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HOUSE WITH WILSON ' ? KF.PKAU OF KHKK TOliliS WINS HY VOTK OF 12 IT TO 101. ? CLARK SPEAKS FINELY ? Speaker Leads Opposition Hut Shows Admirable (lOOil Feeling?Wilson's Personal Appeal, Hacked by the Force of Houston, Sweeps Through llouso of Representatives. The national House of Representatives Tuesday night, after one of the most spectacular legislative struggles in the history of the nation, voted to repeal tho provision of the Panama i canal act exempting American vessels from the payment of tolls. The vote on tho repeal Hill was 2 17 to 161, a majority of 86 votes in support of the personal plea of Wood row Wilson, president of tho United .) States. This verdict on the issue which has absorbed congress for many weeks came at the close of a stirring day, made memorable in the annals of the House by a party division which lound Speaker Champ Clark, Majority Leader Underwood and other Democratic chieftains lined up in open opposition with the president on an issue which the latter has declared essential to tho conduct of the nation's foreign policy. Tuesday's result was the first struggle within the party since Democracy took control of tho government a year ago. On tho final vote 2 20 Democrats in the House stood hv tho president, giving him in "ungrudging measure" what lie had asked "for (ho lienor of the nation" in its foreign relations. Twenty-five Republicans and two Progressives also voted to sustain the president. Fifty-two Democrats followed Speaker Clark and Deader Undyerwood to defeat. Nothing, it seemed, could stem the tido of administration success. Speaker Clark, for nearly 2 2 years a , member of the Tlouse, made the speech of his life to forestall what he termed "unquestionable degradation" of tho nation. In this he failed, but ho did smooth over the party breach with kindly words for his adversaries, praise for President Wilson, and an unqualified denial of any vaulting ambition on his own behalf. When he had closed tho debate for tho opposition to tho repeal the speaker was triumphant in defeat, for the entire legislative assemblage, in which were many senators, rose en masse to cheer h i m. The scene in the IIouso chamber when Speaker Clark yielded the gavel to Representative Underwood, tho majority leader, to defend his course in tho great controversy probably was unrivalled in tho history of Amorist can legislation. Never before within the recollection of the oldest member had the galleries been so packed with interested spectators. Outside the bal- ! leries tho corridors were jammed with disappointed hundreds. On tho ] iloor nearly every member was in his seat. Even the Senate had adjourned and scores of senators occupied j seats on tho floor. I It was a rare political stage set- ( ting that this throng witnessed. ( Standing before them while Demo- ( cratis and Republican members cheer- , ed him to the echo was the sturdy, big framed, silver haired speaker < with resolution beaming on his conn- ( tenance, his thin lips clenched tight- ( ly, his face pale and stern. Behind j him. pounding for order, was Mr. f Underwood. There they were await- f ing the climax of the long debate, theso two leaders of tho Democratic N party, heading the first revolt in the | party ranks since Democracy put ^ Wood row Wilson in the White Mouse. ( Even ITouso Democrats who for the ( first time had turned their backs on their immediate leaders and stood ( resolutely hy tho president through- f out the fight were impressed at the r scene. s The interest was tense as Speaker Clark began to speak, and his first C utterance, breathing a spirit of har- T mony as against discord and assuring d tho country that tho president and he personally were at peace, seemed t? h spread over the assemblage, particu- h larly the Democratic side of the s House a feeling of relief. t "There is no personal issue be- r tween tho president and myself," IV said the speaker and his voice was c drowned in a chorus of Democratic c shouts while Republicans and Pro- tl gressives applauded. At the outset the speaker read bis address, but soon he got into his old '' time oratorical swing and was ham- ^ merlng home with sweeping gestures n his deliberately delivered words. ri "When ho praised the patriotic motives of President Wilson, again was P ho interrupted by applause. Upon ft his emphatic declaration that with those who charged him with attempting to disrupt tho party "tho wish was father to tho ibought" not a hi member on tho floor but applauded F him. "Does any man in this House w believe the Democratic leaders are working to split Democracy?" the epeaker fairly howled as he leaned toward tho Democratic side and