The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, January 13, 1905, Image 5
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RECORD BUSTERS
They Made Thjings Hum During |
the Past Year.
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HIGH WATER MARR
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It
Wai Attained in Various Feats, Epi
iQdes~"*nd Events Noted'Through
.nt the Country, Ranging from
Grave to day, from Lud
icrous to Grotesque.
The strenuous record smashers
made things hum during the year just
closed. The high water mark was
attained in various feats, episodes and
events noted throughout the country,
ranging from the grave to the ga;
and from the ludicrous to the gro
tesque.
Chicago produced the prize villain,
a man who wi s accused in court by
his wife, sister and employer with
desertion, ingratitude, thef t, ly inn
intemperance profanity aod sh ging
"Bedel?a" when the neighbors wanted
to sleep. Tb?s champion simply fail
ed to live up to bis opportunities or
be might have posed as the, much
wanted Pat Crowe and the man who
struck Bdly Patterson.
A Pennsylvmia firmer won a medal
from bis neighbors by having his wife
arrested for cruelty because sile in
sisted on working a phonograph over
time on the tormenting air "Hiawa
tha," in spite of all protests.
In St. Louis a thirsty man drank
nine quarts ol' whiskey in 24 bonis,
and died. Evin the Prohibitionists
must now admit that ju n hos some
value.
The classic town of Evanstown, the
Beat of Northwestern university, de
veloped thc biggest pm eater uf thc
year. Five thick, juicy pies a la
mode-smothered iu ice cream-de
voured at a single sitting v as the new
record set by Ed O'Laughlin in a con
test with Lawi?hce E'.?g.M;*ti, who lost
by half a pie.
But in the drinking line Harry E.
Vale of Eaglowcod, a Chicago suburb,
seems to have taken the I un.
"He diank up our bakery," laid
Mrs. Vale, in ber suit for divorce.
"It was a pretty big drink, but Iv.*
swallowed it in short order."
Checks to siloou keeper? arg'egat
lng several thousand rh.liars bhOAOtl
what that big drink had cost
An ambitious Missourian wrote
40,088 words on a postal card, a leal
in chirography ahm st ;JS dhllcuhi to
achieve as would be a sane explana
tion as to why he did lt.
During a tire In a Nev; York hoti I
a woman dressed herself in less I an
15 minutes. This ricard Is likely to
stand for at least a e. nilli v.
NEW CHAM CHIN-.
Percy T. Bennett fa *j man lin t.
New Jersey judges caVr-cfle cl au | o i
long distance pianist ol the wi ri i
without waiting to lu ar fioin oil th ?
young ladles who are enc Icing "Tin
Maiden's ! rayer." In a Mowat k
theatre he battered out "Farewell,
My Lady Love," and etc : foi 24 ours
at a stretch, when compassionate
friends Interfered and dragged him
borne bodily though he tl. res tani d
another explosion.
Ono buudrad and ten tiroes In seven
years was the moving r. cord of the
Whelan family of New York, ai.d a
moving tale it furnished in a Harlem
court when Mrs Whelan tcstiiietl
against her husband for non-support
and drew weird word picture; of his
nomadic habits.
Mr. Whelan looked as if still alioth,
er move would have cheered bim up
sorxewbat whin she told tho judge
the only way she could v,ret nu nev
from her roving spouse was to take it
cut of bis trousers pockets while he
was asleep.
SOME i LD fi: 1'I.K.
Moses A. Cleveland, said to he a
cousin of the ex President set a i cv
pace for octogenarians. At Worces
ter, Mais., l:e and ai.o', her v? ti ran Ol
the Civil war, euch teing 80, tana
half mile fo it race. Cleveland w ni
the dash by l?verai jaros, and a hox
! of cigars imo the bargain, win re
non ?>n cha 1er ged any m.-.n of Ids
with no .takers, at
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Tho other was a photograph of the 1
Chicago Board of Trade, showing t
the bulls and bears enamoring in the t
pit at fever beat. Twelve pounds of c
flashlight powder being rilslr buted at c
350 different points around tbe bal
cony and ign Hedy simultaneously by c
electricity. i
BIO FAMILIES. t
Two record smnshlng families bound ]
for Chicago landed from a steamer at ?
Baltimore in April. The head of one
family was J < soph Ziwinski, aged 78,
whose sons, daughters and grandohil- .
dren number 30. Tho head of the other !
was Carl Zenko, thc father of a brood j
numbering 17. The Two Million club,
for promoting population, emght to .
hand out a few medals to Joe and .
Carl.
An extraordinary instance of punot- .
ualtty in maternity was given by
Mme. Byrres, giving birth to a boy,
fourth tu ai rive cn the same date at
exact intervals of one year. Men of
sch nee regard this as a remarkable re- <
cord, and great curiosity ls felt os to
whether the woman will again bring
ell the feat in January, 1905.
