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' : - - I <yi-7rfir?l -<1K-''|<! *. ' rn ' - r?i HIS ANSWER. Governor McSween6y Rep'ies to j iCharges Against Him. HIS REPLY GIVEN IN FULL. Ha Defends His Administration | | and Presents His Claims for Re-Election to the Office of Governor. Governor McSweeney has prepared a statement regarding his administration and position, which is interesting. He says: Fellow-Citizens:?In presenting my : claims as a candidate for governor I desire to thank you for yonr suffrage : in twice electing me to the responsible position of lieutenant-governor. In that position I discharged my duties fairly, fearlessly and faithfully, and received the proud endorsement of the body over which I presided. My platform has already j^ea announced in my annual message and on the hustings, but I shall endeavor to give ifc to you again, for I believe the people should hear fully the oandidates asking for their suffrage. As you know. I succeeded the lamented Governor Ellerbe to fill out his unexpired term, and I come before you to ask your endorsement. I am one of the people and hsve fought my way through the world single handed and - ? * ? I . aloDe, and I am not ashamed ot my record. Ever since I have been in public life I have continuously fought for the people and their rights. I am an advocate of *&n ecomical government wisely and judiciously .administered with as small a tax as the safe operation of the government will allow. My service has not been lip service, big professions and little deeds, for I have never yet let an opportunity pass to help the youog men and young women upward and onward in life, and I have always endeavored to protect and preserve the proud name of my native state, for the proudest heritage that I have is that I am a Carolinian. Nor have my services to the old soldier Tsrftc(\?<? in svmnathetic sneeches. in public and private life I have silently and quietly done all in my power to smooth ihe road of the tottering Confederate soldier on Ma fiaal march to the grave. I am a 5rm believer in common schools. It is to them that I owe my advancement in life. My education was N limited to them; my heart is wrapped up in them, and I would be as traitorous to desert the common schools as .1 11 1J V- 4.^ J^ia me oouege ciaa wuluu uc ?.u uc;tu uW alma mater. Starting out in life as an orphan and penniless, the only friend I had was the free public schools. I hare taken a special interest in them and shall continue to do so as long as I can be ef service to them. I believe that special attention should be given to the education of children at our cotton factories. When I appointed the state board of education some time ago 1 ap- I pointed as a member au able teacher of I a school of a manufacturing town in ; order that the interest of the factory children might have the benefit of his ; experience, and that they should have I a representative on the highest educational board in the state.' Likewise I am a consistent friend of the colleges, both state and denominational. I giory in the proud record our colleges have made in the past and the splendid unlimited future beforra them. 1 m/iro -PAI" OCU'JOl Iiuuoea uavc uvut uviv >v> va>. lization and Christianity than all the armies of conquest Lave ever done or can ever do. The material prosperity of oar state is exceedingly gratifying. While this is not dne to my administration, for no governor can stop our march of prosperity, yet I have done all in my power to help the grand movement along and to establish confidence in oar enterprise and in our state government. My opponents have attacked me fceftanse I subscribed for the newspapers. By such charges they expect to catch the unthinking. Such a charge is an insult to intelligence. All of my predecessors properly subscribed for papers and paid fnr t h*?zn in the same way. It is absolutely necessary for the governor * i-'i ? ?: ? r ^J CO KEOW WPe: nor prnr:i?ur*uuij>, auvcr tisements for supplies and so fonrih have been public? ?? rs? fon, and to keep posted as to jraud jutj project meats, violations of the iaw co'i-iu^ of public officials, riots, lynching* a or so forth. Only a few weeks ago a crime was committed in Florence county, The prisoners were arrested, ana had it not been that the governor was posted as to the state of feeling at Florence, in a great measure through the newspapers, a crime would have been commit ed that would have been a foul blot on the stood name of our state and an insult to Christianity and a perversion of law and order. And, my friends, I say here in this connection that so long as I am governor that I will exhaust every available means of the state before I will allow a mob law or lynch law to dominate the government and rule the lands. But we are here to discuss measures and not men. What is local option and what would be the result of such a scheme? It is so impracticable that neither Governor Tillman, nor Evans, nor Ellerbe, all stalwart friends of the dispensary, ever once thought of suggesting such an idea and no honest prohibitionist ccn favor it for it allows that which he believes to be inherently wrong:. The result of such a scheme would be a conglomeration or pronioition and dispensary counties, each bearing the burden and receiving the Hi-effect of the other, with no benefits to either. It is a patcnwoiK, crazy quilt, theory and could only result in confusion, and simply lives as a theory, only upon the specious