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The Marlbor "DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. * INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY. OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." VOE)?ax. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, MAY 6,1904. NO. 19. TRANSPORTS SUNK. About Two Hundred Japanese Soldiers Find a Watery Grave. WAS THE ACT LEGITIMATE? The Czar Salli io Bo Indignant at thc I Possible Barbarous ConUuot Ills Admiral lu DeHtroy iliK tho Warship. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Russian torpedo boats belonging to the Vladivostok squadron sank a Ja panese military transport, the Kin shiu-Maru, of 4,000 tons, during the night of April 20, with all on board with the exception of 17 officers, 20 sbldiers, t3f> of the crew and 85 Coolie carriers. The others, who refuted to surrender, were sent to the bottom with the ship. The otlioial report of lliar Admiral Yeszen to the emperor is as follow?: "During the night of April 20 two Russian torpedo boats met at sea the Japanese military transport Kinshiu Moru of 4,000 tous, laden with rice and military stores and about 1,500 tons of eoal. The transport was armed with four Hotehklss guns of .47 millimetres. The Russians cap tured on board 17 otllcers, 20 soldiers, 85 military carriers, or coolies, and 05 of the crew, who surrendered. The remainder of the men, who were to form a landing party and who were left without otllcers obstinately re fused to surrender or go on board a a Russian cruiser. Furthermore tlrey offered armed resist euee to the Rus sians. In the end they were sent to the bottom with the transport." Admiral Yeszen reports that be sides thc sinking of tho Japanese stornier Goyo-Maru at Won San (Qeosan) April 25. the Russians sank at sea the same evening the Japanese stesfmer Nakamura-Maru. of 220 tons, whvjso crew wore saved. rihe satisfaction of the people of St. Petersburg at thc expb Its of the Vladivostok squadron i: tempered witlh admiration for tin bravery of the/ Japanese soldiers w io were on , hpjArd the sunken trausptrt Kinshiu \Maru aud who prefcrrei to drown rather than surrender. Rear Admiral Yiszan's full report says that 200 men went down with the ship. The admiralty admits t tat the men acted heroically but holds that Admi ral Yeszen had no other alternative than to sink the transpi rt, since he could not spare a prize crew or hampes his swift squad-on with a j .slower' steamer. lt is minted out that tho otllcers on board tiie Kinshiu Maru appreciated the situation by ac cepting imprisonment lather than "J " 'Ml.. , .-a In tho case bf the smaller Japanese transports sunk by thc torpedo boats at Won San, the crew were sent ashore because there was no accommodations for them on the torpedo baals. The crew of the Jr.pat ?se steamer Nakamura-Maru, as well ; s the Japa nese of the Klnsbiu-Maru who sur rendered, have beeti taken to the Rus sian cruisers. Thc admiralty here professes igno rance as to the future plans of Admi ral Yeszen, but it ls believed he is in communication with Vladivostok by /wireless telegraphy and it, is not likely (to be surprised by the Japanese squad I ron sent to prevent his return. AN AWFUL ACCIDENT. A Mule Child Killed hy u Train on thc Southern. The Lancaster Ledger says the lit tle 18 months old son of Mr. Lucius f^ell, who lives at the Foster place Jar Riverside, was run over by thc .'iipun(l freight on th?' Southern last Sauilfday afternoonand died from its injurleslan hour or so later. The. little fcllovt I ii ? slipped from the house and sfciaye i of while his mother had gone oui tend to something about the j lot. Returning to the house she n^iss lie child aud think ing it might have followed her un noticed tin -'?"i she made search of the lot for it. and had . mc to the front of the hon-.'' wltci ? .spied it, several hundred yards av iy about the rail road track, .'i i rd au approach train and ran l< . ? lier child and had it been po ?ii cru? have made tlic distance a ni unto sooner she would ha.ve rescued her precious buy. ?But before she could reach him thc train was upon h ui and Ins little life was crushed out. As soon as the cngin? er noticed the child on the track he made every et fort to stop bis t rain ;bllt being on a downgrade the momentum of the t rain carried it beyond. The little body was badly mangled, one arm being eut otl. a foot crushed lo a p. lp and thc skull fractured. Mr. hell was in town at tho t ime of tho accident and haslem d home on receiving the distressing news by phone. Mr. and Mrs. lie I have the deepest sympathy of every one in the loss of their only child under such sad and distressing circumstances. The burial took place Simd,ty at Salem burying ground. Insane Mu i Convicted. At, mullion. ltM., John W. Terrell, a weall hy man. who sever il years ago murdered his son in-law, Melvin VVol ft was sent eiiced toi m prison mont. Terrell has become insane since tile crime. The killing was sensational. Woli taunted his mother-in-law and Terrell shot, him in the log. While the leg, which bad been shattered hy the bullet, was being amputated, Terrell entered the surgon's oftice and killed Wolf. Terrell, ail bough In sane, will have to serve, in prison, as t here is not bing in I be law as to tho disposition of a prisoner vs bo becomes insane aft er c? nv iel ion. Judge Shnoiiton's Successor. The president Wednesday sent, to the senate the name ot J inigo Jeter C. Pritchard, Of tho supreme court, of the district, of Columbia, as judge of the fourth circuit, to lill tho vacancy caused by tho death of Judge Charles II. Simouton. Judge Pritchard