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PAID TO VOTE Senator Holtslaw Repeals Bribery Story Before Committee. ON THE LORIMER CASE Banker, Church Leader and State Senator Makes a Most Humiliating Confession Before the Committee Investigating the Bribery Charges Against U. S. Senator Lorimer. Feebly defending his confessed graft, former State Senator D. W. Holtslaw, the 62 year old Illinois banker and church leader, Tuesday retold to the senate Lorimer com mittee his story of being paid for having voted for Lorimer for Sen ',.ator. Incidentally he, told of ask ing and of being promised $1,500 for buying furniture for the State from a certain firm. Holtslaw was asked many humil iating questions. He was required to tell of being called before the grand jury in Cangamon county on his way back from a Baptist conven tion in Baltimore, to which he was a delegate. He was led by counsel into all the details of his demand to be paid by the furniture men be fore he ibought furniture for the State. "You were looking out for the best interest of the State when you demanded $1.500?" asked Sen ator Kenyon. "I felt honestly that I was not taking anything from the State, but was getting part of the Agent's com mission." "You were worth $100,000 and didn't need the money?" "No, I didn't need it." "Did you intend to turn it over to some charity fund?" suggested At torney Marble. "Oh, no; I intended to keep every cert of it." He did not get the money because he told the grand jury about it, he said, and declared that it was most ly to get mmunity for his part in the furniture deal that he told the grand jury about receiving money for having voted for Lorimer. Holtslaw told of his conversation with State Senator -John Broderick the night before Lorimer was elect ed. "He said to me: Senator Lorimer will be elected tomorrow,'" said Hoftsaw. "'Yes,' I replied, 'I am going to vote for him.' After a second bad passed, he said, 'There will be -$2,500 in it for you.' I did not say anything." "Did you think you ought .to have got more?" asked a member of the committee. "No, I thought I ought to have had none." "Why did you take it then?" "I really do not know." TREED TO POISON THEM. Alleged Plot to Kill a Lot of Little Children. What the county authorities be lieve a plot for the wholesale poison ing of children has been unearthed at Concord, in Calloway county, Mo., and as a .result two men and a woman were arrested there by order of the prosecuting attor ney. The persons arrested are Lee Boyd, a farmer, 'his wife, LMrs. Anna Boyd, and Jefferson Woods, a horse dealer. 'The chldren whose lives It Is be lieved were endangered, belong to families whose members testified in a -slander suit recently brought by Mrs. Boyd against Dr. W. B. Ellis, a physician of Concord. Mry. Boyd, asking $15,000 damages, allegng that Dr. Ellis had damaged her char acter. ~'Dhe jury brought in a verdict for the defendant and it alleged that several packages of chewing gum aprinkled with strychnine have been found at different times in the yard of Edward McPheeters, a nephew of Judge Robert Mc?~xeeters, of Ful ton. frhe placing of gum on the premises in the yicinity of Concord has be come freq-uent the last few days. All the families on whose premises the poisoned gum has been placed have small children. IGHTNING STRUCK MOURNERS. Woman Killed and Four Others Ren dered Unconscious. Mouring for Phillip Brissel, whose abody lay mn a coffin before the altar of St. John's Evangelical church at -Kohlville, Wis., Mrs. Henry Conrad -was struck dead and four other wo men rendered unconscious when a bolt of lightning pierced the house of worship Sunday. Rev. John Frank was opening his mouth to begin his sermon when a vivid flash of flame and deafening crash seemed to para lyze for a second the entire congre gation. The pastor's words of compassion, for the sorrowing family were never uttered: Mrs. Conrad and a dozen other women were knocked prostrate on the floor, willie near them were a dozen others, shrieking in terror, almost precipitating a panic, which whic~h coolheaded men prevented. "Old Nick" in Charge. A dispatch from Flushing, N. Y., which has about one dozen or more Protestant churches, that an under taker there vainly tried to find a Protestant clergyman to officiate at a funeral. The preachers were all off on vacations. A newspaper head ed an article telling of the incident "All pastors at play, Old Nick makes bay." The article ended ,by saying "Old Nick, for whom it is said, sum mer time is harvest time. is still in Flushing, L. I., presumably." Blease Refuses to Talk. "At this time I do not care to make any statement on that matter," Governor Blease said :ast Tuesday, when asked if he wished to be quot ed in reply to an article published in the Belton Times last week and re printed in Columbia newspapers, charging him with incivility toward a young lady, employed as ticket agent in Southern Railway station at BU RN TO DEATH FATAL ACCIDENT AT ANDERSON COUNTY HOSPITAL. Miss Mabel Thompson Receives Fearful Injuries in Lamp Explo sion and Dies Soon Afterwards. As the result of an explosion at the Anderson County Hospital 'ion day afternoon, Miss Mabel Carpen ter Thompson, the superintendent of the institution, is dead, Miss Josie Moffett, a trained nurse, of Due West, is