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A WEIRD STORY About a Fine Mansion at New Port, Which ?s SAID TO BE HAUNT?l). St muge Figures Have Been" Seen'lifand Aboui the Qsrdcn and 'the "House. Strange Noises Have Also Been Heard In all Parts of the Big Mouse. Th? William Waldorf Astor house on Bellevue avenue haunted? Impossible! Ridlouloubl This is tho quory and some of the answers that have been Moating about the Summer colony at Newport this season, says the New York Amorionn. The idea that ono of the Bellevue avenue mansions, which has bsd As tors and Vanderbilt^ for its occupants, could really bo "haunted," hke an old-fashioned New E..glaud country house, and looked at askance by all passers by, seems past belief. Yet Mich a tradition ls attached to "Beaulieu," the big brownstone aud brick house that stands just south c f tho famous marble house owned by Mrs. ?. H. P. Belmont. The taking of "Beaulieu" early In July by the Thomas F. Walshes of Washington, lately of Colorado, re vived all the mysteries and traditions that cling round this house, which is ono of tho oldest of tho mansions on lower Bellevue avenue. It has long been quietly told on shaded verandas In Newport that a "hoodoo" hangs over what ls common ly oalled tho Wr.ldrof Astor house. Death, misfortune, loss of riches and other calamities have befallen thc long succession of residents on this estate during the past forty years. F. L. Barreda, who built it In 1802, then the finest house in Newport, made a fortuno almost in a day in the guano business lu South America-and lost his money and his house almost us quickly. In the quarter century that followed before the property was bought by William Waldorf Astor, the "Barreda Palace," as it was then called, had new owners and renters who esme and disappeared lu successive seasons, al most as rapidly as dwellers In a city tenement. When Mr. Astor bought the estate it was thought that then ab last the "luck" of the house and its occupants would be changed. That was abi ut 18?0. But thOyAstors occupied lt only three or four seasons and then went abroad. Soon after that Mrs. Astor died at Cliveden, England. ECLIPSE OK THE BRICE FAMILY. The Senator Brices leased lt for ? OY eral Reasons, bringing with them their $10,000 a year chef, a big retinue and all the other evldeLC?S of ostentatious wealth. Then Senator Brice died-his re puted millions proved but an illusion, his family droppel from allluence al most to penury. This and Mrs. Astor's untimely death revived the story of the "hoo doo" that hung over thc cc upants of the "Barreda Palace," which the pres tige of au Astor could not wipe out. Mrs. Potter Palmer next occupied the house during the Summers or 1800 and 1000. She entertained lavishly and brou}.-ht. her soolal campaign to a ollmax by thc wedding of Julia Giant and Prince Michael Cautccuzeuo of Busala. This ceremony, performed within tho walls of the "Barreda Palace," was one of the most spectacular functions ever seen lu America, lt was like a royal wedding in Europe. Repr?sentatives of all the European courts were present in the gold lace uniforms and costumes of their cuun tries. Yet, while the public was belog dazzled bv such brilliant displays, lt ls said that Mrs. Potter Palmer, cool headed, practical woman of the world, ns she was, trembled within thc walli; of the old "palace." The ghost of tho Barredas, lt \va? hinted, had returned, ard was haunu. lng the halls and rooms of its ,, home. ?, Mrs. Potter Palmer, lt ls sivld, ways felt a shiver as she wentthrou tho big dark front hali, after tn? guests had gone. Every door opr-ulng out of lt had to be locked at night, as well as every door that she passed on the way up to her sleeping room. For noises wero heard at night Uko the rustle of silken skirts, as if the unbidden guest of the past were pass ing in and out the rooms and hails and opening and closing doors. The climax came one night soon af ter tho Grant wedding, when Butler White was putting out the lights on tho lower Moor. In half darkness, he saw an appari tion, In white ball costume, with a Spanish mantilla thrown over her head, as If she had stepped from a heated ball room out upon the lawn and been suddenly chilled by the night air and mist ?'owing in from the sea. TUB nUTLEV CELL IN A SWOON. Tho figure in white glided In through thc closed doors, swept past tho terrllled butler, with a silken rustic and passed up the broad stair case. Thc ba- kward glance given as she ascended the stair,*, while the mantilla fell from hor head, rovealed a face of daiK Spanish beauty. That muoh Butler White saw, then fell prostrated on the hall lloor. Two footmen, hearing his fall, rushed up from the basement and picked up the butler. They said he looked like a dead manas he lay there with arms wide outstretched, hands olenohed, and white, sot face upturned with wide opon, but apparently sight lees eye:;, .staring at the colling. The next morning, wlmn the butler had fully recovered his .senses, ho de clared that nothing would Induce bi n to stay another day in tho house. II? did stay the rest of the season. But over aftor that when he was in the front hall tv/o footman v/ere always with him, either day or night, one stationed behind each of tho two ball bay trees that Hanked tho entrance to the