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BLUE DAYS FOB CHINATOWN. Slgel Murder Next tu Hurt Business. Now Conies War of Tongs. (New York World.) .? Chinatown has fallen upon evil days and lt seems the eyes of Buddha are closed to the misfortunes of his servants. Quong, the God ot Justice, who ls evergreen like the fir and cypress, has gone on a vacation. The five lakes and four *eas how pros trate before the Prli co of Devils and Chang, the War God, grins and puffs his cheeks as he whets his twin edged sword. Upon the dwellers in the quarter has fallen a blight that threatens to put this Bhow place out of business and scatter its yellowmen. With the first really determined police crusade against Chinatown vice and the con sequent depression of Chinatown business, which is gambling; with the first murder of a white girl hy a Chinaman known to New York police annals and the consequent blaze of public Indignation agaiust all Chi nese, and with the threatened un leashing of the death hounds of the dreaded Hip Slug Tong against its equally notorious rival, the Ong Leong Tong, and the consequent reign of terror spreading through Mott street, there seems nothing for a good "Kllstlan" Chinaman to do but pack his grip; oil his queue; say n last prayer in thc mission house with his white Sunday school teach er; burn another prayer before the great Joss later so as to be on the safe side, and start for his "cou sins" In Chicago, 'Frisco or Van Cou ver. Lean Days Here, Indeed. Never have Mott, Pell and Doyers streets known such unprofitable times. To begin, there are Capt. Mi chael Galvin, of the Elizabeth street station, and his band of bluecoated "foreign devils." Capt. Mike only recently got his double bars, and he is out for a rec ord. Long years of service in Chink town have brought hi: i a knowledge of its intricacies, and he lias a staff of "lobby gows." or white "stool pigeons," and of Chinese Informants such as few of his predecessors pos sessed. Capt. Mike, on the day he was "made," took a walk through China town. The news of his promotion had preceded him, and grinning Chi nese in narrow, dark doorways hail ed hin? with "Hello, Captain, we fiends, eli?" "Sure!" said Capt. Galvin. "We friends. But tell all Chinamen me say no more gambling. Me raid all time. Fan tan. py-gow, all stop, un derstand?" That declaration spread through out the quarter in twenty minutes. In twenty-five Chinatown was one wide yellow grin. It had heard all police captains make the same threat. Therefore lt laughed. That night lt laughed harder, for Capt. Galvin and a handful of detectives had raided a py-gow game in a basement In Pell street. *> Good bluff, all same other captains. But the next day caine more raids, and the next night and the night af ter, and almost every night for a week. Chinatown stopped laughing. Ninety-six Chinese were in the Cen tre street court in one day, charged with j milling. lt began to look serious. Warned to Guard Life. Capt. Galvin always had walked alone and unafraid into the blackest Chinatown basement. Two weeks af ter he was made captain one of Iiis Chinese friends stopped him In On street and whispered: "No go 'lone in basement now. Captain, all Chinamen mad at you." Galvin took the "tip," and there after a couple of lils men accompa nied him in his nocturnal visits to the quarter. But his housecleaning operations went on. Not only did he strike terror into the hearts of gam blers mid opium sellers, but lie took the most effective methods to rid the quarter of its most degraded element, its white women. They were driven from their Orientally bedecked rooms and forced to leave the ure dnct. Only the women who could prove a legal marriage with her Chi nese patron were permitted to re main. About UVO hundred v.n driven ont in less than two months. On the night of July 5 only three women were left. A ?eporter saw them setting off fireworks near the Bowery end of Dovers street. So did Capt. Galvin, ile walked over and said to them, quietly: "At noon to-morrow I'm coming around. It you haven't packed up and got out of here I'll send you to the Island." The women merely said: "All right, slr." The noxt morning they were gone. Then Capt. Galvin took a whack at the groggerles of tho district. The method was simple. A patrolman was stationed In front of each saloon to prevent women entering. Without women tho saloon business in China town ls a dismal failure. Chinamen drink little. Two saloons closed their business at once and others ex pect to give up within a few weeks. Gambling Their BuKiness. The gambling crusade was a hard blow to the Chinese. Fully one-half the dwellers in Chinatown subsist entirely on gambling, the