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A CREAT SPEECH Senator Tillman Acquits iHimself I More Creditab:3 Than Ever. I ID INNS L I >iG For the One Nameless Crime. and Draws a Most Pathetic Picture of Con ditions as fhey Exist in South Carolina To-day. Never since he became a member cf the upper branch of the Nationa' L g islature has Senator Till-nan acquit ted himself more a0='Jrat' y and c-ed itably than he did Monday in his speech on the Brownsville tragedy, says the Washington corraponuden of the News and Cc urier. E ccmnpssed by a 11 ing wail of humzuisv Cu the floor of the Senate chamber, while overhead In the galleries were packed eager and interested Americans of both sides and colors, for more than Iwo hours the South Carolnian held his audience speiliound by his elo quence and oratory. The correspondent then goes on to say that he never appeared to b.tter advantage, and, departirg frem his usual custom of extemporanec t speaking, he had forefled bimseiI with carefully prepared and studicd manuscript. However, he did n't confine himself to the typewrit'n.s text which wa' sprea.6 tut bIrre i on his aeak, but used it nertly to re fruin his memory on salient features. It was a memorable scene and a re markable speech, delivered in convinc ing and impressive manner, and at times, when picsuring occurrences with which he had become familiar through personal experiences, the voice of the speaker became tremul ous with emotion and pathetic with portrayal. Nobody cared to leave the chamber or gallery while Senator Till man was speaking, and it is doubtful whether any address in the Senate sinee the close of the civil war has been listened to more attentively and by a more appreciative assemblage than that which hung upon every word of the Senator from South Caro lina Monday. He was accorded the floor after a #o g efort between Senators Black bpra and Foraker, in which each vied with the other in expressing their mutual consideration and esteem, and -the former took occasion, as Mr. Foraker expressed it, to deliver "'his valedictory to the Senate." This was brought about by the pre:sentation of the substitute resolution by the Ohio Senator, in which reference to Presi dent Soosevelt's action was to be eliminated, and a committee of In quiry authorized to get the facts in the Brownsville affsir last Augausli. Senator Tillman at the outset al luded to the mingling of the Ken tucky and Ohio Senators with a quo tatlon from the Scriptures. "How pleasant It is for brethren to dwell to gether in harmony." and then pro ceeded to unlimber his arstilery. Tbroughout his entire speech he main tained that he was not an advocate of disorder or lawlessness save in punish ment for offences against "the glori ens trinity. womanhood, wifehood and motherhood." Hr drew a graphic pIcture of the re constructlin period a-nd declared the acts in South Carolna l, throwin~g off the yoke of the oppressor in 1b76 was a itting celebration of the one hun dredth an..iversary of the Decarattn of Independence. It marked the tri umph of civilzation over bartarom, and there had been no occasion for a repetition during the thirty years that have elapsed since the regime of the carpet-bagger in the South Purthermore, he asserted, th~t the people of the Southland were better fitted to manage and protect the ne gro, to whom they were more accus tomed, than fanatics elsewhere, who would not take the pains or trouble to ac quaint themselves with the environ ment of the blacks. In his concluding remarks he por trayed the South with the carasof slavery chained to the living man praying to be released from a linger lng death. As he sank Into his chair there was an outburst of enthusiasm,, which Vice-President Fairbanks promptly quelled, and quoted the: familar rule of the Senate about clearing the galleries in case of any disorder. There was no reference to the occu. pants of the floor, however, and the 1 threat of the presiding offier was effcacious in preventing any further demonstration. Representative P.t terson, of South Carolina, was the first to congratulate Senator Tillman. an ezample wshich was Qqicly follow ed by Congressmen irrespective of party affliations. The speech was a long one and we have not the room to quote it all, but quote in foll that part of Senator Till man's speech In which he defined his position on the question of lynching. This slcquent extract Is a fair sample of the whole speech, and Is wall worth reading. It was In reply to: Senator Spooner, cf Wisconsin, who had said that hre was opposed to any man making himself judge, juror and exeationer. He looked upon it as < chocking beyond expression in civil- I ised communities for the populace to 1 seize a human being, charge him with crime, drag him to a tree protesting I his innocence, and hang himcr burn him at the stake. He said he was 1 shocked by the statement of Senator I Tilman justifying and supporting its I continuance. He said his speech ws not an attack on Senator Tillmani, but a plea for good government, orderly C government, real liberty-not the lib-. erty of one man, but the liberty oft all. What is lberty? It~ is nob 11- a cense. Liberty was once defined tot be "freedom to do that wvhich the law permits." That is what; liberty f is. I say again that any man here or e elsewhere who encourages lynching, i murder, lawlessness, will have muct C to answer for, and thre higher his posi. t tion and the weightier his inlfuence g the more he will have to answer Zor. a Senator Tillman spoke as follows: e Have T ever advocated lynch law at c any time or at any placc? I ans wer r on my honor, "Neve:!' I have justi t fled It for one crime, and one only, h andi I have consistently and persist- o ently maintained that attitude for v the last fourteen years. A s governor j> of Santh Carolina I proclaimed that, i although I had taken the cath of ti , I would lead a mob to lynch any D2 an, b'ark or white. who hLd ravish- alt i