The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, April 02, 1902, Image 4
QUE EN 0 F A NTILL11,ES.
The Twentieth of^ May Will be Writ
ten in Red by Cubans.
AS THEIR INDEPENDENCE DAY.
The New Riepblic Will !)e Pro
claimetil ami it-. I'irst 'resident
Inuctited Into Otiice
on that Day.
May 20. 1902. will ever he a memo:
able day to the people of m:1. as ,n
that day the United States vern
ment will turn the isjm over lo its
people. This date will a hem"r
able one ini (bTi histr fx it WE
not only mark t h i I full
independene but will b. the Cu1-an
;nauguration uay. it havig been de
termined thlat 1'resident l'alma shall
be inaugurated on the same day thit
American control of the island ceases.
Secretary Root ha, made pubic his
order to G en. Wood. directing him to
turn over ti! : r1 :mn;i !.vernment
of Cuba to iso. wi un 3ny 2o nexi.
The text of the ornder is as flows:
War Departinent.
"Washingt'r, M1arch 24. 1902.
"Sir: You are authorized to pro
vide for the inauguration. on the 20th
of May next, of the government elect
ed by the people of Cuba. and upon
the establishment of said government
to leave the government and control
of the Island of Cuba to its people.
pursuant to the provisions of the act
of congress entitled. 'an act maiing
appropriation for the army for the
fiscal year ending June '30. 1902.' ap
proved March 2, 1901.
"Upon the transfer of government
and control to the president and con
gress so elected you will advise them
that such transfer is upon the express
understanding and condition that the
new government does thereupon. and
by the acceptance thereof, pursuant to
the provisions of the appendix to the
constitution of Cuba. adopted by the
constitutional convention on the 12th
of June. 1901, assume and undertake
all and several the obligations assumed
by the United States with respect to
Cuba by the treaty between the United
States of America and her majesty,
the queen of Spain, signed at Paris on
the 10th day of December, 1898. It
is the purpose of the United States
government, forthwith upon the in
auguration of the new government of
Cuba, to terminate the occupancy of
the island by the United States and to
withdraw from the island the military
forces now in occupancy thereof: but
for the preservation and care of the
coast defenses of the island and to
avoid leaving the island entirey de
fenseless against external attack, you
may leave in the coast fortifications
such small number of artillerymen as
may be necessary for such reasonable'
time, as may be required to enable the
new government to organize and sub
stitute therefor an adequate military
force of its own: by which time it is
anticipated that the new naval sta
tions referred to in the statute and in
the appendix to the constitution above
cited, will have been agreed upon and
the said artillerymen may be transferr
ed thereto.
"You will convene the congress
elected by the people of Cuba in joint
session at such reasonable time before
the 20th of May as shall be necessary
therefor for the purpose of performing
the duties of counting and rectifying
the electoral vote for president and
vice president under the 58th article
of the Cuban constitution. At the
same time you will publish and certify
to the people of Cuba the instrument
adopted as the constitution of Cuba by'
the constitutional convention on the:
21 day of February, 1901 together with
the appendix added thereto, and form
ing a part thereof, adopted by the
said convention on the 12th day of
June, 1901. It is the understanding
of the government of the United
States that the government of the
island will pass to the new president
and congress of Cuba as a going con
cern: all the laws promulgated by the
government of oceupation continuing
-in force and elict and all the judicial
and subordinate executive and admin
istrative officers. continuing in the
lawful discharge of their preser't
duties until changed by the constitu
tional officers of the new government.
at the same moment responsibility of
the United Stated for the collection
and expenditure of revenues and for
proper performance of duty by the
offcers and employes of the insular
government will end, and the respon
sibility of the new government of Cuba
therefor will commence.
"In order to avoid any embarrass
ment to the new president which
might arise from his assuming execu
tive responsibility with subordinates
whom he does not know, or in whom he
has not confidence, and to avoid any
occasion for sweeping changes in the
civil service personal immediately
after the inauguration of the new gov
ernment, approval is given to the
c~urse which you have already propos
ed of consulting the president-elect,
and substituting, before the 20th of
May, wherever he shall so desire. for
the persons now holding offcial posi
tions, such persons as he may desig-;
nate. This method will make it neces
sary that the new president and your
self should appoint representatives to
count and certify the cash and cash
balances and the securities for deposits,
transferred to the new government.
The consent of the owner of the secu
rities for deposits to the transfer
thereof you will of course obtain.
"The vouchers and accounts in the
office of the auditor and elsewhere re
lating to the receipt and disbursement
of moneys during the government of
occupation must necessarily remain
within the control. and available for
the use of this department. Aces to
these papers will. however. undoubted
1y be important to the om~cers of the
new government in the conduct of
their business subsequent to the 20th
of May. You will accordingly~ appoint
an agent to take possession of these
papers and retain them at such place
in the island of Cuba as may be agreed
upon with the new government, until
they can be removed to the United
States without detriment to the cur
rent business of the new government.
"I desire that you communicate the
contents of this letter to) Mr. Palma.
the president-elect and ascertain
whether the course above described
accords with his views and wishes.
(Signed) Very respctfully.
Elihui Roo.
Secretary of War.
To Brig. Gen. Leonard Wood. \Iitn ary
Governor of Cuba, Hiabana. Cuba.
All troops except 800 men of the
coast artillery. are to be brought to
the United States as rapidly as trans
-.rtatio f~aciite wil permit, be
aII,!v %ln llis fur the1
rose I f 4 aring for the three 'hat
Ie . o os arti'llery. These troops
wi!l he in c':nan(i (if Col. WXm. L.
liaskin. f tilt artillery corps Iow (n
1 Vort TIumibull. Conn.
THE RATES REDUCED.
The Railroads Doing rTeir- Pa rt to
Help the Ewa sitiorn.
