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FOUND IN LAKE Whther SicMd or Accident Is Not Known WAS FROM AUGUSTA Former Liquor Merchant of Georgin City Discovered by Offier as Day break Floating on West Side of the Coloaal Pond. Charleston. S C., Nude and Dead The Charleston Post says Polie man White found the nude body o a white man at the west side of Co lonial Lake. near the lood gate. Tues day morning at daybreak. and inves tigation showed that he was drowned. His clothes were found at the north side of the gate. The man was a to al strnger, but The Evening Post. following up a clue found on his per son. ve.ded the evidence that he was Oscar Vllinger . of 416 Houston street. Augusta. Undertaker Stuhr took charge of the body at the Instance of Mr. C. B. Reaney. who Is said to be con aected with the dead man. and who received a long distance message from Augusta to have the body tak en care of. Coroner O'Donell hurried to the lake a few minutes after the call came to him from the police station. and be had the body removed from the shallow water where It was lying face downward and it was taken to the Roper hospital to await identi fcation. There were no marks of violence on the body. which was quite nude. The clothe, of the deceased were dis covered on the concrete curbing near the place whe7e his body was found. and the water all about was only from two to four feet deep. Indi cating that he must tave taken a plunge last night some time. perhaps with the intention of cooling of. or with Intention of making an end of himself. Nothing was found in his clothes but a recommnndatin written In February. 190S. by a Mr. A. P. Padgett. of 1301 Broad street. Au gusta. an envelope that gave his wife's adrress in Augusta. and borf his name and general address. Char leston, and a half written note. con taning the words: 'Can't write much. I am still nervous.' The envelope found with his name on It in a womans handwriting, was covered with Illegible writing and a good deal of figuring. Words like .. .. .. ..slee"' ''Monday.' were made out. There is no doubt that the deat: of the man came about by drown Ing. but whether It was deliberate or accident is a hard matter to de. cide. The stranger was evidently ir Very humble circumstances, and ap but failed to find It. It Is possibli but failed to find It. it is posIblb that he was overcome with weaknesi from hunger, and when he fell intc - or dived into the water for his cooS ing plunge, he was unable to hel; himself. even In a shallow depth The deceased was apparently betweet forty andSifty years of age. Comparatively few people saw thi body In the pond. as It was removes as soon as possible to the morgue An- early morning oarsman helped to get the body out of the water and the pollee patrol wagon took I1 over to the hospital. Following up the clue given by th4 envelope, a telegram was sent to Au gusta by The Evening Post, resultini - in a messge to Charleston to Mr Reaney. a stenographer at the Bur ton lumber mills. The first Sdentitf cation of the dead man came from: thia mesge to Charleston. It Is understood that a widow and chil drea survive the victim of the drown WHiPPED fO AND FBO. Two Air Navigators Have Thrifling Time 10.000 Yeet tp. Their balloon. "the Meba" whip ped helpless to and fro by a sixty mile gale in a dense cloud, ten thou sand feet above the earth. John Ber ry and hI. A. Heiman Wednesday clung to the basket and flnally de scended safely at Rock Hill. ten mIles from St. Louis. whence they ascend - ed. On ascending they were carried swiftly to an altitude of ten thou sand feet into a thunder cloud, where the bag was dashed about. At times the balloon lay on a level with the -basket as the wicker was pitched high up by the careening gas bag. * The balloonists pulled the emer gency valve, and although the bag ahnost collapsed, the balloon was held up by thre gale. Suddenly the wind ceased, and the half emptied envelope shot downward, then form ed a parachute and let the men to earth safely except that Heimann sprained an ankle. TURKS AND SYRIANS FIGHT. Row Started Over the Eiopement of Boy andGr. One man iMad. another fatally injured and several dangerously wounded Is the result of a race riot In which Turks and Syrians partic Ipated at Spriagfleld. Mas. Monday. The trouble arose over the elope ment of a 15-year-old Syrian giri with a 17-year-old Turkish youth last Thursday. Joseph Alley, a Turk. special police oemeer. Is alleged to have started the trouble by urging the Turks to gather and kill the Christians. Alley's skul! Is frac tured. the result of his share in the roy. Saad Burroni1. another Turk. was stabbed to death. WeD Placed. Bacon-That offcas seeking 'riend of yours has landed a job at last. Egbert-Good: What -has he landed? Hie's keeper at the pesthouse. Well. he's the right man Iu the right place. Hie's the g-eatest pest' I ever knew-Yonkers Stat"-man. After a woman has burim! h'r! third husband you dan't teil her COTTON BAGGING. SHOULD E I'SED TO PAC THE AMERICAN STAPLE. No Other Cotton in the World L% Packed in