The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 20, 1901, Image 1

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VOL. XVI MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 20, 1901. DIED AT THE STAKE Such Was the Terrible Fate of a Te x is Fierd AT CORSICANA, TEXAS. An Angry M.b COp-ured John Hend irson enn H!, is Burn-d While The usants Cheer Grues- me Scene. John Henderson, the ne gro who out raged and murdered Mrs. Younger sev eral da)sag>. after making confession, was burned to the stake at Corticana, Texas, Wednesday by a mob in the presence of more than 5.000 persons. A committee that had been appoint ed-to see the accused secured the fol lowing confession from Henderon, which was signed and attested by Justice of the Peace G. G. Roberts: "I, John Henderson, colored, 22 years old, murdered an unknown white lady three miles north of Corsicana the 6th of March, 1901. There was no one present but myself, the woman and two little children. I murdered her and left her in the house without any in tention of robbing her. I don't kn~w why I did it. (Signed) "JOHN HENDERSON." The first train this morning on the Cotton Belt from Hillsboro was so crowded that it could carry no more. Runners were sent over the county an nouncing the arrival of Henderson here and the people had been swarming to the city to take part in or witness the execution of the p.nalty to be inflicted on the negro. (After his confession it wax decided to burn him at the stake at 2 o'clock, but news was received of rangers and troops en route from Dallas, cue there at 12 o'clock, and hurried preparations were made to aticipate interference A railroad rail was driven into the ground in the corner of the courthouse lot and boxes and wood piled around it and saturated with oil. The crowd had increased to about 2,000 at 11 o'clock. About 40 made a rush frcm the jail across the street to the courthouse. In their midst was the negro. handcuffed. The men formed a circle, holding to a chain which com pletely surrounded Henderson to tre vent an attempt of the enragcd people to get at him and tear him to pieces. They rushed to the pile of wood and fastened the '-gro to the iron rail with wire and ch' Cans of oil were dashed over his clothes and dczens of lighted matches touched to the inflammable material. At that time the fire alarm bell was rung and the stores of the city were de serted and the rtreets were full of men rushing to the court house to witnesss the burning. Just before the pile was fired Con way Younger, husbar d of the murdered oman, jnmped at Henderson and slashed him across the face with a knife. As the flames encircled the negro and ran over his clothing the crowd yelled and Younger again attempted to cut the murderer with his knife. At no time during the burning did Henderson give any indication of pain or suffering. He rolled his eyes so as to get a glimpse of the sea of angry faces wi ich surrounded him and his hands moved slightly. It was about ten minutes before he was dead, during which time the move ments of his hands were -becomving feebler. - At no time did he make any outcry other than once a groan. At 11:30 Lee French, husband of the victim -of the negro Anderson Morris, who beat her to death with a piece of iron pipe last November, and who was taken from the jail here last week by the officers and carried to a place of safety, climbed a tree and made an im passioned speech to the crowd asking them to help him get the murderer and deal with him as they had just dealt with Hendereon. The crowd yelled back that they would assist. The northbound Central train which arrving here at 12 o'clock was ero ede i with ~sople from ti e southern part of the county, who apressed disappointed at being too late. There was no militia on the train. John Henderron, t he negro who~ mur dered Mrs. Conway Younger, near this city Wednesday at ternoon, was brong at to this city this maining at 7 o'clock and landed in jail for safekeeping.. Six of the leading citizens of this county effected the captore, acting on behalf of the citizmn of Navar~o ecun ty. Henderson he~ beeni cornfined in Blten Janction and <.fliatrs were tak ig him to Fort '4 th, scriff Baker, of Waco, refusi.g to ree..ve him. Telegraph wires had been tapped at Hilsboro and the citiz :ne' posse was constantly informed of the movemenlts of the officers with Henderson. The train was boardelI at Hillhboro and ne attempt made to capiuce Henderson un til near Ithaca. When the party started to enter the car the conductor tred to prevent them and tried to run to F4,rt Worth withoul stopping. He was treated roughlt and the men entered the car and secur ed the prisoner and efficers in charge. A Johnson county officer pulled a re volver on the comn.ittee, but was dis armed before he couldi shoot. Aftera lively fight the committee compelled the officers in charge of Henderson t< accompany them across the country -4 miles to Corsicana, changing herse! and tesas at Frost Handerscn maede no attempt te resis when captured, and although he knew that sure death awaited him, gave nc sign of fear. The negro made a full confetsior after arriving here, telinag how he wen to the Younger honme and attempted t< assault; how Mrs. Younger faught fo: her honor; how finally angered, at he: resistance he attaoked her wih, Lh knife; how the children screamea. it fright when they saw their mother'i blood crimsoning the walls and floor an< how Mrs. Youger fell across the door step. He then fled, but looking bad saw his victimn s:aggering down the road aimlessly, falteringly. She fell an< 1ay still then ho turned and ran. THE NBXr COTTON CROP. Some Good Advice to the Men Who Will Make It. Mr. Martin V. Calvin, of Augusta, G3., writes