The mana!enImeuant -f t10 Oa iest"nt
exposiitll tiaand t heI iilw~ty l%,I S in[ter
ested intm'i that the pe ple (if the
St at es shall ha e cu~se as far as
c-a p ; atoes are cnucrned for not visit
inL s ut i Carolina's great exposition.
T (. Jlt). 11. Averill is due much
I ine credit of organating the pro
icct of the. expsition and carrying it
Sbrough to the present time. and he is
now ing every effort to place it
within the reach of the people of
South Carolina to see for themselves
what the exposition really is. To
this end arrangements have been made
with the railroad lines for exceedingly
lw rates on each Tuesday during the
month of April. The following are
given our reade.'Irs as a sample.
Spartanhurg. ~ ~ 2 ...... ---I-- 33
Chester.................. 2. 15
Aikens 1............. .50
xingurto.. ................ 1.2
Rnok..11................... 2
partanr..... .......... .0
Crosteri....... .. .. ... ..... .5
Pom a ia. . . .... ... .- --- 9- 0
Winsoro......... ..........50
Orangeburg.... ..............20
reen vill................ 3.65
Newberry...... ........... 1.50
Prosperity.............. 0
oarwia........... ..... 12.45
Andersone...............-.. 0
Dalingn..........-.---.--..3.80
Gaff ney ....... .. 1.0
Greenille. ................ 65
Alrendale................... 1.50
Greenwo ..................110
Barnwell.... ............. 1.40
St. Matteews. are.bsed.o.one1.40
Darlington outh.Caro.ina.to.h1.70
Sumter.. ..........1.50A
toennettsville. . . . . ......... 2.10
Florence.. .. .. .. .. ......1.535
Iennark .......... 18-5
Iackville. .........1.40
These rates are based on one-half
the regular one way fare from all
points in South Carolina, to Charles
ton and as stated will be sold on each
Tuesday in April. with final limit of
three days, thus enabling parties who
go to Charleston on Tuesday to return
on any train leaving there up to 12
o'clock midnight of Friday date of
sale. With the special attractions
that will be offered at the exposition
during the month of April there
should be crowds going on every Tues
day.
A Brute Lynched.
A dispatch from La Junta, Col
orado. says " * W. H. Wallace. a negro
sleeping car porter, was lynebed at 8
o'clock Wednesday night in a corner
of the court house square. being hang
ed to an electric light pole by a howl
ing mob of 4.000 persons who had been
hunting him all day. After the hang
ing the body of the negro was riddled
with bullets. MIrs. Henrietta H. Mil
ler, a grey haired woman aged 67, go
ing from Los Angeles, Col., to Denver.
to visit relatives, was brutally assalted
in the Santa Fe railroad yards here
Tuesday night by a negro porter on a
Pullman car running between Denver
and La Junta. After leaving the
Chicago limited train here Mrs. Miller
asked a porter whom she met on the
station platform where the Denver
sleeper was. The man offered to con
duct her to the car. After going with
him a considerable distance Mrs. Mil
ler became suspicious and started to
return to the station. She was then
knocked down by a blow on the he ad
and after a struggle witn her assailant
was choked into insensibility. When
she regained consciousness about an
hour later, she crawled back to the
station and gave an account of the as
sault and a description of her as
sailant. Washington H. Wallace, a
Pullman car porter was arrested in
the car of which he had charge. He
was identified by Mrs. MIiller. Blood
hounds were brought from Canyon
City and they trailed the man who
accompanied Mrs. Miller through the
yards to the car in which Wallace was
found. Eight assaults have occured
here in the past few months, and it is
believed ail were committed by one
man.
Stricken in the Pulpit.
1er. W. J. Flanders, Pastor of the
Methodist church at Lyons, Ga., was
stricken down while in the pulpit on
Sunday week. He started his morn
ing's service as usual at 11 o'clock.
lHe had finished his preliminary service
and had only made a few remarks
after taking his text when he
suddenly appeared very ill and an
nounced to his congregation that he
could not further conduct the service
and requested another preacher to
pray.'- When the prayer was finished
he attempted to rise: he staggered and
was only prevented from falling by the
prompt assistance of Rev. G. K.
Guerry, who was sitting close by. It
proved to be a stroke of paralysis. lie
never regained consciousness and pass
ed away Sunday night at 9 o'clock.
His congregation was thrown into a
fever of excitement. Everything pos
sible was done for him but to no avail.
It was late in the afternoon before he
was carried to his home.
Goes Lp tfor Five Years.
The case of Williamson came to an
end at Greenwood on Friday morning
by his conviction and sentence to the
penetentiary at hard labor for five!
years. This case has attracted much
attention. Great crowds attended
the trial and it has been the subject
of conversation during the whole!
week. The crime was committed sonme
two months ago. Williamson met
Wertz in the road and with the aid of
two negroes. Charley SnowI and
Anthony Reeder, whipped him almost
to death. It was said by Wiilhimson
that he had great provocation for the
deed and also he denied thaLt lhe'
had any help in whipping Wiertz. It
was proved by eye witnesses, however.
that the two negroes did help. One
of the negroes wa~s sentencsd to the
penetentiary for tiye years too, and
the other was convieted of simple as
sault and battery. Williamson is ai
well-to-do-farmer.
The Reason WhyI1.
Answering a member of the Court
martial." it is reported from Manila.
"Cat Porter said that Gen. Smith
did not explicitly give Major Walier
the power of life and death over
prisoners, but that he did by infer
nce. saying lie wanted no prisoners."
Does this explain wihy we have taken
so ew prisoners in our humane and
civilizing wvar- And why so many
engageients have been reported
without any' " wounded" Fillipinos?
Aid why sixteen Filipinos have been
T:e Rosary.
