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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1901. ESTABLISHED 18441
i M'KINLEfS I
! PAN-AMERICAN ]
SPEECH
| Delivered at Buffalo on 5
I the Day Before He
I Was Shot. |
The speech delivered by Fresidont
McKinley at Buffalo 011 Thursday,
Snnt r? thr> <i?iv bofore his attempted
assassination, is regarded as one of the
best public addresses which lie ever
made. lie was introduced to tlie vast
crowd of auditors which packed the
esplanade of the exposition grounds
by President Milburn, who said simply:
"Ladies and gentlemen, the president."
When " the cheering had subsided.
President McKinley spoke as follows:
President Miltyirn, Director General
Buchanan, Commissioners, Ladies and
Gentlemen?I am glad to be again in the
city of Buffalo and exchange greetings
with her people, to whose generous hospitality
I am not a stranger and with
.whose good will I have been repeatedlmrmrr.rl
TnflflV I havt*
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additional satisfaction in meeting and
giving welcome to the foreign representatives
assembled here, whose presence
and participation In this exposition
have contributed in so marked a
degree to its Interest and success. To
the commissioners of the Dominion of
Canada and the British colonies, the
French colonies, the republics of Mexico
and of Central and South America
and the commissioners ,of Cuba and
Porto Rico, who share with us in this
* PRESIDENT M'KINLEY DELIVERING HI3
SPEECH AT PAN-AMERICAN EXPOSITION.
undertaking, we give the hand of fellowship
and felicitate with them upon
the triumphs of art, science, education
and manufacture which the old has
bequeathed to the new century.
Expositions are the timekeepers of
progress. They record the world's advancement.
They stimulate the energy,
enterprise and intellect of the people
and quicken human genius. They go
into the home. They broaden and
lirlcrhtan tlin flnllv liff? of tllf> TlPOnlf?.
They open mighty storehouses of information
to the student. Every exposition,
great or small, has helped to
some onward step. Comparison of
Ideas Is always educational and as
such instructs the brain and hand of
man. Friendly rivalry follows, which
Is the spur to industrial improvement,
the inspiration to useful invention and
to high eudeavor in all departments of
human activity.
It exacts a study of the want?, comforts
and even the whims of the people
and recognizes the efficacy of high
Quality and new prices to win their
iavor. The quest for trade is an incentive
to men of business to devise.
Invent, improve aud economize In cost
of production. Business life, whether
among ourselves or with other peoples,
Is ever a sharp struggle for success. It
will be none the less so in the future.
.Without competition we would be
clinging to the clumsy and antiquated
processes of farming and manufacture
and the methods of business of long
ago, and the twentieth would be no
further advanced than the eighteenth
, century. But though commercial competitors
are commercial enemies, we
must not he.
I ProKrea* In the Past.
! The Pan-American exposition has
done its work thoroughly, presenting
In its exhibits evidences of the highest
skill and illustrating the progress of
the human family in the w estern hemisphere.
This portion of the earth lias
no cause for humiliation for the part it
has performed in the march of civilization.
It has not accomplished everything;
far from it. It has simply done
its best, and without vanity or boastfulness
and recognizing the manifest
achievements of others it invites the
friendly rivalry of all the powers in the
peaceful pursuits of trade and commerce
and will co-operate with all iu
advancing th? highest and best interests
of humafnty. The wisdom and enf
ergy of all the nations are none toe
great for the world's work. The success
of art/ science, industry and invention
is :yn international asset and u
common gl?>ry.
i After all, how near one to the other
is every part of the world! Modern inyentions
ijave brought luto close relasO
> tioa widely separated peoples and
made them better acquainted. Geographic
and political divisions will continue
to exist, but distances have been
| effaced. Swift siiips and fast trains
are becoming cosmopolitan. They invade
fields wbicb a few years ago were
: impenetrable. The world's products are
j exchanged as never before, and with
, increasing transportation facilities come
! Increasing knowledge and larger trade.
