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Senator Tillmao Acquits Himself I! More Creditably Than EVer. -\ BKFKNDS L?NOHIN? For toe One Nameless Crime, and Draws a Most Pathetic Picture of Con ditions as They Exist In South Carolina To-day. Never si nco he became a ?nc in ber ot the upper branch of the National Leg islature has Senator Tillman acquit led himself more admirably and cred itably than he did Monday lu his speeob on the Brownsville tragedy, says the '"ashing ton correr pondon ii of Ibo Nev.s and Courier. Encompassed by a ll \ lng wall of humanity on the floor ot the Senate obamber, while overhead In the galleries aero packed eager and interostod Americans of both sides and colors, fur more than two hours the South Carolinian held his audience spellbound by his elo quence and oratory. The correspondent then goos on to say that he never appcarod to better advArtajo, and, departing from his usual CUB tom Of tx tom port, noons speaking, he had fortlllod bimsolf with Carefully prepared and studied manuscript. However, ho dkl not confino himself to the typewritten text whloh wan spread cut br Tore l in on his desk, bul used lt merely to re fiten hts memory on salient foatures. It was a memorable suene and a re markable speech, delivered in convino lng and imprnsslvo manner, and at times, wben picturing coourrenoes with whloh he had become familiar through personal experiences, the voice of the speaker became tremul ous with emotion and pathetic with portrayal. Nobody oared to leave thc chamber or gallery while Senator Till man waa speaking, and lt ls doubtful whether any 'address in the Senate ?Inte the cloBe of tho olvil war bSB been listened to more attentively and by a more appreciative assemblage than tbat which hung upon overy word of the Senator from South Caro lina Monday. | He was aooorded the ll wafter a lo g effort between Senators Black burn and Foraker.. in whloh each vied with the other in exprosnlng their mutual consideration aud esteem, and Ihe former took ocoaslon, a? Mr. Foraker expressed lt, to deliver ''UIH valedictory to the Senate." This was brought about by thc presentation of the substitute resolution by the Ohio Senator, in which referenoe to Presi dent) Roosevelt's aotion wes to bo ellminatod, and a committee of in quiry authorized to get tho facts in Ihe Brownsville affair last August. Senator Tillman at the outset al luded lo the mingling of tho K?n tuoky and Ohio Sooators with a quo tation from the Scriptures. "How pleasant it is for brethren to dwell to gether In Lannuity." and then pro ceeded to unlimber his artillery. Throughout his entire spteoh he main tained that he was not an advocate of disorder or lawlessness save in punish ment for offences against ''thegloii oua trinity, womanhood, wlfeboodaud motherhood." He drew a graphic picture of the re construction period and declared tho aots in South Carolina in throwing off thc yoke of the oppressor lu 187ti waa a fitting celebration of tho ono hun dredth anniversary of tho Declaration ot Indepeudence. It marked the tri umph ot civilization ovor barbar lum, and thora had boen no occasion for a repetition during tho thirty years that have elapsed sinoe the regime of tba carpet bagger in tho South Furthermore, hu asserted, that ti e people of the Southland were better fitted to manage and proteo? the ne gro, to whom they were moro accus tomed, than fanatics elsewhere, who would not take tho patna or trouble to acquaint themselves with thc on vi rou mentid the blaoks. In/his concluding renmrka he por trayed the South with the oarcass of alai cry , ohalnod to the living man praying to bo released from a linger im?; death. An he Bank Into bia chair: there was an outburst of enthusiasm, whloh vice-President Fairbanks promptly quoited, and quoted the familiar rulo of the Senate about clearing the gallorles in case of, any disorder. There was no referenoe to tho occu pants of the lloor, hovvover, and the threat of the presiding ol?ocr was emoaoiouB in preventing any further demonstration. Representativo Pat terson, of South Carolina, w>)8 tho first to congratulate Senator Tillman, an example whloh wa* qu loki y follow ed by Congressmen irrewpgoUvo of party affiliations. The spoeoh was a long ono and we have not the room to (jnote it all, but quote in full that part of Senator Till man's speech in which he dslined his position on the question ( f lynohing. This eloquent extract is a fair sample of the whole spoeoh, and is well worth reading. It was In r*ply to Senator Spooner, of Wlsonnln, who had said