The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, January 25, 1906, Image 2
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The fisher lad stooped from his skiff-side,
To dip his net in the sea.
"When up from the deep, deep water,
A face looked smilingly.
A face in a frame of sunlight.
With a smile like a rippling wave.
With lips that would tempt and trouble,
And tyes that would calm and save.
Ee gazed too long for his future,
Too long for his peace of mind.
Ee poured his soul in his worship,
Devoted, ceaseless, blind.
Ee swent his net through the water.
But the vision passed away;
The wave grew calm, but it came not,
Though he watched through many a day.
?Hat tie
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the north shore of Lake
i ~v-v'^ Superior, where the Cana(
I 1 diau Pacific Railway draws
A frail line of settlement
through that rugged country
of granite and forest.
Jived Peter Shanley. In the summer
lie was a section man on the road, but
he usually went north into the woods
with the first snow, and spent the
v.: winter in trapping.
He had discovered an excellent trapping
location oa the upper Xipigon.
and had gone there for the last four
winters with his hunting partner, a
French-Canadian named Chouteau.
There they had built a log cabin, and
there they returned early in the winter
of last year with two tobogganloads
of supplies, and at ofice proceed
ed to jay out tueir ixiies oj. n.ap?.
There were marten-traps in the
swainps, mink-traps along the frozen
streams, and a few fox and lynx-traps:
but one of their great hopes of profit
~ .was from the timber-wolves. There is
a Government bounty of $10 on the
scalps of these animals; but for them
they set no traps.
K>- C It is next to impossible to capture
the gray timber-wolf by any of the
ordinary devices. He knows the most
cunningly disposed trap as far as he
can see it, and he can smell poison
| through any disguise. But for circum?>
.venting these too sagacious animals,;
Shanley had invented a method of his
own, which had already proved highly
successful.
On a moonlight night he would go
into the swamps and shoot a couple
|j|>- . of rabbits, which he-would drag in the
snow so as to leave a blood trail. Such
a scent is irresistible to any predatory
animal, and after an hour's tramping
ll r- -,Shanley would hear the hunting cry
open?the curious, moaning yelp
through the dark woods. He would
then make a small semi-circle back,
and climb a tree close to his own trail.
When the pack came past on the scent
fe'v. be usually managed to get at least
1"^ ..three shots with his repeater before
fipb they scattered.
They rarely showed spirit enough to
attach him; the sudden fright of the
? % shots sent them scampering. He would
gladly have had them besiege him in
his trpp for with a belt full of cart
ridges he could have killed the "whole
pack, which seldom numbered more
than eight or ten. But he never had
any such fortune.
Winter set in hard and early, with
ft.. unusually deep snow, and neai- the end
of iJgcember Shanley went out on his
B first wolf'-hunt of the season. It was
about moonrise, and the night air was
so still as to appear milder than it
really was. There had been recent
heavy storms, and the hemlocks were
deeply laden with fresh snow, dry as
powder. The woods were very still,
and in the strange, bluish northern
moonlight the silence seemed mysIterious
and sinister.
Shanley was not much impressed by
4 * these effects, however. Ke merely ob{ :
* served that it was intensely cold, and
that perching in a tree would be frigid
work that night, in spite of his double
clothing and gloves.
Half a mile from the shanty he shot
a hare that was nibbling a spruce
trunk, and a little way farther he secured
another. The carcasses he tied
PJ ^ to a deerskin thong, and trailed them
in the wake of his snow-shoes.
He dragged his bait across a hardwood
ridge and down into another
cedar swamp on the other side. In
hard weather all the wild life of the
woods resorts to such places for shel
ter, and here the wolves would be hunting
if there was a pack in. the neighborhood.
But he found few tracks and
^ no sign at all of wolves.
After traveHng slowly for two or
three miles, Shanley sat down on a
log to rest, and as the warmth of exercise
died out, the cold nipped him to the
bone through the "four-point" blanket
coat. He got up and moved on, intending
to return in a long curve toward
the cabin. He did not much
care, after all. whether he started any
wolves. It was too cold for hunting
that night.
