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£— VOL XXIII- BARNWELL.SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER >9, iSog.- DM’ TILE OF 1L Ouita Deolarts that then is a Band of Oonspiraton Working to Get Complete ^ Control of the Dispensary for their Own Pecuniary and Political Adrantage- Mr. D. A. G. Ouzte, who was recently suspended by the State board of con trol, and who has been connected with the State dispensary 'longer than any other man, has given to the newspa pers the following. A-QAfti>~ YO“Tag~ FTT BLlC."— Jl-ggEfi .oaHffl. on: the bJmansinmOTT pei^ imiB *bo6krahd ogean stables Invoiced at the end of the month to a I am no Hercules, but "Columbia dispenser and the cash re- " ceived for them turned over to that dispenser. Messrs. Boykin and Wil liams, two members of the board, as- need cleansing. 1 can at least do a part of the work. I have been connected with the dispen sary for over six years. That I have been honest and faithful In the dis charge of my duties is proven by the fact that when my enemies on- the board of control wished to displace me the only excuse they could find iplace tr for my i had viol moval was an allegation that I had viola ted a rule of the boards rule which two members of the board assert was modi fied to permit that which I was dischar ged for doing, lama strong believer in the dispensary >4aw, and have done ail in my power to make it a success. I still believe with its administration in the bands of honest, pure and able men it is the very best solution of the re sales of contraband at-the Btate die- liquor problem. Du ‘ taring my years of service Is the dispensary 1 have seen a number of things done which l knew were wrong. These I reported to members of the board, who were I knew honest, able and pure. They thojpht, however, that it was best to say nothing public ly about the wrong-doing until men like themselves were a majority of the board. They believed in the dispen sary and earnestly strove to make it a success. In their judgment the dis pensary could not withstand the effect of such exposures, If Its control was in bands of the men against whom these exposures were made. They wanted to save the law for the great potential good that was in it. But as the con trary element has growh to confident of its power that it has gone to turning honest men out of office at the d.tocnaery, so as to fill' all places with its tools, thus , facilitating the carrying of its plans. I deem it my duty to maxe public all 1 know, so as to expoao these men, deeming It better that the dispensary should die tbaa to continue under their control, but hop ing that the effect of my criticism will be to drive such men out of the dispen sary and place its management In the hands of men above reproach. 1 make this statement because I do not wish to be oontldered a sorehead or as exposing things I condoned as long as I held of fice. I stand ready and hereby offer my services to the board In helping them sift out all wrong-doing of whatever kiad which exists, aad help them place the dispensary law where it should be, above raproach, and to enforce Its reg of gin to M. F. Nixon for II and en tered it as Instructed. When Mr. Doiithlt returned I Informed him and he said it was all right. It will thus be seen I thought I was doing mw duty and simply carried out the orders of imli the commissioner, my superior officer. There is a disagreement among the members of the bosrd of control as to its action with reference to sales of contraband at the Bute dispensary. All agree that the board passed a reso- tlon forbidding such sales at the first part of the September meeting. On the last day of that meeting, Commis sioner Douthlt appeared before the board and stated reasons why, in his judgment, it would-be inadvisable to permit that rule to stand. After his statement Mr. Williams introduced a resolution, which was passed, which Mr. Douthlt understood modified the previQu*„order and permitted sales of contraband at the State dispensary, provided they werq. entered sert such a resolution was passed. If the Williams resolution was meant to accomplish any purpose at all it was meant to modify the rule forbidding u'atlons in accordance with law and conduct it in the Interests of the peo pie, aad not the gang which now con trols it. Very respectfully, D. A. G. Ouzts AN OPEN LETTER To lbs Stats Board of ControL As 1 have by a vote of a majority of your members been denied the and bearing to which I had a right which I had oeen promised by your chairman, I intend making my defense in the public prints. At the same time, 1 will go further and show the char acters of the men by whom I was so .summarily deposed, and of their fellow conspirators. I am deposed because I violated an order of the board of con trol—an order which the two honorable members of the board assert was modi fied to permit the very action which was alleged as the reason for. my re moval. I will show how members of the board, violate the dispensary law and how employes at the dispensary, who are pets of the majority faction of the board violate the. board’s orders and are not even reprimanded for their misconduct. As the