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VOL. _rII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1898. NO. 33. ADRIFT FOR FIVE DAYS. THE TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE OF AN OCEAN STEAMER. The Terror of Her Three Hundred and Ocid Passengers Cannot ba Described She Is at Last Rescued by Another Steamer. For five days and nights the large ocean steamsbiu La Champagne, run ning between New York and Havre, drifted about on the ocean at the mercy of the waves. La Champagre sailed from Havre on February 12 with fine. clear weather, which con tinued for two days. Then the wind freshened and a gale sprang up. blow ing with moderate force. All went well until the 17th. The passengers had settled down and were passing the time pleasantly. The ship was steaming fast against the head seas, when suddenly, about 4 o'clcck, a tremendous crashing sound was heard in the engine rooms. In an instant a panic seized the passengers, and great excitement prevailed in the saloons and among the cccupants of the steer age. The ship's passage was stayed and heavy poundings shook the whole craft. Cart. Poirot quickly calmed the passengers, and soon after it was discovered that the tail screw shaft had broken. The steamer was run ning at high speed, and the engines flew around like lightning when the resistance of the screw was removed, and before they could be stopped much damage was done in the engine room. The wild racing of the big engines made a great noise, and the terrified passengers thought the ship would be smashed to pieces. Finally the en gines stopped their pounding after the piston and connecting rods had snap ped. Capt. Poirot announced that the injury could be repaired and the ship would proceed at 1 o'clock next day. She wasput about, but after further examination it was found that the damage -was irreparable. Nothing remained to be done but anchor. La Champagne was then in latitude 45 28, longitude 5123, just in the track of outward bound steamers. The passengers and crew were hopeful of being sighted by some passing steamer but a thick fog sprang up, blighting their hopes, The ship was shrouded in fog and nothing could be seen on either side. The steamer kept up a continual fire of guns and discharge of rackets, but no answer came to their signals, and on Friday the captain dispatched a boat containing eight men and the third officer, either to make land or sight a passing steamer. That night a fierce gale rose and heavy seas dashed against the big steamer on the Banks. The anchor chains strained and swung and the ship was tossed about like a feather. " After midnight the gale increased in fury and at 4 o'clock Saturday morn ing the anchor hawser parted with a snap and the ship drifted southward. The situation was critical in the ex treme. The passengers were terrified at the thought of their helpless ct ndi tion adrift on a disabled steamer in mid-ocean. The current drove them southward at the rate of 50 miles daily veering again to the southwest. All the while the steamer kept showing her signals of distress, bat in vain. La Champagne drifted in this condi tion from Saturday morning. Februa ry 17, until Wednesday, the 23d. All through the long day the ship steadily drifted and into the night until the passengers who had bravely witostood the experience had almost abandoned hope. Most oi them had retired to their state rooms, when near midnight the welcome cry, "Sail ahoy," was heard. It re echoed from lookout to cabin and steerage, and every soul on that big ship rejoiced. Two steamers were sighted ten miles away, one directly before La Cham pagne and the other on the port bow. La Champagne's guns boomed forth and her rockets flared up and her red fire burned luridly. The steamer in front gave answering signals and bore down rapidly upon La Champagne. Shes proved to be the Warren Liner Roman, bound from Liverpool to Bos ton. The Roman stood by La Cham pagne and at once Capt. Poirot went aboard and made arrangements with Capt. Roberts to tow him to the near est port, Halifax. The Roman'passed a steel cable to * La Champagne at noon on Thursday and the two steamers started for Hali fax. The first day the towing hawser parted three times, but little oelay re sulted and a start was finally made at 1 o'clock. La Chiampagne was picked up in latitude 45.28, longitude 51.23 and from that point onward no trou ble was experienced. The weather was fine until today when a snow fiurg" started and the steamers had to proceed slowly. A subscription was made up on board for the men who so bravely manned the life boat and left in search of help, and 5,000 francs were quickly realized. When La Champagne wasentering Halifax har bor an address signed by all the passengers was presentea to Captain L Poirot, to which he made a' suitable and modest reply. Sa thankful were some of the passengers to be in port that several of them were anxious to have some of the clergymnen on board hold a service of thanasgiving. The accident to La Champagne is a most serious one and will necessitate the ship going into the dry dock. La Champagne's mails, consisting of 250 bags, were landed here to niwht at~d given in charge of the postoffice au thorities, and they with the saloon passengers will be for warded to New York, leaving here at S o'clock to. -morrow mornmng. VWoutd Help the Spaniards. Rev. D A. Gaddie, Pastor of a colored Bap' ist Church in Louisville, Ky., createc. a sensation Sunday night by declarir , in a sermon that he would pick up a gun and kill an American before ne would defend this country against foreign invasion. The Rev. Gaddie declared that the negroes were not respected in this country; that the law was a dead let ter as applied to them; that they were not protected and that they were not given a fair show arnd, on this ac count, he would not, under any cir cumstances, aid in fighting the Spani ards or an y other nation with whom United States might be at war. He advised his flock to follow in his lead, but the sermon was generally de nounced by the colored people of thle city, of whom 10,000 are aoie to bear arms. A Typographical Erz or. The News and Courier explains tbat its reference to