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"DO THOU, GREAT LIBE TTY, INS PI BJC OUR SOU LB AND MAKE OUR LIVES IN TU^l><>B8KSKiON H A VP Y OU OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY f^USS." VOL.^XI. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FRIDAY, APRIL 15?, 10O6. NO. 16. J_,_,_._,_ '_ .' 'liv' LYON IN REPLY Says That Tillman is Trying to Belittle Committee. Will INVESTIGATE HIM. The Dispensary ls So Corrupt That Even thc Investigating Committee Are Supptcted, Say* Mr. Lyen, Who Fl?CB Some Verv Hoi Shot at the Senator. Senator Tillman In a manifesto which he gave to tho public recontly attacked a great many peo j. lu and ctllolals, not even sparing tho mern bera of tbo committee appointed to in vestigate tho t flairs of the State dis pensary. That reference has been taken by Mr. J. Fraser Lyon PS an e iv ni, to discredit tho investigating committee and in a letter to the at torney for a liquor homo Mr. Lvoi bas expressed himself rather foielblj in regard to Senator Tillman's state mont. The letter of Mr. Lyon has been sc oured for publica lon af der seme ef fort on tho pan ut i'ue & aie, but the attorney to wh; o lt ts-adonssed asks that his name bt kept out of io. Fol lowing ls tbo OOQQDaUDiOltiOti: Abbeville, S. G., April 3, 1000. My Dear Sir: Your two letters of recent dauo were received by m-> upon my roturn home yosterday after an absence of about two weeks. You will,tilt ref ore, und err land why yon have uot had an earlier i< p'y. Willie lt is tiuo that 1 do not it... k there is any good reason for wltbbo.d'rg pav ment of tho claim of the C ok & Dorn hoi ni or company of Kew York still, as I have said heretofore, 1 will not give my cousent to the payment of this or any other dispensary olaim now held up until the matter of such payment is dh cussed at a publie, ses sion of our committee. 1 feel sure that you will appreciate my position in this matter, ispecially since the tu plication of Senator Till man's "Address to the People ol Soutb Carolina," In which he sayt: .'Is there not pb uty of opportunity for more graft and secret transaction, in regard to tho tjottleinonb of tbtRe accounts? Will not the l?gislative committee be suspected of Corruption If lt does not get in the middle cf thc road and stay then,-tba* ls, stand by tho law, obey it itself aua require others to do sc? Why to much de lay?" You see this additional reason for my position. It ls unfortunate foi your ollcnts to have had dealings with an institution which u? ene Jiu cvei Investigate wit ; out. havn g it suggeb ted or insinuated that lie may be a grafter, or at leat-t has a go. d eppor tunlty to steal. While I regard this reference to our committee .ss only a shrewd attempt to shake public confi dence in us and intend to obsti uot ano interfere with cur work, which is evi dently becoming distasteful to many of those who are ine ocably weddou to tho dispensary, still woet. I -iee tm proneness to critic is: us I wish to be especially careful not io put mjbelf in a position thai Cjuld, witn even a col o? justice he crltici ed. In your lotter of Mai oh 20 .ou prac tically asked the question, sud sin oerely, "Why so muja delay ?" 1 kuov. no faot that I have learned lu the dis pensary Investigation that 1 shall In tentional withhold from the public Scmetlmes I du not think lt best for the si ccess of the investigation to re veal facts and suspicions as soon as they como to mo or to disclose our plans for tho future, so in this case I will answer your question only so far as 1 think the piesent status so the Investigation Justillos. Wo arc trying to get tho fae s in re gard to several suspicious matters which wo think should bo lnvastlgtb ed. Among them is thc statement as I recall lt, of Somtor Tillman that lie returned curtain rebates to a distill ery. We wish to lind the credits on the books of the distillery snowing the amount o? rebates which Senator Tillman said-lie returned as & g ft for the gratitude he felt to the bquoi ooncoruod crediting the State of South Carolina. Dildos this thoro he*:' como to my cars a rumor - the source of which I do not n >w recall, but a ru mor whioh I think should be looked into-that Senator Till man when gov ern yr was presented with a piano by u liquor concern. It may ba that re ceipts may bc shown for tho rebates which may have been returned and also for payment of this plano which may have been received as was ru mored to bo the :(aoisfactory explana Mon in tho caso of the Towill horse matter. Still wo do nob know tho fact:', in regard to these things and think the legislature intended for us to in vestlgato such transaction* as these as well as other vigue and uncertain matters to which common rumor gives ourrcney. We must do our duty in looking into theso tilings and you may Jucigo hy the above samples that we must have much tl mo In (io lng it. Furthermore, lt is not ex pedientand I would not approve of the committee holding a public ses sion every time Senator Oorla tensen and I have done all we can in exam ining each claim. 