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V(V X11. MA NNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 29,1903- NO. 45. SENATOR TILLM13A! Speaks To a large Crowd at Bis] ville Last Week. A SYNOPSIS OF HI SPEECH The Senator Says the Selection < Democratic Presiden:ial N-Isai nee is Iitticult. The Negro Question. Senator Tillman arrived at 3ias ville on Tuesday evening of last w and was escorted by the reception c mittee to the Bishopville hotel. wt -was his headquarters during his v .to that town. After supper he was called upot .an informal way by many citize -with whom he chatted upon every s ject but politics. After a quiet night's rest on Fri morning be was driven around Bist vile and vicinity and shown the provements made in this lively progressive little town, and expres himself as highly pleascd with evidences of enery and enterprise. At 11 o'clock he was escorted to Woodworth grove the "central pa of the town where he was to addi our people on the questions of the d The turnout of the citizens at f seemed disappointing as the assi blage was much smaller than was pected, but it -must be remembe that this is the busiest time in year for the farmer and that sevt dimportant meetings are to be held the next ten days, and tbgy could well, at this juncture be spared fi their farms. It is estimated that from tive eight hundred people were present, cludi ng a goodly number of ladies, that among those present lines I been entirely obliterated, Reforn: and Antis, according to the old den: cation, intermingling to do honor t man who had faithfully and strenut ly served his state under the most verse aircumstances. The meeting was called to order Mr. Ralph W. McLendon, wbo quested the Rev. T. W. Phillips open proceedings with prayer. Senator Tillman met the people Lee County for the first time. Res be had tried to come over when country was in the throes of birth, the people did not seem to want h He was pretty well up on the geog phy of South Carolina: had trave over every county but Lee sevt times. He thanked the people their handsome vote at the last se torial election and felt that he served it. He found it hard to say anyth about the next presidential electi everything is in doubt. Parker, New York, and Johnson, of Ohio spoken of as banner bearers but, fact, no- one seems to be promine Cleveland is a bag of beef, only .it pitchforking. Bryan does not w; the nomination and could not geti be did; he is talking too much. ' method must be to adopt some ticular policy or perhaps wait until Republicans show their hand and ti formulatea platform which will app to the people. The Northern people are highly p gressive-in industry, money-mak and dishonesty. The Republican pa is built on that basis and all the islation is in the direction of fra He instanced the pedsion swindle an example. All must play into hands of the G. 0. P. and by deg: .all the money in the country will diverted in thtat direction. He then told in his graphic way ! he had gained for South Carol against the government by play .Allison against Joe Cannon. The democratic party is sick. '] silver question must be put asiie the present. Hie personally is as sol a free silverite as ever, but it is 1 for financial reasons to avoid the is just now. Hie does not see much ht for democratic success in the pr dential election. Sentiment ent largely into politics, It was sentimn that brought on the civil war. A Stowe's book, "Uncle Tomn" and feeling must be considered. Theod Roosevelt knows how to appeal to t he is a straddler and a shrewd witness his action in the trustc and in the matterol the appointm of Crumn as collector at Charlest The only straw which shows the< rent In the plank in the platform dorsing the fourteenth and fi ftee: amendments and declaring that t must be maintained. This meant inauguration of a campaign to down Southern representation. 'I would mean a loss to South Carol of three or four congressmen. If the idea prevails the fight ma, made upon this issue and the spea would gladly welcome it. On that sue the democrats could carry north as well as the south. But less thtat or some similar mistak' made by them there is little cha for the democratic party. Jn answer to an inquiry he said did r ot care about talking about frauds in the postoffice departm' A committee would be appointed~ the next session of Congress wil would give the matter a thorough vestigation. The senator then warned thei ple that the negro question was by means settled. The constitutit convention had arranged t hings fi time, but the trouble was by no me over. The negroes were educating t! children and the rising genera would not be prevented from vol by the "illiteracy" clause. Being cated they would demand the ot and then-the deluge. The n< question hangs over the South like sword of Damocles. The time must and will come w~ the constitution of the United Sti must be amended and the entire gro vote of the nation eliminated ever. The senator thinking that some his remarks might have been thou. lurid and Tillmanesque here mad handsome apology to the ladies p ent if his language had been a li too fiery. He spoke loud, plain An Saxon English and did not try to o: ent it as his friend Lever did. with a little pleasant chafing at the latter gentleman the senator closed amid aloud applause. The meeting was a remarkably 'OP- pleasant one. S!eator Tillman was at his best. There were no "burning is sites" to excite his wrath or induce th~ose "flows of vituperation fur which he seems to have acquired a reputa tion. but spoke easily and forcibly with enough of his usual fire to give his