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XVP AMANNI11G. S. C. WEDNESDAY7 MA8 10.N8 A GOOD PAPER Read Bafore the Federation of Woman's Clubs RECENTLY IN OREENViLLE. t "r he Consumers' League" and What It Is Doing to Help Women and Chi dren C Wage Earners We publish below a paper read be fore the State meeting of the Federa- f tion of Womat,'s Clubs recently held in Greenville by Mrs..Calvert, a talented Spartanburg woman: Ten years ago, the Women's Work jug Seciety of New York inaugurated a movement in the interest of the women and children employed in the retail t stores of that city. Their investigation C proved that the working hours were ex- a cessive, that overtime was not paid for, fines were exorbitant, wages were low, children under fourteen were employed t contrary to law, and all sanitary and t physical conditions were unnoticed I Such surprisirg conditions were found t to ex'st, that a public appeal wai made, c wbieh resulted in the consumers League t of New York city. Some time after- I ward, a State League was organized, and so confident and- persistent have 1 the workers in themovement beev, that f now there are leagues in eleven States, 8 all united under The National Con- I sumer's League.; The word "consumer" here, for want d of a more specific term, is used as 8 synonomous with the word buyer." 3 A consumer's league, or a league of a buyers is an awsociation of perscns, b who purpose to do their buying in sueb d ways as will better the conditions of 6 those who make and-those who distribute P the things bpught. - In the ten minutes limit allowed me b by our president, I can merely outline, first, the teacbiegs and principles of t the league, and Eecond its practical , aims as appfied to individual effort. The general principles as staLd in I the constitu'ion are: a 1. Thar the interest of the commu- t nity dimands that all workers should receive fair living wages. 2. That the responsibility for some of the worst evils from which wage earners suffer, rests with the consumer. c who persist i.. buying in the cheapest market, regardless of how that cheap m ness ib brought about. 9 3. "That it is therefore the duty of V consumers to End out under what con a ditions the articles they buy are pr.- c duced, and to insist that these condi- c tion shall be decent, and consistent E with a respectable existence on the part a cf the workers. The immediate aim of the league is first, to extend among all classes of f mercantile houses the ctmnendable b oonditions now existing in the best; and i second, to abolish the sweating system r -this last beir g the special task of the I National League. The league practically applies these 0 principles by promoting the standard t of-a Fair House, and a White list by the t use of a Consumers' League Label, and z by promoting more humane labor laws. d The advisory Board and various com- C mittees work continuously with the factory inspectors and by patient in- C sistence, succeeed in some measure in I having the labor laws enforced. S Their standard of a fair house regu t lates the wages, wosking houses. fines, I holidays, vacations and physical con- a ditions of all employes. The white I List is a published list of all retail c houses, which conform most closely to the standard of a fair house. The Consumers' League label is their ' trade mark, as it were-and is used to enable the purchaser to distinguish gar. ments made in factories approved by r the league from thcse made under other conditions. The National League, leaving the local organizations to adapt such lines of special work as seems most needed inm its locality, has confined itself to an in vestigation of the conditions of the man fature of white muslin underwear to te pre motion of the use of the label I and most largely to the education of 1 purchasers by means of lectures, litera-E ture, and organization. Twenty-twoa factories have adopted the use of the I label-and a glance at their names isc convincing proof that the very best t goods are made by them. The work of creating a steady de mand for label goods devolves upon thea State leagues and upon the effort of individual members. This work is be-< ing most thoroughly accomplished int New England, Massachusetts and1 Rhode Island being far in advance of 1 other States. - In Pennsylvania, the State League is making constant effort to induce mer chants to use label bearirg gocds-and 1 is doing much educatiornal work among< the shoppers. In Illunois, the State League has di rected its best effort to the discussion of the power and duty of the purcasser. It has vigorously supportd the effort of the custom tailors to seere from ] their employers the merchant tailors. the concession of comfortable workrooms,t thus aidirg most effectively in their< revolt against tenement house manufac-2 ture. In Kentucky, the league is attempt ng, in addition to the usual work of the organiz~stion to quietly fird a js solution of that problem which is ja-tt now confronting so many of our Soat~h ern States, the child labor questio::-. Such in brief is an outline of the Consumers' L ague, as it exis-s today,< an cutline of its work its aims and re sponsibilities. The league has now shown us that< there is urgent nee d of reform arnd helpi and s mpathy for these "W hite Slaves," as the G,>verncr of Canada calls these] toilers-and the question arises how can< we as individuals help them? Does our< ordinary buying of things carry with it. any moral r esposbilit? Do we buy so as to increase the world's good work, and lessen its bad< work? Within the last few years, social economists have devoted much time to the question of "consumption." They emphasize wealth using as fully as they do wealth making, and the text-books< now teach in natural sequence produc-t tion, distribution and exohange. They lay emphatic stress both on