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^ VISITED THE SOUTH..
President McKinlev Invades the
Late Confederacy.
HE iS CORDIALLY WELCOMED
Spent Two Days in Atlanta,
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Then Visited Montgomery,
Savannah, Macon and
Asgusta.
President McKiiley and his party
left Washington last Tuesday afternoon
week for a trip through the South. The
primary object of the tour was to be
present at the Atlanta Peace Jubilee
which took place last "Wednesday and
Thursday. The following persons comprised
the party: The President and
Mrs. McKinley, Secretary and Mrs.
Gage, Secretary and Mrs. Alger, Secre->
tiry and Miss Long, Postmaster General
and Mrs. Smith, Secretary and Miss
Wilson, Secretary aud Mrs. Porter,
Assistant Secretary Cortelyou; Gen.
Joseph Wheeler, Miss Wheeler,
Gen, Henry W. Lawton, Mrs. Lawfcon,
Capt. L. C. Scherer, Mr.
Adelbert S. Hay, Mr. B. F. Barnes and
a nuiaber of newspaper correspondents.
The President's train, which was exceptionally
fine in all its appointments,
* as under the immediate di.ec
tion of Col. L. S. Brown, general agent
r>f Rnnthern Railway Comnany.
The train arrived at Atlanta on Wednesday,
and the President and his party
were m*st enthusiastically received.
The crowds in Atlanta were very
large, enormous, excursion trains arriving
at short intervals from all directions.
The hotels have been turning
away people since noon Tuesday but
the overflow found accommodation in
the numerous boarding houses throughout
the city. Gen. Wheeler was cheered
at every step and tfen. Lawton,
-Young, Oates and other army officers
were heartily received at each appearN
ance. The feature of the occasion was
the civic military parade which passed
through the streets during Wednesday
afternoon. The parade consisted of
ten divisions under command of
Grand Marshal West. Six thousand
infantry, ten thousand school children,
400 carriages containing 1600 peo'
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ties, 500 Confederate veterans under
eommand of General Wheeler, 1,000
laboring men, 100 officers and marshals twelve
bands, 100 Grand Amy men, a
squad of policemen, 200 mounted police,
members of the Y. M. C. A., ministers
of the Evangelical Association,
200 members of the Capital City Club
and the Fulton Club, the Atlanta fire
department, the representatives of 500
-civic organizations from all parts *f the
South took part in the parade. The
president and other distinguished
i^guests rode in carriages at the head of
f fifre pageant^ They were escorted by
^JWSe Third New Jersey and the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania.
The President was compelled to bow
almost continuously to the cheers
which assailed his ears from the crowded
sidewalks along the liae of march. A
roar of welcome denoted the position
of Gen. Wheeler and the band of cavalry
who followed him through the civil,
war and the wizened leader was at times
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compel i eu iu iuxue uuuvw uuuugu
the throngs of would be worshippers
who blocked hi* path.
After the parade passed the reviewing
stand the President and the other
guests of the city were driven to Piedmont
Park, where they were guests of
the Piedmont Driving Culb at an elaborate
luncheon.
The President addressed the public
in the auditorium at Piedmont Park.
The building has a seating capacity of
| 10,000 and was jammed. President
Hemphill of the Jubilee Association
was master of ceremonies and after a
short address introduced Mayor Collier,
who welcomed the distinguised guests
and visitors to the city. Gov. Candler
spoke on the part of the State, and formally
welcomed the distinguished
party to Georgia. The President, who
was introduced by Col. Hemphill, was
given a tremendous ovation by the audience.
He sooke in part as follows:
Other parts of the country have had
public thanksgiving jubilees in honor
of the historic events of the past year,
but nowhere has there been greater rejoicing
than among the people here
gathered, representatives of the South.
I congratulate them upon their accurate
observation of events, which
enabled them to fix a date which insured
them the privilege of being the
first to celebrate the signing of the
treaty of peace by the American and
Spanish commissioners.
Under a hostile fire on foreign soil
fighting in a common cause, the memory
of old disagreements fade into history.
From camp and campaign come
the magic healing which closed an ancient
*ound and effaced its scars. For
this result every American pariot
should forever rejoice. It is no small
indemnity for the cost of the war. The
government proved itself invincible in
^ the recent war and out of it has come
*^Lg. nation which will remain invincible
^or evermore. No worthier cootributions
have been made in patriotism
and valor than by the Southern States.
"When at last the opportunity came
they were eager to meet, and with
promptness responded to the call of
their country, intrusted witn aoie
leadership, men dear to them, who
had marched with their fathers, under
another flag, but now are fighting under
the old flag again, have gloriously
helped to defend its spotless folds, and
have added new luster to its shining
stars.
That flag has been planted in two
hemispheres, and there it remains the
symbol of ^liberty and law, in peace
and progress. Who will withdraw it
from the people over whom floats its
protecting folds? Who will haul it
down?
"We could have avoided all the dif
ficulties that lie across the pathway of
the nation if a few months ago we had
eoldly ignored the piteous appeals of
the starving and oppressed inhabitants
of Cuba. If "we had blinded ourselves j
to conditions so near our shores and |
turned a deaf ear to our suffering j
neighbors, the issue of territorial ex- .
p&nsion in the Antilles and the East
Indies would not have been raised.