ahearers and impressive idea of the con dition of things through the country. Another enjoyable feature of the occasion was the entire obliteration of the old factional lines. "Reform ers" and "antis." of the nineties. stood shoulder to shoulder, not to hail a, vOp loud-voiced agitator and an inspirer cek of trife. but to do honor to a man who had worthily worn the senato r1il toga and who hes ably and fear ich lessly discharged the duties if the isit; high o"ice to which he had been elect - ed practically by .the unanimous vote in of his state. ~ns, LOOK OUT FOR THEM. ub day Charleston Has Declared War on op in- White and BlacK Vagrants. and sed Charleston has rightly declared war the on all vagrrants that loaf about her streets, and no doubt many of them the will float in this direction and it would I rk" be well for the authorities to keep a ess Isharp lookout for them. The Charles lay. ton Post says the idle, worthless irst negroes, who have been loitering em about the streets of the city day and ex- night, must either go to work or leave red the city or they will be arrested and the sent to the chain gang. ral Several days ago The Evening Post in published an interview from a well not known business man, calling attention -om to the large number of negro idlers in the city and urged that the police de to partment make an active campaign in- on the vagrant class, and Chief Boyle ind issued orders to the special squad of .iad police officers to show the idlers no ers quarter. All negroes, male and female, iar- who are found hanging about the o a streets and who have no visible mea-is ius- of support will be arrested and tried ad- before the recorder on the charge of being vagrants. Upon conviction t by Recorder Jervey will not deal with re- them lightly. t to Chief Boyle said that the police ( I department had never let up on the t of enforcement of the vagrant law, for aid the records in the police court show the that negroes and white men are con- C but stantly being tried and convicted on im. the charge of being vagarants and era- sent to the public works. Only.a few r led days ago four young white men were t ral convicted under the vagrant act. The for crusade against the vagrants will now E na. be actively carried on with renewed de. vigor. The campaign is going to be lively and loafers will be arrested and ing sent to headquarters. on; Has the Cotton Fever. ar Porto Rico seems to have a well de- f are veloped case of the cotton fever. I News from that island say that with- t nt. in a month the cotton ginneries being I for erected on thg water front of San Juan I Sif will be ginning the most pretentious e t f and certainly the most significant iar- cotton crop Porto Rico has raised with- c the- in the past forty years. The output ewill be at least 10,000 bales of some of t men the finest sea island cotton ever grown. e eal The best yields will exceed 1,500 e pound seed and tiber to the acre; and t . 4 of sixty-eight experimental plots all i mg will show a profit. Nothing but sea t rty sland cotton has been planted, and r eN the tendency here is to encourage as ' uid. far as possible the growing of thati as grade only. Withi na year, it is con the fidently expected, the cotton boom in c -es Porto Rico will be attracting wide be spread 4ttention. And it is not im-t orobable that through such a boom e onthe rejuvenated industry will suffer byt ma later reaction. The recent decisionc in of President Roosevelt that 90,000t Tacres of public lands in Porto Rico can for now be sold leads to the reasonably for supposition that a part of this land, mdwhich will doubtless be appraised at( >est from S4 to -$10 an acre, will before sue long, blossom with cotton. At leastr ope that's talk in San Juan. The cottont es- fever is in the air. At present no at :ens temnpt will be made to grow short [t- staple cotton on the island. 1 the A Terrinec Tornado. ore A terrific tornado visited Patterson, ais; N. J., Wednesday. During the blow 1 'ne: which lasted about three minutes, 1 ase two persons were killed and at least ent three score more or less injured. Half on. a dozen men were at work jacking up tur- a house. When the tornado struck en- this building it collapsed. Jos. Van nth Dam was buried under the wreckage hey and instantly killed. Four other men1 the were caught, but were dug out alive, cut although unconscious. A t St. Joseph hshospital the patients were thrown in- 1 iato a panic. Big trees in the grounds around the hospital were blown be down, the windows were smashed and ker the awnings carried off. Thomas is Hancock, eight years old. was struck the by a piece of shafting blown from a un- wrecked laundry building which corn 1s pletely severed his head from his nce body. The monetary loss by the storm is estimated at between S150,000 and he 8200,000. As nearly as can be esti ma the ted fifty-two houses have been blown ft. down or so torn by the wind as to be at bevond repair. About double that ich number are badly damaged and sever in- al times that number slightly dam laged. ______ __ no Thunderstorm In Chicago. )nal Two persons were killed outright as r a the result of a storm at Chicago Tues ans Iday, viz. Bessie Jilerie, 2 years old. crushed to death by a piano blown eiir from the hands of movers, and Henry tion Temm, struck by Hightning while ing standing on a street corner. Many du- persons suffered from broken limbs bal- and sev-ere cuts and bruises due to gro runaway accidents. The storm was the accompanied by a high wind, and the .e hail. which formed in jagged pieces of hnice while falling, played havoc with i~tCs plate galss windows