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f t YO R KmyL ENQUIRER. l. m. grist's sons. Publisher.. ( & 4[amilj B'?spaper: <Jfor the flromotion o)[ the ^oti(icat, JSo<tiat, ItgrieuKupal anttfflommercial Interests of the {people. [TER"8.No^f^^ivKc^NCe' ESTABLISHED 1855. YORKVILLE, 9, C? TUESDAY, JUNE 5,1906. N"Q. 45. SOOTH M0UI T How the Spirit of Libert; Unconqiiera By REV. ROBER' From the Yorkville Enquirer of 1876. INSTALLMENT III. Regulators and Scovillites. The successful defence of Fort Moultrie against the British under Parker and Clinton, had a most decided effect upon ail parties. The Tories and loyalists began to fear for their sovereign's power in America, and the Whigs came to the conclusion that it was possible for them to throw off the British yoke and be free. For a period of about three years after the battle of Fort Moultrie, the state of South Carolina although she was one of the thirteen colonies which had solemnly pledged their lives! their J fortunes and their sacred honor to re- | sist to death the unjust acts of the British government, enjoyed comparative ease. Her sons flocked by the hundreds to the northern colonies to aid in vanquishing the common foe. The distinction north and south did not then exist. Massachusetts loved South Carolina and South Carolina cherished no less love for Massachusetts. From June 28th 1776, to January 1779, the war was carried on principally in the states north of the Potomac. It was * * ? J intorq oi, nuwever, uurmg m?r umv a period of perfect tranquility. For more than ten years prior to the commencement of hostilities between the colonies and Great Britain there had existed in South Carolina two parties. which cherished toward each other bitter hatred. These parties were at different times known by different names; but the same individuals composed them. When the up-country was settling up, a vast multitude of strangers were brought Into contact with one another, and still they were totally different from each other in their manners and customs, and especially in their notions of civil government. Some were intensely loyal, while others were as intensely republican. There was also not a few who came to the up-country for no other purpose than that they might live free from all the restraints of law and good order. They were a thieving set of fellows, and contemplated amassing fortunes by stealing horses and negroes. The order-loving portion of the Inhabitants were kept in a state of constant dread by these desperadoes. Prior to 1769 there was no general court, except In Charleston. There were magistrates' courts, the jurisdiction of which extended to all sums below twenty pounds. To catch and convey to Charleston one of these horsethieves for trial, was no small job. The probability was that after being captured, he would be rescued by his partners in crime; or if brought to trial he would be saved from suffering the penalties of the law by the false swearing of his fellows. As early as 1752, the inhabitants of the Pedee and Lynch's creek region, presented a petition praying that Craven county might be divided and that for the portion situated in the east, twelve justices be appointed, without fee or reward, "to hear and determine all cases, as well civil as criminal." These petitioners of the Pedee region were laboring under a great burden in that they were surrounded by a set of horse-thieves and cut-throats. The western section of the state, that portion between the Broad and Saluda rivers, was full of these desperadoes. This was chosen by them as a kind of headquarters, whence they sallied out in all directions to the great annoyance of peaceable citizens. Thomas Woodward, who lived in the J region that is now embraced in Fairfield county, together with Barnaby Pope and Joseph Kirkland, got up an organization which was called the "Regulation" and the members of which were called "Regu'ators." The Regulators went to work with zeal to remedy the evils under which the county f? was nvidcntlv their in tention at first, to do good by punishing outlaws; but sometimes they permitted their judgment to be controlled by their individual feelings. Horsethleves and other violators of the rights of others were hunted up, and according to the statutes of the Regulators, were given thirty-nine lashes on the naked back. In many instances notorious characters were dealt with more severely, and some were shot when attempting to escape. The horse-thieves were more numerous than the Regulators at first supposed them to be. The line of demarkation between the Regulators and - UowoA-thUvau Q harQti.f hi^f MVIT1 pathizers. soon became clear and distinct. The people began to arm themselves and a civil war seemed to be not far distant. To prevent this. Gov. Montague, appointed one Scovili to act as a kind of arbitrator, with unlimited powers, of the difficulties existing amongst the citizens. Scovili was a most consummate villlan. He aspoused the cause of the horse-thieves with whom he was no doubt in league, and as if war had been already declared, prepared for the conflict. The horsethieves and ruffians flocked to his standard. The Regulators armed themselves and determined to resist the government as administered by Scovili. The two parties confronted each oth er on the plantation of John Musgrove. afterward a Tory colonel. It was on the Saluda river In what is now Newberry county. Seovill summoned the Regulators to surrender. This they did not do and yet there was no one killed, although some shots were exchanged. It appears that some of the more