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OUR NOLE .DEA A Monument to Be Erected to Their Memory. AT CHICAMAUGA PARK. At Least the State Senate 'So Voted on Thursday Night by a Good Majority. Mr. Wilson's house bill to provide for the erection of monuments on the battledeld of Chiekamanga to the valor and heroism of South Carolina soldiers was reached on the calendar of the Sen ate Thursday and Senator Archer moved to indefinitely pOst pone. Sen ator Barnwell asked for reasons for this motion and Senator Archer proceeded to state his position le wais opposea to all such appropriations. It would benefit nobody but the contraet'r. In view of the numerous appropriations. he opposed the spendioc of money for stone or marble to be placed at Chicka mauga. Stone or brass did not impress valor or greatness. We read of these deeds on the imperishable pages of history. Senator Barnwell s:aid no better way of showing South Carolina's apprecia tion of her soldiers could be found than to erect this monument on the bloody field of Chickamauga. The noithern States who once viewed those men as traitors now look upon them as brothers who fought in defense of their homes. The State is now in better condition for some reason and whle we miay not be able to put up a suiable monument, in a few years she will be able to do so. He hoped that while other States are putting up monuments, South Carolina would show tha. she recollects her dead. Senater Henderson explained the origin of the plan to have monuments placed on the battlefields to mark the spots where the soldiers from each State fell. The bill had passed the house without a voice in protest and it is for the senate to say whether the monument shall be erected. He might prefer the monument at Manassas or Gettysburg but the United States has made Chickamauga a natiou:l park and in the general spirit of amity over the country the States are putting up monu ments to their troops. Pointing to Gen. Kershaw's protrait on the wall, he paid a beautiful tribute to that general who led the South Carolina troops at Chickamagua and closed by saying that the monument would be worth more than dormitories at Winthrop. Senator Saddath said he was on the battlefield of Chickamauga and was led by that gallant old general, poiating to Gen. Kershaw's portrait. But he op. posed the bill and begged that the old soldiers now living be not neglected for the dead. Senator Sarratt said if any State erected a monument to her soldiers it should be South Carolina, being first to secede. South Carolina could not do a better thing than erect this monu ment to the men who fought for a cause he believed was just. Ne.rer so long as as we live will we forget the soldiers, livirg or dead. Notwithstanding the opposition of the two good old soldiers on this floor, the monument should be erected. It ought to cost three or four times as much. Senator Ilderton said he had been in the legislature since 1894 and had heard over and over that "'we are too poor"' until he did not believe a word of it. South Carolina is able to meet her de mands financially or otherwise. Ten thousand dollars is not enough. lie would favor double that amount. It would be a monument not only to the soldiers who fell on that field but to all of South Carolina's soldiers. lie hoped the bill would pass without furtheri objection. Senator Connor told of an incident regarding the proposal to erect a monu ment to an English general who fell at Eutaw Springs to which the British government replied that there were not enough stones in the world to mark the spot where British officers fell on the heroic field of battle. He thought this applicable to this case. He too was a Confederate boldier. but did not favor erecting the monument. Senator Ragsdale said that ordinarily the opposition of the (Cnedorate sol diers on the floor shiotuld netute the mat ter, but he thought they were niistak en. While they owe much to the livie they owe something to their dead comu rades. We are too apt to take a util itarian view of all matters. The bill did not seek to make an invidious- dis tinction between Chickamauga and other battlefields. Some day perhaps Scuth Carolina can mark all of them. Ten thousand dollars is a paltry sum when it is remembered for what it is asdA. Men have ever builded monu ments Lu the courage of their com rades. Senator Mauldin said as an old sol dier he had listened to the discussion with mortification. Ten thousand dol lars is fritted away by the general as sembly in useless discussion and idle talk and yet it could haggle about this paltry appropriation. The debate should stop and the senators express themselves by their votes. Senator G. W. Brown had .not thought it would be necessary to dis cuss this subject. H~e told of the pub lic monument to Grant in Colorado, and asked if we should hesitate to erecf a monument to those who fell on Chickamauga. He spoke of the ac ceptance of the Darlington Guards' flag which was to be preserved as a memiorial of the men who fought for a jest cause. The histories and monu ments of today must be the inspiration of tomorrow. Senator Barnwell arose to call atten tion to the fact that the State had done all it could for the relics of the Confed. eracy. The very first legislature after the war, when all was diesolation and poverty, had provided for limbs for those maimed in ba.ttle. It gave marble left over from the capitol to the ladies to build the monument on the State house grounds. After reconstruction, the the legislature at once appropriated money for pensions. lie spoke as a Confederate soldier, as one who had suffered with his blood. Chickamauga was not the bloodiest field, but it was the one chosen by the other States. Senator Crosson said he was perhaps the youngest senator on the fioor. He had not the honor to be a Confederate soldier, but he had the honor to be the son of a Coafederate soldier. It is but a duty as citizens of South Carolina and as senators to erect the shaft in the distinguished honor of the dead wi o lie there buried. Senator Dean in spite of indisposi tien could not allow the opportunity to pass to give endorsement to this pro poition. What a blush of shame would be brought to our cheeks if we lag in our duty. Be it remembered that the