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RAOE PROBLEM Discussed by President Roose= velt at Lincoln Bariquet. GIVES SOUTH ADVICE And Pays Tribute to this Section and Commends the Anti-Lynching Cu sade. After All the Negro Must Learn to Depend on Himself. As the guest of honor at the Lin coln dinner of the Republican Ciub in New York last week, President Roosevelt made a speech on the race problem. le appealed 1o the north to make its friendship for the south all the greater because of the "em barrassment of conditionrs for which she is not alone responsible," and said that the problem was to "so adjust the relatiors between two' races of dif ferent ethnic type, that the backwsrd race be trained so that it may enter into the possession of true freeom, while the forward race is enabled to preserve unharmed the tigh civilza tion wrought out by its forefathers." The dinner was held in the main banquet hall of the Waldcrf Astoria. and in the number of gucsts and elaboratenEss of decorations is be lieved to have exceeded any furction of Its character ever held in New York. The guests numbered more than 1,300, including 275 women, who dined in the Astor gallEry. TH3E PRESIDENT'S SrEEcH. The president said in part: "In his second inaugural, in a speech which will be read as long as the memory of this nation endures, Abraham Lincoln closed by saying: "'With malice toward none; with charity for all; with tirmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; *.* * to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and last ing peace among ourselves, and with all nations.' LICOLN OF sOUTHERN BIRTH. "This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought 'to bind up the na tion's wounds when its soul was 3 et seething with fierce hatred, with wrath, with rancor, with all the evil and dreadful passions provokE d by civil war. Surely this is the spirit which all Americans should show now, when there is so little excuse f, r malice or rancor or hatred, when there is so lit tle of vital consequence to divide brother from brother. "Lincoln, himself a man of south ern birth, did not lesitate to arpeal to the swo:d when he became satlsd..d that in no other v ay could the union be saved, for high though he put peace he put righteousness sttll higher He warred for the union; he warre d to free the slave; and when he warred he wor red in earntst, for it is a sign of weakness to be half hearted when blows must be struck. But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness or his great and sad heart, for all his countrymen alike In the north and in the s,. uth, and he longed above everything for the day when they should once mcore be knit tcgether in the unbreakable bonds of eternal frnendship. sPIRIT OF LINCOLN COIDMENDED. "We of today, in dealing with 3.11 our fellow-citizens, white or colored, north or south, should strive to show just the qualities that Lincoln showed: His steadfastness in striving after the right, and his Indinite patience and forbearance with those wk'o saw that right less clearly than he did; his earnest endeavor. to do what was best, and yet his readiness to accept the best that was practicable when the ideal best was unattainaable; his un ceasing effort to cure what was evil; coupled with his refusal to make a bad situation worse by any ill-judged or Ill-timed effort to make It better. "The great civil war In which Lin coin towered as the loftiest figure left us not only a reunited country, but a country which has the proud right to claim as its own the glory won alike by those who wore the blue and by those who wore the gray, by those who followed Grant and by those who followed Lee; for both fought with equal bravery and with equal sinceri ty of conviction, each striving for the light as It was given him to see the light; though it is now clear to all that the triumph of the cause of free dom andi of the union was essential to the welfare of mankind. We are now one people, a people with failings which we must not blink, but a peo pie with great qualities in which we have the right to feel just pride. FRIENDSHIF FOR SoUTH. "All good Americans who d well in the north must, because they are geod Americans, 'feel the most earnest friendship for their fellow-country men who dwell in the south, a friend ship all the greater because It is in the south that we find in its most acute phase one of the gravest problems be fore our people; the prt blem of so dealing with the man of one color as to secure him the rights that no one would grudge him if he were of an other color. To solve this problem It is, of course necessary to educate him to perform the duties, a failure to perform which will render him a curse to himself and to all around him. DIFFICULTY OF NEGOR Pr!OBLEM. "Most certainly all cie.;r-sighted and generous men in the north ap preciate the difficulty and perplexity' of this prc blem, sympatizx wIth the south in the embarrassment ot condi tions for which she is not alone re sponsible, feel an honest wish to help her where help is practicable, and have the heartiest respect for those brave -and earnest men of the south who, in the face of fearful difficulties, are doing- all that men can do for the betterment alike of white and black. The attitt de of the north toward the negro is far from what It should be and there .s need that the north also should ac. in good faith upon the! principle c f giving each man what is justly due him, of treating him on his worth as a man, granting him no special favors, but denying him no proper opportunity for labor and the reward of labor. But the peculiar circumstances of the south render the problem there far greater and far more acute. JIsTICE FGRt ALL MEN. "NeithEr I nor any other ma.n can say that any given way of a pproachir~g that problem will present in our time even an approximately perfect solu tion, but we can safely say that there can never be such solution at all un less we approach it with the effort to do fair and equal justice among all men; and to demand from them in re turn just and fair treataient for others. Our erfort shcu'd be to secure to estch main, w -ts(eVer his color, u:2 ulity of :ppc rtunity, equality of treatment before the 1e w. As a pFopk string to shape ;ur ac::ons ;n accord atce with the gre;at law of righttous ness we cannot atlord t take part In or be indifferent to the oppression or mal-treatment of any man who, against crushing disadvantages, has by his own industry, energy, self.re spect and perseverance struggled up ward to a position which would entitle him to the respect of his fellows, If only his skin we-e of a different hue. MWST HEL' ALL XEN UP. "Every generous impulse in us re volts at the thought of thrusting down instead of helping up such a man. To deny any man the fair treatment granted to others no better than he is to ccmmit a wrong upon him -a wrong sure to react in the long run upon those guilty of such denial. The only sae principle upon wt.ch Amer icans can act is that of all men up,' not that of 'some men down.' If in any community the level of intelli gence, morality and thrift among the colored men can be raised, it is, hu manly speaking, sure that the same level among the whites will be raised to an even hightr degree; and it is no less sure that tl:e dcbasement of the blacks will In the end carry with it an attendant debasement of the whites. THE PROOLEY STATED. "The problera Is so to adjust the relations between two races of differ ent ethnic type that the rights of aeither be abridged nor jeopardizAd: that the backward race be trained so that it may enter into the possession of true freedom,, while the forward rrca is enabled to preserve unharmed the high civilization wrough out by its forefathers. The working out of this probhm must necessarily be slow; it is not possible in offhand fashion to obtain or to confer the priceless boons of freedom, industrial efficiency, poli t cal capacity and domestic mora'ity. Nor is it only necessary to train the colored man; it is quite-as necessary to train the white man, for on his shoulders rests a well nigh unparallel ed sociolegcal responsibility. It is a problem demanding the best thought, the utmost patence, the most earn est effort, the broadest charity, of the stateman, the student, the philantrop Ist: of the leaders of thought in every department of our national life. The church can be a most :mportant factor in solving it aright. But above all else we need for its &occ- s- fLl solution, the sob-r, kindly steadrast, unselfish per formance of duty by the average plain citizen in his everyday dealir-gs with hi.s fellows. NEGRO MUsr HELP HIMSELF. "In the first p'ace, it is true of the colored man, as it Is true of the white man, that in the long run his fate must depend far more upon his own effort than upor the efforts of any outside friend. Every vicions, venal, or ignorant clored man is an even greater foe to his own race than to the community as whole. The colored man's self-resDect entitles him tc do that share in the political work of the c untry which is warranted by his in dividual ability and integrity and the positicn he has won for himself. But the prime requisite of the race Is mor al and industrial uplifting. NEGRO MUST ABIIOR CRIME. "Laziness and shiflessness, thcse, and above all, vice and'criminality of every kind, are evils more potent for harm to the black race than all acts of oppression of white men put to gether. The colored man who fails to condemn crime in another colored man, who fails to cooperate in all lawful ways in bringing col ored criminals to justice, is the worst enemy of his own people, as well as an enemy to all the people. Law-abidinag black men should, for the sake of their race, b? foremost in relenth ss and unceasing warfare against law-breaking black men. If the standards of private morality and industrial efficiency can be raised high enough among the black race, then its future on this continent is secure. The stability and purity of the home Is vital to the weifare of the black race, as it Is to the v elfare of every race. DUTY CF WHITE MAN. "In the next place the white man, who, if only he is willing, can help the colored man more than all other white men put together, is the white man who Is his neighbor, north or scuth. Ejch cf us must do his whole duty without flinching, and if that duty Is natioral it must be done in accordance with the principles above laid down. But in endeavoring each to be his b:-other's keeper it is wise to remember that each zan nor mally do~ most for the brother who is his immediate neighbor. If we are sincere friends of the negro let us each In his own locality show it by his action therein, and let us each show It also by upholdlng the hands of the white man, in whatever locality, who is striving to do justice to the poor and the helpless, to be a shield to those whose need for succh a shield is great. ANTI LYNCHING CRUSADE. 'The heartiest acknowledgements are due to the ministers, the judges and law officers, the grand juries, the public men, and the great daily news papers in the south, who have recent ly done such effective work in leading the crusade against lynching in the south; and I am glad to say that dur ing the last three mcnths the returns, as far as they can be gathered, show a smaller number of lynchings than for any other two months during the last twenty years. Let us up hold in every way the hands-of the, men who have led in this work, who are striving to do all their work in ths spirit. I a-n about to quote from the address of t.2e Right Rev. Robert Strange, bishop coadjutor of North Carolina, as given In the Southern Churchman of October 8, 1904: SOQIAL EQUALITY QUESTION. "The Bishop first enters an em- I phatic plea against any social Inter mingling of the races: a question which must, of course, be left to the people of each community to settle or themselves, as in such a matter, no one commurity-and Indeed no one - individual-can dictate to any other: ilways provided that in each Itcality mn keep in mind the fact that there must be no confusing of civil privi leges with social intercourse. Civil1 aw cannot regulate social practices. Society, as such, is a law unto itself, and will always regulate its own prac ices and habits. Full recognition of he fundamental fact that all men should stand onr an (qual footing, as reards civil privle(ges, in no way in terferes with recogni:!ion of the fur ther fact' that all re:lecting men .f oth races are united in feeling that race purity must be maintained. wrIAT wHIT: MN snlOULI DO. "The bishop continues: "What should the white men of I the south do :or the negro? They I mustgiv hima tee anda- airI leli. and a ccrdlal godspeed, the tio j acs working together fur the-r nutual benetit and for the dr relopment rf cur common cuntr. 