prudent of both parties interfered and put a stop to the strife. The parties separated without a battle but still their love for each other was not increased nor their hatred diminished. Tradition has preserved a most laughable circumstance which took place whilst the two parties were drawn up in battle array. Amongst the Regulators was one who had but recently joined the party. He was a great braggart. He was absolutely Ml? (KRCmVTHHi y Was Kept Alive By an ible People. T LATH AIV, 1). I>. hungry for a fight. Whilst the Regulators and Scovillites were confronting each other, some firing was done. This was more than the new made Regulator could stand. He showed that if he was hungry for a fight he was no glutton. He took to his heels and ran like a quarter-horse. It happened that he had in his coat pocket a lead inkstand. In his flight he jumped a large gully and his coat tail flew up, and the pocket with the inkstand struck him on the back of the head. He fell on his face, crying at the top of the voice, "I'm shot! I'm shot! I'm a dead man! Gentleman, don't kill me!" In 1769, courts were established at Ninety-Six, Orangeburg and Camden. This was all the relief the Regulators desired. ' Multitudes of the horsethieves were gathered up and brought to trial. Tradition says that Scovlll was tried at Ninety-Six for stealing chickens. The evidence adduced to prove the charge was that on a certain night. Colonel Scovlll did steal from some one thirty-eight chickens. Col 1 0???,lllrt' onlomnlv /Ipclfl TPfl Ullfl Ot'UVIUC IIIUOI oviViiiu*^ -this was a most infamous falsehood. , "There were only," he said, "Sax and thirty, for I ate the guzzards." As a matter of course, we suppose he was acquitted of the charge of having stolen thirty-eight chickens but found guilty of having stolen thirty-six. Ridiculous as this may seem, it is said on good ' authority to be a fact; and if so, gives us a correct idea of the kind of man that Governor Montague selected to t settle a difficulty between honest men 1 and thieves. . < The Regulators, on the breaking out 1 of the war between the colonies and 1 England, were generally Whigs, whilst I the Scovillites were Tories or loyalist. I The two parties still continued; but i under their new names, Whig and ^ Tory. ( It must be confessed that the Whigs often acted imprudently and sometimes I very rashiy. In the western section of 1 the state, there were many men of in- < fluenee who refused, they said, from 1 conscientious scruples, to take any part with the Whigs in throwing off the yoke of Great Britain. Amongst these we might mention the three Cunninghams, Patrick, Robert and William (generally known as "Bloody Bill") Brown, Fletchall and some others. Whether gentler measures would have won these men over or not, it would have been wiser, and with all due respect to the gallant old Whigs of 177G, it would have been more honorable to have first tried gentler measures and then acted as the circumstances of the case might demand. It is not claimed for the Whigs of 1776 that they were infallible. On the contrary, it is admitted they were but men, liable to do wrong. In their zeal for the Ameri Ciill cause, uie ? nig icaucio auciu^itu by abuse to dragoon the loyalists to side with them. That which was at first a speck on the face of the heavens, soon enveloped everything. Difference of opinion was merged into determined opposition in every respect. Robert Cunningham and his brother Patrick, were men of very considerable influence in their region of country. They were of Scotch descent and were loyalists. Robert was the first judge appointed for Ninety-Six district and before him the notorious Scovill was tried. Patrick yas deputy surveyorgeneral of the province of South Carolina. Lord William Campbell, then governor of the province, opened up a secret correspondence with these upcountry loyalists. They were told to make all possible preparations for resistance, but to be quiet until a blow was struck by the British government. It is however, no easy matter to keep men of violent passions within the bounds of moderation. It is no less diffi cult to restrain violent partisans from acts and words that are calculated to ^ develop slight dislikes into open and avowed hatred. Thus one word led to another and one violent act was but the forerunner of another act more violent. ( Finally the different parties assembled , under leaders of their own choice or , self-constituted leaders, armed them- | selves and prepared for civil war. Late In August of 1775 the Rev. Wil- ( liain Tennant and William Henry Drayton. visited the Ninety-Six region. , They made an honest attempt to conciliate the people. Both these men ( were enthusiastic on the subject of American rights, and although they , hnnool in thoii* mtc tn uiK'MIICm a righteous cause, they were not always prudent in dealing with those who could not or at least would not see things as they saw them. Vague and false rumors were put in circulation by both parties. It was reported that the royalists were preparing to seize the agents of the Council of Safety; whilst it was as firmly asserted that it was the purpose of the Whig party to force, by an appeal to arms, the royalists to sign the articles of association. The rolayists assembled in camp on the Enoree. Drayton called out the militia and prepared to march against them and drive them from the country. His proclamation is dated September the lltth, 1775. Moses Kirktand who had been appointed a captain hv the Whiers but who had turned a traitor, fled to Charleston and went on board