Col. R. B. Watson as "the old man elephant of saluda ~~+ny wa th resut of a vogra ALLIANCE RALLY DAY. President J. 0. Wilborn Sends a Crcular to the Sub-Allianoee, President Wilborn of the Farmers' Alliance is sending out to all sub-Alli ances in the State the following circu lar in regard to "rally day"-Satur day this week. He is also sending the circular to Alliancemen in every direction: Old Point, S. C., February 25, 1898. My Dear Sir and Brother: After much serious thought aid considera tion I have at last decided to issue the call for "rally day" for every sub-Al liance that has ever been in existence in South Carolina on March 12, 1898. The reason for this must commend it self to yo'ur mind and heart. Our country is most surely settling itself into conditions and quagmires that promise no good for the farmer. for his interest or his family after him. This is most assuredly an age of com bines. We have combines of corpora tion, combines of brain and money with brain and money, until there is now scarcely an article that you use that is not controlled by a trust-from the oil that lights the lamp by which the young mother sings her first lul laby, to tne nail that must go in the coffin. The monster trust is thus feel ing its way to test your patience and the ability of the Alliance on cotton ties. The jute trust may again arise and shake itself. What can the indi vidual do? Answer: Nothing but sub mit. What can the Alliance do, with every old and new member in active affiliation and good standing? An swer: Give relief and demand res pect. I therefore send you this personal appeal to see to it that your sub-Alli ance meets on the day appointed, and that all members be requested and urged to put themselves in good stand ing with the State and National Alli ance by paying their annual dues, which will be 25 cents State and 10 cents National. All back dues are to be cancelled. The county dues can be arranged with the county Alliance. The National Farmers' Alliance, in supreme council, has provided for a charter guard, which is working well in California. Will be glad to give further explanation when requested. Reorganize your defunct Alliances, elect delegates to your county Alli ance and see that they attend; forsake not the assembling of yourselves. Your next county melting, according to constitution, will be the second Friday in April. I hope to communi cats with every county Alliance at that time. If you have had no county meeting for some time,let it be known that one is called to meet at your court nouse on the second Friday in April, and go to it. Fraternally, J C. Wilborn, President I armers' Alliance of S. C. THE CONFEDERA tE VETERANS Wil Meet in Annual Convention in Char leston in ApriL Headquarters South Carolina Division, U nited Oon federate Veterans. General Orders No 35. CharIey tn, S. C., Feb 16. 1898. 1. The annual convention for 1898 of this Division will be held in the German Artillery Hall, Wentworth Street. Chaleston, Wednesday, April the 27th. The convention will be called to order at 10 a. m. 2. E ch camnp wil appoint one Spon sor, who will aeless her Maid of Honor, to reprasent the camp at the Re union. 3 Representatives of camps will bring the Banner of their respective camps to be carried into the conven tion hall, and used to designate the representatives of the various camps. Comrades are specially requested to bring any Battle Flags in ttheir posses sion. The bearers of such Battle Flags will report to Division Headquarters at 9.45 a. m. April 27th, and go into the convention with the Officers of the Division, and be seated, bearing the Flags, upon the Stage when in the Hall. 4. A meeting of the committee on ~the Monument to the Women of the Confederacy will be held at the con vention hall at an hour to be named hereafter. 5. A meeting of the Cheplains of each camp will be held at the conven tion hall at an hour to be named here after. EAch camp will please secure the attendance of their Chaplain, as the Division Chaplain has a matter of much importance to lay before them. 6. Daring the Re-union the coin manding General will request, at some convenient hour, a meeting of the commandants of all the camps, the Colonels of the regiments, and Generals of Brigades to make reports upon the status of their respective co'nmands. They will come prepared to make full reports as to numbers, their officers and the work they are accomplishing. 7. Rates of fare for travel, about onie cent per mile, have been secured, which will enable comrades from all parts of the State to be present at the Re-union. 8. Charleston extends to us a most cordial invitation. It is hoped that an appreciation of her splendid hospitali ty, her royal welcome, will be shown by a large gathering. Let every comnrade come. We are fast passing away. Every year we miss some familiar loved face, and every year lessens the number of those who gather to rene w the friendseips formed in the hours of danger and trial. But few more such opportuni ties will we have. Let us meet -and clasp hands (for how many of us will it be for the last ime?) with those who served with usin defence of our South ern rights, who were our brothers in those trying days. By command of Maj.-Gen. C. Irvine Walker. JAs G. HOLMES. Adjutant-General, Chief of Staff. .The Original Arrangement. Tne venerable senator from Ver mont offered a resolution last week to have the Goddess of Liberty, whicn surmounts the dome of the Capitol, gilded with gold. While the question was before the Senate Senator btewart, the great apostle of silver, was asked if he did not think it would be appro priate to replace the Gioddess with a statute of the elder Rothschild, to which he replied: "No; if I were to make any change, I would go further brek, and put a calf there to repre se at the original arrangement." IThe Columoia Record says about three o'clock last Wednesday a young negro man brushed against a white womai on Taylor street. She pulled a pistol and made hima get on his knees and apologize, which he did very quickly. Then she def arte3J. DISASTERS IN OUR NAVY. LOSS OF THE MAINE THE MOST SERI OUS IN ITS HISTORY. An Interesting Article Giving the Names of the Ships of the United States