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VOLME XLVIE. NUMBER 21 NWER,SUHCRLN,TEDY AC 5 90 WC EK 15 EE
SOUTH CAROLINA AND
MASSACHUSETTS UNITE
pAL=PTTO WOMEN UNVdlE
CALHOUN STATUE.
With Governor Ansel Presiding and
.Wumber of iongresmen Taking
Part Bronze ]Figure Is For
mally Presented.
Washington, March 12.- South
Carolina and Massachusetts united
today in paying tributes to the life,
character and work of JOhn C. Cal
houn. Henry Cabot Lodge, senator
from Massachusetts, and SaMIael
Walker Meoall, representative from
Massauhusettj, joined the South
Carolina delegation in doing homage
to the great Americam, statesman.
Virginia, too, was represented by
Capt. John, Lamb, represWa.ve
from Richmond.
At 11 o'clock this morming the
Calhoun statue, having been clothed
for the o&casion with the United
States flag and decorated about with
flags of South Carolina, was formal
y unveiled by Mrs. R. Moultrie
Bratton and Miss Margaret Gist,
members of the statue commison.
,There was a loud and prolonged
clapping of hands 4by the opeectators
in the midst of which a loud "rebel
yell'' was let loose in one e ener,
Representative Ellerbe being unable
to restrain -his enthusiasm. The lone
voeiferation was itself applauded
by renewed clapping of hands. Gov.
Amsel was presiding, up beside the
sttue where a little stand was
reeted.
Out in fron), in the old hall of
the house of representatives i1a
which Calhoun first took his seat
when be entered upon his long ea
rer at the national capital now used
as statuary hall, were placed some
SO-odd chairs. Thirty were placed
there at first, this number being
judged enough. Buti soon the*
were all taken and fifty more were
-brought out. About 200 had to
stand up after these were all filled.
It was an unusual crowd for such
an oceasion,far larger than any one
expected.
*Opened with Prayer.
The proceedings were opened with
prayer by Rev. James H. Taylor, a
South Carolinian, inow pastor of
OCtneal Phlesbyberianh chuireh an
Washington.
Gov. Ansel made a brief state
ent, presenting the statue to the
'people of the United States," and
referring to the fitness of the se
ketion and of the location in this
hall, facing .the statue of Webster.
Then the unveiling took place, after
whih the governor introduced the
unveiling orator, W. L. Mauldin. Mr.
Maldo3 had left his speech at home.
It was Friday he says, when he
Pstarted on this journey and instead
of putting his -carefully prepared
speeh in his grip he put in a nice
little roll of blank mortgages and
a obody noticed thiis, how
ever, for he. made an interesting off
band speeeh to whieh the crowd hs
tened with appreciation and ap
proval.
Mr. Mauldiin said that the for
bars -of Calhoun were early and
eager rebels against the oppressive
c overnment of their day and there
fore -Calhoun came anaturally ,by his
pirit of protest against the danger
oxs unonstitutional tendencies of
Fur own government. He spoke of
the times in South Carolina .when
Cahon: exercised so potent an in
fluence, telliiig of the strong union
party, particularly in -the upper
vortion of the State. There was a
large number of Irish Quakers who
left the State on account of slavery
nd setted in the Middle West. But
one family remained in South Caro
lina, to which was born a distin
uished Carolinian, John Belton
OO'Neall, a man who differed most
radically from Calhoun, but who
paid the highest tribute to his char
ater. Mr. Mauldin knew 0O'Neall.
He .elosed with assertion that
"outh Carolina abates not one jot
of its admiration and devotion to
this great representative of our
fathers.'
hre WS a sort of South Care
lina reception in the hal then for a
few minutes, after which most of
the party went to the galleries of
the senate. At a few minutes past
12 Senator Smith offered the reso
lution ac6nig t/he statul4 and
from that time until after 6 o'clock
South Carolina had charge of pro
ceedings' in the national capital, be
ing assisted, as stated above, by
Massachusetts and Virginia.
Lodge Makes First Speech.
The first speech was by Senator
Lodge, a iasterly and scholarly
analysis of the character of Gal
houn and its revolution from his
Scotch ancestry, followed by an in
terpretation of the Colhoun doe
trines. This latter was from jthie
Naw England standpoint, of course,
but without -any lack of apprecia
tion of the worth of the man or the
strength of his cause. In the House
Mr. Lever gave an equally m".sterly,
equally scholarly, analysis of the
constructive work of Calhoun in in
terpreting the constitution of the
United States.
