tatm.t.ebaD ie ESTABLISHED 1865. NEW BERRY, S. C., FRI)AY, MARCII 20, 1908. TWICE A WFJEK, $ .50 A YEAR THI BLUU AND THE GRAY. Government Will Compile a Complete Roster Of Those on both Sides In the Civil War. By direction of Secretary Root the war department has embarked on the extensive work of compiling and pub lishiug a complete roster of the ofi cers and enlisted men of the Union and Confederate armies. This is the seoret ary's own project and he sue coded in impressing Congress with the idea that it would be just and fair to the South to place on official lists the names of Confederate sol. diers in order that their descendants may trace their family histories with accuracy. The North, through sep. arate State publications, has covered pretty well fhis ground for its own soldiers But the Southern records and archives, never very complete, were scattered and destroyed owing to the outcome of the war and it is known that many frauds are prac ticed on the benevolent and many families lack important links in their histories because of the loss of these records. Socrotary Root in calling this matter to the attention of Con gress said that the department was constantly in receipt of appeals from State oflicials, historical societies and patriotic or memorial associations for transcripts of the military records of State troops, to answer which would cost more than a million dol lars, so that the most economical way would be to publish a complete ros ter. The publication will be enormous in size, including no less than 30 volumes "as large as the rebellion l records. The Northern names will be pub lished with the Southern because it is desired to have all of these data in one compilation instead of being scattered through various State books. Moreover, it is felt to be a grace. ful thing to bracket the names of the men who wore the blue and the gray. In order to carry out this purpose Secretary Root today sent the follow ing letter to the governors of all the States which furnished troops for the Confederate armies: War )opart ment, Vashington, March 16, 1903. The Governor of the State of --- Sir: There is a very general do sire on the part of the surviving par ticipants of lhe great struggle in which the country was engaged from 1861 to 1805, and on the part of the descendants of those who have passed away, for a publication that shall be accessible to thle general p)ublic and shall show the names of those who, either as ofli--ors or enlisted men, bore arms for the Union or for the Confederacy d1uring the great war. In the op)inion that this dlesire is one that should be gratified, ini great measure at loast, by compiling and publishinrg, as a continuation of the publication known as the "oficial record of thle Union and Cornfederate armies," a completo list or roster of the oflicer~s and men who served1 in ~:those armies during* the Civil war, this department411 recomimnded at the last sessin of Congress thueonact m ient of a law authorizing the com pilation aind preparation of such a roster for publicat ion. TIhiat recomn m'und(at ion was fol lowed by the enact m~ernt of a provision of law which is embo(Idd in t he legislat ive, executive anid judicial appropriat ion act, ap proved Feb. 25, 1 903I, and which is as fellows: "That nnder the direct ion of the secretary of .war the chief of the record1 and1( pension oflice shall comn pile, from such official records as are in the p)osse~ssioni of the Uniited States, and from such other records as may. beC obtained by loan from the various States and other oflicial sources, a complete roster of the oflicers and enlisted men of the Union and Con federate armies." The depart menit is prepared to enter at once uipon thle work of maik ing the comnpilastion thius ant horized and( to push it to compilletion as rap. idly as possible. Thorn will be little or no difficulty ini making thle Union part of thle roster coimplot e, but. thero will be great dilliculty with regard to the Confed'rate records iln the possession of this denpartmernt. It. is of the first importance, therefore, that no effort shall be spared to secure the temporary loan to the war de partment, for the purpose of copying, of any and all authentic Confederate records that can be found anywhere. Many of these records are in pos session of the various States and it is hoped will be readily accessible, but there are others that are widely scattered among historical and memo rial associations and private citizens. The problem of how to find and pro cure the loan of these scattered records is a difficult one, but it is one that must be solved