The dry 'snow swished round his
ankles at the fall of the long rackets.
He still dragged the dead hares, which
were now frozen almost as hard as
wood, but not too hard to leave a scent.
The air grew steadily colder. The,
thermometers at Sault Sainte Marie
went twenty-three below zero that
night.
He had reached the other side of the
swamp when his ears caught suddenly
a high-pitched, mournful howl, ending
in a sort of yelp, sounding indefinitely
far away, yet clearly heard through
the tense air. He knew well what it
was. The pack had struck a trailpossibly
his own, possibly that of a
deer. He would very soon learn which.
Shanley was just then in the midst
of a taugled stretch or second growth,
where the view was too obstructed for
shooting, and he hurried on to reacfi
more open woods. After ten minutes
JSION.
, He never knew 'tww a maiden.
That leaned from tae roc-k above,
Whose face had looked from the sea depth
With eyes like a drcain of love.
He never knew, though he passed her,
Each dav, as to and fro,
Wearv and sick with longing, '* ^
To Lis task he'd sadly go. .< ?
So_wc gaze in the future's waters, . ^
For the visions they portray,
So we long for the unreturning* ' *
Nor heed the blest to-day.
So we cast our nets for the shadows,
Fleet phantoms of the tide.
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_>or aream in our Dana ueiusioii,
That the real is at our side.
Horner Loutham, in Thoughts Adrift.
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HT TRAILERS. [i|f
[IXIE POLLOCK. P|ill
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of pushing through the snowy thickets,
he came unexpectedly upon the shore
of a good-sized river, covered deep
with snow, a white avenue winding
away into the midnight forest.
As he came out upon this convenient
road he caught again the hunting chorus
of the wolf pack, far away, but still
appreciably nearer. He started up the
river at a swinging trot, looking about
for a good place to ambush himself,
when the ice suddenly gave way under
his feet, and he "went down with so
swift a plunge that he had only time
for a shuddering gasp!
The trapper had stepped on an airhole
lightly crusted over with snow.
He went down to his neck without
touching bottom, end the black water
surged up into his face. It was his
rifle that saved him from going under;
it caught across the hole, and he clung
to it fiercely. As the current was fortunately
not rapid, he managed to draw
himself up.
But he found himself unable to extricate
his feet. The long-tailed snowshoes
had gone down point foremost,
and now were crossed under the ice.
and refused to come up. He dared not
cut them loose, for in the deep snow
he would hare been helpless. Growing
fainter at every moment, he struggled
in the deadly chill of the water
for four or five minutes before he at
last succeeded in bringing them up end
first, as they had gone down.
When he staggered back stifBy upon
the snow the very life seemed withdrawn
from his bones. His beard was
a cake of ice, and his heavy clothing
had frozen into a coat of mail almost
as hard as iron plate. There was no
sensation left in his limbs, and he
trembled with a numb shuddering.
Long forest training told him what
must be done. He must have a fire at
once. He would have to find a dry
birch tree or a splintered pine that
would light easily.
His benumber brain clung to this
idea, and he began to stumble towardshore,
his snow-shoes sheets of ice, and
his clothes rattling as he went But
with a hunter's instinct he stuck to
his rifle, tucking it under his icy arm.
He could see no birch tree, and the
bank was ^ordered with an impenetrable
growth of alders. He dragged himself
up the river, and each step seemed
to require a more and more intolerable
exertion.
He could not feel his feet as he lifted
and put them down; when he. saw them
moving they looked like tilings independent
of himself. He had ceased tc
feel cold. He no longer felt anything,
except a deadly weariness that was
crushing him into the snow.
He went on, however, driven by the
fighting instinct, till of a sudden he
saw it?the birch tree he was seeking,
shining spectrally among the black
spruces by the river.