Is looked Into the faces of his col- la NATURE WILL SOLVE IT n:\srs statistician* tvi.ks a i>ol't hack 1'HOIlIiKM. Census Shows That (ho Xopo ltuco is Loosing Ground Stoadily in the Southern States. Solution of tho negro problem through the difference In natural increase of the white and black races in the United States is foreseen bv Walter F. Wilcox, special agent of the United States census bureau and chief statistician of the twelfth census. lie points out in a report, copies of which have just been made public, that the negroes aro steadily losing ground throughout the South, both by immigration of whites and by their own declining birth rate. They are losing ground still more rapidly in the North and thoro is thus reason to believe that nature will solve the race problem-in her usual way, by tho survival of the fittest. "That the white race is slowly displacing the negroes in the United States is now well known," Mr. Willcox writes. "The more rapid increase of tho whites is due not only to the influx of hundreds of thousands of white immigrants, but also to the fact that in the registration area of 1910 - an area including three-fifths of the negroes, and so a fair index of conditions in tho country at large?the negro death rate exceeded tho white by about two-thirds." . Furthermore, "during tho years sinco 1SS0 . . . the excess in tho proportion of negro children over white children in tho country lias likewise been failing. The present difference in fecundity between the races is little more than one-fourth of that in 1880, and at the present rates of change it will have disappeared entirely beforo the next census is taken." The decline is largely due to negro emmigration to the cities, the writer is only about two-third that of city whites, hut the fecundity of country negroes is much above that of country whites". The negroes' loss of ground is further hastened by their tendency to migrate North, where the fecundity of all races is lower than it is in tho South. "The evidence then," Mr. Willcox concludes, "points to a differential natural increase as an important factor, a factor, in my opinion, at least as important as immigration in determining the present and future relative proportions of tho two main races of this country." leagues. "No! No!" was the thunderous reply from every part of the chamber. "Let him courageously stand up here and now," continued ttie speakfM* "111'if Tt'rt o if 1%1~ " ... , v..?v .> w nmj DUU IllS cast Ol countenance." Hut no man stood up and tlie House cheered again. Throughout the speech thhero was not a dull moment. Repeatedly he was cheered and tho echoes of the plaudits rang through the reve? berating halls of tho capital in frequent waves. The speaker talked calmly when he referred to the Baltimore convention and recalled how he had led in the presidential nomination for 2 0 ballots and when he told his colleagues lie was mindful of the fact that his lourse in this crisis might mean the ?nd of his public career, there was no evidence of regret or of alarm in his mice or demeanor. There were many things worse, he mid, than being defeated for congress >r for the speakership. When he dedared he was not a candidate for tho iresidency ami could he happy with>ut it, he interrupted himself with a diuoklo that brought more applause. The speaker said he had no harsh vords to speak of any colleagues who lad criticised him, hut he referred to oine of them?Representative Henry >f Texas, who led tho tight for the loture rule on the repeal bill; RepcsentativQ Shirley and Ropresontaive Hardwick, who had aided in that ight. The House was moved to m? onr of 1 ani?litor when the speaker aid, referring to Mr. Hard wick: "So far aa the gentleman from loorgia in concerned, T say: 'Shoo! My, don't bodder me; Shoo! Fly, on't bodder me.' " It was several moments after this lumorous disposition of the case of is party adversaries beforo tho peaker could resume because the en- i ire House sat hack and roared? oared again with laughter. Evjpn i Ir. Hard wick laughed, and those who < ame expecting to listen to a politi- ; a 1 diatribe laughed and cheered with ho others. The House listened attentively to ( ho speaker's argument against tho , Tils repeal, bis assertion that ho he- ] eved the president was mistaken, his j rgumont that the Canadian Pacific i ailroad and the Tehautepec Na- i onal railway would profit by tho re- ? eal. and his appeal against yielding l nything to Croat Britain. t ? i Wont In Box Car to Sleep. ( Salvatore Iabrattol. five years old, t as been carried from Pensacola, p la., in an unknown box car, Into t hich he went to sleep Monday. t ? Three Killed in Feud. j Three men are dead and a woman F dying