Jut. Bagging Except American Cotton. The fo;;owing article front the pen af Mr. Harrit, Jordan, whom =any of our readers wi:: remember a4 the presidenat of the Cotton Asiocia :.ion. will be read with interest by every =an who makes and se.s cot ton: Snce the daLy)s of the Farmers' Alliance when such a heroic effort 'as made to displace Jute bagging with the use of cotton bagging South emn farmers have prayed that the time might yet come when cotton bales could be satIsf actor!:ly and economically covered with votton alotth. Seventeen years have pased since -h- legions of the Far.mers' Alliance waged war with the Jute trust. w% -e lefeated and had to surrender again to the powerful control of the jute zagging monopoly. In looking back aver the diffculties with which the cotton growers had to contend in :hat memorable contest to ascertain :.he weak points In the armor of the farmers which led to their defeat. it is now openly admitted that -he :rouble was with the bale and the arbitrary tare assessed against its oovering. which gave the victory to the jute trust. The continued use of the large. combersome plantation bale which :nust necessarty be roughly handl.d with hooks in transit from the gin sery to the spinner and the dedue tion by the cotton trade of 6 per :ent. or 30 pounds from the gross weight of the bales for tare, has made it practically and economically impossible for the farmers to use a Dagging which could not stand rough usage and was heavy in weight. WIth the introduction and adop ion of local gin compression. which within the last year or two has been rendered practicable through the t= iention of modern machinery, the 4se of cotton bagging as a covering for the new style bales will be made not only possible bTt preferable by both growers and 9pinners. In ad lition to ths. the Uverpool and Man -bester Cotton associations have 'ecently passed resolutions lifting the embargo of the arbitrary six per cent deduction for tare, in so tar as it relates to gin compressed cot ton. and hare agreed to buy all snch :otton by actual net weight. The New England spinners have not only agreed to the action of the foreign associations. but will pay an estra premium to the farmers for tin compressed bales In order to of fer additional inducements to reform the .present primitive and wasteful methods of baing and handling American cotton. The twentieth century new style bale, which is now being compressed at many gin plants in the South. Is a neat 500-pound bale of cotton, of the square type, car -ying a density of 30 pounds to the cubic foot, about one-third the sir" of the ordary plantation bale, and which will load a car to Its carry lung capacity at the In~tl point of shipment, to be billed direct to the -nanufacturer without loss of timne or recompression In transit. SAll domestic and foreIgn spinners fare unanimous in their objection to the use of jute bagging as a cover ing for ~American cotton. No other cotton in the world is covered with lute bagging except the cotton raised in this country. Jute baggIng is not only heavy in deIght. makes the :are and freight on same unneces sarily high and expensive to the growers. but in taking such b.agging of the bales at the mills a consider able amount of the lint is detached from the bales, which is either lost entirely or sold as waste at two cents per pound. In addition to the jute dare mixes cith the lInt fibre and causes no end of trouble and material losses to the apinners of the dine yarns. It is now admitted by spinners generally that cotton bagging can be taken off the bales at the mills without any loss of lint: that the bagging can be de corticated wIth modern machinery now in use at the mills, reconverted Into lint and woven back Into yarns and cloth. This would give an ad ditional value to coton bagging which would enable the spinners to pay a rebate to the farmers for using cotton bagging and thereby greatly reduce the cost of bagging to the cot ton growers. A satisfactory bagging can be made from the cheap. low grade staples of cotton. and experiments are now being conducted along that line by some of the largest cotton mills in this country. The use of cotton bag ging therefore as a coverIng for American cotton will increase the de mand for our cotton by home mills: reduce the pre-sent heavy tare and hIgh freight rates: satisfy the de mand of the cotton growers and meet the wishes of the spinners. With the speedy adoptIon of local gin compression all of those reforms advocated by the growers, spinners. transportatIon companies and the totton trade generally will be made possible, and the expensive and prim Itive methods today employed in. the baling and handling of AmerI can cotton will be numbered amuong the things of the past. HIARVTE JORDAN. Owders to Rumian Troop. Orders were Issued a few d...e ao at St. Petersburg. Rusita. to the miltary nepartment of the Caucastz to prepare troops for a Russian - pedton into Teheran. the capital ot Persia. The vessels necessary transport the expedition assemb: at Blaku. whence the troops will b taken to Enzell. on tbe Caspian Sea. Everything Is in~ readines~s in case further advances~ on the part of - Bah:!ari trib.