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y, -(L -V MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER20189NO2. TILE WAGAES OF SIN. A Young Man Ends His Ufe Rath er than Face Charge. WAS ACCUSED OF STEALING. As an Officer Was About to Ar rest Him He Placed a Pis tol to His Breast and Fired. J. Horace Wond, aged seventeen. shot and almost instantly kiHed him self Wednesday nicht at about S o'clock in the office of R. G. Dun & Co., on the second floorlof the..Exchange bank building, Macon. Ga. The young man chose death rather than the disgrace of arrest on the charge of stealing about $20 worth of postage stamps. Wood was formerly employed in the office, but was discharged early in Au gust, having worked for about five months as clerk. Prior to his discharge the number of postage stamps used in the office had increased to such an ex tent as to cause first surprise and then suspicion on the part of the local man ager Mr. Logan Douglas. Suspicion pointed to young Wood but nothing fixed upon him until last night. After his discharge the stamps con tinued to disappear too rapidly to be accounted for on the score of letters mailed. The watchman of the bank, Warren Mosely, was notified and last night Mr. Douglas himself decided to watch for the thief. He was seated at his desk ia a corner of the office without a light and the out er door locked when someone came up the elevator and walked to the door, called to ask if anyone was in Mr. Doug las made no reply. The visitor then knocked and said that someone down stairs wanted to see the chief clerk. He received no reply and immediately af terwards Mr. Douglas heard a key turn ed in the lock and Horace Wood enter ed, passing through the railing and ap pronching the stamp drawer he saw Mr. Douglas, who rose and said; "Well, Horace I have you now." "Yes, Mr. Douglas," answered the boy, "you have me now. Mr. Douglas, troubled because of the discovery which he has more than half expected to make, asked Wood what he out to do with him. "I don't know," he replied. "I have no right to ask a favor of you but if you will overlook it and say noth ing I will leave town tonigbt never to return. But Mr. Douglas told him that he must pay for the stamps he had ab stracted and asked him if his father would not pay for them. but to this proposition the boy would not listen. He said that he had rather die than have his father know anything about it. At this ti;_ Mr. Clem Steed, the lawyer who i: "ffices nearby, appear ed and Mr. Dju told him the dis covery and askeq .z. Steed to go to the window and call a policeman. Mosely, the watchman, who says he saw the young man go up the stairs was, however, in waitine and entered the office. Mr. Douglas told him also, and together they talk the matter over Finally Mr. Doudis told Mosely to take Wood to the barracks and he would meanwhile see what could he done about it. As Mosely approached Wood drew a pistol from his pocket and said: "I'll be d-d if you ever take mec to the barracks," At the sam's time holdidg the weapon in front of his breast and pointing to wards Mosely. The watchman spoke gently to him, edging up close. and when within reach tried to knock the pistol down. but as he did so Wood turned the weapon on himself and fired. The ball entered about the region or the heart. Morely seized him and walked with him down the passage to wards the elevator. After a few steps the unfortunate youth tottered atid sank in the officer's arms, exclaim' ing: "I am done for, tell all my folks good bye." In a few minutes afterward he died. The body was taken to Wood's under taking establishment. Young Wood was the son of Mr. J. W. Wood, a most respected man, who is well known by the business men as eminently trustworthy and highly re spectable. He has been employed by the Central Railroad and now holds a position of trust with the Bibb Manu facturing company. The young man has been a little wild and since his discharge by the Daunn company he has been out of employ ment. War and Tobacco. It sounds almost ludicrouis in these enlightened days to hear of a church body whech denounces the use of to bacco as wicked and sinful and propo)s ed to enforce an ancient church blue law against the weed. Yet there was considerable row in the Methodist con ference at Newport. Ky., the other day because several of the ministers were reported to be users of tobacco. There isn't any question about the chewing of tobacco being a filthy habit, and the smoking of cigars being a costly one. Killed by a Spider. The Pacslet correspondent of The State says: "Mrs. John Kirby who last Wednesday morning while putting on her shoes was bitten on the 'ta by a sr.?.lI brown spider. Her sufferings were most excruciating and despise all medica1 skill, she died Thursday man ing. Eier remains were laid to rest in the Baptist cemetery Friday, her pas tor, Ret. S. A. Nettles, conducting the funeral exercises." Will be Pardoned. The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Daily Chroniele claims to have good authority for the statement that Drey fus will be pardoned although President Loubet will not exercise his prerogative until after the meeting of' the council of revision. He adds that Capt. Beauvais and Maj. Breon were the only two mem bers of the courtmartial who voted for acquittal and it is was Capt. Parf all who insisted'-upon.t he~ proviso regard in exeating circumstances. LIES. BASE LIES. That Is What a London Concern is Telling on the South. A SCURRILOUS DOCUMENT. The Howard Association Caps the Climax of a Series of Li bels on the South ern States. The Hloarc-j asociation, of London, a coneern enmzaed in circulatin.g defa matory literature about the southern people, has recently issued a document whicn caps the climax