the Tamar. On the 16th of September. a treaty was entered Into between the hostile parties, signed on the part of the Whigs by William Henry Drayton, and on the part of the royalists by Colonel Thomas Fletchall, Captain John Ford, Captain Thomas Oreer, Captain Evan McLaurin and Captain Benjamin Wofford. In this treaty it was agned that all parties should go home and live in peace. Kobert Cunningham claimed that he was not bound by the articles of this treaty and still continued to stir up the people in opposition to the Whig party. He was arrested and taken to Charleston and confined. This aroused Patrick Cunningham. and he made a desperate effort to rescue his brother before he would reach the city. In this he failed; but he succeeded In capturing a quantity of powder which the authorities of South Carolina were sending as a kind of conciliatory present to the j Cherokee Indians. Both Whlfrs and royalists were now furious. Major Andrew Williamson, who commanded the militia in the Ninety-Six district, was ( ordered to call out his men and pro- 1 ceed at once to capture the powder. The rovalists were as keen for battle as the Whig militia and far more numerous. Williamson and his men were forced to take refuge In a stockade. Por three days they were closely besieged and made to suffer. Thp condition of things was for some days critical. At last a treaty was again entered Into between the contending parties. It was agreed that hostilities should cease on both sides. ] These treaties were only temporary in their results. The Ninety-Six dls- , :rict was thoroughly aroused?neighbor j igainst neighbor?and In some Instances, brother against brother. To ( teep the royalists in awe, Colonels j Richardson and Thomas were sent into j :hls region. < The royalists were aided and abetted j jy Governor Campbell and did the , :ountry a great injury by stirring up ) :he Cherokee Indians to hostilities. , rhese deluded savages were Jiersuad- ? ?d by John Stuart and his brother t Henry, together with several other ? persons to take up arms against the IVhigs. The plans of Stuart and hl9 colleagues were defeated; but still the Indians commenced to massacre the ,vhltes almost simultaneously with the aattle of Fort Moultrie. These Indian vars grew out of the old contests beween the Regulators and Scovlllltes. TO BE CONTINUED. JtttscfUnnrous grading. EARTH SPLIT OPEN. stidBomenon of the Great California , Quake. The most remarkable phenomenon of he earthquake was reported today 'rom Boltnas Bay, the first inlet on the ?oast north of San Francisco, where he violence of the shock appears to lave been greater than at any other joint. The earth was split open for wenty miles parallel to the shore, and n places the cleft was several feet vide and apparently hundreds of feet leep. John K. Orr, a wealthy land owner, las returned to his home in Berkeley 'rom a trip of investigation. He wait;d upon President Benjamin Ide [Vheeler, of the State university, today, suggesting that scientists should be sent at once to Bolinas Bay. "So terrible is the sight in that region," said Orr today, "that I must be sardoned for declining to give the dealls of the destruction wrought, bemuse I believe the truth told about he damage there would unduly alarm jeople and would help to give a black kye to the state." Before making a personal inspection Jrr received a letter from E. B. Nel jon, of the Nelson Hotel company, at 31ema, giving some details of the hav>c wrought by the earthquake. This etter says the extraordinary chasm extends from Tomales to Bolinas Bay. wenty miles, and In some places 300 'eet deep. On P. F. Shatter's dairy anch the men were milking when the luake came. The fissure just missed aking the house and did swallow up l cow in the yard. Orr upon his reurn verified these statements of his :orrespondent, stating that he saw the jack of the cow partly uncovered at i point where the fissure was about >ight feet deep. Mud and . sand In the bay were hrown up into ridges by the upheaval >f earth until they are now visible ;ven at high tide. Sections of the owns of Bolinas and Marshalls, on the allroad, are now lying in the bay, and he town of Tomales is almost wiped jut of existence. Three persons In his place lost their lives. The ground n some places sunk from two to ten 'eet.?San Francisco Correspondence to i \e\v York won a. I FIRST CASE OF LYNCH LAW. { The Hanging of a Murderer by His Father In Ireland. So many different versions and explanations of the term lynch law have ' it various times been given and occasionally are even yet added to, that it seems fitting to recount the tragic incident which has since given a name 1 to so many calamitous occurrences not only in our land, but on occasion also In that of others. The very name of "Lynch" gives the direct clew to the land of its origin? ' Ireland. Thackeray in his "Irish Sketch Book" in Chapter 1, which treats of Galway,* thus speaks of an occurrence within its precincts which in 1842 bore the grewsoine "memento" so grimly described in the words following: "Then there is Lombard street, otherwise called Dead Man's lane, with a raw head and crossbones and a memento rnori over the door where the dreadful tragedy of the Lynchs was acted in 1493. If Galway is the Rome of Connaught. James Fitzstephen Lynch, the mayor, may be considered as the Lucius Junius Brutus thereof. Lynch had a son who went to Spain as master of one of his father's ships, and being of a wild, extravagant turn, there contracted debts, drew bills and alarmed his father's correspondent, who sent a clerk and nephew of his own back in young Lynch's ship to Galway to settle accounts. On the 15th day Lynch threw the Spaniard overboard. Coining back to tils own eoun try, he reformed his life a little and was on the point of marrying one of the Blakes, Burkes or Bodkins or others when a seaman who had sailed with him, being on the point of death, confessed the murder in which he had been a participator. "Hereon t he father, who was chief magistrate of the town, tried Ids son and sentenced him to death, and when tiie clan Lynch rose in a body to rescue the young man and divert such a disgrace from the family it is said that }< itzstephen Lynch hanged the culprit with his own hands. A tragedy called 'The Warden of Galway' lias been written on the subject and was acted a few nights before my arrival."