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SOUTH S MARTYR New Orleans Pays Tribute to (be President of Coafederacy HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS Monument Unveiled With Impressive Ceremonies?Slinft is of Crnnite With Bronze Statuo?Living i'liig by School Children One of the Features of the Celebration. On the birthday of Cleorge Washington New Orleans Wednesday paid tribute to the only President of the Confederacy by unveiling a monument to Jefferson Davis in the Parkway, recently honored with his name. The ceremony began at 2 o'cIock with a parade of Confederate veterans, national guards and Confederate societies. A beautiful and picturesque feature of the unveiling was the formation of a living Confederate flag by the school children. The honor of drawing the cords which bared the shaft to the view of the thousands who had gathered for the ceremony was given to Mrs. J. F. Spearing, treasurer of the Jefferson Davis Monument association which Is responsible for tho tribute to the Confederate leader. The monument is of granite with a bronze statue of Jefferson Davis and represents one of the !u??t ??r. forts of Edward Virginlus Valentine. It stands at the corner of Hagan avenue and Canal street. The principal address was delivered hy C?n. Bennett II. Young, of Louisville, who said: In addition to the popular subscriptions collected in New Orleans, a small surplus of the general Southern fund raised for the Jefferson Davis monument in Richmond which was unveiled in 1907, was turned over to the local monument association. The statue is of heroic size, the President of the Confederacy being 1 represented in a standing posture as though he were addressing an audience. The pedestal is made of selected South Carolina granite and measures IS feet 9 lnrhee square at the base and has a height of 14 feet 2 inches. The statue cast of bronze stands eight feet 8 inches high. The large base under the die shows the seal of the Confederacy made of bronze, surrounded by a laureai wreath. Directly underneath are two elaborately carved palm branches with oak leaves, emblematic ot strength and peace and the upper end of the die shows a row of 13 stars, the number of state represented in the Confederacy. "Jefferson Davis, misjudged in hip. and disfranchised until death, is finding his true place in history," declared Gen. Young. "As the voice of reason speaks to the public heart there are discovered many sad events in the career of Jefferson Davis which the nation regrets. The cruelties inflicted upon him at Fortress Monroe, the indignities heaped upon him when his emaciated limits were manacled by force, the hardships visited upon him in his long confinement, all well thinking American citizens would (dot out if they could. The impartial judgment of mankind will tlx the wrong of these thing* where it belongs. "These words were not spoken to nwaken a single question of prejudice of ill will; they nre only given utterance to emphasize the duties of the South to the memory of Mr. Da\is. In every Southern state there should be erected a monument to his memory. Mr. Davis suffered as 110 other Confederate. His life was pure and his career upright. His integrity beyond suspicion and his patriotism immeasurable. He became the leader of his people over his personal protest of unworthiness. He assumed a task at which any human being might hesitate. No responsibility more stupendous wae ever laid on human heart; no burden so great ever placed upon human shoulders. Moved only by a sense of duty, mistakes were inevitable. "Twenty-two years have passed since he died and the limelight of his history has only brightened every spot in his pure, unsullied life, lie stood suffering, humiliation and imprisonment for tho South and he bore in his heart and soul the deepest anguish for his people. Now that he is gone and men may review the past and weigh and judge his life, hla conduct and his motive, slowl> but surely and irresistibly Jefferson Davis is coming into his own. As he stood for the South, the South will stand for him and all that his life and suffering implied, and the South will see that he shall be understood and appreciated and that no shadow shall darken his fame and that no misrepresentation shall dim the splendor of his character." Happy Reunion. John McLure of Illackstock, Chester county, and Mrs. Mary Morrow of Wisconsin, brother and