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DONTO WOI Beik leuses of he Gent-a; AssemblyI Mlt at Nean on 1uesday A SHORT SSION HED The House Adjourned After Meeting One Hour, But the Senate Was in Session Some Longer and Trans lated Considerable Business Before It Adjourned for the Day. The General Assembly met Tues day at noon in regular session, and was soon down to routine wort. The; session of the House wat cut short! on account of the coldness of the. hall. For some unknown reason :he furnaces gave very little heat. It was uncomfortably cold, ant. arter being in session about an hour and a half, the house adjournea until 7:30 p. m. Before adjourning. thb representa Cives made pro 4sion for holding elections to fill four vacaneses on the circuit bench, for electing a lourth associate justice o, the supreme ocurt, referred the governor s an nual messara to committees and heard three special messages read, making them a special order ror noon tomorrow. M. L. Smith, speaker of the house, was delayed by a late train and did, not arrive in the hall until 12:15 p. m. when James A. Hoyt, clerk of the house, called the house to order. The roll of the members was called, by counties. Two or three of thel county delegations had not arrived. Rev. R. N. Pratt, chaplain, opened the proceedings wita prayer. A concurrent resolution was intro duced by D. H. Magill providing that the joint assembly meet Thursday, January 11, at noon to elect a judge; for the second circuit to fill the un expired term of the late Robert Al drich , a judge for the eighth circuit to fill the unexpired term or the late J. C. Klugh, a judge to fill the ex pired term of J. W. DeVore of the eleventh circuit, a judge to fill the expired term of S. W. G. Shipp of the twelfth circuit, the expired term of C. A. Woods, associate justice, and the unexpired term of ira B. Jones, chief justice of the supreme court. The governor vetoed the bill ap pointing rural police in Cherokee county. A similar bill appointing rural police in Spartanburg county was also the subject of a veto mes sage. Among other grounds for ve-. toing, the governor's message said that the bill allowed the proposedl rural police force too much freedom, I especially in the matter of making arrests. In a special message, the governor said that he had oecided to allow the act to present the estan1'snment~ of ill-formed counties to become a law without his siglnature, and the *courts were open if the qiuestion of its constitutionality were raised. After the adjournment or tne Joint assembly Tuesday night, tne house heard a short message from trio gov ernor explaining thai the coianess of; the hail had been caused by the fall vre of the electric power plant 'which was put out of commission. by the sleet and ice Monday.I What the Senate Did. The senate convened at noon and, in the brief space of one nour ac complished much This nlour was consumed in .Zho reception of the va rious av ages from the governor, thie._ .frstponement of several bills .aiding. on the calendar, ine disposi-; * ~tion of the annual message and the introduction of a bill providing for the establishment of Jasper countyl that was voted on last summer. Practically all of the memvers of the senate were present wnen the body was called to order by C. A. Smith of Timmonsville, the p resident of the senate and lieutenant gover ntor. The reading of the journal was dispensed with, following prayer by the chaplain. The appointments for the senate were anniounced by Presi dent Smith., A vetoed measure providing for rural police for Newberry county was passed Tuesday by the senate over the veto of the governor by a vote of 35 to 2. The measure will be sent to the house for a vote. The mecas vre provided that rLural policemen be' appointed by the sheriff of New berry county and not by the governor. The senate on motion of Senator Carlisle of Spartanburg decided to vote on the question of the "etoed measure providing for a legslaive commission to investigate the old dis pensary commisse~n, the attorney general, the governor anc orners In. ccnnection with the State dispensary. The senate decided to talke the bill up for a vote at noon Wednesdayt6 and the real strength of the gover nor as compared with the senate wtII be decided, as the resolution Is the. most important vetced. In his message vetoing the above( n'easure the governor stated that he( believed an investigation by the com-c mission would be one-sidee. He saId that he had instructed the members jI ot the new dispensary commission to make the desired it-vestigation, andt that he would lend his personal and political power to see that a thor ough investigation was made. The measure was passed at the last ses-t sion of the general assembly and sentc tc the governor for his signature. 