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I VOL. XI. NEWCOMMANDER OFG.A. General T. J. Stewart, ol Pennsylvania, Elected Commander-in-Chiet. RECEPTION FOR VETERANS'WIVES Mri. lCnnifTrlt Held Court In Corrornu nn imiirri ?ivomnn'li llPlli-r Corp* Expended 81'l.OUO Durlin; the Ycir t ?Mrdlcnl I>lvl?lon ?l Ibo l'enninn Human Scored by Special Committee. Washington, I). C.?Tlit> new Commander-in-Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic is (I oner a 1 T. .1 Stewart. of Norristown, Pa., who was a leading candidate for the honor a year ago. His competitors at the election of otticers were General John 0. Black. | of Illinois, former Comtuissiouer ?>f Pensions, aiul Colonel John MoKlroy. | of this city. The name of General Daniel Sickles, of New York City, was presented to the convention, but he withdrew from the race. The first ballot resulted in the election of General Stewart who was nominated by Tliouias Sample of Prnnsyl vania, the vote being as follows: Stewart. 4i?7: Black. UTH; MoKlroy Sit. William M. Olin, of Massachusetts, was elected vice commander-in-chief, and James M. Averlll. of Georgia, junior vice conitnandcr-in-chief. Aside from the election of these otttoors. the most interesting feature of the encampment was the report of the Pension Commit tee of the G. A. It. This committee severely scored the medical division of the Pension Bu roan, declaring that it was a dead line, whore were executed the claims of veterans seeking pensions, li accused the personnel of this division of approaching representatives of exainin Ins surgeons throughout the country with suspicion and distrust, and as made in had faith. It denounced the reports that extensive frauds wore practiced Itt pension claims as absolutely baseless. A resolution was adonted exni'essin?? the grief of the convention over the dentil of President McKinley anil its regret over President Roosevelt's indisposition. A collection of photographs of most of the past national officers of the order was presented to the convention by Delegate Heath, of Pennsylvania, witli the condition that they are to he preserved in the Congressional Library. The twentieth annual convention of the Women's Itelief Corps, which was held at the Church of Our Father, was one of the largest in the history of the organization. Mrs. Calista N. .Tones, of Vermont, the national president, presided, and was the recipient of several historic gavels. The order was shown to he in a flourishing condition. Over ?42,000 was expended during the year, leaving a fund of over SII.OOO on hand. * uiiii oarion, or iik* ;\ntion:il Rod Cross, the only surviving honorary member of the organization. \Vns escorted to the pint form. Her feeble health would not permit her to more than murmur her thanks. Amid classic setting, surrounded by the masterpieces of Michael Angela and Donatelll. standing between tinted marble columns with ornate Corinthhin capitals. Mrs. Roosevelt and the ladies of the Cabinet received the ladies of the tlrand Array of the Republic at the Corcoran Art (Jallery. The reception lasted for two hours, from 4 to (1 o'clock, and was attended by 100P or tlie <1. A. It. ladles. The Marine Rand played at the reception today. and as the afternoon advanced the place was brilliantly illuminated with electricity. Prominent among the callers were Mrs. John A. Logan. .Miss Clara I'arlon and Mrs. John C. Black. DRIVEN INSANE BY OV2RWORK. Four Naval Ofllcers Ilnve Killed TlirmHetveH Fniler Great Strain. , Washington. I?. C. Overwork lias been reported to the Navy Department as responsible for the death, probably the suicide, of Lieutenant Frederic I?. Holuian. 1'nited States N'avy. who was lost overboard on August Id. 100'_\ (in tne morning of August 14." reported tlie Hoard that made the in- j vestigation. "careful inquiries and a I close search of every part of the ship was made and there is no possible reason to doubt that he is dead; and circumstances lead us to believe that he took his own life during a temporary tit of insanity brought on by weakened j * condition of the nervous system and worry because of his physical inability to perform Ills duty." Lieutenant Holmau Is the fourth of- I fleer reported to the Navy Department | In the last two months as having commit led suicide. : USE OF X-RAYS BRINGS DEATH. Snrgfom Thought They Dlncovereri >11*?t?e I nlist Teeth In ? Man'* Throat. Cleveland. Ohio.?Frank Ituettner. a well known