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1 lie Alarlboro Democrat I IM M 'lill ?'DO THOV, OBBAT LlBl^TT, XttBPIB* 0t7B ?OWUJ A-WD MAKE! OUR I"N THY FOSSHBSION HAPPY OB O?B D?5ATH8 CrLOBlO?fl IN THY A?flH.' t BENNETTSVILLK, S. a, FRIDAY. JULY 20, 1000. NO - HOW HE VOTED On Certain Bills and Why He Did So Stated BYSKMTO?MAiNNIM. He Refutes the Charte? Made Against Hins by Bivege and Gives Good Reasons for Alt thc Votes He Cast in thc Senate. The following statement from Son ^jvtor Manning explains itself: "I did not proposo to bo drawn away from my plan of campaign or into any controversy, but 1 intended to conduot my oampatgn on a high plan?, without mud-slinging fori do not intend to ask for tho KitTrago of the people ol South Carolina by de tracting from or Injuring the oharao ter or reputation of my opponents. But, inasmuch as mention bas been made of my votes lu tho legislature on oertain measures, 1 feel it necessary to keep tho record straight. 1 will therefore have to oorreot certain statements which havo been made. "Mr. Klease io bis speech In Colum bia spoke with a great deal of feeling when discussing tito work of tho In vestigating committee of the oruolty of injuring a man's reputation by in sinuations or su? pit loi .s. He has not observed tbts rule in his reference to me, for lt will be found that lu giv lug my record vote on certain meas urcB he bas given only a part of that record on those matters, and has done me an injustice and created a wrong Impression. He may not have intend ed this, and lie said to me that he would himself make the corrections to which I called his attention in a per sonal cor.versa' lon, but he has not yet ^<}?one so, and 1 will therefore set this Record straight myself. I wish to say, with reference to the bill regulating tho rate of interest in 1893, rcduclug tho rate of Interest lrom 8 to 7 per cent., that I voted against that bill. My only business at that time was farming. 1 was a borrower of money annually, but 1 iolt that if money lenders could not " get tho current rates for money from farmers that buoy w;u,r1 'end monoy elsewhere, and the farii Jj instead of getting n ouey from ba??cB with which to conduot their business, wculd bc forced to get advances from commis sion merchants on a lien at a rate of interest running from 10 to 30 per cent, for advarces. For this reason, I voted against the reduotlon in the rate and believe that that action has proved to be in the interest of thc ag rioultural olass. "On the child labor bill of 11)00, 1 votod against the bill because of an understanding had with Coi. Jas. L Orr, Mr. Lewis Pal ker, Capt. Ellison Smyth, that they would use their ef forts tu have tho mills regulate this matter themselves, If wo did not pass the law. I then on that understanding voted against the bill. They made this eff-jrt with the mills, but failed. Thc following year 1001, thc act was again introduced and I voted for the bill, worked strenuously for its passage and spoke In support of the bil), as will bo found In Senate Journal, 1 HO 1, pages 205 and 340. "On the bili to prohibit trusts, Sen ate Journal 1002, pages 462-472, my reasons for voting as 1 did are as fol lows: There was a section in thc bill exempting agreements with regard to the salo of agricultural prcduots. lio Vfore this, an act had been passed in Tennessee and Texas containing a similar provision. Tho act of Texas bad been thrown into the courts and had been passed on hy the supremo court of the United States. Tho de cision of that Court was to the iffeet that tho whole aot was invalid, inas much as this discriminating clause af .feoted the whole aol in favor of one olass and rendered the act null and void, "In the senate, 1 moved to strike Otit that section, bec*-noe it would make the bill unconstitutional, nub and void. I was try Inn to save the bill. The senate refused to strikeout that section and I then said that in the face of the decision of tho euprc me court of the UnlUd StatcB, which was so clear and positive, lt was sim ply child's play to pass an act when we knew that the act would be null and void. "As 1 said, my purpose was to have a bill that would stand the test of the courts and prohibit trusts and monop olies. "Mr. IJlcasc again quotes from the record in part and doc? me an injus tice in the matter of the relief bill. 1 opposed the bill when it was Intro duced because lt was stated, both by tho railroad authorities and the em? ployetts of the road, that it was en tirely optional with the employees whether they Joined this relief depart ment or not. Hut Mr. Blcase falls to ?tato my voto on tho bill the next mr. "In thc meantime, I had Investi gated this matter and made inquiries among tho railroad men themselves. I supported the bill In 1?03, because I was satisfied that it waa not option al with the employees, but was prac, tically a matter of oom pulsion that they should Join this depa-tment or would lose their position. My vote for the bill ls found in tho Senate Journal, 1003, page 243. "With referenco to my position on tho Caughman aot of 1000, I will si, I voted against a billin 1802 w..h . provided for a partition in car, but gave no separate toilet accommoda tion for olio sexes, which would have bien Indecent. This bill failed be cause of Its glaring defects. Tho separation cf the races was pro vided for by tho act of 1808, when I was not a member of tho legislature. When tho bill was before the senate in 1000 to amend tills bill, I voted against an Indefinite postponement, whloh would havo meant