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Pay? Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. Lt C. BATHE, PresideDt,^ CHAS. C. HOWARD,* Cashier. PLANTER'S LOAN AND SAVINGS ?BANK. A/?GUSTA, GA.I OF AUGUSTA. AUGUSTA, GBOBGIA. L.C.HAYW^Rf}i?aph|9r> CAPITAL, - - p50,000j Surplus & Profits. $140,000' We stall.be pieascd to have 790 open aa] 'account with tMa Biak. C?s??me? aad? correspondents Rttur?d of oter.j cosrtsftT*; and accomraodat?oa passible, arider e?B?a?-j vat?re, modern Bankin? rnetaodi. YOI .70. EJDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1905. NO. 39. i ?TiTTTCV /-?T TC A ?VTTvT/^Ci Government Takes Over lbe Fight on Yellowjack / 43 NEW CASES IN A SINGLE DAY Btill Refusing to Admit the Situation Beyond Control and Avowing the -..Hope That Federal. Management Will Revive Outside Confidence and Provide Invaluable F?ciiities For a New Campaign, State and City Raise a Macedonian Cry. _;__. , .. New Orleans, Special.-Fever . re port to 6 p. m., Sunday: . New" Cases, 28. Total cases to date, 533. Deaths, Sunday, 8. . Total deaths to dato, 105. New sub-foci, 2. Total sub-foci to date, 93. The fever report is a great improve . ment over those during the middle of the week, and the fact that there is only 2 new sub-foci, one up-town and one down-town, is a source of special encouragement. An effort is being made to determine the numbor cf cases under treatment, and allowing ten days, which is a liberal estimate, for a patient to either recover cr die. It is figured that there are now -233 cases nuder treatment. The city has contributed $250.000 to assist the government iu handling the disease. The decision to ask the Federal gov ernment to take control was reached . at a meeting of city and State officials and others, held late Friday at the cotton exchange. DOUBLE MOTIVE FOR AG ?.Ch,. It was the consensus of the meeting that government control would restore confidence throughout the other States in the South, and the belief was expressed that Surgeon General Wy man would be able to send a'force of physicians to New Orleans thoroughly equipped for the handling of the yel low fever situation because of their experience and unquestionable facil ities to enforce a scientific campaign against the fever. When local health officers first took' charge , of the situation it was hoped that the fever could be stamped out within a reasonable time, but the in fection* has spread, and so frightened have the people become in thc South over-the increase in the number of .- cases that Kew Orleans'is threatened .With a. serious paralysis of trade by i.Sre??on. of Tadical quarantines. - ; A telegram signed by the mn vor and I _-;bthers7'present was;.: addressed to* J Baron Rosen Introduced. " New. York/. SpeciaL^-Acting for " the .'.President, Third Assistant Secretary < of State Piere? communnicatcd to Baron Rosen,, the Russian ambassa dor, and Mr. Takahira, the Japaness minister, the official program for the formal presentation to the President of the Russian and Japanese plenipo tentiaries to the Washington confer ence. This program has for weeks been a subject of much study on the part of the President and Mr. Pierce. Many of the details regarding the journey . to Oyster Bay and thence to Ports mouth already have, been published. Desirous of being strictly neutral in all the arrangements for the presenta tion, it was decided at the outset by the Washington government that the President would recognize no prece dence based on success in the present war. Because Baron Komura was pre sented at Sagamore Hill almost week before Mr. Witte arrived in this country, it was decided that Tor this reason Baron Komura must take prece dence over Mr. Witte. This, however, will be recognized only in the half hour's difference in the time cf the presentation of the two missions. Tidewater Wins. Norfolk,. Va.r Special.-The Tide water ailway has won out before the State coronation in the great fight that the N'^olk & Western Railway was making against its petition for gracie crossings in Norfolk . county. The* Norfolk & Western sought to compel the Tidewater to erect via ducts over its tracks at two points on the -approach to Norfolk, and thc Tidewater sought grade crossings ever, tho Norfolk & Western, which thc com mission bas just allowed. Tho Nor folk &. Western has the right to appeal to the Supreme Court of the State. Business Man a Suicide. Columbus, Ga., Special.-Blanchard F. McGeeheat, president and manage, of the Columbus Paper Company and a member of a prominent Columbus fam ily, committed suicide Friday morning by shooting himself through the tem ple with a revolver. He was at home alone when the fatal shot was fired; His wife and- three children survive him. No cause has besn assigned for his rash act. Train Kills Thvee. Huntington, W. Va.. Special.