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LOUIS APPELT, EDITOR. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year....... ..........$1.50 Six Months............ .... 75 Four Months...----............... 50 ADVERTISING RATES: One square, one time, Sl; each subse quent insertion, 50 cents. Obituaries and Tributes of Respect charged for as regular advertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six and twelve months. Communications must be accompanied by the real name and address of the writer in order to receive attention. No communication of a personal char acter will be published except as an adver tisement. Entered at the Post Office at Manning as Second-Class Matter. MANNIN, S. C.: WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4, 185. We Did Our Duty. The life of a newspaper editor is not always a pleasure nor his bed one of roses, because it often hap pens that he deems it his duty to say unpleasant things even about his personal friends. Now, the editor of this paper would not give offense to any one simply for the sake of giving offense, but in the performance of a duty should he offend with that-as with any other duty - erformed-the responsibility rests upon him. Just prior to the last election we discovered that the white men of this county and State were about to be the victims of the secret organ izing of the negroes to capture the Constitutional convention, and, feel ing the responsibility of the position we occupy, we went to work to sound the warning to our fellow-citizens. We did not wait until our paper could get out, but as soon as we learned the movements of the ene my we hastened to send out the in formation through personal com munications by mail. Among those we wrote to was Major Henry B. Richardson of Ful ton, who, with the editor of TEM TiMEs, was in honor bound to "act with and in subordination to the State and county Democratie exec utive committees. In our communi eation to Major Richardson we posi tively asserted as a fact that the ne groes had held secret meetings and nominated a ticket, and called upon him to let the news be spread, and our reason for selecting him as the medium to have this news spread was because he had been honored by the people of Clarendon with a seat in the State Legislature ; was re cently selected to represent them in a State convention, and, to our knowledge, he voted for the resolu tion adopted by said convention which pledged its members to "act Swith and in subordination to the State and county Democratic exec utive committees." In other words, we regarded Major Richardson a public. man, always ready and will ing to perform a public duty, es -pecially when "white man's rule" was threatened with danger. *We received an answer from the Major, which was a surprise as well :is mortifying to us, and in order that our readers may be put in full pos session of the facts, we publish the answer, which is as follows: FULos, Ahgust 17, 1895. DEAx APPELT - Your p. C. received. There is no belief here that anf such movement is on foot. Some look on it as a trick to securo votes of Conservatives. *It would be hard to get men so "set on" to move politically in any way. All quiet here. Yours truly, H. BR. Our readers will bear in mind that we occupy not only the responsible position of a Democratic newspaper editor, but occupied for the election referred to a more responsible posi tion still-one on which the success of the Democratic party depended largely. It was our duty as soon as we :found the Democratic ticket threatened with opposition to let the fact be known, so that the white men of the county could be prepared - for any emergency to sustain "white supremacy." Naturally, on receiving Major Richardson's response, under the cir cumstances we felt that he was writing for his section when he said that "some look on it as a trick to secure votes of Conservatives." Of course, anyone would come to the conclusion from this--that the people of Fulton believed that we were trying to trick them, certainly not a high estimation of us. Then, again, he gave us to understand that the people of the Fulton section did not believe our assertion when we wrote positively that the negroes had nominated a ticket. This is our construction of what he meant when -he said "there is no belief here that any such movement is on foot." In other words, we lied. This information from Major Rich ardson brought us to the conclusion that the people of Fulton were not going to lend their assistance to the Democratic ticket, composed of white men whose standing in the county can not be questioned, although