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Tne "DO TI?OU, GREAT LIBERTY, INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAKE OUR LIVES IS THY POSSESSION HAPPY OR OUR DEATHS ULORIOUS IN THY OA USE," VOL. XX/s xi. BENNETTS VILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1905. FATAL WRECK. Passenger and Freight Trains on thc Seaboard Collide. THREE KV N RILLED. Tbe Engineer aud Fi.cinan of (he Freight Train, and a Mail Clerk Buried In the Wreck, Which Was Caused by a Misunderstanding of Orders. Passenger train 00 on the Seaboard, north bound, and a south bound freight, oolllded near, maineys four teen miles north of Columbia on Tues day morning of last week, and as a retult three men aro dead and two are seriously injured. According to the statements of those on tho pas senger train the wreok was oaused by a general misunderstanding of orders. The regular passenger train left Co lumbia one hour late. The F.orida Flyer pass'd the freight ac maineys and it ls believed that Eiglneer ? Sim ck, in charge of the freight, thought that tl ere wa ia clear road ahead. Ho pulled cu of the siding with twenty oars ait sc ed, and just ahead the passenger li?ln approached It was too late to stop the freight, but 10 lglueer lt blnson, of tho pas Benger train, applied his airbrakes i and the train was brought up with a ? J rk, throwing every one out of their < heats. It was due to the nervo of Engineer Robinson that thc lives of i the passengers wore saved, i As soon as the orasu came the pr s | Beugers organized a r< scue squad. < Engineer J. W. Robinson wes found , under his engine with both legs i broken. His colored llicman, Din Douglass, was also under tho debris badly bruised up, Eugineer A. A. Smack, of thc freight, and fireman W. A. Herbert, colored, wero buried under tho ruins of tho freight engine- -both Instantly < killed. , Tho mall car was the eily ono cf ( the passonger cars demolished. Mali . Clerk H. A. Pattilo was burled under j the wreckage and instantly killed. It i is reported that a helper ou tho mill train ls also killed, but the post, ill :e i people here know nothing of lb. t Express Messenger H E. Hinton i had his shoulder frac. uri d, bus Cou < ductor W. M Wultehursl, In charge t of the passenger tralu, escaped unlu- , Jured. As soon as the news of tho wreck | was heard, arrangements were < made for bringing the train to the ? oity. The bodies of those killed coule not bo brougou u of the wreckage, but the lr-j ired were brougli? in a neon and iemoved to the hospitals. Eugineer H blus?n lives in that | olty, ri siding at Mrs. Watson's, on t Laurel street. Al) of thc others re- r side either in Raleigh or Jackson- ? vj le. ? Tho railroad com mi: sion, arc impa ( nied by a number of newspaper men | and Dr. E C. L Adams and Surgeon * Weston, of the Seaboard, weub up to , the .e ne of the wreck about one ( o'oiock. Au investigation has been ordered ? by the commission and testimony will bo taken as to the causes at orien. ; Railroad men hero say that, th< ? morning was very foggy and that ll i was almost impossible to sec anything a short dis tat. oe i ir, lois also saio that the freight conductor had been on duty thirty hours and was physi I oally unable to Interpret tho orders. This will all be briugbt out In the t testimony to be taken before the i railroad commission.-Columbia Ro- i cord. _ Ili/ciiiy UoitnCoied drag Ar, With his mind wrecked hy years of hardship, George Adair.s Robinson, a descendant of two presidents of the United States, a Harvard graduate ol the class of 1801, a veteran cf the civil war, a thirty<s c^nd degree Ma ton, stood before tho city court at Bridgeport, Conn., Tuesday morning pleading for his liberty. Two weeks ngo Robinson was taken in charge bj tho authorities for asking alms on the street and was placed in tho alms houso. Robinson, who ls seventy years old. ls the son of a Dr. Robin son, of Boston. His motlier was a" daughter of John Q liney Adams, sixth president of the United State, and a grandaughter ol John Adams* thc second president, ll blnson is a mining engineer, and has spent much of his limo in the West,. Tho year he was graduated from Harvard he en listed in the E'ghth regiment, Mass achusetts volunteers, and saw service under be th Sherman and Sheridan. IilVCH Out ut DOOI-H. Rev. Dr. Jehu Olcndcnnln, a eon?in? I law of Horace Greeley, believes he ewes his life to living tut of deers day and night. When ho took up bis abodo in the open last Siptcir.bor he wati thin and emaciated and had a bad cough, but from tho time be. be gan sleeping i ut of doors bc began to show improvi mont and now bollevos ho has linen cuied. During the last six months Dr Clcndcnnm bas practi cally lived In the open talr spending but little more timo within doors than lt takes to eat. Ho drives dur tho day or indulg?s In long tramps, but bc sleeps on a balcony off thc third story of his house._ All Wftiit n. Tho Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post sn ys the opinion cf South Carolina Seo attira ard Rep rcseatatlves here is an indication of opinion in South Carolina the Login lature will not bother with tho (lisp, n Bary law and will havo tho whole thing to tho people for seulement thia sun mor. lb In almost tho unant mous conclusion among the South Carolina Congressmen that a vast majority of tho entlro veto of tho State is in favor of tho dispensary system if remodelled lo eradicate all fcesiUiitUs cf conuptlcn and graft. WOfiK ON THE FA.HM SO DIS PH lOl'IOAIi SUGGI3 4TIONS JUY A I'll.YO TIC A