The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, March 09, 1898, Image 1

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~r"i? # VOL. LII. WINNSBORO, S.C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 9, 1898. NO. 31. ADRIFT FOB FIVE DAYS. THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF AN [OCEAN STEAMER. Tii<- Terror of Her Three Hundred ard Odd Passengeis Cannot b? DescribedShe lo a; Last Ksscaed by Another Steamer. For five days and nights the large ocean steamship La Champagne, running between New York and Havre, drifted about on the ocean at the mercy of the waves. La Champagne sailed from Havre on February 12 5fi:h fine, clear feather, which con tjnued for two days. Tben the wind freshened and a gale sprang up. blowing with moderate force All went well until the 17th. The passengers had settled down and were passing the time pleasantly. The shio was steaming fast against the head seas, when suddenly, about 4 o'clock, a tremendous crashing sound wa* heard in the engine rooms. In i n instant a panic seized the passenger, and great excitement prevailed in the saloons and among the occupants of the stf erage. The ship's passage was stayed and heavy poundings shook the whole craft Capt. Poirot quickly calmed the passengers, and soon after it was discovered that the tail screw shaft had broken. The steamer was running at high speed, and the engines flew around liie lightning when the resistance of the screw was removed, and before they could be stopped much damage was done in the engine room. [? ""The wild racing of the big engines ' ? J ? ? - ?. am J i HJ2S.U.C a grceiL uvlx, auu mo MIUU^UI passengers thought the ship would be smashed to pieces. Finally the engines stopped their pounding after the piston and connecting rods had snapped. Capt Poirot announced that the injury could be repaired and the ship would proceed at 1 o'clock next day. She vas put about, but after further examination it was found that the damage was irreparable. Nothing remained to be done but anchor. La Champagne was then in latitude i 45 2S, longitude 5123, just in the track of outward bound steamers. The passengers and crew were hopeful of being sighted by some passing steamer but a thick fog sprang up; blighting i their hopes, The ship was shrouded ; in fog and nothing could be seen on either side. The steamer kept up a continual fire of guns and discharge of rockets, bat no answer came to their signals, and on Friday the captain i disaatehed a boat containing eieht men and the third officer, either to make land or sight a passing steamer. That night a fierce gale ros& and heavy seas dashed against the big steamer on the Banks. The anchor chains strained and swung and the ship was tossed about like a feather. After midnight the gale increased in fury and at 4 o'clock Saturday morning the anchor hawser parted witn a snap and the ship drifted southward. The situation was critical in the extreme. The passengers were terrified at the thought of their helpless cc ndition adrift on a disabled steamer in ^ _ mid-ocean. The current drove them -sstfSliward at the rate of 50 miles daily , veering again to the southwest. All , while the steamer kept showing ; Bdgnais of distress, bat in vain. Hiampagne drifted in this condi , Rrom Saturday morning. Februa until Wednesday, the 23d. ^^All through the long day the ship steadily drifted and into the night until the passengers who had bravely witnstood the experience had almost abandoned hope. Most of them had , retired to their state rooms, when near midnight the welcome cry, ''Sail ahoy," was heard. It re echoed from lookout to cabin and steerage, and every soul on that big ship rejoiced. Two steamers were sighted ten miles away, one directly before La Ch*m pagne and the other on the port bow La Champagne's guns boomed forth and her rockets flared up and her red fire burned luridly. The steamer in front gave answering signals t>n?. bore down rapidly upon La < ha.n pagne. She proved to be the War*e- Liner Roman, bound from Liverpool to Bos ton. The Roman stood by La Cham pagne and at once Capt. Poirot went aboard and made arrangements with Capt Roberts to tow him to the nearest port, Halifax. The Roman ^passed a steel cable to V La Champagne at noon on Thursday f and the two steamers started for Hali fax The first day the towing hawser parted three times, but little delay re ' stilted and a start was finally made at 1 o'clock. La Champagne was picked up in latitude 45.28," longitude 51.23 and from that point onward no trouble was experienced. The weather was fine until today when a snow . Hurry started ana the steamers had to pV proceed slowly. A subscription was made up on board for the men whoso bravely manned the life boat and left in search of help, and 5,000 francs were quickly realized vVhen La Champagne was entering Halifax har bor an address signed by all the passengers was presented to Captain Poirot, to which he made a' suitable | and modest reply. So thankful were f some of the passengers to be in port toiafc acvcra: ui tiicrn YV cig auA.uuo iv have some of the clergymen on board hold a service of thanksgiving. The accident to La Champagne is a most serious one and will necessitate the ship going into the dry dock. La Champagne's mails, consisting of 250 bags, were ianded here to nieht a d given in charge of the pcstoffice au thorities, and they with the saloon ? p^Magers will be forwarded to New r here a; S o'clock to r n^pWw morning. Would Help the Spaniards. Rev. D A. Gaddie, Pastor of a colored Bap:ist Church in Louisville, Ky., created a sensation Sunday night by declaring in a sermon that lie would pick up a gun and kill an l American before ne would defend [ this country against foreign invasion. W The Rev. G-addie decla ed that the r negroes were not respected in this P country; that the law was a dead let ter as applied to them; that they were not projected aid that inev were not given a fair sto tt and, on this ac count, he would not, under any circumstances, aid io fighting the Spani t arils or i 1x7 otner nation witix whom; ' Uniitd Suites might ba at war. He J advised his ficck to follow in his lead, i out the sermon was generally ds-! nounced bj tne colored people of tae i city, of wnom 10,000 are aoie to bear: arms. m S. Typographical En or. f The News and Courier explains tb&t j |f i;s reference to Col. R. B. Watson as' "the old man elephant of caluda county" was the result of a typogra'% phical error. 