It was an old, half-dead tree, covered
with great curls of bark that would
flare up at the touch of a match. He
had matches in a waterproof box, and
he contrived to get them out of his
frozen pocket. He dropped the box
half a dozen times in trying to open it,
opened it at last with his teeth, and
dropped it again, spilling the matches
into the snow.
Snow is as dry as sand at that temperature,
and he scraped them up, and
tried to strike one on the rifle-barrel.
But he was unable to hold the bit of
wood in his numbed fingers; there was
absolutely no feeling in his hands, and
the match fell from his grasp at every
attempt. This is a familiar peril in the
north woods, where dozens of men
have frozen to death with firewood and
matches beside them, from sheer inability
to strike a light.
Shanley beat his hands together without
effect. He began to grow indifferent;
and as he fumbled again for the
dropped match he fell at full length
into the snow.
A sense of pleasant relief overcame
him, and he decided to rest there for a
few minutes. The snow was soft, and
lie had never before realized how warm
it was. His shoulders were propped
against the roots of the birch, and with
a hazy consciousness that game might
be expected, he dragged his rifle across
his knees and cocked it. Then, with a
comfortable sense of duty done, he
closed his eyes.
Curious and delightful fancies began
, at once to flood his brain, fancies so
vivid that he seemed not to lose
consciousness at all. Hew long he
lay there he never knew. But he grew
alive at last to a vise-like pressure on
his left arm that seemed to have lasted
for years, and which was growing to
excruciating pain.
He opened his eyes with a great
effort. There were savage, hairy faces
close to his own, pouriDg out clouds of
steaming breath into the frosty air.
Something had him by the arm with
. such force that he almost felt the bones
cracking, and something was tugging
at his leg.
The nervous shock aroused him as
: nothing else on earth could have done,
A. tingle of horrified animation rushed
through every muscle cf his body. He
was on the point of being devoured
alive by the wolf pack that had trailed
' him. and the powerful stimulus of the
new peril called out the last reserves
of life.
He made a convulsive start. The
* rifie upon his knees went off, and at
the sudden flash and report the halfdozen
wolves bolted incontinently.
They all fled but the big brute that
was wrenching at his arm, and it only
snarled through its nostrils and tugged
the harder.
Shanley tried to raise himself. His
limbs felt wooden and dead. But be
I fumbled for the skinning-knife at his
belt, broke it from its cake of ice, and
struck out stiffly. A stream of blood
followed the blow.
! The wolf let go. and darted at the
j attacking arm. Shanley lunged again
' and again, trying vainly to get to his
knees. He was upset at every attempt,
and the wolf and the man rolled
over each other, struggling with tooth
and knife, till the long blade touched
' the life, and the great gray brute
stretched itself out in the bloody snow,
kicking. With its last effort it seized
the hunter's blanket coat, and Shanley
had to cut the cloth to release that
death-grip.
Meanwhile the rest of the pack were
skulking at the edge of the cover, not
quite daring to take part in the combat.
Shanley sent another shot after them,
and they vanished like shadows.
The violent exertion of the fight had
started his circulation again, but he
was filled with terrible cramps and
agonizing pains in every muscle. He
found a match, and after many unsuccessful
attempts, he managed this time
to strike fire. The birch bark caught
and flamed crackling up the trunk. The
dry trunk caught fire itself, and the
tree burned like a torch.
Shanley rubbed bis face., bands ana
feet savagely with snow, and then took
off his iced outer garments and stood
in the heat of the fire, steaming. He
had a few lacerations on his face, but
found that the teeth of the wolves had
in no case penetrated through his clothing
to the skin. The thick, ice-caked
cloth had been an efficient armor, and
the mass of ice on his beard had protected
his neck. On the other hand, it
is beyond doubt that the arrival of the
pack had saved him from death by
freezing.
Shanley spent that night beside a
great bonfire, and all night long the
gray . wolves skulked about in the
shadows. .He reached camp again a
little after sunrise, where he found
Chouteau in a state of great- perturbation,
and on the point of setting out
to look for him.