1 The measure was passed upon the if earnest solichation of the governor. When the measure was sent in for approval at the end of the session the chief executive indicated that he would veto it because the me~mberst of the senate part of the commissiona were his political enemies. Senator Carlisle Tuesday introduced a resolu-e tion, which was adopted, askIng that the senate vote on the measure today e a* noon. The bill Will then se sent to the house for a vote. Elects Associate gustice. By a vote of 89 to 55 the joint as- t sembly. composed of the two houscsi of the legislature. eleeled Riehard C.:t watts of Chesterfielri. judgs of the t fourth circuit. fourth associate Jus tice of the South Carolina supreme r Oourt over Thomas B. Fraser of Sum ter, the only other nominee, Tuzday m~lght. Judge Memminger. who was a eandidate at the last session, with- ' L_ is FORMED XR TO DRAIN LOW LAN)S WILL BE PUSHED. aMportant Action Taken at a Con. vention Held in Charleston Last Week. The South Carolina Drainage As sociation, a branch of the National Drainage Congress, was organized in Charleston last Friday, and will im mediately become an imporant fac tor in the draining and development of the millions of acres of low lands now lying unused in the State. The formation of this Association took c: place at the first nieeting of the State i Drainage Convention:, held in Char- t ileston 'Friday, whi,;h was attended by eI representative delegates from the C costal region territories and the p southeastern portion of South Caro- V lina. The following oficers were c elected: President, E. J. Watson; first vice- c President, S. G. Stoney: second vice- 0 president, H-. B. Carlisle; third vice- 0 President, Robt. B. Scarborough; sec- b retary, A. H. Marchant; treasurer, Thomas 0. Lawton; engineer, Reid v Whitford. n Executive Committee-George- V town, H. B. Springs; Richland, W. tj E. Gonzales: Charleston, W. W. Hampton; Dorchester, Legare Walk- a er; Orpngeburg, W. G. Smith; Beau fort, Neils Christensen; Berkeley, St. h Clair White; Calhoun, %. A. Banks; n Sumter, Dr. S. C. Baker; Colleton, h W. W. Smoak; Darlington, Bright b Williamson; Lee, R. M. Cooper; Ma- e rion. C. A. Woods; Dilion, R. P. t] Hamer; Hampton, W. F. Maner; Clarendon.'OD. C. Scarborough. r Honorary Vice Presidents-W. G. n Hinson, B. R. Tillman, W. D. Mor- c gan. J. B. Bostwick, R. I. Manning, t A W. M1cKeand. An executive committee will be d named by the president of the Asso- 6 eiation from each county in the State i; in the next few days. Counties as SI yet not represented on the executive 1 committee will hear from Col. Wat- b son within a short time. S4 Col. E. J. Watson, agricultural d commissioner of South Carolina, pre- si sided over the Convention. calling the tI meeting to order shortly after 10 D'clock Friday morning. The Con- 1 :ention was divided into two sessions, c, one being taten up by the discussion b o the drainage problem in South I Carolina, and the other by the or- C ganization of the South Carolina ft Drainage Association. Col. Watson spoke at length re- 4 garding the aims and purposes of the d National Drainage Congress recently t, organized in Chicago, Ill., together 4 ith the work of securing the aid N and co-operation of the Government C in the work of reclamation through- 3 ut the South. Col. Watson may be \ said to be one of the truest believers in the future agriculture greatness 4 o the Palmetto State, and he inject- w ed a large amount of this optimism I and belief into the delegates attend- a ing the Convention.k Mr. W. G. Smith, engineer and lk agent of the Government at Columbia r< or plant industry, spoke of the value k ot drainage. He is a native of Illi- t aois, which, thirty years ago, he F stated, was a great malaria country. 3 Now the farmers there never hear of C this sickness. The transformation E was entirely due to the drainage. - E Mr. T. 0. Lawton, of Hampton LI County, spoke of the work done in A is home territory, giving some in- E eresting experienc.es of the campaign A ~e conducted for the organization of Sdrainage districr. Capt. S. G. Stoney, president of si he historic South Carolina .Agricul- p: ural Society, and a pioneer in the ol ainage work in this section of the 13 oeuntry, believed it absolutely nec- le ~ssary that settlers be offered some- V hing more than the mere land on 1I which to eke out their existence. He n. :ought it no more than right that ci :e land sold to them be at least r. martially cleared, in order that set- et :lers have the oppc-rtunity of mak ng a living the first year of their stay ii n the country. These sentiments st vere heartily endorsed- by the Con- 01 ocntion. Dr. M. W. Twitchell, State geolo- st ist, spoke briefly on the Importance af ,a the people in this section of the ountry getting down to work for yC hemselg'es, but he believed it a w plendid idea to induce the Federal W nad State governments to render any ta ssstance they can in the work of 3i eclamation. As State geologist, Dr. a< 'witchell offered to assist the work- w ~rs in any way possible, as for in- m tance in .the makirng of topographi- de al~ maps of the territory in the 01 castal regions. Engineer Reid Whitford, of the o0 harleston County sanitary and Pi ~rainage commission, recently ap olnted a member of the excutive w ommittee of the National Drainage ar jongress from Soutn Carolina. spoke a< m the subject "How We Expect Fed-y ral Aid to Help Ua." I Short addresses were also made by i1 ecretary A. W. McKeand, of Char-' eston; Secretary A. H. Marchant, of irangeburg; Col. H. B. Snrings, of ;eorgetown; Secretary A. V. Snell, >f Sumter; Mr. E. N. Cla~e, or the )c and and industrial bureau of the At antic Coast Line, and Land Agent as! unroe, of the industrial agency of Al he Southern Railway.G Col. Watson~ then appointed com- n aittees on organization, constitution i nd by-laws, resolutions and ofiicers,. he Convention taking up the work of w wrgnizing a branch to the National S rainage Congress. The reports of 3 he various committees were adopted,m rith several minor changes. Start Fire to Kill Tarantula. Two men