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* VERY SAD CASE. Could Not Boar to Soo His Beloved Wife Go Out TO WORK FOR OTHERS Ijoh! His It cm son and KIIUhI Her and Himself?The t'-ouple Had Lived Happily Together Until the Husband Iiost His Health and Spent His Savings in boctor'H Hills and Medicines in Trying to Let Well. A pathetic case happened in New York on last Wednesday night, when Harry Dhemock awoke and found that in his sleep or in a trance he had stabbed his wife Mollie, four times, he leaped from a third-story window and crushed out his own life on the stone pavement. Mrs. Dhernock, who is in Bellevue hospital, may not recover. The couEle lived with the wife's mother, ena Goodman, and their five-vearold child. They had been married six years and Wednesday was their wedding anniversary. They came to this country from Russia five years ago. The couple were very happy until six months ago, when Dhernock was taken ill and had to give up his work. All the money they had saved went for physicians and medicine. When the funds were exhausted, Mrs. Dhernock, 25 years old, and pretty, went out to work to earn a paltry sum to support the little family. The young husband brooded constantly over his ill health, and the fact that his wife had to work. Dhernock was more cheerful Wednerday and when his wife was about to start for her daily toil, he said; "Come home early today, Mollie* you know this is our wedding anniversary We will have a little celebration; a dinner." Mrs. Dhernock was home promptly and they had a merry little party. They retired early and shortly after 3 o'clock Wednesday morning the young wife was awakened by her L 1 1 uusuanu. His eyes were open, but glazed. He appeared to look at her, but there was no gleam of intelligence in his eyes. "Mollie," he said, in an unnatural voice, "1 am going to kill you." I "You wouldn't do that Harry, said l the wife, terrified. I Without another word Dhernock 1 got out of bed and went to the dressm ' er. He took a pair of scissors from r a drawer while his trembling wife watched him, too frightened to utter a word. Returning to the side of the bed he plunged the scissors into her left breast, just over the heart. Mrs. Dhernock gave one scream, which aroused her mother. Dhernock, apparently unconscious of what he had done, walked calmly into the kitchen, sat in a chair and lit a cigarette. He was smoking indifferently when neighbors, aroused by Mrs. Goodman, rushed into the flat. Then Dhernock was awakened by the noise. "What's the matter?" he asked. "Oh, you have killed her," shouted Mrs. Goodman. Dhernock, dazed, walked into the bed room. His wife, still conscious, lay dying on the floor, while their little girl was weeping beside her. "What's the matter, Mollie?" asked Dhernock. his voice trembling. "Don't you know Harry, you stabbed me." whisr>ered his wife weaklv "But I know you didn't mean it." ' "My God! Did 1 do that?" shrieked the husband. r Looking: intently at his wife for a moment, Dhernock rushed to the window and leaped out. He landed on his head in tne yard, four stories below. His skull, his legs and arms were broken and he received internal injuries. Meanwhile somebody had telephoned to police headquarters and policomen from the East Twentysecond street station hurried to the house. Dr. Mears came in an ambulance from Bellevue hospital. Mrs. Dhernock was carried down the stairs to the ambulance. Her husband was taken from the yard ' and placed beside her. The young wife, with a great effort, placed her hand on his face and pattea him affectionately. "Oh. Harry, you didn't mean to do it, did you? I know you didn't," she said softly. But he did not answer. He was _ unconscious and never spoke again. WJ At the hospital lie died, and it is r*? only a question of a few hours when she will follow him. After the dying couple had been removed from the house the wife's mother became hysterical and she, too, was taK?n to neucvue in an ambulance. Immigrants Hridcs. (Those American cities where the big passenger steamers land thous- ( ands of immigrants each year witness many ronfentic marriages hep> tween long par$d lovers. Years bef fore, the men have left their sweet- ' hearts to build a home in the land of ' If)romise across the sea. There is a ong period of drudgery, and there are aching hearts on both sides of the great body of water. But in no other land is industry so quickly and surely rewarded. In time there is enough of money to bring pver the promised 1 bride. The meeting at the landing is one of joy. After satisfying the official at the landing that the bride s has come to America expressly to i marry the man who claims her there < is a hasty marriage, with friends of i their