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DRAWS B15 CROWD TlAL OF BUGR LONG FOR MUR DER Of P. N.'GUNTER WHAT THE STATE SHOWS The Wife of the Accused and the Wife and Children of the Deceased Are Present at the Trial, Which Excites Great Interest Among the People. The Hon. Hugh Long. legislator from Aiken County, and erstwhile country newspaper editor with a permit to practice law, is on trial at Aiken, charged with the murder of Mr. Pickens N. Gunter, president of the Bank of Wagener, farmer and well known Aiken County citizen, the homicide occurring during a personal encounter in the town of Wagener between the defendant and the de ceased on about the 8th day of last September. The case was called the first thing Tuesday morning when the Court of General Sessions began its second day's session. Some time was con sumed in drawing the jury, every man presented being placed on his voir dire, and both the prosecution and the defence excusing, or object Ing to, quite a number, but finally the necessary twelve men were em panelled with Jas. R. League, of North Augusta, foreman. Twenty extra veniremen had been drawn Monday from the "seven-mile box" to meet any difficulty that might have arisen Tuesday morning in their se lection. When the jury was com plete the panel had not been q ite exhausted. When it became bruited abroad that the trial of the famous Long case had begun individuals began to Bock into the Court House, and soon every seat and available space had been taken. Interested spectators were Mrs. Long and her sister; while the wife, children and more distant relatives of the dead man sat about. One of the dead man's daughters, a pretty little miss, apparently about fourteen years of age, wept silently during the exhibition to the jury of the clothing worn by Gunter at the time he received the injuries that brought death on October 1. Judge Ernest Gary is presiding. Messrs. Croft & Croft and C. E. Saw yer are counsel for the defence, while Solicitor Robt. L. Gunter is being as sisted by his law partner; The Hon. Herbert E. Gyles, mayor of Aiken, and the Messrs. Henderson, Col. D. S. Henderson, of the last named frm, having conducted the examination of witnesses for the prosecution. The session is scheduled to adjourn defi nitely Thursday evening, and there will be exerted every possible effort by both State and defence to give the case to the jury 'before that time. The first witness was E. B. Jack son, who Is cashier of the bank of which the deceased was president, he having been associated in that capac Ity with Mr. Gunter for the past three years or more, during which time, witness stated, there had sprung up between them a mutual warm regard. With slight variations and contradic tions as to minor details, the prose cution, from its witnesses, presents the following epitomized version of the tragedy: Long was standing on the sidewalk with a newspaper in his hand; Gun ter coming toward him. Just before the latter reached him, Long, it is claimed, half turned and dropped his paper toward his pocket. Qunter col lared him, spun him around and knocked him out into the street, fall ing on top of and astraddle the pros trate man, plnioning his arms. In some manner Long managed to free . himself, possess himnself of his re volver and fired, which first shot, it Is alleged, Inflicted no serious wound. It seems then that almost simul taneotisly with the first discharge, Hayes Gunter, a cousin of the de ceased, and indicted with Long as an accessory, rushed from his store near by, ran up to Pickens Gunter's back and, throwing his arm about Gunter's neck, began to choke him and drag him away from Long, the latter fir ing the fatal shot after Gunter was clear from him and while Gunter, It Is claimed, was absolutely helpless. Clearly, and It has been so admit ted to this correspondent by one of the attorneys for the prosecution, the prosecution endeavors to establish the fact that when the fatal shot was fired Long was free of Gunter, while the latter was helpless in the grasp of one of his kinsmen, under which con ditions, they contend, there was no warrant for the last and fatal bullet. Two witnesses have stated that the deceased a few hours after he was wounded gave essentially this story: Gunter said that he was coming down the street and saw Long; that as. he approached Long the latter dropped the paper toward his pocket, turned toward him with an indescrib able contortion of the facial muscles and muttered some imprecation that he did not catch. Gunter did not know what Long was .going to do; might have Intended to shoot so far as he knew, and from that point the general thread of the story is parallel with that of eye-witnesses. One wit ness, E. B. Jackson, affirmed that he did not believe Mr. Gunter was arm ed at the time of the encounter, and based his assumption upon the fact that on the next day he, (the wit ness) found a revolver in ;Mr. Gun ter's private drawer at the bank. On the cross-examination the de fence unsuccessfully tried to have witnesses testify that Gunter went to several campaign meetings last sum mer and was very active in his oppo sition to the candidacy of Long for the House of Representatives, but with one exception they denied