?New York Times. An optimist is a man who declines to judge the future by the past. MR. CHILDS GETS MAD. Columbia's Banker Refused To Tell Things. SAYS JOKES SHALL NOT BE REPEATED. i J A n./ iL. I - nemarKame inciaoru oeTora ms investigating Committee Last Friday? Witness Ruled to Show Cause Why He Is Not in Contempt?Reason Why the C. N. & L. Railroad Gets Dispensary Freight and the Columbia Bank Is the Centre of Dispensary "Business." Mews and Courier. Columbia, June 1.?"Well, by Qod, I tvould go to Jail before I would tell the lokes." This was the expression of Mr. W. 3. Chllds, one of Columbia's most prominent citizens, when Mr. Lyon pressed him to relate some of the 'jokes'* he had heard about whisky relates. Mr. Chllds stuck to his deterninatlon not to repeat what he had leard, because he felt that It might involve those who were entirely innocent ind he did not think It right or prop;r to repeat conversations of this charicter. He suggested that he would rather jo to Jail and rot there than repeat private conversations or jokes about vhlsky rebates or things of that kind, ind being the man that he Is he meant svery word he said. Mr. Lyon was evidently disgusted, and said that he ,vas through with Mr. Chllds, and that he committee might Itself take up the examination of Mr. Chllds. Chairman flay then promptly said, "Mr. Chllds, i'ou are excused." That ended the incident, Mr. Chllds jot up, and while he was leaving the oom, said that he would never answer mch questions, but If the committee vanted any proper Information from llm, or wished to communicate further vith him, that he could be found at lis office at any hour. But the committee evidently did not ike the manner and the "by God" exiression of Mr. Chllds, and later on In he day the committee went Into execit I ve session and issued a rule to Mr. Chllds that he should show cause on ruesday, when the committee meets igain, why he should not be ruled for :ontempt. The committee will then hear Mr. ?hllds's position, and he will have the >pportunity of making' such statement >r explanation as he may care to. Mr. Childs, who Is a man of most iven temper and equable disposition, evidently got very much provoked vhen Mr. Lyon pressed him to know vhat the stories or Jokes were. Mr. ^yon said that he had no idea what hey were, but thought if they weie elated that the committee might then >e the Judge of the relevancy of the estlmony; but Mr. Childs stood pat. ind that ended the incident for the ime being. Mr. Lyon suggested that he committee might determine whether the question might not be pressed, >ut Chairman Hay said that he thought he matter had better be pursued, if at ill, in executive session, and later on he rule against Mr. Childs to show :ause why he should not be ruled for :ontempt was issued. Mr. Childs is president of the Coltmbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad ? n lorv Af # Kl o Dartlr t\f Pn. U1U aiou y>l COIUV. III. VTA. kllV W4 w umbia. He is a man of force and :haracter and his observations today ire significant. Mr. Childs felt that he lad no right to lug anything into the svidence he gave that was not neceslary. In order that his position may be fuly understood and at the same time hat there might be no possible mlslnderstanding of the incident, Mr. A. W. Deal, the official stenographer of the nvestigating committee, prepared for he News and Courier a verbatim copy )f this entire incident and it is all well vorth reading. Mr. Childs was the first and only vltness presented during the day. His estimony was as follows: Mr. Childs, where do you live, sir? Columbia; no, in Richland county. 1 im a countryman. A farmer? Yes, sir. Do you have any other business, Mr. Childs? Well, I am a railroad man and a sank man. What position do you hold with the "ail road ? President. President of what road? Columbia, Newberry and Laurers. What connection have you with the sank? President. What bank? Bank of Columbia. That Is in the city of Columbia? Yes, sir. You have the active management of this Columbia, Newberry and Laurens railroad? Well, I am president. I suppose I am active manager. You direct its affairs, and so on? Yes, sir. Have you any stock in the Richland Distilling company? No. Do you know of any one who has? I have heard men say that they nave. Well, sir, who are they? It is only hearsay. Who have you heart! say that they have ? I have heard Mr. Lanahan of Lanahan & Son. I think I have heard Mr. Block say that he had stock. Who else? That Is all I have heard. Did you ever hear of Mr. Farnum having stock in it? No, sir. Did you ever hear of Bernheimer Brothers having stock in it? No, sir. Mr. Childs, did you ever hold any stock In that distillery? Kichland Distillery? Yes, sir. No, sir. As trustee or otherwise? No. sir. Never