thet naerce of cen;tmption upon prou ion, anod of the ioral duties involved ipon scei- ty and the individual. These qustiors, as to individual re tponsibilh!ty cn Deimost clearly an~wer 'd by the econcmists themselves. Prof. Patten the most learaed authority on o::suaption in America says: he >rinciple upon which the Consumers astue is based, is sound. I have great sith in educating the consumer, and in be social changes which a higher type vill bring. The yroducer is merely an agent of he consumer, and if .the latter is per istInt in demanding better things and endi iors, society will be at length re nodeled and transforwmd." President Hadley of Yale says: "As ears go oD, I am more and mere im ressed with the idea thbat cenomic re orm is likely to come thiough the agen iy'of the cynsumer, rather than from nv other source." Frcm a German school we read: "The roducing man is essert:ally the ser rant of the consuming man, and the fi al direction of indubtry lics with he consumers." And again, "The in lustrial world is our servant, and like bDy good servant is only forestalling our 6ishes." Such comolusions, from such authori ies prove that the consumer is the ci ea r. The artistic boot-maker, who ad nires the normal foot, hates to make he pointed high heeled boot, but his ustomers demand this style and, his du y is to serve them. If the public did tot read the yellow j urnals, their pu >lication %outd sopt cease. The Audu ion Society is teaching women the cruel oily of wearir g birds on their hats, and o tne preservation of birds is accom dished. The stores are veiy sensative to the emands of the buyer. They keep in took what you ask for. If then, th 3erebant is so keenly alive to the whims f every class of buyers, would he not e more so to the in-stent intelligent emands of aa educattd public? And o the league purposes to educate this ublic, these every day corsumuers, by eetieg-, by lectur':s. by leatleis, and y systematia investigati.n. It muit e made plain that the consumers hope D Move on very sloxly at first, from weat-shop corditions to such factory adustrics as exist unicr the humane aws of some Northern States. It must Iso be mace plain to all clases that fac ory made products are not more expen ive than sweat shop goons. Tee league s not a movement again-t cbeapness as heapness The modcrn factory with abor savirg applia-cs can produce heaper articles, even with high.r wages ud shorter hours, than come from tene sent industri.-s. A great varety of ods can be traced directly to the best aid workers. Would no-. such prices s hemstitched hankerchiefi for five ents. finiso, knee-pants for twenty five ents, and trimmed orset covers for igiit cents, satisfy even the most per isent bargain seeker in town. Tiie next question is, do we need the ,ague in South Carolina? Are we ready or such an organiz.tion or can this work e carried on with cur Club work as it is a other places? In this State, we do ot find such extremes of wealth and overty as we see in other States. 'here are no sweat-shops. Our mer hants, as a general rule, all live up to he standard of a Fair house. It seems a me that primarily in this State the rvement which I have attempted to escribs must take the form of a co prative educational movement. Two years ago, when Mrarkam's won erful poem "The Man with the Hoe" ras first published, I heard it most ifectively recited in a sermon to achers by Mr. Kershaw of Charleston. [is sympathetic rendition brought out U the points of the poem, and the tience, the pathos, the hopelessness f it all made me very uncomfortable. ly summer vacation was not all rest, nd so I went to a very wise friend, rho can always help me, and Eaid, "I ish Mr. Kershaw had left that poem lone. I can't forgot it, and yet, what there that I can do?' He answer d "Pay your cook more money. hat's about the only point at which he problem touches you." And this a then essence of the spirit of the league. .t is the Golden Rale as applied to ocial economics. In this education, we must teach urselves to "want" right things, right y made. We must learn where and iow to buy so that the "Song of the ~hirt" will become a mere memory of a ad picture of by-gone days. We must earn, (a very hard lesson for us women ifrugal minds) to avoid the bargain able, which is as we all know, a mere ~dvertising scheme, and is filled gene ally with sweat-shops g->ods made peially for this clearance sale. While we are learning these things iursives, we must teach our merchants he object of the league. Teach them vhat a Fair House is. Teach them the ee of the label, and call persistently or labeled goods. Patronize those rouses, which pay the highest wages ud which think that work well done >y a woman is worth just as much as if lone by a man. Support them in the ~arlylosing movement, and urge the bservance of all holidays, You will nd in these shops, the best service, ud the best "cheapness." And next I come to a class of which [know not how to speak. It is by far he largest class of toilers in this State hat needs our help. I refer to the bhildren of the cotton miils. I know t is not a popular subject. We scarce y dare ailude to it in our club-there tre no many mili pre~idents in Spartan )rg. and they nave so many relatives [reiza that there are many sides to he question, and the ar~swers cannet e found in a day. I kt ow the evils of abor laws. In fact, I have not very unch faith in lygislstures, compce fmere men, wh. n it comes to social stic quesuons. But the cild~-en are .n the mills, working ekven hours a iay. These children are growing ir~o nen and women, just as our childiren ire, and they cannot write their names. n a jury of twelve men, drawn from ne of our city m~lls last month, nine f the juriours had to make their mark. hese are American citizans, grown ip under this wozderful oivilizati~n, which having accomp-lshed such won lerful things for its own, is seeking to 3lighten the uttermost parts of the arth. In a few years, they will cease o e citizens, for the time is rapidly ipproaching when the r:ght of suffrage, whih mean the Divine right of our )pinon, will be a gudstion of educa How can The Consumers' League ouc tis clas? The same answer is given. 