that he was opposed to any man making himself judge, juror and extoutlonor. Ho looked upon lt an ?booking beyond expression in civil ised communities for tho populace to Stixe a human hoing, charge him with crime, drag him to a tree protesting hi? innocence, and hang him or burn him at the stake. Ko said oe wa? ?hooked by tho statement of Senator Tillman Justifying and uipportlng itu continuance. He said his spoooh was not an attaok on Senator Tillman, but a plea for good government, orderly government, real liberty-not thc lib erty of one man, but tho liberty of all. What ls liberty? lt is not 11 oense. Ll bor ty was onoe dclinod to be "freedom to do that whloh tho law permits." That ia what liberty ls. I say again that any man hero or elsewhere who encourages lynching, murder, lawlessness, .vin have much to answer for, and tho hlghor his posi tion and the weightier his infiuonco the more ho will hayo to answer for, Senator Tillman spoke as follows: Havt J ever advocated lynch law at any time or at any. place? I answer on my honor, '?'Never I" 1 havo justl fled lt for ono crlmo, and ono only, and I have consistently and persist ently maintained that attltudo for the last fourteen years. A fl governor Of Sjuth Carolina I proclaimed that, although I had taken the oath ot ofl?co to support tho law and onferoo t, I would lead a mob to lynoh any : ?an, black ot whits, who bad ravish* 11 jd a woman,' blaok ot white. Thia ii ny attitude calmly and deliberately baker., and Justified by my oonuclenoe in tho sigbt of 'God. Hr. President, the Senator from vyisooafiin speaks of "lynching bees." A's far aa lynching for rape 1B oon> uer ned, the word ls a misnomer. When stern and sad-faood white men put to death a oreaturo in human form who has deflowered a white wo man, there is nothing of the "bee" about it. There 1B more of the feel* lug of participating SB mourner at a funeral. They have avenged the greatest wrong, the blaokeat crime in all the category of crimes, and they have dene it, not BO muoh as an act of retribution in behalf of the victim aa a duty and as a warning as to what any man may ezpeot who shall repeat the offense. They are looking to the protection of their own loved O0C8. The Senator from Wisconsin prates about the law. He eroots the law into a dotty whloh must be worshiped regardless of Justice. He has studied law books until bis mind has become saturated with the bigotry whloh Ignores the fundamental prlrclplein this Government: "Law 1B nothing more than the will of the people." There are written laws and unwritten laws, An i tho unwritten laws are always the very embodiment of savage Justice- The Senator from Wisconsin u lnoapablo of understanding condi I lions In tho South or else he has lost I thoso natural impulses whloh for cen turies have been the oharaoterlstlcf of the raoo to which we belong. Taoltus tells us that the "GormanU people were ever JealouB of the virtue of their women." Gormans, Saxons, Englishmen, they are practically one, springing from the same great root That trinity of words, the noblesl and holiest In our language, woman hood, wlfehood, motherhood, hav< Stx m origin. 1 believe with Words w,-jrth--it ls my rollglon A mother ls a mother still, Hie no blest thing alive. And a .man who speakos wltl lightness or lllppanoy or dlsousse cold-bloodedly a matter so vital a the purity and ohastity of womanhoot ls a disgrace to his own mother am unworthy tho love of a good wife. Look at our environment In th South, surrounded, aud tn a ver: large number ot oountlen and In tw States outnumbered, by tuenegroes ongulfcd, as lt were, lu a blaok llooi of semlbarbarlans. Our fannere living lu segregated farmhouses, mor or less thinly soattorod through th country, have negroes on every haue For forty voarB theso have bec taught tho damnable heresy t equality with the white man, mad thc pupet of sohomlng pclltloiaoi the instrument for thc furtherance < political ambitions. Soroo of thei nave just enough eduoatlou tobe ab to read, but not always to under&tai what they read. Their minds a: those of children, while they have tl passions and strength of men. Taugl that thoy are oppressed, and wli breasts pulsating with hatred of tl whites, the younger gonoratioi negro men aro roaming ovo tho lan passing baok and forth without hin rance, and with no pooslbllitv of ad quate polloo protection to tho coi inimiti?s in whloh thoy aro residing Mow lot mo suppose a case. Lat take any Senator on this floor-I w not particulariza-take bim frc soino great and well-ordered Stato tho North, whero