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A GREAT VICTORY DEMOCRATS WENT IN ON TUEfJ DAY ON A TIDAL WAVE. * % They Not Only Carry the House by Sweeping Majority, Hut Cain New Senators. The political upheaval of last Tuesday, when the Democrats went In on a tidal wave, has been followed by a general survey of the po^ pltlcal field, which discloses with greater detail and precision the magnitude of the great Democratic vie tory. Latest calculations on the national house of representatives, based on complete, but unofficial returns, show that the Democrats wl'l have a safe working majority of 30. The outcome of the United States senate Is now definitely settled. The Republicans are assured of 16 new senators, which with 3 4 hold-over senators, gives them a total of 60. The Democrats are assured of 15 new senator, which, with 25 hold-overs, gives them a total of 40. Two senantor8hlps are still in doubt?namely, the successor of the late Mr. Dolllver in Iowa and of Mr. Carter in Montana, where there is prospect of a tie. These determined totals, however, leave a Republican majority In the senate as follows: Total membership, 92; necessary to majority, 47; Republicans, 50; Democrats, 40; 'doubtful, 2. The 16 Republican senators considered assured are from California, Connecticutt, Delaware, Massachusetts. Minnesota, Michigan, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The 15 Democratic senators considered assured are from Florida, Iadlanna, Louisiana, Maine, -Maryland, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Tennesssee, Texas,, Virginia and West Virginia. A summary of the contests for governorships shows the following Democratic irnvurnnpu olonluit nrlia the approximate pluralities: New York, Dlx, 66,000. New Jersey, Wilson, 30,000. Connecticut, Baldwin, 3,500. Massachusetts, Fosb, 33,000. Ohio, Harmon, 60,000. Oklahoma, Cruce, 25,000. Oregon, West, 2,000. Wyoming, Carey, 2,000. Alabama, O'Neal, 50,000. Benth Carolina, Blease, 60,000. Texas, Colquit, 150,000. North Dakota, Burke, 3,000. The Republican governors elected with approximate pluralities: New Hampshire, Bass, 7,000. Rhode Island, Pothler, 900. Iowa, Carroll, 10,000. Kansas, Stubbs, 5,000. Michigan, Osborn, 40,000. Minnesota, Eberhart. 50,000. Nebraska, Aldrlch, 5,000. South Dakota. Vessey, 12,000. Wisconsin, McGovern, 15,000. California, Johnson, 25,000. Nevada. Oddie, 500. Tennessee, Hopper, 12,000. The governorships In two States are not yet reported as being beyond doubt, namely, Colorado and Idaho. In tllO Mnct tho I?OIMlKllAona Now York New Jersey, Massachusetts. Connecticut In the lnte election and Maine sometime ago. AMOUNT OF COTTON GINNEI). Census llurenii Gives Figures Up to November First. . The census bureau report issued at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning shows 7.339,983 bales of cotton, counting round as half bales, ginned from the growth of 1910 to Nov. 1, compared with 7,017,849 for 1909; 8,181,5f>7 for 1908, and 0,138,562 for 1907. Round bales including this year are 81,187, compared with 109,62 1 for 1909; 148,866 for 1908, and 125,7 85 for 1907. Sea Island this yeur is 40,516 bales, compared with 55,237 for 1909; 45,479 for 1908, and 33,331 for 1907. The ginning by states follows: Alabama 747,162 Arkansas 323,674 (Florida 38,287 Georgia 1,241,138 Louisiana 154,756 Mississippi 676.873 iNorin caronnn .. .. 3X6,114 Oklahoma 584,850 South Carolina 729,023 Tennessee 129,781 Texas 2,403.981 All other states.. .. 24,838 The distribution of Sea Island cotton for 1910 by states Is: Florida 16,191 Georgia 22,507 Bouth Carolina 2,818 Kxpress Office Robbed. The express ofHee at St. Matthews was broken into by robbers one nlK.it last week. They evidently were on the hunt mainly for money, but fortunately. they found very little. A few of the lighter express paekases were rifled and a suit of nice clothes, hipped from a tailor In Columbia was taken. The sheriff and Deputy Hill are on the trail of the burglars and they hope to get them. * " ! MONEY FOR SCIENTIFIC WORK. Brttkh Academy Receives Endowment for Research. The British Academy has received ? 10.000 ?'or the purpose of establiohing a memorial to the late l.eopol i Schweleh. of PariH. This is the first KAVI A#nnl ?-*?% * U A ? * ? ? 