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VOL. XV. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1899. NO.15, PHLLIPPlINE WAR. Fundamental Principles involved in Question. SUGGESTS WAY TO "LET GO" President Can Summon Congress to Guarantee Filipinos Inde pendence on Same Terms as the Cubans. Wm.'J."Bryan discusses the Philip pine question in this week's New York Independent. He says: "The Philippine question is impor tant because fundamental principles are involved in its discussion. There are two sources of government, force and consent. Monarchies are founded upon force, republics upon eonsent. "The declaration of independence as serts that governments der ie their ju.t powers from the consent of the gov erned, and this is the doctrine to which we have adhered for more than a cen tury. It is the doctrine which has dis tinguished us from European countries and has made our nation the hope of humanity. The statue in New York harbor typifies the nation's mission. "If the doctrine set forth in the de claration of independence is sound. how can we rightfully acquire sover eignty'over the Filipinees by a war of conquest. If the doctrine set forth in the declaration of independence is sound, how-can we rightfully purchase sovereignty from a Spanish sovereign whose title we disputed in Cuba and whose rebellious subjects we armed in the Philippines? "In the resclation of intervention congress declared that the Cubans were. and of right ought to be, free. Why? Because governments derive their just powers from the consent of the gov erned, and Spain has refuse. to re spect the wishes of the Cubans. If the Cubans were and of right ought to be free, why not-the Filii inos? "In the beginning of the Spanish war congress denied that our nation had any thought of extending its territory by war. If we then had no thought of securing by conquest new territory in the western hemisphere, why should we now talk of securing in the eastern hemiphere new races -for subjugation? "An individual may live a double life when only one life is known. When both lives are known he can lead only one life and that the worst. A republic cannot enter upon a colonial policy. It cannot advocate government by consent at home and government by force abroad. The declaration of inde pendence will lose its value when we proclaim the doctrine familiar in Eu rope but detestable here, that govern ments are round in shape, about 13 inches in diamerter and fired out of a cannon. "For more than a century this nation has been traveling alolg the pathway which leads from the low domain of might to the lofty realm of right, and its history has been without a parallel in the annals of recorded ime. What will be our fate if we turn backward and begin the descent toward force and conquest "It is not sufficient to say that the forcible annexation of the Philippine islands is a benevolent undertaking en tered upon for the good of the Filipinos. Lincoln pointed out that this has al ways been the argument of kings. To use his words, 'they always bestrode the neck of the people, not that they wanted to do it. but because the people were better off for being ridden. "It is surprising that any believer in self-government sho-ild favor forcible -annexation, but niore surprising that any one who believes in the Christian religion should favor the substitution of force for reason in the extension of our nation's influence. "If we adopt the gunpowder gospel in the Philippines how long will it be before that principle will be trans planted in American soil. So long as our arguments are addressed to the rea s'on and the heart our progress is sure. but can we, without danger to Chris tianity, resort to the ancient plan of in jecting religion into the body through bullet holes? "The question is frEquently asked, ~What can we do? Nearly two months Alapsed between the signing of the treaty and the beginning of hostilities in the Philippines. During that time the president and congress might have given to the Filipinos some assurances of independence that was given to the Cubans. Such assurance would hare prevented bloodshed. If the doctrine of self-government is sound the Fili pinos are entitled to govern themselves, and the president can now promise them independence as soon as a stible government can be established. "If the president is not willing to take the responsibility of enforcing the doctrine set forth in the declaration of independence, he can call congress to gether and let them :akc the responsi bility. A special scssion would be less expensive than the war, not to speak of the principles involved. "Our nation is protecting the repub) lies of South America from outward in terference while they work out their destiny. We can extend the same doe trine to the Philippines, and, having rescued the inhabitants from a foreign yoke, we can guard them from mnolesta tion while they develop a republic in the Orient. They will be our friends instead of our enemies. We can send school teachers to M1anila instead of soldiers and the world will know that there is a reality in the theory of gov ernment promulgated at Independence Hall and defended by the blood of the revolutionary fathers. His Lamp Burned Low. The captain of the British steamship Glooseap, which arrived at lailadel phia Thursday from