Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

SENATOR JEFF DAVIS. The Newly-Seated Senator from Ar kansas Loses Little Time in Hi* I*romised Crusade Against Trust! and Capitalists.?He Delivers i Speech in Senate Filled With Sen satioual Declarations. Passionate oratory marked th< proceedings of the Senate Wednes day. Senator Davis, of Arkansas who when elected declarer! that h< would attack the trusts immediatel; after taking his seat, fulfilled hi promise although he was a few day late in doing so. The speech wa filled with sensational declaration an i was given with that vigor fo wnich the Arkansas Senator is fam ed in his own State. Quaint phrasing pointed denuncia tion and evidences of intense emotioi characterized his remarks. He wa given a careful hearing by the Sena tors, and the galleries was well fille< throughout the time he held th< fioor. Beginning shortly before o'clock he spoke for a little more thai an hour. Senator Davis began by declarinj that it was not his purpose to retail his Beat in the Senate until his hai shall have turned gray before takinj up his work actively in that body He proposed to present quickly, fear ly and as intelligently as he migh some of the living, burning queE tions before the American people. It was for that reason he had de termined to speak upon his bill t suppress trusts, pools, combination* and conspiracies. After declarinj that his bill, vigorously enforce would killed the trusts Senator Da vis, with dramatic effect, challenge any Senator to step forward and cor test the issue with him. Speaking of the annual appropria tio.ia for the expenses of the Gjverr ment, amounting to $900,000,000, ii turned to Senator Beveridge an add en: rue up that amount of mone on this floor and let my good lookini young friend, the Sanator from In diana, start to count it. He woul< be as old as Methuselah before h could count half of it." The senator detailed appropria tions made for mai itaining the Whit House. "And yet," he continued, "Presi dent Roosevelt has but five childrei ?at home." The inadvertence of speech brough laughter from all parts of the cham ber. "Everything," dec'ared Senatoi -- -Davis, "is in a trust except acorn and persimons. "Holy writ admonished us to g into the vineyard and work. I hav found nothing in the good book tha warrants any of us going into th< vineyard to corner all the grapes. "The President," he said, "ha taken off the dollar the words 'Ii God We Trust.' It's time to take i off. I wonder what the Grand Oh Party is going to put on the dollar? "This panic was started by the? trust magnates and stock gambler in order that they might take fron the cotton producers half of thei property," he added. "I am for the under dog, Senatoi McLaurin," he said addressing tin Senator from Mississippi, who sa before him. "Whenever you hear of a dog figh just say, 'Jeff Davis is for the unde: dog.' He read Eome statistics on th< RlanrlorH Oil P J-* UM..w>u vii vAJuijtoiiy, unu sieppinj out into centre aisle stamped his fooi and said: "The Standard Oil is the old hetrust of the country. It is the trus! that has all the paraphernalia anc ear-marks of a trust. I dislike Standard Oil. I hate the smell of coal oil. Petroleum makes me sick. Oh, sir, something ought to be done to curtail the great power of this monstrous trust?John D. Rockefeller's trust? the great Standard Oil Trust. "1 undertake to say," he continued, "that if this bill is enacted into a law and faithfully and honestly exe cuted, trusts will be wiped from the face of the earth and no longer will we feel their grinding and destroying grip on the arteries of trade and commerce." A domestic corporation found fixing the price of any article would, by his bill, he said, have its charter forfeited, and any corporation guilty of such and act would not be allowed to do business in the United States. "The trust evil," said Senator Davis, "is a cancerous sore on the body politic, just as upon the human body. The only remedy, ihe only successful treat;n< nt is the surgeon's knife. Cut it out by the root, destroy the virus before the w.oole U ?dy politic is atfccted ar.d destioycu." Congress should not hesitate in the work of destroying the trusts be r Lausc oi. any icar oi unsettling business. he continued. He spoke of the Sherman anti-tiurt law. "Has it proven effectual?" he askrd "Has it destroyed a single trust? Under its operation have tiny not grown strong, defiant and arrogant? Almost for seventeen years