a woman, black or white. This is mi iy attitude calmly and deliberately th Ler, aid justied by my conscience go i the sight of God. W. Mr. President, the Senator from sa. Visconsin speaks of "lynching bees." to s fTar as iyUching for rape is Oon- of erred, the word is a misnomer. wi Vhen stern and sad-faced white men I ut to death a creature in human s11 orm who has deflowered a white wo- pI ano, there is nothing of the "bee" at bout it. There is mare of the feel- bi ng of participating as mourner at a ti: uneral. They have avenged the n< ,reatest wrcng, the blackest crime in w ll the category of crimes, and they oi .ave dcne it, not so much as an act sp )f retribution in behalf of the vi3timn ta is a duty and as a warning as to no what any man may expect who shall at epDeat the offense. They are looking at o the protection of their own loved :z )mos. or The Senator fronm Wisconsin prr.tes sa but the law. He erects the law or :nto a deity which must be worshiped reg~srdiess of justice. He has studied aY aw books until his mind has become re isaurated with the bigotry which I -nores the fundamental pritciple in dC ;iiis Government: "Law is nothing re nore than the will of the people.'' ra Cere are written laws and unwritten pc aws, and the unwritten laws are m .lways the very embodiment of savage I ustice. The Senator from Wisconsin ni .s incapable of understanding condi- of ons in the Scuth or else he has lost ,hose natural impulses which for cen- 0 uries have teen the characteristics zi ) the race to which we belong. b; Tacitus tells us that the "Germanic w p:cple were ever jealous of the virtue jp >f their women." Germans, Saxons, w Eogiistmen, they are practically cne, ql ,prjnging fr.m the same g:eat root. aj r hat trinity of words, the noblest s< Lnd holiest in our language, woman- h; cod, wifehood, motherhood, have a3 3 xin origin. I believe with Words- : %rth--it is my religion & mother is a mother still, the no blest thing alive. And a man who speakes with tightness or flippancy or discusses cod-bloodedly a matter so vital as the purity and chastity of womanhood is a disgrace to his own mother and s unworthy the love of a good wife. a Look at our environment in the t South, surrounded, and in a very 1 large number of counties and in two States outnumbered, by the negroes engulfed, as it were, in a biack flood o of semibarbarians. Our farmers, i living in segregated farmhouses, more or less thinly scattered through the cauntry, have negroes on every hand. - For forty years there have been r taught the damnable heresy of equality with the white man, tade the pupet of scheming politicians, a the instrument for the furtherance of political ambitions. Some of them f nave just enough education to be able to read, but not always to understand what they read. Their minds are those of children, while they have the e passions and strength of men. Taught that they are oppressed, and with breasts pulsating with hatred of the whites, the yonnger generation of negro men are roaming ove the land, pssng back and forth without hind rance, and with ao pooslbility of ade quate police protection to the comn munties in which they are resIding. Now let me suppose aOcae, Lsa us take any Senator on this floor-I will not particularlzo-take him from some great and well-ordered State in the INorth, where there are possibly twenty thousand negroes, as there are In Wisconsin, with over two mi-a lion whites. Let us carry this Sena tor to the backwoods in South Caro ina, put him on a farm miles from aa town or rzthcad, and envuzooed with e negrces. We will supptse he has a fair yourg daughter just budding into womanhood; and recollect this, the white women of the South are in a state of sieg ; the greatest ca.re is exercised taat they shall at all times where It is possible not be left alone or unprotected, but that can not , always adin every Instance be the j cse. That Senator's daughter un- a iertakes to visit a neigt br or Is left e: home alone for a brief while. Some lurkIng demon who has watched. for a the opr~ortnity seizes her; she Is n choked or b:raten into insensibility h and ravished, her body prostituted, h her purity destroyed, her chastity 3 taken from her, and a memory brand- a d on her brain as with a red-hot iron j o haunt her night and day as long , is e lives. Moore has drawn us the c picture In most graphic language: b c One fatal remembrance, one sorrow , that throws Its bleak shade alike over our joys andS our w oes,a ro which life nothing darker of bright-0 er can bring, Por which joy hath no balm and aflic tion no sting In other words, a death in life, a Lhis young girls thus blighted and 3 ~rutalized drags herself to her father be Lud tells him what has happened. Is ai here a man here with red blood i ls veins who doubts what impulsesh he father would fee:? Is It any won as ler that the whole countAyside rises oC is one man and with set, stern faces m eek the brute who has wrought this ti fam ? Brute, did I say ? Why, Mr. cl President, this crime Is a slander on e he brutes. No beast of the field foro- ti s his female. He waits invitation. t] [ has been left for something In the a( ihape of a n to do this terrible q hing. And shall such a creature, secause he has the semblance of a. nan, appeal to the law ? Shall men oldbloodcdly stand up and demand0 or him the right to have a fair trial md be punished in the regular coursed la if justice ? So far as I am concernedl le has put himself outside the vale of ,he law, human and divine. He has U inned against the Holy Ghost. Het tas invaded the holy of Lolies. He it ias struck ci'vilzation a blow, then nost deadly and cruel that the imag- c4 nation can conceive. It is idle to ni reach about it. Our brains reel un ler the staggering blow and hot blood urges to the heart. Civilization peels i us, any andalloftus who are men, G ud we revert to the original savage bt ypa whose impulse under any and on 31 such circumstanceas has