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T HE fWG W ith the breath of spring comes to all of Uncle Sam's Geolological Sur vey men the call of the vast stretch es of sagebrush and shortgrass coun try of the West, the mountains and glaciers of the backbone of the coun try, and the snow-bound territory of Alaska. During the winter months they have been busy at their desks in the office at Washington. but now the reports and maps of the last field sea son are complete&fand the geolo'ists. the hydrogaphers, the top:>graphers the animal and plant fossil experts, and other specialists are spreading throughout the United States and in to the vast silent places of Alaba. There are over five hundred of these field men of science . The to pographers will invade the remote places in many western States that are yet unsurveyed, and will also push their way into unknown parts of Alaska. Among the newly dis covered Coal beds of Arizona, Utah and other states the coal .geologist will busy themselves in th-e land clas sification work thr.t has proved to be of such great economic value. The topographers and hydrogra phers are perhaps more widely trav eled than any other of the field men, for they are going to carry their map making and. their study of water power and lakes and streams into the Hawaiian Islands. Phosphate beds are constantly being discovered and classified The discovery of another fertilizer, no less than potash. is con fidently hoped for in the great pre historic lake basins of the arid re gion, where vast beds of the mineral, so vital to our farmers, were un doubtedly deposited in the ~early ages of the world. Summer finds the men of the Sur vey scattered through the swamps and dest~ts, the mountainckis re gions and the rural districts of the country, leaving only a small admin istrative 'body at the headquarters at Washington. If one might obtain a bird's eye view of the United States anid Its t'erritories it would be inter esting to note the progress of these small bands of workers. Among the snow-covered mountain ridges and through swollen rivers they struggle. Forest fires threaten them and in some districts so num erous are the dangers by which they~ are surrounded that even the new field assistant, thirsting for exper ience, is more than satisfied. But seldom are there any real mishaps,. for adequate preparations are made to overcome most difficulties. As a matter of fact, what seems to the first year man daily adventures. oft-* time too thrilling, become, after a year or two of service, simply a part of the days work, and not of sufli cient importence to mention. Men who have gone through trials and ex periences in the high Sierra country. along the vast Continental Divide. or who have placed their maps on the untrodden sections of Alaska in the hands of "explorers'' who come later, can scarce .be prevailed upon to ad mit that they have ever had any "ex periences." Laden with their telescopes, their plane tables and other surveying in struments. the topographers are gen erally first on the field unexplored by survey men. All the mbountans. can yons, and plains of the country are duly sketched; no lake, marsh., stream, spring or inequality of the ground'escapes the surveyor's eye. The Geological Survey maps are made in the field, upon the ground and are more acrurate- than would be a se ries .of photographs.. In the closer populated districts all the routes 'of travel, the cities, the towns and even .the farm houses are' carefully indicated on the topogra pher's field map which is later en graved and published at Washington. During the thirty-one years of -he Survey's existence, the torpographe'rs have surveyd in .this fine detail mcre than one-third of the United States and much territory in Alaska. Be sides the country actually m~apped.. large areas have been cove1 ad in a. reconnaissance way, and this is es :pecially, true of Alaska. where the Survey has been active only about ten years. Indeed, of the GOA.AA0 square miles of that north country there is less than a third that has not bern explored in a greater or less degree by the Geological Surv;ey men The work in Alaska, which, with the ex ception of a few centers. is almosi to tally undeveloped, is naturally more difficult than in the U'nited States STORIES ARE UNTRU. . Confederate Veterans Condemn Them as Misleading. Atlanta Camp. No. 159, United Confederate Veterans. has passed strong resolutions severely condemn ing the civil war articles no';: running in papers all over the country. At a meeting held this week the camp heard a paper by Professcr B. M. Zettler, a member, whoD denounc ed the series, as unfair, inaccurate and misrepresentinlg the truth as re 02K of 1h( J . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . pioper. In some of the districts the men can not depend on pack trains or even do.cs, but must rely upon the sturdiness of their own legs, or resort T to canoe travel. In many instances, especially during the earlier purely exploratory work, advantage has been C taken of the enormous length of some of the Alaskan rivers. Worikng their way up one stream as far as possible t with canoes. they portage to the C head-waters of another stream flow- a Anz in a different direction, and de scend that stream, emerging perhaps b into ancther :ocean. e In such cases it has been no holi- e Iday jaunt to work a couple of heavily 0 laden cano.s, carrying five months of t( provisions. up the rapids of some 0 swiftly flowing mountain stream wi-th the Ilacial water at a temperature of a 40 to 50 degrees Nor when the h stream shallowed to get out into the hJ icy water and push and pull. One 1i twelve mile portage across the central a part of the Seward Peninsula occu- t! pied a week. Several trips were nec- a essary, the men carrying their can oes B and their provisions and camp outfit n over a mountain divide 1200 feet v high. For four or five or six months- n until the snows of the fall drive them h in-many of these field men live and o work in the wilderness apparently g oblivious to the outside world. They map out practically untrod ground, % occasionally meeting some prospector, el but for the most part having only an n ....... Rhotopmphz- Amog inecus wt fhohe.Lvng ~\'$o theeorfor f he i alitl4wrl t of her wnfo p 'hpshaf i yer othy eom hmsikWlli nauali steladnsis.fa-t call cre n eme fjs such e theeorther ligthms!" ganlttewd al wearytraelase "Godaenis: fo auw auightoeas thhe ligse of sme vldt Yets w henre ma begis to sell tuh budsth te hantsprof thesesae. menaill re one moemer to sfarea ortheinn litsh groaeness aa aTih et of the htopogrhtr'fsom a ebu s theanetsowonerull thsaccrae c that it is noted throughout the world,b and the United States Geological Su r- jI ve men have been called upon to teach topograhic mapping in many Ereign countries and to organize gov- a ermental topographic surveys from Canada to Argentina. During the th past year :36.530 miles in the United of Sttes proper were topographically surveyed in great detail. The survey en has its own engraving plant and it is one cf the greatest map engraving in establishments in the country. The 0o maps are used in all government de- dE partments and by engineers and min- m ers engrged in private enterprises. r ;;rd the corU erate side. th The paper was received with en- 'th ::husasm. andI was endorsed without . dissenting voice. A resolution was then introduced and unanimously Hi passed condemany the pu~blications as damning the Southern cause with! faint praise, and magnifying every thing concerning the union side. it Te was pointed out that the harm of W these articles lay in giving Lhe young- m: er generation of the country an en- St :irely false conception of the confed- G< GEOLO a -M ....... .X .... .... hey are ideal automobile maps. In the western p'art of the United tates are about 70,000,000 acres of al land still owned by the govern ient, in addition to the great coal elds of Alaska. It is the work of e coal ?eologist to examine these al beds, to estimate the tonnage per re and to fix the sale price. This tnd classification work has proved to of great economic value to the gov rnment. Until 1906, all of the gov rnment coal land was sold at a price C $10 to $20 an acre, fixed according i its proximity to railroads and with it regard to its real value. Now. however, Uncle Sam is man ing his vast coal property on a bus iess basis. His geologists are exam ing every forty acre tract. measur Lg the thickness of the coal seams ad calculating the tonnage. Then ie old landlord is fixing the price cording to the quality of the coal. ut how can a'geologist tell how any tons of coal an acre will yield, hen 'the coal bed is 1000 feet under round in a virgin field perhaps 100 iles from a mine shaft? He does, wever. for the business of the