stalroaso. Th?se experiences of Mrs. Potter Palmer and hor lorvants wero kept strlotly sccrot. No word about the affair was allowed to be breathod our. side of the hounohohl, for Mrs. Potter Palmor could not bear to have it whis pered about that sho believed In ghosts. But nevcrthclesS:thc queer happen ings wero talked about by thc sci vants and gardener's family and from them leaked out to a fow confidential friends on the outside Then the query rose, what oould be the"causo of the haunting ot the old manelon? It waa recalled that during the lat? ter part of the Barrerlas* brief ooou panoy of the house a young and beau Mful Cuban woman bad been a guest. She was a relative of Mrs. Barreda, or Senora Barreda, who was herself a Cohan and one of tbo handsomest wo men that e ?ev graced Uowport aoole ty. TIIK 8BNOK1TA DISAlUMDAllBn. For some reason that" was not ex plained at the time, and has uever since boon accounted for, the young senorita suddenly disappeared. She was not known to have gone away from tho city, nor was she over again seen lu or about tho house. Soon aitor the ilual coilapso of the Barreda fortuno oamo. The family departed und evor after was lost to view. Senor Barreda, tho Spanish A io or I cn who bad dazzled Newporton* with a fortune estimated at fifteen millions, a fabulous sum in thoso times-who had held the position of United States Minister to Peru, and was afterward Hont on a diplomatic mission by the Government to Eng land and Franoe, became all of a sud den a common bankrupt. Ten or fifteen years ago he died penniless In a small town lu New York State. Ills widoW wont back tc Cuba, lt ls believed, though no one seemed to think it worth while to koop track of her. Everybody thought hor dead, when throe or four years ago she reappeared at Newport. She was an old, broken down woman with snow-whito hair, tho very ghost of tho radiant beauty of foriuor years. For a few days sbo stopped at an un fashionable ?hotel, visited the old mansion in thc guise of a stranger and went to seo her old retainor, Gardner Williamson. Then she dis appeared, telling no one whenoc or why she came nor whither she was going. hut ber visit served the purpose of reviving thc old tradit ions about tho "Barreda Palace" and the ghost that has been rupposcd to haunt it during recent years. It irised again the question of what really did become cf tue beautiful sen orita who mysteriously disappeared so many years ago, and was lt really her ghost that Butler White saw, or his superstitious fancy? Put even these startling queries soon died out again In the rush and whirl of Newport's short summer sea sons. Thc cottage oolony quickly for got all about lt. Only in the garden er's family thc tradition was kept alive. Gardener Williamson is a canny Scotc! mau. Never a word duos the Inquisitive Summer visitor get out of him about the traditions of the bouse or tho Astor family. Of all the army of servants that come and go, Beason after season, with the different occu pants, hca'.one t.tays on Winter and Summer. Ile "gees with the estate," as the saying is. Ile ls Mr. Astor's special custodian aud retainer, like tho old family servants on an English estate. In the Summer Mr. Williamson and his laraily live at tho lodge near?the gateway. In the Fall, after the Sum mer tennauts of the big bouse are gone, thc gai doner and his family move into the basement for Winter quarters. Kandy 3o they go Into tho upper part of the house, which ls thou deso late and gloomy enough, with bare lloors and chandeliers and furniture swathed in ghastly white wrappings. Put on Autumn and Winter nights they bear strange noises overhead, as if heavy ph ces of furniture were be lng mos od, and doors opened and closed. At GUOb. times, years ago, Gardener Williamson and his wifo used to tako lamps and grope their way through the uppi r rooms and corridors to make sure that no robbers had entered. But no trace of a burglar was over found--and the gardener and his wife gradually fettled down to the convic tion that lt was the ghost of tho Par redas that wi.s revisiting Its old homo and ou Jit not to be molested. So of late years whoo the noises up stairs arc heard the gardener and his family only huddle together closer round thc hearthstone. If a ohance family friend la visiting thom the gb st story is retold. One- such visitor suggested that Mr. Williamson put chalk on tho rollers of tho furniture, so that next day it might be seen Just what pieces had aiovid during the night by tho marks Cn the polished wo iden doors. WHAT A HOOT TUB WALSHES. lt was also conjectured that this might reveal a secret pannel behind Rome picture or tapestry, lu which somo ghost or living intruder might be lurking. Another friend of the gardener's family expressed the bellof that if tho house were ever torn down the skele ton of the sonorlta would bo found within the walls of the lower story. Tue parts of the house lo which the ominous noises and apparitions most oft; ii occur are on the ground door. The. main hall, through which the ght st sei.ms to pass, is a big dimly lit passage, finished In dark Flemish oak. Out of this opens a reception ro:>m, the Horary, almost as dark and som bro au tho hall, a rather gloomy drawing room and a brilliant morning room, finlshi d in white and gold, a Startling contrast bo the other rooms on the door. Into tho morning room pours a Hood or light from the glass walled conservatory on the southeast side, As Mrs. l\ittor Palmor loft the house in I DUO sho ls said to have (le eka- cl that uodor no circumstances would she over pass another season in that house or in Newport, and she never has. Old Nowporters are wondering whether tho hard-headed Colorado mining king and his family, newly rlfion into tho llrne-llght of society, will escape the Barreda blight that has fallen, In one form or another, on every occupant of the old palaco. Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and pretty Miss Walsh have come fi urn Washing ton af ii r a brilliant social season there in their handsome brand new house, which ls quite tho most dazzlingly fitted up man den In tho oapital. 10 very thing In lt ls spotlessly now so new a i to oarry with lt tho smell of varnish and the upholsterer's shop. How they will tn ? J y entering Into tho P's e .sino ot aOme tb lng very like an old English estate, with a gardener and a ghost that "go with IL," is a matter that is now exciting the live? Host disou sion hi certain select social bel s In Newport's Summer colony. Whether the mystery of the strange noises and apparitions soon In tho {rand old bouse will over bo solved Is oilier question, which possibly Is letter fitted for the Boston Sooiety for Pliyohloal r. s aro!? to tako up than 'or tba ordinary layman to attempt to lOlve. < CHOMER IN REPLY. A Beioinder to Senator Tillman's Pefeaee of the Dispensary. Tho Woo tor W?ucusoca Xiii* DIiTorO?iOO? Wltn the HoMHtov In A Oatiit, DlnpuislontUo Manaor* Hon. 13. ll. Tillman. Dear Slr; lb waa not to bo expeotcd that you would adopt my view o? the principles underlying the dispensary law, bub I deUre to assure you that I appreciate the spirit of your letter published in the papers this morning. A Anal word in reply is required by one or two passages in your letter. Whilo my own conduct is of small moment and I have no desire to bring my personality into the discussion, lot mo assure you, In passing, that my moral rup port has bsen given to the enforcement of the diuponsary law. When Gov. Heyward expressed a de termination to enforce the law In uh ?i rles ton, I wrote him a lotter of warm commendation; not beoauBo I was in sympathy with tho dispensary law, but because I am opposed to law lessness and lu favor of fostering re speot for duly constituted authority. Hut, I think you miss both the spirit and tho lotter of Pope's well known couplet. He did not say: "About form of law let fools con tea. That law which is best administered if, best." He was nob speaking of legislative onaotments bub of governments and creeds as they affect human wolfaro, and he said: "For forms |of government let fools contest. Whate'er is best administered ls best.', If there ls inhorent vico in tho law itself, eflloient administration of tho law cannot euro it. Referring to tho deolslon of tho supremo court, which you say 1 "quote with great unction," you say, "The prohibitionists In general and you, my dear doctor, aro thoroughly Imbued with tho belief that liquor drinking ls dangerous to the morals, good order, health and safety of the people," etc. 1 am not a fanatic on the subject, though you put me In a class with the "unco guld and rigid righteous" who think lt a sin to drink liquor. As you i>ay that you have not that decision beforo you, 1 take tho liberty of sunni Ung a full quotation in order that lt may be soon that I have argued tho matter not as a fa natio but from tho point of viow of tho supremo court. You will recall that at tho Novem ber term, lbU3, the supreme oourt decided that tho dispensary law was unconstitutional. Mr. Justice Mo Gowan concurring with Mr. Chief .lustloo Mciver In tho deolslon, and Mr. Justloc Pope dissenting. Tue next year, 1804, Mr. Justice Gary having succeeded Mr. Justleo Mo Go wan on the supreme bench, the court decided that the law was com stltutlonal, Mr. Justice Pope and Mr. Justice Gary oonourrlug, and Mr. Chief Justice Mcivor dissenting. 1 am frank enough to say that if 1 were hunting somothing that 1 could "quote with uuotlon," 1 could lind lt In the dissenting opinion. Tho following paragraph, iumd In Stato vs. Aiken, 42 S. C., pago 231, contains the ground work of the de cision upholding tho oOLsdtutlonallty of the law: "Before proco ding to a considera tion of tho specific objections urged against, the constitutionality of the aot (of 1803) wo desire to state at the outset that, In our opinion, the fol lowing propositions embody the prin ciples governing this OJ.S'K "(1) That liquor, in its nature, is dangerous to the morals, good order, health and hafety of tho po.mle, and is not to bo placed on the same foot lng with thc ordinary commodities of life, such as corn, wheat, cotton, to bacco, potatoes, etc "(2) That the State, under Its po lice power, can itself assume entire control and management of those subjects, such as liquor, that are dan gerous to the peace, good order, health morals and welfare of the people, even when trade ls one of the inci dents of suoh entire oontrol and man agement on the part of the State. "(3) That the act of 1803 ls a po lice measure. We are frank to say that If wa are wrong as to elthor of these propositions, the aot should