-smen an'" Kashin revouIon!s's make Ruissian inter ven~o'".'cessary. Killed by Bomb. Marie Bakhtadze. who has bs prominent as an agent of the po Itical polIce of Tillis. SiberIa. was killed by a bomb that had been sent, to eer by: an unknown pers~on in a FREE TIE FIGHT 4GGALNLT THE STEEL TRUST IS LOST. OF COURSE. ren Republicana Vvte With the Democras to Give the Farmers o1 the South Justice. in his Wash!ngton !.-tter to The Stat.. Zach McCee says both thi South Caroina senators took an ac t!ve part in the :ight to put cotto: tes on the free list today. The .n fact practically led the fight. th< amendment being propose'd by Sen ator Culberson. who had arrang.'< with the Caro*ina senators to speak But it was of no use: the Aldric machine. which is und'-r great obli gations to the stee! trust. voted I down. Senator Aldrich made th plea that since there were large de posits of iron in certain Souther States. the South ought to be mak !ng its own cotton tIes and th Southern senators ought to be agains any effort to put ties on the fre list. Sent.tor Tillman replied that as matter of fact. the South did nc make any cotton ties and could nc make any. owing to the dominanc of that business by the steel trust. Senators Olirer of PennsylvanI and Lodge of Masachusetts state that the Southern cotton farmer acl ua!!y makes money off of baggin and ties because he buys baggin and ties for about 3 cents a poun and sells the bagging and ties thA saime pric.- as the cotton. Senator SmIth completely refute this by showing that the Uverpo buy'rs deducted for bagging and ti 6 per cent. and then fix the pric of the whole world. this 6 per ce: being taken out before the pr1< of the cotton Is fxed in Americ Senator SmIth got Into a spirit* colloquy with Messrs. Oliver. Lods and others over this poi:t. and thi demonstrated to the senate what I could do in running denate. It w: clear to all that he was a mast, of the subject and the best informo man in the senate on the subje of cotton. Cotton bagging was put on the fr list Monday morning, without a d vision. but the steel trust was n, concerned in that. The senate vot down the tie proposition. 38 to '1. The following Republicans vot< with the Democrats for free tie Beveridge. Bristow. Brown. Clap Crawford. Cummins. DuPont. Job son. LaFolette and Nelson. ZACH McGE9. PUT OX FREE LIST. I Cotton Bag'ging Amendment Accept by Senate. Without debate the Seate Mond placed cotton bagging on the fr list and agreed to the House rate three-tenths of a cent a pound1 cotton ties. ThIs item will still ha to run the gauntlet of the conft enee, the House rate being six-tent of a cent per square yard. T amendment regarding cotton baggia was offered by Senator McLaurin. Mississippi. and covered beggin;t f cotton, gunny cloth and similar brics, suitable for covering et ton. This action was followed aagreement to the entire paragra: whIch also Included binding twI: upon the tree list. WILL TAE HIM HOME. WrJh Womaa Finds Son a iot Waiter. Mrs. Robert H. Burnham. of Ret Nevada. arrived In New York Mo day and was entertaining two worn friends at tea in a large up-town b tel when she recognized the wait who was serving her as her so Robert Biurnham, who left Reno se eral years ago to make his own ft tune in New York. He failed. a r:.ther than send home for mon he went to work as a waiter, though the waiters In the hotel whe he is said to have been found a credited with enjoying large incom from the libe-ral tips received. Mr1 Burnham will take her son to N vada. where he wIll manage h business affairs. his father hanis recently. Railroads Reap Harrest. IDuring the months of Januar February and March last 663 pe sons were killed ar.' 13.122 Injun aIn raIlroad accident: according to recent bulletin Issued by the lnte state commerce commission at Was) ngton. The number of collistor was 2.042. and 1.242 derailment The damages done by accidents a, gregated $1.847.202. U-es a Gourd. A dispatch from Atlanta says Go, .rnor Joseph Brown, who waz iaat urated Iast Saturday with unusus .implicity. Monday brought to th Capital a country goard. with a lon handle. He Installed this primiti' drinking device at a watercooler i the receptIon room of the Capite bulding. A White Garrison. It was announced Monday Brownsville. Texas. that the war d' partment w!l! send two companie of white troops to occupy Fo: Brown. formerly held by negro sol diers of the 25th regiment, who wer discharged from the service follow ing the rIot. Train Runs Away. A logging train of the Metropoil an Lumber coy ran away dowi a steep grade and odf a bridge ' feet high at Eureka. Cal. The en 'ire train cew-' of four men wai hred undsy a mass of huge red wood logs and wrecked cars ana were Instantly ki!Ied. rer. -.- wb.a -he tw.o weeks1 WT r:. I '*n itlad enou;:h to secnd tin [ ate o he-ar what else he b~ad to~ say. and he cr' .\nd h.re George. with a greal o te-amr.ng fromt his eyes saId, ''Yes, [wanted to h.