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"DO THOU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN THY POSSESSION HAPPY FOR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN.THY CAUSE." VOL. A SHARP REPLY By A. B. Williams to the Slan ders of Bishop Potter ABOUT THE SOUTH. The Editor Challenges the Slanderans New York Bishop to a Show of Hand* ar to the Moral Condi* lion of His Diocese and the South Generally. Blsbop Potter of New York is one ot the pet superstitions of this c un try. He is part of the general Ni w York superstition. Because New York is big, most of ?B as ume that any man who becomes prominent there must be a very large aud great man In deed. We persistently feget, that as many fakirs, humbugs aud light weights rattle and swell arc und in large places In New York us anywhere else in the world. As for Pish* p Pot ter, he bas said and done as many silly things as any old gentleman we know of. A recent experience of bis Indi cates that his manners are as bad as his morals in nome respects are de fective, his judgment ls bad and his arrogance extreme. Some time ago he undertook to di-cuss the divorce- qu -s tion in a New York newspaper. As we recollect, ho floundered around the subject a good deal and failed abso lutely to make any definite suggestion or to indicate any coherent policy f< r his cbuicu or for legislation. I i the course of his somewhat il.ibby and cha otic remarks, however, he said that the absolute abolition of divorce would not do. He added: "We have an ex ample of what would result from such a measure in South Caioiiua, where ?he law does not recognize lt. Pro hlbUlng divorce is men ly putting concubinage at a premium." This does not impress us as a high or a cburcb manlike view. Certainly concubinage is not at a premium anywhere in South Carolina. The editor of the Columbia (S. C.) State wrote Bishop Potter a very re spectful letter, pointing out to him that he had done the bornes and peo pie of the State serious injustice, re terring him to the bishop and clergy of his own church in that Slate for i evidence and asking him to make ciro ;WTfJq?lry^nX?^Eire iuCTk and" Che,, "take such steps as equity and justice may dictate." < In reply the editor received a most insolent letter from Bishop Potter, In directly denying that he had used the : language attributed to him and de scribing the editor's letter and ar- i tide on the subject by Judge Benet, enclosed with lt, as '"equally unwar ranted and impertinent." The editor of the State replied with another respectful letter, in apirfect ly proper and deferential way, taking off the bishop's hide. He pointed out that the offensive paragraph had been published prominently, that bishop Potter had not seen lit to make any denial or correction ot an outrageous and shameful slander ugaiu>t the peo ple of a whole Siate and tnat his de nial suggested In his own letter was as evasive as discourteous A few days later Bishop Potter printed in the New York Globe a brief su> cement on the subject, in which he solo he had no apology to make to South Carolina and extt oded his slander lo the people of the whole South. He ls quoted as Baying: "He had simply remarked that in view of the prevalence of miscegena tlon in the South, the 'pose'of lof? y and superior virtue orr thc part of Us peuplt^auy where had in lt an element equally comic and pathetic." An accusation like this cannot ba sustained or disproved by statistics or amdavlts. lt can be considered only in the light of genera) and obvious faots. Virtue la not a thing of sections or of countries. Ti.o good are good and the Dad arc bad cverywhese and wherever human nature i.-, the alTto tions and passions of men and wornt u ?tray in forbidden pallis. One Hiing, however, ls certain and p aln. That ls that the moral t ne is infinitely oieaner and the social standards are iniiuitely higher in South Carolina than in Bishop Putter's (Iii cese. Cer tainly a woman div ircod in m her hus band and married to another man in side of twenty four hours would not be received in respectable society auy where in the South. Yet a woman who did that very thing is a leader t.f New York's most exalted society. Nobod> knows the hecret annals of vice; bu every observer who bas met and known the people of New York and any Southern Slate knows tliat In the South vastly less Illili is talked ann written than in New York. The natu -ral and inevitable presumption is that lives In the South are vi ry much cleaner. The women whose c induct and ^n ven allon are so distinctly loud ann d as to justify definite criticism is tabooed lneveiy Southern State. Bish op Potter cannot say tliat that is the case even lu the highest an "J theoreti cally most exclusive society of lils own community. lt would be Interesting to know where Blsbop Potter got bis I m pre-, slons of the morals of thc nt opie of the South and how he would go about Justifying himself tor circu?alo g such a cruel and Injurious charge as that concubinage and miscegenation are eneral lo tills part of tiie country Tho truth ls that miscegenation in Its legal sense is impossible anywhere In the Sou.li because it ls forbidden and severely punishable by law. We do not hesitate to say that the cliarg? that these vices are general or evt n widespread In the South is fabe, and in making that assertion we will do bettor than Blsbop Potter. We will offer good evidence to convict bim of falsehood If he Is willing to dare the issue. We will put on the stand the Protestant