All hands agree to place the terpsi
chorean pennant over the domicile of !
Mrs. John Polinski, a Jersey City
bride, who danced seveotv-seven times ]
u& ber wedding reception and then
foil In a swoou. She had kept her feet
twinkling from 4 p. m. until long
after midnight, and lt to >k a quick ?
and e'ever doctor to pull her back to
c msolousness.
QUICK MARRIAGE, DEATH, DIVORCE, ,
At South Bend, Ind., Miss Mary
Marcie- Tutt, a saleswoman, murrle i
George P. Morehead, a well to do mer
chant, in baste, but subsequent events
came so swift that she never thought I
of repentance. A few minutes after
the ceremony Mr. Morehead willed his
bride 850,000; two hours later he was
deiid. !
At 4:15 o'clock one afternoon R. C.
Dobbins of Chicago w as closing up a '
*15 OOO business deal for a big depart
ment store; at 4:17 was slipped out to 1
a justice shop and at 4:18 was married
0 Miss Bisele; at 4:20 o'clock he was
Kick in the treadmill, engaged lu an- '
other big t a isiction. 1
"N i time f >r sentiment in this i
jrcat age of civilization and progress," ;
he said.
But it remained for David Metcal', !
a Chicago printer, to experience all
the degrees of matrimonial entangle
ment in a shorter time toan auy other
man in history.
He was tir^t marrie* in April, 1S82.
Fie separated froi.i bis wife, and la-.t
September, when, entering the sere
and wrinkled period court .sd arid won
M 'ss Lucy Rounds, nged 20, applied
fo- di vi ree and supp s jd lt was v;rai.
ed; married Miss Rounds, who barned
he had hot been legally divorced, and
had him arrested Hr bigamy; held to
the grand jory: ul vor ce given to the
tirst wife on a cross bill: blgam st rc.
: li ase ! on a wiri of habeas c >rpus; five
minutes later if marrie d to Miss
Rounds in the presence ol tirst wife,
slow mihi" ?.nd curtain tm thc love
alTalrs of Dave, all these later events
having occurred wi tb lu a few wo ks
I) sorted fourteen limes In 2;i yi ar-,
w ;s a record thrr. didn't Milt Emma
Larson of Chicago, and with the
erouri.'s aid she lei Carl go i r keep?.
'"iv seems almost incredible," said
Judge Brentano of tins c.ty, when
Mrs. t'oen/.o told her tr>ie of woe; and
asked f?.r a divorce, "thai this slip of
a girl si ouid have had such a mai ital
1 xpuriei ce."
"1 was married at 14," s'oe said,
I 'ann now I'm aln.ost IG. My hush:.nd,
Siverla, beat nie mot tiing, noon and
nigh!., and l don't, want to go back to
Ulm any more."
S u; didn't have to.
Tho speed record for divorce wau
awarded to Mrs. M iry M. Roach, who
.vos si t, rree 'ro n Frederick L Roach,
son "f thc president of the Chicago
Union Traction company, in proceed
ings lasting lio minutes.
L?o Pelt/.. also a Chicagoan,
achieved the high water mark In male
lng t hreat s.
' On 930 different occasions since
our bridal trip In 1S80," the wife de
clared, "Leo has menaced me ana
warned me that I would soon see my
linish."
The judge assented when she added:
"This is where 1 get ( tl."
After 25 unsuccessful attrmpts
'.lieil I?ivis of Cadillace, Mich., com
milted suicide at Milwaukee by tak
lng poison. She had tried almost
every known melt od, Including bridge
jumping, and was a filleted with a
suicidal mania. The tiual blow fell
when she was rop ovtd for complain
! ing about the color of the curtains In
her room;
TUE UIOOKST LODSTBn.
The biggest lo jster ever seen in
Chicago arrived from the Atlantic
coast In November. It weighed 18
pounds and 8 oui ces, was over eight
t long a;.d han claws 15 inches lu
length. Tie dealers estimated Its
ige at 100 years; As it died on the
iv. a line lot of salad was missing,
[poster, a ribbon bedecked Iowa
wi Ighlng 11,060 pounds, broke
ords f >r hi ft at the live stock
Chicago.
36 cents a pound "on the
? Hie unprecendented price
'??-Show for rdie champion
ty ot MTnfte?toSSd b>'
. bit hunt of tn? >?,".
( hrego'n In Jam1' '
ir ted that 10,000
\, d, s ?me 700
'inputing I
UTTING:
of Sp'
y 82,000,000 a day at times. The lat
er mint, belog tho only one which
nakes cents and nickels, also turned
mt 925,000,000 a month In these
?nins part of the year.
Marshall Field shattered all previ
ous records In taxpaying. The Chicago
nerchant paid on an assessed proper
ly valuation of 840,000,000, which
Maced him at the head of heavy tax
layers io the United States.
LUCKY BAULKS.