-ar what she had t' ay. too. And --h.. 'aid It was all agt. atnd G.:orge broke ir.tto a h-ib THEY MET AGAIN kfter Years of Seperation and Remarried. A GEORGIA ROMANCE I Youna tiusband and Wife Became Pstranged and Parted. and After Marrying Again. They Meo-t and Renew Vows of Loce and Marry the Second Tine. A dispatch froml F"zgerald. G.a.. to the Augusta Chronicl'. t-!'. this story: Bubbling over with a case of genuine love. melowed by a twenty :ive years experience of hardshp. yearning disappointment and longing for a lost first loi. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. T. Thomas walked into the of dic of th News yesterday afternoon and 'asked that their checkered career be published to the world. And such a record: It is truth. ..very word of it. but there is no fctIon half so strange or romantic. Twenty-five years ago these two were married. After two and a half years of wedded life they lost each other and :or twenty-thr#e years. four months and one day they neither saw or heard of c-ach other. until two weeks ago they met face to face. recourted and married again on Thursday night and today are the happiest bride and groom man ever .ooked upon. "Fction.' do you say? If the writer could compose such fiction he would not be grinding away on a daily paper for bread! With some emubelishments of lan guage and connection this Is the vitory as told by Mrs. Thomas her self: "Twenty-2.ve years ago. Mr. Thomas and I were married at Cedar Keys. We both were Georgians. he having been reared in Clinch an- I In Dooley county and our families had drifted down into Florida. He was twenty-one and I fifteen and our aative similarities drew us together and we were married. "For two and a half years we lived together as happy as most couples do. but I was young and foolish. and. like many girl wives. i had a yearn ;ng to try my husband's love and show my power over him. We had some triding misunderstanding. in which I was wholly to blame and one morning I ran away from home. I did not go far away and it was my intention to write him after a month ar two and make him come to me. or if he declined to come. I. of course. was going back home to him. I wait ed two months and wrote. But, lo: he dId not come and my letter re turned to me unanswered. Then I went to him-or where I had left him, but he was not to be found. Hie had gone in search of me and I anew not where to look for him. "I came back to Georgia. I search ed the country from Atlanta to Ha eana. but nowhere could I find any one who could gIve me any informa 'ion about him, and, after y:ears of search. I gave up hope. Iater, a Cuban named Prank Perry wanted to marry me and I finally got a dl I orce from my lost husband and mar ried him. "For fifteen years Perry and I liv ed together and he treated me well. We lived sonme in Florida. some In Cuba and some in Georgia. Five years ago Mr. Perry died at Jackson ville and I came back to Georgia and started a cIgar factory, the only thing I knew how to do. For four I ears I have be--n making cigars at Wray. Georgia. not far from here. and two months ago I went to Syl cester and strte-d a facto:-y there. "A little over two weks ago I went on an excursion to Tamipa to purchas-e sonme tobacco :or my fac tory. I went to one of the big fac tories there late one afte'rnoon. just ais the men were leaving anid asked the watchman where I could see the manager, Hie was an Italian. and as I had forgot how to speak the Italian language I turned to a man I heard s ~peaking English to ask him to in Interpret for mie I looked hIm full in the face and my heart leaped into my mouth. "Watis your name?" I asked. "Thomas." he' saId. "George~ Thomas?" "George Thomas is my name." said he. "Do you know me" I saked. "No. I do not." "P~A~ting to a scar on my 'ecs iaus.-d from ii tore In my early h'. I said' "Do you know that-scar?" I"His face lighted up. and laymna his hand on a panel close by. he' said. "Do you recognize that hand?" "oofhIs fingers were Dartly cut off when a boy, and witha these tok ens of recognition we stepped aside and took a seat on th.' tactory steps where hie was nmght watchman. "And th--r" w.. sat the night out. elIng of all we had done' and where we had IAeen during the- years of separatIon. "And here in substance Is the story' he told me: "A fter five years of incessa n t :arch tor me. G'-orge gave up in depair and settled down at Jackson vile. IHere he decided to mary again and al ter gettin~g a divorce from me. arida woman named Her' .\rs. Thomas halted and fin any said--"Since It is our affair. we -vi!! not drag other names into it, lose famI!!es might object. George's .cond wIfe is dead now, we think. nbt:og ago they decided they could :e4 li--e together an~d he secured a i orco fromi her. 'Welt. he wandered up and down' 'tou;a Florida and fi!y settled ' ampa where he has been employ-. I or several~e years as :i;ght watch ;a for one of the big factories. And there Is whe're I ran into b!mt two weeks ago. "The nexrt day was Sundiay and we went to th-- beach and sp'n?. the' day' te:Iing each other ot wha: we had det:- d:.ri:.c -lhe ?