The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, January 13, 1905, Image 5
RECORD B
They Alade Things Hm^During
the Past Year?
HIGH WATER MABR
Was Attained ia Various Peats, Epi
Bodef~?nd Events Noted~Through?
.ut the Country, Ranging from
Grave to Gay, from Lud
icrous to Grotesque.
The strenuous record smashers
made things bum during the year just
oiose<L _Tbj?-tlfgh" " water mark was
a^fclrined in various feats, episodes and
"events noted throughout the^ountry,
ranging from the grave to the gay
and from the ludiorou? to the gro
teeque.
Chicago produced the prize villain,
a man who was accused in court by
his wife, sister and employer with
desertion, ingratitude, theft, lying,
' intemperance, profanity and Binging
"Bedel?a" when the neighbors wanted
to sleep. This champion simply fail
ed to live up to bis opportunities or
he might have posed as the much
wanted Pat Crowe and the man who
struck Billy Patterson.
A Pennsylvania farmer won a medr:
from his neighbors by having his wife
arrested for cruelty because she in
slated on working a phonograph over
time on '.he tormenting air "Hiawa
tha," in spite of all protests.
In St. Louis a thirsty man drank
nine quarts o ' whiskey in 24 bouts
and died. Even thc Prohibitionists
must now adrait that mai bas some
value.
The classic town of E/anstown, tho
seat of Northwestern university, clo
veloped the biggest pie ? ater of the
year. Five thick, juicy pies a la
mode-smothered in ice cream-de
voured at a single sitting was the new
^^^--jjecprd Get by Ed O'Laughltu in a con
' lesfwith Lawrence Eogllsh, who lust
by hali a pie.
But in the drinking line Harry E
Vale of Englewood, a Chicago suburb
seems to have takcu the I un.
"He diani: up our bakery," said
Mrs. Vale, in her suit for ci Ivo
"It was a pretty big drink, but b
swallowed lt n short order."
Checks to saloon keeper; afgregat
lng several thousand dollars, showed
what that big drink had cost.
An ambit nus Missourian wrot
40,088 words on a p is tal card, a real
tn chirography1 aime.st as difficult
aohleve ao would bo a sane expiant]
tion as to why he did it.
During a tire in a New York hotel
a woman dressed herself lu liss I
15 minutes. This record is likely to
stand for at least a century.
NEW CHA ii PIONS.
Percy T. Bennett is a man that
New Jersey Judges call tho chauI] lo i
long distance pianist of tho wo?ld
without walting to hear from all the
young ladies who are practicing " The
Maiden's Prayer." In a Newark
theatre he battered out "Farewell,
My Lady Love," and eic ; for 24 ' our
at a stretch, when compassionate
friends interfered and dragged bim
homo bodily though he threatened
another explosion.
One hundred and ten times in seven
years was the moving r< cord of the
"Whelan family of New York, Sr1"^.-.
moving tale it furnished n a Jtriem
court when Mrs. Whelan ^stifled
against her husband for ngpsupport
tiinYeci'VM? drew weird wutdj?r&cs of bi.-,
??.die habits. ^
~ " ' ?f still anoth
AUDITORIUM Towered bimvup
_>ue told the judge
" the only~wti7 *?ne could get mi nej
from her roving spouse was to take it
cut of bis trousers pooke'.s while he
was asleep.""
SOMK ( LD PE TL IO.
Moses A. Cleveland, .said to be a
cousin of the ex-President set a i ew
pace for octogenarians. At Worces
ter, Mass., l?e and another vetera . o'
the Civil war, each bein ,' 80, tan a
n halfmile foot race. Cleveland won
?? the dash by several yards, and a box
[ of oigars Into thc bargain, where
?r upon he challerged any man of his
age in the worlc-with no takers, at
-last accounts.
While thc exploits of thc old boys
arc under review, those .of the girls
should not bs forgotten; and Mrs.
,0 g.Margaret Black of Greene county Pa ,
pj^deserves first mention. At vhe cele
bration of her ninety tbhd birthday
'^n August lt was anno?oced that stn:
had never been fifty miles away frc m
the place of her birth and had never
ridden lu a railway train, nor ever
seen one; yet this remarkable old
lady's descendants include six chil
dren, 4!l grandchildren, 111? great
grandchildren and 2i) great-great
grandchildren.
A RECOUD IN SPEX.T.mNDINO.
Shrewd g i esse rs naturally would
pick Indiana as the scene of the latest
record breaking In political oratory.
In tho last campaign Congre -u r.
Landis delivered 00 speeches In less
than a month. This long distance
spellbinding pro'luced t*\o results
his own re-election and a ihn at affec
tion which temporarily lecked bia
jaws.
Miss Maggie Albany's remarkable
achievement as a Sunday school pupil
brought bei a gold watch carly In
1904. Fur ::8 years, without a single
dereliction, abe bad r.ltoi ded i.he ser
vices of thc El em /. i Methodist Sun
day i.ehool bi Philadelph a. Sue be
gan at the age of 3 years.
"If i-die at 80," said proudly, "it
will be a Seventy .seven ye irs' record."
AMItlTinus WOMEN.
Mhs Annie S. Pick of Chicago rc
turned from ?iou.ii Araei ca with i
laurels as a mountain climber. .'. : mg
her feats was the ascend i i S rata,
tho Bolivian mountain, from 20,000
to 25,000 fiet high. Si c surpassed
tho best previous marks by i olhg
within OOO feet of the top. S ie hat!
many narrow escapes, but next year
will go climbing again.
