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Bfind Siwoloi Gore Exposes Bribery Attempt, CONCERNING ATTORNEY FEES. Senators and Representative and Other Ex-Officials and Prominent * People Involved, in Ugly Charges 8{ Affecting Congressional Legisla- ei tion?Legislators Stirred ? Lobby ?j Maintained?Investigation Will bs w Ordered. ^ TX7 L: a o a A? tn tt aauiugiuii, opecim. ? ocuoiui ?? Gore of Oklahoma disclosed in the re Senate Friday what he interpreted as an effort to bribe him in connection UJ with legislation affecting the fortune ti in attorneys' fees claimed by J. F. McMurray of Oklahoma for services T! rendered to the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations in land and town site * eases. Cl O The charge created a sensati .1 in ~ the Senate which later extended to the House. The latter body in consequence sent back to conference the ot general deficiency bill which carried an item relating to contracts between the Indians and their attorneys. As a reult of the denouement, Sen- 5J ator Gore finally involved a member . of the Senate committee on Indian 1D affairs, a member of the House committee on Indian affairs, two former . Senators?one from Nebraska and 01 the other from Kansas?but whsoe names were not made public in de- ] bate. It is not improbable that an in- " vestigation will be ordered. Mr. Gors was compelled to address the Senate 51 three times before that body was fully aroused to the seriousness of the ^ charges which be matffe. His first ^ effort was in connection with the ^ adootioil of tVlA pnn f oron no the deficiency bill, which had been ' presented by Senator Hale. As passed . by the Senate, that measure contain- 1 d an amendment which would render " null and void contracts made by the Cboetaw and Chickasaw nations and a by individual members of these tribes r with their attorneys, unless the contracts were approved by Congress. This provision was in accordance with a resolution introduced by Mr. ? Gore on May 4 last. It was designed . to prevent Mr. McMurray from obtaining fees which, it is said, would ? aggregate $3,000,000 and which Mr. L Gore complained hud not been earned by the attorney. Mr. Gore explained that on May 4 last he had offered a resolution sim- at ilar in terms to the amendment he :J had placed in the deficiency bill in 1 the Senate and that it had been re- r< ferred to the committee on Indian af- ^ fairs. On the following day Senator Hughes had been directed to make a " favorable report on the resolution, he 1E aid. ?' "On May 6," excalimed Mr. Goie, "a man came to me with an imr?rr?T\n?- 1,1 suggestion. He was a representative a* of Mr. MeMurray. a resident of my " borne town, and had been my friend w in time of need. He assured me it P1 . would be to my financial interest if ?u I would call on the Senator from In Colorado and advise him not to re- eT port the resolution. There was a suggestion that $25,000 or $50,000 would ?c be available if tbe contracts were not hl prohibited. I am informed that a m similar proposition was made Thurs- ei day to a member of the House of Rep- P' resentatives." nt Mr. Gore also charged that an "ex- w Senator from Nebraska and an exSenator from Kansas are interested ct in these contracts" and declared that a a large lobby was maintained in P Washington in that interest. He said el that be felt in honor bound to continue these efforts "to prevent this ? teal from those defenseless Indiana u in Oklahoma." w n (Boost Taft Administration. ? St. Paul, Minn., Special.?Indorsing the "Wise Conciliatory" admin- I <j iatration of President Taft but laying on the table by an overwhelming vote a resolution "reaffirming our unalterable support of the policies promulgated by Theodore Roosevelt" the g Minnesota State Republican Conven- n tion met Wednesday and nominated t a full State ticket. 0 Twin* Borned Joined Tofether. t & ' . Vienna, By Cable.?A curious pair nl of freak twins, on the "Siamese" tl Wr plan, has been bom to gypsy parents n I at the village of Havric. in the Aus- j I B trian Tyrol. Both are boys, and they 3I > are joined together below the waist. "While their npper parts are distinct. I r there is only one pair of legs. There 8I K is a marked difference in the consitu- j. Wt- tion of the two twins, one being 8 lusty and voracious, the other?fair- a skinned in contrast to his brother? a is rather languid and delicate. nl Beth the parents are swarthy skin- t Md.fypays of the true type. h| Hot Timoa Ahead in Methodism. | j , Memphis, Tean., Speeial.?Bishop n ; w E. B, Hendrix. of Kansas City, will J ha eHed for trial before a committee 0 of twelve elders of the Methodist ? V Hi. &*rel1 sixty days. Chancellor J t, 1pit HXL Kirkland, of Vanderbilt Univer- n , BW'eitv, win he removed by the Meth- s f con*:, of Bishops next month, I 8 Z and nineteen members of the board a ]? ' -of treateee of tbo university will be ffi Bojeetod from their trusteeships for \\ dt. R insubordination and ddlanee of ehnreh p Be" # VORK FOR CfflOLINJkS : * _ ktracts From Address of Olsrenee 1 Foe, Editor of The ProgTsssiTS \ Farmer and Oasette, Raleigh, N. i 0., Before the South Carolina Press t Association, Glenn Springs, S. 0., r June 14. 