University of South Carolina Libraries
A MURDER I (New York There is a man living today who, i has gone through the whole thrillin-. e horror-filled experience of killin a mar. in the clouds. The marks of i grief and woe on his face and his shattered nerves tell the whole story. Robert F. Scan.ion was known through the Middle West as one of! the most daring and even foolhardy aeronauts and parachute jumpers n all the country. Rarely was a day I too windy or a district too dangerous for him to make his ascension ac cording to contract and On time. Then in a day, in an hour. it was all changed. It was during Fair Week at Ca bokia. Ill. People from all the sur rounding country and towns had come in on the last day of the week to make merry when Scanion was billed to make a balloon ascension and parachute leap. He himself superintended the ill lug of the balloon with hot air ana coal gas by throwing liht wood and coal oil on the fire in the furnace a a few yards from the balloon. The . gas was sent into the canvass ban through a tunnel and a pipe. the mouth of the balloon over the owen Ing The gas bag be:an to expand. puffing up in little lerks almost Ilk. began to life its head off the ground the beating of a great heart. As it the people packed in closer and shout ed out In excitement. Around the balloon like a fringe were rows of of bags of sand to weitht it down. and in addition. men from the crf'wd were pressed in to cling to the guy ropes that the last possible mitre of gas might be got in before it should be released for Its shoot up into the air. The Balloon is Inflated. Slowly the balloon rose until !ts ' tail brushed the ground bearing it- h self for a fEight like sone great crea- I ture of the air. Scanion in his tizl:-:' and spangles had to keer running I from one side of the balloon to het other and then out to the furnace to give orders to his assistants. It was 1 hard work and the delay of a second - meant that something might go I wrong and that the asension might be a failure. Little by little he or dered the men standing around the ballon. their arms upstretched hold- I Ing the guy lines.to slack their ropes. As the great bag tuged the men would I be lifted off their feet. the balloon t rolling from side to side as thouga , drunk. Stretched out on the ground was c the paraciute fastened to the bag of the balloon so that when the balloon shot up it would be swinzing directly under it. fastened only by one rope. A cord led up to a knife so that when the aeronaut wanted to descend he would but have to jerk the cord. cut ting the rope and float down to earth and safety. Under the parachute the trapeze bar was hanging, a bright brass rod on which Scanion was to, hang and go~ through his gymnasticst while being wafted to the clouds. . As the bag straightened up it be- I gan to tug so that the farmers au l townspeople swinging on it for 'i last began to grow afraid and miiiousa to release their hold.1 "Hey. Mac," he called to bis as sistant, "throw In another chunk" Mac knew what that meant, anc on the fire tossed a small bucket ot coal oIL. A blaze of fire leaped through the tunnel and the bar'uon tore Itself out of the hands of theI ballst men. The balloon wobbleo A muttering shout ran aroua'd the crowd for the tension was at its height, and a man from their miidst was about to be whisked into th-~ heavens. Women threw up their hands and shouted out words of warutng. "Hold on tight," called Out an old man leaning on a gnarled cane for support. "Oh. I know he will be killed,' sobbed a woman, turning away her eyes "It Go, or You Wml be Killed!"' But all this was met with at every performance and served in no way to unstring Scanion's nerves. All his mind and energies were bent on clearing the buildings and treetops. "Let her go. boys." he called out over the exclamations of the people: and the cracking of the fire. "Cutt Running hack Scanlon picked upt the brass trapeze rod and seated himself on It. one hand on each rope. Then as the balloon slipped up into the air he ran forward under it. the long-tol'ld parachute tugging him gently, thus saving hi-nself from be lng dragged over the ground. There had not been a hitch, the weather was perfect, he was getting a gooxa start. The ascent seemed no differ ent from a dozen others he had made. But there is where the risk of a balloon jumper comes in. Hie never knows what moment something will happen. Suddenly a drunken man burst through the crowd and threw his arms aroaund Scanion; He was a big muscular man, and in his dazed eyes was the look of an Intoxicated man who cares not the least what happens. Scanion had to grasp the ropes on the ends of the bar to be kept from being pulled off backward. The parachute har was just being lifted off the ground, and Scanon. had no way to fight back except by kicking. "Let loose. let loose." he yelled frantically, but the man only 'i::ht-V ened his grip and buried his face in' Scanion's spangles, afraid to look down. For a moment the crowd stood troo horrified to move. then severalofth men coming to them.selves rushed ou and sprang wildly a' the dr-unk'e man's dangling feet. But they' mise and In a second more the balon had risen above the tops of the tree a the two men over the heads o h people. *Ltgo or you will be kild cried Scanion. squirming in the a' grasp and kicking as ho.st he -: But the man h-idl on crimly wiLe answering a word. The horror of it at! nashed 'tBra-.: Sc'anion's mind :ad made !i -t now resolutely. H.