in a series of whOesale libels of the cotton states. The full text appears below: The noble spirit of sympathy, with the victims of Spanish tyranny in Cuba and the Philippines, which has lately been manifested by the great nation of the United States, has successfully re moved an incubus which had lonz weighed terribly on those splendid is lands. May it now be hoped that a similaily humane feeling will as deter minedly grapple with a still more exten sive form of oppression in the southern portions of the United States them selves? During the past year thc Howard as sociation has on various occasions re ceived from those southera states very rievous accounts of cruelties inflicted both upon prisoners and others of the cjlored race, and, in particular, in the convict camps and chaingangs, where a shocking condition of affairs exists. There are comparatively very few prison buildings in the south. Offfen ders are c iefly leased out for open-:ir work to contractors or bidders, who pay for their labor so much a head to the state or couuty, and then become abso lute masters of such prisoners, so that the taxpayer is entirely relieved from the burden of criminals, who actually become a source of large revenue to the state and to individuals. This may at first sight seem to be a great advance upon the general systems of the north and of Europe, which are so costly to the community. But in reality the lease system produces the most terrible sufferings and fatalities to many thou sands annually. It is practically a revival of slavery, and on a very extensive scale. In Flor ida public sale of convicts (most of whom are Negroes) occasionally take place. when they are sold by auction to the hihest bidder for various periods up to four years. Usually the sen tences in the south (on colored perple), even for minor offenses, such as steal ing eggs, are for very long periods. There are several classes of leased convicts. Firstly, those under the im 'vediate supervision of the state, in camps, or farms, corresponding some what to British convict establishments. These, though open to grave objection, are comparatively free from the grossest evils, and have of late years undergone considerable i= provement in several of the states. Secondly, there are the ounty camps. which are worse. And, lastly, and worst of all, theie are the umerous gangs farmed out to private sub contractors or bidders, who in many cases "sweat" their victims to :eath by excessive labor, wretched food?, brutal violence and the grossest neg lect of sanitary requirements. And, of course, religious and moral obligations are utterly ignored in most instances. In the best prisons of the northerrn states, as in New York state (at Elmi ra). M~assachusetts (at Concord Junc tion and Sherbone), Illinois (at Joliet and Pontiac). Ohio (at Columbus), 3Min nesota (at Stillwater) and in Pennsylva nia, M1ichigan, Rhode Island and other states, the reformation of the prisoner is, at least, earnestly attempted, and often successfully achieved. But in the southern camps and chaingangs it is the very reverse. The "captains" employed by the sub ontractors are often of the class de picted in "Legree," in "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Their conduct to the female onvicts is indescribable. A large nu ber of illegitimate births take place in these camps. The wretched children born in them are, in some instances, permanently retained as slaves. An~d the breeding of such has become an avowed purpose, at least in one state. Woe to the women and girls who arc sent to such camps! Their life is and must be an inferno. 31en and women frequently run away and are then chis ed with bloodhounds and guns-those killed being sometimes registered as "escaped." The colored population furnishes about nine-tenths ot the southern con victs, and it is reliably stated that a onsiderable portion of thenm are either 'uite innocent or are punished by long sentences for the most trifiing offenses, are frequently on merely trumped-up charges. It is to the interest of the 1o cal edficials and contractors that the number of convicts should be as large as possible and their detention as pro longed as it can be made. A very sad feature in the chaingangs is the ntumber of young children sent to them. A leading philanthropist of Baltimore, M1r. G. S. Giritfith, president of the Mlaryland Society for the Protec tion of Children, was pained to find in the angs so many children from nine yearsof are and upward: In one of the better elass of chaingangs in North Carolina he found fifty-five prisoners. including three wvomen and one boy of eleven years of age. And he says: " These,'men somen and boys all sleep under a tent 7Tox24 feet." This pro miscious and most demoralizing associ ation of tlie various ages and sexes, by day and nigiht, is the usual feature of the private camps. anui sometimes even of the state establishments. Judge Candler, of Gecorgia, says: "3y experience is that when a boy is sent to the chaingang, he is ruined. ,Judge Berry. of Atlanta. says: "I have seen too many cases whecre boys have been ruined by being sent to the chain gangs." Then what must it be for Fearful brutalhties are perpetrated by the "captainis" in the lonely remote places where many of the gangs arc lo cated, as in forests and mines. .tome times convicts have been flayed alive! On one prisoner's corpse forty injuries were found. He had been literally beaten to spieces.D Another had been disgustingl dimembered by kicks, and thcre was a great hole gaping i his side. A young white girl of 17 years, after being repeatedly out raged by the officers of a camp, flei to the woods. She was overtaken by bloodhounds, her clothes stripped of and she was then flogged in the pres ence of