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M1AN-NI G . WED-NIESDAY. APRIL Ile 19061O ~ VOL.G. S.X. LYON IN REPLY Cays That-Tiliman is Trying to Belittle Committee. Will RN TIGATE i. The Dispensary is So Corrupt That Even ib lvO;stigaiig Committee Are Suspected, Says Mr. Ly-n, Who Fi' es Some Ver Hiot Shot a! ihe Senator. Sr.nator Tillman in a manifest ,which he gave to the pucli1c :ec:.ntly attacked a great may peoil- and t1iials, not even 4aring the mem bers of the committee appointed to ir vestigate thea ffEArs ci the State d's pensary. Ttat referens hts b-e: taken by Mr. J. F:aser L;on is at (ff3rt to di credit the invtaa:iug committee and in a letter to the a' torney for a liqor itme Mr. Lo. tts vxpresed birsclf ruter forcib In regard to Set ateI T mar's state ment. The letter of Mr. L - has been se Curec for rubo:- .:. ..r scme ci fort on the paz r- I . , butthe attorney to wi.. r.. it ;s LQco med _that his name be A-ept out . i* . . lowing is tte commu..icale: Abbeville, S. C., April 3. 19C6. My Dear Si:: Your t o liters of recent ca..e were rtceived b> m upor my return home tetrday a!teLr a absents cf about tr.o weeks. Yi.u wiill, th-,ieftcre, LL !-r6 ut% wh)cL have not hAd an eai -.. W i.e. it is tiue that I do L-ot . I the-e i any good reason Lr witait. g psa ment of the cia:m of the C ek & Bernheimer c:impany of ow Yurk still, as I have saia beretofore, I will not give my cor.ent to tLe pa, mcnm of this or any ot-r dispensary claim now held up untl tze matter of suc; pal ment is di cuzsed at a public ses sion of our committee. 1 feel sure that 3cu will appreciate my pcsition in ttis matter, upctal y I since the in itcion of Se!: .or Til.: man's "Address to the P.Gple o! Souto Carolina," in whih Le bay-: "I. there ro; pl nay of crportumit fcr more grait aL d accret to sactione in regard to the tetzlemen of toch+ accountsi? Ril no6 ih, legihtve: ccmmittee be tu: pected cf ec:uptioL if it does not get in the midde c f tut : road and stay thtrt-.nmt is, stand b : the law, obey it iet.f ana rt quir. otbers to do t ? 'L y to muc de 4 la) ?"9 You see this additiora :eason foi t my position. It, is u .-Lut&'e fc your cuents to zae gs wt. c an mnatitution wu;se. n. coe ..ua cva invesuigate wit.ouL havnag itsgg ted or insinuatea th.at ite may be a grafter, or at least has a go. d c ppor tunity to steal. Whije I regsed thist reference to our ccmmit:e as ot~Ay r shrewd attempt t-; sheke public conf -dence in us andi imtet to eb~t uct auc interfere with t u: worik, wh:ch is ivi dently becomiing dikta .trel to mny e' of those wno are mie ;ocatAly neddien to the dispecsa.ry, suaj w-.a I see Lr*' proneness to crlim is . us I wzu to te especially cari i ot u ;-ut nmseif i a position that c >uio, wia even a col-c of justice be crlt:ci ed. . I.nycuriletter of Ma-ce ?6 ou p-ac- I tically asked the questiue, ista sin.s cerely, "vyny so numi aa; ? ' I o no fact that I have tearnca :n tne d.i penseary investigation thst I shall in tent:onal withhold 7rom the public Smetimes I do not tirk it best for the si c.:ess of the mnvesagation to re veal facts and suspicions as soon as they come to. me or to dhclose (mU! plans for the future, so in tnis c-ass I will answer your gaesrion only so I far as I thick the Ipesert status the investigation justits. We are trying to getithe fac s in re gard to several su-picious mattets which we think sihouice n rv~so-gn ed. Among them :s t e st temienu cs recali it, oif 8 naor Tiiiaan ta;at t returned cartamn re se to a dis il ery. We wish to ind tu~e c:edits the books of the dibLiery suowi:: the amut of r b3.tss whicia S.aor Tilman said -e re;.urned as a g fa fr the gra itude lhe fdAt to tne qu . concerned crediting tne S:ate of Sac Caroina. Beie tiis titers ull cam to my ears a rumor-tne source of , which 1 do not nl ;w rocall, but a ru mor which I tuimk should is look d, int-tnat Seoator Tui1an when g ov I ernr was pr:.ans waa. a 91.L:Oya liquor couc,:rn. It may be t~nat re ce.pts may be suoa ior tuhe reb~cs which may have teen returan and i also for paymentt 0. this piano whic' i may hiave been reciied as was ru mored to be the Sustttor expla'a tion in the case of tue Towill horse matter. Still we do not know the facts in regard to LuCse tcings and thiin's the legislature isteud2d for us to in( vestigate such LrarsacAiJns as these as well as other v..u tad unzanaiu matters to whica. commaa rumor gives cumn~fcy. We must do curi duty in lootag luit ta&.s things andb you may jusge ey tae aebe.ampl that we must ha~ve ni.cai time in do ing it. Furthermflre as is not yi pedient and I aci n' t 69p970'e the committee hei 3 p;..b e s. sion every time siu r Com and I have done ul we ca iu e x ining eac-h c air I reegtuiz! fact that we may be ens: g & * o'-the-wisp" in ai: of iuse and that your clin s ma a tir1 tue meanti'e a: t. tit r our e forts be sua a cae o.r .r-, it s-'m certalJ tt a. in sii '-vens 'ur0 mittee n.usI wai thiro ;gn t o mire. The opm"n ii topevj en c the dispen-ary aQs by a a beeder of so muuJ cor:ue hat ne on can touca it itou O'.'