ESTABLISHED 1891. BAMBERG-, S. 0., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1899. ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR. ^jj
A DISPENSARY SENSATION li
THE BOARD DROPPED DOUTH1T. j
Two Hundred Pag<>s of Sworn Testi- *
uiony Brings to Light Some Ugly 5
Transactions?Loose Methods Gen- !
eraliy in Vogne. (
The State board of control has acted c
upon the report of a special committee, c
consisting of Messrs. Haselden and I
Robinson, who were appointed a month ,
ago to investigate the management of
contraband goods, and this report re- s
suited in the removal of Commissioner
J. B. Douthit, of Anderson, who was J?
formerly a member of the State board.
A synopsis of the report is as follows : 0
The attention of your committee was *
fir^t directed to the condition of affairs c
of the contraband at the State dispen- 2
sary building and all matters connect- F
td {herewith.
We are constrained to say that tD* 11
d-fficuitks your committee encounter- H
ed in its inquiry have been many, but "
we are abie to present the facts em- ?
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braced in eiUdavits irom bouso iu ^
, position to know from their personal 0
knowledge and from official figures ob- ,
talned from the bookkeepers of the institution,
whicb are herewith filed and
made a part of this report. *
Your committee summoned Consta- w
baiary Clerk Harris and requested a ,w
statement from him showing all contraoacd
goods reported to mm as seizeu '
and shipped in by the constables dur- u'
ing Mr. Douthit's administration. ^
The statement requested was furnished*
and it covers the receipt cf
goods for a period of time commencing
10th March, 1898, to 12th September,
1899. w
We find that if Commissioner Dout- w.
hit is charged with all contraband
goods seized during his administra- ? j
lion. as reported to Constabulary Clerk
Harris as having be en sent in to the A
dispensary, this will amount to $4,333. q
72, and after giving him the proper
credits, there is a deficit of $1,155.82 ^
worth of contraband goods unaccounted
for.
But the receiving book at the contraband
room, kept by H. E. Watts, snows s?
that during the same period of time
covered by Clerk Harris* statement, 8U
that Commissioner Douthit is to be
charged with only the sum of $4,069.77 ^
?a difference of $262 95 between ?
Harris' statement and Watts' books at
I St*.
. the State *ispensary. "
After charging Commissioner Dou- ,
thit with the sum of $4,069.77 of contraband
goods, according to Walts' .
books at the Slate dispensary, and ?
after giving him the proper crtdits, sv
there is a deficit of $741.57.
But the committee find that the pro ?
per deficit is $1,155.92, for the reason ,,
that there are contraband goods fouad v
elsewhere in the building for wmch
no records have been kept of their receipts
at the contraband room or else- inl
where. We have sworn testimony of S0]
tne receipt of contraband gooas at the *ei
dispensary which were stored away in
the commissioner's office and else*
where on the premises, but a^the con ha
stables were warned that the State tb
commissioner would examine contents
of packages of contraband liquors m{
sLipp&d to him, and compare them te
with the contents as reported on the
label attached to the package, and
as we have sworn statements from tbe su
chiefs aDd others of the constabulary un
force that this order was given to tne or(
men, your committee is irresistioly ce
led to the conclusion that Commissioner
Dou hit received the $262.95 worth
oi contraband goods, and he is charged c0
with this item. th
Watts' books at the contraband room er
show that he had released the sum of th
*390 2ft worth of contraband goods to **
be returned, yet when your committee tn
requested a statement from the com- les
missioner as to the amount of contra- du
* band goods actually return d, it shows tr!
only tae &um of $168 90 worth returncu
?a difference of $151.30 between fu:
Watts' books and Commissioner Dou- m)
thit's books. So that, we find that of
this difference of $151.30 should be m'
charged back to the commissioner. St
Addmg the $262 95 to the $15130
makes $414 25, p.us tne sum of $741.57 cb
mskearthe sum of $1,155.92 which veri- on
I lies the Harris statement. itj
Your committee was unable to find ev
. any stat- meet on the books showing fo:
the amount of contraband goods ac- in
tually turned over to Commissioner ce
Douthit when he succeeded Commissioner
Vance, consequently Mr. Douthit
is not charged with "any goods
turned over to him by Mr. Vance.
We noticed from the records that
the following contraband goods have ac
been reported as seized, and turned in: M
248 glasses, 4 waiters, 12 ice tubs, 14 so
crates. 4 refrigerators, 25 bottles, 3 ar
glass boxes, basket and beer glasses, 2 a<
stills, 60 gallon capacity each, 2 copper
still , one lot of still fixtures, 5 mules a;
and one horse, 2 wagons and harness, D
1 basket, 1 faucet at $12. We have as
not been able to thoroughly look into b<
the disposition of such articles as above hi
enumerated, on account of pressure of le
many other matters, but we direct tr
, your attention to an unauthorized pri- re
vate sale made by Commissioner Dou- fc
this to Constable LaFar of a horse. 2
We refer you to LaFar's testimony on
this subject. it
We call your special attention to the si
loose way of doing business in regard fcr
to the disposition of empties. We
learn, frojn the testimony of Superin pi
tendent Bryant, that at least two d
hundred and fifty kegs, fifty jugs and h
demijohns were sold by him during <m
Mr.' Douthitfs administration, and he ii
states in his affidavit that this does w
not include sales made by other officials c<
at tiie dispensary ouuuiug , uu?v ?
Bry nt received for sales made by dim a
at least the sum of $50, and turned the y
proceeds over to Bookkeeper Ouzis. b
We rtquested a statement from Cum- h
missioner Douthit, showing all sales of G
kegs, jugs and demijohns since he has F
been in office, and while his statement
is indefinite because he refers to sales ii
made in the plural number, ana sets ii
opposite the amount, but he closes his c
statement with a showing o! the sum a
of $54.75 worth of such articles sold, n
whicn, he saye, includes all sold during
his incumbency. We find that d
empties sold as high as fifty cents c
each. Mr. Bryant status that the re o
ceipts were turned in to Bookkeeper s
Ouzts for the same to be recorded. i
Without any comment as to the un- i
lawful selling after hours, and toe
sa?es made from the State dispensary 1
building in smali quantities to "a num- t
ber of parties of ail ages and coior f
who brought pitchers, buckets, etc.,'- t
we refer you to tne sworn testimony.
We desire also to direct your careful J
attention to the evidence, showing s
that the building has beeD found open
at nig^t; that, oc one occasion, three !
barrels of whiskey have been found at !
night on the platform, p.nd allowed to <
remain there that night, the next
day (being Sunday) and the following
night.
