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? Vv ? -y *< ^ V. - ^ V" vv' CAMDEN, 8. C., THURSDAY, J UNE 6, 1907. S1.50Per Year REUNION OfCONTEDERATES Veterans of the Lost Cause Splendidly Entertained in Richmond, Virginia I _ ______ _ i OLD SOLDIERS ARE HAPPY Governor Swanson and Mayor Mc Carthy Welcome the Veterans to the State and Richmond, Both Be ing Received with Enthusiastic Ap plause? Old Soldiers Rise to Their Feet ond Greet General Lee With the Utmost Enthusiasm. Richmond, Va., Special. ? With the largest number of Confederate vet erans gathered together since the war, and the vast horse show building, in which the convention was held, beau tiful with flags and bunting and por traits of t lie leaders of the Confeder acy, the twelfth annual reunion ot the Confederate veterans began here under the most auspicious conditions. General Rolling introduced Rev. J. \\ illiam Jones, chaplain general of the grand camp, who presented Rev. Dr. J. R. Gravatt, of this city, and the lattur offered, the opening prayer. Governor Swanson of Virginia, mid the wildest enthusiasm, wel comed the veterans to the Old Do minion. Mayor McCarthy, of Richmond, welcomed the visitors to the ci?y which 45 years ago they defended against the armies of Burnsidc, Pope, McClellan, Sheridan and Grant. B. B. Morgan, of the local camp Sons of Veterans, added the welcome of those lie represents to the w?l ?omes, which already had been cx gfcpsscd. General Boiling introduced the com mander-in-chicf of the Confederate veterans, Gen. Stephen I). Lee, and J the old soldiers rose to their feet ami received him with the utmost en thus- ! iasm. General Lee assumed the gavel i of the presiding officer and delivered j his annual address. He said among other things, that the coming of a Confederate veteran i to Richmond was like the return of a ' long-absent child to its mother? that I Richmond is to the Confederacy what ' (alais was to that French Prince,! who compelled to live in England, ; said: "When I die, you will find en graved on my heart the one word 'Calais.' ? At noon the first session of the re union adjourned for the veterans to take part in the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Gen. ,T. E. B. Stuart, erected by the cavalry asso ciat ion of the Army of Northern Vir ginia. The parade incident to this cere mony started at 2 p. m. and wns a brilliant pageant. The weather was beautiful, and the display Avas wit nessed by a vast concourse, estimated t?> number 75,000 to .^>,000. The people were packed along the whole course of the parade, a dis tance of' about two miles, on the side walks, on the porches and in the windows of the buildings on both sides of the street. The whole number in line and on the sidewalks is estimated at from 12.), 000 to 150,000. There arc about 10,000 actual veterans in the city. Of sons of veterans and other aux~ iliary bodies, military and so on, there are about 20,000 and in addi tion to these, there aro about 20,000 visitors drawn hither by the reunion ceremonies. Monument Unveiled. The grand serenade at 2 p. m. at the unveiling ceremonies at the Stuart monument were all that could be desired, Jioth from a scenic view and the elegant manner of its being carried out. Veterans Stirred By Col. Lee. Richmond, Va., Special. ? In his speech, which aroused the Confeder ate veterans' convention and which proved to be the lending feature of the reunion thus far, Col. "Bob" Lee said in part: ''There never has been a more ci i t ica I period of American history than that which ushered the year 1S(?0 upon the world's stage of act ion. The trouble wns of recent or igin, it was not the spasmodic out burst of an hour, nor the stubborn and senseless resistance of a factious maintenance of groundless opinions, but wns the result of the existence of antagonizing forces operating for a long time in the country, the seeds be in* first sown by the forefathers, soirtc in the fertile valley of the James, and some fell down on the rock-bound coast of New England. Sectional differences exhibited tbem