the death ot tho bill. C?rtalo amendments wore put In In the senato whick did not meet my approval, and I voted against the bill as amended. On the report of the oommltteo of confer ence, tho house rofused to agree to tho senate amendments. On motion that the senate recede from Its amend ments, lt was movod to lay that mo tion on tho tablo and on that motion to table I voted "Nay" which shows that I favored tho bill as passed by thc house and as dually passed,,with me minor amendment, and which amendment 1 agreed to in committee of free conference. Senato Journal 1900, pane 412. "I was then put on tho committee of free conference, on tho Caughman bill. That committee recommetidod that the senatereccd from some of its amendments. I as ono of this oom mittee, of freo conference, approved the bill as passed, which was satisfao tory to the author of the bill, and 1 voted for it as lt passed "With reference to my volo on the repoal of tho charter of the Virginia Carolina Chomlcal company, I desire to state that the bill provided tor the repeal of the charter of that company without any process ot law, which was a proposition for which 1 felt that 1 couid not stand, inasmuch as such an aotlon would bo entirely Hie gal aud unjust and would destroy pro perty rights In an unconstitutional manner and would be a violation of my oath. "Richard 1 Manning." FIVE PERSONS KILLED. I?l (innis omi ??a net li i/:; of Trolley Ours Nour Buffalo, N Y. Five porsouB wera killed and about twenty it J ired in acollisslon between two trolley trains on the Internation al Railroad company's line between Buffalo, N. Y., and Lockport Wednes day night. A train of two trolley oars, west bound from Look port, and duo at Touawanda afc 9.15 o'olook, ran Into an open switch at a siding j ist east of Martinville and crashed Into a trolley freight motor and a train of seven freight cars which were lying on the siding walting for thc passen ger train togo by. Five persons were killed outright and a score, h jared, some of whom may die. Tho passenger cara were going at a high rate of speecd when tho accident ocourred, and the impact was terrlf ?c. Tho foremost car was utterly demolished. Tho wedge-shapod end of the freight motor cut lt In half, and the rear car completed the work of destruction. The rear car remain ed on tho tiacks. Tho dead aie: Jouh Blttlemau, Lockport, N. Y. mor tor man: Charlea T. Hutchinson, Lookport; unknown workman, head crushed; gljrland boy, supposed io bc uroth.br abd sister names unknown, and Mrs. Henry Eitcll ano 0.year-old son. The moBt seriously irjured are: Theodore Neat man, -Buffalo; Dr. K A. Wieland, Ri ll ile; H. J. Wau, Buffalo; Mrs. Emma H. Maloney, Buffalo. Mr. J. D. II alb, Niagra Falb; Lee Johnson, motorman will probaly die. Tho switch Into thc siding was not closed, for the passenger came thun dering along, took the turn and crashed upon the freight engine. There were about forty pas ongera on tho two cars and most of them were killed or Injured. The motorman of che iii sb passenger coach was killed, and his body was still, in the wreck lato Thursday night. Fell Fro in Trowt lo. A caboose and two passenger coach es, left on the cur vd of tho long over head bridge by which tho Seaboard enters Columbia from the south, wore knocked oil and thrown Into a heap of splinters twenty feet b now Wed nesday morning, by a freight coming Into thc city. Conductor S o ead was fatally hurt, but lt ls thought that F;agman Burgnay, who was carried down with him, will recover. These were the only ocoupants of tho condi es. The coaches wcro part of the ilrst soctlon of tho through freight which orashed Into them and had been left emly for a faw minutes, In order to divide the load going around thc curve. Engineer Rogers, on the second section, stuck to his machine i and waa uninjured. His colored tire man was only Hllfchtly hurt. Flag man Burgnay was waving at tho ap preaching train as thc oiash carno. Will) BOAtOr Killed. Oliver Bryant, a coal miner of Vandcrburg county Ind., drank to excess, and when ho went home ho quarroled with bis wife and ended by giving her a boating. Neighbors hoard the screams of tho woman, and a mob was organized, and while Bry ant was sleeping oi? the etlect of the liquor, they broke into his house, took him out, and beat him so terri bly that he died. Bryant was practi cally helpless in thc hands of thc mob, but he was kicked, beaten with clubs and pounded over the head with thc lists of the orowd. Tho mob ls salo to have been led by A. J. (Helen, a prominent farmer and fruit grower, and bc was arrested, charged with murder. Work of Floncie, In the wreck of the westbound freight train on thc Southern railway near Petersburg, Ind., Fireman Man ning, of Princeton, Ind., and Brako man Capehart, of Winslow, were killed. Engineer Mcwilliams was Scalded and crushed so badly he will die. After the wreck it was discover cd that both ends of the switch were spiked. The cast bound passenger train was dolayed and thus eioaped being wreekod. Bloodhounds hac heen sent for and an effort will bc; mane to hunt out the wrcokors. The railroad company owns the Moren Coal mines which paid the advanced scale demanded by the miners recent ly and caused some resentment in cer tain quarters. HWAIIOWOII IIIH Teeth. At Frederick, Md., Ooorgo Benner, son of eX'Shcrlff A.. P, Benner, who accldentlly swallowed a sot of false teeth abo nine weeks ago, was oper ated upon at the Fredcrlok City Hos pital and tho tenth were removed. Whon Mr. Bonner ilrst swallowed thc , teeth they were forced