^iTiOtber feature of our investigation '
into matters pertaining to contraoanu '
seizures, not considering thu contra
band liquors which are dumped and
botticd and shipped tc the v&r.ous dis
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pensaries of the State, we finl that tb<
>ales of contraband geods are large!;
confined to two local dispenser? in the
:ity of Columbia, aDd we iurbher tint
that su:h goods nave beeD sold cheap
3P to the consumers by local dispen
>ers than they are invoiced to dispen
sers.
We would invite the consideratior
)f the board to a practice which, ac
jording to the sworn testimony of the
lispensary employees, has beer car
ied on during the administration o
!k>mmissioner Douthit, known a:
'changing of labels" on wbiskev
hipped to the local dispensers.
It seems, from the testimony, thai
mder instructions from Commissioner
)outhit, that one firm's labels were
rde<*ed to be placed on another firm's
rhiskey, and that high grade laneis
ave been placed on lower brand ol
oods.
In this connection Superintendent
Iryant says : " Yes, I put up whiskey
a bottles with one firm's whiskey with
notiier firm's labels, but it was under
astructions from Commissioner Douait."
He further testifies that Lanaan's
labels were placed on the good;
f the Wilson Distilling company.
Ganttsavs: "Yes, whiskey is boted
with "one firm's label and with
aother firm's whiskey. I have never
nown him to put a label on whiskey
here the label was cheaper tha^j the
hiskey. We put X corn whiskey with
kbeis of XXX."
King testifies that whiskey was put
p last Saturday, and XXX label was
sed, but the firm name, " Wilson
istilling Co.," was struck off.
Barnh&rdt, the assistant superinindent,
testified that: 411 have never
cown him to put a label on whiskey
here the label was cheaper than the
hiskey. Have known him to put*on
> high as XXX label on Grover whisky?which
I have heard is X goods
1 1 s\ f /ihontTOd
QJiVO KCpii iiUB rciiUi u vi uulov kuau^vohis
has been in practice during Mr.
outhit's administration. They put up
rover's whiskey Saturday morning
ith Wilson's labels, but the name
rilson was struck off."
C. H. Charles, assistant bookkeeper,
ates "thatGrover's whiskey is classed |
X corn whiskey, and the difference
the price of X and XXX corn to conmers
is $1 per gallon."
We conceive it to be our duty to re>rt
the facts to the board as they
ally appear, but in our finding the
nclusion cannot be escaped that thio
heme of changing' the labels on
liskey shipped out could have been
vised for no other purpose than to
eate a way for collecting more money
r the goods sent out to the local disnsers
than the same were invoiced
to the commissioner ; and, further,
create the impression on the memrs
of the board that certain brands
ire becoming more popular, they
ing hard to keep in stock."
We finds that this practice of chang*
labels is not only done for the reads
stated, .but it is absolutely indexible
from any standpoint, and conivenes
the spirit and letter of the
w, aDd candor compels us to aud it
,s unquestionably worked a fraud on
e people of South Carolina.
We suggest immediate action in this
itter, and if this practice is now
ing carried on that it te forthwith
>pped.
We further find that the practice of
ostitution of orders has been iu vogue
der Mr. Douthit's administration?
tiers have been substituted when reived
from the city of Charleston and
>ewhtre in the State.
We find that, on the order of the
mmissioner, without authority from
e board, or without the commissionever
having reported his action to
e board, sixty-nine cases of wines
jre transferred from Dispenser Sto
art to Dispenser Stelling, in Charston,
on July 11th. The price was reiced
to one dollar per case when ibe
insfer was made. And exclusive of
is, by order of the commissioner, a
rther unauthorized reduction was
ide to the extent of $287.15 in sales
R?wr?Lr Hill unri Minora wines. These
itters resulted in a clear loss to the
ate of the sum of $402 65.
We find that the commissioner
anged the price list, issuing a new
e of August 1st, without any authorj7
from the board and without even
er reporting his action to the board
r its approval or disapproval, resultg
in a loss to tbe State of twelve per
ntum.
J. Djjdley Haselden.
T. C. Robinson,
Committee.
The report of the committee was
lepted after hearing a statement from
r. Douthit. Messrs. Haselden, Robinn
and Miles voted to adopt the report
id Messrs. Williams and Boy kin
rainst the motion.
Subsequently Messrs. Geo. Johnstone
id G. E. Prince, as attorneys for Mr.
outhit, appeared before the board,
id requested that he be given a full
saring, urging that the investigation
ad been ex parte, and that he had a
gal and moral right to be confronted
7 his accusers. The board declined to
iopen the matter, and adopted the
blowing resolutions by a vote of 3 to
as already given, namely :
Whereas, under the dispensary law
is provided that the commissioner
lall be subject to removal for csuse
y the State board of control, and
Whereas the committee duly apointed
to investigate the receipts and
isbursements of the contraband room
as in its report formally charged the
ommissioner, J. B. Douthit, with gross
'regularities and official misconduct
rhich, in the opinion of the board of
octroi?based upon his own admissions
-is sufficient cause for his removal,
fnv tchir.h nause the said board
UU V4 ?* ? _ _
eeterday removed him by vote of the
oard; and, whereas formal demand
as been made by his attorneys, Messrs.
leorge Johnstone and George E.
'rince, for a rehearing, be it
Resolved, That the board, realizing
ts responsibilities, and cognizant of
ts official duty in the premises, delines
to reconsider its action, and that
.s far as it is concerned the incident
Qust be closed.
Resolved further, That from tb is
late and p:nding the election of a comnissioner
all checks issued on account
if the business of the board will be isued
and signed by the clerk, B. C
iVcbb, and countersigned by the chair
nan and no other person or persons.
- Resolved further, That all papers re
ating to the said investigation b?
,urned over to the attorney genera
or such action as he deems proper t(
irotect the interest of the State.
Kiaolved further, That a copy o
ihese resolutions be served on Coramis
doner Douthit at once by the clerk.
Under the advice of his attorneys
Mr. D-?uthit has declined to relinquis:
the office, and the prospect is that tb?
courts will have to settle the matter.
It is the best outward application or w
would soon go out of business, as we guai
antee Alligator Liniment to prove satis
factory in the relief and care of Kheumt
tism, Neuralgia and all pains that a pent
rating application woaiid seem auvisabl
o use Try it! Don't take anything else.
d A GREAT OVATION TO BRYAN
y
" TrXAS DrMOCRATIC CARNIVAL.
l
lhe Tcxans Yell Until They Are
Hoarse When Bryan Appears?He
Makes a Strong Speech Against
} Imperviaiism.