majority faction seems anxious to wash dirty linen, I will first prove that mine is clean and then give them some dirty linen of their own to clean. Now, first, as to my own linen. Chairman Miles temporarily suspended me on charge of violating an oidor of the board by selling a bottle of gin at the State dispensary and not immedi ately reporting it to the shipping clerk. Chairman Miles says he per sonally notified me of the passage of that order by the board. He did in cidentally in the course of a conversa tion one morning at the dispensary in form me that such an order had' beeu been passed. A day or two later, Mr. Douthlt came into my office and got the petty cash book and wanted to en ter some contraband whiskey he had just sold. I told him that it was against the rules to put it on that book and mentioned to him the order which the board had passed a few days be fore add which Mr. Miles had spoken to me about. 'Mr. Douthlt replied: “ I know what I am doing ; this is ail right. I have just come from the board room and they have passed a resolution giving me the power to do this. I stayed there and heard them i it. Turn over a new page of your cash book and enter this sale.” did this and headed the page “Cash, special,” and entered the first item which was one gallon of contraband whiskey bought by J. F. Walker for $1.80. Mr. Douthlt said: “Now when anything else is sold that is the way it -mustbe. first Itecn. At the end of the month these items must be entered on the shipping clerk’s book and billed to a Columbia dispensary, to whom we must turn "over the cash we have received for them.” I replied : “ Yes, and I will make that dispenser receipt this book for them and the money.” Under these instructions from Com missioner Douthlt, one day when be was absent from the city 1 sold a bottle pensary, yet as it appears on the minutes of the board it is construed by the majority faction to be a mere re affirmation of that rule. 11 that con struction be accepted as correct, the board was guilty of the absurdity of twice at one meeting passing a resolu tion permitting the commissioner to do something which the dispensary law Mself gave him the right te do without any resolutions of the board— that is to send contraband to a dispen ser for sale. As recorded, the Wil liams resolution permits salss of con traband, " througn the regular chan nels,” which words Chairman Miles ad mits he told Clerk Webb to add to the resolutions, claiming it was an amend ment which had been adopted, but which Mr. Boykin, who was in the chair when the resolution was adopted, denies was ever voted'bn by the board. I do not believe that at first recorded, the Williams resolution had those words attached to it. The writing of those words in tbe minute book gives evidence that it was not done at the same time that the body of tbe Wil liams reholutlon was pinned in that record, becaute the slant of the words “through regular channels.” indicate that they were written by a man sit ting in a different position from that occupied when the other part of the Williams resolution was written. 1 am satisfied that they were added to give color to the contention that the board had not given permission for tbe sales of contraband, which the majority faction decided to make as an excuse for my removal. The majority faction, Which is plot ting to get abae ute control of the dle- pentary, filling ail positions with its henchmen, bad decided to remove all employes who were not subservient to it. Thev did not Intend to fully and fairly investigate the conduct of such employes, but preferred^oe-slded tee timony. At the September meeting of the board Messrs. Haeeldea and Wil liams were appointed to Investigate tbe contraband room and its accounts. Mr. Haseldeo wanted Mr. Williams to meet him in Columbia on Wednesday following the adjourfiment. of the September meeting of the board. Mr. Williams said he had Important en gagements up to and including Wed nesday, but. would meet Mr. Haselden in Columbia the day after Wednesday. They parted with the understanding that Mr. Haselden was to notify Mr. Williams when to come to Columbia to go to work on the investigation, which he never did, but returned to Colum bia before Wednesday and gave to the newspapers a statement that he was going to Harris Springs. Mr. Wil liams saw that statement In the papers and continued to wait for a notifica tion when to come to Columbia. The next thing he saw was a statement that ha had been supplanted on the committee by Mr. Robinson, without notice to him. It was then two of a kind and Mr. Haselden was at ‘liberty to proceed with, his one-sided Investigation. Neither I nor Mr. Douthlt were asked for any explanation of the charges concocted by this one-sided process. On the night of the 20th or 21A of September T. C. Robinson, who had loosened his tongue with liquor, told me in front of Huggins’ store, on M^ln street, that “Haselden had set a trap for Douthlt and had caught him in it. After asking him several times what the trap was he said it was “in selling contraband liquor at the State dispen sary, and not having it entered upon the shipping clerk’s book, as required by