abso lutely any knowledge of Gunter's po litical likes and dislikes. One wit ness, however, did have a faint recol lection of Gunter having gone to a campaign meeting a short distance away from Wagener. The prosecu tion seems to have a tendency to ob ject to the admission of testimony that may savor of the political. One of the State's most interesting witnesses was Benjie Baldwin, who. under the Long administration--for Long was mayor of Wagener at the time of the homicide-was chief of police. He followed Long to the house ofe Mr. Gnaner, next door to hb DEADLY PARLOR RIFLE A YOUNG LAD IS ACCIDENTALLY KLLED BY ONE. At Charleston Young Dingle is Killed by Young Humme, While Target Shooting. The Charleston Post says James Harveey Dingle, Jr., 13-yearlold son of City Engineer J. H. Dingle, was ac cidentally shot and killed 'Monday morning by a parlor rifle in the hands of his friend, Willie Humme, 15 years of age, son of William A. Humme, of 6 Council street, the tragedy happening at Mr. Dingle's residence, at 139 Tradd street. The boys had been playing for some time with the rifle. The accident happened about 9:30 ing at targets set up about the yard and just a short time before the acci dent happened, Mrs. Dingle had call ed to the boys, advising care in the handling of the rifle. She had hardly turned from the window when the re port of the rifle was again heard and the wounded boy called to his moth er that he was shot. Hurried calls were made for phy sicians but the lad died before medi cal aid reached him. He had been shot in the heart. Exactly how it all happened the wounded boy was un able to explain it. The Inquest will be held Tuesday. Young Dingle was a very promis ing boy. He was a student at the Crafts school and the fact that he was at home Monday morning is ex plained by the statement that his yearly average was so high that he was excused from taking the exami nations which are in progress at school. Recently he was awarded a prize for his essay in the Public Safe ty League contest and on a previous occasion he distinguished himself by capturing an essay prize in a contest conducted by the Civic Club. (Long's) own home, to find Long bar ricaded at the head of a narrow stair way and armed with a Winchester rifle and a .38 calibre revolver. Wit ness said he stood at the foot of the stairway and Long at his end, and they discussed the case. Baldwin said that he asked Long what was the trouble with him and Gunter, when the latter told him: "'Pick' got me before I knew it. and I just pressed my gun against him and shot him off." The witness continued that under the orders of the district magistrate he stayed guard with Long, to pro tect him from the mob outside the house, until the sheriff and his posse arrived on the scene. On cross-examination the witness admitted the presence of men, (he was uncertain that they were armed) around the house; and after a little persuasion on the part of counsel he even admitted that he heard quite a number of shots fired during the night. Counsel then had him testify that he made no effort to arrest the parties, nor did he ever prefer any charges against any of them. He did claim, though, that he made an un successful attempt to find out who mrashed up and fired into the print ing office of Long. C. K. Lybrand testified that he heard Long tell a friend, who was accompanying him home: "I intended all along to kill the anyway." This statement created a little ripple of surprise, and counsel for the prosecution had the witness repeat his statement. N. G. Schual admitted that he lay outside the yard that night with his gun loaded, waiting to -see, he said, that Long was not removed, and with him were numbers of others. Coun-, sel for defence, on cross-examination wanted to know If witnesses didn't see several guns around there with the tags of "Jake Lybrand" on them. Lybrand was a political enemy of Long's, and it is known that he fought him bitterly during the cam paigh last summer, but the witness said he did not remember to have seen any such guns. At 5:45 Tuesday afternoon the prosecution rested without having, it would appear, made a very strong case against the defendant. Wed nesday morning the defence will offer testimony in support of its plea of self-defence. One of the most interesting inci dents of Tuesday afternoon's session was the spectacle of witness and at torneys stretched out on the floor of the Court room with Long's revolver, re-enacting the tragedy.I Baling and Grading Cotton. The American Commission of Ag ricultural Co-operation now in Eu rope investigating systems of agri culturcl credit and co-operative pro duction and marketing, will have some valua,ble information and sug gestions as to the handling of the dif ferent crops raised in this country. One of the groups has gone to Egypt to study methods of financing and marketing the Egyptian cotton crop. The Egyptian bale of cotton has been accepted as the world's standard, and it is a well known fact that American cotton growers are losing large sums of money as result of their- failure to properly bale and grade their cotton. It is even claimed that in the United States one-half of the real value of the cotton crop is lost to the farmers through