I I'rices are fixed with mathcmatic prej
eision by supply and demand. The
I world's selling prices are regulated by
j rnhrket and crop reports.
j We travel greater distances in a
i Shorter space of time and with more
j ease than was ever dreamed of by the
: fathers. Isolation is 110 longer possible
. or desirable. The same important news
is read, though in different languages,
the same day in all Christendom. The
telegraph keeps us advised of what is
occurring everywhere, and the press
foreshadows with more or less aeI
curacy the plans and purposes of the
! nations. Market prices of products and
' of securities are hourly known in every
j commercial mart, and the investments
j of the people extend beyond their own
i-national boundaries into the remotest
parts of the earth. Vast transactions
are conducted and international exchanges
are made by the tick of the
cable. Ever}' event of interest is immediately
bulletined.*
The quick gathering and transmission
of news, like rapid transit, are of
recent origin and are only made possible
by the genius of the inventor and
the courage of the investor. It took a
special messenger of the government,
with every facility known at the time
for rapid travel, nineteen days to go
from the city of Washington to New
Orleans with a message to General
Jackson that the war with England
had ceased and a treaty of peace had
hppn sisrned. How different now! We
j reached General Miles in Torto Rico
j by cable, and he was able through the
military telegraph to stop his army on
the firing line with the message that
i the United States and-Spain had ,signed
a protocol suspending hostilities.
"We knew almost instantly of the first
shots fired at Santiago, and the subsequent
surrender of the Spanish forces
was known at "Washington within less
than an hour of its consummation. The
first ship of Cervera's fleet had hardly
emerged from that historic harbor
when the fact was flashed to our capital,
and the swift destruction that followed
was announced immediately
through the wonderful medium of telegraphy.
So accustomed are -\ve to
safe and easy communication with distant
lands that its temporary interruption
even in ordinary times results in
loss and inconvenience. We shall never
forget the days of anxious waiting and
awful suspense when no information
was permitted to be sent from Peking
and the diplomatic representatives of
the nations in China, cut off from all
communication inside and outside of
the walled capital, were surrounded by
an angry and misguided mob that
threatened their lives, nor the joy that
thrilled the world when a single message
from the government of the United
States brought through our minister
the first news of the safety of the besieged
diplomats.
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century there was not a mile of steam
railroad on the glo'be. Now there are
enough miles to make its circuit many
times. Then there was not a line of
electric telegraph. Now we have a
vast mileage traversing all lands and
all seas. God and man have linked
the nations together. No nation can
longer be Indifferent to any other, and
as we are brought more and more in
touch with each other the less occasion
Is there for misunderstandings and
the stronger the disposition when we
have differences to adjust them in the
court of arbitration, which is the noblest
forum for the settlement of international
disputes.
Unexampled Prosperity.
My fellow citizens, trade statistics indicate
that this country is in a state of
unexampled prosperity. The figures
are almost appalling. They show that
we are utilizing our fields and forests
and mines and that we are furnishing
profitable employment to the millions
of worklngmen throughout the United
States, bringing comfort and happiness
to their homes aud making it possible
to lay by savings for old age aud disoliilitv
Tlmt nil tlio nnnnlo nrp n;ir.
! tieipating in this great prosperity is
I seen in every American community and
shown by the enormous and unprecedented
deposits in our savings banks.
Our duty is the care and security of
these deposits, and their safe investment
demands the highest integrity
j and the best business capacity of those
I in charge of these depositories of the
j people's earnings.
We have a \ast and intricate busl,
ness, built up through years of toil and
i struggle, in which every part of the
j country lias its stake, which will not
I permit of either ueglect or of undue
j selfishness. No narrow, sordid policy
! will subserve it. The greatest skill and
' wisdom on the part of the manufac|
turers and producers will be required
J to bold and increase it. Our indusI
trial enterprises which have grown to
1 such great proportions affect the homes
and occupations of the people and the
| welfare of the country. Our capacity
to produce lias developed so enormous!
i ly and our products have so multi
| plied that the problem of more inar:
j kets re(iuires our urgent and immediate
' ! attention. Only a broad and enlighten'
j ed policy will keep what we have. No
i other policy will get more. In these
1 | times of marvelous business energy and
: pain we ought to be looking to the fu
| ture, strengthening the weak places In,
? lour industrial and commercial systems
I that we may be ready for any storm or
j strain.
I Need of Reciprocity.
{ By sensible trade arrangements
i which will not interrupt our home pro
j duction we shall extend the outlets for
our increasing surplus. A system which
i J provides a mutual exchange of comI
modifies is manifestly essential to the
(continued and-healthful growth of our
' export trade. We must not repose in
i fancied security that.we can forever
[ sell everything and buy little or nothing.