3y ecucation. Commence at tMe top, and educate the mill pres idents. If all presidents were like your own James L. Orr, and Lewis Parker, the task were not so dif ialt. They have made a fine be ginning in establishing free kin dcrgartens and fine schools, and in many ways showing themselves the children's frierd. The compromise ef fected by the mill president and the legislature of North Carolina is a step in the right direction. Let the pres idents of South Carolina unite with them in a Presidents' League if you will, and let them decide that they will -ntt employ a child under fourteen, thev will not employ a child that can not read and wiite ard that farther. more they will with what help they can get from the State, maintain good Lchools, the question, will for a time at least be kept from the politicians. Above all things keep the question from cur legislators-until y ou educate them. You may not be able to educte all the presidents at oLc3. I rather think it will rEquiie time, but in the mean while you are moulding public opin ion, which after all is the primary con dition of al' ef.etive social legislation And the last lesson for us is patience All social -eforms devt l)p slowly, be cause new habits (f thought must be patiently tended, and we must learn to await these slower results which are the ma-k of lasting go id. Your duty is, while y ou are waiting an opportu nity to join the South Carolina League. to be just, he kind, be watchful, be pa tient, and aiways keep cl3ar your own little c rner of creation. THE W.EATHER AND CROPS Weekly Bulletin Issued Last Week by Prof. Bauer. The following is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather ~ani erops issued last week by Director Bauer of the South Carolina secti'r. of the climate and crop service of th: United Sates weather bureau: The week ending Mondy. April 29:h, averaged, from 10 to 13 degrees per day cAlder than usual, with an ex t-eme minimum of 34 degrees at Greer.vilie. There were light frosts on tte 22 1, 231 and 24th in places, ane a treci of ice in Colicton c;uaty. The fro'ts killed cotton that was up, cu cumbers and melons, yellowed corn, checaed the growth of truck and gar dens, but was apparently not injuri ous on fruit. There were glight, scattered showers on the 221 and 231 over the central and western counties, and snow fiur ries on the same dates in the extreme northwestern portions. The ground was too wet to work, from the pre vious week's heavy raics over the western half of the State, until the middle of the we-k, and only from two to four days plowing could be done. As the soil dries it becomes baked and hard. Along the coast,'aod for about fifty miles inland, there is need of rain to supply moisture to germinating seeds and growing cropsi, and for transplar.4ng tobacco. Bat tom lands are not yet dry enough to plow. There was moresthan the usual amount of sunshine, and the winds were generally light, but were chill ing. Corn has poor and irregular stands, owing to poor germination and the ravages of birds, and -in places whole fields have been plowed up and re planted. The cool weather checked its growth and caused much to turn yellow. In the southeastern counties only has eultivatioD become general. Upland corn is not all planted. Cotton planting made slow progress, and much remains to plant in the western counties, while over the east ern and central counties first planting is about finished. Stands are very poor. A large portion of ths cotton that was planted previous to last week's heavy rains and subsequent cold weather will have to be replanted, as the young plants that were up have died to a large extent, while newly sprouted and unsprouted seed are rot ting in the ground. There is a gen eral scarcity of seed for replanting. Tobacco plants continue small, and are scarce in Willamsburg county. Transplanting progresses slowly ex' ept in Marion county, where it is nearing completion. Rice made slow growth generally. In the Georgetown districts, the rivers and tides were low enough to pe:rmit planting operations to be resumed. With limited exceptions, wheat and oats continue to look promising and are steeling well. Oats are heading over the southeastern counties, and ver limited localities elsewhere. Sweet potatoes are rotting in beds. White petaltoes appear to be doing well. Melons have poor stands. Truck reeds warmer weather and more mois ture, but shipments of peas, beans and strawberries are going forward, the latter ripening slowly. The acreage of strawberries is smaller than usual. The commer.,ial peaoh crop will not be as large as expected, but generally peacees, pears and plums have been only slightly injured by the prevail ing unseasonable weather. Gardens look well, but are backward. Another Black Friday. Russell Sage of New York. who some days ago raised his ye ca in warning sgpinst the wild speculation in Wail street now predicts another "B'ack kriday" in the near tuture. "rhe rub lie has become strangely speculative mad," said Y~r. Sage Thursday morning, it is unprece dented in the stock mar ket. Tiere i-1 nothing to warrant this remark able infiation of stocks. Another 'Blaek Friday,' is pending. It wilt be the worst our financial world has ever Known. Any one who knows the value .:f stocks and studies tue prices at which may of them are selling to day cannot f ail to realize this. Wnen the drop sets in and the public ha vs had their fill the consequences will be awful. It may mean ruin for thousands, I