set fire to a noodle fac- H ory In Pottsvile. Pa., this week, to :ill a tarantula that had crawled into crack in the buildinug. The spider amne from a b'unch of fruit ud was reatly feared. The damage amoun t 4 to $400. o Eleven Rebels iilled. Federal troops under Capt. Cas llona, Mexico, dissodged at Eetaz-1 g, a band of Zapatistas aftr a bat e ir. which 11 rebels, one rural and 0 o residents of the town were c f il'ei. The rebels retired in the di- ' e'ion oc N-uenpan 74 d'r's bools is now due. 31any erle are aiously awaiting it. D hey want to a wha:t he wgi have roc )i As Manp iomicides Last Year as Taere Was the Year Before UCDES ON DECREASE ixty-One Persons Were Lynched During the Past, Fifty-Nine of Whom Were Negi oes, and Most of Those Lynched Attacked Women or Young Girls. Deaths in the United States by ev ry form off '.iolence show a decrease , 1911 as compared with 1910. The )tal numoer of homicides in the auntry last year reached 8,272 as )mpared with 8,975 in the, year revious. During the year there -ere 164 cases of murder and sui de; 18 cases of cdcuble murders; 11 triple murders, one quadruple, one ?se where five, two where six and ne where seven were murdered by ne person and 51 persons murdered y the "Black Hand." The record of suicides for 1911 aries little from that of 1910, the umber being 12,242, as compared ith 12,608 in 1910. The propor on of suicides as between men and omen remains about the same year tter year, being 8,130 males and .112 females. Physicians again ead the list among professional 'en, and clergymen come next, 11 aving taken their own lives. Among usiness men, 19 bankers and brok rs have committed suicide during 2e year. The most startling feature of this cord is the constantly increasing umber of those who commit sui ide because of ill health. Of the >tal number, 4,151 shot themselves, ,450 took -poison, 2,054 hanged :emselves, 984 drowned themselves, 94 cut their throats, 640 aspnyx ted themselves, 55 threw them ?lves in front of railroad trains and 65 from roofs or windows, 22 urned themse'lves, 14 stabbed them 7lves, five blew themselves up with ynamite and two starved them h'-es. - Sixty-one unfortunates left le world by suicide pacts. The number of legal executions in 911 has fallen off considerably as ,mpared with the last few years, eing 74, as compared with 104 in 910, 107 in 1909 and 92 in 1908. lassified by states, the record is as >llows: Arizona, 1; Alabama, 4; Arkansas, California, 1; Delaware, 1; Flori a, 1; Georgia, 12; Illinois, 1; Ken icky, 4; Louisiana. 2; Mississippi, New York, 14; New Jersey, 4; orth Carolina, 4; Nebraska, 1; hio, 3; Oklahoma, 1; Pennsylvania. ; South Carolina, 3; Tennessee, 3; irginia, 2, and West Virginia, 1. The death toll of sport was large, 28 killed and 3,482 injured. There -ere 150 hunters killed, of whom 14 -ere mistaken for deer and one for rabbit.,Ten automobile racers were illed, during the year. The fol >wing table gives the loss of life usulting from disasters of various nds in this country during 1911: rownings.. .. .........5,020 ires.. .. ........ .....1,151 ines.. .. ...... .......931 clones and other storms 18S4 xplosions.. ..............232 etricity.. .. .........155 ightning.. ............176 sphyxiation.. .. .. .. .. ....177 levators.. .................65 utomobiles.. .... .......792 The Lynching Record. The lynching record for 1911 tows a distinct though slight Imn rovement over the records of prey! is years. The number of persons nched since Jan. 1-'6 1-is slightly. ss than that of any other recent ar. All but two of the 61 persons nched were negroes. Of the 59 egroes, one was a woman. The 'imes charged against these victims mnge all the way from insult to 'iminal assault and murder. Georgia leads with the most lynch gs 17. Lynchings occurred in 13 ates. All of these were Southern b order states, excepting Pennsyl mia, which furnished the only in ance of the year where the victim as burned at the stake. Contrary to the record of previous ears, the majority of the victims ere not accused of crimes against omen. The victims accused of at .ks on women numbered 1 9, while were accused of murder. Two agroes were lynched for insulting hite women, four for attempted urder, one for threatening to mur r, one for highway robbery and ie for persistent stealing. Two ere charged with plain assault and le was being held in jail as a sus cious character.I In several instances race riotsf ere reported, in which both whites d blacks were killed. These are >t included in the recor'd of the ar. In the following record the ord "lynching" has been held to ply only to the su~nmiary punish ent inflicted by a mob or by anyj iber of citizens on a person al-! ed to have committed a crime for ich in the ordinary course, that rson would have been tried by law. The detailed record for 1911 is follows: Alabama. 3 negroes; -kansas, 3 negroes, 1 white man: ?orgia. 17 negroes; -Kentucky, 3 groes; Louisiana, 4 negroes; Mis sippi, 6 negroes; Missouri, 2 ne ocs; Oklahoma, 7 negroes, 1 a aman: Pennsylvania. 1 negro: uth Carolina. 