1 1e must have libertv, equal opport1 .ity to raaka his hving, to earn bis :rr ad, to build his home. 11 mu it ?age justice, equal rig hts, and pr e(tion before the law. He mu:st aave the same political privileges: tie I icifrage should be based on charactnr t tnd intelligence for white and black V .like. He wust have thesame public a .dvantages of education: the public a chools are for all the people, what ever tb-ir color or condition. The ic white men of the south should give hearty and respectful considerationl. to the exceptional men of the negro I race, to those who have the character, t the ability and the desire to be law- t yers, physIcians, teachers, preachers, t leaders of thought and conduct among their own muen and women. We ihould give them cheer and opportu ity to gratify evt ry laudable ambi Lion, -ad to seek every innocent sat isfaction among their own people Fnally, the best white men of the suth should have frequent confer rnces with the )et colored men, where, in frank, earnest, and sympa Dhet-c discussion they might under stand each other better, smooth diffl ultiEs, and so guide and encourage the weaker race.' "Surely we can all of us join in ex pressing cur substantial agreement with the p inciples: thus laid down by this North Carolina bishop, this rep resentative of the Christian thought of the south. BELIEVES IN TFE SOUTnERNER. "Throughout cir land things on 1 the whole have grown better and not 1 worse, and this is as true of one part of the country as it is of another. I believe in the southerner as I believe in the northerner. I claim the right to feel pride in his great qualities and ties and in his great deeds exact ly as I feel pride in the great qual and deeds of every other American. For v eal or woe we are knit together, and we shall go up or down together; and I believe that we shali go up and not down, that we shall go forward instead of halting and falling back, because I have an abiding faith in the gecercsity, the courage, the resolu tion, and the common sense of all my countrymen. "The southern states face difficult problems; and so do the northern states. Some of the problems are the same for the entire country. Others exist I1n greater intensity In one se. tion; and yet others exist In greater lntensity in another section. Bu-, in tle end they will all be solved, for fundrientally our people are the same trr-ughout this land; the sE.me in the qualities of heart and bialn and hand which have made this re public what it is in the great toc ay; which will make it what it is to b. in the inlinitely greater tomorrow. ADMIRES THE SOUTH. "I admire and respect and believe in and have faith in the men and women of the soutn. as I admire and respect and believe in and have fith1 in the men and women of the no:-th. All o us alike, northerners indi southerners, easterners and western ers, can best prove our fealty to the nation's past by the way In which we co the nation's work in the presemt: fir only thus can we be sure that our childre n's children shall inherit A~ra am Lincoln's single-hearted devo :ion to the great unchanging creed that 'righteousness exalte th a nation.' " ASKED TO SPEAK. Secretary Hay Invited to Southern Eduacational Conference. As one of the prirccipal speakers of the Southern Educational Conference to be held in Columbia, Governor Hey ward has invited Secretary of State John Hay, quite a noted orator and a man who has displayed a great deal of interest in the movement for bet tering educational conditions in the south. Preparations are going right ahead for the conference there In April and Monday a letter was receiv ed from Mr. E~gar Gardner Murphy asking that Mr. Eay be Invited there.1 Governor Heywai d Tuesday sent the following letter: Sir: As you are doubtless awiare, the Southern E ducational Board will bold its approaching annual confer ence in Columbia on April 26-28 next. In behalf (.f the people of my state and also with the added consideration of furthering the cause of education, [ have the honor to request that you will attend this conference and de iver one of the addresses. The pleasure of welcoming you cord ally and sincerely will be ours, and t your visit will give us the added grat ification of knowiag that valuable aidg as been given to all who are inter- t. sted In the work of the board- a Permit me to urge that you will a ive thisy uur careful thought and that a y'ou will accept this invitation,.whicb c .s so earnestly and cordially extended. c I have the honor to he, very re- a spezfully and truly yours,c D. C. HEY wARD, Governor. f Hon John Hay, Secretary of State, Wasigton D. C. t Some Queer Doingcs. There are some queer doings in the c -called high life of the people of the t Korth. A dispatch from Newport, C 1. I., says as a sequel to two divorce ases which two years ago caused sen-s ations-those of Mrs. Hollis H. Hun- p uewell and Mrs. Mary Isabelle Kemp t -it as learned recently that suit b uad been brought, or was about to be a >rought against Hollis H. Hounnewell n if Weflesley, Mass.. tiow the hus'cand b if Mrs. Kemp, to recover for counsel si ees in connection with securing the a livorc a of Mrs. Kemp. The suii Is b >rought by Col. Samuel R. Hon~ey, si ,n' it is stated on trus-wo: thy a ut boity that the amount claime d is si :25,00 ). Mrs. Hunnewell is a davgh- s er of Mrs. Frederic Nikon and a F: ister ,f Mrs. Reiniald C. V'anderbils. a ibe brougrht action for divorce against r, Ir. Kcgop In the Rhode Island coturts, I: nd the case was he::rd and a div >rce 11 ranted at Newpert on May 26, 1 )03, a he gr >ucds being neglect and ref rsal d o provide. Under the laws of Rt ode ti sland Mrs. Kemp had to wait six s' onths before the divorce bec:ame i perative, and on November 27, 1)03, n n absolute decree was granted by n udge Dubois at Newport, and an ti our later Mrs. Kemp was marrie! to g Ir. Runnewell by Judge Dulols. e: Ir. 1.mnnewell was divorced