-'rt- h" was- .s- : on a brass rod twenty': i un-i. r the balloon. ridin; a b~,onn :....'r N THE AIR World.) ie parach'te. and he himself was ver weich: by te pounds. The man linzin: to his arms must weigh at 'ast 1 ; poun. To m:ike the asce-nt this way would e ab"::::' foliy. So ho redoubied 's ener::is toward kicking off the a"welom.: passniir. Letting go of ne hand he clung to otue swinging, ending ro-e and with the free hand ried to .ar a;part the man's fingers icking him madly on the thighs with Drop. (Irp. you can make it yet." alled out Se:nion. almost out of reath. D::: the man pad no heed. holdin; nas rimr as d.-ath it-elf. Catch ag hold of one of the man's hands canion tore i: a-. -y. The man freed is hand again and fastened it in an ther place. Surging back and forth. cnnion tried to wriggle out of the tan's grasp, the combined weight *.-nding a wave clear up to the hal )on Ike a quick jerk travelling along rope. itreathing with quick in akes of breath. partly from exhaus ,on and partly fron the effect of the ';uor. the man elung to Scanion ithout speaking a word. One Idea -as firmly fixed in his mind, and that -as that he mtust hold on tight, and il the grip and determination of a rowning man he carried out bis lea. Workiag his hand u the man's ack Scanlon got it against the man's ae by a oulek surze and pushed iadly and blind:y. but the man bur d his face in the other side of (Canion's back and the short ad antaze was gone. Rapid:ly but with stately dignity he balloon rose into the air each econd addinc to the distance that ne of them nuist fail. Scanion's and; sank deep into the bar ropes nIl they eare down almost to the :vel of the har. his head was pull--d ack until he could see nothing but he droopinz skirts of the narachute nd the buiging sides of the balloon ver him. Squirming and kicking. e struggled till his breath was al .ost spent. fizhting against time. nowing that each moment the bal >on was getting higher and higher. Finally. twisting his head around. canion says that they were fully five undred feet high and that a drop aeant Instant death. He could see he crowd standing almost as he had ?ft it, scarcely making a sound. all aces tense and set. silent watchers f the strugzle for life in mid-air. A Single Chance of Ecnpe. Suddenly the man gave a lunge ad flung one arm over the bar. then a spite of all Scanion could do he wung back and hooked a knee over t. like an acrobat in a show. Scanion looked down into the aan's face. It was wrinkled into ines of fear and determination. His yes were wide open and staring, bit .fraid to look down. There was net he slightest sign of drunkenness .bout the face, the terrible strugtle tad completely cleared his mind. ;canion could see that the man was lossessed of hut one Idea and that b-as to hold madly to the swinging war. ils whole strength and his rhole mind were set In carrying this lut. As Scanion looked down at the nan he turned over every possible hance to escape. To drop meant destruction. The arachute was built to carry only one nan. Possibi:: one of them might go [own in the parachute and the other Ide the halloon down by waiting till he night air chilled the gas. It was straw. but worth seizing. "All right-4t's too late for you to rop off~ now.'' said Scanion grufily. Swing yourself tip on this bar. The man looked t:p at him more !ke a wild animal than a human be nr. like a dog trying to understand ust what his master means. So irmly fixed in his mind was the idea hat he must cling to the bar that he ould not comprehend what Scanlon aen nt. "Climb up. damn you?" growled scanIon. "We've got to stick It out ogether." The light of understandinz broke nito the man's eyes, and with rigid. rembling mtuscles he drew himself Lp on the bar and wound his arm .round the supporting rope. The wo sat crowded shoulder to shoul-I !er facing, with searcely enough oom to move. "Don't hurt me. whined the man, peakIng for the first time. "Shut up and don't shake the bal oon. snapped Scanion. The man kept his eyes on Scanion. fraid to look toward the earth. "Is "You'll think so going down:" canion shot back, The Fight for Life. The man whimp.-red and shrank he rope without laoking down, "What are you uoing to do about 7"demanded Scanion, taking this hance to punish the intruder. The anger now did not seemn so imm 1 ent. and so Scanion was bound to rn;ress on the man what he had one' The man whismpercd and shrank way from the aeronaut, The fiuht :as gone out of him: lie dreaded the phraiding more than the kicking. "What muade you do it?" demand d Soica.n "I thou::ht-I don't know" .\ slight rippin:: sounded over their tads. >canian beecamet e!-etrified. itt to the unwebcome passen::er it ..sn- othne.Sennion slanced un. ii; ;vors: f-ar wre confirmet.d. On" of' the- ro..