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VOL. XX. MANNING., S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1906 NO.19. FATAL WRECK. Passenger and Freight Trains on the Seaboard Collide. THREE XM!N KILLED. The Engineer and Fi' eman of the Freight Train, and a MAi Clerk Buried in the Wreck, WL:ch Was Caused by a Misunderstanding of Orders. Passenger train 66 on the Seaboard, north bound, and a scuth bound freight, collided near, Blaineys four teen miles north of Columbia on Tues, day morning of last week, and as a result three men are dead and two are seriously injured. According to the statements of those on the pas senger train the wreck was caused by a general misunderstanding Of orders. The regular passenger train left Co lumbia one hour late. The Forida Flyer passw d the freight at Blainess and it is believed that E igiaeer Smeck, in charge of ie freight, thcught that thera wa, a clear ros ahead. He pulled cu' of the siding with twenty cars attac 'd, and jist ahead the passenger tem approached It was too late to stop the freight. but E2gineer R' binson, of the pas senger train, applied his airbrakes and the train was brought up with a j rk, throwing every one cut of their seats. It was eue to the nerve of Engineer Rcbion that the lives of the passengers were aved. As soon as the crash came the pas sengers organiz-d a r- scue squad. Engineer J. W. Robinson was found under his engine with both legs broken. His colored fireman, Dn Douglass, was also under the debris badly bruised up, Engineer A. A. -Smack, of the freight, and fireman W. A. Herbert, colored, were buried under the ruins of the freight engine-both instantly killed. The mail car was the only one of the passenger cars demolished. Mali Clerk H. A. Pattilo was buried under the wreckage and instantly killed. It is reported that a helper on the mail train is also killed, but the posti. tle people here know nothing of it. Express Messenger H E. Hinton had his shoulder fraciurtd, bus Con ductor W. M. Whitehurst, in charge of the passenger train, escaped unin jured. As soon as the news of the wreck was heard, arrangements were made for bringi-g the train to the city. The budAes tf those killed couic not be brougnaz u, of the wreckage. but the injared were brought in a non and removed to the hosptals. Engineer R binson lives in that city, residing at Mrs. Watson's, on Laurel street. All of the others re side either in Raleigh or Jackson vlle. The rairoad commrL1slon, ace mpa nied by a number of newspa~per mee and Dr. E C. L Adams and Snrgeon Weston, of the Seaboard, went up to the icene of the wreck about one o'cck. An investigation has been ord' red by the commission 'and testimony will be taken as to the causes at once. R.ilroad men here say that ttne morning was very foggy and that it was almost impostsiblez to see anything a short distance eif. It is also saio that the freight conductor had been on duty thirty hours and was phy'si cally unable to interpret the orders. This will all be brcuzht out in the testimony to be taken before the railroad commission.-C.~umbia .Re cord. _ _ _ Highly Conneoted Beggar. Wth his mind wrecked by years of hardship, George Adams Robin-on, a descendant of two presients of the United States, a Harvard graduate o' the class of 1861: a veteran cf the civil war, a tnirtys c and degree Ma son, stoed before the city court a: Bidgeport, Conn., TuesdAy morning pleading for his liberty. T vo week I ago Robinson was taken in charge b:. the authorities for asking alms on thc street and was placed in the a'mi house. Robirson, who is seventy years old. is cne Lon of a Dr. Robin son, of Boston. His motner vias a' daughter of John Qirncy Adains, sixth president of the Uuited State. and a grandaughter ol J ihn Adams' the second presidtent. R binscn is a mining engineer, and has spent much of his t.mae inl the West. Tne year he was graduated from Harvard he en lsted in the Eighth regime-nt, Mass chusetts volunteers, and saw service under both sherman and Suezidanl. Lives outof Doors. Rnv. Dr John Ciendennln, a son- in law of Horace Greeley, believes he twes his life to living (ut of dcen day and night. When he took up his abode in the open last S aptembor ke was thin and emaciated and had a bad cough, but from the time he be gan sleeping ut of doors he began to show improvtmflnt and now beuever he has been cured. During the last six months Dr Clendefnn has practi caly lived In the open air spending but little more time withmn doon~ than It takes to eat. He drives dur the day or induges in long tramps. but he sleeps on a balcony cf thel third story of his hU5.se. an Want P. The Washir gton correspondent of the-Charleston .Pdst says the opinior f South Carolina Senators and Rep reseatativesliere is an indication 0: opinion in South Carolina the Legis laturr'villnlot bother with the disp n. sary law and will kasve the whole thing to the people for -settlem~en this summeSr. It is alm3ost the mnani inus conclusion amonlg the Soud. Carolina Congressmen that a vast majority of the entire vote of the State Is In favor of the dispensar3 -system if i-emodelled to eradicate al ;caiblte 'o f corrupticn and graft WORIK ON -THE FkRM ISOVE PR10113AL SUGGESTIONS LY A PRACTICAL FARMER. -e Urges His Brother Farmers to Push 'heir Work Along 111 Lines. Dr. H. F. Freeman, of WilSOD, N C offers some practic .1 suggestions to his brother farmers in a ccmmuni cation to the Progressive FAmer of Raleigh, N. C. New