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OCILIi DISPATCH. OCJLLA, GEORGIA. HENDERSON & HANLON, Publishers. The harder Sir Thomas Lipton and kis crew try to take the cup with them the greater glory there will be in keep- in g them from doing it. Of the world’s total railway mileage of 454,730 miles, North America has 209,1566 miles. The Old World will have to yield first place to the New before many years liavg passed, to say nothing of coming railway enterprises in South America. Nebraska keeps a state record of mortgages filed and released, This record s ows for the last three years $53,000,000 of laud mortgages filed, and $ 68 , 000,000 released, a reduction of $15,000,000 apparently in the total mortgage debt of the state. Each of the last three years shows a reduction, T - — ■ _______ Ralph Waldo Emerson welcoming L„™ Kossuth to Couctd fort ,-s.vou years ago made this remarkable proph- esy: “The shores of Europe and America approach every month and their politics will one day mingle.” It has now come true—at tho Hague and in the Philippines. Tea after evening chapel is the lat- est innovation introduced by the pres¬ ident of the Chicago university. This is not quite in line with college tradi- tions. But as a novelty it is inter- esting. The young men of the mid- die West are to be put in training for the social martyrdom which is to come later on. One of the best suggestions, in the multitude of baccalaureates that were preaehed to the senior classes at this year’s commencement was that con- tamed in the Rev. Mr. Crothers ser- mon at Harvard in which he reminded his hearers that the man who poses as a walking encyclopedia is not so highly esteemed as he used to be. To be a cold storage warehouse for miscellaneous facts is not scholar- ship. It is better to buv our ency¬ clopedia or dictionary than to burden memories with all they contain. II is our capacity for getting at the facta and the use we make of them that tell now. A recent writer finds one of the signs of Anglo-Saxon superiority iu the way the Anglo-Saxon “bounds out of bed like a cannon ball,” while the Latin crawls out as if life were a bur- dec. It is true that a good many Anglo-Saxons bound out of bed with just about the degree of buoyancy of a cannon ball; and if they do not feel that life is a burden, they certainly feel that getting up is one of its great¬ est troubles. If the real Anglo-Saxon finds a pleasure in leaving his bed at the time he ought, then much Latin blood has insidiously crept in amongst us, even into families that count their descent pretty purely English. Nothing is plainer from statistics than the fact that tlie ranks of the habitual , , , criminals . ■ , are being i • abun- , dantly recruited by young men, ob- serves the London Law Magazine, This class is not the product of past causes, merely continuing iu the pres- ent as a survival of conditions no longer existing. It is still being pro- duced freely. An extremely large pro- portion of the burglaries,house-break- ings and the like, are the work of offenders under twenty-one. No less than thirty-four per cent, of the per- sons conwicted for these offenses in 1897 were between sixteen and twen¬ ty-one. It is clear, therefore, that young men take to professional crime very readily, in spite of all deterrent influences. The country is fairly well supplied with railroads, but the commodities which they transport are not all or chiefly produced on their lines. W* need roads over which to transport to railroad stations the commodities pro- duced , , within .... a reasonable ,, distance .. , of , them. We also need such roads to lead to landings on navigable rivers, aud for various other neighborhood uses. The cost , of . getting ... produce , to a station is often greater than that of getting it from the station to market. The cost of getting commodities to ts, e great b avenues of commerce varies with the character of the roads. It is easily demonstrable that bad roads ar# more expensive than good ones in any place 1 where there is any great need of road at all. TT Hence a community a must either pay for having good roads or pay for not having them, reasons the Louisville Courier Journal. ,T,-!