I, FAKMKK. He-Urges His Brother Farmers to Push Their Work ?long iii Lines. Dr. n. F. Freeman, of Wilson, N 0., offors tome practical suggestions tc his brother f irmere lu a commun! cation to tho Progressive Farmer of Haleigh, N, 0. Now In tho limo for our farmers, says Dr Freeman, to be gin to do all the plowing they can. Where the laud has muo'i litter on it, or where it lay out last year, those lauds should be broken now and again before plautlng. You should remember that for some years now our springs tmvn been late aud tho laud wet, so lt was hard to get laud broken in time. So look out for tho good days now and start the two horse plows from six to eight In ches deep, and where tho land is rough, pulverize it with harrows. Now ls the time to olean out ditch es and lot off water so tho land can dry out thoroughly: This eau not br done to the host advantage just before planting. Clean , out, clear up ano keep ?lean every foot of space ab mt tho home and farm now while you have time. If ycu have not already plowed up your garden do so the first nico day that comes. Plow deep aud spread broad cast with any rough litter ma . nure you have on ti p after tho plow DJ this twice this spring before plant , lng and you will have a good garden if tho rest is done as well. There are hundreds of llttlo things that you om do now, which will add wonderfully to your success this year, If you will look out for them and do 1 them now while you have time. How about the ow and call? What are ycu going to do them this summer? And those shoats, which you expcoii 1 bo make your meat from next Deoem bei? Where are you gjtng to keep 1 tin rn? Can you git to your horsts, yows, or hogs, without. Jumping from pl :C3 to place to koep from going Into tho mud up to your bh ie strings? j Where ls tho stove wood-under toe 1 woodshed or out lu tho mud some two bundled yards from tho kltc'ien? Now, my friend, you see all these 1 bhl'gs to be doue; but don't get ooo ' busy to be orgaolz ? into tho Cotton J Growers' organisation. Tnls is the most important thing you will bo 1 jailed upon to do this year, for the ( general good. T?o agent will soon be ' in your county. He sure to look out . 'or him and help him all you om. ' Pake up this matter and get all the 1 nformatlcn ytu oan, so when the or- J ?an /. r comes you will bo ready tc ?elp him. hi sure to see that tvery nan in your township goes to the .ownship Hustings wheu the time , ?erae. j Now, by the first of April every 1 iownshlp should be organized io South * Jarollua. Hs sure to keep dowu ttie J icreagc. Io planning for ttits year's * 5rop don't fo-get lo cut the cotton 0 ;rop and pit in plenty if Ojrn, peas. c jotatoes und g irden crops. As the c Jotton Growers' Association in C.) ' limbla good men wero elected dino c iors, who will have cnargo of the bus \ ?es? of the Ass c ablon. These are r is good mon as wc tiave in the State 1 md they will do all in their power for 1 die good of our farmers. So lie sure h jQ co-operate with them and help In J ivory way you can. Tho cost will be . mly three to ten cents on eacb bab cf jotton you made last year. The As- a l'dation has already raised the pnce J B20 on tho bale .slno:i it wasorgan'z d ' N iw of lids $20 gained y< u o;iu eisily, 1 ind 1 p.m sure willingly, p;?y three to 1 .eu cents on tho baie. Look out for N .tie agents, { ltarr^-(t From lund Mo Borv.id. i Although ho has served three en- c IStmeutS under the United States fl lg ( -one in the regular army, once in 1 ,he navy and onceas a volunteer--and 1 n each case rec d ved an honer ibis dis- * shargo, Jolio Hnvrs, au English ( nan has been rcfusid tdmlttanco 1 jo the United Slates. H-jwers, despite 1 ils mlilitary service, was never na- I ju ral I/.id. He arriv :d at Heston J in- c lary lu and was dotai ned on the ground '? bliat he might become a pub.ic charge, l is he was ill. He was si.IT iring fr m 1 rheumat s u and a. bullet wouii'' he 1 receive:! wittie serving In the Philip pines, wtiloli bas never oroperly heat- ? td. The immigration < 111 dals prompt 1 ly communicated thc facts and an ao 1 .munt of Howers' rc-card to the author- 1 lt los at Washington, asking if be could i not be admitted to tho marine ho^plt- ( il. Thursday a message was received 1 announcing that Howers is not digi- ' ble for admittance to Mils country. < S'iDiXH MIM Moihor, , "I will kill you for that," cried soven year-old Willis Hatton at Camp- i boil, Ky., on Wednesday to tiis moth er. S ie had Just spanked him for not i returning promptly from an errand Tue child Malled to a bureau drawer toi k out his lather's revolver, rushed buck and shot his mother. Then lie threw bimself upon tin prostrate form and screamed: "Speak to me mam-; ; I didn't mean no harm " Hut she w<is dead. Tho faMier is J jim Hatton, a largo planter living near Rogers in toao county. Killed ity A i i Am. Mr. J. Roland Hill, recently of Alcolu, was ki rel by tnln, No. 63, on Atlantic Coast Lino Wednesday night nour Hrogdon on tho Central lliilroad of South Carol I ria. Partien lars at this lu ur cannot be obtained, but it is said that he was riding on the rear end of train and was known to bavo been intoxicated while, tn Sumter the same day lie was killed. Ho was a sawmill man, well thought of- bis only fault hoing too whiskey habit. Ho leaves a wifo and several children. ""~KIHod Himself. <!,.,..