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A WEIRD STORY About a Fine Mansion at New Port, Which is SAD TO BE HAUNTID. Strange Figures Have Been~ Seen in and About the Garden and :the .House. Strange Noises Have Also Been Heard in all Parts of the Big House. The William Waldorf Astor house on Bellevue avenue haunted? Impossible! Ridiculous This is the query and some of the answers that have been floating about the Summer colony at Newport thii season, says the New York American. The idea that one of ti e Bellevue avenue mansions, which has had As tors and Vanderbilts for its occupants, could really be "haunted," like an old-fashioned New E gland country house, and looked at askance by all passers-by, seems pasE belief. Yet buch a tradition is attached to "Beaulieu," the big brownstone and brick house that stands just south of the famous marble house owned by Mrs. 0. H. P. Belmont. The taking of "Beaulieu" early in July by the Thomas F. Walshes of Washington, lately of Colorado, re vived all the mysteries and traditions that cling round this house, which is one of the oldest of the mansions on lower Bellevue avenue. It has long been quietly told on shaded verandas in Newport that a "hoodoo" hangs over what is common ly called the Waldrof Astor house. Death, misfortune, loss of riches and other calamities have befallen the long succession of residents on this estate during the past forty years. F. L. Barreda, who built it in 1862, then the finest house in Newport, made a fortune almost in a day in he guano business in South America-and lost his moneyand-his house almost as quickly-; li~ the quarter century that followed before the property was bought by William Walorf Astor, the "Barreda Palace," as it was then called, had new owners and renters who came and disappeared in successive seasons, al most as rapidly as dwellers In a city tenement. When Mr. Asto. bought the estate it was thought that then at last the "luck" of the house and its occupants would be changed. That was about 1890. But the.Astors occupied it only three or four seasons and then went abroad. Soon after that Mrs. Astor died at Cliveden, England. ECLIFSE OF THE BEICE FAXILT. The Senator Brices leased it for sev eral seasons, bringing with them their $10,000 a year chef, a big retinue and all the other evider-ees of ostentatious wealth. Then Senator Brice died-his re puted millions proved but an illusion, his family droppei from affiuence al most to penury. This and Mrs. Astor's untimely death revived the story of the "hoo doo" that hung over the cc.cupants of the "Barreda Palace," which the pres tige of an Astor could not wipe out. Mrs. Potter ~Palmer next occupied the house during the Summers of 1899 and 1900. She entertained lavishly and brought her social campaign to a climax by the wedding of Julia Grant and Prince Michael Cantecuzene of Russia This ceremony, performed within the walls of the "Barreda Palace," was one of the most spectacular functions ever seen in America. it was like a royal wedding in Europe. Representatives of all the European courts were present in the gold lace uniforms and costumes of their coun tries. Yet, while the public was being dazzled by such brillant displays, it is said that Mrs. Potter Palmer, cool headed, practical woman of the world, as she was, trembled within the walls of the old "palace." The ghost of the Barredas, It was hinted, had returned, ar~d was haunt ing the halls and rooms of its old home. ai. Mrs. Potter Palmer, It is said, gn ways felt a shiver as she went throuae the big dark front hall, after t guests had gone. Every door opening out of it had to be locked at night, as well as every door that she passed on the way up to her sleeping room. For noises were heard at night like the rustle of silken skirts, as If the unbidden guest of the past were pass lng in and out the rooms and halls and opening and closing doors. The climax came one night soon af ter the Grant wedding, when Butler White was putting out the lights on the lower floor. In half darkness, he saw an appari tion, in white ball costume, with a Spanish mantilla thrown over her head, as If she had stepped from a heated ball room out upon the lawn and been suddenly chilled by the night air and mist flowing in from the sea. THE BUTLEE FELL IN A sWOON. The figure in white glided in through the closed doors, swept past, the terrified butler, with a silken rustle and passed up the broad stair case. The backward glance given as she ascended the stairs, while the mantilla fell from her head, revealed a face of dark Spanish beauty. That much Butler White saw, then fell prostrated on the hail floor. Two footmen, hearing his fall, rushed up from the basement and picked up the butler. They said he looked like a dead man as he lay there with arms wide coutstretched, hands clenched, and white, set face upturned with wide open, but apparently sight less eyes, staring at the ceiling. The next morning, when the butler had fully recovered his senses, he de clared that nothing wculd induce him to stay another day in the house. He did stay the rest of the season. But ever after that when he was in the front hail two footman were always with him, either day or night, one stationed behind each of the two tall bay trees that flanked the entrance to the staircase. These experiences of Mrs. Potter Palmer and her servants were kept strictly secret. No word about the affair was allowed to be breathed out side of the household, for Mrs. Potter Palmer could not bear to have It whis pered about that she believed in ghosts. But nevertheless the queer happen ings were talked about by the servants and gardener's family and from them, leaked out to a few confidentialI frinds on the outside. Then the query rose, what could be the cause of the haunting of the old mansion? It was recalled that during the lat- j ter part of the Barredas' brief occu pancy cf the house a yo"ung and beau tiful Cuban woman bad been a guest. She was a relaive cf Mrs. Barreda, or Senora Barreda. who was herself a Cuban and cne of the hardsomest wo men that ever graced Newport socie ty. THE SENORITA DISA PPEARED. For some