said to him, but that on his own account he would say that within a few days plenty of Govern ment money would be placed with these Southern banks for all imme diate needs. This statement coming from him immediately after his talk with the President is taken to mean that the latter agreed to the request. It is learned that at least ten per cent. of the funds recently placed with the New York banks by Secretary Cortel you will be placed with the banks of the South immediately. GEN. THO3S DID APPLY To President Davis For a Commission in Confederate Army. Consderable excitement has beer aroused in Richmond over the ascer tion that General Grant at one time offered his services to President Day is of the Confederacy. Rev. Dr. J William Jones, chaplain and histori an of the' Confederacy, said that h had no knowledge of either Grant oi Farragut having maae such an ap plication. "There can be absolutely no doub1 whatever, "continued Jones, "i1 the case of Thomas." I have pub lished matter time and again and wil state most emphatically that I hav< in my personal possession a lettei from General Geo. H. Thomas, in which he admits that at the time o secession he applied for a commissii to enter the Confederate service. Keep the Record Straight. The Washington Post, which pose as an independent paper, but which i really i Republican paper, recentl: said "when Bryan supplanted Grove Cleveland as a leader, both house of Congress were Democratic; CoE neticut, New Hampshire, and Rhod Island were Democratic; New Yorl New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois an Wisconsin were Democratic, an Ohio doubtful. Both Senators fro! New York were Democratic, e were those from New Jersey, Ind ana, and Wisconsin, and there w2 one Democratic Senator from Ohi< d and another from Illinois." This statement w's either prompI ed by ignorance or viciousness, 2 Sthere is not one word of truth in i SIn 1892 Mr. Cleveland was electe c resident the second time. He cal ied all the Southern States an Mew York, New Jersey, Connect jut, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin an J alifornia. Ohio divided her ele< toral vote and Massachusetts eleci d a Democratic governor. TIh eDemocrats elected a large majorit ~f the House of Representative and the Senate was also Democratic This all happened in the election c 1892, when Cleveland was electe k he second time. Cleveland was inaugurated Mare 4, 1893, and for the first time sine the war the Democrats were in conr olete control of the legilative an executive departments of the goo enent. What did Cleveland d with this grand vietory. He wa elected on a tariff reform platformr ,ut instead of carrying out hi pledges to the people, he callet Congress in extra session and fai tened the gold standard upon th ountry in payment to Wall Stree for the money it had freely contri uted to his campaign fund. Thi ,as in direct violation of the plat form upon which he was elected a it declared for bi-metalism and tar iff reform. This base betrayal o the people by Cleveland was wha wrecked the Democratic party. In 1894 the biennial elections cami -m and the people were called on t< andorse or repudiate Cleveland, wh< w.as then in the middle of his sec nd term. Did the people endors Cleveland and his administration No. They repudiated him and hi: administration as no president had 1ever been repudiated before o2 since. He had betrayed the people and they rebuked him in the severesi manner. The States of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, Massa ehusetts. Indianna, Wisconsin and California, all of which had been carried by the Democrats in 1892, were carried by the Republicans in 1894 by large majorities. Even the Southern States of Delaware, Mary land, West Virginia and Kentucky repudiated Cleveland and his admin istration by going Republican. It must be remembered that all these States were carried by the Democrats in 1892. The Republi cans also carried the House, the Democrats elected fewer members in 1894 than they had elected in many years. The Post tries to cre ate the impression that these States were lost to the Democratic party by reason of Bryan's leadership, when as a matter of fact they were lost to the Democrats two :years- be fore Bryan's leadership began, and when Cleveland had only served two years of his second term. Bryan's leadership of the Democratic party began in 1896, two years after Cleve land had wrecked the party almost beyond resurrsection. The fact that Bryan revived the party and brought out under his leadership the largest vote it ever polled in a presendential election proves that he is a match less leader, and worthy of the con-I fidence and support of the people.2~ MET DEATH In a Burning Hotel at New Haven, Conn., Monday. CAUGHT