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The Peopl Public Servi OBy-,Justice Wit 1901@0,090 HESE agitations for tent for municipal m en not out of any he agement of public now in the mind of 'it Ibeing fanned int trary, it has come wl enterprises, in over< and again. The community cannot look witho reqentment and, finally;- without action ling of' capital put into these public, perpetual tax on the community. We see these great companies in selves for 999 years. Dear me, thin years! Nine years is more likely tha No, not the capital but these great but licenses from the people, are mac bonded and the stock doubled up, yea: colossal enough-I will be bold enough est enough to shock the moral sense o the seed of this hostility, this feeling 1 'We have just had a great debate i The same thing is true of them. T1 against capital, but there is hostility perpetual tax on the people as thougI they pleased with tisn. What are --as-much as the Mrt -road alongside? The public .mind has now come to rid the publir- mind of it. The buildii ment, by-fnisdirection, have been turn trouble is, not that we have any hostili have gifts have come somehow to un own profit first and for the public seec It is a horrible crime if the public or a group of men at half the rate el of one man and the destruction of thk Go back to the days of tollgates. one man should drive through for on would tear down the tollgat . What The people will tear lowri the railroa sible, forcibly if we must. There is nothing more certain tha clusion that this thing will no longer the nation or the highways of the ci managed for the aggrandizement of ni of all. I need not say to you that tal ment can be done only for the goveri ple, and could only be on the theory I functions; that they are highways wl always been managed by governments Cause Wins $ By Carl **Oteto*S@ AZZINI and Kossuth two men! Mazzini h: ~ suffered for the unil l~l government. Not n * speak the national ui :tially aided by the m: 9M~o peror Louis Napoleo ~ marvelous campaign been originally plann< -in history like a romantic adventure the unification of Italy was fully achiev, Savoy; and Mazzini, the republican, united' Italy where he had hidden hii his own country. Kossuth had. agitated with his wc a briliant though unfortunate war for A defeated man, he went into exile. of the political autonomy, the substant governing country, was accomplished ian people seemed for a while to be < plished under the kingship of the hous er would bow his head to the Hapsbt calling him back to his country, whoa ceased to be; and he finally died as: and lonely man. 'AJ large part of what those two ni but it then appeared in a form in whit own-McClure's Magazine. 'Mere .Maa Inha By Erastus *ses:.eeo F all the treacherous, N .vices er- invented I f~ ~.man and :aeaven and S I have .a frightful - thouse in Du~tchess co scented an irvitation ldeas of happinniess :hammocks. One da: in a straw ride into which .I declined, 'but miserable -as the perience with a hammock was .far wor Witta no eye en mne save that sof he take it unawares. II sat in it-end uni the cooisg breeze :and open meshed Steadying the;. infernal .contrivance wi fully, and Reeled cat de stirboard sid accompaniment. I was as much det'ermined to ie i life. I cabulated my .nex1 effort wst death, muttered severa'l quotations and 132termined to possess the- most et tried to, but sound myself ~t.rmly'secur' my coat tals, those in frQar and on m language, whicih only attracted gleefa hook in about half an hou.. For a qui aeal was admira.ble but .lajudicious. b operations he cut more tha~n was abso ,dropped on him. Let this fbe a warnir cept in bed or in business ce social int A Thorough Job. In the cock's absenice the young mistress of the house undertook, w'ith the help of a green waitress. to get the Sunday luncheon. The fiurTied n-aid, who had been struggling in the kitch en' with a coffee-:nachine that refusea to work, eentessed that she had for gotten to wash the letiuce. "Well, never muir~d. Eliza. Go on with the ,ccffee, and I'll do it." said the con~siderate mistress. "Where do yom keep the soan?" Versus the I ce Corporations