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\ . THE FORT MILL TIMES VOLUME XVIII FORT MILL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1900 NO. 22 ? SAYS COOK LIED When He Claimed to Have Been to the Horth Pole PEARY'S VAIN BOAST That He Alone Reached the Goal is Not Strange, Rut it is Not Accepted as True by Many Scientific Men, Who Award the Honor to Cook Alone. The lie was hurled Wednesday concerlng the discovery of the North Pole, and the foundation laid for a controversy unparalleled in hiBS tory. Commander Robert E. Peary is making uncertain progress southward off the coast of Labrador In his ship, the Roosevelt, but there came irom mm v> eunesaay a message as direct as his homeward Journey has been slow. It challenges the veracity of Dr. Frederick A. Cook, of Brooklyn, and further complicate*. a situation which the whole world Is discussing.. In effect Peary discredits Cook's claims with the Intimation that ho (Peary) aud he alone, planted the American flag at the {North Pole on April 6, 1909, and that Dr. Cook who asserts that he unfurled the flag at the pole on April 21, 1908, must substantiate his claims. Peary's statement reflecting on Dr. . Cook's achievement came first to the Associated Press early Wednesday morning, dated Indian Harbo*\ Laborador, the point through whicn he first reported his success by wireless. It had probably been delayed in transmission aud read as follows: "I have nailed the Stars and Stripes to the North Pole. This is authoritative and correct. Cook's story should not be taken to seriously. The two Eskimos who accompanied him Bay that he went no distance north, and not out of sight of land. Other members of the tribe corroborate their story." To the Associated Press Peary had sent the dispatch, replying to an urgent request for an authoritative statement and some comment concerning Dr. Cook. While Peary's assertion is of a nature that makes Dr. Cook's position one of defence, the Brooklyn explorer yet has supporters both at home and abroad. Many of the Continental scientists are marmng ume, pending aeveiopments, while those who have formed no decided opinions in this country 1 have assumed a similar stand. STANDS BY COOK. One of Peary's Former Surgeons Defends Cook. Dr. Thos. H. Dedrlck, of Washing- ; ton, N. J., who was surgeon of the Peary expedition in 1898-1902, jjrtlyromptlv came to the support of L JDr. Cook Wednesday. He said: , . * "The charge (referring to Peary's Statement) may lesson Mr. Cook's standing iu popular estimation until Ms defence can be heard, but the scientific world will be affected only E5b> by scientific discrepancies. Dr. took wilt undoubtedly have scientiflc records and observations without Eskimo proof. "If Eskimo proof is needed, there jpRto?4re enough admirerB of fair play in EjL?t. ^h? world to send impartial interpreters to the trlho." Analyzing the Eskimo character. Dr. Dedrlck is inclined t think them unreliable, "with a temperament which would lead him to agree for suavity's sake and because of immediate benefit with a man on the spot, having a ship loaded with what is most dear to an Eskimo's heart. mi- I - ....... 1 ,? AntVOAiftlltf i 1*11 A *' O f 11119 w u u I u uu coj/ci. miij u ur, mgues Dr. Dedrick, "If their former benefactor had departed homeward aR Cook did on a sled with no halo of a ship's prestige." In conclusion Dr. Dedrick said: "Supitose Oook next year went up and distributed presents as ships do, and asked If his rival had gotten out of sight of land and they said 'no,' what matter would It make to the public?" Other Important parties may yet be heard from. The whalers which arrive at Dundee this fall may also know what the Eswlmos say. Declare Deary a Fakir. At New York among the friends of Dr. Cook who rallied to his defense was Capt. B. 8. Osborn, secretary of the Arctic Club, of America. who in an Interview, said: "Peary In making these charges IIS digging his own grave. He Is a colossal fakir, and his statements are a fabric of untruths. As soon as he sets foot In New York, Mr. Bradley and mvself will give out affidavits i In support of our position. "1 have an affidavit stating that ? ' Peary opened Dr. Cook's trunks and W ' data and that he opened a letter Dr. Cook had written to Mrs. Cook, road It and then sealed It up again. Peary also wrote Mrs. Cook telling her baldly that her husband was a fakir." Another Cook Support.. Prof. Wm. H. Brewer, of Yale, honorary president for life of the Arctic Club of America, of which both Peary and Cook are members, telegraphed to New