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XV"I' MANNING, S. C. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 CAUSES OF SUICIDE Freely Discussed- Bythe Coroner ofiNew York. HOW'MEN FACE OEATH. It .s Claimed that More Germsns Destroy Themselves Than Any Other Nationality. Pititul Cases. Thera were 471 su'eides in the bor ough of Manhattan last year. Opti mibts may be surprised that the num ber is large, pessimists that it is so 1 small. ] Of all the gruesome statistic that fil ter through the cononer's officq and find oblvion in the pigeon holes of the health department those pertaining to the. city's suicides are perhaps the most interesting te a student of life an hu man nature. Even the men in the corone r3 office philosophize over them t and its a rare thing for a man to spin philosophical conclu'ions out of a trarrdy that is all a part of the day's work. "These suicides always eet ore think ing," said one of the amature philoso phers to Sun reporter. "There are so man ways in every care. Its an easy matter to return a verdict of suicide by illuminating gas, or carbolic acid, or whatever the metl.od happers to be, but there's such a lot back of all that. "About one person in a dozen leaves a letter. The law forbids the publica tion of those letters row, but the files of them make queer reading matter. Each one has its own individuality bears the stamp of the person who | wrote it Given that letter you can|b construct the mat. Sor e of them are E carefully written on gocd paper; some c are scrawled on scraps of paper, mar I gins of newspapers, books or backs of a 1 velopes; some are in a firm, elear hand; some are blotted and almost & illegible. "Its queer hew differently men face i death. Now, there are the Germans. There are more suicides among the 1 Germans in this city than among any t other notionality. Seems odd. doesn p it? One wouldn't expect a stolid, beer drinking race to go in for suicide. A t German would te the last man I would s expect to see lose his balance and run e amuck. A dago, now, or a Russian or f an Irishman-that wouldn't surprise d me; but, bless you, they don't committ p suicide. When they get down on the world the Russian throws a bomb -at n somebody, the Irishman breaks fi somebody's head; but the German E drinks his beer, goes to his room and a quietly puts a bullet hole in himself. a "They say its a racial instinct. It a certainly is easier on the public than * the other methods of working off steam, a but we could spare other citizens bet- tl ter than we can spare the Germans. a The trouble with the German is that he I thinks too much. We've decided that down here. He usually has a decent a education and poverty or disgrace go E hard with him. He can't r. concile . himself to failure. Then the average t German seems tobe agood deal of an 'j agnostic. Half the time he doesn't t, believe in a hereafter of any sort, and d of course its a tempation to him to put a an end to things altogether. Now a o Catholic Irishman believes he will be a damned if he takes his own life, and c he'd just as soon endure the damnation b he's used to right here as sample b another variety that may be worse. si "Very few Hebrews commit Euicide. a Sometimes a man of his race will do it, iH but the suicide of a Jewesss is a very a rear thing. The Russian and Polish a Hebrews of the east side look melan choly enough for anything, but they g usually endure life. It is the Chiristian ti girl of the east side who drinks carbolic v acid-not the Jewess. The American 1] bern girl is the most frequent victim o: too. She heads the roll of woman n suicides, jast as the German heads the a list of male suicides. Why's that? Is she more intelliger~t too? Does she o suffer more from unhappy conditions t: than the other girls, or is she more t< reckless, and more likely to get into a trouble? Oh, I tell you, these suicide a files make an interrogation point of me. t: "After the Germans on the list come c the Americans, but the suicides whose o nationality can't be determined are c lumped in with the United States list, so it isn't quite a fair guide. Next come s the Austrians and Bohemians. Then a i long way he hind the Irish. The other ( nationalities drop in by ones and twos. s You seldom hear of a negro suicide. t A darkey is too irrepressible. No mat- 3 ter how hard luck goes today, he thinks r it will be coming his way romorrow, e and fixed depression is absolutely im possible to him. When he does get s worked up to suicide, he usually hangs b himself. A German prefers shooting c himself. They've all been soldiers more , or less and feel a certain dignity con- k nected with a gunshot wound. "The American affects shooting, too, j but has a liking for illuminating gas. The women almost always take poison s or crown themselves. Ytou see the ordinary man can swim and its rather ] hard for him to drown himself. He I nerves himself up for the plunge, and i the water cools him off. He can swim t and does. But with a woman it is dif- i ferent. "Talking about men and women, we've often noticed how few women kill theniselves for love. Men do it seeres of them. A man's sweetheart ( jilts him, or the girl he loves will not * have him, and he blows out what few * brains he has. You don't, once in a blue moon,-'find a woman doing that i sort of thing. A woman takes her ownt life because of disgrace, or physicalt suffering or discouragement, but she 1 seldom does it because she loves a man 1 who doesn't love her. 3 "You don't suppose that that means the men love more deeply than the women, do you? I cant's see it that way. I suppose a woman's pride keeps her from acknowledging, even by eeath,a that she was jilted. The disgrace of that acknowledgment would seem worse< to her than the