g eiam J Gynor. municipal ownership, and to some ex anagement, have, in my judgment, aris stility to capital or to the private man service corporations. The live coai his country was neither originated ror > flame by such hostility. - the con tolly from the mismanagement of these apitalization, in watering stock again it feeling, without regret, without deep tothe doubling up of capital, the treb franchises, representing nothing but a ew York now united and leasing them k of our standing that thing for 999 n 999. Is the actual capital doubled? ifts, these franchises that are nothing e a drain on the community, by being after year, until the sum has. become to say it even in this presence-dishon the people of this country. There is award these corporations. . t Washington toucifing on the railways. ere is no resentment in Washirdgton to these public utilities being made a -the recipients had the right to do as the railroads but our public highways the understanding of this and you can't g of these roads may by mismanage ed over to private individuals and the y to honest capital, but that those who erstand that they own them for their nd. highways carry the freight of one man arged another, to the aggrandizement other. What do you think would happen if e-half what another man paid? Ther ilI happen ultimately to the railroads? ds. We will do this peacefully if pos that the people have come to the con >e tolerated either on the highways of vy. They demand that they shall be ) single individual, but for the welfare ing of private property by the govern ment and for the welfare of the peo hat they are performing governmental ich from the twilight of history have in the 'ro . Schurz. -how strangely fat 1ais'I~h those d all his life plotted and struggled and caton of Italy under a free natiornal any years after the period of which I iity of Italy did indeed come, first par in Mazzini hated most, the French Em , and then greatly advanced by the of Garibaldi, which is said to have d by Mazzini himself, and which reads f the time of the Crusai'cs. Finally d under the auspices of the dynasty of t last died in an obscure corner in self under a false name, an exile in derful eloquence and then conducted he national independence of Hungary. n the course of time a large measure jal independence of Hungary as a self y peaceable means, and the Hungar ntented with it. But it was accom of Hapsburg; and Kossuth, who nev rg, inflexibly resisted every Invitation *e legendary national hero he had not voluntary exile at Turin, a very old e had striven for was at last won h they would not recognize it as their HammockI Heartburn. evasive, deluding and hypocritical de . hammock is the worst, abhorred by a-outrage on. virtue and civilization. lot of nieces, all sojourning at a farm nty. In a moment .of dementia I ac t visit the -terrible region. Their eem concentrated into monkeydom in ' the whole household gang went forth which they sought to beguile me, and pleasume promised to be my later ex aven, I approached the thing hoping to er it suddenly, and it'swayed above in nockery. I .arose- muttering language. h both hands I kneeled isto it care-' , I guess, because *.here was a starful that bag as on any other occasion in geometrical precision, the chances of wash triumphantly ensconced. xfortable position, I turned, that is, I 4d in the meshes by the. buttons above sleeves. Then there was some more mosquitoes plus a boy with a grass irter he engaged to cut me loose.. His acuse getting under me to facilitate lutely necessary and will savage joy I ig to all men never to lie anywhere ex ~rcourse. The Highiest Bridge in the World. The huge one-spaa arche d steel bridge which is to carry the Cape to Cairo Railroad across- the waters of the Zambesi River, just below the Vic toria Falls. willshortly be swung into position. This bridge~ will be the highest in the world. with a main span of 500 feet. The materials used in the construction of the bridge are to be transported from one bank to the other across the gorge by an elec tric cnhlavayv. A WITERCAPtK KILED Defends Himself in His House and Death of One of Mob is three Re sult-Wrenn Surrenders and Tells S:ory of Affair. Greenwood. Special.