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[ THE BATESBURG ADVdCATE/ I VOL.11. BATESBURG, S. C., WEDNESDAY. APRIL 2, iSK>2. NO. 11. > I A BUGLE CALL To The Democracy of the Country t< Get Together AND SAVE THE NATION FROM Being Mexlcunizctl by the Man Oi Horseback in the White House uuil the Dollar Worshipping Republicans. There was a notable gathering ol I Democrats in Washington last week, They were there at the biennial ban quet or We Virginia Democratic as sociulion held in the banquet room <>i the Metropolitan hotel. They Included Democrats of national promt ncnce. Those who spoke included the following: T. W. Rullock, second vice president of the association: Col. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky; Senator Carmack, of Tennessee; lion. Lewis Nixon, the leader of Tammany ITall; Representative W. W. Kitchen, of North Carolina: Representative DeArmond, of Missouri and members of congress from Virginia. Col. Walterson spoke .is follow : "There is no drop of blood in my veins which is not Virginia blood. Although for purposes of my own, having a deep design beneath them, 1 choose this capital of the nation for my birthplace, my earliest vision of paradise?the very dawn of all my conceptions of honor and duty and glory?nestled among yonder hills, across the Potomac; and, when I g<> hence, my ashes shall repose upon the bosom of Kentucky?Virginia's tirst born and fairest daughter. There seems, therefore, some fitness In my sitting among you. "Anyhow, being a Kentuekien and a Democrat, I am glad to be here and you will not, I hope, think me assuming any consequential airs and graces, if I add that I feel very much at home. "\VK ARE DKMOC'AUTS." "We are Democrats. We love our country. Our hearts beat true to Its institutions. We would rescue the government from the hands of those who are converting it into a govcrn* meat of the trusts, for the trusts and by the trusts, and restore it to the hands of those who will have some regard for the rights of the people. "The Republican party is a syndicated party. Arbitrary power is its motor, the almighty dollar its trade mark. If it be not checked in the gait it is going, It will in the end surely Mexicanize the republic. THE MAN ON HOltSKllACK. " tnivn _ v, ? i. 4l, . ^ have the tnan on horseback. AtTecting the simplicity of the cowboy, he conceal beneath the self-conlidcnce and que^r manners of the broncho buster, the sentiments and ambitions, if not tlfe talents, of a Diaz. To him, a little thing like treating an admiral of the navy, wearing the laurel leaves of imperishable, renown, as if lie were a baby in arms, now to be dawdled and now to lie spanked. Is merely an undress affair begun and ended during off-moments between breakfast and luncheon. To him the reprimanding of the lieutenant-general of the army, grown gray in the lighting of tlie battles of his country, becomes an amusing horse play, meant to relax his muscles and illustrate his high-might iness, whilst warning lesser otllccrs of the army tooliey orders and say nothing. \ MILITARY DICTA Ton. "As these things go forward, partaking somewhat of the. character of feats to divert and blinds to hoodwink public opinion, a bill of army reorganization is prepared and urged upon congress, which, if it becomes a law, will make tlie power of the president absolute, and which it is not to< much to say ought to be entitled 'An act to make the president of llie I'nited States a military dictator.' I'.ecause the reprimanded lieutenantgeneral, answering the summons of a committee of congress as was hb duty?expresses an opinion adverse t< this bill, it is proposed to retire bin: from the service. Taken in con nee. tion with some other matters of more or less sinister suggestion, these art menaces of most ominous import. WIDTH HOUSE TO THE CAIMTOL. "Rut, turn from t lie white house l< the capitol, and look at the Republicans In congress. The trail of the trade mark is over i Hem all. < Hd higl tariir dances the cancan in the house whilst, old ship subsidy does the rcgu lation cake walk in t he senate. Kverv think for the syndicates. Nothing for the people. And, not content wit ! their arbitrary power in the whit* house and their mercenary power ii congress, the leaders of this party o federalism and false pretension wouk rip open Pandora's hox to tilch thenei tlie black, piratical Hag of negro dom inatlon the equally disreputable anc bloody shirt of sectional agit ition and, in order to make sure of the ncx house they are proposing to tiring for ward another force hill to smite tie south, to blight the north, and to con vert a land teeming with love an< peace into a land reeking with huh and strife. Such is tin- banquet t< which the exit, of McKinley, tin statesman, and the advent of I loose velt, the ltough Hitler, lias invited um A SLA I* KOK KL NSTO.W ''I am something of a jingo inysel I believe in the expanding greatnes and glory of my country. 