If such a tiling were possible, it
would not be best for us or for those
with whom we deal. We should take
from our customers such of their products
as we can use without harm to
our industries and labor. Reciprocity
is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful
industrial development under
the domestic policy now Urmly established.
What we produce beyond our
I domestic consumption must have vent
abroad. Tlie excess must be relieved
through a foreign outlet, and we should
sell everywhere we can and buy wherever
the buying will enlarge our sales
and productions and thereby make a
greater demand for home labor. The
period of exclusiveness is past. The
expansion of our trade and commerce
Is the pressing problem. Commerci'al
wars are unprofitable. A policy of good
will and friendly trade relations will
prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties
are in harmony with the spirit of the
times; measures of retaliation are not.
If, perchance, some of our tariffs are .
no longer needed for revenue or to en- j
courage and protect our industries at ]
home, why should they not be employ- J
ed to extend and promote our markets :
abroad? Then, too, we have inade- ]
quate steamship service. New lines of 1
steamers have already been put in 1
commission between the Facific coast j
ports of the United States and those j
of the western coasts of Mexico and <
Central and South America. These 1
should bo followed up with direct j
steamship lines between the eastern <
coast of the United States and South l
American ports.
One of the hoods of the times is direct
commercial lines from our vast
fields of production to the fields of con- ,
sumption that wo have but barely .
touched. N(jxt in advantage to having ,
the thing to sell is to have the conven- j
lence to carry it to the buyer. We
must encourage our merchant marine.
We must have more ships. They must ,
be under the American flag, built and
manned and owned by Americans.
These will not only be profitable in a f
commercial sense; they will be messen- ,
gers of peace and amity wherever they
en. We must build the isthmian canal.
which will unite the two oceans and j
give a straight line of water communi- |
cation with the western coasts of Central
and South America and Mexico.
The construction of a Pacific cable can- !
not be longer postponed.
A Fraternity of Republic*. 1
In the furtherance of tbese objects of ,
national interest and concern you are
performing an important part This exposition
would have touched the heart
of that American statesman whose
mind was ever alert and thought ever
constant for a larger commerce and a
truer fraternity of the republics of the
new world. His broad American spirit
is felt and manifested here. He needs
no identification to an assemblage of
Americans anywhere, for the name of
Blaine is inseparably associated with
the pan-American movement, which
finds his practical and substantial expression
and which we all hope will be
I firmly advanced by the pan-American
congress that assembles this autumn in
the capital of Mexico. The good work
will go on. It cannot be stopped, anese
buildings will disappear; this creation
of art and beauty and industry will
perish from sight, but their influence
will remain to
Make it live beyond its too short living
With praises and thanksgiving.
. Who can tell the new thoughts that
have been awakened, the ambitions
fired and the high achievements that
will be wrought through this exposition?
Gentlemen, let us ever remember
that our interest is in concord, not
conflict, and that our real eminence
rests in the victories of peace, not those
of war. We hope that all who are represented
here may be moved to higher
and nobler effort for their own and the
world's good and that out of this city
may come not only greater commerce
and trade for us all, but, more essential
than these, relations of mutual respect,
confidence and friendship which will
deepen and endure. Our earnest prayer
is that God will graciously vouchsafe
prosperity, happiness und peace to all
our neighbors and like blessings to all
the peoples and powers of earth.
Witty Iiobert Burr.
Robert Barr when asked for bis favorite
quotation responded with the
following verse and its accompanying
says The Windsor Magazine:
One who never turned his back, but marchcd
breast iorward;
Never doubted clouds would break.
Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong
would triumph,
Held we fall to rise, are baSed to fight better.
Sleep to wake. ?Robert Browning.
But Mr. Barr can never be serious in
a letter, whatever he may be in his
quotation. lie has long'beeu celebrated
as one of the wittiest letter wriIters of
the day. However short his note may
be, it is long enough to ali'ord him an
opening for some little touch of the
humoresque. In the present instance
he writes:
"The above is my favorite quotation.
Whenever you want something helpful,
you know, look up the writings of the
talented 11. B.'s?Uoliert Burns, Kooert j
Browning. Itobert Buchanan, Hubert j
Bruee or Robert Barr."