1 UV1IC1UVI lUC av UCI11J 1I?L^ rwciveu. In accordance with the wishes of the dom r. says the London Kxpresr, the end* wnient Is to be ca led "The the eud< wment is to be called "The Leopold Schwelch hind," ai d is to be devoted fo the futherance of research iu the archaeology, art, hlttory, languages and literature of an lent ligation, with refercn tilbllcal study. There are to be am ually not Jess than three public lectures to lie delivered in London. dealii.g with a subject coining within the scope of these studies. The r sidtte of the intxmic of the fund, with all sums which may he added, is to lie applied for the purposes of excavation, and for the publication of the results of original research in connection with one or moio of the subjects named. Ash Pit for Every House. Among the objects that invariably attract the attention of tourists in Denver are the ash pits ut every house. These are made necessary b. the character of the coal cummunl used for domestic purposes aud by th high wiuds that prevail, says the Kansas City Times. The ashes of the lignite conl so extensively burned hold the heat for a : extraord nary length of time, retnai. ing red hot for many hours, or, i kept from the air, for days after pasing through the grate bars. It is evident that if these red hci ashes were thrown out iu hack jar. or vacant lots the high winds th. swoop across the plains would scan., them br >adcast, making tuein n co. stun i menace to the eyes and cloth iu; of passtrsby, as well as to inilan. muble property of every kind. Eve. house is therefore required by eh., ordinance to be provided with an us pit, shaped like /an old f ishfoue . bake oven, with small openings at the < top. through which the ashes are thrown. Another opening I., one sic t at the bottom permits their removal when the pit is full. , $1,000 For a Newspaur. During the siege of Kimlerley the editor of the only daily paper the.e was often hard put to find enough news. One day in a club room be found Cecil Rhodes reading a fairlv new paper from Cape Town. He borrowed it and rushed to his own ofhee. where it soon appeared as a spec! 1 edition, selling like hot cales. Thai same evening he met Mr. Rhodes, who Inquired: "Where's my Cape Town paper?" Oh, I cut it up for the prin era," war the reply. "Please don't ao that ag.iin," said Rhodes mildiy. "That paper came through by native runners and cost me $1,000." Hoi sea Made From Whales. iNot very long ago there was cn the coast ?of Lancashire, England, a cottage a.id boat house that were mate almost entirely from the remains of t score or so of whales that had been driven ashore some years before. T1 . framework of the edifice consisted wholly of whalebone, and the (int.. skius of the huge creatures were nearly and strongly fastened as a coveiii.f for wa..s and roof. Thre is another building of exactly the same kind w Scotland, and in this case the skulls of the whales and some of tne heaviei bones aie used with great e.'fect as outside ornaments. Thunder perstitions. Thund t, just because it is a noit 3 for which there no visii.i< has alwi vs excited the imat in ition . ! the unscientific. One old wiiter explains the belief or his day that "a storm is said to follow present y whe.i a company of hogges run at cryl. g home," on the greund that " i hog, e is most dull and of a melancl >ly nature and so by reason doth for .-ee the rain that cometh." Leonard oigge , in his Prognostication Ever astinj " (1550) mentions that "thunde in tl e morning signifies wind, al at t nocn rain and in the evening a gie.t tempest." A Remark.it New Pot to. The British Vice tonsul at it .men reports that the cultivation in h ranee i the new potato b lght from l.'rugu y has been observed or some I nc wi . great interest. T a variety is calleo "Solanum com. .con all b.iet," it said to possess e. ellence of taste as well as nutritive value, and .3 equ . to tlie best wable potato Un iwn i., France. This var.ety is dis 1 ^utshed by its resistai ce frost, as also to disease, ..nil it. one great ad autage is that it 1 rospe a n oct in a da up inn swampy soil, vh?: e no other kind of potato would .row. Chem t~y f Fatig- ?. A Genu an I > ve^Urator. ^ 'e chardV has promulga -d the theor iliat / tigue is the d rect result ol ? polst j manufactur 1 by the system and d veloped by a;d ?ork. and r :|uiri ; rest to dri' i out. Welrhard expel mented w the muscle juice c. guinea pig hleh be had m >v!oue > fatigued p his examlnatior prov- d that this e a/ited as a * erltat poison sin r to some of t' e we. known ' Br Inoculaiijg oth animals hi odueed sympt pis of f tigue and .a d< mi product d death. ' KXPLODLNP GAS KILLS F1VK. Eighteen Others Injured in llllnoi* Mine Accide'it. Five men are dead and eighteen injured fis the result of an explosion Saturday in a coal rlne at Panama. 