wife and mother is within tho bord of the old Palmetto State. He was glad of the interest the younger mem bers displayed. IL is not an answer to the argument to say that it would be a discrimtination. He hoped the bill would vass. Senator Wallace thought the Confed erate soldier who opposed the proposi tion misunderstood the aim of the bill. It was no discrimination. The monu ment would tell that on this field South Carolina led the southern army and came nearest to reaching the key to the situation. Senator Iough had hoped the bill would pass as silently as the gravity of the measure demanded. As a son of a Confederate soldier, lie felt it his duty to endorse the bill. Should he ever visit Chickamauga lie did not wart it asked is there no spot where South Carolina soidiers fought and died. lie wished the grandest' monu meut ever seen could be placed there. Quoting eloquently from the inscrip tion on the monument in front of the capitol, he said no other inspiration should be needed to vote for this bill. I Senator Aldrich explained the pur poses of the erection of this mounment in accordance with the plan agreed upon I by the associations of other States. It is not a question of the most suitable place, but this battlefield had been selected by all the States and South Carolina must do so or be out of touch with h r sister States. He then paid an eloquent and beautiful tribute to the Confederate soldier. A snyopsis could not reproduce the beautiful dic tion of Senator Aldrich's remarks. The motion to indefinitely postpone was lost by this vote: Yeas-Alexander, Archer, Bowen, Connor, Dennis, Douglass, Graydon, Suddath.-S. Nays Aldrich, Appelt, Barnwell, Blakeney, G. W. Brown, W. A. Brown, Crosson, Dean, Gruber, Henderson, Hough, Ilderton, Livingston, Love, Marshall, Mauldin, Mayfield, McDer mont, R1agsdale, Sarratt, Stanland, Sullivan, Talbird, Walker, Wallace, Waller, Williams.-27. The bill was then passed to the third reading. SOUTH CAROLINA PENSIONS. A New Law Proposed, Which Will Limit Pensions to the Needy. The increase in the number of ap proved applications for pensions in South Carolina has so reduced the amount going to each pensioner that the Confederate veter-tns have practi cally taken the whole matter of pen sions into their hands. When, years ago, it was first decided :: give pen sions, $50,000 was voted for this pur pose, and it seemed to be quite adequ ate for several years, but so many more pensioners got on the rolls that the legislature voted $100,000 for the old soldiers and their widows. This has now become insufficient, pensioners only getting from $25 to $50 a yeir. Last summer at a convention of Con fedtrate veterans a committee of three was appointed to draw a pension bill to be presented to the general assembly, making radical changes in the system, and taking the matter out of the hands of county officers and politicians. This has been done, the bill favorably re ported in both houses and will bie passed without change. Under this law the pensioner, of a man, must have been a soldier or sailor in the Confederate ser vice and a resident of South Carolina for two years; must (a) have lost a leg or arm or receiving other disabling wounds, and neither he nor his wife have an income of $250 per annum, or (b) that he has re ched the age of 60 and neither he nor his wife have an in come of $1.00. If a woman, she must be the widow, who has never remarried, of a bonafide soldier, and who has not an income of $100. The sum of at least $100,000 must be annually appropriated for pen sions. Those who have lost both legs or both arms shall receive $8 per month; those who have lost one leg or one arm shall receive $6 per month. Widows receive $6 per month. All others entitled to pensions receive $4. If the amount appropriated is insuffi ient, those of the sfirst class shall be paid in full and the remainder pro rated among the other pensioners. Applications for pensions, with proof of service, etc., shall be made to coup ty boards. These boards shall be com p"od of ex-Confederate soldiers, one belmg elected by the Confederate survi vors in each township on the first Sat urday in August of each year. The state board of pensions shall consist of the comptroller general and three ex Confederate soldiers to be selected by the United Veteran's Association at their annual meetings. The members of the county and state boards shall each receiv . $2 per day for the time actually employed and the state board 5 cents per mile traveled. The list of pensions approved and re fused shall be kept by the clerk of the court, who shall eachi year certify to the comptroller those on such lists who have died since his last report. On the first Monday in April the con troller general shall issue each pensioner a warrant to the amount due him or her for that year, so there will be but one payment instead of by the month. This act is expected to disqualify many persons n3W drawing pensions. The veterans have loudly protested against frauds that they allege were being per petrated. LEVY OF PIVE MILLS. The Supply Bill Put in by Ways and Means Committee. The ways and means committee Wed nesday presented the "supply bill' which makes provision for the levying of tax for the fiscal year. The levy for the State purposes is 5 mills, no increase over last year. The ways and means committee thinks that the levy will meet all appropriations and leave a balance in the treasury. The appropriation bill provides for an expenditure of $858,963 for general purposes. In addition to this there is a r rovision for $20.000 to be set aside for the purpose of redeeming bonds which may come due. This appropria tion is -nade annually but is seldom expended. In addition to the two items mentioned above the legislative supply bill will call for about $20.000 to meet the expenses of the legislature. These three items will amount to $898,693, the estimate expenses for the year. The estimated receipts for the 5 mill levy aggregate $S73,000; fees from 1i en ses, etc., $54,472; total, $927.472. This will leave a balance of $28,000 in the treasury, in addition to the S20, - (100 for redemption of bonds. There are several bills pending which provide for appropriations, and if enacted they will take up the balance, or a part of