poor selling methods, and back of financial facilities. In Egypt the government has established the Bank of Egypt. which has done much to assist the cotton growers of that country in the Important task of fin ancing their crop. The sub-commit tee will secure a complete report on the workings of this institution. The Egyptian methods of baling, grading and marketing their crop will be closely studied. This sub-commis sion will remain in Egypt until the middle of June, according to present plans. They left Rome armed with letters of introduction from the Bank of Rome and other European finan cial institutions. Smalls Gets Grarnd Bounce. Frank P. Colcock was Monday af ternoon confirmed by the Senate as collector at the port of Beaufort to succees Robert Smalls. This ends a long filibuster, which was conducted by Republican Senators in Smith's behalf. "Where shall the farmer trade?" I isks The Progressive Farmer. Right 1 biere in Orangeburg if he wante to I ;e ia money's 'worth. WILSON WAS RlIHT -4 SENATOR KENYON SUPPORTS LOB BY G8116E SO DOES THE EVIDENCE "Social Lobbying" Most "Insidious' and Powerful Kind, Says Iowa Sen ator, Who Condemns General Prac. tice of Flattering Senators With Dinners and Theatre Parties. "Social lobbying" in Washingtor justifies every word President Wilsor uttered in regard to the presence of an "insidious" lobby at the Capitol, Senator Kenyon, of Iowa, declared or the witness stand Tuesday before th Senate investigating committee. I1 was the first unequivocal- statemeni in support of the President's attitud since the inquiry began. The Iowa Senator explained thai he believed the most "Insidious" and powerful lohbying possible was the practice of flattering Senators by hav ing them out to dinners, to theatre. and on automobile rides, Ingratiating the host with the distinguished guests. Pointing to the sworn testi mony of Edward Hines, "a lumbei king", before the Lorimer election in vestigation, that he entertained Sena tors- at a local hotel at dinners at * time when the lumber schedule in thi Payne-Aldrich bill was before th( Senate, Senator Kenyon declared 1 was his belief that Senators were be ing entertained in this "insidious' way at present. He also denounced Ex-Senators foi capitalizing their privilege of th floor by using it to lobby. Referring to one Ex-Senator, representing man3 railroads in Washington and ofter seen on the floor of the Senate, he ad vocated the enactment of legislator to prohibit an Ex-Senator from be ing a lobbyist. Senator Hughes, of New Jersey and Senator James, of Kentucky, tol the investigators for the first time oi the triles and tribulations of major! ty members of the finance committef with the many persons who had floced to Washington to'present thei views. Neither knew of any attempts to corrupt Senators, but both declar ed they could have done better worl, if they bad been bothered less. Thesm Senators, as did Senator LaFollette who followed them on the stand, sug gested that legislation for registra tion of lobbyists would be a goo& thing. Several Senators let it be knowr to-day that they had received by reg istered mail what purported to 'be 2 production of a letter from the Amer. ican Cane Growers' Association of thi United States, sent to members ask ing for contributions to a fund foi the use of a "large committee it Washington". The copy was dated New Orleans, April 2, 1913, and read as follows: ."Dear Sirs: Your Association has a large committee in Washingtor now using every effort possible to try to save the sugar industry. "We have hesitated about calling on you, but as we are now overdrawx in the bank it is absolutely necessary that we have funds at once. and therefore call on you to please send one-half of your subscription, say nyve cents per thousand pounds, on the crop of 1911. "This is very important and We would like to have remittances al once. Yours very truly, (Signed) "Charles A. Farwell, - "President." The copy came in an envelope post marked Washington, on the -back of which, in ink, was written the name "W. L. Bass". Senator Ransdell, who received one of the letters, said the American Cane Growers' Association had beer in existence for ten years or more; that it maintained an office in New~ Orleans and conducted an open cam paign in behalf of the sugar produc ers of Louisiana. He added that for several weeks the organization had kept an office in a Washington sky* scraper with its name over the door. Senator Lippltt testified that he owned about one-Quarter of a cotton cloth plant, capitalized at $6,000,000, and located at Providence, R. I. He had talke dwith other Senators about the cotton tariff. He furnished a list of twenty. - tariff visitors. Senat .' xppitt declared that he had not trier. to influence any one Im properly. nor had any one tried to in fluence him. Common stock of the Manville Cotton Company, of which he was manager, has gone down prob ably 50 per cent. because of the threatened tariff reduction, he said. "Is It true you prepared the cotton schedule as it appeared in the Payne Aldrich tariff bill?" asked Senator Reed. "I am perfectly willing to say I ap peared before the ways and means committee and said the manufactur ers did not ask for increased duties, but