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VOL. MANNING., S. C. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1898. 16 A LARGE CROWD. The Signs Point to a Big Atten dance at the Fair. THE "FALL OF MANILA." This Presentation of Itself Will Be a Great Attraction. Fire works in Addition Good Exhibits Already Assured. Columbia. Nov. 5.-Special:-Im the past week the information received by Col. T. W. Holloway, the secretary and general manager of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society, confirms his previous opinion as to the certainty of a fine attendance from every part of South Carolina, at the fair of the Society, commencing on Monday the 14th inst. Great interest is shown in this year's gathering, and the county papers especially are calling attention-to it. The railroad rates are very low, and the accommodations for visitors will be all that can be desired. PAINS 'MANILA. The great spectacle-Pain's Fall of Manila-will of course constitute a leading attraction. The gentlemen in charge of this feature are already busily engaged in making the necessary pre parations at the fair grounds. In addi tion to the presentation of the battle, as already noted in this correspondence there will be a grand display of fire works, as follows: 1. Salute of 2 Aeriel guns, fired from 15 inch mortars. 2. Illumination of the grounds with powerful colored lights, changing colo: five times. 3. Ascent of two balloons, carrying magnesium lights, flooding the entire neighborhood with dazzling lights, finishing with a string of jewels 100 feet long, constantly change color as they float through space; and other o:easing fireworks. 4. Display of 50 one and two pound rockets, containing Paine's famous Man hattan Beach combinations, and fired so as to blend the continued varied tints. 5. Flying Pigeons of fire, crossing and recrossing the grounds. 6. Two batteries of large Saucissons. 7. Salvo of five fifteen inch bombs, with latest novelties and effects. 8. Flight of 3 Rockets, containing twin parachutes. 9. Bayonet Tourbillon or umbrellas of fire, in ascent and decent. 10. The Star Spangled Banner in fire. 11. 2 Large Mines of Serpents of fire. 12. Salvo of 6 15 inch shells, Cou leur de Rose, Amethysts and Rubies, Pearls and Sapphires. Old Gold, Corise, etc. 13. Ascent of 4 four pound hanging chain ro,;kets, first introduced into Pyrotechny by Paine. 14. Exhibition of 2 Batteries of Va riegated Stars. 15. Alladins' Jeweled Tree of Fire. 16. 2 Large Deveil-among-the tailors one of the most amusing pieces in Py rotechny. 17. Salvo of 24 inch shell, contain ing all the latest effects, invented by Paine for the 1898 seasons at ,Manhat tan Beach. 18. Ascent of three pounds Paine's Chromatic Star Rockets the most ad mired of all recent novelties in fire works. 19. Ascent of three pound rockets, the Pleiadesor 7 Floating Stars. 20. Ascent of three pound rockets Opal Showers. Laburnam blossoms and Evening Stars. 21. Aerial Novelty. Salvo of 9 re peating shells. opening red, changing to white, finishing blue. 22. Fire'Portraits of Admiral Dewey General Butler, Lieutenant Hobson, Admiral Schley, General Wheeler. Lieutenant V~ictor Blue, etc. 23. Explosion of T wo immense crack - er mines. 24 Salvo of 24 inch bombs, liquid fire, Comotic Rain, Alladin's Jewels, etc. 25. Display of Paine's Aerial Nov elties. 26. The Hanging Gardens. 27. The Great Bear. 28. Peacock's Plumes. 29. National Streamer. :30. Magnesium star. 31. Electric Star. 32. Design in Fire-Peace with Honor, won by American Valor. 33. Batteries of two large Colored Saucissons. 34. Brilliant illumination of the Grounds with Ruby Compound, 35. Salvo of Paine's celebrated 24 inch bombs, Indian JaIgglery, Essence of Moonlights, etc. 36. Flight-of 6 pound rockets. with floating festoons of. fire. Paine's spe ialty and not attempted by any other Pyrotechnists. Called by Mark Twain " Aerial Sleigh Bells." 37. Beautiful Diamond Dust Screen. 100 feet long. 38. The Golden Cloud studded with jewels. produced by the simultaneous discharge of 9 inch shells. 39. Battery of Italian Streamers. 40. Battery of Electric Spreader Stars. 41. Battery of Paine's Chromatic Candles. 42. Battery of Gold Showers. 43. Salvo of 42 inch shells, Paine's Manhattan Beach Bombs, shooting Stars. Cornucopias, etc. 44. Ascent of 8 pound Congreve Rockets, with CometiecStars. 45. The starry flag, produced by simultaneous discharge of 9 bombs. 46. Ascent of prismatic whirlwinds. 47. Quintuple Repeating Bombs, turquoise, emeralds, rubies. Amethysts. Pearls. ete. All 1898 Novelties. 48. Mother of Thousands. The 1S88 Bomb. 49. Fight between the Spanish Flag ship Maria Teresa, and the U. S. S. Brooklyn; the Blowing up of the Maine the sinking of the Merrimac. 50. Magnificent Aerial Bouquet, produced by simultaneous discharge of 1001 large colored rockets. 51. The famous Reproduction of the Battle of Manila Bay, between the Spanish and American Fleets, the greatest fireworks spectacle ever pre sented to the people of the South. This portion ..f the display alone occupies a half hour or more. and is alone worth -a trip to Columbia. Special trains on all the roads will be held until the fireworks display is Comfortable seats will be provided for the spectators. There will be given a number of life like portraits of the leading military and naval leroes of the Spanish war, every one w'io car possibly do so should arrange to see the display. FORTUNE TELLER KILLED HER. Girl.Frightened to Death by a Pre diction From Tea Leaves. In the sudden and still unc., lained death of Letitia 31. Hall at Wolcott, N. Y., the Society for Psychical Research has ample field for investigation. The case is a nine day's wonder throughout