Bn?h Acquitted at Atlanta, Atlanta, Oa,, Hpeoial,? -Fred Bu?b, j charged with aaiault with intent to commit murder, was acquitted, Bueb wa* charged with lending an infer nal mncliine to the home of Mr*, Julia McCarthy, on May 8th, the opening of which aeriouely injured Mr*. McCarthy and wreceked her homo and the itore over which vh? lived, selves long before the adpotion of tne^ Federal constitution. "For the purpose of this occasion we care not how the African slave nrst placed his unhallowed feet on Southern soil. Suffice it to ?ay that although the South had at one time no inconsiderable career of maritime adventure, 'no ship or shipmaster ol ners had ever in a single case been implicated in the illicit African slave maintained slavery to be the most dangerous element in the country. * rom the beginning the statesman of the South scented danger in the great race problem with which they were being saddled and the question that was uppermost in their minds was, what shall be done with the emanci pated serf? The ?yilg of Slavery. i> ' Mnchas I deplore slavery,' said I at rick Henry, <1 sec that prudence foibids its abolition.' Ilcnry Cliv asserted that 'The evils of slaver'v aie absolutely nothing in compari son with the far greater evils which , would inevitably follow from sud ,den emancipation.' And again he says : 'If I were to invoke the ?neatest blessing on earth which heaven, in its mercy, could bestow on this nation, it would be the sep arate, of the most numerous ,aoep of,,,ls P"!*1' hit ion and their comfortable astahli.-hment in distant 'hs,.ln.ct countries. ' Mr. Mason, of \ir?inia, went farther in declai mg J he traffic is infernal. To per mit it is against every principle .;f ''"nor and safety.' Mr. Calhoun was ??l the opnion that the existing rela tions between master and servant cannot be destroyed without subjeef ?ng the two races to the greatest ;*a? lainitv and the section to povertv. ?iesolatmn and wretchedness.' "Virginia in October, 1778, and I l ivr"1' 17{,S' passed acts pro , I bituig the importation of slaves. I he former act provided for a pen -? ty of 1,0(50 pounds, and also 'everv Have imported contrary to the true 7.Pf>t 1,11,1 ,nPn,""flr ' of this act 7- . U,,mn S!l(l' importation become nee, thus, to the everlasting credit IL ii "ft npon w,lose devoted j ! ,ho v!a,s of holy wrath have ' <"? so unjustly and brutally po,;r !''? out for propagating, nowishing -nrbonng slavery, she leads the ,*.oild m an enrnest attempt to i,ic | vent the very thing of which she is accused. Li,/, 7*?^ xT" tI,e *T,,ion l'e saved? Iluii .leird Mr. Calhoun from the floor ot the , Senate 11 years before the be ginning of hostilities. 'There if !,?t "?>e way by which it can be, with Z', r hi a'Ul lhat is hy n ful1 nn,? V""'. 'anient on the principles of pistice, of nil the questions at i?sue between the two sections. Tho South asks for justice, simple justice, and l<SH s,,,> ought not to take. She Ins ?:?; eompn.nuse to offer but the Con stitution. ' "When the red curtain of war ?oiled upon the American Mage it if'veah'd the South in arms rea.lv ?'??? willing to defend all that makes life worth living, the Frre ,'m of country, the honor of th- neo pie, the sanctity of home." To Meet Next at Birmingham. The (J rand Camp, United Confedcr ate v et era ns re-elect edd its general officers as followins: Commander-in-chief Genera) Slenh II. L(?0. Lieutenant General, Department vi?'V.lkerr'' ' VirSini"' <iC"' ''"I Lieutenant General Department ot ( nnessec, (Jeneral Clement A. Kv. ans. Lieutenant (Jeneral. Trans-Missis-' bell'1 ',nr,mrn,? W. L. Ca , AH the officers were chosen bv ae elnmation. Birmingham was chosen as ?j,e J* v for !he "??*?. t lie eighteen, an "nal reunion of the veterans, other '?Hies eon, pet, ng were San Antonio and Nashville. The vote at first ; <" 800 in favor of ? he Alabama town. The report of the committer evolutions was adopted without do. bate It recommends that the speceh \v ^ S\ ])- NMialor .Mm , )n "r1 <"?l. H. K. Lee, Jr.. be P ..ted ... pamphlet form for distn but ion and endorses the objects nn.l ???