--'vfi'e -esrs. it eook a !eorii ""m o :n:e . :or n Sunday ninbh I sa' on :h'e -tes of th-- faetor.' zaStu: a! nigh' 'ih George. and th" neo mo~ring she I had to iearcn Tampa bor my eo -gia home, we had not yet finish-. -d :.b: we had to say. an-i Iprm -1 nit. that in two vie-s I would ENDS HIS LIFE Death of a Strange Person Near Columbia. DEEPLY RELIGIOUS But That Did Not Havo Much Ef feet on His Personal Habit., as He Went Around Very Dirty In Person a% Well a. is Dress% and flabitx. The Columbia States says that J. Eugene L Fields. aged about ;1. Idied siddenly at the home of Mr. L. E. Kelly Tuesday morning about I 1 o'clock. Mr. Ke'!y !ves on the Garner's ferry road. about four miles oast of Columbda. On account of certain circumstances. #'e coroner was notided at one. Fields had. according to als usual habits. stopped at this houte for a cup of coffee. Shortly afterwards he called the children into the yard and after offering up a short prayer fell into convulsions and expired. e After an examination it was prae tically certain that Fields died t:om heard weakness. although a further !nvestigation will be made. The body ha.& been brought to the city and w!il be prepared for interment. 9 The death of Fields removes a d unique character. How he lived t or where he lived was not known. He dressed shabbily. although two bank books were found on his per son at the time- of hIs death and s ;bortly before that he re-ported to the police the loss of about $400. it He was always deeply Interested In relIgious services and was espec ally anxious to attend revival meet dngs. However. his life disturbed nc one and several times it was rumored that he gave to charity from th( money he managed to obtain some how. ?t The coroner is now eudeavoring 4 to trace his relatives and they will be notfied It found. There is abou! $75 in one bank to his credit. H( has been in Columbia for about 2( - years. but few people know anythinj >t of his history. and for this reasot his former station in life will prob ably never be known. He seemed to think that religior : did not mean labor or cleanline*s and his unkept person, with loni matted hair and longer beard, hai often been observed in places of wor ship. His bat was always stuffe< with old newspapers, for he was ai omnivorous reader. SNAKE IN A DRAWER. Ay Greenwood Woman Found Mocas ~n Mrs. Walter R.Iddlehuber. who lIve reabout four miles east of Greenwoot Shad occaslon to open a drawer whic1 be had not been open~ed for some time ag To her surprise and astonishment of she found a highland moccasIn o or tremendous size coiled -ip in th< a- dravwer. How long the snake ba. t- been in there is not known. E{ y 'm there and had be.!n there som. i. time. It se-. < t hat he could r.' e. get out and being attacked by th, pangs of hunger, he proceeded to d' your what was around him in th< way of laces and ribbons and hat laid away a considerable amount ;i euch thIngs. In fact. Mr. W. J Wells, who happened along abou that time, helped kill the snake an< saw that about four yards of lac o-was removed from his snakeship a- mouth. 'HEARING FROM THE PEOPLE. v. Loaisana Voters Want Their Dele PY The Democrati of Louisiana havy - f fred the first gun for true blu, e jDemocracy in the South. Declarinj ethat the members of the Louisiami delegation in congress --as a uni 9- voted for protection on lumber. !: - 'repudiation of the Dec ier ytatrorm r and have made speeches in favor o| gL protection on many other artIcles,' resoutlons were adopted by voters of Claiborne. parish at Homer Mon day' of an exsceedingly condemnatorl 7character. It is asserted in the reso r- lutlons "our senators and repreusen d tativ.es no longer represent the party a that elected them. and they should - forthwith tender their resignations.' s SPECIAL TERM ORDPERED. To Try Negro Accused of Attempting Assault. The State says Goy. Ansel ha.m ~ordered a special term cf court for Ju.y - to try John Jenkius, the ne' 'gro accused of attemp~ting crimina. assault in Georgetoan county and now in the penitentiray for safe keep L~ng. It will probably be necessary to appoint a special judge and the governor has written the chief jus tice asking for a recommendation for appoIntment. This will be announc ed~ later. The present law means that convIction of attempted assault jcarries ve'ith It the death penalty un less there i~s a r--commnendation to imercy. Meets Horrible Dea.b At Greensboro. N. C.. Bryan Ben ton. a l'Z-year-old boy, met a bnr rlie decath a fe af:ernoons ago 'hiile attending a iawp party ast the walker .nenur- Ciaristian churchb. lHe and two' or trr.e ,..ya-fthes climbed a tree !n which there. w.'re electrice light wires and his hand and knee came in con:a't wIth the wires. cau:-ng instant death. He fell ouit of the tree. but !ife was extinct be fore he struck the ground. Refuses to Di'place Negroes. F:0lowirg the C'Geogi; railroad's refusil to grant the nnion fireman's. demand for all white firemen, the Houston & Texas Central railroad Monday answered the dematds of the switchmen tn Houston and ref use" VERY POOR CROP THE COTTON PROSPECT REPORT ED FAR PROM BRIGHT. In North and East Texas Ontlook is Better Than In Years but Little Weevils -ay Change ft. The report of the National Gin. ners' Asociatlon. Just issued from Memzphis. g1ve the ,average cond tion o cottoa up to June 24 as 75.6 There has bean an abandonment o: acreage of 7 per cent. accordin: t the reprot, maklng the total acreagE 9.8 less than last year. IDetailed reports by St.ates: Alabama-ConditIon. 