- -.I iin, sOme one beingZ aeu - U . the case of our comitLe, tite insinu tion oif this suspicica is ast up on us in the public Prifls y one who, iabove al, nrthers, may kuo wof the innermost at Ta'rs rf the dispensary as risacted by its - , tbers s'nce its inception I trust, boever. tiat we w'll in aly empg'r from our di.At.asteful task -eriting the c.or idence ard approva of all onest ci'zeos. B liVing tha th-is w il s amifaccrily -xplain our desy. I nn - Y u-s vwry truly, J. Frswr Lyon. MLY BE CUT uFF. SOUTHS DISADVANTAGE AS TO RWRAL ROWTES. arge Negro Population recreases the Amoant of Mail Handled on Fcme Routes. 1he Washingt on corresponder~t Cf vhe State writes his paper from Washiogton in regard to rural routes under recent date that it Is p-obab) some of them may be cau off. I. be uacves the people in te c:untry to patroniz them. In regard to thl natter the State's correspondeno a: Some of the C ffiblals of the post fi -e department some time ago were omewhb.t nettled at the rE po.s pub isiied in this correspondence that .:ey intend.td to discontinue rura r,e delivery routes which did no, andle as much as 2 000 pieces o' mail a irocntn. They were nettled es p cally bccaugo in that same letor I ,lied attenton to the fact that the iperations ot this rule would rff-or routes prircipally in the s .u-h, whrn the rumber of negroes on the r'utes who do rot use mails very m ch :as.:d the average number t.f nei tieces to be so low. Tne number o ;:ec s ha;dled con the routes in S- uti ,arolna, according to the figures of he department. averaged 2 400 ;)i, ce . month. In N -rth Carolina the av ra;re is onay 1.930. So stirred up .bcut this report were the cilicias 1at they issued a special statement o the papers of North Carolina, where porr-ions t f the story were cop d, with a view of modifying the im Rpresentative Fnley, who Is a ember of the hcuse committee or: )Cst fifse and postroad, has just re ,ived a letter from Mr. I.Graw ourth assistant postmaster general. *oairming that riport. He gives a ,oCifl insztnce of the cutting, cif ow outes or the dispositiou to do it -Ycu will otserve," says the letter. ftEr giving the numbsr of ma!] .icces iiandkd on rcutes in York cunty. "that the amouat of mat! andid on these routes Is far bclo v t he average per route, 3,600 per nonth, and belcw the minimum V-hich It is thought a route saculo .a&nde ie- mcnth 2,000 pieces." The letter norides Mr. Fnley tia". wo more routes in Cherokee c u it: ill be eotablisled, conpletiug t i oun.y 4ystem or that c, un-.y. Mr. )araw says CA cerning Caerokee CuLIty that the noocrds show tar, uring the quarter ending Decoember 1, 1905, as c.moa~red with that end g June 3C, 1905, there has been s ;~tenial iLCrease in the amtu-ot eti nail handled on the rural routes of , serokee. It was in view of tois im-e ~rvd conditlo.1 that the t wo ne w| ues were established and the coun 7 system pertected. Inspections ha~ve been ord:-red cf he routes in Y:irk c -unty and tat umor of pieces of m~rl weli be in ed. The depart neut states tOl Ir. Fiey that tue of j Co of this is| s "ascertain the cause "for the ad 'erse conditions on these- routee, andc, : p~iss b e, incre..sig theIr pitrr 'u g." Pen~ding reports from thes utes the department will hold up ther applications for other routes in 'ork county. Moral: Tue country people of Y irki nd people every where on rural f ree oelivery routes had best get busy ann ae newspapers and write letters to bks or send out their bills through he malls. RICHES TO POVf.ETY. Fj'mir Millionaire Pegging for Food in Pittsbuirg, Pa. Charks Campbell, formerly a ealthy oil operator, walked into the hst End police station recently at a~ttburg, Ps.., and asked for food and heler, as he was starvir~g. Be was ne of the first men In the 0.1 Creek jeld and built the first tank in Titus lle. He made a vast fortune, and uring tue days when "Coal 0:. rohny" was sowing hundred-dollar 's along his pathway ws an Intl nate friend o' his. The forma ibfi-ci ihe Stanadard 0:1 comoany was his odong as tried to fliht and thei: o regain his losses by specu ation. I is now in poverty. Tue po-lice ok him in, gave him food, and .-n ~ecured~ a job for him as a wated.m'n ie is sevenity years cld, but bale and ~earty, and insists that his luck has The old man told a story that was Lntrestin'g and pathetic. fEs was a er r la the 0:1 Creek district when tbe oil boom started ti ere.. He -had ec od farm. but did not sell cuts In-. td ne dril~ed nimoest anid was re. w-rd d with several good wells cry ting be to.utved seeme i to turn u', money. H a ncarried and built' wat was then one of the most miag a ri:nt mansions in the oil country. ue sudden acquisition of wealth did not turn his head, and he kept right on at the work until his for une munted well up towaird the millionl mark. 'iTnen came a streak of misf 'rtune. i liouse burned and he lost almost s m0.000 in that. Several leases prned out badly. A pa: tner proved unfitiful anid then the Standard cae. He j .ied the ii.:ht against the Rockefel:ers and soon found that he had been deserted by many of those. who had been loudest in their denuin.I ciation of the new regime. He was losing money fast, and tIe upeculated to recover and lost it all. No R he is pndeant. on oharity. GAVE UP IFE Who Confessed She Loved Another From Childhood. tPATHIIIC R M''T C [a the Life et Rev. W. F. Cady Crops Out in the Story of His Di v jrce Suit Against His Wife at Bridge port Cocn. R cently. At N swburg, N. Y., on: night last week the scattered threads in the romarcB of May Foster Nichols and Rev.. William J. Cady were finally tawn together by the wife's story of ..ie strange circumstances that led te the divorce which was granted to tb minister a few da3s before a Bri gep,.rt, Conn., by Judge G.