The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 10, 1899, Image 4
The "Supe" Missed His Cue j
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The State, August 7. I
Somebody has sent us a copy of tbe t<
Sumter Evening Item of Saturday, \
oootaioing a report of a meetiog io that g
eity at which Senator Tillman made ao \
address This is not our year for poli- a
tics, and we have in time past given v
tbe esteemed Tillman more than his [
due share of free advertising ; yet, as c
there seems to be a challenge iu this s
paragraph from his speech, specially fc
marked by the person who seDt it to us, r
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we are movea to enoataer it. j
"While sitting here and listening to {
Dr. Abbott's words of praise I could j
not help (Licking of what The News \
and Courier and The State would do if
Dr. Abbott's spet oh were to be printed j
ii their ooiumus I believe the presses t
would explode with indigoatioa.'* i
Speaking for The State, we beg to ;
say that the senator is mistaken. The j
press of this newspaper is a tolerably <
tough piece <>f machinery and is not so f
unaccustomed to rcoordiug evidences of ]
folly on the part of public speakers that ,
it can be "exploded" by the utterances \
of one more oratorical fool If our
piees ever felt iocigoanon at the stupid {
flunk eyi?ni of a oiass of Senator Till j
man's admirers that indignation was t
long ago fa'igueti and has reiired from <
aotive service
It appears from The Item's report j
that Seoator Tillman was introduced to .
bis Sumter audience bv ooe Dr H. T 1
Abbott Dr. Abbott io torn needs an <
introduction to us, although we bate a <
nrsty memory of somewhere and at {
some time seeing bis Dame io print It i
is to be presumed tbat he was ohoseo to
perform this task because of his powers i
as a flatterer, the Sumter people io au I
excess of courtesy, desiring to "go the i
whole hog" and make the senator |
happy?knowing of course his excep
tiooal capacity for the deglutition of i
r taffy At ar.y ?h?c the job was thor !
oogbly done Dr. Abbott did not offer i
to get dowo on ail fours, harness him I
self to a wagon and drag the enthroned 1
Tillman around the streets as some of <
his Snmter County worshippers did in 1
1890. bnt nevertheless he did his best <
in another way to show tbat be was
willing to mske an ass of himself for 1
the man of his adoration. I
Dr. Abbott began by oompariog Ben t
Tillman John Wesley and seemed to I
intimate that like John be deserved a |
tomb it? WestmitiS'er Abbey?a snggcs
tioo which the Home Secretary may 1
adopt as bdcd as be hites wibout protest i
from oa. i
Be concluded by nominating Benja- <
mio for vice president next year. I
It is not our purpose to contest Dr i
Abbott's opinion of bis hero or of the
men who opposed bin in 1890 and I
"after There is no disputing aboor i
tastes, sod few men are so unfortunate
as not to find meaner aod smaller men <
to toady them. For people who like
"" that sort of great man Ben Tillman is
the sort of great man they like, and
may continue to like for all we oare.
Nevertheless it is pleasant to observe
that notwithstanding the little outburst !
of tickled vanity which we quoted at
the beginning of this artioie Senator <
Tillmao realized that bis flatterer had
made a fool of himself, for be immedi
ately added : "Had I been consulted I
would have advised Dr Abbott against
making the speeob he did in introduo
iag mo. but as 1 was not consulted aod
was not prepared for what was said, 1
take it as it was intended. I am not
here to rake up old feelings or to stir
op strife that belonged to past years <
We are getting along pretty well, and I
would utter no word that would tend
to incite feeiing aud pnjttdioe.''
The f?et i?) that Tilluaat>'t* one at
rai
present is conciliation. He is in t moe
and war.:* to stay in, and if be cao do
so by being amiable, tolerant aod pmoi
fioatory be is quite willing to adopt that
Tvnllrt? Ha/i ha Kann arvtA
"tcu ou.o .u jsci IUIU
office originally by employing the same
means we cannot doubt that be would
not h*?e created hie ten year*' beil iu
oar politios. Dr. Abbott in bis saperserviosb'e
etopidity did not realise nhai
bia master's iotereete bad changed, that
the curtain bad beet) rung down on the
tragedy of 4,Get In" and bad risen on
the pleasant coundy of "Stay In,'*
with the leadit.g man in an entirely
new role.
?c * ?
Any other "supex" of the Abbott
eo/t who may be tyieg around loose i*<
South Carolina waiting for their cue
may profit by bis experience.
ATLANTA SENSATION.
Mayor Woodward Asked to Resign.
Charged With Drunkenness and Immorality.
Atlanta. Ga., Aug. 5.?The
municipal sensation of the past
quarter century culminated here
this afternoon, when the city council
met in called session and demanded
the resignation of Mayor Woodward
by 9 o'clock Monday morning.
The action lacked only three votes
of being unanimous.
The mayor had been charged hefore
with drunkenness. To-day's
action is the result of a big spree the
i i .1 - l.
mayor uas oeen on cms wees, in
which lie is said to have acted in a
disgraceful and immoral manner.
It is believed that Woodward will
not resign. In that event impeachment
proceedings will be begun.
IT
Not Much of a Relief.
Crusty Old Uncle?Well, William,
I've decided that you needn't pay back
the #50 you got from me last summer.
I'm going to make you a present of it
Reckless Nephew?Thanks 1
Crusty Old Uncle?Well, that's not
_ a very enthusiastic way you have of acknowledging
my generosity. I thought
^ you'd be overjoyed at getting this debt
off your mind.
Reckless Nephew?Oh, it hasn't been
bothering me! 1 had no intention of
paying you anyway. ?Cleveland Leader.