own nationality as witnesses, and the happy couple proceed on i their way to live better and broader \ lives than was possible in their na- i tire land. ^ , "|K WWTE SUPREMACY Vital to the Nation, Says an Emv Inont German Visitor. There Can Be No Equality of the Races, and the Negro Question Will Give I k Trouble. "Supremacy of the white race must be maintained. Otherwise the American Republic will go on the rocks." This opinion was expressed by Dr. H. Schauinsland, one of the most eminent German scientists who is now making a tour of this country. He is in Washington making a study of the scientific departments of the Government, on which he will make a report to his government when he shall return to nis home in Bremen. "It is my belief," continued Dr. Schauinsland. "that much trouble is in store for your people in the handling of the negro question. Equality of the races does not exist, except in theory. You may as well understand now that the Anglo-Saxon and Ethiopian will not work in common. Their differences in constitution, in customs, in habits, in education?and merely in color?make them substantially incompatible. In the whole history of the world there is no instance of the domination of the superior, by an inferior race. I use the term 'superior' and 'inferior advisedly. but in no offensive way. The time will come when a definite line of demarcation will be drawn between the white and black races in America. It is possible, although not certain, that before that line is drawn it will be necessary for the whites to demonstrate their physical, as well as their mental, superiority. To my mind, this is a problem pregnant with serious posibilities for Americans. In the end, of course, the result will be the triumph of the white race. The blacks necessarily will have to take a subordinate position. That will be as it should be and will make for the best in all respects and for all peoples. "1 have been most impressed in this country by your marvelous educational facilities. They have a wealth of material to work upon and r?K* * w> rl r* M 1 4.L A * auuuuaia wtiiiui 10 promote your institutions, to carry on your experiments and to make original investigations. Already America, in some respects, has surpassed Europe and now we are forced to come to you for new great works of original research. The scientific, literary and industrial successes achieved by America are forming a new class in this country?a class of brains?from which nothing but good can come to all the world. "One thing I hesitate to speak frankly lest I mav be misunderstood. I fear many of your newspapers are giving too much to the publication of sensational matters-?matters that appeal rather to the emotions than to the reasoning power of readers. In America, the newspapers are more widely read than in other country on the globe. They are, therefore, the most powerful educators. In making as they do of murders, elopments and all sorts of purely sensational subjects of no permanent value they not only are adding nothing to the total of human knowledge, but are, in fact, detracting from the moral power of the press." Dr. Schauinslaud, who is accomp- 1 anied by his daughter, is making a tour of the world in the interest of ( the German Government, as well as ! of the great educational institution ( in Bremen, of wnich he is the director. ! KWOICK A'ENCiKANCK. 1 ( A Str?ii|?c Proceeding in the City of New York. 1 1 Kneeling beside the body of Epi- < rania Arcara, who was stalihed by a 1 mysterious enemy, his father, mother 1 two sisters, brother, wife and two j sons swore to avenge his murder. This weird ceremonial took place 1 In the parlor of the Arcara apartments at No. 400 teust 108th street. New York, with a small shrine of St. Kocco at the head of the bier and ( with the tall candles flickering about < the dimmed room. , Little Pietro, the youngest son of the dead man. did not at first under- ? stand the oath, but his grand-father i then for the first time explained to ( him the meaning of the vendetta, that he must not rest until he had : avenged in blood the murder of his j father. j The lad eagerly took the oath with the rest of the family, swearing to the stature of St. Kocco that he would never be content until he had slain the slayer of his father. AIlKIYIOI) AT SF.ATTLK. Two lluiidivri and Forty-Two Survivors from Wrecked Ship. The revenue nillnr o ? * v??vvv I * UVUO, V it I M . J. Henderson, arrived at Seattle, 1 :>n last Thursday night bringing LM2 j survivors of the wrecked American i ship John Currier,, which, in a fog, ! went aground at Bristol Bay, Alaska, an Augusts it. The work of rescue j constitutes the greatest saving of lives with a single exception in the history of