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VOL. xvII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUT 7 EATS EM ALIVE. Senator Burton from Kansas N( Match for Senator Tillman SAYS THE CHICAGO CHRONICLI To the Great Force of the South Carolina senator this Pre judiced Newspaper Pays a Tribute. Senator Ben Tillman has impressed them out west as a strong one, sure. They have pitted against him in a joint debate on the race question Senator Burton, of Kansas, who has held some sway as a scholar and an orator of ability. Read herein below what Senator Tillman has done to his opponent from Kansas, as interpreted by the Chicago Chronicle: Whatever we may think of the ideas and sentiments entertained by Benjamin R. Tillman. we cannot bul concede the force and virility of hi: character. He has been called a bar barian, but if he has the barbarian* savagery he has likewise the barbar ian's strLngth. le is not the sort of man against whom weaklings may be sent. The people who are managing the hippodroming debate between Senator Tillman and Senator Burton owe it to their patrons-the people who pay money at the box otlice- -to maintain at least a show of a contest. They owe it to the country at large to pit against the man from South Carolina some one who is capable of confuting him-some one who can exoose the fallacies which Mr. Till man deals out with the air of an oracle. These be hard facts, and, bearing as they do upon the friend and ad viser of the president, they are worthy to challenge the attention of Mr. Roosevelt as well as the country at large. lhaving said so much of Till man, the Chicago Chronicle takes occasion to declare the North is no more pro-negro than the South. and adds that Senator Tillman, assuming it is, sets up a man of straw which Burton accepts and seeks to defend, and which. the South Carolinian demolishes in spite of the Kansas at tempt to protect it. There is no more social equality between blacks and whites in Chicago than in Char leston. There is no more motion of amalgamating the races by marriage in New York than there is in New Orleans. The managers of the oratorical soft glove contest owe it to the north to send a stout and worthy champion against the gentleman from South Carolina. Such a champion will not utter feeble and prefunctory conven tionalisms about educating the negro. He will not use the language of the tea party or church sociable. He will tell the truth and unmask humbug, and he will not be particular about the exact language he employs in do ing so. He will keep Benjamin Rt. Tillman to the facts and he will make it perfectly clear that while the north is no more 'negrophile' than the south it is determined that the south shall not disfranchise the negro and still conIinue to count him as a basis of representation. There plenty of such men available. If the rhetori cal circus is to continue their ranks should be drawn upon. Mr. Burton has neithe1 the vocabulary nor the personal standing for the task that he has assumed." In commenting on the above the Atlanta Journal says: Senator Burton is no weakling. The Chronicle has merely made the mistake of judging the man by the size and strength of the views he is airing on the race question. The pa per's estimate, from which the above is taken, deals too harshly with the Kansan for failing to accomplish what all others from that section and other -sections have failed to accomplish namely, to answer Tillman's argu ments. We recall an occasion in the United States senate wherein the stern faced old warrior from South Carolina stated his creed on very much the same lines as he has stated them out west. On that occasion he cordially invited any gentleman within his hearing to arise and reply to his statements if thei dared. None dared-or at least none replied. No newspaper called their weakling then, because such men at G. F. Hoar, Henry C. Lo~dge, Mar. cus A. Hianna, John C. Spooner. Chauncey M. Depew and Nelson W. Aldrich were there-to say nothing o: .Platt and Quay. The Chronicle goes on to say thal Tillman's "fallacies" are his belief: that the north recognized the negro as social..equals and that the north want ed the fourth to submit toi negro do. mination. It wants some man stroni enough to show these beliefs up at fallacies, a man who can prove, tc quote its own-words, that "there is n( more social equality between blacks and whites in Chicago than there i: in Charleston. There is no morf notion of amalgamating the race-s by marriages in New York than there i: in New Orleans." Hie would be a strong man indeed who could prove this in the face o1 the Booker Washington dinner givet by a New York President; the ap pointment of negroes over white peo ple by a New York president: the in vitation given negroes to attend t white house sociable by a New Yorl president; the expenditure of Chicage money on educating the negro so tha the laws which require an educationa q.ualification of voters shall not dis franchise him in districts where h outnumbers the whites. If such a man can be found w should be glad to pay the price de mandled at the gate to hear him. H is not in the United States senate for Tiliman gave everyone there al opportunity to prove these "fallacies and none grasped it. lie is not on th lecture platform, else we had hear' him down this way long ago. lie i not in the house of national represern tatives, for several of Tillman's wa of thinking have offered similar op portunities for replies there. I1 pont of fact, we do nrot believe he es ists who can answer the Tillman argu ment. It