ba declared unconstitutional. We will now cite authorities to sustain those propositions." Note, then, that tho languf.go In which you dotlne the attitude of thc prohibitionists Isoxaetly the language in which the supremo court defines thc attitude of the law on thcsubleot. That decision fixes the point of view from which the Stato is bound to re gard tho question; and from that point of view the State may tnke oon trol of tho trafile to police lt but not. to pr< lit by lt. And if tho vlow of Hugh Farley, chivalrous spirit, and others who were opposed to the profit feature had been adopted, tho result might have been dureront. I admit that lt ls wise to "hobble tho devil," whom you ar powerless effectually to chain; but having hobbled the devil, 1 protest that lt ls not right to make ?Um yoko follow with tho spirit of progress in our schools and open thc way for our children to embrace him as an angel of light. Returning to my historical parallel, 1 am nob Inclined to prosa tho lessons of the prohibition vote of 1802 unduly. Aftor reminding mo that 32,000 did not vote in that oleotion, which you denominate a "side show," y JU say that "this is a government of majori ties." True, but it ls a government of majorities that vote, and not of majorities that st ay away from tho polls. Ab that election, prohibition received in this ounty more than 1,000 votes, a majority of tho total vote oast. Rut when they came to fasten tho dispensary upon Newberry county that vote of moro than 1,000 was null i lied hy a petition of 79 free holders In the town of Newberry, 34 of whom wore negroes. The attitude of publlo sentiment towards the dispensary law In this county has assn n d three distinct phases In RUOJOSOlon. In its earlier "tagos the law did not have a fair test. For reasons that need not be enumerated public sentiment was re icot ml, and tho law against illicit trafilo In liquor was not onforood. But violations of tho 1?.'* became 80 scandalously open and unrebuked that i revulsion took plaoo In tho senti ment of tho oommunlty, and for years the law has been enforced. Wo have now arrived at tho third phase, In which the sentiment of thc communi ty soems to be crystallizing Ju opposl Aon to tho w iole Boheme, owing argoly, I think, to tho faob that tho moral sonso of tho people le /offended by the constant effort to Justify the law hy appealing to its revenue feat ure; but owing ilso to corruption in the ari ministration of tho iaw. It was not my original purpose and I now make no nt tom pt to refute Statistics or to argue tho question in dotail. Unions the oonditlonB of two States r ee exactly similar lt bl hr.rd to arrive ita Just oonoluslon by con trasting statistics of orlme. But we might quote statistics until the peo ple are dizzy and still I bolleve that a large number of our counties will bo satisfied with nothing Bhort of aotual experiment after the example ot Marl boro, Greenwood aud Cherokee, Wo roach tho parting of our ways at tho oonoludlng olause of your lotter I quote the paragraph : "I will not say that your vision ls olouded by fanatiolsm but if Cit be true that 'ho who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grow before is a public benofaotor,' then ls lt not rquail? true that he who con ceived a soborne by which drunken ness was reduced, temporanoo encour aged and decency and good order in creased ard withal made the demon whi.-key coutributo to tho education of the Ignorant masses, need he be ashamed ot his work?" I do not admit that tho dispensary sohemo has reduced drunkenness, en couraged temperance and decency and increased good order. Mark you, 1 upeak of the offset and not of tho mo tive. But lt has "made tho demon whiskey contribute to tho education of the Ignorant masses." And many of the advooatCS of tho soborne vehe mently urge this as a Justifying faot. The ignorant masses" love their schools but do nob draw nica moral distinctions. Thc supremo court said sMllo this vampire and threaten the health aud life of the communitr; but the protlt feature gives "the Ignorant mosses" ground to Infer that what tho supreme court mistook for a yampire is in reality tho goose that lays the golden egg. And I repeat, any re strlotlve Boheme that tends to make au immoral trafilo reputable and popular is a violous and dangerous scheme. .'Do mon gather grapes of thorns or URS of tblatle.V" Geo. B. Cromer. Newberry, S. C., Aug. 10, 1905. KEPT HIS PACT Altor Shrinking From It For Throo Dnys and Night*. "I am going to my grave where 1 should have been on the 17th with Thompson, Oh, bow I wish I had gone -still I put it off till the last minute, but now lt must bc done. I hope my brother will see that I am cremated. If he doesn't thou 1 give my body, for a consideration for use of my children, to tho J-;iTsrsou Hospital, Eloveutb and Sansom. "There will bo no use of opening me as 1 died of cyanide of potassium. "And miy God have mercy on my soul. Amen God forglvo mo. Amen." Shrinking with dread for three days from carryiug out the terms of ? sui Olde pact he had made with bis obum, Joseph A. Thompson, momber of a i'amlly of mlilion?rs and relatives by maning of the Pittsburg Thaws, who ended his life ob Thursday by taking cyanide of potassium In Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa., ^?lllam Webster Hoopes .dually swa"1 ?rt 2 dose of the same poison atot?w*?t -ry Mansion In the sama olly. His lifeless body was found by a park guard, wi th che above letter in his pocket. The death agreement was made more pathetic by the faot that August 17, tho d.