-gei >f the Sureticr Court. 1 is a story of baighted lkve whieb )n the part of the broken hearted >lergyman at least, closely parallels ..at other story of love and sacrifiae a whici J~on R iskin, dtcovering uhat his jourg and be;utiful wif v-d and was belo.ved of Sir Jahn Aillais, iut of tthe noblenes of his ae L"!y gave ter up to his bosom riend Tne Rev. William J. Cdy, blInded 1 his uwr gr at love for.Mty Faster Ni.ho", lex:ntd from her lips six onths aftEr their marrIageo, and 4ben 9;: belie jtd she was on her est& bed, s, 1e asserts, that her mart was in the poseston of anoth :r. S.unned, bur,, till loving her, the >rcke.- Leart-:d nan e.:.Ied his lip. mi, her miod freed of the grea iurden w~ic.. it had carried far six nonths, the xifes he-.lta mended, he ,ently and iovingly turned her from im and resigned her to the swee! ie-rt of ber childhood. Unlike R iakin. however, he still earned f ar her rEffacti.n,. and by all ne artid3os,. of tie ardent wooer, K(ught to avspken In his wife the af cucn which she had avowed belong :d to aruother. To this extent he suc eeded, that tae wife once mre r used to hli home, and on her part ought to kindle the titme which mculd v eld her heart to his. B rt her thoughts weut constantly ock to the swee theart of old, ano adly and sarsowfully t"ey parted. Sl'e end came in toe Superior Court t Bridgeport. The minister was ranted a decree of divorce on the oand of desertion. The same day Lia dream of love shattered, his con rezation rena In tmain by the rave uion of his dom si, tragedy, his iez num'> within him, he departed or Ktnsas Cit?, where am.d new cene's he has taken a new charge in 'e hope of b~nting cut the past, ira CaCdy, free now to place her af eutions where they hive constantly vanderc a ime ct:11doood has return 3 o :he h~me of her mother inl New ~urg where liv.s Dr. E. IF. Brooks, lie nasn to whose li ve the minister ~as reo:gned his .Lfe. Rev. M r. Cady's last wor's on lerv g ror thc Wo were of affection anc 'rgiv ness for the w oman who was is wife. 'After we had been mar isd s~x montns," ne said to an inti nate friend, ''my wif :was taken ill ith a severe cold, She feared sre wa going to die. Waile in this con at on sue confessed tc me that she was in love with Dr. E. F. B-ouks, of hwburg, N. Y. Toey were old and otimi ..e t:iends. I told her she was ree to go with the man she loved. >ut she remaineu with me a year eter that. Then she went to her 10trme In Nwbuirg, where she Is at yesent and the physician in question yoards at her home. I wrote ner sev ~rtl letters asking her to return, but ~hey were ignored. It ls better so. i .ave oc bitterness in my heart for wr. P-ut it was a terrible awakening KIy only nope n-n is toat I miy for fet and that she may be happy." The re m u cce ates back several ,ears. at toe beginning is the old nory of parimtal loduence guiding : e anoice of a husbhind . "E ven old 'iks msy sometims be wror-g," said' :he mother of the you'ng wife as she shook her head in recounting the story of her daughter's marriage. Tne couple w,.re u At. d on A pril 4. .90, at N awbu'g. Gad y, the son of i wesltny C,.nadmau pia:ntar, came to bNaw York several years prinr ani worked suocessi vely at. c erk and book agent before his cr~iina'.ion aq a min ,ster in the Methodist E iscopa] Dhu-d1. It was in Newbu-g, after mhat, he met M s 19ichols, whose fath r no v dead, ass dintantly rated to 'Jammtdore Va~nderbilt. He fell In tove with the girl, who was tall hand~ ome and a fa~v 'ri;e in N :wburg s: siety circles, and In toe olindness of als own love andI me tirng favor in thus eyes of Dr. El z be th N:chols, her nother the yo-ung clI rgyman fancied als aff - on w.:s r,.turned. Mrs. N caels, Ler:-cif a strict shurc .-womac, saw nothicg but ad vnt ga in toe marriage cf her daogh ter to a stalwart young member ol toe cloth, and Shu$ her daughter was madqy in love with young D:. Brooks, her pleymate of childh od she was. e~coougd toLacept the at ten:ionrs o Cay, and toe march was dally arran ged. A dtitifui daugh ter, the young girl g'~ve her consent and, onivious o:3everything else '-uZ that the dre'sm of his life was abcut to be realzad, the y' ung mimrster leo als lov le' s wife to the al ar. T~e young hu band took nis wife 0o M~ inerville, L. I , wiMr~ be wes in charge of a cauitLch, and for six months Tis happioess kn:.w no abatement. Ebnthe youn~g wife was suddenly taken ill. A heavy cold srttled on her Iung, and the husband was almost frantlie as he saw her fading away bef ore his eyes. Her mothaer attendec her during her ilbess, and she as well as the languishing patient, knew too wel that another Ilnnes tat centered in her heart. was wasting the young 1 fe away. But still not a word was -pok n, u iml finally It became nec 3Pssary tO call :n the ser v'ces of anoth !r plysic-an, wh> slently shook his 1:eid and pr inouoeed the case of the wife hopeless. TaiL . tU sbe fo.rmed her .