sister, met at the former's home last week for the first time in sixty years. They nre ' natives of Ireland, but separated more than sixty years ago, each coming to America. WITH THE fUNNY MAN , Her Patriotic Pretest. The force of natural and instinctive pride In one's country has been endlessly expressed in literutures of all 1 times and climes, but rarely more dra- 1 matically than in the following little I incident: 1 Grieg, as every one knows, is the 1 musical idol of all Norwetgians, although it has been the fashion of less talented outsiders to underrate him. 1 One of the most indefatigable of these i detractors was the German compost! ' uui^ici, a iiiuu ui an lusuucuveiy jea> 1 oub nature. One day one of his pupils, a Nor- i wegian girl, brought for her lesson t concerto of Grieg's. Burgiei *ook it I from her with a smile of most superior ! disdain. "But I told you to bring your music, 1 and Grieg is no music," he said, scornfully. I "What! Grieg no music!" was the j indignant reply. "Adieu, Herr Profes- < sor!" and she swept out of the studio never to return. \ ? Insuring His Honesty. A Fhrewd old Vermont farmer came I into a lawyer's office the other day and 1 proceeded to relate the circumstances I in a matter about which he thought it i would be profitable to "go to law." "You think I hev a good case?" he finally asked. "Very good, indeed!" the lawyer assured him. " You should certainly bring suit." "What would your fee be for the whole thing?" the old farmer said. "Fifty dollars," was the prompt re 1 sponse. The client pulled out an old wallet extracted a roll of bills and counted out $'>0. "Now," he said, "you hev got all you would get out of this case anyhow; so s'pose you tell me honestly just what you think my chunces of wiuuin* a Buit are ?" Compared With Chinaware. A little girl and her mother were walking down the street, when they came to a place where straw had been spread over the pavement to deaden the noise, because of the illness of a woman living in that square. "Oh, i look, mamma," cried tne little girl "What's all that hay aoiug out In the street?" "That's because Mrs. E. has a f tiny baby, which God Just sent her," said her mother, gently, aad after a moment's pause the little girl said slowly. "Gwacious, she must have been packed well!"?Philadelphia Times. < Just in Time. A German shoemaker left the gas turned on in his shop one night, and ' upon arriving in the morning struck a match to light it. There was a ter- ' t itle expolsion, and the shoemaker was blown out througu the door almost to the middle of the street. A passer-by rushed to his assistance, and, after helping him to arise, inquired if he was injured. 1 The little German gazoo at tits place of business, which was now burning i quite briskly, and said: "No, 1 ain't hurt. Rut 1 got out shust in time. Eh?"?l.ippincoit's. And the Old Man Grinned. "nuke," said the heiress, eagerly, "did you see father?" "Yes." "Well?" "We talked about the weather." "What? Lose your nerve again? Why don't you brace up and talk like a man??a subject of a king on whose domain the sun never sets'" "Can't," inoaned the duke. "All the 1 time 1 was in your father's otlice he kept grinning at a big painting." "What painting?" "The Battle of Bunker Hill." i Hit Exhibit. "He tells me he is going to exhibit at the horse show." "What of it?" ' 1 "Is he in the habit of exhibiting at the horse show every year?" "Well, be usually makes an ass of himself." I i The Accessories. "I hoar you've picked up an aban- I doned farm." < "Yep." I "Genuine farmer now, are you?" I "My city friends won't believe it until 1 pick up some abandoned dialect." A Quick Remedy. "Your daughter is getting very | round shouldered." "Well, doctor, spare no expense, j What's the best way to get her to sit , up straight?" , "iiuy her an automobile." t Mildly Interested. "Emerson, your little brother has I a tooth." "Indeed?" responded the Hoston ; youngster politely. "And Is it au in cisor or a bicuspid?" Wife?You promised that if I would marry you my every wish would be granted. Husband?Well, Isn't It? Wife?No; 1 wish I hadn't married you. "His brother Is in a very shady bus Iness." "What's that?" "Awnings." JL 4 KVKN NWW YOKKRK8 MRIBUER." Uirl in "Harem" Skirt Almost Cauw of Riot. 4 Brooklyn Bridge broke its record as a scene of dare deviltry Friday. ,\ suicide or professional juniper nev sr thrilled the throng of