Into bis stom aoh and ho expcrlaeced no inconven ience. Af tor ward an operation was ' deemod ncoestary, He Has Surprise fpr Those Who Think He Has CHANGED POSITION. More Radical Than Ever, and Still Be lieves In Principle of Bimetallism But Says Question Has Been Settled by the Discovery of Ould. William J. Bryan, who is still in London, having had the opportunity of reading American newspapers, con sented Thursday to discuss somo of the questions whloh have been raised slnoo bo has again bocomc prominent as a presidential possibility. Ho said: "I notice that 1 am now described as a conservative, and in ordor that thero may bo no misunderstanding on that subj .ct pormlt me to say that In ono sense 1 always have been a con servativo. Tho Democratic policies are conservative in that they embody old principles applied to now condl tioii8. There was nothing new in p;in ol pie lu either of the platforms on which I stood. We were accused of attacking property, when in fact the Democratic party is the defeuner of property because it oudeavors to draw the line between honest accumulation by honest methods on the one side Mid predatory wealth and Immoral methods on the other, lt ls to the interest of every honest man that dis honesty should be exposed and pun ished; otherwise the deserving aro apt to Bullir for the undeserving. If, however, by thc word conservative . hey mean that I have changed my position on any public question or moderated my opposition to corporate aggrandizement they have a surprise walting for them. 1 am moro radical than 1 was In 1806 and have nothing to withdraw on economic vi questions which have been under discussion. "The only question we discussed in 1890 upon which there has been any apparent change, is the silver ques tion, and that has not been a chango in thc adv.cates of bimetallism but in conditions. We contended for more money and urged tho freo coinage of silver as tho only means then in sight of recuring it. The lnoreased produo . ion of gold has brought lu part the oem. iii wi. v.xpdotiG? to ac cure from thc restoration of silver. The per oaplta volume of money In the United States is almost G per cent, greater now than lt was In 1890, and tho benetlts brought by this Increase have not only vindicated the quantliivo theory of money but have proven the benetlts of the larges amount of money. No advocate of the gold standard can claim thc triumph of his logic. "I believe In bimetallism, and I believe that the restoration of silver would bring still further prosperity, besides restoring par lu exchange between gold and silver-using coun tries, but 1 recognize, as do all other blmetallists whom 1 have met abroad, that the unexpected and unprecedent ed increase in gold production has for the present removed tho silver ques tion as an issue. "While the money question has wanod In importance other questions have been forging to tho front and to those questions we must apply the same principles wc applied to the money question, and seok to secure the greatest good to the greatest number by l?gislation whloh conforms bo the doctrino of oqual rights for all and special privil?ges for tiona. "On tue new questions many will act with us who were against us on the money questions, for, notwith standing the discussion of that quos tlon, millions did not understand it and were frightened Into opposition. We cannot expect the support of any ono who ls Interested In tb king ad vantage of the people either through trusts or through any other illegltl mate form of business. Our efforts should be to distinguish between those corporations whloh aro legiti mate and those aggregations of wealth willoh aro organized for purposes of public plunder ano appeal tor support to those only who aro willing to have the government protect each person In the onjoymentof his own earnings. "Tho nowapapeis lia ve been trying to creato friction between what they call 'old friends' and 'new friends' in politics. Those are friends who are working towards a common end, and each campaign brings to some extent a new alignment. In lsyti tho party lost many Democrats and was rc emited by a great many who bad been U-.publicans up to that timo, and we welcomed them. In 190U sumo caine back who were against us lu l.syii, and we did nob shut the door against thom. 1 have no Idea that tho party Will require tickets of admission In the coming campaign. Usually par tios aro so anxious to secure recruits that past dltroronces arc not empha sized If thero hi a slnoero agreement on present Issues. 1 do not know that we oan lind a better plan than thc bible plan, which admits the cleventb hour comecr to a place in thc vineyard and to share the reward with those who began earlier. 