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SOME HOT SHOT. Tillman Defends Dispensary and Dcmsads Some Arrests. SOME PLAIN TALK, Says Brice Law Elections ls Not The Voice of the Pespie."^ Scores the Old Board for Violating (he Lew, Thinks Another Political Ring ls Forming. Senator Tillman hasta.ued an ad dress to tue people of South Carolina on tho dispensary situation in thc state. It is a characteristically strong statement of his vlow of mat ters, and it will be read with interest by the voters of tho stato. The ad dress follows: Fellow Citizens: It ls only from a sense of the highest public duty that I feel oallcd upon to add ross you at this time, Burdened us I am with national concerns nothing but obliga tions to tho people Induce mo to take upon my shouldors tho additional work of dlreotiug your attention to mattors affeotlng the state alone. But I have never felt or believed it to be the wish and Intention of thc peo ple of South Oarolina that my elec tion to the senate should causo me to lose all Interest and c mcern ab ut home ?,11'Uifi. I was a citizen and taxpayer bofore I ever held any ellice at all and I will bo a citizen and tax payer after I shall ceose to hold office. Therefore, it is unnatuial and impro per from my point of view for me bo take no Interest and have no thought about what is golig cn iu South Carolina. NO DICTATION OH HOSSISM I have received a gnat deal of ad vloo recently (rem the newt-pnpers of our state to the c ff cot that 1 should attend to my duties in Washington and leavo others to dlsouss and direct affairs at home. The common tree1 of all of this advice is that 1 should dlsouss national questions in the com ing stato campaign, bc re ch uted io the senate, with or without opposi tion, and not stir up strifo. I am warned and threatened should 1 not heed this counsel, but In spite of il all I feel compelled to speak to the people with my mual frankness aud bluntness and let them determine the whole question. I have never Bought to dictate to the people; I have only told them the truth as 1 see lt, given my opinions for what they wero worth, and 1 am always willing n abide by their action whatever that mav be. It Is so in this instance. Ii gives uno no concern that my return to the senate mav bo Jeopard ?/. <}. There are tilings more to ba dreaded than the loss of a seat In the senate, ono io the loss of my own self ra peet I h?.ve been trusted hy lite people of South Carolina and have been honor ed by them far beyond mv des ri , have boen chosen as cbdr leader and boen followed loyally. N JW, if affcu sixteen years 1 should, from sollis!. motives, betray their confidence ano1 allo v ambiiion to draw me aside from tho path of duty, 1 would deserve ai r expoot to rectIvo their oontemptand punishment at the polls. I, tbt re fore, scorn all suggestions of c -hard ly no-iulorferenco In state ?.ilUrs The people know me too well to ba fooled by the assertion ibat it I? my desire to bf ss or dec?ate, for my sols purpose ls to give them the benefit of my experience and koo sledge and offer such advice as in my judgment will bc conducive to the public wt 1 far?. Thou I will abide cheerfully by whatever conclu don they mav reach "Teach the people and trust the pt o plo" was J( ff orson's motto; teach the people and trust the people ls cq'iall) my motto and that ls all I shall at tempt to do at this tim-. RING KULI? TIIKKATKNKD. Sixteen years ago there was a revo lution In South Carolina which ga/e the common neople of the state for tho first timo In Its history that re cognition which was their duo and made them In reality the masters of our public affairs. The old rinn was overthrown; thc primary system which gave every man, however poor ar.d humble, an equal vote with every other man, however rieb and high followed; the new state constitution gave us temporary immunity from negro domination; the utmost free dom of discussion in all political BC tlvlties was assured; and under these new Impulses the s: ate has bounded forward like a race horse along all progressive lines. Thoro are not wanting, however, Indications that sinister influences are at work and that a few men are socking to obtain praotlcal control of thc sta o govern ment and to dominate In our affairs The corporations