The Marlboro democrat. (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, June 02, 1905, Image 4

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?6i4-0 A COMPARISON. LOOK AT HOME. WhyJDecry Russia for Conditions j that Exist in This Country. * < A Riot in St. Petersburg Is No Better or1 * Worse than a Riot in the City of Chicago. We have Had More Presidents Assassinated than Rbaslan Czars. As we pass through life many things happen which we do not appear to see -things that are important and which affect nations. Then, we only too often fall to see ours jives as others see us, add to that that we are liable to get into grooves and wear them so deep that wc cannot see from their bottom what is going on around us. It has been and is the custom in the United States to damn Russia for every thing without rhyme or reason at times; and to magnify many times every happening there that tends to injure Russia, be the happening small or large. We have had a magnificent oppor tunity to witness that spirit in what the press and people have to say about the war between Japan and Russia, and every little labor trouble that the wires have called to our attention. I am not setting myself up as an apologist for the government of Rus sia, nor as a defender of its people; neither do 1 Intend to censure either. My aim ls to simply point a moral by a little comparison between that coun try aud the United States. Every strike and every row in Rus sia is at once heralded to the outside world as a rising of the people for the purptse of overthrowing its govern ment. The cruelty of the govern ment is no doubt greatly magnified in alike manner. The ruler of Russia is pictured as standing in hourly fear of assassination: and every time an olllelal is assassinated, it is put down as au attempt to overthrow the gov ernment, lt bas about reached that point where thinking people put little faith lu those accounts. In order to become fair judges we must see ourselves as we are. Then we will be in a position to judge Rus sia. lt must be remembered that there are bad men in every country-men who are not happy unless they are creating strife, anarchists, commun ists, socialists and other brands. We have a very large number of that kine of people ss i th us, and Russia seems to have ber full share. There is no doubt about that. We must recollect that we have lost more presidents than Russia bas lost rulers by assassination. We have continual strikes and riots with bloodshed just as Russia bas, bu: the methods of the strikers or rioter. are somewhat differeut. President Lincoln was assassinated; an1 so were Pre .?dents Garfield and McKinley; and the person of Pre i dent Roosevelt has to be watched at.d guarded by trained secret service men all the time to protect him against the very c?as? that in Russia set ka the life of Nicholas. Does all of that mean that the people of Russia as w.J! as those of the United Slates are op pressed by the bead of those govern ments? Are we to understand that bloody strikes and thess as luationof our preMctet'is are conspiracies against our government any more than the same happenings in Russia should be so styled? We must apply the same rule in b ?th counfcrit s We have in the United States al most continual strikes and labor trou bles; so has Russia. The amount tn riots here as well as in R issia, why not give them tho same classification in both countries? Tiley are. too well known herc to reti?ir? ? list of them with thu particulars hi each c.i>e But I will call attention to the strikes when President, Cleveland had to send United State ? tro ps to quell them and one that is now in progress in the city of Chicago, the toa ms ti rs' strike. Ami hg other things the pa pers convey thc Information that thc citizens of C.iictgo asked for stat* tioops to quell the rioting; drivels of wagons had to go armedd with armed policemen accompany lng them. On May 4th more than half a hundred were burt in all day rioting: on May (Ith it was said that the tn ops would be ordered out as the number of .it rll era was Increasing and the public peace threatened; on the same day murderous assau ts were made on the negn ts who had been brought into the city to take the places of the striking teamsters; on May loth, while President lb Oievelt was in thc city, the rioting continued a'most in his very presence; and on May l". h tbe strlkcis, thc press informs us, had poisoned s'inie of tua horses. No mau can tell where lt will end. If those things had happened in Russia what an outcry would have been raised by tho prc. and people of Chis suppos elly free country of (?ur.-: Before condemning Russia In that way, magnifying every event many, many times, had we not better throw aside some of our prejudices and climb out of our old aud daep ruts, and take a cairn survey of homo af fai rsv It seems that the people of Russia have not as much ?'