York aa follows: J "I believe that both Cook and Peary haVe reached the pole." | fc/- i WHAT COOK SAYS HE DECLARES HE CAN AN1 WILL PROVE HIS CLAIM. Will Send for His Eskimo Compan ions and Asserts That Peary Took Food Stored for Him. At Copenhagen, Cook, showi Peary's statement Wednesday nighl stood by his gun, declined to entei into a debate and calmly asserted that his records would sustain him He Raid: "I have been to the North Pole, As I said last night when I heard of Commander Peary's success, if he says he has been to the pole, 1 believe him. "I am willing to place facts, figures and worked-out observations before a joint tribunal of tho scientific bodies of the world. In due course I shall be prepared to make public an announcement that will effcectually dispel any doubt, if there can be such, of the fact that 1 have reached the pole. But knowing that 1 am right and that right must prevail, I will submit at the proper time my full story to the Court of last resort?tho people of tho world. "I will not enter into any controversy over the subject with Commander Peary, further than to say that if he says I nave taken his Eskimos, my reply is that Eskimos ars nomads. They are owned by nobody, and not private property of either Commander Peary or myself. "As to the story that Commander Peary says I took provisions stored by him. my reply is that Peary took my provisions, obtaining them from the custodian on the plea that I had been so long absent that he was going to organize relief stations for me in case I should be alive. For this I have documentary proof. ' This is Dr. Frederick A. Cook's repiy to Commander Peary. Coming fo quickly upon other dramatic incidents of the week. Commander Peary's dispatch denying that Dr. Cook has achieved the triumph for which he has been feted and honored in Copenhagen, beyond the lot of any other private person, has been ifau lueiw wiin leenugs oi amazement and concern. Rut Dr. Cook himself seems in no wise disturbed. He was perfectly cool and apparently unmoved when confronted with telegrams from the United States saying that Commander Peary had denounced him as an imposter. His demeanor has not changed in the slightest from the day he landed at Copenhagen. When it was suggested to him that his chances of proving his case might be ruined unless he made a satisfactory statement immediately, he smiled?his usual quiet smile? and asked how could a man be ruined by popular clamor calling him an Imposter when he had proofs of his case which could and would be published, as he had oft times repeated, when they were in proper form to be given out. Regarding the %contrtovcrsy over his alleged taking of Peary's stores, Or. Cook asserts that ho has written, and other satisfactory evidence, that Peary took his stores, perhaps believing him doadV, "Harry Whitney Is personally acquainted with all the factB, and perhaps what ho haR to Fay when he returns may be interesting." added the explorer. I)r. Cook told Capt. Rverdrup and another friend the day after he had landed that he hoped there would be no unpleasantness over supplies with the Peary party; that he had found some of Peary's men in possession of one of his depots and had turned them out uncermoniously. It is settled that Cook will send a shin back to bring to America the two Eskimos who accompanied him on the last stage of his Journey to the pole, as well as some of the party who were sent hack when the start of the stage begun. Capt. Sverdrui) may command the expedition; it is Pr. Cook's desire that he shall do so, and they conferred for several hours a few days ago. Murder and Robbery. ^ band of robbers, masked and armed with bombs and revolvers, nttaked the postofllce at Miass, Rus sia, Wednesday night and aftoi killing the night watchman anil three policement looted the office and made their escape with $40,000. Ten men were more or less seriously wounded in the fighting The robbers cut the telegraph wlrot ana nea up tne track on a locomotive. After traveling some mllej they stcpp ed the engine aud dUap peared Into the woods. Figures Were Wrong. In our Tuesday's Istfue. we stated that there was about $1,500 wortt of cotton sold at North. Since thei we have received a letter from i resident of that place, who says tha1 the sales for Thursday. Friday ant Saturday of last week were $15,000 Swept by Floods. A dispatch from La Paz, Lowe California, dated September 6, sayi that that place wag overwhelmed b: a flood. No details as to the damafi wrought were given more than tha the pbttolflee building