111. For men wr re killed outrignt and the fifth dir J from Injuries later. Rassel Ror anlo. a miner, is stln in the shaft. Gas. wqtc' had accumufated over night is ' pocket several hundred feet tv the mouth of the shaft. extearing out the timbers an.l making the earth for miles around No serious Grj followed. The men who escaped were injured by falling slate and flames from the explosion. About 300 men were working in and around the mine at the time, most of them on the outside ran away from the danger. Fifty m?a in the entry of the shaft were rescu ed by the other miners. AVOILD HOLD VP OIL KING. t Young Hungarian Writes Threatening letters. Charged with writing threatenine letters to John D. Itockfeller , demanding $50,000. Peter Lillijnhn, a Hungarian, 23 years of age, is held at police headquarters In New Yoi s Hugo Kardoc. who accused I.illiiob. of sending the letter to him to M forwarded to Mr. Rock feller, mane the complaint which, caused tli. young Hungarian's arrest. KardotT told detectives lie received three letters from L'Uijohn Friday aftrriioor. One written, in Hungarian, was addressed to the Standard Oil chief, and contained the demand Tor $50,000. The others were addressed to Kardoff and directed him to translate and forward the message to Mr. Rockfeller , under threat of death. * FIRM \T CONVICT CAMP One of the Guards Was Burned to Death in Camp. At the Gaston county cor.vi. t 1 camp, 4 miles west of Hessimer City, N. C., at noon Tuesday, *he Camp with all its contents waB destroyd by fire. Dennis Harrelson, a night guard, of Cherryvllle, who was sleep- ' In? In tll#> hllllfHnir n.no tii,?oJ * - vu..u.i>n, "uo uuiucu IU death. Mr. Ilarrelson 's a son of 3. S. Ilarrelson ami had been at the camp threq weeks. He was popular with all. The entire force was , away from the camp, building road, except one or two trusties, who were unable to rescue Ilarrelson. * i The Tariff laiw. Secretary Wilson, or the Department of Agriculture, who had been campaigning for the Republican party up in Nev/ York and other States for ten days preceeding the election, defended the tariff law. He said "the department of agriculture Is In touch with all sections of the country. It has 3,000 specialists ( making research into- conditions wli'ch interest the farmer. A few years ago nearly all our rice was imported. Along the gulf of Mexico we now raise the equivalent of all rice used in the United State. We import some but we also export some. Along the northern border states we make G00.0O0 tons of sugar from beets. Our last beet sugar crop was worth by products and labor nearly $100,000,000. From California 42,000 cars of citrus fruits were shipped East last year. Take off the duty and we will get the fruit from Mediterranean countries where cheap labor prevails." according to Secretary Wilson the farmers who make cotton, corn, wheat, oats and other staple crops must be taxed so as the farmers who plant sugar beets, rice and sugar cane can make money out of their crops. Is thero any justice in that? If there is we would like some one who is in favor of the protective tariff, point it out to us and the taxed farmers of this section. Fine Wheat Crop. The wheat crop for South Carolina for the year 1910 has broken ill records in this state. The figures on the crop were given out Wednesday by Commissioner Watson. During 1910, the wheat chop crop was 4.756,000 bushels, while for 1909 the umnber of bushels was 3,810. 000. Seven Houses Humeri. Fire Thursday afternoon destrojed seven dwelling houses at Goldsboro, N. C. Inhabitants of the burnt houses were heavy losers, as lbflames spread so rapidly, and the heat was so intense that it was with groat difficulty that they succeeded in saving what fiw articles they did save. ' liciiwirknhlo Prisoner. At New York Joseph Jones, under arrest charged with picking pockets, is rated by the detective bureau as one of the most remarkable prisoners coining into their custody. Jones is 87 years old. blind and al most deaf. lie is bald, toothless and lame, yet the police allege despite these handicaps, he is one of the most expert pickpockets In the country. . v "V ' : ME A Li RATHER THAN CASH. Tliis Is What the Carolina Vnlon Farmer Says. i ne current issue or The Carolina Union Farmer contains an Interesting article on the importance of the farmers co-operating in the disposal of their cotton seed. Our contemporary urges the storing of the seed until spring and the disposing of it through an agent who will act for a number of farmers. It is convinced that by this method a better price will be realized han could possibly follow individual