How Xew Zealand Pnniftlien Crime. |
New Zealanci fits punishment to crime j
more nearly than most countries. Thus,:
gt Wanganui. when certain sawyers!
i troubled their neighbors by their drunk-j
en freaks, the delinquents were made i
to pay the flues imposed in such labor \
' as they were accustomed to and were:
j set to saw wood with which to build a !
prison. The result was that, rather than ;
transgress again, they vanished from
the locality as soon as the edilice was
complete.
inns
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Jackson, Lincoln, Qar=
field, McKinley.
Jackson Miraculously Saved
From a Lunatic's Bullet?Lin
coin, me Jiseioveu, a, victim 01
Fanatical Political Foes?Garfield
Murdered by a Disap
pointed Office Hunter?Tli<
Stories of These Tragical Incidents
In the Nation's History
RULERS ASSASSINATED IN THE PAST CEN
TURY.
Emperor Paul, Russia, choked ISO:
Sultan Selim, Turkey, stabbed 180:
President d'lstria, Greece, saber 183:
Duke of Parma, Italy 1S5President
of Haiti, stabbed 185!
President Lincoln, United States, shot ISO!
President Balta, Peru, shot 1S7:
President Moreno, Ecuador, shot 1S7;
President Guthriz, Ecuador, shot 187;
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President of Paraguay, shot 1ST'
President Garfield, United States, shot 1SS
Czar Alexander II., Russia, bomb 38S
President J. It. Barrios, Guatemala, shot 13S
Queen of Korea, poisoned 1891
President Carnot, France, stabbed 189Shah
of Persia, stabbed 1891
President Jose Barrios, Guatemala, shot 189!
Empress of Austria, stabbed 1S9)
Sing Humbert, Italy, shot 190<
Frior to the assault upon Mr. McKinley
at Buffalo three presidents of the
United States had been attacked wlflle
In office with murderous intent. 01
these three thq first, Andrew Jackson,
escaped unharmed, while the othei
two, Lincoln and Garfield, died from
wounds inflicted by their assailants.
On the afternoon aft Jan. 30, 1835,
President Jackson was in the capitol
at Washington In attendance upon im
funeral of Hon. Warren It. Davis, deceased
member of congress from South
Carolina. As the president, with Secretary
Woodbury of the treasury od
his arm, was retiring from the rotunda
to reach his carriage at the steps of the
portico he was confronted by Richard
Lawrence, who stepped from behind
one of the columns and pointed a pis
tol at the president, .who was less than
ten feet away. The percussion cap ex
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OP PRESIDES!
JACKSON.
[At Washington, Jan. 30, 1S35.]
ploded with such a noise that several
witnesses supposed the pistol had fired
On the instant Lawrence dropped the
pistol and transferred another from liii
left hand to his right. He pointed th(
second pistol at the president and pull
ed the trigger, but again the cap ex
ploded without discharging the pisto:
just as Mr. Jackson, with upraised
cane, made for his assailant. Law
rence, however, was knocked down ant
secured by others before the presidenl
could reach him.
That Mr. Jackson was uninjured bj
the attack upon him was little short ol
marvelous, and his escape was discuss
ed at the time by many in a tone of su
perstitious awe. Tests were made wltt
the pistols of Lawrence after his at
tempt, and they were found to be ar
elegant pair ip most excellent ordei
and loaded with powder and ball al
most to the muzzle. The powder was
of the highest quality, and the percus
sion caps found on his premises wher
tested proved to be of the very best oi
that time. In fact, the two pistols
with new caps taken from Lawrence's
box, were tired at the tirst attempt ii
each case by the^otlicers who teste<
them.
Richard Lawrence was a painter am
had a shop in a thickly settled part o:
Washington. He was about thirty-fin
years of age and, though small ii
stature, was a handsome man. Hi
father, an Englishman, had died soini
years before, but young Lawrence ha<
a sister and other relatives living ii
Washington. At tjie trial it was showi
that Lawrence was insane, that he liai
been unbalanced meutally for abou
two years. In justification of his ac
he claimed at his trial that Presiden
nwmi Mm liioilov: in fact, tha
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the president was bis clerk and wa
withholding money that belonged t
hhn. He also claimed to bo king c
England and America and jn:ule othc
wild assertions, some of wlrich it wa
shown lie had been making for a yea
or more before his attempt to kin th
president.
