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VML.XV1L MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25,1903. NO. 34. THE N1(GRO PROBLEM. Roosevelt, "The President of the Black Belt." and Is NOT AN AMERICAN PRESIDENT. The Prejudice Against the Negro; Is Not Local, But Prompted by World-Wide ,Race sentimieni. The race question was again dis cussed in the United States senate Wednesday. Mr. Money of Mississip pi spoke for two hours. his remarks having direct reference to the action of the president in closinz-the India i;ola. Miss.. postotlice. Mr. Money ex plained at the outset of his remarks that if he could secure unanimous con sent for leave to print he would not take up the time of the senate. The sentiment of the senate seemed to be that remarks not delivered should not be spread in the record. le there upon proceeded. and delivered himself of some severe strictures of the presi dent. stating in the course of his re marks that Mr. Roosevelt was not the president of America. but the presi dent of the "black belt." At timies' he was closely interrogated by Messrs. Foraker and Spooner. It was the inherent and constitu tional right of a great community. said Mr. Money, to have their mail handled regularly. Letters, he said. which bave been addressed to Heath man, to important county officials re siding at Indianola, have been sent to Greenville, and this he declared was an unwarrontable interference with the liberty anA rights of the people of Indianola. It was indeed to punish the people of Indianola, and in his opinion, the punishment had gone far enough. The department has shown to the world its authority and nobody had disputed it. He declared that the postmaster general should do all he could to heal the breach and not con tinue stubborn and vindictive. "The department has made the people hate the administration." Directing his remarks. to President Roosevelt, he said that in the south it was believed that Mr. Roosevelt, when he succeeded Mr. McKinley, would make an American instead of a sectional president, but a change had come over this dream. "He is not so much an American president." said Mr. Money, "as he is the president of the black belt." and he added with some feeling, "we don't consider him a great American president.." le de clared that of all the appointments made in Mississippi none have given such general disgust as those made by this adrinistration and, he said. the president had raised tbe question of social equality of the negro, but there could -never possibly be any socia+ equality between the two races. "There is a race prejudice in the south,"-he said, "and I thank God there is." The prejudice against the negro. he asserted, is not local. but prompted by a universal, world-wide sentiment. Answering Mr. Foraker, he said that these recent appointments have re vived the race question and while the people of the south had heretofore tol ers.ted negro officeholders they did not want any more of them. "This is a wvhite man's country and a white manis government," said he. "It has been carved out the wilderness and com,'uered tr om the Indians, not for the ~African, but~ for the white man. Mr. Foraker asmked Mr. Money if his objection to colored people holding of tice extended to all ottices of all kinds, and also whether it would include the enlistment of colored men in the army to defend the flag and the constitu tion. The reply was that he had no particular objection to colored men serving in the army. but declared that it would be better if no colored men held any otticial position whatever. "Would you decitizenize the negro as to votingy" asked Mr. Foraker, "and if so should that be taken into account in tixing the representation in congres?" "That is another question." said Mr. Money. The participation of the negro in the affairs of the government, he thought, was dangerous. - "Is it the demand of the south." in quired Mr. Spooner, "that the presi dent of the United States shall in no case appoint a colored man to federal ottice in the south" Mr. Money replied that there was no demand made and no authority for it. but it was the feeling in the south that no colored mar. no matter what his qualitications may be. shall hold federal ottice. The whole truth of history, he declared, shows the utter incompetence of the colored race self government. Mr. Spooner remarked that a presi dent of the United States who would yield to the demand ofl any section that the right of citizenship should be surrendered would show himself untit to hold the oflice and quite will ing to violate his oath as president. Mr. Foraker commented upon Mr. Money's statements as being most re markable because of their far-reaching consequences. Mr. Money expressed the conviction that the amend menit to the~ constitu tion which made negroe voters was a tremendous mistake. and he said a vast number of people of the north entertained the s"ame view, lie said there has been no objection in thesouth to a colored man working and none had been killed for so doing as was the caee in Illinois. The feeling which obtained in the south, he said. was that if a white man did not think himself socially better than the negro he was not half as good. In the matter of these appointments Mr. Money said the president should consider conditions in the south. A p. pointing negroes to onlice in the south wams most obnoxious and repugnant to that section. It was impossible, lhe declared, for any one raised north of Mason and Dixon's