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VOL. XVIII. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1904. ON THE RIGHT LINE. | Judge Parker Makes Tract and Cor poration Corruption the Issue. ALL Oil PX0PL1. Some Strong and Truthful from a Chicago Paper. TH1 REPUBLIC AH 8 ARX WARRED BT VIBICHB 01 GHOSTLY POEMS. Brea nee All the Big Truata Hare Con tributed L'lterallT to Their Cam paign Fund aa Charged by Parker. A dispatch from Washington says it is understood tb« re on good author!■ ty tblae theserlous Intention of Judge Parker to have the Democratic mata- gers make the paramount and closing issue of the campaign on the quest!t n of trust and corporation corruption in campaigns, as evidenced by theii enoimous contributiors to the Re publican national committee. So many favorable comments have been made on the speech dell vend recent ly hy Judge Parker, in‘*biob tty trusts weie charged’ with contributing heavy sums^ tty Republican cam paign that they might be tytyfitted by the continuation of the Republi can party in power, tUat Judge Pan ker has' comeJ/j the conclusion that the country is arc used to a high pitch over what appeals to him as nothing more nor Uss than the pureha-e o! immunity" ,fnm a great political party. V v That speech has created consterna- among Republicans in Washing The Chicago Tribune. makes admirable saying: j There are some Northerners who koow more about Germany and about taly and perhaps about “the roman tic and picturesque Balkan penin sula, than they do about Georgia and South Carolina, and Texas. Conse quently, they show more sense when they are talking about less majesty, >r sb >ut the temporal power ^f the Jane Toppan ; the poisoner of thirty .ope, or about Turkish oppression , *7 \ ^ , thantbeydo wficir they wre talking 0116 people >jr ht^ pwn confession, about the r'g it of the ucg'O to vote. It is so ea»y to think that just be* ciuse you live in a country you must uaderstand it. The Southi rner and the Northerner ,are fellow citiz ns They owe al eglaoce to the same dag. Theiefore the Northerner is perfectly competent to tell the Southerner how to settle the negro question. - — The fallacy in this logic is that be cause of tty presence of the negro the social condition cf Charlestoo, S> C., ffers from tbst of Boston, Mass., more than that of Biston, Mass , dif fers from that of London. England. And a citizen qf BostOif'gelS otf'YfcY { ier in London than he dees in. Charleston. The negro question is greater than any other question in America. And it is not only greater but mote deli cate. Il ls a matter cf social as well as of political and industr al life. So, more tban almost any other question and elfeafiere, and is regarded^y that oouTd be tmagtned^tt needsTper-- obfflna arid eome^forth to torture her x ns close to the president as furn 'ng an issue that may in the last w weeks of the election change the entire tide of affairs, as now running The notorious fact that nearly every great trust and oorporatioa in the country has contributed heavily to the Republican campaign has never been so authoritatively and powerful ly emphasized as in the arguments presented by Judge farket^. At the same time his bold utterances give the lie to tbe recently cliculated story thatf he Standard Oil and other big Interests have lately gi^t up much money to the D. mocrjtic national com m It leer • It is admitted here by Republicans that what promisee to be damaging^ them Is rapidly spread log information, whloh was not ac cepted for a long time as accurate, that all tb% trusts and corporations have made peace with the adminis tration and will support Roosevelt. To offset this the litersry and news paper headquarters of the Republl can-committee have been deliberately giving out s'orles that the Standard 0.1 people have put up money for use in the close states in the last few days. The fact that this is false Is shown in the personal support of Roosevelt by PresIdehrStiHman, dl the City Na Words this SHE SEES GHOSTS. Jan* Toppan, Who Poisoned Thirty- One Victims, Herself Haunted She Has Gone Mad and Screams In Terror nt Every Bowl of .Soup . . ' • • ’ ■ ' or Cap ol Tea,Offered, . t Fearing Poison. < soual experience. Tne occasional negro of the North is not an adequate basis for studying tbe negro of the South. In the South the negro In many communities outnumbering the white, and there is a possibility of negro