?pposed freedom a? wo are supposed to have; but, we do not enjoy the sam-i tranquility that the people of Kigland do. Of the three governments, that ot' Eng land, to judge by result': \s the be.t - at least, so far as assassinations, strikes and riots with bloodshed are concerned. Russia has matty probli ms to con front and BO have wc. They are .seri ons ones, ti o. Just now we have con fronting us several dangers, and among them may be mentioned the great and Increasing power of our money barons and lords; the increas ing number of violence of lahor riots, the two foregi lng b leg styled a con llict between labor arid capital; the proper regulation of thc g i verrinnen ts of our lar^e i ii le : the ll eking to this country of all classes of Huronean im migrants Including anarchistic Com munists. sock'.lists and t;.o like; the great strides that an: being made to warel a c ntra?z d government, all democratic; principles being crushed In the rush, and last but not least, the race problem. Taking everything into considera tion and looking at, the matter from a dispassionate s andpoint, it seems to me that we have no room tocompiain of Russia so blttorlv and to damn ber for everything win n WO are In a great measure lu the same boat with lier. As stated wc must give like events in tl of Ct ai ce m di Cl K C. m ti' in py (i, ali alt Sn ad Ht th ca to no sot Ac m. sui saj l'n au< 181 wit alu bin fot ton th i gif cit: m ): big line Cot lng Tin pen or i por I Will Tin S rooi Thc see tlie JU th countries the same interpreta ilon, and then draw our conclusion. From long standing prejudice, we see -.he mote In the eye of the Russian government, hut fall to see the beam n the eye of our own government and leople. 1 write this not for the purpose, as itated, of defending Russia, but for ?he purpose of calling attention to lome.matters. It ls often the best way n whioh to force a truth home. I de sire to turn the light on matters of a lerious nature at home. . We have mough here to keep us busy without jrosslng the Atlantic to dictate to jther people, and to Interfere with meir home affairs. WILLIAM P. CALHOUN. FARMERS NOT COMPELLED. To Answer tho (jucatlons ot Agents as to Acerage. A dispatch from Washington to ?he Atlanta Constitution says advices received indicate that in some parts of die south the opinion prevails that ?tie last congress passed a law compet ing cotton planters to report, on de nand from agents of the census bu reau, their acreage, condition, number )f bales ginned, eto. This ls not the sase. The only legislation affecting :otton statistici enacted by the ?fty dghtti congress was the following Joint .esolution introduced by Representa re Burleson, of Texas, and finally Kissed as a part of the bill providing or the collection of marriage and di vorce statistics: "lie it resolved, eto., That the dl ector of the census be, and he ls here >y authorized and directed to collect .nd publish on the same dates and at tie same time he makes publication of he ginners' reports of cotton produc ion, statistics of the consumption of otton, the surplus of cotton held by he manufacturers and the amount of ittou exported, th", statistics to be ummarizad as of September 1 of each ear, so as to show the cotton produc ion and consumption of the preceding ear." lt ls obviously to the interest r the farmers to know something de ni te as to thc amount o' cotton con nmcd, exported and on hand, and the tatistics which will be published as a esultof the passage of Mr. Burleson's esolution will bring out the facts. It cc ms impossible to convince the piant is of the South that it is equally to heir interests to have accurate state acuts as to acreage, condition and roduction issued by the government, espite the weight of the evidence in hat direction. The census bureau lad a considerable amount of trouble ist season with ginners who refused o make reports for use in the six gln ilug bulletins Issued during the fall, whiter and spring, and yet the facts end to show that conditions would lave been materlaly improved had his Information been freely given by ll ginners. lt is argued that such in O' matlon gives the speculator a club ?.herewith to hammer down prices, mt, if this he the case, lt should be bvious that in tbe event of a short rop tlie farmers would b3 given a lever /herewith to push the prices up. In j he opinion of experts here lt is dlftl ult to see how any legitimate Interest um be harmed hy having the exact acts made public. Bank lor Holly Hill. The Dank of Holly Hill was organ '.cd Thursday with a capital stock of LS,OOO. The following are the board f directors: H. W. Il lame, A. F. oyner, W. L. D.^Hay, 0. O. Williams, Lobest Lide, A- B. Hannett, Dr. J. L. I. Gilmore. Ollicers: H. W. Rhame, resident; A. F. Joyner, cashier; Moas s Ly de, solicitors. Messrs. H. W. ?.hamo, A. li. Bennett and A. P. Joy er were appointed hy the directors a uilding committee, with authority i nuK8 contracts fur the erection of suitable brick building for the bank, b is expected that the band will be lady for business by September 1. Drowned O ff Che leland. Thc Charleston Post says J. Amos ^eliy, a painter employed on the Isle r Palms by Contractor H. D. Sohua ter, was drowned Wednesday after Qon off the island. Ile left the :ach in a boat, which was over irned by the waves in sight of the lore, and the unfortunate painter mk without the possibility of help lng rendered him. Ills body has it yet been rec >vered. Kelly with is wife and child lived in the rear of r. .lohn D. Cappelmanu's r?sidence, id Rutledge avenue. He was a man ' kindly disposition and of good laracter. Winthrop Coinmenoement. Invitations have been sent out for ie annual commencement exercise, Winthrop Normal and Industrial ill'ge at Ruck Hill, on June 4, 5s jr" C. Fifty young women will re ive their degrees. On Sunday urning, .lune 4, the sermon will be slivered before thc Young Women's iris! ian Association, and at night ev. E. W. Smith, of Greensboro, N. , will preach tho bacalaureate ser n. On Monday the joint celebra DU of the literary societies and an spectlon of the buildings