as follows to the Macon Telegraph: The whole world is busily engaged cotjeciuring the polioy which the cot ten growers of the United States will pursue this year. The world is solac ing itself in the belief, which is born of a wish, that a larger aereage than in 1899 will be planted in catton and an extraordinary crop produced. I believe that an 11,000.000 bale crop may be grown this year without se risusly affecing the pric3 which now rules. The large increase in the num ber of cotton mills rear the c tton fields, the larger quantity of cotton that will be required for the manufae ture of spccialties in octten goods, etc., authorize this belief. The cotton growers need to have an eye to the cost of producing the crop. This is as important to them as the minutest item in the cost of the pro duction of cotton goods is important to manuracturers. A very large num ber of farmers have accepted this as a fact and will govern themselves ac cordingly. The number of this class of farmers has been increasing the past two years-slowly, but steadily. This year many more will fall into line. Labor conditions will compel those who age disposed to regard every pro posed innovation on old customs as a vagary, to conform to the new order of things. The lessons taught us by experience ought to be treasured. We need to look backward as well as for ward. Large crops of cotton have been produced at too great expens3. Too many acres have been cultivated and too little made pcracre. Some progress in production per acre has been made, but not a great deal. Here in Georgia, for example, in 1893 and 1894, the av( rage yield of cotton per acre was 33 100 of a bah; that is, it took three acres to make one bale. In 1895, we made 35 100 of a bale per acre; in 1896, 36 100; in 1897, 38 100; in 1898. 39 100. The record shows that cotton growers have been buying large quanti ties of fertilizers; the results prove that they have not used them wisely. Too many apply too small a quantity per acre. One hundred and forty peunds of the best o emmercial fa tilizer on the market applied to the average acre is practically wasted. Bet ter twice the quantity. Given twenty-five acres of averege land, throughly prepared and treated with a fertilizer adapted to the cotton plant-400 pounds per acre-the best seed obtainable, though they cost $1 per bushel planted, say, eighteen inches apart in rows four feet apart, carefully cultivated, and seventy six bales will result, as against twenty-six bales on eighty acres under the policy which usually prevails. Smaller acreage, good seed, a liberal use of commercial fertilizers and bet ter methods in cultivation Aill more than meet the labor problem. What ever the aggregate of the crop produced, there will be much clear money in it to the producers. I was talking today with a flarmer whom I have known for years, He used to gather twenty-six bales, some tie a smaller number, from eighty acres; the past year, following some what the plan outlined in the forego ing, he made forty-eight bales on the eighty acres. This year, moving for ward several steps, ho purposes to make fifty bales on Efty acres and have corn and wheat, oats and hay in abun dance. Smaller acreage, a free use of high grade commercial fertilizers, rich in the food'the cotton plant reqaires; the best seed and the best methods in cul tivation, 'will minimize the cost ofipre duetion. It was demonstrated by the South Atlantic states in 1896 that the farmer who applied fertilizers per acre at a cost of $1 40 realized and increased profit of 10 2 per cent, while the farmer who applied $4 11 worth per acre realized an increased profit of 31 7 per cent. I repsat and emphasize the statement -just any kind of fertilizer will not do for cotton. If you would have the best results you must supply with a wisely liberal hand the feed the plant eraves and demands. Failed to Cure. There is a good deal of mxitement in Reidsville. N C., on account of the death of a 15 yeat-old daughter of Dr. C. A. Raminger, a wvellknown dentist. The young lady had a seve' e at aek of typhoid fever and suffered and died without receivirg raedical attention. Dr. R~minger is a divine heaier and re fused to call in a phy sician during his daughter's illness or to allow to be call ed. He claimed that she could be healed by pre~ er, and prayed constantly for her res oration to brailth It is said that he persuaded his daughter to his way osf thinking to such an extent that she did desire the attention of a physician. The oscurrence has created a gr:at deal of excitement in Reidaville, and there is much feeling against the father of the dead girl. The local paper has taken the matter up and called on Dr. Romn inger, la the name of the citiezas of the town, for an explanation of his con duct. The matter may~ be reported to the grand j iry for investigation. Murdered on a Steamer. Theodore Jackson, a negro deck hand, shot Eegineer T. B. Rivers of the steamer J. W. Hires' in the head, kill irg him instantly Thursday afterro'n, whileo the boat was on the Chattahoehee river, not far from Omaha, Ga. Rivers' body fell into the river and hss not been recovered. The negro was taken on to Omaha, where he was placed in jail. Rivers was from Wewahitchka, Fia., where he leav s a family. The Reason. It is said there are fewer cases of bigamy in Kansas than in any other state in the Union. But the statement will hardly cause any surprise, for it is a brave man who would have the temeri ty to marry more than one Kansas wo man at a time. Had Him Treed. In southwest Georgia a book agent was treed for six hours by an infuriated bull. The farmers in that section, says IFrank Stanton, know just how to train cattle. THE NEGRO MUSTGO Hs is in ihe Way