Iloilo with a car of sugar, reports t hat on April 2. when passing Cape M1elville, Balabac -island, one of the Philippines, he found the light house keeper without provisions and unable to light his lamp because he had no oil. The Glooscap furnish ed supplies and. reported the fact to the British consul at Batavia. The natives of the island, the captain says, had all DESOLATION ON FLORIDA COAST rhe Town of Carrabelle Laid in Ruins by a Hurricane. The town of Carrabelle. Fla., a pros perous port on the Gulf of Mexico, is -eported almost completely destroyed )y a terrific wind and rain-storm which passed through that seettion during Wednesday. Many boats which were in the harbor have been wrecked ani nost of the long wharf is gone, together ith large quantities of naval stores. At Lanork, the hrses, pavilion and oats have been destroyed. Uncon irmed reports say that the steamer Cre ent City has been lost between Apala :hicola and Carrabelle. Several per ;ons are reported drowned at St. MIark's. 1 few houses were destroyed at St. reresa. The Mj1Intyre. Ashmore aud curtis mills suffered -everely. A pas -enger train on the Carrabelle, Talla iassee and Gulf railroad thirty-five niles below Tallahassee, was badly vrecked but no one is reported killed )r injured. Th turpentine interests n this section arc greatly damaged and iiuch injury has been done to the crops. The wires are down south of here tnd railroad service to the Gulf ports s suspended. The storm was cnie of he hardest that ever passed over this ecti i. It came directly up the great ,u,d staed northward. For hours he wind was terrifie, blowing at a high te a d the rain fell in torrents, wash ug away many bridges, endangering horoughfares and railroads. The torm reached the coast Wednesday norning and there was no cessation un il far into Wednesday night. The vircs'and railroads have been so inter ered with that the results of the storm Lre just beginning to reach this city. klong the coast the fishing industry ias been severely interfered with. Many Tallahasseeans are at the va ious resorts along the coast from hich no reports have come and the :ond'tions at these places is caubing nuch anxiety. Parties who returLed >n the wreeking train which went to 2arrabelle Wednesday morning report :hat the country along the route shows :he effects of the storm. The train as compelled to run with great caution )wing to the condition in which the torm had placed the roadbed. The vater had been over the tracks in many Alaces. Passengers on the train which as wrecked say the train was blown rom the track. The city of Apalachi ola at the mouth of the Chattahoochic iver is entirely cut off from communica ion and nothing can be learned from here. A new trestle over the Oeblocknee -iver at McIntyre was blown away. he wrecking train which went out iednesday into the storm devastated erritory. found over 200 trees on the rack in a run of thirty miles. General Ianager Crittenden vho had charge of he train, says that every town along he line is desolated. Hotels, houses, hurches, saw mills, wharves and pa ilions were in many places blown from heir positions and in several instances ompletely wrecked. There are many amors afloat Wednesday night as to the oss of life. One mill hand is known o have been drowned at MIcIntyre. One nan was drowned. at St. M1ark's. but ~umors place the loss of life there at 15. [t is not believed here that any lives were lost at the numerous summer re orts but reliable news is unobtaina >le. Coal Oil for Burns. A girl of 11 years turned over a gal on of boihtne liquid on her leg and foot. hen the stocking was removed the kin came with it, and the pain was in ense. I tore a strip off an old sheet, nd having put nearly a pound of soda >n the limb. wrapped the sheet about it n such a manner as to exclude the air, bound it firmly, saturated it well with ~oal oil, and in 15 minutes she sat with her foot in a chair and joined in the >ther children's play. In two days she was in school, and in two weeks the Limb was well. A barefooted boy stepped on fire, and was almost in spasms with the pain. I bound on soda and coal oil, and in hss than twenty minutes he was asleep and had no more pain. I know it is the best remedy for President's Cousin Pagnacious. J. N. McKinley, a first cousin of President McKinley, was arrested at F-tzgerald, Ga., Tuesday afternoon on~ a peace warrant. The warrant was sworn out by J. M1. F-ickler, a neighbor and (G. A. R. comrade. McKinley and Fickler live on adjoining tracts of land and have had trouble before. Mr. Mc Kinley moved to Fitzgerald from Can to. Ohio, about two years ago, and is a farmer. lie is charged by Fickler with using threatening language against him and also with seeking to have Fick lers pension discontinued. Mr. Me Kinley has given bond to keep the peace. Petition for a Time. Ninety prominent citizens of Athens, Ga,. will present a petition to the city council at its next session asking for a change of time and that all public clocks be set either eastern or western time. The town now operates by what is known as sun time. being just between eastern and central time. The town is sitrated on the line which divides the temporal sections of the country. Afraid of Us. A dispatch from London to the Asso eated P'ress Aug. 1 .ave the substance ofa