1 lit' ii!: ALLIANCE RALLY DAY. President J. O. Wliborp Sends a Circular to the Sab-Alliance?, President Wilborn of the Farmers' Alliance is sending out to all sub-Alliances in the 8tate the following circular in regard to "rally day"?Saturday this week. He is also sending the circular to Alliancemen in every direction: Old Point, S. C., February 25, 1898. My Dear 8ir and Brother: After much serious thought and consideration I have at last decided to issue the call for "rally day" for every sub-Al liance that has ever been in existence in South Carolina on March 12 1898. The reason for this must commend it ? 1/ A- ?J _ -?3 1 j. A sou iu jour rninu auu iiean. uur country Is most surely settling itself into conditions and quagmires that promise no good for tne farmer, for his interest or his family after him. This is most assuredly an age of combines. We have combines of corporation, combines of brain and money with brain and money, until there is now scarcely an article that you use that is not controlled by a trust?from the oil that lights the lamp by whicb the young mother sings her first lul laby, to tae nail that must go in the coffin. The monster trust is thus feel ing its way to test your patience and the ability of trie Alliance on cotton ties. The jute trust may again arise and shake itself. What can the indi vidual do? Answer: Nothing but submit What can the Alliance do, with every old and new member in active affiliation and good standing? Answer: Give , relief and demand res pect. I therefore send you this personal appeal to see to it that your sub-Alli ance meets on the day appointed, and that all membera be requested and urged to put themselves in good standing with the State and National Alliance by raying their annual dues, which will be 25 cents State and 10 cents National. All back dues are to be cancelled. The county dues can be arranged with the county Alliance. The National Farmers' Alliance, in su-nreme cnuncil. has nrovided fer a charter guard, which is working well in California. WiU b3 glad to give further explanation when requested. Reorganize your defunct Alliances, elect delegates to your county Alii anco and see that they attend; forsake not the assembling of yourselves. Your next county meeting, according to constitution, will be the second Friday in Apru. I hope to communi cate with every county Alliance at that time. If you have had no county meeting for some time,let it b<3 known that one is called to meet at your court nouse on the second Friday in April, and go to it. Fraternally, J. C. Wiioorn, President i armers' Alliance of S. C. THECONFEOERA ?E VETERANS WIU V. ynt In Annual Convention in Char leaton is April. Headquarters South Carolina Division, United Confederate Veterans. General Orders No 35. Charleston, S. C., Fab 18. 1898. L The annual convention for 1898 of this Division will be held in the Grarman Artillery Hall, Went worth Street Chaleston, Wednesday, April the 27tn. The convention will be called to order at 10 a. m. 2. Eich camp will appoint one Sponsor, who will select her Maid of Honor, to represent the camp at the Re union. 3 Representatives of camps will bring the Banner of their respective camps to be carried into the conven tion hall, and used to designate the representatives of the various camps. Comrades are specially requested to bring ar?y Battle Flags in their posses sion. The bearew of such Battle Fiags will report to Division Hsad quarters at 9.45 a. m. April 27th, and *50 into the convention with the Officers of the Division, and be seated, bearing the Flags, upon the Stage when in the Hall. 4. A meeting of the committee on the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy will be held at the con vention nail at an Hour to oa namea hereafter. 5. A meeting of the Ch*plai*is of each camp will be held at the convention hall at an hour to be named here after Eich camp will please secure the attendance of their Chaplain, as the Division Chaplain has a matter of much importance to lay before th*m. 6. Daring the Re-union the com manding General will request, at some convenient hour, a meeting of the commandants of all the camps, the Colonels of the regiments, a ad Generals of Brigades to make reports upon the status of their respective commands They will come prepared to make full reports as to numbers, their officers ana the work the j are accomplishing. 7. Rates of fare for travel, about one cent per mile, have been secured, which will enable comrades from all parts of the State to be present at the Ra-union. 8. Charleston extends to us a most cordial invitation. It is hoped that an appreciation of her splendid hospitali ty, her royal welcome, will be sho wn by a large gathering. Let every comrade come. We are fast passing away. Every year we miss some familiar loved face, and every year lessens the number of those who gather to renew th9 friandseips formed in the hours of danger and trial. But few more such opportuni ties will we have Lst us meet and clasp hands (for how many of us will it be for the last time?) with those who served with us in defence of our South Oiu iiguio, nuw HCio UUi Ull/bllCld 111 those trying days. By command of Maj.-Gen. C. Irvine Waik*r. J as G. Holmes, Adjutant-General, C&ier ol Staff. Tho Original Arrangement. The venerable senator from Vermont offered a resolution last week to have the Goddess of Liberty, whicn surmounts the dome of the Capitol, gilded with gold. While the question was before the Senate Senator Stewart, the great apostle of siiver, was asked if he did not think it would be appro priate to replace the Goddess with a statute of the elder Rothschild, to which he replied: "No; if I were to make any chaage, I would go further back, and put a calf there 10 represent the original arrangement." Taught Him a lesson. The Columoia Record says about three o'clock last Wednesday a young negro man brushed against a wmte woman on Taylor street. She pulled a pistol and mad a him get on his knees and apologi7 a, which he did very quickly. Tnen she departed. Her name could not be learned. DISASTERS IN OUR NAVY. LOSS OF THE MAINE THE MOST SERIOUS IN ITS HISTORY. An Interesting Article Giving the Xunej of the Ships