and de triments will take place. Ou June the schedule provides for the um nae reunion, address to thc j m nae by Hon. E. D. Smith, of i ml r. '"Daisy Chain Procession," dre s to the graduating class by >n. M. K. Ansel, of Greenville, and e award of diplomas aud certiti tes. Nlilp and Grew IiOHt. The Chilean croser Presidente Pin has foundered in tho Gulf of Ancud, rth of the Island of Chiloe, off the ithern part of the coast of Chile. ?cording to one report, her com mder, Capt. Whiteside^ committed cide tn despair. Another version s he wasdiowned. The presidente ito carried a crew of 171 Gille ns tl men. She was built in France in 12, and was constructed >f steel. Iii c ipper sheathing. Ilerb^ieed was mt 1!) knots. She was 2(18 feet ?g and lu r armament consisted of ir c> Inch guns, two 5 inch guns, and i small rapid-fire guns. She had co torped ? tubes. Portrait ol rimrod. L'he Columbia Record says: "The :. of a portrait of Tlmrod to Hie , by Hon. W. A'. Courtenay was st kindly and thoughtful and was hly appreciated, this city having n the home of the poet. Captain trtcnay has done more in prescrv and perpetuating the writings of mo 1 iban any other man, having bonally collected and published one n' re editions of his poems. The trait will be liung In the library, loh h is been renamed in honor of irod." mu? Carolina will have open bar ms again in less than ten years, i so called prohibitionists will then how easily tho whiskey element in State fooled them. CHECK CRIME By Training tho Children to be Truthful and Honest. A Very Readable Article on the Sub- ' jeot willoh Wo Clip Prom tho New York American. As long as the world shall continue to exist, as long as it shall be inhabi ted by human beings, we shall con tinue to have criminals, just as we have albinos, or men with six fingers -that ls to say, we shall still have born criminals, men in whom a cruel fate has sown the seed of cruelty, and whose way of reasoning is different from that of normal people, and who are doomed from the day of their birth to commit crimes. There is no thera py against this inherited disease. The only things one could do would be to kill them or to place them in institu tions where they could not do wrong. But besides these born criminals, whose number Is only between 30 and 40 per cent, of all criminals, and who commit crimes because of inherited or acquired tendencies which latter may be developed by diseases such as typhus or intlammatlou of the brain, there are others far more numerous- habitual criminals, or criminals who err because they are unable to withstand a sudden temptation of an outburst ot passion, and these we can redeem and bring back to the right road. First of all, we can direct and guide the abandoned children, the orphans, the sick and mischievous children. These are the ones who most often go astray, who are driven to crime from 1 hunger and neglect. While they ar still young, while their evil tendencies have not yet grown beyond contiol, it is possible to exterminate these evil instincts. For this reason there are fewer youthful criminals in the cities 1 of London and Geneva, where there are numerous Institutions of correc tion for children. 1 To day all civilized countries have 1 begun to see the importance of taking 1 hold of the children and more ls being 1 done than any ona bad dreamed of a few years ago-the States have ma le 1 education compulsory, and humanit?r Ians Jiave founded institutes which ' look after the welfare of children out- ' side of school hours-while the parents ' are working in the factories-and en deavor to keep them out of evil com- ' pany and away from the streets. A wonderful institution which de- 1 serves to be c?pb n . very where is that conducted by Mr. barnardo, in Loudon, who surely has saved many thousands from misery and crime, for this the 1 greatest of all modern philanthropists takes special care of tho poorest of the 1 poor, the ?ons of diuukards, of con- 1 vlcts and the abandoned and orphan- 1 ed children. 1 The tendencies and inclinations of each child are carefully studied and 1 work is given it in accordance with its j ability. But Mr, Barnardo does even ' more, and here is where his institu tlons are superior to all others. As 1 the children who are under bis care 1 nearly all come from degenerate par- ' ents and more than others are apt to J give way to temptation, he tries todo 1 bis utmost to keep them away from 1 evil influences. For this reason he has j employment cilices everywhere and sends his wards to Canada, to Cape 1 Colony and to Australia, to places in the country, where quiet rural life 1 may make them useful and honorable ; citizens. Mr. Barnardo keeps an eye upon each and every one of his wards through c their whole life and never los2s sight ' of them, and statistics show that in f spite of the evil tendencies many of 1 them must have inherited only two tenths of one per cent of them have gone astray-In only two cases of every thousand has hts wonderful system of education failed. It ls exceedingly Important to teach the children to detest alchol, for alco hoi is at tho bottom of more crimes than any thing else-lirst because the use of lt develops all evil tendencies; second, because many crimes are com mitted while under the influence of liquor, and, third, because the saloon is nearly always the meeting place of criminals, where they lay their plans and gather to d?vide their spoils. If alcohol could be taken out of the world the most brutal and cruel forms of