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OL i DEAD HONORED The Chick imaug Monum nt U nveiled Last Week A FINE WORK O7 ART. The Pr-ocssion of Of icials and Citizris and the Parade of Vaterans and the Mi'iba Was Imposing South Carolina his at last paid prop er tribute to her gallant soldiers for their glorious deed of valo: in shed ding their life's blood on Chickama mauga's great battlefield. Her beauti ful monument-made of Winnsboro granite, with guards of bronz3 life-size Confederate soldiers, one an infantry man, the other and artilleryman, stand ing on each side of the main shaft and with the typical and gracefu' palmetto on the top-was unveiled on Monday of last week. We take the following account of the important event from the Columbia Sate, which was furn ished that journal by its special corre spondent who was present. He says: The executiv3 special with the pro visional regiment, arrived at Chatta nooga Monday morning shortly before 2 o'clock. The ride bad been a pleas ant one and the men had behaved themselves handsomely. They remained in the cars in the Southern railroad yard. A number of Columbians and South Carolina veterans were here to meet the party. Monday morning the news cime that the veterans' special had been blocked by a freight wreck near Atlanta and after a short tim ) it was annunced that it could not get here until 12:45 p. m. The Chattanooga committee, healed by Capt. T. C. Thompson, called on the governor and announced a reception at the station hotel at 10:30 o'clook. Gen. A. P. Stewart and Gen. Boynton also called, as did the Georgia delegation consisting of Adjt. Gen. Robertson, Asst. Adjt. Gan. Bird, Inspt. G3n. Obear and several others of Gov. Cand ler's staf, includIng Col. (Miss) Ger trude Morris. At the hour named the governor and Gens. Floyd and Car wile, Col. J. H. Wilson, of the Commis sion Cols. Wilie Jones, Brantley, Folk, Au Kohn, Hamer, Redding, Watson Mos, Frost, and Capts. Augbtry and Hayatt, sccompanied by the committee, went to the station and were met by ladies and gentlemen. Prior to this the governor had been serenaded and he and several of the party were forced to respond. The Chattanooga band and Spence's Military band made de lightful music. On the arrival of the veterans' spe cial here with Gen. Walker aboard, both trains moved on to Lytle station, many ladies coming aboard the private car. On arriving at Lytle the regi ment was quickly foi-med, horses be ing in waiting for the marshal and the offeers. There were also carriagvs for the distinguished guests, the ladies and the staff. In a short time the line of march was taken up for the site of the monument. The regiment made a splendid show, carrying both federal and company colors. The regiment marched as follows: THE LINE OF MARCH Col. Wilie Jones, commanding; First Lieut. F. G. Tompkins, acting regi mental adjatant; color bearers, Sergts. R. D. Walker, Jesse H. Haise. First Battalion-D. 0. Herbert, lieu tenaat colonel commanding; First Lieut. Joe A. Berry, acting adjutant. Company A, Kershaw Guards, Cam den, S. C., Capt. S. C. Zamp, First Lieut.H. L Watkins; Second Lieut. R R. Team; Sergeants L. C. Hough, B. P. De~aoach, A. L. Watkins, W. R. DeLOach. Fifty-six men. Company M, Governor's Guards, Co lumbia, S. C., Capt. A. M. Deal; First Lieut. F. G. Tompkins; Second ieut. BH. W. Holfoway; Sergts. S. M. Talley, A. P. Howie, J. F. Flowers, S. C. Sis sions,'J. L. West. Thirty men. Company C, Irish Volunteers, Char leston, S. C., Capt. David F. Kearney, First Lieut. J. P. B. O'Niel, Second Lieut. J. P. Sallivan, Sergts. J. J. Morris, F. P. Damfi, J. J. Miller, R. G. Sheehan. Thirty-seven men. SECOND BATTALION. Jasper Light Infantry, Yorkville, 35 eocers and men. Capt. W. B. Moore. Morgan Rifles, Clifton, 30 cfiee and men. Capt. Jno. F. Langston. Lee Light Infantry, Chester, 29 off cers and men4 Capt. J. C. McLure. In the absence of Col. H. Fay Gaff ney the senior captain was in command of the battalion. THIRD BATTALION. Maj. W. fLoring Lee, commanding; Lieut. R. C. Rollins, acting adjcrtant. Company 1E, Timmonsville Guards, Timmonsville, S. C., Capt. W. H. Keith. First Lieut. R. K Cnarles, Sea ond Liens. R. C. Rollins, Sorgts. F. MI. Simms, Walter Anderson, G. W. Lewis. Twenty-three men. Company H, Sumter Light Infantry, Sumter, S. C., Capt. H. F. Wilson, Second Lieut. Seriven Doar, Sergts. C. B. Gendon, Harry Reed, R. D. Brad ford. Twenty-three men. Company IE, Palmetto Guards, Char leston, 8. C., First Lieut. E. .E. Passai-) laigue, Second Lieu-. W. 0. Bee,1 Sergts. J. J. B:owning, C. Ogen, W. H. Smith. Twenty-four men. The parade was formed at Lytle Sta 1 tion, right of South Carolina volunteer troops, resting opposite United States commissary warehouses, and the vet-1 erans, opposite United States corral.1 Gen. T. W. Carwile of Edgefield was chief marshal and Col. James G. Holmes of Charleston was his cbief of staff. The aides were Maj. 0. L. Schumpert, Capt. Thomas C. Thomp son, Capt. Geo. H Webb, Capt. C. M.< Willingham, Capt. Geo. .E. McGee, Capt. A. W. Chambliss, Capt. Sam MI. Chambliss and Capt. W. J. Willing ham, all but the first named being resi dents of Chattanooga, and South Car olinans. The order cf prooession was as fol lows: Band. South Carolina provisional regiment under command of Col, Wilie Jones, commanding Second regiment of State troops. South Carolina division United Sons of Condfederate Veterans under com mand of Commander P. Butler Ha good. Georgia military and camps of Con federate veterans. South Carolina division United Con-I federate Veterans.1 Visiting Confederate veterans. Mbers of South Carolina Chicka mauga monument commission in car-r riages. Members of Chickamauga and Chat tanooga National Park commission. Gov Candler f Georgia and staff. Speakers ana other distinguished guosts in carriages. Vititors. The carriages were occupied as fol lows. First-Gov. M. B. MoSweeney, Gen. J. W. Floyd, Gen. C. I. Walker and Col. J. Harvey Wilaon. Second-Mlaj C. K. H mderson, Hon. D. S. Henderson, Bishop E lison Capers and Gen. H. V. Boynton. Third-Five seat pleasure carriage for Uaited S'ates cmmissioners and their guests, Gen. S ewart, C.A. Smith, Col. Nicholson. Fourth-Georgia officials: Adju'ant general and inspector general with three staff offiser3. Fifth-For unveiler and chaperones: Mise A. 0 Walker, Mrs C. I. Walker, Mips M S DuPre, Mrs. Legare, Miss Ebert Bland and her chaperone, Miss Teague, sponsor South Carolina divis ion, and Miss Nrwood, maid of honor. Sixth-Carriages