jeering men. Another pool girl, similarly treited, gave birth to a child, but both mother and offspring were speedily relieed by death. Wo men and girls are ...abitually subjected to the grossest indecencies and exposur es. In one camp was found a womat who had had seven children whilst there, and another had had six there. And such cases are legion! Christian America sends hundreds of missionaries to Asia and Africa. But is there not a vast mission field for ef fort and influence? The states -.,f Mississippi, Arkansas and the Carolinas all need greatreforms in this matter; but especially Florida and Georgia. Their forest turpentine worms and their phosphate mines are often aw ful spots morally and physically. Lou isiana is making some special efforts at improvement. Alabama and Texas are perhaps better than formerly. Yet a prison chaplain in Texas writes to the Howard association (189S): "Practically there has been no advance in the least system of our conviets. I: can only be an cviL." The Howard association has also re ceived, in cnnection with these sad ac counts of southern camps and chain gangs, much information showing that they form but one portion of a still vast er sistem of oppression of the colored race generally in the southern states. The voice of Missions (Atlanta, Decem ber, 1S98) contains a long and terrib!e indictmentof the white race for the treatment of thc c.>lored people since 1815. It says: "The Cuban war and its re sults and the Armenian massacres are nothing when compared with the thirty years of 'whitecapping,' chasing by bloodhounds, murdering, burning at the stake, lynching, flaying, swindling, rob bing, defamation of character, injustice, fal.c imprisonment and oppression which the colored people of Atlanta have passed through and are still under going. This year 300 have been lynch ed and murdered by our white Christian friends, and no voice but our own weak cry has been raised in protest." 31any Negroes were shot by the white Demo crats in North and South Carolina dur ing the November elections of 1898. Recently, also, many unofEending color ed people have been driven away from their homes and farms in the south by violent and covetous white neighbors. The same journal complains of the si lence of the pulpit, both north and south, respecting these evils, and re marks that even the United States su preme court at Washington has always turned the scale against the colored race. Also that several of the southern states have disfranchised the Negrves by wholesale, in violation of the feder al constitution, whilst returning them all as voters for the purposes of their own proportionate represant ation in con gress. It is known that some promi nent politicians and legislators at Washington have made large fortunes as convict contractors. In The Richmond Planet (July 23rd, 189S.) a bishop is quoted as saying: "Enough colored men have been lynch ed to death to reach a mile high, if laid one upon another, and nearly as many more women and children to make a simizar pile." These lynchings are defended by many persons on the ground of their necessity for protecting white women from Negro assaults. No doubt occasi onal crimes of this kind have been com mitted lby them, but they have been immensely outnumbered by similar out rages by whites upon the females of the weaker race. The colored pe5ople have need to clear themselves from complicity with such crime and also to cultivate more hones ty and truthfulness. Nor can they ex pect to be much respected until they manifest more self-respect and become less characterized, as a people, by their everlasting grin and giggle. Lord Chesterfield said: "I never knew a 'Merry Andrew' a respected man." Bat the colored people are too often such fools. and until, as a race, they manage to mnake 1hemselves both respected and feared. they are not likely to get the jutice which is due to them. Buffoons will be despised. E cn the aggregate of the lynchings is very small in comparion with the en ormous r~,ortality of the convicts in the cam-.ps and chaingangs. Whereas in English prisons the death rate is under per 1,000 per annum, it ranges in these camps from 75 to over 200 eper 1,000 yearly. The Voice of Missions mournfully re marks: 'There are no advocates of hu man rights in the United States today. Charles Summer is dead, Abraham Lin coln is gone, Wendel Philips, W~m. Loyd Garrison, Frederick Douglas and Harriet Beecher Stowe have all passed away; and with them went the last great advocates of human rights." This com plaint is, however, too pessimistic. Yet even the Society of Friends (Quakers) in America, once the fore most c-hampions of the negro, through their .J. G. Whittier, Thomas Garrett, Isaac E. Hepper, Levi Coffin, Francis r. King and othcr good men have of late years become strangely silent and apparently apathetic as to the oppress ed race. However, a people of twelve millions ouht no longer to be mainly dependen dent upon, or looking to others for their own protection. They must now chiefly turn to schemes of self-help or remain oppressed. An American correspondent of the Ioward association writes (1899): "The Negro trouble has become so great that 1 fear the difficulty can never be set tled but with blood." The problem is indeed a vast one and of pressing import to the United States, both north and south. Is the Chris tianity of that great nation to remain impotent for the solution? Are the colored people to be driven to what now appears to be their only means of re li-by selfhelp, through imitating the methods of their adversaries in the for mation of secret societies and powerful and compact organized unions for de fence and offense? Is it only thus that they can-make themselves what they must be, somehow--respected