death. Then, too,t when a man's in love and hopeless, he] usually goes out and gets drunk. The depression following debauch is re sponsible for a Dig percentage of our suicides. In that depression, a fellow's t love trouble looks even worse to him t ha it did before he got drunk. So a ae writes a note to the heartless charm ,r and makes way with himself before ae is thoroughly sober. "The women seldom leave letters. :hey usually'try in every way to avoid dentification; but the men seem to take a certain satisfaction in the dra :2atio end they are making and want ill the spectacular features. Of course, :here are many exceptions to all these ;eneralities. I'm only giving you my )wn impressions from study of the re tord4. "The mothers are the persons for wbom most of the letters are left. were are letters to hasbands, wives, weethearts, but a big majority of the uie'des ser m more worried about the ffect of the thing upon their mothers han abcut an; thing else. Letter after ester begs a mother to forgive and not 0 grii ve, and a good many of them are iot written to the motiers. but ask hat the news be broken to isem gent y. Its na'ural enough A sve theart >r wife cr fries d is all very v e 1, but its fellow's mother who is going to be iardest hit when he throws up the amf; and down at the bottom of his ieart the fellow knows it. "There'b one funny thirg ab'ut the ettcrs. If tle writer mentions God or he hereaft r at all he usually s( ems to cel pretty sure that Gcd will forg've im. There's some anxiety about what urviving friends may think of the noye, but a fair certainty that God rows how hard things are and will un ers! and. ' One o'ass of suicides includes the ranks-all sorts and c.,nditions of ranks. There was the man who bought he had awa'l.wed dynamite ,ad would rather kill himself than wait o be blown up. Then there was the Dan who believed that he was being oll-wed and would be murdered. Ve've seen a number of such cases he man who always heard angels urg ng him to die and c ime to heaven was nother; and one said he had been ypnotized by some people on the treet, and his life was spoiled. O ourse, those men are simply insane 'm sorry for them, but those cases ren't pitiful like some. "When an old man of 70 commits icide becsuse he can't bear being de endent upon his children any longer makes you think. One seldom finds n old person taking his own life. 'hings must have been pretty hard for at old fellow. He looked like a good tient soul, too. "Then I always have felt sorry for e men who made away with them 3lves so that their wives and children >uld have the insuraues money, and >r the invalids who faced lingering ath and dreaded the burden and ex ense for those they loved. "I've never had a suicide case break te up as one did years ago. A sweet ted, worn woman had consumption. [er hu'band could earn very little, ad she finally got so she couldn't work all. The children were half starved; ad at last the mother just put her )lf out of the way, not because she iinded suffering, but because that was se only way in which she could help long and make her husband's burden ghter. "The man who can't get work-I'm rry for him. Of course there are harities; but some men are proud, and .en a man can starve to death while e wheels are getting iu motion. 'here's one man I suppose I ought not > ympathizs with, but I can't help oing it. He's the fellow who is an at and out failure and knows it. He ght to pull himself together and make p for lost time. It's contemptible ,wardice for him to confess himself eaten and chuck the whole responui ility; but when a man reaches-well, iy 40-and, looking back sees failure ad wasted opportunities all along the ne, and realizes he's a wreck, body ad soul, he has a pretty bad quarter of a hour. "A good many suicides cover die race that rnever comes to the ears of 'e world. We don't have so many all street suicides as in old days, tough. There seem to be more ways Swriggling out of tight financial places awadays, or else business men have sore luck. "By the way, there's a grim irony in ne collection that has accumulated in 2e corener's office. You'd be surprised >see the number of rabibits' feet, :nulets, and lusky charms of one sort ad ano'her that have been taken from ie bodies of suicides and casualty ases. There used to be a drawer full Ethem, but I don't know what has be me of them. "Grip has added to the number of icides in this country, and extreme ot weather always swells the list. omparatively few persons commit icide during the winter. The oases egin to multiply during April and lay. I suppose the spring stirs peo le up and makes them restless and uhappy. "June is called the suicide month by atisticans, but August is usually the ig month here. The her.t has worked n a man's nerves by that time, and 'hen a scorching spell comes along e's half crazy and irresponsible Suicide goes in waves, like various inds of crime. Oce man utes a c--r sin method and other csses of the ame kind will follow. Carbolic acid as been a great thing this last year. t use to be, always, Paris green or at poison. Illuminatirg gas suicides ave increased wonderfully. But, af ar all, its the pistol and the water thar; eep the suicide records crowded." few York Sun. Plant Less Cotton. President Harvie Jordan, of the teorgia Cotton Growers' asesociation, nd of the Interstate Cotton Growers' asociation, said recently: "We are now confronted by the most ifficult of problems. It is, how to keep h farmers from planting too much cot on. Of ourse, we can hope fer nothing t ruin if the acreage is very considera dly increased. In the first plaoe,mupply erchants are selling on credit meat at 2 1 2 cents par pound and corn at $1 ser bushel; mules are higher than they ave been in years, and