Pacific shipping. The Thetis took over the survi- j rors at Uralaska, where they were < Drought by the cutter McCulloch af- ( ter they had spent thirty-four days on a l>arren beach. Had not assistance ^ arrived an attempt would have been , made the following day to reach a settlement a feat considered so im- , possible as to have been a failure and ] caused the death of many of the par- ' tjr. i Among the rescued are 130 Orien:al cannery hands and 110 Caucasian ] fishermen. Capt. Murchison's wife \ ind five young children endured the \ privations of the adventure. j IS DEATH THE END? | Or, If a Man Diss Shall Ha Uva I Again. The If earning After Perfection is the Honl's Prophecy of its Own 1 rumor talfty. Renan says one evidence for the 1 truth of immortality may be found in the nobility of behavior it inspir- ; es. The idea that man is but? "The pilgrim of the day. Spouse of the worm and brother 1 of the clay. Frail as the leaf in Autumn's yel- 1 Iojv bower, Dust in the wind or dew upon the | flower. A child without a sire Whose mortal life and transitory fire, Light to the grave his chance created form. As ocean wrecks illuminate the storm." And then? "To-night and silence sinks forevermore!" does not kindle great deeds and strength for any sublime endeavor. Cicero said of the Epicurean creed that it was utterly to be rejected because it led to nothing worthy or generous. If death ends all, what an imposture our system of laws on which so- I ciety is founded! If we must wholly perish, the maxims of charity and ( justice and the precepts of honor and friendship are empty words. Why \ should they be binding if in this life only we have hope? What duty do , we owe to the dead, to the living or ! to ourselves, if all will be nothing? ' If retribution terminates with the ' grave, morality is a bugbear of hu- , man invention. What are the sweet ties of kindred if we shall not live again? What sancity is there to the ] last wish of the dying if death is a , wall instead of a door? What is ob- , edience to laws but an insane servi- < tude. justice an unwarrnntjihlp Jn. fringement upon liberty, the laws of !. marriage a vain scruple, and govern- , ment an imposition upon credulity, , if death ends all? I There was one nation and only one < that ever tried to destroy belief in ? God and in immortality. France de- ' creed in national convention that there was no God and death an eter- ( nal sleep. The Sabbath was abolish- ? ed. churches were turned into tern- , pies of reason, the Bible was drag- < ged along the streets by way of de- , rision and contempt. Infidelity then , reigned and frightful was its reign, \ Its crown was terror, its throne the | guillotine, its scepture the battleaxe, ] its palace yard a field of blood, and < its royal robes dripped with human \ gore. Gutters were filled with the , torn shreds of human flesh. Prop- , erty was confiscated. The morning { breeze and evening wind bore across the vine-clad hills of France theories ( of suffering and the shrieks of terror, and to carry the metropolis and ( the kingdom from utter desolation t the infidel authorities had to insti- $ tute the Sabbath and public wor- t ship. Were the belief in God and \ immortality to die out in the human { heart, the flood-gates of vice would ? open wide, plunge the world into the grave of despair, and consign * humanity to the dungeons of the j damned. c All the arguments that go to prove ? the existence of God?a God endow- g ed with such attributes ?s are essen- j. tial to our very conception of His eharacter, {joint out the moral nec :a... _* - * * * - ^oaity ui a iuiure state ot existence and inequalities of the present moral government will not only be redressed, but the whole will be shown to be holy and righteous. There is sin and there is punishment for sin, which we dally witness. But there is not for all sin * such a reckoning in this world as '' meets the claims of righteousness r and justice. Do we not see evil do- 11 ings go undetected and many bad r men pass unpunished? See how often the righteous suffer and the wicked flourish. When we take a deliberate view we are naturally led to exclaim: "Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? Is there no reward for the righteous? Is there no punishment for the workers of iniquity? Is there no s God that judgeth in the earth?'