it. The several county levies are practi cally unchanged. A number of coun ties, however, have adopted the plan of establishing a sinking fund to pay off AS TO FERTILIZERS. What the President of the Virginia Carolina Chemical Says. GIVES FACTS AND FIGURES. All the Crude Materials Have Ad vanced, and the Selling Price is Lower Than Gondi tions Warrant. From the News and Observer. l aleigh N. C. Richmond, Va., Feb. 1, 1900. To the Editor: Ny attention has been called to a communication in The Ne ;s and Observer. published under date of Wednesday January 31st, 1900, in reference to the advance in the price of fertilizers, wherein it is stated that the farmers of Pitt county, North Carolina, propose to organize and fight the advance in the prices of fertilizers, and by insinuation our company is cen sured as the cause of this advanci. I desire to make a plain statement of facts and conditions as now obtained in the fertilizer t ride, and to liow to the dealers and consumers of fertilizers that the advance in the price of mianu factured fertilizers is not only just and warranted but is absolutcly necessary, and that the n:anufacturers of fertili zers could not afford to sell them at the price ruling last year unless they did so at a very heavy loss. Now, to get down to facts and figures we will see what has really caused the price of fertilizers to be advanced this year over last: Acid Phosphate being one of the principal ingredients in all complete fertilizers, I desire to show here how much this article costs to make in ex cess of the cost price for the same thing last year. The advance in pyrites, from which sulphuric acid is made, is more than $2 00 per ton over last year. The advance in Nitrate of Soda. which is a necessary ingredient in the manu facture of sulphuric acid, is fully $S 00 per ton more than last year. Phos phate Rock has advanced a minimum of $1.75 per ton at the mines, and in some grades of rock, the advance is more than $3 00 per ton. These three articles constitute what is necessary tc. make Acid Phosphate. Put them to gether in the proper proportion and a ton of Acid Phosphate will cost $2.07 per ton more than it did last year. Bags are costing us 20c. per ton more than they did last year, so that the erude material going into a ton of Acid Phosphate is costinrgapproximatc ly $2 27 more than it did a year ago. Every piece of factory supplies and machinery, coal and everything neces sary to operate a factory is from 25 to 100 per cent. higher than it was a year ago. This will add certainly an ad1 tional 10c. to the cost of a ton of fer tilizer, making in the most conserva tive and reasonable estimate possible a ton of 13 per cent. Acid Phosphate, bagged and ready for shipment, cost the manufacturer $2 37 more than it did twelve months ago. Now, let us look at complete ammo niated fertilizers: We will take what s commonly known as standard grade of complete fertilizers, running, say, 24 per cent. of ammonia, 8 per cent. of available phosphoric acid, and 1 per cent. ->f potash. As I have above dem onstrated, acid phosphate costs $2 07 more than last yeir. This is equiva lent to a little more than 10e. per 100 pounds. In making the 2.j, 8 and 1 fertilizers, 1,200 pounds of acid phos phate would be necessary, so at 10c. additional cost for acid phosphate would be $1.20. If cotton seed meal was used for the ammonia, it would take approxinately 700 pounds, and cotton seed meal is now worth 86 00 per ton more than last year, which is equivalent to 30e. er 100 pounds, and 700 pounds would cost $2.10 more than it did last year. Now, add 20c, for extra cost for the bags and you have $3.50 per ton for the materials than we paid for these same materials last year. If tankage or blood was used for the source of ammonia instead of cotton seed meal, the advanced cost over last year would be $3.20 per ton. as ammo nia from tankage or blood is now 60e. per unit higher than last year, so for 21 per cent. of ammonia the extra cost over last year would be $1.80. Sulphate of ammonia is the only other souice of ammonia commnonly used in the manufacture of fertilizers. Twelve months ago this article was sell ing at about $43 00 per ton. W'e paid for it this week $62 00 per toc.. Now, I assert that the price of ferti lizers has not advanced nearly so much as the price of raw materials going into them. Let us see wvho is to blaa,e, if anycnc, for the advance of these crude materials. Take Pyrites: We buy from Spain more than three-four h~ C f all we use. Nitrate of Soda: \\ e u entirely from South America. Potash Salts: We buy entirely from Germany. So it cannot be said that our company controls or is in anywise responsible for tne advance of these materials, as we have no interest whatever in any of these properties, either directly or in directly. Take phosphate rock: We do mine a small proportion of our wants of phosphate rock, but we mine norne for sale and we buy from other mines more than two-thirds of what we con sume. So no one will suppose that we were anxious to put up the price of phosphate rock. As for cotton seed meal, we have no interest either directly or indirectly in any cotton seed mill, so we are not re sponsible for the advance in this arti cle. Blood and tankage are made by the large packers in the west, and we ae no interest and no control over these products in any way. Why, then, should the Virginia Carolina Chemical Company be blamed for the advance in the c'st of crude materials, and would it be businesslike for us to want an advance in crude ma terials of which we have to buy almo~st entirely all of our nceds and of which we produce absolutely nothing, exert a small quantity of phosph ate reek? It is our aim and purpose to mnrn facture fertilizers as ece-!