throughout the ne- down-town district. for- Leaped to Death. of A special to the Augusta Chronicle gt says by tieing one end of a rope e a around his neck and the other around' res- a bush and then leaping over a cliff, ttle William Roark, a farmer of Ashe al-county. N. C.. ended his life after ra- having made several threats of suicid A n1 ing. LEPERS MARRY. Some Hard Things Said About a Havana Hospital WHICH SHOULD BE REMEDIED. Hahana Post Discovers a Horrible Condition of Afrairs at the Leper Hospital in the Cuban Capital. It is hard to believe that in a civi ized community and in this day and ge of the wborld that such a -condi ion of affairs can exist as does exist n almost the heart of that city today Lt San Lazaro hospital, the place ,vhere the unfortunate people suffer ng from that dreadful and loathsome lisease, leprosy, are kept. The Post as heretofore published stories about ;his hospital but never before has iuch a serious condition of affairs been cnown. Before The Post published Lbout the patients from the hospital scaping and mingling with the. peo >le in the streets. and going where hey wished to go over the city. Dr. kJfonso, the director of the hospital, ook occasion to deny the story of Phe Post, but in dn interview cel brated with him at the hospital a ew days ago he acknowledged that Che Post was right. Allowing lepers to escape from the iospital and risk the spreading of ,heir dead disease to other people is )ad enough, and no censure is too se -ere for this, but -it passes belief that )r. Alfonso and the board of mana ers of the leper institution would al ow people afflicted with leprosy to aarry and bring into the world chil ren afflicted with the cause. But, orrible as this may seem, it is true. ome time ago two lepers named Juan aldes and Ricardo Martin asked Dr. tlfonso for permission to marry two roman patients. Dr. Alfonso referred he matter to the board of- managers, .nd it is understood recommended hat permission be given. The board >f managers; gave the permission, and he two men spent all of their savings n fitting up two rooms in the hospital or their brides-to-be. But the news f the approaching marriages reached he ears of Secretary of the Govern ent Yero, and the day before the aarriages were to take place and af er the priest had been secured the rord came from the secretary of gov rnment that it would not be allowed. t was reported that marriages had een celebrated before in the hospital, ut this could not be verified. Dr. Llfonso was found to be a very hard aan to catch in the hospital, the re orter having to go many times be ore the doctor could be found in.' In eed, the last time he was not in and ad to be sent for. The failure of )r. Alfonso to ever be in when The >ost reporter called, led to the con lusion that he was trying to avoid he interview, though he was very ourteous when finally found. The hospital is in a terribly unsani ary condition. Words are not strong nough to express the condition in rhich The Post reporter found the oilets. One could smell the sicken og stench long before one reached hem. No conveniences of any kind, tot even newspapers, were in evidence. The sanitary effects were new, hay og been put in by the government of atervention, and their condition was ue to nothing else than neglect, ure and simple. The most pitiful hing about the poor people, who are ompelled to stop in this asylum, is hat young boys, who are suspected of f being lepers are kept there and in he same rooms, eating and sleeping ith lepers who have been there for 'ears, playing games with men who have lost their .lingers and in some ses their bands. If these children 0 not develop the disease whether or ot they had it before it will ntot be he fault of Dr. Alfonso or the board f managers. There are boys there rom 10 to 14 years of age who have o sleep in the same ward with pa ients who have lost hands legs, ears, lose and eyes from the disease. What as gone before seems Incredible, but he public will hardly be prepared for le news that all of the slops from the atients are sold to an enterprising nan for $10 dollars a month, to be ed to hogs. Pork fed on bread scraps, neat and soup which has been handled d left by lepers, may not communi ate the disease to a person eating the ork. 'out it has not been demonstrat d t bat it has not, and it is safe to ay that no one would eat the pork if hey knew that it had been fed on uch sloos. Despite what has been said in de ense ot the management .of the hos ,ital there is no doubt in the world hat the lepers do escape from the uilding and mingle when they leased with the general public. On ,he 20th of May two women escaped 'rom the hospital and were gone three lays when they returned voluntarily. Iow many cases of leprosy will result rom these two women, of course, can nly be conjectured. The Post repor er talked to a number of the inmates Ld they thanked The Post for call ng attention to the bad management eretofore. They themselves said :bat they could leave the hospital vhenever they chose and showed The Post reporter how they could get over :he wall. One even asked the repor :er to name a day and hour to meet im at the otlice of The Post and he would escape and be there on time. While talking with these patients the reporter noticed a negro trying to andage up his leg The poor fellow 1ound it impossible almost to de o because both of his hands had been aten off at the wrists. The reporter alled attention to this and the reply came that the lepers received hardly no attention from doctors but are simply shut up and allowed to cure themselves if they can. When