LIKE RATS In a Trap And Are Burned- Beyond Recognition. Awakened by Pan ic-Stricken Bellboy, Gusts Fled To Street in Night Robes. Six People Perish and 'Many Others Narrowly Escape. At New Haven, Conn., six persons are dead as a result of a disastrous fire which swept the upper stories of the hotel Garde, early Monday. Hun dreds of guests of the hotel, the big get in the state of Connecticut, were thron',i into a panic and rushed into the streets, clad only in their night robes. as the flame swept through the wooden structure. Patrick Anter, a porter, was killed by the snapping of a rope with which he -was lowering himself to the street from the fourth story. Five other employes sleeping on the same floor were suffocated by the dense smoke. Starting in the north wing, follow ing a violent explosion, the fire spread rapidly and ravaged the upper stories of the hotels to the -extent of $50,000 before the fireman could get it under control. Awakened by the crackling of the flames in the room next to his own, a bell boy rushed through the halls shouting the alarm and arousing the sleeping gaests. All of these were able to reach the street in safety, although narrow es capes were numerous and .the fire. was marked by thrilling rescues, sev-: eral women being taken from their rooms by means of ladders. MALICIOUS MISSCHIEF Marble Steps to Charleston Residen. ces Upset and Put in Street. s The News and Courier says -there was sdme excitement and consider e was some excitement and consider of Wentworth street when they arose Thursday morning and found that many of the marble steps in front of their houses had been not only Inter n changed, but carried Into the -street.. S It has developed that one of the blocks had only been placed on the track of the electric car line, -but had' S been struck by one of the cars; result ing, fortunately, in no injury to the: car, those in charge of it nor any of the occupants. The slabs'were in some cases broken in several pieces. Who Is, or are, guilty of this wan ton act is not known and while It Is dsaid to have been. the work of -some young men, it will not be defmnitely dknown until the officers who have the matter under investigation - make their report. And some one may have to answer -In not only the Re -corder's Court, but that of General - Sessions. e FOUGHT WITH SHOTGUNS. S Enemies Meet While Hunting and Both .4.re Wounded. SIn a duel with shotguns near Rad ford. Va., Thursday evening, James Newby, custodian of the Casers Lith 1 a Springs, was fatally wounded by eHugh Peterman, and the latter was -seriously wounded by Newby. The dmen were out hunting and when they .met turned their guns on each other and began shooting. The trouble is result of an old grudge which grew out of jealousy on the part df Peter man, who imagined Newby was pay ing attention to his wife. WRECKED SCHOOL BUILDING Blown Up With Three Bombs of tNitroglycerine. Three big nitroglycerine bombs dis charged in rapid succession early on -Thursday morning practically wreck ed the new $100,000 Henry schoolat -Germantown, Pa. For squares around the residents of that -section -of the shrub were awaked by the noise Thus far the police have no iue-of the Identity of those who committed -the act. It is though the explosion was caused by parties opposed to the $r.000,000 loan bill, which gives' 50.00 to the board of..education. ENTERS THE RACE.. State Superintendent of Education Martin Out frSenate. State Superintendent of Education Martin anno"'ices that he will be in the race for U. S. Senate in vIgorous language. Two Mysterious Deaths. W. 0. Brown's child, eight months old, and R. L. Lockman's child, 18 monts old, were both found dead in bed in the town of Huntersville, N C. The cause of deaths is unknown,. but the affair -has caused consider able excitement in the town. Both children have been healthy young sters all their lives. Open Next Year. The directors of the .Tamestown Exposition thie other evening unani mously accepted a committee repor - favoring keeping the Exposition open next -year, provided $200,000 can be raised by popular subscription. Indians Killed in Fight. -. In a battle between Ute Indians and~ United States troops, in which six Indians were killed. No soldiers were killed or wounda'. McElmo is on Montezuma county close to the Navajo reservation. K illed by Train. At Milwaukee, Wis., Wednesday night six persons were instantly kill ed and fouir were ujured when a southbound Chicago and Northwest ern flyer plowed throuh a throng of laborers. The bodie~ ' e rmeo and4 a boy were hurled through the aic by the train. IH E Charleston Post is no friend of Mr. Bryan, but it knows him to be a true man and no time server. R~ead what it says about him in an article which we publish on the sixth