70; acreag' abandoned. 14 per cent: crop ver grassy In nearly all section; plaa' small and from two to four weeTc late. Arkansas-Conditlon. 7;: acreac abandoned. 4 per cent; crop ver gooI In west and north; very vass' and small elsewhere: boll weevil h1 24 counties worse thaa last spason some fields being abandoned a ac count of them. Fiorida-Condition. 99: very tIttI loes In acreage; most secticas cood C.eorgia-Condition. 79; acreag abandoned. 5 per cent: crop grassy most sections not all choped yet plant generally small and from on to three weeks late; some complaint of lice and black rot. Louisiana--Condition. 56: acreag abandoned, 13 per tent; crop grawy some sections in very good Sbape but so many weevil, that they ar destroylng all the squares as fast a the-y form; much cotton being aba: doned or planted in something tit on this account: many report nott ing will be made in their sectiona. Mist;ssppI--Condition, 61; acr age atandoned. 14 per cent; plat generally small; poor stands az grassy. MissourI-Condition. 86; very It tie loss In acreage; crops late bt good. North Carolina-Coadittoa . 71 acreage abandoned. 4 per cent; crol grassy in most sectioas and fro two to three weeks Late. Oklahoma--Condition. 90; acrea abandoned, 1 per cent; reports fro nearly all sections very good. South Carolina-Condition. 7 acreage abandoned. 4 per cent; sov few sections report Gelds grassy at not all choped yet: plants small as from two to three weeks late. Tennesseed-Condtion. 77: acreal abandoned. 7 per cent; crop sma and grassy. Texas-Condition. SO: acrea abandoned. 5 per cent: principally the dry section. where rains come t .ate; condition north and east Tex best In years. but weevils are r ported more numerous than usu and this Sne prospect may be chan ed In a very short time. South Texas had plenty of ral plant generally small and from to to six weeks late. Weevils reporta In large numbers, doing damage ready. West Texas still very dry e I cept four counties. rome places ha . ad no rain In six months. WI .plenty of rain tis sectiot will pi f duce from 56, to 68 per eest of crop. DO%'T IE FINDIG. The Firemen Ar. Dfssased W: Verdict. A special dispatch from Atlaa fto Augusta says there is the "ktee .est dIssatisfaction among the Si t men as a result of the decision han i ed down Saturday night by the a bitration board, which was in se s slon In Atlanta during the week determine the differences of the c d<. of LocomotIve Firemen and E ginenmen and the Georgia road. A. P. Kelly. third vice preside of the iemen says that the awa: is an outrage. leaving the Strem of the~ Georgia road in a worse co diion than before they went a strike. He points out that it tak from the firemen what they had b fore and gives them nothing what they demand. It Is hi, opi Ion that the award leaves it pc sible for the wages of whIte aa negro firemen to be equalized by ti reduction of the s-a'ges of white ir *men as well as by raising; the wag of negro firemen. He says that the seniority whl< prevaIled among white 5remes b fore the arbitration proceedings destroyed by the section which d ni.-s seniority of white over segi firemen. It is his opinion that the Is now no seniority among the Sr men of the Georgia road. Prom tlon depends entirely on selection 1 officers of the road. He is bittA against Neil!. commissioner of 1 bor. who, wIth MartIn A. Knap chaIrman of the Interstate Commer commission induced arbitration. Ei avthat Mr. Neill has not dea fairly with the firemen. - Dlrowned at Atlanti. City. At Atlantic City. N. 3.. James I McClur. aged 27. a nephew of th teCoi. Alexarder K. McClure. wa drowned whIle bathing off the Vente eaha few afternoons ago. Th young man is believed to have bee sei:z.-d with e-amnps and went dow enfore the lif.. guards could reac himi. Th body lhad not been recot .-r.-d at last reror's. The drowne man was a .ulesman. and had jus returned from a trip to Texas. IEilled While Praying. Whl J. E. Moser. 417 years c!h Sa:- nu: tib knee~s in a church nra Chicola. Texas. Satuirday night. R'x 1,-law. aro:, in his pew and 6r.e .anv. Bu:rnham's 'ife. wh'o ha; recently lef' h!m. was beide he father when the shooting occurred Fatal Areddent. W A Wright. !!le insuranea so!:c :tor. ac~t~aly sho~t and atleII him r": Monda:, whi~e hu'i::e s'quir -e14. inear thn herme of hi4 meh a, Ramseur. N. C. In ;enting om:~ a fence his shotgun was arclden~a:'y discharged. REPORT DENIED SUMTBEF MEDIC.L ASSOMIATION MAKES STATEMENT. Sny% There Are Only Fifteen Cases of Typhoid F'ever. of Which Six Came Frum Neighboring -owns. A dispa:ch from St.