containing the members of the staff of the governor of Sa-uth Carolina. At one point the vaterans of their own volution took a short cut to save a large bend in the road. This move ment s'howing they had been there be for. A pretty incident of th3 parade was an act of Gen. Capers. He saw an aged and infirm veteran trying to keep up He stopped his carriage and took him up. A HANDSOME SHAFr. As the veterans came up they looked upon one of the handsomest monu ments in the park. It is built of South Carolina granite, a fi6 emblem, of the heroic stand made by the Carolinians on this field. Oa either side is a bronze statute original and made spcially for this work. An infantryman on one side, an artilleryman on the other. South Carolina had no cavalry in the battle. Crowning the whole is a bronze palmetto of exquisite workmanship surpassing in trathiulaess to natu-e the winderful brarz) palmetto at the S ate hous,. On the front of the up per stone is the shield of Suth Caro lina in bronz3. THE INSCRIPTION. The inscriptions are as f allows: 02the front, composed by Bishop Capers with grand simplicity: "To her faithful sons at Chicka mauga South Carolina erects this mon ument to c )mmemorate the valor they proved, and the lives they gave on this &attlefield." On the back: Kershaw's brigade-Second South Carolina regiment, Third South Caro lina regiment, Seventh South Carolina regiment, Eightb S)uth Carolina regi ment, Fiftheenth S uth Carolina regi ment, James' Third South Carolina battalion. Killed 65; wounded 438; missing 1. Of Manigault's brigade-Tenth South Carolina regiment, Eighteenth South Carolina reiment. Killed 26; m~rtal ly wounded 40; wounded 170. Of Gist's brigade-Twonty-fourth South Carolina regim'nt. Killed 43; wounded 114; missing 12 Culpepper's battery-Wounded14. DESCRIPTION. The total height of the monument is 33 feet: The work was done by the stewart Stone company of Columbia, and reflects the highest credit on their artistic taste and skill. Mr. Stewart was hero to see that everything was all right. The tree reached here only Monday. It was made by the Ames foundry of Chicopee, Mass., and Mr. Seatis justly proud of the fine piece of work. None have found fault. Ii was nearly 4 o'clock Monday even ing when the South Carolina Provi sional regiment marching in fine style, making a most creditable appea-ance, headed by Col. Wilie Jones on a hand some black horse, made the ascent to Sodgrass Hill and there stood at pre sent arms as the contingent of veter ans passed- followed by the members of the commission, the governor and staff and distinguished guests, the sponsors and the young ladies who were to do the unveiling. There was quite a gathering waiting near the stand. The monument itself was veiled with the Confederate 'olors, red and white, and between the folds peered the bronze face of the statue of the Confederate soldiers on the sides as if scouting. On the extrc mni rear of the stand was draped a very large United States flhg On the stand, to be borne by men who had fought under them, were the tatter:d and torn flags of the Tenth, T wenty fourth and 8ev enth South Carolina regiments As the party went upon the stand, tt e regiment was dismissed and the men istened to the speeches. Gov. Mc Sweeney presided as chairm in of the ommissisn. Near him upon the stand sat Gen Walker, Gen. Capers, Gen. Boynton, ~3o1.- J. D. Blanding, of Nexican war fame, Gen. Car wile, Gen. Floyd, the Rev. Jno. K'ershaw, veter ins from many portions of South Car lina, the adjutant general of Georgia, members of the staff of ths governors of Sauth Carolina and Georgia, the un veilers, the sponsors, and others. The banner of Camp Hampton of Columbia, borne by Mr. L~. C. Levin, was deco rated with a magaifi ,en% wreath of pal etto which was afterwards placed on th monument. At 4:15 Gov. McSweeney opened the. proceedings by introducing as the son >f that distinguished South Carolina oldier, Gen Kershaw, the Rev. John Kershaw of Charleston, who made the )pening prayer. THE GOVERNOR. (av. McSweeney then spoke aa fol ows, being cheered to the echo when :he names of various heroes were nentioned: Felaow Countrymen: Mare than a genera ion has passed since the day of carnage which made this spat historic, when foeman net foreman worthy of his steel in this >loody contest. It was not a conflict be ween hired soldiers but of men equal in ourage and of the same great race who were ~ontending for principles they believed to be ight. The heroism and the fortitude dis >layed by the southern soldier in this can- 4 iit has never been surpassed in the history f the world. He considered that he was :ontending for the principle upon which our ;overnment was founded and he went into he conflict as a patriotic duty, and duty was ti watchword from Manassas to Appa nattox. On no other hypothesis can you plain the privation and the suffering which he so cheerfully and readily endured. This spirit of patriotism prevailed not only ,mong the men of the south, but the woman, ike the Spartan mothers of old, sent their ons and loved ones to the front with a cheer ulness born of a patriotism that will make mny people great. From the first gun at Fort c ~umter until arms were stacked at Appomat ox they endured hardships and privations ith a fortitude rarely equalled and never ixcelled. And when the Confederate soldier stackede is arms and furled forever the flag which Le had followed through victory and defeat ad turned his face homeward, shattered ad worn, there were no vain regrets for the eart he had played in the great drama of ( rar, but with a cheerfulness unparrelled t ud a spirt undaunted he began anew the a atle or life and the work of rebuilding his st fortunes and today there is no one more eady or more witling to respond to the de-g ens t o.:r common country than the Con ederate soldier. This was demonstrated in ur last war with Spain when Joe Wheeler J laid hie life upon the altar of his couttry. It is meet and right that we sboultd perpetuale his memory in bronze aid stone, but better c till that it should be e-:balmed in the hearts th and lives of those who a-D to come after us. Tais we can do and al te s &ne time accept : the result of the combat and still be true to P the n z. vi This is a pr.rud day for South Carolina. This beautiful pirk has been purih-sed by m the general government, an-I each State hav- T1 ;ng troops engaged in this great battle has been asked to mark the position of its troops. Many of the States have already actel, and nearly a half million dollars hive been ex- Bi pended by sixteen States f.