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CHLD LABOR BILL Fully Discussed in the House of Re presentativcs and Passed. SEVERAL GOOD SPEECHES MADE The Bi Goes to Its T h i r t Readina by a Vote or Forty-three lo Fifty-n ine. The child labor bill Wri h special order in the louse for Wednes day. The bill that had paSed th Senate was taken up. Mr. Bomar moved to strike out the ena.ting words. and then -ddressed the house on this motion. Soutb Carolina leads the south in cottor manufacturing and Spartanburg leads the State. In that county alone thi: bill is of importance to 25,000 people The issue was a vital one in the cam paign last summer and the forme: representatives who favored it wer( left at home. Four-fifths of those it favor of this bill are from countie which are not deeply interested it manufacture. Sentiment has beer stirred up by honorable but misguide( people and also by outsiders for rea sons not quite so honorable. He went on to say the bill was not wanted by the operatives or the mills. Mr. Bo mar made a long speech, holding thi floor over one hour. A MANLY SPEECh. Mr. Towill, of Lexington. spoke in favor of the bill. Ile was not whipped into line by labor unions. but favored the bill from a sense of duty. Th children in the cotton mills shoult have an opportunity to fit themselves for citizenship. These children need something in their behalf. There are numbers of men who force their chil morn until after d~g- while they themselves spend their time in debauchery. I1 is not a sickly sentiment which makes people favor this bill, it is a noble sen timent. The philanthropic gentlemer mentioned by Mr. Bomar gave t< colleges and the beneficiaries were no1 cotton mill children. Fathers and mothers are responsible for their chil dren, but it is a duty incumbent upor the State to look after the moral wel fare of the children. Mr. Towill did not speak long, but presented a ver manly plea for the bill. Ie is proud of the progress of South Carolina anc would do nothing to interfere witt material advancement, but he fell called upon to speak for the uplifting of the citizenship of South C-Qarlin 0%o~,_ AOTHF SPEECH. of Orangeburg favored the bill and sp~oke in reply t< Mr. Bomar. The bill is not drastic it is not oppressive, it is mild it tone and yet will till a long-neede< want. Southi"arolina has not alway: been such a manufacturing State, an< her progress is a mattr of pride. In reply to Mr. IBomar he said tha perhaps some of the people .who ar interested don't want this legislatioi any more than some of the peopl don't want the bill to stop treating o: election days.: In the language of Mx Story, "the people of the Unite< States must be protected from th people of the United States." Thi. question not only affects the mu owners and the mill operatives, bu it affects society and ~ society mus protect itself. He was glad. to hea that Spartanburg county was doing s 'well. Spartanburg might not neel this legislation, but would not be in jured by it. So far as he knows ther had been no objection made to thi bill in the ccmmittee room, wheaea in years past mill men had come her and the journals had been filled wit! petitions against the bill. On no ac count would he injure the mills, bu if these mill men thought this wouli hurt them they would be here fight ing it This bill has two worthy ob jects-to force the children from th< mills and to get them into the schools The children will govern the affairs o this State when we are gone. Col Herbert declared that the very fac that some of the mill presidents mak this rule excluding children under 12 shows that the rule is sasisfactory. I the other mills will not make thi: rule, why should not the State maka it for them. The most progressivl nations of the world have enacte< laws on this subject, then why shoulh not South Carolina? There is a gener al demand all over South Carolina fo: just such a law as this. He ther quoted from the messages of Gover nors McSweeney and Heyward. Col. Berbert went on to say tha1 State Democratic convention hac passed resolutions recording its appro val of this bill. The people of the entire State are interested. The agri cultural people are as much so as tht factory people. The legislature mus1 look to the good of the people and it4 in duty bound to legislate for them. IT IS NEOT AN EXPERDIENT. The next speaker to defend the bil was Mr. Lewis W. Haskell of Colum bia. He declared that the pending question had been thoroughly thresh ed over, yet it is of paramount impor tance and he wanted to call attentiot to some reasons why it should pass. In the first place, this matter of en acting child labor legislation is nol *empirical or tentative-we are not ex perimenting; we are acting in thn light of the best experience of mos1 of the manufacturing State-and ir line with the most enlightened foreigt cot'ntries. "I, therefore submit," he said, "that we do not approach the issue in the attitude of exploiters but that we simply meet a conditior in our State that has arisen by virtut of our development as a manufactur ing State. We have abundant evidenct of the efficacy of child labor lawvs it the northern, middle and southerr States-we have precedents for enact ing this law entitled to the highest consideration-we are not seekingr solution, but simply applying a reme dy which has commanded itself tc nearly all manufacturing communties. The question is not a scholastic one, but a practical one-a condition not r theory confronts us. Mr. Haskell continued: "It is trite to say-a truism-that little children should have fresh air and suushine that they should romp and play in the open air--will physicians or others gainsay this?' It sounds trivial te to state it. Accumulation of wealth through our great manufacturinugin dustries is a great desideratum-but a greater desideratum is the balding uip of a robust womanhood and man~ hood in this State. Therefore. Mr'. -Speaker, let us carry out the spirit Oi the resolution passed by the Demoera tic convention in Nay and place th;5 ELoQUEN~T YOUNG sPEAEER. The last speaker Wednesday was M r. Blackwood of Spartanburg, who: opposed the bill. This would be a step of legislation downwards. It is dangerous. Not that it affects capital. not that it afeets the little child ren. But it is a question that strikes at South C.arolina as a State. We are touching the freediom of heart, the free.:o of mind. the freedom of soul. it ji, gn to t htearthston e Of these pee wo a.reo-.v happy and pros . , 1 ,s going into the homes of i-se peop whose condition legisla Lion cannt hopt to mend. These lare ow mn better condition 0' .. vrefoirhey have good -w thy have plenty to eat, they haVe lurniture in their houses ani picture. 