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FATAL TORNADO Sweeps Through Nebraska and Kansas Friday Evening DOING GREAT DAMAGE Twenty-One People Killed and a Great Deal of Property is Destroy, ed. It Was the Wort That. Visite-d That Section in Many Years. A tornado which passed over soup era Nebraska and portions of nor;: ern Kansas Friday evening was the most destructive and covered ti most territory of any similar storm which has visited that region in ma::: years. At least 21 persons were kii ed. five were fatally injured and a score of others hurt. In addition. reports received say that several pe: sons were killed at Byron, Neb., and Phillipsburg and Courtland, Kan.. which town have been cut off frox. communication. Known casualties Dead--Lula Smith. near Genenv. Neb., Irene Shively, aged 4. ne. Geneva: Mrs. Maud Carter. Trenton: Baby Carter: two children of MT Small. near Guide Rock: Henry Madi son, near Franklin. Neb.; Mrs. Au gust Fentell, near Shickley. Neb.: Elijah Arteabricht, near Shickley: Bay Fleming. drowned near Fair field, Neb.; Mrs. Clifton Simple. Bryon. Neb. Fatally injured-John Shively. Geneva; Ross Shively. Geneva; John Merriman, S-hickley: Preston Bailey. Carlton: Mr. August Fentell, neu: Shickley. Seriously injured--Mrs. John Shively, Geneva: Edward Russell. Geneva; A. F.McRaymond. Fairfield: Miss Young. near Guide Rock; Mr. and Mrs. Gray, near Riverton; Mrs. Bennett, near Geneva; Lester an'i Carter and second child. Carlton. The storm was general throughon; Filmore, Webster, Franklin and Thayer counties. Nebraska, and reach ed into Kansas, from where reportr are coming of great destruction. The town of Carlton. Fairfield. Despler. Shickley, Geneva, Franklin, Ong and Riverton, Nebraska, are among those visited by the storm and in no one of them did the . elements spare life or property. At Carlton five resid ences and two churches were destroy ed, while a new sch:ol bui'ding an 30 houses were partially wrecked. The home of Lester Carter was de molished and his wife and baby were killed, while Carter himself and an other child suffered severe injuries. At Geneva the storm wrought grea: destruction and in the adjacent coun try claimed several victims, dead or injured. At Fairfield 40 houses were partly wrecked or demolished. The loss there will exceed $100,000. Vauge reports from other points can not b' confirmed because of broken wires. Trains in all directions are abandon ed because of washouts and destroy ed roadbeds. The storm covered such a wid' area band was so destructive where. ever it touched the earth that it has almost caused a panic among the rur al inhabitants. Hundreds of farmers drove into the towns, seeking shelter, many of them being liomeless. ABBEVITJE WAS FIB. Big Notel andi ThreeStores Are Burn~j ed Don Abbeville had a big fire on Fri day morning. It originated in the old Alston house, an annex to the Glen Ethel Inn, at 5 o'clock Friday morning, destroyed property worth al ont $50'.0''. with ineu'ance of ab':ut $20,00)0 The fire wa: one cA th~e n'- st disaqstrous which has erai visited Abbeville. The Glen Ethel Inn was a large three-story brick building, the up stairs portion of which was used as a hotel. On the ground floor were three stores ocer pied by A. B. Cheat ham, 0. H. Cobb and R .L. Dargan. Mrs. Mary Taggart was proprie tor of the hotel and indi avery iargy number of guests. The hotel p'-o perty was owned by Mrs. J. La. An crums of Charleston and was worth about $25,000. with insurance of SS,2 00. BROWN BEATS SMITH. Georgia Changed Her Governor on Last Thursday. An Atlanta Dispatch says official returns from 126 counties and offi sial counts from the remaining twenty of the votes cast in Friday's Demo eratic primary, gave Jos. M. Brown. ~for Governor, a majority of 12,000i over Hok.' Smith Of the 146 conal ties in the State Brown carried 90. F"or railroad commissioner, Judge George Hilly'er and F. C. Callway were the successful candidates. The r-ace for prison commissioner is still in doubt. All of the present Con gressmen were freturned with the exception of U. B. Lewis. in the 3d district, who was defeated by Dudiley M. Hughes. . * LAD BREAKS HIS NECK. By Falling From Stair RailingWhile Sliding Down. While sliding down a stairway railing in the cotton mill at Tucapu, in Spartanburg County. Friday. Claryice Prince, aged 9 years, fell to the floor and broke his neck. He ' d instantly. The accident happen & shortly after 12. as the boy was S'ing home after havingg cariid time.~ to his faiher. He straddlel the rn. ~ - a the stairway and start ed to sii.ie down when he lost his balance and fell. The coroner was notified, an Inquest was held and a verdict of death by accident was re turned. * Tried to Sell Military Lands. An alleged :ilot to sell lanli in th' military reservation at Fort Niobrara. Neb., by false deeds. was revealed by the arrest at Indianapolis of four real estate men. Relatives wh.