>r this purpose. Taough tardy we have at last dine our duty and today we come to dedicate this mona meat to the memory of the brave South Caro th linians who fought and fell on th's historic bu spot. br In 1893 the general assembly of Sout- on Carolina appointed a commission to locate thi the po ition of her troops and in 184 a com hil mission to select suitable monuments, but it was not until 11)00 that the means were pro- t viled to c~mple'e the work At that ses- th sion of the legislature an appropriation of of. T10.00 was made to ereot suitale monu- ori men, and the gove-nir was authorize I to fu: appoiat a commission of three members, and to they. with the gverao and the adjutant tl general, were to nave c.hroe of the erection col of the markers and the zon'iment. By .. authority of that act I appointed as the oth~r members of this commission Gen. C. 1. NC Walker. of Charleston, CoL. J. Harvey Wil thi son, of Su'iter, s-nd Captain C. K. Hender- a-2 son, of Aike:, I am p oud that I have the ab opportunity of taking part in these cere- sp: monies and I rejoice at the coisummation to frc which this day brings us in the coipletic'n th, and dedication of tmis monument. It is a glad day for all true sons of the Pa'metto W State. in Deep gloom had sett'ed upon the Confed ar< erate banner in July, 1863, for then Vicks- li burg had fallen and the terrible battle of wi Gettysbut had been fought. These disasters th were not enough, but Confederate energy de seemed paralyzed so far as the army under s Gen. Bragg was concerned, for the Uaied Staes forces under Rosecrans had by force a of number and superb military equipmeat 01 draven the Army of the West through Chat- mi tanooga into north Georgia along the banks f the Chickamauga. The idea was seized an upon by the military authorities at Rich- of mond to reinforce the depleted clumns un- 0 der Bragg by two divisions of Longtreeti's th corps to be commanded by that old war horse, be Gen. J. B. Hood. So hurried were the movements of the reinforceing columns that P Longstreet could no:, hare his artillry to by reaun the battlefield of Ohickamauga. but the StC two divisions unaer McLaws and Uood were oh %,saigned to the command of the ieft wing of bil Gen. Brag g's army. NC On the day of tne 20th of September, 1863, two giants in warfare grappled from right M( to leit from runrise to sunset The Yankee Left was commanded by that superb soldier, is Gen. George H. Thomas, and to dislarge that go force Gen. B:agg ordered every effort to be in made, but thomas held his ground too firmly wr to ) ield the field there. The old war horse th Longetreet pressed the Yankee right and lo entre with nis troops and some of the thi Yankees under Gordon Granger and Wood, H, %ad by the use of twelve or twenty pieces of artillery at an angle the left wing of the so Yankee army under Thomas gave way. This I f Left the entire tield in the possession o the sal onfederates. in It is a glorious reflection that the valor of lei South Carolina troops under Kershaw an n the left and Manigault on the right an contributed so largely to this magnifi- lie cent victory, and it, is a matter of history that the douth Uarohna troops through Kershaw's brigade. mAde the farthest advance on Sao - 0N grass Hill. U3 There was not a bloodier fight in the sit whole war, when yen take into co aideration dic the number of troops engaged and the timep of actuat comnbat. Officiat resports show that killed, wounded and missing were over thirty-three per cent of all the troops actual Ly engaged. On tae union side tae loss in be this battle of a number of regiments was I Saty per cent. of the men engaged and the wi Sante loss was sustained by ctne troop5 on o the other side and Gen. Longstreet in his in, h~story says that his commanai lost in two sc hours nearly forty-four per cent. of i-a o strength. "The charge of the light brigade at Batak'ava has been made famous in song and history, yet there were thirty union regi remts that each lost I10 per cent, more men at niuckamsauga and many Confederate regi- Ks men's ass mortality exceeded this." a I On the nignit of tais day it was that Gen. Breckenciag;e in aoswering the call of thefo Stath Caroina troops said: 'I will not say t wnom the credit is due, but tnis is the s rst occasion upon whico I have been at- ev towed to sleep with my troops on a battie- be] aeld which .as been rairny and thoroughly Pr won," 1t ,ras of this batte also that Charles wi 5. Dana, as~sistant secretary of war, on the tha eld himaeli, sent to his government this g ispatch: "We have this day met a secondpr 1t is, my countrymen, to such men as those who Dared thleir breasts on many a bat efield to the belching fire and lei of the on me .oy that we come to aedicate this menu- as nent. It is a priviuege wnich we enjoy to eve ave euca a neritage as they have lent us-.m At in. concltusioni of mas atiaress, the evi gvernor preseeined Ge. iW. 1. Waiker I anro han oecn seleoted to deliver the de istoric address. Tihen came addresses Jut rom Hon. D- 8. Henderson, (Go?. J. H. Lo Wuson and Bishop Capere. At the DIa sonciusion of his address Bishopi Ca- iau ers said: And now, miy couintryman, I have the str ionor which I most dearly prize, of wi. lirecing the unveilnng of this sacred fot mnument ont this hallowed spot. I the fail call the names of four girls from ize outh Carolir a wno represent the four Ma sommantas of South Garolina troops eve ho had the honor to snare in the wai tacifices of this great battlefield. doi L'ese fair aghtrs of our mother, inc tha State, with their own fathiul hands, or siti present to your view Garoiina a E ibnte of honor and devotion to her thi athful sons. spi .kepresenting K -rahaw's brigade; api ~ibertta Bl$and, the granddaughter or fal We6Ut. Uol. .Eibert Bland or the Seventh is oth Carolina Vols , Kershaw's bri- niz ~ade, who fell just yonuer, near this pec pot, 'leading hie gallant regiment in J ne advance upon saodgrass fluli. der Representing the Tenthi and Nine- the ~eenth South Carolina regiments, wa: danigaulc's brigado; Ada Ocie vWalker, in: he granddaughter of L teut. Col. U. I. het Nalker of rae Tenta South UJarolina ed Vols., who has fought the battle over the or us as the historical orator of the of lay wa: Representing The Twenty-fourth thi Suth Jarolina Voals., Gist's Drigade; pra dary Sydnor D~apre, the grandniece or Si jol. Ciement Henry Stevens, who led tha he Twenty-fourth South Carolina put ia'ls. on