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PARDON OF NEAL Calls Forth a Statement trom At torney-General Ballinger. WHAT HE HAS TO SAY. Protest Most Vigorously Against Certain Statements That Have Been Made About the Case. Attorney-General Bellinger protests most vigorously against certain state ments that have been made in ofnnEc tion with the pardon of Col. Neal. He does so because of his being the chief officer in charge of the prosecution of Colonel Neal. Here is his statement: "While the case of the state vs. W. A. Neal was still within the control of the courts I felt that propriety, if not justice, dictated that the prosecuting officer should remain silent as to certain statements made in behalf of the de fendant through the public prints, eriticising the motives of the prosecu tion, impugning the impartiality of the presiding judge and tending to mislead the uninformed public as to the facts of the cae; but inasmuch as the gov ernor has granted a full,. unconditional pardon to the defendant, justice to the people of the Etate, whose servants pub lic officials are to the cause of truth and to the integrity and ability of one of the purest men ever honored with the ermine, impels me to speak, while the propriety of my course the future must decide. "Fcr the past few day numerous statements and predictions have been made in the daily press, as to the prime responsibility for which it is not neces sary to inquire. It has been said, 'the attorney general, it is said, gave Colonel Neal's bondsmen a receipt, for the amount due by him to the state.' No such receipt ever was given, for the reason that it had been held all along by this ofioe that the bondsmen were liable for only a part of what Neal was due the state, and only for this part was any receipt given or any money paid. Communication was begun with Neal immediately upon the receipt of the report of the committee, early in August, 1899. and continued from time to time unprofitably until August 29, when warrants were sworn out against him and his arrest followed. "Demand was made on his bondsmen on September 4, 1899, and the sum of $2.812 41 finally paid by them on the 29th day of the same month, after com plaints were prepared, ready to be served in the suit against the bonds men. The~receipt given distinctly states the items of the shortage included in the sum. "It was also said in Wednesday's State, by one apparently 'speaking with knowledge:' 'During the hearing (on petition for pardon) the governcr ask ed Mr. Nelson some questions as to what amount Colonel Neal still owed the state, or whether by his acts the state stood in danger of losing anything. * * * Offhand replies were given to the questions asked by the governor, but later on written explanations will probably be filed,' and 'the governor will first refer the petition to the trial judge and the solicitor before going further in the matter.' I am justified in saying no reference of the matter wan so made and consequently the prosecu tion now has the first opportunity to be heard; and did no one now speak in be half of the state it might reasonably be inferred that the statements of fact contained in the petition remain un challenged. "Inasmuch as the governor, on the 15th of August, 1899, in transmitting the report of the investigating commit tee, said in his official lester to the at scrney general. 'I ask that you take such action as the law requires and pro teet the interests of the state to secure the administration of justice. I would ask also that you advise me what further steps are necessary to be taken by me to carry out the findings of the com mittee, as contained in the report.' (Report, p. 4), and as he further said to the legislature: 'The whole matter was then placed in the hands of the attor ney general with full power to act and protect as far as possible the interests of the state,' (Report, p. 6), it is rea sonable to suppose that that officer knew better to what extent the state was to be affeoted than defendant's at torneys. Had he honored me with a request for information I shouli have shown him, from the copy of thie re port which his office had printed and sent to the general assembly, that the joint investigating Committee (Report, p. 16) reported to him officially that in addition to the items for which the bondsmen subsequently paid the state, Neal was liable for convict hire for three years, amounting to $7A400, and that the attorney general reported, in addition to the amount for which the bondsmen were chargeable, that 'on the account of the lease of conviots for three years the state has lost $2,600),' (Report, p. 7,) and I shoxld have shown him, by the testimony printed in said report that (pages 68-107) Neal ac knowledged that the noises waich he had taken from the Ragedales were discountei at the bank in order to raise money to pay his personal debts diue the penitentiary on acco.unt of convict hire; that the Ragsdales were not even morally responsible for the amount; that he received the benefits arising from the lease of the conviets and ta the penitentiary authorities now held one of these notes, amounting to $2, 600 for the hire of convicts for the yesr 1897. And I should have reminded him that in his report to the general assem bly he used this larguage: 'It will not be improper for me in this connec tion to commend the thoroughness arnd efficiency with which this committee has discharged the diffimilt duties they had in hand, as you will see from the report herewith aumitted.' 