Shanley's feet had been badly frozen,
and he came near losing three of his
toes. He was unable to go the rounds
of the traps for two weeks, but that
the adventure did not discourage him
is shown by the fact that when the
trappers came out of the woods in
March they brought eighteen wolf-pelts
with them.?Youth's Companion.
RATS IN THE UNDERGROUND
One Place Where the London Rodents Au
. Really Useful.
In the course of a lengthy article denouncing
the rat, the London Spectator
remarks: N .
Almost the only places in which they
do no harm, and are even useful, are
the tunnels of the underground rail-.
-cttqt-c r\f Tendon and np.ir the olat
forms of the great; London termini.
Passengers throw quantities of surplus
food out of the windows, and the railway
rats come out by night and devour
it. The electrification of the District
and "Circle" lines has greatly diminished
the rats in those parts of
underground London. They are not
only very inquisitive, but naturally
and habitually touch every object they
come near, first with their whiskers,
and then with their noses. They are
not still for a moment, but always kept
in motion like a fly-fisher's rod. With
"live" rails down in the tunnels, which
emit the peculiar smell accompanying
highly charged conductors, this inquiring
habit of the rats leads them to disaster.
They smell that the "live" rail
is not quite like an ordinary length of
steel, put their whiskers against it,
and finally lay their noses on it This
causes death in a moment, the rats
falling backwards, and expiring after
one or two kicks.
A Russian Chief ot Police.
"The Night that Made Me a Revolutionist,"
in Everybody's, is the tale
of a young Russian peasant. Speaking
through the mouth of Ernest
Poole, the writer, the young revolutionist
tells the following incident:
"Toward evening both of us were
called to the police station. We were
taken in before the Chief of Police.
"Ke. was a man of fifty. He was not
at all like the priest, but short and
burly, with a thick sot: neck and a
face all red and puffed out; his lingers
trembled from vodka. He had been
in the army, and had now been given
this easy place; he had never learned
to read or write till after he was
thirty. He always had trouble to
speak, for his breath came short, his
brain was clouded, and you could see
by Lis eyes that he was always trying
to grab his thoughts and hold them
together. He showed, all the signs of
a vodka drunkard. Every morning he
was sad; every afternoon he was
cross; every evening he got more and
more stupid.
"We found him in a cross period.
I He.lay.on the sofa wrapped in a long
{gray cloak. The cloak was unbuttoned
in front, and you could see his
; black, hairy chest. He held a cigar
very tight in his teeth; a white cat lay
in his lap, and his fat red hands kept
| trembling over the cat's back."
; j The vitality of the snail is remark;
able. One that was glued to a card in
; j a museum for four yeara camo to life
,' on being immersed in warm water.
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: Palmetto State News[
Election is Declared Illegal.
Because of alleged irregularities,
the board of election commissioners
of Laurens county have declared the
recent election, in which the dispensary
was voted out, to be illegal, and
"no election." It is claimed that to
have thrown out the contested boxes
the dispensary would have won by
168 votes.
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Alleged Dispensary Law Violator.
Jan Watson McCombs, a white man,
has the distinction of being the first
alleged violator of the dispensary law
since the grog shops were closed in
Spartanburg. He was arrested near
Arcadia and upon being given a preI
liminary hearing before Magistrate
1 Paslay, was bound over to court McCombs,
it is safU, has been under
suspicion for some time and finally
the officers arrested him, having secured,
they think, sufficient evidence
to convict v
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New Library for Wofford.
Wofford college will have a new
$10,000 library. This announcement
will come as news of great pleasure
frlonde ar>H alumni nf the in
stitution all over the state. The sum
Is made available by the terms of the
will of the late Miss Julia Smith. The
will in question provides that out of
the estate the sum of 510,000 shall be
paid to the college trustees for the
purpose of building a library, while
52,000 is given to the South Carolina
conference in behalf of aged preachers.
