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OALLED DOWN. A Gentleman's Reply to an In. sult by a Bishop. A SLODERER ASKED Politely to Give Some Reason for In sulting Charges Made Against Judge Benet and Proof of Charges Made Against the South ern People Generally. Columbia, S. C , March 21, 1905. Rt. Rev. Htnry C. Potter, Bishop of New York. Right Reverend and Drar Sir. It was my earnest hrpe that your answer to my letter of the 9th i:st. would be of such a nature as to call for no re joinder. But unhappily you did not give the "sof answer," but maade use of most "grievous words." It was. however, still my intention to keep your private letter to me out of the public prints for your own sake, but when I saw your second interview in the New York Globe and Commercial Advertiser and read in The State of Columbia, S. C., yesterday, the 20th inst., your letter to Mr. Gonzales, the editor, in which you said "tne criti cisms of Judge Benet and your own are equally unwarranted and imperti nent," there was nothing left for me to do but to make the whole matter public. I am forced to speak out and to show the public what manner of man the bishop of New York is, and how he comports himself in what was expected by me to be a friendly and courteous correspondence. It will surprise everybody and it will shock churchmen to read your letter to me, even If they should think my letter to you gave you .sufleient provccasion. Ever since receiuing it the words of the P~alter have been haunting my memory: r "Let the righteous rather smite me fidendly and reprove me; but let nol their precious balms break my head.' It is proper that I should first exhi bit my letter to you: Columbia, S. C., March 9, 1905. Rt. Rev. Henry C. Potter, D. D. LL. D., Bishop of New York, New York. Rigna Reverend and Dear Sir: In The State (Columbia, S. C.) of the 7th inst., the editor commented on and quoted from some statements of yours recently publisned in the New York Globe and Commercial Advertis er, on the subject of divorce legisla. tion. It appears that you said: "There would be no virtue in abol ishing divorce altogether. We have an example of what would result from such a measure in South Carolina. Prohibiting divorce is merely putting concubinage at a premiu-n." This is a sericus co.arge to make against South Carolina. And woen it is made by one who deservedly holds one of the highest positions in the church, It commanc s attention and influences and molds ipinion. I do not know where you found any authority for the assertion, but I do know that you have been misled, and that you bave unwittingly misrepre sented the people of this State. N.ir do I doubt that when you have care fully and candidly considered the matter, you will make the amende honorable in as public a manner as you have made the unfortunate charge. Wnen you say that "prohibiting divorce is mereiy putting conenuoinage at a pre mium," are you not relying i n Presidemt Wo-ilsey axnd tne textwrater Joer Preniss Bisi-op, as aur'crity? That is the burden of their incict merit against South Carolina, and y ou make use of tnelr very woros. A ; ew months ago I reviewed the re ckless and gro.unaless charges made by those authurs. This I aid at the r; quat or the Rev. Robert A. Holland, D). D., of St. George's churcu, St Louis, an . my dear fiend and bisbep, the R. Rev. Elison Cape.r. D. D. My re view toa'i the rorm or an open letter -to Dr. Holland, whaeai was putie~~ d in The Site and otner newspapers is this and other States. Will you -kindly take the trouble to read it-I enclose a copy-and then let tne pub lic, as well as me, know whether or no you still can assert that tue prohi bition of divorce in South Carolina re sults in merely putting concubinage at a premium? Enclosed you will also find a copy oi the editorial article, which comment ed on your interview, in The State of the 7th inst., and a copy of the ex tended editorial comment of The Living Church of November 12, 1904, strongly and warmly commending my open letter Although I have not the honor of a personal acquaintance with you, I have enjoyea the privilege of sitting as a lay delegate in the triennial council of our church with you as a distin~guished member of the house of bishops. But if you desire to know more about me, I refer you to Bishop Capers, your very good friend and mine. I also refer you to the Rev. C. MI. Niles, D. D., of Trinity church, Columbia, S. C., now my rector, and formerly and quite recently one of your own clergy and well known to you. Both my bishop and my rector, I know, are of one mind with me on the subject of divorce and on the happy moral result of the no-divorce law of South Carolina. It was Bishop Capers' intimate acquaintance with me for over 30 years of my life as law. yer and circuit judge that induced him to request me to examine into and properly answer the damaging and baseless charges of President Woolsey and Mr. Bishop. Believe me, this letter is written to you not with any wish for controver sy, but with a sincere hope that it and the matters enclosed will give you such information as that you will gladly uudo the wrong you have unin tentionally done to South Cirolina. If you knew South Carolinians as Bishop Capers and I know them, you would rejoice with us over the result of our no-divorce law and proudly hold it up as an object lesson to our sister States. I have the honor to be, right rev erend and dear sir, your obedient ser vant, W. C. Benet. To this letter of mine you sent the following answer: So. 113 West Fortieth Street, New York. March 13th, 1905. - My Dear Sir: Tuis moriuing's mat brought me your letter of the 9thI inst., and its enclosures. Neither yo no te~h newspapers whicht you enclose took the trcuble to verify a statement which they saw in another newspaper before indulging in crit-i cisms equally grotesque and imperti nent. It is enough to say that I never mpde the statement to which you allude, nor ever saw it in the col umrs of the paper from which you quote. Among gentlemen, it is customary, befo-e drawing an indictment based upon printed statements, to apply to the author