The youngest baby In the world to
itart life with a bank account was
Hiram Goldstein of New York, 820
laving been placed to his credit one
mur after bis birth. Llttio Miss
Widener of Polladelpbla received the
handsomest birthday gift; at the ago
jf three sut, received ohecks for
1500,000.
A TERRIBLE STORM.
tirent Snow Drifts Piled Up in New
Yurie's Streets.
A dispatch from New York says
not in several years has New York
been visited by a storm of such pro
portions as that which commenced
Tuesday and continued until earlj
Wednesday. Nine Inches of snow f ll.
paralyzing trafile, and the market
drop in the temuerature brought un
told suffering to the city's poor. Th.
bllzzird caused seven d atna In New
York and vicinity, while many per
ions overcome by the cold, dropped
to the street, some of them receivln,:
fractured bones.
The storm began with an icy sire ,
which strack to cir raUs and caused a
speedy abandonment of railroad and
trolley schedules. The sleet, covere I
thc sidewalks and streets with Icc and
rendered them almost impassable.
Scores of horses fell and mauv were s >
badly injured that they nad to b:
killed. A tine snow succeeded the sleet,
ind. aided by the wind, soon piled un
drltts th it shutoff many suburban
points from the city.
Five of the seven men who met
death from the results of the storm
died from exposure, another slipped
on the ijy plat'orm of an elevated
station f 1 in front nf an approaching
train and wa- ?round to pieces Th !
seventh, L. W. Idler, a conductor o i
the Pennsylvania railroad, bliuded b t
the driving snow, sti-pped in front t.f
the '"Congress'oual L'mlted" train, at
.South A tn boy, N. J., and was instant
ly Killi cl.
The demora1 izatlon of the surfac?
car Fervice played havoc with thos-2
going tn business. The elevated t.r.iu.s
ran Infrequently, throwing the bulk
f toe r.itllc from the upper districts
of the cltj tD Hie subway. Even the
underground road d d not escape the
storm. At the Times Square s'a'ion
snow drifted In, forming a drift tive
feet high and it was Impossible fer
people to use the itition until the
snow had been clearod away.
UALb.??N UbUNlY.
Currict? tljo EJlcoMon liy en Over
whelming Majority Last Work.
The p-ople in the territory involvrd
have declared bi favor of the estab*
lisbmentof Calhoun county. The elec
tion appi ars to have been overwhelm
ingly In favor of the new county and
lt is but left to tho '.enislature to rav.
Ify that action. A dispatch to Ti e
Stare Wednesday night irom its cor
respondent at McCo mick says: "R;
turns fi'om election fur establishment
of Calhoun county show an over
whelming majority, bejond the iw.i
Lhirds rii|uircci by the constitution.
Rettins shu A the following figures:
Al bey illa, ayes 240, nays 41; Edge
Held, a\es 237, nays 95; Greenwood,
ajes 50, nays ll. This muk s a total
of f>?i for the establishment of tho
new county against 147 in opposition."
There was considerably m irb than a
two-thirds majority in the territory
in each of the counties affected. Thc
State's correspondents at Edgefield
and Abbeville corroborated these
figures.
The lines of Calhoun county as pro
posed this year are as follows: The
line of the proposed new county will
run from tin mouth of Stevens' creek
on the Savannah river and up tlc
Savannah river to a point opposite t! e
lower er d of Coe"ar Island, the Hue
running south so degrees east 1,4 2
Chains to a stake on Greenwood ct u t
ty line, bei ea along ti e lower line >f
Greenwood county south 12 3 I d>
gives esst 140 cha'ns lo m:le post on
C. & W. J. railroad near C. M. Sibert's
thence ron;.' straight line to the Ti 1
man White place, thence to the bou ie
nf W. T Lovelace, thence across Cuf
f ec town creek at a point neor Chu.a
Grove p ac2, thence along Hie line >f
Edgetleld and Greenwood county line
to ron p n In Martintov/n road, then :e
[.own Mrrtintown road to centre poi t
of upte- bridge over Turkey cre;;{,
thence along tiie middle line of Tur
key creek to Big Stevens' cm <.
thence along the middle iine t.f B g
Stevens' creek to thc mouth of sa cl
creek, at Savannah river, the rolnt if
beginning.
Hch'ioiM-r Wreckotl.
After a night of intense suffering
rrom the old, dirging Tor dear life :o
Lim masts of their shipwrecked voss. 1.
n?i.VY .'? ->?IS breaking over her dec.s
'," everything before thc
.ts fury, Capt. F. G.
composed tl e cri .?>
ma C. Mid lit t i i,
tu Charleston,
* carried to
?*/ ii tug
' her
OUR SENATORS.
S eua tor Tillman Was a Busy Man
Daring the Session,
Som? Faots as to His Work Taken
From the l&eoord. What Sena
tor Jhatimrr Did.
