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GIVES HIS PROOFS.h Eon. T. E. Watson Makes Reply to Hon. Grover Cleveland. MAKES OUT A VERY CLEAR CASE. Says He Made His Charges on Statements Made in a Book Written by Fred Douglass Nine Years Ago. Representative Bartlett, of Georgia, has received the following letter from Grover Cleveland, blistering Thomas E. Watson for his charges concerning Cleveland's attitude on the negro ques tion: PRINcETON, March 4, 1904. To Hon. Chas. L. Bartlett, Washing ton, D. C. My Dear Mr. Bartlett-I have re ceived a number of inquiries similar to yours touching my invitation of Fred Douglas to a wedding reception and signing, while governor of New York, of a bill providing for mixed schools. I do not suppose that Mr. Thomas E. Watson believed, or had any reason to believe, either of the allegations when he made them. At any rate, they are both utterly and absolutely false. I cannot afford to devote a great deal of time to deny ing such foolish tales. I shall, there fore, attempt to cover every phase of the subject now for all. It so hap pens that I have never in my otlicial positions, either when sleeping or waking, alive or dead, on my head or on my heels, dined, lunched or supped - or invited to a wedding reception any colored man, woman or child. If, however, I had desired to do any of these things, neither the fear of Mr. Watsoa or any one else would have prevcnted me. When I was governor of New York a movement was made in the legislature to abolish seperate colored schools in New York city. I opposed this measure and it failed. I do not find that I interposed a veto and I have forgotten the course the matter took, but I know that what- 1 ever I did was in favor of maintain ing separate colored schools instead of having them mixed. Yours very truly, (Signed) GROvER CLEVELAND. WATSON IN REPLY. The following letter from Hon. Thos. E. Watson in reply to the above is hot stuff and will be read with in terest: 'rt TaOMsoN, Ga., April 5. To the Editor of the Augusta Chroni cle. SIR: In your issue of yesterday you publish a letter written by Mr. Cleve land to my friend Hon. Charles Bart lett. This letter is dated March 4th. Just why it was kept from the press for an entire month, is not stated. Mr. Cleveland says that he does not suppose that I believed, or had any reason to believe, that my charges were true when they were made. The intimation that I would wilful ly charge upon him things which I knew to be false, does both himself and me an injustice. To publicly make against a man so prominent as Mr. Cleveland serious accusations which were known to be untrue, could only be the act of ,a knave who was at the same time a fool. A slanderer who is simply a knave may whisper falsehoods which he knows to be falsehoods; but such slanders are never published over the signature of the man who makes them, unless the author is a fool a.s well as a knave. When Grover Clevelan~I assumes that I am either a knave or a fool te will find no respectable man who knows me to agree with him. The gentleman to whom he addressed his letter would tell him quickly enough that any such construction put upon my act, or any such imputation cast upon my character, would be repudi ated by both the Democratic senators from Georgia, and by at least a ma jority of the Democratic delegation from this state to the lower house. People of the state in which my life has been passed do not endorse my politics, but they do not doubt the honesty of my convictions nor the purity of my character; and Mr. Cleve land will not strengthen himself in this state by refiedting upon either. Now let us see what Mr. Cleveland's letter amounts to, as a reply to my charges. I beg to remind your readers that the issue arose out of the controversy which raged around the Booker Wash ington incident. A Republican member of congress, to offset Mr. Roosevelt's treatment of Booker, had alleged that Mr. Cleve land dined C. H. J. Taylor at the white house. Mr. Cleveland denied the statement; and his card, when published, was headlined in such a way as to carry the impression that he had never practiced social equality at the white house. In an article which was published in the Atlanta News, I pointed out that Mr. Cleveland had confined his denial to the negro Taylor, and that the head lines went further than the letter-as is often the case. Furthermore, I added that Mr. Cleveland had practiced social equali ty in three particulars: 1. In appointing a negro to be min ister to one of the South American re publics. 2. By signing the bill for mixed schools in New York. 3. By inviting Fred Douglass and wife to his wedding reception at the white house. Upon what grounds were these charges made? Necessarily, they were based upon current and contemporaneous news paper reports which were not con tradicted. How else is a citizen to have knowledge of public affairs? The newspapers are the source of our in formation; and if a public man allows the newspapers to make gneral and repeated statements about his con duct, he must expect such statements to be credited, unless denied. How do I know that Mr. Roosevelt dined Booker Washington? I was not there. I did not see it. 1 have not spoken to any one who did see it. But the newspapers made the charge, and it was not denied--hence I believe it. How do I know that Grover Cleve land made a private and almost secret sale of United States bonds to J. Pierpont Morgan, and by this private deal made it possible for the varacious Wall street tinanciers to pocket about ten million dollars of the money of the tax-payers of this republic? I was not there; yet I know it hap pened, because the newspapers made such a row about it that Cleveland was afraid to sell any more bonds that way. In like manner, I beli eved he signed1 the bill for mixed schools in New York 1 beause it was so charged in the news-I >apers, and he never denied it at the lme. As to the White House reception. had precisely the same grounds for >elief that the public hay in the case >f B.oker Washington. It was so har.ed: and no denial was made. It has nut only bteea charged in newspapers. but appeared in book orm. The book to which I refer is "The Life and Tinesof Frederick