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PUBLISHED THBEE REFUND REBATES lae Benwein Disiilliog Company of LcuisriDe, Ky., MAKES REST1L?TI0N Concern, Once Represented by Far num Agrees to Pay to the Wind ing-l'p Commission $30,000, Al though the Commission Has no Claim of Overcharges. The Columbia correspondent of The News and Courier says follow ing a conference last week between the winding-up commission of the old State dispensary and the representa tives of the Bernheim Distilling Com pany, of Louisville, Ky., the company Monday announced that it will re fund to the State overcharges on liquor amounting to $00,000. The company, which was represented be fore the old State board of control by James S. Farnum, acquitted Sat urday of bribing Jos. B. Wyiie, then a member of the purchasing board, to give the concern? represented by Farnum the preference in purchasing liquors, admits the overcharges and says it is willing to .make good this much of the State's lose. ' The refund is voluntary on the " part of the company, as the old State dispensary board" of control had ef fected a complete settlement with the concern before the winding-up commission'-took charge of the affair o$ the dispensary when the institu ting was legislated out of exiBt'ance, ajotf the company never has put in at claim for money due it for the linuors sold to the dispensary, as h'-ds been done by many of the oth er houses, which had- been awarded contracts for liquors, c'Attorney General Lyons was asked about the matter. He said that the fadjs in the case were that the Bern bjeim Distilling Company had/ offered' to the dispensary commission $30, OldO;, and that the money Is' on de posit In the Louisville banks. The fact that this company wished to tdrS over this large Sum of money c?me over the telephone from the Atlanta firm of Anderson, Felder, B#?htree & Wilson. It is under stood, though not obtained ofircial Ijf,' that the Atlanta firm secured the settlement, but it alpo appears that ~tne'money comes voluntary. The mat tfl'r is settled now, and the money belongs to the State of South Car olina. The remarkable part of the whole transaction is that the Bernheim firm had no claim against the State of South Carolina. The money that the State owed this firm had been previously paid up and the bocks were closed. To offer $30,000 and then to turn the money over is clearly an admission that there wore overcharges. Although, there had been a general understanding that some of the whis key firms might possibly "cough up" this transaction. is a new .one in its nature. It is known James S. Far num represented the Bernheim firm here during the days of the State dispensary. In the recent trial of Mr. Farnum it was mentioned in the testimony that this was one of the 'firms that he represented. The payment of $30,000 to the State is taken .as an admission tnat the State was overcharged at least this much and that rebates were paid. This is the only difference that can be drawn. Aside from the fact that the money has been tendered the State, it was very difficult to obtain any official information. It was known recently that there was a secret meeting of the dispen sary commission and very probably this matter came up at the time. There is speculation as to what effect that $30,000 "money" tender will have upon the alleged graft trials. The effect upon the other can easily be guessed, though, that no immunity is guaranteed when the commission accepts the $30,000. It might be added, however, that another good guess is that one of the Bernheim people would be prose cuted. The proposition they advance is fair enough on its face, a return to the State of $30,000, when no chum is outstanding, and this In comparison with a figuring upon the alleged rebate schedule that would look something like $4 0,000 for alleged overcharges. That looks pretty ?ood for South Carolina. This case that is brought today i- but one of the many matters that the State dispensary investigation has brought about. What the moral effect will be cannot be- estimated, but the State of South C.iolina is ?"n.n00 to the good. As brought out before the dispensary winding-a,) commission the Bernheim Company was one uf the Itio including also the Big Four people, and one oth--r concern, all of which the commission was disposed to 'Mass as one concern. In the present transaction a confer ence of attorneys was held, and many other details which probably will be brought out later. a .