said ticket was opposed by Republican negroes. At least one of the white men on the Democratic ticket has done as much for his country as any man in the Fulton section, and will carry to the grave the mark of his devotion to his country. And when such a man is threatened with opposition by negroes, and white men on ac count of petty factional spite hold off and say "it is a trick to get them to vote." we would be recreant to our trust did we not herald such con duet to the world. But, besides the card from Major Richardson, we had the resolution, adopted by the Fulton club to ar rivea t cnclin. The reoltinn s embodied in the following para ;raph: At a meeting of the Fulton Democratic :lub of Clarendon, held on Saturday. the 3th instant, and in pursuance of a call issued by the county executive committee, it was resolved to suggest the names of .ertain members of this club to act as managers in the primary election of dele gates to the Constitutional convention; pro vided, the club is guaranteed an equal division of said delegates will be accorded by the Reformers of Clarendon county and that the nomination for delegates shall be two Reformers and two Conservatives, said delegates to be nominated by their re spective factions, and that these four be the only candidates for whom ballots shall be counted in the said primary election. If the above conditions are assured us we respectfully nominate the following as managers from this club: R. C. Gayle, W. B. Broadway, Reform managers; Wm. H. Dysxn, J. E. Broughton, Conservative managers. Shoulu', however, the Reformers deny equal division of delegates, this club will take no action, and the above-named managers will not act. P. M. SALLEY, Secretary. It is our purpose to be fair, and we will reproduce and article published in the issue of August 21, together with headlines, and which has given offense: THZ FULTON SECTION. THE HoME or THE RICEABDoNs AND THE MANNINGs. WHEN NO oFFICE IS IN SIoBT FoR THEM THEY DO NOT KEEP VP WITH THE CURmT EVENTS O THE DAY. We received a card yesterday from a gentleman in the Fulton section saying that the people there did not believe the negroes there were going to vote, and that they. looked upon our efforts to get the Democrats to vote as a trick to make the Conservatives vote. If the people of the Fulton section were a reading community and kept themselves posted on what the rest of the world are doing, they would not be so hard to bo lieve when warned of their danger. 'Tis a pity that people laying claims to intelli gence should be so far behind the times when, for a few cents, they can keep them selves posted. Why send missionaries abroad when they are needed at home? In reply to the above the follow ing caustic letter was received from Major Richardson: FuLToN, S. C., August 27, 1895. Mr. Louis Appelt, Manning, S. C.: DEAn APPE.T-I am sorry my postal card should have stirred your wrath to the extent of bringing down on the heads of the innocent people of Fulton such a phillipic as was contained in your paper of the 21st instant. I alone am responsible. and I can't let the community be blamed for my individual want of intelligence and discretion. I was wrong to answer your card, but forgot I was writing to an editor and not merely a fellow-citizan. Perhaps if you had awaited the returns from our precinct, we might have escaped your interpretation and sarcasm. As it is, I can only hope your magna nimity may equal your animus, and you will some day see fit to do justice to the Conservatives of this section, who have supported a ticket by no means represent ing their views on several points, and when no prospect of politieal prefermedt or the plums of office could actuate them in the remotest degree. I would have taken no notice of the article except that I am not willing the people of Fulton should be charged with what I alone have committed. Yours truly, HENRY B. IxcH.&nDsoN. His complaint appears to be that we did the people of Fulton an in justice when he alone is responsibe ; that we did not wait for the returns from his precinct. If Major Richardson in his card to us, when he said, "There is no be lief here," etc., and "'some think it is a trick," -etc., was not speaking for the people of Fulton, then he owes those people an apology for presuming to speak for them with out authority. But it strikes us that the Miajor did have good reasons for thinking that his people would not take part in the election, because his club's resolution meant nothing more or less that, unless the county executive committee bowed to the dictation of the Fulton club and divided the delegates