- of the Arlington Connie," e cT;^! ,n Ar,inKl?n <>? the eorreet representation of (""federate baffle (|Hir the reKo I? ? T 7:tVm,t,rp submitted as a sub. M.1'1 te "that f he action of this as ? ein i on a? its convention held in Nashliville, ronn., in 1004, be cn 'noryed and reaffirmed Negro Ttnaat Killed by rarmer, Americua, Ga,, 8peci?l*?Cbar!ei Grant, a prominent farmer of Stunter county, in an altercation with a no> gro tenrmt, shot and initantly killed the latter after being struck with a brick. The tenant abuaed Grant be came of being reprimanded for not ' | properly working bii crop, j RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS raids on Japanese restaurants iri Sari $.000,000 in Valuation at Mteiiiirf Last Week. Columbia, Special. ? The State board of railroad assessors decided at a meeting to place the valuation of all railroad property in South Car olina on a basis of 100 per ceilt. or at its true tnerket value. This means that the valuation u|m>ii which till assessments upon railroad property are made by county and State will be -over $02,000,000 as against $32, 000,000 last year. The board consisting of Compt rol ler General Jones, chairman cx otlico: Secretary of State McCowan, State Treasurer Jennings and Attwucy General Lyon, were in session two days and went over all of the iv I turns arid figures for previous years. Attorney General Lyon moved that the iaw, as expressed on the statute books, be carried out. This law calls for all assessments at a true valua tion of property. The motion was unanimously adopted and the board proceeded to consider the value of all railroad property in this State. The results are as follows: Comparative Figures. Aleolu railroads, valuation Just year .$1,500 per mile; this year >2, 500 per mile. Total valuation $02, 500. Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line, value last year, per mile, $10,800; this year $50,000 per mile. Total va 1 ua t ion $(5,240,500. Atlantic Coast Line system, value per mile last year $11,005; this yeai 25,000. Total value in South Caro lina, $10,747,750. Benncttsville and Cheraw, valuu per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500. Total valuation $50,750. Blue Ridge railroad, value per mile last year $3,850; this year $13,000. Total in Stale $572,00(i. Brunchville and Bowman, per mile last year $1,500; this year $2,830; total $30,800. Carolina and Northwestern, last year, $5,000 per mile; this year $15. 000; total $444,000. Carolina and Western, value per mile last year $1,800; this vear $3, 000; total $21,000. Charleston and Western Carolina, value jK>r mile last lear $7,070; this year $12,800; total $.388,750. Chesterfield and Lancaster, value per mile last year $2,500; this veai $0,000. Total valuation $108,000. Conway Coast and Western, value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3,500. Total valuation $10(5,000. Columbia, Newberry and Laurens, valuation per mile last year $(.5,000; this year $10,000. Total in State $825,000. Georgetown and Western, per mile last year $4,000; this year $8,500. Total valuation $3(50.000.' Glenn Springs, value per mile last year $2,000; (his year $3,500. Total valuation $35,000. Hampton and Brnnehvillc value | per miltt last year $1,200; (his year $3,000. Total for State $03,000. Lancaster and Chester, value per mile last year $3,025; (his year $5, 000; f ??! i?l in Shite $1 13.000. Nor( h western Railroad of S011H1 Carolina, value per mile last year. $3,000 ; (his \ear $.">,000; total $157. 100. Pickens railroad value per mile last year $1,500; this year $3, ">0-1, (o!al for (he Stale $31,500. Seaboard ^iv Line system, \alne per mile las! year $1 1 .505 ; fhi< year $20,000; lolal for Stale $0,N35,700. Soul hern nr'way, value per mile las| year $M,5iS;'ihis vear $22,500; total tor State $10,210,5*00. Soul hern railway, operating the Carolina division, value per mile last year $11,020; this year $25,000; to. tal for Stale $12,087,250. 