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ISSUED SEKl-WEEKL^^ l. m. grist & sons, Pnbu?hers. 1 % <JfamiIg Jleirspaper: 4or the {promotion of the {political, Social, Jtjrirutfural, and Commercial Interests of the fleojte. j TEBMs,'no1e#coApt1! fAi?e cents?"08' "established 1855. YORKVILLB. 8. C, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1901. NO. 73^ 1 . .. i. .. .. . _ ^ ~ NOT LIKEC By Frederick Var A.utlior of "Tli? Urotlicrlioo of n. 8I11 Copyright, 1901, by Frederic Van Renss CHAPTER VIII. A WOMAN IN A WOMAN'S WILES. L* " 1 ISLE rather regretted that he had offended this remarkable persou?that Is. he felt a degree of eompuuetlon because he realized that be had not conducted HI meal f ovnnllr na his fflthrr WOUld have desired biiu to do. Be believed that he bad been remiss In bis duty as a host. Upon the personal part of It be did not conjecture. This woman could resent bis curiosity If she chose to do so and might shoot bim the next time they met if she was quicker with ber weaj)ons than be was. He shrugged bis shoulders disdainfully. pondered a moment and then stepped through the window and joined the others ou the veranda. "I am going to the corral," he said to his father. "Ah Sin will have supper presently." He would have passed on then without further remark, but Erna Thomas had regretted ber anger at something which second thought told her was not Intended as offensive, and she saw In this Inddent an opportunity to atcne for It. "May I go with you?" she exclaimed, rising. "If you like," he replied, not pausing, but slackening bis gait so that she coyld catch up with him. Richard Maxwell would have accompanied them also if he had been given an opportunity, but his loquacious guest had pot permitted him to do anytntng diu listen ever since his arrival, so that he was compelled to retain his seat. "You're not overburdened with politeness. are you?" said Miss Thomas, overtaking Lisle half way down the path. "I suppose you're mad. Are you?" "Mad? Not at all. Why should 1 be angry?" "1 left you rather suddenly, didn't I? I'm sorry. You?you rather took the wind out of uie. you know." "I should think your Instruments of torture would do that." teplied Lisle. "I ought uot to have offended you. I apologize." "Oh, that's all right. Don't mention it. Why don't you offer me your arm ?" "My arm! What for?" "To take hold of?to lean upon, of W course." "Are you lame? Have 3011 hurt yourself?" "Oh. dear, what a hopeless creature yon are! 1 keep forgetting that you never saw a woman before. You are sadly in need of education. Tomorrow I'll take you in hand. 1 believe I'll begin now. Stop just a moment; crook your arm up-so; held 3-our palm against your chest?so. Now, 1 take bold of your arm?so. There! Isn't that better?" Lisle did not thiuk it was better, but he thought it wise uot to say so. If she liked it. she was his guest, and it should be so. "We walk together very nicely; don't you thluk so?" she continued. "You are Just enough taller than 1 aui to make it comfortable for both. and. besides. you step with uie beautifully. Don't you think that you step ruther short for a man?" "1 do not kuow. Perhaps so. Here is the corral. There are 30 tiorses In here tonight. 1 always come out to see that all is secure before 1 retire. Shall we return uow?" "What! So soon? Don't you think It Is nicer out here? See. the moon Is Just coming up. It will lie a glorious night after all. I want to ask you something. Mr. Maxwell. I want you to tell me how It happens that you never saw a woman before touight." "1 don't know. Do you know very many women?" "Do 1 know very many women! Well. I should say so! Oceans of thein." "Are they all like you? Have they all got yellow hair, waists like a wasp and"? "There, that will do. You'll say something that you ought not to If you are not careful. What a queer mortal you are. Mr. Maxwell! One might positively regard you as quite shocking tf UIH' UIU IIUI KUUW (IIUI \ (Ml Uil \ CU I it iu you to shook anybody Women ure just about ns much alike as men' are alike? no more, no less. Your father ami mine are not alike, are they? And Craig Thompson ? I know him; he comes to Kansas City sometimes? he isn't like any other man you ever saw. Is be?" "He is one of the best men I ever saw." replied Lisle, with enthusiasm. "I think so too. We're agreed on that. He says that I am the best girl he ever saw." "Does Craig Thompson say that?" exclaimed Lisle incredulously "Yes. Is there anything remarkable about it?" "I think there is. If he said that. I shall like you." "Oh. Indeed! Thank you!" "Were you ever a mother?" asked Lisle calmly, remctnberiug that Craig had assured him that mothers were always good women. lie heard a quick gasp from his companion. He felt that bis arm was released as suddenly as though it were a red hot Iron, and he turned toward the woniau in surprise. She had started away from him and was standing In the attitude of one who wishes to run away, but cannot. lie saw that she was