the extreme Confederate right wil nd who promoted to the rank of Brig. phi enwas mortally wounded in front Cui f his brigade at Atlanta, on the 20th litt f July, 1864. has Representing Cul pepper's battery: and Miss En}izabetth U. league, sponsors has or South (Jalolina division, U. 8. U. V. son Naew, young ladies in tne name of I our fathers' comrades, and in the name see f our mother, the State of Szuth (Jaro- Yai na, I bid you unveil the monument rail he has here erected to the valor of her out oldiera at Uhickamauga. givi As Qen. Capers mentioned the name Lai f each young lafy sha st~pped for- plai ard. Wten little Milss Walker came feel he general lifted her up in his arms eor mid deafening cheers. was Then he directed Adjutant Holmes to on< sort the young ladies to their posi- and ions near the monument, As they 've aught tne strings a batter of kodaks out as directed at the monument. (Qu. and apers then ordered the y oung ladies to loat nyeil, in the name of their fathers and mu: others, this monument that South dow arolina had erected to the honor and Ier a ory of the Confederate soldiers. It day 'as exactly 5:26 o'clock as the veils fell Hay om the monument and the band me ruck up "America" as the people left A.fte? the unveiling the gov.rnor rose d adrcessing Gen. B3ynton of the ickamauga Park commissior, said t as commissioner of the State of ath Carolina it was his dtaty and asure to present him. and he did so h pride and pleasure;tbia monumer t. ,:n. B)ynton in receiving the monu ot maie a most paltriotic address. kis ended the cerewonicR. ALL LIARS NOT YET DEAD. LI Arp Writes of Andersonville and the Lies Now Repeated As the poet B-owning said: "I ught the lie was deal and damned," t it s-ems not. Anlersonville has ken out again. We thought that r general-Senator Hill-had killtd it whole Andersonv-ille business in I masterly reply to Blane some enty five years ago. He pr~ved from e Federal records that the snferirg their soldier boys wits the sin, the me, the sham) of S a-ton, who re ;ed to excharge with us and r. fuu.d send mcoliome and supplies for ir sick. We did the very best we 2ld and Eome hones; NVthera sol rs have s) written ar.d pub!ished in r hern papers. But ever and anon , same old lio bresl loose again, Inow they have started a new one >ut a spring-the "Providence ring," which they ssey gushed forth Im the ground just in time to save -ir soldiera from perishing fer lack of ter. And they are spen ing money inclosing and beautifying the grounds und the spring. The contemptible re. S 3ores of good old men still live io knew of that spring away back in 3 40's, when Andersonville was a Dr stand. Yes it was a Prov denca ring, for providence created it, and the other springs when Ha made the itentment and the river and the untains. Andersonville never laek-d water I was selceted for a priso2 because water, and that little spring of no iseq-iana% for it r-in only about rty gallons an hour, which would less than half a gill a day to the sioners. The spring was cvered up the hands when ditching for the ckaie and its water found some other nnel and broke cut again after a rain and that's all there is about it. Providence spring! ThorE everlast liars are jast huatingi!up some >re devilment. This sprxng business another Barbara Frietchei declusiion ton up to keep the Northern heart tune and fire up Goldwin Smith to ite some more historic lies about 3 South. But "whom the Lrd reth He chasteneth," and our faith is it He lovas our people very much or would not chasten us so much and long with these vile slanders "And aic in mine haste all men are liars," .d David. If he had lived up Njrth our day he might ha7e said it at his sure. We are getting s> acoutomei I so hardene i to their exaggeration I prevarication that we don't be ve them when they tell tha truth. story says that Israel Putnam wlel into a cave and killed a wolf. I 3d to believe that, bu I doubt it now ice Goldwin Smith has set up Bene it Arnold as a her'o. Prov.dence ring! what a lie! B~at our veterans are clearing up this story business and our ueachers had ter be very carelul what usney teach. sever d d understand until resently .y Maury's gzography was ruced out so many schools and Frye's was pat Tnere is some bribery in tnig, icol book business. Money is paid school commissioners, or teachers, some outside lawyers for their in enee. Last y ear a teacher high in offile at txviile was expelled ror accepting ribe, and I have heard it enarged i a la wyer in Adlanta got big moncy booming a book into the pubnec uols. M~oney rules the -roost in sry calling, and there is a money job icad this Audersonville business. ovidence spring! Oh, my country, at does providernce have to do with se fellows except to let them run ir course. "1 have seen the wicked >sper like a green bay tree," says vid. Au ol'd darky heard me say, wonder what makes the L 'rd smile old Jim Wilkins so. Jim is as mean a dg, but every trade he mares and 3rything he touches turns into sney. He is getting richer an-i rioner ry year." Ce cid darky said: "Wny, boss, Lord hain't got anything to do wid n Wiikins. IL 'rd naiiat znoticin' him. rd dun give hiai up long time ago. 's why he gettin' rzicu-old debat ar mn' him.' 'rovidence spring. But it is mighty ange to me that tne Northern peopie let Qoidwin Smith scandatiz: thle Ldels of our government. I. inought t everybody North and South idol d Wasniington and J~ferson and dison and Monroe. I thought that >ry body outside of Masshusets1 Sproud of Patrick Henry and Ban ph and aenry Clay. I dident know t Benedict Araoid had an admirer an apolgizer North or South or in gland or aaiywhere. I dident know t Goldwin Smith was such a cn cuous hist rian until this last history :ered. It appears that he is a great orite in Engiand and Csaada, and contributor to the leading maga s and co-editor of an .Encglsn cycto lia. :ut we are making progress. Provi ice spring! Those Yankees say t just in the nick of time when hope Snearly gone and despair had set or want of water, Provience up-i ved the ground and the water gush forth like it did when Moses strucki rock with his rod. Mr. Pillsbury, Americus, an honorable veteran, there on guard and says the whole ng is a made up lie, and it can be ved so by many old citizens of nter County. We will have to nail t Andersonville lie to a board andf it up at the forks of the road. Wee I brand it when we ::eet at Mem. s. I want to meet Colonel John isons there and thank himfor his I b ick. I want every veteran