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PLAIN TALK. Rev, Richard Carroll, Colored, Appeals to His Race. EDUCATED NEGROES Me Cialins WU! Not bc a Menace to, But the Ally of the White Man. Pleads for Negro Women. No Race Can Rise Higher Then Its Womanhood. Richard Carroll, a negro Baptist preacher, who ls running an indus trial home near Columbia tor negro orphans, preached to large audiences in Columbia on Sunday, April 2, a doc trine new to nearly all uf his hearers. He believe? that he has a mission in this world, a misslcn to plead for jus tice for the negro, and to plead with the negro to lot alone those things with which they should have naught to do, to aspire to be a worthy fol lower rather than a shiftless leader. The State says while the opera house was not crowded still it is a fact that at the two services probably 1,800 people listened to this eloquent negro. It may be that some might have gone from curicsity, but every one who heard him would go back next Sunday if Carroll were to speak again. The man's eloquence consists not In ora tory, for rarely does he permit him self to indulge in rhetoric, hut In his statement of conditions in a way which can but make each race feel the more kindly toward the other. It was with no show of fear and with favor to none that Carroll spoke If be gave loating negrees a verbal chastisement, he also rebuked the white people for tolerating it and thus encouraging laziness on the part ot the negroes. For three hours he poured forth cjmmon sense sugges tions which are the crystali/.ed ntl.c tlons of the thought of this neuro woo loves all the south, including even the so-called "poor white man." Dr. Flinn in presenting Carroll told of the orphan home near the city, built on the site of the ante bellum mansion of thc Trenholms and later the homo of Rev. J no. L. Girardeau. D. D., one of the most eloquent preachers in America, who had giveu many years of his best work to the uplifting of the negro. Dr. Flinn de clared that the southern white people should do all they can to educate the negro, to reinstate in a measure that tine family control of the old south which was so much for the negro's own good. Dr. Flinn at thc uight meeting told of his visit to the orphan home. He remarked upon the cleanliness which there he found. Economy and indus try are taught there. Nothing is wasted and each ward of the institu tion has his work todo. The institu tion teaches morality by prtc pt and by example. He declared Carroll to be a thoroughly unseltish man. Carroll captured the attention of the audience from the very outset. There was no ditlidence in his man ner. He had a message, he had the power to deliver that message, and he felt lt. While he has the ele ments of an orator, he did not at tempt any line speaking excepton one or two thoughts, particularly his tribute to southern womanhood. While the lower door of the opera house was nearly lilied with white people, there was not such a large crowd of negroes on the balcony above which had heen reserved for the ne groes. Sunday night the attendance of negroes had nearly doubled, show lng that Carroll ls coming more Into favor with his own people. Carroll declared that he dots not like to talk to a mixed audience, for he cannot say to the white people what bc woulci like for fear of giving to negroes the idea that he is impertinent. The white people would understand him. Tho negro served the south faith fully for 200 years. He made the south rich. The south bi fore tiie war was the richest sectu n of the world. The negro can make the south rich again. When the men of the south went to war, the negro served them faithfully; bc burned no h use, he committed no crimes. He protected the women; he made the very bread for them to eat. After the war came the politician. The south never had negro rule. The negro is not a race to rule, but to foliow. No race ?. musical can rule. The negro needs no organ. He buys one because ne sees the white man buy big it. Hi> breast is full of music. He sing wheu he ls mad, and he sings when he is in jail. When in slavery he stopped singing, the white people knew that he was thinking ano wert, troubled until the negro s ta rico to singing again. The negro will nevi r dominate. He is a singing, nou a thinking race. Inverting a phrase but recen tl] coined but even now trite, Carroll de clared that not only is it true Hut the southern while mani.-, the negro's best friend, but the negro ls the b st friend of the while man. lt is the hybrid races that the Aug! Saxon must fear, the mulattoes, of whom there are not enough to be a menace, the Indians, tho Mongolians. The Anglo-Saxons will in the next25 years regret the day that they gave en couragement, sympathy or assistance to the Japanese, lie read from Re velations John's vision of the horses, the respective color of which Carroll applied to the races of the earth The black horse carrying the balances, he said, is the black man who will in time to come have the balance of pov/er between the Anglo Saxon and the Mongolian, and he will t urn that power to the white man. Thc white race will rule the world because of the assistance of the negro. He de clared he would rather have the southern white man's problem thah the northern white man's. The north, from its tide