and fear ed as a race? But what else are they to do unless the white race bestirs .it self for other efforts than continuing oppression?.. Th..erea narly twelve millhon col ored people in the United States. They are increasing in numbers, in in telligence and in wealth. It is stated that more than half of them can read and that their property is worth eighty million pounds, or four hundred million dollars. The idea of emigrating such a multitude is utterly visionary. They must be dealt with in America itself. Nor is foreign interposition for a mo ment to be thought of. Such a multi tude are not likely to put up with their oppression indefinitely. Nor ought they to. Must it be left again to the compul sion of national disaster to solve this great problem and so to bring about re sults which may far better and far more effectually be secured by volunteer hu manity and peaceful wisdom? SWEPT BY A CYCLONE. Much Damage Done to Private and Public Property. A cyclone swept over Bermuda is land Wednesday night. Houses were blown down and others were unroofed. ihe storm raged the whole night. No lives were lost but heavy damage was done to public and private property, fruit and cedar trees. The causeway was badly injured and the governmant house was damaged. The storm was the worst known there since the hurri cane of 18SO. In fact many of the in habitants say it exceeded the gale of 1880 in violence. Information from the dock yard says the damage done there is very seriou3. The breakwater is badly damaged. On Ireland and Boaz islands everything is moie or less injured. The damage is roughly esti mated at .100,000. At Somerset all the boats aad small crafts were destroy ed, the trees demolished and houses un s'ated, or otherwise damaged. At Prospect Camp the damage is estimated at ?3,000. More than half a mile of the causeway connecting the mainland with St. George's is totally destroyed. It will cost ?12,000 to ?15,000 to re pair it. News from St. Georges receiv ed by a whale boat says serious damage has been done there to trees, houses, etc. All the boats have been destroy ed or are badly injured. Reports from outlying parishes are slowly coming in. They all show there has been great de struction of trees and serious injury to houses and other property. But, so far as can be learned here, there has been no loss of life. It is a curious coinci dence that the greatgale of 1839 occur red September 11 and 12 and this was on September 12 and 13. No correct estimate of the amount of damage to private property can at present be ob tained, but it will be fully ?100,000. DON CAMERON'S ANGER. It Caused Him to Pay $850 for Whip ping a Jewish Merchant. While Attorney General Bellinger was in Baufort this week he made an argument in a case of unusual interest. Some time ago Don Cameron severely horse-whipped a Jewish merchant named David Schein, whom he charged with selling liquor to Negroes upon his preserves near Beaufort. Schein brought suit against his prominent chastiser for $10,000 damages. The jury after hearing the ease in detail rendered a verdict fr $S50 in Schein's favor. The jury was-composed entirely of white men. Mr. Thomas Talbird and Attorney General Bellinger represented Schein and the latter drew a vivid word picture of the introduction of French methods a la Dreyfus in South Carolina. Messrs. Elliott & Elliott rep resented the distinguished defendant. The story of the affair was to the ef fect that Mr. Cameron while driving along the shell road headed for the de pot came across a crowd of Negroes who seemed to be drunk and they yell ed at him. He then came across a Ne gro who had rented some of his prop erty to Schein; he gave the Negro a whipping and then drove up to Scheins place. He got Schein in a fence cor ner, driving his buggy and horse so that a pen was made. Then he charged Schein with selling the Negroes liquor, and proceeded to whip hiin with his buggy whip. Schein was finally forced to tear away isome palings before he could escape the lashes of his assail ant's whip. This is the story as heard. Schein brougnt suit as stated above and got $S50 damages. At the time of the whipping it is said Mr. Cameron told Schein to leave the neighborhood and he did as ordered.-The State. Gets anO0Ila Col. Jas. H. Tillms ' South Car olina, a nephew of .> t Tillman, was at the white houe ,eduesday and asked the president tuthiorize the organization of an indc. .lent company of Indian secuts for service in the Philippines. It is proposed to make Mr. Tillman, who was colonel of the First South Carolina during the Span ish war, captain of the company, and Joseph H. Wood burry, "Hole-in-the day," the chief of the Chippewa Indians of Minnesota, first lieutenant, and some member of the regiment of "Rough Riders" second lieutenant, It is said that many more than a company of Chippewas are ready to enlist in case they are allowed to go to the Philip pines as an independent organization. It is understood that the president re ferred his callers to the secretary of war. A later disp..tch says that the President has promised Col. Tillman the position he see'ks Sentenced to Death. A dispatch from Manila says the lo cal papers assert that Corporal D)am hoer and Private Conine, of Co. B, Sixteenth infantry, have been sentenc ed to death by courtmartial, and that Private Mc Bonnet has been condemned to 20 years imprisonment for having criminally assaulted native women in Manila a month ago. The crimes, it is said, greatly aroused the natives. The papers assert also that .Gen. Otis has recommended- that President Me Kiley approve the sentence and that he desires a public execution of the men sentenced to death as a warning against a repetition of the crime. Built His Coffin. In Maryland there