the resolution of the board at the last board meeting.” Was the trap the addition of the words, “through the regular channels?” Probably it the time of that conversation Mr. Robin son did not know that Chief Conspira tor Haselden wanted,.my scalp also, and,therefore, spoke as a strong friend, which he always claimed to be, es peclally since 1896. I and my relatives worked for and harried Edgefield County lor him as the candidate for State Superintendent of Education. But when Boss Hasel den popped the whip over his back he. forgot his friendship and sense of ob ligations to mo, and also forgot his statement to me after hearing my ex planation of my sale of that bottle of gin, that he did not see how I could have done otherwise than obey the instructions of the commissioner, espe cially as there was a misunderstanding in the board ap to the orders given the commissioner. He advised me to ap pear before the board and make my statement, and said he did not »ee how the board could d.0. otherwise Mian ac cept it as sufficient justification of my action. And yet he voted to make my put ..on„the.- book, under that suspension permanent, without giving me a chance to appear before the board and give that explanation in reply to the charges against me. The night before Mr. Robineon voted to make my saspension permanent he told me, 4n the Columbia hotel, that he could never be accused of being un grateful, and that he owed a debt of gratitude for the way my brother and others of my friends aad relatives bad worked for him. He added: “1 be- ,J ,.V lieve you ought to be reinstated, and will so vote. If you find that you can not get along with the new oommision- er, you ran resign in good standing, and not be kicked out.’’ The very next morning he told me that my chances for reinstatement were bad. I said that I did not see how that could be If he stuck to his promiAe. .v He replied that he was my friend and had nothing against me, but he would have to vote against mpi as the members of the board had brought great pressure on him to vote that way ss a personal courtesy to them. I told him he was a h—1 of a friend to a man, tn help others stick mud on him as a “courtesy” to them, and bid him go on and do his d—d dirty work. And he did it. I have shown that there was no just cause for my suspension. But I was not suspended for what 1 did, though that was alleged as the cause. I was Oommlssioner Douthlt on one occasion suspended because a political clique enipeadea Young lor a week. This eus^rw^rT wanted me removed from tbe dispen- pension increased Mr. Miles’ feeling of en]D ha8is I pen sary. They are bound ' together by a community of interest, their predomi nant feeling being a thirst for revenge and a desire te get complete control of the dispensary for use as a political machine and more venal alms, which can .be understood from the charges and speclficstlons which I will make. When Haselden and Robinson, the in- vegtlgatlng committee, were in Colum bia they left the work of conducting the investigation as to the contraband, which a committee was appointed to do, to Bookkeeper Mobley and Inspeo tor Moody and spent their time caucus ing with Chairman Miles and the con spirators. A caucus was held in the office of a State offices and it was de cided to suspend me without giving me any notice or asking me for any expla nation of the charges against me. This determination was talked around Columbia for nearly an hour before I was notified of my suspension ; a friend of mine heard it at the upper end of Main street and walked down town to a telephone and told me that the gang had fixed to make it hot for me and to do me. The day after my temporary suspen sion Chairman Miles gave the news papers an interview which contained a fie oeivlni basis for g clerk, for his boy. me. whose reports were the payments of goods re ceived at the dispensary, efficiently discharge his duties. He reported a number of Young’s serious mistakes to Chairman Miles, who, however, did not suspend his nephew, but cot angry with Mr. Douthlt and myself, Imagin ing that we were persecuting the bo: His votes against myself and Douthlt are part of his revenge. It used to be an unwritten rule that nobody under 21 years of ago should be employed in the dispensary. Youn is only IT, but the temptation of h $50 a month salary was too strong. Bis childish nature is shown by the fact that he used to play pranks on the men at work in the dispensary, throwing water on them and hitting them with paddles when they were bending over. Because of these pranks, which were oat of place ip a business institution, 2 resentment towards Mr. Douthlt. Young played some of his pranks on med L a man named Loo: who was one of heart and a slanderous Insinuation, whose absolute falsity he could have easily informed himself of. He said : “I did not know until this morning that Com missioner Douthlt had been doing the the same thing, else 1 would have sus pended him along with Mr. Ousts.’