CANARY MILLER OF OTHER DAYS ? Old Newspaper Man Wnites Re rninisaaent Article on Radi cal F ale in South Carolina. Sometimes a single name or small Incident will open flood-gates of rec ollections of those who have seen and felt things arid bring to very "vivid life old times and long arrays of dead men. We read in the South Carolina newspapers that T. E. Mil ler has been removed summarily by the new governor from his long held position as president of the colored university at Orangeburg. This is; "Canary Miller," quite an old man now and long ago recon ciled to white rule, and become a < good and useful citizen. He was j different thirty-four years ago when ! he sat ti the South CaroHna legis- 1 lature as a representative from Beaufort?a short square built man, eeven-eighths white, wearing a heavy light gray sack suit, with his habit of -running his hands into ,the pock ?ets of his coat and fairly clear indi cation ol' a loaded revolver in each ?1 jwcket. Other nasty habits had "Ca nary." He sat as a member of the last attempt of a Republican legis . lature in a southern state in the last | year of the reconstruction era. He sat with "The Ring-Tailed Roarer of the .Combah<.\e,'' a black negro whose gullah dialect from the coast of Af rica, whose immediate ancestry was so strong that a white man from' the up-f:ountry .barely could under stand him when he addressed the house; i.lso with the "Duke of -Marl boro," E.n unctuous yellow scoun drel, representing the very garden spot of the state, who used to rise up and (thunder from a broad chest and a wide throat when the house In chorv.s rendered: "Hold the Fort for Hayijs and Wheeler." How it did reverberate, rendered to the air of "'Hold the Fort, for I am Coming," when the South Carolina legislature refreshed itself with song. "Canury" was not of the group colleotively known as "The Forty Thieves " but he was about as full of fight and venom as a rattlesnake. One hundred and twenty-five was the legal membership of the house of representatives in the year of the mighty uprising of the white people under leadership of Wade Hampton, the outbursting and exploding of a [fighting and desperate civilization (against a 50,000 negro majority, the ^law and Ulysses S. Grant in the president's seat. The Democrats Ind elected sixty-four?on the face of the returns. By this means they kept two or three Republican repre sentatives at their homes; but when their names were called they an swered, "Dummies, ," had been put in to answer for them and no Democrat dared avowed knowledge that ihe realities were not there. Who could identify one -lowland corn field negro from an other. Then the Democrats, again I by means, won over two or three.' Tom Hamilton was among them. He must have been a descendant of a [Zulu chieftain, because later, when his brethren clamored against him, he rose, tail and straight, his skin smooth and Bteek as silk, and re marked that sometimes he went out i in his field and killed a rice by-d jwith a revolver for his sport; where ! upon his brethren whimpered into' I silence because they knew it was so. Men, white or black, who could drive a bullet through a rice bird at eigh teen steps were" valuable at the mo ment and to be respected. But when the Democrats gained over recruits the Republicans?"Radicals" every body called them then?simpiy went through the formality of declaring seats from some Democratic coun ties vacant and filled them with any body who might be handy, wearing any name that might fit, and so re tained their legal majority, to be cer tified to Washington. ' So it befell that on a December day the slxty-?ive Democrats and their colored allies, sitting in Co lumbia Hall at Columbia, decided to go and occupy the hall of the House of Representatives at the state house. They went trooping close behind Lawrence Orr, x of Anderson county, six feet and four inches high and two hundred and sixty pounds in bulk, who threu his weight against closed doors and doorkeeper, and burst one and overthrew the other. Sixty-five and sixty-five and with their quotas of sergeants-at-arms, clerks and attendants, the two houses sat in the hall three nights and the better part of three days. Gen. Wallace. S. C. A., of Union County, the Democratic Speaker, and E. W. Mackey, of Charleston, the Radical Speaker, sat side by slae, each presiding over his own house and ignoring the other. United States soldiers guarded the doors. ???tsssssmm'^??? Free Round Trip to Charleston The Retail Merchants Pay Your Fare. Out-of-town shoppers may come to Charleston, stay from one to five days, attend the theatres, visit the Island resorts, etc., do buying and have their railroad fare paid for the round trip. , The only conditions to be complied with are: First, that your combined purchases amount to $25 or more. Second, that you come from a point twenty-five miles or more distant. Third, tliat your fare muft not exceed 5 per cent, of your total purchases. The merchants of Charleston carry large a; id well assorted stocks. The .matter of selection is easy; you liave a variety to choose from. Their stocks are kept fresli by being replenished of ten. Prices are very reasonable, considering quality. The /pllowing merchants are members of this refund plan and will be very glad to serve you. If you cannot find what you want in you;.- home town, remambar you can always gat it in Charleston. ASK FOR REFUND BOOKS Art Stores. LaLneur'3 Art Store.238 King st Antique Furniture. Morgenstern Furniture Company, .62 Iteid st Bakers. Condon's Bakery. .153 Rutledge ave Book Stores. Walker, Evaps & Cogswell .. .. .3 Broad st C. L. Legerton.. ..263 King st Carpets, Mattings, Etc. Mutual Carpet Company. .247 King st China, Glass and Queensware. Charleston Crockery Company... .299 King st Cigars and Tobacco. Follin Bros. Co.2SO King st Clothing and Gents' Furnishin B.;ntschner & Visanska. .232 King st Hirsch-Isreal Company. .King and Wentworth B uestieln Bros.. 494-496 King st W. S. Cook Company.332 King st S. Brown Sons. . 