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TILLMAN TALKS Makes Speech to the Graduates of Cem se Colege and Creates AN AFMCTING SCENE The Senator Talks of the 'Movement to Establish Clemson College, Which Has Ever Been Near to His Heart--Eighty-Seven Young Men Receive Degrees. The graduating exercises of Clem son College which took place Tues day, were of unusual -interest. The events were the splendid address t( the graduating class by Dr. James K Patterson ,of the University of Ken tucky, the powerful speech of Alam Johnstone to the graduates, the eio quent short speech of W. D. Evans ir presenting the trustees' medal foi oratory to M. W. Call of 'Marion, the remarkable ovation given Sena tor Tillman when he presented the D. K. Norris medal given to the best all-round man in the graduating class to A. M. Salley of Orangeburg. The exercises were most gracefully presided over by President Riggs, who seems to be the right man it the right place at the head of Clem son. The graduating class this yeai consists of eighty-seven young men who go out into the world well equipped for the battle of life. The college has closed the best year im many respects, in its history. Sen ator Tillman was present and mad' a speech to the graduating class. Il was a great day for Clemson, abound ing in many pleasing and memorabli incidents. One of the most notable of thes( was the affecting scene when Sena tor Tillman stod waiting for the ap plause to subside, covering his fact with his hands to hide the tears. anc in a voice choking with emotion be gan a characteristic speech, in whicl he told of being forbidden by hi. physician to make an address. H( -reviewed-his career briefly, telling o! the vision he had in 1SS5' when h( offered resolutions at the grang meeting in Bennettesville which wer( defeated, calling for a department o: agriculture at the univeristy, and o: his subsequent letters edyocating thi establishment of a separate agricul tural college. He said few men liv4 to realize their dreams, but he hai lived to see more at Clemson au Winthrop than he had ever dreamed There were occasional flashes o: the old time fire and force in th senator's address and the audienc listened in rapt attention. Never ha such a ovation been given a man a Clemson as greeted the senator-whei be, seemingly unwillingly sat down He stood the fatgue of speaking ver well, and seemed supremely happy Senator spoke. as follows: "Ladies and gentlemen: My phy sician has forbidden me to make -speech, 'but I cannot on this occasioI *efrain from expressing to you m - great pleasure at -being here, and above all, to return to you th'ank for -th4 heartiness of your welcome *I shall not take long, but there ar some things I think ought to b said, and if my strength holds ou I -will attempt to say them. On honorable -president of the board o trustees has spoken of Mr. Clemson' dream and of his vision years ago. also -had a dream and a vision, an< will tell you of it. In 1885, twenty si years ago, the 5th day of nex August,. I attended the -joint meetin, of the State Grange and State Agri cultural Society 'at Bennettsville, i: - Marlboro county. I offered a serie of resolutions there, which were no adopted by the meeting, but th speech I made on this occasion me 'with such a spontaneous outburst o approval from the assembled farmer: of the State, that I felt sufficientl: encouraged to march forward alon the line I had- marked out. "That fall I wrote a series of let ters for the News and Courier, whic1 was then the leading paper of th< -State and reached almost every fan house. In these articles I advocates a different education from that whicl we had in the State. I urged th< establishment of a separate college although the Bennettsville resolu tion had only demanded that the Legislature establish a departmen in the University of South Carolina which would be devoted to agricul f-uie and mechanical arts and t< which women would ,be 'admitted. have seen the time when I would en ioy very much talking to you. have addressed thousands and hun dreds of thousands of my fellow cit izens in this and other States. an' enjoyed the stimulus of a large an dience, but my mind will not respon' tmywill ias it once did. "I will go on and tell you abou.t m: vision. I dreamed that there ough to be a college for boys and girl! that would equip them for the battl< of life; -a college where the- studies would be not only Latin and Greel and the classics, but snch as woul' prepare a m'an to make his bread and butter. I had a vision not of thit - school, 'but of something like it; no of Winthrop, but something like it I did not dream that this schoo would become what it is. I attendea the commencement at Winthrop las week and saw 700 young women your sisters, your sweethearts. Well is there anything more to say? The: were there in fullforce and were the prettiest things I ever saw or evel expect to see again. It is not oftet that a man is allowed to live a-nd t< see his dreams come true and to~ m; fellow members of -board of trustee! and my co-workers in the State is du< my realization of these dreams. -Now, young men. I had the goo sense and the good luck to find good woman who was willing to hitel up with me and who has trotted dowI the road of life with me ever since I consider my marriage the greates piece of luck I ever had. I want t< say to you that if you will go and d< likewise, you ought