'The attor ney general has discharged his duties in this matter faithfully and I recomn mend his diligence.' '' Having been confined, as a source of information, to common rumors and to the articles published in the newspa pers as to the facts presented on behalf of the defendant, 1 am not informed of any evidence laid before his excellency to make him change his conclusions as to the facts established by the commit tee's report and I reiterate that after taking advantage of the law to save the loss of $2,600, which the bank now sustains, and after collection from J. B. Watson for the benefit of the bank that amount due for convict hire for another year, the state has loet on ac count of the official misconduct of W. A. Neal at least $2,600, as formerly re ported. I notice in today's State a statement of what, by way of euphemism, we may call his excellency's reasons fo: granting the petition of pardon. Thaese irst hat the petitions were num ercusly :yzed "by gentlemen of the highest reputation and standing." This reason is forceful possibly because "the voice of the people is the voice of God'" to the auditor whose worship is direct ed in a certain direction. Second. The sureties of the offiial bond of Neal urged the pardon upon the ground that the defendant had re paid them what they were compelled to pay the state on account of his de faloation. This reason would itself be conclusive if the prosecutions had been brought by the state for the benefit of these bondsmen. Third. It seems to be taken for grant ed that humiliation and repentance for the deeds done in the body are satis faction before the law for the violation of the criminal statutes of the state. Were the governor, under our con stitution, clothed with the priestly pow er of absolution on account of a change of heart and. a promise of a better life, this reason would perhaps have weight, but one can scarcely throw off the con viction that had this penit.ent been friendless and weak he would have been left to the chain gang to "bring forth fruits meet for repentance." As it would be an injustice to con ciude that the reasons for grantiag the pardon are fully set out in the state ment above anal; z ed, I shall look to the allegations of the petition and the statements contained in the letters handed out by the governor for publica tion and make such running comment as appers to me pertinent. The petition states that: (s) "'he offense of which Neal was convicted was a technical violation of the law." In addition to saying that all crimes under statutes are technical vio lations of the law I call attention to the testimony of the defendant before the joint investigating committee and upon his trial in court, in which he con fess:d that at the time of the col lection of the funds in question he made false statements to the book keeper as to the amounts collected, stated that he had expended the funds for his personal usa and finally, in con tradiction these confessions, swore on the stand that he had properly ac counted for them, and this is referred to in the petition as a "full and frank statement." (b) 'At a former term of court he was tried and acquitted of breach of trust with fraudulent intent as to the same funds for which he was indicted and convicted for not turning over to his successor." I have before me all of these indictments in the cases. The in dictment upon which he was acquitted charged the fanculent conversion of only $244. The indictment under which he was convicted charged the failure to turn over sums aggregating $1,544. So that for three separate sums, which he has converted to his own use, has never been acquitted of, even tried. There is still undisposed of against him in the court of general sessions an in dictment for breach of trust for the conversion of $300, but inasmuch as his humilation and repentance is expected "to redeem his life and reinstate him self in the good opinion of his fellow itizans," it would probably be an un j istifiable expenditure of public funds to press this proseoutien at the next term of court. (e) "This Eum of money was paid, as nereinbefore stated, prior to trial and with no idea of comnpromise." As before stated, the money was paid only after the defendant had been arrested and had given bail, and then by the bondsmen, against whom suit was threatened. (J) "As the law has been vindicated and the amount found due on his bond pi.* * ** If this statement is not intended to imply that the state has been held harmless in full by this pay ment, then it does mean that the re imbursement of the bondsmen should be considered full satisfaction before the law for Neal's misdeeds. (e) "Such being the statute and the facts showing that he had not turned it over within thirty days, the jury could not but find a verdict of guil ty." Surely his Excellency could not so soon forget that on the motion for a ne w trial before Judge Gary on July 1 his Honor was subjected to the painful or deal of having stated before him as grounds for a new trial: "Because the court refused to charge the jury in re gard to the authority of the superinten dent of the penitentiary. '-Because the court failed and re fused to charge the law as sel forth in Section 551. "Because your honor's rulings during the progress of the trial were not a fair and impartial exposition of the law and were prejudicial to the constitutional rights of the defendant." At last the amende honorable has been made to his Honor, Judge Gary, and the petition bears evidence to the impartiahty of the judge and to the performance of duty by the jury. Alas, justice has come on laden wings and re a:ation's generosity is tinctured with a suspicion of expediency. Among the letters which his Excel lency has been considerate enough to give to the papers for publication, along with his reasons, and presamabiy as meeting with his approval in senti ment, are some charging miat 'the pee pie believe that tnetprosecution against Col. Neal was actuaed by political pre judice and was simpiy persecution." Now if anyone doubts the propriety of my conduct in appearing in tais mat ter before the puLio, let him read care futy the words quoted, let him remem ber that they reser to offcers of tne state, and that publication of this slan der was made wit the approval of the offcer to wuom these ietters were ad d.ased. So generai in its character is thte charge thte. common fairness wouid demann speccificauons. Wno were " actuateid by political prejudice?' Was it the genersl assembly who ap point-ed the cc .mirttee, the committee ported to the governor, the governor who instructed tue attorney general to begin procedings andreporten the find ings oithe committee to the general as sembly, the judge who presided over the trial, the jury who passed upon the fctor the attorney general and solici tr who conducted the prosecution in the facts of the case? If the governor was a party to the ne farious conspiracy he has made amends and will doubtless have that mercy ex tended to him that he has so freely be stowed. If all the others remain sub ject to the charge I deem it fortunate for myself to te found in such com pany. REPLIES To THE LE rTER WRITERS. In reply to those letter writers to the governor who say that "the s~ate has not lost one eent by Neal, he paid the amount he was ascertained to be owing in full," I say they speak from absolute ignorance and I challenge them to pro duce the evidence to sustain the state ment; and to those who say that "Col. Neal did not turn over his money while the matter was still in the hands of the investigting committee, but as soon as the eas ws setaled he did so," and that "t-here was not one scintilla of evidence showing any criminal intent PAUL IN A BASKET. 