It is stipulated that the new
library shall be known as the "Whiteford
Smith Library."
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Mills Can't Answer Suit.
In the United States district court
at Charleston the answer to bankruptcy
proceedings recently instituted
against Union cotton mills, filed by
President Robertson, alleges that the
defendant corporation has not Information
sufficient to form a belief as to
the incorporation of the petitioning
creditors, Chesapeake Shoe company,
Snellenborg Clothing company and
Spool Cotton company or as to their
? Ar coirl notitfrtn
[ Cctpu.tJl Ly l\J oug ui uiv 7
| that the defendant corporation is unable
intelligently to admit or deny
the allegations of its insolvency, and
prays that this question be examined
into and passed upon by the court.
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Trolley Line to Be Extended.
James U. Jackson, vice president
of the Augusta-Aiken Railway company,
and others have filed with the
secretary of state at Columbia application
for charter of a company to
be known as the Augusta and Columbia
Railroad company. It is their
purpose to extend the Aiken trolley
line, now 22 miles long, on to Columbia,
shortening the distance between
Augusta, Ga., and the South Carolina
capital nearly 20 miles. Both steam
and electricity will be used on the
road, the first for freight \ and the
latter for passenger traffic. Work will
be started as soon as the charter Is
granted.
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The Shelving of Capers.
A Washington special says: The appointment
of Ernest F. Cochran of
Anderson to be district attorney of
South' Carolina has created a sensation
in South "Carolina circles. He
takes the place of John G. Capers, naI
? ^mmlHaamon fnr iQnnth Par
LiUIiiU txillllllll.l.co.lm 1W1 WV>>>M
olina, who was a candidate for reappointment.
Mr. Cochran was not a candidate
for the place, but he had been highly
recommended in connection with
the new judgeship, which it is expected
will be created for South Carolina.
It developed some time ago that
certain charges affecting his efficiency
as an official had been made
against Mr. Capers, and these have
been under investigation by the department
of justice. Just the nature
of the charges officials will no: disclose.
One .charge has to do with his
acting as attorney for a distilling
company, which, as district attorney,
it was expected he would be called
upon to prosecute.
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Policyholders Organize.
The South Carolina policyholders
of the Mutual Life and the New York
Life met in Columbia the past week
and perfected separate associations
for mutual protection.
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The meeting was wen aucuubu,
many persons being represented by
proxy, who could not be present in
person. While the primary object of
the meeting was to afford means by
which the policyholders can be properly
represented at the annual meetings
of the companies, it was decided
also to recommend one policyholder
from this state for election as trustees
in each of the companies.
The mutual organizations recommended
Mr. Leroy Springs of Lancaster
for member of the national board
I of trustees from this state, and the
New York Life policyholders named
Governor D. C. Hey ward as their trustee.
The New York Life officers are:
T. B. Stackhouse, president; J. C. '
Sheppard; vice president; J. A. Hoyt,
secretary. Executive committee: J.
C. Hemphill, J. K. Durst, B. T. Mauldin,
E. A. Smyth, J. L. Glenn, W. M.
Hamer and Sol Kchn.
Those of the Mutual association
are: Wilie Jones, president; S. H. '
I Wilson, vice nresident: F. H. McMas
ter, secretary. Executive committee: ,
T. Moultrie Mordecai, J. C. Sheppard,
J. Allen Smith, E A. Smith. Leroy 1
Springs,' D. D: McCail 'and C-' Fitzsimmons.
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There were several holders of poll- 1
cies of |100,000 and over among those 1
present. i
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Charge Made Against Peden.
J. R. Peden of Greenville, this state,
was put in jail in Knoxville, Tenn.,
a few days ago, on the charge of having
violated an injunction of the chancery
court restraining him from en- <
ticing or trying to entice away employees
from local cotton mills. The
original bill of injunction was filed
by the Brookside cotton mills of Knoxville.
Peden claims that he has not
violated the injunction. That mill '
employees have come to him voluntarily
in response to advertisements.