Senator Lodge in the senate was
followed by Senator Smith. Sena
tor Money, the minority lead-er, one
of the best read men in. either branch
of congress, said, after the two
senate speeches, "Smith's speech
was one of the best I have ever
heard on such a subject in the sen
ate."
R4prdestarfative MI-ey presided
over the house first. When 'he went
on the floor to speak himself, he :alled
Mr. Lever to preside. Representa
tive Jo4nson, who had not intended
to speak 't :all, being sick, spoke
bout ten minutes, Teceaving the
tprofomndest attention, "while he paid
tribute to the high personal and
public character of Calhoun.
Avoids Lodge's Error.
Mr. MeOCall. who came next, did
-not fall into the historic errors of
Senator LoIdge. The senato,r had
characterized Calhoun as a "separa
tist," and declared that since George
Washington the North had stood for
union, and the South for ''separa
tion."
Mr. McCall declared that Cal
houn had really learned whatever
disunion views he may have had
while in Conneeticut, where, when
Calhoun was a student thre, a
strong and widespread sentiment ex
isted for breaking up the union.
Next came Mr. Lever, who attain
ed heights of scholarly workmnanshiip
and impressive oratory he had never
been known to reach before, and a
burst of enthusiasm from both sides
of the house annd the galleries broke
out as he sat down.
Capt Lamb, of Virginia, gave
womed intetesting reminisceneas of
his early youth, when Calhoun died,
and the captain's father, before the
family fireside, told of the great
ness of Calhoun and of t'he patriot
ism and martyndom,. of Calhonin's
father.
Mr. Elleroe spoke only about five
minutes, omitting to give an his
torical review, as most of the others
did. He paid a fine tribute to the
work of the statesman, who, he de
elared, had given his life to fighting
the protective policy.
Mr. Aikegs Speech.
Representative Aiken gave -an
able a:nd interesting view of the
statesman and his work. He said
that Calhoun had really defeated
Webster in the great debates and
gave quotations to show it.
IMr. Finley spoke last, and his
speeh was perhaps the most exhaust
ive treatment of the subject of all,
being over an hour long, and filled
with the results of pairnstaking re
search.
The general character of all the
speehes was far above the average
of such effusions, and both in the
house and in the senate as well as in
Statuarv hall there were far more
than the usual number of interested
listeners. The statue committee and
all of the Sout'h Carolina delegation
ae deserving of congratulationi
The statue stands now formally ac
epted. As a work of art it is one
of the two or three very best in the
hall. Two grandsons of John C.
Clh oun were present-Patrick Cal
honn, of Califonn~ia, and~ John C.
Calhoun, of New York. Mrs. Pat
ric Caloumm and six children were
also present. A number of other
South Carolinians were preseint.
among thm: Mrs. J. H. H. Calhoun,
of Clemson College, Mrs. W. H.
Perry, of Greenville, Joseph Ford
and his wife, Miss Virginia Lee
MeMaster, formerly of Columbia,
now of Baltimore, Capt. John G.
Capers, Mr. and Mrs. Charles M.
Galloway, Brooks Wingard, Mbis
Edna Ellerbe, Mrs. Lewis W. Has
kell, Capt. Johnson Hagood, -the
Misses Tillman and th-eir guest, Miss
Bettis, of Trenton, Mrs. Thos. H.
Daniel, Mrs. Finley, Mrs. Ellerbe,
Mrs. Johnson, wives of congressmen.
Gov. Ansel left tonight for Co
lumbia.
CARLOAD OF BABIES FREE.
Little Ones Givein Away in New Or
leas.-From a Foundling
Asylum.
New Orleans, March 9.-This is
the day they gave babies away in
New Orleans. And the human gifts
did not go begging.
A carload of the little tots arriv
ed here this morning from the New
York foundling and orphan asylum
with an eager crowd of claimants
awaiting their #arrival. In addition
to those who haid previously made
successful claim to a baby, many
pressed about the car in the hope
that there might be some "left
over.
Their disappointment was keen
wh-en they found that the advance
demand was fully up to the present
supply.
Defends Cook.