of Predident McKinley's Plans REGARDING THE SOUTH. The Atlanta J urnai Says Ali the Federal Officials In South Carolina Are to bs Removed. Now that the irauguration is a thing )f the past and President McKinley has settled down on a second term, there is a growing impression that a well directed effort is to be made to build up a white Republican party in the south, says the Atlanta Journal. This is in line with the policy ad rocated by Major J. F. Hanson. of Eacon; Colonel Robert Lowry of At lanta, and other southern friends of President McKinley, who have for a long time held out to him alluring promises of what the a>andonment of the negro by the Republican party would bring forth in the south. Mr. McKinley himself has long sherished the idea that a white Repub ,ican party could be built up in the south, and it is believed he would have nade a considrable effort in that politi sal expediency dictated otherwise as ong as there was a second term in ;ight. But now that such a considera ion is no longer involved the rumors ire persistent that President McKin ey will apply himself assiduously to ;he task of building up a "respectable" Republican party in this section of the sountry. Immediately after the elec ion he intimated to some of his trust id advisors that such an idea was in his ind, and there has been confirmation >f his purpose since that time. The scheme of the president, as outlined, .s a very simple one. The old hacks ;he southern party will no longer feed sumptuously a& the Federal crib. They will be among the "also rans" in the urrent national patronage hand cap. [a other words, the city postoffices, custom houses and United States :urt buildings will know them no nore, and in their steai will reign Re publicans who have not heretofore igured extensively as leaders and goli Democrats who deserted their party in 96 and ratified their own action last ovembtr. As indicating jast how nuch in earnest c:rtain elements are in is connection, a prominent business nan said the other day: "Business men of the south have aften wondered why something of this rind was not done. The sebeme might rot have been feasible so long as the negro was a factor ii local politics, bat ince all fear of his dominating state fairs in South Carolina, North Caro in, Louisiana and Mississippi has )een removed by constitutional limita ions of the franchise, the building up if a southern Republican party-a party that will be worthy serious con sideration-has become a matter for ieliberate tbought at Washington." "Say what you please about it," con inued this business man, "but not nly is President McKinley himself personally popular wi 1? certain cle sents already, but there is a strong business sentiment in the south in favor of certain policies of which he is the exponent. For instance a great many, if not the majority, of cotton nill men are enthusiastic supporters of isPailippine policy; the bankers and wholesale merchants are with him in f sanoe; many gold Democrats, or, as some of them prefer being called now, "the McKinley Democrats,' have grave loubts as to the possibilty of their ever igain getting in touch with their own party, and would like to see such a hange brought about. Speaking on the same line a promi sent citizn~n of South Carolina, in dis iussing the political affairs of his state in connection with the desertion of enator .McLaurin, said: "In South Carolina many well known nen are urging such a movement, and the ola-time party ~leaners who have been wont to hold all the offices are well nigh in a state of panic. "It is now stated in my State," con tinued the Sudi UJ .,nif, "with a iegree of condaiezce tli 1 .t-r,:ing, to say the least of it, that within six nonths South Carolina will have as a Uited States district attorney, a coi Letor of oustusas at Charieston, post masters at Columbia, Greenvidle, Spar tanbu-g and elsewitere men who were never on the fboor of a Republican con ention, and who if they were ever as socated with the party a a all have never been recognized as offensively partisan. It is cpenly declared by many R:pab licans that a well known young gold Democrat, no i in Washington, who supr..ed M.Kinley vcry warmly last year, wili be tne next cisirict attorney of my State ar-d that a phtan of like prciviies will succeen Laawson Mei~. ton as United States marshal. Some of the men in my State," he continued, "*ho are said to be slated for removal are E. A Webster, cellec tor of interal revenue, and the recog nzd boss of the old machine: D strint Att, raey Latnrop and his assistant, B. A. Hagood; Postmaster G. I. Cunning ham of Charleston and Lawson Melton, United St ates marshal, Colonel William Wallace, wLo is collector of the port of Carleston, may esoape the ax. He is a man of means and character atd his retention in (ifice would not jeopardize the success of tbe movement. No one is of course ready to give bond that all these thing will come to pasQ, but they are believed here to be certain de velopment of the early days of the new administration. Consequently there is sch another excitement in the ranks of South Carolina Republicans as has not been known since Wade Hampton and his red-shirted horsemen over threw carpet bag power a quarter of a centuy ago." It wi'l do DO good to trv to ignore or deny what is going on. The thing for Democrats is to recognize and defeat the effort. It requires only a casual invetivation to show that President MKinley means to try to make it so that it will no longer be a reprach to be called a Republican in the south and to this end he desires to wipe out the old regime to a very considerable ex tent, get rid of the negro altogether and generally revolutionize the party in the soth. He proposes, so the