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The lDO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE ?UR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY. OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOL.1?IX. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MARCH ll, 1904. NO. ll. JAPAN AND CHINA. "What a Japanese Mirella t fays About Their Uniting Forces. ONLY QUESTION OF FEW YEARS Before tho KngHsh-SpcukiiiK People '-Will Find Themselves Arrayed Against the Doctrino of 4,Asln for Asiatics." The Chroui'Mc says Russia and Ja pan are still discussed, sometimes ve hemently in Augusta. The Japanese sympathizers are in an overwhelming majority, but the Russian sympa thizers, though iu tlie minority, stick to their guns and are daily growing more numerous. Mr. James R. Ran dall, who, early in thc day, gave his reasons tor favoring tire .Muscovites, was asked if he had anything more to say on thc subject and replied: "1 think it is quito useless, at this time, to discuss the. matter, lt is difficult to change people's minds, es pecially when, as Mr. Stephens put it. they are "sot" in their i pinions. I have carefully read all taut 1 eould get hold of on both sides o? this affair and endeavored, like Mr. Wcigle, to form convictions. Perhat; however, : it may interest your read j rs to have some peculiar evidence from other sources than my own. The most striking and important .testimony comes from a J ap??ese mer chant of a high order, Yamociuo, who is on a visit to New Orleans. Inter viewed by a Picayune reporter, he ' said that while his countrymen, like j himself, were gratified at the sympa- ! thy displayed in tho United States for j Japan, he significantly added: "?? "Rut 1 believe this will change. The English speaking nations sympa- i thize with us today, but it will lie dif- ' ferent in a few years, if Japan wins 1 this war-and 1 du not doubt that j our c?'uutiy W?11 be Victorious-Japan will be one of the first world powers, j The yellow pei il, as .koaie English Vi rite rs' refer to it, is not remote. Tile Chinese and Japanese are very c'.-jcly allied by racial similarity, and j there is~ naturally a strong bond of sympathy between the two nations, Just as there is a strong sympathy be tween the two great English-speaking nations. If China is ever brought up to the high plano of enlightenment that Japan has reached, it will natu-1 rally, with Its immense population, its vast territory, and its untold and un imaginable resources, be tho most powerful country in the world. The ., Japanese have already assisted China not a little. There arc many Japanese .-cacheis lu Chinese rnst.Rul/ons, and ' Japanese officials in the Chinese gov ernment service, bol h civil and mili tary. These are slowly bringing about a reformation. If this reformation is ga ever brought about completely and China brought out o? darkness lt will j jj be within the power of the yellow i races to overrun the world. The doors of nations tba. are closed today I can be opened. Even a* European powers are now closing their (lours against Chinese, but forcing thc open- ! lng of Chinese flo. s to foreigners, so' will it be in the power o' Cnina to close and keep closet its doors against ; outriders and to force opel the doors of the western nations. T uit is why I believe this sympathy for the Japan ese will chango." Mr. Yainochimo expresses the Opinion that the Japanese.-Russia war will develop into an international coo fiict. He thinks that either Germany I or France will be forced in ii rsl because ' ot"tftftftU: interesl m I lie Far East and ; because m t?fceh strong sympathy for Russia. Tile " Urb .' Empire, will come in lafer\bul it will get a full share ol everytViinij inst as it has! always done. 'Dieu the United States will be forced into the conllict. ll may be slower iban Hie others, oven more so than England, but this govern ment has assumed a posit ion in the Orient from willoi il innot recede. "What will be the result of the war no one can foresee, bul thai Hie conllict now going on is the Inning of one of the great period; : world's his tory must be -one de,. i regarded this les imony of the intelligent and very Irani; Japanese merchant as very Important because it reveals tho true < hie ital ambit ion. A great many people m i . gilt of the "Yellow Peril," tilth igh Nap- in did not and Earl \\ < docs not. It may be that thes nen Lave, minds superior to Iii ? rei kable persons, lint on thin pi .; i !.. re may be diff?rence of jude a.e: t ..t any rate, if we tire to accept ,1ra e testi mony, expressed moci me ine triumph ol ie conse quential reawak na, as an industrial and uni ion, bodes ill for Euro i ?I and com mercially threat ? is lia i nitedStates. Some people say thal it will take many years : unplisii the reform of China, as indicated, hut they for get that .lapa,! us risen gigantically, in their own day, and in case of Japanese domination, China will be no ,k?ggard n'owe'vP'- I do not expect to con vince anybbv.j, . -l'?si his will, but simply suggest that Mi'. Vamocimo's revelation be taken into account. Personally, I am quite coulent to await events, for. as Fredrick thc Great said: 'Rattles are fought be yond the slurs,' thal is, tho destinies of thc world are si ia pe? I by the Ruler of Nat lons, and not by the opinions of of mankind." hilled Herself. Mrs. Horace G. Allis, formerly a prominent society leader In Little Rock, Ark., committed suicide at the county hospital by hanging herself with strips of lied clothes. Her hus band was at ono time president of the First National Rank, of that city. lie was tried by the United States court and given live years in the peni tentlary for wrecking that bank. Ills wife was well known over the state nnd the disgrace attending her hus band's downfall sent her into seclu sion. Her husband was pardoned af ter sewing three years. On his re lease ?he pleaded with him to return to her and live down disgrace, but he refuser!. Ho was the promoter and ?MjLuncller of the Little Rock street Hy .vay company and numerous other BH icial concerns. " P?E?AR^gOR A GRAB. . CobRrfess \Y.in ?a IO Itaipu- Their Own .