> are remembered in the will wear mourning, and those who are not do a little mourning on the r own~ ac.count It's no wonder children are so con trar- just Ink at their parents. THE SWEET POTATOES INTERESTING PAPER ISSUED BY AGRICULTLRE DEPARTMENT Origin and Nature of the Tuber Dis. cussed in Government Publication. As a Staple Crop. The sweet potato, a common vege table of this section and a popular dish on the table of the average Southern home, is the subject of a scientific discussion by W. R. 1 k't tie, an assistant horticulturst. ui'r eau of Plant Industry of the n'td States Department of Agriculture who l as !.. en giviLg ^teptio i to a1 number of the stable crops of this section during the past few years. The sweet potato is discussed in Farmer's Bulletin No. 324.which may be had upon application to the De Iartment of Agriculture by those who want to learn more about the raising of the vegetable and its use. The potato is a very common pro duct about this city but it is doubt ful if the people who generally grow the crop and eat the vegetable, have given the attention tp it and are acquainted with it to the extent covered in the department's publica-' tion. Prof. Beattie has complied an interesting history of the sweet pota to, and follows this skeeth with a discussion of climatic conditions, character of soil, fertilizers. plantug, temperature, diseases, insects, grad ing. packing. storing, ventilation of storage houses. marketing, uses, etc. The publication is interesting. In introducing the subject, Prof. Beat I tie says of the sweet potato. With the passing of each year the sweet potato is becoming of greater importance as a commercial truck crop in the United States. During a long period it has formed one of the principal sources of food for the peo ple of the Southern States and of tropical America. As a commercial truck crop the sweet potato woul be included among the five of greatest importance, ranking perhaps about third in the list. As a food forthe great mass of the people lying in the warmer portions of our country the use of this crop is exceeded by hominy and rice only. In many C.f the islands of the Pacific, especially in the Philippines, the sweet potao is the pricipal vegetable food for laige numbers of the lower class S. at certan seasons being almost the only food available. The sweet potato industry in this country is readily divided into two classes of production: (1) For home use and ((2) for market. A quantity sufficient for home use can be grown under a wide range of con ditions. while production on a com mercial scale is somewhat restricted by climate and soil and also by mar ket and transportation facilities. The larger eastern markets are now well supplied, but there are sections where the people have not as yet become accustomed to the use of sweet pota toes in large quantities. The fiehl for the production and use of sweet potatoes is very broad, and this cro1) pomises to become of more generai farmt importance. In view of the constantly increas ing interest in sweet potatoes it is the purpose of this bulletin to give simple cultural directions covering their production both for home use and for market, including the soil and its preparation, the propagation of the plants, planting, harvesting. storing and marketing. together with 'the uses of sweet potatoes for stock feeding and for similar purposes. The sweet potato is of a tropical nature, its original home probably being the West Indies and Central America. The true sweet potato, as we have it grof'ing in the United States, belongs to the morning glory Ipomoa Batas. Throughout the Southern States the sweet potatoes h aving moist fiesh are commonly enown as "yams"' and those hav ing dry fiesh as sweet potatoes. The ane "yam" is n'isleading and prc. erly belongs to a distinct class of lants that are confined almost en tirely to the tropics. Owing to the trophical nature of he sweet poisto it naturally thrives bet in the South Atlantic and Gulf Coast States, but it may be grown or ome use as far north as South ern New York and westward along that latitude to the Rocky Mountains. The starch and sugar dontent of sweet potatoes varies considerably in different varieties, but as a rule they contain about 16 per cent of starch a~d 4 per cent of sugar, making a to tal of 20 per cent of alcohol pn'duc ig n'aterial. It is possible that swee iotatoes will become one of the chief sources of denatural alcohol in the United States, but atpresent the meth ods of manufacturing have not been sufficiently perfected to warranted their use for this purpose on a farm or community basis. Blow From Bat Fatal. At La Fayette. Ga., Willie WVat son, aged 10, was instan-ly killed in a gall game Friday. WVhile engagen in a game with a number of his friends a bat slipped from the hands of a boy who was attempting to hit te ball and struck him over the hart, causing instant death. * 3,0O.000 Worth of Coal for Fleet. The estimated cost of the coal con sued by the Atlantic fleet when it shall have finished its cruise around th world is placed at $3,000,000. Th cost from San Francisco through the Sues canal is estimated at $2. 039.000. Only American coal is be Life for a Life. Clled to attend the daughter of a lionaire in Pittsburg. Dr. John Murphy boarded a train in Chicago and made a recoid run. The yon lady will ecover. At Salem. 