bridge promenaders more than did the appearance of a dashing young blonde on the great bridge late in the afternoon. She was attired in the new "harem" skirt?the first of the millions of New York women publicity to venture the new affectation of men's clothes, which has stirred continental cities to riot. It nearly came to that on the bridge Friday. Pedestrian traffic was blocked by the crowds which collected in her wake and followed her hold lead right into newspaper row. Postollice square and down Broadway, finally vanishing into the underground station of the Hudson Tubes. The boldest of newspaper reporters fell down on the story, all lialking it the suggestion that some one ininire the heroine's name. There were few who even observed the detail that she was a blonde, that her eyes were blue and that she wore x black fur coat. The focus of attention was on the split skirt, a little below the knees disclosing black bloomer-like contrivances tightly gathered up about the ankles. WOl NHS I'ltOVK FATAH. ['apt. Thompson, of Georgia Itnilrond, Killed by Negro. As a result of a pistol duel between Conductor \V. \V. Thompson ind two negroes, on the Georgia llailroad express train leaving Augusta Friday morning, the former lied at the city hospital Friday afternoon. The shooting took plate just after the train left Camack, Ga., forty-seven miles from Augusta, when the conductor approached the negroes for their fares, after ho had ordered them into the car from the rear platform. Special Agpnt J. N. Cook, who was on the train, shot one of the negroes during the fight. The other negro Jumped from the train and made his escape. Conductor Thompson was one of the oldest men In the service of the railroad. * WOMAN EOGKD IN PARIS. Prrnrhmrn Show Disapproval of Her Immodest Costume. Parts has been shocked! The French capital, home of almost anything: and everything "ultra" in fashions, has become cripper over the new trousers skirt. By some feminine contraption of apparel has designated as the "harem scaruni." Paris blushed when it has heard of the skirt, but that blush of modesty turned into the flush of anger. A young woman, attired in the new mode, walking along the Avenue do I'Opera the Avenue de POpera mind you was actually egged by a mob of disapproving men until the police appeared and helped her escape in an automabile. . * ItltKAIvS NI'.CK ON STAIHS. John K. Brew, Boilermaker, Is>-so* Balance ami is Killed. The Charleston Fvening Post says: lohn R. Brew, of No. f>2 Alexander street, fell while ascending his stairway and broke his neck, instant death his neck was broken, instant death resulting from his fatal mishap. The coroner held an tnminct V>?? ileath, which whs found to have happened according to the facts stated. Mr. Drew was about forty-seven years of age, and a widower. He lived with his mother, and was by trade i boilermaker. It is thought that he was seized with apoplexy, and so lost his balance as he was ascending a jtairwny leading from the first to the second floor of his residence. * Talked to Tliein Straight. Senator Owen, of Oklahoma, gave the Republicans in the Senate some straight talk when the subsidy steal was under discussion in that body. In a forcible, biting speech against the measure he advised the Senate to adjourn and go home. "This congress has been repudiated by the \merican people," Baid Senator Owen, in a clear ringing voice, "and yet it continues in session in an effort to put through discredited legislation like the ship subsidy bill. The people repudiated the party in power because of its advocacy of ship iiihalHv anH ?? A1 1 ? ?...... uvuci i. uoiuirn, mill us jnbaervience to the special Interest." rhis speech grated on the sensibilities of such eminent trust advocates ind defenders as Vice-Presldt nt Sherman, Senators Lorimer, Depew, Aldrlch, Lodge and others of that Ilk, but they could not say a word in reply, as they knew Senator Owen was telling the truth, and if they denied It, he would prove it by reading the returns of the last election, when the Democrats carried everything, even Teddy's haliwick. Killed In Wreck. A railway *raln jumped the trai k on a bridge near the Amen a:; I?r.. <len Topper mine in Chile Friday and plunged Into the ravine b low. Kilty persons were killed or wounded. Several Americans are among the wounded. r our i nimrcn, i>ui ? ns rrfvrniru by Brave Damsel. In a struggle with a frenzied man