Lawrence was adjudged insane an
was sent to nn asylum, where lie r<
mained an inmate for upward c
thirty years, when he died.
Partisan feeling was running high a
that time, and at first many, includin
the president himself, thought ths
Lawrence was the tool of others. S
great was the excitement procLuaed b
*
the affair that~someof Jackson's po- r
litical opponents, including Clay, Cal- a
houn and Poindexter, were In the, ^
frenzy of the moment suspected of
having conspired to get rid of the t
f president, but it was soon discovered x
that this suspicion was unwarranted ^
| and unjust, and that the crime was fl
' hatched and matured in the brain of i
a lunatic. t
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth president j
of the United States, was shot while j
: sitting in a box in Ford's theater in j
Washington on the night of Friday,
April 14, 1SG5, by John Wilkes Booth, j.
an actor. . c
Wn?hin<rtnn was celebratine the sur
render of Lee at Appomattox and the j
termination of the war of the rebellion.
L The streets of the capital for days had
\ ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT LINCOLN BY
JOHN WILKES BOOTH.
[At Ford's theater, Washington, April 14, 1895.]
[ resounded with the music of bands.
| The inhabitants were hoarse with
; cheering.
At about 8 o'clock Mr. and Mrs. Lin[
coin started for the carriage. As soon
as they were seated in the carriage the
president gave orders to the coachman
to drive around to the home of Senator
' Harris for Miss Harris. A few min'
utes later tbe presidential party of four
persons?the president and Mrs. Lincoln,
Miss Harris and Mr. Rathbone of
1 Albany, stepson of Senator Harris?arrived
at the' theater and entered the
^ an/1 lionrl imn<vr nrlvnto h/^Y
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1 The play, "The American Cousin," (
! was being puesented by Laura Keene, '
1 the famous actress. From the story of
1 that great crime as told In the life of
" Lincoln by John Hay and John G. Nlco1
lay the following Is taken:
The president had been detained by visitors,
and the play had made some progress when he
arrived. When he appeared in his box, tbe band
struck up "Hail to the Chief," the actors ceased
playing and the audience rose, cheering tumultously.
The president bowed in acknowledgment
of this greeting, and the play went on.
The moon rose that night at 10 o'clock. A few
minutes before that hour Booth called one of the
underlings of the theater to the back door and
left him there holding his horse. He then went
to a saloon near by, took a drink of brandy and,
entering the theater, passed rapidly through tbe
crowd in rear of the dress circle and made his
way to the passage leading to the president's box.
lie showed a card to a servant in attendance
.J moo nllntvnil ? in pntprprf noiseless
ly and, turning, fastened the door with the bar
he had previously made ready without disturbing
gny of the occupants of the box, between whom
and himself there yet remained the slight partition
of the door, through which he had bored the
hole.
The murderer seemed to himself, it was afterward1
thought, to be taking part in a play. Partisan
hate and the fumes of brandy bad for weeks
kept his brain in a morbid state. He paused as
if expecting applause.
Holding a pistol in one hand and a knife in tho
P other, he opened the box door, put the pistol to
the .president's head and fired. Dropping the
weapon, he took the lenife in his right hand, and
. when Major Rathbone sprang to seize him he
struck savagely at him. Major Rathbone received
the blow on Ids left arm, suffering a wide and
deep wound.
Booth, rushing forward, then placed his left
hand on the railing of the box and vaulted lightly
over to the stage. It was a high leap, but nothing .
to such a trained athlete. He was in the habit
of introducing what actors call sensational leaps '
in his plays. i
He would have got safely away but for his
spur catching in the folds of the Union flag with ,
which the Ironc of the box was draped. He fell
on the stage, the torn flag trailing on his spur, J
but instantly arose as if he had received no hurt, <
though in fact the fall had broken his leg. <
He turned to the audience, brandishing his dripping
knife and shouting the state motto of Vir- 1
ginia, "Sic Semper "tyrannis," and fled rapidly
across the stage, and out of sight. - ,
Thp wounded Dresident was borne to |
l the bouse of Mr. Petersen, across the
street from the theater, where everything
within the powers of surgery and
_ medicine was done to save his life.
^ It was at 7:22 Saturday morning,
. April 15, that President Lincoln breath*
ed bis last, closing bis eyes as if falling
j asleep, bis features bearing the repose
U of perfect serenity. There was no indication
of pain and only the gradual
ASSASSINATION OF GAKFIELD BY GUITEATT.