reason that was not ex plained at the time, and has never sirce been accounted for, the young senorita sudreiuly disappeared. She was not known to have gone away from the city, nor was she ever again seen in or about the house. Soon a tar the final collapse of the Barreda fortune came. The family dEparted and ever after was lost to view. Senor Barreda, the Spanish American who had dazzled Newporters with a fortune estimated at 1fiteen millions, a fabulous sum in those times-who had held the position of United States Minister to Peru, and was afterward sent on a diplomatic mission by the Government to Eng land and France became all of a sud den a common banklupt. Ten or fifteen years ago he died penniless in a small town in New York State. His widow went back to Cuba. it is believed, though no one seemed to think i& worth while to keep track of her. Everybody thought her dead, when three or four years ago she reappeared at Newport. She was an old, broken down woman with snow-white hair, the very ghost of the radiant beauty of former years. For a few days she stopped at an unfashionable :hotel, visitcd the old mansion in the guise of a stranger and went to see her old retainer, Gardner Williamson. Then she dis appeared, telling no one whence or why she came nor whither she was gong. But her visit served the purpose of reviving the old traditions about the J "Barreda Palace" and the ghost that I has been supposed to haunt it during recent years. It raised again the question of what really did become cf tme beLu.iful sen orita who mysteriously disappeared so many years ago, and was it really her ghost that Butler White saw, or his superstitious fancy? But even these startling queries soon died cut again in the rus.h and 1 whirl of Newport's short summer sea- < sons. The cottage colony quickly for- i got all about it. Only in the garden- I er's family the tradition was kept I alive. Gardener Williamson is a canny i Scotchman. Never a word does the I irquisitive Summer visitor get out of j him about the traditions of the house 1 or the Astor family. Of all the army of servants that come and go, season 1 after season, with the different occu- ( pants, he a'oue stays on Winter and i Summer. He "goes with the estate," as the saying is. He is Mr. Astor's special custodian and retainer, like the old family servants on an English j estate. In the Summer Mr. Williamson and i his ;amily live at the ldge near-the i gateway. In the Fall, after the Sum mer tennants of the big house are, gone, the gardener and his family move into the basement for Winter quarters. Rarely do they go Into the upper part of the house, which is then deso late and gloomy enough, with bare foors and chandeliers and furniture swathed in ghastly white wrappings. But on Autumn and Winter nights they hear strange noises overhead, as if heavy pieces of furniture were be lg moved, and doors opened and closed. At such tImes, years ago, Gardener Williamson and his wife used to take lamps and grope their way through the upper rooms and corriders to make sure that no robbers had entered. But no trace of a burglar was ever found-and the gardener and his wife] gradually settled down to the convic tion that it was the ghost of the Bar redas that was revisiting its old home and ought not to be molested. So of late years when the noises up stairs are heard the gardener and his family only huddle together closer< round the hearthstone. If a chance family friend Is visiting them the gh:st story is retold. One such visitor suggested that Mr. Wiliamson put chalk on the rollers of the furniture, so that next day It might be seen just what pieces had moved during the night by the marks on the polished wooden floors. 1 WHAT ABOUT THE WALSHES. 1 It was also conjectured that this might reveal a secret pannel behind some picture or tapestry, in which some ghost or living intruder might be lurking. Another friend of the gardener's family expressed the belief that if the house were ever torn down the skele ton of the senorita would be found whn the walls of the lower story. The parts of the house in which the ominous noises ani apparitions most often occur are on the ground floor. The main hall, through which the ghost seems to pass, is i blg dimly lit passage, finished in dark Flemish oak.~ Out of this opens a reception room, the library, almost as dark and som-' bre as the hall, a rather gloomy drawing room and a brilliant morning room, dinished in white and gold, a startling contrast to the other rooms on the floor. Into the morning room pours a flood of light from the glass walled conservatory on the southeast side. As Mrs. Potter Palmer left the house in 1930 she is said to have de lared that under no circumstances would sbe ever pass another season in that hous~e or in Newport, and she never has. Old Newporters are wondering t whether the hard-headed Colorado o mining king and his family, newly n risen into the lime-light of society, p will escape the Barreda blight that ri has fallen, in one form or another, on 1 every occupant of the old palace. v Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and pretty fi Miss Walsh have come from Washirig. c ton after a brilliant social season there V in their handsome brand new house, b which Is quite the most dazzlingly o fitted up mansion in the capital. E ery thing in it is spotlessly new- t so new as to carry with it the smeil of C varnish and the upholsterer's suop. p How they will enjoy entering into the s possesion of something very like an t Did Eglish estate, with a gardener e nd a ghost that "go with it," is a s matter that Is now exciting the live- t tie~st discus-sion in certain select social .E ircles in Newports Summer colony. s5 Whether the mystery of the strange a oises and apparitions seen in the fl rand old house will ever be solved is t other question, which possibly is n etter fitted for the Bcston Society for V Phy chical rc-search to take up than t: ao th oriary layman to atempt to tj %CROM0ER IN REPLY L Rejoinder to Senator Tillman's refence of the Dispensary. 