rule. Therefore, Northerner, if you have tUrl BBfl'UMWy U) flail new toefies, visit tbe South. Some of your fel lows have gene to ibe S* mh '&nd' fTave lived there for a few years. They you do. See it was that during her career as professional nurse, the most cruel woman murder er known in modern criminal history, is now suffering for her sins by a ter rible punishment at nglfure’s own hands or God’s, in the State insane asylum at Taunton, Mass., where she is kept. Her punishment is exquis itely more torturing and crueller than death or the grave. She. imagines that the dead victims have risen from their bombs and are trying to poison her. As tbe nurses bring a bowl of gruel or cup of tea to bier In her nar- row r oell she screams out: “It’s poisoned!'’ Sue pushes it away 'and covers her face with her bands to hide the s'ght of the bony fingers of >her dead patients clutching at her, and to shut out the vision of their death’s heads hovering over her. - -Itjs as if the ghosts of all whom she killed had burst loose from their to -death. From the plump, good looking, happy woman who entered the asylum two years ago, ohuckllng over her own cleverness in “fooling tbe doc tors,* as she called it, into calling her insane, she has become a raving ma- niax and a mere skeleton. When Jane Toppan was committed here in June, 190Y; many people leotrtc chair had ble measure to induce her to eat had been tried, Including special articles of diet from the superintendent’s table. A thorough physical examina tion revealed no evidence of bodily disease. On a recent visit she tygan at once on a tirade against the hospital, its offloera and all i s be ongings. She insisted that everything was “retteu,” that the meat was “emba med" beef, etc., etc. She persisted in these com plaints after being told that we bad just eaten the dim er provided for her which we found nutritious and palat able. Everything was filthy, sty said, even the brick walls, which must be saturated with the filth of years;” the water supp’y (which is taken from an artesian well) was “polluted with sewerage;” the vegetables were “rank poison.” She spoke rather anxiously about a general feeling of numbness, and asked what was the cause of it. She was entirely inac cessible to explanation, Argument, or even positive proof as to the impos sibility of her statements. Occasion ally she would burst out unexpectedly with peculiar and piercing shrieks of laughter which would seem impossible to one in her weak condition. Many of her iDdivcriminate ana senseless charges seemed to be rather the expression of an insane malignity toward every one than tbe outcome of genuine belief that they were true. But we were, at the same time, con vinced beyond a doubt that she was also suffering from strong and genu ine delusions of persecution by poison ing, because ber,be)ief in this regard so-consistently influenced hex . cun THE ELECTION. THI PRUIDMT km. TBS ■01 Senator Tillman Thinks JtdftParker Has a Good Chance. HE BAYS WATSOH IB DIB0U8TIIG. The Senator Says He Cannot Under stand Why the Georgian <>p- . poeea Hie Section and People. The Augusta Chronicle says Hon. B. R. Tillman, United States senator from South Carolina, spent several hours, in the city Wednesday night, while on his way from his home to Kentucky and Indiana, where he g >es to make speeches for Parker. He was seen by a Chronicle reporter to whom be talked interestingly of tbe national campaign. "I have never been whipped In my life,” said the senator when asked bis opinion of Parker's chances. ‘ T never admit that the enemy has tbe best of us, and always take an optimistic view of a contest. Rut I feel like the Democrats have a good chance to go in this year. I base this opinion on what I have seen and heard from the lEMst and West. 1 spake in Illinois several times soon after tbe campaign began there, and then I could not tell much about that slate. I see that Career Harrison has seen Pai ker and How the Violent Have Been Enoow aged to Break tbe Law. “Ti e prevalence of lynching in this country and in all parts of it has brought our good name and fame Into disrepute, and justly discredited our boasted American civilization. High functionaries of the Republican party, recognizing this fact, vie with each fierce ~Stiliman, of the tlonal bank, of New York, the Insti tutloo owned acd controlled by the Standard Oil people. President Still man is one of the