-.... nw M fr? A o ? h** i?f th ii Mirluo corps stationed at tho navy yard at Charleston, accidentally shot and killed himself at Saxon, a station on ttio Atlantic Coast Linc some dis tance nbovo tho navy yard, Thursday. Tho acoldent resulted from the care less handling of a pistol. The body was taken ohargo of bv tho coroner of Berkeley county and tho Inquest will probably bo held Friday. A GREAT SOLDIER (icu. Robert F. Lee, Commander in-Chief of the CONFEDERATE ABMY First Section of an 'Address Delivered Recency by Dr. John A. Wyatt Be fore the New York Southern Soddy. A Grand Tribute to a Brand Alan. Tho fol'ow lng ts the li rat seotlon of a speech recently delivered bofore the Now York Southern Soolety by Dr. John A. Wyatt. Next week wo will publish tho second seotlon of this speeoh. Both Bfotlona should bs road in every school In.tho omntrv: Tho South may olalna with pardon able pride that lb furnished not only tho president of each of the divided sections In the struggle f >v the estab lishment of a separate Confodoracy, but the great ocntr.il figure of the Civil war for the North as well as for the South. History will accord that Abraham Lincoln was tho ono conspic uous figure on tho side of tho Union, uni for the South none will ohallenge that claim for L30. They wero, more aver, representatives of the widely Itvergont classes of our sootloa, tho plebeian aud the patrioian. The story f L n i ?iii might well he olassed with 'The short and simple annals of the poor." while Lee oamo straight from the cavaliers and their descendants, tho wealthy cultured aristocracy of Vir ginia. Ills father, Riobard Henry Loe, better known as "Light Horse Har ry," tho beau sabreur of the American army, was a conspicuous figure In the drat continental congress. It was he who, on June 7, 1770, rrovtd the reso lutlon "tuat theso united oolonlos aro, ind of right ought to he, flee and In lopendent Stater; that they aro ab wived from all allegiance to tho Brit 1 sh crown, and that all political on- 1 icctton between thom aud the States 1 >f Great Britain is, and ought to bo, ioballv dissolved." Ha and hts brother were singers of 1 .he Declaration e f ludspendenoo, and 1 md lt was this eamo Loo who pro dal med George Washington as the ? 'first in war, first lu peace and first n tho hearts of hts countrymen." 1 Upon his mother's side he ola!med 1 -ho linoago of the Garters of Shirley , i nm on January 19 1807, his chid- 1 ?ood and youth were passed In the cul < ,1 vated olroles of the tidewater region < if Virginia. At the age of 18 he en i .ered West Pjlut and completing the t i3ur80 cf btudy without a single mark i if demerit he graduated tseoond in a ( ilas? of 40. For several years he served i n the engineer corps constructing | (oast defences, awd for a part of this 1 ilmc in charge of tho astronomical ( lopartment of tho government. Io | 832 ho married tho daughter of | Jeorge W. Parke Cuitls, the adopted 1 on of Gftn. Washington, and lator 1 vas made oapbaln on the stab* in the t dexlean war. Of all the brilliant reputations j imong the younger group of Officers 1 vlilch wore won in that campaign 1 jet's was tho most conspicuous. Upon f Um thc commander in ohlef leaned ai ipo i no other. At Gerro G irdo he t vas breveted maj ir for exceptional 1 jallantry. At Contreras and Choru- < :UHOO he was ollie ally proolalmad for ( norltorlous conduct, and on account 1 if a wound received In the assault on 1 Jhapultepoo, September 13, 1817, he 1 eccl ved his promotion to lieutenant lOlonei. It was hero at Contreras, vhen tho army was haftled, that the . puiok eyo of Lee discovered, by a dar < ng reconnais ?nee, a line of approaoh < liddon from tho enemy hy which the ; xisltlon might be taken. This the 1 tom mander-in-ohlef ol the army ohar- 1 icier/.ed as "the greatost feat of 1 )hy8lcal and moral courage porformod 1 jy any individual during tho entire ?impa'gn." lu his t ill "lal report Gan. Scott , laid: I am compelled to make special , neut.on of Cipt. lt. B Lio, engineer. ? [Io greatly distinguished himself at | Me siego of Mora Cruz, was indefabi ?ahlo during theso operations in re ?onnabsances, as daring as laborious. 1 ind of tim utmost valu ?, Nor was he less onsplcuous in planting batteries md In conducting columns to thelt stations under tho heavy Uro of the anemy." He further says: "Capt. Leo, so constantly distinguished, also bore important orders from me, until he fainted from a wound and the loss ut two nights sleep at the batteries." After the Mexican war ho was ap poiuted. In 1852, superintendent of the military academy at Wust Point, and in 1855, nontenant colonel of the Hcoond cavalry, under Col. Albert Hld ney Johnston. In J850 ho was direct od by tho president of tho Unlbod Stat,s to arrest John Ilrown and hl8 followers lu their murderous invasion of Vl:glnl?, ?nd on Maroh 10, 1801, ho was upp doted colonel In tho Uni bed States army. Wii?? tho S t?th?iu Status were so ocdlrg and war scemod inovltablo up m tho rcommendablon of Gon. Scott, thon commandor ln-ohlef. Pres ident Lincoln offored Loo the com maud of the armlos of tho Union. Virginia had not yet seceded, but Loe, looking into the futuro and feel lng assured that his native State would upon any aob of aggression make common cause with tho othor Soubhein Stabes declined the tempting ofter. In a lotter wrlbbon April 20, 1801, ho made that nevor to bo forgotten declaration: "With all my devotion to tho Union and tho fooling of loyal ty and duty as an American ct M/on, I havo not boon able to mako up my mind to raise my hand against my relativos, my children, my home. Save in defence of my nativo State, with tho sincere hope that my poor 8ervioc8 may never be needed, I hope I may never bo called upon to draw my sword." When at length hostilities be?