from his.1 ,-ife about ix mronths prior to this, Iit he afterward marryinug John S. ci ooke -. This Is certainly a mess A' nan being sued for the lawyers fees ecuring a divorce fur his wife f:om er former husband is something uini ti e, and could only take place among ti 'eope who have mislaid what little sI orals they may have statarted life o with. 1 BANKERS WIL HLP he Farmers to Organize to Fight the Speculators. A'- has alredy bee:2 published, at m eting of Southe:n bankers held i .w Orleans January 25th, at the Im. the Southern Cotton growers ras in session, a resolation was passed greeing to raise a fund of $10,000 to Id the farmers in their efforts to or an ze for the purpose of reducirg the otton acreage. Mr. B. F. Mauldin, of Anderson, Fa; appointed as the- South Carolina aember of the executive committee o raise this fund, and he is sending he following letter to the bankers of he state: "Anderson, S. C., Feb. 14, 1905. "To the Bankers of South Carolina: Lt a meeLing of Southern bankers ield in the city or New Odeans, Jan tary 25th, 1905, a resolution was pass d recommending &hat the banks of he South contribute $10,000 to aid outbern cotton planters in their ef ort to organize for the purpose of utting down acreage. An executive ommittee was appointed at this eetiog to take this matter in hand, ad Mr. John D. Walker, of Sparta, ia., was made the treasurer. I en lose his circular which lays the mat er in a clear business-like manner )efore you. "As president of the South Carolina 3ankers association, and as a mem >er of the executive committee above 'eferred to, I beg heartily to endorse ibis circular. Prompt action In the atter is very important, as what is lone in athe way of reducing acre age oust be done at once. Ia view of the argecotton crop of 1904 05 it is a natter of vital importance that some ystematic plan be made and carried ut to insure a small crop for the pres nt year, as another large crop wcu'd urely be disastrous, not only to the armer, but to tae banker as well, and ndeed to all classes to a more or less tent. "In order that contributions may )e :tquitable, Mr. Walker, in his cir ular has given a graded scale. "Remember that prompt action in his matter is all important. "Make your remittance to John D. Walker, Treasurer, Sparta, Ga., at Mee. "B. F. MAULDIN, "Member Executive Committee, "Southern Bankers." ~Blind Tiger Whiskev. Greenwood is a prohibition town, so ar, at least, as dispensary whiskey is :oncerned, but the blind tigers that re evidently doing businessthere in rolation of law must dispense a terri )le brand of whisl:ey, if we are to udge it by recent oxurrences in that 0own. Some three weeks ago one of ;he policemen of Greenwood, under he influence of bli:.d tiger whiskey, hot and killed hi3 own son, a lad Lbout sixteen years of age. The fathei aid the whiskey b. drank had made iim crazy and he did not know what le was doing when he murdsered his ittle son. We are disposed to believe hat the poor fellow told the truth, as >eople who run blind tigers, and se'. whiskey in violation of law, are not sp to be very particular what sort c f xason the' sell their customers. The eple of ?reenwood had not recover id from this shocking murder before ma ther killing took place en their str eets. This time a prominent young xt siness man shoots and kills a negro x r whom he bad been teasing a shor t eine before. Tbe teasing evidently ne.de the negro mad, and he threw a ock at the young man. Then the booting took place with the result bove stated. In writing up the kill ng the Greenwood Journal says that t does not know that whiskey was in ~ny way connected with It, for it had rot been informed as to whether the roung man had been drinking on the night of the killing or not, but the rournal ventures the assertion that hiskey is at the bottom of every uch tragedy. We rather agree with he Journal, and that is the reason wy we celieve that whiskey should be old under the restraints of law rather ihan by the irresponsible people who un blind tigers in so-called probibi ion towns like Greenwood and others. Both in theory and practice we are a eetotler individually, but we much refere the handling of whiskey brough tbe dispensaries, with the estrants of law thrown around it, han to have it handled by the men rho usually run blind tigers. We do ot believe that Orangeburg would ffer much in comparison with treenwood for law and order. Strictly Non Political. One of the sections of the constitu ion of the Southern Cotton Growers, sociation provides that "this or ranization and all of its associates, .nder its system of state and county nd sub civil division organizations, re and should be non political. They hal not cooperate with any politi al party, nor in any manner use their rganzations, or membership to aid ny political machinery, policy, or ombine, but shall exercise and per orm all powers and duties herein rovided as a non partisan agricul ral and commercial organization, esigned alone to further the urposes recited in article 1 of this onstitution by and through its sys em of organtitions, strictly in ac ordance with law, and by suggestion, resentation, to such law making odies, as, from time, becomes neces ry, without reference to parties or arty policy. Should any omeier of bis association publicly announce imself as a candidate for any nation I, state or county offce, such an ouncement shall immediately vacate is position as an dicer, and no per yn offering for, or :holding any of the bove named politikal offces, shall not e eligible to any position in this as ication." This Ila a wise provisior, d, if adhered to, will steer the as clation safely pass the rocks upo2 hich the alliance aLnd other promis g organizations ainong the farmers erewre cked. This movement amoni g e cotton grower. is of too muchi oportance to he endangered by am-~ ating with any colitical party or Lade the stepping stone to offce by si~gning politic'ars. In the flgbt ;r ~cotton growers are engaged In the ~impathy and support of every mar, can and child in the southland is aded, and every effort should be de to enlist them in the cause. Ftr :s reason as well as others we ar e d that the Soutlern Cotton Grow' - Association has been made strici - non political. All