! ^ And indeed were there no retribu- n tion beyond the limits of this present p life, we should be necessarily obliged to admit one or the other of the n following conclusions: Either that e no Moral Clovernor of the world ex- j. ists or that justice and judgment J are not the habitations of His throne. \\ If the moral government of Clod, n the existence of which our experi- t ence avouches, is ever to have its ad- f( ministrations perfected and wrought (. to a complete actualizing of its own 0 manifest principles, it can only l>e in another state of existence, and the | tlouble conclusion presses upon ps a that there is a future life, and that ^ that life is one of rewards and pun- jj ishment. a Earthly providence is a travesty of r justice on any other theory than that j. it is a preliminary stage that is to be followed by rectification. God must fj !?% inoftAA ir ? *1 u juonv.1-- iu iiiuiscii, ueiore tne as- : ^ ?embled universe, send the evil-doer | c to desolation, and crown suffering p goodness, to show that Me was al- j t ways on the side of right. Sin is n often in honor here, and goodness in c dishonor, and that God may demon- ^ strate that He is both just and good, man must stand again after death, rhe crown must be put upon right- a eousness and injustice driven to its j. own place, that iustice may again grow bright and the universe rejoice t in its Righteous Ruler. A future life is needed for the ^ working out of that moral completeness which the present never brings. We are cut off when we begin to dc < ready to do something in the world, o Goethe says his belief in the im- a mortality of the soul springs from t the idea of activity?"for | have the * most assured conviction that our soul ? Is of an essence absolute, indestruct / *W ; a-S s? ? / KILLS 10,618. In 1906 the Roads Inflict Injuries j Upon 97,706. The Commerce Commission's Report ( Shows a Great Increase in Milage and in the Vnmtwr of U'nriim.n Booking almost a quarter billion more of gross earnings than in the preceding year, with an increase of I 97 round millions in net earnings the t railroads of the cpuntry, in the year } ending June 30, nevertheless, killed j or injured more persons than in any other 12-months of their history. The * casualties totalled 108,324, of which t number 10,618 persons were killed * outright. How many of the other , 97.706 died from their hurts is . not revealed by the Interstate Com- , merce commission in its report, made , public recently containing the foregoing figures. Perhaps it was be- , cause they made a new record in ac- ! cidents that the companies piled up such profits. With adequate protection for passengers and employes, the stock- ) holders might have less money to divide. Anyway, the report gives the 1 lie to E. H. Harriman, James J. Hill . and other calamity howlers, who thought President Roosevelt's policy 1 would ruin the railroads. Seemingly ( neither the roads nor the shippers ( were as badly frightened by the Pres- ! ident as the false prophets would have ! the nation believe. Most of those who met instant death in the year at the hands of the r railways were employes. Only in 359 rases were the victims travelers, a 1 gratifying decrease from the 537 j passengers killed in the preceding : year. But the railways injure more ; passengers than in the year before. [ They hurt 10,794 persons, who had j paid for transportation. The report shows that one passenger was killed for every 2.217.041 c carried, while in 1905 one passenger was killed for every 1,375,856 car- f ried. One person was injured for ! ?very 74,276 passengers carried, as : against one injury in every 70.055 J passengers carried in 1905. For onoh 1 passenger killed 70,126,680 passenger ! miles were accomplished, agrinst ony 44,320,576 passenger miles in 1905 ? 3ne passenger was injured for every I 2,338.859 oassenger miles, against 2,>76.002 miles in 1905. c The report shows an average of J 584 employes per 100 miles in line. There was an increase of 47 employ- ? ?s per 100 miles of line over 1905. I Wages and salaries paid to employes w aggregated $900,801,653, but it is 0 stated that this amount is deficient c ay more than $27,000,000, because of h .ha loss of railway records in the San j Prancisco earthquake. There were ' 2,213 railway corporations for which mileage is included. During the year 8 railway companies owning 4,054.46 c niles of line were organized, merg- * id or consolidated. The number of roads in the hands a )f receivers was 34. 8 The number of locomotives and 1 :ars in the service of the railways . iggregated 22,010,584, of which I,- ? 127,780 were fitted with train brakes ^ ind 1,989,796 with automatic coup 11 ers. Only 1.45 per cent, of cars in ? he passenger service were without 1 lutomatic couplers. r ? ? b ble, an essence that works on from J1 iternity to eternity. It is like the ? tun, which, to our earthly eye, sinks ind sets, but in reality never sinks, v >ut shines on unceasingly." ? Browning says: r "1 know this earth is not my tl sphere, b For I cannot so narrow me, but that ii I shall not exceed it." a This high ideal which is not reach- p ?d on earte intimates an immortal ife. which may afford time and sco]>e j or its realization. Lowell nobly says fj i his elegy on the death of Chan- ^ ?ng: 0 "Thou art not dead; in thy higher ? sphere ? Thy spirit bends itself to loving tasks. 