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WADE HAMPTON. Warm Tribute from an Eminent Northern Editor. AN INTERESTING PERSONAL. -He Wa-' Iteared in the SChool That Kie-w Only Obedience to the Sovereignty of the State." The recent death of Wade ,am pt on of South Carolina, removes one of the notable characters of the last half century. * * * In the fierce sect i (i!ue1ssi()ns which were precipitta' eli *tor sime Vt rs before the civi: war H1u lptin to(k no part. While he loved the South and had all the pride of its noblest bluod. he was ntt an agitator. and earnestly and sincerely deplored secessions and civil war. lie was reared in the school that knew only obedience to the sov ereignty of the State. The pride of the South Carolinian had taught him that his was the noblest and grandest of all the Commonwealths-an empire by courtesy called a State. The sov ereignty of the State had been taught in his mother's lap. in every school he entered, from every pulpit from which he heard a minister of the Gospel. and the great statesmen, such as Calhoun, McIDutlie and layne. had advocated it sincerely and ably. Ile saw the im posing walls and pillars of the Colum bia Capitol slowiy growing 1up year after year to be completed in the great est splendor as the future Capitol of the Southern Republic. if the sectional issue should ever lead to the dismen berment of the Union, and he little dreamed that this magnificent strue ture would within his lifetime be hastily and rudely completed for a ieeting in which his own slaves would be his lawmakers: but even when this bitter humiliation came to him he had the courage to bow to the inevitable, and only one year after the war had ended he pleaded the cause of the ne gro, saying: "As a slave he was faithful to us: as a free man let us treat him as a friend: deal with him frankly, justly and kindly." IHad the Southern men generally shared the broad and sensible views of Hampton the problem of reconstruction would have been an easy one and the South would have been spared unspeakable suffering and sorrow. HIS WAR RECORD. When war came it is needless to say that Hampton was one of the first to offer his services, and he volunteered as a private, but before the company he had joined had been organized he was appealed to by many hundreds to accept the command of a special bri gade, composed of infantry, cavalry and artillery, and to be known as the "Hampton Legion." He commanded the Legion at Bull Run, the first bat tle of the war, and there, as in all the subsequent battles in which it wvas en gaged, it bore a distinguished part. In the battle of Seven Pines, on the Peninsula, Hampton's command lost nearly half its members in killed, wounded and missing, and Hampton was severely wounded. After the Peninsula campaign Hampton was promoted and assigned to a brigade of cavalry under Stuart, and in nearly every important raid made by the Confederate cavalry with Lee's. army during the war Hampton had an im portant part. lie was regarded as one of the best cavalry officers for detached service, and was second in command with Stuart when the most audacious raid of the war was made through Mercersburg and Chambersburg and around McClellan's army soon after the battle of Antietam. At the battle of Gettysburg Hampton received three wounds, and the majority of the otti cers of his command were either killed or wounded. Perhaps the most im portant special service he rendered as a ecavalry commander was when he checked Sheridan at Trevillian's Sta tion. in 1864, and broke up Hunter's campaign in the valley by prev-enting the junction of Sheridan and Hunter at Lynchburg. He was made lieuten ant general and commander of Lee's cavalry in August, and he made a num ber of successful raids, capturing many prisoners and at one time some twenty four hundred beef cattle from the Union army. In one of these raids his son a gallant oflicer under him, was killed in action. THE BU'RNING OF COLIB~IA. When Johnson organized his army in North Carolina to oppose the ad vance of Sherman northward from South Carolina Hampton was assigned to that amry to command the cavalry. He was in possession of his -home city of Columbia. the Capital of the State, when Sherman advanced upon it, and retreated northward as Sherman's army entered. Before retiring he fired a considerable amount of cotton that was stored in the outskirts of the city and this gave some color of plausibili ty to the charge that he was responsi ble for the burning of Columbia. A somewhat heated controversy occurred between Hampton and Sherman after the war as to who was responsible for the destruction of the beautiful Capi tal of the Palmetto State, but the weight of testimony certainly acquit ted Hampton. lie surrendered with Johnson's army to Sherman in North Carolina and returned to his home with the hope of gathering up some remnant of his broken fortune. From the day that the war ended no expres sion of bitterness or resentment ever came from Wade Hampton. On the contrary, he not only earnestly urged the restoration of peace and fraterna brotherhood, but was one of the few men -in the South who appreciated the fact that the negou was not only a freeman. but a citizen, and was enti tled to be treated and respected as such. AT CHA31BE~tsBtRG, l18b2. My first acquaintance with Hlamp ton wvas in October. 1%t2, when Stuart made his celebrated raid around Mc Clellan's army, then in Maryland. I was then on duty at Harrisburg, as assistant Adjutant General of the United States, but always spent one or two days with Sunday at my home at Chambersburg. When I arrived at the Chambersburg depot on one of my home visits for a brief rest I was sum moned by the telegraph operator to his private ottice. lie had just receiv ed sevenal dispatches from Mercers burg stating that a Confederate cavalry force was then in possession of that town and was moving in the direction of Chambersburg. It was startling intelligence, indeed, and it seemed incredible that a Confederate force would attempt to raid Chambersburg, only an hour's distance from Hlagers town, where there was a large Un1ionl force. with ample time and equipment to bring it to ny point in the Cumher i1 IVi ih I t. tt~r nhu i's~v;~e Wl thI t, "~i~s (it the (onrederate force as it moved steadily to.ward (hamblersburg. 