as a result of a feud over a 1 nd claim at Nogo, Ark., Saturday, f faiitJi' ... \ LEADS ALL STATES ? SOI Til CAROLIN A LKADS OTII l!KS IN VA LI'ICS l?KH ACHK. COVERS TWELVE CROPS Covornmeiit Ionics Show That W11i 1<? Si\ Others Are Nominally Ahead of This State, Their Small! Average Makes South Carolina Actually the Peer of The: > Ail. "Very often wo hear it stated that if we coukl only get the value of our agricultural products per aero up to what it is in the States of the Middle West, South Carolina would he the greatest State in the Union," remarked Commissioner Watson recently. "The truth of the matter is that South Carolina has a greater value per acre for the I 2 leading crops? corn, wheat, oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, potatoes, hay, flaxseed, cotton, rice and tobacco, representing more than !?0 per cent, of the total area of all crops?than any State in the Mid die West, than any other State in the South and than any other State in the Union, with the exception of Novada, Arizona, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Jersey, Connecticut, the only six States which exceed the distinguished little pioneer. In volume of agriculture none of these six States could he called an agricultural State, as agricultural States go to-day, and that being true, when we consider the volume of production measured in millions of dollars, the farm of 1913, for value per acre of crops, belongs to South Carolina. "Of course, nobody had dreamed, perhaps, that this would happen, and 1 hardly believed it myself to-dav, when 1 got from Washington these average values per aero of the 12 crops combined in each of the State.* of the Union. South Carolina's value per acre is $25.18, Georgia's is only $20.80, North Carolina's is very close up to the Palmetto Stato with $24.84. Virginia's is $23.69, and then they tumble. The so-called great agricultural producing section of the Middle West runs like this: "oiuo, $15).Indiana, $17.28; Illinois, $1-1.87; Iowa, $17.01; Missouri, $12.29; Michigan, $10.82; Wisconsin, $19.41; Minnesota, $14.26; North Dakota, $8.15; South Dakota, $9.4 8; Nebraska, $10.85; Kansas, $7; Tennessee, $18.01. "In the rest of the South not mentioned above it runs this way: "Alabama, $20; Mississippi, $19.02; Louisiana, $19.05; Texas, $18.52; Oklahoma, $10.0G; Arkansas, $ 1 S.56. "In the Far West, with the exceptions I havo noted, New Mexico and Nevada, the highest figures are $20 and $20.26 in California. Up in the East the figures are: "Maine, $22.72; New Hampshire, $20.44; Vermont, $20.78; Massachusetts, $22.34; Connecticut, $27.02; New York, $19.22; New Jersey, $29.02; Pennsylvania, $21.3 4; Delaware, $18.47. "The average for the entire United States is $!G.31, which is just exactly 1 cent more than it was in 1 909. "It ought to bo pretty convincing also to the peoplo who come down and look around the South and say that if the conditions hero were Tike thov are at home what a paradise it would he', to know that the average value per acre of thoso 12 crops in the South Atlantic States is $22.54, which is higher than in any other section of the United States. Tn the North Atlantic States it is $21.OS, in tlie East North Central States it is $17.07. in the West Vertn Cni^poi States it is $1 1.52, in the South Central States it is $17.45, and in tho far Western States it is $19.59. Tho increases since 1 909 show that tho South Atlantic States out- , strip tho entire country. In both tho i East and West North Central States < thcro lias boon a steady decline, and ' this is true of tho North Atlantic j States. In other words, theso oili- ] cial federal figures that have just been Issued show beyond all question of doubt that whilo wo have only as yet begun to scratch tho surface of our opportunities hero in tho South Atlantic States, agriculturally, these States are to-day the leaders in agricultural production when measured by tho only true yard stick, which is the actual value of tho crops produced on each acre of land cultivatnd < find planted. p "They bring to tho eyes of the 1 world what is ever more important to us people hero in South Carolina, n and that is the fact that South Caro- ^ Una, volume of agricultural produc- r ion considered, is indeed tho leading Jtato in tho American Union to-day li n agricultural endeavor. It demon- n itrates to the outsde world that tho ^ nethods wo have been employing in v ho last decade in South Carolina ncreaso average production per i ere 8 )f the 12 leading crops of tho coun- C ry has brought her to tho forefront ind that she Is actually In advance at his time of any of her sister States >y perhaps several years. ii "It occurs to me that we, as a a >eople, ought to