for some verification of them. If you had done this, you would have been saved a very foolish le-ter and very discourteous lmuta tions. It is a curious fact that. coming, as you profess, from a regin which boasts Of its superiority in manners, you should appear to be un consci -us of the elementary conditions of common courtesy Very truly yours, Oigne-) Henry C. Potter. Toe Hon. W. C. Benet. I am sure it will give neither you aor me pleasure to see this amaziog letter of yours in the public prints. i deeply regret the necessity of publish ing it: and I doubt not you sincerely regre. ever having written it. But I am glad to place the two letters, yours and mine, side by side, and let the public as a jury read them and deci'4e whetner I am guilty or not guilty of the charges of folly, impertinence, discourtesy and bad manners, for those are the counts in your indict ment. That you have not questioned my honor and truthfulness leaves me something for which to be thank ful. Is it not strange that you are, so far as I know, the only man who con siders my letter grotesque or imperti nent or foolish or ill-mannered? Those who have spoken or written to me about it, and they are not a few, have commended me for the courte ous terms in which it seemed to them to be couched. It mast astonish you to be told that such commendation has come to me not only from laymen and from the clergy, but even from the episcopate. And this emboldens me to request that you will favor the public and me Ly showing wherein consists the folly, grotesquirie, im pertinence, discourtesy and bad man ners of my letter. It has been said by conics that so ciety will tolerate a breach of good morals rather than a breach of good manners. I do not quite agree with Rochefoucauld or Chesterfield, yet I do confess to an unwillingness to sit silent when you accus. me of discourt esy, impertinence and bad manners. And since ycu not only charge me with a gross breach of good manners, but also charge my State and the whole South with a grosser breach of good morals, it will not surprise fair minded men that I thus answer your letter and meet your charges. In spite of the great provocation you have given me, I trcst that my lan guage shall be temperate and my man ners respectful, as is most meet in a layman addressing one who occupies the exalted position of a bishop. Let me ak then, wherein have I offendea? I leave it to the gentle men of the New York press to say if it is not a rccogniz-d rule to accept as true and genuine what is published in a metropolitan Journal as a state ment made by a public man, proa.i nent in state or church, especially if after several days such stat ement has not been repudiated by the alleged author. Your first interview ap peared In The Globe of March 3rd. You neither repudiated.nor modified any part of It until March 16, after your attention had b-en called to the editorial in T- e (Columbia) State by the editor of the State and myself. Do you seriously think that my fail uire t-i apply to you personally for a verification of that. initerview proves me "to be uncanscious of the elemen rary c. nditions of c. mm n curte.s?" What I read in Tnie Globe and in Tne State, neither of them chargeable with "yellow journ~alism," but both of uthem conspicuo.usly conservative new..papers, appeared to me to be ,enuine and carrect. And even if I erred in 1-elieving that ihe Interview in The Globe did not correctly state your views, cii rihat error justity you In cbaracteriz ing my letter to you as "grotesque anid impe'rtinient.," and to charge me wita baving written "a very f'olish ltt er," and with having made "very discourteous lmputath is?" The head and front of my offending sems to have consisted in takir'g for granted that yr.u had said what was imput.ed to y- t in The Globs Inter view. [ask youto say as a gentle man was that sufficient cause to en ~itle you to apply to me epithets so rude and ungentle? I leave it to an impartial public to say which of us two has in this correspondence shown most courtesy. And even if in that you were correct, do you really think you had the right or thz' excuse to deal an unkindly blow rver miy shoulder at the south en States-or Scotland-for it Is doubtful to which region you refer. although I rather think you mean the southern States. Of course I am re ferring to your Ironical remark about my coming "from a region which boasts of its superiority in manners.'' As a Scotsman I tell you truly that my native country vaunteth not her elf in this regard; and as a southern er I assure you that my adopted country is too well-mannered to "boast of Its superiority in manners." Do you not know that to boast of good manners Is like bragging of pos sessing the grace of humility, of whic'i it has been well said that "He who ventures to esteem it his Proves by that single thought he hath it not"? And, now, right reverend sir, what have you done in your short second interview in The Globe of Thursday, the 16th inst.? You certainly have not mended matters. In the first In terview that excellent journal reprE sented you as saying: "There would be no virtue In abolishing divorce al together. We have an example of what would result from such a meas ure in South Carolina. Prohibiting divrce is merely putting concubinage at a premium." In the second interview we read: 'The attention of iBishop Potter having been called to the demand from South Carolina newspapers for an apology to South Carolina for Im putations disrespectful to Its laws and ire, he obsern~ d that he had no apol o~y to make Hie bad not, he said, criticised the divorce law of South Carolina, nor said anything of 'abol ishing divorce altogether.' He had simply remarked that in view of the prevalece of miscegenation In the suth, the 'pose' of lofty or superior virtue on the part of its people, any where, had in it an element equally comic and pathetic." I am truly sorry that the first In terview did not represent your views, cuse your friends In this State 'n I was one of them-could read:ly 'xcuse your unfortunate statement about concubinage on the ground that ing guidance of Joel