---s fanoneing on the d~es of the- ha!on and supiporting a' paraebute- mad rippedi dlown a fewn ~che; and the v:13 and snmoke w.-r" o':rin~ (ut. The i-ar rocked bac. ad forn a-:.n : the rent en* r ..In a :om',.-nt it might tear -a:d :' v.o Woutldi go roc'king '- h' :Ie bai 1!oon."' sho::ted S .h*::hl' the :n.kn no ':u::. Th!e moan ~ n. V '-. l'--n.-t l's townt me~ GIRLS, READ THIS SSE'NSIBLE TALK TO THE YOUNG WOM1AN W11O KISSES. Dorothy Dix Tells Her She is Losing Sonething Beautiful Every Time Srange Lips Meet Hers. "Dorothy Dix'' writes a great many things that tend to elevate and make irls pur-r and sweeter. She says two young men recently wrote her a letter in which they asked her to settle a dispute that has arisen be tween them. Here is her answer: The point at issue Is whether a irl who kisses a young man, to o whom she is not engaged to be mar- 6 ried, displays thereby an affectionate s disposition or not. A contends that t she does, and asserts that he would I not marry any woman who did not s like to kiss. while B takes the oppo- r site position on the subject. C As far as my opinion is concerned, I should say that any girl who kisses a man to whom she is not betrothed t -and the wedding day set-shows V that she has an exceedingly affection- I ate temperament. Entirely too af fectionate. Dangerously affectionate. It likewise shows that she Is utterly lacking in maidenly modesty and del icacy. And it indicates that she is a great many kinds of a fool. If I were a man. I would no more pick out for a wife the girl that would let any man with whom she had a casual acquaintance kiss her C than I would zo to a florist shop and 9 buy the battered. bruised. over I lown roses that had had their frestness rubbed off by too much handling. s The girl and the rose with the blooza b on them for mine. every time. a This is also the opinion of most men. It takes a man of very undis- d criminating taste to really care for a irl whose lips are free to every b Tom. Dick and Harry who comes 9 rlIong. Of course. as long as a wo- a man is young and good looking and h has a nice red mouth pouted to a c Cupid's bow. every man will kiss her 3 who can: but such kisses only make s him have a contempt for the girl, and ready to believe any evil he may hear of her. t That kind of a girl is not the sort P of a woman that a fastidious man 9 wants to marry. His wife must have l kept her lips as austerely pure as P those of a saint: for every man. In P love Is a monopolist, and his eternal 'I creed is that his lady love shall be 0 fire to him, and Ice to every other t man. Burning Lime at Home. I Where oyster shell can be had I' cheaply, the oyster shell lime is. doubtless, the best. But so far as I a have observed most of the manufac- 1 turers put too high a price on this b lime. If you can get shells cheaply y (we can get them where I live for i about 50 cents a ton), you can make t the lime economically on the farm. e Put a layer of logs on the ground r with an opening between the middle a ones to be stuffed with straw for fir- e in-. Then put on a layer of shells c six inches thick. Then a layer of dry a wood and brush. Carry up In the ~ middle an opening like a chimney c from the firing opening and stuff it with straw or broomsedge. Then , build up the heap in a conical shape ~ wIth alternate layers of shells and i wood till It is about six or eight feet i high. Then start the fire from tha opening left between the logs, and as soon as the wood seems to be burn- ~ ing well, cover the whole heap with earth and burn it as you would a tar t kiln or a charcoal kiln, keeping the e chimney open tiil all is burning well,. and then close over with earth. You I can make as much lime in this w--f as you will need, and in sections 1 where there is limestone It can be ~ broken up and burned in the same way on the farm. When well burned, the lime and ashes will go together ~ and be a better article than you coul9., t buy. I have done this and know what t I am writing about.-W. F. Massey. e in Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farm er-. Scanion lunged at the man and tore madly at his fingers gripped around t the rope and the end of the bar. Si lently the two fought, their breaths ~ comings quick and fast, their nails ~ bringing great gashes on each other's hands. The bar and the parachute ~ rocked to the struggle, but that alone told the story of the struggle to the ~ birds. Finally Scanion got the man's I ingers loose from the rope, and in one surge of strength pushed him off ~ backward. The other hand of the ~ man, gripped around the bar. un doubled, and without a sound he t went whirling through the air, turn ing gr.,tesquely, his arms striking outa as it they expected to catch on some th!nr. Fascinated. Scanion could not keep c his eyes off the whirling body. So y squarely under him was it that butt for the turnings it did not seem to be a moving. It seemed to be resting inc space. As it got farther away it ceas- b ed to struggle, falling like a dead ~ mass. A sparrowha'wk darted to- a wardl it curiously, then turned away. 4~ Then the body struck the ground- 5 in a small pasture lot. The