-The Guyandotte Valley passenger train-Fri day had an unlucky run from Logan, killing three men and injuring anoth er. Frank Adams was struck and killed by the train shortly after it lef* Logan, Adams' rompanion was seri ously injured. John Ashan, an old man, was killed as the train reached Bar boursvillc. He stood on thc track in front of the train, thinking it ran on another track. While the 'ocomoiivc was going lo the round hoiiss i:; lilm tinrton, George Zirkle was Lrucs; and killed: i Kot Yet Located. Paterson, N. J., Special.-Despite the efforts cf his former friends and busi ness associates, the whereabouts of tbe . missing mayor, William H. Bel cher, of this city, have not been discov ered. Friday an investigation was be gun to discover what disposition had been made of the estate .of James F. Stewart," late Congressman, cf which Mayor Belcher, was sole executor, It yvas valued at $10,000, SENSIBLE TALKS TO FARMERS Governor Heyward, Pres. E. D. Smith, Dr. W, J. Spillman, Mr* E. J. Wat son and Mr. Hyatt Made Addresses Columbia, Special.-The meeting to promote the interests of agriculture Tuesday was as well attended as meetings usually are in Columbia. It lias always been remarkable that peo rple of this community are not much iriven to attending .gatherings of va rious kinds, but there were -about 350 people present and for over four i hours they sat tnrough the exercises, ! interested in every word The last speech, that of Mr. E. D. Smith, president of <?e South Caro lina Cotton Association, made a mark ed impression and although the crowd had been talked at for over two hours when he commenced, yet Mr., Smith held them almost entranced for an hour and a half, and even then they were not tired. There was another speech which made a marked impression, that of Dr. W. J. Spillman, agrostologist of the department of agriculture. Dr. Spillman is. a great friend of the south and to the south. His remarks were tull of heart interest in the waif a re of the south and while he makes no attempt at oratory, yet he has a mes sage to bring and the story tells itself in such a way that it goes directly to thc thinking apparatus of his audi tors. Mr. Smith's purpose was to tell the assembled farmers that they have a monopoly, that they should control" that monopoly by managing thc mark eting and bc free men, and that by the inpouring of more capital to thc south through better prices for cotton there should be a more general dif fusion of education to make the peo ple Stronger and the country better. On the other hand Dr. Spilman, by holding up the ogre of the boll weevil endeavored to warn the ' farmers against giving over their entire farm to otton alone, for calamity may come. There were several good speeches made. Governor Hey ward excelled himself in the graceful maimer in which he opened the meeting and Mr. W. A. Clark offered some very thoughtful suggestions in his address of welcome. Mr. F. H. Weston, sec retary of the South Carolina Cotton Association, gave an interesting dis cussion of the cotton warehouse plan and Mr. E. J. Watson, commissioner of agriculture, immigration and com merce had an array of statistics which showed the advantages of South Car olina as\ comparou with the rdst of the United States. The same money invested* in South Carolina that is invested in soil elsewhere would pro duce results more remunerative. Mr. Hyatt made a very thoughtful speech in ? few words, as the others had satl-nhnnt_ail_tkar.. ha_. "ntrmripr" tn dressed^ a "?ew~woras or -weiuvmo the farmers and others present. He felt very much like General Grant, who was told by the little boy that he could not go-to Richmond, because Lee was there; he could not go to Peters burg because A. P. Hill was there; he could not go to heaven because Jack sou was there. There was only one other place for Grant lo go-there were no Confederates there. The first of the regular addresses was made by Col. F, H. Weston, sec retary of the South Carolia Cotton Growers' Association, whose subject was "Cotton Warehouses." Dr. W. J. Spiluian . folowed Mr. Weston. The secret of thc power of this man over his audience is thc fact that he speaks out from his heart that which he feels and knows. It is a talk of a successful specialist to peo ple whom he would have try new ways to broaden the sphere and scope of theil* work. Mr. Smith; who was then presented ^y Governor Heyward, began one of die most remarkable speeches in thc history of this movement, although he showed tue evidence of fatigue from speaking in many places lately. He began by referring to thc fact that al though "differsilication" is being preached by the advocates of that creed, yet they do not tell us how to market the stuff after'it is produced. He referred