2 Dr. Talmage Draws His Sermon from This Bible Incident. e Story of the Disciple's Providential i Escape from the Infuriated Mob ana the Lesson It Teaches. [Copyrighted, 1901, by Louis Klops:h. N. Y. Washington, Aug. 25. A Bible incident not often noticed is here used by Dr. Talmage to set forth 1 practical and beautiful truth; text, II. Corinthians11:33: "Throughawindow in a basket was I let down by the wall." Sermons on Paul in j.i-, Paul on Mars hill, Paul in the shipwreck, Paul before the Sanhedrin, Paul before Felix, are plentiful, but in my text we 2 have Paul in a basket. Damascus is a city of white and glis tening architecture, sometimes called "the eye of the east," sometimes called "a pearl surrounded by emeralds," at one time distinguished for swords of the best material, called Damascus blades, and upholstery of richest fabric called damask. A horseman of the name of Saul, riding toward this city, had been thrown from the saddle. The horse had dropped under a flash from the sky, which at the same time was so bright it blinded the rider for many days, and, I think, so permanently in jured his eyesight that his defect of vision became the thorn In the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but after that hard fall from his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Damascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. The mayor gives authority for his arrest, and the popular cry is: "Kill him! Sill him!" The city is surround ed by a high wall and the gates are watched by the police lest the Cilician preacher escape. Many of the houses are built on the wall, and their balco nies projected clear over and hovered above the garden outside. It was cus tomary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flow era from the gardens. To this day vis itors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets. De tectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his friends hid him, now in one place, now in another. He is no coward, as 50 in cidents in his life demonstrate, but he feels his work is not done yet, and so he evades assassination. "Is that preacher here?" the foaming mob shout at one house door. "Is that fa natic here?" the police shout at anoth er house door. Sometimes on the street incognito he passes through a cloud of clinched fists and sometimes he se cretes himself on the house top. Atlasttheinfuriated populace geton sure track of him. They have positive evidence that he is in the house of one of the Christians, the balcony of whose home reaches ever the wall. "Here ho is! Here he is!" The vociferation and blasphemy and howling of the pursu ers are at the front doer. They break In. "Fetch out that gespelizer and let us hang his head on the city gate. Where is he ?" The emergency was ter rible. Providentially there was a good stout basket in the house. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the basket. Paul steps int o it, The basket. is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then, while Paul holds the rope with both hands his friends lower away, carefully and cautiously, slowly but surely, farther down and farther down, until the basket strikes the earth and the apostle steps out and afoot and alone starts out on that fa mous missionary tonli the story of which has astonished earth and Heav en. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary of travels: "Through a window in a basket was l let down by the wall." I observe first on what a. lender ten-3 ure great results hang. The rope- 4 maker who twisted that cord fastened3 to that lowering basket never knew how much would depend upon the strength cf It. How if it had been brok-i en and the apostle's life had been dashed out? What would have become of the Christian church? All that mag nifent missionary work in Pamphylia, Cappadocia, Galatia, Macedonia would never' have been accomplished. All hisI writings that make up so indispensa ble and enchanting a part of the New< Testament would never have been1 written. The story of the resurrection] would never have been so gloriously told as he told it. That exampleof hero 1c and tiumphant epduramee at Philip p, in the Mediterranean Euroolydon, under flagellation, and at his behead ing would not have kindled the courage of 10,000 martyrdoms. But that rope holding that basket, how mnuch depend d on it! So again and again great re suta have hung on alender circum- I stances Did ever ship of many thousand tons crossing the sea have such an impor tant passenger as had once a boat of leaves, from taifrail to stern only t:hree r four feet, the vessel being water-1 proof by a coat of bitumen and flosting on the Nile with the infant lawgiver of the Jews on board? Whatif some croc edile should crunch it? What if some of the cattle wading in for a drink should .sink it? Vessels of war some times carry 40 guns looking through the por tholes ready to open battle, but the tiny craft on the Nile seems to be armed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the lawgiving. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical importance! The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night, and the father rushed through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the ground. but one remains In the consuming building. That one awakes, and, finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling, comesto the window, and two peas ants mnake a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulde~r of the other, and down the human ladder: quetionl: Did you hear the trial, have g you read the repo-:t of the investigatinga committee, are you prepared to say that f you have any knowledge whatever of t the case.f I am aware the pardoning power is the prerogative of the chief executive, but I am mindful that it is a delegated and representative power, to be exer cised for and on behalf of the people. It is not to be a personal forgiveness, made full and bounteous by an offioial act.r Mercy is of many kinds; we often "The g'iality of mercy is not strain'd; It dropp:th as the gentle rain from Heaven Upon the place beneath: It is twice p bless'd: " A, yes, "I blesseth him that