Navy that Have Been in Times of Peace. The list of disasters in the United States navy begins with the loss of the eighteen gun ship Saratoga. Sailing froc Philadelphia, under the com mand of Capt James Young, about October 1, 1780, she captured three English vessels In company with her prizes the Saratoga sailed for Phil adelphia. When off the canes of Del aware the British seventy-four gun ship of the line Intrepid came in sight and gave chase. The prizes were re captured, but the Saratoga escaped by running out to sea. She was never heard from again, and it is supposed she foundered in a gale which set in the following day. On July 14, 1800, the United States being then hostile to France, the thir ty six gun frigate Insurgent, Capt. Patrick Fletcher, sailed under insruc Lions to take a course easterly from the Chesapeake capes until longitude 68 :legrees west was reached, then to Bruise between that longitude and 66 legrees west, going as far south as latitude 30 degrees north. She has never been heard of since. In August, 1800, the fourteen-gun brig Pickering, Master Commandant Benjamin Hillar, sailed under orders to cruise off Gaudeloupe. From the Lime of her sailing she was never heard of. E arly in 1805, the Government deeming it advisable to increase the naval force engaged in the war witn rripoli, ten gun boats, planned for service in the waters of the Mediterra nean, were constructed. Of these ves sels gun boat No. 7 sailed on May 14, 1805, from New York, under the com mand of Lieut. Ogelvie. When a short distance out her mast was sprung and she returned for repairs. She sailed again on June 20, but was nev er heard from. The next vessel of the navy, the rate of which is shrouded in mystery, was the Wasp. She was one of the six sloops authorized by the Act of January 2, 1813, and her career, though brief, was full of glory. Sail ing from Portsmouth, N. H., on May 1, 1814, under Master Commandant ohnston Blakesley, she fell in with the British brig Reindeer on June 23, and after an action of nineteen min utes compelled her to surrender. On September 1 the Wasp cut out and and burned the brig Mary, which was one of a fleet of ten merchantmen un der convoy of the sevrnty-four gun ship of the line Armada. During the evening of the same day Blakesley sighted four sails, two on the star board bow and two on the port. As the darkness came on signals by rock ets and lanterns were made by one of the vessels which had'separated from the others. The Wasp, laying her course by the signals, had a war ship under her guns by 9.30, and received a oroadside from the chase. The ac - Lion continued until a few minutes after 10 o'clock, when the stranger hailed that she had surrendered. As the Wasp was about to lower a boat another sail appeared out of the dark ness. The boat was held back and the men sent to their quarters. A little ater two more sails came in sight. 'he rigging of the Wasp being much ut up, ane stood off, followed by one f the vessels, but after the exchange of a few shots the stranger joined her :onsorts, and the Wasp held on her way. The vessel with which the Wasp had the engagement was the eighteen gun brig Avon, and her injuries were so severe that she sank during the night Bet ween the date of the fight with the Avon and September 21 the Wasp destroyed two merchantmen and captured the Atalanta, mounting eignt guns. Tne latter vessel, having a valuable cargo, was manned with a prize crew and sent to Savannah, wnere she arrived on October 1. Up to this time, a period of five months, the Wasp had taken fifteen vessels, valued at nearly $250,000. Oa Octo ber 1 the Swedishi bark Adonis was boarded in latitude 18 degrees 35 mini utes north, longitude 30 degrees 10 minutes west, by a boat from the Wasp. Lieut. Stephen McKnight and Masters Mate James Lyman, officers of the Essex, who had been paroled after her destruction in Valparaiso harbor, and who were passengers on the Adonis, went on board the Wasp. Soon after they returned to the Ado ns, paid their passage money to the master, and with their baggage went back to the Wasp. Taat was the last intelligence of the Wasp. When Dccatur, in 1815, dictated to the Dev of Algiers the terms of a trea ty witi the United States, the brig Epervier, Lieut. John Shubrick, was dispatched with a copy of it for the approval of the Government. On board, as passengers, were Capt. Le w is and Lieut. Neale, who had married sisters just previous to sailing for the Mediterranean in Capt. Decatur's fleet. Ltut. Druy and Lieut. Yarnell, who nad maae a name for themselves in Perry's victory on Like Erie, were also on board. On July 12, 1815, the Ep ervier passed the Strait of Gibraltar. From that time all trace of her was lost. The Albany, sloop-of-war, was lost in West Indian waters in 1853. She i thought to have gone down in a cyclone with every soul of her cre w of 210 officers and men, as she was never heard from af ter she sailed on her last cruise. In the same year the brig-of-war Porpoise, with one hundred persons on board, went down in the Cnina eas, without leaving a trace of her end. In 1858 another sloop-of-war, the Levant, went down in the waters of tie Paci .c, takirag some 200 men to "Davy ,Janes's locker." 1863 the brig-of-war Bainbridge met a cyclone off Cape Hatteras. A colored cook picked up a day or two after ward on a bit of wreckage, told the story of the loss of every one of his shipmates. The old Yorktown was blown ashore near the Cape de Verde Islands, on the African coast, some years later, but the crew escaped. In 1868 a great tidal wave picked up the ship-of-war Wateree, in the har bor of Arica, Peru, and carrriedl 7 or 8 miles inland, depositing her in a tropical forest, where she ended her day a as a hotel. The same tidal wave, caught the store ship Fredonia at an chor, roiled her over, and sunk her instantly with every soul on board. The Mononganiela had a peculiar experience in 1867. She was caugnt number of large buildings on the Island of Santa Cruz, West Indies, knocking down one of them, and de posited in the streets of the city. Sub sequently workmen were sent there, who blocked her up and launched her again. The Saginaw was cast away in the night