message sent by the Rome corres pondent of the Morning Post to his paper. lHe said: "According to news recived here, the victory over Spain and the growth of imperialism in the I nited States has led the South Ameri an republics to talk of an alliance aainst the l'nited States, and it is al leged that the preliminaries of such an alliance have been concluded between Brazil and Arcentina. Poisoned Children and Suicided. Mrs. Narr Stevenson, of Clinton street. D~etr oi. M ieh., Tuesday alter noon poisoned her two children. Emmna, aged threc, and Ella, aged six, with morphine and took a dose of the drug herself. All three are dead. Mrs. Stevenson was in straitened circum stances and despondency over this is supposed to have been her reason for (LARTERLY REPORT Text of the Report of the Legis lative Committee. COUNTY AND CITY PROFITS. The School Fund Gets About $30,000 The Profit and Loss and General Accounts. The report of the legislative com mittee on the dispensary of the aflairs of the Stste dispensary for the quarter ending June 3Oth, was completed Tues day and forthwith filed with Governor McSweeney. The report shows'that the quarter resulted in a profit of $30, 34150 to th- credit of the school fund of the State and of $34 241 6S to the towns rnd e)unties. Here is the text of the report: To His Excellency, M. B. McSweeney, Governor, Columbia, S. C. Sir: We, the committee appointed by the offieers of the general assembly to investigate and examine the books and papers of the State Dispersary for the ycar 1899, beg leave to submit our re port for the quarter ending June 30, 1899. The stock on band was taken on June 30th by Mr. D. F. Efird, representing the committee. and Mess. L. J. Willi ams and T. C. Robinson, representing the State board uf control. An in ventory of liquors, supplies and ma chincry and office fixtures was exhi bited and taken as submitted. The c.)mmittee met July 24th and examined the books and records for the months of April, May and June, we found on record vouchers for all expendi tures. We append hereto the following statements: First-Assets and liabilities. Second-Profit and loss acconnt. Third-Cash statement of receipts and disbursements: All of which is respectfully submitt ted. Appendix: D. F. Enlrd, A. C. Lyles, Members of the House. Since the close of the quarter above examined we find that $25,000 has been paid over to the State treasurer as per voucher on file in this office, to the credit of the school fund. D. F. Efird, A. C. Lyles. Quarterly statement of the Stats dis pensary for the quarter ending June 30, 1S99. ASSETS. Cash in Sta te treasury June 30, 1s99.......... $ 63,050 17 Mtr-handise in bands of dispensers June 30, 1899 196,249 32 Merchandise, (Inventory of stock at State dispensary June 30, 1899 ......... 159,61927 Supplies. (Inventory June 30, 1899.).. .... .... ... 3,0S7 65 Teams and wagons, (Inven tory June 30, 1899 64 00 Machinery and office fix tures, (Inventory June 30 1899......-.. ......... 2,550 00 Contraband, (In ve nt or y June 30. 1899.).. .. .....392 75 Real Estate..-......-..-..35,300 27 Suspended accounts.. .... .2,320 15 Personal accounts due Stats for tax advanced on bonded spirits, empty barrels, alcohol, royalty on beer, etc.... .. ...... 6,622 96 Total...... . .......$504256 54 IlABIL.ITIES School fund.. .. .... ....$436,667 0S Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whit kies, wines, beer, alcohol etc................ 67589 46 Total liabilities..-....-..504,236 54 Statement of profit and loss account for quarter ending June 30, 1399. PROFITS. Gross profits on merchan dise sold during quarter.$ 74,106; 10 Discounts on puirchases.. ..- 3,246 70 Contraband seizures... 1,951 45 Permit Fees.. .... .. .......10 50 Profits from beer dispenra ries from April 1st to June 12th.. .......... 7,754 77 Total gross profits. ..S7,009 52 I.OSSES. Supplies-Bottles, corks, labels, wire, tinfoil, lead seals, boxes. nails, seal ing wax, etc , used dur ing quarter.. . ... .... .$ 17,477 20 Tear and wear of machinery and oflice fixtures... 29 55 Constabulary .. . .... ... ..14137 06 Breakage and leakage. .. 267 t;0 Freight and expres charges. 14.375 S2 Labor.................. 3,151 55 Insurance...............4084i Expense account Salaries, traveling expenses of inspectors, per diem and mileage of members of State board, per diem and mileage of legislative examining committee, oflice supplies, repairs. ligzhts; te:egrams postage stock, feed, ice, printing. revenue stamps. tele phone rent. etc.. .. .....,098 39 Litigation.. .. .. .......:',oo o Amount of liquors taken from the Blacksburg dis pensary on April 4th, 1899. by soldiers..... 30 50 Amount of whiskey taken from the Varnville dis pensary on April 11th, 1899, by soldiers . 37 Worthless porter and ale at Von Santen's dispensary, Charleston, destroyed by county board of control . . 28 t;5 Loss by robbery at the Bish opville dispensary A pril 144 28, 1999..... ...... 48 Total expenses .. .. .. ..8 5Q,728 02 Net profits on sales for q1uarter, passed Jto the credit of the school fund................. 30,341 50 Totl........ 87,069 52 Net profits paid to towns and counties by sub-dis pensaries for quarter ending June 30th, 1899..$ 34,241 6S Cash statement for quarter ending June 30th, 1S99: RECEIPTS. Balance in State treasury 3March .31st, 1899. . .. .. .