is che time for our farmers. says Dr Feeman, to be gin to do all the plowing they can. Where the land has mi c' litter on it, or where it lay out 1ast year, these lands should be b:oken now and again before planting. You should remember that for some years now our springs have been late and the land wet, so it was bard to get land broken in time. So look out for the good days now and start the two horse plows from six to eight in shes deep, and where the land is rough, pulver:zt it with harrows. Now is the time to clean out ditsh es and let off water so the land can dry out thoroughly: This can not b done to the best advantage just before planting. Clean out, clear up and keep clean every foot of space abiut the home and farm now while you have time. It ycu have not already plowed up your garden do so the first nice day that comes. Plow deep and spread broad-cast with any rough litter ma nure you have on tt p af ter the plow Do this twice this spring before plant ing and you will have a good garden if the rest is done as well. Tnere are hundreds of little thigs that you can do noff, which will add wonderf lly to your success this year, it you wl look out for them and do them now wnile you have time. How about the cow and call? What aro ycu going to do them this summer? And those sboats, which you expec. to make your meat from next Decem ber? Where are you going to keep them? Can you get to your hors- s, cows, or hogs, without jumping from place to place to kaep from goiog Into the mud up to your sh -e-strings? Where is the stove wood-ander the wLodshed or out in the mud some two aundied yards from tah ksteaeL? Njw, my friend, you see all these thirgs to be done; out don't get coo us? to be organized into the Cotton Groweis' organiz3tion. This is the most important thing you will be alled upon to do this year, for the general good. Tne agent will soon be in your county. Be sure to look out for him and help him all you owt. rake up this matter and get all the information ycu can, so when the or gan z r comes you will be ready te elp him. Bo sure to see that every man in your townihip goes to the township m3etings waen the time eme. Now, by the finst of Apr'l 'vary owship shulrd be organized in South, Carolina. Be sure to keep down the ecrage. i plannir g for this year'a -,rop don't forget to cat tue ;ottoi zrop and -uW in plenty .f c-rn. peas. potatoes and garden crops. As thre otton Growers' Association in Co umbia good men were elected dir,:c rors, who will have charge of the bus ess of the Assac:ation. These are s good men as w-e have In the State and they will do all in their power for he good of our farmers. So be sure o co-operate with th~em and help In mvry way yo2u can. CTae cost will be >nly three to ten cents on eac'i bale .f oton ycu made last year. The As Scation has alrea-iy raised the price 20 on the bale since it was organt z d N w of this $20J gained ye u can easily, ad I a m sure willingly, pa'y '4hree to ten cents on the bale. Look Lut for ue agents. Bard F'rom L and He Served. Although he has served three en istments under'the United States fl f -one in the regular army, oncs in he Davy and once as a volunteer-and n each case receivedi an hon-r.ble dis harge, John Bowars, an Eaglist man has been ref nse d a.dmittance to the Uaited Siates. Bjwers, despite rls miilitary servi-:-e, was never na uratz d. H e arrive d at Boston J an ary 19 and was detained on the ground that be might become a pubic charge, ,s he wa. ull. He wa.s snff srng fr m rheumat's n and a bullet wouu" be received while serving in the Philip pines, which has never neoperly heal ed. The immigration filaials prompt ! commuoicated the facts and an ac ~ount cf Bowers' recor d to the apthor i:Ies at Washing.ton, asking if he'could not be admitted to the marine hospit 1. Tsursday a messag~e was received announcing that Bowers is not eligi. be for admittance to this country. Snooty Uis Mlocber. "I will kill ycou for that," cried seven-year-old W 11ls H-rtton at Camp on Ky., on Wednesday to his moth er. Sae had~ just spanged him for nlO returning promp ly fro~m an errartd ine child rusheO to a brvesu dra.wer ozk out b's isthtr's revolver, rushed oack and shot his mother. ..Then he .hew bjinself upon the ~'pro -trate frm anf seresmed: "LSpeak to me mams; I diddet mean no harm." But se was diead.- The farioer is J.ana aton, a large p'anier living near Rogers in tlia- coun'y. - K'1:eal By a Tra'n. Mr. J. R~land Blill, recently of Acou, was ir~ed byi traun, No. 53. on Atlantic Coa- t LIne Wednesday akut near Brogdon on the Central Rilroad of Sou-h Carolina. P.i~rticu ars a; this h:. ur caonot be obtained, out it is said tnat he wa riding on the rear end of train and was known to have been intoxicated while in -umter the same, day he was killed. e was a savm!$Lman welL- thought a- his only fault being the whiskey nabik. He leaves a wife and' several. children. Killed Himself. . George Waitney, a member of the Marine corps sn;;oned at the navy ard at Czaykstesn, accidentally shot nd kuledc himse& at S.