don't thirk this is very far away, either. Tnere is no reason for this re~ narkable advance in stocks. Why, some things sefling on Cuiange today could be reproduced for half the pric now received. As I said before, the speculative craze that has now seized the public will soon end and then will come a terrible reckoring. The public of those who have re'hed madly into Wall street writh their ii. mey in frantic endeavor to win millions, will pay the cost It is the history of fleance." A CITY WiPED oUr. Fifteen M-lion Dollars Qiven as Sac-ifice to Fire Fiene. THOUAND19 ARE HOMELESS. Nt ASirc t the Destiucilon of Co lumbia Hds A Southerr: City Been So Terribly Af a flic-ed by Ftro. A dispitch from Jacksonville, Fla., ( says the most disastrous fira in the his tory of that city began Fr.day shortly e after noon in a small factory, from a t defective wire, according to the best r belief, and burned for nearly ten hours . In that time a property damage esti mated from $10,000,003 to $15,000,000 f was effected. Acaording to the city map, one hundred and thirty blocks v were burned, many of them in the a heart of the business and residence sec tion. The estimate of houses to the block is 10, hence 1,300 of them went b up in smoke. Many of the finest public and private . buildings were destroyed, including hotels, theatre, churches and resi- c dences. The casualties cannot be ac carately estimated tonight. That there d were several seems t be well autbenti eated. Among them was that of the fire chief, who sustained a bad fall. The mayor ordered all of the saloons closed, and has impressed help to clear 6 the wreckage. Tae mayor at a late hour stated that he estimated the loss at $15,000,000, and that 10,000 to 15, 000 people were homeless. Mr. W. W. Cleveland, in whose a premises the fire originated, and who was i one of the heavebt losers, dropped dead a from excitemlent. A Etalwart ncgro, bringing a trunk on his head from a buraing bulding, went crazy from the horror of the situation. H_ ran around in a circle with the trunk on hia had y untii he sank exhaustud and died Women ran through the street tearing tueir hair and c.oLhes, and in several instances had almost denuded them- t stives whn they were caught o.. friends r, and ied to p-ac-s of sa y. H-rees hitched to trucks coud not be caleore n quickiv euoiga and many of them ran wi d through the deworaizd throng. n At nigit the miLtary was ordered out b to guard the household goods piled high n in vacant lots. b i A Trusty Trusty. 11 The Colum.a Ssate say s Alonzo fh Capers, amuiatt. member of the coamty a chaingang which employed near To mathy station on the Charleston and h Wes.ern Carolina railroad, some 50 0 miles from Beaufort, made a desperate I attemptin broad day ligtt to effect his t] escape from the gang. Tte negro com plained to the guard, Mr. J. R. Cooler, E that he was too ill to work. and the t4 latter acordingly chained him in a u room adjoining his (Cooler't) sleeping ' quarters and left him in the day time s in charge of a negro trusty named tF Cleveland, who act'ed as cook for the I camp. Cleveland had occasion to Iease , the stockade for a few -moments Tus- a day at about 3 o'clock p. in., and when a he retured found Capers in Mr. Cooler's tl room garbed in the guard's best suit of hi clothes. As a loaded double-barreled shot gun was in the apartment the trusty did not venture to show himself, but stepped noislessly around a corner of the building and presently saw Capers 0 emerage from the doorway smoking a cigar and cooly walk off; he also noticed ' the guard's gold watch and chain 4 attached to the convicts vest and a gold a medal which Mr. Cooler was accustom-g ed to wear pinned to the lapel of the man's coat. Cleveland quickly noted that Capers was unarmed and evidently not notied the gun, and hastened into e the building and secured the weapon. Emerging a moment latter he called ~ upon the escaping convict halt. Ca-n pers refused to comply with the cook's ~ de nand and the latter let flg a charge 0 of duck shot with such good effect tha0 it struck the convict in his left shoul der. Nothing dounted, however, the desperate man continned on his wayg until a second load from Cleveland's gun brought him to the ground. Ca pers had broken the lock to the big irons which held him and entered the e guard's room where he broke open a s] trunk and helped himself to various 1 articles. It is likely Cleveland will be p liberated for his good conduct. Capers v is not seriously wounded. Slayer of Captain Griffin. t) Banard B. Evars has been allowed d bail by the supreme court, the amount ~ being fixed at $3,000. He was charged b with killing Captain John J. Griffn on a April 13. The affdavit of Evans, the h frst hie has made, was interesting. Some a one had sent him a keg of lignior and E he invited Captain Griffin to his room. a The keg was opened by a porter and they drank and talked. Captain Grif lin invited him to dine at a restautanit. The captain took a dr~nk, and while Evans was taking one preparatory to going to dinner he heard Gr fia re- e pea ing poetry something like-"~It is not ignoble to die thus." F L'sking around he saw Griffa with his (Evans) pistol pinted at himself. Evaas exclaimed that the weapon was loaed. Graffn c~ntinutog to point it Evans triei .0o:ake iL from him Grif tin t~i not reisese it and while thiuq enog-:d the pistol fired. Gr:r said:e '" at shot. Go for ad ..ctor " Evansc says he immeiiately weat to three cele phones in he neighboiho~od to cali for a 1 doctor. Grdffn was his warn peonal frend, s:m Evavs Joseph E G:iffia, a son of the dead man, s. are he af e his father af ter 11 o'lck and saw him pit a large roll ef V b:lts in his pocket and that after his a death bot one :ilver dollar was found p on his person. 