1 telegi aph e'd ito tie 1'ioiin onnander at lagers Vtn. 10- kni g who he was. stat the facts and suggesting as a matter If precaution that a small re (f infantry an(l artillery litil( be hurried to the defence of the town. in charity I will not give the name of t he ~nion commander, who answce(l that the suggesthin If a Confederatie force entering Chambersblurg was too absurd to be considered. Iallf an hour later the adivancing Con federates had reached Gmhlersburg turnpike. and were moving diirectly upon us and only ten miles distant. I then repeated an appeal to the t'nion commander at 1 Iagerst u ni. stating the facts and urg ing him to send a force to intercept the enemy. as there was yet ample time to do so. but the only reply was an intimation that military com manders had no time to waste on lunatics. Finding it impossible to get any relief from the Vuion army, as I could not hopefully commnflicate with any otficer beyond Hagerstown. I went to my oftice and sat down to await events and accept the situation as philosophically as possible. FIRST 'MEETING WITI 1 HAMMON Soon after dark several Confederates appeared at the western part of the town with a white rag tied on a stick, and announced to the first citizens they met that they bore a tlag to truce from the Confederate army and desir ed to be conducted to the Union com mander of the town. As there were no troops in Chambersburg they were so informed, and they asked to be con ducted to some .itizens of the town with whom they could communicate the wishes of their commander. They were brought to my otlice, where they courteously announced that they were by orders of their commander to ask for the surrender of the city. I told them that there were no troops to op pose them, and that there was nothing to hinder them from entering Cham bersburg whene er they chose to do. so. but as this. first invasion of the enemy naturall3 produced the wildest consternation ir the community I said to the bearers of the truce that I wished to know what assurance of safety could be given to the people. I asked who their commander was and was told that his name could not be given. I then asked where he was and that information was also refused. I then inquired whether they could take me to their commander and as sure my safe return. They said they would, and. accompanied by Col. Thomas B. Kennedy, then a prominent lawyer of the town and now president of the Cumberland Valley Railroad, we mounted horses and rode to the front. It was pitch dark, and when we had ridden out beyond the suburbs we were finally halted with the infor mation that we were now in the pre sence of the Confederate commander. It was only barely-possible to see that a body of men were in front of us, but what they looked like we could form no conception. When we stopped an otticer rode up to us and announced that he was Gen. Hampton, command ing part of the Confederate force, and that he desired to know whether they could enter Chambersburg. We assur ed him that there was no force to oppose him, and that we desired simply to learn from him what assur ance could be given to quiet the peo ple of the town when the Confederates entered. He promptly answered that they made no war upon private citi zens and non-combatants: that the people should be advised to remain in their homes, as they would not be dis turbed, and that no property would be taken from any one except such as was needed by the army. He then directed 31r. Kennedy and myself to lead his forces into Chambersburg, and in a very short time the town was practically filled with them. The peo ple were at once assured that they had nothing to apprehen'd and there was no tendency to panic. A PERsoNAL INCIDENT. In crossing the Centre square a short time after Hampton's force had entered I was familiarly slapped on the shoulder, and, turning around, recognized Hugh Logan. then a cap tain in the Confederate army and the guide of the raid, a~s he had been born and grown up on the South MIountain, in Franklin County. and I had once successfully defended him whe~n charged with kidnapping. Hie was one of the rugged mountaineers whose idelity is equally rugged, and he in formed me that I was one of a num ber of citizens of Franklin County whose names had been selected and given to Gen. Stuart, who commanded the raid, to be taken as prisoners to Richmond to be held as hostages for Pope's arrest of civilians in Virginia. I told him that I had met . Hampton, although he did not ask my name, and had his assurance that otticers would be paroled, and that I was an army otticer. Hie answered in a char acteristic. terse manner: "Well, Hampton's a gentleman, and if you are taken and get to him he'll dis charge you. but Jeb (Stuart) wants you damn bad.7 Seven citizens had b~een arrested and were taken to Lib by, one of whom died before his re lease. I asked Logan what he thought it best that I should do, to which he answered: "Go out to your home. We're in a hell of a hurry and you probably won't be disturbed, but if you are taken I'll put you out tomor row night."' If. I had been taken he would have fulfilled his promise, even at the peril of his life. 1 went to my home on a farm some distance out side the town, and found my ten horses had already been conscripted into the Confederate army. I was not disturb ed and thus escaped an unpleasant journey to Libby prison and the ne cessity of an appea! to Gen. Hlamp to for my discharge. sUIsEQtUENT 31EETINGs. I did not again meet Hampton un til after his election to the Governor ship in 1876. At our first meeting we had a pleasant evening, recalling the interesting incidents of the Chamn bersburg raid. From then until the last few years I met him many times in Washington arid was always de lighted to enjoy his genial and kindly companionship. Hie had been a can didate for Governor immediately after the war and before the Congressional reconstruction of the South, but was defeated by Governor Orr. Ini 1876. when the people were goaded to des peration by the licentious carpet-bag rule of the State, H amnpton wvas forced into the