"Nothing on earth tco high for an
ambitious woman," siro said.
Tho largest bottle eve- blown was
made last year at the Illinois {lass
works at A'ton. lt wati ? wine but
tle seven feet high, and wi .s made for
a wine exhibit.
GIANT MIOTOOIIAPIIS.
In the year's harvest of oddities
two enormous photographs cut no
mean figure. One was a picture of the
Gulf of Naples, marie by a 13 rlln
company and shown at S . Louis, lt
was .'10 feet long and 5 Teob high the
largest photograph ever produced In
the world.
is tho ass?
regret ty
L
.,*no other waa a photograph of the
Chicago Board of Trade, showing
the bulls and bears clamoring in the
pit at fever beat. Twelve pounds o?
flashlight powder being distributed at
350 different points around tho bal
cony ar.d igcitedjBlmultaneou8ly by
eleotriolty.
BIO FAMILIES.
Two record smashing families bound
for Chicago landed fiore a steamer at
Baltimore in April. The head of onr>
family was Joseph Zowlnskl, aged 78,
whose sons, daughters and grandchil
dren number 30. Tbe head of the other
waB Carl Zenke, the father of a brood
numbering 17. The Two Million club,
for promoting, population, ought to
hand out a few medals to Joe and
Carl.
An extraordinary Instance of puuot
uallty in maternity was given by
Mme. Bynes, 'giving birth to a boy,
fourth to arrive on the same dato at
exact intervals of one year. Men of
solcnco regard thia as a remarkable re
cord, and great curiosity ls felt as tc
whether the woman will ugaln bring
off tho feat in January, 1905.
All hands agreu to place the terpsi
chorean pennant over tbe domicile of
Mrs. John Polinski, a Jersey City
bride, who danced seventv-sevan times
at lier wedding reception and then
fell in a swoon. Sbe bad kepo her ieee
twinkling from 4 p. m. until long
after midnight, and it to k a quick
aud e'evor doctor to pull her back to
consciousness.
qUICK ll A KUI AO rc, DJiATn; t.voncE.
At South Bend, Ind., Miss Mary
Mum lo Tutt, a saleswoman, married
George P. Morehead, a well to do mer
chant, in haste, but subsequent events
came so swift that she never thought
of repentance. A few minutes afior
the ceremony Mr. Morehead willed bis
bride $50,000; two boura later he was
dead.
At 4:15 o'clock one afternoon R. C.
Dobbins o? OhloagO wan closing up a
$15,000 business dp il for a big depart
ment store; at 4:17 was sllppi-d out to
a Justice shop and at 4:18 was married
'0 Miss Elsele; at 4:20 o'clock he was
l ack in the treadmill, engaged In an
other big transaction.
"No time for sentiment, in this
great age of civilization and progress,"
lie said.
But lt remained for David Metcalf,
a Chlcigo printer, to experience all
the degrees of matrimonial entangle
ment in a shorter time t ?an any other
man in history.
Ile was first martie-' in April, 1882.
ne separated from bis wife, and last
September, when, entering the sere
and wrinkled period, courted and won
Miss Lucy Rounds, aged 20. applied I
fo~ divree and sn p sari it was gran
ed: married Mi ;s Rounds, who learned
ho had t;ot beau legally divorced, and
had him arrested for bigamy; held to
?he grand jury: ulvorce given to the
lirst .".?ic on a on s bill: blgcm st re
li ased ou a wiri pf habeas corpus; fl<'
minutes later leniorrlcd to Mls9
Roui 's in the presence ?-..f first wife.
Slow music und curtain on thc love
affairs of Dave, all these later events
having occurred within a few wei.ks
Desertad fourteen times in 2:t years
was a record that didn't tull Emma
Larsen of Chicago, and with thc
court's aid she le. Carl go for keeps.
"lt seems almost incredible," said
.lucige Brentano of thin city, when
Mrs. Cosenzo told ber tale of woe and
asker! Tor a divorce, ' that this slip of
a girl should have had such a marital
i xp;:riet ce."
"I was married at li." sho sahl,
"and now I'm almost 16. My husband,
Si'.veria, boat me morning, noon and
night, and 1 don e, want tb go hack to
bim any more."
She didn't have to.
Thc tmf "1 foi divorce was
i* -.(U/r ,. -vM. Roaob, woo
"W?^tVlTo? .io._. uVr : CA- L Roach,
.!'n of the president of the Chicago
Uniou Traction lompa.ny, in proceed*
logs lasting 20 EC uutes.
Leo Peltz. also a Chicagoan,
acide ved tho higt: water mark In mak
ing threats.
' On u:io different occasions since
our bridal trip in 1S80," tho wife de
claro-!, "Leo bas menaced me ano
warned me that I would soon see my
finish."
Tito judge assented when she added:
"This is where 1 net Cff."
After 25 uunicccssful attempts
;k eil Davis of Cad iliaco, Mich., com
mitted suicide at Milwaukee by tak
lug poison. Shi had tried almost
every known method, including hrir'g \
jumping, and was a filleted with a
suicidal mania. Tho final blow fell
when she was r.-proved for complain
ing about the color of tho curtains in
her room.
THE BIQOEST LOBSTER.
The biggest lobster ever seen in
Chicago ar.ived from the Atlantic;
coast in November, It weighed 18
pounds and 8 ounces, was over eight
feet lor-g and bad claws 15 inches in
length. The dealers estimated its
age ai, 100 years. As lt died on the
way, a tine lot of salad was missing.