never has been answered. It is our firm convictioni that it will never be answered by word sof mouth. Certain events now transpiring dai ly in the north lead us to believe that it will be answered in another way atlirmatively answered, as it were. They are beginring to show, in other words. a deciced disposition to agree with Senator Tillman and the rest of WHITE MAN LYNCHED. Mob Takes Him ]From Victim's Father and Han." Him. Despite the efforts of the victims father. Sheriff Richards of Asotinf county Wis., who had sworn in 25 de puties to guard the man, William Hamilton, a well-to do farmer, the self-confessed murderer of a little Mabel Richards, was forcibly taken from the Asotin county jail shortly after midnight and lynched by a mob of more than 1,000 men which had been congregating all day from all parts of Asotin county. About 12.15 o'clock a band of men. their faces concealed with bandker chiefs. marched to the jail. The otlicers and guards were swept aside and the keys taken from the jailer. The bars of the cell had to be sawed before the door could be opened. llamilton was then dragged from the prison and into the yard. Meanwhile another band of masked men had marched to the jail. They kept back the crowd which had wait ed all night for the lynching. Guard ed by several masked men the mob came from the jail with Hamilton followed by other members. Then the man who had been guarding the jail formed about captive and captors, and kept the crowd away. When the lynchers .with Hamilton reached First and Fillmere streets they halted under a guy wire connection electric light poles. Hamilton was asked if he wanted to confess. He did so. Finally he asked that his jewelry and trinkets he had be given his father and mother and it was promised that this would be done. Then there was another delay. The manner of Han.ilton's death was being discussed. Some wanted to I torture him, but it was decided to I hang him. A mask was put over the man's head, a rope around his neck. thrown over the guy wire -and seized by many of the lyndheas. When they were certain he was dead the body was left suspended. The crowds then I left. BEGGED IN VAIN FOR HIS LIFE. Green Fired in Cold Blood Upon the Dving Jew Peddler. A gentleman from Aiken who was in the city Mouday states that the killing of Surasky, the Jew peddler, was a more dastardly piece of business than it has been reported-and the publised statements were shocking enough in themselves. It is told in Aiken that the peddler was shot down, but not killed immediately, and that he begged piteously for his life. His answer was another load of shot, bringing death to end his agony. 1 It is claimed that eye-witness can be produced who will corroborate this 1 statement. The man, George Toole. who was placed under arrest, is in dan- 1 ger of serious trouble, but it is claim- I ed in his behalf that he had nothing to do with the assassination, that hisI only guilt is in not communicating to the otlicers of the law the news that he had found the dead body and it was fear of Green which prevented Toolei from reportring the matter. ,Green is a desperate man. Ihis brother is said to have been a bad man, and wats tried for killing his own brother in-law, a man named McClean. Governor Hey ward has offered a re- 1 ward for Green's capture. This dastardly murder occurred near the Georgia line, a long ways from the Chinquepin section of the county which was the scene of bloodshed but a few days ago. No Bank Examiner. The Columbia Record says tihe gov ernor, secretary of state, attorney general, comptroller general and state treasurer have decided that no state bank examiner could be appointed un der the present act, owing to its de ticiencies. The board was in session for a considerable time on the matter about which several letters have been written to the governor. As the law was interpreted, however, the board decided that there was no fixed method by which the banks could be assessed equally and no method of collecting the assessment by the re spective county auditors. The act is very general in its nature, simply pro viding for the appointment of an ex aminer, at a salary of S$1.500 per an num, and was passed in 189T. All the other adminmstrations let the matter go by and the legislature has never taken it up again.. The many de ficiencies in the act will be shown by the attorney general, who is prepar ing a review of it, and the legislature will have its attention called to these to remedy or not as it sees lit. Cashier is Gone. On account of alleged shortage in the accounts of T. W. D~ewey, cashier of the Farmers' and Mercbants' bank of Newbern, N. C., the bank has been cmpelled to go into liquidation. The amount or the alleged shortage is large, but tile sum has not been ascer tained. There was no trouble about paying. all depositors and credi.tors in full. Mr. Dewey, the cashier. left Newoern last Saturday night week stating that lie would return either Monday night or Tuesday morning. He has not returned and it is not known~ where he is. Killed Fifty Turks. A special messenger from Monastia reports that the Bulgarian insurgents have dynamited the governor's palace in the town of Krushevo, 22 miles 'orth of Monastir. Fifty Turks were killed. _______ ___ Two Lads Drowned. 