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VOL. xv1. MANNING, S. C., WEDNSI VOL XV . _______I--------------------------------------f~further debatep on the WTT. IPNL'ITII T WILL BE TRIED. The War Department Orders Whole sale Courtmartial of Officers FOR BARBAROUS CONDUCT. President Roosevelt Wil. Not Take Any Excuse as Jutirying xIn human Conduct on Part or' Americans. It begins to look as if some of the American oilicers over in the Philip pine Islands will be held to account for cruelties practiced on the natives. As a result of the consideration by the cabinet last week of the cbarges of cruel treatment of Filipinos by United States soldiers. Secretary Root has made public the following correspon dence: War Department. Washington. April 15, 1902. i My Dear Senator: I beg to acknowl edge the receipt of your copy of the testimony of Serat. Chas. S. Riley and Private Williamlewis Smith, late of the Twenty-sixth infantry, taken be fore your committee yesterday. I en close a copy of a dispatch which has been sent today to Maj. Gen. ChaTfee. commanding the division of the Phil ippines. Directions have been given to the judge advocate general of the army to take proper steps in accordance with the dispatch. The war department will be glad to receive the earliest possible informa tion of any further evidence which may be elicited by the committee, tending to fix responsibility upon any one in the military service of the United States for any violation of the laws of war or of the regulations and orders govern ing the operations of the army of the United States in the field. Very respectfully, Elihu Robot. Secretary of War. Hon. H1. C. Lodge, United States Sen ate, Washington, 1). C. THE ORDERS CABLED. In accordance with the above the Secretary of war sent the following cablegram to Gen. Chaffee, who is in command of the American troops in the Philippine Islands: War Department. I Washington, April 15, 1902. On Feb. 19th a letter was sent you. enclosing for investigation, copy of charges made by Gov. Gardner of Tayabas province, which contained general allegations of cruelties prae ticed by troops on natives, and gen erally of an insolent and brutal atti tude'of the army towards nat ives. On April 2d a cablegram was sent you urging action with all speed con sistent with thorough and searching investigation. On the4th of March a cable dispatch was sent you directing disciplinary measures to produce obedience to the president's instructions, subordinating military olticers to civil government im pacified provinces. and instructing you to relieve Maj. Edwin F. Glenn and Capt. James A. Ryan from duty and order them to Manila to await invest i gation inat o their conduct, in accordance with inst ructions to follow by ma il. On the 24th of Niarchi instriuctions were mailed you containing state:uient of charges against those otticers and Gen. Jacob11f. Smith as the basis of the Investigation ordered by the cable -of March 4th. Further instruct ions in both mat ters are required by the following facts: Press dispatchesstate that upon the trial of 31aj. Wailer, of the marine corps, testimony was given by Waller, - corroborated by other witnesses. that Gen. JacoblII. Smith instructed him to killed and burn: t hat the more he killed and burned the better pleased Gen. Smith would be: that it was no time to take prisoners, and that when 3Maj. Waller asked Gcn. Smith to define the age limit for killing he replied "every thing over ten.'' If such testimony was given, and the facts can be established, you will place G-en. Smith on trial by court martial. Yesterday before the senate commit tee on Philippine afl'airs Sergt. Charles S. Riley and Private Wm. Lewis Smith *of the Twenty-sixth volunteer infan try testified that the form of torture knlown as the "water cure" was ad ministered to residents of the town of Igbarras, Iloilo provine, Island of Panay, by detachment of Eighteenth United States infantry under com mand of Lieut. A rthur L. Conger, uin der orders of MIaj. F. (Glenn, than cap tain Twenty-fifth infant ry, and that -Captain and Assistant Surgeon Pal :mer Lyon, at that time a contract sur geon, was present to assist them. The sofficers named, or such of them as are :found to be responsible for the act, -will be tried therefor by courtmartial. -Conger .and Lyon are in t his count ry. Both he Twenty-sixth v'ounteer in fantry and Eighteenth infantry having ~returned to the United States and most of the witnesses being presuimp tively here. the secretary of war di rects that 3Maj. E. F. Gleen, Twenty tifth inifantry, be directed to proceed to San Francisco and report to the general commanding the departument of California with a view to his trial by courtnmart iai under charges alleging the cruelties practiced by him upon a native of the Philippine islands at Igbarras on the 2th of June, 1900. Ii vou can discover any witnesses still in the service of the Philippine islands who can testify in support of the charges, or if Mlaj. Glenn desires the attention of any persons now serving in the islands as witnesses for the de fense, you will direct them to proceed to San Francisco foi' that purpose. As the two years alflowed for the prose cution by the stat ut e of limitations is nearly at an end no time is to be lost. You wvill take such course in advancing or postponing the invest igat ions pre viously ordered into he conduct of G;en. 