-.y agreed upon, was the llrst anniversary o? the doath of Iloope's wife. Tho men had presumably de cided upon the drug and tho place In which to end their lives. Iloope's body was found at Hie same ap'Jt lu che pirk whore Thompson's was discovered. Hoopes's hie since his marriage llf toon > ears ai.o had been ono of trouble. A religious disagreement was tho lirst rock upon which the family spllb. Then o?ina tho wife's death, following directly fr. m their disrupted homellfo. For fifteen mouths Hoopes had been unemployed' and the savings of years ebbed away to procure sustenance for him and ids two children. 'Che la'it ohapter of his lifo was written In his own hand and was found in tho pocket of tho dead man. Crushed to DCM*.ri. A special dhpatoh to The State from Williamson tolls of a horrible accident that recurred at the Si nth ern station there on Wednesday after noon, which resulted In thc death of James J. McKenzie, digman on train No. 72, a through freight headed for Columbia. Thia train had Just ar rived ?.t Willlamston and the brake man had detached the ongluo and eight cam from the train and was coming In the siding to pick up a our. when Mr. McKenzie attempted to couple tho car to tho eight others to which the engine was attached. Ile failed in the llrst effort. Then he gave a signal to tho engineer to pull ahead and as tho train moved ahead about a half yard's length, tho unfor tunate young man walked over In the centre of tho track to adjust tho knuckle of tho coupling to willoh ho Intended to eouplo the car he was picking up. As he was walking back wards w'?i his faco toward ? tho on vlnc, bc failed to observo that the car ho wanted to pick up was slowly rolling towards him and thus before ho had adjusted the coupling and stepped from tho trick, as was his Intention, thc two ob.ru moving In op poodle directions caught him, the au tomatic couplings striking him with deadly foroe, crushing his loft lung Into a jelly, breaking his ribs In and bruising both arms torrlbly. KUlod in W roc lc. A dlsp&t?h to Tlio State from Greenville says the looal freight going to Greenville on thc Greenville and Laurers railroad was wreokod Wed nt hday morning near Harksrinl?. four miks north of Laurens, at about ll a. m. Tho negro (lreman, Henry Jackson, was killed and J. L. Dear den, the engineer, badly Injured. The engine nod tender and Keven oars wero demolished. There have been three wrecks at practically tho same place within the pa*'li six months. There was apparently nothing wrong with tho track In eltlur Instance and the Opini?n lias bean advanced that some thing must have been placed on tho track. A large Iron holt was plokcri up on tho ground, which had the ap paranco of having boen run over by tho englno. Railroad Commissioner J. H. Wharton was on tho soeno look ing Into the matter. Mailor Ullin ttiiiiBoif' tiny Earle Hewett, a yoeman on tho receiving ship Franklin, at tho Nor folk navy yard, o ?mmlttod suicide Thursday by shooting. No explana tlou was given. THE CAJJ REPLY Of Senator Tillman to the Last Letter of Dr. Cromer. MAKES A STATEMENT lo Reference to Charges on the Supreme Court and Says He Had Nothing Whatever to Do With the Mat ter, and Oives His Opin ion ot Present Fight. non. Oco. ll. Cromer. Dear Slr: I was absent from the State a few days after tho Anderson meeting, and since my return home Sunday I have been quite unwell, hence delay in answerlug your "re joinder," which appeared in the news papers of the 18 th. I have read what you say oarofully, and with all duo rospeot lt scorns to mo you are begging tho question, quoted Pope's couplet from memory and it ls luoky that I ralf quoted it, else you would have had little to reply to, but J cannot agree with you that "1 miosed" elthor tho "senso or tho spirit." I oharged existing oondltlons in dis pensary matters to mal-admlniutratlon and to legislation in changing the law and depended upon the .last lino of the quotation to sustain my conten tion: "That law whloh ls best adminis tered is best. " Of o: urso your quotation must bc verbatim and it IB oven stronger In sustaining my argument than nay own recollection of the words, for if "what ovor form of government," an auto cracy, limited monorchy or arepubllo ls better than any other when it ls "best administered" lt seems to me that you must be wrong lu olalraing 'if there is Inherent vice In tho law It self, efficient administration of tho law oaunot cure lt." We aro rot discussing that phaso at all. You class tho dispensary sys tem as Inherently vicious as contra distinguished with the licensed sale of liquor, and the prohibition of Its sale at all. According to Pope, as you quote him, "whatever" form tho law might take as among these threo would be best If it ls "administered best." That is all I have ever con tended. I heh eve the dispensary sys tem can bo better administered than can prohibition, and I am opposed to any form of license, high or low, be cause lt has the Inherent vice" of money making by the Individual, and this to my mind ls the most deadly poison arising