have not regained tho sway willoh tiiey once held, but are gradually gottlug more and more. Influence and direction in '?ur p .lille . There aro evidences of more than "incipient rottenness" in tho state and if tho sobemos of certain men are not thwarted in the coming primai y eleotlon, lt will be only a short time before another "state ring" will have full sway in our air.ilis with Its head quarts in thc State nowspapor oilier In Columbia. There are several things In connec tion with our state government that I will discuss In the coming campaign, but in this address I shall treat of only two of the things the people of the state should earnestly c riskier now and take im mediate action about. Ono is the settlement of the whis key question and the other ls the con trol of the Democratic party of tho stato by a majority of all of thc D m oorats ratl er tuan by a s : all fraction of the voters. The two Id.?as are In terlookcd and cannot bo r?par?t erl and, therefore, I shah treat tbcm to tether. "BLESSINGS OF PROIllhlTION." At this time by elections held under the Brice aot Hf teen counties In the state are enjoying tho blenslngs of prohibition. (Two have always boon dry). No whiskey can he lawfully Bold within their borders. But any oltlzen living in thot-e counties has only to keep his eyes open and bink Around him to soe what the results bave been. First? let every man who reads a newspaper printed In those counties search Its columns and see advertisements ot whiskey houses out side- ot thc state and then !et him go to the express oihoes along the lines of the railroads and see how much liquor is hoing daily brought into those seventh n counties. Then let this citizen follow up tnis liquor and Heil out who drinks it, but before dc< lng that turn to the editorial paxes of theso newspapers and see fie eon staut ai lu ions to tho "blessings of prohibition," "quietude," "freedom from drunkenness," "peace and good ordor" that ate proclaimed Of course there aro exceptions to this bright and beautiful pioture as shown In tho news Hems about tho recent murder m a blind tiger in Greenville, follow sd by a similar occurence lu O lum bla, but upon the whole a mau would be very much horrified to know how muoh money flows into the coffers cf these jourua's from whiskey advertise ments, while the same papers are ex plotting prohibition and sobriety. A ll tl le oalm consideration without blas or prt jud'oa will som con vir 09 a man of ordinary som o that tho wills key trofllo now as compared with the whiskey traillo under the dispensary is something like this: L'auor used to be sold by V o pint and q tait main 1 ly through tho dispensaries; lt ls now lold through the express o?io?s by tho galion and keg, while tho retail lng is dono by tho drink almost every where as in the good old barroom days. Thc moonshiners are, cf oourso, getting In their work unmolested. There may be less drunkenness, thc ugh 1 doubt it, under the present regime than there was uudor tho dis pensary, but what ls the actual condi tion? Tho poor man cannot get his liquor from G orgia or North Caro Una, but must buy from tho follow who brings lt in by express or from tho moonshiner who peddles it about the country. Tho rloh mau has no such trouble and it makes llttlo dif ferenco to him whother the supply comes from tho dispensary or expr?s? otllce. How was this situation brought about? Is it by thedireotion or under the orders of the whole Democratic party? Oh, ni. Did it como to pass by thc votes of tho prohibitionist? No. How then? Thc three clements opposing the dispensary, prohibition lsts, high license men and moonshin ers or blind tigers, all combined to vote the dispensary out. To make this thc more olear, I have prepared a table whioh will be understood at a glance by any man who reads lt and wldoh will show conclusively tbU fact: that a majority of the Dem- ora tio voters In no one county declared j gai ns t the dispensary system anc? that tills prohibition whioh we now havs lu these lifteen counties is in no sense the will of the Democ-acy Why didn't the people vote at theso elections under the ilrlcelaw? The ar.swcr is easy. Many of them could not h cause they were not qualified electors and moro of them would not because they were disgusted by the mismanagement aud corruption which lave been shown to exist lu the stat dispensary and lu some of tho county dispensaries. 