1 n And strength to perfect what is w dreamed of here ? Is all the crown and glory it asks." Theodore Parker on his death-bed ? aid to a friend. 4'I am not afraid a o die, but I might wish to carry on c< iy work. I have only half used the ?1 owers God gave me." Emmanuel lant argued from the existence of a p; loral law unrealizable here the nec- "j ssity of some after-life. Perfection a' 3 the heritage with which God has e] ndowed me, and since this short fe does not give completeness, I P1 lust have the immortal life in which ?r o find it. This yearning after per- 's ection and completeness is the soul's v ualification for and prophecy of its C1 wn immortality. I know no view- & oint from which the grandeur of pf fe is more impressive. The high sparations of the soul are no longer tc lasting mockeries. The problem of, fe is solved. It is the precursor of possible perfection which to be ealized will lay all eternity under (' ribute. The vast strides man has made uring the short compass of his presnt earth-life in his march toward a] >>..iuHkiuii aiu a pi ujmctj' Ui. LIU" 1 finite possibilities before him in fu- 81 ure, and death is only a stage in til lan's evolution upward, only anoth- o: r name for birth, introducing him { [ito another grander sphere of the tcrnal process moving on. Your past life has been down hill nd toward gloom; your future is up n till toward the glorious sunrise. X Dying is throwing open the door jj hat the bird may fly out of his net- o1 ed cage and be heard singing in fr igher flights and in diviner realms. j(l Although there are only eighteen lags used In the International codo if signals, which Is used by warships ai nd merchant ships all over the world, hey can be made to represent no few- hi r than 20,000 distinct signals, and by *t tae of the code something like 50,000 re hips can be designated. 1c W*: . ' " " Wl HOLD THE COTTON. In Urgent Address to the People of the South. | 2lear Presentation of Case as Seen in the West by President Smith of Cotton Association. The State says Mr. E. D. Smith, r jresident of the South Carolina Cot- { ;on association, has returned to Co- < umbia and found hundreds of let- < ers awaitincr him asking for advise J JL - i.1 It - * is w me disposing ol cotton. To j ill of these Mr. Smith replied, 1 'Hold your cotton." Other letters < irged him to issue an address to * iie people and accordingly the j following was given to The State ( Friday: e "After a trip through the West, I ? md on my return numerous requests r from different parts of the State ( isking me to urge the people to 1 lold their cotton from the market \ intil the price set by the Southern c Dotton association and the Farmers' ] anion is reached. "If ever there was a time when t :he conditions were clear and un- t nistakable, without there being any a :omplications, it is now. It is a dear case of pure speculation against t :eal conditions. To put the case as ^ t is, so that any one may see what \ tribute we are paying to gamblers ] oecause we are not organized to t vithstand them, the facts are these: c The mills have sold their output for c nonths ahead on a basis of 15 cents a 3er pound; the demand for goods at ;hese prices increasing; the price of ^ ;he manufactured article actually r idvancing; thejsupply of cotton in r sight, the present crop unquestiona- r )ly short, probably 2,000,000 bales v ess than last year; the demand for t rotton for the current year far in ^ ?xcess of the supply; the condition i >f the crop steadily deteriorating; a he mills running full time eager i, 'or cotton; no alarming conditions; c n the money market; no complicaions at home or abroad, particular- fc y with the spinners 20 days ago a )uying cotton cheerfully and profit- g ibly ot 14 cents and 14 1-2 cents per e >ound. Yet in the face of all these Y 'avorable conditione the price has o Iropped from 2 1-2 cents to 2 cents ^ jer pound. Why? Because a few t (peculators, who neither grow nor F pin cotton, nlease to h?v?