later I tendered a letter which was Intended to correct several deci sions. I also asked for an increased duty on mercerization because that was a new process. Shortly after that I went to Europe. When I arriv ed in New York I was asked by tele raph to come here to act as an ex pert in advising Mr. Aldrich, who was . personal friend and who had confi kee in my knowledge. It took me a week to study out the changes made in the Senate. I had nothing to I with the changes. "Did you furnish information to enators?" "I talked to Senators Smoot, Lodge md Flint, I remember." The Senator said he believed some >f his suggestions to the ways and eans committee were incorporated n the bill. Endorsed by Mr. Whaley. Congressman Whaley has endorsed smith L. Johnson to be postmaster it St. George, and Herman H. Brad am to be postmaster at Manning. Both of these recommendations are atisfactory to Senators Tillman and mith. Bulgarian Massacre Reported. A dispatch from a trustworthy ource says that the B ijrian troops ave destroyed the vil!age of Hadji, etween Saloniki and Serres, and aye massacred the Mussulman popu NEEDED REFORMS E POINTED OUT AND URGED BY A JOHN 3. 31Mr.HAX. Legal Safeguarding of Primary and M Protectkn of Ballot Principle One to be Considered. All other political reforms wait on the legal safeguarding of the primary ti election. The protection of the bal- tl lot is the foundation of free govern- i, ment. A fraud, or an error, knocks is somebody out of his vote. Using a c: club roll containing names of absen tees or dead men, affords opportun- t ity for false voting and "repeating", e sometimes pursued by professionals l hired for the purpose. Dishonest or e careless preparation of the club rolls t may disfranchise voters by errors of t: initials or spelling or .by entire omis- t: sion of names. There is no safety in a depending on messages to see that your name is put on the roll. The a only certain method is to go person- b ally. Allowing votes to be cast by b minors and non-residents may change d the result. As long as the rules' per- a mit these practices, there is no as- t surances of the will of the majority t -the rule of the people. Democra- t cy is turned into a farce. b People learn little except by exper- c ience. The man who before an evil h is upon the country perceived the s tendencies that will bring it, and urges a changes from the prevailing t system while yet there is time, can a arcuse no following. Noah foresaw d the flood but could prevail on no- c body to join his family in being sav- t ed. Most people see only the imme- c diate present and are deaf to the 1 appeals of the pioneer reformer. r Hence most of the sufferings of man- f kind, most of the horrors of history s -affording ample lessons if we i would but apply them. t Thomas Jefferson advocated grad- b ually freeing the negroes and trans porting them to Africa. The race 'T preblem was then generally unsee- g able and unbelievable. In their en- u joyment of the negro as a slave the s people could not see the misfortune s of thus excluding the development a of a sturdy laboring white popula- f tion, nor could they foresee the in- v evitable final emancipation with its i attendant train of dangers, Including f the menace of social equality and ul- a timate' amalgamationi. After the primary last August C there was a general realization of the. t prevalence of irregularities in the t voting and of opportunities for fraud d and the probability that there h-ad Y been serious frauds. Whether or not P there had been enough frauds to i change the result or whether frauds on one side had been offset by frauds s on the other may be merely a matter I of personal opinion or bias. Wheth- t er the irregularities and frauds had 1 been more numerous than in pre- b vious primary elections or whether s they were simply more closely criti cised because of the greater interest I Is likewise a matter not beyond con troversy. B~ut certain It is that the 6 unusual interest throughout the State concentrated attention upon the laxity of our primary rules and methods and the need of reforming is them. Never before had the weak- I: ness of the voting system, the ab- 3 sence of safeguaras, been so brouglit t home to the people. They now saw 3 the danger of "repeated" ballots, c with padded rolls, duplicate enroll- i: ment and no restriction of the voter t' to his locality. Suddenly waking to a these things, u.ey may have magni- 1; fled in their minds the extent of the d actual practice of the frauds which t: were so possible under the rules. Yet the same situation had been t previously apparent in spots In the b State- In heated and close contests t: over an Important county office and o in warm races for township commis- o sloner or for magistrate. How often a has a magistrate been elected by vot ers from an adjoining district? The 5; candidates and their supporters have E been frequently alert and active to o place on the club roll the names of d friendly neighbors across the line. h The rules of the party have not for- ti bidden it. Similarly, many a voter 11 has his name habitually on two or n three or four club rolls and can take n his option as to the one at which he e will vote-he may -be -dishonest