wae deatroy |ed. x ^ GRAFT CASES 1 Called and Eleven Men Are Indicted by Jury < FOR ALLEGED FRAUDS | In the Management of the State IHtfpensnry?Some Damaging Tesiti' iikony Drougiit Out?Joseph I). Wylie, Former Member of Board, cret session, Henry SamuelB, now 1 mayor of Chester, and close friend of Wylie's; Schmidt is bookkeeper for the Anheuser Ruscli concern, long represented in this State by Jas. L. ( Farnum; Earley for years sold to , the State dispensary the products of , the Flei8Chmann Company of Cin- , cinnatl, and Thorpe and Collins were j bookkeepers at the State dispensary. | The Persons Indicted. The persons under indictment are: , Jas. Farnum, who is alleged to have ( made thousands of dollars unlawfully selling beer and liquor to the , State of South Carolina: John Rlack, a former shipping clerk and later j director of the dispensary; L. W. , Royken, a former dispensary inspector and later ^ member of the dispensary board; Joe. R. Wylie, who was a member of the dispensary board; Jno. Rell Towill, a director of the dispensary: W. O. Tatum, dispensary commissioner; Jodie M. llawlinson, a dispensary director, and the following liquor salesmen: Jno. T. Earley. M. A. Goodman. H. Lee Solomons and Dennis Weiakopf. The indictments in brief are as follows: First, State against Jam^s S. Farnum. bribery, the bribe being alleged to have been given to Joseph R. Wylie in the sum of $1,575. Second, the State against James S. Farnum. bribery, the bribe alleged to have been given to Joseph R. Wylie in the sum of $1,125. Third, the State against James S. Farnum, J. M. Kawllnson, Joseph B. Wylle and John Black, being a conspiracy to cheat and defraud the State of Sotith Carolina out of $4.800, Fourth, the State against John Black, accepting a bribe and rebate. Fifth, the State against N. A. Goodman, John T. Fairey, Dennis Welskopf, L. Whit Boykin, John Bell Towill and W. O. Tatum, indictment for conspiracy to defraud the State of South Carolina out of $22,500 in the "label deal." Sixth, the State against E. A. Goodman. James S. Farnum, John C. Earley, H. Lee Solomons, J. B. Wylle, John Black and J. M. HawI linson, indictment for conspiracy to defraud the tSate of South Carolina and to accept and to pay rebates " in the sum of $133,000. I The Label I M ai. 1 In the renowned "label case" it is charged that in March. 1905, L. 1 Whit Boykin and John Bell Towill, members of the board of directors. ? and W. O. Tatum bought $35,000 worth of labels, which purchase, It . Is alleged, was Illegal, fradulent and unlawful, and at. a greatly excessive price, to wit.: $22,500 In excess of the value whereby the State was defrauded as the result I out of the sum of $22,600. j Dennis Weiskopf, M. M. Goodman, j L. Whit Boykln. L. W. Wowlll and i William O. Tatum alleged to have t been In this conspiracy and to have 1 benefited financially therefrom. . Welskopf. who printed the labels, . was the proprietor of a glasa and I box factory, and the label transacr tion was something new for blm^ It Is alleged. Scale of Rebates. Y The scale of rebates alleged in 5 the larger conspiracy is: t| -That the said Jodie M. Wawlln-1 '* ben. .Tos. E. Wyile and John Black | were to accept and reckive for e^ry IWIU inree u msKey 4iien lesuiy. ' The State says the dispensary graft cases have been brought into court. I Men once given commission of of-1 flee by the State of South Carolina ' now stand accused of crimes and of1 fenses against the State. Bribery, ' conspiracy to defraud and other se1 rlous crimeB are alleged. 1 Not all of the Indictments have ; been handed out, but the prosecution appears to have considered well its case and to have made a move to get a conviction in the cases in which the State has the most conclusive 1 evidence. The indictments were | handed to the grand jury In the morning by Solicitor W. H. Cobb, representing the State of South Carolina. Attorney General Lyon, who has been at work on these cases for three years, is assisted by Mr. W. F. Stevenson of Cheraw, former speaker of the house or representatives, and by Mr. R. L. Abney, general counsel for the Southern railway in South Carolina, and a lawyer of recognized ability and force. The grand jury at 3:30 p. m. heard the witnesses and Bhortly , thereafter returned a true bill in each case. The witnesses were Joe n. Wllle and Henry Hamuels of Chester, J. A. Valentine Schmidt of ' St. Louis, J. G. Thorpe of Aiken, T. W. Collins of Columbia and Juo. T. Early of Cincinnati. Wylie is a former director of the State dispensary and is alleged to have turned