1 reoognly. : tnt fact that wo may bc ebaslrg a ''will o'-tho-wisp" in all of these matters, ?nd that your cl lents may Buff dr in tho meantime, hut, whether our ef forts be such a ol?ase or not, it seem certain that in all events our com mittee RIU? walk through the miro The opinion ls so prevalent that, tho dispensary has been a breeder of so muon coriuption that no ono can touch it without the suspicion of somr ono hoing aroused. Uhf ?rtunatoly, in tho oasoof our oommlttc, tho insinua tion of tills suspicion ls cast upon us in the publlo prints by ono who, Above all others, may know of tho lnnormostaf fairs nf tho dispensary ss 'rasaotod by Its . Ulcers s nco Its Inoeption I trust, however, that wo will flu ally emi-Tg" from our dhtastoiul task meriting the om fldcuoe and approval of all honest ol tizeos, ll Having thai this will satisfactorily ixplain our delay, 1 3m Y urs very truly, J. Fraser Lyon. M i Y ?HI CUT OFF. SOUTH'S DISADVANTAGE AS TO IttfllAL. ItOUTICS. Large Negro Population Decreases tho Amount of Mail Handled on fonio Boutes. Tho Washington correspondent cf tho State writes his paper irom Washington in regard to rural routes under recent date that it is probabh some of them may be out oil. Io be hooves the people in the country to patron i /. J them. In regard to this matter the State's correspondent Bayh: Some of the cMalais of tho post ed] -e department some time ago were somewhat nettled at tho reports pub libbed in this correspondence that they Intended to discontinue rural free delivery routes which did not handle as much, as 2 OOO pieces ol mail a month. They wero nettled es pc dally because in that same letter I o%llod attention to tho faot that the operations of this rulo would alf oct routes principally in the south, where the number of negroes cn the routes who do not uso malls very m cb caused the average number of mah pleoes to be so low. Tho number o' pieces ha.ulled on the routes In ir. uti Carolina, according to the figures of the department, averaged 2 400 plecev a month. In North Carolina the av erage is only 1,000. So stirred up about this report were the clllolals that they Issued a special statement to tho papers of North Carolina, where portions of tho story were cop led, with a view of modlfylug the tm pression. Representative Finley, who is a member of tho house committee on post' nico and postroad, has just rc oeived a lotter from Mr. DeGraw. fourth assistant postmaster general, con Hr ming that report. Ile gives a specific Instance of tho cutting efl ot routes or the disposition to do lt "You will observe," says the lettor, after giving the number of mail pleoes handled on .routes in York .county, "tlmii tho amount" of mall handled on these routes is far below tho average per route, 3,600 pei month, and below the minimum which lt is thought a route should handle per month, 2,000 pieces." The letter notliles Mr. Finley that two more routes in Cherokee o< uaty will bo established, conpleolug tho county system of that county. Mr. DcQraw says Ocr earning Cherokee county that the records show thai luring the quarter ending December 31, 1905, as compared with that ond lng June 3C, 1905, there has been a material h creake in the amount ot mail handled on the rural routes of Cherokee, lt was In view of this im proved conditioa that tho two nevi routes were established and the coun ty system perfected. Inspections have been ordered o' the routes in Yvrk county and tut .-jumo. r of pieces of mall will br ? muted, The department states to Mr. Finley that tho oi J ot Of this ls oo''ascertain tho cause for the ad vorse conditions on these route.0, and, if poss b e, Increasing their patron age." Pending reports from thes? routes the department; will hold up . thor applications for other routes in York county. Moral: Tue country people of York and people everywhere on rural free, delivery routes had best get busy and take newspapers and write letters to folks or send out their bills through tho mails. RICHES TO POV???TY. A Foi mer Milllonalt-n MccrJn/'.' for Food lit lMtrsbur-fr, I**. Charles Campbell, formerly a wealthy oil oporator, walked into thc lOast End police station recontly at Pittsburg, Pa., and asked for food and sheller, as ho was starving. Ile WSB one of tho flrst men In the Od Creek Hold and built tho first tank In Titus ?IHo. Ho made a vast fortune, and during tho days when "Coal Oil Johnny" was sowing hundred-dollar bills along his pathway w..s an Inti mate frlond of his. The formation of tho Standard Oil company wab his undoing. Ho tried to ll/hb and then to regain bl i looses by speculation. He ls now in poverty. The police took him in, gave him food, and soon secured a Job for him as a watol nun. ile IB sovonty yoars old, hut halo and hearty, and insists that his luck has changed. Thc old man told a story that was Interesting and pathotlc. Ho was a farmer In tho Oil Creek district when tho oil boom started there. He had a good farm, but did not s di out. In stead lie drlllod himself, and was ri . ward id with several good wells IO very tiling ho touched seomc 1 to turn Into money. Ho |married and built what was tuen one of the most mag ir ?iceni mansions (n the oil country. The sudden acquisition of wealth did not turn his head, and he kept right, on at tho work until his fori une amounted well up toward tho million mark. Then oamo a streak of misfortune. Ills houso burned and ho lost almost $100.000 In that. Several loases panned out badly. A partner proved unfaithful and then the Standard came. Ho j dried tho light against the Rockefellers and soon found that ho had boen deserted bv many of those who had been loudest In tholr denun ciation of the now regime. He was losing money fast, and bo speculated io recover and lost lt all. Now ho ls