trembling, aud he fancied that there were tears in her eyes. He kuew that she was angry. One glance told him that ITHER MEN. i Rensselaer Dey, (l ot Siloncc," "The Quality i," Elo. lelaer Dey. "I hnvp offended strain." he said slowly. "I do Dot mean to do so. Do womeD regard It as an affront to be asked if tbey are mothers?" Tbe young lady's composure returned to her slowly. She did not reply to his questions. Presently she approached more nearly to blm and, seizing blm by one arm. turned blm so that the light of the newly risen mooD shone upon his face. "1 wonder." she said musingly, ad- 1 dressing the words more to herself than to him. "if you are such an inuo- ' cent as you would have me think? Do you kuow what you asked me just then?" "Yes; I asked you If? "Stop! You need not repeat It I heard It the first time, and goodness knows that once Is enough! It was not at all a proper question to ask a lady? ] a girl?a woman. If you give me many more starts like that. I won't answer for the consequences. Kansas City girls con stand pretty much anything, , but you are one too many for me! If you have any more questions like that one to aSk. suppose yon write them down and let me read them at my leisure. I'll think them over and reply to them by letter when I get back home. Oh. dear! win you De oneuueu If I laugh? I've got to laugh, or cry. or scream, or something!" And she did break iDto laughter, uttering peal after peal of the musical sound, but it was more hysterical than mirth provoking. Lisle only stared at her In amazement. His feelings were hurt, but he was far too proud to say so. Presently she recovered, and they walked along silently side by side. 1 She vut her amis around his neck. 1 "I feel as though I were In China," , oho nt lnsf- nnsspRsin<? herself again of bis arm, vvbicb she bad to ' shape to her uses before taking it. "I 1 have been told that they do everything backward there, and here you are the one who is offended, while I ought to be simply speechless with outraged modesty. You are certainly the tuost refreshing subject that I ever encountered. 1 wonder if it would wake you up if I should kiss you." The spirit of mischief was lu her now. She felt that the arm to which she clung belonged to a child?a child who was sleeping, who had slept long enough and who ought to be awakened ?but she was not prepared for the calm reply that she received to a proposition that would have startled any other man than the one beside her. "You may do so. If you like," said Lisle, unmoved and with the utmost seriousness. "I have never kissed anybody but my father. In all probability I will never do so again. I have no objections, if you have not." She was shaking with laughter. Presently the paroxysm passed, and then demurely she raised her pink and white face until It hung just beneath 1 his. The moonlight shone full upon it. and Lisle noticed then for the first time how del i cat el v formed it was. how soft ' and clonr and sweet it appeared in that 1 mellow light. He saw how round and 1 blue and perfect were her eyes, half ' plunged In shadow by the drooping lushes that fringed them, dancing with mischief. They reminded him of fairy 1 elfins, peeping out from their rose leaf ' concealment, prepared at the lirst ' alarm to pull the leaves together and ' hide. He saw two perfect lips, be- 1 witehlngly puckered, red. like ripe 1 cherries: soft, like new velvet, like the ; rose leaves behind which the fairies 1 flew to hide, anil he leaned over and ' touched them with Ids own. They walked on in silence after that. "That was funny," she said pres- 1 ently. "What was funny?" asked Lisle. 1 "That. Your lips are just like a woman's. You kissed me just like a ' woman. I wonder if you were not cut out for one and spoiled In the mak- 1 Ins." Lisle shook himself free from iter ' arm and leaped away. His eyes blazed at her. his nostrils dilated with anger. J his lips quivered, and Ids whole being trembled in the effort he made to control Ids rage. 1 "You are my guest." he said when he dared to speak, hut Ids voice was low 1 and fierce with passion. "I cannot resent that as I would like to do. (tut 1 will tell you tlds: A utan-a cowboy, one of Craig Thompson's men ? said 1 those words to me once, and 1 shot him." ' "Shot him! Cood gracious! Did you 1 kill him?" 1 "Not then, but afterward I did." "B-r-r-r! Well, 1 guess you're a uiau all right?In some ways, If not In others. Are you mad?" "I am angry." "Bosh! Because I said that? 1 didn't mean It. Will that suffice? I'm sorry. We're even, anyhow. You offended me, and I didn't cherish it up. so you mustn't. Kiss me again, and let's be friends." "You will say that I kiss like a woman." "No. I won't I won't say a word. Here!" She put her arms around bis neck then and drew his face down to hers. She did the kissing this time without waiting for him. aud she held LIsle's tnno ocq111 of Iiop ntrn until lip nut hpr from birn and turned away, witb a wondering sigh. "Tbat was better," was Miss