in order that the Confederate soldier shall receive the full credit that is due him in the roster that is to be compiled. I earnestly invite your cooperation with the department in an effort to make this compilation as nearly com plete as it is possible to make it, and I shall be glad to have the bene lit of any suggestions that you can make as to the manner in which that mnd can be best attained. The work will be in the immediate charge of Brig. Gen. F. C. Ainsworth, chief of the records and pension oflice of this iepartment, and I beg leave to sug ;est that if the plan herein outlined meets your approval you designate iome official of your State to com nunicate with him relative to the do. ails of the work and the steps to be aken in furtherance of it. Very respectfully, Elihu Root, Secretary of War. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. tems of More or Less Interest Condensed In the State. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Caldwell mere married in jail at Greenwood )n Monday. The couple were to go efore a judge on a preliminary hear ng, but upon the advice of attorney .he father consented to the marriage ind the preliminary was changed into he marriage ceremony. Rev. C. W. DePew, a Wesleyan 1lethodist minister of Memphis, Penn., but who was formerly a resi lent of Williamston, was shot to leath on Thursday night by a car -iage driver whom he had discharged. :[r. DePew had filled appointments n Methodist churches at Pelzer, Piedmont, and Anderson. The constables in Greenville Jounty have made several successful -aids recently, capturing illicit dist.il ories and blind tigers. (3. P. Sims, a lawyer for the do 'eniso, knocked down the prosecutor, h. W. Boyd, duinig the progress of case in Magistrate Kirby's conrt in spartanburg on Monday. Boyd was sonductinig his owVn casPo and maiide a emark which Sims did niot like. Three dleserters from the Port R~oy al Maxrine bar racks have been' saptured anid carried1 baick to bar acks. Ton dollars is a standing re yard for the return of each deserter. A negro was found (lead with his icad smashed on the railroad near HIars Bluff in Florence County Mon lay. HeI jumped from a moving rain, it is thought. Satfe blowers used nit ro glycorine 'n the safe of D). L. Caito at Mornetta n Saturday night last. The at ore an whbich the safe wats located was ,osiderably wrecked, b)ut. the safe arackoers secu1redl no cash. (Governor Heyward, with one' ox ieept ion, has signied all Acts passed by thle General Assemblly. T1he one except ion wasI thre Bill to allow Union to subscribe to a Carnegie library, it being coveredl by ainot her Blill allow trg all cities of over o,000) t his pnrivi loge. At the rate at which the work is now being carried ont it is thIought that. there will bre no dliflicurlt y ini having Columbia's sk3 scratper comit llted b)y the first (lay of July. T1hie Anderson Spoo)tl and lBobb)in Mfg. Co. has given riot ice of its ini tenrtion to increase its c!apitalizationr from $4,000 to $20,000 an incerease of $16,000 and of 40(0 per cenIt. The company controlling the Isle of Palmre, at Chiarleston, has been given nerrmmmn to increas its ca ital stock from $100,000 to a quarter of a million. This means that this famous sulmner resort. is to be made one of the most pretentious in the country. The second case of bigamy wichin two weeks has developed in Spartan burg County. The defendant is Isa' o Randolph, and wife No. 1, who is the prosecutor, before her mar riage was Fannie Sheppard, a cotton mill operative. Randolph was mar. ried the second time Sunday after. noon to Miss Annie Kirby, of the Beaumont mills. Prof. W. H. Morton, of Asheville, N. C., has accepted the proffered chair of physics and astronomy at Converse College. The new city council of Laurens, prosided over by C. E. Gray, was sworn in on Tuesday. More t han $2,000 worth of tickets t for Spartanburg's May Festival were sold oil the opening day of sale. E This included 521 season tickets. i At a negro religions gathering in Anderson County on Sunday after noon a negro woman was shot and seriously injured. The cause the free circulation of % hiskey. C Governor Heyward responded to the toast, "The State of South Caro lua" at the 117th anniversary dinner of the Hibernian Society, in Charles ton, on Tuesday night. The Gover nor's theme was the industrial pros. perity of the State and her great future. The dead bndy of Lewis Pittnan, a cotton mill operative, was found on the track of the Southern railway near Rock Hill Tuesday morning. H1e and some friends had been drink ing and had gone to the track, where it is supposed Pittman went to sleep and was run over. t A mass meeting of citizens to dis. t cuss good roads was hold in Florence t this week. President F. H. Hyatt, was present, and a number of inter- t esting talks were inade. Florence is S thoroughly aroused upon the subject. t c There was a strike among the car penters in Columbia on Monday. A nine hour day was the demand. 