8PK0IAL IMSP1CNSAUY EJECTIONS UN 1>KK THU BUICK ACT Total For No Total vote County Dispon- Dispen- for Gov sary sary in i!)04 Union.412 701 1,178 2,f>!)4 Newberry.316 815 1,221 2 tilt} Manon....281 1,118 1420 3,200 York.131 725 854 3,168 Hoi ry.322 854 1,170 2,003 Lancaster.120 050 1,082 2,557 Florence.743 038 1,381 2,300 Darlington.201 (?so !?7l 2,403 Oconee.80 007 703 2,018 Spartanburg.410 2,1 li 2.530 7,080 Greenville.383 858 1.211 o 707 Anderson*.7io 1,148 1,807 6,003 Fair held.374 205 57!) 1,574 Kdgclio d.108 425 023 1,730 .Saluda.238 371 600 1,065 WnHarasburg....447 688 1,035 2,ind Laurens.772 818 1,600 3,104 Totals.0,315 13,800 20.115 64,730 Tue 0 aie the elli dal figures obtain ed from the < Oleo of the Secretary of nate in Columbia, and from the re cords of the Democratic State com mit tee. Tho above table shows that less than one. half of tho people voted, while only one-fourth of them worein favor of no dispensary. NET PROFITS VICOM DISPENSARY VOR FISCAL Y KA ll ENDINO. NOV EMBER 30, 1905. Profit Special from Dispcn'ry County. Dispen- School Total, sa rv. Fund. Anders'ti.$32,708 03 $4,020 70 $37,410 30 DMIngt'n.. 14,764 44 2,020 58 10,76602 lidgclicld.. 6,354 10 2,582 O?) 8,030 28 Gr'nvlliO.. 34,533 40 4,374 02 38,006 08 Ilorry. 3,822 74 4,223 13 8,045 87 Lano'stcr, 10,057 30 3,004 60 13,00102 Marion.... 16,000 30 3,150 50 18,828 8!) N'wberry. 7,838 44 2,424 33 10,202 77 < leonel!. 7.730 0S 2.700 03 10,635 71 Pickcns.... 2,270 18 1,071 32 4,241 50 Saluda. 3,078 80 2 008 00 0,017 40 Spart 'IjV. 31 ooo 22 5,330 10 30,030 41 Urion. 12,825 2 0 2,181 80 1 5,007 12 York. 3,604 60 3,543 35 7,137 85 Toi als..$188,137 20 $45207 01 $233 334 21 The above amounts of profits only shows thc money received by the counties. An equal amount went Into the town treasuries, so that instead of being $188 000 it is double that, or $370 Ooo and tho grand total would be 8421,000 for theso fourteen conn Mos. Tnis su n represents profits al ine. A great deal moro than this ls being lient out of tho state to pay for liquor now coming in by express. We have 8ll the evils of liquor drink ing and nene of tho benefits, but if the people arc satisfied, that is their bust noss. BRICE LAW ELECTIONS NO SETTLE M KNT. Having studied these two tables, 1 desire to olreot attention to HUBS points: tha elections u dor tho Brice act, and under which tho people are now living, have In no souse settled the question In those counties. Un less our peoplo h vc lost all capacity for self-government and are no longer able, to think and act for themselv.*;, they will see to lt that Strong, honest, rollahlc men are nominated lu caob county for tho legislature and that each candidate that di es not pledge himself to carry out tho will of the majority of tho people in regard to whiskey s;iall be. defeated. The blind tigers, thc ban oom dement and pro hibltlonlstd will doubtless all combine and suppirt anti dispensary candi? dates as they have hitherto dono, for they will hardly put up candidates pledgel lo their several policies. It ls therefore the dispensary against tho Hold and tho ot.ly complication likely to came trouble ls t he division nmong thu dispensary advocates of bl 108O who want each county to buy liquor for itself and those who think It oau be more cheaply and honestly done through the atabe dispensary. There ls therefore danger of the dis pen s ar y forces being divided Into two factions and tho advocates of the oounty dispensary system aligning themselves with the other three ele ments. . v COUNTY AM) STATIS DI8CKN8A1UK8 Let us outsider for a moment tho relative advantages and disadvantages of county dispensaries and state dis pensary. I dcolare most emphatically my belief that by proper ohanges In the law al mer the linos suggested In the fUysor Miunlng bill tbat all pos sibility of stealing aud bribery in the purchase of whiskey for the stato o fin be prevented and lt stands to reason that If the liquor is purohased at wuolc sale by ono board, shipped by tho car load, and bottled at one establishment tbat there will be a great saving In the expense. Tbe county dispensaries would have no faolliti s fer