depondont on charity. GAVE UP WIFE Who Confessed She Loved Another Prom Childhood. In tbe Life ol Rev. NV. P. Cady Crop? Out In thc Story of Ills Di vorce Suit Against His Wife at Bridgeport Conn. Recently, At Newburg, N. Y., ono night h'st, week tito scattered threads In the romanos of May Foster Nlohols and Uov. William J. Cady were finally drawn togethor by the wife's story of lim strange circumstances that led to the divorce which was granted to the minister a few days boforo al Bridgeport, Gonn., by Judgo Gager of the Superior Court. It ls a story of blighted love which on the part of the broken hearted clergyman at least, closely parallels that other story of love and sacrifice In which John Raskin, discovering that his youug and beautiful wife loved and waa beloved of Slr John MI Unis, eut of tho n?blenos of his nature freely gave her up to his bosom friend The Rev. William J. Cady, blh.ded by his own groat love for May Foster Niche's, learned from her lips six months after their marriage, and ?vneu she belle/ed sho was on her death bed, so he asserts, that her heart was In tho possession of anoth er. Stunned, but "till loving her, the broken- hearted man mealed his Ups until, her mind freud of the grea'. burden whio i lt had c?rrled for six months, the wifes health mended, he gently and lovingly turned hor from ulm and resigned lier to the sweet heart of her childhood. Uulike R ankin, however, ho still yearned for her alloetlou, aud by all tno artifices., }of tue ardent wooer, sought to awaken lu his wifo the al . feotion which she had avowed belong ed to another. To this extent he sue oeeded, that tho wife once moro re turned to his home, and on her part sought to kindle the llamo wi .Ich wQUlcLweld ber heart to hla^^^ 15at hor though.,., b&ok to the sweetheart of old, and sadly and sorrowfully thoy parted. Tne end carno in the Superior Court <\t Bridgeport. The minister wus granted a decree of divorce on tho ground of desertion. The samo day nis dream of love shattered, his oon grogatlou rent In twain hy tho revo tatton of his dom silo tragedy, his heart numb within him, he departed for Kansas Cltv, whore am.d new scenes he has taken a new ouarga in the hope of blotting out the past, Mrs. Cany, ?ne now to plaoc her af fections where they have constantly wandered since childhood has return *vl to the homo of her mother in New ourg whore lives Dr. E. F. Brooks, he man to whose h.ve the minister has resigned his wife. Rev. Mr. Cady'a last words on leav ing for the Wost were of alf motion ann forgiv ness for the woman who was ola wife. ' Afler we had been mar ried six months," ne said to an inti nate friend, "my wif *. was taken ill with a severe oold, Sile feared BIIC was going to die. Willie in tills con ditlofi sue confessed to me that she vas in love with Dr. l? F. Brooks, of Newburg, N. Y. Tiley wero old and intim ?.te f.londs. I told her sho was free to go with thc man she loved, but sho remained v/ith mo a year after that. Thou she went to her home in Njwburg, where she ls at present and the physician in question boards at her home. 1 wrote her sev oral letters asking her to return, but they were Ignored. It ls better so. 1 have no bltternsss In my heart for lier. But lt was a tcrrlblo awakening My only hope now is that I may for get and that she may bo happy." Tho nm ii ce dates back several years, at the beginning ls thc old story of parental lnilucnco guiding the tholoo of a husband. "Even old folks may sometimes bo wrong," said the motlier of the young wife as she shook her hoad In recounting tho story of her daughter's marriage. The couple were uilted on April 4, 1900, at Newburg. Cady, tho son of i wealthy Canadian plantor, came to Nev/ York several years prior an:! worked successively as clerk and book agent before his ordination as a min ister In tho Methodist Episcopal Church. It wan in Newburg, ofter that, ho met Mb s Nichols, whose fath sr nov dead, wis dlitantly related to Commodore Vanderbilt. Ile fell In love with tiic girl, who was tall hand somo and a favorite In Newburg so ciety circles, and in tho blindness of als own love and me ling favor lu the eyes of Dr. Elizabeth Nichols, lier mother the young clergyman fancied his aff etion was returned. Mrs. N.ohols, herself a strict churo .-woman, saw untiling but ad vant; g J tn tho marrlago of her (laugh tor lo a Stalwart yoong member o? the cloth, aud though hor daughter was madly In lova with young Dr. Brooks, lier playmato of ohlldhood she was encouraged toned pt thc a; fen*.lons of Cady, and the match was tl nally arranged. A dutiful (laugh ter, tho young girl gavo her con u and, ohlvlous ofjcverythlng elso hut that the dream of his life was about tc he realized, the y< ung mlnlstor led his lov le s wife to ilie al ar. Too young hu di ind took his wlf to M morville, L. I , where he was In charge of a ohm oh, and fur six month* his happiness know no abatement Then the young wlfo was suddenly taken 111, A heavy cold settled on hei lungs, and tho husband was almost frantic as ho saw her fading away boforo his oyes. Hor mother attended hor during iicr illness, and she as wei. as the languishing patient, knew toe well that another Illness thatocntored In her heart, was wasting Che young 1 fo away. B?t still not a word wa^ spoken, u ntl finally it became HPO O' ssary to call lu tho soi v!ces of anoth er physician, wh J silootly shook his i ie id and pronounced