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Hakes Hone Baking Easy > ^Ai(ill0 1 ? POWDER Absolutely Pure The only baking powder mado from Royal Grapo Cream of Tartar wo alum.nd lime phosphate v WHAT HE SAYS Senator Tillman Gives Interesting Inter view on Many Topics. OLD PARTIES PASSING Believes the Democrats Have Golden Opportunity?Glass Tells Him "That's Old Hen Tillman, All flight, hut"?Opinion of Governor Hlease "Hasn't Changed Much." Senator Tillman was In Columbia a few days ago, and discussed tne tariff situation and national politics in general, with especial emphasis upon the possibility of Democratic success at the next election. Senator Tillman believes that the Democrats have a golden opportunity. In an interview with the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier the Senator talked Pke ti? used to talk. "Physically. I am a bit weak, he said. "The machinery doesn't run just right. When f looa in the glass, I say: "That's old Ben Tillman, all right,' but when I try to go through some of my old stunts, I find I'm not worth a damn." "Will you stand for re-election?" the Senator was asked. "I have already said," he replied, "that if my health is fairly good I shall run again. I do not wish the office unless I can Oil it reasonahlv well." The Senator has not. derided whether he will attend the special session of Congress; he probably will not. He is paired with a New En inlander, whose positions on the tariff would likely be the opposite to his own. "And what do you think of Governor Blease?" a reporter ventured. "I have given my opinion of Blease," said Mr. Tillman. "I gave it right after the last election. 1* haBn't changed much. He has disappointed me somewhat, but he has had a hard road to travel. You newspaper folks have nagged him conl'isually." Senator Tillman hopes the Democrats will tackle the tariff as a whole, not in spots. He thinks the wholo task perilous in the extreme. "Every ^ party that hafc tried to revise the tariff has shortly afterward gotten it in the neck," he said. "Oh, Bailey just got into a pet," the Senator said, when asked about the Texan s resignation. lie swung his little hatchet, the head Tow lip and he got his head bunged up I think he'll be good hereafter " In general upon the subject of expenditures Senator Tillman believes that they should be cut down. lie says there are too many useless offices and clerkships in Washington. He was talking the other day to some Senators and he asked them whv shouldn't some of these things ue cut out by the Democrats, and they replied: "Oh, let's wait a little while, let's don't do it yet." The Senator's comment was: "It's always that way." In the matter of expenses he referred to the palace of new offices, for which building the Senatk has been criticised. Senator Tillman believes that Harmon is the man for the Democratic nomination, that is that Harmon seems to stand the best chance of being nominated. "Harmon has the advantage just now," said Tillman, "he has made a good Governor." Senator Tillman believes that Champ Clark's time will come, it depending ort how he conducts himself as Speaker of the House as to whether or not he will in time be the Democratic standard-bearer. In addition to stating that he was a little disappointed a in Governor Blease, although the Governor has had a hard road to travel, Sen. Tillman referred to his pardon record by asking a question: "Don't you think," he said, "that Governor Blease's large pardon list might be explained by the possibility that there are a large number of meritorious petitions for pardon left over from : the Ansel Administration, because of the well known fact that Governor Ansel did not wish generally to interfere with the Courts' verdicts?" Senator Tillman continued that also "Governor Blease may be allowing his goodness of heart to influence him to some extent in granting pardons." Senator Tillman believes that the old parties are passing and that it will not be long before they disintegrate. "If the Democrats are wise in dealing with the tariff this party will - ? ?