1 never se the Hag floating above the dome 01 yonder capltol that my heart does no throb with the proud, glad thought that ray eyes do not 1111 with hupp, exultant tears that I. too, am ai American olti/.en. "God bless the flag, and God hies the hoys that light beneath it. would carry it inviolate, I would kee them spotless. And with this in view I want to know what is going 01 away out youndcr across t he mult it ml inous, the mysterious waves of Hi Pacific sea. I want, other witnesse than self-seeeing politicians and sell exploiting soldiers to come here are tell me. I refuse to hold my tongue I refuse to rest content. And, if j am told by a whippersnapper in shoulder straps that, unless I do, 1 am a I traitor to my country, my reply to 5 I him shall be a slap in the face. A TIIK TKUMl'KT CALL. "Friends, brothers, Democrats, let j us have done with dissension. Let us i turn our backs on the past, our eyes | to the future, calling against these sa ; things is my comrade, no matter what Ji he thinks or ever thought about silver 0f t or gold. He who would deny me a i place by bis side to light them, must , j Ihj either very perverse or very blind. j Let us cross no bridges till we come hi ; to them. Hut already we can see far Si j enough ahead to take our reckoning. (jj "tor TIIK LINK." to f "There will lie but one test of a ri Democrat in 1904? toe the line?toe sc ' the line, saying to arbitrary power ni j and absolutism, thou shalt go no fur- in . ther; we, too, are in the expansion sc r business; but our expansion is for the ti< | religion of the constitution no less ga than for the religion of Christ and , to Him crueitied; our expansion means as ' peace, not war; t he honor, not the de-1 sli gruuaunn or meting: .mil Just us sure- hi ly as .leffcrson wrote the Declaration ed of Independence and Jackson fought, th | the battle of New Orleans?to resist ar despotism?shall wo make a new W Fourth of July and celebrate another i , eighth of January, In resisting this so< unrighteous scheme to abolish the It constitution and Mexiennizc the gov- ?h ernment." his he A SENSATIONAL CHARGE. m; ne I Agent of Denmark Say* lie Drilled ou Members of I'onjjri wi. bei Co A genuine sensation was caused in as i the house Thursday by the prcsenta- hi ! tion by Mr. Richardson of Tennessee, mi th?' Democratic leader, of charges al- an leging the corrupt use of a fund of Kl $500,000 in connection with tire sale an of the Danish West Indies. The wn charges were contained in an alleged of secret report ofCapt. Walter Christ- ' mas to the Danish government which tei declared that lie had employed corrupt sp< means to bring about the negotiations Da for the sale of the islands to a con- hit summation. sui The report, extracts from which sti Mr. Richardson read, mentioned the of names of Aimer McKinley and his ed partner, Col. Drown, C. W. Knox, who Mi was described as "an intimate friend lib of Senator 1 lamia." Richard l\ Evans Re who was said to represent "Mr. (lard- of ner and his friends in the house," and M< two press associations, the names of th: which were not given, as having been tin interested In the matter. The th; charges against members of con- wa gross were not specified, l.'pon It the basis of this report, Mr. Richard- Sa son asked the adoption of a resolut ion ga for the appointment of an investigat- no !ng committee of seven. The speaker ed ruled that the mat ter was priviledged ' ?t ? ' 14 . 4^.1 his resolution so as to specifically include members of the house. Great excitement attended tlie whole proceeding. Mr. Cannon of Illinois insisted thai Mr. Richardson's presentation was fragmentary and that ' the whole mat ter should go over until for Friday in order that members might ror read the documents presented, which tin included newspaper ext racts, affidavits in etc., in tlic Record. Christmas, lie plii declared, on 11is own statement, was a m, briber and worse. lUit tho house j voted down l lie motion to postpone ha and tlie- resolution after being amend- of ed in minor particulars, was adopted. <Ju The speaker immediately appointed an the following committee to make the an investigation: Messrs. Dalzcll (Rep.) ro; of Pennsylvania, ilitt (Rep.) of 1 Hi- 001 nois. Cousins (Rep.) of Iowa, McCall Se (Rep.) of Massaehuset ts. Richardson re; (I )em.) of Tennessee, Dinsmore (item.) ]ai of Arkansas, and Cowherd (Hem.) of p. Missouri. 1 A democrat I'nscated. an The Republicans in tho House last 'ia Wednesday unseated Mr. Rhea of an Kentucky, a Democrat, and sealed in I lis place Mr. .1. Mackenzie Moss, who 1 was formerly a Democrat but who. ' 1 according to liis Itricf. is In accord !':l with Republicans on the dominant. ' issues. The Republican majority In M(' tlie house is 1.1. While only two Re- ! Su publicans. Ilanbury and Vreeland of' New York, voted witii the Democrats, w' ' enough Republicans remained away or ',l1 1 declined to vote to reduce the ininorito to. The conclusion of the debate ' upon the case was rather spirited, Mr. ' Rhea making an eloquent d< fense of 111:1 his rigid to the seat. Mr. Rhea made I a severe arraignment of Mr. Moss, thol , , contestant, charging that although ' . lie now called himself a Republican . that two weeks before th > election lie , n , liad registered as a Democrat and had ! ,n pledged himself if elected to go into ,v . the Democratic caucus. Wit Ii im-! . passioned words lie challenged t he j . contestant!or ids friends to deny this , statement. "If it isdenied," said he. I W J "I wlllprove biin to be the poor, miser- j eiJ , ! able creature 1 know him to be.'' j gc lumped from ?t Train. ! I i >1 i The Rlaekvillo correspondent of The j ((> State says the passengers on the early j i)( ' moridng train from Augusta toChar- u, leston witnessed a surprising Incident ; j', ( just before the train reactie 1 blackville Thursday morning. A young ! |(1 lady, Miss May Folk, who lives near j fll W lllistou. tioanlcd the train at thatL,,. j station en route to Columbia. Upon L.j ncarin^ the i?lac?