Eastern Wayne county, though all the facts are still far from being generally known. Miss Hall was 19 years old and the daughter of Hamilton Hall. a West Butler farmer living about 4 miles southwest of this village. She was the youngest of several girls, petite. vivaci ous and pretty. Socially she was popu lar, being generally known among the people by the quizzical nickname of -Miss Seyen-for-a-Cent," owing to her diminutive stature, which was under 5 feet. Tnroughout her childhood Miss Hall was of marked nourotic tempera ment. being subject to prolonged fits of "the blues," with spasms. fainting spells and other symptoms of acute ner vousness. but in recent years she had been entirely free from such attacks. Hei parents and friends had not the slightest doubt that her health was completely restored. A week ago she accompanied Seward Thorn to this village and remained over night as the guest of his sister, Josie, and the following morning, as a youth ful prank. the three decided to visit Madame Herter, the Roose secrer - a woman famous throughout WesLern New York, and have their fortunes told. In the highest spirits they drove t Mrs. Herter's home and were speedily closeted with her. Her particular method of consulting the occult is by inspecting the grounds left from a cup of tea, a whirl of the inverted cup suf ficing for each questioner. Miss Thorn's fortune was commonplace and increased the hilarity of the young peo pJe, but when Miss Hall's turn came the old witch hesitated, consulted the cup a second time and then called the girl aside to an adjacent room, her face being ; ive, even awe-stricken, while Miss Hall laughed lightly. When they returned a moment later, however, the laugh had disappeared, and the girl appeared frightened. She begged her companions to leave the house at once, and they, vainly trying to. rally her spirits, complied. Once upon the road, after much urg ing, Miss Hall told them that Mrs. Hierter, with due solemnity, even with tears, had informed her that she had not three days more to live. So deep an impression had this made upon the girl's mind that. she shuddeied, seem ing convinced of the absolute truth of the alleged prophecy. The three attended church on Sun day evening, and immediatcy after the service Miss Hall became ill and spasms followed. She soon died and the doctors report that her death re sulted from paralysis caused by fright. A TRAVELING POSTOFFICE. Mail Wagon to Collect and Deliver Letters on a Thirty Mile Route. The postoffice department decided Wednesday to make a new experiment in the rural free delivery system, which is, in effect, the establishment of a traveling postoffice. Some time ago a resident of Westminister, Md.. wrote to the department offering to build such a postoflice, to be drawn by two horses, and to establish a system between Westminister and the surrounding villages, covering a distance of thirty miles, for $1,375 a year. The plan was accepted Wednesday. The wagon will be similar to the postoffice wagons in use in the cities. The postman will start from Westmin ister in the mornitg and visit a number of small towns in the vicinity collec ting and delivering mail en route. Any farmer living within two miles of the road along which the wagon passes will be allowed to place a letter box at the roadside, in which his mail can be de posited by the carrier, and from s. hich the carrier w11l take the out going mail. At several small places where there is no postoffice a number of boxes will be put up, which will practically form an automatic postoffice. The inventor of the scheme will act as postmaster, and will sell stamps, money orders, etc, stamp letters and assort them for the mails. While driving out in the morn ing he will assort the mail for delivery! and, when returning he will prepare it to be placed on the train. He expects to barely make expenses. but the gov ernment will pay him a royalty on all similar wagons should the scheme be put in general operation. It is believ ed that by this mothod much more work can be done than by a single ear ner. Highway Robbery. A highway robbery was committed on the road leading from Lockhart to Mt. Tabor, in Union county, Wednesday evening about dark. The victim was M1r. John II. Inman, a prominent farm er of the MIt. Tabor community. 3Mr. Inman was returning from Lockhart, where he had been to sell cotton. When within a mile of his father's home he was attacked by three men, two Negroes and a white man, whc knocked him senseless and abstracted from his pocket $'19 in cash, the pro ceeds of his cotton. MIr. Inman was left lying in the road until about 9:30) o'clock. when. he was found by two Negroes who passed along that way. These Negroes had a buggy brought up and carried M1r. Inman home. Search was immediately instituted for the guilty parties, and Wednesday Wade Jeter. a notorious Negro, was arrested and lodged in jail. The other two are spotted and their capture is only a mat ter of time. .Should Read Lip. Governor Tanner. of Illineis, contin ues to refer to Negro miners from Ala-. bama as "foreigners." The governor should r'ead up on the constitution, and learn that any citizen of one state has a right to enter peaceably the borders of another. Governor Tanner will have to relinquish his Gatling gun A BUGLE BLASI. What Senator McLaurin Said to a North Carolina Audience. A MOST FERVENT APPEAL. A Summons to the True Men of the old North State to Maintain Jhe Civilization Inherited from their Forefathers. The following is a synopsis of the cloqent and powerful speech delivered by Senator John L. MeLaurin, at Old Hundred, Richmond county, last Fri day, prepared especially for the Wil mington Star: Fellow Citizens: In the various great cities of the land, -Peace Jubilees" are being held to celebrate the glorious achievenents of American valor in two hemispheres, on both the land and the sea. I have heard everywhere, except in this State. sounds of joy. They are extending the blessings of liberty to other lands, while there hangs over you the black shadow of Negro domina tion. North Carolina deserves a better fate. She has never failed when duty called. In this war she gave the first sacriiee of blood when Bagley died at Card enas. She gave my old schoolmate, the gal lant Bill Shipp, at Santiago, and Victor Blue, of South Carolina, ani Hobson are both of good old Tar Heel stock. It does seem hard, just at this time, for the people of this State to be threaten ed with-a yoke more hateful, and more galling to race pride, than the rule of Spain over Cuba. In other States, campaign issues are being discussed, it is gold or silver, tar if or war, Republican or Democrat. In North Carolina the one issue is white supremacy or negro domination. This. fellow citizens, is the one paramount issue, all others are dwarfed into insig nificance. No use to talk "Fusion," there is but one kind of fusion now possible in North Carolina. Be it s-aid to their credit, the Negroes themselves have torn the mask from the bastard ar rangement that has centrolled under the rotten guise of "Fusion." The only "Fusion" now for a decent white man, .is a "Fusion" into your "white unions," sealediin the sacredness of the common blood of your race, and pledged to the redemption of this grand old. State from the misrule and corrup tion that follow Negro domination. Fellow citizens, it was upon North Carolina soil that the first decla ration of . independence was madt, and it was the brave men of this State and my own who turned the tide of battle -s Cowpens and King's Mloun tain so that it never stopped until the surrender at Yorktown. Your aacestors carved an empire out of a wilqierness, redeemed it from sav age red men, and then wrested it from the British Lion. Shall you turn the goodly heritage over to slaves and the children of slaves? All the proud traditions of the Caucasian race for bid. The right of the Caucasian to rule omes-from God. Where he is found e governs. It is in his blood. His ommission is printed on his brow by he hand of the Almighty, and the re ord of his race is marked in all the istories of the past in all the coun tries of the earth. Anglo-Saxon civili ration in North Carolina will never re treat in the face of a conflict with an inferior race. Every State in the south has had this same ordeal to go through, but in spite of the power of federal bay onets, in every struggle, thanks be to God, our civilization has been main tained, and in every corflict it has ulti mately triumphed. The constitutions of South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana tell the story. It does my heart good, and warms my blood to hear how grandly the white people of all political parties and shades of opinion are responding to that good old battle cry, "White suprema cy!" This is the keynote. In the past it has saved our homes and protected our women from insult and degradation. It supplies a motive that makes strong the arm of feebleness and nerves even the craven heart. "White supremacy!" Under that in spiration, let us hope that on the 8th of November, the black clouds will roll away and theeclear sun shine upon a people redeemed and free-free from terror of a worse than Egyptian bond age. The manner in which you arc .con ducting your campaign reminds me of a story of two Irishmen. They landed in New York from the steamer andi walked out into Jersey and laid down to spend the night alongside of the railroad track. During the night one of them woke up at the noise of an ex press train. The ground trembled with the rumble and roar while a great big fiery eye glared at them. Terror strigen he shook his co.npanion, "wake up Jamie, wake up; these Amer icans are moving hell to same other place." Well, you North Caiolinians seem determined to move hell to some other place. and I hope you will succeed; only don't move it down across the line; we have had our share in South Carolina. Cuba would be a pretty good place to move it to. They ought to be used to hell there by this time. In North Carolina, as I view the case it is not even a (question of a partly white and a partly black government. There is no compromise and strange to say the color line is drawn by the Ne groes themselves. I am glad that it is so. Your troubles will end sooner Had the Negroes been conservativ-e and shown some judgment your State might have been controlled by fusion for years, but - whom the gods would de stroy they first make mad." The Ne groes have openly announced their in tention to make it a race matter and dominate to the exclusion of their white allies. This is the history of every southern State. The Negroes by themselves have never in a singzle in stance been able to gain control, but have been led by the white men, whom they always repudiate as soon as they gain power. The reason the negroes repudiate, as soon as possible, their white allies, is because the negro is ambitious. His one great ambition is o become a white man, and if he de spises one thing more than another it s a white man who has become a ne gro, and the first neck his heel will tread ul:on is the white man's through whose vote he gains power. It is a question not of Republicanism, Democ racy or P opulist; it is the preservation of your civilization. It was 3acauly, I believe, who said of the French revo lution. "It destroyed liberty, but pre served civilization." It was an awful calamity, when, after the war, a