Senator Tillman was a busy man at
the last session of congress, despite
the fact that he was laid up wi tb an
ulcerated throat part of the time.
The new Congressional Reoord index
shown some interesting things about
the lines of his activity during that
session. He was one of the mest fre
quent speakers in tho senate and, de
spite his throat trouble and his en*
forced absence, he managed to be
heard about as often in the total as
any member of the senate.
During the session he was appoint
ed a conferee once, was appointed a
member of one funeral committee,
and was excused from serving on the
confereced committee to which be had
been appointed. During the same time
he Introduced six bills in the senate
all ot them pension bills, ?-r bills for
the relief of constituents.
Ile offered Uve motions aod resolu
tions duriug the session. One was t >
Investigate the appointment of tb? ar
my officers who went lu under the
constructive recess policy of the ad
ministration. Another was for the In
vestigation of Ihe C um appointments
which by tills time number a half a
score. Another was to ascertain the
powers aud limitation!! of the admin
istration relativo to recess appoint
men ls. Still auother was to recon
sider the vote bn the bill for the re
lief of Q leen Llloukalanl ot thc U&w
aiian islands. Tho otner motion was
for the improvement of tho Wit?r?e
river. This waa the only motion of
S luth Caro11 na Interest, except that
relating to tba Crum ease, offered by
.Senator Tillman during the entire
session In two instances he introduc
ed petitions fur constituents.
lt was lu talking lint the senator
from South Carolina who always com
mands attention when he ls billed io
speak, is H 1 busy. Ile talked at length
on ttl ; agricultural appropriation bili,
discu sed tho reports ot the agricul
tural experiment stitions, had a
great deal ti say on the subj ;ct of
animal breeding discussed the subject
of buildliik'S for the executive debert
ments, had some remarks to mvke
ab nit tho estate of R W. Bullock
and a great deal about tho appoint
ment of Crura. The constructive re
cess business went down bard with
him and he bad a lot of things t? say
about lt. Ile sp ik? on a baker's (Uz
en ol other subjects during the ses
sb n.
Senator La'.lmcr had a little to say
during the session, but was busy along
other lines. Ile concluded that the
only solution of the good roads ques
tion was to have lliom built by feder
al aid, and one of the two times be
spoke during the session was to advo
cate his bill ulong that, lino. Tho other
time he addressed tile senate to say
something about rural free delivery,
a subject that is just now one of thc
standbys of every new member of the
bouse and senate.
Mr. Lit liner Introducid three pub
lic bills during the session. (Jue was to
give federal aid to the building ol
ri.ads. Tiie second was to obango the
organization of the police foiee 11
Washington while another was tc
erecj a public building at Anderson.
Mr. Lad mer made several motions
during the session. One was an lt qulry
for informat'on relative to thu Im
provement of the PO?dee river, and
another was to have the departmeut
? f agriculture ascertain the cast of
road building. He moved once during
tiie session that tho senate adjourn,
and that was when he announced the
death of Representative Croft.
Summed up, Mr. Latlmer introcm -
ed three pub ic bills, and six pr.vate
one?, addressed the senate twice, oller
ed live notions, presented live pet i
tiens and was appointed a member of
a funeral commute_
(?nmhliiiK on Government ilrportw.
Tho New York American says the
government slit uki stop gambling on
its reports regarding the cotton crop
or make them public dally. The
American yoes on to ; ay : "The busi
ness of buying and s1 liing futures In
c it ton is new reduced lo a gamble on
the C? overn ment reports of ttie s'ze of
the crop. Recently the C nsus De
partment ga.ve out a report that we
will know tobe coriector incorrect
::ot before next At gust. But it
served the purpose of knocking down
prices half a cent a pound. The
speculators settled tl olr b^ts and are
now awaiting the ne-:t report. The
value of the crop WHS not changed.
t.'oU.'in. ls as valuable today as lt was
last week, but the shift lu the statis
tics enabled a shift In prices, and
t hai, is all tho use tbe report served.
Tho United States hi_s abolished lot
teries su i other .'onus of interstate
gambling, lt shouh take steps to
-4 i Us Information from being used
for plain gambling. If these r? ports
wer given out as they arrive, from
clay to da>, the ?amblers would al
leas lia ve to seek bets in other busi
ngs- The cotton future business In
Ne* York h::s becoona mere gamble,
not 'ti cotton, bul w tat tho Govern
mei reports on cotty n." Tho Ameri
can s rlK'tit and t'ie sooner tho mat
ter . remedied the better lt will be
for thc best interests of the whole
country.
<;iiArt?ir IVt-H.
Thc ann;.al report of the secretary
eto has about bren completer)
'i gu rca regarding the fees re
. la en made available. The
that tho amount of fofs
14 vas slightly under
hen the total was
s explained by tiie
tty of the com
"'ir were snn?l
lng SK),UUO,
there were
* other
THE LAST DAYS
Of Poit Ar nur Pictured by Oeu
S toe DSOI, the Commandant.