line to know any thing about the negro. lHe concluded by saying that there had been no in tention of creating any disturbance whaee in Indianola, but the idea of]I 1Iling a public meeting was that it w'uld apprise the postmistress of the wsles of the citizens and that it niight ltad to her resignation. The asis (f all the trouble. lie said. was !iw referee system as it prevails in CONFEDERATE RECORDS. rtie 'nitetl States Government Want's to Preserve Th m. The Columbia 1Record says it was ioL generally known that in tiie ap >ropriation act of the recent congress )rovision was made for the compila ion of a complete roster of the oflicers lnd enlisted men of the Union and 'on federate armies. Secretary of War Rtoot has sent a letter to the gover iors of all states asking theirco-opera ion in this work, which will be a most mportant and a stupenduous one. In is letter lie says there will be little )r no diticulty in preparing a roster of he Union soldiers, for the state's urnishing them have already under baken that duty and now have as omplete records as possible. lie says. ruly, that there will be difficulty in )btaining Confederate records in his lepartment, and we wish that was he only difficulty to be encountered .n this great work, for the loan of the ecessary documents might easily be btained if they were in existence. We fear few of the Southern states have ever looked after this matter at ill carefully ur systematically, and we know that our own state has no re .,rds that are at all complete. Time nd again the legislature has been sked to appropriate a comparatively mall sum in order that Confederate ecords might be preserved, and ,bough at times small sums have been oted for the purpose. the amount has ever been large enouih to insure a ;omplete and correct list of the names )f all the soldiers of this state who en isted in the war. It is hardly neces ary to show that it is proper to pre er'e the names of all who fought or lied in the cause of our state, not )nly because such a compilation would e of great historical value, but be :ause it is our sacred duty to do so. he legislature in looking after the atters of present or pressing need as neglected to appreciate the impor ance of this work, and the conse uence is that we have not these re ords for ourselves, and unless Con ederate camps now take the matter n charge and see to it that our re ords are complete, the government ompilation so far as we are concerned will be very inaccurate. If the South arolina soldier is to receive the full redit due him something must be ione to put our records in proper ;ape, tor the government records in he future will be taken as official and .rrect. A Terrible Tragedy. A horrible tragedy occurred at Riley tation, Ky.. on the Louiseville and Nashville railroad Thursday when Deputy Sheriff J. B. Williams with a posse of three men, went to arrest an unknown crazy nian The maniac was armed with three pistols and was rightening people in that vicinity. lie imagined a mob was after him to ang him. When Deputy Sheriff Williams and his posse approached he enraged man and attempted to verpower him he drew his pistol and ammenced to tire. The deputy sheriff was shot through the body, sustaining i serious wound: Gabriel Floyd, ~ n she back, Samuel Payne, through the rm and Samuel Devers received a calp wound. After Williatns had allen he raised and tired a bullet through his antagonist's head killing Pim instantly. Nothing was foundl n the dead man's person to identify Pm. but lie had $42 in monecy and a old watch. Early in the day he had aid that his mother lived in Nelson ~outy. The recovery of Williams d Floyd is doubtful. Two D~octors Piffered. A special from Tarboro, N. C., says: Dr. Ii. T. Bass, who was shot here unday by 1)r. .J. M. Baker, died at is residence that nigh t between 11 and 12 oclock. lie was on the operating table, and as he began to show signs >f sinking the operation was not com pleted. Early in the night he b~ecame unconscious and thereafter sank rapid ly. The funeral took place from Calvary church this afternoon. Rev. Dr. Gamble conducting the services. ?e church could not seated the im mense crowd that attended. The re mains were interred in Calvary church ard. Dr. Baker. who is out on bond. left here Wednesday for Richmond on professional business. The coroner's jury went to the house of the deceased and viewed the remains this morning, then adjourned until the 23Ird, when they will hear testimony. The prel iminary hearing will be on Monday. Many Want Jobs. The News and Courier says the most important fact which has come out in connection with the Crm situation is that more than one hun dredred wvhite men have applied for positions in the Custom Ihouse under the negro collector. If this list could be secured for publication it would open the eyes of the city, or, at least. that was the statement made by a prominent Republican. The name of a well-know citizen has been men tined in connection with the deputy collectorship and the chances favor his appointment. Crum has made no promises, so far as the politicians can ascertain, although it has leaked out in the quiet oftice-seeking circles that the list of candidates is resplendent with the names of men, some of whom would naturally be regarded as oppos ed to the nomination of a negro to any important Federal otlice. A Strange Case. Twenty yea . ago last August Mrs. Adam Winegarner of Zanesville, Ohio. received a bite from a copperhead snake. Annually thereafter, with