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VOL. XV THE DEMOCRACY. The Meeting of the State Execu tive..Committee. STATE CONVENTION CALLED Not a Single Politieal *uestion Disussed by the Democrat ic Engineers. Co. Jones Brief Address. The most remarkable meeting of a State Democratie exeoutive oommittee held in Seuth Carolina in ten years took place at the eapital Wed. night. It was remarkable for its uneventfulness. The committee had hardly met before it adjourned. Not a pilitioal issue was raised. There was not the somblanee of a political diseussion, and sublime harmony prevailed. There was no wire pulling going on inside or outside the room, and no one talkod of the possi bilities of the Coming eampaiP. It was really diffalt to believe Jat it was a gathering of politioal party mana gers. Iverything was lovely and calm as a summor sea, and the geese hung heaquestiOe of doing away with the sampsiga by eunties did not come up; praotieally all the committeemen eon sidered that this is a matter for the ooNing State conventie and no one "mu~osted it. The few formal resolutions looking to the reorganiention of the Demoeratie party wore adopted, the members drew their pay, and the preliminary by-play to the opening of the political aircas of 19NO ended abraptly. The counties of Chesterield, Dor ehester and iater were not represent ed. Besides Col. Jones, the ehairman, and Col. Gunter, the secretary, the fel lo ' were present: Ab ville-A. W. Jones. Aiken-W. W. Williams. Barnwell-G. D. Bellinger. Beikeley-Themas Martin. Bamberg-S.0. MCoy. Charleston-P. H. #adsden. Cherokee-T. 3. Butler. Chester-T. J. Cunningham. Clarendon-Louis Appelt. Colleton-A. 3. Wilha ms. Darlington-A. J. A. Perritt. idgeteld-L J. Williams. Jairield-T. H. Kitchens. Jlorence-D. H. Traxler. Greenville-M. L. Donaldson. Greenwood-D. H. Magill. Hampton-M. B. McSweeney. Horry-J. A. McDermott. Kershaw-C. L. Winkler. Lancaster-W. P. Caakey. Laureans-T. H. Wharton. Lexington-D. J. Griffith. Marion-J. D. Montgomery. Marlboro-W. D. Evan. Newbry-Cole L. Dlease. Ooone-J. J. Keith. qrngeburg-W. 0. Tatum. Piekens-T C. Robinson. .ichland-Wilie Jones Slala-3. L. Caughmau. Spartanb Urjt. I.Guater, Jr. Union-C.Peak. WimmmamburgJ. H. Elaekwell. York-J. C. Wilborn. As soon as the committee was called to order Col. Wilie Jones addressed the body as follows: Gentlemen of the committee: You are assembled here tornight for the pur pose of calling a State convention of the Democrats of this State to meet May 16th, in sceordance with the. eon stitution of the party, for the purpose of selecting 18 delegates .t represent South Carolina in the national Demo eratie oonvention to meet July. 4th, to nominaste eandidates for president and ie president of the United States. I knew of no other business to bring be fore the esomittee ebeeps a oemmumi eation from the national eommittee. The finaneial eondition of tho eommit tee is Irst elass; we owe nothing and have something in the treasury. It gives me great pleasure toereport to you that sefar as I know and am able to judge, the Domeraie party of this State is now mere unibed and harmen iu than it has been for many years, and that the party will vote solidly for the nominees of the national Dome eratle party and present a solid front of opposition against our old political enemy, the Bepubliean party. In May, 1558, you paid me the high oomphiment of eleeting me your chairman. About three weeks afterward Gov. Ellerbe appointed me oolonel et the Seoond South Carolina regiment, and very soon afterwards I was ordered to go to florida with my regiment. On the eve of my departure for the army, Ihanded to the seeretary my letter of resigna tion as your chairman, because I knew I would not be able to discharge the duties of the offee while in the army. Y ou paid me the Vgms comp:1iment not to accept my resignation, a.L appointed Liut. Gov. MeSweeney as viee-chair man to conduct the campaign. I desire now to take this opportunity to thank you for this evidence of your conidene in me and to assure you that I have net language to express my appreciation of your action in this nmatter. His excel lency, the governor, managed the earn paign in a splendid manner, with the aid of our capable and efficient secre tary, Col. U. I. Gunter, Jr. Upon my return home from the army I at onoe heeked up the business of the eommit e and found everything all right and every eent accounted for. Cel. Jones' remarks were endorsed by a rising vote on motion of Mr. Ma gill. Col. Jones then read a communica tin from Mr. Henrieksen of Chieago of the national committee, Calling at tention to the fact that tha national ooemmotee would need campaign funds. He thought the best way to, ageure them was by voluntary subscriptioni, and suggested that State committees appoint 'an agent in each ecanty and district under a central agent to solicit and secure sush subscriptions. The national eemmittee would allow these a~gente a pereentage for their trouble and expenses. Col. Jones and Secretary Gunter were authorised to make the appoint ment of one agent from the State at large and one from esh eengressional district. . Jone then eallod attention te the necessity of issuing the call for the State convention to be held in May on the 16th. Mr. Magill made a motion to this ef feot, the hour of noon being Ixod. This was agreed to. Mr. Monotgomery moved that the county elubs be called to