*o [and Virginia took her place in th? Confederacy the peopl of the Old I) .minion with on? voloe turned to him as oom m uador of nor army thea; Forth from its scabbard, pure and' bright, Flashed the word of Lee! Fa in tho front of tho deadly fight, High o'er tho brave in the cause of< Hight, Its stainless sheen, like a beacon light, Led on to Victory. Out of Its scabbard! Never hand Waved sword from stain as free, Nor purer sword led braver band, . Nor braver bled for a brighter lund, Nor brighter land had a oausc so grand, Nor cause a chief like Lee! The story of his military oarcer ls practice l'y tho story of tho army of northern Virginia, ai d lt roads more like romance than history. Thrcugh four years of the bloodiest war known to history at that time that army, ojmposed of tho fi?wcr of Southern manhood, under Its matchless leador, mado a record of victories never sur passed In tho annals of warfare, a r. o ?rd whto'i we of the South and our children's children to the remotest ages should claim as our proudest herltago. . Ho assumed command of this army in June, 1802, when MoClollan was Immediately in front of lt chmond. On Juno 20, with an army Inferior in numbers and equipment, he attaoked the forces of MoUlellan In their In tronohmont and for seven days tho bloody conll ot raged, until McOlellan took refugo under tho proteotlon of hi* gunboats at Harrison's Landing. This army dofeated, Lee turned upon a second larger than his own, maroh lng upon Rlohmond from, another di reotlon. Hy ono of tho most brilliant and daring movements in the history of wars Loo with his sh'o lieutenant, Jaokson, routed Popo' army at Grove ton and Second Manassas and drove him for safety under the proteotlon cf the fortifications at Washington. Mc Clellan had been removed for his de feat and Pope followed in his train. Disregarding both of these defeated armies, Lee moved rapidly into Mary land, captured Harp ir's Perry and Its largo garrlsoa ou tho way and f night at Antietam on September 17, 1802, tho bloodiest battle of tho Civil war. McClellan, who after Pope's defeat had been reinstated in command, was again removed for failing to lr,ll o') a orushlng defeat upon Lie, and Burn side was made commder in ohief of the army of tho Potomio. In December of that year this same "ii. i y of Leo signally di teated the ?.l iny of Burnside at Frederlcksburg. Burnside was romoved and Qen. nook ;>r placed lu command. In May, 1803 "o.ikor meroin d on Richmond', having i issued a general order in which he >ald that the Confederate army must lither ingloriously fly or come out 'rom behind its intrenobmonts, whore certain destruction awaited. " A few lays after this announcement was nado Hooker's army was surprised ind attaoked by Lie and Jackson sim ultaneously in front and rear at Chan jcllorsv Ho and overwhelmed, fleeing n tho greatest disorder from the 1 ild. L e then Invaded Pennsylvania ?here at Gettysburg after throe days )f bloody conflict, unable to oarry the federal position, ho remained 24 hours n Une of battle with his army tn their mmedlato front Inviting attack and /hen withdrew without interruption io Virginia. It was In 1801, In the campaign 'rom the Wilderness to Petersburg, ?bat the star of Lee reached Its zenith. Jnder bis loidorshlp the army of lorthcro Virginia up to this timo In tTons'.ve warfaro had held every bat tlefield up ti which it had fought with .be oxception of Gettysburg and Sharpsburg or Antietam, and upon iheso Heida, although it failed bo boat &he army pitted against it, it stood in Dat Ho array on each occasion for 24 tours, was nob attackod and marched tway unmolested. Ho was now to show that In detjn dve lighting ho was a greater master )f tho art of war than In his elf nisi ve )porations. Grant, with the largest trmy ever marshalled upon this conti nent ucdir a Binglo commander, with inlimlted res urces of mon and money with tho world to draw upon for all ir.; was HID t useful in destructive wai fxre, advanced up' n this army of Lee's wanting In everything but val jr, and so decimated that as Grant ixprossod lt "lb had robbed tho oradle and the grave" to lill tho gaps be ti ween thc veterans that still survived. There followed from May 6, 1804, tn bhe Wilderness, afc Spofcfcsyl vania &ourt house, at Cold Harbor and tho Norbli Anna a series of coniliots so frightful In their havoc that tho his tory of this oampiign might well be written in blood. Tho most ri emt, and in my opin ion the most reliable, history of thc United States, written by James Ford Rhodes of Boston, a oonsolentlous stu dent, a capablo analyst and Just re corder, siyf-: ' Grant's loss from May it to Juno 12 in the oampalgn from the R\pldau to the James was 54,021), a numbor nearly equal to LCO'B whole army afc the commencement of tho Union advances. Tho contldenco in Grant of many officers aud men had boen shakon." At Sp -ttsylvanla Nicolay and Hay, authors of the "L'fe of Lincoln," say "Grant was completely ctiookmatod." That this ls fcruo ls evidont from the ftcb that turning aside from the dlreotrouto to Rdimond, with Lee's army in front of him, which army ho announced in tho beginning of the oampalgn as his objective, ho march ed toward thc J tmca river, whioh he orossed In tho effort tooepture Petors burg by suprlse. 