is a man who has built a coffin for himself, and he lies down in it for a short time each day and smokes. He says he is "getting used" to the coffin. Maybe he smokes in it because he expects to smoke hereafter also, and is getting used to that at the TROUBLE IN THE CAMP. The Leaders of the Grand Old Party Can't Agree. Senators Iloar. Wellington and Mla son, all Republicans, are openly op posed to the Ianna-IeKinley expan sion business. And now comes Sena tor Foraker and annoucces agai::st im perialism. Ile has written a letter to llev. Herbert S. Bigelow. of Connecti cut and the minister makes it a basis for a sermon. We are informed that this letter contains a conidential inti mation that he will head the anti-im petialist wing of the sonate in the next coneress and being intended for publi cation is a semi-c-nicial announcement of the senator's position on this maLIn issue of the next national campaign. With the opening of the session he will find the first gun. The letter eloses with a hearty note of comtuendation f orI the work which has been dune in the cause of anti-imperi dlism by the Econo mic Club, and declares in undersclred type that the senator "is with the ?ause. ":A si eeial ii made -*a Senator Foraker's letter of lbe appeal whiuh Isabel Artacho. fermer artner of Aguinaldo. has addressed to. the Ameri can Republic, Artaeho, who is spoken of as a man cf wealth and influence, ha . jint tak.-a an oath of allegiarce to the ited States governmeut. He Ir r s th 1! h3 has always been a loyal citiz -. lie rails at what he character 'the mean and spurious affecta tion' of the leaders of the present re bellion. He declares that the United States alone can restore peace and pros perity to the islands. "ehold, what an honorable ally the president has taken to himself,' argues the senator. 'Isabel Artacho, the meanest man the islands have ever produced. as little as Arnold without Arnold's tire. Since the American oc cupation of the city he has passed in and out as freely as before. Doubtless, he had his useful sides. But that he should be brought forward as a-clincher, that his simple statement should be thought sufficient to blacken the charac ter of the man, who, whatever may be said of him, is still making a pretty stiff fight for his country-this is laugh able. There were to be had at any time during our own war for independence 50 Tories who would swear before the British parliament that Washington was a mere self elected usurper, lead ing a handful of atrociously merciless banditti. Artacho's evidence is worse than useless. This government welcoming a trai tor was more than Foraker could stand. In old days, the senator was very fierce against southern -Rebils." He is now on the warpath against his own party. embers who are bringing reproach upon the constitution, the laion and the flag. A Brutal Parent. Beckville, Panola County, Texas, is excited over a triple trageay. James Forsythe, a highly respected young nian, and Olie Simpon, a belle of the neigi:borhood, clored and were married Saturday night. When Andrew Simnp son, the girl's father. learned of the wedding last evening he started after h ecouple crn horseback. As he rode upto Forth's home lhe saw his son-in - la~v fleeir~g throuigh the orchard. ice brought him down with seven backshot in the groin, leaving him for dead. King H1. Forsythe, father of James, came out of the house unarmed to see what the trouble was, and was instant ly killed with a load of buckshot in abdomen. Simpson then dismounted and ran into the house with his pistol, s:ni'e he would kill his daughter, but v~urg Forsythe's mother seized and held his pistol until the girl escaped Simpson then walk out and put the pis. tol to his forehead. killing himself in stnl.Yo-ung Forsythe may recover. Bsnsin Beckville is suspended on account of the tragedy. Great Demand for Yarns. A Boston dispatch to the Ntw York Commercial asserts that cotton yarn manufacturers are hatving in their way the same kind of boom as the pro ducers of pig iron-" That is, they are getting more orders than they can pos sibly fill, even by working overtime, and in many instances double time. 'They are overwhelmed with contracts,' the dispatch goes on, 'and are quoting prices which equal those at which simi lar goods can be imported, and are re fusing orders in many instances." One maae fmany years'experience says he never awthe mills'pushed as they are at present. Nevertheless the price of raw cotton remains very, very low, because spinnems do not have to pay an advanced price to get what rney want, being able to get it at their own price. Most Bloody Murder. M1rs. Jane Barber and her two sons, Wiley and Levi, were murdered by un knoA'n robbers in a cross roads station. six miles from Pleasanton, Texas. They were killed with a hatchet, their heads having been smashed to a pulp. A sack containing 9100O in silver was secured by the robbers. Foot tracks in the sand indicated that there were three men implieated in the crime and that they left in the direction of San Antonio. Runners have been sent to all parts of the county and a close search has begun for the murderers. Texans Won't Visit Paris. Judging from the preliminary move ment being made in different places inI Texas. the State will b-ycott the Paris exposition as a result of the D~reyfus verdit. A movement has already been set on foot in Galveston and San Anto nio to secure pledges from the people to stay away from the exposition and a similar movement has been started in Austin. Reports from north Texas are that simiar movements are working there. The Leading Names. Britsh eensus reports of family names cive for England and Wales 25.;(0;Smiths. 