'he Doctor Discusses His Diff.reDces With the Senator in a Cahn, Dispassionate Mvanner* Ion. B. R. Tillman. Dear Sir; It was not to be Expectcd hat you would edopt my view of the )rinciples u;derlying the dispensary aw, but I der.ire to assure you that I Lppreciate the spirit of your letter >ublished in the papers this morning. & final word in reply is rtquired by >ne or two passages in your letter. While my own conduct is of small noment and I have no desire to bring ny personality into the discussion, let ne assure you, in passing, that my noral tupport has been given to the nforcement of the dispensary law. When Gov. Heyward expressed a de ;ermination to enforce the law in harleston, I wrote him a letter o1 arm commendation; not because I Ras in sympathy with the dispensary aw, but because I am opposed to law essness and in favor of fostering re pect for duly constituted authority. But I think you miss both the spirit nd the letter of Pope's well known souplet. He Sid not say: 'About form of law let fools con te -t. Ihat law which is best administered is best." He was not epsaking of legislative maciments but of goversLments and Ireeds as they affect human welfare, Lud he said: 'For forms lof government let fools contest, Whate'er is best administered is best.', It there is inherent vice in the law tself, efficient administration of the aw cannot cure it. Referring to the decision of the upreme court, which you say I quote with great unction," you say, The prohibitionists in general and Tou, my dear doctor, are tnoroughly mbued with the belief that liquor Irinking is dangerous to the morals, ood order, health and safety of the eople," etc. I am not a fanatic on he subject, though yo'2 put me in a ,lass with the "unco guid and rigid -ghteous" who think it a sin to drink quor. As you say that you have not hat decision before you, I take the iberty of suvo 'r-lg a full quotation n order that 1L may be seen that I ave argued the matter not as a fa atic but from the point of view of ;he supreme court. You will recall that at the Novem >er term, 1893, the supreme court lecided that the dispensary law was inconstitutional. Mr. Justice Mc ;owan concurring with Mr. Chief ustice McIver in the decision, and Ar. Justice Pope dissenting. Tae 2ext year, 1894, Mr. Justice Gary aving succeeded Mr. Justice Mc owan on the supreme bench, the iourt decided that the law was con ~titutonal, Mr. Justice Pope and Mr. Justice Gary concurring, and Mr. hief Justice Mclver dissenting. I Am frank enough to say that if I were untng something that I could "quote with unction," I could find it Ln the dissenting opinion. Tne following paragraph, fhund in State vs. Aiken, 42 S. 0., page 231, 3ontans the ground work of the de Ision upholding the cor.seitutionality af the law: "Before proceeding to a considera ion of the specific objections urgec sgainst the constitutionality of the ic (of 1893) we desire to state at the >utset that, in our opinion, the fol towing propositions embody the prin iples governing this case: "(I) That liquor, in its nature, is langerous to the morals, good order, aealth and safety of the people, and s not to be placed on the same foot ng with the ordinary commodities of ife, such as corn, wheat, cotton, to. >acco, potatoes, etc. "(2) That the State, under its po. ice power, can itself assume entire sontrol and management of those ibjects, such as liquor, that are dan gerous to the peace, good order, health norals and welfare of the people, ven when trade is one of the inci ents of such entire control and man gement on the part of the State. "(3) That the act of 1893 is a po. ice measure. We are frank to say hat if we are wrong as to either of ihese propositions, the act should be eclared unconstitutional. We will low cite authorities to sustain these >ropositions." Note, then, that the language in hich you define the attitude of the prohibitionists is exactly the language n which the supreme court defines he attitude of the law on the sublect. hat decision fixes the point of view rom which the State is bound to re :ard the question; and from that ioint of view the State may take con rol of the traffic to police it but not o prcfit by it. And if the view of ugh Farley, chivalrous spirit, and thers who were opposed to the profit ea~ture had been adopted, the result night have been different. I admit hat it Is wise to "hobble the devil," hom you ar powerless effectually to ham; but having hobbled the devil, X 'rotest that it is not right to maks im yoke fellow with the spirit of rogress in our schools and open the ray for our children to embrace him an angel of light. Returning to my historical parallel, am not inclined to press the lessons f the prohibition vote of 1892 unduly. fter reminding me that 32,000 did ot vote in that election, which you enominate a "side show," yan say bat "this is a government of majo:ri es." True, bur, it is a government f majorities that vote, and not of ajorites that stay away from the olls. At that election, prohibition ceived in this county more than ,000 votes, a majority of the total ote cast. But when they came to sten the dispensary upon Newberry unty that vote of more than 1,000 rs nullified by a petition of 79 free olders in the town of Newberry, 34 f whom were negrees. The attitude of public sentiment wards the disnsiry law in this aunty has assumed three distinct bases in succescion. In its earlier ages the law did not have a fair :st. For reasons tnat need not be numerated public sentiment was re mtful, and the law against illicit rafl in 1:quor was not enforced. ut violations of the law became so sandalously open and unrebuked that revulsion took place in the senti-I ent of the community, and for years e law has been enforced. We have ow arrived at the third phase, in ih the sentiment of the communi seems to be crystall!zing sin opposi on to the wuiole scheme, owing w6rey I think, to the fact that the moral sense of the people is offended by the constant E ffort to justify the law by appenling to its revenue feat ur: but owing also to corruption in the administration of the law. It was not my original purpose and I now make no attempt to refute statistics or to argue the question in detail. Unless