-y :~i ble and and to sell then at a~ lo a Iprice as we can afford, thereb eI: lating a large consumption of !erani zers and their general use for all crops. Let us see how the fhrmer is situated: He is getting this year from 24 to 3c. a pound for his cotton more than last Iyear, and we understand that for a great deal of the cotton seed the cotton seed oil mills are now paying 25c. per bushel. Arc these advances wrong, and arc the manufacturers who arc having to use this product condeumning the parties who produce them simply because the demand is such that the price has increased so enormously over last year? At present prices the farm r can sell the cotnnncserd from ne acre of land and buy as much fertilizers as ho usually puts over two or three acres, even though there is a small ad vance in the price of fertilizers, caused by the manufacturers having to pay high prices for the materials entering into them. We propose to be perfectly fair and candid in our statements and believe that when an unprejudiced farmer looks into the situation he will realize that he is not charged as much for fertilizers as the cost of materials under preseut conditions warrant. Yours very respectfully, S. T. Morgan, Prcs. Virginia-Carolina Chemical Co. FARMERS AND FERTILIZERS An Organization Formed in Greenville to Resist the Advance. The Greenville county farmers met in the court house one day last week and not only began a strong fight against the fertilizer trust by condemn ing it and resolving not to purchase its products but started a scheme to organize the farmers in every neighbor hood of all of the sixteen townships for the purpose ot keeping up the war on the trusts and to deal as an associa tion with other matters of interest to farmers. These neighborhood organi zation meetings are to be held on Satur day, the 1ith of this month, to name delegates to a general meeting here in the court house every sale day. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted: 1st. That it is the sense of this meeting that we ought not to give more than 10 per cent. advance on last year's prices for fertilizers. 2nd. That it is the sense of this body that unless the price of fertilizer is re duced to within the 10 per cent. ad vance of last year's price we 'will dis courage the use of fertilizers to as large an extent as possible. 3d. That we condemn the action of the Virginia Chemical company in forming a fertilizer trust, thereby ar bitrarily advancing the price of guano, and we would urge our representatives in the legislature to use every effoit to investigate said trust and thwart the injustice done the farmers of the State. 4th. That we give as far as practi cable preference to the fertilizers of the independent companies and avoid pur chasing the products of the trusts." Col. J. A. Hoyt, at the request of a rm ber of persons, addressed the meet iug, urging organization in every town hip in the county. He was "surprised, astonished and amazed" that there is no organization in this county. They should have a powerful organization as in the days of the alliance ten years ago; "but you'll have to keep it out of poltics." If the idea of reorganizing the alliance did not meet with favor, let the farmers at least organize farmers' clubs. They need it in a social way, in an educational way and in a business way. The whole world is against the farmer on this chief staple of the South. TodAy cotton is 1 cent higher since a few weeks ago a cotton aushority, sup posed to be friendly to the growers of couton, sent out telegrams to nearly every editor in the country saying that the price had gone as-high as it could go and advised its patrons to sell in view of the coming decline. These telegrams were sent out Saturday so as to catch the Sunday readers of news papers and depress the market. Tne speaker was heartily in favor of the resolutions. C. C. Williams put Col. Hoyt's sug gestions in the shape of a resolution, asking a meeting of the farmers in each neighborhood to meet on the third Saturday and send delegates to the general meeting on sale day. By resolutions offered by Colonel Hoyt the chairman and secretary were dirceted to push the organization. C. C. Williams offered a resolution, which was adopted, asking the news papers of the county to give publicity to the proceedings of the meeting and assist the far mers in fighting the trust. John Butler was called upon for a speech; he " resolved that it. is moved and seconded that we do now adjourn." His resolution was adopted, but in the regular way. A LOST BOY. Dr. Chas. A- Eastman. of Brisrhton, Mass., Looking for~His Son. 'Ihe Columbia Record says Chief of Police .Daily, of that city, has received a letter from Dr. Chas. A. E tstman, 461 Washington street, Brighton, M1ass., enclosing a description of his son, who has been missing since January 6, 1900. Hec says the boy was last heard of between Osala anid Gainesville, Fia., making his way north ana the distracted parent asks the chief to watch out for him here. le offers a reward of $100 and asks to be notified at once if his son is found and he will come on at once for him. He aks that the newspapers in the State aid nim by giving publicity to the mat t. r. Following is a description sent out, a photographic cut of the boy ac conmaumi:~ He is 143y ears of age, but would pass for 17 or 18 years, being very large for his age. and well matured. Light complexion; blue eyes, light brown hair; very poor black teeth. J'e wore a soft brown hat, light overcoat, dark blue coat and gray pants. He plays the piano well for his years, "Clayton's Grand March," "Old Kentucky Home," and other old airs, with varia tions by Ryder, being favorites. Should this meet the eye of the beloved son, may he think of the anguish and deso lation caused by his absence to fond father and mother, whose nights are passed in tears and wakefulness, cry ing, "Where is our darling boy to night? Is he dead?" All charges and erenses will be paid. Hold him and telegraph at my expense. Address, Dr. Chas. A. Eastman, 4G1 Washington St., Brighton, Mass. Indian Skeletons. While excavating for the foundation for a house in Boone county Virginia, .Mr. George Myers and others were sur prised to find the skeletons of several human beings that had apparently been interred at the satJ many years ago. Several y y- icians were summoned, wo. after examining the bones, pro nounced them the skeletons of Indians. \ith them were four.d many sharp pointed flints and several bows and ar rows very much decayed. The remains were found two feet from the surface, and it is supposed that the place was an old Indian graveyard. Col. Neal Pays Up. The Columbia Record says there are three very happy men in Columbia. They are Col. Wilie Jones, W. S. Pope and P. H . Haltiwanger. As