Episcopal clergy of tlie whole South, from bishops to d'-ac ns. They live among tho peuple and know them and have ample opportunity for knowing their life. We may assume that some of them, at least, are men who are not afraid to tell the truth in any circumstances or at any cost. For New York, we will take the oom ' lned evidence of the olergy,the courts and the newspapers. Like the editor of the State, we invite Bishop Potter to take the evidence, or join us in taking it. If lt sustair s bis accusations, we will conftss with shame, but frankly, that he 1B right. If they contradict bim, will he be willing to conftss that he bas circulated an outrageous and infamous scandal and slander? We do not care whether be attributes lt to ignorance, recklessness or malice or to a mixture of the three. If he evades a simple and honest test like this, he will stand convicted of having dis graced birrself by a wbo'esale slan der unworthy of a gentleman and of havlDg brought stame and injury upoD his own church, so far as his Jurisdic tion extends.-Riobmond News Lead SOME PLAIN TALK From a Northerner on tho Shackling nf Provident Davis? To the Editor of the Public Ledger: So many letters have appeared in the newspapers lately, pro and con, regarding tho treatment of ex-Presi dent Jefferson Davis while a captive that 1 am surprised ono salient fea ture has hitherto esceped comment, and I rely upon your liberal Journal to p. Int what I now desire to place before thc fair minded poople of America bearing upon the manaoling of tho distinguished prisoner of war. The Roman conqueror loaded lila cap tive Kings with chains (some times of gold; but still chains) to grace his triumph. We must go back 2,000 years or near it, to tho day when tb*? valiant British Prince Caraotaous, in Chains, graced a triumph in Rome. Clet patra only saved herself by the asp from glorifying in chains, the triumph of Ootavlus. But this ls an cient history. In modern times, cruel and vindictive as were the British to tte fallen lion, Napoleon and although they, In their terror of him, condemn fd him to a living death yet he wan never put in chains! It -remained for the United Statrs of A mei lea, through their duly consti tuted authorities^ to do a thlhg un precedented in modern times, th chaining, like a convict, of the lead er ot a brave cause, whose rights or wrongs are not now in question. Tho brutal treatment of the aged and in (inned statesmen and soldier by a hired blacksmith (or hired sergeant, ur general-it doesn't matter which, to my argument) was a deed wblob should have brought then, and should bring now, tho bluah of shame to ev ry man north of Mason and-Dixon's line, who countenanced, or who i countenat ces, this outrage against i the amenities of honorable warfare, , and against the courtesy due to a : soldier, statesmftnt and a gentleman, and through him to a brave, though conquered people. JAMEB P. DAVIDIOJ*. Philadelphia Match 22, 1906. A Bride Kllia Herself. Becaus-3 her husband told her ho detected her flirting with a former admirer, Mrs. James Galllon, a bridi of three hours, shot herself at Hunt ington. W. Va., Tuesday. The o u ple were married, and about midnight wont to the home prcpare-d by tb? trroom. Callion twitted his wife about the attention paid )cr during tho wedoiug ceremony by an old sweetheart of hers. She resented thesi pleasantries, and in a fit of an ger leaped from her bed and, rushing to a dressing c .se drawer, seized Qal llon's rev ?iver. I\'ut thinking she wax seri?os, Ga lion watobed her aa she placed thu m ?tz'.b of the weapon b ti ath her heart. The bullet toT a fearful w ind In tho woman's Hide, and the. (lash from the gun set fire to her ihmsy robo. Mrs. Gabion, who was ab ut 2(5 years old, died as she was being taken to a hospital. Dciully Bxlosion. Three men were killed outright and another so badly injured that he dlod a few hours later by an explosion at the Schaghtlcoke po.vder mills near Troy, N. Y., Tuesday. The men kill ed were Jumes Whim and Charles Col burn of Ila /.irdsvllle, Cjnn., and J i oies Sprague and Albert Bartlett, A\e latter being new employas. Tyhe men were at work In the corning mill .vhen the explosion occurred and Hie cause is not known. The bodies of three of the victims were blown to frag reen ts. The fourth victim, White, was found 300 feet away, alive but he CjUld no; recover. Gave Up the Fight. Ilenrv L. Woodward, an attorney j of New York city, and Charles A j ttrouz, a traveling sa osman for the National Supply company of Toledo, Oolo, committed suicide In their rooms at the H?henden hotel at cleveland, Ohio, somet'.me during Tuesday night of last wonk. The bodies of both men were fou.vJ Wod nesdav afternoon. The coroner's verdict In ov.ch case gi "es despondency over domes tip '.lld business troubles as the CAUS?" of the suicidas. Both men had iued a plBtol and had sent a bullet Into their heads in almost the same spot, death In each oase being Instantaneous. May :\? Well Quit. Tho Washington Pest believes that t' e American peoplo are In earnest and that if the present Republican administration does not hmash the trusts that lt will Itself bo smashod at the next national election. The C lumh'a State says If that bo true, the G O. P. might as weil go out of business right now. The trusts were not born to die by thc hand of the patty which gave them birth and which luis ever aft?r protected Its off spring with a JeslouB and festering e,aro. Mother and oblld are mutually dependent. Kubin