1910. 1 Both Carolinas need and must hare 1 larger proportion of white people, * he whole South, in fact, is still too t larsely settled. Our eleven South- ki *n States, excluding Texas, support b ily 16,000,000 people of both races, o id only 10,000,000 white people v hile the same area in Europe sup- a irts over 160,000,000 white people. nd it must be remembered that up t ? a certain point which we shall not n lach for centuries yet, and other * lings being equal, prosperity depends v x>n density of population. Popula- b on makes wealth, provided that it t normally intelligent and efficient, he Sort of Immigration We Need, u Of course, wc do not want the low- t '-class European immigration. If we / in get immigration from England, sotland, Ireland, Germany, Holland, t weden, etc.,?the countries whose C ood has gone to make up our vigor- ( is American stock?it would be of a -eat help to us. We are all of us e ich immigrants ourselves or descen- r ints of such immigrants. From t ?me countries of Southern and astern Europe, on the other hand, li amigration is of a decidedly lower u rder and objectionable because of i ^ w standard of intelligence and effl- d ency. t On the very same principle, how- C rer, immigration of a normal or high t andard of intelligence and efficiency d i desired. Such immigration can be v ad, and ought to be had?in some a leasure iierhaps from our English, d cotch, Dutch, and Irish kinsfolk e cross the sea?but chiefly from our o 'orthern and Western States. For n ears now hundreds of thousands of u ne most enterprising and progressive 1 aimers in the Middle West have I een going into Canada with its lone r artl winters and bitter climate, nol t nlv cririnrr nn A ?t-1 _ - --j p? - * **mf> u p iiuicui mi rituuiisiiljJ, u ?t actually paying two to three times r s much for land in that inhospitable I egion as land of the same fertility 1 ommands in the South. We ought r. o have brought these men to the i outh. They know our institutions, r ur language, they are industrious, I hrifty, wide-awake, and many of * hem are of Southern ancestry who g hould naturally come back home, f et's bring them back. t Imm'gration to Solve the Race i Problem. s If there were no other reason for c dvocating such immigration from r ic Noith and West, I should favor a s our surest deliverance from our i*f' problem. The proportion of neroes to whites is too large in every j outhern State, and ray hope is that e Itimatelv the tides of migration and g emigration will equalize population itil the proportion of negroes in no 0 tata will exceed 20 per cent. We ust train the negro?the more ignor- v it he is the greater the burden on t le South?but at best the process g ill be slow, and at present it would robably not be too much to say that a i considering our whole population. ^ eluding our great constructive lead- v s and captains of industry, the i. rerage negro in the Carolinas in lonomic worth and efficiency is only ilf as useful as the average white an. In other words, in rating gen al average of efficiency we should at the white man at 100 and the ' ;gro at 50, so that a county half hite and half negro would have an * /eraflre effii'ienrv nf 7A o w ? UttUUl* ip of 25 per cent as compared with ^ county with an exclusive white opulattion of a normal. decree of ^ Bciency. y Whether or not the difference is as luch as I have indicated, certain it < i that the larger the proportion of \ 'hites, the higher the average of efcieney, the more prosperous will be ] ur every industry, and the better it < rill he for every individual citizen, deluding the negroes themselves. 1 'wo Ways to Build Up the Carolinas. < There are just two great ways to uild up the Carolinas. First and of ? >aramount importance is Education ( f all our people; and I should only upplement this by putting more earest emphasis upon practical educa- j ion, education that trains for effi- y iency, not education suited to the Teat urban centers of Europe and j he North, but education suited to the 1 eeds of a great, awakening agricul- 1 oral citizenship such as ours is and lust be. 1 And second only to Education, is 1 mmigration. ' ,000,000 Instead of 600,000 White South Carolinians. ' vr i ? nuw lei us start right?not by eeking immigrants from Southern 'urope, but by advertising our re- , ources to the thrifty, enterprising | nd Progressive farmers of the North < nd West?men of our own stock who < ow only need an invitation to make hem come. Emerson was right wlier ^ e said that ''every man who comes ] ato a city with anv purchasaole alent or skill in him gives to every lan's lahor in the city a new worth," nd if an ignorant n^gro slave in the Id days was wortS $1,000, certainly ^ r? may assume that a thrifty and in- * sllig'ent white Westerner, bringing 1 ot only himself, but in most cases ^ ubstantial accumulations as well. ^ hould be worth manv times as much 1 s an asset to the State. The last census year North Caro- ^ na bad only 1,200,000 white people. 