ge togist is to look deeper into the cound than anyone else. Equally active is the -Survey in its ork of classification of the petrol im lands belonging to -the govern et as well as the phosphate lands _ HontD eac idte7aerpwe igt.jI l es getrsuce diinllg laini 2eesryt rtc h teet ftepol otesm x ntthtthy r .sfgure in .i 4.l rprt.Alesn.lwi ede topeetwse ntedvl >mn ofcllns Aohrlwi ededfor anding f wter owe e inio the wtern hsphrte nds, buret resthrhe provitiona whigh 1atienae isegessrlrent the tero the popetioo theiswonere If at thurey areoli safgade dis hi calort. aAt leovide law this esatoreventc awicoyaste thee et oferm andts. denoste lwuld wcedfrt hndeds of million ow dor rs mnin ovof it wou~nl neved ilrnl the government to ele- n atth pepoteatin ofmeica wode Most valale fnertiigroud. te lw rofthe Srvey loocs Knowledis rthiocs hereore desis o pot atsa latnt knoe ~of he orteir ~cear. Sust ads tcoeyas he eat Ga eman- os deoit wld rthe goveunn sol them geolgis user"hapsrostr an Alorcanepot Motaudrground waterel inflows . r.gc Graelois ron.dvnowedge teroas torfore eater ato dge ebraveatenwh oughfo as h case tas Gon ndthaer geolgstue th amedroc Whe n o. un rgrcud aeted the uesdy bc eif Gooist Avaros anted an oadto dril C.. waherea Ee-a a brae mener wh ogtra cice of GICAL m1 (By: Z denr Caz2oe rzp Ze I ................I .lJ2 A2e?5,XA~ mont, S. D., and told them they would strike a strong artesian flow at 3000 feet. They drilled and got a flow of half a million gallons a day at just, 29S2 feet. Very simtar to the hydrologist is the man who can tell in just what ter ritory an oil well is located and at about what depth the oil will be struck. He is a wizard who makes underground maps of an oil district. Another important man of the Sur vey staff is the hyrogapher-the m-an who measures the flow and studies the rivers and streams of the coun try. Where the government or where corporations contemplating irrigation enterprises, or where it is desired to know the available horse power that can be developed on a stream, the da ta furnished by these water experts is utilized. The hydrographer by de -termining throulh a long series of gaugings, the amount of water the stream carries and the fall of the riv er; can attain the desired result. But this often means wading into icy streams throughout the winter and working under other conditions that are not exactly play. The na-tural resources of the Unit ed States are barely scratched, ana 0 .~1 discoveries of useful and precious minerals are being made every day. The work of the Geological Survey has proved this country to contain greater natural resources than any other of its size. The men who have so successfully undertaken this work of exploration, discovery and classifi cation have .been forced to demon strate their capacities before going into the field. The efficient geolo gist, after spending several years in specialized university work must pass a ,government civil service examina tion before he finds himself launched in a field of scientific research, -an-d then, within .the Geological Survey, his real schooling begins. Thus it is that the field men are capable and well trained, while they are all. en thusiasts and willing to tackle any difficulties. Which Are You? I'd rather be a Could Be,d If I cannot be an Are: For a Could Be is a May Be, With a chance of touching Par. t I'd rather 'he a Has Been, Than a Might Have been 'oy far; For a Might Be is a Hasn't Been, But a Was was once an Are. Also en Are is Is and Am, A Was was all of these: So I'd rather be -a Has Been Thin a Hasn't, if you please.a tl Felder worked off a bluff on Gov'. Brown when he said he was coming d to South Carolina soon. There are . not mules enough in South Carolin-a e to pull hi:n rcross the line.s c manslaughter. Following his con viction, the case was appealed and w the sentence was affirmed. Upon o hearing of the affirming of his case, o Avant, accompaned by his wife, fled b to that State about a year ago. When 'fi arrested he was engaged in selling t: sewing machines and was located at nl a boarding house. Upon his arrest b: by the sheriff he admitted that he si was Avant, and said that he would go back to South Carolina without requisition papers. He is about 35 tl years of age and is of good appear- f. A TINY MIDGET FOUND lAY BE THE SMALLEST PERSON IN THE WORLD. "olored Girl, Two and a Half Years Old, Weighs Only Eight Pounds G Is Only 19 Inches in Heigrt. Abopt nineteen inches in height, Ti ;wo and a half years old, wei'gh ng exactly eight paunds, and par Jiclarly strong and bright for a :hild of her age, Frankie May Ford iam, a little negress, living with her >arents at No. 7 Heyward's Court, s believed to be about the smallest >erson in the world, with perhaps, me or two exceptions, says the Char eston News and Courier. The News ind Courier goes on to say: st The child is a veritable marvel. 