Monster, a ribbon bedecked Iowa
steer weighing 3,000 pounds, broke
?ill recorels f >r heft at the livo stock
shew in Co lea go.
Beef at 30 cents a pound "on the
hoof" was the urprccendented price
paid at this show for ?hc champion
steer, Clear Lake Jute, exhibited by
i??. University of Minnesota.
The largest rah ilt hunt of tho yoar
took place In Oregon In January,
A ht :i it was reported that 10,01)0 cot
tontails were kilted, s?me 700 men
u.d women participating In the
daughter.
RECORDS IN WU1TTINO.
Miss Mai Carrington of Springfield,
Mass., In a typewriting contest at
idadiscn Square Garden, Now York,
i ade a record of 100 words a minute
jdndfolded. At the St. Lou!? fa'r,
3. If. Cole of Catskill, N. Y., broke
?be world's record for the greatest
lumber of words In Bevon continuous
(iours of typewriting, Ills total was
?8,044 words, an average of nearly 08
words a minute.
Mayor McClellan of New York sot
i lively galt In autograph work by
signing bis nair.o 37,000 times cn a
new issue of city bonds. Mr. Arm
ttrong, assistant secretary of the
ircaiiury at Washington, has sigrid
lis name to Official documents more
.han 0,000 times a day with a pen,
jut often lie had lo resort to ma.'sage
Lo keep his arm in working order.
In a conti st. hy Chicago hank c erk*
Lemoyrfe S. Hatch proved tho adage
I..it practice makes perfect by count*
ng a total of $0. J00 In notes of va ii
)us denominations in tbe record
.reaklng timo of 21:0? I 5.
MONEY.
The. total nun.ber of postal orders
sued by the goxernment during the
ast fiscal year passed the 50,000,000
uark for the Iis.-.: Hmo In history, the
rross revenue o: the business being
lil, 020,670.
Records r?r coining gold currency
it tho mints hi Philadelphia, San
francisco and New Orleans exceeded
Lil former ma ka, tho output of
'hliadoiphla alone aggregating near
ly $2,000,000 a day ot times.: The lat
ter mint, being the only one which
makes osnta and nickels, also turned
out 1257000,000 a month Jn Uiese
coins part of the year.
Marshall Field shattered all previ
ous records In taxpaying. The Chicago
merchant paid 'on an assessed proper
ty valuation of $40,000,000, which
placed him at tho head of heavy tax
payers ia the United States.
LUCKY DA HI !?:fl
The youngest baby in the world to
start lifo with a bank account was
Miram Goldstein of Kow York, 120
having bien placed to his credit one
hour after his birth. Little Miss
Wideuer of Fnlladelpbia reoelved the
handsomest birthday gift; at the ago
of three sut received obceks for
6500,000.
A TERRIBLE STORM.
Great Snow Drifts Pltod Up in Now
Yolk's Street*.
A dispatch from New York says
not In several years bas New York
been visited by a storm of such pro
portions as that which commenced
Tuesday and continued unttl early
Wednesday. Nine Inches of snow f di,
paralyzing traine, and tbe marked
drop In tho temoerature brought un
told suffering to the city's poor. Tho
blizzard caused seven d.aths lu New
York and viclulty, while many per
sons, overcomo by the cold, dropped
to the street, some of thom reoelvlng
fractured bones.
The storm began with an icy sleet
which struck to cir rails and oausod a
speedy abandonment of railroad and
trolley schedules. The sleet covered
the sidewalks and streets with ice aud
reudered them almost Impassable.
Scores of horsos fell and many were s >
badly Injured that they uad to b-e
killed. A linc snow succeeded the slee t
and, aided by the wind, soon piled ue
drifts that shut off many buburba ?
points fri m the city.
Five o' tho seven men who met
death from the results of the Rtorm
died from exposure, auother slipped
oo tho Icy platform of an elevated
Station fi ll lu front of an approaching
train and wa* ground to pieces. Th ;
seventh, L. W. Eller, a conductor o i
the Pennsylvania rillroad, blinded b >
the driving suow, stepped In front tf
the "Congressional Limited" train, at
South Amboy, N. J., and was instant
ly killed.
The demoralization of thc surface
car service played havoc with those
going lo business. Too elevated tralca
ran Infrequently, throwing the bul i
.i tho f iliio fro n the upper districts
of the el ty to the subway. E?en the.
underground road did not escape the
stoi m. At the Times Pquare sta ion
snow drifted in, forming a drift ti\e
feet high nod lt was Impossible fer
people to use the station until the
snow had been olearod away.
UALsOUri UuUNlY.
Carried tho IOIrction hy un Ovc.
virtielmtii|? Majority Iiiiut Week.
The p"cpl-e In tho territory involved
lia ve declared in favor of thc estab
lishment of Cilhouu county. The elec
tion appears lo have been overwhelm
ingly In favor of the new county and
it is but left to the legislature to rat
lfy that action. A dispatch to Tee
State Wedne.-day night from its cor
respondent at McCo. mick says: "R:
turns from election for establishment
pf Calhoun county show an over
whelming majo:Ry. beyond the two
thirds n quired by the constitution.
Returns show the following figures:
Abbeville, aves 24<>, nays 41; Edge
Heid, ayes 237, nay* 05; Greenwood,
ajos 50, nays ll, lOhls mak s a total
of 5?1 f< r the establishment of the
T-rfw county against 147 in opposition."