1 think this ls sound politics as well as sound religion, provided the now recruit cornea to work and not to In tel fore with the othor laborers, hut of course when an overseer has to be selected, experience cannot bo lef out of consid?ration. The worker who came lato would, if honost, be too modest to assume an attitude of supe riority over thoS? who had toiled dur ing the earlier hours. Whllo the question ls one of purpose, a man who recoge.z;s the dangers that ti-,.oaten our country and ls anxious to avert them wlli not lind it th o '.alt to eslab llsh friendly relations with thone, win saw dangers at an earlier dato. "If the dilToronces hotweon the sin cere and tho pretended friends reform cannot bo discovered before, they will booomo apparent when tho platform ls writton, for, If prcsont indication oount fur anything that platform 1B likely to be so plain that no ono can mls.ako lt, and su strong that no ene my of Democratic principles will bo drawn to tho party." Mr. Bryan added that he would dis cuss the trust, tariff, railroad and la bor questions, Imperialism and other issues at length when he reached America. Mr. and Mrs. Bryan wore tho guests of Ambassador and Mrs. Held at hm cheon at Dorchester house Thursday. Among tho.o Invited to moot Mr. and Mrs. Bryan wore Slr Elward Grey, the Rev. Dr. William Boyd Oarponter, the foreign seoretary; the bishop of Ripon and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter, Charles Pago Bryan, D. O. Mills and Secretary Ridgcly Carter of the American ombassy. THE LOST POUND. Tho HOT. Wm Alkon Kully Turns Up In Ufmi loxton. Rev. W. Aiken Kolly, formorly pas- i tor of Graoo Methodist ohuroh, North i Augusta, after being lost to his con- ' gregatiou for nearly two years, hes i been found, and tho opinion prevail ing at tho time of Mr. Kally's disap- I poarance that he was suffering men tally is practically substantiated. It will be recalled that during a pc-. < riod when el?orts were being mado to 1 oreot a new ohuroh in North Augusta, I when the pastor and a oommltteo of 1 tho mcmborsof the church wcro work- 1 lng dllllgently to accomplish that pur- 1 pose, Mr. Felly suddonly disappeared and no positive trace could be found , of him. Tlie morning of his disap pearance ho was in the city of Augus ta and visited several supporters of ' his church, some of the members and ' several friends. Lato tho same after- ' uoon ho was seen to board the car ? bound for North Augusta and juBt bo fore dark was noticed by two or three ! people to bo wandering about listless ly a considerable distanco from his 1 homo. ' Later, during thc night, when Mr. Kelly did not oome home, Mrs. Kelly , appealed to several friends in tho vii- ; l?ge and a search was Instituted, but ! no trace of tho preacher could be found. The following morniug furthor ! search was made, and telegrams were sent to nearby towns, but as the day wore on thoro were no results. A dispatch from Charleston Bays , the Rev. William Alkon Kelley has . been discharged from the Roper Hos- . pital and is now at homo recuperating j from tho effects of tho operation upon his brain, removing a dot of blood, ( which lt ls thought, will result In his , complete restoration to health and , enable him to resume his, ministerial i duties. Mr. Kelley spe?u so oie time | in Virginia and was for a long time . at Charlotte boforo oomlug to Char- ( leaton. His whereabouts were estab- ? llshed shortly after he deserted his j pastoral charge, but lu view of bis a ill lotion, his family and close porBO- . nal friends kept tho mattor quiet and lt was not until his coming to Char lenton recently for thc operation upon j his brain that his movements bocame publicly known. His trouble was diagnosed by a Charleston surgeon to , be blood pressure upon thc brain, and upon thc opening of the head the CJU altlon was found to exist, as stated and the operation was huccessfully performed. The surgeon ls said to have given lt as his opinion that there will be no return of Mr. Kelly's formor brain trouble, and his numerous friends through the State sharo In thc hope that his c judi lion will continue to 1 m provo, and that ho will bo soon able to rosumo his ministerial func tions in the oburch which he served so well. Lose Mt Se?. Clydo steamer Apache arrived lu Charleston Thursday afternoon 'rom New York with ono passenger short, Waltor Irving of Florence. Ho was missed at the breakfast tahlo Thurs day morning and Investigation devel oped that he was not aboard the ves sel. Ills berth has not beon ocoupied and the presumption ls that he fell overboard or deliberately elected this mothod of tho ending of his existence, ile was socn about midnight Bitting in an easy chair on thc deck in bright spirits and gave no indications of any mental trouble which would have Induced suloide. lie ls said to have been drinking and lt ls possible that be hat on the deck rail, lost his balance and fell overboard. kio IM ljookuU lo. At Charleston on Thursday Aaron P. Brioloau, th? nog rn congressional aspirant, surrendered himself at the United States marnhal's ehljc and was takon over to thc county jail to begin his sentence for tampering with the malls when ho was running as a rail way clerk on the Atlantic Osast Line. He has boon lu Washington contest ing tho seat of Congressman Legare, but ills contest having been dismissed he now deserts tho walls of tho capi tol for the steel cages of tho county prison. Ile ls to serve three mon&hs and ono month additional, if he does not pay a lino of *f>0. ii.MI ic Iii Midair, At Now York eight stories above the street, on a ll.msy Mjorlng of planks laid aorosa girders, nearly one hundred union Iron workers employed on a hotel building at Kifty>ninth streot and L'lfth avenue, attacked tbreo special policemen, who wore kopt there to provont trouble botweui union and non-union workmen. O.10 of tho special policemen, Miohael hub lor, was thrown from the platform and foll two stories to thc sixth Ho r, being latally Injured. Tho other two wcro seriously but not fatally hurt. Dc HI rue l Ivo Uloiio hiirot. A cloudburst and landslide on July IO at Ooampo Chihuahua, Mexico, al most completely destroyed tho city 1 and killed seven or more persons. Many others were Injured and it ls ox ' ptctod sumo of thom will die All the killed and Injured aro Mexicans. The > American residents are alleviating the Bullering