0n the walls. they have the oportuity to converse with intelli Igent people and the advantages of i schools and churches. The bill ex cepts so many classes of people that it would apply vto but 20 per cent. of the mill people any way. then why should it be made a law. Mr. Blackwood !spoke with much eloquence and feel ing of the conditions in the mill com munities of Spartanburg. When he had concluded, the house agreed to postpone further consideration until Thursday night at eight (,'clock. when the argument was resumed. The hall of the house of representa tives was crowded with spectators. many of them being laides, who took a lively interest in the debate. At 10.15 Mr. Rankin moved to adjourn I as there were several gentlemen to speak and a vote could hardly be reached at UiaL session. Those who spoke in iavjr of the bill Thursday night wcre Messrs. Carey of Charles ton. Ba:ron of Rock Hill, McMaster of Columbia. and Mr. Gaston or Ches ter. The bill was opposed by Mr. Morgan of Greenville and Mr. Fraser of Sumter. The debate was then adjourned to Friday night. when the bill was taken up, further discussed and passed to a third reading by a vote of 43 to 59. . The following is the detailed vote on the motion to strike out the enact ing- words of the bill: Yeas-Bailey, Bass, Bates, Black wood, Bomar, Brown, Bunch, Colcock, Cooper. DeBruhl, Donald, Dorroh, Doyle. Edwards, Hendrix, Hinton, James, Kirby, Lancaster, Leaverett, Little. Lyles. Mahaffey, Mauldin; Middleton, Morgan, Pearman, Potts, Pvatt, Rantin, Ready, Richardson, Ruassell, Surratt, Stackhouse, Stuckey, Traylor, Tribble, Williams, Wingard, Wingro, Wright-43. Nays-Aull, Baker, Barron, Beam guard, Bennett, Black, Brooks, Calli son, Carey, Clifton, Culler, Davis,Des Champs, Devore. Doar, Dowling, Ford. Gaston. Gause, Glover, Gourdin, Haile, Ilarellson. Haskell, Herbert, Hill, Holman, Humphrey, Irby, Jar-% negan, Kelley, King, Laney, Iesesne .ide,Lfton.,Logaz. cIeCanii, Magill Moses, Moss, Nichols, Parnell, Pol lock, Quick, Rainsford, Raw linson Sinkler, Jeremiah Smith, W. C. Smith Strong, Tatum, Thomas, Toole, 'low ill. Wall, Webb, Whaley, Wise--59. ia Life for a Lile. In his letter printed several days ago on the subject of the crime of murder in South Carolina, Mr. W. D. Woods states certain facts which ca~n not be disputed, and which it is as well to group together for the con sideration of the people whom they so deeply concern. The News and Courier Ihas grouped some of these facts in a co.ncise manner in the articles which follows below, and we hope every read er of this paper will ponder them. SThe number of murders that have rbeen committed in the State in the )past twenty-five years, he remarks, is "simply appalling," and no one. cer -tainlyr, will deny that it is so. The Sghastly list of victims of the crime Swould make a booim of considerable size. "A very large proportion" of the murderers, it is added, "have escaped punishment and today are at large when they ought-had justice been meted ont to them-to have ended their own lives on the gallows, or be life convicts in the Peniten tiary." This is also true. The "proportion" of those who have been punished is very small and includes very few white murderers: "If a poor and friendless negro com mits murder he is punished, and just ly, but the influential white man who commits a similar ofrence has only to go through the form of a trial." This cannot be gainsaid. The fact to sup port it are within the knowledge of every man in the State. The condi tion is the subject of common remark. Many negroes have been punithed for the crime. Who can name three white men who have been punished for it i10 the past twenty-five years. except in so far as the expenses of their acquittal are to be reckoned as 1a punishment? "In South Carolina a man's proper ty is just as. safe as it is in any other State or country, but his life is prac tically at the mercy of any armed ruftlan who chooses to take it in re vernge for some imaginary affront. Things have reached such a pass in this State that a man can. provided. he has innluence and friends, with much greater impunity from punish ment take the life of his neighbor thain to be guilty of some small misde meanor like the violation of the dis pensary law." Is not this true? It is freely as serted in private conversation, and passes unchallenged for truth there. It is as true in cold print. They only qualitication that is required, we be lieve. is in respect to the term "armed rufflan." Armed gentleman will do as weF1. Our murderers are seldom ranked as rutlians. Possibly they wuld not escape punishment so readi ly if they were. "Bu~t some one may say that, grant all this to be true, why should we ad vertise it to the world? Unfortu nately it needs no advertisement, for jit has already advertised itself very much to the detriment of the good name of the State." This point is also well taken. The facts are as well known abroad as at home. We have nothing to gain by ignoring them. Possibly wye may gain something by stating them plainly and facing them squarely. And this brings us to the helpful suggestions in Mr. Wood's letter. The law should not only be just enough tr> protect the humblest citizen, but also strong enough