to ,be successtal for there is nothing in the world s< inspiring as the love of a good, pur< woman. *"'But I must proceed to do what: came out here for, and if Mr. Al bert M~\cMichael Salley will come up on the rostrum I will award to hin the medal. -Mr. Salley, I wish yot would put it on and let us see hon handsome you look. Now turn you self around, for there are some girl< up yonder who--Zay wish to see you In, praeseir you this medal 'I wan1 "WANTS TO BE FREED" PROTECTION HIT BY DEMOCRAT IC MANUFACTURER. He Says the Protective Tariff Wall Is Unnecessary Because of Greater Efficiency of Americans. An attack upon the protective tar iff system by an American manufac turer, who claimed to have studied labor and manufacturing conditions in many countries of the world, held the close attention of the house of representatives for two hours Mon day. Representative William C. Red field, of 'Brooklyn, a new Democratic member, a manufacurer of machinery and long.:connected with export trade, declared to the house th-at American manufacturers are abandoning the protective principle as unnecessary as they develop more scientific manage ment of their own plants as now car ried on by the more advanced Ameri can manufacturers. "The protective tariff has simply enabled manufacturers to sell at such high prices that they have not studied their own conditions closely," said Ir. Redfield. "They have relied on government support rather than upon rose business management. Its effect has been to stimulate the devel opment of plants until they are now so large that products must be sold abroad. In this condition the manu f-acturers no longer want to pay the hith prices necessary for material'un der a protective tariff." Mr. Redfield dec!ared that instead of foreign labor being cheaper, Amer ican labor is really the cheapest in the world; that from extensive in vestigation in many parts of the world.he knew that no labor produced as much production in proportion to Lihi wages it received as Americans. He said the American laboring man only "wants to be freed from old re strictions and outgrown systems." Mr. Redfield attacked the Republi can system of a tariff equal to the difference in cost at home and abroad. ie said it was impossible to deter mine this difference in cost, because of higher quality of American labor ind varying factory conditions. "The American tariff board is worthless unless empowered to call for the cost sheets of the factories engaged in the line of manufacture it is studying," said Mr. Redfield. "Give it that power and see what a howl goes up from the American manufacturers. The truth is that of ten the American cost of production is lower." FELL MORE THAN A MILE. tMronoplane Shoots Down and Both In mates Are liUed. At Johannisthal, Germany, Herr Sependel, wlby, though plractica1Iy only a beginner, on Tuesday estao lished a German -altitude record oi 6,594 feet in an aeroplane, fell that Sevening with his mechanic, Voss, and both were instantly killed. Schendei Swas trying to eclipse the world's alti tude record with a passenger. rIn a Dorner monoplane Schendel Sand 'Voss had reached a height of t6,650' feet, when a. cannon was fhied ron the aviation field to announce the Pend of the day's competition. A mo Sment later the monoplane was seen Ito assuime a vertical position. It is believed that Schendel was trying to glide to the earth with his -motor shut off. Once he seemed to Shave righted the machine, but almost immediately he again lost control, 1and it shot to earth with terrific speed, landing just outside the avia tion field, the prow burying itself in Sthe earth. to have a few words to say about bow you got it and whence it came. Since I have been here my mind has been busy thinking about the men who have helped us plan and work for this college. Three of them are 'io more. I speak of the life trus tees, Col. D. K. Norris, the Hon. R. E. Bowen 'and Capt. John E. Bradley. These trustees have ceased their la bors and have crossed that bourne to which we are all hastening. "You are not near enough to it to realize or consider it as yet, but I will soon be there and join these men. Col. D. -K. Norris was a man w'ho loved the college and worked for ! t day and night While he was a trustee ,he helped to plan and build 't, and he as much as any other tins -ee did his full duty to bring about the results which you see about you. - f you will wear this medal honorably .vhich I trust and know you will, be cause I know the -county your 'are -rom and the breed to which? you be long: I know your family and people and the stock from which you came; I hope that you will occupy the higb est position to w-hich you may aspire. "And now, young friends, .1 want to ask you to take home to your par ents my greetings, and say to them that Clemson College has made you what you are; that it has afforded you the opportunity to develop your hign est powers. If, in after life, you will climb to the top of the ladder, that is all I .ask. It is not given to every man to succeed. All men c.an't be senators or governors, but every man can be a good citizen, good husband and a good father. And if you will remember this and let it be 'in inspiration to you to your future career: that you went to Clemson; that you at least learned how to ooev orders. Although I have a recol lection of April Fool's Day, when some did Dot,' you will always be nroud of the f'act