1 t should have 4,000,000. South Car tlina had leas than MQ.OOO* whites vhen it aboold bar* 3^00,00<K-*nd Krould then be, even with ita 800,000 legroes, only one-third as thickly lettled as Maaaachuaetts! Consider for a moment how much more inluenlial our papers would be, how nueh more important every instituion in the State would be, how much nore varied i^ould be our industries iow much easier it would be to pjet :ood roads in counties in which the vhite population is now too small to naintain them, how easv it would be o double the -? ?L WL UU1 PUU* w schools, how quickly we shoulduild railroads in sections which must therwise remain dormant and backward for long, long, years how import nt our cities should become and how luch more attractive would be counry life in our thickly settled communities, and how much easier it would be to get telephones and waterworks and trolley lines and local litaries and all thfe advantages of wentieth century rural life! , Let us take as our watchword "Edcation and Immigration?Both of he Right Sort." L Dream of South Carolina's Future. In the last census v ar 234,062 naive sons and daughters of South 'arolina were living in other States to say nothing of the million sons nd daughters of South Carolina migrants), while South Carolina had eceived from other States and counries only 60,744 settlers. For seventy years now our Caroinians have been going West to build p the new States of the great empire, low let us welcome back their chiiron and neighbors to help us build wo great, prosperous and populous Commonwealths, where the masses of he peopled trained to as high stanlards of efficiency as anywhere in the world, shall develop a symmetrical nd well-rounded civilization: a splenid and forcible democracy of traind, intelligent and thrifty homewners from among whom shall come iot only a Jefferson and a Marshall, lot onlv a James J. Hill and a fhomas A. Edison and a Seaman A. vnapp, not only men whom all the tation shall know as leaders in indusry and in public affairs, but poets ind seers, sculptors and artists?if iot a Titian at least a Reynolds or a dillet. if not a Michael Atigelo at east a St. Gaudens or a War.) if Lot a Shakespeare at least a Brownnc or a Tennyson, if not a Savona olo, at least some great religious eader who shall put the church into dtal relations to modern thought and five it a new baptism of spiritual lower?all these until our long and ragic years of war and struggle and -ebuilding shall find their fruitage in in outburst of achievement such as ?ur fathers yearned for, and it is low our high privilege to help bring ibout. Georgia Legislature in "Session. Atlanta, Special. -The Georgia egislature Sas opened what it is genrally belie zed will be a 50-day sesion without special features. The onsideration of only two measures f more than routine improtance is xpected, it- is believed an attempt pill be made to change the regisration laws, and to adopt biennial essioos. There is hardly a liklihood of any ittempt to change the prohibition aw. Governor Brown is pledged to eto any such change in the present aw. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Mexico agreed to an umpire In the boundary dispute. Governor Hughescut the New York State appropriations $4,713,747. The Railroad and Statehood bills tvere passed with few dissenting votes ?y the House. Appropriation bills passed by the Mew York Legislature this year totalled $46,970,571.93. Fordham University adopted the "case system" in its medical branch, to provide better physicians. Mr. Asquith carried his House of Lords' veto resolutions in the House r>f Commons by large majorities. The Gillette bill to Dermlt Jtwrflce Moody, of the United States Supreme Court, to retire on full pay was passed. The Metropolitan Opera Company, af New York, gave a performance for charities in Paris, at which nearly $40,000 was raised. Secretary Dickinson, of the War Department, opened the military tournament in Nashville with a review of United States troops. An Investigation of bribery charges In connection with the election of Senator Lorimer was reported in the Senate at Washington, D. C. Moses Sacks, an aged jeweler, was Found murdered, and his body packed In a trunk in a tenement house in Goerck street, New York City. Magistrate O'Reilly, of New York City, when discharging an ice dealer. salrt the delivery of ice on Sunday did ao harm to the observance of the day. England, France, Russia and Italy will land troops on the island of Crete