crime would cease, and the drink evil is per se as Important a problem as the problem of how to prevent crime. Hut there are many other things which must be done to prevent crime. The social inequality, the great difference between thc very rich and the very poor, must disappear, and laws must bc changed to elfect this. In Australia, which is Tar ahead of all other countries lu regard to social conditions, crimes have decreased sur prisingly. The eight-hour working day, the arbitration of all labor (pies tlons and dltliculties, the high wages and the disappearance of the very poor Blass have practically wiped out cer tain kinds of crime, and whatever crimes are committed are either com mltted during an outburst of passion jr by born criminals. Ilrcnch ni'Promise Snit, Damages aggregating a quarter of i million dollars as compensation for llleged breach of promise of marriage ire asked by Mrs. Katherine Poldon u a suit against W. Gould Hrokaw, ;he millionaire clubman, which was jcgun in the supreme court in New ifork Wednesday. K minent counselt, icores of witnesses, many of them jeoplc of prominence from distant )arts of the country, and a packet ?ontalning more than 200, letters al eged by the plaintiff to have been vrltten by hrokaw, will ligure in the ?ase. The authenticity of the letters, tpon which the suit is largely based, s denied by B roka w's counsel. They .'. u><< Uo. The North Carolina supreme court ias alllrmtd the di cisi?n of the lower ourt sustaining the act, passed by the ist legis!;'turo prohibiting "bucket hops" and the practice of dealing in atures. The law makes lt a mlsde leanor to open a place where quota Ions on futures are furnished or to uy or sell opt io:"- for future delivery dien tho actual delivery of tho goods i not contemplated. The < fTeot of [ie decision Is to close up ad branches f cotton exchange houses in that .ate doing a future business. How They V?lne Thom. Two cases were disposed of In a ew Jerey court lait Saturday. In ne of them a man was convicted of .ealing a horse. Ile was sentenced i twenty years In the penitentiary, i the other a man was convicted of Imlnal assault upon a woman. Ile as sentenced to eighteen months In .11. From this it would seem that ew Jersey values a horse much hJgh ' than a woman. LET TTS BE FAIR. A Word Ia 'JDolenie of the Jury that Tried the Bookhsrt Gitse. The Times and Democrat says' that in discussing the acquittal at Or angeburg of the men charged with the lynching of Keltt Bookhardt the Salu da Standard falls into Feveral errors, which we desire to correct}. The Stand ard says "it seems morally sure that some of these men were guilty, if not all; but there had .been hard work among the jurymen, and then,. you know, there is a sentiment among some people that it is no harm to kill a nigger." As to the innocence or guilt of the five men tried and acquit ted, we have nothing to say, except that there was strong testimony for and against them which left at least a part of the jury in doubt as to their guilt, wbioh doubt was dissolved in favor of the accused. The oharge that hard work was done among the jury men ls all nonsence. There could be no "hard work done among the jurymen" after they were drawn to try the case, as Judge DanUlcr kept them together under charge of a constable from the time they were drawn until the case was ended. Nor could there be any ' 'hard work doue among the jurymen" before they were drawn, as many of them were not on the jury panel when the case was called, and were drawn after the prisoners were put on trial. So much for the jury Axing yarn. The Standard goes on to say. that the worst feature of this case is that which led up to the killing. According to ru mors then current, some of these white men had been altogether too familiar with the negroe's sister. He remon strated, and in the 'fuss' raised by bis remonstration he got locked up and lined 85, while the white men went home to tell lies to their wives. That, night the negro, Keltt Bookhard, was taken from the calaboose, terribly la cerated with knives and sunk in deep water with heavy iron bound to him. And then somebody's poor, long sulT Bring, faithful wife was Aired to go DU the witness stand and swear to save a husband who had undoubtedly been devoting a large part of bis attention to the 'colored girl,' when the wife should have received all bis affection." Not a wjrd of such evidence as the Standard mentions was brought out on thc trial, whatever the rumors may have been before. We beard the same rumor some time before the trial, but as lb was not brought out during the trial, we came to the cuncluslou that lt was a fairy story and dismissed it Since the trial we have heard another ru mor that is being whispered around, bo the effect that it was Bcokhardt's intimacy with a white woman that caused his untimely taklug off. We rio not believe that any woman had anything to do with the brutal mur der of Bookhardt, but If a woman was mixed up in It we are rather inclined to believe that lt was a white and not i negro woman. In the, trial the State failed to prove a motive for the murder of Bookbardt by the men ihartred with his murder, and we do not think that the Standard should ase a mere rumor in making out a jase against them in preference to the evidence adduced on the stand, [n discussing the case we have no :ight to go bihind the*, evidence wrought ou? at the trial. Every jury- I nan that was on the jury BWO: vto try ihe accused "according to 'I evl- i