But could we have justified such a
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course? Is there any man who would
now declare another to hare been a
better course? With less humanity
and less courage on our part the Spanish
Sag iastead of the Stars and Stripes
wonld still be floating at Cavite, Ponce
and Santiago, and a chance in the race
of life would be wanting to aillions of
human beings who today call this nation
noble, and who, I trust, will
lire to call it blessed. Thus far hare
we done our supreme duwy. Shall we
now when victory is won in war and
written in a treaty of peace and while
the civilized world applauds and waits
in expectation, turn timidly away from
tne duties imposed upon tne country Dy
its own great deeds? And when the
mists fade away and we see with clearer
vision may we n?t go forth rejoicins in
our strength which has been employed
solely for humanity and always tempered
with justice and mercy, confident in
our ability to meet the exigencies,
which await us, because confident that
our course is one of duty, and our cause
that of right."
Among the arrivals "Wednesday were
Gen. William R., Shafter and his
aides. Gov. Jos. F. Johnston and members
of the Alabama Legislature, a number
of army officers from Anniston,
John W. Thomas, president of the
N&slroille, Chattanooga and St. Louis
railroad, and Mrs. Thomas of Nashville.
President McKinley left Atlanta Friday
and visited Tuskeegee, Montgomery,
Savannah, Macon and Augusta,
at each of which place he was accorded
a most cordial and enthusiastic reception.
The party passed through Columbia
on their way back to Washington
late Monday night." They arrived
in Washington Tuesday morning.
HORRIBLE NARRATIVE.
The Vile Treatment of Friars and
Nuns by Filipinos.
The Manila correspondent of the Hong
Kong Press gives the details of the
shocking treatment of the friars and
other prisoners captured by the insurgents
in the northern part of the island
of Luzon.
General Leybe, who was sent by
Aguinaldo to attack the cities of the
extreme north of Luzon, sont a report
to his chief that he had brought the entire
section raided completely under the
control of the Filipinos. Leybe mentions
the capture of one hundred and
twenty-four friars and lay brothers,
many Spanish soldiers with arms, and
property and silver and gold valued at
$800,000.
( The Press correspondent states that
from Spanish sources have come the reports
of terrible atrocities committed
by the rebels who looted the churches
and several towns. The correspondent
says:
"The bishop was subjected to the
grossest indignities. The friars were
beaten with sticks, kicked and hung up
in the torrid :un for eeveral hours. The
natives we. forbidden to render the
friars any assistance. During the
greatest suffering while hanging hungry
and naked, in th? burning sun,
Chinese and natives supplied them
food and water. One aged friar was
placed upon a horse's saddle and
jumped upon until the blood poured
from his mouth and nose. Another,
clothed only in a rain eoat, was carried
in triumph for two hundred yards and
then eudgeled to death amid savage
cries. Nunfc in the convent were subjected
to t" most shameless treatment."
Am Expansionist.
Editor Baeon of the Edgefield Chronicle
is an expansionist. His treasury
receipts showing a deficiency in cash,
due to a lack of circulating medium in
his vitinage, he inaugurates a spirited
campaign of annexation! against all the
raw materials and finished products of
Edgefield county; making proclamation
as below: "Two or three weeks ago we
wrote this: {The Chronicle will take
wood, hogs, chickens, eggs, meat, fiour,
meal, greens, turnips or corn in payment
of the arrearages 6t subscribers
.rrhohave not the money for paying up.'
We now enlarge the opportunity as
follows: Pumpkins, potatoes, peaches,
popcorn, billy goats, pigs, horses, hay
and land, mules and cows and calves,
rabbits and wheat and turnips, turtles
and tomatoes, and any old thing you've
-? a rx~r_ i ?
goi. trenayeon uire ucc??iwua ocu
takes money on subscriptions."
A Tragic Death.
A special from Athens, G-a., says:
Wednesday afternoon at 4 o'clock Lieut.
James H. Hoskinson, adjutant of the
first battalion of the fifteenth Pennsylvania
regiment, met a tragic daath on
Clayton street, in front of the postoffice.
He was thrown violently from his horse,
his head striking the hard ground with
great force. A large artery in the
brain was ruptured, compression was
followed by paraly*is and in two hours
he was dead. Lieut. Hoskinson was
one of the most popular young officers
in the Pennsylvania regiment. He was
the son of Mi. and Mrs. Wm. Hoskinson,
of Erie, Pa., and prior to his enlistment
was assistant cashier of the
Keystone bank of that city. The remains
of Lieut. Hoskinson will be sent
to Erie Friday morning for interment.
A Fatal Fall.
Wednesday atternoon at nan-past *
o'clock an accident occurred at the new
Sacred Heart church, Augusta, Ga., in
which one man was killed and another
so badly wounded that he will die.
The man killed was Lewis Rohland,
white, a Iricklayer. late of Kansas
City. Both men were working on the
gable of the church, one hundred and
ten feet from the ground. They were
on the very top, standing on a board of
the scaffold, dressing the last line of
bricks, when the bricks toppled and
fell, carrying the two men to the
ground below. Rohland was alive for
some time, but his brains were crushed
out. John Williams, also a bricklayer,
was internally injured and will die.