demagogic idea of local self-government; for is it local self-government; you cannot limit it to a congressional district, for counties may want it. You cannot limit it to rwvrtntipR fnr narticnlar tovrashiDS mav want it You cannot limit it to townsMps for the numerous towns of a township may want it. And then you could not only have a county full of bars or dispensaries against the sentiment of a county, thereby defeating the theory of local option, but you would have such a diversity of the liquor business that the revenues would be so small that special officers would be a thing of the past and illicit liquor traffic would be untrammelled. But local option is nofc a material factor in this campaign. The issue is Cieariy JVMUCU WHICCU ui:ucuj3ij> ?uu prohibition. The dispensary is no experiment. It has been a stature law for over six years and has been endorsed by every legislature since its enactment. Political convictions have endorsed it and none have dared to condemn it It has proved to be the only practical Rftlntion of thft linnor aneetioa. Peonle always have aad always will have liq- | nor. The greatest evil to the public is j the l:quor seller. The mere he sells the greater his profit. The profit feature is his only incentive and therefore, more the encouragement he offers the buyer to buy more and more. That being the case the best solution is to remove the cause that compels the unfortunate to buy more and more. The dispensary solves this. The dispenser gets his salary whether he sells one drop or not, and he is i not allowed to indulge in the seductive I and disastrous credit system. It is of J no interest to him to sell impure liqaor I or to seduce a minor or to give a free lunch' to the unwary. He is sworn and bonded to enforce the law and his position is at stake. If he fails to enforce the law, you, the people, who give him his position, can blame only yonraoltr>?R_ How different is ihe blind tiger, the progeny of prohibition, whose only ambition is to make dollars for himself aco drunkards for the state and whose only claim to citizenship is based on his brazen effrontery as a law breaker. But it is contended there are tigers un; der the dispensary system. Certainly, ! but the dispensary law does not make | tigers. Do you suppose people patronize tigers because there is a dispensary 1 ? f Viotr Tronf, lienor to jaw, m ?iv; - 2 drink? It is the patronage that makes tigers, and is it not natural to oonclnde that if you abolish the dispensary that the patronage heretofore going to the dispensary will go to the blind tiger?, thereby increasing thetn ten fold. Then, when the dispsnsary goes the special officer must go, and with only the civil officers, who ire now unable to cope with the few tigers the chaotic ?<-v,w7;t;nn ha*. Tr.rrqt follow is enough to stagger every citizen who loves his home aod respects the law. Under a prohibition law a heavy tax must be levied upon every one to enforce the law whether hi favors prohibition or not. But under the law every trifling negro who buys his flask of liquor contributes a tax to the tovn and county to see that he keeps the ? ??won and tn peace, iu wun ms xvau. ??.?<? ?v ? the children. Prohibition is a beautiful sentiment, but a miserable failure in practice. The prohibitionist can use no stronger argument than to cite the states*.that have tried prohibition. Let us see the result of suoh argument. Miine, Iowa and Kansas have prohibition under their constitution. Now compare these states with South Carolina by the re' TT_r*._J Oi.Un nAmmi*acinn0r por* 01 t'06 UQibtU Ulttvcs yyyni?iintf*vi?v* of internal revenue for ?he year ending Juna 30, 1899: Maine?Number of retail liquor dealers 1,125 Iowa?Number of retail liquor dealers 3,730. South Carolina?Number of retail liquor dealers 324 The 324 credited to South Carolina includes every liquor dispensary in the State. Thus it is seen that the prohibition state of Kansas with one half million population has over ten times as I - -- - rt .1 I many illegal liquor licenses as ooutn Carolina. That Iowa with a fraction over two million population has six| teen times as many and that the state of Maine with about seven hundred thousand population, (about one-half the population of South Carolina,) has five times as many. Bear with me while I call vour attention to more unprejudiced and incontrovertible evidence of the fallacy of prohibition. A committee of fifty of the most prominent citizens of the Uaited States including such men as Sefch Low, president of tie Columbia university, ana Charles W. Eiliotc, president of Yale university, and other men of equal prominence, not identified with politics, were appointed to investigate the operations of the liquor laws in several of the various states They report having found 182 places where liquor was sold in the city of Portland, Me., not including pocket peddlers, houses of ill-fame, express ( ftmnaflipd rtlnhs. and certain ovster I I resturants. That while the investiga; tioa was in progress several new bars were opened. T^ Portland Express in the issne of Jnne 21st, 1894. eontained the followicsj protest of certain liquor dealers (prohibition town) of that city: Some liquor dealers complain that their profits are cut down by the competition of shops allowed to exist in the vicinity of their own places of business and that the regular collection of protection money may also be made of them These demands are in some in &'<t-j'jes said to be so