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\ , 4>i- e •' ,c, MMHBHHI >•- • > . I it el negro to' in a coflamt several of %hlch I oaiild metre ImWf filittie Speaki of the Negro la SUvery Day*. - A HX RELATES SOME PLAIN FACTS Charae *»r Harriet Beecher blawe’a In Her Vile Book H how n to he • % . Untrue. - ' -1. , 4P% , . ■ ; The following ertraet* from Sena tor Tllmat^’s speech on tlie negro pro- Mem will be found Interesting and in fctructive: . ^ 1 want to direct your attentleo to a remarkable fact In the history of this Country, which can not m too much dwelt upon. When t(^ ^Southern white men, from Itt to <10 years of age, all them living Jn the cotton States, .except a few in the mountains, had’ teTTthetr homes during the clvlf war to follow the standards of Lee and Jackaon, of Johnston and P'orr and when there were absolutely nb men there except the old men above «0 and 65 and the little schoolboys - and the country then was much less thickly populate than it Is now and altogether more agricultural-with over 4,000,000 negroes there were at least 1,000,000 males,of adult age slaves scattered throughout the breadth of the Ijmd, from the I’oto mao to the Hio Orande, and the wives and daughter* qf their masters were left to their care and protection. The negroes knew the war was to settle the question of their future liberty of continued slavery. If there existed In their hearts any cause for hatred and resentment and a; desire for revenge, such as you gentlemen in youir youth wCre led to believe existed from reading Harriet BeecheriStbwe’s novel and iither sources of informa- P\ Ft -— tlon, and when oratory poured out its plea for the poor, downtrodden Afri can—If these peqple had then been Imbued with one-teothjof the hatred / of the whites which exists to-day, what would have been the conse ■ quences upon the helplesi* white wo men and children then living among them? The very imagination palls at the picture of rapine and murder and of the Cruelties and horrors of which we have read in ffaytl and San Domingo. Yet they were slaves and had, as you believe, ample cause for revengue and hate. But what are the facts, Senators'/ During those four dark years there is not of records solitary ease where a negro man wronged a white woman What is the situation now/ Take your morning paper ^nd read it any day in the year, and there is hardly a day In which our.sensibiiltles are not - wrought up and our passion excited or our pity aroused by some tale of! horror and of woe. I tell you from my own experlehcc and observation that the old sense of ■eeurlty and of love and friendship on ~ the part of the negro for bis white master and bis mistress and the chifd- r*n, which I myself experienced in my boyhood, lias gone. With the /emnant of the old negroes who were born In slavery and had some of that training (all of whom are now neces sarily above 40)gone, the last restralng - and conservative element among them ^ will have disappeared. They have been taught that they are the equals of the whites. During the reconstruc tion period, when they had the ballot aud professed to govern, and levied taxes and marched themselves- in ttm statebouses, constantly squandering “ and stealing of our substances, they - learned their lesson well. They tasted "DWJOQ. They were innocutated with the virus of license, not liberty. Among the dusky millions who were held In bondage there were, of Goufbe r many who had been cruelly wronged and suffered injustice, but the over ported into this country were brought here In 1858 qn the yacht Wanderer, landed on an island below Savannah, an(|- ,sneaked by the -United Stntes 'marshal aip tbe ijavinujali ftt'ver and landed a little distance l»elow Augusta, and iay family bought some thirty-oU them. Therefore 1 had a chance to see just what kind of. people these were, and to compare the African as he is today in Africa with the African who, after, two cehturies of slavery, was brought side by side to is* compared. 