Takes the Blue Bibbon.
The Abbeville Medium tells of a gold
watch that was swallowed seven years
ago by a calf wnich found it in the
pocket of a vest hanging on a fence.
That is not very strange, but the Medi*?
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urn says tHe cow was DUtcnerea xor Deei
last week and between the lungs the
watch was f6und, still running, the respiration
having acted in such a way as
to wind up the Watch, which was a stem
winder. Here's the blue ribbon, brother
Bob.
THE DEATH KNELL
Of Sectionalism Sounded in Atlanta
by President McKinley.
HIS MEMORABLE WORDS.
The Northern Chief Executive
Pays a Just Tribute to
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ate Dead.
President McKinley made memorable
the first day of the Atlanta peace jubilee
by a notacle utterance in his speech
before the joint session of the Georgia
legislature Wednesday afternoon.
His reception by the general assembly
was warm f>nd hearty in the extreme,
and his speech was punctured
with frequent outbursts of cheering. It
is admitted on all sides that the address
marked aa epoch in history and is
tonight on every lip.
Upon the president's arrival at the
capitol he was greeted vrith a field artillery
salute and was at once escorted
to Governor Candler's office. There a
short informal reception took place.
Upon its conclusion the president was
onduetedto the assembly chamber,
where he occupied the speaker's chair
with Governor Candler on his right.
When President Dodson of the senate
called the legislature to order the galleries
were thronged with men and Wumen.
The body of the chamber was
well filed with State senators and assem
Mymen, while the uniforms of various
officers and the governor's staff gave a
touch of brilliant coierto tne garnering.
On the first row facing the speaker sat
Secretaries Gage, Long, Wilson and
Smith and Secretary Porter.
Besides the speaker's desk and below
the president Gens. Wlteeler, Lawton
and Young, in full uniform, sat on
chairs.
The speaker rapped for silence and
introduced the president to the audience
after congratulating the State of Geor-.
giaupon the presence of their distinguished
guests.
As the president arose the audience
applauded.
MEMORABLE PASSAGE.
DoriHg the course tl liis snort speecn
Mr. McKinley referred to his notes and
constantly paused for the cheers to stop.
A scene of intense enthusiasm followed
when amid impressive silence these
words fell from the lips of the president:
"Every soldier's grave made during
the unfortunate civil war is a tribute
to American valor.' And while,
when these graves were made we differed
widely about the future of this government,
those differences were long
ago settled by the arbitrament of arms
?tnd the time has now come in the
evolution of sentiment and feeling-under
the providence ef God. when in the
piric of fraternity we should share
with you in the care of the graves of
the Confederate soldiers."
A wild cheer went up from every
throat in the typical southern audience,
a cheer that echoed and reachedthrough
the chamber until it was taken up by
the crowds outside.
A TOUCHING INCIDENT.
Old men who fought for the south,
rose from their seats and waved their
hats. One Confederate veteran now a
venerable legislator had passed forward
until he was leaning against the speaker's
desk, hanging on each word the
president uttered. When the reference
was made to the Confederate dead, this
old man buried his head in his arms
and while cheers rang out, cried like a
little child.
Of all the many conciliatory speeches
which have been made since Grant said
"Let there be peace," nothing has more
deeply stirred a southern audience than
the simple words of President McKinley
Wednesday.
THE SPEECH.
The president spoke as follows:
tional lines no longer mar the map of
the United States. Sectional feeling
no longer holds back the love we bear
for each other. Fraternity is the national
anthem, sung by a chorus of 45
States and our territories at home and
beyond the seas. The union is once
more the common atlas of our love and
loyalty, our devotion and sacrifices.
The old flag again waves over us in
peace with new glories which your sons
and ours have this|year added to its
sacred folds. What cause we have for
rejoicing! Saddened only by the fact
that so many of our brave men fell on
field or sickened and died from hardship
and exposure and others returning,
bringing wounds and disease from
which they will long suffer. The memory
of the dead will be precious legacy
and the disabled will be the nation's
care.
''A nation which cares for its disabled
soldiers as we have always done will
never lack defenders. The national
cemeteries for those who fell in battle
are proof that the dead as well as the
living have our love. What an army of
silent sentinels we have, and with
what loving care their graves are
kept!
'Every soldier's grave made during
our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to
American valor. And while, when
those graves were made, we differed
widely about the future of this government,
the differences were long ago settled
by the arbitrament of arms?and
the time has now come in the evolution
of sentiment and feeling, under
the providence of God, when, in the
spirit of fraternity we should share with
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you m tiie care ot tne graves 01 me
Confederate soldiers.
"The cordial feeling now happily existing
between the north and south
prompts this gracious act, and. if it
needed further justification, it is found
in the gallant loyalty to the Union and
to the flag so conspicuously shown in
the year just passed by the sons and
grandsons of these heroic dead.
"What a glorious future awaits us, ir
unitedly, wisely and bravely we face
the new problems now pressing upon
us, determined to solve them for right
and humanity."
"that little 31 an."