Douglass." rue author was Douglass himself. In ,his book Douglass glorifies Mr. leveland for the reason that Cleve and treated him and "Mrs. Douglass" Ls social equals. This book was published in 1895 ear where Mr. Cleveland lives, and 1obody has challenged its statements ;o far as I know. Douglass was an ardent admirer of sir. Cleveland. The Democratic presi lent had, far a considerable time, al 'owed the Republican negro to con tinue to hold one of the fattest offices in Woshington City. But it was not ror this that Douglass loved Cleve land. What won the heart of the negro was the fact that at a critical time when both whites and blacks were condemning Douglass for his marriage with a white woman, Mr. Cleveland was brave enough to defy public opinion and to extend social recogni tion to the negro and his white wife. Some extracts from the Douglass book were published last Saturday in the Atlanta News, but as Mr. Cleve and's letter was written a month ago, t becomes necessary for me to go over he same ground a second time. Douglass says that his "false friends" both colors were loading him with .eproaches because he had recently narried a white woman. "Popular prejudice" among the )lacks as well as the whites had been Lroused by this act of miscegenation. But Fred says that Mr. Cleveland, n spite of all the clamor about the hite wife, singled him, out for pecial attentions. What thes3 attentions were he, pro ;eds to state. He says that Mr. Cleveland never ailed to invite him and his wife to all t the grand receptions; and Douglass ays that "myself and my wife never ailed to attend them." At these receptions Douglass states hat Mr. Cleveland showed to himself Lnd "Mrs. Douglass" a bearing "not ess cordial and courteous than that >tended to the other ladies and gentlemen present." Douglass call this conduct of Mr. 3eveland a "manly defiance by a Democratic president of the malignant end time-honored prejudice." What was the malignant prejudice which Mr. Cleveland was defying in o manly a manner? Obviously, undeniably, Do u g l ass neant to give Mr. Cleveland praise or defying popular prejudice or the subject of social equality. What else I was Cleveland's "manly defiance" imed at? Again, to show more clearly bow Douglass understood the true meaning >f Mr. Cleveland's conduct. the negro oes on to say that the cordial and ~ourteous treatment accorded him and Mrs. Douglass" by Mir. and Mrs. 1eveland was extended while he was surrounded by distinguished men* Lnd women from all parts of the coun ry, and by diplomatic representatives rom all parts of the world, and under :he gaze of the late slaveholders." Now, if there ever was anything !ear in a book it is clear that in this ook Fred Douglass meant to give SHr. Cleveland credit and praise for lefying malignant prejudice on the ocial equality question, and for Ireating himself and "Mrs. Doug ass" as social equals in the presence >f the representatives of the white .ace throughout the world. What made this "manly defiance of malignant prejudice" the more exqui itely gratifying to the negro was hat it was done "under the gaze of she late slave-owners." In other 'ords, Fred says, in effect, that Souhern ladies and gentlemen were resent and were compelled to witness n silence the social triumph of him elf and "Mrs. Douglass." Oh, how full tbe cup of Fred's joy nust have been! And what a sly rleam of victorious insolence there nust have been in the negro's eyes as e looked at the late "slave-owners" to whom Mr. Cleveland was giving his "manly defiance!" That spirit is shown in his book, Lnd I have no doubt it was shown on ais countenance in those blissful aours when he and "Mrs. Douglass" were being treated just as "the other ;entlemen and ladies" were treated in he white house. Heaping up his gratitude and his ~raise, the negro goes on to say (page 348) that the Democrats cf the South lercely and bitterly reproa::hed Mr. leveland for his social recognition of Douglass anid wife, but that he (Cleve and) "never faltered or flinched," and 'c~ntinued to invite Mrs. Douglass Lnd mys:lf" and "often wrote the in ritations with his own hand." Then, to show conclusively what Douglss understood by Cleveland's oenduct, he adds: "Among my friends in Europe a fact ike this will excite no comment. here color does not decide the civil Lnd social position of a man." Now I~ask all impartial, intelligent. nen if these extracts from Douglass' 0ook do not prove that he undertood 3rover Cleveland to have defied she alignant prejudice of Southern Democrats by treating him and his white wife as social equals? If it does not meran that. what in ;he name of common sensa does it nean? Douglass alludes to the newspaper riticisms which were leveled at Cleve and because of that very thing. Did not Cleveland see them? If he lid not, where were his eyes? If he lid see them, why did not he deny ;hem then? Douglass was alive then. Proofs were easily accessible then. The1 Southern negro was still a political power, then. The ballot which ought aever have been promiscuously given o him, had not been taken from him, Why, oh why, did not Mr. Cleve and say then that never on his head yr his heels had be extended to any aegro that buon of "social equality" wvhich such negroes as Fred Douglass :rave and which is denied themo by a 'malignant and time-honored preju lice?'' Some rathcr peculiar pictures pass bhrough my mind as 1 try to fancy vhat Mr. Cleveland means by stand ng on his head, but, as the preachers ay "I must not dwell." Te noint is this: Did Feed D1,ug s tell lies on Cleveland in that book ? o had no motive for doing so. e eidently did not intend to do so? le a negro Republican, was praising whte Democrat for conduct wbich he black man considered heroic. He id not mean to injure Cleveland or to LAST WEEK' FROSTS. Gardens Were Affected Curious1: Plants Being Killed in Spots. There was a frost of freakish varie ty last week. Its blight fell in spo and Mr. J. W. Bauer, section directoi of the weather bureau, is unable t< I say just what damage has been done Tuis all depends upon the amount o: moisture. Plants surrounded by dr, soil were not affected as seriously a where there was dampness. In gardens which came under Mr Baueras