meet in ac sord with the tonstitution. This was adopted. Mr. Blease moved that the thanks of the committee be extended to the oi eers for the effcienct manner in which they had served the committee. This was adopted. Dr. A. . Williams said he had been a member of the committee for 10 years, and he wished to express his appreois tion of the uniform courtesy always shown him. He and Col. Jones were perhaps the only members who had never been a candidate and never ex pected to be. Dr. Williams said he ex pected to retire from publie service with this meeting. Mr. Winkler ofered a resolution ex pressing the sense of the committee that Mr. Williams' announcement be reeived with regret, and expressing the hope that the dectr would alter his determination. This was unani mously adopted. Mr. Magill wanted a resolution ad opted declaring Mrs. Dewey "the mark Hanneress" of the Demoeratic party. There were some other amusing proposi tions and then the committee adjourned. -The Itate. A SINOTLAR ACCIDENT. An Engineers Eye Piereed by a Dove's Beak A dove, winging its ight over the tracks of the Southern railway near Juliet in Monroe county, Ga., collided with a assenger train going in the op posite drection at a high rate of speed recently. The bird's body plunged through the glass window of the cab. Its beak, sharp as a needle's point, piereed the right eye of Engineer Charles Wallace and the surgeons say it destroyed the engineer's sight tem porarily and possibly permanently. Engineer Wallace was at the lever of the afternoon passenger train for Ma con when it pulled out of the union depot. The run to Juliet was made without incident. After the train left the station the engineer opened the throttle to ran the train faster than usual in order to make up a few min utes' lost time. . The train was bowl ing along at a 60-mile-an-hour gait. The engineer's seat in the cab faces the track ahead. A window of glass an eighth of an inch thick protects him from the draughts, smoke and cinders. He was looking through this window when suddenly the body of the dove burst through the pane of glass and struck him in the face. He was blind ed for an instant, and the pain in his right eye made him realize at once that he was seriously hurt. The fireman on the cab with Engin eer Wallace saw the asaident and re lieved him of his post. The pain in creased in Wallace's eye until it was almost enbearable and he finally went back into the baggage coach to get such assistance as was possible on the train. The dove was killed by the sudden contact with the cb window. Its quivering body fell on the iron floor of the engine cab after striking the en gineer, and was picked up by the ire man. So great was the momontum of the train and the dove's body that the glass window was not smashed by the blow of the collision. The hole through which the bird was hurled was clean~ cut like that made by a bullet fired through glass. The wounded engineer was carried to Atlanta to have his eye treated. After the surgeon had dressed the wound he was removed to his home at Th McDaniel street. The eye is great ly inflamed and swollen. The Regimental Staf. Cel. Wili. Jones, gommanding the Seeond regiment of South Carolina vol unteer State troops, has ananouneed his staf as follows: Adjutant-Capt. Chas. Newnham, Columbia. Judge Adveeste-Capt. F. N. We; ton, Celumbia. Quartermaster-Capt. 3. M. Trailer, Timmoniville. Surgeon-Capt. M. *. Bailey, Grange burg. Paymaster-Capt. J. Wilson Riley, Bamberg. Chaplain-Bev. W. I. Evans, Co lumbia. Commissary-Capt. P. J. Drew, Blackville. Ordnance Offier-Capt. W. J. John son, Rilgeway. Ungineer-Capt. Joe A. Jerry, Branehville. Sergeant Major-Calhoun Doyle, Orangeburg. Quartermaster Sergeant-R. K. Clafy, Jr., Fort Motto. Chief Bugler-B. L. Crosswel!, Camden. Courier-L. D. Childs, Columbia. Their Eard Lot. Kwang Hsu, the Chinese emperor, who, as newspaper readers will remem ber, was successively dethroned and as sassinated and thereafter committed suicide, is now reported to be dying of slow poison. The many troubles of Li Hung Chang are evidently as noth ing to these of the emperor. It seems that the higher a man's station in life is in China, the more diffcult it is for him to keep body and soul together. Sent Up for Life. The jury in the ease of the two Jack sons, Harvey and John, charged with the murder of CJassie Boon, tried at Chesterfield on Thursday, brought in a verdict of guilty with a recommenda tion to mercy.- They were at once sen tenced to imprisonment for life. It will be rembered that the two Jacksons burned the woman to death. Ten Inches Snow. A dispatch from Kansas City Thurs day~ says reports were received there of a heavy fall of snow in central and western Kansas. Is is ten inches deep and asill snowing in the central and western sections. Atchison reports that the Missouri Pacific has ordered snow plows to be in readiness in north western Kansas. Boys, associate yourself wish boys of good quality, if you esteem your own reputation, for it is bettor to be alone a in ba camp any. AN AWFUL TALE. The Horrors of the Philippine War Shown by Suicides. OFFICERS AND MEN VICTIMS. A Srory of No Fcod, Ns Shelter, No Shoes, No Clothing for Men From Tem perate Climes. From May 1, 1899. to April 1 1900, according to emoiial records, there have been 83 suicides in the armies of the United States, nearly every one due to insanity. During the same