Ilcr.w Casualties ami Disease- Had
Depleted tho Dravo Defend
ors to Tcu Thousand Mon.
Gen. Stoessel's dispatches, by way
of Ohefoo, to the general staff, at St.
Petersburg rt lat? how the position of
tbe fortress of Port Arthur gradually
becoming less safe and more critica",
the ravages of scurvy increasing en
ormously the casualty lists already HO
considerable { ona the Japanese as
saults and bo-i. Inn men LS. Towards
tbe end of the year the supplies of
ammunition completely gave out,
there were 14,000 sick and wouunded
in tbe hospitals and 300 fresh casual
ties coming in daily. The general re
ports that at the end of the seine he
had only 10,000 men underarms, thu)
remainder of tho original garrison
having been either killed or disabled.
The text of Gen. Stossel's di' pitch
es follows:
On Di'cmbei 28 ths general wrote:
"The position of tho fortress is be
coming very paluful. O ir principal
.momies are scurvy, willoh is mo wi nu
'lo'*'n the meu, and ll-inch shells,
whloh know no obstacle and against
which lhere ls no projection. There
only remain a few who have net been
attacked by scurvy. Wo have taken
all tbe posHible measures bui the dis
ease is spreading. Toe passive endur
a^ce of tbe enemy's bomb .rdment, tho
ll-inch shells, the impossibility of le
olyirg for want of ammunition, the
outbreak of scurvy and the 1 ss of a
nass of officers- all these causes dim
inish dilly the capabilities of thc de
fense. The tale of tho loss s of higher
officers ls an indication of the enor
mous losses we have sustained. Of io
genera's two, Krondratenko and Tse.r
pltsky, have been killed, Raznatovsky
's dead two ure w tunded, myse'f and
Gennadeire, .while G>rbatowsky H suf
fering from contusi >ns. Of nine regi
mental commanders and colonels,
Prince Matohabeii N lou.nenko bas
been killed, Douiro anti Giagolew have
succumbed to wounds, and four Others
have been wounded: One lieutenant
colonel has been killed and two are
woundt d.
"'Am >ng rho Helli artillery. C il. Ir
man was wounded, Col. P-?terofJ was
killed and six officers were wounded.
Among the other high ( lil :er.s there
.vas an enormous pcrcntsg' o' kll'ed
or several times wounded. M my com
panies are commanded by ens'gns and
the compan'?". only average 80 u.si
strong.
'Tue Japanese since Poce m-" er 18
have refrained from assaulting. Tues
day they explore 1 a mir e under the
fortifications of fort No. 6, and about
a score of hardy .lapa: e e mount el
the rampart, but were exterm?nate I
by bi)oi evs and hand grenades. In ie
venge the Japai e-e bombarded ail
nignt long and ah,day long ?Ith ll
Inch shelis, especially the hospitals
and ambulances, although knowing
full well that there w.ts no possibility
of our wounded heroes j lining the
ranks of the defenders.
"There are 14,000 sick and wound
td in the hospitals and the number
! Increases by snout 700 daily."
Oa December 2D Gou. Stoessel
wrote: \
"At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning
' the Japanese blew up part of the par
apet of fort No. 3. They afterwards
' opened a s-rverc bombaidment along
the whole front, but especially on fort
No. 3. At about 3 o'clock iri tho after
noon they dashed to the attack of the
! parapet from th-', moat and glacis,
where they had naen heid in readi
ness. TAO attacks were repulsed, but
tie Japanese occupied the funnel
1 shaped opening formed by the explo
sion and reenforced by their rest rves,
b gan to run across the moat io
groups i f about five. They occup e!
the parapet and at du-k two batta
lions had entered the interior of the
fort. Our troop-, fought froni the en
trenchments, which were badly dam
aged. Part of our troops hid them
selves in the casemates, but the Jap
anese placed machine guns in front of
the exit from the casemates, thus d; -
privlrg our men bidden there of all
possibility of making an attack. Tor e
counter attacks from the outside by
our reserves met with no success. T?.e
.fort cm equently remained in p s*es
. sion i I th i J apa noe. O ir losses were
j consld ?rable, especially in officers,
j The si rvivors ot the gai rison succed
pd lu getting out of tin fort by the
windows, by the occupation of this
fort t ic Japanese became masters of
, the ?hole north front, and the fort
ress can hold out only a few days
i more. Wo have almost no ammuul
; lion. I will take mensures to prevoot
; carnage In thc streets.
"Scurvy is sensibly wakening the
garrison. I have now under arms only
lo ooo men, all sick.
"Gens. Kock and Nik'tlua have
been veritable heroes and admirable
col labt rators."