^"""uiiu Officer SalarlcH. It would seem from the various comments that were passed on the bill asking- for an appropriation of $90, 000 from Congress-for a new stable for the President, that tins at least would have detterred lits friends from spring ing another surprise on the country, as Senator Gallinger did when he asked that the President's salary be increas ed $'25,000 per annum. The request is in t??e shape of a bill, lt is to be discussed at this session. Tile ballin ger bill raises the salary of the Presi dent to $70,000; that of the Vice president to $15,000; of the Speaker of the House to $12 000: of Cabinet officers to $10,000: of Senators, Repre sentatives and delegates to $8,000. The proposed increase are to go into effect March 1, 1005. lt is recalled that a bill increasing the salaries of members of Congress to $7,500 was passed in 1873. A storm of protest was aroused all over the country, many veteran nieniijers of Congress were retired to private life, and the suecedihg Congress repealed the law. lt ls pointed out by friends of the Gallinger bill, however, that the in dignation ol' the people was aroused by ii measure which, is absent from the present proposition-the retroactive. The Congressmen of 1873 paid them selves their back salary to Hie begin ning of that tenn, and likewise their mileage. This was generally denomi nated "a grab," and the flail inger bill, it is claimed, seeks to avoid a like condemnation. ( The ground for the Gallinger bill was apparently laid on February 2"> by ( Senator Hoar, who talked on the sui)- ( jeet. of Senators salaries being inade quate. The question w as on provid ing suitable quarters for Senators, the , Democrats having urged that the Republicans had known for a long time that the Democratic Senators, or a mn.iuc.roi them, were given quarters ] in au unsafe and condemned building. In the course of his speeeli Senator Hoar made the following significant remarks: "Our salary is also now lower in practical value than it was before it] was raised titty years ago. And yet the one thing that we do not seem to have courage enough to do is to say to t he people of Hie United .States that the compensation of this important of- [ fice shall be at least in some degree 1 adequate to Its dignity and character. "Take the salary of a judge of the District Court of Hie United States, j ls there a judge of a district court of j the United State who would not con- j s!der his promotion .to the Senate of ' the United States an advance Jil dignity :i"d aut?>oriiyV And yet we have put up their salaries and the salaries of* the judges of the . Circuit Courts to $0,000 and $7,500 and do not venture to touch our own." And now t lie Gallinger bill is sprung. There is very little question that the proposition, in many respects, is one which has tho President alone in mind and it is not improbable that Senator Gallinger wrote his hill after confer-j euee wit li leaders in the party who ' bask in the White House sunshine. A !>c icrveti llcbuko. The Aiken correspondent of The News and Courier says when Benjamin 1 Buford, the white manvfound guilty of manslaughter in killing t he negro, Larry Blackmore, was presented be fore Judge Purdy for sentence, he was asked by Iiis honor if lie had anything to say why sentence of the court 1 should not lie. passed upon him. I ht ford replied; "Not bing your honor, "andi held up thc lapel of his coat. on which was pinned t he emblem of t he Masonic Fraternity, lb-had previously given a sign, which .lodge Purdy, being a ' Mason, did not fail to recognize, Tbc ' man's object was evident and Judge Pu rd j si renly s.tiil: "That badge can do you no good here. You are not lit to wear it. Tn row il away. Voil have violated all that is good and noble that emblem represents, and you are no brother of mine. The sentence of the court is that you shall serve twelve years in the state penitentiary 1 at hard labor. You eau thank your counsel for saving your neck. A ll..ri il.lt; Dcalb. A horrible accident was reported Wednesday night to Coroner Green as happening Lothe lit Me four-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Suydam, who live about fifteen miles from Columbia, on the Garners' Ferry road. Tile parents of the little child caine to tho city Wednesday, and the child, on her way home from school, 1 stopped to play on a pile of logs near thc house. While on top, one of - the logs turned and she was caught be tween several and instantly killed, lier head hi ing crushed, lt. svas some time later that tho body was found and iL was late before thc parents were notified. Consequently they were not able to leave until after dark. ' The Inquest lias been held and tho funeral will be held thursday. Co- ? lumbla Record. A Foolish Pair. A dispatch to the Augusta Chron icle says Willie Pincher, a lad of 13, arid Emma Mann, a little maid who boast of only l-l summers, the pair hailing from Goldville, Ala., drove into West Point Ga., Thursday In ti rather dilapidated turnout and creat ed astonishment by announcing their desire to find a minister or justice who would make Hiern man and wife. Young Pincher said he had the per mission of the girl's parents as well as her own, but that the Alabama laws j interfered with his