0.. the doctor's special ran down and killed Death Sentence for 14 Bandits. Eleven men and three girls have been sentenced to death by court martal at Warsaw, Russia. for at tacking a post car at Sokolow. A bomb thrown at the car killed two soldiers and wountded ten. Follow ing the wreck the train was looted. The sweetest music to the aver age woman's ear is that produced by the sound waves of her own voice. A wall flower by any other name ABOUT MAD DOGS. HOW THEY GET THE HORRIBI.E DISEASE How You Can Get It Yourself and What to Do Quick-The Pasteur Treatment. People should avoid handling dogs at all times, but more especially dur ing the warm summer, as a dog's saliva may be full of germs of rabies several days before it "goes mad" with that disease. It is enough if he licks your hand or your face, and the skin is broken previously so that the germs find entrance to the circu lation. Right here, too much emphasis cannot be placed on the absurdity of the old superstitution that if the dog that bites you should, at some future time.have rabies, you-al though never again bitten-would have to die of that disease: In the case of your pet dog. if he is morose and sullen there may be a possibility that he is in the early stages of rabies. It has been de monstrated as a fallacy that rabid dogs dread the sight of water. It is only human beings in that condition who go into conv'isions at the sight of water. A rabid (log is thirsty. He would like to drink, but on attempt ing to do so his throat contracts ow ing to the paralysis of its muscles that is characteristic of the disease. If your dog approaches eagerly when you offer him water, puts his tongue to it but cannot swallow, and perhaps gags, has convulsions and froths at the mouth, then you had better have him at or.ce examined for rabies-being, of course, extremely careful to allow none of his salive to careful to allow none of his saliva to Human beings afflicted with the disease, being n.ore censative. more imaginative and apprehensive. are throwr. intr- convulsions at the mere sight of water-especially water from a tap suddenly turned on. An ticipating the act of drinking, the throat paralysis asserts itself and the whole infected nervous system is con vulsed. The favorite breeding place of the germs of rabies is the nerve centres. The original germs travel from the point of infection through the circu lation, infecting all the nerves of the body and besieging, as they multiply, the spinal cord and the nerve centres of the brain. As the disease progresses there is more and more paralysis of all the nerves and muscles. That of the throat is particularly noticeable be cause of the difficulty of swallowing. B't quite early there are jerky mo tions of the legs in walking, and of the arns when they they are used. Applicants for treatment at the Pasteur Institute in New York who show these signs on entering are im +ediately subjected to other tests. Sometimes the Pasteur physicians will blow a breath of air suddenly in the patient's direction. Even that slight, sudden draught of air has been known to throw an appli cant for treatment into convulsions. A certain patient who complained of thirst, but could take no water, suggested an experiment to one of the nurses. She divided a peeled or ange into small bits. One of these she offered to him. He opened his mouth to receive it, but the moment the moist object touched his lips his teeth closed with a snap. It was a signal from the paralyzed S~roat. In addition to the indications refer ed to, the eyes of rabies patients are enlarged and have a look of anxiety, sometimes of terror. Wherever there are nerves to actuate muscles the disease shows itself. Infection with rabies is most dan gerous where the nerves are nearest the surface. Communication to the spinal cord and brain is then quicker. When the face is the point of infec tion, mortality is 80 per cent.; hands and arm, 60 per cent.; the lower ex tremilities, 30 p~er cent. Infection at the ends of the fingers is also par ticularly unfortunate, owing to the centering of nerves there directly beneath the skin. Don't place any reliance on that hoary "madstone" superstiti'tion. The most approved "madstone" are figrous balls composed mostly of hair. ejected from the stomach of a horse or cow, or other hair-covered animal that scratches itself with its tongue. Naturally, this fibrous mass will stick to a moist wound-but it is no more efficacious in removing germs of infection than a piece of blotting paper. The characteristic manifestations of rabies are found in the large nerve' cells, principally of the brain. They are crimson colored bodies in those cells, which are never found except where rabies is well developed. This discovery was made known tt. the medical world in 1903 by Negri. of the Univ'ersity of Pavia, Italy and name has been given to the little crimson spots which the autopsy dis covers in the nerve cells of victims of rabies. now known to medical science as "Negri bodies." Long before this. in 1885, Pas teur recognized rabies as a germ dis ease and advocated the preventive serum treatment with which the rname is identified. One year later' the ori tina! Pasteur Institute was openegd in Paris. From that time until 1 9 . inclusive, 29,.201 persons had been treated at this institute. The success of the treatment was remarkable. after the prep.aration of the serum and its administration had been reduced to a system. M1ortality from the disease was reduced from 94 per cent during the first ycar to 18 per cent in 1902. During that period Pasteur instituv tes for the treatment of rabies were established in most of the large citi es of the United States. At the present time the mortality in cases treated at the New York institute has been reduced to . per cent-deducting cases where the patient's nervous system before applying for treatment had become so permeated with germs that death occurred before the serum ould take effect. The value of