Dr. Spillman to the condi tion of affairs at Chadbourne, N. C., where thc farmers had diversified and had prospered until this year when they had produced a little too much and at the critical time there was no transportation facilities. Then the farmers of Chadbourne dumped into' the streams nearby thousands of dol lars worth of strawberries because they could ot get them, to market. From this he made thc deduction that while it is a good thing to diversify yet it is well to restrict the diversifi cation to thc mere raising of enough to supply the needs of one's own fam ily. Put the rest into cotton judici ously. In regard to the tardiness with which this movement has been coming on, he said that right after the war there was no money in thc south. The northern banker loaned to- the south ern banker, the southern banker to the merchant, the merchant to the landlord aud the landlord to the ten ants. That, was thc chain which pull id the cotton out of the furows and put it in the warehouses of the hank ers of the north. Warehouses for the purpose of aiding the farmers in hold ing their cotton would then have been of no use for the cotton already be longed t the northern banker who pulled the cotton in. When he took up this fight with the 14,000,000 bale crop and with a sur plus of 3,000,000 bales, it did look like a fool's errand. Men walked around with a supercilious air and said he was too visionary. They dealt in fu tures expecting the price to go down, and "thank God," said he, "there were enough farmers to stand loyal and faithful to make that man out a fool and he caught the devil and I am glad of it." He also paid his re spects to thc farmer who pretended to be allied with his neighbors and then began to sel out when the price began to go up This man he'"denounced a fool and a traitor to the' cause. PEACE ENVOYS MEET Russian and Japanese Representa tives Clasp Hands As Friends INTRODUCTION BY OUR PRESIDEN! Ceremony Unique in History Takes Place on the Mayflower Off Oyster . Bay and the President's Success in Avoiding Questions of Prece dence Makes All Smooth-Japanese Arrived First and Were Presented. Await fte Russians in the Cabin -Tin '-.omura and Giant Witte Shal _Lands When Presented. Oyster Bay, N. Y., Special.-History was made Saturday in Oyster Bay, Russians and Japanese clasped hands and greeted one another with all out ward evidence of cordially, and for the- first time since nations began to have relations one with onother, an Executive of a great power received the envoys of two belligerent countries on a mission of peace. President Roosevclt.on ehalf of ihe United States and their people, extended for mal greeting to the representatives of Russia and Japan, introduced the plenipotentiaries to one another, and entertained them at an elaborate luncheon, at which Russian and Jap anese fraternized with ono another as comrades rather than enemies. PRESIDENT'S NOTABLE TOAST. During the luncheon President Roosevelt proposed a notable toast, in which he expressed t he earnest'hope and prayer, in the interest net only of these two great powers, but of all civ ilized mankind, that a just and last ing peace may speedily bc concluded between them." Tho occasion was impressive, lt was attended not by pomp and ceremony, but by a simplic-<.y and frankness characteristic of the President and of tho peoplo of America. Due honor was paid the distinguish ed guests of the President and of the country, and they were received with all the dignity to which their exalted .rank entitled them. The day was ideal. After the sun burned away thc haze of early morning, the weather was glorious. A brisk breeze just tipped the waves of Long Island Sound with silver, temper ing, at the same time, the heat of the sun's rays. .CHIEF ENVOYS SHAKE HANDS.. formal, but not the slightest sugges tion of emnity was shown on either side. Neither by word nor by action did they indicate, even by direction, anything but the utmost cordiality. Careful to avoid any strain, Presi dent Roosevelt, as soon as possible after the introductions, suggested that the party proceed to the main saloon, where luncheon was in waiting. The x resident himself leu the party, follow ed in order by Mr. Witte, Baron Komu ra, Ambassador Rosen and Minister Takahira. Even the formation of this little procession involved a delicate diplomatic problem, but it was agreed that the President solved it admirably. FOES LIKE FRIENDS. Although the luncheon was served with the other guests standing, the President escorted the four envoys to chairs in one corner of the saloon, and in half a minute, through tact and del icacy, the whole party was engaged in animated conversation over their dishes. The conversation was general ly in French, as Mr. Witte speaks very little English. Baron Rosen and