handling the whiskey, buii leaving alt of this out of o- nsldoration tho ono crucial '.est cf tho relative merits of the two systems, state dispensary or oounty dispensarle is simply this: If wt oannot by law so hedge about and oontrol one state board as to prevent stealing how in the name of common sense will we bo able to.watoh and pre vent thirty or forty boards from do ing it? IJeoause the retiring stat? board and its predecessors has ecgag ed in questionable practices and waa guilty of suoh gross mismanagement and malfeasance in (Mic is no argu ment to show that the law oannot bc ohanged so as to destroy all oppor tunity for such praotlces. No law will execute Itself, whon those ohargod with the exeeution of the law fail ut tcrly and there ls ncgleot from tlu highest to the lowest, lt follows, as s matter of course, that it ls the dut) of the people to elect men who wll not Hinch or neglect their sworn du ties. OUTUAOKOU8 CONDITION, It ls therefore obvious that the peo pie must look moro to the Integrity honesty, truthfulness of tho oandl dates who ask for their vote than ti the moro capaolty to speak glibly and tho plauslhlo address of the oil; politician. Tho people should bli fcuoe s* raddlers to got to tho rear they should demand outspoken dc olaratlons of policy and no man win failed of his duty in the past shouli Oe again entrusted with ctllce. Lool at tho present disgraceful and out raiieous condition in Columbia. Th old board of directors O the state dispensary has loaded dowi the K ale with about ?5700,000 wort of lquor, bought on credit, in ope and dlrcot violation of tho Jaw. Wh are not these men arrested for ma feasance In c Bloc? Why were the not removed last summer when th evidenoe of gross incompetency an mismanagement waB llrst mado pul ile? Why did the legislature evt elect such men? Why lu tho face < absolute proof lu the letting of gla: contracts and in the purchase < labels to say nothing of the purohai of whiskey tnat they were guilty < gross misconduct, why I say did tl legislature refuse to change tho la when the house found that thc sena would not consent to the abolition i the htate dispensary? IJ was b cruso of the inllucnce of, the Sta newspaper. MILK IN TIIK COCOA NTT. There ls every reason to believe tl house stood out to the last and rofe ed absolutely to amend or altar tl law In any particular in bbe hope ai intention to have tho state dispensa so far disgraced before the peop that In the coining election it wou be destroyed, D;d tlu.se legislate discuss thc question of abolishing tl state dispensary when they were ru nlng for oflloe in 1904? Did they ha any authority from thc peopic to abc Ish the state dispensary becausoof tl mismanagement of tho men the leg: laturo itself had electee? Was not tl failure of the house to accept ai measure of reform In order to prove, fraud and speculation in the futu due entirely to the influences of tl new Columbia rinn? Was It not clea ly 8liown that tho palmary ol jict w to destroy the state di pensary ai thus pavo the way for licensing t sale of ilquor in those o unties whl wanted lt even providing for who sale license In Charleston with tl purpose of having Charleston sell the county dispensaries Instead of ha lng the Btato dispensary supply t neccessory stock? Was there not a ht pain between the prohibitionists a the old barroom or high lloenfe e ment and ls there any man lu the stn so brazen as to stand up and oall tl honest politics? Can thc men w with their oy?s opened to conn ?tl refuse point blank to reform tho sti1 dispensary have the Impudence to a the mle to trust them again? Follow? ol ti zens wc need some iv ost politics In South Carolina; we nr some straightforward, plain speaklt we need agrr sdvc and honest actl by the masses to protect themselv Phe people have been asleep. Tl have been Ixllod Into Inaction by t honeyed words of adroit polltlcu and it ls time for them to a wal Eternal vigilance ls the price of 1 erty. INYKSTiaATINO COMMITTEE). Look at the present situation al A. new hoard is elected to manage t state dispensary under tho old la That old law was fatally defeiblvo some particulars, but it has not bt obeved in the last two >ears. at lea with regard to competition In biddi for thc right to supply tho state tl pensary