thank the federal n jovernmont for collating and publish- c ng to the world these official figures, li or they are sufficient answer to the t< MAKES NO ATTACK sri \ivKii ( i,\i;k dismtoints rmosinknt's knkmiks. I'inloy, Aiken and UaKsdalo Oppose Wilson?Lever, Ityrnes, Whitley, and Johnson Favor ltopenl. Although Speaker Clark mado a tremendously interesting and effective speech Tuesday afternoon against tho repeal of the law exempting our coastwise trade from Panama canal tolls, tho president's majority was nearly twice as great as was last week on tho rule limiting debate. After the first decisive test some of those who had been wavering came over to tho administration side. So far as can be ascertained, the speaker's great heart-to-heart talk to his colleagues in the House Tuesday did not change a vote. Put there are many who do not follow tho speaker on this subject, who think that it was a mistaken and unjust policy to attack him personally and as a Democrat for his stand. President Wilson has been careful not to say anything personally disagreeable about Mr. Clark, and Mr. Clark has been likewise careful about the president. speaker Clark, In closing tho debate against tho ropoal, disappointed Ihoso who expected him to attack President Wilson, lie disclaimed any ])orsonal issue with tho president, declared ho believed Mr. Wilson was actuated by the highest patriotic motives and that there was no breach in the Democratic party, lie argued at. length against the president's contention and declared that "tho amazing request of the president for a repeal, like the peace of Clod, passeth all understanding.' He disclaimed any personal issue between tho president and himself and added that if tho president had reasons "which are not utterly untenable and which compel him to make this request" he had not given them to tho Mouse. Ho differed from the president's statement that toll exemption was "a mistaken economic policy" but admitting dispute on that point., proposed that the exemption be suspended two years. lie contended that the president was mistaken in his view that the exemption was repugnant to tho Hay-Paunccfote treaty. He attacked tho attitude of House Democrats who have led the president's fight for the toll exemption repeal. Referring to published declarations that his opposition to the president was tho "opening gun of his light for the nomination in 11H G", the speaker declared ho had told all to whom he had spoken about the 1 0 I G situation that if tlie president's administration was a success, Mr. Wilson would be re-elected, and if it was a failure "the nomination would not he worth having." As to his own future the speaker insisted ho could he happy without tho presidency or the speakership. Tho South Carolina delegation stood as it stood last week?four with tho president and three against him. This timo Representative Jas. F. Byrnes was on tho floor to cast his ballot for repeal. Tie left his sick roo mto do so. With him on tho administration side were Messrs. Johnson, Lover and Whaley. As before, Messrs. Finley, Aiken and Ragsdalo voted against repeal. Representative Joseph T. Johnson, who was the only member of the South Carolina delegation to speak on the tolls ropeal, strongly supported Mr. Wilson. RELEASED FROM .SENTENCE. ? Negro in Arkansas Electrocuted After (Riming Ills Release. After receiving an executive pardon, which released him from a 1 15year sentence, Fred Pelton, negro, confined in the Alaba state penitentiary at Little Rock, was electrocuted Saturday for tho killing of a negress. nu - i iiera was a question as to the legal- 1 Ity of electrocuting Pelton until alter 1 lie had served his 115-year sentence 1 tor another crome and for that rea- 1 son the pardon was granted. f nan from Iowa, tho man from 1111- ' lois, and tho man from Michigan, vlio comes down on a trip to look tho 1 situation over and because things 1 lappen not to ho done exactly in tho ' vay l.o is doing them, begins to (lis- ' :outso at length about tho great pro- ( luctivo power of his country and to * icorn mo conditions that his eyes 1 est upon around him. ( "I meet such every day, and here- ' tfter, for this year at least, I shall ! ;eop these federal official figures with ' ne all the time, and when I strike r uch a man, riuietly hand them to c ilm to study and then in a brotherly v nanner advise him to come and make lis homo in what, ten years ago, * /hen conditions were pitiable, I was old enough to proclaim to tho out- ll ide world was?as it is now?"The ^ larden Country of America'." ^ Nearly Tickled to Death. '' "Tickled to death" came near be- ! ig literally true for Miss Ivy Martin, pretty 18-year-okl girl of Portslouth, Ohio, Saturday, when