vast horde of ignorant voters were enfran chised. More than once have our peo ple been face to face with the dread choice between liberty and civiliza tion. Once in South Car.olina Wade Hamp ton thrilled the hearts of our people with the words. "I will be governor of South Carolina, or by the Eternal we will have a military government. Bet ter for me a military despotism than a civilization inferior, degraded and corrupt." Social and political conditions under any government are rutten when a pub lie speaker can give utterance to such ideas and sentiments as are reported at Mason's X Roads a few days ago. A white man advising neg roes to assault white women! Great God! has he a white mother? -has he sisters? Such a monster should be scouracd and driven by decent Negroes themselves beyond the pale of civilization. The office holders read the handwrit ing on the wall. The letter of the Wil mington postmaster is .a straw which shows which way the wind blows." It is the manifest intention of the Negroes to control this State. and I tirmly believe if they carry this elec tion large numbers will come from other States. A determined effort is now being made in the eastern part of the State to terrorize the whites into subjection, and the basest, meanest thing of all, is such threats against our women as are being made. It is manifest that the Negro is not satisfied with being accorded his con stitutional rights. In no State in this Union is he in such a position as in North Carolina. There is not a New Engiand town that would submit for 24 hours to what the refined and cultivat d people of Wilmington, Newbern and Greenville have for two years. Your people have been patient and long-suf ering. Not content with taking posses sion of your municipalities and appoint ing negro justices and policemen they seemed inspired with a vindicative de sire to make their sway as odious and oppressive as possible to their white fellow citizens. "No taxation without representation, and yet people who pay no taxes assess your property and dis burse your money. I also read Fn the papers that an at tempt is being made to import Federal troops, but I do not believe the Presi dent will be led into such a scheme. If he does the American people will hold him responsible for the conse quences. If the troops come and see what the white people have to endure in the eastern counties, they will sym pathize with you, just as they did with us in 1876. If the President was here himself to see the humiliation that the white people in this section are sub jected to, he could not be deceived into sending troops here to assist Negroes in trampling upon the rights of white people. Fellow citizens, I have heard, seen and read enough in the past six months about affairs in eastern North Carrlina to make me feel that if I had to stand it, life wouldn't be worth the living. I have heard of assaults on white women, and then read in a Wilmington paper a justification by a vile slanderer on the purity of the white womanhood of North Carolina. I read also of a young orphan girl in one of your cities. She was walking down the street, and finding the side walk blocked by three Negro men, stepped off to pass around them. One of the brutes overtook her, grabbed her roughly by the shoulder, turned her round and slapped her face for "put ting on ears." Negro policemen were around, and, I am told, made not the slightest attempt to make an arrest. I am told that in some instances white ladies have been arrested and carried before Negro justices on some flimsy pretext. In some sections it is unsafe for a white girl or woman to walk the road alone. The disposition seems to be to aggra vate and harass the whites into the commission of some overt act so as a pretext to import troops in here to bol ster up the courage of those of whom conscience has made cowards. Take that occurrence at Ashpole. Who bothered the Negroes? They robbed a store and burned it down. When the warrants were issued the Negroes as sembled and not only defied arrest, but swore they intended to burn the town. The whites assembled after this demon stration for the protection of their lives and property. The Negroes were driven off without a single one them being in jured. The whites thought the trouble was over, but deemed it wise to watch the town during the night. While stand ing around a fire unsuspicious of harm five Negroes crept up under cover of darkness and shot three white men down. Yet, this is made the pretext to rush to Washington and beg for troops to protect the Negroes from vio lence. A State government that is so odious that the people of this State will not rally to the support of law and or der inspires nothing but contempt. Troops are wanted to terrorize the whites and carry the election; not to protect the Negroes. In sonme quarters we have been accused in South Caroli na of depriving Negroes of too many political rights. I deny this. The Negro just emerged from slavery, and foisted by the bayonet into the full exercise of citizenship was unfit for the duties and responsibilities devolving upon him, he was the prey of design ingr white men and needed protection from his owvn folly. Today in South Carolina lhe has just as many rights as he can properly appreciate and enjoy with b)enefit to himself and the public good. No one wishes to injure the Negro. We are spending thousands on his edu cation. trying to fit him for the duties of full citizenship. Do you suppose for one moment the Republican party proposes to give ali the citizens of Iha waii a voice in the government. Not a bit of it. Senator Lodge, the author of the force bill, was the first one to object to a resolutioni of Senator Petti grew