of your years at Clemson, and if. in after life, when you have climbed high, it can be said, here goes a Clemson boy, a poor boy that Clemson has helped to educate tha't is all I -ek' of rou. I t'sk God's blessing on you all." Clemson Graduates. The graduating class of Clemson this year numbered S7. as follows: Four in metallurgy; 13 in the tex tile department: eight in civil en gineering: 18 in mechanical and electrtal- engineeri-ng land 44 in agriculture. Another Gasoline Victim. Joseph Johnson, a colored boy, was perhaps fatally burned in a fire at the Columbia Fruit Company's store Monday morning. A gasoline stove exploded, scattering the fiames TAFT WILL LOSE Will Be Nominated But Will 6 Be Dfeat ed Surely at the Polls. DEMOCRATS WILL -WIN That is the Prediction Made of Next Year's Campaign by a Republican Who is Entirely Friendly to Pres ident Taft, at the White House Recetntly. "President Taft will be nominated by acclamation, but he will be de feated overwhelmingly at the polls.'' This prediction, says the Washing ton torrespondent of the Atlanta Constitution, was made on Monday at the White House by a Republican who is altogether friendly to the President, and expressed the convic tion held in Washington at this time by the best informed men of both parties. Three months ago the President himself would have readily agreed to the truth of the statement, but today he takes a decidedly more optimistic view of his political future. Only a few weeks ago the President had a strong intimation that he would be renominated simply because nn oie else in the regular organization wanted it, and he felt equally certain he would not be re-elected. The fate of the National Progres sive Republican League, whtc.i his practically- gone to pieces, and the disintegration of the La Follette or granization which was, backing the senator from Wisconsin for the presidential nomination. has made the way clearer and plainer than ever for President Taft's re.'omina tion by his party. He now exoects to be renominated, and is beginning to take an active interest in the future and to entertain hopes that ,he has a fdir fighting chance of re-election. Frankly, there is more optimism in t.e white bouse in-d-hy thani at any time since that disastrous Novem ber day of last year when the people of the country let it be known what they thought of the Payne-Al drich tariff bill, as a redemption of Republican ante-election pledges. From opinions expressed in the cor ridors of the executive office, things are "looking up," and are expected to continue to improve. Republican members of congress and party leaders who have been in a state of despondency, hafe been told to cheer up, and "buck up," that there is no telling what the future m-ay develop, and the demo cratic house has not -yet completed its work, and the country heard from as to the effect of the demo cratic program for the revision of the woolen, steel and - c'tton schedules. in fact, the word Is goinig forth that the right kind of a fight will win in 1912, and bring about four more years of Taft. Until a few weeks ago, President Taft made no particular effort to conceal his belief that he was doom ed to be a one term president. The result of the November elections, the growing factional division in Repub lican ranks, the widespread criticism to which he and his administration had been selected in thea press, and the "hoodoo" which seemed' to fol low everything he did, combined to n':-ke hint beheve thbat he vould not win the endorsement of a second term. At that time he thought he would be renominated, because be could not for the life of him see why any other man should offer .himself for the sacrifice which seemed inevitably pendinly. But hope springs eternal even in a presidential breast, and while the -chief executive formerly resolved to accept the nomioation if tendered him, because he believed it his duty to lead the forlorn hope, he now thinks he has a chance. The great fight President Taft has made for Canadian reciprocity, in opposition to the wishes of practical ly his entire party, and the most de termined opposition of some of the most prominent members in it, has given the country a new imwression of his character and ability. Those closest to the president insist that whatever credit the Democ-ats get out of the recoprocity agreement if passed, will be secondary to that which will go to President Taft. It is not to be Understood thai the president and his friends are ev en yet confident of carrying the elec tion next fall, but they are hopeful of doing so. They believe present prospects point to a fightin-g chanc~e for the Republicans. Bukthat means such a difference in the impressions held a few weeks ago, that they are fairly elated. The reception accorded the P-esident's speech in Chicago last Saturday on the subjie 'f reci-. erocity has helped to stimulate them. They are now watching with great interest his 'efforts to bring -about a' favorable alignment in the1snae where the reciprocity measure has at last penetrated without 'L favorable report. Rapid Growing Squash. T. M. Ray of Valdosta, Ga., has on exhibition at one of the grocery stores in the city a wcndler in the way of a big yellow squash Four teen days after the bloom appeared on the vine -he squash weighed forty-three pounids. having averaged three pounds a day in weight. Burn the Town. French Creek, W. Va., 'a farming