there aro possit twenty thousand negroes, AB the ruo in Wlsoonsin, with ovor two m lion whites. Lat us carry this Ser tor to tho backwoods in South Gai lina, put him on a farm miles from town or railroad, and enviroued wi negroes. Wo will suppose ho hat fair young daughter just buddli into womanhood; and reoollect th tho white women of the South are a state of siege; tho greatest caro ocrolsod tnat they shall at all tixr where lt ls possible not be loft alo or unprotected, but that oan n always and in every Inst anco be t caao. That Senator's daughter u uortnkes to visit a neighbor or is h home alone for a brief while. Soi lurking demon who has watched, 1 the opportunity seizos her; sho ohoked or beaten Into lnsonsiblll and ravished, her body prostitute her purity destroyed, her ohastl taken from her, and a memory brai ed on her brain as with a red-hot lr to haunt hor night and day as lo as she lives. Moore has drawn us t picture in moat graphic language: One fatal remembrance, One son'1 that throws 1 ts bleak shade alike over our joys a our woes, To which life nothing darker of brlgl er can bring, For which joy hath no balm and af tion no sting. lu othor words, a death In ll This young glrlB thus blighted ? brutalized drags herself to her fatl and tolls him what has happened, there a man hero with red blood his volns who doubts what lmpul tho father would fool? Is lt any wi der that tho whole countryside ri as one man and with sot, stern fa seek the brute who has wrought tl Infamy ? Brute, did I say? Why, fi P/esldeut, this crime ls a slander the brutes. No beast of the field fo es his female. Ho waits invitatio It has been loft for somothlng in I shape c a mau to do this tern thing. nd shall such a creatu bcoausa he has the semblance ol men, appeal to tho law? Shall tx coldbloododly stand up and dem? for him the right to have a fair ti and bo punished In the rogular cou of Justice? So far as I am conoen ho has put hlmsolf outside the pale the law, human and divine. Ho 1 sinned against the Holy Ghost, has invaded the holy of holies, has struck civilization a blow, I most deadly and cruel that tho Im Ination can conceive. It ls Idle preach about lt. Our brains reel i der tho staggering blow and hot bli surges to tho heart. Civilization pc off us, any and all of us who are m and wo revert to the original savi typo whoso impulse undor any f 9.11 auch circumstances has alw been to "kilM killi idhi', I co not know what tho Sena from Wisconsin would do under th circumstances; neither do I oaro. have throo daughters, but, so help God, I had rather find either one them killed by a tiger or a boar t ?father up her bones And bury the sonsolous that she had diod In purity of her maidenhood, than hi ner ?crawl to me and toll mo the li rid story that she had boon robbed tho jowel of her womanhood b? >laok fiend, The wild boast wo mly obey the tnstlnot of nature, r wo would hunt him down and kill r. nat AB soon as possible. What si ?o do with a man who hes out-bru ho brute And oommlttsd an aot wh s more oruel than death? Try ht Dreg the victim into court, for ihe ?lone can furnish legal evidonoe, and ? make ber testify to the fearful ordeal through wbioh she baa passed, under? 1 doing a teoond oruolflxlon? That ll what the Senetor from Wisconsin says ho would do, and he ia welooine lo all of the honor he oan get out ot lt. Our ralo li to make the woman witness, prosecutor, Judge, and jury. I have known Judge Lynch's court to sit for a Week while luspeot af tor sus pect baa been run down and arrested, and In every Instanoo they were brought into the presence of the vic* tim, end when ibo said. "That is nos tho man," he wes set free, but when she said, "That is the roan," civilization asserted Itself, end death, speedily and fearful, let me say-cer tainly speedy-was meted out. I have never advocated, 1 have dopreoated and denounced, burning for this or any other orime. I believe it brutal 'z9S any men who participates In ft orutl publishment like that. I am satisfied to'got out of the world such oreatures. As far aa the people of the South1 are oonoerned, lt is said I do cot rep resent them hero. Somohow or other I seem to represent one State, and I dp not hesitate to assert that it ls my religious bellof that on this subject oi rapo I voloo the feeling end the pur pose of 96 per oent of the true white men of the Southern State. Whother I do or not, I voioe my own. I am not ashamed of them. I have no aool ogles to make for thom. The Senators from Wisoonsln end Ooloredo may rave, tho newspapers may howl, but