'SmithI and 31aj. (Glenn as shall be required to ernale vou to execute these instructions. It is believed that the violations of law and humanity. of which these cases, if true, are examnaples, will prove to be few and occasional and not to character'ize the conducit of the armys generajiv in the Philippines: hut t he Zact that any such acts of cruelly ,anl barbarity appear' to have been danne indicates the necessity of a most thor ough. searching and exhaustive mnves tigationlunider the general enarges pre' ferred byv Gov. G ardener andl~ you w:! spare no' eitort. in the imvestigatio: already orderedd unider these charga to unicover cvery ucht ('ase wuihi miay have occurr ed and bring the offendeiLre to just icc. The president dlesires to know in the fullest and mOSt circumstantial man 1er all the facts, nothing being con 'led, and no man being for any rea son favored or shieldedl. For the ver'y yensn that the president intends tc back up 1 he army in t e heartiest fash ion in every lawful and legitimate Imiethod of (oing its work. he also in ends o see that the most rigorous care exercised to detect and prevent an eruelly or brut ality, and that men \0o are guilty t.hereof are punished. Treat as Ihe provocation has been in dealing wih foes who habitually re sort to treacherv, murder and torture against our men. nothing can justify or will be held to justify the use of torture or inhuman conduct of any kind on the part of the American armv. Elihtu Root. Secretary of War. WADE HAMPTON'S Farewell to His Old soldiers From E His Piazza Last May. When the Confederate Reunion was held in Columbia last 'May the old so! diers called on General Ilampto-in at his home in a body. On that occa sion he made the following speech: My Comrades: I have indeed, as Maj. hart has said. heard that iRebel yell often: before and when I heard it from my own men, from the men whom 1 had the honor to command, I knew that we were safe. 1 think it is one of the British poets who said: "The kites know well The long league's swell That bids t he Roman's close. I mnight paraphrase this by saying: The Yanks knew well The Rebel yell That hade the Johnnies close. My old heroes, I hope it never will be forgotten. I hope it will be trans mitted to your children and to your children's children if not for them to use to tell how it used to ring from the forests of Virginia, how it rang from 1 Gdtvshurg to the west. and how it al ways'told of men who were willing to die for t heir southland, to die for truth, for honor, for manhood, for chivalry and for a great truth. I want you to try and teach o your children and to your children's children that ours was not a lost cause. I want you to tell them that we were ighting for the right. George Washington was a rebel, but Lee was not. When Great Britain recognized the independence of this country she did not recognize the in dependence of the Unitea States, but of each sovereign State as independent and soveren. There were 13 inde pendent and sovereign States. They founded this union and they had the right to withdraw from it whenever they chose so to do. We were not suc Cessful-it is not given to mortals to command success. You have done more-you have deserved it. And now in your declining years and when mine have extended long be yond the period allotted to man, you, mv old comrades, whom I loved, whom I trusted and with whom I felt as safe as I (1o now, I want to say to you all that all the love you have given me has been more than reciprocated: that., all that I have ever been able to dol for you. for any one of you, or for South Carolina, has been more than repaid by the honors you have unsolicited conferred upon me and by this the crowning honor of my life. I may not, see you again. 1 remember a story of - an old bishop who, when ready to re-el tire from public life, went to the abbotA and said: "'Father abbot, an old man whose hea rt is broken by the storms of state is co'ne to lay his weary hones amongi you. ' That is all I shall ask of south Ca e, diaa e rfet of earth where my kindreufo six geier-ations are resting. AncldI am proud to say that one or more of each generation, since they were known in South Carolina, hast tilled a bloody grave for South Carolina. ' (A pplause.) '1' claim no credit for that. Every South Carolinian whoz wa true wa's willing to give his blood and his life for the old State. I am sure that I was willing to do so. I think Icn say so to you. my men, thtInever turned my back npon any of vou wvhen your far-es were turned to ward the enemy. T~he greatest honorg that I felt during the war was once when I came upon a poor private who wa dying. I stopped beside him and he said: "I am happy to die fighting and I am protud to die tighting under1 you." 'I pray God will bless you and, wvill give vou peace and prosperity, give it. to the old. State, give it to each one of you and that you will go home and tell your kindred that you have seen your old comrade and that. he thanks them through you. Must Be Crazy. From Rutherford county. N.'C.. comes a report of one oif the most un usual aifairs.. man has made all preparations to ewmmit suicide, and intends to maike of it agala occasion. Allen Cogsdell is an aged, wealthy and very eccen'tric farmner of that sec tion. It is said he has sent out in vitations to all of his numerous re latives to attend a bigr dinner which he intends to givAe at his home on June 10. The unique feature of the in vitation, it is said, is that it contains the announcemient that at the noon hour, sharp, those present are to have the plearure and experience the novel sensation of seeing him take his own life. Mr Cogsdell is a Confederate| veteran. In his invitation lhe does nt announce the method lie will em ploy in dispatching himself: but he is still the proud possessor oif hiis old army revolver, and those who know him ~well are. impressed with the be lief that lie will attempt to use the Swallowed a Frog. A large frog wvas removed from a woman's stomach in St. Catherine's lospital in Williamsburrg N. Y., the other day. Tlhie woman is Mrs. Charles 1urtis of Ilopwell Junctioin, near Matteawan: N. Y. She had been suf fering from a trouble which