3 The dead bodies of Ernest and Ray mond Connor, aged respectively 11 and 13 ye-ars. were found in the creek near their home at H-arlow, N. C., Wednesday. It is believed th~at they jhad been playing on a raft and fell -into the stream. HE IS A DEMOCRAT. Bryan Gives a Full History of His Political Career. WHY HE VOTED FOR WEAVER. He Has Never Denied His Affiliation With the Democratic Party or Permitted it to be Questioned. The gold democrats, unable to make D, successful attack upon the princi ples for which Mr. Bryan stood as the nominee or the party, and which he now defends, are attempting to ques Lion his right to membership in the emocratic party. Three points are urged against him. First, he is quoted is saying at some time (the date is not hxed) prior to 1896, that he was not a democrat, but a bimetallist. Second, that he voted for General Weaver in 892: an(l, third, that he advocated principles which are not democratic. The first charge is entirely without foundation. Mr. Bryan never at any time or place denied his political af fliation with the democratic party or permitted it to be questioned. His parents were democrats before him. ind he counted himself a democrat in bis youth because his parents were, ind after he was grown, was a demo :rat because o' his belief in demo ratic principles and policies. lie made democratic speeches in l880. be ,ore he was old enough to vote, and ias made de.nocratic speeches in -very campaign since. He has at .ended democratic conventions for bout twenty years and has never been delegate to a con vention of any other ?arty. le has favored fusion with the opulists in Nebraska for the reason dhat upon the questions immediately efore the country the populists and emocrats agree, their difierences be ng as to questions not reached. In 1890 Mr. Bryan was nominated 'or congress by a democratic conven Jion and was elected. defeating both he republican candidate and the popu ist candidate. He was renominated or congress in 1892 and again elected, lefeating this time also a populist as ell as a republican. In 1894 he was ihe nominee of the democratic state :onvention for the United States sen Lte, but was not indorsed by the popu ist state convention. While he wouud )robably have received the votes of yopulist members of the legislature if heir votes could have elected him, ust as Senator Allen had received the emocratic votes in the legislature wo years before, the republicans had majority in. the legislature elected n 194-the year in which Mr. Cleve and's adrministration was so overwhel ningly condemned. Nearly all of the >opulists voted for a member of their >wn party. At the close of the 53rd congress, n March, 1895, Mr. Bryan joined vith Mr. Blsnd in preparing and cir mulating an appeal to the democratic elievers in bimetallism to organize d secure control of the democratic >rganization. From that date on to ,e meeting of the Chicago convention le visited all parts of the country, at ending democratic meetings and con -entions and giving whatever assis ance be could to the democratic be ievers in birnetallism. Tnere was ever any question raised as to his arty relations. in 1894 a few democrats left the lemocratic state convention and nomi ated what they called "a straight lemocratic ticket." This ticket re :eived about five thousand votes in the tate. The bolting organization was naintained until after the election of 896. In 1895 the organization se iured for this ticket an unfair advan age by collusion with the republican udges. In 1896 both organizations ent delegates to Chieago, and the ational c:ommittee, by a strict gold nd silver vote, gave temporary cre lentials committee of the convention, iowever, after a full hearing, deelded n favor of the regular delegation, eaded by Mr. Bryan, and the testi nony before this committee was so ;lear and convincing that the minority id not present a report. During all this period it will be seen hat Mr. Bryan was active in party 'ork and gave no excuse for any one o doubt his party connections. Congressman O'Farrall, afterward overnor of Virginia, has stated that ~r. Bryan in the fall of 1894 intended o seak in favor of the populist candi late for governor in Virginia, but was aersuaded not to do so by Mr. O'Far r'all, then the democratic candidate for governor. Mr. O'Farrall may have seen so informed, but if so his inform int was in error, for Mr. IBryan never ontemplated any such thing. The :riticism, however, comes with poor race from Mr.-OFarrall, for while as ecrting that he prevented Mr. Bryan's ;peaking against him when he was a ~andidate for governor, he bolted the national ticket when Mr. Bryan was a :andidate for the presidency. Cer tainly his fight against a national can idate nominated by the aid of Vir ~inias votes was a more serious breach than the failure to support a guberna orial candidate, even if Mr. Bryan Lad opposed Mr. O'Farrall, which lhe lid not do. The charge that Mr. Bryan voted for Mr. Weaver has already been ex plained aid the facts have been pre ;ented so often that one must confess himself misinformed it he circulates the charge as an evidence of Mr. Bry in's aandonment of the democratic party. As ;he election of 18~92 approached it became evident that it was impossi ble for the democrats to carry several of the western states, but that it was possible for the democrats to assist the populists in carrying them. This situation having bten fully discussed, the democratic national committee, of which Mr. Harrity was chairman and Mr. Whitney the controlling spirit, (if the word "spirit" can properly be used of the Whitney type), instructed to urge the democrats of Kansas, Colorado and a number of other west ern states, to suipport the Weaver electors for the purpose of taking those states out of the republican column and throwing the election into the house of representatives where the dence of this is conclusive, and has been published time and again. The following letter. from James E. Boyd, then the governor of Nebraska and the Nebraska member of the national S8 c'jmmittee, ought to set this fact at rest: Lincoln, Neb.. Oct. 17.