'Poe army of Lso waa, howevor, at Petersburg In timo, and there held Grant at bay for nine months of tho summer and winter of ,04 and '06. As far as tho Confederates wero con cerned, tho annals of tho stige of Potorsburp: might well be tormcd tho annals of starvation, exposure aud misory. True fco Its colors tho army of Loo was starving to death. The com* mlssary general reported that "tho army of northom Virginia was living liberally from hand to mouth." Beef sold for $0 por pound and Hour at $1,000 a barrel. At ono time, pleading with his government for food, Leo said that t.... <\....... .i...... 1.1.. ...... ?_t.. HUI . II. . un,(j iiio mi .-. HAU UCI'U 111 I Une o? battle and had not tasted moat. i lathe early spring of 1865, 8f;er ??Ino months of persistent effort, Grant with 113 OOO men woll fed, olad and armed, broke ti iron ?li the lines -de fended by Lee's force cf 40,000 veter ans, half starved, ragged and most of them shoeless. Thon came the end at Appomattox, ^whon on April 0, 1805, the remnant pf tte ls orce magnificent army, now numbering less than 28 000 (of whioh .only 16 000 were carr* lug arms) sur fend jd, and tho Oonfedoroy was no more. Uoou this world's stage no moro pa thetic sceno, no moro heroic iuoldent has ever been witnessed. With what $?;ide tho generation yet unborn shah claim decent from thoso who, true to cuoir souse of duty, which Leo bira so f Haid was "tho sublimest word in .yheE'Khsh language," fought under ?he banner of this immortal soldier ?nd died on thoso victorious Haids, or, fir surviving, stood tan to his colors at Appomattox. fiftn hts farewell address to his army, he.said: "You will take with you the Satisfaction that proceeds from the tenaciousness of duty faithfully per formed: and I earnestly pray that a 4?erolful God will extoud to you His blessing and protection, With an un ceasing admiration of your oouBtance and devotion to your country and a grateful romombranoe of your kind and generous consideration of myself, Ibid you am fTiotionato farowell." .Soon after thc surrender he accept dfl'.the presidency of Washsngton col lege at L'xlngton, Va. Ho had refus ed largo proffers of money for his ser vices or tho use of his nam ?, for vari ous enterprises. Ila declined thom all, saying ho felt it his duty to live with hts people and to endavor in eduoating the youth of thc South todo all in hi? power to aid in tho restoration of peace and harmony and the acceptance of tho pulloy of the State or geueral government. Though war in all ages and with all people arouses that whioh ?ls wor?t In human nature, and though bloodiest aud bitterest ls internecine war, it seems dim ult to believe even after tho lapso of so short a time as forty years that for tho part this noble man in obedience to his conviction cf de.ty Audrow Johnson, then presl dont of tho United States obtained his indictment for treason. Against this unwarranted and ignoble aot the great soldier Grant arose and stayed too hand of malioo and persecution. lt seems < qua ly increc'iole to conceive ihat within two months cf the death of Leo, which took place on O?to'oe i 1870, speaking to a rcho'ution which had for its obj st tho return of A.-Jingtoo to the fain 'y of Lse, Char le Sumner said in bis placo in the se .ate: "Eloquent senators have a* *ady qbar^otori/o l Mm proposition XlOO orate. I am hot disposed to speuk of Gbn. Lee. It is enough to say that ho utanda high in the catalogue of thoso who have imbued their hands in their country's bk od. 1 hand him over to the avenging pen of history." As man and solicitor "the avenging pen of history" has already written tills of Lse. In nobility of charaotor, In moral grandeur, attested by his hu manlty, he lived "thu model for al future times." In tho annals of war his pities ls with tho greatest. The second sec lon, which wc will publish next week, will show when "tho avengrg pen of history" ba placed the Immortal leader of thc Confederate armies, whose name will shiuo in tho pages of history long after the fanatic .Sumner has been for gotten. TROLLY C?&itJlt\3tf. Mistako in Signala CHU SCH tho Ool- ? Union. Six persons were Injured In a collis- 1 lon between a sont ib und 10 ghtb ' avei.ua cir and a wo;lb tu id T*venty? | third street car shortly after <> i o'clock Wednesday afternoon at Now 1 York. All wero treated for their in Juries, whl3h ODiisisted chic tl y of outs Indicted by Heilig glass, tn a near bj drug Btore, and then went home. The accident was caused by a mis take in signals. Toe motorman of thc , Twenty-third streit car, who bad slowed up for a north bound E ghth avenue oar, siarttd his car ahead, thinking tho Eighth avenue trceks woro olear. lust at that moment the south bound IO gtitli avonue car came rolling along. The motorman of tho Twenty-third streetcar, J din Streif of No. 442 Wost Twenty-ninth street, tried to stop his oar, but lt was too late ~nd the ear hit the IOIghth ave nue cai almost in the oentre. Toe forco of ttio collision shattered evei v v/lndow tn both oars, and derailed the Eighth avoi.uo car, but fortunately did no greater damage, it ;th cars were well filled with passengers. Tho E ghtn avenue car was thrown In suoh a position across the trroks ( f both tho Eighth avenue and tho Twenty third street lines that trtillo both ways on eaoh lino was blocked for nearly an hour. Too motorman of the Eighth avonue car was John Conners, of No. 221 West One Hun dred and Forty-eight street. CJoai Ol'lito Moll Weevil. The annual report of Prof. B. T. Galloway, oblof of tho burea of plant induttry, of tho Dapa."Uncut of Agri culture, shows that the appropriations I for tho bureau for the Usc il year end ed June 30, 1005. amounted to 5,000, 773.40, of which ?120.803.40 wasopont for