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BARNWELL, S. THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1906.
NO. 4H.
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BRYAN ON ISSUES.
«n Certain Bills and Why He
Stated-— v
AT
tat ifa« Wit I* foond In the S«
Journal, 10OS, paft 143. 1
‘'Wltb refmnM to my posltio
the Qaaghmao aot of 1900,1 will ■
X tons agalnita bill in 1892 w-L..
pro Tided for a partition in oar, but, H H nn Thrt _ a tvs..
gave no aeparate toilet aooommoda-1 nC Has Surprise for Inose WHO
Mon for the agxaa, which would bare
«*vrf'w*4p :
;iicry
m*
Matt Agalaef
u4 Give* -
All the .
Cut la the -1
ter or
ng atetement from Sen 7
: explain! itwlf:
not propoee to be drawn
‘ IBY of campaign or
‘ into any opnerorerar. hut I intended
te eowduct my campaign on a high
without mad-alleging for I do
intend to aek fox the andrage of
the pecple of Sooth Carolina by de
tracting item or ihlnrlng the charan
potation of my opponente.
Bach u mention bu been
By totes In the leglelatufe on
measure!, I feel it neeeuarj
keep*the reocrd straight. I will
bare to correct certain
white bate been midi. .
j “Mr. Bleme in hie speech in Oulupa-
Waepoke with a great deal of feeling
, whan dtoeuning the work of the In*
TWtlgatli g oommltue of the cruelty
Injuring a man’s reputation by in*
rcMuspluiuas. <le hu net
this rule In bis reference to
’ me, for it wih be foond that In git
a log my record tote on certain meu
area he has gleen only a part of that
record on thou matters, and hu done
ice an injuetlce and created a wrong
imprikMon. He may not haTeintend
* ed this, snd tewidto me lApt he
„ wanW Wsoealf mk atbeeomcC ooat
white 1 called bis attention In a per
/ sonal ooi Teraation, but he bu not yet
done so, and I will therefore set this
record straight myself.
I wish Co say, With reference to the
bill regtilakog tbe rate cf Interest in
1893, . reducing the rate of Interest
from 8 to 7 per cent., that I roted
against that bill. My only business
at that time wu farming. 1 wu a
borrower of money annually, bat I
felt that If money lenders could not
get tbe caritnt rates for money from
farmer* that they would lend money
elsewhere, and the farmers, Instead of
getting n ooey from banks with white
to conduct ttelr basinet a would be
forced to get edyences from commls
sion hierteants on a Hen at a rate of
Jntan^LJBcning l*em-te-le 4«-fler
cent, for adTtr ces. For tbls reason,
I-tetad. against the reduotion In the
rate and beiieTe that that action lus
proud to be in the Interest of the ag
ricultural class.
"On the child labor bill of 1900,1
Toted against tbe bill because of an
understanding bad with Ooi. Jas. L
Orr, Mr. Lewis Barker, Cspt. Ellison
Smyth, that they would use their ef
forts to base the milll regulate this
matter themselTM, if we did not
the liw. I then on that understanding
voted tgafbst the bill. They made tbls
ifTjrt with the mills, but failed. Tbe
following year 1901, the aot wu again
introduced and 1 voted for the bill,
ted strenuously for Its pasuge and
apnkkiMMgort of the bill, u will be
found InBetetrJoumal, 1901, pages
295 and 340.
"On the bill to prohibit trusts, Sen
ate Journal 1902r pages 462* 473, my
reasons fox voting ss I did are u fol*
Iowa: There wu aweetioo tar the bill
exempting agreements with regard to
tbe aale of agricultural products. Be
fore Mils, an act bad been passed in
Tennessee and Ttxas containing
similar provision. The act of Texas
bad been thrown into tbe oenrts and
bad been pamed on by tbe supreme
court of tbe United States. . Tbe de
eisibn of that ocurt wu to tbe effect
that tbe whole aot wu invalid, inu
mate u this discriminating claose af
footed the whole aot in favor of one
class and rendered the aot noil and
void.