of undesirable immigration, will in ten years be ap pealing to the south for assistance. And the negro will help the white man then, he exclaimed. Gen. Lee wanted the negroes put into regiments to defend the south, but other southern captains differed with him, and ''Fattier Abraham" came along and marshalled the negro into battle array under the Hag of the union. Why lias not Lue negro been exterminated, he asked. At the risk of hoing called a traitor by his own people ho would make some sugges tions. Ho told how Josephus had prophesied against the taking up of arms against Rome, and by the Jews ho was called a traitor, even when he fought with the Jews untll.tho streets ran red with blood, and Titus begged them to surrender to himself as be did Dot want to exterminate the race. Tho sad history of the Jews ot that time would ba the history of the negro of today if he would attempt to take the reins into bis own bauds. The white man of the north would be the friend of the white man of the south, ho matter what may now be the idle tilk of "force bills" and measures to reduce representation in congress. At this point he digressed for a mo ment to say that the Ogden move ment, so-called, ls not to elevate the negro, but to educate the Door white people first. He bad been told this by men prominently connected with the conference on a recent visit north. They aro willlug to leave the educa tion of the negro with the white peo ple of the south and that is why they would first educate tho poor white people. The negro race will never rule any body else, he said, until they first learn to sirve. The leading negro ls today those who have good homes, and honorably families are the ones who were the b?st slaves. ''It ls ourbusl uess to serve; God left us here In the south to Berve," he said. He declared that the educated negro cares noth ing for social equality between thc races. "I don't care how h'ghly a negrj may be educated, he bates to face a white man In eating. He dosn't enjoy the rashuns'." E'ucatlon will not bring the negro any cloner to the white man, socially. lt will show just how far to go. lt ls the ignorant uegro who would rush lu where angels and poor whites would not dare to tread. TUe filthiest kitchens In all the world are in southern homes. The way to find a man out ls by his bick yard. His parlor ls always fixed for company, but go to the room where he s O' ps, go to the kitchen. The mau who pays a cook 75 cents a week, Is rtpa'd In dirty food. Bitter wag? s would get better service, although the n-gro likes the pay part bitter than be docs the work. Toe north ern white people would not put up with the slovenly habits of the negro. A cook will g > on an excursion, stay three or four days, and c 'me back to ber Job. She will burn up the rice, burn up the biscuits, get discharged and be back at work the irext day. He told of a negro boy working ina hotel in this State who has learned at school that the greatest accomplish ment in life is to be able so to do his work that no one can come behind him and do it any better. The race needs teachers. As th? negro studies the >logy, he snoult study also how to farm. "Help tin negro," he appealed. "See that the] have good teachers. If they get goor preachers, help the negroes to keei them, ar.d when they get bad preach ers help them to get rid of them The race i^ kept back because of tbi great power and lulluence of un worthy preachers, men who preaol tone, and not sense. He did a Hm piece of acting to show how ignoran preachers mumble something with nt intelligence and affect their congrega tiona marvelously, because the negri is so su e?ptlble to sympathetit sounds, before the war there was i servants' house in every yard. Th white people should keep their ser vants close to them. Make then sleep. Keep them away from fes tivals and revivals. The man who doe without sleep will degenerate. And hore followed one of his onl; efforts at oratory, and lt was entire ly au unconscious Hight, an apostroph tri the womanhood of the south What ls lt makes the Anglo-Saxoi race proud and mighty? It la th white women. It ia the home Hooker Washington tells the neg roe to build fine houses so that they wil he respected. Carroll declared tba this would not do the negro any good There are too many tine diuretic among thc negroes now. Too muc brick and mortar. Home is not mere dwelling. Home is woman. Th negro woman is treated worse tba the woman < f any other race In tb world. There ls a destroying ange on every corner awaiting the nrgt woman. Her own race will not pre tect her and the white man will no protect her. No race eau rise abov its won.en. White women shouli talk with negro women-not associ?t with tl? m, but advise them. Th educated white pr opie of the soul treat ihn negro better than any otho set of p opie, and they are polite t the negro. God gave Calhoun to South Carolin;! He gave other great men to Su: Carolina; He gave to South Carolin t '0 great Hampton, who by raisin his baud stopped the tide of feelin which might have swept the negro o the cont ?nen-: He gave to South Cai olina Gonzales, who wrote honor an justice to the wdiite man, justice t the negro, ju tice io every man. Tbl man set bis face like a flint to the t;is and alt hough lt, lost him money, a th' ugh it cost bira