everything else a up in proportion. Therefore the man rho has these things to buy cannot hope o raise cotton this year for less than 7 ents per pound. If the price goes cdown o 6 ents next fall, the more cotton he Las tried to make the deeper in debt will te be. Ihe necessity for raising: all upplies at home was never greater than t is right now, and if we fail to impress his fact upon the farmers of the south his year, there will be gloom and dis er- amang- them next fall." THE NEGRO RACE. A Minister Argues That They Are Not Descended From Adam. In the last number of the Bible Bap tist, a religious monthly magazine, edited and owned by Rev. E R. Cars well, Jr., a well known Baptist minis ter, is an article which contains some startling statemens and will create quite a sensation in the religious world. Before quoting from the article above referre d to, it is but proper to state that Rev. Mr. Carswell is a native of this county, and is a graduate d~ Mer cer University, the Southern Baptist Theological seminary, ard an author of scveral works upon theo'ogy, befidee havine filled as pastor some of the lend ing Baptist pulpits in this state and Texas. That he is a man of extraordinary ability, of great men-al grasp, a hard student of the Bible and an editor, and lec:urer. wbos3 fame is bounded only by the extent of the Southera Baptist di nomination, gives great weight to his editorials. Mr. Carswell is in bh fil tieth year, and resides in North Augusta, but at the present time is holding a meeting in Lake Ci'y, Fla The edi-orial in the Bible Baptist is upon "Traditionalism,' and in it he dissents from many current theological views, which he says are only based upon tradition, and which he holds to be erroneous. He says: "It is pure tradition that assigns to negroes a place in the human family. The Bible will be explored in vain for such a doctrine. Even tradition finds no repro in the original creation as a member of the Adamic household. "Moreover, Noah's other sons, Ham and Japheth, were white and produced only white tribes and kindreds. The Canaanites, whom tradition taught us to regard as negroes produced by the Hamatie curse, we know to have been a race of blonds-the South Irish of later times, the prevailing type being fair skinned, blue eyed and red haired. True they have been servants always, ditch diggers and table waiteis." He then aske the question: "What then will Bible folks do with those traditions that class negroes with the family of Adam?' You see the question is up to us. If the negroes be not descended from Adam, then the orthodox view is that Christ did not die for them. Hence they are lost, or a special provision is made for them in the plan of salvation, or they still need a Messiah who will yet save them. But Mr. Carswell con tinues: "For the present, we are not con cerned about the origin of the negro, or whether, like Adam, he was made immortal-in God's image; but we simp ly say the Bible contradicts that tradi tion which reads the negro into the family of Adam. That tradition is false. It is unscriptural. It is unscientifi3. It is wholly unten able. No man ever believed it save in ignorance or in advance of investiga tion." Ycu see, according to the Bible Bap tist, we have all been wrong up to date. We look in vain to find the good editor's views as to the origin of our "Brother in Black," but he does not attempt to throw any light on the matter, but simply says: "Whether the negro is 'Pre-Ada mio,'or 'Post Adamic.' we care not to say; but sure it is, he is 'Extra-Adamic.' Again: "The negro is unknown to creation as a humen." This sounds very much like an author who higned himself Ariei, and who directly after "the war, between the states," wrote a brochure, endeavoring to prove that the negro had no soul. If, as Rev. Mr. Carswell states, "a re study of the Bible account of crea tion and all history" have brought him to his conclusions, would it not be be neficial to the negro for him to proceed further and solve the problem of which he writes, and give the needed infor mation to the many seekers of truth who are striving to fix the status of the negro in the divine plan of salvation. In the meantime, it is needless to state that the tradition of the origin of the negro will still be held to by those who, in lieu of something better, are obliged to hold to it "in their ignorance or in advance of investigation." Augusta Herald. Gold Brick Swindlers. The State says Gov. McSweeney has issued a requisition upon the governor of North Carolina for three gold brick swindlers captured in that State. They are wanted in both Ne wherry and Aiken counties, in this State, for swindling citizens out of several thousand dol lars, and have been identified by at least one of the victims. These fellows had a slick scheme. They would take an iron or brass brick and have it gold plated. They also had holes bored in the metal, which they filled with pure gold. They would let the victims see them bore into the brick and then give him the shavings of p'ure gold so that he eculd have them tested. They would also let the victim mark the brick so he could identify it later. Of course the tests proved all rieht and the sales were made. In one instance they worked in one of their gang made up as an In dian. The whole thing was very smooth, and of course the victims were "dead easy." If the men are brought back they will be tried in the county of Newberry first. What It Cost. According to a special from Wash ington, since the rebellion in the Philip pines 50,000 men is the lowest estimate of. the war department of the casual ties sustained by the Filipino forces; 7,667 rifles have been captured or sur rendered and 605,142 rounds of ammu nition, as show by incomplete returns, have been