Thomas' comment as she grasped bis arm again and led bim toward tbe bouse. "Look! There are our daddies still talking It over, and as sure as I live there is a China man In tbe doorway. Supper must be ready, and I'm simply Btarved." TO BE CONTINUED. M THE HMD OF AN ASSASSIN, President McKinley Shot Twice at Buffalo. rHE DASTARDLY DEED OF AN ANARCHIST. While Shaking Hands With His Fellow Citizens, the President Is Approached By a Sneaking Murderer Who Seeks to Take His Life? As the Result of Quick, Skillful Work By Able Surgeons, the Wounds May Not Prove Fatal?Assassin In the Hands of the Law. Condensed from Daily Papers. The life of William McKinley, presdent of the United States, hovers in the balance as the result of a treacherous attack bv an anarchistic assas ?in at Buffalo last Friday afternoon a pew minutes after 4 o'clock, and dreadng the worst but hoping for the best, ill the world Is awaiting the issue with inxious concern. The president was stricken down In :he Temple of Music of the Pan-Amercan exposition by two shots from a ?oncealed revolver in the hands of L,eon Czolgosz. He was carried to a lospltal on the grounds, and after some irellminary work by the surgeons, was emoved to the residence of John G. Vlilburn, president of the exposition, vhere he is now. Czolgosz was seized n the act of committing his murderous vork, and hurried off to the police sta:ion before he could be located by the ingry crowd that would have gladly orn him to pieces. As the readers of The Enquirer are nvare, it was the president's week at :he exposition. On the day before, Mr. VIoKinley had delivered a great sneech, ind on Friday he was mixing with the >rowds giving and receiving pleasure :hat is known to no other nation on >arth?the chief executive associating >n terms of equality with his fellow dtizens. For two days the president lad easily been the star feature of the ?xposition. His name was on every lip, ind thousands were seeking every ivailable opportunity to gratify their lesire to shake his hand. A reception had been in progress In :he Temple of Music for some little time. The president stood on a raised Jais. By his side were President John G. Milburn, Private Secretary .''ortelyou, and other prominent personiges. The crowd was surging by in a continuous stream, the president shakng hands with and speaking pleasant words to all who came within his reach. The utmost good feeling prevailed in the crowd. There was a continuous hum of laughing and talking, breaking from time to time into waves 3f spontaneous applause. The president was in his glory, his face seeming ilmost transfigured with the Joy and pleasure he felt at being the object of such unmistakable love and esteem. A little girl was led up by her father ind the president shook hands with her. As she passed along to the right the president looked after her, smiled ind waved his hand in a pleasant farewell. Next in line came the assassin. As the president turned to the right again, bringing his right hand about in the characteristic attitude with which he extends it while receiving, the assassin thrust out both his hands, brushed iside the president's extended hand, ind brought the revolver, hidden in a landkerchlef, up against the president's chest. At the same instant he pulled the trigger. The first Dunet entered too nign ior the purpose of the assassin, who fired igain as soon as his finger could move Lhe trigger. On receiving the first shot, ['resident McKinley had lifted himself >n his toes with something of a gasp. His movement caused the second shot to enter the abdomen. With the second shot the president doubled slightly forward and then sank back. Detective Geary caught the president in his arms and President Milburn helped to support him. Almost before the noise of the second shot sounded, the assassin was seized by S. R. Ireland, United States secret service man, who stood directly opposite the president. Ireland threw him to the floor, and as he fell a Negro waiter named James Parker, also leaped upon him. Soldiers of the United States artillery, detailed at the reception, sprang forward as did the squad of exposition police and secret service detectives. Detective Gallagher grabbed the assassin's right hand, tore away the handkerchief and seized the revolver. The artillery men seized the revolver in Gallagher's hand, rushed at him and handled him rather roughly. Meanwhile Ireland and the Negro held the assassin, endeavoring to shield him from the attacks of the infuriated artillerymen and the blows of the policemen's clubs. Supported by Detective Geary and President Milburn and surrounded by Secretary George B. Cortelyou and half a dozen exposition officials, the president was assisted to a chair. His face was very white; but he made no outcry and sank back with one hand holding his abdomen and the other fumbling at his breast. His eyes were open and he was clearly conscious of oil fViof hoDTlAIlPd. He looked up Into President Mllburn's face and gasped "Cortelyou." The president's secretary bent over him. "Cortelyou," said the president, "my wife. Be careful about her. Don't let her know." Moved by pain he writhed to the left, and then his eyes fell on the prostrate form of his would-be murderer, who lay on the floor, helpless beneath the blows of the guard, the president raised his right hand and placed it on the shoulder of his secretary. "Let no one hurt him," he said, and then he sank back in the chair while the guards carried Czolgoz away. The president continued conscious and conversed with Mr. Cortelyou and Mr. Milburn on his way to the hospital. "I am sorry," he said, "to have been the cause of trouble to the exposition." Three thoughts had found expression with the president?first, that the news should be kept from his wife; second, that the asassin should not be harmed, and third regret that the tragedy might hurt the exposition. A scene of indescribable confusion oc WILLIAM curred in the Temple of Music as the result of the shots fired by the anarchist. As soon as the crowd began to realize the meaning of the situation, there followed a panic. Regardless of consequences, the crowd surged forward. Men fought, women screamed and children cried. Some of those nearest the door fled in fear of a stampede, and people outside, attracted by the commotion, rushed in to see what wno the matter Duriner five or ten minutes the crush was dreadful, and the presure was relieved only as the crowd became more enlightened as to what had occurred, and by the strenuous efforts of a large force of exposition guards, who applied their utmost skill and firmness to the work. As soon as the pressure had been sufficiently relieved from the interior of the building, the president was taken out and conveyed to the hospital in an ambulance. The ablest surgeons of the city had already been summoned, and no time was lost in getting to work. The bullet that had entered the chest was found not to have produced a serious wound, and it was removed without difficulty. All the danger there was lay in the wound in the abdomen. The abdomen was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the bullet had passed entirely through the stomach and lodged in the muscles of the back. There was no injury to the intestines. The openings in the stomach were closed with silk stitches, and the outside incision was sewed up in the same manner. The president stood the operation well, and at its conclusion at 7 o'clock p. m., was in a condition which, in the opinion of the doctors, seemed to justify the I hnnp of recovery. I By this time Mrs. McKinley had been informed of the tragedy as gently as possible. She held up under the news well, and expressed the wish that the president be removed to the residence of Mr. Mllburn if the removal could be effected without danger. The physicians gave it as their opinion that no harm could result, and the removal was effected between 7 and 8 o'clock in an automobile ambulance belonging to the hospital. Arrived at the residence, Dr. Koswell Parke continued the task of probing for the bullet that had entered the stomach, and finally succeeded in locating it as stated; but made no effort to remove it. The doctors gave out that in their opinion the wounds had been successfully investigated and that there was no immediate danger of the president's life. The thing most to he feared was that peritonitis would set up within ?-? 11 * " .? no in tho I rum mree iu u\c utijo. ._,.v ... ...._ event of peritonitis, the presiuent was safe; otherwise the period through which he would pass would be extremely critical. It was explained also that, as a rule, such operations as had been performed were safe within six hours after the wound had been inflicted; but were seldom successful after a lapse of a longer time. In this case the operation was well within the limit of reasonable safety. The assassin first gave his name as Fred C. Neiman; but it afterward developed that his real name is Leon Czolgosz. He is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and is about 26 years of age. His father and stepmother live in Cleveland, Ohio. His mother, wno like his father, was a German Pole, Is dead. At me ponce station ne cuniesseu tn&i he had shot the president and seemed to be proud of the crime, claiming that he had only done his duty. He also confessed that he was an anarchist, a diseple of Emma Goldman, to whose lectures he had listened and whose writings he had been reading. He claimed that he had no accomplices In his crime; but this statement, of course, the police refused to believe. It was learned also that the fellow had worked for quite awhile in a wire mill, quitting this employment some three years ago, since which time he had lived in idleness on a farm at the expense of his father, who is quite poor. In less than two hours after the shooting, the messages of sympathy began to pour into Buffalo. The first came from Cuba and it was quickly followed by others from all parts