asked by the reporter as to the location of the doctors who are supposed to be connected with the institution they repled that they scarcely gave then: any attention at all and were seldon The Post reporter could easily see wa; in evidence. Dr. Alfonso said that the funds allowed by the state were insutlicient and that conditions were due to this fact. He said that he had made repeated endeavors to get a large appropriation for the hos pital but that all efforts had so far been in vain. He regretted the cir cumstances more than anv'one. Re garding his consent to the marriage of two of the innates he would say nothing. No amusements of any kind were noted by The Post repor ter. No library is there to help the poor victims while away the long hours before death Enally overtakes them, and they must remain there uay after day, with nothing to occupy them other than to watch the ravages which the disease is making upon them. The hospital used to have a school for education of the young boys in the C ho~spital. This school was taught by Senor Morejon, a very intelligent Spaniard, who is also a patient. Mr. Morejon speaks English fluently. L When asked why he did not continue t the teaching of the school he would t not say, but another patient told The e Post reporter that it was because Dr. t Alfonso had told him that he was t teaching the boy? meanness and for d that reason suspended the school. i All of the patients insisted that The Q ,Post urge Secretary of Government r Yero to visit the hospital and see for himself the conditions which prevail I there. They say that their condition .2 is becoming more pitiful daily, and 1 they knowing the integrity of secre- t tary of government, want him to sce with his own eyes the condition.-The r Havana Post. THE DEADLY HOT SUPPER. r C One Negro Killed and' Eight Others P p Wounded at One. t t The Charleston Post of Wednesday 1 n says "at a hot supper given by negroesr one night last weeek at Bee's ferry in e St. Andrew's a terrible battle was n ought among negroes. One man, . William Edwards, was killed and nine are reported to have been seriously . wounded. It is said that 100 shots i were firel during the fight. Wednes- n day morning Paul Lucas was arrested t on the charge of killing Edwards and c Robert Robinson was arrested on th.e n charge of being an accomplice. They h were committed-to jail by Magistrate S Strubs. 3 The particulars of *,he riot and the facts that led up to the trouble could n not be learned here. It is stated that S whiskey was at the bottom of the S1 shooting. Several days ago it was an- d nounced that a hot supper would be e given at Bee's ferry, near Drayton d station on the night of July 20. The b frolic was well advertised throughodt f the surrounding counbry, and on Mon- a day night negroes gathered from far " and'neir. They brought pistols with S them, for when the difficulty occurred 11 and the first shot fired the men pulled t their revolvers and commenced to b shoot in every direction. t( The riot occured about 3 o'clock in 9 the morning. The negroes had been I drinking more or less all night and la having a good time with the girls, b some whom imbibed freely, too, and ~ aided and abetted in bringing on the a trouble. When the shooting opened t up in dead earnest the negro women 'i took to the bushes and remained under t cover until daylight. Edwards was killed early during the trouble by Paul d Lucas, who, it is said, fired the first d shot, and Robert Robinson had a hand I in the affair. Lucas and Robinson b were arrested Wednesday morning by ' Magistrate Strubs' constable. It is ~ expected that other arrests will be t made.d Agreed to suicide. s Gerald Jordan, a promoter who il gives his age as 42, and his wife, b Laura, twenty years younger, made o two attempts at suicide in New York- bn Wednesday. Mrs. Jordan says that o they came to an agreement to kill t themselves Wednesday night and I swallowed laudanum. The poison did c not take full effect and at noon the o couple drank more of it. Mr. Jordan apparently relented after the second a dose and called a doctor from the c ground floor, who summond an am-p bulance. Mrs. Jordan recovered rapid- y ly. The man was slower in respond- ri ing to the treatment. It is thought .I that both will be well enough to be t arraigned in the police court Thurs-t day. Jordan is from the south. His i wife says he has lost everything. One Negro Kills Another. At Spartanburg Tuesday night two negroes, Hub Flack and Dock Jones, had a fight. Flack struck Jones on I ttxe head with something that dazed I him. He walked to his home and lit te was thought of the affair. Tues- I day afternoon about 5 o'clockte died. Constables have gone out to arrest Flack. Nothing definite is known as 1 to cause of quarrel or what the blow was given with. Killed In Accident. Mfrs. Adelaide Hawley of New Mil ford, Pa., was instantly killed and others with her in an automible party' were seriously injured by the overturn ing of their car, going at a tremendous rate of speed on Ocean Park way. Brooklyn. Mrs. Elizabeth Elberts of New Milford, Pa., sull'ered a concus sion of the brain and may die. Mrs. Hawley's son was cut and bruised. Two others escaped uninjured. Killed Over Cards. As a result of a free-for-all lIght over cards at Opekiska, W. Va., on1 Tuesday night, Tom Carter was kill-1 ed outright. Chas. Lewis was mortal ly wounded and Williain Jensen and Henry Horner seriously wounded. All are negroes. The shooting, it is said, was done by Robert Hyer, also a negro, who made his escape and has not yet been crptured. Little Boy Killed. in an altercation