during which a girl braved a magazine pistol and was beaten about the face until she was all but unconscious, she finally worsted her opponent and by n remarkable display of courage probably saved the lives of four children. The unequal fight occurred in the parlor of the home of George Eichner, on East Illinois street, in Chicago, and Miss Emma Eichner, 18 years old. was the heroine. It began the instant Robert Braun. who was nursing fancied wrongs against Eichner, knocked at the door early In the evening and asked to be admitted, i "No. you'd better some around tomorrow." said the girl. "I'm here now and I'm here to stay," exclaimed Braun, pulling the J magazine pistol from his pocket and forcing his way into the hallway. Miss Eichner seized his arms and with all her strength tried to push the intruder back. Together they struggled until reaching the parlor door Braun noticed the four children. Then he leveled the pistol at the children, who huddled under a Davenport in a corner, and was about to fire. But the girl released tier grip on his other arm and with both hands forced the muzzle of the weapon toward the ceiling :;s Hraun began firing. Finally the gun clogged-and while he was examinning it Miss ICiohner 1 leaped upon Hraun, pushed him out of the front door and closed and locked it. MI ST (TT ItATKS. 1 , i Ini|H>rtan Onlrr Issnol Al>out Freight Charges. j | Defendant Hallways Must Establish i' and Maintain Hates From Cliarles- 1 toa Not Exceeding Baltimore's. In a decision handed down Thurs- 1 day at Washington by the Interstate-' Commerce Commission, the freight ' rates on vegetables from the Char- ' leston, S. C.. district to HuCTalo. New | York and Pittsburg, Pa., are found;' to be unreasonable to the extent that 1 they exceed the combination of rates ' to Baltimore, Md. The decision was ' reached in the case of the National ' League of Commission Merchants of,1 the Fnited States against the At- ' lant ic Coast Line railroad and other carriers. The defendant lines are ordered to establish before April 15 and | j maintain in force for at least two years, rates on vegetables from Charleston to MufTalo and Pittsburg which shall uot exceed the combination , rates on Baltimore, and it is ordered that the rates on vegetables from the below named points to Buffalo ami , Pittsburg shall not exceed the follow- ! ing differentials in cases per 100 ' pounds over contemporaneous rates from Charleston to the same points, j' From \l* -iS n? < l > ?? ' and Yomu's Island, S. C. on potatoes j 2 cents; cabbage, 2.5 cents, and on vegetables not otherwise specified, S ^ ents; from St. Andrews, S. ('., on j notatoes, 2 cents; on cabbages, 2.5 cents, and on vegetables not other- i wise specified, 4 cents. These rates will, no doubt, be applied to points in this county where vegetables are grown for market. Our folks should have the same rates that other truck ' growers enjoy. 1 t , , . t HAD KATKX DYNAMITE. ( i < Kicked His I'ig uiul the Pig Fx- | plodcd uml l>ic?I. A dispatch from Cordele, Ga., says i Chief of Police Sumner returned to- < day from Worth county, where he ' had a narrow escape from being ' blown to pieces in a peculiar acci- 1 dent. t He says that a farmer named 1 Strieblnger had some very valuable i swine and desired him (the chief) J < to see the drove. 1 The farmer led the way to "Toe President," one of the finest "porkerH" in the bunch. He was Bound asleep and refused to get up. The , farmer kicked the pig in the rihs and there was an explosion that took the chief of police off his feet, knocked the farmer down and hl? w out the side of the building. Incidentally, it killed the pig. I It took the farmer some time he- , fore he discovered that a quantity of , dynamite that he had hidden under , the pen for blasting purposes was missing The pigs had eaten this. Strlebinger lias decided not to knick any more piss. I Itundits Not Found. A fJalnesvllle, (Ja., dispatch says i two posses of the three that went out In search of the five men who on Saturday morning held up and robbed Southern passenger train No, 36 near there, returned without having'! discovered a trace of the hold-up gang. I I GOT BEST OF HIM CIIHIj BMVE8 I'ISTOIJ, 1VOKSTS A FHKNZIKD MAN. (2t\t in thn llnmn anri NO TUBERCULOSIS FUNDS. I Fight on Disease Affected by Ijuk of Appropriation. No money to fight tuberculosis' It is pointed out that one appropriation that the Legislature