men who were reared by virtuous mothers and who revere womanly purity es tbe most prioeless Jowol of their civilization will do as we of the South have done. On this question I tako baok nothing and apologize for nothing. I spurn and aoorn tho charlatanry and cant, the hypoorlsy and oawardioe, the lnsolenoe and effrontery of any and all men who oall my motives In question. Women Hument to Dont Fi. At Merlin, Gormany, a half dozon women were hu mod to death. The lire st&rted in the flat of an aged wo man living on the first floor. Sh? trlppod over the carpet and the lamp she carried crashed against the wall and Ignited a pile of ooal briquettes, the flames of willoh burned her to death. Meanwhile the department was tilled niVa the desdiv gas gener ated by the smouldering briquettes other oooupants of the buildings being awakened by the fumes wbioh UltereC through the doors. When tho fire men arrived end battered down thc door of the first Hat tho released gai rushed out with tremendous foroi and hurled them bead-long dowi the stairs. Then the gas shot up thi stairway surrounding on tho noi landing three women who had lle< fr'm their Hats In terror. The fume wero ?so noxious that tho women won instantly asphyxiated, and when th firemen were able to approach Ufo wa oxtlnot. Killed Hts Fathor. J.J. Smith, aged 46 years, employ ed et Watta Gotton Mill, two mile north of Laurens on the Oharlestoi and Western Garolina road, was abo and killed this morning by bis sou John Smith, whilo tho young man wa protecting bis mother from an assaul made upon ber by the husband an father. From what can bo learned a tho particulars of tho tragody lb seem that tho elder Smith attempted t beat his wlfo and had a gun drawn o her. Young Smith, sou of Mr. an Mrs. Smith, appeared on the socn and gave bis mothor protection; Th boy's fatbor warned him not to tak a hand in tho affair, and turning th gun from his wife pointed lt at hi son. Young Smith selzsd a singl barrel Bhot gun and lived athis fathci the load entering the side, killing hit Instantly. Smith is in tho custody c the sheriff. Saved by Man's Doath. AtOlevoland, Ohio, Noble Shani weller, 24 years old, hanged himsal in his room just In time to savo fou employes of Hogan & Go., undortok ors, from death by gas fumes. Th polioo oall for the house, when Shanli weller's body waa found, aroused th men from sleep. Gharles Garvan, ly lng near the telephone, fell over lu Leap when he arose from his hunk Natural gas fumes from the heart: and the oellar had lilied tho room* Eugene Pillardy beard him fall, il went to raise Garvan and was ovoi como. ?John Conway oame In and te beside tho two men. The three wer osrrled out by Wm. Summers, a o ri vor, who heard Conway oall us ho fell Summers revived tho mon in the opel air and made tho "run" to tho root of Shankweller., i'rloo Kalaotl. The Ttookford, Ul., Star sayE "Country papers all over Illinois ar a?vanoing their subscription rate;. Nearly all tho publications that hav boon sold for 91 por annum axe MON asking from 25 oonts to 60 cent moro. The publishers Hay that th high price of paper and materials c all kinds and the greatly inoroaso cost of produotion In evory depart I mont make au ad vaneo in tho subucrli: tlon rates imperativo. At ii the claim that too great a proportion o the expense ts thrown upon tho advoi tiseis. "Country newspapers all ove theoountry sooner or later will hav to raise their subscription price o quite the hold. Fatal rVlK'it. In au argument Thursday af ternoo: over tho ro oleotion of Cotted State Senator Halley, wbioh ooourrod Tuot day, W. O, Iirown, president of large buggy manufacturing compan In Dallas, Texas, shot and ratall wounded A, S. Johnson, ewell know: traveling mau of Dallas. The shoot lng ooourrod at 0 o'clook in tho af toi noon lu tho lobby of tho hotel an oroated muoh oxoltennent. Johnsoi now Hos in a dying condition at a san itarium in the olty. Bhot at tim ?dltor, W. J. Dondy, editor of the Cllntoi Ga/otto, oame near being hit by bullet that oreshod through a windov only a foot from whoro ho wfccslttini reading a nowtpapcr. Tho odltor wa at home at the timo, and the would be assassin stcod near a corner of th house and his targot waa plainly dla cernlblo, as ho was leated near a light ed lamp. Mr. Dandy thinks that tb motive was one of revengo on aoooun of his denouncing socrot meetings o ne g roos. Won a Hoholarafilu. Representative Lever, as a result o a competitive examination, held ii Columbia, Deo. 20, last year, toda; named Clydo S. Davis, of North, to bi a cadet in the