at Belle Sumpter Ala.. Joe Moore shot and severely wounded Sol Burnette and killed his seven-year-old son, the killing being Iby accident. The men quarreled over Bunette's alleged abuse of his wifo, TIE jHOOK WORM. ?lans to Exterminate the "Germ of Laziness" Being Made. CHE SOUTHERN STATES ACTING. NVill Try to Eradicate the Disease. Which :is Thought to Have Been One ofthe Plagues of Egypt. Although it has been less than six onths since Dr. Charles Wardell ;tiles, chief of the division of zoology f the public health and marine hos >ital service, oticially announced the liscovery uf the book worm, or "germ f laziness," preparations are already inder way in several Southern States o utilize the discovery in combating he disease. The State board of health ,f North Carolina, through its secre ary, Dr. Lewis, of Raleigh, has taken he lead in the work, and it,is conti ently expected by scientist in Wash gton that the health officials of that tate soon will make an important an ouncement as the result of the ex eriment they are now conducting. our obvious reasons the experiments re being carefully guarded from pub city by the olicials both in Washing on and in North Carolina. but it is iven out that as soon as satisfactory esults have been obtained they will e fully exploited in language that the tyman can easily understand. The disease which results from the avages of the hookworm is called uni inariais by the scientists. In common arlance it is known as laziness. Ap arently thidisease mainly is conjin,:d D warm climates, for it is there that e hookworm abounds in greatest umbers. Dr. Stiles thinks it quite robable that the ancient Egyptians, early 3,500 years ago, were acquaint d with the parasites which he has amed as the hookworm, and whose abits he is still studying with the en qusiasm of a novice. The disease appears to have attained s most virulent form among the gyptians of that period, and was mich more damaging to its victims aan it is now. However, unless a spe fic is found for it there is seemingly o reason why in time it should not ave as ruinous effects in the United tates as it had in Egypt more than ,500 years ago, A study of the conditions of the iost widely infected regions of the uth, mainly in Florida, appears to iow that the parasite attacks chil ren in the rural sections at a very trly age. It has been satisfactorily monstrated that children who go irefooted or permitted to loll around eely On the ground in summer time re the special victims of the book orm. When the parasite thus gets arted it thrives marvelousely, to the jury of its victim, actually arresting ie development of certain parts of the )dy and delaying the age of maturity a noticeable extent. When full rowth finally is attained the victim all through life indolent and shift ss. This accounts for the large num er of people in the South who are ynsidered lazy. In point of fact, they re lazy, but their laziness is due to 2e presence in the systems of hook -orms and not to a natural indisposi on to work or exert themselves. In a severe case of the hookworm isease the face is blotted, the shoul ers droop, the abdomen is enlarged, nd the arm and legs are thin. It has een observed that the disease is most ymmon among the dirt eaters of the outh and among people who live in e sandy regions of that section. In eed, Dr. Stiles declares thi.t nearly very case of the disease found during is trips through the South while audying the subjeets was either liv ig at the time in a sandy district or ad lived in such a district a few years eore. Dr. Stiles also observes that e would not expect to find the disease riginating in cities, and owns that bey are well paved and sewered. aved streets and grass lawns, he de ares, do not favor the development f the hookworm. Another interesting discovery he has lade in connection with the ravages f the "germ of laziness" is that the est is more active in summer than in inter. This accounts. In a large easure, for the apparent increase of iziness in hot weather. According to e testimony of Dr. Stiles, the symp oms of the disease begin to increase the spring and decrease in the early vinter. " The periodicity,"' says the iscovery of the "ger-n of laziness," !ill be noticed, of course, only in lo alities which are above the frost line, .nd it is easily explained when we take nto consideration the biology of the >arasites. It is probably that the sea onal periodicy of the symptoms oticed in our Southern States will be nodifed in the tropics, so that the ymptoms will increase in severity in he rainy season and decrease in the Iry period of the year." One of the most interesting features >f Dr. Stiles' observations is this: 'IUcinariasis," says he in his report n the subject, "occurs in both blondes Lad brunettes, and in both the white Lnd negro races, but, so far as my ob ervations go, the disease is more ~evere, or at least more noticeable. in londes than in brunettes, and more ~evere. as a rule, in the white than in ;he negro." snakes Escape. Altoana. Pa., was thrown into a lood of terror and excitem~ent Wed. esday by an accident at a cage con ~alning $00 snakes. The- door was pened by mistake and the reptiles ade a wild break for liberty. Soon he city was overrun by them, spead ng terrors whberever they crawled. ollector Albright, who attempted to :lose the cage and stop the rush of the nakes from their place of confine ment, was bitten four times. Aged Lady Killed. The police were notitied Tuesday morning at 1:30 o'clock that Mrs. Reid, mother of R. B. Reid, the well known expressman, was murdered in her home on Mount Pleasant Mass., some