upon one of the islands in the Pacific about fifteen years ago. The Huron was wrecked on Currituck Beach, North Carolina, and few of her crew escaped to tell the story of heavy weather and false beacon lights. This disaster at Havana is the great est loss of life at any one time in the navy of the United States in time of peace on record. No ship of the navy has olown up since the war. The last great loss of life in our navy was at Samoa, when in the great hurricane of March 16. in the harbor of Apia, the war vessels Trenton and Vandalia were wrecked, and the Nipsic stranded with a total loss of fifty one lives from their crews. The German ships Adler and Eber were lost at the same time, and ninety-six German sailors were drowned. On Nov. 24. Port, the American sloop-of-war Huron, a vessel -of the old wooden navy, was driven ashore on the treacherous sands of the North Carolina coast in a storm, and about one hundred of her crew were lost. ON A BURNING STEAMER. The Terrible Experlerc of the Crew snd Paasengers. The British steamer Legislator,Capt. Tennant, bound from Liverpool for Colon, was burned at sea on February 16, in latitude 31 23 north, and longi tude 44.10 west. The Legislator left Liverpool on February 3 with a mis cellaneous cargo.including phosphate, cotton goods and percussion caps, for Colon and Central American ports. Nothing out of the ordinary occurred until 4 o'clock in the morning of the 13th, when, without warning, an ex plosion took place from a hatchway forward of midships, followed by a tremendous outburst of smoke and flames. All the firemen and engineers but one came tumbling on deck, some of them more or less turned. The missing man was Thomas Roberts, and it was not until two days that his charred body was recovered during a lull in the fire. The crew were badly handicapped in fighting the fire, as the hose and pumping engine were disabled or choked Soon after the fire started it spread so rapidly that the forward part of the boat, in which were seven men, was cut off, and Capt. Tennant asked for volunteers to rescue the remainder of the crew. Second Officer Bateman and Seaman Wm. Angell at once offered to row along the side of the ship and bring the men aft. One of the boats was launched with difficulty, as there was a heavy sea running, and by careful work managed to reach the almost doomed men. All were finally taken on board and the boat dropped astern, but before the nine men could be pull ed on the aft deck a tremendous sea capsized the small boat and every man was thrown into the water. After their heroic work Bateman and Angell were the only ones who were not res cued. In the meantime, through some confussion, another boat had been launched, and in it the third officer, Martin, and the chief steward, John Gaffney. Another big sea swept them away, and they have not been seen since. The fighting of the flames still continued, and as the fire reached the boxes of percussion caps there were almost constant explosions. In one of these Fred E. Lee, the chief cook, was so severely burned that he jumped overboard in his delirium, and could not be saved. At 8 o'clock in the mor ning, of the 16th the steamer Flower Gate, bound to New York from Pal ermo, Italy, hove in sight. Two boats were immediately lowered from the Flower Gate, and after three hours all of those on board the burning vessel were safely transferred, Capt. Ten nant being the last to leave. Some of the crew saved a part of their cloth ing, but a majority of those on board lost everything. The rescue was none too soon, for as the Flower Gate start ed her engines the fire was seen burst ing from the after decks of the Legis lator, and the steamer was probably entirely consumed not many hours after. Two Heroes Graves. Mrs. S. C. Heistell, of Campton, Va., sends the following clipping from her county paper to Gov. Eller be with the request that he have it published in the newspapers of South Carolina as some mother, wife or sis tr may be mourning the loss of a loved one buried in an unknown land. The followIng is the clipping: "Mr. John W. Keyser, the Marks ville correspondent of The Courier, writes us that there are two unmark ed graves of Confederate soldiers in Graves' Chapel cemetery, near that place. He knew the men well, and while no marbie shafts mnarZ their last resting place, the little mounds have ever been kept green. Mr Key ser desires to make public these facts in the hope that they may reach some relatives of the dead soldiers. Their names were William F. Bruner and ergeant Whortleberry. Both belong ed to the Second South Carolina reri ment. Capt. Blocker is the only offi cer of the command remembered by Mr. Keyser. One of the men referred to died in the church at that place and the other in the woods near by. Mr. Keyser would be glad to furnish any informaton in his possession about these men, as he kne w them well " For particulars, address Mr. John WV. Keyser, Marksville, Page County, Va. Barned the Wrong Indians. Evrer since the burning of the two Indians for the murder of Mrs. Laird, at Maude, I. T., it has been asserted that Lincoln McGeisey, the younger of the two was innocent, and all the evidence brought out at the hearings has served to corroborate this asser tion. It is now learned that special agents of the government have secured evidence establishing a complete alioi for Sampson, the other victim, prov ing that he was 40 miles from the Lard home at the time of the murder. An Expe r t Opinion. Larry Ganti makes this ingenious admission in the Piedmont Headlight: "I might have stood the loss of my hog crop, but my good wife, who un dertook to doctor them, got their medicine and mine mixed one night, and she inadvertently drenched me with a dose of friend Young's hog colera cure. Well, I can certainly recommend it as a sovereign remedy for the grippe, for what was left of me after bemng Drostrated in and out of bed for three days was able to crawl hbalr to the offic and gn to work." FAIRFAX NOT LOST YET. SOUND VIEWS ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE STILL PREVAILS. One of the Arguments that Carried the Day in the Fairfax Literary Society Against the Unsexing of Women by Giv log Them the