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ARI t~4~ - -.I t,6 VOL XVJ MANNING. S. C. WEDNESDAY. SEPTME1819. EM1A GOLDMAN. "Queen ot Anarchistr," Arrested in Chicago. SHE IS INDIFFERENT. She Says She Knows N-thng About the Assassin or As sassination cf the Prdsident. Emma Goldman, the anarchist qneen, under whose red banner Leon Czolgpsz claims he stands, whose words he claims fired his heart and his brain to attempt the assa'sination of the presi dent, was arrest (d in Chicago, on Wed ne- day of last week. She d:sclaimed all but the slightest acquaintance with the presidert's as sailant; she denied absclutely that she or anarchists she knew were implicated in any plot to kill the president. She said she believed Czolgosz actei en tirely on his own responsibility and that be never claimed to have been in spired by her, as he is quoted as af firming. The president, she averr d with a yawn, was an insignificant being to her, a mere human atom whose life or death were matters of supreme indiffereee to her or to any anarchist Czols osz's act was foolish, yet she declared it probably had its inspiration in the mis E ry which the Pole had seen about him. Violence, she said, was not a tenet in the faith of the anarchist and she had not advocatrd it in Cleveland, w, e:e Czolgofz had said he heard her, nor elesewhere, Miss Goldman arrived in Clicego from St. Louis. Her immunity from arrest while in the Missouri.metropol i and up to Wedaesday in Chicago af fcrded her much amusement. She to d, in sentences punctuat d with laughter of her capture. In her conversation with reporters-and she talkt d with them at length twice during the day the excitement she was laboring under was suppressed and only once did the break down completely. That was when Captain Schuettler led her from the of fice of Chief of Police O'Neill to the cab which was waiting to convey her to the women's annex at the Harrion street police station. For a moment ShA became a woman pure and simple and cried. In a moment, however, this exhibition of distress was over and wl'en she put her foot on the step to mount into the carriage she was again Emaa Goldman, the "high priestfbs cf anarchy," as she has been styled by her followers. She said her purpose in going to Chicago has been to assist the anar ohists who were arrested there several days ago. She had intended to give herself up to the police, but delay d it, for one reason and for another, until the police she had derided so much had taken the matter in their own hands. "What did you think when you heard that an attempt to kill the presi dent had been made?" the woman was asked. With a wave of her hands and an other shrug of the shoulders she an swered disdainfully: "I thought oh, the fool!" The prisoner's manner had been arowing more and more exeited, al though she made an evident effort to control herself. In this she finally succeeded and lanched into a discourse of the teachings of anarchy. She de clared that anarchy did not teach men to do the se a which has made Czolgosz despised and hated the world over. "We work against -the system and education is our watchword," she said. "It was early last July when I came to Chicago to visit the Isaak's family, she continued, in answer to an interrogation concerning her where abouts recently. "On the night of July 12, Isaak was out of the house. The bell rarng and I went to the door. The man, who I learn through the newspapers was Caylgosz, stood there. He wanted to see me. 1iwas about to catch the Nickel Plate train as I and Mr. Isaaks' daughter were about to go to Rochester. He went alone to the Rock Island depo', where he met us, but I was so busy taking leave of my friends that I scarcely noticed him. It waa not a time when one would want to mnake.new friends. At the depot I had the few words with him of which I have told. That was all there ever was between us." "I am an anarchist-a student of so cialism; but, nothing in anything I ever said to Leon Czolgosz knowingly would have led him to do the act which startled everybody Friday." "Not even in your lectures? He says your words set his brain on fire," asked the interviewer 'Am 1 accountable because some cracked brain person put a wrong con struction on my woras? Leon Czolgosz I am convinea, planned the deed un aided and entirely alone. There is no anarchist ring which would help him. There may be anarchists who would murder, bat there also are men in every walk of hrfc who sometimes feel the im pulse to kill. 1 do not know surely, but I think Czolgoisz was one of those down-trodden men who see all the mis ery which the rich ir flct upon the poor; who think of it, whio brood over it and then, in despai7, resolve to strike a treat blow, as they think, for the good of their fellow men. But that is not anarchy. Czolgot z may have been inspired by me; but, if he was, he took the wrong way of showing it." The anarchistic lecturer wore a white shirt waist of fine material, a dark blue cheviot skirt, patent leather boots and a straw hat encireled by a dotted veil. She toek a chair in the midile of the room and faced the little group of inquisitors with an air of confidence. Besiae her sat Captain Schuettler, brcad-shouldered and quiet. In fro~nt of her were the ohier of police and Mayor Harrison. Captain Colleran stood back in a corner with Fire Chief Musham. When thc interview was over Csptain Colleran, chief of detectivas, served a warrant on Miss Goldman charging her with cornspiracy to r-urder the presi