to e one. The price is only 25 cants, r tit is worth ten timet that much toa -e it in the house a~d refer to it t etimies when we get eusi mad. rovidence springi l 'm going toe if I can't beat my nabors, Cary and brough and Corley and Mrs. Fields, ing tomatoes. Mr. Corley has put t only six plants and says they will r Shim twenty bushels of fruit. Mr. o brough, the preacher, has six d its. He dug six wells about two I deep and fiiled them up with all ~ of fertile and says he will have a a on load. Last year he had eight h me stem-all touching each other, r, the eight weighed twelve pounds! t seen the phiotopraph. I've got ai 100 plants and am not done yet, ii they laugh at me. But 1 want a 0 or two to give .away. My garden t kee p me busy.' It won't do to sit n and brood over trouble and sland n d lies. I pick straniberries every ,but I'm not fond of the business. le re to steep too much and it gives the backache. I'm the only boy re and my folks keep me very busy, Bill Ar. s WHAT THEY SAY. In i Se C3mmr.a; of ths New3papirs on w pi Tlimin and McLiurire. Ei li re A -SENATORIAL SYPASIUM, " So hi A Vardety of Opinin Exp'essed Ti by the Great and Small 62 Ntw-papers of the p< tit Country th tr The sensational character of the seE- el storial resignations in South Carolira St naturally caught the attention of the A i'ntry. Almost withoat xeption, at apparently, the important da'lies of the L aniori, without regard to theirloca:ion, hi have given the iacident grert promi- is nence in their news e >lumns and have si devo-ed one or more editorials to it. It se will le inter isting to note in the brief est way the imprcssions derived fram ti the incid lnt by some of our exotanges. ti The originality and directness of the move adopted to test the sense of the 9 Democracy of Sinth Carolina evokes at much comment. a The Patiladelphia North American rc says: a Old-fas'doned honor in politics still exists w in ths south. South Carolina's senators fto :ave , nded a bitter aispute about their ie- th spective merits as representatives of party or princip!es by resigning and submiitting taeir a, :laims to the people. Tneir resignations Et were not requested by anybody, and under gi he iw they are only indirectly responciole lo the people through the legislature, but Li .hey forego their undisputed right to serve yut. thrir terms and ask ttie citizens of bouth Carolina to decide between them and say w aiether or not they shalt represent the 3tate la the Uaited States senate. It is im poisitle to imagine the more modern type or C states.nan-the corpo:ation attorney, tne p paid agent and represe~tative of trusts-re signing a seat in tae senate bought for him by his employers and asking the peupte to 'Unirm his title to it with their votes. No doubt the action of Senators Tilman and mcLaurin strikes Senator Quay, for instance is absurdly Quixotic and unwortaty of men pretending to have any knowledge of practucad poinics. To Senator Penrose it ' must be the utterly incomprehensible freak of two political lunatUcs. But to many it seems rather a find thing that men in poli- 01 tics should recognize their resonsibility to the peopae and have the personal honor and dq;nity to refuse to hold office unless their ainess shall be affirmed by their fellow oiuzens. t1 The Indianapolis Sentinel says: st Without regard t-. the merits of the con. C troversy, there is something inspiring in the i method employed to sett.e Lae differences be t tween denators Tillman and MlcLaurin. One 0 gives up his offica .tr two yeais and the t other fur six years to go before the penpie d and let the people decide who shall be their d leader, In most of the btates politicians t wou.d not resort to such a tribunal. Each 01 contestant would hold every advantage he had and begin pulling wires to better nim- M self. The contest would be Waged among politicians rather than among the people facre wou'd be fixing of conventions and committees, and ainances with individuais here and there who had influence. News papers would announce that one side or the F utner was ahead as the little skirmishes were n1 dhocied. But here each party caste aside Ic machine politics for a a.irect appeal to the o people. Ii kooks more like popular govern- o ment than anything th at has been put be-t fore the American people for a long time, - sad one additional oeauty of the system is -i tat the decision will be conclusive, it le Ne w Yozk Journal says: I :l has Deen rather fashionaote in some guarters to spean patronizingly comtemptu- E ~uly of southern pontics, as a thig nioL to at be taken seriously. But occasionauly an in- t] :idenit occurs that teaches us snat tnere are t some thing in whicn mne north miga. wed take pattern Iromn tne ssuth. Euor instance, tau, two senators frm outa Carolina have uct resigned to submit their differences on pianfy pon1ey to the judgment of a State pri- si mary. One of taem nas just begun the term, D whien w'rid not expire untiul10u7; the term 11 21 mae otfler Wouta run until 1908d. (~onsider c a moment what mnis means. Take first the Lignt ii, throws upon tne methods of sena torial elections in douth Crrolina. We kuo w aow a senator is elected in P'enneylvania, ea When an aspirant ther e has "landed' a sen storsnsp he feels that he has aeauired ah raluab.e piece oz property. It you suggest id that he shouLJ. resign i. to see Wnetner a Lhe peopue approved o; his policy he woula v. feel as i'rerpont Mlorgin would icel if he had li secured control of the Northern k'acific and 0 somenody snould advise him to throw thes bl sIOC& on the market to See whether ne could ~ tit baca again. In tne cjse of the South Jaro.ana senators the quarre? is over party R piauciples, anid th5e yerdiet, will be rendered >ytne voters of tne party in the whole - State. One of tnem has sacrificed six years W mad the utner two years of assured service se for tne ake o1 guinug the peopie a chance to is nasae the decisioa. I'nere ifrni be no Qaay ol mxd 1'att campaigning in South Carodina h L'ne issues Wil Ije thrashed out by open, oi ionlest argument, an~d decided according tobi ne thougutlul juigment of the citizens. It will be such a ceinpaign as the State has re ioL se-sn since tue civil war, for the ques* F ions ihat difide tne parties widl be brought ip and discussed uinder conditions that insure ~reedom of debate and a fair decision. The Birmingham Age says:s Mr. McL aurin is saing under fa'e colors. " Je clsauns to be a new school Demacrat, i vnen in fact he is a Rtepublcan. A man mn