- the porter as usual j tr ''called, "Jtlnckvillc." Miss Folk lia- ! I i mediately r>.se from her seat, hastily ;tJ ; ran to tin- door and lt-aped from the *.j 1 t rain which was then running at some . ',.50 or 4o mile. an hour. When the |'( train stopped it returned and found t' the voting lady unconscious. She was s brought to ttie hotel and found to he e severlj Injured. sulTering from eonous- 'j( > si on of t lie brain, shoulder dislocated v t and badly bruised. She is now in a , very critical condition. I(| v <2cii. iiatnploii'H (tirf Inl.iy. re Friday was (Jen. Hampton's 84th s birthday and the State says the geneI ral was in tine spirits. ' was eelcbratp ed very quietly at his home, lie had .. , been very unwell Thursday night, but " n Friday he was feeling quite.strong and u I- was out for a ride during the forenoon < and (arly afternoon. A number of s friends called tomngrat ulate liim upon . bis birtliday. The general's health lias ri Ireen bad during the past year, but lie ;. ; has cont inued cheerful and lias taken (>f 1 | a lively interest In current events. A SALUDA MYSTERY. Itiul Negro, Who 11 ml tlcou Mli?- ^ lug, Found Dead. A dispatch from Saluda to The State ,ys the finding of the dead body of )hn Chapman, a negro In the employ Mr. S. H. Corley, in Mr. Corley's isture has created quite a sensation. ^ mpman, a negro of bad reputation, id been missing for two weeks. On inday, the 9th inst., soon after laptnun left Mr. Corley's house to go Ids tish basket in Little Saluda ver, three gun shots were heard by veral persons in the direction Chap- -j an had gone. Chapman's wife, fearg a difficulty, as she says, went in v arch of her husband but failed to 11 id him. Searching parties were or- b .nixed, and Coroner Gibson under- u ok an investigation, but on being ^ sured by and estimable lady that ^ e nan seen vjnspman pass nor nouse ^ tor the firing of the guns,lie abandon* C it. It was then thought by some i;i at Chapman had run olT to avoid (j rest for robbing IUley's store at Mt. illing. T' Your correspondent went to the a me and attended tlic inquest. S1 was found that the negro had been V ot twice, one load of shot entering '? % heart and the other back of his 01 ad. An empty shell was found near g' > body. Julia Chapman, the dead ci ui's wife, was examined by the cor- <?' r and testified that her husband g Id heron Saturday afternoon previs to the time he is supposed to have P en killed that Bee Corley, Mr. S. It. s| vley*8 son had warned him to leave, " Bob Corley and others would kill ' in If he remained there, as he (Chap- tt m) had lieen telling that Bob Corley L d Bee Corley had helped him to rob 1J ley's store. Bee Corley was seen tl d denied this in toto. Bob Corley It s not present. Both are young men tl good reputation. 1* The only otlicr evidence of any in ni est brought out lac fore this eorre- ci mdent left was the statement of 1)( ive Perry that Chapman had sold ai m a number of small articles pre- i'1 mod to have been stolen from Biley's ti ire. The coroner's jury is composed w good men and they seem determiu- tl to solve the mystery if possible. d< . S. B. Corley and the mcml>ers of 1 family. It is understood, say that ti e Corley was at home at the time the firing of the shots. Mr. L. J. as irchaiit. an honorable man, states tl at Bob Corley was at his house when ci 2 shots were fired. One theory is tr at Chapman, who was a gambler. s killed by other negro gamberlers. si is said that the bottoms of Little ui luda river are a resort for negro hi mhlers on Sundays Chapman was a ac gro of i>ad reputation and has figurin court quite often. g< COAST LINE AND SOUTHERN. ,7f A i?l to lie I'nitiiig to Ituy tin* 1'laiit u . 1)1 SVNtCIII. Ill i'he Florence Times is authority ' the statement that a veteran rail- s'< it] man who is in a position to get j "inside"' of a good many goings on railroad circles says that the report '4 it. the Pennsylvania was about to al v up I lie Coast Line was not true. ^ lie gives it as coming from a re- ' blc source that the true explanation ( tlie rise in the Coast Line stock is e to the fact that the Coast Line 01 d the Southern are to join together . d buy up the Plant system. The 11 id is the Florida and West Indian (|1 meet ion of t lie two lines and the sr aboard. The opposition line al- e< idy has entrance into the promised id of the South through the F. C. \ ci The Plant system is the old road d ramities through the state and a' s extensive Ceorgia connections ; d into Alabama, a very rich terri- 11 ry, and the road is regarded as a " ie piece of property. Since Mr. ^ ant's death it does not, seem to have ? d tlie successful management that a: had before, and the two great svs- a ms which are dependent on it for uthern connections have Joined gethcr in securing it between them, c< dch will prevent any war of rates or 11 isiness Ix-tween the Coast Line and 1 e Southern. The Coast Line concts with the Plant at Carleston and V e Southern connects near Savan- 11 b. \i There are prominent men in all!w those roads who own stock and large J ll orks of it in the other lines, and , " ere is no lack of harmony among em. This is believed to be the 1 ost plausible explanation of the re- ' nt sensation in railroad circles. P * .. I ift'iii r uitii i Jiaii iii'Trr. The Columbia State says Henry p atterson is always racy, always in- |, sive, and he made ^aod use of his c liins for phrase-making in the s eeh lie delivered in Washington on n onday. Wc hope it will have its of- p ct upon those present or former | emocrats who need a political chart. < at Mr. Watt.erson in urging the |, emocracy to unite on a platform of v, position to imperialism and ahso- 0 tism dues not blaze out a new path i p r the party. The national Demo- ,, atlc convention in 1000 distinctly de- p ured tliut opposition to the adminls- p ation's policy of imperalism was "the iramount issue" of the campaign e id long before that action was oni- ,, ally taken by the party a large ma- j rlty of the Democratic papers had p mnnitted themselves to the same U oposltion. The trouble with Wat- ' rsou is tliat lie lias not always been i , mud on t he isssue himself. Now that t, Is views are amended