always re; en to "kih! kill! kil', a I do aot know what the Senator be com Wisconsin would do under tnese he ircumtances; neither do I care. I ca ave three daughters, but, so help me ed -cd, I had rather find either one of m be killed by a tiger or a bear and of ather up her bones and bury them, ne ncous that she had died in the airity of her maidenhood, than have e -crawl to me and tell me the hor d story that she had been robbed of a ie jewel of her womanhood by a Cc lack fiend. The wild best would ua: ly obey the instinct of nature, and a e would hunt him down and kill him Ca: ist as soon as possible. What shall Ye e do with a man who has out-bruted lut e brute and committed an act which am ag the victim into court, for she me can furnish legal evidence, and Ike her testify to the fearful ordeal rough which she has passed. under- ' ing a second crucifixion? That is iat the Senator from Wisconsin ye he would do, and he is welcome all of the honor he can get out I it. Oar rule is to make the woman Ltnesa, prosecutor, judge, and jury. have known Judge Lynob's ocurt to for a week while suspect after sus ot has been run down and arrested, id in every instance they were ought into the presence of the vie m, and when she said. "That is 't the man," he was set free, but en she said, "That is the man," i vilizatlion asserted itself, and death, t eedily and fearful, let me say-cer inly speedy-was meted out. I have Lver advocated, 1 have deprecated td denounced, burning for this or I iy other crime. I believe it brutal as any man who participates in a usl publishment like that. I am tified to get out of the world such eatures. As far as the people of the South e concerned, it is said I do not rep sent them here. Somehow or other 1 seem to represent one State, and I not hesitate to assert that it is my ligious belief that on this subject of ape I voice the feeling and the pur se of 95 per cent of the true white en of the Southern State. Whether do or not, I voice my own. I am At ashamed of them. I have no anol ies to make for them. The Senators from Wisconsin and olorado may rave, the newspapers ay howl, but men who were reared 7 virtuous mothers and who revere omanly purity as the most priceless wel of their civilization will do as e of the South have done. On this estion I take back nothing and pologize for nothing. I scurn and orn the charlatanry and cans, the Fporisy and cawardice, the insolence ad effrontery of any and all men who ill my motives in question. Women Barnea to Deatb. At Berlin, Germany, a half dozen omen were burned to death. The re started in the flat of an aged wo ian living on the first floor. She rpped over the carpet and the lamp is carried crashed against the wall d ignited a pile of coal br'quettes, re flames of which burned her to eah. Meanwhile the department as filled with the deadly gas gener ted by the smouldering briquettes, ther occupants of the buildings being wakened by the fumes which filtered brough the doors. When the fire ion arrived and battered down the oor of the first flat the released gas ashed out with tremendous force rd hurled them head-long down he at airs. Then the gas shot up the tairway surrounding on the nest ending three women who bad fled r-m their fiats in terror. The fumes rere so noxious that the women were asantly asphyxiated, and when the iremen were able to approach life was tinct. Killed His Fathcr. J. J. Smith, aged 45 years, employ d at Watts Cotton Mill, two miles Lorth of Laurens on the Charleston ad Western Carolina road, was shot ad killed this morning by his son, ohn Smith, while the young man was rotecting his mother from an assault nade upon her by the husband and ather. From what can be learned of e particulars of the tragedy it seems hat the elder Smith attempted to eat his wife and had a gun drawn on er. Young Smith, son of Mr. and irs. Smith, appeared on the scene nd gave his mother protection. Thre oy's father warned him not to take hand In the affair, and tumning the un from his wfe poinred it at his m. Young Smith seIzed a single arrel shot gun and fired at his father, be load entering theaside, killing him istantly. Smith is in the custody of be sherff, Saved by Man's Death. At Cleveland, Ohio, Noble Shank reiler, 24 years old, hanged himself his room just In time to save four cployes of Hogar, & Co., undertak rs, from death by gas fumes. The ole call for the house, when Shank eiler's body was found, aroused the ten from sleep. Charles Garvan, ly ig near the telephone, fell over In a ep when he arose from his bunk. atural gas fumes from the hearth d the cellar had filled the rooms. ngene Pillardy heard him fall. He rent to raise Garvan and was over me. John Conway came in and fell iside the two men. The three were rried out by Win. Summers, a i er, who heard Conway call as he fell. ammers revived the men In the open !r and made the "run" to the room SShankweler. Price Raised. The Rookford, Ill., Star saya: Country papers all over Illinois are vancng their subscription rates. rearly all the publitions ttiat have sen sold for $1 per an-aam are now ihing from 25 cents to 50 cents Lore. The publishers say that the igh price of paper and materIals of kinds ano the greatly Increased st of production in every depart .ent make an advance In the subscrip on rates Imperative. An S1 they aim that too great a proportion of ie expnse Is thrown upon the adver sers. "Country newspapers all over ie country sooner or later will have Sraise their subscription price or 21e the field. Fatal Fight. In an argument Thursday afternoon rr the re- election 0f Uaited States mator Bailey, which occurred Tues iy, W. 0. Brown, president of a rge buggy manufacturing company Dallas, Texas, shot and fatally ounded A, S. Johnson, a well known aveling man of Dallas. The shoot. g occurred at 6 o'clock in the af ter on in the lobby of the hotel and eatd much excitement. JC4hnson > lies in a dying conditioa2 at a ran arium in the city. shot