the conditions of two States are exactly similar it is hard to arrive at a just conclusion by con trasting statistics of crime. But we might quate statistics until the peo ple are dizz; and still I believe that a large number of our counties will be satisfied with nothing short of actual experiment after the example of Marl boro, Greenwood and Cheroree. We reach the parting of our ways at the concluding clause of your letter I qaore the paragraph: "I will not say th.t your vision is clouded by fanaticism but ifit be true that 'he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before is a public benefactor,' then is it not eqaally true that he who con ceived a -c.eme by which drunken ness was reduced, temperance encour aged and decency and good order in crersed ard withal made the demon whi-key contribute to the education of the ignorant masses, need he be ashamed of his work?" I do not admit that the dispensary scheme has reduced drunkenness, en couraged temperance and decency and increased good order. Mark you, I speak of the 6ffect and not of the mo tive. But it has "made the demon whiskey contribute to the education of the ignorant masses." And many of the advocates of the scheme vehe mently urge this as a justifyinr fact. The "ign-rant masses" love their schools but do not draw nice moral distinctions. The supreme court said s'ide this vampire and threaten the health and life of the communiti; but the profit feature gives "the ignorant masses" ground to infer that what the supreme court mistook for a vampire is in reality the goose that lays the golden egg. And I repeat, any re strictive scheme that tends to make an immoral traffic reputable and popular is a vicious and dangerous scheme. "Do men geher grapes of thorns or figs of thistle=?" Geo. B. Cromer. Newberry, S. C., Aug. 16, 1905. KIPT HIS PACT After Shrinking From It For Three Days and Nights. "I am going to my grave where I should have been on the 17th with Thompson, Oh, how I wish I had gone -still I put it off till the last minute, but now it must be done. I hope my brother will see that I am cremated. It he doesn't then I give my body, for a consideration for use of my children, to the Jefferson Hospital, Eleventh and Sansom. "There will be no use of opening me as I died of cyanide of potassium. "And may Go' have mercy on my soul. Amen God forgive me. Amen." Shrinking with dread for three days frcm carrying out the terms of a sui cde pact he had made with his chum, Joseph A. Thompson, member of a iamily of millionairs and relatives by marriage of the Pittsburg Thaws, who ended his hf on Thurmday by taking cyanide of potassium in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa., William Webster Hoopes finally swallowed a dose of the same poison at Strawberry Mansion In the same city. His lifeless body was found by a park guard with the above letter In his pocket. The death agreement was made more pathetic by the fact that August 17, the day agreed upon, was the first anniversary of the death of Hoope's wife. The men had presumably de cided upon the drug and the place in which to end their lives. Hoope's body was found at the same spot in the psrk where TuOmopsOr/s was discovered. Hoopes-s ha~ since his marriage fif teen years ago had been one of trcouble. A religious disagreement was the first rock upon wlich the family split. Then came the wife's death, following directly frem their disrupted home life. For fifteen months Hoopes had Deen unemployed' and the savings of years ebbed away to procure sustenance for him and his two children. The last chapter of his life was written in his own hand and was found in the pocket of the dead man. Crnshed to Death. A special dispatch to The State from Williamston tells of a horrible accident that cccurred at the S, uth ern station there on Wednesday af ter noon, which resulted In the death of James 5. McKerazie, flagman on train No. 72, a through freight headed for Columbia. This train had just ar rived at Wilhiamston and the brake man had detached the engine and eight cars from the train and was coming in the siding to pick up a car, when Mr. McKenzie attempted to couple the car to the eight others to which the engine was attached. He failed in the first effort. Then he gave a signal to the engineer to pull ahead and as the train moved ahead about a half yard's length, the unfor tunate young man walked over in the centre of the track to adjust the knuckle of the coupling to which he intended to couple the car he w.ts picking up. As he was walking back wards with his face towards the en gine, he failed to observe that the car he wanted to pick up was slowly rolling towards him and thus before he bad adjusted the coupling and stepped from the trick, as was his intention, the two cars moving in op posite directions caught him, the au tomatic couplings striking him with deadly force, crushing his left lung into a jelly, breaking his ribs in and bruising both arms terribly. Kinled in Wreck. A dispatch to The State from Greenville says the local freight going to Green'ville on the Greenville and Laurens railroad was wrecked Wed neday morning near Barksdale, four miles north of Laurens, at about 11 a. m. The negro fireman, Henry Jackson, was killed and J. L. Bear den, the engineer, badly injured. The engine and tender and seven cars were demolished. There have been three wrecks at practically the same place within the past six months. There was apparently nothing wrong with the track in either Instance and the opinion has been advanced that some thing must have been placed on the track. A large iron bolt was picked up on the ground, which had the ap parance of having been run over by the engine. Railroad Commissioner . H. Wharton was on the scene look ing into the matter. Sailor Kills Himself Guy Earle Howett, a yoeman on the receiving ship Franklin, at the Nor folk navy yard, committed suicide Tursday by shooting. No explana tn was given. THE CALM REPLYC Of Senator Tillman to the Last Letter of Dr. Cromer. MAKES A STATEMENT In Reference to Charges on the Supreme Court and Says ie lad Nothing Whatever to Do With the Mat ter, and Gives