The hours I spent with h ear
heart,
Ara i 1'Uof yrte:
1 .1 t e eh ; i I: unt 4 i he end ;ui liher
. eoi. is Iung.
t, 'ill at 1 ; t' 11u7i ( 4. e'..' a n :11 I:
( I 1ll i 1-i t ories : jaL IZ ats - lndi )llri.
)i< Iiirn gainl - aid st ri v a I last 1o
witdii
T kiss I he cross.
Sweet heart,
To kiss IIe cross.
The Master is lItisen.
Whierever n mant ie of pit y
Falls soft on a wouind or a woe:
Wherever a peace or a pa atdon
Springs lip I o oermlater a foe:
Where'er a soft hainld a hiessimg
)Itst rel clies 10 siccor. a need:
Wherever spiings healing for wouning
The Mast er is risen indeed.
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
Ay C aref'ul Thrashing You May Al
ways Tell the Value of Grain.
From a process familiar to the
farmer Dr. Talmage draws lessons of
consOltion and encouragement for
people in sorrow and adversity. The
text is Isaiah xxviii, 27. 28: "For the
itches are not thrashed with a thrash
ingr instrument, neither is a cart
wheel turned about upon the cumm~n.
but the titches are beaten out with a
staff and the eummin with a rod.
Bread corn is bruised because he will
not ever be thrashingr it."
Misfortunes of various kinds come
upon various people, and in all times
the great need of ninety-n:ne people
out of a hundred is solace. Look. then.
to this neglected allegory of my text.
There are three kinds of seed men
tioned-titches, cummin and corn. Of
the last we all know. But it may he
well to state that the fitches and the
cummin were small seeds. like the car
away or the chickpea. When these
grains or herbs were to be thrashed,
they were thrown on the floor, and the
workmen would come around with
staff or rod or flail and beat them un
til the seed would be separated, but
when the corn wns to be thrashed that
was thrown on the floor, and the men
would fasten horses or oxen to a cart
with iron dented wheels: that cart
would be drawn around the thrashIng
floor, and so the work would be ac
complished. Different kinds of thrash
ing for different products. "The titches
are not thrashed with a thrashing in
strument, neither is a cart wheel turn
ed about upon the cummin. but the
itches are beaten out with a staff and
the cummin with a rod. Bread corn is
bruised because he will not ever be
thrashing it."
The great thought that the text
presses upon our souls is that we all go
through some kind of thrashing pro
cess. The fact that you may be de
voting your life to honorable and no
ble purposes will not win you any
escape. WiUberforce, the Christian
emancipator. was in his day derisively
called "Doctor Cantwell." Thomas
Babington Macaulay, the advocate of
all that was good, long before he be
came the most conspicuous historian
of his day was caricatured in one of the
quarterly reviews as "Babbletongue
Macaulay." Norman McLeod, the
great friend of the Scotch poor, was
industriously maligned in all quarters,
although on the day when he was car
ried out to his burial a workman stood
and looked at the funeral procession
and said, "If he had done nothing for
anybody more than he has done for
me, he would shine as the stars for
ever and ever." All the small wits of
London had their fling at John Wesley,
the father of Methodism. If such
men could not escape the maligning
of the world, neither can you expect
to get rid of the sharp, keen stroke of
the tribulum. All who will live godly
in Christ Jesus must suffer persecu
tion. Besides that, there are the sick
nesses and the bankruptcies and the
disapointments which are ever put
ting a cup of aloes to your lip. Those
wrinkles on your fsce are hieroglyphics
which, if deciphered, would make out
a thrilling story of trouble. The foot
step of the rabbit is seen the next
morning on the snow, and on the white
hairs of the aged are the footprints
showing where swift trouble alighted.
Even amid the joys and hilarities of
life trouble will sometimes break in.
As when the people were assembled in,
the Charlestown theater during the
Revolutionary war, and while they
were witnessing a farce and the audi
ence was in great gratulation the guns
of an advancing army were heard and
the audience broke up in wild panic
and ran for their lives, so oftentimes
while you are seated amid the joys and
festivities of this world you hear the
cannonade of some great disaster. All
the itches and the cummin and the
corn must come down on the thrashing
floor and be pounded.
My subject. in the first place, teaches
us that it is no compliment to us if we
escape great trial. The titches and the
cummin on one thrashing floor might
look over to the corn on another thrash
ing foor and say: "Look at that poor,
miserable. buruised corn: We have
only been a little pounded, but that
has been almost destroyed." Well, the
orn, if it had lips, would answer and
say: "Do you know the reason you
have not been as much pounded ts I
have? It is because you are not cf so
much worth as I am. If you were,
you would be as severely run over."
Yet there are men who suppose they
re the Lerd's favorites simply because
their barns are full and their bank ac
ount is flush and there are no funerals
in the house. It may be because they
are itches and cummin, while down
at the end of the lane the poor widow
may be the Lord's corn. You are but
ittle pounded because you are little
worth and she bruised and ground be
cause she is the best part of the ha r
vest. The heft of the thrashing ma
chine is according to the value of the
grain, If you have not been .much
thrashed in life perhaps there is not
much to thrash: If you hav'e not been
much shaken of trouble. perhaps it is
because there is going to be a very
small yield. When there are plenty of
b~lackberries, the gatherers go out with
large baskets. but when the drought'
has almost consumed the fruit, then a
quart measure will do as well. It took
the venomous snake on Paul's hand.
and the pounding of him with stones
until he was taken up for dead, andI
the jamming against him of prison
gtes and the Ephesian vociferation.
and the ankles skinned by the painful;
stocks, and the foundering of the Alex-I
andrian corn ship, and the beheading
stroke of the Roman sheritT to bring
Paul to his proper development. It
was not because Robert MofTat and
Lady Rachel Russell and FrederickI
Oberlin were worse than other people
that they had to suffer. It was be
cause they were better and1 God want
ed to make them best. By the care
fulness of the thrashing you may
always cinlude the vaue or the grain.