si enough to vote at all these boxes or his name may be used by others who si "repeat" in voting. - These are plain g frauds, but are facilitated by the y rules permitting the duplication of tl names on the rolls. ri These things have stirred neigh- ei borhoods and counties, but the re- ci ports had made no impression on the n mass of our citizenship because the it evil seemed too renrbte. Last sum- tr mer the whole State became aroused. ri Even those on the winning side ad- di mitted the appearance of evil and the w necessity of avoiding it In future. A ti reform of the primary seemed at last in sight--the good that comes out of af evil, nature's compensation In the a long run. But by the time the legis- as lature met the keenness of public In- ef terest had worn off. The bills for ni the remedial legislation were post- oi poned to the next session upon the ti: argument that there would still Be ci ample time before the next general re primary election, and that it would in be well to give the matter longer consideration. And so the reform vi was sidetracked, while interest fur- in ther cools. This is the standard pat- m ent for defeating reforms-putting cc them to sleep. to John .T. McMahan. te Columbia, May 31. bt Killed by Lightning. hi: Louis Henry, a negro farm hand. and four fine mules of Mr. Joe M. Commanders were instantly killed by lightning near Florence on Monday Ki aiternoon. Mr. Commander was re stunned from the shock. Henry was bil in the field cutting oats and driving de four mules to a mowing machine. WV and Mr. Commander was standing ml nearby when the fatal .bolt came. to Besides the 'oss of one of his most re- th iable hands. Mr. Commander's loss hr on live stock will be about $1,000. TI gu~ Warning Young Women. Eight of the largest roads enter ing Chicago began posting on the~ ines notices to girls, issued by the Ag Ilinois Vigilance association warn- fai Ing them against chance acquaint- pe: ances. The posters urge girls tray- ag eling alone to Chicago to write to op one of several organizations that they gri may be met at the train and saved let LACK HYD IS CAUGHT FTEMPTED TO ASSAULT YOUNG WIITE GIRL. ras Caught and Is Now in the Aiken Jail Charged With a Most Heinous Crime. Elliott Jackson, a negro of about tirty-five years of age, captured by Le Aiken police after a search last tg several hours late Saturday night. in jail charged with a heinous -ime. About dark Saturday evening the iirteen-year-old daughter of a farm r who lives just outside of the city mits of Aiken was sent by her moth r to a store near their home and on ie edge of what is known as "Bap st Bottom", a negro settlement, in ie lower part of the city, for a pack ge of coffee. The little girl went to the store, tade her purchase and had started ack home when she was overtaken y the Jackson negro, who had evi ently been loafing about the store nd saw her leave there alone. Al iough it was rapidly growing dark, ie little girl suspected nothing when ie negro spoke to her and walked y her side until the negro suddenly aught hold of her and placing his and over her mouth to stifle her reams, ,bore her to the ground. The child struggled in the grasp of he fiend, who, at the sound of some ne approaching from the opposite irection from that in which they had ome from the store, released his in mnded victim. Crying for help, the bild ran in terror back to where the ght of the store glimmered. Ter r-stricken, she ran into the store, Alowed by the negro brute, and Dught shelter behind a negro wo ian, who, shielding her, fought off e attacking negro with an um rella. In the darkness the negro escaped. 'he police were notified by the little Irl's father of the attempted assault pon his daughter, and they began a Fstematic search. 'Persons at the tore were able to furnish the name f the negro. Every officer on the 3rce was pressed into special ser ice, but the matter was kept abso itely secret, only the police and a w others knowine nf the attempted ssault. A little before ridnight Officer leckley, who had been watching in ie vicinity of the negro's home, after ie house had been searched, saw a ark form moving in the weeds'a few ards in the rear of the house. Ap roaching, he captured Jackson, who ras unarmed. The negro denies attempting to as ult the little girl, but states that e was merely playing with her, and at he followed her into the store rhen she ran for fear that she had ecome frightened and might miscon true his intention. ROTECTED CONCERN'S RECORD. hows What the Protective Tariff Did for Them.. It is cited by George P. '3rett, pres lent of one of the greatest publish ig houses in the United States-The [acmllan Company-in an article in tie current issue of The Outlook. r. Brett is a stockholder in the mpany about which he writes and i personally acquainted with its his ry and methods; so he writes with uthority. But being a man of ana tical mind, and naturally a square ealer, he goes into the situation fur ler. The factory, he says, was started renty years ago on borrowed money. 