-(Personal and contidential.)-I)ear Sir: I have just returned from the east where I honored by a consultation with the D national committee and leading men of our party, with regard to the best policy to be pursued in Nebraska this fall in dealing with the electorial H ticket: and they agreed with me that the wisest course would be for demo crats to support the Weaver electors: the object being to take Nebrask'a out of her accustomed place in the republi canl column. Information has reached me that a number of independents who were formerly republicans contemplate vot- V ing for the Harrison electors. With the republicani strength thus.augment ed it would be impossible for the at democrats to carry their own electors' w( ticket to victory. It is therefore the w part of good judgment and wise action cr for democrats to support the Weaver ne electors in as large numbers as possi- pi ble. For democrats to do this is no nc abandonment of principle: on the con- be trary. it is a definite step toward Vic- I tory, and the ultimate triumph of Cleveland and Stevenson, and the oP principles they represent. C .JAIs E. BOYD. mb' Mr. Bryan was then a member of fr congress as well as a candidate for re- i election, and announced that if the " elecbion was thrown into the house he ce would vote for Mr. Cleveland, the tb democratic nominee, as against Mr. wi Harrison. the republican ::1ominee. ce Mr. Bryan may be justly criticised for having known so little of Mr. Cleve- co land as to prefer him to Mr. Harrison, In, but from toestandpoint of democratic di regularity he cannot be criticised for in, obeying the democratic national com- Wt mittee, and voting for Gen&ral Weav- of er in order to help elect Mr. Cleveland. th In the election of 1896 Mr. Weaver ch was-one of the most active supporters all of Mr. Bryan, while Mr. Cleveland on turned to republican advantage the in- th iluence which the democratic par:y e had given him. When Mr. Bryan be came personally acquainted with the er two men, he found that General re Weaver was infinitely more democratic na than Mr. Cleveland in envirtpment, principles. purpose and method. 'S As to the policies which Mr. Bryan Wa has supported, only a word need be tic said. On the tariff question no one . will dispute his orthodoxy. lie helped 1 to prepare the Wilson bill, which was an much more acceptable even to Mr. c Cleveland, than the senate bill after p Mr. Gorman and Mr. Gorman and Mr. va Hill got through with it. The free no list of the Wilson bill was practically he identical with the free list set forth in th the platform u-pon which Mr. Bryan na was elected in 1890, four years before. gri The democrats of the 52nd and 53rd ch congress favored the election of Unit- IOU ed States senators by direct vote of the people. and this was made a part th of the democratic platform of 1900. This demand will be found in the democratic platform upon which Mr. aw Bryan ran in 1890. The Wilson bill ut contained and income tax, and this po was supported by a large majority of of, the democrats of the senate and house. The income tax was also demanded in Mr. Bryan's first congressional plat form also contained a plank in favor h of the free coinage of silver, and dur- m ing that |year the democrats of the house by an overwhelming majority tal voted to recommit the Sherman law. with instructions to the committee to bring in a free coinage bill (16 to 1 be- w irg the only ratio then considered). For twenty years the democrats of the se senate and house had been voting for e bills embodying exactly the coinagepo provisions that the platform of 1896 ~ contended for. There was not a plank in the Chicago platform that was in consistent with the record of the party on questions dealt with, and that platform was prepared by a committee selected from all the states of the g Union and was reported to the con vention before Mr. Bryan's nomina-. tion was considered probable by any ye~ considerable nuamber of the conven- St tion. fu: The money plank of the Chicago fal platform, while identical with the tel plank adop'ted by the democrats of Ne- inl braska in 1894, had been indorsed by sei the democrats at the primaries in al- me most all the states and no one can say fa] that its adoption was not the free and ge voluntary act of the rank and file of ex the pairty. At Kansas City the only ex controversy was over the money plank. re No other plank of the Chicago plat- sk form was questioned or opposed, and te the dispute over the money plank was a as to whether it should be reatlirmed th or reiterated. by Mr. Bryan has defended the Chicago on platform and the Kansas City plat- gri form, and if his democracy can be frc uestioned because of his advocacy of gr those platforms, then the same objec- l tion must be maele to the democracy fa] of the millions who believe In those ha platforms as firmly as he and have ad- br vocated them as earnestly. A. Space has been given to the above it not becauso Mr. Bryan's conduct or views ought to intiuence others, but because the reorganizers are seeking th to make the light a personal one against Mr. Bryan, whereas it is and n ought to be made upon principles. A o principle is neither good nor bad be cause it is advocated by any man; it is good or bad in itself, and this discus- a