observation the frost seeme< to attack the young vegetables with out any regularity. One plant appear ed to be killed while those around i were unhurt. No news from th peach crop in the ridge section coult be learned Tuesday, but as Lhe fros was not altogether destructive here it is hoped that the peach crop is no hurt-and indeed a slight prunint would not be harmful as there is suce an abundance of blooms that if a] should nature the trees would be un able to bear the load. Mr. Bauer last week issued the firs of his weekly bulletins as to the grow ing crop. This one, under date o April 5th, says: "The week ending 8 a. m., Apri 4th, had nearly normal temperature having been cooler than usual during the first and warmer than usual dux ing the second half. There were ligh frosts over the eastern portions o1 March 29th, increasing in severity t killing, with thin ice, in the wester1 parts, but aside from causing som corn that was up to yellow slightly no injury resulted. The week close with abnormally cold weather prevail ing, and frost threatening the interio sections. "There was practically no precipi tation during the week. On March 26 27th the rainfall was general over th State, and was excessive in places greatly delaying farm work. tnbrokel lands are becoming hard in the north ern counties, but generally the soil i in fine condition for tillage. "The preparation of lands is report ed to be somewhat backward in a fet western counties, but is generally nor maly advanced, and made rapid pro gress during the last week, especiall, the preparation of lands for cotton and the placing of fertilizers in th ground. "From one-half to three-fourths o the proposed acreage to be planted t corn has already been planted in th eastern sections, the percentage de creasing toward the northwester counties, where this work has onl: been begun. Corn planted early il March is, with few exceptions, up ta fair stands, and some has receiver first cultivation. "A little short staple and consider able sea island cotton has been plant ed, but this work cannot be said to b generally under way, although, sot and weather permitting, will mak rapid progress during the coming wee] in all parts of the State. "Rice planting has progressed fa vorably in the Georgetown district ani was impeded with heavy rains and; freshet in the rivers in the Colletoi district, where, previous to Marcl 26th, a considerable area had alread; been sown. "Tobacco plants are small in th beds, but look healthy and vigorous none have as yet been transplanted. "Wheat and oats continue small but have improved, except that' oat have thin stands in places. Spring sown oats look well. "Peach trees have about finishel blooming in the eastern sections, an< are now in full bloom in the wester1 counties. A pple trees are late i blooming. The prospects for all kind of fruit are excellent. Cabbage, beets peas and strawberries are being shippet from the coast truck farms, Pasturaga is scant and does not afford grazing i the western counties. There is wide spread complaints of a scarcity of fart laborers." Criminal Statistics. We have received the followini from the division of vital statistics c the department of commerce and la br: "Few social questions are asket more frequently than, what is the in crease of crime? The national censui bureau is seeking an answer to thi: inquiry. It is undertaking to securi a record of all the persons who arl sentenced to the various jails, peni tentiaries and other prisons during the year 1904. "The wardens of thi state prisons and the sheriffs of the counties are being requested to act al special agents to report certain facti concerning every person deliveret into their custody. Some counties havy not been heard from. In some, per haps, there are no jails; in others perhaps, the local jails are no lange used; in still others the sheriff hay possibly neglected the matter. Bu the records of the census bureau anc the resulting statistics will not be complete until all are heard from, anc it is hoped that the pressure of othel business will not cause the sheriff a: any county to block this most impor tant inquiry." We trust that a] South Carolina otticials will compl: with this request. Such statistics art matters of general public interest an! are of much importance in show ing the people their actual con dition as to the number of crimes com. mitted within their state boundaries Had Whiskey in Safe. The Charleston Post says wher Sergt. Healey and his raiding squat visited Jesse Barber's store on Blak( street Thursday afternoon and asket for the keys to his iron safe the re quest was refused. A locksmith wa engaged, and the safe opened and thin teen quarts of whiskey confiscated The raiding squad had reason to be. lieve that whiskey was kept in th( safe. When they searched the pre mises they found that the outer dool of the safe was unlocked, but th( inner doors were fastened. The keys were demanded, but refused. Sergt. Healey sent for a locksmnith and afte1 working for some time with a numbei of keys, one was found which lit th( lock and the door wa swn open exposing thirteen qunarts of "boze." Located at Last. Cleveland, Ohio, is still addicted tC the Hlell habit. A minister in that city recently declared from his pulpit that there is no Hell. As soon as he~ had made his announcement about iell. the congregation gathered ui the hymnbooks and began to pelt the reverendc gentleman in thle most un heavenly manner.. We are not told what effect thIis~ unusual argument had upon him. but if lhe had any doubts as to the existence of Hell be fore, the action of his congregation ought to have dissipated them per manently. Hell seems to be very dear to the hearts of the people ai Cleveland. It may even be that lveland is Hell. that gentleman: he was showering praise upon him; he was throwing bou quets at him: he was singling him out as the brave, manly Democrat who defined the Southern race prejudice, and who gave to him, the negro, the same treatment which was accorded him in Europe "where color does not decide the social position of a man." For nine years this book has been in circulation. For nine years Cleve land has been enjoying the credit for all the good things his negro admirer