'Hie dif^ erence was as “Hyperion to a satyr.” Those poor wretches, half starved us they had been oti their, voyage across the Atlantic, shut down and battened under the hatches and fed a little -rice, several -hundred of tiicrnv were ‘eg for- their masted) and thetr-fasu lies except love and veneration. They looked up to them as superior beings. They felt the obligations of the trusts which had been reposed in them, and ■ many of them were true unto death. -'V'-Wp*" one W give us pauae when we under take to analyze the present conditions. A great poet tells us that those who love liberty must first deserve ^t. So tike poor African has become a fiend, seeking whom he may devour, and filling our penitentiaries and our jails, lurking around to see If some helpless white woman can be murdeml or brutalized. Yet he can read and write, tte has a little of the veneer of educa tion and civilization, according to New Lagland ideas. ^ I (Jo not blame the New England people. They have noneV few, of the negroes. The whole number be- yood New York would not equal Uhe-| ^ negroes In my county. 'The people up there can afford to theorize and to de termine upon the life and death of the civilization of the South from their standpoint of sentinh/ntality, if tb^.jy^ wJiling } iut I do not believe they are willing. Ido uqt believe they want to. 1 give him credit for more love of humanity and of -their kind my State, where there are three or five negroes to one white, just as there are in lodianola three negrowto a white person in that entire community, and in the adjoining county of Washington there are absolutely ten to one, just as in Beaufort, S. C , there are ten to one'/ What effect doqs It have for the knowledge^to go out all over and' among theft, at their churches apd everywhere else, that the great Presi dent of tlie United States is still theft friend; that he docs not intend to al low the “door of hope to lie shut upon them;’! that he wants to offer them an opportunity In life; that he is going to. , ^ recognize them and give them offices^ X 1 ^ .t() represent the U nlted States Govern-^ metit? - Does that tend to peace, tend to good'.order, tend .to produce that feeling of subordination which Is their only salvation?, 'Some people have been ready to be lieve and to contend that -the. negro is a white roan with a black sjehi. _ All history disproves that.' Goto Africa. What do you llpd there’/ From one hundred and fifty million U?two bun dred million savages. „ • 1 happened in iny boyhood, when I was about 12 7ear8 old, to see some real Africans from their native jun gles. The last cargo of slaves 1 m- be\>rought to tlris courftry'fifid^!!^ 0 PP os l tlo h l n the minds the most miserable lot of human bc- ings—the.nearest to the missing link witli the mnnkey t have ever put my eyes on. Now, I do not go into the philoso phy of it, or undertake to act as God’s TriefpTelor, because I havemo ambi tion of that sort and l would not pre- sumcUo even suggest a thing more than to say that if we consider the destinies of tills race from a broad" standpoint, and compare the condi- tion pf the African in Africa todacy^: the highestUunri l>cst, of them, with tlie condition of the American negroes*- such as we now have them, or snch as we liad them in 1865, 1 ad not TiesU tate to say tliat among the four mil lion and (»dd slaves!,wlm were' in tlie South in 1865 there-were more good Christian men and women than_all Africa could show thop or can sliow now. Thetrif God in His providence" or dained slavery and had these, people transported over .here for the purpose as I do gro to be brought to tlris conrftfy 'find civilizda to redeem hls.Xindred in Af rica. And since 1 have traveled from one end of Africa to the other, I am stronger in my conviction than ever. Ajid I did hope that, as Jefferson Da vis was the negati ve ?force in the free dom of the negro. God imd raised you ,up to bbthe negative force tlialshouid establisii through gbyernmental ahJLa liigliwuy for millions o'fbur race to re turn to the land of our ancestors.