1 negro; Tennessee, negroes; Texas, 3 negroes, 1 white an. BRYAN'S NAME ADWA.NCED. s Brother Will Ha~ve it Withdrawn From Ticktet. William J. Bryan's name has been vanced for a position on the Dem-. ratic primary ballot as a preferen L candidate for the Presidency by! netition filed with Secretary of ate Wait at Lincoln, Neb., Friday. :e etitirct is signed by twenty-six; Tra.g iea ded by A. A. Arter, of *'ha. Crle W. Bryan, brother Will:1m J. iWyan, said Friday: his fllin: vas done against Mr. -yan's wishes and without his o.vedge. Poth Secretary Writ and . Art-r will he asked to bar:0 ti-'o ition withdrawn. There wi!! to legal proceediirgs unless th-v 11 WAGIS OF SIN EATH SENTENCE PASSED UTON REV. C. V. T. RICHESON. Sad and Awful Ending of the Career of a Young Man Who Had a Bright Futm'e. In the city -of Boston with the ap pcarance of a man who had aban doned all hope of life, the Rev. Clar ence V. T. Richeson stood Tuesday at the bar of justice, declared his guilt of the preiemitated murder oi his former sweetheart, Avis Linnell, and without a tremor heard Judge Sanderson sentence him to death in the electric chair during the week be ginning May 19. While displaying remarkable stoic ism the young Virginian appearec to those who crowded the little court room, as if he were conducting hi own funeral. To the half dozen questions whicl Judge Sanderson put to Richeson he enswered without the slightest emo tion, always in the af~irmatilve. Richeson's counsel declared aftei the proceedings that an appeal foi executive clemency would rollow soor and that every effort would be mad( to obtain life imprisonment as the punishment. As Richeson was called to the bal Clerk Manning said: "Clarence V T. Richeson, this indictment charges you with murder in first degree. Or November 13 you pleaded not guilty Do you desire to retract that plead ing?" "Yes, sir," replied Richeson. "What say you to the indictment?' asked the clerk. "Guilty,"-was the reply, without change in tone. "The only penalty provided b3 law," said Judge Sanderson, "fo murder in the first degree is death Have you plea-ded guilty of murder it the first degree, after consideratiot and with the full knowledge anc understanding of the nature and ef fect of such a plea?" "Yes, sir." "Is the plea made by you free ani vcluntary?" continued the Judge. "Yes, sir." "Did you consult counsel with ref erence to the nature of the offens( and the plea " Again came the simple, "Yes, sir.' After the district attorney hai read Richeson's confession, whici was made a part of the record, Judge Sanderson asked: "Clarence V. T. Richeson, hav< you anything to say why sentenc of death should not be passed upon you?" The young man apparently swat lowed a hard luma in his tnroat, bul without even a shadow across hi face, he replied: "No, sir, nothing further than I have stated." Rising in his seat, Judge Sander scn pronounced the death penalty ending with the impresmve word! "and may God in his infinite good ness hav~e mercy ulpon your soul." MAYOS ARE ASEiED TO HELP. Originator of th Rock ll Plar Asks Their Assistance. The following letter has been ad. dressed to all the mayors and1 intend ants of South Carolina towns and cities: "Dear Sir: Having been appoint ed State superinterndent for South Carolina under the "Rock Hill plan" for the reduction of cotton agreage, J am writing to ask your prompt Co. operation to organize your county under the plan. "I know I can safely appeal to your patriotism to help us to make South Carolina an example to other Sates in getting the cotton acreage rduced. It is hardly necessary to ague to a man of intelligence the great importance to us all to do sm ething practical toward securing this reduction. "As a first step hward organizing your county I want to ask you to recommend a committee of three of your livest citizers-preferably a banker, a merchant and a planter to take charge of the work in your county of appointing canvassers, on' to each two -townships and raising sfcient funds among your mer chants and others to pay these can vassers. A rund of $150 to- $200 ought to be amply sufficient for put ting the work through in your coun "Send me the names Cf these three, the first named by you to act as chairman, and I will send them frll instructions as to how to pro ceed under the plan. "Please let me hear from you right away, as no time is to be lost if efficient work is to ~be accom plished. "Yours very truly, "JT. G. Anderson, "State Superintendent for South Carolina under the 'Rock Hill Pla n.'" I'EDESTRIAN E LECTR'OCUTED. Negro Meets Instant Death by Con tact With Tire Wire. At Columbia Edward Allen. col ored, was electrocuted by coming into contact with a live wire at the orer of Laurel and Sumter streets, est after dark Monday n!ght. Allen, who is a young negro, was walking long the street. presumabiy going o his bomne. when he walked into a livec wire which had broken by the eavy freeze and fallen to tiv side valk. The negro was instantly [illed. On account of the freez~e and -he wires breaking from the ice the :his werc~e out in that section ot the -ty for that night and was presumed hat Allen w.as unable to see his way ~d did not know the danger. Chinese Change Calendar. The Chinese Republican govern ment has issued a proclamation to be effect that the plan to change the hinese calendar to conform to the hropean calendar had become effec Notaries Pulslic Named. The annual report by the secre cry of state. R. M. McCown, shows hat 3,577 notaries public have been 'emmissioned during the year. The acs received from this source WILSON STRONG( Thomas J. Pence Says the Politicans Tl Can't Beat Him in the South. JUST BACK FROM TOUR I He Thinks Nearly All the Delegates T From the South to the National Democratic Convention Will Be for Wilson, Who is Himself a Southern Man. The Washington correspondent of the Bangar Commercial in a letter ti to his paper says: h "The most surprising thing I o found in the South is the systematic ri and aggressive campaign that is be- F ing conducted by the reactionary, capitalistic, corporation Democrats against Woodrow Wilson," said t Thomas J. Pence, a widely known 1( southern newspaper writer, who has r just returned to Washington from a h tour of the southern States where d he organized meetings to be held in t: the interest of the arbitration treat- S ies recently negotiated by the ad ministration with Great Britain and a France. "I visited the principal cities of o Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, c South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, c .Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana, t and everywhere I found this element h among the Democracy of those States c fighting the Wilson movement. And r what is most astonishing of all to t< me is that the most bitter and re lentless opposition to Wilson is be- E ing put up in Virginia, the State in p which he was born, and in Georgia, l the State where he married and s, where his children were born." e "Then you think the South will d not be for Wilson in the Democratic t< national convention'" b "Oh, no; I think the South will be f, for Wilson. The reactionary ele- 1i ment is against him, but the pop- h ular sentiment of the South is so r decidedly for him that I have no a doubt the delegates from nearly all g of those States will be instructed for him. You can have no idea of the y strength of the Wilson boom down a there unless you go there. Born in n Virginia, reared in North Carolina, m a school teacher in South Carolina, i married in Georgia, Governor Wil- i sor is essentially a southern man. a "Yet he's become so great a man, d so strong a leader of modern thought, so striking a figure in our tl public life, tha.t even the South, ever r disposed to be somewhat clannish, v recognizes him as a citizen of the whole country and not the exclusive y iide of any one section A!l over e e South the average man !coks ur.on Woodrow Wilson as the sanest, , soundest progressive the country has r developed. It is only the reaction ary minority that is opposing him, e blind, it seems to me, to the fact that a the country is demanding a progres- a sive President and bound to have one n at. the hands of one party or the c other.7 "Alabama of course will send ay delegation to the national conven tion, instructed to vote for Oscar - Underwood. Kentucky may elect . some Underwood delegat~es, since t Mr. Underwod was born in that State. Kentucky may also favor h Champ Clark as he likewise was .born there. But outside of these two v, States I am of the opinion that ev-. ery State I visited will be for Wood-p row Wilson by so heavy a majority a: as to leave no doubt of the South's . attitude. h "Tennessee will elect a Wilson del egation. Louisiana, the most con arvative of the southern States, will a: be for him. Of course Mississippi, ~ under the leadership of Senator John a Sharp Williams, will be wholly a 'Wilson State. And the Carolinas t end Georgia and Virginia will be In line in spite of the activity of the reactionaries. The people sImply i will have it that way, if I am any s judge of the meaning of what they a said to me." tr Mr. Pence is by nature a conserva- I tive. Not in any 'se is he a hero 'te worshipper. Accu .,ned to weighj all questions well before he speaks 'tc and then to speak his judgment and not his prejudice, his opinion on the ti situation in the South will receivej unusual attention from those wh 0 know him. Furthermore, the fol-t3 lowing assertion with which he closed the above Interview Is given a peculiar significance by reason of g the care with which he guards his utterances: s "The Democrats can elect one man President next year and that man Is Woodrow Wilson. They have no oth- h er in sight with whom they can win. If, therefore, they should not nomi- s nate Wilson my idvice would be that after their usual licking at theh ccme to Washington. march over to t poo!s the leaders of the Democracy the United States Supreme Court and.t petition. Chief Justice White for the bi appointment of a receiver and the, dissolution of the Democratic par ty." _______ _ MACON AGENT CONFESSES. d< iCound and Gagged Himself to Hide Theft of $1,700. b Tn Macon, Ga., F. H. Smith, the ar railroad ticket agent, who Sunday h Inight was found bound and gagged iz? his ottice saying two men bad as robbed him, Monday morning broke down and confessed that he had talc- ou er. the money. H~e at once led them bu tc a storeroom in the union depot th above the ticket office and proauced has S1;300 in bills neatiy W'apped In: ga: bundles embraced by rubber bands. pr This was shortly before daylight. jer He was then allowed to walk un~st- er tended through the streets, having m ntted that be thought he could get er rest of it, the plain clothes men snail- si owing, until 5 o'clock Monday after- or, !!oon, when they arrested him and is placed him in jail. He had not pro- en duced the money. Smith said that he had needed the r'o mioney hadly and had made up his mind to frame up a fake robbery. Hie ad said he extracted $1,700 in bills from na the safe, carefully wrapped them up o. a-nd extracted $400 for his personal irs: rse. This he says he gave to, a wo-v rn, whose name he refuse's to di-a valge. This was at the noon hour. OK ON ATOURI -e [an