excessive triattue <^aler3 say that they swallow up the lion's share of the profit and sometimes actually make them run more disreputable places than they otherwise would in order to get in money enoueh to be able to respond to the perpetual squeezing. In Augusta, Me., the capital of the State, 622 places were found in operation, or one to every 117 inhabitants. Ellsworth, witb 2 300 inhabitants contains 14 bars and tour other places (apothecary shops) where liquor is sold. Thrnnchont the entire State the sicken ing array of figures comes. The same account states that one dirty, filthy, hell-hole, where the viiest liquor is sold, is maintained to every 200 inhabitants or less. The committee reports: "The conclusion must be that it is impossible to state from the statistics adduced just how far they reflect greater or less public inebriety. The general impression is that drunkenness is as prevalent now as ever before the constitutional amendment went into effect, if not more so. 4'The toleration of an open defiance of the laws and the constitution indicate not merely a widespread lack of flr-mnstlw witn nrnhihifcorv measures. but a carelessness of public sentiment which of itself is grave. Citizsns have become so accustomed to this defiance that little attention is paid to the continuance of violations of the liquor statute or to the contempt for Jaw and order generally which is an inevitable consequenee. "A local judge in speaking of conditions under a prohibitory law not enforced has said: 'The value of the oath has been reduced 50 per cent, in this State. Perjury (for which the maximum penalty is imprisonment for life) is so common tnat it bo longer aur?cts attention. And it is not canined cnly to the liquor element; the effect of it is far-reaching and growing. People talk of it openly and without a blush ' "Members of the supreme judicial court have said substantially the same thing and prosecutions for perjury committed during the trial of liquor oases are not frequent. Closely akin to neriurv is the hvDOcrisy engendered when people are called upon to support a law that they do not believe in. The support of prohibition at the polls and in party platforms when it is so illenforoed can be explained only on the ground that men have become hypocrites. A judge of the supreme court as quoted ia public newspapers, referring co conditions in Cumberland county, Maine, said: 'It is a question whether the prohibitory law makes i more hypocrites or more drunkards.' [ It would have perhaps been more iust to say: 'It is a question whether mofts j men become drunkards or hypocrites under the prohibitory law.' This, gentlemen, is bat a like report made of every other prohibition State by this committee. Hear me again, you men who believe that Democracy lias a stronger claim upon you than prohibition, and hear the arraignment of prohibition, Col. Hoyt's pet theory, by the Democracy of Maine. On July 11,19UU, the democratic party adopted the following as a part of its platform: '"For nearly half a century we have had statutory law prohibiting the manu'acture, sale and use of intoxicating liquors. For nearly half that time it has been embodied in the Stata constitution. Since it was first enacted scores of amendments, each more stringent and the penalties more than those preceding it, have been passed { For nearly 20 years the alleged enfor jement of the prohibitory law has ll??" fTAwinor mnroani] m-VA IaX Until LfCGU VTiiwj, w - _ today in nearly every city in the State aod many of the larger towns there are regularly established bars and saloons where liqaors are sold in open, flagrant violation of the constitution aod statutory law. Nearly every hotel, many restaurants, hundreds of socalled drag 6tores and uanumbered and secret saloons and barrooms in the cities sell without restriction, save an occasional seizure and fine for political purposes. "For years the prohibitory law has been a political footbal.. Its hjpocriti Oil enforcement has be n used co control the liqcnr vote to isccvaie the ia come ofperjared officials and to swell the corruption fund for campaiga pur poses. Through its instrumentality the party in power has influenced juries, cortupted officials sworn to enforce the law; debauched voters, deceived the advocates of temperance, betrajed the cause it professed lo support. creating a contempt and a disregard for ail lavVd and has made the good name of the Sroto ? kura-trd anr? Tv?nrn?fth wherever it is known " Then you ask the question, if these prohibition States are ia such a deplor able condition why do they not change? The answer is evident. The liquor men are in the saddle aad they, like the liquor men of Soath Carolina, are perfectly satisfied with prohibition. Think of the condition of Maine. The prohibitionists cannot change. The liquor men cannot be disenthralled. Do you desire such a condition of affairs here? Have you any reason why South Carolina would not be in a3 deplorable conditien as any of these States. If so what is it? And if none, why change a settled law for a disastrous experiment. Some of my competitors in their frenzied desire for office ha7c made the unwarranted charge that J. have not enforced the law. Try my recDrd before a tribunal over which neither I nor my competitors have any control. The reports of the attorney general s office show that for the year 1899, the only year reported to that office during which I was responsible for the en r i. .uoo