naval academy; Jame Oarlisle nair, of St. Matthews, A. C Young, Edward Darrel, Smith of Co lumbla, alternates. The entrance ex rumination will ba held the third Tues Say In April at Charleston i V GIVEN A ROASlt flin ?U?SOMJ?ION IO INVKH'X'? GATK UiVlWtOAD? ?8 kl3t>U??S$ But Itt Author, Mr. Frost, Took Oe custon to Oo for the j Railroads, The Bouse of Representatives et Columbia on Wednesday considered | and dually rc J coted e Joint resolution by Mr. Frost of Charleston to provide for the appointment ot e commission to investigate tho operation .Of the railroads end report baok to Ihe house on the first dey of tte session next veer. Bofore killing., tho r?solu tion, however, the house listened to some of the Btrongest rojeta of pre* sent railroad . cpndlt|ouu;. hoar:1 In 'ft long time and the rojootioiiof ?he commission idea meanst; that the house wiii probably pass several drei* tlo bibs now before it. The resolution proposed'provided for a commission to look into .all com plaints ebcut railroad tier vice In tbli State both as to sohedvU.es, and ratee end an appropriation .ot. 1-2,000 wet asked to carry out the work.. As soot as tho bill wes given a seoond read inn Mr. Lawson moved to strike out thc enacting words. 1 " Mr. Frost, who introduced the re solution in the house, made one o tho strongest speechs heard so far ii the entire session lu favor of lt passage. He spoke for abo?t'h?lf ai hour and In that timo reviewed ever: phase of the resolution. He oommonoed with a Btatemeu about the growing idea of federal con trol of the railways and pointed ou the necessity for South Carolina s ooposo any suoh plen and at the sam time insisted on a proper aupervlsio of tho UneB In this State. Ther were three groat systems traversin the State from north to south, h said, and tho cross lines were all owi od by theso three-the Sonthern, 3ei board Air Line and Atlantic Coat Line. Tho long haul of freight meat revenue for these roads and tho was little or no development of tl oross lines.. As a result erbitrei divisions were being set up by tl roads themselves; those groat arterh of trade that had been set up ?a tl means for leveling all barriers. Tl people of the Piedmont found it easli to go to Atlanta or Charlotte than 1 tho middle or lower section of tl State. Tho people of Columbia four it easier to go to Savannah i Augusta rather to the uoper or low part of South Carolina and the peop of tho coast found traveling to tl upper part of tho State a1 most i impossibility. As a result tho tbr seotions ot the State cannot me oaoh other as they should. Mr. Frost reed reports from poi masters showing the delay of the a rival of mails and how the sohedul as printed were not oarrled out Mr. Wade asked about the pow< cf tho rsilroad commission along tl linc. Mr. Frost seid the commissi pioposed in his resolution would n Inter fore in any way with the ra road commission and In feot the t1 bodice could work tcgothor and tb suggest wise laws. Mr. Gyles said that thors, ire iv bills before the goneral assembly lot lng for remedies for these ver? evi If the resolution oould be hold until these bills wera passed then would favor it. His desire wes glvo relief to the people now, at on Mr. Banks said there is soared: day that wreoks ere not report Tho oonditlon was shown in tue nu ber of bills before the house but th were mauy in doubt as to the merits theso bills end therefore he thouj Mr. Frost's resolution should pass. Mr. Bucker said he had never fav od drastio legislation. Ile wish however, to refer to the glorli record of tho railways of this Sta They had persistently refused to g the people aooommodation and con tiona grow worse and worso ev yoar. For his own town, Anders tho Southern railway had never o hinted at bettor servloe. Ho thong therefore, tho oommisslon should appointed and should at ouoe gel work. Mr. Dixon also favored a oomn sion, calling attention to poor dei; and poor schedules, Of debauch in defending liquor legislation i railroad l.glslatlon he asked wh was tho worse-monoy or whiskey Mr. Ayer of Florence opposed oommlslon. He said tho State no ore and moro gotting into "commission habit" and lt is timi oall a halt. Thore wasn't a th mentioned In the resolution that people did not already know or oo not lind out by oalling on the rallr oommisslon. Tho railroads, he si were trying to mako sohedules. Mr. Ruoker - "Why, on the Ooh bia and Greenville line not a soher] has been made in montos? The r does not try to make them.'"' Mr. Ayer -"I thank tho gentler] for giving the bouse Information t would