-cs-oluzAin. C-ll:r.g to her bedsi-1e the anguisbf d hucba: d she told him wi.h what she thougbt wa; her dying )reath as be knelt beside her, her .yes turned fl oa his, t*,e s3'.rat bat blasted his hopes forever. "Will, W:ll," the minister says she cried be. .ween her stbs "I mc-,t speak and thl yo:u that I never, never loved you. [ love another. All this while, all thL. ;-m. that you have knuwn me, I've Lvid an ther. The kaeoliog man fell back; pro: ;rated by the l iw. Tnen, as thf ,hcu;.4ht of !be st.lemn nour occurred to him. :Ae steeled hi% heart and lis tened silently until the full confessi-n had been m.de, He then called his religi-n to his support, and in a vo.c: strained weak and passionless, be said: -"I forgive you. If indeed a wrong has been done, it is I who have doce it." That n!ght the paUent's condition took a turn for the bitter and within . week she was on the ro?.d to rec av ery. Bit not yet did ne spead to her of the blight which had been cast over his i.fe. NL until she had fully ri c vered did he take th- last step. Tae Jil w;.t in the same calnm passion less voice ibat he said, as he took her hand gentl): "If It be true you would better to go to tihe man yrou love." But now she faltered. See had seen nim in adversity, ueder the gr eatest lawt -at can be struck at a msn, and his strength and fortitude, Lh. g-ntle forbearance ard noble self-nc rifice, sourded a new note, and for a pear ,he remained at his side, striv ing to awaken in her heart tbe lov. for him that be still cravd by look smd act. But the old affection woulrc not die. At the end of th yeir .:h . left rim. Still he sought her by~ letter, be seeching her to return once more anc strive to find' in him the q-ialities whica w uld crown his devotioa with the love Le sought. Bt it was i vain, and, bowed in hi4 grief, the mir ster gate ber up He t ,ok a new -arge in S:-amford, Conn., and beian lire aoie and alone. He made the mistake of not in orming bis new congregation of the :>cculiar state of his domestic ties. B and by mothers with marriageable dzughters bfgt-n to trake him the mjact of thAr attentions, and at last n desperation, the harried minister made an annourc.ment from his put pit which spread c-nsternationamong ahl c;ngregation and caused aruptur. vbich ended, a few days ago, in him esigring from his ministry ahd ac p'.ing a charge in the Far West. It was but a sh-rt time ago that ,he newspapers priate the announce nent. Rev. Mr. Cady, from his pul pit declared he was a married man who for reasons over which he had no ontrol, had been fvrc-d to apply f.>r d;vorce. There follo-ved a little ter the visit o1 the wire to Bridge port, where she was served la the rainsbel with the summons in the u't. Se ma i no defence. And the scree was granted. WOMEN DIZ TOGB C HEE. inicide Of Oas Sister Followed D mise 0O' the 0 r~her. Uat.-l ten years ago, Clara and E.li a Frankford, spins~ers, taught Ger nan in the public schools of New york. Then Elna, the yeuoiger, be ame dement'd. and Clara gave up er place in the s:,hool in E .st Pifty 6Tenth s~reer, and decided to devote he rest of her life to the care of Eill ta. They moved a fe~v years ago inte he big fro;nt room of the boardihig ouse at 143 E st E ghssen street, iuaily takingr raeir meals in thi ooms. They were uncommunicitiv tbout their mersonal affairs, and otuei aard ars did not sunp 20t that E lina vas deranged. Tie sisters were stigh. a.d very gray. Oiara was seventy ears old and E:lina sixty-four. They were nearly alw.ays t gathar and sel dim went out of the house, FM srveral weeks past Clara was ill n bed with asthma and heart disease. a. servant who went to call tie siste: s oundd gas coming f o.n the ro..n: nd the door lociod. A pouicimaa orced open the door. Clara was found lead in bed and E lina we s sitting up ight in a rocking cadr before tne mrror with a rubb-r tube cmnuecee wish a gas jet, secured in her head She hass been dead several hours. C )roner shary said that evidently Clara had diedi in the night of ast ma, and that Eblina, appalled by th prospect of living alone, had on at ack of dernentia and decided to kiL~ erself. She stopped up the keyholr and all the cracks of the windows and doors with underclothing before she fastened the tube in the~ mouth. An A iaiies~ E an A traveller in Slam is eald to have di:c .vered an Adamies E ien-a town of 9.000 inhabitants witnouut a singl man. The last man who ventureo into this exclusive circle, was stuck tc death, each of the inhabitants u.:Ag a hat pin 100 times on him. The Spartanburg Journal says: ' 'We are sorry the report of this discovery is so meagre. We would like to knog how zany clubs hey have, if B~idge or. ginated there, if bargain counters at tract, and som--thic g abcut the spring openings and Eaister decorations We. have a p-etty fair ida of wehat Spa: tanbu-g wtuld te it all the wome: were transporLad far beyond the deep blue sea. .rt would be no E len. Baznd President Murdered. 