If the Cretan Assembly shows any liaposltlon to dispute Turkish sovereignty. The Illinois legislative "jackpot" was once robbed, says Representative Beckemeyer in describing past of Fund exposed in Lorimer bribery icandal at Springfield. WOMAN'S WILES I >h, woman, In your hours of E's, Vhy do you spend so many V's? >oor man must mind his P's and Q'e; *p earn the X's that you U's; Vhlle he is working like the B's ?he dough he needs you're prone to C's; rot, with such tact you put him T'a, rou seen an angel to his I's! ?Puck. ' -\ I ' _________ WTEECSTONG STATE NEWS Wmitf Onrmt Imti OmcM 1m Bray County Froa Coast to Mountain Cap. The Sominoles Security Co. Trouble. Taking the testimony of trustees end officers of the Seminoles Securities Co. will commence on July 12. The referee was appointed by the Richland county 'i/jurt as tire result of receivership proceedings which were commenced against the trustees and officers of the company. Mills Subscribe to Stock for Car Line. Tbe directors of the felzer Manufacturing Company have decided to subscribe 25 cents per spindle to the capital stock of the Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson trolley line. The Peizer Mill has 135,000 spindles, and the subscription will total about $33,000. The Belton Mills also subscribed on the same basis as Pelzer, their subscription, amounting to about $14,000, based on 59,000 spindles. Erects Her Own Monument. Sue Peters, the colccad woman who holds the distinction of being the only person from Sumter to attend the Paris Exposition, has had her own monument erected in Walker cemetery. Her monument is in the center of her lot and those of her husband and son stand on either side of it. The three stones are alike. Sue's husband and only son are both dead and Sue gives her reason for having her monument erected noiv as that she knows of many peoplr? who accumulated something of this world's goods who .did not even have small slab3 to their graves. She does not care to leave this matter to others. On Sue's monument is this inscript ion: "Mrs. Sue Peters, wife of Andrew D. Peters and mother of Walter D., bom 1855. An earnest Christian, faithful wife and loving mother. The three stones cost about $2,000. Two Native Sons Get Jobs. Claude I. Dawson of Anderson has oeen appointed by the president to be consul at Puerto Cortez, Honduras. Mr. Dawson attended school in Washington years ago and left the law school there to enlist in the Cuban war. He was secretary to several government officials in Puerto Rico and has for the past five years been secretary of the Anderson Traction company. Julius D. Dreher. of Selwood, former consul at Tabaitv, Society Islands, was transferred to Point Antonio, Jamaica. Dispensary Auditor West Resigns. After a service of three years as State dispensary auditor, W. B. West has sent in his resignation to Gov. Ansel. Mr. West has resigned to take the position of chief inspector in the department of agriculture in the enforcement of the pure seed and commercial food stuffs acts. He asked that his resignation take effect on July 1. Col. Edwin R. Cox Resigns. Col Edwin R. Cox. of Darlington, has tendered his resignation as commander of the Second Regiment. South Carolina National Guard, after a service of twenty years. Col. Cox was first lieutenant of Co. A, Second Regiment, South Carolina volunteers, and was one among the most popular | officers in the regiment. The soldiers I will never forget him. Mail in South Carolina. There are in this State 750 rural letter carriers who handle 100,000 pieces of mal matter per day, from 354 postoffices. Pellagra Claims Two More Victims. Miss Mary Stalling is the second victim of pellagra to die in Columbia. Miss Stelling died Sunday afternoon. Her case had not been absolutely diagnosed as pellegra at first and w.o.c nnc umer cumpucauons. The other death was reported Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Oreen of Lancaster being: the victim. Mrs. Green diid late Saturday night. Variety of News Briefly Stated. W. \V. Ball of Columbia has been appointed a member of the board of trustees of the South Carolina Industrial school at Florence to take the place of Dr. T. A. Crawford, who resigned. The Florence city council has let the contract for the erection of the new city jail, which is to cost $6,750. S. B. Aiken, of Greenville, has been awarded a lieutenancy in the army, which is annually awarded the graduating class at the Virginia Military institute by the secretary of war. The Tri-State Aerie of the Order of Ragles, in Convention at Brunswick, Ga., decided hereafter to hold but one annual Convention of the three State aeries and the organization perfected was made permanent. The 1911 Convention will be held at Charleston. The Retail Hardware Association of the Caml?n?? 1 ? "iscw in i>oane?