1 t? i? hi and Glenn Springs, value per mile last year $1,500; (his year $3,500; lolal for State $0(5.500. Charleston Terminal company, v li ne last year per mile $11,000; ihis year *3:1.000; total $158,400. luilei.h and Chavlcslo;i, value rcr irile I a s { year $1,500; this year $3.'?J0 lel.il for Stale $.VM40. Seivern and Kuoxville, value pei mile last year $1,500; this year $2, 500; lolal' for Slate $52,320. Cnion satien, Columbia, hi*! year $0(5.000; (his year $100,000. The total assessed value of prop erty of the railroads for tins year will rm-Msnt to $03,500,000 in round lij ui'-s. a^.ii'isl +32.0 10,:', 10 for 1000. 'lie hoard in anticipation of any pr ? I e ts made by the r"iuN, hud Oxen June I!) as the day for a hearing in (lie ineanliine another meeting will held to coiwider the assessments of express companies, telephone and telegraph c -inpanies, street railway companies ami the IVIlman Car Coni I'PMV. The action of (lie board h enn.-id ciel of Ihr greatest iuiportauce lu c.iuse of the anticipated protests .?u 1 he I < f (lie i ail reads ami the heaiiuu' on June 1!) will probably be hugely a t ! r tided. A Big Mill for FayettivilU. Krtvettcvillp, fecial, ? Tlio M<'? Ni ill M ? uu t'ix c 1 1? t'i ) j vc (>vir.|?nny h?:^ been onrnnizfrl here, \V. I), McNciii. profiflejit and ('. L. Mi'CJough. vi-p president nnd C, Puudertou, k'.t vetary nud tteflMirer, to erect a in. (KM) apimllw weave mill nt a cost <-i $200,000 on Littif nvcr, ten mi'es \ve*t of the Pity. Tho pompnny Ins n water puv.cr <{ 700 'nm, 300 of which trill to uf-ra *' At Art. ROOSEVELT ORATOR 4 President Makes a Memorial Day Address TALKS OF INDIANA SOLDIERS rh? Executive Pays Warm Tribute to Oliver Morton, the War Govern or of Indiana. Indianapolis, Ind., Special. ? Presi dent Itoosevclt delivered the principal address here at the unveiling of a monument to Gen. Henry W. Law ton. He discussed railway problems and incident ly paid a warm tribute to Oliver Morton, the war Governor of Indiana. At the conclusion of the address the President and Vice President wero driven to Grove Hill Cemetery, wheer the President placed a wreath on the grave former President Hen jamin Harrison. The programme of exercises In cluded an invocation by Rev. D. R. Lewis an address by Gov. J. Frank Hanly, music by the Seventh Regi ment Hand, the reading of a |H)em dedicated to General Lawton by James Whiteomb Riley, the introduc tion of the President by Govern, u Hanly and President Roosevelt's ad dress. The President said in part: THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH. "For more than one reason I am pecularliarly glad that this year 1 speak on Memorial Day in the State of Indiana. There is no other class ot our citizens to whom we owe so much as to the veterans of the great war. To them it was given to j?er forin the one feat with which no. other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve tht I'nion. Moreover, you men who wore the blue, blessed beyond the victors in any other war of recent times, have left to your countrymen mow ? had !|e material (results of the triumph, more even than the achiev ing the triumph itself. You have left a country so genuinely reunited that all of us now. in whatever part of this Union we liva, have a right to feel the keenest pride, not only in the valor and sell-devotion of you, the gallant men who wore the blue, but also in the valor and self-devo tion of your gallant op|M>ncnt w!ui wore the gray. The hero whose mon ument we to-day unveil, by his life bore singular testimony to the com pleteness of the reunion. General Lawton in his youth fought gallantly in the civil war. Thirty-three years afterward he again marched to war. this tiiue against a foreign foe, and served with distinguished ability and success as general ollicer, both in Cuba and in the Philippines. When he thus served it was in an army whose generals included not onl\ many of his old comrades in arms, hut some of his old opponents also, as General Wheeler and General Fit/., hugh Lee. I'ndcr him, both among the commissioned officers and in 'he ranks, were many men whose fathers had worn the blue