sound which travelIs upward mere easily I came to him with sickenin:: clearness.0 It seemed as though he was only a few fe'et away. Blut look as he might. canion could not see where the body had struck. It seemed to have buried itself in the ground. His courage almost gone. Scaniont pulled the rope that severed the par achute from the haloon and dropped a to the ground. When the pople camet running u;> he was so weak that he could scarcely stand alone. That ev ning he was arrested, and laterc good trial for the man's death, but was acquitted on the ground of self ie fen se. But it was Scanion's last ascension.t leO is now asfraidl as death of a hal- C on. and will scarcely :ook at a fly ng machin" in the air. His nerves ar compl.i.'ely ::one. and as he talks 0 ii ke.';-s moving his hands aimlessly arouind over his lap and knees. HeF uatkes his living during the summer n smasll towns and during the win r in vaud-'ville by doing high div' --It's the nights that make me mis -r:'ble. he said. but toning and unbiut- A. nTing his coat. ''I can stand the F lat imne pret:ty well, for there's pee- s l. aroundl then. laut the ni::hts' I e l-.vs 5.-,. some.thing failing, falling S USE BIG SUM ingre$$ Appfrpfiat Over ONe BiE. Dlam Last Sessisa. NEAR THE ESTMATES ecording to Both Tawney and Liv ingston This Exceeds President Taft's Figures by Only One Million 1)dlars When lie Estimated Armount to Run the Government. Appropriatlons at the last session f congress acgregated $1,025.498. 62. according to the statements is uied Friday by Former Representa vev Tawney of Minnesota and Liv igston og Georgia, who were re pectively chairmen and ranking >emocrat of the house appropriations ommittee in the last congress. Mr. 'awneyTawney. saying this is less ban $1.000.000 in excess of the ytal estimates of President Taft on -hich the appropriations are based. ays high tribute to the executive )r good faith in scrutinizing esti tates and computes that the sur lus of revenues next year will be not tss than 326.542.000. which, with ny part of the treasury cash balance. iay be applied to the sinking fund. Against this Mr. Livingston s-ys ie last session record demonstrated iat when the Democratic party mes into complete control of the overnment. "this billion dollar mark )r a session's appropriations estab shed four years ago at the first ses Ion of the Sixtieth congress, can not e substantially lowered, if lowered t all.'' Mr. Tawney renews his recommen ation for the consolidation of the ppropriating jurisdiction of the ouse under a single committee oi fficient size te be representative of 11 sections of the country and of all ranches of the public service. Eight ommmittees now consider and report pprrpriation bills and '5r. Tawney iys no reform is more Important. The committee on appropriations. 'hich reports more than half of the tal appropriations of congress. re orted during the first regular ses [on of the last congress $16.933.925 ss than the estimates, while the ap ropriations by all the other appro riating committees. according to Mr. awney. were $27.931.402 in exce'q f the estimates. Mr. Tawney claims lat If this consolidating reform bad een effected, it would have saved 6.000.000 at that session alone. Mr. Tawney says one of the evils cident to this divided appropriation urisdiction Is the practice of making ppropriations immediately available. irge portions of many appropriation ills being in fact designed to cover p deficiencies in the preceding year. 1 points out that the aggregate for be past session, which includes $4., 69,.000 for the Appalachian forest eserve, is $2,500,000 less than the ggregate for the preceding session f congress and that the aggreate f the etitire last conress, which ex t aggregate Is not given in his tatement, Is an Increase of $600,000 ver the precedIng congress. Mir. Tawney says that in the sis ears of his chairmanship of the ap ropriations committee the estimates ae amounted to $6.061,257.132. of hich congress granted all but $165, 62.Z64. Declaring that the Democrats want o save the people of this country rom the danger which threatens hem because of the rampant expen Iture of their money that has been oing on for the past 12 years. Mr. ivngston In his statement contends hat militarism Is a menace and that )emocratic accession will prevent na onal bankruptcy. He says It is a uperhuman task to restore expendi nres to a normal level because of the normous liability fastened upon the reasury "by the statutory inerease of he enlisted strength of the army and avy tour-fold since Mr. Roosevelt ras so unhappily called to the execu L'e office of the republic." Sounding a note of warning .gainst "threatened onerous" direct ax with all its Inquisitorial features, Ir. Livingston said that if that day omes, "the people will rise In their iight with a cry that will ne heard the remotest corners of the earth nd shake from themselves and their sterty the manacles of burden ome taxation fostered by the Repub can party. That day is not distant ness we stop Instanter in this pre' ipitatious, money wasting race we re now engaged in.'' Mr. Livingston says the nations of be old world stand agape and won er over the magnitude of appropri tions and increased federal activity. le compares appropriations for the 'ifty-third congress, the last Demo ratic one. a::gregating $917.013.523. pith those of the past congress for be two fiscal years of 1911 and 1912. ggregating $2.0.53,391.291 and de lares that in 12 years there has en more than 500 per cent in. rease in all expenditures. the army nd navy each increasing more than an per cent. Hie bespeaks for the 2coming Democratic house economy. articularly in those government de artments relating to the enormous spenditures for war purposes."