-xon, a station on the Ailantic Coast Line some dis ace tbyvo the navy yard, Taursday. ihe accident resulted from the care less handling of a pistol. Th~e body ~was to.ken chrarge of by the coroner of Berkeley countyv and the Inquest will - proa he held Friday. A GREAT SOLDIER 1Gen. Robert F. Lee, Commander. in-Chief of the CONHFMDRATE ARMY First Section of an :Address Delvered Recently by Dr. John A. Wyatt Be fore the New York Southern Society. A Grand Tribute to a Graad Man. The fol'owing is the first section of a speech recently delivered before the New York Southerr 3ociety by Dr. John A. Wyatt. Next week we will publish the second section of this speech. Both sections should N read in every school In the c)untn: Tne South may claim with pardon able pride that it furnished not only the president of each of the divided sections in the struggle far the estab lishment of a separate Confederacy, but the great centril figure of the Civil war for the North as well as for the South. History will accord that Abraham Lincoln was the one conspic uous figure on the side of the Union, and for the South none will challenge that claim for Lee. They were, more over, representatives of the widely divergent classes of our sectio2, the vle'-eten and the patrician. The story 'f L n.ola might well be classed with "The short ald simple annals of the poor." while Lee cme straight from the oavaliers and their descendants, the wealthy culturad aristocracy of Vir ginia. His father, Richard Henry Lee, better known as "Light Hurse Har ry," the bean sabreur of the Amartia army, was a consoicuous figure in the drst conti:-ental congress. It was he who, on Jane 7, 1776, nroved the reso lutton "taat these united colonies are, and of right ought to be, fies and in dependent State'; that they are ab solved from all allegiance to the Brit sh crown, and that all political con ection between them and the StatEs if Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally disiolved." He and his brother were singers of bhe Declaration of Independence, and ad it was this same Lle who pro laimed. George Washington as the 'first in war, first in peace and 6rst ] n the nearts of his countrymen." I Upon his mother's side he claimed i ,he lineage of the Carters of Shirley. Brn on January 19 1807, his ch.id- i aood and youth were passed in the cu). ;vated circles of the tidewater region f Vlrginia At the age of 18 he en ered West P.int and completing t'2e )urse cf study without a single mark f demerit he graduated second in a -as of 46. For several years he servUd n the engineer corps constructing f cast defecces, anrd for a part of this ime in charge of the astronomical ~eartment of the government. In 832 he n-arried the daughter ofi horge W. Pa.rie Cuntis, the adoptedi on of Gen. Washington, and later was made emptain on the staff in the lexcan war. Of all the brilliant reputations I mong the younger group of offlcers rhich were won in ttiat campaign 1 Eeeds was the most conspicuous. Uo z im the commander In chief leaned as pon no other. At Cerro Gordo het was breveted maj -r for ex.,eptional alantry. At CJontreras and Chern >ua~oO he was efflcially proclalimed fort eritorious conduct, and on account. f a wound received in she assaeult ont 2tapultepec, September 13, 1847, hei ~eeved his promotion to lieutenant oloneit It was here at Cntreras, when the" my was baffled, that the tick eye of In discovered, by a dar ng reconnaissancga line of approachc adden from the enemay by which the osition might be taken. This the ommander-in-chief of the army char cer rmed as "the greatest feat of1 >hysica~l and moral courage performed 1 y any individual during the entire amrpa'gn." In his eff.:ial report Gan. Scott aid: I am ompelled to make special. neton of Capt. R. E L'e, engineer. 1 e greatly distinguished himself a' 1 he siege of-Mera Cruz, was indefati rable during these operations in re :onnalssances, as daring as laborious.t ~nd of the ut-most vaius. Nor was he] ess conspicuous in planting batteres i ad in conducting columns to their: stations -under the heavy fire of .the eemy." He further says: "Gapt ee, so constantly distinguishe, aisot ore Importaut orders from me, until e fainted from a wound and the less f t wo nights sleep at the batteries " Aft er the Mexican warhe was ap poted, in 1852, sr;perintendent of the military acadIeasy at West Point. and in 1855, lieutenant colonel of the acn-d cavalry, under Col. Albe'rt Sid ney Johnston Ini 1859 he was direct ed by tue pres.dent of the United Stat a to arrest Jonn Bzpwn anid his roo sers in traelr m rrderous in vasi of Vi-g'n a, and on March 10, 1861> tic wru app -ie ted co'oneJ.'n trae Urn ted Statps armyr - Whe~,t're S sutherJiitates were so cdirg ani war se-emed inevitable up .a the recommendanion of Gen. Sott, then commuader in-c~Aet. Prer ident Lincoln cli'ered Lee the con -and of the armnies of tue Union. Virginia had n-os yet-seceded, but] Lee, looking into the fJaure and feel - ng assured that his native StateI ould upon any set of aggressio make common cause with the other, Southern mLates declined she temptipg In-ar letter'written April 20, 186i, he made that never to be forgottenj declaration: "With all my devotion to the Union and the feelhng of loyal 1ty and duty ase an American citizex, I have not been able to make up my mind to raise my hand against my relatives, my cuildren, my home. Save in deferco of my native> Staite, with the sincere hope that my poor services may never be needed, I hope I may never he called3 upon to draw W:-e'n a' length hostilities begar and V:rgiuia took her place in the Cnfederaey the peopl- of the Old D-minion with one voice turned tc aim as commander of ner army then: Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, Flasned the word of Lee! Fa in the front of the deadly fight, High o'er the brave in the cause of