iuruemeuii ui mn j<*nr iuat un m;ic were charged with the violation of the dispensary law than for the year 1898 Ninety-one more than for 1897; 213 more than for 1895. The yean; 1893,1S9? are cot considered as the cnforcment of the law wag practicilly stepped by the courts. My record has been exceeded by only one year and during that year the constables were allowed to seize all inter state liquor as -well as to arrest any man transporting contraband inter-state liquor which privilege has since been denied by the court. During the past six montk3 cf my administration 167 cases have been sent to the circuit court for trial and 106 men have been convicted in the various courts of the State. Does this savor of a nonenforcement of the law? My competitors make reckless charges e ^L ~ _ _ ?e L it.. i 01 me uoa exnurceaieuij ui me i?vr. T<?o of them have taken an oath to support the law and the other two have a moral obligation on their shoulders as , citizens. If either of them knows of any vio latioDs of the law or has any such information is it not his duty to see that the law i3 enforced or renounce his obligations as an officer or a citizen? TA > ? ? / _ __ A. :.i ir tney cm specuy as 10 aay violations I can and will use their testimony ia the courts. To simply assert, or charge, without specifying and without proof is unmanly, unfair and un-American. I have done the best I could to enforce the law. That it is not perfectly enforced, never has been, and never will Va **?/* r\? 4-liio Irttr fi a if ia r\r ?r?TT UVy 13 CkD U UC vuio lan a 3 i\i ij vi uu; other law. The federal government with its unlimited resources cannot stop moonshining. Then how can a debtridden Sfcate do better than we have done? It has been suggested that the law has not been enforced in the city of Charleston. My friends, you may rest assured that the State authorities and officers have done everything within - a . y * T7* tneir power to entorce cne law. jor the first six months of this year one magistrate alone issued 600 search warrants for contraband liquor. Numbers of cases have been sent up to the upper court charging persons with violating the law. No opportunity has ever been missed, so far as I know, to enforce the law vigorously. But what in the result? Jast as fast as we send them up the grand jury unceremoninnolv throws them ont. I cannot make juries nor am I the guardian of the consoience of any juror. We can only give the court and jaries an opportuni ty to enforce th<* law. If they decline or refuse, our labors can go no further. Now, in all fairness, can mortal man do more? No force that I can use, even to the shedding of blood, can force a jary to write to find a true bill or a verdict of guilty. XT xt . Oi.i. T imo men 10 mc otate cave au upputtunity to determine whether the dispensary law has been enforced better than the mayors of the towns. They are absolutely under no obligations to the executive department. Hear their testimony. The mayor of Newberry says: ' 'There is co violation of the dispensary law in town and I do not think there is any in the county. The dispensary law has been much better enforced during the past year than heretofore." The mayor of Spartanburg says: "There is very little, if any, violation of the dispensary law in the town or county. The illicit pale of whiskey is on the decrease. The law has been well enforced during the past ye*r." The mayor of Saluda says: ''There has been no violation whatever of the dispensary law in the town and only by a temporary poeket blind tiger in the surrounding country among the neerrr.ee at nlrtnina Sn far it is ? 1 possible to :ell, I would say that the dispensary law has been better enforced during the past year than heretofore." The mayor of Edgefield says: ';The dispensary law is not being violated in this town or county to my knowledge." The mayor of Abbeville says: "The disoensarv law is not being violated to any extent. There are practically no illicit sales of whiskey.*' The niayof of Flore&fce says: "The illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing. ' The dispensary law has been a9 well enforced during the past year as heretofore." I The mayor of Cheater says: "The dispensary law is not violated in town or county to my knowledge. I think the illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing The dispensary law has been as well enforced during the past year as heretofore." The mayor of Laurens says: "The I illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing considerably in this city and in the county. The dispensary law ha* been better enforced during the past year than heretofore." The mayor of Orangeburg says: "There is no violation of tbe dispen- i sary law in this city, nor have I heard ] of aoy in the county for some time. I jadge the dispeasay law is being better enforced than heretofore." The mayor of Rock Hill say3: "The illi.it sale of whiskey I do cot think i< increasing. It is sold mostly froaa pocket blio-d tigers. I favor the law and would like to see it kept on the statute books as I regard it as the best 2 solution." ( The mayor of Anderson says: "No i illicit whiskpy is sold in this city." t The mayor of Winnaboro says: "The t dispensary law i9 not being violated to j our official knowledge or information. a The illicit sale of whiskey is decreas- f ing. The dispensary law is as well, or better enforced than heretofore." I have earnestly endeavored to enforce the law without bloodshed, but ? this liw, as all other laws, must be en 1 forced without apology to any man. Now, my friends, 1 ask ia all candor 3, in view of the conditions that exist in prohibition States, and the reoord in 1 the enforcement of the law in South ? Carolina, is there any reason to ques 1 tion or doubt the motive of the blind j tigers ia joining forces with the prohi- ' bicionists. For whose benefit is such , an alliance? J.et the past experience , speak for the jn3eat. If prohibition ' should wio, its continuance would have ; to depend, as ia other States, upon its A old ally, the tigtr. A?ain, the most enthusiastic prohi- j bitionist does not hope for a prohibi ' tioQ legislature. That means a continuance of the dispensary. Now, my 1 friendg, who is the more likely to en- 1 fmv?A thfl law?a man who hoaeatlv be lieves in the law, or a man like Col. * Hoyt, in whose nostrils the very name 1 of the dispensary law is a stench. 3 N my fellow-citizans, in concla- * i iu L thank the people of the State c or the support given to my administration and am gratified for the harmo- J nioua work of all the member* of the J administration. I have endeavored tj ' fulfill the duties of the office of gover- 1 nor with the same fidelity and upon 1 * *_ . ^1. -x 1 t!)G same Dusmess principles bust uas a'-ways characterized my official and 1 private life, whether as a member of the general assembly, as lieutenant 1 dpvernor, or in the Democratic councils. I am running on my record, * uiiritand fitness for the ofine, and not upon the demerits of any other man. 4 [ am running as an individual Demo- 1 crat, unfettered by the nomination or 1 suggestion of any faction and bound by no platform except that of Democracy. J [ would rather my tongue should cleava to the roof of my mouth than to dip ' into the cesspools of slander and vitu ' Deration Neither my State nor any of ! her honored citizens, such a3 my oppo- | nents, .shall be slandered by me for self-aggrand'zement, and rather than go into office by mud-slingmg and bitter vitrperation, I will go to my grave UDkonorcd. BEAUTIES OF DIVORCE LAWPays His Wife to Let Him Marry Aner Woman. A dispatch from Chicago says a magnificent string of pearls, William Bateman Leeds' gift to his bride, wa3 not the most costly part of his second mar- J i * i- T? 3 _ m;.. riage. JUeeaa lormeriy uvea ia umua- ] go, is very wealthy and one of the prin- < cipal tioplate manufacturers of this 1 country. To obtain freedom from his former wife to marry Nannie May Stewart ! Washington, he is said to have given ' Jeaanette I;ene Leeds $1 000.000 in bunds and stocks. The former Mrs. Leeds knew that her husband was en- ' otiaoA fcn flip dashinc divorcee of Cleve- I 6i?B>.~ ? o ; land, but refused his entreaties that he be freed from tbe vows he assumed 17 years ago in a little Indiana town. He threatened to go into coiirt himself for a divorce, and Mrs. Leeds smiled and said: "G-o," but he did cot go- For five years he had not lived with his ffife. Why they separated is a secret that both have kept. Friends guessed it, but Mrs. Leeds said nothiag. She was absorbed in the education of her boy, Rudolph, now 14 yej^rs old. The first Mrs. Leeds was approached by her husband a month ago and asked to naoic a cash consideration to releiise him She said, the story goes, $1,000,000 was LOi to.) much for a man to pay ] ? 1.-1* L:. WHO wanted to marry a woman uau ma age. Leeds seemed to think his second love was rated at a high figure, He tried to "bear" the price. Mrs. Leeds first declined to go into the dickering business. The chief of the tin plate barons, it is alleged, at length sent $1,000,000 to his former wife, who was living at the Virginia hotel wuiting for the accept ' ? ~ flliA lrwA*TT mAti 1A AATnA TllO . duu? tuai one xvuen ttvuiu wiuvi jk**v < cay after the transfer of all the bonds and stocks had been made she sought George A. Trade and told him she wanted a divorce from Leeds. "What about the alimony?" inquired the attorney, as he seemed to set down a memoranda of the points involved in the bill. [ "That matter has all been settled," ] she said. "All I want of vou is to get \ me a divorce. Mr. Leeds wants it ] quick, and you cannot proceed to rap- \ idly. A fairer and a younger woman ] is waiting for him," y * ? it .?-1. .L it. , August i, at 11 0 CiOCK m me muru- j ing, the bill for divorce was fTed. Fif- j teen minutes later Judge Bishop lis- ] tened to the tesimony of a middle a-:cd woman, qiietly drowsed. She said her husband : ad deserted her five years ago. < She koe^ of no cause for his conduct. 1 The usual denial had been filed by f Leeds' attorney, but no defense was 1 made in court. Half an hour after the * ? ? ? ' ? i x.j 4 tiling ot tne Din cue aecree was grauieu. * That evening Mrs. Leeds the first left < Chicago for the east. She is going to < Europe with her boy. i < Gainesville, G-a., Dec. 8, 1899 Pitts' Antiseptic lnvigorator has been used in my family and I am per- ? fectly satisfied that it is all, and will j do all, you claim for it. Yours truly, j A. B. 0. Dorsev. ' < P. S.?I am using it now myself. 3 It's doing me good.?Sold by The Mur- < ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all i druggists. tf < yaaSBaaw VrnTvn-' rTRAGIC SUICIDE? \ Man Who Uses a Pistol to Avoid Rescue. A VERY STRANGE CASE. \ NflW Yorker Weary of Life Puts a Ball in His Brain While Drowning. The Yacht Edith, Captain Parker, lay M V AW /if ^ Vl A of ^ A'III I^AV u UC1 Uti til at iu& xuigu au a \j vivua. 