The Democratic carnival at Dallas,
Texas, was a great success. Fully
10,000 persons were in the grand stand
f at the fair grounds when the speakers
5 made an appearance, and Mr. Bryan re'
ceived a grand ovation upon his entrance.
He spoke at night to an im'
mense audience, and was greeted with
' the utmost enthusiasm. He said in
! part:
1 " Lincoln in a message to Congress
; in' the earlj sixties, said mat no man
was more to be trusted in our government
than the man who toils in poverty.
I am not fiattering you when I tell
you that when the supporters of a Democracy?a
government where the
people rule, a government of the people,
by the people and for the peoplemust
find its support among the people
who work, among the c?mmon people,
if you please, and there i6 no 1
better indication of the departure of
the Republican party from tbe people
than is to be foun<i?i the fact that
whenever a man now speaks of the
plain people as Lincoln described them,
he is denounced as a demagogue. That
man is a statesman whose ear is strained
to catch the slightest pulsations of
a pocketbook, while he is a demagogue
who tries to listen to the heart beat of
humanity.
"But pardon me for dealing so long
with what you may call old issues. I 1
want to speak of new issues. If we
~ a/Iott nr? t V* Ck
COUlCt gO 10 LUC UUUUwrjr i?uuoj uu vuv
very same platform that we had in '
1896, and have do other issue pre- ]
sented, I believe that we could win our J
fight; but Providence hss been good i
to us, and in the last two years issues <
have been presented to us in addition 1
to those we had in 1896. We have '
not only grown on the old issues, but
we have grown on the new ones. The I
Republican party today stands for a J
large army. In 1896 we had 25,000 J
soldiers in the regular army,* and in
December, 1898, a Republican Presi- *
dent asked for 100,000 soldiers in the *
standing army, making four times as 1
great as that of 1896, a.- asked for by a t
President in 1896, and if any Rspubi - *
can tells you that the President wanted c
these soldiers to beat down an up- i
rising in the Philippine islands, you f
tell him that a Republican asked for 1
100,000 soldiers two months before t
there W88 any uprising in the Philip- t
pine islands. At the time the Presi- a
dent sent his message to Congress in J
the early part of December, there was t
no uprising anywhere. The treaty a
with Spain was practically agreed t
upon, and there was no evidence of any
necessity for a large army, except as a
a permanent policy of this govern- C
ment; so that when Mr. McKinley a
asked for the army it was not for an o
emergency, but it was for the p'-rma i
nent, continued policy of the United a
States. In other words we are to 1
choose between an army of 25,000 and r
an army of 100,000. I will venture the e
assertion that in any of the nations u
that have gone to militarism you can- p
not find an instance %vhere such a large i
increase was demanded. Consider a c
moment. Grant an increase of 300 per e
cent at the very first step. How easy e
it wiil be to give them 100 per cent e
o?/s ii. and then one hundred ii
auu uvuv*w 4?j
more and double it, and make it four u
hundred per cent. When you start on ;
the road from dependence upon the v
people to dep-naence upon prcfes c
eionai soldiers, there is no place to g
stop until you reach the endurance of i
the people. In Europe they have an
armed soldier riding the back of every t,
toiler. Tnere were men in the Re- c
publican party that wanted a large f
army. They nave wanted it for years, j
but they could not get it because there c
was no necessity for it, but the mo- i
ment the Philippine question came, t
how quickly did they take advantage
of it, and hiding behind what they
called a necessity, they then demanded *
this increase that they have wanted ?
for many years. I do not believe the
laboring men of this Union will look *
with favor upon this attempt to make J
a great military establishment, which,
when created, will not only be a bur- I
den to the producers of wealth, but
will be a menace to their government
itself. * j
"Some one has referred tonight to ,
the case of France. Wnen you find a t
great army demanding the conviction ,
of an innocent man, my frieDds, the |
French President had to immediately
pardon the convicted man out.of re- j
spect for the protests of the civil'zed j
world against militarism. (Cheers.) <
And when in this Union we have a J
great standing army, we would have a (
horde of life-holding officers. When
we have a horde of soldiers, we will j
?*. the hnrrinn that is borne I ,
UUl UUAjr ua.w ?.*?
in other nations, but a grave menace .
to the very principles of the life of ,
our government itself; and also, my ,
friends, if we have an imperial policy j
we will have a large standing army.
You never can reduce the army below (
100,000. It will be constantly aug- j
mented if this nation enters upon an ,
imperial policy, and let me say a word ,
here about that word imperialism, j
Our opponents do not like to be callea [
imperialists. I am not surprised. I
have known them before to object to i
words that described them. I remember
that in 1896 they did not want to ,
be called gold bugs ; they wanted to be J
called advocates of sound4money and of
an honest dollar; but they did not want
to be called gold bugs. It was not
until after the election that they blossomed
out as gold bugs and pointed to /
th9 victory, gold standard. And now
tbey do not want to be called .'imperialists.
Thty say they are expansionists.
Well, they do not seem to be expansionists.
The word does not fit. If
wo were going up in the wilds of
Canada and take a stretch of country
to be settied by American citizens, it
would be expansion. It would be extending
the limits of a republic ; but
when we cross the ocean it is not exi
pansion; it is imperialism. It is im
periaiism and no other term describes
; it. What defense do they give for an
imperial defense? INot one in ten wm
give any defense at all. The first man
you meet tells you that it is now too
late to discuss the question because
the ratification of the treaty settled
i that. The next man tells you that it
! is not time to discuss it yet because
) the Filipinos have not laid down their
arms. And the third one says that
f while he does not know what is going to
- be done, that he has implicit confidence
in the President. (Laughter.) It is
. unrd to get a man to defend imperial.
ism, but when you get a man who has
the audacity to defend an imperial
pciicy, you will find that he will make
.ns of three defenses, i have never
htard but three defenses of imperiale
ism. The first is the financial argumcnt,
that there is money in it. The
second is the rel gious argument that
j* God is in it. The third is the politi'e
cal argument, that we are in it, and
I can't get cut of it. (Laughter.) * These
i iiro the only three reasons that. I have
tvt r htard given. Let me say a word
i about each.