was a Republican senator from North Caro lina until appointed on the bench of the district court. KILLING IN SALUDA COUNTY. Fight .Grew Out ol' tho Disputed Ownership ol' a Pistol. A dispatch from Batesburg to Thc State says Hen. Hurton, a merchant of Monetta, was shot and instantly killed Wednesday morning by Morgan Th rail kill, a prominent farmer of "thc same section, and Lecky Burton, a brother of the dead man, was shot and seri ously wounded by ClarenceThrailkill, a son of the other. The shooting grew out. of a dispute concerning thc ownership of a revol ver. Karly Wednesday r.orning the two Thrailkills drove up to the Hur ton store in a buggy and demanded a pistol that young Burton had in his possession. The latter refused to give it up, saying tiiat it had been left with him by Iiis brother and that he had no right to give it up without ids, Hen Burton's, consent. Old man Thrailkill raised a gun to tin: but young Harton caught it be fore he could tire. While this strug gle was going on yoong Thrailkill, a boy of 1!) years, tired upon Hurton with a revolver, indicting a serious wound in the grain. The mulo that the Thrailkills were driving became frightened and ran away; tin's, it is conjectured, preventing them from 1 killing Lecky Hurton outright. Soon afterwards lien Hurton came i up and was immediately shot down by ? Morgan Thrailkill. The only remark that Hen Hurton i uttered was "What have I done to I you?" being made after he was shot. < lt is said that the Thrailkills were I Miraged and fora limo alter the shoot ing were perfectly wild. Ben Huit?n married the elder < L'hrailkill's niece. He leaves a wife I md two children. All thc parties I ire respectable and well to do people. I The elder Thrailkill was one of the ! inest farmers in Lois section of the ' ?ountry. Ile is a mau of about 45 f ?reara of agc, while his .sou ls only IS). Young Hurton, the wounded man, f s li l and the dead man was about 33. ' The two Thrailkills have gone, to 1 ?"aluda and surrendered. Solicitor * Thurmond ison thc scene to look af- ' "er the interest of the State. The county line between Aiken and 1 Saluda counties runs through Monetta. between the stores of the ? Hurton and bf Stevens & (Jato, where 1 Lecky Hurton was aller he was sh?t, 1 ind it is said that Lecky Hutton was 1 shot In Saluda county, while Hen was iil??d in Aiken. . CLIMATE AND CROP REPORT. ? Four Frosts nu tl Ice Twice hot ards and Injures Crops ol All Kinds. ' Following is Sect ion hi rector Hailer's Meekly crop and climate bulletin is- 1 ?ned last week : The weel? ending R a. m., April 25, ?ad a mean temperature of f>7 de crees, which is nearly 1) degrees be- j OW normal, doc to extremely low | em pera t ure.- at the hc-j inning of the , iveek with gradually increasing , .vaunt h to about .normal at its close. , Krosti occurred on the loth, "J 1st . i?2d ? md 2 3d, generally light, hut hcavj to v {Illing in the northern sections, where i regltatioh was no sulllcientiy ad- * .'anrod to suiter un.cb injury. The ( rost ol' the 22d was quite general and mered the State nearly to the coast. " Ice was observed on t he tilth and 20fh, j md on I he latter date the ground was , ro/.en in York county. This temper itu rc was unfavorable for germinal ion md growth, but, did little damage ( it lier wise. j There was very lighl precipitation ( ll nearly all parts, but beneficial v inion nts in only a lew. The prccipi- < ation on the 20th was in the form of aili, sleet and snow in the western . nullit ies. The ground is very dry, L md has insuilicicnt moisture for tb?' , termination <>f recently planted seeds, < md for the growl h of grain crops, and 1 ' r plowing io many places. Planting o pe rat ions made rapid pro gress, and are nearing c mplction in k tie eastern and central portions, but j, he pr?par?t ion nf lands is rendered / argcly impracticable ny t he drought, ?xcept on light, sandy soils. Some . lottom lands are ticing prepared for j joni. The season is about lo das s ( ate in the western counties. Corn planting is progressing slowly j ii the west, although uplands are ( learly linlshed. In the eastern part?, L ill but, bottom lands have been plant sd, and considerable replanting has , jenn done. Stands are from fair to rood, but tire being broken by birds md worms. The cool weather is in imical to the growth of corn, and bas .aused some to turn yellow. Cultiva tion is active in many places. Cotton planting is nearly finished Iii Hie eastern parts, ard about, half fin ished in the western oms. Germina tion is slow ami poor, and only a small part of thc crop is up tb poor stands, Some that was up was killed by frost, and is being replanted. Seed for re planting is scarce. 'n the western parts only a small port KUI is up. Sea island cotton is hot doing well, owing to the prevailing low temp?rature. Tobacco transplanting is well ad vanced towards c>mplction in Marl boro and Marion count ies. and made good progress in other sections, with the. plants- tine and plentiful Most of tho Carly rice crop has been planted. Much is up lo good si ands, but the cool weather has stopped its growth and made if turo yellow. Wheat continues to improve slowly, except in sandy lands where it is not stooling well. The condition Of oats is variable, lint they are wry promis ing on moist lands itnd generally poor I on sandy lands, where rain is needed. Holli grains need rain. Melon seeds are germinating poorly and some arel rotting in the ground. Peaches ap pear to be safe on high grounds, but arc badly damaged by frost in low places. Othei fruits are more prom ising. The weather was too dry and cool for truck, although