sion of Mr. Bryan's personal connec- C tion with these q1uestions would not appear here but for the fact that the r. friends of the Kausas City platform are continually annoyed by the mis representations that are made by the zold democrats and by the republicanhi papers which take great delight in as-o sisting the gold democrats. jDestructive Fire.w Fire caused by lightning Wednes- te day evening destroyed the Bourbon im stoc1< yards and two buildings adjoin- fr ing at Louisville, Ky. Four hundred and fifty head of sheep were burned. The loss is about $250,000 with in susurance one-half. Capt. Eberhart a Dillman and Pipeman Richard Moore' were injured by falling timbers. s Killed by His Son. ar A special to the Augusta Chronicle tI: from Spread. Ga., says while in a row ni with his wife, Daniel Rivers, colored bl was shot by his son, Morgan Rtivers, bi who stood up for his mother and tired m two shots into his father's heart kill- st ing him instantly. O THE NEW POPE. rto, a Venetion Cardim Elevated to the Popal Throne. [D NOT WANT THE HIGH OFFICE Is Said to be a Strong Repre sentative of the Liberal Ele ment of the Roman Cath olic Church. Cardinal Jos Sarto, patriarch of mice, was elected pope of the Ro in Catholic Church at the Vatican Rome on Tuesday morning of last ek in suecession to Leo XIII. lie is born at Reise June 12, 18:35, and !ated cardinal June 12, 1893. The w pontiff decided upon the name of us X. When the count showed the cessary two-thirds of the total num r of votes cast had been obtained e doors of the sistine chapel were ened by the secretary of the con ve, Mgr. Merry Del Val, and the tsters of ceremonies were admitted )m Do' den College. The secretary en asked The successful cardinal. )o you accept t.e election?" and re ved a reply in the affirmative. All r.ne canopies were thCI lowCreCd th the exception of that of the suc ;sful candidate. The masters of ceremonies next iducted the new pope to the rob r closet where he laid aside his car al robes, donned the white stock rs, red slippers, long white tuic, ite girdle, white cap, and red cape the papal oflice. lie returned to a chapel and was seated on the air placed on the higbeststep of the ar, where the cardinals i.pproached e by one and kissed the foot and n the hand of the prelate and re vcd the I enedic.tion of new pope. te new pope wus then given the tisb nan's ring which he immediately ,urned for the purpose of having his me engraved upon it. rhe crowd around St. Peter's uare at 11:51) Tuesday morning ,t-ching the stove pipe over the sus Ie chapel was the largest gathered re since the conclave began. It Istimated that 15,000 people were )und the square. Cardinal Mac i, secretary of apostolic briefs, ap ired on the inside balcony of the Jican at 11:40 and mace the an ncement of the election. Later gave it to the crowd outside and people shouted "Who Who?" the me having not been heard by the ater part of the throng. Mac repeated the words in Italian in a der voice saying "Cardinal Sarto, o calls himself Pius X." ollowing the announoement the ong rapidly increased, the people oing through the doorways to ait the pope's blessing. Five min ,s after the announcement the new titl appeared on the inside balcony the vatican and blessed the people. rhe new pope is one of the most rned of the cardinals and is noted his liberal views. His charities ye gained him the affection of iltitudes in his see. Tbe election this moment looks like a compro se as the pope, as Cardina Sarto', had en little part in the politics of the .tican. Jpon certain occasions, but these re very few, he has opposed the .ns of Cardinal Rampolla Leo's retary of state. Like Leo the new ye has promise of long life. His d mother is still alive and lives at ise, Sarto's birthplace. The de Is of the voting are not yet known. is learned, however, that Cardinals rrera, Cretoni Langenieux Couille, cenni and Svampa were too ill to to the voting chamber. Struck by a Storm. )ne of the heaviest storms of the i, and of brief duration, swept over Louis Wednesday afternoon. The *ious, wind tore through the world's r grounds, killing Theodore Rich , a florist, probably fatally injur A. R. Clark. a carpenter, and iously injuring seven other work n, beside causing damage to world's r buildings and other property erally throughout the city to the :ent of $10,000. The day had been :remely warm. the temperature istering 94 degrees. Suddenly the i began to grow lark, and soon af -the storm broke with the force of ~ale. At the world's fair grounds 3 agricultural builing was struck the gale and six laborers working scaffolding were hurled to the und. Theodore Richter, a florist im Kirkwood suburbs, was on the und running to shelter when a fly f plank struck him. The world's r tire department turned out and st~y dug the injurged from the de s and hurried them to the hospital. R. Clark was so badly injured that is believed he will die. A Colored Captain of Industry. [t affords us pleasure to note that are is one colored man in the North, Pennsylvania State, who does not d for Mr. Roosevelt to open doors opportunity for him, but opens em for himself. It is a short story d is told by the Philadelphia R.e d. in a dispaitch from Pittsburg, as lows: "llenry Vau.nt, colored, was lered to forfeit $50 Wednesday ining, charged with being a sus :ious person. lIe was arrested esday evening and had a hag and lhook in his possession. The police in said that Vaunt was the chamn >n-chicken thief of the world. It a alleged that some time ago he S sent to the work house for eigh an months, where