242,100 Joneses and Williams. Taylor Davies and Brown following in order. For Scotland, Smith lead3, fllowed by Mce~onald, Brown, Thompson. Robertson. Stewart and Campbell MIuirphy is ahead in Ireland, there being t2.000J of the-u;: then come Kelley, 5~>,00; Sullivan, 43600: Walsh, 41.700; Smith, :37.000; O'Brien, 33,400: Byrne, '3,000; Ryan, :2,000; Connor, :31200; O'Neil, 29, 0,aned Reilly "I.000. A BAD GANG. A Regular Band of Robbers!Near Charleston. COMPOSED OF CONVICTS. A -Dozen Outrageous Cases Cited to Show the State.of Affairs Where the Robbers Operate. A serious state of affairs is repnrted from St. Andrew's Parish. From all accounts lawlessness is running rampant across the Ashley River and every day that the maurauders enjoy enjoy im munity from the law the bolder grow their depredations and the more auda cious become the actors in the play that is going on. A radius of two miles from New Bridge seems to be regularly terrorized by a gang of outlaw Negroes, who are doing the Jesse James- act on the highways, robbing stores and mal treating all who are so rash as to oppose any objection for the sake of order or self-defence. For several months this disorder and lawlessness has been going on in a most high-har ded manner, and anless the officials responsible for the preservation of order do something themselves to stem the tide of crime or call on some one who will there is no telling wl ere the matter will stop. It is now unsafe to travel the roadways at night and residence in that section may soon becorae dangerous if more strin gent metho.s are not adopted to re store good order. As said before this lawlessness is causcd by a band of Negroes-the exact number not being known-all cf whom arc fugitives from justice. These Ne groes are organizei under the leader shii of a Negro naned Henry, b:ut who .refers to travel under the intimidat ing cognomen of "Wild Bill." 'Wild William" and his gang are a sweet set of jail birds that would be perfectly at home in the State Peniten tiary, and some of them have been sen tenced there, but escaped before sent ences passed on them could lbe execut ed. As a sample of the character of "Wik Bill" it is only necessary to state that he is wanted for criminal as sault on Edisto Island, and a bunch of constables from that place went to St. Andrew's after him last week, but after loafing around the woods for a few days returned without him Another man supposed to be connected with the gang is Henry Haynes. Haynes killed Constable Oliver at Ten Mile Hill, was convicted of manslaughter and sent enced to the penitentiary. While con fined in the Berkely county jail he es caped. To show the hardihood of these Ne gro outlaws it is only necessary to re cite a few of the crimes they have com mitted. It was impossible to secure the names, but the facts were given to a reporter for The News and Courier by one of the most prominent lawyers in Charleston, who has property in St. Andrew's, and who has studied the sit uation. Lewis's store. about a mile from New Bridge, was robbed by the gang in broad daylight. They just walked in and held up the proprietor. Mr. Lewis very naturally objected and sought to oopose them and in the scuffle that ensued had his arm broken by the Negroes. After helping themselves to all that, they needed the gang left for the woods. A few nights after Mr. Dunpont's store was entered and the clerk, who sleeps upstairs hearing the noise started down to see what was the matter. A Negro with a gun made him come to a standstill, and the clerk was informei that he had better not interfere. The clerk was pwerless and the Negroes after helping themselves made off. The store of Mr. Wigger, in Mary ville, was the next placeeof attack. The gang tore off a strip of weather board ing from this place, but found they could not enter, so went around to an other si Ie and endeavored to force a window. Mr. Wigger was waiting for themx on the inside with a well loaded shotgun, hut unfortunately, in working about for position, made a noise which frightened the gang off. The clerk in Gadsden's store wa -held up one rainy afternoon by a single Negro, sup~posed to be Wild Bill. For tunately, while the clerk was looking down the barrel of the pistol, a party of ladies drove up to the store to take shel ter from the rain. The Negro, not knowing the invading party was of feminine gender, jumped out of the back door and took to the woods. Another dastardly case of violence of which Wild Bill and hi3 gang are guilty is the serious whip;ping administered to the town marshal of Maryville, a Negro named Robertson. A few weeks ago Robertson had occasion to arrest a re lative of one of' the gang, and at the time was threatened with violence. Roberts~n paid no attention to the threat, because he always went well armed. but as is usually the case, he nally threw aside precaution. One day he was driving along the shell road in a wagon and had left his pistol in the bottom of the wagon body, where it was unnandy to get at. Before lie knew what he was about a Negro rose up out of the bushes on each side of' the road and ordered hinm to throw up his hands. As the working ends of' two pistols pointed right at him. there was nothinxr to d> but obey orders. and up went lhis "feedeis." Robertson was then jerked from the wagon seat by a bunch og Negroes. some of whom came out of the bushes after the hold-up. and was unmercifully beaten. The cies of leb.