shipments continue heavy. Gardens are gener ally poor. epidemic ot' Measles. An Olllcial of thc New York health departmchl reports an alarming spread of measles, many cases proving fatal being followed hy pneumonia. The weekly report shows for Greater New York 1,030 cases of measles with '17 deaths arr. flue directly thereto and 135 deaths of pneumonia. A SPICY DEBATE. Dalzell and Cockran Lock in the House of Representatives. THE IRISHMAN TURNS TABLES. -y. l'oints Out Charges Against Ulm Were Confession of Corrupt Methods on tho Part of Republicans. The heavyweights had another bout in the bouse on Tuesday of last week with Messrs. Dalzell and Cockran as combatants. The speeches were a renewal of last Saturday's debate but wera more personal in their charac ters. As ou Saturday thc speakers were greeted with vociferous applause hy their respective colleagues aud the bitterness of party feeling ran high. Mr. Dalzell repeated his charge that Mr. Cockran had received money for his support of McKinley. The charge ....... ?..,) l.. Aa ni a* Kw Mr C*ru?\r ?tu... muj^UUtlUlj V11.I1IV.VJ U j .IXL. VJ VJ V/IX ran. The climax came when Mr. Cock ran offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a select committee !>f live members of the house to in vestigate the charge which had been made against him by Mr. Dalzell. He md other Democrats, including Mr. Williams, the minority leader, de manded immediate consideration, but the speaker declined to pass on a point jf order against thc resolution until ie had examined precedents. To support Iiis charges Mr. Dalzell <aid he would mcution some facts and circumstances connected with the his xiry of Mr. Cockran. Ile then read rom a number of documents to show .hat Mr. Cockran started as a green acker, and in 1896 stood with Hie McKinley side because he was for lound money. "For sound money in IS'.:;;," he taid, amid Republican applause, "trav dlug allover tho continent; in 1000 n support of bryan, greenbacker iouud money man, iree siller man. Ie has been a II ryan I to and antl-Bry m-lte. He was for bryan in 1900. is ho for Bryan now?" Booking Mr. Cockran in the face. Mr. Dalzell, speaking in derision, said hal Mr, Cockran "has been a Tam nanyitc and as such has been a room ier d' congress: he has been an anti Pammanyite and as sucli ceased to be i member of congress. Toe gentle nan from New York is a Tammany le now again and now again he is a oem ber of congress." The Republicans were roused to a ligh pitch of enthusiasm and ap plause when Mr. Dalzell said softly: Would not that make one suspicious .Bab it was moro than a matter of ?oriscieiice with a gentleman having ucli a harlequin career?" UUMOUS il? TlllS A1U. The Democratic side of the house, ic said, had gotten hysterical when ie would not on Saturday disclose the larne of his informant. Ile ,heu read he New York Journal pub ?shed by dr. Cocktail's colleague, W. B. Hearst, ii August, is.Hi, which the s catement ras made that Mr. Cockran was for ilclvinley "a position which to those vbo rea ember his career in congress, Iocs not .seem to involve such a strain m his feelings as might be supposed specially with rumors in the air of 1250,000 checks out of Hanna's educa tional fund." Mr. Dalzell closed amid wild Re niblican applause; with a most bitter lenunciation of Mr. Cockran. He re- i15 erred to that gentleman's speech be- ^ ore thc Democractiu convention j vlii-j'i sent him to congress in whick : w W r. Cockran said: '* 'We have reached a ooint where e Be country is regarded asan interna- jCl .ional hoodlum.-' Facing thc Demo-j ?ratio side and looking directly- at i; dr. Cockran, Mr. Dalzell declared: -sl 'if lhere beany hoodlums amongst is they are not the producto!' Amer! ;an Institutions or American civillza ion." ile was interrupted with loud md prolonged Republican applause. Joni inning, be said: "They are to lie found rather tmongst those adventurers who hav ng left their own country for their iountry's good, lind in the field of American politics pro? i tic source of lotoricty and pelf, men who without 1 inscience and without conviction lind ;l i,i opportunity now with one party, tow with another lind a market for c heir peculiar wares, among which is " lot respectability." lb- took I ils scat amid another storm if Republican applause. (JOCK lt AN IN KK1M.Y. Mr. Cockran had sat through the mllre speech of Mr. Dalzell unmoved ind waited for him to li nish when, dsing from bis seat lie was greeted ivith tumultuous applause by the fj Democrats. Dj Mr. Dalzell he. declared, had L .bought it proper to justify v. charge , ii infamy against a fellow member I e iy searching the various channels c t brough which anonymous c ilumina- ! < .1 ion circulates ina political campaign md with hands no cleaner than those with which it deals, hurls it over a o .dy of deliberative men." Mr. Cockran denied the charge that lie had received $15,000 from the Pal mer arid Buckner campaign commit tee. He also denied in the most post- 1 . Live maimer I bat be bad ever received L money for supporting President Mc-'t Kinley's election in 181)H, He denied L thc charge that he ever was a green- j, backer. . lt Mr. Dalzell believed the charges t lie bad brought against bim, Mr. < fj ck ran said, it showed him (Mr. Dal-1 i ?ill) in a pitiable state. Ile was in t nefamy ami did not know it. He had': .iiift:,M il to his own party's corrup-U lion. Ile hail proved, it he had proved anything, that the presidential elec tion had been purchased, lt had been charged that sixteen minion dollars nad been spent by the Republican Campaign committee in that cam paign. Mr. Cockran said he had never I( believed I. li ese charges himself. As to defending himself, he said: "1 can always protect myself from thi! gentleman from Pennsylvania by choosing my own side of Hie street. "Before 1 sit down, 1 shall ask tills house to agree with me on this, that if what Hie gentleman has said la true, 1 am unworthy of its member ship; if what he said be false, bc ls un worthy of membership." Mr. Cockran was interrupted with loud cheers from his Democratic col leagues. Ile continued: "This will take a wider range than our personal virtues. 