of the United States Navy that; Have Been In Times of P?ace> A# iw TTyi 1 f?r} JiUO iXOW v/l uuaowciia XU UUC States navy begins with the loss of the eighteen gun ship Saratoga. Sailing froci Philadelphia, under the command of Capt James Young, about October 1, 1780, she captured three English vessels In company with her prizes the Saratoga sailed for Phil adelphia When off the canes of Delaware the British seventy-four gun ship of the line Intrepid came in sight and gave chase. The prizes were re captured, but the Saratoga escaped by running out to sea She was never heard from again, and it is supposed she foundered in a gale which set in the following dav. On July 14, 1800, the United States being then hostile to Prance, the thirty six gun frigate Insurgent, Capt. Patrick Fletcher, sailed under insruc tions to take a course easterly from the Chesapeake capes until longitude 68 degrees west was reached, then to cruise between that longitude and 66 degrees west, going as far south as latitude 30 degrees north. She has never been heard of since. In August, 1800. the fourteen-gun ong ncsenng, Master uommanaani Benjamin Hillar, sailed under orders to cruise off Gaudeloupe. From the time of her sailing she was never heard of. Early in 1805, the4 Government deeming it advisable to increase the naval force engaged in the war with Tripoli, ten gun boats, planned for service in the waters of the Mediterranean, were constructed. Of these ves sels gun boat No. 7 sailed on May 14, 1805, from New York, under the command of Lieut Ogilvie. When a short distance out her mast was sprung and she returned for repairs. She sailed again on June 20, but was never heard from. The next vessel of the navy, the fate of which is shrouded in mystery, was tne Wasp She was one of the six sloops authorized by the Act of January 2, 1313, and her career, though brief, ?ras full of glory. Sail ing from Portsmouth, N. fi., on May 1 en i i n i a. x, loi-i, unuei easier uommaouaut Johnston Blakesley, she fell in with, the British brig: Reindeer on Jane 28, and after an action of nineteen minutes compelled her to surrender. On September 1 the Wasp cut out and and burned the brig Mary, which was one of a feet of ten merchantmen under convoy of the sevrnty-four gun sniD of the line Armada. During the evening of the same day Blaktsley sighted four sails, two on the starboard bow and two on the port. As the darkness came on signals by rockets and lanterns were made by one of tne vessels wnica naa separated irom the others The Wasp, laying her course by the signals, had a war ship 1 under her guns by 3.30, and received a croadside from the chase. The ac tion continued untiL a few miautes after 10 o'clock, when the stranger 1 hailed that she had surrendered. As 1 the Wasp was about to lower a boat another sail appeared out of the darkness. The boat was held back and the men sant to their quarters. A little later two more sails came in sight. 1 The rigging of the Wasp being much 1 cut up, sne stood, off, followed by one of the vessels, but after the exchange of a few shots the stranger joined her consorts, and the Wasp held on her 1 way. The vessel with which the Wasp had the engagement was the eighteen gun brig Avon, and her injuries were so severe that she sank during the nignt Between the date of the fight with the Avon and September 21 the Wasp destroyed two merchantmen and captured the Atalanta, mounting eignt guns. Tne latter vessel, naving a valuable cargo, was manned with a prize crew and sent; to Savannah, wiiere she arrived on October 1. Up to ihis time, a period of months, tlie Wasp had :;aken fifteen vessels, valued at nearly 5250,000. On October 1 the Swedibh bark Adonis was boarded ia latitude 18 degrees 35 min ates north, longitude 30 degrees 10 minutes wesr *?y a boat from the Wasp. Lieut, Stephen McKnigbt and Masters Mate JameSoLyman, officers of the Essex, who had been paroled after her destruction in Valparaiso harbor, and who wero passengers on the Adonis, want on board the Wasp. Soon after they returned to the Adonis, paid their passage money to the master, and with their baggage went back to the Wasp Tnat was the last intelligence of the Wasp. When Decatur, in 1815, dictated to the Day oi Algiers the terms of a treaty witn the United States, the brig Epervier, Lieut. John Shubrick, was dispatched with s, copy of it for the approval of the Government On boara, as passengers, were Uapt. .Lew is and Lieut Neale, who Had married sisters just previouts to sailing for the Mediterranean in Capt Decatur's fleet. Lkui. Druy and Lieut. Yarnell, who nad made a name for themselves in Perry's victory on Like Erie, were also cn board On Jijiy 12, 1815, the Epervier passed the Strait of Gibraltar. From that time all trace of her was lost. The Albany, sloop-of war, was lost in West Indian waters in 1853. She is thought to have* gone down in a cyclone with every soul of her crew of 210 officers and men, as she was never neard from afier she sailed on her last cruise In the same year the brig-o? war Porpoise, with one hundred persons on board, went down in the China seas, without leaving a tracs of her end. In 1858 another sloop-of-war, the Levant, went down in the Tracers of trie Pacific, takitg some 200 men to "Davy Jones's locker/' 1863 the bri^-of-war Bainbridge met a cyclone off Cape Hatteras. A colored cook picked up a day or two afterward on a bit of wreckage, told the story of the loss of every one of his shipmates. The old Yorktown was blown ashore near the Cape dt Verde Islands, on the African csast, some years later, bat the crew escaped. In 186Sa great tidal wave picked up the ship-jf-war Wateree, in the harbor oJ Arica, Peru, and carrr.ed 7 or 8 miles inland, depositing her in a tropical tcr^st, where she ended her dajs as a notel. The same tidal wave caugnt the store ship Fredonia at anchor, roiled ner over, and sunk her instantly with every soul on board. The Monongaiiela had a peculiar experience in 1867. She was caugnt up by a lidal wave, carried over a^ number of large buildings on the Island of Santa Cruz, West Indies, knocking down one of them, and de* | posited in the streets of the city. Subsequently workmen were sent there, | who blocked her up and launched her j again. The Saginaw was cast away in the night upon one of the islands in the Pacific about