reports all agree, to put the negro out of polities as compietety as even the most pro nounced advocate of white supremacy could desire. He believes that the time is propitious for a coup, and those who claim to be on the inside say one is going to be attempted. AN HONEST MAN. Paris Gibson, Senator-Elect from Mon tana Has a Great Conscience. A dispatch from Minneapolis, Minn says the auncuneement that Paris Gib son, f.rmerly of Minneapolis, had been elected United States senator from Montana was received with more than passing interest in this city and brought back to the minds of many old settlers an occurance which shows his honesty. Mr. Gibson started the first woolen mill in Minneapolis, which was oper ated on Sixth avenue. south. near See end street. He employed more than 100 hands, and for many years did a thriving business. Gibson went down with the pario of '77, and when the mill was closed down every employe had wages coming for one month and ten days. The aggre gate was close to $10.000 No judgment were secured against Mr. Gibson, and as times became better the matter soon passed from the minds of the em ployes. Mr. Gibson went to Montana in 1879 and from the start appears to have met with success. In a decade he had fairly well retrieved his lost forFunes and then prepared a surprise for his old emeloyes in Minneapolis. He had the old accounts in his possession and knew exactly what every employe had due him. It was thirteen years after Mr. Gibson failed that the forme:r em ployes through a Minneapolis attor ney received notice to the effect that if they would call at his office and es tablish their identity as the person Mr. Gibson presumed him or her to be, the wages for the month and ten days would be forthcoming with interena a, the rate of 7 per cent. It was not possible for Mr. Gibson to pay all the back wages dui, as many of his former employes had left the city and c:uld not be found. There are still in the employ of the North Atar Woolen company many men who worked for Mr. Gibson during the '70s, and all have the kindliest feeling for him and are pleased to learn of the great esteem in which he is held by the people of Montana. That he had a personal recollection of his many form er employes was shown in the case of Mrs. Carlson of South Minneapolis. Mrs. Carison was 16 years of age when the n.ill closed and had $23 coming. When Mr. Gibson sent her the money he added the following: 'I suppose you are married; in that event take this money and buy yourself a wedding present." She expended the money for a silver tea service. Jewish Population. The Jewish population of the United States is now estimated at 1,000,000: Twenty years ag) the number of Jews in this country was not more than about one-fourth as many. But in conse quence of the Russian prosecutions which bcame intolerable about the year 1881, the influx of Jewish immi gration since that~ period has been very large. Between the years 1884arnd 1889 thre arrived 401,393 Jews at the port of New York. Since 1890-91, when 62, 674 Jews landed in New York, the Jwish immigration has been decreas ing; but, counting the arrivals at other ports ihan New York and by way of Canada, it is comp~uted taat 500,000 Jewish immigrants have entered the United States since 1881. They are for the most part, an industrious, thrifty and orderly people, and-will be sure to prosper in a free country. In a Bad Way. A dispatch from Fall River, Mass., says the demoralized condition of the cotton goods market continues to cause uneasiness in mill circles, and the gloomy feeling was intensified today when it was announced that 25,000 pieces of regular goods for March de livery had been sold by the selling com mittee of the Fall River Manufacturers' association at 2 7-8. It said, however, that the regular price stili 3 cents, the temporary reduction having made to meet competition forced by a southern concern and a Rhodfe Island cempany. The transaction, however, has given a new impetus to a movement to bring about a reduction in wages and a cur tailment in production, which had been partly checked by a strong influence to prevent such a step. He Had Many Victimns. Post-office inspector Jere Connolly arrived at Wilmington Wednesday from Laurinburg, N. 0., a small town on the Seaboard Air Line, 95 miles from Wil mington, where he caused the arrest of H. T. Allen alias Dr. Allen, a printer on the local newspaper. The charge against him is fraudulent use of tire mails in that he advertised extensively the sale of certain recipes and offered as a prize with each order fari-simile bls to the amount of $15 which he said were printed en "B N paper and could not be told from the genuine article." The bills in reality were Confederate notes. -Allen numbered his victims from Maine to Mexico, several orders having been received from New York State. He was given a preliminary ex amination and committed to jail for fault of bond in the sum of $500. A Little Hero. Robby Ray, a six-year old boy at Kentucky, W. Va., entered a burning house in order to rescue the baby of his family. The lad was overc me with smoke and burned to death with the infant whose life he sought to save. The little fellow's body was found near the baby's cradle. All of the heroes of the world are not men and women. Love for our fellows and affection for thse who axe tied to us by blood often assert thcmselves earlier in life, and real heroism, whether it be displayed on the part of matured men and wo men or on the part of a six year-old 'West Virginis child, furnishes food for thought for those inclined to pessim A Prediction. President Hadley of Yale, says there will be an emperor in Washington in less than 25 years if the people are not aroused