1 shall ask for a committee to investigate this charge, and shall ask for power to send for persons and papers." THE KBPUBL1CAMS SCOKKD. Mr. Cockran then read his resolution reciting that Dalzell had charged that Cockran had been paid money to a po litical party for support of a candidate for the presidency; that if the charge was true it established such conduct is should unlit any man for member diip in the house and providing for a Bommitt??of live members appointed by the speaker with power to compel Attendance of witnesses for the in vestigation of sucli charge." Loud Democratic applause followed Mr. Jockran's reading ol the resolution. Ile then resumed and said that when t/hat resolution was adopted In all its .erins something more Important than ds conduct or the action of the mem ber from Pennsylvania would be made ;le; r. "We will see," he said, "just how ihc election in 18lJtj was conducted, ind wc will see. whether in fact the presidency was bought or purchased, >r whether it was wou In honorable political conflict or whether it repre lentcd as the gentleman from Penn sylvania would have us believe, the kill in corruption which was pos essed by the managers of thc Ile millican organization." If it he true, ie said, "that that campaign result d in such uso of money as had been lescribed, there was but one possible afRty for the republic." The gentleman from Pennsylvania, >Ir. Cockran said had asked him whom I was wc would choose fer our stan ard hearer. I said there was a man ut in Missouri whom we might ciioose o nominate as our standard bearer, ccause the main issue of this cam algn will uot bc "how wc are to col >ct revenue," hut lie said amid wild lamocratic cheers, "how we arc to eep thc thieves from stealing its pro eeds." Mr. Cockran denied having referred o the United States as "an interna lonal hoodlum." T:ie Democrats went wild as Mr. Cockran sat down and the. speaker sund difficulty in resorting order. Mr. Cockran then asked immediate ction on his resolution as a matter of ri vi lege, as did also Mr. Williams, ut Mr. Grosvenor objected, the peaker refused to rule on the point f order and the house adjourned until leven o'clock tomorrow. SAYS TEE EARTH 18 FLAT .ud Offers llewurd to Anyone AV ho Can Prove lt. lt is asserted that on the; "Niagara enir.Liuhu, I ho fruit b..??t-o?( ..Vu . f which this city is the centre, ti ve ut of six persons believe that the ai th we live on is (lat and not globu ir, says the St. Catherine (Ont. ) Dis ateh. The chief exponent of this beery is John S. McClelland, city lerk of St. Catherines, formerly edi or of a daily newspaper here. Mr. McClelland is well educated and as made an extensive study of as ronomy. After much investigation e concluded that t he earth is flat, nd rests on water instead of air: that he sun is no bigger than it looks to he naked eye, and is only a few bonsai id miles obove the earth. The earth, Mr. McClelland thinks, j stationary, while the sun ti. veis ack and forth above it. Thc sun's density is not sufficient to light the hole earth at once, and thus when i is at. one end of tho world thc other nd is in darkness and night is ac quited for. Mr. McClelland points to the fact li?t the sun and moon are botli seen lining at the saine time, as unassail ble evidence that tho earth is not all-like shape. Ile scouts tho gravi ltion theory. There ls no such liing as gravitation, he contends, nd lie further asserts that the heory is merely an invention of as ro nome rs to bolster up the superstit ion, as he calls it, that the earth isa lobe. How could there be sufficient ravi tat ion or attraction, lie asks cornfully, to hold on all the water here is in thu world with it revolving I the rate they say it docs? As for the moon, Mr. McClelland is outillent that it is no more than 5U0 niles away. Thc. theory thal, the tars are as big as thc earth is pro louuced altogether ridiculous. Thc noon's light he points out, is of a ihosphoric character, not at all like hat of t he sun. The Hat earth theory has gained '.rei ig th about here in view of the act that recently Mr. McClelland is ned a challenge to members of the. loyal Astronomical Society, living in Doronto and Hamilton, t i meet him m the public platform and public!) liscuss with liiin thc question whethj ir tile earth is rund or Mat , and not ?ne of the ast ronomers has seen lit' tx espond. Then Mr. McClelland post, (1 an oller, and it s'ands today, h .ay $100 l'or a single proof that th art li is round like a bi ll. Tried in I'oisou .Many. A mere accident, Wednesday aver il l he poisoning ofktio students ( he military school Vat Solia. Tl' :ook and one officer Of the inst il ul io, m euteriiur the kiteh'Mion theschoi, laught a young student of the Son ml versify in the ad ol' put tinga ?ackagc of eyanide/if potassium ho ,lic food bein,' prepared. Tho Si lent was arrested, and later sulcled ii his cell, lt han)been learned tat. he st udent was>- a, member of an uiarchist society Jwhicb had apptnt .d him to use wtis means of ling iway with all $00. .students lilllie nllltary school.;' SlnilRlltrf by thc Trolley. Porty deaf j a month fron tho iperatlon of fr&eet railway lim and )f railroads et r ring a cit" is aeavy ,oll upon huu'^ii life. Virtual .