dent. The warrant was swCra to by Captain Colleran. It s ives as her co conspirators Abraham Isaake, Maurice ITaaks Clemence Pfeutzer, Hippolyte Have'. Henry Travagli>, Alfred Schne' der Jtuia 'ice ume Marie Task ar d Ma-ie [-ask-, Jr All b'it Miss G ;ld mnt'r were '.rrrtdc4 Pome dss sg. The women %ere Fllwf d to ge but the men -vx-e held without bail ar d aer now in jai L'-in tis eay Mies Goldman was nterviewrd in the womei's annex to t"e polie stat'on by an Associated Press represerfati7 ar d a stene traphio repcrt t'ken. Miss G-ldman sazd: "I feel sure that the police are help ing us mere than I could do in ten years. T'hey are making more anarchists than the most prominent people con reetf d wi'h the anarihist cause could meke in toin years. If they will only cc ntinue I shall le very grateful; they wi-l save me lots o' work." "Vhat do you think of your own ar rest?" she was asked. "If I told you. " she re pl.ied. "it wou'd look comewhat conceited and I certainly woula not like to be guilty of that N3t on! my arrest but the otbrs smack of the HaYmarket. The police are very much in disrerute all over the country and they wish to d- something to clear themselves. They are tryirg to make it an ararchist plot; if they wish to make up a case they may succeed." "W1at man in the United States, in your opnion, isof suffiient prominence to warrant euch a plot?" she was asked "I am not in position to say," replied Miss Goldmin, "wh' ought to be killed. The moneolis's ad wealthy of this country are resp nsiole for the existence of a Czolgosz If imperialism would not grow in this country; if the liberties of the people were not trampled ur der foot there would have been no violence." Referring to the would-be assassin, Miss Goldman said: "I feel that the man is one of those unfortunates who have been driven to despair andmisery to commit the deed. I feel very deeply with him as an indivi dual, as I would feel with anybody who suffirg. If I had means I would help him as mnch as I coul; I would see that he had counsel and that justice was done him." Although the whole world awaited Friday afternoon for the bulletins from the president's beside, Miss Goldman did not care enough about the repirt that he had been shot, which she heard newsboys shouting, to buy a paper. It was Saturday noon before her interest was sufficiently aroused to buy a news paper c mtaining the story. She was more interested in the arrest of the Chicago anarchists than in the presi dent's condition. Asked if she thought Czolgorz's act was praiseworthy from her point of view, she answered: "I am not in a postion to say whether is was good or bad. It is bad for the man who attempted to do it. I am not in his boot- and know noth ing about it. What I d;n't see is why thcy should make more fuss over the president than anybody else. All men are borne equa!." Charles G. Norries at whose homE Miss Gldman was taken into custody is not the type of man generally as sIOciated with the word "anarchist." He is well bui e, goed looking, neat and well dressed and is decidedly in tellgent. He has no occupation at pres ent but ha been a clerk and was recent Iy in the insurance business. He is a Cat adian by birth, but has become a Oidz ml of this ecuntry. When questioned by one of the police officers, Norris disclaimed any knowl edge of any plot to assassinate the preelaent and said he knew nothing whatever of Dzolgosz. When asked how Miss Goldman came to be an inmate of his place he replied that he had on a previous occasion invited her to make her home there whenever she was in Chicago. "When she came to your house this time did you know she was wanted by the polie," demanded Chief O'Neill. '.Yes." "Then why did you not inform the police?' "Well, she said when she came to the house-that she had come here to sur render herself to the Chicago police and I supposed she would do so when she got ready." "Don't you know," asked the chief, "that she was not going to surrender to the police at all? Don't you know she was expecting to leave Chicago?" "No I dorat," was the reply. "She told me she was ge'iog to give her self up and I had no reason to doubt her." "I don't believe one word he says," said O'Neill, as Norris was led away. The woman was preparing to run away as we can positively show and, of course, this fellowv must have known about it. I shall hold him in custody and have him indicted for conspiracy to kill the president." Maggio Arrested. Chief Wilkie of the secret service has received unofficial information that An tonio Maggio has been arrested in New Mexico. Maggio was the cornetist traveling with the Andrews Opera corn pany, and is said to have made a state ment not long ago that President Mc Kinley would be shot before October' 1st, and that he was sorry he, himself, was not to do the shcoting. Upon this statement reaching Unief Wilkie, the secret service operative was directed to proceed to New Mexici, where Maggio was reporte d to bc and plsoo him un der arrest. From This State. In the dail y bulletin issued by the president's physiciaras appears the name of Dr. Eugene Wasdin. D~r, Wasdin ii a South Carolinian being a native of Geoigetown, And he has attained emijfnereJ in the practice of surgery. Dr. Wasdin al out fifteen years ago t red the nav. y as surgeon and his success was susa caat he has been assigued to many important m odi cal missions by the g over nm ant. Negroes Lynch Negroes. Thurseay night a mob c f negroes broke in the jail at Wickliffe, Ky, and