tl Keglatnrnfl Lietter. Arthur R. Whltner, a young man belonging to a prominent family at Jacksonville, Fia., pleaded guilty in the federal court Wednesday to taking $000 from a registered lotter Whltner wat employed In the Jacksonville post ?nico a3 night registry clerk, and the larceny was c:>ramttted last summer' Ile was given a sentonco of one years, imprisonment. HE HELD THE EFL Borne anecdotes of the Boyhood and College Life of Judge Prince, of tho Ninth Circuit. What a Citizen Said Daring a Term of Conrtln Barnwell. And now, "May lb please Your Honor.''' Well, those of us who knew him In his younger days are not sur prised that it is now "Judge Prince." TOe Judgo always had a Judicial mind aud declared when a ohlld that be In tended to be a lawyer. How he con ceived that idea so early in life I can't imagine. He was born eight miles from a Court House, and 1 have no idea he was ever Inside of one before he was seventeen years of age. But a lawyer be is, and nu other man low a bis profession hotter than be. I know Judge Prince, I think, al most as woll ?B bis wife dees. We were born within a mile of each other -the Judge and I. We played to gether from our infancy. We hunted together, Ashed together, went swim ming in tho stine "hole," and had our backs bllsterec' more than once. Together we egjoye^ all tha sports of the very live country bay; Wich our lunch baskets and thc blue, hack spel ler we started to school the name clay; and, on the same day, and {tom the same hand, we received our diplomas ou the parue platform. Since Judge Prince's election to the Judgeship I have recalled many amudng Incidents of cur boyhood da>s. The future Julge had a high senne of honor and would tight for tho right, or what he conceived to be right, anywhere aud at any time. 1 wonder if he remembers knocking that 1 fellow in the face who pulled his pants 1 against the calf of bis legs after he had stood before the blazing tire until 1 the cloth was hot enough to "burn bad?" In those days the boys wore \ pantaloons, not these abominable things called knee-britches. And 1 what great tires we had with the tire 1 place extending almost, across the end < of the house. We warmed our bis- 1 cults and meat by slicking them on 1 sharpened slicks aud holding in rront - of the ?re, or over red-hot coals. s Does Prince remember pubing his < meat out of the ashes when it, t-1 pped ' nfl ttie stick? Future Judges and ? teachers had to have tUelr lunch, * ashes or no ashes. They had been ' taught afc home that hickory ashes 1 were good for horses, aud the young 1 Judge argued that they might be < good for two-legged animals as well < I guess they were. In one of our Qshlng escapades (ind t I am not^sure bub that we ran efl ! wi Chun b po? mission "that time, as the I stream was swollen) wo wore seated on a tree that leaned over the stream <? and not more than four or Ave f. et 1 above tho water. Cattish were biting ? ravenously and we were catching them t rapidly. Suddenly something earrie;! the end of Prince's pole underneath I fche water and tugged ab it viciously. 1 The young Judge bad no Idea of sur- I rendering that pole without a protest. < So he threw himself . gainst it with i as much determiuattc-n as he lins ever 1 manifested In the defence of a client. < Arter a brief struggle euere appeared ' above the water a t-hinttig, twisting, struggling eel. That v>a* our Hr.- ' eel and must be 'Strung" sure. SD Prince drew the snake-like thipg to ! him and caught lt in lils hand., ? x- 1 pL-ctlng me to free thc ?>ook ftom 1 -. 1 moucu and string lt. He had scarce 1 ly taken hold of the sdpp ry toing 1 bofure it llo> rated itself from the hook 1 and began tu slip .bro.iga hi< hands. 1 That mt ant tuai lu i*o a-oonda the 1 great pr l s would be bick in the water. Wn&l did the youthful Nim- t rod, the futur-.; Jud.e, co? Friends i and fell-jw citizens, uc just nail d thai . eel with his teeth, and, with liie < thing wrltnli g and twisting ab u?, i tilshead and face, ran ? ff that t oe i out inu) the plougned gr >und where 1 he could dispatch him. Prluos said ' he didn't mind hoi lng the Hiing in < his leeth, bub he didn't like tho taste 1 it left ir. his mouth. Dut the vic cry was won-the eel wa? ours, and 1 think made a heap lighter the Hogg ing we got for going to the creek without permlss'ou. I No, Prince's college mates are not 1 surprised that he ls Judge and they have no fear that the honor and dig- 1 ul:y of the Slate will s rtler at his bauds. In college be was a bigb toned gentleman who despised little meannesses of whatever kind and cherished high ideals. Hil class standing was always Urd ela s, and his literary society work was supeib. Indeed, 1 doubt whether Wi d nd has ever given to the world a otronger or more persistent debater. With him, to discuss any question with his peera was a delight. Manning Smith used to say that Prince would discuss with anybody the question: Which ts the top side of a battercake? and give his opponent choice of the sides. I Last year Prince was appointed special Judge fora term of Court at barnwell. The Judgo had two or three bumps on his bald bead, not such as would annoy or delight phre uologiuts, but harmless little things the phyr.icl.ins call "woos." With some friends the Judgo was sitting one afternoon in the Office of his hoi 9l. An ardent admirer from the country, armed with a bottle of "Fuss X," walked in and leaned against the clerk's desk. When the conversation lulled the countryman said: "Jedge!" "What