to take efficient measures OUR TRUE FRIENDS. F The Late General Toomb's Trib ue to Northern Democrats. at w THEYSTOODBYTHESOUTH m h d Some Historical Political Facts a that the Peeple of the a South Shou'd Always C C a Remember T ti Mr. James Calloway writes as follows e to the Atlanta Journal: a From an editorial in one of the lead- t ing dailies of Georgia the following sen- u tence is taken: p 'The suspicion has been growing for ti some time that the average northern Democrat has no further use for south- C ern Democrats than to employ them as a convenient stepping stone to office " g The last people in the world who should complain of the fidelity of nor thern Democrats are the Democrats of the south. From the point of view of mere cffice getting we cannot criticise q them. We Democrats.of the south get ill the state offices from governor t i coroner. We get all the congressmen. ti What do northern Democrats get? Very m Few offices, state or federal. From an it office helding standpoint it is to their interest to quit Democracy and drift into the Republican party. From 1861 to the pr event time the northern Democrats have been true to as. Rsad their records in congress. It is one of heroism and fidelity. Against i all "force bills" they have voted. u Whatever the question of white supre macy for the south was at stake they. have stood solid. Indeed they have opposed Republican "reccnstruction" i and labored for "restoration." It was Hendricks and Thurman and Tilden and Bayard and Vorhees who held "ral lies" throughout the north and pleaded b for their brethren of the south. Sena tor Bacon remaked to the writer that "the s'uth bad no truer friends than the northern D.mocrats now in eon gress." It is interesting to quote from Robert Ei Toombs on the fidelity of northern Democrats. Now theories were spring ing up and new planks offered in our a platrorms from :1856 to 1860 pertaining to slavery in t1 e territories. The cam paign of 1859 here in Georgia was ex iting, some Democrats becoming ex treme in serntiment. Daring this warm campaign General Toombs on the 8:,h of September, 1859, delivered one of w his great speeches in Augusta and he es paid this tribute to the leaders of north- I ern Democracy: "No; I shall prescribe no new test of a] party fealty to northern Demoorats; t those men who have hitheto stood with n honor and fidelity upon their engage ments, They have maintained the truth w to their own heart. They have dis- a played. a patriotism, a magnanimity a rarely equaled in the world's history, and I shall endeavor, in sunshine and in storm with your approbation if I c in get it, without it if I must, to stand by H them with fidelity equal to their areatb deserts. If you stand with me we shallf sonquer faction in the north and in the south, and shall save the coutry from the surse of being ruled by the combination now calling itself the opposition. We~ shl leave this country to our children as we found it-united, strong, prosperous H and happy. c While this great southern man, in the tI year 1859 was thus 'ddressing his fel- d low-citizens of Georgia, paying highest w tribute to northern Democrats, and still vi hoping to preserve the union-"united, it strong, prosperous and happy," it is surious to note what the Republicans tl n:th were doing at the same time and p same year. From Greg's history the following is n aken:w "On March 9, 1859, the leader of the tI Republican party, backed by sixty- sI sight members of congress, with Speak- ge ir Colfax (dfterwards Grant's vicepres- gi ident), at their head, put forward on e behalf of their party a manifesto the e, ike whereof is only to be found in the c] inals of the Jacobin club aud the c: ommune- g "It is a singnal revelation of the pol- i tical morality, the constitutional a toyalty, the regard for positive obliga~ til tions, which characterized the Republi- y ans; of the boundless unexampled y rituperation, the menaces, the outrages the in suits which goaded the south to ury; which above all render sober dis mssion, compromise, confidence in the ti most solemn assurances, henceforth C [mposible. Through this manifesto the n Republicans printed, recommended and bi irculated by hundreds of thousands a g( leclaration of war, proscription and d: spoilijation against the slaveowners of w the south, 'ineligibility of slave- fz owners to every tffice,great and tl smalil; no co-operation withthem in b religion or society; no patronage to fc proslavery merchants; no guestship w in slavewaiting hotels; no fees to pro- w slavery lawyers, physicians or parsons w ditors; no hiring of slaves.' Such was se the declared policy of men like Seward, r Chase and Colfax toward fifteen states G3 of the Union," 13 A Wrong Righted. i The governor Thursday granted a pardon to Will Williams convicted in a Laurens in February last of house breaking and larceny and sentenced to 13 months on the county chaingang. g The boy was convicted of breaking into a house and stealing certain articles. Since the trial all the arnices were foud in the possession of another ne gro who has confessed that he alone did fC the act and that Williams knew nothing it of it. The authorities at once asked is the pardon thus correcting the error al made. Suicide in Porto Rico.t Two members of the Porto Rican re giment, Beltran and Arroyu, committ ed suicide Thu-rsday. Behtran had bee~n reprimanded by an cfficer for untidi-e ness and ordered to eo kitchen duty. : He went to quarters and'blew off the P top of his head with his rifle. Whilea the body of Beltran was being buried, Arroyo, who was a close friend of Bel-r tran, killed himself in the same fashion. There have been seven suicides in the ~ native regiment during the last six 8 