[At Baltimore anil Potomac depot, Washington,
s July 2, 1881.]
r cessation of liis respiration to show
0 that tiie end had couie. The Rev. Dr.
Gurley, pastor of the New York Ave^
nne Presbyterian church, knelt at the
bedside and offered fervent prayer,
again voicing Ids grief a moment later
in the adjoining parlor, where there
lt were waiting Mrs. Lincoln, Captain
? Iiobert T. Lincoln aud Mr. John Ilay,
Lt the private secretary.
0 John Wilkes liooth, the assassin of
^ the president, made good his escape. A
eward of $50,000 was offered for his
pprehenslon and $25,000 for each of
lis accomplices.It
was on Thursday, April 27, that
he news came of the death of Booth
vhile trying to escape from a burning
tarn near Port lloyal, Va., where he
.nd his accomplice, Ilerold, had been
rought to bay by a party of troops
mder command of Lieutenant Edward
doughty. Booth was shot by Sergeant
Boston Corbett and lived two hours,
lerold was arrested.
The conspirators who were responslile
for the assassination were tried by
ourt martial at Washington, and four
-namely, Payne, Herold, Atzerodt and
klrs. Surratt?were hanged. The stage
arpenter at Ford's theater who turned
rot the lights to facilitate the escape
?f Booth, the man who held his horse
it-the stage entrance and Dr. Mudd,
rho set the limb which Booth broke in
umping from the box, were sent to
irJcnn fnr Inntr forms.
At almost precisely the time the prescient
was shot an attempt was made to
ssassinate Secretary Seward, who was
ying ill in his home. The would be as-,
assln, one of those in the plot, with
iooth, the assassin of Lincoln, entered
he secretary's house by a subterfuge,
ought his way to the room of the inralid
and stabbed him as he lay in his
>ed. He then escaped from the house.
James A."Garfield, the twentieth presdent
of the United States, was shot
vhile in the Pennsylvania railroad stalon
in Washington on the morning of
Saturday, July 2, 1881. He had just
tntered the station, accompanied by
fames G. Blaine, secretary of state in
lis cabinet, to take the train for Long
Jranch.
As they entered the street door of
he station Charles Jules Gulteau stood
vaiting near the center of th# women's
eceptlon room. The president and Mr.
Jlaine walked through the room, while
he assassin circled about until he was
>ehind them. He drew a revolver and
ired. No one seemed to realize what
lad happened. The president half turnid,
with a bullet through his left shouller.
An instant later Guitean fired
igain. This time the bullet struck Mr.
jarfleld In the back, over the left kidley.
He staggered forward, sank to
lis knees and theij pitched to the floor.
Mr. Parks, the ticket agent, saw the
ihooting through the window of his
)ffice and as the second shot was firert
an out. and grabbed Gulteau as he
lodged to get into the street. He held
ilm until a policeman ran up. In his
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attempted assassination op president |
m'kxnley by czolgosz.
[At Buflalo, Sept. 6, 1001.]
hand Gultcau waved a letter, which he
shouted was for General Sherman and
explained everything.
The president himself was the first
to realize his condition. In the station,
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alter jjt. iowuscuu uuu luuu^ ?.
examination, be asked his opinion. The
physician replied that he did not consider
the wound serious.
"I thank you, doctor," said the president,
"but I am a dead man." I
All that day the president talked:
calmly and courteously to those about!)
him. He was suffering great pain and j
was partially under the influence of
opiates. In the evening the course of
the ball was traced. It was found to
have fractured the eleventh rib and
penetrated the liver. It was seen then
that the condition of the president was
exceedingly serious. It was believed
that he could not live beyond midnight.*
The next day Mr. Garfield was
worse, and from that time, during the
three months that life lasted, he improved
and failed intermittently.
For a time his physicians were hopeful,
and the bulletins for a period led
the public to believe that the president
would resume his duties, but when the
torrid weather of midsummer came the
patient failed perceptibly, and, although
it was done at great hazard,
he was removed on Sept. 0, 1SS1, by a
special train to Elberon, N. J. The invigorating
sea breezes seemed at first
to have a beneficial effect, but on Sept.
15 unmistakable symptoms of blood
poisoning were discovered, and on the
19th, after a few hours of unconsciousness,
he died.