the Sherman anti-trust law has beei u> m our statute books, more than four times as long as it took the North to wear out the South upon the bloody field of battle. Nearly seven years of Mr. Roosevelt's strenuous term has passed with all the machinery of the Goveanment at his back with the great power ofthe chief executive in his hands, yet I ask will some Republican Senator upon the floor tell me one trust that he has even tamed, much 1*88 destroyed. "Ah, Mr. President, it was stated by the metropolitan press before I entered this august body, flippantly, months thetrust magnates pvould have me feeding out of their (hands. I may share crumbs with a Lasfcrus, but I swear to you today. > by every God in the calendar, that I *hal I never eat from the hands of mammon. "I want to say to you, sir, and to the members of this Senate, that you need not lose any sleep about a corporation getting its rights. You need not lose any sleep about unjust discriminations against them. They will lake care of themselves. But rather should our solicitude be for the man vho bears the burdens of th<j.Gov eminent." -? liiis is an age when men have . fone mad in their frenzied efforts for the dollar. This is an age when ? r.oney is placed above man; when fold is placed above man; when gold is placed before God; when we would iell our souls, our Government, our ill for one bright smile from the gold r >f mammon. What is money, Mr. . ' resident, tnat it is held so priceless. You cannot eat it, you cannot wear ' it: your shroud has not pockets in it, s ind St. Peter will not rect ive it for y id mission into the Golden Gates. t "When we look to the leading cause for this great wealth upon the part >f these corporations and the causes 'eading to their formation, to the t formation of trusts, we arc compell1 ?d to go no further than Republican luthority itself, and take the sworn testimony of Mr. Havemeyer, the .* ?reat sugar king, who has gone to h his reward, be it good or bad. who s has gone to that land and that clime - where St. Peter does not take sugar 3 in his,' and where money is of no 2 value." 1 He recalled Mr. Havemeyer'sstaten nent before the industrial commission, that "the tariff is the mother ? of trusts." 1 "Under the operation of the sysr tern of government," he said, "fifty? >ne men in the United States, mulli nillionaires, if you please, have amassed a total fortune of $3,295,t '*00,000. Of this fifty-one John D. >- Rockefeller, the old king of the world, leads with $600,000,000; An drew Carnegie, the steel king of the 0 world, follows with half this i- amount." K The Secretary of Commerce and d Labor has calculated, he said, that 1 all of the property owned by 89,000,d 000 American citizens is $107,000,000,000. so that these fifty-one citizens own one thirty-fifth of the eni lire wealth of the nation, i- "What an alarming concentration e of wealth; what an alarming concentration of power," he declared. "In y this dav and timo ? J M..v* ?|1??V mv/UWJ ID MI1K , 8 money is god. Without it the doors of opportunity are closed; the doors d of society are shut. Yea, even in e iome instances the doors of the church do not welcome so enthusiastically the man in rags and lexers e as the man with millions. Now shall this condition continue? How shall r this Government be saved7 One way Q suid one way only, that is to kill, destroy the sources of all this evil- the t trusts." ' He exDiained that his bill would not permit corporations to sell their r products in one part of the country 3 at a less price than they sell such products in another part. 0 "What is needed today by the e trust magnates or this Union in ort der to make them respect the law e and obey its solemn mandates," he said, ' is that they be Created like or8 dinary felons; is that the strong arm 11 of the law be laid against them just j- as it would be against a horse thief or any or.e else charged with crime. Land them in the penitentiary, place B felon stripes, 'the doxology of a mis8 spent life,' upon them and you will n see the trusts are busted and the peor pie will get relief. Ah, sir, one trust magnate in the penitentiary of r the United States, one trust mag nate with felon stripes, one trust t magnate as a living example and object lesson that the law is greater t than any man, that the law is above r and beyond us all, that the law protects the weak and punishes the - strong alike, would be the most I wholesome example that could be t set in this Republic