campaign for Governor against Governor Chamberlain, who was great 1v the best of all the carpet-baggers o~f the State. and who would have made reputable Republican govern-. meit had it been possible. The con test was one of unusual desperation. but with all the power and machinery in the hands of the State authorities. sustained by the army and by a State c nstabulary that permeated every precinct. Hampton was elected by 14 1--morit. A State retnrn bordrr in Uitili Carolina had the autnoritV to revise the returns and it bodily threw Out the cou pinties of Edgetield and Laurens. Ihe first of wihich gave :,000 Demuociatie miiajorityj and the second 1.100. by which it retiu rned a majority for Chainberlain of ,.433. The Senators and Rlepresentatives elected (In the 1Democratic ticket inl thiose c'unt les were refused admissi i O heir seats and the result was lth 'ii r;1i/aation of two Legislatures and the inaugurat ion of two Governors. Chamberlain had the advantage of being in possession, and I doubt wheteher Hampton rendered more heroic service in the flame of battle than he did in restraining his friends from resfrting to violence, when the election fraud was perpetrated, and driving the corrupt carpet-baggers from the State: but he held his peo ple steadily to law and order, feeling assured that in time the right would triumph. President Hayes's assurance had been given that the Democratic State otlicers of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina would be given their places as they were undoubtedly elected, and after several conferences between both the disputing parties and the President. notice was finally given that the Federal troops would be withdrawn from Columbia, and that at once ended the contest. Chamber lain quietly gave up the office of Gov ernor. and the Democratic State and Legislative otfieers were admitted to their seats without further dispute. Having assured honest government in his State, his friends naturally de sired to confer upon him the highest honors within their gift., and he was soon thereafter chosen United States Senator practically without a contest, and at the end of his first term was re-elected in like manner. HAMPTON IN THE SENATE. During his twelve years' service in the Senate he was always one of the most conservative and patriotic of; Southern lawmakers. Ile exhausted his effort to suppress section strife. Not only by example, but by every de liverance he ever made, he pleaded for the suppression of sectional biiterness and the restoration of fraternal rela tions between the North and the South. Ile was one of the most de lightful of all the Senators to meet in social intercourse, and his magnificent physique, soldierly bearing and hon est face commanded the admiration of all who came within the range of his acquaintance. At the end of his twelve years' service in the Senate lie was overwhelmed by the agrarian Populist element that swept the South. He could have no sympathy with those who would destroy the Government credit that is the life of the Republic, and he had none of _the arts of the demagogue to pac'fy the masses by promising them impossibili ties. le could have retained his posi tion in the Senate until his death if he had joined in the tempest of pas sion, but he was honest in all things, and lie bowed to it, preferring to main tain his convictions, his integrity and his patriatic manhood to continuance in otlice. President Cleveland recog nized Hampton's claim upon the coun try by appointing him as commissioner of Pacific Railways, where he served with his usual fidelity until a change of administration deposed him: and since then lie has quietly lived among the people who so devotedly and en thusiastically cheered him zhroughout his long career, and finally when he had faced the storms of 84 winters he was borne to his final resting place by the profoundly sorrowing multitude. A. K. McClure. The Crumnpacker 1Bill. The whole spirit arid purpose of rep resentative Crumpacker who seems to be the champion of the bill to cut down the South's representation in congress is to stir the embers of sec tional hate and to create trouble., We are glad to note that this marplot is not becoming the hero he expected to be. It is encouraging to note that even the Republicans having a clear majority in both houses of Congress, do not appreciate his efforts to stir sectional hate and create discord. The Outlook, which is an exponent of cur rent thought representative of the whole country, has a very sensible arti cle on this subject. The Outlook is edited by D~r. Lynman Abbott, who is One of the foremost thinkers of this day, and who reasons on public clues tions without prejudice. The Out-, look says: "It will mark a revival of the most unstatesmanlike and disas trous legislation which the country has ever known: it will revive sectional feeling in its worst form, deepen the race antagonism and postpone the solution of the race problem. It is impossible to solve the problem by legislation: that truth the country has learned as the result of the bitterest experience. Very mueh more is to be grained by recognizin thae extreme ditculites of the situation and by ap pealing to the fair-minded southern whites than attempting to force poli cies upon them which they will not ac cept, and which only confirm their an tagonisms." The day has passed when such legislation as the Crumpacker bill can be pushed through Congress. The business interest of the North will not stand it. THnE Youth's Companion tells of a young man who failed to pass an ex amination for a government position. ie had influence, in the way of a sena tor, who took him to Secretary Long to see if anything could be done to re rate his grades and get him in. "It's no use." said Secretary Long: "that young man has failed three times. Look at his fingers: that yellow stain indicates that he is a cigarette smoker and as such would never do the work required of him." TiHE Atlanta Journal says. "One of the differences between General Jake Smith and the late William Tecumseh Sherman is that the former especially excepted women and children in his program of terroism." How about the ten year old biys that Gen. Smith or dered