- -.tr says dur ing the past we.-k there have been nu-rerous vague and indefinite ru :nors circulatIng In some of the eboring towns and cities to the .-fect thait th're is now an epidemic of typhold lever In. Sumter. This is no the Ilsrt tim.- that such re ports have be.-n circulated. tending :o injure the health record of Sum ter. and In each case in previous years the rumor has proven false. In the present instance no attention was paId to the rumor by the cit! zens of Sumter until it was seen that such a report were allowed to continue It would injure the city. The attention of the Sumter County Medical Association was call ed to the matter and they Instruct ed their secretary. Dr. E. R. Wilson. to make a thorough investigation. which he did. and issued the follcw lag signed statement: I find that there are under treat ment in Skmter today fifteen cases of typhoid f.-ver. Of these nine cases are residents of Sumter and six have e been brought from aeighboring towns to the hospitals here for treatment. In seven of the nine cases among e residents we have been able to tract *ha source of infection to points out. qide the city. and in the other twc e cse the source of infection hai not yet been dets-rmined. (Signed) "E. R. Wilson. M. D.. "Secretary Sumter County Medica: t Association." Thus there are today only tw< cases which can possibly be trace to causeq within the city. There I. t not now nor i6 there any danger o: an epidemic. The health record o: Sumter is as good as that of an: itv in Eastern Carolina and a! re a ports to the contrary are untrue. LIGHTN'ING. Facts About This Mysterious Form e of Nature. d Lightning is still more or less mystery. We can imitate it on ; small scale in the laboratory. but it gigantic manifestations in the sk; and its wonderful vagaries make th wisest savants shake their headi i We know. at any rate, that light ning is the electric discharge a high tension between masses oppe sitely electrified. Every little partJ 'cle of moisture in the al-. carries charge. and when th. particle coalesce In a cloud their electricit collects on the surface until tb tensIon becomes enormous. If tw, clouds are oppositely electrified the will bombard each other until equil: brum is established betw--en then: If the opposition is between the sur Scharged cloud and an ol~ject on th 3round a terrific hoit passing be atwe-en the earth and the sky will re lieve the electric strain without re garnd to the well being of any crea ture that stands In the way. A lightning flash often darts to miles through the air. It begins wit: 6 discharge between two adjacer particles. The next particle ret c.-Ivos the shock and transmits It t SIts nearest neigh!or. and thus I rushes on. zigzagging along the lin SIof :east resistance until the unbal anced energies are restored to equal Sity. The way of lightning Is a crook ed way when the path is long. be Cause the distribution of the electri charges in the clouds Is irregulat CThe positIve seeks the negative an< rushes to its embrace wherever I finds it. d~ The eye is not Quick enough t aunravel a lightning stroke, but pho tography can do it to a certain de gree, and photograph. prove that th, path of the discharge is a warin, lIne. No dIscharge occurs until th< Stension has reached the breakin, Spoint-i. e., the point where the re sistance of the air can no longer re d stran the force of the gatherin: charge. What might be called th< inner structure of a lightning stroki Is a marvel. Professor H-enry prove< that every stroke is an alternatinj h current, the oscillations occupyin; but a few millionths of a second while the duration of the flash ma: .be a consIderable fraction of a sec ond. Mn~l ACCTDENT IN COLLMImrA. Popular Toung Man Loses His Life in the Canal. ~'A. L. Royster. chief clerk to Su perintendent WillIams. of the South era railwy was drowned in th41 tColumbia canal Monday morning Iwhile out in a small boat. His body is not yet recovered. With hIm were former Chief Clerk Frank Harper .and NIght Clerk Hannah. of the Co ~iumbia Hote!. Mr. Royster was swimming acrors the canal to a boat tied to the oppo ,.ste bank. Within a few feet of the boat he sank In sIght of hIs two com parnlons. Rising. he cried out and Isank again. which was the iast see ~of him. SMr. Hannah and Mr. Harper pad tdled across to hIm, but could tind no tace.Mr. Royate-r was from Oxford. N. C.. unmarried and not quite thirty years old. Hie had a promising catr Hc was one of hemost pop)u:ar men in Colum hjia. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ MISTAKEN FORt BURGLAR.* Excitement in Room Where Man Wrestle-s With ih. The New York plce are -ing the owner of a hug'- hack dog In the hope that the attraal many be re sraed from: rpea'ing a ny i. erfme Israa!