Gen Stoessel's report of December
28 and 29, palntlrg th" ba?rc wing
picture of the depleted and exhausted
garrison lighting on hopelessly, were
posted on the bul'etln boards Tuesday
atti rn on and attracted enormours
crowd-, whose grief at the fall of the
fort ref s was swallowed t.p hy admira
tlon fi r the heidie tiefen lois. Too war
office r.nd admiralty were s ion brs'.rg
ed by grief striken relatives and
friend* of those at Port. Arthur, eag
erly asking for news, but the stat's
j were, completely without details and
could give linne.
Tue city is perfectly <iuiet the agi
tators finding that the people were. In
no mood for demonstrations against
thc goveri ment. It is presumed that
tho emperor is already acquainted
with thc details of the terms of the
surrender, it being assumed that
Stoessei was allowed to c mmunicate
direct with his majesty, but the war
i thee is still w?hl.,,l. h formation ex
copt s ich as is contained In the Vt kio
dispatches.
' At the fo'o'.gn office, willie it was
ld that any proposals Japan might
would receive due consideration,
'nlalH were unable to imagine
'd be nessi hie for Japan to
'us which Russia could
dod 1'lniol.
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sell, who rc
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MORAL FIQTTRS IN OUR POLITICS
William J. Bryan tho stron^cet Force
In the Nation.
Thoughtful men in America are
coming steadily and rapidly to the
conclusion that William J. Bryan is
the strongest moral force in the poll*
tics of the rc oublie, says the Atlanta
News. ?
There has never been a eampalgn
led by this great democrat In wbiub
the moral note has not been heard,
clear and defluite, above all other is
KUJSof tho canvas?. R'ght, Juitc
and truth, a? Bryan saw them, have
been the key words of every argument
that has pulsed the two most elo
quent and stirring presidential cam
paigns that the American hustings
nave ever known. Everywhere the
moral note bas been dominant.
Take fer instance the recent contri
but on ut the Outlook, perhaps the
most thoughtful utterance of Mr.
Bryan since the St. Louis convention,
and this is its general paragraph:
"The democratic party ls now in a
position Lo cm ld r thc moral issue?
presented by pending problems, and
lu the presentation of the moral
phases of public qucstious is the
stier gth of the democratic position
today. Every great pollue il ques
lion has an econ -unie bearing, und
every ?conomie question is at f tunda
lion a moral questa JU. Tie lins be
tween right and wrong runs through
every problem of government, and rho
ti nal decision ot the pr. hiern is along
tills line. No pr< p milton is better
supported by history than that
"rig lite usn<'ss eialteth a nat ii n,"
and it it as true of a partv as it ls o'
a nation. In fact, no one ein form an
accurate Judgment upon the individu
al min or upon gr ?ups of men who
dues not accept a? hs major premise
that truth rests upon justice, and ls
omnipotent. Justin s? far as an in
dividu il follow? this doctritie he suc
ceeds; there is no other measure of
success. Io proportion as hi} departs
from inls doetilne he fails. If fora
time he seems to prosper, his pris
perlty is only apparent, for no amount
of wealth or honor can compensate for
the doing of an inj istlee, aud history
deals with men, with parties, and
with nations, according tu one inex
orable law-"Th; wages of sin ls
death."
WU-?re was there ev ;r a political
career more charl;, pitched and more
le.solutcly maintained along high lines
tuan thi ? It ls like a we.-t wind
driving tuc miasma vi meiern poli
tics lo hear a man talk like that
when all men know that there ls a
mm behind the w ?rds wno has lived
the weirds to the Hoe and the letter.
T;.ere ls nota stain on Bryan's
public or priv?te life, even in the
mirr ir which his enemies ho'd up be
fore him. No wood r that Lyman
Abbott, in thc Outlook, staunch in
dependent, and often staunch repub
lic.m. should editorially declare :
" There is no misunderstanding Mr.
IUyan. He does not guard his atllrm
atiuu i with so many qualification that
no man can guess wtiat he really af
firms, nor leave so ma'iy loop-holes
for ie tri at In c ise hi? doctrines fall
to tlncl adherents, nor use words In a
dot ble sense, nor employ them to ob
seu^e his meaning, nor put on a sem
blance of wI.-,dom and morality by In
dulgence iu general plattitudes. He
ls clear, definite, positive, concrete
Th- intelligent and honest reader can
easily understand his meaning.
Whether he will be the democratic
candidate tn 1908, or even the demo
eratic leader in the interim, it ls too
ear'y lo prophesy. But it caunot b;
dou led that he ls the clean st and
ablest exponent, If nut of opinions en
tertained, at least of a p iliiical spirit
and purpose shared by a very great
number of American c tfzens, and so
the representative of a polit cal fore
which mu>.t be reckoned with, and
if reckoned with, must be under
stood."