police say. Py-gow, which is played with domi noes and dice, and fautan, a card game fairly well known to American card players, are the two fuvorlte pastimes. Two kinds of Chinamen play in the games-the louting, opium smoking denizen of the quar ter, and the hard-working laundry man or cook out for a holiday. The former men have the experience, the latter men the money. Usually tho conditions are reversed at the end of a cession. Without an untramell?d opportu nity to play the Chinese of the quar ter lind lt hard to obtain.the necessa ries of life. Only two courses are open. They must go to a less pollce riddeu clime, or, which is far worse, go to work. More than 1,000 China men have left Chinatown In the last six weeks. Eighteen years ago the Hip Sing Tong was organized in Chinatown, with headquarters at No. 10 Pell street. It was a secret society, a branch of one of the largest, with a general headquarters In San Fran cisco. Its ostensible put pose was to protect Its member; In case of ill ness or other troubles. In practice it was an organized effort to get con trol of the gambling In Chinatown. Devious were the workings of Its vengeance again?' traitors or other enemies. Its initiation ceremonies embodied fearsome oaths of fealty, and when Its blood red slips of pa per were gummed to the door of one who had fallen under Its displeasure the doomed one either packed up and departed or was found in a dark hallway, neatly carved. Rise of tile Ong Leong Tong. Rut the New York Hip Sings had been in existence barely a year when there sprang up a rival tong, thc Bing Jang Tong, of No. 18 Mott street. There was more money back of the new-comer and lt soon gainer the ascendency. Two years later ll changed Its name to the Ong Leonj Tong, and Tom Lee, then called th? Mayor of Chinatown, assumed lead ershlp. The rivalry between the tong! grew steadily in bitterness. Severa murders were attributed to thl: factional struggle. About thre years ago the Hip Sings, then mucl less powerful than the Ong Leongs found a way to put their hatred to i good use. The Ong Leongs were stil in complete coutrol of the gambling apparently under the bought proter tion of the police. ?ut the Park hurst committee was out crusadin and Mock Duck, the wily Hip Sin leader, offered his and his henel men's aid In rounding up the, On Leong gambling games. The consequent raids aroused th Ong Leongs to action, and tho firs shots were from their revolvers, til bullets clipping Mock Duck In th shoulder and leg and nearly cuttln that cherubic Chinese off in' hi prime. Mock Duck came out of th hospital nursing a grudge whlc caused the death of several Ong Li ongs In the Chinese Theatre. Befoi hostilities ceased ten Chinamen ha been slain, ten had been badi wounded and 200 had been drive out of town. The dove of peace hovered over banquet given for the Ong Leongs 1 the Hip Sings after a pacific agre ment had been signed before Jud} Warren B. Foster by leaders of hoi factions. That was on February 1 lftOij. It was then agreed that tl Ong Leongs should hold forth Mott street between Fell and tl Bowery and should have the arcai running through from Mott t?> Do ers and the south side of Doyers the Bowery, including tho Chine Theatre. The Hip Sings reservi Pell street and the north side of Do ors. Both could visit the Chine Theatre, which was declared neut* territory. Like Two Hostil?* Lands. So arbitrary was the dead lihe th established that no member of eith tong would dare enter the other's t? rltory, with tho exception of ono two Of the leaders, who were ma privileged characters. Only fl ye ago a Hip Sing was found murder in a doorway In Mott street, w hit li he had gone to visit a cousin. Tl was taken by the Hip Sings in slier j as the Iron-bound agreement ma the unfortunate man's temerity 1 own death warrant. Since the agreement the I Sings have had things pretty mu their own way, a?d whon Capt. G vin hogan his crusade against gan Hug lt was the Ong Leong facti that gave Information leading to I raids. Then came the Hip Sings' turn feel the call of the war gods, a things rapidly were reaching acute stage when the murder of El Sigel threw every Chinaman uf the defens.ve and overshadowed all other things. The ac .ivity of the police, the re sentment of the public toward all Chinese and thc resulting falling off in the number of visiting tourist parties made ali Chinamen bothered for the time being. The arrest of dozens of perfectly Innocent China men and the constant surveillance and even persecution of others drove several hundred out of town. Each Tong Dlsowened 1AH>II. But with the wearing off of the ex citement and Interest occasioned by the Sigel murder came a return