badly burned, and Charles Barnes, the hospital's orderly, who held the kerosene lamp when it ex ploded is suffering with an ugly gash in the head and painful burns on the arms, hands and face. The News and Courier correspon dent says the explosion occurred when the orderly was pointing out to a plumber a defect in the primer kerosine lamp, that is used to heat the sterilizing machine. The negro pumped air into the lamp, to show where it was leaking. Some screw about the lamp must have been lose for the explosion followed, hurling the top of the lamp towards Miss Thompson, who was looking on. Practically all of the kerosene was thrown on Miss Thompson, and in a second's time she was one mass of flames. Her face, head, arms and chest were saturated with oil and before assistance could reach her, she was burned horribly. She very probably swallowed some of the gas and the flames. Miss IMoffett was attracted from the adjoining room and she had the presence of mind enough to gather up the carpet off the floor and throw it around Miss Thompson, who was thrown to the floor and rolled over and over. The cheniaal fire extinguidhers were brought into use and in a few moments the blaze was extinguish ed. Miss Moffett received her burns in the fight against the fire. The negro orderly received his wounds at the time of the explosion, flying part of the lamp hitting him on the head and the flames leaping to his face. Miss Thompson came to Anderson from Day-ton, Ohio, last November. Her home is in Damascus, Ohio, and her sister, at Salem, Mass., has been 'notified. She -has a brother in New York, but his address is not known. Both of her parents are dead. Since coming to Anderson she endeared herself to all the people with whom she had to come in connection. She made an ideal superintendent and under her suipervision the hospital was getting along very nicely. Her fatal accident has cast a gloom over the whole city. She was about 30 years of age. This horrible accident and sad se quel is a terrible blow .to the hospit al and to the people of the city and county. Miss Thompson recentl3 repiveld an offer of the superin dency of a large Northern hospital, carrying a m-uch larger salary thaI she received here, but because she was contented with her work at An derson and because of the fact thai her work was highly satisfactory adappreciated by the ~people gen eraly she declined the offer Mond day night. WHO PAYS THE BTTJS? Good Advertising Should. Sustain Its self by New Business. When you advertise in the local paper, what's your theory of pay met? Do you figure that you will pay for the ad out of the profits ol the business it brings in, or out ol your normal, veery day cash receipts?~ It's a poor advertisement that can not pull its own weight in the boat, The ,biggest advertisers in the coun try aim to .make their advertisinis sustain itself. They pay for it out of increased business. A manufacturez or popular candies says: "Neither the dealers nor his customers pay for our advertising. It is paid by the growth of our business through ad vertising which enables us to save enough in cost of salesmen, superin tendence, rents, interest and use of the plant to cover most, if not all of our adevertising bills." In otier words advertising makes it possible to get the mots out o1 your investment. It makes your store and your fixed charges bring in the biggest posible results to the square inch. The bigger your vol ume of advertising grows the 'bigger should be your business, and the more efficient work you should be able to get out of every dollar you have invested. Advertising should not merely make enough to pay for itself out of the profits, but it should increase the "square inch" earning capacity of your clerks and your store front, and your delivery wagons and your nice and expensive fixtures, so that the profits on the goods sold would be all profit, and the economies in management and efficiency would pay for the advertising. It takes good advertising to figure out that way, but if you are keen to take advan-tage or the help being offered you from various sources, you can get out the right kind of ad vertising. They Are the Kickers... The man who habitually sends his money to mail order houses for goods whiuh he could buy to better advan tage to himself from home merchants is generally the first to growl about the deadness of his home town. Ap parently he forgets that he is a prime cause of its deadness and that he is the most fitting person to officiate at its funeral. Live men imbued with true local pride and patriotism mean a live town every time, even as dead men mean a dead town. Melon for Blease. Gov'. Blease has received from George -Kay, of Honea Path, a water melon weighing 68 1-2 pounds which is six pounds more than the Geor gia melon, christened "Hoke Smith". which was recently sent to the White House in Washington. Killed in Auto Crash. A girl was keilled and nine other persons were hurt, some of them seriously, when an automobile con taining six children and two men crashed into an electric car on the BRYAN IS A POWER WILL HAVE HIS SAY ABOUT THE NEXT CANDIDATE. - Some of His Enemies Says He Is Dead, but He Is a Very Lively Political Corpse. The Washington correspondent of The Spartanburg Herald says every newspaper reader is familiar