* The afternoon before that interview was glten out I told Mr. Miles I had made a sale of contraband because my superior officer, Commissioner Douthlt, bad made such sales and Instructed me to do likewise, aad 1 showed him on the book the records of such sales by Mr. Douthlt. After hearing what I had to say on the subject, Mr. M'lea declined to revoke my temporary suspension then, but said he would think it over during the night and decide next morning, admitting that it looked bard to suspend me when I had no intent to do wrong and thought 1 was doing right in obeying the orders of mj su perior officer. The morning after»my suspension he went to Spartanburg. When he returned he said to Mr. Douthlt: “If I had known whaa I suspended Mr. Oasts what I know now. I would ndt have suspended him.” And yet the old hypocrite, aftew admitting that he had not treated me fairly, appealed to the members of the board to confirm my suspension and thus confirm his action as a courtesy due him by the members of the board. Tbe slanderous Insinuation is his statement “that the money obtained from the sale of contraband had been properly turned over, so far as he knew.” He knew it had been properly turned over, because I told him so and showed him the record. There is another lie told by Mr. Miles. He promised me that 1 should be accorded a full hearing by the board before a vote was taken on the motion to make my suspension permanent. But the vote was taken nlthout a hearing being given me, though I was on hand waiting for it. When I taxed Mr. Miles with his perfidy he at first trjpd to deny having made such a promise. After I forced him to admit it he said, “Yes; but I forgot it.” Then he returned to the board room and said to the board, “Mr. Ouzts wanted a hearing but did not know it was my place to get it for him.” While on the question of Mr. Miles’ veracity, I might state that he is a liar by his own confession. I have heard him say on several occasions: “I have told more lies since I have been On the board than in all my life be fore.” I dare him to deny that he made this statement; if he doee|I will prove it on him. In my case Mr. Miles is 4 great stickler for strict obedience to the rules of the board, but he is more laxed in other cases. I have shown that it is very doubtful if there was such si rule as was claimed I violated, but there are other rules of the board as to Which there is no doubt and violations of which have been reported to Mr. Miles, chairman, without any action being taken by him. The board passed a rule forbidding employes of the dispensary to drink on the premises. Printed copies of that rule were posted all over the building. Shipping Clerk Black had been reported to Chairman Miles time and again for drinking and being drunk and cursing in the dispensary, against the positive rule of the board, but he has not even remonstrated with Black, much less suspended him. Yet be suspends, me without an investiga- t on of the charge against me. By his position as chairman of the board, Mr. Miles was able to give or get the job of receiving clerk for his nephew, F. L. Moore Young, of Clin ton. One has only to refer to tbe books Young tries to keep to find bis ut ter unfitness for the job. Young does not know the multiplication table and could not count a carload of glass correctly if his life depended upon it. Time and agsfyr lie has made gross errors in his t of'goods received at the dispen Loo per, the best hands in the dispensary. Be cause Looper objected and told Young what he would do to him if he did not let him alone, Chairman Miles took ad vantage of his office as chairman and Looper’s subordinate poiltion'aod vilely cursed him in the dispensary and threatened to cut bis "d d out." Talking about ignorance and unfit ness for position, Mr. Miles is chair man of the board of control, yet he did not know that the dispensary had to have a retail United States license to do business, as well as a wholesale li cense, until Informed of that fact by me the day he suspended me. As oue of the reasons he gave for suspending me, he ssdd that by my selling liquor at retail at the dispensary, I had laid the dispensary officials liable to prosecution by the intereal revenue deparimem for selling liquor at retail without a retail license. He was very much sur- prised when I showed him tacked up on the wall a dispensary internal re venue license for retailing,‘ which it had-to have to do business. Speaking of retail sales at the dls- K nsary, lass than three months ago lalrman Miles bought of himself aad sold to himself at the State dispensary a half pint of alcohol, which he bought at the price to dispensers aad not con sumers, thus cheating the town and log tl county out of their profits. Why doesn’t •elf? be suspend hlms In Hsm aselden’s and Robinson's report of the Investigation made by Book keeper Mobley and Inspector Moody, tnere are no charges against me, aad he produced nq proof against me of any wrong doing in his affidavit aad yet, when Mr. Haseldea's report was read aad after Mr. Duuthlt's removal, he, Haselden, moved to make my sus pension permanent without hearing me ss he had promised to do the night before be made the report. He volun tarily told me in the Columbia hotel thatb" bad finished his report aad that he had not touched me la it nor had be any evidence of my wrong doing and when my