the case of the wife hopoletis. Tuen it was that sho formed her resolution. Calling to her bedside the anguished hnsbai cl she told him with what she thought was her dying neath as ho knelt beside her, her 3yes lumad full on his, the sviret ?hat blHbted his hopes forever. "Will, Will," the minister says she cried be tween hbr subs "I mu?t speak and toll you that I never, never loved you. I lovo another. All this vshlle, all this Hmo timi vou have kuown me, I've loved an thor. The kneeling man fell back; pros bratet) by the bl ?w. Then, as tin . bought of the. solemn hour occurred to him, lie steeled his heart and lis tened silently until the full confession had hoon made, He then called his religion to hts support, and in a vo c. strained weak and passionless, he said: "I forgivo you. If indeed a wrong has bceu dono, lt is 1 who have doue it." That night the patient's ooudltlon took a turn for tho better and within a week she was on tho roid to reo iv ory. But not yet did he sp?,ad to her of the blight whioh had been cast over bis lifo. Not until sho had fully i'c ivcrcd did he take Ibo last step. Tuen it was In the same oalm passion less voice that he said, as he took her hand gently: 'Tf it bo true you would better to go to the mau you love." But now sho faltered. Sho had seor him In adversity, under tho greatest blow t tat oan bo struck at a mao, a id his strength and fortitude, lils gp.utlo forboaranoo and noble self-sao ritcc, sounded a new note, and for a pear ,he remained at his Bide, striv ing to awaken in ber heart tho love for him that he still craved by look and aot. But the old affection would not die. At the end of th yoar eh. left ulm. Still he Rought her by letter, be seeching her to return onoe moro and strive to lind In him tho qualities willoh would crown lils devotion with the love he sought But lt was In vain, aud, bowed In his grief, the min ister gave her up. Ile took a new charge In Stamford, Conn., und beuan life anow and alone. Ile mado tho mistake of not in forming his new congregation of thc peoullar state of his domostio ties. By and by mothers with marriageable ds lighters began to make him the ohjaot of their attentions, and at last In desperation, the harried minister made an announcement from his pul pit willoh spread o msternation among lils o agr?gation and Ciuaed a rupture which ended, a few days ago, In him resign hl? from??^"T&q?s&ffi abd ao xu wai >mu a'short time ago that, tho newspapers pilote the announce ment. Rsv. Mr. Cady, from his pul pit deolarcd be was a married mau who for reasons over which he had no control, had boen foroed to apply for a divorce. There followed a little later thc visit ol the wife to Bildge port, whore she was served In the tralushed with the summons In the .-ult. Stie mada no dofonce. And the decree was yrant"d. WOMLN Did TOCKS ?.'REU. Suicido Of Oao Sinter Followed aiiflo oi' tho O thor. Until ten years ago, Clara and E U na Frankford, spinsters, taught Ger man in tho public schools, of New York. Thon Ellina, the yoingor, be wme demented and Clara gave up Uer pUce In tho sjhool In E ;st Fifty seventh street, and deolded to devote elie rest of lier life to the caro of EUI na. Tliey moved a few y oars ago Into tho big front room of the buardlug house at 143 Eut Eighteen street, usually taking their meals in thoh rooms. They woro unoommunloitiv about their lersonal allairs, and other hoardjrs did not susp ot that Elina *as deranged. Tue sistors were slight and very gray. Clara was seventy years old and Ellina sixty-four. They wore noarly al.vays ti gather and 83l dom went out of tho house, For several weeks past Clara was 111 lu bed with asthma and heart disease, \ servant who went to /all tno slaters foundd gas coming f o a tho room and the door locked. A policeman forced open the door. Clara was found dead In bed and E lina wf.s sitting up right In a rocking chair bofore tho mirror with a rubber' tube cmnccte:! with a gas jet, secured Inlier head Sho has b?m dead several hours. Coronor Shary said that evidently Olara had died in tho night of asth ma, and that Edina, appalled by Un prospott of living alone, had an at tack ol dementia and decided to kill herself. She stopped up tho keyhole and all thc cracks of tiie windows and doors with underclothing before slie fastened tho tube In the mouth. Au .V I,- nil HM IO lon, A traveller In Sh in ls said to havt discovered an Adamloss E len-a town of ii.ooo inhabitants without a single man. Tho last man who ventured Into this exclusive circle, was stuck to death, each of the inhabitants Using a halpin 100 timos on him. The SpartiuiburK Journal sa.,a: "Weare sorry thc report of this discovery ls so meagre. Wc would like to know how many clubs they have, if Bridge or. ./im I ? I there, If bargain oountcrs at tract, MU! soim-thlug about the spring Openings and Easter decorations Wi have a pretty fair Idea of what Spat" tanbury would ho If all tho womot wore transported far beyond the deep blue 8oa. lo would be no E len. muid E*i*esldent Murdered. J. BurdottO, president of the Eufo n?a National hand, merchant ano one of the most prominent arid wealthy men of tho Greek nation, Muskogce, 1. T., was shot and killed last T mrs i day night at his home in Eufaula. Ills , body was found Wednesday mo. nlng about 0 o'clock near a well In the rear i of his residence, a portion of his hoad hoing torn away by a nullet wound. There waa