"In tbe senate, I moved to strike
rut that section, beoatue it would
make tbe bill ucoonetltntlonal, noil
and void. I wu trying to save the
bill. Tbe senate refused to strike oat
that section and I thm said that in
tbe face of tire decision of tbe supre
me court of the United Statu,-white
wu so clear and positive, it wu aim
ply-ehUd's play to pan an set when
we knevy that tbe aot would be nail
and void. -i
"As I said, my purpou was to hkve
a bill that would stand tbe test of tbe
courts snd prohibit trusty snd monop
olies
"Mr. Blease again quotes from tbe
reeoid In part and dees me an Injus
tice In the matter of the relief bill,
epioaed tbe blU when it wu intro
duced bccaou it wu stated, both by
the railroad authorities and the em
pioyeie of the road, that it wu en
tirely optional with tire employeee
wbethex Urey Joined this relief depate
meal Ot not. Bat Mr. Bleau fails to
itate say vote on the bill the nex i
«nteP
• "In the neaatlne, I had tnvesM
gated this matter and made inquiries
among the railroad men themaelvU.
~ 1 supported the bill in 1908,
. v| *ne ntlsded that it wu not option
al w llhtlra e^loyeea, bit wu prac
tically a matter of eompnlslon that
they should Job) this department
bear Indeeent. This bill failed be
cause of Its glaring defects.
The Reparation cf the races wu pro
vided for by the set Of 1898, when 1
wu not a member of the legislature.
When the bill wu before the sen ate, I
to 1900%) amend this hill, I voted
against an indefinite postponement,
white would fcave meant the death of
the bilL Certain amendments were
put in in the aenate white did not
nrut my approval, and I voted
against tbe bill at amended. Oa the
report of tbe committee of confer
ence, the bouse refused to agree to
tire senate amendments. Oj motion
that tire aenate recede from lie amend
mente. It wu moved to lay that mo
tloa on the table and on that mo
to table I voted "Nay” white shows
that I favored the blllu pawed by
tbe house and u finally pseud, with
one miiibr amend meet, and which
amendment I agreed to in committee
ot free oonferepoe. SenafiT^Wurnai
900, page 412.
"I wu than pat on tbe committee
of free oon'ferenoe on the Csugbman
>111. That committee recommended
that the senate reoed from some of Us
amendments. 1 u one of this com
mlttee, of free conference, approved
tiro bill u passed, which wu satlsfao
tory to tbe author of tbs bill, and 1
•oted for it u it passed.
With reference to my vote on tbe
repeal of the charter of the Virginia-
Carolina Ohemloal company, I desire
testate that the hlll pravlded for
repul of the charter of that company
without any process of law, T wliite
wu a proposition for white T felt
that 1 cou.d not stand, inumnte si
such in action would be entirely llle-
gat and un;
perty rlghu In an onoonstituttonal
manner and would be a violation of
my oatih. "Richard 1 Minnlng."
mi F1R80RB KILLED.
Think He Has
CHANGED POSITION.
D1 Metro us MeeUng of Trolley Care
Near Baffelo, N Y.
Five persons wars killed and about
twentyii Jiredlnaoolllssioo between
two trolley trains on tbe InternaMon-
Rallrokd company’s line between
luffelo, N. Y., and Lockport Wednee-
day night.
A train of two trolley oars, west
bcuad from Lock port, and doe at
Tonawanda at 9.15 o’clock, ran Into
open switch at a siding j ist cut
of Martlnvlll* snd crashed into a
trolley freight motor and a train of
seven freight oars white were lying
on the siding waiting for the pawen-
ger train to go by. Five persons were
killed outright and a score lijired,
some of whom may die. __a_
Tbe paaunger oars were going at a
high rate of speeedrwhen the accident
occurred, and tbe impact wu terrif
ic. Tbe foremost car wu utterly
demolished. Tbe wedge-shaped end
of the freight motor out it in half,
and the rear car completed tbe work
of destruction. The rear oar remain
ed On the tracks.
Tbe dud am. Jonh JiLtUftman,
jockport, N Y. mortorman: Charles
T. Hutchinson, Lockport; unknown
workman, bead crushed; girl and boy^
supposed to be brother and sister
names unknown, and Mrs. Henry
Eitellanoi fi.yur old son.
Tbe most seriously injured ire:
Theodore Neetman, Buffalo; Dr. E
A. Wleland, Biffslo; H. J. Wait,
Buffalo; Mrs. Emma H. Maloney,
buffalo. Mr. J. D. H-ath, Niagrs
Falk; Lu Johnson, srptorman will
probaly die.
Tbe awitoh into the siding wu not
I, for tbe puunger came thun
dering along, took the tom and
crashed upon the freight engine.