happiness. No one could bc found who would tie the knot, and to make matters worse, the would-be groom found himself devoid of funds. A purse was made up for the pair and they drove into Harris county hoping to find some one to officiate at their wedding. Htuto Cnmimigii. State Chairman Wilie Jones has called a meeting Of the executive com mittee of the Democartic party, to bo held In Columbia on Tuesday evening, April 5th, in the office of the secre tary of stale. The state* committee wili tlx tlie time for tho statt? conven tion, at which delegates will } K) elect ed to the national Democratic eofiqen tion. TERRIBLE ACCIDENT. ? Groat Skyscraper Frame Collapse! in New York. SEVERAL PERSONS AEE KILLED. Criminal CurclcBHiiess on thc Part of thu Contractors. Who Had DiHrcKardcd Ilepoatnd Warnings. Iii the city of New York fourteen persons, are believed to have been killed, about a score Injured and sev- ! eral are missing through the collapse j Wednesday of the steel skelton of the Hotel Darlington, a 13-story apart-: ment house in course of erection at j ?>~ Forty-sixth street. The steel j frame work had been erected as far as j the- eleventh door and the structure was swarming with Iron workers, masons and laborers, when, without an instant's warning, the upper door sagged and collapsed and the whole structure fell with a crash that was heard for blocks, aud shook all thc buildings In the vicinity. A portion of the. steel frame fell upon th? rear of the Hotel Patterson, on West For ty-seventh street, crushing in the wall of the dining room and killing 1 Mrs. Ella Lacey Stoors, the wife of 1 Frank Storrs, a wealthy reddent of Rye, Westchester county, as she was sitting at luncheon with the wife of the Rev. Dr. Minot Savage, who escaped unhurt. The cause of thc disaster generally accepted is thc overloading of the ' Moors. Foreman James Halpin, in charge of the iron workers, stated that there was a large quantity of cement und other building mater'a! an the tifth Moor, and that on the ! ninth Moor were the three iron beams which were to have been used in con- 1 struoting the remaining doors of the buildings. That criminal careless ness is chargeable to somebody is shown by the fact that the building tiepartment had placea repeated "violations" against the building, the last (.ne being tiled Wednesday at the instance of Inspector Charles French, because "the side walls wi re more than two stories in advance of the front walls, and the door beams were not properly boltcdand tied.'" In spite of this and previo'is warn ings, those responsible for .he con struction of thc building went ahead regardless of oouscquenees. Adjoin ing the collapsed building on ihe west is the four-story brownstone icsidence of Harold Brown. S urie of the huge iron beams struck the sid?, of the '? house and stove holes In the wall and roof and dls'-oged a part nf the ! brownstone front which was thrown . to the street.! The occupants escaped ! uninjured. On the east s de is a! house occupied by A. Walpole Cragie as a schcol for boys. The pupils had gone home to luncheon a few minutest before the crash occurred. Sime of j the beams struck the house tearing ult a portion of the roof and s nashing holes in the side walls. Mrs. S torrs whose husband is in Bondon, England, was sitting in lun cheon with Mrs. Savage w .len the Brash came, and she and Ernest Meier, a waiter, were instantly buried under the debris tho roof and walls. Mrs. Savage barely escape! being struck but ber skirt was pinned to the door by a mass of fallen bricks./ Mrs. Storrs was breathing when ex-j tr lea ted, but died within a few min-, utes. The waiter is believed to be, injured. The other occupants of the [lining room escaped unhurt. The Hotel Patterson was shaken to its ' foundations and tile rear tire escapes un seven stories were torn from their fastenings and all the windows on these doors were smashed. The oe- , iii pan ts of these apartments hastily putted the building. Rev. Minot J. Savage was ill in his apartments in ? the trout ol tho hotel at the time ol thc collapse. At ll o'clock tonight the ci ntractor I In charge of the wrecking work said j that his men had discovered seven ! bodies and that two were known to be pinned under the wreckage on thc inst side of tho building. Splendid work was done by the lire men, who at tile risk of their lives, crowded under the tangled wreckage to rescue thc imprisoned workmen. Tliey were accompanied by Chaplain Smith of the tire department, who ad- j ministered the last rites of the chu rel) to several of the injured. Harold Clark, a watchman, was rescued un hurt from the cellar after teing Im prisoned for four hours. He said that he left Frank Allison,, one of the owners and builders, on the ninth il ior a few minutes before the crash. , Patrick Murphy, the engineer of the hoisting engine, and six workmen j were arrested and held as witnesses. ! Representatives of Hie district attor- . m y's ellice examined the wnck Wed-; ticsday and began an investigation | to place tile responsibility for the disaster._ Deadly ItrnhH Pin. A special dispatch from Marion to Tile State says Mrs. E. B. boxworth is dead as the result of picking a fever lil isl er w ith a brass pin. She was apparently in good health when a small blister appeared on her lip and she picked it with a pin, after which It festered and blood poisoning fol lowed. She su Ile red a great deal until death relieved her. Mr. I'oxworth ks.is Mis-, Leola Baker, a daughter of; Mr. B. B. Baker, and lived in the Centenary neighborhood, about 121 miles from Marion. She was a noble hearted, Christian woman. Her unex pected death has cast a gloom over the jommunlty and caused sorrow in