"I shall believe that Dt. Cok,
the explorer, is an honest man un
til there is definite proof to the con
trary," Dr. Maurice F. Egan, min
ister to Denmark, declared to the
members of the University club at
Washington. Dr. Egan was the first
Americatn, citizen to greet Dr. Cook
upon his arrival at Copenhagen from
his trip in the aretic. - .
The statement followed the ex
planation by Minister Egan that the
Danish board which passed on Dr.
Cook's records has simply declared
that the records furnished them by
Dr. .Cook were not sufficient to on
able them to say he had ,been to the
north pole. He also explained that
jletters to him recently indicate that
~fully'half of .the people of Denmark
still believe that Dr. Cook will prove
ihimself 'honest.
For Secretary ~of State.
IHon. Thomas H. Rainsford, State
senator from this county, has been
rprominen'tly mentioned *as the next
secretary of state of Southi Carolina.
He has been urged from various see
t.ions of the State to become a can
didate and if he should decide to
run, it is said that his election is
assured. Mr. Rainsford is one of
the largest and most successful far
mers of this county, a good man and
upright citizen. He has every qual
Iification to make a good secretary of
state and his friends hope to see
him enter the race. Mr. R,ainsford.
has been. a mem4ber of 'the hous~e of
representatives and is now a mem
1ber of the senate from this county
with two more years to serve.
A Nws-Monitor man spoke to
M.Raisfrd about the matter, but
Mr. was non-committal, not desiring.
to express his intentions atthis er
ly date. A man that has managed
his own personal affahis on a busi-.
ness and successful basis would be
sure to make. a good secretary of
state. He is a genial man and
-treats all with the utmost courtesy.
-Johnston News Mohitor.
BLEASE ANNOUNOBS
HE WILL BE IN~ RACE.
Spartanbarg Herald.
Washington., Mareih 10.-Cole L.I
Bkease, mayor of' Newberry, is in!
Washington on professional busi
ness. Mr. Blease states that he will
be in the race for governor this
year and expects to win. He is ac
companied by F. H. Dominick, a
ANOTHER STRIKE
IS POSSIBILITY.
Deny Brotherhood's Request Thab
Certain Points be Granted Be
fore Dispute is Submitted.
Chioago, March 12.-President W.
S. Carter, of the Brotherhood f LA
comotive Firemen and Enginemen,
on behalf of the firemen, to-day sent j
to the general manager's committee
of the railroads a request for a clear
statenent of the employers' posi
tion. 'Thd brotiherhood ask41 for
information on three points in their
demand, viz:
Increased wage scale, which the
railroads say would amount to an
i.ncrease of 22 1-2 per cent., but
which the firemen say would equal
only 12 1-2 per cent.
The right of the union to repre
sent the fireman after he has been
promoted either to an engineman or
'to any other capacity.
The right of the union, to have
the say in the questions of seniority
or promotion of old-time employees.
In previous negotiations the broth
erhood said it was willing to submit
the wage question to arbitration un
der the Fman act, provided the
other two points were settled with
out the aid of a third party.
Denies the Request.
It was announced by the general
managers' ommittee tonight that
an answer was directed and sent to
President Carter, denying thiS re
quest, and leaving it -to the union,
dsite -their "strike vote," to take
what future couse they think best.
The answer, it wa said, probably
will reawh Mr. Carter tomorrow. It
is said the recent vote, showing
more than 80 per cent. of the men
to be against ameepting the offer of
the rilroa'ds would eaeble the na
tional officials to call a strike at any
time.
Negotiations have been on for six
weeks. About 47 Western railroads
are involved. If a strike were call
ed, it is said, 25,000 other em
ployees would be thrown out.
-At to-day's meeting 10 general
managers were present. At the close
of the session a member of the com
mittee said:
"'Although we confidently hope to
reach an agreement on arbitration,
the situation is most critical. In
the face of the so-ealle'd strike vote
we have told the men -we will not
grant two points they ask before
submitting the wage dispute to ar
hitration. A strike at this time eer
tainly would 'not be wise. We do
not wish to alram the business inter
ests of the country and we shall
exert every influence to induce the
brotherhood to continue to act in a~
friendly spirit. They probably will
receive our arnswer tomorrow to
their latest 'demandes and we trust
the whole matter will be settled by
Monday.''
'0. L. Diekeson, .assistant to the
president of -the Chicago, Burlington
& Quiney railroad, gav'e ont a for
mal statement as follows:
Does Not Fear Strike.