no ono at tho placo exoep1 Mr. Uurdette and ho had bien dead I many hours before tho body was dis I Covered. Mr. Burdetie curried lifo i Insurance polloles aggregating 1260, 1, OOO. GOOD ADVICE. Washington Urges His Ract to Att&n Qood Citizenship. THE SOUTH IS PLACE Por the Negroes, Wc. Says at the Tus keegeejl?stllute Celebration, Wblcb Conft Off Last Week, Some SB Prominent Men Were Pre sent and Spoke. Owing to the delay In the Ogden speoial train, the boginnlng of the ex orolsas lu oonnootlon with tho celebra tion of jine 25 anniversary of the Tus kegee Normal and Industrial Institu de at ?T?skogoe, Ala , was delayed until Wednesday night. Amoqg the prominent men who oamo lu'ou tho Ogden train wore: ?Sec retary M War William H. Taft. Rm ort O. Ogden, president of tho board of trustees; Charles W. Eliot, presi dent ofj Harvard university; Dr. Ly man AbbJttand Oswald Garrison Vdl ard, editor of tho Now York Evening Post. I The party was greeted by 1 500 stu dents and alumni and mombors of the faoulty and b-nvrd of trustees. Among tho prominent Institutions of lcarding that aro represented here are Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins university, University of Minnesota, Ooerlln'college, Massachusetts Insti tuto of Teohnolotry, Unitorsity of Ala bama, Alabama Polyteohulo Institute, Howard unlversitVi Fisk university, Barnard1 college and tho Armstroug Manual Training sohool of Washing ton. D.,0. Principal Hooker T. Washington de livered/an address of welcome. He said in 'part: " 'And Jssijq said, I will m\ko you fishers Of men.' "In tho spirit of these words, tho foundation of this Institution wis 1*1 In 1881, through a gift from thcStit^ of Alabama. "Fo.. 25 years then the Tuskeg Normal a:.d Indu ?trial Instituto hv been fisiilng for men. Wnat of it and with \*-hat result'}? lu our q iast w. have med land, houses, hams, henner ie:., .is, laundries, kltohen, ola:is ?*???-?????rin..t?'o aa^ cW , ?ne plow,'?na money-au these add more we have used id our effort to /tish for men. "Primarily, I bslleve that my race has fonhd itsolf, so far as tts perma nent location ls ooncorned. When this Institution began Its mission there was unoertainty, lack of faith, hault ing and sp?culation as to our perma neut abiding place. As to what de gree the Inllueuoe of the Tuskegee in stitute has contributed to thin I will vonturc no assertion, cxoc.pt to state that, so far I can interpret the pres ent ambitions and the activities of my people, the malu body of the race ha deolded to remain permanently In the icart of tho South, In or near what is Known as the black belt." P'lnoipal Washington referred to the growth of the sohool from Its humble beginning lu one small building, with 30 pupils, to Its present enroll mont of l. lou students, and said that the sotiool had seut out into tho world 0, 000 men and women who are now largely engaged as workers In agrloul turo and mechanics, housekeepers and '.canners of both Industriell an . aoadeualo branches throughout the South as well as In Africa and one or two foreign countries. After alluding to tho various "mo mentous transitions'' through which the American negro has passed, bogln nlng with the primitive otvlllzition willoh ho had oreated in Afrioa his introduction Into tho wholly now oou dltlon of American slav ?ry, and his now lifo of freedom and citizenship, Prlro'.pal Washington said: "Tho ne^ro race In this o jun try has entered upon a wholly new period-a period in which emphasis ls being placed upon a side of lifo not oovjrod in any ol the previous experiences of my people. 1 mean the ora of free, independent and Intelligent co momic and Industrial development, aco.itn panled with a growing sense of tin worth and value of their own. quail tics and a d.'.slro to m tko tho most of thom, nuder God, for their good and the welfare of tho world. Having to some ox'enb become consolons of the groat task Imposed on them as a peo plo thoy are seoklng to lay tho found ation deop In tho essentials of life. Hut In this task thoy often moot many and sometimes needless obstaolcs. "If this country ls to continue to be a ropuhlio Its task will never he completed as long as 7,000,000 or 8. 000,000 of its people are in a largo de groo regardod as allens and aro with out v doo and Interest in tho welfare of tho government Such a ourse will not mci cly lnlllot great Injustioo upon these millions of people, bub tile lia t?n will pay thc prlco of finding thc genius and form of Its government charged, not perhaps in namo, but certainly in reality, and beeline of this, ti?e world will say that freo gov ornmcnt ls a failure "As I con aol ve lt, a part of the mis sion of th.s sohool ls expressed In the purpsoe and determination to assist ono rao-3 in laying suoh a gradual and permanent foundation In right living, through the accumulation of property ndustry, thrift, skill, oduoation of all charaoter, moral and religious habits and all that which means our u-ofu - ness to tim ODmmutilty In willoh wc ablive, that naturally, logloally, sym pathetically wo shall make outsolvo.