-1 ton, July 12-14. Mr. T. W. Dixou I of Charlotte, ia secretary and treas-1 arer of the aaaociation. ? I MOTOR TRUCKS ON IMPS Vnt Difference in the Oost of Tranaporting Farm Produce on Oood Sonde and on Mod Highways. Culpeper, Va., Special.?A splendid object lesson in the value of good roads was given and the advantageous use that may be made of the motor truck, supplementing the transportation facilities offered by tbe railaoads to the yreafc benefit of farmers and owners of industrial plants and mines, not located directly on rail lines, has been demon strated in a striking manner by the movement of a oar of coal from the tracks of the Southern Railway at this point to Sperryville, a distance of twenty miles, a three ton motor truck being used. The 18 tons of coal were hauled to the tannery in two and a half days, six trips being made. In the past it has taken a good mule team two weeks to accomplish the same work. The road over which the hauling was done is a good hard road but leads into a mountainous country and has many long and heavy grades. The experiment was made by the C. C. Smoot Sons Company, which operates a tannery at Sperryville. So satisfactory were the results that the company has purchased a truck and will hereafter use it in transferring coal and hides to the tannery and its products to the market. The saving of time and labor in this case shows what can be done to reduce the cost of moving farm, min? eral and industrial produce to rail or water lines for shipment to market. Statistics show that while freight rates arc lower in America than in any other country, the American farmer loses the advantage that this should give him over his European competitor chiefly through the high cost of transporting his products from the farm to the railroad. Reports by United States consuls from twenty-three points in Europe show that the average cost of carrying a ton over a mile of dirt road is between ten and twelve cents. In the United States the average cost is 25 cents. It has been stated that it costs as much to haul a bushel of grain five miles to a railroad in Illinois as it then costs to send it i j.,iuu nines over tlie railroad to Buffalo. In the tobacco region of West Virginia it costs five times as much to deliver that product over eight miles of mud road as it then costs to send it more than -UK) miles to Richmond. These instances were given by Hon. Thomas M. Bell, representative of the Ninth Georgia dis-1 trict, before congress, urging federal aid for good roads. Others as striking could be given from all mparts of the South. "An improved wagon road from a farm to a market or shipping point is equivalent to moving the farm nearer the market or shipping point." said President Finley of the Southern Railway in addressing the Mississippi Society of Washington City. In this address Mr. Finley urged that every possible means he taken to rid the fanners of the South of this "bad roads tax." The successful use of the motor truck by the Smoot tannery can doubtless be duplicated in many parts of the South at the present time, and the rapid increase in the mileage of good roads in the near future u the result of the great movement now attracting so much attention, will possibly soon bring the day when the farmer or manufacturer, remote from the railroad, can use this method to effect a great reduction in the cost of moving his product to market. New Tork Murder Mystery. New York, Special.?The police are apparently balked at the skilfully planned murder of Moses Sachs, the aged jeweler who was murdered for $3,000 worth of diamonds and $309 in bank hills and then stuffed into a trunk. Last Supply Bill. Washington, Special.?The general deficiency bill the iast of the regular supply measures to receive the approval of both houses of Congress at the present session, was passed by the senate Tuesday. It carries appropriations aggregating nearly $8,000,000, an increase of about $1,800,000 over the house mesaure. University and Church Lock Horni. Nashville, Tenn., Special.?"The church is going to contend for its rights and not surrender a hair's breadth," said Bishop Hoss, referr'd? |1?> ~o a. i * . ,v v..v miiuii mi uiu Doara or trustees of Vanderbilt university in raising to seat the three members elected by the general conference. The bishop threw down the gauntlet to the board of trustees, declaring, "The church believes that 1 the decision of the commission appointed by the church to consider the university matter was in everyway sound and just and it will contend for it to the end. Alabama Law Unconstitutional. Anniston, Ala., Special.?In the first test made since the measure was enacted by the last Alabama legislature, section 16 of the Fuller liquor law is declared unconstitutional by Justice J. F. Creen, of this city. Section 16 prohibits the storing of intoxicating beverages in a building used for soft drink stands. The state has five days to appeal and if not appealed before then the confiscated goods of John Jobelss, defendant, must be returned. ! VBR CAPITALFACTf^ Interesting News Gathered in *r! the District off Columbia. Uad 1KB AMESJOAlf C0W0RES8. ^ Personal Incidents and Important jj^HR ! Happenings of National Import ^ 1 Pablished for the Pleasure and In- B formation of Newspaper Readers. ;J . OoTernment Makes Money. The government swung a little boa- I iness project on its own account in "ft connection with the building of the great Roosevelt dam on the Salt .