gives, and him that 'Tis mightiest ia the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch tetter than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal t power, r The attribute to awe and majesty, a Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of p kings."h It would at least be a wise precaution ~ or th criminal who comes upon the tl h boy desoents-Bohn Wesley. I it 'ou would knew how much depended n that ladder of peasants, ask the mil ions of Methodists on both sides of he sea. Ask their mission stations ail t round the world. Ask their hundreds t >f thousands already ascended to join c heir founder, who would have per shed but for the living stair of peas- t nts' shoulders. An English ::hip stopped at Pitcairn sland, and right in the midst of sur- I ounding cannibalism and squalor the i assergers discovered a Christian col ny of churches and schools and beau- I iful homes and highest style of reli- i ;ion and civilization. Fir 50 years no I aissionary and no Christian influence a ad landed there. Why this oasis of I ight amid a desert of heathendoa? t ixty years before a ship had met dis- c ster, and one of :he sailors, unable to c ave anything else, went to his tru:2k .nd took out a Bible which his mother 1 pad placed there and swam ashore,the I tible in his teeth. The book was read t 'n all sides until the rough and vicious >opulation were evangelized, and a hurch was started and an enlighetened r :ommonwealth established, and the c world's history has no more brilliant I >age than that which tells of the trans- S ormation of a nation by one book. It I lid not seem of much importar.ce C vhether the sailor continued to gold the book in his teeth or let it fall = n the breakers, but upon what small ircumstances depended wtat mighty -esults! Practical inference: There are no asignificances in life. The minutest = hing is part of a magnitude. Infin ty is made up of infinitesimals; great t hings an aggregation of small r hings. Bethlehem manger pulling on 6 star in the eas:tern sky. One book I a a drenched sailor's mouth the evan relization of a multitude. One boat if papyrus on the Nile freighted with vents for all ages. The fate of 'hristendom in a basket let down rom a window on the wall. Wiat rou do, do well. If you make a rcpe, nake it strong and true, for you mow not how much may depend on our workmanship. If you fashion a oat, let it be waterproof, for you mow not who may sail in it. If you >ut a Bible in the trunk of your boy is he goes from home, let it be re nembered in your prayers, for it may iave a. mission as farreaching as the )ook which the sailor carried in his ,eeth to the Pitcairn beach. The iainest man's life is an island be ween two eternities-eternity past ippling against his shoulders, eter ity to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which nerely happened so, are parts cf a reat plan, and the rope that lets the ugitive apostle from the Damascus all is the cable that holds to its nooring the ship of the church in the torm of the centuries. Again, notice unrecognized and un 'eorded service. Who spun that -ope? Who tried it to the basket? Vho steadied the illustrious preacher LS he stepped into it? Who relaxed tot a muscle of the arm or dismissed in anxious look from his face until ;he basket touched the ground and lischarged its magnificent cargo?, ot one of their names has come to is. But there was no work done that lay in Damascus or In all the earth ~ompared with the importance of heir work. What if they had in their 1gitation tied a knot that could slip? j Nhat if the sound of the mob at the loor had led them to say: "Paul1 nust take care of himself, and we ill take care of ourselves." No, no! [hey held the rope. and in doing so lid more for the Christian church ;han any thousand of us wvill ever ac somplish. But God knows and has nade record of their undertaking. and they know. How exultant they must have felt when they read his letters to the Etomans, to the Corinthians, to the] alatianu, to the Ephesians, to the Philippians, to the Colossians, to the Lhessalonians, and when they heard iow he walked out of prison, with ;he earthquake unlocking the doer for him, and took command of the lexandrian corn ship when the ailers were nea'rly scared to death md preached a sermon that nearly ihock Felix off his judgment seat. I ear the men and women who helped aim down through the window and aver the wall talking In private over ;he matter and maying: "How glad [ am that we effected that rescue! In :oming times others may get the lory of Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of the satisfaction of knowing hat we held the rope." Something occurs to me quite per jonal. I was the youngest of a large Eamily of children. My parents were either rich nor poor. Feur of the ons wanted a collegiate education, ad four obtained It, but not without rreat home struggle. We never heard the old people say once that they were denying themselves to effect this, but I remember now that my arents always looked tired. I don't ~hink they ever got rested until they ay down in the Somerville cemetery. Iiother would ait down in the even ing and say: "Well, I don't know what makes me feel so tired." Fa ther would fall immediately to sleep, seated by the evening stand, over ome with the day's fatigues. About 35 years ago the one and about 37 years ago the other put down the burdens of this life, but they still b~old the rope. But there must seine a time when we shall find out who these Damascenes were who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them and all those who have rendered to God and the world unreeegnized and unrecord ed services. That is going to be one of the glad excitements of Heaven, the hunting up and picking out of those who did great good on earth and got no credit for it. Here the church has been going on 19 cen turies, and yet the world has not recognized the serviceasof the people ood fortune of Col. William A. Neal s a preCedent to be followed in the ture to look well to his social posi- e ion, the number and standing of his t iends, and his sensitive disposition to t ufer humiliation and repentance; for ( therwise some poor devil who has d old his crop under lien, aind failed to r ay the debt secured thereby within t en days, may wake up to find that ( rhile he slept in the darkness of his r riendless despair, so sheltered that c his "bounteous rain of Heaven" had u an ff the eaves and had failed to wet r im. It