community of 200 souls, was almost destroyed ,by fire. Many families are encamped in barns and nmakin; a temporary home with more fortunate neighbors. The fire was started by burglars that blew the safe in the postoice. Signs a Good Bill. Governor Dix has signed a hill pro hibiting the admission of boys under 16 years of age to pool and billiard rooms or public bowling alleys in New York. Another bill approved by him provides for the licensing of all moving picture operators. Thirty Russians Drown. The sinking of an overcrowded ferry 'boat on th'e Volga, near Ug titch, Russia, is reported. Thirty persn were drowned. HERMIT PASSES AWAY [IVED IN WOODS OVER FORTY F YEARS Tohn Carnes, the Wild Man of 3 Cherokee County Dies in County Home. A special to the State from Gaffney says one of Cherokee county's great- B st curiosities is dead. "Wild John" = 3tarnes, otherwise known as the Wild 1E an of Cherokee, is no more. n It became known several days ago et that Starnes was sick and a party c' went in search of him, going into the ei most secluded portion of the county te where he lived, and finding him. He was brought to the county home, near k: Gaffney, suffering with pneumonia, tl and was kept there until Saturday ti night, when he died. a: "Wild John" has long been a cur- s( iosity. Many have gone iuto the toi ti ests in search of him only to be dis- tl appointed, while there are some few e: who have seen and talked with him. d He had been living the life of a hermit for about forty years. It is t( stated that when a young man -of v about 20 years, Starnes for some - reason became mentally unbalanced s1 and took to the woods. -He con- b structed a hovel of goods boxes, a sl very inadequate shelter, and there h; he h-as dwelt for the last 40 years. d Many conjectures have been in- t, dulged in as to what caused this d strange action, but it is supposed that S he was disappointed in love, although , it has been rumored that Starnes was- e the man who acidentally shot Gen. Stonewall Jackson and that this un balanced his mind. He was as shy as a. deer, hard to get a sight of and harder to talk to. tOne time, when sick, he was taken h to the home of a relative, but as soon as he regained his strength be hied back to his hovel where he barricaded himself and defned those a who wished to take im. Good. homes have been offered him time and time again, but all to no avail. 1 He has shunned society. t When taken to the county farm it r was much against his will, and he caused no little trouble while there. He would not stay in the bed, and as soon as the attendant's' back was was turned, would leap out -and hud- e dle in a corner with his hands cl-asp ed and head bowed. He pleaded with the superintendent of the home with tears in his eyes to let him out on the ground to die in peace. The house and its covering seemed to have affected him. FACTS ABOUT MALARIA. fow Mosquitoes Breed the Disr ise and Its Prevention. The Department of Agriculture is. continually getting out bulletins for the farmer, concerning various topics of interest. Among the recent bulle-s tins was one prepared on the sub ject, "Facts About Malaria." The disease, known as malaria, is caused by parasites that enter the blood, and -feed on the red cells. Warma climates are peculiarly conductive to1 malaria, and it is chiefly. in such climates that malaria is worse.1 These -paraistes multiply very rapid ly and 'in a short time millions of them are in the body. It may hap pen that after having been treated a person thinks he is free from the dis ease, and has killed out all but one of the parasites, -but this one may multiply and give him fever again. The fever itself is not so dangerous1 as is the fact that it weakens the body, leaving it an easy prey should death approach in another disease. The way these parasites are car red about is chiefly by the at pheles mosquito. This mosquito having fed- upon a person already in fected with thei malarial parasite, gives this parasite to every other person he . bites. This mosquito sel doms bites before sundown and there are two ways of distinguishing him; by the way he holds himself upon the wall, usurally the body'of a mos quito is paralell to the wall upon which he is standing. but this mosqui tos' body leans away from the wall at an angle; then the wing of this special mosquito is spotted. These mosuitoes seldom travel ' more than half a mile from ther ~ breedin~ place, and that is why some - regions are said to be malarious. There are three different ways to ight this malaria. First, by me chanically protecting -yourself from ~ the mosquito by screens, nets etc. E In Italy, where the disease 'wasb especially prevalent -several years t ago, it became a rule that persons I had to wear veils -and gloves in some t district. By this means of mechan- t ical protection the malaria rate was f reduced from 65 or 70 per cent down I to 14,. 