More Red leal Thu Ever, sad Still Be
lieves la Principle of BimetaNism
But Says Question Hu Beta
Settled by the Discovery —
.1 Mi. ' J
William J. Bryan, who is stM. in
London, having bad the opportunity
of reading American newspapers, con
sented Thursday to discuss some of
the questions which have bun raised
ginoe he hu again become prominent
as a presidential possibility. He said:
"I notloe that i jam now described
as a-conservative, and in order that
there may bum misunderstanding on
that subJeoFpermltP&e to uy that in
on* sense I always have bun a con
servative. Tbe Democratic policies
are conservative In that they embody
old prtnoiplu applied to new opndl
tions. There wu nothing new in prin
ciple In either of the platforms on
white I stood. We were accused of
attacking property, when in fact the
Democratic party Is. the defenner of
property because ft mduvurs to draw
tbe line between henest accumulation
by honest methods on the one side
snd predatory wealth and Immoral
methods on the other. It la to the
hones should Jw exposed anA pon-
ishedf other wUe the deserving are apt
to atffir for the uadeurving. If,
however,'* by the word conservative
they mean that I have changed my
position on any public question or
moderated my opposition to corporate
aggrandiz ement they have a surprise
waiting for them. I am more radical
titan I wu in 1896 and have nothing
to withdraw on economic 4 questions
white have been under discussion.
"Tbe only question we discussed in
1696 upon wnite there bu been any
apparent change, is the silver qau-
tion, and that hu not been a change
in the ad v^cites of bimetallism bat in
conditions. We contended for more
money end urged the free coinage of
silver'as the only means than in sight
of securing it. The Increased produe
tion of gold hu brought in part the
benefltwe expected to secure from the
restoration of silver. The par capita
volume of money in the United States
is almost 5 per oenti greater now than
it wu in 1896, and the benefits
brought by this increase have not only
vindicated tbe quantitive theory of
money but have proven the benefl'
of the larges amount of money. No
advocate of the gold standard oan
claim the triumph of his logic.
"I believe in bimetaUtam,- and 1
believe that the restoration of silver
would bring still further p
besides restoring par In exchange
silver using ooub-
other
DEIFIND BUND
| were so from ohUdhoodluoder 2C yean
36 per cent, fron
cut of consideration. The worker who
came late would, if honest, be too
modest to aacume an attitude cf supe
riority over thou who had toiled dor
log tbe earlier hours. While tbe
quutlonlaoneof purpgei,B man who | c .. .j .. | vr» wjo p** umi •uuud vum-
reoogn'z s the dangers that threaten | tDC l nited States 08 Reported | third became deaf before they were
of age), and 36 per oe&t. from birth.
More than one hslf of tbe totally deaf
lost all power of bearing before they
I were 2 years old.
Of tbe partially deaf about one-
our country and is anxious to avert I
them will not find it d-ffioxltte estab
11th friendly relations with thou who |
taw dangers at an earlier date.
"If the d.ffdrenou betwun the sin-
cere and the pretended friends reform
cannot be discovered before, they will
become apparent when the platform
is written, for, it preunt indications
count for anything that platform is
likely to be eo plain that no one oan
mis rake it, and eo strong that no ene
my of Democratic principles will be ]
drawn to the Fatty.”
Mr. Bryan added that he would dia-
nuu the trust, tariff, railroad, and la
bor questions, imperialism snd other
leroee at length when he read
America. —
Mr. and Mrs. Bryan were the guests]
of Ambasudor and Mra. Raid at lun
eheon at Dorchester house Thursday.
Among thora invited to meet Mr. and
Mra Bryan were Sir Edward Qrey,
the Rev. Dr. William Boyd Carpenter,
the foreign ueretary; the bishop of
Rlpon and Mn. Boyd Carpenter,
Charles Page Bryan, D. O. Mills snd
Secretary Bldgely Carter of the
American embamy.
by tbe Census
NUMBER THOUSANDS.
The Total Naobir at Bilal b
Nearly
Sixty-Five Tboeseed, sad, the
Total Number ef Deaf
Is
Nearly
j--
Nioety
Tboesud.
TEX LOST FOUND.
of
The Rst. Wm Aiken Kelly Yarns Up
In Charleston.