is to be hoped that the future will f ot recall tha- c Mercy is not itself, oft looks so; ardoi is still the nurse of second woe." a Will It Pay? A dispatch from. Atlanta says the otton growers will hold their cotton I is year until they can get 10 cents a I ond. Officials of the cotton growers ( BJociaton decided on this plan for the i lanters at a meeting in the Kimball 1] ouse Friday and they will work to I ave the plan adopted in all the associa- I LO throughout the south. a that Damascus baloony. Chares ,. Finney said to a dying Christian: Give my love to St. Paul when you Beet him." When you and I meet im, as we will, I shall ask him to in roduce me to those who got him out f the Damascene peril. We go into long sermons to prove hat we will be able to recognize peo le in Heaven, when there is one rea on we fail to present, and that is bet er than all-God will introduce us. re shall have them all pointed out. -ou would not be guilty of the impo teness of having friends in your par >r not introduced, and celestial po teness will demand that we be made cquainted with all the Heavenly ousehold. What rehearsal of did imes and recital of stirring reminis ences! If others fail to give intro uction, God will take us through, and Before our first 24 hours in Heaven f it were calculated by earthly time eces-have passed we shall meet and alk with more Heavenly celebrities han in our entire mortal state we met ith earthly celebrities. Many who ade great noise of usefulness will sit n the last seat by the front door of he Heavenly temple, while right up ithin arm's reach of the Heavenly hrone will be many who, though they ould not reach themselves or do great xploits for God, nevertheless held the 'ope. Come, let us go right up and accost hose on the circle of Heavenly hrones. Surely they must have killed i battle a million men. Surely they ust have been buried with all the athedrals sounding a dirge and all he towers of all the cities tolling the ational grief. Who art thou, mighty ne of Heaven? "I lived by choice the tnmarried daughter in a humble home ha I might take care of my parents a their old age, and I endured with ut complaint all their querulousness .nd administered to all their wants or 20 years." Let us pass on round he circle of thrones. Who art thou, ighty one of Heaven? "I was for :0 years a Christian invalid and suf ered all the while, occasionally writ ig a note of sympathy for those orse off than I, and was general con dant of all those who had trouble, nd once in awhile I was strong nough to make a garment for that oor family in the back lane." Pass n to another throne. Who art thou, nighty one of Heaven? "I was the nother who raised a whole family of hidren for God, and they are out in he world Christian merchants, Chris Ian mechanics, Christian wives, and have had full reward for all my toil." et us pass on in the circle of thrones. I had a Sabbath school class and hey were always on my heart, and hey all entered the kingdom of sod, and I am waiting for their ar ival." But who art thou, the mighty ine of Heaven on this other throne? 'In time of bitter persecution I owned house in Damascus, a house on the all. A man who preached Christ was sounded from street to street and I id him from the assassins, and when found them breaking into my house end I could no longer keep him safe I advised him to flee for his life, Lnd a basket was let down over the all with the maltreated man in it, nd I was one who helped hold the ope." And I said: "Is that all?" ind he answered: "That is all." And while I was lost in amazement I heard strong voice that sounded as though might once have been hoarse from nany exposures, and triumphant as ;hough it might have belonged to one ,f the martyrs, and it said: "Not nany mighty, not many noble are :alled, but God bath chosen the weak hings of the world to confound the ;hings which are mighty, and base :hings of the world and things which re despised hath God chosen, yea, and bhings which are not to bring to taught things which are, that no flesh should glory in His presence." And looked to see from whence the voice ame, and lo1 it was the very one who ad said: "Throz~i a window in a asket was I let down by the wall." Henceforth think of nothing as in-. iignificant. A little thing may decide our all. A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It was well ~quipped, but in putting up a stove ai the pilot box a nail was driven too sear the compass. You know how :hat nail would affect the compass. ho ship's oficers, deceived by -that istracted compass, put the ship 200 iles off her right course, and sudden yy the man on the lookout cried: 'Land ho;." and the slip was halted within a few yards of her demolition m Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail igme near wrecking a Cunarder. hall ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister seated Tn Boston at his able, lacking a word, puts his hand behind his head and tilts back his hhair to think, and the ceiling falls nd crushes the table and would have rushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night, by the light of an insect alled the candle fly, is kept from step ping over a precipice a hundred feet. .. W.Robertson, the celebrated Eng Lih clergyman, said that he entered the ministry from a train of circum tances started by the barking of a og. Had the wind blown one way n a certain day the Spanish inquisi ion would have been established in England. But it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed institu tion, with '75 tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea or flung the splin tred logs on the r ocks. Nothing unimportant in your life or nne. Three naughts placed on the -ght side of the figure one makes a thousand, and six naughts on the -ght side of the figure one a million, and our nothingness placed on the -ight side may be augmentation illim itable. All the ages of time and eterni yaffected by the basket let down from a Damascun balcony. Stilt in the Busines. Church-I see a man milliner up town has gene into politics. Gotham-Well, he's a trimmer yet, -Yonkers Statesman. Drowned at Sea. The navy department 'Thursday re eivcd a cablegram fromiCapt. Craig, of he Albany, dated at AdeD, announcing hat Frank Schilz and Timoth Me atthy, while sleeping on the poop ec of the Albany on last Sunday igt slid overboard, buring an excep onslly heavy roll of the vessel. Capt. rag's cablegram stated that he re aied in the locality