have to pay (2,000 for, eoC( lng to tho resolution." Continuing, Mr. Ayer erg earnestly against tho passage of resolution and said that laws ooul< passed to remedy prosout evita. Mr. Lawson withdrew his mol to atrlko out tho enacting words Mr. Sawyer renewed lt. A yea : nay voto WAS demanded and on motion to strike out the enaot words the vote stood aa follows: Yeas-Ayer, Balley, Bolleut Beattie, Bothuno, Boyd, A. G. Hr bryan, Cannon, Carey, Ollnksoa Cothran, Courtney, Dorhem, Din Doar, J. Bi Dodd, J. il. Dc Douglass, lOpps, IOpting, Garr?s, Gi GAUHO, J. P. Gibson, Glassoook, Gj Hall, Harris, Harri on, Hinton, rirlok. Johnstone, Jones, Kella! Klrven, Lane, Lester, Mccoll, Keown, Mann, Mlloy, Mlllor, Nest. Nichols, Nivor, Parker, Boaves, R ards, Blohardson, Sawyer, Si Scarborough, Scruggs, Sellera, Sh Slaughter, J. E Smith, Weds, WI Wiggins, WImborly, Wlngard, Wo Ycldoll-??. Naya-Speaker Whalcy, Bei brantley, T. S. brloe, Oarrlgsn, < son, Oarwlle, Olary Cosgrove, C Croft, Oullor. DeVore, DJxon, Di lng, Fraser, Frost, W. J. Glbi Goodwin, Greer, Herman, Hugl Kershaw, Lawson, Lo lt nov, Lit MoArtnur, Marshall, Morrell, Ni Nloholson, Patterson,Ruoker, Sha D. L> Smbh, Kurtz P. Smith, Spl Stillwell, Stubbs, Tatum, Tho? 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From the testimony adduood at the Inquest lt seoms that Harley wont to Parlor's o?loe and asked for him. He was Informed that Parier was not there, ne then Went to Parlor's house -.and attempted to gain an entranoe. Mr. Parler warned him sevoral timeB not to come In, but he paid no atten tion to the warning and proceeded .to enter the house. Then it waa that he was shot by Mir. Parlor, the e .tire load of bnokshot entering near the heart and produoing instant death. When Mr. Parlor shot narley had in his hand a breaoh loadlng gun and he also had on his person a consider able number of cartridges. It ia con fidently bolievod hore that lt waa his purpose to attempt to kill Mr. Parlor. It seems that Harley for some un known reason did not like Parlor, and on several' occasions he had oaused him considerable annoyance. Mr. Par ler has always boen a law abiding oit izen and he refrained from taking any action until foroed to do so. When the fatal shot was flrod ho was aoting in defenoe of his homo and family, and it ls tho opinion of thoso who are familiar with the faots that he was entirely justifiable; Harley has always been regarded as a desperate sort of man and has been in trouble moro than once. Sovoral months ago, while the Court of Om eral Sessions was In progress at St. Goorgeaho committed an assault upon a young man named Weeks, on the Court House square. He was appre hended, by Shorlff Limehouse, but made his escape the next day. - ne was tried and oonvloted in his absen ce on tho following day. and at the time of his death a scaled sentence awaited him in the olerk of Court's office at St. Gebrges. He waylaid his brother-ln law, Mr. Knight, several years ago, and wounded him so severe ly in his leg, that it had to be ampu tated. Sheriff LlmohouBO made sovoral at tempts to. capture Harley, but waa never, successful. It ls believed that Harley's frlonds kopt him advised aa to the whereabouts of tho shorlff and he managod to elude capture. Several months ago Sheriff Llmehouse off ired a reward bf tl50 for his capturo, but the offer was Ineffectual to accom plish tho result sought af tor. Mr Par ler came to Orangeburg on Monday and wont b?foro Judge Dant/Aor, who grantod bim bail in tho sum of two thousand dollars. Wrcok on Coast Lino. Vest?bulo train No. 58 on the At lantio Coast Line was wrecked at Yomaasee, 50 miles from Charleston on last Monday morning. The train, wbioh wau running at a fair speed, wont into an opon switch and crashed into tho engine of a freight train on the*- siding. Engineer Johnson of Floronce, on.train 88, was killed and Engineer Horton and three train bands of tho freight were Injured. The train composed of a baggage oar and seven Pullmans, oaught lire at onco and all exoopt ono oar were burned. It waa said that there were only a few passengers northbound on board and only ono was hurt. The name of the passenger and extend of injuries could not bo learned Tu* s lay night. Capt. C. C. Tllghman was in charge or tho vestibule train and Conduotor Stuart Hclssnborgor In ohargo of the freight. An exchange suggests that Senator Davis, of Arkansas, bo forced by ?aw to spell his front name J elf rles instead of Jeff. Hut the newspapers can all consp?re lo call h'm Senator .Jeffries' Davis and thus save future