'but here it remained. The second method is that of extermi nating the mosquito. Take care that all cans of water, pools of stagnant water, and even the backwater of a C running stream, be watched and guarded. There are many ways of ~ killing the mosquitoes, two simple C ways being to pour oil of' throw lim'e on the waters where they are breeding. The third method of ighting malaria is that of systemati ly treating~ the malarious infected I district, usually with quinine. - In Italy. free quinine was distributeao by the government, usually prepared in some chocolate or other sweet confectionery. By this method the a malaria rate was reduced to 4 per 'I cent. ~Dr. Ronald Ross, the dis- d coverer of the relation of malaria a with the mosquito advises that an r adult patient take five grains of sul- b phate of quinine every day for four 2 months, together with whatever de- o tails of treatment the -attending phy- a sician should direct. Dead Man Comes flack. . Official records showed that Dan I Richardson died August 15, 1909. at i2 Waukegan, Ill., .and an administra- o ton was appointed by Probate Judge v Cutting. Recently Richardson daz- Ifi ed the court at Chicago by walking -d in and demanding his estate-$1,- o 142. A dead man was identified as I Richardson by his sister, it turned out. Richardson was officially de clared alive and got his estate back. Sold for Sixteen Cents-. t At Savann'ah after the regular s< close of business Saturday a line of p 2,000 bales of high grade cotton was a sold at a price equivalent to about 1 16 cet for good middling. SHE TOOK THEM IN UME FORTUNE TELLER REAPS GOLDEN HARVEST. agic Talismans Sold to Number of Superstitious and Credulous Peo ple for Large Sunis. )irs. Jennie Hunter, alias Madame unter,- who was arrestel in Balti ore recently on a warrant from Ra igh, -charging ner with obtaining oney under false pretenses, work I a number of superstitious and rredulous people there for consid rable sums of money as a fcrtune Iler ,Mrs. Annie 0. Batman, a well aown dressmaker, lost $800 through ;. representations of the wily for me teller that she could unravel ad work out the happiest solution of >me fahily troubles that were dis rbing Mrs. Eatmian.. Just what ey were has not yet been divulged cept to the authorities in confi ence. IThe next largest amount claimed S'have been obtained was from a -ell-to-do negro woman. 'Madame [unter read her palm and told her 2e would soon break out with terri le sores unless some counteracting pell was worked for her; that. she ad been conjured to have these sores evelop. For $200 she gave her a lisman that would ward off the af iction.- It was a small wooden box curely sealed. 'he victim was told tbat if she open d the box she would die. Chief of 'c-lice Stell opened it when the wo ian brou!2'ht it to him, and found at it contained some 'blackish pow ers. Some of this, he says, he rub ed between his fingers, and much to is alarm, the fingers began to Itcy. ,t he s convnced now that the it ,ching was maginary and that the owder was really perfectly harmless nd worthless. -Another .victim brought a talis ian in a red flannel sack. It con ained two pieces of worthless ore ock. It had cost her the small sum f $2 and was presented by Madame unter to possess allpowerf'ul charm or her. wellfare. j.adame Hunter came to Raleigh ary in the year, openel a tent-house a vacant lot two doors from the tate house of Fayetteville street. lere she did a flourishing business s a palmist until late in April, when he disappeared oven night.A notable hing is that she refused to take Mrs. ,atm-an's check for her pay, but re uired her to get her own checks ashed and bring the money. NEEDS SOME HEMP. mhite Brute Charged With Assault ing a Yaung Woman. A dispatch from Monticello, Ga., ay a posse is scouring .the county if Jasper for Lawrence Crawford, a >rominent young white ban, who ac ording to the story -of the victim 'hursday night while the family was Lbsent, tied Miss Lizzie Halle to -a ed in her own home, assaulted her nd fled, leaving the girl trussed up imil~ her parents returned several Lours later. 'Excitement is at fevershext and it generally conceded that if Craw ord is caught lynch law will go int tuidk and immei-iate effect. (Craword was a friend of the f am ly and called while the girl's parents were at a lodge meeting. She say~s Le drugged her -and she remembers othin -until regaining consciousness Priday morning. She had been> in precarious health anad fears are en rbained for h'er recovery. * MADE A CLEAN SWEEP. lank Officials Steal All the Cash There Was in Sight. A dispatch from Raleigh, N. C., ays State Bank Examiner J. K )oughon arrived there from Tarboro spend Sunday. He says it will ake a week yet to make ?ie th ft ,gh examination of the bank of 'ar~boro necessary to ascertain the xct shortage of Cashier Hart, who uicided, and Assistant Cashier Hus ey, who is held in $15,000 bond for efalcations. He says the shortage Tll be $100.000 and very probably 5,000. While the shortages have een aecumulatinlg gradually for sev n years, much the-iarger part of it as occurred -within the -past six or en months. It seems to Examiner )oughton that the cashiers found hemselves so deeply involved that hy could not straiyhten their books orther -and just set in deliberately to cot the bank. Baby Drowns in Tub. At Graham, N. C., the 18S-months Id child of Mr. and Brs. Ernest tason fell into a tub of water and ras drowned. The mother had gone utto draw a bucket of water and be balby fell into the tub a-f about even inches of water and was drown d before it was noticed. It was an rdinary 1 radtub, which easily al ,wed the infant to overbalance and Tech. Student Succumbs. Robert L. Bowen, of Jewell, Ga., student at the Georgia School af 'echnology, died at Atlanta Wednes ay morning from injuries received then he was thrown from an auto iobile. Tihe accident was caused y the bursting of la tire. Young