3. Burdette, president of the E2if: ula NatIonal band, mercant and one of the most promInent and wealtay men of the Creek nation, Muskogee, I. T., was shot and killed lasi, Taurs day night at lhis bomne mn Eufauia. HUis body was found Wednesday rno:ning about 6 o': lock near a well in the rear of his residence, a portion of hio. bead being torn away by a blet wou:nd. Ther a was no one at the placa excep Mr. Borderte and he had b.een cear many uou s before the booy was dio coveted. Mr. Burdette carried life imurance policies aggregating $250, 000. GOOD ADVICE. Washington Urges His Ice to Attain Good Citizenship. TE SOUH IS PLACE For the Negroes, tie Says at the Tus keegee Institute Celebration, Which Came Off Last Week, Some Prominent Men Were Pre sent and Spoke. Owing to the delay in the Ogden special train, the beginning of the ex ercis3s in connection with the celebra tion of the 25 a-niver3ary of the Tus kegee Normal and Industrial institu te at Tuskegee, Ala , was dalayed until Wednesday night. Among the promineot men who ame in on the Ogden train were: Sec retary of Wir William H. Taft. R b srt C Ogden, president of the board of trustees; Charles W. Eliot, presi lent cf Htrvnrd universicy; Dr. L? man At-b itt and Os vald G-arrison Val ard. editor of the .New York Eening Post-. The party was greeted by 1 500 -stu :ents and alumni and members of the faculty and board of trustees. Among the prominen' institutioni of learning that are represented bere ire Hirv ird, Yale, J.)hns Hovkins aniversity, Uaiversity of Minnesota. O3erlin colk-ge. Massachusetts Insti tute of Technulogy, Unitersity of Ala >ama, Alaoama Polytechnic institutz, Roward univerbity, Fisk uaiversity, B irnard college and the Armstrong anual Training sahool of Washing .ca. D 0. PrIocipal B)oker T. Washington de Jivaed an address of welcome. He ad in part: " 'A ad Jesus said, I will m iki you fsheTS of men.' "In the spirit of these words, the ouncdation of this institution was l3i, .n 1881, through a gift from the Sut f Alaoama. "Far 25 years then the Taskeg cTrmal And Iadustrial tisitute. bi een fishing for men. Waat of it and vth what results? In our qiest wc tava used land, houses, barns, nenner es, shops, lbundries, kitchen, class oom, the Bible, arithmetic, the saw he trowel, the plow, and monev-all aese and more we have used in our ffort to fish for men. "Primarily, I believe that my race as found itself, so far as its perma ent location is concerned. When this nstitution began its mission there gas uncertainty, lack of faith, hault ng and speculation as to our perma lent abiding place. As t) what de ree the Influence of the Tuskeg-=e in titute has contributed to thus I will. enture no assertion, except to state ~hat, so far I can interpret the pres nt ambitions and the activities of my eope, the main body of the race has lecided to remain permanently in the :art of the South, in or near what is1 :own as the black belt." Principal Washingt:-n referred to the-1 ~rowth of the sc'eool from its humble eginning ini one smal building, with 0 pupils, to it-s present enrallment of K00 stucdents, and said that the chool had sent out into the world 6. 00 men and women who are now >rgely engaged as workers in agricul ure and mechanics, housekeepers ann eachers oi both industrirl anl! Lademic branches throughout tfle outh as well as in Africa and one or wo foreign countries. After ailuding to the various "mo en-.ous transitions" through whicvs te American negro nas passed. begin ing with the primitive civil'zu~tion vhich he had created in Africa his troduction into the wholly new con ition of American slav.ry, and his ew life of freedom and citzenship, ri'ctpal Washington said: "Tne negro race in this country has ~utee d upon a wholly new period-a ~eriod in whichs cmphasis is being laced upon a side of 1:fe not covered n any of the previous experiences of y people. I mean the era of free, nependent and intelligent ec mnomic nd industrial development, accom anied with a growing sense of the or th and value of their own qaali ies and a d~sire to mrke the must of hem, under God, for their good and he welfare of the world. Having to ~ome ex ent become conscious of the reat task imposed on them as a p~eo le they are seeking to lay the fcuad ~tion deep in the essentials of life. But in this task they often meet many and sometimes needless obstacles. "If this country is to continue to e a republic its task will never be .:mrplnted as long as 7,000,000 or 8, )0, 000 of its peops are in a large de rree regarded as aliens and are with out vi~ce and interest in the welfare y the government Such a curse will not merely intlict great injustice upon uese millions of people, but the na on will pay the price of finding the ~enus and form of its government harged, not perhaps in name, but ertainly in reality, and becxuse of this, the world will say that free gay ramient is a failure. "As I con~seive it, a part of the mis sion of th's sctiool Is expressed in the p~roe an-i d stermination to asslst the rac: In layinlg such a gradual and oerm-.ent foundation in right living, hrough the accumulaionl of property ndutry, thrift,.ekll, ediuc~mtion of al zharacter, moral anid religi'-us habits and all that which means our u- efu - ass to th' cimunity in whicg we bie, that natura~lly, logically, symn o.tleicaly we shall make ouiselves row into the full and rig-ntful enj)y nent and inteliigenn use of the pnvi legs and rewtrd of c'siz'nship. "Any less ambition would be un worthy of us, unworthy of you. Any s amultiin would make us perperu al drags, instead of potontial forces for good." - Mr. Ogden delivered a strong ad dress on the sign'fic:nce of the cele ation. He spaoke on the fact that Tuskegee institute stood out as "the unmatchied exampie of the rossibili ties of an institution entirely conhroll ed in Its diversfied academic and in dustrial