3?ery day she makes several trips out o sea. Always the Edith has mostpaslengers oa her evening trip, for she (tarts when the sun i3 settiDg and reurns when the dusk is gathering. One of the first to go abroard this evining wa3 a youcg man who seated jimself in the bow. He was short, slight md weighed not more than 100 pounds, Captain Parker thinks. There was lothing peculiar in the young man's >earing, to, naturally, tbe captain did tot scrutinize him. But he noticed that i lis passenger wore a black slouch hat ind a suit of serge somewhat the worse or wear. YACHT SOO.V CROWDED Parties of two or three, sweethearts lomc, some people industriously purauojr, good health, soon filled the boat ?Vhen there w<*re about twewty-five iboard Captain Parker cast off and the Sdith put out over the calm, geDtly oiling water. The passengers laughed md joked, chaffed each other about beng bad or good sailors, or made unobrusive love or watched others make o?e. Only the young man, who wore a )lack slouch hat, sat alone iu the bow lo troc nmof tVio inoaoriMro fifl.tr Hnfc ;e did not seem moody, despondent. !sow, silent, he loooked out over tbe ilimitable expanse, now at the men and pomen from whom he was about to cut limself off. They knew afterward he had made ip his micd and but awaited the monent. That moment came when the Edith, laving sailed seven miles, tacked pre jaratory to the run home. The man, so roung, so determined, kaew, or suppos:d, the water under him there was as i i i j i e leepas ue cuuiu. uupe lur. He arose and slowly and very oare!ully, as if he feared to fa'l and hurt rimself, he picked his way to the very )OW. He took his hat from his head md, with a gesture more graceful than violent, cast it overboard. He turned for an instant to those in ;he boat. "G-ood-by!" he cried, then leaped into ;he water. The women on the yacht shrieked, jeized the men, fearful, clung to them. "Save him, Captain! Put aboutl Save him! 41 We'll get him!" yelled the nen, and two or three jumped off and pulled off their ooats. Obeying the tiller, which Parker banIted, the Edith quickly came about, rhe youDg man, so weary of life, who had risen from his plunge, glanced over bia shoulder at the boat and vigorously struck out, swimming away from her. He swam well, strongly for a minute or two, even and again looking over his shoulder at the Edith, as if he led in & race asrinst her. The yacht gained on him. But he won the race. HewasDOtmore than twenty yards iway from the Edith. Women with agonized eyes were staring at him; others hid theii faces. Men on the boat were cursing their helplessness. Thia calm but determined young man seased to swim; he appeared to utread water'' strongly, for as he rocked and 3wayed erect in the gteen rollers his armpit3 were above the surface. TXTCaT* V* i Va /?*arrr rvief a! ry it II 1113 ?l?ixv Jiauu uc uign a from one of hi3 pocket3, whose cartridges, of course, were waterproof. He put the pistol to nis head. The people 3q the boat saw a flash, in the thousandth of a second heard a report. A little cloud of smoke was lost in the jpray. The most remarkable of suicides disippeared in the calm, tbe life giving icean.?New York Journal. A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. A. Fast Train Crashes Into a Full Omnibus. Eleven persons were instantly killed lod 11 others, several of whom will die, were seriously injured Sunday night in i grade crossing accident three miles ?ast of Slaiington, Pa., by a passenger :rain on the Lehigh and New Eagland railroad crashing into an omnibus containing 25 persons. All the dead and injurned were in the omnibus, and but ihree esoapcd uninjured. At least V>i*aa f/inrfVia nf flio npnnno.nt'.fl nf t.hfi jmnibus were ladies. The accident occurred about 5 o'clock. The omnibus, iriven by a man named Peters, was eturning to 81atington from a funeral ;he occupants had been attending at 3herrysville. The coach belonged to j Eenry Bittner of Slatington, and the lead and injured were nearly all rela;ives of 3ophia Schoefiner, at whose jbsequies they had been present. The ;rain was a special and consisted of an engine and one car. At the point at ffhich the collision occurred there is a sharp curve in the road and the omnibus came along at a good rate of speed, ;ne occupanis uqcousciuus ui auy impending danger. As the bus swung irouod the curve the engine and car :ame in sight. It was too late to stop either the omnibus or the train and as ;he driver of the former whipped up ihe four horses to cross the track ahead )f the train, the latter crashed into its niddle. The occupants were thrown n all directions, Druisea ana Dieeamg. rhe 11 dead were killed outright. Physicians and a special train were sent I 'or and the injured were taken to South Bethlehem. No watchman is employed ;o warn teams or pedestrians of any approaching train and those living in the ricinity stata that it is impossible to lear an approaching train. A peculiar Mature of the accident was that the loroes drawing the bus escaped unhurt. Tiie way of the newspaper man or ;he transgressor is hard. The Swainsjoro Wiregrass Blade says: uIt's a ?reat pleasure to run a country newspaper?its so nice to be able to do things :or accommodatien, you might publish !ree notices of births, deaths, marriages, ;tc., to the amount of a hundred dollars )r more and then send a man a bill for ?1 subscription and he will *aat to nrsfi von nnt." Dr. Charles E. Page created quite a sensation