to-day." He declared that while he4l^ffl alarmist he is not an Anarchist or a - .socialist. I "There is too much gold," he de clared, "there is too much glitter; there is gloss; there is too much of . tinsel, and 1 say, sir, that unless times and conditions change it wi?l 1 not be long before the American statesmen will be wearing knee breeches with brass buckles and powdered wigs and bowing down to ' semi-royalty." He spoke o? the great expenses of the Government. "Our President," he said, "and I speak of him in the most respectful terms, besides his salary of $50,000 a years, and I say that is not excessive, is paid by this Congress $25,000 a year for travelling expenses, and approximately $113,000 annually for living expenses. Ah, Mr. President. 1 this is enough. This is unreasonable The President of the United States has five children, I believe. It is true that he should live in accordance i with the dignity of the position he ' occupies?the greatest Executive j upon the face of the earth?but, Mr. ' President, I have you skinned a city ! block in the matter of family. 1 have eight children, and I don't take $113,000 for my living expenses. No, sir, : the greatest President that ever livi ed upon this earth, that was ever inaugurated in this Capitol, in my judgment, was 'Old Blue Jeans, old rf ckory Jackson,' who rode his horse ' f ^ 4U~ U/L - TT ? ?.u me w mie mouse ureased in a suit 1 of blue jeans." He denounced stock gambling and said he wou'd do away with gambling in cotton, grain and the necessities of life. Rooskvelt will go down in history as the freak president of the United States. His latest order that army officers ride thirty miles a day for ; three consecutive days has created consternation among them. The order does not include the coast artillery 1 officers, and some newspaper suggests that they be required to stand I on their heads in the rain for so I many consecutive minutes in order1 to prove that they are qualified for I the service. SPOOK HALTS HORSE : ' -? And Warns Fanner Against Going S to Kris Homo. He Won Delayed Until Daylight and ] When He Reached Home Finds Mciilli Ti'.n When a Society for Psychical Re search holds its next meeting it- , might call before it. Chines ttenr> Durand. a farmer living about three ' miles from Caldwell, N. J., and hear 1 his story of how his life was saved 1 by a strange apparition he met in the ' roadway on Monday night. I Since the death of his wife Durand 1 has lived alone in the farmhouse. He < was on his way home from Peterson 1 after dark Mondav night, when his < horse stopped still in the road and refused to move. The horse trem- I bled so violently that Durand strain- l ed his eyes in the darkness to learn < what the animal had seen. i He says he saw a flicker of bluish light, which moved toward him until t it was beside his wagon, and then j took on a misty shape. He says he recognized the form and the voice of the apparition. It repeated to him ( three times the warning, "Do not go home for several hours." With the cold chills running up and down his spine and the gooseflesh j, standing out over the body like a , man with a chill he tried to drive on after the apparition was gone. The , horse refused to budge. The animal had broken out in a cold sweat. Durand says he unhitched the horse and blanketed him. It was then about 11 o'clock. For two hours he worked with the horse, which seemed afflicted with the ague. Aftei Pitching up again, he drove slowly to his home. It was then nearly 3 o'clock. He put the horse into the barn and went inside the house. The first sight that met his eye was a muddy footprint, ( Durand found that nothing haa been ^lA.1 1- * - - Lun.cn, ttiLiiuugn me nouse was a bit upset. He found a window on the ground floor that had be^n opened in his absence, showing how the intruder had entered. The farmer looked into closets and out-of-theway places and then decided to go upstairs. When he started up he saw j at once that some one haa been there. There were footpriuts on the stairs and in the hall leading to his sleeping room. Lighting his way before him and stepping cautiously, feeling that some danger was lurking ahead of him. but determined to face it at all hazzards and have the dread that possessed over him, Durand approached the door of his room. It was open, as he had left it. When about to enter, Durand stopped and looked closely. Across the door at a height half way to his knee, so that his foot or shin must strike I