period nearly one thousand soldiers have been shipped from their varions posts in Hawaii, Porto Rico Cuba and the Philippines the the military insane asylnu in Washington. Of these about 90 per cent have come from the Philippines. Since December 1 last there have been 29 suicides there, all due to insanity. During the war with Spain the aver ae of suicides in the the army was no higher than that in civil life. Bat once the theatre of operations was transferred to the Philippines the rate mounted rapidly till at length General Otis reports more suicides a week than deaths in action. The figures show an average of three suicides a week nowadays. And these are not confined to the enlisted men. Officers, whose fever-racked brains and disease-tortured bodies are giving out daily, are finding the same recourse from suffering as the privates. To date six oficers have blown out their brains in an effort to rid them selves-of the delusions of mind brought about by the fevers incidental to Philippine life and the hardships necessary of the campaign in Luzon. Only the other day The World re corded the suicide of Lieutenant Louis P. Weber, Forty-second infantry, U. S. T., a New York boy and a former member of the Seventh regiment, whose patriotism led him to volunteer for war in the Two Hundred and First New York against Spain and later in one of the Phillippine regiments equipped last summer. He landed in Manila on January 1 last, and on March 9, a lit tle more than two months later, he blew out his brains with a revolver. The torture of fever and malaria had unbalanced his mind. But younger officers are not the only ones. The list is led by Lieutenant Colonel John J. Brereton, Thirty-third infantry. Every branch of the service contributes victims. "Mentally deranged" is General Otis' comment on each of these deaths, but behind each is a story of suffering which even the horrors of the civil war, which lasted four years, cannot daplicate. it is a story of campaigning through incessant rains; of marching through jungles and swamps in pursuit of the elusive enemy that ights half-naked for its homes and firesides. It is a story of no food, no shelter, no clothing, no shoes, no rest for men from a temper perate clime who must go without all these nder a fierce tropic sun. But the suicides are but a drop in the bucket. For every man of the eighty-two who has blown out his brains with his revolver or Krag-Jorg ensen there are a dorzen who have just gone mad and have been saved by their omrades before they could do them selves bodily harm. For these General Otis has mercifully ordered 1,000 pairs of handcuffs from Washington. He can thus restrain his insane and send them back unharmed to the United States where many recover their reason under the influence of Nor mal life and a temperate climate. Bach transport is now equipped with a pad ded cell, so that the soldier boys eannot harm themeelves before they get back to their native land. Eaoh transport is now bringing its quota of insane. The last to sail from Manila was the Sherman, with twenty Ire uaniae soldiers. It is nob lack of food or clothing. It is simply a enes tion of Lropio heat and incessant rains and an utter impossibility for the quartermasters to get their stores through jungles and swamps. The troops near the towns fare as well as ever did soldiers in the fia~d. Melancholia is the symptom. Statisticians in, the war department haue been figuring privately have found that the rate of suicide in our Philip pine army is the largest in the history of modern warfare. There were 3,00) suiides in the Union troop during the eivil war, but it lasted four years, there 2,000, 000 men engaged and the hor rers of war were infinitely greater. The doors of St. Blizabeth insane asylum at Washington are hardly closed upon one batch of insane soldiers from the Philippines before they are opened to recive more of the unfortunates. Is was only a week ago that eight were committed to the asylum. Today there are 110 insane soldiers at 8t. Elizabeth, some of whom will never recover their minds. They come to the asylum wrecked physically as well as mentally. Becently .many doctors and nurses left San Francisco for the Philippines. The war department is preparing for the epidemics of fever which come with the rainy season. A dispatch came from General Otis today announcing 26 deaths, including one suicide. The dispatches of two days make this showing: Soldiers who have become insane, 25. Suicide, 1. Died from wounds in action, 3. Died of disease, 18. Drowned, 2. Accidentally shot, 2. In spite of these figures, the offois insist that the death rate is low in the Philippines. These twenty-nine offiers and men of the United States army has commit ted suicide in the Philippines since December 1, 1899: Bernard, A. E., private, hospital corps Bowman, D). T., lieut., 37th Volun teers. Brereton, J. J., lieut., sol., 33d Tolunteer infantry. Briggs, Geo., private, 1st Wyoming Craddoek, P. B., private 4th cavalry. Crawford, E. C., private, 23d in fantry. Curtis, George W., private, 18th in fantry. Dickelman, ., private, hospital corps. Durham, Fred A., hospital steward. Gregory, W., private 11th Tolunteer cavalry. Hiatt, Charles, sergt, 4th cavalry. Hills, M. A., Corpl., 36th Tolunteer infantry. Hudson, John C., private, 23d in fantry. Kellerman, A., .rivate, 4th infantry. Knox, Geo. N., private, 6th