barled her physicians foir some time. it was inally dei'ided that an operation for appendicitis wvould be advisablme arid she was taken to the Williamsburg hospital. A Fishkill. N. Y.. doctor performied the operati' n, which re veal tha t she was noit suff'ering fronm appenic it is. lM th doI ctiors ditd dis c ver and removye frm in!'er stomacha live f irg.said to iave been ttve inches lng. I' is supposed that she swal-~ owe~d thle frog when it was very small, whil sheI1 was drinking water. An Old Man. oreGinn. of IIlunt ington. Tex. .: negroi. !2 ye~a:rs old, has. fu nd'l a nunerous family. lie is% the fatv he oft 4~ chIldren. all of whiim are Ii ving. lie has 140 grndculhildren, 10i gr'eatgrandchildren and :3 gret r~eat-gran u dibiren living, maig the totalt membership of his ft uily 200. Several grandebildirenl hiave A M O U E T TO U sA PTON - Call Made on the CitizenS ,.of the State For Subscription. The movement for the erection' A.1 splendid monument to Gen. Wade Hampton. to be surmounted by an equestrian statue' has now been launohed, and it is in good aands. Camp Hampton. of Columbia, last week adopted the following resolution. which will be read with interest. Resolved, That for the purpose of erecting in the city of Columbia an equestrian statue of the illustrous citi zen and soldier Gen. Wade Hampton Camp Hampton, U. C.. V., invites sub scriptions from all of the citizens of South Carolina, such subscriptions to be sent to all of the daily papers of the State, to be by them acknowledged from time to time as received and then forwarded to the treasurer of the cen tral committee herein provided for. That the following named, survivors of the Confederate States army. are requested to act as "The 1ampton Statue Central Committee," who shall be clothed with power to receive the funds subscribed for said statue- select the site for it in the city of Columbia. appoint sub-cormnittee's and do all such other business as may be .ccs sary for the furtherance of the end in view: First Congressional District -Tbneo dore G. Barker. Second-Col. J. W Moore. Third-D. 11. Russell. Fourth-Col. ,as. A. Hoyt. Fifth-Coi, Jas. S. Hart. Sixth-Gen. W. E. James. Seventh-Col. A. C. Haskell. That the Daughters of the Confed racy and all other organizations of ladies in sympathy with the movement tirougout the State, be and they are 1ereby requested to appoint auxiliary committees to co-operate in this sacred work of raising a fitting memorial to our illustrious and lamented chieftain. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. The President's Visit. A dispatch from Washington says the president himself has declared to his closest and best friends since his return to Washington that the south ern wrip was of greater value to him from any standpoint from whicht Miay be viewed than. he can estiate. Senator Lodge is eqully enthuasastic n the subject and the. Massachusetts; senator declares that the whole. nation should be grateful to the State of South Carolina for iaviting the prsi dent to go to Charlestom. so that the whole world might see the love. respect and affection whioh. thek- president of the United States encounters in any section of country he may visit. Re publican senators and representatives of high standing in the paZty ranks do not believe with the Skcth Carolina republican organization: that the president suffered politic-alor personal contamination while in Charleston. On the contrary, the higa.T1ind.d men of the republican and .demotratic parties here in Washingtantagree that President Roosevelft's visit to South Carolina was a benefit to :the whole nation. and it will go down.'h history as an undyi ng example of what the patriots of this country mean whzen we say to the world that we are a innited people. Our Monment Injured. The Chattanooga Times a few day ago contained the following: "The recent storms have caused much dam age to the hanudsome South -Carolina monument at; Chickamauga park.j The monumnent erected to the South! Carolinians who participated in the battle of Chickamauga consists of a huge bronze palmetto tree on a mar ble base. The winds -and storms have stripped the bronze leaves and broken off three limbs of the tree. Part of the bronze is lying on the ground by the monument, while thie rest of it has~ evidently been carriei away. The marble esplanade ar-ouud the monu ment has also bo cracked and seriously darmaged. Unless re pairs are made at once .tfe handsome monumenit erected only .a short time go will be ruined.'' The governor's attention has been called to the mat ter, and has taken it up with Gen. Walker and other membemn of th com msson. A Fatal Fire. Mrs. Wallace E. King, her dec and two children were burned to deatb at their home in Wallin a village noae Frankfort, Mich., Wednesday nigmt. Those who perished were: Mrs: ir g, Vida King. aged 8 years. TVerna irg, aged i.. and Miss Anna King.- WT. aged 18.. Beulah; the 3-year-o.'d daughter, was thrown from an upper] window by her mother and saved. TPhe four bodies were recovered Thursday morning burned to a crisp. The tire riginated in King's general store. over which his family lived. it, bad obtained such a start when disco vere4 that the bucket brigade, which q sick ly formed, could do nothing to c becky It. Mr. King, who was town ship treasurer, was not at home Wedne, day. night. He had gone to (>jpemish to deposit the township funds that had collected. Misfortune pursu a him even on the trip for he lost i coat with $175 in the~ pocket. A H-ominy Triust Details as to the orgardzat ion of~ the American Hiominy company has been made public. The company has a capitalization of $1.25,000 preferred stock and $2.500,000 common stock. Eight big companies, mostly in the West. have joined in the conmbinat ion. Among the objects of this corporation are: To manufacturm, produce, adapt and paepare, and to buy, sell and oth erwise tdeal or tratlie in hominy, brew ers' grits, corn meal. feeds, sugar. oils and other similar subjstances, and any and all prod uct~s and by-products de rivedl from corn and other grains and veget able prodriets and any mixtures and comnpoamds thereof. etc. Locnsts Cuming. Jo(hn Elfreth Watkins. Jr.. oif Wash iigtonl says in the New and~ Courier that the 17 year locusts will reappear ths year in 23 states of T he union, coming as far southa rs.North Carolina. They have appeared tie last week ipm HISTORIC LETTERS Which Passed Between Gen. Sher man and Gen. Hampton UST BEFORE THE WAR CLOSED. ThaLr *General Hampton Correct hy s.Toices the Spirit ol' its .AnarL and is Now of t lterest. The following .t,.