at the Washington convention of Doctors by coming to the defense of the microbe. He held that a lealthy body generates its own germisides and that the microbe in such a jody stands about as good a chance of ioing mischief t;as a mouse in a tight room surrounded by a dozen hungTy jats." j _w il AS? TAKING A SESTBill Will Not Lecture Until Victuals Are Exhausted'Tis tome where the heart ia, and the most of mine is here. Ihe epicure filled his stomach with choicest food and exclaimed, "Fate cannot harm me; 7 /? TT A OA T llrtTTA . x uavc uxiic;u ivuajf, auu ov jl filled my heart with the sweets and co&iforts of home, and feel defiant of human misery. Fate cannot harm me, for my Home is my castle where, as Biackstone says, "the king of Eogland dare not enter uninvited." But an old man did enter not long ago and said he camo to stay a few days if it was con venient. 1 saw bia baggage on tbe iron seat ia tbe verandah. He said, "I travel free and lo'ige free and mix with none but the best people, and so I have come to abide with you for a few days. I hope it is convenient." Well it wasent convenient, for my wife was at Rome and my daughters away, and I had never heard of him, and so I told him it was not convenient. He seemed surprised and asked me if was a Virginin, I told him no, I was a Georgian, and he said that Virginians seemed to be scarce in this region and he feared that old v iiginia hospitality had not reached here; that Bishop Nalson had entertained him in Atlanta, and he had found a welcome among all Virginians. "What are you going to do with me?" he asked. "I am lame and can't walk; I was told you had a carriage and would drive me anywhere I wished to go " 4*No, sir, 1 have neither carriage nor buggy, but 1 will go down town and get a vehicle and take you anywhere you wish to ge." Then he said that Brother Bealer told him that if I would not take him, there was a poor widow across town who would, and he would speak to her. Sa I took him there and left _ _ 2 Ml !_ L "11 T> 1.1 mm, ana win pay ms Dili it x>rotner Bealer dident. There are religious tramps as well as sinner tramps, and they are not angels unawares. 1 was down in the wiregrass region for nearly two weeks, and have most pleasant memories of my new found friends, but the last day was the best for I was on my journey home and counted *the milestones as we speeded along", Happy faces and loving kisses greeted me when I came, and here I am going to rest until the larder gets low and my wife insists that I had better make another venture. And now let the procession proceed. Let the war go on. It is none of my begetting; it might have stopped at Santiago, but our Yankee brethern seem to love the nigger afar o5 and have bought 8,000,000 at two dollars and a half a head, which was cheap enough if Spain could have delivered the goods. But they have cost ten times that now and are at.il! in t.h? wnnds. Wa nqpd fcn adver tise cur runaways and say "Ten dollars reward?Runaway from the subscriber my boy Dick, 25 years old, 5 feet 10 inches high, black complexion and very fiat nose. The above reward will be paid on his delivery to me or his lodgment in the nearest jail." Why not try try that on Aguinaldo and the other runnaways? Bit if they catch them 1 doa't know what they, are going to do with them; they wouldent let Aguinaldo set up a barber shop in Manila no more than they would in Boston or Chicago. Professor Council, wno is president - or tne colored agricultural college in Alabama,.understands this. He is the smartest and best leader of his race, and when he speaks or writes to the public always says the right thing. I have great respect for him. Bat this awful muddle with China, which was precipitated by our aggression upon the Philippines, seems to have no end in sight. Kev. Dr. Haiderman, of New York, who is said to be a very learned man, says that he demon1 < 1 sL-atea a year ago irom scriptuai pro- > phecy that the present year would find all the nations at war, and there would be a mighty struggle between Rassia and China, aad that Russia would eventually gain the supremacy; but that for a .time the hordes from Chioa will break in an awfal avalanche upon the western nations and the greed, the rapacity, the Christless, Goiless selfishness of European nations will get its reward, and there will be a terrible balance sheet against those Christian nations who have poisoned China with opinm and made them look upon all Christians as rapacious foreign devils. He says that the Chinese are fighting for their homes and institutions, and know that the Christian nations are seeking to rob them, and that their missionaries are backed by guns and swords and Godless soldiers ready to kill and slay. This infuriates them, and they look upon any white man as a devil who should be slain. He says that while this impending and destructive war is ordained of God and foretold by His nrnnhfttfl. vet the ain of it lies at the doors of Christian nations. Offenses must needs come, but woe unto those by whom they cams. The love of money is still the root of all evil. "Trade will folio* the flag," is the shibboleth of commerce, and if the flag has to be stained with blood it does not matter. These are my convictions, and hence T nan'fc work no anv enthusiasm nor any revenge. In 1841 Eagland took Hong Kong. In 1848 Eagland made China pay $20,000,000 because she destroyed 20,000 chests of opium.that had been stored there by Eaglish merchants. In 1858 