* Don't Depend on the Hoe. The hoo Is too costly an imnple ient to be depended upon, for it kes a man, and you will never need hoe in the field if you start early -ith smoothin:: harrow and weeder. id If the cotton Is planted in hills. ier wiil be little need for chop ing. For the cultivation of the hoed ro you will need power, and we uist have the horse-power to start -ith the smoothing harrow and th.e eder. With these you can get ovet e land so rapidly that you will nev r he caught in the grass, and will eed to put a plow in to cover the rass in the rows, for the early use the smoothing harrow andi weeder ill prevent its starting there.-W. .Massey. in Raleigh ( N. C.) Pro ressive Farmer. Murderer Captured. lascomi Carlton. charced with the urder of Deputy Sheriff White and .Schneider last Sunday night at spanola. Fla.. while they were arching him and two other prison rs. was captured at 2 o'clock Wed esday morning on island in the iidtdnle ofa ake near there. BLOWS UP TE TOWN DYN.UAITE SHOCKS WRF(K VIL LAGE IN WISCONSIN. Nearly Every Rouse in Village of 700 Inhabitants Carried M-n by Force of Concus?.ons. Smouldering ruins and :h, wrecks of cottages strew the site of the little village of Pleasant Prairie. Wis.. where Friday ni'tht the magazines of the Dupont de Nemours Power Coin pany exploded. killing at least one man, injuring 200 persons. causing damage of $1.500.000 with a radius of 100 miles, and rocking seven States. While the officers of the company assert that all the employes except E. S.-Thompson. a foreman. were ac counted for. three of the men could not be found after the explosion. Pleasant Prairie is ten miles west of Kenosha. Wis. The powdcr inill is a mile north of the village. The force of the explosion completely demol ished the houses on Geneva roaG. which were nearest the mill. and every house in the village was wreck ed. Almost equal damage das done in Bristol. four miles west. Blown from their beds and with the wrecage of their houses tumb ling about them the residents of Pleasant Prairie loaded their half clad families on farm wagons and moved In a long procession in search of shelter in Kenosha. The escape of Supt. Clarence Brady was remarkable. He was in the soda house with Engineer F!ynn at the time of the explosion. The men were blown through the building and land ed on the roof of the adjoining maga zine. This exploded instantly. and Brady and Flynn. the latter badly in jured, were thrown a hundred feet from the building. Flynn suffered internal injuries and inhaled poison ous fumes. His condition is precari ous. Brady escaped practically un scathed. Brady's wife of three months in his residence a mile from the works, was badly cut by broken glass and bruised by falling debris. rhat the powder in the plant was being rushed through on a hurry order from the government for use in the Texas frontier was denied Friday ni;:ht by Supt. Brady. When daylight gave a clear view of the ruins it was seen that the fire was out. Three holes marked the sites where three of the magazines hao stood. The holes were each more than fifty feet across and as deep. One had broken into a spring and was half full of -water. Part of the en zine house and the hundred foot brick chimney of the plant still stand. The village was almost completely deserted by women and the men here went hungry. Not on!y are most of the stores blown down and broken up. but the supply of food is so scattercd as to be of little use. The district school house near the village was wrecked. It was not nee esary to dismiss school, however. for of the 45 pupils all hut a hait dozen either were too injured to at tend or had moved with their parents during the night to places of safety. A steel cylinder, thought to have been used in the glazing room. was hurled throurgh the air and crashed through the roof of the general store. two miles away, tearing a hole five feet in diameter through the roof. the first and second floor and Into the earth. H. A. King. in an ad join ing room. was thrown to the iloor unconscious by the shock. Roads and fields in the vicinity are strewn wita boulders. some of which weigh scv erai hundred pounds. -In spite of tremendous force of the explosion and the fact that near'y every one who was within ten miles of the factory when it took place was hurt, In no more than a half dozen cases were the injuries severe.