said of him. Doubtless there are thou sands of people who have thrilled with admiration as they read of the manner in which Mr. Cleveland defied the ma lignant race prejudice of the South, wrote invitations with his own hand to "Mr. and Mrs. Douglass," accorded them the treatment due in one's house to all ladies and gentlemen. and bold ly conformed to that European stand ard which disregards color in fixing social status. And now after nine years-after Douglass has died, and after the Southern negro has been disfranchis ed, cometh the said Grover Cleveland and declares that he is not the hera Fred Douglass said he was. Is there any sence in splitting hairs about wedding receptions, and other social receptions, or other social-equal ity practices? None whatever. The question at issue is: Did Mr. Cleveland invite and receive Douglass and wife upon terms of social equality? That is the pith and marrow of the dispute. If it be true, as Douglass says, that Mr. Cleveland often wrote the invita tions with his own hand, and that he treated the negro and wife at all the white house receptions as social equals, defying the predjudice and the criticism of the Southern accuracy of my statement stands proved without reference to any particular reception. If Mr. Cleveland will condescend to read pages 646, 647 and 648 of the book referred to, and will then specify to what extent the author lied, be will clear up the atmosphere consider ably. Poor old Fred! What a lesson is here, my brethren. In his day and time, Fred Douglass was a power in the land. White politicians courted his support. The highest leaders in the land made much of him. President Grant petted him; Garfield petted him; Harrison petted him; and Cleve land-but that's another story. Poor old Fred! He is dead now, Pretty much everybody who wants to kick him can come up and do it. Once apon a time his voice, along the line of battle, "were worth a thousand men." In those days, he was a "dis tinguished colored gentleman and statesman." How have the mighty slipped down hill! At present, he seems &o be nothing more than "a d-d nig ger," who never was invited anywhere by anybody, whether on their heels or on their heads, drunk or sober; and if ever he got into the white house at all he just "butted in." Old Fred. will turn over in his grave when he learns that the great Democratic president whcm he so much lauded for his manly defiance of malignant prejudice has caught "the damned nigger" fever, and shows a rising pulse every time we take his temperature. I will make further investigation about the New York school law; but if, in the meanwhile, Mr. Cleveland has anything to say about appointing that negro as minister to the white republic in South America, he might write Charley Barlett another "head or heels" letter, while we wait. Tros E. WATsoN. A Warningr to All. The Cotton Plant says the almanac makers ought to insert this warning the first of A pril: "Look out for the oily tongued agent about this time." Never sign any sort of paper present ed by these sharp fellows. Do not even write your name on the blank page of a memorandum. Out West one of these fellows went around amongst the farmers ostensibly in trouducing some machine that the farmers were interested in. He was not taking orders, but finding out probable purchasers so as to have cir culars sent by the house. For some reason or other he could not write and lie asked the farmer to write his name and address. He managed so the name would be on the lower right hand corner of a blank page in his memorandum, which page was about the size and shape of a note. After getting a few of these signatures he filled out bankable notes above the signature, and then cashed them. Look out for the agents for lightning rods, patent churns, farming imple ments cooking stoves and deal very cautiously with them. Always buy such things from trustworthy mer chants and manufacturers and you will not be cheated. Six End Their Lives. In New York an. unusual number of suicides, at least half of them due to despondency because of inability to :ecure employment, were reported to the police last week. Three of the six victims chose car bolic acid as a means of ending their troubles, one chose death by shooting, another by hanging and the sixth ac complished his purpose by turning on the gas. The most youthful suicide was Eva Pocker, a 17-year-old Brooklyn school girl, who drank carbolic acid after reading a letter, and the oldest, Jacob Reiham, 65, of Manhattan, who had been ill with rheumatism. His body was found hanging in his lodgings. The body of another suicide, a wo man, who had ended her life at least two weeks ago by inhaling chloroform, was found in a hoirse on east Thirty fifth street. A note found with the body said the woman was so deeply in debt that she saw no hope. The other suicides reported were: James Finney, fireman, who lost his work through drink; Samuel Levy, no work, carbolic acid; Egisto Bertone, stone cutter, shooting, no work; J. Bender, a crayon artist, gas. Can't Pay More Rent. General and concerted demands of landlords on the lower East Side of New York for more rent will send thousands of people homeless into the streets within a week. Unable to meet the demand for increased rents the tenants, who are the poorest of the poor, tl~d the landlords that they are unable to keep the miserable hovels they cah home. Notices of an increase of nearly thirty per cent have beeni served. Severvl families have alr-eady bean evicted and a hun dred other eviction notices have been secured from the municipal courts and are re:idy for- serv'ice. Overcome By Gas. Oscar Severson, Ed ward H ammond and Jacob Hlammond. young men in their twenties, were alfound dead in bed Wednesday morning at their home, So. 505 Richmond street. They were overcome with gas SENATOR BURTON SENTENCE With Bowed Head He Hears Judg Say Verdict Is Just. At St. Louis on Wednesday Unite t States Senator J. R. Burton of Kar r sas was sentenced to six months' in prisonment in jail and a fine of $2, 50 for using his influence before the posi office department in behalf of th f Rialto Grain and Securities compan of St. Louis, and for having receive payment from, the company for h: services. . When Senator Burton, accompanie by his attorney, came into the Unite I States district court Judge Adarr . spoke of the motions that had bee filed for a new trial and for arrest c t judgment. The court, after briefly r e viewing the motions, overruled the] 3 both. The court then said to the di t fendant: "Have you anything to say as 1 t why sentence should not be passe upon you?" Evidently suppressing his emotior .1 with a strong effort, Senator Burtc sto)d leaning with both hands on chair back as he said: t "Your honor will please allow me 1 respectfully decline to say anything. ,f The court room was almost empt; with the exception of a few person i who had remained out of curiosit; and the silence was almost opppre sive as Judge Adams, in a low ton . began delivering the sentence. T1 t court said: n "I am satisfied that the jury reac] o ed the just and true result. The ev a dence abundantly warranted the e verdict and I find no reason, either; the law governing the case or in ti proceedings attending the trial, fi . disturbing it. r "Your exalted station in life at the character of your offense, gi' unusual significance. to your convi tion. It demonstrates that the la e of the land is equal to any emergent and that it can be administered r a gardless of -the personality and st . tion of the accused. It also demo s strates to all the people that publ office cannot be prostituted to sel serving purposes, and that public offii v is not a sure or safe passport to pi vate thrift. ' The humiliation attending yoi conviction and the statutory disqual fications resulting therefrom whic e forever incapacitate you from holdir any office of honor, trust or prof , under the government of the Unite o States, are in themselves heavy pui a ishment for your offenses and leas but little in the way of severity whic n could be added. It is neitber nr y pleasure nor purpose to impose at a unnecessary punishment. o "I think the majesty of the la 3 will be sufficiently vindicated at the public welfare sufficiently' saf< guarded by imposing a single sei tence, warranted as it is on any or e of the six counts of the indictmen . on which you were convicted. e "This sentence will be that you I k confined in the Iron county jail for period of six months, and that yc .pay a tine of two thousand five hui 3 dred dollars." a, At the conclusion of the senten< a Senator Burton, who had not take a his eyes from the court and ,who he y scarcely moved as he suppo'rted hin self by the chair back, turned and si e down, with his head bowed and h eyes on the floor. Hlis attorne; Judge Krum, immediately filed a bi of exceptions in the case and offered s bond of $10,000 which was accepte< .Senator Burton declined to discu the sentence. The case now will I 1 appealed to the United States distril 3 court appeals. 2 A MIystery Explained. SThe Retailer and Advertiser sa: even the casual observer who wall Sthrough the retail districts of Ne e York during the holiday season ca 2 scarcely fail to be impressed with ti .almost phenomenal difference in ti a amount of business done in the var ous stores. Hie will notice that or store seems to be constantly crowde with customert, that the salespeop: I are working to the limit of their ez f durance and that the delivefy wagot - are kept busy at night and day di tributing the goods sold. In anothi i store in the same block, perhaps neJ - door, he will observe that there: s practically "nothing doing." Th S store is quite as attractive as tI a other store. It handles the sanr lines and qualities of goods, and pe -haps they come from the same mai i ufactories. The prices are equal: low, and the clerks are courteous at 3 attentive. But there is a much sma ler staff of salespeople employed, at S even during the holiday rush they a: i not kept busy. Why is there such remarkable difference? I have take -the trouble to investigate the proble; ,and have made careful observatiox in a dozen or more cases. I have ii a variably found that the merchan I who were doing the business were got Sadvertisers and that the ones wr 3 were apprently receiving but litt: i benefit from the holiday trade mac r no use of printer's ink. .As to Breakfast Foods. 1 The Cotton Plant says in readin the many advertisements of cere1 foods and their wonderful virtues it I a matter of surprise that our ancesto: -pulled through on corn bread, and th three qualities of flour made at tt old style mills. That was about tt .extent of their cereal food. To thx they added hog meat, game, fish an a little grass fed beef in the fall of ti 1 -year. Those prepared cereals are ver good and they taste well, but let a remember that a pound of corn groun at an old fashioned mill has just -much nourishment as the pound pri Spared in the most .scientific way. Th same statement applies to whea1 .People who have money to gratil their taste can pay 15 to 20 cents Spound for the same food value in -3-cent pound flour. Those prepare cereals are very handy and healthfi and their use is quite common amon Stown people. With same of the oa .or wheat preparations one can add t can evening meal when company suc denly comes in. But farmers in tlh country have to depend on the pr< ducts of the mills and the thinking ingenious housekeeper can make a vw riety of ca kes and mutlins and chang the bill ofcereal fare somewhat ever day in the week. The Jews Cracilied. Additional private advices frox Lompalanka, Bulgaria, where tb anti-Semite riots were reported Wec nesday, state that the mob intlicte injuries on the victims resemblin those inflicted on Christ. They gasi ed tue sides of the Jews, drove nai[ in their hands and feet and place crowns of thorns on their heads. Tb authorities took energetic measure to crush tbe outbreak. The Bulgal ian government suppressed the new and is trying to prevent antagonizin the Jewish financiers who frequentl hnle Bulgarian loans. TH SUNXn SCHOOL. e Active Preparations are Being Made for Its Opening. S State Superintendent of Education Martin is busy just now in preparing for the state summer school, which 0 convenes in Rock Hill on June 29th. e The following letter was sent out v Tuesday: d To Superintendents and Teachers: S We are preparing-for a much larger state