l:anehed three negroes. They hangeo toe mun 'o a c-oss beam in a mill. The men had .ay le~d, murdered and robbed an old negre fast Saturday night. _________ Spanish War "Veteraus" T:e Spsnih war veterans are to hold a see-d reunion in Coh~unbia during fair week, and a banquet will be given on the n:ght of October 301. Member5 of the First and Second Regiments and the Heavy Artile-ry will participate. RULED HIM OUT. Acmiral How;son Dropped tecm the Schley Court BY THE OTHER MEMBERS. Schley's Keen Ls.wyar Finally Cornered Howison Into Ad mission of Set Views on Important Point. The Schley court of inquiry assem bled in Washington on Thursday, and within three hours from the time of convening announced that Rear Ad miral Howison was disqualified from serving as a member of the court and was excused frcm further duty. This brought proceeding to an abrupt ter mination and caused a temporary ad j urnment of the court in order to per mit the navy department to designate an officer to ueoceed Admiral Howison. No further session is probable until the early part of next week. it had, been expected that little official busi ness would be accompiished on the opening day, and the prompt decision as to Admiral Howison came somewhat as a surprise. Intense interest appeared to be taken by the public in the proceedings and though it was known that only a very limited number of persons would be admitted to the court room and these by card, a large crowd was assembled at the court room Thursday morning to witness the coming and going of the prominent naval officers who wers to take part in the proceedings. They came ununiformed and unheralded, and until the full dress uniforms had been donned at quarters inside the yard for the actual sessions of the court, there was little to lend dramatic inter est to the occasion. Admiral Dawey and Admiral Shley naturally were the premier figures in popular interest. Rhe latter had about him a distinguish ed array of counsel, including Hon. Jere Wilson, Attorney General Isidor Raynor of Maryland and Capt. James Parker, with Mr. Teague acting as ad visory counsel. The German naval at tache, Capt. Rebeur-Paschwitz, ooon pied one of the seats in the pub!io area and the number of wives of naval offi cera present was noteworthy. A salute of 17 guns in honor of the admiral of the navy marked the open ing of the proceedings at 1 o'clock. The usual formalities on the opening of a court were tranisacted with dispatch. The first skirmish was opened by Ad miral Schley rising from his seat and speaking in a strong voice, calmly and deiberately, challenging Admiral How son's eligibility as a member o" the court. Three witnesses were brought forward in support of his challenge, namely, Francis S. Frost, William E. Spon and Foster Nicholls. They gave very positive testimony as to expres sions they had heard Admiral Howison make, favorable to Admiral Sampson and unfavorable to Admiral Schley. Mr. Frost testified to a statement Ad miral Howison had made to him at Baston while the witness was seekirag news as a reporter, Mr. Spon to re marks made while he and the admiral were journeying back to this ountry from Europe on a trans-Atlantic steamer, and Mr. Nicholls' conversation ocurred during a business call at Ad miral Howison's private residence in onkers, N. Y. On concluding this estimony, the question arose whether Admiral Howison would join issue with he statements made by the witnesses, r would rest upon his privilege to withhold any answer until he choose to ubmit it. The admiral met the issue y turning at once to Admiral Dewey ad announcing that he would make a written rejoinder to the statements of he three witnesses. This rejoinder he prepared very speedily. While con eding the accuracy of some points in he evidence it threw considerable oubt ou other points and disclaimed any recollection of the talks said to ave tsken place on the trans-Atlantic teamer. It was not sufficient, how ver, to counteract the very direct tes imony given by the three witnesses ad moreover the admiral himself, in sonluding his statement, indicated lainly that he had no desire to remain on the court and was there simplyv in bedience to orders. He even appealed o his associates on thre court to decide all doubtful questions as to his eligi iity in favor of Admiral Schley. Before submitting the challenge to he determination of the court Mr. Raynor cross* examined Admiral Ho vi son very minutely as to his personal sentiments toward Admiral Sampson ad Admiral Schley and developed that Admiral Howison had expressed cer ain defined convictions as to Admiral Sampson's retention of authority and esponsibility, even while he was ab sent temporarily from the fleet at San tiago. The challenge then was sub mitted to the court, which un: er the circumstances, was narrowed to Admiral Dewey and Rear Admiral Benham, to pass upon. After hardly more than 15 minutes spent in retirement to the onsultation room Admiral Dewey briefly announced that the court sus tained the challenge and that Admiral Bowison would be excused from fur ther attendance. The decis:~on came so uickly and unexpectedly that it sent flutter of agitation throughout the ourt room. There was a buzz of ani ated comment, and Admiral Schley exhanged looks of satisfaction with is counsel. Admiral Dewey then at once closed the proceedings of the day by announcing that the court would adj urn indefinitely until the navy de parhiment had named an officer to suc eed Admiral Howison. Have Thev