I 44My friends, I do not like to discuss i
j a great question upon the low plane i
! of dollars and cents. If I were to ask
30U what you thought of th3 cotnI
mandmeLt, 44 Thou shalt net steal,''
would you get a lead pencil and paper 1
and try to figure up the amount to he .
stolen and the chances of being caught
before you would give me an answer I
un the subject ? To me it seems to be j
as absord for a man to begin to calcu- 1
I--.. - ? -3?11 ... ? ~ tha txr i /?rn l?f 1
liitc 111 UUtiai ? auu UCIibC v..
an imperial policy. In 1S96 they denounced
the Chicago platform. Some
minister said that the platform was
written ia heli; another said that the
devil wrote it, and the last remark I
felt to be a little personal, because I
helped to write a part of it." I do not
oeiieve a single piank violates the ten
commandments or the morai law, auu
if you can show me a plank in that
platform which violates any of tue
commandments or any moral precept,
I am willing to abandon it and never
again advocate it. But tnere is no
matter what you may tbink of that
platform, the party's position upon tne
Pniiippine question sets fortn. so that
no Ktpub ican can urge that about it.
Tne position is this : Tnat this country
cannot afford to do wrong, no matter
how mucn it pays."
CHAMP CLASH TALKS DEMOCRACY.
Among the speakers at the carnival <
was Champ Clark, of Missouri, and a i
part of what he said is as follows :
"Little by little Ripublicaa leaders i
are throwing off the mask and showing 1
tneir utter contempt lor the principles '
of representative government and for j
the interests, the wishes and the wei- J
fare of tne American people. Day by <
lay they are demonstrating their com- f
piete surrender and servility to trusts, <
imperialism, militarism and the single 1
gold standard?the inexorable Moloch i
jf the nineteenth century. They are t
growing rapidiy not in grace ana good i
works, but in aisgrace anu bad works, <
" The process of ramming tne single
fold standard down the throat ol the i
Republican party goes merrily on, with c
dyrnan J. Gage, secretary of the troas- ?
lry, who ratted to the Republicans for ?
i cabinet portfolio, in the roil of ram- I
ner-in-cnief. One virtue doth Lym^D c
>ossess?he is a candid, out-and-out *
joldbug. In his pnilosophy, might f
nakes right, and having the power to t
istaoiish tne goid standard, ne pro- *
>oses to do it without doiay, without c
)aiaver and without mercy, in the end t
-.yinan and his coadjutors will have s
heir way, and w.li play ruwinessiy and C
leartiessiy the part ol Juggernaut lor e
uea timorous souls as benatorJohn c
d. Thurston, ol Nebraska, wuo go aban- C
ml moaning piteousiy aoout that ab- t
ndbned plank of 1896 in lavor of in- c
ernationai bimetallism. t
"if tney do whip iu ail their men g
.ndcarry the Atlantic City bill througn a
)ongr6ss, 1 make bold to predict that s
motQer Republican Congress will i(
icver sit in tne capitol at Washington, E
or the bulk ol tne American people a
>re opposed to "more thoroughly estab 1
ishlng the gold standard, opposed to w
etiring the greenbacks, opposed to a a
lew issue of luterest bearing bonds and c
lualterabiy opposed to larming out the 5
taramount and dangerous power of ex- e
landing and contracting tne volume oi E
urrency to any private person whsth S
:r natural or artificial. Upon tais broad- P
1 - ' * - ' ?. iMit thii </A\7? f C
ir na&ociajL ibouc ui whu^ ^v*
irnment shall retain the function of J
ssuing money or shall aodicate in favor v
if the National Ban* Association,
nousanas of hone&t and patriotic men ?
rho fought us in 1896 will raily under ?
iur banner, and, with Thurston's dis- v
[runtied free siiver McKtnley Kepub- 9
icans, give us the victory* ?
"The plain, unvarnished truth is that }
he R?publican party resembles a hill ?
if potatoes more than anything else, ?
or the best part of it is under grouod. c
The new-fangled and un-American c
loctrine of Asiatic inperiaiism has led ?
he Republican party into repudiating .
:very idea lor which Lincoln stood. 1
'How are the mighty fallen. The ^
>arly Republicaus deluged the contin- r
mt in blood to emancipate four brother j
n black latter day" Republicans pur- ?
ue a policy which reintroduces human t
ilavery in the Sulu and Hawaiian is- t
ands under the protection of the t
American flag, hitherto fondly called g
the banner of the free.' r
' James Buchanan, the last Demoera- r
ic president, sent an army to thrash j
3righam Young, the great Utah poly- L
?ami8t; William McKinley, the latest
ind, let us hope, the last Republican
president, pays tribute to the Sulu poygamist.
"Imperialism has led us into tolerat- j
eg a press censorship, into scoffing at
ihe declaration of independence, into
spitting upon the constitution, into a
practical abandonment of the Monroe
:oc trine. j
"Under Republican maladministra- ]
;ion we are to sacrifice every principle '
which we have cherished, every princi- J
pie which has tended to make us great
V.mnwarl ja q r?or?nl? in nrdfir that ^
ZfcUVA UVUV1 vu c*>9 H
we may bully a helpless people, fight- 1
ing for the inalienable right to govern J
themselves as they please?on their 1
Dwn ground?seven thousand miles j
from our shores. For the sake of hu- ]
man freedom, and in the name of the
proud race to which I belong, I protest 1
against such infernal idiocy. It is not
our duty to carry liberty to all the 1
world; it is our duty, and should be our '
pleasure, to attend strictly to our own '
business, keep out of world politics,
steer clear of world quarrels and preserve
the blessings of liberty to our !
posterity."
?A celebrated German physician is
authority for the statement that ail ;
our senses do not slumber simultaneously.
They fall into insensibility one i
after another. First the eyelids obscure
sight, and the sense of taste is
the next to lose susceptibility. Smelling,
hearing and touch follow in the
order named, touch being the lightest
sleeper aad the most easily aroused.
?It has-b:ea decided by the Bath
corporation to place a tablet uoou the
house in St. James squa* n which
Dickens was wont to reside on the occasion
of his visit to the old city
whither Pickwick retired after the
memorable trial. As it was while
staying at this house that the novelist
created JLittie inch, tae laoiet is p?itioularly
appropriate.
?The champion long distance horseback
rider in America is Mrs. Nellie
A. Wheeler of Greenwood, Ky., who
has completed a journey from her
Southern home to Kokomo, Ind., where
she is a guest of her uncle, Charles
? mmerman. Mrs. Wheeler made the
trip of 900 miles In less than three
weeks.