men who lunctec with the President durlrg the summer and who came out for him. As Still man is the banker for the Standin Jll interests the story is regarded here as being a clumty attenfpt to de :eive the people, as Judge Parker states the Republicans have done al along on the tiust question. Democrats at tbe Democratic con Z rest lor al headquarters b illeve that Judge Parker, has put tty question of the Republicans being bought up by big ooDtributions in inch a way as to demand answer and exp icit and clear answer fnm high sources, and there are indications here that an attempt will be -made that way, but at the same time it is declared to be tbe purpose oMhe Democratic managers to use the issue from now on and to direct every Democratic stump speaker to present the facts to the country. In the West the Republican masses have teen made to believe that Roosevelt was the greatest trust buster in this cr any other age and i"Tew don't feel now quite as If you can find out what modified their opinions. Go South and watch the descen dants of Washington, Madison, Jack- a travesty on justice son, Marshall, Jefferson, Clay, .Ual houn, Polk, and L“e while the^ bone of our bone and flesh of tyiriiesb. are working out, with errors of mind and with errors of heart, but with Ameri can pluck and hope, the greatest do mestic problem that ever ate into tty heart of a civilized people. Come back, and if you still think that.they are wrong you will say so Id a differ ent tone. That is said in a truly American spirit and Us tone should pervade the whole land. What a pity that we have not, at this especially opportune time, at the head of the qation a man with this catholic view of his coun try! . ■ Goes lor Uoosevelt.\ President Roosevelt Friday receiv ed an open letter from General James N. Tyner, former assistant attorney general for the pcsU til ie department, who several months ago was a< quitted of tbe charge of conspiracy in connec tion with the alleged favoring of cer tain alleged get rich quick concerns. The letter, says the writer was prompted by the recent appearance in a popular magazine of an ‘inspired article,” which is such » deliberate tissue of fahebood and is circulated with such an evident purpose “that he could not Ignore it.” General Tyner bitterly arraigns President Roosevelt-Jor bis unwarranted “pro clamation of guilt,” and prrc?eds: “Your accusations are false and have been proven false, but I have no fur ther means of establishing this ex cept by going ipto the courts, and 1 have too much respect for the high office which you occupy to do this. In my letter to you of December 2, 19G3, protesting against lour unwarranted something of-the same impress ion has) proclamation^! defied you to produce rbtained In tbe East. The charge a scintilla of evidence in support of that the only busting he.is doing now your accusations and jjow, after I £9* V- is that of tearing a hole in the reserve ^-Ittfids of the trusts for campaign will have a different sound if pressed to the fionit in strong and vigorous fashion to the close of tbe campaign. Tty belief strongly prevails that Judge Parker has started on the right track at tbe last momsnt and that he —It clearing the way for thousands of independent vote-'. The immense corruptiofi funds for campaign pur poses are cophog to be regarded by fair and patriotic men of all parties as full of danger to the country, and Judge Parker clearly points out that it is too late to begin the uprooting of this in this election. The fight ipust be carried on in tbe future, and the patriotism of the country appealed to steadily and persistently until the party using the money of great cor poration Interests will be thrown out of effloe by the people. . -—The ownership -of political- parties by rich men' and corporations began In the states and has gradually ex tended, as Judge Parker, says, to the national ownership. The Southern Pacific read has long run both politi cal parties in California, but more particularly the Republicans. In Florida a few railroad and hotel magnates virtually select the majority of the Important candidates for office. The MiQblgan Central railway, In Michigan, commands tbe same obedi ence to Its behests and gets what It wants. So It is In a dozen states of the country. ' „ • ■ i ■■ ■'ll . "i- ^ W*' " ma ~ • t $ JapaneM OMoelttes. According to a dispatch received by the Japanese legation at Washing ton from tbe foreign office at Tokio, tbe total casualties suffered bv tbe Japanese army in killed and wounded, have gone to trial and every act Of and official life has been laid bare and hot a panicle oY~evF dence has been produced against me, you seek to shield yourself by saying I was not tried for what you accused me of, but for something else. TUat is false; tbe records show, and yon know it.” Last Licks ol Campaign. The work of the remaining week of tbe Presidential campaign will be con ducted by b >tb Republic ins and Dem ocrats principally in New Y< rk, New Jereey, We?