to old conditions, aiid the feud between the tongs was taken up with fresh bitterness. The Ong Leongs h:?.d as serted that William Leon, the sup posed murderer of Elsie Sigel", was a Hip Sing and offered rewards for his detection. But in No. ll Pell stieet and No. 12 Bowery, the headquarters of the Hip Slugs, it was indignantly denied that Leon was one of that tong. He was a "Free Mason," a different sort of Chinese society, they said. Then caine the "tip" from k?u Chi nese Ambassador at Washington that the Hip Sings were planning the as sassination of Ong Leong leaders, In cluding old Tom Lee and Lee Sluing Quon, the president of the society. Police activity on the night of July ii and since has blocked any plans the Hip Sings may have had. What the future holds for Chinatown no one knows. In October five Hip Sings are to die in Boston for the murder of one Ong Leong. Perhaps the New York Hip Sings can stand such a humiliating spectacle-perhaps not. Apparently there ls no likelihood or trouble until the day of the electrocution. Meanwhile, Chlnntown is hoping there will be a change In the Eliza beth street police station. Should Capt. Galvin be transferred because of the excellence of his service in Chinatown lt is likely, say those who have seen many things happen In that mysterious quarter, that the old re gime will come Into Its own. But all that is on the knees of the gods whose wrath sets heavily upon the faithful. And the good mission Chinaman, after the evening service, where he has knelt besides his teacher, the beautiful white flower, patters to lils favorite Joss house, and, before the Dragon and the Flow ery Mountain, which, like the sun and moon, give light forever, burns one stick of incense and prostrates himself. Then he ambles to the nearest fantail table and plays the night through with one ear listening for a heavy tread upon the stairs and the rap of a night stlc^. Masons Lose1 91OO,000. By the birth of a child to Mrs. J. F. Deshon, of Jeffersonville, Ind., the Clark Lodge, Free and Accepted Masons, of that place, loses $100, 000. Tho money represents the value of a tarni In Franklin county, Kentucky, which James A. Holt, a member ot the Jeffersonville lodge, willed lt. provided Mrs. Leshon and another niece should die without Issue. 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It has cured thousands of women who have been troubled with displacements, inflam mation, ulceration, fibroid tumors, ir regularities, periodic pains, backache, that bearing-down feeling, flatulency, Indigestion, and nervous prostration, after all other means had railed. If you are suffering from any of these ailments, don't give up hope until you have given Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege table Compound a trial. If you would like special advice write to Mrs, Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., for lt. She has guided thousands to health, free of charge. THE BIRTHPLACE OP ?ACKSON. - ? Jackson Him , it Said Ho Was Horn in South Carolina. Col. R. W. Simpson, of Pendleton. writes the Columbia State as follows with reference to the birthplace of Andrew Jackson: I read recently a statement that the question of President JacMon'r native State was still and would per haps eve . remain unsettled. . To-day I read In an old magazine I found in my father's library, styled The Examiner and Journal of Politi cal Economy, printed lu Philadelphia, Pa., dated Wednesday, May 28,1834, a proclamation Issued by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, addressed to the citizens of the State of South Carolina, reason ing with them on the rights of a State to nullify the act of Ct tigress which the State had recently passed. In which proclamation he uses these words: "Fellow citizens of my na tive Statt, let me not only admonish you as the first magistrate of our common country, not to Incur the penalties of the law." etc. lt seems to me when Jackson thus speaks of South Carolina as his na tive State there should be no further controversy about the question. R. W. Simpson. THE LACK OP FARM LABOR, Better Prospects on the Parin than in the Larger Cities (Charleston News and Courier.) Secretary Wilson's belief that the high prices of food stuffs are due to the scarcity of farm labor has been strengthened and confirmed by his observations during his recent jour ney through the West. It ls to be doubted, however, whether the trou bles of the consumer are due entire ly, or even mainly, to the conditions which Mr. Wilson assigns as the cause of these troubles, since the monopolies which ha', e been effected In practically every Important In dustry are certainly largely respon sible for the high prices of