many lieart.s._ A Woman Scalped. At Covington, (?a., Mrs. J. W. Wor tham, wife of the. superintendent ol I bc Covington cotton mills, suffered Thursday from a distressing accident, is Hie result of which she may die. While in thc basement of the mill her hair was caught in some belting of moving machinery and she was scalped, thc skin and hair being torn from her nose to thc back of her neck. The machinery was stopped as soon as possible and she was rescued from her precarious position. Her condi tion is serious, and her physicians can not tell what may be the outcome, aside from thc permanent disfigure ment. A HOV TIME. Grover Cleveland Chanced V. th Din ing With a Negro Man. There was a reel hot debate in the house on Monday, During which Mr. Scott asked Mr. Gilbert if he did not know that a negro dined at the White House durin? President Cleveland's! first administration, to which Mr. Gilbert replied that the Democrats were not particularly claiming Mr. Cleveland, and that he wat not a llrst class Democrat. Mr. Scott then said that C. H. .J. Taylor, a uegro from Georgia, was brought to Washington and was taken to thc White House when Mr. Cleveland invited him to dine with him, which invitation he said, was accepted. Mr. Scott drew a contrast between Washington and Ta>lor, saying the former was a mun ol' recogui'/.ed abil ity and had been the guest of distin guished people at home and abroad, including Queen Victoria, and declar- ' ed that the later had uothing to com mend him save thc claim that he car ried tlie Democratic negro vote in his pocket. He said further that Taylor had been appointed to a position in Washington. "And by Cleveland," suggested a voice on tile Republican side. Continuing, Mr. Gilbert said that in the Spanish war there were Gener al Miles, commanding general of the army; Admiral Dewey at Manila, Ad miral Schley, (?ener?is, Dee, Wheeler and Hell, all of whom were Demo crats. On tlie other side he said there was a member of the Republican cab inet accused (if sending embalmed beef to tim soldiers. "Then," he said, "there was a itepublican iiorsc doctor sent to (Juba who was accused or be- j friending tlie gamblers and lawbreak-1 ers." Ho referred to the conviction of Rathbone and Neely and alluded to General Funston, who, he charged, had violated thc rules of civilized war fare ir. wearing thc uniform cf an enemy in the cap'.ure of Aguinaldo. He next referred to General Davis, "who," he said, "sold rice and other provisions to starving natives at cnor m ms profits." The Republicans had promised to destroy trusts, declared Mr. Gilbert, hut they now had a bill lo che senate "making lawful all reasonable trusts and repealing the imprisonment, clause of the Sherman law as to crimi nals." Mr. Dalzell {Pa.) discusssing Cana dian reciprocity, said he had been un able to lind, alter exhaustive research, a single, solitary argument which would justify the negotiation of a re ciprocity treaty between the United States and Canada. Mr. Williams (Miss.), responding to Mr. Dalzell, asked the majority why they did not pass tlie Easton treaties which, he said, represented McKinley reciprocity. [DISPENSARY EMPLOYES. Bonn; Pat .lolls Mr. Tatum MUM to <?ivi> Ou: . Tie C>lumbia State says sixty em ployes on a $2,400 a month pay roll at Hie .State dispensary ate on the anx ious bench to know what the new commissioner, Mr. W. (). Tatum, is preparing to do with their heads. I Mr. Tatum is keeping painfully silent! on the subject, and while the greater ?umber of the present employes are expecting to retain their respective positions, tlie commissioner is being besieged from every section of the State fly applicants for all sorts of ?obs. lt is thought the tension will be relieved now in a few days, as Mr. , Tatum is expected to announce ids appintmchts when he comes herc to take charge early this week. Oidy one man knows so far "where he is at." This is Mr. G. II. Charles, who as chief b iokkeeper and secretary to tlie board of directors has been re appointed by the board with the ap proval of tile commissioner. Mr. Charles lias great strength with the management on account of his compe tency and long service, and he is pop ular witli the other employes. He receives a salary of * 1 .'to a month. The Incumbents of the other loa 1 ing positions with the monthly salar ies they receive arc: Superintendent -T. E. Dickson, ! *12f>. Assistant Superintendent -J. E. Earhardt, $o">. Shipping Clerk--Charles .1. Lynch, $ 12".. Receiving ('.erk NV. J. Cowers, $100. I'M ve Traveling Inspectors- \V. .). ! McCartha, N. II. S tansell, X. A. Sear son, A. H. Dean and Clarence L. Brown, each Sith) and expenses. Four Bookkeepers-M. H. Mobley, B. A. Hawkins, W. N. Elder and T. W. Collins, $125 each. Revenue Clerk-T. P. G. Reasoner, : $75. The new board ls expected to hold ; its tir.st regular monthly meeting on tlie ?til of Mareil. A Slander Nailed. In reply to news which lias been talked, lt ls false. As 1 am well known over the State and 1 know that none can provo such against me, as I now remain single. 