''We believe the public need have
no fear of a suspension of business
on account of a great railroad strike.
The railroads have spent several
weeks, eonducting peaceful negotia
tions with the men and we have.of
fered to arbitrate, under the gov
ernmenit law, placed on the statute
books at the. instance of organized
abor, the wage dispute. Three oth
er labor organizations have recently
accepted arbitration and andthir
important railroad, the Baltimore &
Ohio. has just succeeded in adjust
ing its differences with the trainmen
by mediation'. There is no reason
to believe that another intelligent
body of men, whom we 'have endeav
ored to deal fairly wiVli; .are going
to act hastily.''
CATTLE QUARANTINE RULBS
Arsenical Solution as Well as Crude
Petroleum Vo Be Employed for
i (D!ipping Cat(tle for Destruc
tion of Ticks.
The Departmeiot of Agriculture
will soon issue new regulations gov
erning the movement of cattle from
the area under quarantine on ac'
cont of Texas r tick fever. These
regulations will becomek eet.ve
about April 1, and will permit the
movement of cattle from the qua.
antined area provilded they areI
properly dipped under Government
suipervision. The new regulations
differ from those hitherto in effect
in that they provide for the employ
ment on an arsenical dipping fluid as
well as for crude petroleum which
has hitherto been used for the des
truction of the ticks that transmit
he disease. Experiments. by the
Bureau of animal industry in dipping
cattle in an -arsenical solution indi
cate that this method of treatment
is sufficiently effective to be permit
ted! for cattle intended for interstate
movement for purposes other than
immediate slaughter.
The vats in which such dipping is
done is under supervision shall be
approved -by the departmqnit; they
shall have, at their maximum work
ing capacity, a length of not less
than 40 feet at the dip line, a width
of 34 to 40 inches, and a minimum
depth of swim of 5 1-2 feet; the sides
shall be perpendienar instead of
sloping; the only slope below the dip
line being that the end from which
the cattle leave the vat. The slide
board shall be 5 to 5 1-2 feet long
with a slope of not less than 45 de
grees. Vats that are already install
ed, ihich have a length of not less
than 35 feet at the dip line, other
wise conforming to the above re
quirements, !except that they may
have sloping sides, may be approved,
provided, of course, that they were
well constructed, water-tight, and
in general good condition. The vats
shall be covered. when not in use;
shall be so eonstructed that- water
from rains and overflows can. not
run in them, and that the drainage
into the vats from the drainage pens
shall be cut off when they are not in
use.
In order that the dipping of cattle
may be facilitated, the Department
of Agriculture desires to secure im
mediately the names of manufactur
ers-'who can furnish to eattle owners
or others interested a standard
grade of white arsenic whieh must
be finely powdered and guaranteed to
be at least 99 per eent pure. The De
partmenit wishes the manufacturers
to place upon packages intended for
use in dipping a statement guaran
teeing that the arseniceconforgns to
the standards of purity indicated.
Communieations on this subjeet
should be 'addressed to the Chief
of the Bureau of Awimd In
dustry, Department of Agrieul
ture, Washin'gton, D. C. 'Copies of
the new quarantine regula4ons
when .issued may be obtained on ap
plication to the Bureau.
The territory under quarantine for
'Texas fever embraces the whole
states of Louisiana, Alabama, Flori
da and parts of 'California, -Texas,
Okl'ahomna, Missouri, Arkansas, Ten
oessee, Mississippi, Georgia, S. Car
lina, N. Carolina and Virginia. The
area undi.r quarantine 'has been, re
duced by more than 80,000 square
miles within the last three years
as a result of the campaign being
waged by the Federal and State au
thoitieb [s )he extermiinaltion of
~the tieks, and as this work progress
es the quarantine will be removed
from additional territory.
Columbia M.usic Feival, May 4, 5,
1910.
Columbia, S. C., 'March 8.-Spec
ial: May 4 anid 5 are the dates for
the Columbia Music Festival to be
held in the Columbia t'heatre under
the auspices of the Columbia Musie
Festival associatice', when the Pitts
burg Festival orchestra, forty play
ers, conducted by Carl, Bernthaler,
with at least six artists, will give a
series of three concerts.