bondsmen for Col. W. A. Neal, they paid the state $2,800 41, the amount of his shortage for which they were re sponsible. Wednesday they were paid in full by Col. Neal. so they are are not out. a nmran of his shortage. RAILROAD FARES. Considerably Reduced by a State Senate Bill. HOW EACH SENATOR VOTED. The Bill Makes Mary Changes in the Present Jim Crow Car Law as to Division of Cars. Mr. Caughman's house bill to amend the law requiring divided coacbes so as to require separate coaches for the two races was taken up as a special order by the Senate Tuesday. The bill as it came over from the house piovided in section 2 that the rate for transportation of passengers on all railroads should not exceed 3 cents per mile, and railroads were not to be required to have second-class coaches or to sell second-class tickets, but must provide one first-class coach for each race, giving each race equal accommo dation. This would do away with the divided coaches which have proved so unsatisfactory on certain lines. Seantor Graydon offered an amend ment to make the rate 2 3.4 cents a mile instead of 3 cents. He said this rate prevailed in Georgia, Alabama and other States. Senator Mower thought the present system should be continued, as it was working smoothly so far as he could see. He moved to strike out the en acting words of the bill. Senator Ragsdale wanted to vote on Senator Graydon's amendment first and for this purpose Senator Mower withdrew his motion. The vote on Senator Graydon's amendment to make the uniform rate 2 3-4 cents was fol lows, the amendment being lost. Yeas-Aacher, Blakeney, Connor, Crosson, Graydon, Hough, Ilderton, Love, McDermott, Mower, Ragsdale, Sarratt, Stanland, Sullivan, Wallace. 15. Nays-Aldrich, Alexander, Appelt, Bowen, G. W. Brown, Dean, Douglass, Glenn, Gruber. Henderson, Livingston, Manning, Marshall, Mauldin, Mayfield, Sheppard, Talbird, Walker, Waller. 19. Senator Ragsdale offered an amend ment making the first clrss rate 3 cents and the second-class rate 21 and strik ing out the section abolishing the sec ond-class car. Senator Mower moved to indefinitely postpone the bill on the ground that the question had become merely one of rates. On Senater Mower's motion to indefi nitely posspone, the vote stood as fol lows, the senate refusing, to postpone: Yeas-Alexander, Archer, Blakeney, Connor, Dean, Glenn, Hough, Mower, Sarratt, Talbird, Walker, Wallace. 12. Nays-Aldrich, Appelt, Bowen, G. W. Brown, Crosson, Douglass, Gray don, Gruber, Henderson, Ilderton, Liv ingston, Love, Manning, Marshall, Mauldin, Mayfield, McDermott, Riags dale, Sheppard, Starland, Sullivan, Waller-22. Senator Gruber moved to amend Sen ator Ragsdale's amendment by making the se,:ond-class rate 2 3-4 cents instead of 2j cents. Senator Gruber's motion to amend Senator Ragsdale's amendment so as to make the second-class rate 2 3-4 was voted on, and agreed to. Senator Rags dale's amendment, as amended, was then voted on and adopted, the rate be ing thus fixed at 3 cents for first-class fare and 2 3-4 for second-class. This reduces the first-class fare and leaves the second-class as it is under the pres ent law, and strikes out the section abolishing the second-elass car. Senator Graydon's amendment allow ing the division of the second-class coach was next in order and developed much discussien. Senator Graydon's amendment was then adopted after more debate by sev eral senators. It is as follows: Add section 1, Provided that the second-class coach may be divided into two compartments, one for white and one for colored people. Senator May field moved to amend the bill by providing that a compartment should be cut off at each end of the coach, one for females and one for males. The amendment was agreed to. Senator Gruber dioved to amend the bill by adding imprisonment for not more than 30 days as a punishment in addition to the fine provided. This was adopted. Senator Mayfield moved the commit tee amendment exempting mixed trains and this brought up the most puzzling portion of the problem. Senator May ield offered a substitute for the amend ment, "nor to mixed trains," as fol lows, "nor to regular freight trains with a passenger train attached for local travel." Senator Ragsdale's motion to inde finitely postpone the amendment was ut and the vote resulted, 10 ayes to 24 noes, as follows, the senate refusing to reject the amendment: Yeas-Archer Blakeney, Connor Gradon, Gruber, Ilderton, Love, Rags dale, Suddath, and Wallace.-10. Nays-Aldrich Alexander, Appelt, Bowen, Crosson, Dean, Douglass, Glenn, Henderson, Rough, Livingston, Manning, Marshall, Mauldin, Mayfield, McDermott. Mower, Sarratt, Shsppard, Stanland, Sullivan, Talbird, Walker, and Waller.-24. The amendment was then agreed to without division. The question then came up on the passage of the bill as amended and the aye and no vote resulted in its passage by a vote of 22 to 13 as follows: Yeas-Archer, Blakeney, Bowen, G. W. Brown, Connor, Crosson, Douglass, Graydon, Gruber, Henderson, Hough, lderton, Love, Marshall, Mayfield, McDermott, Ragsdale, Sarratt, Stan land, Saddath. Sullivan, Wallace-22. Nays-Aldrich, Alexander, Appelt, Dau, Glenn, Livingston, Manning, Mauldin, Mower, Sheppard, Talbird, Walker, Waller.-13. The bill as it finally passed the Senate is published in another column. A Timely Rebuke. That was not a very e lifying sight last night when members of the house who remained in their hall during the joint session engaged in singing sacred songs in a spirit which was evidently not that of worship. It may have amused members and spectators, but it smacked strongly of sacrilege. The practice is a custom which can well be discontinued with credit to all legisla tie bodies who are given to indulging in it.