-rrespondence be tween Hampton and Iherman pased into history years ago. bt .1e letters ilt be read with pernXOr' intm'est to day, when the people of Smith Ciro ina and the entire South are iourn ing the death of one of their greatesAt chieftains and iefenders. Union for agers had been sghot for dastardly out- t rages tipondefenceleswomen, and the incidents called forth Sherman 'letter which was as follows: Headquarters in tihe Field. Februa.ry 2. 1A,5. Lieut. Gen. Wade lIilaptoi, Con manding Cavalry Forces. Confederate t States Ar'ny-General: It is ofteallY r reported to me that our foraging par ties are murdered after capture and labelled "Death to all foragers. :One instance of a lieutenant and seven mei near Chesterville, and another of twen- 2 ty "near a ravine eighty rods from the main road," about three miles, fronm Feasterville. I have ordered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be Ul:sposed of in like manner. I hold 0hout 1,00 prisoners. captured in vari s ways, and can staid it as long as t v. and would suggest that you give bouce to the people at large that ever7 life taken by theni simplv resut. in theteatn of one of your Confedetztes. Of sevirse. you cannot question ,. . right to -forage on the country. It is a war right as old as history. The mannerof exercising it. varies with cr umstanCes. and if the ei.11 authort - ties will supply my reqrisitions T I will forbid all foraging. But I caac find no civil authorities who can j; respond to my calls for forage of provisions: therefore, I must col lect directly of the people. I have no doubt JTis is the occasion of much misbehaxvite on the part of our men: but I cannot permit.an enemy to judge or punish wituh wholesale mur- 1 der. Personally I xgret the bitter feeling engendered -Iy this war. but they were to be expecied, and I simp h- allege that those who struck the irst blow and made war inevitable ought not in fairness to .reproach us for tFWtural.consequenas. I merely assert-our war right, to forage and my resoive to protect my :foragrs to the 1 extent of life for life. I am, with respect. your .-bedient servant. NV. . Sherman. Major General United States army. To this Gen.- Iaanpton replied: H eadquarters in the Field, February 2.ti, 18L5. NMajoi Gen. W. T. Sherman, United States Army--General: Your con municazion o f the:Mth instant reached me todcy. In it you state that it has been oilicially reported that your forag ing parties are -murdered after cap tre." You go on to say that you have "ordered a similar number of prisoners+ in our hands ta be disposed of in like mnaner." t hat is to say, vou have or dered a ninber of Confederate soldiers to be "inurdered.'' You characterize your order in proper terms, for the ~ublic voice, even in y-our own eoiun try, where it seldom dares to egress tself in vindicat ion of truth. toor,j or justice, will surely ag~?ee with -you in pronouncing you guilty Of nm~r f your order is carried o'st. Before fsnissing this portion of f'our let Vt [ he to assure you t hat for every sof-$ dier of mine ".murdered" by you 4 sall have executed at once two ok yoirs giving in all cases prefe.rence to. an- oticers who may be in my hands. In reference to the statement yot-l iak-e regarding the death of your for aers, I have only to say that I krow not hig about it; that njo orders g1ven by me authorizes the killing of prison ers aftier capture, and that1I do not he ieve at my men kiiled any of yo irs see: ander circumstances in which it was perfectly legitimate and proper hat they shoruld kill them. It is al part of the system of the thieves,1 hom you designate as your forager~S, to fire the dwe~ilings orthose citizens whom they have rob~bed. To check tis inhuman system. which is justly ecrated by every civilized nation. L have directed my men to shoot diown1 1l of your men who are caught burn- I houses. This order shasi yem:Imif in force as long as you disgram The profession of arms by allowmng:.~ men to destroy private dwellings. You say that 1 cannot, of cojurse, question your right to forage on the ountry'it is a right as old histor. I do not, sir, question this right. But there is a right older even than this, and one more inalienable-the right that every man has to defeno. his homej and to protect those who are depen dent upon him: and from my heart, wish that every old man and b)oy in myyountry who can tire a gun would shoot down as he would a wild beast. the men who are desolatieng t heir land, honing their homes and insulting t heir women. You are Dart icular in defining and caiming 'wat rights." May 1 ask if vo enumerate among these the rig~ht t 'Ai tire upon a defenceless city withot no ice: to burn that city to the ground s a.ter it had beent surrendered by the iuhabitants, who claimed, thotigh in ain, that protection which is a..ways~ acorded in civilized warfare to non- I .c hat ants; to tire the dwelling houses of ectizes after robbing them: and to 2 per 'jetrate even darker crimes than ( ee,-Times too black to be men You have permuittedl. if you hrre not / aderded. the c.ommnisslin of these offen- 1 'e ap.Ist humanity and the rules of ~ dur u tired on t he city of Columbia g.;tout a word (f warninio: after its uu.nder be the mayor, wiio demand d l oteion to private property, you laid the who)le cit y in ashes, .'eavmg mi ds4 # itt. rdJns thousanlds of old men' :d 1 ephi'i wometn and children, who ar e li' eb4 per~iish of starvation and. xps'u 're. YNour liae of march Can be tracd b' Ie 1urid light of burning houses atd in moie than one house holddth' ere is now~ di agony worse than thitof den h. iThe In'dian scalpedt his ict ii regairdless of age or sex, but, withall ib-i barbarity he always re speted ine! person~ 01 is f'emalc cap tiv- eu.