-A5 the result oif an attempt to take the law into their own hands. a, whiterapping par Iv lost one of their inewhevrs at the h'ome ot Mr. Frank C. Wrenn. where they hand go*Ine to -reuilate" Wrenn. He shot and instantly killed John Anderson. who had succeeded in %etting into the house qd was grap pling with Wrenn to try to take hin o1t to horsewhip him. It is expected eulmination of a kind of lawlessness that has been infortunately too prevelent in Green wood county ever since the Pheonix riot and while greatly to be regret ted. it will doubtless have the whole some effect of putting a stop to the business 4f trying to -regulate'' people instead of bringing them to the law where adequate and sutlicient panjishient for any and every erime ean be obtained. Mr. Wrenn came to, town and sur rendered to the sheriff. Neither he nor his counsel. Shepards, Grier & Pa'k. were willing to make any for mal statement in the matter. Mr. F. Barron Grier of the firm stated that he would make application for bail immediately. From accounts of the shooting it appears that Mr. F. C. -Wrenn was awakened by some one either saying "Hello'' or kicking at his door. He lives in what is known as the White Jones place, a rather large, two-story old fashioned house (n the road be [ween Greenwood and Cokesburv. At the time Mr. Wrenn was alone in t L house. his wife. and sons having left him some time ago oin1 accouttit of fanily troubles and it was on this ae ount that. the whitecappers had Come 10 whip him. Wrenn answered the call by coring to his front door. Ie )pented it and saw several per sois stianding arouind the door and asked vhat was wanted. One of the party replied that they were cotton mill people on their way from Green ville to Greenwood and wanted to st-y all night. Having traveled half the unight 1did not seem to strike them : all in ngruous. Wre n told them he was sorry. but he could not ae romlodate them. They rh.en asked for somithing to eat and Wrenn told them lie was again sorry. but as his wife had left him alone he had noth itg to eat cooked in the house. Fin ally they asked for some water. By this time Wrenn mad made up his mind that there was trouble brewing and that those men were determined to get into his house for the purpose :f doing some injury to him. He, however, agreed to give thein some water, but said lie would go and ge the water. Closing lie door Wrenn went first to his bedroom, where he kept his pistol, which happened to be loaded. Pie~king tup his pistol Wrenn~ went to the place where lie kept the drink :n;: water and wvent to the door with his istoi in his right hand and the hocke't of walter'in. his left. Opening the door he handed out the water to one of1 the c'rowd. anld as lie (lid so. noticed a man crouched up against the door as elose as he could get. :ip parent ly await ing an openilg to jump in. As Wrenii sav. this man lie shtt the oor and called out to know what this man was dhoing up aga'inst the door. No sooner had he closed the door41 thain. ecrowdl dashed a-tainzst the door and burst it open. Four men apparently rushed through the door and grappled with Wrenmi in the cetnter of the room. Thecre was no light and the lour against one were bent 01n bringinig himf out. in or dler' to whip him. (41 possibly do more, even kill him while he was doinig as every creature, man ort lower animal, all he (could( d'. to sav'e his life. At this time WXrenn began using his pistol. There w..ere four men surroundinlg him and lie began shoot ing at thle same time they touched him. He tired four shiots as r'ap.idky as the mechanism of' the -pistol woulmtd permit, and during thle shooting a man fell. The other three immedi ately ran out. WXrenni qutickly'losed the door t'nd began to plan for a see otnd attack, or better. an escape. He remebered that lie had t wo eartridges left in his pistol and startedI to get more that he kept in the house. Get ting these and reloading, lhe was ready to leave the house. Appar' ently it was surrounded and lie could hear the cursing c'rowd outside, who w'ere sayling they would yet get the - .'' More than likely the crowd did not know Anderson was dead. Finally Wrenn thought he saw an pportunity and juimped1 from a back window. The crowd. however, saw im and began shooting at him as lie ran. Wrenn was shot in the arm and left side with bird shot hut, thottgh painfully wounded is not seriotusly urt. He ran towards a negro house nearby, but instead o4f going in the house he turned to one side and ran around the house, hiding in some very tall cotton not far' away. It is a ease with some novel fea tures. The comrades of Anderson can hardly expect to testify as they will onfess to a most serious crime. Anderson was a youing white farm cir of abay: ~37 g"ars of a;;e. He lived tiear Salutca, about seven or eizht miles from the Wrenn house. The rrowd possibly inceluded sonme fronm an esen CI ieater distat:ce than that. Andlersoni leaves a wife a'nd1 several Railway Assessment. Columbia. Special.-The State hi4.ru 4)f Assessors has finished its york. The rail road companies hia':e een raised $12..~,00,000O on the valu ation of tir propeW(l)rty. all increase ,f0 per cenPt. The basis of t axa ion! remlains5 the stime as last year ercnt. T!' refore the net i re..:t of ro;erty forP taxatio 04)t e ur Oefm. 4f 't1i2.414.~24 or 5~. 5Mr.s:4. The levy of 5 1-2 ills o! his will bi ! ani in'rease int reven the r mmc rtt iry of i4i.133 PALMETO AFFAIRS Occurrences of Interest From All Over South Carolina MANY ITEMS OF STATE NEWS A Batch of Live Paragraphs Cover ing a Wide Range-What is Going On in Our State. General Cotton Market. Galveston steady.... .. ....9 1-16 New Orleans firm.. .. ...... 914 Savannah steady.. .. .. ......9 1 Charlestoii firm.. .. .. .........9 Wilmington steady.. ..... .. 9 3-16 Norfolk steady.. ..........9 1-2 Baltimore nominal.. .. .. ....9 1-2 New York quiet............. Boston quiet.. .. .. .... ....9.70 Philadelphia sileady.. .. ......9.95 Houston steIadv .. .. .. ...9 3 Augusta firmn .. .. .. .... .....9 3-9 Memphis steady.. .. ........9 9-16 "t. Louis steedv..........9 5-4 L imisvifle firm.... .........-19 Charlotte. Cotton Market. These prices represent the prices .luoted to wagons: flood liddlilg.. .... .. .... 9.35 Strict mliddling. . . . .... 93 M1i dddIn.. .. .............9.25 71'ood iiddlinig. tinged .. ..... S 7-S Stains.. ..........7 1-2 to S 1-2 Baltimore Produce Market. OI. 1.-Flour-Steady. Whea-Firmier; pot contract. 7:3 :-4 to 74: Soulbern by samlple. .50 11 (60. Corn--Firm. spot. 54 1-4 to :s uth)Ittent white voiii. 54 1-2 to 56. Oats-Firm: No. 2 mixed. 36 1-2 .0 . . :-4 lIve- Firmer: No. 2 Vetern. .9 to 70. Bulter-Steady and nchanged fanev imitation. 20 to 21: do. cream "ry, 25 to 2, do. ladle. IS to 20; tIore packe(t. 16 1-2 to 18. F.gs-Firin 24c. Cheese--Aetive and unchianged; 13 1-S to 13; 3-4. Sugar-Swieny and unchang-ed. State Insurance is a Great Success. Columbia. Speial.-Mr. David H. I Means. elerk of the sinking fund commission. reported at, the last ieeting.4' that the fire insurance fund has now a- surplus of approximately $25.000. The law has been in force five years and several small losses have been paid. Therefore it appears that the State of South Carolina hap saved ioney by writing insurance on its own property as well as escaping n11y charge of graft or favoriteism in giving~ out insurance as was onice done. 1Uder the existing. law by which the State insures certain State prop)erty. noi risks are taken on any of~ thle collene prayer~ities in the State. Mr. \1ean thinks that It would be a good ie.() to wr~ite about $:10.I000 au~ itu.lly onl each oft the& State inistitul tionis and this would incr~ease the stur phis very largely. In ease of a tire~ the whole of the surpluis would not be contsumtedl any way, lHe thinks it woul be a good idea for the legisla ture to pas~s an~ act permin Iing the~ siniknig fnud commtissionI to) plae $1 0.00(0 a year on each of' the State col letrs. t his amount to he increased1 fromn timne to t ime as the surplus- on: handi woiuld perit.t~ In a few years the surp1l us would reaeh $! 