- _ x 1 ? ix -..in mi- - not DreaK up; ouierwise it win. iue Democrats have a golden opportunity." He does nQt wish the Democrats to show too much a spirit of grabbing at the offices just for the sake of the holding of same, but ho wants to see some good work done. He believes the Republicans have by long tenure of office grown corrupt. On the Democratic Presidential possibility, Senator Tillman, in addition to saying that Harmon has the best chance now, added that the Democrats have such a high-toned and able-bodied field to select from, nt thinks a great deal of Wilson's ability. It's a case of "embarrassment des riches," said the Senator, making use of his French. Senator Tillman said today that he had recently heard attributed to Hooker T. Washington the sfateme.it that Tillman and Vardaman were passing and that the negro was gain Ulft <1 HLIUIifSUl 1UUIUU1U lit tilts DWUIU. The Senator, in a letter, replied that he had heard that Hooker was making "goo-goo eyes" at a German lady and got into trouble. Also, that as long as the water flowed the Caucasians would rule over the Southland. The mention of the name "Roosevelt" caused Senator Tillman to smile and recall some of their battles. In connection with the Washington incident, Senator Tillman said that Roosevelt might run too, if placed in such a position. Senator Tillman carried here to- 1 day for the first time a gold lieadeo cane, presented to him by the I)eniocratis League in Delaware, in 1907. It is a beautiful cane and the Senator is proud of it. "Maybe if I had carried it before, some of you fellows might say: "Look there, how he is coming out." One cannot fail to notice that, although Senator Tillman looks well, his old fire is gone. His step is halting and the same is true of his taik. Senator Tillman, speaking on the tariff, dictated the following statement to newspaper men: "I think the last election hinged nn ami flint the Ilemnrrnts were rn?v. missioned by the people to revise the tariff, because the Republicans had failed to reduce it as they promised. "If the House of Representatives doesn't carry out this policy it Will be a great disappointment to the people. hey will miss the first opportunity the party has had since the war to restore themselves in the confidence of the country. i "The idea of a tariff for revenue ; only is preposterous in the light of 1 the magnitude of our expenditures. We have a billion-dollar Congress ev- l cry session and, while there Is much < extravagance and any number of use- < less offices, the country will not take I kindly to any radical or ultra < changes. 1 "The party ought to follow the old i Latin maxim, In medio tutissimus < ibis, (you will walk safest in the < middle of the road.) Which means i that we must have a tariff sufficiently t large to get the money for the expenditures required by the Govern- i ment, and yet not interfere with the 1 business interests of the country. "Free trade is a dream that will : never be realized, and any one ac- s quainted with Washington at all < knows how hard it is to abolish any 1 office at all. It is, therefore, a diffi- i cult role the Democrats have to play, and it will require wisdom and good 1 judgment to keep clear of the rocks, i "If the House of Representatives, < which is Democratic for the first time i in a long while, passes a tariff law, and the Senate rejects that tariff law, 1 this bill will become the issue en ?' which the next Presidential election * will turn. t "Any deficit ought to be made up i by levying a graduated income tax, t and thus make the multi-millionaires, who have been multiplied and manu- t faetured bv the iniquitous Republican 1 tariff legislation, bear their just share t of the burdens of the Government. t (it ? ii l ? ^ j i i, ..mi a ^ r i tun tireu mill HICK uniu ui'iun ui having Andy Carnegie boast of hav- 5 ing made forty-three millionairies ( and having John D. Rockefeller seat- f ter millions around as though they f were dimes, when I know that but s for the unjust and one-sided Republican legislation and failure to en- s force the laws neither of them would have so much money, which has been t wrung from the people and not honestly earned. ^ "A graduated income tax would reach such men and is the only way f to reach them. Rockefeller's mil- > lions are due to the failure to enfore the laws against trusts and mo- 1 nopolies. Carnegie's millions come 1 0 L 1 1 0 > li I x ? 