case came up he would piom- ise to hear me and then decide how be would \ote. Tbe next morning bs moved to make my suspension perma nent without hear, og my explanation. When the board adjourned for dinner after voting to remove Mr. Douti.lt, I laxed Haselden about his conduct in THB TRANSVAAL’8 ULTIMATUM. DEFYING A GREAT EMPIRE. The Boose Demand that British 1 Troops Be Withdrawn nnd n Re ftaaal Is Declaration of Wnr. The ultimatum of the Transvaal government to Great Britain was sent to London on the 10th Inst., and con tains the following : “ Her majesty’s unlawful interven tion in the internal affairs of this re public in conflict with the London con vention of 1884, by the extraordinary strengthening of her troops- of this republic-has caused an intolerable con dition of things to arise, to which this { 'overnmeot feels Itself obliged, in the nterest not only of this republic, but also of all South Africa, to make an end ns soon as possible *, and this gov- emphasis for an immediate terpilnftL tlon of this state of things nnd to re quest her majesty's government to i 'lve assurances upon the following our demands : “ First—That all points of mutual difference be regulated by friendly re course to arbitratldn or by whatever amicable way may be agreed upon by this government and her majesty's government. “ Second—That nil troops on the bor ders of this republic shall be Instantly withdrawn. “ Third—That nil reinforcements of troops which have arrived in South Africa since June 1, 1899, shall here- moved from South Africa within* a reasonable time as agreed upon with this government and with the mutual assurance nnd guarantee on the part of this government that no attack upon or hostilities against any portion of the possessions of the British govern ment shall be made by this republic daring the further negotiations, with in n period of time to oe subsequently agreed upon between the governments: and this government will, on oom- I I inn os therewith, be prepared to with- raw the armed burghers of this re public from the borders. Fourth—That her majesty’s troops which are now on the high seas shall not be landed in nay part of South Africa.” To these demands is appended the definition of the time limit for n reply: This government preeves for an lat he and affirmative answer to these going back on his promise about hear ing mi sary, though his count was relied upon to verify the Invoices for which the dispensary paid. Oommlssioner Douthlt is a hooded officer. It? is his duty to pay for goods received at the dispensary. If he pays for goods which have not been received, his obnd can be sued for the og me and 1 mads him admit in Mr Boykin’s presence that he said he told me he had no charges against me aad no evldenoa of wrong do;ng nnd whan I asked him to explain his nctino In making n motion to permnasntly sus pend me, he said: “ I just done that to bring the matter up ; I don’t know how I will vote on it but will decide after hearing yon.” What do you mill such double-dealing nnd sneaking eva sion ? Is it acting a lie as well as tell ing one ? In geltlng:up his svldenoe he tried to keep everything hid aad would sneak around like he was ashamed of his dirty work nnd when asked if he wanted anything, or if anything could be explained to him If bn did not un derstand it, he would say hn wan not looking for anything. Seemed to be afraid Mr. Douthlt and I would find out what he was driving at nod explain it so fully to him that he oould not have the heart to distort it to maks It fit his vile ends. Hn anems to hate jus tice and with his parverslon paralyses truth. i — ■ Mr. Haselden now poseans condemn ing retail sales at the dispensary as contrary to the spirit of the dispensary bill, but In March of this very year, while Haselden was still chairman, hn personally sold at the State dispensary to a committee in charge of a banquet to the visiting Congressmen, cham paign, whiskey, wine, rum and brandy to the amount of 1108.86, about the larg est bill that was ever retailed at the dispensary, selling to them qt the price to dispensers and not to consumers, thereby swindling the town and county out of their profits. D. A. G. Ouzts. —The entrance of William Rocke feller into the directorate of the New York Central road is taken as a text to herald tbe appearance of the bil lionaire corporation, the Vanderbilt- Rockefeller alliance meaning the amalgamation of 11,000,000,000 capital. Tbe Vanderbilt roads at present in clude more than 26,000 miles. If the Southern Pacific system Is added the new combination, the roads will reach every frontier of the country, and will comprise over 33,000 miles, or more than one-fifth of the entire Amer ican mileage. v —The city authorities of Pittsburg recently gave permission to the Rev. Edward S. Young, a reputable clergy man, to hold religions services in the E bllo parks on Sunday. At a meet* j the other day of the Pittsburg Presbytery a resolution was adopted “ condemning the efforts of the park officials and others to draw crowds, fin der whatever pretext, secular or relig ious, to piaoes of public resort on tbe Lord's day.” talnly have bean accepted. I have reason to believe