at the Eaitor. W, J. Dendy, editor of the Clinton izette, came near being hit by a Wet that crashed through a window ly a foot from wher.e he was sitting ading a new spaper. Thre editor was home at the time, ar-d thre would assssin stcod near a corr er of the use and his target was plabily dis mible, as he was 3eated near a light lamp. Mr. Dandy thinks that the >tve was one of revenge on account his denouncirng secret meetings of groes. _ _ _ _ _ _ Won a Scholarsihip. apresentatve Lever, as a result of I' ompetitve exe-minaticn, held in S lumbia Dec. 29, last year, today 'l med Clyde S. Davis, of North, to te adet in the aval academy; James| ung, Edwrd Darrel, Smith of Co. a cibia, alt-ernates. The entrance ox- a ination will bo held the thIrd Tnp- a in Aril at ChbwarstO. | ri GIVEN A ROAST. !e RESOLUTION 10 INVESTI GATE RAUILO.iDS IS KILLED hit Its Author, Mr. Frost, Took c casion to Go for the Railroads, The House of Representatives it )olumbla on Wednesday considered end finally rejected a joint resolution y Mr. Frost of Charleston to provide or the appointment of a commission o investigate the operation of the ilroads and report back to the louse on the first day of its session iext year. Before killing the resol on, however, the house listened to ome of the strongest roasts of pre ient railroad conditions heard in a ong time and the rejection of the %ommission idea means that the louse will probably pass several dras tic bills now before it. The resolution proposed provided for a commission to look into all com plaints abcut railroad service in this State both as to schedules 'and rates mnd an appropriation of $2,000 was asked to carry out the work. As soon as the bill was given a second reading Mr. Lawsoa moved to strike out the enacting words. Mr. Frost, who introduced the re olution in the house, made one of the strongest speecha heard so far in the entire session in favor of its passage. He spoke for about half an hour and in that time reviewed every phase of the resolution. He commenced with a statement about the growing idea of federal con trol of the railways and pointed out the necessity for Scuth Carolina io oppose any such plan and at the same time insisted on a proper supervision of the lines in this State. There were three great systems traversing the State from north to south, he said, and the cross lines were xll own ed by these three-the Southern, Sea board Air Line and Atlantic Coast Line. The long haul of freight means revenue for these roads and there was little or no development of the cross lines. As a result arbitrary divisions were being set up by the roads themselves; those great arterle of trade that had been:set up as the means for leveling all barrlers. The people of the Piedmont found it easie] to go to Atlanta or Charlotte than tc the middle or lower section of the State. The pea ple of Columbia found it easier to go to Savannah 0] Augusta rather to the upper or lowe; part of South Carolina and tie peopi of the coast found traveling to the upper part of the State a'.l=Us ar impossibility. As a result the three sections of the State cannot mee each other as they should. Mr. Frost read reports from post masters showing the delay of the ar rival of mails and how the schedulef as printed were not carried out. Mr. Wade asked about the power.: of the railroad commission along this line. Mr. Frost said the commissior proposed in his resolution would nol interfere In any way with the rail road commission and In fact. the tw< bcdle could work together and thhm suggest- wise laws. M~r. Giles said that there are not bills berore the general assembly look lng for remedies for these very evils If the resolution could be haeld uj until these bills were passed then bi would favor it. His desire was a give relief to the people now, at onoe Mr. Banks said there Is scarcely day that wrecks are not reported The condition was shown in tue num ber of bills bofore the house but thern were many in doubt as to the merits o: these bills and therefore he thoughi Mr. Frost'a resolution should pass. Mr. Ruicker said he had never favor ed drastic legislation. He wished, however, to refer to the glorloui nord of the railways of this State. They had persistently ref ased to givE the people accommodation and condl tions grew worse and worse ever3 year. For his own town, Anderson, the Southern railway had never ever hinted at better service. He thought, therefore, the commission should be appointed and should at once get tc work. Mr. Dixon also favored a conimis sion, calling attention to poor depote and poor schedules. Of debauchery in defending liquor legislation and railroad 1hglslation he asked whicb was the worse-moiaey or whiskey. Mr. Ayer of FKarence opposed the commision. He said the State is n-ore and more getting into the "commission habit" and it is time to call a halt. There wasn't a thing mentioned in the 'resolution that the people did not already know or could not find out by cal.ing on the railroad commission. The railroads, he said, were trying to make schedules. Mr. Rucker-"Why, on the Colum-. hii and Greenville l:ine not a schedule has been made in montas? The road does not try to make them." Mr. Ayer -"I thank the gentleman for giving the house information they would have to pay $2,000 for, accord ing to the resolution." Continuing, Mr. Ayer argued~ earnestly against the passage of the resolution and said that laws could be passed to remedy present evils. Mr. Lawson withdrew his xmotion~ to strike out the enacting words but Mr. Sawyer renewed it. A y'ea and ay vote was demanded and on the motion to strike out the enacting words the vote stood as follows: Yess-Ayer, Bailey, Ballentine, Beattie, Bethune, Boyd, A. G. Brfee, Bryan, Cannon, Carey, Clinksca1es, Cothran, Courtney, Derham, Dind ~e. Doar, J. B. Dodd, J. H. Dedd, Dougass, Epps. Epting, Garris, Gary,, Ganse, J. P. GIbson, Glassook, G'jles. Hall, Harris, Harrison, Hinton, Ky. rck, Johnstone, Jones, Kellabau., Eir ven, Lane, Lester, McColl, Me Eeown, Mann, Miley, Miller. Nesbitt,, Nichols. Niver, Parker, Reaves, R~ch irds, Richardson, Sawyer, Saye,, karborough, Saruggs, Sellers, Shipp,. Blaughter, 3. E Smith, Wade, White Wiggins, Wimberly, Wingard, Woods, N.