serving side by side with others whose fathers had worn the gray; but all Americans now, and nothing but Americans, all united in their IValty and devoti<>r lo their common (lag and their com mon country, and each knowing onl\ I he generous rivalry with his fellow* as to who could best serve the canst for which each was ready to lay down life ilself. To General Lawton it be fell actually Jo lay down his life; t tragedy, but one of those noble trage dies whery our pride rises above out sorrow. For he died in the fullness of time, serving his country with en lire devotion - a death that every man may well envv." At Other Pcintn. National Memorial day was genei ally observed throughout' the country In the principal cities, both North and South, the graves of the de-id were s row u with flowers, and all tin public addresses breathed of patriot ism and with kindly references t? the fallen heroes who fell upon both sides of the mcmoriahlc struggle. Prominent Rrilrocd Man Dead. Atlnntn. (Jn., Special. ? A dis f mt <*!i from F! I'aso, Tex., nnnoumct the death there ?>1" I'. J. MefJovern of Allnntn, chairman of l lie Southen: classification committee one of 1 1 k host known railroad men in the South entern territory. Death resujtcd from pulmonary trouble, for 1 lie re lief of which Mr. Mcdowern went tc Texas Hcvcrnl month* nsjo. lie wai born in Cincinnati 51 years ago. Seabo?rd Takes Initial Step Norfolk, Special. ? At the oflid of President (Jftiiett, of t ho Seaboard Air Lino Koilwoy it wii stated tlint tlio 8011 boa id has officially annoimcoc its wlUiiigne*t to comply with the ro quest of Gefl, Stephen D, Lee, com inandin# the Confederate veteran* of the South, that nil trains on Sou thern roads be stopped for five tninu tea pt 2 p. in. June 3d, the birthdaj anniversary of Jefferson Davin, anc the hour of the unveiling of the Davii monument nt Richmond providing other rotids will join in and eomplj with General Lce'i request, In "Brief Late JVetejj MINOR MATTERS OF INTEREST Secretary Metcalf demands of Governor Swanson and President Tucker that the exclusion of sailor* from pleasure resorts near the James town Exposition be ended at onre. Admiral Evans threatened to with draw the fleet. The Cabinet discussed the recent raids on Japanese restaurant in San Francisco and the protest of Ambas sador Aoki. President Roosevelt ami party left on the trip to Ohio, Indiana and Michigan. The Democrats carried the muni cipal election in Mnrtinshurg for the fourth consecutive time. A poposition was made to the Nat ional Lumber Manufacturers' Asso ciation at Jamestown by Treasurer Freeman that the association open its books to the National IJureau ot Corporations. Henry Wright and his nephew, Claude Newman, were mortally I wounded by Clell Perkins and Thomas Lyons, trespassers, near Huntingdon, W. Va. The People's National Hank was organized at St isburg, Va., with $25,000 capital. Commander-in-Chief Stephen T). Lee, of the United Confederate Vet erans, arrived in Richmond to attend the big reunion. Thousands of persons passed by the coffin of Mrs. McKinley. Dr. William .1. Lorn.", the writer on animals called on President Roose velt for a retraction. A continuation of abnormal wenlii cr conditions is predicted by the cial forecaster. Mayor MeClellau, of New York, vetoed the utilities hill which was advocated by Governor Hughes, niul admits that he did so mainly for po litical reasons. The assembly bill providing for a recount of the votes cast at the Me Clellan-Hcarst election was passed by the New York State Senate. Joseph L. Stiekney, the war cor respondent who was with Dewey on the bridge of the Olympia at the battle of Manila bay is dead. Four rich Guatemalans committed suicide when about to be arrested charged with complicity in a plot agflinst President Cabrera. An attempt will be made to settle the strike at Santiago, Cuba, by ar bitration. General Methucn has been appoint ed to command the British forces in South Africa. Complete accord has been reached by France and Japan on the propose? treaty. Father Jumes