Ballot. As was mentioned in a letter from Hampton, recently published in the News and Courier, the Fairfax Liter ary Society, at a recent meeting, had a very interesting debate on the ques tion of "Woman's Suffrage-" able arguments were advanced pro and con by the unusually intelligent ladies and gentlemen comnosing the Society, and a decision was finally rendered in the negative by a vote of 9 to 32. One of the arguments that helped to obtain this overwhelming majority against the New Woman heresy was that pre sented by Mrs. L. W. Youmans. Through the kindness of Mr. J. C. Preacer, of Fairfax, we have been provided with a copy of Mrs. You man's argument, and take pleasure in presenting it to cur readers in full. Mrs. Youmans said: In order to a proper understanding of the q'Iestion it is necessary to in quire what a government is? "A government is the agent of society for the accomplishment of its ends." The chief functions of a government are to promptly and efficiently secure and maintain to all who are under it their rights, and it is a good government in proportion as it insures the fulfill mert of these ends These rights, as laid down in the declaration of Inde pendence, cur Magna Charta, are the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To secure to man the pursuit of happiness the law gives him two other rights-to property and reputation. Whatever has a right to be, has a right to all that is necessary for its preservation; therefore, the Government has the right to regulate the ballot and prescribe the qualifica tions for holding offi-e. The right to vote is not a natural right, like life and liberty, but grows out of man's relations to society; therefore society has a right to say who shall exercise that right,and under what conditions; hence it is the duty of society to con fer that right with an eye single to its own well being. "It has seemed right that those who are to go to war should determine the question of war, and that thos who are liable to do milita ry and police duty, sit in juries and work on the highways should vote on those subjects." In other words, that the voting should be done by those who are most capable of detending and maintaining the Government. Men being more capable of these du ties than women, society ordained that the administration of government should be carried on, under certain limitations, by what is called "min hood suffrage." This principle was carried out still farther by the Kahnds of India, who allowed "no woman, nor any Kthad, to hold land who with his own hand could not defend it." Having the grounds on which per sons are called upon to take part in the Government, namely. the duties of defending and maintaining it, we are ready for the question, should women have equal suffrage with men? The right to vote is not a natural right. Wherever men have acquired the right of suffrage it has been by cox'quest. The question is whether her own elevation ani best interests and the ends of society requiire the besto wal of this rigut upon her. The question has been discussed as if men and women were t wo hostile classes. A. man and his wife are not of a dif ferent class, their interests and those of their family are identical. In fact society depends on men and women as entering into a relation which not only unites their interests, but makes each the guardian of the other. The family is the unit of society. After the creation the first institution estab lished by God was the family. "So God created mnan in His o wn imags, male and female, created He them," and placed them in the garden. And when God braught her to the man, Adam said, "Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be cne fieh " Society is a com bination of families, not of individ uals, because without the family soci ety culd not exist. It is both the key stone and foundation stone of the so cial fabric, because as that is will the social fabric be. When home and family go out of the world purity anid virtue will go with them. Therefore the domestic lite of the family is more important than the public life of soci ety. By a natural relation the wife is the centre of the domestic circle, and the guardian of her husband's in terests and rights in all that pertains to it, while he is the husband, the provider, protector and the represent ative of the interests of his wife and children. She is not only the guar dian of her husband, which is proven by stitistics that out of a thousand unmarried men twenty-five are crii nals, while out of the same number of married men only eighteen are crimi nals, giving nearly 40) per cent. in fa vor of ma:-riage as a preventive of crime, but she is the one who gives the child his first idea of government, his first idea of duty, his first idea of law, in the y ears which are the mcst important. The first five years wilt color the rest of a child's life. Taese years he spends alnmost entirely under the control of his mother. It is upon this principle that the demand for the higher education of women has been so great. That by an enlighted con science, an enlightened judgment, she may be better qualified to train a higner citizenship. Recognizing her fitness for this spe cial training, woman has been given positions in the schools until 66 per cent. of the teachers of the public schools of the United States are wom en. Yet Miss Oliy, the woman suffra gist, of Kentucky, in an address de liver-ed at Allendale, said: "Tnie pub lic schools do not maae model citi zens." Women, haviug this 2reat leverage of all the mothers and 66 per cent. of the teachers, and still cannot turn out good citizens, does she sup pose she can accompl:sh that end by iegislation? If the chilniood is wrong, the youth is wrong, the manhood can not be legislated right. On the con trary, if the individuals comprising soiety are perhet there is ho necessi ty of government. It has been con trary to the sentiment of this country that men and women should inter mingle in public affiirs, and woman should be specially careful how she breaks down this senuiment, because she will lose more than she gains, and e itnil eaca a e iterioranng influ ence upon man. It is this sentimeni which makes a woman strong