proposing "manhood suffrage." sulting Negroes and wantonly pushing their women from the sidewalk? It is only when the Negro in my State gets out of his place that he is molested. Your people might as well let it be un derstood that the white men are to gov ern this State, it will saie trouble. In South Carolina, where the white peo ple control, the Negro is treated with respect and consideration, and there is a sincere desire on the part of us all to make his condition as tolerable as we can. We don't wish to make our rule hateful and odious but we want to get along as pleasantly as possible. What a spectacle it is to us to see our breth ren over here treated as they are, with the evident desire of the Negroes to make their sway as harsh and oppres sive as possible. We are watching events here where it is proposed if pos sible to pin Negro rule to your backs with Federal bayonets. After making conditions so intolerable that nature rebels, they would crush you with brute force. Fellow citizens, without good govern ment and peace, permanent and as sured, there can be no progress, pros perity or happiness within the borders of your State. It is a fundamental rule in our socia and political economy that white men must control our State government. Without white supremacy assured be yond peradventure, there can only be turmoil and strife. I care not what you are-Republican, Populist, Silverite or Goldbug-your skin may be as fair as the lily, but your heart is seamed with the blackness of hell in this crisis, forgetful of the glo rious traditions of your own race, you cast your lot with those who would put black heels on white necks. The Negroes themselves have made the race issue. Can you do less? Whether from patriotism or self-interest, it is the paramount duty of every man to stand by his race before party and be fore creed. I am not unmindful of ths fact that in North Carolina, especially in the mounutai regions, a great many emi nently respeCLAUIle families are Repub lican from priuciple. I know many whom I esteem and respect most high ly but I would say to them that the present issue rises far above party, and they can as ill afford as you t( have this State controlled by Negroes. The black brute who insults your wife or daughter on the streets will not be more considerate of theirs, and the evils of a corrupt and expensive State gov ernment will not bear less-heavily upon their property than it does upon yours. Let me say to those white men who hold office by "fusion" that I know that many good and patriotic men were led through their belief in Alliance princi ples into the fusion movement. We had the same thing in South Carolina, but we have learned to settle our differ ences among ourselves. The Demo-, cratic party has enacted into its plat form the very doctrines for which you have been contending, and there is nothing for you to do but to come back home. To those white fusionists holding of fice I say, "lay not the flattering unc tion to your soul, "it will not last. You are only tolerated for your votes, and then you will be thrown overboard. The Negro is determined to control if he can, and mark my prediction: The fusionist will suffer more than any one else. Come back. while yet there is time, "saving race" will be spent by the 8th of November. After thea you will be shunned and ostracised like a leper by your own race, and looked upon with contempt by the Negro, whose toel you have been. We had a crisis like this in 1876, and those men who failed in the hour of need have never -egretted it but once, and that is all the time. Like the revolutionary tory, the man who didn't vote for Hampton in '76 will bear the stigma on to generations yet unborn. The office-holding white need not de ceive himself, he cau't use the Negro to ride into pilce as lhe did 20 years ago. Don't you rewemiber the old joke told on Mahone in this campaign? A Ne gro said he dreamed that Mahone died and knocked at the gate of heaven and they told him no lfoot passengers" could enter, so he went off and fooled a Negro by telling him to get down on his all fours and he would ride him in, and both would thus get inside. But when they reached the gate Mahone hitched his "boss" outside and walked in. Well, he couldn't fool a "Tar Heel" Negro that way today. They are riding white Republicans and Populists, and if they can they will hiwch their "hosses" outside the party gate anel walk in alone. A 19ew Comet. Prof. Edgar Frisbie, of the Naval Observatory, is engaged in computing the orbit of a new comet. It was first seen by Prof. W. R. Brooks, of Gene va, N. Y., Thursday of last week. Prof. Frisbic says that he has made three observations, and the comet is wonderfully bright and moving with great velocity, proving, in his opinion, that it is unusually near the earth. "It appears to be a large, round body," says Prof. Frisbic, 'and has moved over nine degrees in four days, going south and increasing its right ascention continually. It was first seen about ten degrees south of the principal star of the constellation Draco, not far from the second star of the Great Piper. It has moved steadily towards the contel lation of Hercules, and is now passing through it. The comet is seen to the best advantage just after sundown or just before sunrise, as it is then closer to the earth. It is fully three degrees in diameter, and particularly intereit ing on account of it s brightness and the great rapidity with which it is moving through the heavens. From tihe pres ent outlook of its course, it will probo bly be visible to the naked eye in a few days. The northern heavens will then be brilliantly lighted and the visi ble movement of the comet will present a startling