where the ac ident occurred all Sanday night and ttllafter daylight Monday, but the en were not again seen, and their dees could not be recoveree. On the llowing Monday George Perkins went vroard and was drowed, but his body ass ecovered and will be bnried ashore Four Men Killed. In an accident Monday at the new ridge which the Southern railway is uding across the Congaree river, n ar oobi, four men were killed, three oued, one fatally and two seriously. hee accident occurred at 8:30 o'clock loday morning and was caused by the aig of two steel girders about 70 set logwighing fourteen tons each, RFSUM1ES ITS WORD, The Polit cal Summer School Opens Once More. SENATOR McLAURIN ABSENT. A Mill President Presents the Ccmmercial Demccracy's Side cf the Argument. The Ohio Speakers. The State Political Summer School resumed operation at Spartanburg on Tuesday of last week. The meeting was devoid of sensational features. There were present Messrs. Hemphill, Johnstone, Henderson, Latimer and Evans, but a new volunteer lecturer on the textile industry-Col. Carey, a mill president, entered the arena. HON J J HEMPHILL The first speaker introduced was the Hon. J. J. Hemphill who delivered a rattling good speech; punctuated with jokes, and made a good impression. He reminded one of a trained athlete upon a gymnasium floor, being easy and graceful as well as displaying the power he posseesel. He took it for granted that the people bad assembled here to discuss issues that were vital to themselves and the country. These inucs came as new issues in name, but they were as old as the fundamental principles of the great parties. He held that this necessity had arisen by r asnu of the efforts of one man to raise whole planks from the Republican plat form and put them into the Democratic platform and then ferce the people to stand upon them. The leading issue of course was the question of expansion -modern expansion. Expansion was founded, he held, upon Democratic principles; but this new variety was on an entirely different plan-one utterly fozeign to our customs, institutions and modes of thought. The speaker then described the Philippine islands and presented many facts and figures to show how many cotton goods America sold them last year. He figured that the islands bought from us goods amounting to 7 cents per capita, and that if th is trade is divided up South Carolina will get one hundredth part of a mill. He discussed the small trade to be secured and applied the same reasoning to China. Then he compared the results of trade with these foreign countries with those of our trade with Lanada, showing that Canada with five millions population did hundreds of times more business with us than China. He wanted true expansion pushed but with the people who had something to expand. . He went on to show that Spain bad all along been a weak nation and if any or thie big powers had wanted the Philippines they could long ago have taken them. He was opposed to the ship subsidy absolutely and wanted all laws putting restrictions upon ships floating the American flag repealeil. They should be built" and owned in this country. Then he entered into the much vaunted ship subsidy cf Great Britain and showed. that she had iterely paid for the carrying of the mails as we do, but she uas paying only 40 cents per ton against our $1 23 for theo aame servies. HENDERSON PLAIN SPoKEN. Hon. D. S. Henderson was then intro duced and he made a foroefui speecn, thoroughly commanding tne attention of his hearers. He calied attention to the fant that today was the anniver sary of the date of the primary for United States senator to be held one year nence. There was on foot a de liberate effort to overturn the princi ples of lDemocracy, those principles as old as the country itself. He had every faith in the people and believed that they would stand to these principles ana kill out this effort now in its very inception. Senator M1c1aurin had toid them at Charlotte that it was about time for them to abondon these prin ciples and embrace those of Republi canismi He was sorry the janior senator was not present. He wanted to see him on tne stump in order that these issues ne has raised might be fully die cused." MrcLaurin had shown a dispo sition to avoid these meetings. At Qafiney Tillman had taken him una wares. When the opportunity came to discuss these things MicLaurin was al ways unavoidably detained. He would not misstate the senator's position. The senator I aI been calling for Republi can principles-wnst he advocated was merely D'mocratie in name. Mir. Hen aerson read copiously from Senator McLaurin's speeoh delivered a few days before the ratification of the Paris treaty, in which lie held that a colo nial policy was unconstitutional and. that it was not Iroper to spread re ligion at the point vir the bayonet. Mdr. Rendenson called attention to that po ition ana that now assumed. Uould they take such a man as a leader? If later on when it eames to the State con vention to elect delegates to the Kain as City convention he held these views he should have called on the peopie of alariboro to sena him to that conven tion so ho couin have presented those views before those oharged with tne making o1 the party piatform. M~r. lierderson paid high tribute to Gen. Wade hiamupton, being heartily ap plauded, anc' read from the general's recent interview. TVhe spea~er then ran over the politcal history of the country showing what were the fundamental pricipies of De~mocracy and contuast ing tm with iRepuoiican principles. CoL. JOHNSTONE. Ccl. George Johinstone made another haracteristically strong speech and by his expressive delivery and forceful way of putting thing he won friends just as he did at Union. He said it was the imminent peril he considered South Carolina to be in just now that brought him before the people. He gave, as at Union, the reasoning by which he had reached his conclusion on the issues now before the people. He had observed South Carolina's onward movement since 1876 and believed that South Carolina would soon be the lead ing textile State in the Union. He had looked carefully at the men who advo cated these new principles and found some who had voted for Bryan exvress ing publicly the hope that McKinley would be elected. The principles in volved in all this were those of our forefathers, those Jefferson had fought for. They were calling it Commercial Democracy. He didn't know exactly in wat it was commeecial