Charles J. Guiteau, who had fired the
pistol at the railroad station, had been
promptly seized and taken into custody.
lie had been a persistent but
unsuccessful applicant for an appointment
to office, first as minister to Austria
and then as consul general at
Taris. He described himself as a lawyer,
a politician and a theologian.
Guiteau was sentenced to be hanged
after a sensational trial, in which his
sanity was one of the main points involved.
The leading insanity experts
in the country testified. The sentence
of the court was carried out, although
by many it was believed Guiteau was
crazy.
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The Press and Banner.
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BY HUGH WILSON.
ABBEVILLE, S. C.
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year iu advance.
Wednesday, Sept. 18,1901.
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Twelve IPages.
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MmppcuIdkn and Incident!* of a Week
About the Citji
Abbeville,"8. C., Sept. 17,1901.
MifS Grace Smith oame borne la?t Wednes* /
day from a pleasant month's stay at Cashier's
Valley.
Miss Ida May Brownlee, of Anlrevllle, has
be<-n In tbe city, tbe guest of her friend, Miss
Marie Cheatham for a few days.
Mlhs Nettie Ruefell Is at homo again, after a
delightful summer outing at Hendersouvllle
and Abbeville.
Miss Mela Lytbgoe baa returned from Cashiers
Valley, where sbe has been spending tbe
summer with Miss Lucia McGowro.
Dr. Frank Y. Pressley, of Doe West, was la
the city Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Barnwell returned last
Monday from a summer outing spent at Hendersouvlile.
Mr. Barnwell has not been well,
but now 1m much Improved In health.
MIsh Zula Brock, one of Due West's moat
chirmlng young ladies has been here on a
visit to her friend, Miss Margaret Brooks.
Miss Nell Cochran spent oeveral days in the
city last week with friends.- Miss Cochran
was on her way to Anderson, where she ha? ' x
Accepted a position In the Anderson Graded
School. :?|
Mr. and Mrs. Eueepe Fant, of Anderson, are
In tbe city spending a while Wltn their mother,
Mrs. Jobn Leslie. off
for clsms02t.
Last Wednesday the boys wbq attend Clem*
son College left to resume their studies at
that institution. Those who went were Mo
Henry, (ille* Templeton, Bam Hill, Allen
Long. Earl Jones, Townes Robertson, and
WlUTempIetou. A new dormitory has been -. 3
built since last year and about TOO boys will
go 1 here.
Mr. Wallace Bailey has gone to Virginia to
school. He will attend the Danville Military
xuMiiuir, jii. utmcy in pu^uini uvrc? nuu
we know be will stand well la his classes and
win friends wherever he goes.
Mrs. H. Frank McGee has returned to her
home In Spartanburg, after a pleasant visit to ' -J
ber mother, Mrs. T. P. Quarles.
. Mrs. J. S. Norwood, 01 Calhoun, Falls, and
Mrs. Frank C. Blackman. of Baltimore, have
been In the city, the guest of frldnds for a few
davs.
Miss Eliza Thomson, ^bo, .ha* been spending
sometime wltb friends In HoneaPath and
Anderson, is at home agate. ? ;?**'?
Mrs. G. McD. Miller Is in the city staying
wltb her daughter, Mrs. A. 8. Cochran, alter a
short visit to Mrs. W. W. Edwards at Due
West. Mrs.
Charles Alexander, of Washington,
Gs.. is In tbe city on a visit to ber sister, Mro.
Ed Calhoun. .
Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Brown, have taken rooms
at tbe home of Col. J. T. Robertson until tbelr
home Is completed. Tbe work on tbelr borne
Is progressing rapidly, and tbey hope to be
able to move Into It before Chrlfttma*. ' .
Mr. W. Joel Smith has returned to bis home
after a short stay at Glenn 8pr1ngs.
Mrs. A. E. Simmons left Moodayfor Athens,
Ga? to stay a while wltb ber son, Mr. Harry
Simmons, who Is very 111 at I hat place.
Miss Florlde and Miss Willie Calhoun have returned,
after an extended visit to friends In
Atlanta and Macon. V$j
GOES TO YALE.
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Mr. Ernest Visanska leaves In a few days
for Yale,'where be expects to ta&e a four years
Qourtte. Mr. visansica has completed a roar
yea?-? course at Philips Exeter, a QUIdxschool
lor Yale or Harvard. f
Captain L. W. White and Mr. William H.