Right, Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light, Led on to Victory. Out 9ts scabbard! Never hand Waved sword from stain as free, Nor purer sword led braver band, Nor braver bled for a brighter Imnd, Nor brighter land had a cause so grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee! The story of his military career is practicl'v the story of the army of northern Virginia, ar d it reads more like romance tcan history. Tortugh four years of the bloodiest war known to history at that time that army, c-:mposed cf -the flwer of S~uthern ma.nbo..2, under its matchless leader, made a record of victories never sur passed in the annals of warfare, a r, e rd whic'i we of the South and our children'a children to the remotest ages should claim as our proudest heritage. He assumed command of this army in June, 1862, when McClellan was immediately in front of R:chmond. On June 26, with an army iL f 3rior In numbers and equIpment, he attacked the forces of McClellan in their in orenchment and for seven days the bloody confl et raged, until Mclellan took refuge under the protection of his gunwoats at Harrison's Landing. This army defeated; Lee turned upon a second larger than his own, march rg upon Rtchmond from another di rection. By one of the most brilliant and d34ring movements in. the history of wars Lee with his ab'e lieutenant, hcksorn, rcuted Pope' army at Grove ton and Second Manasses and drove him for safety under the protecio:' ci tle fortificatilons at Washington. Mc ielan hari been removed for .his de 'eet and Pe'pe fllowed in - bis train. Disregarding both of .these defeated armies, Lie moved rap'dly into MIAry Land, capturnd asrper's Ferry and its arge garrisoa on tfa way and f uxht t Antietam on September 17, 1863, tbe blooditst battle of the Civil war. KceClellan, who after Pope's defeat had >een reinstated in command, . was igain removed for failing to i- cT a rusing defeat upon Lie, and Barn ide was made commder-in chief of he army of the Potomac. In December of that year this same Lrmy of Lee signally defeated the ,rmy of Burnside at Fredericksburg. urnside was removed and Gen. Hook r placed in command. In May, 1863, lIoolker marched on Richmond, having sued a general order in which he aid that the Confederate army must ther ingloriously fly or come out rom behind its Intrenchments, where ortain destruction awaited." A few lays after this announcement was 2ade Hooker's army was surprised nd attacked by L-e and Jackson sim taneously in front and rear at Ohan ellorsvlle and overwhelmed, fceing n the greatest disorder from the -id. L:-e then Invaded Pennsylvania here at Gettysburg after three days f bloody erjnnfict, unable to carry the %deral position, he remained 24 hours line of battle with his army in their rmediate front inviting attack and en withdrew without Interruption o Virginia. It was in 1864, in the campaign rom the Wilderness to Petersburg, bat the star of Lee reached Its zmnith. Jder bis leaidership the army of orthern Virginia up to this tim3 In ifensive warfare had held every bat lefild up'n which it had fought with he exception of Gett3 sburg and harsburg or Antietam, and upon ase fields, although It failed to beat e army pitted against it, It stood In attle array on each occasIon for 24 ~ours, was not attacked and marched way unn~o'ested. He was now to show that In defen le fight.ing he was a greater master if the art of war than in his t ffnsive perations. Grant, with the largest rmy ever marshalled upon this conti et und.ar a single. commander, with nimited res uroes of men and money ith the world .to draw upon for al: hat was most useful in dtstructive ar fare, advanced up'on -this army of ae's wag~ting in.everything but val r, and.soidecimnated that as Grant rpressed it-'it had robbed the cradle ud the grave" to fill the gaps be een the veterans that still survived. here folowed from Miay 5, 1864, in e Wilderness, at Spottsylvanis ourt house, at Cold Harbor and the 'orth Anna a series of conflicts so rightful In their havoc that the his ory of this campaign might well be rritten In bloed. The .most r: c 'nt, and in my opin on the most ruitabie, history of the Jnited States, written by James Ford modes of Bost ;e, a conscientious stn nt, a capable saaivst and just re ~order, s~tys: 'Grant's loss from 14ar to Jur~e 12 in the campaign fromt e R ipr.an to theJams war, 51.029, nun.ber nearly cq xal to Lee's whek my at the commene-menlt of the nion advances. Tie conodere inI 4ant of mnany offic.ers and meL. Lhd een sh--ken." CA:* Sp t.yylvatoa Nioley anid Hay, ditar ofiA-C "Efe fifDncoln, QM Grant was completeIf' ceeekmatd". That this is brue Is evidentu fron' he f..ct ta .turning 'aside .from' the dirct r'ute to' leh!mond, 'witi-Le s ;.rmy in front ,t nim, yh'en grtnyV aen: u'ced in the~ begrinorg of its* :anaign a tisO1acZ yv he march o to-ward d4e Jw <.e rivr, wnich -h orwi ir-toe diort so agpure Peters >r by sugise. 