out of the whhkey traillo. I hardly think you will deny that the dispensary law fearlessly and honesty administered as it was origin ally framed would bo better than pro hibition not euforced. However, lt was not this part of your rejoinder which gave me any con cern, because lt almost answered it self and 1 only mention lt incidentally aa I Am answering you. The point whloh 1 wish to press on your attention and that of those who may be interested in our discussion of thia question is tho "lame and Impo tent conolusion" at whloh you arrive in your discussion of thc dispensary from a legal standpoint. You are a lawyer and an ahle one, while 1 am ouly a layman, but your reading must havo boon limited or your reasoning powers at fault to rest your case as you appear to do on the claim that the prohibitionists are sustained through out in their views by the dcolsions ol the supreme court. You quote tho de cisi?n In the case of the State vs Aiken, 42nd S. C., p. 231. "That liquor in Its nature ls dan gerous to the morals, good oroer, health pud safety of the people, eto. and then you hay "Note then the lan guage In which you deli te tho attitude of the prohibitionists is exactly the language in which the supreme court defines the attitude of tho law on tho suitjeot. That decision llxes the point of view from which the Stato ls bound to regard the question; atid from that point of view the Slate may take con trol of the trafilo to police lt but not to prod o by lt." You give your own interpretation to the language used by the court but to mo lt ls altogether without any warrant, except as your Individua opinion and In direct opposition to the entire line of thought and reason lng of the Judgo who wrote tho opln lon in tho State vs. Aiken, I quote from the same decision, page 239s "The aot shows that the legislature had In view tho protection of th "morals, good health, and safety of tho State' io doallng with this ques tlon. Many safeguards are throw around tho sale of liquor. Tho oom missioner ls to be an abstainer from Intoxicants. The liquor ls to be tested by tho chemist and declared to be pure. The 1'quor ls to be swld only by tho paokage, which cannot be opened nor drunk where sold. Tho sales oan only bo made in day time. Persons cannot be appointed on the cv un ty board of oontrol who are addicted to the use of Intoxicating liquors. N person oan he appointed a county dla penser who has ever boon adjugded guilty of violating thc law relating to intoxicating liquors, nor who ls koop er of a restaurant or a placo of publl amusement, nor who ls addicted to tho use of intoxicating liquors as beverago. "Tho county dispenser ?hal' execute a bond in tho sum of ?3,000, upon which suit for damages may ho brought for a violation of thc provisions of tho act by wife, child, parent, guardian employer, or other person. A majority of the voters In a township may pre vont the establishment of a dispon s?.ry. Tho county dispenser shall tak au oath therein prescribed. A printed or wrltton request must be presented for permission to purchase. Tho sal shall not he made to a minor, a person Intoxicated, a person In the habit 0 drinking to excess nor to a person un less known to tho dispenser, lt.pro vents tho establishment of olub rooms, whuro liquors are used. One of the bcnollclal results of tho law ls brought ?bent by selling only for cash." In the face of this languago how oan you dcolare that "the State may tako control of tho traillo to pollco lt, but not to profit by ltV" On pago 240 wo lind this: "Tho Judiciary," said Mr. Juttloo McGowan In the case of Town Conn all vs. Pressloy, 33rd S. C., pago 68, "cannot run a raco of opinions upon points of right reason, and exped? moy with tho law making power." Thon Mr. Justice Gary added: "Tho V _ 3tate bas a rlgbfc through Its own afflcorg-In fact, it it? primary duty bo enforoe ita police regulations, wbloh right inhores in government itself and ls paramount totsy right mu?rent lu altlzenshlp. But referring to the foregoing objection as matter of fact, it would not be aa efficiently enforced by private Individuals, because there would be the ?o??^wut temptation to make aa large profit as possible." But referring to the foregoing ob Jcotlon (that tho same resulta could be accomplished by alloting private Individuals to carry ou the traill ) as a mattor of fact lt would not be ae offioiently unforced by private indl< vidual? "because there would bo th? oonstant temptation to make as larg? protits as possible." Further on Jua doo Gary adds: "The dispensary aol Itself is an outgrowth of a dlssatlsfao tlon ou the part of tho people wltl the manner lu which the police powe when delegated, was abused" (by per mltting those who obtained the lie um ci to mako as much money as pos albie.) Again I desire to dircot your alton bton to the deul8ion of tho supremi sourt of tho United States in the casi af Vance vs., W. A. Vandercook Co. 170 U. S., p. 447, in which tho con itltutionallby of tho dispensary lav was upheld by our court of last resort "lt is arg iud as tho State law hon in question does not forbid but on th< ttutrary authorizes the sale of lutoxl santa within tho State, hence it h not a police law, therefore not onaotet lu the exorcise of tho polloo power ol ?be State and consequently docs no ap?ralo upon