$ 32,438 91 April receipts.- 98.945 52 May receipts.. 108,114 71 Jnne receipts.. 87,311 54 Total receipts for quai ter. . 294,371 77 Total .............$325,810 68 DISBURSEMENTS. April dinburse mets.. . . $ 95,S6S 72 May disburse ments...... 112,402 43 June disburse uents...... 55,48936 Total disbursements for quarter.... ..... ..$263,760 51 Balance in State treasury June 30th, 1899........ 63,050 17 Total.. .......... .$326,810 68 TBOSE SOLDIERS' CLAIMS. Gov. McSweeney Gives a Statement Concerning the Contract. The following statement was given the press from the exceutive office Wednesday: -A few days ago Gov. McSweeney stated that he would r.ot interfere with the contract made by G'ov. Ellerbe for the collection of the back pay due the soldiers in the late war. For the infor mation of those concerned Gov. Mc Sweeney has secured a copy of the con tract which Gov. Ellerbe made with M1essrs. Evans and Townsend from Mr. IV. Boyd Evans and is herewith given. "These claims have to be paid through the governor's office. but in order to put them in proper shape re quires a great deal of labor and it will be decidedly better and simplify mat ters for all claims to go through this one source. "The following is the copy of the contract furnished by Mr. W. Boyd Evans: "Columbia, S. C., April 15, 1899, "Whereas, certain claims of the State of South Carolina against the United States for mobolizing of South Carolina volunteers in the late war with Spain have been suspected by the war department because said claims have not been presented in due form, I do hereby employ C. P. Townsend and W. Boyd Evans to properly prepare the said claims ani collect all pay for volunteers from this State and hereby agree to pay them as a commission for such services fifteen per cent of the amount collected. W. H. Ellerbe, "Governor. "Gov. M2Sweeney will aid in any way possible to assist th e soldiers in getting their pay." Tea Raising. Dr. Charles U. Shepard, who is in charge of the experimental tea garden at Summerville, S. C., has made a re port to the secretary of agriculture cov ering the progress made up to date. He says there are now about 50 acres of land under tea cultivation and that 3, 000 pounds were sold last year at a pro fit of 25 per cent. It is estimated that when all the plants now growing arrive at maturity they will yield 10,000 pounds annually. Dr. Shepard exprers es the opinion that the fact that the tea plants lived th.rough last winter, when the most intensely cold weather in the history of the section was experienced, is a guarantee that the weather condi tions will prove satisfactory. The la bor problem, he says, has been solved by establishing a school for the educa tion of the Negro chiHren in tea pick ing. The quality of the tea also has proved satisfactory. Of the black tea he says: "It has a distinctly character istic flavor, and, like some of the choic er Oriental teas, its liquor has more strength than its color indicates." The green tea, he says, has attracted keen interest in the trade and among the con sumners, and he adds that "Oriental teas can hardly furnish the like in this coun try.'--The State. Good Advice. "Burdette give~s good advice, as fol ?'ws: "There are young men that do not work, my son; but the world is not proud of them. It does not know their ~names, even; it simply speaks of them as old so-and-so's boys. Nobody likes them, nobody hates them; the great busy world doesn't even know that they are there. So find out what you want to be and do, son. and take off your coat and make a dust in the world. The busier you are the less deviltry you we apt to get into, the sweeter will be your sleep, the brighter and happier your holidays, and the better satisfied will the world be with you." Cure for Lockjaw. Here is something for the doctor's scrap book: A resident of Asbury Park, N. J., says that he has cured eleven cases of lock jaw by hot water treatment. His instructions are: "Put the patient in a bat h of warm water and place in it one pound of mustard. Im merse all except the mouth, nose and eyes. Cover the head with warm cloths, then add hot water until the temperature reaches about 110 degrees; if the patient can bear it go to 120 de grees, and kep patient in until the jaws open, which takes usually about twenty minutes. I hav e had to keep patients in forty minutes. Sacred Grass, In Boston it is regarded as almost a crime to lie down on the sacred grass of the Common and twenty-one unfor tunates who slept there on a recent hot night were wakened early in the n-orn ing by a squad of vigilant policemen and marched off to a nmagistrate. Each of the victims was fined $3-the price of a night's lodging in a first class hotel. A Deep Hole. The deepest hole in the earti~ is at Schadebach, near Ketscau, Ge'many, It is 5,735 feet in depth, and is f~r geo logic research only. The drilinig was begun in 1880 and stopped sia years later because the engineers wereunable wih their instruments to go deeper. CARLISLE SPEAKS. The Veteran Educator Tells How He Was Educated. WHAT ARE COLLEGES TO ME. Some Words of Wisdom From One Whose Knowledge Comes From Experience. Pearls of Thought. To the Editor of The State: Colleges endowed or unendowed are valuable only as they endow men and women. If every college now in our country (400 