- I Have been looking upon you as a crea ture of Providence and still think that youIterances in many instances will serve a purpose not even contemplat ed by yourself. Others of mv race may denounce you,as they do in mass meet- jigs and on .the lecture platforms of :iis country;but 1 shall praise you and wish you Godspeed: for I believe that you are serving a purpose of Provi dence tbat but “few are aware of. and even yourself do riot t eaUze, I judge you think, fcoin t he tone of your letter,that I am a politician. But be politics far from me. I am no poli tician. . Nor am I any office seeker for my race. 1 do not care if a negro never get-s office in this country while the world stands. A little insignificant office in t he face of all the laws that are enacted to prevent our rising to manhood is too small to merit my at tention. The negro is a fool for want ing offletr. He Is a fool for enlisting in the Army or Navy or in doing any thing to protect a Hag that gives white mpn all the stars and leaves npthing .but the stripes fbr the negro. Please do not class me among the politicians. Yon say the" natural increase of the negro by birth would be a bar to emi gration sojving the race problem, if l tiilk witb von i would make yoiLSie otherwise. For I know alUabout it— am acquainted with the statistics~nf immigration to this country. But i shall not intrude tq>oii your timejuid pat ience. No reply t o this letter will is* expected. 7 Tidily, , - H. M. Turner. “^II. M. Turner is a Bisiiop of the African Methodist KpIscopiirCTnirch. Hiswliemi- is be to iv* you to consider. Now, Mr. I'resident, a little lirief summary, and i am done. I have en deavored in my feeble and humble to give you such historical ligliU Tm of civilizing enough of them to form a nucleus and to become missionaries back to their native heath, that is a question. I have a letter here from distinguished African-'bishop who be lieves it, and 1 want th read it. But the thing I want to call ydur attention to is that slavery was not an unmiti gated evil for tlie negro, because what ever of progress the colored race lias shown Itself capable of achieving lias comeTfom slavery; and whetheramong those four million there' were not be found among the nine million now is to mind a question. I would not like to assert it tliat belief from tlie facte l kudw ln come to those people down there by having liberty thrust upon them in the way it was, and then having the ballot and the burdens of goverh'irtoeot, and being subjected to the strajn of lK*ing tempted ajiil misled and duped and used as toolsby designing white ouuciv-u ujuov.v^. whu wont thej . e , whelming majority ofthem had no feel- . n^i,, mhnB ha/ , L , t ^i,.^ •, io,_ wh ". l> l icsr for- thslr masteffi and Uietr-faau- way siudi.ethnological light, on: Ihls sud- ject as I cdiilri come across in the brief time I have had, alone with my other duties, to collect. 1 have relied main ly on tlie inner light of my own qhser vations and my own feeling and knpwl- edge-of conditions. I do not want to see the African driven to the wall. . 1 do jQdLwanUln sthit the door of hope in his face. 1 am willing to‘give him every oppor tunity in iife L all that the Declaration a feel- of at} those who are willing to be.tnlsled. 1 ' " ,■ M ' 1 " ' NEGRO CANDIDATE DEFEATED of independence guarantees- life, lit)- Tor office ain't no snap, I tell you erty, and the pursuit of happiness. •••HtHMhat does not ijivolve, and so help me God 1 can iiot consent to have it Involve, the dominance of tliat people over my people. ’Then what arc .we to do?-.We have, .us 1 have told ycifi, a large negro ma jority in South-Carolina. Negroes con stituted the wealtti of that State be fore tlie war when these slaves were chattels. They are there Smtihey do not want to leave,and we do not Want them to leave.What 1 mean by that, js that today tlie superficial 'thought Is that if they left our fields would go untilled, our lands woutrt - become worthless, there would lie a vacuum in the productions of that State, and if you took them out of tlie South you wouldxireate a cataclysm in finance, and would knock down and xtestcxy not only-Uhe financial tirosperltv of thlshatlori; but of ail Europe. So you can -»otr-appruacli tills prob lem at,a double-quick. It . Uas^-been cointlqf on us fof two-centuries or muTu-good men and Women than could more. We will have to take-theriime to study, out the l>est way to go about lieginT J We had than to hegin ■vfung. We have already begun wrung, regard to the demoralization tliat has The hiutalers which hove-been'made settling it. and then hut 1 am strongly of Ubetter never- -begin since,!8ij5-ha.vc produced the present unfortunate and.J might say, danger- ous situatidn,. , -—~ TJonsider .for a moment wha£ it means to undertake to deport these _. . ., . . . . .. ... friends haLve always-taken it upon TBeTact which op he disputed is tUemselv ^ to > quote evcrvthia^tert is Iurld au4- hot and say, and then to. tinisli by saying; “The Senator from -Stmtli Carolina made a characteristic! speech," leav- ing anything that was sane and rational and decent and eloquent, if 1 ever rise to eloquence, out .of Die whole account. Tliat is unintentional (ToubtleSs. ^In thcTf pufSntt for gensa- tiQB they-4iave-4one me ~ tlie gteat wrong lo misrepresent me throughout this country. 