of the," United States, and during Friday night and Saturday, telegrams were received from every civilized country of the world, expressing profound sorrow at the dreadful calamity that had befallen Mr. McKinley and the American nation. After the removal of President McKinley to the home of Mr. Milburn, arrangements were made to guard the residence, and a batallion of the Fourteenth infantry was so disposed as to prevent any further attempt that may be made by anarchists or others, and to assure quite and order in the neighborhood. McKINLEY. ' '' ^ ^ ^ I OUR STRICKEN PRESIDENT. Interesting- Account of the Life Work of William McKlnley. William McKinley, like Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and Grover Cleveland, may be said iu nave wun ma way iu mv |/i?9.uvmv; without the aid of accidental Influences. He was born at Niles, Trumbull county, Ohio, February 26, 1844. His parents were in very moderate circumstances ; but took a great pride in their boy, who at an early age displayed unusual gifts. Young McKinley had the benefit of training in the public schools in the neighborhood from his ninth year until the outbreak of the civil war when he was a little past 16. Soon after the beginning of hostilities. he enlisted in the Twenty-third regiment of Ohio volunteers, with which command he served in various j capacities until the close of the war, when he was mustered out as captain land brevet major, having won the latter title by gallantry on the field of battle. He was then just a little past 21, and took up the study of law. He was admitted to the bar early in 1866, and very soon acquired a considerable practice by his devotion to business and his attractive personal characteristics. In 1869 he became prosecuting attorney for Stark county, in which he had opened his first law office, and held that position two years. His natural love of politics developed about this time. He became one of the most popular and effective of the Re publican campaign speakers in ms pan of Ohio, and was elected to the fortyfifth congress, and held his seat for six consecutive terms. He was then defeated by the popular uprising against the tariff act of which he was the chief author, and with which his name is permanently connected. He had not been in congress long before he developed remarkable powers as an orator and debater. He became a favorite of his party by reason of his readiness on all occasions, his strict 1 party loyalty and his efficacy in party service. At the same time, his geniality and courtesy won for him many friends among his political antagonists. Before he was 40 years old, William McKinley was a recognized Republican leader and a prominent national figure in politics. The nobility of his nature was proved i in the national convention of his par- I ty in 1888, where he was chairman of I the Ohio delegation. Ohio had presented John Sherman as its candidate for i president; but it became evident on the first ballot that he could not be nomi- i nated. The convention was very much I at sea. McKinley had more personal 1 friends than any man whose name had been proposed to the convention and 1 the Ohio delegation was ready to go to | him in a body. i The suggestion of his nomination, which came from a delegate from another state, was received with a whirl- < wind of cheers. It was a trying moment. There he sat, the cynosure of all eyes, barely 40 years of age and with the presidential nomination of a great party seemingly in his reach. i But he was equal to the temptation and proved the quality of his manhood. He arose in the convention and in a manner which left no doubt of his sin- : cerlty forbade most positively the use < of his name by the multitude that clamored for his nomination. He said: "I am here by a resolution of the Re- . publican convention of Ohio, passed without one dissenting voice, com mantling1 me to cast my vote for John Sherman and to use every worthy en- ' deavor for his nomination. I accepted 1 this trust because my heart and Judgment were in accord with the letter and spirit and principle of that resolution. 1 It has pleased certain delegates to cast 1 their votes for me. I cannot with hon- , orable fidelity to John Sherman, who , has trusted me in his cause and with 1 his confidence; I cannot consistently I with my own views of personal integ- ' rlty, consent, or seem to consent, to permit my name to be used as a can- I dldate before the convention. I do request, I demand, that no delegate who ( would not cast reflection upon me shall < cast a ballot for me." ' This noble speech in its dignity and | evident sincerity won the admiration j of the convention and made a host of i new friends for the rising man of his party. \ McKinley gave another signal proof j of his devotion to John Sherman by 1 making him secretary of state in his first cabinet against the advice of j many Republican leaders who felt that j Sherman was too far past his prime to i fill the office properly. When it became , necessary to displace his old honored , friend, President McKinley faced and i performed the most painful public duty : of his life. Benjamin Harrison was nominated , for president and elected in 1888 and the I Republicans secured a clear majority in ; both houses of congress. ] William McKinley was nut forward as chairman of the ways and means J committee to embody the then preva- , lent views of his party on tariff legis- < lotlnn But the M(>Tftnlpv hill WAS Ail extreme In one direction as President Cleveland's message of 1887, which cost him a re-election in 1888, was in the other. The country revolted at the higher duties laid by the Republican party in the spring of 1890, and in the following ] fall the Democrats swept the congress- j ional elections. McKlnley was defeated for the house, never to reappear as a member of that body. But the confidence of his party in William McKlnley, both in Ohio and the country at large was not shaken by his defeat for congress in 1890. He became the Republican nominee , for governor of Ohio in 1891, and was ] elected by a handsome majority. He 1 was re-elected in 1893 by a largely increased majority. In 1896 he was nominated as the Re- 1 publican candidate for president on the 1 first ballot. His nomination was a foregone con- 1 elusion for months before the conven- ' tion met and his election seemed certain for several weeks before the event. 1 He defeated William J. Bryan in No- 1 vember, 1896, by an overwhelming majority, both of the popular and electoral vote. In 1900, McKlnley was nominated 1 unanimously for a second term and increased both his popular and electoral majorities over the same opponent i whom he had defeated four years before. * i His popular majority was 623,677, by i far the largest ever received by any i presidential candidate. 1 The principal events of President Mc- 1 Kinley's first administration which end- < ed the fourth of last March are fresh ' in the public mind. Since he became i president our country has had Its war with Spain which was among the 1 ciuickest and most decisive in history. ! To the United States have been added ] the Philippine islands by purchase and 1 Porto Rico by cession under the terms I of the peace treaty with Spain. Our i government has also established a vir- < tual protectorate over Cuba, for whose 3 liberation we went to war with Spain. 1 President McKinley's latest public i utterance was at the Pan-American J exposition on the day before ne was < shot. In that address- he took strong t ground in favor of freer trade with 1 other nations, the reoeal of non-reve nue duties, extension of commercial re- i clproelty and the cultivation or more I cordial foreign trade relations, conclud- i ing with a sentiment which is character- < istic of the man. "Gentlemen, let us < ever remember that our interest is in I 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 i moved to higher and nobler effort for l their own and the world's good, and 1 that out of this city may come not only greater commerce and trade for us all; ? but more essential than these relations l of mutual respect, confidence and f friendship, which will deepen and en- t dure. Our earnest prayer is that God i will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, i happiness and peace to all our neigh- \ bors and like blessings to all tne peo- ( pies and powers of the earth." 1 It is probable that no president of ? the United States has ever enjoyed a 1 more universal personal popularity 1 than William McKinley. The most ex- f treme opponent of the policy of Mc- ? Kinley, the president, is the friend and t admirer of McKinley, the man. C He has also been blesed with a '2 smaller degree of personal animosity in i his own party than any former pres- 3 [dent. J Senator Hoar, who has been one of t the most conspicuous and relentless op- I ponents of the president's foreign pol- i ley, declared when that conflict was at i Its height that tne united states nas never had a president of purer life or one who was so generally beloved by the people. The president's wife, to whom he is most chivalrously and beautifully devoted, has been an invalid for most of the time since they were married. She has only recently recovered from a severe illness incurred on her visit to ' the Pacific coast with the president.? F. H. Richardson, in Atlanta Journal of Saturday. TWO VIEWS. The President aa a Patriot and aa a Demon. The following extracts from editorials which appeared In two of South Carolina's most important dailies, the morning after the diabolical attempt of Anarchist Czolgosz on the life of President McKinley, are entitled to careful and thoughtful consideration: As a journal of sincere convictions, The State cannot now reverse, even in the presence of the calamity which has befallen him, the opinions it has expressed of the executive policy of William McKinley. It has believed, and still believes, that he has done more inJury to the cause and the good name of the great