to punish the most promient individual who violates its mandates. fact that while Senator Tillman i wa"in adgiedand forceful and., iseems, effective light on the conir1 matian cf Dr. Crum as collector of theC < Tort f C harleston, The Evening Post of tha city seizes every opportunity1 todde and abuse the senator andj4 hold him~ up to scorn and contumely. thus imped ng to the extent Of its ability the work he is trying to do for LIFE IS CHEAP. rather and Son Shot Down in Flor-. enee County in RESENCE OF WIFE AND MOTHER rhe Murderer Then Snapped t 1w Pistol in the Face of a Defence . less Woman, and Makes His Escape William King shot and killed Sam iel Rogers and mortally wouAnded lames Rogers. father of Samuel Rog rs. about seven miles from Florence >n the plantation of Alonzo Ilewilt ate Saturday evening. From the vidence at the coroner's inquest as ublished in The State the following .tory of the killing is obtained: Mrs. ewitt, who was an eye witness and in whose yard the shooting occurred, said: "I was at home when 31r. Rogers :ame up in front of the house in the road. 'Mrs. Rogers was with him. Samuel Rogers his son, had just come rom Florence and was about to turn is mule loose in the lot. About this ime MIr. King came up and spoke to Nr. Rogers. Mr. King asked Mr. Rogers about a dog. Mr. Rogers told im that the dog was down at the ouse and that he could get him if he would go with him. Mr. Rogers told Nr. King that as he was a poor man e would appreciate it if he would ive him a little something for ,he re of the dog, as he had kept him or some time, not knowing whose og it was. Mr. King replied: 'Yes, I will pay ou for keeping my dog and will pay in lead and I will give it to you now.' Re then drew a pistol and tired at Mr. Rogers. Just as he fired young Rogers ;aid to King: 'If you shoot papa you will have to shoot me.' King quickly urned and pointing his pistol at oung Rogers, fired. Young Roge.-s fell on his knees and then to the round, King then turned towards Ild man Rogers and opened tire again n him, shooting him three more times. I saw Mr. Rogers fall to the ;round. Mrs. Rogers then ran up and aid to Mr. King: 'You have killed my baby.' Mrs. Hewitt then said to her: 'Yes, and he has killeQ your old man.' King then turned with bis pistol still smoking. and said to Mrs. Rogers: 'Yes, and by God, I will kill the whole d-d family.' As he said o he shoved the pistol in Mrs. Rug estface, and, pointing it at her head, napped it once or twice. Had there >een more cartridges in the gun he would have wiped out the entire fami ly, as he had stated, for there were mnly three-father, wife and son." The Rogers family lived several hndred yar~ds from Alonzo Hewitt in logcabin wvith one room. They were oor people but hard working and hon est. The story as told by Mrs. Rog ers is practically the same as told by Mr:. Hewitt. Mr. Rogers also made statement w'hich corroborates that f Mrs. Hewitt and Mrs. Rogers in every particular except that Mr. Rog ers stated that the dog in question aad taken up at his (Rogers') house. He did not know whose dog it was un til in Florence Saturday when a man asked him if he had a setter bitch at is house. He told him that he had one there that took up there but did ot know whose dog it was. The man, wno, as he afterwards found out. was William King, who shot him and his Mr. Rogers said further: "King told me in Florence he would give me a little something for caring for the nog. That was all that was said. ave never had any trouble or words with King, and never knew him until Saturday. Never had any words with King before or during the shooting. There was no one present but my son, M~rs. Hewitt and my wife, but I be ieve that Mr. Thomas Hewitt came p with the man King and after the flrst shot he begged King not to shoot." Young Rogers was shot only ne time and died within ten minutes fter he was shot. The bullet took effect in the stomach and ranged downward. Old man Rogers was shot four times, the first two shots disabl ed both arms and the last two entered the body, and his life blood is slowly ebbing away. Hie was reported to be ying late this afternoon. It seems, too, that there is another part of the story of the shooting. King id leave a message for the sheriff with his wife saying that he did not ean to be taken and did not want to ie in jail, so that he had left the state. He said further that if he was ure that the witnesses would tell the truth that he would not mind coming o Florence and giving himself up, ut he would not risk it. It is also aid that all parties had been drink ng and that when King and Tom Hewitt drove up the Rogers were raising a ro~v and it is said that King ~laims that they both came on him with knives and that he shot in self iefense. There is also a pitchfork ;poken of, and there are witnesses for the defense as well as for the prosecu tion. Both sides, as nearly as can be ;athered, are presented to the reader. It Is Enrorced. A well known lawyer of Spartan urg has furnished to the newspapers )f that town the following statement: 'In 1894 an act was passed by the egislature of South Carolina to pro ide for the teaching of physiology nd hygiene in the public schools of south Carolina, with particular refer ce to the effect of alcoholic drinks nd narcotics ul~n- the human sys ,em. it is made the duty of the pro er offcers in control of any school ;upported wholly or in part by public noney to enforce the provisions of his act. It was further provided that .y such officer, school director, com-1 nittee, superintendent or teacher rho should refuse or neglect to carry )ut the provisions of the act should be: removed from office. If I am correct-!5 y informed this act has never been: ,arried into effect and has remained a; lead letter upon our statute books. Jpon whom the blame rests I cannot< ay, but it is evident that some onei as been derelict, and if the plain rovisions of the act were carried out naany removals o' school officials woald ake place. This act has never been< ~epealed so far as I can find out from ,somewat careful examination of he statutes and of the constitution H f South Carolina, and it remains to< eC seen what our new superintendent f education will do in the premises." Yhat this lawyer says may be true as o Spartanburg and Spartanburg1 ount, but it is not true as to Or-' nngeburg anc Oran'geburg County,1 ?hysiology and . hygiene is taught in ur city and country schools as re EXTENDING THE Ti1mIES bat KilIed inu the lou-. In the State Senziate last Tuesday week the lirst moattcrs that came up that provoked any discussion was M1r. T Ilydrick's joiuit resolution to extend .he time for the payment of taxes without penalty until March :11. 