con tractor of this city, died as the result of an operation performed lo remove a set of false teeth which it whs supposed lie linil swallowed while asleep. An X-ray machine was used on Ruettner. which, the surgeons declared, showed the teeth to l>e in the oesophagus. Just as the latter had been opened Its entire length a relative of Btiettner's rushed into tl4> operating room with the missing set of teeth, which had been found in Ruettner's bed. It was learned that Ruettner was suffering from a severe case J of neute laryngitis. The pain in his j throat ted mm to netieve iie iian swal- ( lowed the teeth. ? MI] RT MILL, S. C? WED !EVIEWED BY PRESIDENT loosevoH Witnessed the Procession of the Grand Armv Ve'erans. FO CRAZED INVENTOR'SCRIME F Young- Man Kills His Mother and F Sister at Homestead, Pa. Injnr?fl Two Ottior Sister* unci Trlcit to t K.I11 Two ItrotHer*. But Wr?t? Oveipowered?Used :ui Axe. Pittsburg. Pa.?While laboring under mental aberration, the result of the f strain of perfecting an appliance for ^ patents ott an air brake, which are s pending in Washington. Charles Caw- f | ley. a seventeen-year-old boy of Home- n stead, killed his mother and one sister ! c | while they slept and injured four other r children, who. however, are expected ? to reeover. He also tried to kill Ins .two older brothers, but was detected. ( overpowered and turned over to the police. The weapon used was an axe. t The dead are: Mrs. Ilannn Cawliy, j aged about forty years: ltelle Caw Ivy, t aged twelve, who slept with her mother, t The Cawley family live in a neat six- 1 room house. At night all the members t lvtired about 1<> o'clock. Mrs. Cawley < and Hello occupied one bed. while the \ others. Joseph, Adeline. Raymond and i I Agnes, occupied other beds and cribs ] in the same room. Charles, the niur- ' derer; his brothers. James, aged tweu- | I ty. and Ilarry. aged fourteen occupied j a room adjoining their mother's. Some time about !' o'clock in tl?o < morning Charles quietly arose, and. 1 dressing liin^self. hut not putting <?n bis < shoes, crept down to the cellar and sc- < cured an axe. Coining up stairs he < went into bis mother's room, where tlio victims wore sleeping, and attacked ( each !n turn. < Believing that lie had dispatched tliem all ho started for ins brother's | room, hut .Tamos, the oldest, had boon \ nwaketied. and as Charles ontord lie j seized a heavy rocking chair and after < a tierce struggle overpowered liim. On < tlie way to the station tlie murderer i fought ferociously. After lie was lodged in jail the inr.rdcrr failed to recognize his lirother .Tames, and when questioned ahum the i tragedy talked incoherently. Later in ] the day the murderer denied emphnti- j rally that ho committed the deed. Tie ( told a fa'rly connected stcr.v. He said ( lie was awakened at an early hour by sounds on the tifst floor ai. went down ' stairs to investigate. Returning up i stairs lto found Itis sister lying aeross the bed covered with blood, and fled to give the alarm. ] For two years he lias been wnrkinir on a device for a combined nir and powor brake. It is said to bp n wonderful invention, and men wiio have seen it marvel at the ineehanienl ability of the inventor, in view of ids years. He was of a kindly disposition, and was said to have been very fond of I his mother and brothers and sisters. KILLED IN A STREET DUEL. rttchud Rntlt* In nil Ark?n?m Town I.riots to Call For Militia. Eldorado. Ark.?This village was tlie scene of a desperate battle between parties to a feud. When the light was ended four men were dead and half a dozen others wounded. As the result of a quarrel begun some weeks ago over Robert Mnidus's i refusal 1o permit his young woman t assistant to receive her tin nee at Mullins's photograph gallery. Mulllns was killed by Constable II. L. Ueering. i The killing caused much excitement nmi two faction? sprang up. ore side justifying tli? killing. the other on- i detuning It. The controversy grew into a hitter feiul and there were * threats of killing on both sides. The two factions met in the streets. ] Roth sides were armed to the teeth, and indiscriminate shooting immediately began. The battle lasted but a few -minutes, but was most desperate. ' Each man tired till he was killed or his ' ammunition gone. When the smoke of battle cleared j Tom and Walter Cornell. brothers: I Constable Rearing and City Marshal i Ou.v Tucker wore dead. Mat Cornell ; and City