owen was accompanied by three ter students all of whom were iore or less injured. Vitriol Thrown in Face. - .rs. Emma Marcholtz, seeing Mrs. ruislaw Dujet passing her home 1 ChiLesgo enticed her in the house n Thursday and poured a bottle of itriol on her face. One eye was de rom burns that may prove fatal. In efese the woman said that the. ther had broken up her home. Mrs. ujjck denies this. Seed 1,000 Years Old. -fter lying in the tomb of an |gyptian mummy for prc-bably more hen 1,000 years. ten yrains of wheat ent to a Creeley, Cal.. farmer and lanted west of thatNSnhloemfWyp nd planted have germinated. From eight stalks of wheat superior to . rwin in that locality. * PASSES SENATE tipper House Adopts Direct Election Measure With Amendments. AFTER CAUSTIC TALK Kansas Senator, Who Formerly Op posed Sutherland Amnendment Se verely Arraigned for Change of At titude, Reed Declaring Same Due to Negro Vote in Kansas. The United States Senate passed Monday nitht by a vote of 64 to 24 the resclution providing for the pop ular election of United States Sen ators. The debate on the resolution soon drifted into a political affair. Dem ocratic senators criticised Senator Bristow's change of attitude. Mr. Bristow of Kansas, framed the prin cipal amendment, in the nature of a substitute to the main proposition, and he sought to continue the super vision of senatorial elections in con gress instead of delegating it to the States as proposed by the house res olution. At the last session the Kan sas senator voted against an amend ment offered by Senator' Sutherland of Utah which would have had the same effect as his own provision of this session. Mr. Bristow said that in both instances his -attitude had been decided by his desire to do that which would most certainly insure the success of the* popular election resolution Mr. Bor.h, in charge of the resolution, spok. in support of it, and Mr. Bacon opposed the Bristow amendment. Mr. Stone of Missouri arraigned Mr. Bristow as "snatching the amend ment" from Mr. Sutherland. mi. Bristow said he first believed the measure would be stronger without the provision and now believed it would be stronger -with it. NLr. Davis of Arkansas arraigned Mr. Bristow. Referring by name to Senator Cummins, Clapp and LaFol lette, he declared "the insurgent crowd never had been sincere on any subject they have brought before the country." The chair called Mr. Davis to order. Mr Cummins denied Mr. Davis' statement of an alleged instance un true. Mr. Bristow refuted the charge, saying that only under great provi cation "would he pay any attention to what the sen-ator from Arkansas said." Mr. Bacon aroused feeling by de clarinjg that great interests had beon bringing enormous pressure to. bear to defeat the measure. Senators Works, Guggenheim 'and -Cummins arose to refute the allegation. Mr. Bacon explained that he was imputing no impropriety to any -member. The direction' of the progressives was scored .by Senator Reed o~ Mis souri, who declared the conversion of Mr. Bristow to Senator Sutherl-and's viewpoi'nt was "'because of the negro vote in Kansels" -Adoption of the Bristow amend ment which. omitted the house pro ision transferring supervision of sen atorial election from congress to the State legislature was made possible by Mr. Clark of Arkansas casting the only Democratic vote for the proposi tion.* The tie ofthat ballot would have been pievented if the .vote had hr'eh est with his party, with whom he later voted on adoption of the resoln tion. On the resolution as amended, the vote was 64 to 24, was six more than the necessary two-thirds xvajor ity. Of the 24 negative votes, eight were cast by Democrats and 1 G by Republicans. The amended resolution now goes into conference before the senate and house, and some senators have pre dicted that the house will refuse to accept it. DEFENDS HER HONOR. A Married Woman Slags a Man Who Attacked Her. In defense of her honor, as she lleges, &Irs. Michael Lefevre, wife of a prominent man of South Credle, Colorado, shot and killed John Zang, proprietor of the Zang Hotel at that place about three o'clock Monday af ternoon. Zang was 55 years old, and his slayer is twenty years his junior. Mrs. Lefevre is held in the county jail charged with murder. Accord ing to the wonman's story, Zang call ed at her home about 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon. He asked for the ~roman's husband, and on learning that he was not at home, seized Mrs. Lefevre. :She -took her husband's re volver and shot Zang in the face. Evans Case Dropped. At Newberry M~onday morning a nol 'pross was entered in the case against H. H. Evans, a f'ormei- dis pensary director, charged with ac cepting a rebate. Solicitor Cooper read a letter from Attorney General Lyon, saying that owing to the death of G. H. Charles, material evidence was lost which he had not been able to supply. Died a Noble Hero. While attempting to rescue Samuel Scribner, fifteen years old, who was strugglin; to reach the shore, after saving his eight-year-old brother from drowning, Amos Harrington, forty-two years, was drowned as was the youth to whom he was trying to give assistance in a lake nine miles west of Oregon City, Oregon, Mon day. Value of Cotton. The cotton crop of 1910' was an nounced Monday to be the most val i::ble ever produced in zde' United States. Estimated in the ersus bu reau's annual .bulletin, the