frlf n is, he pleade for justice and when God got turoug with him he fell dead on the streei a p'tr ol till the last. A min prout I) b ), ii, who hat! no love for the b< gro as an individual, hut the champ lon ( f law and ord> r, wbos* gn at pr per ls yet dedicated to that cause Negroes were sold to the north an io the south at d bio td was shed five them. Bu ?he negro has had noll mg lo do with lt. Carroll appeal* for justice for the negro, protectio fr' tn snell b oks as "The Clansman, which makes thc people of the rmrt think.of the negro as nothing but brute. Tue business men of a cour try are going to run lt and they wi run the negro out of politics. Theda has passed, however, when a whit man cab get an olilce by stooping s low as to abuse the negri?. He told c a visit tn President Roosevelt, and h declared his linn belief that Mi Roosevelt ls for the white man. H merely wants the white man to "aol the negro'up wi'b ut any equallt whatever. The Ogden movement i not to make race equality but to ht gin by educating the Ignorant whit pcple. The "poor white mr.n" has not bee counted on as the negro's friend. Th negro has been fighting the pot white man for :i()0 years and he ba better stop it. The poor white ma is in the saddle, he is on the: jurie; and every man must reckon with hltr The negro must get his friends!)] and good will. He declared that th suffrage discrimination ls not an it justice to the negro so mindi as lt 1 Lo the poor white man, who tilting Ignorant ls allowed to vote and 1 thus kept In ignoronce. If voting ar tagoni/.es the white man, If votin will retard tho progress of tho race then do not vote. Let the white ma do the voting. Let us get the casi If the white men make laws vvhlc must not be obeyed by white an black alike, he Injures his own raci He.again referred to the light c Tho State for law and order, and d< clared that when a man kills a negr and ls acquitted because his victim was a black man, his next victim will be a white man. He lapsed Into an eloquent passage here, declaring tbat tbe stain of blood guiltiness will never away. He would rather be killed than to kill a man. It ls wrong for tbe white men to go ahead saying "the negro is rising too fast." It is true tbat there is an oc casional home being built. But the curse of loafing ls killing out the race. Beforo the war the owners made them come in at night. He talked of the fallacy of "Btloking together like the white people." The white people do not Btlck together. When a white man wants to go up higher he does not tie himself to those of his race who are his Inferiors. It ls wrong for negro preachers to tell their peo ple to use negro literature and have negro teachers only. Tue Japanese 50 years ago left aside their own civi lization and took up that ot the Anglo Saxon. .'Our.relation to the white people of the country is peculiar," he said. "If they did not exterminate the ne gro In 1876 they will not do lt now. If the negro did not burn them out then they will not do lt mw. If there have not been race wars there will not be any now. The negro is not in the white man's way except the loafing neuro. Carroll repeated what he had said about the negro woman. No race ls any better than its women. He ap peals to tho white women to help the negro women Tell them of God, tell them of salvation. This can be done without sacrificing dignity. Negroes idolize white people. And such talk to negroes from white worn :n would have wonderful effect If done in dig nity as is the case of one noble woman in Camden whose name he mentioned with a very prayer on his lips it seamed. Negroes are slanderers. They stand i il and abuse. Hut never fear them, they are the white man's best friends, and will be taught as children. "I love my race, I want to see them prosper. But unless you go to work Immigrants will come in here and take your places. The north ls no place for the nt gro. He should go back to the farm In the south. The degradation of the negro women is the degradation of the white man and he plead, tl earnestly for better homes on the farms for negro tenants. There should be u room for the boys, a room for the girls, a room for the man and wife and an assembly room." II? de clared that the morals of the white p opie are sure to ho affected by the morals of thc negroes. He told an duecd Ae of Gen Hamp ton coming down to the Slate house to plead with Gov. Richardson for an attentive audience for some negro preachers, one of whom was Carroll. After paying a tine tribute to Gen. Hampton, Carroll said that if the ne groes and the white people had fol lowed the advice of Gen. Hampton just after the war, the country wuuld be better oil today. But the negroes followed strangers. With this he concluded his address. The large audience had listened with close attention for an hour and 25 minutes._ Foully Mur tiered. Jeff D naldson, a well known negro brick layer, was shot through the heart and Instantly killed Saturday night at about !).30 o'clock. Donald son had just returned home from North wheie he has been for the mst tw j weeks engaged in his profession. He lives in the surburbs of this city, and was killed upon his door step by party or parties as yet unknown. Donaldson bore a good reputation as a peaceable hard workirg mason, and while lt is true that he has