with the fact that Bryan is a "dead one," for all the big papers say so, and the little papers, most of them, neces sarily get hold of a lot of the same kind of stuff, all sent out from the otices of the big ones It has been three times and out for -Bryan. He is now to stand aside according to the advisers of his party, and let someone else have a chance to take the lead end bear the party's stand ard. This view is pretty general-that Bryan will never again be a candi date lir the presidency on the Demo crat:- ticket, and of course he will not on any other ticket. The fact t'hat 'he v-ill not say so, however, as Roosevelt did, has never ceased to trouble the anti-Bryanites. If he would only put t down in black and white over his own signature that he would not under any circum stances again consent to be a candi date, there would be joy in 'the camp of the anti-Bryanites. But, according to those who know him best, Mr. Bryan has a differ ent view of such things from that held by most leaders. He believes that a candidate is his party's choice. In other words, he believes that if his party should see fit to nominate bim again, even though he felt sure of his own defeat, and even though he knew that in accepting the nom ination he would be doing his own fortunes a positive injury, he would consider it his duty to obey the will of a majority of his party delegates. That is the kind of Democrat the Nebraskan is. If - he should, therefore, declare that "under no circumstances" would he again be a candidate, and the convention should see fit to nom inate him, he would have difficulty in squaring his conduct with his pre vious declaration. Therefore, Mr. Bryan will not make the much de sired declaration, but prefers to do as his party commands. But the word that Bryan is a "dead one" is gone out in all the land, and in many instances the wish is father to the thought. And in many in sta'nees, although there is a firm be lief that he is dead, there is a grave yard fear that his ghost may yet be abroad in the land. The ridiculous part of it is, ac cording to some Washington politi cal observers, that the people who are surest of 'Bryan's deadness are the first and the loudest to protest if the Nebraskan even expresses an opinion. Almost any other man may express preferences in political mat ters, but it seems to be felt that Mr. Bryan must not say a word. When he dares to speak out-this one whc hias no influence now according to his enemies-there is a howl fromr one end of the country to the other. Leading editorials are written in condemnation of his efforts to "boss' his party, when all that he has done has been to give his personal opin ions. Cartoons all over the land express the idea that this man--who is a has-been, be it remembered is interfering with the destinies of the -party that he has thrice led to defeat and disaster. "Why is it," said a strong ad mirer of Mr. Bryan to this corres pondent, a man who admires Bryan but believes that he will never again be the Democracy's standard bearer -"why is it, if Bryan is so dead, so utterly devoid of influence that there should be much oposition raised, from one end of the nountry to the other, when Mr. Bryan has simply expressed an opinion-something that all of us in America claim the right to do? Why can't he say whom he prefers for the presidency, or" whom he does .not prefer, without being accused of trying to "boss' his party?" 'z I THE MYSTERY HALF SOLVED. Georgia Officers on the frail of Two Murder Suspects. By following week old automobile traclqs on a lonely road, Deputy Sheriff Meldrim, of Chatham Coun ty, solved half of the mystery sur rounding the *murdey,. exactly a week ago, of J. H. Turner, probably the wealthiest negro in Savannah, who was killed in his automobile by two white men, twelve miles from Savannah. The officer found the body of the negro, at least three miles from whgre he was killed, wrapped in cloth and hidden in an ld and deserted well. An automo bile was hired by the two men for a trip into the country, and, appar ently, the negro -had been killed by being struck with some lBlunt in strument as he sat in his car. Requires Careful Study. The Galea Times says "a mer chant can try to get along without advertising and a man can wink at a girl in the dark-but what good does it do?" There 'is some sense in that remark, when one thinks it over care fully. Honest advertising in the proper mediums 'has never yet failed to pay dividends, according to the amount invested; but advertising, to be successful must be given the same careful study thbat a merchant give to the other details of his business--it should not be done in a haph'azard way. Killed by Lightning. At Coward as Henry Langston was going to feed his hogs about noon LMonday he was struck by light ing and instantly killed. He was near a large oak in his yard, which was struck by the same bolt. Mr. Langston is survived by a wife and two children.