State's evidence, although. of course, the proceedings before the grand Jury were in se HAVOC OF FLOODS PRIESTS RHINO NEWS OF DESTRUCTION IN MEXICO. Towns Entirely Wiped Out and Thousands of People Drowned by Mexican Freshet. Advices from Monterey, Mexico, Is to the effect that a number of village priests, after making journeys over miles of devastated country, have arrived there, bringing the first news of the destruction wrought by the recent floods in the outlying districts. Their Btorles Indicate that the havoc is more widespread and terrible than was at first believed. The priests of Arramberi have Informed Archbishop Lenares that Arramberi was destroyed, and today his people are wandering over the country in search of food. The de- , Birucuuu ui me roaus nas made it | impossible to send on relief sup- ( piles. , The story brought In by the priest , of La Ascension Is to the effect that , this town and Its population of 2.000 souls have entirely disappeared. , The people, he says, may have taken | to the hills, or they may have per- , lshed. ( "Not a stone was left upon a stone j in La Ascension," the priest said. ] "Where there was once rich farms is now nothing but water." I Another priest from Alleude says ( that place also disappeared with ( large loss of life, and that the t neighboring fields have been converted Into lakes. 1 The priests were more than a week ( In making their way Into Monterey, j They describe tho destruction as the { most awful ever experienced in Mex- | Ico. Aid is urgently needed In these } outlying districts, particularly as the authorltes ara busy with Monterey t and Its vioinlty. . Bustamemnte and La Escondlda c have been auueu to the list of de- c stroyed villages. t DEATH OF A HERMIT. ! For Forty-six Years Had Not Left 1 His Premises. j Basil Hayden, who died recently 1 at Greenbrier, Ky., had not stepped outside the picket fence that bounded ,hia yard since President Lincoln freed the slaves. It is said 1 that he shut himself in a little room 1 that day in 1863, after his sweet- 1 heart died, and looked no more upon men. An overseer of Hayden's 1 estate named Borders was the only human being whom the anchorite j" saw, and he took care of Hayden s nrnnnrf v until n *v? Intnlr? V|/v %.J until u 111 IOVttl\C 111 ilUCUUUllug made by a bank clerk exasperated the hermit. Thereafter the re oluse hid an estate which will e amount to nearly $100,000 In chinks l, and pillow slips and cast off cloth- L lng. Cannibals Kat Them. Advicea received from the French Congo say that cannibalism is rampant In the Matab and Sanghar regions, where the blacks are in complete revolt. They have killed and eaten a number of factory employes and n telegraph operator was slain at his key and devoured. Native Attachments, headed by four Frjic'i officers, have left for the scene to punish the cannibals. Brothers in Fatal Fight. As the result of an encounter I eIwtcn two brothers in the McO.'i.ness farm 10 miles south of Salem. Ind., I.uther McGlnness, aged 4 8, is mortally wounded and Horace McGinnis, aged 45. lies at his home in a serious condition. Since the death of William McGlnness, father of the men, who was found dead in a barn six weeks ago, 111 feeling has existed between the brothers. barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.47 per gallon, $1.59; for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.50 per gallon, $2; for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $1.50 per gallon, $3; for every barrel of whiskey pur- ; ~ * t nr - - v.imn m fi.iu per Km ion, ror i every barrel of whiskey at $1.8f> per < gallon, $8; for every barrel of whiskey purchased at $2 per gallon, $13; for each barrel of $2.10 whls- < key, $15; whiskey at $2.25 per gal- i Ion. $17.50 per barrel; at $2.50 per gallon, $20 per barrel; at $3 per gallon, $25 per barrel; barrel of beer, 10 dozen quarts, $1 per barrel; each case of champalgne, $2 per case; all wines, 50 cents per case. "That \tn consideration of such payment and receipt of rebate and extra compensation, It was agreed by and between the said Jodie M. Fawllnson, Joseph B. Wylie and John Blake as chairman and members of said board of directors of the State dispensary composed as aforesaid, should award the contract to the persons, firms and corporations represented by the said James S. Farnum. John T. Eary, Morton A. Goodman and H. Lee Solomon and diverse other persons to the jurors unknown. At- - -* ?... %juucr me scaeame it is charged that this boprd on March 22, 1906, awarded contracts for liquor, and that