is lt, my friend?" responded the Ju ge. "Jedge, I laks you." "Well," Haid tho Judge, with some embarrassment, "1 thank you for your good opinion of mo. "Yea, Jedge, 1 laks you-yes, slr, I laks your mini's; but, Jedge, I want to toll you; you air the fus Jedge 1 uver seed with horns on his head." The members of the Har present enjoyed the joke Im nensely, as ril l the Judgi himself, but when the Judge returned to Anderson he had himself dehorned -Alumnus In South ern Christi n Ad"- e t'_ Mina Mi ldc d Lt u l> ad. Miss Mildred Lee, youngest daugh ter of Gen. Robert lil. L-e, dieri at New O ?cans Tuesday night at the residence of Mrs. William Preston Johnston, while on a visit. Her death was due to appoplexy. A Maa Shoots a Girl Five Times and Kills Himself. NEAR CONWAY, S. C. Tho Maa Wanted to Marry the Woman and Because She Refused He Shot Her Five Times WUh a Pistol and Then Shot' Himself Also. A special dispatch to The State from Conway says one of the most aw ful and sickening tragedies which has ever occurred wlthlu the borders of this county took place Thursday morning about 7 o'clock, at Ilomowood station, on tho Coast Lino railroad, four miles north of Conway. As soon as tho news reached tb is place the correspondent secured a hors J and buggy and went out to the scene a peaceful looking one-roomed board cabin, surrounded by a small olear'ng, planted in English peas and straw berries, In the midst of the pine woods. In thc yard, almost In the spot where he foll, lay F. (J Sessions, commonly known us "Buddie" Sessions, dead, with a bullet through his brain by his own hand, and on a table within the sabin, was stretched the prostrate form . of Be:!e Sessions, a young girl ni 18 or 20 j ears of age, wounded In live placea by the hand of the dead man lying outside. She and her mother, Betsy Sessions, lived together alone in the cabin, which is on the land of Mr. Seorge Bray, for whom they worked as lay labjrers. From ad that can be gathered, Sessions bad been peis?out .ng this woman with his attention for nme time past, having threatened on l?verai occasions to kill ber if she .vould not marry him, although she , .vas the mother et two illegitimate ;hildren, the yout ger of whom is said JO be his child. It seems that there , vas an ot 1 r1 r mam In the case, now liv- ; ng in Florida or Georgia, who was . ,he favored lover, aud who had sent >n tickets for her and her mother to , some and J do him; and they were to , lave gone Wednesday, and had their ] jrunks hauled into Conway, but were . mable to leave on account of. force j nitteinror irrcgl>;_ ..,v?i the tleksts. The testimony of "the mother, at the soroner'ti Inquest, w,.s that she did not enow where they were golrg*, nor who vas furnishing the transportation; but hat her only idea wus to get away omewhero In order that the life of 1er ohild might be.spared. Theknowl < .dge of the throats mad j by ti .o de < :ea-:cd were, mo:e or less, a matter of summon information, and there are. ? orne lumors to the elf.ct that they md even been called to the attention i )f the > tlicials, who, however, had not i ,ak-n any action, thinking that the women were unnecessarily alarmed : >v? r Idle words. i As neither mother nor daughter lave ever been lawfully married, tbeli K u-.e bare a very unsavory reputation n the o mmunlty and no one would i >ave regietted ihelr departure had they gotten away on Wednesday. Just r.ef'>re the hour of the tragedy, the il ither went to the home i-f Mr. Bray i LO borrow a pl tc .fork for her day's work and after she left the house St s ?on-s, who must have been conc aled in tue wc ods, awaiting Just such an pportuuity, went up to tho cabin, intered, caught the girl, who tried to i un, pulled uer out on thc little piazza iud held her with his left hand while lie pulled his revolver of 38 calibre and emptied every chamber Into her body at arm's length. After releasing her, she staggered a few s cps and fell In thc yard, where she was found, with her two small children co lng over her, by those who tlrst arrived upon the scene. He then deliberately uu breached his pistol, reloaded all the chambers, and, placlsg thc muzzle Juat behind his right temple, fired the shot which penetrated the brain, com lng out on the other side of the head, jjst above the left ear. Tho woman was wounded In both arms, they being broken between the elbow and should er, once Just below the lefo breast, and twice just below the right breast. She was attended by Ur. Il ko Burroughs, the coroner, and D,\ Joooph S. Dus-u burry, b th of Conway, and was still alive at 1 o'clock, though there ls no chance whatever of her recovery. A jury was empaneled, before whom a number of witnesses, were ex amioed, both as to tho actual facts of the tragedy and also as to the caus. s and events le&Jing up to lt. The shots were heard hy teveral, all of whom testified to tho fact that they immediately surmised what had hap pened upon hearing the tiring. The verdict of the jury was that tho de ceased came to his death by means of a pistol wound Inflicted by himself. The woman was conscious when the d ctors reached her, and was able to make a statement concerning the shooting. Upon hor suggestion a search was made In the pockets of the deceased which revealed a note he had written, making disposition of what little money ho had, and provid lng tor thopavmentof certain small debts; and which showed, beyond all question of a doubt, that he went to the house with the fully rormed pur p 83 of killing both her and himself. In her statement the woman de clared that Se slons had on former occasions threatened not only to kill I her, but also to mako an end of his own life, and that she had seen notes which he had written in such expecta tion. He said in thc note he left that he had stoe cl herlies Just as l<>ng as I he could; and lt WJS brought out In the testimony that some time ago ho had met ber lu tho public road, and, at the point o' a pistol, forced from her a promi.e of marriage under threat of immediate death-a promis.' which she had no intention of car.y ing out Toe scene was certainly a r.