thc sale of original peck ?gea within the Seale. But tho pro ?niuo upon which these argumout rest s puroly arbitrary and Imaginary b'rom tho fact that the State law por ulta the salo of liquor subjcot to par iloular restrictions aud only upon en lrn&ratcd conditions it docs not fol ow that tho law ls not a manifesta .ion of the police power of thc State Tho plain purpose of tho act of oon {ress having been to allow State re fulatlons to operate upon tho saleo irlglnal packages of Intoxicants oom ng from other States, it would do troy Its obvious meaning to constru t an permitting the State laws to at ,ach to and control tho salo only li jase tho States absolutely forbade sale >f liquor and not to apply lu case th S<>ate determined to restrlot or rogu ate the samo." How then, my dear sir, oan yo icriously oontend that "the State ma Ake control of the traillo to police 1 Dut not to prout by it." Our ow .on; i; in the strongest language mair >ains the contrary; the supreme cour )f tho United States with tho law be 'ore it sustained it, notwlthstandln jhls feature, yet merely because yo !eel that the prolit feature is an lu lerent vice of the dispensary la\ fvhloh destroys its usefulness and ll egallty. 1 must ask, how can vo lerlously argue such a point, and bo1 jan you lend your great lnlluenee an ntcllcot to mislead these who ai gnorant? You brush asido as wholly unworth >f consideration tho statistics whlc : advauced to show that prohibltlo loes not prohibit, and that drunkei tess ls not as great in Charleston wit ill its blind tigers as lt ls in problb ,lon olties of Uko sixrt. You disml ihesewlth a wave of the hand, beoau ,hey may make the p30plo dizzy BC (hen assort most positively that tl lupreme court said, "Sollie this vac ilro that threatens the health and ll )f the oommunlty." While lt ls i ndiaputablo preposition that the s ?reme oourt has never said anythlr it the kind and only used the langua which you quoted as the just'llcatli )f thc legislature for enaoting tho d peusary law, to bolter control ai -nlnlml/.o the evils Inseparable fri iquor. It was merely a strong trorded dtolaratlon that the law w in rxerolse of too police power. Suppose the dispensary law was ic?ministered that lt eliminated t pro tit feature entirely, ls lt noto lout that a dollar would buy a gn leal more liquor than lt does now a it would therefore encourage cousuu blon and therefore d run kennest? It seems to mo that you bs .eached tho conclusion In your o' ?Ind that tho dispensary law must 'damned If lt does and be damned t don't,"and your attitude towar t ls mado perfeotly clear when y lay, "I do not admit that tho dlspc lary Roheme has reduced drunkenno sncouraged temporalice and decer md lnoreascd good order." This /lew of tho facts that have been tl md ?rain printed, lu view of tho op on o? wellnigh every close observer ind outside of thc Slate, that the d pcusary is a long ways ahead of 1 iloonse system as a tonoperanoe mo are solely ls tho mest remarks itteraneo I have ever heard fall fr ?he Ups of a man who stands so hl| ind deservedly, In tho estimation ?VC?y good man and woman In State. If you are content to sti 3y that utterance I certainly am v ng to leave you occupying that a /iule. One word more and I am th rou tn tho Columbia State of August i Ind quoted from tho Charlotte ubi rer the following: "Tuc dlspons llscusslou In South Carolina, comp >ven at its simplest, ls much bef lied Just now by the fact that t .'opes scorn to have played promin ?art? In dispensary atlalrs. One ls lonorablo Y. J. Popo, at uresont ,ho ohlef Just lee of tho Stato, \ mee handed down a dissenting 0| on as to the constitutionality of llsponsary law. lie was all alone .11 thc legislature upon the order.' hov. Hon Tillman pub Mr. Just McGowan ott tho supremo bonoh auss he did not favor tho dlspens aw and put on Mr. Justice 10 lary becauso ho did favor it. Tl he dispensary law was declared c tltutional, Popo arid Cary cone lng, Mciver dissenting." This /as first sent broadcast over t it ato by those leading nowspai. rhloh aro now clamoring for tho truotlon of tho dispensary and wli rettie main roi lauco of the prob loniStS, although they boldly duel hat they do nob believe in it : o?.re than 1 do. This outrage alsehood thus revamped and ooi. rem a North Carolina papor ls au et lu clroulatlon and I deem it nc tig but my duty, and it is cortaln Icasure, to do justice to Mr. Jus !ary, while the very records of nets will show thc falsity and vcr f tho Infamous story. Tho dispensary law was doolared onstltutlonal In April, 181)4, by , Ices Mol ver and McGowan, Jun v>po? dissenting. The opinion diolly unexpected to the poop! he State and to tho best lawyer lt. I know becauso I had talked v ?any of thom on tho Rubjoot. Ju IoGowan retired from tho bonoh uly following and Jiutloo G*ry i ls placo. Mr. MoGowan had not recollect, ott? red for ro-election rooedlng Deoombor and when Ji fary was eleoted no one dreamed i ho issue would be presented In I Bookkeeping, Shorthand, Tyr* guaranteed course 20 weeks. Sm? Machinery Supply I " . WE SELL t Headquarters for IflVERYTIIINO All kindai of InjeotortTLuwStoS Supplies for Saw Mills, OU Mfflsan Large etook of Woll Pump? and Cy Ool nw l>l?aPB^o^^he^rn : THE GUINARD S Manufacturora Brick. Fire Proo ? Flue linings and Drain Tile. P X or millions. ?.?.???.?.rro??