->00 lersons a ye lind death umr the ?vlieels in Cl ! igo. Such an ggre jato killed In-^* day would stale the vorld, even v f*e the other .'1 days ,0 bc ImmuncJ This hacrilieef life, ,-ear In and y'?'?.rout should boppall ng. but lt Kw'CS on seeminglas one if the Inevitable cons;quence,'of life 11 a great cit\ I A SAD CASE. ? _ Twp White Women Shoplifters Con vi ted in an Atlanta Court. MAKE A PATHETIC APPEAL. Aira. Kihi ltivcrs and Firs. Edith RifTKts Aro tho Names of tho f. i Two Union mint t H. Who j Hail from Charleston. The Atlanta Journal says Mrs. Edith Riggs and Mrs. Ella Rivers, of Charleston, S. C., rcc-ntly arrested for .shoplifting, after having robbed many department stores in Atlanta, under live indictments charging '.arfeeny from the house, were convict ed'.in the Fulton criminal superior court Wednesday morning. Judge L. S. Roan imposed a tine of 8500, cash on each of the women, in lieu of the payment of which they will serve a sentence twelve montos on thc county public-works. The 8500 aggregates a linc of $100 in cadi of the cases against the women, their counsel having agreed to abide by tho anding and sentence in one case. The charges against the women were felonies, but on the recomendatiou of,the jury in the one case all were treated as raisie meanors by Judge Roan, whose heart j was touched by thc pathetic scene which was enacted in the court room. The lines have not been paid, hut it is understood that a movement is on foot in Atlanta among certain charitable people to raise the $1,000 hy public subscription, several good ladies having interested themselves in t hecase. Attorneys Harvey Hill and Van Astir batchelor, representing the woijen, elected to h.ave the prisoners i riel together. To save time they entered into an agreement with the solicitor that the result in one case should hold good in thc live. Alter the jury had been drawn and thejevidouee for the state introduced, theattorneys representing the women, to the surprise, of the court, thc solici tor 'and everyone else in thc room, Stated they had a couple of witnesses to introduce, lt bad been thought that'no testimony for tie defense wcu? be offered, the counsel depend ing mtirely upon the statements of theirclients. tl N KO KT U N AT 12 CU I LD lt EN. Tra nineteen-year-old daughter cf Mrs. 'Riggs, wlio arrived, with her broiler, from Charleston Tuesday uighl, was called The girl is an idiot and if paralytic. She was assited to the "stand, hut her feeble mind was H'.-.iable of grasping. The sight was e most pitiable ever seen in j?.. u... J room.' J. oe gtirl p.i?.I lio attention whatever to the queries of the attorneys, she disregarded the re makes }f the judge and made no sign i t of recot- nizlng lier mother, who sat v.'oiping. She could give DO informa tica or testimony regarding her maher. 'hie I rother was next called. He is lixtC'ili years of age, and, like his sist-r, is also an idiot. Hut the boy cjild talk. Occasionally a ray of indulgence would break thc raono toiy of his gasping. When Harvey Hil asked the lad wily he had came ti L thin ta, the hoy mumbled feebly, "t'see mania.-' Not once-, however di ethe witness display any sign of rc c igiizhjg lits mother, who was Still J f wt -.ping. s Irs. Riga's was placed on the stand i h to oake her statement. Sue said: t A Mot IIKU'S A pr KAL. 'Gentlemen of the jur> : I am heb to aimer the charge of a dis grceful act. 1 feel mortally ashamed. 1 h pe to be able under ibis terrible j w oroal to give you a true .ketch ol' my jc s it.life. I want to appeal to your ?'? teller hearts fur whatever considera-1 0 Dot you think 1 d ese rv \ Winn 10 v yea's of age, 1 married the father ol tb two unfortunate children you fl hap seen, lie drank very hard, nog iced his home and family. After j'1 a Jw years he was taken lo the insane I aslum. 1 was penniless and almost!01 friodlcss. 'lo tell ail of my sillier- e< ins would take all day. The sad j11 slat you have seen hist tells the ^s stry. Whatever mistakes 1 havel'' mile in the past was done fort?n- sal- ui Villon of my poor, crippled children. * Fr lu long years 1 have struggled 0 h. them. There is no home in South j Coolina for unfortunates so alllicted. 0 1 tnt them north, but tiley were rc fted because 1 liad nu funds willi " will which to keep them. Tiley can ' n/ther walk nor talk. No one can jvv u.derstand their wants but me, 'livy need my care. 1 have never hen away from them before. In con- S! sleration of these helpless children I d aid what my freedom is worth to Cern, I humbly beg for mercy. 1 ara t cir only support and nothing hut!" ai overpowering desire to relieve their J* wints would have persuaded me to do voat I have done. 1 read of the pickage with which 1 did un work in a New York paper, lt was my li rsl. ai tc m pt. lt will he my last. Remcm l?r that mercy is ail 1 ask. My life las been a living death Bravo men lave fallen. 