the purpose of meeting tho ravag es of the cotton boll weevil. Roview Ing tho work of tho year, Dr. Gallo way calls special attention to tho in troduction of E.'yptlan cotton, the plstaohlo nut, aud many other nov/ and useful food and tiber plants and production of tho oltrange, and new hardy orange that will grow and bear fruit from 300 to 400 milos north of tho present orancro belt of Florida. llor?lo Alon KuwarUo'l. A dispatch from Pittsburg says Captain Mark Casto, of the llshlng schooner Alberta and bis crew of six men who on January 14, Ina fierce gale rescuod tho orew of 42 and 10 possengora from the Clyde Liner Chor? okeo were Thursday made bone Ucla? rles of the Carnegie Hero Fund, for their heroism, Besides medals to the captain and crew a sum aggregating 19,500 ls awarded. HE TALKED OUT. A Colored Preacher Praises (iou. Wheeler in a Serman. SILVERLY OlTICJZffiP Booker Washington, Whom ?ie Styles the Arch Enemy of All American Progress and Vilest Strife Breeder Between the Races on the Continent. A dispatoh to tho Atlanta Journal from Macon, Ga-, says that the Rev. J. G Robinson, D. D., colored, Pas to of tho African Methodist Church in that city on the Sunday after Gonoral Wheeler died paid a glowing tribute to t lat old Confederate hero and veteran andsovorly criticised Booker T. Wash ington. While ho was talking many of his congregation forgot themselves and applauded his utterances as though ho was addres lag an ordinary conven tion. Ttio remarks made by Dr. Rm inson created <i tito a sensation, and is the ionic of general dh emlen among the negroes of the olty. Among other things ho said: "The nation, yea, the civilizad world hangs Hs head in mourning today. God has called from earth's labors one of the greatest faotors of civilization. I re fer ty Gen. Joe Wheeler, tho most dashing military genlui of mcdarn times. Tots mighty man-this brav, soldier-this great military boro Im pressed his greatness upon tho world by his dare and bravery during the struggle of the 60's. S > couageou.i, yet sympathetic was ho that he won tho love, respect and ctulldonce ol every section and overy raoo in this country. His dashing mi ltary ex ploits, .ho conquering manner in which he sat In hts saddle and lod the famous calvary that made his name illustrious caught the eyes ot tlie world and all nations looked os with wonderment and j lined lng one voioe acclaiming him the most bril liant cavalryman that over sat astride a horse. "When Cuba was bleeding on ao count of Spain's cruel tyranny, and our own dear country had became sioU of tho 'bloody shirt,' and our two th^irnf^^ Havana haibor and the sons ol America called for revenge ; yea, theil blood crlei for justice, and when thc lamented McKinley oalled men of avery section and race toc?me forward and defend Amanean honor and mau hood, Gen. Joo Wheeler heard tho ory and sale': 'Let there be no north, n< ( south; our ooun'ory must bj defended,1 and left thc councils of the na Dion's congress and rudied to the front, giving not orly his couroge, but lus miluanoa to wipe Spanish In bnguo from the facoof the earth, ano i,o cornent tho baud* cf love and pi biiotlsm between thc blue ana th? .I ray. Tho story of his bravery and ml!i bary leadership daring tho Spinl-ih American war Is too recent lor re tiearsal. I will not say more. Adlsu (Jenora! Wheelo. ! you havo gone up tc moot Joab, Alexander, N. poison, JfiOkson, L;6, Gran!, Maceo and tb-, coil ltary heroes of the ages pas ; out among t hem al) no oi.e will shim orig iter thr< u ;ht'io a:-;?s t - oom?, no tame will bo more greatly revered, n life has l?ft greater Inspiration io ibo young manhood of the world an?, ao cha rao Lol will bi studied mort Chan that of your.-.olf. Dm to dust, ishes to ashes; adieu, tlh wo all meer. ' in some brighter clime, where all na ' tiena will know each other botter,and nuder thc leadership of tho Pr.ncc of Pdaoe, the Mun of Calva'y, Jesus Uiirlst, sve will dwell ina united king riom to h vd throughout eternity." After paying the above tribune to General Wheeler, Rev. Riblnson be ian to talk on ttie q lestions confront lng tho Am rican potpie, and inci dentally rofe1/ed to the negro quos Hon. lie Bald: "We aro here a part of th's coun try's population; we followed Wash ington during tho revolution; wo fol lowed Jackson In 1812; we followo . Grant and Lao both during the Gd's, and we followed Shaffer and Wheeler during the Spanish-American conlllci ; wo have tried to abido thc will of tin national and stato legislatures during the forty years of our freedom, yet today our existence hore and our tu ture destiny is the burning topic in American politics. To say that om being brought hero and enslaved un der tho American white people, when wo could Imbiba their oivdizitlon was providential should not be questioned But to take us and thrust the bal lot in our hands while tho country was yot bleeding and tito two sections woro apart was the greatest blunder ever committed by a civilized count!y. Vet tho negro was not responsible for this blunder, and should not bo made to suffer. Other blunders and mis takes have been made to that extent that tho southern heart has become oxcltcd and thus South Carolina pro duces a Tillman, Georgia a Hardwlok, Mississippi a Vardaman, Tonnosseo a Carmack, Arkansas a Jeff Davis, and Texas a Morris Shepherd, and these men with eloquence charged with Ur koop tho weakmsses boforo tho eye? ot tho world. Coextensive with these men and thetr Bonth&ents hat Book or T. Washington operated to tho ex ternal detriment