Baron Komura chatted as if they had been life-long friends and Minister Taka hira, at one time particularly commu nicative, entered into tne conversation with 'zest and interest. Before the lnncheon had proceeded far President Roosevelt rose from his chair, and turning to the assemblage, raised his hand for silence. In an in stant there was a hush. Bowing to the envoys, President Roosevelt said: ENVOYS APPROVE TOAST. .. "Gentlemen: I propose a toast to which there will be no answer and to which I have the honor to ask you to drink in silence, standing. I drink to the welfare and prosperity of the sov ereigns and the people of the two great nations whose representatives have met one another on this ship, it is my most earnest hope and prayer, in the interest ot not only these two great powers, but of all civilized man kind, that a just and lasting peace may speeuiiy be concludeu between them." The toast was drunk, as the Presi dent requested, in profound silence; but in the hum of conversation which followed little was heard but. enthusi astic comment upon tue character of the President's expression. Mr. Witte and Baron. Komura both cordially thanked him. Japanese Forces Over 400,000. Lidiapudz, Manchuria, By Cable. The Japanese have concentrated in Manchuria,. in front of the Russian armies '430,000 infantry, with 1,600 cannon. This is exclusive of the de tachment of General Hasegawa, commander of the forces in Korea, and a special detachment, the destina tion .of which is not known. Tho weather is good and the roads are drying up. Russia to Issue New Loan. St. Petereburg, By Cable-The gov ernment has decided upon the issuance of another internal loan to the amount of $100,000,000, of which, however, only $75,000,000 may, be issued at first. The loan will be practically of the same nature and under thc sam conditions as that, of March last, ana will probably be issued in about : fortnight. The issue price of the Rm; sian international lean of ?t00,000;.00e* floated last March was 90. Thc bonds of that loan bear interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum and are re deemable in 50 years. IN SOUTH CAROLINA Occurrences of Interest in Various Parts of the State. General Cotton Market. Galveston quiet.10% New Orleans, quiet.XWz Mobile, firm.1?% Savannah, film.lQf? Norfolk, quiet. ..10% Baltimore, nominal.10% New York, quiet.'.ll Philadelphia, steady.11.25 Houston, steady.10.9-1G Augusta, steady.. .. ... .10.11.16, Memphis, quiet..10% St. Louis, quiet.IO1/*" Louisville, firm.-10% Charlotte. Cotton Market. Th"se figures represent prices paid to wagons: Strict good-middling.-10V2 Good middling.10% Middling.10% Tinges.S% to 9% Stains.7 to S% CITIZENS HOLD MASS MEETING. New Cotton Mill Proposition Discuss ed-Electric Power May Be Secured -To Advertise the City. Greenwood, Special.-An enthusias tic mass meeting of the citi/.eus - of Greenwood was held hero last week tn consider a plan to secure new en te .rises for thc city. Thc gathering wa a most representative one, and it was held in thc parlors of thc Greenwood club. Thc matters dis cussed were more particularly in re gard to negotiations with a prominent real estate firm of Philadelphia, who wrote thc chamber of commerce in regard to the establishing of a new colton mill in this city. The parties inquiring want, to know what induce ments Greenwood offers for such en terprises, and tho people of thc city with their usual energy aro taking ac tive steps towards securing it if it is lo bc gutten. , Thc city offers many advantages for such enterprises, and it is not unlikely (hat if a new mill is placed anywhere in this section it will beat Greenwood. THE NEAL SHOALS LINE. Poles Are Now Up Por Several Miles and Wires Will Soon be Strung. Union; Special.-In but a short while the electric line connecting Un ion with Neals Shoals will be com pleted. The poles are already up for several miles this side of Neal's Shoals, and the holes have been dug ' as far as the Union cotton mills, ac ' thc force of Avorkm.cn will rush thc other poles up-in short order, theivl thc stringing of tho heavy wir?.'wilK] current for oilier enterprises, will bc on TAX SAID TO BE TOO HIGH. Charleston Oyster Canning Company May Suspend Business. Columbia, Special. - Accord ing tn a complaint received by At torney General Gunter from the Charleston Canning company the li cense or lax placed upon oysters is too high and thc company is practical ly forced out of business. The "law requires a tax of th ive cents a bushel of oysters and an annual fax of $400 mi tho factory iii addition f<> the barge license. As a bushel of oysters only produce about two quarts of oys ters shelled, it can be seen that much of the profit is taken away. Thc mal ler, however, will have to be. settled by the county board oC commission ers of Charleston, us it is not one tor thc attorney general. Success After Many Raids. Greenville, Specie.