19W3. Mr. Brice moved to indelinitely post pone the measure. In support of his motion he said the treasurers and au hitors are complying with the law and :ollecting the overdue taxes with the penalty attached and there is neither necessity or excnse for this extension. Messrs. llerndon and Ulake agreed vith 31r. Brice. I Mr. Ilydrick iupported his resolu-T ion and said that the demand had h :ome to him from the treasurers ana p uditors all over the State ecupled cl with the statements that it was im possible to write up the books from month to month and the necessity existed for the relief olfered by his joint resolution. X Mr. Sheppard was the last speaker. $ Ele said that the reasons already given t( were abundant to convince the senate e, f the necessity for the extension, and t( further than all the.e he believed tl there were hundreds of people who g had not paid taxes simply because t1 they did not have the money nor could ft they until arrangements had been it made for the present year. p He had ascertained from the county ,N treasurer at Edgetield that all those e, who were able had paid their taxes c( mnd only those who really did not have the money, just now were the ft delinquents. He did not take any C stock in these statements that any si iarm could come either to the State st r the counties and believed that it wv was the duty of the general assembly p; o extend any kindness possibie for v; the amelioration of the condition of he masses of the people. He demand- u d the yeas and nays on "Mr. Brice's a motion to indefinitely postpone the o0 joint resolution to extend the time n for the payment of taxes without p penalty until March 31. 1903. fhe o vote resulted as follows: a Yeas-Blake, Brice, Brown, Doug- al lass, Herndon, Hood. llough, Stack- n: ouse-8. u Nays-Aldrich, Butler, Carpenter, t Davis, Dennis, Goodwin, Ilardin, Hy- u rick, Johnson, Manning. Marshall, McCall, McIver, McLeod, Mower, si eurifoy, Ragsdale, G. W.. Raysor. b Sharpe, Sheppard, Stanland, von t] Kolnitz, Walker. Williams-24. 1 KILLED IN TIIE HOUSE. ti When the matter came up in the u House it was discussed and killed. u Mr. Banks, of Newberry, saw no t use to extend the time for paying S axes. It is a thing that has to be ti done and there is no reason to extend e< the tine for paying taxes. There tl must be an end to this thing. t Mr. Tatum explained that the raduated penalty bill was passed for tl he specific reason of killing these a anual time extensions.t Mr. Welcome Quick opposed the t bill. He saw no reason for the exten- a ion of time for paying taxes. Mr. Moses said to pass this bill will ti e to give notice that taxes are not t required until Maich. Cant. .1 . H. Brooks favored the tax r xtension.a The bill was killed and the House V refused to extend the time~ for pay ing taxes. An Honest Mlan. The Greenwood Journal says: "It i was Pope, we believe, who said 'An ii honest man is the noblest work of v God.' We quite agree with him. ti Sometimes one is led to doubt if there are many honest men when he sees how ti very indifferent many people are about tv paying their just debts especially st when it is a subscription to a newspa- g per. They will make the finest kind ti f promises to secure credit. and when fi it is given them they become perfect y callous and indifferent. We con fess that the man who will not pay what he owes is an abomination in a our-sight But we started1 out to say S hat we found an honest man in Green- S wood one day last week. We do not p say that there are not others but we c found one. We have always thought ti well of him, but every time we see t1 him from this time on we shall feel tl 1ik lifting our hat. The circum- ta tances are these: IIe was a subscriber o to a county newspaper before moving g o Greedwood. and when h6 left his o ome he neglected to notify the pub- f usher that his address had been p hanged, and the paper continued to s< o on and was taken out of the onfice t< nd read by some of his people. The p aforesaid publisher wrote and asked n s as a favor, to -ind out if this gen- st tleman lived in Greenwood and if so tl to see if he would pay the account 10 which amounted to *15 for subscrip- it tion. As soon as we mentioned it he is said 'Yes. I owe it and I will pay it in ti afew days. Please write and tell c: our friend for me that it is all right. ci t was carelessness on my part. 1 e1 should have had the paper stopped or n sent to me here but I failed to do so. it e is not to blame however, and I le will pay it.' Alas: Alas! that the al rld was full of such men. This al gentleman lives in Greenwood and ti he is a subscriber to the .JournaL~ It nr is an honor to number such a man as li this among one's subscribers. We ,ni ope that we have others like him on ol ur list, but we have not put them to Iu: the test. We think every newspa- ise per in the State ought to note the w [act that in Greenwood S. C., a city famous for many good things there ives a perfectly honest man 'The aoblest work of God.' We doubt if s ope ever saw his equal." We com end the example of this honest man to some dishonest men in this county d< ho make it a business to beat peo ple out of all they can. y si Sick Cattle Killed. Dr. D. E. Salmon. chief of the W