fifteen years ago. The Huron was wrecked on Currituck Beach, North Carolina, and few of her crew escaped to tell the story of heavy weather and false beacon lights This disaster at Havana is the greatest loss of life at any one time in the navy of the United States in time of peace on reccrd. No ship of the navy has Dlown up since the war. The last great loss of life in our navy was at Samoa, when in the great hurricane of March 16, in the harbor of Apia, the war vessels Trenton and Vandalia were wrecked, and the Nipsic stranded with a total loss of fifty one lives from their crews. The German ships Adler and Eber were lost at the same time, and ninety-six German sailors were drowned. On Nov. 24. Port, the American sloop-of-war Huron, a vessel of the old wooden navy, was driven ashore on the treacherous sands of the North Carolina coast in a storm, and about one hundred of her crew were lost. on a"burning steamer. The Terrible Experience of the Crew and F*tse Dgero. The British steamer Legislator, Capt. Tennant, bound from Liverpool for Colon, was burned at sea on February 16, in latitude 31 23 north, and longitude 44.10 west The Legislator left Liverpool on February 3 with a miscellaneous cargo.including phosphate, , cotton goods and percussion caps, for Colon and Central American ports. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred ] until 4 o'clock in the morning of the 13 th, when, without warning, an ex plosion tooic place irom a naicnway forward of midships, followed by a tremendous outburst of smoke and flames. All the firemen and engineers but one came tumbling on deck, some of them more or less turned. The missing man was Thomas Roberts, and it was not until two days that his charred body was recovered during a lull in the fire. The crew were badly handicapped in fighting the fire, as the hose and pumping engine were disabled or choked Soon after the fire started it spread so rapidly-that the forward part of the boat, in which were seven man, was cut off, and < Capt. Tennant asked for volunteers to i rescue the remainder of the crew. \ Second Officer Biteman and 8eaman , W?vi A ti/vall of an/ia nffawa/l tn hattt TT iU? AU^OIJ Ab UUW WUOigu bd XSJT1 j along the side of the ship and bring ; the men aft. One of the boats was \ launched with difficulty, as there was j a heavy sea running, and by careful < work managed to reach the almost ] doomed men. All were finally taken j on board and the boat dropped astern, , but before the nine men could bo pull- ( ed on the aft deck a tremendous sea : capsized the small boat and every man , was thrown into the water. After j their heroic work Batemanand Angeil were the only ones who were not res- ? cued. In the meantime, through some \ confussion, another boat had been ( launched, and in it the third officer, } Martin, and the chief steward, John , Graffney. Another big sea swept them ; otroTT on/1 tlienr }ia-ort? nrtt. Kf?pn _ since. The fighting of the flames still continued, and as the fire reached the boxes of percussion caps there were almost constant explosions. In one of these Fred E Lee, the chief cook, was so severely burned that he jumped overboard in his delirium, and could not be saved. At 8 o'clock in the morning, of the 16th the steamer Flower Gate, bound to New York from Palermo, Italy, hove in sight. Two boats were immediately lowered from the Flower Gate, and after three hours all of those on board the burning vessel were safely transferred, Capt. Tennant being the last to leave. Some of the crew saved a part of their clothing, but a majority of those on board lost everything. The rescue was none too soon, for as the Flower Gate start ed her engines the fire was seen bursting from the after decks of the Legislator, and the steamer was probably entirely consumed not many hours after. Two Heroes Graves. Mrs S n. H?istrp1l nf CJflmTatnn. Va., sends the following clipping from her county paper to Gov. Eller be with the request that he have it published in the newspapers of South Carolina as some mother, wife or sis ter may be mourning the loss of a loved one buried in an unkncvn land. The following is the clipping: "Mr. John W. Kjyser, the Marks -villa correspondent of The Courier, writes us that there are two unmark ed graves of Confederate soldiers in Graves' Chapel cemetery, near that place. He knew the men well, and while no marbie shafts mark their last restiDg place, the little mounds nave ever been kept green. Mr Keysar desires to make public these facts in the hope that they may reach some relatives of the dead soldiers. Their names were William F. Bruner and kjci^cau- vYuurbicucjcxjr. uw*u uciuug ed to the Second South Carolina reei ment. Capt. Blocker i3 the only offi- ' cer of the command remembered by Mr. Keyser. One of the men referred to died in the church at that place and tbe other in the woods near by. Mr. Keyser would be glad to furnish ( any informaton in his possession about these men, as he knew them well." For particulars, address Mr Jehu W. Keyser, Marksville, Page County, Va. Earned the Wrong Indians. Ever since the burning of the two Indians; for the murder of Mrs. Laird, at Maude, I. T., it has been asserted that Lincoln McG-eisey, the younger of tne two was innocent, and all the evidence brought out at the hearings has served to corroborate this asser tion. It is now learned that special agents of tie government have secured evidence establishing a complete alio! for Sampson, the other victim, proving that he was 40 miles from the Laird home at the time of the murder. An Ezp'.ru Opinion. Larry Gantt makes this ingenious adznission in the Piedmont Headlight: "I might have stood the loss of my v . j ??U ~ nog crop, cui my guuu wue, wuu undertook to doctor them, got their medicine and mine mized one night, and she inadvertently drenched me witn a dose of friend Young's hog colerd cure. Well, I can certainly recommend it as a sovereign remedy for the grippe, for what was left of me after being orostrated in and out of bed for three days was able to crawl baci to the office and go to work." FAIRFAX NOT LOST YET SOUND VIEWS ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE STILL PREVAILS. One of the Argnmrsta that Carried the Diy in the Fairftx Literary Society Agalnat the Unaexlng ol Women by Giving Them the Ballot. As was mentioned in a