*,/> abreast of these stirring times hi/ subscribing f or your home paper. The price is little, and you cannot afford to be withoul it. AN OLD FUR HUNTER’STALES enlures of Soltn jpQonroe UDitli lV ISlacltfeef 9n3laits. A Flight on the Plains With Indians In Pursuit—Fall of the Two Chiefs Who Did Not Recognize a Double-Barrelled Rifle—Unpre- meditated Suioide of a Grizzly. HE American Fur Company, wljose head- quarters wore in St. Louis, and whose 1 V trading posts or forts were scattered a 11 1 over the West, wherever there was inl¬ V/ and Indians to * get it, went KW w __ ___ out of business i In 1868 after a prosperous career of more than forty years. Out in north- ern Montana there are still living a j ew old employes of the com- pauy—clerks, Lien voyageurs and hunters, all of advanced age. Nearly all them married Blackfeet women, ! peaoe and comfort, well cared for by their children and grandchildren. One of these old-timers, John Monroe, is now seventy-six years of age, and, in spite of the many hardships he has j ! endured, apparently still in the prime of life. Every season he goes op long hunting and trapping excursions into \ the Rockies, in the region just south of the Great Northern Railway, tho j best game country we have left, and he always manages to load his pack : horses with furs and trophies before he returns. Last season he trapped a number of martens and beavers, and shot several moose, elk, grizzlies, | bighorn and goats, i John’s father, Hugh Monroe, was born in Montreal in 1798, entered the servioe of the Hudson Bay Com¬ pany in 1814, and the following year arrived at Mountain Fort, the cora- pany’s post on the upper Saskatche- ' van > 8 E a d°w of the Bock- 18 - 15f he gent by the p to was oomp any travel with the Blackfeet and learn their language, and they moved south for the winter; he was undoubtedly the first white man to traverse the im¬ mense extent of plain and mountain i an q jyi ng between the Saskatchewan and Missouri Rivers. Hugh soon married a Blaokfoot woman, who was f° hn ’ s “ oth ® r ’ In t he ’ 4 ° 8 ^ Mt the north and entered f , the services of . the American Fur Company, which they served faithfully for many years, Hugh Monroe w as ninety-three years of age at the time of his death. To his friends John is ever ready to relate stories of his adventures in early clays. He will not talk much before strangers for fear they will re¬ gard him as somewhat of a Munch- ausen; and, indeed, some of his tales would seem incredible to persons not versed in the early history of the West. But those who know him know that he is absolutely truthful, Iu 18 57 the company’s agent at Fort Benton was notified by the factor at Fort Union to purchase a large num- her of horses for him. He wanted them to trade with the Crees, who had many robes aud furs, but who were »hort of ponies, the Blackfeet having nearly set them afoot by continued raids. This latter tribe and the Crows had thousands and thousands of horses, but they valued them so highiy that it was impossible to buy them for any reasonable figure. The agent therefore concluded to send some men and goods to the Snake Indians, ’ who were oamping south of ^ Yel low8tone . They, too, had larg0 herds of horses, and were said to sell them v 6 ry cheap, A Crow half- breed, Louis Bisette, a white em- earned Wiper aud John Monroe were sent with four pack horses loaded with trade goods. Both the paok and the horses they rode were the piok of the company’s herd, large, swift and powerful animals a most fortunate choice, as will be seen. But I will tell the story in John’s owa ^oif&s: “We started, and Louis took the laad, for he had passed a great deal of time on the Yellowstone with the Crows and knew the way; he also knew the trail from there to the country of t^e Snakes. It was in June, and the weather was so warm that we rested during the hottest part of the day, continuing dur journey far into the night. You may be sure we kept our eyes open, for in those days, and especially at that time of year, war parties from all the dif- ferent tribes in the country were j abroad to steal from one another, to 1 ^“jlay ® n 3 murder whom they could. We scanned the prairie, the hills and VftUey8i and the thickets we were obliged to pass for signs of the enemy, but, above all, we watched the herds buffalo and antelope to warn us that man was abroad. So long as we coa[d a06 them quietly op , ! ing down on t]le greeu plain aJlead of us we felt that the trail was safe. A war P ar ty sneaking through the coun¬ ^ ]T° u ld ^ ave star ted them rnnt,in « all directions. . Of . scared in course, we some of tnese herds ourselves, bat whenever we could we went to one j side or the other, and left them to . 8 raze peace. Besides a double- barreled rifle I earned a bow and arroW8j us i ng the latter by preference to kill what game we needed, It made no noise, did not startle all the animals in the country, and at short range, running buffalo, was a power¬ ful weapon. In the time it took to reload a gun a good bowman could discharge half ajlozen arrows. “In those days there was a plain Indian trail from the Missouri to the Yellowstone. The Blaokfeet had made it, and the [passing baok and forth of the great travois, camp, the dragging of thou¬ the sands of of lodge poles, sharp feet of their ponies had worn deep, narrow and parallel paths, as plain and sharp cut the as a wagon road. Passing the traversed point of Snowy Moun¬ tains we the soene of the great massacre of the Blackfeet by the Crows, which had taken plaoe some years previous. It was the only time