through her weakness. It lay at the foundation of all that was good in chivalry, and lent to the darkness of the Middle Ages all its beauty and much of its glory. The sentiment surrounding woian. setting her apart as some thing higher and better than man, is stronger among American men than any other, and in the United States she is treated with more respect and consideration than in any other coun try. In this State the laws are made almost entirely, as between a man and his wife, in ner favor-going so far as not to allow her property to be alien ated from her except for her own ben efit. It may be claimed, and the claim is well founded, that all wom en do not marry. That, in fact, the number of unmarried women in creases every day. This is a sad fact, and it bodes no good to the Republic. In discussing employ ments for women Juliet Corson says: "The number of educated women increases, and all the profes sicu 3 open to them are overcrowded. But the rank and file, the domestic women, main without recruits; the very class that needs replenishing is the one that is dying out. A potent cause of existing conditions is the identical training given to boys and girls, young men and young women of the working class. All know just as much as anyone knows, consequent ly there can be no advantage of one over the other. This equality in work and earnings has the effect of lessening men's responsibility for tak ing cara of the women of their families. When the woman becomes his com petitor the man feels freed from his obligations to provide for her in pro portion as she approximates either his superior skill or his capacity to earn greater wages." If such is the consequence of wo man's great desire for independence the consequnces will be still more dire when she undertakes her own protec tion by her o wn vote. Whenever a wrong is perpetrated against woman and it is called to the attention of the men, they have been quick to redress it, and institute any reforms in the law which are suggested for her pro tection. But when she proposes to protect herself by her own ballot they feel freed from the responsibility of protecting her. Nothing strengthens a man's character as much as a sense of responsibility, or binds him more closely to his country. Henry Grady had this idea in his mind when he said: "The man who kindles the fire on the hearthstone of an h-nest and righteous home burns the best incense to liberty." On the contrary lack of responsibility weakens his character and causes him to become effeminate. No country has ever risen above the manhood of its men and the virtue o' it women, or has survive the decay of those qualities. "Waen a wi'e is no longer content with taking her share in the battle of life, no longer content to recognize the fa:: that there are things which it better becomes the wo man to do than the man, and vice versa; when she insists on-aping and sharing the foilies and vices of the man, on casting from her that modes ty and reserve which are woman's greatest charm; when she sparas ma ternity and domestic duties as trivial or monotonous, then, indeed, the mar riage state must fall into disrepute; then the fatherland must surely suffer. It was this which led to the horrors of Imperial Rome, it was the uoasexed women, their profligacy only equalled by their audacity, who were responsi ble as much as Nero and Domitian themselves for the downfall of Rman civdlization." But it is objected that those women who hold property in their own right are taxed t a maintain the Government and "Taxation without representation is tyranny." Epresentation is based in this country on population, not on property. On the other hand, the Government protects the woman in her right to hold that property, which without th,at protection she could not hold by her o wn hand. She ought to be wilting to contribute her quota to the maintenance of the Government for the sake of that protection. There are a great many foreign holders of property in this country. Foreign syadicates own many of our railroads, steamship lines and coal fields, as well as large areas of land. I do not think the most advanced suffragist will say that either these foreign property holders should exercise the ballot or go untaxed, yet the principle applies equidly to them as to women. Cne right of suffrage carries with it the duty of personal service and the enforcement of the law-military. po lice, jury and road duty. It may be claimed that woman is capable of per forming themn all. So some women may be, but the majority of women would not be willing to attempt to perform them, and woald consider that the hardships of those duties were not compensated for by the exercise of the suffrage. How many of the good women of Fairfax would be willing to exercise their police duties in putting dowa the Saurday night riots by as sisting in the arrest arnd putting in the guard house of the rioters? Or how many of the fair ladies would enjoy taking their hoes and their axes, their spades and their shovels and spend six days of the year improving the high ways? Or how many of the good mothers but would consider it a hard ship to be compelied to leave their homes and their families and spend a week or t wo serving on juries? Natur ally and necessarily burdened with incessant cares and responsibilities of the family circle, would it not be in possible in connection with the proper aischarge of these duties for her to respond to additional demands from the public? Would it not be subject ing her to the unjust and trying or deal of being placed upon double duty, first, charged with the responsibilities of the home circle, and, second, be ing called upon to contribute an .egnal share in the cirection of public affAirs? N2, let the woman faithrully perform the duties which fall upon her, and leave to the man the performance of the dities wnicta ougnt to fail upon him. '"Take care of the homes, and the nation will take care of itself. Let the mothers and teachers caltivate tne American sentiment for woman. L:t them stimulate man's responsibili ty for the women of his family. Let them train up den whimn the las: o' office cannot kill, Men whomn the spoils of office cannot 'ouy; Men who