it, waS a string, instinctively, the farmer says, he felt that something threatened his life. i To the man of the woods, used to the snaring of birds and animals, the . string across the door suggested a spring or a trap. Durand went down stairs and returned with an umbrel> la. He stood against the wall of the . hall and with the umbrella handle i gave the string a pull. Instantly , there was a report and a bullet im' beded itself in the end of the wall. Investigation later showed it was at : about the height of a man's chest. Durand then entered the room and found a revolver fastened to a dresser. The string led from the trigger i to the door. It was ingeniously ar' ranged to shoot the person who en tered the room. Durand believes that the person, or persons, who visited his home did so 1 with the intention of killing him, and, not finding him home, arranged the ' trap. He says he has a suspicion as ; to tneir laenuty ana Knows the reason for their enmity that prompted ' the attempt upon his life. His neigh- ( I Jass say whatever feud there is must ( 'rove existed before Durand moved 1 into the neighborhood where he now x lives. c He believes the apparition in the s road saved his life. He says he rec- i ognized the figure and the voice, and it was of a person now dead of whom ^ he was fond. Further than this he ? refuses to talk. Durand never has ^ believed in spiritualism. His exper- C ience has pretty well unnerved him, t although he is not the kind of man r who is easily unnerved. l ' V A Good King Gone. Good King Oscar, of Sweden, is c dead. He wa&. seventy-nine years u old, and was a fine old gentleman, a He was the grandson of that Mar- a shall Bernadotte, who followed the fortunes of Napoleon and, though a peasant by birth, rose to be the king e of Norway and Sweden. The late n ruler never attempted to conceal the p obscurity of his ancestry, and over a the door of the house in which Ber- j, nadotte was born rests a tablet which ! records that there "the peasant, e I Bernadotte," was born. King Oscar o was not only one of the wisest but ^ one of the most democratic of rulers. a He mingled freely with his people 8< and knew their wants and wishes weil. The s?paration of Norway and Swe- , den came as a cloud upon his declin- . ing years, but it was one of the in- ** evitablc steps in the development ot the two countries. The interests of Norway as a maritime nation were not identical with those of Sweden, i s< and when the request for a separate consular system was preferred, it J' was refused by Sweden. Two years ago Norway seceded from the union and chose a king of her own. The grief for the dead sovereign in Eu- T rope will be deep and sincere, for, '1 indeed, as the Atlanta Journal says, d he was a model of that justice and tl mercy which "doth bee me the n throned monarch better than his r< crown." ??????? qi Kven when h girl doesn't want a t>. young man to kiss her it niukes her as mad If he doesn't want to. tfc tt u.tto aoq o) sppu oqs ubiu u jo jno ( la )19ouo9 eqi son"! ubiuo* B UdRAi J 10 p^oiljp', g? u.l'TTT" 'IVR FULLY ARGUED. tome Legal Points Submitted to ; the Supreme Court Por Its Decision In Reference to the I Formation of New Counties in This State. The case of A.< B. Parler. et al.. petitioners, vs. W. Brooks Fogle, et >1 luuiuiissioners 01 election for Or- < mgeburg County, respondents, was I irgued before the State Supreme < Court at Columbia on Thursday on a I petition for an injunction restraining the commissioners from holding an I election os the formation of Cal- i tioun County, as ordered by the Gov- l ernor. * Messrs. W. C. Wolfe, D. O. Herbert and B. H. Moss, of the Orange- < burg Bar, appeared for the petitiosers, and the board of election commissioners were represented by the i Attorney General, who had designated Messrs Bellinger & Welch to represent him in the case, as Messrs. , Bellinger and Welsh have been the legal advisers for the new county advocates. In his argument for the injunction, Mr. W. C. Wolfe took the position that the form, practice and procedure in this case follows the case of Segars against Parrott, which form, practice and procedure received the implied sanction of the Court by a grant of the relief desired in that case. A demurrer was interposed in that case, questioning the Jurisdiction of the Court in every particular in which jurisdiction might me assailed in this case, but the demurrer was overruled. In Lamar against Croft anothei new county case, where