the Pasteur treat met is now so firmly established hat the antitoxin serum for rabiles is available to every physician. It is prepared in the laboratories of the health departm'fnts of most of the arge cities. The serum is obtained from rab bits which have died after being in oculated with the fixed virus of the. disease. Their death occurs in from six to seven days. Their spinal| ,.o.dc. which contain the death-deal- I DUT AT CHURCH DOOR P'RIEST STABBED WHILE SHA1K ING HANDS IN CHURCR. Etta"k on Pastor Created a Panic in Miissouri, and Two More Were Slash ed by Wealthy Farmer. St:nding in the doorway of his church at Salisbury, Mo., shaking hands with the departing members of his congregation, the Rev.. Father Joseph F. Lubeley was twice stabbed by Joseph Schuette. a prosperous farmer and one of the most promin ent members of his congregation. One of the knife thrusts made a deep wound in the priest's temple and the other cut his neck iess than a half inch from the jugular vein. The priest was hurried to a hospital where it was stated he has a fighting chance for recovery. Created a Panic. The stabbing of the priest caused a panic among the men and women who were filing out of the church, as practically all of them knew Schuette and the members of his family, who were standing close by when the far mer whipped out his long knife. His wife and five children reach(-, the door in time to see a dozen men sit ing on the raving man, trying to subdue him. It is evident that the arnier became suddenly insane, as he had no reason for his attack on ;e :.r'est. and in addition had been acting queerly for a few days previ ous. The police of Salisbury also are convinced Schuette is insane. He has been raving almost constantly since he was locked up. Late;- he was sent to a sanitarium until he recovers his reason. . Attacked From Behind. The priest had finished his mass and had walked to the door of the church to shake bands with the members of his parish as they left the building. There were abo-ut 400 worshipers present and they were headed toward the door in small groups. Father Lubley was shaking hands with a woman when Schuette came up from behind. In his hand there was a sharp knife and just as the priest dropped the hand of the woman he felt a sharp cut on the forehead. With re.n exclamatio: of pain Father Lubley turned around and as he did so the knife made a deep wound in his neck. The priest reeled and fell to the floor, tlood streaming from his wounds. The members of the congregation seemed stunned for a moment and then wo men screamed hysterically and rush ed hastily to the street. Most of the men also seemed. be wildered. but about a dozen of the worshipers grappled with Schuette. He struck out wildly with his knife and cut the hand of Mrs. Barbara Binter, who was trying to pass through the door. John Gates, one of those who overpowered the far mer. was slashed on the elbow. Schuette was one of the wealthiest farmers of Salisbiry. One of his daughters was a chuam of Father Lub eley's cousin, who lived with the priest. The two young women visit ed each other frequently, and Father Lubeley also dined often in the home of the man who stabbed him. * SHOULD BE MUZZLED. This is the Only Way to Stamp Out Hydrophobia. The Bureau of Animal Industry of the United States Department of Agriculture published the fullest in formation respecting rabies and its treatment. Its experts declare that rabies is one of the most easily eradi cated of all infectious diseases and shoud be stamped out. This coula be done by muzzling all dogs, as its transmission by other animals is too rare to need consideration. With all dogs muzzled in the United States for a few days the dis ease would disappear entirely, as has been demonstrated by the experi ence of other countries. The de partent, hcwever, recognizes a diffi cult obstacle to overcome. In reality there is no cruelty what ever inflicted on a dog in causing it o wear a muzzle when in public ~laces or running at large. The animals soon become used to it and manifest not the slightest incon venience. In the absence of muzzling the disease will continue year by year. causing constantly increasing suffer ing. financial loss and death. The departmlent cites that owing Io the enforcement of dog-muzzling Jws in Holland. Sweden.. Norway and Germany rabies in man has al most disappeared in those count ries. The same results are being observed in England. In Australia. where the infection has not been allowed to enter, the disease is unknown. PEACHrER PLEADS GUILTY. Unfrocked 31inister Used the UnitedJ States M1ails to Defraud. In the United States Court at Rich mnd. Va.. James T. Hargraves, an "unfrocked" clergyman of the Epis c .ra church, residing in H-anover e.unty. pleaded guilty to the charge cf using the United States mails to 'M-rand, and was sentenced to eight mouiths in jail. Bishop Brewster. of Connecticut. was among the witn .s antinst H-argrave3.