and improved , e are glad; hut we protest that our j west recruit if somewhat audacious r i signalizing his coming intocamp hy ( ading a general order fixing tiie plan j 'battle. , I After Many Yearn. Laborers engaged in digging away ' { hill at < >l?l Brunswick, near Wfl-I. lington, N. ('.. uncovered a skeleton ( lilch is believed to lie t hat of a British j tidier killed during or before the rev- j utionary war. In tlie white sand s >out the skeleton were found a num- . r of brass miliary buttons of English lanufacture during tlic seventecutli , sntury. , ( THE RACE PROBLEM !n The South as Seen b7 a Ifew England Republican. ENFRANCHISING THE NEGRO. iVai a Fundamental Mistake, Says Mr. I.ittlcUeltl, a C-ungrcHMiuiiu IVoin the State ?l* Maine. The Washington correspondent til 'ho News and Courier sa>s Charleston rill hear with interest or a speech lade in Washington Wednesday night y Representative Littletield,of Maine pon the "Race Rrob'em td I he South." Ir. Littlclield was a member of the Ongressioual party that visited the harleston Exposition week befttre ist. lie returned to Washington Sunay week and has been generous in his nod words about "The Ivory City" nd "The Old City by the Sea." His ;>eeeh at. the annual meeting of the Washington Congregational Club last ight is but in line with a number of ther views held by the distinguished entlemen from Maine, whom l>emorats and Republicans recognize as one f the broadest-miuded men in G'oiiress to-day. Mr. Littlciield gained considerable rominence several years ago by r. iecc.li lie made in defence of Brigham [. Roberts, the Mormon member from tali, whom the Republicans refused > seat iiecau^of his religion. Mr. ittlcticld him.-M-lf ' cmocrats on tliat ijuestiof^^^W^w' lat there was no legal reason v.-J y oberts was not entitled to a seat in le House. In the debate upon tlie orto Kican tarifT liill Mr. Littleflcld fain showed liiinself broad enougli to it away from party fetters and opise that measure, liis latest utterice on the negro problem is in strikig cont rast to theCrumpacker resolu011 which an element in the Uepubliin party is endeavoring to get into le House, with a view to cutting >wn the South's representation on icount of educational and qualiflcaoti sutfrage laws here. The speech so gains In significance, delivered, > it was. immediately after Mr. Litetield's risR to the most Southern ty in the South. It was the first ip of the "Man from Maine" to that iction of the South and, while derous of seeing the Exposition, it is ulerstood that tlie in&in object of is trip was to sec for himself the ex ;t conditions in the South. Mr. Littlefteld, in taking up the ne o problem, said that the black slaves as a vital factor in the development .. cotton became t the close of the war the United :ates was left with four millions of acks on its hands. This was the oat serious problem left by the war. liesc negroes had been freed from avery and were occupying a position ' peril to the Government. The civIzation of the white people, said Mr. ittlefiold, had been accomplished 'ter years of struggle and association ith the greatest races of mankind, lie negro liad been brought direct om 1 lis home in Africa and no efforts id been made toward his education civilizat ion. "By what riglit," asked the man om Maine, the man from Maine's ivn State, "docs an Act of Congress ek to place an inferior race on an pial footing with men who have 1 iv1 through two thousand years of liristinnity? The nation sought to cate in the negro race the ability ot. only to govern themselves, but to vsist in 1 lie government of others, r'hat was t lie result? This race was l the midst of a people developed in le highest state of civilization known i man. A people who have noe'n verwhelmed by one of their own kind nd whose wounds, physical and morI. were smarting under the blow of efeat. "The Kuklux Klan was the outline, with its eivilization behind It. rring to suppress the newly-created itizens. Then came the "grsndfsthr clause which virtually disfranliisos every negro in the South where is in existence. If the elective franItise had been given only to those din had the intelligence to use it t lie endeney in tlie South would have eon to increase its representation by igitimate means. To-day the tendeny is to keep Southern men in ignoiince and to keep the negro out of conrol. To increase tlie representation ropcrly under swell conditions requires lie utmost intelligence. "Few men to-day know what is to i* done. The negro is witli us. lie as tlie right of citizenship and we annot adopt the measure so often uggested to deport. him. There is i) authority under which we can deort a citizen from the Fnlted States, "hat namesake of the Father of lii.s 'ountry, who is working down in Ala >aina, is uouig ine mosi. practical rork. \\> must look to the practical ducation of the negro as the only sunt ion of the problem. Fundamental nistake was In enfranchising the rare, lacing in tlie hands of those people towers they were unqualified to exerts*, giving them power over a eivilizd race overpowered by war. It takes nore than a (feneration or two. or liree, even, to civilize any people. Furunate will b? ttie (feneration that will ee a true solution of this problem." Inclosing Mr. Littlefleld touched ipon tiie I'iiilippine problem as another one wliicli tlie country was called i pon to solve. "It is not possible." le said, "by any legislative act or by iducat Ion to create In any race the tower of self-government. It may be atent power in some races that only iced the touch of the higher civilized todies of men to develop. 