Prentiss Bishop and President Woolsey. But when, in your second Interview, dictated by yourself, you speak catp;;crically of "the prevalence of miscegenation in the south," and this suolely on your own responsibility, you m-ke a charge much graver than the ore imputed to you before, and you make it agalnst not alone ;outh Carclina, but all the southern States. By "miscegenation" I apprehend you mean illicit interer urs- between the white and black races. You can not surely mean intermarriage, for that is forbidden by law and made severely punisnable in South Carolina and other Southern States. And where do you find authority for assertingz t-iat miscegenation, as you understand it, is pre valent in the South? I honestly thougnt that Bishop and Woolsey bad misled you as to concubinage, but I am at a lo:s to account for your astounding charge as to the prevalence of miscegenation in the south. And yet you say you "simply remarked" it. Bisnop Putter, this ;,U not do. We of the South demand that you furnish us with your proofs of tbe prevalence of misc jzenation in the south; or that, failing proof, you take back what you said. If you answer without reflection or research, 3 ou may glibly say that your case is proved by the large num ber of mulattoesln the South. That naturally gives a color of truth to your statement. But a fair and can did consideration of the matter will satisfy even you that this does not justify your charge of the prevalence of miscegenation in the south. I concede "bat the slavery system to a certain extent encouraged or brought about miscegenation. But I do know that the influx of northern men as soldiers and carpet baggers and ad ventu:ers, from 1866 to 1876 or 1878, made miscegenation far more preva lent then tMan it had been before or ever has been since. The immorality of that Reconstruction oeriod was greater and grosser than even you would be willing to believe. And I feel sure that you will be glad to know that since the close of that dark period there has been a notable de crease of what you call miscegenation, and that it is still manifestly decreas ing. So much so that 1 am sure that if the offspring of illicit intercourse in the northern and western States could be recognized by their color, as in the Southern States, you would not again speak of the prevalence of mis. cgenation in the South. I hold no brief for the purity cf morals in the South; but just as sure ly as we have the poor always with us, so surely we hive in all ocuntries the impure always with us. And it must be borne in mind that while the unfortunate women that represent social evil in the north and in other white man's countries are white wo men, in the south they are with very few tx.zeptions negro or mulatto wo men. I now come to the closing words of your dictated interview, where you say of the South, "The pose of lofty or superior virtcue on the part of its people, anywhere, has In it an ele ment e quaaliy comic and pathetic." But-do; I retrain fron com-nent ing on this most unfortunate asper slon. I leave is to the pubdo to pass their own jauigment upon it. They will see as readily and as regretfully as I dO with what woat flippancy a metrop~litan prelate-I had almost said primate-baa seen fit ti deal witn a subject that demands from him, as fr->m us ati, the most serious and respectfui coneideration. It will alrs gtfeve all good men to see how neediersly and sup rcilllously you fi 'at wie. wo:d~ of ridicule the white people of the oithern States. I have the honior to be, right iev erend sir, y our mesat obedient servant. W C. BNE. Refu..d the~ Money. Congregational members represent mng Boston and various sectio; s of New Enlgland have protested to the American hoard of commissioners for foreign miesions against acceptance by the board of the gift of $100,000 f:om John D. Rockefeller on the ground that the Standard Oil com pany stands b-fore the public under repeated and recent formidable indict ments in specific terms for methods which are morally iniquitous and so dily destructive, a,-d that "accept ance of such gift involves constitu ents of board in the relation of imply irg honor towards the donor and sub jects the boar d to the charge of ig noring the moral Issues involved." Over thegFalls. At Niagara Falls Wednesday morn Ing a laborer engaged in keeping the ice moving at the outlet on the in let canal of Canadian Niagara Power Cmpany on the Canadian side of the river in some manner was made a prisoner on a cake of Ice that floated cut from shore on the awful current that rushes toward the Horseshoe Falls. Ssveral persons on shore saw the man -on the Ice, but they could do nothing to aid him, and as they watched he was swept down the rapids and over the brink of the Horseshoe Falls to death. To his employers and fellow workmen he was known by the name of "Frenchie," and there is little clue to his identity. Owing to the ice in the rivet at this season of the year, the body is not likely to be recovered. Rope-Jurnptng Kills Girl. In an endeavor to lower the record held by Julia Real, who jumped the rope one -hundred times, little Marie Sheridan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Sheridan, of No. 498 Baldwin street, Waterbury, Conn., has met :eath. She was one of the brightest pupils at the Merriman sohool and was a leader among her companions. The Ri girl had reached the cen ury mark in skipping the rope and little Marie told her schoolmates she would beat the record. As she jumped tGe one hundrtdth time she fell to the ground uncenscious. She was re oved to her home, bus doctors failed o rest are her and the same afternooc he died. The other girl who jumped oe hundred times has also died since, although she appeared to be in no way affected by her strenuous work. Aged. Lawyer Uuonnoted. At Fayetteville, Ga., Col. Stephen D. Renfree, a lawyer about 77 years ld. was convicted Tnursday afternoon f the murder of his daughter-in-law. Te jury recommended him to the er cy of the court. He was sentenced o serve the remainder of his life in he St ,te penitentiary. Renfree uarreled witn his daughter-in-law ver a