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'45 SLANAHAN. kan Didn't Oome self But Sent davit. of the investigat H. Welch ask allowed to pre Mr. Samuel J. . He said that o to get Mr. La on and .that the ent right. The e following af $ounty of Rich e before me S. oath, deposes. eference to the s W. Parker be estigating com on the 6th day of es the following L. W. Boykin was rm of William Lan Naa salesman, but this 61 prior to his election as a -of the board of directors of iate dispensary: that Mr. Boykin .evered his connection with said as said salesman and otherwise t a year before his said election. le Mr. Boykin was in our employ id salesman he was paid a salary, ourse, but this salary ceased the ent. he severed his connection i the firm as salesman. He has er been in our employ since, nor e I or any other member of our paid him one dollar as salary or erwise since lie severed his connee as above stated with our business. ever told Mr. Parker anything dif lnt from this. From what Mr. rker has testified to before the com ttee lie has evidently either entirely understood what I have said and nt or his recollection of what -was (d is absolutely erroneous. I never ant by anything that was said to nvey the impression that while Mr. ykin was a member of the board lie resented me or my firm, or that we re paying him one cent. (Signed.) Samuel J. Lanahan. he following is an extract from testimony of Mr. Lewis V. Parker iven at Columbia, on June 6, before the members of the dis sary investigating committee: should say, as well as I can fix the e, about January, 1905, or possibly htly later than that, I met Mr. ahman b)y appointment, lie being a her of the reorganization commit of the Olympia Cotton mills in York. I had first met him in Bal ore on the way to New York, and a talk with hiiin at. the Maryland e then got into a general conver tion as to conditions, and I express to him my surprise'that conditions ere such that a well-established and of liquor, such as lie sold Hunter rye,'' should not be able to cure a good portion of the business. i'. Lanahan then told me that it re ired something more than good li ~or to get the business; that lie hmad oght he had made ,arrangements ich would insure his getting the ~siness, a fair prop)ortion of the bus ess, but that he found that things d not stand arranged, and that he as not getting his share of the busi ess, and that he would have to take ps which would iiisure his getting .He told me that on a previous sit in the state he had arranged Ith one of the mnemnbers of the board control for Mr. Boykin to be his presentative on board of control, d to see to it that he got his share the business; that at the last let ng of contracts he had not gotten hat he felt he was entitled to, or aything approaching it, and that lie ad then gone to see Mr. Bloykin, and proached him for not giving him his are of the business, to wvhich M. ~ykini replied that lie had not gotten y more satisfactory offer from oth Sfor himself, but that others were vid ing for other members of the ily than himself, and blood b)e thicker than wvater, ho felt that should have to do what he could !thie interest of those wvho would not y' help hirm, but help his kin, as a *gtain western house, of which lhe yme me the name, but which I cannot ~all now, either a Louisville or Cini nati house, I think, was employing sbrother-in-law, a Mr. Cantey, as I collect the name, and was doing ually as well by him as Mr. Lana n. CI oxpressed my great surprise at ch a statement and continued the oiversation. Mr. Lanahan then told othat after his conversation with rn. Boykin, and Boykin 's continual efusal to agree to assure him that ho * ould secur'e his fair proportion of orders, that lie had gone to Mr. Evans, th chairman of the board, and stat d oMr. Evans, must look after Mr. anahan 's interests, as Mr. Boykin eclined to do it. That Mr. Evans re plied: "You go back and tell Mr. Boykin (with an oath, as I recall it) "tlat lie must do it; that according to our arrangements lie has to look af ter you, and I can do nothing in it un til I,aul assured that he is not going to look after you, and if he does not, then you come back to me.'" He told me that Mr. Boykin still t6ok-the po sition that he would not promise .to see that lie got his fair share of or ders, and that, therefore, he.felt- that is was essential that lie got a represell tative in the state, and asked me to advise him of a suitable party, who would have personal influence with the members of the board, and more over be in such position that the mem bers of the board could not afford to go counter to him, or to fail to -any agreement made by him, I again re peated to Mr. Lanahian that I regret ted that I was not in positon to ad vise him at all with reference to the subject, and that I could not suggest a name to him. That occurred, as I recall it, in the morning, and subse quently that day, in the club in-Balti more, being present there with a num ber of gentlemen amongst who were Capt. E. A. Smyth, of Pelzer, Mr. Lanahan, something having led up to the dispensary system in South Caro lina, stated various facts connected with the administration, of the law, I do not recall