the recurrence of (log days. the wound would become swollen and her limb would assume the peculiar mottled appearance of a copperhead snake. Her health became broken in time and recently she died with all the symptoms of a snake bite just re ceived. Physicians say there are but few simiary case on record. that wt have -a goodly heritage." And even beyond this. In placing us in closest commercial touch with all parts of our country, it is also placing us in closer social touch with our sis ter States-it is making us and our fellow citizens in distant States know and understand each other better, and again like that bow in the cloud, it stands as a pledge, a covenant, that never again shall the people of South Carolina pass through the struggles that they have in days gone by. In the great future which -I feel sure lies before us as a State, Charles ton, the chief metropolis of South Carolina, must play a conspicuous part. This old city has never been round wanting in the past-in the days which tried men's souls, and she will never be found wanting in the future when she is called upon' to work for the upbuilding of the State and the betterment of its people. I rejoice to see Charleston taking on new life-and in saying this I feel satistied I bespeak the sentiment of all South Carolinians. As a friend of Charleston I rejoice that from the i belfrey of old St. Michael's the watch- t man can again call out over your city, as be did in the days gone by: "All is well." As' a South Carolin i-.r:. I rejoice that cry need not be f confined to the limits of this city, but I can extend far beyond. It can fall, as a benediction, upon the ears of the sailor, as from yon quiet harbor he turns his prow to seaward, and then . it can be caught up by the winds of a the ocean and wafted ba.ek across our i entire State, even to its mountain tops. t Although there is still much to be a done: although there are still great a problems to be solved, and evils to be a eradicated, yet the wisdom. under God, to solve them, and the determi- i nation to eradicate them, and hence it a is that of South Carolina it can be truly said "All is well." I We have no cause for discourage- - ment--we have every cause for en couragement. As one of your watch- ' men on the tower, I can say to you tonight that the State of South Caro lina i: advancing in every way, and that beneath her banner . united march her sons. "Our union is river, lake, ocean and c sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die: d Though darkened with sulphur, b though cloven with steel, h The blue arch will brighten, the a waters wfll heal." STATE PHARMACEUTICAL BOARD t t Holds a Most Pleasant Meeting in the City of Orangeburg. f The State Pharmaceutical Examin- 2 ing Board, which is composed of Drs. t Edward A. Burnham, Frank M. Smith and W H Zeigler of Charleston, 0. E. Thomas and 0. Y. Owings of Colum- d bia, J. G. DeLorme of Sumter and M. t H1. Sandifer of Rock Hill, met in Or- b angeburg -on Wednesday .morning to a hold the spring examinations. For t the first time in the history of the t board there were no applicants for ex- f: amination and the board had nothing v to do. 1 The absence of applicants while a c isappointment in one sense, shows 'y that the young men who are to be the t pharmcists of years to come are fully t alive to the responsibility of the pro- 1L fession and are preparparin themselves through college courses instead of r trying to prepare themselves through s an apprenticeship in the drug store as 1 in days of yore. t The hospitality of Orangeburg is a proverbial, and the members of the v~ board were the recipients of many f pleasant attentions at the hands of t the resident profession, th'e most note- 1; worthy of whicn was a banquet in the L evening. This delight affair was f given at St. Joseph's hotel, the drug- i gists of the city, the hosts of the even ing, and the guests, the members of s the examining board, the resident 5 physicians and members of the press. Those present were: Dr. Edward S. a Burnhaim, Dr. Frank M. Smnith, Dr. s W. H. Zeigler. Dr. J. G. DeLorme, t Dr. 0. E. Thomas, Dr. H. Sandifer, c Dr. .J. G. Wannamaker, Dr. J. M. 1: Oliver, Dr. A. S. Hydrick, Dr. T. C. c Doyle. Dr. A. C. Dukes, Dr. S. A. s Reeves, D)r. M. G. Salley, Dr. T. A. t Jeffords. Dr. D. J. H-ydrick, Dr. H. E. Reeves, Dr. D. D. Salley, Dr. Lin C. t Shecut, Dr. J. A. Clifton. Dr. Chas. P. Perryclear, Dr. W. R. Lowman, a Dr. A. C. Ligon, and Messrs, George a T. Keller, J. Tr. Parks, .J. L. Sims, s Roberi, Lid.e, W. K. Sease. I The dining room and table werei prettily decorated for the occasion and t the menu varied, comprising the deli-t cacies of the season. There was no I set speechmaking, but Dr. Doyle, who s is the city's mayor, made a short ad-r dress oft welcome which was respondedt to by Dr. Burnham, chairman of thet pharmaceutical board. A number ofc gentlemen were then called on fori speeches, all of whom responded brieflyt and to the point. The evening was enjoyed to the ut- a most by the entire party and the 1 members of the axamining b ard de-r clared it the most delightful entertain-i ment ever accorded them. As for the t tosts of the evening, they found such i a keen pleasure in their role that they 1 announced their decisiion to ask the 1 State Pharmaceutical association to meetlhere next year, and if the invita tion is accepted it is safe to say the association will be entertained in royal style, surpassing anything ever accorded them. Nothing