curriculum, producive indus tries, executive organ'z -tIon and bus iness affairs by a faculty and corps of managers composed entirely of men an'd women of Africsn descent." President F.lot of Harvard spoke An 'What Uplift a Race and Wnat Holds it Down." FIFfY-OliD KILLED. BUILDING COLLAPSE ) WHILE THE GURST DANCED. Many Killed and inj ared in Accident raid to b) Due to Care lessness. At Nigoli, Germany, fiftS-five per sons were killed and 100 dangerously injured Thursday by the collapse of the hotel Z im HirEc'en. The build ing had not been fully completed and the catastrophe Is attributed to the non ob.;ervance cf proper precautions. Tne roof uf the buiide g had been only put in place Wednesday morning. an event which in accordance with Gar man custom, was celebrated by a feast. Tae guests were reported to oav3 engaged in a dance, and tiaLi, to gether with the large number of per ons on the fi or. probably was what caused the building to collapse. There were 200 persons present, most of whom were buried in the ruins. At 10 o'clock Thursday night 55 dead bodies bad been recovered and 100 inj ired were taken from she ruins, many of them in a serious condition Twenty persons still are. missing and probably are dead. The acc.dent is attri'ated to care ssness on the part of those wno w.:re making repairs on the buljing, which had been razsed live feet from the grou: d in order to give more space for rhe lower story. The work began early in the morning and was suo-osed to have been finisied at noon. Tarl iesp er of the hotel invited the wik-aen and a large nu-mbar of tow.abp -i to a grand din"ter. The e .a piny azs.mbled in tsi mV dile banquet room an1 ws d . kn the healta of tVe bu.-Jdr awl i .ndlor. when sudde:ly a a tu wa.s :.ard above. A sc;or-t of aose iun ie bar buet room jumoed from the windows :nd oo-s In i m- to esm;pe, when the 4 - U - m 'W i a Crash. T j.a L .ai Pau.,i _y night presents 1.n ird's riba.;ie scene of horror and "!f. Taere is hardly a family bu aas lost one or more members. The rilagers and people of the surround ug cnntry are inquiring for their re atives. The dead are laid oat in the iown hall adjacent to the scene of the lisaster. The work of rescue is stiVl proceeding, but the full losses will not )e known until Fri-ay. LOdSS EI LIFB. L Daring Balloon Ascent E ,ds in th leionaut's D -ath. Dath in the watera of B w cree& long the south shore of L~ og I .lsed setweenl yones Beach arr A misyvill, iT Y., ended the daring bat o in se -ut V'ednes-lay afternoon of P1ul N ~e p et, a French sculpt -r of n te and an ,thusiastic amatr it aeronaut. Tn. 3ndy was found Taur-day nigh o ~he muddy shore of tie creek wh2ere ~he tide had left it and not a grea listance fro!hiwhere Nocquet's collap t'd ballo3 ,wardLoovered late W.d iesday; r~ by the life savers of outs beacbr' -y; Tee dido I..tbe body put an nd to a sei i :~uca had Irc'uied cean, land ~arshes. Nocquet p'rently la dd 53fely with his car mnd in tighting his way out of the neadows in t be darkness bad trav arsed but two fif'ths of the distance from rones beach to Amityviile, several niles, when he died. He had crossed 3 or14 d iferent islands and had swum r waded through the runlets between hlem. Tnat Nocqu.et traveled as far as be lid is considered wonderful. He must cave struggeld the last mi-e of the wo he traveled under fearful dif~aul ~ies. He essayed a trip that few men 3iuld patssibly have completed in day ighat. The valve c mtrolling the ropes ~f the balloon when found indicatec ,iat the descent had been started by focquet's action and that must have een gradual. When N.acquet started on his flight Wednesday afternon thze wind was >lowing out to sea. This meant that mless he should come down after be Lug up but a short time-having tarted from the Bronx--he would urely be blown across Long Island and out over the ocean. A life preserv r was strapped inside the basket ani he word to let go was given. The balloon in its flight passed over amaica, Garden City, Westbury, Jer cho and Cold Spring Harbor, then arkness came and shut it from iew. Capt. George Smith of Amity rille located the body Wednesday ight on the muddy bank of Bass' reek ahd made it fast to a stake. It viil be tak n to Amityvilla Thursday after having been viewed by the coro er. Tracks about the balloon when found seemed to indicate that the aer ynnaut had survived his flight. At bout the tlini6,.the balloon was first discovered by tht'beach patrol, cries were heard cut oni the bay In the di ection of the islands by Henry Purdy, who lives In a house boat. He suppos d them calls wer.gthose of night shooters or fishermelihouting to each ther, and paid no gioat attiantion to hem. Shot His Fzr.i At H: z lhurst, Ga., o4.4ast 3We etcday, Uieveland Crawfgtd, a young 'an of that place, about tswenty years f age, shot and seriously Wounded his father. J. M. Crawford, at the- ame . ime a':cidentally~ wdunding his little rother with a stray tullet, the child eing struck in the abdomen, and- the father receiving several bullets. Tlfe oung man who ~dtd the shooting laims that his father was beating his~ other, that h'e attempted to inter fere, and that the elder Crawford as saulted him with a chair, compelling im t~o defend himself with the revol BIG COB12 CROP. WH IT A MaRLSORO FARME12 RAISED ON OE