No sooner had President McKinley
concluded before there were loud cries
for Wheeler, and when that little man
got up, his head scarcely higher than
the speaker's desk, the audience once
more gave vent to wild enthusiasm, j
Gen. Wheeler referred eulogistically to
the efforts of the president towards pre- i
serving peace as long as the country's j
honor would permit such efforts and of
his masterful policy after war was inevitable.
Gen. Wheeler paid a tribute
to Admiral Dewey, and added: "The
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ordered to attack and destroy the Span-1
ish forces at Santiago. In four weeks
that order was obeyed, and its purposes
accomplished. The proud Spanish nation
stood suing for peact from the nation
which a month before, it had held
up to ridicule and scorn."
Calls for Maj. Gen. Young brought
that officer to his feet with a short
speech regarding the conditions of the
army camps in the south. He said that
no troops in the world were better, more
regularly fed and treated than were the
troops in South Carolina and Georgia.
Gen. Lawtonwas loudly cheered, but
refused to make a speech. He simply
thanked, on behalf of his men at Santiago,
the legislature and people of
Georgia for their tribute to himself.
Secretary Alcer refused to speak and
the legislature dissolved.
The president held a private reception
in the senate and afterwards a
public reception on the steps of the rotunda.
There were hundreds of southerners
who crushed and jostled each
other in their anxiety to shake a northern
president's hand.
Many had come from miles distant,
and when, at 2:15 p. m., the president
left the capitol, there were still hundreds
bitterly disappointed because tbey
had not been able to make their way
through the surging throng to get a second's
hold on his hands.
The day's festivities included a unique
floral parade, which was reviewed by
the president, and a reception Wednesday
night to the distinguished guests
at the Capital City club.
Wednesday night the members of the
Capital City club opened their club
house to the President and Mrs. McKinley
and the guests of the city. The
occasion was notably brilliant. The
receiving party consisted of a number of
Atlanta's representative women and a
large company of club members. The
decorations were flags, American
smilax and American beauty roses.
The late arrivals Wednesday were
Hon. Evan Settle of Kentucky, who
win speaK in tne piace ox uou&rcaouMm
Bailey, Richmond P. Hobson and Miss
Hobson, and Gov. Voorheesof NewVersey.
CUBA'S NEW ETJLEBS.
Military Governors for the Cubans in
Place of Spaniards.
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It was formally announced Wednesday
that the President had designated
Major Gen. Brooke to be tne military
Governor of the island of Cuba , T&e
new post carries with, it all the control
over the military and civil br?nohefrOf
the island formerly exercised by the
Captain General under the Spanish regime.
Gen. Brooke arrived in this
city to-day from Fort Monroe.
Each of the six provinces of Cuba
will have its own military Governor,
just as Gen. Wood is now military Governor
of the province of Santiago, but
all of these will receive their instructions
directly from Major Gen. Brooke,
who is in supreme authority of the island.
Thus, in Havana, Gen. Ludlow will
be Governor of the city, but answerable
to Gen. Lee, the Governor of the province
of Havana, who. in turn, will be
answerable to Major Gen. _ Brooke,
the Govereor of the island. In answer'
to a question as to when he
intended to assume his new duties Gen.
Brooke replied that he would proceed to
Havana and take charge just as soon as
he could organize his staff and forces.
Such disturbances as occurred in Havana
night before last, it if believed,
may be expected to reoccur there, and
to happen in some of the other Juban
cities and towns. And, as the United
States is pledged to restore the reign of
law and order in Cuba, Gen. Brooke
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will De under ine necessity ui providing
an elaborate system of administrative
machinery in order to hold the disorderly
elements in check and secure a
proper application of the laws. Gen.
Ludlow, the Governor of Havana
is already giving his attention to
the organization of a semi-military
force, to take the place of the orden
publico and garde civile, the Spanish
police forces, which maintained order in
towns and country. The repatriation
of these forces recently has left this
country, and particularly the city of
Havana, exposed to an epidemic of
crime.
The Delights of Boyhood.
T'rl like he a bov aeain without a
woe or care, with freckles scattered on
my face and hayseed in my hair; I'd
like to rise at 4 o'clock and do a hundred
chores, and saw the wood and feed
the hogs and lock the stable doors; and
herd the hens and wa*ch the bees, and
take the mules to drink, and teach the
turkeys how to swim so that they
wouldn't sink; and milk about a hundred
cows and bring in wood to burn,
and stand out in the sun all day and
churn, and churn, and churn; and wear
my brother's cast of clothes, and walk
four miles to school, and get a licking
every day for breaking some old rule,
and then get home again at night and
do the chores once more and milk the
cows and feed the hogs and curry mules
galore, and then crawl wearily upstairs
to seek my little bed and hear dad say:
''That worthless boy! He isn't worth
his bread!" Id lite to De a Doy again;
a boy has so much fun, his life is just
a round of mirth from rise to set of
sun; I guess there's nothing pleasanter
than closing stable doors, and herding
hens, and chasing bees, and doing
evening chores.
A Wrong Righted.