>t Virginia, Indiana and tbe Rocky mountain States. Tbtf'Re- publican national committee in New York is claiming 317 votes, as follows: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansa«, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minneiota, Montana, Ne braska, Nevada. New Hampshire, ’Kew’ jersey. l^^'Vorffr^orth Da kota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, West Virginia, Wiscon sin and Wyoming. They concede to the Democrats the solid South, mak ing 151 electoral votes, and place Maryland In tbe doubtful column. Tbe claims of the Democrats include, In addition to tbe solid South, Colo rado, Connecticut, Delaware, Idaho, Indiana, Maryland, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New. York, Utah and West Virginia, which mak s a total of Democratic claims of 25R electoral votes.' ■ . / ’ ' “ Only wi Bluff. Those bets In New York are prob ably made by Republicans to lufiuenoe sentiment. The New York Evening fyst has cffiled tbe bluff, and an investigation learns that only thought that tty el« been robbed Of Its rightful victim, declared that no form of execution known to law could be torturesome enough for this inhuman woman. Some even went so far as to call it U> allow such a tigress in human form to escape legal execution. But.now the wisdom of the insanity experts and df the courts has Its fair right to consideration. Nature, through Gcd, in Its own way, is working a punishment more terrible than m diavial torture could have devised upm this woman, wbb dan d to violate one of the great Ten Commandments: “Thou shalt^not kill!” Day and ntyht she is living over the crimes she committed. Sometimes tbe wing In which she is confined is aroused at night by pierc ing shrieks and tbe cry of “Fire, fire." it is Jane Toppan in her cell imag ining that some one is setting fire to tbe bed on which she is sleeping. Four times she set fire to bouses where styT living—at Profess ir Wilson's, in Cambridge, In tbe hope that the shock and excitement would kill weak, sickly Mrs. Wilson. But this plot Tailed. Again at tbe Dakin cottage, at Cataumet, on Cape Cod, she started a blaz s in a cloeet to de stroy aged Mr. and Mrs. Alden P. Davis. This attempt also failed, so she pnlanned both of them a few weeks later. On two other occasions she is known to have set fires to see her vie-' Urns joast. Now she is haunted by the fear that others are trying by burn her alive. Week by weei£ Jane Toppan Is growing weaker as her crazed mind Is racked by torments. Within tbe last week the physicians at the asylum have c:me to think she cannot live the year out. Nearly every day or night she breaks out with some new phantom of fear. - One night sty alarmed the patients and attendants in the north wing with frantic cries of— ^IleTp,: tyljLr-floctor—they're poi soning me.” When a nurae reached her cell Jane Toppan was dashing round the small room with padded walls, fighting off soma imaginary assailants. See,” she moaned to the nurse, “s3e bow Minnie Gibbe has put mor phia into my arm,” and she bared aer arm to the shoulder. The blood was dripping from it where sbe had scratched it with her own finger nails in qer wild desire to dig out the im aginary poison. Jane Toppan kllleeL Mlnnle Gibbs by injecting morphia and strophia byperdermlcally into her arm when her patient^ was too weak to swallow poison in liquid-form: Dr. Stedman, tbe famous alienist, who siill continues to study Jane Toppan’s case, telis of her physicla c illapse this year by starving herself and beet min g red uced almost to tnrouglTTeir of belng pdtioZf duct that her refusal of food had prac tically reduced her to a skeleton, and repeated forcible feedings bad no ef fect in changing her ecnvlc’ions. Her persecutory ideas vary in strength from time to time, but the delusions of suspicion fr.m