There was considerably more than a
two-.lhirds majority in the territory
iu each of the count ies afftcted. The.
State's corresponde nts ut E.lgeiie':d
and Abbevillo corroborated tber.e
figures.
The lines of Calhoun county as pro
posed this year are as follows: The
line of the proposed new county will
run from lbj mouth of Stevens' creek
on the Savannah river and up tte
Savannah river to a point opposite, tie
lower end of Cedar Island, tho line
running south 80 degrees east 1,4'2
chains to a stake em Greenwood ce u i
ty Uno, tbet ci along the lower line of
Greenwood county south 12 3 -i de
grees east 140 cha!ii3 to milo post on
C. & W. C. railroad near C. M. Slbert's
thence along straight line to thc Till
man W hite place, thence to the house
of W. T. Lovelace, thence across Cuf
feetown creek at a point near China
(.rove p'uee, thence along the Une of
ridgefield and Greenwood county Une
to iron pin in Martintown road, thence
r.own Martintown road to centre point
of upper bridge over Turkey creek,
thence along the middle line of Tur
key creek to Big Stevens' creek,
thence along the middle Une of Rig
Stevens' creek to the mouth of said
creek, al Savannah river, the \ oint of
beginning.
Sctiooner Wrecked.
After a night of intense Buffering
from th( cold, dirging for dear life .<>
the masis of their shipwrecked vessel,
heavy seas breaking over her dec s
and car-ylng everything before t ie
mad ru h of its fury, Capt. F. (},
Globs ai d six men composed thu crt w
of tho s shooner Emma C. Mldrlleto i,
from Nwport News to Charleston,
with a cirgo of coal, were carried :o
WilmiiH ton by the Wlllmlugton tug
Alexander Jones, tho vessel and lier
cargo being a total wre k cn Frying
Pan slio,ds. The schooner wat .stru-.k
by Tuesday night's gale and broce
completely in two from stem tosiera.
Capt. Gibbs and crew were rescued >y
the life saving crew at Cupe Fear and
Oak Islind stations, being later trans
ferred to the tut'._
In Uooil Bb apo.
Special dispatches from Ti kio say
that the Port Arthur garrison wis
marshalled ab 0 o'clock Tbursdty
mc min.- at Yahutsul hi accordance
wi jh the terms of the supplementary |
ng.cement. Tue Standard's Port Ar
thur correspondent reports that t ie
town appears to have t een a lill le
damaged by Hie bombardment. Car
riages and rickshaws, be says, are
m iving about with well dressed peo
ple who apparently aro anything but
starved. The ruined fort? resemble
bills Phaken by a mighty convulsion
and in many eaies every trace of Hie
works has disappeared._
Post ni Ol?rkii Dianilsacd.
W. E. Crlsmou ?.nd W. E. Stokes,
clerks In the Portsmouth post?nico,
were dismissed from the service
Thursday by Posta aster Hutt. This
action was ordered by the post Qloe
depart nent upon recommendation of
tho civil service .rrnmlssion, bofi rr.
which holli had been tried for alleged
Irregularities In tin lr examination te
fore tho civil scrv.co commission lu
Portsmouth.
OUR SENATORS.
Senator Tillman Waa a Busy Han
During the Session.
Sumo Facts as to III? Work Taken
From tho Keoord. What Sena
tor ?i?tlm<?r Did.
Senator Tillman was a busy man at
the last session of congress, despite
the fact that be waa latd up with an
ulcerated throat part of ibo time.
The new Congressional Record index
shows some interesting things about
the lines of his activity during that
session. He was one of the mest fre
quent speakers in the senate and, de
spite his throat trouble and his en
forced absence, he managed to bo
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,
1 and was excused from serving on the
confereces committee to willoh he had
been appointed. During the same time
he introduced six bills in the senate
all of them pension bills, rr bills for
the relief of constituents.
He offered live motions and resolu
tions during the session. One was to
investigate the appointment of tb? ar
my officers who went in under the
constructive recess polloy of the ad
ministration. Another was for the in
vestigation of ihe Cum appointments
which by this time number a hal' a
score. Another was to ascertain the
powers and limitations of tho admin
istration relative to recess appoint
ments. Still another was to recon
sider thc vote bu the bill for the re
lief of Q leen Llloukalani of the Haw
aiian Islands. Tho other motion was
fur the Improvement of the Tf it?r?e
rivor. This was tho only motion of
S uth Carolina interest, except that
relating to tho Crum case, offered by
Senator Tillman during the entire
session In two Instances he introduc
ed petitions for constituents.
lt was in talking tint the senator
from South Ca'ollna who always com
mands attention when be ls billed to
speak, is so busy. Ho talked at length
on tho agricultural appropriation bill,
discussed the reports of the agricul
tural experiment stiltons, had a
great deal to say on the subject of
animal breeding discussed the subject
of bulldtugs for the executive depart
ments, had somo remarks to mnke
ab iut the estate' of R W. Bullock
and a great deal about the appoint
ment of Crum. The constructive re
cess business went down bard with
him und bc had a lot ot things to say
abou J it. He spoke on baker's doz
en ol other subj jets ouring the ses
sion.
Se lator Latlmer hal a little to say
duri; g the session, but was busy along
ollie Unes. Ile concluded that the
only iolutlou of the good roads ques
tion vas to have them built by feder
al a 1, and one of th3 two times he
spoke daring the session was to advo
cate jis bill along that lino. Tho other
time lie addressed the senate to say
something about rural free delivery,
a subject that is just now one of the
standbys of every new member of the
house and senate.