Next. my text teaches us that God
proportions uur trials 1t what we can
bear - the staff fo 'r the litehes. t he rod
for the cuimin. the iiI wheel for
the 'ort. Sorn(' i mes peIple il great
trouble sav. "(Oh. I Can't bear it!"
lIut %-(I did bear it. God would n(iot
h Ive sent it upon y oIu if h1e had not
known I hat vou coulil hear t. Y (oI
tremled and y.u swoonerl. but you
got through. Gd will i not take from
your eves one tear too many nor from
your ings one s g h too deep nor from,
your temples one throb too sharp.
The perplexities of your earthly husi
ness have not inl :hel one t;aIIle too
intricate. You sometimes feel as if
our world were full of lidgeons flying
haphazard. Oh. no: they are thrash
ing instruments that God just suits
to your ease. There is not a dollar of
bad debts on your ledger or a disap
pointment about goods that you ex
pected to go up, but that have gone
down. or a swindle of your business
partner or a tricli on the part of those
who are in the same kind of merchan
dise that you ar. but God intended
to overrule for your immortal help.
''Oh." you say, "there is no need talk
ing that way to me. I don't like to
be cheated and outraged." Neither
does the corn like the corn thrasher,
but after it has been thrashed and
winnowed it has a great deal better
opinion of winnowing mills and corn
thrashers,
Again, my subject teaches that God
keeps trial on us until we let go. The
farmer shouts "Whoa:" to his horses
as soon as the grain is dropped from
the stalk. The farmer comes with his
fork and tosses up the straw. and he
sees that the straw has let go the grain
and the grain is thorougily thrashed.
So God. Smiting rod and turning
wheel both cease as soon as we let go.
We hold on to this world. with its
pleasures and riches and emoluments.
and our knuckles are so firmly set that
it seems as if we could hold on forever.
God comes along with some thrashing
trouble and beats us loose. We started
under the delusion that this was a
great world. We learned out of our
geography that it was so many thous
and miles in diameter and so many
miles in circumference, and we said.
"Oh, my. what a world!" Trouble
came in after life, and this trouble
sliced off one part of the world. and it
has got to be a smaller world and in
some estimations a very insignitcant
world, and it is depreciating all the
time as a spiritual property. Ten per
cent off, 50 per cent off, and there are
those who would not give 10 cents for
this world-the entire world-as a soul
possession.
Another thing my text teaches us
is that Charistian sorrow is goiag to
have a sure terminus. My text says.
"Bread corn is bruised because he will
not ever be thrashing it." Blessed be
God for that! Pound away, O flail:
Turn on, 0 wheel: Your work will
soon be done. "H1e will not ever be
thrashing it"! Now, the Chr:stian
has almost as much use in the organ
for the stop tremulant as he has for
the trumpet, but after awhile he will
put the last dirge into the portfolio
forever. So much of us as is wheat
will be separated from so much as is
chaff, and there will be no more need
of pounding. They never cry in heaven
because they have nothing to cry about
There are no tears of bereavement.
for you shall have your friends all
round about you. There are no tears
of poverty because each one sits at the
King's table and has Is own chariot
of salvation and free access to the ward
robe where princes get their array.
No tears of sick-ness. for there are no
pneumonias in the air and no malarial
exhalations from the rolling river of
life and no crutch for the lame limb
and no splint for the broken arm, but
the pulses throbbing with the health
of the eternal God in a climate like
our June before the blossoms fall or
our gorgeous October before the leaves
scatter.
In that land the souls will talk over
the different modcs of thlrashing. Oh.
the story of the staff that stuck the
fitches and the rod that beat the cum
minl and the iron wheel that went
over the corn: Daniel will describe
the lions and Jonah leviathan and
Paul the elmwood whips with which
he was scourged, and Eve will tell
how aromatic Eden was the day she
left it. and John Rogers will tell of
the smart of the flames and Elijahl of
the iery team thlat wheeled him up
tle sky steeps and Christ of the numb
ness and tihe paroxysms and hemor
rhages of' the awful crucifixion. There
they are before tile throne of God-on
one elevation alltthose whlo were struck
of the rod on tile highlest elevation
and amid the highest altitudes of
heaven all those who were under the
wheel, ie will-not ever b~e thr'ashing
Is there not enough salve in this
text to make a plaster large enough to
heal all your wounds? When a child
is hurt the mother is very apt to say
to it. "Now, it will soon feel better."
And that is what God says when lhe
embosoms all our trouble in the hlush
of this great promise. "Weeping may
endure for a night, but joy cometh i
the morning." You may leave vo ur
pocket handkerchief sopping wet with
tears on your death pillow, but you
will go up absolutely sorrowless. They'
will wear black, you will wear white:
cypresses for them, palms for you.
You will say: "Is it possible that 1 am
here? Is this heaveny Am I so pure
now I will never do anythling wrong?
Am I so well that I will never again
be sick? Are these companionships
so firm that they will never again be
~roken? Is that MIary? Is that .Johnyl
Is that my loved one I put away into
darkness? Cannot be that these are
the faces of those who lay so wan and
emaciated in the back room that
awful night dying? Oh, how radiant
they are! Look at thlem: Iow radi
ant they arc: Whly, how unlike this
place is from whlat I thloughlt when 1
left tile world belowv. Mlinisters drew
picturs of this land. but how tame
compared with the reality: Thley told!
me on earth that death was sunset.
o. no: It is sunrise: Glorious sun
rise: I see tile light now purpling tile
hills, and thle clouds ilame with the
coming day."