~'r soldiecrs. more savage: aOtha th 2 ndian. insult t hose whose natal E9 ectors are absent. I onc -hns-on 1 have only to request. that whe ne'e you have any of.,my. men mu. rdm.ed" or "disposedl of, fit theeteerms : ' p ar sy nonymous with. yo. yo vib le t me hear of it. that 1. may kio' wb action to take in the: 'at Ier. I th mentime - shall hld I of your men as hostages for thosc i> have ordered to be execut ed. I am yours. etc. Wa(de llamaptoni. Lieutenalt General. TiM GOOD PHjYSICIAr. oIe Good Words for the Memnbers of I .e Medical P'rorgsion. Tie following article. written by )r. Jas. II. Carlisle. was published in e Spartanburg Herald last week ,hile the State Medical Society was in ession in that city: The paths of pain are thine. Go forth Vith pat ience. t rust and hope. 'he sutlering of a sin-sick earl h1 hall gi:e thee am ple scope. eside the unveiled nisteries ) life and death. to st and. ith guarded lips. and reverent eyes. ind pU:e of heart and hand. (Whittier.) MTore than half a century ago one ()f he leading physicians of Boston ied. Walter Channing, M. 1). His riend. Rev. James Freeman Clarke, readhed a sermon, which be began vith a line sketch of a good physician. Our city is honored today by the iresence of many representatives of bis no:Ale profession from all parts of e State. Readers of The Herald av te intereste'd in the appro rinate tribute. It may help them o a stll higher estimate of those on hom we call in our moments or nxiety or pain. .A good physician has a hard life n arv ways. h is work is on the hay side of life. by the bed of sick tess ard pain-sickness which he often annot cure: pain, which he is some imes unabie to alleviate. le has -ret;rcsponsibili'ies, invalving great ,nietieg. The life, health. happiness i others deiud ijuch in his wisdom, .ttention, prom-Psiness, fidelity. Most if us do our day's word and then go iome to rest. or to amuse ourselves, o tura to private studies, or go Into leasant society. The work of the >hysician never ends. He can neveT est w ithout the possibility of being addenly summoned back to his duties. he is not actually called, he is Lways in expectation of being called, md gat interferes with perfect ret. Te is. sentinel who cannot sleep or 2s noa. His work continues, througli igt :a day, through storm anc hine, throggh heat and cold, througt ummer an. -yinter. Other men ma3 ake their .vaagion, but wherever h( roes, the lightp ag message follow. iter, and asks, "Whe-re are you.! .t home, he is thelave of the doo >ell (or telephone) abroad, of th( elelraph. Yet. with all this-labg. care, anx ety, a ohysician's life hasr;apy com ensatiOIS, compensations .s grea1 hat when a person is able- to fuliil it uuties aright it is one of the .happ1% >f all professions. The goodphysicdi as the consciousness of usefullness,.ii iis work. The family physicial :tudies the constitutions of the men 5ers of a household: he is able to ad rise them in regard to diet. air, ex rcise, work and recreation. He fore sees inger before it comes, and show :hea how to -avoid it. If prevenitativ, is better than cure, modern medica science. wio.h tends that way, is ei rtainly better than that of our;tathers But vhen the inevitableu disease *ai rives, then the use of the physicia. appears in alleviation of pain, in :tak ing charge of the case, and so gehie' [ng the anieties .of the patient, ,an his friends. When we have .ontide our beloved otne to the care of .ths wise and faithful physicianl we huave: ense of reposing trust. If all .dru re abolished, I do not think :tlh ae~eg and use of a physleial3 could t ;eeggy ydiminished--perhaps it woul e:dwsed. All tniS is compensat:10 orrhs~d and anxiety, but more stiL is the, at~ionl which gathers aroun biim. T1,c ,Xppostle hag indicate u-is rewe. ~ the profeission in on ;tr king egji., "Luke, the belove ,h sician.' I; -oes not say. th ~er "the eam'ig "the eclebrated ulvysfcian. ut 'L he! oveL llb rocd physii bcorms; a friend nany hormes. As bis .e advanei :here grows r ound him:i. neighboi iooddtill~ed witir friends. r" is th rind of old anti voung, for 1l nec iis care, and depend on his &"nl I beomes intimately acqi4mte vith the iterior of life of'.miany fs.0 ies. bu you will notice that aphys5ica s ery' si&m a gossis1t H no rr -hinnks of speakinlg abroad of what1 onidded to ?iim than if he were father-confesr, as, indeed. he ,f te is. And he, who is able to inspire coi fticence in another. helps the bodl tl~rough the mind, as daily expernenC teaches. We all feel the truth( what Walter Scott says: "I have lain on the sick muan's bed. *Watching for hours for the Jeeeii 1ss if I deemed t hat his presence ajon add power to bid may pains begone I hve listed his words of confo. s ifto oracles of Heaven. I have counted his steps fronm i chaniber door. nd b lissssed themi when they wvel heard no more." Our visiting friends will tind he: tradiiiols of good physicians wit bom inour city was blessed in otb< -ear. And they will he weicomied I :hr.wrhily representing tile pr< .fession today. I1 Ramsay says of Lionel Chalmer ML 1.. who died in Charleston:. L "ie as the first writer who tresl offtheesoill, limate, weather and gene allll'oofthe diseases of South Carolica Jiiis name was honorably perpetiaf amonng us in the person of a direct d wennda nt 1 a great-grandson) Luui Chalmernrs Kennedy. M. D). (181 1880.)) whose portrait and _medi boots m ay be seen in the lkennes Librrar, otir Public Square. T sppot o which his ottice stood 'w saacredly et apart by Mrs. Kenne (Iliehen Faissax Stevens) for a "libra wheherethe poorest boy may go. al tindindgood rading." The citizens spoonded to her tender appeal a errected the bullding. 