- He had many rela tives. Charged With Murder. A warrant charging murder was sworn out Tuesday against Charle Jones, negro husband of Bertha Courtney, the white woman whose body was found in a sewer in the outskirts of the city of Cincin .ai w. Iria. The negro is miss DEEP LAID PLAN An Attempt to Conceal Shortage by Commiting Other Crimes BUT THE SCHEME FAILS Employed a Burglar to do the In famous Work and He is Blown Up and Dies From the Efect of His Wounds in a Nearby Hospital Would Not Confess. As the result Sunday night to de stroy the records of the Long Dock Mills and Elevtaor company, in Jer sey City, for the purpose of conoeal ing a shortage of $2,500 in the ac counts of Samuel Brown, the cash ie'r. Brown and Patrick J. Tim mons, an expert accountant, are in jail there, under the charges of ar son, conspiracy and manslaughter. tracks. Brown's alleged confession bearing Brown's signature, telling of his plans for the crime, and nam ing Timmons, his good friend, as an accomplice. Frank Walsh, known as "Lightning," the burglar who was hired to do the job, died Tuesday of burns received in trying to carry out the scheme. Brown was arrested when -he re ported for work Tuesday. His em-; ployers, told the police that experts had been examining the accounts during the previous week, and had set Tuesday for examining the ,books. Brown told the detectives that he had been short since Jan uary, and that Timmons had worked on the books as a friend for three months, trying to cover up his tracks. Brown's alleyed confession said in part: "About 3 p. m. Sunday I met Tim mons in a saloon in Jersey City. We had been talking about destroying the books for the past two months, as I was short in my accounts. Tim mons said he could get a man in New York to do the job and there we were joined by Walsh. The three of us took an automobile to Jersey City. "About 9:30 we went to the office of the Long Dock Mills. I opened the door and the three of us went in. I then opened the safe door and took out three check books and the cash .book. Walsh held the books over the gas jets and set them on fire. I .watched them set the books on fire, then I left them to go back home. I did not know anything about the fire until Tuesday morn ing. The police did not tell Brown up on arresting him that Walsh had died' in the attempt. Instead they tried to batter down his defence, and failing, one of them finally said: "Walsh died this morning at 5 0' clock." "My God," -Brown gasped, "I cant -have that man's death on my soul.'' Then he told the story. Timmons was arrested near his home in Newark. Efforts of detec tives to elicit a confession from Tim mons have been unsuccessful. In the office there was no evidence of an explosion, the Iremen say, but plenty of evidence to show that gas line had been used liberally. The books ha~d bgen soaked with the fluid ,but were only partially bu'rnt. Walsh *was .found with hisi eyes blown out and his clothing almost burned from his body. He said he had gone into the office, the door being open, to sleep. He was smok ing a cigarette, he said, fell asleep and 'he supposed the cigarette. set the place afire. At the hospital he was told that he would die from his burns. "Now," queried a detective, "won't you tell us .how it happened?" Walsh shook shis head and stretch ed out on 'his cot. It was his last act. JUMPS TO AVOID DEATH. Linemnan Finds Rattlesnake High Up en Telegraph Pole. Finding a coiled rattlesnake about three inches above his head on a cross-arm of a telegraph pole he had climbed Saturday afternoon, at Gainesville, Georgia, Clarence Rainey, a young lineman for a local telephone company, made no effort to defend himself from the reptile, buit shaking his "climbers" loose, dropped 40 feet to the gro.und. For tunately, he landed in soft ground, on his feet and unhurt. .Rainey says that when he saw the snake he was preparng to adjust his life belt. Ilt is presumed that if he had arranged that belt, the snake, which was cosled to strike, would have bitten the lineman be fore 'he could disengage himself from the pole. The huge rattler was brought down by throwing a rope over the pole, and when measured, was found to be 36 inches long, an inch and a half n circumferance, and with nine rattles. Much mystery was encountered in trying to solve how the snake made his way up the 40-foot pole. 'It did not seem probable that it had crawl ed there, but this was accepted as the only plausible means. I | Cool Weather and Rain. The cool weathr will prevail throughout the present week, and local showers will be numerous, ac cording to the forecast issued 'by the Weather bureau Sunday night. The torecast says: "The distribution of atosl:oric pressu!e as shown by the weather map of the northern hemisphere is such as to indcate that there will be no unseasonably warm weather in any part of the country during the coming week, the temn p~eratures will average near or below the normal generally. The precipi atin d.aring the week will be local but fairly well distributed over the country, from the Rocky mountains to the Atlantic coast. Sell Cotton Slowly. A circular letter hps just been sent out by the South Carolina State Far mer's Union telling how prices for cotton fell down in Sumter very quickly from something over 15 cents to .oelow 12. The reason of this was that the cotton was mar keted too quickly and the price refused to hold. Added to this were words of caution about selling the cotton so quickly as to push the price down. If the crop is sold lely the nrice will stay up. CLAMS TWO VICTIMS YOUNG MEN DROWNED IN LAKE NEAR COLUMBIA. Another Young Man Saves His IWfe By Clinging to the Boat After it Had