of my pcoplo. Tho bettor olass of white people want to trust Ut; want to help us. They took hold of Booker T. Wash ington and built mm up; then lie ran north and east, and would hunt white lodging housoB to stop In, thus giving tho southern people the thoughts that tho nogro harbors in his breast a do siro for soolal equality. Again Wash ington has with one voloe urged tho nogro to keep out of politics, and within tho next breath hob nobbed with i^oiiticlahs of Ibo oountry with such deoelt, aoroltneaa and using the great .influence given him by the southern white man until he has rob bed tho entire raoe ot every vlatago of mauhood and it il tonco it once bad under the leadership of Fred Doug lass and Bishop Turner. I declare to you that I lock upon Washington aa the monumental enemy, the greatest fake and vilest strife-breeder between bae races tl mt Americana have ever produced, Governor Vardaman not excepted. BIO HT ON THJB DIS^N?ARY. Tho House Pusses ? Btil Virtually Hilling tho Low, The He uso of Representatives. Fri day by a vote of 03 to 47, ref unid to kill M<\ Morgan's bill wbioh provides for op lon between county dispensa ries and prohibition, except in coun ties with cities of over 20,000, where a third option, that of high license, is provided. The bcd rook of thc Mor gan bill is the abolition of tho State dispensary. After the Stato dispensa ry is abolished then tho conni,len are to determine whether they wlBh coun ty dispensaries or prohibition, exeopt Charleston and Columbia, where the lilil?d option ls allowable. In the counties tbat are now prohibition the status ls retained and they can only ohange to county dispensaries upon petition and ballot. Tho House did absolutely nothing Friday morning except consider the the Morgan bill, and lt was within a half hour of the dlnr.er hour when th* v bo was takenJIwhich indicated that r.he Hou io wants to abolish the State dispensary and adopt some other plan. The vote on the Morgan bill wes the largest that has boen reoord cd thus far this session. Every mern ?er's view went on record with the oxooptlon of two. Tue roll-call wa taken up at 1 20 o'olook. Tuere was a hush over the entire House. Every vote was closely watched and many kept tab. The motion was to strlk' out the cnaotlog words and on this the vote stood : Yea-To kill the Morgan bill. Nays-For tho Morgan bil1. Yeas-Hon. M L Smith, Speaker. Boyd, Brantley, Bruce, Collison, Olif ton, Cloy, Culler, Deschampa, Hoar, Dukes, Eating, E. J. Etheredge, I<\nrd, Gaston, Gauio, Graham, D. L G eea, Harrollson, Higgins, Hutto, I by, K-v.n;ui, Ktrven, L .Fltte, Luiey, Lss ter, McOoll, McFaldin. T. J. M tul lin, Miller, Morrism, Nanee, Parker, P.btman, P.nlojk, P/att. Rawlinson, Richards, Riley, Stall, Telle, J. M Walkor, J. B. Watsou, Webb, What ley, Yeldell-47. Niys-Ardrey, Arnold, Ashley, Btillontlme, Bank**, Boss, Baamguard, Frost, Ga<quo, J. P. Gb jon, W. J* Gibson, Gray, W. M D G.oen, Hall Hamel, Hamlin, Harrison, Harlpy, Haskell, Jilomphlll, Hayward, K-r shaw, Lawson, Lofton, L imax, Lyon, McMaster, Massey, Laban Mauldln, Morgan, Nash, Nesblo, Nicholson Dits, Patterson, Posion, Riaves, Ku*?k?*r, Sanders, S^y:?, Sheldon, Sink '*r, Strong, Tavlor, Trlbler, Turner, VtuderHor?t, Vernor, M. W.Walker, vVhaley, Wimb rly--03. Palra-D.O. He-ber j an 1 Sa'lo 8, MeOants and J E. Herbert. Gyle nd Splvoy, Little oud Anders .-n, Fkust and Seabrook, Glover and Col li o.t. Tua llrst named were against lille M )rgah bill, and the last named tu paris favored tho Morgan bill. There are only two members, Messrs Brant and L B E,herodgo, who did not reoord their vjte on this bill._ JOKE YOUR SUPPLIES. VU Farmers Should Diversity Tholr drona Thin Year, A writer lu tho Raleigh Progressive Farmer says: '.'The artlolo by President Harvlo Jordan ou dlvor?ltlcatlon of crops is nob only timely, but so clear th io even Hbo most Ignorant cannot fail to un leraland it. NJ uso to npp'ttl to Hie far m irs to lesson oottou acre age and tnere by ourtall production, l'ois has been tried too often-nota bly In tho yoar 1004, when tho agri cultural paper and every writer hi the South appaa'cel to tho f*rtner to re luce acreage, with what dT;ct we have seen. Many farmers plantod colton ti the exo'ussion of all other crops. Thc year 1005 found thom en cl t Div witbout impphes, exoopt such as their credit bring. ' I? anyone thinks they aro now reaoy to make tito same blund irs he la not acquainted with vory many of them. The farmer goes to his meet lug or reads the appeal of President Jordan'inTho Progressive Farmer; ho <;oes homo and resolves to reduoo bis 20 acres to 15 acres. But later, ho it members that John wants to go to .chool next yoar, so ho puts In three -ores for John; lie has bseu promising Sarah to get sonni now furniture, 80 ne puts ia turee iiores for that. There ia a good out lu tho oornor ot the flold ot four acre?, so ho plants that to pay oxponsea. Thus ho reduces his orop livo aores and inoreascs it ton aores. "No, air; tho only power that oan shorten tho cotton crop Is tho Lord. So, now, let every influential person iu every community take up President Jordan's proclamation and Insist upon ovory farmer who plants cotton to ?taXi arrange to raise an abundance of home supplies. This will solvo the problom. "With plenty of oom, wheat, oats, baoon, garden vogetablo, poultry, oggo, boef, milk, aud butter, and fruit at hand, with plenty of roughage and pasture, out ton can't hurt bhe South. But if you attompt to raise ootton to get money to buy thean necessaries, your nauio la mud. Try lt and bo oonvinooi." _ A liait Proaot.or. A dispatch from Bamberg to The Stato says T. J. Sandi fer. a Baptist minister who lived hero, but Rorved ohurohes in tho lower part of tha oounty, was at a congregational meet ing ?f tho RapiiMj ?'