Ret. W. Aiken Kelly, formerly pas
tor of Craoe Methodist church, North
Auguste, after being lost to his con
gregation for nearly two years, hu
been found, and the opinion preyall-
ing at the time of Mr. Kelly’s disap
pearance that he wu suffering men
tally is pnotioaUy substantiated.
Ik Mil be recallsd that during a pe
riod when efforts were being made to
erect a new tenrte in North Anguate,
when the patter and a committee of
the members of the ohotte were work
ing dllllgently toaocomplishthat pur
pose, Mr. Felly suddenly disappeared
and no positive trace oould be foond
of hip. Tbe morning of Ms disap
pearance he wu in tbe oity of Augus
ta and visited several supporters of
his church, some of tbe members and
several friends. Late the same after
noon he wu eeen to hoard the car
bound for North Augusta and Jut be-, , - ^ tll , , ,
fore dark wu noticed by two or thru bUnd fsmalu were to-
people to be wandering about listieu- blind,
The bureau of census hu Just issu
ed a special report of tbe blind and
deaf in the United States In 1900.
The Inquiry wu conducted under the |
direction of Dr. Alexander Graham
Bell, who determined the soope of the
Invutigatlon snd wrote the text of
the report on the deaf.
.The report on the blind gives not
only data oonoerning color, sex, na
tivity, marital condition, school at
tendance, and oooupations, but also
much Information in -regard to the
age when blindness occurred and the
cause of,blindness.
Tbrtotal number of blind persou
In the United States in 1900 wu 64,
763—or about ,tee in every 1,200 of
total population. There were
35,646 totally blinS, and 29,116 par
tially blind. Theu figures, however,
oan be considered only u the mini
mum, u an unknown proportion
the blind were not located'by
enumerators. Tbe number of partlal-
ly blind by no maani represents the
facte u to defective eyesight, but re
presents only "verified oases.”
Of the total number of blind, 37,
064, pr 57 2 percent, were males, and
27,709, or 42 8 par cent, were females
Slnu In the general population only
61 1 per oent. were males snd 48.9 p$r
oent ware females, it is/ evident that
blindness occurs more frequently
suing males.
Aboot 66 per oent of the blind re
ported were totally blind and about
46 percent, were partially bUnd, A
■lightly smaller proportion of blind
20 years old, one-third between 20 snd
140, snd ooe-tblrd after reaching 40.
Of tbe 89,287 peraons returned u
deaf, 66,601 ware able to speak well,
9 417 were able to speak Imperfectly,
and 24,369 could not speak rat all.
Practically all of those who spftk m-
perfectly or not at all lost their heu-
log in jftildbood (under 20 years of
age.) Oa the other hand the majority
of deaf who speak well lost their hear-
| in* in adult life. Gf the deaf anff
dumb, more tban 16 per oent. were
reported u totally deaf. It will thus
be seen that the ability to sneak is de
pendent largely upon two factor—the
period of life when deafness occurred
and tbe degree of deafness. Djaf-
interferes rather with the ac
quisition of speech tban wltli its re
tention after It bu once been acquir
ed. r.
Beware of the Undertow.
. A fe w weeks ago a promising teach
er. edueated, earnest, and refined, wu
drbwned at Charleston. 'He went In
bathing and wu drawn out by the
undertow. A few days later a soldier
at 'Wilmington, N. Cf, iras caught In
tbe undertow and circled to the place
of death. .In commenting on theu
sad events the Carolina Spartan uys:
"The undertow Is not discernible on
the surface, which appears safe and
fmooth. Very few of thou caught by
it have power to resist. The pull out
ward and downward is too much for
them. 'But there are a hundred vie
time of the undertow on land to one
In the sea. Wasted hours, vicious
babltk, ugly tempers and selfishness
draw many people downward. Then
■aony a man falls a vietim to Intem-
decetved
SHE KNOWS NaW.
A White Woman from the North
Assaulted Near Aiken
BY HER NEGRO PET,
ly a considerable distance from his
home.
Later, daring the night, when Mr.
Kelly did not oome home, Mrs. Kelly
appealed to several mends In the vil
lage and a search wu instituted, bat
no trace of the preacher could Jbe
found. The following morning further
search was mad 9 , and telegrams were
sent to nearby towns, but u the day
wore on there weie.no results.