been in some trouble in the past, he has never seemed to be i.f a rowdy nature. It is said that when he returned to his home Saturday night, all of his family had retired and that the lights were out. He called to h's wife to let her know that lie had arrived, and she re plied that she would get a lignt and open the door. This she did, D m aldson, it is said, had reached the steps when the door opened and as thc light ll loded the pathway to the gate, a pis ol tired, and he fell forward up;jn lils own door step, sh it through the heart. He expired almost immediate ly. Sund.ty a coroners jury was em panelled, viewed the body, and took :i 11 thc evidence possible In the case. Nothing of much importance was de duced and the usual verdict in such cases was rendered. The wh de matter lias bein turned over to the Sheriff's tillie as the killing occurred outside of the incorpor?t': limits. The oise is being worked up and it is probable that an arrest will soon follow.-The Timos and Democrat. lim K Him Twice. At Pittsburg, Pa., two men were banged Thursday and the tirst unsuc cessful hanging was recorded in Alle g eny c lunty. Ueno Dardata was hnngrtd lirst, and his neck was broken. William J Byers folio .od. The lo p of the in ose was pulled away, prtoipl tating him to th" ground. He was not badly hurt, the rope was again adjusted. This time there were no mishaps. Death re tilted from stran gulation. Byers w as con vic cd of killi: g August J. Layton at Turtle Cre k cn June 3, 1901. Il-- implicated Layton's wife and Jilin M -.Williams They we;o acquitted. Mcwilliams afterward married Mrs. Layton. Dar data killed Thomas Sinclair at Im perlai on Sept? mb -r 20. 1903, during a quarrel over a drink of whiskey and a dollar. oru H t ito C*HO. The late Bishop McLaren was a newspaper reporter lu Pittsburg fifty years ago and on one occasion was assigned to report the proceedings of a religious convent ion. It was willie thus acting in his reportorial capacity that '. a got his religious inspiration. Hesubsrquently entered a theological seminary and achieved the prominence and distinction that marked his career in the Church. Sortons Cintran. On Saturday t he charred remains of Mrs. W. J. Thompson and her two young children were found in the ruins of tlndr burned home, at Shad well, Albemarle county, Va. Wed nesday the husband of the woman was arrested on the charge of murder ing tile three. Shadwell ls near Charlottesville, where a former mayor, J. Samuel McOue, was recently con victed and executed for wife murder. Killed by Falling lilmb. About half-past twelve o'clock Thursday Mr. Thos. J. Jackson, son of Mr. J. J. Jackson, who lives near Bowman, was driving a wagon of fer tilizer home and when he got about one mlle from Bow in tn a limb of a falling tree struck him on the side of the head killing him Instantly. Young Jackson was about twenty-one years of age and a recent graduate of a well known business college at Macon, Ga. [ J 1 CHICAGO ELECTION, The Democrats Won a Great Victory Over the Republicans. Municipal Ownership of Public Util? lt lon tho Issuo on Which the Bat tlo Was Fought and Won. A dispatch 'rom Chicago says a political tornado on Tuesday, April 4, overwhelmed one of the most rugged ly unique leaders in the eountry. In cidentally, the Republican party met defeat in a memorable effort to cap ture the mayoralty of Chicago. As a direct result tho oity is officially com mitted to the polloy of the quickest posible cessation of private franchises for public utilities. Municipal owner ship ls especially threatening street car lines, valued high up in the mil lions. After winning successively four re-i j markable biennial lights of independ ents against the regular Republican i, I party organization 'here,.. John May- j nard Harlan, son of Associate Justice Harlan, of the United Stales Supreme Court, was a loser aa Republi can candidate for mayor. The defeat is attri outed to an extraordinary whirl of causes starting with political revenge and takmg in a wide sweep, mbracuig the most up to date Social sm as a f ictor. "The victor is Judge E l ward F. Dunne, Democrat. Seldom, if ever, has Chicago wit nessed amore lively, plsturesque con test. Tuesday, particularly, tho city 11 was hideous with the riuglng of cow bells and the roar of cannon cback crs. It was a raw, blustering day gb o-ny and cold for the most part until about the hour for the close of voting. The sunburst then was not hulled Joyfully by the Republicans who felt that cveu In the matter of election weather the party had been under a severe handicap Appeals to fear of domination by corporate wealth uppeared to sway many voters, and, perhaps more than any other lnlluer.cj, was incorrectly gauged by thc Republicans. Harlan nad been savagely harassed during the campa gd as Hie reputed representa tive ot Wall street Interests intent on fastening hurdensooie franchise grants upon the city. The Republicans, however, had ligured that the voters susceptible to appeals of this kind would support the Socialist candidate. Collins, and that losses, if any, tj the Republicans would be more than made up by Harlan's old time admirers among Independent voters. Esti mates, however of 50,000 votes as the total for Collins, Socialist, fell wofully short. The chief error In this re spect