< ntf wii f Ball Disjoints Neck. A facility occurred Monday in a base ball rame near Greenville, Tenn. The 20-year-old son of Alexander More, a farmer, while playing short stop, was truck in the mouth with a swift ball. He died in a few min utes, and it is believed he was struck with such force that his neck' was njointed. TIMES A WEEK. COST ONE LIFE PANIC IX A SCHOOL ROOM CAUS ES A FATAL CRUSH. One Thousand Little Ones Scared by Fireworks Stampede With Fatal Results to Little Girl. Terrified by Black Hand stories, 1,000 children stampeded in a Polish parochial school in Jersey City Mon day when fireworks were sent off in the street below and in the mad rusn for the doores 14 wcie crusnea, one .60 seriously that death probably will result. The fatally injured child is Ma riauua Zeelackhky, 7 years old; the others comprise five little girls,and i eight boys, all ranging from 7 to 10 I years in age. All are in Jersey City I hospitals, but it is believed that all will recover. The school house, a three-story [brick building, is a .stone's throw 1 from an Italian church which had I obtained a permit to set off fire works during a church celebration' Monday. A rumor got out last week among the children in lower Jersey City schools that threats had beep made to blow up the school with dynamite. The children had been particular ly nervous about it, and when the bombs went off suddenly, they ran from the recitation rooms into the halls and down the stairways. There are two street doorways but one of them was closed. At the closed entrance there occurred a dis astrous jam. Here several of the smaller children were trampled into unconsciousness while others ran back into the building and sprang through open windows 15 feet to an ? areway. below. t . Policemen and passersby, attracted 'by- the cries,- rushed?to ?.the*'-.8cene> 'but order was not restored until 14 children had been seriously hurt. A report spread quickly that there ? were eight dead and hundreds of mothers mingled in the crowd, .mourning, weeping and adding to the general confusion. This is not the first riot of its kind in Jersey City as the children of the foreign ele ment are constantly in fear of the "black hand." CURT AIL'S MAYOR'S POWERS. Judge Aldrich Rend?*rs an Lnportant Decision. An appeal case from the mayor's court involving an important ques tion of jurisdiction, was decided be fore Judge Aldrich in the Sessions court at Anderson last week. The appeal was from a decision of the mayor imposing a fine of one hundred dollars or thirty days for selling whiskey, and the decision reversed the mayor. Appellant's counsel took the po sition that the mayor's court had no jurisdiction to try a defendant charg ed with selling whiskey, maintaining that the mayor bad only concurrent jurisdiction with the magistrate; and that, as the statutes gave a magis trate no jurisdiction to try such a case the mayor was bound by the same statute's limitation. The gen eral statutes give the mayor of the city the same powers as- a magis trate, and it was argued by counsel for the defense that a city counsel could not extend by ordinance the jurisdiction defined by the Legis ture. The decision of Judge A!drich in case it is sustained by the Supreme court will be of the most far reach ing consequences. It might seriously hamper'the enforcement of the liqour law in every town and city in the State. All that the police depart ment of a city could do would be to make arrests and have warrants issued by a magistrate. The magis trate would then, if upon a pre liminary hearing the evidence war rants it. send the case up to the Ses sions court for trial. The decision has attracted a great deal of inter eft here. The city will appeal to the Supreme court, and a decision of that tribunal will be awaited with gener al interest over the State. GIRL OUTRAGED AND SHOT. Young Lady Dies at Sant Fe as Re sult of Terrible Crime. A most horrible crimme was re cently committed near Sant Fe, N. M. A dispatch says as a result of being criminally attacked and shot last Tuesday, while on the outskirts of the town, Gerturude Montgomery, who went there from Shreveport, La., where she taught in college for five years, died in that city Monday. .Miss .Montgomery was not found until Sunday, when, awakening from her stupor, she tried to crawl to a water hole to quench her thirst and was seen by a little girl, who gave tho alarm. Three convicts at work on the highway in that vicinity have been arrested. Twelve Perish. Six survivors of a crew of eigh teen men are aboard winter quarters licht ship, the remaining twelve hav ing perished, according to a report made by Capt. Delano, of the steamer Porto Rico, which arrived at Balti more. The name of the wrecked steamej; could not be learned ou ac count 'of the high seas. OBAUOEBUR?. 