the same question of jurisdiction arose, the Supreme Court held that the complaint did not state fncts warranting equitable relief and that an action might be maintained in equity to enJoin the commissioners. Mr. Wolfe cited also the case of Croxton vs Truesdell, in which the Supreme v^ouri enjcnea an election to determine the location and establishment of a county dispensary. Mr. Wolfe asked the Court to inspect the rei>orts of the surveyors and determine whether the surveys were sufficiently definite; also to consider whether the Governor had the ri?h' to permit the petitioners to amend their petition. Then the third cause of action in substance stated as follows; "The plaintiffs and others residfti*; within the proposed new county are registered in their township, but at voting places without the territory of the proposed county; but under an Act of the Legislature the de fondants have only arranged to open voting places within the territory which deprives petitioners of the right to exercise their franchise in the proposed election, though the plaintiffs are qualiled. registered electors. The Constitution provides that all persons thus qualified have the right to vote, and Article 7 expressly declares that if they reside within the area of the new county they will have the right to vote, yes or no, upon their proposition. To deprive them of this right would be to abridge and deprive them of right? without due process tf law and it violation of both the State and Fed eral Constitutions, where, as in thi: ense, a polling precinct (township) is cut by the proposed boundary lint of the new county and the votlnp place cut without, and the elector rut within the area of the proposed county, there is an Irreconcilable conflirt. between the Pnnalltntlnn o?.l the Act of the General Assembly. In such cases the Act of the Legislature must necessarily fall, and all of he Acts of the defendants thereuuier are necessarily void. If the < Hourt does not enjoin the defendant he plaintiffs will be deprived from ; roting and will have no other remedy >r right of appeal, but would thrn j lustain irremediable damage and in ; ury." The fourth cause of action, salt' i Jr. Wolfe, challenges the legality , if the entire registration system, but ; le dwelt oa only one point. The Constitution lays upon the Leglslaure the regulation of the right ol egistration, and the Legislature in 907 passed an Act requiring super isors of registration to open theii looks in each town or industrial omnmnity containing 300 or njore ^habitants at least 30 days befo-e ny general or special election. This kCt has been complied with. In conclusion, Mr. Wolfe said: The plaintiffs do not ask that this lection upon the formation of thh ew county be delayed for all time ut simply that it be stayed until II the constitutional requirements i such cases be complied with." In his argument Mr. Moss devotd himself to the contilct between ] eotion 573 of the Code and Section , of Article 7 of the Constitution. nd quoted numerous decisions tc ] how that the statute in such case If , oid and the election should he re- ] trained. Col. Herbert also made a | oneral argument on this line. , In their return to the rule to show | ause. the defendants, through their ( ttorneys, made a number of points, v )me of which are as follows: j That the Governor is the sole j idge of the matters coming before ; im in new county petitions, and , lat he has passed on these matters That the Governor merely allowed | ie amendment of the petition for ( le purpose of making the Itoun , aries more definite. They deny (] iat the Constitution says all quailed electors in the proposed new >unty shall vote, but it says the u nestion shall be submitted to the unlified electors, and that a two- 11 lirds vote of those voting is neces- 1 try to form the new county. That A le defendants have merely followed 4'< le order of the Governor and the ws of the State, and they have not # Id the managers of election, who vv AS IT SHOULD BE. [ ttatue of 6en. R. E. Loo at Na- I tlonal Capital. [( Will Ik Placed lu Statuary Hall at au Early Date by the State of Virginia. A Washington dispatch to the Atlanta Journal says the statue of Sen. Robert E. Lee, which Virglnin Is to send to Statuary Hall, with that af George Washington to represent tier in the gallery of the immortals, will soon be in position. The sculptor. Edwarl V. Valentine, of Richmond. who enioved the Honmnal Friendship of General Lee. has about