354-356 King st Banov & Volaski. . .3S5 King st Department Stores. M. Furchgott & Sons. . 240-242 King st Lsuis Cohen & Co. 232-234 King st and 203 Meeting J. R. Read Co. 24 9 King st Tae Kerrison Dry Goods Co. . . . . .SO-82 Hasel st Druggist. Paragon Drug Co. .2S6-288 King st Fish and Oysters. Terry Fish Co. . . . 133 Market st Florists Connelley-McCarty C ?. .29 6 King st Furniture. Fho-mix Furniture Co. .1 ST-1 9t King st ? S>$>.s because "Ca nary" rose every fifteen minutes and conducted this colloquy: "Mr. Speaker!" The Speaker: "The gentleman from Beaufort!" "Mr. Speaker, I rise to a point of order." "The gentleman from Beaufort will state his point of order." "Persons are on the boor of the House who are not members of the House." "The point of order of. the gen tleman from Beautort is well taken. The se^vea^it-at-r.rms will proceed to remove from the floor all mem bers who are not members.'' This was where the trouble was expected to occur. Orders were that when the Radical sergeant-at-arms put his bands on a Democrat or al lied member the shooting would start Every time he was ordercu, the foot senreat-at-arms would walk up the aisle toward somebody and nobody knew when, with an extra drink or two, or on some signal, he actually would touch a man. It was trving on the nerves. An outbreak there would mean not only present slaughter, but civil war, because it had not been decided whether Hayes or Tilden was to be next president, and the nerves and tempers of the country were at strained tension, ready to be startled to the fighting point by a less thing than a whole sale butchery in the state house of one of the pivotal and disputed states. By the special mercy of the Al mighty the country was saved from that horror, as by the same gracious means it was saved from so many. The three nights and days the hun dred and fifty odd armed and hat ing men slept and nte and laughed, und taunted atul threatend, and locked in the hall together, passed and the blow that would had such fearful consequences was not struck. "Canary" Miller did not get his fight or his .bullet. Gen. Hampton got notice that the United States troops were to charge on his men and he moved them out. and the next day his red shirts came in headlong and yelling on horseback, and on the dead run, and yelling afoot, and swarmed over the town by the thousands, and the worst strain of it was over. And "Canary" Miller, elderly, peaceful ;ind fat, looms up again after all these years. Mad days and bad days and merry nights these times, with a thrill for every hour and a danger for every step. Newspaper men did not have, to look for news. They could crowd the wires with it until the wires could take no more. This was be fore telephones, or typewriters or street cars. Men depended on their own legs and hands and eyes and ears and brains, and nobody thought of much of food or sleep, or care 1 much for anything, because nobody expected to live until spring or that, by spring there would be any state of government. And all the bright gay men who chronicled that time from day to day, who lived luxuriantly because with peril and excitement their nerves were strung -happily and tense al ways, who joined in chorus and laughter to the rising of many win try suns or new days of hard work and emergency, there is. so far as we know, but one left. When the drama was over they scattered to many parts of the world whence they came, and we think they are dead now, but one?and they were young men. too. "Here is thanks to "Canary" Mil ler for recalling a time, thirty-four years back, well worth living in.? | <> If ! ja $40,000 Bankrupt Stock of goods bought in Manning, I I. and brought to Orangeburg for sale, consisting of $15,000 in Shoes, $15,000 in Dry Goods, $500 in Laces, Embroider ies and Notions, $500 in Domestics. This Sale is Now on and Will Con timie for 30 Days, Closing July 1st While it lasts yon can buy good, fresh, new/ merchandise at less than the Manufacturers' Cost, and these goods are just what we say, fresh and new, for the party was only in business 5 months, going in in September 1910, and closing in January 1911. Here are just a few prices to show you how we will sell you goods. Men's 5.00 Shoes, cost wholesale 3.50 to 3.75 Women's 3.00 to 3.50 shoes to go at 2.00 to go for. 3.00 2.50 ? - - - 1.65 Men's 4.00 shoes, cost wholesale, 3.00 to 3.25 2.00 " " " " 1.35 97c 1.75 '" 1.20 to go tor ... .?..iJ ?? j 5Q m u *t u j jfj Men's 3.50 shoes, cost wholesale, 2.50 to go ? | 25 " ? ? " j QO for.2.25 Infant's Soft Sole Shoes 50c to 75c, priced to Men's 2.00 work shoes to go for .. 1.35 . go at.35c Men's 1.50 work shoes to go for . . 1.10 Infant's Sole Snoes 25c to 35c, priced to go at.18c Don't miss this opportunity, for we don't know when you will ever have another chance to buy good dependable goods at these prices again. Our Dry Goods, Notions, Laces, Embroideries and Domestics will be sold just in pro portion to our Shoes qucted above. Everything sold strictly for cash, no goods charged or sent on approval, should you get an article that is not satisfactory we will exchange it for other goods. Sale Next Door Above Faifey and Weeks' in F. R. Malpass Go's Old Stand. J. C. PEERS AND F. F. MALPASS < < ( < i If You Want to Get the Comic Supplement You Had Better Pay Your Subscription before the First.