His Opia. Ion of Present Fight. Hon. Geo. B. Cromer. Dear Sir: I was absent from the State a few days after the Anderson meeting, and since my return home Sunday I have been quite unwell, hence delay in answering your "re joinder," which appeared in the news papers of the 18 th. I have read what you say carefully, and with all due respect it seems to me you are begging the question. I quoted Pope's couplet from memory and it is lucky that I misquoted it, else you wculd have had littue to reply to, but I cannot agree with you that "I mised" either the "sense or the spirit." I charged existing conditions in dis pensary matters to mal-administration and to legislation in changing the law and depended upon the last line of the quotation to sustain my conten tion: "That law which Is best adminis tered is best." Of course your quotation must be verbatim and it is even stronger in sustaining my argument than.my own recollection of the words, for If "what ever form of government," an auto cracy, limited monorchy or a republic is better than any other when it Is "best administered" it seems to me that you zx .st be wrong in claiming 'if there is usnerent vice in the law it. self, eflc!ent administration of the law cannot cure It." We are not discussing that phase at all. You class the dispensary sys tem as inherently vicious as contra distinguished with the licensed sale of liquor, and the prohibition of its sale at all. According to Pope, as you quote him, "whatever" form the law might take as among these three would be best if it is "administered best." That is all I have ever con tended. I beheve the dispensary sys tem can be better administered than can prohibition, and I am opposed to any form of license, high or low, be cause it has the inherent vice" of money making by the individual, and this to my mind is the most deadly poison arising out of the whiskey traffic. I hardly think you will deny that the dispensary law fearlessly and honesty administered as it was origin ally framed would be better than pro hibition not enforced. However, it was not this part of your rejoinder which gave me any con cern, because it almost answered it self and i only mention it incidentally as I am answering you. The point which I wish to press on your attention and that of those who may be interested in our discussion of this question is the "lame and impo tent conclusion" at which you arrive in your discussion of the dispensary from a legal standpoint. You are a lawyer and an able one, while I am only a layman, but your reading must have been limited or your reasoning powers at fault to rest your case as you appear to do on the claim that the prohibitionists are sustained through out in their views by the decisious of the supreme court. You quote the de cision in the case of the State vs. AlkeD, 42nd S. 0., p. 231. "That liquor in its nature is dan gerous to the morals, good order, health pnd safety of the people, etc., and then you say "N'ote then the lan guage in which you definie the attitude of the prohibitionists is exactly the: language In which the supreme court defines the attitude of the law on the subject. That decision fixes the point of view from which the State is bound to regard the quesion; and from that point of view the State may take con trol of the tranic to police it but not to profit by It." You give your own interpretation to the language used by the court but to me it is altogether without any1 warrant,. except as your individual1 opinion and in direct opposition to1 the entire line of thought and reason ing of the judge who wrote the opin ion in the State vs. Alken, I quote from the same decision, page 239: 1 "The act shows that the legislature had in view the protection of the 1 "morals, good- health, and safety of the State' in dealing with this ques-] tion. Many safeguards are thrownf around the sale of liquor. The comn missioner is to be an abstainer fromi intoxicants. The lIquor Is to be tested by the chemist and declared to be pure. The l'quor is to be suld only by] the package, which cannot be opened nor drunk where sold. The sales can I only be made in day time. Personst cannot be appointed on the c'ounty ( board of control who are addicted to il the use of intcoxcating liquors. Nod person can be appointed & county dis- t penser who has ever been adjugded guilty of violating the law relating to 1 intoxicating lIquors, nor who is keep- e er of a restaurant or a place of public lI amusement, nor who is addicted to ( the use of intoxicating liquors as a t beverage. s "The county dispenser shall execute r a bond in the sum of $3,000, upon v which suit for damages may be brought S f or a violation of the provisions of the a act by wife, child, parent, guardian, s employer, or other person. A majority a of the voters in a township may pre- t: vent the establishment of a dispen- t: sary. The county dispenser shall take n an oath therein prescribed. A printed fi or written request must be presented f: for permission to purchase. The Bale s shall not be made to a minor, a person ii intoxicated, a person in the habit of p :rinking to excess nor to a person un- G3 less known to the dispenser. it pre- fi vents the establishment of club rooms, o: where liquors are used. One of the benefical results of the law is brought et about by selling only for cash." t In the face of this language how iE aan you declare that "the State may a take control of the trattic to police it, tl but not to profit by it?" it On page 240 we find this: n "The judiciary," said Mr. Justice N NfcGowan in the case of Town Coun- J :il vs. Pressley, 33rd S. C., page 56, b "cannot run a race of opinions upon I points of right reason, and expedi- p ncy with the law making power." G3 Thn Mr. Justic Gary added: "The t1 itate has a right through its own fieers-In fact, it its primary duty o enforce its police regulations, which 'Ight inheres in government itself and s paramount to any right inherent in tizenship. But referring to the oregoing objection as mater of fact, t would not be as efaciently enforced )y private individuals, because there Frould be the constant temptation to