Then the gates of heaven will be
opened, and the entranced soul, with
tle acuteness and power of the celes
tial vision, will look thousaunds of iles
down upon tile bannered procession. a
river of shimmering splendor. and will
cry out, ''Who are theyy Andl the
an~gel of God, standing close by, wvill
say. "Do you not know who they ared"
:'N." says the entranced soul. "I
cannot guess who they' are.' The
angel will say: "'I will tell you, then.
wlo they are. These are they wh'lo
came out of great tribulation, or
trashng. and had their robes washed
and made white in the blood of tile
Would that I could ad minister some
of these drops of celestial anodyne to
these nervous and excited souls. If
you would take enough of it,. it would
cure all your pangs. The thought
a ou ar gong t o get througrh withl
this after awhile. all this sorrow and
all tibis trouilIe. We shall have a great
many grand days inl heaven. but I will
tell vo which will he the grandest
day ti Al I e milion ages of heaven.
Yo sayv. "A re yr u sure yout an tell
me?" Yes, I can. It will be the day
we get there. Some say heaven is
grw mre gl loious. I suppose it
is. but I do not care much about that.
I leaven now is good enough for me.
Ilistorv has no more gratulatory
scene than the breaking in of the Eng
lish army upon Lucknow. India. A
few weeks before a massacre had oc
cured at Cawnpur, and 260 women and
children had been put in a room. Then
five professional butchers went in and
slew them. Then the bodies of the
slain were taken out and thrown into
a well. As the English army came
into Cawnpur they went into the
room, and. oh. what a horrid scene:
Sword strokes on the wall near the
rloor. showing that the poor things
had crouched when they died, andI
tihev saw also that the iloor was ankle
deep in blood. The soldiers walked
on their heels across it, lest their shoes
be submerged of the carnage. And on
that floor of blood there were flowing
locks of hair and fragments of dresses.
Out in Lucknow they had heard of
the massacre. and the women were
waiting for the same awful death.
waiting amid anguish untold, waiting
in pain and starvation, but waiting he
roically, when, one day, Iavelock and
Outram and Norman and Sir David
Bsaird and Peel, the heroes of the Eng
lish army-huzza for them!-broke in
on the horrid scene, and while yet the
guns were sounding, and while cheers
were issuing from the starving,.dying
people on the one side and from the
travel worn and powder blackened sol
diers on the other, right there, in
front of the king's palace, there was
such a scene of handshaking and em
bracing and boisterous joy as would
utterly confound the pen of the poet
and the pencil of the painter. And
no wonder, when these emaciated
woman. who had suffered so heroically
for Christ's sake, marched out from
their incarceration, one wounded En
glish soldier got up in his fatigue and
wounds and leaned against the wall
and threw his cap up and shouted,
"Three cheers, my boys, for the
brave women!" Yes, that was an ex
citing scene. But a gladder and more
triumpbant scene will it be when you
come up into heaven from the con
iets and incarceration of this world,
streaming with the wounds of battle
andc wan with hanger. and while the
hosts of God are cheering their great
hosanna you will strike hands of con
gratulation and eternal deliverance in
the presence of the throne. On that
night there will be .bonfires on every
hill of heaven, and there will be il
lumination in every palace, and there
will be a candle in every window. Ah,
no: 1 forget. I forget. They will have
no need of tte candle or of sun, for the
Lord God givetti them light, and they
shall reign forever and ever. Hail.
hail. sons and daughters of the Lord
God Almighty:
TRYING TO GET A FIGHT
Between Two Big Bruisers at the
Charleston Exposition.
The Columbia State says a telegram
was received in Columbia on Friday
"announcing that iitzsimmnons had
accepted tile offer of the Charleston
club to fig at Juliries, the big champion
heavyweight, in Charleston at the
exposition. This was all that was
known of the matter until Friday
night. Though there was some talk
about the matter last week, it was
thought that the incident had closed,
but few having any idea that the big
fellows would accept the offer otf 75
per cent. of the gross receipts and a
guaranteed purse of $26,000.
"Naturally Gov. McSweeney was
immediately asked what his attitude
was in the matter, he representing
the government of South Carolina.
The Governor expressed himself pla.in
ly, saying, however, that he had given
the matter no thought, and had not
looked into the law on the subject.
and, further, that -he would not do so
until the thing came plainly before
him in an oflicial way. "I will say,
however." remarked the governor,
"that, if this contest iscontrary to tile
laws of the State, I shall use the entire
machinery of the State to stop it."
The governor declined to speak fur
ther of the proposed contest.
"No doubt the matter will be very
generally discussed in the State in the
next few nays. This State has a strict
law in regard to "prize fights" and
"prize fighting," providing a penalty
of $200 fine or six months imprison
ment upon conviction, and applies
not only to those engaging in the
prize tight, but to those who make
the offer inducing men to engage in a
prize fight, whether they be individu
als or clubs. The whole thing seems
to involve simply the question as to
what constitutes a prize fight. The
club that made the offer to Fitzsim
mons and Jeffries did so for a "boxing
ing exhibition,'" and maintained that
there is no law in this State to pre
vent such an exhibition. The matter
is full of possibilities. At the same
time it is very c'ertain that if the
ctncest can be pulled off at the exposi
ti~on it will prove a great drawing
card. Many will .await further de
velopments with keen interest." The
Exposition company had better be
careful. The prize fight might do
more harm than good in a financial
Hanged on a Tree.