OR0E. Facts A b )ut the Great Crop of Capt I rake, Which Broke the World's Record. In answer to a request from Dr. W L. Davenport, of Washington C unty Va., to give the largest authenth yield of corn for rxe acre of ground, the kind of soil, its propenties, ferti liziig, variety of corn planted, dip ance between rows, and plants in the rows, cultivation, etc; in fact, all the essential details of production, thE American Agricullturist says: The la g st corn cron yet recorded was gr-wn by Capt. Z J. Drake of Marlboro county, S. C. Nft only is this the Lsrgest grown In America, but in the world. In one season and on a single acre, he produced 255 bushels and thus secured American AgrIculturallst's priz3 of $500, be 31des several other awards offered locally by fertilizir and other manu fact-rring comvanes. The details a to how this remarkable crop was pro duced were published in American Agriculturalist in March, 1890. The following facts regarding it will be of Interest to others: The land on which the cop was grown was originally a sandy soil on which formerly grew oak, hickory and long leaf pine. Three years pre vious, this particular acre was espec ially fertiliz -d and prepared b Capt. D.-ake and planted with Peterkir cotton from which he harvebted 917 Dou'nds of lint cotton. The land was srcially prepared f r the corn con tst. In February he hauled upon it 50 one-horse wegon loads of stable waure, at the same time broadcast ing 500 pounds each of guano, cotton seed real and kainit, all of which were plo 'ed under. Following the ploW 600 bushels of whole cottonseed were distributed in the furro w af ter the plow. Immedi ately foll.wing this a sub-oil plow turned . tLis 12 inches deep. The rif d was laid off alternately 6 feet ne; seen two plo ws, then 8 feet, then 6 :,t etc. One bushel of the con -non ground variety of the Southero W Iite D3nt corn, of a strain improv -1 by 23 years' selrction, was planted March 2. Five or six kernels were ciropped in the row to each foot. The crop was still further fertil nid during the growing season as f.llows: April 20, 200 pounds each guano, cot tonseed meal, kainit, acid phosphate and animal bone sown early in the furrows: May 15, 300- pounds nitrate soda in rows and worked in with har row; May 25, 200 pounds guano were a.pplied in three furrows run in the wife rowE; Juce 8, 500 pounds of an q Ial m x:ure of guano, c>ttoneed meal and kainit was strewn in the .ide rows; and fnally on June 10, 100 p-mnds nitrate soda was broadcastea [a the narzow rows and hoed in. The acre was surveyed June 29 by William B. Alford. The harvesting si doce N ve : ber 25 in the pre enc. f reprezentative farmers, including T (1. Camnpbeil an ofir!al reprenta. ti yes of Amrerlcan Agriculturalist U ere 'here taken from the field 17. 107 pounds c rn in the ear of which >raly 140 pounis were soft and con idered poor. By making several k crirn the average test showed hat 82 per ce-it. of the total crop es R e-Dals, an e quivaler t of 14 273 undls or s 1 ed corn, or 25-4 bushes Lud 49 p unda, estimated at 56 wunda per bushel. This was an elaborate experimnent nt prove how much corn could be ac ;ually grown on an ac-e, the cost of produc'ion having been a secondary nlatter in this case. The second prize in this contest was 'won by Al ard Else of Yates county, N. Y., :who- prduced 213 bushels of Early EIastodon corn. He planted one rernal every foot in rows 3 feet apart md fertilized with 800 pounds Mapes ~orn manure. The soil was a sandy oam. The third pr'za was awarded o George Gartner of P~swnee county, Nqeb., who raised 171 bushels of Early EIaSt~oo on a black, rich loam, ferti Lized with 90 loads of barnyard man are, planted in hills 3 by 3 feet. The iverage weight of the entire 45 crops raised and entered in this contest was L04 bus'hels shelled c -in per acre. Ir very cse the crops were well fertiliz d. It pays to feed crops intelligent y. A MINER BES0U.BD A fter Being Under Ground Twentj Five Days and Nights. A dispatch from Lens, France, says s.nother living survivor of the mine disaster at Courtieres on March 10 was disicavered Wednesday morning and brought out of the pit. The finding of another miner alive Lfter twenty-five days' entombment 3aused intense excitement. He was in good condition. .According to his first statements, this-man, August E JBriton, suffered less then the preceding rescued men. .As the news spread It caused ex treme exasperation against the en cineers who have been directing the salvage work. Briton who was covered with a lay er of coal dust, described his experi ence as follow~s: "I was working with my cousin when the explosi' occurred and we became separated At ter way4 alene,- I groped about in phe -darkness,; trying to-find an ou' let. I first found a dead--hgrse bu was unable to eat any of its' flesh. Latel I found some lunch bags whih had belongid to the men who had been killed by the explolsford and 1 lived on the food I fouiid in tkfem. 