> it I ~ rhe question is squarely up to the t South, the whole South, the mer- r ihant, the banker, farmer, lawyer, | e loctor, preacher and laborer in. any a ind every vocation, avocation or h )rofession, whether they will tame-js y submit to this outrage, whether q hey will allow these gentry to ex- a ict a toll from us, at their pleasure, e >f from $10 to $26 per bale or S whether they will put their price on f heir property and refuse to accept c my other. The only answer to this y bsurd decline is to^refuse to take he prices offered. o "In the West they are making a e >rave stand. They are complaining , ? Utterly that the Atlantic States are 11 tot standing for the price agreed up-1 i >n. How true this is, I am not able a o say. Let every man in South c 'arolina who has cotton to sell drop IS ne a postal card saying how many \ tales he has and how many he will t old. I will compile the number and t ive it to the public, so that we may c now what to depend upon. If we muld absolutely refuse to sell a bale >1 f cottod now, stop receipts, then i p eaction would be immediate. s "The only possible way to remedy j b his outrageous condition is to refuse ! a o submit to it. 1) "With present conditions warrant- m lg 15-cent cotton, acknowledged by ~ 11 parties to be worth 15 cents, if he people put it on the market at resent prices, then we acknowledge hat neither the law of supply and emand, the condition of trade and [ nance, or the cost of production ave anything to do with the price a r value of cotton, but simply the )( aprice of a few millionaire gamlers. Surely we are paying dearly t< >r the privilage of being disorgaized, for being without warehouses, r rithout organized capital to hold ur cotton. ? "Can not each community meet at nee and devise means, where there re none, to help each other to hold 5tton. It will take organized co- g peration to accomplish our purpose. { "Every bale sold at the present rices means a gift of $15 to $20 per ale to the gambling bunch to enble them to take a like or a greatr amount from your next bale. "Ex-Gov. D. C. Hey ward, who is resident of a warehouse company i this State, informed me that he doing all in his power to secure inds and to provide warehouse falities for the farmers in this emer- L ^ncy. So that all parties interested in communicate with Ex-Gov. I). , Mpvixro rri ir\ A A ' . ..v.rni>iu uiicicrciiw to tne matt." "E. D, Smith." EXPLOSION PLAYS HAVOC. as Accident Wrecks a Block and Kills Several Persons. F Two men are missing, several more *e in the hospital, half a score are iffering from injuries and a whole lock is wrecked as the result of an (plosion of gas In the cellar of No. 4 8 Delancey street Thursday at New ork. The building was occupied by Siion Weinberger as a liquor store, ext door on Delancey street Is a big ve-story tenement house. The walls f the latter structure are ripped 0111 basement to roof as if they had een rent by an earthquake. One man was blown over a high = nee and fell fifty feet into the Delrccey street subway excavation. Anther was blown clear out of the isement of the saloon into the p reet. The cigar counter and cash pi agister were blown out of the sa- P' on and clear across the street. i igms / REFORM OF TARIFF Will Be Chief Issue in Next Presidential Election. itates' Rights and Regulation of Trusts, the Other Questions Most Likely to Figure in the Campaign. A dispatch from Washington to rhe Charleston Post says gradually ;he sentiment of the people of the country with respect to the Democratic nomination for the presidency lext year is taking form. Definiteless is being brought about not so nuch by men, as by policies. The feeling emong Democrats of the country is practically uniform in all lections that during the next nationil administration, something will lave to be done regarding the tariff juestion. That feeling is not confined, to be sure, to the Democratic >arty, but the sentiment is more honogeneous and definite among Dem>crats than it is among Republicans. strong "stand-pat" sentiment exsts among the Republicans and the lifferences of opinion among Repubicans on the tariff renders it the easer for the Democrats, who substanially are a unit on the proposition, 0 make headway with their propagmda. It daily is becoming evident that he tariff revision question is to be a >rominentt perhaps the paramount, ssue of the next national campaign, n the selection of a candidate for he presidency, therefore, the Demoiratic party, particularly, will enleavor to name a man who has been 1 consistent and able tariff reformer. This is the situation which, to a rreater extent than any other, is diecting the finger of destiny at one nan. The man, in the opinion of nany of the prominent Democrats vho recently have visited Washingon is William T 13**im?-? U? * ? ?? ?