was appcarantly In regard to the amount of loss from the Demo crats to the. Socialists The advocacy of immediate municipal ownership radically voiced by Judge Dunno out heroded any move by Collins. Calculations upon colored voters were a source of error in Republican expectations. An unmistakable de fection, suddenly manifested in the districts where Afro-Americans are numerous gave a severe j jit to Repub lican campaign managers. The most plausible explanation was that Judge Dunne from the hench in years had shown an uuexampled spirit of fair ness toward colored men and women in exigencies when freedom from raoe prejudice was sorely needed. An upheaval among temperance d vocates against Hai._. unc-jK-^dly did much to ruin his chances. The smallness cf the Prohibition vote is regarded by many as evidence that temperance voters, regarding him as a special euemy, voted for Dunne, in apprehension that Harlin might win if too many votes were g. ven the Pro hibition nominee. One ef the amusing features that ls recalled now as tending to centre nood natured feeling in Judge Dunne's behalf, is his record as a father. He ls the happy fattier of thirteen chil dren. This phase of the campaign was at tended to by ' Pop" Anson, who has an almost equally meritorious rtcjrd in family malters. Anson, the old time hero of the base ball diamond, was the Democrat c candidate for city clerk. His popularity, personally, was beyond a doubt; a potent help to the Democrats, wiio seemed to hugely appreciate his campaign statistics designed to pr ive ttiat the Democra cy, at least in Chicago, are the origi nal and ouly genuine opponents of race suicide. Judge Dunne was elected by a plurality of 24 24? and received a majority of 945 of all the votes cast. lie also had u.edistinction of receiv ing the greatest vote ever cast In Chicago for a candidate tor the otllce of mayor. He was given 171,60? votes out of a t ?tal of :i22 373 Mr. Harlan, the Republican candidate, received 137,411, Collins, the Socialist candidate, 2o ;52:t, and Stewart, Pro hibition, 2,?SO. .lohn F. Smul&kl. the Republican candidate for city attorney, was re elected over his Democratic opponent by nearly l?.OUU votes. The other candidates on the Democratic city ticket 'wi re elected by pluralities somewhat smaller tuan Judge Dunne. Frederick W. HI- ck was elected city treasurer aud Adrian C. Anson, city clerk. Shot Hor Sweetheart. At Huntsville, Ala., Thursday Hill A. Ballard was shot and killed by Miss Oma Harding, tils sweetheart, who followed lier attack on him by slio iting herself through the heart, dying instantly. The tragedy is be lieved to have been the result of a lovers' quarrel. The woman came to Huntsville Thursday morning, pur chased a pistol and went to Ballard's boardh g house, called him to tho door and opened tire on him. The bullet passed into his left breast and he ran into the kitchen and fell. Tho wo man killed herself on the front porch. Youi g Mallard died at the olly hes pital Thursday afternoon. Ile was a nephew of Gov. Cox of Tennessee and a son of A. C. Ballard of Bristol. He had been here earning a dollar a day for sevond weeks. Miss Harding was a daughter of Mrs. Mary Harding of Sparta, Tenn. Turned Up Alivo. A special from LaPorte, Ind., pays: Julius Scnurr, mourned as dead for 40 years, but now a wealthy ranchman in Texis, has arrived at Michigan City, Ind., and met his sister, Mrs. Augusta Leursh. The sister attrib utes the reunion to prayer, declaring that she had never ceased supplicat ing for tho. Unding of her lost hrother. Got 1)AIII?KO8. A Jury in Saluda gave Mrs. Susie Brodie a verdict of $7(30.60 against thc Southern for damages claimed to have been received hy the profanity and obscenity of some passengers who were on the car in which she was rid ing. EARTHQUAKE SHOOKS. l?verai Parts of India Badly Dam e?cd and Many Killed. ( A dispatch from Lohon, India, say? lie Hill station, of Dharmsala was nacl leahy razed to the ground by the arthquakes. The native quarter was , : ntl rel y obliterated, many of the in- 1 ?abltants were burled in the ruins, nost of the houses In the European martor were wrecked and ' nine per- | .ons. were killed. The people are looping In the open air, food 1B not >rocurable and the great distress pre railing is accentuated by keen frost. Che entire population ls homeless at d incamped on the adjoin lng hill sldts without protection and practically ratlrely without medical aid. A ri le! party was dispatched to Dhartr ?ala Wednesday. The Europeans ? tilled at Dharmsala were Mrs Rubin- \ on, wife bf the colonel commanding ;he troops there and her two daugb- , sers, Mrs. Hold?rness, Captain Mus ^ jroft and four members of the Indian ?ivii service. Seventy people wert tilled in the native quarter of Lahore. Reports from various poinis Indi cate that the earthquakes caused very wide spread disaster. The towns t f Amritsar, Jullunder, Ejrczopore, Mul Lal and Rawal Pindi, as well as Mus- ( jorree, were badly shaken and dam aged and great damage and loss of life are reported from Kashmir, Dal auusl, DehraduQ, Patrala and Maler kotla. The telegraph services is dis Drganlzed and news ls cjmlng in dowly. The mortality In this city is between 50 and 1000, all natives. No , Europeans are reported missing. Four hundred and seventy