unless it was in federal patronage This was the article of commerce and the post office the exchange of small trade. He dwelt upon the fact that the Demo cratic party had always been the broad party; that it had always had the true expansion policy. But this is a very differen expeann from that we are now called upon to adopt. He said there had been no expansion from the elder Adams on down which the Demo- g ritic party had not originated; like- A wise there had been no treaties It did and does stand for these things. It was preposterous now to twit the Damo cratic party with stagnation and inac. sea tion. Col. Johnstone then clearly ani pointed out the difference between the the expansion of those days and the im perialism of the present day. The con test we are now engaged in, he said, is exa no ordinary one. It is a death grapple oui of the forces of Freedomand M ardby i and in it is the germ of destruction of ov the institutions which we have built , up and stood for. Col. Johnstone then took up the religious destiny idea, and go disclaiming any intention to be irrever- to ent asked as at Union, how Christ ge would look in the uniform of an Ameri- tii can general marching at the head of an e invading army, carrying religion with rifles to }o those who did not want it. in ANOTHER MILL PRESIDENT. Lc Congressman Latimc r was presented B as the next speaker. Before he could say anytbing a man in the hall wanted 15 to ask him something about a Populist fo convention. He tola his questioner he FC would answer later and proceeded to say ti that there had been an idea afi at since 60 the Union meeting that some attack at he.d been made on the cotton mill presi- to dents and he wished to give a portion tn of his time to one of them to make a m reply. He thereupon- presented Col. PD Jno. B. Carey, president of the Lock- ca hart mills. Mr. Carey was greeted with wi vigorous applause and was given a th most respectful hearing. He made ag quite an elcquent defense of the cot- to on mill presidents. He said an honor- 00 able class of men had been attacked at a Union and their character had been as- er: sailed. He was not a politician, but ed merely wished to present a few facts. 8o H. gave an interesting account of who 00 these mill men were, most of them true fie South Carolinians; Confederate soldiers Ri and soss of Confederate soldiers. Others at were those who had come and east their 70 lot among us. He pictured what they to had done for the State. He denounced C1 the politicians for having brought on ha this war, and said that now it was on fr< we cught to accept the cons quences of and do the best possible. The mill til presidents were all men of peace. He re gave an outline of expansion as the hi mill men saw it-an expansion of trade. fe He said, "Expansion as the mill men N understand it is the reaching out from Oc our o in shores and extending into the st marts of the world, with our ships sail ing under our own flag, laden with t( American products of the loom, of the e' shop, of the mine and of the field." LATIMER HITS HARD. Mr. Latimer then took the stand i again and made a very vigorous speech so which took well with- the crowd. The man in the audience who questioned t him when he first arose accused Lati- of mer of having been in a Popalist to convention at Kansas city. Mr. Lati- ti, mer denied this, and said that after d, the Democratic convention in Kansas of City had completed its business an other had assembled, but he had not .a been a member of it; nor had he had anything to do with it. Then the con gressman dived into Senator McLau r rin with the gloves off, and vigorously b enounced him. He said MeoLaurin had betrayed everything he had ever had anything tp do witil. He had started tr out opposing the Beform movement. O He had undertaken to run the cam paign of W. D. Evans and ele cted him tel?. He had been opposed to the dis pensary, after the Darlington trouble. ~ A year or two ago in Wasnington Mc- -' Laurin had come to Congressmnan 8trait ana Wilson and himself and hadt U tried to get them to sign a proclama- q1 tion with him to lead the people into U the Republican party. t EVANS TILLS A TALE. Ex Governor John Gary Evans was at his new home today.- He was given hearty cheers when he was presented. d He stated that he had not intended to make a speecn today; ta he had ex- a pecred to give his tia.ne to other speak- r era. He did may a few things of in- s terest, however. He asserted that he had known all this time, and claimed . redit for predicting it, that MeLaurin ~1 would do as he had done. He had been in Washington once and had gone to Tilman and our congressmen and told t4 them that MeLaurin was a Republican ' at heart, and asked them to watch him. He had told Latimer about it and told Latimer to go atiead and op pose him; that he would step aside i as he had jast been defeated and did V not care to run again just then. Lati- c mer had said he had plenty of aoeu mnts that would beat him, but he did si not run. E. J. Watson. C c The Difference. f The Savannah News says so far as weo are able to recall ;nere has never Deen a riot in a soudhern city for the purposee of driving the colored element out of tuo public parks. 1u Savannah, Jack- c snville, Wilmington. Mobile, Mem- a phis and New Orleans the public parks 9 are often practically monsopolized by 9 negroes. 'hev come early and stay ~ la:e, and occupy tae choice benches t: and sit nearest the music when the i band plays. It is frequently remarked a that they get the most of the benefits a of the paris, but the white people never think of driving them away with clubs and rocks. But in Indianapolis, Id., they do things differently. Two rIots have already occurred there in Fairview Park because the white people object to the presence of negroes in tno pleasure grounds, and other similar t troubla may occur. In Indiana the "coored brother" is best loved when ~ he is several hundred mile. away. t About Right. The Washingson Post says the editor of the Savannah News has apen;t he greater portion of his professional life v in supporting politicians for office, and a now thaat he aspiros to the Georgia governorship, he feels that he has the I right to expect a little reciprccity on their part. Or, at least, he did feel g that way until last week, when he wash remided moat forcibly that republics C are not the only things that are un grateful. He finds himself accused of all sorts of diahonorable practices, and the