7 Work on the buildings in Columbia was stepped all day Monday, but ro commonced Tuesday upon the de mand being acceded to. Ck 'Tho council of the Episcopal Dio. cose of Sotth Carolina will meet with { the Church of the Good Shepherd in t Columbia on May 5th. Bishop Ca -c pers will preside. GENERAL NEWS NOTES. Items of More or Less Interest Condensed Outstde the State'. Rudolph Forester of Virginia has beeni ap)pointed assistant sec':etary to the presidlent. H-e enteredl the gov ernm]ent ser-vice in 1894I and since 1 900' has booen executive clerk to thle Presiden,t. 'rho supreme court of Laouisiana has roindor'ed a de&cisioii snstainiing the right of the legislature to paiss the law p)rovidi ng for separate ac commhlodlat ions for whites and blacks ini street cars. Another South Aimericani revolu t ion has b)rokenl out, this ti me in U ruguay. The government of Uruguay (1oes not. attach) anty impor talnee to it. The Shamrock ILI, which will (oin test for the America's cup, was launched oin St. Patrick's D)ay. This is the third bot built for this pun pose by its soris muan-gent lemnan ownter. Theloi nqu est ini the .Burd-(ick mn r dler case, at Bull'alo, is in progress. It. sems to be the. genieral desire of wVitnesses(' to lix It' crimo1 npoin Arthur l'eonnell, wvho was killed b)y hiis auittioobileS a few (lays ago. A human skeleton was found in an isol atd po jt ini ai pastumre six i miles frmm ihiniigtori and iden'it ihied as thait or W. WV. Youn1ig, a white car ponit er :-2: ye(ars ol, w ho (1isalppeared. from his home' ini Wuimingtn on May 3, 1900. Young hais a wife nnmd two chiildrein living ini Columbia. Thie wife has remarried. CRUM TO Bli APPOINTED. President Will Name Him Collector of Charleston Immediately After Special Session. (Newts and Courior. ) Washington, March 17.--Presi. :lent Roosevelt has closed the "Door )f Hope" to the white citizens of Jharleston, and will appoint Dr. William D. Crum, a colored physi lian, collector of the port of Char eaton as soon as the special sssiol >f the Senate adjourus. Notwithstanding one alvtrse re ort on the nomination of Dr. Crum )y the Senate committee on com nerce several weeks ago, and an op )Ortunity for a seconu adverse re )ort last Thursday, of which the op )osition refused to take advantage, he appointment of Crum is assured. There is not the slightest. possibili. y of a vote being reached oi his tomination during the present speciali 0ssion. The disposition of the canal ( nid the Cuban treatio0, and a few ther routine n.atters will occupy all he time the Senate expects t ' remain n sessioln. Several feeble efforts havo been ande to carry out the President's lesire to force a roll call on the omilnation of Dr. Crum. As a mat er of fact the lBepublican loaders of he Senate have no heart in the fight lie President is trying to force oin >ehalf of Dr. Crum. STAND of TiE: IMo('A'I'ts. On the other hand, the I)(mocrats re determined that so long as thle e dtrpubhcans fear to vote th ,eir per. onal convictions in this case, which vould result in the rejection of I)r. ,rum, they will prevent any parti. an vote on this subject. The opposition to confirmat ion is olidly united and Democratic Sena ors are prepared to discuss the mat. or indefinitely. They take the posi ion that, after (rum had once been ejected for appointment as postumas or of Charleston by a iepublican ienato during the Ilarrison admtinis ration, it was unwise and injudici us for President loosevelt to inflict he same man upon the white cit.1 ens of Charleston as collector of the iort. Besides, it had been clearly lemonstrated to the President that lie selection of D)r. Crunm is niot opular with the members of the enate, as many of the leading Re ublicans have urged him to with Iraw the nomination since it. was ad ersely reported from the coinmit"to. , *f which acting Vice President Vry a chairman. THEi iE51iDENT's Onsii'lN Ae. TIhne President, however, is dot er lined that D)r. Crum shill be collec or of the port of Charleston, unless majority of the members of thle einate place t henmselves on record flicial ly againlst hiis confirm at ion. IT' 15 SOME (oNXoI,ATIioN. it appears that the only conisola ion the whiite people of Charleston ~an draw from this p)eculiar condih. 