been In it but once in my life; went down there through curiosity. Do you know of any one holding stock in that concern In trust for anybody else? No, sir. Mr. Childs, have you heard the rumor?and you realize the fact that we have to proceed on rumors?that you were supposed to hold any stock, a block of stock, In the Richland Distillery? i I have heard that. That Is what the investigating committee brought i out, and I was very much surprised to hear It. And that that stock was transferred wnen me uiympia muis Decarne involved and the parties who held It . wanted It transferred? No. sir; I never heard It until recently. Did a transfer of that sort take ; place to your knowledge? There has never been a certificate of stock In my name that I know of, and I have never endorsed a certificate. < Do you know of a party who has ever been connected with a transac- i tlon of that kind? i No, sir i You have no knowledge or Information on that subject? No, sir. i Mr. Childs, wasn't that reported around Columbia a while before the Investigating committee started? ' 1 never heard anything of It until sixty or ninety days ago?since the investigating committee?and I could i never understand how the report came through, because there is absolutely not one iota of truth In it. 1 And I could not understand how it could be in my name and I not know it. It would be a liability, and I 1 would not carry stock for anybody. 1 You didn't make the remark that this stock was In your'name and that you held it as a trustee and you really I didn't know who you held it for'' Never made any such remark. Did you ever hold any stock In the ] Carolina Glass company for anybody else? No, sir. Nor in trust for any body else, Mr. Childs? I No, sir 1 You dtny that, Mr. Childs? Yes, I deny that. Positively and emphatically? Yes; never held it In trust for a v* ^ body; 1 Did ycu ever hold any stock for anybody in the Carolina Glass com- ! pany'l Yea; held some for myself, In my ' Hqw much? Te* or twelve thousand dollars. What tort of dividends did you re- 1 celve on that? I never received any. I sold out i before?I think when I sold last It was I at $116. My recollection is that I 1 sold before the dividend was declared. 1 That was your own Individual In- 1 vestment ? Yes, sir. 1 And nobody had anything to do < with It? No^ slr. ?- . And nobody shared In the profits? No, sir; nobody but myself. Who did you sell that to? Mr. E. G. Seibels. And he paid you?? 1 Ont hundred and fifteen dollars Is my recollection. It may have been $120. Haven't you made the statement to persons around Columbia that you did hold stock in this Carolina Glass com pany in trust, or that you held It for somebody else, or something of that sort? No; never did. Do yov know whether any of the directors of the dispensary had any stock in there? I dc not know anything about it. Do you know of anybody holding It in trust for them? No, sir. Or :he Richland Distillery? No, sir. Have you ever heard anybody con- J fess or acknowledge in any way that they received any profits or dividends arising from either of these Iristitu- 1 tions? No, sir. Nov, Mr. Chllds, you are In active business around the city of Columbia here [ presume, very frequently? I very seldom ever leave my office excepi to go to dinner or on business. Your bank does some collecting for ??? -31* -vMn /v# /lianonoarv? L'i ruii .ua ui me uiopcuoui j . I think so. Don't the liquor drummers go to your bank there, or you have a good deal of correspondence or things of that sort with them? Yes, sir, liquor drummers come around when they want checks cashed. Have any of them ever stated that they paid any graft to any of these dispensary officials? I have no recollection of anything of that kind. Let's see if you can't remember ? it would not be fair for me, In a Joking conversation, to make a remark that would reflect upon anybody, and I never heard anybody say in seriousness that they paid rebates. Tell us the jokes? I cannot remember the jokes. It has been four or five years ago. What was the nature of those jokes. I would not be able to testify as to jokes in remarks made. I have never neara any remarits reflecting oci.uu ,, upon members of the board of control. We want to know the nature of the jokes. I do not remember distinctly enough to specify. You know distinctly enough to state whether they were complimentary, or whether they were not complimentary about that board? No. sir; I do not. You do not? No, sir. And yet you recollect that there were Jokes? Yes, sir; there always was and there Is now. "* * * J tn Ana 11 impresseu yuu muiu<.>ci?./ ? remember that there were all kinds of jokes going on, but you cannot remember the nature of those jokes? No, sir, I cannot remember, because it might reflect upon somebody, and It would be unjust to reflect on them. Could you remember who the men were who were doing this Joking? No, sir; It was Just some of those traveling men and not men who would be taken on the Inside. How can you reach the conclusion that these parties would not be taken on the inside of the grafting matter If anything was going on? Because If anything was going on the heads of the concerns would be doing it, not the subordinates. That is the opinion that you draw from the liquor drummers? Yes, sir: I say If there was anything of that kind going on, the heads would not entrust it to any of their clerks or subordinate drummers. I know if there was anything going on in anything that I was the head of I would be the oniy one mai Knew u. You cannot remember any of those