that England enters upon her warlike course by no means a unit. Opposition to Mr. Chamber lain's policy exists to a greater extent than Is generally conceived. “Our evident desire to conciliate has been much appreciated, and our refusal to alloir our household affairs to be administered by another nation has not excited genuine indignation here or in any quarter of the globe. However, l$r. Chamberlain has aooom- E l is bed his purpose, aad all is gone. I elleve, nevertheless, that a consider able reversion in British opinion would be effected by any serious defect, for most of those now supporting the gov ernment are doing so with a light heart aad on general prlnclplss. not stopping to count the cost of wnr/ Mr. white cited the Isandlwhama mas sacre ns an Instance of such n change in British opinion. Ho then went on mediate and amrmaUve (our questions and earnestly requests her majesty's government to return i answer ^before or upon Wednes day, October 11th, 1899, not inter than 5 o'clock p. m. “ It desires further to add that in the unexpected event of an unswer not satisfactory being received by It with- le the Interval, it will with greet re gret be compelled to regard tbs action of her majesty’s goverement as n formal declaration of war, aad will not hold itself responsible for }be ooase- tsnees thereof, nod that In the event of any furtbar movement of troops oc curring within Ihs above mentioned limn in n nearer direction to our bor ders, this government wilt bn com pelled to regard that also a formal de claration of war." The potato at issue la South Africa and what has brought about aooodl- tlon of war are contained in the follow ing summary : First. Great Britain claims suze rainty over the Transvaal under the terms of ths convention of 1881. Tbe Boers dispat# the claim, invoking the convention of 1884, in which the term “ suserainty” dean not appear. Second. Great Brltaia demands in creased facilities for naturalisation of Outlandere. At present Outlanders desirous of naturalizetloe mast taks aa oath renouncing ail eg lance to their former government, and then, after 12 years’ residence, provided they have the affirmative vote of throo-fourths of the burghers in their district, they be come citlsens of the South African Republic.. The Boers at eae point of the negotiations offered to reduce the probationary term to five yean, but she latest advices ere that they now stick out for seven years. Third., Great Britain demands fot the Outlanden n share in the election of tbe president and increased repre sentation for the gold fields. The Boen say they are willing to concede these point, but under conditions which tns British claim are likely to make the concessions Illusory. The British government wants to have this matter thoroughly examined, so ns to Insure the Outlanders getting the substance, and not merely the shadow, of their demands in this re spect. Great Britain is willing that such an examination should not serve as a precedent for interference in the Internal affairs of the Transvaal, whlen the Boers argue would be the “T suppose there can be only one ultimate result of the hostilities. As to the duration of the war I am not able to mature a guess. It seems to me a matter of tbe greatest unoer tainty. I hear that Great Britain will not begin the wiping out process until December. In the meantime we shall see whet we shall see. “I have received no special Instruc- tions or news from the Transvaal dur ing the last forty-eight hours, and 1 expect none, having long ago received directions as to the course for me to take when matters reached this stage. T shall remain on the continent, and If anything furtner can be done in the interest of my government, I shall, of oeurse, .endeavor to do it, although there seems nothing left but to fight it out to the bitter, unjust end.'’ Mr. White seemed much distressed over the rupture nnd evidently dl& not entertain the least hope of Boer suc cess. He said the Transvaal agency in Brussels would be continued ns the European headquarters of the govern ment. Mr. White’s reference to the Isnndl- whams massacre la an nlluslcn to the at tack made on January 22, 1879, by some 15,000 Zulus upon the British camp at leaadula, or uandlwhema, about ten miles from Rorks’s drift, on the Tugela. Five companies of tbe Twenty fourth regiment, with Colonel Dura ford, Lieut. Col. Pullelne nnd other officers, were massacred, tbe British total loss being about 837. Two thous and Zulus are said to have been killed. Had already Thought the Mat ter OVER.—Senator Pomeroy used to tell of n loral preacher in Kansas who had forced himself upon the stump after Llocoln's second nomination and who demanded recognition of the party for his services during the campaign He said be would like to be seet as minister plenipotentiary to England or France, and when told that to was 1m possible, insisted os being appolnMd consul to Liverpool. Finding that the " powers that bn" considered that squall/ preposterous, he was quit# offended et whet be const dered n lack of appreciation of his ser vice ie n State that nothing oqnld have turned against the Republlcaai Finally, Senator Pomeroy said to him “ I’m going to Washington In about weeks’ timw—think tbe matter If you should light on some- two over, thlnn in reason, I’U aid you in getting it. In ten days he called on tbe Sena tor again, his hand still away up In the clouds, and being assured of the 1m poeslblllty of getting what he thought was about his due, sail: “ Senator, can’t you think of some place that would suit me “ Yes,” said Pomeroy, *' I’ve thought of n place that would suit you and that you would suit, and that there Is a pos sibility of getting for year. It's an In dian agency.” “ An IndLaa agency ? What’s that?