But Rot. The Columbia Record says a good I deal of nonsensical rot is being talked] and published as to what was said 1 between Chicco and the governor in I their interview, and some of the 1 bright sayings ascribed to the blind tiger dealer, he is mentally incapable of conceiving, much less saying. The interview, in so far as Chicco was con cerned, was in one sense an outrage ous insult to the majesty of the law, and had he not come under a tiag of truce. a~s it were the governor would 1 have been justitied in at once placing 1 him in jail. This making Chicco the 1 hero of conversational controversy, so I to speak, is d'sgusting, when the cir cmstnc-e ar o nsidlered. . BRIGHT OUTLOOK. The Governor Tells of the Day of Industrial Pr sperity. GREAT FUTURE FOR THE STATE The Peopte ori So41th Carolina Are Being Brought Into Touch With Those of Other States. Gov. Ieyward attended the anni versary dinner of the Hibernian Socie ty in Charleston last Tuesday night week. le responded to the toast of South Ca rolina and spoke as follows: Mr. Toastmaster and Members of the Hibernian Society: Before addressing myself to the subject of the toast which has just been announced-a toast which strikes a responsive chord in every heart around this board and finds it echo in the hearts of every true Carolinian from the restless wave of the Atlantic to the range of blue mountains on the northern border of our State-I must say a word of thanks for the invita tion which brings me here tonight. To tell you that I appreciate most highly the honor you have done me would not be expressing all that I feel. It is not only an honor but a privilege to commemorate with the members of this historic society the birthday of him who is the patron saint of the Emerald Isle. Today with fonder memories, the hearts of Irishmen the worid over are turning back to Erin. Today they rejoice because that liberty which has always had a home in Irish hearts is about to find a lodgment on Irish soil. Today the prophetic words of your own poet, tho' we of America and of the south can claim him too, are be ing realized, when he said: "Look aloft! look aloft! the clouds drifting by, There's a gleam through the gloom there's a light in the sky, 'Tis the sunburst resplendent-far Ilashing on high! Erin's dark night is waning, her day dawn is nigh!" It cannot, my friends, come too soon From our hearts we all should say: God speed the coming of that day. Never mind how poor an Irishman may be when he comes to our shores there is one thing which he always brings with him, and that is his love of country; but loving and remember ing the land from whence he came makes him none the less loyal to the land of his adoption. Irish South Carolinians-Irish Americans, are true South Carolinians, they are true and patriotic Americans. They love South Carolina and they love America with the same love that they love Ireland and hence it is that on such an occasions as this, when a toast is proposed to the "State of South Car olina," the Palmetto i' greeted by as "loyal hearts and true" as ever hailed the shamrock in an Irish banquet hall. The few words which I shall ad dress to you tonight shall be to you not as Irishmen or as descendants of Irishmen, but as Charlestonians and as South Carolinians-as men who rejoice that "over the newly-wedded moun tain and seaboard" as expressed in my toast, "peace and prosperity" now reign. I know, my friends, and my countrymen, that I voice the senti ment of every true Charlestonian and of every true South Carolinian, when I say I rejoice that the day has come when, forgetting the things of the past we can, hand in had and shoul der to shoulder, with renewed cour age, as brethren, press on to the things which lie before. If it has fallen to my lot, as you kindly intimate in the sentiment which has just been read, to bear an humble part in bringing about this happy condition, I can only say that I fouend a fertile field, in the p1 wing of which I found ready and willing helpers from the mountains to the seaboard. In every section of our State I round sturdy South Carolin ians-men who loved South Carolina - men whose warm handclasps and whose untiring labor. did far more than anything I could do) to accom plish the results upon which we felici tate ourselves tonight. The era of peace and g.ood will which today is prevailing in South Carolina means much for us in the present and for the future-for us, for our chiidren and for our children's children. Whether or not we shall attain our full measure of good de pends upon us and upon us alone. It we are to work out successfully theI great future wvhich I believe lies be fore us as a people, we must practice not only in our lives but also in our politics the principles of the golden rule. We should seek to build up and not to pull down-to understand and not to misunderstand, remembering always that we are one people with a common heritage anai a common des tiny-all sons of one mother and that mother the grand old common wealth of South Carolina. A brighter day is breaking over our State-a day of industrial prosperity such as our forefathers never dreamed of. it is coming as surely as the sun will rise apon the morrow. We can see its signs on the horizon-we can breathe it in the very atmosphere. When a storm is over, and the light ning has ceased to liash and the thun-. der to shake the earth, how gladly does the traveler behold the rainbow in the cloud: It ascends from the rugged mountain top and with its my