1*1* rrom nepuoiican lavoriusm in variri legislation." j Senator Tillman would not make \ any statement on the dispensary situation. "I .am expecting a new sensation every day," said the Senator. He laughingly referred to the mud- v died situation, but did not comment. j> L. M. G. v # 4 4 n liurncd to Death. \ Dr. D. E. Norris, a prominent pliy- I sician and his four children were li burned to death when their home was t burned near Aurora, Mo., Tuesday, v SHOULD BE OBSERVED ?i? HEALTH HOARD VRGES CLEANLT' DAY FOR THE STATE. ? State Health Officer Williams Makes Vigorous Flea for Statewide Spring Cleaning Next Month. April 10 Is Uie day designated by the State board of health for a Statewide "clean-up day." State Health Officer C. F. Williams said Tuesday that the custom of having such an annual "health festival" was of long ,.4 : .. t . f II. ^ Cl., KlilllUUlK 111 III it II y Ul lilt; OlraeB, though here it will be an innovation. Dr. Williams said in discussing the matter that sanitarians today believe in asepsis?the removal of dirt ? rather than in antisepsis?the disinfection of dirt. The clean-up day he picturesquely styled a "vernal renaissance of our sanitary morals." Observance of such a day, he said, is accepted by the outside world as evidence "of enlightenment, sanitary culture and a desire for the best in morals and physique on the part of those participating." Dr. Williams has had printed some advance sheets of a board of health bulletin, in which some suggestive paragraphs occur: "Previous to the day set for cleanup' day, a meeting of citizens in each community should be held, to formulate some systematic scheme for cleaning up their town. "Householders should begin at home?doubtless every citizen feels that his house, his outhouses and his hnolr unr/1 nnn olnn ti /t/Hlhi loco Vl o la ii (i\. n > (ii vt C4IV5 v 11 (hi , \i\/ 11 i/ti vno w t i*j mistaken. The board of health does not undertake to accuse any one of dirtiness, it does urge that on this one day of the year every man, woman and child, and all their premises, he made cleaner than they ever were before. "Dirt and trash of all kinds, old pipers, tin cans, decaying wood, the remains of baby's Christmas toys, the pile of decaying food under the kitchen window, the trash in the gutters that you have been planing to move, but haven't got around to the foecal accumulations about the outhouses, the chicken head by the woodpile where last Sunday's victim was executed?Clean up, pile up and burn oi haul off all of them and give your fence and outbuildings a fresh coat of whitewash?leave the front yard for the last?it probably is doing rainy wen. wnen you get tnrougn, go over and offer to help your neighbor ?-he will refuse it, but he won't need help next time, and you will have aided the cause that much. "At school the teachers should lay hooks for a day? explain to the children the odject of the day's worx, and start them playing the game of running down germs. "Small boys like to kill things, lei them know that every can of water emptied kills hundreds of mosquitoes, every mass of decaying filth burned is death to thousands of flies, every coat of whitewash buries millions of germs?give arbitrary numerical values to these different operations and let the kids keep score ef their "killings." Put them in aprons and let them daub whitewash to Lheir hearts' content. "When the school is clean inside ind out, send them home tc help with the domestic clean up. * * 1) mil n apo oil nl no n it t\ Plnnii j ) uoi nuon iiiuii) V/icau u |/. vivuu four back yards, clean out. your stores and cellars, wipe off all dust ind mold from old stock?clean your windows, your signs, your pavement md the ditch beyond it. "Hotels and restaurants offer a fast field for cleaning up in dining ooni, kitchen and bed rooms. Put )ii fresh linen everywhere, thus flying the flag of cleanliness. "The municipality can do its share t)y cleaning public buildings, parks ind streets, and most important of ill, by arranging to remove all waste, rash and garbage as they are placed n convenient places by householders. "Let railroads and street railways ry just this once the experiment of laving their cars, waiting room and oilets in cleanly and sanitary condiion. "Aside from the moral effect of ?uch a campaign, the beautifying efect, and the educational value of mch a demonstration, the following ?ood results are sure to follow in tome degree: "Fewer flies during the spring and lummer. "Fewer mosquitoes this summer? herefore "Less typholdfV malaria, and hookvorin and diarrhae disease. "Freedom from disgusting odors rom your own or some other back 'ard. "General improvement in the ap>earance and sanitary tone of your lome town. "The advertising value to you and rour town which such a clean-up day vill bring." Died in His Seat. When business opened at the pilate bank of Julius Debrousky in sTew York Monday the first customer vas annoyed that she could get no inswer to her questions from the anker, who sat leaning over a ta- i de, seemingly buried in thought. He lad good reason for his silence. In he banker's abdomen was a bullet round from which he died. t KILL THE BILL Gtv. Blew* Vetoes Ad Passed at His Request to Probe Dispeasarj. HE WANTS HIS FRIENDS To Look Into and Investigate His Acts in Connect ion With the Dispensary?The Old Commission Welcomes the Work and Wants the Light to Shine oil Their Acts. "The new dispensary coin mission will do the work that the legislative investigation committee was to do and will save the State that much money." Making this statement Gov. Illease vetoed the measure passed by tne last iroiiprnl asspinhlv nrovidinsr for a C - W M ? ?