summer school than we had last d year. To start with, the legislature d made a special appropriation for this s purpose and we are organizing an n unusually strong faculty. We are > preparing courses in the following sub - jects: Educational psychology and n child study, history and civics, city - and country school problems, nature study and bird life, geography and o geography making, grammar, litera d ture and library work, sight singing, domestic science, drawing, arithmetic, is algebra and geometry, manual train n ing, nature study and botany, expres a sion, kindergarten work, primary and intermediate methods, lectures on 0 other school subjects of general inter est. More than three-fourths of the in 1s structors have already accepted and , just as soon as all the acceptances are received the names of the faculty 3, will be announced. It is necessary 1e only to say that the faculty will be an unusually strong one, and, in addi I- tioa, there will be a series of in'struc i- tive and entertaining lectures which ir will be delivered to the whole school. n Winthrop college offers most excel 1e lent advantages for a summer school. r A low rate for board will be secured and President Johnson and his staff d will do everything possible for the 'e comfort and convenience of those in attendance. w The State Teachers' association will %y hold its annual meeting at Winthrop 3- during the Summer school. The dates - and program will soon be announced 1- by President Eimunds of Sumter. ic I have applied for low rates on the f- railroads and think we shall get rate %e of one fare for the round trip. I hope i- you will' extend this notice and use your influence to secure d large at ir tendance at the State Summer school i- and also at the State Teachers' asso h ciation, as both of these meetings g contribute largely to the advance it ment of the educational interests of ;d the State. 1- Sincerely yours, e 0. B. Martin, h State Superintendent Education. y y Hiow to Advertise. J. L. Mahlin of Mahlin's Avertising W Agency, Chicago, says there is a great d deal of talk about the mail order houses, but do you know there is not - one of them that can honestly say e that it can sell goods cheaper than S the home merchant? It is not the price that sells the goods, but the e plausible reason for the price-a a plausible statement. You merchants u can beat them out every time. Meet Sthem with the same kind of advertis ing. The oatmeal business is an e illustration of what can be done to nmake people to buy an article they dnever intended to buy. People were - opposed to oatmeal and said it was t horse feed. The manufacturer had to 1 present the advantages of its health fulness, and he invested oatmeal with 1 all the desirable qualities. There is a a man In Battle Creek who, it is said, -has created a market for corncobs, and you people pay more for your e postum cereal than you do for coffee. t A mixture of corneobs and syrup is made valuable by virtue of advertis ing. A'n advertisement shotild always show the individuality of the mer r chant who puts it out. Avoid clever S ness. An adverlisement which at Vtracts attention to the way it is pre n sented instead of the article advertised Le it not fulfilling its purposes. Avoid e appeal to prejudices. Don't lug in - outside matter. The secret of the esucces of the Spotless Town advertis d ing is that it never loses sight of the .e idea of cleanliness. Fighting Paper Trust. ~The resolution of Representative r Lilley instructing the secretary of :t commerce and labor to investigate the hign price and scarcity of news - print paper and the causes which .e have produced these conditions, was .e the subject of discussion before r- the house committee on judiciary. 1- Don 0. Seitz of the New York Worldi, y and Jonln Norris, business manager of d the New York Times, were heard. 1- Both covered practically the same d ground in statements and the Inter -e national Paper company and the Gen a eral Paper company had divided the n United States between them in the n control of the news print paper. The ' International controlled all that sec 1- tion east of the Indiana line and the General company the territory west d of that line. This combination, it was testified to, had raised the price e of news paper during the last four .e years $14 a ton and during the- past year as much as $5 a ton; it was sell ng paper in London, counting the freight and insurance, at 30 per cent. gless than it did in New York. [s A Strange Death. 5 A dispath from Providence says that e Addisn's disease has caused the e death there of Miss Viola M. Potter, C a beautiful young society woman, who ,t lived with her parents at 746 North d Main street. Miss Potter had been a e long and patient sufferer under her y mysterious affliction and had seen her delicate pink and white skin d turn tirst to gray and then to the hue s of a negro, as the black spots spread -and ran into one another, finally coy e ering her entire body. The first -. symptoms of the ma-lady appeared y about four years ago. a A Good Law. d The legislature of New Jersey has Li done well in passing a bill making it a crime to sell cigarettes to a child under fourteen years of age. Though it may be impossible to strictly en eforce the law, as has usually been the case with such statutes elsewhere, it will doubtless do some good in the way 'of stopping the abominable habit of children smoking cigarettes. Y TENTY-four persons, including some of the most prominent citizens, in Charleston were arrested on Friday Snight for riding on the pavements without a light and they wcre all e taken to the guard house in the Black Maria''--some of them pro testing strenuously against the in -dignity. Small fines werelimposed. sTEE largest single engine used at Sthe St. Louis exposition will be an e 8,000 horse-power steam turbine s the largest yet in use. The largest - steam engine in the Paris exposition s was 4,000 horsepower. IT will be easier to nominate Judge Parker than to elect him. About Working Crops. "The mistake that many farmers make," says the Cotton Plant, "is that they do not begin the cultivation of their crops in time. They have an idea that the main object in cultivat ing crops is to