1 D:.. Robert W. Gibbes testified that C the face of the decessed was bruised as ed if it had been struck hard blowes with d the fist or a blunt instrument. There k were~ powder mcrks on tbe back of the g right wrist. F'rom experience, expsri- b ments and the best authorities he v thought the pistol c~uld have been no h narer than' 5 feet when fired. Ex. o Governor Evans, Major W. T. Gary, tl N. G. Evans and others of the family n will go on the bond. -. f HAMPJXN DECLINES. ays He Does Not Care to ba Post master at Columbia. The Columbia State, of Friday, says 'or several days it has been rumorei a Columb's that Gen. Wade Hamptoi ad been approached by a friend o enator McLaurin to know whether o ot Gen. Hampton would accept th( ositon of postmaster for Columbia. A representative of the State oalle< n Gen. Hampton Thursday afternooi t his comfortable home on Senat( treet and was received with that kin< ordiality which has won so mani earts to the grand leader of Souti 4aroliviaus in war and peace. Gen [ampton was informed of the repor bove mentioned and asked for -om( xpression upon it. He seemed relao int to say anything for publication iE Beard to it, but when told that thi dformation had come from one who i nown to be in close touch with Sen tor MoLaurin, the general in his usus rm way, said: 1 would not accept anything in thi orld from that source." Here he paused and after a momen Dntinued with significant emphasis 'The people of South Carolina ought t4 now by this time that I cannot bc ought." Taat is all Gen. Hampton would sal i regard to the postoffice rumor, ex apt to intimate that it might be well > apply to Senator MeLaurin for in armation on the subject. However, he id not seem sure that such an appli stion would be accorded a reply thal ould be entirely veracious. It can be stated, however, that in ell-informed circles it is believed that en. Hampton has been approachecd iore o7 less definitely with the offar the Columbia postmastership. That would be refused if it came thrcuit nator McLaurin cannot be doubted Fter what the general has said, nor is believed that Gen. Hampten wou'd ncpt any favors at the hands ol 'resident McKinley, though it is be eved that the president desired to re in Gen. Hanpton in the offioc of Inited Statos railroad commissioner le was osabe to do so, hewever, foi clitical reasons. The reference which Senator Hamp n made to the man who now hold e senatcrial seat he once o-cupied calls a fGc: ihat has bcen known bu ot published When the aIerx Lvem-fLt of 1890 began Senator Me ,arin, it wilt be remembertd, Vas !her late getting on the band wager at finally landed safely. When the ame of Hampton's suecessor was rought out. Senator McLaurin, then the legislature, remarked to a Co imbia genwl. n that was going too r, thast he couid not follow the "move Lent" in that direction. When.tht nominations were made, wever, McLsurin made a speech see :-ding the nomination of the man wh< as put up by the Reformers to bes ie hero of 1876. While in conversation with Gen [ampton the talk very naturally drifted > the reunion and one of the gentle en suggested that Gen. Hampton ould doubtless be wearied by having > many old soldiers to call on him and >shake his hand in public, as all would ant to do. "Oh-no," interjected the great cav ryman, "I won't mind that. I am al ays glad to meet a man who foughi irough the war without desert ing anc as not deserted since." Exposition Opened. The Baffalo Exposition was throwi pen Wednesday morning and notwith ianding it had rained alt night and thi ether conditions were bad, largi :owds assembled at the gates to ente: Ssoon as they were thrown open. Thi rounds were well patronized by those ho desired to be present at the open ig. William F. Hamlin was permitted y agreement to purchase the first tick t, he having offered some time ago ti sy $5,000 for the privilege. The ticke as Eent to him. At noon the paid ad issions aggregated about $1,000, thi ajority of the visitors being employe' others entering on passes. At 'lock a salute of 45 aerial bombs wai red ated simultaneously hundrds o tgs were raised on the buildings an rounds. Murdered His Wife. C. R. Armstrong, a well known gro ary merchant at Jacksonville, Fla., ot his wife four times at 8 o'clocl hurday night. The shooting tool lace in front of the residence of the ictim's mother. She will die. Whet rmstrong fired the first shot his wife 11 forward on her face. He then firei :rae shots into her body. Armstrong ove his wife away from home threi eks ago. She went to the home o er mother. He visited her Thursda3 ternoon and again at night when shi ad gone to church. He waited for he: ad shot her before she got inside th~ te. Armstrong was arrested immedi tely. Pension Fund Tied Up. The Columbia State says "until tbi pre me court acts upon the questior to the right of the oamptroller gen al t~o issue his warrants for the pay. e8t of the pension appropriations in ~nd..d to oe provided for by the legisla are rio warrants can be sent cut. Ii her words the muddle that the pen on appropriatioa measures were got : into on the last night of the lasi eon of the general assembly aa: de it necesary for the suprem! urt to handle the matter b'.fore an3 asioner on the rolls in thlis State cat Lcnoee tne pension money cuntemp ted." The Poor Filipino. General B-il who has ju~t arrived it rashington di eat from the Philippines ere he was in command of four de rtmnts of southern Lazon, is quoted a special from the capitatl as saying ns-sixth of the natives of Luznn hav< thr been killed or have died of the ague fever in the last two years. The s of life by killing alone has been verj ~eat, but I think that not one man ha! aen slain except where his death ser d the legitimate purposes of war. Il as been necessary to accept what it hr countries would probably b! iought harsh measures for the Filipi o is trioky and crafty and has to hi