Who First Reached North Pole Passes Throuagh Cdambia. ELLS OF HIS JOURNEY he Man Who Claimed to Have Dis TJ covered the North Pole First Talks co of the Scenery and surroundings er he at the Top of the World as He da Saw it, t "I am the man; I suffered; I was H ere"-to hear this kin effect) first at and from Dr. Frederick A. Cook, w North pole fame, was the expe- ti ence of a few Columblans on last cr riday says The State. Dr. Cook was fc this city for about two hours be veen trains, on his way-from Char- I itte, where he lectulred Thursday ight, to Newberry, where he gave s is illustrated north pole talk Fri- e) ay night. It was in the union sta- ci on that a representative of The m tate found him. te He was wandering around the oc aiting room, just like an ordinary o tortal, looking over the magazines 3 a rack and keeping his eye on the fc ock so as not to miss his train. Be- ti luse he is the alleged discoverer of if ie northernmost pcint of the globe h e evidently did not expect any con- s( issions on the part of the Southern o1 ijlway, he looked not for the train c< stand and wait au pleasure. g: The whisper had gone around that W r. Cook was present, and groups of di eople stood at a hrtle distance and e: ioked on him as a curiosity, never e( eming to realize that, no matter ie here he had been, nor what he had one, he was just a human being, af- ol ,r all, with all thai the term em- C races of desire for. the interest of oj :11ow-being and of intercourse with n iem. And so the! reporter found ci ;m approachable--not stale from it otoriety, not em:ittered by a world- c( rousing controversy* in which 'he has it gured. ti What does he look like?-that's tI 'hat everybody wants to know f1rst al all. In appearance he is an ordi- -a1 ary man, a very ordinary man, ai 'hom nobody would ever have not- c( ed there in the station, had his w lentity not been revealed. He is :edium-sized; mediam fat, and mid- la Ie-aged. He has a pleasant face, a Si air of kindly, blue eyes, not without si !e suggestion of a twinkle, and he is w ither the contrary? of what is con- tc eyed by the terms, "Well set up," a Well groomed," etc. In short, he a as smoke-tinged, slghtly, and show- c I the effects of travel. si But his commonplaceness ends w ith his appearance, for whether or - of he is the discoverer of the north w ole, he is at least, the man whose Ic aims in that direction have aroused h' world-wide controversy among et ~ientists, and he is indisputably a il an who can speak with authority sncerning the -. arctic regions. y< herefore, he Is of an Interesting tU ersonality and an Interesting talker y reason of his-aumf the personal fa ronoun, which doea away with the si hear-say" element and gives a reali- t13 Sto what he relates. ti After Dr. Cook had talked about P< alf and hour, he said with a laugh: fa You have made me speak along a fr try universal line. I have answer- g. I questions that are not ordinarily re It to me'-which was apparently m aother way of saying that the "hu- si .an interest" side of his expedition ti ad been lost slg''it of In the subse- T: ient controversal element, for the at orld, for some time now has been :king whether he got to the pole- se >t how. 'Therefore, when he was rE :ked "how," he answered with much th teresting detail of the far north and k: e inhabitants thereof. m Do many people know that within gi )0 miles of the pole 'there is a de- " ghtful climate, is mild during the bi imer as Thursday in Columbia id as free of snw That the cou~n- gC y has a vegetation all its own of :hens and mosses, and that the lat- 1er r have beautiful flowers. a "Fresh, fragrant dlowers," the doc- ki r was asked. - ax "Not fragrant; nuiahing in the arc- ni Sregions is fragrant." he replied. n This statement p-ssibly ted up to tit tother he made in connection with Jfr e Eskimos and their mode of liv- st "There Is no wcrd in their Ian- st age for wash,'' he-said. They never di ethe during their entire lives for veral reasons; first, that they have er ,water (It's all ice). and secondly, ec at they have -1o soap-they can Lye none because In that country K erc is no alkali with which to make p1 ap. Soda is unknown there. so Is " It. Dr. Cook's diescription of the >uses recalled thy geography plc.. tu res of their snowy discomfort and th rbidding lack of luxury. Outside 'e ey are just a mcund of snow ccks: inside their circled roofs areg st high enough to allow an ordi- of try man to stand up and the walls p1 each just wide enough apart to lie lo w four fur-wrapr'ed people to lie af iwn to sleep. The sole furniture is re snow bench overspread with fur. night each person spreads down a in r rug, crawls into a fur-sleeping p .g, and goes off to good, snug slum- 1h r. Their lives are spent In eating re d sleeping-and' the Eskimoes are althy. bappy people. "Are they intelflgent?" he wa kred. 1 Dr. Cook replied that according to th r standards possibly they are not, t that In their cwn envIronments ry are. They are not esthetic, they ye no literature. no written lan-J II age and their music is of the most imitive nature, furnished by a .lde drum and the cracking togeth of animal ribs as an accompani- m 'na. to the songs which they invent Af they go along. Their religion is thi apiy a belief In myths, and they cec Scertain that a step off into space nu just a question of walking far we onizh.al "Then they do not believeA in the pri rth pole?'' ca: "indeed, no," replied Dr. Cook, cri