The body of James Walker, the ne
grc who poisoned the whole family of
D~r. David T. Tayloe, of the North
Carolina State board of medical ex
aminers, was found dangling froma
limmb of a gum tree on the Greenville
road just outside of the town limits of
Washington. N. C., early Tuesday
morning. A man coming to town ran
into the body which hung out over
the walking path. Hie hastened into
town to inf'ormn the authorities. Coro-1
ner Tay~loe was summoned and he em
paneled a jury who brought a verdict
that the negro came to his death by
lynching at the hands of unknown
persons. T he negro was about 19
ears old. When some one attempted
to use the wires to Williamston and
they found that the telegraph and
tele~phone wires were both cut. The
lnhers came from the Williamston
direction and when the dody was
found it had not been long since the
lynching took place as the body was
not then rigid.
TE three hundred students in the
)maha dental college gave a wild and
voolly wvest exhlibitionl one night last
weekthat knocks out the most success
ful drama of t he season. They fought
three lhouris. broke each others heads.
frightened the faculty and gave the
college building the appearance of hay
ing been visited by a cyclone. The
Nashua Press thinks the show should
g on the iroad.
STORY OF A TICKET.
Or how Gome Republicans Were
M ade to vote for
GEN. RAMPTON IN SEVENTY-SIX.
How I). S. IHenierson Paid Seventy
live Dollars for One RadcI
ical Ticket, and What Was
Done With it.
The writer hopes and expects to
mnake good this year a voluntary prom
ise of himself to himself. that has not
been forgotten since it was made in
the Fall of 1-. No previous oppor
tunity to keep it has been presented.
Near the close of that now historic
compaign between the republicans un
der the direction of Chamberlain and
the Democrats under the leadership of
Hampton the writer was requested by
Daniel S. Ilenderson Esq.. then a
young attorney of the sister town of
Aiken. to come to his home and be
one of a conference with a few others
who were taking an active part in that
contest. On the a ppointed night up
(in arrival at the quarters of Mr. Ilen
derson he was found in bed, sulfering
from injuries received while riding
with other brave young spirits to
quell the riotous proceedings precip
itated in the Southern part of Aiken
County by the republican managers to
secure the presence of the United
States soldiers at the polls. His phy
sician had forbidden the admission of
visitors into his room. but disregard
ing that advice Mr. Henderson dismiss
ed his attendant nurse and called his
friends around his bedside. From a
safe place of concealment he drew a
bit of paper that many leading Demo
crats had sought in vain to obtain
one of the republican tickets to be
voted at the election on the following
Tuesday. It was surmounted by an
eagle. printed with red ink-, and had
been sedulously guarded from Demo
cratic knowledge by the most faithful
of the republican precinct leaders.
He gave no intimation of how it had
been procured. A committee, the
writer being one of its number, in pur
suance of his s'uggestion. went to Au
gusta on the next morning train for
the purpose of having Democratic
tickets printed in the same style, with
ink of the same color. No such eagle
could be found in the Democratic
printing offlices, but an artist was dis
covered who made a wood cut and the
press of the Constitutionalist was
kept busy in printing in red ink and
under'the eagle the names of the Dem
ocratic candidates in the Western and
Southern Counties of the State. Be
fore the election they were spread from
the hills to the sea and many an un
suspecting republican voted for Hlamp
ton and home rule and by his ballot
helped to end the carnival of the scal
awags and carpet bagger. And there
and then the writer promised himself
if ever opportunity presented to cast
his vote for Daniel S. Henderson for
any oftice for which he might in the fu
ture be a candidate.
Years after it was incidentally learn
ed that Mr. Henderson had paid sev
enty-ive dollars for the one ticket
above described, and no nobler con
tribution was ever made to the State
than this gift from the first earnings
of a young lawyer with his way to
make in the world.
And all the life of the now favorite
and the foremost son of Aiken has
been in keeping with that act which
is remembered as well as if it had oc
curred only yesterday.
Just thirty years ago he chose Ai
ken as his life home and entered upon
the practice of his profession in co
partnership with the late WV. Peron
neau Finley Esq. Of singularly hand
some person, winning in manner, irre
prochable in personal and professional
life, gifted with talent of the highest
order. thoroughly trained as an intel
lectual athlete in the best schools of
books and men and high endeavor he
found a favor in the eyes of the peo
ple that has grown with the passage
of the years until he has become the
uncrowned leader of thought and ac
tion in the county of his adoption. A
safe adviser, an incorruptible advocate,
a steadfast friend, a superb man of af
fairs, in the sunlight of the hills where
he make his home, every bloom of
promise has ripened into perfect fruit
age. and from the brawling. tawny
Savannah to the limpid, softilowing
Edisto his name is an honored house
hold word, the synonym of manly
worth and virtue, in every home, be it
the costly pile of the multi-millionaire
or the cabin of the humble toiler whose
daily labor is coined into bread for the
wife and little ones.
"Some men are born great, others
achieve greatness." Senator IHender
son, born a gentleman, has lived a life
sowhite and clean and full of inspira
ton to all who have come within touch
of its enobling influence that none can
say of him that any talent has ever
been buried, nor has his ligrht been hid
den from the public sight. lie has
achieved a greatness, and a goodness
that give undoubted assurance of an
exalted future. To those that have
watched with faith ful eyes his past ca
reer it has seemed that in the ways of
Providence men are built to meet the
needs of the times in wfiich they live.
Having measured up to every duty
and every responsibility his friends
call him to make the race for the
Unitcd States Senate, believing, know
ing, that in the high noon of his man
hood, of perfect physical vigor, of the
ripe intellectual culture, of ready and
resourceful equipment. an orator wvith
all the force of logic, and the power of
words, a thinker who reasons from
foundation principles, a student who
has enriched the treasure house of his
brain with the best thoughts and
knowledge of all the ages. he is tirst
among t he sons ready to serve the State
in her highest chamber.