accusers, are the politicians whom he has supported so sealously in the past. The Post has always maintained t that newspapers should be made and conducted for the people who support them, and not for the politicians who expect to be supported. We expect soon to be able to announce that edi ton of the Savannah News as a convert to our theory. d d Mas. Carrie Nation, referring to her husband's application for e: divorce, says she thinks David p isn't a bad fellow, but "he is too a slow for me." And, looking back over her life with him. she is resolved not to surrender her y liberty again "for the best nmanf d that ever stretched shoe leather." David was right in 'a askling th + courts~ torelease him. G TAH GRUET ODDS. ainst the Confederates in Noted Bat ties of the War. Chose who will take the pains to rah the offiaial records of the Union 1 Confederate armies, as published by I government of the United States, l see that the old veterans are not ggegrating the wondrous deeds of r southern heroes, when they talk .h such enthusiasm of victories won r immense cdis. It is not the purpose of this article to into dry details from the records, but quote the words t f a gallant Union neral, Don Carlos Buell, whose ely arrival at Shiloh saved the deral army from complete overthrow. in an article which appeared first in e Century Magazine acd afrerwards the third volumn of "Battles and aders of the Civil War." General tell said: "It r, quircd * * * a naval fi et and ,000 troops to advance against a weak s, manned by less than 100 men at rt Henry; 35, with naval co opeia n t'o overcome 12 000 at Danelsot,; 000 to secure a victory over 40 000 Pits turg Landing (Shilol ); 120 000 enfored the retr.at of 65,000 in ;nohed after a monsh of fighting and neuveTing at Carinth; 100,000 re iea y 80,000 in the fi. s peninsular mpaiga agsin t R.c unond: 70,000 ten a poweriui naval 1or de to inspire e campaign which lasted nine months, ainst 40,000 at Vicksburg; 90,000 to barely withstand the assault of 70, 0 at Gettysburg; 115,000 sustaining rightful repulse from 60,000 at Fred-. cksburg; 100,000 attacked and defeat= by 50,000 at Chancellorsville; 000 held in check two days by 40-, 0 at Antietam; 43 000 retaining the id uncertainly against38,000 at Stone ver (Murfreesbcrc); 70,000 defeated Chickamauga, and beleaguered by 000 at Chattanooga; 80000 merely break the investing iine of 45,000 at ratanooga, and 100,000 to press ok 50.000 increased at last to 70,000 nm Chattanooga to Atlanta a distance 120 miles, ant then let go-an opera :n which is commemorated at festive. uniors by the standing toast of 'One Ldred day under fire; 50,000 to do at the investing line of 30,000 at ashile; and finally 120,000 to over me 60,u00 with exhaustion after a ruggle of a year in Virginia." In some of the battles thus enumera d by General Buell the odds were 'en greater than he states them. General Baelt adds: "Individually ae northern~Aoldier was in no sense the forior of the southern. What then the explanation of this rule which is nearly invariable as to show that perior numbers were generally essen i to Union victories and the success Union operations? Much was due the character of the contest. Revolu on is calculated to inspire bold and sperate action, and wars of sentiment, the nature of which this partook ore in the south thai in the north, always marked by u iusual energy." Buell gives as anotaer reason, she iduct of the southern general. "They cgnissd that the odds must generally against them and that they must dsms means of overc 'ming the ef et of the fact upon the spirit of their oops, and themselves set an example audacity." To illustrate the implict confidence ih which the southern soldiers fol wed their leaders he draws the follow g comparison: "At Cold Harbor the northern troops ho hsad proven their indomitable ialities -by losses nearly equal to the hole of their opponent, when ordered Sanother sacrino, .eve~e under such a ildier as Hancock, answvered the do .nd as one ma;, a~salena and stolid ertia; at Gettystu-g, Pickett, when iting for the signal which Longstreet eaded to repeat, b r the hopeles but umorral charge against Cemetary Hill, luted and said, as he burned so his tady column: '1 shall- move forward, General Buell then speaks of another ifiance which nerved the heart of the nfederate soldier to valorous deeds: "Nor must we give slight importane >the influence of the southern women, ho in agony of hears girded the swcrd pon their loved ones and bade themgo. was to be expiaeted that these various bfuences wouid give a confidence to aership tha; would-tenc to bold ad ature and leave its mark upon the antst." Before closing this artic'e I wish to y that in my communication on ~ettysburg I inadvertently gave all the edit of mae f:st day's brilliant Oon adeisate victory to .Esell's corps. I ould have said 'the troops of A. P. [ill and E ueli encounterd the two arps of Reynoide and Howard, etc." ho bastaw as com en.ed og Hill's ops and E weli's troops came to his sistance am the censis of the engage ient. I would not do an intentional ijustice to any olficor or man of that icomparble host; the Army of Nor it any of the gallans leaders of that riy wAlladiy tailed ia any duty on zy liel.-LneAdianta Jouraa. Light as a Cure. At a meeting of the Academy of ciences in Paris on December 3 1.. . Garnault reported that in cer ain diseases light exercises a pecific curative action. The most uccessful treatment under concen rated light occurred in cases of murs ular and articular rheumatism, vari us kinds of ulcers and chronic ca arrh of the nose and ear.-Youth's ompanion. Taking No Chances. Hotel Clerk-I am sorry, sir, but you rill have to give satisfactory proof bout those scars on your hands. 1am dr Fatte-Why, can't a man are scars? "No. How do I know but what you ot those scars while sliding down the ghtning rod at the last hotel!"-Chi ago Daily News. PonosAttachments are quick rformed in our profession. Hamakter-Alas, 'tis true! "Why that note of melancholy in ay tone ?" "I was thinking of my wardrobe 'hich my landlord has this day at tched."-Ohio State Journal. But Nothing Is Done. Mrs. Pettit-Whenever I express a esire for anything my husband never bjects. Mrs. Ig. Nord-Same with me. I cam press the desire as often as X lease. It never disturbs him.-Phil elphia Press. Cause and Effect. She-I'd never have married you I'd have known you would become af. He-I should never have become af if I hadn't miarried you.