8 SCORES INJURED BY A TERRIFIC EXPLOSION* OF, FILMS AT PITTSBURG. Accident Spreads Excitement in the j Downtown District of the City.! Damage Amounts to $200,000. At Pittsburg, Pa., a terrific ex plosion occurred Monday in the of fice of the Columbian Films ex change, located in the Ferguson building, between Smithfield and Wood street, in the heart of the downtown district. From 50 to 75 persons were in jured, many of them seriously, and the monetary damage is estimated at $200,000 or more. At first it was said that seven employes of the film company had lost their lives, but a thorough search of the ruins failed to disclose any dead. The employes, it is now thought, made their escape and have not been located owing to the great confusion which followed the /ex plosion. A score of injured were taken to hospitals. A majority of them are burned, while the others sustained fractures of the arms and limbs. The force of the explosion was so great that south wall of the Fergu son building on Third avenue was biowu out. The remaining walls were badly damaged and the build ing inspector immediately ordered them razed. Windows for fully a square on either side of the explosion were broken and a number of pedestrains making their way along Fourth avenue, the "Wall Street" of Pitts burg, were cut by falling glass. The explosion was caused by an electric al spark. The manager of the firm was absent. Practically every office n the big hulhiing was damaged. .Panic strick en, the occupants made a wild rush for the exits. Men and women ran screaming with pain and fright, many of them falling down the stairways. Others congregated about the elevator shaft and in their frant ic efforts to board the cars wrecked the iron frame work encasing the shaft. As most of them finally reach ed the street they fell to the ground suffering from burns cuts and bruises. The accident threw the downtown district into the greatest excitement and special detachments of police were necessary to clear the streets of pedestrains who at times were in imminent danger from a second explosion. Shortly before 3 o'clock all the employes of the film company had been located. John K. Gilletts. shipping clerk, made a statement in which he said the explosion occurred in the vault. Gilletts said he went into the vault, which is three feet wide and six feet high, to get a film. When he turned the electric light on a spark shot from the switch and signited one of the films. He jumped from the vault, Blammed the door and shouted to the others to run. As they reached the corridor the explosion occurred. SENATOR TILLMAN AMUSED To See How Little Was Made Out of Wylie's Confession. Senator Tillman was in Columbia on Monday on his way to the country from his home in Trenton, stopping over between trains to do a bit of personal banking (business. "What do you think of the ver dict in the Farnum case?" he was asked, as he boarded a street hack and ordered the driver to hurry to the Southern train. "Haven't thought very much about it one way or the other," he suid, ordering the driver to "go on. ' "It has tickled me no little to see how some people are worrying about it. And it has surprised and amused me to see how little the prosecution got out of its little game of bam boozling that fellow Wylie into a confession." By that time the Sen ator was making his way rapidly toward the depot. He told a friend that it was his intention to do no lecturing this year, that he was gt tag home and stay there till Congress opened, de voting his attention to farming. BANK STATEMENT ISSUED. Examiner Wilson Gives Out Figures Showing Condition. The following statement of the condition of the L'38 State and four private banks doing business in South Carolina at the close of business on September S, 1909, has been re ceived from Mr. Giles L. Wilson, j State bank examiner. In addtion to ' the statement some comparisions I with similar reports of June H'A, j 190ft. and September 11, 190S, are i alto given: Total resources. 190S.$50.663.048.69 I Total resources, 1909. 55,137.132.08' Increase in one year.$ 4,474.0S::.39 Increase since June, 11)09. 2.S2S.S24.6? Total loans and dis counts .$39,20G.4S1.17 j Total loans and dis counts, 1909 ... 41.471,527.91 Increase in 1 year.$ 2,265,046.74 Increase since June, 1909 . 