A dispatch from Charleston uys
the Rev William Aiken Kelley hu
been discharged from the Roper Hos
pital and is now at home recuperating
from the eff.o&s of tbe operation upon
nis brain, removing a dot of blood,
white it is thought, will result in his
complete restoration to health and
enable him to resume his ministerial
duties. Mr Kails? spent some time
lo Virginia and wu for a long time
at Charlotte befdfl coming to ’Char-
lee ton. His whereabouts ware estab
lished shortly after he deserted his
pastoral charge, but In view of his
*ffllctlon, bis family snd close perso
nal friends kept tbe matter quiet and
it wu not until bis coming to Char
leston recently for the operation upon
his brain that his movements became
publicly known. His trouble
restoring
between gold ao(J
trice, but I recognise, Os do all
bonriharemet abroad,
that tbe unexpected and unprecedent
ed Increase in gold production hu for
tbe present removed the silver ques
tion u an issue.
^ "While the money question hu
waned in importance other quutlons
have been forging to the front and to
these questions we must apply the
same principles we applied to the
money question, and seek to securei- - ----- -
tbe greatest good to the greafceet dl,k « n0 * d b J * Ok" 1 **™ 1 surgeon to
I number by legislation white conforms I *» blood Prwsuie upon the brain, and
There were about forty pas engers on
the two oan and most of them were
rilled or Injured. The motorman of
the first passenger ooacb wu killed,
and bis body wu still. In tbe wreck
late Thursday night. ^
Fell From Trestle.
A caboose snd two paaunger coach
es, left on the our vs of tbe long over
head bridge by which the Seaboard
enters Columbia from tbe south, were
knocked off and thrown into a heap
of epllnters twenty feet below Wed
nesday morning, by a freight coming
into the oity. Conductor Soqad wu
fatally hurt, bat It is thought that
Flagman fiurgnay. who wu carried
down with him, will recover. These
were the only oocupante of the coach
es. Tbe ooeobea were part of tbe
first section of the through freight
white crashed into them snd ban
bun left only for a few minutes, in
order to divide tbe load going around
the curve. Eagineer Rogers, on the
second section, stack to bis machine
snd wu uninjured. His colored fire
man was only slightly hurt. Flag
man Burgnay wu waving at tbe ap
preaching train as the orate oame.
Wife Beater Killed.
Oliver Bryant, a ooal miner of
Vpnderburg ooonty led., drank to
exoeu and when be went home he
quarreled with his wife and ended by
giving her a beating. Neighbors
heard the aoreams of the woman, and
a mob wu organised, and white Bry
ant wu Bleeping off the efieot of the
liquor, they broke into his hcuje,
took him out, and Beat him so terri
bly that he died. Bryant wu practi
cally helpless in tbe hands ot the
mob, hat he wu kicked, beaten %lth
clubs snd pounded over the head with
the fists of tbe arowd. The orobis said
to have been led by A. J. Gtelett, a
proasment fanner and fruit grower,
and he wu arrested, charged with
■under.
to the doctrine of equal rights for all
and special privileges for none.
"Oa the new questions many will
aot with us who were against us on
the money questions, for, uotwith
standing the discussion of that ques
ttte, mUliohs did not understand it
and were frightened into opposition.
We oannot expect the support of any
one who is interested in taking ad
vantage of the people either through
trusts or through any other iUegltl'
mate form of business. Our efforts
should be to distinguish between
those corporations which are legiti
mate and those aggregations of wealth
white are orgaalzed for purposes of
publfc plunder and appeal for support
to thou only who are willing to have
the government protect each person
in the enjoyment of his own earnings.
"The newspapeis have been trying
to create Motion between what they
call ’old friends’ and ’new friends’ in
politics. Tnou are friend* who are
working towards a common end, snd
each campaign brings to some extent
a new alignment. In 1896 tbe party
lost many Democrats and wu re
cruited by a great soany who bad been
Republicans up to that time, and we
welcomed them. In 1900 some oame
book who were against ns in 1896,
and we did not tent tbe door againat
them. I have no idea that tee party
will require tickets of admission in
the coming campaign. Usually par-
tlu are so anxious to secure rptyralte
that past differences are not emphk-
slzedlf there isaafnoere agreemcbt
on preunt imues.