cabbage patch, the quarrel end og in his shoo lng her to death with shotgun. He cilmed self-defense. R aifree is quite feenle, and during i he greater pa t rof the trial reclined 1 an an improvised couch in the court o' m. The cms will probaoly go to he supreme courtc MANY KILLED And Injured by the Explosion of a Steam Boiler. IN A SHOE FACTORX Fire Followed the Explosion and Those Not Killed Outright Perished in the Flames. Men and Women Pinned Down Begged to be Killed as a Relief. At least sixty people lost their lives by the explosion of a boiler in a large shoe manufactorv at Brockton, Mass., on Monday morning. The explosion was immediately followed by a flash of flame, which consumed the factory, a long, four-story structure, as if it were a house of cards, and incinerat ed an unknown number of men and women who were unable to extricate themselves from a mass of tangled wreckage formed by the terrific up heaval in the boiler room. More than half a hundred of the em ployes in the building were maimed, burned or bruised by the time they reached safe ground. Some had jump ed from the roof, some from windows and others had been injured in the mad rush to escape from the dcomed factory, which from all parts emitted the intense, awful neat of an inferno, driving back the band of heroic res cuers who in a few brief moments had performed gallant service. Two wood en dwellings near the -engine room were practically demolished by the flying boiler, bnt none of the occupants were seriously inj ared. It may never be known just how many persons perished in the wreck age. No one linows exactly how many persons were in the fac:ory. The num bar has been estimated at 400, but Treasurer Charles 0. Emerson said Monday night he doubted whether there were so many at work. Two hun dred and fifty survivors have been ac counted for and at midnight Monday night the remains of 50 bodies had been recovered from the ruins, the search being continued all night. Fragments of human framc s which poisibly might belong to bodies other than those en umerated have also been f;und Few of the remains have been Identified. rhe head of nearly every case Is miss Ing and except in rare instances it was impossible even to distinguish the sex Tie expcsion occurred shortly after the operatives had settled down to work foi the day, and without warn ing. Suddenly the air vibrated with the roar of an explosion. At the same moment the larger wooden frame of the factory, a four-story strucure, quivered and then the rear p rLion of it col'ap-ed. In a fracti n of a second this sec Ion of the great building had been transformed i.nto a mass of iron and wood wreckage, in the midst of whch human belt gs were pinioned. In another moment lire had broken out In the debr~s and death by fire and sut foction becamne the fate of scores of the operatives. When the boiler ex ploded it passed upward almost pre pendicularly, tearing a passage as it went, killing many on tue way. After rising high in the air, it descended half the distauce and then swerving northerly, cut its way like some huge pro jectile through a dwelling house 50 feet away and pierced anotrier dwell ing further a org, demolishing the latter structure. Here les course was stopped. Scenes of horror followed t'ie wrenching apart of the factory bnild ig. In the rear the three upper floors, weighted as they were with heavy machi.ery, ccllapsed with a crash that was heard for blocks. Men and women operatives working in de partments of this section who were busy at their machines, had time but to turn in. an attempt to flee, after the first dull roar, when the flooring sank beneath them and they were car ried to the ground floor, crushed and brus-d, amid the mass of debris. Many fell into a veritable fiery furnace. n the sections of the factory which remained standing the operatives were panicstricken as they sought escape. Many fled down the stair ways and reached the street; others to the windows, the fire escapes in many cases having been torn away by the explosion. In desperation many jumped from the second and third story windows to the ground and were dangerously injured. The crush on the stairways resulted in numerous minr injuries. Instant death was the fate of many who went down with the filor that collapsed. A large number of men and women who were working uear the supports were alive after the lmors and walls feil. From these un fortunates thrilling cries of agony and terror went up. Almost all bad been caught between broken timbers, ligh ter wooden wreckage and heavy pieces of machinery. A few persons suc ceeded in extricating themseles from the wreckage, but more were- roasted to death. By this time nearby citi zens had arrived to assist the em ployes who escaped in the rescue of their fellows. This task became mo mentarily more difficult and perilous, for the beat from the fire was almost unbearable. By the use of long pieces of timber the rescuers were able to raise parts of the wreckage and there by release some of the imprisoned men and women and then by rushing into the smoke pull them from the ruins. With tear stained and haggard faces women and children. basieged the rectory of St. Margaret's R man catholic church during the day, plead-1 ig with the priests for information I bout husband, father, sister or brother who failed to return home.] Little comfort could be given to these people. At the Campello p -lice sta Din a similar scene was enacted. Ear-1 ty in the day Mayor Keith, forseeing< ~he confusion which would ensue posted notices In conspicuous places< requesting all emnicves who bad t Mcaped to go at cxice to the police I itation and give their names. TheseJ tame were immediately posted and t round this list of names hovered a c .hrong of women-many hysterical 1 th grief because the list did not Ia- c lude a relative. Back and forth I rm the ruins to the station, and ( rom the station house to the. ruins c hese grief stricken women filed In a t iever-endng pr' c sdon, looking at c ,he fragments of flesh and bone as i hey were placed in pine boxes and c mrried away to the morgue. Onlyi n extremely rare