?Mrs. Mary S. Wilson, who recently
celebrated her 91st birthday at Oyster
Bay, L. I., is living in a house which
is nearly 800 years old. and on the
porch of which George Washington
shook hands with the people of the
town.
THE PASSING OP THE BANJO.
Tlie Negro is Less Mirthful and Les9 E
Improvident--More Morose and
More Melancholy.
Waterburv (Conn.) American.
David P. St. Clair has been revisit- ea
ing the South of his birth after a ten ^
years' absence. He contributes to the s0
Criterion various evidences of the a (
change which has passed over the negro
of the South, developing out of the tj(
"old time darky," "a self-conscious ^
colored man, less op imistic, less mii th- 0j
ful, less improvident, perhaps, more Da
morose, more melancholy, with a more ?e
acute sense of pain and suffering." In ^
short, under the new conditions, the tn
Southern negro is developing a sensi- <pt
tive nervous system like that of the an
white man, and with it the white man's m{
complaints, such as dyspepsia, sleep- an'
lo^noco roi.nniu hpariftp hp pt.p pf p _
iV,UCU^CC) XXV/1 ?--W - ?JJJ
One sign of the changed negro Mr. gri
St. Clair find? in the passiDg of the ba
banjo. "I saw a number of colored thi
excursions made up from both the jes
town and country, and not once did I tai
hear a banjo. But instead well-groom- \
ed colored men from town thrummed a g0'
guitar or Zither, or were busy winding wo
up a music box." Mr. St. Clair attri- y01
butes this to the desire of the Southern m0
negro to do what the white man doe3. pU
With the passing of the banjo has also ter
passed the spontaneous love of song ; 0f;
" the sort of song one was wont to hear $00
at the corn-husklngs, log-rollings, 93
house-buildings and railroad-buildings me
in the 70's and 80s." In a small town un]
in North Carolina Mr. St. Clair saw
fifty young negroes laying water pipes, thi
" working in absolute silence and iheir
faces as glum as so many Italian pipe W0;
layers in New York.'* He assed one tha
af them to start a song, but "the re- due
>ponse was so feeble that the tune soon the
lollapsed." The foreman explained to m0
aim : 44 Dese niggers can't sing no gre
nore like dey used to." Mr. St. Clair the
.hinks the explanation, 44 Dey's in no thii
nood," seems to 41 get near the heart wh
)f the secret." lim
For another thing, Mr. St. Clair exc
lotes the change of the negro in their woi
ihurches. . The modern organ, choir ful
md educated ministers hold the con- ine:
rregation's emotions well iE check, tha
le recently witnessed a scene in a the
loiorea enurcn in a boutnern city, sou
vhere the elegant and scholarly and
)reacher dropped into a strain of old- the
ime fervor and stirred every man and the
voman in the house to an intense ex- E
litement.' Attempting in vain to calm i6in
he storm he had raised the preacher go]<
at down in utter disgust. Mr. St. the
31air heard a half dozen sermons from kno
iducated colored preachers and not The
ince was the word " heil " mentioned, mes
)ne minister explained to him that and
his was due partly to a change in the- dre<
logical views, but also to the fact that it ip
' we cannot restrain our people if we coni
:o on talking to them about hell. We use)
, re now trying to teach our people to rea- and
on and think." In Mr. St. Clair'sopin- tive
on, the self-consciousness of the new g0ic
legro has brought with itself-restraint, Vah
,nd that not more than 5 per cent, of $50,
he negroes are guilty of the outrages rap
fhich have caused the lynchings. He abo
,dds that " in private the " severest 000
ritic of these brutes is the negro him- $40,
eif." OwiDg to the race feeling, how- $55
ver, the negroes are not able to de- t
ounce these outrages in public. Mr. trac
?t. Clair adds that " when a negro and
treacher 's able to declare from his soni
tulpit, 'Your race will outlaw you if t,un(
ou commit this crime,' then the crime tha
nil no longer be committed." WOr
Mr. St. Clair say3 that the colored ma(
nan, keenly conscious of his hard lot, ext]
s rushing into the towns and cities, rjer
yhere he is crowded into the foulest suc]
[uarters, entailing effects the most ap- p[a<
?aliing, especially developing consumpion
and insanity, whose ravages have t,ioc
titherto not been great among the ne- ove
'roes. He thinks that the negro is a 0f 1
leeply disappointed creature because 0^(
if the failure to give him the ballot qUtJ
md that every time he hears the word a?Q(
4 'lection " he has 44 some such sinkng
feeling as a disinherited son has ^ee
iver his lost inheritance." Despite paf
his, however, there is no race develop- pro
nent of malice. The negro's crimes, ^ a
le says, are largely the result of ignor- wjj]
inee and irritation. 44 But," he con- D
dudes, 44 with all the changes that are 8ec)
,aking place, the negro still remains r
he best judge of a gentleman in the ^a
Jouth. When he tells you this white t^e
nan is a gentleman and the other is
lot, you have got an opinion from an maj
nstinct that is never fooled on this de- ^er
icate point." 8k0
? Ed(
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. ^
nteresting Facts in Regard to the
Matter and the Changes That Will
Take Place.
The Scientific American considers it ^
leceasary to advise its readers that gm
,he twentieth century begins with the
Tanuary 1, 1901, and not with January Fili
L, 1900, as some of them suppose. racj
The Scientific American is unaoubt- Dar
idly correct, but it is strange how
nany persons and intelligent persons, gb|
wo, ?ill stand you down that the nine- gte;
jeenth century will end with the last ^oa
lay of December, this year, and that WQ]
ihe first moment of January, 1900, will out
be the beginning of the twentieth cen- oye
'Ury. sue
The fact that the great Paris ex- tr0
? - A U A1/) nflwf roa K Qa in.
position la bu uc uciu ucad juug
jreased the erroneous belief that the an(
twentieth century begins with the -t
year 1900, but the Paris exposition c&r
will celebrate the close of the nine- t
tesnth century, rather than the open- Qf (
Lng of the twentieth.
The twentieth century will open on
a Tuesday and close on a Sunday. It
will have the greatest number of leap ?n1
years possible for a century?twenty- tv5
four. The year 1904 will be the first *rf
one," then every fourth year after that v':
to and including the year 2000. Feb- gig
ruary will three times have five Sun- th<
days ; in 1920, 1948 and 1976. *
The twentieth century will contain is j
36,525 days, which lacks one day of tbi
being exactly 5 218 weeks. The mid- de
die day of the century will be January
1, 1951.