~ays-Speaker Whaley, Banks,, Brantley, T. S. Brice, Carrigan, Car on, Carwile, Clary Coagrove, Coz., hoft, Culler, DeVore, Dixon. Dowk ng, Fraser, Frost, W. 3. Gibsoni. roodwn, Greer, Harman, Hughes,, Cershaw, Lawson, Leitner, Littia.. lbArthur, Marshall, Morrell, N~asti. fIcholon, Patterson,Recker, Sharpe,. ). L. Smith, Kurtz P. Smith, Spivey, tilwell, Stubbs, Tatum, Thomas,. odd, VanderHorst, Verner, Wallace, 7yche-48. Mr, McMaster was paired with M-t ~ul, Messrs. Garris, Gary, Wimber7ny nd Hydriok stated that they vote ad ye because they believed the powe xs sked for were already vested in t ie, mlra ~.mmislnin DrngDS THE DISPAT. "A Mother" Who Thinks It Protects Her Sons. To the Editor of The State: I have been readilg lately a great $ any admonitions from your tren hant pen ac juring the legislature to abolish the o-cilled outrage of South Carolina selling liquor to i4 citizens. In an Important matter of this kind , the mote of pre jadice should be taken from the editorial eye, and the edi torial tongue of the leading papers of a the State should acknowledge that, e though the dispensary originates with t our "strenuous" senator, yet it is not on that account to be rej:cted. "It needs must that evil come"-the evil o of liquor-and it is well that it comes I in its present shape of the dispensary, k where, with wise legislation, it can be kept under control. That the ma chinery of the system runs badly is no reason to abolish it, when regulation will put it in good shape. If South 1 Carolina will countenance the sale of t liquor,~It is surely no less a disgrace to receive the high license saloon blood money than it is to receive the profits from a well regulatsd dispen ary ! It Is simply a distinction with out a difference. If prohibition that heretofore an Impossible phase of hu man existence-were the measure urged on our legislators, I would hold my peace, but it seems that none are particularly anxious to bring on the millennium. At any rate, we can Lay for the dispensary that there is noth ing alarming about the evil smelling except to those who have already ac quired the liquor habit, and even these can be helped if our solons will take measures to have their paper laws enforced. The saloon, on the contrary, is at tractive and welcomes every fish that comes to its net, be it whale or sucker. With its alluring pictures, seductive tobace', hot oysters and other crea ture comforts, it is useless to promise that the saloon will be hedged around with laws to safeguard our boys and homes. If the dispensary has failed greatly In proteasive measures, how mnuch greater will be the fature of the saloon when urged on by individual rapacity. Years ago when the sa loons were in full blast, it was unwise for a woman to go unprotected through the country, as she would be possibly liable to insult. After the dispensary came in, however, the little gambling, drinking groups by the roadside dispersed, the country ways bsame quiet and women and children could travel with impunity. I have ,o pol!tlcal axe to grind, for I am a wom n and I have the courage of my convi..ione. I have four sons, good boys, full of lfe and hope, and just at the critical age when youth seeks knowledge and imbibes it, be It good or ill. If you give us the saloon you give our boys death, physical and spiritual, and we, the mothers, will cry aloud and there will be none to save for this evil, once accomplished, is as deep as bell, and wide spreading as eternity. The saloon once established, our dearest right is challenged-the right to keep our boys pure and clean-and their bIrthright of Innocence Is In dan ger of being bartered for liquor. Lu s put an end to all this - high bred lifting of hands in horror at the degradation of South Carolina con trolling the lIquor traffic. Who is bet tr fitted to centrol such a terrible evil than a body of men supposed to be >animat-ed by a legislative prudence and desire f 3r the welfare of the peo ple? Cartainly such a feeling does not Inspire the saloon keeper, for he is fired only by adesire to fillhis evil pockets. -Do not be so anxious for the Idle name of "honor of State." "The mere word's a slave, Engraved on ev-ery tomb; on every grave A lying trophy; and oft is dumb, When dust damn'd oblivion is the tomb Of honor'd bones indeed." South Carolina Is all right! Shae is not going to tumble down like a hoouse of cards at every childish breath. Go back to primary principles and safe guard your sons an'd daughters and they in their turn wil' see that our State Is not disgraced. A MOTHER. .Cattle Killed by Cold. A. dispatch from Toronto, Canada, says "though reports as to the num ber of cattle which perished during the recent snow storms and intense cold have been somewhat exaggerated i now transpires that on one ranch alone, near Calgary; upwards of 1000 head have died. ThousandS of ante lope were seen walking up and down the C. P. E., feaces trying to work their way .Carther south. Fifty miles west of Brooks a large number of cat tle have perished probably one thous and. At Lethbridge, Alta, a great herd of cattle numbering over 1,000 whch had subsisted for a month on the tank of a river since the storm comaenced have been collected by the owners of various ranches. Hun dred of carcasses are left round. There is a great scarcity of hay and ranches are In a deplorable condition." The sbove sounds strange to us in this leand of sunshine and genial, balmy -weather. Brain Leaks. Trouble will double when wornIed Kind words are legal tender where even gold coin is counterfeit. 