riad of colors spanning the sky, it seems to sink to rest in the bosom of the ocean-a holy covenant that never again shall those- waters cover the earth. So it is with that prosperity which today is gradually spreading its bright bow of promise over South Carolina. From the "everlasting hills" of the Piedmont to the bar on onder harbor its light is beginning Ito radiate. That light is entering today the humble home of the laborer, making his home better and happier, it is causing the farmer to sing be hind the plow, it is touching, as with the wand of a magician, our sleeping marts of trade and bidding them awake: it is making us South Caro lans realize the fact that truly "ou.r lines are fallen in pleasant places" and FOUND AT LAST. rhinking Her Husband Dead a Lady Marries Another Man. iURIOUS STORY OF WEDLOCK. Vile Husband Mysteriously Disap peared Three years A;go, and His Remains found in the Woods Last Week. The following dispatch published d in The State on Tuesday, 17th in tant, caused considerable comment n Columbia and -elsewhere: "A human skeleton was found in an solated spot in a pasture six miles rum Wilmington, near the coast, and dentified, as a result of an investiga ion by the coroner Wednesday, as hat of W. W. Young, a white car ienter, 32 years old, who disappeared rom his home in this city May 3, 900. The cauie of the man's death a unknown and the investigation is eing pursued. Members of his fami r say they advertised for the man nd made diligent search, at last giv ag up hope of finding him. Young as a wife and two children in Colum la, S. C., Mrs. Young having married railroad employe named Roberts fter the. first husband's disappear nee." On last Thursday morning the State ublished the following sequel to the Love dispatch: The Mrs. Young referred to is the ridow of the late Mr. Wm. J. 'oberts, a car inspector in the employ f the Southern railway, who was kill I a few weeks ago by being run over 2 the Atlantic Coast Line yards. She iarried Mr. Roberts, believing her rst husband was dead, no word hav ig been heard of himrsince May, 1900. 'he dispatch from Willington was be first information she has had con erning him since that time. Mrs. Young, or rather Mrs. Roberts, ves at 929 Oak street in the Shannon istrict, and when seen Wednesday y a State reporter gave the details of er first husband's strange disappear nee. In the year 1890 Young, a carpen r by tra'e and a native of Camden, iarried a Miss Kairby, the daughter f a farmer living in that county. his is the present Mrs. Roberts. They made their home in this city r a short period of time, leaving it 3 go to Parksville, and thence to .ugusta. After two years' residence be couple went to Wilmington, N. During the period of their life in bat latter city Young's health broke own and he was able to work at his rade only at intervals. He grew no etter and gradually his mind became ffected. At the end of seven years [rs.. Young decided to leave Wilming an with her two children and return , this city to make her home with her ither. The little fam'ly was then in ery reduced circumstances and the an was practically forced to a con lusion by this dire necessity. Young, ,o was then almost totally incapaci Sted for work, was left with his sis ers in Wilmington in the hope that e might recover. Mrs. Young was in constant commu ication with his sisters from time le left North Carolina' in November, 899, but her husband's mental condi ion did not improve. He grew moody nd took. long walks alone if not atched. At times far out in the 3rests he would fall to the ground in he rigors of an epileptic tit and in is paroxysms inflict personal injuries pon himself. Once or twice he was aund lying across his mother's grave a Believue cemetry. Finally it was decided that he bould be sent to the North Carolina tate Hospital for the Insane and a edical board was apponted by the uthorities to examine him as to his anity. But on the day previous to he examination Young mysteriously isappeared and nothing has ever been Leard of him until the gruesome dis overy on Monday last of his grinning' keleton lying in the dark woods near e mouth of the Cape Fear river. After Young was lost to sight every ttempt was made. to ascertain his hereabouts. The country for miles round Wilmington was searched and dvertisements offering rewards in erted in the newspapers of the State. Is fate remained a mystery, through t was practically concluded that he lad fallen, in one of his perambuila ions, into the Cape Fear- river and Iad been drowned. His life was In ured and his widow kept up the pre riiums for many months, expecting hat his body would be recovered. For his purpose she used in part the re eipts from the sale of his tool chest. Vhen all hope had been abandoned he policy was allowed to lapse. Mrs. Young has now two children 9 -nd 11 years old respectively. born to ter by her first husband. On Feb uary 6, 1902, she married Mr. oberts, firmly believing at the time hat her first husband was dead. It s a question as to whether his death ad occurred at the time, but the pro tabilities are that it had. Rural Free Routes. There are now 230 rural rree deliv :ry routes in operation in South Car lina and more in process of being stablished. These carriers are paid >y checks issued by Postmaster Ensor .gainst funds on deposit in the Caro mn National bank, the national de ository in Columbia. Some idea of ,he magnitude to which this serv-ice las grown in this state can be ob ained from the statement that the nonthly pay roll of these carriers Lmounts to over $11,000. Torn b~y a Bear. . 