to the convention as dic tated by them they would take no part. In justice to the people of Fulton we will here state that a good many of them did go to the polls and vote, and we have been informed that the Major and several of. his relatives only voted after considerable hesita tion and talk from friends and neigh bors; but, be that as it may, they voted, and we are glad they did. It might be inferred from the Major's letter that it was quite a sacrifice for him and his friends to vote the ticket "when no prospect of 'po litical preferment' or the 'plums of office' could actuate them in the re motest degree." Surely he does not mean to say that he and his friends hesitated about voting for white men against negroes because there was no pros pect of political preferment or plums of office in sight for them. When the Major was himself a can didate the white masses of the county saw no prospect of political preferment, but they did see a pros pect of patriotic duty, and it was that which actuated them to vote. The same spirit existed when all of the Richardsons and Mannings were candidates for office, even when one of them was placed on the ticket without the people having been con suted. We refer to the nomination of the Hon. J. P. Richardson for the Legislature in 1878 when he was placed on the ticket after B. Gather Pierson resigned a short while before the gen eral election. The people loved to honor them, and did shower more honors upon them than any of the other families in the county, and for this very reason we think that as long as there exists a Richardson and a Manning the people have a right to expect them to do their full duty without hesitation when an emer geney arises. It is not our purpose to speak harshly, for we have the kindest eelings for Major Richardson. In aet, he was our captain when we ad the honor to be one of the aampton Light Dragoons, and our ersonal relations have always been leasant, but our personal feelings nust be laid aside when it comes to L matter of this kind. From an unexpected quarter we -eeived a broadside, and, of course, ve will not deviate from our rules to >ublish any commuication couched ing on the personal character of an individual. Mr. James M. Richardson, in his defense of his friends, did not put himself to the trouble to get fully informed as to the circumstances which brought forth our comments. However, we will give his letter to our readers, and let them, after coupling it with the above, judge of its merits : PAscota, S. C, August 27, 1895. Editor Manning Times: I have just seen in your issue of the 21st instant flaming headlines commenting in a most unfriendly manner on two families in the Fulton section. 1ow, I would say that I can not under stand how you can preach peace and unity in one part of your paper-even in the issue referred to-and in another place say all you can to aron.e the passions of some. These gentlemen to whom you allude ar. retiring and unobtrusive. You and your paper both, I am sure, aro far from their thoughts. They, we all know, are among the very best people of the State. I am satisfied they have always treated you-as it is their very nature to treat everyone with consideration. Why do you try to prejudice somne of our people against them? As for myself. I can not understand how such thiness as I saw in said paper could havo emanated from any mouth influenced by a proper or even manly heart. You accuse these men by inference of saying that the negroes they did not think were going to vote. This was a very reasonable opinion at the time, no demonstrations having been made. We in this section-Panola-had much the same idea. I heard one man say that he went out and tasked his hands the morning of the elec tion ; left them in the field, and was snr prised when they turned up with him at the polls. Almost every one was surprised they turned out so solidly. You accuse them again in the same way of looking upon "our efforts to get the Democrats to vote as a trick to get the Conservatives to vote." Any fair-minded man of reasonable in telligence coul.I read "between the li:ies" of your issue previous to the election a n d see the meaning, for wLich I accord' yon credit. But why condemn them and al most deny that which is true? I believe every one would give you credit for carry ing the general election. Perhaps why you think those people fr a few cents might keep themselves posted is because you only know that they do not take a certain paper and have not seen your insulting remarks. Hoping you will give this the same pub icity as you did the subject-matter, I am, respectfully, J. M. RomuuSO. We