His Trade.
The Policeman?What's your trade?
The Suspect?An ironworker.
"Is that so? I'll see what yon know
about it. I used to be in the trade myself.
"
"I?1 mean in a laundry. "?Indianapolis
Journal
Diamonds are cnt in three different
forms?the rose, the brilliant and the '
table. of which the second is the Dretti- <
est. It is a double pyramid or cone, of
which the top is cut off to form a large ,
plane, and at the bottom, directly oppo- (
site to a small plank
(
The finest opal of modern times be- *
longed to the Empress Josephine. It was
called the "Burning of Troy." ]
Its fate is unknown, as it disappeared I
when the allies entered Paris. '
Wf[CONTINUED
FKOM FIRST PAGE.J e
rusts oo everything from pianos to o
offins, and there is do help aoder the ri
iepablioao party. Trusts aod eapit?l b
its are the favored of that party. u
featerday the Philadelphia Times tele- t
;raphed me for my opinion of William
Vaidorf Astor, the hundred millionire,
dosoeodeot of the old fur trader
rbo invested bis money in New York ;
aod that is now worth several hundred ^
niiiioos. This man moved to England y
\ few years ago and has now renounced ^
lis Amerioao oitiieoship, aod does not
>ay an ioeorae tax on bis Amerioao s
iroparty. I wired that paper: "If the 11
>eop!e of New York oaonot make bim 11
>ay lazes oo his property they should c
tick themselves for asses " ^
I made a speech iu Cbioago some a
seeks ago, aod at the same time other r
nembere of the Democratic oommiitee a
imoog the number beiog William J ?
Bryan, 6poke The meeting was held ?
o the largest theatre in ibe eity It t
leats six thousand people, and it was a
ilied. I fouod the people more red t
lot on the Philippine war aod the ?
rillanies that are beiug perpetrated in fi
ibe name of liberty than you are
The primary ana fundamental objeo c
;ion to the annexation of tbese islands t
s that the natives are a oolored race, c
ltd we have more negroes ncftr tbao
we want. I want oo more negroes. .
Another objeotiou is that tbe Philip
pines produce rios. sugar aod oottoo,
products that eome toto oompetition
with staple produets of the south,
aoless tbe UDbeard of policy of shut
it?g out the products of ooe section of k
:be country to proteot another seotioo is '
idopted. 1
Then there is tbe great staodiog '
irmy that must be maintained It is a
breeding ground for jobs for tbe orea 1
tures ot political bosses aod it will r
prove as dangerous as it is burdeosome t
Pbe talk about giving tbe Filipioos ? (
ahaooe is preteoce They will never j
1 ? kiim! ,
!)ave a snow. i ue ueupio wuu uvw< t
ibout the negro in the South have
found out there is ootbiog in it for j
hem aud they have throwo the negro t
jverboard, exoept to give him a poet j
jffioe in South Carolina oooe in a {
while ,
The Philippines are filled with a
30 ored raoe and the republicans want to
hold them to faroish jobs in the islands *
end in the big standing army Mighty
little show will the eduoated Filipinos
get. 1
The standing army is itself the grea I
danger. What ia to prevent au on i
scrupulous president from brioging the t
army into the United States to shoot
dowo Americans ? With 100,000 men (
they oao control the election and pot f
into office whoever they wish, and tfiey
will do it if they are permitted to have j
full swing Talk about a big standing j
army for the purpose of benevoieut
assimilation of the Filipinos What (
does the term rneao ? It means to ^
swallow and to digest. (
Some preachers have patted MoKin
ley on the back and endorse bis
eobemes on the ground that the result (
will be the oivilisttioo aud Christian* 1
nation of the Filipinos God be p '
uch preaohers! I do not belive iu '
doiog evil that good may oome. Reli- 3
a ion by force and shooting is -a farce.
Bibles on the points of bayonets, Chris 1
'iaoity at tbe rifle's mutzle, conversion '
by shooting tbe ooovert*! What a <
speotaoie! 1
Talk about doty aod beoevoleuoe and <
manifest destiny r? quiring tbe aonexa
>iou and ooi quest of tbe Philippines, i
as McKioley?aod aome others?has
done, makes me siek. I believe they |
are hypooritea. Wbeu I bear such talk |
?tir nr. too tnrn over A
IU J |?roi?V0 ? ?Y ? ? ?
set of bjp'torite* and fraud* !
What are we to do with the Philip* ,
pioes ? We bear that we cannot get
out with booor, that our preatige is ai
n'ake. Yet we are iu booor bound to j
let tbeno go Dewey aeot for Aguioaido,
took bim to Maoila, armed hit
followers and eooouraged them to throw
off the Spanish yoke. We are bound
to oarry out this eompaet to make them
free if we have booor left. 1
President McKioley baa without au
tboiity or warraot of law uodertakeo to
vubdoe the Filipinos beeause tbey are
said to be io rebellion He weot into 1
this business with a mistakes imprea- 1
eiou. believiog that a few thousand
tropps would be sufficient to break op
the rebellion, to called, aod bold the
islands io subjection Now be find*
hit mistake aod don't know bow to get
out
I believe tbe war will go oo aod the
army will be increased year after year,
imposing iooonceivable aod intolerable 1
oatdeoa on tbe people, causing loss ot
life by thousands aod breeding greater
and greater corruption, unless tbe
American people rise np in tbeir
strength and anger, turn MoKinley out
aod put William Jennings Bryan a<
'be oelm. He will settle tbe matter
quickly aod honorably.