which th:y spring remain unshaken. - By the progress of her disease Jane Toppan has come to believe that not only' every article of food that Is brought to her, every cup of tea or coffee and every glass of water, is poisoned. She can see the spectres of her vic tims hovering over her and dropping the poison into these things just as she used to do to them. Oae of her favorite methods was to dissolve an atrophia tablet in a glass of mineral water and hold it up smil ingly as a draught of health. This Is the way she drugged poor Mr. Alden P. Davis to death. If her patten’s were particularly fond of tea or coffj she dis lived morphia or atro phia tablets in their cups. * When Jane Yoppin was first com mitted to the asylum she was^permit- ted to mingle with tha other mildly Insene patients, But as her delusions became more frequent and sbe_ broke forth into violent tirades against the other patients and the hospital atten dants, she was removed first t > the in firmary and later to a secluded cell In the north wing. The windows have gratings and It is in reality a prison. “1 saw them ^jalL. last night,”, she said one morning this week when tbe nurse came to her room with tray of crust, c ffee and bread. “What do you mean Jane,” asked the nurse, as she noticed'the unnatur al brightness in J ane Toppan’s hollow sunken eyes. ^ - “Why, all the people I have killed," the wofiaab said for the moment ap pearing perfectly rational. “They al came and gathered around my bed in the night. There were the Davises, and Mr. and Mrs. Dunham, and Myra Connors, and Mrs. Brigham. ' MTs. Bannister, Mrs. Gibbe and Mrs. Harry Gordon—oh, I’m sorry l killed her she is so pretty”—and here the bar dened murderess, wbo once seemed to know no such thing as human sorrow >urst Into tears. Then, recovering Dereel f, she went on; —i.—--- pfomisedTiim to carry ChidAgor which I am confident that be can do. If Chicago goes Democratic by 25,000 majority, Parker will have an excel lent show for carrying the Slate of Illinois. I believe that Indiana will go Democratic, if for no other reason because Taggart is on bis mettle there and will bend every effort in bis pow er to get Ids own state—and I believe he will. He is a wonderful worker." “What about the East?” the re- other In fferoe denunciations of tbs practice. It Is too much to ask them /) remember that a mob has as much right to be a law unto Itself as a Pres ident or Cabinet minister, or a Con gress; that, in its ignorance and un disciplined passions a mob has excuses i or Illegal violence which its superiors in station and cnlightment cannot plead; and that obedience to law, un der whatever circumstances and In spite (f all seductions by the highest In office, as well as the lowliest of pri vate citizens, Is patriotism of tbe genuine type compared with which the exerc’se of tbe fighting instincts and propensities which we share with tbe brute creation Is of little worth and small accoun(?_ He»who will not govern himself by the law has no right to aspire to gOYMP others. - Against tbe self-seeking, the con ceit, the Impatience of legal and con ventional rest; aints,the devouring am bition, which are at tbe bottom of such a candidacy, the Democratic party protests not in words merely, but by the very character of Its noml nee for the Presidential e flbe. It not only antagonizes Republican policies ar already descried--Hi Bubmlts to the judgment and conscience of the American people that, whatever may A DOCTOR SU The Trifle Bad to Family Oumli 0 ver Religious Matters. BAG AFFAIR Dr. Van Telbnr* Borman Severely Beat* Hie Wife and Than Blew BrafaS With a Shotgun. Dr. Van Tel burg Hofmkn commit ted suicide o’clock Monday morning abort tz: residence, 124 sooth anai Main street Sumter, S. 0., by shoot ing tbs left side and top of his head off with s breechloading shotgun. A special dispatch to Tbs State says be did the deed while standing—plac ing the muzzle of the gun near the corner of bis left eye and polling tbe trigger with bis right thumb. He was found on bis back, bis head near the wall and tbe gun lying acroes bis body. Brains wets spattered against the wad and celling and pieces of akoll were toand-on t is fl jot. Ooroner Flowers held an inq teal at. 10.30 o’clock and the jury rendered a verdict that tie deceased cam * to hla death by a gunshot wound 1. fl cted by hla own hand. •' It is stated that the direct caoae of the suicide