seized. The number of Filipinos killed cannot be accurately determined, as General Mae Arthur in his dispatches states that it is impossi ble to be accurate on this point. It would not surpriss officials shoald the Filipino fatalities reach -25,000, and some say that 50,000 is closer to the real figure. Adjutant General Corbin is satisfied that the casualties suffered by the Filipinos will in themselves form a potent reason for the abandonment of further resistan'e by the natives. A nine million bale crop means ten cent cotton, while atwelve milion bale crop means five cents cotton. Farmers wich din you prefer? A STRANGE STORY Told by Hugh H Haviland of Greenville Ky. A REMARKABLE CASE. Says He is the Son of Dr Theo dore Keattle, Who for Thirty Years Masqueraded as a Woman. The Louisville Courier-J.iurnal rub lished the following remarkable story on last Friday: "Ha h H. Haviland of Greenville, Ky., claims to be one of the heirs of a fortune left by 'Dr. Theodore K cattle,' another 'M array H.ill.' 'Dr. KeattIlo' died at Punta Garda, Fla., in 1896. Then it was discovered that the 'docnor' vas a woman and that for 30 years she had so masqueraded. The woman was a mother Those who were supposed to know, Say that in 1853 a little boy was placed in the Protestant Episcopal asylum by 'Dr. Keattle' then confessedly a woman, known as Kate Hav:landr The boy's name was Hugh H. Haviland. He was later bound out to a farmer and finally to an independ ent position at Greenville. This is the story of Hugh Haviland, told by him self, in a letter to Tile Courier Jour nal. For nearly 40 years he knew nothing of his parents. Then came a letter from a Ne v Y ork lawyer, G. Tarleton Goldthwaite 141 Broadway, who wrote that while searching for the heirs of "Dr. Theodore Keattle," whom death revealed to be a woman, he had found that in 1853 she, going by the name of Kate Haviland had put High H Havi land in the Protestant Episcopal or phan asylum at Louisville. Hugh H. Haviland at Greenville, is regarded as that boy. That Kite Haviland was "Dr. K-attle" was, it is said, practi cally established by witneasss in New York and Brooklyn. But Hugh Haviland is heir to but half the fortune. A girl who is ex. pc eted to divide it with him. Grace M Clark Elliott, Haviland's niece, so Lawyer Goldthwaite says, believes her self sole heiress to Imbray Clark of Austria, who died worth $25 000,000 Hugh Haviland's little sister, Kate Haviland's other child, according to Lawyer Goldthwaite, was put by the mother with foster parents. Thu girl grew up, merried Clark and went west with him. In 1877 they went to San Francisco, and there a child was born. Within two weeks the delicate mother, Kate Haviland's daughter, died. The baby was placed in the hands of Mrs. Martha A. Griswold, superintendent of the Home for the Friendless, by Im bray Clark, who sailed aimost imme diately for Australia. Several years after Mrs. Griswold heard of Clark's death and advertised for some one to adopt the little orphan girl. The Elliotts responded, and on August 21, 1878, were granted pa pers of adoption by a court in San Francisco. In 1897 the Elictts learned that Im bray Clark hal left a fortune of $25, 00,00 to which there was no heir, and began a fight for their foster daughter's rights. The estate is tied up in the English courts, and though hundreds of claimants have come forward, none has been able to prove claims to the satisfaction of the British authorities. IGrace M. Clark Eiliott had almost given up hope when Lawyer Goldth waite's letter came telling her she was heiress to the estate of her grand mother, the spurious "Dr. Keattle," of Punta Gorda. Now Miss Elhiott ex pects to prove her claims. A Woman's Splendid Gift. Another southern college has become a beneficiary of one of those blessed per sons who use their wealth to the glory of God and the benefit of men. Mrs. Josephine Lemoine Newomb, who died in New York Wednesiay left $3.000,000 to Talane University. She had Defore her death given at various times sums to that great institution aggregating $750,000. Mrs. Newcomb has won a place in the large and lengthening list of wealthy women who have used their money for the benefit of the public, a list ennobled by the names of Mrs. Stanford, Qwendolen, Caldwell, Helen Gould, Mrs. 'Tubman, of Augusta, Miss Telfair, of Savannah, and hundreds of other women whom God has given to our ountry to bless and help it. Tu lane university is alreadiy a groat school. Mrs. Ne wcomb's magnificient bequest will help to make it a greater one. For many years the university was presided over by that ripe scholar and splendid gentleman, General William Preston Johnston. He helped mightily to give it the high character which has attrac ted to it young men from all over the south and placed it among the leading educational institutions of Amerios. it is now the richest college in the south and its usefuliness and influence will be greatly evideced by the legacy of Mrs. Newcomb.