'o further capital has been put into ie business. To-day it is a prosper us concern, working until ten 'clock at night in the rush season, ad turning away orders. The founder of the company gets a iary of $25,000 a year, and Mr. rett says that this man and two ther high-salaried officials find it fficult to keep busy in the few ours they spend daily at the fac ry. In view of these facts, he be ees that the public is paying too uch for the product, or the work ent are not being paid enough, or se that both conditions exist to >me extent. There are many~ other similarin itutions in this country which have ~own extravagant and "flabby", in r. Brett's opinion, under shelter of e tariff wall. Companies have got ch so easily that they have overloa I themselves with "ornamental" of als .He cities thecase of a large achinery manufacturing company which the president, vice president| easure, secretary, and assistant see-| tary all get fancy salaries without >ing any work. The realmanager, ho works hard, is paid a compar rely modest salary. This situation Mr. Brett regards unwholesoxfih. He believes such "reasonable reduction" in duties is now proposed will have some fet on the cost of living, but that it i d not reduce wages. The saving ght to be made, he thinks, in cut- 1 ig off extravagances and in enfor- 1 ag efficiency of operation. So the1 duced duties "should prove a bless g to the manufactures themselves". 1 These are the obviously sensiblei ws of a man of the highest stand in the business world, whose im diate self-interest would call for a tinuation of governmental favorsi the business in which he is in- 1 ested, says The Augusta Herald, 1 t his conscience seems to have been akened at last to the sin of rob ig voters by means of the tariff. t Dying of Bichloride Poison. I At Thomnasville, Ga.. Mrs. George I ng is dying at a local hospital as a e ut of taking twenty-two grains of t hloride of mercury in an effort to t stroy herself. Unlike Banker C alker, of Macon. she is suffering I ich pain, and begs the doctors not 'I try to save her. The woman says a it she left her husband near Blain- t dge after a quarrel and camne to o omasville with her nine-year-old Grasshoppers in Kansas.o [n a bulletin issued the Kansas is ricultural College has warned the n' mers of Kansas that the grasshop- a 's are likely to cause serious dam- -T in that State this year. The a m winter left 90 per cent. of the d tsshopper eggs uninfured: the bul- r: in stated the pests already are at a IIGKETTS CHARE MIEPT ACROSS A PLAIN AMID SHOT AND SHELL MOULD NOT BE CBECKED The Grim Drama of War Never Lift ed Its Red Curtain Over a More Spectacular Scene Than When the Confederates Made Their Heroic Charge at Gettysburg. The third day's battle at Gettys burg was the fiercest and most des perate conflict of modern times. It inspired prodigies of valor and reap ed a harvest of awful death. Those fifteen immortal minutes at the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge marked the high tide of the Confederacy. An eye-witness, an officer who served with the Northern army, tells of the nightmare of that long, awful silence that preceded the beginning of the artillery duel as the two armies faced each other before the final death grapple. Then came the signal and Lee's 120 guns on Seminary Ridge opened with a roar that shook the hills from base to crest. And the reverberating thunder of the guns was heard 140 miles away. "No sound of roaring waters, nor wind, nor thunder, nor of these com bined, ever equaled the tremendous uproar, and no command, no order, no sound of voice, could be heard at all above the ceaseless din of thou sands of shrieking shot and shell falling thick and fast on every side and bursting with terrific explosion, while others by thousands came bounding, skipping, racing and chas ing each other over the hill and down the slope, hissing, scoffing, spitting and moaning like relentless demons as they dashed through the detachments and went onward to crash among the reserves far back in the rear. The air was filled with clouds of dust, and volumes of sul phurous, suffocating smoke rolled up white and bluish gray like frightful, storm clouds, and hung like a pall over the field, through the rifts and rents of which the sun with dim light looked down upon the ghastly scene." All the world knows -what follow ed. It Is written in letters of flame on the annals of war-the charge of Pickett's division, the flower of the Confederate army, against the Union left center held by the tried veterans of Hancock's corps. The grim drama of war never lifted its red curtain over a more spectacular scene than when Pickett's devoted regiments crossed the plain to storm amid a hell of shot and shell the heights of Cemetery Ridge. A third of the dis tance had not been covered before the Federal guns to right and left of them opened with terrible fury, tear ing fearful lanes through their ranks. But on they came yelling like de mons. Across the Emittsburg pike. driving in the Union skirmishers, at full speed, on they dashed. Then from 20,000 Union muskets came a blinding, zig-zag burst of liv ing flame that mowed down the charging Confederates like a death scythe. But on they came, their tat tered battle flags nearer and nearer to the coveted stone wall, while from the Federal artillery, double shotted with grape and canister, burst volley after volley in spurting flames 50 feet long, blazing