are welcome t o ranks, regardless of their polit affliations. Servea Himi Right. Richard Davis, colored, was sen eced in Columbis, on Tuesday to ni years in the penitentiary for ooting at two ladies on the streets Columbia two months ago, while n n a street car. KILLED A MAN. Mrs. ivens, Wife of Senator Bivens., of Dorchestcr Ccznty, Shoots and Kills a Peddler for In suiting Her at Her Home in the Countrv. The Columbia State says just after the senate convened fur business Sat urday morning Senator J. D. Bivens of Dorchester received the following telegram: "Your wife killed the Jew. Come home at OLc. Particulars later. "J. A. Limehouse." The State further says that Scna tor Blvens was dumb-founded on re. ceipt of this news fram the deputy sher.ff of his county, and immediate. ly left for his home. Just af.er he bad gone communication was estab lished on the long distar ce telephone by a friend, I ut this disclcsed little. Just before he left, Senator Bivens Raid that he supposed the telegram referred to a Jewish peddler named Greenburg, wh-o had intended opening a store in the neighborhood of Rave nel, where Senator Bivens lives. When The State received the news of the tragedy it Immediately set about to obtain the particulars, but the district has so very few white people that this was difficult. The telegraph operator at Ravenel knew nothing of the killing, and so The State wired its correspondent at St. George, the county seat of Dorches ter. The following message was re ceived: "A telephone messnge from Sum merville says Mrs. Docia T. Bvens. wife of State Senator John D. Bivens, killed a burglar peddler who entered her home Friday nigh. Mr. Bivens' home is some 10 miles from Summer ville and 25 miles from Dorchester. The particulars of the killing csnnot be ascertained." Next the news was sent to the Charleston correspondent of The State, who wired as follows. "A dispatch received here Saturday afternoon states that Mrs. John D. Bivens, wife of Senator Bivens of Dorchester, killed a peddler named Greenberg Friday night, and Satur day the jury of inquest exonerated her, finding a verdict of justifiable homicide. It appears that Mr. Green berg was arrested at D irchester a week ago for insulting Mrs. Bivens, but was releaed and prosecution drop ped on his promise to quit the town. He returned Friday n'ght, calling at the residence of Mrs. Bivens, who raised an alarm, bringing a number of neighbors to her assistance. The premises were searched and Greenberg was found in an outhouse. He ventur ed the explanation that he had re turned to the place at the re quested of Mrs. Bivenq, and the re mark enraged the woman, wL o accom panied the partv, to such an extent that she raised her husbar d's shotgun which she carried and shot Greenberg, killing him instantly. Mrs. Bivens was :eleased on a nominal bond." Saturday night Senator Co!e L. Blease of Nesberry, wbo is a close friend of Senator Bivens and who ac companied him home, having been en gaged as counsel for Mrs. Bivens, wired The State following message: "Magistrate Cummings held inquest over the dead body of Greer~berg. Jury returned a verdict of justifiable homi cide. Mrs. Bivens released under bond to appear at next term of court." The Associated Press explained tbe tragedy in the follow. ing telegram: "Givhans, Feb. 11.-A ki-ling took place near Dorchester Friday morning at about 6 o'clock. A peddler named Greenberg fr( quently visited the hcme of J. D. Bivens up to about a week ago, when he made advances to- as sault Mrs. Bivens and was arrested. He promised to pay a fine and leave the neighborhood if they would free him, which was done. But he came back Friday night and entered the Bivens' house and made the same ad vances toward Mrs. Bivens, when she shot him with a shctgun, the load en tering bis neck. Magistrate Cum mings was notified of the killing, and he summoned a jury of inquest, the verdict being justifiable homicide. Mr. Bivens was in Columbia at the time." A letter from Ridgeville to The State says Greenberg was in the habit of stopping at Mrs. Bivens when in the neighborhood and tbat Mrs. Biv ens had him arrested ftor threatening her life and making improper propos als to her. This charge was dropped upon Greenberg promising to leave the neighborhood and not return. On the evening of the 10th of February Greenburg returned to Mrs. Bivens'. About 3 o'clock the following morn ing, Mrs. Bivens seot for her neigh bor, Mr. Platt, to come to her home. On his arrival she told him that Green burg had attempted to criminally as sault her. Mr. Platt, leavidg Mrs Bivens and Greenburg in the house, went to Mr. R. M. Limehouse, a neighbor who lives about two miles from Mrs. Bivens. The two returned to Mrs. Bivens' about 6 o'clock the same morning. As they reached the hall door Mrs. Bivens came to the door and they beard some one running through the back door. On entering the hou~e Mrs. Bivens told them that Greenburg had run into the shed room. They found the door locked. Mrs. Biv ens brought a hatchet and they forced the door open and found Greenburg in the room sitting on a bar with his hands in his pockets. When asked why he had returned there he said Mrs. Biven's had sent for him. At that mo ment Mrs. Bivens entered the room and fired upon Greenburg with Mr. Platt's single barrel breechloading gun, the shot taking effect in the neck, just below the c'iin, causing in stant death. Mrs. Bivens then said, "Go:d knows I did not wish to kill him, but I had it to do." Uot Five Y are. George Rogers, alias George Brown, calored, who killed at other negro in Columbia five years ago and escaped, having been arrested lately in At lanta and brought bhick, was cnn vict'd in Columbia 'on Tuesday of manslaughter and sentenced to five years in the penitentit.ry. THE bill to establis~h a State Re forrratory Dassed the House by a majority of 78 to 20. This is the meas ure r.dvccated by the Womens' Clubs' led by Mrs. Martha Orr Patterson, and the bill was initroduced by her son, Mr. Lawrence Orr Patterson, who Is a quiet but brainy and indu-trious mem ber from Greenville. This is cne of the most importz.nt measures brought up In the legislat ure this session. WITH the creatio:2 of t wo new judi cial circuits by the