--Atlanta~ Journal. Gen. Rosser Accepts. The State says General Thomas L. Rosier of the Confeder-ate army has written to Capt. Wade H.. Manning,sec cretary of the reunion executive com mittee, that he will attend the coming State reunion in response to the invi tation extended him. He says he will attend this gathering with great p'eas ure. It may be mentioned here that it was Gen. Resser who recsptured at Tre villian Station the recretary of the lo cal committee on Jun~e 1.1, 1863. Bishop Thomas Frank CGailer of Ten nessee has written Capt. Manning that he regrets that he will be unable to attend the reunion hero. Hie is the commandant of camp N. B. Forrest of Nashville, Tenn. "Black Death." Robert MoWade, United States con sul at Canton, China, reports that 10, 000 deaths from the plague known as "Black Death" have occurred there du ring the past six weeks, and that there are 13 oases of smallpox on board the United States monitor Montery. Only one death has resulted on the Montery, and the other esses of smallpox are prgrsng favorably. THE CHRISTIAN EEDEAVOR. The Coming State Convention to be Held in Charleston. The following is the programme of the tenth annual meeting of the South Carolina State Christian Endeavor con vention to be held in the Circular Con gregatio-al church in Charleston the 16th to 18th inst: Tuesday Evaning-Welcome aervice, 8:30-10.30 p. m. by Christian Endeav orers of the city. Wm. Shaw, the treasurer of the United Sosiety of Christian Endeavor, will be present. Wednesday-Morning ses-ion, 6:30 sunrise prayer meeting; 10 o'clook, "Haw may we increase our member ship?' Discussi3n. 10 30. "How may we increase interest in our prayer meet ing?' Discussin. 11, "Hlw my we inor. ass interest in missions?'-W. H Hubbard, Charleston. Discunsion led by State president. 11:30, "How may we inorea-e interest in the church ser viOeb?'--Rev. Arthur Crane, Charles ton Open disoision. 12, Evangtlistic service-R-v. Mr. Tjader, the eminent Swedish evangelist. 12:30. adjourn ment. Afternoon session-3:30, Janior .ally, led by Miss Coralie Harvey. Pa rer on jinior work, Miss Charlotte Lane). World Wide Junior Endeavor, Mr. Wim. Sna, Boston, Mass. E-,e nine session-8, devotional, Rev. Tjader. Address, Mr. Wan. Shaw, Boston, Mass. Reception. Thursday-Morning session: 10, de. votions, Rev. Tjader. 10:30 address. 11:15, appointing committees, 11:30 ad dress. 12.15, report of secretary and treasurer. Report of press committee. Report of superintendent of junior work. Adjournment. Afternoon ses aion-3 30, evangelistic address, Rev. Tjader. 4:15, president's address, Rev. J. E Kirbye 4:30, reports from socie ties. Election of officers. Adjournment. Evening session-8, song service. Ad dress, Rev. J. Y. Fair, D. D., Savan nah, Ga. Consecration service. Wm. Shaw. The Southeastern Passenger associa tion has granted the following reduced rates governing from the junctional points named: Abbeville $6 35, Allen dale $5, Anderson $10.40 Augusta, Ga. $6 20, Barnwell $4 65, Blacksburg $10. 20, Calhoun Falls $9.65, Camden $6 35, Carlisle $7 60, Catswba Junction $8 60, Charlotte. N C., $8 80, Cheraw $6 35, Cheater $7 90. Clinton $8 55, Colum bla $5 85, Danmark $4.05, Fairfax $4 75 Greenville $11, Greenwood $8,60, Lancaster $3 35, Laturens $9 05, Newberry $7 30. Orangeburg $3 85, Prosperity $7.15, Rook Hill $8 60, Savannah, Ga., $5 25 Spartanburg $9, Sumter $4.45, Yemassee $3'25, York ville $9.05. Tickets are restricted to continuous passage in each direction to be sold April 15, 16 and 17, with final limit April 22, 1901 inclusive. Work of a Mob. Three weeks ago a smallpox case de veloped at Beadford, Pa., the patient bring a railroad man named William Meyers. The victim was isolated in his rooms in the Armstrong block, the board of health lacking a pest house, and soon recovered. Laer, five new cases devel oped, and the board of health decided to secure a temporary pest house. A vacant school house in the second ward was secured and carpenters and plumb ers were put to work fitting it up. When it became known, the people living nearby became greatly wrought up and resolved to make ttouble. Thursday night at 8:30 o'clock a mob of over 300 men and women surrounded the school house. Their leaders clutched the night watchman, Charles Story, and held him firmly while the incendiaries battered open a door and set fire to the place. All who attempted to prevent the fire were kept back, and in a few minutes the entire building, a large two and a half story wooden structure, was in flames. Plumbers' tools and other articles in the house were burned and the excitement ran high, men and women running up and down the streets, crying against the hoard of health. As the flames rolled and craekted, the mob howled its delight. Threats were made as to what would be done if polics or health officers inter ferred, but there was no interference. No arrests have been made. Good for Beaufort. A Washington dispatch says Admiral Crownshield, who hias just returned from an inspection of southern ports with a view to the establishment of a naval training station, has recommended to the secretary of the navy that the naval station at Pert Royal, S. C. be utilized for this purpose. The secretary heartily approves of the recommenda tion and informed Congressman Elliott that the build'ngs at Port R.yal weald be used and improved for the ac comodation of from 500 to 1,000 boys, chiefly from the south. The station, he told Mr. Elliott, would be made a most important one. The machinery now at Port R ayal dry dock will be transferred to Charleston in accordance with the recent act of Congress remov ing the dock station and new buildings will be erected near Charleston for its reception, it being impossible to re move thosesat Port Royal. An English Fortunie. The Columnbia State says a letter has been received in that city saying that Mrs. McSweeney, wife of the governor of South Carolina, is among the heirs entitled to' a fortune of one hundred and forty nine millions of dollars in Eog land. This fortune is to go to the heirs of Gov. Moore cf colonial times, 1700 to 1720, and Mrs. McSweeney and several others in this State are de scendants of that offical, and the family tree has been very well preserved What steps will be taken by the heirs in this State after conference with one another remains to be seen. A Good Idea. Bishop Henry M. Turner, of the African Methodist church, has been conducting EAster services in several of the colored churhes at Macon, Ga. He is advocating among the negroes the banishment