11er memol joined with that of "'the good phy clian," i a legacy to the people Sppartanburg and their children. C gueuestsf the medical profession coordially nvided to visiZ the library thr nernniene. A 1 IA 1 A * 1 * .iU I'U Made by Democrats Assisted by Beet Sugar Republicans. TO TAX THE TRUSTS SUGAR. The Speaker Overrnled and the Dif ferential Removed fromt Refined Sugars Coning frorn Cuba by the House. The Democrats and the Republican insurgents rode roughshod over the house leaders Friday when the voting began on the Cuban reciprocity bill. They overthrew the ruling of the chair in committee of the whole on the question of the germaneness of an amendment to remove the differential from refined sugar during the existence of the reciprocity agreement provided i for in the bill. The vote to overrule the decision of the chair, made by Mr. Sherman of New York, was 171 to 140, Republi cans to the number of 37 joining with a solid Democratic vote to accomplish this result. Having won this prelimin ary victory the amendment was adopt ed in committee, 164-111, and later in the house by a still larger majority, 199-105. On this occasion 64 Republi cans voted with the Democrats for the amendment. The bill was then pass ed by an overwhelming majority, 247-52. An analysis of the vote shows that 124 Republicans and 123 Democrats voted for the amended bill and 42 Re publicans and 10 Democrats against it. Grosvenor of Ohio was one of those who voted against the bill. The voting on the bill was the culmination of a long struggle which began almost with the inception of this session of congress and after two weeks of con tinuous debate during which much bitterness was aroused. Friday's debate was of an exceed ingly lively character, the feature be ing the echoes of Thursday night'. Democratic caucus. To that caucus the defeat of the Republican leaders wh sought to pass the bill without amend ment is attributable. Previous to the holding of the caucus the Democrat, were very much divided and the op position of the Republican beet sugal men showed signs of disintegrating Friday when it became apparent tha1 the Democrats, would act togethei the beet sugar men decided, at a meet ing attended by 32 of them, to taki the bit in their teeth and overrule thi chair. As soon as this combinatioi was effected the Republican leider realized that they would be defeate( so far as the removal of the differen tial was concerned and Mr. Payne the Republican leader, contented him self with warning his beet sugar col ,e agues that in removing the differer til they were taking off a bit of prc tectiCn placed in the Dingley bi especirg for the benefit of the bee sugar prodcers. Mr. Richardson, of Tennessee, wa the.first speer. He stated frankl ththedoutid .whether the enac1 ment of te bill 'vould do much t -bring about the rictiprcal trade reb tions between 'Ouba and the Unite -.States which was' :earnelstly to be df Sdesired. But' he haaN.o.te4fitor it i -the hope that .it might lacconigli~ -somethtig. "He scalled atttin A Sthe action of two cunties in .t1d# jtrict of Mr. Babcock, Wisconsini, er dorsing the latter's bill to 're'voke~tl a~duties from steel, and amid Democri tc applause, said the Democratis pr sed to give Mr. Babcock an oppo turty later on to vote for the bill h Scoguets had endorsed. I10 IVIr.epburn., Iowa, aroused co: sidera? excitement by bringing war~thevelation made in the Dem ratie mis Thursday night concer eng the :allged overtures made frc he Republianl side to abandon tl ejrup gesolution if theDe crats ro, u e States threatenl instd ot overturning t wouldirvote saC i6 1~ not believe cand hought the 3 ro - bama Mr. Underwc.~ ~ b e mistaken. I Mr. Morris of Minnes~6Jt .Republican opponents of d cognized and offered ana. - - to remove the differential or i sugar. The moment the amend.', e was read Mr. Payne, the Republi i s lder, made the point of order the itas ~not germane. Hie argued the a there bad been rulings innumerab ag aainst such extraneous amendment M r. Litteeld of Maine followed Ml ayne, .tdig the view that ti f amenment was germane. He ha not proceeded ;far in his argument b fore he arou~sed initense interest 1 r rverting to the reort that at ti Democratic caucuE Tfhursday nig! Nr. Underwol stated that overtur hh been made;to him10 regard te Crumpacker. resolution. ~An1 sinustion has been made her~e F'riday said h, "whichl has not been .egell a ait ~uht to have been. O rder th re~pot .that -at the Democrea caucus Thetrsday. night was stated .tl approaches ..had.come froni this -ai e o the house for;tbe Democrats to-e h er an unhaly, ungodly and mnfamC r alliance to sacdfce human .rights y oorer to save tbe:dace' of ceitain les ersor protect the profits of an agg gation of capital." - MMr. Grosvenor .MfOhio was onI fefet in an instant, asking Mr. Litt ci tield to whom he referred, when 3 -- Uderivood arose and ..as ab~out to terrupt him. but the latter was d ppealed to by sonme of his Democra c-ol eagues and he wook his seat. 2 Mr31. Lit tietield in reply to Mr. Gr v enor said he thought Mr. Payne,1 chairman of the ways and means cc miitee should make a statement ethe Republican leader was just abi