Struck Oil? Like City was Thursday the scene of the greatet excitement since the burn ing of the negro postmaster Baker. -hn artesian well borer, while boring on the lot in the resident portion of the town, is reported to have struck oil and c0..1 in good quantities at a depth of 65 feet. What is said to be anthracite coal was forced up almost as large in size as guinea eggs and the fluid ac oompaying it is said to "smell and burn- exactly like kerosene." The find is on the property of A. N. Sutchife, an tana Cast Dine station master. A GREAT NA PRESIDENT McKINLEY'S BRI ENDS EARLY SI Pathetic Scelles 1 Of the Beloved Man and I Heart Failure. The l Favorably When He A dispatch from Buffalo, where the President lies at the home of Presideni Milburn, of the Exposition Company, says President McKinley expe renced a sinking spell shortly after two o'clocl Friday morning. The physicians ad ministered rtstoratives, but they had little cr no effect, and at three o'clock the AsEsooisted Press was authorized te say that President McKinley was criti cally ill. About three o'clock Friday morning the following was issued by the Presi dents' physicians: "The president's condition is very serious and give rise to the gravest apprehension. His bow els have moved well, but his heart does not respond properly to stimulation He is conscious. The skin is warm and the pulse small, regular, easily compre sible and 126; respiration 30; tem parature 100." A bulletin issued at twenty-five after three o'clock Friday morning said "the president is so weak that he does not apparently suffer much. Strychnine, digitalis and other powerful heart stim ulants don't produce effect and the worst is feared. His d eath may occur any time from heart exhaustion. Mrs. McKinley has not yet been informed of the change for the worse." Dr. Mann at four o'clock said the President rallied some, but immediate ly came the unwelcome news that the rally was very slight. At 4:15 Secre tary Cortelyou and Mr. Milburn emerged from the house and walked up the side walk inside the roped enclosure. Sec retary Cortelyou said the president was reeting, that four physicians were in the sick chamber, but he offered little in the way of encouragement. HE IS DEAD. President McKsnley died at 2:15 Sat urday morning. He had been unconsci ous since 7:30 p. m. His last consci ous hour on earth was spent with the wife to whom he devoted a lifetime of care. Ho died unattended by a minis ter of the gospel, but his last words were an humble submission to the will of the God. in whom he believee. He was re oniled to the cruel fate to which an assassin's bullet had condemned him, and faced death in the same spirit of almness and poise which has marked his long and honorable career. His last onscious words, reduced to writing by Dr. Mann, who stood at his bedside when they were uttered, were as fol ows: "Good-bye, all; good-bye. It's Gcd's way. His will be done." His relatives, and members of the ficial family, were at the Milburn ouse, except Secretary Wilson, who id not avail himself of the opportuni y, and some of his personal and politi al friends who took leave of him. This pinful ceremony was simple. His friends came to the door of the sick oom, took a longing glance at him, nd turned tearfuily away. He was ractically unconscious during this ime. But the powerful heart stimul nts, including oxygen, were employed o restore him to conEciousness for his inal parting with his wife. He asked for her, and she sat at his side and eld his hands. He consoled her and ade her good-bye. She went through he heart-trying scene with the same ravery and fortitude with whigh she as borne the grief of the tragedy which has ended his life. The immediate cause of the presi ent's death is undetermined. His hysicians disagree, and it will possibly equire an autopsy to fix the exact cause. he president's remains will be taken o Washington, and there will be a State funeral. Vice President Roosevelt, who now succeeds to the presidenicy, ay take the oath of office wherever he appens to hear the news. The cabinet ill, of course resign in a body, and President Rossevelt will have an oppor unity of forming a new cabinet, if he o desires. The rage of the people of Buffalo gainst the president's assassin, when hey learned that he was dying, was boundless. Thousands surrounded he jail, and the entire police force of he city and two regiments of militia were utilized to insure his protection. HOW THE END CAME, he Good Man Died With a Hymu on His Lips. As stated above President McKinley began to sink shortly after two o'clock Friday morning after a critical period f 12 hours, in which alarm and hope ingled in the emotions of those who surrounded him. As the telegraph instruments rattle d away with their forlorn story early Fri ay morning the hastilly aroused physi cians began arriving. An automobile, racing at top speed, brought Dr. Mynter irst. He did not stop to speak, but rshed into the house. Dr. Mann came amost on his heels, at d he too ran dwn the street. Neither stopped for a word as they rushed into the house, After them came Abner McKinley, pale and agitated. He had left the house soarcely two hours before, and had dep arted with the assurarnce that the tide had turned in the case of his; ditngished brother. He had been TION MOURNS2 SE BAITLE AGiNSf DEATH 1DADAY MORNING. Il the Last Hol1r lagitrate. Death Caused by haund Was Progressing - ad Failure Set in. arcused from slumber by a messenger who told him to