*’ queried the preacher. “ Well, you are to look after the wel fare of our red brothers aad see that their supplies are properly nnd hoe estly delivered to them.” “What is It worth ?" . “Fifteen hundred dollars qulsitee,” returned the Senator, “ Perquisites—what perquisll “ Wall, you see, my friend, the gov ernment contracts for so many herd of beef cattle averaging about so many hundred pounds. Now, ip delivering these cattle they are counted while being driven into an Inoloeure, ana If yearling should happen to slip la now and then, you are not to make too much fuse about it, and there you ill find you perquisltlee. Think it over.” “^11 take it,” said the reverend gen tleman. u I've already thought It over, and do you know, Sanntor, 1 think veal is n blamed sight better than beef for Indians anyway !*’ War to the War he the One Tennessee regimen —has been making history this drsd years and more. It wa ixadand commanded by John when the State was merely " Ton* nesses County” of North Oarollaa. Sevier led It over the mountains whaa Revolutionary fortunes were at the lowest ebb, to fall upon Tarleton King’s mountain, and tarn a wa' fight into a brilliant victory. Twee years later Andrew Jackson was ita colonel through the bloody Indian wart that broke the power of Choctaws. Cieeks and Cherokee#. A little later Gen. Andrew Jackson posted his old regiment in the very fore front at the battle of New Orleans, where, side by side with the Hunters of Kentucky, its unerring rifles mowed down the coats like upon its laureis anti grumblings of war in Many of its original me to Texas, hut they had grass. Afterward the First Tennessee slept upon its laurels until there were the Southwest, members bad gone had left kinsmen e- plenty to fill the ranks afresh. The renewed First Tennessee went to ths help of M Old Rough and Reefiy,” ns Gen. Zachary Taylor was affectionately caUed, and soon showed that It meant to live up to its reputation. At Mon terey, a walled and fortified town which Taylor was forced to carry by It, it was the First Tennessee which set the first American flag tri umphantly in the breach- and what Ls very much more to the military pur pose-kept it there until it was further fo rled forward. All through Mexico it went, winning ren in in kil nog more than hall lad, wounded nnd golden opinions from even the steroi nnd stately regular army mea. Whan It came home after tbe old fashion, it kept up a sort of skeleton organization. A skeleton the civil war found It, but n skeleton that quickly took on Ufa aad strength. A state of war super vened Ute in April; U May Tennessee seceded; in Jans the Fint Tennessee oddly brigaded with the Seventh nnd Fourteenth regiments, left (or Virginia, where the Tennessee brigade was as signed to Las's corps, thsn operating in West Virginia. Tbe next winter Lee took command in front of Richmond, and the Tennes see brigade became {.art of Jackson's “foot cnvalry.” It stayed with him till his death, bearing itself soldierly through nil his fighting nod more than uooe winning special mention for das- peratsaad ilaiiaguisbed darlag. At Gettysburg It mads part of Pickett's charging column, losing mors than half its numbsi prisoners. I * "Ths oaaksrs of a calm world aad a loag peace,” eves, could not destroy ths fighting spirit, la ths famous old First reglmest. Whaa ths Spaalsh war onma oe, sou* aad grandsons nnd great gramiaons of Fint regiasnt men went joyously into its ranks. They al most prayed to bs seal to Cuba. Ths powers that bs thought fit to ssad them to the Philippines Instead. Bat it wan October, 1898, before they embarked, and they grumbled mightily that the fighting was all ovar. Bines events have proved their mis take, ths reclnwat has lived up to its traditions. The regimental historian has aa autograph Utter from Admiral Dewey, saying : “I am too bnppy to have aa opportu nity of expressing my admiration of this Tennessee regiment, Ito splendid work In the Philippines U actual war fare, aad of lie late colonel.” Gen. Otto adds : “ Nothing can bo said of It (Ths First Taaassses regiment) which U act com mendable of it as a military organiza tion. Next to Its admirable fighting qualities, what have Impressed me most forcibly U the universal good feeling and close comradeship whleh exists among 1U members, and the regard which the enlisted men have for their officers, who look oarefullv alter their wants. As an admirable fighting ma chine, it has shown its excellence, both here nnd at Holla” OoL W the heart disease upon the firing I successor, Col. Graoey Childress, Ken tucky