ugt in his own way. A MAD GOVERNOR. Chandler, of Georgia. Pays His Warm Respects to SOME NORTHERN EDITORS And Denounces Reports that Have Been Made Regardirig Re c'nt Expressions At. tributed to Him. Gov. Chandler, of Georgia, is hot ui der the collai. Recently in an inter view with the Atlanta Journal Reporter he gave out for publietion a full and complete reply to the accounts of his inteivlew that have been printed throughout the country regarding the Ogden- Parkhurst pirty that recently came south on i special tour of inspee tion of the educational advantages of thin section. In the interview Gover nor Chandler was reported assaying that Dr. Parkhurst who was a member of the party, was a crank and from that report there grew a perfect torrent of denunciation all credited to the gover nor. The statement furnished by Gov ernor Chandler Wednesday sets at rest some of the expressions that had been charged tohim and goes to show that he has been the recipient of letters from persons who have denounced him and the entire south. The statement follows: "Life is too short for a public mar to follow up and correct all the slander ous statements made about himself, his actions and his utterances. Moun tains are made out of mole hills, words are put in his mouth that he never thought of uttering, and false colorings are put on what he does say and his utterances are paraded under lurid and mileading headlines by sensational paragraphers I have learned to -sub mit to all this, but there is a point at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and I have about reached that po:nt The report of what I said about the Og den Parkhurst party as printed in The Savannah Press, thcugh somewhat highly colored, was subsmantially cor rt ct, and wa- good humored and harm kess, but as it. went further notth it -wa, exaggerated and etabellished by fal-e hocd 'iti I would not have recogn z-d it if my name hsd not been connected with it. la the conversation which 1 had with The Press man, which hat been dignified as an "interview,' I said nothing that could give tfFenee to the most sensitive, unlrss perhaps my jo!uiar reference to Dr. Parkhurst as a crank could do so. I "criticised" no body; I "roasted" nobody; I "denouno ed ' nobody, I said not a -word about "d-d yankee money," I impugued no body's motives. I see Dr. Parkhurst is reported to have said in his Sunday'@ sermon "had the governor of Georgia, as did the governor of North Carolina, come into direct contact with the per sonel of the conference" the criticim would not have been made. "This seems to be the head and front of my offending, that I did not dance attendance on this party at its meeting in the colored church in this city. I beg to assure the reverend doctor that no discourtesy was- intended. Had it occurred to me that this was a courtesy expected of me I would certainly have gone, at whatever sacrifice of other du ties, because I do not desire to be dis courteous. The doctor saya "the SLtt does not altogether love us, but no one there hates us." The latter part of this statement is unquestionably true. There is hele and there in the south a crank, for we have .some cranks- here too, who thinks he hates the northern people, but this species is rare, much rarer, I fear, than the men of the north who hate the people of the south. "The amiable doctor may differ with me in this but he would not if he could see the hundreds of denuncistory and vilely abusive letters in my possession, some of them from his own city, in which the vilest epithets are applied to the south and southern men and even southern women, such as "you cannot raise men in the south, you raise brutes." "your state is a disgrace to the nation," "snuff dipping sluts," "d-d daughters of sin," etc. "These vile denunciations and slan ders have nob emanated alone from ignorapt fanatics, but some of the nor theru newspapers have been just as bit ter and slanderous. For instance the Philadelphia Press a few days ago, en raged by my innocent failure 1o meet these tourists when they went through here inspecting the nepro schools, charged that I have 'given my tacit consent to lynching and sat supinely in my cifie while a human being was burned alive by a mob,' and that I re ceived from the lynchers a piece of the charred flesh as a souvenir.' The father of lies could not have invented a ba'er or more malicious fiasehood. There has been only one negro ,burned alive in Georgia,andnotwithstanding his was the most diabolical crime in the annals of crime. I did everything pos sible to prevent the lynohing. The moment I heard of the arrest of the negro I crder ed the sheriff by wire to summon a sufficiegt force if it required every man in his county, to prevent violence. He raplied that be found it impossible to resist the mob and that the negro had already been . lynche d Nothing short of omnipotence csuld, in thie brief interval between the moment when I was informed that Hose had been apprehended and the moment at which the to.ch was applied, have pre ventea the lynching "The charge 'hrat Ireceived a piece of the charred fibah as a souvenir is so baseely, m aniy and utterly false that it is humiliating to have to refer to it No body but a brate would offer or rece~ve such a growsome 'souveniir,' and had there been s man in Georgia bruitish enough to off~r it to me I would have kicked him out of my office. And yet these base charges are made in the edi torial columns of a daily ne wspaper pub lished in 'The City of Brotherly Ljve.' And these are only specimens of the love some of the northern people and papers who complain of 'discjurtesy' have for the southern people ana southern offi cials who are doing their utmost to pro toot all of their people in life and liber ty without repard to race or color. "The New York Times has been little less abusiye. Without