the Blackfeet were ever worsted by any of their native enemies, and after¬ ward they were fully revenged. The Blaokfeet were split up into two large camps, one hnhting along the Yellow River, while the other went over onto the Plat Willow Creek, which heads in the Snowy Mountains and empties into the Musselshell. There they oamped they about, hunting and trapping until had all the robes and furs they could handle. One morning word was passed to break camp for the return journey, and in a little while the whole outfit was ,on the move, strung out along the trail for miles. Most of the hunters were far ahead or away to the right or Left of the trail, knitting as usual, leaving the lohg column of women and chil¬ dren unprotected. So, when rtf Crows suddenly appeared at the they met with little opposition, the few warriors, the old men and boys being unable to oheck them, although they fought bi avely and died fight¬ ing. “The struggling column of Black- feet was perhaps four miles in length, but in a very few minutes those in the lead were apprised that something was wrong, and a frantic stampede ensued. The Crows had little diffi¬ culty, mounted as they were on their best Worses, in overtaking the fleeing people, and an awful slaughter took place. Young and good-looking wom¬ en, girls and boys were taken prison¬ ers, but the rest were murdered as fast as the Crows oould overtake them, the men and boys of each little group fighting desperately to the last. An old medicine man named Red Eagle, seeing that there was no chance for him to escape, calmly halted in the trail, called his seven wives with their children about him, and stabbed each one in the heart, the women bravely walking up to him and baring their breasts to the blow. Without a word, without a cry, they sank down and died about him, and then, just as the enemy was upo§ him, he placed the muzzle of his flintlock to his head, pulled tho trigger, and feH among his faithful wives. Incum¬ bered by their prisoners and the rich plunder, the Crows ere long were obliged to give up the chase, so many of the people escaped. The hunters col¬ and warriors rejoined the fleeing umn too late to be of much service. That night when the count was made more than four hundred persons were missing, and a thousand or more horses, a large amount of furs, robes and other property had also fallen in¬ to the hands of the enemy. As we rode along the trail where all this had taken plaoe we saw many reminders of that awful day;here aud there were human skeletons, nearly every skull crushed in, and all along were broken travois, lodge poles by the thousands, bits of clothing, shrivelled robes and skins. “Ten days after leaving Fort Ben¬ ton we came to the Yellowstone, which was bank full from the melting snow in thp mountains. We built a raft and boated our goods over and then swam over with the horses, As . near as I can recollect, it was where the town of Big Timber now stands. We left the river next morning and pushed on to the southwest, over a rolling and broken country. Late in the afternoon, as we neared a deep, narrow valley through which a small stream made its way, I looked aoross it and beyond anij felt sure I saw an Indian suddenly jump out of sight be¬ hind a patch of brush. 1 didn’t say anything until we started down the steep slope into the valley and had got out of sight of any one on the table land. Then I told my com¬ panion, and as soon as we reached the bottom of the hill we turned to the right and rode up the narrow plain as fast as we oould go. We went up it for nearly two miles and then had to climb out on the prairie again. In the meantime the Indian I had seen had probably run off and informed his party, who must have beeg camped close by, that we had ridden down in¬ to the creek bottom and were prob¬ ably making camp. Anyhow, just as we rode baok onto the prairie we saw a large band of mounted Indians, sev¬ eral hundred of them, riding rapidly toward the spot where we bad entered the little valley. They saw us as soon as we rode up in sight, and, changing their course, came after us with all speed. “We flew. As Wiper had the best horse, he took the lead, and Louis and I pounded the pack animals after him. They were all big, swift and power¬ ful, and didn’t need much urging. We had a good start of the Indians, but they had some fast horses, too, and little by little, a number of them be¬ gan to lessen the distance between us. Then, as mile after mile was passed, they dropped out of the chase one by one, until finally not more than a dozen kept on. Of these there were two who forged steadily ahead of the rest and soon drew within range of us. Nearer and nearer they oame, until the foremost was not fifty feet away, shouting and encouraging each Other in a language that was strange; perhaps it was Cheyenne. We now saw that they eaoh carried a long lance, but no bow nor gun, and