13. Sanders, an aged resident of -ouston Tex., was attacked and al nost torn to pieces Wednesday night >y a savage bear. He was thrown to he ground and horribly mangled by he frenzied animal's tusks. Two ull dogs and three men came to his ssistance and rescued him. Ihis in nie a re frigrhtful. HOW HE WORKED FARMERS. A Swindler Takes Advantage or a Cash in Advance Custom The Columbia State says a gentle man from Newberry county tells of the manner in which B. B. Bray and his associates "worked" the confiding people of the rural district. Bray, Johnson and Jones are the names given by the three who caused the honest yeomanry to separate them selves from money which represented toil, self-denial and whose investment in buggies would have prevented the farmers from enjoying home con forts. Now they have nothing to show for the money-and Bray is gone. It is an easy manner to "flim-flam" the farmers according to the statement of this gentleman. They are accustomed to order from agents who come around with catalogues, and the purchaser is required to make a cash payment to 1 insure the company that it will not lose the freight tolls should the pur chaser fail to come up with the money when the goods arrive, But Bray seems to have been greedy. I He was not satistled with an advance payment of a nominal amount, but required half of the valtie of the arti cle. In this way his sales were fewer E but it did not make him an object of suspicion. When he did catch a farm-. er, Bray bled him well. While he had catalogues from a well known mail or der house, there is no evidence to in- i dicate that they were aware of Bray's c being in this section. The justly cel- 1 ebrated Bray came from Chicago, and r he practiced on the Illinoise farmers j before coming south. Sears, Roebuck & Co., the firm t whose name has been used by Bray < have offered a reward for the capture c of Bray, Johnson and Jones, and, N partly through their efforts, a party c who duped farmers in Mississippi in I the same way has already been jailed i for three years. This would tend to show lack of complicity on the part of a the Chicago house. I It is strange that with all the ras- k cality of which Bray has been guilty s the officials of the law in Columbia have been furnished with no adequate g description of his personal appearance. f His disappearance is now causing s them to long for a glance at his face. t SOLD DEATH FOR $100. Herb Doctor Arrested for Adminis tering Poison to Thirty-Four Men. Seventy- letters, written mostly by women, have been found in the home of George Hoosey, the negro "herb doctor" of Philadelphia, who is ac cused of being an accessory to the al- I leged murder of William G. Danze. These letters, which are said to be of an incriminating nature, vary little in their terms, and, it is asserted, show that Hoosey charged $100 for t every case. Some of the letters point to payment of the fee installments. The police officials have directed the opening of 34 graves, -having se cured evidence that leads them to believe that George Hloosey, the negro "herb doctor," is responsible for at least that many deaths. Hoosey is in jail as accessory to the murder of William G. Danze, whose widow is charged with having administered to her husband slow poison furnishedsby the negro.. "We do not know how many pois oning cases can be traced to Hoosey," said a police oflicial today, "but thus far we have secured evidence that has I warranted us in directing the opening of. 34 graves." This case is assuming proportions far beyond the comprehension of those 1 connected with it at the time Hoosey 1 was arrested. The real investigation I is just beginning and before it pro-3 ceeds much further startling develop, I ments will crop out. -Sort of Men Girls Like. C As a man looks to a woman to be womanly, a woman expects a man to 1 be manly; therefore, you need hardly wonder that she prefers to be wooed by a man whose actions tell of deter mination and resolve to one whose at titude is oue of meekness and chronic shyness, who stammers and blushes whenever he ventuees to address his lady-love in public. While the timid lover is worshipping from afar, hop ing yet fearing that his worship is tin derstood by his divinity, -the more1 manly lover steps in, and by almost sheer materfulness and determination, combined with tender courtesy and a wish to please, gains the prize, leaving the timid one to moan his losi~ in sil ence with a heart filled with the bit ter thought that had he only been a little more confident in his wooing the, fair one might have been his. In love affairs women like masters, not slaves; they like to feel that they are being wooed, not that they are doing the 1 wooing. Therefore, those young men 1 who wish to prove successful loversI must cas& aside all bashfulness and timidity and must not only believe in the old but true saying, "Only the brave deserve the fair," but must act up to it. Accounts Short. A shortage of over $5,000 has been found in the accounts of the late J. S. I Campbell, county treasurer for Rich land. It is a year since the death of Capt. Campbell, and the estate has made no settlement with the county. t Mr. R. M. Spigener, the treasurert elected, has declined to take the orlice from Mr. E. J. Brenner, who succeed-] ed Capt. Campbell, until the cloud can be cleared. The late treasurer( was in feeble health and had a great deal of sorrow the last two years of] his life. His mental condition is] advanced charitably as the cause of ] the deficiency. No official statement - can be obtained. A Close Call. F. 1B. Collins, an attorney of Niles, Mich., who had been seriously ill,1 went into a trance Wednesday and< his relatives supposing him dead, summoned an undertaker. When he placed the remains in a casket several 4 hours later the undertaker discovered] perceptible indications of returning life. Medical aid was summoned and < the pant now bid fair to recover. 