Physician Hilton were danI gevously wounded. In compliance with tlie request from j Hie Sheriff of I'nion County. Governor [ Davis ordered the company of the ! State (luard at Eldorado < 11 duty to . | suppress trouble and preserve the ( j pea ee. CETS FIVE YEARS FOR BIGAMY. A Missouri Mayor Hutl Married Under an I Assumed Name. 1 Emporia. Kan.?James Pendleton. Mayor of Ceil try. Mo., couvieted of bigamy, was sentenced to five years in ' the penitentiary. Pendleton, under the assumed name of Coda S. Morris, married Miss Grace ' Obley. of Emporia, a few months ago. and later, under the name of John Cox. buried a coffin containing ice at Orlando, Oklahoma, and circulated the report that Coda S. Morris had been 1 killed In n runaway. Pendleton lias a family at Gentry. Killed Sweetheart mid Himself. Miss Alice Fisher, a young woman i employed in the Government Printing I Oflice at Washington, was shot and instantly killed by William Dougherty, an employe of tlie same office. Dougherty then shot and killed himself. Joal- i ousy was the motive. i Town of l'ertli Honors Cnrnej-le. 1 Andrew Carnegie, In receiving the freedom of Perth. Scotland, dilated on the horrors of "civilized war," and praised the work of the Czar in creat- ! ing the permanent Hague ArbitratJou Tribunal. Klioile Inland Kiivor* Koo.-evelt. "Rhode Island Republicans have nam j Innied Charles D. Kimball for a sec- I ond term as Governor.* They declared I for President Roosevelt's uoniinatiou | , in 11)01. ' , ? ,ii Ovntlnn All Alone tlio Kouto? V f*lcn*-jp> are Riilit Willi Mr*. Kiiuirvelt Alter the Par-ile. Washington. D. P.?President Uoow* pit reviewed the Hrand Arrhv parade ti liis carriage. lie was carried down liairs from his room oil the second loor of the temporary White House in in invalid's eliair, and amid the elieers if a large crowd was placed in the callage. in "which there was a hoard to tupport his injured leg. lie was ac'ompanied by Secretary Cortelyou and 'oloiii-l Bingham, his military aide. As the carriage appeared on the aveuie the President was greeted with ntnl cheers. The Presiilent slimiiml :it he revi- wintr stntnl for u moment until lu> marshals of the parade and Itinvins Post, of Minneapolis, the right of he line, had passed, and then drove lowtt the avenue to the Pence Motutnent at tl>e foot of the Capitol. The ret era us fneed tlie carriage as the ['resident drove h.v and saluted hint, rhere wns continuous elieering front the crowds as the President drove ilottg. I.ess than thirty-live minutes were 'unstinted in the journey, and when the White House was reached Secretary Uortelyou and Colonel Bingham got out tnd. much to the surprise and delight tf the waiting crowds. Mrs. Uoosevelt emerged. entered the carriage, and was lriven rapidly away with the President. President and Mrs. Uoosevelt relumed to the White House about 1.110 It. in., having heen gone an hour and a Italf. They had driven through Unci; Hr? ek and Zoological Parks, lint kepr clear of tlte crowds. Several thousand IK'ople waiting outside the White [louse cheered iheir return For five hours the Hrniul Army of tlte Republic marched along Pennsylvania it venue between crowds which seemed larger than those at the last inauguration of it President. I( is ten years Rio*.- Washington had a national encampment. Tlte ranks of the Hrattd Arm*- have Iteeii thinned h.v death: one New York post, which sent eighty men to the cncajupment of 18112. sent only thirty to this, and in addition there were ntiitiliers of (Jrand Army men in the crowds who had attended the encampment, lmt were unable to march front tlte infirmities of age. But. after allowing for all tlllo t lw\ VIMtllhllt* ilf tltltlt 111 lilln H'lli! stII! vtirprlslng. Another fact that was remarked upon by the spectators was the Hue appearance presented by many nf the posts. Many of them, particularly those from the Atlantic States, marched and looked like soldiers still. "Paughters of the T'oxt" were numerous, and some of them were so prettily uniformed and marched in so soldierly a fashion that they trot more applause than the veterans, fine of the "Pauirhters." attired in zouave uniform, marching -with some New York Zouaves, pleased the crowd. There was one female hand, composed of women hailing from Waterloo. 