cases was there the c lghtet cahancea of identification. t GAVE TIJIR L1VES In a Futile fort to Rescue Their' Fellow Workmen. An Expklsion That Shook the Very Foundations of the M o u n t a i n a and Lighted Up the Heavens. As a result of the horrible explosion in the Rush Run and Rad Ash mines near Thurmond W. Va., Saturday night, twenty-four now lie stark in death in the two mines. Ten of these were killed in the explosion Saturday and the other fourteen were a rescu ing party, who entered the mine Sun day morning to take from the mines the charred and blackened remains of their fellow workmen. These latter were killed by a second explosion and the afterdamp. The first explosion seemed to shake the founditiuns of the mountains and the angry twin flash from the two neighboring drift mouths lighted up the heavens for miles around. Soon from the mining villages for several miles up and down the river hundreds of people rushed to the scene of the dreadful disaster. The first explosion was caused by a "naked" flame coming in contact with the gas. The flames leaped from the drift mouth and set fire to everything in reach that was not blown from harm's way by the force of the explosion. The great drum by which the cars are run from the drift mouth down the incline to the tipple and the empties drawn up was blown from its moorings and down the mauntain side 600 feet, while the drumbouse caught fire and was totally consumed. The cars that stood at the mouth of the mine were blown far down towards the tipple and much of the track of the incline was destroyed. The rails twisted and the croasties whipped from their beds in the ballast and sent schorched and charred many yards away. The big fan that furnished air in the mine was so damaged that it was several hours before it could be started again. After considerable time the great fan was repaired and the power turn ed on and It began drawing one hun dred thousand cubic feet of air tbrough the charnel house a minute. A rescue party was formed and about twenty men entered the mine in search of the bodies of those who had perished at the first explosion. The men ex plored the mines for two or three hours, putting up brattices so that pure air should follow them wherever they went. Finally some of them came out and reported that the others were too careless in going forward faster than the good air was being supplied and carrying at the same time a "naked" light. At 3:45 another awful explosion occurred, caused by the gas coming in contact with the "naked flame of a miner's lamp an' fourteen more souls were launched Into eternity. Mine Inspector Edwet-d Pinckney arrived on the ground Mon day and took charge of the rescue work. CHARGAD WiE .BIGAEY. Left a Note Saying He had Drowned Bimself in Congaree. A dispatch from Chester to The State says so far as known the -first case involving legal pruceedings in a bigamy case in that county was heard in Onester a few days ago before Magistrate 3. 3. McLure. About two weeks ago one Robert C. McCar ter, alias Rob. Carter, alias Jack CaLr ter, employed In one of the cotton mills in this city, was arrested by a constable from Chester on a warrant sued out by his wife in Chester, to whom he was married In Decembtr, 1900. After being arrested in Orangeburg Mc~arter was carried to Chester, where he gave bond for a preliminary hearing on Tuesday of last week, but on the Saturday night before the trial he "skipped" for parts unknown. He left a note addressqed to one of his chIldren in Chester by one of his a Ives in which he stated that his body would soon be found floating in the Congaree river. This was a bluff, as his body has not been found fliating in the Congaree or any other river. It seems that McCarter believed in plural marriages, and that is what got him in trouble. First he married a Miss Susan Botter of Richland County. From this marriage there were five children, when he deserted this wife and the five children, and married Mrs. Georgiana Wolling, a widow lady from the Fort Motte sec tion of this ocunty, who had five chil dren by her first marriage when she married McCarter. Twvo children were born of this marriage, when this wife died in Columbia. The day after the funeral of hi, second wife, McCarter married Miss Anna Fartickr, of St. Matthews. From this marriage one child was born. After they had been married about two and a half years McCarter aban doned his third wife at Bath, and on the 23d of December, .1900, he mar ried a Miss May Wilson, of Chester C -unty. He had two children by this wife, and abandoned her last July. It was on the complaint of this wife that McCarter was arrested in Orangeburg. His third wife, who was Miss Furtickr, of this county, attended the prelimin ry hearing in Chester to testify ganst him. Mc~arter was born and reared near Sadsden. Richland -county; lived on a farm with his first wife; at the duck mill, Columbia, with the second, and she mill at Bath with the third wife, mnd at the three mills in Chester with ~he fourth. He had only been In this ~Ity a short time when arrested. When here he claimed to have come ~rom Red Bank, over in Lexington Jounty. We hope he will be caught mnd sent where he will have time to ifict on his wicked ways. Result of Primary. A Democratic primary election was eld Thursday Io several cou-.ties for wo positions as so.ictor and in Chzar eston for member of the g.eneral as rmbly. In the new eighth circuir. Mr. i. A. Cooper of Laurens Is elected by - large maj "rity over Mr. 0. L ichumpert of Newberry. Mr. Cooper as a candidate for solleitor in the d seventh circuit last year against soliciti>r Sease. In tthe new ninth cir nt, created by the recent legislature, -ae race for solicitor was among essrs. W. Turner Logan, St. Juhian C er'ey and a E Padgett, the first o of Charleston and the last named f Colieton. Tnere was no election and iessrs. Logan and Jervey will run ver. Mr. Arnolius Vander H -rso has seen elect d to the legislature from marlestoni to till the unexpired term f D. J. Baker, who resigned to acc pt he position 6f judicial magistrate v t. ated by the promotion of Mr. R. 