1 suffered from c~ld andsook 'oothing and, shoes from tbe 'aea~. I also foun'.tharee watches anidewenty-four s 'us. At one time I gave up all hope and tried th commit~icida by -open. log a venf" I slOpf'ten .tim~es anc tried to count the days, estimating that eight days had passed since thE sxplpsion." When the engineers cameup from the Courtleres pits at noon they were attacked by a crowd of 'qomen cry ring: "Death to the murderers!' They were rescu::d by sq-1adrons of dragoons. The people are intensr ly excited and serious disorders are threatened. DUPES OF FRAUD. Thousands of People . Eougbt Love Powders From a B XLTIMORE CONCERN4 The Faciory Where the Love Tokens Were Made Raided by The Of ficers, nd Thousands of Dollars Found In the Safe and Taken. United States Marshal Langham mer, Postal Inspecsor Hooton and Sharron and Secret Service Agent Charles Wright raided the "College of - Science" conducted by "Dr." Thec dore White at 1917 E .st Pratt street, Baltimore, Md., and as a result the "doctor" was held in $10,000 ball for the action of the federaL grand jury by United States Commissitner Bmjrd I'hursday afternoon, charged with using the ma1is for fraudulent pur p3oses. He waived examination. Seven hairs out Cf a white mule's tail, eight drops of blood d&5 of a dog's tail and one or two equahy un expected ing- edlent i constit te a love potion, thousands of packages of which were taken In the raid. White, who advertises himself . In the n. wspapers as being the "only reliable" spiritualistic medium in Baltimore has cordncted his "College of b!c ence-' for the past two years. When the "collcge" on East Pratt street was raided the United States offibials found eighteen young women working for White, typewriting, mail ing his books on "Tne H!gher Ocuilt Science," and putting up and -wrap ping a potion, warranted to cause love at first sigut. In the sate, which the doctor opened at the urgent solicita rion of the United States officers, was found nearly $13,000 in cash, and White admitted that his operations had extended all over this country, Europe, Central America and a por Gion of South America. Marshal Langhammer now has in his posses sion the names of patrons of the insti tution residing in Horduras, Central America. The issuance of the warrant for Waite's arrest came as a result of a Simference between United States District Attorney Base, Assistant United States District Attorney So per, Marshal Langhammer and the United States possal officials. Thous ands of letters addressed to White had oeen received at the Baltimore post %.ffibe from all sections of the country. Tnrough means known only to them selves, the United States offilAal se cured the names of persons to whom the 'doctor" had sent his circulars, and after reading the matter which he sent out they came to the conclu sion that his operations were frauda lent. White's circula's stated that the "COollege of Science" was prepared to teach hypnotism, mental selence, tel epathy and the "algher occultism" in mail order courses as $7 a course. Al ser taking a course the suascriber was guaran eed to be abile ta lnfluence ary ine in a magnetic or hypnotic way. flhe course was divided intio seven sections, and one of the sections was devoted to charms, and incantations. When the cfficials raided the "cil lege" they'found three young wcmen 'usily engaged in preparing a ''love powder." which they were Inclosing with certain prayers, and which the individual desirous of attracting and oolding the s ff actions of tne opposite sex must wear in a bag around his or her neck. The powder whic i works such wonderful resuitis is of a dark, lead color. Three wagon loads of circulars, ad vertising matter, and mail were bro'ught from the "college" to the' United States ixnarshal's ciflee, and will be used in evidence against Wnite. Tne prisoner, who is about cahlrty-six years old, has lved in Bil timore for the past fifteen years, and is well known among those who pa. ron:z d the spiritualistic mrediums. Marsnal L u~ghammer said that lie raid on the "College of Science" was one of the most important that nad ccourred in Baltimore for many tear ; and the postal authorities are greatly pleased at tue complete man ner in which White and his outfit w are rounded up. A Gaod Idea There should be two days sacredly set apart on every farm for special work. One day should be devoted to tree planting, the planting of treEs in waste nooiks and corners all over the farm, evergreens on the kn'jlls too barren or too rough for cultiva Lion, willows ab:ng the runs and iraws, shade tre-s at Intervals along the highway, and then another day should be devoted to a general clear tag, picking up day around the home stead. Tnese two days p-:operly used would do more to improve the looks of the average farm than any other one thing we know. Republicans Roasted. In the House on Friday Mr. Kiny, of 11lucIo, resaimed his speech in the Eense on the alleged iniquities of the protective tariff. He referred partl cularly to the watch trust "Tnere .re no leaiders on the majority side of this House," continued Ratney. ''Tae real leaders of the Re'publican party are t ie McCurdys, MicCalis and Hamil tons, the R~cketellers who skulk be hind stone walls to resist service hey are the real leaders of the RB p-ilican party." Boiler Explodedl. A disastrous boiler explosion OCCUr red at Kyles Ford, Tenn., Thusday killing t iree and woundinz several others. The explosion cczured with out the slightest warning. Tjne boil boiler is to have been in good condi tion. The saw will plant was danmg ed by flying fragments. All the kilietd an~d ir jured are well known over the country.