into the very faces of the assailants, cutting horrible swaths through the ranks of t~he Con federates, while from both flanks death and destruction was hurled in to the desperate charging column. But on the crest of this fierce tide of invasion still came the gallant Armis ted with some hundred of his men. Up to the wall and over it with the cold steel of the bayonet they dashed in the exultant niadness of the flush of victory and for a brief moment Armistead's battle flag waved over the guns of a captured Union bat tery. For a moment only. Hall's splendid charge through Wedd's shattered lines ended in a hand-to hand struggle with clubbed muskets. Armistead fell slain aU the gun he had captured, and when Pickett reached the crest he saw at what aw 'ul cost he had pierced the Union ine. From every side troops were rushing up to aid the beleaguered econd corps. He saw his men sur rendering in masses and with his heart breaking in anguish he ordered i retreat of the few that remained of hat magnificent column that so ~hortly before ha'i left the lines of Beminary Ridge. The charge had ailed and from that fateful moment he Confederacy became the Lost lause. Had it not been for the activity nd splendid courage of the Union avalry upon both flanks, the story of Pickett's charge might have had a ifferent ending. Lee had planned. iimultaneously with the assault on I he left center, attacks by Longstreet n the Union left and by Stuart on he right where the Confederate sa >res had been posted in position to >reak through the Union right and I trike the Federals in the rear. But ~ Cilpatrick kept Longstreet busy andt revented aid from reaching P'ickett , t the critcal moment. Ohn the Union , ght ensued one of the most desper- i. te cavalry engagements of the war, n which Gregg and Custer and Mce ntosh held in check and finally drove a ack Stuart's dashinr riders. e It was here that sixteen men of the a hird Pennsylvania cavalry made y heir famous charne--a heroic but C ruitful sacrifice. Stuart was baffled e y the desperate resistance, but had c e fought his way through, as the i hances were that he would, and fell e pon the Federal rear at the moment n hon Pickett reached the crest of emetery Ridge. Meade's army would ave been close to crushing defeat. tl he cavalry saved the day for Mieade a iGettysburg and turned to naught ci 2e wise plans of the great chieftain a f the Confederacy. What would have happened if T [eade had followed uD the Confeder- cc te repulse with a smashing attack el i the defeated legions of Lee? That one of the gret historic "ifs" hich grizzled v'etorans of the Blue in ad Gray will feht over again next in ly on the haftlsfied of Gettysburg, - nid the Imnosine' monuments to sol- si ery valor end In sight of the serried in Lnks of green tents where sleen tt waitin~g the h"st call those who fell G: tf +hin t-ic ennflict. 'Wh will ec ComI A Diges -eof Fo ade with diffei From a Series of E An equal quantity with each of three differ cream of tartar, phosph separately to the actioi for the same lengrh of 1 The relative perce shown as follows: Bread made with Royal Cream of Ta Bread made with phosphate powder: 1684PFZ( Bread made with alum powder: 67% Per Cu These tests, whici unprejudiced, make pla to everyone: Food r tartar Baking Powder, tible,while the alum and to largely retard the dil them. Undigested food i is the source of very m CURED SENATOR KER01 E OWES BIS LIFE TO NEW T BERCULOR SERUM. ent to Asheville Fully Convine He Had to Die, But Came Aw Well. The United States public heal service was instructed by unanimo consent of the Senate Tuesday to i vestigate the Dr. Von Ruck vacci following a resolution by Senat Overman. Opposition of Senator G linger to the resolution caused Set r Overman to say in support of t resolution that a Senator on the flo had been cured by the remedy. T imediate curiosity of the senatc used him to say that Senator K~er Dmocratic floor leader, was the mi ereferred to. The fact that Sen r Kern made no denial of the sto used the resolution to go througi Senator Kern told The News ai bserver correspondent a few mi es later that he had gone to Ast ule in the fall of 1906 fully cc aced that he had to die, after se a diagnoses had shown tubercul s. He even had a cough. He le ere four and a half 1nonths later ell man, after gaining thir ounds. He was to come back une for more treatment but becar usy in politics. In 1908, as cant ate for vice-president, he return< fter having spoken every day f ven weeks in the campaign. T Vo Ruck told him he need nev me back. Such distinguished testimony e merit of a remedy on the floor e House is perhaps unprecedente nator Kern said he was sorry ave been mentioned in such a w: t that he certainly had the greate ath in the remedy of Dr. Von Ruc Senator Gallinger's opposition w; ased, he said, on the principle th ere were innumerable serums< he market, and all could not be i estgated. He withdrew, howeve hen Senator -Kern's mute testimoi as produced. If the United States governmel :ognizes the Von Ruck vaccin eretary Daniels will be the one hom thanks should be returned. I aused the inquiry into the remed the navy department, and the fa at the investigation showed enecou gng results probably