Filled. Keene Brown and Clarence Drig gers, well known young men of Co lumbia were drowned in Ridge wood lake Monday a few miintes be fore noon. The lake is about two hundred yards from the end of the car line and is a summer amusement park. The State says the two young men who lost their lives and J. W. Par rent and J. B. Lewis, all employes of the Seaboard Air Line, were tak ing a boat ride on the lake. Brown, Driggers and Parrent were in one boat and Lewis in another with a boy whose name is not known. I hey had- been down to tLe dam about a half mile from the pavillion and were on their way back to sur render the boats when the accident occurred. Lewis and the smaller boy were possibly 100 yards ahead of the other young men. Parrent, the young man who was ir the boat with 'Brown and Driggers but was saved, said that the boat they used, No. 3, had water in it when they took it out. It was dip ped out. -John Faust the negro who rented them the boats said the wat er had been splashed in by the peo ple who had used the boat last. Lew is verified this statement by Par rent. .Parent said that the water contin ued to come in as .they went down the lake aLd back. He thoagllt the boat leaked. They continued to dip it out, the best they could but the bhat went down about two hundred yards west of the pavillion and about 75 yards from the shore. Parent clung onto the boat, and Brown and Drig gers made an effort to swim to the bank . A litle boy came to Parrent and gave wha-t assistance he could. Several hours after the accident the -boat was brougiht up to the pavillion and examined, but no leak was found. It is the theory that the oc; p.r-nts of the boat wer 3 sitting too m'uoh on one side and the water gradualy came over into the boat. The place, where the accident oc curred, is about seven or eight feet deep, if they went down in the chan .el of -the creek, but when out of the channel the water in this part of the lake is only four or five feet deep. It is not known whether or not 3rown and Driggers could swim. Figuring on the Election. Although the -presidential election is over a year off, newspapers are al ready beginning to figure -on the probable outcome of the contest. With New !Mexico and Arizona ad mitted into the Union, there will be, with the additional members pro -ided for in the Reapportionment bill, five hurndred and thirty-one votes in the next Electoral College an increase of forty-eight. The ma jority required to elect the President next year will :be two hundred and sixty-six, as compared with two hun dred and forty-two in the last elec tion Mr-. Taft had an electoral vote of three hundred and twenty-one. With the same States under the Re apportionment . the Republicans would gain thirty-two, and those States that voted for Mr. Bryan would gain, ten. T'he Taft States by vote would be: 'California.... .........-13 Connecticut..........-7 Delaware .... ........ 3 Ida'ho .. .....--.--.--.--.4 Illinois.. ....--.-.-.--...29 Indianna.....-:.-.-.-.-..15 Iowa.. ..............13 Kansas............--.--- . 10 Maine...........- ..--- ..--. 6 Maryland.. .....-.-.--.-.-.- 2 Massachusetts. ...... .-----13 Michigan......... -.-15 Minnesota.. .. ...... .....12 Missouri.. .........---------1 luontana.. .. . .....--.-.-.4 New Ham-pshire...... .. - 4 New Jersey......... -..-.14 New York...........- 42 North Dakota .. .. ..--.--. Ohio...--.-.--.-.--.......23 Oregon. -.--.-.-.--.-.-.-. 1ennsylvania... .. ..--. 38 Rhode Island.... .-~.- -. 5 South Dakota .... ..--.--. Utah.. .... ..--.--.--.--.4 Vermont........... .---4 West Virginia .........--.-.S Washington ....--.--.--.7 Wisconsin.........--.....13 Wyoming..........-- . 3 Total......... -.....353 The Bryan States would give the following Democratic vote: Alabama......... .-.- 12 Arkansas.........-- .- 9 Colorado........--. .- . 6 Florida.......... . .- 6 Georgia.......... --14 Kentucky.......----- ...13 Louisiana..........-.-10 Maryland .. ..--.-.--.-.-.- 6 Mississippi .. .--.-.-.-.-. 10 Nebraska........... .. ---. 8 Nevada.........------.... North Carolina .. .. .. ...12 Oklahoma..- ... ..... 0 South Carolina .. ..--.-.-. Tennessee.........--.-...12 Texas.. ....--.-.-.--.-.20 Virginia.........-.-...12 Total 172 In the new Electoral College New York with -six additional votes, a to tal of forty--two, will continue to hold the balance of -power between the leading -parties in campaigns less hopelessly one-sided than the last. With New York's vote eith er side may easily figure out a ma jority. Under the reapportionment' the solid South has one hundred and fifty five votes.. To win the next Democratic candi date must have in addition to the South one hundred and eleven votes. f he carried New York, Ohio, New Jersey, lIndianna and Missouri he would win with one vote to spare. llinois could be substited for Ohio. In place of either of these States the Democrats could elect with California, Cqlorado and West Virginia, or California and Nebras ka and Montana or either of the Da kotas. Counting New Mexico and Arizona Democratic, with three otes each, a successful combination ould.'be named with New York, New Jersey', Indianna, Missouri, Ne braska, West Virginia and Colorado. ar-+-ana with oe Mf the Dako'tas BLIND MAN CURED piS SIGHT RESTORED BY HYP NOTIC TREATMENT. Former Policeman Retired as Hope. lessly