he ad mitted that, Homestead alone, lie had stolen im 6,000 to 10,000 chickens." A Boiler Ex plodes. The boiler of the Tuscaloosa, Light d Power company exploded Wednes y evening, instantly killing Aloiph hnston and N. Johnston, negroes, erely bruising Manager McGhee d Engineer Crawfo:rd and wrecking e plant. The city :is in darkness t-o ht. The boiler was carried two cks on its way, passing through ick walls and landing in a depart Int store, 500 feet away. Severa. ares were badly damaged. Loss 0,0n0, insured partial. SLEEPS I TWO STATES. And Neither Can.Make a Dual School Director Relinquish Office. Nebraska school authorities are en deavoring to get rid of a school Pooh Bah out in Siox county, but so far without success. The state superin tendent has tried to demand or com pel him to take one of two offices, but the incumbent doesn't really see how he can. District 39 of Sioux county borders on the state line between Nebraska and S->uth Dakota. The director of No. 39 owns land in each state, and the state line runs through his house, leaving about half of it in each state. H is sleeping apartment runs the full width of the house, and his bed is so situated that no matter which way his head points part of him is asleep in Nebraska and part in South Da kota. He is a director in both the South Dakota and the Nebraska districts. and although his Nebraska neighbors have been trying to get him to choose which job he wishes to hold and which state he desires to claim as his resi dence, he declines to do either. He says that inasmuch as he owns pro perty in each state and resides in both he is eligible to vote in both at each school meeting held. le has a son in-law in South Dakota and two sons in Nebraska, and the combination is able to win out at both the Nebraska and the South Dakota school elections and to make the old man a director of each. Superintendent Fowler has notified the district authorities that the man must choose In which state he desires to make his residence, holding that there can be no construction of the law yvhich will yermit a man to vote twice at elections. The old. farmer has retorted that he doesn't vote twice at the election, but votes at two different elections, and that so long as South Dakota people do not kick about him he cannot understand why Ne" braska should. le has been suspended by order of the superintendent until he makes his choice, but he insists on taking part in scheool affairs notwithstanding and Sioux county is 400 miles from the state capital. The Editor and the Preacher. An exchange says a preacher came at a newspaper man in this way: "You editors do not tell the truth. If you did you could not live; your news papers would be a failure." The edi tor replied: "You are right, and the minister who will at all times and un der all circurmstances tell the whole truth about his members, alive or dead, will not occupy his pulpit more than one Sunday, and then he will tind it necessary to leave town in a hurry. The press and the pulpit go hand in hand, with whitewash brushes and pleasant words magnifying little virtue into big ones. The pulpit, the pen and the gravestone are the great saint-making triumvirate." And the great minister went away looking very thoughtful, while the ' editor turned to his work and told of the surpassing beauty of the bride, while in fact she was as homely as a mud fence. A Mean Thief. In a letter written from Montreal to the pastor of his church in East Boston, Willard S. Allen, treasurer of the Preachers' Aid Society, of the New England Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, confessed that he was a defaulter to the amount of more than $80,000 of the society's funds. Mr. Allen has been treasurer of the society for twelve years and clerk of the East Boston District Court for twenty-nine years, and for sixteen years was a prominent mem ber of the school eommittee of Boston. lHe left home about a week ago, with out announcing his destination, and the first heard from him was the let ter to the East Bost oa clergyman. Mr. Allen said that he lost the money in speculation. He requests the minis ter to notify the members of the Al len family and the officers of the society of his confession. The Color Line. The color line has been drawn on board the United States receiving ship Columbia at the Brooklyn navy yard. The chief petty oficers have refused to mess with a negro who has just been sworn in as chief carpenter's mate. They have asserted their un willingness to associate with him in any way or to receive or carry out a'y orders that may come to them through him in the line of duty. When Mil ler appeared at the chief petty offi cers' mess Wednesday, eight other members of the mess arose and left the table when he sat down. Miller ate his dinner as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Since then he has no company at meals. He has been allowed, when he reached the table first, to eat alone, and when others precede him he has waited un til they finished eating. Made a Clean Sweep. The shortage of Thos. W. Dewey, absconding cashier of the Farmers' and Merchants Bank, of Newbern, N. C., proves to be $125,000, said to be the largest embezzlement in the his tory of the State. The reward for Dewey's capture has been increased to $5,000. Dewey left only $1,3)0 in cash in the bank and $1,000 in gold. Gambling in cotton futures is one way in which the money went. Salruon and Milk. A dispatch from Gainesville Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says Mrs. A. Vanhoos is desperately ill from