of tho wounded and are recovering the bodies of tho dead as i rapidly as possible Robort Prooks, I of thoW.C. Groone?Dld & Sllvor Co., i at Ooampo, ls In charge and is hand ? ling matters satisfactorily. DEAF AND BLIND In thc United States as Reported by thc Census NUMBER THOUSANDS. The Total Number of Blind is Nearly Sixty-Five Thousand, and the Total Number of Deaf Is Nearly Ninety Thousand. The bureau of oonBiis has Just issu od a special report on the blind aud ieaf in the United States in 11)00. The Inquiry was conducted under thc llrcotion of Dr. Alexaudor Graham Bell, who determined the scope of the Investigation and wrote tho text of tho report on the deaf. The report on the blind gives not Duly data concerning color, sex, na tivity, marital condition, school at tendaucO; and occupations, but also much information In regard to the ugo when blindness occurred and tho muse of blindness. The total number of blind persons In the United States in 1000 was 64, 703-or ?bout one in every 1,200 of tho totfc.1 population. There were 55,045 totally blin5, and 2?, 118 par tially blind. These ligures, however, jan be considered only as tho mini mum, as an unknown proportion of the blind were not located by the snumerators. The number of partial ly blind hy no means represents the facts as to defeotive eyesight, but rc presents only "veritl3d oases." Of tho total number of blind, 37, 354, or 57 2 per cent, were males, and ?7.7O0, or 42 8 per oent. were females, ?il i ico in the general population ouly 51.1 per cont, were males and 48.0 per sent wsro females, it is evident that jllndne^s occurs moro frequently unon?: males. About 65 per cent of tho blind re ported wero totally blind and about 15 per c?vit. were partially blind, A lightly smaller proportion of blind males than of blind females were to bally blind, Almost 05 per cent, of tho blind bc mme billi"1 after 20 years of age, and july al /tf> ) more than 30 per cont, oefore ?rx years., Thus lb ls seen that M!- V -? r defect Of nrtnH, Ufo. interesting to note that ibout ona' fourth of the persons blind [rom ohMdSood, or about ono tenth of tho total number of blind, were born olind. The number of blind per 100,000 of population was greater among tho negroes than among tho whites, and {realeramong tho foreign born whites Dhan among the nativo born whites, thc difference in each caso being more marked tor tho totally blind than for lihe partially blind. Thc difference lo the proportions for tho native and the foreign horn whites are due large ly to the difference in the age distri butions of the two classes, the great majority of the foreign born whiles being adults, among whom blindness Is moro common. The most Important oausesof blind ness were, oataraot; injuries, acci dents, and operations; congenital blindness; old agc; and sore eyes. Un known causes were responsible for a slightly greater proportion of cases than any of tho above causes. The principal causes of blindness occurring after birth and under 20 years of age were, injuries, accidents, and operations; sore eyes; catarrh; measles; and scrofula. Thc principal oauses of blindness occuring In adult lifo werf, cataract; Injuries, acoldents, and operations, old agc, affections of the nervous apparatus, military ser vice, sore eyes and neuralgia. Tho report on the deaf gives not only tno dato concerning color, sex,' raoo, nativity, marital conditions, school attendance, and occupations, but also much information in regard to deafness as a defect and to thc ability of thc deaf to communicate. According to this method of class ification, the total number of clea' vras llnally determined to be 80,278, or one in every 850 of thc general population. Thore wore 37,420 total ly deaf and 61,801 partially deaf. Among thc total number of deaf 2, 772 were also blind and 24,300 dumb. Of tho total number of deaf, 40. 016, or 52 5 per cent, were males, and .12,372, or 47.6 por cant, wero females. Since in the general population onlv 61.1 por cont, were males and 48.0 per cent, wero females, lt would semi that thore ls some truth in Die h i thesis that males aro moro expi'seu to accidents than females, or more sus ceptible to the diseases which pro duco deafness. Negroes constitute ll 0 per cent, of thc general population and only 6.2 per cent, of tho deaf. That thc no groos seem less susceptible to deafness than tho whites ls probably due in part to less completo returns from thc negroes doaf. The proportion of nd groos ls larger among those becoming doaf in childhood and also among the totally deaf than lt lain tho aggre gate deaf population. The ago when deafness occurred ls definitely stated for 81,600 persons, and of these 60 per cont, became deaf beforo the age of 20 years, 48 per cont, before the age of 10 years, and 10 per cent, beforo the ago of 6 years, and 18 per cont, wero born deaf? Of the totally deaf, 01 per cent, woro BO from childhood (nuder 2C years of ago), and 30 per cent, from birth. Moro than one half of thc totiilly deaf lost all power of hearing beforo they wero 2 years old. Of the partially deaf about one third beoamo deaf beforo thoy were 20 years old, ono-third between 20 and 40, and ono?third after roaching IO. Of tho 80,287 persons roturnod as deaf, 65,501 wero ablo to speak well, 0 417 were able to speak imperfectly, and 24,300 oould not speak at all, Praotloally ?ll of thoso who spoak im perfectly or not at all last their hear lug lu ohlldhood (under 20 years oi age ) On tho other hand the majority of doaf who speak woll lost their hear? int< ia