Sightless from Atrophy of Eyes, Reads Large Print. Ralph Swineston, who was retir ed from the New York police force with a pension in July, 1903, as hopelessly blind, was able to read ordinary print after Dr. Alfred J. Fox had hypnotized him in the Hotel Frederick, Fifty-sixth street, near Broadway, New York. The World says Dr. Fox three inonths ago treated Melchior Luy sterberg in St. Mark's hospital and demonstrated that he could make the man walk though Luysterburg had been a hopeless paralytic for three years. Dr. Fox, naturally delighted after the experiment said he believed it was the first time atrophy of the eye had responded to any treatment. The former policeman has had two treatments. He lives at No. 418 West Fortieth street.. -One unusual feature of the exper iment lies in the fact that hypno tism generally depends -upon a con centrated look into the eyes of the hypnotist. Swineston could give no such glance and the -physician ex experimented with ihm in a mild way for several days before- definitely putting the six-footer into -the hyp notic state. "I fidst went to the doctor a week ago, said Swineston to a World re porter for the Worfd Thursday. "I'd heard of what he told a man in St. Mark's and I thought he might be able to do something for me. "When I left the force I could stand on the curb of a street and not see a car pasing. I could not see any person's full face. By looking sideways I could get a hazy view. I could not read anything. I could not see an electric lamp if it shone in front. "After I was retired with a small pension for total disability I went to making little toys. Then I got a job in a paper box factory cutting cor ners. That doesn't need sight. Two of the men working with me were blind. "I could just see a general blur of light. That was disappearing when a friend read me about the thypno tist making the paralyzed -man walk. I said, "If he can do that why can't he make me see again?." So I came to him." After explaining the case, Swines -ton droped his head on the back of an admchair and Dr. Fox talked to him in a low voice, making passes before his eyes. There was nothing spectacular about the performance. Swineston went into a sleep that lasted nearly an hour. In its course the physician whispered to him many times: "The arteries that supply your eyes are getting stronger. The nerves are girowing stronger. The can see. You can see -letters. Your eyes are much stronger. They will soon be allright." The big fellow, breathing heavily was brought out of his sleep. He looked the reporter squarely in the eye. He read an' advertisemnt. in large type. He failed on smaller type. ".But my eyes are getting stronger, sure," he said. "Wouldn't it be fine if they got so good that I could- go on the force again." * PREDICTS END OF WORLD. Seventh Day Adventist Says the Time Is Near at Hand. The world will come to an end within a very few years," declared Elder 0.- Montgomery, president of the Indiana conference of the Sev enth Day Adventists, during the ser vices of the camp meeting now pro gressing at Indianapolis, Indiana. "I cannot set the year. It may' be next year; it may be flve..years. But I do know that it will come be fore the death of the last man who saw the falling of the stars on Nov ember 13, 1833. There are few people living now who saw that phe nomenon and I know that the end will come before all of them are gone." Elder Montgomery said that science had been unable to solve the falling of the stars n 1833 and that he has Scriptural proof that the mil lenium will occur within the genera tion following that event. SIR ORACLE HAS SPOKEN. Teddy Tells Howt to Regulate the Big Corporations.. Theodore Roosevelt stalked boldly before the House of Representatives committee of inquiry into the United States Steel Corporation at New ork on Monday and told how his action in consenting to the absorp tsion of the Tennessee Coal & Iron Co. by the Steel Corporation in 1907 avertedl a disastrous panic. He arrived unheralded at the city hall, vigorously shook hands with members of the committee, declared himself delighted to see everybody and got down to business. First and foremost he placed upon himself responsibility for approving the absorption to save a jperilous financial disaster in Wall Street and condemned any man who would be so weak as not to act as be did In that crisis. could take the place of any of the three small States. Which of the gentleman named as the probable Democratic candi date is the most likely to success fully work t-he combination and land in the White House? The one that has the best chance of doing this, is our candidate, be he Wilson, Clark, Harmon. Marshall, Under wood or some other .good Democrat. It looks to us as if the Democrats can win if they will push the tariff question to the front. With th~e tariff as the main issue President Taft, who is sure of renomination by the Republicans would be at a disadvantage for having vetoed the efforts of the Democrats to give the people cheaper clothing and other necessaries of life. In our judg ment the only thing that could de feat the Democrats would .be a huge corruption fund in the hands of the Republicans. The Democrats should uar aganst this danger.. BOY BROUGHT BACK LID KIDNAPPERS RANSOM AND GOT THE CHIL. ie Police ..Were