Tbe acquisition of tbe Philippines
from Spain was merely to fix tbe title,
aod we oao now turn tbe country over
to tbe Filipooos aod say to them, run
it to suit yourselves uoder au Ameri
r>.fiton?nf?ta nhinh bb will declare.
?-U y*
and repay to as tbe $20,000,000 we
paid to Spain We will retain coaling
stations and barbers of refuge, but tbe
natives will have full liberty to govern
themselves as tbey see fit, free from
foreign interference. This is the way
we should get oat, aod it is tbe only
road opeu to true Americans and bon
est demoorats. It is the way I believe
Bryan would settle it.
Wbeo Senator Tillman coooludsd
there were calls for Hon. J. Wm.
Stokes, but Mayor Hugbson announoed
that a recess would be taken for dinner
aod that Dr. Stokes would speak in tbe
afternoon.
An abundant dioner of all maooer of <
good things was then spread before tbe 1
orowd, aod all weot away from tbe 1
taoies satisfied; for there was more than
(
enough provided for a rnuob largtr
crowd
lo tbe afternoon Boo. J. William '
Stokes spoke, discussiog, national 1
affairs; tbe issues that have been before i
Congress aod tbe efforts that be bus
made io behalf of bis ooostitueots.' I
Hod. E. D. Smith was called oo h-r
a speeeh aod bo fioally oooseoied to *
30 m ply with the wubes of the oroad (
He stated that he agreed perfectly i
with what Senator Tillman had
3aid as to the right of free men to 1
differ, and the right to think and c
jpeak as they believe to be right,
[n pursuance of this belief he would .
proceed to give utterance to opinions
diat would probably uot coincide t
with the views of many of his hear- <
rs, but if his remarks served no
ther purpose they might at least
ub off some of the butter that had
een so heavily laid on Senator Tilllan
that he was embarrassed
hereby.
He then briefly outlined the reults
that have followed the Reform
pheaval, the establishment of the
ispensary and the creation of
Vinthrop and Clemson Colleges,
le criticised the management of
hese institutions. The dispensary
ystem with its beer privilege aniex
was characterized as an enor
nous and growing evil that is anjnubus
fastened upon the vitals of the
State. Winthrop and Clemson, he
sserted, do not accomplish the good
esults they should; that the results
re not commensurate with the ex?ense
of maintaining them; that a
>oor boy or girl has no chance of atending
them; that there is too great
gap between the public schools and
he colleges, and that there was no
>ridge across the gap for poor girls
tnd boys.
He said, he like Senator Tillman,
lid not desire to stir up old animosiies,
but he would ask any one in the
:rowd who had received any benefit,
vhose taxes were a cent less, whose
>urdens had been made lighter as a
f-he afrifp and turmoil of
COU?? Vt V..V w V, ..W
890 and the triumph of the reform
novement, to stand up. No one
same forward. "No," said Mr.
Smith, "there has been no change
except iu the men who hold the ofices
and the people are not a whit
letter off."
He could not agree with all that
lad been said in praise of Senator
Tillman the Olympian from Olympia,
>ut if the Senator will rid us of the
iispensary, raise the standard of the
lublic schools,so that the poor people
jan receive good common school
educations and prepare them to en;er
the great colleges that he points
;o as monuments of pride, he would
>e proud to honor him and ready to
issist in laying on even a thicker
,reneer of "butter" and praise.
Senator Tillman replied in a speech
tearly an hour long that had the earnarks
of an 1890 campaign meeting.
He said that all of the butter had
>een rubbed off, and as it was his
ule to rub pepper on the back of the
nan who put salt on his, he would
:alk straight truth.
He repudiated the demand that he
lischarge his duties iu Washington
md run State affairs also.
He said he would De a candidate
'or re-election and would take a hand
n the next campaign, stumping
jvery county in the State in support
>f the dispensary, if necessary. He
arould lick the opponents of the sys;em
out of their boots or go down
svith its ruins. He asserted that the
lispensary was not intended to be a
noral institution, but a place where
people who wanted to drink could
jet all they wanted of good quality
and the State receive the profits.
The beer privilege is wrong and
should not be allowed. It was not
bis business to stop the wrong, however,
but the duty of the members of
the Legislature. If Mr. Smith and
others like him did their duty they
would stop it or put the men responsible
for the evil in the penitentiary.
As to the question of his responsibility
for the dispensary system he
said that it was forced on him, anyway.
He found the devil loose when
he went into office and he* did not
attempt to chain him. The State
had to choose between prohibition
and the dispensary, and as the Prohibitionists
were a set of hypocrites
and cowards, the choice fell on the
dispensary. He also went back to
the first time the dispensary constables
made a raid in Sumter. He
Baid he selected honest, sober, Christian
men as constables, and when
he sent them to Sumter to raid
Morris's blind tiger they were
mobbed and rotten-egged. Then he
saw he had to fight the devii with
fire, and appointed as constables
men who were honest and had sand
in their craws to stand up and fight.
Among many othei things he said
that he was no peace and unity man
and that there had already been too
much of that sort of thing; the lines
were still here and would be drawn.
The men who had formed the old
rings and rode into office over the
people's backs were still trying to
ride into office and would do it
again if not watched.
He defended Clemson. and Winthrop
and said it was was from such
friends of education as Mr. Smith
that they needed to be saved.
If they are let alone they will tear
down the colleges aiu^have a set of
asses to teach a crowd of asses who
will fill the State with a breed of
jackasses.
These colleges were not intended
to be filled with poor boys and girls,
for the poor people will not send
their children to college anyway.