killed. There seems to be but pr'ecious little difference between Slier man and Smith. Each of them is a disgrace to the profession of a soldier. WHIEN MIr. Bryan in 189ti. in accord with the sentiment of his party as ex pressed in the Chicago platform miade ''government by inijunct ion'' an issuie of the campaign lie was denounced as an anarchist. Yet the Rtepublican house of represent atives passed an ant i injunction bill which seeks to :emedy the evils against which MIr. Bryan was such "a dlangerous agitator." A New York dloctor says that after long research lie has discovered that inciigest ion nmakes people tell lies. That is iteresting. There must be a pow erfu lo o indiestion in the lnnd. VE ARE NOT LAZY At Least That Is What a Boston Writer Says IN ONE OF HIS HOME PAPERS. Concrete Exainples ('ted by HMim in Answer to the Conclusions or a British Penney a Liner. "Uncle Dudley" writes in the Bos ton Sunday Globe as follows: Mr. Gilbert Parker, the Anglo Canadian novelist and member of the British Parliament. lately visited our Southern States, and he says the cli mate of that region made him lazy. This may be true, although Mr. Parker does not assure us that he always has been free from "that tired feeling" under other skies. When, however, he attributes what he terms "the heavy footed progress ocf the South" to the climate, he goes beyond his personal experience and strays into a vast field of general dis cussion and investigation. Ile hit upon a handy and familiar reason for the difference in conditions North and South, but this explanation is not so easy as it looks to the multitude of minds which hastily adopt it. Indeed, it is one very diiiicult to maintain when confronted with all the evidence that can be arrayed against it. Is it really true that the climate of the South is enervating? In this. as in all matters, if we seek the truth we should not generalize. "They say" is very unscientific and a most untrust worthy witness. If we ought not to talk about things that we don't know anything about we ought to be equally scrupulous not to talk about people that we don't know anything about. The minute we do that we substitute our imagination for our knowledge and are adrift on a shoreless, unlighted sea of prejudice and ignorance. If, therefore, we wish to see what effect the Southern climate has on the Southern people we should not rush off into snap judgments on millions of human beings absolutely unknown to us, but should confine our inquiry to. men who have come within the range of our observation, either by personal contact or on the pages of history. For instance, all of us know a good deal about George Washington, for one Southerner. His nature seems to have been quite as vigorous as that of most Northern men. It is easy to imagine how if he had been of the North, his biographers would round their periods with tributes to the rig oroui elements that had formed his austere character. Aside from the immortal comman der-in-chief, the Southern contribu tion to the rank and tile of the con tinental army has not been marked by history for any lack of energy. Sure ly the most Southern of all the fight ers for the independence, Marion, of South Carolina, did not impress the enemy as a noticeably indolent per son. Patrick Henry, the Southerner, was not less fiery in his ad vocacy of A meri can rights than James Otis, the Northerner. Thomas Jefferson's en ergies apparently could not have suf fered much impairment by the climate of the South. John Marshall is another Southerner who showed himself equal to require ments of an extremely strenuous life, a man with such a superabundance of energy that he is unanimously credited with having infused more vigor into the constitution of the United States than any other man who ever applied himself to that- document, the father of which, by the way, James Madison can not be cited as an example of the ill effect of the Southern climate. John C. Calhoun seems not to hav~e been handicapped by his South Caro lina origin in his intellectual combats with Northern statesmen. Nothing would be easier for one accustomed to the conventional view of the two see tions of the country and unacquainted with the biographical facts than to credit Calhoun, ascetically simple in his life, to the puritan Commonwealth of the North and Webster, convivial and lax in his private relations, to the Palmetto State. Coming down to t;he comparatively recent times of the civil war the South ern armies showed themselves quite as alert and hardy as their enemis could desire them to be. The financial ability and the mechan ical ingenuity with which the agricul tural population or the South main tained for four years the Confederate government, with its great forces on sea and land, properly belong among the marvels of history. Certainly the leaders which that long struggle devel oped on the Southern side can not. be pointed to as illustrations of the dele terious influence of their native clime. In vigor of mind and sternness of char acter Jefferson D~avis, the Mississip pian, well might pass for a product of New England. No latitute would be ashamed to own Robert E. Lee, while the militant piety of Stonewall Jack son would make him-the pernnial boast of Forefather Day oratory had he not been a son of the South. In the universal fondness for gener alization we like to chalk off the world and its swarm of humanity into con venient sub-divisions. This done, we have no trouble. when anything hap pens, of accounting for it to our own satisfaction, at least. All we need to do is to glance at our pocket charts and say, 'Ah, that is the result of liv ing on one side of a river rather than on the other. or on a mountain side rather than Cavalier antecedents." It is such a simple and comprehen sive formula that no one likes to be without it, and it is no wonder that Mr. Gilbert Parker carried it with him on his Southern journey. It was just the thing for the occasion. In his chmatic indolence he was'enabled by it, without mental exertion, to solve to his own satisfaction one of the great riddles of existence, namely why peo ple are not all alike. Students Burnt to Death. Two lives were lost in a fire wvhich destroyed the