}.-Chief Consta ble Hall, with four men, discovered a moonshine distillery in a cave on the Reedy river JV,ur miles from Greenville. The slill had been in op eration for years and was owned by a man named McCartcr. McCartcr also owned a grist mill nearby. The flue which carried the smoke was nih under-ground lo his dwelling and I hen up thc chimney, (hus making il al most impossible ol' detection. The place had often boen raided but noth ing was ever found. The-officers re ceived a straight tip and McCartcr disappeared. " Aaron Williams Free. Camden, Special.-Aaron Williams, who was last year convicted of rape and sentenced to death has been ac quitted afc thc new trial granted him. Thc State witnesses refused to tes tily at the second trial. JI was be lieved from thc outset that Williams was innocent of the charge. Only Two Acquitted. Laurens, Special.-The summer term of Hie court? of general sessions was adjourned last Wednesday. An unusually heavy docket was disposed of and it is a fact of much comment that out of thc IS or 20 cases tried only two got off with an acquittal. Ten negroes were tried on thc charge of murder. Two ol' these were con victed of murder with a mercy rec ommendation while ihc rest were- giv en verdicts of ma ns! a ugh I cr. Sold 750 Bales. Pickens, Special.-The largest lot of cotton ever sold by a planter in Pickens county was sold a few days ago. by Mr. .1. Samuel Wilson to Heath-Bruce-Morrow company of Pickens. Mr. Wilson sold 750 bales, a portion of two crops. Thc lot brought 10 1-2 cents round, aggregat ing nearly $40,000. Popular and Useful Georgian Passes From Labor io Reward A "HEADER OF SOUTHERN PROGRESS One of the Most Potent Factors in Up-Building Georgia and Its Pres ; eht Capital After the Civil War " Dies of Carbuncle Complicated With Diabetes at the Age of 66-CojvfcSj cratc Soldier, Lawyer, PuV ytfof the Atlanta Constitu*5 /Director in Every New Baj? ^? Built lato City, FosfccrOf" of Expositions, . ad Recently Mayor of Atlanta. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-Capt. Evan P. Howell, long prominently identifified wi?h Southern journalism, died at noon Sunday, after an illness of three weeks, brought in b.y a carbuncle complicat ed-with diabetes. 'Captain Powell was born December 10,11830 in Milton county, Ca. He was a gallant Confederate schlier, entering the service as a member of thc First Georgia Regiment, later commanding HcjweH's Battery of Artillery dnring practically the whole of thc war. Alter the surrender he settled in At ina'a, taking up thc practice of the law. He was one of the most potent factors in rebuilding this city and in the development of thc State from thc devastation of the war. As a young lawyer he served as Solicitor General during the stormy days of thc recon struction period, when to his services was largely due to sup pression of the lawlessness then so -rife. In 1S76 he bought the Atlanta Constitution with Henry W. Grady and William A. HemphUl. He retained control of this newspaper un til ,1897, when he retired, and since thon i has not been in active business, i Captain Howell has been prominently identified with the Democratic party eyer since thc war; having been del ega te-at-l?rgc from this State to sev eral of the national convention and a .prominent figure in each. He served as member of both branches of thc State Legislature some years ago, but held no 'other political office save that of mayor uf Atlanta, for which he was . nominated during his absence from the community. His term of service to this office ended last year. He has been prominently identified with every movement for thc develop ment of .this city and section, notably with the first Cotton Exposition in 18S2, whicii opened the eyes of the country to the South's industrial pro ; gross and with all the later expesi tions. He has been a director in every new'-railroad built into Atlanta since ^the.war. He Avas a member of the ^commission which built Gcogia's new /Capitol and which performed the feat j concih'ct of thc war wi tn Spain. His wife, w4io was Miss Julia Erwin, and seven children survive him, among them Editor ClariMiowell. Run Down After ShoctingN^ix. Little Rock. Ark. Special.-A specfoL to The Gazette, from Lewisville, Ark^ says: After killing two persons, seriously and probably fatally shooting two others, one a woman, and less seriously shooting two more. Ike Kinney, a des perate negrn, was killed in a river bot tom, at Doella. six miles south of Lew isville, nt noon Friday, after a hot fight with a posse of citizens thai ^'ad. sur rounded him. His bloo?j'' tv -?u^J for 21 hours is: August 2 (mt.riling"), killed a negro at Stamps; August 2 (after noon); killed E. R. Ferguson, claim agent of the Louisiana & Arkansas Railroad, a member of a posse, th i ce miles from Stamps; August 3 (3 a. m.) seriously shot M r.s. Stewart, of Greens burg, Texas, and her husband; August 3 (noon); shot Alvin Barham through the neck, and shot a Auger off one of C. F. Nash's hands. Telegraphers1 Strike St. Paul. Minn."