1 want one, and all to know lt. As 1 have been ? charged witli having a wife. Now if! there is any woman who wishes to make any such claim against me. this ls the time for 1 would like to know wlio it may be. if news carriers I would mind their own business, our | county would be far better off. As I i learn, there are many who seem to be | interested In me, just bear in mind, | if I ever get married, there will bc many who will sing ann shout "Dixie." As I have been hearing bad news and my name is a dayly song: it must be stopped now, at once. A. M. J.j in Walterboro Press and Standard. Give Up tho Joh. Postmaster E. S. Parnell of Cn lott Junction, Ark., has resigned because he h. afraid of being killed by feudlsts. Four members of his family have been assassinated within the past fifteen months, and he Intends to hunt a saf er-eil rac. GIVES IT THE LIE Grover Says He Sid JU ct Lunch With a Colored Man AS CHARGED BY A CONGRE : SM AN. Social Kqoulity of thc I too sc vdt ion Variety Discussed in a Very lMntn Manner in tito House Thurndity. In the housc*Thursday a letter from Grover Cleveland to Representative Webb of North Carolina was read de nying that C. H. J. Taylor, a negro, had dined with him at the White ? House while he was president, as! charged by Representative Scott of Kansas a few days ago. Mr. Webb said he had written the tornier presi dent sending him an extract from The Congressional Record and asking li the statements made by Mr. Scott were true. ' "This morning," he said, "I receiv ed the following reply," which he read amid applause: Princeton, N. J., March 2. ES. Y. Webb, 'House of Representa- I ti v?s. Dear Sir: lt is a matter of small concern to me that Mr. Scott has seen lit to use my name in a display of his evil propensities on the door of the house of representatives. In an swer to your inquiry, however, I have to say of his statement that the col ored man, C. II, J. Taylor, took lunch with mc at the White House that it is a deliberate fabrication out of the whole cloth. As far as Mr. Taylor is concerned, I understand, prior to his appointment as register of deeds at Washington ; that he had served as an assistant in ! the office of the city attorney at Kan sas City. His nomination as register was con firmed by the senate and he served in that place with intelligence and efficiency. He has since died. I^VJ?T?C people rc*? v r?* ?* L?i c rsscl ves ? refs abusing the dead. My inquiries concerning Mr. Taylor before bis appointment, ray observa tion of him during Iiis incumbency, and the little. I have known of him since satisfy mc that his character is very unjustly attacked in the diatribe Of Mr. Scott. One (barge ls made against Mr. Taylor ly Mr. Scott which he doubly clinches with truth when Jie declares. "He was a black negro." I am lcd, however, to doubt his familiarity with his suggestion when he adds: "As black as you ever saw." Yours very truly, . ? Hov BU CLEVELAND. Mr. Webb, said .he*war ted this de ntal trMira -".'J, V.. ? fe I he. j-tatcment of Mr. Scot t a ght be overt iken:~ - "Mr. Cleveland was a Irlend of the n^gro, but not a fool friend," said Mr. Webb. "He never by w< rd or action encouraged the dream of social equal ity In the breast of the ilaek man." This was greeted with ipplausc hy the Democrats. "Again,'' he continue I, "he was tho frier d of colored men, but he also was the friend of the sot them white! it au and sympathized with us in our j n.cc problems and race burdens, and that, sir, is more than Mr. Roosevelt' seems ever to have done..' Mr. Scott said he accepted the statement of Mr. Cleveland as true and offered his apology to the former president. In justice to himself, said Mr Scott, he desired to say that he never before heard the report denied. Mr. Swanson nf Virginia asked Mr. i Scott where he had heard the report, to which Mr. Scott replied that lie had seen the statement in newspa pers. Mr. Swanson asked further for a copy of a newspaper containing the statement. Mr. Scott explained that these statements were made several years ago and the papers might not be easily procured. He said t hat he had made tull apology to Mr. Cleve- ! land. Mr. Scott added that lie bad brought to Mr. Cleveland for the first lime In four years applause from the j 1 ?eraocratlo side. This was loudly applauded upon thc majority side of the chamber. Mr. Williamsville minority leader, ! charged that Mr. Roosevelt bad dined Hooker Washington lo carry the light of example to the south which does not believe in social equality. When a question is raised, he said, against Hie appointment of a negro to positions in the south the statement is made that t.iere can be no discrimination on ac- ; count of color: but, continued Mr. Williams, the administration would not appoint a Chinaman as a postmas- : ter on Hie Pacific coast if he possessed the ability of Li Hung Chang. Mr. ' Williams said the whole incident was a telling blow at the abstract theory of general equality and that lt "is a I discovery of tho underlying hypro- ' crisy of the contention Ilia: all men are socially equal, regardless of color, race, traits and tendencies.'' Mr. Scott desired to know who had been asserting social equality. "I have understood," replied Mr. Williams, "that the political theory of your household political faith for the last 20 years has been that men, regardless of color, race, traits, ten dencies, characteristics, capabilities or what-not ought tobe strictly equal politically," and said social equality must follow. "But that is not all, tho head of .your party set the example of social equality In the only manuel it can be' set by inviting a black man to a table." Mr. Williams said tba ; lr what the president had done was not to carry the light of example it was done for no purpose at all. "lt was an unconscious exhibition.' continued thc minority leader, "of the arrogance that teaches men now and then to shed the light of example upon the benighted white population of the south." Mr. Williams went on: "Nor am I quarreling with Mr. Itioscvelt, nor have I quarreled with bim at all. Ile baa a perfect right to Invite a colored man If he chooses, but as far as 1 know he. waited until he vas president ol' the United States so tv could bear an otllcial J tamp before iii ever did lt." Mr. Scott sahl he had Aiade no Im putation of fault