Louis told me to shoot them if I could; that he would take care of the pack horses. “I turned in ray saddle and pointed my gun, but before I could pull the trigger both of the Indians slipped over onto the side of their animals, so I had no mark and but a leg gripping a horse’s baok an arm thrown over its neck; I couldn’t stay twisted in my saddle long with my gnu extended, and as soon as I would straighten around they would sit up again and uyge on their horses, and they kepi getting closer. If it had been just a question of the two we would have stopped and finished them in shori order, but we dare not attempt it, for their companions § who had stayed in the race were still oorning and only a few hundred yards distant| we couldn’t fight them all. The two were getting very olose now, almost tiWting enough for a Tanoe thrust, and, M to luck I suddenly withoul turned rifting a fired at the nearest one the gun to my shoulder or tak- in aim, just as if I was firing at a baffalo at close range. Down he fell to the ground, and the other one, with a yeli, made his horse give one or two great leaps and prepared to lanoe me. 1 guess he didn’t notice that ipy rifle was double barrelled, for he made no effort to dodge when I pointed it at him, and he grinned as he raised his lance. I’ll never forget the expres¬ sion of surprise and pain which flashed across his face when I pulled the other trigger and the ball smashed through his ribs. He dropped the lance, grabbed at the hole in hia side and then rolled backward off his horse. “Those two must have been pretty big chiefs, for when the rest came up to them they stopped and set stopped, up a terrible howling. We never though, for we felt sure that the whole tribe would hunt the country for us We had been swinging around toward the Yellowstone all the time, but when the Indians gave up the chase we dropped into a trot and about dusk struck the river where we had left it in the morning, never resting until we had got the packs and hordes aoross to the other side. We had concluded that so far as we were concerned the company would get along without any Snake horses. “Before we got back to the fort a little incident happened to me which may interest you to hear. We got up early one morning and started on without having breakfast, for we had eaten all our meat the previous evening. When the sun rose the wind began to blow from the west, as it often does in the foothills, so strong that our horses could barely make any headway. We struggled on and on, getting very hungry as the houks passed, but expecting every minute to sight a band of buffalo and kill one. I guess the wind blew them all out of the country, for they seemed to have disappeared. Finally about noon wo sighted an animal just going over a ridge. We only got a glimpse of it, and thought it was a buffalo bull. Wiper told me to ride over there and kill him. I handed Louis my rifle, intending to use my bow and arrows, and rode off thinking we would soon have sfrme ribs roasting over a fire, When I got to the top of the ridge there was no bull in sight, so I rode on over another little rise or two and suddenly found that what we had taken for a bull was an enormous grizzly bear. He was as big as a two- year-old steer, and was busily digging in a marshy, muddy place, full of hummocks and small clumps of brush. “Bear meat wasn’t so good as buf¬ falo meat, yet it would do for hungry men; but I had only my bows and ar¬ rows, which wasn’t exactly the weapon to shoot a grizzly with. I turned back to get my rifle, and then, think¬ ing [that Wiper and Louis would laugh at me, I concluded to tackle the Jiear anyhow. When I was a young man I did many foolish things for fear of being laughed at and called a coward. The wind was blowing as hard as ever, so I made a little de¬ tour and approached the bear across it. He was still busily digging, and I rode up within thirty leet of him and let drive an arrow. Instead of piercing his ribs It went foul and hit him a stinging blow on the flank, jnst as if he had been struck with a good whip. Ho gave a savage roar and started for me at once, and I dug my heels into the horse and lit out. The ground was soft, and my horse didn’t go very fast—be hadn’t scented the bear yet and probably thought it was buffalo—and the first thing I knew the grizzly bad bim by the tail. The horse couldn’jj pull away from bim, but he kept swinging around, and I kept thumping him with my heels and pricking bim with an arrow, until be made a half cirole and got the scent of the bear, and then be began to squeal and kick for all be was worth, and I had all I could do to sit in the saddle. The bear bung on like grim death* and finally the tail parted, bone, hair and all, the horse luroked for¬ ward, reoovered, and ran as fast as be could across the marsh, the bear after us, still oarryiug the part of the tail be bad bitten