< grow Into the full and rightful enjoy ?.?it and Intelligent uso of tho privi leges and rowvrd of oltixmshlp. "Any less ambition would be un worthy of UB, unworthy of you. Any less ambition would make us perpolu al drags, instoad of potential forcof for good." Mr. Ogden dollverod a strong ad dress on the sign Horneo of the colo oration. Ho spoke on the iaot thal Tuskegee institute stood out as "the unmatched example of the possibili ties of au institution entirely control! ei In its diversified acad?mie au i in dustrial curriculum, producive Indus tries, excoutlve organist vtion and bus hiest affairs by a faculty and oorps of managers composed entirely of men and women of African descent.1' President Eliot of Harvard cooke >n 'What Uplift a liaceaud Wuat Holds it Down." PIFrY-01)? KILLED, UUII,1>ING OOIiliAPHl?) Will 1,1 ; TUM GU HST DVNCKl). Many Killed and Injnred in Accident Faid tob) Due to Care lessness. At Nagold, Germany, flftj-flve per sons wore killed and 100 dangerously injured Thursday bj tho collapse of the hotel 7A im Hlrsoacn. The build lng had not been fully oomplctcd and the oataBtrophe ls attributed to thc non observanoo cf proper precautions, f no roof of the building had boeu ont) put lu place Wednesday morning, an event which lu accordance with Ger man custom, was celebrated by a feast. The guests were reported to have engaged in a danoo, and this, to gother with tho largo number of per sons ou tho ll lor, probably was what canned tho building to collapse. There wore 200 persons present, most of whom were burled In the ruins. At 10 o'olook Thursday night f>6 dead bodies had boen recovered and 100 injured were taken from the ruins, many of them in a serious oondltion. Twenty porsons still arc missing and probably are dead. The accident ls attributed to caro 1 ?asneas on the part of those who wore making repairs on the building, which had boen raised five feet from tho ground in order to give moro spaoe for the lower story. The work b?gao early In the morning and was supposed to havo been finished at noon. Tue keep or of the hotel Invited the w uk nen and a largo number of lowusp-oplo to a grand dinner. Theompany a^s moled In Minmin die, banquet room und w.ts d : kiu^ tho heal ta of tue bul (dor a.-id i.udlor when suddenly a o ash w.ui hoard ibove. A ?.corn of nose In Uie bsu buot room Jumped from tne wmdow. ?ud doors lu lim?- LO escape, when the h "in* o- ii ?wu wi: fi a crash. Tm* to '?i PuuMd y uigut present^ in Indes rlba iie scene of horror and ria?. T:iero ls hardly a family bu .ios lost ono or more membcrj. The villagers and people of the surround lng oountry are Inquiring for their re" i -ai mnnn?"rtnv?7ivare laid out lu thc uowq^-qriN^ yi .?.c <>r ti >-.?? disaster. The work of rescue is still proceeding, but the full losses will no. be known until Friday. JbH LL FIS. A Daring Halidon Aucont 10 ids In th !- nioiimit'ii I) ?th. Dsath in the waters of B \s> cree'' along tiie south shore of L ng Id ind between Jones Beaoh ar. I Amityvlll , N Y., ended the daliup bal o in aso ?nt Weinesiav afternoon of Paul N t q let, a Frenoh sculpter of n tte aud an onthuslastlo amaten- aeronaut. Tit body was found Tjnr.-day nigh* o the mud ly shore of tho orcek when the tide had left lt and nota grea distance from where Nocquat's o ?Hap sed hallo m was discovered late Wed uesday night by the life savors of Jones beaoh. Tue discovery of the b id y put at ond to aseaici willoi had h-o'uled ocean, land and marshes. Nocquet apparently landed safoly with his oar and in fighting his way out of the meadows m the darkness had trav :rscd about two fifths of the distance from Jones beaoh to Amltyvllle, several milos, when he died. Ho had oross id 13 or 1 ld l?orent islands and had swum or waded through the runlots between them. That Nocquet traveled as far as he did ls considered wonderful. Ho must bffve struggeld tho last ml o of the two he traveled under fearful difficul ties. Ho essayed a trip that few men I o.iuld possibly have oomploted lu day light. Thc valve controlling the ropes of tho balloon when found Indicated that the descent had been startei by Nocquet's action and that must have baen gradual. When Nocquet started on his flight Wodncsday afternoon tho wind was blowing out bo soa. This meant that, unless he should como down after be lng up but a short time-having started from tho Bronx-he would surely ho blown aoross Long Island and out over tho ooean. A life preserv Oi* was strapped inside the basket anrl the word to lot go was glvon. The balloon in its Hight passod over Jamaica, Garden Olty, Westbury, Jer icho and Cold Spring Harbor, then darkness oame and shut lt from view. Capt. George Smith of Amlty villo located the body Weduosday night on tho muddy bank of Bass orcek abd made lt fast to a stako. lt will bo tak n to Amity villi Thursday after having beon viewed by the coro ner. Tracks about the balloon wheu found seemed to indloate that the aer ' onnaut had survived his Hight. At ' about tho time the balloon was first discovered by the beaoh patrol, orles wore heard out on tho bay lu tho di roctlon of tho Islands by Henry Purdy, who lives in a houso boat. He suppos 1 od thc; calls v. o re. those of night shooters or fishermen shouting to each other, and paid no great attention to thom. Hhot Hts bather. At Hrzolhurat, Ga., on last Wed nesday, Cleveland Crawford, a young man of that plaoo, about twenty year* of ago, shot and seriously wounded his i father. J. M. Crawford, at tho same time accidentally wounding his little brother with a stray h?llet, tho child hoing struok lu tho abdomen, and the father reoeivlng several bullots. Thc you og man who did the shooting olaims that his father was boating his i mothor, that he attomptod to Inter foro, and