Jokes? No, sir. Now, Mr. Chllds, this is a very Important matter that I am questioning you about. YeB, I think it Is. If I knew anything that would assist you in the matter I would be glad to give it to you. Especially this matter of the Carolina Glass company. I wish to understand the matter fully and freely, and ff I understand you, you know nothing about any stock being held in trust for anybody else? No. That you have never teen a party to any such? No, sir. That you have not transferred any stock for any one? Yes. You deny that without any mental reservation? Yes. That you have stated everything fully and freely without any reservation? Yes. Now, did Mr. Lanahan ever discuss with you the matter of graft and rebates and so on? No, sir. He never made any statement to you In reference to matters of that kind? No, sir. Mr. Childs, how many miles are you president of In South Carolina? Seventy-five. Seventy-five? Yes, sir. How many miles of railroad has the Southern In the state of South Carolina? Oh, I have no idea. Well, sir, you have a rough idea? I think five or six or seven hundred. I have never figured it out. Of course [ could do it. How many has the Atlantic Coast Line? Oh, I should think three or four hunired. Maybe more. Well, sir; what about the Seaboard? Well, the Seaboard has about three hundred or four hundred; about three hundred and fifty miles, I would say. Now, Mr. Chllds, you keep up, I presume, with the freights that pass over these lines; you have a general knowledge on that subject of the freights that come into the state of South Carolina? I have a general knowledge of what comes in on my road. I do not know about anybody else. What percentage of the dispensary business do you handle? I haven't the slightest idea. Have you any Idea about what your road handles at all? No; that would be a matter for the auditing department. He could figure It up for you without any trouble. Is It not a matter of belief that your road handles the larger part of the freight that comes Into the dispensary? I think we ought to. You think you ought to? Yes. Why? Because we are the only Tillmanlte maH in tVio irm-n and It is a Tillmanlte Institution, and when the dispensary was started every other road boycotted the dispensary. When the Darlington riot came the other roads cut it. I went right up to Governor Tillman and stood right by the administration and the C. N. and L. stood right up to it, and Senator Tillman and myself are personal friends, and we have been getting a big part, and ought to have a big part, and besides my road paid its taxes when the other roads refused to do so. Are you sure you are accurate in those statements you have made? Yes. Are you positive of it? I am. You never heard of any car being shipped ten or tweve miles out of town on the C. N. and L. and blind tigers unloading the whisky from it. Explain the situation. If you read the papers you would have seen where a man got killed send ing his wagon up on that road, to B!aney's, on the Seaboard. Did you see that? I read It in the papers. So that is hearsay? Yes; but you are making me give you hearsay. Won't you give us hearsay on those Jokes? No; that is too serious; I would not tell a joke that would affect the character of somebody else. Don't you regard that as serious? this man getting killed? That is his own fault. Well, he got shot down? He wasn't shot down; the train ran over him and killed him. I suppose the courts will adjudicate that. Don't you know that the Seaboard road paid those taxes along at the same time that you paid yours? Yes; and did it at my suggestion because I was very close along with them. I suppose you said that you paid yours first. They didn't do it until I got them to do it. I wanted them to bring that western whisky In here. I thought you said they protested? The Seaboard did protest at first and afterwards reconsidered It and paid their taxes on my advice. Who were these alleged jokers that you ? Oh. I am not going to tell you anything; about those Jokes. I do not remember it definite enough to make Mr. Lyon: Mr. Chairman, of course, it is impossible to bring out information, to know whether it is relevant or irrelevant. I did not expect that Mr. Chllds would give me a conference before he was put on the stand, consequently I did not go to him. I do not know what he knows about that at all, but evidently he has heard something, and it seems to me that he ought to be required to tell it. Mr. Chllds: Well, by God. I would go to jail before I would tell the Jokes; and Mr. Lyon had a right to confer with me before, if he wanted to. The Chairman (Senator Hay): You have not been required to answer yet, Mr. Chllds. Witness: Well. I will say right now that I ain't going to answer and, if necessary, I think I should be allowed to be represented by counsel. Mr. Lyon: I do not care to examine the witness any further, Mr. Chairman. He is with the committee. Witness (as he was leaving): You know where to And me if you want me. I am at my office, but I am not going to do any Injustice to anybody. Mr. Lyon: Mr. Chairman, in order that my position in this .matter may not be misunderstood, I wish to say that I think that this witness should stay on the stand and should show respect to this committtee, and I also think that that respect should be enforced, and I think that he should subject himself to examination, and If the questions that I ask him are improper, this committee should say so, and when they do say so, why that is satisfactory to me, but I do not think that a witness should be allowed to come here and defy