completed his work and the bronze will soon be cast by the Gorhams, of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Valentine made several ccsts of Gen. Lee't features just a year of two before his death. and those who have been permitted to see the sculptor's latest work say he has succeeded In reproducing a remarkable likeness of the great soldier. It is said to equal his masterpiece, the recumbent figure of General Lee. at Washington and Lee University, over the crypt in which rest the ashes of the Confederate chieftain. When the Vlrgiula legislature passed the bills some years ago making appropriations for the statues of Washington and Lee. there was considerable opposition manifested by one or two senators at having General Lee represented in bronze In the national Vninulla. As a reply to the Virginia proposition. Representative Weeks, of Kansas, introduced a bill, providing for the erection of a statue of John Brown on the government reservation at Richmond. He is said also intending offering a bill for the erection of a statue of Brown in Statuary Hall. Some one suggested that it would be appropriate for Virginia to retaliate by placing the statue of General Lee, the man who caught Brown at Harper's Ferry, on the one side, and that of Governor Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, who hanged him. on the other. Mr. Weeks thereupon withdrew his bill for Brown's statue in Statuary hall, but insisted on his measure to place it at Richmond. The measure has not since been heard of. and Weeks was not return ed to Congress by his Kansas constituents. Since the Weeks incident there has been little discussion of placine Lee's stature in the national capitol. md it is uot believed that there will be any opposition to the statue having a plnce in Statuary hall. Presllent Roosevelt's admiration of Gen. Lee as a soldier and a man. and his 'rank epression of his opinion has had a great deal to do with the passing of the sentiment against the statue of the Confederate leader having a place in the capital. The statue represents Gen. Lee standing, his hat and gloves in one hand, with both hands resting lightly on the hilt of his sword. The sword is a copy of the one worn by the general, now in the posession of his son, Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr. The figure is clothed in the uniform of a general officer of the Confederate army. While no date has been fixed, it is tow proposed that the presentation >f the statue be made by Senator fown W. Daniel, of Virginia, wh vas Gen. "Jubal" Early's adjutant general, and that the speech of acceptance be delivered by Gen. War en Keifer, of Ohio, a veteran of the 'Jnion army. Charles Francis Adams predicted a 'ew years ago that the time would come when a statue of Gen. Lee vould be unveiled in the capitol of he United States. It is not unlikeXT tKot UlA nroukAee aP Vf m A j vuni vuv (fiu|iucoj \f i mil Aunuin suggested the introduction of the bill n the Virginia legislature. Virginin will soon send to the captol a reproduction of the celebrated loudon statue of Washington, which ?ow stands in the state capitol at Richmond. There is now lu Statuary Hall a cheap plaster cast of this tatue, placed there by the federal [overnment. It has recently been hoved to the wall, and the statue f Frances E. Willard, the founder f the Christian Temperance Union, laced in front of it. The way in rhlch the F'ather of His Country now eeps out from behind the petticoats as caused much comment. re qualified electors and who are ot, but have meiely given the mangers their views in accordance with he opinion of the Attorney General, 'hat while it is alleged, a number f electors in the proposed county rill be deprived of voting, it is not lleged that if permitted to vote they rill cast their ballots against the ormation of the new county, or that heir being unable to vote will afBct the result. By c way of defence it is alleged in he return that the plaintiffs have illed to show any equity that entiles them to relief; that the action. ' brought at all, should be mainlined in the name of the State; lat the Court is without jurisdiction > enjoin an election order?