ding thait more than 100 of the wei tiv'es went with him. not fo love str adve'nture nor for hope of gain- Fe' Sa desired goal. but because they of re hired to mak~e up the neces- ith! party. h Dr. Cook left his winter quarters t~a] DISCUSS .CAMPAIN -ESMENTLEL POSSIBILITIES ARE TALED ABOUT. ilson's Letter About Bryan Is Brought Up, Bat it Will Not Cre ate a Breach. ' The Washington correspondent of ie State says Presidential pclitics mpletely overshadowed every- oth topic among the arriving mem rs of the national committee to .y. The foremost theme of discus )m was the letter which was writ a by Woodrow Wilson to Adrian Joline of New York city in 1905, d which was given out today. In this Wilson said: ' Can not a devise some dignified way of get ig Mr. Bryan on: of the Demo atic party and getting rid of him r all time.". The question on ev y tongue was how this letter would Eect the Wilson boom, and whether would turn Bryan against Wilson. The Wilson men belittled it and id Bryan had long known of the :istence of such a letter. They de ared he was disposed to take it no ore seriously than he has the ut rances of thousands of other Dem ,rats against hir at some time or her in their careers. Wilson boomers said they had und out the Joline letter was In e hands of President Taft and Wil am R. Hearst. Learning this, they id given out the information them dves, that the letter was coming it and had outlined what it would mtain. It was pointed out that re irdless of the Joline letter, Bryan ould make a great fight for presi-. antial primaries and that this was :actly what the Wilson men want 1. Nothing contained in the JolineI tter can prevent that. One of the important disclosures the day is that Speaker Champ lark has the fght of his life ahead him in MIbsouri. The State com ittee will meet this week and de de on a convention February 15 other words, on an extremely early mvention. If the Clark men carry then Clark will get the delega on from Missouri. If he does not, Len his chances for the presidency ,e killed. Former Gov. Folk will :tend the banquet tomorrow night, id will speak In spite of the early >mplications that it was 'thought ould shut him out Judson Harmon was in New York st night, and there was some gos-, p that the effect after all he might tow up here, but Ohio men said he ould not come. His cause is hurt , some extent by the illness of Sen ,or Pomerene, who is laid up In bed id unable to mix with the arriving >mmitteemen. Narrowed down, the tuation may be expressed in two ords: "Watch Bryan." alked with his one white compan n, his'large party of Eskimoes and s 103 dogs the. 700 miles that land I him, according to his claims, on Le north pole that 21st day of April. "What were 'your feelings when >u actually believed that you were ere What did you do?" "My feelings were of the utmost tigue, and I lay down and slept," id Dr. Cook. He said that all rills of triumph were postponed un [rest had made him capable of ex ~riencing them. The oudook at the rthest point north was nat different om that elsewhere in the arctic re on. They knew that they had ached the goal because the instru ents told them so, and becau:se the a.dows cast by ti'e men remained .e same throughout the 24 hours. lie sun seemed -naar to the earth, ,an angle of 12 degre~es. They stayed there two days, he ,d, and then began that thrilling turn trip, when for three months ey traveled upon floating ice, not lowing in what direction it was oving. "I never gire up 1.eope of tting home," declared Dr. Cook, mntil just before we gained our ~arings." "Did your party keep in pretty od health?" he was asked. "Excellent," answered the explor ."The germ which spreads cold td what we call 'la grippe' Is not iown up there. The danger on such expedition is not from sickness, >t from drowning in the crevasses, r from being lost in the great arc vastness-the only real danger is om starvation, and If a mani under ands -the science of nourishing his 'dy and conserving his natural rength and energies he will en re." "Then the problem of the discov y of the pole reslves Itself with an oitomic question? ' was suggested. "You have hit it exactly--econo y and conservation applied to the ysical being carries one a long Dr. Cook says that this lecture uir has been mosi. successful and at everywhere he has been received ry cordially. "I would like you to say that I am ving these lectures for the purpose coming into contact with the peo s throughout the country with the pe of establishing my claims. For,. ter all, it is publici opinion that will nder the ultimate verdict." He said that he felt he had gained favor during the past year. "I ex ct nothing from the government," declared," all I want is a correct :'ord of the work for which I spent own money and risked my life." Dr. Cook's wife and two little ughters, 7 and 12 years of age, are Paris, and he expects to join them are in March. WHITE MEN PUT TO DEATH. Tribesmen With Barbarous and CrueI Fortunes. Horrible atrocities have been com tted by the tribes in Portugese rica during a rising of the natives are, according to a dispatch ro ved from Angola at Lisbon. Al miber of Portugese offlcials who re captured by them were burnedI ye. The rebellion cccurred in the >vince of Muxima, and the natives ,tured all the white men who >ssed their path. Some of these re immediately burned att the ke, while others had their lips ered and their eyes pulled out it their sockets before