letter from ) Hampton, recently published in the News and Courier, the Fairfax Literary 8ociety, at a recent meeting, had a very interesting debaie on the ques tion of "Woman's Suffrage*" &ble arguments were advanced pro and con by the unusually intelligent ladies find gentlemen comnosing'the Society, and a decision was finallv rendered in the negative by a vote of 9 to 32. Oneof the arguments that helped to obtain this overwhelming majority against the New Woman heresy was that pre sen ted by Mrs. L. W. Youmans. Through the kindness of Mr. J. CPreacer, of Fairfax, we have been provided with a copy of Mrs. Yoaman's argument, and take pleasure in presenting it to cur readers in full. Mrs. Youmans said: . In order to a proper understanding of the question it is nccsssary to in quire wnat a government is? 41A government is the agent of society for the accomplishment of its ends." The chief functions of a government are to promptly and efficiently secure and maintain to all who are under it their rights, and it is a good government in proportion as it insures the fulfill_ _ . _ e xi 5, m? . i i mem 01 iaese enas mese rignis, as laid down in the declaration of Independence, our Magna Ciaarla. are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure to man the pursuit of happiness the law gives him two other rights?to property and reputation. Whatever has a right to be, has a right to all that is necessary for its preservation; therefore, the Gl-overnment has the right to regulate the ballot and prescribe tne qualifications for holding office.. The right to rote is not a. natural right, like iife and liberty,' but grows out of man's relations to society; tnerefore society krtd a /"?Vif 4/% cot* rrr 0V10I 1 avahatco t LL&o tk i.gut *\j CJAJ n I?\J au.a.i? that rig tit, and under what conditions; hence it is the duty of society to coa fer that right with an eye single to its 3wn well being. "It has seamed right [hat thoS3 who are to go to war should ietermine the question of war, and that those who are liable to do military ana police duty, sit in. juries and tvork 011 the highways should vote on ihose subjects." In. other words, that the voting should Ids done by those who are most capable of defending Hid maintaining the Government. Men being more capable of these duties than women, society ordained ;hat the administration of government iliould be carried on, under certain [imitations, by what is called "m*n lood suffrage." This principle was carried out still .farther by the Kahnds jf India, who allowed ''no woman, ioranyK*hadr to hold land who rrri>V> hio Aar>r? /?^ii not rlafonf] nr 1.1 xx uxj wrru umuvu ,t." Having-the grounds on ^hich persons are called upon to take part in ;he Government, namely, tb.3 duties jl defending and maintaining it, we ire ready for the question, should tfomen have equal suffrage with men? Che right to vote is not a natural right. Wherever men have acquired ;he right of suffrage it has bean by ;ap quest. The question is whether ier own elevatioa and best interests ind the ends of society require the aestowa! of this rigut upon tier. The juestion has been discussed as if men ind women were two hostile classes. 1 man and his wife are not of a dif'erent class, their interests and those )f their family are identical. Li fact society depends on men and women is entering into a relation which not jnly unite3 their interests, but makes 3ach the guardian of tae other. Tne Family is the unit of society. After the creation the first institution established b7 God was ihs family. "80 Sod created aiau in His own imsg% male and female, created He them," and placed them in the garden. And when God Dr jught her to the man, Adam said, "Tnerefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and jhall cleave unto iiis wife, and they shall be one flesh " Society is a combination of families, not of individuals, because without the family soci Bty cjuld not exist It is both the keystone and foundation stone of the so sial fabric, because as that is will the social fabric be. When home and family go out of the world purity and virtue will go with them. Therefore the domestic life of the family is more important than the public life of socisty. By a natural relation the wife IS me ceaird ui tus uouibsuu u:r 10, and the guardian of her husband's n terests and rights in all that perta s to it, while he is the husband, i 9 provider, protector and the represent ative of the interests of his wife and children. She is not only the guardian of her husband, which is proven by statistics that out of a thousand unmarried men twenty-five are criasi aal?, while out of the same number of married men only eighteen are crimi oals, giving nearly 40 per cent, in favor of marriage as a preventive of crime, but she is the one who gives the child his first idea of government, his first idea of duty, his first idea of Law, in the years which are the most important. The first five years will color the rest of a child's life. Taese years he spends almost entirely under the control of his mother. It is upon this principle that the demand for the higher education of women has been so great. That by an enlighted conscience, an enlightened judgment, sne may be better qualified to train a hijrner citizenship. Rscognizing her fitness for this special training, woman has bsen given positions in the schools until 66 pei cent, of the teachers of the public schcols of the United States are worn en. Yet Miss Clay, the voman suffragist, of K-sntueky, in an address delivered at Allendale, said. 