this committee In this style that has been done. Now, that is my feeling about a transaction of this kind. I do not know what Mr. Childs knows. I have no idea. I have heard the rumors, and I think he should be required to answer if these questions are relevant to our investigation. The Chairman (Senator Hay:) Well Mr. Lyon, I do not know that we should discuss this matter any further right now. We can take it up in the committee and discuss it among ourselves?the hearing of it. This was done later, and the rule to show cause why he should not be ruled for contempt was Issued. The writ issued to Mr. Childs reads: "State of South Carolina, County of Richland. To W. G. Childs, Esq: You are hereby notified and required to appear before the commit*?? ?oto *Via at ato Hlanonflflrv In the senate chamber, at Columbia. S. C., on Tuesday next, the 5th day of June, A. D. 1906, at 12 o'clock M? to show cause why you should not be attached for contempt of the committee in being guilty of disorderly conduct and contempt in the presence of the committee on Friday, the 1st day of June, A. D. 1906. Herein fall not. J. T. Hay, Chairman. Columbia, S. C., June 1, 1906. It is understood that Mr. Chllds will say to the committee that he is sorry that he used such language before the committee. He meant no harm and will say to the committee that he is sorry that he got mad, and that he intended no disrespect, but he still thinks it wise and Improper to repeat "jokes" that might Involve others. Mr. Child's testimony was clear and emphatic that he had not personally received any benefit In one way or another from the dispensary system, and If there was anything wrong he had no xnowieaga. 01 m He was very emphatic In his denial of the rumor that he had ever held any Glass company or Distillery stock as trustee or agent for any one. Mr. Lyon of the sub-committee, announced that the original programme of the committee had been so changed that the sub-committee could not go on at this time. Witnesses had been summoned for next week, and he did not think it well to change the order for the witnesses for next week. Evidently, from what he said, the committee had decided to eliminate certain evidence that the sub-committee was expecting to present. Mr. Lyon said he had no objection to the decision of the full commltte, and perhaps the committee was right in its view; at all events he was perfectly satisfied. The committee then, at the suggestion of Mr. Lyon, took a recess *u -i Tnao/lav a* nntln when B. Uril.ll lit?AV l uc.rnuj ? , _ new line of inquiry will be taken up. FOR THE SAN JOSE SCALE. New Kerosene-Lime Mixture Not Equal to Sulphur Washes. One of the new insecticide combinations for treatment of the San Jose scale consists of a mixture of kerosene in water produced by the use of lime In very fine particles. This combination, with several modifications, has been strongly recommended by a few experiment stations and has been used on a large scale with a degree of success by 'some orchardists. If as reliable as the lime-sulphur combinations as a scale destroyer and as safe to use. It possesses advantages over these sulphur washes in being more easy to prepare, because no boiling is required. But tests made at the Delaware experiment station during 1906 Indicate that the lower strengths of the "K-L" mixtures are not sufficient against scale and that the stronger mixtures?those containing larger percentages of kerosene?are liable to injure the trees, because certain proportions of the mixtures contain much more of the kerosene than other portions. In other words, the mixture Is not uniform or not permanent. At the Delaware station tests were made in five orchards, on cherries, plums, peaches and apples, and applications were made in the fall, winter and summer. Some difficulty was met in applying the mixtures having the higher percentage of oil, because of the small quantity of water used In proportion to the amount of lime employed. In the fall treatment, even with small percentages of oil, the first few trees of the series showed marked signs of injury from the spray, while trees receiving the last portions of the mixtures showed no injury. In one plum orchard where trees sprayed with sulphur washes served as checks the comparison was noticeably against the "K-L" mixtures. Four ' ?' onroi/uH with R hJuroaiiK piuin ura "i"? _ forty per cent oil combined with a hydrated lime bore only one-fifth of a crop of fruit, while the adjoining sulphur sprayed trees produced full yields. The effect of the ten per cent and twenty per cent mixtures on scale was not satisfactory, as young scales on trees treated with these mixtures were as numerous in the following autumn as on check trees, though the treated tres were smoother because of the removal of the old scale Incrustations through weathering off of the wash. Even where the higher percentages of oil were used there were considerable numbers of young scales the following season. On the whole, the fall spraying with a limesulphur mixture produced much better results.?New York Sun. PR0VERB8 THE WORLD OVER. Forms In Which Many Familiar to Ua Appear In Other Countries. The wit and wisdom of proverbs are clad in different garb in different countries, but they are all very much the same. Identical ideas arising independently in widely separated nations are not necessarily expressed in intertranslatable forms. They usually H orlvo aavfl tha T^n/^nn HlnKo a nor. tain quaintness from the manners and customs of the people who use them. Thus, the old Greek proverb, "The master's eye makes