adult life. Gf the deaf and duml), moro than 3U per oent. wore reported as totally deaf. It will thu3 bo seen that thc ability to spoak is de pendent largely upon two factor-the period of lifo when deafness occurred and the degree of doafness. Djaf ness interferes rather with tho ac quisition of spoooh than with its re tontion after lt has once been acquir ed. _ TAFT CALLED DOWN. J ml ?o l'Arkor Hays lin lo Trying to Dooolvo tho ?PooplOt Former J udgo Alton B. Tacker, in a statement given out at New York Wednesday took issue with some of the uttterauces of Seorctary of War Taft lu tho speech delivered at Greensboro, N. C. by Mr. Taft last Monday. J udgo Parker declares that the secretary in his spoeoh sought to have tho publlo draw tho Inference that tho reoont prosecutions of alleg ed Illegal oomhlnatlouB arc &duo to new statutes. To this J udgo Parker taken oxceptlon and to support his contention he quotes from his lotter of acceptance and a speech subse quently delivered during tho last presidential campaign. lu both the speech and tho lotter J udge Parkor is quoted assaying that tho lawson the statute book were entirely adequate if enforced. Judge Parker in hU statement says: "Tho lnferenco that Secretary Taft would have thc public draw from ids uttorrnoes ls that these things are due to now statutes; that who vindication which the law ia now receiving ls duo to congressional ac tion sluco 1904, But that ls not so. Not one of tho successful prosecutions for which the existing administra tion ls now entitled to credit ls bas ed on any new statute. lOvory sin gle one of them down to this date rests solely upon the law as lt stood In 1004, and lt should not bo lost sight of by a discriminating public that tho law could have been enfor ced In 1004, and In 101(3, and lu 1002, just as woll as today. Had lt been the wrongs from wu lob the poople suffered would not have so multipli ed." Beware ol' iliu U mi Orto w. A few weeks agna promising teach or, educated, earnest and relined, wah drowned at Charleston. Ha wont IP bathing and wa? drawn out by th? undertow. A few days later a soldlei *t Wilmington, N..C, waa caught lb tho undertow and ctrried to the plac? of death. In commenting on these sad ovents the Carolina Spartan says: "Tho undertow ls not discernible on Sttrtf.OOf^Wblob -upn??c? ?af? ?vtxl smooth. Very few of those caught by lt have powor to resist. Tho pull out ward and downward ls too much for them. Bub there are a hundred vlo tims of tho undertow on land to one In the sea. Wasted hours, vicious habits, ugly tempers and scltiahnosh draw many people downward. Then many a man falls a victim to lntcm poranoe, being deceived by the de lightful sensations of tho first plunge before ho reaches tue irresistible pow er of tho undertow. Noone outers on a life of debauchery suddenly. Few In tentionally prostitute mind and body to a career of vice, lt Is thc captiva ting superiiolal appearance that lum them on to irreparable ruin. Beware of thc tieacherous, deadly undertow I in social life."_ l>lil Not Mean it. In his message to oongrcss lu De cember, 1005, President Roosevelt said: "All contributions hy corpora tions to any political oommitteo or foi any political purpose should be for bidden by law; directors should not be permitted to use stockholder's money for suoh purposes; and, more over, a prohibition of this kind would ho, as far as it went, an cffeotlve method of stopping thc evils aimed at in corrupt practice ac'.s, Not only should both the national and the sev eral state legislatures forbid any chi cer of a corporation from using the money of the corporation in or about my election, but they should also for bid such use of money.In connection with any legislation save by the em ploymcut of counsel In public maimer for distinctly legal services." Several hills along this Une were introduced, out tiley failed to pass. Hevon Dio in Fiamos, Ills wife and six children dead and his home destroyed and himself badly, If not fatally burned, ls the fate of Solomon Gobba, whose residence was on the outskirts of Lafayette, 111. Thc dead of tho family arc: K,. ohael, 10; Freeman, 12; tiny, 10; Mar quis, 8; li.Uti), 6; brooks, 2; and da ran, the mother 38. Gobba wa:? in the yard and saw llamos oomlng from the upper part of the house. IL called bu his wife and together thoy rushed up stairs to awaken the chil dren. Both were overcome by ?moke. Gobba managed to crawl to a window and in an effort to raise it foll to the ground and sustained painful Injuries. Killed In Ila tl lo. Gin, Begfdado, former president ol Salvador and thc leador of tho Salva dorean troops In the present coi (Hot with Guatemala, wt?s killed in battle Thursday. Tomas R.galado war president of Salvador from 1800 tc lOO.'h A provision of the Salvadorean constitution prevented him fri in hav lng a socond term Immediately fol lowing bis llrst, but ho was a candi dato to succeed Prosldcnt I'licalon whoso term will expire next year, and doubtless would have boon oleo ted as ho was a popular Idol who bar achieved much fame as a soldier. Many Hon.il Letters* The report of tho division of tin dead lottors for tho mouth of J um shows that 834,362 pieces of unclaim ed matter were received, against ?61, 373 In the same month last year. Tin number of unmallablo letters receiver, i was 135,026 against 121,780 1H June i 1905} number of letters returned ti senders, 100,002 against 81,021 b i 1906. As oompared with Juno, 1006 tho number of lettors received oon ? tabling monoy deor<\asod from 0,73( , to 0,300 but tho amount