4 'he was born in February 1909 ,be- 11C ng the fourth child of Henry and 11c Kate Fordham, the husband being a iavy yard employee. The first three hildren, who were born away from harleston as the family has been tb iere only about a year, are hearty in and full sized; but it is the baby that s the wonder of the family. The s hild is not a deformity, but is prob- al ibly one of t hemost perfectly form- H d negro children in the city. bl Nothing was known generally of fa he midget's existence until Wednes- l lay as efforts were made .by the pa ents -to keep the fact -of her dimin- M Ative size secret, as they feared kid- P iapping; but a reporter, having re eived a mysterious "tip" In the form f an unsigned pencil-written letter, t 7isited the house Wednesday night nd marvelled at many things he saw. He was met by the husband at the ti Eront door of the house, wrich Is a t eat two-story affair, and was usher- al d into the bed rooa, where the re mother had the little girl in her night w -own, just ready to put-her to bed. hi As the reporter entered the room, hi the child, catching sight of the fata, ex, exclaimed in a sweet and child- G( [sh voice, with perfect enunciation: "Hello, Papa." The reporter glanced to see who it A was talking and really had trouble at [n locating the owner,' of the voice, l in locating the owner if the voice, a mnally espying the tiny tot on the di loor. She was playing around in is igh glee -at the prospect of staying a p a few minutes later than her reg lar bed-time, and danced and sung b it a great rate; showing unusual pre- tr socity for a child of her age. Her 0 eyes' which are dark brown, are ex- w yeptionally clear and piercing, and t aer hair is silky and rather long, ab- re solutely unlike a negro's. Yet she is " rery dark, and had many of the .ra ,ial craracteristics. The child weighed five pounds at fu birth, and gained three pounds dur- B ng the first six months of her life. su ince that time she has not taken on T in ounce, and several well known I loctors who have examined her, ac ording to the parents, have stated de .hat she will never gain janother nch in height or another threeb >ounds in weight. . Her -parents have a2 eonciled themselves to this, and t avish their affection on the little irl, who is ctrtain to make a friend ha f everyone she meets. She dances ai rettily, looks intelligent and talks in ~luently, being .,able to string words gi ogether into short sentences al- of eady. t The parents state that they have T iready received many offers from ~ raudeville and side show managers, cc ~ome having already-offered as high ci s fifty dollars a week and transpor- M ation for the mother under a five ear contract All these offers theh arents have turned down, hoping cc or thel ultimate! development of PC heir little one to her full atature, lttough they -have now become al- PC nost certain tbhit their hope is vain. cc [he father and mother now seem to hink that they will keep and edu ~ate the child until it reaches the age f seven or eight years at least, be ore thinking of any vaudeville de arture. i hi WILL REMAIN THE SAME. [here Will be No Change in State to Board of Education. st~ Governor Blease, in positive lan- c ;uage before the State board of edu ation Saturday, declared that there to nil 'be no change in the personnel re f the .b-card. The statement was nade at the session of the board I his morning, and this evening the W ress was furnished with a steno- 10 ~raphic report of what Governor fo 3ease had said to the board at its di ession Saturday. -Governor Blease, in addition tos uakng the final assertion that the i' nembers of the State board of edu- af atin would not be removed, out- er ied his position with regard to t' he adoption of school -books. In his respect his statement was prac ically the same as that printed in lf The News and Courier a few days go .go. th Governor Blease also reviewed th he Waddy