men of Gurkha regiments were burled alive as a result of the earthquake at tho hill station of Dharmsala, according to the latest information from that place. The report adds that'lt ls im possible to rescue the entombed men. The Kangra vally is believed to have been devastated and it is reported that the town of Kangra was reduced to ruins with great loss of life. No confirmation of the rop irt is obtain able as the telegraph station at Kan gra is wrecked. A telegram received by the Church Missionary society in London from Lahore, India, reports that three of the society's rc p \ sentatlvcs at Kan gra, the Kev H. F. Rowland, Mrs. Daueable and Miss L^rber, were kill ed by the fall of the raisilon house there during the recent earthquake. All the other missionaries In the Pun Jab are believed to be safe. THREE M BN KILLED By an Explosion in ? Cartridge Fac tory in Bridgeport. At Bridgeport, Conn., lu a terrific explosion that blew to pieces one of the brick buildings of the Union Me tallic Cartridge Company shortly be fore the close of the day's work Wed nesday, three men were Instantly killed. Great crowds gathered and in the panic that followed women faint ed and made frantic efforts to get within the walls surrounding the plant, as lt was reported that many lives were lost. They were held in check, howevor, and the employees in the other buildings made their es cape in safety, - The apparent horror of the situa tion was increased by the breaking out of tire and the appearance of am bulances and morgue wagons, whlc^ rattled up to the factory. A few moments after the explosion occurred the Ure department arrival on the scene and succeeded in cht eking the Hames quickly. The culy man lu the building at the time, John Meary, was blown chrough the roof, with a great mass of debris, and fell dead. Two helpers, Michael Hurley and William Bayliss, working near the building, also were killed. The explosion c courred in the dry house, where primers caps aro dried on long steam pipes. In some manner one of the caps was discharged and the explosion followed. The foundations of every building were skaken as If by an earthquake and the explosion was felt In houses within a radius of a ml'e. Superintendent Ryland said Wedncsdxy tliat the l"ss to the com pany would be about 3.10.000. A FRENCH FOOL" Soared Hie Wife Nearly to Death and Committed Suicido. A telegram to Hie Baltimore Amer ican says: The deatli of one person and hopeless sinsanity in another have resulted from a silly practical joke. M Edmond Lelouse, wishing to frighten lils wife, dressed up a wax tlgure, the head of which and one of the hand- tie lightly attached to the body by means of gum, and placed lt In bed. While M Lelouie was watch ing the proceedings from behind some draperies his wife, about to retire, grasped what she supposed in thc semi-darkness to be her husband's hand, but which was in reality that of the wax tigre. The hand, cold and clammy, detached Itself from the limb and remained lu lier gra^p. With a cry of terror Mme. Lelouse lot the hand drop to the ground and Hung her arms around the figure's neck, when the head also became detached and rolled down upon the door. The terror-stricken woman, uttering pierc ing shrieks, ran madly down the stairs, where she was stopped by some neigh bors and detained. When the police irrlved it was found that she had be come raving mad. Later she; was con veyed to the asylum. When the hus band was apprised Thursday morning jf the hopelessness of his wife's con Jltlon he poisoned himself by taking i dose or nitric acid. Rimed Baggage. Gus Emanuel, baggage master of the Florida Eist Coast railway, was irrcstcd at Miami, Fla., Wednesday, charged with robbing baggage ol lewelry and other valuables. It ls .aid that other arrests are to be made, mt the suspects being warned by Emanuel's arrest have tied. Bobbing jaggage is declared to have been pur med systematically during the past .eason and tourists have been heavy osers. Honored Sohlojr. At Mobile, Ala., Thursday after loonthe members of Raphael Serames samp, U. C. V., clad In their uniforms if grey and carrying an old battle lag recently returned to them, called in Admiral and Mrs. Schley and paid ,helr rcspeots. In behalf of the camp. Ion. O. J. Semmes, son of Admiral lemmas, presented the admiral with , magnificent thirty-second degree dasonlo jewel. inductor OH ver Killed by Brake- i man Mickle on Southern. HILLED AT STILTON. .reight From Columbia to Charleston Tied Up at Orangeburg on Ac* count of tbe Altercation at Stilton Which Resulted in the Killing of Oliver. Conductor Charles Oliver of the ?iuthern railway fre'g it which left Jolumbla for Charleston at 8.25 o'clock Thursday morning was struck and killed about 4 o'c ocle Thursday after noon bj his brakeman, William Mickle, it Stilton, three miles above Orange burg. Mickle is a young white man About 21 years of age and says his home ls at Camden. The conductor was about 30 years of age, married and goes out from Charleston. Mickle has a stab lu his loft shoul der a little over one inch in depth, which was Inllicted by Oliver during the dithculty. M.ekle says that the conductor became provoked with him in connection with his efforts to remedy a hot box, which had delayed the train and that the conductor stab bed him without