republic than any of the men who preceded him in the presidential office. His very personal virtues nave enabled him the more effectively to commit what we consider national crimes. His sweetness and suppleness of disposition have made possible the success of measures which cruelly destroy American ideals and are stamped upon weaker lands with blood and fire. Under his administration the United States has become an unclassable government, a republic-empire, a Janus among nations, wearing two faces.? Columbia State. William McKinley is and has ever been a man of peace. Fighting gallantly up from an humble beginning to the leadership of the greatest of the world's nations, he has emerged from the fierce fire which must often have menaced him, singularly pure. As citizen, statesman, president, he has realized much of the ideal conception of what American manhood can be and should be. As the sphere of his opportunities and duties has widened he has met Ihe exigencies of every situation with unfaltering steadfastness. His personal Integrity has ever remained unimpeached. Advocating oftentimes principles keenly repugnant to those held by millions of his fellow citizens, he has never forfeited the respect and admiration of his opponents. Exercising a power which circumstances accorded to none of his predecessors, he has not discredited himself nor his people. Few, if any, presidents of recent times have enjoyed a more universal or a more unstinted measure of public confidence. The sympathy that will go out to him and his will be as wide as the universe; and in no section of this nation will it be more spontaneous, more profound, more heartfelt, than in the south. In his public and private life he has exemplified the best type of citizenship susceptible of development under free institutions. With a courage which faltered not, he won his way fairly and well to the seat which he occupies. Ever faithful over a few things he has been made ruler over many, and the man who sought to rob him of the reward of his well-doing should and will receive the full measure of the world's reprobation. That the dastardly deed will fall of its purpose will be the earnest hope of every true-hearted tnan.?News and Courier. Most South Carolinians who have kept up with the history of the times, and who are possessed of a reasonable amount of justice will endorse what The News and Courier has to say. As for the sentiments expressed by the Columbia State, we have no doubt but that they meet with the full, complete and sincere endorsement of Leon Czolgosz. ' PNEUMONIA LEADS. Fifteen Principal Maladies That Caase Most Deaths. To the average reader the Information contained In the census statistics In which Is shown the relative fatality of the more common ailments to whose ravages the people of this country are subject comes as something of a surprise". The disease which leads the list In the number of deaths which are chargeable to its attacks is not the one which In the general belief has been rated the severest scourge. Among the 15 maladies to which the larger number of people succumb, consumption stands second; not first. Pneumonia outranks It in point of fatality, although only slightly. It, as the government's latest figures show, is the most deadly of all American diseases. It is the cause of 191.1 of every 100,000 deaths. Consumption is yet but little behind it, however, as a destroyer of humanity. To tuberculous attacks are attributed 190.5 of the fatalities In each 100,000. Heart disease follows as the third, its average number of victims in the 100,000 being 134. Following these three most faithful adjutants of the "grim specter of the glass and scythe" come 12 others which, according to the census showing, in the order given, may be reckoned the most destructive to life within the territorial limits to which the statistics apply, rhey are: Dlarrhoeal diseases, kidney diseases, apoplexy, cancer, old age, bronchitis, cholera Infamtum, debility, Inflammation of the brain and meningitis, diphtheria, typhoid, premature oirth. smallpox, 11 win ue nuieu, uuca iiui ippear on the list, although only a comparatively few years ago it was regarded by the people generally as one of ;he scourges of which humanity stood nost in dread. Now, aside from the nconvenience involved in a compliance ,vith the requirements for prevention if its contagious effects it is occasion 'or little more concern than the minor lilments whose fatal possibilities are ooked upon as so remote as scarcely o merit consideration. Gratifying remits due to progress in medical scence ire evident, too, in the showing as to he decreased fatality of consumption. 3nly a decade ago its victims numbered 144.9 in every 100,000, and that disease anked as the most deadly of all. In 10 r-ears, as the figures indicate, its deitructiveness has been reduced more han 25 per cent, and the present outook gives promise of yet more rapid idvancement toward immunity from ts ravages.?Kansas City Journal.