of the criminal classes of their race, having them carried to Africa. He says this will do a great deal toward solving the race problem. He also advises the building of steam ships to build up commerce between this country and Africa. He sayu such an enterprise would soon enrich t soutihen ports. "BLACK DEATH." Thousands of Cases Reported t Marine Hospital Service FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD It Has Lodgment in Europe, Asia Africa, Australia and South America It is Depopu. latirg India. Thousands of cases of bubonic plague ;n all parts of the world since Nov. last have been reported to the marine hospital service. At Rio Janeiro froze Feb. 1 to 20 there occurred five new cases and three deaths. At Hongkong, China, 34, all fatal, occurred during the week ending Feb. 18. The plague is steadily increasing in Cape Colony according to reports received both ii London and Paris. The official report from Cape Oclony for the week ending March 2 shows 24 new oases, two death and four suspects, for the following week 50 cases 18 deaths and 11 Eus' pects. Several Europeans have beer attacked and a number of natives have been found dead from the disease. The rats are reported to be "trekking' from. Cape Town in great numbers and at Simonstown the rats are reported to be dying from the plague. At Manri tins during the two weeks ending March 8.h there were in the island 1E cases of plague and 23 deaths. On March 14, two fresh plague cases are reported to have occurred in Perth, West Australia. The marine hospital service turgeon in charge at Lyndon has reported that the rumor of suspected plague at Southampton, published in the Paris papers, probably is unfounded but ex tra precautions are being exercised at that port in view of the large number of troops returning from South Africa. The plague at Karakuga, Russia, is stated in the official report from Paris to be on the deorease, the same report saying that 13 deaths from cholera oc curred at Singapore, Strait Settlements, during the last week of January. A report published in a Berlin paper and forwarded here says the plague at Cape Town is now attacking the well to-do people. The marine hospital ser vice surgeon, Dr. Greene Albertin, has just reported that in the Kirgisen re servation Koranuk, Russia, 13 per sons have fallen victims to the plague and in the presidency of Bombay, British East India, during the week ending Feb. 8th there occurred 1,770 plague cses and 1,293 deaths, an in crease of 519 cases and 314 deaths over the previous week. In Bombay city that week, there were 1,056 cases of the plague, an increase of 309 and 1,359 deaths due to the plague. Up to Mareb 2 fifty plague cases had occurred in Caps Town of which 12 terminated fatally. In Argentina five plague pa tients were in the isolation hospital at San Nicolas on Feb. 7 and plague was suspected in the cities of Belleville and Marios Juares Official notice has been received that the government of the Danish West Indies had raised the quarantine against Port Said and Smyrna and de clared the port of Brisbane, free from plague. PROPESSIONAL PALLBE&3EER. They Have a PuneralUniformanzd Con duct Themselves With Propriety. Milwaukee has taken a step in ad vance of New York in the way of con ducting funerals. In order to provide pallbearers at funerals where families cannot or will not make arrangements for them, a pallbearers' association hat been formed which will furnish at short notice and at reasonable coat a uniformed escort for the dead. The uniform will consist of a black coal with lace rnffles at the wrists and wide white lace collar. Knee breeches, black stockings, buckled shoes, a black hat like those worn by the Knights Tem plar. and a sword complete the outfit in pleasant weather, but when it rains or in cold weather a heavy black mil tary cloak will be worn over all 'There are many people in Milwaukee -mostly Germans-who are "free thinkerd" and belong to no religious organization. Many of these are mem bers of the Turner Eocieties, and fun erals in their families are conducted by the Turners. Others de not belong to any society, and when a death oc cars in the family a professionalfuneral orator is usually called in to conduct the services. The funeral orator's suc cees and the love for display when a be loved relative is laid away doubtless suggested the organization of the pall. bearers' association, and it is believed that it will be financially successful. An undertaker whose place of busi ness is in the crowded tenement house district said that a similar association would probably receive good support in New York. In the Italian district elab orate funerals take place daily. Pa rents may neglect a child while it is in good health, but when the little one dies there must be plumes on the hearse, the coffin must be of an expen sive kind, and a band of music must p~recede the funeral procession to the church, where there is more show, and from the church at least to the limits of the Italian distraict. The uniformed pallbearers would probably find patron age in that part of the city. In many places in Europe there are business soncerns which furnish not only uniformed mourners and pall bearers, but funeral trappings for the horses in the funeral procession. The uniformed pallbearer is the first step in that direc tion, and if he succeeds in Milwaukee this new knight of the mel ancholy aspect many become a feature at New York funerals.-New York Tribune. _________ Two Tyrants. A dispatch to the New York Herald from Habana says that La Discusion is receiving telegrams from all parts of the island expressing support of its course and that it appears with a new line under the title heading, reading: "Suppressed by Weyler, October 23, 1896; Suspended by Wood, April 6. 