?Special- At the end of the fourth day or the telegraphers strike on the Great Northern and the Northern Pacifific Railroads; officers of both railroads declare that the ctr ike is all but a closed incident, and that more than SO per cent, of the stations on the Northern Pacific and 70 per cent, on thc Great Northern are now sup plied with agents. Officers of thc Te legraphers' Union assert that the strike has not fairly begun. Electrocuted in Chester. Chester,' S. C., Special.-Jno. M. Weir; a firemhu on tho I Southern Railway, was instantly killed by an electrical current received from a wire rope, used for lowering and rais ing the are light, attached to a post at thc corner of Valley and Gadsden streets, Saturday night about 9:00 o'clock. Weir and a number of friends had been discussing the death cf Bradshaw in Charlotte, and he went out lo thc post and had a simi lar experience. Thc accident occur red shortly after a big rain and thc post was highly charged with elec tricity. Weir Avas about 21 years of age and Avas unmarried. No Trains in or Out of Shreveport. Shreveport, La., Special.-Shreveport is effectually ' bottled up. Word was received at thc local offices of ' the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Pacific Rail road, the only road remaining open, that the two remaining trains on that linc had been cancelled from tonight. This leaves this city without eitehr passenger or freight communication with tho outside world. No mail is being received and none sent out. Poisoned Eerself and Son. Baltimore, Special.-Mrs. Annie Wbiteford is dear! and her 5-year-old son is in a hospital suffering from the effects of cyanide of potassum, taken by the mother with suicidal intent and hy her giving to the child with the expectation of ending his life also. A yster of the suicide was attracted by th?* screnming cf the suffering infant 1 and tovud him writhing in agony across tho body ot' his moldier, who lived cn ly a short time after being found. .Mrs. Whiteford. who has been separat ed L'om her husband fer several years, was a sufferer from melancholia. ??SCUSSDS DISPENSARY AT LENGTti Tillman Made No Direct Charges Against the Administration But Puts the Kesponsibility on Investi gating Committee. Edgc?i?ld, Special.-Senalor Tillman spoke here Saturday to a largo crowd, discussing the question of dispensary or Prohibition for moro than two hours. The length of the speech pre cludes our giving it in full, but tho leading points are covered in the fol lowing report: TILLMAN'S SPEECH. Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Fellow Ci :iz.?as: Jt is six years since I have hr?.cl the pleasure of addressing a pub lic meeting in this ray home county. On that occasion thc issue was the same one which wc have today. The people have passed on this ques tion live or six times and settled it by overwhelming majorities. That year thc aggregate vote for the two candi dates who were running as dispensary candidates va. 2S.0OO more than the .prohibition candidate get. but there are some,people in South Carolina who have never been willing lo submit to thc rule of thc majority. They think they know more, that they arc better than the masses of the people, that they have the right to dictate to them what they shall do. So herc we have again this same old bone of contention brought forward for politicians to gnaw on. "THE PRICE OF SILENCE." I am here today to discuss this ques tion. Some have said it was improper and out of place for a United States senator to meddle with local affairs. These men have felt aggrieved because I will not consent to shut my mouth, and close my eyes to the condition in which I am as much interested as you are, and they have demanded of me the price of silence. I ain't built that way. Thank God I ain't built that way. (Laughter and applause.) When I get to cowardly to stand up" in your midst or anywhere else and speak thc truth as I sec it and understand it then I will have become too cowardly and worthless to represent you any where. ? know.I shall make enemies. I know many of my best friends are to day lined up in antagonism to the liquor system which I devised. Be cause they have changed am I to sur render my conviction? I again say I ain't built that way. The office of Uni ted States senator is a high and noble one, but thc office is not worth the price which some men demand of me. Therefore I am here in asa wer to your invitation