with whlskoy and in other I portant part iculars. The now hoi comes into otlh o Unding an Immo stook of liquor bought on credit, n practically all ol lt bought contrary law. Tho leghdaturc gave to thc vrst'gatlng o mmlttcc full control t authority in regard to auditing r passing upon these accounts. Thee board then ls subject to the Invci gating commltteo and the. situai sooms to be this: Tho authority managing and directing thc affairs tho dispensary ls now divided, thc i: beard of directors having some, of and the investigating committee balance. There ls something 1 3(100,000 worth of debts hanging i tho state dispensary. Unless this quor bought on credit v/as boup.ht oording to law ls thero any obll)vat. anywhere to keep lt and pay for Is there not plenty of opportunity more graft atul secret transactions regard to the settlement of these counts? Will not thc legllatlvo or. mlttco bo suggested of corruption 1 docs not get In tho middle of thor' aud stay there, that ls stand hy law, obey lt 1 ts? if and require all ti ors to do so? Why ao much delay 1 DKM AND PUNISHMENT. I mention th!:; thus early lu oi tn direct the attention of thoso nt Interested to this onnditlon In hope that the state's rights and im ) eats may bo pr?teotod by all those now In ol mr KO, and to ?cr vo notice that so far as 1 am oonoerned I oxpcot to spare no man In orltlolsm whose aotion In this er.?!? shall not bear the olonest scrutiny and, if there is oontlcued neg llgonoe and no attempt made to pun lsh those responsible for thin anoma lous and extraordinary state of affairs lt will certainly show that the people n?ed io be aroused U?d u^otue* revo - lution ls in order. I cannot lead it as a oandldato for a state (Oho, beoause lt ls not Immodest in me to say that 1 behove 1 can be of great uso to the people of tho state lu the senate, but If I misunderstand the temper of the people and they shall resent my effort to open their eyes and point out thcBe glaring evils, I am perfeotly williup; to abide their wlshoB and will gladly retire to private life rather than to remain silent against tho-promptings of my sonso of duty. VOTJSUB MUST WATOH OUT, There is ono more matter upon which I beg to warn the people. There are evidences lu plenty to show thal tbe same citano or ring willoh ls light' ing the dispensary and which has al ways fought me intends or hopes to oring about a ohange in our primary regulations so as to prevent any Dem uorat from voting lu the primaries who is not at the same time a quillfi od voter. Thoy hope to use tho club which has proved so effective In the Brice law, that of oonflning the elco tlou to quallUod eleobors to obtain control of the Dsmooratle party to re sumo their sway, undisputed until 18U0. I warn the farmer and all othor Denaoorats, especially operatives, who aro busily engaged and have little timo to devote to politics, to attend the next mooting of tho Domooratio clubs, fourth Saturday In April (28th,) and get their names on the rolls and send dolegates to the next county conven tions who will represent them. Tho allies and dlrcotors of the now Colum bia ring will bo on the alort and carry all of their forces to these club meet ings and unless thc people take more Interest than they did in the Brice law olcctlou8, tho next state convention will be controlled by this element and the posslbllltlee are that tho regula tions of the D?mocratie primary will boohangedto sultthoir purposes. The alliance men of 1890 need not be re minded of tho old aneodote of thc pe ll tlci an who told the farmors to "plow on" ho would attend to their public nfl! dre. Let all of the people take an interest in politics this year, whloh is their duty in order to proteot them | solves against tho sohemes cf these tricksters and all will bo well. I have felt lt my duty to give this warning and whatever tho result I will bow to popular will without mur mur. If the people want prohibition, either tho aotual article or the hum bug which we now have, I do not ob ject I if they want county dispensaries instead of a state dispensary, I do not object; what I d ? obj^ot to ls that obey shall ne^leob to inform them selves and be le^ hythe nose by de signing men, Whon the Democratic party has spoken authoritatively, 1 will bow to tho will of the maj >rlby, but let lt bo all of the Democratic paity and net ?