And he. loya! son of a State so rich
in her children, answers Present to
the summons as he has answered to
every call she has given him. and is
ready at her bicding to go to those
heights where grow the bravest lau
rels that men may gather. and pluck
ing them unwithered and unstained to
la at the feet of the mother State
with all the love and adoration that
glows in the hcart of the little maiden
as she pins to her mother's bosom
spring's first violets for the guerdon ot
a kiss from the lips that have sung
sweet songs and taught pure lessons to
the innocent one lisping at her knee.
And with such a champion in herI
case South Carolina may look with
con tident hope for the coming back of
the golden agTe when in all that goes
to make true greatness she was first
in all the sisterhood of States.
TO PRFECT THE RULLS.
T Enroll :nen t ol' E.-U irete
ht will he rememb,'red that. :.t t .e
la's sessiol (I t I mth itrolina
State conventioin of the United Con
federate veterans on May 10. 1901.
1)r. . 11. Means upon invitation ad
dressed the convention upon the sub
jeci and submitted a plan originated
hy him to perfect the enrollment of
Confederate veterans by enrolling them
by township and county, so that the
hmiestead or residence whence a vet
ermin volunteered into the military or
naval service of the Confederacy. or in
which he resided after such service
censed. shall suggest the veteran's
name fo'r enrollment by his neighbors
and c:mrdes.
This plan of enrollment having boen
adopted by the State convention- of
veterans the legislature at the last
se:;sion passe d the following act in aid
of the enrollment and providing for
the pernanent record books, and how
they shall in after years be used to
periect the enrollment by military
org-anization.
.\n act in relation to the enrollment
by county and township of citizens of
South Carolina whio rendered military
or naval service to the Confederate
Statcs.
sect:o: 1. Be it enacted by the gen
eral assembly of the State of South
Carolina: That for the purpose of
purchasing the necessary county and
township record books, printing, sta
tionery and stamps, etc., and fur the
prusecutlon of the work of obtaining
an enrollnent along geographical
liirs, by township and county, of all
persons who served in the army or navy
of the Confederate States, under the
plan adopted by the convention of
Confederate veterans on the 10th day
of May, 1901. there is bereby appro
priated eight hundred (800) dollars, if
so much be necessary, to be paid upon
the warrant of the comptroller general
upon requisition of the chairman of
the State enrollment committee of
Confederate veterans.
Section 2. That the township en
roll ment book when by the enroll
ment committee of veterans turned
over to the clerk of the court of each
county shall be by him together with
the county enrollment book safely
kept as permanent record books of his
office.
Section 3. That it shall be the duty
of the clerk of the court of each county
from each township enrollment book,
promptly and oorrectly to record into
the county enrollment book the name
of each person enrolled together with
all details of his services, noting on
the township enrollment book oppo
site each entry, the page of the county
enrollment book wherein the entry is
recorded, and noting in the county en
rollment book the township enrollment
book whence each entry is recorded.
Section 4. The clerk of the court
shall be entitled to receive a fee of 2
cents for each name so recorded by
him in the county enrollment book, in
full compensation for recording the.
name with all details of service, and
indexing the same, or arranging in
alphabetical order; said fee to be paid
by the county coinmissioners, - out of
county funds, upon an itemized bill
for same being suomitted, verified and
approved by the chairman of the
county Confederate veterans enroll
ment committee and by the county
commissioners.
Section 5. That upon the written re
quest of the governor, the clerk of the
court shall permit any State official
charged with perfecting, editing or.
publishing the official Confederate
rolls, to have temporary custody of
said county or twnship enrollment
books, the clerk of the court taking
the receipt of said official for same.
Section 6. That the clerk of the
court in making the record in the
county enrollment book shall act under
the direction of the State, and county
Confederate veterans' enrollment com
mittee.
Gen. Zimmerman Davis as chair
man of the State committee will soon
have prepared and forwarded to the
several counties the township and
county blank enrollment books with
full instructions to township and coun
ty committees printed in each book.
When these books are distributed it is
believed that it will be a labor ot love
for the comrades, neighbors, friends
and kindred of veterans to aid the
township enrollment committee in
seeing that the name of every Confed
erate veteran.,.dead or alive, entitled
to enrollment shall be duly enrolled in
the township enrollment book.-Co
lumbia State.
Causes Big P rotest.
A dispatch from Washington to the
A tlanta Journal says "business inter
est of the north have been aroused by
the Crumpacker resolution to investi
gate southern election laws. Since
the publication of the fact that the
Republican members of the house com
mittee on rules had voted to report
the Crumpacker resolution, the Re
publican leaders have been fairly over
whelmed with letters from the busi
ness men of the north, protesting
against what they term an attempt
to revive the " bloody shirt"and"Fore
bill" issue. The letters have been so
numerous and vigorous as to have had
an appreciable effect on certain Re
publican members. It was stated that
the committee on rules will take its
own time in reporting the Crumpacker
resolution to the house, notwithstand
ing that the majority of that commit
tee-Speaker Henderson, Representa
tive Dalzell and Grosvenor-a week
ago last Saturday voted to report the
resoltion.
Following Bryan.
3r. Celveland says "light imperial
is." Mr. Hill says "fight imperial
ism." Mr. Olney. Mr. Shepard. Mr.
Gorman. Mr. Nixon-they all say
"ight imperialism." It's very excel
lent advice for the Democrats. But
the Democrats may choose to remem
ber that Mr. Bryan fought imperial
ism in 1900. And in 1900 Mr. Cleve
land. Mr. 'Watterson. Mr. Gorman
kept quiet-they didn't even say.
"ight imperialism"--while Mr. Hill
and Mr. Olney spoke only in feeble
whispers.-Columbia State.
A Long Sleep.
A Trenton dispacth says that "Pat"
Ca vanaugh, who with Peter Hlegelman
as partner, won the six day walking
match recently held at Madison
Square Garden. has been asleep at his
home since early Monday evening of
last week and cannot be roused. He
is the world's champion walker and j
his present condition is the result of
over exertion. The family is fearful
that Cavanaugh will sleep to death.1
The physician, too, is puzzled and1
says the man may never be aroused.