1 do not fret over it/ 1 know that tlie truth never has over taken a He, and 1 do not intend to un- dertake it, and 1 never wiHevep make a start to run down thousand aiid one es that have been told on me. U. than to bring on & conlict of that fort. If there were no higher motives, 1 give them credit for more statesmAn- shtp. But, with tlie constantly m- oreasing hatred between the rae with tbe*older white men, acquaint with the better negroes, dying off, as' they are doing rapidly; with the old negroes, the grandfathers of the race, dying off rapidly, as they are doing, in very short while those who know anything of tbe relation, of the slave and the master, in the old days will have disappeared and gone. Aqd then the younger»generation of white men, -who are hating these ne groes in return, whose animosity aft antagonism grow apace with these acute situations and conditions, have got to face this problem. 1 thank God that 1 will jjnLMye tft —But this man, this bishop, wrote me a letter and culled my attention tu a dream of his,-an- aspiration and a hope, and to suggest that I should submit his v proposltl6n*tothe Senate of the United State and lend it sup port. 1 wrote' J back to him tperdirti- rutty that lay in the way tl»Pobstruc tion, tlie welUnigh Impossibility of Anything belug do«e along tliat Hne to the extent be had dreamed, of, and 1 went on to;say something aftwit- my idea in regard to the ncgni, giving a little advlcei, as we are all so prone and ready—to do. Advice—Is one of those commodities tliat nobody ever \charges anything for except a lawyer. } got this letter in return: Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 24,1903. Hon. B. K. Tillman, United States Senate. .7/ —* ir: Yours of the 19tli Instant w;is upon my table when 1 readied liome from Memphis, Tenn. m say, if I know anything, I ought te know that the negro in the South niusMJver and foreywWfemain subordi nate] oFh» destroyed, and annihilated. 1 know that ak^Millaa you do,and even better, fpr a. w~ " endeavoring in my feeble way to beg you, tor God’s sake, not to help pro duce tbat acute stage of fever and race bated and carry It through until you bring Into people those angry passions which will put tbe races at eachoth- er’s throats with tbe resolve on tbe part of the whites to die or maintain heir supremacy. T OpUTt Of own to the ward - States dt the co ored man can politician - see It and feel it. But this determination to degrade the negro and prevent his recognition as a man tliat God made is not only con fined to the ruling masses of the South but to the North as well, udice Is not a Southern alone, but of the United Sta. my desire for my race to lea I was directed by the general deficiency approved March 3, 1903. This U the Tillman forced Congress to pay the State-aUthe last minute. people, to encourage them to emigrate. You are face to face with a problem in its magnitude in expense will wuaWebt.»*4**r - wutm close of tlie war. The getting to gether eveajn small quantity of 200, te?frorn thls man —U never met him making some comment on some -thing he had seen about my utter-- numb anees in regard te the negro in sumii | e ;, ual the i,irth rate, and gi vi speech ur lecture. My newspaper pial Hie birth rate.'atulqjiving them the aid and the assistance fft go^icross the ocean, or to goUo Squib Amenca. or te Mexico. oi» to Dfi'-PrrNippincs. nr .'uha.—or to Africa. or any where else, liiv()tet^“jtraiispoj-tation by spa, the fyod. necessary--to sustain tliem while tiiey afatf - mi the w-ay and in The thiie they are oiji _sh1pl)p.ard. the food -»D sqppqrU life: ami then when you land them on Uhe ottier shorc yonare compelled- by humanity to furnish tliem witli the, meansajl support iintil fcifey can until they can plant a crop and gath er if. So 1 think upon a rongtresti mate you eau uot possibly hope or ex pect to accomplish it under IffOhper capita^ at a very low estimate. —'.