Several announcements are made of
changes to be inaugurated with the y<:
beginning of the new century. The to
first of imparlance is that Russia will
adopt the Gregorian calendar. This r
will be done by omitting thirteen days, an
the amount of error that will have ac- Ti
cumulated after the close of February,- c\{
1900. The Russian will then write So
January 1, 1901, instead of December tb
19, 1900, or rather, instead of both, ac- r( ;
cording to the dual system now in an
vogue in that country and in Greece.
The other important announcement is ic,
that it is not at all unlikely that the
astronomical day, which now begins at
nnnr nf the civil dav. will begin with
tha civil day at midnight. Toe presant
method of having the astronomical *
day to begin twelve hours after the ^
beginning of the civil day is apt to be
confusing.
In many countries festivities and cele
brations of various kinds are already 5^
being projected and arranged in honor ^
of the century which will dawn before
most of us are ready for it.?At- or
lanta Journal. w
GOLD IN SOUTH A TT11UA.
normous Production in the Last
Ten Years?The Diamond Mines
and Other Mineral Deposits.
The mining: interests of Africa,
pecia'.ly the wonderful gold and
amend mines which have attracted
much attention, are the subject of
chapter in the monograph just pre
ired by the treasury bureau of statists
on commercial Africa in 1899.
uch of the recent rapid development
Africa, especially, in the southern
,rt, where the greatest rapidity of
velopment has occurred, is due to
e discovery and development of extmely
valuable mineral deposits.
?a mnct. valimhle nf these are ffold
d diamonds, though incidentally it
iv be mentioned that the iron, coal
d" other mineral deposits of South
d Southeast Africa give promise of
eat value when wealth-seeking man
s time to turn his attention from
3 gold mines to those which promise
is rapid, but perhaps equally cern
profits.
That the gold and diamond mines of
uth Africa have been, and .still are,
nderfully profitable, however, is bead
question. The Kimberley dinmd
mines, says the St. Louis Reblic,
which are located in British
ritory, just outside the boundaries
the Orange Free State and about
i miles from Cape Town, now supply
per cent, of the diamonds of comrce,
although their existence was
jnown prior to 1867, and the mines
?e thus been in operation but about
rty years.
It is estimated that $350,000,000
rth of rough diamonds, worth double
>t sum after cutting, have been proJed
from the Kimberley mines since ,
sir opening in 1868-9, and this enorus
production would have been
atly increased but for the fact that .
' owners of the various mines in j
3 city formed . an agreement by
ich the annual cutout was so
ited as to meet but cot materially j
eed, the annual consumption of the
Id's diamond markets. So pienti- j
is the supply, and so comparatively .
xpensive the work of production, (
? Hiomnnd A 1 rrrr'y r, rr in OC liart.B nf
V UIUUJVUU Ut^glUg 1U wv v? ^
world has almost ceased since the <
ith African mines entered the field,
the result is, as stated above, that
y now supply over 98 per cent, of
diamonds ol oommerce.
qttally wonderful and equally promg
are the great Witwatersrand
i fields of South Africa, located in
South African republic, better
wn as the Johannesburg mines.
5 Dutch word "Witwatersrand"
ins literally "White Water Range,"
the strip of territory afewbuni
miles long and in width to which
: applied was but a few years ago
aidered a nearly worthless ridge,, ful
only for the pasturage of cattle
sheep, and for even this compara
ily valueless. In 1883, however,
1 was discovered, ard in 188-1 the
le of the gold production was about
000. It increased with startling
iditv, the production in 1888 being
ut $5,000,000: that of 1890. $1,000,;
1892, over $30,000,000; 1895, over
000.000, and 1397 and 1898, about
000,000 in each year,
his wonderful development his at;ted
great attention to South Africa
drawn thither thousands of peril
in the hope ol realizing quick for23.
Development, howeved, showed
t the mines could be successfully
ked only by the use of costly
ihinery, and while they hav9 been
reme'y productive where muchiy
has been used, they were not of
a character as to make hand or
jer mining profitable as was the
} in California. The gold prodaci
in the "Rand" since 1884 has been
r $300,000,000, and careful surveys
the field Dy the use of drills and
er processes of experts show beyond
stion tbat tbe " in sight" probabiy
)unts to $3,500,000,000, while the
je n mber of mines which have
n located in adjacent territory,
ticularly in parts of Rhodesia, give
mise of additional supplies, so that
leems probable that South Africa
t for many years continue to be, as (
'a 1 o (?nM.nrnH nnitiff
" lOj VL1XJ loiggou gVLU
lion of the world.
iecent d'scoveries led to the belief J
t these wonderfully rich mines are i
long lost '** gold of Ophir," from
ich Solomon obtained bis supplies, J
king " a navy of ships in Ezion-Ge- .
, which is opposite Eloth on the !
re of the Bed sea in the land of '
)m, and Hiram sent in the navy his j
rants, shipmen that had knowledge j
he sea, with the servants of Solo- j
q, and they came to Ophir and fetchthence
gold and brought it to King '
omon." i
jeut. Win ship's Brave Act.? j
ory Winship, assistant engineer in j
navy, held an entire regiment of j
ipinos at bay while 125 of his com- 1
es escaped to their boats. While a
tv from the Bennington were maka
reconnoissance at Malabon, Win- (
p was sent ashore in charge of the i
urn cutter conveying three open .
.t loads of men. The landing party ;
at inshore too far without sending I
scouts and was surprised by an ;
:rpowing force of natives, who purd
them fiercely. The Americans rested
toward the shore, hotly purid.
Winship was alone in the launch, I
1 at ono realizing the desperate
aation, he unlimbered the revolving
innn of the launch and opened a
ady fire upon the enemy. He was,
30ur9e, the mark of the whole bation,
but he kept his place unfiioch;ly,
his finger on the trigger, and
ired a deadly fire upon the Filipinos
til they turned and fled, leaving
rty dead on the shore. Then the
ive young officer fell back with five
llets in his body. Commedore Taussays
that but for Winship none of
j party would have escaped.
The gallant young man who did this
a native of Georgia and graduated
ree years ago from the naval acamy.
?The entrance of William Rockeler
into the directorate of the New
>rk Central road is taken as a text
herald the appearance of the bilnaire
corporation, the Vanderbiltdltidn/ia
moaninc the
aiUHuvw -w - ?pj
lalgamaiion of $1,000,000,000 capital,
le Vanderbilt roads at present inlde
more than 26,000 miles. If the
ulhern Pacific system is added to
e new combination, the roads will
ach every frontier of the couutry,
d will comprise over 33,000 miles, or
jre than one-fifth of the entire Ameran
mileage.