agalnsj? Mr. Cicvc land. He had simply pointed tothe all?gation he made because the Demo cratic party had gone intu hysterics because one man had invited a col ored man to his table." "All right," said Mr. Williams, "1 am glad to hear that because I thought the gentleman had a sharp stick and was after my dear and much adored old friend, Grover Cleveland." (.Laughter.) Further discussion was cut short by a point of order. A LOCAL OPTION MEASURE Pcrmlttiug Townships to Voto Upon Special Hoad Tax. The special township road tax law, recently enacted by tho general as sembly, is of much interest to the residents of South Carolina. The ast is so explicit that it ls reproduced tn full: "The votc-sor electors of any town ship who return real or personal prop erty for taxation, are authorized to levy and collect an annual \oad tax, to supplement any special or either funds for like purposes, In the following manner: Upon the written petition or request of at least one-fourth of the resident electors of the township and a like proportion of the resld?nt free-holders of the age of 21 years, as shown by the tax books of the county, being filed with the county board of commissioners, asking for the same and stating the rate of the tax levy proposed which shall not exceed two mills, the said county board of commissioners shall order thc township board of assessors of said township to h jld au electiou at some place within the township, after giv ing notice eif the time and place there of f jr at least two weeks In some newspaper published within the county, and by pesUng notice there of in at least three public places within such township, for such length of fine, unless there be no new sp iper published within the coun ty, which event the pesting of the no tices as above shall suffice. At which said eicutiou uniy such electors as re turn real ur personal property foriax ati >n, and who exhibit their tax re ceipts and registration certificates as required In general elections, shall be alb wed to vote. For said electiem the tov nship ward of assessors shall ap poi it the managers, and the election shi 1 be cinducted as is provided by law for tl e conduct of general elec tions. At said election each elector fav irlun tl e proposed levy shall cast a ballot coi taming the word 'Ves,' prk ted or written thereon; and each elector opj osed to said levy shall cast a ballot containing the word 'No,' prlrted or writen thereon. Within ten days after such election, if the majority tf those voting shall vote for sn ch ?Invv. tho board of assessors shi?irrurniTih bhe'cou'pty auditor with a stateiiiei t of the amount so levied, and the auditor shall enter the same in the tax duplicate; and bc shall an nually, for two years only, enter said amount in the tax duplicates; and the county tre; surer shall collect the same as other co ?uty and State taxes. Such levy shall 1 e a lien on the property In such township, which shall be subject thereto In ;ase of default of payment. Sa'd tax st collected shall be used for the im pro emcnt of the public reads of the towt.ship, and shall be paid out by the com ty treasurer upon warrants drawn by tie county beiard of e'ommis sioners, countersigned by the chair man of the township boaid of asses sors: Provided, That any surplus of such levy remaining in the hands of the county treasurer at the expira tion of any fiscal year shall be paid out the next year for the same pur pose." PROTECTION OF BIRDS. ll Would in Largo Measure S<?lvr the Boll Weevil Problem. In all this talk about expenditures for helping the farmeru 'n the cotton belt to kill the boll 3V?1-govern ment help that, we b. jvc, is never extended to northern farriers when their crops are menaced -lt ls strange that not one congressman has lilt upon Hie cause o? the trouble. The weevil multiplies because the birds that would otherwise consume lt are being killed off. Here isa preposition to spend large sums of federa money to help the men who have been killing their best .'rienels. Last year the rava ges of the Ledi weevil in Texas amount ed to $25,000,000. Did tbs gains of the compensate for that? Will thc profits of all tlie feather vorkers In the world amend for the loss to be in dicted on the cotton growers In our southern t ier, if the weevil increases his pasturage? If so, and the whole cotton belt suffers as Texas has suf fered, lt ls estimated that the loss will equal a quarter of a billion annually. Tho man who kills the bird that has been eating the grubs and beetles in his orchards and plantations, be cause he can convert ttie bird's skin into merchandise worth a few cents, brings upon himself the me ans of fail ure, and deserves that failure when lt co .tics, for the wearings he has receiv ed have been plentifull. The women, who are responsible for the enormous slaughter of our songsters, because they wanted their dead bodies to wear in hats, are realizing tho necessity for reform in this matter, and among the thinking members of the sex the fashion of bird wearing has gone out. Tl :re aro, however, thousands of thc ignorant and ill bred who advertise their vulgarity by thc wearing of dead au mais upon their clothing, and so loi ? as tl e want exists there will be foi ad mc i base enough tei supply it, I though the cost \u a high one. Take thi: shotgun away from th? southerner fen a few seasons, and we shall hear less of weevils, and less of appropria tions. _ itcip. Japan. Tho Turkish government has resolv ed to forcibly prevent tho Russia Black sea licet from passing through the Dardauolls, and a fight will prob ably occur should such an attempt be made. The defenses along the straits have been strengthened and mines have boen laid. An