3 Tee armay ~c~sd was, however, at Be 2rsbutg ir time, End tiere h'-ld KEnt at bsy for nemouths' of the amer and winter of ,.64.and '65. A far as the Confederates were con erjed; the annals nf the stige of ~t~rsurg mIght well be:termed the onals of starvation, ekosure and misey.' True to its colors the army of Lee was starving tc dea~h. The comn miary general reported that "the my of nort bern Virginia was living it:rlly from hand to mouth." Beef sold fer 86 per pound and flour at $1;000 a barel. At one time, pleading with his government for food, Lee said that for thie days his men had been'ihi ine ofbtlnd ha not tae mat. 12 the early spring uf 1S65, af er nine montbs of persistent effort, Grant with 113 000 men well fed, clad and armed, broke through the l:nes de fendea by Lee's force (f 49,000 veter ans. hvlf s'arved, ragged and most of them shoeless. Then came the end at Appomattox, when on April 9, 1865, the remnant of t -is once magniicont army, now numbering less than 28 000 (>f which only 15.000 were carrying arms) bur rendad, and the C.nfedercy was no more. Uoon this world's stage no more pa tbetic scene, ao more heroic incident tas Ever been witnessed. With what oride the generation yet unborn shall claim decent from those who, true to tneir sense of duty, which Lee him se f said was "the sablimest word in the E3ghsh language," fought under the banner of this imauortal soldier and died on those victorious fields, or, in surviving, stood true to his colors at Appomattox. In his farewell address to his army, he said: "You will take with you the satisfaction that proceeds from -the consciousness of duty faithfully per formed: and I earnestly pray that a merciful God will extend to you His blesing and protection. . With an rg ceasing admiration of your constance and devotion to ycur country and a grateful remembrance of your kind and genorous cons!deration of myself, I bid you an E fA;ctionate farewell." Soon after the surrender he accept ed the presidency of Wasbsngton col lege at L-xington, Va. He had ref us ed large proffers of money for his ser vices -or the use of his nam- for vari ous enterprises. He declined them all, saiing he felt it his duty to live with his people and to endavor in educating the youth of the South to do all in his power to aid in the restoration of peace and harmony and the acceptance of the policy of the Sate or geueral government. Though'war in all ages and with all people arouses that wilch lis worst Ii auman nature, and though bloodiest and bitterest is interzeoine war, it seems. d! Mfult to believe even aftsr the lapae of so short a time a forty .ears that for the -part this nobl mmn ;ock in obedience to his ccnvieca: of duty Atdrew Jo1nson, then pcsl. dent ef the United States comen his indictment for treaso. Again:: this unwarranted -and Ignoble act th; great sold:er Grant arcse and sa5ed the hand f malice and persecu-ion. It seems ( quia ly incret ile to canceive that within two morths cf tbe death of Lee, which tno place on Oztobe 12, 1870, speakirg to a resolution which bad for its oj st the return of Arlington to the family of. Lee, Char les Sumner raid in his islace. in the senate: .. "Eoquent senators have already characterized the proposition and tie traitor it seeks to commem orate. -I am not disposed to speak of Gen. Lee. It is enuugh to say that 1 he stands high in the catalogue of 1 those who have imbued their hands in their country's bicod. I hand him i over to the avenging pen of history." As man and soildier "the avenging e pen of history" has already written this of Lee. In nobility of character, In moral grandeur, attested by his hu a nanity, he lived "the model for al S future times." In the annals of war lis place is with the greatest. The second section, which we will publish next week, will show where 'the aveng'rg pen of history" hat >!aced the immortal leader of the lonfederate armies, whose name will hbine in the pages of history long ifter the fanatic Sumner has been for ~otton. - T&3LLY CA3E R ASa. G Elstake in Signals Causes the Col Six persons were it jured in .a cols- - ion between a soutabund Eighth 1,venus car and a westbacd T adunty- g: ibird street car shortly after 6 r iclock Wednesday af ternoon at New t York. All were treated for their in- ? juries, whi~h consisted chiefly of cuts nficted by flying glass, in a near by a rug store, end then went h'me. The acoident was caused by a mis take In signals. Tue motorman of the T senty- third street car, who had ~lowed up for a north bound E:ghth avenue car, started his car ahead, thinking the E:guth avanue tracks - were c'ear. Just at that moment the south bound E ghth avenue car came rolling aloog. The motormnan cf the Twenty-third street car, Jihn Streff. of N ). 442 West Tawenty-ninth street, ~riod to stop his ca~r, but it was too. late and the car hit the Eighth aye oue caL almost in the centre. Tue force of the collisiont shattered evel v d window in both cars, and derailed the Eighth avenue car, b-ut fojrunately did no greater damage. B 4h cars were well fild with piysengerS. The E ghtn avene oar was thrown in suoni a paiionl across the trrcks ' f oothe E:.hsh avenus' and the Tirenty third ~street :ines that traffic ootb wa~ys cot each lirne was blockea !'or nearlyv an hour. Tuo motormt.n: .1 the E~gmt~ avenue car was J.: - Corners, of Ni. 221 West~ Oae~ Hun cited and Forty-egrht stron Cost Of lini kcen .4d Ti e any ual rr port cf Po. O .L . Galloway, ctiA f of the b*..ea'e pC . L u i:.cu try, of tie D~ptra m-;.t of .gt : *it ure. ShQW. rh-.t-.tei P op~ a for the bure::u for the ii-c'. ye-a - ed -June 30, 19:35. a-s4I.te I o 5936, 7m.'4; of wh 198340wns - f.,r jthe-purp~sa cf nmug t.o .v.