* small ?aofion which olalms to represent cur bdsb peoplo. B. R. TILLMAN. LIVER A BALL P. AYER. Mi. (DP.tm* of Tomicbnoo J' ;jj|?j? Ulm fov ille To? m. j According to a Washington special to the Utileigo Tribune, Chairman Tawney of the appropriation commit tee and John Wesley Gal?as of Ten nessee were engaged In a heated dis cussion the other day In ono of the capitol cloak rooms. I? WM? not poli tics this time, but the natl:/?al sport wliicb was the subject, and Mr. Gaines demurred to tho idea that tho North ind West wcro the best plaor-s for de ve'.oping base .all teams, giving the idea that big leaguers como South ?very year to get Into condition. A free for all discussion onsued and Mr Tawney said he could get 13 North ern and Western men in oongress who o mid dcfi at a team picked by Mr. Gaines from the Southern Represen tatives. One of the tlrrt mon Mr. Gaines ploked for his team was Representa tive A. F Lever of this district. His other men were: John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, Morris Sheppard of Texas, Mrs. Min or's champion, Fred Talbott of Balti more, Md., Representative Dovenor of West Virginia, Judge Underwood of Alabama. Mr. Sparkman of Flori da; Virginia's solitary Republican, Mr. Slomp, who waa paired with Mr. Blackburn, who enjoys thc samo dis tinction from North Carolin*,; Mr. Brundldgo of Arkansas, with Mr. Meyer of Louisiana, as the thirteenth man. Mr. Tawney ohose for his side: Henry Clay Sulz>rof New York, Prec irient Roosevelt's son-in-law, Nloholas Longworth of Ohio, Chairman Foss of Illinois, head of tho naval affairs com mittee; Mr. Sullivan of Boston, Mensis. Bich and Townsend of Wisconsin and Michigan, respectively, Representa tive Litrlclleld of Maine, Cy Sulloway of New Hampshire, the tallest roan In the house; Jim Shorman of New York, thc new ohalrman of the Republican congressional committee; Julius Kahn of Sin Francisco, and Charlie Landis of Indi .na. Dud for lier Oh I kl. A terrible tragedy occurred at Ttiomasvllle, Ca.. Thursday night, when Mrs. S J. Klngsloy laid down tier own lifo to .favo that of her ohlld. Mrs. Kingsley was sitting quietly In her ooalr at home, with ber little In fant playing about the roora, when the lat!er drew near a table on which stood a lighted kerosene lamp, and pulled tho tablecloth to tho door, pre olpltating thc daming lamp with it, and carrying the baby off Its foet right Into the blaze. Tuc loving mother, frantio with fear, hurled tho ohll 1 from danger, but succeeded in saving it only at tho prlco of h'r own lifo, The lamp exploded and the blazing oil enveloped tier In a sheot of living dome. Assistance was Immediate, of no avail. The heroic woman lingered In horrible agon> for hours. Mrs. Kingsley was a daughtor of Sheriff lilgbi of Thomas county. Au <>U1 Mau M mtonocd. In tho United States olroulu court at Ciarlestou Thursday John W, Car ter, 00 years of age, of Mullins, S. C.. was sentenced to servo ono year at hard labor In the prison at Atlanta, on tho charge offorgery, In the prose outlon of a pension claim He was a membor of a company of tho First South Carolina regiment in the Span ish American war; and he forged tho namos of six of his comrades. After indictment ho confessed to the crime and wa? given tho minimum penalty of tho aot. Ills hair and beard aro white and he is bent with ago, but tho law ls no rtspeoter of persons. CURES AF RHEUMACIDE has c had failed. Rheumacide Johns Hopkins Hospital, t of Salem, Va., and D. H. < remedies and the doctors Almost a Mirado In This Case? ? ,t . ^, , .Dillon,8, C. AU? Bobbitt Chemical Company: Centi?me?;-In Septcmbor. 1P90. I took mat ism in a very bad form (inflammatory), month niter thu disoaso started I had to K'\ my work and BO to bed. It continued to worse until my arms ?nd hands were drawn, so much so that I could tiot uso i My ens were drawn back till my feet toi my hips I was as helpless us a baby for i 18 months. 1 ho muscles of my arms ant Wera hard and shriveled np. I suffered < many times over. WM treated by six cl i fr physicians in McColl, Dillon and Mario! none ol them COU ld do me any unod, until I'. Kwiitir. of Dillon, carno to see mo. Hi me to liv your R 11 KUM ACM DE. He pot m botUe of the medicine ami I began to ta and before thc first bottle wns used up II to Bet better, I used b? bottles and was plctcly cured. I hat was years ago an liealth h is been excellent ever since, had no symptoms of rheumatism. WU further that I bedail to walk in about six nfi.