Michael O'Donnell has served ten
years of a thirty year seatence in Sing
Sing prison, New York, for a burglary
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wniuu A1JL0 UiyiLti y auxvo uuu wnv v/w*w*
men committed. On his death bed in
the Presbyterian Hospital James confessed
the crime for which his brother
is suffering. Investigation by detectives
of the district attorney's office
has confirmed this confession, and
Wednesday District Attorney Gardner
sent an official letter to Governor Black
recommending O'Donnell's pardon.
THE PEACE TREATY.
The Terms Agreed Upon Between
the United States and Spain.
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INTERESTING DOCUMENT.
Spain Loses Cuba, Porto Rico, the
Philippines and a Half Dozen
Other Islands in the
East.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
gives tne toiioiring as tne text 01 tne
Hispano-American treaty, omitting
diplomatic circumlocutions:
"Spain relinquishes all claims of sovereignty
over and title to Cuba; and, as
the island is, upon its evacution by
Spain, to be occupied by the United
States, the latter will, so long as such
occupation shall last, assume and discharge
the obligations in respect to protection
of life and property which may,
under international law, result from its
occupation.
"Spain cedes to the United States
the island of Porto Rico and the other
islands now under Spanish sovereignty
in the West Indies, with G-uam, in the
Mariano or Ladrone islands. Spain
cedes to the United States the archipelego
known as the Philippine Islands.
"The United States, for a term of
ten years from the date and exchange
of ratifications of the present treaty,
fcdmit Spanish ps and merchandise
to ports in the Philppine Islands on the
same terma as the ships and merchandise
of the United States.
"The United States will, upon the
signature of the present treaty, send
back to Spain, at its own cost, the
Spanish soldiers- taken as prisoners of
war on the capture of Manila by the
American forces. The arms of the
soldiers in question shall be restored to
them. Spain will, upon the signature
of the present treaty, release all prisoners
of war and all persons detained
or imprisoned for political offences in
connection with the Insurrection in
Cuba and the Philippines and the war
with the United States.
"On their part, the United States
will release all persons made prisoners
of war by the American forces, and will
undertake to obtain the release of all
Spanish prisoners in the hands of the
insurgents in Cuba and the Philippines.
"The United States will, at their
own cost, return to Spain, and the government
of Spain will, at its o^n cost, return
the United States, Cnba, Porto Kico
or the Philippines, according to the situation
of their respective homes, the
prisoners released, or caused to be released
by them respectively under this
provision.
u "The United States and Spain mutually
relinquish all claim fdfindenmi-'
ty,* national and individual, of every
kind, of either government or of its citizens
or subjects, against the other goverhment
that may have arisen since the
beginning of the late insurrection in
Cuba and prior to exchange of the ratifications
of the oresent treaty, includ
ing all claims for indemnity for the cost
of the war. The United States will
adjudicate and settle the claims of its
citizens against Spain relinquished un- i
der this stipulation.
"Spanish subjects, natives of the peninsula,
residing in the territory over
which Spain by the present treaty relinquishes
or cedes her sovereignty,
may remain in auch territory, or may i
remove therefrom, retaining in either
event all their rights of property, including
the right to sell or dispose of
such property or its proceeds, and they
shall also have the right to carry on
their industry, commerce and profession,
being subject in respect thereof
to such laws as are applicable to other
foreigners. In the event of their remaining
in the territory they may preserve
their allegiance to the Crown of j
Snain bv makinc. before a Court of I
of Record, within a year from the date
of the exchange of ratifications of the
treaty, a declaration of their decision
to preserve such allegiance, in default
of which declaration they shall be held
to have renounced it and to have adopt
ed the nationality of the ,territory in
which they may reside.
''The civil rights and political status
of the native inhabitants of the territory
hereby ceded to the United States
shall be determined by congress. The
inhabitants of the territory over which
Spain relinquishes or cedes her sovereignty
shall be secured in the 'free exercises
of their religion.
"Spaniards residing in the territories
over which Spain, by this treaty, cedes
or relinquishes her sovereignty shall be
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criminal, to the jurisdiction of the
courts of the country in which they reside,
pursuant to the ordinary laws governing
the same, and they shall have
the right to appear before such court,
and to pursue the same course as citizens
of the country to which the courts
belong:
"The right of property, secured by
copyrights and patents acquired by the
Spaniards in the island of Cuba and in
Porto Rico and the Philippines and the
other ceded territories at the time of
the exchange of the ratifications of the
treaty, shall continue and be respccted.
Sparish scientific, literary and artistic
works, not subversive of public order
in the territories in question, shall continue
to be admitted free of duty into
such territories for a period of ten
years, to be reckoned from the date of
ratification of the treaty. /
"Spain shall have the right to establish
consular offices in the ports and
other places of the territories sovereignty
over which has been either relin
quished or ceded by the present treaty.
The government of each country will,
for a term of ten years from the exchange
of ratifications, accor to thed
merchant vessels of the other country
the same treatment in respect of all
port charges, including entrance and
clearance dues, light dues and tonnage
duties as it accords to its own merchant
vessels not engaged in coastwise trade.
This provision may at any time be determined
on six months' notice given
by either government to the other.
"It is understood that any obligation
assumed in this treaty by the United
States with respect to Cuba is limited
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United States of that island, but the
United States government will, upon
the termination of such occupation, advise
any government established in the
island to assume the same obligations/'
EEYA2TS RESIGNATION.