-g es of the~ e ttten b ll.wavd. R vie w izng the work of the year, D'r. G:.lio way calls special zattention to the n xo-'uction cof E~ypt-an cottof, the pistachio nut, arnd many. crther new ~ and useful food and fio:s plants and ~ orodu~citou of the cit rage, and new haroy orange that -wiir rw and bear -ruit frem 300 to. 400 milrs north of t the presen't crandg t~ n' Florida. kyroac aca~ k-ewarded. A dispatch :fromn Pittsburg says Captain M~ark CJstO, of the fishing schooner Alberta and his crew of six rcen who on January 14, in a . fler-~e gale rescued the crew of 42 and 104. passerogers fr'om the Clyde Liner Cher okee were Tnrsday made benefieta ries of'tthe Carnegie Hero Fund, for their heroism. Besides medals to the captain and crew a sum aggregating $9,500 is awarded. HE TALKED OUT. A Colored Preacher Praises Gen. Wheeler in a Serman. SRVERLY CRITICJZE D Booker Washington, Whom lie S-yles the Arch Enemy of All American Progre4s and Vilest Strife Breeder Between the Races on ihe Continent. A dispatch to the Atlanta .Trirnal from Macon, Ga., says that the Bev. J.. G. R~bInson, D. D., colored, Paz to of the Afr:can Methodist Chumch in that city on the. Sunday after General Wheeler died paid a glowing tribute to tiat old Confederate hero and vetVran andseverly criticised Bucker T. Wash Ington. While he was talking many o! is tongregaticn forgot them.:eves anid applauded his u=ter.nces as though he was addres. i2g an. ordinary conven Lion. The re marks made by Dr. Eab nson created q Lite a sensarion, and la the toDic of general di casslon among the negroes of the city. Among other tnimgs he said: "The ation, yea, the civized world hangs Its head in mourning tr.day., God has i32led from earth's Ia:ors one cf the greatest factorstof civilization. I re er ty Gen. J,>e Wheeler, the most lishing military genius of modern jimes. Tais mighty man-tbis bravL ioldier-thas great military nero im pressed uis greatness upon the word )y his dare and bravery during the truggle of the 60's. S> couageous, et sympathetic was he that he won ne love, resmet and cunidence of very seci-0a and every racp in this ountry. His dashing miitary ex oits, he - coLqueiirg nianner in hichtbe sat in u-s saadie:and let he famous oeivary that made his lame illustrous caught the eyes of ihe world and-all nations looked on wit'a woaderment and j Aned in one oie ac.-daimiug him the most bril ant cavalryman that ever sat astride horse. "When Cuba was bleeding on ac ount of Spain's ccuel tyranny, and mr own dear ountry bad tecame sick f the .'bloody shirt,' and our two reat section-the north and the fair outh, still had a wids gap between uem, the Maine went down in the lavana harbor and the sons of Ltmerica called for reveng ; yea, their ood criei for justice, and wnen the mented McKinley called men o very section and race to coms forward nd defend American honor and man LOOd, Gen. Joe Wheeler beard the cry ad said: 'Let there be no north, nr. outh; our country must be defended,' nd left the councils of the na on's congres3 and rushed to the ont, giving not only his courage, ut his influence to wipe Spanish in rgue from the face of the earth, 'and o cement the ibards of love and p-a riotism between the blue and the ray. The story of his bravery and mili ary leadership daring the Spanish ~merican war is too ~recest for re earsal. I will not'say more. Adieu ~eneral Wheele- you nave gone up to. iet Joab, Alexander, -Napoleon, sckson, Lee, Gran',' Maceo and th illitary heroes of the ages pas:; t among them all no one will shine righter through the ages t)> come, no anie will be more gteatly revered, ne fe has left greater inspiration for bie young manhood of the world and o character will be studied more han that of yourself. Dust to dust, sbes to ashes; adieu, till we all mee; i some brignLer clime, where all na Iens will know each other batter, and nder the leadership of the Prince of asce, the Man of Calvary, Jeas Irst, we will d well in a united king om to live throughaut eternity." After paying toe above trica:te to neral Wheeler, - Riv. -R )bir:son be an to talk on the'questionis c.infroob ig- the- Ainerican pepie and inci enially roferred to. the negro qas Lon. 'He said: --- - "Weare here a part- of th's coun tys popalation; we fuooved Wash :igion during tua revolution; we foi >wed Jackson in 1812; we followed Frana and Lee bota during the -6-J', nd we followed Shafter and Wneseler uring the Spanisn-American c~nflic:; re have tried to acide the will of the tional and este legislatures during be forty ye:ars of our freedom, yet oday cur existence here andi our fu ire destiny is the hurni: g topio. in mericani politics. To say that our an'gbrought here and enslaved un er the American whize peopile, where ce could Imoiba taelr ctvlzstion was ovdential shou d not ha que:Miioned. B:10 to take us arnd thrust toe bal it in our nands while the country as yet bleediig and the two sectln rer spart was~ the greatest blunder vj committed by a ciil:zed country. : he ragro was no responsible for his t-lunder, and should not be made o suffer. Otuer blunders and mis ak's nave bred 'fade to- that ex;.nt an-the southernl heart has beam xcet-d an.d thus S~unu Carolina pro uues a Tillraa, Goorgia a Hardwick Is.ipp a Vards~man, Te'nna.ee a krak Arkansas a Jdff Davis, and xen a Morris Snephero, and i:hrse mn with elcq-:lame chiarged with fir ep The weakntseds betfore the eyes f the world... Oextensive with these ien and their sentimen:.s ha>. Boot r T. Washington ope-azed t~o the ex ernal detrimentiof my people:. The better class -of white peop'e ant to trust us; want to -help us Tey took hold of Booker T. Wass ogton and built him up; then lhe ran trth and east,- nd would bunt white xging houses to stop in, thus givir g hie southern people the