Thompson incident, re- e erring to the adoption of history ho ooks. - Among other interesting N tatements Governor Blease made re tr erence to the reported presence of a etectives in Columbia at this time a rho, he asserted, were here "tc na atch hs," according- to the informna ion Governor Blease has in the pDi atter: on an PASS THE WOOL BILL. CO te: 'wenty-Four Republicans Vote With mm he the Democrats. en The House of Representatives, bya vote of 221 to 100 Tuesday passed fo: me Underwood wool tariff revision tbi ill providing for a reduction of thme uty on wool and manufactures or -o. Twenty-four Republicans vot c wtih the Democrats for the pas- con ige of- the measure, -and one Demo- $2 rat, Representative Francis of Ohio, ed :>ted against it. Many amendments Wi ere offered and voted down, the only bu ne being a slight change in phrase- th< Logy. Almost five hours were spent tr-a y the house In debate under the H. ye-minute rule. The bill prescribes of at it shall be in effect January 1 the ext, but it is not believed that the 11 will pass the senate at this ses on. - - The church continually talks tc fie me poor man .about "giving," but Iha ils to talk properly to the rich man thE RLL SAVE WIFE uator Lake Lea Offers Himself as Sacrifice to Restore Her [YES HIS OWN BLOOD te Operation Is Entirely Successful and the Youngest United States Senator and His Young Wife Are Both Doing Well After the Trans fusion Is Made. United States Senator Luke Lea of tnnessee, 'to save the life of his ricken tvife, heroi:ally sacrificed a art of his blood at Georgetown spital Sunday, and Monday night 'pe-for Mrs. Lea's recovery, which d almost been abandoned, is prac ally assured. The anxious youngest nator of the nation, as he lies near e bedside of his wife, is recuperat g his strength. Mrs. Lea's condition, serious for me time, 'became alarming Sunday ter an operation the day before.. er strength, because of lack of ood, was gone, and vitality was st ebbing away. Senator Lea, upon irning of her condition, demanded at a transfusion operation be per rmed and prepared at once to sub it to the -ordeal. . At his entreaty ysicians and surgeons made ar ngements immediately, and the op ation which followed was declared have been very successful. Senator Lea withstood the opera >n well, though it left him so weak at for hours he could not stand one, but his gratifibation over the viving effect it had upon his wife is inexpressible. Surgeons assured m that, without the sacrifice which made, Mrs. Lea could have lived it a few hours. Both are now in orgetown university hospIcal. It will be two or three days before rs. Lea is altogether out of danger. t present her symptoms are favor >le, although she is still very weak. mnator Lea is confined to his bed the hospital, his vitality, being re iced by the transfusion operation. It expected, however, that he will be >le to leave his room in a few days. When heroric effort in Mrs. Lea's ,h-alf became imperative and the ansfusion operation determined up i, Senator Lea, athletic in statute, ould not consent to anything, but at a sacrifice of his own blood to new her vanishing strength be ade. But because a prime factor in trans sion operation is that the blood be sible, tests were hastily ordered. fore analysis was completed by the :rgeons, Drs. H. D. Fry and George illy Vaughn, fearing that death ight be swifter than they, became armed at Mrs. Lea's condition, and cided on the operation anyway. ist as the Senator's arm had been red, and a tube inserted in 'an 'try word came that the blodds of e husband and wife were fusible. The other end of the tube which td been inserted in Senator Lea's m was connected with an incision Mrs. Lea's arm and the blood be ,n to flow from his veins into those his wife. The transfusion con iued- for about an hour and a half. to pa.tient responded to the treat ent from the first. Gradually the lor was retored to the lips and eeks of the frail sufferer. . But es rs. Lea's color was restored the sh faded from the cheeks of her tsband. When the transfusion haa. ntinued an hour and a half, he Im c tuned the salrgeo-ns not to arrest e operation while there was the ssibility of a doubt as to the out me In .Mrs. Lea's case. But the ryeons, realizing, the weakening et ets of such a drain on the senator's stem, eventually staunched the iw. After the operation Senator ~a fell to the floor in a faint. He