He Is Highly Complimented by His
Superior Officers.
Tbe war department Thursday made
j' blic the iollowipg letter from Col.
' William Jenning^Bjyanj resigning his
commission as a volunteer officer:
Camp1 Onward,
Savannah, Ga., Dec. 10, 1898.
To Adjutant General U. S. A., Wa?h*
ington.
Sir: The dispatches fiom Paris announce
that the terms of the tieaty between
the United States and Spain have
been fully agreed upon and that the,
commissioners will sign the same as j
soon as it can be CDgrossed. Believing
that under present conditions I can be
more useful to my country as a civilian
than as a soldier, I hereby tender my
re&ignation to take effect immediately
upon its acceptance.
* * Respectfully, etc.,
\Y. J. Bryan,
Cpl. Third Reg. Xeb. Vol. Infy.
SThg letter bears the following endorsements
from the division and corps
commanders under whom Col. Bryan
seweoC
First endorsement:
'.Headquarters First Brigade,
First Div., Seventh Corps. Dec. 10.
Respectfully forwarded. It is with
sincere regret that the First brigade
should lose the services of so efficient
an officer "W. H. Mabry,
Col. First Tex. Vol. Infv., Comn'dg.
Second endorsement:
Headquarters First Division.
Seventh Army Corps, Dec. 30, 1898.
It is with regret that this resignation
is forwarded approved. Col. Bryan's
regiment, the Third Nebraska volunteer
infantry, is in a high state of efficiency
and discipline, and his efforts for its
welfare have been untiring
Loyd Wheaton.
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Third endorsement:
Headquarters U. S, Forces,
Camp Onward, Dec. 10,1898.
Respectfully forwarded, approved. I
deely regret that Col. Bryan is called
on to tender his resignation. I concur
in what is said in the foregoing endorsements.
J. Warren Keifer,
* ~f- Maj. Gen. Commanding.
Fourth-endorsement*
Savannah, Dec. 10, 1898.
Having tinned over the command of
the troops here to Gen, Keifer, I will
not be prevented as Col. Bryan's former
commander on the eve of my departure
for Cuba from sajing I greatly
regret that the colonel has decided to
sever his relations with my Seventh
corps, for our relations hive been very
agreeable, and he has ever been most
faithful and conscientious in all-duties
confided to him.
Fitzhugh Lee.
Major General, U. S. V.
Accepted, by order of the president
R. A. Alger.
Dec. 12, 1898, Secretary of War.
The response to the letter was con- J
tained in the following telegram, dated
Washington, December 12,1898:
Col. William Jennings Bryan, Third
Nebraska Volunteer Infantry through
corps commander, Savannah, G-a,:
Resignation received and arcepted.
H. C. Corbin,
Adjutant General.
A TESRIBLE ACCIDENT.
The (Jiving Way of a Huge Tank in
New York. r
When dawn l'gl.ted- up the district
of the devastated collapsing big gas
tank in New York Wednesday morning
I of the Consolidated Gas oompany a
spectacle of ruin was presented. Twenty-first
street was barricaded with twisted
and bent iron stanchions, girders
and uprights piled to a height of 25 feet.
Twentieth street was filled with bricks,
household goods and tiwbers piled high
in one promiscuous mass. All night
long hundreds of men worked assiduously
to discover bodies that might be in
the ruins.
The basement of the furniture factory
of Henry Fuldner had six feet of
water. Three men were on a raft which
had been floated, searching for the body
of the engineer, who is missing. Pious
Baum was in the basement when
the tank swspt away the rear wall of
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tne DuiiQing. ms ooay was iouuu uuder
a mass of debris. Seven others are
missing.
The tank that collapsed w^s about
175 feet in diameter and 160 feet in
height. The iron supports over which
the immense cables ran were about 200
feet in height. The iower tank, into
which the upper fitted, was 25 feet in
height and rested on a mason work pit.
The pit was 15 ft et deep. The buildera
wure testing the strength of the
tank with water pressure. The workmen
were preparing to leave the place
when the mason work on the pit crumbled
away like clay.
It is said that there were eight millions
of gallons of water in the tank at
the time of the break. The steel plates
of the tank were rent asunder by the
pressure like paper. The great force
of the water vented itself on the
rear walls of the building?. Avenue A
is all torn away with the exception of a
part of the rear of the gas company's
engine house. The masonarv brick were
thrown into the street and piled into
hallways of houses and buildings. Tremendous
iron beams and uprights,
swept by the water, were carried away
down Twentieth and Twenty-First
streets, to the river front.
Th2 arms and legs of a man were
found entangled at Twenty-First street.
Six were Killed.
A passenger train on the Florida Centra)
and Peninsular railroad was wrecked
Thursday afternoon near Madison,
caused by a collison with cattle on the
trace, although the engineer made every
effort to stop the train. Six were killed
as follows: E. H. Chandler, engineer;
James Evans, colored, fireman;
John T. Sullivan, of St. Augustine, attache
to the army; Rev. S. H. Coleman
a colored preacher, of Jacksonville;
John A. Rhoados, ofPensacola; Alfred
Mustin, of Chaires, colored.