legisature it i hopEd that the congested condItion 01 the courts will be relieved and that there will be less cause for complaint agai:nst the law's delay. It was urg ed by the advocates of the teu-cir cuit measure that two new circuits would cost less than the special courns which have heen held. We sa11 sea. My Vs.entine. What shall I send my love? The flow ers are dead: The scent of sum-er roses long have Ined: The blasts of witer long ago have blent 'V ith dying leaves--their mission well nigh spent. I sent my love whe:n she and I were young, With many a drea;m undreamed and song unsung, A valentine-such words as lovers write When hearts are young and happiness in sight. What shall I send her, now, from out the past The days so sweet, that cculd nor would not last? Nor tiowers nor words the distance can o'erleap 'TwIxt hearts that languish or 'twixt eyes that weep. The years that parted us have brought us pain; Naught can assuage it till we meet again: But thouht can bridge the distance to her shrine, And thought, tonight, shall be my vallentine. PARDON REFUSED. George W. Ennia Will Have to Serve Out His Life Term. The Columbia Rscord says on Tues day Governor Heyward refused to pardon George W. Eanis, a white man serving a life sentence In the peniten tiary for arson. Strenuous efforts have been m de to secure the release of the man by his neighbors where he for me e&y lived, in Illinois, and Represen tative Warner, who wrote a personal letter to Senator Tillman and to Gov ernor Heyward about the case. It seems that Ennis was originally from Iillno's and after serving in the Northern army came to this state and settled in 1868. He first settled In Orangeburg and afterwards moved to Barnwell, where he was finally tried in 1892 for the burning of a saw mill and a shed and sentenced to be hang ed. Afterwards his sentence was com muted to life Imprisonment and since then he has been serving out his sen tence In the penitentiary here. Guvernor Heyward took considera ble pains to look up the case and its history, on account of the very strong showing made by the man. Judge Witherspoon, who heard the case, has since died, as has Solicitor Murphy, but Mr. G. Duncan Bellinger, of this city, assisted in the prosecution, and facts which warranted the refusal of the pardon were obtained from him. It appears that ever sirce the man has been in-this state he has been in trouble. He was first tried in 1881 and given six months for obtaining m ney under false pretences. Since then other charges o' arson were brought against him, but his final conviction was not obtainc d until the last case. when he was sentenced to be hung and had the sentence commuted to life Im p-isonment. Good Dem-cratic Doctrine. There is no c oubt but that Presi dent Roosevelt is now preaching good Demccratic doctrine in his fight on the trusts. Everything that the Presi dent has done so far in the Interest of the people against the trusts was ad voc.ted by Bryaa in his speeches and in the platforrn upon which he ran for president in 1896 and 1900. The platform of the Democratic Nat ional Convention, wbh ch met in Chicago in 1896, and nomiz ated Bryan, declared that "the absorption of wealth by the few, the consolidation of cur leading railroad systems, and the formation of trusts and poois require a strict contr ol by the Federal Government of those arteries of commerce. We de mand the enlargement of the powers ot the Interstate Commerce Commis sion and such restrict'ons and guaran tees In the cont-ol of railroads as will protect the people from robbery and oppression." The platform adopted by the Na tional Democratic Convention, which met at Kansas City In 1900 and which again nomninated Bryan, after der ouncing trusts and unlaw ful com binations as a menace to beneficial competition and on abstacle to per manent business pro ,perity, especial ly denounced rebates and discrimina tion by transportation companies as the most potent agency in promoting and strengthening these unlawful con spiracies against trade, and demanded an enlargement of the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission, to the end that the traveling public and shippers of this Government may have prompt and adequtte relief from the abuses to which they were subjected in the matter of transpartation. In both the campaigns following the adoption of these demands by the National Democratic party Bryan in his speeches on the stump pledged himself to carry them out as far as he was able should he be elected. In fact he was the author of these demands and had them put in the platforms In the face of these facts It must be most gratifying to Bryans to have President Reo evelt adopt his views and'his party's platforms and attempt to carry them out. It shows that Bryan is a great man, and that, while he was defeated by wholesale bribery and the purchase of the election by the Republicans, he so impressed his views upon the country that the Re publican president had to take them up and try to carry thxet out to save his party from defeat in the next prsidential election, when no doubt Bryan and the same Issues will lead the Democratic host to victory. Use Cot ton Bagging. The recent suggestion of a Kanses milling company that the troubles o the Southern planters could be cor rected to some extent by the more gmeral use of cotton bagging for Suthern products, is being generally discusscd and zr any business men en d rse the idea. .Tt depends. of curse, upon the farmers whether they will ue cotton covers instead of jute for their cotton baes and many uses to which the prc posed new wrapper could be put. E'-en wi .h the productsI which the farr ers do not originate, they cauld seclure the use of cotton wrappers by ins.sting upon receiving these foreign pI 2cts only in cotton covers. In thi; way they would be creating a deraand for their own stale and thu3 help maintain the price. Many milAs stand ready to -make a stouter cotton wrapping cloth If the :mand Is only 'created, and the ecst will be little, i: any, higher tc the farmers. This iL a matter worth con 3dering, and e suggest that the Suhern Cottc! Growers Association ake it up and ensider It. There is 03 good reason why cotton should not be put up in cotton bagging. If neces