Cavanaugh fainted on the track during~
ontae in Philaelpha last Thurs
FEIW KA, OI Y117O0 OEY.
N ~ a Ti~ash-nlt be
T11 - p2;.e or the 'post checks"
:r - b i. n. .- r-''o'zress. in
troduced in tie Senate by 11r. McMil
[an, and in the House by Mr. Gardner,
provides for printing the one twoand
five dollar bills in the future with
blank spaces on the face. These bills
of Course pass from hand to hand be
fore the blanks ae tilled. When it is
desired to senti < ne in the mails the
blanks are tiled in with the name of
the payee. his city and State. a 2-cent
postage slamp is placed in another
blank space and canceled with the
initials of the sender in ink. the name
of the sender is signed on the back,
and. presto! his money has suddenly
ceased to exist as currener and has
been transformed into a check on the
United States government, having all
the safety of any bank check. and
ready for enclosure in his letter.
When the payee receives this check
he treats it just as he would any other
cheek-indorses it, goes to the near
est bank or post office and deposits it
or has it cashed. -
The paid check finally reaches the
Treasury Department, when it is re
placed by a new one with the spaces
untilled. This keeps the circulation
at par. No change whaLtver is made
in the financial policy of the govern
ment the only change being in the
character of the printing on the bills
of five dollars and under. The bill
also provides for the issue of 875,000,
000 of fractional currency, with blank
spaces similar to the larger denomina
tion., in place of an equal amount of
money of larger denominatigns, pre
sumably twenty and tifty dollar bills.
The provision under the new system
for a continual reissue insures clean
money both in the fractional currency
and in the larger bills. The govern
ment fee on the five, ten, fifteen,
twenty-five and fifty ccnt pieces is to
be one cent each.
Perhaps in no better way can the
reader come to understand the press
ing need for postal currency than to
recall the times without number when
he himself has been desirous of send
ing a small sum of money through the
mails with safety. Always in such
cases comes up the barrier, and only
the persistent one will carry out his
purpose by using stamps, coin placed
in boles in pieces of pasteboard, or
risking loose money. The average
person will not expend .the valuable
time required for a journey to the post
office for a money order. Only the
pressure of necessity in the absence of
a simple convenient systeimn-brings to
the "money order system its present
patronagc. Statistics show that from
ten to twenty times the numlter of let,
ters received by business houses, pub
lishers and others who do a large busi
ness through the mails, contain
stamps, loose money or some other.
representative of noney, than contain
mnoney orders, a clear enough mark of
the disapproval of the public.
While is not thought that, if adopt
ed the proposed system would entirely
supersede the money order system,
because for amounts over $50 the
money order would be slightly cheaper,
it is thought by the advocates of the
pending bill that such-a systemof post
checks would prove a great con
venience to those desiring to send
small amounts of money through the
mails, and would result in gain to
merchants, publishers and business
irms who now receve such a remit
tance in the form of stamps (often
torn and mutilated), drafts on small
banks, or loose coin in letters-always
a temptation to postal employees. All
of these forms of remittance entail
some loss, in many cases to the receiver -
and to that extent, perhaps, a creditor
is unjustly defrauded, innocently it.
may be, by the debtor. Under the
new system these troublesome abd.
unfair methods of making remittances
would be done away with, owing to
the simplicity and convenience of
the post chedks, and the cost of send
ing the remittance would be placed
where it properly belongs-with the
sending debtor or the person making
the purchase.
The main difficulty with the present
money order system is that less than
half the post offices in the coiuntry
are money order offces, and even at
these such evidences of money can
only be obtained at the expenditure of
much time and trouble and during
certain specified hours. With a post
check note in his possession one has
but to fill in the blank spaces for the
purpose, attach a postal stamp, cancel
it, inclose in an envelope, place in a
mail box, and the transaction is finish
ed. Unquestionably the intent of
the postal authorities is to extend and
increase the usefulness and popularity
of the rural free deli verf service. The
adoption of the post check notes will
affor a most convenient and safe
money for the agricultural communi
ties, to whom banks, with their facili
ties and safeguards, cannot be utiliz
ed with convenience. It is claimed
by those who have investigated the
subject that the revenues of the Post
siice Department would be very
materially increased by the adoption
of the post check sytem.
A somewnat unusual feature of the
post check proposition is the fact that
the inventor is a successful business
man, who has for years realized the
urgent necessity for a simpler way of
making smalls remittances in the
mails, and who has devoted a great
deal of his time and means to the
perfection of the idea, and offers, in
case of its Edoption, to turn the
patents, and all rights under them,
over to the government free of any
cost or charge whatever. He considers
that should the system be adopted
the consciousness of having accomplish
ed a reform of such importance to the
general public and business men will
more than come pensate him for his
time and trouble.
Hagood Removed.
Mr. B. A. Hagood, assistantdistrict
ittorney, has been removed and ex
Judge C. P. Townsend, of Bennetts
ville, appointed in his place. Hagoodi
is a Republican, and is a son of Col,.
Ragood, clerk of the federal court. A
ispatch from Charleston says young
[agood was. in a measure.regarded as
i strong link between Republicanism
md McLaurinism and his removal
wvill have its effect upon those 'who
night have had some idea of leaving
he regular Democratic ranks. Judge
rownsend was a circuit Judge in the
State court under the old Republican
regime. Later he was asaistant at
:orney general under Mr. Barber, and
e then went to Washington as Sena
:or McLaurin's private secretary.
It has been definitely announced
hat President Roosevelt will spend
he eighth and ninth of April in Char
eston. He will be accompanied by a.
listinguished party for the entertain
nent of which great preparations will