The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 19, 1899, Image 1
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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,
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