Burns University school near Charlottsville, Va., early Wed nesday. The dead arc J. C. Knox of Richmond, Va., and Agnew McNeal of Albermarle, Va., both students. Tleir bodies were found in their' rooms. The origin of the fire is un knon, but it is supposed to have been incendiary or the result of lightning striking the building. The hostler on the place discovered the llames and immediately gave the alarm. Some of the students escaped by jumping from the windows, and one of the teachers, Mr. ShelTey, was painfully injured in escpning the snme wr y. SOME HOT SHOT Fired Into the Republicans by Sena tor B. R. Tillman, EN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. ie Shows Up the Hyprocricy of' the Republicans in Their Treat iment of the Negro in the Philippines. Discussion of the Philippine bill in the United States senate took a sensa tional turn again Wednesday, Senator McCormas of Maryland refering to the alleged cruelties of American soldiers in the Philippiues-cruelties which he deeply deplored-told of some of the cruelties which had occured on both sides during the Civil war. Neither side, he held, was to be held responsi ble for those regrettable occurrences as neither side approved of them. Referring to elections in the south McComas said that the senators from South Cdrolina and Mississippi cried out against the small percentage of voters in the early elections in the Philippines. After discussing the election methods in the States refer red to he said: "We behold senators from the two States where there is less popular liberty than in any others, shouting loudest for constitutional liberty on the other side of the globe." These remarks drew a sensational reply from Senator Tillman. He charged that McComas had passed over with complacency the "outrages and iniquities and barbarities" which had been, he said, "committed by American soldiers." le declared that when the light had been turned on in full upon the Philippine situation the American people would see to it next November that the majority in one branch of congress would not be "com mitted to this infamous policy. If I can have my way," he declared, "you shall not pass this bill until full light has been turned on the Philippine situation." He declared that it was no longer possible to sneer away the responsibil ity for the cruilties and infamies com mitted by the American soldiers in the Philippines. Referring to the situa tion of the colored people in the south, Senator Tillmat declared the senators from those States were prepared to meet any legislation which might be brought into congress upon that ques tion. He discussed the situation in the south during and subsequent to the Civil war and declared that if it had been known prior to the conclu sion of the war that in the south the reins of government were to be turned over to the negroes there would have been Inaugurated a guerrilla warfare in the swamps of the south that would have been kept up indefinitely. As he discussed the queston, he said he was scarcely able to control himself when he recalled the indignities and humiliations to which the people of his State were subjected during the reconstruction period, from 1868 to 1876.' In his own State, he said, there were 200,000 more negroes than whites and in Mississippi there were 300,000 more colored than white people. In order to maintain their self respent the whites, he declared, were obliged to take the reins of government iri the south by whatever means they could using the shotgun as one of the means. Referring to the inauguration of white supremacy in South Carolina he said the whites had secured a majority of 3,900. It might just as easily have been, he said, 39,000 or 99,000. They simply got such a majority as was nec essary. He referred to the outrages in the Philippines and then said he had heard only of the application of "sand cure" in the south. H~e thought the sand cure as described was mild. "When," he declared, "we get ready to put a negro's face in the sand, we put his body there too." He insisted that the Republicans' contention was that the negroes of the south were fit to govern in this country, but that the Filipinos were not fitted to govern themseles in the Philippines. In the' United States he maintained, a serious problem confronted the government the negro problem--a-nd we might bet ter try to solve that than to hunt for trouble in the Philippines. "Through out the so'uth," he said, "there is a horror hanging over every household for this awful fear of rapine. And yet you turn your back upon it and march to east, where you murder and butcher and torture the poor Filipinos. And you are doing all this in the name of Christanity and humanity and liberty. I can see the hypocrisy oozing out of ou all over." (Laughter.) ."As Confedarates," the senator said, "we cannot think it right to go into the Philippines and desolate the islands with fire and sword." Advert ing further along to the situation in the south, Mr. Tillman asserted. "We will not submit to negro domination and the sooner you understand that the better." Hie urged that discussion of the southern race question should cease. "You are taunting us," said he, "about our treatment of the ne groes of the south, hoping at the same time that we will not interfere with your game of deviltry in the Philip pines. We hope you will help us of the south to get rid of the threat of ne gro domination which hangs over us like the sword of Damocles. Lynch ings will continue as long as those fiends rape our wives and daughters." While Tillman was speaking many of the )emocratic senators left the chamber, his audience on the floor be ing largely on the Republican side. A Singular Incident. A special from Washington says: "The death of Representative Sal mon seems peculiarly sad," said Rep resentative llellany today, who occu pied a seat near to that of the New .Jersey congressman. "A few days ago Representative Gilbert made a speech in eulogy of the late Repre sentative Stokes, of South Carolina, the speaker standing just in front of my desk. After Mr. Gilbert had con eluded Mr. Salmon seemed effected by the talk, complimented Mr. Gilbert, nd expressed the hope that Mr. Gil bert could say that much of him when e died. It seems a singular coinci sent that Mr. Gilbert now has this op portu n ity. A Strange Law. in the city of Hot Springs, Ark.. unning is a misdemeanor," says Vie (r Smith in the New York Press. 