It ls not the language of enthusi
asm or of partisanship, but a simple
statt merit of truth which challenge the
cand* r of all true citizens, that Bry
an's life and Bryan's arguments and
Bryan's record of consistency and sin
cerity have enriched the moral tone
of the republic.
Wo have said years a?o as wa say
tod ty, that if Wi lian J. Bryan lives
and labors for ten vears lo^irer on the
same lofty plane thar he follows now,
he will hold In ibis rep ibl e the
position which William E Gladstone
hoi 1 In our Mot.ier England across
the sea.
A moral force tn a republic must
eventually h. c imo tts mightiest force.
Found tit . Hoad Hody.
The body of Jell S. Phelps, thc
capitalist of Battle Oreek, Mich., who
mysteriously dis: ppear-ed a number
of weeks ago, and who later supposed
to have been located In British Colum
bia, was found Wednesday badly de
composed in the iver chere. Phelps
wi:s the construe i r of a sanitarium
hore bearing hi3 i ame and was prom
inent in the foid Industry. In 190,'i
lils atlairs beeane involved and bc
was given a year , n which to stralgh-,
ten out the tang o. It was just be
fore the expiration of this year that
he disappeared. Soon after Phelps
disappeared lt was discovered that
$30,000 of stock In a publishing house
lunt Phe'ps was Interested in oaci
hei n forged and iscd to secure loans
in m banks in A', rian, Tecumseh and
In this c ty.
thuin zzled Fenelon Money?
Mr. D. H. Alexindrer, funeral pen
sion examiner of Savannah, arrived at
Rei ufort Wednesday morning aid
caused tho arrest of Peter Watson,
odored, of St. Helena Island, on the
nhargo of embezzling pension money
belonging to some minor children lt
ls charged that, as guardian of the
minors of B. Olin pli n, WatsoD appro
priated s rac of the money to his own
use. Ho was given a hearing before
United States Commissioner J. O'H. |
Saucers and was held In bond in the
sum of $500,
Ont Him at i, i -
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C.,
says: "Will Harris, a noted negro
crim inal, wboe.-icped from the State's
prison about a year ag >, under a 30
year sentence foi ham burning and
who was some months ago outlawed
by magistrate's prcclam Allon, was ar
rested In Salisbury Tuesday. While
at large in t i's county Harris created
a veritable reign of terror in tho sec
tion In which he was known to stay.
Many farmers stayed up all night to
guard their premise* against his
torch."_
nu- tit cat Need.
The Jacksonville Metrap>ills says:
''Educate the \ouih at hazards is our
advice. If parent will not send their
children to school let a law be enact
ed to make them do it, and every
child whi In thc comb g years sing
thc praise and preoolalra the blessings
of their benefactors."
KILFYRE! KILFYR.
That is exactly what lt ls. a Pl
day at the State Fair showing its tir
Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Baw Ml
property should have them. For sal
COLUMBIA SI
Columbia, ?. O. The mac
Southeastern Lim
CHARLE8T
Ballding Material of all kii
"RUBEROID." ' 1
THE GUINARD
Building and Re-Pres-ed Brick. Sp
Terra Cotta Flue Linings. Prepai
for millions.
Whlske I Morphine I Olgaret
Habit, Habit I Habit
Cured by Keeley 1
1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 76) Coln
ence solicited.
COST OF A NEWSPAPER.
One Dollar Per Y .-ar Ia Too Liittle for
a Good Pitper.
A number of weekly papers are
-alslng the subscription price to S i. 50
A year, without any enlacement or
improvement. T?ey are forced to
raise the price or go out of business
on ace unt of the increased pri?e of <
all material that KO to mike upa
newspaper. The folio wini* editorial
from Sunday's Wilmington Messenger
ii to the point: "The Gasto:)ia Ga
zette announces that it will advance
tbe price of ?B hubnoriptlon from one
dollar lo one dollar and a half a year.
This ls not done because of contem
plated enlargement or material im
provement of thc paper, but as the
editor says, for purely business rca
I son;-.. The increased cost of living
and of labor in the printing business
and the ad var c ; in the price of paper
has made this increase of fifty per
cent in the' price of the paper a ne
cesdty. We are not surprised at th's
announcement.. We do not see how
any editor caa issue a first class week
ly paper for the small subscription
price of one dollar a year. The sur
prise is that the Gazottehasnot made
this change before this and that
others have not done likewise. Tho i
daily paper w?lch also iasuesa weekly !
edition has the advantage In the mat
tor of sa\lrjg expenses over tho paper 'j
which has ouly a weekly and semi-1
weekly edition, and still none of the
fo m r class In this Rtctlon of the.
country Is getting rich by any means j ;
with their do-lir a year editions. If
they canuot make anything off their ;
publication how can the other class j
of newspaper men be expected to do j
BO? And again a man who will not j
pay a dollar and a half for flfoy-two j
Issues ot his county paper ou^ht not
to be furnished one at any price.