ureau of animal industry, who su- ni erintended the tight against the foot nd mouth epidemic. says that about* ,00 animals have already been is ;laughtered in Massachusetts, Rhode [sland, Vermont and New Ilampshire. nd that the indemnity of thme govern- of nent has paid the owners aggregateS tv ver $100,000. Dr. Salmon said that nc mniess new cases should develop it is )robable that most of the quarantine ~estrictions now existing will hav'el een removed in about sixty or ninety lays. Not a single case of the disease as been reported from any point out ide of New England. although a r' ~eneral spread was feared at the in :eptionl of the epidmie. lil THE fact that human life in S0 uth arolina is tooJ cheap is further em ,hasized this wveek by two murders in *vbich three white men were killed y two other white men. The thing 'ill never be stopped until it becomes 1th ashionable to hang white me,.a form me crime we hang negroes for. 0 SETTLING CLAIMS. r. Ganit is Back from Washington anl is Encouraged At HE PROSPECT OF ADJUSTMENT )VeIrnme1!t Willing. to Wipe Out All Rs Clainia on EdvenT Babis. llut Interest is Wanted. The State says Secretary of Statt artt returned from Washingtor biursday afternoon, and expresse! imself as very much gratified at th< ospect of an early settlement of thE aims of South Carolina against th< nited States. growing out of thi ar of 1812-15. The United States government ad its an indebte-dness to the State o ,.028,02 on July 19, 1832, with in rest at 0 per centum thereon. How er. they require. before allowing in rest, that the State must show at she either paid interest on reater amount, or lost interest b3 ic transfer of other securities, be re interest will be allowed her, anc was to present to the departmen roof of this fact that necessitate r. Gantt's visit to the capital. Thi: adence Mr. Gantt filed with thi >mptroller of the treasury. The United States holds as trustei >r the Indian fund $325,000 of Souti arolina 1; per cent. bonds, of the is ic of 1859, for the erection of thi ate house and in any settlemen hich is effected, these bonds must b id by the State at their full forc lue. Mr. Gantt says: "Owing to thi ntiring work of Senator Tillman, an( a result, of ceaseless personal effor , his part, the treasury departmen 3w offers a settlement which wil ractically square accounts, but thi Ter Senator Tillman refuses, and i ppealing from the decision of thi aditor of the war department, de anding that South Carolina be paii pon the same basis with which a set ement was effected with Virginia nder like circumstances. "This basis is the computation o mple interest at 6 rer cent. upoi ath accounts until the maturity o le bonds held by the government ii S81. and interest at 6 per cent. upoi ie balance due the State ($52,000 ntil the day of payment. The treas ry department proposes the compu tion of interest on buth accounts a mple 6 per cent. interest to an arbi ary date at which both would b aual. As the original principal o 2e State was smaller, a computatio ) 1899 would effect this result. "South Carolina is thus assured . e payment of enough of her claim ainst the United States to sett] ese vexatious outstanding bonds inder the act of 1893 they were fund be at 50 cents on the dollar, ani -ith accrued interest to date consti Lte over 6125,000 of valid and admit ad bonded debts against the State 'he United States government ha peatedly declined this settlement nd demanded instead full face value zith interest." Senator Tillman, Mr. Gantt says as been rendered valuable help b rr. Baker, of Abbeville,. who is ea loed in the senate library at Wash g~ton, who has collected the evidene 1 the departments at Washingto: hich was of such great importanc >the State in making out her case. If Senator Tillman succeeds in es iblishing his basis of calculation c e interest, South Carolina wouli ~cure over $100,000 in cash from thi eneral government, in addition t ae settlement of these Indian trus ad bonds. A Good ldea'to Teach. The Columtia Record says that wa most excellent idea advanced b, enator McLeod, of Lee county aturday in his remarks on the to istl bill. In arguing for the passag f the bill, he declared that it wa me to teach children that pistols ar Lngs to be let alone, and he addel Lat it was but a brief step from th y pistol to the weapon more danger us to the public at large. Therei cod, sound philosophy at the botton f this idea, it is-mne that has thi uture in view, and it is full o ssibilities. We do not despair o reing the present generation brough 3the realization of the awful evil o istl carrying, for already we hayi oticed a tendency to a revolution o mtiment on this question outside o e newspapers. which, to their ever Lsting credit, are, a unit in condemn ig the pernicious practice. But if i impossible to turn from the :vil 0 leir way those who now habituall, irry concealed weapons, the custon in be wholly eradicated if a genera Tort is made to engraft into the iinds of tihe rising generatien th< lea that a pistol is s'omething to be :t alone, and if kept at all. onl: bnt one's premises as a prol~ectiot ainst burglars or other unlawful in -uders. Parents Out to mould thi iinds of their children along tbi: ne teachers in schools out to lost Sopportunity to bring out the evil: the practice and, above all, all o a should practice what we preach an< t the rising generation an exampi hich it is hoped they will follow. Reflections or a Bachelor. Seeking equality with man, woma' nks to his level. To keep their respect, whip a curl. g, but kick a flatterer. A woman knows you love her wihe] u deny that a woman whose rivalr2 i fears is goodlooking. It is a good deal easire to make:i oman think you love her than t< ake her understand y~ou don't. It takes a women to kiss a chiki id look in a man's eyes while sht doing it as if she were kissing him. A twenty-five dollar night-gown it e dollar's worth of night-gown anc enty-four dollars' worth of fussi Women will never