?The efficacy of the automobile in*
ountain climbing has been proven by
r. and Mrs. F. O. Stanley of Newton,
ass., whose automobile made the as
nt of Mount Washington, 6,300 feet
>ove sea level.
?Cornelius Vanderbilt inherited lesa
an $60,000,000 in 1885. . and in 14
:ars increased it to more than $100,0,000.
?Hiram Cronk, of New York, is the
lly surviving pensioned soldier of the
ar of 1812. He is 99 years old.
1'HJbi uaukui; uf u. K.uumvxitvaEA
The Famous Mill Builder of the
Piedmont?His Rarly Life in Vermont
and Canada?A Volunteer in
i he -^oulederate Service.
The Spartanburg correspondent of
the News and Courier gives the following
sketch of the late D. E. Converse,
of that city :
D-xter EJgar Converse was born
in Swanton, Vermont, 1828. His ancestor
came over from England with
Governor Winthrop in 1630. His father
died vhen he was only 3 years old,
and he was brought up by an uncle
over on the Canada side. In his boyhood
he was taught the very important
lesson of self-reliance and thinking
while he was at work. He carried
the habit of thought and action
through his whole life.
He first entered a woollen mill with
his uncle, aDd after working there
.J ' 4 ? J ? j. ?
some ume Lie aceepbcu. a pusiwuij iu a
cotton mill at Cohoes, New York,
which he held five years.
In 1855 he came Southward in search
of a place where he might fiad work.
That was before the days of railroads
in the Piedmont. He stopped in Lincoln
County, N. C., and made some investigations
of a little yarn mill or two
in that section.
He then came to this county and
applied to John Bomar, who was principal
owner of a little mill at Bivingsville,
now Giendale, for work. Mr.
Bomar had no special job for a stranger,
but Mr. Converse, in going through
the mill seemed to know so much about
the machinery that Mr. Bomar conc
uded that he would give him a place
in tne mill.
Mr. Converse proved so efficient
that It was soon seen that he was a
most valuable acquisition. The mill
was then perhaps the largest in tne
up-country. It was in an old weatherboard
building and had only 1,300
spindles and 20 looms. ?Before 1860
Mr. Converse owned some stock in the
mill and was the general manager.
Bis brother-in law, A. H. Twichell,
bad come tc the mill meantime. When
the war came both these young men
;ntered the Confederate service as privates
and served in Company C, 13th
> A TT mu
Kj* v. xiivy uau luquc up biiQir f
nicds that the South was their adopted
lome and they would fight for it.
fUler remaining in service several i
nonths Mr Bomar, feeling that he
:ouid uot run the mill without the aid <
)f these experts, applied to the Government
and had them released from i
lervice in order that they might do 1
nore good fo>* the Confedei acy at home
i&an they couid do in the field. Thus ,
,he old Bivingtville factory during the
our years of war supplied hundreds
md thousands of families with yarn to ,
nake cloth for people at home and in
he field.
After the war '*as over the D. E.
Converse Company was formed and a
iew brick building took the -place of
.he wooden one, and improved machi- 1
lery took the place of the old, and
,hus the first well equipped cotton
iiill of the up-country was built. From 1
,bat event dates all the fine mills of '
ihe Piedmont, and it was in a great
neasure owing to the success of Mr. 1
Converse that mill building increased i
io rapidly in the State.
Aoout 1880 Mr Converse formed a <
jompany, bought the old Hurricane '
shoals, or Rolling Mill property, on j
Pacolet, and built Clifton Mill No J. I
rben 2 followed, and No 3 was finished
ibout two years ago. Mr. Converse was
)resident of all these mills. They ;
jave an aggregate of 3,768 looms and .
.18,072 spinules.. He is also interested ,
n other mills, and a stockholder and ,
lirector of the three banks at this
jlace. j
When a female school was talked of- p
several years ago Mr. Converse was ,
merested and was a iargestockholder ,
n the first organization; Since that '
ae has given large sums to Converse
College, and took:.great pleasure in ;
ihe success of the' institution. With>ut
his aid it would not be the impor- '
1 (a *kn a/ln/lfltiftB r?f oirla
'ikLIU lttV<Ur 1U Hue ciuvnuvu w?
Lhat.it is to-day.
He married Mis9 Twicbell, a sister i
)f A. H. Twichell, treasurer of these (
jotton mills. She with one daughter,
Miss Marie Converse, survive him. ,
Mr. Converse was a member of the ,
Preabj terian Church and a liberal supporter
ofjit. He was gentle in manners,
kind in all his relations with the people
about the mills, helpful towards
the needy at all times. He was never
prone to speak of the evil in others,
but could generally see some good in
all. As a neighbor and friend he will
be greatly missed in this community.
Lf he had never built a mill, but had
?one inio any other business, he would
bave been a quiet, honored leader of
the community. The people of the
Piedmont are unanimous in honoring
and respecting him for the work he
has done, and for the genuine manhood
that was in him.
??? J
Andebson's New Plan.?The Anderson
correspondent of The State
say9: "Wednesday afternoon as a
voung lady pupil of the graded school,
a daughter of one of our most highly
respected citizens, who lives about a
mile and a half from town, was returning
home from school about 3 o'clock,
and when in sight of home, she was
accosted by a negro by the name of
Tom Jenkins, who made an indecent
proposal to her, followed by an indecent
exposure of his person. The
young lady fled, screaming, toward
home, and outran the negro and escap
eel his ciutcnes.
"The affair did not leak out until
today, when a party of determined
men set out to capture the negTO,
which they did. They gave him his
choice of lynching or submitting to a
certain surgical operation. He accepted
the latter, and the operation was
thoroughly, successfully and scientifically
performed. The negro was carried
back to his home and told he must
clear himself of these parts as soon as
he was well enough. This is the Anderson
plan, and beats lynching."
?A correspondent of the New York
Evening Post at Manila says that the
street cars of that far Eistera city are
already ornamented with whiskey advertisements,
and adds : "Surely we
shall yet civilize these people. They
are an abstemious race, but we can, by
persistent energy and advertising,
added to tbe force of example, cure
them of that."
?Lyman Barnes, of Ottawa, Kans.,
tried to enlist in the army one day
- - - ? ^ i-; r???
last week, out iounu luuiaou mut
pounds short in weigh).. He went
away and for twenty-four hours stuffsd
himself with food, with the result of
gaining the four pounds and admission
into the service. The local paper says
that he ate no less than ten meals in
one night and a day.