-theiio and bizarre one, with the Iv.uy of the deceased lying on som> hoards, hts face sheltered from the burning BUD by an improvised s?elter of plue tops; a few feet away tbe quilts upon which she bad been laid; on the other hide of the house the fire around the black iron washpot, fr. rn wlioh water was being carried to the phi alelaos dress lng the wounds; the jury he arl UR the testimony seated upon the woodpile, surrounded by the usual crowd of Rap ing, ?daring spectators, many of whom had gone out from Conway in bu glee and on wheels; add to thin 'ho repeated moan of the mother. "Ob, I lust wanted to get away to save ber life.'* WILL GIVE US TROUBLE. What an Bngliahman Saya About the Victorious Japaneae. "Even If Japan be victorious In its conflict with Russia, I can seo nothing ahead of the masses of people of that race but & long period of tribulation," said Mr. F. Rawdon, of London, Eng land, who ls ab the New Willard and who has lived in Japan for many years, says The Washington Post. "It must not ba supposed that be cause the Japanese have displayed ex traordinary military prowess that they enjoy good economic conditions, or that there bas been any great improve ment in the status of the common peo ple since the abolition of tba feudal system, some thirty-five years ago. The masses still subsist on meals cost ing from 2 to 5 cents, and tho man over there who is able to eat a 60 cent dinner is a grandee of the first 1 magnitude. Any very great ohango ! for the better is impossible in a corni- 1 try that has only 148,000 square miles, 1 and a population of at least 45,000, 000. Add to this that there ls only * ll per cent of arable land in Japan, < and lt ls obvious that for the multi- 1 tude there is no escape from the grind- ' lng poverty and from long hours of i poorly paid toll. Modern methods * copied from tbe East have brought to ? Japan many newly established indus- ' tries, but the poor people who orowd f their factories work for wages that c the meanest laborer in England or the 1 United States would scorn. C "Now with the increasing hardships ? that the war entails, thousands cf Jap- v anese after its dose will wish to bet- ' ter their condition by corni og to the o United States, and I have not the i si lohtest doubt but that they are going C to orove a source of trouble to your ^ people if some legislation of a restric tive character is not adopto 3. Wher- I ?ver they come they will work for b -.maller nages than Americans or any t jther-^Jiite meD, and this will Mgot r an /^VfcTatloa^^*^aa was had in Call- v fjfZy r ^?hi?ese, and prob li abiy ri nu in i.;6 s??nV?*uiuaiou." 1 Ki -.-1- r Di. il CT Othera. At New York fireman Samuel Lillie f. was killed and several other ?iemaU t were injured by a cave-lD In the sub- a way at the One-hundred and Sixty- t Bight street station, which was burn- t ad Thursday. Lillie and four oihers g bad been sent Into the tunnel to wet j down tbe smouldering embers of the t. tire when a portion of the roof fell and ? crushed Lillie. Tho others were only ..lightly hurt. Lillie lost his life io i saving the lifo of one of his compan ions. B')tb Lillie and a fireman nam- * ed (Javanaugh, who were working side by Hide, saw the cave-in as is started, t Hoi h were direotly underneath the falling mass and both would have been f orushed had not Lillie thrown his whole weight against his companluc, j pusoing davauaugii out of the way Justas the mass fell. Llliio WAS crush ed to death in an Instant. ; Will Do Ouod Work. ' Mr. A. S. Salley, Jr., was Wednes fc day chosen as clerk of the South Car- ' olina nistorioal commissioner aftor a J competitive examination, In which a number entered This c.tllce was oreat 1 ed at the last Besslon of the legislature and provides a salary of 81,000 a year At the iast meeting of the commission ! on account of the number of appli cants lt was decided to place tbe mat ter on a competitive basis and Mr. , Salley was chosen after a careful ex- ' amlnatlon of the pupers. Mr. Salley . has been for some time tho historical editor of the News and Courier and is well known throughout tho state, his ( ability being unquestioned. ' Georgia Itatlroada Merged, I Announcement was officially made in Waycroaa that the Wadley and I Mount Vernon railroad, tba Douglas, Augusta t? Gulf railroad and the Ocllla, Pine Bloom & Valdosta rail roads had passed into new hands and that the management will be changed in a short time. The purchasers of the roads aro J. E. Wadloy, J. S. Batley and Q. G. Parker, all of Way cross, and they bave associated with them wealthy parties from Augusta, Douglas and other points along the lines, lt is stated that the new own ors will at onco proceed to build a line from Augusta, Ga., and connect with some point on the Gulf of Mexico. I'I Ct u rt) Agent Mint. A special from Newton, Misi., says: W. P. Smith, a travelling representa tive of a portrait