The soloists already engaged are:
Mine. Jeanne Jonelli, prima donna
~soprano, formerly of t'he Metropoli
tan and Manhattan Opera companies;
Mmne. Alice Merritt-,Cochran, sopra
no; Miss Lil'ia Snelling, contralto,
'f the Metropolitan ;Opera company;
Dr. Franklin D. Lawson, toiner; Frank
Croxton, bass.
For the elosing concert Mme.
Schumann-Heink, Mmne. Louise Ho
mer or some star of equal rank will
be engaged.
Peras the moi. attractive fa-.
ture of the Festival will be the chil
dren's choras of several hundred
voices, trained by Miss K. C. Bolliag
er, and conducted by Mr. W. G.
Utermoehlen, of Columbia College.
The children will sing three ohorases
at the matinee concert, with orehes
tral accompaniment: waltz song,
"Blow Soft Winds;" "The Ria
bow;" "Merry June," the musie by
Oharles Vincent.
The adult chorus of over two hun
dred voices will be conducted by
Mr. George Summer Kittredge, of
the College for Women. Rubenstein's
gl1rious "Ang((s' 4horus," f'o=
"Paradise Lost,'' and probably two
smilar echoral works will be sung at
the opening ooncert.
That the best elass of attratioms
is offered., and that in artistie ex
cellence .the May festival will sur
pass that given last April the aso
ciation ,feels confident in making
this announcement. There wil be
other attractions for the visitors in
Columbia during Festival week. The
Mystic Grey of Martians will give
their fiTst entertainment at this
time. This will be, one of the bril
IHant social events of the year and
it is expected that guests fron al
parts of the State will be welcomed
to share in the festivities.
J. A. F.
IA3BIT FOOT OUT OF FASHION
Belief in Its Magical PoweHrs Ha
Gone and To-day It Is a Dis
credited Talisman.
New York Herald.
oThe gradual decay of the rabbit
foot as a fashionable. instrument of
sorcery and aiecroiney is noted on
oll sides.. Some -time -ago.. unless
memory errs, . we published - the
names of half a dozen distinguished
Baltimoreans who had been forced
to abandon it after giving it their
firm faith for years. This. list might
have been extended to a thousand,
or even to ten thousand names haor
we but chosen to tear off more veil6
of private devotion. Twenty years
ago indeed, practically all 'Baltimo
reans of eminence eaxried rabbit
feet, and on lery darf night the
-chuyard of the surTouOng
country were ravaged by pothunters.
When -rabbits ran short squirrels,
cougars and tomea'ts were taken,
anid so there was much sophistieation
,ad false miagise, saw a writer in the
Baltimore Sun.
'But now the rabbit foot is out of
fashion, and, save for a few -old
dashioned coloreal -clergymebj, no
one trusts in its powers. Even these
[elesiastical a'nciends asre beginning
to :lose their-old faith. One of them,
by name the Rev. Dr. S. W. Tucker,
has excellent reason to 'be wobbly,
for his rabbit foot, after twenty-five
years of service,-has at last ]anided
him in sail. Tueker, who exhorts a
ba11 Afro-Amerioan ' ongregation
beyond the city walls of REI~e&mond,
wia o'n his way to his pulpit Sunday
imorning, a Bible under his arm and
his well worn rabbi't foot in his
pocket, when his wandering foot
steps >leid -him t9 a lonely grocery. It
was his belief .that his rabbit foot
would protect him from a?ll such iia
siduous temptations, but that faith
tuned out to be in vain. As a mat-.
ter of fact, he was. swiftly drawn,
as if by invisible magnets, to the
door of the store, andi was in ?he
very act of reaching in for a sneeu
appeared and fell upon him with
hoarse cries. -Cateh'polls 'mow came
running up from all directions, and
the unforatunate cleric, after being
oundily bastinadoed with pali:ngs and
barrel staves, was Alragged off to a
dungeon.
Thus the minister rabbit foot proves
again: its essential fraudulence. Time
was when it seemed to possess gener
al and unlimibdl potency. it gave
luek to affairs at heart, it was use
ful in fighting and it aided in fimding
lost artieles. But that was long ago.
Today it is a fallen idol, a discredit
ed talisman, a ''bu'sted'' wand. And
the saad thing is that nothing ap
proaching an adequate substitute or
sucessor has appeared.
The men who once garried rabbit
feet are now ,eompelled to face .the
haards of existence unaided and
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