-, .w ? ??out u, uijuii, iic 10 rerarded as the ablest advocate of tarff revision in the Democratic party, ind when the tariff question as a eading issue he would be the logical andidate. Some apprehension has been felt >y the party leaders as to Mr. Bryin's strength in the South, but asuranee is given by prominent Demrats of that part of the country that le would receive the cordial support if the party, of the South on such a datform as is now likely to Ik? adoped. Senator F. M. Simmons, of ^lorth Carolina, voiced the Southern entiment well when he said a day or wo ago that the people of his section egarded Mr. Bryan as "the greatst advocate of the people's rights ,nd interests which this generation ias produced.' Senator Simmons aid that with the elimination of the luestion of Government ownership ,nd that of the initiative and referndum, on which the people of the louth differed from Mr. Bryan, the Nebraska leador would be able to ommand the support of the South fitnout serious opposition. That seems to be the concensus of ipinion among the Democratic leadis, all of whom agree with Senator limmons in believing that, in addiion to the tariff question the two mportant issues of the next nationd campaign will be "Federal encroachment upon the powers of the slates"?an issue which has been j necipitated by the present adminisration?and the regulation and con-1 rol of trusts and combinations of apital. I On all three of the questions now iresented Mr. Bryan is regarded as larticularly strong, and unless the ituation should ohono-o >efore the convention, it is regarded s very probable that he again will e selected as the standard bearer. This is Headquarters FOR Jianos and Organs. 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By the plunging of a cage 675 feet down the shaft of the Jones pud Laugh 1 in Steel company at Xegaunee. Mich.. Saturday, eleven men were killed and seven fatally injured. The cage was making its first descent for the day when the brake on the hoisting drum gave way. Two other men sprang to the assistance of the one at the brake wheel but their combined efforts did not avail and the wire cable continued to unreel front the drum like a weighted threat front a lubricated bobbin. The cage shot down 200 feet before a kink in the rushing cable caused it to part. Then the cage dropped with a thud to the bottom- of the shaft, the safety catches failing to operate. The surging of the cable in its mad flight tore out part of the side of the engine house and ripped out several sheaves about the shaft house. The machinery installed is not entirely new. but it had been thoroughly ly overhauled. Workmen at the bottom of the mine immediately set about removing the dead. The fall had hurled the bodies together and they lay in one mass, from which several still breathing were taken. They are fatally hurt. Thousands of persons soon congregated about the mine shaft. In the crowd were the wives and c.iildren of the two hundred men employed In the mine Each thought, that her loved one was in the cage. Ii was fully two hours before the cable was adjusted so that the cage could be raised to the surface and the dead turned over to relatives. When the miners caine from under ground and many anxious wives and mothers were relieved of suspense. their joy added to the sorrow of those bereaved, made the scene awful. Priests and preachers moved among the people consoling them and begging them to he calm, hut it was hours before a semblanei of quiet came to the excited miners and their families. FATAI, At'tlDKNT. Tipped Foul Hull Kill* Voting Man at Itase Hall dame. While standing directly behind the catcher, witnessing a game of hall at his home at Walnut drove. X. C., C. T. Willis was struck on the temple just above his right ear hv a foul which escaped from the catcher's mit and received a blow from which he died later. * A postmortem examination showed that his skull had not been broken, but an examination of his brains showed that he had several hemorrhages from them. He was "1! years old and is survived by a wife and four little children. How to Hear Yourself Snore. Most people who snore have an idea that they don't, and many a man has kept awake half the night trying to catch himself in the act and then triumphantly conclude that he wasn't addicted to the pernicious habit. To find out whether vuu snore or wheth er you don't it is no longer nece isary to lose sleep over it, and the finding is likely to be accurate. Get a phonograph and sleep with your nose poked close into the horn. The next day start the machine running. If you have snored during the night the machine will renroduce the noise with a monotony that will appall you and you will no longer wonder why your wife can't sleep at night. JE F RE EI n Palm. Alarm Clock. lar*;c size,' kh .. 75c nickel .. .. .. .. ?Ho I Cocoa Door Mat, 14x24, special 98a square yard.. 40o ITIIBE CO. i ffn j Order by MalL Lar*0 Oak Chair, CA, S. C. ,m coiilxic scat t8o rue I^ree. kg, and to any In the machinery* any machinery owner*. 4lf Livable la every way. Write aa tea SO., OOLOMIU. fL CL j