5 Vithers Memminger to the circuit t ourt bench. There was considerable C aterest in this race on account of the b andidacy of Vincent Chicco, the no- S rions blind tiger king. ' ThNATNfS A FACTOR In the Beduction of the rotton Crop i of the South, And They Must Be Brought Into Line If the Movement Is to Be Made a Success. In seeking to wheel into line all the cotton producers, the tenants must not be overloroked. There are two classes of tenants-cash tenants and share tenants. The distinction is, of cours-, understood by everybody. The cash tenants are on a footing with the land-owning cotton produc ers, that is, they plant what they please; they cannot be dictated to by the landlord; they must be appealed to just as you would appeal to the men from whom they rent. Share tenants sustain a relation ship to the landlOrd exactly the re verse of cash tenants. The landlord can prescribe the acreage which such tenants shall plant in cotton, corn, etc. Usually, he makes no require ment, except as to cotton. He con tents himself with fixing the mini mum production. In the cri-is now upon the South, this order must be changed. A limit must be set for share tenants. This is absolutely necessary for the reason that they produce a considerable por tion of the crop. For examp'e: According to the first cotton estimate sent out by the government, the eight strictly cotton states produced in 1904, 11,035.200 bales. It is a matter of interest and importance to know the factorship of share tenants in the aggregate. In order to compass this situation, we must know the grcund. Alabama has 223,220 farms, 42.3 per cent. of which is cultivated by their owners, 33.3 per cent. by cash teants, and 24 4 per cent. by share tenants. Arkansas has 178,694 farms, 54.6 per cent. of which are cultivated by th-ir owners, 15.3 per cent. by cash tenants, and 30.1 per cent. by share tenants. Georgia has 224.691 farms 40.1 per cent of which are cultivated by their owners, 26 2 per cent. by cash tenants, and 33.7 per cent. by share tenants. Louisiana has 115 969 farms of which 42.1 per cent. are cultivated by their owners, 24.9 per cent. by cash tenants, and 33 per cent. by share tenants. Mississs'ppi has 220,803 farms, 37.6 per cent. of which are cultivated by their owners, 32 per cent. by cash tenants, and 30.4 per cent. by share tenants. North Carolina has 224.637 farms 58 6 per cent. of which are tu tivated by their owners, 8 9 per cent. by cash tenants, and 32.5 by share tenants. Suth Carolina has 155,355 farm, 39 per cent. of which are cultivated by their owners, 36 7 per cont. by cash tenants, and 24 3 by share ten ants. Texas has 352 190 farms, 50 3 per cent. of whic i are cultivated by their owners, 7 3 by cash tenants, and 42.4 by share tenants Than forezoing table, there is not one wmch relates to the south that has so much to do with the de gree of prosperity which shall crown her efforts It is a table that should be pasted in the hat of every man who gces out to sp.:ak to the masses on the great theme which is today at the fore-front in the minds of thinking people every where. For the purp..*e of showing the part played by owners, cash tenants and snare tenants in. cotton production, we take the crop of 1904. The re sults in a few states will be sufhient for the object In view: Alabama: Bales pro-iuced by own. ers of farms, 541,000; b3 cash ten ants, 425,000; by share tenants, 312, 000. Georgia: Bales produced by owners, of farms, 707,000; by cash tenants, 463 000, by share tenants, 594,000. North Carolina: Bales produced by owners of farms, 375,000; by cash tenants, 54,000; by share tenants 198,. 000. South Carolina: Bales produced by owners of farms, 357.000; by cash tenants, 403.000; by share tenants, 270,000. Texas: Bales produced by owners of farms, 1,505,000: by cash tenants, 218.437; by share tenants, 1,26b.000. The sum of it is that share tenants produce 34 per cent of the cotton of the five states just nam.ed. These tenants must be brought In to line. But the landlord, in requir ing a reduction of cotton acreage, should mike some concessions in the matter 'of rent. To cut acreage mear s much to share tenants, for they plant 75 to 80 per cent instead of the traditional and customary 621 per cent of their land in cotton. The pro posed reduction in the quantity of fertil'zers used will not disturb them in the least; they make the reduction at the very outset. Cost of produc tion does not cause them loss of sle p. While the landlords are getting the share tenants into line on cotton creage, their interests demand that ihey look to the matter of a larger tuantity of fertilizers per acre under :orn and other supply crops. If this e done, the result will be a revela sion to share tenants. Landlords will protect their own my saving their land from utter ex 2austion, if they will see to it, in cut ing cotton acreage, that they make t so deep as to authorize and require 1eavier fertilization of each acre with tview to profit and to the betterment >f the land. This can be done and ret conform to the New Orleans sug testion. "For the land's sake," do this. N*o argument is needed to prove ibe practicalness of the policy and ractice urgred in the foregoing para traph. The demand for both is super-1 rigent. MAn-rIN Y CALVIN. 1 Augusta, Ga, Mar{c' 18 1905. 1 - ungry Caukren. Incpector Henry M. Lechtrecker, n a rep';t to the State Board of ~hirit: s on food conditions existing ,ngn me inmates of the industrial cho- -s o'f New York cir y, says that f 10.000 ecildren inivolved1 in his in utry, he found that, through pov- s t:., 439 began the day's stunies fre- a~ u "nt.iy wditOOut breakfasr, 998 with 1i xuf :ent food, and 7,415 upon c reakfa--Ts consisting only of either ]; a o~r coffee and bread. Tae great s 1 -jority of children were anemic for a Lok of good and oufielent food. c An Edmr.r Waned. r The owner or Naroday List, a Ser- s Ian newspaper whicn is hostile to f ue governmeat, appeals for a respon- V ble ecilor. The eighth editor in '9 uieu sv.es has j ust been arrested and 13 Le editor's wile, ooilged to support ~ erseif, tried, in vain, to get permas. c Lton ti. nave an egg-stall in the market k lace. CONGESS THAJKED By the Conf derate Veterans for Re turning Battle Flags. The followIug general orders, of particular interest to the Confederate veterans, have been issued by Gen. Lze: Hdqrs. United Confed. Vets., New Orleans, March 1, 1905. General Orders No. 26. 