the horse fat." has many different renderings. The Haytlans express It with local coloring, "The garden far (from the master's house), the gumbo spoils." Again, the familiar idea which we set forward In the following way, "You can't get blood from a stone or from a beet, or breeks from a Highlander," is rendered In the West Indies as "The pumpkin vine does not yield the calabash." Even in regard to the matter of "going before the beak" the East Indian and the West Indian have parallel expression), for where the former says of a friend that he was "pinched," the latter observes that they "pressed his tail." In order to establish the sisterhood of proverbs it Is only necessary to take a few touches of nature which iiitftivc ine wnuie wuriu Kin kiiu mguru them from the various national aspects. The classical but homely truth, "Drive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will return," crops out in many a negro tribe in quaint forms, such as the following: "A man that keeps the birds away keeps them away, but a pretty face cannot be kept away." The idea conveyed by "He needs must go whom the devil drives" is universally recognised. Some tribes put it, 'The stomach has no ears," others, 'The empty bag cannot stand upright" The idea we express in the' words, "Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches," is conveyed quite as aptly by the Swahltl in his proverb, "Only the dead man knows where the grave is too narrow." Seafaring tribes say 'The bottom of the ship knows best how the sea presses." Our familiar sayings about "running after two hares" and "falling between two stools" are again paralleled and capped by the Zambesi proverb "The rider of two horses splits asunder." This quaintness of setting forth often "goes one better" on our homely proverbs. Our saying "Don't do as I do, do as I tell you" is good; but the Dutch "The monk preaches against thieves with the goose in his larder," or the American "When the lawyer gets the fowl stealer acquitted be ia paid in fowls," is better, but the Spanish parallel is quaintest of ail, "The friar condemns the thief with the pudding up his sleeve." Where we say "If you want a thing done do it yourself" the West Indian gets a shade ahead of us with the advice "Send a dog, and the dog will send his tail." The same advice is given in a still better form by the Armenian who observes, "If you send a messenger on an errand go with him." And the astute unbelieving Chinaman who, like his proverbial image maker, puts no faith either in the gods or the messengers of the gods, "for he knows what they are made of," sums up the situation In a way that is perhaps as correct as it is sweeping. "If you want a thing done," he says, "go yourself; If not, send." There is probably no better proverb in the English language than "Still waters run deep." No other nation "goes one better" than this, though many come near it. The Turk says, "Distrust the water that does not warble, and the bird that does not chirp." This lacks the element of paradox which occurs in our English rendering. The African parallel has more of that element. "Beware of the silent man." it runs; "he has a brass band in his mouth"; and a more southern tribe puts the idea equally well in the shape of "Silence hath a mighty noise." On the subject of woman it goes without saying that all the nations of the earth formed the same opinion of the fair sex long, long ago, and up to the present none of them have seen any reason to alter that opinion, but whether the opinion in which they all concur Is concealed or revealed In proverbs, it would be an insult to the reader's reason and common sense to state. As for the proverbs, which can readily be distinguished at sight as true or false by the clever student of human nature, thev Yield a good harvest of parallels. "A woman, a dog and a walnut tree, the more you beat them the better they be," Is a remark upon which no two sane persons can hold different opinions; and the same may be claimed for the Central African saying, "A man Is not obeyed by his wife In his own house, nor does she consider him her husband unless he beats her? thwack!"; or for the Corsican's assertion that "Just as a good horqe and a bad horse both need the spur^-so a good woman and a bad woman both need the stick." The Spaniard says, "Were a woman as little as she is good, a pease pod would make her a gown and hood"; tho Italian leaves off killing his kings I to whisper, "If a man loses a woman and a farthing he will miss the farthing"; the Frenchman pauses between his absinthes to remark, "A woman of gold is worth a man of straw"; the negro medicine man swears to his tribe, "Women are words, deeds are men"; the Persian asserts that "Women and dragons are best out of the I world"; the German contends that "Wherever there Is mischief brewing, a woman and a priest are at the bottom of It"; and that "There are only two good women In the world: one Is dead and the other Is missing." His CV>mment.?Timothy Huggins was not precisely a brilliant scholar, and as the old fashioned methods of correction seemed to act like water on - a l>i? ft nma /WIHIoH fO Slin a UUL'K a uain ll noo uvv.-v- ? r plement the usual by sending a report of his misdoings home to his parents. "Well, Huggins," was the master's next morning query, "did you give your father my report?" "Yes, sir," was the sullen answer. "And what did he say?" " 'E said e'd like to wring your blissed neck for you," was the genial reply. No more reports regarding infraction of discipline have been sent to that parent.?Answers.