1ml.. all of whom wore long maroon colored dresses. They played a patriotic air as they passed the reviewing stand, and were duly cheered. Indeed, whenever ladies occupied a place In the line they were applauded, notwithstanding their presence was forbidden by general orders. WON'T SEE THE BOER GENERALS. lialscr Not to Invito Tliom ail it Tlio.v Will Not Ail: For n Reception. Berlin, Germany.?It has been decided that Emperor William will not re I reive the Boer Generals, Botha. P -la j rey and Do Wet. The seinl-oilicial North German Gazette says: "When it came to the knowledge of nis Majesty that flic leaders of the Boer Army. Botha. De Wet and Pcla- | rey. were coming to Berlin, an order was issued by llis Majesty that the Generals slumlil lie ncmininti <1 with I'no fact tlini ho was ready to receive i them, provided they would abstain i while in normally from any anti-fin;;- ] Itsli agitation ard present tlioinsel.es i throne:!)' rho Knglisli Ambassador. (Ion- j oral I?e Wet. in behalf of iiis comrade' i accepted these conditions. Accord;no 1 to official news from The Untrue liie j tv nerals in the meantime have changed iheir mlrtds. and now. while hesitating to ask for an audience, prefer to wait 1 In the expectation of the Kaiser offer- j lug one." The (lazette eoncludos; "The incident is tints settled. The question of an audience has been decided in tlie negative." RIOTING IN NEW ORLEANS. Disorder Attpudx the Street Car Strike? Militia Ordered Out. New Orleans. La.?The lirst attempt to run ears from the Canal street barn resulted in a serious riot in which about fifty shots were fired and a number of people wounded. Policeman Sclilessinger was shot through the head and probably fatally wounded; Conductor Kennedy was shot in the hand; Motorinan Ferguson, a striker, was shot through the arm. and u number of policemen wore painfully wounded by Hying missiles. \ I til or mi:i n Vint-/, is i'li.'irL'oil with linv. inn lived tlio first shot from tlio street ear. Orders for his arrest have been issued. Governor Heard was reached during tlie afternoon and after a telephonic conference with Mayor Gapdevielle ordered Mnjor-Goneral Glynn, in command of the military district, to report to the Mayor. Arrangements were made o distribute the troops so that ndnminto protection was afforded tlr* L-onipany in its effort to run cars. ll NESDAY, OCTOBER I 9 BILL ARP'S LETTER ! Ruminalions cf the Popular Sage of Bartow ? THE PHILOSOPHER IS REMINISCENT Me Discusses Events of the Past in His Usual Mappy Manner ? Tilings He Docs Not Know. Wanted?Iu 1881 General Henry R. Jackson, of Savannah, delivered in Atlanta the most notable, instructive and eloquent address that has been heard in Georgia since the civil war. The subject was "The Wanderer." a slave ship that landed on the Georgia coast in 1S5S. Hut the whole address was an historical recital of many political events that led to the civil war and of which the generation that has grown up since were profoundly ig norant and still are. It was delivered by request of the Young Men's library Association, when Henry Grady was its chairman, and I supposed was published in pamphlet form and could be had on application. Hut 1 have sought in vain to find a copy. I have a newspaper copy, hut it has been worn to the quick and is almost illegible. I j wrote to Judge Pope Harrow, who is I General Jackson's executor, and be | can find none among the general's ! papers. Can any veteran furnish me a I copy? I would also be pleased to obtain a copy of Daniel Webster's | speech at Capon Springs, which was i suppressed by his publishers and to which General Jackson makes alius ion. General Jackson was a great man. He won his military laurels in the war with Mexico. He was assistant at j torney general under Buchanan when J Jeremiah Hlack was the chief, lb- was the vigilant, determined, conscit n tious prosecutor of those why owned and equipped and officered the only slave ship that ever landed tin tin Georgia coact. He was a man of splendid eulSure and a poet of ability and reputation. Strange it is that this magnificent address has not be. n compiled in the appendix of somu | Southern history as a land mark for the present generation, it is sud and I mortifying that our young and middleaged men and our graduates fVoni I Southern colleges know so little of our ante-bellum history. The Northern ' people are equally ignorant of the origin of slavery and the real causes I that precipitated the civil war. Most of them have a vague idea that slav ery was born and just grew up in the South?can.e up out of the ground like the 17-year-ohl locusts?and was our sin and our curse. Not one in t? :? thousand will believe that the South never imported a slave front Africa but got all we had by purchase from otir Northern brethren, i would wage: a thousand dollars against ten that not a man under fifty nor a school hoy who lives North of the line knows .?i believes that General Grant, the: great military hero and idol, was ? slave Owner and lived ufl" of their hire and their service while he was fij*.