-Columbia State. A kingdom for a cure ! You need not pay so much. A twenty-five ceni bottle of L. L. & K. Will drive all ills away. THE SMALLPOX SITUATION. What:the Chairman of the.State Board of Health Says. The following'is -from.the' Florence Times of Tuesday: Dr. Evans received last night a big package of vaccine points, enough, it appeared, to vaccinate the whole of this section of the country, but he said 't was only enough for the most press ing needs of the health department. There have been several new centres of infection, the doctor said, but on the whole, the situation was encourag ing. The disease had been stamped out below Orangeburg, and there- were few cases only at points in Bamberg, and in Beaufort counties, in fact there are now not over 75 cases in the State. There are some new points of infec tion in the mill districts of Spartan burg and in Pickens counties. These cases came from mill hands in Green ville, who took flight when the order for compulsory vaccination was pass ed. They carried-the infection with them and have caused new centres to spring up. The mills in Greenville were infected by hands that came from the infected districts inLGeorgia, and spi cad the disease here. DL. Evans says that, as yet, only about one-fourth of the people in the State have been vaccinated, and that he..finds it very hard to enforce the vaccination. Unless this is done the spread of the disease cannot be pre vented. The compulsory vaccination of all laborers on railroads, in .mills, and in the public schools, would soon stop the plague. Several days ago he went to Gib bons, where he found several cases. le vaccinated about a hundred Negroes in the- community and-gave the teacher of the colored school a lot of points. She was instructed in the, use of them, and promised to vaccinate the children of the school thoroughly. The doctor is very-much disappoint ed that the bill he had before the gen eral assembly have been sidetracked. He was getting the work of the health board in such a good shape, and the changes asked for would have rounded up the matter so completely, that South Carolina would have had the very best health organization in the nation. These reforms were opposed for several reasons, all more or less trivial, but suf ficient to prevent the passage of the bill. In the senate it seems that the matter of the expense of the registration was the consideration, though it is a fact that if the bill had passed as was proposed, the general government would have borne the expense of the registra tion, as they do in all the States that are strictly "registration States." This is borne as part, and the most important part of the census department, that of vital statistics. It is urged by the triends of the measure, that there are no vital statistics now that can serve as a guide tol the health -authorities, and that nothing can be done to im prove the health of the community until you know what is the matter with the community in question. When one takes into consideration the great loss of the services of the wealth pro ducers of the world from sickness, either to themselves or as nurses, one can see how heavy the balance would incinee to the side of the health au thorities in the matter of the reforms contemplated. As it has taken some time to educate the statesmen of this State up to the reforms already accomplished, the friends of the doctor who has labored so faithfully in this cause, encourage him to hope that time will soon bring about the desired result, and that he may rest easy soon, in the happy con templation of the completed system that has been his dream for the good of humanity, and the extension of the brief span of the years allotted to man, and the full enjoyment of them. FRBE BLOOD CURE An Offer Providing Faith to Sufferers Eatj4g Sores, Tumors, Ulcers, are all enrable by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm,) which is made especially to cure all terrible Blood Diseases. Persistent Sores, Blood and Skin Blemishes, Scrofula, that resist other treatmnents, are quickly cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). Skihi Eruptions, Pim ples, Red, Itching Eczema, Scales, Blisters, Boils, Carbuncles, Blotches, Catarrn, Rheumatism, ete., are all due to bad blood, and hence easily cured by B. B. B. Blood Poison producing Eating Sores, Eruptions, Swollen glands, Sore Throat etc., cured by B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), in one to five months. B. B. B. does not con tain vegetable or mineral poison. One bottle will test it in an case. For sale .by druggists everywhere. Large bottles $1, six for five $5. Write for free samiplebottle, which will be sent, prepaid to Times readers, describe simptoms and personal free medicaf advice will be given. Address Blood Balm Co., Atlanta, Ga. The State's Schools The report of State Superintendent of Public schools McMahan has just been published and is full of interest and of food for thought. It shows that last year the counties had and spent for public schools $827 000. The total number of pupils was 269,000, of whom 123.000 were whites and 146 000 colored. There were 62, 129 white boys and 61,260 white girls and 68,786 col ored boos and 77,691 colored girls. The total number of buildings are 2,310 for whites, 1,736 for Negroes. There are 5,003 teachers, 3,000 white and 2.003 colored, who teach an average of 36 each for whites, 64 for colored. The average length of the session was 4. 1 for the white schools, 2.63 for the col ored. The white teachers were paid an an averagefof $154 90 each for the year, the Negroes $73 42. More College Electioas. The senate immediately after as sembling Thursday proceeded to the house, where a joint session was held for the purpose of electing trustees for the Citadel, Clemson and the Colored college. Following was the result: Citadel Visitors-C. D. Gadsden, Charleston; Bishop- Capers, Columbia; J. J. Lucas, Darlington; E M. Blythe, Greenville; W. W. Lewis, York. Clemson trustees-A. T. Smy the, Charleston, to succeed the late Gov ernor Ellerbe, ID. T. Redfern, of Ches terfield, Jesse Hardin, of Chester and J. E. Tindall, of Clarendon. Colored college at Orangeburg-D. J. Brabham. of Clarendon, and 0. R. Lowman, of Orangeburg. The Cotton Seea. Meal Tax. In the senate Wednesday the bill to prevent adulteration in cotton seed meal, which provide that all dealers in this State shall pay the inspection tax as provided for fertilizers and shall be subject to the laws regulating the sale and inspection of fertilizers, whether the same is sold as stock feed or as fertilizers; each bag to be marked "Highgrade," "Standard," or "Low Grade," according to the analysis was kleda by a vote of 18 to 15. ABSOurmLY ~ Makes the food more del OYAM SMAN POMI A NEW RAILROAD LAW. Which Regulates