-r t began to take RHEUMACIDE wit aid of crutches; in about three months ii bew in to take it 1 could walk as irood ai body, and went back to work airain. Yours truly. JAMI?S WILK IN ERUPTION. People in the Vicinity of /Womit Vesuvius Terror Stricken. <i RE AT IA VA STREAM Running Down on thc Pompeii Side. and Cities of Twenly and Thirty Thousand Inhabitants T?rmt* ened With Destruction by Emption of Volcano. A dispatch from Naplos, Italy, says the inhabitants of the villages in the vloinlty of Mount Vesuvius are In a condition bodoring on a panio. Many | bemrs have been abandoned for tho open air, althou h there has been a thlok fog all d.iy and tho at mosphere has boen dense with "oloan io ashes and the fumes of subterran ean lires. The churches ar? crowded day and night with people praying for deliverance from au Impending p>ril, manifestations of wnlc'i are heard and f?lt In ccploslois which resemble a heavy cannonading and lu tho trem blings of the earth which aro constant ly recurring. The main stream of lava proceeding from Vesuvius ls '200 feet wide, and lt advances at times at tho rate of 21 feet. In a minute, the Intense heat de stroying vegetation before tho stream reaches it. The peasaut? of Por biol, at the west foot of Vesuvius, cleared their grounds of vineyards and treer, In thc elf >rb to lessen tho dangor from tire, and resisted the progress of the lava to their utmost. The population of Hcsoobrecf.7,, on tho southern de clivity of the mountain have sought safety in Hight, and Bosco lt mle, to the eastward le also threatened. Wem en of this village, weeping with fright, carried a statue of St. Anne as far as they could go the ll >wlng lava, im plorlng a miracle to stay the advance of tho consuming stream. The cemetary at Bosootrcca7. has been invaded by lava. Too scene at night ls ono of mingled grandeur and horror, as from the summit of Vesuvius there loaps a column of lire fully a thousand feet In height, tho glare lighting tho sky and sea for many miles. Occasionally great masses of molten stone, some weighing as much asa ton, areejested from the crater. Tho village of Torrre del Greoo. which has been eight times destroyed and as often robuilt, ls again threatened and the inhabitants are in oxtremo terror. Signor Matteucol, dlreotor of the observatory, ls working Indefatigably Ile has had military engineers estab llsh telephonic connection between the observatory and points within range of tho volcanic activity. The director said to the Aasoolai.ee Press Friday evonlng that although erup tion presented a grave monaco, he did not believe lt would reach the villages. Indeed he said the present voloa lo aotlvlty was nob altogether unmlxod with good, for if lt had not come to paas, a violent and sudden eruption, having a far wldor radius, might have ocourred. Tho eruption of Mount Vosuvlus ls now most violent. On tho Pompeii side the malu strep m of lava has di vided into two, one threatening Ottajano, a community of 20,000 tu habitants, and thc other threatening Torro del Qrcco, with a population of 30,000. Tho dangoi it: booomlng serious and calls for the immediate evaou&olon of II scot rec*/, tho nearest vi I Iago to the crater, which has the population of 9,000 souls. Uhot Herself. Mrs. ESdith Ooopor, whoso address ls given as 2330 Oormantown avenue, Philadelphia, oommlttod suicide Thursday In tho Palmor House Chic ago by shooting herself through tho head Sho went to the Palmer House early Thursday with a man about (if) years of ago, who registered as IOmo iiardelcbon, of Now York. Tho wom an registered as Mrs. Bardolobon,. They wero assigned to a room and Hardelbon left the hotel. Ho lotnrn od three hours lator and found tho room looked. Tho door, was forced open. The woman was dead on the Moor, with a revolver on tho carpet bey Xher, TER THE DC ;ured thousands of cases of I cured John F. Eline and < he greatest hospital in the w Olmstead, the Norfolk, Va., c had given up hope. Rheurr of rheumatism she hi ; ,a Hughes, of Atkins, Va., There is a reason why ilia' cal science, and while [veup of the blood, it op?rai badly most delicate stomach them, lilied learly I Ices [leal li orcnt i. but Dr .J o told 0 one Ue it oejiai com (1 my PS$ JWEEPS ALL. P dava A purely Vegetable ren liter I cure8 by rcmovinfi the cause. 