* ing germis. are removed and dried in ell jars over sodium hydrate for :3f een days. This render the cord arnless. It is then crushed into powder and emulsified in a nortnaal salt solution. an~ is ready for use as hypodermic injections in the first stage of, tile 1eatent. The subs)e quont injections re made with serum from cords thatj have boen dried fourteen. thirteen. I elve. eleven, ten, nine days and inally . an emulsion of a cord dried only three days. which practi cally all its viruilence. is injected un deer the patient's skin, his system he ing now practically immiume to the ral ics germs. Thbs injections are miade daily for a period covoring fifteen to twen ry-one dlays. The treatment is not pai'ful.Cx cept for~ the~ s!iaht srr aused by the hypodermic needle. Which~ is inserted through the pa :ient's skin at the helt line, in the :ase of human beings. SHUN BLIND TIGERS. MHE POISON THEY SELL WILL EILL YOU. k Lot of Blind Tiger Stuff Seized in Anderson County Proved to be a Vile Concoction. Our advice to all people is not to rink at all, but if they will drink ve advise them to let blind tiger iquor alone. We think after read ng what is said below they will agree Pith us that it is a vile concoction ,hat is liable to kill many who use it. .s liable to kill many who use it. 'he Anderson Mail says: There is i big trunk in Sheriff Green's pri rate office from which emits a terrific dor. Its contents can be determined Erom a distance. It contains liquor, >r that which purports to be liquor. [t is true that when properly tested it could not be termed such, yet it was sufficient to convict 28 men in the court of general sessions, and there remains yet plenty more for introduction as exhibits in the 40-odd cas: 3 continued. Constable J. R. Fant, who has been in direct charge of the crusade against the illegal sale of whiskey in Ander son county. which has been in pro gress during the past four months, has the key to this trunk. He open ed it recentl and there disclos ed 80 or 85 bottles-bottles of all kinds and sizes and descriptions; three-cornered bottles, square bot ties; the old flask kind, etc. And every one of them had some liquor it it. Constable Fant, Sheriff Green and the other officers have been making tests of all this booze, and it will bE surprising to many to know that the whole caboodle does not average 2i per cent. alcohol. The men whc bought and entered this liquor foi market certainly had eyes for busi ness-they had regular gold mines. Here is how they made their money: Twelve quarts of corn whiskey at $1.50 gallon, would cost $4.50 in some cases, according to th< tests, the doctoring of 12 quarts re suited in 72 quarts. These 72 quart were retailed at $1.25 a quart. Ii other words, the retailer reecive( $90 for some doctored stuff whicl had cost him $4.50. Despite th fact that the stuff was badly doctor ed, the retailers found ready pur chasers at these exorbitant prices. An analysis of some of the booz held by Constable Fant discloses th fact that soapsuds, tobacco juice pepper, etc., were mixed with th water and whiskey to retain the pro per itaste, color, etc., after bein; diluted. Bosiery in Europe. The term "hosiery," which inclut es socks, stockings and knit andet wear, by improvement and develoj meat of machinery is now~being es tended over an infinite variety c jerseys, Tam o' Shanters and - h like. The neatness .and smartnes of these garments when knit. clin~i ing closely to the form, are pushin other knit fabrics, including * oase the woven equivalents out of th trade. The Germans are given th chief credit for initiative in i goods. They have built special iac tories and put in special machiner, for them. This, coupled with eer tain advantages In dyeing and abillit to produce cheaply, has given them It Is said, almost a monopoly of thb European trade. The Germans have even com manded the British market, but a the extraordinary demand for that product disables them from filling or ters within many months atter the, are placed the English manufactur er sees and is grasping his oppor tunity. Admittedly he can.a't prc duce and sell as cheaply as tue Ger man, but he can fill orders pr->mnptly This fact, with the naturai desir< o the British to buy home products encourages the belief that the Eng Ush manufacturer can at least secur, the home market, if he may not b. able to compete elsewhere with hi German. Moreover, many of the ma chines with which the Germans ar< achieving prosperity in knit ;abric are British make; hence Great Br tain is manifestly equipped with th weapons most necessary in the con test. The present activity in the pro duction of knit fabrics, or rep~ara tions therefor Indicates that the Ger man invasion 'is to be repelled I; possible. The Tragedy of Being Lowly. Nine-tenths of man's felieity de pends upon being well born; in Lon tion a bit more than nine-tenths. la the upper classes 18 per cent. of thi ihildren die before reaching the age of five years, but in the lower class es-say of St. George's-iu-the-Eas1 -the average death rate is twenty ie years of age. So by the mere fact of beln-; bori out of the nobility and gentry the~ Londoner is stripped of twenty-sev en years of the life that might have been his. Oh, of other things, too, he is shorn. His short life is bara of comfort or delight. Nor can he take pride in it-it is, at once, toc dirty and too sad; all by that chanca of birth too far eastward. Pain and hunger and helotry the empty belly and the overburden ed back-are his heritage. H~e and his woman--a pair of lean, x:arped animals-slink together through the grayness of life, under the iron laws. And In blows and oaths they find a certain joy in gin-which is white as water and runs hellishly hot down the throat and smokes in the brain; find, too. In the pewter pot of beavy wet a certain sleep which is ~etter than waking: go thus through life till the iron law of averages knocks them on the her d at t wenty An inexorable law, decreeirng that one of every four Londoner: saall die in workhouse, hospital, jail or lunatic asylum.