1,357,677.92 . C, TUUKSDAY. SKPT SERIOUS CHARGE Fear White Men Arrested for Whipping a Negro Man to Death MAN WAS ILL AND DIED The Low Abiding Citizens Are Very Much Aroused and the Governor Called Upon to Act?The Evidence in Not Convincing That the Whip ping Caused Death. The State says a report by a prom inent citizen of Greenwood county to Gov. Ansel's office-reveals a state of affairs at Dyson, near Ninety-Six, that demands immediate investiga tion. According to this report a ne gro died as a result of injuries in flicted by a revere whipping, and the magistrate, James -Rogers, held an inquest at which a verdict of "death from natural causes" or "heart disease" was brought in. The case as reported to Secretary Bethear Gov. Ansel being out of the city, was that the negro, who had worked for Henry Williamson, a farmer, had been arrested charged with violation of contract and taken to Greenwood jail. Last Saturday he was taken back by the men who placed him there and Saturday night the negro died. Some of the law-abiding citizens in the community determined to take up the matter with the State au thorities and as a result Mr. Beth'ea, on hearing of the facts, at once tele phoned Sheriff McMillan. The sher iff stated that he knew nothing of the arrival or departure of the pris oner. He promised to investigate the matter at once. The particulars of the whipping is given in a dispatch from Green wood to The State. The dispateh says four white men, Henry R. Wil liamson, Sloan Williamson, Ashby King and Sam W. Cooper, were ar rested and lodged In Jail by Sheriff McMillan on the charge of having caused the death of a negro, Gus Gilcrease, near Dyson's last Friday by whipping him. An inquest was held Saturday by Magistrate James Rogers of Ninety Six. An old negro named Robin son testified at tbe inquest, but stat ed that he knew nothing of the mat ter. Dr. John Lyon of Ninety-Six examined the body, with Magistrate Rogers, and saw the marks of whip ping, but nothing further developed. However, later the old negro Robiu . on came to Capr. James Rogers, the magistrate, and told him that he had :lOt told the i'Uth, that he kno v he was> a dead man If he toid the truth, but he had to tell the truth. He then told that the four men above named had whipped the dead negru and that he afterwards dropped dead. Magistrate Rogers sent the old negro on to Greenwood and he is now in jail. Gov. Ansel wired Sheriff McMillan to look into the matter with all possible diligence and also wired Magistrate Rogers, Sheriff McMil lan went to Ninety-Six and Maj. S. P. Brooks, foreman of the grand jury, also went clown to Ninety-Six, and they consulted with Magistrate Rog ers and other citizens there, and Sheriff McMillan placed the William sons under arrest .-there. Ashby King and Sam Cooper were in town and were arrested here. Henry R. Williamson is the young man who had to serve two years in the peni tentiary for the whipping of .1. H. Wertz, now living in Greenwood, then a neighbor of Williamson's. The correspondent interviewed all four men now under arrest and they deny the charge made against them. They state that they did not whip the negro. Two of them, Cooper and King, say they were not with the Williamsons but a short time, having met them in the road, that the negro got out of the buggy and started to the field to work and dropped, that Henry Williamson went to him and asked him what was the matter and the negro said he was sick; that the negro got up and started off again and dropped again, that they carried him to his sister's house nnd that Henry Williamson sent for a doctor, but the negro died soon after. Henry Williamson had the negro under contract but he ran away about three months ago. He gave a description ?>f him to different chiefs of police in adjoining towns and last Thursday the negro was ar re.-ted in Greenwood by Chief Mc Combs. Williamson w:<s in town Friday on his way home from a show at Abbeville and was told by Chief McCombs that the negro was there. He carried the negro on homo with him on the train and says that he told the negro if he wanted to go hack to work it would be all right. He was met at Dyson by his buggy, driven by the negro. Robert Robin son. The four drove off in the bug gy and he says that the dea'h of the negro occurred as above stated. Chief .Mc,'J>ml? says the U'-gro was sick while at Greenwood, that lie wins .-01 um-nng as in- walked, th.it when he offered him some diuuei the negro told him he was too sick to etil and told him what was the matter with him, and thai he was ir. a mighty bad fix. He said that In carrying him to the jail th<? negro could hardly get along. Dr. John Lyon's testimony at the inquest was substantially as follows: EMBER 0. 