artillery. Love, Christopher, private, 20th in fantry. McDowell, H. A., private, 1st Col., Vol., infantry. McHenry, M. R., private, 14th in fantry. Montag, G., private, 35th Vol., in fantry. Moore, J. L., lieut., 51st Iowa Vol., infantary. Morgan, P. B. sergt., 6th infantry. Pearee, F. A., lieut., 6th artillery. Rock, Thomas, private, 20th infan try. sell, J. H.; private, 13th Minn., Tel, infantry. Saorknocht, August, musieian, 17th infantry. Waugh, John ., lieut., 30th Tel., infantry. Weber, Louis, lieut., 42d Tol., int. Zaisser, C. A., private, 6th inf. -New York Wirld. THU TEXAS FLOOD. Story of an Eye Witnss of the Re markableDisaster. Jef MoLemore, who was an eye wit ness to the collapse of the dam at Aus tin, Texas, by which over fifty people lost their lives, thus described the catastrophe: "I was gazing intentently at the great body of water as it swept grace fully over the crest of the dam, earry ing with it acres of drift that parted as it went down the falls. The water over the crest more than ten fest in depth and was rising at the rate of eighteen inches an hour. The fall of the water was about forty feet, and the roaring and surging that it produced can be better imagined than described. It was grand and awe inspiring, and nothing, in my opinion, could in any measure compare with it except the falls of Niagara. "While thus looking with awe on a sight such as I- had never -before wit nessed, I noticed a sudden commotion of the waters near the centre of the dam. For a moment the water where the commotion occured seemed to re cede, but it was only for a moment. It then shot upward in a tremendous spurt to a height of perhaps fifty feet, as if in gleeful fury, and I saw that the dam was giving way. The commotion spread toward the east end of the dam and there was a trembling of the earth. "When the break occurred the dis tance from the erest of the wave as it rolled over the dam to the water below was about forty feet. Imagine, if you can, a body of water forty feet in height and of great width and length suddenly released from confinement, and you will have a faint idea of the scene that I witnessed at the dam, aeross the CJol orado river. "Once released from its confinement the water subsided rapidly, seeking a level with that below the dam, and then it was seen how the break bad oc eurred. The dam was not toppled ever as many suppose it would be, but in stead a large section, beginning near the center and extending toward the east bank, was moved bodily down the stream, a distance of at least forty feet. Another section, extending to within thirty feet of the head gate masonry on the east, was also moved down stream a distane of forty or fifty feet. Between these two displaced sections there was a gap of about 10 feet, where the dam had completely disappeared, and it was not long before the section nearest the center also eramnbled and disappeared. Had the remaining displaced seetion also tum bled down the power house, which went down a few hours later, probably would have been saved. This section threw a heavy eurrent against the power house, whick eventually undermined the west wall of the building and caused it to collapse." UJIEPT PROMIIKB. Hour Hopes Were Created and What Became of Them. A thick-set, ugly-looking fellow was seated en a bench in the public park, and seemed to be reading some writing on a sheet of paper which he held in his hand. "You seem te be mueh interested in your writing?" "Yes; I've been figuring my account with Old Alcohol to see how we stand." "And he comes out ahead, I sup pose?" "iEvery time; and he has lied like sixty." "How did you come to hate dealings with him in the first place?" "That's what I've been writing. You see, he promised to make a man of me; but he made a beast. Then he said he would brace me up; but he made me go staggering around and then threw me in the ditch. He said I must drink to be social. Then he made me quarrel with my best friends, and be the laughing stock of my enemies. He gave me a black eye and a broken nose. Then I drank for the good of my health. He ruined the little I had, and left me 'sick as a dog.' "Of course." "He said he would warm me up; and I was soon nearly frosen to death. He said he would steady my nerves; but instead he gave me the delirum tremens. He said he would give me great strength; and he made me help less." "To be sure." "He promised me courage." "Then what followed?" "Then he made me a coward; for I beat my sick wife, and kicked my little child: He said he would brighten my wits; but instead he made me act like a fool, and talk like an idiot. He prom ised to make a gentleman of me; but BOER VICTORIES Reported, But the War Office Is sues No News. BOER DISPATCHES OLAIM That Gen. Dewet Has Inflicted a Third Defeat on the Brit Ish, Who Loss Fifteen Hundred Men. A London dispatch says that the war office has issued no news from kioberts daring the last three days, there would be little disposition to place credence in the Boor reports of another British disaster. The unexpected rallying of the Free State commandoes, however, leaves the public in a nervous condi tion, fearing everything. Dispatches from Pretoria, as late as Monday, did not mention any further Boer victory. On the contrary, they said all the eommandoes were quiet, and as Lord Roberts has hitherto never failed promptly to report misehances, as well as suceesees, or to allow the newspaper