who votes for ship subsidies, advocated a high nt ariff, and opeuuy supparts expansion of the b: idmiistration sort, is necessarily commit ed to trusts, monopoly and colonialisin. tie e s in other words an tnt-and-out Republcan, le ad Mir. MtcL surin shou:d so arnnounce him elf. Hie tis ni ,re a Democrat than his olleague in the senate, Mark Hanna, is. le is solely and simply a Regublican mas uerading as a D~emocrat. lie will deceive o conai.erab.e numoer of South Carolina )emocrats, and the ceances are that he will tot carry a county in the Sta e, but teat he q r.11 bag tue judgeship that Wil, in all pr oba inty, ne rves2ed ror him. There ig no oom for an administration Democratic party Ti ni S.,uth Uaroiina, and there never wil be. f Mr. Mchasurin so loves colonialism and rusts and ship subsidies and robber tariffs hat he cannot longer stay in the Demoa ratio party, then let him flop, but when he ". tas flbpped as he has done he 'hould call o: lings by right names. Hie should declare n .imself a Mc t~inley Hanna Rtepublican, and o' ght it out on that line. But instead he ~ ails himself "a conservative Democrat," Ithough ne conftEses that he supports poli ies Which iLO Democrat supports, and that e expects to name and in fact is naming the it ederal officeholders in South Carolina. enator MeLaurin has agreed to cease mis- j epresenting South Caronina Democrats on :d after September 15. The people will do ie rest. T The Philadelphia Ldiger, Republi an, says: Tne agitation over the McLaurin affair lill encourage southern Demnoorats, who area red of Bryanism, to record their views and eenter the circle of political activity. Few h: f them will go so far as MicLaurin, whose ft isposition is not merel7. to abandon the T: 'opulistic Democracy, but, to all intents ad purposes, Democracy itself. But they re tired of the domination of such men se illman, and they may in time wrest from ft im his supremacy. Already the joint a: 3signation of the two senators has precipi ted a half dozen candidates for the succes- e on. It is not improbable that the chasten ig of McLaurin will involve the humblir g ?illman, and that, although he may cling ira :lme to the sceptre of authority, a saner mntiment will be imparted to South Care- P na politics, a result from whose develop ent will be the resoraioD of men of in iligence and refinement to the Democratic adershiip. The Minneapolis Times, R 'pulican, mwarks: That Tillman deems a vindication neci's .is rather surnrising in view o+' his wel iown temperamcat. He has not been dis sed to ad1mit that there is anything the atter with his Democracy, and why should not adhere to that course of complacent ifsatisfaction" It is easy to understand hy NlcaLurin may desire to hear from the oplc. He has undertaken to reorganize e Democracy of South Carolina on iiteral xes and Tillman claims with some show of ason that McLaurin is simply a Republican Af in the sheep's clothing of Democracy. nator McLaurin may be pardoned for hav g curiosity to know how the people regard s revolutionary ideas, but why shouldn't Ilman stand pat? The Baltimore Herald, Republican, ys: MicLaurin is comparatively a new figure in litics. Indeed, he is entire.y new in the Id which he occupies', in that he is blazing e w.,y through the frest of prejudice and aditiun to t.e open ground of cammerciai :pansion for the south. The contest in iuth Carolina is not between Tillmin and cLaurir personally, but beween them as presentatives of the prejudices of the past d the possibili:ies of tne present. Mc virin may not win-not in Suth Caro ia-but the progressive ideas for which he fighting will, in a few years control the Luation in the south, as certaioly as that ctiun's development will continue. The Birmingoam Njws, which has rice boited the national Democratie oket, observes: Stnator Tillman is a bitter partisan an-1 a ranical political boss. Bat the fact can it be denied that he is a stronger leader aong the rural maares. M% Laurin is a og .essive man and in his views no doubt presents the manufacturing, commercial id progresrive elements of his State. It uld be decidedly best for South Larolina r him to wit. his tight, but it is to be feared at he is ahead of the times and that the ack of the party laan in Tillman's hands d the cry of treachery will prove stronger an the sound reasnns which alcLaurin ves for his course. The Mobile Register, which bolted te national Demourau ticket in 1h96, iye: The chances seem to be in Tillman's favor. )t only is N1c Laurin "forcing the season," r his cause is not yet fu:ly ripe m South 6rolina, but he is in poor healta and may ve way under the strain of a violent cam 6ign such as the one proposed will surely We admire his courage more than we > his wisdom. There is tniS much certain, at if he fights and fails he will not do so itirely in vain. The time must come when ith Carolina wilt throw off the galing ike of Tillman ani McLaurin's aecisive Lion will hasten the coming of that time. oreover his example will be an encourage ent to others-teaching that patriousm nat equal to sef-sacrifice still exist in the proud d dtate that has been so long under tne tel of a demagogue. The Chicago Record-Herald, Repub can, says: The opportunity to register a choice be reen TiLmanism and progress is one that ould be welcomed by tae people of South trolina. Whether the contest is to be be reen Tillman and McLaurin for the long rm, upon which Tihman hadjust entered, not is a question for the State committee decide. No matter h,.w the issue is pre nted at the primaries this fall it will be an irstood as a contest for supremacy between .e Democracy that livts upon'the dead and tried issued of the past and the cew De .cracy tnat stands for national expansion Ld for the industrial and commercial de lopment of the south. A Horrible Accident. A dissatch from Union to The State 5s F. Fair L.;e, foreman of the Union Iardwood Mlanufacturing company was tn over by a car loaded with hickory gs used by the firm. The accident scurred at 6 o'clock and as a result 2e of his legs is cut off at the knee, to other just above and the right hand ground into pulp. He may hive but is doubted. There were four cars 'aded on the side track and they are trying to ease them dowgn a little. :e had gone under one to remove the otch when some one above took off e brakes and started the cars, and in ying to get out was tripped up. As on as-it was diecovered he wa, under to car the brakes were put on the car opped o2 rns bcdy and it was neces try to unload the car before it could moved off. Dr. Y. L. Poole was ameItately eummoned and did all he >uld to revive him. A Tragedy. Horace Rtdout, a prominent real tate dealer of Annapolis, lost his life aesday morning as the result of an troic attempt to rescue his aunt from burning building. Mr. Ridout was siting his brother, Dr. Ridout, who e five miles from Annapolis. At 3 olock Tuesday morning thle house was iraed anid all the inmates had thrill g escapes. Horace Ridout carried it his aged invalid uncle, while Dr. iiu: gos his wife and three chii ~n a tiu aunt, Miss Nelie Ridout, bo is aged and infirm, tout of the cond story window by means of a dder H orace R~doui, not knowing his aunt's escape, rushed into the truing budlding to srava her. He was erenie by smoke and flames and was traed to a crisp before help could ach himn.