stopping to in quire for facts or truth they either fab ..cte or massme a true slanders fabri cated by others and denounce the south ern people atd southern officials as 'savages' and 'biutes'. They seek to lash us into loving them. They regard us as criminals when we diseent from their viewRs. Most of the race friction that has ever existed in the south is chargeable to them and their intermed dling. The southern white pecp'e and the stuthern negroes understand each other and do not hate each other when let alone. "These miserable assassins of char acter and of the peace of communities are chage able with all the race friction that exists. We had none of it before they intermeddled They have abused the liberty of the press and have con strued it into license, to slander and abuse those who, knowing thesituation in the south better than they do, dare to dissent from their dogmas born of ignorane> and prtjndice or to ressnt their insults and slandei s. 'They brand as knaves or fools or brntes all who diffkr from them and while thenEelves spurning the negro, they damn us because we have estabish ed separate schools for the two races and have prohibited their intermarriage. If they would emulate the example of Booker Washingion and Council and southern negroes of that type who presah and teach the doctrine of truth and honesty and peace and good will, instead of the gospel of hate, they would be respected by the southern people as much as Washington and Council are. But they cannot do this because they are the lineal descendants of those who, fiteing from the old world to eDjoy re ligious freedom in the new, called a sort of town meeting in the little boat in which they sailed, the day before they landed, and passed a resolution that they wc uld be governed by the laws of God until they could find time to en act better ones, and when they had land' ed proceeded at once to enjoy religious freedom by burcing witches and scourg ing Qoakers and Baptists ard Papists at a cart's tail, and from that day to this they have busied themselves in at tending to other people s business. This is the peculiar chara:erb~uc by which this breed which aceords to every one the right to think for himself-prov ceI he thinks as they do-may always be known They (but nobody else nor-h or soutb) will denounce me as a Bjur bon and a ulaea uard fer which I .have said about them, for the truth hur a. Tney will dis orc it and torture iU into an attack on D Parkburst and his pirty and upun all the p-ople of the norih. This is the wAy this breed al4ays does. Bat the charge will be basey false. "I have not ad d. not mt- nd a word that I have said f..r the amiabse doctor whose intentions I b ,ieve are good, nor for nis party, ooiy t vo of whom Wash icgton and Curry, are~koown to me per so.ally. These two ara good men and are, as I have on every occasion said, doing good. It is intended solely for tuoh creatures as the mendacious cur who penned the vile slander in the t'hil adelphia Press referred to above, wretches who having ro manners nor morals of theirown constitu e themselves the ceLsors of the manners and mo ats of others. Dr. PArkhurst and his friends can come to the south and especially to Georgia whenever tJiey please, and will I in the future as in the past, be treated with the utmost courtesy, and while the people of this state are not mendicants, begging alms of anybody, they may so long as they treat us as their equals so cially, morally and intellectually, ex tend to our schools white and colored, such aid as they pfease and it will be received in the spirit in which it is of fered. Bat we have never yet learned, and God forbid that we should ever learn to be syeophants -and boot licks, licking the hand that smites us, or to 'crook the pregiaant hinges of the knee that thrifta may follow fawning.'" Allen D. 'Candler. Opposed Marriage Settlements. Just before Calhoun's marriage he had a long talk with the legal counsel of his s weetheart's mother regarding Floride's marriage settlement, and di rectly thereafter, says George Wolsey Symonds in the Ladies Home Journal, urote to his prospective mother-in-law en the subject: "From prejudice, or reason, I have always been opposed to marriage settlements. I think experi ence and reason prove them to be un friendly to the happiness of the mar riage state; and that they tend to pro - dues pecuniary embarrassment. In that state there should be one interest, one happines and one destiny. That entire confidence, which is reposed by a female in the object of her choice, in placing both her nono'r and her property in his custody, gives rise to the most sacred and tender regard. A marriage set-1 tlement implies a distrust. It is no safety against inevitable accident. It is a guard against the imprudence or misconduct of the husband only. If successful in life there is no benefit in one; if unsuccessful, what more dis agreeagble than to have property. but not to be able to pay just debtb? It would to me be wretched. It would be splendid poverty." The Difference. R eferring to the estimation in which the people of the south and those of the north hold the negro, Dr. Parkhurst, of New York, recently said in a ser mon: "The southerner does not like the rnegro any better than the average nornerner does, and the two C carry themselves toward the negron with just about the sam-e amount of Christian consideration-oaly of the two, the southern white man has perhaps tnis advantage, that he does e not make quite so fiamboy ant a pre tnse of lovi:,g thie negro as his nor- t thrn confr re does Tne southern -t whate man daIires the uegro, and owris a up to u. The ,nite maa i'. the north dihkes the negro and lies abouat it." A Sanitarium to be Bullt. a - t The Spartanburg Jjurnal says it is reprted on good authority that a large sanitarium is to be built at Flat Rock, N