thoughts that he negrn harbors in his breast: a del Ire for social eguiity. Again Wash- 1 ngton has witn one voice urged the egro to keep out of politics, and itin the next breath hob-nobbed' rit~h politicians of the.; country withI ueh deceit, adroibzness and using ;he great Influence given him by the southern white man until he has rob bad the entire race of every vistage of manhood and ir floence it once had under the leadership of Fred Doug lass ard Bishop Turner. I declare tc you that I look upon Washington as the monumental enemy, the greatest fate and vilest strife-breeder between the races that Americans have ever produed, Governor Vardaman not excepted. FIG9T ON THB DISFANSARY. The House Passes a Bid Virtuay Killing the Law. The H-use of Representatives Fri day by a vote of 63 to 47, refused , kill M', Morgan's bill which providi for op-ion between county dispensa ries and prohibition, except in .coun ties with cities of over 20,000, where a third option, that of high license, is provided. The bed rock of the Mor gan bill Is the abolition of the State dispensary. After the State dispensa ry is abolished then the counties. are to determine whether they wish cunn ty di.pensaries or prohibition, except Charleston and C:Jumbia, where tOe thi d opti(n is allowable. In the counties that are new prohibition the status is retained and they can only change to county dispensaries upon petition and ba'!ot. Tne House did absolutely nothirg Friday morning except consider the the Morgan bill, and it was within a half hour of the dinrer hour when the v. te was takeniwhich indicated that ;he House wants to abolis the State dispensary and adopt some other plan. The vote on the Morgan bill was the largest that has been record ed thus far this session. Every mem. ner's view went on record with the exception of two. The roll-call was taken up at 1.2) o'clook. Taere waA a bush over tae entire House. Every vote was closely watched and many kept tab. The motion was to strik. out the enacting words and on this the vote stood: 7ea-To kill the Morgan bill. Nays-For the Morgan bill. Yeas-Hon. X L. Smith, Speaker, Boyd, Brantley, Bruce, Cllison, Clif. too, Cloy, Culler, Deschamps, Doar, Dukes, EAting, E. J. Etheredge, Frd, Gaston, Gause. Graham, D. L G 'een, Flarrellson, Higgins, Hutto, Irby, K-enan, Kirvan. LsFitte, Laney. Ls ter, McColl, McFadIn, T 3. Maul iin, Miller, Morrison, N.nce, Pirker, P.ttman, Pjiock, Pyatt. Eswlinson, Richards, Riley, Stoll, Tolie, J. X Walker. J. B. Watson, Webb, What Ley, Yeldell-47. Nays-Akdrey, Arnold, Ashley, Balleutime, Banks, Boss, Beamgaard, Bradham, Bries, Browning, Cotiran, Dabbs, Davis, D&Vare, Earhardt, El wards, Fishburne, Foster, kraser, Fros, Gasque, T. P. Gebaon, W. J Gibson, Gray, W. MED Green, Hall, Hamel, Hamlin, Harrison, Hariey, Haskell, Hemphill, Heyward, Ker i'aw, L3wson, Lofton, Lamax. Lyon, oMaster, Massey, Laban Mauldin. XMorgan, Nash, Nezbit, Nxaolson, 0 .zs, Patterson, Paston, Reaves, &aker, Sanders, Say-, Sueldon,Sink ipr, Strong, Taylor, Tribler, Turner, VaknderHorst, Verner, hi. W. Walker, 'Hhaley, Wimberly-63. Pairs-D. 0. He-bert.adi Selles, McCants and 3- E. Herbert. Gylei anad Spivey, Littie and Anderson, Faust and Seabrook, Glover and Col xact. The ~tirst named were against ::he Morgan bill, and the last named in paris favored the Morgan bill. Tuere are only two members, Miessrs Brant and L. B Ehberedge, who did not record their vote on this EAKE YGU.a SUgPLIES. All Farmers Shoula Diversity Their Crop. This Year. A writer in the Raleigh Progressive Farther says: "The article by President Harvie Iordan on diversification of crops is aot only timely, but so clear that even rdue'most Ignorant cannoi fail to un- 1 derstand it. Nb usa to appal to : the farmars to lessen cotton acre age andi there by cartail production.1 Tnis has been tried too often-nlota. . oly in the year 1904, when the agri-a cultural paper ana evqry writer in the auth appealed to the former to re duce -acreage, with whab cefct we< .-ve seen. .- Many farmers planted I cotton ti -the exclasslon of all other atops. The year 1905 found them en tirely witnout supls, except such as tsieir credit bring. ' If anyone thinks they are now reany to make tne same blanders he La not acquin~fted .with very many of Gaem. Tene farmer-gocs to his meet Iqg or r'eadsi the -aupeal of President Joirdar~ln The Progresive Farmer; be oes home'and resols to reduce his 2) acres to 15 acres. ~But later, he :amembers that 3on.n wants to go t. ,chool next year, so he puss in three cres for Joha; he has beenpromising Sarah to get some naw fureiture, s , ne pume In three acres for that. There is a good cut in the corner of the fiela of four acree, so he piants that to par expenses. Thus he reduces his crop five acres and increases it ten acres. "No, sir; the only -power trial can 4horten the cotton croep Is the L ird. So, now, let every Infhiential person la every comnmunity take up President Iordzn's p'.Ocla~matio and insit upon every farmer who plants 'cotton to drat arrange t-o raise an abundance 'f home supplies. Tnils will solve the ~ problem. "With plenty of corn, wheat, oats, )&con, garden vegeta~ble, poultry, 'iggs, beef, mltk, and hutter, and fruit at hand, with plenrty of roughage ano ,iture, cotton caa'.i.hurn mne South. But if you attempt to raise cotton to ges mooey r~o buy the?.e necessaries, your naoae Is mlud. Try it and be. sonvinced." a A Bea Preacher. A dispatCh from Bamberg to The State says T.