marketing. Having made this point clear. The Union Farmer proceeds to urge what it considers an equally important step, namely, the exchanging of the seed for cotton-seed meal rather than selling for cash. "There can be no economical buying of commercial fertilizers in ready-mixed form,' it argues in support of its views on this subject. "The only way to get the lies! fertilizer at least cost is througn the process of home mixing. Acid phosphate. basic slag or ground raw phosphate-rock can always be bought without much dilliculty, and potash in the form of kainit or murate jf potash is also easy to secure if orders are .?? nt in time, but drlel biaod and tapkagc as a source of ammonia is not obtained so easily because the fertilizer-mixers use these ingredients in great quantities and generally buy up the bulk of them. If farmers in the cotton counties will lay plans wisely and get cotton'-seed meal in exchange for seed, they will have this element of fertilizer on hand. It then follows that they will have to buy only phosphate aru po ash to form the complete mixture, such as is usually sold in ready-mixed form at high prices. ' The subject of proper fertilization of crops at reasonable cost is one of the most d'tllcult problems which confront the progressive farmer today and The Union Farmer's advice should be carefully considered by ail who have or will have cotton 3eed t* their disposal. Aside from th?> for. ' tlllzer question the meal has proved Its value as a feed, a feature which would seem to furnish an additional safeguard to those following the plan outlined. A VKHYDHY COUNTRY. This Is W lint the Law Tries to .Make of the South. t The law in Alabama. Georgia, ] North Carolina and a part of South Carolina may be dry, but the dry bill" is limited to the law, not to the people, according to the report 'he revenue collectors in the ? p:ohibition Btates made to their chief at Wash- ( ington. These reports are fairly Fteeped in , liquor. They tell not only of "booze ' , being made but of the sale, both in , small and in large quantities. In , another month Commissioner of Internal Uevenhe Royal Cabell will make public his annual report, 'u i which he will quote figures furnished by collectors of internal revenue in these states showing the number of special tax stamps which have been sold in the past year. It is estimated that in Alabama. Georgia, North Carolina rnd a smal part of South Carolina the receipts from the sa'e of these special tax si amps will amount to approximately $ 1 0.1.000 for the fiscal year which ended June 30 last. Alabama leads in the number of stamps purchased. The sale of retail stamps amounted to approximately $31,000, and the combined sale of retail and wholesale $v8,500. Georgin conies next with a combined sale of $30,568 worth of stamps It is estimated that $16,000 worth of both kinds of stamps were sold in North Carolina in the past year. Again drug mercnants were the heaviest buyers. South Carolina will show a combined sale of about *20,000 worth of stamps. l'OINT KLl'K NOW. Congressman Klect Changes Name of Oyster Hay. The New York World says Congressman-elect Martin W. Littleton, who was elected over Col. Roosevelt's friend, W. W. Corks, in Roosevelt's own district, was being congratulated by a host of Democrat'c friends at the Manhattan Club Thursday. "Well, how are thin?s down at Oyster Ray now?" said Littleton. "They don't call it Oyster Ray any more." "Well, what do they call it?" <<niuA DAU v,? ?it ? una, u*j repneti. Will Jubilate. New York snfTraglsts held a mas.? meeting at Cooper Union Thursday night to celebrate the victory of wo man suffragists. won in the Mate election last week. The meeting wa> one of the largest ever held in New York city by the advocates of voletfor women. Sweep Chicago. The Democrats carried Chicago by about 40,000 majority, capturing six Republican congressional districts and electing their entire county ticket. The vote in the rural districts was ail that saved Illinois to the Republicans ' : * * .