provocation. lld sayB that he had nothing whatever with which to defend himself from the assault of the conductor and that he retreated about the length of the engine, then he picked up from the ground an iron, between one and two feet in length, and threw it at the conductor, hitting him on the head. The conductor was killed by this blow, his skull being crushed. The fact of the killing was tele phoned to Orangeburg from Stilton, and Sheriff Dukes, with a deputy and Chief of Police Fis sher of Orangeburg started towards Stilton to apprehend tho slayer. A short distance from Orangtburg they met Mickle on his way to Orangeburg on foot to surren der to the sheriff. Mickle started im mediately after the altercation to walk to Orangeburg, down thc rail road track, to surrender to the sheriff, and was Informed after he reached Orangeburg of the death of the con ductor. After he was taken to the sheriff's office, the wound in his shoul der was dressed by Dr. Hydrick. Mickle regretted very much the death of the conductor and seemingly feels deeply the result of the unfortun ate difficulty. Mickle has been run ning as brakemau over the Southern for about two years, and says this was only his sec md trip with Oliver, whom be had known for some time. Oliver had been In the service of the South ern for several years. The other wit ness to the altercation between Oliver and Mickle practically substantiates the statements of Mickle. The body of Conductor Oliver was brought to Orangeburg Tuursday af ternoon. The freight train was also brought to Orangeburg and sidetrack ed to await further orders Coroner Rickenbacker was notified at once and he was engaged all the afternoon in holding the necessary Inquest over the body of the dead conductor. Health Liatva io So Unforced. County, township and city boards of health will in the next few days re ceive official notice of the changts made In the health laws of this state by the last legislature and attentiou will be called to the fact that mern bers of these boards are now liable to Indictment if they do not do their duty. At present these boards have a general idea as to their duty, but there ls considerable negligence in en fordon the laws. The state hoard of health, it is stated, will look more carefully into the laws hereafter and will see to lt that the sub boards do their ru y. The attorney general has been Instructed to draw up a skel eton ordinance which will be sent to all towns and villages with lnstruc tl'-ns to have such an ordinance pass ed with slight changes to .-ult local conditions. The law now not only applU s to the stamping out of vari ous contagious diseases, but gives boards autfiority t > prosecute for sell ing foods that are unhealthy or t e keeping or nuisances which are de terlmental to the public health. The enforcement of the law, however, ls another matter aud lt is very doubt ful If the laws will he carried out un till the state board takes the matter lu hand and forces them to do so. l.uokrt V?tor iho Cents. A simple illustration will show the care that Is taken of cents by one of the big hanks of Chicago. Stamped postal cards are not used, and not one of the thousands of routine letters that are written every day is stamped or sealed until the whole routine mail of the day ls assembled In the after noon. Then all the cards and letters to one correspondent are put In a single envelope, and, except for letters from the otllcers and the like, the bank comes as near as possible to get its entire mail carried at 2 cents an ounce or a cent for every postal card Instead of often paying 2 cents for a quarter of an ounce, as it would have to do if every communication were sealed and stampod separately. This little matter cf getting full value out of a two cent stamp makes a saving of from $25 to 830 a day.-World's Work. Will Keduoe Aorttfifco. To the Editor of The News and Courier: In your issue of April 3 ap pears an artlclo from Holly Hill, S. C., and he&d-lined "Farmers Will Not Reduce." Your correspondent says the acreage will not be cut so far as he has been ab!e to learn. All true, por haps, but your correspondent hasn't been able to learn much about the cotton acreage. Thc fact ls Holly Hill ls supporte! by the lower part of Or angeburg County, as well as Berkeley, and your correspondent might have found that the farmers of Providence township, In Orangeburg County, are organized, and a large majority are pledged to a cut in acreage. Some in upper liarkeley, near Holly Hill, will redrco and most assuredly tho crop will not be as large In acre age as last year. We, the farmers would be glad if all such correspon dents would sit quietly and see the [iroccss'on go by lustead of trying to Loll things they don't know ab mt. L. A. CAUSON. The last Issue of the Southern Christian Advocate announces the marriage of Mr. Robert H Hunt of Jreenville and Misa Dader Delilah Li'da Matilda Shlho Queen Sallaron llgdon of Plokens. \ KILFYRE! KILFYR1 That is exactly what it ls. aFli day at the State Fair showing its Un Every Farmer, Oil Mill, Saw Mi property should have them. For sal COLUMBIA SI Columbia, 8. O. Tho mac THEGUINARD ?OIvUMB Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof ' Flue linings and Drain Tile. "Pre or millions. I Whiske I Morphine I Olgaret "ahjt, Habit