190 > COTTON PICKER INVENTED BY A BENXETTSVILLE . MAN IS A SUCCESS. Operated by Seven Hands and Will Pick From Four to Six Thousands Pounds Per Day. For years the genius of the South has been trying to solve the problem of labor saving in the cotton fields with especial reference to the picking of the cotton, the great bug-a-boo of the planter. Mason of Sumter and others have made partially success ful experiments, but nothing has yet been found practical. A Ben nettsville genius now thlnk? he has solved the problem. The Advocate of that town in speaking of the in vention says: < A few days ago Angus Campbell, representing Theodore Prtce, the well known New York Cotton man and speculator, was in Bennettsville for the purpose of securing a field of cotton for the demonstration of Mr. Campbell's cotton picker, in which Mr. Price and others are interested. It was announced that the cotton would remain in the field till about the first of October, when Mr. Price und his associates would come to Bennettsville and try the machine in the field of cotton, which was ob tained from Mr. Price's friend, ex Senator John L. McLaurln. A few days after Mr. Campbell was here, a telegram was received from New York, announcing that the factory which was making the cotton picker had been burned down, and that the demonstration would have to be called off. While the people of this section will not have the anticipated pleas ure of seeing the Campbell-Price picker demonstrated here .they will be able to see one Invented and manufactured - by a Bennettsville man. J. M. Brasington, the inven tor and manufacturer of the. Star pea h'ullef, and other valuable farm ipachlnery of his own Invention. He expects to have It ready, for ,a practical trial in the field within the next few weeks. Mr. Brasington's picker will be operated on the Buction principle. It will have six arms and when one of them touches an open bole of cot ton, the staple will be drawn from the boll and up the hollow arm into a receptacle. The principle is the ^ame as that by which cotton -is sucked up from a stall or wagon into a ginnery. The machine will be propelled and operated by a gasoline engine. The wheels will run in the middle of the rows and the machine will be high enough to move over the top of the stalks. The arms will be di rected to the open bolls by hand. There will be an operator for each arm, one on each side of the row, and three rows will be picked at a time. The arm will merely touch the boll, when the cotton will be instantly sucked out and will be passing up into the receptacle while the arm is being moved to the next boll. Mr. Brasington has tried the ma chine by taking stalks of cotton to it in the factory here, it picks the cotton clean, and he is convinced that a practical demonstration in the field will prove it to be a suc cess. He estimates that a machine will pick from 4,000 to fi,000 pounds a day. It will require seven hands? six to operate the arms, and an en gineer. The 'machine will be so constructed that the engineer can regulate the speed for thick or thin cotton. * (JOES ON THE GANG. j Father and Son Convicted of Selling Contraband. The State says five Lexington prisoners were lodged at the Colum bia police headquarters Monday night, between trains by Deputy Sheriff Miller of Lexington, who was tak ing them to the Lexington county ehaing.ing at Swansea. The batch of convicts was all the more inter esting on account of the presence of an old negro 12 years of age, and j blind, in the party. His name is Jesse Robinson, Sr., and he has been convicted of violation of the dispen j sary law. His son. Jesse Robinson, jr.. .10 year,, of age. was convicted on the same charge and he too was in the party. Just what work the blind negro of 72 will do is a m:-r. ler of conjecture. Tried Cntil Acquitcd. In the court uf general sessions ?ir Laurens Monday Albert Duncan, a young white man, was found not guilty of thy charge <?!' assault with Intent tu ravish, alleged to have been committed on ihe person of a little nincryear-ohl girl, who li.<s near Cold i'oius. .'?; tin- las; Qf eoi n Ounean ivas found guilty, but was gfauted a new trial by .Judge Prince. "Upon examining I found fl.;as*?d suffering from a foul disease. He had bruises apparently from whip ping. 1 do not think ci>-. bruises were sufficient ;>> e.suse fjeat'n in if '-It. I : hink I he <> >?;.. ? .1 de i Primarii;, fron. plic !. ver. The im mediate cause was probably from ex haustion. Tlie bruises on the body were caused inside of 4.8 hours of death." He further says he saw no blood on the clothing and no other ?vidence of violence except the bruis es referred to above. THE FARMERS' UNION IS A GRAND ORGANIZATION AND ALL FARMERS OUGHT To Be Members of It and Work to Make It the Greatest Benefit to Them. Notwithstanding the fact that they were seriously handicapped during the past .season in meeting their financial obligations, and in the reali zation of that prosperity* that is rightfully theirs, by the distressingly low price of cotton, yet the farmers of the South can easily overcome these grave difficulties