* ting up about ours. Lincoln's procl-t mat ion of freedom came in LS<!3. but General Grant paid no attention to ii lie continued to use them as slaves until January, lfitl.l. (See his bography I by General James G -ant Wilson in I Appleton's Encyclopedia.) General ! Grant owned these slaves in St. Louis [ Mo., where he lived. He was a bad manager and just before the war be gan he moved to Galena and went <o work for his brother in the tanyard. j While there he caught the war fever and got a good position under Lincoln but had he remained in St. Louis I would have greatly preferred one on our side. So said Mrs. Grant a few Vears acn to : np?'?ra>nnr mliinv t 1 Augustine. How many of this generation North or South know or will believe that a.late as November. 1801. Nathaniel Gordon, master of a New England slave ship railed the Erie. was eon vieted in New York rity of carrying on the slave trade. (See Appleton.) Just think of it and wonder. In 1801 our Northern brethren made war upon us because we enslaved the negroes we had bought from them, but at the same time they kept on bringing more from Africa and begging us to buy them. How many know that England, our mother country, never cmanci pated her slaves tint 11 1843. when twelve millions were set free in the East Indies and one hundred millions of dollars paid to their owners by act of parliament? It is only within the last half century that the importation of slaves from Africa has generally ceased. Up to that time every civilized country bought them and enslaved* them. English statesmen and clergymen said It was better to bring them away than to have them continue in their barbarism and canibalism. And It was better. I believe it was God's providence that they should he brought away and placed In slavery, but the way it was done was inhuman and brutal. The horrors of the middle passage, as the ocean voyage was called, is the most awful narrative I ever read and reminds me of Dante's "Inferno." About half the cargo survived and the dead and dying were tumbled into the sea. The owners said we can afford to lose half and still have a thousand per cent profit. Rev. John Newton, oue of the sweetest poets who ever wrote a hymn, the author of "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like ir.e?" "Savior. Visit Thy Plantation.'' "Safely Through Another \Y ok," an ". many others, was for many yars a deck hand on a slave snip and sa'.v all its horrors. He became converted, but soon after became ??ntntn of a slaver 5, 8)02. ON AWHEEL handy uud <?ttir an uucidunt happens is u Ixjttlo uf Mi Ulcei Rime mi I in. need not become a body. If they do ii MEXI MUSTANG will thoroughly, qn ncntly cure these a is no ?uess work al iment is used a cm YOU DON'T KNOW Mustang Llulmcut. As a tiet.li 1 and for four years pursued It till. j gently and mitigated its cruelty. Then ' lie quit and went to preaehing and | says in his autobiography that it i never oeeurred to him that there was ! anything wrong or immoral in the slave trade where it was humanely conducted. The Savior said: "Of fenses must needs come, but woe unto them by whom tliev I In Appleton's long anil exhaustive article on slavery it is said that slavery In some form has existed ever since human history began. And it appears to have been tinder the sanc tion of Providence as far back as the ! days of Noah and Abraham. The latter j had si very gr at household and many I servants whom he had bought with his I nnmo>. The word slave appears but l twice in the Bible. It is synonymous! with servant and bondsman. There ha. hern on time since the Christian era that the dominant nations have not owned slaves?sometimes tlio! bondage was hard, but :is a general j rule the master l'ouud it to his intere.,1 | to be kind to his slaves. As Bob Toombs said in his Boston speech: j "It is not to our interest to starve our slaves any more than it is to starve j : our horses and horned cattle." Shortly , 1 after tlie little cargo