I Habit Cured by Keeley J 1329 Lady St. for P. O. Box 75) Cok sn pl td TUE COTTON CROP, England Envies tho South Her Cot ton Fields and Cotton. \ Resolution Adopted by House ol Commons lor Encouraging Cot ton Raising in British Colonies. A dispatch from Lord m says the house of commons Thursday night was the scene of a remarkable de monstration based upon the defeat of a government candidate in the bye election for Brighton, a constituency whloh for twenty years had not failed to return conservative or unionist candidates for parliament by majori ties of two thousand and upwards. The house had been engaged In con sideration of a resolution offered by Sir William Tomllnson, conservative, declaring that ''in view of the peril to which the industries of the United Kingdom are exposed by too great de pendence on the United States as the source of supply of cotton, and the good results of the operations already undertaker by the British cotton growing association, the house desires to express its appreciation of the bene tits d?rived by the encourgement af f jrded by tbe government to the as sociation and looks to a continuance of the good otlices, as essential to the speedy development of the resources of the colonies, dependencies and pro teci orates fur the maintenance of employment In one of the greatest national industries." A number of the members spoke In support of the expansion of thc Brit ish cotton growing territory. Mr. Emmett said the cotton growers of the United States already were jeal ous of the success of the experiments in the West Indies. While a some what desultory and uninteresting de bate was dragging on there was a rush of opposition memoers from the lobbies shouting with joy over the liberal victory in Brighton. "Villiers is in I" was the cry, whloh was re ceived with great cheering. Premier Balfour, who was just then entering the house, was greeted with shouts of "resign," "resign." Colonial Secretary Lyttleton, who had been speaking when the inter ruption came, after the demonstra tion bad subsided continued, saying that since 1902 the production of cot ton inside the British empire bad trebled. The government, he added, had not relaxed Its efforts looking tc a further increase. He trusted that Lancashire would assist the work more liberally In future. The resolu tion was adopted unanimously. Mr. Balfour quitted the house al most immedlattly. OJ a motion to adjourn, an extraordinary scene oe curred. Mr. Lloyd-Ge>rge(Advanced Liberal,) said he had intended to question the premier on the fate that had befallen a member of the admin istratif nat Brighton. Ile complained that on receiving notice that the ques tion would be raised the premier had deliberately left the house. The pre mier's discourtesy to the house, he said, was becoming absolutely offen sive. Several members spoke, supporting Mr. Lloyd G. orge and dedaring that the government ought to resign. Winston-Churchill said it looked like the beginning of the end. The house adjourned amid loud opposition laugh ter. _ C. P. Christopher, Inventor. A dispatch from Asheville, N. C., say that C. F. Christopher, a well known Inventor, who formerly lived in Spartanburg, has purchased a handsome and valuable property in Asheville, where he will reside in the future. Mr. Christopher is the in ventor of a computing scales, turn table locks, traction engine, rotary engine a railroad "witch, and many other Inventions. Ills head was as! full of inventions as an egg is of meat. During his residence in Spar tanburg he promoted many schemes, but none of them turned out success ful, but he was not discouraged in the least, for lie kept at work turning out inventions at a rapid tire rate. His Inventions attracted manufacturers and ho has realized more titan $100, 000 from his ideas. It is said that his computing scales netted him $57, 000. _ Badly OamaRcd. At Salisbury, N. C., a violent tor nado Wednesday afternoon did great lamage to Livingston College, blow ing down Ballard Halt Auditorium ind the laundry. Two students in ;he printing shop-L. Hall and Ern ist Robinson-were seriously injured. The loss ls about $7,f>00. Andrew Jarnegie recently gave the Institution 112,500 for a library. Two churches yore destroyed by the wind storm. Two Negroes Uangotl. At Nashville, Tenn., Andrew nib lett and James Schudder, negroes, ?vere hanged together in the jail yard Thursday. Shudder murdered his jhree-ycar-old orlpplo son and Hlb Dett killed his mother-in-law. Both nen sang "Old Time Religion" Just jefore the drop fell. Neither made iny statement on the gallows. An American l*rinoo. Tho Newberry Observer says "When Jol. Bacon gets over to Europe and lt recomes known that he is a newspa per man every unattached princess ind dowager will make a dead set for lim, hoping to exohange her title 'or American dollars. But the colonel s not to bo caught with a title; ho ias a title of his own-which ls the Prince of Good Follows." B I! KILFYRE li! ro Killer. nontrabl?n every 3 fighting quail ides, ll. Ginnery and any one owning e by IPPLYCO.. ihinery Supply house of the ?tato BRICK WORKS, I IA., &- o. S reritt Gotta Building Blocks, for . pared to fill orders for thousands All Drugaud Tobaooo I v Habits. Institute, of ?. C. imbla, 8. C. 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