C., near Hernd~rs3nville. This place is alreadv noted as a health resort and a fineinstitution of this sort would add r greatly to its fame and value. Dr. Ar- c thur Guerard of New York, is to build thissanitarium. He has a fine estate at Flat Rock arnd the sanitarium will be< near his present summer home. Dr. Guerard is a native of Charleston and has had a distinguished career as chem itaned surgeon. BREAK FOR LIBElmX Life Term Convicts Overpower a Quard and Escapes. A'MAN HUNT FOLLOWS. Ian in a Tree Shootsat Pursuers, But Is Brought Down With Pistol Shot. Only - One Escapes. A dispatch from Hagood to The 3tate says one tf the most daing iscapes that was ever made from the 3tate farm was made by three convicts Wednesday morning. The plow detail was at work near a thick branch when srael Sims,. a life prisoner from York iounty, slipped up behind Guard M. 0. Bnrkett, struck him -a - tunning blow in the neck and took his gun from him. !Lfter getsing the gun Sims attempted * shoot Barkett, but did not know iow to manipulate the rifie. He im nediately took refuge in the branch, istrying the rifle with him and was fol owed by two other desperate convicts, irant McNeill, sentenced for life from Jharleston, and Tom Haystsek, lentenced for 20 years from Saldda. rhe otherprisoners made no effort. to scape, though it is said that others were in the plot. As soon as it was >ossible Mr. Gardner, the manager of fie DeSaussure farm, was notifed of he escape and as is the custom, every fort was made to effect their capture. t was not long before the guards and ud trusties had the esespes surrounded n the swamp. With the edges well 1uarded on ail sides, several entered ind searched the almost impenetrable wa mp. It was not long berore Isaaw ims, the ring leader, was discovered p a tree. He a ill had'the rifle with um and on being cemaianded to sur ender, opened fire on Mr. Morris, the nanager cf tLe Reid farm, and another nan who was with him. As there was nly one load in the rifle. Morris knew hat no harm could then be aone, sr he overed Sims with his pistol, and ef ecied nis capture without any furher ronole. Sims was then securely tied. armed over to one of the guards and ;as soon lan-ied in ume swooa e. Tne ruxsait of M.NeiI 1ad aagatak was hen conatmwaed. Another dtive WaS naae through the swamp when M.;4il1 va discovered He broke aan ran and btmpted to make als escape across an oen .d, but Mr. Garaner, wno was nousted on his herse, tooi -ovartook um. On being commanied to hatt,1 flcNeili showed figat, turned on Gaid ier and had to be shot before he would iurrerder. The wound, however, is in bie arm and lot cansiaered a dan gerous one' Ie was returned to th - toctade and the pursuit was cantin ted for Haystack. With the swamp veil guarded on all sides, search atter earch was made, but the fugitive ould not be found. A large guard orce was kept on duty all night but at his writing Haystack has eluded his urMuers and it is supposed has made ;ood his escape. It is simply marve ous how he effected it under the air mmstanoes. The plot to escape wu well laid for the prisoners captured were supplied with rations sufficiens to ast two or three days and also had a imall quantity of turpentine which they use, it is'said, on their feet to keep the dogs from trailing them. When Sims took Mr. Barkett's gun, Burkett attempted to shoot him with his pistol and after snapping evert cart idge it refused to fire. Drowned by Their ]Father. A partial confirmation of the suspi ion that William Rosenfeld drowned his four children and himslf one week go in the Mississippi river, was obtuin id Thursday when thle body of the nine ear old Rosenfeld boy was taken. from the river near Fort Snelling. Rosen' reld is alleged to have abducted his ihildren, who were in thie custody of their mother at Minneapolis, secured a rig and drove with them to the river were all are supposed to have been rowned. The father is supposed to have committed suicide also by throiw ing himself over the bridge.. Their dis ippearance was an unsolved mystery annril a watchman found. the body of a boy fioating in the Mississippi. Boson eld had for some time been separated from his wife, who has been living in Iinneapolis, while Rosenfeld lived in h. Paul. A week ago he hired a car iage and got the chilaren from the rela des who were keeping them. He tried o prevail on his wife to accompany hem but she refused. The next morn ng the horse was found near the Mar hall avenue bridge, all trace of the cc upants of the carriage having disappear d until Thursday. Six hundred Arrested. A dispatch from Berlin says a re ort has been received there of the dia overy of a gigantic conspiracy in Rus ian oland which has been followed by large number of arrests. Six hun red persona who were suspected of be ng anarchists were imprisoned in the iadel at Warsaw. These included I the passengers on a train, number g 200. The districts of Sosnovice, lieice and Dombrova have been cc apied by Cossacks. The nature of the onspiracy is not known. Women of the South. Sarah Bernharat sailed from New ork for Europe on Wedgenday. The zuah at the pier prior to her departure ias teriffie. Bernhardt was caught in e crowd and puis.ea heavily agalnat he raiding of the gpggank. She creamed and three pomirmen rescued er uehurt. In discussing Amerncan ~omen, Bernharat proisei highly 3thern women, saying that they were delght to thle eye, passessing good ste, good looks, good manners and mialepiits. Sligh Quits. The announcement made Wednesday ight that the attorney general had ac eped the resignation of li Brooks liga and appointed ex Saeriff George . Ao~rary, of Lmurens, United States Leputy marshal for South Carolina will ause surprise in this et te. People will be puzzled to figure out just where he administration is leading to. Up ths Mcna has ben a Damoarat.