-.J. Sandifer, a Bsptist minister wao lived here, but served nrurches in the lower part of th-. i aounty, was at a onmgregational meer I og of the Baptist caurch held here ast Sunday excluded from men~bar hip in'the church on account of im-: fibial and un Christian condu-et. He : efr here some weeks ago -and we-it town near Walterb->ro, but iit Is under t stood he left there last week for parts ~ meunown. A STRANGE CASE. A Woman in Paris Charged With Killing Tiite Children SMOTHERED TREK Uttle Evidenee Against Her. The C-k% cuamstances Are Identical in Es& Instance. Her Nethod of Ef fecting Deathis Shreaded in Mystery. A dispac'i from Paris says on of the SUaigesr cirnIn=1 esse onmoode in France was brought to trial MIW day morning. The defendant liegg woman. Jeanne Weber, 35-yes-old, who is charged with killing hree children and attempting the murder of the fourth all within the spaceof five weeks. The ci rnmatannoM ande which the children were killedm aso nysterious, however, that the eate ushment of the guilt of the woman may b - impossible. In each Instance whe the -death ccurred the same circumstanceswaMs noted. The woman was found holding in the arms the corpse of achildumder swo years of age, who but a few mo ments bef-re had been zugbing and ilaying. Ago signs of violence ~wee observed except that the faces of the victims were contorted. Auopsies showed no tracesof poIs oning and the deaths were thoughtito oe accidental until the woman wse round with the fturth chid .: bni arms, which was saved from anoos. Ion. The other cases were ricalled and the woman was airasted, charged mith child murder. The defendant stoifdly protests her Innocense. Speq :allsts who examined the woman fal to find any trace of Inssnity. PAULIBIs #&8StJB. Is Said to be a Pazzie to the Kansa City Poioe. A dispatch from Em3As City to the Columbia State saysfearing that plans are being laid to hide or spirit away Paulin Webster, the chief 4f police Taursday detaile. a plali clothes man to watchconstantly unUti further notice the house of MrsHelen Washmurn,jwhere Pauline i itaying. Anna Taggart, police matroa, went to see Pauline Thursday and found ohat she wanted to move. Mrs. Tag zarb saw that all bills were settled nd called a oarrIaQe. Mrs. Wash. ourn's husband and another man in 4rferred and objected to Pauline eaving. A room had been engaged at 1224 L)Cust street foi' Miss Webster -and rhursiay night a cab was sent to the Washburn home and Miss Webster igain prepared to leave. A second aime suie was left in the house after she persons occompaning the carriage nsd been forcibly placed on the onte side. The police are inveistigating. 3argt. Snielby detailed two patrolmen. o the Washburn house-to find out if shie Webster woman's life, was in dan rer. The patrolman were refusad ad nittance. John R. Webster of Cowpens, S. C., vad arrive~d Wednesday, has identift d Pauline Webster as his sister. He ifered her $1,000 for her Interests in - r ffaey, 8. C., property. .She did not scept tane cffar, having reoeived from Ilarmmof lawyers inGaffney a telegram dvising her to hold nor prooerty-and. tating that It was worth at. lest 110,000. The brother hia departed, uppo~sedly for home. Miss Webster now wears a nest lress and although she. has best. Ill or several days looks much bet-rer in ter apparel of her sex than-she. did iressed as a man. Mrs. Tigart has - relved money from South Carolina ith which to purchase necessities for ier. The police are pouled. They eem uncertain as to what should be one. The situation is further compli sated by the news that Miss Weoster 1as another wife in Springfield, Mo. Stands by tine souta. Both President Bxmatelt- and speaker Cannon have set the seal of heir disapproval In lain terms upon ?he proposition of Congcressman Keif ir, of Oaio, and Crumpacker, of .In liana, to can down representatin of i~suthern states in congress for dis. :ranc:.Iising ignorant negroes. Ke.fer ,alled at tae whie house to talk with sne president on the subj 301 and it is baid no received an Arctic chili. On i former visIt for the same purpose the aresidena Is reported so heave said - to Kelfer that he would never approve wny such measure, but would use his ofluence against it. Both Keifer and Jrampacker ihave been told by Speak.. ~r Cannon that he was in favor of' a aure ballot and would never alloas ny ill to es;me up In the house of repre ~entatives Wnitch seeks to punish sates for providing for a purer boilot. Jannlon tcdsy told a L->uela.a repro. entative snat he was looaineg out for hie measure of Keifer and Crumpack r, and would prom'ptly rorottle themn S the flrst appa-a~oe. CJopaay Emauceaoa diiled. Taq compulsary ednoatioa bill-very early passed She house last: week. )ia the m~tlon to trike out theacnt. ep' woras snere was one vote :mojor ry in favor of the bill. Subrquently n the motio'n to Indefinitely post. 'ne, the n~otion was oarciedby three eajrity. L ter it developed athat 7j50i tees from the hall who favored he blei would have saved It. But he motion to postpone indefnitely ras clinched and the bill has belft imposed of fiaeally. The steength of he advocates of the bill surprised a -eat many people and with a little tore pushing It would have passed. t was singular that although the all presiden S have rrged the -iote ro.m Andersonl, Greenville and Spar-. anburg countieS . the bill. On he oa'eer hand tiLken delegation oted for the bil -Spartanhurg gave un me ta the bill.