is imediately placed in bed, and now making splendid recovery of s strength. Stand Bly Your Town. "Why should I support my own wn?" is a question every one ould put to himself :and honestly nsider. The result would be bone ial both to the individual and the wn. Here are a few of the many ascns he would be sure to find. The town is his home and a man's st duty is to his communal home as ~1l as to his domestic horne. Again :al patriotism demands it. Love r :and pride in one's town is the ty as it should ever be the joy of ery citizen, and that patriotism ould find constant expression in rthering its interests. His town ~ords him the .protection of its gov ament and laws and guards his operty against fire and other losses. A man should trade in his town. business men are courteous, will Sand progressive their stock of ods is large and varied, and it are is something one wants which sy do not carry they are always idy to se'cure it. Unlike catalogue uses, the home merchants help to y the taxes of a town, they con. 1ute to churches, improvements d entertainments. Without the siness men the town would stag te and property decrease in value. The schools of a town provide am and, satisfactory education for e's children, and its churches meet d satisfy his religious needs and serve the moral and spiritual in .ests cf the community. Its news pers keep him informed on local tters, enlarge his knowledge, lp him in business, minister to his loyment and that of his famijy, :i promote every wise effort put th to help the best interests of Stown. Will Establish a Bank. rhe Bank of Eutawville has been nmissinned with capital stock of 5,000. The bank was commission last fall with B. A. Hagood ano son G. Harvey as the petitioners. a letter received at the office oft Secretary of State asks that the nsfer of petition be made to E. t Pringle and Hyman Pearlstine,. Charleston. This was done ano new commission is issued. 3rother Bell, of the Cherokee News s "they say that the water is so I Sdown about Orangeburg that the are climbing the trepes." We le bad one or two gaod rai-~c in last ten days and the~Sish as::e al1l I WILL WOR WONDERS NEW STORAGE BATTERY PER FECTED BY EDISON. Can Be Used in Cars, Automobiles and All Kinds of the Ordinary Vehicles. . Edison's new storage battery, which he is now perfecting, will sure ly work wonders if all that Is said of it is true. In speaking of it the Manufacturer's Record says: Just when the storage battery el ectric car is establishing itself in favor with street-railway men ..r service comes Thomas A. Edison with the anouncement that he has designed a new type of storage bat tery, which is a wonder, and it may further -popularize cars wJ'Lout trol leys. A few days ago he told a re porter of the New York Times about the new invention, saying that, al though it will run a car or automo 'bile, .and, in fact any kind of vehi cle, it can be put in a suit case, be Ing small and light, yet containing sufficient power for a 50 or 60 mile trip. Moreover, it-can be recharged in three or four minutes, whereas the first storage battery he produc ed required a long time for recharg ing. Furthermore, if necessary, it can be partly recharged in a min ute or less should time be pressing. He is working along the same line to produce a ,battery for heavy ser vices on railroads, doing work as efficiently as steam locomotives do now, and is also quoted as saying that one of his storage batteries is working on a butcher's wagon in West Orange, N. J., where Mr. Edi son resides,. running for 17 miies at an expense of 2, cents. The battery is under the seat, and it is recharg ed by connectioDn with an ordinary feed wire. He referred to the street car now being operated -at Concord. N.C ., saying that the people there were laughing at the rest of the country for using trolley cars. This implied promise of Mr Edi son to give the world street-car ser vice at lower operating costs, and without the disadvantage and dis figurement of trolley wires and their accompanying overhead structure, Is most encouraging when read In con nection with the reports of success attending the operation of storage battery-cars on cross-town lines in New York, where they have T-roved so. satisfactory that the Third ave nue railroad has ordered 35 more of them, which, with 30 now in service, will give it a good supply of the new vehicles that are to take the place of