in round numbers) had amplest outfit, in all needful buildings, apparatus, salaries for professors, there would still be a great question pending. How can all this money and money's worth be changed into Christian man hood, and Christian womanhood? In building a large factory an ex;lert can predict how many yards of cloth it will yearly send out, and also the general worth of the frabrie. It is not so where human minds, hearts and character are involved. Suppose, however, that every college sent out yearly its large class of thoroughly educated men and women. A rich strem of good influ ences would certainly be poured iqto the current life of our great, restless, growing nation. Yet the prospect would be very gloomy, indeed, if no other causes were at work to help us. We need and must have more good in fluences at work than all our colleges cin possibly give us. Perhaps some parents are becoming almost provoked at the frequent allusions in our papers to colleges, their work, and their needs. The paper may be laid down with the feeling, "What are colleges to me and my children?" No parents should hastily conclude that their children will never have ac cess to a college. An intelligent thirst for education and a persevering spirit may bring the improbable to pass. Re cent statistics show that college stu dents from farms are more numerous in proportion in the South than in other parts of the country. But our purpose now is to speak to the parents whose children will never go to college. Your children are not shut out from a useful career even i. shut out from college. A good common school education is taken for granted. This you must give them. Remember the word common does not necessarily metan cheap, inferior, insig nificant and worthless. It means gen eral, universal. Air and water are common. But they are not worthless. The world needs a great many people to do common, general things. This does not mean insignificant or degrading work. It means the work that is abso lutely necessary to hold up the vast stracture of society; such work as the great majority of buman beinr s must do though it attracts no special notice. "I expect to be a coumon man, standing in my common lot, bearing common burdens, and doing common'duties, as a private good man ought to do. Wvould an expression like this betray a weak, cowardly, ignoble spirit? "Faith ful but not famouis." This is the best epitaph in reach of the grea t mass of human beings. To be famous is, of necessity, denided to the multitude, just as great wealth is denied them. A nation of millionaires would be a nation of paupers. All men becoming famous would end in no one being fa mous, all being on a dead level. A common education, whe, it meets the requisite material, may bring forth an uncommon man. This has often happened and will happen again. The generous instincts and aspirations of finest natures are provided for by thie law. And by a law cqually sure many college graduates are common men and do common work. But we come back to the great truth that boys and girls may be fitted for life in its broadest, healthiest, most necessary sphere, its widest range of duties, achievements and enjoyments by a good common edu catic -. This places them on that high fat ta.le on which the great majority of the world's population must live. And on this populous plain, after all, there is more contentment more real happines than on the few higher peaks where the light and heat strike so fiercely! Habits of truthfulness, justice, self denial and reverence form a large part of a good education, and these may be found elsewhere than in college cam pus. They may gro y readily and rap idly in the humblest home, on a small farm, owned or rented. The parents may resolve that they will not send into life an ignorant. unsubdued, selfish, dangerous boy or girl. As parents, you are already interested in the kind of teachers your children will meet in the school room a year hence. See to it that they have good .teachers now at home. See to it that. the daily life the atmosphere, the routine, the constant spirit of the home is teaching good les sons of abiding value. Bishop John H. Vincent bears this testimony to his home training: "My father made a point of holding his children to the use of good English. * * *To this habit of parental carefulness I owe more for what little knowledge of English I have than to all my teachers and text books put together. Living for several years in a community, where the worst pro vincialismis prevailed, I was kept in a great degree, from falling into habits which it would have been hard in the after years to correct." This is an in stance of what may be done in one very important respect. Families, like colleges, are valuable and fill their high mission only as they endow men and women. A very small minority of the families supply all the ollege students of our land. The col leges need all the thousands of homes from which no student will ever knock t a college door for admission. These homes. need the colleges. The country needs both. When you read the next appeal for colleges, do not let it annoy ou. Lay the pt~per down with a silent prayer for colleges and take up your ome duties with nesw zeal, self-respect ad hope. A quiet, happy day in the home life is a fair page in the history f that family. It will leave associa ions and memories to be recalled ten ierly a half century after the family ircle is brokei and scattered! The quieC homes of the land. 