the details of the state ments; I know that they were mudli on the line of what I said here, and T would not care to undertake to give tihe details of the conversation. It was about the administration of th( law, and the terms on which sales ol whiskey were made in the state. A BLAOK MAN'S OOUNTRY. In so Far as Numbers South Africa Is Entitled to the Distinction Native Tribes Hostile. lindon Tributie. South Africa is to all intents and purpose i black man's country-itE history aid vital statistics are conleh sive on the point. The earliest reeord ed inhabitants were the little pun) 3u1shimenl, who may now be regarlde(l as ptactically, if not quite, extinct They were followed from the north b.) the Hottentcts, a supeIrior race, wh( gr1adually occupied all the westerr part of. South Africa down to th< cape, where the Dutch found then when they established the settlemen1 at Table Bay in 1652. The Hottentot: were di--en down south and west h the Bantus or Koffirs from the north who gradnally possessed all the terri tory in the eastern half of South Afri. ea. Wvedged bet-ween the Kamrl",s an( (le Dutch, the Hottentots began t< dininish, and now there are but fe remaining wNhio have not some Euro pean blood in their veins, except om or two tribes in German South-Wes Africa. The Kamr tribes, however, include on the east coast, belowv the Dr-akens bei-g, the Zulus, the' Swazis, the Am atongas, and other nations ;while wes of these, scattered over the inlan< plateau where the .Boers made' theil chief settlements, live the Basutos an< Bechtuanas and, fur-ther north, ii Rhodesia, the Matabele, a branch o: the Zulus. The Bantus of the nortl and east coast number several million: and arec by nature more flerce than the Basutos and Bachuanas. Nowaday: we recognize in South Africa the Zu Ius, Basutos, Matabele, and Swaizis all great and warlike nations-one o: them, the Basutos, actually uncon quered by the white man to' this day though nominally under his aegis then the Bechuanas, Mashonas, Shan gans, Pondos, and Fingos, timid b: tempet-ament, cowed by conquest, o: subdued by civilization; and finall: the dissolutte, lazy, generic ''Kamlr,' spawtn of all andl 1pride of none. 'Ph black man from the East is an imnport edl factor-; and the Kr-ooman of th< wvest coast stokes his majesty 's ship: to the ports and pays but brief visit; to the shtor-e. As foi- the Lascar sailor lie is a bir-d of passage, of whose com ing and going none take note-hei regaided as an alien and a pariah. The indigenious native population o South Afr-ica may be taken as ove 5,500,000, hut the colour question i lar-gely complicated by the influt o: Inidians to Natal. In 1904 the Euro peants there( of whom 50 per cent wereo born in the colony) number-e< 97,109; the natives 904,041, gnd th< Itndians and other- Asiatics, 107,604 So that the tnatives outnumber-ed th< whites by 806,932; the Asiatics wver< 10,495 in excess of the Br-itish 'an< Dutch; and the colored r-aces, al told, spelt the enormous total of 1, 011,045 to the 97,109 whites, or con sider-ably mor-e than ten to one. In the Cape Colony the census fIg r-es show 579,741 -whites, 1,803,43 natives, and 20,632 colored; the Ti-an vaah (including Swaziland), 300,224 whites, 1,030,029 natives, and 23,94' ''other-s;'' the Orange River Colony 143,149 whites, and 241,646 native and colored persons; Rhodesia (ap proximately), 13,500- whites, 1,337, 200 natives, and 1,950 colored; and Basutoland, '895 whites, 347,731 na tives, and 222 colored. The British South African aggregate, therefore' gives 5,324,432 natives and colored people, is against 1,134,889 white men women and children, or more than five to one. litclude in the white. totals here given are the Imperial troops in gar.rison and camp in the various colonies in 1904; but to these figures have now to be added in the Trans vaal,.under the description '"others,?! some 50,000 Chinese indentured labor ers employed. on the mines for a limit ed term'of years. As showing the mixed i ature of the colored races in South Africa, apart from the natives proper, it is interesting to note that included in the 26,632 colored people in the Cape Colony alone are Malays, Indians, Chinese, Abyssinians, Af ghans, Arabs, Ashanti, Assyrians, Briquas, Chilian, Cingale.se, Creoles, East Indians, Egyptians, Japanese, Kroonian, Liberian, Malagasy, Moors, Negroes, Persians, Philippinos, Soma lis, South American, Swahili, West Indian and Zansibaris. The disparity between the white and black population in some of the districts is enormous. For instance, in the King William's Town district of the Cape Colony, the scene of some of the most disastrous Kaffir wars of the last century, there were in 1904 only 11,334 whites in the midst of 92,218 natives. But even that is not an extraordinary case. In Glen Grey, a handful of 690 whites is begrit by 54,372 blacks; in Herschel, 279 by 36, 620; in Komgha, 640 by 13,066; in Peddie, 1,343 by 18,360; and so on. It is really only in the largest 'cities and in some of the Dutch districts that the white exceeds the native and col ored papulation, and even there the differences are comparatively small. The Cape Division (which includes the municipality of