ss;o do so wvhen Mr. Underwood ag y y rose. "I desire to say just one wor yryssaidhe. "I~ have never made< d suchuchharges as the gentleman repe e-- either in a Democratilc caucus or e Ty he Republicans applauded1 si-ssatement and both Mr. Underw off and Mr. Payne sat down. urr "I have accomplished my purpo ree said Mr. Littlefield. "I have succe . n atin niaig the Republican maj point of order raised by Mr. Payne, in a very elaborate ruling, Mr. Sherman of New York, who was in the chair. sustained the point of order. In do ing so he cited a long line of prece dents covering three-fourths of a cen tury of parliamentary procedure in line with his decision. As the deci sion was announced Mr. Tawney ap pealed from the decision of the chair. The vote was taken by tellers. Speaker Henderson was the first mem ber to pass between the tellers in sup port of the chair's ruling. It was an Interesting spectacle as the issue was put to the test. The whole Democratic side rose in enthusiastic mass and watched the Republicans to see how many would decline to vote with their colleagues. Not a Democrat voted to sustain the chair. The Louisiana delegation was the first to go through in opposition to the chair's ruling; then trooping down a side aisle came the Republi can recalcitrants 37 strong. The Democrats cheered as they went through. When the announcement was made that the chair had been overruled 130 to 171, the Democrats and the Republican Insurgentscheered. A dozen members were on their feet . flourishing amendments and clamoring for recognition before the applause died away, but the chair re cognized Mr. Payne, the Republican floor leader. Amid profound silence he addressed his Republican collea gues. He warned the friends of beet sugar that he proposed to show his friendship for beet sugar by voting against the amendment. - Mr. McIlwain, New York, offered an amendment to still further reduce by 20 per cent, the whole sugar schedule of the Dingley law, and Mr. DeArmond offered another amendment to strike out the language of the Morris amendment which limited its operation to the period coverer by the reciprocity agreement. Both were voted down without divisions. The vote then recurred on the Morris amendment which was adopted amid Democratic cheers by a vote of 164 to 111. The majority for it was so over whelming that Mr. Payne did not de mand tellers. The next surprise came from the Republican side when Mr. Roberts, Massachusetts, offered an amendmenut to place hides on the free list. The chair sustained a point of ordez against it, and when Mr. Robert; appealed many Democrats and practic ally all the Republicans voted to sus tain the chair, and the chair was sus tained 183 to 170. Mr. Roberts then modified hi; amendment so as to make it apply only to hides from Cuba and as modifi ed it was held to be in order. BUt OE a direct vote it was defeated 140 tU 160. Mr. McClellan moved then to in crease the reciprocal concession fron 20 to 40 per cent. Two Republicans Parker of New Jersey and Tompkin; - of New York, voted for the amend - ment and the Louisiana Democrat and several other Democrats, 11 in all 1 voted against it. It was defeated 10: to 162. Mr. Richardson o[ Tennessee thei s offered the Babcock bill to place az ticles in the metal schedules on th free list also cotton bagging, bindini ~twine, wood pulp, etc. Is was rule L-out of order. On motion of Mr. payne the commit ~.tee then rose and reported the bill t Sthe house. The previous questiol hwas ordered and Mr. Payne dmande a separate vote on the Morris ament ment to abolish the differential on ri nd sugar and the roll was called. ~ he Morris amendment was adop1 -,1'9t 105. All the Demcrats an 6* Itepublicans voted for the ament rment. Tbe1 11l1 was then passed 24 Sto 50 The .Russian minister sof .the i ~terior,.~M Sipiagaine;~ was shiot at Sfataly wounded at 1 o'clock Wedne i ddy aftefridon in the lobiby 'oft t m ministerial offices at Sb. Petersbui a by a diiaii who held a pistol close1 Sth niinister's person. Thie wound' 0d iian died at: 2 p. ni. Thd assassin leeit. Sigfiguinle is a student, who gai it ed access to the'building disguised a t uniform of' an aide de camp. m met 'the nister bri the 'main stal case and emp'tied a idolver irito 1 lie body-'at eclose' 'ag." :The assass w as inamediately drrested. The assr atgin didtiot resist -arrest. He'sid '1 nd Da'ewas Balsihanstt, that lie was Sste~it K~ieff, where hebhad be e3tence tieidomnpulsory milita.ry. s vice(ox p'aii.atfing in the. riOts ,t 'p90. de sa,1t he bad suibsequent e e ae purdoned1 ~ ttat he had I s- beef Xeinstated at -the hafversity a r that he therefore -reye ig hiiself eon M SipiagJI~. iAccording td thbe Augusta (Eern et Bettie Chancey, at? dd white wog es who lives near Atheos, Os.., is I t owner of an old mule of the genu: n-Georgia variety. A few, days si' she went out to curry the ani~ edwhose hair had remained uneliPl to for some time and was probably tdi ic nches long. While currying the mule she noticed that about half 1 h air on his tail had been clipped eose to the skin. The mule ki u.iitching his tail towards his bac nf.omethng bothered himi. The d- won began to make a dose inm .