nake as large prcfi as possible." But referring to the foregoing ob. Iction (that the same results could >e accomplished by allowing private ndividuals to carry on the trati -) as L matter of fact it would not be as fciently anforced by private indi iduals "because there would be the snstant temptation to make as large prfits as possible." Further on Jus lice Gary adds: "The dispensary act tself is an outgrowth of a dissatisfac bion on the part of the people with hbLe manner in which the police power hen delegated, was abused" (by per mitting those who obtained the lic sises to make as much money as pos Lible.) Again I desire to direct your atten ton to the decision of the supreme mourt of the United States In the csse of Vance vs., W. A. Vandercook Co., 170 U S., p. 447, in which the con titutionality of the dispensary law was upheld by our court of last resort: "It is arguzd as the State law here in question does not forbid but on the osntrary authorizes the sale of intoxi oints within the State, hence it is ot a police law, therefore not enacted in the exercise of the police power of he State and consequently does not operate upon the sale of original pack. ges within the State. But the pre mise upon which these argument rest Is purely arbitrary and imaginary. From the fact that the State law per mite the sale of liquor subject to par ticular restrictions and only upon en msrated conditions it does not fol low that the law is not a manifesta tion of the police power of the State. The plain purpose of the act of con gress having been to allow State re gulations to operate upon the sale of original packages of Intoxicants com Ing from other States, it would de stroy its obvious meaning to construe it as permitting the State laws to at tach to aDd control the sale only in case the States absolutely forbade sales of liquor and not to apply In case the Siag determined to restrict or regu late the same." How then, my dear sir, can ycu seriously contend that "the State may take control of the traffla to police it but not to profit by it." Our own court in the strongest language main tains the contrary; the supreme court of the United States with the law be fore it sustained it, notwithstanding this frature, yet merely because you feel that the profit feature is an in erent vice of the dispensary law which destroys its usefulness and its legality. I must ask, how can v'on seriously argue such a point, and how can you lena your great influence and intellect to mislead those who are ignorans? You brush aside as wholly unworthy of consideration the statistics which I advanced to show that prohibition does not prohibit, and that druaken ness is not as great in Charleston with all its blind tigers as it Is In prohibi tion cIties of like size. You dismiss these with a wave of the hand, because they may make the psople dizzy and then assert most positively that the supreme court said, "Stifie this vam pire that threatens the health and life of the community." While It is an indisputable proposition that the su preme court has never said anything of the kind and only used the language which you quoted as the justification of the legislature for enacting the dis pensary law, to better control and minimize the evils inseparable from liquor. It was merely a strongly worded declaration that the law was a~n exercise of the police power. Suppose the dispensary law was so amPistered that it eliminated the profit feature entirely, is it not evi dont that a dollar would buy a great deal more liquor than it does now and It would therefore encourage consump tion and therefore drunkenness? It seems to me that you have reached the conclusion in your own mind that the dispensary law must be "damned if it does and be damned if It don't," and your attitude to wards t is made perfectly clear when you say, "I do not admit that the dispen ary scheme has -reduced drunkenness, mcouraged temperance and decency mnd ncreased good order." This in view of the facts that have been time mni mi printed, in view of the opin lon of wellnigh every close observer In mnd outside of the State, that the dis pensary is a long ways ahead of the icense system as a temperance mecas aire solely is the most remarkable 2tt'nce I have ever hear d fall from he lips of a man who stands so high, Lud deservedly, in the estimation of svety good man and woman in the 3ate. If you are content to stand > that utterance I certainly am will ng to leave you occupying that atti ude. One word more and I am through. : the Columbia State of August 22 I id quoted from the Charlotte ubser er the following: "The dispensary liscussion in South Oarolina. complex en at its simplest. is much befud iled just no'sw by the fact that two opes seem to have played prominent iarts in dispensary affairs. One is the Ionorable Y. J. Pope, at uresent the he chief justice of the State, who ne handed down a dissenting opin on as to the constitutionality of the ispensary law. He was all alone un il the legislature upon the orders of bov. Ben Tillman put Mr. Justice IcGowan off the supreme bench be anse he did not favor the dispensary aw and put on Mr. Justice E. B. Eary because he did favor it. Then he dispensary law was declared con titutional, Pope and Gary concur Lng, Mclver dissenting." This lie ras first sent broadcast over this tate by those leading newspapers hich are now clamoring for the de bruction of the dispensary and which re the main rellance of the prohibi Lonists, although they boldly declare hat they do not believe in it any iore than I do. This outrageous lsehood thus revamped and copied tn a Northi Carolina paper is again at In irculation and I deem it noth ig but my duty, and it is certainly a leasure, to do justice to Mr. Justice -ary, while the very records of the icts will show the falsity and venom Sthe infamous story. The dispensary law was declared un nstitutional In AprIl, 1894, by Jus ces Mclver and McGowan, Justice1 ope dissenting. The opinion was1 holly unexpected to the people of 1 e State and to the best lawyers in iI know because I had telked with Lany of them on the subject. Judge. [Gowan retired from the bench the sly following and Justice Gary took is place. Mr. McGowan had not, as recollect, cff.