the Fares and Charpcter of Trains. Be it enacted by the general assem bly of the State of South Carolina: Section 1. That all railroads and railroad companies engaged in this State as common carrriers of passengers for hire shall furrish separate coaches for the accommodation of white and co ored passengers: Provided, Equal ac commodations shall be supplied to all persons, without distinction of race, color or previous condition, in such coaches: Provided, That the seaond class coach may be divided into two compartments, one for white and one for colored people. Provided, that each first-class coach shall be provided with a compartment at each end, with three seats or more, one compartment to be marked for males and one for females. Section 2. That the provisions of this act shall not apply to rnurses on trains, nor to narrow gauge roads or branch lines under forty miles in length or to relief trains in case of accident, or to through vestibule trains not in tended or used for local travel, nor to regular freight trains carrying a pas senger coach, nor to officers or guards transporting prjsoners or lunatics being so transported. .Section 3. That 60 days after the ap proval of this act the rate for trans portation of passengers on all railroads to which the provisions of this act shall apply shall not exceed three cents per mile for first-class and 2 34 cents for second class fare. Section 4. That it shall be unlawful for the officers or the employes having charge of such railroad cars as are provided for by this act to allow or permit white and colored passengers to occupied the same car, except as nerein permitted and allowed, and for a viola tion of this section any such officer or employe shall be guilty of a misde meanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be panished by a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars. Section 5. That any passenger remaining in said car other than that provided for him, after request by the officer or employe in charge of said car to remove into the car provided for him, shall be guilty of a misdemcanor, and, onconviction thereof, shall be fined not less than twenty five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars or im prisonment not exceeding 30 days in discretion of the court. Jurisdiction of such offenses shall be in the county in which the same occurs. The con ductor and any and all employes on such cars are hereby clothed with power to eject from the train or car any passenger who refuses to remain in such car as may be assigned or provided for him, or to remove from a car not so assigned and provided. Section 6. That in case the coach for either white or colored passengers should be full of passengers and another coach cannot be procured at the time, then the conductor in charge of the train shall be, and he is hereby, authorized to set apart so much of the other coach as may be neccessary to accommodate the passengers on said train. Section 7. Should any railroad or railroad comipany, its agents or em ployes, violate the provisions of this act, such railroads or railroad company shall be liable to a penalty of not more than five hundred dollars nor less than three hundred dollars, for each viola tion, to be collected by suit of any citi zen of this State, and the penalty re covered shall, after paying all proper fees and costs, go into general fund of the State treasury. A WOMAN'S DEED. T1"! Says She Impersonated Her Brother Save Himr From the L-aw. There is in the county jail at Hills boro, Iii., a convict, until recently con fined In the men's penitentiary at Chester, whom the authorities Eiscov ered by accident to be a woman. The name she is known by is Ellis Glenn, but in a statement the-other day, she insisted that this is really the name of her brother, whom she impersonated in order to save him from the clutches of the law. The warden of the peniten tiary does not believe this part of her story, but thinks that she herself, while masquer-ading as a man, committed the crime of which she was convicted. If this is true, then in the character of a dashing young man she wou a wo man's love, only to desert her when a-c cused of forgery and when the dIscov ery of her sex seemed imminent. To the warden she said, with great coolness: "I have fooled the law and fooled you. They were looking for my brother, who greatly resembles me. We exchanged clothes and he escaped, while I was arrested. The fact that I am a woman proves that I am not El lis Glynn, and conseQuently that I did not commit forgery. You can't find my brother, and you will have to let me go." Three years ago there came to the lit tle town of Butler, about forty miles from Springfield, a young man of re fined manners and charming address. His name was Ellis Glenn, and he was always remarkably reticent about his past. He engaged in business and was apparently prosperous. Miss Ella Duke was considered fortunate when her en gagement was announced. She Is one of the prettiest girls in Southern Illi nois, and her father. John Duke, one of the richest men in his county. Glenn seemed to be a most devoted lover. The day of the wedding was set as October 18. Glenn took great interest in the pur chase of Miss Duke's wedding trous seau. He told Mr. Duke that out of the profits cf his business he had ac cumulated quite a fortune. As a home for himself and wife he purchased a house in Litchfield. The price was $4,000. In exchange for a deed to the property Glenn gave a draft en dorsed by two citizens of Butler. They afterward pronounced the endorse ments to be forgeries and Glenn was arrested. He was bailed. Two days be fore the time fixed for the wedding he disappeared. A telegram soon after ward reached Miss Duke from St. Louis saying that he had been drowned in the Mississippi River. The Sheriff of the county received word a few weeks ago that Glenn had been arrested In Paducah, Ky. He was brought back and lodged in Hilsboro Jail. Miss Duke visited him in his cell, and told him that she had always lov-ed him and always would. She wanted him to marry her then and there be fore his departure for State's Prison. H-e obstinately refused her entreaties. No one then had the least suspicion of L 1$AKINcv 'OWDER LRE icious and wholesome M Co., NEW YORK. Like a Chapter From the Ara bian Nights. WEALTH OF CAPE NOME New Facts About the Golden Sands -Dawson Will Be About Deserted The Country All Staked for Mites Cost of Food and Fuel. Who solves the riddle of the Cape Nome beach sands, gold laden beyond the dreams of tl most avaricious, says a correspondent of the St. Louis Globe Democrat, will earn enduring fame and the gratitude of the hundreds of pros pectors who will search during the coming year the low mountains border Ing the Arctic Ocean and Behring Sea for the "mother lode." The offspring of this "mother lode" are the placers of Snake River, Nome River, Anvil Creek and a score of other streams bordering Behring Sea and the Arctic Oceai. 