I do not know that we oan find a
better plan than the Bible plan, white
admits the eleventh boor oomeer to a
plan in the vineyard and to share the
reward with thou who began earlier.
think this is eouni politics u well
u sound religion, provided tee new
recruit eomep to work and not toin-
ter fere with the other laborers. Rat
ot owns when an overseer hu to bo
Pi III
upon the opening of tbe head tbe oan
dltlon wu found to exist, u stated
snd tbe operation wuj successfully
performed.*
The surgeon is said to hate given it
his opinion that
return of Mr. Kelly’e former brain
trouble, and hie numerous friends
through the State share in the hope
that his condition will continue to
improve, and that he will be soon
able to resume bis jpinletenal func
tions in the eburch white be served eo
well. r
Lost at Sea.
Clyde steamer Apaohe arrived lu
Charleston Thursday afternoon from
New York with one psmenger short,
Walter Irving of Florence. He wu
migecKl at the .breakfast table Thurs
day morningJukI investigation devel
oped that he wu not aboard the ves
sel. His berth bu not been occupied
and the presumption 1a that be fell
overboard or deliberately elected- tbit
method of tbe ending of bis existence.
He wu seen about midnight sitting
in an auy chair on the deck
bright spirits and gave no indications
of any mantel trouble white would
have induced suicide. He is Mid to
have been drinking and it la passible
that he sat on the dote rail, tost his
balance and fell overboard.
' f~ ■' ■■ '
Be la Locked Up.
At Ohsriwton on Thursday Aaron
P. Priolsan, tke* hegio congressional
aspirant, surrendered himself at the
United States msrshal’aoffice snd wu
takes over to tee county Jail to begin
his sentenoe tor tampering with the
malls whan ha was running u A rail
way oleteen tbe Atlantic Cute Lina.
He baahMh &d WeehingtOHoonteet-
Uig the seat of Oongreuman Legare,
but his non tut having bebn dismissed
he now deearte the walls of the capi-
tol for the steel eagee of the county
prison. He Is to serve thru moathe
and oot month additional, if he does
nol' pay h flat at MO. *
Almost 65 pm cent, of tee blind be
came blind after 20 years ot age, and
only a little more than 30 per oent.
before 20 years. Thus it is seen that
blindness is chiefly a defect of adult
life. It Is Interesting to not* that
about one fourth of the peraons blind
from childhood, or about one tenth of
the total number of blind, were born
MtOlt T-—
The number of blind per 100,000 of
population wu greater among the
negroes tban among the whites, and
greater among tbe* foreign bom whites
than among the native bora whltee,
the difference In each case being more
marked tor tbe totally-hUnd than for
tiie partially blind. Tbe difference In
the proportions for the native snd
the foreign born whites are da* large
ly to the difference in tbe age distri
butions of the two olasaes; the greet
-joLtba foreign born whites
being edolte, among whom blindness
is more common.
The most Important causes of bUnd-
nese were, oateraet; Injuries, acci
dents, and operations; congenital
blindness; old age; and aore eyes. Un
irnnnn oan sea ware r—possible for a
slightly greater proportion of
than any of the above causes.
The principal eaoaes of
occurring after birth and under 20
years of age were, Injurlu, accidents,
ted operations; sore eyes; catarrh;
measles; snd scrofula. The principal
esuau of bllndnees oocurlng in adult
life wer, oatanot; injuries, accidents,
and operations, old age, affections of
apparatus, military aer
vice, sore eyes snd neuralgia. _
Tbe report on the deaf glvu not ! rapidly u possible.
only tne date concerning color, sex,
race, nativity, marital conditions,
school attendance, and occupations,
but also much information In regard
to deafness u a defect snd to the
ability of the deaf to communicate.
According to this method of olaa-
ideation, the total number of dea'
wu finally determined to be 89,278,
or one in every 860 of tbe general
population. There were 37,426 total
ly deaf and 51,861 partially deaf.
Among the total number of deaf 2,-
772 were also blind and 24 369 dumb.
Of the. total number of deaf, 46,-
916, or 52 5 per oent. were males, and
,42,372, or 47 6 per cent, were femalu.