— — 1 low many of themwAnt .to go/ L d i not know, and peTtniniy there is no law to make jfe^iji ja> and Congress can not Joe does not want togo^Tfiy Joe. 1 (lo’hot’know wJieth- ec Ulndong to doc or Joe belongs to mo. ’ Anyhow, we have, been together for thirty ydars, and we have agreed to live together until one of bo£h of us die. and wlijm i go-awarr if f go ttrsl, T know he will shed as sincere tears as anybody. „ J would eke-to pro tect him from injustice or wrong: -Nowr what are you going to do abofft it'/ Thrimgl^oui^that broad land there arc liundreds' aiw^ tliousands of .1 oes. They do not' care anything about voting. They do not know any- thing about it. Left alone and in peace as tiiey are now, they do not know anything about tlie elections. Tiiey have forgotten all they did know about them. They have not voted in South Carolina since 188J, long before they were disfranchised according to the constitution and the law of the State. When we Blok the government away from them in 1876 we made it so clear tliat wc intended te keep it fefaafcqgfjigt one nr tw**.. spasnu Darchmont, N. Y„ People llepudluted the "Theory of Hoo«evelt." ■. ; .. i. . .i .. ' a- •.. . Tiie defeat Saturday of Tom Harris, a negro livery mah for the Jtepublican nomination for tax' receiver of Larch- mont, the tewh of millionaire -New York yachtsmen is creating a'Igreat deal of comment, because t}ie race question was directly involved. Millionaires wlio have country seats here left their town bouses te east votes agamst Harris. They said they did not want a negro calHog at their houses te collect taxes. a Ha?r}s had a dozen of his carriages in sendee to conVfey his supporters to the bon tion hall/ while most of the yachts- mcn used automobiles. -—' < Harris announced to his friends tliat the reason he was in the race was because “he wanted to uphold the theory of Pftesldent Roosevelt that negroes should be permitted-to' hold office.'* _ More votes turned out than ever be fore In the histeryof this place. Let ters had lieeu sent out and telephones were kept hot-ad day requesting tax payers to “clown” Hams: Rather than have a rival ticket, and thus in- creasc the alliances of Harr he the con- ventfon indorsed the Ilemocratic ticket, with the exception of the tax Receiver. The ticket is headed by A ugusUn Monroe for president of tlie village. %_ When the lialloting for tax receiver liegan the village hall was black with tobacco smoke. Millionaires- sat on tlie betH/hex. sandwiched tietweeii colored waiters. When T. J. Me- Cahill nominated Harris the negro marched up the main aisle uf tlio had with a Tilg, iilacjv cigar stucl^in the ‘dumerof ids mouth and his hat tilted. backXHe was the only man in the hall whq kept on his 'hat. Great beads of ptqspiration stood out on his face... After liarris learned lie hid received only about a quarter of the votes he- was crestfallen. ‘Tve been flini-iTammcd -sold out,” lie said. “But I’ll support tlie ticket j usT’ The sa me. -F-bctttrvcU tlie re some voting by proxy. / I have tried that game myself. was ght te Rhening- “We defeated Harris because we dick not want a negro to handle our taxes,” said a yachtsman. “Hts place is in his livery stable and not in public of fice. > If he had been nominated many wealthy persons would have moved away.” Rattle With the Buga. It may mot he known generally to ouf reacDrs that the go ve rn men t spends millions uf dollars annually IrvineJ.u destroy insects that are in- jurious te the different crops that our farmers grow. NcHesk than *35C,lHR),- 000 will’ be spent this jear in this way: The Uihehuhug willdraw iVOo,- 000,000 of this amount, the grasshop per will take $90,000,000 and the Hes sian tly will call.for, at least $5o,ooo,- TKWT more. Three worms that attack, the cotton plant” will assess the far mers for trtotal of ,165.000,000, and the potato bug will eat fn K 0flO,OOO worth of its favorite kind of garden produce. TerTMillions jaf dollars Is a moderate estimate of the injury that will lie done by the apple weftm, and the caterpillar that makes cabbages its specialty will destry $.'