higher critics Yro.m confounding him with tho president of tito Confederacy. MAYOH McClellan might bo called tho Now York city Hayes, and a cloud upon tho title of a mayor is aa unfortunate as tho reputation of hav ing enjoyed a stolen presidency, HOW VARIOUS NATIONS SLEEP. Wooden Neck-Rests Serve aa Pillows In Japan. .It. Is ?evidently custom that makes conifoH, even In the way men take their res!,, says tho Scrap Book. Tho . feather, beds HO necessary to the last generation are little loss than actual torment's to this, while tho Japanese do>ii)t!r?Bn would find cv cn our urna flat mattress too soft, after their mat-1 Ung couch and wooden nock-rest. Tho Anglo-Saxon race, -so far aa its sleeping arrangements and moans of rest aro concerned, is the most luxuri ous in the world. The Egyptians had a couch of a pe culiar shape, moro like au old-fash ioned easy chair, with hollow back and seat, than a bod. Tho Chinese use low bedsteads, often elaborately carved, and support ing only mats or coverlids. A peculiarity of tho German bed ts Ita shortness; besides that, it fre quently consits in part of a large ? down pillow or upper mattress, which spreads over the person, and usually answers the purpose of all tho other ordinary bedclothing combined. The ancient Greeks and Romans , had their beds supported ou frames but not flat like ours. tn the tropics men sloop In ham mocks or upon mats of grass. The East Indian unrolls his light portable charpoy or mattress, which In the moaning is agnin rolled together and carried away by him. Robt K. Lee? On last Saturday Was observed all over thc South and in some places at thc North tho one hundredth anni versary of the birth of Robert E. Leo, one of the purest, noblest and great est men who ever lived. Eulogies innu merable have been written about|Gen. Leo and although remarkable to say, none appear too fulsome nor have they been too numerous. He deserved thom all and all that has been said. His character, when . studied closely, is thc most admirable In all history. Gen. Lee was truly great. His mem ory will never die and the veneration and respect accorded him is growing every day and will last forever. Tho South ls proud of the honors paid her greatest son, who was really ono of the purest, greatest and best men of ail history. . . Tho Boll Woovll. It is/ believed that sinc,e Its intro duction in Texas the boll weevil has destroyed 2,000,000 bales of cotton, with an estimated value of one mil lion dollars. The weevil is seldom extremely Injurious in tho southern part of Texas if stubble cotton is not allowed to remain over the winter. Apparently thc weevil docs not prom ise to become very dangerous in thc western cotton countries. The cult ural method is considered Lire only efficient remedy for controlling (ho boll weevil. This consists in .carly planting, thc usc of varieties which mature quickly, the application of fer tilizers, thorough, cultivation and de struction of cotton plants in thc fall, OS well as other material In which thc beetles may hibernate. Tn? Augusta Herald says "thc papers of South Carolina arc not of ten unanimous, but at thc present time there is practically unanimity In theil utterances upon I wo subjects -With one accord they say kind things of D.C. I Icy ward, now added lo the number of Sou til Carolina's ex-governors and with tho same ac cord they disapprove Tillman's posi tion on tho Brownsville matter." Tine Florence Times says: "if Major Ilcmphlll, thc talontcd and able editor of thc Nows and Courier wcro to come out for lire senate, as has been suggested in Washington he would make some folks sit up and take notice mighty carly in the game. South Carolina could not send a bot? ter rcprcsontativc of her state so vcr Ignty than Major John Calvin Hem. phill. _;_ Tine Florence Times says "tho dis pensary men in the house have agreed among themselves, according to re ports to purify tho State dispensary or to kill it." No member who pledged himself on the stump last summer to voto for the dispensary lias any right Lo vote lo kill it? V/hen li? docs so lie stultifies hlmsolf before tho peo ple. IAM.Y JERSEY CHARLESTON .BUCC WAKEFItLD. LARGE TYPB ? The Earlloi* WAKEFIELD TliefEi Cabbage Grow? Bocond Earliest . Bernd PRICE: In tot! Ot 1 to 4 m. at $1.60 per rt., ? lo I P. O. rv YOUNQ'S ISLANb, 8. cV My P.iiaranlo/? 