1901." Evidently that Cuban editor is . a oandg of an advertisement. IN A TXRRIBLRTORX. Schooner Wrecked and Her Crew Adrift on a Raft. The steamship State of Texas, which arrived at Baltimore on Tuesday had on board Capt. Berry and the crew of six men of the wrecked schooner Erie, picked up at sealast Sunday. The Erie was wrecked the day before, on Frying pan Shoals, and her master and crew were drifting, almost exhausted, on a raft, when rescued by Capt. Eldridge of the State of Texas. Capt. Berry of the Erie, which belongs to Jacksonville, Fla., said the vessel was bound, with lumber, from Savannah to Yarmouth, N. S. On Saturday, April 6, she en countered heavy seas and-dense fogs. In a fierce gale she was driven on Frying pan Shoals. At the time the Erie went aground the wind was blowing a terrific gale and the weather was so heavey that it was impossible to see more than a few yards ahead. The sails were blown to shreds, and then the vessel became urmanageable. Ship and crew were at the mir. y of the elements, and late Saturday the vessel was sent crashing on the dangerous shoals. The ship was leaking badly, but her cargo had kept her afloat. Shortly after striking she began to go to pieces. As wave after wave swept the lumber off her decks it also carried away the masts, and then Capt. Berry and his men lashed them selves to the after house. All-through the night the seven men were buffeted about by the rough seas, which con tinuously broke over them, and which were beating their little float to pieces. When they-were taken off by the State of Texas, the little house was slowly sinking and the men were up to their knees in water. They had neither pro visions or drinking water, and when rescued some of them were so weak they had to be assisted aboard their res cuer. Foresaw Cuba's Fate. While Captain Raphael Semmes was roving the seis in the Sumter, he car ried six prizes into Cienfuegos, only to have them turned over to their owners by the Governor General of Cuba. This was naturally annoying to the enter prising captain, and he says in his memoris, published in 1868: "I plan ned a very pretty little quarrel between the confederate states and Spain, in case the former should establish their independence. Cuba, I thought, would make a couple of very respectable states, with her staples of sugar and tobacco, and with her similar system of labor; and if Spain refused to foot our bill for the robbery of these vessels we would foot it ourselves at her expense." That plan fell through, but Captain Semmes continues with a passage the conclusion of which may strike some peo ple as curiously prophetic: "Poor old Spainl" he exclaims, "I thought perhaps to forgive thee, for thou wast afterward kicked and cuffed by the very power to which thou didst truckle-the federal steamers of war making free use of thy coast of the 'Ever Faithful Is land of Cuba,' chasing vessels on shore and burning them in contempt of thy jurisdiction and in spite of thy re monstrances. And the day is not far distant when the schoolma'am and the carpet-bag missionary will encamp on the plantations and hold joint conven tidles with thy.freemen in the interest of goldliness and the said schoolma'am and missionary." According to some of the Havana papers the day which Cap tain Semmes foresaw is come, and thirty years is "not far distant" in the realm of prophecy. What the South Can Do. The importance of Southern mann facturers of cotton goods going into all lines of manufacture instead of con fining their efforts to one line wherin they .beoome competitors with one another, has been many times empha sized by those mast familiar with the field. The advice is wise, for it cer tainly is true that the mills here at the cotton fields should produce everything that~is maufactured from the cotton, and can. The recent venture of the Langley Manufacturing Com pany at West Point has demonstrated the possibilities in a line heretofore practically untoujhed. This company, of which Captain Eidward Lingley is general manager, is manufacturing lap robes, fancy towels, portieres crochet, Marseilles and the Mitchelline quilts, all of which are designated, ioven and dyed at West Point. Samples of the work of this company which have reached Atlanta show that even in its infancy it has attained a high standard of success. There are other lines as yet practically untouched in which cotton manufacturers can find opportunities for a remunerative market. Despite the great growth of the industry in the past decade, it is still comparatively in its infancy.-Atlanta C-nstitution. A Tragedy in New York. Benj. Forst, a broker and member of the Consolidated exchange, New York, committed suicide Wednesday at the Hoffman House. After a night of meditation, spent no one seems to know where, he went to the hotel at 5 o'clock this morning and was found dying three hours later. Before medical aid arrived he expired. A bell boy discov ered the body. A letter addressed to Mrs. B. Forst, a number of shares of stock, some promisory notes, $67 in cash and a bottle which had contained carbolic acid were found in the room. Light was thrown on the suicide when his suspension was announced at the opening of business on the Con solidated exchange today. It is a rule of the exchange that if a member can not show a clean sheet at the end of the day's transactions or if he has any debts outstanding to members of the exchange he is suspended for 24 hours with the privilege of reinstatement as soon as he settles the differences. It was learned today that Mr. Forst had outstanding debts amounting to $100 at the close of business yesterday and this is believed to hayo been the cause of his suicide. The agricultural department has dis covered, as the result of experiments covering several seasons, in different states, that flavor may be fed into eggs, and that many eggs which are sup t posed to be ir~ju:ed through packing I secure their flavor and color becanise of something which the hens have eaten. 