sary It could be made- fire proof, and would afford better protection for otton than jutet bagging. Let us get ot of the old ruts. TWO NMW JUDGS. Mr. R. Withers Memminger and Mr. George E. Frince. In j Int assembly the legislatur3 f South Carolina Tuesday elected Hion. Geo. E. Prince of Anderson judge of the tenth circuit and Mr. R. Withers Memminger of Charleston judge of the ninth circuit. Mr. Memmiiger was the nominee of the bar of C*lar leston and as such had little opposi. tion. The other nominee from the ninth circuit was Hon. Wm. J. Fish burne of Colleton. There was a ;ery close race between Mr. Prince and lon Thos. P. 0otbran of Greenville There was no extended speechmak Ing in placing the names of the car didates before the members of the general assembly, but Mr. Sinklers brief remarks in nominating Mr. Memminger presented the picture cf a high-minded judge in a mancer which can but give to layman a more exalted opinion of the bench. Senator Peurifoy of Colleton placed in nomination the name of a man "whose ability as a lawyer and whose integrity as a man are beyond dis pute, a man who would wear the er mine with credit to the State-Mr. William J. Fishburne of Colleton." This nomination was seconded by Mr. C. P. Sanders, who declared that it was with unfeigned pleasure that he paid this tribute to the friend of his boyhood, a man of mature j adgment, of high character and one learned in the law. There were no other nominations, and the balloting resulsed in the elec tion of Mr. Memminger. The vote was as follows: Memminger-Senators, 28; repre sentatives. 82. Total, 110; necessary to a choice 76. Fishburne-Sen&tors, 8; representa tives, 32; total, 40. Mr. F.shburne's candidacy had not been pushed and the vote which he received was very complimentary for that reason. The Charleston delegation had been work ing as a unit for Mr. M mminger. The nominations of candidates for ju"ge of the tenth circuit then being In order, Mr. John R. Harrison of Greenville nominated Mr. Tdomas P. Cothran of Greenville. This was see on-ed by Mcssrs. L. J. Browning of Union, T. B. Fraser of Sumter and L,. K. Keenan of Aiken. Senator Hood of Anderson nomi nated Eon. George E. Prince and this was seconded by Mr. Richards. Mr. Bruce, Mr. Moses, Mr. Beamgaard, Dr. E. J. Etheredge and Mr. Kirven. When the senate had balloted it showed that there was a difference of six votes in Mr. Prince's favor in that body. When two-thirds of the h)use had voted the result in that bcdy was a tie, 39 to 39. But when the last 35 names in the house had been called it was seen that Mr. Prince had gained 5 v-tes at the very last. and this insured his election by 11 votes. struck by a Train. A dispatch from Barawell says M-. Barney B. Ea terling, while on ! a way home from his farm Friday even Ing was struck by the northbound Palm Lmited train 4t the cr. ssiug above the oil mill. His horse was in stantly killed, his rubber-tired buggy around to pieces, while he, it is fear ed, is seriously injured. He was taken to Columbia on the same train that injured him, where an examination was made by physicians. Saturday morning he was carried home, -vhere be will receive suech care as o'-ly friends and a home can give. The de t als surrounding the is jury are con fieting, but it seems that Mr. Eser ling's horse while crossing the track git his foot hung some L~OW on ti e c-csslng, at which moment the Palim Limited came dashing on, with the ,above stated result. Founu DeaQ. At Cleveland 0O-do, four persors were found ds ad from suffocation a t No. 502 1-2 Central avenue Friday It is supposed that fuses from a nat ural gas stove resultad In their asphy iation. The dead ara Mr. and Mrs. George No'an and Mr. and Mrs Charles H. Heller. The coroner st td tuat he was not at all sure that the deaths had bcen caused by escai.:ng gas. When a neighbor entered the Nolan house natural gas was stri burning in the stove, but the ro.. ms were filled with the strong odor ol gas. The only living thieg in the house was a small dog which 'aas un conscious. A coorning to the stat emer t of neighbors there had been much di: cord in the Heller household, and Mrs. Heller had recently said "Ii things don't get better death will come to all of us." C Knied on a Trestle. A dispatch from Spartanburg te The State says Carrie Hammond, a clored woman, while walking on the little trdstle between the Chari ston and Western Carolina depot and the Southern station, was struck by the locomotive of the Glenn Spring train. and killed. The body of the woman was tossed to the embankment on the left of the track. She had alm st walked across the trestle, when the engine struck her, and it is probable that she slipped between the crossties. Engineer Cummings tried his utmost to stop the tra.in, which was pulling out slowly. Her face and breast were crushed, and death must have been instantaneous. Disastrous Fire. Indianapolis, Ind., suffered from a a disastrious fire Sunday night. It is estimated that the money lost will amount to 8l1,500.000. F ,r four lours the wholesale district bour-deo by Georgia and Meridian streets. Jackson place and the union depot sheds was menaced. At 9.30 c'clcck three general alarms brought into ac tion every engine in the city and suburbs. When the fire was brough under control eight buildings, among - which were three hotels, had been completely destroyed. One firemaul was hurt by fallng wals. Lost Their Lives. A dispatch from Savannah, Ga., says W. B. Martin and Benjamin R. Bostick, two young white men of Scotia, S. C., were drowned Saturday while hunting on a stream in that vi cinity. They were in a boat, accorr - panied by a negro. Their boat struck snag and was upset. The negro ma- - aged to make the shore, but the young men failed In their effrts to reach a! point of safety. CONGREssM&N Lind calls attention o the fact that the "pound ma ster," I r dog catcher, of the District Gf Co. Lumba receives 81,500 a year, while iome of the school teach srs receis-e but3 50. The value of the dog is being t verestimatedl. INi a case at Pittsburg the other dayf I n which a young lady claimed dam- ja ages, from a young man for kssing i her, 'the judge, af ter carefully szrati- j nizing the fair plaintiff, dismissed the I uit on the ground that the defendant H.iS RErUR1ED HX3. a Frank Statement of the Condition of Senator 'illman. Stnator Tillman return-d to his hore s.t Trenton Saturday. In an interview concerning the senator's condition Dr. J. W. Babcock, who acccmpinied Srnal.or Tillman to PhFladelpola, said that the result of the consultation with the Philadel pbia experts was highly satisfactory to his ohysicians In S'outh Carolina. The specialis gave out the opinion that Mr. TillmaL is unusually free from the signs of disease that begin to appear at his time of life. The whole trouble is a form of neuritis produced by the poison of grippe. There is no sign o: organic diseasi, nor has the Senatt- had any symp tors of thrcat tro-ible for several montbs other than , uch as is common in winter. Senator Tillman i.