1 am only a weak and overburdened woman. If you feel that 1 deserve no pity, theil, for leaven's sake, look at the helpless hildren. They cannot spaak, hut heir bumble presence isa eying plea br their mother's freedom." The jury was out only a few ra in fles before returning a verdict,.lind lig the women gullly and recom mending them to the mercy ol' the ?curt. Judge Roan lined them $ 100lu each ase. ll 'rim Cuba Way. In Cuba, two hours bet?re a paper s distributed, a copy must bc sent, ni th the editor's name, to the govern aentand one to the censor. When the ?aper is returned with the censor's en lorsemeut de paper may go tj the molle. Filly Burned. The cave-in of a coal mine at Too na, Seville, Thursday bulled many liners. Fifty bodies have been ro overed. The of the miners were Ten ured, but all of them are bad.'y in ured. FUTURE FOE SWEET POTATO. Department of Agriculture Making lC.xpcrlmcnts in Georgia. The Washington correspondent of The State says the day will, I be lieve, come when the Bweet potato will furnish the starch of the world The possibilities of the potato are far heyond anything at present realized. This is the opinion of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of the bureau of chemistry of the agricultural depart ment, whose attention has recently heeu directed toward the development of tile possibilities he indicates, ami and who is preparing the way for interesting experiments in that di rection. Thc opinion I have quoted was given lu I he course of a conversation with Representative Brantly of Geor gia, who had called to his attention the advisability of the department o'.' agriculture following up Its experi ments upon the sugar cane of Georgia and South Carolina, Florida and Ala bama, with a somewhat similar study of the sweet potato. lt was largely through the influence of Representative Brantley that the experiments now being conducted to develop the cane syrup Industry of those southern States were begun. The successful results obtained at the government's experiment station near Waycross suggested the possibilities in a somewhat similar direction of the study by the government's experts of the sweet potato, and he has had sev eral conferences with Dr. Wiley on the subject. The experiment station at Waycross is perhaps thc. most com plete of its kind in the world, and could bo utilized for such Investiga tion as the experts may be able to jon duct. Mr. Brantley has made something if a study of the uses to which the jrdinary potato which grows so abun iautly and so k'ouuruliy throughout .he Southern States could be put, and s convinced that there arc great pos sibilities in the manufactura of glucose, it&rch and alcohol from it. In bis In vestigation, the facilities i f thc Way :ross syrup station naturally suggest :d themselves, and when he broached ,he subject to Dr. Wiley he promptly igreed that the Influence of the de triment of agriculture should be ex ited toward securing thc necessary ippropriations for the utilization of ihat plant in the expert s,tidy of po ,at.o possibilities. i n another year the department ex leets to complete its work with the ? ugar cane, or at least carry lt to i iraelical completion. Dr. Wiley has igreed to recommend that in the next , igricultural appropriation bill there i >e added to the sum appropriated to ? he department for experiment pur >os:ssuch amount as may be regard- ] d necessary to take up the potato ex- ] ?a'moots a.ud carry them on as th..se ( ipen sugar cane have been conducted, , nd he considers the Waycross plant be ideal place for such experiments, le is himself quite enthusiastic over | li? possibilities of making the potato , r< ) another great money-crop for ? hi Soutl ern Slates, and will do vi ytbing in his power to make it : hilt. i A MASKED HIGHWAYMAN. troves to bo a Well-Known Young Society Mun. 1 I At San j ose, Cob, on Wednesday i /ben the mask was torn from the i ace of a daring bheif who had been ( hot death In a wild flight to escape | iis pursuers wore surprised to lind t hey had killed their friend, Hert t ""burndy kc, one of the most promi- 1 em young men of that city. c While a hair dozen Of the wealthy lembers of the Del monte Social Club ; ?ere lounging in the parlor ot the i luhhouse they were startled by the I ppearanc of a tall man wearing a lack mask and carrying a large re- i olver in c ich hand. 1 "I wau? your money and jewels, i lld the "hold up'.' artist quietly, t and you will lind theeasie.it is the i esl way." > Following the direction ot* the mask- ?. I man, the trembling guests unload 1 their money and jewelry on a table, t nd the thief leisurely examined t atones and rings before pulling them t ito bis pocket. Ile lined Hie guests i gainst the wall, told ihcm he would t ill them if they stirred, backed out ll I" the room and disappeared. A posse ot armed men was speedily \ 1 rganlzed, and alter following the i rial of the thief for an hour he was j iscovcrcd and driven to a corner. | l/hlle he stood at bay thirty shots ere exchanged and the thief dropped ead, with a bullet, in bis hean, "lt's llert Tborndyke; po.>r Hert," lid Hie men who had sent him to lii.^ oath. Tborndyke, with his wife and young aughter, lived with Mrs. G. M. nice, bis mother-in-law, a wealthy (dow, and the exposurer was a terri le blow to his family. An ICngiiio i?.vplo?ed. Wednesday morning engine ><'o. 20 ol the Ballimore and Ohio, east ound, while passing Tenth street in Iraddock, l'a., exploded, fatally la iring three men and seriously Injur lg titree others. Five buildings were recked and partially demolished, and wo of them were set on tire, rcqulr ig the attention of the tire depart lent. The train was proceeding at a lir speed when the explosion occur ed. This was followed by a cloud Of Leam, cinders and llames which con inned to be propelled Into the air nu il Hie engine reached Eleventh slreet dock away from the explosion. U re it left the tracks, striking the ide of the l'olish Lutheran church, bile the cylinder head blew in the ppositc direction, striking the wall r an ice house, breaking it down, 'he debris was widely spread, but tost of thc damage was done to I ropcrty in the block which the en lue traversed. What Strikes Cost. In the last twenty years, according j the ligures of the labor bureau at Washington, there have been more lian 22.000 strikes, involving a loss to mployeesand employers of over $100, 00,000. The loss to the workmen acmselves has been more than twice li?t of their employers. ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH. It Can Only Be Done Honestly by Giv ing Value Received. One uf the cardinal, traits of a gen uine moral character ls honesty. It is a bond of social and commercial confidence. It is the basis of real prosperity. . We feel like not only en dorsing the sentiment that an "hon est man is the noblest work of God," but also adding that an honest man is the bedrock and bulwark of society and the state. A dishonest man ls a carbuncle up on the neck, a felon upon the linger of thc social body,. Ile causes a sight of irritation, trouble and inconveni ence;die works confusion and loss; and not infrequently communicates poison to thc eutirc social system. There is much complaint of a lack of strict bonesty in the land today, and there are many evidences to sus tain the complaint. We can scarcely pick up a paper without reading of thefts and defalcations, and the ope rations of fraudule.it aud swindling schemes, and the extortions of cor porate greed. Coincident with the carnival of dis honesty is tbe prevalence of the gam bling mania, and may it not be that tlie.se two things are somewhat related as effect and cause? The speculative spirit is wide spread. It permeates an 1 infests all classes of society from the lowest to the highest. In the lowest it linds expression in crap shooting and in the devices of gambling dens. A little higher up, as men grade society, it tinds expression In laying a wager on the ball gam|, and the cock fight and the horde race, A moog the respecta ble it hods expression around thc card table of fashionable parlors and draw ing rooms, and reaches the climax of expression in what is commonly known as "deallog in futures." There are many men who would not bet on a horse race or stake money on a game of cards, but they will put up money as margins on colton con tracts and grain futures. Doubtless Lhere is a lawful dealing in futures. As things are, it is possi ble that in no other way could large dealers in tilts'? products protect themselves against serious losses in certain cases in the course of bona tide transactions. Hut for the mass of mer. who en gage in this kind of dealing, it is uothing but gambling. They arc protecting uo legitimate interests, they arc simply and solely indulging the gambling spirit. Their dealings imount to nothing-but a wager laid jpon the future price of a product. Lt means that one man's gain is an jther man's loss, and it leads to risks that are not legitimate aud ''afc. % Dut without arguing the question, let us consider the result. The safest rule by which tu judge of the moral mareeter of anything 1J thc old >ne given by the Master Teacher, 'Dy their fruits ye shall know them." What are the fruits of dealing upon Uie exchange? lt saps the essentials )? sterling manhood, honor, patient industry and economy. If 1 can make $500 by venturing 3 IUD upon margins, why hesitate to risk on the "enture the $100 in my Kinds as a trust. 1 can soon pay lt back, and have a nice surplus for my self. Jf I can make S.">0() on the exchange ii a day or a week, or even In a month, why need 1 be plodding along 'or $."10 or $01) a month? And wliy worry myself with stinting and eeon imizing at every turn and living plainly and frugally? And thus the issentlals of noble, vigorous manhood :ollapse under the touch of the ma ign? transactions with their golden tn tici pattons. These dealings have unfitted many i mun fer any employment requiring .oncent rated and persistent toil; they tave made thieves of young men in ?tores and banks; they have made dc aulters and embezzlers of those who lave bad trust funds in their kcep ng: they have brought man) a family .o poverty, and many a good name to .hame and disgrace, and many a life vlth bright prospects to a suicide's jrave and to a dark eternity. These transactions kindle a desire o get rich in haste, and he who oakes haste to be rich will rarely, if .vcr, be honest. It will ever be true j I hat "Tiley that will bc rich fall Into .emptation and a snare and into many r' oolisli and hurtful lusts." The ls gambling spirit so prevalent today in h ow and high circles, in the den and L n the pit, is a giant foe to honesty. | lt is subversive of that ancient com- J mind spoken from heaven, "Thou Iw ?halt not steal." n If you would be an honest man, <eep out of tbe Niagara rapids of L] speculation. There are deadly falls just ahead. You may never get rich, ! ^ mit there is something better than | j riches. This is not ii popular doc-l'j brine at this hour, but that it is be- ? ?ausc tlie popular vision is disordered ( md distorted. Dut believe me, there . o s something more valuable than |? money and that is unsullied man- ? i iood. I do not condemn money getting. )u the contrary, I praise it. Make Ul the money you can and save all .he money you can, so you use it for ?od and humanity. There is nb vir ile in poverty. On Hie other hand /here is a fearful sacrifice of power ind usefulness. Dut yourself down to ic: make noney, but see to it that you need a dean conscience and Clean hands. Tun Firemen Killed. t At New Wuk two fireman were o tilled abd,-one mortally wounded by a he collapse of a wall at a lire in John ' a Stanley's soap factory on West ? (Thirtieth street We tuesday morning, rho men in the ruins are .lohn Crean p md Tlibs. Madigan. Two companies >f firemen on the adjoining roof had a f ?arrow escape from