come at once. Secretary Wilson and Secretary Hitchcock, in grief at the peril of their chief, arrived within a few moments. Neither knew ths true state of the pro sidcnt at that moment, and in silent fear they quickly entered thn house. Another hurrying visitor was Dr. Wasd in, whose arrival completed the circle of physiciars; another was Mrs. Mc Williams, the friend of Mrs. McKin ley. THE WHOLE CITY WAS AROUS'RD The Buffalo rapers all had extras with the sad intelligerce of the presi dent's relapE e on the streets at daylight. Oae paper announced that the presi dent was dying. The result was that the whole city was thoroughly aroused and alrmed early, and before 7 o'clock crowds cf people flockcd in the direc tion of the Milburn residince to learn if the latest news was not more rewasur ing. They stood a the ropes, far down the iatErseoting streets, and waited patiently for the appearance of the morning bulietiD. Many of them re fused to credit the news of the presi dent's sudden change for the worse un til they had learned by word of mouth fiom the eentries of the president's dangerous and critical condition. Of all the sad household, only the wife did not know the trath. She surmised that Mr. McKinley was worse, for she was told that it would be bet ttr for her not to enter the sick chamber. She assented, but it was with a look of mute appeal in her eyes The president himself seemed to realize tl at his life hung by a thread. Friday morning he looked out of the window. When the nurse sought to adjust the pillow to keep out the light, he mur meied a feeble protest. "It is so beau tiiu)," said he; "the trees are so beau tiful, I want t3 see them." W. W. Johnson of WasEhington and Dr. Jane way of New York, two of the most eminent heart specialists in the Uaited States, were summoned to lend their sku.l and counsel, and Dr. MBurney, the noted surgeon, who lefL Thursday, was recalled. Vice President Roose velt and the absent members of the cabinet were also telegraphed for. DESPERATE RESOURCE ADOPTED. When the sinking spell occurred about 2 o'clock Friday morning it was feared Mr. McKlniey might expire at any moment, as ha did not respond to ordinary stimulants. It was only when recturse was had to the desperste re source of in jeting saline solution, which saved Mrs. McKinley's life in San Francisco, into his v~ins that the circulation grew stronger, and after an hour he rallied somewhat. His pulse at one time was almost 140. Bnt the slight rally came, and retumning hope with it. With the fresh energies of daylight, the president appeared per eptibly stronger, and the physicians announced in their 9 o'clock bulletin that his condition was improved. The pulse had fallen several points from the highest, and they aflined the existence of hote. A MEMORABLE SCENE. A~t 9:30, the scene about the Milburn residence was one that wiil live in the memory of those who witnessed it, as long as life lasts. Down the streets, in every direction, people were massed, hudrede deep; while at the corner where the headquarters of the press are located, correspondents of all the lead ing journals of the world were waiting, ready to flash the first news as far as the wires reach; while within the tents, the busy telegraph instruments were clicking ofif the sad intelligence, in front cf the residence, the blue coated soldiers paced, with arms at right shoulder. All were waiting, waitiag almost breathlessly, for the news. The physicians decided that is would not be well for Mrs. McKinley to enter the sick room Friday, both on account of her feeble health and tihe excitement it might cause the president. FRIENDS AND RELATIVES ARRIVE. Shortly after 10 o'clork, the intimate friends and relative s of the president who were telegraphed for began to ar r vs. and soon after 10 o'clock there were assembled in the down stairs rooms of the Milburn house Senators Hanna and Fairb~anks, ex-Secretary of Stte Day, Secret ary Wilson and 8..c rtary fitehcooek, Mr. and Mrs. Her mann Baer, Abner McKinley, Miss Helen McKinley and Mrs. J. T. Dun can, sisters of the pre sident, and Mits Lafayette McWilliams, in addition to John (.. Milburn, former Postmaster General Bissell, John N. Scat herd of Buffalo and Representative Alexander of the Buffalo district. THlE LAST FAREWELLS Before 6 o'clock it was clear to those at the president's bedside that ho was dying, and preparations were made for the last sad offices of farewell fromI those who were nearest and dearest to him. Oxygen had been administered steadily, but with little effect in keep ing back the approach of death. The president came out of one period of un consciousness only to relapse into an other. But in this period, when his mind was partially ceer, occurred a series of events of profoundly touch ing character. D~own stairs, with strained and tear stained faces, mem bers of the cabinet were grouped in anxious waiting. They knew the end was near, and that the time had come when they mu~ see him for the last time on ear th. This was abcut6 o'clock. IN THE WRONG PEW. Mrs. W H. Felton, cf Oeorgla, Talks Right Out. SOUTHERN METHODISTS Forced to Hear Some Unpleasant Things Said About Their Section and Its People. Understanding as I do the excessive bitterness of many English people to. wards the south, I watched with con sidcrable interest for the first discus sions at the .eumenical council attend ed by the followers of John Wesley from all over the civilized world. This Ecumenical ciunail is now in session in