1 am protared to say it is not in the power of lie negro to govern himself, as somv icople have said. What we know ol lie Filipino what Gen. ChafTceaay! n Ills report is that this race excol? n duplicity, treachery and the arts ol iavagery the American Indian. There ire ten millions of people dependent ipon us. Only a few of them car ead and write. I do not know wlial s ill be accomplished. I do not think f ) i ll Is giving away a State secret to s:i that there is not a man In the liou1 i of Representatives on cither side wi j sees the proper solution of tii'.s prol ' leiu ahead. I believe that the Ainer t can people now face a serious si tuatloi i that It will require a!1 tlie slirewdnes and Christianity of our people to solv i t his most di Moult question. Hut ; have faith in the future of the Repul lie, despite that, international verm | form appendix known us the i'hilippln : Archipelago" Mr. Llltlelleld's speech has bee j hailed with delight by the l)c:n<KT.it especially, ani should the Cnunpaeke resolution ever reach the House fror j committee it is thought not unlike! I tliat the man from Maine may take th j 11* >! in opposition to the measure j Certain it is thai Mr. l.iUlctieid li.i ! shown that In* is not afrai i to sa; what he believes, he it Rep ihlican h 1 seiitlinent or not. i An l-Xitor's iiiimeiit. The Kooxville Sentinel savs it I: i istoni-liing how the public looks upoi ' the newspaper as a free horse to h< ridden to dcatli. I'eople will p.n money for a hand, for lights, janitor to go to a job printing otiice and inn thousands of dodgers, pay hoys .o do liver them, pay performers in the cn tertainiueiit. :f they arc professionals or pay so ?.? manager to get up the ai fair an 1 give him a large percentage of the re eipts. pay all their hill ir I fact, pay for everything except that {which is most valuable to tiiem -i? j wit, 'newspaper advertising. And il i : lw. .. . - > .... i .-> .?i in 11 ^ i ? <i ? r. more n >; i ;c to sue'i en >rtui:rn nit than liberal news notices it cum-, in for much abuse. And jet win shoul \ not t he newspaper charge f'>r it- :i Ivtsrtisi:*_r spice jus* as the owner >; the hail clurges for its rent, t he b'.i ? >ar.l 111 in c!i irg > foe to* use of his hi Ibo.ir Is. the ii? h.igrap'ieis Udiaruw ._f *r furnishing posters, the job printing ofll charges for 1 lie dodgers, and the outside parties eha'ge for their services? The newspaper has only two sources of revenue. One is subscription, ttie other advertising. The subscriptions to newspapers are so cheap that they little more than pay the cost of the white paper. A Cruel Husband. J. It. Post, a farmer .'to years old. living on tlie Worth road, four miles south of Tanawauda. N. V.. hound his wife Amanda to a stake In tlie hull pen of his stable Thursday morning. She wore a red calico apron, which aroused a con lined hull to frenzy and in its rage the animal attacked the woman and gored hcV to death. It is said that l'ost's act was caused by jealousy of Hiram Coates, a Free Methodist preacher wtio lives at Kenmore. half a mile south of the Post farm. Coates lias been a frequent caller at the Post, farm and had often gone out driving witli Mrs. Post. Thursday night lie met Mrs. Post at a prayer meeting at, Ivenmorc, and as fJie pair were attentive to each other turning home. A Horrible Fate. As a result of an accident at the Orr Mill at Anderson one day last week Hugh II. Scott, a machincstand engineer, lost his life. Scott was sent there several weeks ago by the Westinghousc-Churcli-Kcrr company to | superintend the erection of tlie new 1,000 horse power engine. Steam wne turned on the engine for tlie tirsi t ime and Scott was standing by watching its movements. He stepped upon the base to oil a bearing when Ids foot slipped and lie fell into the rapidly moving fly-wheel. He was whirled ! around and hurled to i lie opposite side of tlie engine. He was horribly crushed and mangled, both legs being I hrnL'rtii onrl t ho l/nvor tvii'i ??f I >ivl i was crushed. No*withstanding the injuries lie was conscious when assist' anee reached iiiin and wrote the name of a relative in Michigan to whom lu wished a telegram sent. CorpKO " Oil for Hoard. A funnv ease is reported from St Louis, t'ntii a few minutes hefon the hour set for tlie funeral of Mrs Carrie Sehlosinger, i'ridav afternoon tliere was doubt as to whether tin services would take place; the body lie lng liold for a luiard 1>>II alleged to l>< due Levi Silverman and wife of 2' 1? olive street, where Mrs. Schlesinge died. Henry Sehlosinger, the woman*: son. who is a traveling salesman, wa: notified by wire of Ids mother's death and came to St. Louis to arrange fo tlie funeral. TheSilvermans presentci to him a ttill of $So for iiis mother' ljoard and their rare for her. Schles inger declined to pay and was tol< that the body would lie held. Schles inger employed Attorney llowan Sidenor and was about to enter suit ii replevin when the matter was conipn mised. Has Thirteen Wives. Christian ('. Nelson, railroad con tractor and horseman, alleged to hav 13 wives is in jail at St. Joseph. Mo. on the charge of bigamy, having jus been brougtit in from San Antonio Tex., where he was arrested a fer ; days ago. Nelson will he tried i j St. Joseph because one of tlie womei | most active in his pros ration was mar I ried to him in that city last Septem j bcr. This bride was Mrs. Mary A ! Purlrer of I'lullalmr.r Mo Nialym I admits having three wives, hul aaj the other 10 are myths. Ho is hh! ] to l?e wanted fur bigamy in Chicagi San Francisco, l>es Moines. New York St. l'aul, Sumter, S. C.. and Conwav Ark. His preliminary trial will ti ! held before the same justice of th peace who solemnized his inarriay with Mrs. Parker in September. Ilnril on t'unilii.i. Senator Pattersons, of Colorado i the United States Senate Thursda sharply criticised the metluKls b wjiich Hen. Funston capture i Aguinaldo and sought to show t ha | <iei?. Funston's statement publisher ' to today that he had not violated tii particles of civilized warfare was n< ' accurate. The senator said that a i authorities upon international la< i and the articles of civilized warfar r declared that the use of the enemy | uniform was not warrante 1 and thy . a man in an enemy's uniform wti i killed another man was guilty c tj assasiuation and outside the pale < :' protection. / DID A GOOD BUSINESS. >o 'I'tiu Insurance Muilo 11 If iiiiiiwoitiu 1- ; 1" | Prolli Liiiut Ycnr. 