that tho oidor Crawford as saulted him with a ohalr, compelling him to defend hlmsolf with the rovoi i vor. BIO C0?2! C?OP. WH VT A M .MIL. BO HO V A ll M ld lt HA1SEU ON O ?i i: lOKU. Fae's / b ut th? Great Crop of Capt I rake, Winch Broke the World's Record. lu aoswer to a request from Dr. W. L Davenport, ot Washington Oe uni y, Va., to give the largest authentic yield of corn for one aore of ground, rna kind of soil, its proper J Mos, ferti lizing, variety of corn planted, di? ance between rows, and pla??s in the rows, oultlvatlon, cte; In faoti all the essential details of production, the Amerloan Agrlcul'urlst says: The li" g st corn oron yet recorded was gr ?wo by Oapt. Z J. Drake of Marlboro oounty, S. O. Not only is tola the largest grown In America, but in the world. In one season and on a single aore, ho produoed 265 bushels and thus secured American Agriculturalist's prize of 4500, bo sidos several other awards offered looally by fertilizer and other manu faoturlng companies. The details as to how this remarkable orop Was pro duoed were published In Amerloab Agrtoulturallst In Maroh, 1800. Tho following faots regarding it will be of interest to others: Tho land on which too orop was grown was originally a sandy soli on which formerly grew oak, hlokory and long leaf pine. Three years pre vious, this particular aore was espeo lally fertilized and prepared b Oapt. Drake and planted with Peterkln cotton from vhloh he harvested 017 pounds of lint ootton. The land was specially prepared f>r the corn con test. In February he hauled upon it 50 one-horso wagon loads of stable t?auuro, at the same time broadcast ing 500 pounds each of guano, cotton seed n eal and kainlt, all of which were plowed under. Following the plow 000 bushels of whole cottonseed were distributed ir tho furro v after the plow. Immedi ately foll ming this a subsoil plow turned this 12 inches deep. The iiild was laid off alternately 0 feel bet wee u tw.^ plows, then 8 feet, the? 0 feet, etc. One bushel of fcbe ooru naon ground variety of the Southera White Dant corn, of a strain improv d by 20 years' sol'Ouion, was planted M ? .en 2. Flvo or six kernels were dropped In the row to each foot. Toe crop was still further f?rtil a id during the growing season as fallows: April 20, 200 pounds each guano, cot tonseed meal, kainlt, add phosph&u and animal bone sown early In th* furrows; Mjiy 15, 300 pounds nitrate soda in rn wa and workod In with har row; May 25, 200 pounds ??uano wer? applied lu three furrows run In thc rrUlo -o^n Jtt??> 8: 500 pOlllld? Qt RO. q al m x ure of guano, o ittonse?r meal and kainlt was strewn In the wide rowp; and tlnally on Juno 10, 100 pounds nitrate soda was broadoasteo tn i he nanow rows and hoed in. The tero was surveyed June 20 b) William 8 Alford. The harvesting vas dor e N ve ber 25 In the pre enc f representative farmers, looluding J V. Oampbell an official reprenta Uves of Aioerloan Agrioulturali t T ere were taken from tho field 17 - 407 pounds c rn In the ear of whic .nly 140 pouu is wore soft and con idered poor. By making several H dec' lens t he average test shower hat 82 pe; ceit. of the total oror vs l-e.nal;, an equivalent of 14 273 j unc?s nf s 1 ed corn, or 254 Bushel aid 40 p linds, estimated at 56 pounds per bushel. i This was an elaborate experimen to prove how muoh corn could be ac ?tually grown on an aore, tho cost o' producion having been a seoondar matter in this case. Tho seoom prize In this contest was won by Ab ff cd R ?Re of Yiras oounty, N. Y who produced 213 bushels of Eirh Mastodon corn. Ho planted one kornal every foot In rows S feet apart and fertilized with 800 pounds Mapes| oom manure. Tho soil was a sand) loam. The third prize was awarded to George G.utnor of Pawnee county, Neb., who raised 171 bushels of Karl) M tstorfon on a blaok, rich loam, ferti lized with 00 loads of barnyard man ure, planted in hills 3 by 3 feet. The average weight of the entire 45 orops raised and entered in this oontest wa 104 bushels shelled o ?rn per acre. l< every Cii.^e thc crops weiewell fcitlllz ed. It pays to feed crops Intelligent ly. _ A MIN KR RKS???D Atter fining Dudor Ground Twontj Ftvo Dava and Nl^hta. A dispatch from Lons, Franco, sayt another living survivor of tho mini disaster at Courti?res on Maroh lu was difcC/vered Wednesday morning and brought out of the pit. The finding of anothor miner allvi after twrntv-flvo days' entombment caused intenso excitement, no wah in good condition. According to his first statements, this nun, August IC Briton, suffered less tuan thc preceding rei cued mon. As the news spread lt caused ex tremo exasperation against tho en gineers wno havo been dlreotlug the salvage work. Briton who wa* covered with a lay or of coal dust, described his experi ence as folio <vs: "I was working with my cousin when tho exploslor ooourred and we became separated Afterward, alono, I groped about In tho darkness, trying to lind an out let. I first found a dead horse bu was unablo to cat any of its tlesh. Later 1 found somo lu nob bags fthloli had be'ongsd to the men who had boen kill cl by the oxplolslons and ) lived on tho food I fou.id In them. I suffered from odd ani took c.othing and shoes from the dead. I also found turco watches and twenty-four s UM. At one timo I gavo up all hope and tried to com >mt suelde by open ing a N oin. 1 slept ten times ami tried to count the days, estimating that