the city of Lrdos. The meetings qre held in a building whieh is intimately associated with the active work of Rev. John Wesley during his noted career. To this spot the hundreds of dele gates were attracted and a program had been arranged covering every hour of the entire session of ten days or two weeks. Some Georgians are supposed to be present and Bishop Gallaway preached the opening sermon by invitation of the committee on program. He is a sauth ern Methodist bishop So far, so good. Bishop Gallaway preached his eermon ax d a few hours later a negro bishop from the state of New Jersey took occasion to enounce the southern states as favoring lynch era and perreeutirv Degoes. This ne gro bishop from New Jersey declared that nicety negroes were lynched in the southern states during the year 1900, and only eleven were found guilty of assault on the persons of white women. The Britons cheered the negro bishop to the echo and it is reported that a good many southern delega'es left the building in disgust. With the lights before me I respect fully assume that the southern men found themselves in the wrong pew. and unlefs there is courage enough uncovered in the southera delegation to tell in detail of the -Leavenworth affair, the Akron massacre and the hos tility of dozens of other localities in the north and west to negroes, I here declare that our southern delegation would do well to shake off the dust of London and leave the negro bishop and British negropholists to close commu nion and racial sympathy without ut tering another word in that presence. Those who enjoy being kicked about by British fanatics, led by negro bishops, may of course endure the kick ing exercise, but I protest they have ceased to be representative men from Southern Methodist church if they fail to reply in strong words to the New Jersey negro, whose pses as a bishop, before the Ecumenical conference. The story told by the negro bishop as to the number of rapists as before sta ted, is a palpable mistake, to speak re spectfully of his utterances. Such speakers as this negro bishop are among the informers who have "padded" the reports of the Howard association of Lcndon with falsehoods of vicious mag nitude in regard to the excessive brau taity of the southern white men of our ountry towards the southern negroes. And it is such cunning, crafty pre varictors who withhold all mention of the burning alive of negro rapists in northern and western states. The same crime brings the same pun ishment wherever white men are brave enough to protect their own women from violence and rapine. And I measure my words in the sight of heaven, and in hearing of the Ecumen ial council, if need be; when I say it is a sorry white man, unworthy of the name, that will refuse to punish the black fiend with quick and commenen r~te punishment that has thug destroyed his innocent daughter or wife on the public highway or in her own borne. It makes every drop of blood in my matomy tingle with indignation to hear f these apologists for rape fiends, on this or on the other side of the Atlan ie ocean. It passes understanding that the ra pist's victim finds no sympathy among uh so called religionists as cheered the negro bishop over yonder in the city of London. Woman as I am, I'd tell that crowd f pietists a few wholesome truths in the pree-nce of the entire body of dele gates, or I d wash my hands of the con er, and secede from the organization uicker than you could say "Jack Rob inson." I'd tell the stoiy of the Georgia wo man, well <dieated, the happy wife and mother of four children, in her own home, at peace with all the world and rying to do her duty to her Maker, who was outraged for hours beside the weltering, bloody body of her murdered husband, in the presence of her own poung daughters, and I would' ask that cmenical council to name the pun sment that would meet the indignity and inhumanity of the situstion. They should reply, or the town of London would not be big enough to hold us to ~ether in a so-called meeting of preach ers and official laymen of the Metho fist followers of John Wesley. After their applause of the words of the negro bishop, that body of Metho lists should hear the truth in plain Language, or southern delegates should never attempt to fellowship another hour with such a gang of fakirs and Iauds, masquerading in the garb of religioue followers of John Wesley. Iam no apologist for any of the evils f slavery, but I am the defender of in oence and 'tirtue. I do contend that the wrong inficted on the innocent wo man by the black fiend that pursues er like a canine with rabies deserves no lighter punishment than such a mad fog would get when overtaken. Such a fiend has no claim to respect r pity, in my opinion, and when iden ifid such an unhumanized brute should not be allowed to infest a civil ed community a minute longer than indignant relativus and friends could fisatch him. I grant you that mistakes nre possi ble; where identification is not assured, but when the suspected rapist conf esses hi guil and th victim is atisfied as to identity. which should be required, I am quito as willing to trust a jury of a hundred citizens in the woods as a dozen in Ihe courthouse. I would be gled to tell those maudlin Metbodist Britons that their butchery of innocent Boers in South Africa re minds me of straining at gnats and swallowing camels, and if they needed a Bible quotation or illustration, I'd tell them the story of the ill-fated wo man whose lifeless hands