they were own into the fiames. Orne Brit-' merchant svas nmaimed, but la-ter i :en to his house, where his ser- i WAS NOT A JAR rhe Democrats Flanning for a Greal aW Glorious Vietory Later ro MEET IN BALTMORE )n Tuesday, June 25, to NKminato the National Ticket-Delegates- so the National Consention MayBe Elected by Direct Vote or Primary as States Choose. The Democratic national commit. :ee completed Its work at Washing. :on Tuesday with the selectIon of Baltimore as the convention city. Tune 25 was Axed as the date of the. gathering when candidates for presi ient and vice president. will be se tected. The Republican national con rention Is to be held in- Chicago June L.. The Democratic committee Issued a permissive primary rule, and such States as have laws on the subject and desire to do so can select their representatives In the -national con - rention by direct vote. Harmony marked today's sitting of the committee, which was givejL over almost entirely to'erguments of rep resentatives of the -arious cities bid ding for the convention. William Jennings Bryan did not attend. He had not fnished his speech at the Jackson day bancluet until well after 3 o'clock this morning. There was brief controversy over the proposed recognition of the Pro gressive League of Clubs, an organi- - zation -said to have grown. out of the Independence league movement, started by William R. Hearst. When objection was made the question of recognition was deferred for four years. Norman E. Mack, national chair man, was named to head the subcom mittee on -arrangements for the con vention. Vice Chairman Hall of No braska and Secretary Urey Woodson or ]Kentucky will be ex officio-mm- - bers -of this subcommittee, and there' will be seven additional members, to be named later by Mr. Maci. 'The primary resolution adopted was a modifcation of one proposed by -Senator Chamberlain -of Oregon. It was framed by. a subcominIttse headed by Clark Howell and was as fellows: "That in the chcIce of delegates - and alternates .to the national Demo cratic -convention of 1912 tme Demo cratic States or teiritorial commit tees may, if not otherwise directed by laws of such States or territories, provide for the direct election of such delegates or alternates if In the opinion of the respective committees it is desirable and -possible to do so with proper an:1 sufient -safe guards. Where such provision Is not made by the respective committees for the choice of diegates and alter nates, and where t ~e-t~ laws do not provide specifleally th.manner of proceeding, then the deleg ~and alternates to the said national vention shall be chosen In them i ner -that governed the choice of del- ' egates from the respective States and territories during the last national eenvention." Baltimore All the Way. Baltimore led in the gght for the convention from the very flrst, but two ballots were reouired before St. Louis -succumbed. Then the vote was n'.ade unmimous. The. Baltimore bid was accompanied by a -certinled check for $106,000. The data of the convention, June 25, suggested by F. B. Lynch of Minnesota, was un animously agreed to. The nrst ballot on' the convention gave Baltimore 25 votes and St. LouIs 17. On the second ballot Baltimore had 29 votes, a majority of thle com mittee and- suffcient. St. Louis went up to 22 votes, but the Zgnt for that city, carrie-d up to the last minute, proved in vain. First ballot, resulted as follows: * For Baltimore--Alabama, Ar! zona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Dela ware, Georgia, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Mlnne scta, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North CarolIns, Penn sylvania, Rhode Island, South Caro lina, Vermont, Virginia, West Vir ginla, Wisconsin, District of Colum bia and Puerto Rico. Total 25. For St. Louis-California, Colo0 rado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, MIs.. souri, Montana, Nevada, New Mex. ico, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wy oming, Alaska and Hawaii. Total 19. For Chicago-Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, South Dakota and Washington. To tal 7. For New York-New York. Total 1. On the second ballot Massachu setts and South Dakota deserted Chi :ago, Texas left St. Louis and New York gave up Its ight, the four States going to Baltimore, making the vote for that city 29. St. Louis gained Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Nebraska from the Chicago roll, but lost Texas to Baltimore, making the total of St. LouIs 22. On the second ballot ChIcago received only the vote of the State of Washington. )n the first call of the roll four votes were cast for Denver, but that city withdrew, and the votes were :hanged to other cities. The vote :cr Baltimore was made unanimous, LEAP YEAR ME'iLNG CAIT)~. 3eorgia Girls to Rave Chance to Propose to Bachelors. To give impetus to leap-year pro yOSals, It has been arranged to hold bachelors' and maids' convention Lt La Grange, Ga., at which the un narried will gather from all parts if Georgia and eastern Alabama. A iumbher of prominent citizens are in erested in the undertaking. A num :r of bachelors and bachelor girls n Troup county have entered heart ly into the plan. The matter origi iated as a lest, but It is now certaa hlat such a convention will be held. ~ut rates on licenses will be given. 'he county commissioners have do ated the use of the court house aue toritim during the last two days In