>,000,000 worth of crisp green heads- THg estimate. wRIcn-ls conservative and under the mark, is as follows: / 7 . AWO,000,0(H> 777777 90,000,000 r 7 . —iVOrOOO.OOO 8,000,000 ....I. . 10,000,000 10,000.000 .: 1O,OOO;OO0 Cmchdimr Grasshopper Hessian fir ~ Rotate bug. > San Jose scale Grain weevil .. A pple worm . Cabbage worm, Boll weevil (cotton) 20,000,000 Boll worm (cotton). .. .^ 25.000.000 Cottcrti worm 15,000.000 _ u dlyidual bug is small, byt Its ma^e^-a stakt i'n'uie igEEid/' -hold*' is its tremendous TFIw aljMitd it seems, says the Wash- ington cortespcmdent (if The News and Courierd»ay*Ttliat this Govern ment—ylth atr-armyajf 65,000 men, 254 v/ar ships and more money in its treasury’tlian any nation has ever be- fore possessed, shoi!ld,lx\ helpless in (bieetiohahre TSeJm “strong- power of re- done in Edbrnioas Appropriations'Mady by '-r .A f r ' * , .'V -/ Congre i at the Late OeMlod. * :t ''' ' ' “* •' —* % Jlepresentative Livingston-mf Geor gia, the ranking Democratia member of the HooseCommRtee on. appropria tions, makes a rough estimate that the total amount of money appropria ted by the late Congress will.reach a minimum figure of $2,000,000,000. “I have uot the complete figures at hand yet,” said Mr. Livingston, “for the reason that several bills are yet in conference, but 1 judge that the total amount will not be less tlian $2,000,- 000,000, This Is a remarkable fact upon which the country carv Wel}.af- ford to ponder, it means that the ex penditures of the government are far greater Ilian the growth of the coun try warrants. Of .course allowances jnust always by made for growth, but the development is being exceeded by the total ofxiur disbursements. “The fact is this Republican admin- tration is following the same course 11 extravagant person wtm finds his pdekets full of money and who}- does not Anow what te do with It. A man extravajfantly inclined who does nol know whaitoAp with tlie money in his purse always manages te get rid of it,and in most instances a great proportion of It goes te waste- There is now a surplus of about $47 in the treasury, and the Republ don’Uknow what to do with it. They must spend it, however. “Therein lies theevil. There sliould be no gigantic surplus. The' Republi can protective tariff is responsible for the situation and I believe that with a t,ariff-for-revenue-only policy we could manage the affairs of the'treas ury much better, obviate the great surplus, without injuring the state of ourhinancies, and thus eliminate any chance for extravagance. 1 believe that is the solution of the problem and tliat the true Deniociatlc policy would conduce largely to wise ecqn- omy: 1 “With a “$£,0001000,000 Congress staring us itr the fajee^. it is. time to out down appropriations. A few years ago the country was astounded te find that it had just witnessed 'a billion dollar Congress.’ Now two such Con gresses are combined: that is, we have a billion dollar Congress every year in stead of every two years. 1 do not fa- vor a cheese-paryig policy,but I think the appropriations of this country are far in excess of the amount tiiey should be.” 4 ... - - ■ - -' ■ \—q ' Th'e Corn Meal Law. The fOlHowing act, passed by the legislature, will be of interest to grocihs and dealers and tbe public general Section i U. Tl sheNof Tlie standard weight corn" meal, weight bolted or unbolted, shall be 48 pounds. Section 2. ItTihall be unlawful for any person or persons to pai k for sale,. Sell or offer for xsale, in this state, any corn meal except In bags or packages containing, by Standard weigiii, two "tinsiieis, 1 or one-half bushel, or one-fourth buii or one-eighth bushel,' respect! Each bag or package of corn m?al shall have plainly prihted or marked thereon, whether the mea) is “bolted] or “tmbajltedj’ the amoutit it contains in bushete-ur fraction of a bushel, and the weight: Provided, The provisions of this section shall not apply te the retailing .of meal direct to customers from bulk stock, when priced ajhd delivered by actual weight or meas- urc. — Section 3. Any person or persons^ yuiity of vi*4ating eitlier -of the forego’ nrg sections of this act shall Hie reot, sh aft w pun tsh ed exceeding" onC hu conviction by fine of not ceeding thirty days, or ixith fine or ■rmprisonipent. in the discretion of the court.! “““ . Mr. A Burglar'a Work. and Mrs. J. C. Dickerson, ^JAJiUOjOOO uroauueuL ciU/eus of Jasner countv an(J con T rcnonslv ?