lay "upon the threshold," and whose mangled and outraged body was out in twelve pieces together with her bonds and sent throughout the "coasts of Israel" be cause no such foul deed of rape and violence had ever been known or seen among the children of Israel from the time the their departure from Egypt ino the day that 'the outrage upon helpless womanhood was thus perpe trated, and "all the children of Israel rose up as one man, saying. "We will Dot any of us go to his tent, neither will any of us turn into his house," until this wrong shall be avenged. These indignant relatives of outraged wcminhood went before the Lord and asked Him, "Shall I go up to battle against the children of Benjamin, my brother?" to exterminate the "men of every city, as the beast and set on fire all the cities we came to." The Lord arswered Israel, "Go up against him." Read the twenty-second chapter of the Baok of Judges. and the chapter preceding for the facts here given. The pursuers gave the rapist the treat ment they gave to obnoxious beasts, and the Lird ka-d "Go up against him." The spirit of fiendish violence and the epidemic of lust which is now be come intolerable to the citizens of America, in the north, east, south and west, has been fanned into a blaze by the eniffling, snarling self righteous PC oksniffs attending the Ecumenical council in London. Let them embrace th! rapist in black if it saits their r at ure and their understanding, but .1 c ntend that southern Methodists in go, d standing at home are now find ing themselves in the wrong pew.-By Mrs. W. H. Felton in Atlanta J.urnal. A BOSTON XM8 PRIDE And How It Net With a Great Fall. A fall has been taken out of one Robert Treat Paine, of Boston, in a way that merits applause and it was handed a gentleman by a man bearing the same name who resides in New York. It is common in this age of similarity of names for men to have their letters mixed and it was through just such an occurrence that Paine, of Bo-ston, diecovered to his sorrow that there lived another Paine in New York. It setes the New York man got some of the Boston man's letters, and see ing that they were intended for another sent them forward with this note: "Please find enclosed letter opened by me by mistake. For your own con venience. kindiy notify persons Eend ing money to you of your proper ad dress " The man from the Hub was angered. not only because the lettars were mixed but beciuze there was another bearing the same name. He sent the following raply to New York: "Y.ear letter with the cc closure has been received by me. I hope you will allow me to express sincere regret that you should bear the name that by right of lineage belongs to me and my family here in Boston. There is no other di rect descendant of Robert Treat Paine, signer of the Declaration of Independ ence, who was the first to bear that name. if the name was given to you out of honor to the signer, I think such practice should not receive the aDetion of any thoughtful person." Plain Mr. Robert Treat Paine of New York was surprised at the tone of the letter written by Mr. Robert Treat Paine, of Boston, so he wrote him a se lction that seems to fit the case ex actly: Your rems~kab!e letter has been received by me and for th 3 reason that it is impossible to stop the bray of the donkey without killing the ass, I will allow yen to express your sincere re gret. The family to which I have the honor to belong existed long before the signing of the Daclaration of Independ ence, and your statement that the sign er was the first to bear the name sug gests thoughts as to his antecetdents. I have never been suffitiently interest ed to trace up my geneological tree, and certainly I shall not do it now, lest I might find that one of its withered branches reached out to you." So the Boston man doubtless realizes by this time that "there are others," even Robert Treat Paines. Want Him Lynched. The people of the north, oven that the northern press and pul pit, seem willing to admit at last "there are some crimes which would seem to justify lyrnching on the spot." Such a crime they consider the ruthless shooting of so noble a man as the na tion's chief executive. As revolting s it really is, can it be coeidered more so than the assault and murder of a pure woman by a black fiend? If the owadly shooting of a president can so arouse people as to call forth senti mets in lastification (f lynching, what n the name of heaven must be the frenzy cf the neighbors when they find some innocent wife and mother cold in eath, with, perhaps, her helpless in fant lying beside her in a pool of its other s blood? As awful as is the punishment tha: so swiftly follows such crimes, how light does it seem in com parison with the crime itself.