offlcor has also been appointed especially to supervise defensive measures. The reason for Turkey's bold action, it ls learned, is that strong representations have been made by the powers against ouch a breach of xlussia's treaty obligations. ' HOLIES AND LIVES Pay a Heavy 'Tribute to the Ila?in? Prairie Fire?. A dispatch from Lawton, Okla., says prairie tires that swept over large portion of Kiowa and Comaoche couti-*' ' ties Thursday night, destroyed hun dreds of farm buildings and much live stock, made l,O0G persons homeless, caused the death of several persons, threatened a number of towns and swept away Fcores of buildings on the outskirts of the townB. The follow j lng deaths are verified: Dr. Harmond, six miles from Law ton; body found. Unknown boy, body found on prairie near Lawton, burned beyond identification. John Harmond and a daughter of Mrs. Henderson, living near Lawton were fatally burned. The country was very dry, no rain having rallen for months. Grass and stubble tires, set by farmers as is cus tomary at at this season of the year, were driven beyond control by a vio lent gale which rose suddenly. Estimates of the loss exceed $200, 000. Itcport says that more fatalities are expected as the reports from some dis tricts are meagre. At Hobart, the county scat of Kiowa county, the Ure apprached from the east, destroying the stables and fifteen race horses, tiftecu residences, two busbies:; houses and various small buildings. Spreading to thc south west, the ti-e swept seventy-five thousand acres of military and timber reserve and Indian school reserve, de stroying several Indian houses and forty head of Kov??iitneut Cattle. Spreading westward tlie Hames cov ered miles of the homestead district, destroying houses, barns and stock. It was in this district that five per sons are reported to have perished tn attempting to protect their properly. Thc names of three have been learned. They are as follows: Dock and John Harmon, brothers, and a man named F.sber. The other two were women and their names have nut yet been learned. Late at night the tires begiu mov ing southward'toward the city. At midnight five thousand people of the city were battling with the approach ing llamos. The advance hue of the fire was fully two miles in length and cami: in a semi circular form. A thousand men turned their ef forts to checking the grass borders of the reservation at the city limits. Water from every source, carried in every conceivable way, was distributed along this line and all around the city limits. This served the purpose of checking the advance lines of the fire, but was of Utth^availin hindering the continual rolling of the tire brands into the street of the city. In more than a hundred plaecs Hames arose from dwellings, barns and outhouses, but wherevar a blaze'urew neu were present t< quench it with water. As a result of the cool judgment of the fire-fighters the city's loss, was only ?10,000. Families lay out in the prairie throughout the freezing nh ht after the storm had passed with only thin clothes on their backs. Hundreds of ? people are destitute and are sutTerlng j Intensely from the cold. AN INSANE SOLDIER violto the War Department and j Hhoots Down Two Soldiord. At Washington armed with a '13 callbre revolver, Wm. J. O'Brien, alias Wm. Duffy, an insane discharged soldier Thursday entered the war de partment and going to room 227 in the mail and record division, shot Robert J. Manning, a messenger, and Arthur Wiecker, a clerk. Miss Emma Saxton, another clerk, barely missed being shot through the head. The Injury to Manning Is on the right side Just above the kidneys and is regarded as dangerous. Wiecker was shot in thc left arm above tlie elbow. Before the maniac could lire a third time he was overpowered by Jamcs.T. Dawson, a messenger. It required the com bined strength of half a dozen men to j finally subdue the man. Pi omi neut ! among them was Lieut. Gen. Adna lt. .Chadee, chief-of-stal?. Thc lunatic 'still held the smoking weapon In his . hand when Gen. Cliaffee noticed it ' is,nd with his left hand took the wea i pon from him .ind also the pipers In j his pocket. Majs. Kean and Ireland, of the surgeon general's st.1T, were ! hastily sent for and ^avc first aid to the injured men before tl ey were taken to the Emergency hospital. O'Brien or Duffy in talking to Charles Brandt, the chief of the divi sion, expressed dissatisfaction with his discharge papern. Then without a word of warning lie drew thc pistol from his pocket anti aimed lt directly at Brandt's head. Brandt ducked and the bullet entered the arm of Wlccker. He then turned thc weapon on Miss Saxton and fired. She, too, dodged and the bullet struck Manning. O'Brien was taken to the police station, it requiring four men to get him out of the building. O'Brien was admitted to St. Elizabeth's asy lum In 189:1. Ho later wa? paroled but returned in 1807. Ho served in thc Sixth cavalry ana Third artillery. No Sleep In Ten Years. A bert I let pin, born in France in 18(12 and for fifteen years a hostler in the employ of Walter Phares, of Tren ton, N. J., declares be has not slept a wink in tho last ten years and that his eyes seldom closed in slumber for several years preceding. Notwith standing this, he does not seem to .sutler any discomfort from his remark able condition. He goes to bed re gularly, but says he never closes bis eyes, or at least never for an instant loses consciousness of all that is go ing on about bim. In tlie morning he i arises refreshed and ready for another day's work. He-declares the change of position and the darkness of the room seem to give him all the rest be requires. The man's story is sustain ed by physicians