pissess opinions and wilt: Men who have honor, men who will not tie." "A time like this demands greal hearts, strong minds, true faith and willing hands." Give to them wives of ealightened judgment and enlight cined conscience, with a high apprecia 'tion of their duties and responsibilities. and women's rights will be protected without her turning on her heel to cast a ballot. With such a citizenship she may well say: "Thou, too, sail on, oh ship of State: Sail on, oh Union, strong and great: Fear not each sudden sound and shock, 'Tis of the wave and not the rock: 'Tis but the flapping of the sail; And not a rent made by the gale; In spite of rock and tempest's roar, In spite of false lights on shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea, Our hearts, our hopes are all with thee." New and Courier. TRAGEDY AT SPARTANBURG. Mr. Thou. J. Trimmier Shot Dead by Dr 8. J. Blvings. A sDecial dispatch to The State from Spartanburg, under date of March 1, says at halfpast two o'clock that after noon Dr. S. J. Bivings shot and kill ed T. J. Trimmier in the latter's book store on the public square. An im mense crowd gathered in front of the store at once and all kinds of rumors were afloat, but no demonstration of any kind was made. Both were men of prominence and both had many friends; in fact the two were them selves bosom friends, and as the news went from mouth to mouth it shocked and suprised everybody. Mr. I. W. Gray of Glendale was standing at Mr. Trimmier's desk giv ing an order for some printing, which Mr. Trimmier was writing down. Dr. Bivings walked up behind him and fired at Trimmier over his left should er. Mr. Gray stated that it was so close to him a3 to jar him considera bly and cause him to think some one was firing at him. He turned quickly and saw Bivings fire two more shots Bivings then said: "I will teach you how to speak other than respectfully of my wife." Trimmier replied. "What do you meant" and sank down. In three minutes he was dead, being shot through the heart. Bivings then tnrned towards the front of the store. Mr. Trimmier's son came in and started back towards his father and B~viogs remarked: "Don't bother me, for I don't want to hurt you," and shot him through the hand. Biv inga with a pistol in each hand, walk ed up to Policeman McAoee on the street and surrendered. He was then locked in jail. Dr. Bivings has been practicing deatistry in Spartanburg for a nuber of years and Mr. Trim mier was the proprietor of the well knowa Trimmier's book store. Both have families. The tragedy is deplor able. The jury of inquest brought in a verdict that Hr. Trim mier was wil fuity and feloniously gilled by D:. S. J. Bivings. A Teibare co the Coancry idtnor, LIst Wednesday during the discus sion of the Loud bill Mr. Clark, of MIiss~uri, who was once a country ed itor delivered a euolgy on the country editor "He is as fatthful to the pe pie as the nsedle to the pole," said. he. "In the momentous camoaign of 1890 when a vast majority-not all, mark you, but the vast majority-of Demo cratic metropolitan newspapers basely deserted their colors and went bag and baggage, horse, foot and dragoons tnto the camp of the army of the ene my, the country weeklies with few exceptions stool by the cause of Bry an, Democracy and humanity wich unshaken ddelity, superb courage and commendable self-abaegation, thereby vindicating the patriotism, wisdom and independence of the American press. Upon this same country editor1 we we must depend largely for hon est, courageous, patriotic service in the campaign nowe impending as well as that of 1900 and surely upon the Democratic side of the house we would be acting with un wisdom to deprive him of any of his prerogatives. Tae Loud bill might not uajusdy be entitled 'an act to diminish the supply of anti-Republican campaign litera ture.' Tnen it would be true to name. Republicans, having nine-tenths of mne great metropolitan papers, may fiad some excuse for supporting a measure whicn will sq aelca the coun try weeklies, but certataly Democrats, Populists and free silver Republicans cannot afford to do so unless they are meditating political suicide." Great Suffering in onba. W. W. Howard, of Ne w York, has just returned from Cuba and here is what he says of the suffering there: "I was in Armenia with Clara Bar ton," said Mr. Howard, "but nowhere in Armenia did I see such suffering and famine as I have witnessed in Cuba among the pacificos and reconcentra does. Men. women and cnidren are so emaciated from privation that the r ribs and bones almost come through their shriveled skins. If ever people needed relief it is those wretched re concentrad .s. The insurgents are well dressed, well armed, well horsed and well groomed-indeed they are sleek, and live easy lives. Cuba has oeen laid waste. Outside the towns one rarely sees a building, for the reason that all batngs in the coun try hava been razed or aurned. Grass and weeds gro w wnere once the high est cultivation existed." We Are Proud of Eim. Whatever else may be said of the Cuban affair, the South is proud of Fitzaugh Lee and the noble manner in which he has oerrormed the duties of his deticate office. We rejoice that the distinguished patriotism of this gallant Southerner is recognized even in the strongholds of Republican sec tionalism. He stands for the true American idea and the fact that his worth has been recognized without cavil or question goes further to wards burying sectionalism than all the speech of a thousand orators. The old soldiers who bared their breasts to the billets of the enemy in the '"60's" may be depended upon to the last httch.-Spartanburg Herald. The Colored Troops. The commanding offizer of the col ored militia of South Carolina writes to the adjutant general of the State to offer the services of the enlisted troops of his command, "together with 8,000 able bodied colored men ready to be enlisted," in case of war with Spain. Should their services be needed we have no doubt that the negro troops would go to the front with alacrity, but the whtte troops have no notion of surrendering the post of honor. State. Murdev and Saicide, Shep Wood, a prominent young farmer living near Cordelia, Ga., Taursday shot and killed his brother, Thomas Wood. Seeing the result of the deed, he turned the revolver on himself and sent a bullet through his own head, killing him instantly.