are preaching peace, and mean what we say; but how can there be any peace when white men distrust each other and think that every thing done or said is a "trick ?" How can there be any peace when a little handful of men undertake to dictate to a large majority? The action of the Fulton club, whose membership is made up prin cipally of members of two families and they really are but the same family-say that unless a division is had they will do nothing. This, too, coming from a people whose kith and kin have been honored time and again by the same people who make up the present majority. Then when a prominent member of this club and one of the same family respond to a warning with the insinuation that the warner was trying to triek him and his, it was sufficient provocation to write as we did. We will make no further comments on Mr. James M. Richardson's letter, only to say that what we have writ ten was not in a spirit of malice, but what we felt to be a duty we owed our fellow-Democrats. Hail to the Chief. In our last issue we took occasion to advance our views as to who should be chosen to preside over the Constitutional convention and the more we think of the matter the more convined are we that the honor should be given to our Chief Executive. By making the Governor president the jealousies of rival politicians are removed at once, and there can be no disappointments, heartburnings and resentments. It~ will not be a question of personal popularity, but one of State pride altogether. Governor John Gary Evans can preside over that distinguished body with as much ability and grace as any other man in the State, and, from a political standpoint, is as much entitled. He was a strong ad vocate of the convention, and was largely instrumental in making the call a success. We regret to see Hon. WV. J. Tal bert aspiring to the presidency of this convention, because we think that gentleman can well afford to step aside and allow the convention to select the Governor by acclama tion -and with a unanimous vote. Mr. Talbert is an able man and has done great work in Congress. He not only has distinguished himself in Congress, but in the able manner in which he has presided over some of our State conventions has made his name a household word. We like Mr. Talbert and think him a great man, and if lie will get up in the convention and make a ringing speech nominating the Governor of South Carolina for the presidency of the Constitutional convention he will be doing one of the most graceful things of his life. It will add great ness to his already great career. There is another reason why Mr. Talbert should not be a candidate : He is from Edgefield, and if any county ought to be satisfied with honors, it is Edgefield. She has a United States Senator, a Con gressman, a Secretary of State, a Circuit Judge, a Lieutenant-G over nor, an ex United States Senator, two ex-Governors and an ex Congressman. WVe do not pre tend that because Edgefield has been so often honored that she is not entitled to all she received, but what we do mean to say is, when all things are equal the honors should be distributed. We sincerely hope the gavel of the onvention will be removed from ambitious politicians and placed in the hands of South Carolina's chief executive. Lockhart, Tex., Oct. 15, 1889. Hessrs. Paris Medicine Co., Paris, Ten.: Dear Sirs: Ship us as soon as possile 2 ross Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonie'. My : :ustomers want Grove's Tasteless Chill i L'onic and will not have any other. In onr< xperience of over twenty years in thze dirug usiness we never sold any medicine which 't ave such universal satisfaction. Yours re spetfully, J. S. Bnown: & Co r No cure, no pay. Sold by Loryea, theg A MONSTROUS ATTEMPT [s Being Made by the Goldites to Force the People to Do Some thing Which Can Not BE DONE WITHOUT DISASTER. There Is No Necessity for Issuing Gold Bonds and Thereby In creasing Our National Indebtedness. OBLIGATIONS OF OUR COUNTRY Payable in Gold in Silver Coin-The Present Financial Policy Fatal to the Toiling Masses. Charles J. Kappler in Silver Knight. The proposition of the president and cabinet that all debts and obligations of the United States should be paid in gold i a question fraught with the gravest conse. quenees to the people of this country. It is orio which involves the best interests and material welfare of the great masses of ourvitizens. It is one in which the sup posed iecess.ities of the leople are made the made the exci1.e for loading them with additional taxes, a laige increase in the nstional debt, and a iledge