'Tie pub lie schools do not make model citi zsns." Women, having this great leverage of all the mothers and 66 per cent, of the teachers, and still cannot turn cut good citizens, does she suppose she can accomplish that end by legislation? If the chilhocd is wrong, the youth is wrong, the manhood can cot be legislated right. Ua trie contrary, if the individuals comprising society are perftct there is no necessity of government. It has been contrary to the sentiment of this country that men and women should intermingle in public affairs, and woman should be specially careful how she breaks down tbis sentiment, because j she will lose more than she gains, and ; it will react as a deteriorating iaflu j ence upon man. It is this sentiment which makes a_woman strong through her weakness. It lay at the foundation of all that was good in chivalry, and lent to the darkness of the Middle Ages all its beauty and much of its glory. The sentiment surrounding woman, setting her apart as something higher and better than man, is stronger among American men than any other, and in the United States she is treated with more respect and buu^iuotauuu lliolli. xu any umer cuuutry. In this State the laws are made almost entirely, as between a man and his wife, in ner favor?going so far as not to allow her property to be alienated from her except for her own benefit. It may be claimed, and the claim is well founded, that all women do not marry. That, in fact, the number of unmarried women increases every day. This is a sad fact, and it bodes no good to the Republic. In discussing employments for women Juliet Corson says: "The number of educated women increases, aad all the professions open to them are overcrowded. But the rank aad file, the domestic women, main without recruits; the very class that needs raplenishing is the one that is dying out. A po'ent cause of existing conditions is the identical training given to boys and girls, young men and young women of the working class. All know just as much as anyone knows, consequently there can be no advantage of one 4 L. _ ? m.--. _ i ' uver lllc UoUOr. lillS equality 1211 work and earnings has the effect of I lessening man's responsibility for tak-1 ing care of the women of their families. When the woman becomes his com petitor the man feels freed from his obligations to provide for her in propDrtion as she approximates either his superior skill or his capacity to earn greater wages." If such is the consequence of woman's great desire for independence the conspqunces will be still more dire when she undertakes her own protection by her own vote. Whenever a wrong is perpetrated against woman 1 and it's called to the attention of the men, they have been quick to redress it, and institute any reforms in the law which are suggested for her pro- ; tection. But when she proposes to protect herself by her own billot they ' feel freed from the responsibility of ' protecting har. Nothing strengthens * a man's character as much as a sense 1 of responsibility, or binds him more 1 closely to his country. Henry Grady i had this idsa in his mind when he | j i. LTil -?- * ' * 1 saiu: xne man wno Jnncues tne tire 1 oil the hearthstone of an honest and 1 righteous home barns the best incense ' to liberty." Oa the contrary lack of 1 responsibility weakens his character ' and causes him to become effeminate. No country has ever risen above the manhood of its men and the virtue Of i it women, or has survive the decay of I those qualities. "When a wi e is no i longer content with taking her share < m the battle of life, no longer content | to recognize the fast that there are 1 things which it batter becomes the wo- 1 man to do than the man,"and vice ; versa; when she insists on aping and < sharing the foilies and -vic's of the < man, on casting from her that modes- j ty and reserve which are woman's 1 greatest charm; whea she spar as ma 11 teraity and domestic duties as trivial !< or moaotoaous, then, indeed, the m*r i riage state must fall iato disrepute; i then thefatheriaad must surely suffer < It was this which led to the horrors o! 1 Imperial R:>me, it wa3 the unsexed 1 women, tiair profligacy oaly equalled | by their audacity, wno were responsible as much as Nero aad Domitian 1 themselves for the downfall of R jman 1 civilizaiioa." - i Bus it is objected that those womea who hold property ia their owa right are tax^d t j maintain the Government 1 and "Taxation without representation ' is tyranny.1' Representation is based 1 in this country oa population, aot on 1 property. Oa the other hand, the Government protects the woman in aer right to hold that property, which without that protection she ciuld no: hold by her owa hand. She ought to be willing to coatribute her quota to the maiateaaace of tie G-ovdrameat for tne sane of that prctectioa. There 1 are a great rnauy loreign noiaers 01 . property in this country. Foreign syndicates own many of our railroads, steamship lines and coal fields, as well as large areas of land. I do not taink ? the most advancsd suffr.igist will say that either these foreign property holders should exercise the ballot or go untaxed, yet the principle applies equally to them as to women. ; Che right of suffrage carries with it the duty of personal service and the 1 euforc2m9nt of the law?military, po- ; lice, jury and road duty It may be claimed that woman is capable of par forming them all. Sd som3 women may be, but the majority of women 1 wouLd not D3 willing to attempt to perform them, and would consider that the hardships of those duties were not compensated for by the exercise of the suffrage. How many of the good ' women of Fairfax would be willing to exercise their police duties in putting down the Savurday night riots by assisting in the arrest and putting in the guard nouse of the rioters? Or how many of the fair ladies would enjoy taking their hoes, and their axas, their spides and their shovels and spend six' dajs of the year improving the highways? Or how many of the good mothers but would consider it a hardship to ba compelled to leave their homes and their families and spend a week or two serving on juries? Naturally and necessarily burdened with iucessant cares and responsibilities of the family circle, would it not ba impossible in connection with the proper discharge of theie duties for her to respond to additional demands from 1_ 1 ? _ 1 VTT I J ' I? laepuoncf vvouiu it not us suojbui.ing her to the unju3t and trying or deal of bsing placed upon doable duty, first, charged with the responsibilities of tbe home circle, and, second, being called upon to contribute an eqnal share in the direction of public affairs? No, let the woman faithfully perform the duties which fall upon her, and leave to the man the performance of the duties wnich ougnt to fall upon nim- '"Take care of the homes, and the nation will take care of itself." Lst the mothers and teachers cultivate tna American sentiment for woman. Ti=?t them stimulate mail's resDonsibiii ty for the women of his family. L?.it them train up "Vlea whom the last of office cannot kill, Men whom the spoils of oSce cannot buy; Men who possess opinions and will: Men who have honor, men who will ne t lie." "A time like this demands greit hearts, it *ong minds, trus faith and willing hinds." Give to them wives j of eulighiened judgment and enligiit ened conscience, wxiii a high apprecia-1 I tion of their duties and responsibilities, and women's rights will be protected without her turning on her heel to cast a ballot. With such a citizenship she may well say: "Thou, too, sail on, oh ship of State! Sail on, oh Union, strong and great; Fear not each sudden 30und and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock; 'Tis but the flapping of the sail; And not a rent made by the gale; In spite of rock and tempest's roar, r :i . XLL U1 lcLiac ligULO UU DilVxC, Sail on, ncr fear to breast the sea, / Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee."? New and Courier. T R AGEOY AT SPARTANBURG. Sir. Titos. J. Trimmiw Shot Dead by D r g. J. Blvlcgs. A snscial dispatch to The State from Spartanburg, under date of March 1, says at halfpast two o'clock that afternoon Da S. J. Bivings shot and killed T. J Trimmier in the latter's book store on the public square. An iminensa crowd fathered in front of the store at once and all kinds of rumors were afloat, but no demonstration of any kind was mad3. Both were man of prominence and both had many friends; in fast the two were them selves bosom friends, and as the news went from mouth to mouth it shocked and supris^d everybody. Mr. I. W. Grav ot Glendale was standing at ilr. Trimmier's desl- giving an order for SDme printing, v*h.icb Mr. Trimmier was writing down. Dr. i Bivings walked up behind him and fired at Trimmier over his left shoulder. Mr, Gray stated that it was so close to him as to j ir him considera bly and cause him to think same one was firing at him. He turned quickly and saw Bivings fire two more shots ' Bivings then said: "I will teach you i how to spaak other than respectfully ] of my wife." Trimmier replied, i "What do you msan?" and sank 1 down. Ia three minutes he was dead, < being shot through the heart. Bivings then turned towards the front of the store. Mr. Trimmier's son came in ' and started back towards his fathar < and Biviaga remarked: "Don't bother ' me, for I don't want to hurt "you," 1 and shot him through the hand. Biv- < ings with a pistol in each hand, walk < ad up to Policaman McAiae on the street and surrendered. Hi wa3 then Locked in jill. D:. Bivings hai been < practicing deati3try in Spartanburg < fop a nnmharnf vAnrx and Wi? Trim - *w; ? ? ??? - ?? mier wa3 the proprietor of the wall known Trimmier's book store. Bath have families. Tha tragedy i3 daplorable. The jury of inquest brought in a verdict that Mr. Trimmer was wilfuiiy aud feloniously killed by D?\ 3. I. Bivings. A Trlbate so she Oaaacry Editor, Last Wednesday .during the diacu3-ion of the Loud bill Mr. Clark, of Missouri, who was ones a country editor delivered aeuolgy on the country' editor- <kHa is aa faithful to the peo j ale as the needle to th* pole," saii ha. j "In the momentous campaign of 1896 j when a vast majority?not all, mark j you, but the vast majority?of Demo- . :ratic metropolitan newspapers basely . ies'erted their colore and went bag , and baggage, horse, foot and dragoons j into the camp of the army of the ene j mv. the cnuntrv WAfilrlias with f?w 3xceptioas stood by the causa o? Bry- . an, Democracy aad humanity wiih } losiiakaa ddeiity, saparb courag8 aad j :ommeadable self-abnegation, taereby , viadicatiag tb.a patriotism, wisdom iad indapandenca of the American , pres3. Upon this sama country editor j #e we mass depand largely for hoa } ast, coarageous, patriotic servica in j che campaign now impending as well t as that of 1900 and surely upon the Democratic side of the hoasa we < woald ba acting with unwisdom to * ie Drive him of any of his prerogatives. I Tae Loud Dill might not unjusdy be entitled 'an act to diminish the supply of aati-Bepublican campaign iitera- < ture ' Tnen it would be true to name. Bapublicaos, having nine-tenths of tae great metropolitan papers, may find some excuse for supporting a measure whica will sa aelcn the coua ] try weeklies, but certiialy Democrats, < P jpulists and free silver Republicans cannot afford to do so uales3 they are : meditating political suicide." Groat Suffarlng In Cab*. < W. W. Howard, of New York, has ; just returned from Cuba and here is . wha*.hesays of the suffering there: "I was in Armenia with Clara Barton," said Mr. Howard, ''but nowhere ' in Armenia did I see such suffering 1 and famine as I have witnessed in Cuba among the pacificos and resoncentra- ; cbes. Men. women and cnildren are ' so emaciated from privation that the r : ribs and bones almost coma through their shriveled skins. If ever people needed relief it is those wretched recon centrad s. Tne insurgents are well dressed, well armed, well horsed and well groomed?indeed thej are sleek, and live easy lives. Cuba has oeenlaid waste. Outside the tosvns one rarely sees a building, for the reason that all buildings in the country have been razed. or ourned. Grass and weeds gco w wnera once the highest cultivation existed." Wo Are frond of Him, Whatever else may b3 said of the Cuba a affair, the South is proud of Fitzhugh Lee and the noble manner in which he has oeriormed the duties of his delicate office- We rejoice that the distinguished patriotism of this gallant Southerner is recognized even in the strongholds of Republican sec tionalism. He stands for the true American idea and the fact that his worth has be9n recognized without cavil or question goes further towarda burying sectionalism than all the speech of a thousand orators. The old soldiers who bared th9ir breasts to the bullets of the enemy in the "60's" may be depended upon to the last hitch.?Spartanburg Herald. THe Colored Troops. The commanding officer of the colored militia of South Carolina writes iL. _ 1 _ ^ A. 1 *-r ni-i- A io me adjutant general 01 una otase so offer the services of the enlisted troops of his command, "together with 8,000 able bodied colored men ready to be enlisted," in case of war with Spain. Should tbeir services be needed we have no doubt that the negro troops would go to the front with alacrity, but the white troop3 have no notion of surrendering the pdsI of honor.? State. Mardev