* More Poultry for the Farms. No careful observer can fail to note the increased interest in poultry raising in the South during the last year. Like all other lines of live stock raising, it is especially rece~v Ing attention in the areat being in vaded by the boll weevil. It is sinm ply astonishing what capacity this little bug-the boll weevil-has for making men think and even act. All lines of live stock are receivinig more attention than ever before and poul try is coming in for its share oi in creased attention. Dut, strange as it may seem the greater part of this in creae in poultry interest is among the people in the towns and to a much less degree amon:: the farmers. This appears to us wrong. Surely there is no place where the opport un ities for raising strong, healthy poul try at a minimum of cost, are so good as Out on the farms. Not only is this true as re'gardis the~ production: of utility poultry-eggs and birds for food-but it is especially true of the production of fancy poultry and birds for breeding. By much care. constant work and intelligent feedin: and managemenm. good poultry is produc.-d on the smal! lets in or near the towns: but it re quires more itelligenc.~e and poultry knowledge to rai.e good birdsur nder such conditions 'han it do.es to ac complish the sanme r--sults on t farm. Why then, is most of ('ur heMt poultry raised in the small towns or near the cities. The range whie h may be given the birds on the farm. Exe--pt perhaps during the breeding season. is al most unlimited and this m.-ans a vi riety of feed. such as poultry req;uire. and ample exercise. tw things mtt essential to the econom~1ia pr'od.e tion of vieorous birds. It requir.'s some knowde t-> raise good pou!:r; antis can only be obtained by readiit and 'M'dyinu the experience of .til'rsa s dw in poultry journals or 1--iculttura! papers and in :.ooks. and b. 2.-i personal experi'nce in t h' bandl.'. of the birds. In th.-p :i h s been thought too stmaila un- - the farmer. but ifth t s i : idea, we insist that the' wo~:ne :r.d children should4 he: zivn an o;nor units' to add this add!-to:: ai ~-a t the farmu. Nor wouldwli: then to t he produ-tion ofe a the zrowinn of birds t.o :- .-d. fo: but woi:ld in,.ist t h:t whe. . iclinat ion .exiss the b.. un *a chan : to prodtuce th. . 1 -- .. Jas breeders. or nue :o .' ---. f Ihat hin .-Raieigh i N. r. l'ro.:r WANTS BAILEY Tiliman Says Texa Ought to be Senate Ltader for DeorCrats. BUT HE WILL NOT BE The Senator lis a Chat With Gover. nor IleaLsc. Which is Said to Have ucen Birief But Friendly-Will Not Attend Special Session When It Meets. Senator Tillman says that the only thing that can carry him back tc Washinzton for the extra session it to see a Democratic senator from Main sworn in. Senator Hale. whc is to be succeeded by Senator John son. speaks very highly of his suc cessor. The Columbia Record says: The senior senator from South Carolina is looking very much bette: than he did a few months ago. but he has been told that it will be besl for his health not to return to Wash ington and enter upon the activitiet of the special session; still, it may bx that the call will be too strong foi him. w hen the fighting begins. Ther( is nothing new in a tariff fight. how ever. says the senator, and he has n appetite for gnawing an old none. In the opinion of Senator Tillman the minority leadership In the senat' ought to be conferred on Senatoi iailey. for whose ability he has , very considerable admiration, bu1 there is. 'as he expresses it. a coteri in the senate which is jealous of th( Texas senator and it is not likely th< honor will go to him. It would b( unprecedented to make a new sena tor the leader. the "pillars of th temple would fall about our ears. says the senator. if that were done and it may be tha. Senator Culber son will be again made minority lead er. Some Appropriations. Senator Ti!lman succeeded in hav ing an appropriations of $60,00f made for the dredging out of th( mouth to the dry dock of the Char leston navy yard. The navy depart ment experts have been claiming thai there is a deposit of silt in the rivei opposite the dry dock's mouth whict prevents large ships going into th dock and the purpose of this appro priation is to have the silt removed Inasmuch as there was no river and harbor bill passed at the recent ses sion. there was no appropriatior made for the general improvement o the Charleston harbor..and this wil not be available until the next regu lar session. when a rivers and har hors bill will be brought In. Senator Tillman. however. had ha: put in the special appropriation bil an item of $17.000 for the Port Roy al station and he intended to look af ter the item when the bill went t< conference. but the conference comn mittee met late at nkhat when th< South Carolina senator was absen and the item was lost in that way. For the marine barracks at For M~oultrie the senator had put In the bill an appropriation of $6,000. whici remains and will be available afte: the first of July. A new thing for South Carolina will be the fish hatchery which 1: provided for by an appropriation o $2.500 in the sundry civil appropria tion 'bill. It will be left to the of ficials of the department to determin where this fish hatchery will be lo cated. .but it will probably