-Atlanta Journal. No Place for Him. Prof. James H. Torbert, the assistant principal of the Fort VUlley, Ga., High nd Industrial Colore d Schcol, had a rough time up North recently and came ome disgusted. Prof. Torbet has been i the habit of making trips through the North each summer to solicit con tributions for the maintenance of his school. In the latter part of last month e made a trip through the Adirondack region, and he encountered so much ree prejudise that he had diffiouhty in scuriug ioAl and shehecr. He tola a Sun reporter that he would not go thruh uhe same physical hardship, ot to mention the personal indignities that were heaped upon him and his comanns, for a great deal of money. TILLIAN'S WARNING We Should Not ao Of Half Cocked About Anarchists. A DANGEROUS THING To Tamper .With the Principles of Mogna Charta Race Question Most Serious One for Us. A special dispatca from Augusta to The Ne vs and Courier says in an in teiview there Thursday night Senator Tillman paid a high tribute to Mr. Mc Kinley as a man. He was, he said, a man of ability, a good husband and an excelledt citizen. Certainly he had achieved the greatest diplomatic tri umihs of any man who had ocaupied the White House since the war. One of the group of gentlemen to whom he was talking expressed the hope that he would use his influence to the fullest extent in securing the ex pulsion from this country of all An archists. "Now, that's where you go ofE half cooked," said the Senator. "How are you going to tell who are Anarchists? If you take merely those who acknow ledge that they are Anarchists and are down as such on the roster of the r ganizations, you get but a small per cent. and who is to say that suchand such are Anarchists and must be ex-_ pelled? The great difficulty is that wheD you place any such power in the hand of any man or any dcssn men, though they be the very best men that could be selected, at the same time you put a weapon in the hand ofth# tyrant of the future. Whenever you break down the barriers by which the people protect their liberties you Open the way to the abuse of power. He went on to say that it was danger ous to trifle with the prineiples of the charter wrested from. King John at Runnymede. The labeas corpus could not be suspended with safety for any great length of time. He would be very careful, he said hew he - voted for any legislation expell- the Anarchists.from this country. Continuing, the Senator said that the race problem was the gravest question which confronted the people of the South. He did not hesitate to tell the people of the North that they were re sponsible for &he conditions which pre vail in the South. We of the South he told them, felt a certain sense of gratitude to the negro because of the fact that all during the civil war, when. the men of the South were away, fight ing as the negroes knew, for the con tinuation of their bondage, uith the women of the South absolutely unpro tected, nobody ever heard of a single instance where the negroes had ofered these women an indignity. It was for this reason that the people of the South were more indulgent towards the negroes than were the people of the North. Now, if under slavery the negroes were so much better than they are now, and if the act of the people of te NorAh was productive of well-known inrease in crime among the negroes, where should the blame for presens condition rest? He always told his Northern hearers that they did not be lieve the negro was their equal. They thought he was on social equality with us, but their love for him was in pro portion to the square of the distance, and they were simply hypocrities when they talked about his social and politi cal equality. It isalong this line that he will talk in a large measure during his forthcom ing lecture tour of the West. Fat Job For Parker. The Atlanta negro, James Parker, who felled the president's assailant at Buffald, will probably secure a lucra tive berth from the administration the reward of his courageous act. Parker is still employed as a waiter on the ex position grounds, but from press in dictions there is talk at Washinton of providigng the negro with a govern mnt position that will be suitable re cognition of his prompt action in knock ing Czolgosz to the floor. The public seems willing to accept the theory tha; Parker actually saved the life of the president by overpowering the anarchist before he had opportunity to fire the third time. Parker, according to reports, is being heroiz~d in Buffalo. The lothes worn by him on the day of the shooting have practically all been dis posed of and at Parker's own price. Murder and Suicide. Paul Muller, of New York, the drug lerk, who shot his sister, .Johanna Muli r, at the home of Carl Opperman, in [Jion Square Saturday night and then ttempted suicide, died in the New Ro ohelle hospital. Muller fired two shots t his sister because she refused to go to his home in New York and take care f his two e iildren. Then he cut the arteries in his wrists and thrust a carv og knife in his right breast. Miss Mul Ler's condition is serious. She was shot bhrough the left shoulder, and the bul Let has not been found. Bryan on Kansas City Platform. In a letter to Geo. W. Harris, presi lent of the Bryan Traveling Men's club ,f St. Louis, made public Thursday W. I. Bryan outlines what he believes will e the leading issue of 1904. Mr. Bryan believes that the silver question a not settled and that the fight against trusts must continue together with op position to government by injunction and finally that the Kansas City plat form bids fair to be as sound a declara ion of Democraie principles three years hence as the time it was adopted. A Close Call. A special dispatch to the Atlanta Journal from Birmingham, Ala., says William Hunter, a brick mason, while at work Thurslay on top of one of the Furnaces of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and ron companiy, fall to the ground, a dis ane cf 77 f eet. Instead of the man eing dashed to pic c as, as those stand Lng by expecte d, he arose and although, 5ufering from severe injuries, was able to walk to the ambulance to be conveyed to the hospital. He broke his fall by grabbing hold of a number of ropes in is donward flight.