effect." Crew Only Saved. The schooner Jennie F. Willie, Capt. Bulger, which sailed from Jacksonville on September 21, for St. Pierre, Mar tinique, and Gonaives, and New York, encountcred a hurricane on October 1 during which she was dismasted, her deck was blown off and she was partly sunk. She drifted, however, and stranded on October 26 at Walker's Cay. The vessel and cargo are a total loss. The crew succeeded in reaching A TALE OF HORROR. The Terrible Picture of a Flaming Fanatic. A WOMAN'S TERRIBLE ACT. Poured Oil on Her Garments, and, While Surrounded By Her Chil dren, Applied the Match, and Perished in the Flames. One of the most tragic scenes in the history of fanaticism has just been en acted in the city of Newv York. Mrs. Muntag, a Catholic, repenting her marriage to a Hebrew, inspired by* the zeal of fanaticism and filled with remorse because she had taken an un believer for a husband, saturated her gown with kerosene and set it on fire. Surrounded by her children, she mut tered prayers, and when the match was applied, the little ones ran shrieking away as the flames blazed about the unfortunate woman. For the distorted image of the faith of her fathers that seared her brain this woman gave up her life in a most horri ble manner as a voluntary sacritice. There was in the awful act, not only the blind zeal of the Christian, but the savage rights of heathenish self-immo lation. Believing that she had outraged her religion by linking her destiny to one of a different faith, she made of herself a burnt offering in the mad hope of ap peasing the judgment which she dread ed. Even while pouring the oil on her gown to feed the flames, she murmured the formulas of her religion, fingered her string of beads, telling of her last prayers before seeking rest in a flaming death from the terror of doom beyond the grave. Five years ago she was married. As Kate Hart she was a happy young girl, noted for her. devotion among the pious Catholics. her family and friends. No one was more firm in her faith either in outward ceremony or inward convic tion. But even this deep rooted reverence for her religion yielded to the workings of her heart. Charles Muntag, a Hebrew, loved her. He sought her hand in marriage despite the strong disapproval of her family and friends. When alone they begged aud pleaded with her to give up her sweetheart, but she turned a deaf ea; to all entreaty. She could see no sin in lavishing her affections upon an honest man, al though he was beyond the pale of the church. They were married. And although her family and friends refused to witness the ceremony she was a happy bride. Muntag, as an insurance solicitor, made a good salary and was amply able to provide for his wife in their home at 301 East One Hundred and First street. The wedding over, the attitude of her friends did not change. They did not forbear to impress upon her on every occasion that she had wronged the church by giving her heart to one whom her faith consigned to outer darkness. Yoked for life to an unbeliever, not all the kindness of her husband, nor all the comforts of a good home, nor the innocent prattle of loving pretty chil dren could lift the weight from her mind. She brooded over these things and lost the cheerfulness of her youth. True in her three little children she found some relief from the dark fore bodings of her religious convictions. But she was never entirely happy and as the years flew by her great fear gath ered gloom and strength. There wereo timues when, to her re prueital friends, she showed the inten sty of her feelings. She would speak of expatiating her error and of winning absolution. They paid little attention to these vague threatenings, but noticed that, with her deep dejection, her religious zeal grew stronger. For the past few days she had been more silent than usual, and spent much time kneeling before her little shrine and counting her beads. Sheseemed to be always in prayer. When her husband had gone yester day she seated herself in her room and called her little ones around her. While they stood there in all the innocence of childish wonder, she closed her eyes and fingering her beads rapidly, mut tered prayers. Then she gave the eldest child some money and sent her to a store for kero sene. When the child returned the mother was still seated, whispering in prayer, with parched lips. She took the oil and poured it over her gown as though anointing herself for a sacrifice. The children looked on silently with wide open eyes. Still praying in broken whispers. the woman saturated her skirts with the i. onec then struck a match and touched it to the hemi of her garment. Instantly the flames leaped up and the children fled screaming. The mother, the beads slipping swiftly through her fingers. still prayed, and the fire licked upward to her face. In the scorching flames the fanatic's zeal was swept away, and the broken words of prayer turned to a shriek of anguish. The neighbors, startled by the cries of the children. came runnmng from above and below and burst into the room. The woman was raving in the midst of the flames, the beads still clutched in her fingers. She was caught and flung to the floor and wrapped in blankets. Policeman Pape. of the East One Hundred and Fourth street station, Ihad heard the commotion and dashed into the house in time to assist in smothering the blaze. There was little left of the image of a woman in the sufferer, but she was carried tenderly to the Harlem hospital in an ambulance. The doctors used all their skill to allay her pain, though she was almost beyond feeling any. They said there was no hope that she could recover. She died at 6 o'clock. Election Rot. For pure election