company, was shot and instantly killed by Ray Tucker, a contractor and builder. Tho tragedy occurred In the outskirts of tho town. Tu."ker was driving when he met thf plotuie agent and assorts that Smith was attempting te draw a revolver when he (Tucker) fired. A difficulty had aris n between Smith and nicker over a picture the latter had ordered from the agent and willoh Tucker ro fused to accept on tho ground that it was unsatisfactory. Tuoker was ar rested. Smith lived at Meridian Miss._ Indloted for lOmbr zxlcrnont. William D. Ball, former postmastor at Orange Park, Fla., 14 miles from Jacksonville, was ludloted by the fed eral grand Jury Wednesday for cm l)ez7.1emont. Fie was oharged with be ing short in his accounts to the gov ernment. lt also devoloped last week that ho was short In his accounts as treasurer of the city of Orauge Park. Murder and Huielde. At Marshall, 111., William J. Cruse, shot and killed his brotner-in-law, Krank Llvlx, and Mien committed sui cide. Too wife of Cruse had obtain cd a divorce, cbarglng cruelty. Crus claimed that tho Livix family in fluoDced bis wife to leave bim. UNDER ARREST J. Morgan Smith and V/ife Found in Cincinnati, Ohio. A SEBIOUS CHARGE. They Are Indicted Jointly ia New York With Nan Patterson, Who la Charged With the Murder of a Gambier by the Name of Caesar Youri;;. Accused of conspiracy, to commit murder, J. Morgan Smith and wife were arrested in Cincinnati, Olilo, Thurady on telegraphic request from D.slrlct Attorney Jerome of New York city. Nan Patterson, the ac tress who has been twice put on trial for the murder of Caesar Young In New York, ls charged In tbe same connection, new indictments to this affect having been found in Naw Yi,rk Thursday. For a loug time the au thorities bad been unable to locate Smith and his wife, the couple having left New York a few months after the murder and before the beginning ?f the recent mistrial of Nan Patter son in which Smith's testimony was considered almost vital to the prosecu tion. Several weeks ago a New York de tective met Smith in Montreal, Janada, and from that time until the irrcsts this i Ulcer has awaited a 'avouable time for making the arrest Fie io lowed the oouple, part of the .Imo as traveling compinlou over half >f the coutiuent, having mada friends vlth Smith, who knew him to be a letectlve. but believed that the offl i?r was after some other person. D> ,roit, Cleveland and a number of Canadian cities were visited. Finally imith wi'nt to Nashville and L mis ills in the hope of si curing a position vlth some of the bookmakers In those :LIOS, leaviug bis wife in Cleveland. Ie was uubuc:essful and came to /inciunutl, where his wife met him on Vedneaday. Mrs. Smith said she had relatives n Covington, Ky., and she went with 1er husband to that city Wednesday o call on tbeac people, who, however, efusid to sec the visitors und after 1 earda declared that there waa no re- 1 itlousbip between them. Returning \j Oluuluua'.-t, ?iL?. CE?? JUT m?., S.v. 11 ??, egistered at the Grand hotel as li I. Binning and wife. The det otlve tad k.pi in telegraphic communioa icn with New York and had oeferred ,n arrest until lt was possible bo bake loth tai' band ;u.d wife, their so para loo so.m after reaching the United itates on returning from Canada hav og caused the delay. Wednesday light the detective wired to District Vitorney Jerome: "Smith and Julia are at the Grand lOtcl. Wire instructions." In roply the district attorney Cburs.iay telegraphed: '.Arroit Sxhh and wife as fugl ilves from justice." The district attorney also sent the ollowing: New York, March 30. ?aul Milliken, Chief ol Police, Cincin nati. Arrest and bold for extradition J. ilorgan Smith, wanted in New York m a charge of criminal conspiracy, smith will be found at the Grand IO tel, Fourth street, Cincinnati, vhere Detective Aiken may also be ound. Oillcer Quinn leaves today to stablish identify and procure requlsl ;lon papers. The governor's warrant viii follow as aoou as lt ls possible to procure lt. W. TIIAVKKS JKKOMK, District Attorney. The arrest was quietly made and Smith and wife were taken to police leaciquarters, where they made no at . j a, pr, to deny or oncea) their Identi fy although both denied any guilt In jonuectlon with the case. They ihowed signs of nervousness and worry, hut both husband and wife expressed in Intention to return to New York without requisition. Tho couple ?tated that they had expected to go to New York although they had not mticlpated doing so under arreat. Tue detective wno has b3on follow ing Smith says that Smith went un der mauy aliases in different cities be t?re registering in Cincinnati as II. II. Banning. At Hamilton, Out., Smith called himself Hush, at Montreal he was known as Aiauis, at Detioit it was Collins and in Cleveland Robin 3 in. Before being locked up, Smith was searched, lu Ins pocket were found an old watch, some pocket pieces and 12 85 in cash. In bin breast pceket were found two .envelopes sealed. When Lieut. Hoppe took tho envel opes, Smith made frantic efforts to get them biok hut tho two envelopes were retained by the police. A dispatch from New York sajs the grand Jury in that city Thursday handed down indictments against J. Morgan Smith, Julia Smith, his wife, and Nan Pattemun, charging them Jointly witn comsplracy. The indict ments sie bau d upon a letter alleged to have he n wrilteu by Julia Smith bo C.er.er Young in which, it ls alleg cd, was a throat and a demand fur money for the Patterson girl. Th