* .1 \ BAKED ELEPH ANT'8 FOOT. Col. Roosevelt Will Be Privileged to Taste a Delicious Dish. While Co'.oncl Roosevelt is in Afrt a he will have an opportunity of tastng thai delic'ous dish, baked ele hant's foot. The Elephas Indicus or llephas (I.oxodon) Africanus walks a itis toc3 and the balls of his feet. . ne re:il toot of an elephant extends p some distance fro:n the ground, ye the "trotter" of the hog the foot the elephant Is full of gluten, and he (lcah. if properly baked, is very T.der. tasting something between >rk and chicken. From a freshly ? pliant the foot is cut off at e ankle. and baked in a hole in the ornd which has previously been en', d with l ot stones. The hole Uft be led hot and a few heavy ones h ft in the bottom. The foot aving been put into the hole, which i made Jurt about big enough to reeive it some natives lino the hole with green leaves- sand is shoveled over it and it is left to cook. One must not be in a hurry for bis dinner. When taken out and the thick skin peeled away u delicious morsel awaits the epicure. Our National Forests. The recent proclamations retting aside the Oeala National Forest in North Dakolu bring the number of states possessing such forests belongng to the Fuited States up to "0, if Alaska be included. Of tkme forests, Arkansas ha? two, but all li e o?licr?. except ta ne.v or.es lit Florida and North P. ko'n. aie in the Him y Mounta'n or pacific eo t ft itc . It is ex j pcctcd tl at the CVnln F rc.t area which cove rs -01,{ 'U a s, will heco" e deurc'y cove ed w!'h ( <> Find pt".e. N" part of tlie area rf < ? more than 150 feet above se t-' ? -1. The Dakota Forest is in the T> I ! eels region, nnd much is i -;| < cd fioai its influence, s in? ?* Nur. Da <> a is the least forested state !:i t1 r t'nion. The new fore l cover.. 1 ! > - : The CclurrLus Tree. In the outskirts of the o' 1 city of San Domingo, of ihe Dominican re public, among the shacks, d. lapidated dwellings or.d mass of debris that lifters this section of the town noi iering the bay. stands u giant o ik. Tim tree Is much larger than all the trees around It; In truth, it is iron h larger than the average trees of the island and, for this reason, is peculiar. But tlio tree Is interesting, not alone for Its bigness and its apparent age. but berauso of the story attached to 't. t?, ks~ 1- t~ ?i--? Hie ti s <>'? if cuiii'd III" t O'UinDUB Tree," and the story is that Columbus tied or made fast his ships by long hawsers to this tree when he came Into the harbor on that memorable twelfth day of October, 1192. Insist on Yellow Flour. Charles Christadoro, an expert on fl >ur and grains, sounds the keynote of the new situation brought about by the bleached (lour decision when he says in a communication to the editor commenting on 'he bleached flour decls! n: 'The housewife will now insist on yellow tinted or creamy flour, and wjll learn to realize that a natural (lour very white can in no manner compare with the creamy or yellow (lour in so far as glutens and muscle building values are concerned. "As from 85 to 90 rer cent, of the large flour mills of the country were using this bleaching process, the decision is far-reaching." ? National Food Magazine. Egyptian "Sabak." This na::.e is gi\en to a peculiar 1 !nd o? manure employed in Upper Ugypt, aud found u.i I lie sites oi aacicnt Arabian kabit.i ions. Even the crumbled walls of the habitat:an themselves have rddod valur Me in gredients to the deposits, because th? walls wcro composed of eann f~*er mixed with an abundance of straw The sites of these ancient dwelling places are .recognized, in the firs; pi' cc, by the finding of relics o." I ousthold articles, and oven bits of i. v Irv V! a deposits aro found in sucet a 5v? layers, indicating that tho sites u.vt b< en occupied, abandoned, and reject'pied a number of times. Che: lie:/ analysis shows that the ?'.cpo I s o "atbalt" are veritable beds of nitrates An Old, O.d Life Cite. Recent excavation at the Maumbury Rings Circle, in England, is regarded as corroborating the tradition that a Roman amphitheater owe existed o:i that site. A stratum of quartz, flin'. and fragments of shells, such as the Romans placed on t' i surface of the arena where pladiators fought, has been found there. A very interostin? mcv is that other remains that the place was used liy Noolith. people as r ilint workshop, it is ap parent that they used picks made o u-.ci's antlers to excavate u.t pi' where the ilini was found. The pit is 30 feet deep. The place seems to have been almost continuously occupied since Neolithic times. An Actor's Ruse. ~ # A 1 1! ? ' 11 kjuv ui m? it'uuiiig cuoicaians or me Frankfurt Theatre in Germany went to the director and asked tor an advance on his week's salary. The books showed that the whole amount had already been drawn, and the director said "No." "Very good," said the actor; "then I shall refuse to go on to-night." The director saw that it was dangerously near curtain time and reluctantly gave the nctor the amount asked for, but said: "Remember, sir, this Is nothing short of extortion, and ! a cowardly one at that." "Not at all. Herr Director," said the actor, stuffing the rronev in his pocket, "my name is not on the h'll for to night, anyway."