00.000 and Ithee the State would not have to require the payment of regular~ prem1f iuns fromi the proper.ties no0w being insured1. andi~ an assessment plan could be used to meet all losses. Further more the rate of insurance under~i this law is very much lower than the rate given byv insuranice companlies. Extending Trolley Line. Andel'rsoni. Special.-W~ork onl thle extenslin of' thle trolley line to ihe Gluick Cot ton 1Mill began last week. The line will b~e extended two miles beyond its present terminus at thec Orr mills. it will serve as a great convenience to the mill people. and wvill open for development some fine property along the route. Death of Cadet Eeaves. Clemson College. Special.-At the inquest held over the body of Joe E. Reaves by the ,eoroner of Oconee county the jury redered the followv ing verdict: "From the evidence we have it is our opinion that the death- of J. E. Reaves was caused by injuries receivedl in falling frow his window in room 56 of the bar -racks of Clemnson College, between the hours (of 10:30 p. mn., Sepit. 21 Iand 5:45 a. in., Sept. 22. Foreman of the Jury. White Not Wanted in Aiken. Aiken, Special.-Rev. W. J. White, the negro preacher and editor who was warned to leave Augusta, came to Aiken. It was said that White would endecavor to publish his jotur nal here and that lie was in confer enee with nea ro leaders with that :nd in view. The mayor isso-d in structions that White be brought in "ourit and stated that he wvoutld oredrT him to leave town at once. -Female Colleges Open. CNolunmbia. Special.-Both of the fe maule colleges will be opene~d Thurs day~ mnorning for the winter. At the llege for Women the chapel exer ises witll be opened at 10 o'cleok nd ikv. S. M. Smith wvill make an lderess to the studelnts. Rev. S. H. 'imrmaurn; field agent for Colum Si olleg'e. said that the college had :Nore students thtan ever before and h lar the college would be htard push. -d o accommodate them. There are LVI ndernt., in te buildiing. SOUll CAROLINA CROPS Dondition of South Carolina Crops eFor Week Ending Monday, Septem ber 24, as Given Out by the De partment. The most noteworthy feature of ;he week's weather was the passage icross the State from east to west. of i severe and destructive storm dur ing the 17th. The winds reaehied irricane velocity in Georigetown -ounty. and perhaps at other places in the eastern portion of the State md it attained gale velocities at 'harleston and Columbia and very .ikely at many -other places. The )atli of the storm was across the !entral part of the State from about ieorgetown to Greenville. and this >ortiin of the State suffered mo-st riom the high winds. although the ;torim deereased in severity as it lov !d into the interior. The storm was accompanied by general precipita ion. The extreme northwestern poir ion of the State received the lieav test rainfail. with a inaxiunni fr hie week of 6.16 incivhes at Wa] lialla. The mean temperature for the ,veek was about 5 degrees above Iiorrnal. and ranged fromt a minimum >f 62 degrees at Heath Spring on the 21st to a maximum of 96 degrees it Blackville on the 21st. The last lalf of the week had nusually high .emperaturie. There was im uch less than the us ual amount of stiosline. and at most -tations but one clear day was noted :luring the week. the other days ha% ing been partly eloudy to eloudy. J. W. Bauer. Seetion Director. Bryan at Columbia. Columbia. Special.-Hon. William Jennings Bi-yan spoke here to a large croWd. His speech was devoted I mostlv to the tariff question and was well received. From here he went direct to Atlanta. Georuia. Floral Festival. (reeiwood. Specia.-An annual evenit of importance in Greenwood is the Florel Festival or Chrysanthe mum Fair. and as the time for its observanee is :rapidly approaching. great interest is being taken in the event. A fine feature of the festival is the parade. which is made up of floats from the various business hous es of the city. Many merchants will take part this year and the exhibition of floats promises to be far ahead of any previous ones. The date of the festival has not been definitely fixed. but it will in all likelihood be about the first of November. This has been the regular time. and it will be held as usual this y-ear. The officers and standing committees met last week at Mr-s. D. A. G. Ouzts' and appoint ed thle working committees for the festival. The festival is under the auspices of the young people's so ieties of the Presbyter-ian. Bnptist Furman University Opens. Greenville, Special.