bora, but by adoption n loyal therefore, have the loL W. C. Bmlth, oommending whaa i regiment went Into notion, died of trt disease upon the firing linn. HU Mont tague the South A White, consul general for African Republic In Londoo, cloned the oonsuUte and ImmedUtely left for the continent. Mr. White's recovery of the money so paid. Naturally, Mr, t Douthlt ooejr end< savored to make the re- ^Remove tbs causes by rubbing the pain ful part with Alligator Liniment. This applicatioa penetrates right down through the Skin. Muscles, Membrane to ths of ths trouble, and roots out ths Ask for Alligator Liniment nnd take no other kind. Sold i everywhere. departure was not attended by any excitement Before shaking off the dust of England ha said to tna Asso ciated Press: “ The expected has happened. I only hope tne hellUhness of this pre- meditated crushing out of a hardy re public is now apparent. Let me re mind America that the onus of war lies not upon those who fire the first shot, but upon those who compel it to be fired. “ Technically, we have temporarily put ourselves in the attitude of an ag gressor, hut who would not have done so if the exUtence of his country was at stake ? I think we most look far ahead to see the consequences of this war. Instead of the pacification of South Africa, which Is ute alleged act of England, wa shall have perpetu ' unrest These very people for whom England is now fighting will turn against her Ie time to come and pro test against her ml# as bitterly as they are now protesting against ours. “ For weeks I had saan England’s determination to force a hostile Issue, or rather Mr. Chamberlain's. I am sure ha is the only member of the cabl net > w hose mind was thoroughly made up throughout all the negotiations, what his Intentions were Is evident from the situation today. Had the franchise oeen the chief grievance, oar five-year proposition would oar- ‘As —The Chicago Chronicle ea' nearly as we can get at it. the differ- between the Rev. Mr. Talmage and the Hev. Mr. Torrey is that the latter gentleman believes In the effi cacy of prayer, while the former does not. There is room for honest differ ence of opinion on the subject, but it is somewhat surprising—not to say ano malous—to see a professedly Christian clergyman maintaining the negative of the proposition and denouncing the affirmative as a crime.” —News comes front Baltimore that this year’s catch of oysters in Chesa peake bay will be the smallest in tbe nliinry of the industry. Where years 6,000,000,000 gallons was only an ago a rage tr the e crop, it is estimated that this yie?d*iU-b*lMR.than 1,000,000 avei yearP. _ ( , ■ ■ gallons. A plan is on foot to close the oyster beds for a few years, thus giv ing the bivalves a chance to recuperate and multiply. —A dozen years ago the very beet type of sleeping car oould be built for 210,000. That, in fact, was considered an extravagant price, and Included every luxury of the period. At pres ent a thoroughly first-claas ear costs 222,000- Tbe Increase has been sin gularly steady, and about 21,000 a year represents the evolution of the modern Ideal of comfort and beauty. —It is one of the pecularities of the laws of Denmark that the crown must be worn by a* Christian and n Freder ick alternately. The system origina ted with Christian il, who reigned from 1513 to 1523, nnd wee succeeded by Frederick 1. Tennessean, will, therefore, have distinction of being the lail mo us line of colonels, for he is brli the regloient home—It Is ax login* peeled early in Oolober—for final mustering out. Under the new order of things the old regiment will lose its identity. It Is not strange, therefore, that a his tory of It is now In preparation.—Si. Louis Globs-Demoorat surroundings. He was sworn In alone, being escorted to the vice- ? resident’s desk by a Senator' from 'ennsylvanla, and the scene filled him with awe. Some months later, when he had grown familiar with his fellow Senators and surroundings, and bean discovered to be the most companion able of men, he was asked as to hie feelings when he first entered the Sear ate chamber. He replied that when he walked down the aisle to take the oath and viewed the white aad vener able heads on either side of him, his heart jumped to his throat aad ha could hardly refrain from saying aloud, “ Nesmith, how the devil did you ever get here!” “ Well," said tbe collea gue, “now that you hava-baan with us six months and are no longer a stranger, what are your feeling* os you look over the august body ?" “ Well," replied Nesmith, "now that I’ve had a chance to meet you all aad take the measure of each, I look, on the old bald pates hr which I am hedged In aad involuntarily ask my self, " Nesmith, how the devil did they get here? 11 " «-*’■— ■ Changed His Mind.—Nesmith, of Oregon, had never been at the capital until after his election ns Sens tor, aad of Wrse he was much impressed by his new ». Outof 1,188,- passed through Etyear 2,600,- -Great Britain’s dead letter does a thriving bnslaees 000,000 letters Which the British postofflees OOC were so illegibly they obold not be delivered, opened at the dead letter erty of varioos kinds (laclr to the value of $3, 1