-e-iof the animal, and discom~ered e- roubl. A small rat has gnawed -s hair off the mule's tail and had he-ed it enu top of his back near Irips. Tstere is au little hollow on in- mules baed; the .industrious rat~ w oven the hair into a neat rrest tas .resting in the snug home Pl a ntly andecurely when the old uas-mn ran him out. he. . Close Call. ndFour tassistants to an undert )ut suddenly dropped a cofin. they ~ in carrying out .of the Patterson, co d, jail door, when ;the supposedc nyy broken open thle lid and sat up an ats vociferous Italian said hewa d s~ ead. He was AlexanderSaz s-imprisoned for -some slight off his He had beerr called in the mort dodut did not respondsad could n( aroused. The :jail otficials were ee formed and sent ,for a physician ded.ronounced the mnan~dead. h on-dertakvi was sentifor, -tut wvas f not needed. TI V LJ.JU LJF JJI .LA. %a?.;* That Is What Is Said of the Presi dents Visit to THE CHARLESTON EXPOSITION. President Roosevelt Will Not Forget His Visit, and the Whole South Will be Bene fitted by It. Of course President Roosevelt's trip to Charleston,- says the Washington correspondent of the Columbia State, was a success, the occasion for the heartiest demonstrations from South Carolina wherever he went, and a genuine pleasure to the distinguished visitor himself. There doubtless were some people in Washington who doubted that this would be the case. But the number did not include any of the South Carolina colony. No one who knew anything about South Caro linians doubted for an instant that as the guest of Charleston and South Carolina the president could have re ceived other than the treatment he did, and certainly no heartier wel come could have been tendered him than that which marked his entire stay within the borders of the State. However, so much has been said and. written about the president's visit In the effort to give some adequate Idea of the absolute suecess of every de tail that there is imminent dangerof "slopping over" in attempting any other effusions along this line. What is perhaps the most gratify ing result of the whole affair was the opportunity given the people of South Carolina to show themselves to the president and thereby to. the nation, not as have for a number of years been "misrepresented" to be, but as they really are. The happy result is that a number, a very large number, of people here are wakIng up to the fact that they have been -led aitray in their estimate of the State by a series of unfortunate incidents within the past few years which were inevi tably saddled on the people of South Carolina as a whole. The way in ,. -! which Charleston and the- people of the State generally opened their hearts and wanted to open their hans to the president has completely re volutionized public opinion, as It Is reflected in the mirror of the nation, as Washington undoubtedly Is, in re gard to South Carolina. And no one is more directly respon sible for thischange of sentiment than is the president himself. Since re turning to the White House Presi dent Roosevelt has taken- occasion t* - express to quite a number of senators and representatives his personal gratification at the warm welcome 2 given him at Charleston. It is under stood, too, that the president has -4 alluded with especial pleasure to the crowds that greeted him at the vari ous places along the route, notably the tremendous crowd at Columbia, and their demonstrations as.evidenc- -. i'ng how general and' representative of the entire State was the heartly re ception tendered him. Nor has the president at all misinterpreted the dtrue meaning of the. cordiality shown him. Indeed, it is understood, that Sto a number of Republicans who have been to White House. to talk overbhis Strip to Charleston the president em dphasized the fact that he appreciat -' ed all the more the demonstrations 4called forth by his appearance all along the line because of the vast2 difference politically which he realized existed between himself and the peo ple whose guest he was. B utie the president has taken as it was meant that he should take ie the' demonstrations In his honor as - i being iitterly slevoid of any political a significance, it Is generally admitted Sthat'his visit to Charleston will not of be without its effect on him~ in he t- political-ealibgs he will have with the' in south during the remainder of his ad le ministration as the chief executive of Sthe nation. - ot -only has South Care s5 lina been* the gainer by becoming- per 19sonally acquaintedwlthMr. Roosevelt, . but, as he said in one of his speeches, a~nd as' he-repeated many times since a returningto'the White House,- "Iam Sa better American for my visit:" It r- is of course rather- -early to pointi to Sany tangible results-of the-president's - l3 visit to South Carolina, but as -a pro- - t mient. lRepublican senator put It to-; nd day, one 'who is a close friend to the president,' "President' Roosevelt dur -ing his trip ~to Sbdth CCarolina has learned to know her pdople as heshad never known them before, and he may d Je counted on not to forget them. h1 What a Squash Lifted e A well known student of nature; e once tried the growing force of a - al squash. \Vhen it was 18 days old and ~measured 27 irnches l, circumferenlce re he fixed a sort of harness aggynd it, id with a long lever s~tta~ched. Tthe 99w0 er of the squash was measuxeg by the fweght it lifted; the egt pt being Aixed to the leyer:. When It awas 2 0 .days old, two .day's after~ thy old harness was gjxed on it, it hlited,6P C- pounds. On the nineteen~th #ay 1.t he lifted 5.000 pounds, he ______ _ r- Too SenitVe.. he It is reported from Tokio that the ad oicer. Yamow Gowsky, who was In md charge of the battalion of Japanese ~a-troops, 200 of whom lost their lives mn a snowstorm, has committed suicide by poisoning himself. The cause is - stated to be that his father, a very old and respected soldier, wrote re krproaching his son with having lost kre 200 brave men and being saved him ., self. pse Got Hi. Pay. ot Lieutenant Commander Potts, who llet, testified that Schley showed the white nse. feather at the battle of Santiago, and' ing, who is the only man alive that ever it be saw Schley scared. has been rewarded in- for his loyalty tO the navy clique by who the appointment of naval attache at un Berlin, Rome and Vienna. This is ally one of thme softest snaps in the gift of the department.