-red for re.-election the receding December and when Judge ary was elected no one dreamed that Isue wounldnn he presented in that light. While it was fashionable In those days to say Gov. Ben Tillman "gave orders to the general assem.bly," I here declare on my personal honor that I bad nothing whatever to do with that election, and that Justice Gary's opinion as to the constItution ality of the disoensary law was well understeod by all who conferred with him, and that he was as little expect ant of the decree which was promul gated in April following as any other man in South Carolina. It may be that the reopening of these old wounds and the continued attacks that are baing made on me may revive factionalism in SoutJh Carolina and I call for all fair minded men to bear witress that this agita tion about the disp2aary and abue of all who have had anything to do with It from beginning to end is not being pressed by me or my friends, that it is the other side that is urging the fight, and I again repast that if there shall again be a revival of bit terness in the coming campaign the blame can not Justly be laid at my door. I bave never been meek or dis posed to "turn the other cheek" when I have been smitten and while I de precate this style of warfare, I am prepared to meet onslaughts of this or any other kind, let them come from whence they may. B. B. TILLEAN. Trenton, S: C., Aug 23d. A WORD TO YOUNG XEN. Don't Go Too Fast, My Boy, It Wil Not Pay. Young man slow up. The pace you are setting is a killing one. You may fancy that vou are making a stunning start in life, bus it is a start that will distance you in the end. Don't go too fast, my lad. "Slow and sure" has taken down more purses than any other racer that ever went round the track. You are smoking half a dozen cigars a day-slew, up, that means a home in. twenty years. You are buy ing all the clothes that come to town - slow up, that means a farm in twenty years. - Besides all the rags in the world never yet made a man. You are taking an occasional drink with good intentions not to become a habitual boozer. Slow up-the road to hell is paved with good intentions. You are winning the smiles of some silly girl by spending all you can upon her. Slow up-a wife won in this way is worse than the seven-year itch because it last longer. You are gambling a little now and then, just taking a few chances for the fun of the thing, Slow up-suckers are small fish and never grow to be very large, but they are firstelass nibblers. You can blow yourself out of the running before the first quarter is reached by just trying to keep up with the pace makers. Contract bad habits,. keep foolish company, listen to bad advice, spend all you can and ran in debt, swell around and act the dude and you'll be a failure just as !ure as effect Is the result of cause. You'll have a good time for ten years and a bad time for sixty. Be wise and clean and economical that life may be large, fine and splendid to you. Telns of Awrnl Crime. The little daughter of Mrs. John Lea, lately a widow by the supposed suicide of her husband, a saw mill man, who resided near Cleveland, Tenn., confessed to her grandmother, at Murray, Ga., where she had been sent on a visit, that her mother and James Hix, also a saw mill man, who boarded at the home of the Lea's, killed her father. The story is one of the most revolting in the criminal an nals of Tennesse. Lea was found hanging by a rope, which was attach ed to one of the beams of the saw mill, his neck broken. A coroner's jury pronounced him a suicide. Then Hix and Mrs. Lea disappeared. The little girl declared Hix held hei- father while her mother broke his neck with a weapon, Hix telling her where to strike. They threatened to kill the child if she told, according to the lit tle one. Hix has been arrested at Spring Place, Ga., and officers are looking for Mrs. Lea at Sherman Heights, Tenn., where she is visiting. It is hinted that others know of the alleged crime but have not told for reason not explained. Wina and Ball. A dispatch from St. Paul says de vastation terrible and complete was wrought on all sides of the Twin Cities by the storm of Sunday night, according to reports just received' here. Through all the region from Anoka to Fillmore counties reports tell of disaster and loss of life and buried under the debris, which was strewn broadcast by the wind. Many Instances of maiming arereported and the total loss of life will not be known for some days. Crops which had been cut and were ready for threshing, suf fered In many places, and standing corn was damaged by hail and wind. Hall stones several Inches in circum ference worked havoc with the crops in some sections. A Rare Case. John Paul, chief steward of the Je.f.rson Club In New York, enjoys the rare distinction of being a grand father and a grandson at the same time. His baby granddaughter has just been born and his grandmother is living at the age ninety-seven. John Paul is forty-six years old. Killed by Savages. A dispatch to the Beuter Telegraph company frcm Zanzibar says that in addition to the Catholic bishop of Daressadem, who was murdered at the hands of African natives reported everal days ago, two sisters and tin missionaries, a German sergeant and two traders, were killed accordingd~o Later reports. Eighteeen Drowned. A report has reached Buenos Ayres f the founding of the British nark Bieston Hill. ~ The report states that L8 of the crew were drowned. The re -aindr, who were saved, are expect d to arrive at Buenos Ayres by one >f the Aryenltin~a steamers. Infernal Machine. Police Captain Miles O'Reilly, ofI Tew York, received an infernal ma hine, loaded with dynamite, through1 she mails Monday. This is the thirdi nstrument of the kind sent through ihe New York mails within a week, ihe other two having been sent to I >ankers in the city. Canght at Last. Wallace Jeter, colored, wanted in Jnion county on the charge of m~ur ler, was captured in Gaffney on Mon lay. He confesses to killing Green Voodson, colored, at a church about i