lenee," bui. the Stand.Ti?u .': ?hink the jury should have triba them ' 'according to the rumors" that were I jeing whispered around. Wo have na injection to the Standard or any other japer discusing the case, but the dis iussiou should b? conducted honestly ind fairly. Tho Gai Ueld llcport. Some of Mr. Garfield's friends are lefending his beef trust report. They joint out that that report shosved hat profits on the capitalization ran ,s high as eighteen to twenty percent n the case of one company. They Iso say that Mr. Garfield's critics 'seized upon the 2 per cent and dnety-nine cents per head figures f lone and derided the suggestion that he packers were making so little nonev. The fact that the 2 per cent, irotit ls a profit on gross sales, not on apltal invested, and that lt means hat the packers are making Immense urns annually, was apparently lost ightof." Mr. Garfield's friends now oint out that "the report says that dide the pro lit on dressed beef was inety-nine cents a head, the profits n the by-products brought the profit er head to SI.60; and when it is con idered that the packers handle mlll ms of cattle each year the volume of heir earnings is apparent." But ven S 1.50 per head ls at wide varl nce with the figures presented by iuthbert Bowell, who for more than wen ty-five years has been commercial ditor of the Kansas City Journal. Mr. ewell's statement lias been given Ide publicity. It showed that the verage net profit to the packers ls 7.41 per head. Mr. Powell eonclud i his statement in these words: "Ap ly tile average profit of $7.41 on cat e, 20 cents on beg?, 50 cents on ?eop and 50 cents on calves, to the >tal number of head killed in a year V the 'combine* packing houses, ves a total profit of 847,727,412. iguring upon their total capitalizi on, undoubtedly heavily watered, of .10,500,000, we have 4:i per cent, hlch ls ten times what such money ould produce if loaned in largo blocks pon the open market. Besides this, ie trust is heavily interested In the ock yards at Kansas City andChlca ) and owns outright stock yards at imerous other cities, together with i vate car lines, the protibs from iiich are undoubtedly large." Killen hy IMny matu. A dispatch from Marlon to Thc ate hays Miss Clinnie, thc Dl-year :1 daughter of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. nith, was accidentally shot In the east with a shotgun at 5 o'clock blay afternoon. She with several her children, some of whom had the n, were playing on tho lawn at the me of Dr. E. B. Utlev, when the cldent occurred There are vary $ rumors as to which one of the lldrcn had the gun, when thef.la.fc is fired, and vour correspondent iild not ascertain definitely, but it thought to have been Herbert Crls il, son of Mr. II. Crispin!, who re itly move there from New York. io' child died from the wound at 10 o'clock Friday night. She was a ght and popuUr little girl, and ;*re are expressions of grief and npathy for the family to be heard all sides. Onn ol "Two Johna" Dead, lohn Stewart Cro->sy, known oURUOUt the theatrical world as J. Stewart, one of the "Two Johns," i famous f it men of the sta^e, Is td at tho ago of 71 years. He was n at Dublin, J FEARFUL MORTALITY Among the General Ofticor? .Killed \ in Oar Great War. ' The Army and Navy Journal says from the archives of the Confederacy on deposit in'the war department the military secretary, Major Gen. Ains worth, bas brought to light some in? tere&tlng data concerning the com manders of the Confederate forces in the field in the fatef ul days of 1861-05. Deducting eleven names of officers who did not qualify for one reason or another, we have in thlB list 415 gen erals, and the records given show that of these 74 wore killed or mortally wounded In action, or 18 per cent. This is a very striking showing when we recall the almost entire im munity of the Russian and Japanese armies fighting io Manchuria from fatal casualties to general o ii. ce rs. We recall but one who has been reported killed in battle in the far East, and if there are others they must be very few; whereas the percentage of casual ties among the general officers of tbe Confederacy are far in excess of the percentage of casualties among the rank and file of the Russian and Japa nese armies as given by Gen. Bliss, who has the best of facilities for learning the faots. No less than 23 general officers of the Confederacy were killed in battle during the ll months of campaigning, and the 8 months of fighting commencing witii Grant's battle of the Wilderness and ending with Appomattox. Ten briga dier generals of the Union army were also killed during this campaign, be sides 12 colonels commanding bri gades, 6 of them at Cold narbor alune. At Franklin 7 Confederate generals were killed, and during Sher man's campaign 5, the Union army loslug 3. At Gettysburg 5 Cjnfeder ateaud 5 Union generals were killed, 10 in all, besides 3 Union colonels commanding brigades. At Fredericks burg 2, Union, and 2 Confederate gen erais were killed. In all, the Union army lost In killed or mortally wound ed 50 general officers, 23 brevet briga dier generals and 34 colonels com manding brigades. Taking the proportion as one killed to 4.52 wouuded, this would Indicate that 407 Confederate generals were killed or wounded out of a total of 415. Probably, however, the geueral officers were the selected victims of the sharp shooters, who shot to kill. In one regiment of the civil war, sub jected to the ordinary casualties of battle, the 1st Minnesota at