off. I fitted another arrow to the bow and let it drive just as be arose for a leap. I saw it pieroe bis brisket, entering only an inch or two, and then the beast fell, as beasts generally do when they are wounded, ever so lightly. The but of the arrow struck a stone or some hard substance and was pushed clear in through the heart. The old fellow tried to rise three or four times, but couldn’t make it, and then fell over on his side quite dead. When Louis and Wiper oame up they both said it was the biggest bear they ever saw.” Germany has about 250,000 phy¬ sicians and surgeons. BRYAN SPEAKS TO IOWANS Silver Leader Says the 16- to-i Issue Stands. IMPERIALISM IS ROASTED Iowa Democrats Haie a Love Feast On Occasion of Meeting of State Convention at Des Moines. Des Moines, Iowa, was full of dem¬ ocrats Tuesday night to attend the democratic state convention and listen to W. J. Bryan, General W. B. Weav¬ er and others expound the gospel of 16 to 1 , anti-imperialism and anti¬ trust views. Two great meetings were held during the evening, the main one at the the Auditorium, where W. J. Bryan spake to 0,000 people, and the other at the tabernacle, where Gen¬ eral Weaver held forth for an hour, Until Mr. Bryan came from the first meeting. Some 15,000 persons con¬ gregated at the tabernacle, and the two buildings were not great enough to accommodate the throng. Mr. Bryan, in beginning his ad¬ dress, reviewed the record of the re¬ publican party', accusing it of putting the dollar above the man. He then took up the silver question, saying prosperity did not set in until six months after the election, when the Klondike gold mines began to increase the supply of the yellow metal. The republicans who claim that times are better because the balance of trade is in favor ef the United States give away their own position and ad¬ mit that the democratic view of the quantitive character of money is cor¬ rect, The financiers of England con¬ trol the English government, through England the rest of Europe, and through Europe the United States. He said: “The 6,500,000 democratic voters of the democratic party in 1896 were for silver. The 7,000,000 republican vot¬ ers were for a platform which called for international bimetallism. Only the Palmer and Buckner voters were for the gold standard, say less than 1 per cent, yet the Iowa republican platform goes a step farther and is mainly for gold alone. Moreover, the republicans threaten to retire the greenbacks, though they have never been before the people on that issue.’’ Mr. Bryan closed his speech by a lengthy discussion of imperialism. The difference, he said, between a re¬ public and an empire is this: “A republic needs an army of 25,- 000 for 70,000,000 people; an empire needs four times that large an army, when 10 , 000,000 population is added. This suits the young men who get fat jobs in the army, but not the people who pay the $1,500,000 a day needed to maintain the soldiers in the Philip¬ pines.” Mr. Bryan gave figures to show that England and other nations do not col¬ onize rapidly and said that with twenty people to the square mile in America, and sixty to the mile in the Philip¬ pines, there is no opportunity there. Even if we should succeed in killing off all the natives, you cannot get young Americans to go there—they prefer to live ia this country. The profit will not be equal to the cost and the profit will not go to the right peo¬ ple, but to investment syndicates. Even if any man is willing to trade for pattage, and does not have a taste for birthright, he had better investi¬ gate the pottsge. If the Tagalos are largely Christians and our native al¬ lies are largely Mohammedan, we ought to ask the sultan to help us sub¬ due the Christian insurgents. “This government ought to make a declaration of good intentions toward the Philippines, as it did toward Cuba. The president ought to have done so, or if he did not have the power, should have asked congress for it. Now he might call a special session to ask for the power. Cleveland called a special session to repeal the Sherman act and McKinley called one. A special ses¬ sion now would cost much money, bmt not nearly so much as the cofftinuanca of the war.” NEW STATUTE DESIRED. Leaders of Negro Race Discuss Lynch¬ ing at National Council Meeting. The National Afro-American coun¬ cil of the United States met in Chi¬ cago Thursday in a three days’ con¬ vention. One of the most important matters to be presented will be a pro¬ position for a new federal statute to make the participation in any mob gathered for the purpose of lynching a capital offense and to give the United States authorities the right to interfere in any state or territory where a mob assembles for the pur¬ pose of lynching any persons. SOLID NEGRO DELEGATION nay Go From North Carolina to Na¬ tional Republican Convention. Prominent negroes of North Caro¬ lina have called a