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Tlie Pathetic Funeral of Captain C.
E. Chichester.
One of the most pathetic funerals,
says the Anderson People's Advocate,
and one that appeals to the hearts of
every old Confederate soldier, and sends
the blood tingling along his veins, was
witnessed in Charleston last Friday
week. It was the funeral of Captain
C. E. Chichester, who, although a
Northern man, and went to Charleston
about a year before the war began, was
an old Confederate captain and had
died the day before. He had written
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down minute directions ior nis iunerai
four years ago, and they were tliat lie
should be buried ' 'right under the shadow
of the large soldier monument,
the centre of the confederate plot,*gin
Magnolia cemetery," an4 that "tl|e
burial take place, ? convedieA, atithe
close of the day, to terminate about
sundown," and "that a salute suitable
to "the rank of a Captain of Artilery be
fired ?vet my grave after all other services
are?over," and telling where his
old Confederate captain's uniform could
be found to bury him in and then comes
the last, the tenderest, and the most
touching injunction as follows: "Just
as the sun is setting, and everything
connected with my burial is finished,
let my friend and brother, Mr. F. F.
Whilden, or some other proper and
competent person, step to the head of
the grave, and with his cornet sound
the 'Tattoo,' and then the signal,
'Lights Out!'" It makes the heart of
an old soldier grow tender and his eye
moist to read it. 'Lights out' in this
world, but resplendent and eternal
lights shining in the other world for
the brave, gallant, loyal old soldier who
had "kept the faith," and "was faithful
onto cjjpath." He had loved the
"bonnie blue flag" when first it rose,
fair as the morning in all its dewey
freshness. Fe had loved it, when, like
the sun mounting the* heavens toward
the 7pnith. it flnttftred in a sea of irlorv.
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and waved over many a victorious ? eld.
He loved it still when its sun went
down at Appomattox, and its precious.
folds, stained with the blood of heroes,
were furled forever. He loved it to the
end, and was faithful to his trust
Brave, noble old veteran, we send thee
a soldier's salute. Let thy grave be the
Mecca of every old veteran who attends
the reunion in May.
THE FREE MASOffS.
A list cf the Newly Elected Grand
Officers.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons
held its annual meeting in Charleston
last week. The following rrand officers
were elected:
Grand Master, B. J. Witherspoon,,
Lancaster, S. C.; Deputy Grand Master,
Orlando Shappard, Edgefield, S?
C., Senior -Grand Warden, W.
M. Whitehead,. Charleston, S. C.,*
Junior Grand Warden, Rev. Byron
Holly, Greenville; Grand Treasurer,
Zimmerman Davis, Charleston, / S. C.;
Grand Secretary, Charles Inglesby,
Charleston, S. C.; Grand Chaplain,
Rev. S. P. H. Elwell, Charleston, S. C.
The following grand officers wera
appointed: Senior Grand deacons, E.
C. Secrest and J. M. Spratt; Junior'
Grand Deacons, J. L. Michie and S. E.
Moore; Grand Marshal, John Kennedy;
Grand Pursuivant, W. M. Crawford;
Grand Tyler, W. A. Winkler.
The Grand Master named the following
District Deputy Grand Masters:
First District?W. G. Ma2yck, Charleston.
Second District?G. M. Buckncr,
Ridgeland.
Third Distnct?J. R. Bellinger,
Bamberg.
Fourth District?W. A. Giles, Lancaster
Fifth District?S. J. Watson, John- '
ston.
Sixth District?T. E. Harrison, Abbeville.
Seventh District ?T. F. Hill, Anderson.
Eighth District?R. M. Wertz, Liberty.
Ninth Dislrict?W. K. Grant, Green-.
ville.
Tenth District?J. W. Nash, Spar
tanburg.
Eleventh District?H. F. Gaffney,
Gaffneys.
Twelfth ' District?J. W. Ardrey,
Fort Mill. i
Thirteenth District?M. A. Bridges,
Columbia.
Fourteenth District?F. L. Zemp,
Camdea.
Fifteenth District?Louis Jacobs,
Kingstree.
Sixteenth District?W. E. James,
Darlington.
Seventeenth District?C. P. Quattlebaum,
Conway.
Eighteenth District?W. L. Glaze,
Orangeburg
Home Happiness.
Probably nineteen twentieth of the
happiness you will evfcr have you will
get at home. The independence that
comes to a man when his work is over,
and he feels he has run out of the storm
into the quiet harbor of home, where he
can rest in peace with his family,
is something real. It does not make
much difference whether you own your
house or whether you have one little
room in that house, you can make that
room a true home to you. You can
people it with such moods, you can
turn to it with such sweet fancies, that
it will be fairly luminous with their
presence, and will be to you the very
perfection of a home. Against this
home none of you should ever transAn
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other with courtesy. It is often not
so difficult to love a person as it is to
be courteous to them. Courtesy is of
greater value and a more royal grace
than some people seem to think. If
you will but be courteous to each other
you will soon learn to love each other
more wisely, profoundly, not to say
lastingly, than you ever did before.?
American Messenger.
A Railroad Horror.