to teil you what I think, not to dictate- I know you arc not built that way, you do your own thinking, and not .ts T sa}'. What Is as a whole, but in part:; of the State: one is the license system, the old bar room system, the second is the dis pensary system under which we are now working, and the' third is prohi bition. The ingenuity of man never devised any more than those three ^systems for the liquor control. Which one^of these is thc host? You have hnBrd^feqiicnt and strong arguments, facts ann figures as they were pre sen tel ir. favor of prohibition. I congress to you as but*cen prohi b?! ionian d Um barrooms, saloons or ti?nisK i-iiit will prohibition prohibit? ti on is ts. But will prohibition prohib?.' I say no. These other gcnellcmen say yes. Let's give the facts. lloro Senator Tillman gave statis tics from Maine and Kansas to show" that moro spirits arc sold and drunk and more arrests arc made for drunk enness in prohibition territory than in South Carolina, in proportion to prohibition.. My objection to prohibition is, wc arc not yet angeis, more thc pity: J do not soo any wings sprouting on any body's shoulders; wc are sinful all man beings, made by God Almighty in His wisdom with shortcomings and thc weakness of man; wc have our appetites, and it is' in tho nature of the boast to gratify thai, appetite for stimulants, and if bc cannot get it lawfully he is going to get it some . Mi cr way. There has always been and always will bc a demand for liquor as a beverage, simply because man likes the taste and its effect, not be as a beverage, simply be cause man like thc taste and its effect, not because he needs it as ? medicine, but simply for his stomach's sake as Paul said to Timothy, and somebody will always bc ready to supply it for the money. That being the case, I have tried to deal with this question as a true man and from a common-sense standpoint, to treat men as I find chem au:I not as I would have them to bo, but to try ai., teach them to minimize and re duce thc evil of whiskey drinking. 1 have not indulged Ii liquor myself, but I have seen it, some of my family have suffered from ic, I have seen its misery, thc misery it causes; 1 have seen too much not to know that if wc could destroy the formula of alcohol either from fermentation cr anything else it would injure the medical pro fession in their business, deprive mon of the.r valuable stimulants in certain diseases, but the sum nf human misery would be reduced. Hut the best thing in my judgment as a practical man is to treat men as they are ann" try to teach them to restrain their appetites as far as practical and minimize the evil of liquor drinking, YOU have heard a good deal about blood money. Sometimes T ge. awfully sick in the J Senate when I hear a fellow get up j and twaddle about what, he knows nothing of; when 1 hear preachers talking about the drinking of whiskey being blood money. I lock back to the history of the world, 1 find that no man, no preacher, priest or states man ever dreamed cf attempting to prohibit thc usc of liquor until about 75 or 100 years ago, have not under took until the last 80 years to say that man should nor drink or tnat it was a sin. I do not hesitare to ?r.y 1 can find in the Viole a dosen cr two fio;:en texts recognising the u. i? ol liquor to where you can find ena which discourages it r;?- denounces it. Who'o dc-, s liv; . in eenie in : J:t: h.n does hot rcs! upon tho L;i.?' aulhcrit}", it rests uren the preacher s authority, and 1 object Lo any preach er changing tho Scripta rs to s'.it h;.-. fanaticism and to make me swallow his rciigion.\ (Laughter and cheers.) Vou cannot show me in the Scriptures except in one or two isolated cases where the usc of wine is denounced as a sin, and I can Show you a dozen passages where it is spoken of other wise. When a man talks to nie about blocd money I put hiia down as an abominable ass. 1 do not intend any thing personal. I cannot see any pos sible excuse for any enc to make such charge. * Some say you are going to vete thc abominable dispensary out and' sub stitute blessed prohibition. I don't care if you do, and sometimes f rather wish you would so you can gel: a dose of the physic for twelve months. Now, we come to high license; this combination which we are facing to day, thc high license people, thc pro hibition people and the blind, tigers, the same wc have been fighting since 1893. These people who are advocat ing high license, The State, of Colum bia, the News and Courier and some other papers, and some of our fellow citizens, they are not m favor of pro hibition; they tell you so; they say, let's kill the dispensary, then you will have prohibition, and then what-high license. The preachers are going one road, the prohibitionists aro going an other road and