CARNEGIE RETIREES rem Active Business Life. His L Kind Words. A dispatch from Pottsbery says t >mmunications from Andrew Carneg hich are oficially made public WE esday tell of the steel king's reti ent from active business lii and is donation of $5,000,000 for the )wment of a fund for superannuat id disabled employes of the Carne] )mpany. This benefaction if by ie largest of the many created by b arnegie, and is probably without n)terpart anywhere in the wor; his fund will in no wise interfere wi 1e continuance of the savings fu talblished by the company 15 yei o for the benefit of its employee. is latter fund nearly $2,000,000 e employes' savings are on depos pon which the company by contri ays six per cent. and loans money e workmen to build their own homy In a letter to the president and me ers of the Carnegie company i arnegie sets apart $5,000,000 in Uari e company bonds to be held in tr >r the following purposes: "The income of $1,000,000 to ,ent in maintaining the libraries bn m me in Braddock, Homestead ann I reare. "The income of the other 4,000,0 to be applied: "First, to provide for employes re Carnegie company in all its wort Lines, railways, shops, eot., injured s service, and for those adepende pon uch employes as are killed. "Second, to provide small pensic aids to such employes as, after lc ad creditable ~services, through iptional circumstances need such hi i hair old age and who make a gc se of it. Should these uses not aire all of the revenue and a surp] $200,000 be left after tea years' op ion, then for all over this, workm mills other than the Cafneeie co my Allegheny county shall beco: igible for participation in the fui te mills nearest the works of the C 3gis Steel company being first e rreed." Mr. Carnegie suggests that if in t ture it be possible to establish a p on system the fund may be used te foundation of such a system. >noluding his letter Mr. Carne y a: "I made this first use of surp] ealth upon retiring from business a acknowledgment of the deep d< hich I owe to the workmen who ha ntriouted so greatly to my succe ipe the cordial relations which ex tween employers and employ troughout all the Carnegie compa orks may never be 'disturbed; bc nployere and employed rememberi bat I said in my last speech to t en at Homestead: " 'Labor, capital and business abil 'e the three legs of a three-legg ool, neither is first neither is secor ither third, there is no preceden, 1 being equally necesaary. He w oud sow discord among the three i enemy of all.' " The Looting of Chinas. The saddest consequences of t litary operations abroad in which t .called 3hristian nations ha en indulging in recent months is I ,ct that they have Laid what is knol SChristendom open to criticisms ie part of what have always been ct dered heathens and pagans. Howel ch we may hope that the war in t bilippines, South Africa and Ci ay result at least in a wider reach bristian inflence, it is hard to ma Le victims of the present slaughter i rstand that these processes are t ork of a merciful God. From int ews with the leading Orientals of la appears that they have taken Gosj essage quite literally, and why shou Ley not do so? When they read the:i .ntion that we should love our es ies, and should not covet, and shou >t steal, and should not bear fal itness, they naturally conclude ti ~ese to us are divine commands whi, ould be literally obeyed. It is diffici r them to reconcile these to the ss violations, which are seen in fc gn parts of the earth today. The lIed punitive expeditions in northe tina carried on by some of t: ristain powers are mere coversf and looting enterprises, which lea their trail murder and misery, and pre judice against Christian civili2 an which will not die in a thousai ars.-The Ram's Horn.. The Bitterness of zile. One of the features of our reign e Philippines that is not pleasant ,e read about is the banishing of Filij a to the Island of Guam, which h en made a military prison by c vernment. Here is the picture awn by a Manila paper: The sen ire pathetic in the extreme. Mai iends of the exiles feared to sh< .eir sympathy and remained awa it wives, children and sweetheat llowed the ambulance to the wha1 seping, shrieking and tearing th< y in a frenzy of grief. Grayhead omen, mothers of some 'vfthe p: ners, ran barefooted in the dust ad, tears streaming down their chee] eneral Pilar bore these.partings hai until ordered to go aboad. Then I o, a veteran, wept. Some of thee is wore insurgent uniforms, but the higher rank were mostly in civil dre ast as the Rosecrans was ready to lea Filipino, not an exile, was discover clse consultation with his countr en. Be was arrested and sent ashe r investigation. A Good Work. An appeal for funds to furnish mea ir the establishing of industrial scho< the Southern States has lately be sued aver the name of Anne S. Groe Culpepper, Va. in the appeal is fou e folowing reference to the childr many Southern people: "Let the: ones nat perish or became base ei ns with brutal instincts, fitting the >r poorhouses and penitentrarii Lany of them. girls and boys, at . irly age of eigcul and ten, are beil Iacd by their poverty-btrick arents in the mills and factories whi e springing up in the country. Til ave public schools, but they do sach the evil, or extend the helpi and of home, fireside, food or cli ig; for the lank of these they are ble to avail themselves of the natio KENTUCKY TOWN BU S. tat Half the Inhabitants Homeless. Food Supplies Destroyed. wo In the biting air of the early morn ie, ing hours the citizens of Cloverport, d Ky., looked on, almost powerless to act re of Thursday, while fire destroyed $500,000 worth of property and left 1,030 per d sons-half the population-homeless. . Every business house was burned. The yE distress of hundreds of women and children was relieved only when trains r loaded with supplies arrived fromLauis a vile and Henderson. At noon the nh fire was still burning in spots, but the td remaining structures were scattered rd and no further spread was anticipattd. rs By the bursting of a natural gas pipe o in the kitchen of a private house short .