correspondents to report them, until some confirmation is receiv ed there is justification for regarding the Merkalsfontein rumor as only an exaggerated account of the Rodders burg affair. At the same time Ber reports have se often proved correct that the greatest anxiety will be felt. No further news has been received of fighting either at Wepener orin Natal. Boer reports seem to indicate that Lord Methuen is advancing from Boshof to wards Hoopstad. It is a bold and ap parently a dangerous move, since al though it turns the right flank of the Boer position at Brandfort it puts Lord Methuen's force between whatever gar rison there may be at Bloemhof in the Transvaal, and the Brandfort force. NEWS OF 3OEE VICTORY. A dispatch to the London Daily Mail from Brandfort, dated Sunday says: "Yesterday General Dewet inflicted the third defeat of the British within a week at Merkalsfontein, killing and wounded six hundred. He captured 900 with 12 wagons, losing fve Boers killed and nine wounded. The Daily Mail publishes the following, dated April 10, from Lorenzo Marques: "The Nether lands Railway company professes to have received a telegram reporting a Boer victory near Kroonstadt, the Bo ers capturing 900 British." Comment ing upon this the Daily Mail remarks: "There is a Merkatfontein about 8 and a half miles southeast of Kroon stadt, but, if the report be true this can hardly be the place." THE BRITISH RETEEAT. Sunday Colonel Plamer, with 270 mounted men and a few infantry and one Maxim gun, arrived at Ramathla bama, where he left the dismounted men and proceeding along the railroad to within sight of Nafeking. The ad vanee guard, under Colonel White, en countered a large body of Boers and al most simultaneously the left and right fanks were attacked and sharp fighting followed. The Beer, wore in orescent shaped formation and outnumbered the British two one. They advanced with skill and stubbornness and persistently edeavored to encircle the British. After holding his ground for an hour Colonel Plumer retired, with the Boers slowly following him up. The fighting continued throughtout the ten miles retreat to Ramathlabamna, where the British Maxim gun was brought into play. Aftcr a stiff fight Colonel Plumer reached his camp. The British casual ties were: Killed: Three officers and seven men; wounded, three officers and 24 men; missing, 11. The Beer loss was serious. At the conclusion of the fght General Snyman informed Colonel Baden-Powell that he had some British wounded and both Baden-Powell and Plumer sent ambulances. The Beers were also busy Sunday colleeting their ead and wounded. Most of the Brit ish wounded were only slightly hurt. olonel Plumer was wounded, but was able to carry eut his duties. baused Her Death. A skipping rope eontest botleen hildren caused the death of eleven year-old Freda Poignee and the serious illness of two other children at Bell ille, Ill., Thursday. There was great rivalry among the three children and others of the school which they attend d as to who could jump the rope most. One little girl established a record of 150 skips without a rest, and her com panions attempted to beat this record at recess and before and after school. This feat excited Freda particularly, who had been the champion up to that time, and when she entered the ring to beat the record of the new cemer a rowd of girls gathered and applauded her efforts. With flnshed face and fashing eye she passed the 150 mark, and kept right on till 230 skips had been made, when she staggered from the ring and was led home diszy by her companions. She became ill and the doctor could not cure the violent pal p itations of her heart. When she died he said it was heart iisease eaused by toe violent exercise. Shot By His Own Men. Henry Reich, a private in the Amer ican army in the Philippines writes as follows to a friend at Sherman! Texas: "A captainin the Nineteenth infantry, ont a hill over the mountains looking for the rebels, left eight of his men in the hill, where -they had fallen from exhaustion, being overcome by heat. The men were found dead the next day. Their bodies had been literally hacked to pieces by the Filipino Bolomon and their, guns and belts stolen. A few day after that this same captain was found dead after a skirmish, and there 41 bullet holes in his body, made, to all appearanoes, by American bullets." To Mark Heree's Graves. Senator Hawley introduced an amend meat Thursday to army appropriation bill appropriating $2,500 for the re burial and the proper marking of the ravyes of the remains of the 264 Oon federates who are buried at Arlington and in the National Soldiers' Hemne grounds. The amendment providesI that all of the bodies shall be placed in GAGE SUBMITS TAX FIGURES. Sends a Statement to the House in Re sponse to Resolution. The secretary of the treasury sent to congress his reply to the house resolu tion of April 2 as follows: "Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be and he is hereby requested to inform the house of representatives where, in his opinion, based upon such knowledge as he has, the present laws for the raising of revenue are creating and will continue to ereate a surplus in the treasury over and above the wants. of the government, and if so, to what extent at the end of the current ascal year, and a like report as to the !scal year ending June 30th, 1901. That he also report to the house of representa tives his estimates of the prob Ale re ceipts of the treasury from all sources of revenue for those years, towit: Cas toms, internal revenue and miscellane os sources. "Resolved, That he also report to the house of representatives the ament of internal revenue taxes received under an aet entitled An aet to provide ways and means to meet war expeditures, and for other purposes,' approved Jane 13th, 1898, upon articlas not thereto fore taxed, that said statement be ite mized as far as possible for the year ending June 30th, 1899, and for the nine months ending Marsh 31, 1900." In reply thereto I have the honor to submit the following: F'iscal year ending June 30th, 1900: Receipts Customs................