Gettys burg, 28 per cent of tho^c engaged were killed and 82 par cent were killed and wounded. In forty-two other regiments the percentage of killed in diff?rent battles was 18 or more. The ratio of killed to wounded In 50 bat tles of the civil war was 1 to 4.8, vary ing between 1 to 3 at Williamsburg and 1 to 6.7 at Arkansas Post. The average among the regular troops was 1 to 4.52. HAMPTON'S THREAT Caused Sherman to Quit Shooting Confed?ralo Prisoners. To the Editor of The Sunday News: 1 read with much interest the com munication in the last number of The Sunday News, signed by my old friend, B. Frank Ford, who I hope wld par don me for making a few minor cor rections in regard to the shooting of Miller. Instead of twenty or so hav lng been called out to draw, there were one hundred and tiffy, as told me next day by one of the guard He ilsci said the number agreed upon was thirty-? ve, and Miller drew that num ocr, but said lt was his opinion that Dbe drawing was a sham, as it was supposed that Miller was the one who mot the man; though he, the guard, lid not think so, bul thought it was lone by one of Wheeler's men; for .hey had all sworn never to take a brager (better known as bummer) >rl8oner. After being thc one selected to be hot Miller was taken across the dead lue with one. of the prisoners, and old the prisoner he did not mind it, inly he had nine daughters dependent in him for support and regretted to eave them thus. A young Texan, I lave forgotten his name, offered to ake Miller's place when he heard his, but Gen. Blair refused it, saying t was not legal. Miller was shot about twelve miles rom Cieraw, In Chesterfield district, a then called, and, as well as I re aember, burled on the side of the oad leading from Oberaw to Camden [.he grave was pointed out to me the lext morning as we passed. At Fayetteville, N. C., wo were ormed in line again, for the purpose f drawing for our lives. Ten were to e shot, but justas the officer stepped o the first man for him to draw ourler came post-haste on horseback nd handed him a paper. After read ag it we were marched back tn the Bull Pen" without drawing. At first pportunity 1 asked one of the guard mat was up, when he told me that lampton had put Sher nan on notice li?t two commissioned officers or leven privates would be shot for every ne of our men shot by Sherman's or ers, In retalation for ''bummers' Hied; so this Dut a stop to the whole liing, and relieved us of the dread nat was hanging over us continually ir Wheeler's men continued shoot lg "bummers" regardless of Slier ian's orders. I could write you more of the trocitles perpetrated on those that ere so unfortunate to be prisoners Ith Blair's corps, the 17th, but 1 :ar I have already taken up too much ' your valuable space. A. BASCOM COHUKN, Co D, 2d S. C. Bat., S. C. V. T. Jesup, Ga., May 20, 1H05. A Queer (Jilt. At Pittsburg, Pa., John Bertges, constable having done .some slight vor for Anton Lutz, a brewer, and iving refused cash payment, received i order for 1,000,000 glasses uf beer. lie order la not transferable, nor can ?rtgcs ctillect In bulk, tho agreement ?lng that be shall call at tho differ it breweries controll-d by Lutz as i becomes thirsty and drink the beer i Hie premises. Bertges spent most one oay seeing if the order was od. It waa. Then he did a little tiring, and is now sorry that life ls short. Ills figures show that, inkling fourteen glasses a day, Sun y included, lt would take him 2o8 ara to get rid of the little present ide to bim by the brewer. Bomb's h'atnl Work. At Baku, Caucasln, tho governor of iku, Prince Nakaohldze, was assas lated by a bomb which wa?, thrown his carriage. The lieutenant ao japanylng the governor and a by mder wore also killed, and the lehman is believed to be fatally in :ed. lt C ft IS d rx V. P P tl g ai c C lo T cl hi Pl ot w fe fo kt ca bi hi fo tc ev co tt rc St su ot to us tl! to W ad to It Tl th rei by Tl fo he th Tl ar ac to: er< ab tie Bi mi wt ou th ad an phi Ar ten pei rae mi Ye ont um ? thu ha' wh eel ive pui anc rati par he ' on I prh pea THE EQUITABLE KOW rho South Carolina Folioy Holders Meet in Columbia. jovcrnor D. C. Ucywird Klee ted as President of t bo Soot ty. Tho Itesolutlona Adopted. Tbe Columbia Record says the meet ng- ot the policy holders of the Equi table Life Insurance company held in Columbia on Thursday waa one of the nest interesting gatherings ever held n this State. There were present nen with policies ranging from 8150, )00 to men with pol teles of 91,000, ind the meeting, was in perfeot har mony. The primary object of tbe neetlng was to disouss the recent dif ferences m the board of directors, and jhe policy holders got down to busi ness at once. There were about 100 present and proxies for about 500 nore. The officers elected and the resolutions adopted follow: D. C. Hayward, president. J. L. Coker, vice president. August Kobn, secretary. Executive Committee-First dis tict, A. T. Smythe and T. M. Morde cai, Charleston; Second district, J. C. Sheppard, Edgetield; Third district, r. Fred Brown, Anderson; Fourth dis trict, Wm. E. Beattie, Greenville; Fifth district, T. K. Elliott, Winns joro; Sixth district, D. D. MoColl, iennettsvllle; Seventh district, J. L. sn Donaugh. Columbia. Tbe resolu tions are as follows: Resolved, That the president of .?his society be requested and author zed to apply otllolally to the presl lent of the Equitable Life Assurance ?oe ie ty of tbe Uti itt d States for a list )f the policy holders in tbe Equitable