'e The oOlciat figures were received j 1 Friday from Mr. A. \V. J ones, who is : )- i in charge of tlie insurance department | I- of the C'oniptrolier General's op,ice, I c j showing ttie Income and losses paid by ! I t.he foreign Insurance companies on " ' their business in this State. The eor- j >s reeled and ofllcial Ugrires are today: r ?iven for the foreign companies hav-; n injf agencies in this State. Tlie state-1 > | ment slum's tlmt 111?* foreign com-! c panics, which do about half of I'm lire j insurance business in this State, have . *; not come out at all badly and that >' | they have a safe and liberal allowance Hon which to do business and, thai. alter agents' commissions have been paid and an allowance is made for! | iadj!>stip.ii and the ilkc. there is still h s a pretty good margin of profits in the ' S mill Carolina business, if the in-!' suraure companies have, as they <daim, I i ' j lost three millions of vloiiars on their ! J * busines east of the It .cIvies they eer- i ? tainly have not. iost any part of it in t ibis State, if their aggregate reports, made lit) by the companies tiieinselvrs. 1 ' are to be reiied upon, ami these re- j ' I ports are made under oath and are the j f basis for lli" taxation of tiio various! | 1 j companies in this State. | ;i The American companies have ai |e . i-.'ported, but their figures have not a | been verified; hut the figures, which J a are practically c irreet and mostly < )j jurilied, show that the total receipts j t , I from premiums'for lire insurance for r the y< ar 19<M arc 4941,74o and out of g this sum $534,712 was paid in losses, which gu\e the companies 44 percent s , <>ut of tlicir cross receipts i:i tnis t State on which to do business, an i ii > looks rather reasonable that insurance \ i business ought to be done on 14 per a c.Mit after losses have been paid provi.i- o > .! the salari( s arc not it o great a i>cr- : v centagc of the earnings of the various o | companies. As will be seen, ofcourse, v some individual companies aid not ti take in as much iti premiums as they h paid out In losses, but the figures that t are given are for the business of all the a companies doing business in South t Carolina and, parenthetically, it may o be mentioned that those companies fi that made money last year on t. Jr v Inisiness In tills, as well as other t i States, have all Joined In the general n j increase of 25 per cent on the rates on a : merchandise and stores. The follow! ing is the official showing made bv the foreign Insurance companies doing business In this State for the year ending December 31, 1901: s Name of Company. Risks written. * Iialolse 1 * * * Br.-Auier. Assu. Co 421,802 00 Caledonian 237,312 On Coinmer. Union Assu 1,957,509 <k) | Hamburg-Bremen 497,000 00 II Helvetia Swiss Fire * * * p I imperial Insurance Co 400,745 00 | *1 l.'irn * * * Q. i ? ... j?ool. London. <?lobe. 5,403.049 00] n L.onuon Assurance oo London & Lancashire 1,101,543 00 c Madgeburg Fire * * * ., Manchester Fire 350,082 00 Netherlands Fire *** ' North Br. Mercantile 1,632,606 00 c Northern Assurance 1.100,781 00 Norwich Colon 1.453,840 00 Palatine 590,310 00 1 i IVo< nix Assurance 1.452.083 00 Royal Insurance 3,142.353 00 . ; I Royal Exchange Assu 315,23100 | Scottish l.\& N 155,502 00 s Sun Ins. otllce 613,879 00 i *Svea Fire and Life * * 1 | Thames & Mersey Marine 1.078,529 oo , Union Assu.Society 752,479 00 * i Western Assu 1,139,550 00 * I 1 . I Total $24,884,332 93 ?' j * Withdrawn from tiie State. i * ** No report. \ Premiums Losses i Received. Paid, j i Buloise $ 2,886 26 * * * I " | Br.-Am. A. Co.. 7.544 99 2,437.56 , Caledonian 7,131 36 4.711 2s ' ' 'Com. C Assu... 20.645 36 15,682 62 | IFhurg.Bremen. 10,740 15 14,116 35 ! Mlelve'aS'iss F. 3,746 04 * * * Imperial Ins. Co 8.263 21 16.401 91 < * Lancashire F... 5,087 98 * ** ; *Lion 1.677 27 2,253 97 j ~ Liverpool L & t J 72,174 4s 29,476 07 ; . London Assu 1.528 95 5,415 is , Madgeb'g Fire. 7,915 75 10,954 78 j Manchester Fire 533 87 *** . Netherland F... 7,460 6 s 7.128 63 North Br. Mcr.. 21,422 37 7.925 6s Northern Assn.. 15,3*97 In 3,14n 23 Norwich I 'liion 21,063 52 5,763 30 rj Palatine 6,01583 7300 i Phoenix Assil 20,300 42 11,598 09 si Royal Ins 25,954 84 25,262 68 . Royal Ex. Assn.. 4,069 94 658 04 c Scottish C \ N 8.41ti 12 10,046 18 I Sun Ins. otllce.... It),7.30 45 4.723 97 *S ven F & 1 1.879 26 * * * i names ,v >1. .m. i:.441 so :w> * ; Union Assil So.. 40 7.740 11 1 Western Assn .. Ill,204 no 12.902 41) 1 Total $316,117 80 $198,826 47 n I <Jj?vc Mis liiIV for Other*. To the Kditor of The State: Seeing an inquiry in your paper as to the whereabouts of 1 >r. J. VV. l'owell, e surgeon in the Coufederale States , army. 1 will say I)r. l'owell went to t Mississippi during tlie yellow fever . epidemic several years a^o and died of y the fever, lie went there to help the n fever sufferers and lost Ills life. Dr. n l'owell was a native of Fairfield coun ty and has quite a number of relatives i- in that county now. . , J. S. Gun null. i New Hrooklhnd, March 20. I A Dangerous Tool. ' The heat