$233,000,000 Interna! revenue......... 292,000,000 Miscellaneous....... ..35,000,000 Total...... ......$560,000,000 Expenditures Civil..............$104,000,000 War.... ...........135,000,000 Navy.. ........... 55,000,000 Indians..............11,000,000 Pensions............... 143,000,000 Interest................ 42,000,090 Estimated surplus....... 70,000,000 Fiscal year ending June 30, 1901 Custom... ... .....$240,000,000 Internal revenue.. .. ... 300,000,000 Miscellaneous........... 37,000,000 fetal.............$577,000,000 Expenditures Civil...................$115,000,000 War...............125,000,000 Navy................60,000,000 Indians............. 10,000,000 Pensions. .. .... ..... 145,000,000 Interest................ 40,000,000 Total...... ......$495,000.000 Estimated surplus....... 82,000,000 Internal revenue taxes received un der war revenue aet of June 13, 1898 upon articles not heretofore taxed, fiscai year 1898, total, $45,724,540.94; and first nine months of fiscal year 1900, total $33,339,70& 68; grand total, $79, 055,249. The Seaboard's New Line. The Seaboard Air Line's new line, Columbia to Cheraw, completing the new Florida route, was inspected and accepted by the railroad commission Thursday. The commissioners state in their report that they take pleasure in saying that "we consider this road well built and first-class in every par tieular, in fact, you have built one of the best roads over constructed in the south." The work was begun in July last under the supervision of Captain T. I. McBee, general superintendent, and for its length' and for the obstacles overcome is the fastest piece of railroad construction in the south. In this city alone 250,000 cubic yards of dirt were removed, preparing for terminals and in obtaining a route. The rails are the heaviest and broadest-89 pounds; there is no grade of over 1 per cent., no curve of more than 4 degrees. The entire roadbed is stone ballast and trains run as smoothly as over a track long built. By its construction nearly all grade~ crossings have been obviated and the entire line has been eonstructed with a view to directness and to fast and comfortable travel. A passenger service will be inaugurated at one and a through vestibule sorrice from New York to Tampa will be running at an early date. Aguinaldo in alin. .Aguinalde is now in the city of Manila and has been in hiding there for several weeks, according to information sent to this country by a number of army of ficers stationed there. These officers have written to brother officers declar ing there is no doubt of the Filipino chief being now in Manila. He regards it, it is said, as the safest place of re fuge. For several months the govein ment is said to have had two secret ser vice men at work in the Philippines endeavoring to locate the native leader, and, according to their reports, it is said he has been traced to Manila. Gen. Otis, it is deelared, know. of the pres ence of the wife and children of Aguin aldo, but refuses to spy on the family. Had Aguinaldo remained in the ield it is said he would have been surrendered by the natives to the American authori ties. It has been suggested to Gen. Otis that he offer a reward for Aguin aldo's arrest, and it is said if this were done the natives would no doubt be tempted to hunt him out and surrender him to the Americans. Calling On the Trust. The New York Journal prints a sensational story that a secret letter is being sent from the Republican head quarters to all the trusts in the coun try, demanding immediate eampaign funds as a price of potection. Accord ing to the story the letter was prepared at a conference between Senator Hauna First Assistant Postmaster General Perry Heath and the moneyed members of the Republican national committee and has been sent out by that organiza tion. This letter calls attention to the profits the trust manufacturers have been able to secure under Republican rule in the past and points out that to enjoy them in the future the re-election of President McKinley is absolutely necessary. It is clairmed that it is pro posed to raise $6,000,000 in this way. According to the Tennessee experi ment station one acre of peavine hay is worth, or equal to, 300 bushels of oats and 175 bushels of corn with fod der and straw included. If this be true, farmers would better raise pea vines to the exclusion of all other food SKLEZY AS BRYAWS XAT. The Rear Admiral's Friends Rush Him for Vice President A dispatch from Washington says Gen. Wheeler's declination to be .con sidered in connection with the Vice Presidency on the Demoerati ticket has diverted attention for the moment from Admiral Dewey's receptive eandi iey. The friends