They were established to educate
those who could go to college and to
train teachers who will go out into
the State and teach the people, raise
the standard of the public schools,
which are shamefully inefficient.
He denied vehemently that he
had made mistakes while in
office and declared that he was
.. . !iL .. aU A /"? r\ /\f ?\ AM MA fV>M/\ Ail A
ueillier HSlittUlCil wi uwi ir^icucu a
single act since he had been in public
life.
In the afternoon he was the same
r>ld Tillman of 90-'92-'94 and it is
plain to all that whenever the steel
strikes the flint sparks will fly, no
matter how thick the butter be laid
i?n between times.
A woman's pocket-book is nearly
ilways worth more than the money
in it.
Many a ball-room dress in covering
a warm heart reaches its limit.
It takes about four generations of
iches to produce a boy without
freckles.
A kettle sings before it boils, and
i boil sings before it breaks.
Men who live on little are called
economists, and men who live on
lothing are called tramps.
The man who never tries to do
inythingand the man who tries to
io everything are both foolish.
The safest way to pass counterfeit
money is 011 the opposite side of the
street.
Some fools actually go hungry that
hey may gratify their desire for fine
ilothes.
v
GUN WITH OUR GOSPEL.
Sam Jones 011 Our Policy Toward
Filipinos.
OPPOSED TO EXPANSION.
The Famous Evangelist Thinks it is Kind
of Americans to Give the
Heathen a Bible After
\JLla Will Him
"Til I
Purc'Evillk, Vam Aug ?Rev.
Sam P. Jones has been here for the
past two days addressing the hushmeeting
field near the town. He is
not in the best of health, having just
returned from an extended trip to
the Pacific coast, where he has been
in great demand at the Chautauqua
meetings out there. He left to-night i
for Bethesda, Ohio, and he has engagements
which] will fill his time
for the next four weeks. In spite of
the fact that lie is not in the best
physical trim, he has the same keen
mentality and the old forceful way
of putting everything he says.
He was asked by a representative
of the Post , to express himself on
topics of current interest. In speak
ingon the Philippine question he
frankly stated that he was not an
expansionist. He said he believed
that in spite of the progress of the
nineteenth century the world had
not moved enough to disprove the
advice given by Washingto# in his
farewell address. Those principles
were eternal, and no flight of time
could render them valueless or inapplicable
to the needs of the republic.
"To tell the truth," continued Mr.
Jones, "I think we have more crops
planted than we can care for. If we
are no better guardians of the Philippines
than we have been of the Indians,
the Chinamen, and the negroes,
I fear for the results of our
so called philanthropy. If Frenchmen,
who came to our relief in the
war of ti e revolution, had assumed
the same attitude we have taken to-1
ward Cuba, and the Philippines, we
would have been fighting that country
yet.
"Our old style of philanthropy was
to take the spelling-book and the
Bible. Latterly we have been using
the gun and the Bible as our implements
of conversion and civilization.
We Protestants believe in no probation
after death. Therefore, we argue,
we put the heathen on the other
side of probation. But it is kind of
us to give him a Bible after we kill
him.
"I am not a believer in annexation
by extermination. It may be philanthropic,
but it is not just. The poor
barbartans may be wrong in misinrmr
atform to irive them
ICI piCVIIig Vit. ^ ... nthe
benefits of civilization, but I believe
they are justified in thinking
that a nation which cannot take care
of its own inferior races need not bid
for any more contracts until it has
shown that it knows how to fulfill
them. The advantages of commerce
are more than offset by the difficulty
of holding those poor savages until
we can drive a bargain with them."
VVlien asked to give his views on
Governor Caudler's statement of the
race problem, Mr. Jones spoke as
follows: "Gov. Candler, in his address
covers a great deal of ground,
but he does not touch on all the
points. It is a mistake to think that
the South is responsible for all that
happens there. Circumstances alter
cases, but they cannot change human
nature. Yankee Doodle and
Dixie are both catching tunes. One
is whistled on one side of Mason and
Dixon's line, and the otner on the
other side. The sentiment that puts
Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee in line
with the boys in blue lasts until that
particular crisis is over. Then each
side goes to whistling the same old
tune."
"The South is like a dog whose
master whips him for biting a cat.
The dog knew that lie could never
bite the cat any more, but every
time she passed him hp would jump
at and scare her. Now, we can't
secede any more. But we can jump
up and growl every time something
happens that we don't like. In
other words, we are going to run our
little institutions without aid or advice
from Yankee Doodle.
"The average negro in the South
fares as well as the average Chinaman
in San Francisco. Not one
man in ten in the South has ever
seen a lynching, to say nothing of
haviug taker pa't in one. Southerners
discoura &nd denounce lawless
hangings, except for the one crime
of rape. And I want to say that
rape means rope, he it North or
South.
"I was born, bred and buttered in
the South. I never saw a lynching.
If one ever took plarte within 100
miles of me I did not know it till I
saw it in the papers. Governor
Candler is right on the elimination
of ignorance and vice from the ballot
box. A characterless, moneyless,
ignorant negro or white man has no
more business at the polls on election
day than a mule or a billygoat,
and I mean no reflection on the two
latter animals.
14 What do I think of Bob Ingersoll ?
I have had my opinion pretty well
expressed in an editorial comment
in the Atlanta Constitution. In
brief, that editorial said that Colonel
Ingersoll fought in the open and
made no pretensions to being other
than he was. He did not profess religion
to betray it. He struck
Christianity no blow while pretending
to hold its doctrines. But in all
his life Ingersoll never did one-half
the harm committed by the Briggses,
the Potters, the Lyman-Abbots and
others of like kidney have done, are
doing and will continue to do.