she be- 1 amo ill as a rosult of too much lughing, and for a time was thought 3 be dying. i REGRETS ABUSE \VII.S<>\ SOKICY IKKK TOl.LS I5ATTiiH iias vi<:iiiiO\v sTiir.AK. EXEMPTION A SUBSIDY -? President Says Democrats Should Know Which Course to Take, Although Platform is Contradictory 011 the Suhjeet?Regards Attacks as Slap at Administration. President Wilson declared Monday that beeauso of the contradictory statements in tho Baltimoro platform. Democrats should have no hesitation in voting for tho repeal of the Panama, canal tolls exemption. The president emphatically characterized exemption as a subsidy and pointed oui one plana in mo ltaltlmore platform thus declared against subsidy direct, or indirect while another declared for tolls exemption. The president said there should ho no doubt ill the minds of Democrats as to which declaration took precedence. Mr. Wilson reiterated that when the exemption was before the House a majority of tho Democrats voted against it because it was a subsidy. Tho president explained that he had been in favor of tho exemption repeal even if the international situation he referred to in the message to congress had not arisen. Mr. Wilson said tho report that Ithad made a bargain with Great Hrltain was 0110 of the insults that had been introduced Into tho tolls debate, and expressed regret that what promised to be a dignified contest with genuino differences of opinion. apparently degenerated into an attempt to discredit tho administration. He said this made a victory of tho administration all tho moro certain but ho regretted that pu,blio affairs should bo handled thus, lie added that he didn't think all the opponents of repeal felt this way. President Wilson let it be known that ho opposed any amendments such as had been proposed by some senators. in- in iui iiiiii uiiepivucas repeal. The president directed attention to his analysis of the Baltimore platform as showing an inconsistency between tho plank against ship subsidies and that favoring freo tolls. It was not hard to tell, ho atllrmod which was the much important. For one hundred years or more, the party has been unalterably opposed to any Kind of subsidy. Its position 011 the question is historic and it was reaffirmed at Raltimore. As ho viewed it, tho issue presented was whether an immaturely considered plan favoring freo tolls?a subsidy?should bo preferred to tho fixed policy of the party against subsidies in any form. Freo Panama tolls wore utterly inconsistent with Democratic doctrine, said tho president, and the proof of that fact was found in tho line-up of Democrats in Friday's roll call. No expression was forvheoming from the president as to attitude of Speaker Clark. His friends have declared the attempt to discredit the administration did not emanate wholly from Republican or Hull Moose sources, but the president makes 110 comment on this phase of the controversy. Tho president entertains no fear as to tho outcomo of this position. Ho believes tho result in congress is already settled, while reports received by the rwl f t * 4 X P mi1111111 m i <itiuu irum uie country snow the bulk of public opinion sustaining Ills stand. r,,iio president does not. charge all liis opponents with a sinister motive. On tho contrary ho believes many of the men opposing him aro honest and patriotic in their decision, but their attempt to make tho fight on Its merits has been overshadowed by the clamor aroused by thoso who desired lo humiliate tho president. Tho Whito IIouj j later authorized , a quotation of what tho president had wid in answer to the charge that the president had been made a deal with j iir William Tyrrell, private secretary ? to Sir Edward Grey. British foreign < tecretary. The president had been | tsked if tho charge was truo. Ho said: ; "Of course, that answers itself. It ] s Just the crowning insult of a riunijor if insults which have been introluced in this debate. Tliis whole liing reminds mo of a story I used o bo fond of telling of a very effec- 1 ivo debater?I need not say where his happened?who sent a challenge lown into a county very hostile to dm to debate. Tho people down * hero did not like the job much, but ' hoy put up the man they liked host! 1 ind who Is generally put up on such ' iccaslons, a groat big husky follow ' vhom they called Tom. "The challenger was given tho first 1 lour of the two hours allotted to the 1 lehate and he hadn't got moro than v inlf way through his speech when it ' lecnmo evident that ho was convinc- a ag the audience, when one of Tom's v (artisans cried out: 'Tom, Tom, call v ilm a liar and make It a fight.' That r ? tho stage this thing has reached." v 'he president's auditors asked him r he was going to fight and ho smllagly answered that ho did not noed ' d \ Old newspapers for sale. v ^ m ENGLAND FACES CRISIS \ i*im:mii:k asqvith resigns to i I AKK ('HAIU.E OF ARMY. I I \squith Will Take Charge of the War j Office i;i Order to Real With Irish Trouhl?. 