Wylle, Black and Rawllnfeon did accept and receipt from the eaid James 8. Farnum. John T. Early, M. A. Goodman and H. Loo Anden-on ^aod oth?r? $24,ooo. i i DODGED TARIFF That Is What Mr. Bryan Says of President Taft IN SPECIAL ARTICLE In the Atlanta Journal the Great Commoner DiwusseH the Differ* ence Between the Words Revised and Reduced and Puts Tariff Out* rage Up to the Republican Partj. In a letter to the Atlanta Journal discussing the tariff, Mr. Bryan says the Republican platform was ambiguous, and the Democratic party platform specific. The Republicans in their tariff plank used the word "revised." Tho Democrats in their party platform demanded a reduction }f the rates. The word revision is subject to a double interpretation, while only one construction can be placed upon the word "reduction." The Democratic senators and representatives who had voted for thq imposition of duties had made a mistake, and whether elected upon )r before the adoption of the platform of the party, ought to feel 3ound by its declarations. I most heartily approve the resorption offered by Senator Gore, of 3klahonia. proposing an luvestiga:ion as to the responsibility for the ilgh cost of living. Senator Gore is entirely right, rhe high tariff Republicans have Tied to shift tho responsibility rom the manufacturers to the merihants. This is important, and it s only right that the public should enow the truth. It has been found by experience hat unless a party formulates a ilatform, its representatives in office annot agree upon a definite policy. ?wlng to the influence brought to rear by favor-seeking corporations. Cven when there are platforms tbey iro misconstrued unless they are >osltlve and specific. Sometimes rositive and specific platforms are lolated, but a positive and specific ilatform is not apt to be violated, md when they are violated the guilt uu uc iiacu tiuu lue gumy pumsa4. The trouble with the Republican ilatform of last fall was that It was i lot specific and definite. The tariff i ilank used the word "revised" lntead of the word "reduced"," and i tow Senator Aldrlch and his crowd onstrue it to mean an increase while i ?me of the western Republicans nsist it contemplated a decrease in i he rates. I Mr. Taft dodged the question. So j ar as 1 could learn from his speech- ' s the nearest he ever came to a I onstruction of the platform was to < leclare, when in the west, that it ueant an "honest revision," at one itne declaring that while some chedules ought to be raised and ionic lowered, the revision would >robably bo downward. The republican national conven- i ion was at fault in accepting so < ndefinlte, so evasive aud so decepIve a word as "revision" as a suficlent promise. The voters ought to lave know* that "the friends of the 1 ariff" will never give us aoy maerlal reduction. As to the Democrats who voted or the imposition of duties, they lave as a rule defended their conluct on the ground that the duties foted for were revenue duties, and hey have not been high duties. Vleasuied on an ad valorem basis, he duty on lumber and on iron ore ire but a small portion of the price. [ think that the Democrats who vot ;d for the duty made a mistake. The Democratic platform demanded free lumber, and I believe a platlorm is binding upon all who run jpon it, and it ought to have weight with the members of the party who were elected before the platform was adopted. Those who voted for a duty on lumber did so, I presume, because of lumber interests in their districts and States, hut in doing so 1 think they gave the preference to a few owners of timber lands over those who buy lumber. There is no State In the Union where the consumers of lumber do not outnumber the persons who profit by the tariff on lumber, and the man who votes for a tariff ou lumber voteB to tax a majority of the people of his district and State for the benefit of a minority of his constituents. But the men who get the bentflt of the tax are more active in presenting their demands than the consumers are in presenting their protests, and as long as this is true, the tax oaters will have the advantage over the tax payers. If the taxpayer* /would take a little more interest in the tariff question and chastise the representatives who, ignoring the interests of the (consumers, follow ftbe advice of the protected interests, relief would come sooner. As to the duty on iron or#, i chief objection to it is not that it is a high rate of duty, but that it helps people who do not need help, and gives an excuse for higher duties on