who have examined bim and who havo.made v?in efforts to afford relief. TEACHERS WANTED By the United States in the Philippine leland Schools. HOW TO GET AN APPOINTMENT. Unmarried Women Not EHllgible for Examination, but WH'be Given , Preference if Their HUB bunds are Selected. ?gt The United States Civil Service ?J Commission announces an examina tion on March 20-30, for the position of teacher In the Philippine Service. Information has been received from the Insula Bureau of the War Depart ment that 150 additional teachers will be required early in June. The salary of this position ranges from $900 to $1,200 per annum and will be based upon the experience and the .rel ative standing lu the examination. Those appointed will be eligible for" promotion to thc higher grades in the service, ranging from $900 to $2,000 for teachers, and from $1,500 to $2, 500 for division superintendents. Women will not be admitted to this examination, excepted that the wives of male applicants will be permitted to take thc examination and, if they . pass will be preferred in appoint ments, provided their husbands are also selected for appointment. This examination is held in view of the ueeds of the service and will not take thc place of the examination schedule to be held on April 19. As peace has been established in the Philippines and the conditions of living are Improving every month, this examination alfords an excellent opportunity for youcg men to enter an attractive service. Applicants for this examination should be devoted to their profession, and conscientious, energetic, and successful workers. The examination will consist of ten obligatory subjects. There will be no optional subjects given at this time. Two days of seven hours each will be allowed for this examination. The first five subjects will be given on the first day, and the remaining subjects on the second day. The examination will consist of the subjects mentioned below, which will bc weighed as follows: Thesis (of not less than 300 words on. either subjects given, to test knowledge cf syntax, style, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization) 12.5; penmanship (rated on thesis), 5-, Arithmetic (as comprised in the ordi nary grammar school text-books,) 12.5; English (as treated in the Jrdl nary grammar school text-books, in cluding analysis and parsing), 12.5; Geography (mathematical, physical and political) .10; History and ci vii gov ernment oftheTJ?lted States (as oov ered in the grammar school text-bc oks and the CoLStitution of the United States), 12.5; Physiology and hygene (as found in the grammar school text ' books), 7.5; Natuaral study and draw ing (involving a knowledge of the de velopment, growth, habits, abd pecu liarities of the more common animals and plants, methods of interesting pupils in the study of the same, and skill in the execution of illustrative drawing), 7.5; Science of teaching (comprising school government, meth ods of teaching, duties of the teacher, etc.,) 10; Experience, training, and titness (rated on Form 2), 10; total, 100. Age limit, 20 years; but preference in certification will be given to those who are under 40 years of age. Each applicant will be required to submit to the examiner, on the day he ls examined, a recent photograph, not more than three years old, of him self, which will bc tiled with his ex amination papers, as a means of iden tification in case he receives appoint ment. An unmounted photograph ls preferred. The date, place and kind of examination, the examination num ber, and thc year in which the photo graph was taken should be indicated on the photograph.'^ This examination is open to all citi zens of the United States who com ply with the requirements, and oilers an excellent opportunity to entera service which has many attractive features and to see a most interesting part of tlie world, China and Japan are near at hand and are favorite places to visit during vacations. The Philippine Service ls classified, and the law contemplates promotions on the basis of merit from the lowest to the highest position. Appointees will bc required topsy their expenses from their homes to Manila. Persons who desire to compete should apply for app'.icatlon blanks at once._ Good lor the Governor. A dispatch from Greenville to Thc State says a big cocking main was in terrupted Thursday by Sherill'J. D. Gilreath, acting under instructions from Gov. Hey ward, and there was great disappointment in the crowd numbering 150 who had come from North Carolina, Georgia and various points In this section. The rendevous was nearly live miles from the city, at Mollee distillery, and the cock fight ing was about to be^in when Sheriff Gilreath and lils deputy drove upon the ground, which caused such con sternation a large number took to the woods literally. A messenger was sent immediately to tlie city for legal advice, and when Senator Dean was consulted this afternoon lie informed all that the sheriff was obeying in structions from the governor. Tho courier hurried back and it was agreed to stop any further proceedings. Hnldoct lort lie Fool killer. A brooklyn minster, Rev. Cort land Myers, stated to his horrified congregation one Sunday that he bad not washed his liane's s!nce ho had shaken the hand of President Riesa velt the week before. The Minnea polis Times siys the congregation hus been on the lookout for their pastor's resignation ever since, feeling con vinced that he ls qualifying fora pro fess >rsh i pJriJJje_CJi]e^ The Jupaneso Wounded. Seventy-one wounded officers and men from the Japanese tleot arrived at Sasebo on tho hospital ship Kobe Maru from Port Arthur. All these were wounded In tho attack upon Port Arthur.