induced Sen or Overman to have the pubi alth service make a similar invest ation. Senator Overman says ti eolution does not have to go to 'mittee. It is effective at once. SAM DUKES TO DIE. r Murdering Policeman Barwic at Pinewood. At Manning Sam Dukes was cor ited Tuesday of the murder of M: sdore Barwick, at Pinewood, la! ebruary, and was sentenced to ele< rcution on June 27. Mr. Barwic s policeman at Pinewood an alked up to Dukes and asked hih sname, when, it is said, Duke nmediately opened fire on Mr. Bar ck. The whole case consumed bu ouple of hours and the jury delil rted but a few minutes on the case .Wideman, of the firm of Davis ieman, was appointed by th ourt to defend Dukes, and at th 2dof the charge the Judge spoke il implimentary terms of the manne which Mr. Wideman had conduct Ithe defence. Dukes is a youni gro, not quite 22 years old. doctor at Connellsville, Pa., die< teother day from infection througl surgical operation performed on arity patient. Instances of suei artyrdom among members of thi edical profession are not rare ere are no medals for It; the re d of self-sacrifice to duty is The New York Tribune says thai New York now babies are becom galmost as fashionable as dogs. ep well, these heroic dead, know gthey did not die in vain, whet ehalting tramp of the Blue and ay as comrades wakes wondering arative tibility od lent Baking Powders lalorate Chemical Tests: of bread (biscuit) was made ent kinds of baking powder te, and alum-and submitted i of the digestive fluid, each line. ntage of the food digested is rtar Powder: ent. Digested are absolutely reliable and in a fact of great importance ised with Royal, a cream of is shown to be entirely diges t phosphate powders are found estion of the food made from not only wasted food, but it mny bodily ailments. LAND iOOD PLACES OUR CONGRESSMEN PUT ON BIG COMMITTEES. " LEVER RANKS THEM ALL th us Whaley on Three Committees, Lever Will Head Agricultural Committee, or Aiken Ranking Member of District tl a- of Columbia Committee, and Ra or dale on Banking and Currency. me Five of South Carolina's seven rs Congressmen are placed on what are E called the major committees of the i House of Representatives as a result a- of the action of the Democratic can ry cus, which Monday confirmed the se -lections recommended by the Demo id cratic members of the ways and n means committee. These twelve G- committees are of such importance n- that no member of them is allowed - to serve on any other committee. o- Representatives Richard S. Whal ft ey, of the First distriet, is the young a est member of the delegation in ty length of service. He has been plac in ed on three committees, merchant. ae marine and fisheries, Invalid pensions 1i- and industrial arts and expositions. ad The only chairmanship which goes r to South Carolina Is that of the great 'r. committee on agriculture, which falls er to Representative Lever, of the Sev enth district. to Representative Finlay, of the Fifth f district, who Is the chairman of the d. State delegation, gave up his chair to manship of the committee on print Y ing in order to retain the more im st portant position of ranking member k. of the committee on post offces and i post roads. at As a member of the'committee on >n appropriations, Representative John "son, of the Fourth district, will con r, tinue as chairman of the sub-commit iy tee, which draws the legislative, ex ecutive, and judicial appropriation it bill. e, Although he failed to secure the to chairmanship of the District of Co e lumbia committee. to which he con ty sidered himself entiti-d by reason of et having stood aside two years ago for r- Representative Johnson of Kentucky, 1- who has been again chosen as chair ic man. Representative Aiken, of the i- Third district, keeps his place as e ranking member of this committee, a which is one of the bir dozen. Desiring to serve on the new c'im mittee on roads, in whose creation he took a leading part, Representative Byrnes, of the Second district. relin k ruished his membership on banking and currency and Is now placed on roads, war claims aLd .nines and mining. On the war claims commit tee he is ranking member. RepresentatIve 3. W. Ragsdale, of the Sixth district, has landed on them imporant banking and currency com mittee, an unusual assignment for a new member. Senator Tillman said Monday evening as to Mr. Ragsdale's ssuccess in this matter: "I am sur prised and gratified at his good luck and am bound to believe it must have been some good management, jalso, on his part." DEFMUTE KILLS TO In Sent to Prison For Life For His - Double Crime. At Knoxville. Tenn.. Haynes Ter ry. a colored deaf mute, confessed to Ithe murder of Russell Mann. and Mayme Steele and an attack unon Carrie Mason. colored, and Mr. and Mrs. W. R. 'Mann at the colored branch of the Tennessee School for the Deaf and Dumb on the night of March 17. The confession was made in Court, when Terry was arraigned on the charge of murder. He was given a life sentence in the peniten tiary. Three other defendants who were charged as occomolices we exonerated by Terry and were re leased by the Court. The Greenville Piedmont says the dicteraph has I -,st a e'ood deal of its Istanding in the e.yes of Colonel Feld