1, taks a real sleety day to, make a man realize his advancing years. When a man does his best he Is pretty safe in depending upon God to do the rest. THE Florence Times says "the dis pensary- men in thre house have agreed among themselves, according to re ports to purify the State dispensary or to kill it." N~o member who pledged himself on the'stump last summer to vote for the dispensary has any right to vote to kill it. When be does so he stultifie-s himself before the peo ple AT the beginning of the year spend a little thought on the best way to avoid debt and do away with long redit and mortgage systems. Debt is an unmerciful and exacting master. To free one's self of debt and adopt the pay as you go plan is the first and surest step toward freedom and pros THERE are siX living eX-governors of South Carolina. They are: D. H. Chamberlain, John C. Sheppard. B. R Tillman, John Gary Evans, Miles . McSweeney, and D. C. Heyward. There have been more lynchings in most southerni states than in lowa. but no southern mob was ever sacriligious enough to open .woe/lrnrs wit-h HiAD TO KMbb HIM. . TJ HARLEY SHOT AND KILLED BY 0. 0. PA RLER. arley is Said to Have Been an Out law and a Very Danger ous Man. On last Saturday W. J. Harley, who as said to have been a bad man, was lot and killed by C. C. Parler, who ited in self-defence. The killing cc- 1 rred at Harleyviile, a little town on ti Atlantic Coast Line Railway be ween Pregnall's and Holly Hill. Cor ner Kizer, of Dorchester County, eld an inquest and investigated the illing. From the testimony adduced at the aquest it seems that Harley went to arler's office and asked for him. He as informed that Parler was not here. He then went to Parler's house nd attempted to gain an entrance. r. Parler warned him several times ot to come in, but he paid no atten on to the warning and proceeded to nter the house. Then it was that ha ras shot by Mr. Parler, the e :tire oad of buckshot entering near the ieart and producing instant death. When Mr. Parler shot-Harley han his hand a breach-loa.ding gun and ie also had on his person a consider ble number of cartridges. It is con dently believed here that it was hi )urpose to attempt to kill Mr. Parler. t seems that Harley for some un nown reason did not like Parler, and n several occasions he had caused im considerable annoyance. Mr. Par er has always been a law. abiding clt zen and he refrained frem taking anj Leion until forced to do so. When he fatal shot was fired he was acting Ln defence of his home and family, d it is the opinion of those who an familiar with the facts that he wai 3n rely justfiable. Harley has always been regard: d z, a desperate sort of man and has beer in trouble more than once. Severa months ago, while the Court of 'Gen. eral Sessions was in progress at St Georges he committed an assault up ) a young man named Weeks, on tbu Court House E qnare. He was appre hended by Sheriff Limehouse, but made his escape the next d2.-. Hi was tried and convicted in his absen ce on the following day, and at the time of his death a sealed sentence awaited him in the clerk of Court' ofice at St. Gso-ges. He waylaid hi brother-in law, Mr. Knight, severs years ago, and wounded him so severe ly in his leg, that it had to be ampu tated. Sheriff Limehouse made several at tempts to capture Harley, but w never successful. It is believed tha Harley's friends kept him advised a to the whereabouts of the sheriff an he managed to elude capture. Severs months ago Sheriff Limehouse cfarei a reward of $150 for his capture, bu the offer was ineffectual to accom plish the result sought after. Mr. Pai ler came to Orangeburg on Monda and went before Judge Dantzler, wh granted him bail In the sum of tw thousand dollars. Wreck on Coast Line. Vestibule train No. 58,on the Al lanto Coast Lice was wrecked a Yemassee, 59 miles from Ch'arlesto on last Monday morning. The trair which was running at a fair speet went Into an open switch and crashe Into the engine of a freight train 0 the siding. Eagineer .Tohnson< Florene, on train 88, was killed an Engineer Hortonand thresrain hant of the freight were Injured. TI train composed of a baggage car at seven Pullmans, caught firs at ont and all except one car were burnet It was said that there were cnly few passengers northbound on boat and only one was hurt. The name the passenger and extend of injurii ould not be learned Tu-s lay nigh Capt. C. C. Tilghman was in chars of the vestibule train and Conducc Stuart Heissnberger in charge of ti freight. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Robt. E.Lee. On last Saturday was observed a over the South and in some places the North the one hundredth ann versary of the birth of Robert E. Le one of the purest, noblest and grea est men who ever lived. Eulogies inni merable have been written about|Gel Lee and although remarkable to sa: none appear too fulsome nor have thE been toonumerous. He deserved thei all and all that has been isaid. H character, when studied closely, the most admirable in all histor: Gen. Lee was truly great. His men ory will never die and the veneratic and respect accorded him is growir every day and will last forever. Til South is proud of the honors paid hE greatest son, who was really one( the purest, greatest and best men< all history. The Boll Weevil. t is believed that since its intr< dction in Texas the boll weevil ha destroyed 2,000,000 bales of cottor with an estimated value of one mi lion dollars. The weevil is seldoi extremely injurious in the souther part of Texas if stubble cotton is nc allowed to remain over the winte: AAarently the weevil does not pron ise to become very dangerous in th western cotton countries. The cul1 url method is considered the oni ezient remedy for controlling th boll weevil. This consists in earl planting, the use of varieties whic mature quickly, the application of fel tiizers, thorough cultivation and d( strctio of cotton olants in the fall as well as other material in which th beetles may hibernate. TE Augusta .Herald says "th' papers of South Carolina are not 01 ten nanimous, but at the