1 TWO DROWNED While Asleep on a Steamer, Which Suddenly Sinks While THE PASSENGERS SLUMPEED The Waters Poured In Awakening Men, Women and Children to a Terrible Reality or Their Fate. A dispatch from Palatka, Fla., Says the steamer Meta-mora of the Lucas line running up the Ocklawaha river sank Thursday morning a little after three o'clock four miles above the mouth of,the river. - As the passerin gers were all asleep and the steamer sunk almost without a moments warning it is almost a miracle that so few were drowned. Rufus King and Walter Watson, both colored residents of Palatka were drowned. Manual Myers, the well known pilot, who was at the whee when the boat went. down, was the- - first to discover that the boat was sinking. He immediately calledap tain Mercier, who had just retired. Ebgineer Fred Priest, -who was on duty at the time also noticed the pe culiar lurching of the vessel and turn ed on the midship syphons, but-Ad ing no water he started aft and ds covered that the vessel was sinking stern first. Engineer Rosignal by this time was on deck and ordered all hands to the cabin top. In an Instant the vessel made a lurch to port striking the timber on the north bank of the-river 4 and with a crash rebounded tostar . board and sank, submerging the Tsee ond deck and fillifig tie state roons with water. With an axe Engineer Rosignal broke in the doors and windows; while other members of the crew under Captain Mercier carried out the half drowned passengers, some of .whom had to be passed to the cabin roo over the outer rail. A boat was immediately seqt t Welaka and within an hour row boats and launches were at the scene of the disaster. On these the terror stricken women and children were taken t Welaka, where they were clothedend fed. Little or no baggage belonging t the passengers has been recovered Many escaped in their night clothing only. The boat lies at an angle ofal most 45 degrees. It is thought she " can be floated. It is not known; with certainty what caused .the boat to sink, but it is believed her hull stR a sunken log, causingjher to -springa leak. There were twenty aa.gers on board and all were saved. Th;two men who were drowned were of the crew. Senator Tlman Out West. United Strtes Senator Tillman de livered an address on "The Negro Question From a Southern Stand point," before an audience of 1,800 university students, citizens and law makers at Madison, Wis., Thursday night. He was greeted with the stir ring university yell. A rather sensa tional incident occured while Senator Tillman was .discussing the Indianoia postoffice case. After stating the southern view of the affair, he asked whether the audience approved 'of President Roosevelt's action and there was'applause. Being uncertain wheth er the applause was intended as an in dorsemeit of the president's action, the senator asked how it was meant. - He was told that it was meant as an endorsement ot the president. This aroused the senator. He went in to the details of the Indianola-affair and when he concluded asked his hear ers whether it would not have been better for the president to have ke'pt the otfice opened and punished the few hot-heads that caused the trouble than to have punished the entire corn munity by closing the office, request ing those to raise their hands who supported the president's action. Only a few raised their hands. In the main his address was much like his other recent utterances on the same subject. He condemned the negro to ' eternal inferiority to the white man. A Cranky Teacher. Prof. A. T. Weaver, of Ashville, N. C., at the head of a leading education- ~ al institution has been sent to jail be cause he refused to be vaccinated and also because of his refusal to pay a fine of $25 for the same. The vaccina tion was ordered as a precaution against smallpox. Prof. Weaver, It is said, may institute legal. proceed ings against the authorities, and may take the case before the Supreme Court of North Carolina. Shot From Ambush. B. G. Cheatham, Robert Quiattle baum and Clebe Penn, there well known farmers of the Phoenix section of Greenwood county, were seriously shot from ambush at 2 o'clock Thurs day morning. Cheatham received a charge of buckshot In his chest and arms and is the most dangerously wounded. It is reported that the desperadoes were negroes and -that seven or eight volleys were exchanged. They Will be There. Among other novel features of the St. Louis exposition will be the reun ions of th'e Smith and Lewis families, which all the Smiths and Lewises in te country will be invited to attend. The Smiths are'raising a fund of $10, 000 for the erection of a building on the exposition grounds to be used as their headquarters during the fair. A Fatal Accident. At Fort Wayne, Ind., a freight train crashed into a furniture van of the North Side Transfer Company at the Sandusky street crossing, at Alle gheny, Wednesday, wrecking the van and killing two men. Two others were seriously injured. The