Notified and Twelve of the Gang Were Arrest ed and Locked Up. At Chicago, Angelo OMareno, six ars old, who was returned Friday rening after a ransom of $500 in arked bills had lbeen paid the kid ivers is closely guarded by his pa ints. "I will never let :' darling get it of my sight again until he is old iough to take care of thimself," bbed the mother as she wept with y at the child's return after being ald prisoners by kidnappers for al ,ost five days. The boy sat 'on his mothers lap iturday morninn, and greeted his aymates and neighbors who called ad seemed .unable to, realize the rief his absence had caused his .pa mts. He said he was well treated y the kidnappers. They bought new lpthes and gave him qandy and ike. There was rejoicing in the North ide Italian colony over the boy's ife return and hundreds of neigh ors -and friends called at the Ma eno home to congratulate thre pa nts. Nine men and three women are.7 nder arrest for the kidnapping and e police expect to -make additional rrests before long. Search is beinag.. vde for the -woman who guarded nd cared for the boy in-:the West Ivision. house An efot 'will be made also by the police to: recover he $500 paid as random.: The father of the boy received a pecial delivery letter Friday. He orned it over to the police It is be eved to have threatened thim with eath for having cooperated with the' olice in search of the child. WOLFE FISH WILL BITE. sitors to the Maine Coast Warned Agaimst Them. Summer visitors -on the coast 6f Faine, especially in the neighbor tood of Eastport, are advised to be autious in wading at low tide near hr rock-pools along -the shore. If on their guard they may 'be at-> aeked and severely bitten byawolf ish. This, according to Dr. Thep. GilI, one of the most remarkable -o inny creatures. Though -rarely ex eeding three feet in length, it seems o be much more- ferocious than the verage shark, promptly attackin* .nybody whom It may suspect of try nr to meddle with it. Anatomically, its most striking eature is -its large and powerful eeth, whifch must render It a formi able antagonist in a fight with any ither denizen of the ocean. Ap arently, however, it does not -feed n fishes, b-a. prefers such delica :ies as lobsters, crabs .and whelks. n the stomach of one individuel, aught at Easftport, four quarts of ea urchins were fo~und, most o'f hem whole and with the spines on n uncomfortable article of diet ones night imagine. Large numbers of wolf-fishes- are aken by fishermen on cod and had lock lines, but usually they are rown away, notwithstanding the act that they are exceedingly Good o eat. Their appearance is the re erse of attractive and they-have an ffensive odor whichi renders them mmarketable. WANTS -SABBATH - BSERVED. overnor Blease Orders Sunday Amusements Stopped. Governor Blease has addressed to iheriff Coleman, of Richland Coun y, .a letter directing him tog abate elleged nuisances at Ridgewood, in espect to violations of th eSabb'ath ibservance laws; the letter follows; W. H. Colema:', Sheriff Richland iounty, Colu'mbia.--Dear sir: I am normed that there is a shooting. pallery, which is operated on the abbath, at Ridgewood, and I am al o informed that there is a game, ommonly described as "tihrowing the >abies wieh is also operated on . -. e Sabbath at that place. You will -please go there and .make n investigation and if you find this s the case, close up these places and rrest the operators. Please give this natter your prompt attention, as in fy opinion there is nothing more Legrading to the morals of the peo ile than the desecration of the Sab ith day. Very respectfully, Cole L Blease, Governor. VERY QUEER ACCIDENT. uge Turkey Buzzard Causes Two Cars to Leave Track. At Los Angeles, Cal., the lives of ,score of passengers on two in.bound each cars were placed in jeopardy ate Friday night by a huge turkey uzzard. Just as a Venice flyer and Del Rey car were approaching a witch the Ibuzzard charged the brli ant bead lights of the fiyer. He aissed his aim and crashed through b~e ~glass door, knocking the motor aan back into the aisle just as he ras applying the air brakes to bring is car to a stop. The Del Rey car ras already on the switch 'and the ars crashed, both being derailed. ione of the par.sengers were -in ured. Cowhided by 9 Woman. Because, it is alleged, he circulat d reports detrimental to the charac ar of rs. H. G. Sherrill, wife of a nell known citizen of Spencer, N. C. eorge L. Webt, a machinist in the outhern railway shops therA, was awhided by Mrs. Sherx'~.?, who im ediately afterwards went to police eadqtarters and submitted to a arge of assault. * Many Are Killed. 't San Jose, C. R., the govern tent powder magazine exploded o~n an unkiecwn cause. Several ersons were kill E.l and matny others cunded. A irr.e n.mniotr of houses ere blown down. * Atwood Starts Final Flight. Harry N. Atwood will start on his ght to the Atlantic Ocean from St. Louis Mnday mo-nling.* WILL NOT DOWN svernor Blease Again Denies Be In sated the Young Lady N SPEECH TO RED MEN says His Enemies Concocted the Scheme to Injure Him, and that ei M They as Well as His Friends Know n WThy it Was Done, But He Didn't r Tell His Hearers. 