of mono] contained in the letters lnorcasoi from 14,040 in 1005, to $5,667.78 ll I 1900, WANTS EVIDENCE ON W1II0H TO PAOOEHD AGAINST OEUTAIN OFFlUIAIiS. Attorney-General Youmans Pays That Lanallan Has Denied Parkers Testimony. Mr. LoRoy F. Youmans, attorney general, waa instruoted by Gov. Hey ward about a month ago to proceed with prosecutions against certain dis pensary otllolals. Mr. Youmans has been 111 slnoe that time. Wednesday day he wroto to Gov. Iloywary, In ef feot, that ho could not proooed on the testimony which tho supreme court ordered Mr. Parker to givo boforo tho Investigating conmitteo. Following ls the letter to Gov. Hoy ward: Ddar Slr: lb was stated in tho Co lumbia Stato of Juno 8th that "the announcement was made yesterday that Governor Hey ward had noti?ed the attorney general, Mr. Le Hoy F. Youmans, to prooctd with criminal prosecution against dispensary ofll dals, suspeotod of misconduct by roa son of the testimony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker." Tue testimony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker referred to ls to bo foond in tho isbue of tho State of June 7th. On the receipt of >our letter, X had a conversation with you, in which 1 stated my views In regard to the most important fundamental legal proposi tion connected with the mabtor. As tho announcement referred to in the issue of The State of Juno 8th has been often iterated and reiterated without any mention of what tran spired in tho conversation between us, I think it propor to state In writ ing brleily the position I then took, ?ind to whloh 1 still adhere. lt will bo seen by reference to thc testimony of Mr. Lewis W. Parker alluded to, that lt consists in the main of portions of what was said to him .n conversation by a Mr. Lanahan, who ls a citizen and resident of Mary land, and whom our criminal court6 lave no power to compel to testify tc :he matters whloh Mr. Parker says Lanahan told him. So muoh of the itatoment as relates to misconduct on .he part of dispensary dilu?ais, con dsts solely of what Parker says Lana- I ian told him (Parker) as having baer; lommunloated to him (Lanahan) b) L. W. Byokln, a member of thc- dis- i jensary board. 1 did not then think, and I do not mw ni ink that anything revealed by "bo testimony of Mr. Parker afforded oeuabie ground on v/hloh any proseou Olon proper and necessary to vindicate ohe law could be Instituted against a dispensary ctllolal. Parties chargsd rd.tb. the--c?i??irfa~ ? ?ton of such ofleuoos as aro spoken of, eau logallv ho arrested only on war rauts Issued upon probable causo of che commission of those t lTenses sup ported by oath or atllrmatlon. (Oon , stitution, art, 1, seo 1(3 ) A warrant is a precept under hand and seal of i person authorized to take up any of fender to bo dealt with acoordiug to lue course of law; is properly issua ole now upon al?ldavlt, which atlldavit must accompany the warrant. A prosecution at this stage of the M??.lr, based on the testimony given would, In my judgment, be premature^ ill-advised and unwarranted, lt wlh be remembered, too, that In the very carefully prepared resolution, hy willoh the legislative commltteo was appointed to investigate tho State dis pensary, the committee is to roport it* Undings to the general assembly. What further devolopmonts may be hold be fore this committee I, of course, can not anticipate. 1 have so often seen Ill-advised and premature prosecutions result in tho miscarriage of lustlce that 1 have found lt very unsafe to depart from established preoedent? and well-established practicas. As 1 understand from your letter, tho in vestigating committee has made no report to you of this mattor, and what you s\w in the public prints produced nefore tho Investigating committee as Lhe result of a ruling of the supremo court, is the manner in which tba sub ject was brought to your attention. When tho conduct of Hlaok was re ported to you by tho investigating committee, as there was no atlldavit or sworn statement, I advised you not tc take any steps looking to his re moval as a mern uer of the board until there had boon at least an atlldavit Ol sworn statement of what objection able action it was stated that Hlack bad been guilty. O? being Informed of this by you, thc allldavlt was at once supplied. I see no reason, if a prosecution ls to bo Instituted In this case against a dUpons.iry olnolal, why it should be taken out of the domain of the general and well-established law. lt ls perhaps worthy of remark in th's commotion that tho press which Informed ns of Parker's testi mony, informs us also that Lanahan docs not agreo to tho version made before tho Investigating commltteo. Vory respectfully, Lie lio Y F. YOUMANS, Attorney General. Hovon H Iris Drowned. At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, seven girls wero drowned Thursday in Cedar Rapids river, only throe blocks from i homo, whilo wading. Tho smallest > child slipped Into a deep hole and in > trying to rescue hor six others were drowned. Ruth Klersoy was tho only one of tho party to escape. Tho dead: Lucile, Hazel, Oladys and Josie Sweeting; Ruth and Cora Coyle, and , Clara Gabor. The girls ranged lu age from 7 to 10 years. Tho Sweotlng - children lived with tho fattier near l Hills park on tho outskirts of Cedar Rapids. Clara Usher was tho daugh ter of Sweeting's housekeeper and the Coyle children wero her nlecef, > who Were on a visit from Sioux, Ia , '? Four of tho bodies wero quickly ro ? moved from tho water, but it was too - lalo to resuscitate thom. Tho