keep weeds and grass down. It they had land free from grass seeds they would do little work on the crop. The chief end to be ac complished in cultivating any sort of crop is to break the ground thorough ly and pulverize it so that air and sunlight may penetrate it. Tne plant food is thus rendered available. As soon as corn is up run round it with a long tongue plow going close to the corn and as deep as possible. That will break the hard pan. In about ten.days use the same plow, running a little outside of first furrow. I this way the corn will have a wel: broken bed. two feet wide. Afte> that the cultivation should be fre quent and shallow. Some people have an idea that three or four working. are enough for corn. In some rict bottom lands, planted late, two work ings are enough. It is better to cul tivate uplands planted early five of six times. After every rain run the cultivator over it and bream the crust and prevent evaporation. The same plan holds good in working cotton. If land has been prepared well b3 breaking and hai rowing, the cultiva tion should be shallow. Never wail for the grass to grow before you begit to work your crops. Another mi-taki that many farmers make is in waiting for a rain to fall between two consecu tive workings. Never wait a day foi a shower. The most valuable wor is often done when land is gone ove: twice between rins. It will do good every time. -The dryer the season cultivate the oftener. Never stop to dry weather." A Mysterious Shooting. The Columbia State says a mysteri ous shooting affray, in which a hand some woman stylishly dressed figure and also officiated' as target, tool place Saturday afternoon on Sumte street in front of the South Carolin: college mess hall while some of the students were at dinner, and was sees by a dozen or more people. When firs1 noticed there were two men with ; woman walking between them on th< sidewalk. That they were quarrelini was plain from their gesticulation and facil performances. Presently on of the men, who seemed to be con ducting the offensive side of the inter esting controversy, in pantomime a it were, withdrew from the woma and the .other man suddenly ant quickly, and when he had reached distance of about 30 feet in front o them, witnesses say, he wheeled any drawing a revolver from his hip pock et fired at the woman five times il rapid succession. She screamed ani ran in the opposite direction, th other man with her scutting off il still another direction. The mari wit] the revolver unbreached his.weapoi and threw the shells out at his feet Quickly 'read-justice it, he placed i back in his pocket and departed hut riedly in the directicn of the unio station. N~obody could be found Sun day who could identify any of th strange and mysterious trio, and non could be found who had seen an; member of the little party after it sudden dismemberment on the oc casion of the shooting. Neither of the parties appeared to have been hit Nobody had broken the news at polic headquarters Sunday night until a re porter made injuairy, when a privat recalled to the cbief that he did hav a recollection of the matter being re ported to him by some of the stil dents. As to Clemson Scholarships. President Mell of Clemson and Mr R. W. Simpson, president of the boar< of trustees, have asked the attorne; general through the State superir tendent of education for an interpreta tion of the-new act creating 12, scholarships 'at the institution. Thb point seems to be that Clemson doe not want 124 free sch2lars at one time, especially as they would prob ably remain for four years. Tee ac1 give them $100 each year and tuition If 124 free scholars entered Clemsor in one year the places of many pa: sudents would be taken up. It i not known whetber or not the infer ence Is that Clemson needs the money Her income now amounts to abou 150,000. The Citadel also has man; free scholarships but the full numbe of beneficiaries do not come to tb school every four years. What 1th Clemson authorities wish t> know if some of these scholarships can b taken up in 1904 and some in 1905 The attorney general has not yet coD sidered the matter. Who Are They? Senator Burton, of Kansas, wh was convicted of accepting compensa tion to further the interests of fraudulent concern before the post ofice department in his admission made statements which must hav brught consternation among th other senatorial grafters, but to thei intense relief he did not mention.an: names. He said many of his sen atoial brethren mad e large sums c money "practicing before the depart ments," some of them making a much as $40,000 a year. We agre with the Columbia Record that it Is pity that the senator did not go moi into detail and tell the country wb these men are. What the people wanl is to get those "hig up" in this graft ing business at the national capita A small beginning has been made and for the good of the country ther, should be no stopping until all thi rascals are cleaned out. A Heavy Loss. At 2 o'clock Sunday morning fire destroyed the barn and stables of TI H. Auld, at Eastover, resulting in loss of $5,000, with only $700 insur ance. Six buildings adjacent to the barn yard were also destroyed, includ ing live horses, one mule, five cows several fiae hogs, all hay, corn anc farming implements. The fire is saic to have been of Incendiary origin, Sheriff Coleman was telegraphed foi and he, together with Deputy Sheril Cathcart, went to the scene wit] bloodhounds, but the weather being so dry the hounds could not accom plish anything. No Bolter Wanted. Because he voted for McKinley ii I 8t6 James R. Gordon, a leading busi ness man of Richmond, Va., has beer compelled by party pressure to with draw from the race for mayor. Mr. Gordon announced himself as a candi date in response to the request of the city's business interests. His oppon ent asceptained that he had dechrned to support Bryan and had warmly in dorsed McKinley. This aroused such a storm among the "regular" people that Mr. Gordon is out in a letter an nouncing his withdrawal and express ing pleasure at being relieved from: what he only undertook as a patriotic WHO WAS SHE VICTIM? Tragic Incident of Sherman's March Through This State. Most any Saturday or court day, the