'take the press and other great agencies ir building up all that is valuable in ou social, political and religious life. And the home is generally what the mother makes it. A French writer says: "Woman carries the destiny of the fam ily in the fold of her m-:ntle." There is great truth in thst striking expres sion, whether that mantle be of royal silk, calico or homespun. The late president of Yale university, answering at some length the question, "How was I educated ?" closes with these words: "The children of a household crow more easily and naturally in the relig ious life, not when the parents are al ways talking about it and pressing it upon them, but when the atmosphere of the house is zo full of religion that they do not think of living any other life. And, in the same way, when parents make their children shrers in a true intellectual life possess by themselves and make the house full of the sense of the blessedness of knowledge, the minds of the childrer will surely be awake to knowledge and will be educa ted as the years go on. * * * And so my answer to the question, 'How I was educated?'( ends as it began-1 had the right mother." Jas. H. Carlisle. Spartanburg, S. C., Aug. 2. THE GREEN EYED MONSTER A Young Man Takes a Letter of the Woman He Loved. He broke down ani exclaimed: "I loved that girl better than anything in the world, and I could not stand for that fellnw to come to see her; that's why I did it." And thereby hangs, an interesting tale. The man who had uttered the words has just been bound over for trial at the October term of the United States court in Greenville on the charge of stealing and destroying mail. This man was W. T. Crouch, a young fellow about 25 years of age, from Sil ver Street, Newberry county. It seems that he was desperately in love with Miss .Minnie L. Werts. Mr. William Eddy of Newberry, a dry goods clerk, knew Miss Werts and had called upon her several times. This made Crouch very jealous and one day-June 7 last, according to the officers-he saw a let ter in the postoffice addressed to Miss Werts, bearing the Newberry post marks. It is alleged that be could not resist the temptation to take it. Anyway a few days afterward Mr. Eddy got a letter signed with the name of the young lady reading thus: "kind friend: "I don't care for you to call any moor at all." In a few days Crouch told the young lady there was a letter at the post office for her. She went to the office and asked, but could find no letter. Later on she went down to Newberry and there her friends asked her why she had treated Mr. Eddy so badly, telling her of the note he had gotten from her. That was a revelation. Soon Mr. Eddy called and Miss Werts was shown the note, which she immediately declared she had not written. Miss Werts at once reported the mat ter to the postal authorities and Post office Inspector J. F. Oldfield went to Silver Street. He charged Crouch with the thefc of the letter, but the young man denied it. Finally the inspector made the young fellow sit down and write from dictation. He read him the letter written Mr. Eddy. When it was finished an examination showed the same capitalization and chirography and the word "more" was spelled "moor"~ as in the Eddy note. The in spector promptly arrested Crouch who maintained his denial, on the charge of violating section 1431, U. S. Postal Regulations. Tuesday Crouch was brought to Co lumbia by the inspector and James 31. Davidson, chief clerk U. S. marshal's ofice. He was taken before Commis sioner Henry F. Jennings,. where a preliminary was waived and the pris oner was released on $200 bond. While t the commissioner's office he broke :own and uttered the words at ths be ginning of this article, which have a pathetic interest to all who have felt the pangs of the green. eyed monster that is considerately called Jealousy. he State. Bad Country for Negroes. Three Negroes who arrived in Pana, [l., Friday were set upon-by sympa thizers of the union miners, pelted with stones' and missiles of every character nd driven out of the city. In the par ty who assaulted the blacks were a umber of the wives and sons of the miners. One of the negroes was badly sed up. Daring the compulsory exodus f the Negroes. it is claimed by their ssailants that they were fired upon four times from Springside Mlining cmpany's tipple, but none of the shots took effect. He Was a Coward '"he Adjutant-general of Iowa is in receipt of Manila advices that Capt. A. . Burton, of Co. B, Fifty-first Iowa from Villiska, has been suspended for owardice and is now at MIanila await ng a dishonorable discharge. Burton as principal of the schcols at Wymiore, eb , when the war broke out and dis ppeared, going back to his old home t Villisca, [a., and taking the captain y of the company. Ie is reported to ave deserted the troops in an engage ent and hid in a ditch while the com pany went into action without him. Gave Him his Blood. Five ounces of blood, drawn by a ~uetion pump from the arm of a friend. oursed through the veins of Ex-Judge ichard Prendergast Wednesday as lie Lay on a cot at the Chi -ago hospital, vhere for nearly a month he has been nder treatment for anaemia. The ransfusion of the life.giving fluid was lecided on as a last resort. The young ian who heroically gave part of the ~ontents of his arteries is John MIorris cy, employed in the oii,-e of the judge. Old Water Pipes. While digging a trench in front of he federal building in Park Row. New York, the other day, workmen unearth da section of the first water pipe ever aid in that city-part of the system or which Aaron Burr secured a fran hise from the New York Legislature. 