crop last year was valued at $96'3 180,000 compared wi'tll SS12,099,9A0 for 1900. Asleep on the Track. John Johnson, a negro, while in a drunken sleep. lying partly on the track, was run over and killed Sun day night at 11:40 o'clock by car No. 122, on the Augusta-Aiken line, SCARED TO DEATH THE SAD FATE OF A YOUNG NEW YORK BRIDE. The Glowing Eyes and Shriek of An Owl at a Window Too Much for Her. The strident scream of an owl and its shadowy form and gleaming eyes frightened Mrs. O'Neill, the beautiful bride of Assistant Corporation Coun sel James T. ~O'Neill, of Brooklyn;to death Tuesday night. The 'bird first appeared on Monday night while Mr. and Mrs. O'Neill, with hands on each other's should ers were walking along the road from fashionable Argyll Park to Babylon. It flew in front of their faces, then hid in the tlrees and screamed. The sunshine and the bright green ery- of Argyll .Park banished from the minds of both, on Tuesday, ab memory of the incident. Tuesday evening they started again upon their customary walk to- the village. They had scarcely left the lights of home behind when a double shriek, long drawn out and terrifying, assailed their ears, *and a spectacular form, with .huge. yellow eyes, swoopeL swiftly toward them. It veered off -only within a few feet. After taking Mrs. O'Neill, who was frightened, home. O'Neill started out again alone, recalling the lines from Macbeth: It was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman Which give's the stern's good-night., Later Mr. O'Neill and his bride ex changed some joking words about her fears and retired. Of a sudden, when all was still, there came a blood-chilling shriek, a tearing of claws and a beating of wings at the wirds of the window screen, and the vision of the grest golden eye peer ing in from the darkness. Mrs. O'Neill started up with an answering scream, then 'fell back.. Mr. O'Neill, with a word of anger. sprang for' a walking stick and iumped out upon a balcony. He was just in time to swing and miss at the form that flopped leisurely away. He spoke a cheering word as he reentered the room. Therewas no reply. He snapped on a light. His bride way lying senseless. He sprang to the telephone and called Father Logue, a -priest of Babylon. Then he called a doctor. The priest was first to come. There was still life In Mrs. O'Neill as he ad ministered - the last rites of the church. But just as he had finished. the priest touched his hand to a wrist and said -to Mr. O'Neill: "She's dead, my son."' , MUST WANT TO GO BACK. Recently Pardoned by the Governor. - Oaught Stea2k . J. B. Jeter, who Is said to have been the first man to have received. executive clemency froma Gov. 13ease: was Saturday placed behind !the bars of the Lexington jail by .Sheriff 'P H. Corley, with 'the charge of larceny resting against him. it being 'alleged that he stole ..a lot of jewelry .fromn his sister, Mrs. Fva Hodge, and some articles from his -aged mother, both of whom are residents -of. Swansea. He was later released, .his sister and mother agreeing not to push tht case, provided Jeter would sign ~an agreement never to auvear again at his mother's home. The agreement was drawn up by the clerk of coiurt. Frank W. Shealy. In the paper Jeter admits his guilt a'nd agrees'-that he shall kee'p his pledge, and should he fail~so to do, that he will be tried for larceny. Soon after Jeter's release from the penitentiary, where lhe was serving a life sentence for having killed a man on the streets of Union sevein. ears ago, having served eight years of the sentence eat the time of his pardon, he went to Swansea and~ re mained there for sometime,' livind with his mother and sister, both of whom are widows. The dates upon which the several articles were stol en is not known, but at various in tervals, it is~ said, valuables would disappear. His relatives became suspicious of. Jeter and the matter was placed In the hands of Sheriff Corley. The~ sheriff traced Jeter from Swansea - to Columbia, and after a tedious search many of the,. missing treas ures were found. Jeter's arrest fol lowed, and a f-ull and complete con fession was mde to the offcials. Jeter is about thirty-five years of age. FINDS- DAUGHTER AT 99. Father Had Tramped 15,000 Miles to Locate gis Family. After traveling 15,000 miles, tramping most of the way, and living on his pensions from the ziexican and Civil ,vars, and searching for the 14 children from whom he was separated in -the Galveston, (Tex.) flood, in 1900, Frank Schromm accidentally stumbled into the arms of one of his daughters in Indianapolis, Ind. From her he learned that only four of his 14 children were living. Schromm is 99 years old, and now that he has found his relatives he is the happiest man In the world. The reunion came about almost like 'a miracle. Tlie aged man was slowly walking down the street when a lit tle child caught hold of his hand and led him to his daughter. Mexicans Kill Tennessean. Information has reached relatives at Indian 'Mound., Tenn., that Thom ~s Richardson, a Tennessean, aged twenty-five, who has been serving with the Mexican revolutionists, was shot by the Federal troops after his surrender just before the end of the Invited to Silver Weddiny. Governor and 'Mrs. Blease have re ceived _eng ~vitation to attend the silver iojiding reception at the white house, oiune 19, the ocession be ing the 25th anniversary of the wed ding of