horse cars on short routes across the city between the Hudson and the East Rivers. The battery equipment will be fur nished by the Electric Storage Bat tery Company, of Philadelphia. It' appears that the railroad has now a little less than 10 miles of line operated with storage battery cars, the rest of its lines being equip)ped with electric cars of the usual type and a- few horse cars. The' storage .battery vehicles are reported to have worked. well in all kinds of weather, and the operating expense was low, while the life of the batteries- is greater than anticipated. The cars have also gathered more bausiness for company, as many -people would- not use the horse cars. S- muchf hais al ready been accomplished by storage battery cars that the efforts of Mr. Edison and others to extend their field of usefulness will be observed with deed interest, and ,reports of greater achievements are anticipated. TURKISH TROOPS MASSACRED. Thousand Soldiers of the Sultan Kill ed by the Arabs. Bandits in great force Friday sur prised and cut up a Turkish column commanded by Mahomed Ali -Pasha outside -Gheesan, a town on the. Red sea, about one hundred miles north of Hodeidah. A thousand Turkish sol diers were killed. Mahomed Ali Pasha is missing. The fighting was so desperate and at such close quarters that 500 Turk ish fugitives are suffering from seri ous dagger woun-ds. The survivors fled in disorder to Gheesan, pursued by the rebels. The Turkish gunboat -Sutebbe, in tending to shell the Arabs, shelled Gheesan instead, killi-ng or wousding several hundred of the soldiers. !The rebels captured four big guns, two maxims, two thousand rifles and a quantity of ammunition and ulti mately retired. BURNED BY LIGHTNTNG. Bolt Does Severe Damage in the Town of Walterboro. At Walterboro during a thunder shower Friday afternoon lightning struck the .barn and stables in the rear of the residence of the late Col. Ino. D. Edwards, which -is occupied by W. E. Haskell, Jr., and family of Jacksonboro for the summer, killing one mule, a fine buggy horse asd stunning another mule so that it had to 'be killed to prevent its being burn ad alive, setting fire to the barn and stables, which with its contents, were entirely consumed. Mr. Haskell had just sent .a load of pro'visions from the plantation. The negro driver and in assistant had just finished unload ing. They were both stu-nned and mniraculously escaper being instant ty killed. TWO PERSONS DROWNED. The Accident Horrifies a Sunday School Picnic Party. At Pensacola, Florida., cau.yht in a ;trong undertow, a party of Sunday ;chool picnickers, while bathing w-ere carried into the gulf ThursdayC tfternoon, and before a rescue party ould reach them, Miss Kathleen ~uggs, aged 18, and W. B. Wallace. a 1 raveling salesman of Philadelphia,C ere drowned. Four others were I aken out of the water unconscious e Lnd were resuscitated with diflculty. t i boatman named Charles Dillard al :o barely escaped death when he went d o the rescue of the .bathers The ! nother of Miss Suggs iras amo~ng the f torrible spectators of the drowning. ~ f Should Bryan take a notion to go ishing for the Democratic presiden tal nomination he would be sure to lh and It But he is not a candidate. V WAR TO THE END 'fesidet Taft Mdking a Great Efert to. Rush Reciproecity through. ILL BE A HARD FIGHT Republicans Consider a Bolt, and Some of Them Contemplate a Re buke to the President and an Ap peal to the Couniry to Support Them in their Acts. The Washingtoi .correspondent >f The State says any one wbo will watch conditions as they exist at the White House and in -the house and ;enate at the present time, and who will watch the wire pulling that is ging on .by President 'Daf.t to get the eciprocity bill through, realize -that. t is a fight to the finish. There is ir, use denying the fact that It r..