and obligation to pay in a metal which they have not now got, and which they can not get without enormons sacritiees and sufl-ring ; andl ail this is to be done simply to gratify au satiate the selfish purposes and avaitice of -peculators in money, who have a cornet on gold, the lizetal they are attcmptiig te foist unio our people at a high rate ot interest, anti to impose upon us the single gold standard in contravention to the de. lared policy of our govern-mnt as ex. pressed by Congress, ind against the wishes and desires of our people. It is an atteiupt to rend asunder at one fell blow the bimetallic cord of our financial svs. tem and to inangurate the syto of Eu ropean finance, which would be most dis astrous to our prosperity and oppressive to our people. It is an effort on the part of the inter national gold trust to make the people o the United States to pay in a money othex than that of the contract, a money whici is constantly appreciating in value, a money which is now at a high preminm and which is daily increasing. It is a mon strous attempt to make our make our peo pit obligate themselves to do something which can not be done without rnin. There is no legal or moral reason why the people of the United States should no pay in the money of the contract, especi ally when it is to their interest to do so To carry out the theory of the presiden and the secretary of the treasury would lit fatal to us. In fact, it cannot be donE without a continua! issne of gold bondi aLd thereby increasing the national debt It seems remarkable that in times of peace and abnudant harve-,ts the people shol be burdened with an eulargeil nationa debt. There is no neevsity for it if th< laws are admiiinistereTd ;nd! interpreted at they sholl be-that is, more strongly il favor of our people and m.it,t stringentli against those who are' endle -viring to tak. advantage of them. As before remarked, therec is no needl a is'suing gold bonds and the conseqient in ereas-- of our nartioniia deb The laws 0 the United1 States am hior~.z:n the. issaanet of bon- Is gi ve the txacntivye depacrtmen amnple poe to p-y the' obligations of thi. enintry in Coin. The great diflienity i that those laws have beeni construe.i ii every instance in tavor'i of the b":ndhold,~ and adverse to the -people, This governiment has reserve.1 to itsehl the opt:on to pay its atbligations in coin comp~osed of enther -.:d1! or silver, and ill haws which authorizeo the issnance of bon-I contain such a provisiot . If there' is net enough go1:t in the cre-nry to meet th-: denmand for that me.t.d. why sho:.ld n->t the governmer tit < x--reise :ts ji.in to pay ini silver inste'ol of buying goll an.1 ..oing into .b it ?Wit v ho:. t.-.t thi- !-e done~ when w.- hay.' an ri-t a .1 do i,, andt when it woni.! be to oar ben.-ft and~ :atanta.te We shouhd not conhim. tinnelv---, ti the pa' m:-::t of one metal wiy na w' hie-- t-:e p'riv lege- to pay in two. We sh.,ah tiaver core' sent ti yield uip this oaption to the credit-i and allow hinm to drain our tre.asnry cai gold for speenlitive purposes ano.! for er pctt when, byv the simple exercise of tlc discretion c'onferredl upon n< hy h~aw. n can pay in silve'r and! r:-tain, ouar go!-l. It is a question simpjuy of' haunlzos. What would be thoug~ht of the shrewdne'ss sagacity, wviom and. tact of a amun whi had incurred a deb.t payabale in enff.-e' ana sugar, and on its mnatnrity finds that he has more sngar tiomn c..fl'ee, an.t dlecidi's tv pay in coffee' and sc.l hrs 'tug ar at a gra Ioi.s mo order to moe--t his idbligtti.,an in coaf. fee? Woulid he he --.:nnblred wise? Wonhl any one feel comliraeinted if co. ntietedl with s::en a1 man ina l-'sintess? Why can not this illnetration V: like'ned to the can, dition of the Uniti.! Statas to anay ? Thi. country has the' otion tio piay 'ts deb ts an obligations in either 70.1 or siv,-r ei.. Speculators, for mere--ruary. 'na-ls, are raking a raid on the treasury fur "il which they are exportir~g to fore:en i'.utn tries to en-ible tbcm to mzadntain the goldl standard, out of which thiey zmtae consid erable protit. T'hey e.aurnot obltatin gold from aniy other souirce.. xce;-t this country, beenuse Germany, Gre-at lIcitain an.