-Furman. U~ni versity opened for the fall session. the regist rat ion numirii ng 223. the a rgest enrolinwnmt on the first day in the history of the institution. Chicora collere opened with 100 boarding pupils and a large number of (lay -pupils. The Furman Fitting school opened with 47 students. These institutions all observed the openuing day with appropriate exercises, ad dresses being made by prominent ministers and business men of the eit v. Examinations will be held at once and the regular work will beg .n Monday. Greenville Female college >pened with an unusually large aIt tendanee. South Carolina Mills Will Have Fine Exhibit. Greenville. S. C.. Special.-The South Carolina Cotton Manufactur es' Association will make an exten sive exhibit at the .Jamnestown Ex position. Within the past few years this State has developed in manufae ures from cot ton un til now it ranks second to Massnchunsetts which y-et leads in textiles. New Enterprises. The following new enterprises were chrtered Fh-riday: Beinnet tsville-lPhiarmaey Co.. $5. 000: C. S. McCall. president. Gireenviile Brick Company. $10. 000: Wmn. M. Kellar. president: J. H. Shirley. secr-etary: lHudson Wi! iamus treasuruer. Coimmissions were issued to the fol lowing: R. L. McElmosre. B. W. Fair. W. H. Franklin. WV. F. M(-Medieis all of PBeech Island. corporators oft the Aiken county Fr:ench (oachi Hoi se Co.. to be eamitalized at $:;.600. Pur ~posei- to '-wn thP. -we'ck for Barn Near Petersburg Burned. Petersburg. Spectial. - The largze barr of I-r.an.k Havsnieka. on the Jerusalem Plank road, in Prince Geoge county, four miles from Petersburg. w~as dest roved by fire withl coniten'ts5. inclutdintg a larg'e qiuan tity tof hav. grain and far-m impli ucnits. The loss is several thousand lolla rs;: insur-ance, $300. The origin of the tire is unknown. Wofford Opens Well. Spartanburg. Special. - Wofford college and Wofford Fitting~ schmool peed with the largest attendance in: the history of the institution. It is estimated "that in the college and anm ehcool together there ar 401) stu lets. The openin of the mustitu ions was gr-atifying to the authioritic nd President H. N. Snyder state hat it w~-as the best attendan2ce o. heopnili (la that the college h. HEARST AND HUGHES New York Democratic and Re publican Nominees CONTEST FOR GOVERNOR NOW ON At Early Thursday Morning Hour, Ne-v York State Convention Pro ceeds to Balloting and, Owing to Tammanv Chief Murphy's Previ ously Announced Position. Inde pendence League Candidate is Nominated for Governor Over whelmingly. Buffalo, N. Y., Special.-The Dem oeratie State convention, at an early hour Thursday following a prolong ed session, nominated William R. Hearst. already the candidate of the Independence League. for Governor on the first ballot. The vote stood: Heiarst. 306; Sul zer. 124: Dix.. 17. Necessary to a Choice 226. At 11 o'clo'-k the Democratic State convention had perfected its organi zation. the plat form including a reso int ion 1elictatin iBryan and !ipt ed the manjority report of the comrunit tee on cortested seat. This was a test vote and showed a subsiantial lead for Hearst. The ioniiintion! of candidates for governer was Ihen1 be gun. an Alba"y e-mnty delegate le.ad inl off f<, Ilearst. Sulzer was placed in nomiinatio;n by George Rains of Monroe. auild wild cheering. The cheering of Sulzer continued over three minutzes. niany of the delegates stan ding on tei chairs and calling laudly. "Snlzer.' Hughes Gets Republican Nominaticn. Republicans Nominate Hughes. Stratoga, N. Y.. Special.-Charles E. Hughes was noirniiated b)y w--la mation as the reinnhie-an -andidate frgovernor of New Erk.! for A.