and Solcla*, Shep Wood, a prominent young farmer living near Cordelia, Ga., Tnuwday shot and killed his brot'aer, Thomas Wood. Seeing the result of the deed, he turned the revolver on ni'mcalf anH cent a hullftf: thrrvnch his JL4XJLUOVA1 M-iv* ~ - -J ?? I own head, killing him instantly. The j brothers had quarrelled over business matters. THE PROHIBITIONISTS. THEY CALL A STATE CONVENTION TO MEET IN APRILThey Are Thoroughly Organized to Fig the Liquor Question?The Text of th Firgt P*p?r Issued in the Campaign of 1S0S? Platform Plainly Outllnea. The legislature having refused to pass the Child's bill after declining to kill it on the first vote taken, and having declined to grant a referendum on the liquor question, the prohibitionists of the State do not propose to wait for the Democratic State convention to dodge the issue or even ask it to face it. The prohibitionists have been quietly organizing in the several counties of the State for several months. Now they s?y that every county, save Berkeley is thoroughly organized and they have determined to hold a state convention in short order for the specific purpose of nominating and putting in the field & full State ticket composed of the strongest and cleanest men, politically and morally, that they can get. This will b8 the first political gathering of the campaign year and the indications are that another will be added to the airaaay rapiaiy growing list 01 candidates for governor. Tnis action of the anti-iiq, lor forcas shows that this santiment is at last to be tested, and it is needless to say that it complicates the oolliical situation considerably. The following call for the county and Slate convention, recently pre- -, pared, was issued yesterday; there are some counties not represented among the signers. Those in charge say the authority to U39 signatures from tha missing counties is en route, but owing to the fast that they desired to get the call out, it was daetnad b3st not tile lay on that account: Columbia. S. C , Fab. 25,1393. The State central prohibition committee having determined to call a convention of the prohibitionists of hh? Shatfl tr? m?Al: in CJVInmhia. An*i! tb.3 14;ix, 1893, hava authorizad their sxeciztive committee to issue such ;all;the said committee hereby publishes the call, aad the regulations which will ba observed ill selecting ialegatas to represent the several jouniies of tha State in said convention. 1. Tha convention will assemble at 3 p. m. on tha 14th day of April aexfc, ia the hall of the house of representatives in Columbia. 2. The chairman of the respective sounty committees will call meetings ar conventions of the prohibitionists 3f their county who favor the enactorient of laws restricting the sale of alcoholic liquors in this State to medicinal, mechanical, scientific and sacramental purposes only, and t&e nomination by the convention of State ticket who-will suppozt such, legislation. to ba nlacad bafora tha voters for their choice at the next Democratic primary elections, and subject to ihe result of said eleefcioas. 3. At such county meeting or contention the number of delegates selected in the manner determined by :he body shall be not less tLan the lumber of representatives from the joanty in the general assembly, but nay be a greater number if so deternined by said county meeting or conrention, 4. That said county meeting or contention shall be called to meet not ater than the 14th day of April lexi, a ad if from any cause it shall be bund impracticable to ass amble such neeting, then the caunty executive committee are authorized to appoint said delegates and certify their ap joint meat to the secretary of the State executive committee. L. D. Childs, Chairman; P. EL Hyitt, C. D. Stanley, J. GL Dale, h. B. Siynes, Charles P. Wray, Thomas J. LaSIotte, secretary. J. L. Qiimby, Aiken* GK M. Elliott, B3aafort; John B. Wnite. Charleston | J. F. Moffatt, Chester; J. L. Strain, Cherokee; J. O. G-oagh, Clarendon; T. J. Drew, Darlington; John Lake, Edgefield; Charle3 P. Wray, Fairfield; EP P. Covington. Florence; J. tt. Wiiitmire, G-reeaville; P. L. Starkey, Greenwood; W. H. Dowling, Hampton; B L. Beatty, Horry; Waddy C. Thompson, Lancaster; L. B. Haynes, Lexington; W. S. Fox*orth, Marion; H. S. Vandiver. Oconee; J. L Sifiy, r\ t ? t i - m t^- ? urangeourg; diiuus tu. JDJggs, jtick;ens; L. D. Childs, Richland; J. W. Hert -t, Saluda, C- M. Hurst, Jr., Sumter; Janes H. Carlisle, Jr., Spartanburg; S. T Scaife, Union; JoelE Brunson, Williamsburg; J^ J. Neivilie, York.?State. The Dispensary's New Homo. The State Board of Control has purchased ane? home for the State dispensary in Columbia, and it will bs removed from Main street and will henceforth operate in the long warehouse, which was builded upon the ruins of the Did Confederate money printing establishment burned near the close of the war. The board has given the matter of purchasing quarters the most careful consideration during its present session. Friday for tm hnnrs th#? mArnhflis fchft pros and cons of the matter, finally signing the acceptance of the offer of Mr. J. Caldwell Robertson of the property indicated above. The price finally determined upon was $18,000. -State. Tfce Lynchers Mast be Punished. President McKinley and his cabinet are verj much stirred up over the Lake City lynching. They are determined to exhaust every means at their cDmmaud in the endeavor to bring the guilty parties to justice. President McKialey has directed that the reward offered lay the postoffice department b3 increased to $1,500 for the first conviction of a lyncher and $1,000 for each subsequent conviction nf a lvneher. In addition a host of detectives will ba paid to work in ttte country contiguous to Lake City. McKinzsy and his cabinet are very much worked up. They are determined that the lynchers shall b9 punished . Thinks Spain Did Bight. Representative McCleary of Minnesota, a conspicuous leader of the gold men o! the Northwest in the presidential campaign, says that as the Maine entered Havana harbor with her guns loaded Spain had a right to place her over a mine or destroy her as she saw fit. -* Convict KUlvd by Guard, Charlie Combs, a negro oil the Richland County chaingang, was shot and killed by one of the guards last Friday while h.9 was trying to escape. He had only three months to serve.