135 miles north of St. Michael, 200 miles northwest of the Yukon's mouth. It is easy to tell the truth about Cape Nome, but a .very hard thing to make people believe you are not indulging in, the wildest flights of fancy, of the Arabian Nights order. However, it happened that such very well-known army officers as Major Philip Ray and Captain Walker, who were stationed in Alaska last summer, made a thorough investigation of the diggings, and their reports at Washington substantiate everything that is said in this article. But probably the best proof of all of the wonderful Cape Nome sands, where gold was as free as the air to over l000 stranded miners last summer, lies in the sacks of the yellow stuff which have been brought down during the past three months and sold to Uncle Sam through the government assay of fice at Seattle. Assayer Wing estimates that at least $400,000 in Cape Nome gold has been de posited with him this fall, while the records of the transportation com panies show that as much more has been disposed of through other sources, or sent to San Francisco. The discoverers of the Cape Nome district were Peter Linderberg, John Lindbloom and Johan Brandson. The first two- were sailors on the whaler Alaska. Becoming dissatisfied with their lot, in August, 1898, they deserted. landing on the beach near Cape Nome;, on Norton Sound. They hid for a few days and then were taken into camp, hungry and worn, by the tribe of Es kimos. A few days later they canoed up the Snake River on a little pros pecting trip. The result was that Linderberg and Lindbloom found gold bearing gravel on a shallow bedrock on the bed of a creek entering Snake River. -They rocked out over $5,000 on the second day, when they had laid out their claims. They kept their secret for a few days, brought in some of their countrymen from Port Clarence, and then organized the district. Since that day they hav'e located clam all over the district, which is thirty miles square. It As estimated that each one of the three discoverers of Cape Nome has taken out upwards of $100,000 since their lucky find was made. The romance about Cape Nome, however, lies in the discovery of gold in the beach sands. In June, this year, the camp numbered not over 300 peo ple. Late in the month steamers from Dawson brought hundreds of miners down the Yukon bound "outside," hav ing found mining in the interior un profitable. They camped in tents on the beach at Nome, waiting for the steamers to take them to Seattle. Half of them had barely enough money to pay their passage. The rest were pre paring to work their way to Seattle. One day, one of the miners in a tent accidentally found gold colors in sand beneath his tent. He seized a pan, and with the sea water panned a dozen pans full of the dirt. The deeper he went Into the moist beach the higher grew the number of colors. In an hour's work he found a pay streak, with pans averaging 10c to 15c. That settled It. The next day sluice boxes, men with pans and shovels were thick on the beach as fles around a molas ses barrel In a country store. For weeks the beach fairly swarmed with men. All made wages of $5 up to $80 per day. All who were working at wages In the little City of Anvil, now called Nome, threw up their positions and went to paning gold on the beach. The deposits lay in a 60-foot strip be tween low and high tide, reserved by the government. It was free to all who came. There was no staking of claims, as no title could pass from the govern ment. At one time there were over 3,000 men at work, on the beach. The steam ers that came from Seattle with miners bound for Dawson, for the Koyukuk, Tanana and Forty-Mile districts, land ed their passengers at Nome. Soon the country was staked for miles. The steamers two months later began. bringing the beach miners to Seattle. Instead of coming down from the norths with empty pockets, all had money. The individual amounts ran from a few hundred to $10,000. Great excitement reigned among north-bound miners, and returning steamers went away with every foot of space occupied by passengers and men. Out of a space of ground 20 feet square on Anvil Creek two miners took $10,000 in a day. Back to the hills went the prospectors, over the tundra, in which they found colors. In the spring an effort will be made to find the moth er lode, from which, it is supposed by the miners, glaciers ground down the gold-bearing rocks into the sea ages ago, depositing their precious contents on the sands for American miners to find at the dawn of the twentieth cen tury. Nome is a typical mining camp in Alaska. Half of the people will live this winter In tents. Every article of food is dear. Wages are $10 per day and up. Hundreds have already gone to Daw son to winter, expecting to take the first boats for the new mining fields In the spring, beating the all-water route several weeks. Appropriate. The Milkman-I am going to buy a. horseless milk wagon. The Housekeeper-Yes, It will be so appropriate-goes so well with the cowless milk you sell.-Cleveland Leader. Back to Confucious. The dowager empress of China, it is asserted, appears to be determined to relapse into the ancient conser'vatisml. Wednesday she issued an edict con manding a return to the old manner of study, according to teachings of Confu cius, for examinations for official rank, and ordering the abolition of the study of the "now deprayed and erroneous subjects of the western schools," and threatening with punishment the teach ers of such subjects. The closing of the new university at Pekin is expected to speediy follow.