-? commission to investigate the acts and affairs of the old State dispensary commission, which act was requested by himself. 4,I have turned over all papers in my possession to the new commission," said the governor, "with the instructions to investigate all of the affairs of the old State dispensary * and those connected with the winding up of it. 1 instructed the members to spare no one. "While the members of the new commission are all friends of mine and personal supporters, I have asked that they make a rigid investigation of all of my acts as State senator, private citizen and governor of the State. I want everything to come out. "The new commission will subpoena T. R. Felder of Atlanta and require him to tell everything th.it he knows about my record as a member of the State senate, as governor and private citizen. This is the way Gov. Rlease commented upon t lie work of the new commission. The members of the new dispensary commission which met Monday in the office of Gov. Blease are: John V. Wallace, Charleston; Thomas F. Brantley, Orangeburg; Fred II. Dominick, Newberry; B. F. Kelly, Bishopville, and James Stackhouse, Marion. These are the members that Gov. Blease has ordered to make an investigation of the affairs of the old State dispensary and pass sentence upon the old members of the commission. Just when and where the work will commence has not been announced. The new commission held its first meeting Monday, when an organization was perfected by the election of James Stackhouse an r-liiiirni'in Tt IC TCf>llv r?f Hi sill ville was elected secretary. The commission received all of the papers held by the old commission which was dismissed by the governor several days ago and will take charge of the final winding up of the affairs ot the old State dispensary. Gov. Please said that he would i turn all of his papers over to the commission to be used in the investigation. Several days ago the gov- f ernor said that, he had a "mountain of testimony" that he would produce at the proper time. He said that all of his evidence would be used by the ' new commission in its work. The members of the old dispensary commission who are to be investigated by the new commission x] are: Dr. \V. J. Murray, chairman, v Columbia: John McSween, Timnions- t ville; A. N. Wood, Gaffney; J. Steele ( Hrice, York ville, and Avery Patton, j vT I I't'll \ I I 1*7. q These members served the State of v South Carolina for four years and j saved from the wreck approximately c $r)00,000. which has been turned j, over to the State treasurer. They j, invited investigation. * Shortly after taking the oath of 0 office Gov. Hlease sent a message to j. the general assembly intimating f "crookedness" on the part of the members of the dispensary commission. He requested that a commission be named to make a thorough ^ investigation of all of the acts and J affairs of the commission Upon the ( request of the governor the general ? assembly passed an investigating act. s There were to be three members from ^ the senate and three from the house. . series of letters, all of which have Smith named Senators Carlisle of Spartanburg, Clifton of Sumter and Sullivan of Anderson as the' committee from the senate. a Mendel L. Smith, speaker of the ^ house, refused to name his commit- ? tee until the act had been approved. " Gov. Rleaso upon hearing of the names of the senate members re- I1 fused for the time to sign the act. Me gave as bis reason, "Oh, that mine adversary would write a book," 01 stating that all of the senate memhers of the committee had written 01 hooks about him. He then asked if *r any one thought that he would let 11 men like the senate's committee ^ make an investigation of the dis- ? ponsary commission and himself. Several days ago Gov. Blease said I}1 that he was making a little invesli- w gat ion himself and that when he got w through an investigating committee would not be needed. Following this 111 he announced the alleged Folder scries of letters, all of whim have been printed. 