time after midnight. It is re ported that two men entered the house and assaulted the woman who was 7( FRIGHTENED NEGROES. Typographical Error in an Almana< Caused Consternation. A Gainesville, Ga., dispatch says: Rev J. D. Lovejoy, colored, pastoi of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopa: Church of Gainesville, has the negroes of that city wrought up to a high pitch of excitement over a sermon he recently preached from Amos viii, 9. The occasion of the sermon was fur nished by a typographical error in Grier's Almanac of 1903. In the November table of the rising and setting of the sun on the 25th the astronomers calculate that the sun will rise at 6:69 a. m. and set at 5.0 p. m. Here is where the "devil" proof reader or printer comes in and makes the error upon which the colored clergyman's remarks are based. In stead of the printer setting in up 5 01 p. m , he substituted a figure 1 in place of the fgure 5, and Rev. Love joy in looking over-the almanac sees the error and comes to the conclusion that this Is the day set apart for the ending of all eartly things, Therefore he takes his bible and turning to Amos viii, 9, selects the following scriptures for the text. "And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day." With a voice trembling with ex citement and his frame shaking with apparent fear Rev. Lovejoy cited his hearers tv the scriptural quotations and the typographical error in the almanacs as proof positive tLat the Judgment Day was near at hand and would surely arrive at noon, Novem ber 25; next. Although there is one hour and one minute's difference be tween the going down of the sun as appears in the almanao and the scrip tural quotations this matters not to either Rev. Lovejoy or his congrega tion.-they both believe that the end of the world is scheduled for this par ticular day and time. . With the roar of the recent tornado still ringing in their ears, Lovejoy and his congregation are prepared to believe that a similar or even worse visitation may come at any day and the error of the almanac furnishes them with dates upon which they can agree-and this time is the end ing of the world upon which they have decided. St. Paul Church was destroyed in the recent storm and the creduility of this congregation now knows' no bounds. A TRAGIC DEATH. A Lady Thrown from a Wagon and Dies from Fall. The Spartanburg Herald says Tues day the news reached the city of the tragic death of Mrs. Lee Bogan on Sun day afternoon. Mrs. Bogan, along with her husband and two of their children, started to a meeting on Sun day afternoon at the Holiness church, a few miles above Cowpens. Mr. Bo gan lives a distance beyond Cowpens. They were traveling in a one-herse wagon, to which a mule was attached. The mule became frightened, from some reason, and became ungovern able. Mr. Bogan and the children jumped from the wagon, and escaped without serious injury. The frighten ed animal carried the wagon and Mrs. Bogan a considerable distance forward, finally striking the vehicle against a tree. Mrs. Bogan was thrown from er seat, and in falling sustained fatal injuries from which she died shortly afterwards. Her death is a peculiarly sad one. She leaves a devoted husband and sev eral children. She was a middle aged woman, and .a useful, pious soul, who exerted her influence for the better ment of her circle and her neighbors. In her humble sphere she labored faithfully, and eternity alone can tell the fruits of her work. Her remains were buried near Cowpens. A Great Contrast. The Fort Mill Tiimes says: "The most unique marriage that has occur red here in years took place at the Palmetto hotel Thursday morning, the contracting parties being Mr. L. L. Cutting and Miss Mary Ray, of Salis bury, N. C. The bride is a handsome young women, weighing probably 175 pounds and could have faced the tape near the 6-foot mark, while the groom is about 4 feet 10, and would tip the scales at about 75 pounds. A greatel contrast could scarcely be imagined. The couple were married by 'Squire McElbaney and left on the afternoof train for North Carolina." Cut Him Badly. A serious and perhaps fatal cutting affray took place about one mile frorr Union Tuesday night about 10 o'clock William Gilliam went to the home 01 is son-in-law, Richard Railey, while under the influence of whiskey anc cursed and used very abusive language Mr. and Mrs. Railey endeavored to gel him quiet, but he became more angry and it is reported that he struck Mrs Railey and knocked Mr. Railey dowr with a bottle and jumped on him When he did so Mr. Rlailey pulled hi! knife and cut him seriously. Therc are seventeen gashes. At last repor! Gilliam was in a critical condition. Shipping Cotton Back. A dispatch from H-avre says a larg proportion of the cargo of the Genera Transatlantic Line's steamer La BrWet agne, which sailed for New York, con sists of cotton which has been re-ship ped to teUnited States on accoun1 of sthe meria speculation in tha1 The Toy Pistol. Ten deaths have resulted from loci aw in Cleveland, Ohio, since July 4 The latest vicitim was Joseph Stasko He died as a result of a slight wounc received in handling a toy pistol -ol July 4. The First Bale. Tlhe first bale of cotton of the croi of 1903 arrived at New York Tuesda: and was sold at the door of the cottox exchange for 26 1-2 cents a pound The cotton was raised in Zapata coun ty, Texas, and was bought in Galves ton, Teas.0 WHAT A GREAT NAVY MEA NS. President Roosevelt's Fervid Oratory Boiled Down to Hard Facts. President Roosevelt's Fourth of July pronouncement that "we need a navy equal, ship for ship, to the