~ Frante protect their golbvb carr.,ing iut the law in favor of the~ peoptle. If specnlators or expo t--rs of gold c'all on those countries for god 10or exoort they pay them it: si'ver. atn-l thy are not con siderod dishonest in doing so. T1he credit and! honor of the United States have been1 intgeed and called in question by these' money-lendiers, beeause it waa intimate.d that the government wouhld pay its obligations in the money of the contract, in the nmoney it agroeed to ptay, and the president and his secretary of the of the treasury have' taken sides with the'nm against the interef- of our people; anid, instea~d oif'al miistering the laws favor ably to the nation, they hiee allowed these spjalators - with tor,-ign: atachments to their inamets --to de-ph-te thu treasury of gohld and cause a pr.,t.nded niecessitv for the issncan.-e o: godld bonds to' rel-leniih it and affordi themo 'ood andl '-ce inve-stmients for their idle capitld. Now, it -is useless and unnecessary, as well as disastrous, to go in da bt when we have the right to pay in silver, of wvhich wve have sufficient to meet all our obliga ions. If the law is executed in favor of the people by paying out silver instea~d of borrowing gold these speencilators, who have been living on the distress ot the people for the past twenty years, will see to it that every silver do!!acr they receive from this governient is as good as every other dollar, in the markets of the worldi. T'hese men have' robbed the governmenot of its sovereign right of saying which is a :tood dollar and which is a bad dollar As long as they have a corner on gold atnd ar able to compel this government tua issue ;old bonds wvhichi aifford them gilt-edged securitie's, they have us by the throat, and xvill hold us in that indelensible po.-ition mtil the feudal systuam--now prevalent in [ndia and Egyp-, bcrought about by the ;old stan dard--is inangurated in this 0onntrv. It is absolutely iimpossible to contract a urther gold debt and have any hope of a 'etmn of* prospe-rity'. On the theory at the mres 'nf aidminiistrationi we have eleven inndred iiillhionis in silver and paper unneO(y reideiemable in aL' out one hundred aillions ot gol. llow can such a policy 'I finance be cartried ont axcept at the ex ense and to the detriment of the best in rrests of our pecople ? The day when these obligations must le, iet will arrive, and how can we redeem in I old eleven hundired mnillions in silver and| anne manne wvith nly one hndred~ mit lions of gold in the treasury? We will be compelled to borrow more gold and again increase the n'itional debt, and this course must be pursued until a final collapse comes, which must come sooner or later. We have only two imethols of seenrinr gohl. One is by selling our products abroad for gold and bringing it into this country. In order to do this we must sall cheaper than. India. China. Jaipan a 1 Roswia-all of wi.i-b t..nntries are on a silver basis, with tim" r -i ; resrved1 for w.r purposes, and which ik never used. This countries produco on the silver basis and sll oil the gold, while onr people pro duce on the gold basis-which is 50 per ceit higlier :han the silver bas.is -and sell in einrpetition. with the:e Asiatics in the European marlets on a gold basis. They have nn enormons advanrtta. over us, Which nothing but a return to bimnetallism can overemnze. As long is we are on a gold stwtdarl and those canntries on a silver beais there is no bolle that we can undersell them in any of the mairkets of the world. The other way of acquiring gold is by borrowin. it, and when we borrow we rust exp'ct to repay. If we are not able to weet our obligations in gold now, what prospecti have we of doing so when these obligations and bonds become due? The shadows which overhang ni are very dark. Those which our imagination can discern in the future are very much darker. It is suicidal in the people of this country to at tempt to pay in gold. There is not gold enough in -xistence to do the business of the world, and that which is not already hoardel by European countries for war purposes, is cornered by speculators in bonds, who ara eager to in volvc thit country in an en-armn gold debt, which i most positively againwt the prosperity of our country a-tl advan tageons only to a favored few who have been fortunate enough to accunulate nil liens upon millions of the w-:.th of the world. There is only one way out of tht wilder ness in which the construction of the I.&W by this and the last administration has cast us, and that is to return to bim tallism; to the use of both gold and silv,-r a. money of ultimate payment ; A)-h e -ntvrt hiv with the other ; mak nitle as -1.. is tle other, which result can bt attahn--. by simply granting to silver the stow r ht of coinage that are enj 'vel by gobI. a'l which it enjoyed befor-- it w :->w tized; by restoring to ! 