van was - completely wrecked and three horses-' were killed. SENATOR Tillman has been appoint ed a member of the Democratic steer ing committee in the Senate by Sena tor Gorman who is chairman of the cmmittee GOES UP FOR LIFE. W. C King Convicted of Murdering James and Samuel Rodgers. William C. King, the white man who murdered James and Samuel Rodgers in Florence County on Jan uary 31, was found guilty with re commendation to mercy Friday by the jury in the court of general ses sions at Florence. lls attorney, Walter Wells, Esq., made a motion for a new trial, but when court re :-onveued Friday afternoon he an riounced his abandonment of the mo ion, but gave notice of an appeal to he supreme court. Judge Gage then sentenced King to the penitentiary at lard labor for his natural life.. A dispatch from Florence to The tate says verdict has given unusual satisfaction, and groups of men can >e seen on the streets discussing the :ase. Then general concensus of )piznion is that it marks the begin-, iing of a new era in South Carolina, speciallv this part of the State. It s asserted that this is the first con riction of a white man for the killing of another in this judicial circuit ince Lockhart was convicted of man lughter in Williamsburg county years go under the late Judge I. D. Witherspoon. All the evidence in the King case oes to prove that it'was an unpro oked. uncalled for murder of two bscure men, and all about a dog vhich King admitted that he ~bad ever seen. It Is learned that the ury on the first ballot stood eight for or murder with recommendation to aercy, three for murder outright and ne for manslaughter. On the see nd ballot eleven Tvere for conviction vith recommendation to mercy and ne for manslaughter. The next allot was in conformity with-the erdict rendered. When King was asked if he had nything to say why sentence should ot be passed upon him, he shook his ead and said, "I have nothifg to Judge Gage did not undertake to ive him a lecture, neither did he re er to the beineus crime of which he tood convicted, but simply passed be formal legal sentence of life im risonment in the penitentiary. William King is a man who per iaps has seen 53 summers; about six eet tall, weighing about 160 pounds. le has a brutal face, large protrud ng jaw bone, cold steel grey eyes hich move restlessly from side to side ithout turning his head. His head s very small and exceedingly narrow ,cross the base of the skull. It is tated that the two Rogers men are ot the only victims of his nimble >istol. Upon what grounds his attorney ill base his appeal to the rupreme ourt is not known. for it is an ad aitted fact that the judge charged he jury on every point on which he 7as requested and neither directly or directly referred to a single fact onnected with the case, nor did he ouch upon the evidence in the case. AN~ ETEPHANT DIES AT SE A. Fliole Crew of a Steamer Was Kept Busy By Jingo. The elephant Jingo, said to have een larger than Jumbo,' died at sea en the steamer Georgic, which arrived ,t New York Wednesday from Liver >ool. The animal's deatji occurred darcht 12th and the huge body was uried at sea. An animal show brought ringo in London. The elephant had lot traveled since infancf,. and from he time of sailing from Liverpool it retted and pined away, Jingo was 22 ears old, 12 feet high, weighed six on and was valued at 550.000. For 60 hours preceeding its death he mammoth beast trumpeted with aut cessation and twice knocked down ts keeper, Thomas Lawrence, who at empted to pacify it. The cries of the lephant aroused the leopards and ti rers which were on the shipand they, 00, joine~d in the cry which for three lays kept the crew of the Georgic on ts guard. As each day passed Jingo seemed to row weaker he squirmed in his nar ow cage in an effort to get out. He as securely chained to the cage in uch a position in tbe aft hatchway hat escape was impossible. On the ifth day out the animal's condition >eame such that Lawrence gave him hiskey and kept him under the in luence of liquor for almost three days. t was then that Jingo became even uore savage than ever and began the rumpeting. The entire crew went to Lawrence's Lsistances on the 11th day and join d with him in an effort to paciry ingo. They all failed, however, and wice the beast got its trunk through he bars of the cage and struck the :eeper with such force that he was brown to the deck. The other animals oned- in the great noise until about 9 'clock on the morning of the 12th, hen suddenly Jingo's cries ceased. ~awrence ran to the cage to find the nimal dead. His carcass was examin d and after it was decided it could ot be stuffed it was thrown over yoard. An Honor WVeII Bestowed. The president Thursdaf.-announced he members of the board of visitors o tha West Point Military academy s follows: Hon. D. B. Henderson of owa, Hon. George F. Slaxter of Coo ado, Col. Asbury Coward, superinten ent of the South Carolina Military ~cademy; Joseph C. Darlington of hiladelphia, Win. A. Pew, Jr., of Boston: the Rev. Ernest M. Stiers, . D., St. Thomas church, New ork, and J. G. Schmidlappof Cincin iati. Thinkcs Pennell Did 1t. A Buffalo preacher has undertaken a place responsibility for the murder| >f urdick upon the lawyer, Pennell,| ho was crushed to death beneath his ,utomobile ten days after the mysteri us crime had been developed. The reacher declares that Pennell killed Burdick and afterwards deliberately irove his automobile to a death plunge o 1ki11 himelf and his wife.