of Admiral Schley re garded the retirement of Wheeler as their opportunity. The controversy be tween the partisans of Sampson and Schley has areated a bitter feeling on the part of the Sehley men against the administration. They believe that with Sehley on the Bryan ticket, the Democratic candidate would receive greater support than if a civilian were nominated for second place at Kansas City. The Schley movement is not regarded with any degree of enthusiasm by the Democratic leaders. Chairman Jones believes that the better political course will be to make the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination from Indiana. That State is deemed good fighting ground for the Democrats, in view of the agitation there over the Puerto Rican question. It also is considered advisable to follow the example of other Democratic national conventions in which the Indiana vote has been courted with varying degree of success. If Indiana, which gave Hendricks its electoral vote, fails to furnish an ac ceptable candidate, then illinois, where Stevenson came from in the sec ond Cleveland administration, will be looked to in the hope that the dintur bance over Porto Rican legislation will count as a factor against the Republi cans. The idea of an Eastern Vieu Presi dential nomination dee not seem to have strong hold in the minds of the Bryan leaders. Sulser and McClellan from New York, have been canvassed as possibilities, the one on account of his prominence in Congressional de bates and the other because of his father's popularity in the history of the Democratic party. The hostility of other Eastern States to Bryan is un derstood so well that the campaign of the Democrats does not contemplate the capture of any part of the "enemy's country" through the Vice Presiden tial nomination. The estimates by which Democratic politicians figure out a possible victory for .Bryan are inteiesting. It is as sumed that with the solid South, he will carry, as he did in 1896, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, South Da kota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. In addition to the 176 votes thus in cluded, Indiana with 16; Minnesota, 9; Michigan, 14; Maryland, 8, and Wisconsin with 12 votes are counted. They would add 58 electoral votes to the original 176, giving Bryan tai mera than a majority. Minnesota Michigan and Wisconsin are claimed by the Democrats as good Ighting ground against the administra tion on the questions of expansion, Puerto Rico and the trusts, and there are some Democrats sanguine enough to think Illinois, with twenty-four lee toral votes, is debatable ground. COLUMBIA'S GRIAT F35TIVAL. Something About the Coming Spring Festival of Music and Art, Columbia, April 14. (Special)-The Music Club and the Art League of this city, being equally interested in the ar tistic development of Columbia and vicinity, have united their efforts in arranging for a Spring Festival of Music and Art, to be held in this city April 26 and 27. It is proposed to have, be sides an exhibit of art work from the various great centers, two night con erts and one matinee, at which the following artists of exceptional merit are to appear: Mde. Meredith, a so prano occupying a plaee second to none in the concert field, and for several years engaged for the celebrated Worcester Festivals, also soloist with Damrosch's, Seidi's and Paur's rhestras; Miss Cleary, who is the rare possessor of a pure contralto voice of great range and absolutely even sale; Emil Rieger, the prince of Ten rs; Dr. Carl Dafft, the grat Baritone, soloist at the Worcester Festivals, and a great favorite in this country and anada- John Cheshire, Harpist to . R. H~. the Duke of Edinburg, and ne of the finest living harpists; Celia Schiller, Piano soloist in Damrosch's and Seidi's Orchestras. The committee who are managing this af~pir, after considerable labor and egotiations, have secured these great artists. There will be also a chorus of 40 :ied voices, trained by Mr. Mayser, instructor of music in the College for Women, in this city. Besides these s an accessory to the artists already amed, there will be a chorus of 60 emale voices, who will render a cantata for which they are now in traiaing un der Mr. Mayser. The following is a list of the exhibits hus far secured for the art exhibit fea ure of this great Festival of Music and Art soon to be given in this city, the art feature being in charge of the Co umbia Art League: 1. Cincinnati Academy of Art will urnish work of students and teachers. 2. Mr. Christy's collection of pas tels from the Scribner colleotion of New York. 3. Collection of water colors from ouisville, Ky. 4. Two photographic exhibits from Washington, D. C., one reproductions f mural decorations in congressional ibrary, the other an exhibit ef artistic photography. I. An exhibit of minatures. A rate of one fare for the round trip has been arranged on all railroad lines, and everything points to a large atten dance as one feature of a great musical and artistic success. The price of season tickets is $500 each-such ticket admitting two per 5onls to the three entertainments. Porto Rico Bill Passed. The resolution in the house Wednes lay afternoon to take the final vote to soncur in the senaste ament on the Porto io bill at 5 o'clock provoked acri nonious debate, but was finally adopt ed, 158 to 142. At 5 o'clock the vote taken to concur in