s acth n ny the grand Jury fol 1 iwed a hearing at thu crimtnul court building, ar, wnlcli several witnesses, Including the widow of Caesar Youug and MM. Young's brother-in-law. Wm. Luce, were examined by Assis tant District Attorney Band, woo conducted tt e recent trial of Nan Pat terson, charged with Caesar Young's murder, which resulted in a disagree ment bv the jury. The arrest of Smith and lils wife at Cincinnati, accotding to the Now York .lUthtirlties, will have an imp riant bearing upon the new trial of thePat tersou girl on the charge of m?rier set for April 10. At a previous trial an at'ein pt was made to prove tba the revolver with which Y. ung waa shot was putcoased by Smith and ti vt oman the day before the tragedy oe curred. DISPENSAR* PROFITS Tiivided ?mong the Different Fohools of the state. DcflotnnoleH In SO Counties Made Up and Romainder Divided Ac? cording to Enrollment. Comptroller General Jones bas maoe an allotment of tl 10,OOO of dlspen nary profita to tbe public schools of tho State. The allotment was mud. after Anding out the deficiency In eaoh county. This deficiency repre sented tbe amount eaoh school in the county fell short of ?76 In some counties the 3 mill school tax produc ed revenue suffi Ment to pay each school $15, which amount is calcul?t ed to run a school three months. It required SQ,552 53 to make up Cheae-detlclenci?s and thc remainder of the profits reu rmtly declared by the dispensary were divided among all of the counties. Onesterfleld's county superintendent of education having failed to respond with the data neo essary, that county was not included In the distribution but the amount will be made up at subsequent distri butions. The total enrollment in the State as reported is 288.363; and the amount each pupil will recel vo from this dis tribution will be 34 1-2 cents. The deficiency money was divided as fol lows among the 2G counties reporting that the 3 mill school tax did not af ford $75 for each and all of the schools ir these counties: Abbeville, $297.85; Aiken, $76 30; Bimberg, $91 04; Barnwell, $32; Cherokee, $132 68; Olarondon, 374 82; Colleton, $491 09; E'gtfield, $460 24; Florence, $64 63; Georgetown $267- 78; Greenville. $91 84; Hampton, $434; Horry, $2,09t; Kershaw, $128; Lan. Cister, $739 80; Laurens, $170 76; Lee, $115 90; Lexington, $282 20; Marlon, $242; Marlboro, 8150 13; O.lo nee, $682 16; Orangeburg, $210; Pick ens, $140.16; Saluda, $1,100; Spsrtan burg, $19 16; Williamsburg, $949 Toe following table gives in the first column the names of the counties, In the second the number of pupils enrolled in the publie schools of each, and In third amount of money eaco received from the fundsof 8100,023 08 left after deficiencies had been made up: Abbeville. 8.995 $3,120.17 Aiken. 8,414 2,918 03 Anderson.13,321 4,620.76 Bamberg. 4,287 1,487.06 Barnwell . 7,083 2 456 ?3 Beaufort. 4.033 1,398 95 Berkeley . 5,452 1,801 17 Charleston.13,378 4,640.52 Cherokee. 4,491 1,557 82 Chester. 6,318 2,191.57 Clarendon. 6.227 2,l60.oo Colleton .. .. .TTT7-5rS67-"Z|035.13 Darlington. 6 851 2,029 68 Dorchester. 2,984 1,035.08 Edge?eld. 6,117 2,121 85 Fait field. 7 336 2,544 69 Florence. 6 518 2,26o 95 Georgetown. 3 356 1,164.12 Greenville.12 338 4,297.78 Greenwood. 7,394 2,564 80 Hampton. 5,035 1,746 53 Horry. 6,138 2,129 13 Kershaw. 4,679 1,623 04 Lancaster. 0,529 2,204 76 Laurens. 8,007 2 777 45 Lee. 4 511 1,564.76 Lexington. 6,711 2,348.7o Marlon. 8,411 2,917.59 Marlboro. 6,782 2,005.04 Newberry. 6.989 2,424 33 Ooonee. 6 694 2,113.87 Orangeburg.14,425 5,0u3 7u Bickens. 5.279 1,831.16 Richland. 8,873 3,077 85 Saluda. 6.361 1,859 ?0 Spartanburg.15 311 5,311:04 Sumter. 7,128 2,472 54 Union. 6,290 2 181.86 Williamsburg.... 6,765 2,346 62 York.10,215 3,543.35 Tho Mileage Grab. The $190,000 mileage grab under taken by the house of representatives j I has brought upon the members of con gress widespread condemnation. Wal ter Wellman, Washington correspon dent for the Chicago Record Herald, referring to this attempted grab, says: I i '"Proceeding upon the assumption that their constituents' memory is no longer than their own, a majority of the house of representatives voted themselves 8190,000 mileage in the cksing days of the last session, where as one year ago not a single member, with the elections following In the fall, had the courage to stand for such an appropriation. To tho ordinary congressman it makes a great deal o: difference in handling public affairs, whather be ls to come before bis peo ple for election in a few short month: or whather a ample of years are t< intervene. The mileage grab Is nol a new question. It has been up several times in congress, but never has been succe-'?ful. Nevertheless, bad not the senate Interposed and removed from the general deficiency bill the Item lu serted by the house, the raid upon tb< treasury probably would have beei successful this year." Mr. Wellmai j directs attention to the fact that tl? majority who voled for the mileag' grab also voted to Impeaci Jung Swayne on the oharge of falsify in) accounts, because he charged the max Imum allowance of 810 per day whei bis aotual expenses were lu s. Mr. Wellman base implied from tho Con gressional Record the names of mom orrs who vote! for or wer? favorabb f? the mileag . irrab and arranged then by state delegations. Tho Gift Aoooptttd. A Boston dispatch *ai s ?he Ameri can board of ooramls-l e* of forotgi missions announces tibi t its /rudent lal dommittee bas accepter uu\j report the sub oommlttee