1. The general commanding feels that he would be derelict in his duty to his old comrades who have honored him in makinig him commander-in chief of this great federation did he nt give expression to the feeling of satisfaction that fills the heart of every Confederate veteran in contem plating the heartiness and unanimity in which the national legislature passed the bill restoring the Confed erate battle flags to the several States, and the readiness with which the measure was approved by the presi dent. This action is but a fresh ev? deuce that there are now in our grand country no sectional lines-no south no north, east or west; but that we are all Americans, devoted to one common cointry. 2. The general conmmanding takes occasion, in view of this era of good feeling shown by the congress of the United States and the president, to urge upon all parties, north or south, who have colors in their possession, to return them at once to the State capitols. In such depositories these highly prized relics can be properly cared for; and they should all be gath ered there at the earliest moment. He indulges the hope that this wish may be complied with, and that pri vate parties may manifest as much brotherly feeling as the national authcrities. 3. The general conmanding is sat 1-fl d that the display in the various State capitols of these precious heir looms, which represent the bigest de votion, the greatest self-sacrifice, the most persistent courage witneksed in modern warfare, will do a great deal to stimulate the patriotism of the ris ing generation. These evidences of bravery on the part of their fathers -eannot but add to the pride that our children feel in the heroic and daring exploits of their ancestry, and it is the surest way to encourage and magnify that feeling of love of country and willingness to die for her sake that should be fostered at all tinies by the State.. 4. The commanning. general de sires that. some official acknowledg ment should be made to Hon. John Lamb (himself a Confederate soldier,) who introduc'd the measure i' con gress to the senate and house of rep resentatives, who passed it without a d:sienting voice, and to the president, who immediately approved it; and he urges camps everywhere to at once get together and formulate resolutions expressive of their endorsement. By command of Stephen D. Lee, General Commanding. Official: Wm. E Mickle, Adjutant General and.Chief of Staff. HONORED BY CU -ANS. Veterans of the Revolution Rovally Entertain American Officers. A dispatch from Havanab, Cuba, says the climax of the enthuslim over-the visit of the American squad ron was reached Thursday afternoon at the luncheon in the National theatire to the American cifcers by vaterans of the revolution.-F,>rty nav al cffcers and nearly 200 leadIng Cub an veterans were present. Gen. M:.ximo Gomez, who was the first speaker, earnestly eulogized America's sacrifices on behalf . of Cuba. He said Cubans were proud of the opportunity to honor representa tives of the United States navy, a:my and government, and would not forget their obligations to the geat republic whose sons bad made possible all that Cuba had accomplisaed. Gen. Freyer .&ndrade, secretary of the interibr, addressing the American offcers In English, said they were heroes of the seas, knights errant of the twentieth century, who without lust or cor quest broke the chains of peoples who, by virile actions, proved themselves worthy of freedom. At his mention of the name of Roosevelt there was prolonged ap plause through the floors and galler ies. Commander Colby, the senior offier of the squadron, said: "In behalf of the president and peo ple of the United States we thank you from the bottom of our hearts for the magnificent reception you have given the visiting squadron. We ap preciate it the m~re because all your kindness to us has come frtm the heart. It is not alone the welcomes we have received from those in high places which have impressed us, but the acts of the people in the streets everywhere are proof of the genuine ness of the sympathy and appreciation existing between the peoples -of the two republics." The social event of the week was bhe reception Thursday night on board the battleship Missouri. Nearly all the offcers of the squadron assisted in mtertaining the guests, who included tout all the higher omfiials and lead ng society Cubans and Amerlcans. A Barnwell Klii~ng. A dispatch from Barnwell to The state says near Duntarton Thursday norning Mr. ,Tas. H. Skinner sho: mnd instantly killed Mr. Mille-r Ander on. Both parties are well known Lnd are residents of Dunbarton, Z. ~taton- in Barnwell county on the atlantic Coast Line railway. Mr. Anderson was a pian'er, Mr. Skinner 1,merchant, and both have families. Lbout a month ago, it seems, the iwo men had a diffculty, since which ine their per~onalrelations have not een pleasant Thursday morning dfr. Skinner was bird hunting when te mnet Mr. Anderson. Words were >assed, the quarrel was renewed, and hen the homicide. Mr. Skinner has iven bimsef up to the sheriff. No ray, No i-gbt. The quality of the Santo Domingo y ldier's patriatism is of a kind which i dmits accurate cimputation. He a nows exactly what it is worth in the , oin of the realm. In yesterday's dis , atches was made the interesting i latement thar President Morales hand s many as 1,200 soldiers ready to a rush anyuprising. "But." added the E eport, "shoula the cu-tom houses be ized he would speedily be without ands With which to pay his army. hich would immediately desert.'' a 'e Santo Domingo soldier knows his b rice and, knowing dares maintain it. re ro pay, no tight. And yet it has been it arged that the Dhminicans do not fal now how to take care of themselves. Ici -The State.h SEVkEN TO HANG. Human Life No Longer Fo Chep in