manufactured iron. The man who owns a bed of Iron has such an enormous advantage over the man wbo owns faxmlng land that it is, hardly fair to jpgke the Xafjnar pay WILL BE PROBED SHOOTING OF MRS. G. C. BIGHAM LEADS TO ARRESTS. Coroner Swears Out Warrants for W. 11. Avant, who Shot Mrs. Bigham, and for Her Husband. A dispatch from Georgetown to The News and Courier says Coroner C. J. Fletcher Tuesday swore out a warrant for William B. Avant as principal, and for Dr. J. C. Blgham as accessory for the killing of Mrs. G. C. Glgham. wife of the latter, a Murrell's Inlet, on Saturday night last. The verdict of the coroner's jury reads as follows: "That the deceased came to her death by a gunshot wound at the hands of W. B. Avant and G. C. Blgham as accessory thereto, both men laboring under great mental excitement and fear at the time of the deed." It Is the strong opinion of everyone in this neighborhood that the shooting was Inexcusable In lta gross careleseness, and deserves to be Investigated to the bottom. It is reported that one of the probable causes of the men shooting at the unknown object was because Sunnyside house was said to be haunted, and they thought It a ghost. The deputy sheriff Is expected to arrive with the two men tonight. Dr. O- C. Glgham. of Georgetown county, who was implicated by the coroner and jury In the killing of his wife at Murrell Inlet, was arrested at the home of his mother, Mrs. M. S. Blgham, at Forestvllle, Wednesday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Harrell. Dr. Glgham was carried to Florence and placed in jail upon telegraphic Instructions from the sheriff of Georgetown. PHL8ICIAN8 FIGHT PELLAGRA. Campaign Against Supposed Germ of the Disease. Alarmed by the number of cases of pellagra that have occurred at Durham, N. C., the physicians of that city began Wednesday experiments to locate the origin of the disease. Six deaths from pellagra have occurred in that Eectlon. A dispatch from Durham says: "An examination of the blood of a powerful negro who has the disease In most aggravated form revealed a distinct organism and specimens were sent to Richmond and to * juiiiia nupMuo lui murt' carmui analysis. "If a germ is found, as physicians are inclined to believe, some animal will be inoculated and a campaign against pellagra on the germ theory will be waged. The theory that the disease has its origin in corn has been abandoned by the physicians at Durham, but a fierce war against the Importation of Western corn is being conducted. "Dr. McCampbell of the State hospital has written a paper treating with 12 cases of pellagrous insanity and death. Three-fourths of the cases were among women, which Is unusual, It is said, as the disease occurs moro frequently among men. None of the cases which have developed in that section has been traceable to cornbread. One victim was a boarding housekeeper, but none of the boarders contracted the disease." DRAGGKD BY TRAIN. The Narrow Rscape of Conductor lMvis From Death. A special to the Augusta Chronicle from Columbus, Ga., says John H. Davis, a Central of Georgia railroad conductor, residing in Columbus, while walking along the top of his freight train in Deo county. Ala., Wednesday, lost his balance and fell between two coal carH. Just as he struck the track he grasped the grab iron of one of the cars and was pulled along in this manner for three miles, his feet digging ithe ground. When the train approached a trestle he managed by superhuman effort to pull himself up and threw himself out between the two cars, fortunately clearing the track as he fell. Ills left ankle was dislocated and he was severely bruised, but he will recover. Crew Massacred. The captain and crew of tho French schooner Quality, engaged in recruiting laborers, have been murdered by natives of Malllcollo Island, in the New Hebrides. The vessel w-as driven ashore by a Btorm and while strandod 6he was attacked. Id spite of their 6tubborn defonse tho crew were massacred to the last man. A British war ship Is Investigating the occurrence. tribute to the ore owner. Every duty placed upon raw material is a burden upon the manufacturer unless he is permittod to transfer it to the consumer. A tariff on iron ore. therefore, is likely to be tranferred to consumer. A dutyput upon raw material increases as it proceeds, interest being added each step?It grows like a 6now ball la the bpring and is more objectionable than the ad valorem rate levied upon the finished product. Wm. JefiBiaffs Bryan. GONE TO REST Col. James T. Bacon Passed Away on Wednesday