Mr. and k~rs. Taft. The marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Taft took aeenTie 19, 188. . CHEAP CADY Lree Smal Gildren Kiid ia KL York by Eating Some of IL SHOULD NOT BE EATEN. [he Eldest Child Bought a Candy Called Jelly Beans With a Gift Cent and Gave Some of Them to Her Little Brother and Sister. "Now, Lillian, take good care of Agnes and Michael till I come back,." vas the partinwg injunction of Mrs. Elizabeth Wdarray as she left her iome, No. 595 Second avenue, New york city, for church shortly before eleven.o'clock last Sunday morning. Eight-year-old Lillian kept a watchful eye for some time on her sister, aged four, and brother, two. rhe children played around the' flat, but the sound of other childrer ,1ay ng in the hallway lured them &here. One of the 'tenants, passing the mer ry little group, -pressed a penny into Lillian's hand. The other girls and boys besoughther to at once to buS' candy with the cash. Lillian consented, but started she led brother and sister back to their apartment, cautioning them not to leave till she returned. In the stare she did not hesitate to nvest the copper in Jelly beans vari-colored sweet ,that Is a, fair imi tation of the common bean. More of them could be got for a penny. tran any other kind of candy. Returning home Lillian divided the sweets into three equal parts, piling' 'hem in litle -mounds on -the floor. kfter they had eaten most 'of the. -andy the children decifed .to put 'he rest by for- thei- mother. Then. 'hey -started to play again. About - '2:30 Mrs. Murray returned from -hurch, and-.entering the parlor she ound the three children ,on the "eyr in convulsions -She and ten 1.nts who had been summtmed by ' er screams applied home remedies. The children grow worse, but no treat alarm was felt as it was sup ',osed 'the antidotes - had not had time to take efect. While -Mrs. Mur-, ~ay was scurrying nround about the -ooms she discovered th4 felly .beans and became convinced they were -re sponsible for her children's illness. An hour' later the little ones be-,, -ame. unconscious. Then Mrs. Mur ay sought Patrolman Bligh of the 3ast Tflrty-fifth street station, who ,ot Dr. Meade from Bellevue Hose' ->itaL The surgeon said the children were sufferiig from ptomaine pols -iiIng, evidently caused by the-candy The little patients were huried to the hospital, where they sanig etead 9y. At 8 p. m. the mother was sum -noned by telegram. fThe doctors had practically aban loned hope of saving the children, but did not .t-ell- the mother how rrave was ,their condition. But she teemed to suspiet it, and became 1ysterical when she -arrived at the hospital. An hour later ft was sid the three were dying. -Analysis is to 'be made "of the con~ tents of the.children's 'stomachs and mso of the candy found-in the bag mnd an' iestigation is' to be' made hy the board of health and the po lice -- '~ CONVICTJ D)YNAMI1TES GUARD. Convicts Make NJear-Escape Near Porkville Friday. An n'nsuccessful.attempt was made Friday afternoon .by' a member o~ 'he chain-gang force. a negro named Stnson, to kill guard. Willlamns, by. exploding some dynamite near~ the officer. M .rWilliams was knooked' down and rendered unconscio-us for a shortswhile. 'On r-eco'vering - .condciousness he observed that the convicts were ruk ning away.' Quickly regaining b.i.3 'eet, and seizing his gun, he ordered the fleeing men' to halt, which t.hey -lid, none escaping. Stinson had been entrusted with dynamlitc to, blow -tv- stumpi i* 'he road. The afttetnpt was mad# -i Cas i branch, west of town where th~e ang is now work..* Storm on Austrian Coast. A dispatch- from Trieste, Austria, says a storm of hurricane force raged inring Wednesday night,, causing many deaths and much - damage to shipping. -Early Thursday morning - the bodies of 20 -victimns had been recovered at this point. It'-is feared that the 'fishing smacks with crews +otalling 40 men, which were at sea Wednesday night, were lost. The ships in the road were severely damaged. A Greek vessel with its - crew of 12 foundered. Minor dam ages to craft are revorted from other points on the Odriatic sea. The Gentle Cynic. In contemplating what we do for others we are apt to lose sight of what others do for us. The man who always follows the' dict,tlon of his conscience must have pretty sh&rP ears. If it were not for th'eir long faces some people have an ieda the world wouldn't know they were religious. It takes two to make a quarrel, but the quarrelsome person has sel dom any difficulty in finding the oth er one. Grasshoppers Hurt Cotton. According to a prominent eotton planter who has returned to New. Orleans Thursday after a two 'weeica trip through various parts of the cot ton belt, grasshoppers in large quan tities are beginning to attack the cot on crop in sections of Louisiana and Mississippi. -So far, the pests have become noticesable only in certain 1o calities, -but It is feared, the planter says, if the hot dry weather contin es much longer they will be-ome a reat danger to the crop. * Very Strange Case. Andrew C. Fears, a well known merhant of Athens, Ga., is desper tely ill at his home from a most unusual origin. Monday afternoon he had a tooth pulled, and the leeding from the dental operation ould not .be stopped for hours. 'Mr. Pears lost a gallon of blood from thb footh. Later, hem~rrhafes from the tidneys set In, and it is feared that is condition Is very sros