*?*?.?.*.? Whiske I Morphine i Oicareb Habit, I Habit Habit ? Cured by ?Coeloy 1329 Lady St. (or P. O. Box 76) 001 te citri light. While it was fashionable in those days to say Gov. Ben Tillman 'gave orders to the general assembly," I hero declaro on my personal honor that I had nothing whatever to do with that eleotlon, and that Justice Gary's opinion a* to tho constitution ality of the dispensary law was well understood by all who conferred wltb bim, and that he was as little cxpeot aut of tho decreo whioh was promul gated in April following as any other man In South Carolina. It may be that the reopening of these old wounds and the continued attacks that are being made on me may revivo factionalism in South Carolina and I oall for all fair minded men to bear witness that tbis agita tion about the dispensary and abuce of all who have had anything to do with lt from beginning to end ls not being pressed bj me or my friends, that lt ls tbe other side that ls urging tho fight, and I again repeat that if there shall again be a revival of blt terners In tbe coming campaign thc blamo can not Justly be laid at my door. I have never been meek or dla posed to "turn the other cheek" when I have boon smitten and whilo I de precate this style of warfaro, I am prepared to meet onslaughts of this or any othor kind, lot them come from whence they may. B. R. TILLMAN. Trenton, S. C., Aug. 23d. A WOBT) TO YOUNG MBH. Don't Go Too Faut, My Boy, It Will Not Pur. Young man slow up. The pace you aro setting is a killing one. You may fanoy that vou arc making a stunning start in life, but lt ls a start that will dlstanoo you In the end. Don't go too fast, my lad. "Slow and sure" has taken down more purses than an; other racer that ever wont round the traok. You aro smoking half a doten cigars a day-?lew up, that mean?} a homo In twenty years. You are buy ing all the clothes that come to town - slow up, that means a farm In twenty years. Besides all the rags In tho world never yet made a man. You aro taking an occasional drink with good intentions not to become a habitual boozer. Slow up-the road to boll is paved with good intentions. You aro winning the smiles of some silly girl by spending all you Can upon her. Slow up-a wife won In this way is worse than tho seven-year itch because lt last longer. You are gambling a little now and then, Just taking a few chauoes for tho fun of the thing, Slow up-suckers are small tish and never grow to bc very largo, but they are tlrskolass nlbblors. You can blow yourself out of the running before tho first quarter ls reached bj Just trying to keep up with the pace makers. Contract bad habits, keep foolish oompany, liston to badadvloe, spend all you oan and run in debt, swell around and act the dude and you'll bo a failure Just as miro as effeot ls the result of cause. You'll have a good timo for ten years and a bad timo for sixty. Be wise and olean and economical that life may be large, fino and splendid to you. Wind ?nd Hull. A dispatch from St. Paul says de vastation torrlblo and complete was wrought on all sides of the Twin Cities by tho storm of Sunday night, according to reports Just received hero. Through all tho region from Auoka to Flllmoro oountles reports toll of disaster and lo?s of life and burled under the debris, whioh was strown broadcast by tho wind. Many instances of maiming aro reported and tho total loss of Ufo will not be known for somo days. Crops whioh had been out and were roady for threshing, suf fered in many places, and standing oom was damaged by hall and wind. Hail stones several Inches in circum ference, worked havoo with tho orops in somo seotlons. HtKhtooon Drowned. A report has reaohod Buenos Ayros of tho founding of the British nark Blcston Hill. Tho roport states that 18 of thc crow were drowned. Tho re mainder, who wcro saved, aro oxpeot ed to arrive at Buenos Ayros by ono of tho Ai yen tina steamers. Infernal Machino. Polioo Captain Miles O'Reilly, of New York, reoelvod an Infernal ma ohlno, loaded with dynamite, through . i_?vt&ilii Mond av ^hi: in. the third Ultu .i ... .'iwnvt tv j . . ?..v Wi...v. instrument of the kind sent through tho New York malls within a week, tho other two having boen sent to bankers In the city._ Killed by Train. Robert O. Shields, an oporator in tho Bolton cotton mills, was run ovor and killed by a Southern train at Greenville on Wednesday night. 9;writing, English branches, Full ;le course of either Business or Short in about 20 days. Can't supply dc loase lor Ibo State. iVERYBODY. tn MAOHINFRY SUPPLIES. ,-Pipe, Valves, Fittings, d any one in Machinery butlneas. lindera. Get our price. iaehinery 8upply hons? of frc $fafr BRICK WORKS, f Torra Cotta Building Block for repared to fill ordera for theu*nda j All Drugand Tobewjo Habits. Institutes of O umbla. H. 0. Confidential corr; tponfl? WEAK MEN, 1 CAN RESTORE YOU TO PERFECT MANHOOD. I Have Boon Buocosyfully Treating DiHORMcn of Men tor 25 Year? anil Mr Mothod of Troatwent Ao anres Yon m Positivo, Vor inanont lluro. I can positively roator weak mea their lock itality and All I want U nu opportunity ta OOH vinco you that I OA.I. If you Rr? weak, doj?ctod conditio!), discouraged *?4 brokoa in boni th, alt right doun nnd writ? 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