'Any person going faster than a walk sarrested and fined. This law is in the nterest of invalids who throng the ;treets and suffer relapses from the ex-' :itement caused by the undue haste f a stranger. One who runs is sup >osed to be a thief, murderer or escap r inmte. A Dream at Twilight. somewhere aniong nmy dreams a gat den lies. Replete with charm and full of strange delight. And tbrouglh those veiling shadows I wo loved eves A re poised like t win gray stars abov e a night. And sometimes Flaney leads me there wit h1 One To cull I lie fiowers of remembered days. And wander side by side and on and on Along the mystery of its fragrant ways. [h, there the heartsease that 1 long for grows, And liope's forget-me-nots and pan sies bloom. And Love's resplendent, hundred-pe taled rose Burns like a scarlet censer through the gloom. And there my soul is beautiful and new And like a captive bird freed from its bars, And liown uion the wings of song into A shadowland of twilight and twin stars. There lies a garden wrought of won drous themes. Full sweet with flowers of delight some thought, Upon the myst ic borderland of dreams. Within the secret province of my heart. MESMERIST SUED BY GIRL. Pards Physician Incurs Endless Trouble After Bold, Impudent Exercise of His Powers. Dr. Vial has been indicted at Paris upon the singular charge of niesmer izing a Mis.s Thorae, an Austrlian girl whQ was sitting opposite him in an omnibus. The defeudant admits his guilt, but pleads scient.itic interest as his excuse. He s~ays that while he was riding in the omnibus with another physician theirconversatii turned to hy pniotibm as a ruans of controlling innocent peo ple for the perpetration of criminal acts. In order to convince his doubt ing friend, Dr. Vial, having noticed the nervous disposition of a girl opposite him, wagered. that he would put her in a trance and cause her to follow theni without sp-eaking to her. The experiment succeeded. He fastened his eye.s upon Miss Thorne and she soon gave evidence of being under mtemeric influences. The physicians then stopped the omnibus and alighted, fol lowed by the girl, who dogged their steps a few paces beh9nd. At Dr. Vail's office, in the presence of several .physicians, experiments were conducted which proved his conten tion. For example, when he ordered her to go stab a fruit vender across the street Miss Thorne seized a knife and started immediately. It was then that Dr. \'ial roused her from the trance. explaining everything, apologized and even offered to pay &my demand. Misks Thorne went home dazed and after war7 was very ill. She told her brother what had, happened and he, after thrashing the doctor, sued for dam ages. The court has postponed giving judgment in the case. TOKIO WANTS DEEP HARBOR. Japan Engineer in This Country Gathering Information to Be Used in Making Vast izaprovensents. Yeija Nakajima, chief engineer of the city of Trokio, Japan, and professor of eng'ineering and mechanics in the Uiversity .of Tokio, is in this country on a tour of inspect~ion. in an inter view he said: "Af-ter a careful examination of your rivers, harbors and 'w'harfage, I have arrived at the belief that I can. by dredging, bring big ships up to Tokio. We are about 20 mniles from Yokohama,.and there wvill be a '.Ot of work to be done. buzt we will do it. To ko has about 1,500.000 inha bit ants, and hr interests would be grreater than they nre now if we had a waterway through wvhich big vessels could pass to the city. Ev-en at Ynkohamac ves sels must be unloaded by light-rs. "The whole job-dredging and wharf build ing-wil: oost about $21.0'00.000 of your money. The interest on money is hig-h over there and we would have to borrowv a great deal. Counting in terest and all, the $21,000,000 will amount to $50,000.000 before the job will be fir.ishedi. But I am sure the city will do the work. American methods will be followed." Fr-om New York Mr. Nakajima will go to Yale to attend the bicentennial celebration. He says that Tokio i. to have a trolley line, and he is anxious to become acquainted wit'h American trolley methods. A MATHEMATICAL QUIZ. Will of a 3Milwaukee Man Divides His Small Estate in Most Pussilag Manner. Heirs of Peter J. Gergen, whose will was filed for probate at Milwaukee, Wis., the other day, probably will be forced to resort to higher mathemat ics to ascertain the amounts to which they are respectively entitled. In its directions regarding the dis tribution of the estate, which is val used at $3,500, the will is a curiosity. The property is to be divided among the widow and eight children, and the allotment to the children is made in the following language: "Mary to receive for her share $200 more than the other children, Nicho las to receive $50 less than the other children. John to receive $70 less than the other children. Anna to receive $30 less than the other children. Jos eph. Peter, Gabriel and Frank to re eive an equal share, which shall be $200 less than Mary. $50 more than Nicholas, $70 more than John and $30 more than Anna." Peter Gergen, one of the sons, was named as executor in the will. Mixred His Metaphors. A prize essay on temperance was re eently published in Liverpool, Eng land, but whoever adjudicated the p1izes must have been fond of mixed metahores. Here is a paragraph from the successful paper. The writer enlargedl on the evil of sending chil drn for beer, thus: "They sip some out of the j'gs as they wend their way home, thus introducing the thin end of the wedge, which is certain to spin up into a harvest of dlrunken ness. Think, oh. think, of these weary little ones going down life's hill over a thorny road. They are bound to float out into eternity, with no hand to shake their dying pillow. Brethren. pray for them, and help to lift them out of the quicksands, which will burn into their very souls." It is alleged that when the author of this literary composition received a sovereign for his work he entered the nearest pub lic house and got "gloriously drunk." Ingenious Yankee's Opportunity. A New York dispatch says the blue point oyster beds have been ruined. The. chance for the man who can ma~e the bogus blue point, says the SEEkS LONG MiSSING MOHEiK. RAch Manufacturer of Leadville, Gat., Starts Search at the Old Htome at Kenuxha, Wis. Earl C. Brown, a prominent ra-ati facturer of Leadville, Col., is in Kenosha, Wis., on a strawne mission, and one which has broughit to light a peculiar story of other days in Kenosha. Brown is at Keno]ha for the purpcse of making a. efrt to find some trace of his mother. .