Liife Assurance society in South Caro ina, with their postolllce addresses ind amounts. Resolved, That it is the sense of this neetlng cf policy holders of tbe Equi table Life Assurance society of tbe ;nited States, living in South Caron ia, that in any scheme for mutuallza .ion and In any eleotion of new trus tees or directors for such uoolety that ^presentation be given to this section if the country; inasmuch as a very arge portion of the entire outstand ng policies of the society are held in ihe South, and this section is now without any direct representation In .he board. Resolved, further, That this meet ng of policy holders desires to place ?pon record their confidence in the tabllity and solvency of the Equita )le Life Assurance scciety of the Jnited States. And the policy hold- : .rs should not be deterred by any- < hing that has happened from con tin ! ling to keep alive their policies by 1 laying their premiums thereon as hey severally become due. R'solved, further. That this meet ag of policy holders of the Equitable jife Assurance society of the United < tates express their sincere and carty wish that the present difficul t?s existing in the management of he society should be speedily and mlcably adjusted without resort to ny further litigation-and that such lan will be adopted to secure harmony nd a satisfactory solution of the resent difficulties as will tend to cou inue the prosperous condition of the iciety and increase the same. Died a> Pauper. >.. Edward W. Mitchell died recently i Chicago and the members of the blcago board of trade made up a and to bury him. A writer In the Tew York American says Mitchell led a pauper; he was once a great ian. Where the names of Gates, forgan, Armour and other stock lungers and market plungers are now rioted Mitchell's name was printed ilrty years ago. Mitchell was a big rain operator iu Chicago when Fisk od Gould were piliner up money in lilroads in New York. In 1868 he ornered' the wheat market in blcago. He had a company of fel >w conspirators against consumers, hey shot the prices Bky-hieh. Mlt ?eli made a million or more. Then 9 went into the market as a bigger Unger. Ile was betrayed and sold it and found himself penniless That as thirty-five years ago. Mitchell ir ten years sought to regain his rtunc, but he was outclassed by jener minded m?n. Then he be ,rac a pulper. And every man that is tried to 'corner* a focd produot is died poor. There is a retribution r food gamblers. lt does not seem i follow stock gamblers. The same il fortune may yet overtake 'those mservative business men' who, trough the infamous meat trust, are bbing the people of the United ?ates. What a warning the lives of ch men as Mitchell should be to ir young men whose main desire ls get rich regardless of the means ied to attain their ends. At one me he was a million dollar specula r but today he tills a pauper's grave, hat an object lesson such a life furds. _ Tho Lia/.lnebB Anti-Toxin. The Atlanta Journal says the anti xin for laziness is more than a Joke. is a genuine product of science. ie discovery ls based upon the cory that physical exhaustion Is the 3ult of a poison in the tissues caused strain. To use a mechanical figure: ie furance tires of the bodv are reed and fanned into trer.endous at. In the combustion of the fuel e grates are clogged with cinders ?ese cinders leftover In the tissues e p .ison. The polsjn is counter ted by the counter poison-tho anti sin. The real value of the dlscov >\ doubtless, ls to bc found in its iii ty to counteract nervous exhaus in and to strengthen convalescents, it thc imagination applies lt to my things. The college athlete lose veins arc Infused with tue stuff gilt to beat his competitor, and us the hypodermic syringe must be ded to the gymnasium. The golf d the tennis and thc basket ball lyer will also want the decoction. id every fan will want to see his im Inoculated. Dope may win the anant. And who will bet on the :es so Iring as he is ignorant of how ich each horse has been syringed? it, thc pace of civilization is rapid jugh now. Is the wight who goes doped to fall behind the procession? Ho Fooled Them. report comes from Charleston it many people on James Island re been taken In by a seller of soap, Ich they paid for and never re ved. The Inducements of attract presents, to be secured with large choses, brought in many orders I the agent reaped a harvest at the e of 88 per box. The seller has de ted for parts unknown and it may well for other communities to be heir guard If tho soap seller and ;e distributor should put in his ap rance in their neighborhood. Machinery Supply ?onsb for the State. WE SELL EVERYBODY. Headquarters for EVERYTHING in MACHINERY SUPPLIES. All kinds of Injectors, Lubricators, Pipe, Valves, FittlngB. Supplies for Saw Mills, Oil Mills and any one in Machinery, business. Large stock of Well Pumps and Cylinders. Get oiir price. COLUMBIA SUPPLY 00.. Ooltimbict, S. O. The inaobinery Supply house ox the ?tato a FOR YOUR ORDERS ' COLUMBIA CUMBER & MFG. co. , COLUMBIA S'c. Whiake I Morphine I Cigaret I All Drug and Tobacco Habit, I Habit | Habit I Habits. : Cured by Keeley institute, of &. C 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 76) Columbia, ti. C. Confidential oorreepono 80 CltCl. THE GUINARD BRICK WORKS, COLUMBIA, ? , O. Manufacturers Brick, Fire Proof Terra Cotta Building Blocks, for Flue linings and Drain Tile. Prepared to Hil orders for thousands or millions. J Popular Excursions Via. Southern Railway. Tlie Southern Railway will sell round trip tickets to the following points, for special occasion: Tuskagce, Ala.