'Them's my sentiments.'
"Colonel Ingersoll was a charming
rhetorician and a magnetic orator.
His sentences were like strings
of pearls. His oratory was equal to
that of Demosthenes. In logic he
ranked with a sophomore boy with
pin feathers all over his face. He
championed temperance, but never
reformed a drunkard. He preached
philanthropy, but never endowed a
hospital. So far as the world knows,
he was a giver whose left hand never
knew what his right hand did. He
fought creeds rather than Christ,
churches rather than Christianity.
"I suppose infidelity is progressive.
lugersoll began hy doubting.
Then he denied. Then he denounc- j
ed. He wound up by doubting
whether his doubts were doubts or
not. Peace to his ashes! I did not
gang with hiin while he lived, and j
I will not abuse him now that he is j
dead. But if he could get back to j
this country and fill the engagements j
he made while alive, I would like a|
front seat to hear what he has to say j
now, with experience of the past]
few days added to his original lectures.?Washington
Post.
RACE RIOT IN GREENVILLE.
Result. One White Man and Five Negroes
Wounded.
Greenville, August 7.?Reports
of a race riot in Greenville have been
exaggerated. On Sunday night a
difficulty started at the Poe Mill.
According to the evidence of witnesses,
negroes precipitated the riot by
deliberately firing into the house of
John R. Ellenburg, a cotton mill
operative, living just across the Buncombe
road from the fertilizer factory.
The shooting occurred between
6 and 7 o'clock, or an hour before
(lark.
There were present at the house at
the time of the shooting John R. Ellenburg,
Mrs. R. Ellenburg, T. P.
Ellenburg, the father of John R.
Ellenburg, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Phillips,
Taylor and Walter Cannon.
When the first shot was fired Mrs.
Ellenburg was in the rear end of the
heuse. Her little child was playing
in the yard and she cried out:
"Don't shoot the children !"
This was answered by two more
shots at the house, one of which
took effect in the roof. John R. Ellenburg
then walked out on his front
piazza and, addressing the negroes,
said sharply: "You had better
shoot again."
They answered him with two more
shots.
Then the crowd from the mill
village began to gather and march
down to the fertilizer factory. There
were in the crowd of negroes Jack
Moore, Will Cunningham, Tom
Jackson and George Clements.
Moore was captured and carried to
jail.
Seeing Moore led off, the negroes
immediately seized the idea and
conviction that he was going to be
lynched, and a courier was sent to
the Mount Zion Colored Baptist
Church to give the alarm and call
for assistance. The Rev. J. A. Pinson
the pastor, was asked to announce
from his pulpit that a negro
was being lynched at the Poe Mill,
but Pinsoii, being cool-headed and
a man of judgment, refused to do so.
This broke up the meeting, however,
and the negroes rushed from
the building to secure weapons and
go to the scene.
In the meantime a negro had gone
to the home of Sheriff Gilreath and
ie[;uiicu mo same tiling UJ IIIIII.
Chief of Police Kennedy and Deputy
Sheriff GiIreath went out to
the scene about 10 o'clock, as quickly
as they could get there after being
notified of the trouble. At the Buncombe
street railroad crossing they
met Deputy Sheriff Whitmire and
Officer Atkinson.
\ A party of between fifty and seventy-five
negroes were congregated
at the crossing, and a party of about
twenty-five whites in the woods, a
few hundred yards away, guarding
the operatives' houses. The officers
persuaded this mob of negroes to
disperse. "While the other officers
stayed at the crossing to see that the
negroes did not reassemble after
promising to go home Chief Kennedy
and Deputy Sheriff Gilreath
crossed over by the fertilizer factory
into Highland avenue.
Here the officers met a mob of
about 100 frenzied negroes well armed.
They had revolvers, shotguns
and axes, and one in the crowd
brandished a reap hook. After a
parley Chief Kennedy sent the Rev.
Pinson, negro Baptist Preacher, to
jail to ascertain if Moore was in
prison. He returned and reported
that Moore was in jail.
This report ended the riotous proceeding.
There was considerable firing of
guns and pistols, and one white man
and five negroes were wounded. In
passing through the streets of the
city it is reported that some shots
were fired into dwellings.
The only fighting was between a
few operatives of Poe Mill and straggling
crowds of negroes.
Later the Greenville Light Infantry
was called out and remained on
guard until morning, but there was
no further trouble and the negroes
went to their homes. The names of
the leaders are known ami they will
he arrested. If all the different
crowds of negroes had collected at
one point the consequences would
have been serious. The officers
handled the different crowds and
prevented concentration.'? R. S. M.
in News and Courier.
$100 ItEWAKD, $100.
The readers of this paper will he pleased to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science hus been able to cure in all
its stages and that is Catarrh. Hull's Catarrh
('are is the only posjtive cure now
known to tne medical fraternity. Catarrh
being; a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Caterrh ('lira
is taken internally, acting directly upon ehe
blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
thereby destroying the foundation of the disease.
and giving the patient strength by
building up the constitution and assisting
nature in doing its work. The proprietors
have so much faith in its curative powers,
that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any
case that it fails to cure. Send for liAt of testimonials.
Address,
F. J. C'HKNEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Sold by Druggists, 7"?c.
Hall's'Family Dills are the best.
______
Lots of fathers gi ?e their daughters
away and have a son-in-law on their
hands.
There is only one truth in palmistry
; when a man's hand is doubled
up into a fist it means trouble fori
some one.
You can't get something out of
nothing ; but there are a number of
people who can get little or nothing
out of almost .anything.