1 any Sample bottle and booklet fr ?BS. BOBBITT CHEM! DONT WAN I1 HIM' PEOPLE KIO II: AGAINST BARNES BEIN? THEIR POSTMASTER And Senator Tillman ia Picked to Prevent ??ia Confirmation by Ibo Ponate. As if by common causent, the peo pie (if Washington, the budness peo ple, otlloeholders, residents and others haye turned to Senator Tillman pre testing against the Senate continuing tho nomination of B P. Barnes, to be postmaster of that city. Their ap peals could not havo fallen into nure willing ears, for it will bo remembered that a short time a?o when Mrs. Mi uor Morris was violently choted from the White House under the direct or ders of Mr. Barues, Senator Tillman electrified the Senate with a thrilling narrativo of the noone and center? d his biggest shot against B.une'. Ile and be alone, according fco *hat Sena tor Tillman said at that timo, was I responsible for the disgraceful BCOIIO| that happened in thc ex cufclve otllces of the White House, and tho Sonator did not sparo wj.ds in telling his fe - low members of the upptr liouso of Congress what he thought about the matter. Tlie appointment of Hames to bi post roaster of thin oliy was no less l surprise to S natur Tillman than tu tho other 300,000 inhabitants of Wash ington. The mannor of tba appoint ment ?vas out or the ordinary way that appointments aro generally made aud there were few people ber.; who culd at lirst understand the motives of the President In selcotlug for Washing ton's postmaster a mau not iden titi d In any way with the city's Inr.erestH, and practically unknown to Washh g ton residents and business men. Tao appointment was not an agreeable ono and lt has b;en siirmls.scd that lt was made entirely from a standpoint of personal popularity witli the Pred dent. Ten thousand women, representing every section of the United States aro] said to bc behind tho tight that Sena tor Tillman will make against Barnes' oontirmatlon by the Senate. As pow erful as thc h03ts of the temperance cause, they are planning a vigorous light against the man whom they be lieve guilty of a groat indignity level ed at ono of tbolr sex. They have not forgotton thc White House ?(fair, and although, by direction of the President | tho matter has long since been eon sldered a "olosod incident," at least from an olllolal standpoint, they say that lt will never .bea "closed inci dent" as long as the women of the United States have a right to vn'co ' their sentiments ard as long as thero are men lu thc Senate who will stand up for them in the tight that thoy are making. Sonator Tlllma: has ?.'.ready given notice to his fellow members of the Senate that bc will exercise lils power to block Marnes' con Urination. He will bo opposed by Sci a'o/s Lodge and Halo both right lr nd men of the President, and while, it hi not thought that Senator Tillman will bo able to keep tho nomination from eventually going through, he will necessarily hold lt up for a while through hi? L Hurts. "Thoro aro many menin Washing ton more worthy of receiving the ap polntmont as postmaster of that oity than Harnes," tho Senator says, "and the time bas long sinoe passed when fat oillces were distributed among car petbaggers." The fight will be a llvo ly ono whllo lt lasts. Crashed t<> D i H., A dispatch from Gainesville, Ga., says: "Ah London, well known In Hall and Lumpkln, mot doath in a horrlblo manner between thia plaou and Dahlonega, ile was unloading a wagon of a heavy Ulegraph polo when lt fell on him and crushed bis skull' to p'coes and broke his neck, ile lay pinned down until a helper could go several miles for assistance.'' Aoo?lontAlly Killed. Mrs. Lena Orabb was accidentally killed by the sheriff of Laurens coun ty, Goorala, on last Thursday while being oa-rled by him to Dublin Jail on tho charge of abandoning hor ahlldron. lits pistol fell from his pocket and oxpludcu, the ba" striking tho woman, killing her Instantly. Kiiimi IIIH Brother. 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