-Commencement exercises of Normal and Industrial In stitute May 21-2"), 11105. Rate one and one-third fa:e pius 25 cents for the round trip from all points. Niagara '/alls, N. Y.-Ancient Arabic Order of Mystic Shrine, Imperial Council June 20-23, 1905. Rate one fare plus 8100 for round trip from all points. Toronto, Or t.-Account International Sunday School Association, June 20-27, 11)05. Bate on certificate plan. Hot Springs, Va.-Annual Convention Southern Hardware Jobbers Asso ci?t ion and American Hardware Mfg. Aassooi^iion, June 0-0, 1005, rate one llrstdais fare plus 25 c's. for rouLd trip from all pr ins. Calhoun, s. C., South Carolina State Summer School, June 21st, July 29th, 1905. Bate one first class faie p us 25 cents for round trip from all points in Sou til Carolina. A til ns, Ga.-Summer School, June 27th July 28th, 1905. Rate one first class faie plus 25 cents for round trip. Kn oxville, Tenn.-Summer School, June 20th-July 28th, 1905, rate one fare plus 25 cents for round trip. Nashville, Tenn.-P. abody Summer Soho-d. Vanderbilt Biblical Insti tute June Mth-August 9th, 15)05. Rate one fae pb s 25 cents for round trip. Asheville, N. C.-A? nual Conference V. M. C. A. a: d Y. W. C. A., Juna 9th-25th, 2905, rate one fate plus 25 cents for round tiip. Asheville, N. C.-Confer? nee of Young Peoples Missiona'y Association, June 25th-Jul 2nd. 1905 Bate on? fare plus 25 cents for ?ound trip. Denver, Col.-Account International Epworth League Convention, rate very low, and will be given on application. Asbury Park, N. J.-Account National Association, July 3-7. Ra*e very low and gi von on application. Baltimore, Md.-Account United Society Christian Endeavor Interna tional Convention, July 5th-10th. Rate ene first class fare plus 81.00 for round trip. Buffalo, N. Y.-Annual meeting Grand Lodge B. P. O. Elks, July 11-15, Rate one first-class fare plus 81 00 for round trip. Toronto, Ont.-Ace unt International Sunday School Convention, June '.0th 27th, 1905. Bate one fare plus 50c for roi. nd trip from all points in South Jarolina. T'ckets or sale June li), 20, 42, 23d final limit June 30th. Exten sion ol tlnal limit can bc obtained by depositing ticket with'joint agent and i pon payment of fee of 81.00 Southern Rpilwa can offer many other attractive rates. For full inf r nation consult any ticket agent, or, R. W. HUNT, Division Passenger Agent, Charl ston, S. C. WEATHER AND CROPS. lotion Stands Good, But Numerous Bad llcports Aro Alado. The followi?g report as to the coa lition of the crops has been issued by ?ection Director Bauer: The ?r8t of the week ending Mon lay, May 22, was warm, the latter tart very cool, especially the nights. Choro were local high winds accom lanying thunderstorms on the 16.h hat did some damage to fruit trees. Che latter part of the week was fair vilh sunshine in excess of the normal .mount. There were general rains on the t!th, heavy in places, and occasional howers in the eastern counties on tue 7th, after which the ground dried apldly. Cultivation of field crops aade rapid progress during the lat er part of the week. There is still widespread complaint of grassy fields, nd a probability that some land Canted in cotton will have to be bandoned owing to the scarcity of arm laborers. Labor is scarce in all .arts of the state. Cotton planting has been finished, nd more than two-thirds has been hopped, with chopping still in pro ress. Cultivation h?.? been begun, tands of cotton are generally good, hough there are numerous reports of lan ts dying on gray lands In the restera counties and on sandy lands i the eastern ones owing to too much iiu and the recent cool nights. In jme of the southeastern counties, jme fields have been plowed up and .'planted. Excessive rains and lack f cultivation caused the plants to irn red or yellow In many places, and ae recent cool nights have checked a heretofore rapid growth. The rst squares were noted on the luth i Colleton county. The general audition of the cotton crop ooor, hough promising in a few localities. Corn is Bullering from want of cul ivatlon and is turning yellow, but rhere cultivation has been practic ble it is In good condition. Stands re generally goal except on boUom inds where worms continue destruc ve. There is yet much corn to be lan ted on bjttom lands, in the west .n half of the state. Tobacco ls doing well. Rloe plant ig is delayed in the Georgetown dis let by high tides. The week was fa irahle for truck and shipments of )t atoes and beans were heavy. The rawberry season ls over. Wheat is .omlsing where not rusted or da"m jed by the Hessian Hy. Fall oats are ie, and spring oats have Improved .pidly. Oats are ripening in the .stern counties and some have been it. Pastures are line. Peaches are entiful in the eastern ounties, but e very scarce in the western ones. I he first shipment of peaches was ade this week. Apples are scarce id the trees continue to blight. Mel is, gardens and other minor crops nt hmo to do well. THU popularity of the negro in the rge northern cities is being amply id sttiklngly demonstrated in Chica i just at this time. MNNNMNMHIVIIIUIII IPiaLixos \\ Organs f You want thc Rest. Wo haye 5 exactly what you want. Don't ? wait to feel exactly ready. We g an make you able. Our prices Z are LOW-our terms are EASY. . Write us at once for catalogues, . prices and terms. 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