eight days had passed since the explosion. " When tho engineers came up from the Oourtlercs pits nt noon thoy were attacked hy a crowd of women ory lng: "Death to tho murderer I'' They woro roscuad by squadrons of dragoons. Tho people are Intensely oxolted ?nd serious disorders aro threatened. DUPES OF FRAU 3. Thousands of People Bought Love Powders From a BlLTIMORE CONCON, The Factory Where the Love Tokens Were Made Raided by The Of ficers, arid Thousands of Dollars Pound In the Safe and Taken. United States Marshal Langham mer, Postal Inspector Hooton and Sharron and Secret Service Agent Oha ?)H Wright raided the "College of Science" conduotod by "Dr." Theo--' dore White at 1917 Eist Pratt street, Baltimore, Ml, and as a rosult the "doctor" was hold In 910,000 ball for the action of the federal grand Jury by United States Oommissijner Bond Thursday afternoon, charged with using the mails for fraudulent pur poses. He waived examination, Seven hairs out of a white mule's tali, oin ht drops of blood cut of a dog's tail and one or two equally un expected lng'edient) constlt to a love potion, thousands of paokages of which were taken in the raid. White, who advertises himself In the m wspapers as being the . "only reliable" spirltuaiistio medium in Baltimore has conduoted his "College of ?o euee" f jr the paat two years. When tho "oolloga" on East Pratt street was raided the United States ?jill Mais found eighteen young women working for White, typewriting, mall ing his books on "The nigher Occult Solenco," and putting up and wrap ping a potion, warranted to cause love H Urst sight. In the sire, which the iooior opened at the urgent solicita tion of the United States o?loers, was found nearly $13,000 In cash, and White admitted that his operations iad extended all over this country, Europa, Central Amerloa and a por ulon of South Amerioa. Marshal Langhammer now has in his posses iion tho names of patrons of tho insti tution residing in Honduras, Central America. The lsiuanod of the warrant for Waite's arrest oamo as a result of a o mferenoo between United States District - Attorney Ruse, Assistant United States Dltibriot Attorney t?? pev, Marshal Lai.j,.: .-.?* anil tho United States postal otllolals. Tnous indsof letters addressed to White had teen reocived at the Baltimore pobt ni :e from all seotlons of the country, fa rough means known only to them selves, the United States offljlal so mred tho names of persons to whom the ' dootor" had sent his oiroulars, md after reading the matter winch j \o sent cub they oamo to the con chi llon that hl3 operations were fraudu lent White's oiroulars stated that the 'OolleReoi Soleuoe" was prepared to beach hypnotism, mental solonoe, tel epathy and the "nigher occultism" in nail order oourscs at 97 a course. A> cr taking a oourse the suosoriber was ?uaian eed to be able to influence any nie tn a magnetic or hypnotic way. l?he oourse was divided into seven ...?tions, and one of tho seotlons was levoted to charms and Incantations, i When the cftloiala raided tho "ool ego" thoy found three young women uislly engaged in preparing a "love powder." whioli thoy were Inoloalng ?vith certain prayers, aud which the .udlvldual desirous of attracting and ?olding the t ff jetions of tue opposite sex must wear in a bag around his or 1er neok. The powder whfc i works moh wonderful results is of a dark, lead color. Three wagon loads of oirculars, ad vertising mattor, and mail wet? brought from the "college" to the United States marshal's chico, and viii bo used in evldonoe against White. Tne prisoner, who is about iiilrtyslx years old, has lived lu Bal limore for ttio past hf teen years, and is well known among those who pa - .on'z d tho spirltuaiistio n odiums. Marshal Lvnghamaior said that he raid on tho "College of Science" vas ono of the most importons that iad tcaurrcd in Baltiaorft toi many year ; and the postal authorities are ? 'i i-'My pleased at toe complete man ner in willoh White and his outfit wjro rounded up. A Good lau* There should be two days saoredly sot apart on evory firm for special work. Ono day should bo devoted to tree plautlng, the planting of trees In wasto nooks and corners all over oho farm, evorgroons on tho knolls too barren or toa rough for cultiva tion, willows along tho runs and draws, aliado tro ft at intervals along ?he. highway, and thou another day should bo devotod to a general dear ing, picking up day around the home stead. Tnese two days p^op^rly used would do moro to Improve tho looks ot thc average farm than any other ono thing wo know. lt' publicar?a Hoastori. In the House on Friday Mr Kiinv, of ii innis, resumed his spocoh in tho i ti:use on the alleged lum iii itu of the protective tant?. H j referred parti cularly to t ho watca tni3t. "Tncrc are no leaders on the majority side of this H ?use," continued Rttnoy. "The real leaders of thu U publican party -m t ie Mo'Jurdys, McCalis and Hamil ton*, the Riokofoilers who skulk be hind stone walls to resist servlo.e .hey are tho real leaders of the Ri publican party."_ Bollor lOxnlotloil. A disastrous bollor explosion occur red at Kyles Ford, Tenn., Thursday killing toreo and wounding several ni lunn. Tho explosion occured with out the slightest warning. Tue boil boller ls to havo been in good condi tion. Thc saw will pl .wi L waa damag ed by flying fragments. All the killi d and injured aro well known over the country,