________ ollowing .England's Footsteps, T.he Wesimister 4.azette, in discuss g American supreme court decisions, ys: "Thie relation of America to Eu pe and the world is profoundly mo~li d by this new departure. Colonies san a navy, a navy means naval busi as and coaling stations and naval sis are insecure unless backed up by esessions. This is logic. Imperialism ay load the Americans as far as it has f us." Strange, But True. "That's the hardest work I know," mai-ked Borroughs. "What is?" inquired the casual so iaintance. "To find somebody that's easy to ork." - Catholic Standard and limes. So Bad as That? "When I wade through a society ovel nowadays," said Mrs. Seveer, always wonder if the higher walks life really are so bad that one can ot traverse them without wearing ie's rainy-day skirt!"--Chicago Trib 2e. Vacancy In the Nursery. Young Mother--Do you think baby oks most like me or his papa? Nurse-Like you, mum. Mr. Jenkina a igihty handsome man. Advertisemnent: "Wanted--A com tent and well-mannered nurse." it-Bits. Our Nobility. She-Mr. Ilappison comes of an old id proud fanmily, I believe? lie--Oh, yes; quite so. They tren't had an organ in the house for 1ly two generations. - Chicago mes-Hlerald. The Difference. Little Clarence-Pa, what is the dif rence between a professional and an nateur? Mr. Callipers-Why, one does it be use he has to, and the other because doesn't have to.-Puick. Very Important. Teacher--Name something of im rtance existing to-day that was not existence 100) years ago. Small Pupil-Me.-Boston Hlerald. In the Archaeologtcal Clam's. "Mention some familiar example. of iccessive lavers." "Yes, sir. Hiens and jelly cakea 1A FIEND LYNCHED. Fred Rochells! Burned Pt -he StaiCe at Bartnw. Fiv. HIS CRiME AN AWFUL ONE L, id in Wait and Assaulted a White Woman and Then Cut Her Throat Fred Rochelle, a black negro 35 years of age, who at noon Wednesday crimi nally assaulted and then murdered Mrs. Rena TAggart, a well knowin and re spectable white woman of 3.rtow, Fia., was burned st the sta e l",c early Wed neslay evening in the prLs. nce of a tarong of people. The barnieg Was on the scene of the negro's crime within 100 yards of tie principal thoroig afare of this city. The aesault and murder was one of the boldest and coldebt lloodvd crimes ever committed in Fiorida. At 10 o'clock yesteidsy morning Mrs. Tag gart, who was born and reared in this place and was a woman or good lamily and reputation, went fishing alone in a small row boat that she kept at the city bridge over Piaco creek. This is in full view of the public thoroughfare. A few minutes before noon M1rs. Tag gart, deciding to return home, rowLd her boat to the briage and made it fast. A negro man was fishing frcm the bridge as the time. Mrs. Taggar& started home and had proceeded only a few steps in the swamp toward the open prairie and thence to the street when she was approached by -Kochelle, who had been hiding in the swamp. He seizd her and she broke loose ani screaming ran i'ram the swamp into the prairie wnere he overtuok her, overpow ered her and assaulted her. After the assault while she was prostrate he held her with his hands and knees and taking his knife from his po iet cut her throat from ear to ear, causing instant death. He then walked to the negro who had been fishing on the bridge and who was thoroughly frightened ard asked him what he should do with the boay. He was told to le&va it where it was, bu; unheedful of-this request he toos the bleeding form in his arms and carried it back to the swamp, threw it down and escaped into the interior of the a wamp. In a few m nutes the crime had been reported and in iesa than an hour prao tically the entire city was in arms and well armed posses wcrs moving in every direction in searci of the crim inal. Bloodnounds were secured and all night a fruitless search was con tinued. This morning no trace of the negro had been secured and the people were becoming more desperate in their determination to apprehend him as the chances for his ftinL escape seemed . to grow. About noon a courier arrived announcing that me negro had been captured by other negroes three miles south of sne city. P'osses were imme - diately on the trail, but the capturersI evaded detection and succeeded in getting their prisoner quickly into the city and in turning nim over to thre shieriff of Poik county. in less than ten minutes after the transfer had Deen made, as if the news had been flashed voluntarily thiougnout the city and neighborhood, the streets were con ges ted with people, and. the crowd, augmiented as it marched, motv'ed upon the jail, in spite of the sherdf ann a stroug guard of extra aeputies who made every effort to protect nimi from mob violence, they secured the pris oner and took up tne march to the scene of the enime. He was linf dragged half carried to the blijke, envelopeu oy a great throng o.