-rtson reached the cars of Mr. Kracke and another white oman who were driving alone the r-oad in a bugy, returning to thle city fromt Mr. Kracke's farw. As the buggy ap proached the scene of the diffieulty Robertson was released and his as sailants made good their escape. Another case of highway robbery was inflicted on a collector from Charleston. The Reporter's informant did not re member the gentleman's name, but said the collector was held up on the public highway by three Negroes, supposed to be Wild Bill and two of his pals, and relieved of $25 in cash. Near Daniel's Church an old Negro man was held up and relieved of a new pair of shoes and a few cents in cash. A colored man named Williams, well knwna mabtce in Marrville, tells of a strange experience he had while driving along the road. He said a Ne gro, armed with two pistols and a rifle, stopped him and began to talk about the robberies that had been re cently perpetrated. Williams said the Negro asked hirn, if the white folks were making any efforts to catch the robbers, etc. It is thought that the unknown Negro was Wild Bill himself, endeav oring to find out if the climate of St. Andrew's was getting too hot for him. Trial Juttice Rivers is in charge of this side of St Andrew's dist-ict, and on him and his constables it devolyes to rid the settlement of tae marauders. The thing has been going on for some time now, and the people affected are beginning to wonder wheie the trouble will end. It is believed by some white men that if the gang is ever rounee I up some of the many fugitive murderers of Charleston will be found.-News and Courier. THE SCATTERED NATION. The Jews Are Discriminated Against AU Over the World. The Dreyfus case has served to call attention to the status of the Jews in the various countries of the world. Anti-Semitic feeling in France is strogger than it has been for many years past, but there are many other lands in which the Jews are subjec-t to severe discriminations and rsibid preju dices. In fact the United States and England are about the only countties in which the Jews may be said to enjoy an absolutely open field and fair chance. Both here and in England Jews have filled many positions of high distinction and prejudice against them exists in a far lighter degree than it does else where. The Jew has shown a wonderful abil ity to take care of himself even under the most adverse conditions. His busi ness success is undoubtedly one of the main reasons of the discriminations against him and the attempts to beat him down. But he has prospered even under per section and will continue to do so. Tnere is no prospect that the Zionist movement, the plan of collecting all the Jews in Palestine and the restoration to them of distinct national power, will ever amount to much. They are scattered over the face of the earth, and scattered they gill re main until the end of time. The Jews are so prominent in affairs, especially in commerce, for which they have shown a genius unsurpassed by any other people that ever existed, that most persons believe they are more numerous than they really are. According to the best information there are not more than 6,200,000 Jews in all the world-not a great many more than the population of the state of New York. Of the total Jewish population 5,000,000 are in Europe, chiefly in Russia. There are 200,000 in Asia, 700,000 in Africa, 300,000 in America and 20,000 in Australia. In European Russia there are 2,600,000. The next greatest numbers are in Aus tro-Hunbary, the figures being put at 1,400,000, leaving 1,000,000 to be di vided among the other European coun tries. There are 130,000 Jews in the Brit ish islands and not more than 200,000 in France. In the whole of Palestine there are about 40,000 and in Jernsalem 20,000. The fact that there are only 300,000 Jews in America will surprise the aver age reader. These 300,000 Jews seem to be so many more than they are be cause they make themselves felt in every community where they live, be cause they are active, enterprising and thoroughly live factors in our complex civilizatson. Three hundred thous.and such peo ple easily become a power even among 75,000,000. Will Not Go. Indignation over the outcome of the Dreyfus trial has caused a party of over 700 Chicagoans who were going. t'o the fair in a body to abandon their trip. Louis Halle, who is the treasurer of the party, and who, since the Echeme was inaugurated, a year ago, has been re ceiving weekly remittances from-those who proposed going, Tuesday issued notices to the members to call at his office and get their money. Immediate ly after the verdict in the Dreyfus trial Mr. Halle commenced receiving letters from members of the party saying that under no circumstances would they visit France. So many of these letters were received that a meeting executive com mittee was called and it was deemed advisable to call the entire trip off. A Deadly Weapon. The Mauser pistol is a new arm that has just been put to practi al test for the government. Human cadavers were used to test the effects of the bul lets upon human tissue?. The pistol has ani effectual range of 500 yards, and is said to be the most deadly weapon of its kind ever invented. At 500 yards the bllets went entirely through the cadavers. It is probable that the arm will be adopted by the army. It is now in use in Germany. It is the costliest pistol made for army use, the price each in large contracts lots being $32.84. The cartridges cost four cents. Smoke less powder'is used. The calibre is 30. The bullets have a lead core and a nick el-plated copper jacket, the weight of each l~rojectile being S.