navy of any other nation,'. must mean, of course, that an American navy equal to the British is a national necessity. If the president is right it is worth while to to count the cost. The \British navy, according to the latest official return. made at the beginning of the current year, included 546 vessels of 1,401,018 tons already built, and 78 vessels build ing, of 406,856 tons. Against this total of 624 vessels, of 1,807,874 tons, comprised in the King's Navee," the United State had on the same date 109 vessels of 278.259 tons already built, and 444 vessels, of 300,484-tons, build ing; in all 153 vessels of 578,743 tons. From this It plainly appears that to realize Mr. Roosevelt's ideal navy we must build at once battleships,*armor ed cruisers and other varieties of the ship militant aggregating the little trifleof 1,229,131 tons. Now, what would this cost? The shortest way to answer the question is to reduce it to battleship terms. A first-class battleship aver ages 15000 tons displacement and costs at least $5,000,000 to build. To get even in the matter of shins built and building with the British navy, as the account stood on Jan. 1 last, we must therefore build the equivalent of more than 80 battleships at a cost of $400, 000,000. Admiral Melville has stated the actual first cost of our navy as it staids- -today, including the vessels now building, -and the auxiliary ex penditures indispensable to maintain ing it attoat-docks, coaling stations, training ships, etc.,-at 1550,000,000. The same authority says tii'e- actual cost of creating a navy is double the mere first cost of building the ships. On the basis of this expert testimony. Mr. Roosevelt's navy, "equal ship for ship" the Great Britain's, would cost us $800,000,000 plus what we have al ready spent -just to call it into ex istence. Mean-while the ships we have are becoming obsolete or~ worn out. The New York, Indiana and Iowa are "laid up for repairs" that will cost $500,000 for each. Furthermore, Great Britain is year by year increasing the pace of naval construction. She has increased her naval expenditures nearly threefold during the past 15 years, and they now exceed $150,000,000 annuilly, . At our present rate of construction, unless the British pace is lowered, we shall never catch up with her, but shall grow rel atively weaker. We must "see" her $150,000,000 a year for naval purposes and add at least $70,000,000 a year to it in order to overtake her within 13 years. This is in fact an.underestimate, be cause it costs us. 30 per cent. more to build a warship than it does Great Bri tian and 30 per cent. more to main tain It in service. Hence nearly one third must be added to the vast totals of cost above given for the realization of our fighting president's naval dream. Naval appropriations aggregating not much less than S300,000,000 yearly, and containing for 13 years to come, is the unav'oidable price to be paid for the whistle of a standing navy as big as Great Britain's. But what for? Do we really need it? Who threatens us? Or whom do we desire to threaten? What is the the worldwide game of war for which Mr. Roosevelt would have us go into training? And would the game, whatever it is, be worth so costly a candle. A SAD CASE. A Physician Went to Aid a M~an and Found His Son. The Atlanta Journal says: Hearing that a man had been injured by a Southern railway freight train at a point between Johns street and North avenue, Dr. W. 0. Trammell, whois the proprietor of a drug store at 503 Marietta street, rushed to the scene as rapidly as possible to render what ever assistance might be in his power to the comfort of the dying man. As soon as Dr. Trammell reached the scene he knelt beside the injured man to ascertain the extent of his injuries, and as he did this he gave a scream of horror and fainted. The injured man was his son, Alwin Trammell, who in a few minutes was dead. It is thought that the car which struck Trammell had been "kicked" and was silently rolling along the tracks in the direction of Trammell when h p attempted to cross, but so silently was it moving that he did not hear it and started across the tracks when he was struck. Henry Hunter, a negro fireman, was the closest wit ness to the tragedy. He said at the coroner's inquest this morning that he heard a scream and turning saw a body doubled up beneath the cars. He immediately flagged down the train. Trammell was going in the direction of Marietta street and was crossing the tracks at a .place where there is no regular path. It is thought that Trammell was returning to his father's drug store, 503 Marietta street, when he met his death, for in the afternoon he had left with a number of bills against em ployes of the railroad working in the yards. To make a quick cut to Marietta street is thought to be his reason for crossing the track at the point where he was killed. The right side of Trammell's face was struck by the wheels of the car. The wheels also mashed his right leg between the knee and ankle. The body was removed directly~from the railroad tracks to the-undertaking parlors of H. M. Patterson, where it was prepared for burial. Trammell was about 20 years of age and was em ployed in his father's drug store. The verdict rendered at the inquest Tues day morning, which was conducted at Patterson's by Coroner Stamps, was that Trammell met his death by be ing struck by a freight car. No blame is attached to either the engineer or tireman of the train. Four Drowned. Jason Ramsey and three children weredrowned by the capsizing of a skiff -on the Calf killer, near Sparta, Tenn, o n Wednesday. RED-HANDED