Hayes, assistant gen eral of the Jesuits, died in Koine. The trial of Judge \V. Loving I for killing Theodore Kstes will bo I held at special term of court at Hous ton, Halifax county, June 24, Judgo Rarksdale granting a change of venue from Lovingston. Edward Pendleton was elected a member of the Virginia Library Hoard to succeed Charles V. Mere dith. This is said to foreshadow the early removal from otlice of Libra rian Kennedy. The Virginia Supreme Court re fused to grant a new trial to the ne gro John Hardy who murdered a Ro anoke policeman, and his death sen tence stands. The rumor that the brother of Me Kiulcy's assasin was in Canton, Ohio, caused a strict guard to be kept over the President at the funeral of Mk McKinley. i , Quick trial at Marlinton, W. Va., j is promised for the men accused of j assaulting Miss Ona Rird, a 16-year old girl, who was torn from her sweet j heart, with whom she was attempting to elope. Father Kaspcr Vartarian's mur i derers are believed to he in hiding ; in New York. I Judge Jiulson made a pica for ! I tariff revision "by the friends of the ' people." Kx-Seeretary of the Navy Herbert j j praises the New Jersey veterans who | erected a battle mouincnt not only to J ! their own regiment, but to the Ala- | I ltauiai'.s who fought them. i Queen Maud of Norway and Mine. | Fallieres /narrowly escaped being i drugged into a lake at Versailles by ] fractious horses. The Protestant Kpiscopal Couneil ! of the Piocese of Southern Virginia j met at Staunton. At K. II. Harriman's request his ! secretary 1\ W. Hill, who hade pub j lie a letter involving President Roosp 1 velt in n campaign scandal, was le I lueasd \:nder a suspension of sentence The Birmingham. (he navy's first scout crusier, was tuccessfully laun ched. An effort will be made to have Howie's Zion City estate sold flod the city's affairs reorgani 7.0 d. The steamship Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, after K|ienditi|t a night stuck in the mud backed off apparently un damaged. Chinese rebels compelled a gener al's family to drown themselves iu a well. A general strike order issued to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad'* machinists resulted in less than half of them p?i?g out. What might have been a lynching on Long Island was prevented by u policeman with a gun after an attack on n little girl. The text of the treaty of Amapala shows that all the Central American States have agreed upon the Presi dents of the United States and Mex ico as permanent arbitrators. Warlike preparations on the part Caul crania are rumored. Found Guilty on Circumstantial Evi dence. Buchanan, Ca.t Special. ? Aftei delibcratigu all night, the jury in the ease of Ben Adams, white, and Milliard Lee, colored, charged with the murder of Keese .Tones, a whitf man, February 11 last, returned 1* verdict of guiliy and recommended life imprisonment for both men. The evidence against the defendentf was entrely circunisiauti:\l. Motion? for a new trial were made lor both prisoners. Too Much to Ask. Representative .John Sharp Williams tells of an encounter on a Mississippi road one Sur.dav morning between an itinerant preacher and a darky, who bore on his shoulder a freshly killed "possum." "Have you any religious feeling, ioy I friend?"' asked tho minister. "Shore," replied tile darky, "I'so had | religious hringin' up." "Then you ought. to know that It is sinful to hunt on the Sabbath." "Mlstah preaehah," returned the darky, his eyes rolling till the whites shone, "does you expect any black { man in Mississippi rs gwine to tie himself to any r? ligiun dat allows a 'possum t > walk ripht ucross do road ahead of him an* g?t away free? No, sah! A religion dat don't bend a lit tle when a fat 'possum heads you off couldn't 5 e 'sta^ll shod raund yere by I all tho preachers In do country."? j Philadelphia Ledger. its guaranteed purity and sterling quality are the best reasons why you should buy it. Guaranteed Under the National Pure Food Law SERIAL NO. 137. THE I. 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