> nisu,r >’ nT int> — 5 (RKrooh ^ Ttn • • family:- A *My''father. H-. It. Tiliman. .>,000,000 were fatally injured by a burglar early .u.,i Thursday me>rni ng near Cordova. Ala., and thoir Itome-roblKHlof Its valuables. The weapon used by the robiier was apon arhatchet/ and liorrible gashes on the faces of bis two victims, -show-he was Mr. Dick- production. What is tlo be conffict witli ao adversary which is capable of having a billion descendants ink summer. In conflict with such an ,enemy Uncte.-Sanadinds himself jn mriCii tlie sanie situation GuHJvot when he a '5 At as that of he was a Ft tie mercy of the Liliputians. Tlirowu and t'apturVd. A desperate attempt ajJhtghway robbery in Uie centre^of Johannes burg in South Afrrck! wks njade Fri day. A ccWukTof men attacked two cers conveying $125,000 to th^GSank, and throwing pepper in eir eyes^secured tlie money bags which they threw to a fjorseman who galloped off. The horseman hr his lliglit Anocked down a roan named Brandon. Wlio was fatally injured and soon expired to go and pick cotton on th'e (it or TCfrot^Novemher, when the Tuesday cai It is only thesir'peafciferious creat urea who are organized, bolted aqd ‘unseated its rider, who was then attested and the money re covered. — l*al«l 1 lie Tenuity. .Parnes Mack was shot and killed at Powhatan, W. Va., Wednesday night l>v James Hickman. Mack ran away witli Hickman’s wife several years ago and went te tlie coal Helds. Hickman locai&l them at Powhatan Wednesday night and calling Mack te the door of Ids cabin fiddled his body witli kxhqtf Hick man smTcmtet aoMiiiUgrothm Claim. Tlie treasury department Friday is^ firsk • sue< l Warrants-aggregating $89-, 137 in favor of the State of South Carolina, in satisfaction of its claims growing little Republican machines to filmish delegates te nominate a Republican President who are bothering about it; and It is those fellows who are in these id, into, out of the war of 1812. The payment sible effort te capture the gu A telephone message from late Thursday night says Henry Walker, a negro, is being held on suspicion. ' 7 Mtruck by a Train. « Mrs; John Greenwood and her three cijildfeii. girls aged 16 and 12, and a boy IT, while walking across the Big Four trestle wesjtof SpringfieldrOhio, Thursday were struck by local Cincin nati freight No. 5o, southbound. ^The mother am} tlie eldest gkUwere yn- stanly killed aud the othCr two were fatally injured. All were knocked from, the trestle into tlie water fifty feet blow. Engineer Thomas * tealy" saysthe fog was soffense that he could not see 25 feet ahead of his engine \7eii rod Women '.vlmarr in irtnlof tht hnxt treat- niont .. I, > >ul -1 lint fall ■*y. MytiK iZfMW^iiinnhX MtedcKut by DV. X .MW ZZy Hathaway! al-o *pr- l>R. hathawat. - dal oonnael from hi* asAoclate phyAlclaua when neoPAHary, which no other «lt|ee has. If you enn not rail, writ* for free Ixmklet* and ^de-Mon blank*. Mention your trouble. Kt- erythinir »trletly eonBdentlal. J. Newtou Hathaway, M. 1). - 88 Inman Building 22} S. Broad St Atlanta, Ga. ~'7 - V .The Great Rheumatic Cure - ■ ' ' < AND Spring: Blood Purifier Positively ,jcures all diseases arising from impurities in the blood, includ ing Catarrh, Indigestion, Chronic Constipation, Kidney and LiverTroublfea, etc. ' Every person in the land needs a powerful blood purifier every Spnhf. You need it. You want the 1 best—the standard. That is RHEUMACIDE. BEWARE OF DANGEROUS SUBSTITUTES. RHEUMACIDE benefits instead of injuring the digestive organs as Jnany so-called fnedicines do. RHEUMACIDE is a powerful alterative, but old people or children can take it with absolute ,safeq. Price $1.00 at Druggists, or express prepaid bn receipt of pirice. Bobbitt Chemical Co., Baltimore, fid* U. S. A. Cherokee Remedy ot SWCCt Guill & MUlfein Cures Conghp, ColdJ, Whoopi usu^Congh, La Grippe und all Throat and Lung Troubles Made of^Knre Sweet Gum, Mul- , and Honey. Your DniRgist sells it257mdLfiO 0? If r full Hne of Hardware is not ^ Our salesmen are out. J'lir High THE .ci i>io ^ t>iii i>iii\y I AU< EST MANuFACT}*RERS OF —- Gx aic Pianos ami Organs liV TT111C <>WI^1>. J0lcterlcs,'Chicago ani Si Charles, Illinois. —— — tbintf>1 q'W l MH.LION DOLLARS. $2,000,000. I'Tahcli lloase, 282 >;irleston, S. C. /nAiyh»4JJ)-0BGANS Srl4o#t.Kasy TcTriis. lU-fore buylog w • i h ^oiVfj!ta 1 Tgue ai I ter-r < Factory prices madev. A fall l.Ac of Sheet Music aa ’ small Musical InstruipenU in stock. . - '—,* .I.JI7 WALLACE, Manager. . THE OA-HTE COMRAIMV, lAEi.KSLi.N. S. C. » COIaUMlilA Sc MFG. CQ. tortsn. DCOR6. L L’NDS. HNTr.r'OH FINISH. MOIJL**- aind llmbeh, a rv QUAINT! 