the neces saries of life. Nevertheless, the evil Which Mr. Wilson points out ls evi dently a real one and one which is becoming a more and more serious menace to the country's prosperity. We cannot exist without our farmers. Wo must have men to till the land or we will come to grief. At present, the young men who grow up In the country will not remain there. They feel the lure of the cities and lu In creasing numbers they turn their backs upon the fields and drift Into those centres of population where they believe there ls a better chance for a man to make his way. They find work, most of them, but most of them would have lived happier lives, and would have died richer had they stuck to their plows. How to stop this influx from the country Into the cities is one of the most messing of the problems which this government ls trying to solve. It is a difilcult problem, and it ls doubtful that we can do much to wards finding its solution. The evil is due to a condition which seems to be .'.eyond our power to alter. Not long ago the cities really needed all the young men they could get. There was not only room for them, but there was work for them. This, how ever, is no longer the case. The de mand for young men In the cities has not only been met, but lt has been exceeded by the supply. The trouble is that this fact, though it has been demonstrated again and again, ls not yet clearly recognized by the country folk. The average boy, growing up In one of thc rural communities where the making of money ls at best but a slow process, keeps before bini the example of some relative of the last generation who went to some large town while a youth, and by In dustry and good fortune contrived to make his way far more rapidly and more successfully than would have been the case had he stayed on the farm. The scores of others who went lo town and who either failed or else achieved no greater success than those who stayed nt home are for gotten or ignored; nor is the fact taken Into account that it ls far more difficult to gain a foothold In one of the large cities to-day than lt was ten or fifteen years ago. The condition ls one which will remedy itself in time. The farmer prefers to learn by exoprlence, and not until experience has taught him the wisdom of sticking to agriculture will the reaction set In and tho over crowding of the cities cease. Mean while, farming is becoming more and more of a science, the rudiments of which are to bo learned better at the agricultural college than on the farm Itself. Fifty years from now thero will bo more farmers than over, and they will be bettor educated, will live in better houses, and will have more money in the banks than their fath ers, who knew nothing about scien tific agriculture, or their brothers, who gave up the green fields for the city's streets. Established in 1894. Tho ?im of the school UA/Wf?^. "Thorough instruction uni IVlvl l\Ji i,; . ...M..t .. Th?school waaetUnblUhcd by th? Method . place where girls can be given thorough tn cost. Th? object has been >o fully carried ou O?,'ci TI T, Ith to-day, with its facul Ix COU JU 1 . building and grounds, wor THE LEADING TRAINING SCI pays all chantas for tb? year, host, laundry, medical nt tout 1. except music and elocution. J REV. JAMES CAN $150 TWO HORSES KILLER. stepped on Ground that was Heavily Charged willi Electricity. Anderson July 21.-Two horses were killet, at the Orr Mills this morning in a most peculiar manner, by treading on ground which had be come heavily charged with an elec tric current. Early this morning a horse be longing to J. H. Evans, the South Main s'reet grocer, was passing lu front of Anderson's Pharmacy, when lt keeled over ns dead as a mackerel. A crowd quickly gathered, and about Hie time they had decided on the cause of the animal's death Prue Skelton came along driving a horse hoionglng to Llgon & Ledbotter. He was told to ?-top, but before he real ized the danger he drove onto the same spot of ground and his horse, too, fell dead. It appears that the electric wires leading into the pharmacy had be come crossed in some way. This lead a heavy charsre. of current, about 1,100 volts, Into tho ground wiro leading from the store. There ls a little drain running ?cross the street at this point, fed by the waste from the soda fountain, and as water ls a good conductor lt soon had the ground along there charged with electric current sufficient to kill a horse. Several bystanders who can.o up at the time were shocked, but not hurt, lt takes a much heavier charge of electricity lo kill a man than it takes to kill a horse. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all Its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the mjodlcal fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional dis ease, requires a constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, neting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of tho disease, and giv ing the patient strength by building up the constitution and assist lng na ture in doing Its work. Tho pro prietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer one hundred dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testi monials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all druggists, 7Go. Take Hall's Family Pills for con stipation. Train Hits Surry; Four Killed. ^ Columbus, Miss., July 22.-A Mo bile and Ohio freight train backed into a two-seated surrey in which were seated Mrs. J. M. Holloway, her sister, Mrs. George Myers of Millport, and two daughters, aged li and 5 years respectively, ns tho vehicle was going over a crossing near the water tank this morning at 0:30, and all four occupants were instantly killed. J. M. Holloway, a prosperous young farmer, who lives five miles east of Columbus, was driving the team just before the accident, but escaped unhurt. .Mrs. Myers was Mrs. Holloway's sister, and with her two daughters had been visiting at the Holloway home. They wero coming to Co lumbus to take the 7 o'clock train for Mrs. Myers' home, Millport, Ala. The tragedy was caused by tho train's suddenly backing so the en gine could take position at tho tank. Holloway saw he lat Iced Hine to cross the track, and jumped to back the carriage and let the caboose strike the horst's instead of the sur rey. Spanish Pretender Dead. Rome, July 18.-Don Carlos, of Rourhon, tho pretender to tho Span ish throne, died to-day at Varese, in lombardy. He had been ill for a long Hmo, and tho latest reports In dicated that he was suffering from apoplexy, with the accompanying pa ralysis. Don Carlos, Duke of Madrid, who claimed under the special law of suc cession established by Philip V, to be the legitimate King of Spain by tho tltlo of Charles VII, was born at Laybach, Austria, March 30, 1848. FOLEYSMONEY^TAR f*rc&l(Jr?m ?afrn, ?ur*. M* m*lat is dourly sat forth by lt* jr positively Chaiatlan Influence* at th? lowest litt <"li ir.-h. not to make money, but to furnish tining in budy. mind, and hoart st ? mor'ormte t that ns a ty of 82. Ita boardin* patronage of SOO, and lt? Ul SMo.OOO IOOL 1 OR GIRLS IN VIRGINIA. including th? table board, room, light*, ateam on, phyafcal culture, and tuition in all mibjdcta Ipply for catalogue and application blank to NON. JR.. M. A.. Principal. BUclutone, Va. LIFE AND TEN VEA RH EXTRA. Sentence Given hy Kentucky Judge for Mm dei inf; ll. H. Marshal. Imprisonment for life and ton years additional servitude, was the sentence pronounced Wednesday on Derry Simpson, Elisha Slavln and George Stanley, by United States Dis trict Judge Cochran, at Richmond, Kentucky. The threo men were convicted of tho murder of a Federal deputy mar. shal on Christmas day, 1908. Tho additional sentence of ten years ls for alleged disobedience of a Fede ral Injunction in the mining contro versy. Oliver Slavin and Jesse Simpson, tho latter a son of Berry Simpson, were sentenced to three and five years respectively for disobedience of the strike order. The mon have been taken to the Federal prison In Atlanta. Westminster Local News. (Tugnloo Tribune, 20th.) There will bo a singing rally, at First Baptist church on the first Sun day afternoon In August. On Mon day following Prof. T. C. Hayes, of Carnesvllle, Ga., will begin a sing ing school, to continue one week. On last Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Qunrtermus, with Jas. P. McDonald, left for Wilmington, N. C., where Messrs. Qunrtermus and McDonald have been offered exceellent posi tions. Their many friends deeply re. gretted to seo them leavo, but wish them much success In their adopted home. The death of Mrs. J. C. McDonald occurred In the Cheswell Mill village July 12th, after an Illness of four Weeks of fever. Mrs. McDonald's malden name was Miss Lue Farmer. She was 22 years old last May. Her husband and a little babe survive. Her body was interred In the ceme tery of tho Old Westminster Baptist church last Tuesday. It will be re called that Mr. and Mrs. McDonald lost a little daughter early in the spring. Tlie Line Ile Was On. (San Francisco Call.) Two telephone girls were talking over the wire. Both were discussing what they should wear. In the midst of this important conversation a masculine voice interrupted, ask ing humbly for a number. One of the girls became indignant, and scornfully asked: "What Une do you think you are on, anyhow?" 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