presen time there is practically unanimity ii their utterances upon I w subject. --ith one accord they say kiII( things of D. C. Hleyward, now addet to the number of South Carolina's ex-governors and with the same ac cord they disapprove Tillman's posi tion on the Brownsville matter. THE Florence Times says: 41 Major Hemphll, the talented anc abl editor of the News and Couriel were to come out for the senate, as has been suggested in Washingtor 1e would make some folks sit up and akee notice mighty early in the game, outh Carolina could not send a bet er representative of her state sover + gny than r John Calvin Hem ANTICS OF CHINESE STUDENTS. Quaint Manners of Boys Sent to This Country to Study. About the year 1870 the Chinese gov ernment sent some 60 or 70 boys and young men of high rank to the United States at the instance and under the guardianship of Yung Wing, a gradu ate of Yale of the class of 1854. The purpose was to educate these boys in American high schools and universi ties, and to give them such an ac quaintance with American institutions and customs as might render them able to instruct their own countrymen on their return to Chin-a. The party was divided into groups and distributed among the various educational centers. Some of them were sent to Yale. They were, gener ally speaking, of high intellect, and attained excellent rank both in schol arship and socially; but they never quite got rid of their national ten dency to take things literally, and they were tenacious of certain ideas of eti quette to an extent which they never wholly overcame. One of these Chinese freshmen was invited to call at the house of an emi nent Yale professor of science whose reputation was world-wide, and he promptly availed himself of the privi lege: After remaining for a reasonable length of 'time, he rose to take his leave. One of the professor's daugh ters expressed her pleasure at having seen him, and asked him to call again. This he promptly did in about ten minutes, having apparently taken a walk round the block. On another occasion, says the Youth's Companion, the same Chinese student was invited to the same house to an evening entertainment. He was seen by the hostess to come in at the door and to go upstairs to the dress ing-room, but did not appear in -the drawing-room. She requested one of her student friends to go to the dress ing-room and bring the Chinaman down. The student found him in the dress ing-room calmly smoking, and asked him why he did not go down stairs, to which he replied that he could not do so because all the ryen and women were talking at once, and that, being contrary to his ideas of etiquette, would make him so uncomfortable that he would prefer not to take part in it. He remained in the dressing room during the whole evening, smok ing and talking with such of the men as dropped in there, and partaking of refreshments which were sent to- him; 1 but to the babel below stairs he would not go. One of the Chinese students was cox swain of the university crew, and one of the best men at the tiller-ropes who ever sat in a boat. He had excellent control of the men, and up to the time a of the race itself did not exhibit any i of his national peculiarities; but in the excitement of the race itself he 1 would at critical times give up the use t of English, which he spoke perfectly, - and shout and jabber at 'his crew in - Chinese in- a manner which so pro voked theca to laughter as almost to throw thera~ out of form. He was very ~small, weiighing only 80 or 90 pounas, and the giant captain of the crew used to. carry him through the excursion train on the return to New ){aven, after a victory, upon his right arm, rustling in his many-colored silks and we' his "pigtail" hanging down his Game of Bridge. SWhen bridge was estabiished a comn ifmittee of three members of the Port land was appointed in December, 1895, to draft the required code of rules for the new game. The task was a difm ,cult one, as their knowledge of the game was at that early stage a very ,elementary one, but the work wa~s so skilfully and successfully done that the code of laws then drawn up lasted practically unaltered for a period of . ten years, and stood the test of cover b ing all the debatable points of the ir game. LThere laws were issued early In 1895, and in July of the same year they were submitted to a Joint committee of the Portland and Turf clubs, and, being passed with a few unimportant alterations, they became the standard laws of English bridge, and remained ', so until another joint committee of the 'same clubs issued the "Revised Laws - of Bridge," at the end of 1904. - There never was any game about , which so many people have aired y their different opinions. Between 1904 II and 1906 something like one hundred books were published dealing entire is ly with the practice of bridge, and tbe r. list is not yet completed. They still -cme. Hardly a week passes without nsome fresh aspirant to literary fame gsetting forth his views under an al .eluring title. Human Passions Photographed. Some photographic records of huii ifman emotions, obitained. at Geneva by Dr. E. Magnin and M. Edward Flegen heimer, are of remarkable interest. -The experiments have been made upon a very susceptible 'hypnotic subject, who has been influenced by both mu scal and oral suggestion, and the en tire range of human passions--joy, anger, fear, sadness, gluttony, greed, et cetera--have been recorded in about 00 photographs of the women under the various forms of suggestion. The intensity of the expressions is said to ehave been rarely equalled by the great artists. eAs in all other things, patience and perserance win with the fishing rod. TEE assertion is made that Simon Guhggenheim, who is sent to t-he sen ate from Colorado has expended a million dollars in financing the cam paigs of the Republican party in that state. This makes the cost of a seat in New York Stock exchange seem picayunish by