having ea;en canned salmon and drinking sweet milk with it, thereby causing plomaine poison. Her life has been despaired of and her children have been telegraphed to come to ber bed side. Mrs. Vanboos is the mother of Prof. A. W. Vanhoos of Brenau col lege. ___________ Seven Hundred Drowned. A dispatch received at London says astrous rioods which occurred at Che Foo, China, July 2 ?. The bridgeds within the city and many houses with their occupants were swept away iin the torrent. Two thousand of the in* habitants are left without means of nhsistence. SOME PLAIN TALK in a Speech Bryan Calls Cleveland a Plain Bunco Steerer. At Urbana, Ohio., four leading Democrats opened the Ohio campaign Wednesday, two weeks in advance of the Democratic State convention. William J. Bryan had been engaged to address the Urbana Chautauqua assembly Wednesday afternoon and the Democrats of Champaign county held their convention on the Chautau qu grounds during the forenoon, at which addresses were made by Mr. Bryan, Jno. T. Zimmer of Springfield, Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland and ex-Congressman John J. Lentz of Columbus. The addresses all attract ed attention because of the direct re ferences to certain- men as well as to policies on which there are differences within the party. Bryan referred to ex-President Cleveland repeatedly. Mr. Zimmer referred to the fathers of Democracy and the eternal prin ciples of the party. Then came Mayor Johnson and ex-Congressman Lentz in emphatic declarations that this was no time for "dead issues." The "keynotes" of the last tyo speakers were not in accord with those of Mr. Zimmer, whose managers has secured the Champaign county delegates for the nomination before Mayor Johnson reached the tabernacle. This is Mr. Zimmer's home county and the convention stood 130 to 50 for Zimmer. Mr. Bryan received the greatest ovation when he said: "The Demo crats in 1892 played a confidence game on the people and put a bunco steerer at the head of the party. I want to say to you, my friends, that the dis reputable man who stands on the street curbing and leads the unwary traveler into a game where he losses his money, is respectable compared with the man who accept; the suffrages of five millions of people and then leads them into Wall street to be betrayed. "Don't be deceived wben they tell yuu it was the silver question that drove people out of the party. "Those who left the Democratic party are divided into two classes those who left because they under stood the issue in the campaign and those who left because they were deceived in the issue of the cam paign. Those who understood the issue and left because they under stood it can never return to the party until they repent and show that their hearts and sympathies are changed. The tight will continue in this country until one side or the other is trium phant." He said he had more respect for a Republican than for any one calling himself a Democrat "who would put his principles on the action block or into a junk shop." The speech of Mayor Johnson was accepted as indicating that he was a prospective candidate for Senator Hanna's place. Mayor Johnson intimated that if he ran for governor his platform would be reduced fares on all railways, In ad dition to his well known views on tax ation. CHANGE IN SERVICES. An Important Event in Methodist Churches Everywhere. The Methodist throughout the country, north and south, on Sunday began using the new order of service which has been recently decided on by a joint committee representing the northemn and southern branches of the M. E. Church. The Southern Christian Advocate, the official organ of the Methodists in this state, in its last issue publish ed the following otlicial statement which will be observed in all churches of the Methodist denomination: Let our services begin exactly at the time appointed and let all our people kneel in silent prayer on entering the sanctuary. 1. Voluntary, instrumental or vocal. (Optional.) 11. Singing from the common hymnal, the people standing. 111 The Apostle's Creed recited by all, stil-l standing. (Optional) IV. Prayer, concluding with the Lord's prayer, repeated audibly by all. both minister and people kneeling, (a.) V. Anthemn or voluntary. VI. Lesson from the Old Testa ment, which, if from the Psalms, may be read responsively. (b.) VII. Gloria Patria. (Optional.) VIII. Lesson from the New Tes tament. IX. Notices, followed by collec tion, du-ring or after which an offe tory may be rendered./ X. Singing from the common hymnal, the people standing. XI. The sermon. XIL. Prayer, the people kneeling. XIII. Singing from the common hymnal, the people standing. (The order of prayer and singing may be reversed.)' XIV. Doxology and the Apostolic Benediction. (2d Cor., xiii, 14.) He was a Jumper. A dispatch from Columbus, G'a., to The Augusta Chronicle says a man who gave his name as John W. Tucker and from Goodwater, Ala., leaped from the top of the new Dradford building on Eleventh street here Thursday, landing first on some scaf folding and from there he fell to the ground forty feet below. Hlis head struck a sharp plank but he raised up and after askIng for and getting a drink of water, walked away remark ing that he could fall 600 feet without harm to himself. Strangled to Death. Edward T. Williams, the Chinese secretary of the United States lega tion, has made an extensive inveti gation into the execution of Shen Chien, tire reformist journalist, who was put to death by orders of the Em press dowager July 31, and has band ed Minister Conger a detailed report proving that the executioners. after beating Chien for three or four hours despaired of being able to fulfill the empress dowager's orders and yeilding to Shen's pleadings to end his misery, strangled him with their hands. 