'he pipe consisted of hollow chestnut ogs, laid end to end, and was in ex aellnt condition. SOLDIERS' BACK PAY. Information of Special Interest to First Regiment Men Mr. W. Boyd Evans has been mak ing very good progress with the neces sarily slow work of getting the claims of the soldiers of the First reigment who served in the war with Spain in proper shape for presentation to the United States government. Among the members of the regiment were a number who remained in camp prior to the muster out. These are entitled to a month's pay. Mr. Evans recently addressed letters to all these men on the muster rolls asking for the proper vouchers. He has succeeded in locat ing all of them save those given on the following list, the amount coming to each man being given; this list the county papers are asked to republish, and the men are asked to communicate forthwith with Mr. Evans at the gover nor's office, this city: Private James W. Nelson, Clinton, $15.60. Private David V. Kirkpatrick, Union, $15.60. Private Jno. H. Buist, Spartanburg, $15 60. Private Jos. S. Lyons, Clifton, $15.60. Private Henry L. Simmons, Newber ry, $15.60. Private Wm. P. Maynard, Charlotte, N. C., $15.60. Corporal Jas. Casey, Union, $21.60. Private Eariy A. Patters, Pelzer, $15.60. Corporal Wim. W. Robinson, Colum bia, $21.60. Private Churchill Jackson, Spartan burg, $15.60. Private Wim. Baldurk, Pelzer, $15.60. Private Sam M. Reeves, Columbia, $15.60. Private Jos. L. Pepper, Abbeville, $15.60. Private Wm. T. McDonald, Abbe ville, $15.60. Private Jos. B. Cooley, Columbia, $15.60. Private Aibert Turner, Spartanburg, $15.60. Private Frank Harper, Columbia, $15.60. Corporal Wm. L. Ormsby, Laurens, $21.60. Private Henry C. Price, Jr., Parks ville, $15.60. Private Henry C. Richardson, Co lumbia, $15 60. Private Whitfield A. Hayes, Pelzer, $15.60. Private ;Thos. B. Kenman, Green ville, $15.60. Private Rowley B. Smith, Greenville, $15 60. Private Chas. Hensley, Greenville, $15 60. Private Julius E. Land, Greenville, $15.60. Quartermaster Sergt. Benj. H. Ken drick, Greenville, $26 50. Corporal Thos. E. Price, Greenville, $21.60. Corporal Geo. T. Baker, Anderson, $21 60. Private Jno. Baseman, Greenville, $15.60. Piivate Jas. Clutts, Spartanburg, $15.60. Private Portius D. Brown, Charles ton. $15.60. Private Jno. R. Ruseum, Spartan burg, $13.60. Private Bud Reese, Seeward, N. C., $15.60. Private Frank B. Jones, Rock Hill, $15.60. Private Frank B. Reed, Chester, $15.60. Corporal Jno. H. Harris, Enoree, $21.60. Private Ab. Blackley, Tatum, $15.60. Private Jas. E. Burgin, Marion, N. C., $15.60. Private Marion Brubaker, Rock Mart, Ga., $15 60. Private Win. Morgan, Spartanburg, $15. 60.-Columbia State. Hope They Will Succeed. A sensation was created in the session of the African Methodist Episcopal presiding elders' council of Georgia and Alabama Thursday night at Birming ham, Ala., when the committee on the state of the county reported a resolu tion recommending that a committee be appointed by the council to set be fore the United States congress the de plorable condition of the Negro popu lation in several of the southern States and to petition for an appropriation of $100,000,000 to start a line of steamers between the United States and Africa in order to enable all Negroes who may desire to do so to emigrate to Africa. Bishop Turner of Atlanta, who pre sided, explained that he did not desire the government to carry emigrants free to Africa, but take them direct and at reasonable cost. He said European immigrints are landed in this country at from $10 to $15 each. "But" said he, "in going to Africa one must go via England, thus crossing the occean twice at a cost of $100." Canadian Cashiers Decamp. A sensation was caused at Montreal, Canada, last Tuesday by the announce ment that the Villa Maris bank, one of the oldest institutions in the city, had suspcnded payment. The cause assigned is defalcations on the part of the cashier, F. Lemieux and J. H. Her bert, the paying teller, both of whom have disappeared. The amount of the shortage is $53. 000. Big Strawberries Record Breakers in strawberries were rown this past season. Six berriesi aised by Mr. A. T. Goldsborough, of New Jersey, were sent to the Secretary f Agriculture and found to weigh an verage of three and six one-hundredth unces each. The six berries filled a luart box, and looked more like tomna ocs than berries. One Boy Kills Another. .On Mrs. Carter's place, seven miles fom EhIefield. Willie McManus, 7 ears old1. and Ilichard Mimns were play ne with a loaded pistol and it went off, ilinig the latte--, the ball entering the riht eye and penetrating the brain. he c-oroner's inquest was formed and he jury brought a verdict of accidental illing. Both boys were negroes. Captured and Shot. A dispatch from Santo Domingo says wo of the assassins of President Hen raux bava been apntured and sis. DECISION REACHED. Penitentiary Investigating Com mittee Preparing its Report. WILL ADVISE PROSECUTION. The Committee Holds That Col. Neal is Due the Penitentiary $11,000. Report to Gov ernor This Week. The Legislative Committee which has been investigating the penitentiary finished its work at Greenville, where it had been in session several days, Thursday morning Col. W. A. .Neal,. ex-superintendent of the State peniten tiary, presented the following list of his liabilities to the State: Cash collected and not turned over to penitentiary: J. T. Fowler............ ..$ 50000 W. I. Hammond............ 50000 Fowler & Hammond........ 53900 W. W. Russell, note........ 600 00 Collected from W. T. Magill for brick sold at DeSassure farm .................... 4000 Commissary account 6 years.. 573 00 5 book cases at $12.00 each.. 6000 1 hat rack...............1000 6 small tables, at $2 each... 12 00 l bedstead............ ..10 00 Painting furniture at home.. 10 00 700 bushels cotton seed at 15 cents.................... 10500 Check unpaid.............. 17200 $3,131 95 The investigation so for -has develop ed nothing new at this session. Col. Neal on the stand said that he' had not presented the carload of brick to Till man, and denied a written statement of the latter that when governor he had used his carriage horses in his farming operations around . Columbia. Tillman had said, too, that Neal had bought a $700 sugar cane mill from him and had paid but $100. The senator seemed to think that this accounted for Neal's showering kindnesses upon him. This Col. Neal denied. Col. Neal as above stated conceded that he owed the penitentiary $3,197. 27. Wednesday there was another item added, $387.17, for oats from J. J. Fretwell. This makes Col. Neal's debt $3,584.44 as conceded by himself and attorneys. However, the committee claims that he is involved for $11,000. They contend tnat he owes the- peni tentiary $7,400 for convict hire in ad dition to the $3,584.44, and a few smal ler items, which Col. Neal has over looked in his statement. The committee will not submit its report at once. The report was written Friday, but will not be sent to Gov. McSweeney until the stenographer can make a transcript of the additional evi dence submitted at this session of the committee. It is, of course, not known what the committee will recommend, but there is good reason to believe that the governor will be asked to institute criminal proceedings against Col. Neal for malfeasance in office, and also that steps be taken by the penitentiary au thorities to collect the shortages as well as the open accounts against Senator Tillman, ex-Governor Evans and others. Dog Days. What are the "Dog Days?" There is an opinion that if it rains the first dog day it will rain forty consecutive days. The belief seemed to originate in Mediterranean countries that Sirius or the dog star exercised a baneful in fluence over animal life and conditions. This dangerous period began when the star and sun rose together and continu ed an indefinite period. But owing to the precession of the equinoxes this does not occur until August 10, when the greatest heat of the summeris draw ing to a close. Modern almanac makers differ as to dates. Some place the dog ~ days, July 3 to August 11, while others say July 24 to August 24. Frequently Struck.. It is almost a weekly occurrence for the Washington monument to be struck by lightning, the shaft being so high that it attracts every bolt within a wide radius. There are no less than 180 lightning conductors fixed in the cap of the great structure, and each of these leads to a thick wire which carries the electricity down the inside of the shaft. It is said that if the conductors had been placed on the outsiie, as on ether structures, there would be many acci dents and the handsome structure would be scarred and chipped by the frequent bolts. Willing for a Fourth, The London papers are famous for queer advertisements. A "Personal" which appeared in one of them reads: "Wanted-A respectable gentleman widower preferred--to marry the house keeper of an aged gentleman, who has been an invalid for years and who re spects her as a good and true servant, whom he would like to see in the hap py state of matrimony before he dies. She has had three husbands, but is willing for a fourth." Blew His Head Off With Dynamite. A special from Cumberland Wis., says: Christ Wold, a farmer near Pos kin lake; committed suicide by blowing off his hcad with dynamite. He placed a quantity of dynamite in a hole in the round, laid his head over it and ouched off the fuse. Near by was found a scrap of paper on which was written: "Here I go and the Lord go with me." His head and one arm was ompletely torn away. Wold was 30. ears old and leaves a wife and family ho are unable to assign a cause for the eed. __________ Four Were Killed. The fast mail train on the Chicago and Northwestern railroad which left hicaro at 10 o'clock Tuesday night eft the track at Kate Shelly curve, ust east of the Moines river bridge at o'clock Tuesday morning. The en ine and all. the cars were wrecked. he following were killed: Engineer Jhn Masterson, Fireman Arthur Shmidt, Postal Clerk G. G. Stone. J. . O'Brien, a ,ostal clerk living in hicago, died 6r reaching Boone, Ia.