Seek and ye shall find applies very
forcibly to the man who is looking
for trouble.
A man spends time wondering why
his neighbors dislike him to make
himself agreeable to them.
CURRENT MISCELLANY. !
One of the secrets of the success of
Robert I'. I'orter. editor. tariff eXpeH.
superintendent of the railed States
census of LSI hi and rerently I'nited
States diplomatic airent in the West
Indies and afterward in Uerniatiy. is
his wonderful memory for lljrmvs. He
fairly revels in statistics. In Ids home
in New York there are several rooms
filled with volumes upou volumes of
industrial statistics. Many of these
Mr. Porter can readily quote from
memory. An illustration of this oc?
- ' ?> ?< I'niff o<ir,v cni\ tli.> lMiilndel
UUllt'U 11UI iuu^, .... -
pliia Saturday Post. A Chicago man
was boasting of the rapid growth of
his city.
"We have 11,000.000 inhabit.tnts now.
You gave us 1,100,000 in ho said.
"Not as inucli as that." replied Mr.
Porter. "The exact tigures were
1,000,850. Your school census of ISO!'
gave 1,400,000."
The conversation then turned upon
New York city.
"You underestimated that also."
I "Yes, we gave New York 1,515,301,
and the state census of 1803 gave
1,801,730."
"Where do you carry all these figures
V" asked the Chicago man.
"I believe 1 can repeat from memory
the best part of the important figures
lu my census," returned Mr. Porter.
"Can you tell me how many negroes
there were iu this country in 1800V"
asked the westerner with an air of triumph.
"There were 7,470,040," repeated the
statistician without a second's hesitation.
"And there were 107,475 Chinese."
The visitor took down the census report
from the bookshelf and found
that Mr. Porter had uot made a single
mistake.
A Rattlesnake Eater.
Moses Henderson is a sable son of
Africa and lives two miles from Amoricus
in a rocky field where rattlesnakes
are most plentiful, says the Savannah
News. Moses makes a living by capturing
snakes and selling them. Whenever
he cannot sell them he eats them.
This Is the truth, strange as it may
seem. He recently killed a large one
with 11 rattles on it. This was a fat
snake, and Moses ate it. The other
day he brought a very large snake to
Savannah, trying to sell its hide. There
were 23 rattles on it. The snake was
very poor, and Moses said it would not
do to eat, and he stuffed its hide and
sold it for a good price. Every year
Moses makes a great deal of money
selling snake oil. He says right down
the vertebrae of a rattlesnake is a fatty
streak of flesh that makes an oil,
when fried, that will cure any case of
rheumatism. It is strange to how
many people he sells this rheumatic
snake oil. He has a long list of certificates
from people he has cured. Some
of them are from intelligent whites,
who declare that the oil has cured
them when all other remedies have
failed. He sells a vial of the oil for
$1 and guarantees a lasting cure.
Moses says his father was an African
hoodoo doctor and taught him how to
cure all aches and pains with snake
oil. The negroes of Sumter county
venerate and fear him as a mysterious
doctor who can cure when all else
fails and look upon his snake oil as
something enchanted.
A Ring With a History.
A ring with a history has just beet
handed over to the Numismatic museum
of Paris by a Polish gentleman
who purchased it for a small sum recently
in Warsaw. Shortly after he
formed the acquaintance of the lady
who was afterward Marquise de Pom
padour, Louis XV presented her with
an intaglio ring representing his own
apotheosis. It was pronounced at thai
time to be a marvelous work of art,
equaling anything of the sort produc
ed in ancient Greece or Rome, says the
London Chronicle. Round the edge was
an elaborate inscription. One day Mine
de Pompadour, to lier distress, l.ost this
precious ring, which has now reappear
ed after nearly 150 years' peregrina
tion. If rings could speak, this out
doubtless could tell a curious tale.
Shootinff at a Balloon.
At Meudon, near Paris, a captive bal
loon was recently allowed to rise to a
height of 150 meters and then shot al
with a Lebel rifle. Most cf the shots
passed through the lower half of tin
balloon, and some pierced the uppei
half. The effect on the ballon was
hardly perceptible, as six hours elapsec
before, in a very gentle descent, il
reached the earth. It is evident thai
the light gas did not escape througt
the holes made iir the lower part ol
" - * I- -1
tne Danoon, ana 10 muKe noies euei.i
ively in the upper half would require
a gun of greater caliber and firing per
haps shrapnel. It would not. howver,
be an easy matter to hit with shol
from a large gun a balloon traveling at
a considerable distance from the
ground.?London Times.
Klondike Hospitality.
The following extract was taken
from a letter in the Kansas City Journal:
"We were entertained at dinner
one Sunday by a gentleman, and he
had his cabin as cozy as a woman's,
He didn't have a tablecloth, but served
his dinner in courses and washed
the dishes oetweep. He had evaporated
vegetable soup, broiled steak, evaporated
potatoes and macaroni, canned
raspberries and spice cake which he
made himse1^ and coffee. I enjoyed
it, as it was nicely cooked and served."
The Sea's Salt.
At present it is estimated there are
In the world's oceans 7.000.000 cubic
miles of salt, and the most astonishing
thing about it is that if all this salt
could be taken out in a moment the
level of the water would not drop one
Inch.
When the mantle of greatness falls
upon some men they become nothing
more than mantle-pieces.
It is a great pleasure, sometimes to
see a friend make an ass of himself.
You may, for a while, make people
believe it is nervousness, but
eventually they will suspect your
disposition.
A woman's art is to make pursuit
just so difficult as not to be too difficult.