other '< bodies wero recovered lator. HbootiiiK AIVr*y. ') lu a shooting atTray following a i party at whloh some of thoso presotit had been drinking 12 miles from Ma ! riana, Fla., W. N. Donaldson, a well } known stook doalor from Tampa, shot f Waltor Nloholds in tho shoulder, his 1 son, Ross Nloholds, In tho leg and ] thon killed himsolf. It is alleged that the quarr ol star tod through jealousy. SHE KNOWS NOW, A White Woman from the North Assaulted Near Aiken BY HE? NEGRO PET, Who Made H!s Jiscnpe, and the Offi cers are Trying to Catch Him. She Was a Great Friend to Thc Negro Race Gen erali}. A dispatoh from Aiken says nows of a horrible or imo that was perpetrated about live miles from that piaoo reach ed there Wednesday afternoon, but a coherent account could not be obtain ed until thin morning. On Monday morning about 2 o'clock Mrs. L. S. Ohapin was assaulted tn Uer home by a negro man named Isaac Knight. The fact that Mrs. OUapin ls an old lady, at least 66 ycais of age, makes thc crime all the moro revolting. The negro who as saulted her had boen in her employ for over threo years. Mrs. Chapin lived in the house with no white person, rtie negro man, who liyed in a room at tho side of dbe house next to the altouon, and a negro family living In ino yard, wore tue only ones who stayed near her. lsaao Knight had been off all day Sunday and did not come baok to Mrs. Jhaplu's home until early Monday oaorniug. Hearing a knock at the en trance of tho house, Mrs. Onapln went to the door to see who lt was. She oponed the door and found it was Kulght. She went Into the dining room and was fixing tho negro seme supper when ho commuted the assault, rue negro left tho community and nas nub necu seen since. Mrs. Chmpin bas no near white neighbors, so she could not report the case at once. When the sheriff learn ed of lb yesterday morning, he went to ?be oummunity at once and tried to capturo the negro, but ho could find no traces of him. Tue orlme had not ueoomo generally known In Aiken uti oil late yesterday afternoon, v/hon a posse of about 50 men pnder the lead ership ol the sheriff organized for the purpose of catching the negro. It was distinctly understood before they lott hore that there would be no lyno?i?g, but tnat they would do averything possible to catch tne negro and nave ulm plaoed la jail. They, toft boro last evening amt searched oho country thoroughly, but they could lind no traces of bim. Further search will be made for bim, Mrs. Chap?n wanted the case drop ped, as she did not wish to appear in court In such a case, but, of course, tho sheriff and the people of the oona* .nullity will not allow tbe negro to go unpunished it lt ls possible to capture ulm. Every cffjrt will be made to orlng tho scoundrel to justice, but the people have agreed that there will oe no lynching. The posso went armed last night so as to be prepared to meet any opposition, for lt was rumored chat tho negroes In the community intended to give some trouble. Mrs. Chap?n ls a Northern lady, and ueforo her misfortune did not under stand the negro. She baa put every trust in Knight and bad even consid ered him tho equal of the average wblto man. Shu bad treated bim aa well as she could have treated any white person, thinking that bo was a gontlemau. She oven deoiared on one occasion that ho was a perfect gentle man. Knight was always respectful to Mrs. Cnaplu, but lt could bo seen ny his notions among other negroes bhat the treatment tnat be was re ceiving was giving bim a false Idea of ula Importance. On Monday morning the naturo of tho negro assorted lt self; it could be held in ohcok no lon ger. Mrs. Chap?n was originally from Manonester, Vermont, but she has made her borne near Aiken for a num oer of yoars. White people have warn ed her several times that sho should not stay alono with no ono near ber except negroes, but sue would pay no attention to them, thinking that the negro v/as wortny o' trust. She oamo douth with the New liiaglauder's usu al idea of negro character, and no ar gument that could be put fortn could snake tire negro from tho pedestal on which she had plaoed bim. While che white people of tho community are not lu sympathy with Mrs. Cha pin's treatment of the negro they are aotcrmiued that be shall be brought to justice. A white lady bas been in sulted-that is onougb, punishment must follow. When the posso collected last night there wcro no signs of mob violence. They wcro a quiet determined body of men bent upon tho oapture of the scoundrel who had dared to insult a lady. Although they did not succeed in capturing him last night, they are determined fosearon for bim until ho is captured._ Hold Wlt'o ?nd Child. Fourteen-year-old Lorotta Uosen grant, who was sold, with hor mother, for ?3 to Raymond Palmer, of Forks, Wyoming County, Pa., in 1000, was Kridav married to Ciando Kose, tk lumberman. Hor father, George Hjsen grant, in 1U00, mado a bargain with Palmer by which ito sold bis wife for *;< and throw In the little girl, Loret to, to hoot. All involver! In tho trans action wore woll satisilod. Lorotta had to get her fathor's consent to be married. Ho gave it readily. Sho will bo 14 on August 27. Her husband ls 23._ AHBftHBinntod, A dispatch from Scbaitopal says Vloo Admiral Cbouknin, corn ?w?nde* of tho Blaok Sea tl ?ot, who was shot Thursday supposedly by a sailor of the battleship otohakoff, died Friday morning without regaining conscious ness. Tho under gardener of Admi ral Chouknin's villa ls suspected of having knowledge of the murderer, as he has disappeared ?