Eight men were killed and four injured
at Winspeare bridge, near Corfu,
on the New York Central railroad,
Thursday. They were Poles, with the
exception of John Warner, their foreman,
wbo is among the killed. The
men were engaged in shoveling snow, of i
which there were numerous drifts on <
the iine. <
nii UiTUSES IT.
Colonel W. J. Bryan's Platform
Against Imperialism.
A MOST LOGICAL PAPER.
He Thinks The United States
Government Should Treat the
Philippines the Same as
Cuba.
Upon leaving his command at Savannah
last week Col. W. J. Bryan, of the
Third Nebraska Regiment, gave the following
interview:
"My reason for leaving the army was
set.forth in my letter to the adjuntant
general tendering my resignation. Now
that the treaty of peace has been concluded.
I believe that I can be more
useful to my country as as civilian than
a soldier."
Col. Bryan then proceeded to the discussion
of public questions, sayirup
4 The people of the United States,
having rescued Cuba from foreign control,
many now resume tile discussion of
the domestic problems which confront *
this nation and turn to the consideration
of the nee questions arising out of
the war.
"I may be in error, but, in my judgment,
our nation is in greater danger
just now than Cuba. Our people defended
Cuba against foreign arms; now
they must defend themselves and their
country* against a foreign idea?the
colonial idea of European nations.
Heretofore greed has perverted the
Government and usedits instrumentalities
for private gain, bat no* the .
very foundation principles of our Government
are assaulted.
4 The imperialistic idea is directly
, antagonistic to the idea and ideals
which have been cherished by the
American people since the signing of
the Declaration of Independence. Our
nation m!ast give up any intention of
Entering upon a colonial'policy, (such
as is now pursued by .European countries,)
or it must abandon thejleflstrine <
that governments derive their just powers
from the rtrmRpnt, nf flip irnTArnM.
' 'We may believe that government* ,
come up from the people, or we may believe
that 'governments come down to
the people from those who possess the
heaviest cannons and the largest ships,
but we cannot advocate both doctrines.
"To borrow a Bible* quotation, 'A
house divided against itself cannot
stand:: paraphrasing Lincoln's declaration,
I may add that this nation cannot
endure half Republic and half colony,
half free and half vassal. Our form of
government, our traditions, our preseat
interests and our futurowelfare all forbid
our entering upon a eareer -of conquest.
.
Jefferson has been quoted in support
of imperialism, but our opponents
must distinguish between imperialism
and expansion; they most also distinguish
between expansion that involves
ns in the quarrels of Europe and the
iOrient OThey must still further distinguish
between expansion which
secures contiguous territory for future
settlement and expansion which secures
us alien races for future subjugation.
"Jerfferson favored the annexation of
necessary contiguous territory on the
North American Continent, but he was
opposed to wars of conquest, and expressly
condemned the acquiring of remote
territorv" '
When asked how the colonial policy,
could be prevented. CoL Bryan said:
"Some think that the fight should be
made against the ratification' of the
treaty, but I would prefer another plan.
If the treaty is rejected negotiations
must be renewed, and instead of settling
the question according to our own ideas
we must settle it by diplomacy, with
the possibility of international complications.
It will be easier; I think,
to end the war at once by ratifying the
treaty .nd then deal with the subject
in our own way. The issue can be pre
sented directly by a resolution of Congress
declaring the policy of the nation
upon this subject. The President says
in his message that our only purpose
in taking-possession of Cuba is to establish
a stable government and then turn
that government over to the people of
Cuba. Congress could reaffirm this
purpose in regard to Cuba and assert
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tne same purpose in regara to me
Philippine Islands and Porto Bico. ,
Such a resolution would make a clear-' "
cut issue between the doctrine of selfgovernment
and the doctrine of imperialism.
"We should reserve a harbor *
and a coaling station in Porto Bico and
the Philippines to return for services
rendered, and I think we would be justified
in asking the same concession from ^
Cuba. ^
"In the cace of Porto Bico, where
the people have as yet expressed no desire
for an independent government,
we might with propriety declare our
willingness to annex the island if the
citizens desire annexation; but the
Philippine Islands are too far away and
their people too different from ours to
be annexed to the United Sk tea, even
if they desired it."
Col. Bryan left Savannah Tuesday
for Washington, P. C., and will arrive
there Wednesday afternoon. He intends
to enter actively into the fight
against the colonial policy. In fact it
is evident that this was the main cause
that led to his resignation.
A Fatal Accident. ?r
Engineer Arthur E. Williamson has
for 14 years guided ponderous locomotives
over peri" 013 places, and has always
come home safe. But Wednesday
afternoon he started out in his buggy
on a business errand, and was brought
home cold in death. His neck was broken
by falling from his buggy within
the corporate limits of the city. Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock he left
home to buy some lumber for improvements
upon his home. His family was
much worried when the night wore
away and he did not come back, for he
was a sober man, and his absence under
such circumstances was somewhat unusual.
Thursday morning his body
was found cold in death, and almost
frozen, in a ditch at the foot of Lumber
street, where it intersects Huger
street. It is not known when his death
occurred, but life had evidently been
extinct for longhours.?Columbia State.
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