comparison. Tr E man who went out to milk and sat down on a boulder in the middle of a pasture and waited for the cow to ~ack up, was a brother to the man who kept a store and wouldn't adver tise because he reasoned that the purchasing public would back up to bis place of business, when it wanted something. An exchange tells of a Kansas man who is a doctor, a minister, an under aker and a tombstone dealer all com bined. And nobody has ever hinted at is being a combination in res raint of trade. D. Osler's excellent mother has just celebrated her one hundredth birthday. Hope she doesn't feel had bout her distinguished son's chloro form theory. PECULAR MOTOR CAR. - y guilt for One Passenger Only and Steered by Foot. The illustration below shows a iew type of motor car that should in .he near future have many support .rs. it is a foreign invention, and on iccount of its peculiar construction ittracts attention imm'ediately. In size it is about as small as a motor ear can be made, there being seat ng capacity for only one passenger. There Is also a total absence of com plicated steering apparatus. The operating motor is placed imme diately in front of the rider. One lever is sufficient to- regulat'e the': speed and is placed in. close proxim ity to the seat.. Probably thee most peculiar feature is the .,method of steering. This is done by means of the feet, very much like a young boy would steer bis express.wagbn. The hands are at all times free, the-rider being able to enjoy-a smoke with . pleasure. Other peculiar features are the size oft the wheels and. the height of the frame above the ground. When the Kaiser Travels: Even when- travelling. the Kaiser is at work, for being. te chief of-a ----' great nation he must keep the- Gov ernment. machine in' inotion says e Review of Reviews. A large staff--of Government omt dais accompanies him.- A- high 3d j cial from the Foreign Office'-attends to the duties of foreign polities,:. akes reports on the affairs of state, -receives the orders of the sovereign and..keepsup the commu nication between- the Kaiser andflter~ Chancellor. Then there s a. privy councillor who takes-. dictations 7e ciphers :telegrams and transmits the'z same. Besides, two adjutants'ac-. company the suite For the - very lively exchange of messages betvteen the Kaiser1ad= the Chancellor: special 2ngexne=. is made.bytheimperial postal depa ment. . Telegraphic messages mnst be presented- at once to thelKalser= When necessary to be decbhere aw postal official is inte .nearestdele graph officeto attend td this. dnty When the- Kaiser Is out-hunting a special messenger goes after ?i 'int' case urgent messages must bejdefv ered. Even at .a late houra the night the :Kaiser. bas ordered that rekardless of his own-.convenIence-he shall be-sawakened if imnportanc~me mnunications arrive. In additions to these telegraphic reports, matli mat ter, which arrives daily by cotirler, must be answered;- then,..also, at tentfon. must -be givene-tt- the reporta of Ministers-fromi other departments, conferences- -must -be :iheld -at aiF-f times 'of the day, andIong dictations given in the study where the Kiisef is stopping, be it on board of the Hohenzollera or in his sleeper. Added to -this- must be-reckoned the hours when he is working- alone, consisting' of the reading of- iew's paper 'clippings, - the -activer corre sporidence 'Ith his -wife; from wb'omt he -receives a dailp letter; anrd -tie> correspondence, with royalties- - .triends.. - - - - -- .Hunt'for a nagmanL The British army was once in difficulties through t~he lack of a hangman. Murder- was jommnitted. by a soldier- in the Crimea, but ro body could be r'ound to. carry out the sentence -of the -court-martial. It- was announced that- ?20--anda ai free discharge. would be granted -to the man undertaking the task. -At last, a. man did volunteer. He was a newcomer to the army. .On the night pridrto the 2date axed for the execution -they locked up the nangman in astable to keep him. safe. In the morning the, j~rty at the gallows waited, but there:-was no hangman. He had gone -mad dur lng the night, or else he was now - simulating madness. - The officer In comm~and turned ,o one of his Captains with; "Captain, you- will-have .the goodness to hang the prisoner!" The Captain changed. countenance, but he pulled himself together, and appealed to the serge, ants with: "Which of you will hang this man?" And to spare his. Captain, one of the men volunteered. He afterward had the satisfaction of. flogging the- man who had volunteered and failed. Protective Colors of Animals. I seem to trace a faint' clue to the connection between the protective coloring and the mind in the intense desire of the fox to remain concealed and unseen. That thin is a possible theory we infer from the feet that a blind animal does not change color. Put a dozen minnows into an ordi nary white wash hand basin and they. will in.a very short time be of a pale color. If over one no change passes we may be tolerably certain that It is blind.--Dale's "Tb. Fox." Mrs. Carrie Nationi says that if the devil were in Washington he would. vote the .Revablican ticket. But they don't alow a black man to vote there any more ithan a white. The whole business is disfranchised. TEE Florence Times would like to. have commissions appointed -in every community in the south t~o pick out the negroes who will be sent o Pan ama to dig the canal for Contrac tor Oliver. Then we want a law pass ed compellhing those selectied to go. Lord Wolseley, himself a soldier of distinction, declared that he bad met many great men, but Robert. E. Lee was the only man~- before- whose -per sonality he ever stood abashed. .Said Stonewall Jackson: "Lee is a phe nomenon. He is the only man I ever knew whom I would be ready toi fol low blindfolded." Roosevelt. is doing a good thiag in ordering the negro tfoops to the Phil ippnes. They will be a bonze of con. tention as long as they remain In the Tnited Stteso