+', procity fails it will be useless for' )fr. Taft to try for renomination. In tact, in such a contingency,- it looks like a sure thing for the Democrats. To administer a direct reuke to the president and then appeal --to the :ountry -is the course which many enate leaders are seriously consid erign. They are not all of any one. action either. Denocrats in general want Taft renominated, -because they feel confi dent that they can defeat hm. Re publicans, orthodox and -heterodox alike, are wondering if -there is a chance to break the rule of a century and a quarter that a president can re ominate himself when he chonses. There has been no exception to the rule. Report Is that eight Democrats are now about to determine to vote against reciprocity. If this be ac curate reciprocity Is defeated. ,,Taking. both parties, there are prob ably not half a score of men in the entire senate who sincerely want to see reciprocity win. Most of the Democrats and' some 'of the Republi cans will vote for lit: bu' in private conversations they agree amoni themselves that they don't like it. And In the long run the senate isn't much 'given to doing-the th'ng It doesn't like to do. To defeat reciprocity will'necessi tate on behalf of those "Republicans who vote against it most complete and detailed explanations to *consti tuents.' Wherefore the senate is ton ing up in preparation for a regular iratorical tourney. ,Not less than thirty Republican senators are loading up for great speeches in opposition to -the presi dent's measure. Senator Nelson of Ninnesota is a good illustration. He is going- to take a special c-mmittee to- study Alaska this summer or au tumn-provided first he sees the fin ish of the reciprocity discussion. N~othing on earth will aget him away from Washington till he-has unload ed the big speech he is preparing and given his vote against the pact. -It e expected that he will have two or three days talks to unload, for -he is workink night and day on the effort, collecting statistics, studying indus-. trial conditions, putting~ the agree ment itself under the mciscrope. ,. What Nelson does will -be of a piece with the performances of many oth ers. Senator Cu Icings Is at work on a speech that will require days to de liver. Clapp, La Follette, Bristow and others are similarly preparing* themselves, as ore many of the regli tars. .Six weeks of talk is the minimum estimate; it may go to eight or ten weeks. Almost all of the Republ-icans a~re going to make*6peeches for home consumption. There will, be some specially' bitter attacks on the presi dent. He will be charged with per erting the maximum asd minimum provision of the tariff act of 1909,. when he issued the proclamation giv ing Canada the benefit of the mini mnuns duties. Under careful analysis, it will be shown that In fact- Canada's preferential treatment- of British oods made it- utterly impossible to give Canada the minimum rates. The president faced the necessity of either imposing the maximum ratesz or else abrogating the law. He choose the later course. The polit-ics of the situation lies argely in thce fact that the opponents of the treaty are going to do about all1 the talking, and that they are go ig to do it with the definite purpose of breakin.g down whatever strength re measure has with the country. 'hus far the opposition has .been, re serving its fire. It realizes that while it was doing this, the protagonists of reciprocity h-ave made headway, with Sublic opinion. Leadinig progressive rwpapers all over the Middle West bave comm'.tted themselves to the r'easure; Lnd in their defection is a serious thing to the progressive Re ,ublicans. who have enjoyed vast ad antages in the past by reason of nagazine support. So -the Republicans who will talIk .gainst -eciprocity will be taiking for :heir lives; talking to get their old supporters back in line, to square hemselves with- the progressive press, ;o keep their constituents cheerful, ;o show them that there in no incon istency between former professions >f eal for reciprocity and present :pposition to it. It Is a big contract hat this class of Republicans have n their hands, and it will require big peeches. COUNTERFEITERS ARRESTED. (wo Men in Alken Jail Following Unusual Discovery. A day or two ago what was believ d to be the workhouse of a garg of outerfeiters was discovered with s a few miles of Aiken. As a result I the discovery two white mnen. Joe d John Fea.gan, were arrested and .r held pending an investiLsatios. Tnited 'States Marshal Huggins and hief Howard of the Aiken police 2ade the discovery. In a 1hut locat d in a thick wood was found a quan [ty of old metal, scrap iron, pewter, rass, etc.. but while everything; in icated that counterfeiting had been oing on, no dies or plates could be ,und. The two men when arrested,. re said to have had several counter cit nickles in their pockets. The dry spell has beenbroken at Lst by refreshing rains. These rains l do the crops much good.