- looking unusual. ly well and the trij to Pailadelphia was made largely a- a matter of pre caution. The diai nosis of grippe poisoning affecting one set of nerves was made before h( left South Caro lina and this opinio. has simply been - confirmed by the Ph ladelphia experts Briefly these are tie whole facts of the case and are given out in full as, there have been intimations that ser-. ous trouble was thre-atenlbg the Sena tor and that the t:ue situation was being concealed from the public. The tbroa; trouble frcm which Senator Tillman suffered last spring has been entirely relieved; his recent attackof neuritis is greatly improved in the last few weeks with every encourage ment of a speedy recovery. Underlying Snator Tillman'scondi tion there has been for some years a tendency to what Is known as the uric acid eiathesis-the poison which produces rheumath.m. This was prob ably one of the causes of his throat troub'e and is alsi an elemend in his present, attack. It is the cpinion of the physicians that it is only neces sary for Senator Tllman to rest and becartful of himself in order tobe entirely restored. It is therefore not probable that he will return to Wash ington between now and the end of the session of congress. Wolfe in Sheep's Clothing. A dispatch from Commerce, Ga., to the Augusta Chronicle says Rev. J. W. Woodvard, a Baptist minister, charg:d with bigamy, was tried in the Jackson superir court. now in session in J ff rson. was found guilty-' and sentenced by Judge Russel to serve four years on the chaingang. It -level-ped that Wood ward had been 'narried four t!m-s, and t'iat three of h s wives are still living. H - came nere a b ut a year ago as a stranger n.I scon thereafter mirried toayoung la-y of this place. A few monthalater " it was ascertained that he had a li-* ing wife in South Cajolina. It dive oped that the S.uth Carolina woman wjs not bis first but his third wifeand that the Commerce va% not his seccnd but his fourth wife. It was proven that he first marrie d in Lincoln coun oy, this tate, that he left this wife and was married to No. 2, that he eft No.2 and married No. 3, and sub s' qutly came and married No. 4. W oen brought fro-n the Jsll into the couirt room wife 2No. 3 and children were piresent. When he entered the roo-n one of the children sawhian "Mama, yonder is papa." White Man Found Dead. A dispatch frcm Holy Hill to The - State says on Saturday, Febuary 11, a0 old colored man who had crossd Four Holes swamo reported having seen a horse and buggy about midway of the swamp and no one near to whom it e' uld belong. Immediately ,. searching party went cut and found. the horse and tuggv, the back of the buggy being broken. Further search eauh e-i in finding the body of Oliver Canty sitting in si'allow water near the roadside with 'ils arm arcund, a small tree, as if 101 tupport, his head a.bove water, dea(. The body was tak en to his home, There the coroner's inquest was held, the verdict being : that death was fro n natural causes., no bru'ses being f uid on the body4 Pee su.:nnsition Is ihat Canty was r6 turning from St. G sorge and prehapsd fell, the shc et oft tie fall and the rain and cold rendering hims helpless. - H.2 was a qu'et, pesat le man. The body$ was interred Sunday. Buarnedrto D.ata. Six colored children were burned to death in a cabin oni the property of tne Okeetee club, about 30 miles from Savannah, on Sunday night. This 's the story told by a lady who came from the scene. 'Richard Dror and nis family, consisting of his wife and. ,ix children, lived In a log house on the reservation of the Okeetee. club. Sunday night Door and this fife left their six children at home and went a short distance to visit some of their neighbors. During their absence the children went to 2eep, leaving a big fire in the fire place. It is presumed that a live coal *olled from the fireplace on to the floor, setting the house on fire, burn ing to death live of the children. The ixth child, a girl 15 years of age, es caped througih tbe door, which was the only exit to ':he cabin, but her burns and injuries were of' such a se ri~us. character thrst she, too, died the rollowing day.' Found Wub Throat Uut. The little town of ?'oarson, Ga., ott ibe B.-unswick and Western raitoad, vts thrown into the wildest state of exaitement Wedn',sday morning by he discovery of the mysterious mur ler e Mrs. Mary Smith, an aged vlhite womatn. Mrs. Smith resided rn the outsk. rts of the town with her ittle ten-yEar-old grand-daughter. Vednesday maorning the screams of* he ch ild at:tracted the attention of ieigh oars, an~d upon Investigation the lead body c- the woman was found o the hr-use with her throat cut from at tc ear. The c aild could give no n''ormation abc-ut the kiilling. She iad cnly discoven-d her grandmoth r's body a few n oments before the eigh'.ors arrived. Arrested N~e.r Beaufort. A dispatch from Beaufcrt saysunon iformial ion furnished to Deputy heriff White a few days ago that 3. X. Bomrs Is charged with the murder t a Iran nam2ed Katle a t K.aymoor, W. i., i i Fnyette cot uty. Sneriff J1. E. icTet3: and Deput y Whlrte repaired smorning~ to wt ere Boggs was em ioyed. as se'ction n aster cn the Char ~ston and Western Carolina railroad. r g-gs was boroughzt to jail and is w ait: ng the arrival of the sheriff of 'a- ette e-,unty who had offered aere a.rd of 8100 for his apprehension. cggs admitt ed tha.t he was the man ho cotemiitted tie homicide, but