South Carolina. The Warnivg o1 Pulpit and Press seems to Have Had a Whole. some Eff.ct on the juris. A special to the Charleston Post says luries in criminal casas in this State have been notorieuly lax for the past quarter of a century with the result that murderers and other forms of violence have increased steadily and the State has gotten an unenvIa ble reputation abroad. But owning to the good work of pulpit and 'pres there has been substantial evidence recently of the pendulum swinging. the other way not only in those coun ties which have already had an unns ually large number of homicide cases, but throughout the State generally. Spasmodic change of sentiment has - manifested itself in this matter through juries, In particular sections - -in Pickens, Greenville, Oconee and Spartanburg counties for instanc-a number of times. But a general change - of mind throughout the State has just began to show itself. There are just Dow seven men under sentence of death in this State, with the strong probability that four of these will be bung within the next-few months Rur out of the sevn are white men, and two of these aremen of means and influence. The first hanging will be that ot Marion Parr, a cotton mill operate of that city, who while his case was about to be taken to the Supreme Court confessed freely to his preacber, acknowledging that he was guilty oi murder and saying he deserved anda was ready to die. Parr is to be eze cuted here on April 14, and It will be the first legal execution of a white man this. county has seen in ft years. B. A. Adams, a Colleton whteman who escaped j.dl after the Supreme Court refused his appeal for.a newtrIaE but who was recaptured after olthe Governor offered a seward of $1,000, to be resentenced at Walterboro nextV week. He is an lgnorant, but a. rather,. influential and well connected man in his county. He killed yacques in a rage after looking him up to quarrel with him about a piece of property. Adams will hardly get a commutation. , There are two hangings set forMay 5 at Florence, and It is not not uni-' ly that both of these will take place," although the Supreme Court has: ot passed on the fate of the whiteMann convicted there a few days ago-of the murder of a negro. The time in whichk he had to prefect his appeal having3 expired it is presumed that nothing. will be done to save him. Sam., rg the negro who bad to be broughhefsi pending his appeal to the Spriem. Court to prevent him being lc is to be hung at Florence'May 5iu the, murder of a white man, Langston. The most important case Is coming out of Oxonee county, w the noted Hoyt Hayes case,-w commutation created so much there against the Governor, -origla,~ ed. Earle Bochester, a leading Ocnde .farmer of that section, and considered a fine citaznn andi desirable neighbor,y is uncer senteuca of death for doIngk a neighbor to death with a shot gun.N He and this neighbor quarreled about' the neighbor's cattle getting In Bo chester's crops, and matterswent from bad to woist until Bobese met him: In front of his (E -enester's) home and waited for him with a shotgun. Then matter is now pending in theSupreme Court. It Is said on the morning Special Judge 3. A. McCullough, of Gresuille, who presides at the trial, was making his way to the court room aftrer..the verdica had been rendered against3o~ chtster. he met and stopped to ,cares a beautiful caild playing joyously~and With light heart in front of the court house, He is very fond of chidrenand a pained and shocked look came into his caressf ul eyes when he asked her< who her father was and she lispgd& "Mr. Earle Rochester." The nighV hefore he passed sentence he didnlot\ close his eyes. The case against two desperatel blind tiger negroes, who killed 1(agb.p trate Cox when he went out to arrest them from ]Eountain Inn last Kay as, they were hauling a load of liquor inKd a buggy and who have been In they penitentiary for safekeeping, is stll hung up in the Supreme Court. -The appeal came near being abandoned~for - want of funds, but in the eleventhi hour a negro preachier scraped up? enough to base a promis of! more. upon and the negroes have a good lawyer. The appeal Is to come up-for a hearing at the April term and- the decision will therefore not be out un til some time next summer. A Mine Explosion. - A dispatch form Princeton, lnd. says six miners are dead, and four In jured, two fatally, as the result of an explosion in the mine of the Prince-N ton Coal and Mining Co., Wednesday Lfternoon. The dead bodies were res sued two hours af ter the epcip the d::lay being caused by the ninnhm >f the rescuers to combat a!fterdamp. Te injured were brought to the sur ace thirty minutes after the expio don. They were found heaped to rether in an unconsciomus state. When~ she explosion occurred most of the niners had left the mine. Whether she explosion was a premature shot or. i overcharge is not known. Within i short time, fif ty women, relatives f the miners, surrounded the mouth >f the shaft and arxlously awaited ~ach ascension of the cage. The min rs worked heroically and a .number rere overcome by the foul air which illed the mine. Tne explosion hurled upportirig timbers In every direction. :n consequence the slate roof gave. ray in many places and the rescuers v-re in constant danger from this -rce. Tois Is the second serious tisaster in the mine, an explosion ome years ago having killed nine aen. The mine was then the proper-~ y of the Maule Coal Co Noted Robber Escapes. - Albert F. Ball, one of the most oted mnail pouch robbers in the rited States, made a successful dash r liberty at the United States prison fMcNei.'s Island and escaped. Bell as wanted in many cities. He was ring two years for a mail robbery. [e made a daring escape two years o by jumping from a passeager train hle being taken from Denver to ~ hiladephia. Protecting Children. In view of the startling fact that in single year 1,634 London children ve died in consequence of injuries ceived from open fireplaces,. an ef irt is being made to have a law en sted to punish parents who leave ildren ungarded In rooms that me sch fh-rnes