-Outing Mag:azine. ParN' Barefoot Brigade. A barefoot brigade is trying to make converts in Paris. Their chief is a painter of some renown. who believes th'at going barefooted is ab solutely essential for the health. In his studio he wears no foot covering of any kind, and when he is out he wears specially made boots whnich are perforated so as to allow free ac The Bryan Band Wagon. The Bryan band wagon. in its -ounds last week, took on all the d >assengers who were bound for f )enver. Not a single delegate elect !d during the week was disposed to support anybody other than the Ne )raskan, says the Charleston Post. "There were fifty-eight delegates p lIected to the Democratic national onvention. Of these, fifty were defi itely instructed to vote for the e 1omination of Bryan and the other ?ight, though not instructed, were )penly pledged to suppe-t Bryan's andidacy. Mr. Bryan now has 543 lelegates bound to him by instruc tions and forty more who are de termined to vote for him on their wn motion. That puts him within eighty-nine votes of the nomination, nd there are more coming his way. "Three hundred and seven dele gates are yet to be elected, End of these 187 are counted upon as prac tically certain to be Bryan support ers; if these materialize Bryan will have 779 votes assured on the first ballot, 98 more than sre needed to nominate. and he will probably be made the candidate by acclamation. If the majority rule for nom inations prevailed in Dem ocratic conventions, as it should prevail, instead of the two thirds rule, Bryan would now have of in structed delegates 38 more than enough to insure his nomination. "The failure of the opposition to capture a single delegate last week in the three State conventions that were held is significant of the devel opments of the situation. The op position has practically retired from the field, after having been most thoroughly--not to say ingloricusly -beaten. The effort to make John son of Minnesota, a candidate has utterly collapsed. Except for the support of his own State Johnson would not be even mentioned 'as a candidate. He has not secured a single delegate outside of Minne sota, though his candidacy has been persistently and noisily boomed aur ing the period of delegate choosing. "The Bryan band wagon is mak ing its final rounds and seats on it are going at a premium. Those who have not yet got aboard will have to jump quickly." Taft's Oath of Allegiance. Secretary Taft is reported to be giving some consideration to the making of the platform upon which he expects to be nominated by the Republican national convention. It will endorse the Roosevelt adminis tration in no uncertain language, we are assured by disnatches from Washington, and that it is not to be wondered-at, since it is . as reasona bly certain as anything can be that the platform will be dictated ver batim et literatim at the White House by the man who is master in that establishment. Of the charac ter and expression of the platform there can be no doubt. It will have the ring of Roosevelt, al! ri.;ht. Mr. Roosevelt will see to that. But the patform is not all. There is the cndidate's letter of acceptance, which is always an imiport' nt feat ure' of the party's politicatl chart. Something is predicted of that also, according to an Associated Press dipatch from Washington which ays: Should the Chicago platform adopt this sort of platform and noin~rate Seretary Taft, it is predicted in authoritative quarters that his let ter or speech of acceptance will con tain a p!edge to carry out th'e Roos evelt policies already inaugurated, which will have a ring similar to that pronounced by President Roos evelt on taking the oath of office ov er the body of the dead McKinlev. The Charleston Post says: "That should be welcome news for the scared 'business interests.' If Mr. Taft is going to carry out the Roose velt policies there is more trou ble ahead for the commercial and industrial interests which h.ve been so racked and wrought, but if Mr. Taft is to promise that he will con tinue the Roosevelt policies in the same spirit that Mr. Roosevelt promised to continue the policies of the dead McKinley, or, rather: if he is determined to abide his promise as Mr. Roosevelt has abided his. then indeed, should there be rejoic ing and jubilation among the frightened financiers. No more effective bid for the support of 'predatory wealth' could have been made for Mr. Taft than this prom ise to maintain the Roosevelt poli cies even as Roosevelt maintianed! the McKinley policies." THE New York Times says "The opposition to Bryan's n<mination comes from men that have the we! fare of the whole nation at heart." The State says it will give The Times a gcld-mounted Taft button (it is going to support him) if it will di rect us to a man who has fattened off the robber tariff who has enjoyed special privileges at the cost of the many, who has paid money to keep the G. O. P. in power so he might keep both his feet in the trough, and yet who does not claim that hel has the welfare of the whole na tion at heart." GUSTAv Ander, the socialist, has announced a purpose to start a sim ple life paradise colony near Vera "ruz, Mexico, where he will prove :hat clothes do not make the man, >ut on the