'ion of allfairs, wvhichi is pract ical ly a aso8 of the exOeti ve braiknchi of thle loveirmenit overr'iding thne Seniat e, vill be thn generalI elfect the Presi lent's act ion will hiave ini nat ionial .ol it ics. H i'publ icanl Senaitor01s do tot hesit ate t o say tihat t hey are rerced1 by ex'ctiv e st ronti' tiuiios to mulprt thle ad iist rat ion if a vote ttaken. Onh thle other lhand, thle D)emocrat s cointend1( thliat it is good politics to plaice t hi President in thle itt itutde of aippoinitinig aI man1 to 0a purely commnercial oflico whio is c'on fossedlly wVit hout (experiIIne in busi [less mat ters MIark llanna*, of Ohio, and11 J1 ohni K(ean, or New J1ersey, is thne liatest lloputbl icani ticket 1 lunchied on Itie pol1it ical 501n by the sIlf coniislitted0( President maikers in tho S'niat e. (Cha51. Mt. Sebwabvit, a(ccompied)1 byl J his wife, hais retulrned( from his Eturoponni tour. Illo sayis hie is ina [Ixcellnt heathi bitt will say niothing 'if his mritentions honfore conisultirng hie~ friendls. Mrs. *Jiini-o Strowbidge, of P'eni Yani, N. V., in a passion of frenzy on TIuesdauy, kitlledt tier aged mother and1( her growin daughter, atnd1 then brnmedt her h ome, honrsel f perish inrg in the lineii THE NEGRO V! WBD MEBDICALLY. Unless Facts are Weighed, South May be Done Injustice. The Medical News, a widely known journal published in New York city, is aroused by the recent discussion of the race issue to commnent upon "Negro Supremacy from a Medical Standpoint." In an editorial upon that subject in its issue of February 28 the Medical News stato that in leading papers of the North and South have appeared editorials of great acumen and power, "but 3one seem as yet to have dealt, -xcept ini a superticial manner, with ,he race problem as seen from a )iological, ethnological or medical itandpoint." The News contiuos: One cannot. intelligently answer the iestion whether the negro can take i place in the social and economic rogress of the nation without being 11 possession of the main eorphol )gical differences between t he Can maian and the African, since these ire the fundamental bases for men Al and moral discrepancies between he races. That the negro more nearly ap )ruaches in body to the quadiruimana )r anthropoid apes is shown by the 'ollowing points: 'he arm is ab. lormally long-in the erect position t often reaches the knee-pans, anid >u an avergo exceeds that of the Jaucasian by about two inches. The acial aigle, which is granted by all o have a definite ethnological bear ng, even if the function of the fron ,al lobes is still but little known, tvorago 82 degrees in the Caucasian imd 70 degrees in the black. Coin identally with this is the fact that n brain weight the white nian (ex 1oeds the negro by fully 10 onIces ilmost as much as lhe ini Itirn exCeeds he highest gorilla. Another p)oint )f differonce anatomically is soon iii hie lower ext remit y-- this is not so vell developed as the white lan 's, ho foot, is broad and flat, the great. on prehensile and divergent, the tool often projecting so far back wi d is to merit the term "lark heel." It is needless to dwell longer on he well known difference which ex sis, or to urge that they demronst.rato i distinct, race of mankind and show sonclusively in the negro an inferior y'pe. Among the fair-minded this s axiomatic. Som years ago we were all alarm d over the "yellow peril." Now he "black peril" confronts us. TIhe article quotes the late Prof. )gden S. Itood, of Columbia, ais aisk fig: "1 tow car there be any bsoervaition ini the city of Savanah, lie in confident that tuberculosis and ileohiolisi m m madi n si ult.ify ing in. roads on thiie mnak ing negro, poor1, weakIeed pr'odumct, t hat lie in, of muiscogeniation. Sir Spoenir St. ,John iiays3 of thle titinhabitants of liInyti: ''After a res i.lew of over tweity yr in this isando I ain forced to t he (icnclosion that the rnegro is meiap)abIle of hol ing ani itidependent posit ion. In Itt i s hw noS1 sigai of iinp rovemnt -on the otheri hand1(, it is cons5tanrtly ret ro to thle stage of thle dwellers of the (Con go.' Thle MIed icalI New~s t.hius conitiiimes its (or9istieritn: If it is t rue, as soiune have~' perli apn wveIl said, thaitt the time is ripe for a recognlit ion of thle liegro, inl Sinb. stanice rat her thann in thleory, ea rnest thloughit shonhld be givenl b y those who wr mId liberally3 initerpret our laws, aund they should lbe well v'ersedl ini the opiions of sucth muen of sc'ience as5 we ha meii a polstalI or call at. (0ICos . De and Casualty Co., m1FV,. . c ILife iniarnc, (o. of N. v.