01 T. 11. Felder, of Atlanta, on being C{ notified of the action by the gover- (( nor, wired that he deemed it in ap- n( FOR THE Fve Fei CHANGEFUL. "lias Mr. Dicks a pleasant disposition?" "It all depends on whether he is selling you something or coming around to collect for it." AT ATLANTIC CITY. "It Is reported, Mr. Do Swell, that you were seen yesterday strolling on the boardwalk with your wife." "Yes; I was with my wife. But for goodness sake don't make a sensation of It." J_.UI\Ci SJUI'. Mr. Boreum Oude (at 11.20 P. M.)?I was quite a ball player in iny youth. Miss Cutting (wearily)?Indeed ! Mr. Boreum Oude?I was considered a fine shortstop. Miss Cutting?Pity you didn't keep It up. KAIXKI) MUI) DOWN tesult of Preclpitatloii in Dusty Atmosphere. y On last Thursday it rained pure 11 ud in Wathena, Kansas. The phelomenon is accounted for by the fact hat a high wind and duststorm from ^ he northwest was prevailing when a ight rain began to fall, and the drops >f water collected the dust in the atnosnhere. turning thein into inuo. >eraons who were outdoors had their lothing spattered and soiled, and the mint upon houses, vehicles and imlements outdoors all showed the efects of having received a sprinkling tl f the mud. A high wind wind still fn * blowing, with the temperature near reezing. ti o] Drew the Line. pj It was an exceedingly trying exper- tl mice Miss Kate Johnson had Thursay when she appeared on the street f South Bethlehem, Pa., in a harem PJ kirt. It was the first sight local *r eople had had of this fashion. A J*1 rowd quickly formed and after mob- tl ing her pelted her with stones. tl .... ? n< I*ip? Blew Out. tt At Manchester, N. H., the head of S( 12-inch steam pip? at a power ouse here blew out Monday, killing el ne man instantly and severely inur- ni ... ' lg eight other persons. hi ropriate to make any statement at lis time. The commission was in session sevral hours during the day. A conjrence was held with Attorney Gen- 111 ral Lyon and Dr. Murray, the retir- ai lg chairman. Arrangements were lade whereby the records held by le old commission will be turned ver to the new body. Gov. IIlease said that it was very ni robable that the new commission ^3 ould hold an open court summon itnesses and examine into the de- ?> ills of the work of the retiring comlission. "I want the commission," he said, to examine thoroughly into my rec- bi rd as a State senator. I never re- Hi dved any money from the I.anahan g( >mpany while a member of the sen- w . n . cc BLUES. onx UK KNEW. "I'm going to spend my vacation on a houseboat." "Hotter get a stock of umbrellas, overshoes and learn how to swim. CASK KOR THE CO CRT. Aileron?What's this 1 heah about Miss Giltedge agweolng to mawwy you and then going back on her word? Reginald?'That is the stwait of It, I'm Howwy to say. Algeron?Beastly twlok, deah boy. Why don't you sue her fob non-support? You've got a eleah case, doneher know. JUST SMILE. * TW Just pay the Easter bill this year With disposition our.ny, *| For this year's hats are largo and yon Get something for your money. MEETS SAD DEATH + ; IMSSKNtiRR IS KIIiLRI> IIV THIS TRAIN AT FliORKNCK. I ? II. Illorkcr of St. IVtersbiii's, Fla.t Falls Fiulrr Whorls of Far in (Vowiled Station. A whifo mnn nnimwl P It f St. Petersburg, Fla., was killed by \e incoming train from the south at ic station at Florence on Monday iglit. He attempted to jump from tno ain before it stopped, supposedly 10 tiange cars, but, having a heavy suit \se in his hand, was swung under 10 cars. The train was about to stop as he >11 under it, so that only one wheel nssed over his body. He was killed istantly. The coach had to be icked up to get the body from under le truck. The name was taken from >e bag in his hand and efforts are dw being made to reach his people trough the superintendent in Jackrnville. He was a well to do man, apparitly about GO years of age. In tho eantime the body is being cared tor / a local undertaker. Nothing in s pockets will be looked at until at le Inquest. Tho killing in a place so crowded s the Florence station is in the evetig created a great deal of excitoent among the people, who were ia ul about the station. i Killed Ills Wife. At Charleston Susan Deas was cut r ner husband, A lead Deas, Sunday ght at her home on Hanover street, ring a short time afterwards. The ittlng was the result of a quarrdl. eas was arrested. j null Kills a Man. Disregarding the warning that a ill in the pasture was vicious WllEim Payne, of Norrlstown, N. J., was >red and trampled to death this eek. He had declared he c#Sitd liquor any mad bull.