by a more marked adherence to the principles of their different organizations in the future than in the past, says Paul Williams in the Macon Telegraph. The fact has been demonstrated . that the thing for the Southern farm er to do in order to obtain a legiti ! mate price for his- cotton is to uring . himself to the point where he can. hold it Just as long as he wants to, but before this can be done it is absolutely necessary that he raise his food products at home. This is the main thing to do in order i to make Southern agricultural con 1 ditions assume a more satisfactory . aspect. Let the Southern farmer imme diately resort to the wisdom and advisability of raising his own food supplies instead of depending for them upon the Western farmers, and a wonderful change will be brought about In the agricultural situation down South. In fact, such a wonder ful change that the cotton market will nearly always present a bullish aspect, because the control of the price of the fleecy staple will have been wrested from the grasp of the j Wall street manipulators and' plac j cd In the control of the Southern farmers. . . Then there will be no repetition' of the very unsatisfactory and deplor able conditions that existed to sucb' ? striking extent last fall, tremen dously handicapping the farmers in cancelling their pecuniary obliga tions. No bills will have to be car ried over for nnother year, but debts will be paid promptly, and farmers, bankers, merchants and others in terested will enjoy the splendid pros perity that is the Inevitable result of the farmer being his own boss. Many a farmer joins the Union thinking that a membership in the organization is all that is necessarv Mi obtaining satisfactory results from their farming operations. Tbey don't seem to realize that unless I they carry out their obligation as J representatives of that organization j they will never come into the pos session of the manifold blessings and benefits that must inevitably result from a full discharge of the duties and obligation?, that rest up on them as members of that organi zation. Unless they remain steadfastly in their loyalty to the principles of the Union, every fall they will be con fronted by the awful realization that necessity forces them to surrender to the cotton manipulators of Wall street in order to meet their com mercial obligations with the bankers and merchants and others with whom they have dealings. This surrender means low prices for their cotton and the consequent disasters attend ant upon it. The agricultural mir ror in the South reflects- a very sad state of affairs, indeed. It reflects the heart-rending spec tacle of thousands upon thousands of farmers bowing down to tile' pro fessional gamblers of Wail street, suffering the terrible and almost un bearable humiliation and mortifica tion of having others dictate the price of the products that they have raised by the sweat of their brows It reflects the sad picture of the farmer.- having to mortgage their homes and plantations in order to alleviate the terror of low priced cotton. It shows the aristocratic gentle men of Wall street growing rich off the labors of the Southern farmers, buying their cotton of their own prices and then coining millions of tbe silver wheels by gambling and speculating with the fleecy sta ple. It reffects the s:id picture of tbe Soul hern tillers of the soil losing millions and millions of dollars an nually because of the dictation of the price of cotton by the profes sional gamblers that dwell in Wall strei t, and it reflects thousands of other equally as sad and humiliat ing pictures. By a little more progressiveness and energy on the part of our South ern farmers their mirror could be made to reflect vastly different pic tun.-. It would reflect the noble, com man !ing spectacle <if thousands upon thrissan is of the sturdiest and most progressive farmers on the face nt t!<" globe developing and utiliz ing the wonderful agricultural pos sibilities <>;" the South to such an extent as would enable them to en joy prosperity, contentment and in dependence to quite an eminent de gree, raising their own food sup plies and not making a specialty of cotton and consequently living in ? ii pletp and glorious independence i f the v :<H sii.r mercenaries, ea ? ? i . .?< and prof?*?*i<?n2.1!y pro 'iMilgating ihe principles of their va rious organizations, developing among themselves the highest ideals of civilization and Christianity and thus making the beautiful Southland the richest and the most prosperous and the most enlightened section of the globe. 