Mr. Intimer introduced three pub
lic bills during the session. One was to
give federal aid to Lite building nf
roads. Tho second was to change the
organization of the police foi ce of
Washington while another *?as to
erecl a public building at . 4|arson:
Mr. Latlmer made-sever- "*' ~"i
during the session. One was an inquiry
for information relative to tlie Im
provement of the Peedee river, and
another was lo have the department
i f agriculture ascertain the ca*t of
road building. He moved once during
the session that tho senate adjourn,
and that was when ho announced the
death of Representative Croft.
Summed up, Mr. Latlmer lutrodu:
cd threo public bills, and Bli pr.vate
ones, addressed tho senate twice, offer
ed five motions, presented five peti
lions and was appointed a member of
a funeral commltte._
Gullibility ?>n Government Reports.
The Now York American says tho
government should stop gambling on
Its reports regarding the cotton crop
or make Hiern public dally. The
American goes un to taj : "Toe bush ,
ness of buying and selling futures in (
cotton is now reduced to a gamble on
the Government reports of the stzo ol ?
the crop. Recently the C nsus De- ,
partmont gave out a report that we i
will know to be correct or incorrect ,
not before next August. But it
nerved the purpose of knocking down
prices half a cent a pound. The
speculators settled their bots and are
now awaiting the next report. The
value of the crop was not changed.
Cotton is as valuable today as it waa ,
last week, but tho shift in the statis
lies enabled a shift in prices, and
tl lit is all the use the report served.
The United States has abolished lot
teries and other forms of interstate |
gambling. It shoulc take steps to (
sl ip its information I rom being used
for plain gambling. If these r< ports .
were given out as they arrive, from!
day to day, thc gamblers would at I
least have to seek bel s in other bust
ness. The cotton fu ,uro business In ,
Now York has hecomia mere gamble, (
not on cotton, but w lat the Govern
ment ropoits on cottx n." The Amer!- |,
can 's right and the sooner the mat- ,
tor is remedied the idler it will be
for the best lntcresis of the whole
country.
(/Manor I 'OOH.
The annual report of thc secretary
of Htate has about been completed
and the ligures regare lng the fees re
eel ved have bren made available. The
totals show that iht amount of fees
rece ve? for 1904 was slightly under
tba. of 1003, when the total was
818 OOO, but this is explained by the
fact that the majt>rlty of the corn
pan s organized this year woro small
one; with capital averaging $10,000,
whl a the year previous there were
mai y now cotton tallis and ether
lary .. corporations formed. The fig
ure! are as follows:
380 leolarallens.* 002 50
318 :harfers. 705 00
LOI oieomonsynary charter.. 3u3 00
313 notaries public. 1,017 25
3 commissioners of deeds.. . 0 75
Certificates . 53 50
Charter foes . 7,368 20
Foreign corporations. 400 00
Railroad charte?, records.. 276 10
Amendments. 66 50
Increase of capita' . 2,970 90
Decrease and dbs-duttons.. 20 00
Renewals. 384 00
Miscellaneous. 6 00
Total.$14,577 70
win ii.-. linnoaoliod.
After a thorough Investigation thc
house of representatives ha? ordered
thu impeachment of Federal Judge
S wayne of Florida for high crimes and
misdemeanors.
TEE LAST DAYS
Of Port Ar hur Pictured by Gen
Stooaael, the Commandant.
Ilcnw OasuuKlea and Dlacaao Had
Depicted tho Bravo Dol'entl
ore to Ton Thousand Mon.
Qen. Stoessel'a dispatches, by way
of Obefoo, to the general staff, at St.1
Petersburg relato hew the position o!
the fortress of Port Arthur gradually
becoming lets safe and more critica',
the ravages of scurvy increasing en
ormously the oasualty lists already so ?
considerable f'osn the Japanese as
saults and bombardments. Towards
the 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 oom lng in dally. Tho general re
ports that at the end of the seige ho
had only 10,000 men under arms, the
remainder of the original garrison
having been either killed or disabled.
The text of Gen. Stessel's dh pooh
es follows:
On December 28 tba general wrote:
"Tbe position of the for trew is be
coming very painful. Our principal
enemies arc scurvy, which is mowing
down tbe men, und 11-inch shi lls,
wblob know uo obstacle und against
which there ls no protection. There
only remain a few who have not beeo
attacked by scurvy. We have taken
all the possible measure* but the dis
ease is spreading. Toe passive endur
ance of the enemy's bombardment, the
ll-lnoh ?hells, the impossibility of re
ply li g for want of ammunition, the
outbreak of scurvy and tbe less of a
mass of officers-all these causes/dim
inish dilly the capab.lilies of the eV?
fensc. Tho tale of the loss s of hlg>?^
officers ls an indication of the
mous losses we have sustr ined. Or\7
senprals two, Krondratenko and Tser
pltsky, havo been killed, Itaznatovi-ky
is bead, two are wounded, myself and
Gonnarlclie, while Gurbatowsky is suf
fering from contusions. Of niue regi
mental commanders and colonels,
Prince Matohabell Nnoumenko has
been killed, Douire and Glagolew have
succumbed to wounds, and four others !
have b' en wounded: O.ie lieutenant
colonel has been killed and two are
wounded.
"Among thc Held artillery, 0>1. Ir
min was wounded, Col. PeierotT was
killed and six officers were wounded.