of I r i K a re n.. ! n n-r i ' burglar preuf for Julius L. Ihischkc, a ' Ciiicago electrician, who has bought an invention which will enable (lie | man applying it to cut through the hardest steel plate as a boy with a knife would cut St. Lawrence county cheese. Armor plate such as Is used on the United States battleship,, can : be perforated as an auger would bite v its way tnrough a plank of Northern v pine. d : ; : .liiatlco nt l>nMt. ;1 Necly, Rathttone and Kecves, the e American carpetbag officials who lootit od the Cuban postoftlce department, II! have received tardy justice in sentcnw ccs of ten years' Imprisonment accoine panied by fines ranging from >.'15,"s ooo to $50,000. The cases agains it them wore begun two years ago, iO and the slowness of the American if administration in Cuba in pressing >f the prosecutions has been scandalous. MASONS ON A LARK Shriners do Not Represent Serious Side of Oraud Lodge. Grand Master Walter M. Whitehead, of the South Carolina Grand lodge, contributes a card tj the Charleston Evening Post Thursday, called "Drawing the distinction between Ancient Free Masonry and the order of the Mystic Shrine" with the end In view that the public should not confuse the serious order with the amusement branch of Masoniy, about whicti so nine!) islrdng wiiiten and talked now in connection with tile coining celebration of "Shrinors* day" at the exposition. (irund Master Whitehead explains that the Mystic Shrine with all its amusements and at t raetions is not Masonry, although the only prcrequiste tVr membership in the Mystic shrine is that the applicant must lie j dther a Knight Templar or a Mason j ?r t he iiind degree of the Seottisti Kite, j Among <.t!ier things ttrand Master iVhite'iea i states: ii is to l?e expected that ttie "pro-1 'a tie,"the uninitiated who lias never j Nirne 1 tlie beautifid system mor- ! dity tint Masonry inculcates, may condude from the absurd, farcical parade i'id til-* reference to hot sands," "hot i!r," "sober cam?ds." "astute astrolorer.s," "rope ends." and other funtasic and nonsensical terms, that Masonv is unworthy the attention of serintsand dignitlcd men. Such, however, is not the ease. The ibrine should not be confounded with he Masonic system, as it is neither in onry nor a branch of Masonry. Vhile it diverts its members and mines the gaping crowd the grand Id order of lite Masonic fraternity, rhio'.i has smviv-ri the criticism of enturies of inquiring thought, surived tlie hostility of crowned and litercd heads, grown grander as it as grown older, which has secured he fealty of sages, philanthropists nd patriots, which lias dried the ears of orphanage, hushed tlie wail ] f widowhood, helped the stranger to riendsand tlie poor to lienefactors rill continue to move forward down lie centuries undisturbed and undis- i layed by the silly pranks and foolish titles of the Mystic Shrine. ' i TILLMAN'S CHARGES. 1 i cuator Mcl.uurln'k Friends Insists ' on ua Investigation. Senator Pritchard, of North Caro- \ Ina, is making an efibrt at the meet- I >gr of tlie committee on privileges 1 ud elections Lu seeurc-acLion on the go calling for an investigation of the ' harges made 'by Senator Tillman ' gainst John L. McLaurin, that tlie ; utter was influenced by promises of j ontrolof federal patronage in casting lis vote for the ratification of the 'alis peace treaty. There Is a feeling among certain Republicans in the senate that this aibject should he allowed to drop, nit Senator McLaurin's friends insist hat the investigation be made, and dr. Pritchard, who is a member of lie committee before which the resolu;ion is pending, will urge that a favorihle report l?e adopted. Sentiment n tiie senate seems to favor the adopion of this resolution. Mr. Tillman's 'riends say lie can prove tlie charges le lias made, while Mr. McLaurin's friends insist that he can not. Both tides, therefore, are ready to support L'.ie proposition for an investigation. It is said that Senator J. C. Burrows. of Michigan, chairman of the onimittce, does not favor the Pritchim resolution, and will strive to have it suppressed. Among the warmest advocates of the resolution is Senator M. A. lluiina, who says lie believes the Tillman charge retlect on the late President McKiniey, and he will lend his efforts to a favorable report upon the ground that the memory of the assassinated President should he purged of all aspersions. Tircil ol' l.ifc. Wednesday evening a porter of the Scriven House, Savannah, (la., detected an odor of gas. It came from room 63. lie tried tlie door and found that it was locked on the inside. He got on a table and pushed open the transom over the door. It was dark inside and tlie porter struch a match and held it up. Instantly there was an explosion, lioom 63 and a number adjoining were wrecked, and windows sliat tered in other parts of the house. A tire alarm was turned in. Firemen entered room t>3 and found on the bed the dead body of W P. Hankinson, aged 24. of kilenton. S. C. lie had taken morphine, unscrewed the tip from the iras burner and turned on tin- gas. Letters found on his body explained that In- was despondent and determined to die. Itc|tul>lirnnM in a lloie. Speaking of the Crumpacker resolution. Representative IX Linn Gooch, of Kentucky, who is one of tlie most conservative men in the house, said last week that "for once the Republicans have placed themselves in a hole." lie said further: "We rememlx'r what followed t he force hill legislation of the tifty-tirst congress the election of a Democratic house and two years later the election of Mr. Cleveland. 