- The brothers flad quarrelled over business THE PROHIBITIONISTS. THEY CALL A STATE CONVENTION TO MEET IN APRIL. They Are Thoroughly Organized to Fig the Li -nor Qaestion-The Text of th First Paper Issued in the Campaign of 1895 -Platform Plainly Ontiinea, The legislature having refused to pass the Child's bill after declining to kill it on the first vote taken, and having declined to grant a referendum on the liquor question, the prohibi tionists of the State do not propose to wait for the Democratic State conven tion to dodge the issue or even ask it to face it, The prohibitionists have been quietly organizing in the several counties of the State for several I months. Now they say that every county, save Berkeley is thoroughly organized and they have determined to hold a state convention in short order for the specific purpose of nom inating and putting in the field a full State ticket composed of the strongest and cleanest men, politically and morally, that they can get. This will be the first political gathering of the campaign year and the indications are that another will be added to the already rapidly growing list of candi dates for governor. This action of the anti-liqunor forces shows that this sentiment is at last to be tested, and it is needless to say that it complicates the Doliaical situation considerably. The following call for the county and State convention, recently pre pared, was issued yesterday; there are some counties not represented among the signers. Those in charge say the authority to use signatures from the missing counties is en route, but ow ing to the fact that they desired to get the call out, it was deemed best not to delay on that account: Colombia. S. C . Feb 25. 1893. The State central prohibition com mittee having determined to call a convention of the prohibitionists of the State to meet in Columbia, April the 14th, 1893, have authorized their executive committee to issue such call; the said committee hereby pub lishes the call, and the regulations which will be observed in selecting delegates to represent the several counties of the State in said conven tion. 1. The convention will assemble at 8 p. m. on the 14th day of April next, in the hall of the house of rep resentatives in Columbia. 2. The chairman of the respective county committees will call meetings or conventions of the prohibitionists of their county who favor the enact ment of laws restricting the sale of alcoholic liquors in this State to med icinal, mechanical, scientific and sac ramental purposes only, and the nom ination by the convention of State ticket who will support such legisla tion, to be placed before the. voters for their choice at the next Democrat ic primary elections, and subject to the result of said elections. 3. At such county meeting or con vention the number of delegates se lected in the manner determined by the body shall be not less than the number of representatives from the county in the general assembly, but may be a greater number if so deter mined by said county meeting or con vention. 4. That said county meeting or con vention shall be called to meet not later than the 14th day of April next, and it from any cause it shall be found impracticable to assemble such meeting, then the county executive committee are authorized to appot said delegates and certify their ap pointment to the se:eetary of the State executive committee. L. D. Childs, Cairman; F. H. Hy alt, C. D. Stanley, J. G. Dale, L. 8. H aynes, CharlesP. Wray, Thomas 3. La&[otte, secretary. J. L. Q aimby, Aiken; G.ME Elliott, Beaufort; John 8. Wnite, Charleston; J. F. Motfatt, Chester; J. L. Strain, Cherokee; J. 0. Gough, Clarendon; T. J. Drew, Darlingtoni; John L ake, Eligefield; Charles P. Wray, Fairfield; F. P. Covington, Florence; J. E. Whitmire, Greenville; P. L. Starkey, Greenwood; W. H. Dowling, Hamp ton; B. L. Beatty, Horry: Waddy C. Thompson, Lancaster; L. B. Haynes, Lexington; W. S Fox worth, Marion; H. S. Vandiver, 0,:onee: J L Sifly, Orangeburg; Julius E. BIoggs, Pick ens; L. D. Childs, Richland; J. W. Hertbert, Saluda, C. M. Hurst, Jr., Sumter; James H. Carlisle, Jr., Spartanburg; S. T. Scaife, Union; Joel E Brunson, Williamsburg; J. J. Neiville, York.-State. The Dispensary's New Bome. The State Board of Control has pur chased a ne w home for the State dis pensary in Columbia, and it will be removed from Main street and will henceforth operate in the long ware house, which was builded upon the ruins of the old Confederate mec'iy printing establishment burned near the close of the war. The board has given the matter of purchasing quar ters the most careful consideration during its present session. Friday for t wo hours the membeis discussed the pros and cons of the matter, finally signing the acceptance of the offer of Mr. J.. Cald well Robertson of the property indicated above. The price tinally determined upon was $18,000. -State. The Lyncher, Must be Pcunished. President McKinley and his cabinet are very much stirred up over the Lake City lynching. They are de termined to exhaust every means at their command in the endeavor to bring the guilty parties to justice. President McEialey has directed that the re ward offered by the postoffice department be increased to $1,500 for the first conviction ot a lyncher and $1,000 for each subsequent conviction of a lyncher. In addition a host of detectives will be paid to work in the courtry contiguous to Lake City. McKinzey and his cabinet are very much worked up. They are deter mined that the lynchers shall be pun ished. ________ Thinks Spain Did Bight. Representative McCleary of Minne sota, a conspicuous leader of the gold men of the North west in the presiden tial campaign, says that as the Maine entered Havana harbor with her guns loaded Spain had a right to place her over a mine or destroy her as she saw fit. Convict K11Ied by Guard, Charlie Combs, a negro on the Richland County chaingang, wasshlot and killed by one of the guards last. 'Friday while he was trying to escape, He had nly three months to serve.