may have made to save the people of the State from the ravaves of a dread disease was not even mentioned in the General Assembly. "Certainly." writes Dr. C. Fred Williams, secretary of the State hoard of health, "we all must feel a sense of humiliation when we con-1 trast what has been done in out State in this regard with that of others." In 1010 the following Legislatures appropriated specifically to 11 Hit tuberculosis j Kentucky, $1,000; Maryland, $17~?,000; Massachusetts $300,000; Mississippi. $1,000; New Jersey, $00,000; New York. $100,000; Porto Rico. $14,000; Rhode Island, $f?0,000; Vermont, $3,000; Virginia, $25,000. In 1009, when forty-three Legislatures were in session. $3.000,00a of States' money were appropriated for tulierculosis institutions and crusades against the disease. Ilr. Williams says: "South Carolina did not figure in this sum, nor did she have a penny to her credit for the year just closing. Surely the lives, health, happiness and prosperity of our people are no less deserving of consideration than those in other States." sm mu:n Tin: di:li:<;ation. Appoint llis Friends Magistrate of Spartanburg. Governor Please smashed another precedent by disregarding the recom mendations of the Spartanburg county legislative delegation and appointing as magistrates in the city of Spartanburg Mr. J. Malcolm Howden, as successor to Maj. A. H. Kirby. Incumbent, and Mr. Cecil C. Wyche as successor to Mr. S. M Wetmore, incumbent, although the delegation had recommended for these positions Attorney Robert J. Glantt and Mr. Wetmore. tMr. Dowd^n 1b clerk to the register of mesne conveyance for Spar Lanburg county. Mr. T. R. Trlmmler. He wae formerly assistant clerk of court. Mr. Knntt 1b a former legislator and is the son of Col. T. Larry Qantt, formerly of this State, hut now editor of a newspaper nt Whltevllle, Columbus county, North Carolina. Mr. Wetniore Is an attorney and has. according to Spartanburg newspapers, given admirable service as a magistrate for the past two years. Major Kirby, who goes out of office with Mr. Wetniore, is 8 2 years old und has been a magistrate for mote than 20 years. FAWN FINDS SAFFTY. Pursued by Dogs Kan Into the Kitchen of n l.ady. Mrs. John Thornton of Merriwold Park, N. Y., was looking out of the window Thursday and saw a fawn mtor her dooryard, closely pursued !?y two dogs. She opened the door in.l the frigl tened animal plunged nto the kitchen, knocking the pan ake griddle off the stove and doing it her slight damage. After the dogs tad been driven away Mrs. Thorion investigated nnd found the animal suffering from exhaustion and ileeding from cuts. Dr. J. K. Curette administered chloroform to I'm ittl<? animal and sewed up the wounds. ( , , t Faster is Coining. Lent begins next Wednesday. Hew \sh Wednesday and the Lent sea ion ire reckoned seems to be a mystery o some people. Lent always is reck >ned from Waster Sunday, but to nany people this is equally mysterious. Waster Sunday always is the Irst Sunday after the first full moon ifter the spring exquinox, Marh ~1. If the full moon is on Sunday, Waster s the Sunday following. Easter mines April 16 this year. Lent always is forty days before Waster. I'here usually are six Sundays intervening. but they are not counted in he forty days. This makes Lent al ways begin on Ash Wednesday. It always Is preceded by Shrove Tuesday. which is the last day before l.eut. m m lust Dissolved. "So you broke your engagement : with Miss Spensive?" "No, I didn^ break it.'' "Oh, she broke it?" "No, she didn't break it." "Hut it is broken?" "Yes, she told me what her clothInu cost and I told her what mv- In ;*ome was, then oar engagement sagged In the middle and gently dissolved."?Houston Post. Iceland does not permit a drop of liquor to l?e made on the island. It has no Jail, no penitentiary, no court and only one policeman. There is not an illiterate person on the island or a child ten years of age who cannot read. Such is the declaration made by travelers of this incomparable and ideal land. The same condition would exist in the Pnited j States if the government would pro-1 hlbit the making of liquor in tins country as they do in Iceland. KEPr QUITE BUSY (JOVKKNOR BLKASE FAILS TO APPROVE RVIUI, POLICE For Xcwlxrry, Cherokee an?I Spar lunnurg, nut Approves Itody for Three Other Counties. Although Gov. Hloase announced ^ his intention of vetoing the measures pro iding for rural police in the counties of Newberry, Cherokee and Spartanburg, he has approved rural I police measures for Marlboro, rickens. Florence, Greenwood, Abbeville and It: rnwell. 