month ago, and says he killed nother man six years ago, for which BARS OUT NFGROES. n Oh o Town Where the Colored Man Cat live. Syracusa is the N..m of the Place Where Negroes are Not Allow ed to spend a N ght. F. U. Q iilien, in the Indepeneeat, says in the town of Syracuse, Oio, on the 0.i1o river, four miles above P.,meroy, a town of abcut 2,000 in. habitants, no negro Is permitted to live. No negro is permitted to stay in the town over Light under any con sideration. T. is Is an absolute rule ln this year 1905, and it has existed for several generations. The enforce ment of this u.1written law for keep ing the negro from staying in the town over a single night is In the hands of the boys from twelve to twenty years of age, while the at tempt of a negro to bccime a resident .j the town is resisted by the town en masse. WLen the colored man is seen in the town during the day he Is gener ally told of these tr&itlons, if he is so ignorant as not to know them already, and is warned to leave before snndown. If he fails to take heed, he is surrounded at about time darkness begins, and is addressed by the lead ers of the gang in about this language: "No nigger Is allowed to stay In this town over night. We don't care what you are here for. Get out of bere now, and get out quick." He ees from twenty-five to fifty boys around him talkiug In subdued voices and waiting to see whether he obeys. If he hesitates, little stones begin to reach him from unseen qaarters, and soon persuade him to begm his hegira. He is not allowed to walk, but is told to "get on his little dcg trot." The command is always effective, for it Is backed by stones in the ready hands of boys none too friendly. So long as he keeps up a good alt, the crowd, which follows just at his heels, and which keeps growing until it sometimes numbers seventy-Ave to one hundred boys, Is good natured and contents itself with yelling, laughing and hurling gibes at its victim. But let him stop his "trot" for one mo ment, from any cause whatever, and the stones immediately take effee" as their persuader. Thus they follow him to the furth est limits of the town, where they send him on hTs way rVj'icing (?) while they return to the city with triumph and tell their fathers all about the function, how fast the via timi ran, how scared he was, how he pleaded and promised that he would go and never return if they wculd only go back and leave him, how Johnnie Jones hit him with such a big rock that it knocked him down. Then the fathers tell how they -used to do the same thing, and thus the heroes of two wars spend the rest of the evening by the old -campfire, re counting their campaigns. The cause of this extraordinary race prejudice is hard to disern. The majority of the Inhabitants are not from the south but, strange to say, are of New England stock. In the early days of the town many Irish lived there who were so bitterly hos tile to the negro that some people attribute the present treatment of the e-lored man to their inlflu2ence. The population is mixed, including many Veish and Germans. Most of the people are day laborers working in the coal mines and in salt manu facture, aad perhaps they feel ..the dansrer of negro competitin Cler iainly they would as readily associate with a snake as permit ablack man to work by their side. They almost feel that he defiles anything that be touches. To the women he Is an object to be dreaded and feared, even in the day time. The little children are taught to fear the black man with all the horror associated with that name. The writer has seen many a child frightened almost into hysterics at the mere sight of a colored man, and he was himself Imoued with the ter ror. What has caused this fear? No crime has ever been committed by a negro within the town, although many have decurred near by which perhaps serve to maintain the preja dice in spite of many things that might have worked toward undermin ing it. Since the town was founded, about 1815, not a single negro family has lived in it. About the year 1855 two negroes were employed as domestics by 8 family In the extreme lower end of the town, practically In the coun try, but they did not stay long. Since the civil war two attempts have been made by negro families to settle in the town, but both were snmmariy driven out. Mordered in the Strees. Mrs. S. E. Mize, of New York, was murdered Wednesday in Chicago by a robber while taking an evening walk in one of the fashionable residee districts on the South Side.-Forthe greater part of the summe'r Mrs. Mize has been a guest atthe Del Prado hotel which fronts 'on the Midway Plalsance. Wednesday night in com pany with Mrs. . F. Wilson of Las Cruces, New &'exico, also a guest ab the hotel, sh~e' went out for a short walk. They had reached the corner of 59thst~6t and Washington avenue, two squares from the hotel, when they wsre confronted by a muau who demanded thir money and yaliables. All elong Fifty-ninth street and on Washington avenue people were sit tng upon verandas and In the front yafrds of their residences, and Mrs. AfizB evidently expecting help from iome of them, vigorously attacked the robber, at the same time calling loud ly for help. Mrs. Wlson turned and ran back toward the kotel. Mrs. ize was able to utter just two cries for aid when the roboer shot her bhrough the heart, killing her instant y. Mrs. Wilson, who was looking back at the time, fell in a faint. The nurderer escaped. Another Victim. W. C. Hardison of Wadasboro, N. 1., prominently Identified with vari us maeufactuxrng enterprises In this state, committed suicide Wednesday lght by shooting him'self through he head only half an hour after eaching home from Blowing BocK, Fhere he had been on account of his iealth. Immediately on reaching his iome he went to his bed rooma. bot himself, dying almost insta t~y. 'he rash act is attributed to ill ealth, coupled with recent heavy osses occasionei by the failure of the ndependent Cotton Oil company of )arlington, S. C. Mr. Hardison was wner of one of the mills controlled by hat company. He was cffred the residency of the concern shortly be ore the suicide of Prsdn