> grains. Want the Convention Buffalo, Milwaukee, St. Louis and two or three other cities are each anxi ous to have the Democratic national convention next year, and several of them are taking subscriptions of funds to be used in securing the convention. Meanwhile Chicago remains serene, feiing sure that there isn't any other city than hers-lf in which the Chicago platform could be readopted with so u effect. An Unusual Case. The jury or condemnation appointed at the instance of the Seaboard Air Line for the purpose of fixing a valua tion on some 45 acres of the lands otf Mr. .J. B. Dent, some distance from the ity. has allowed him a total or $s,;75, which is~ said to be a higher price than Mr. Dent himself asked for the land. It is understood that the Seaboard will appeal ronm the valuation of the jury. The road takes a right of way through the land 100 feet wide for a distance of mile- The State HIGHWAY 1RUBBJMX. A White Man of Augusta Held Up and Robbed. BRICKS THROWN AT POLICE. Lost His E Pocket Book and All the Money He Had Together With His Vaiise. A bold highway robbery was com mitted on last Thursday near Augusta, Ga. The Chronicle of Friday says: Mr. W. H. Foster, a white man liv ing at 1336 El1is street, was held up and robbed on the highway Thursday afternoon by a negro. Mr. Foster had been over in Carolina, about five miles beyond the line to visit his father and was returning to Augusta. He stopped in a house near the South Carolina rail road track to get a drink of wa:er and while there asked what the time of day was When he started'out a negro man who was there said he guessed it was time for him to be going, and started on ahead. A short distance down the track from the house the negro had stopped and waited until Foster caught no with him, when he asked Foster if he had anything to driak. Foster told him he had not, and the man said he ought to have. He then pulled out a pistol and, putting it right up to Fos ter's face-close enough to touch-ask ed him if he had a pistol, to which Fos ter replied in the negative. Foster was then made to open a valise .which h3 had with him. The negro then told him to pass over his money, which Mr. Foster did. After this the negro made him pull off his coat, saying he had a good mind to take that, too, and pawn it. He shook it to see if there was any money in it and then handed it back, but kept the pocket book, which con tained $2.40 and the valise. Mr. Foster then took a back course for three miles until he reached the Horse creek road and came by that way to Augusta, going he says five miles or more out of his way to keep from pass ing the negro again. Mr. Foster was very much frightened when he reached the city, but went at once to police headquarters and reported the matter. He described the man as being a large black negro, 35 or 40 years old, and wearing blue overalls. He said he thought the negro weigned about 140 or 150 pounds. Whether he was in this crowd or not is not known, but just before the time for the relief to go out last night Officer Damish went over to the city bridge to see if everything was all right there and found Feveral negroes shooting raps. When they saw the officer they opened a broadside on him on him with a shower of brickbats that came down around him like the falling of hail The officer brought his pistol into view and the negroes, after hearing the tone of its voice twice, scattered in the direc tion of Hamburg at a lively pace. Challenges Esterhazy, The following challenge to mortal combat was cabled Thursday morning to Count Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy, at hiP address in London: "Sir:-Believing you to be answer ble for the misery and humiliation of Captain Dreyfus of the French army, and he, Captain Dreyfus, not being able to call on you personally for satis faction, 1 as an American, freeborn, loving liberty, de volunteer in miy own right to meet you on the field of honor in behalf of Captain Dreyfus at any time and place agreeable to you. (ind) "PAUL E. AYER, "Anderson, S. C." Ayer is a son of the late General Ayer of the Coufederate army, and was a sergeant of the First South Carolina volunteers in the Spanish war. Slain on the Highway. A special from Batesburg to The State says: "Larkin McCarthy was kill ed at Langley Saturday night by Wil liam Goodwin. They were brother-in lpw, and some domestic trouble pre eeded the shooting. McCarthy's body was brought here and taken to his fath er's for burial. All parties live near here, in Saluda county. Reports say Goodwin borrowed a shotgun, loaded it with large shot and awaited his victim by the roadside and emptied bosh bar rels, riddling the body and killing Mc Carthy instantly. Goodwin was cap tured and is now in the Aiken county ail." Killed Father and Mother. A double murder occurred late Wed nesday night near the manufacturing village of Fiskdale, Mass. John King and his wife, an aged couple, were kill ed by their son Peter, who was crazed from-the excessive use of liquor. The skulls,of both were crushed by a heavy latnet The murderer also at tempted to kill his brother Thomas, but only succeeded in inflicting severe wounds. Peter is now confined in the lockup. He is in an unconscious con dition and may die. The Porto Rican Sufferers. The governor has received a letter from the secretary of war stating that there were yet thousands of persons to be fed and clothed in porto Rico. He stated that a committee had been ap pointed to see that all contributions are properly distributed and expressed the hope that there would be no relaxation n the part of citizens to aid taem. Death of a Vanderbilt. Cornelius Vanderbilt, eldest son of the late William H. Vanderbilt and grandson of the old commodore, founder f the family, died suddenly in New York Wednesday morning in his magni i-ent residence at Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue. Gen. Wheeler Disgusted. Special from Manila, via Hong Kong' sas: Gen. Wheeler only obtained as ignment to active duty after a serious dispute with Gen. Otis, who wanted to sidetrack the veteran fighter by sending him to some obscure post in the south ern islands. Gen. Wheeler now de clars he will apply for permission to return to the United States soon, un less there is some change in the man