White, returned Thursday from an .extended
haslnetirf trip to New York and Baltimore.
Captain White has secured many bargains for
tils customers.
Miss Bevle J. Wilder leaves Wednesday tor
Athens, where she goes to attend the Agnes
Scott Institute. Miss Wilder Is an lotellectua
young lady and will no doubt take a high
stand In her classes. '
Hon. George Mower, of Newberry, spent Friday
In the city, the guest of bis friend, Judge
J. C. Klngb.
MIkr Mary Tagg*rl leaves today for Asheviile,
N. C., where she will attend school for
the next year.
Mr. W. A. Lee leaves In a few days for
Columbia to resume bis studies at the South
Carolina College.
Miss Jane Wardlaw White has gone to
Union where she will teach for the next year.
Miss White bas taught wltb marked success
(or several years.
MIks Margaret Hill returned last week from
Greenville, where Ebe has been spending
sometime with her sister. Miss Ollle Hill.
Miss Hattle Wymaa expects to leave In a
few days lor Ashevllle, North Carolina, where
she will resume her school duties at the
Ashevllle Normal College.
\1 iaa V'tnla onH Mian r.fllion Dnnoho
left Tuesday for their home In New Orleans
utter an extender) stay hern with their friend,
Mrs. Charles A. Mtlford. The Misses Ooacne
are always welcomed visitors to our city.
Dr. Frank E. Harrison, Mr. WadeC HarrUon,
and Mr. A. M. Smith left last week for
au extended trip to Buffalo and New York.
Dr. Harrison wlli remain In New York for
sometime and take a special course In surgery.
Mrs. J. Davis Kerr is in Greenwood spending
sometime with her sister, Mrs. Thomas
Cry me*.
Dr. W. E. Link, of Willlngton, spent Sunday
In the city the guest of his son. Mf. S. J.
Link.
I J* MOURNING.
The Post Office was draped in mourning
last Saturday outof respect to McKlnley, the
twenty-fifth President of the United States.
Mr. McKlnley is the third president to meet
death at the band of an assassin.
Mr. Mark B. Bradley came down Sunday
from Ciemson. Mr. Bradley has a slight attack
of fever and his friends hope be will
soon be able to return to bis duties.
SEW ENTERPRISE.
A commission for a charter has been ipsued
to the Abbeville Funlture Factory of Abbeville.
Capital 825,000. Corporators, Messrs. J.
8, Starke, J. R. B ake, Jr., W. G. Chapman, C.
F, Hammond and H. E. Cox. This will be a
good thing for our town, and we hope it will
meet with every success.
Mrs. J. Hayne McDill went to L)ue West
Monday to attend Ltie marriage of her friend,
XIIss Jnnie Young.
Mr. 11. Ulilesple Smith left Monday afternoon
for an extended trip to ttuttalo, New
York, Washington and other points of Interest.
M [MS-C'ASOJf.
Miss Alice Mims, of Leweldale, and Mr.
Fred Canon, of thla city will be married at
the home the of bride today, Wednesday,
September the eighteenth. Mis* Mims is a
young lady of rare personal charms and
will be an addition to our social circle. Mr.
(tason Is a young man of sterling qualities.
The heartest congratulations are extended to
the young couple.
Dr. J. Lowrle Wilson and Elder Amos B.
Morse attendended the Fall meeting of Presbytery
last week held at the Ureenville
Church. The meeting was an Important and
pleasant one.
DEATH OK MISS CARRIE SHERARD.
Miss Carrie Sberard, only daughter of Dr.
and Jlrs, Walter Sberard, of Lebanon, died
at her home last Wednesday, altera protracted
Illness. She wan just beginning her life,
with lovlug hands and tender hearts nil
aiound her. The deepest sympathy of every
one goes out to the bereaved family.
Morse's Locals.
Best seed rye Just received. Barley next
week.
Excellent coffees ! Parched 8 lbs., and green
10 i b-". lor the dollar.
I iiavk just received the bestlotof brooms I
have had tor years. I can give you the best
1.0c. broom you ever saw. Araos B. Morse.
For the finest ice cream and soda watej
drsuks to be found anywhere, go to The
Speed Drug Co,
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