He offers shorter hours, better wages,
cleaner homes, etc., than are offered
in Knoxville, and even goes so far
as to make the statement the negro
mill hands live better in South Carolina
than the whites do in Knoxville.
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Body Exhumed and Identified.
The body of Tobert Keith Dargan
was exhumed at Darlington a fetv
days ago in the presence of some
fifty citizens who knew him well, and
though the body was badly decomposed,
the identity was well established,
and the rumors of his having faked
death are answered.
The Fidelity Insurance people say
they are now satisfied and Keith Dargan's
widow will be paid the $25,000
they have been holding up.
No action has been taken so far
in the matter of the indictment
against his brother, Pegram Dargan,
who, it is claimed, assisted Keith Dargan
to suicide. If the case is pushed
against him the matter of his sanity
ttt-ui vio ir?tr<a<rhe'nf,ad
TV 1X4 h/v AUT
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May Move for Change of Venue.
Considerable interest is being manifested
in the case of George Hasty,
the' hotel man who shot and killed
the two actors, Bennett and Davidson,
two theatrical men, at Gaffney recently.
It is reported that attorneys for
Hasty will move for. a change of
venue on the ground that their client
cannot get a fair trial at Gaffney.
The case is of more than state interest,
as the Actors' Society has contributed
a: fund to assist in the prosecution
of Hasty.
It is expected that several newspapers
will have special correspondents
on hand to cover the proceedings
of the trial.
MANN-HAPGOOD SCANDAL CASE
The Sensational Attraction of a Week
In City of New York.\
The sensation of the past week in
New York has been the revelations
made in the trial of Norman Hapgood,
editor of Collier's Weekly, on a charge
of criminal libel preferred by W. D.
Mann, owner of Town Topics. Associated
with Mann in the case is Joseph
M. Deuel, a justice of the court
of special sessions, who is connected
with Town Topics.
Collier's charged that Town Topics
and "Fads and Fancies" were conducted
as blackmailing schemes and Mann
and Deuel retorted by making a
charge of criminal libel.
ANNUAL CONFEDERATE REUNION
To Be Held in New Orleans AprF 25,
26 and 27 Next.
The sixteenth annual confederate
reunion will be held in New Orleans
on April 25, 26 and 27. The
annual meeting of the Southern Memorial
Association, of which Mrs. W.
J. Behan is the president, will be held
at the same time and place. Two or
three of the veterans' annual reunions
have been held in New Orleans and
the citizens of that city have always
done themselves proud in the entertainment
of the old heroes and their
friends.
OFFICERS WINK AT HAZING.
8uch is Assertion of Cadet on Trial
Before courtmartiai.
For the first time since the present
hazing trials began evidence was
given before the courtmartiai at Annapolis
Monday tending to support j
the assertion 'that officers on duty at,
Annapolis have winked at hazing.
Midshipman Claude Mayo swore that
Lieutenant Snyder, the officer in
charge of Bancroft hall had used lan- 1
guage interpreted by the upper class
men to mean that they should discipline
the fourth classmen by the
usual hazing methods.
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NEW FRENCH PRESIDENT.
Clement Armand Fallieres is Chosen
to Succeed Loubet as Head of
French Republic. .
A Paris special says: Sf. Fallieres
.vfls plpoteri nrpsi rJpnt of France bT .
the national assembly at Versailles
Wednesday on the first ballot The
rote was: M. Fallieres, 449; M. Douruer,
371.
The voting proceeded steadily. - U
Cheers were raised whenever a pop- *Ji
alar legislator or statesman deposit- * 4?/
ed his ballot in the urn, each group
applauding its leaders and hooting the ggs.
leaders of opposing groups. Several
aged senators, including MM. Banc.