was a quarrel with hla wife, whom he beat Monday morning. gather slice their marriage. M one porter asked. T am confident that New Yoik will go for Parker. As to New Jersey and Connecticut I am not so sure, think that our young man, Davis, will be able to take West Virginia. Oh, no, bis age will not have any effect, fur ther than having given him a long time to electioneer and get influence am also confident that we have good showing for several of the West ern doubtful states. ” “What do you think of the effect of Watson’s candidacy?” ventured the reporter. Tbe senator laughed one of those aughs that be got off not long ago, when a reporter asked him the same question, and when be did not have t,be time to reply, and followed with one of those characteristic looks of derision, as he repUed- - : \ “Tom Watson Is to me one of the “But they’re all after me' now^- thlrty one of them—some want to poLon me, and some q^noe at me with their skeleton hands as if they would choke Tne: the, they *re coxrtng-for me- now—help, murder”—and the- poor, demented creature fell back qpon her cot in a parcxyl m. of insane fear. Jane Toppan is paying the penalty most disgusting men In Americjn pup- lic life.” _ “But, Senator, he seems to have ad miration for you. He says that he ia_ ready to fottow you on the proper platform,” commented the interview er. / “As for that, the admiration, per sonally, Is mutual,” he replied. “I ad mire his brilliancy and unusual intel lect,” but”—and here the noted South Carolinian assumed one of those posi tive looks before which great men have quailed—“I can’t see how any man can forgslffis Dative country, dis very people, the people of his mother and his children, and do all be can against one of th^ir most material * >1 IL1UC7X X. “Unless he is paid," suggested a bystander. “I cannot conceive,” replied the senator, “of Tom Watson being paid to act as be is doing. “I can’t believe it. I .just think that the man lacks balanoe^No, I cannot see bow anyone can deny that we have a race question here.” When asked as to the probable ef fect on ttitab.Hf: ^ did not think the effec lerial for or against either of the parties, fh New York he was confi dent that Debs would poll a large vote, and that tbe socialist poll would be the policies, the Republican Candi date for the Presidency has demon stratedhis unfitness to be tbe bead and tbe official representative of a free, a law-abiding and peace loving people. In its own nominee It presents a candidate who Is the exact antithesis of the Republican candidate; a man ofmodesty and self restraint. Not a gloritier of war, hut a representative of tbe absolute supremacy of the law, which is the "Very climax of the triumphs of peace; not a seeker of office, but sought forby it; a man by nature and training and experience reverential of the Constitution and laws, and sure to be governed by them himself and to insist that all others shall be; a man who can be relied upon to recognize the people as tbe source of all political power and himself as their boevor overlord, butss simp ly the agent and exponent of their will; a man not compelled to repubiate his convictions as a private ettisen and public expounder of economic and political truths in order to justify his acts as National Executive and keep bis place as a party candidate; a man, in short, who will model himself upon Washington and our other great Presi dents, and not upon the Emperors and autocrats Of the present day.” On occasion, several months ago, he beat bis wife unmircifully—so much so that the called la another physician to treat her. This physician went to Hof man and told him that tbe neat time such a thing oocurnd he would be exposed and punished. It is believ ed that when be repeated tbe act Mood.y mo nlug be preferred-death rather than cxposuie. ,j|- « ~ e The servants state that they had not bet n on peaceabh terms for sev eral days; that they quarreled Sunday, and it was renewed at the breakfast table Monday m truing. Mrs. Hof- man left the table for the parlor, stating that she would pack up and leave ou the next train. He followed her to the psrlor, and a moment later grabbed her by the sh uldera and beat ner he id agaiust the wall and dop He then went out and lacked her Inside, but aha escaped through a window opening on tbe pteaa to a neighbor’s hou-e a few feet away, screaming and blood streaming down her face. When the