\rs. James Urown, who disapprared from Kenosha under mysterious circum stances more than 2s vcrs ao. All the facts in connerien with the story cannot be discov( -,d. "The widow Brown," as the mother of the Leadville man was known in Keno sha, had resided on Ashland avenue for many years. One day it was no tieed that the blinds in the little cot tage were closed, and as the days went by people began to wonder as to the cause. Finally. on going to the house, they discovered it was empty. The widow Brown was not to be found anywhere. Her best dresses were folded neatly on the bed, and everythingr was neat and clean. but nothing had been left to show where or in what manner the widow had left her home. There seems to be reason to believe that Mrs. Brown met with foul play somewhere, and it is possible that she was murdered in her home and her body secreted; but the little hanse remained clcsed for so many weeks before strange hands took control that a criminal would hvve had plenty of time to cover his crime. Many of the earlier inhab itants of the city recall the disap penrance of Mrs. Brown. but none of them are able to throw any light on the question. MOORISH PRISON SYSTEM. sultan of Morocco to Begin a Reform to Correct a Pitiable and Brutal State of Affairs. A dispatch to the London Times from Tangier, dealing with the announce ment that the sultan nterds to re form the Moorish prison system. says anything more pitiable than the'pres ent state of the prisons it is iny-s sible to imagin.e. Any Mcro:-can -ub ject is liable to be seized ard incarcer ated at any moment, of tn witha,!t :he pretense of a trial. The rumcr J;ha he has saved a few d:ollars is sufficient excuse for hie imprisonment. The state of affairs in the prisons in the cities is bad, says the T:mcs' cor respondent. That of the prisons in the country baffes description. Many of th-em consist of small. high-walled yards, with no s-hade, no shelter, no water supply. and no sanitation. To add to the horror, the priso-ners are chained by their necks to a long. heavy iron chain. sometimes as many as 50 to one chain, with.e a vard N twe.-rn each. Heavy shackles are also riveted to their legs. The ece.:ticns in the subterranean dungeons are even more awful. The sultan intends to change all this. He will overbiul the prisotns, sending inspectors to report upon their cond'. tion. The prisoners are to have suf ficient raticuns, supplied to them by the local officials. TO STUDY FRENCH ORDNANCE. Meican Artillery Offieers to Spend Two Years in That Country by Order of Presldent Dia. Fifteen Mexican artillery offcers have sailed for Antwerp en rout-e to France. where they wvill study the man ufature and nmanipudation of the French ordnance.' The officers, with a single exce.ption--Co. Gilbe rto Ltuna -are e.aptaims or lieutenauits in the artillery branch cf the Mfexican army. They have been comimissioned by Pres ident Diaz to spend two years at TLe Cruesot and study the famous artil ery made there, which has been ndopt ed by th Alexican government in place of the German guns formerly used. CoL. Luna, in an interview. :-aid that the Mexican army was in splendid shape. The country was free from brigands, he said, and in every way was in a peaceful as well as prosper ous condition. On the day previous to his departure from the City of Mex ico, Col. Luta had a long talk with President Diaz, who, he said, is in splendid health. Gold Bar for Field Museum. Rev. Dr. Williatm Copley Winslow, vice president for the United States of the Egyptian explloration fund, an nounces that the London 'ommittttee has voted to present to the Field Co iimbian museum the curious har of gold found at the royal tombs of Aby dos. Ar. exact facsimile has been re eived by Dr. Winslow and placed in the Boston museum of fine arts. It has been mounted on black marble, and is about five inches long. The name of AIa is incised on the car touche, such as it then was, arnd prob alv dates about 4750 B. C. Near the top of the bar is a hole, which causes Dr. Winslow to su~ggest that it was used for ornamental purposes, but Prof. Petrie thinks its purpose was unknown. Deep-Sea Mine Found. Capt. Strand, of the Santa Ana, which has just arrived at Port Town send. Wash., reports having found a deep sea mine of unusual richness. When he wveighed anchor at Notme a considerable quaintity of mud was brought out, and some of the mtiners aboard prospected it with the result that several small nuggets of stold were found, the larirest of which was worth one dollar. The Santa Anta was anchored one and a quarter miles from shore in six fathoms of we:ter, and the captain expressed the opinion tha~t with a deep sea dredge a large amount of gold could be secured. Only Two Weeks More. The South Carolina Inte'r-State and ,West Indian Exposition will have but two more weeks of stirring existence. Born of the far-seeing enterprise of a few patriotic men, nursed to maturity by their unceasing toil and self sacri fice, in the face of a thousand obstacles, d in spite of doubt and criticism to those familiar with its broad scope mnd mintute detail, its architectural frandeur and its intinite variety of xxhibits, its scant treasury and its ibundant achievement in all that oonstitutes an Exposition, it is the marvel of the industrial histor-y of our ountry. Even its projectors dreamed not of so great anachievemlent. They builded far better than they knew. but progressed step by step to the com pletion of what is undoubtedly the reatest Exposit ion the South has ever known. and considered from the stand point of money invested and restults econplished, the greatest