The man who thinks he knows it
all should got his five-year-old nephew
to ask him ahout it.
Don't let your doctor-be your creditor;
he may take a notion that, your
heirs are better pay.
The fox makes his host, time when
he travels for his health.
A man thinks himself superior to
a hen, yet a hen can sit on an egg
without getting mad.
No man, woman or child who
I whines is deserving. Dogs are excusable?they
don't know any better.
A good many men would rather he
right than President, but they would
rather try being President first.
Some day the German Emperor
will put the lighted end of his cigar
in his mouth, and then he will understand
that heaven is not necessa-J
rily with him in all things,
THE ROTHAMSTED EXPERIMENTS.
i Sir .J. It. I.awes' Notable Work in the
Interests of Scieutiiic Agriculture.
Many Americans, going to England,
have visited Rothamsted. inspected the
i experiments in progress and made tht
Acquaintance of Sir John Bennett Lawes
; whose agricultural work there during
; the last fifty years is known throughout
; the civilized world. This friendly in
I tercourse has led Sir John to institute ?
course of lectures, to be delivered bien
nially in the United States, upon the in
vestigations carried on at Rothamsted
From a report, published by the depart
uient of agriculture, of the first six iec
tures delivered under the Lawes trust
; at Washington, by Robert Warington
F. R. S., we leant the following:
Sir John entered upon his home faru
of acres in 18:14. Three or foui
years later he began experiments, it
pots, upon the effect of various manure*
and these led to field experiments.
SIR J. B. LAWKS.
The foundation of the Rothamsta
ation for agricultural experiments i
earlier than that of any other, with th
single exception of that established i:
Alsace. The earliest German statioi
that at Mockern, was founded in 1855
the earliest American station, at Mic
dletown. Conn., in 1875. The earlies
of the systematic held experiments a
Rothamsted were those with turnips
commencing in 1343. The continuon
wheat experiments commenced in th
autumn of the same year, the first hai
vest being in 1844.
In the earlier trials maae upon lurmi,
and wheat the manures varied a goo
deal from year to year and the sam
plot was not always treated in the sam
way; a more regular proceeding was
however, soon adopted and has sine
been generally adhered to. In the late
systematic experiments each plot r<
ceives every year the same manuring
unless a change of treatment is neede
to attain some special object. The sul
1 stances applied are ammonium salts
sodium nitrate, superphosphate mad
1 from bone ash. potassium sulphate, ma<
nesium sulphate and sodium sulphats
The various constituents of plant foo
are thus applied in a soluble and activ
i form. The weight of each constituer
applied is also known, so that the r<
, suits admit of quantitative treatment.
Wheat has been grown in the cel<
> brated Broadbalk field every year fc
forty-eight years, and there is at preset
. no appearance of any decline in its fei
l tility. Our second cut is from a photo
i graph representing the wheat harveste
in 1878 from seven of the plots. Plot
has receive 1 farmyard manure ever
. year since 1844; plot 3 has been unmj
? nured for the same period; plot 5 has ri
2.1 3.1 5-1 G-1 7.1 8.[ 9.
5 i
"''ill
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wheat from broadbalk field.
. ceived ash constituents omy since 185'
plot 6, the ash constituents, with 20
. pounds of ammonium sal^s; plot 7, th
^ same, with 400 .pounds of ammoniur
salts; plot 8, the same, with 00C pound
ammonium salts; plot 9, the ash const:
i tuents, with 550 pounds of sodiui
, nitrate. The picture illustrates in
striking manner the preponderate
effect of nitrogenous manures in d<
termining the luxuriance of wheat.
A correspondent of Hoard's Dairyma
says that from trials with the Babcoc
! test he is convinced that a cow over eigb
j or ten years old will not give as good
test in the richness of her milk as whe
I she was in her prime. They may kee
| up the quantity of milk, but it will gro\
poorer in butter fat.
Intemperance In Drags.
There is a source of nervous ailment
entirely special to this age and the un
! expected outcome of $ur present da;
j chemistry and advertising. Intempei
j auce in drugs is becoming more com
mon. and it may possibly outstrip th
abuse of alcohol in its evil resulta Th'
manufacture of new chemical product
is supplying the public with endless cat
bun derivates of high molecular powe
.f in.nurfu/.tli' Irnntpn nVtvainlooi/io
j niJM VI MMVtl M WVAVglVM
action Some are most dangerous, am
their continued indulgence leads to con
firmed neurosis or hopeless neurasthe
nia. and it thus comes to pass that a:
the therapeutic activity of the professioi
tends to abolish disease that of the pub
lie is manufacturing it.?Medical Jour
nal
Planter of Pari*.
The setting of plaster of paris maj
be retarded by the addition of 2 to 4
per cent of powdered althea root Thit
addition not only retards the hardening
of the plaster, but also enables it to be
cut. filed, sawed and turned. An addition
of 8 per cent retards the complete
setting of the plaster for about an hour,
so that the mass may be used for anj
purpose where it is to remain plastic
during at least a portion of that tim*
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RUBBER FROM CRUDE OIL.
A Recent Important Discovery Which Has
Keen Kept a Secret.
A most unique manufacturing establishment,
the only one of its kind
in the world, has been in operation
successfully for some months at Savannah.