death from an-Ja ither falling wall. Men by working ri inalh got lo the buried men. The oss is $120,000._ Took I'oinon. George Lee Warren and Frank Warren were sentenced at Yorkville )n Tuesday to ten and live years" re spectively for shooting into a train ast January and wounding Conductor Koss. George died thc first night ho was on tho chaingang and Frank jame unary dying. It ls suspected Lhoy took poison. Y EXCITING RUNAWAY Of a Pullman Coach Over Two Milet loto Car of Whiskey. WOBK'OF AN UNKNOWN NEURO. Men, Women, HoyN and Girls, Whit? and Black, Scramble to Catob the Spilling Corn Whiskey. The Columbia State says the people of the mill distirct of that city wit nessed an exciting runaway "Wednes day afternoon. A Pullman couch, whose brakes had been released by au unknown negro on mischief bent, as tlie car stood on an incline at tho Seaboard's Gervias street yard, dash ed at a high rate of speed over the long trestle south of the city. lu the coach at the time were a Penn sylvania railroad porter, P. C. Mur ray, who says be lives In Jersey City, . and his helper, Joe Roberston, a small negro boy who says he lives with ids mother, Frauces Robertson, at 913 Pendleton street. Both were asleep at the time the coach started out, but were aroused before the coach reached the Seaboard's main line trestle, which starts at the south ern end of the yards and extends til rough the mill district to the rear of the Olympia and Grauby mills, a distance of nearly two miles. Over tlds elevated track the coach sped at a rate of about 40 miles an hour. Murray tugged at the brakes, but without apparent result, his failure being due, lie thinks, to his excitement and fear. Ab the end of the trestle behind the mills stood a Seaboard box car loaded with 30 bar rels of Wateree corn whiskey cousign ?d to Commissioner Tatum wdiich had seen temporarily switched on to the 'nam lu.c by a train busy in tbs mill liding. Murry at?d the boy retreated LO the end of the co ich furthest from jlie approaching danger. The box jar was telescoped and reducid to ipi inters by the. heavy Pullman, which was hurt but little. Neither X?cupantof the coach was injured. Ike Dreher, a yard brakeman, who was on :be top of the box car as he saw the runaway coach rounding the curve award him, did not hesitate long to vonder. He had just made ids way lown the embankment wlieu the :ollision occurred. Thirty-six barrels of whiskey rolled lown the embankment unbroken. Tour were smashed and the contents treamed out of the werck and collect id in the shape of a little lake, ?uickly a collection about 50 men, romeo and boys, white and colored, rere on the scene with bottle, pans, 'lasses and buckets scrambling for lositions under the various little treams of whiskey pouring forthsjj rom the wrecked boxcar. When tho rbite boys and girls began to dip.up lie whiskey in their caps and what essels they were able to muster into ervice on short notice, a white man >dth a deep-seated look of disgust on is face found a shovel and began browing dirt into the lake. The hildren who were uning off to rink the whiskey as rapidly as'they ?ooped it up raised a protest and Dme men who were also dipping into lie mine made remark* about the ian with the shovel being smart and liicious, but he heeded not and did ot stop until ho had obliterated the ike. A wrecking train working from the i iclgo end and a freight engino from lie other cleared the track in less han an hour, and no trains were eiayed. The Pullman coach, which as due to go north with the Sea oard's tl..'?0 train, was hauled back to he yards for repairs, lt was slightly philtered and broken in at the col sion end, but it is remarkable how ittle it was damaged in view of the omplete way in which the box car ad Leen wrecked. THE WEATHER FOR MAY. Vbattho Conditions Muy Boas In dicated by i'ast Kcoortls. The following data, covering a eriod of thirty-three years, have eeo compiled from the weather bu eau iccords at Charleston. They are ?sued to show the conditions that ave prevailed during May for the hove period of years, but must not e construed as a forecast of the feather conditions for the coming louth: Moan or normal temperature, 73 eg rees; the warmest month was that t 1800, with an average of 77 de Tees; the coldest month was that, of 887, with an average of 00 degrees. L'he highest temperature was 08 de rees, on May 30, 1808; the lowest em pe ra tu re was 45 degrees, on May ?0, 18!M. The earliest date on which hst '?killing'' frost occurred in au umn, November i), 18S0; average ate on which lirsi, "killing" frost ccurrcd In autumn, November 30; verago (lite on which last "killing" rost occurred in spiing March 1; the itest date on which last "killing" rost occurred in spring, April 2, 881. Average, precipitation for the louth, 3.?s inches. Average mim er of days with .01 of an inch or lor.-, nine: the greatest monthly reclpltation was 8.iii! inches in 1883; be least monthly precipitation was .Is inch in 1881. The greatest mount of precipitation recorded in ny twenty-four consecutive hours fas 0 inches, on May 1 and 2, 1883. Average number of clear days, 12; artly cloudy days, l t; cloudy days, 5. The prevailing winds have been rom the southwest, 20 per cect. The vcrage velocity of the wind is 11.2. ?ho highest velocity of the wind was 3 miles, from the northeast, on May , l!)U3. Big Potatoes. Five hundred Greeley potatoes, diieh will weigh ono ton, will be one ? tho Colorado exhibits at tho World's 'air. Another tine collection of tub rs, four of which, placed lengthwise, over a space tho length of a yard Lick will be sent- from the Centen ial State to St. Louis.,