1 The governor of the state have as his reasons for vetoing the acts that I the appointive power was placed with the sheriffs and not with the governor of the state or C. L. Illease. Gov. Hlense has approved many acts since the adjournment of the general assembly. Several hundred have received his signature and there are few left to be acted upon, i Hi' sounded a note of warning | against factory inspection and said that the inspectors must go. However. he approved the amendment to the child labor law and also the measure to regulate the working ot women in the stores. I Gov. Hlense has taken the power of enforcing the law out of the hands of Commissioner Watson with reference to factory inspection. Yet the law is still on the stautc books. The manufacturers of the state have always cooperated in ev< ry manner for the enforcement of the factory in spection laws and favored th anteteltncnl this year of eliminating till children under III years of go from the mills after next year. The fa-dory inspection law Is on the statute hooks and any citie ti of tin' state who finds that the law is being violated lias the right to bring proceedings against the violators over the head of Gov. Illeasc. lie does not think that the law should be enforced, however, he can not raise his hand if a violation is found and proceeding instituted. A majority of the acts that have been approved by Gov. Dlease are of a local nature. AmonR the acta approved by Gov. Hlease are that providing for an election in the county of Greenville for a new courthouse, providing for the discipline of the national guard k measure to provide for an election for tlie question of Issuing $150,000 H worth of bonds in Sumter county for the improvement of roads, to pro- "Jf vide for two or more experiment sta- H tions for Clemson College, the re-.ipportionment measure, to provide for ^k the assessment of abutting property for permanent improvements in the cities of Columbia, and Greenville and the town of Manning, to authorize the city of Spartanburg to make an appropriation for the erection of a Confederate inonument. Senator Tillman's Condition. The renorts s<*nt out from Washington to the effect that Senator Tillman had suffered a collap.-e in the senate, while attempting to deliver a eulogy on 'he life of tie- late Senator Clay of Georgia, have caused considerable apprehension to he expressed on the part of Senator Tillman's friends. While it is true that Son a I. r Till nrin is not near t he s:uii" lie v. as physically before he suffered his severe illness last year, and does not attempt to exert himself in debat s, he is able to transact the ordinary business in his office and to be on the floor at the sessions of tie- senate. He is still a believer in physical exercise and takes his accustomed walks front the capitol to his apartments. at the Hotel Norniandie. every afternoon when the weather is good. This gives him a walk of about a mile and a half. His effort to deliver the eulogies to Senator Clay were perhaps more than Senator Tillman could stand at the time, hence his statement that ho would not talk farther, after having uttered a few words. Recreation during the coming recess of congress will put him in hotter condition for the next session. We make this statement in answer to enquiries about the Senator's health, and we join his hosts of friends in wishing him complete restoration to health. He is taking care of himself and will be with us many, many years yet. He could not be spared. Raise It at Home. The Sumter Herald says. "A .Himiri int-i i n.iiii recently nougni a oar load of corn from a western point. The corn cost him $500; the freight on it was within a lltil" of $150. To make a selling price he had of course to include the freight with the first cost. The corn sold for seventy-five cents a bush?; If the corn had been raised at home, thnt is had cost only for the grain and not for the freight, the pr'ce to ^ the consumer would have been about VI sixty rents a bushel. The point to this is that South Carolina should raise its own corn. Reciprocity with Canada is the heginning of the end of the thieving protective tariff. A 350-candlepower port ah I. acetylene lamp lias hen brought out in England. 1