*d by the ower and au'horitv: that the nlain- " ffs have an appeal to the tate hoard of canvassers if the lection when held is not held in ccordanee with law. In his argument. Mr. Welch, for le Attorney General, cited decisions > sustain the poiuts made in the re- : lrn. and made a careful argument I a this line. The UniteJ States Supreme Court ' as decided that the rai'road com- j tfssioners of South Carolina must ot stop the through trains of the tlantic Coast Line at Latta, S. C., >r the accomodation of local p?s?ng-?s. .t he w! ...... ur 'er (>f t.u . jmmissh n to this effect i.,Lwifcied ith intei state cortunerce. MM ? W? v "HP '(S! J* TERRIBLE DISASTER. How the Earthquake Destoyct S the Town of Karatagh. In I*S8 Than a Few Hours It Passed I From a Thriving Community Into the Silent Grave of IOOO Souls. The destruction of Karatagh Turkishtan, has been described a* > one of the most appalling natura catastrophes on record. A short ' time ago a nourishing community It is now the grave of 4.000 dead. A deaitlv fuor 1 * on uviw iuc iifuru j of the people of Karatagh, on the ' eve of the disaster, Oct. 20, when a storm swept over the place. A corres|K)ndent at the scene gives the 1 first detailed account and says: 1 "Early in the morning the whole 1 town seemed to shudder. The earth 1 tremors weru frequent, but few of the townspeople were sufficiently disturbed to leave their houses. Fifteen minutes later a terrific shock re mounding with weird noises. Then 'he town seemed to be repeatedly ' lifted high in the air and set down 1 heavily. 1 "Buildings were crumbling and 1 crashing to ruins. In scores of places he ground burst open and boiling water spouted upward. Many houses ' were battered down by the falling 1 ocks. Others, with their occupants *ank bodily into great (issues in 'he earth. The populace, or such of hem as escaped Instant death, ap- 1 peared to be mad with terror. From 3very side arose awful shrieks. "The storm had come on again ^ with renewed force. Maddened animals tore aimlessly hither and thith- J ?r. continuous peals of thunder and flashes of blinding lightning added 0 to the frenzy Many fugitives per- 1 Ished under the hoofs of the an:- v rnnls." ' s According to Walsh's directory t of Columbia, which has just been issued, that city now has a population t >f 44.151 being an increase in the t last seven years of 16.651. This is \ a remarkable showing, but does not ? 51irnrl?0 IK QC urn Kotrn 1 nr?** ? ... , - V. ..U.V IU1IK OllltC I C I garded Columbia as a comer. Before \ locating that sub-treasury anywhere \ dse the government should study the Columbia figures. Orangeburg Times and Democrat. ( Columbia is working for a sub- ? treasury of the United States, and ( we sincerely hope she will get it. ? There is no better location in the J South for such an institution, and t it should be located there. Columbia 1 is one of the coming big cities of the t country, and it would be well for the l government to recognize that fact in c the distribution of its sub-treasuries t | ind other public utilities.- -Orange- c ! turg Times and Democrat. i i PIANOS AND ORGANS ; FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. J we ARE FACTORY AGENTS and 1 epresent only the best Pianos and a Organs, that *111 last a life time ^ Write at once for our liberal term* q nil Special prices p MA MINE'S MUSIC HOlSE, * Columbia, S. C. t THE ONLY In Columbia, South Carolina, makln thine In the MHihiiwrv - iiiu } Write us for prices before placi | COLUMBIA SUPPLY O On corner opposite Seat>oard Air I LOOK FOR THE It means that we nrc manufacturer* and sales agents for complete Pov Plants, in steam or gasoline, Stat ary and Portable Boilers, Saw 1 Falgers Planers, Shingle, Lath, and Corn Mills and anything chinery. Our stock is h prices are right and our g r.tccd. . Write for Fr< GIBItKS MACHINERY C OMPANY, II 1 have had acveral vnra other kinds of -vegetable ^Ba&S....iv!!i|y plants, Collard plants, and T ' now have ready for ah follows: Early Jersey Wake My and Henderson Sncceaaions. Wl *wt\ul\V&. ' \\ 'ties to all experienced true Kl SNfLawT' - I] the ?Psn air near salt watei EtV II Prices: !.