-; Mosko itz~ andol ': ha'. e b-tore diavligi" wb-.n a e- wdoc :mp-d 'r::gh the win dnu and hounded upon 'he bed. Mrs - Moskowitz tcroamed that there W-ee b ~urgars ten:i h'r hutar~3td grappied PASSED SENATE The Corporationi Tax Plan Adopt ed at Last BY LARGE MAJORITY Vote on the Troublespome Question Reached 'nexpectedly on a Mo ton to Substitute the Corporation Tax Amendment for the Income Tv Amendment. The corporation tax amendment. which was suggested by President Taft. is an Integral part of the tariff bill as that bill now stands. After much tribulation, the Senate rea:hed a vote shortly before ad journing at 7 o'clock p. m. Friday. and the amendment was agreed to. G-) to I1. Many Democrats voted with most of the Republicans for the amendment. Only throb Demo- g crats voted against the provision on the final vote. but some refrained from voting at all. The test vote was on the substi tution of the corporation tax amend ment for the Income tax provision. and on that vote forty-five Senators cast their ballots in the affrmative and thirty-one in the negative. On this ballot all the Democratic votes were cast in favor of the income tax. which also received the support of a number of the Insurgent Repub licans. There was a steady fire of oratory from the beginning of the session at 10 o'clock until 4:30 o'clock Fri day afternoon. When the fire had ceased Mr. Aldrich took t~he floor and made a request for unanimous agreement for a vote on the corpo ration tax amendment Saturday at 1 o'clock. Previous to presenting this request there had been much con ferring between Mr. Aldrich and Messrs. Bailey. Cummins, Borah and other opponents of the amendment, and it was generally supposed that they had reached an understanding that the vote should be taken Sa. urday as suggested by Mr. Aldrich. When it seemed that such a compact was probable. Senator Cummins en tered formal objection to the unani mous agreement which not only had the effect of preventing the fixing of L the vote, but of forcing it Friday. L The frst vote was upon the mo f tion to substitute the corporation T amendment for the Lodge counter e vailing duty amendment and this prevailed. 45 to 3.. The affirma tive vote was cast entirely by Re t publicans, even Senator McEnery. of - Louisiana. who has voted with the - majority side for all protective meas ures, throwing his ballot with his s own party. F Immediately following Mr. Lodge Swithdrew his amendment, and a vote Swas taken on a motion to substitute i the corporation tax amendment for - the income tax amendment offered -jointly by Messrs. Bailey and Cum -mins, e The result was an exact counter - part of the vote on the previous roll - call. Next came tne vote upon the cor - poration tax provision upon its own merits, but before this ballot c~cld r ibe reached Mr. Bacon sought to ob> 3 tain action upon two amendments t ito that provision, presented by him -self, both of w~ich Mr. Aldrich moe 3 ed to lay upon the tabl.4 with suo t Icessful result. e The first provided for an exemp - Ition of educational, charitable and - jreligious institutions. against which -{ Mr. Aldrich made his first point of - order. Because he did he fell into e l a sharp clash with its author. The - effect of the point of order was to !I t ot off debate, but Mr. Aldrich chanc t l d to drop the remark that he would "'allow'' Mr. Bacon to proceed. The > form of the expression seemed to in - i cense the Georgia Senator, and he -'etorted sharply to the effect -'that She was 'not surprised that Mr. Al drich should assume such a manner, Sbecause he had been dictating to the Senate so long that he was accus tomed to use language of that kind." When the amendment was laid on the table by a vote of 43 to 32. the Georgia Sernator immediately pre sented another amendment requiring Ithe taxation of bonds, which was re jected. 41 to 34. Then, without any preliminaries, .the flnaI vote was taken. It was up on agreeing to the corporation tax amendment as a part of the tariff bill. This amendment was adopted, 60 to 11. Of the negative votes --ight were cast by Republicans and three by Democrats, the Republicarns being Borah. Bristow. Bulkeley. Clapp. Cummins, Dolliver. Heyborn and Lafollette. and the Democrats, Chain berlin. Huges and Shiveley. England's Colonies. The Imperial Prese Confereace in London seems to have been a really Important meeting. While sight see !ug, banquets and other social cour tesies consumed a good deal of the time there was also much interchange of thought resulting in a clearer'un derstanding of some vital questions. Perhaps the most significant thing about the conference was the em phatic recognition by members of the British government that the self governla,; colonies are really lnde pendent. Lord Crewe. Colonial Sec retary, Ia presidIng at one of the semi~ons referred to the colonies as "equals and sli!es." rnwvi1tten Law in Chicago. In ('h!cago Tuesday the "tjnwritc ten laT" was. sustained by the ipry In Judege Keral!'s court, whichbf'eed IMichael Pacellane. charged with the murder of Frank S.-reno. as the re ~ult. it is a:ieged, of the latter's betrayal of Pacellano's sister. There's hardly atnviin so good fo aan standing m acom it atoeta lot of somi' o'her man's u~oney away fromu him. Pointed Paragraph-. 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