'i s which rightfully belong t0 .t :u; : ntal ordained by the constitition, an 1 an account of its having been tzad i:n:-nd idly alongside of g.n1i as 1.1-:.l tenler in the payment of debts. Make :o discrimi nation against either metal. If it is to the advantage of the govern ment to pay out silver, let that policy be pursued ; if it is to the advantage of the government t0 pay out gold, Ict that course be followed. The free coinage of both gold and silver at a ratio fixed by law :s the solution of the great financial problei which is agitating congress andl the conn try. There is not enough of either etal alone to do the business of the world. Both are essential to prosperity. There was not too much money when both we:-e used. Surely with the increase of popnli. tion and business which las taken p'ace since 1873-when silver was demonetiz2 ! there would not be too much if both were now used. Free coinage would at once revive bu.,i ness, stimulate enterprise, ievolve tie wheels of industry, provide work for the unemployed, increase ovages. and create prosperity and contentment in this greal land of ours, which has of late been the field of so much distress and suffering. If, however. the present policy of issuing gold bonds and increasing the national debt is pursued. then the prospect is gloomy indeed. Business will remain stagnant, and bankruptcy and disaster will continne. If the McKinley tariff act of 189J wa the culminating atrocity of the fiftieth con gress, then the issuance of gold bonds in time of peace to piay debts which we have the fight and power to pay in silver will he denominated the culminating crime oh the nina ti-intl century against the people of the United States, to which the onghi not an d will not submit. A ham-king cough keeps the bironchia tubes in a stte~ of conistanlt irritation, whieb, if not speedily remiove-i, umy lead to chronic bronchitis. No ;'rom ut,-r.me dly end be fo'ind thtan Ayer's Chierry Poct otal. 'Its effect i< immediate aind the re suit permanent. /.MERICA THE ONLY HOPE. Unless Aetien Is Taken at Onc. love BLiots Wilt follow. N;w Yoalt Sept. &.-The World's speoial from Foo Chow, Chia sayil The commission of Inquiry into the Ewasapg massacre, sitting at Kuoheng, progreases slowly. (Over 300 arrests haye been mabde. There have beefa 12 capital convio tions. The viceroy retards the work'," re fusing .to give the prefect discretion. There is a day's delay over Each question referred to the viceroy. The intention is to exhaust the pa tience of the commission. At the present rates the trials will r ufre a year. Te impernal edict issu$ command ing severe measures is e ere blind. Rioters at Hokchiang attgeked the Christians, wounded four and destroy ed houses. The dangerous situation is the fault of the magistrate who issued a procla mation slandering the Christians. Unless America can be induced to take vigorous measures it is feared that there will be general rioting. British weakess encourages the Chi nese. The American government is the only hope. Conusul Hixson is energetic. The Chinese goveanment is torpid unespoded. ulshe ~Americans have arrived at Foo Chow._____ A BIG SHAKEUP. The Clomabi Colonisation Company ss a Break In Banks. SAN Fnacxsco, Sept. 3.-A special to a local paper from San Bernardino says that there .has been a big shakeup in the Colombia Colonization company, which has the Victory dam enterprise in hand, ang (Teneral 0. 0. Hloward of Chicago and his brother have severed their connection with the concern. Thecompany propose to construct a dam at the Victory narrows on the Mo jave river and by means of a n-atul reservoir to store water enough to Ir gate 800,0001 acres on the desert. It was the biggest irrigation scheme ever attempted in the southwest. The cause of General Howard's withdrawal is not known. Messrs. Foster. Sweet and several other Chicago capitalists are behind the scheme and announce their inten tian of proceedings with the work. 9ER Cures '494' THERS, Ciago. WILL Apf Cure You. AYER'S Sarsaparilla MAKES E THE ie(4 aN WEAK og STRONG. 8IMMONSI REGULATOR 'Are you taking SnIMoYs LIvER REG ULATOB, the "KING o- LIVEIR MEDI CE?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that. It is the same old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith ard wc-e never dis appointed. But anosber go'd recom mendation for it is, tha;t it is BETTER THA PiLLs, nevei gripca, never weak ens, but works in s:uch an easy and natural way, just like raure itself, that relief comes quick :::- ure, and one feels new all o 1-:. i- cver fails. Everybody needs take. iil-er remedy, and everyone should ta~ke cly Sim mons Liver Regulakr. Be sure you get -I. The Red Z is on the vrappet1r. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. CMSE OF ETFRPIGS. The War In the East Made the I Chinese Act Ugly. THE RESULTS DISAPPOiRTED THEM They Ara Now lakingq Re.vezie on All Foreigner.-!.r.ns of D1.4b.nid Sol diers Turned Loose on the. Coonatry. America., Another Disp.atc:. s, Is the Only Hope For RelleL SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 3.-Chester nolcomb, wao has just returned from China after 21 years' service in the Amcrican legation at Peking, says the recent massacro is traceable to the re sult of the recent Chinose-Japaneso war. "At the commencemen-t of the recent war bet~ee'n China and Japan," said he, "it was generally feared that the lives of foreigners in China would be in great danger as long as the war last ed. As a matter of fact, there was practically no danger aa long as the war laitod, and It is only since the hos tilities ceased that the danger has cm monced. We have had proof of the iact in the regent massacres and I think I can explain the reason. "In the first place, the groat mass of Chinese are disappointed with the re sult of the war, and are taking revenge on all foreigners whom they can kill with impaniy -In the second place, the killing and pillaging gives groat encouragement by reason of the depredations domnutitted, to hordes of disbanded soldiers all over the conatty. "The government has a very peculiar method of disposing of its troopa t tLe close of a war. Whben the soldlinra cre no longer needed they arc disehargyd from the service yrhero they happon to be at the time. The fact that an arm:y may be several hundred or a thousan~d miles away from home when it is dis banded, and the fact that the soldiers may not possess any means of getting home does not Interest the government in the teas;. The troops are turned loose, and to use an American expres ufon, they have to 'beat' tneir way back to the place from whence they came. "-That they should pillas and com mit depredlations is therefore natural to such people under such conditions and tranquility will not reign in China for some time to come. "Just binfore I loft Japan I learned that an American missionary who has been laborin near Peking since 1800, had been assaulted and severely cut by a knife. Hi name Is D. S. Shefflid and I have known him quite well for years. It is onily fair to say, however, that the assailants wvere arrested end will be tried for their offense. If such prompt action was taken in the cases of the other offenders, the wholesale kill ing of missionaries in China would be speedily stopped. It is almost imrpossi ble, however, to mete dut justice to offending Chinese in the interior pro vinces and the fault is the f'ault of the governmegt." Mr. Holcomb says the most interest ing question in the Orient at the pres ent time, outside of the missionlary massacres and the Qholerna, is the ap proaohing conflict between Russia ad Japan. "That Japan and Rusia will become mixed up In a dispute which will result in war, goes with~out saying," said he, "and the commiencem uti of the actual hostilities Is not far off." TROOPS ON GUARD. Mlichigan StrIkeere Have 'to Bie Held Off by Forco of arms. IsHPE3UNG, Sept. 3.-Five military _ companies from Sheboygan, Calumet, Houghton, Ironwood and Marquette have arrived by special train. Tents were immediately pitched and picket lines established in the vicinity of the various shovels, and guards ordered otnt. The steam shovel operatives were eg corted to their boardinghouses under military protection. Several hundred of the strikers, syith their wives and children, assembled at the different muining locations watching the movements of the militia, but there was no disturbance and none is ex peted. The shovels at sonme of the mines were started at 10 o'clock and thle ship ments of ore to Margnette will. likely begin at onice. c THE KITE HEARD FROM. i t: rho Peary liehlf Expedition 31eb With Away Up In Greenland. S-r. Jonsx'', N. F., Sept. :3.-The trst e ews from the Peary relic! expeditionh in1ce its ciepatrture has just been re eived. It camne by the AmericanL chooner, John E. Mackenzio, return n from the Greenland halibut fishery. :o hc .Madenzio mect the K:te with the epditioni at Hlolsteinburg on July 1d, At H-olsteinburg the Kite took ah'ard Profossor Dych", one of the mecmbers f thne e~rpeditionl, and sailed agtain the sae' evemni;. Very little ice was reported south of reniand waters. The crew of the akentezie think the Kite will have no mflicuty in reaching Whale's sound, hre Peary's loadquarters are located. h return of the relief party is expect d about the end of this month. A Disastrons Descent. 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