rot, this, clipped from the Chicago Inter- Ocean. takes the cake: "Spain is hoping that the election will go agaiest the Republican party. It is Spain'slast hope. If you are an American citizen you are entitled to assist in deciding the questson for or IT WILL NOT WORK. What Some of them Think of the Philippine. The Spartanburg Herald says it looks now as if the President's plan of buy ing the Philippine will strike a rock in the United States Senate. It is by no means certain that a treaty which in volves the assumption of Spanish debts or the payment of indemnity to Spain will pass the Senate, as it must to be operative. Quite a number of Senators have already spoken. The plan is op posed by Democrats and Republicans alike. Senator Tillman is quoted as follows: TRENTON, S. C., Oct. 31. I am opposed to paying any sum of money to Spain for the Philippines and equally opposed to holding them as conquered territory. But if we demand their cession we should not assume any debts on that account. aud we could then sell them to help pay the expenses of the war. B. R. Tillman. This is the true Democratic position, true Americanism. The idea of buying islands in the far east is anti-Republi can and foreign to the established policy of th6 government. Senator Hale, Re publican Senator from Maine, is even more emphatic against the President's scheme than the South Carolinian. He says: I would not take the Philippines if Spain would give us $40,000,000 with them. The sooner we drop them the better. Eugene Hale. When the true inwardness of the transaction is known, when it becomes clear that large quantities of bogus bonds alleged to have been issued for "betterments" and included in the President's offer, have been bought by an American syndicate in close touch with the President, it will be found that this Philippine deal is a hot potato to be speedily dropped. Public opinion should stand firm Lobbyists witl be found hanging around the capitol buying-here and there a Senator, but let us hope that the major ity are still unpurchasable. CONFEDERATE REUNION. It Will be Held in Charleston Next May. The following order fixing the date for the next annual reunion of the Unit.d Confederate Veterans to be held in Charleston, has just been issued from headquarters here: General Order No. 209. Headquarters United Confederate Veterans. New Orleans, La., Oct. 29, 1898. 1. The general commanding announ ces that under the resolution passed at the late reunion at Atlanta, Ga., and under the custom established by the association, leaving the date of the next annual meeting and reunion, which is to be held in the city of Charleston, S. C., to the general commanding and the department commanders; by unanimous agreement, and at the desire of, and ac quiescence in by "our Host," the next reunion will be held at Charleston, S. C., upon the following dates, May 10, 11, 12, 13th, 1899. Wednesday, Thurs day, Friday and Saturday respectively. On account of the rapid growth of the association and the immense ac cumulation of business, which de mands urgent attention at the coming session, four days will be given for this important session, unless the bus iness is sooner disposed of by the del egates. 2. With pride the general command ing also announces that 1,170 camps have now joined the association and applications received at these head quarters for over 200 more. He urges veterans everywhere to send to these headquarters for organization papers, form camps at once. and join this as sociation, so as to assist in carrying out its benevolent, praiseworthy and patri otic objects. By order of J. B. Gordon, General Commanding. George Moorman, Adj. Gen. and Chief of Staff. She Was Tired of Living. Wednesday Rose Lanrer, aged 22, of Columbus, Ohio, and J. F. Cledekner, aged 32, of No. 264 Class avenue, walk ed out to the end of the dock of the Cleveland Yacht club at the foot of Erie street and tied themselves togeth er with strips thorn from a bed sheet. They then jumped into the lake. Two Lake Shore railroad detectives dove into the icy water after the couple .and rescued them. Both were taken to a hospital. Clenckner is a conductor on the Cleveland & Pittsburg railroad. Beyond saying that they were tired of living the couple would give no reason for their attempted suicide. Two Mules Drowned. The Greenville News says while at tempting to cross a ford near Batesville recently with a wagon and two moles, Lewis Kennedy, coloed, experienced a runaway in mid stream that resulted in the drowning of his mules, and he him self narrowly escaped death. He started ~ out with the team from M. L. Marchbank's place, about two miles from Batesville, to go to that town. At the ford near Batesville the mules became frightened and ran down the stream into deep water and were drown ed. After a hard struggle Kennedy got ashore. Hobson's All Right. There is nothing the matter with Hlobson. Of the Spanish warshipe sunk at Santiago he has already saved the Maria Teresa, after the wreekinf firms said it couldn't be done; he say' it will be boy's play to raise the Reina Mercedes, and that he will save the Colon and the Vizcaya if the govern ment will give him the neeeessary money for expenses- The Lieutenant is evidently resolved to add several fine vessels to the American navy at bar gain-counter prices. Hundreds Sick. The steamer Penn arrived at S-an Francisco, Cal., Wednesday frou Manila. When she left Manila there were 1500 sick among the men and the physicians were terribly dismayed at the~ progress smallpox was making. Ac cording to Sergeant Palmer. in one day there were ten deaths from smallpox. Capt. inn said he knew of but, fiv deaths from that disease in a single day. The filth