?The ArgonauL SMITH ON COTTON UROKS Tll? FARMERS TO HOI.O Til Kill NERVE STEADY. lie Advises them to Look to tlieir Own Interests and I<et tlie Mmiufaeturer I.o?>k After His. Senator E. I). Smith Friday save out the following statement with reference to the cqtton crop: The usual efforts are being made i to depress the price of cotton. Tne I same old arguments, the same old ! song. It is a commentary either on the prostitution of those who would tiepress the market or on the Ignorance of those who have the cotton to sell. I cm convinced that it is the former, j for the farmers have at last arrived at that stage of knowledge, in reference to their business, where the ridiculous and foolish arguments of the bears no longer affect them. In a word, those manufactures and buyers who hope by any specious arguments to so affect the market as to get cheaper cotton had as we'l disabuse their minds of any such fond hope. The farmers of the South who produce the cotton know as well or l>etier the conditions than those so-called manipulators of the market. Th"y are thoroughly aware that the narmal consumption of American cotton by ihe world is approximately 14.000,000 lialcs. That last year the* only made above 10.000,0'-O hales, ieavln^ a deficit of ft 1-2 to 4.000,ooo hales; that stocks arc exhausted; that the manufacturing world begins tin? 1909-1010 with no supplies to draw upon from the 1000-10 crop. They know that this crop cannot exceed 11,000,000 bales maximum, making a deficit in this crop from tho normal demand of about 2,500,000 hales, an aggregate shortage In the years Of ininrnrlmntolii r. m\i\ U.iniu.wuu bales of cotton. They know that millions of dollars are invested in tho mills which must spin and weavo cotton or lose their dividends . They know that the worl.l has no substitute for cotton and that sooner or later they must have it. They know that the price obtained in tho last few years has placed them In a position where to own tho cotton, rather than the merchant who furnishes them the supplies to make it. They knew the "tricks of the trade" at last and have learned a few things themselves. This crop was unusually late; th* frost comparatively unusually early; the price unusually high durshort so that this present picking will rapid ginning of the crop. The last short so that this present picking will mean the end of the crop of 19101911. It matters not in any event, what the ultimate yield of 1910-1 t may be, if the farmers of the South ?in their present prosperous condition ? will but use discretion and, common sense in the disposition of this crop they can absolutely dictate the price to the consuming world. In conclusion 1 wish to say to all farmers: You have absolutely nothing to do with the price of tho manufactured article. Let tho manufacturer look after his business and attend to his profits; you look after your business and attend to your profits. A FT Mil A IUTTF.lt FKUIT. President Tail Fired Stuart from a ( odd Office. Announcement Thursday of the ippolntment of Fred Read as collector of customs at Newport News, Va., marked the end of a fiftht that began early last winter and forced the retirement from the ofilce which he had held for four years of J h. M. Stuart, son of the famous Confederate leader. President Roosevelt appointed .Mr. Stuart to office as a compliment to the South, he said. Early durinft his term, Mr. Stuart heeame involv. d in a oiv'l service investigation ' >ecause he deposed two white de-nitles and put in their places negroes who happened to he party leaders. Presid< nt Taft took up the matter last week and decided to appoint Mr. Read, but announcement of tho appointment was deferred until last Thursday, when it was given out at the treasury department. lie Dropped Dead. When the I.Missouri Pacific Train \*o. 1 ran down and killed an uni'entified man near Warrenburcr Mo Thursday, L. I). Hopkins, of St. Louis, tlie conductor, clutched at his hreast, reeled and fell dead in the Pullman coach. He had been on tho road forty years, and the accident was the first that ever! occurred while he was in charge of a train. Where is Teddy? Oyster Hay wonders what has become of Colonel Roosevelt. He is still in complete seclusion at Saymore Hill. Not sinco his return from the Spanish-American war, twelve years ago has the colonel kept himself so secluded at his homo. The man is strong who conquers himself, but he who allows vicious habits to control him is a weak lints. j J