contrary are a great bin rance to piety. As the colonists iogress on purity they are expect 'i to discard garments until at ength they will not ne' d even fig. eaves. Such cranks as Ander should K ? loeked up. Lcky is the man who isn't sold ORIENTAL HORRORS NEW YORKER RELATES TERRI- I ELE ADVENTURES. Sudden Death of a Companion. Mis lead Chinese Coolies and Imprison- E nient Without Trial or Hearing. Three months in a mildewed Chinese dungeon, on false imprison ment. has cured L. C. Stewart, of New York city, of any desire to again return to the Oriental country. He is now in Denver. Col.. recuperating. Here is his advice to young men who think they are anxious to seek ad venture in the Far East: "The Orient is no place for a young man and I would advise no one to go there. Our western ideas of mora lity and decency are soon lost in that country. Most of the white people, including the women and even a few of the missionaries, take to drinking heavily in the Orient and seem un able to stop. A general laxity of morals )results. In the European quarters anything goes and you do anything you care to do without los ing caste so long as you do not make too much noise. It's a good place to stay away from." The Terrible Black Cholera. Mr. Stewart was a British collector of revenue with headquarters at Hcng Kong. On one of his trips to the interior he picked up an English man by the name of Charles Frank, was broke, and wanted to get out of the country. On the return trip they were riding together on the backs of coolies, states Mr. Stewart, when all of a sudden Frank screamed, and throwing his arms in the air fell on Stewart, the black vomit pouring from his mouth. Within 15 minu tes he was dead. "The coolies fled panic stricken at the eight," relates Mr. Stewart, "but I covered two of them with my revolver and forced them to return. We made a rough pine box and buri ed Frank, marking the spot with ston es. Then, with my two coolies, I started for Rangoon, expecting that I myself would be stricken any mo ment. The coolies knew the black vomit had fallen upon me and were afraid to come near me. To my sur prise I was not stricken and reach ed Rangoon after a terrible trip. False Story and Imprisonment. 1' "My other coolies dad reached there the day before, and when I was - at once arrested and, without a hear ing, thrown into' prison, charged with having murdered Frank. The offi cials would not accept my explana tion and I could not get them to make an investigation. Then began three months of the worst torture a man could endure and still live. I was in a foul; dark cell, dripping with mildew and decay. Once a day a guard would bring me a bowl of some filthy concoction that only nasea ted me. For days I went with out food, lying on the damp floor o:' mn: dungeon. "At last I received a call from the Biitish resident, and after that was allowed to have a loaf of bread and1 a pint of water a day. I became de Slirious with fever in' my conscious moments was sure I was dying. After seemingly endless weeks of. suffering an expedition was sent to find Frank's body. "It was at last brought to Ran goon, and there an autopsy showed that he had died from cholera, as claimed. I was released in almost a dying condition. When I had re covered sufficiently to travel I went to Singapore, sent in my resignation and went to Manila. I never care to see China again." - -* '.in1\ iMS ON GUTTA kERC-.--~ Little Sea Anaimal Which Is Mi' Drenh~ed by Eugineers. The vicissitudes of a submir::. caime are niny, says thie Ml::az. o: ~Coumere'e. It ma~y be torn i, : author . ei usaed 'oy a cock or .cLtX 1:. da:d by~ a coral reet saicO abounu in tne tropics. soine o1 t growth~s oten iound on a cable tc: gradualiy to decay the iron silat;.. wires. Tlhen; again a cable is so;. Limels sev'ered by an earthqu. nia:" be tatally atec~ea Oy thy .. of a sawliish or by tfie s'ike u. But pecrhaps the little animal t. mnakes itself most ob.;ectioaaL'te 2 the cab~e engincer's staa'y~o nt, the insignificant booking ter'e navalis. This little bceast is . ,.causeiy gree'Luy where gutta p~ere':.a *oncerued, w orking its way tuere tween the iron wiles and bett'.. the ser'ing yarns. -The silica in : outer c'able compound ter-ds to o. teat tae teredo's eiforts at utaking useal ot the core and. tnis dcee:: urtaier eficated by ta e ecie Umas .~ "eio;;-d in a thin tai. ng of braims. But where the bottom is kroA u b'e badly infected wUih these litti iionsteis 01t the deep the LUSUian . ofen comnpo':ed of India ruboe. w hich nais an attraction 1(1' the tei de aind possesses a t'ougi; ness. nr.or'e over', which is less suited .or' its bor ing tool than the corta~ato U clareselike gutta percha. From one cause or another. faaut: occur in most cables from time r timne. These require to be electri cally localized from the table testlii hut and a ship sent out to thie s I [osed position to grapple for the lli1. pickt it up an.. effect the necessary re pairis. When thie cable has reahi: been hooked and picked up-an~f 0; eration which mlay en:.ail seera week~s or even months, if only in waiting for favorable weather'-the b'git is secured at the bows and 'J rerward cut. Each end is ther: brought on board alternately am., tested electrically. If found to uc soundl the neecesary repairs are then ef'ected. Must Guarante'e to Return. The nuuber of peasants emigrat lng from Asia Stinor' to the LUnit e.i States is so large that the Ottoma.n government, fearful less the whole province be depleted of able bodied mien has refused to permit any one to leave the country. ec . ept upon giving a guarantee that he will return. There is, inspite o' this restriction however, a consid- ] erable emigration going on both tc tthe United States and to Egypt.': T.e peasants smuggle themselve out of the country hy sailing vs to Greece, whiene. he.. -e~ tree to go wherever thev wish.i The Tariff Issue. Outside of the intricacies of the iff-rent schedules of the tariff, urposely made obscure and difficult or voters to understand by the Re ubli'ans, the question of high or )w tariff is the real fact at issue. 