poured into the canals by the Chinese is said to be a prolific source of disease. A BIG STEAL In Which The President's Brother Had a Haul. AGENT FOR GONTRACTORS. His Houses Given Large Army Contracts Over Lower Bid ders and the Government. -J Was Swindled. The attack made by William Astor Chanler, Democratic canaidate for con gress in the Fourteenth New York dis trict, on Abner McKinley, the presi dent's brother, in a public speech recently has been the suoject of much comment among the politicians of both parties in Washington. Mr. Chanler is a man of wealth and position and is responsible for his utterances. While addressing a meeting in. his district he cnarged that Abner McKin ley had made a pile of money during the war by acting as attorney for a num ber of zlotning firms which had ob tained contracts from the secretary of war for supplying uniforms for the sol diers in te neld. Mr. Cnanter went on to say that in many cases, the clothing thus supplied was made of eneap and - worthless ma terial which fell to pieces when exposed to the rain. He insisted that it would be the duty of the next congress to in vestigate the methods by wnich these contracts were awarded, and tnat the investigation ought to be in the tands of a Democratic committee. It has been a matter of common knowledge in this city for more than a year that Abner McKinley was doing a paying business by acting as attorney for claimants and contractors in the va rious departments. lie was formerly an attorney at Canton, U., but soon after the election or his brother William to the presidency he rsmoved to Ne York, where he opened a law office in Wall street. About the time that President McKinley took hold of the helm of state Abner McKinley came over to Washington and established himself at the Wbbitt house. He remained in Washington during the extra session of congress in the spring of 1897 and returned here again last fall. He was in Washington al most continuously from the time con gress assembled last December until the peace protocol with Spain was signed. During the winter he had a good deal of business in the interior department In one mining case from Colorado he received a fee of $20,00 and he also collected another princely fee for look ing after the interests of a wealthy ranchman in New Mexico. When the trouble with Spain began Abner McKinley transferred his atten tion to the war department and it was a matter of common talk that he ap peared as attorney for most of the suc cessful contractors. Some time in May last he was said to be interested in hav ing awarded to a New York firm a con tract for supplying clothing to the amount of about 50,o00. it turned out afterward that a responsible Phila delphia firm had submitted a bid $10, OU less than that of the New Yorx manufacturers. Tihe Philadelphia concern threatened to make trouble, but was finally si lenced with the promise that it should have a good contract for ~supplying clothing as soon as another award was made. The promise was kept and the Philadelphia dealers secured an award at even better figures than had been obtained by their New York rivals. This method of paying "hush money" prevented the exposure of gigantic scan dal. Mr. Chanler seems to be on the right track. If the bottom facts concerning the awarding of army and navy con tracts are ever brought to light they will have to be dragged out by a Dem ocratic congress. An investigation by a Riepublican house would simply mean a liberal application of whitewash. Concerning the Ral. The New York World presents docu mentary evidence to prove that in cer tain large government war purchases one of 50J,000(. soldiers' overcoats and one of three whaleback steamers-the name of Abner McKinley, the presi dent's brother, was used to promote the acceptance of bids; that a firm of New York lawyers were to get $75,000 com mission out of the government pay ments for securing the overcoat order and $75,000 for the steamer sale; and it prints a photographic fac-simile of a letter from this firm showing that $30 000 of the money to be paid by the government for the steamers was to go to certain unnamed "Washington friends" so as to "expedite the sale." The World says it telegraphed to Mr. McKinley offering the use of its cal umns for an explanation from him, but two days later had received no reply. A Terrible Record. A special from Gloucester, Mass., says: The past season has been very severe on the fishing fleet. The reck oning for the year is 14 vessels a total loss, 82 men drowned in the pursuit of the fisheries, 23 wives widowed and 55 children made orphans. The loss will approximate $100,000. The terrible gales which raged on the banks during October, 1897, are undoubtedly respon sible for the loss of three vessels and their entire crew, while the series of gales which prevailed during the win ter also brought the fate of many a Gloucester fisherm-in. Mackey In Jail. Judge Thomias J. Mackey, the al leged bigamist, who has been under bail for his appearance before the grand jury of Jefferson county, Va., at the November term of the circuit court, was arrested Wednesday night on a capias by Deputy Sheriff S. C. Young. The bondsman of Judge Mackey having re fused to be longer liable for his ap pearance and having notified the prose. cuting attorney, the arrest, followed and the prisoner was lodged in jail to answer the charge of bigamy. On the Right Line. We are glad to know that there is a strong disposition on the part of farm ers to reduce their cotton acreage next year and raise their own supplies. The farmer who raises his own corn, flour, bacon, molasses, etc., and raises cotton only as a surplus, is not much disturbed n macontof4 i- cents cotton.