Here cottonseed oil is manufactured
by a secret process into
rubber?not a substitute, but bona
fide rubber; such at least some of
" * * ?4? 1 flio
i tne Desx expens nave yivuuuu^
; product of the factory to be. Nobody
knows anything about what is going
on inside of the factory with the exception
of a few workmen. Nobody
is admitted. The bare facts alone
I are known that crude cottonseed oil
! from the oilmill, costing about 5r.
cents a gallon, or about $135 per ton'
is carted in in 5-ton lots and that
tons of rubber, worth about $1 per
, pound, or $2,000 per ton, are carted
out and shipped to a very prominent
rubber dealer and manufacturer of
1 Boston.
In a recent interview the discov1
erer of the process, who is an artist
' of some prominence, states that
while experimenting with cottonseed
oil to produce a varnish for
paintings he obtained a product entirely
foreign to his expectation?not
a way to make varnish, but rubber.
He claims that his process is so simple
that 't is not patentable; hence
his only safeguard is in the secrecy
of the process. The only information
he gives is that he uses only 15
per cent of genuine rubber to pro
I duce an article wmcn cannot m any
I way be distinguished from crude india
ruboer.
As soon as his discovery was made
he went at once to Boston, where a
number of rubber experts pronounced
the product genuine rubber and
would not believe that such an article
could be produced by artificial means.
A prominent rubber manufacturer of
Boston recognized at once the value
of the discovery and took a different
view from the rest and purchased an
interest in the process and placed
$30,000 at the command of tne discoverer
for the purpose of erecting
the necessary plant. The existence
1 and availability of the rubber trees 3
is limited, and it is doubtful if much
3 higher prices than the present quo1
tations would have the effect of caus!
ing a corresponding increase in the
* production.
a -fi m' q 11 \7 nlantpd rubber trees
? ni i^juvw*j ? - - t
would require many years before
, they could be made to yield, and the
s present rubber forest is deteriorating
e fast Any discoveries in the line of
- a quick and cheap process for the ^
manufacture of artificial rubber are
3 likely therefore to possess great com1
mercial value and importance. ?C.
0 B. Warrand in Manufacturers' Bee- 0
ord.
i, ?
3 Foretelling Weather by Action* of Birds.
r There must be sound scientific laws
that rule the earthly conditions that
prevail, and when these laws are correctly
understood weather prophesyI"
ing will be decidedly useful and ' *
q necessary. Aside from the scientific *jp
.. end of it, it is remarkable how all
, birds and beasts understand the sitj
uation correctly. I have heard of
e any number of animals whose pecult
iar moves on certain occasions pre
diet a storm or foul weather. I myself
have made a study of one class
>- of fowls in this connection?the barn- A
r yard pigeon. I have had a chance to
study them for a good long while
now, and I imagine that I understand
'* pretty thoroughly what their moves . . *
2 mean. I have taken ordinary news- '
paper predictions and set myself to
r watch that flock of pigeons to see if
>. they understood what was coming. i
I noticed that when a sudden storm
was approaching, although the sky
might be ever so clear, my pigeons
were always on the wing?circlin *
about and around with great unrett
until the storm came. When a season
of clear weather was on, my
nitrenna alwavs flv higher than nanal
| t"D - O . _
but not so often. They prefer to at
on the barn roof or in the yard and
mope in the sun. About 24 hours before
the arrival of a cold wave | <??
pigeons will begin to enter in and out
of their coves without apparent cause,
remaining always close'at hand.
Thes* predictions I have found infal- .
lible up to date.?St .Louis Poet-Dispatch.
Political Union of North America.
The area of public lands between * ,
the Red river and Rocky mountains
in Canada upon which the beet hard
wheat can be successfully grown,
stated by Professor McCoun at 200,- ^
000,000 acres, is one half as large as
that of all the rebellious states. If
one fifth part of it was under culti- >
vation, yielding 12i bushels per acre *
?the average yield of wheat in Manitoba
in 1891 was 25 3-10 bushels per - ->_
acre?the total yield would be 500,- -.-|p y?
000,000 bushels, or in value greater
than our entire cotton crop. This is ' 43
only one of many sources of wealth
i ?J i?iv '4m
0 to utJ gtuxicu uy uut? peauciui wusuui- 1
mation of continental union.
3. The political union of the United
- States and British North America can
i be peacefully consummated by the
a wise expenditure of less than one5
tenth of 1 per cent, or one-thousandth
" part of the cost of the civil war to date,
leaving out of the calculation the
value of the property destroyed and
J the destruction of human life. All
t parties agree that the preservation of
j the territorial integrity of the Union
j was a necessity, and that its cost
p has been justified by events since the
7 close of the war.?Francis Wayland
Glen in New York Sun. ^
WILSON & SUMMERTON R. R. ^
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Time Table No. 1, to take effect
f Monday, June 13,1888. ^
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Lv Wilsons Mill 9 10 a m
Ar Jordan 9 36am x
J Ar DavisStatioa. 9 46am
* ArSummerton 1010 am *
J Ar Millard 1016 am
Ar Millard 10 46 am
r Ar Silver lllOajn
j Ar Packsville 11 30am
I ArTindal 1166 am v
Ar W. & S. J unction 12 27 p m
* - ? taon^m
AT ouimer :i* tjv p ui
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
1 Lv Sumter 2 00pm
1 Lv W. & S. Junction 2 03 pm
Ar Tindal... 2 20pm
Ar Packsville 2 38pm
Ar Silver 2 60pm
Ar Millard 3 06pm
Ar Millard 336pm
Ar Summerton 3T50 p m
ArDavis 4 20pm %
Ar*Jordan 4 46 p m -.
Ar Wilsons Mill 615 p m
BETWEEN MILLARD & ST.
Ar Millard 10 16 am
Ar St Paul..' 10 25 am raj H
Lv St Paul 10 36 a m
Ar Millard 10 46 a
All trains daily except
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