# for S4S plants II sand, 5.W to %$? at )1 25 thousand. Wr have special I this point. All orders will b. money with orders. I wouli wjf rt*y-t fVi will save the charges for rc'un / Other plants will be read Hi 1] prompt and personal attentioi HLII trial order; I guarantee sati B. J. DONALDSON. it Wjkflwld and Soccruio.i Cai LAtllfLO*t^^ (iKf> and large type Cauli' ower. ?QWMW be,, (TTOwcra in the world. We hi ^Tahmct M *,ock ,or * v?f?. and II 'a safe lo uy ^M"^r They have successfully Mood I drouth and are relied on by the movt prnmii I ~*M South. We ifoarantrr full count and safe arri PRICES: Cabbage and lettuce f. o. b. Young' per thousand; 5 to S.tM at SITS per thousand W* Cauliflower. $S 00 per thousand, quantities in pi .1 Write your name and express ofli. gd W. R. HART, ENTE References- Enterprise Rank. Charleston. "great mystery |1 urrounds the SuicMe of a WeftW Known Actress. > radrjfy <\>;niuitte<l While Attdk'OC* v. in uie Theatre, In Wliich She Wafe Expects to IMajr, Waited. Mrs. Clara Bloodgood, the actrqge, ommitted suicide by shooting in her oom at the Hotel Stafford at Baltt* lore Thursday evening. Mrs. Blood good's body was found ting on the bed with a bullet hole hrough the roof of her mouth. Near iy lay a bock, entitled "How to (hoot Straight," and a 3S-calibre re* olver with three chambers empty. She attended a matinee perform* uce at Albaugh's Theatre Thursday fternoon and returned to her hotel bout four o'clock^ seemingly in the >est of spirits. Later, when it was time for the urtain to rise for her own show at he Academy of Music, where she cas appearing in '"Hie Truth," she tad not put in ar appearance. wSrd ras sent to the Stafford and a bell cy was sent up to her room. Just s he approached the door he heard . pistol shot. Hurrying back to tfce iffice he notified the clerks of wbft le heard and an investigation w_s nude and Mrs. Ftloodgood\was fond tretched on the bed as described. Before retiring to her room sbjfl^^ tad a talk with her stage managejH^I ohn Emerson, who declares that BH ibserved nothing unusual in her d^H|B neanor. The only motivo he scribe is that Mrs. Ftloodgood feanj^^^B in attack of nervous prostration. St^HH tad been working very hard, he sal^HH ind she t'eared a breakdown. Mrs. Bloodgood left a note address- H d to her husband. The audience V I B he Academy of Music was d^ismlsved . B vith the announcement that there ' could be no performance owing to a : | mddeu indisposition of Mrs. Blood* V ;ood. 1 So far t his season eleven persona ] lave been killed in the foot ball ! ?ames and ninety-eight have been '1 njured, and yet this bru'al. deadly*1 \ >port goes on. A game with so much 1. ,1 mutality in it has a tendency to J brutalize instead of elevating those j vho engage in it. * IIoiv (o Curt- Rheumatism. The cause of Rheumatism and kinired dlse. ?ee is an excess of uric ( icid in the blood. To cure this terrl- . j >le disease the acid must be expelled I ind the system so regulated that no nore acid will be formed In exceolive quantities. Rheumatism is an >#i nternal disease and requires an In- . ernal remedy. Rubbing with olle and I iniments will not cure, affords only fm emporarx relief at bestf onuses you o delay the proper treatment, and al- V ows the malady to get a firmer hold I m you. I.inlments may ease the patn. ^ >ut they will no more cure Rh^uma- ] ism than paint will change the^hra I >f rotten wood. Science has at last. <liM j? >orfect and tailed R11 e lreds of < nost marx^MrafflHHBSH8BBBfflM|^Bfi0 cure^H^B^*|MaH^^?|H8BHgH he jo 1 n ip the Htniuf^^R|?jraMH?^H^HE&8BK^? ind kl a >ver. R leemucUle^ml^^BBH^BgB^^^H he disease and removes its t^KsgSBMS This splendid remedy is sold :lsts and dealer.*- generullv at ind 41 & bottle. In tablet form CP3gftjg !Bc. and a nr. a package. Get a boJ^K?R|s| oday; delays are generous. HOC SE W g a specialty of handling every- B e. rs?j ng order elsewhere. si (>.. Col em hi*. I, C. I Line Paseeuger Station. ||| ? TRADEMARK 1 M?>\ HO, Columbia, S. f. experience in growing Cabbage plant* .nd ^K$ plant* for the trade, via: Beet plants. Onion }jwB omato plaata. H| iproent Beet plant* and Cabbage plant* a* K; field*, Charleston large Type Wakefield*. Theae brine the hr.1 bnnwM Mtnku ' k farmer*. Theae plant* are grown out in I S0r. r and will aland aevere cold without injury. I In lou of l.M# to 5.9M at II.M per thou- I per thousand. II.IM ai.d over at 11.M per I low F.xprees rata* on vegetable plant* from 1 e ahipped C. O. D. utile** you prt ftr -ending I /IKS I ad viae tending money with order*. You rung the C. O. I >"*. f H ly in February. Your order* will have my RffiMsBH When in need of Vegetable plants give au Hn?fl iafactlon. Addreaa alt order* to bbage. Big BoMon Let- r< s? . Grown from aeeda of tfte vj Bin ive worked diligently on out Bf that to-day are the best ohthe most at \ ere tests of cold and \ H tent growers of every art.lion of the I val of all gooda shipped by expres* * (aland. 0# for ?I.M; I to \M*af II SI flH IB.OtMi and over at fl.M per thousand oportion. re plainly and mail order* to jfe roatmdater, Rntarpriaa. S- C. BSL 1 e d