Among the other high o fl! eera there
was an enormous percentage of killed
or several times wounded. M-iny com
panies are commanded by ensigns and
the companion only average 60 ir? i
strong.
''Too Japanese since DecamVer 18
havo refrained from assaulting. Tues
day they exploded a mb e under the
fortifications of fort, No. 5, and ab air,
a s:oro of hardy Japane e mounted
tho rampart, hut vere exterminate 1
by biyo: ats and band grenades. In ie
venge the Japaro-e bombarded a'l
nlgnt long and all day long with 11
Inch shells, especially the hospitals
and ambulances, although knowing
full well that there was no possibility
of our wounded heroes joining the
ranks of the defenders.
"There are 14,000 sick and wound
ed in the hospitals and the number
increases by about 700 dally."
OQ December 28 Gen. Stocssel
wrote:
"At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning
tho Japanese blew up part of the par
apet of fort No. 3. They afterwards
opened Tr severe bombardment a'ong
the whole front, but especially on fort
No. 3. At about 3 o'clock in the after
noon they dashed to the attack of the
parapet from tho mont and glacis,
where they had been held In readi
ness. Two attacks were repulsed, but
the J apa?ee occupied the funnel
shaped opening formed by the explo
sion and reenforced by their rest rves,
b gan to run across the moat ia
groups i f about live. They ocsup'ol
the parapet and at du^ two batta
lions bad entered the interior of the
fort. Our troops fought .;'jm the en
trenchments, which were *adly dam
uged. Part of our troops bid them
selves in the casemates, but the Jap
auese placed machine guns in front of
the exit from the casemates, thus di>
prlvii g our men bidden there of all
possibility of making an attack. Three
counter attacks from the outside by
our r?serv?s met with no success. Toe
fort con equently remained in p ses
sion tf the Japaner e. Our losse? were
considerable, especially in t.fllcers.
The survivors of the garrison succed
cd in getting out of the fort by the
windows. Hy the occupation of tbi.-,
fort the Japanese became masters of
the whole north front, and tbe fort
ress can ho.d out only a few days
more. We have almost no ammuni
tion. I will take measures to prevei t
carnage in thc streets.
"Scurvy in sensibly weakening the
garrison. I have now under aruas only
10,000 men, all sick.
"Gens. Pock and Nlk:t!na have,
been veritable heroes and admirable
collaborators."
Gen .Stoessel's report of Drcomb.r
28 and 21), paintii g the harrow ing
picture of the depleted and exhau ted
garr'son fighting on hopelessly, were
posted on the bul etin boards Tuesday
af tern ion and attractei enormours
srowdii, whose grief at the fall of the
fortress was swallowed t p by admira
tion fi r the heroic defen lers. Toe war
rrfllce and admiralty were soon brsirg
id by grief striken relatives and
friend? of those at Port Arthur, eag
erly asking for news, but tho staffs
wero completely without details and
could give none.
Toe city ls perfectly quiet tho agi
tators finding that tho people were in
no mood for demonstrations against
the govert menti It ls presumed that
tho emperor is already acquainted
with the details of the terms of the
surrender, lt being assumed that
Stoessel was allowed to c mmunlcatc
direct with bis majesty, but tho war
Dfflco is still without Information ex
cept? s cb as ls cou l ai ooo in the Ti kio
?lspat ines.
At the foreign office, while it. was
?ald that any proposals Japan might
mako would receive due consideration,
thc officiais were unable to Imagine
how lb could be ooaslble for Japan to
ofter conditions which Il?tala could
?ccept.
A dispatch from Holly Hill to Tho
3tato says J 1m Russell, the 14-year
j)d son of Mr. T. S. Russell, who re
resldes nearllolly Hill, accidentilly
jhot himself Thursday morning with
tho proverbial "unloaded pistol." In
Laking bis father's old pl.st.ol, which
waB believed to bo unloaded,
from a bureau drawer lt was accl
lontaily discharged. Ibo ball passing
through bis bund and entering bis leS
just above "Jio knee. The ball was
aol taken out but the boy ls resting
juicily Thursday night. The wounds
ire not thought to bo serious, but
..iii be Home time in bealing.
Tho Unlimited Pistol.
MORAI PIQUBE IN OUR POLITIC8
winiam J. Brynn the Btronjceat Furo?
in the Nation.
Thoughtful mon in America are
coming steadily and rapidly to the
conclu don that William J. Bryan ls
the strongest moral force in the poli
tics of the republic, says the Atlanta
News.
There has never been a campaign
ied by this great democrat In which
thc morai note has not been heard,
clear and definite, above all other ls
hu? Of tho cauvasi. Right, ju >t cc
and truth, as 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
have ever known. Everywhere the
moral note has been dominant.
Take for iustauce the recent contri
button of the Outlook, peihaps the
most thoughtful utterance of Mr.