Russia grabbed all the Armoor country, containing 600,000 square miles, and when the United States grabbed the Philippines the suspicious Chinaman said, "The Christians are coming; they wantmere." No, it is none of my war. The blood of it is on somebody's hands. I see that General Gordon is going up yonder on another mission of peace j ?f^oirxr fn mir nn fhfl hlnfi and the I gray and make a compromise color that will satisfy beth sides. He can't do it, but maybe he enjoys the fun of tryiDg. Here and there you will find a good hearted, clever Federal pensioner, but most of the clever ones come down here and stay. The malignant ones don't come; they are afraid to come. That is all right; let them stay there; we had ?i-v? ? AffFAfla lion mflin I 1 CtLilCl live? HllU (IUO UVJ^i VWJ I.UUU rnvMM Yankees. Here is a paper (The Monroe Chronicle) that was sent in3 last week?a marked copy?that is mad because our neeple talk about building a Confederate memorial at Kichmond, and says it ought not to be allowed, and that our loyalty to the union is all a pretense, and that Bill Arp, a noted rebel and writer, shows no love for a restored union. He says that such a memorial is an insult to the nation and makes treason honorable and loyalty odious; every Confederate monument is * * ? * .1 T> 1_ 1* a bloody 8aire, ana ine ivepucmcaa party ought to die, and die eternally, if it ever allows the return of those rebel flags which are an insult to the union dead and disabled veterans. He denounced our rebel soags and rebel tribnfoo froaarm* ?n<? is A lot more U bvu l>V V* v?. J >?? ? ? ? of such stuff, and it is in keeping with G-enerai Shaw's utterances in Atlanta about what we shall teach our children. Old as I am, I can lick that fellow in tbree minutes by the clock, and as he . - * .. * _ _ _ - - in - ri-av VWai-'Y-iiViir has single! me oiitj it ftcftld do me good to maul somo grace into his malignant soul. I am afraid we will have to whip them again. -Bat I am not going to let every fool up there make me mad?I haven't got time?I'd rather work in the garden or. play with the grandchildren; they k'$ep"\me amused, and I can love them without a strain. Last night I had to play Trimbletoe with them, and had to be .the elephant and let them ride home on my back. How far away that sounds?"Catches his hens and puts them in a pens; some lays eggs and some lays none: briar, limberlock, three geese in the flock," etc. One of these little girls, not yet four years old, disobeyed her mother yesterday and was promised a whipping. "Mary Lou, tbis-i&the second time you have opened the ice chest and turned over the cream. I told you that if ycu did it again I would whip you Now come along in the other room." She is a good child, loving and smart, but willful. "Mama, peas don't vip me hard." Her older sister, Caro line, had followed along ont of sympa it._ ** i T? J ' v~-~ my luary juuu caw uw auu miu, xww5 Talline, you go back; me don't want you to see mama yip me and hear me cry. It's none of your pfsness; it's j ust my pisness.. You go back, Talline," and she laid herself across her mother's lap ready for her bisness. The mother couldn't stand that; she relented and kissed her child, and the little thing promised again. And so it ?oss on in everv loving family?promising and repenting? from childhood to old age, we sin in haste and repent at leisure. May the Lird forgive us all and blc-ss the children, is my prayer Bill Arp. State of Ohio, City of Toledo, i Lucas County. { Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & Co , doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will pa; the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL L ARS for each and every case of Ca tarrh that cannot be cured by Hall s Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY". Sworn to before me aad subscribed in my my presence, tnis 6 ;h day of December, A. D. 1886. , . A. W. GLEASON, j seal > Notary Pablic. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acta direcdy on the blood and mucous surfaces of .the system. Send for testimonials, free. ' F. J. CHENET & CO., Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75 j. Hall's Family Pills are the best. McKinley Prosperity, The failures for May, as compiled from Dun's Review, number 947, as compared with 581 last year and 917 in the "calamitous" year of 1896. The number for May, 1900, is the largest ever known in that month since the records have been kept. The records for the two succeeding months have been equally significant, as indicating the full meaning of the McKinley prosperity. President Gary of the Federal Steel Trust, who certainly has no motive for misrepresenting the facts on that side, said in a recent statement of the iron and steel industry: "The demand is not equal to the production, and the latter should be curtailed until conditions change." Production is being curtailed at a rate extremely disastrous to the interests of workingmen. And this in spite of the pressure which, it is everywhere agreed, is being brought to bear upon the trust managers by their friends, Hanna and McKinley, to keep their works open if possible until after the election. The trust men TT T> T-1 ? are gooa nanna xvepuuizucuis and would be glad to comply with this campaign request, but there is a limit even to the powers of a trust which has fattened upon the abnormal profits of a short season of artificial prosperity. 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