WAR A Most Horrible Battle While It Lasted, Says a Dispatch. BLOOD FLOWED LIK WATER IN Cuidad, whose Streets Were Swept by Shot and Shell, Filling Them With Dead and Dying Soldiers. A dispatch from Soledad. Venezue la, says for hours on Tuesday after noon the battle between the revolu tionary forces at Ciudad Bolivar and the Venezuelan government army, commanded by General Gomez,'has raged madly. Block after block was disputed, .tb government troops en tering the city slowly. All the houses had been barricaded and the revolu tionists had been forced from flat roofs called Azotoas. When the revolu tionists finally abandoned the houses after having taken all that could be used for barricades or to. otherwise stop the advance of the government troopsthey were immediately occupied by the government soldiers who bored holes in them so as to communicate , with the next house. The city ap pears to have been struck by a cyclone. At 7 o'clock in the evening the gov ernment forces, which were advancing - from all directions arrived neat the center of Ciudad Bolivar. For: two hours previously firing had diminished; but -it was renewed with more vigor at 10 o'clock at night and illuminated the sky. At 3- o'clock in the morning when. - the inhabitants of the commercial and . j foreig'n parts of the city near the Ala meda saw--the advance of the -govern ment troops ~tey all abandoned their,-. homes and sog fuge in other parts of the city 'crossini the streets -- -_ amidst a hail of b ets and shells, the women carrying th r chil dren; the strong helping the w many men in trying to protect the women falling, struck by bullets. In the middle of the streets what with the firing, the yell of the wound ed and the crying of the women and children, a terrible scene was witness ed, bad enough to disgust anibody forever with civil war. The govern merit troops, however, acted with liu manity, especially the forces of Gen eral Rivas, who fighting bravely, was the first to order the attacking force be merciful. At 8 o'clockthe govern ment generals having effected a inne ture of their forces, north and south, and having received further supplies and ammunition, decided to push the attack on the center of the city. At 10 o'clock the government troops had captured the north side of' the Alameda, the public park of Ciudad Bolivar, which has been defended by a double row of barricades. Behind one of these were found more than 30 dead soldiers lying on top of each other while wounded men were seen on alt sides. At 10 o'clock the government commanders'seeing that only the ar tillery could make a breach in the bar-. ricades of the Alameda ordered twelve guns to open fire on them andI at the same time the Venezuelan fleet which changed its anchorage so as to bring 4 its guns to bear effectively on the city, opened fire. The soldiers on both sides have had no food for two days, no ambulances are being used and yet the fighting continues. The old custom house and waterworks have been -taken. The Dalton block, the property of the United States counsel, where all the leading German and French families - reside are now being attacked. The jail is the centre-of a terrible resist ance. All the defeated revolutionists have concentrated there. -It is esti mated that more than 200 men have been killed in that vicinity. The ar tillery of the revolutionists is fiercely replying to the attack of the fleet. Early in the afternoon 5,200 govern ment troops stormed and captured the "Zamora," called the Sebastopol of Ciudad Bolivar.. Ninety-four dead re bels'were found Inside, among 'them being General Azanza, one of the rev olutionary leaders, whose head had been blown off by a shell. The escape of the revolutionists after the capture of the capitol, which is inevitable, seems impossible. They must either surrender or die. At 71 o'clock Tues day night the custom house was taken after a ten-hours fight. The Associ ated Press representative counted sixty killed as a result of this fight. The Dalton Block, where the Ameri can consulate and most of the foreign business houses are located, was cap turid at 5 o'clock. The revolutionists are without provisions and water, the supply pipe having been cut Monday. Their situation is considered desperate and hopeless. The 'shops are being illaged. A Foolhardy Practice. For some years there has been a tendency on the part of people giving or participating in public performan ces to run hazardous risks in order to win the applause of the populace, and the risks are many and varied. It ap pears that the spectacle of a man "looping the loop" on a bicycle is no longer suiliciently thrilling to suit the crowd, and some new sensation involv- . ing peril human life Is demanded. To supply this deficiency a young man in Indianapolis the other day tried io - make the circuit of the loop on a pair - of roller skates. In order to bring his center of gravity close to the point of contact he had constructed a pair of skates weighing 100 pounds. But even with this aid the chances were infinitely against him, for by placing the greatest weight at the base of the tall column presented by his frame he lessened his opportunity for balancing. So when hewas making atrip he lost his poise when at the highest point of the loop and fell to the ground, his skull being crushed. He died shortly afterward. There are many varieties of this life risking performance now - on view, all of which should be pro nounced illegal and prohibited. They . add nothing to the public knowledge, and the entertainment they afford is nerve racking and productive of' an abnormal taste of horrmrs.