be in th coast section of the State. Senator Tiliman is very muci pleas'*d on account of the election o Prof. Riggs as president of Clemso1 College. He attended the recen meeting of the Clemson board and was gratified that the board unani mously came to his opinion that Mfr Riggs is the best man for the presi dency. The senator considers tha his ion: familiarity with the condi tions at Clcnson, his magnetic per sonality and his youth and energ; will enable Mir. Riggs to accomplisl a great deal as the head of the insti tution. lie has been actIng presiden for some time and things have bee1 moving very smoothly durin-g tha time. Senator Tillman keeps thoroughi: posted on South Carolina affairs an readily discusses the fine points o the recent controversies which hav :een going on In the State. He I strongly of the opinion that there I no violation of the constitution il any one holding the position of Stat< college trustee and1 another offie, bu s glad that the matter will be set tied. At the request of Governor flleas the senator called on the governo when he was in Columbia a few day aro and they had a brief but friendl: chat about current events. The senator was accompanie< home from Washington by Mrts. Till man and it Is their expectation t< rmain at Trenton during the sprin.g as their two daughters are to h< mrried within the next fe' months. .A Healthy Public Sentiment. Opi::m. of course. has been one o the greatest evils with which the new Chin~a has had to grapple, and he: almost marvelous success in dealin; with it gives ground for the belie: :hat she will bo able to master othe1 weknesse as well. A feilow-pas sn::er on my Yangste steamer a fey days ago spoke enthusiast..aliy o th.- rare beauty of a Yangste rive tri;) in the poppy-blooming season few years ago, immense fields aflam< with gorgeous colorin:. but thi: Ispe ctacle will probably never be seer aain. In most provinces the blootr f the opiumi poppy is now a red aUi of dan;:er for its owner: tan ofil. cr of the2 law will take heed concern Formerly., too, it was the custcon for th.- host to offer opium to hia nests, just as it was formerly th< rucoml for the averaze Southernet o offer whiskey: but the Chines< hay' no0w (iuit0 a chainged public sen tim:ent. !!eeatuse they recognize that ~;um is r::ining the lives of man.1 ftheir peopl. and lessening: the of :1.any of many others, because they regairdit as a source of weakn.ess !c - .r coutry an.l danger to their lots i as become, a matter of shame for :2 :nian to 3.0 known as an opium be fr.-e froma s-:ch an en.ra'n-: dis spa:on is r' u.crdld as the duty not o(ly to 3cone's self and! ono's family. ROYA BakingI 0 Econoni The manufactur ing Powder h to produce a ch at the sacrifice c Royal Baking P pure grape crea the embodiment possible to be a est class baking Royal Bakng F fair price, and at its pnce than agent, because quality and abs< of the food it m M es made ' inmia n of bale are frequendy dstributed from door u< stores. Such itures are dangero France, Germany and some secions prohibited by law. Alum is a physicians condemn baking powdes The label of alan ha show twe li RE40 TM FARERS' UNION PRESIDENT BARRETT TELLS OF ITS GOOD WORK. t Says They Have Made Federal Con gress Sit Up and Take Notice-Sit nation Changed. "That the power of the farmer, long held in cold sortage. has been I I Sbrought forth." and made its effect felt on congress, is the statereent made by President Charles S. Bar rett, of the Farmers' National union,. in a letter issued to the members of 1 the organization. The letter follows I in fuli: To the officers and members of the Farmers' Union: Your national and state officials who have been work ing in Washington this winter in be half of the Farmers' U'nion have found that congress is growing more responsive to the demands of thej American farmer than at any time In its history. SThat we have not written demands of the farmers' Union into les~ista tion is due, not to lack of influence, but to the congestion inevitable with a short session and the demioraliza tion consequent upon pendinir polit ical changes. I So far as a parcels post is con cerned, I am convinced that tha' measure. in a national and not a ru rl sense, is nearer than any of our n rembers. or than, say, of the politi clans, imagine. The lobby acainst the parces post1 has shot its bolt. It has exhausted -its ammutation2. If an extra session Sis called. con::ress will in all prob abIlity enact a general parcels post. If there is no extra session, the chances are strong that a generlI I o arcels post will be at:thorized at the* regular session next December. h If you wil: dig up the letters II, published last winter from congress- -. men. you will find that in nearlyi every instance they gave non-coun- < mital repli-s to the question re'gard ing a parcels post. t SBut the situation has chang-d. -At any moment, you may expct a I: battalion of statesmen to procliim loudly that they have all alon;: beer Sin favor of a parcels past. Next. vou may expect themi to work for i: witi ji a vim. The explanation of this singulhr.t about face as an e::sy one. -The congressman has heard fr."n 1 the farmer: Repiresentativ.s andc senators from nearly all the sta'.s havA b'een Ptera!!y hombarded' with;; letters fromt th.