?Dr. C. J. Hoadiey, the Connecticut
State librarian, has in his possession
an old placard or 44 dodger " which was
distributed ten days after the death of
Washington and announces a memorial
service in Hartford.
i ir.Ma ut utar,nrtti mxcituu9i?
Quaint and Curious Paragraphs
Gathered irom Various Sources.
?The Cleveland street railroad
strike cost Ohio 325:000 for tranapo ta- i
tion and maintenance of the militia.
T A
?Rats recently operated the striking
mechanism of the disused Flashing,
L. I., town clock for several
hours.
?Santa Cruz, Cal., is perhaps the
only municipality in which water is $
furnished frpe to inhabitants for do* 3
mestic purposes.
-Pekin is now to Lave an electric *- j
railroad running from the south gate
of the city to the steam railroad station,
and it is even hoped that permission
to enter the city may soon be obtained.
The road is built by a German
?Judge Jackson, of the United "|jS
States district court of West Virginia, v
was appointed by President Lincoln,
and at 76 years of age is rendering aotive
and acceptable service.
?A couple in Parkersburg, W. Va.,
are just now enjoying their third .
honeymoon, their previous marriage
experience have been diversified by :
two divorces, all within eight years.
?The wearing of a brand new pair ^
of rubber shoes while preparing- sup
per saved the life of a woman in Pennsylvania
from a bolt of lightning
that played about her feet daring a *
storm at her home.
?In the returning Colorado volunteers
is.the tallest man in the American
army?Color Sergt. Richard G. Holmes,
who stands 6 feet 6 inches . J /;
in his stockings and weighs 216 pounds.
?It is one of the pecularities of the \v;
laws of Denmark that the crown most
be worn by a-Christian and a Freder- '
ick alternately. .The system originated
with Christian IT, wb~ reigned
from 1513 to 1523, and wa succeeded
by Frederick I.
?Scientists have discovered that the
memory is stronger in summer than in
winter. Among the worst foes of the
memory are too much food, too much N
physical exercise, and, strangely ' ^
enough, too much education.
?A favorite dish of the Eskimo is
an ice cream mad: of seal oil into
which snow is stirred until the desired ^
constituency has been obtained; then
frozen berries of differ -nt kinds are
added with a little of the fish egg tor vpl
flavoring.
?Rear Admiral Farqubar, who will
succeed Sampson as the commander of
the Nortn Atlantic squadron on October
10, got his first experience of the
sea in 1859, along the coast of Africa,
when a portion of oar navy was engaged
in suppressing the slave trade.
?Bombay has a railroad which is . ^
used in connection with the sanitation :
of the town. According to The Engineer,
it is over three miles long and
is intended for transporting the road j.
sweepings to a piece of land nearly
JOG acres in extent
?The postmaster of New York ha^l /
been directed to have all street letter
and package boxes painted in luminous
bronze paint, so that the boxes may bd
distinguished more readily at nightjJM|*3J
The paint has in it a compound ofntowj^ * f!|g
phorous which shows quite brigyupfjPv^F
the dark.
?Senator Mason, of Illinois, whoopposes
the Filipino war, says his opposition
is not an opposition of expansion..
He adds: " Expansion by purchase
or other honorable means is one
thing; expansion by force is another.
Why cannot we deal with the Filipinos
u we dealt with the Cubras?"
-Ten-year-old Carrie Shubrick,
who will christen the tcqpedo brat
Shubrick, lives at Rocky Mount, N. C<,
sad is the granddaughter of Lieut. ~
Edmund T. Shubrick, whose father
was the famous commander. She Is
also the great-granddaughter of Rear
Admiral William B. Shubrick.
?Gilbert H. Purdy, the seaman in
?kaana t\f hfl Olvmnll'l {ft thfl '
WUCI(f;0 VI VU? V4J ?# K _
oldest .member of her crew and a
veteran of three wars. "Ia the battle ^
of Manila," he eays, " I was told to carry
water to the wocuided; bat I and
the surgeons and the chaplain didn't
have anything to do, as there were no
wounded."
?At a reproduction of the battle of
San Juan Hill, given at the State Fair
grounds, at Columbus, O., as a part of
the fair, Charles Krag, 10 years old, ^
in the grand stand, was shot through
the heart and instantly killed. Throe :
persons were - severely and several
spectators were slightly injured.
?Dampness has ruined the tomb of |1?
President Garfield, in Lakeview cemetery,
Cleveland, and the structure will '-.V
have to be entirely rebuilt. The
bronze casket containing the body is ^B8BB|
to be removed pending the completion
of this work, which will occupy several
weeks. The Garfield monument is also
badly in need of repairs.
?An electric hose carriage is in use
by the Paris fire department The.
machine weighs over a ton, or, with
equipment, nearly three tons. The.
equipment consists of six men, apparatus
to operate three lines of hose, a |
scaling ladder, apparatus for fro in
collars, and one for life-saving purpo- '*?
sos. It can traveififteen miles an hour
on good roads.
?Lansing, Mich., has the widest
driveway bridge in the United States,
if not in the world. The bridge crosses
Grand river ?n Michigan avenue, two |
squares from the front entrance to the
State house. It is of the truss pattern J
and is 115 feet wide in the clear?the
full width of the avenue. On either
side is a walk sixteen feet wide, ieav- ing
a roadway eighty-three feet 1a
width. .
?England has agents in this country
buying up all the snltable males
that can bo secured for service in
Africa. It is doubtful if any Power
will ever again engage in war without
first taking steps to secure the aer- ,
vices of the American mule. It may
be necessary to call on the Rothschilds
for funds to prosecute the campaign,
but the American mule will be depended
upon to a considerable extent to /
j furnish the power.
W H. Gatch, wife of a ^
wealthy farmer of Dickinson County,
Kansas, has begun her fifth divorce
suit. She has been divorced from four
husbands and now charges her fifth
husband with cruelty and ill-treatment. m
She married Gatch at Kansas City a W
year ago. She is 33 years old. Mrs.
Gatch has also sued several neighbors
for 85,000 damages becaase they med- . =4
died with her domestic affairs. 4f,
?One of the departments of Cornell*
University kept a record of the detraction'
caused by lighting In New *9
York State last month. It killed six -H||
men, eighteen horses, twenty cows g
and one sheep, and struck fifty-nine
" * ?* ?tWi,m,hno
barns, twelve residences, mu uuuuUVU
and one mill. In proportion the
churches seemed to fare worse than
any other kind of property.