that the Y\aimer er brought were secretly scattered around I saw some of them at work in I a large garden id Columbus, (la., and | was told that they were docile and ' quickly learned to dig and to hoc, but that it was hard to teach thcnl to cat) c ooked meat. They wanted it raw and ] bloody. They were miserable little i runts. "Guinea negroes," with thick | Hps and flat noses, but they grew up ( into better shape and made good servants and 1 know were far better off ' than in their native jungles, the prey j of stronger tribes, and made food for ' can'1 als. iso, there was no sin in slavery as l instituted in the South by our fath- I ers and forefathers, and that it why i 1 write this letter-?perhaps the last j 1 shall ever write on this subject. 1 ! wish to impress it upon our boys and | girls so that they may be ready and willing to defend their Southern an cestors front the baseless charge of Buff', ring now for the sitis of their fat!, -rs. A Northern friend writes: "Do please let tip on the negro. We up here are tired of him. Give us more of , your pleasant pictures of domestic | life. etc.. but let the negro go dead." Me does not know that the negro and what is to become of him is a question of tremendous moment with us and it must be written about. But t ! will refrain as long as it is prudent. Just now I would like to hire a man to cuss the black rascal who tame into my back yard the other night and ! stole my grind stone. For five years i I have let every darkey grind his ax i who wanted to, and now 1 can't grind j my own. The fact is 1 have no ax to grind, for they stole that first.?Bill Arp, in Atlanta Constitution. Doctor with a Long Head. At Evian-les-Baines, France, there Is a doctor who does not waste time. When he makoa ih? t _ ......1.1 111 ins patients he carries in his carriage a banket of homing pigeons. Heforo he leaves the house he writes out a prescription and fixes it under the wing of a bird, which Hies straight to i?(o dispensary. An assistant makes up the medicine, a cyclist delivers it and the patient receives it. all within a few minutes of the doctor's departure. I If ve prayed as long as fJoi i J listen w would rever cc ism. NO. 30. putly moots with disnrtor. Avery ion I doctor to hnve wit-li you wheu I'xlciUl MiiHljinir 1.1 > I <>111 , | I t IV UO(|-?lf|H-U.II ent are the most in? -*? dependent. [/ S~ ) /l/SvJ9 A Christian man ' ? Christ's iiest ) *i 11 never hisses unJfaS Y *vKdi/ 'Die Savior's love jk^PTp l ^ for the world is tlie euie for sinful love IW"* ' of th world. <? jjl The wolvc3 always applaud whin tin shepherd whins rhi sheep. A man's thinktng powe s will he in Inverse ratio to his drinking powers. When a man Iiv? s in <!<d's p eseme he will not need to beast of it. Tiny who will not he theiv brother's Keepers are willing to he their e.\c? utors. "VJ" '1 he delight of h< aven n...> be fasliior.r J out of the ilisapp i iliueuis of < arth. It is easier to he el .:r.ent over the faults of others than to he penitent over our own. The human fly is apt to mistake adhesion to, for po .- ion of the llylo.pi r of mammon. The warmth of the winter's nival does not depend on the fr;;-'o ty of the s-urvner chun-ll. * \ 0..e diffi mice hit wren the t ue pi earlier and the talking machine is that the latter can he put chased It is safer to tins! \. ur <> th in your ears wh< u a tuati arjvu s religion < i p t 1 t A *-tb _n's Mother's Wrath. The pigeon breeder stood in his prg on yard and in the blue sky above him a hundred of his birds flew 'his way and that. "Did you over see a mother pigeon whipping a little one?" the breeder asked. "Well, that is a funny sight. The mother makes a low, quick sound in her throat, for all the world like 'You bad child! You bad child!' and then she beats the squab over the head with In r wings. The S(|tial> squeals; the scene sugests a human mother boxing h r child's ears. Sometimes the father interferes. 'I think. Mary.' he says, 'you have punished the poor c hild enough.' and * with a reproachful manner he shoulders his wife gently away. It is usually Iter fault, yon know, and 'be has no business to get. angry. Dor the trouble all arises over the squab's f< dlug, when tin mothei puis tin- food In its mouth with h"r bill. The squab, - ' being hungry, shut.: down on the food too scon and hurts main run. Hut she shouldn't p'I angry, for tho little* to) low hasn't hurt her on purpose."? Philaiioiphia Record. / \ "