lose their femi. ne attributes as long as there is rge supply of looking glasses in the No woman ever loved a man enlough >t to pretend to somebcdy that she is not SO sure about it as she wvould ce to be. A man can be happy with a tooth ush and a pipe: his unhappiness be us when hec addrs a valet and an au mobile. Some men have such a way withi em that when they borrow yonur aney they make you think -they are Pointed Paragraphs. Some love letters are too soft to file. Only the sympathetic are entitled to sympathy. S9hort-sigbted people are naturally close observers. It cost more to support one vice I than ten virtues. A man usually blows in a lot of mioney Onl aI blowout. Some people are in mighty poor company whcn alone. The better a man gets along in the world the hetter'oti he is. Stir up a man's wrath if you want his candid opinion of vou. Marriages add either to a man's happiness or to his misery. When the average man tells a lie he is in a hurry to prove it. If a man has neither friends nor enemies he has lived in vain. With the exception of ballot girls. chronie kickers are a nuisance. ontieur photographers are willing to uke anything except advice. If you would retain your friends don't rcmind them of their faults. Crank neu.Jns are all right if they can be tu:'ied to good advantage. Tt is a wise woman who can smile at a corpliment and then forget. One enemy may do more damage than a hundred friends can repair. A red niose may be due to the rays of the sun or to the raise of the glass. In some business transactions the middleman soon becomes the head man. Many a woman bends a man's will during life and breaks it after his death. Next to having wisdom yourself is the ability to protit by the wisdom of others. Next to a good temper the most cheerful thing in a family is a bank balance. No one is liable to discover that a I rich man is a fool until after e loses his money. t Leave your worries at home when I you travel. You can get a fruzh sup s ply anywhere. It is a mean man who will throw up a New Year's resolution to another at this late day. It seems queer that so many crook ed people find themselves in straight Sened circumstances. f It is generally understood that a man dislikes a slippery pavemerit f when he is down on it. I When a young man wants to get rid of his best girl he should take her skating and let her slide. Although some people are contin ually changing their minds they seem unable to get a decent one. Perhaps the worst thing about rheumatism is the apparent necessity of listening to everybody's cure for it. - When two men ket together each talks about hims-f; when two women meet they both talk about some other ewoman.__________ Killed by Mfistake. -Captain George H. Colby, the Bos iton and Maine station agent at Plym -outh, N. H., was shot and killed by mistake by Policeman Lewis C. Mills, early Thursday. The station had been 5robbed during the night and Captain Colby, with others, had started on a locomotive in pursuit of the thieves. Policeman Mills, who was also search ,ing for the robbers, came upon Colby ystanding on the railroad track. Each mistook the other for one of the -thieves. Mills fired. Colby received etwo bullets in his body and died shortly afterwards. WILL INJURE THE PARTY.-The Monroe, N. C., Enquirer of last week fmade use of the following manly Sutterance in its editorial columns: e"The liquor men have raised the cry that any temperance legislation will injure the Democratic party. Let it hurt, if passing laws restricting the liquor evil in this State will hurt the Democrtic party. It is down right funny to hear some of the hired attor neys of the liquor makers and dealers ,talk about the ruination of the Demo tic party if any stingent liquor law is passed. If the Democratic party has stood it to have these fellows, who are prophesying its downfall in i-: all these years, it is thought enough to stand anytbing. If the Democratic -party depends upon the liquor men for existence, then it has existed long enough."_________ SSPECIAL TAX ON SODA WATER. Further information in regard to the new rule requiring soda fountains to pay a special tax for selling claret phosphate, catawba, etc.' is being sent out by Commissioner of internal Revenue J. W. Yerks in the form of a letter to the various revenue collec tors. The letter states that the pur pose of the new ruling is only to dis countenance and prohibit the sale of distilled spirits, wines or compounds thereof, in combination with soda water, ginger ale or other like bever ages of a similar character by drug gists and others without the pay ment of a special tax. ST. VALENTiNE'S DAY.-The -cus tom of sending letters containing pro fession of love, or missives of senti mental comic or burlesque character on St. Valentine's day, which this year occurs on Saturday, Feiruary 14, will be profusely observed by the fyoung people judging from the num ber of valentines that are being handl ed by local dealers. The origin of St. Valentine's day is attributed to a very old notion, alluded to by Shake speare, that on this day birds begin to mate. Hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending love tokens at this time. __________ TIlE ToWN KILLER.