Wythesville. Va.. correspondence in the Richmond Times-Dispatch says, there can be seen on the streets of Wytheville two farmers, simple- and retiring in their tastes and habits, who were called upon to undergo as trying ordeal during the War Between the States as any soldier on either side of that memorable struggle. At the several Confederate reun ions which have taken place in Wythe ville during the past three years it has been the pleasure and privilege of these tillers of the soil to take an humble and unpretentious part in the exercises as "foot cayalrymen," and it was by a mere accident that your cor respondent learned of the notable event which he narrates below: The old Confeds to whom I refer: are Mr. Joseph Headrick, as I have stated, a farmer, who lives on and owns a comfortable- country estate lying on the waters of Stoney Fork, nine miles west of Wytheville, and Mr. Jackson Grubb, likewise the po sessor of a goodly country home a few miles south of town. They, like thousands of other young mountaineers of southwest Virginia, answered promptly to Virginia's call for volunteers in '61, and later becamne menbers of the Sixty-third Virginia regiment, which was afterwar 's as signed to and became a part of Gen. - Palmer's brigade in General Hood's army, and while in that command r they were captured by some of Gen. W. T. Sherman's men at Midway Sta- - tion, nine miles west of Branchville, r in South Carolina. That was on:the 4th day of February, 1865. Some days after their capture afed eral soldier was found dead in the swamps not far from Orangeburg, in that State. There were marks upon his person which indicated that he had been beaten to death with .clubs. A hasty conferenceof the federalof ficers was held, and they determined upon retaliation; so 103 of the 400 Confederate prisoners in their charge were marched out, and Joseph Head rick and Jackson Grubb were with them. Three federal officers accompanied.: them, and without any explanation the prisoner: of war were lined up. The threw federal officers took pcsitioa at a short distance, one of them hold-,; ing above his head a cigar box, while the other two acted as guards. The Confederate soldiers were then com manded to March one by one between the guards and by the one holding tne cigar box, and draw therefrom a slip - of paper. Then, for the first time, did it drawn upon the prisoners. what was being exacted of them. The ordeal of that moment can bet ter be imagined or pictured than4old. Familiar scenes of dear old home! = t many of them far away, and oflindlr faces of loved ones came rapidly be fore them, and with the possible, . chance of ever being permitted to see them again. e fearful agony and strain which 99of the soldiers endured was soon. - over with, for the orders were soon$ executed, and the "die was cast."Q SJackson Grubb was fortunate in that he was among the first to draw and be drew a white ballot, which evident-' ly-meant life, home and loved ones in. eold Virginia again. eJoseph Headrick wga.not quite so fortunate, being late to draw. 75th in number, but he drew a white ballot also. The one who paid the awful- penal ty was number 81 to dr.aw. -As soon as he drew the black ballot be was jhalted, told to step aside and the ,drawing ceased. He was at once~ -marched off. to Gen. Sherman's head quarters and in an hour or so after Swards gun shots were heard and the efullest terms of war retaliation bad Sbeen met and satisfied. It is said that the prisoner who was shot made a mnanly plea for his 'life when he appeared before Gan. Sher man to be sentenced, but tnat mercy which bless -s twice, "Him that gives Sand him that takes," was not meted Sout to him, and as Robert .Emmet 'said: "The man dies but hiis memory lives. Mr. Headrick in speaking of the:; event to the writer, said that le never rlearned the name of the soldier who' epaid the sacrifice with his life, for an eact, the killing of a federal soldiern - which was never proven to have -been' ethat of a Confederate soldier, but that he was from South Carolina, and was the father of seven daughters. When Mr. Headrick recalled to me' the events of that moment tears came into his eyes, and he said that he had - ooften faced cannon loaded with all of the deadly missiles of war; that for Sfour days and nights he had been ex -posed to the shot and-shell of the.fed Serals before Nashville, but that none eof them were as trying as when he efaced that cigar box with its 100 bal rlots on that spring morning in 3865. He added that even to this day, now -38 years have passed, that he never' fsees a cigar box that memories of Or angeburg are not vividly recalled. 5 Thes Cotton Crop. eThe Cotton Plant says farmers who are increasing their cotton adreage are somewhat reticent. They make no 0boast of it. From what can be gath ered from county papers there will be a reduction of tobacco planting in the eastern counties and a conisequent.ii crease of the cotton crop. In thise counties they will plant 10 to 15 per cent more cotton than they did last year. In the hill counties there will be small increase-about 5 to 10 per cent. We have talked with manyUp- - country farmers, who claim that a little increase in acreage may be ex-* - pected but there is no increase in ia bor. Tne white farmers of the up country, who own their land, are -working for an increased corn crop. The quality of corn coming from the West is about No. 4. No first-class corn fit to make meal now comes i on the train. There Is no corn for sale in the hands of farmers. If a few have s little to spare they can market it at the crib door. It is very Impor tant that an abundant supply of corn be made this year. Horrible Train Wreck. A special to the Chronmcle fromn Carroliton, Ga., says: A throu h. freight on the Southern ' into the caboose of a lco reight train' at Temple. Ga na afternoon, burying Mrs.-red Dill and two chil dren three carloads of coal. The mother and one child were killed In stanly and the second child cannot survive. WE agree with the Commoner thbt the platform must be Democratic, and the cardidates must be men w, o may be depended upon to enfor e the platform if they are elected. TI c people have wearied of straddling, oweassnn and elsertin.