The fifty cents additional is very lit
tie to each individual subscriber, bub
the sum total amounts to a great
deal wich the man at the other eud
of the linc. Tt.is same idea applies ?
lo prompt payment of subscriptions ;
to weekly newspapers and weekly odt- li
Clora o? the dallies. Take a pap :r !
with, say, six thousand mmes on its
weekly Ila?. If every man pays his j
dollar promptly this means six thous
and dollars in cash to the proprie
tors. Every dollar that ls held back
'rom hun is j jstso much cash lost by
bim. To 5o;e the fee of one subsorlb
er who has taken and read the papar
for a year is not much, but when you
bolgin to multiply that by ten, twen
ty, fifty and a hundred lt will amount
to a great deal In the course of a few
v ears. Tin se subscribers are scatter- j
ed all jver the State. The one dollar |
is v-:ry little to each one of these sub
scribers, but when they all come to
the newspapers proprietors they
amount tu a good deal. The man
wrn fills to pa> his sui scriptlon does
m t save much. Ile has cheated the
editor out of on'y a dollar; but when
such cas3S pile up by the score lt is a
serious matter to the newspaper man
who depends on the Individual dollar
subscriptions to keep his business, go
ing and to provide for the mainten
ance of himself and family. Were all
newspaper subscribers to realiz) this
condition many more of them would
oe a great deal prompter than they
are In paying their subscriptions.11
Crum ta Contirinod.
Th nomination of VV. D. Crum, a
negro, tu be collect r for the pert of
Charleston, S. C., was contlmed by
the senate in executive session friday
by a vote of 33 bo 17. Crum has been
nominated by the president three
times and in addition to these nomi
nations has receivtd three recess ap
pointments, and ls now serving under
the last of these. Confirmation was
opposed by Senator Tillman, who ob
jected to the appointment of a nojro.
Senator Tillman mide a speech de
voted almost eotlreiy to tho question
or the constitutional right of the
president to make a recess appoint
ment when no actual recess had oc
curred, the s?nate having adjourned
one session and begun another at noon
of the same iay.
Fiendish DoPravltjr?
G.iv. Vardaman, of Mississippi,
after an Investigation of the whipping
of Convict Howell of Sergeant Puckett
at the ll minn penitentiary Bald: 'Tue
punishment infl.oted upon this un
fortunate convict was fiendish aid
betokens a depravity which would dis
grace thc most abandoned criminal in
thc penitentiary." The governor has
employed counsel to proiicute Puckett
In the State courts. Puckett, whese
time as sergeant has expired, is very
defiant and is not apprehensive of
conviction.
F'aiis Do?d.
A special from Yorkville to The
Statesaya Mr. Napoleon A. Simrll,
while sitting on a mule at h s resi
dence two miles east of Yorkville
Tuesday afternoon, had an attack of
heart trouble and fell (lcd, Mr.
Simrll wituessing the sad occurrence.
Mr. Simrll was one of the most suc
cessful and enterprising men of York
county, and was highly esteemed by
his many friends. He leaves a wid
ow, one son and two daughters. One
of the latter ls a student at Winthrop
college.
Tun Augusta Ohror'ole says: "The
bucket-shop gambler;: may buy and
sell "paper cotton" to their hearts
delight, but the farmers and cotton
faotors aie still in possession of
"spots," and Bpot cotton ls what
count? in the present game.
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GEORGIA-ALABAMA BUSINESS COttEGE.Macoo.Ct,
SOON after he was electee President
Roosevelt declared bis ocnvlotion that
the tariff should bo revisad and inti
mated that he would call a special
session next spring to pvrform the
work. Now he admits that he has
been talked oit of calling a special
session in tbs spring but adds that he
may d'? so in tba fall. Tua Spirtan
burg Journal Hays " .br; truth ls that
influential 'st ind-px tors' are threat
ening the prc:,idt ii and declaring
that if he persists n tho policy of
tariff revision ho will disrupt his party
aa badly as did Mr. Cleveland during
his last term."_
"ITAVK we put a lemoirat or a re
publican in tba White House?" No
question has been mora frequently
asked by republican' tban this, and it
bas buen reiterated nure than ever
since thc president sent to congress
the annual report of Commissioner of
Corporations Garflel i who adopts, as
his ohief recommendation, after a
year's sturly of the subjeot of Federal
control of trust?, a scheme first pro
posed by William J. Bryan at a olvio
federation banquet in Chicago, Biz or
seven years ago.
THE modern locomotive costs 416,
000 or $18,000, according to size and
equipment. The passenger locomotive;!
In former days were embellished with
extra brass work and trimmings, the
bright parta were kept by tho ilrerren
in a state of glittering effulgence, and
tho passenger engine cost more than
the freight engine. Nowadays, tho
trimmings are not put on, and the
passenger engine, baing lighter,
xwtsless than the mammoth freighter