WAS BRAVE SOLDIER And Brilliant Writer, Col. Bacon Fought Bravely for the South 1 curing the Civil War and Ably Labored for South Carolina With I His Pen for Many Years. Col. Jas. T. Bacon, after a lingering Illness, died at his beautiful home In Edgefield on Wednesday afternoon, and a dispatch says all Edgefield and throughout the district Is sorrow and shadow, for he was the best known and most tiniversally beloved man In the county, and his name was synonymous with aU that is pure, generous, noble and good. Col. Bacon had attained his 78th year. He waB descended from splendid Revolutionary stock. His ancestors came from Virginia, where the family had been prominent among the colonists for over a century. Edmond Bacon, for many years a brilliant member of the Edgefield Bar, and the "Ned Brace" In Eongstreet's Georgia scenes, was his grandfather. Edmond Bacon, although a Georgian by birth. In early life moved to South Carolina, and he, with Col. Arthur Slmkins, settled the town of Edgefield. He had four children, the second. Edmond Speed, being the father of the subject of this Bketch, his mother being Sarah Bacon, a cousin to her husband, she having married twice, her last husband being the Rev. Arthur Wigfall. The Bacon family has been closely connected with the county's and State's history. Col. Bacon had one brother, the Hon. John E. Bacon, who was secretary of legation at St. Petersburg when Governor Pickens was minister, and afterwards minister to Uruguay and Paraguay under President Cleveland, and a full sister, Mrs. Baker, of McClellanvllle, S. C., and two half-sisters. Mrs. Kate \V. Cheatham, of Edgefield, and Mrs. Dr. Trezant, formorly of Columbia. A dispatch from Edgefield to The News and Courier sa.VB Col. James T. Bncon was born here, and his long and useful life was spent amidst the scenes of his nativity. After receiving an academic education at this place, he completed his studies In Germany, making a specialty of music. In which he excelled. and which was one of the Joys of hli beautiful life. After his return from Germany, he taught music here, and at Anderson, but it was to journalIsm that he devoted his splendid talents. In which field he won for himself a name and reputation, seldom equalled In this country. After serving with conspicuous bravery in the War Between the States, ho returned home, and assumed tho editorship of the Edgefield Advertiser, and the files of that paper will best tell how ably and brilliantly ho performed tho duties of that office. Gentle as a woman, yet brave as a lion, he could write with all tho softness and sweetness of Washington Irving, but when necessity and duty demanded It, with all the boldness and fire of Wendell Phillips. During Reconstruction times, when Federal troops were stationed here, and tho negro and scalawag held high carnival, Col. Bacon printed tho Advertiser In red lotters. and his "Leader" was filled U'ltV> Cllph I?iif rintlp firo o r* A as to cause offence to trie Federals. For this he was arrested, and taken to Charleston, but no harm befell him, and he returned home only to continue the brave fight for AngloSaxon supremacy. lie was a game cock in those Btirrlng days, ns he ever was, and never did his red I?lume lower its crest. After leaving the Advertiser, he, with his nephew, Mr. L. W. Cheatham, conducted tho Kdgofleld Chronicle, a paper that 1b loved and read by every man, woman nnd child In the county, because back of It has been the brains, wit, and eloquence of Jim Ilacon. His correspondence to tho Columbia State and special articles to Tho Sunday News attest the unique style, versatility, and brilliancy of "tho man. Many of his cIobo friends hero have often urged him to collect and print his writings, but his Innate tnodo6ly forbade?they would make a volume worthy of his wit and genius. Col. Bacon was never married, but he was beloved and courted by all for his magnetic personality, social attributes and brilliant convorsatlonof powers. One beautiful trait of his character was his love and loyalty to his Immediate family. His venerable mother, the late Mrs. Wlgfall, as woll as other members of his family, would ofton urge him to seek broader fields. whore his talent would have won higher distinction and greater pecuniary reward, but he preferred to remain with them, and with his life-long friends and at the home he loved so well, and administer to their happiness and support. Now that he Is gone, Edgofleld mourns for him, as never did she borrow for man before. He has lcU a void that cannot ba filled.