-ir farmer constimu- j: ents. The power of the farmer. Ion;r hela in "cold stora::." has he.-n brought Iforh' The r-s;uit was in~wit:Ihte. t I r.'gard this sperc as a vir'di cation of my ofte n repe.ated declarat-c tion that the farm--r has enly to make : himseif heard to have i-:s wants sup-T plied-in a congrssional sca'. C. It tak's the spur to make the can gressman live up to his caim;aign i promises. Th-' farmer is finding out how to use the spur. In this conaection. you ought to 1 know the stran::e effY(et th.at office- Ti holding and I'fe in WVashingtonl h.td: upon congr~Smen. I We have particulariy noticed dur-t duty. I saw a cartonn in a ntv Chin.'e pap.'r :h.' other day in which there wer" held up to espec: scorn J and hum iliat ion tho wea~k!i fials who had los t their oi!icos 5 reason of a:gre to s.hake o'f opiu. , In short. th.'' :'um sr'ok.r.inta of being a sor! of "*ood f4w'' hi o ihuman weakr ss- -and with pos sibiit e5. of em":r.'. of ;:oin:: ut ierly h to wr.-ek t' is ' t * ob'-c of e c~temlpt. c-n.TeG man EmTh'r*' i a :I: h boys int his ' "A e them tI le wo 07 "*n I vane m C he nation's - !fr3rn .eoi headd tetnta(e b isia ?owder. ers of Royal Bak ave always declined eap baking powder f quality. Dwder is made o i m of tartar, an ~, of all the excellence Ittained in the high powder. )owder costs only a is more economica any other eavenig of the superlative Jute wholesomeness skes.. g powd&, b ca alim. y cooor given away in grocefy as to we infood. In Eng n of the United Sate their saeis dangeroas minl acid, and al We it. Khere the One-Horse Farmer Says one of our correspond 'I rarely find that my two-horse te tts more than double the crops ny one-horse tenants on double i and and with double the ~stoci herefore, he concludes that o orse farming is best. It seems nef o have occurred to him that abor of the man in the case is wo ything. Does not any man ill think for a minute know tha he man with two horses does' p nce only twice as much as the ith one horse, he is far ahead tim In what he receives for his aor? Even if a man's labor vorth no more than that of a ho here are two workers in the iorse layout and only three in wo-horse. Hence an increae"e ~er cent in gross returns will e natters up. Now, there isn't a fa ein the South who doesn't, is la-bor as of more value than t >f a mule, and, of course, he is bout it. There may be. as w e aid, times when a man m aork with one horse. but we ca t~ ce why any man should be wi g, or that reason, to consider h If "one-horse farmer" and be co nt o remain so. It isn't a ma op retty theories or !ngenious - nents. but, as we have said, a re ratter of mathematics. The re torses. the larger the farmers' - ngs in practically every State in e .nion: and the fewer horses to he nn, the more expensive the rk one whenever other conditio ar -ual. Against such incontrov Ie ats as these, all the theori of hose who argu~e for one-horse f ng amount to very l~ttle.-Eal N. C.) Progressive Farmer. Soap a Benefactor. - Czerny, the great German ca xpert, says skin cancer has di, n shed 50 per cent at least in thee t 0O years. He thinks soap did4 , lessed business, so if some of ruly philanthropic want a woi 's -form let them begin with soap ng this session, the mild and h * onduct of some of the represe ives who were genuine fire-eate a' he stump.,. While they were appealing 'our votes they pawed dust lik. talion. promised to reform evo hing overnight, and to "start sot hint' the moment they were sw4 Blut. Jo: the change the mom~ hey ;:et in congressi Then, nany of thenm, the principal ohj o panhandle a few little jobs onstituents. sneak up on some lit ommitte'n assignment keep free sel :oinr., aint the mails wIth agriculti' 1 bulletins and !r'e,- :overnment pu, ications. and have a good tizm hemst-Ives. It is true th'a?. sei-occasionali, hey rear up on their hind legsa w!!ow t hunder. Inut investI;;rte oely and you will generally fnd e subjet is a trivial one,- that it ron't hurt aa..hbody, 'nd that all the andraising is to mnake the folks at Lomn h'e!!-v thcir faithful servant sn-t asleep at the switch. There are som" strong. energetic d loyal congressmen, it is true. I .lieve their numnber are increasin. nt they n--"d :o be increased still ~ore rapidly. if the farmer wants o at the serrvice to which he is en ibled. The country zers~ no better or more eiv*e con::r"5ssmen than it deerves. f you are' not satis.fied with the rnd of statesmanshi being ladled :t from W\ashuin::ton. just search our own scal as to how far you are rsona!!v r.-sponsible for electing an If' the.' kiil the anti-cotton ganmb :n: .it a: th.- -nt session, wa ae ,ood! p'ros.s to pass it at an ~ ra s'sstin in next Iiseemnber. cti .-rain to e er..ntuzaliy en e.d I hav.' the assuranee of some I:. 'he et infformedC. congressmen for -'or their abiUy and loyalty, and meLs coope.ration. I owe a debt ':bania eni your naun nal and state e als and' 0-h-. prm:inent workers o 3: - ns-i~-. d ~:n our dealings h conzress this -.t in:*r.