Since In*the general population only
61.1 per osaA were male* and .48 9
per oent. were females, it would seem
that there la some truth in the hypo
thesis that malm are mu* exposed to
aooidente than femalu, or more sus
ceptible to the dleusu which pro
duce deafness
Negroes constitute 11 6 per oent. of
the general population and («tlyl.2
per oent. of the deaf. That tbe ne
groes seem leu susceptible to deafneu
than the whites is probably due in
part to ten complete returns from the
negroes desri. The proportion of ne
grou is larger among thou becoming
deaf in childhood and also among the
totally deaf than it lain the aggre
gate deaf population. , t
The age when deafneu occurred Is
definitely stated for 81.-690 persons,
and of tbsu 59 par cent, became deaf
before the age of 20 years, 48 per
oent before the age of 46 years, ted
40 per sent, before the age of 6 years,
and 18 per sate, were bora deaf.
Of the tolaUj deaf, Ol/fier
peiteoei .being deceived by the de
lightful aensatlons of therUfsE plunge
before he reaches tbe irresistible pow
eroTthr undertow. “
Ufe of debauchery suddenly. Few In
tentlonally prostitute mind and body
to a career of vice. It la the captiva
ting superficial appearance that lures
them on to Irreparable ruin B swart
of the tieaoheroos, deadly undertow
In social life.” *
• "** Work of Fiends.
In the wreck of the westbound
freight train on tbe Southern railway
Ind., Fireman Man
ning. of Pripoeton, Ind., and Brake-
man Gapehart, of Winslow, were
klled. Engineer MoWllliame was
eoalded ted Crushed u. badly he will
die. After the wreek it wu dlsoovgr-
ed that both ends of the switch wer*
spiked. The cut bound passenger
train was delayed and thus escaped
being wrecked. Bloodhounds have
been sent for and an effort will be
mane to boat out tbe wreckers. The
railroad company owns the Mi
Ooal mines which paid the advanced
seals by the miners recent
ly and caused some resentment in
tain quartets.
Seven Die in. Flame*.
Hit Wife and six children dead and
hie home destroyed and blmselt badly,
if not fatally burned, is tbe fate o!
Solomon ftohha, whnu residence wu
oh the outskirts of Lafayette,
The dead of the family are: Rt-
ohsel,* 16; Frebman. l&; Guy, 16; Mar
quis, 8; Filth, 5; Brooks, 2; and8a-
rah, th* mother 38. Gabba was In
ths yard and saw fitmas coating from
the upper part of the bouse. He
oalled to his wife and together they
rushed up stairs to awakan the chil
dren. Both were overcome by smoke.
Gobba managed to crawl to a window
and in an effort to raise it fell to tbe
ground and smtaiasd palnfill injuries.
Dtatruo tive Oiond b ant.
A cloudburst and landslide on July
16 at Ocampo Ohlbnahus, Mexico, al
most completely destroyed the city
and killed seven or moro persons
Many others were Ir J ired snd it Is ox
peoted some of them will die. All tbe
killed and Icj jred are Mexicans. Toe
American retidonte are alleviating
the suflerlng of the wounded and are
recovering the bodies of the dead as
Robert Brooks,
Who Made His .Escape, cad Ike Offi
cers are Trying te Catch Hiss.
She Wu a Great Priced fp ^
The Ne^e ftecd Oefr
trait).
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A dispatch from Aiken uys news of
a hofnbie crime that wu perpetrated
about live milts from that pteoe reach
ed there Wednesday afternoon, hot a
coherent account oould not be obtain
ed until this morning.
Oa Monday morning aboot 3 o’clock
Mrs. L. S. Chapin wu usaulted la
her homy by a negro mao named
Isaac Knight. The foot that Mrs.
Chapin is an old lady,
years of age, makes tbe
more revolting. The negrb 1
•aulted her had been in her employ tor
over three years. Mrs. Chapin lived
in the house with no white person.
The negro man, who lived in a room
St the side if to* house next to >the
Kitchen, and a negro family living in
tnersrd, were the only ones wno
stayed near her.
. IsaaaKalght had been off all day
Sunday and did not oome back to Mm.
Chapin’s home until early Monday
morning. Hearing a knock at the en-
~
m the door to see who it was. She
opened tbe door and found it wu
Knight. She went into the dining
room and wu fixing toe negro seme
at least 65
crime all’the
urcjwbo as*
of the W.O. Greene Gtid & Silver Co.,
at Oeompo, Is In charge and % hand
ling matters mttxfsolorlly.
Battle ti Midair.
»app*c when be committed the assault,
i’na negro left tne community
nu not bun seen since.