the senate amend ents passed, 161 to 153. Seven Re-i ublicans voted for free trade. The THE STATE HOUSE. Plan Submitted by Architect M9 bum Adopted. WILL SUPERVISE THE WORK. Description of the Building as It Will Look When Finished Under Plans Adopted. Mr. Frank P. Milburn, arlditet 41 the Southern railway, has ben igloted to supervise the completion of the State eapitol. This was done Thursday by the eommission having the work in charge. The commission ensists of Gov. MeSweeney, . B. Cooper, ne tory of State; Senator J. Q. Marshall, Bepresentatives H. C. Patton and 'L J. Gantt and the sinking fand oummis sioners, Senator G. S. Mower, Mr. J. Harvey Wilson and J. P. Derham, coimptroller general. There were only two appliestions'fer the position of architect to suporin tend the completion, and Mr. Milburn received six out of nine votes,. Repre sentative Patton being absent on wo count of illness. The other competitor was W. B. Smith Whaley & Co., of this city. After a long and careful consideration of the plans, those p seated by Mr. Milburn were adopt. Mr. Milburn's plans, it was stated by. a member of the aommission, provided for a more expensive building, but its general effect as an architectural de sign was more harmonious than any heretofore made. His plans provide for a building to oest $165,000, while the other plans specied a $156,000 structure. Mr. Milburn's design ealls for a dome, while the other provides for a tower or spire, the former to ost $14, 000, the latter about $Kd,000. The meeting Thursday was not open to the public, but these figares wereletained from a member of the commission. He stated further that the plans aesepted provide for a much handsomer Ih to the front, rear and roof of the pru. ent building, and that the dos was preferable to the tower. The "completion of the State kes" means that a front and a roar entranee are to be idded, and that a tower *of some kind is to crown the whole. Un der the plans adopted, the second fIr asit now is wiil become the main eer of the buil * There will be a fight of 42 steps lading up to the doorway. There will be an8-foot landg, mid way.of the fight of stairs, the leor be ing kransparent, providing light for toilet rooms above ground instead of underground, as a present. The front portico will be 24 fe wide and will ba supported by double rows of Corinthian columns 25 foot hig. These columns will be obtained from among the number new On the Stabs house grounds. The rear entrane will be treated in the same way as the front except that there will be one row of columns instead of two. The roof, now of copper and preioeb ing several feet above the cormne, will be lowered' about four feet softening the general efect of the bu'lding. The pinnacle of the dome will be 200 feet above the ground, audits efeet will be strengthened by the lowering of the roof. The dome will be of stool frame . with granite facings, and will boW6 feet in diameter From the main floor of the building the interior of the dome will appear as a snaft, through whisk the light is poured into the main corri dor of the building and thus dissemi nated into the several apartments. On the frieze work of the interior of the dome will be the names of the sev eral governors of the State from its colonization down to the present tim. There will be seven steel trusses sup porting the roof, which will be muek superior to the one now in use. There will be no material changes on the in terior of the building, but the outside will be cleaned offand painzted up and renovated thoroughly. Mr. Milbarn will remove to Columbia and at once begin work on she working plans. Bat it will require aboat three. months te complete them. The smaller details are subject to modifection. The State. Hit Mc~inley Hard. Representative Ehea, of Kentucky, ade arattling good speech at a mas eeting of Washington Demoerats, in which he referred to Chairman Payne, he Republisan House leader, as the "statesman with the one-night-stand tate of mind;" and to Representative ' rosvenor as the "garrulous gabbler, rom Ohio, who aets as a mouth-pio.s for the White House Sphnix." After. picturing various phases of administra tion wabbling, which he likened to the tack of a snake, Mr. Ehes said "Oh, anhood, where is thy sa me? Oh, MKinley, where is thy blush? Oh MKinley, you are the saddest speeta cle that ever rattled helplessly around in the seat filled by Washington, Jef erson and Jackson, and ,hich will be illed by Bryan. You are the pitiful reature of the trusts the combines ad the monopolies, whioh have made you, maintained you and still feeds ou?" The House Collapsed. Without warning and with a rear ma a rush a four story brick building t Pittsburg, Pa., collapud Thursday, burying in its ruins a number of people three of whom were taken out dead, six badly hurt andaseveral others slightly injured. A ernsty old bachelor editor who kas either the fear of God nor woman be are his eyes is responsible for this: A woman's idea of pleasure is to sit ith a lot of other women, with a new Iress on, and drink weak tea of a rasy little table with three legs." Cover up the lives of your friends ith flowers, and net their graves. )on'twait til' aman is dead tosay all our good things about him. By an act of the lately departed beneral Assembly it is now unlawful erect a barbed wire fence within 50 cet of a public road. The penalty for nh vatio of this inwis $50.