7Y. r Golumblci, ft, C. ; It Ham Many DI*tftiiKHi*!ir<l MoihImth in Muny States. ]-7 ^7 _ 7'.' , v ’ ■.■I Some time ago tlt£.. papers, of the «mntry published a *'oleg.raTn ; froro St-! ' * ‘ ’ . - » . ■*» j J’aul, Minnesota, announcing Hie death of a grand uncleSf&enater Till- j man, an aged miser of that place. A i few days ago your correspondent, i chanced to meet Mrs! SweamH am jpiprisonment notr ex---sister of Senator Tillman, and iiiquir.-T ed if the Mr: Tiliman tn question was a relative. - ‘ _'i She replied, “No;” expressing her-, seif as.JieiQgglador an opportunity-, to correct the error, and then she gave the following short, but interesting and comprehensive, history of the had only three uncles; their names were LitUeberry, Steven and Lewis, “Llttleberry moved to Alabama. wbore- hl* -great grandson, Senator Pugh, and other desccndants"TFiTw live. . « . , . . t , ^Stevap itved aod-died in -Edgetleid. s hve-year-oid daughter nnttlted. ^ he H hes citsby and Ollier faihi-- nelglibors of the tragedy and lips k / n( ? rf>d tn from- orousiy. erson': the when they arrived at the house the man and woman were unconscious. lying on a lied which was spapbeff wjfll hkod, the halffhct Lying nearby. naTn ^ ( j j n honor of Iris nati ve courtly the robber 1 , though posses have been organized and are making every pos lies kindred to them, him. —“Lewis moved te Tenfiessee^wbere^ he lived and died in Edgefield, a town he nam^d in honor of liis nati ve courtly i trr Sonth Carottna.~LHi&—gxandsoii,} ^, VI)|*0SS Lewis, represented .that Stater itHi)gB l Sae ilmRoio lloOFIXU. Inexpcusi'vc to lay. " Easy tedkerp in repair. IJghfe-and very durable- Wu.icrpnH | and ordoriess. N(4. affected by Hiange of tem- {>erature. ‘ Tr ——•— ... Elasticr Acld and',\lkaii,-prcK)f. — Fire-resist imf-and-oU-nnwif.' -*• Vermin will not attaek-rt: AH ready to lay* !> Need> no paint ingor coating. Will mit-doterkirate wiDragc. WRITE FOR PRICES - “sornit ? ;Asm7 Alfclasses building material, (•n:\itt7ESTON, s. c. rH y»e j ress for .several years. . Congressman left sons, six tn+v u,r 0 '^fninBber. Some of them are promiie] ent lawyers^Jiving in Nashville and Knoxvil/e, TemL-CUie, J. Fount Till man, was register aff tbe United Statetr- treasury and hht name Is oftete'seen on pa|)er money." “Another of his sons, Col. Samuel Tillman, is professor of chemistry in \Vest Point Military Academy, where he has labored for many years. His works on chemistry are used as text books in the leading universities of the world. My father.- if living, would lieteO years old on the 5th March coming, as he was born in 1803. “ills twin, brother, John M. Till- in in, d&d of yellow fever in Pensacola, Fla.. wi*en quite a young man, eighty odd years ago. You-will pardon tlie inflict ion of If you will haul them, we sell at the following low will prices. r r . as ktng as Hiry last. 6 v 20 $3,75 p<‘r thousand. -Tx 18 Hand Drawn Heart Cy press at $3.25 per thousand. Now if. ydii want a good rcof come right along. these genealogical facts, which are called forth by the seemingly un scrupulous qfforts of some to besmirch our name. A history of the family is in course of preparation—written by a member of the North Carolina branch of. the name—and P am sure its pages wilt not enroll the name of the —rr ! Oil Tank KxplodcH. The burning of a stable adjoining the storage tanks of the Standard OH y^t^rggimhat-^Nort}).. Coro- nesday caused one of the e with g teat--damage to property. Other tanks, one of which contains! seven tHShsand gal lons of gasoline, exploded* later. Re ports received he restate houses were wrecked and much damage douc not only to the residence and business houses of the town: but also to the large factory of the Imperial Tobacco company.- TT? A