-The people who send to New York for merchan dise always do so because some New York merchant has reached them by advertising, says the Croney. of Cor pus Cristi, Tex. It is not right to abuse a purchaser for buying from any merchant who has what he wants and has told him about it. Such a pur chaser is not a "town-killer." The genuine "town-killer" is that stupid sort of alleged business man whose inane conceit is that, "Everybody knows me and what I've got." TUlE rnews that cotton to the value of S10,000,000 wvas destroyed by the boll weevil in a small section of Texas last year, is alarming. It is indeed to be hoped that the Southern repre sentatives in congress will secure an apprpriation of sufficient size to wipe out this pest before it shall have spread over the entire cotton belt of the South. Women are so naturally deccitful that they can fool themselves into thinking that they have good figures when they arc like a sack of flour. The man who has friends -is'~the man who knows when not to see, Ithough lie has eyes, and when not to hear, though he has ears. A TRAGEDY Ix~ COLLETON. Henry W. Blitch Killed by Magis trate Behlina at Meggetts. Henry W. Blitch. a prominent truck I farmer,of Meggett's, Colleton County, a was shot and instantly killed by Mag- f istrate Behiinig Friday afternoon. v BehliDh used a shot gun. Ile tired twice and Mr. Blitch was instantly killed. His body was brought to the; city Saturday morning and will be I shipped to Mcl3eth's Sunday for inter- t ment, the funeral services having I been held at 15 Chapel street Satur day afternoon. After the shooting; < Maistrate Behling went to Walter boro and surrendered to the sheriff. No report of the trouble has been sent < by the correspondents in Walterboro s and consequently it was not known p he e Saturday just what verdict was I returned by the coroner's jury. From the meagre particuiars gath ered here it seems that Blitch and < Behling have not been on the best of t terms. There was a dispute abyut I the lease of certain lands and it is < said that this was the direct cause of 1 the shooting. According to a state- 4 ment given a Reporter for The Sun- I day News-Saturday night by Mr. J. 1f M. Coiey, in whose house the funeral e services of Mr. litch were held. the magistrate warned Mr. Bitch Friday morning not to return to the planta tion, where he had been working. Blitch was there in the afternoon f when Behliig rode up, carrying a < shotgun on his shoulder. Mr. Coley I said that Mr. Blitch had a gun, l.ut I did not have a chance to use it. the h magistrate being qu'cer with his b weapon. Both barrels were discharg- 1 (d. the loads taking effect in Bliten - heart. killing him almost instantly. b Mr. Coley said that the men had dis- r agreed about land transactions, and c that a law. suit had kindled the bad 5 feeling between them. Mr. Blitcii was 31 years of age. Ile wa-; married and lef- a wife and one child. Ile was formerly employed a. a telegraph operator by the Atlantic Coast Line and livei in Charl' s'on t wl.ile serving in tnat capacity. ie also worked for bis brother, Mr. Nor man H. Blitch, but left him to en gage in truck farming near Meggett's. t Magistrate Bebling is about 40 years of age. He has served at Meggett's for some time as magistrate, and had driven out about a mile and a half from the station to his farm, which t had beeir leased by Mr. Blitch, when the trouble took place. The affair 1 has caused genuine regret, owing to 0 the prominence of the families con cerned in their section.--News and b Courier. SWEPT BY TIDAL WAVE. t The Loss of Life ig Estimated at One S Thousand Personb. News of a fearful loss of life in a a destructive storm which swept over 3 the South Sea islands last month, f reached San Francisco. on Sunday by i the steamer Mariposa direct from Tahiti. The loss of life is estimated at 1,000 persons. On January 13 last a huge tidal wave, accompanied by a e terrible hurricane, attacked the 80o- 1 ciety islands and the Puanmoto group 5 with fearful force, causing deatn and i devastation never before equalled in a land of dreaded storms.c The storm raged several days, a reaching its maximum strength be tween January 14 and January 16. f From the meagre news received at Tahiti up to the time of the sailing of t the Mariposa it is estimated that E 1,000 of the islanders lost their lives. It is feared that later advices will in- e crease this number. The tirst news of t the disaster reached P'apeete, Tahiti January 26, by the scnooner Eimeo. e The captain of the schooner placed the fatalities at 500. Tne steamer Excelsior arrived at Papeete the following day with 400 e destitute survivors. The captain of , the Excelsior estimated the total loss t of life to be 800. These ligures com prised only the deaths on the three is lands of H~ao, ilikuera and Makokaa, whose ordinary population is 1,800, t On Hikuera Island, where 1,000 in- I habitants were engaged in pearl div- c ing, nearly _one-half were drowned. 't On an adjacent island 100 more were C washed out to sea: MakoItaa and [Hao s are depopulated. Conservative esti- r mates at Tahiti place the number of a islands visited by the tidal wave and t hurricane at 80. All of them were e under the control of the Fiench gov- 8 ernor at Tahiti. The surviving in- l habitants are left destitute of food, a shelter and clothing, all having been a swept away by the storm. Brain Leaks. When faith leaves fear enters in. * The praying Christian is never in doubt. A smile in the home is worth two ~ at the ohlice. By the ladder of hope men climb to g higher things. A weak faith is a poor foundation for a high hope. A written word may be erased, a d spoken word never. The loudest prayer usually reaches tie shortest distance. Some men become lost by undertak ing a short cut to duty. No mnan-s heart is big enough to harbor both love and greed. When fencing evil out of the heart be careful te fence the goo.i in. People who mind their own busi ness ind it an ever increasing duty. Quite a lot of people are rude when they think they ar Aunt and straight- ~ forward.. Attacking error with a feather is as unsatisfactory as eating bean soup with a fork. A widow's tear in the scales will outweigh any donation wrung from 'p the people's needs. The world judges us by what we ac complish; God judges us by what we strive earnestly to do-.c A lot of people are so conscientious that they never let their left hand know that their right hand does noth- is A whole lot of people love to sing "Rock of ages cleft for me" if they el can enjoy a softly cushioned pew o' while doing so. 0] If some men would put more princi- se pe into politics they would not talk so dl much about the small interest they at have in it.