doctor retoumed and found her gone be shot hlmsslf Borne believe that it was hto pnrpoas to first kill her. fl# was a man of very violent temper when aroused, and it was all done In a moment of m From Richard Gnley’s Great Speech In New York. A FLYiHG MACHINE. It Take* s Flight of Ten Mile* Acres* the HlMlMippl. Propelled part of the way by its own power and tbe remainder of tbe distance by the wind, which was blowing at 10 miles an hour, Tbe Arrow, an airship, owned and per fected by Thomas S. Baldwin of San Francisco, In charge of A. Roy Kna- bensbue of Toledo, Wednesday made an unannounced flight of 10 miles from tbe world’s fair grounds over St. Louis and across the Mississippi river to Cahbkia, Ilia. — — Tbe aerial performance attracted the attention of thousands of persons wbo cheered almost continuously as the big flying machlce psssfedoyer tbe exposition grounds and soared high above the high buildings of the bus! ness quarter of St. Louis. Clinging to the frame work of the an Iron Tijlman replied that he, tube that forma.one side of the would bO-ma of her crimes by Nature 1 * ojr. eoma-from the R^pubHcaus. In the 7 _ * h ' "»■ < skeleton tl ed through her food: She had bee: ms very abusive to the nurses, defying their authority and inciting patients to do tbe same, go ing so far as to about to a melancholic whom tbe nurse waa trying to fee not to eat tbe food as it was poison. Her physical condition* had fallen off greatly. She had lost fifty pounds in weight in a few months In conse quence of her refusal of food because of false belief in regard tQ.lt, . Owing to her weak condition she was remov ed to the infirmary. ' By February, 1904, she was greatly emaciated, haring lost oyer eighty pounds, or about half her normal weight, and was so weak that fo.ced feeding with the tone was resorted to for several days, sines which time she has eaten temporarily, but just enough to avoid being fad again. The artlfl cal fssd ng wu only resorted to after perstotsat persuasion tad every poasl own law in a way that is an apalting moral obj ict levson—that no one can take human life, even if he escapes punishment of human law, without suffering Jtty most awful tortunes to the end of his or her own wretchd ex istence. - ' Y Will Not Preach. Colonel James H. Tillman will nob enter the ministry, right away any how. And if he did take such a.step: he has his text plckrd for his first sermon. In speaking of the report that he intended to enter the Metho dist ministry, the colonel said. “I am amazed that, sQ-serlouaa matter.-^Xoi, sen- the sole purpose of a newspaper sation, has been telegraphed all over the country. Surely I might be per mitted to attend to my own affairs. Since my return to Eigefield I have diligently applied myself to the prac tice of my profession and the oourt calendars will show that It Is now larger than ever.” . (Saved from the Deep. The schooner Oordeda Hayos, which arrived at San Juan, P. R., Wednes day, brought to pejit passengers and crew of the Brithlsh steamer Kelvi, which was swamped and abandoned on October 7 th. Those rescued num bered forty-two. Ihey left the ship October 7, when twe days out of New York bound for Montevideo. They took to open boats and spent seven teen days i a awful torture at sea us til the Hayos Friday picked them op. West Watson’s vote would come as much from tbe Republicans as from tbe Democrats. It would Dot be a large vpte, Jn bis opinion, anywhere vJ’Lam depending, n >t on the wild, changeable vote, in this campaign,” eaid the senator, “but on the sane, const rvatlve people to elect Parker The people who own property and have large Interests at stake, dou’t know when the present regime is li able to tear up the financial conditions or plunge the country into war. I de pend on tbe people in the North, who own property In the South, and who will for dollar interests, if not for others, vote for Parker; for they know that to tear up social couditions, Cau>e strife and demoralization and endang er the welfare of property interests here. On this calm, sane, conservative vote in the East and West I depend for Parker’s election.” The senator left on the Georgia train Wednesday night for Atlanta He will go direct to Kentucky, and after making two speeches iq_tbat state, wUl go to Indiana to assist Tag- . gart. He will be there until November 1 ]■&, and won’t be SouthagaioTmtH the day of the election. He said