'hat plain issue everyone can com rehend. The present tariff was specially designed to protect the rusts and manufacturers from for ign competition. and the question f raising revenue for .the govern aeint was a secondary consideration. 'he Republican politicians when oTrccting the present tariff law to uit the Trusts and protected mo topolists rashly discarded the pre umption that foreign countries, whr they found the schedules so )rihibitive that they could not profi ahly export their products to this :ounery, would retaliate by in:reas ng their rates of duties, so as to >rohibit the importation of Ameri an goods. Foreigners want our wheat and four, our corn and meat and tobac o, and other products they do not aise themselves, or do not produce n FEffiient quanities to supply their >wn consumers, but they do not wan- our manufactured goods to :onpete with their own like pro- . lucts. Such countries as Germany France, Austria, Russia, and in fact every country, but England, has raised a higher tariff barrier to pre vent competition from the United ;tates. They declare, if you will not trade with us, we will buy as little as possible of you. The trusts try to overcome their foreign tariff'barrier by selling Ot much lower prices to the foreigners; than to our own people. The Euro nean and other foreign markets are loaded down with bargain counter goods from the United States. while trust prices here are still kept at the top notch. Therefore, the question the voters of the United States must decide at the coming election, is whether they are satisfied to pay high prices for much they buy. or by reducing the tariff participate in the reduced " prices that the foreigners enjoy. That is a very simple propositien to vote upon. Those few voters who benefit by Trust high prices will, of course. vote to continue the Re pu lican party in power. Those who think the trusts should shift for themselves and be subject to competition that will force them to sel their products as cheaply as abroad will vote the Bemacratic ticket. The Republican National platform will declare as former ones have, for. "the principal of protection," and al; hough there may be a'promnise to revise the tariff, there will be no di rect promise to revise it lower. How can the protective principle be per petuated without continuir'even irceressing the present rates. Don't be again fooled by promises unless specific reductions are included. Wall Street Manipulations. The Wall Street speculators have advanced the price of stocks beyond thze pre-panic level, and it is hardly. necessary to say, that with reduced incomes and smaller dividends, should notbe in demand at higher prices on their intrinsic merits. As aarriman and Rock'efeller are said to be engineering-the advance, there is ro" doubt they can force prices even higher, but that is all the more reason for small fish to seek shallow watr-r, or those big fisi '~ay swal low them up like the pike does the minnows. The Wall Street stock market is no longer run on basiness principles, it is now entirely at the mercy of the big speculators, who force prices up and down to suit themselves, and generally make money whicbever way it goes. How can the ordinary business man corn pete in such a nest of manipulation. When Marriage is a Failure. He did all the courting before marriage. .He never talked his af :irs :er with ra~ wir~ I-e thought of his wife only as a cheap house keeper. He never dreamed that a wife deserved praise or compliments. He married an ideal was disappoint ed to find it had fiaws. -He paid no attention to his personal appearance after marriage. He treated his wife as he would not have dared to treat another weeranl. BANKS don't always pay. A re ceiver has been appointed for one in Jacksonville, Fla.. which opened for business on May 1. The bank started with a capital of .$50,000 and it is saie that during the month on ly $i3,000 in deposits were received. When it closed the other day it is said there was but $130 in the bank. liaggage Destroyed by. Fire. On Wednesday morning a car con ~aining about 100 trunks belonging o young ladies who have been at ending Winthrop College, was de stroyed by fire. Negro Who Killed Matron to Hang. Frank Johnson, a negro, who kill d a married woman because she re used to elope with him, has been' entenced to be hanged at Clarks mrg, WV. Va., July 17.* Serious Panaic on a Street Car. In a panic caused by a fire on a rolley car at Fort Worth. Tex.. 12 rsens were injured, two serious The Demoer.:r -- ' -" ' in the leedion of Georg- (' -- -:rsm: to be U:.ited States senate from Ore o to succeed Fulton. a Republi an, .He was nominated-in the pri ary and will be elected by a Re blican Legislature. How we dislike people who grasp