state convention for September 27th and 28th. They .say they must find out their industrial, educational and political status. It is a political move, some think it is to send only negroes to the next national republican convention, but this is denied by others. Much in¬ terest is felt in the call, and surprises are promised. CROKER’S TALK IS DISCUSS Some Democratic Politicians Prone to Doubt His Sincerity. A SURPRISING CONVERSION Tammany Boss Praises Bryan and Says He Will Support Him. A Washington special says: 9® democratic politicians do not kiS exactly whnt to make of Croker’s stinted far praise of Mr. Bryan, or Ne^| htf^J to put faith in his words. In Turk lie is thought to be sincere this thought is very annoying to <ljB jfl| Whitney wing of the New York ocraey. Some of the Bryanites at national capital, however, see an ele-W ment of danger to Mr. Croker’s friend- w ship and find a string attached to his [ support of the Nebraskan. The quesjjl for- J mer’s statement that the silver tion can safely be left to congress taken by some to mean that he williqft| anVH the Saratoga conferees will be to his accept election Mr. if Bryan the Bryanites and to will work agre^B fo^| to The leave few suspicious silver out of the platfonjH ones see in fj| statement a hidden bribe and profess to believe that many of',^^^ n^B Bryan democrats are having this osition put to them in their jonrnoyings But the generally to Saratoga. accepted ^B is that Mr. Croker, seeing that can possibly defeat the nominallB join^J Mr. Bryan, has decided to recognized following and still in have the Tamrn^B state power wafl Y r ork. Mr. Croker does not have a contesting delegation seal® the next democratic convention^® thus see Tammany discredited in state by the national party. Mr. Croker’s conversion to the anti- imperialistic view is as astounding as his conversion to Mr. Bryan. Had Mr. Croker studied for a year to make a sensational entrance or re¬ turn to this country the result could not have been more successful than what actually occured. He left for an‘^ outing in Europe a violent expansion- , ist and opposed to the Chicago p»at- "1 form and to the nominee. The New 1 York democrats have been figuring on J his position be held as such Saratoga and the confer^ largely* j ence to at was the outcome of his supposed convict* tions. He returns and without a wordl of warning reverses his position and* sets floating all in previously mid air. conceived plaj^B In an intmaM greatest he lias stated this that W. country .T. Tbyna^^H htn^f man The him expansionists had ally begun anij^| t^H upon as a strong they^B cover virtues in him that saw before. They looked for ® Their keep the disappointment democracy split is into keen^B fa^H of new- expansion charge that when he he still left was Eu^B i^H but on the way over he cam%9 Toral® the hypnotic influence of and speaker convinced expressed by his the conversion logic °f^iB im® mediately upon reaching these shores.® Bryan’s supporters, however, see iifl his port sudded the democratic flop a determination ticket and t*B ttmj® his His conversion fealty to is the Chicago Bryan platfoH^B tha® more to to anti-imperialism and is possihfl® onH| more to save Tammany than his version to either. DREYFUS TRIAL PROGRiy®| Note'd Prisoner Weeps When ® His Sufferings Is Told.^B Captain The second Dreyfus, trial of by the courtmarj^^H Freuctifl levy, charged with treason, waRH France. tinned Wednesday Major Carriere, moining the at ltiSj sentative refused to of the government, the adjonrnri® hJJ agree to counsel the case for as applied the prisoner, for by M. and Dejj® <9 Dreyfus, owing to the murder® tack upon Maitre Labori, counsel for the defense. ® ings The feature the story of the of the davs’s sufferin^B px^J was Dreyfus off the on Devil’s of French Island, Guiana. his pi^H A® coast clerk Dreyfus read wept document in court recounting wlien^B a details of his incarceration. "JERSEY LILLY” WEDS AGAIN. This Time She Links Fortunes With Hugo Gerald de Bathe. A London dispatch states that Mrs. Lilly Langtry, the actress, IslaufH|®Hi was mma* ried July 27 last, at the sey, to Hugo Gerald de BatheU28 years of age, the eldest son of Sir Henry Percival de Bathe, Bart, retired general aud Crimean veteran. The ceremony was private, the only, witness being Mrs. Langtry ^daugh¬ ter. The Prince of Wales is said to have been in the confidence of the pair and he sent them gratuiations. SENATOR HAYWARD ILL. Prominent Nebraska Statesman ( Stricken With Apoplexy. <9 Senator M. L. with Hayward, apoplexy of Neb^H ka, was stricken thfl day afternoon at Brownville, state, where he had gone to deliver address at the Woodmen’s picnic. He was apparently in good health and spirits up to the moment of attack. Just as the presiding officer was about to introduce the senator he was seen to sway in his chair and then fall help¬ less to the platform.