'OUT OF THE NAVY. Negroes Not Wanted in the Enlisted Naval Service. THEY WON'T BE RECRUITED. The Blacks Make Good Enough Sailors, but the White Men Object to Their Presence in the Forecastle. The negro, as a part of the enlisted force of the United States navy, is to be eliminated. Hereafter it is to be the policy of the recruiting agencies of the navy to discourage the enlist ment of black men for service on American war vessels. A system of elimination is to be inaugurated, and, while it is to be puc into operation gradually, it will eventually weed out every negro serving before the mast, and the enlisted force of the navy will be composed exclusively of white men. Officers of the navy are not willing now to discuss the subject, for fear of raising protests and ' criticism, but it is believed the idea of a white navy is to be realized, notwithstanding any criticism that may be made. At present there are about 29,00 0 enlisted men in the navy. It is esti - mated that about 500 of these men are black. It is probable that only a few enlistments of negroes will be made during the next three or four years, and as soon as the terms of those now serving expire they will be allowed to go. Thus the number leaving the service will be greater than those entering it, and in time all the negroes will disappear. It is alleged that the white men in the navy are dissatisfied over the pres ent practice of enlisting negroes free ly, and are constantly in a state of discontent by reason of unavoidable association with the blac ship board. A. striking illustration the feeling of the white sailors the blacks was furnished a few days ago, when at a Northern port the white men of an American navaLves sel committed a series of assaults on negroes serving on the same craft. Both parties were on shore leave, and the whites, coming in contact with the blacks, beat and hammered them until the negroes were obliged to seek refuge on board the ship, where they were under the protection of the com missioned officers. The white enlisted men object especially to being obliged to mess with the negroes on board ship. They also object to other forms of the ser vice which compel them to regard the negroes as their equals In every re spect. From time to time there have been grumblings and evidences of dis content, and officers of the service have come to the conclusion that it would be in the interest of good or der and disciplines on board ship and on shore to organize a white navy and allow the blacks to disappear from the service. lIt is not denied that in many cases the negroes who enter the navy make good sailors. Their work in ordinary capacities, to which they are assigned, is compared favorably with that of the white men with whom they associate, and from a strictly military stand point there is very little complaint against their conduct. But the white men serving with the negroes assert that they will force the blacks out of the service, and, judging from what is to occur in the system of -enlist ments, they have already gained their point. There are about 5,000 enlisted ne groes in the army, but conditions in the army and navy are not alike. In the army the negroes do not serve in the same regiments as the whites. They have organizations of their own in the infantry and cavalry. Thus, while fighting in battle side by side with the whites. they live, while in barracks and in camp, apart and among themselves. There is no op portunity for social equality, and no complaint has been made in the army. The question has been eccupying the attention of naval officials for some time. No formal order has gone forth for the elimination of the negro from the service, but the understand ing is clear among the offieials. The department wants a "lily white" navy, and it is to secure one. A Great Orator. Sam Jones says Bryan may .be politically dead, but personally very much alive, and pays him compliment: "He is the speaker at a score or more of the chautauquas again this year, and the crowds who flock to hear him are as great as of yore. He does now touch on politics in his lecture on "The Value of an Ideal," but gives the people a great lecture and throws into the lecture his charmling person ality and his splendid oratory. He Is not only a drawing card, but he is one of the greatest living orators, if not the greatest." He Stole Watches. The Charleston Post says Chief of Police Boyle received information Tuesday afternoon from Florence, stating that Harry White, the negro who was arrested recently with seven teen watches in his possession, is wanted in Florence, being charged with stealing the watches from a man named~ Painter, a resident of that place. Chief Boyle has communicat ed with the authaorities at Florence, and an otlier is expected to arrive Tuesday morning to carry White back to answer to the charge of grand larceny. An Old Timer. A bronze chariot, discovered a year ago in excavations near Rome, has just been purchased in Paris for the Metropolitan museum In New York. It is in a good state of preservaticn and is believed to date from a period about 700 B. C. AN American lady in the Philip piness, at a reception to signalize the opening of a hotel, woze, $80,000 worth of jewelry, and later in the night thieves entered the house and stole many of the gems which she had