^Br* River irrigation project, and all that remains for that particular part of ^^Pt; the job is to close it out at a profit. Secretary Ballinger has taken the first steps to that end. It required nearly 4harrele of oement for the work on 'the project, and the beat bid the reclamation service could get from outsiders > was $4.89 a barrel. So the engineers set up a mill, and turned out all the ^^Bl cement the job required, and the cost, figuring the mill and all, was only $2.90 a barrel. Now Secretary Ballinger has ordered the mill sold at public sale. Not only did the government save money for itself, for the settlers, whp will . ^^R have to pay- back the reclamation charges. The government's saving in the manufacture of cement alone was $675,000. The proceeds from the sales of the mill will add to them still more. ^ Report on Labor in Cotton Mills. The report of the bureau of labor , on the employment of women and mKK child labor in the cotton textile industry has been sent to Congress by Secretary Nagel, of the department j, of commerce and labor. jflRJ A summary of the report prepared by the bureau shows that in forty- gfffi six New England mills investigated ^1 43.3 per cent of all the operatives were females over 16 years of age, and 5.2 per cent were children under 16 years, while in 152 Southern mills women constituted 27 per cent of the total and children 20 per cent. > The greater percentage of children in the Southern States is accounted for by the fact that, at the time of ^07$ the investigation, it was legal and customary in those States to employ children 12 and 13 years old, while in New England employment could not legally begin before 14 years. uuuvjr sees nover on Horses. L An army of 80,000 bees disturbed in their hives by a pair of horses made wild by a couple of hoes which ^f|H had been stinging them and which then ran in among the hives, upsetting them, caused the death of the horses. ^^^B The negro driver was terribly stung hut lives. His face was swollen to " j? twice its natural size and both eyes H were closed. \Vhen the bees began "r^HB to pour out of their hives he ran, ; M but was pursued by hundreds of the 1 3 honey-gatherers. The bees belonged JmB to Dr. Reginald Munson, whose home 1 .*? is on the Virginia side of the Potomae j B river, opposite the national capitol. fl Big Trade With France. The largest trade on record between ,^fl ? the United States and France, aggregating about $*250,000,000, was trans- ; B acted during the fiscal year whicH^nds '*3 fl ihis month. Should the rate ^nown fl in the 10 months' figures at hand be '^B J maintained in May and June, the ^ imports will aggregate - $130,000,000 9 ;-J and the exports $120,000,000. v ^ To Uark a Historic Point. $ As one of the chief historic points 9 jS of Washington, the site- of the first 3 railroad station is to be marked with a permanent tablet. This point is at the northwest comer of Second 3! street and Pennsylvania avenue, now 3 occupied by a clothing and fruit store. 9 nntuueu I or JjOCK liHt 03. ^ Four steel manufacturing concerns SB competed for the contract of furnish- JQB ing and erecting forty-six lock-gates ^B$i for the Panama Canal. Five bids were submitted. B The lowest bid was that submitted by the McClintoek-Marshnll Con- -|j at ruction Company, of Pittsburg, which offered to erect the total mm- B ber of locks for $5,374,474. "|Be j 100 Girls on Special Train. .1 One hundred girls are seeing Wash- iBB ington and incidentally cooing "Rah- B rah! Radnor College! Nashville, Tennessee! B They are living in eight coaches, *^^B made into a special train, in which they have traveled through Niagara ^B'l? Falls, NewYork, At>ntic City, Mount B Vernon and Washington as if they ^^^B were all brides. Dr. A. N. Eshnor, president of Radnor College, is in charge of the expedition. B The Radnor girls Uke Washington, ^Bjl and say so frankly. { XjjH After they depart from B^B ton the girls will see the Hot Sfyiii&i ^B^S and Asheville. S President Studying River Bill. B President Taft is still hnMln? ? ? ? ~s .?(. the rivers and harbor bill which has I been on his desk ready for signing for several days past. The 10 days in whieh to act upon the measure fffm expire Saturday, 25th. Mr. Taft wants to make a thorough study of jS the bill before giving it his approval. H He haa been too buay with other matter* to do this up to the pre*- H8 ent tima "j25 B