Bryan since the St. Lnuls convention,
and this is its general paragraph:
"The democratic party ls now in a
position to oom id cr the moral Issues
presented by pending problems, and
In tho presentation of tho moral
phases of public questions ls the
strength of the democratic position
today. Every great political que3
tiou has an econ-mic bearing, and
ovtry economic question is at founda
tion a moral question. Tue line be
tween right and wrong ruas through
every problem of govc-rnment, and tho
final deolsiou of the pr .ble.ro is along
thin line. No prcp-jsltluh ls better
supported by history titan that
"right e usness exaiteth aViation,"
and it ls as true of a partv ai it ls of
a nation. In faot, no one c in form an
accurate Judgment upon tho Ipidivldu
[??.1 man or upon groups of men who
"* !S?? acoe.pt at lils major! premise
-crests upon Justice/ and is
Ju it io ai far/as an in
^V'^VTOPQf; ;thls doctrine bo sue
oceds; ther?os no T^Vscr measure of
success. Ia proportion as ho departs
from this doctrine he fails. If for a
time ho seems to prosper, his pros
perity ls only apparent, for no amount
of wealth or honor can compensate for
the doing of an iujistlce, and his cory
deals with men, with parties, and
with nations, according to one inex
orable law-"The wages of sin ls
death.'*
Where was there ever a polltloil
career more clearly pitched and moro
tesol ut ely maintained along high lines
tuan thi ? It ls like a west wind
driving the miasma nf jnndprn nrii.
tics to hear a man talk Uko that
whou all men know that there is a
min behind the w >rds who has lived,
the words to the ll oe and the letter. \
Tr ere ls nota slain on Bryan's'
publi? or private life, eveti in the1
tnirroi which his enemies bo"d up be
fore I lm. No w nd r that Lyman
Abbott, In the Outlook, s'auuch in
dependent, aud of cn staunch repub
iiCtin, should edito dally declare-:
- "There lu no mi mnderstandjug Mr.
Bryan. He docs not guard bis affirm
ations with so many qualification that
no man can guess what he really af
firms, nor leave to many loop-holes
for retreat in oise Lil doctrines fall
to find adherents, nor use words In a
double sense, nor employ them to ob
sea ; o bis meaning, nor put on a sem
blance of wisdom and morality by In
dulgence ia general plattitudes. He
is clear, definite, positive, concrete.
The intelligent and honest reader can
easily understand his meanlug.
Whether he will be the democratic
oandldato iu 1908, or even the demi -
oratio leader io the Interim, it is tob
early to prophesy. Rut it cannot bc
doubted that he is tho clearest an-?
ablest exponent, If not of opinions en
tertained, at least of a political spirit
and purpose shared by a very great
number of American c.tlzens, and so
tho representative of a poUt'cal fore
which must be reckoned with, and
if reckoned with, must be under
stood."
It is not tho language ot enthusi
asm or of partisanship, but a simple
stat/ ment of truth whlc'j challenge the
candor of all true citizens, that Bry
au's life and Bryan's arguments and
Bryan's record of consistency and sin
cerity have enriched the moral tone
of the republic.
We have said years ago as we say
todiy, that If William J. Bryai lives
and labors for ten years longer on th3
same lofty plano that he follows now,
he will hold lo this rep lbl c the
position which William E Gladstone
held in our Mother England across
the sea.
A moral force in a republ c must
eventually bc erne its mightiest force.
Found Iii- Dead Uody.
The body of Nell S. Phelps, the
capitalist of Battle Creek, Mich., who
mysteriously disappeared a number
of weeks ago, and who la*er supposed
to have been located In British Colum
bia, was found Wednesday badlv de
composed In the river there. Phelps
wiis the construct >r of a .sanitarium
here bearing his name and was prom
inent In tho fo id Industry. In 1903
his affairs became involved and be
was given a year in which to straigh
ten out the tangle. It was just be
fore the expiration of this year that
he disappeared. Soou nitor Phelps
dlsapoeared it was discovered that
8110,000 of stock in a publishing house
that Phe'ps wa? interested in had
betn forged and ised tc secure loans
fr? m hanks in Adrian, Tecumseh and
in this c'ty.
Embezzled i'onhlon Money?
Mr. D. H. Alezander, funeral pen
sion examiner of Savannah, arrived at
Bei ufort Wednesday morning a id
caused the arrest of Peter Watson,
0 ilored, of St. n dena Island, on the
charge of embezzling pension money
belonging to some minor children It
is chuged that, as guardian of the
minors of B. Chaplin, WatsoD appro
prhtcd s'mo of toe monoy to his own
uso. Ho was given a hearing before
United State? Commissioner J. O'H.
.Saucers and was celo lubond in the
sum of $500,
Got Hun Mt Last*
A dispatch from Charlotte, N. C ,
says: "Will Ha? ris, a noted negro
criminal, whoe.sc:.ped from the Stale's
prison about a year ag >, under a 30
year sentence foi barn burning and
who was some months ago outlawed
by magistrate's proclamation, was ar
rested In Salisbury Tuesday. While
at large in fels county Harris created
a veritable reign of t-rror In tho sec
tion In which he was known to stay.
Many farmers stayed up all night to
guard their premises against bis
torch. "_
Ttic Great Need.
The Jacksonville Melrapolls says:
"Educate the youth at hazards is our
advice, if parents will not send their
children to school let a law be enact
ed tu make thom do it, and every
child will In thc coming years sing
tho praise and proclaim tho blessings
of their benefactors."
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COST OP A NEWSPAPER.
One Dollar Per Y?ar In Too Little for
a Good Paper.
A number of weekly papers arel
Jabing the subscription price to 81.60
a year, without any enlargement or
Improvement. They are forced to
raise tho price or go out of business
on ace mit of the increased price of 1
all material that go to make up a
newspaper. The following editorial
from Sunday's Wilmington Messenger
ls to the poiut: "Tho Gasfeoola Ga
Z3tte announces that lt will advance
tbe price of Its subscription from ono
dollar to one dollar and a half a year.