the blind tigers are traveling a third road; they arc all alert to kill the dispensary, and when they kill it and it is gone, poor thing; then what? There will be a light among tho people to say whether it shall bc high license or prohibition, and what will the dispensaryites do then? If we arc so far and few be tween that there will be no hope of restoring thc dispensary, I am going to line up with my friend Talbert and shout for prohibition. I will, never consent by my vote and influence to aid in the re-establishment of saloons in any county in South Carolina. Herc followed a little spat between Mr. Talbert nd the Senator, which, however, was soon quieted, and Till man ccntinred. Thc substance of his closing remarks was fer a thorough purging of the dispensary system and for giving it another fair trial. Free Certificate for Himself, Thc following story .is told of the late Dr. James C. Swan, a physician of (he old school, who practised his profession for a great many years in Bridgewater, Mass., and the surround ing towns. This generous if not alluring offer was made by him to the pernicious father of an insane young man: The old man wished to secure his son's admission to the insane asylum, but seemed unwilling'to pay for the necessary certificate. After hearing his plea of poverty, which the doctor know tc be false, and hearing him aiso tell of the many expenses to which he had put by his ungrateful children, the physician waved his hand :o end the recital. "Nov/, soe here," he said, sharply; "you just pay me for this one, and I'll give you a certificate for yourself, whenever you wish it, for nothing." arciieoiogista-- ucv-auac uivy are -be- | lieved lo prove thc theory that Mexico J in past centuries was inhabited by Ori entals., Wagons FURNI Large Shipments of the best a .just received. Our stock of fu is complete. A Large stock. COFFINS an always o?r^haiicl. All calls ly responded fth^. All 2:001 gin of profit. Call' to se money. ? ?"I" ? j "? ? GBO. JP. Johnston, MANLTFACT AND DEA Cement, Plaster, Hair, Ready Roofing; an Write Us ? Corner Reynolds and Augusta, THIS SPACE I! The Leading Groce ARRINGT? COMP. 839 ? jjgrw. F. s AMPI.: H. H. SCOTT, JR., of Edg 3pd war}t_to see you. 1 Mountain lions are overrunning Yel lowstone Park. The posioffice letter boxes are now to be painted green. Australia is considering the intro duction of the metric system. The German Government purchased a site for an embassy in Washington, D. C. ,Tired of bad treatment, the nursing sisters employed at San Isidro, Spain, went on strike. F. A. Delano, vice-President of tho Wabash Railroad, has abolished the entire secret service department of the company. V In consequence of a plague of flies traffic in the principal thoroughfares lea'Aiug to Cardiff docks had to be di verted recently. The pominion Government is about to enter Aipon the construction of gi gantic military .works in the city and district of Quebec. . Claiming tii? right to serve as Brit ish-subjects, tFenty Victoria (B. C.) Chinese have applied for enrollment in the Fifth Regiment, Canadian Artil lery. . s The Court of Criminal Correction, at St. Louis, Mo., has ordered that bar ber shops be exempt fro?sthe Sunday closing law, on the ground that such places are a public necessity* An express train which mQkes no stop between London and Liverpool has been introduced by the London and Northwestern Railroad Comply. The 201 miles are covered in 208 min utes. The 500 th ea tr" -i agencies in New York City have a defined as com mon employaient imreaus by the Ap pellate Division of the Supreme Court, which ordered them to take out li censes. A Mexican and a full-blooded Paw nee Indian were married in the Pro bate Court at Pawnee, Kan. New French Gun. A new rapid fire gun has recent!} been invented by an ingenious Dane by the name of Rexcr. The gun has been called for its originator. Tho Rexer is in reality a sort of large mus ket. In size it is rather small for i gun, as the illustration shows. It can he strapped to the saddle of an artil lery horse, and in service each gun ner is provided with a second horse, which is loaded with eight thousand cartridges. The movement of the Rexer is auto matic. It is believed to be a perfect firearm of its kind, and the heads of artillery look lo it to dethrone guns Hubby-Which half is It, that does-" n't know how tnt? ?tber half lives. Wifey-The ;><*Uor half.--Answers. Buggies TURE iakesof wagons and buggies ruiture and house furnishing* d CASKETS. ; for our Hearse prompt ds sold on a small mar r?"*?*c^-4.jyvtll save you South Carolina. erford & Co. URERS OF .LER IN Fire Brick, Fire Clay, d other Material. 'or Prices. Washington Streets, Georgia. 5 TAKEN BY rs of Augusta Ga.? DN BROS. ANY, Broad \i of Saluda County and efielcj County are with us