Mrs. Cnapio nu no near white
neighbors; so she oould not report the
case at once. When the sheriff learn
ed of it yesterday morning, he went to
toe community at odoi and tried to
capture the negro, hut he cook! find
no traces of aim. Toe crime had not
oeoome generally known jp Aiken Ha
ul late yes ii or day af-erojoa, wnen a
posse of about 50 men under tha lead
ership of tne eneriff orgaols d for tbs
purpose of catching the negro.
Itwu dUUnotly understood before
they left here that there would be no
lyuoilng, hot that they would do
everything possible to catch tne negro
and have him placed injOL They
left here late evening and
country thoroughly, but
could gad no traeu of him. Farther
search will be made for him,
Mn. Gbapin wanted the oau dr6p-
cud not wien to appear la
court in ? sucu a case, bub, of ooafte,
tne sheiiff snd the psopie of tne oak-
munity will not allow an* negro to go
if it is mumble to capture
aim. Every Sffjft will be made to
bring tbe ■ojundrei to Jmtiles, but the
people nave agreed that there will os
noivnetiiM. The, *
nignt so as to be prepared to
any opposition, for it
that the negroes to tbe ooi
intended to give some tronote.
Mrs. Cnapio is a Northern lady, i
before her misfortune did not
stand the negro. 8he had pal
uuit in Kaight and had evwr
ered him the eau&l of tha
white man. She had treated him u
well as she could have treated tag
white parson, thinking that he was a
gentleman. She even declared on one
occasion that he wu a perfect gentle-
m*n. Knight wu always
to Mrs. Chapin, hat it eoald ha
by nix afttiowy among otoer negroes
that the treatment mat he wu re
ceiving wu giving him a false 1dm of
nis importance. On Mtoday morning
toe nature of the negro averted it
self; it oould be held In check no
ger.
Mrs. Chapin wu originally
Manchester, Vermont, bat she
«->Ss*3
At New York eight stories above! b« r hoau near Aiken for a nom-
the street, oa s fi.msy flooring of
planks laid aorou girders, nearly one
hundred anion iron workers employed
on s hotel building st Fifty ninth
street and Fifth avenue, attacked
three special policemen, who were
kept then to prevent trouble betwun
anion and non-union work xien. 04
of the special police men, Miobael But
ler, wu thrown from tbs platform
and f*n two storiu to the tilth fl for,
being fatally 1 j ifel The other two
werw-eeriously bat not fatally 1
- -;s : ri ' 1 -T*'-
KUlad In Battle.
Gen. Regalado, former president of
Salvador and the leader of the Salva
dorean troops in the present 00dfilet
with Gnatemsls, wss killed in battle
Thursday. Tomu R-galado wu
president of Salvador from 1899 to
1903. A provision of the Salvadorean
eonetltntion prevented him from hav
log a second turn immediately fol
lowing b% first, but he wu a candi
date to auooied President Ewaloo,
whose term will expire next year,
doubtless would have been elec
ted u be wu a popolas idol who had
achieved much fame u a soldier.
Kni«Kt the SheriF.
Sheriff Charles Wileon of Clay
•oontf. Fla., was shot and killed on a
train near Green Oove^ Sprlfigs on
Tuesday by a negro prisoner. The
sheriff's deputy then shot snd killed
the negro. WUson wu vary MWilw{naviBg
her of jeers. White people have wax**
ed her several timsa that she should
hut stay alone with no one near bar
except uegroaa, but she would pay no
attention to them, thinking that MM .
□egro wai worthy of trust. She cease
South with the New EiglaodertUMB-
al idea of negro ooaraoter, and no am
gumeot that Staid oe pat torso coaid
shake the negro from the
which she had placed bias.’*
the whit* pfOpte of
not in Sympathy with
pin’s treatment of the negro
determined that be shall be
t J mica: A white lady hu hem tea
sailed—that te enough, punishment
must follow.
Woen the posse oolleoted last night
thero were no algae of mob violence,
lacy were a quiet determined body of
men bent upon the eaptoroef the
scoundrel who had darod totasnltA
lady. Although they did not 1
in capturing him lut night,
determined to search for kite
is cap&red. ~ ~.
A dispatch from
Vice Admiral Qkoaketo,
of the Bleak Sea fl*t, who
Thursday supposedly by a 1
battleship Oisbakoff, d!
morning without regaining <
oeu. Toe gardes
ral Obooknln'e villa |s
•'4
, n*.
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