the world ts ever seen. The proof is easy. Ina Few days this great exponent of induts ria l poress will pass into h istory. the SOME TRADE. FACTS. Proportion of South American Com merce Held by United States. While Trade with Countries on Car ibbean Sea Is Fairly Satisfactory That with Countries Farther South Is Very Poor Indeed The recent departure from Wash ington of the special train carrying the United States and numerous otlier ucegates to the approachinig Pan-Anerican conference to be held at the City of Mexico lends especial interest to some figures on the coin merce of the United States wit-h the territory at the south. which the treasury bureau of ,tati.tics has com piled bor the convenience of the United States members of that con gress. The importance of develop ment of our coninerce in this partic ular dircetion is pointed out by this publication, which shows that our exports have shown less growth to the ccuntries of Central and South America than to any other parts of the wvorld. "The commerce of the United States with the American countries lying south of her borders," says the opening page of this discussion, *has long beta an object of solicitude to her satesmen, econonists and business men. With the English spt.aking peo)ple of American terri tory !ying upon the north her com ierei::l ret:ations have rapidly grown a :d poe u mutually satisfactory. WVithI those of ianother language, oc cwpying the contiguous territory' at the :outh, the growth has been slow er and less satislactory, and as the distanlce increases the growth dez creases. To British North America the I u:t. i Sates supplies 52.per cent. of the toal uniports for consumption; to .exico, equally adjacent, but speaking another language than our - own, 40 per cent.; to the Central American states, next removed by distance, though readily reached by water and now being tapped by rail v~. .; per cenat.; to Colombia, a tritle father removed, but equally as cessible by direct water communica tion. 33 per cent.; to Venezuela, equally accessible, 27 per cent.; to the West Indies, which lie in close proxiniitv. but which have been up. to the present time controlled by commcrcia'l nations whose policy in niauy c::ss has been to retain their coiyuiurci for their own people, 20 -per cent ; to the Guianas, also readi ly reached by water, 25 per cent. of the imports of British Guiana, 17 per ce.::. of those- of Dutch Guiana and but less than 6 per cent. of those of Franch Guiana. "Up to this point the study of the growth of commerce between the United St:tes and other American' couut:X s is fairly satisfactory. Be ginig with 52 per cent. of the im port tr.de of Canada, 40 per -cent. of th::. of Mi-xico, and ranging down ward :::oug the Gulf of Mexico and Caribef: sea, a fairly satisfactory s:eofthe commerce of those coun tries is enjoyed by the people of the Unitrd States; though it will be-con ceded that her people have a right to expect a larger share of the comn merce of the countries -lying so near at ha nd. especially in view of the fact that our purchases from them are inuieh !ar.;er than our sales to them. IEven this somewhat unsatisfactory condition of trade with the countries bordering upon t'he Gulf of Mexico and the. Caribbean sea is, however, gratify'ng when compared with the traille relations of the United States with the countries of'South America bordering -upon the Atlantic and, Pa cific oceans. Of the total imports of all South America, 87 per cent. iiF taken by the countries bordering upon the two oceans, and but 13 per cent. by those upon the Caribbean. On t'he eastern coast of South 'Amer iea we find Brazil importing in 1899 goods to the value of over $105,000,000 of which the United States supplied about 10 per cent.; Uruguay and Par aguay, $26.000,000, of which our share was less than 7 per cent.; and Ar gentine, $112,000,000, of which about 10 per cent. was from the United States; while a tour of the Pacifie coast shows imports into Chili of $38~ 00),000, Peru $8,500,000, Bolivia $11, 600,000 and'- Ecuador $7,000,000;. the proportion from the United States averaging about 10 per cent.. Thus the northern coast of South America, fronting on the Caribbean sea,. im ports goods to the value of S26,000, 600. of which we supply an average of 25 per cent.; the eastern coast, front ing upon the Atlantic, $275,000,000, and the Pacific coast, $80,000,000; of which our proportion is in each case about 10 per cent. Corporations in England. A curious illustration of the power of corporations is reported from England. From time immemorial it has been established law there that bequests made for the propagation of secular or freethinking doctrines were subject to contiscation by the king, and thousands of pounds have been thus confiscated. Recently, however, it occurred to some person to try a new plan. A company known as the Secular society (lim ited) was incorporated for the spe cific purpose of receiving such be quests, and the best English lawyers say that under its charter it can re ceive and use bequests for the very purpose so long held unlawful. A corporation is a strange entity. Has Fortune of Her Own Probably. A titled Englishman is 'going to marry an American girl who has no rich father. She must be really at tractive, remarks the Chicago Re ord-Herald. exhibits will be scattered to the four qarters of the earth, an d the beauti ful buildings removed. Those who have not seen it should not miss the1' pportunity of their lives, those who have, should see it again. It cannot . be seen too often. Remaining weeks re full of special "days," conspicuous among them Odd Fellows Day, May 13; West Indian Day, May 16, and last but not least "Wagener Day," May 22, esignated in honor of the President of tile Company, who b~y his unfaultering ~eal and liberality has given fruition to the plans of his company. Every South Carolina. every man who loves a good patriotic citizen should be on the exposition grounds on "Wagner Day," nd show at least some faint recogni tion of the work one man has done. The railroads have made the lowest ates for "Wagener Day" that has ver been made on any occasion, and al can afford the small expense of attnding- the expositin.