- people of ali ages, who were resolute ann determined butt quiet and orderly, Sercam af ter scream .aroke from the wretch's quiverinig lips, fol lowed by groans ana prayers for mercy. At the briage the moo turned towaid the prairie and then into swamp and to the seene of the negro's horrnble crime. B~y common consent burning was to be the penalty. Tnere were no ropes, -or plans f r lynching Dy hanging. The state was the only suggestion to the propar expiation of thre crime and withnut erganizla effort and yet Wis~h apparenuly unanimous under standing a barrel was in reaainess and was piaced by tire stare on the very spot wnere Mirs. Tfaggart was assauheui and muroerea. The negro was placed and criaiued to the stake. Louder and louder and more desperate grew his pleadings to God and man for mercy, but in the great crowd around him silence was the only response. Tihiere were no j aers, no swearing, no disorder. Berore the chains around his body had been made fast, cans of kerosene oil from many sources were passed to the cenire and one of the leaders steppld to the body and slowly but deliberately poured it upon him and his clothes until his clothes and the barrel were well est urated. It was then 6 o'clock. Tihe crowd was growing, business in the city had practican~y been suspended and all eyes were turned toward the scene. In an instant the miatch was applied. As if by expicsion the bih ze quickly leaped sky ward in volume. The burning boay could be seen only as a dark object in the circle of maddened, roaring flame. Then the fire lessened in speed and the writhing body came back in full view, but already the groans had ceased and the only evidence of life was in the contortions of the mus cles of the limbs. For 15 minutes the body burned, and in a half hour from the minute of the applications of the match only the charred bones were left as a reminder of the negro's horrible crime and his fate. The crowd dis persed as orderly as it had gathered and at 8.30 at night the city was quiet. Kept Tabs on Himself. A man who has just died at Vienna in his 733 year was perhaps the most exact person of whom there is record. From his 27th year he kept accurate account of all he bought and what he paid for it. A few dais br fare his death he made up his book to show just what eating, drinking and wear ing clothes had cost him during the forty aix years. In this period he wore out eighty-five pairs of trousers and 74 coats and vests for which he paid $3,8 000. He had bought 208 shirts and 306 collars, valued at $300. His omnibus fares were $210. In the twenty-seven years of his convivial life he consumed 28,786 glasses of beer. He gave up drinking in his 54th year, but contin ed to smoke constantly, even during his last sicknes', raising the numnber of his cigars to 628,718, or an average of 13,667 a year. Of the whole number; some 43,500 were given to him; he bought the rest for $12,500, or about 2 cents each. Both totals and prise sug gest that these were not ordinary A merican cigars. Be tUnderstood Us Business. ' First Beggar - Why didn't yoiu tackle that lady? She might have given you something. Second Beggar-I let her go because I understand my business better than you. I never ask a woman for any thing when she is alone; but when two women are together you can get money from both, because each one is afraid the other will think her stingy if she refuses. This profes sion has to be studied, just like any other, if you expect to make a suc cess of it. See?-Leslie's Weekly. Getting It Down Fine. Friend-Why don't you marry? Good fello-Can't. "You have a fine house?" "Yes." "And a good income?" -,f, "Yes." ~ "Then what's the matter?" "My housekeeper and her servants have formed a union, and if I marry outsitie of their union they'll strike." N. Y. Weekly. Anxious to Oblige. Anxious Clubman-Doctor, please come just as quick as you can to CoL Tom Timberlake. He's seeing snakes. Dr. Proctor-My dear sir, I do not cure snake bite; I take only surgical cases. Anxious Clubman-Oh, that'll be an right; by the time you get around to him I.dare say Col. Timberlake will have fallen out of bed and brokenhis neck.-Leslie's Weekly. "A Friend in Need Is," Ete. Mrs. Philanthropist-Why do you cry, little boy? Little Boy-Me mudder is sick, an me fader is out uv work, an' we ain't had nuttin' ter eat fer t'ree days. Mrs. Philanthropist - Poor dea 7 child, how my heart aches for you Here's a tract on the evils of drink among the masses that you may take home and read.-Judge. Circumstances Alter Cases. Suitor-I have come to ask you f your daughter's hand. Father-Well, the fact is, we are pretty crowded here as it is, and I Suitor-Oh, I intend to take her away from home if I marry her. Father-Oh, well; in that case-but you did give me an awful start, my boy.-Boston Transcript. No Room for Doutt. . "You speak with grest positiveness 'about the sincerity of our friend's re- , ligion." "There can be no doubt whatever of his sincerity," was, the answer "Why, sir, that man wouldrather go to church on Sunday than play gol. Washington Star. Better Fun Than Danetng. "Enjoy your party, Bobby?" "Yes, ma." "Well, what little girls did you dance with?" "Oh, I didn't dance. I had three fights downstairs with Willie Richard son, and I licked him every time." Philadelphia Inquirer. Completely Gone. "She's not bad looking,",observed the unemotional young man. -"But she hasn't any money." "What does a girl with hair like that need of money?" excamed the other youth, gazing after her 'with his soul in his eyes.-Chicago Tribune. Hopeless Case. "I am awfully disappointed in my son," said the fond father. "How so?" "Why, I've used, I suppose, 50 bottles - of different hair producers, in mny ef forts to make him a professional . pianist."-Yonk~ers Statesman. Striking a Beamene. If the great recording angel Has a half-way lenient-trend. He will give us all fair credit S For the good that we Intend. -- j' Yet, 'twere serious, I take It, If, with equal honest view, He should jot down in his volumes Every evil Impulse, too. :3 -Chicago Record-Herald. *VHEARD ONl A PLUG ROAD. "Rte alrebo o hl a isn't h, sir? -RaThewrld largd boyafornelypare, isn't, ith? W"feYes,. isnwht h e yosmu Ahn PlasoheErig BIfpers-e eaems tabe selst *sThis world woul jb.-e Y. loelykly.e Witheer Wal cato lagh.e "Sellsic swtat icagoeopl loer500ubrells a elf-a man.in' thuadfvehnrd??b WI'v sesls .hl What ma e yearmy thikl."hcg ecr-ead BHfe-H snoems riesoella si she-Thati the' inocn.e th.' Wee ineet.Lie.idn Fgr A~ttsisso theat Gai. o eo "Did60 myeole yarn.utt" ha "Sixea thosn yor orse hasked Po the emint athtmor. ryerf "es,"Checg relecordHer asld g "erm!And Ididation.aeoe turn tluhes nyat ryhngsayentiner he-Thatofisntinoece?"t' e "N. A irearngain. etpsh "Did mutany people strng out my hear: ofthe minentautho."CiaoTm audeienced. rl vrboylf FsoreIt ilystrterribe7t Denarcmt explorerand have to e Secnd Acnto-hat'ws rgtke in at "No.Ak somea engin wentonast ex: rxperece.d First Actor-It musnt beo terrwre - ev an arctic explorer!adhvet a Second Actor-That'seright! but I once got stranded with an "Uncle Tom. Ca bin" troupe. - Brooklyn ia le. C om pensationl. Fe te in a llrigs up tosnuff, _ Outwits both place and pelif-: Let any snob get rope enough .!* He's sure to hang himself. S-rhian Taily Nws.