* ly after midnight the building was set ' afire. A high wind was blowing and lct the burning embers were carried to the to immense tobacco warehouses owned by B. the American Tobacao company. These u- buildings were soon wrapped in flames r. and efforts to save them were aban le- doned in order to fight the fires which were springing up on all side. The, to be bacco company's plant, consisting of . two stemmeries and 1,000,000 pounds a of tobacco was soon destroyed and the fire continued to spread. The local fire 100 department was totally inadequate to cope with the fire and Louisville and of Henderson' were asked to send assis of tance. As Louisville is 75 miles die in tant, however, no help arrived until in 4:30 o'clock and by that time the fire mt had about exhausted its material. Every business house was gone, together w with all provisions and clothing. Over g half of the residences, too, had been destroyed and 1,000 people were wan dering aimlessly through the streets, go staring at the ruins. re Here and there on the outskirts of eus the town fires were seen, in some small er frame cottage, but these gradually died n out and by noon the flames had been m- almost entirely checked. Belief trains id, were made up at Louisville and Hen ar derson and brought 5,000 loaves of r- bread, a large supply of clothing, etc. m- The coaches will be placed at the dis ;.e posal of the homeless until they can find other temporary homes. Adju m- tant General Murray Thursday after s noon shipped 500 tents from Frankfort. SA. number of persons were slightly in pe jured in fighting the fire. lus Tillman As a Lecturer. S as sb Senator Tditman has received a flat ive tering offer from the lyceum bu'eau to ,s. appear for fifty nights i: fifty different ist places- and lecture on any topic he may red choose. He is inclined to consider the y proposition favorably, and there is no nh doubt of his success. Tillman is a man ng of orginal ideas and methods. He has a he keen sense of humor, a quaint philoso phy and a picturesque personality which ity will attract and entertain the public It ed would be difficult, however, to imagine d him delivering a set speech. Like some e' throughbred horses, he will not'work to ho harness, but must have plenty of room is and a free rein or he will not run at all. Under ordinary circumstances, except when he loses bis temper, he is an en tertaining talker, but his speeches have he always been extemporaneous and he he could not stick to maguscript even if he e had the disposition to prepare one. His he language is often uncouth, but that n adds to the force of his address. Even on so exact a man as Thomas Jefferson n- once wrote to John Adams that it some rer times strengthened annargument to de he part from the rules of syntax and drop na into the vernacular. It is the vernaeu of lar that Tillman uses. He says what he ke means in ordinary, every day English, n- and his like has never been seen upon e the lecture platform-Chicago Record. te Robbed the Mail. el W. R. Keys, postoffie inspector has Lld returned from Stockville, Campbell *n-- county, where he arrested Miss Mary e- Bolton, assistant postmaster at that ld place on a charge of rifling the mail. se For some time articles have been miss Lit ing from the mails at Stockville.lanspec oh tor Keys was sent there to locate the it trouble. He knew an inspector would mir be expected at the office, so he' went to r- Wells Springs, five miles from Stock 0- ville, where he registered as a drummer rn for aisurgical instrument house. He he found that over 100 letters and pack or ages had been taken. Several decoy ye letters were sent out and he soon had ta enough evidenca to warrant the ar ta rest of Miss Bolton. She confessed all. id Her farther, Rev, John R. Bolton, is pastor of the Methodist church at that place and is also the postmaster. Miss Bolon has been bound to trial at the in next term of the United States court. to Bond was made for her. She is the ,j. second woman ever arrested in this as state for a like offense. as Base Ingratitude. es The Cubans continue to display one ny despicable trait-ingratitude. Think w of, posting up cards all over the island y, with this ancient suggestion printed it thereon, after all we have done for ef, them: sir "To the people of the United States: ed "Do not make anyapromnises that you ri are not sure to keep and never go back of on the word you have given. , "(Signed) e GEORGE WASHINGTON." Le, This is recommended to the considera x- tion of "all worthy compatriots of the se great American." 5s It is too bad to remind us of that ex vepldedod timer, G. W., at an epoch in dour history when we have outgrown all 7y- his foolish rnotions of truth and honor. re Why, the next thing we know they will be asking us to pay some attention to the Ten Commandments.-Newport News Herald. Tillman Won. eni Senator Tillman has triumphed. The n, pension bill which he swore, in lan nd guage picturesque and forcible, must en be acted upon by the senate before he it would allow a single other pension bill ti- to pass has been signed by th presi >m dent. It is a constituent in South Caro 8- lina who fought in the Mexican war, lhe and afterward lost his well-earned pen a sion for having given "aid and corn en fort" to the Uonfederate cause. Buti .ch this new bill is virtually a repeal of the ey law which dotars from pensions Mexi iot ican veterans who were afterwar d ac-1 g tive Confederate sympathizers. A raft h- of new pension demands may now be m- expected, for there are many such n's Mexican veterans hitherto debarred in th 50nth.