0 el Governor Blease's first address to sc 'he people of his home county, since j( is inauguration was delivered at a h Red Men's Rally, at Young's Grove, m aear Prosperity, Friday, which was attended by about two thousand peo- S ple. Governor Blease was enthusi- p: astioally received and made what was a: regarded by those who heard it as g one of the best adresses which he r has ever delivered in that county. He b spoke on the "Principles of Red ; anship," but 'he branched off once c r twice to discuss matters connect ed with his administration and per- S sonal attacks which had been made s upon him. b Near the close of hi' address he r said that he felt he ought, before the r people of his home, who knew him, to refer to the Belton incident, the u acusation that he had. insulted t a woman. a "I shall s'ay nothing albout her," n he said. "She may be a spure and as - spotless as an angel, but the man or id the woman who was present on that 1 occasion and heard what took place t: and-tells ithe.truth will tell you that I did not insu-lt her." s He said he wanted to tell the good. t women present, many of whom -had I known him since his boyhood days, d that he had said nothing on earth r t-.> hurt her feelings orto offend her. "Why they concocted that scheme is -plain," he said, "to my enemies and will be understood by my friends. They have fought me with evdry kind of abuse, vituperation and slander and could not hurt me and they went to that extreme, to which all dirty, unscrupulous hounds like them will go, thinking- 'now we will strike' him with a woman, we will bring him into controversy with a woman.' Continuing, he said: "Ladies, those of you who have known me all your lives, if there Is one of you in that crowd that believes I would in sult a woman without cause or with out provocation I will thank you from the bottom of my heart if you 1 will stand up or raise your hand." There being no standing or lifting of hands on the part of the ladies, he said, "Men, you who -have known me all my life, if one of you, wheth er you be my political friend or not, believes that Cole Blease would in sult a woman without <tause or provocation, be man enough to hold up youi' hand, if you please. I want you to do it, if you believe that." 'The only response was in the na tre of remarks to the effect that he ought to know t-he people of New berry did not believe any such thing, and cheers. Governor Blease said: "My friends1 I'thank you, God knows I do." That charge, he said, had hurt4 him when none of the others could, "because," he said, "I had as good a mother as any boy ever had and It had as good a stel! mother as God ever gave 'to a family of chi~ren, and whenever I stoop so low or get1 so cowardly as to insult a woman, I hope God will paralyze my tongue." Governor Blease defended his par den record, taking up sceeral cases and going into detail and requesting his hearers if there -were any other pardons in regard to which they would like to hear th~e reasons which actuated him or any other matters connected with his administration 1 which they would like to hear from him upon, to ask him. He said -he had spoken to between 30,000 and .U.,000 peoplea this year,'more than had attended all the campaign meet- ( igs last summer, and he was trying to get among the people and find ut their wishes ar'd the policiesi which were for thei: best interests. In congratulating the Red Men upon the faeli that there were no ero lodges of the Order, he referr- I ed to secret lodges among the ne groes and, among other things, says he had positive proof that there were a man and his wife living in a Ps tant State trying to perfect o. 6ani ations throughout the Southern States among, the negroes, claiming the societies formed would pay bener I fits in cases of sickness or death or distress, but .before any negro could become a member of the society he had to sign an oath that he would rnot work but eight hours a day and would obey the mandates of super ior officers and he was being taught that he was a social equal of the white mali. He said it was not true that he was unfriendly to the negro when the negro was in his place, but he wants -to sound a word of warning. "So long as you can get whitea women and white men to go into the school houses of this country and 1 teach nelroes and associate wtih a them side by side, so long will these i sceret orders flourish among thist class, .and so long will the white people have trouble, and it will be- * come serious." "Not long since, he said, he had e passed by an 'institution in South j Carolina and had seen a handsome i white woman walking across the campus of a negro school, with one arm around a negro boy and another arm arornd a negro girl. That hap pened, be said in the city of Colum-t bia. He said he expected to recomn mend at the next session of the Leg-0 islature t'ne passage of an act pro ibiting anyone from teaching in the c schools of this State who has notr received a certificate from the State superintendent of Education and the c Siovernor. The greatest portion of Govcernor 31ease's speec:h was a fine effort along rraternal lines, only the few diver ;ions of a political nature being here iven. He ,vas frequently interrupt d by applause and he said that the i:nm reception which he had re :eived at the hands of the 'people ~ M lis njativ.e count-y made his heart glad. Ihe crops of many sections of the fi tate ia reeived many rains. 15