1 > After all tho many solutions of tho ^ English govornment crisis, wh'?h ha<I bom proposed and discussed Premier I Asquith announced Monday a solu- 1 i Ion to the House of Commons m which none of the prophets had ] suspected or even expected. The /? Premier himself will assume the burden of tho War Oflieo In addition to his other and almost crushing duties. V II" wilt !*" i: ii from the Mouse at this (,iil * v. 1 n the . ( on I reading of tho home rule bill is about to be taken tip and will appear for reelection to his constituents In East Fif", Scotland, within a few days. & Mr. Asquith apparently consulted no one except tho King before hla bold decision. His colleagues In tho cabinet seemed to be as surprised as tho other members of tho llouso when ho revealed hla plans. Mr. Asquith Is already First Ford of tho Treasury which ofTlco he will continue to hold. Tho political seers gather that. Mr. Asquith Is In fighting mood. It. looks at tho present momont as though ho proposes to make tho ro organization of tho army a fighting ISSUO. Tlio establishment of a federal svstom of government for tho British Isles was suggested to tlio llouso of ? \ Commons Tuesday by Sir Edward C.rey as a solution of tho homo rulo difficulty. Tho suggestion was received with great attention by tlio House* which was engaged In dobato on tho second reading of the home rule hill. "I believe," said Sir Edward, "that if our present ditllculty Is not solved hy tho introduction of a federal system tlio country will go under through the sheer inability of Parliament to transact its business." Sir Edward flrey put forward a hint that tho government was ready to go to tho country for a goneral ^ election If Parliament would enact. ? its bills abolishing the system of pin- i ral voting, giving homo rule to Ire- j land and dls-establishlng the Welsh fl church. Meanwhile the question of I the coercion of Ulster can not arise. After a week of sensational devel- I opments in connection with the Ulster w dtuatlon, the House of Commons ,1 Tu< ul ay started tb?> debate on tho J ond reading of the home rule for I Ireland bill, it Is expected the meas- J ure will occupy tho House for at M least throe days. The ;Uw^nco of Mr." ^ Asquith, who was In charge of tho I bill, was bitterly complained of br I tlio Unionists. 1 It is reported from Dublin that Premier Asquith Is to bo opposed In j tho by-oloction for East Pifo by Jamos I.nrkin, who, as hoad of tho "j Transport Workors' Union, was loader of tho striko In Dublin last autumn. In connection with the striko, Mr. Lark In was sentenced to seven a months' imprisonment in October for inciting to riot, but was later roleased. ? ? . WANTS LEGISLATOR. L ' Member From Rarnwell County Gave Out Worthless Checks. s A warrant for Norman C. Creech, member of tho lower Houso from Parnwell county, alleging that ho had issued a worthless check in tho sum r\ of $9.f?0, was received in Columbia Saturday by John C. McCain, sheriff of Richland county from J. F. Wingate, magistrate at Rock Hill. Tho warrant was issued at the instance of L. C. McFadden, a member t.lio firm of Diel & Moore at Rock Hill,vo jm whom Mr. Creech had given tho check. Tho chock was drawn on tho Pal- \ matto National bank of Columbia, y dated February 14, and was returned > on account of insufficient founds. Sheriff McCain bar, returned tho warrant, as Mr. Creech's whereabouts are unknown to him, and as on Friday iio sent to Barnwell a warrant on j nt.ni.nn ?... AT.._ T . v.???fso w> .>n?. unuan i. Kamlnor, j proprietress of the City hotel, that J Mr. Creech had left tho city owning ' 10r a board bill of $83. ? ? ? BOY I TOI ITS POLICE. ? Pifteen-Year-Old Lad Stands Off a Squad of Ofllcors. A 15-year-old boy, barricaded In a ftin shop, held off a squad of Terra laiite, Ind., police with a continuous . evolver firo Tuesday until wounded ''-5 n many nlaces- nn<i ? . , ....... mo uiunma ilood-soakod ho staggered from hla ortress and surrendered. The lad? Crnest McWllllams?was found In j ho gun ship and when his surrender I /as demanded ho replied with a fuallade. In tho battle that followed ? 11 the window panes In the store # /ere shattered and an automobile, /hlch the boy had taken refuse, was Iddled with bullets ?,:om the officer#* /capons. Kllle<l Daughter for Mter^lsr. Mistaking her thirt?en>ye?dr~el<l ^ ^ laughter for a burglar, Mrs. Jsseph Vilson of Boaz, Ky., flrst mk her /1th fatal result ?*turiay, j a