- Will M. Maupin in Thei Commoner. TlE Savannah Press says: "The ot Democratic party has found it uphill work ever since it dropped Mr. Cleve land." That is true. but it is easily ar aounted for. The party was so bad- i yy defeated in the middle of Cleve-| lad's last term as President that it Ifa was buried out of sight and it has i to been trying to climb out of the hole| in which he put it ever since. which|I Df- core isti hil work. 10M HER FRENCH A FAILUR , 'he Trgedvy of a Dlacktac 0e0 In the Latin Qartor. She was spending her fist month ii. ie Latin quarter of Paris. She spoke :nglish fluently, writh a Boston accent; Iso she spoke German, could make a iir stagger at Italian and knew a few rerds of Hindoostanee, but of French ot a syllable. One morning she found herself in a rrestling match with a bottle of 'rench shoe blacking. The pesky bot le, understanding that it had to deal rith an alien, refused to give -up its ork. She had no corkscrew of her - wn and did not know how to ask for ne, even if she dared suspect that her' ext door neighbor might be possessed f the luxury. The tine of her pet fork he had bent on the obstinate plug. the oint of her best penknife she had bro :en off short, and nothing remained *cept to throw the bottle out of a rindow to get at its contents. She de ided as a last resort to try breaking he neck off the bottle. With a "stove id lifter" she administered several autions taps in the region of the jugu a.r of the obstinate neck. "'Nothin' oin'." Then she tapped harder still, ud the blacking came. All over her ngers it came, all over her light wool n skirt and over much of the floor and indow sill. She decided to have the skirt cleaned nd. packing it into a bundle, tripped f to an establishment where she ound embarrassment because she ould not understand questions. Final e she got the drift of the cobversation. 'he cleaners wanted to know what ad caused the spot. Fortunately a ottle of shoe blacking was standing ear by. and she pointed at this and ould" and "ould" antil she left in .eightened spirits, feeling that she: was ot helpless and that she had made the leaners understand. When the. skirt ras duly returned the followin; week. was dyed black.-New York Tribiunie. ANIMAL ODDITIEG. Breton sheep are not much larger xan a fair sized hare. The mandarin duck Is one of the most eautiful of aquatic birds. The queen is always at the mercy of de bees and is a slave instead of a-. aler. A beetle one-third the size of a horse rould be able to pull against more ban a dozen horses. The greyhound, which can cover a ile in a minute and twenty-eight see nds, is the fastest of quadrupeds. The giraffe, armadillo and porcupine are no vocal cords and are therefore iute. Whales and serpents are also. oiceless. The glowworm lays eggs which are bemselves luminous. However, the oung hatched from them are not pos essed of those peculiar properdes until fter the first transformatlon. To escape from dangers which men ce them starfishes commit suicide. his instinct of self destruction Is ound only in the highest and lowest cales of animal life. Hebridean Proverbs. The daily talk of the Hebrideans has' shrewd picturesqueness. "Let the an go laughing home," they say. 'hat is. "Be careful of. whatever you ave borrowed." If a person were to be met coldly n going to a friend's house, he would "The shore is the same, but the shell.-. sh is not the same." The impossible is- den'oted by "black erries in midwinter and sea gulls' ggs in autumn." "Better thin kneading than to be mpty." That is, "Half a loaf is better ban i no bread." - "The man who is idle will put the ats on the fire." "He that does not look before him: ill look behind him." - "A house without a dog, without a - at, without a little child, is a house ithout pleasure and without laug Homes In Italy. Speaking of homes and ways of 11i' ig, Mr. Luigi Villarl In "Italian Life D Town and Country" reveals a cu us state of affairs. In Italian cities ere are no slum districts. The poor st of the poor may be lodged in the ie palace with people whose income ns over $25.000 annually. The poor re packed away in the garrets or in 2e cellars, to be sure, and their mis ry must be rendered all the more cute by the sight and scenfor such vish living. High class Italians have o objections whatever to dwelling over shop or place of business. Forgot Himself. - Mrs. Henpeck-We hey bin married wenty years today, Hiram. Hiram (with a sigh)-Yes; fer twent3 ears we've fought Mrs. Henpeck (scowling) - What? ou old wretch! Hiram (quickly)-Ife's battles to ether, Mirandy.-Judge. - Too Valuable to Lose. Mr. Grogan-Sure, Moike, an' what d yez do wit' yure dorg? Mike-Oh, he wnz wort' SI0 an' 01 ep' t'inkin' if some wan sh'd stale m Ol could ill afford th' loss, so Olf are um away, b'gorra! - Chicago ews. Awfully Benighted. Daserly-Is he so very ignorant? Flasherly-Ignorant? Why, actually,: e doesn't even know a cure for colds' -Kansas. City Independent. 1 wonder why It is we are not elH inder than we are. How easily It Is one! -How instantaneously it acts5: [ow infaL'ibly it is remembered!-" rummond.______ THERE is considerable flippant talk out this country and Germany go g to wa: over the 'Venezuelan dis te. Le', us all earnestly pray that )such calamity befall this country. THE Atlanta Journal expresses the rrect opinion that it is a long way om Cleveland to Bryan. And it ight have .truthfully added that it uphill all the way. WE agree with the Augusta Chroni that the idea of negro domination 'er white men. either in the South anywhere else. is too absurd for. rious contemplation. Where on the be are white men in subjection to tinferior race'. No matter how ashamed of her bus- - ,d a woman is, she will imagine her people are not. The worst slur one woman puts on other is when she says "anyway, e makes a good wife." The best thing to keep love from llng out with you is never to get a well acquainted with it. To the ugliest woman on earth the iking glass tells pretty lies. -