Cape Town) shows a European surplus of but 27,533, in a total population of 212,257; and the mu1iciplity of Johannesburg only 3,209 in 160,017. In the Witwaters rand district (which embraces Johan nesbur, and several other important nitiicipalities), with a population of 260,388, the natives and colored peo pIle exceed the whites by 27,048, and this without reckoning the 50,000 Cihinese. In Swaziland, with a total )opulation of 85,484, the percentage of natives is nearly 99, there being on ly 898 whites as against 84.531 na tives and 55 ''others.'' The Zout pansberg district of the Transvaal shows 7,803 whites amidst 309,349 na tives and 266 ''others.'' Of conrse, the strongest guarantee against any general rising on the part of then atives of the South African colonies lies in the want of political cohesion amongst the various tribes, ma'ny of which have by no means for gotten the sanguinary traditions of in ter-racial wars in the past, when the hosts of the dreaded Chaka and Mose likatse, and later of Cetewayo and Lobengula, used to harry their weaker neighbors wvith fire and assegia, spar ing neither age nor sex. * IhlasLamort H. R.M. - EiasLamertHendrix. As it. has pleased God in his wise providence to take from us our dear Shusband and father, Elias Lambert Hendrix, age 57 years, one month and fifteen days, it is a sore grief to our ,heart, but he said lie had the sweet assurance of heaven, asking me, his wife, to sing, when the last breath was leaving his body, so I could help him rejoice. I hope he is rejoicing - with Christan the angels, as lhe has left me to weep. Hie died May 14, 19061. lie was a comfort at home andI abroad, so lively and cheerful. 3 We had a little treasure once, -I Hewas our' joy and pride, 3 We loved him, ahm, perhaps too well, i For soon lie slept and dlied. ,All is (lark within our' dwelling, - Lonely are our' hearts today, For the (one we loved so dearly Has forever passed away. Wife and Daughter. A Corn Fed-Humorist. Two gentlemen were traveling in - one of the hill counties of Kentucky . not long ago, bound on an explora-, I tion for pitch pine says the Rearder SMagazine. They had been driving .for two hours without encountering 3 a human b)eing, when they came in sight of a cabin in a clearing. It I was very still. The hogs lay where I they had fallen, the thin clay-bank - mule grazed 'r.ound and 'round in a - neat circle, to save the trouble of walking, and one lean, lank man, - whose garments were the color of the c lay-bank mule, leaned against a tree - and let time roll by. 5 ''Wonder if lhe can speak?'' said 1 onme traveler to the other, ,''Try him,'' said his companion. i The two approached the, man - whose yellowish eyes regarded them without apparent curiosity. "How do you do?" said the North erner. "Howdy," remarked the Southern. Dr languidly. 1912leasant coultry.1f "Fur them that likes it." "Lived here all your life?" The Southerner spat pensively in the dust. "Not yit,". he said. The Best of the Poem. "I don't see anything in that poet's new poem.' ' "Of course you don't," replied the editor in chief " because I opened it t'irst and took a five dollar bill out of it. Oxive it good place-top column, next reading matter!"-Atlanta Con titution. Flatter a storekeeper in a small town and he imaggines that he was out.out for a merchant prince And many a man's bravery is due to his knowledge of the fact that the other fellow is a coward. Real Estate and Insurance. Do you have Real Estate to sell or rent which you do not care to have advertised to the general public? If so, place it in our hands and we will give it our personal study and atten tion. We have standing buyers for cer tain kinds of land. Do you want to buy Real Estate? If you nicar, business come to see us for we have some property for sale that might greatly surprise you as well as interest you. If you don't mean business come to see us anyway and we will tell you all we know about the weather. We undertake to sell no property before we have inspected it and ap proved the price. Loans negotiated on approved security. Rents and accounts collected. We are agents for the Aetna Life Insurance Company. It will pay you to see what this old reliable and con servative company has to offer before placing your Insurance. More and more men are beginning to understand what this statement me:3. Office over the Commercial Bank. W K. SLIGH & COMPANY suffffir Vacation Is in every one's thought today. However you go Rail, Steamer or Motor Car. Wherever you go To the Mountains or Sea Shore. Take a Kodak with you. An outing without a Kodak is like hunting without a gun. I have just received a full line of Kodaks and Kodak supplies. That I rnight be able to supply your wants, remember the Book Store before leaving town. My prices of Kodaks start at $1.00. For Sale. The residence now occupied by Mr. Chas. J. Purcell. Also the residence on the same square occupied by M r. Frank R. Hunter. For terms and prices ap ply to M r. W. F. E wart at my store. For Rent. The Paysinger store. Possession given July 1st. Terms $40.00 a month payable month-d ly at the end of each month. A. C. JONES. June 25, 1906. 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