recomo? nding ac eptanoe of tho gift of $100,000 b* John D. Rockefeller, but final aotbu in the matter had been postponed tw< weeks. Later prudential commltte reported that it bad decided to accep the Ruokefeller gift. Oootl Advice. The Washington Pest gives Blshoi Potter this timely blt of advice: "Il were well, we think, if wo may be p; r mltted to malf.0 a suggestion respect. ?og so dlstlngulshel a persou as th Bishop of New York, that be bower. ?f reckless speaking, that he exerolse moro control over that unruly mern ir r, the tongue. It lil becomes him t.'i Indulge in such unwarrantet flings." MAINE WAS SUNK Through Mistake Says Oessler Rosseau, the Bomb Maker. REMARKABLE STORY. Rosseau Claims that He Made the Ex plosive that Destroyed the Battle ship Maine in Havana Harbor, and tu?t It Was Intended for a Spanish Ship. That the battleship Maine through an error was destroyed by a bomb of his manufacture was the statement made by Gessler Rosseau in the New York Tombs prises. Rosses u waa convicted of having sent explosives to the Cunard line pier, in Nsw York in May, 1903. He made the following statement on Tuesday of last week: '.For several years, while the Cuban . --( patriots were struggling against Wey. . r, I watched the contest with deep interest and sympathy. I decided to io to Jacksonville and do what I could io assist the revolutionists. I started rom S?-. Louis, where I had bien llv g du irg . he early part of 1897. "Beton- taking a train for the south [ got together the material for the :onstruoikn of two exploding ma* i iines of tremendous power, so ar ranged that they could be wound np md left in a selected place with the tertainty that they wou.d go off with errlble destruction within a few lours "At New Orleans I rented a room ind put the boxes together, after vhich I went to Jacksonville. There . b.came acquainted with a party of Ju nan leadeis who were planning a ilibusterlng ex pedi'ion. They bad mgagel the Destroyer, a small vessel, o take them to Cuba, along with a lumber of American and European adventurers, who were anxious to trike a blow for Cuban freedom. "Several of the leaders of the party .re men now well known and 1 will tot mention their names although I lave among my pap J ra a list of them ai; "I saggested to them that they'usei uy uiavuiuu nu V7.~J??. vj-C,...,. -, . - ?aO*' hips in the harbor of Habana and in ' ither ports on the coast of the island, '.'ney readily selz:d upon the idea, ,Ld when the Destroyer sailed with he fllicujterers they took my two ?.achines willi them. "lt was my intention to go along ritb the party so as to direct the vork of sinking the Spanish ships, mt they dissuaded me, urging that I ould be of greater use in JaoksonvUIe ireparlng other machines if the tl rat ?roved successful. "It was penued to have some mem bers of the revolutionary party Join ,he Spanish navy so as to get the nachlnes aboard. If that faUed it .vas decided to fasten ons of the boxes X) the hull of a ship under the water ? ne, for I had constructed my ma mlues so they could be exploded un ler the water. "That was late in the fall of 1897. The next spring the Maine was de itroyed. ' Only one of the men in the secret if the machine ever returned to \merlca. I saw him seme time after ,he war with Spain had begun. "He told me he had nothing to do with the boxes after reaching Cuba, mt had been told a mistake bad been nade. "The man who bad been entrusted with the task of destroying a Spanish ,\ssel attempted to fasten a box dur cg the night to one of Alfonso's war ihlps and blundered into blowing up one Maine. "I was told that the man, immedl Hely learning of the error he had made, committed suicide." Died in His Boat. At Charleston Karl Maass, a Ger man ship carpenter, was found dead in bis boat witn bis head hanging over che gunwael In tho water Wednesday norning at the foot of Pinekney street. It is supposed that he died of ueart disease or apoplexy. He had lot long gone down to the wharf and ?utered his little gasoline launch of bis own build when he was found ?cid. lb} bad been complaining of ,ls hean and it is thought that per rups Ibo exerttnn proved too great ft - strain, causing his death. He bas been m this country only two years. He v?s devoted to the water and his companions were almost entirely sea uen. Explomoa tn i nc. embway. A severe explosion, followed by an m?brtak of.tire, weona detl^d all the fTirts ot the tl remen to completely xtingulsh it, occurred Wednesday bs an untinlshed section of the subway it Broadway and Ono Hundred and sixty-seventh street, New York. The oad at ttiat poiut ls 125 feet belo? he surface. The explosion followed a coll sion between an empty train vhtch ha 1 b en run too far beyond ne i mm.nal switch and a flab ear, .n which were 14 lb.,lian laborers. STo) one was Injured. i Veteran Of Garibaldi's Army. Col. Fr ederick D< Fuuiak, capitalist ?ul distinguished citizen, died at his -eK'.aenoe in Louisville, Ky., Wednes day. Col. 1 >.(Koniak was born tn R >me, italy, 65 years ago and was a veteran >f Garibaldi's army. Ha was for a lung -.'mi' c iief engineer of the LouUvdle & Nashville railroad and has been onnected with railroad building in .nany parts of the country. He was ft nember of the Ne* York Yaoh*- olub, f the Old Southern Yaoht club and )f the Pntladelphla Yacht, olub. Roon Volk Witt apante. Prosld mt Roosevelt will deliver an ddies* in Brooklyn on May 30 at th? xeroises in connection with the un* veiling of the statue of Ge ?J. Slocum,. . J