1 So all the strong things which house keepers say and think about eggs should t not be charged indiscriminatelyagainst1 tsippMors 3md dealers. GOEBEL'S MhURDER. The Former Chief Counsel for Taylor Tells of Conspiracy. SENSATIONAL TESTIMONY. According to This Republican's Testimony Taylor Knew of Impending Fate of Gov. Goebel. Ex-Gov. W. 0. Bradley, chief coun sel for ex-Gov. W. S. Taylor in the gubernatorial contest case before the legislature last year, gave sensational testimony Wednesday at Frankfort Ky., in the trial of Capt. Garnettl). Ripley, who is charged with conspiracy, with others, to bring about the murder of Wm. Goebel. Mr. Bradley detailed a conversation which, he said, he had with Capt. Ripley while the latter was in charge of his military company dur irig the occupancy of the State capitol by the Taylor troops last spring, in which Ripley told him of frequent con ferences with Gov. Taylar prior to the assassination. The witness said Ripley told him he was in the exelutive office the day be fore the shooing and complained to Taylor L.ecause he had not called out his (Ripley'a) company and asked him when he should have the company rtady. .Taylor replied: " 'My God, haven't you brought them yet? Goebel wiil not live 24 hours,' or 'cannot live 21 hours,' I have forgotten which he said," declared the wi,ness. Judge W. H. Yost, associate counsel with Bradley in .he contest case, ac cording to the witness, was present, and heard the conversation. In re sponse to a question as to whether he the witness, neard of any conspiracy to kill Mr. Goebel, the witness stated that on Jan. 25th, the day the train load of mountaineers arrived, some one, he could not no v recail who, toid him that parties in the crowd were waiting in front of the State house to kill Goebel. "I said," continued the witness, "it shall be stopped. I will go in the sen ate chamber and come out with Gebel and see that he is not hurt or in; suited." "I looked up and saw Wharton Gold en and told him to get Finley, Calton and others and send them to me. He said: 'Goebel is not going to be hurt.' Colton and Finley told me it was a fake and that there was nothing in it; they condemned violence, as I did." A jury was secured Wednesday .to hear the case of Garnett Ripley, accus ed of complicity .in the shooting of (ov. Goebel. Defendant entered a plea of not guil ty. In opening the case for the prose cution Judge Williams declared there was a conspiracy to kill Goebel; that Ripley was connected with it through aut; that he left Frankfort the evening before the assassination with informa tion that it was to take place the next lay and that he contributed to it by going home and equipping his company to bring it to Frankfort when Goebel had been killed. The Largest Vessel. The policy of transportation com panies these days is to make bigger angines, bigger freight cars and bigger passenger coaches, and in ships to get as much tonnage as possible in a single .ttom. There are fast passenger trains and fast passenger ships, and a sonstant effbrt to reduce the schedule time of trips by sea and land. Thea there are huge moguls and leviathan ships that are not built for racing time, but which carry immense tonnage. At Belfast afew days ago there was lausech da new steamer for the white Stair Line which surpasses all that have gone before in this later particular. While not being able td compete with some others in the matter of speed. The Ueltic will have a passenger carrying oapacity of 2,859. It is designed es pecially for the emigrant trade, and has 1,700 berths for their accommoda tion. While the Celtic is exceeded in length by the Oceanic 24 feet and by the Dueschland 6 feet, it is never theless the largest vessel for its ton nage is 3.600 greater than that of the. L0.eanic and nearly double that of the K~aiser Wilhelm der Grosse, and its tispiacement of 33,000 tons is 12,500 greater than tuat of the latter vess, while ita displacement and tonnage ire 10,300 more than those of the areat Ekastern. Information Wanted. Gov. McSweeney has received from Mtr. H. de Coetlogon, the British con mul at Charleston, the following letter, the requests of which will be complied with: dir: I have the noner to inform your excellency that Ihave received in strructions from his Britannic majes by's government to furnish a report relative to the purchase of public lands md the holding of lands by aliens, in your State, and I should feel greatly abliged if you could give me a copy rsanabstact of the laws on the suo ject now in force, together with the mddress of the proper Btate land offiaer if any) who should be applied to for urcher details, by prospective foreign uvestors if the existing laws permit of heir buying public lands for mining or ther purpoees. His Mind Gone. A London dispatch says- that Gen. D~eWet, the Boer commander, is Eo listurbed by the hopelessness of his sause that he can truthfully be des 3ribed as insane. He goes in fear of iis life amidst his own troops, and teeps himself surrounded, night and lay, by a body guard of chosen adher ints. Fromhis own ranks voices are now nore frequently heard calling impera ively for peace. Hard on Lawyers. The Springfield Mass. Republican ays: "The failure of reform legisla ion for the divorce evil in Rhode Is and is charged up against the Rhode siand lawyers, who organized an op >osition when they perceived that the >roposed law would injure their prac ice in the divorce courts. The people who think that lawyers are a pest will