*-~ The selectio! orf t he remainder of the ticket and Che choice o! Timothy L. Woodruff to succeed B. B. hiel as State c-hairman were acc!mplish ed before the convfenion a-m(-inb!ed and it only remain-d for t he convein tion to ratif e all that had been ar ranged and to adjourn. The per manent organizaion was quickly et fected. the chairman. State Sena:or W. W. Armstrong. of Rochsler. de livered his speech. the credenth committee rportd. the piat lorm was read and adoptcd. and a ctull-leic State ticet nominated. General Stew.aird L. W<odtruft, fr mer United States minister to S i read the plaltforml and emphtasized thec cardinal feature-s of Repuiii h'm and the featrres of its party aduiu istrations. both State and national. Mentioni of Presidecnt R40tseVelt in the resolutions and inl spches~ evoked applause. President Telegraphs His Rejoicing. Oyster Bay. N. Y., Specia.-The following telegram sent by the Pres ident after he had been notitied of the nomination by the Republican State convention of Charles E. Hughes for Governor. was made public here. "Hon. Charles E. Hughes: I rejoice for the sake of the cause of good cit izenship in your nomination. ".THEODORE ROOSEVELT." Platform Scores Socialism. Liffalo, N. Y... Special.-The fol lowing la sa abstr-act of the platform adop te-d by the - ~:.erat ie conven "A t this time when the authority of !)emocracv is itr:C kcd to defeud lunacr of thc masses by: a few~ rich mn,. through partial i'tws on one .ant. and on the otheri to justify any extravnaant amt revolutionary r Iej-(sals whin-h. if adorted. must in t itably produce worse disasters than the abuises they seek to cure, we deem it comently littin;. to declare that the whole Demo'atic pr-inciple i~s embraced ini the ia jatnetion laid or. the fiist mani-that in the sweat of heir brows ho a'id all his posteri'y mst eat their- bread. "WAe denonne2 Republican hig~h .roteetion wlih'ch eniabes a few' 1o plntder the wh~ol., budy of their fel oweiien.by chargin exotin pi- es for thie necesaries of Jife and "Wc doul"re a:s the most sinister consequ(1'ence of, ti~ce corruption and ratwhich' ngrade our political and idi trial li fe. the '~idespread dis trast and dise~~C'e. of ReIpublican: vov crnment which! they have pi oduced nd vwhich ha~ve l many men of tin ioubted pr'1th Ciy an rdent pti: ;5o to listen patiently, if not approv ingly to proposals distinctly Social its. which iL ado~pted irnist inevit 3t.-- wreck the founpdation sf republi e--:a en me~i~ nt andil enldangeCr the en e fabric of Clii st ian civilization, - We hold thiat the cur2 for thesc auses is not in Socialism, whie.h, by enormously extending the power f government from any interference whatever- with private indtistry, must urse them. "It is the duty ouf government to ascertain the actual cost of operating all public service corporations mid to fix from time to time reasonabl~e rates for the service they perform.. The Cassie F. Brunson Ashore. Charleston. Special. -A. private - ~elgram from Conway from Capt. dvr. tells that the four-mastedt chooner Cassie F. Brunson. light - ronm Perthiiamnboy for Charleston, vent ashore near Little river and is 1total loss. The schooner was of )2 tons net register. 193 feet long nd was built at Bath, Me., in 1SS6; ome poirt Newv York. From the cap ain's failure to report casualties it s thnoght that the crew was saved. TAFT TAKS OV[ CU A Taft's Accession as Provisional Gov ernor Unacompanied by Ceremony or by Popular Demonstration of Any Kind. Havana By Cable. - Governor Taft proceeded to the Palace at noon Saturday to take over the government of Cuba. The act was not accompani ed by any fornial ceremony or public eremny0i!v or public demonstrationl. Nring the morning Brigadier Gen eral Funston conferred with Mr. Tift - regarding the location of the camps for the first division of the Amerivan troops to be landed here. The sites lyynot yet been selected. Funston vili command all the troops in Cuba, which will number about 7,000. GOV. TAFT'S PROCLAMATION. Declaring Intervention in Cuba, Pres ident Roosevelt's Representative, Proclaims Provisional Government, With Himself as Head Until Elec tions Shall be Held--Civil Admin istration to "e Interfered With as Little as Possible. Havana, IBy Cable. - -Provisional Governor Taft 's proclamation declar ing intervention in Cuba, as publish ed in The Official Gazette was as tillows: "-To the People of Cuba: "The failure of Congress to act on the irrevocable resignation of the President of the republic of Cuba or to eleet a successor leaves the country without a government at a time when ?reat disorder prevails and requires that. pursuant to the request of Mr. Palma, the necessary steps be taken in the name and by the authority of the President of the United States to restore order and protect life and property in the Island of Cuba and the islands and keys adjacent there to. and for this purpose to establish therein a provisional government. The provisional government hereby estab lished will be maintained only long enough to restore order, peace and public eonfillenee by..diea-tia- end in the name of the President of the United States and then to hold such elections as may be necessary to de termine on those persons upon whom the permanent government of the re public should be devolved. In so far as is consistent with the nature of a provisional government established under the authority of the United States, this will be a Cuban govern ment, conforming with the const -i tion of Cuba. The Cuban flag will be hoisted as usual over the govern ment buildings.of the island; all the executive departmnts and provincial and municipal governments, includ ing that of the city of Havana, will eontinue to be administered as under the Cuban republic. The courts will continue to administer justice, and all the laws not in their nature in applicable by reason of the temporary and emergent character of the gov ernment will be in force. - "President Roosevelt hasbeen most anxion to bring about peace ,under the constitutional government of Cuba, and he made every endeavor to avoid the present step. Longer delay, however, would be dangerous in view of the resignation of the Cabinet. "Until further notice the heads of all the departments of the central government will report to me for in structions, including General Alex andero Rodriguez, in command of the rural guards and other regular gov ernment forces, and General Carlos Roloff, treasurer of Cuba. "Until further notice the civil Govw ernors and alcaldes will also report to me for instructionns. "I ask all citizens and residents of' Cuba to assist me in the work of re storing order, tranquility and publie confidence. "WILLTAM H. TAFT, "Secretary of War, United States Government. "Provisional Governor of Cuba. "Havana, Sept. 29, 1906." PRIOMTNENT PEOPLE. Henry M1. Neil!. one of the best known co; n statisticians, is dead. A committee has been appointed iUr San Francisco . to -eceive Roland' Anundsen3. the Akrctie explorer, 3 '-e1 he visits that city. Cornelius Vaniderbilt is said to as pire to a seat in Congress, but b lieves he couldn't be elected, if no irnated, .because he is too rich. (Colonel E. A. Garlington. a nati of South Carolina, has been made Erigadier-General -id promoted t Inspector-Genera' of thc Army. Bishop Coleman, of .Wilmington, Del., is resting after his yearly t. -.mp aeross c.-untry. "I1 walked 2101 n ten days," he says, "and that' no a bad record for a man o e ." -Mayor Dunne, of Chigo, vill not r'te for his own,-'rther. Patrick W. Dunne, bece~Ss-e the old gentle man has accefd th~ -omnin .ion for 2ounty Trecasuxrer on the depend ance League ticket. Senator Warner, of Mis -ouri, who tears a seven and three-g'ourth hat, ecently tried in vain in Washington, New York, Cleveland and) St. Louis :o get a fir; but the firs~t ef'ort in Karsas City was a sue . King Edward disbuz s a good deal >f money in tips evejy year. Each isit to one of his su jeci~s costs him from $1000 to $3000'1 On th3 cocca ion of his recent vin i to the Kaiser le gave away nearly 10,000 in this and. Next to Stanley adLivingstone, ieorge Grenfell was thae most im >ortant geographer andi exzplorer of Africa. He traced thef Congo and nade the drawings on whichi the pres nt standard maps are b~sed. Twenl y years ago the Royal Geographical icclety gave him the Rogal med?.L PLAUSIBLE.' "What was it the .poet said was aegow's crown of sorrow' "'cn't know. Maybe he mneant the aching',crown you have the morning after yo\ try to drown your 'sorrow -The Ci tholic Stanrard an i Timnes.