-Sringfield Republican. CASIIIER1URD)ERED By Bank R.>bbersi mn - -d Day light at Harrisburg. THE RO3BERS'CAPIURED. The Cashier Resisted ? andlWas Shot to Oeath bythe Rob b irs, Who Ran Away. Chas. W. Ryan, cashier of.the Hali Eax National bank, at Harrisburg, P'a., - was shot to death by Henry Rowe and Western Keiper of Lykens at noon rhursday in an attempt at bank robbery. The robbers were captured by a party of citizens soon after the crime and were brought to the Harrisburg jail together with F. B. Straley of Lykens, who is suspected of being an accomplice. Rowe and Keiper drove ver to Halifax from Eliuabethville Thursday morning hitching their team Dn the outside of the town boldly en tered the bank withrevolvers presented. Each had a revolver and they demanded the attaches of the bank to throw up their hands and turn over the money. One of them held in. check Abraham Fortenbaugh, the president of the bank; Isaac Dyter, the teller, and ex-Repre sentative Swarts, of Dancan, who was in the bank on private business. The other covered Cashier Ryan and under the menace of the revolvers the cashier collected the cash in the drawers to the mount of $2,000 and placed it in a satchel the robbers had brought with them. Rowe, with the cash stuffed - satchel in his hand backed out toward the door and Keiper also moved to ward the entrance to'the bank. Just when it seemed that the robbers would succeed in getting away Cashier Ryan leaped forward in an attempt to knock up the revolver of the man with the money. In the scuffls several shots were fired and Ryan fell to tie foor shot through the groin by a bullet trom the pistol of Rowe. Fortenbaugh .grabbed Rowe and after a short souaffi3 threw him to the fimor. Keiper ran out. the door. The noise of the shooting at tracted J. F. Lyter who has a store near the bank building. H- ran os with his shotgun and pursu d Keiper for one blck and shot him back of the nead, when the robber surrendered. Some Costly Wrec'ks. The loss of the City of de Jaaeiro at Golden Gate leads the Springfield Re publican to say that this is nether the first nor the worst disaster which ever befell the Pacfio Mail Steamship com pany. It reviews the record and declares that company has had a very long and varied career extending back almost to the beginning of - steam navigation. Daring the past fifty years it has lost 19 steamships, and among the princi pal wrecks cited are those of the Gol den Gate ofE the Mexican coast in 1862 when 200 of the 300 passengers on board perished, and of the steamer Japan off the China coast in the early 70's, when 400 Chinese were drowned. But much the most noteworthy disai ter the company ever sufered was the loss of the steamer Central America in a storm off Cape Hatteras in Septem-, ber, 1857. Of the 579 souls on board, nly 152 were saved. There went down. with the ship also some $2,000,000 in old from California, and as the coun try wasthen in the thiok of the panio af 1857, when hard coin was in much reater demand than the promise of i the wreck of the Central America was - sepecially felt in financial circles. B~st bhe newspapers of the day found some sonsolation in the fact that-the insur mee of the gold was mostly held in [ondon. Stopping Trade. A dispatch from Manila says Lieut. Ered B. Payne, commanding the Unis ,d States gunboat Pampanga, pursuant so instructions, has seized and destoy id 300 vessels of various siss, mostly istive craft, constructed to a~sist the surgents. But among those which. ave come to grief are a number of osthing vessels belonging to leading ' Rania firms. Lieut. Payne captured a nantity of supplies and war materials sippedjby the insurgent governor of he Island of Leyte to the rebel comn nander on, the Island of Samnar. The )ebu pirates who occasionally raided she opposite shore of Negros island ave been suppressed and their boats ire all burned. taggering the British Taxpayer In the beginning, the British Minis :ry estimated that the South Africia War would cost $50,000,000. Already 3reat Britain has paid $407,000,000 on count of this war, and the estimate for the war expenses during the coming year amounts to $350,000,000. It will be remembered that 0cm Paul said that if Great Briatin conquered the Boers itwouldbe at acost that would stag ger humanity. The cost in human blood has already "staggered humani by," and the cost in dollara and cents, now rapidly nearing the billion dollar ark, is bearing down heavily uponthe British taxpayers. To~o Busy Macon Telegraph: A Harrisonburg, Pa., correspondent expressed himself n the columns of the Philadelphia North American as follows: "The last aegro convention in Lancaster, Pa., alled for the establishment of a hotel or the race of that town; yet a .good egro citizan, who presents a petition signed by more than one hundred ames, is refused a license to ran this hotel. Why is this the case in this ountry of ours?" The North American Ices not answer, being too busy trying b fill up half a page of day on the sub ject of contract slavery in Anderson 3ounty, South Carolina. Making Maryland Solid. The Democratic majority in the M4aryland senate, after a tedious ses iion, lasting from 11 a. m , until 8 a. m., aided by the apulication of the sloture rule, succeeded in passing the 'difranchisement" bill Thursday night - my avote of 14 to 11, a a rick party livision. The bill disfranchises some whites and most of the negroes in the the Sate. When it becomes a law Maryland will become solidly Demo orai.