This ls not done because of contem
plated enlargement or material im
provement ot the paper, but as the
editor siys, for purely business rea
sons. Thc increased cost of living
and of labor In the printing business
and the nd vac c; in the price of paper
has made tills increase of fifty per
cent in tho prleo of the paper e ne
cesdty. Wc are not surprised at this
announcement. We do not see how
any editor can issue a first class week
ly paper for the small subscription
price of one dollar a year. The sur
prise is that the Gazetto has not made
this change before this and that
others biFcnr*t none likewise. The!
ldaiJ/ paper which also Issues a weekly |
edition Mas the advantage In tho mat
tor of saving expenses over tho paper
which has only a weekly and Berni- j
weekly edition, and still none of the
lo m r cluss io this scotloo ??.oft*he.
couutry ls g?tting rich by any n??l?t??S
with their doll ir a year editions. If I
they cannot make anything off their
publication how cm the other class :
of newspaper naen be expected to do ?
so? And again a man who will not
pay a dollar and a half for fifty-two
issues of his county paper ou.'ht not
to be furnished one at any price.
The fifty cents additional ls very lit
tle to e&cb Individual subscriber, but
the sum total amounts to a great
deal with the man at the other end
of tho lina. This same Idea applies
to prompt payment of subscriptions
to weekly newspapers and weekly edi- j
lions of the dallies. Take apap.r 1
with, say, six thousand names on its
weekly list. If every man pays his
dollar promptly this means six thous
and dollars in cash to the proprie
tors. Every dollar that is hold back
'nm him is just so much cash lost by
bim. To loie the fee of one subscrib
er who has taken and read the paper
for a year ls not much, but when you
belgln to multiply that by ten, twen
ty, dfty and a hundred it will amount
to a groat deal In the course of a few 1
years. These subscribers are scatter
ed all over the State. The one dollar
ls v; ry little to eaoh one of these sub
scribers, but when they all come to
tho newspapers proprietors they
amount to a giod deal. The man
.vb ' ftl!s to pa* bis subscription dies
not save much. Ile has cheated the
editor out of only a dollar; but when
such cases pile up by tha score It is a
serious mattor 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 reallzj this
condition many more of them would
be a great deal prompter than they
are in paying their subscriptions."
Crnm is OonUrined.
Th nomination of W. D. Crum, a |
negro, to be collect r for the pert of 1
Charleston, S C., was confimed by !
the Bcuate In executive session Friday 1
by a vole of 33 to i7. Crum has been F
nominated by the president three
times and iu addition to these nomi
nations has recelvtd three recess ap
pointments, and ls now serving under
the last of these. Confirmation was
opposed by .Senator Tillman, who ob
jected to the appolntmont of a negro.
Senator Tillman made a speeoh de
voted almost entirely to the question
of the constitutional right of the
president to make a recess appoint
ment when no actual recess had oc
curred, the senate having adjourned
erne session and begun another at nocn
of the same Jay.
Fioiuiish DoPravlty?
Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi,
after an investigation of the whipping
of Convict ILiwell of Sergeant Puckett
at the Rankin penitentiary said : "The
punishment Inflicted upon this un
fortunate convict was fiendish and
betokens a depravity which would dis
grace tho most abandoned criminal in
tho penitentiary." The governor has
employed cojn.sel to prououto Puckett
In the State courts. Puckett, whose
time as sergeant has expired, ls very
d?liant and ls not apprehensive of
conviction.
Falls Dead, -J*
A special from Yorkvllle to,-The
State Baya Mr. Napoleon Av Siraril,
while sitting on a mule at bte resi
dence two mile3 east of Yorkfllle
Tuesday afternoon, had an attack ot
heart trouble and fell dc.id, Mr.
Si.uri) witnessing the sad occurrence.
Mr. him nt was one of the most suc
cessful and enterprising men of York
county, and was highly esteemed by
his many friends. Ho leaves a wid
ow, one son and two daughters. One
of the latter is a student at Winthrop
college.
Tnis Augusta Obronlole says: "The
bucket-shop gamblers may buy and
sell "paper cotton" to their hearts
delight, but the farmers and cotton
faotors are still In posse sion of
"spots," and spot cotton is what
counts in the present BAH*.
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SOON after be was elected President
Roo3evi?lt declared his conviction tfiat
the tariff should bo revised ani
mated tbat be would call a sp
session next i pring to perform
work. Now be admits that he
been talked out of calling a speoi?*
session in the spring but adds that he
may do so lu the fall. Toe Spartan-'
burg Journal says "oho truth ls that
Influential 'Btind-pi .tars' ara threat
onlng tho president and declaring''.
that if he persists n the policy of
tariff revision he will disrupt his par jr
as badly as did Mr. C???
his iast term"^-* '"> ? -
"H?j/vsTwe put a demoorat err J_
publican in tho White House?"
question has baan more frequently
asked by republican* than this, and it j
has been reiterated m jra than over /
since the president sent to congress/
the annual report Of Commissioner off
Corporations Garfield who adopts, as)
his chief renommeodation, after a'
year's study of the subjeot of Federal
control of trusts, a ichome first pro*
posed by William J. Bryan at a olvlo
federation banquet in Chicago, Bis or
loverryears ago.
THK modern locomotive costs $15,
000 or $18,000, acceding to ..ize and
equipment. The passonger locomotives
In former days wero jrnbelllshed with
extra brass work and trimmings, the
bright parts were kt pt by the Bremen
In a stale of glittering effulgent vand
Lho passenger engin . cost m?r'^,
the freight engine. Nowaj*^
trimmings are not rut.,
passenger r?|m
508 ts less tba