Coujon and Sarraut, who were obviously
ill, leceived the assistance oC
the ushers when mounting the tribFinally
silence proclaimed the eni
cf the balloting and all present eagerly
awaited the announcement of
the result Then when the first figures,
M. Fallieres, 446, and M. Doumer,
371, "were given out there was ,-^pB
an outburst of enthusiasm, which
was renewed after the corrected fig- ^jraaH
ures, giving M. Fallieres 44S. Ths
final figures were: v ?
M. Fallieres, 449; M. Doumer, 371; .
scattered, 28. > '
on a vnt pr ahstained from deposit- "USB
ing bis ballot
M. Fallieres 'returned to Paris
Versailles, escorted by a military
guard of honor. He win take over. ^
bis new duties, February 18.
After spending a brief period at v 1 p
tbe official residence, wbicb be occu- .%??
pies as president of the senate, 3L
Fallieres went to tbe Blysee palace^
to visit President Loubet, who warm* Wm
ly congratulated tbe president-elect ;
Tbe new president of France is fM
son of a magistrate's clerk and is the
grandson of a blacksmith. '^J|
M. Clement Arm and Fallieres wa? | .*3|
born November 6, 1841, at Mezin, et j
Geronne. He studied law and war^^y^^
called to the bar at Merac, of
town be became mayor, retaining ibat-fjmjjgS
office until 1875.
In tbe following year he was
ed to the chamber of deputies
republican and affiliated himself
the republican left group in the ' vraHTC;
chamber. He distinguished himsetf ^^^^^B
as an orator and was re-elected
1877 and in 1878. f$l|
In 1880, M. Fallieres was named
under secretary to the minister of il||l|
the interior and he was again re-elect* ?
ed to tbe assembly in 1881. He
tired from tbe ministry at the time; of
the Jules Ferry cabinet, but
to power the following-year and wa? ;^|
made president of the council and atf
Interim minister of foreign affairs.
Subsequently M. Fallieres was sue*
cessively minister of public instruo- ^*'^8
tion, minister of the interior and min*
ister of Justice. He was elected sen-~*^/\,
ator in 1800, a position which he has ^ ;-i
held since that time, and was etected||jH . 'V-^
to the presidency of the senate in
1809. He was reflected in 1900,
was again re-elected January 11 ofv:*|j
the present year. * /
M. Fallieres took an active partis
the religions question, opposing
first the proposition for the aepara- V/.jagH
tion of church and state, but' later&St r'y
energetically advocated the repression "j"
of the clergy.
.
FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS. ' \
Senate Committee Favors passage of .
Several Measures. d
Senator Clay secured a unanimous
report from the senate committee on ^
public buildings and grounds Wednfes- | ^
day in favor of the passage of his
bill appropriating $1,000,000 for a new
public building at Atlanta. ^
The committee also ordered favors- ^
ble reports on bills making approprlatlons
for new federal buildings, as
At Bluefield, W. Va., $100,000; Fort ';Sg >
Worth, Texas, $325,000; Anderson, S. ;^j|g -1
A favorable report was ordered on Jf
a bill authorizing the erection of a mB/";
building at Selma, Ala. . \
BIGELOW ON WITNESS STAND. ; \
Magazine Writer Proves Obdurate Be- ||S
fore Senate Committee.'
Poultney Bigelow, the magazine writer,
whose arraignment of the admin- S3 > i
istration and management of isthml- v ^
an canal affairs, was denounced by
Secretary Taft, proved to be a con- |j
tumacious witness before the senate h
commitee on interoceanic canals on M 3
Thursday, and involved the commit'. 'jaKra
tee in a controversy which continued - \g
through two executive sessions withcut
satisfactory settlement .. j
ROOSEVELT OUSTS CAPERS, |
South Carolina National Committeeman
Fails to Land. '*
The appointment by President ^ \
Roosevelt Thursday of Ernest P. 3 \
Cochran of Anderson to be district -AS
attorney of South Carolina has creat- .
ed a sensation in South Carolina clr- JsH|
cles. He takes the place of John ti. 'jp?8
Capers, national committeeman trSouth
Carolina, who was a Candida"
for reappointment j