that he would try to get home in time to vote. c of tbe triangular network of supports and rlbe of The Arrow’s body, Kna- bensbue directed tbe mo^jo^nts of ttyUying machine and manoeuvttd In circles and against the wind high over the great buildings of tbe exposition before an accident to the motor ren- dr red tbe big fan propellers useless and curtailed command of direction, but not of su pension or desoension. WLen the motor broke Knabenahue manoeuvred the flying machine into the wind, and be was enabled to steer the arrow in a course that varied sev eral points either way froin tbe trend of the wind and to land at a point of his own selecting. When within 10 feet of the eartlr, Knabenahue threw out bis grapple, and one of the books caught In a large tree. Tbe large balloon settled slowly to tbe ground, resting lightly on it* framework. . Krubfinahue alighted, MKttrsd—tty airship to prevent injury from tht wind and assured Mr. Baldwin by Many rumors are in circulation as to why they disagreed, religion tying given by some, but tbe whole trouble seems to have been uncongenial!ty, different temperaments sod tastes. Dr. Van Telburg Hofmau was boro In Holland 38 years ago. Ha oaaM to Sumter in 1899 from Norfolk, Va., to take charge of the relief department of this division of tbe Atlantic Coast Line. He bad a very floe practice In Sumter and was considered as a man making money. He was assistant sur geon at Mood’s infirmary, member of 'he board-of health, officer in Sumter Training School for Nurses, surgeon of tbe Atlantic Oosst Line, Instructor In physiology and hygiene at 8k Joseph’s academy, member of tbe Knights of Phytblsa, Woodmen of tbs World, B. P. O. E. and the Catholic church. He was a popular man, courteous and kind in his dealings with hto fellow- man. I Dr. Hofman was very highly edu cated. He was a graduate of a uni versity of h’s native country, of Bell- vue Medical college, New York, and Richmond Medical college. He had considerable experience practicing In Russell of Newberry, daughter of J. 8. Russell, deceased, and a nleosof State Treasurer Joinings. They Parrot Urled for Help. At Chicago excited by ahrlli cries for help coming from a burning build ing, firemen fought their way through flsmea to save a supposed person, and returned with a parrot that belonged to H. 8. Fewer, whose rooming house 15,000 by tbe fire. - *>■ telephone that Tbe Arrow was unin jured, except, for the minor breakage of tbe motor. After landing Ko&benshue said that in his opinion the trial of the airship waa a distinct success. Tbe airship was constructed under tbe personal supervision of Capt. Baldwin in California, and differs In many features from ships constructed to the past. f . - — It carries a double cylinder, seveD power gasolene engine, making 2,000 revolutions of the propellers a minute possible. The machine to arranged so that the ship to pulled instead ol pushed. Wednesday’s flight was not a trial for the world’a fair 1100,000 prise, Capt. Baldwin said, but simply a trial to convince tbe rssldeots of St. Loui- Mend tbs world’s fair viators that he had an airship that could fly. after a very short acquaintance. before her marriage Mrs. Hofman clerked for Ryttenberg Sc Sons, and Schwartz Broi/or that cHy. knJ her fld employers speak in the very' algbest terms of her as a lady of character and refinement, and all j there who know her well apeak tbs iame way. She is a coni*tent member of the Methodist church and loved by the officials and members of that church. The funeral, of Dr. Hofman took place at the convent chapel Tuesday morning at 9 o’clock and the interment at the cemetery immediate ly afterward. Summary of Cotton Ginned. A bulletin^ issued by tbe deasos bureau gives a summary of the reports on cotten ginned in the Pnitefl States in the present year up to October 18. The report cover 96 counties, and strews a total of 426,883 running balsa, as against 292,669 running bales re ported from the same counties for the same period last year. The oounttos covered are in tbe States of Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, iissippi, Missouri, North South Carolina, Tenne see, 1 Virginia. Georgia makea U showing with 34 counttea a 744 bales, as agaloat 117,1 ast year. The number of from walch reports we 2,411, as against 2,342 for II comparative statement tor j that up to October 181 total of 3,838,827 ginned. Tne total i <0 m If w