1 do not hesitate to say that In my humble opinion we will elect al>emocratlc house this fall and thus pave the way to carry the presidential election in 1904, and the Crumpacker resolution will prove to t?e worth thousands of votes to us next November." WhoCun Answer'/ Governor McSwcency has received a letter from Pdwin l>. Newton, A. M., M. 1>.. asivnig tor the whereabouts of Dr. .1. W. Powell who was medical director of the ;td army corps of the Army of Northern Virginia. Mr. Newton was a member of the immediate stall of Chief Surgeon Guild, A. N. V. ! SOME PLAIN TALK i From General Miles on the Proposed Army Bill. IT MEANS CENTRALIZATION. j "Throwing the Door Wide Open for a Future Autocrat Or a Military Despot," Kays the General. 'I'lw. -? n ??" - , *..v ouuviiK'iitui ?ten. miics oerore ! the senate committee on Military affairs as It will appear In the official i records, lias been made public. The , features which caused something of a j sensation when published the dav the ! statement was made do not appear I and the following colloquy at the close of the hearing explains it: Mr. Pettus?Mr. Chairman, I think there ought to be some mode of having these notes revised. The Chairman?That will be done. Mr. Pettus?The report of the proceedings should be submitted to Gen. Miles, with permission to strike out such portions as ought not to be pub- \ lished. 1 Mr. Proctor?That is it. Gen. .tiles?I do not know that there is anything to he stricken out. The Chairman?We have been in the habit of submitting to the witness before the committee, whoever he was, the stenographer's report of his remarks for correction, of course. Mr. Pettus?I wanted to go further than that. The stenographer has no doubt taken down correctly what the general lias said, but there are some tilings that lie said whicli lie may desire to strikeout, and I think he should be allowed that privilege. The Chairman?He must lie the judge of that. Mr. Pettus?lie should be allowed g the liberty of striking out anything I which ought not to Ire published, even 1 if it is stated correctly In the report. J The stenographer's report was Bub j mitted to (Jen. Miles and the offlcia1 report indicates that he followed ^ closely tlie written statement he had prepared and read to the committee. The main factsof the general's opposition to the war department staff bill were given at the time. Some of the reatures of the statement, however, not reported at the- time are of Interest. j Gen. Miles said of the bill: "It is centralization of the. most ^ oronotinred tvne -w r-^? Mugiuv^uio L11U puwcr 1 jf the staff and in effect removes it J further from touch with the lighting M force of the army. The scheme is rev-*v fl dutionary, casts to the winds the^t *. m most H in republican government such as ours, a peculiarly, adopted to monarchies ha^^^^ ing immense standing armies. It would seem to Germanize and Rus- 1 sianize the small army of the United ' States." In addition to that portion of the | statements heretofore published showing how the president could by promotions make a captain chief of staff with the grade of lieutenant general, Gen. Miles said: 4*It seems to me you are throwing the door wide open for a future autocrat or a military despot. It is not, in my judgment, in accordance with the ( principle and theory of democratic government and for the best interests of the army, which has existed more 4 than a hundred years and fultilled all your requirments, to adopt such a scheme " In commenting on the aliove The State says this is strong language, j certainly, and quite enough to make 1 it plain why President Rossevelt 011 hearing of it was seized by and almost irresistible desire to retire Gen. Miles from his position at the head of the % arinv a method of restoring liar- a mony hi the military establishment J which lie was i nly kept from adopting | by the urgent advice of ids friends in i the senate. This indictment of the fl measure bv Gen. Miles rnrresnnnds with that pro sented several days ago i by this newspaper on the strength of I Secretary Root's admission that the 9 purpose of the army bill was to let I the ranking officer of the army "come I in with the president and go out with 1 president." We observe that Henry m -- ^ Watterson took the same view in his |S speech on Monday night, when he de- O dared that 11?is army reoorgnlcation w bill, if it shall become a law, "will f make the power of the president abso- J lute" and that it ought to be entitled "an act to make the president of the United States a military dictator." Cotton Warehouses. The stockholders of the Trust Company of the Republic met last week In New York and elected I). Leroy > Dresser, president; Alexander Grieg, vice president; F. F. Robertson, second vice president; and James L. Livingston, third vice president. Thomas Clarke will be the secretary and treasurer. The company was organied prin- J cipally to develop, in conjunction with < the Security Warehousing company, a j system "t' warehouses through the oot" J u>u uea ana 10 nnance issues of In- M vestment certificates basedonguaran- I teed warehouse certificates. To carry m out this plan the Security Warehouse company .will enlarge capital and build about. 150 fireproof warehouses tarough the South. Connections will also he established with a large number of southern banks, and it is intended to reduce the rates the of insurance and interest to producers. The company plans 5m also to extend this system eventually 15B toother industries, such as mining. |gg lumbering and grain growing. A lllintl Architect. D. E. ltearden, a Hoston architect, is totally blind. Nevertheless he has ffij designed may building in that city, PC and has Just completed tht plane for 3H a six-story apartment house to be 1||? erected by the Perkins Institute for IK t he Bllpd. jlfl