0 CENTS PET? COPY GLOWING 1EIBUTE To Ihe Young Men cf the Scnth Dnrig the Ci/i) War Period THE BRAVEST AND BEST Rev. E. A. Osborne Makes Interest ing Oomparision Between the Si>ir ' it of the South and the Conditions ( at the Time of the War With 1 Those of the Present. At a meeting in Charlotte, N. C, by the Confederate Veterans on Mon day to pay tribute to the memory of Admiral Ralph Semmes, the great Confederate naval hero, many excel lent speeches were made. Rt. ReV. 1 E. A. Oiborne spoke with re"<erenco to the spirit of the young men of the South during the civil war pe riod and the exalted type of leaders produced, wheh he does not believe could be duplicated today under similar conditions. "Perhaps this country will never produce again," he began, "just such ,a race of men as that which lived in the last century. Especially does one feel this to be true of the great leaders of the South. We may pro duce as great men pf greater me,n even in different directions, for the world is growing. Humanity is n'6^ I iiminisbing at all in its powers, .it ,'is developing under Christian civil ization. But the conditions under which Semmes and tti'p other great leaders were born and reared were . peculiar and have now passed awaV . Especially was this so of the South. , I don't suppose that a more pat'ri-. otic race of men ever lived than that which peopled the South. Tfce'r [life, was rustic/- si'niple, .plain, up i pretentious! These are the very cOn? iditions that are calculated to produce the spirit of daring, self-reliahcS and manhood'. T'hey produced those' splendid qualities of human nature; "The Southern army illustrate^ that. It was not a well-disciplined 'army. It was not a remarkably well 'drilled army, but it was one of men ?men who lOvcd freedom, men,'tf&o\ lipved their homes, men who loved, constitutional liberty, men who lov ed their own simple life. They didn't care much about money. It was not a money-making age in the South, with one or two exceptions. Here and there a fortune had been accumulated, of course. But the vast majority of the men iu toe Southern army were of limited means; men who owned little homes in the country. To own the soil is a necessary condition of patriotism. Commercial men who do not own their homes or who are so much in terested in business that they spe-ud little time at home do not possess the same love of home and country that rural life produces. They waut to live and enjoy their wealth, too. The man who owns his little home in the country, whose living depends ?n his- tilling of the soil, lives tor.-. his home and his family asd will yield the last drop of blood in his body to resist any invasion by hos tile forces. "And so, while we have a pa.-*?on ate, tender and romantic love for the South," continued Colonel Os borne, "I doubt very much if under similar conditions today we would, be able to produce as strong exain ,ples of courage, fortitude and dar ing. I believe we, especially the peo ple of North Carolina, are a war like race. I ro not believe there is one more so ou the American con tinent. When the United States call ed for troops in the war with Spain the young men of the South hurried forward. It was my privilege to be with them for a time, l saw the same enthusiasm which 1 had seen 40 years before. But I saw also a different class of men, a diffi rent -pirit ard a different state of morals from that which prevailed on the previous occasion. I cannot but doubt if they would have shown fbe same dash, the same absolute confi dence in the rectitude of their cause and in their duty to fight. "It thrills my soul witii a pecu liar sensation to think of the wonder ful genius that led the Southern armies. Very likely the wurld will never witness again such a brilliant galaxy of men. Christian m^n, of cultivated minds, broad and deep learning, soldiers, who trusted in the Triune Cod for the justice of their cause and willingly laid their lives on the altar. "I shall never forget the feeling of pride and joy the soldi* rs of the Confederacy felt when they thought of the glorious Semmes dominating the broad ocean and bringing terror to the enemy. While the |-.^rs of United States ships were hovering about the coasts keeping out what little bit of commerce the Sostli might have received, this one man was frightening th<> ships of :S ^ae my out of their wits." Killed in Runaway. Miss Ida Hurrel, the fourteen-year old danght? r of Mr. M. .1. Harrel, a prominent farmer, living three miles from Qnitman, Ca.. was instantly hilled Monday afternoon by heins thrown from a buggy. .Miss Harrell and her cousin were driving home from school, when the hor.^e t>ecame frightened and ran away. The other voung lady succeeded in stopping the frightened horse after he had ran nearly a mile.