-lUfoh hold har? I laso Sunday excluded from mnmbdr ahlp In the ^hureh on account of im moral and un Christian oonduot. He left hore some week* ago and went down near Walterboro. but it is under stood he lott there last week for parto I unknown. A STRANGE GASE. A Woman in Paris Charged With Killing Three Children SMOTHERED THfciL Little Evldenee Against Her. The Ctr? cumstsnces Aro Identical Ia ?Sack Instance. Her Method ot Bi* feeling Deathjs Shroaded In Mystery. A dlspa'c'i from Paris says one of the s>.rangcst orlmlnal oases on record in France was brought to trial Mon' day morning. The defendant fal a woman. Jeanuo Weber, 35 years old, who is obarged with killing three ohildren and attempting the morder of the fourth all within the space of ^ Ave weeks. The circumstances sndeiP wbiob the chi ld rou were'killed are so mysterious, however, that the estab lishment of the guilt of the woman may bi Impossible. In eaoh instance where the death occurred the same circumstances were noted. Tho woman was found holding I n the arms the cor p ie of a child under two years of age, who but a few mo ments before had been laughing and ?Maying, ?o signs ot violence were ?bserved exoept that the faces of the victims were contorted. Autopsies showed no traces of pois oning and the deaths were thought to oe accidental until the woman was found with tho fairbh ohild In her irms, whioh was saved from suffoca tion. The other oac*s were recalled and tho woman was at rested, charged with ohild murder. The defendant itolidly protests her innooense. Spec alists who oxatninod th<3 woman fall to find any traci of Insanity. PAULI Nts wSSSSi, li Said to bo ? Puzzto to the KKDIM City Pol loo. A dispatch from Kansas City to tho Columbia State says fearing that p.ans are being laid to hide or apiri iway Paulino Webster, tho chief o police Tuursday dotallod a pla!. J lo thoa man to wat oh constantly until 0 further notloe the house ot Mrs. Holen * ' ~-. - ~-,w# -- ihat she wanted to move. Mrs. gart saw that all bills were settled and called a oarriage. Mrs. Wash ouru's husband and another man in our fer red and objected to Paulino 'eavlug. ? k A room had been- engaged at 1221 L jcust street for Miss Webster and i-'nurn lay night a cab wa? sont to the vVashburn home and Mlss\Webster again prepared to leave. Ay second imo sue was left In the house sf&or ho persons oooompanlng the oarriage hid been forcibly plaoed on the out .ldo. THO polios are Investigating. Sergt. S ?elby detailed two patrolmen 0 tho Wa-mbum house to Und out if cue Wehiter woman's life was in dan? ;er. Toe patrolman were refusjd ad? nittance. John H. Web ?ter of Oowpous, S. 0., whj arrived Wednesday, has identifi ed Pauline Wehner as his sister. He offered her 11,000 for her interests in G ffaey, S. C., property. She did not - . opt the off jr, having received from 1 tirm of lawyers in Gaffney a telegram advising her to hold uer property and ititlng that lt was worth at least ?10,000. Tho brother has departed, ,ur.po>edly for home. Miss Webster now wears a neat tress and although she has been lil .'or several days look* muoU better In ner apparel of her sex than she did tressed as a man. Mrs. Taggart has received money from South Carolina ^ with whloh to purohaso necessities for,-. her. The police are puzzled. They scorn uncertain as to what should be done. Tho situation ii further compil ed/^! by the news that Miss Webster has another wife in Springfield, Mo. Stand? by trio dou-li. Both President Roosevelt and Speaker Cannon have Bet the seal of their disapproval in plain terms upon the proposition of Congressman Reif er, of Oalo, and Crumpaoker, of In diana, to cut down representation, of southern states In oongress for dis franchising ignorant negroes. Keafer called at the white house to talk with tho president on the subj jot and lt ls said he received an Arotio chill. On a former visit for the same purpose the president is roportod to have said to Koifer that he would novo.* approve any such measure, but would use ula influenoe against lt. Both Koifer and Crumpaoker have been told by Speak er Cannon that ho was In favor of a pure ballot and would never allow any bill to oe md up in the house cf repre* santatlves whloh seeks to punish states for providing for a purer bollot. Cannon today told a Louisiana repre sentativo tuat he was looking out for the measuro of Kel for and Grumpaok er, and would promptly throttle them at thu il.- it appMiranee. ?ompula?rv Kilucataou Hilled. Tue compulsary eduoat'.oa bill very nearly pasHod the house last week. Ou ti e motion to . trike out the enact ing words thero was one vote major ity in favor of tho bill. Subsquently on the motion to indefinitely post pone, the notion was carried by three mijirlty. Liter it developed that a'?soi tee? from the hall who favored the bia would have saved it. Bus the motion to postpone indefinitely was ollnohcd and the hill h? w*? ?disposed of finally. The stiength of tho advocates of the bill surprised a great mauy people and with a little more pushing it would ?.av? pa^?. lt was singular that although the mill presiden s have rr ged the vote from Anderson, Greenville and Spar enburg counties killed the bill. Oa ; tho other hand the Aiken d.iinoaMon voted for the bill. Spartanburg gave some totes to the blU.