1 Kuarnntoo Plants to i;lvo-i>im VaUaraniCC prloo to any cttntomor who In ( trrown In tho opon Bold, on Seacoast of Sou growlnjT tho hardiest planta that can 1)0 sro FoBOt In tlio Interior of tho Houthorn State? Maroh. Thoy will Bland nevero cold without p?K? Two to Throo wooka ooone-r than if ye frames. ?' My LarRest Onstomor? oro tho Mnrkot G tho South. Tholi- prout <lopend? upon '.hom I Obaso my plant? for their oropa. I also grow a foll Uno ol othor Plants find tato Plants; Applo, 1'caoli, roar, Plum, Cbc Vlnos^ . . ? . . - Li e ' tern* t* e-crutfii wk? arte ap ?la? VT/ M Writs tm U^uu?^4?4t?Utu*. " ii ???4 * I :A I-?1 Succ?s If auf?erlii' orr ode .Ext Vnrioopole, t Livor/ ?iora Disorders, B to women, o 20 years' Ex R?putation; our books "1 and-. "Men's advised. Ma KxOert op in blank. Add luman Built J. lil Wi OX ll H II I WAY, H.fc GttdoaU Dart mouth Htd.Col l*geiSj|.Ei.rrtt,)I.Uich. Ked.SoeiMy. Ii. Memtxr SUte Med. So,, Botrd .Health, ?te. ??^?.?????4 HAVE A One 25-horse power Talbott, second hi been overhauled. This engine ls In bargain for anyone who is in the mark We are headquarters for anything prompt attention will bc given to al caro. Write us when you$are in the nt our prices before placing your Orders e COLUMBIA:SUPPL\ CABBAG 1 have lind sovei nhd all othor kinds ready fur shipment Jersey Wakefields, H.ons, thane being rionced truek fat ni will stand sovoroci nt ?1.00 por' ?'.Ouu; W? hav? special Low Bxpi All planta will b. shippod'C. O. 1). unl?s^?u will have my .prompt and.peiaonal nXtention, trial ordor. 1 -guarantee Ballsfuotioh. ? Addre B. J. DONALDSON, - A? the beginning of thc year"' spenci a little I bought on the best way to avoid debt and do away with long credit and'mortgage systems; Debt is an unmercif ul and exacting master. To free one's self of debt ?nd adopt thc pay as you go plan is thc first and surest step toward freedom and pros perity. Tm?: man who went out to milk and sat down on a boulder in the middle Ot a pasture and Will ted for thc' cow to back up, was a brothel' to the man who kept a store and wouldn't adver tise because he reasoned that ; the purchasing public won id . back up to his place of business, when it wanted something. There have been more lynchings in most southern states than in Iowa, but no SOU them mob was ever sacrlligiotis enough to open proceedings willi prayer. DH. Osier's excellent mp!hov has just celebrated her one hundredth birthday. Hope she doesn't feel bad about her distinguished son's chloro form theory. Tine assertion is made that Simon Guggenheim, who is sent to tho son ate from Colorado has expended a million dollars in financing tho..cam* paigns of the Republican party In that state- This makes tho cost of a seat in New York Stock exchange seem plcayunlsli by comparison. An exchange tells of a' Kansas man who is a doctor, a minister, an undor l akcr and a tombstone dealer all com bined. And nobody has ever hinted'] it lils being a combination Ju ros Fallit of trade. TiiKitK are six llv'ng cx-govovnois| )f ?South Carolina. Thoy arc". D. lt ^hainborlain, John 0. Sheppard, H. H. Tillman, John Gary Evans, Miles B. Mcsweeney, and D. C, Hey ward. '.^ssion9*AUaUSTA SHORT STEMMED^ te TRUCHE? PL?rDUTCH * irftosiFIat A Jlttlo Int-or JLarfieiititnJ I/atott '?J VnH??y *.?L?a Buccdsston Cabing*. .?.'S; " )jh. at $f.2? perm., 10 m. ?nd.over,ntSI.?O per m.; 5h,. >. Specn?M?/Rrc?a Rato on.Pl?pt?l?f\*ry.Loy?] fi?;tf jhaaorsatlftiwtlonYWvoi rotund tilo tmrofiab* ' llnsutlnnocT ftt uni o? jsoason. TliMa-puiittlMi nrdonora near tb? Interior town* ?nd oltle? of laving Karly O?.'obagoi io? that roa/ion thay par?,, Vrclt Trcoa,anojias.Strawberryand Sweet Po? j* try nini'Ai>rl<iot Trees, Fig ?usina ?nd Grap? ?* ;? A*TV-BOX 86 . ** S ? W 1 1 . XOWtW? MUMP, Jj )iscases Ot Men and Women chilly Treated.* { fruin lUiouma?snvSpeolflo Blood Poison, latiatjon, Debility, Break bown, etc., Catarrh Jtrlc.yiro, Cleat, Rny <ll^."^ ot 0*a Heart, Boh, ?owelff or Lungs; Skin Disease*, Blood ? Idnoy or Bladder diseases, Disease? peculiar, * ' to., call on OB writ? us. Wd have had over J Sot lonco in the treatment at those diseases. Z rmlj. established*^ lamination Hank andi + ?r?ln?nd NorvVExhaustion''and "Health" 4 Disensos" sent free. Personal examination ? ny eaaes curoltlp by our homo trcatmout plan.' T lori'of your case free. Write'for examination T rcsB DB. HATHAWAY * CO4 iSult? 88- ' 2 Uug, Atlanta, Georgia. ^ t _ . " ^ mi . ???????4 ???????????????????? i i I 1 1. 1 ?' ' ' ' ?'? : rr kl Ulk and engine in stock which has racontly iirst-olass condition and will ho a great et for such a si/.e.engine. ; lu the way of Machinery Supplies, and 1 -'non i rles and orders qntr? sted to our uvrket . for anything, ana?be sure to got lsewhere.i ""^J frV?Vtfnj?' ' V i1' r CO., - COLUMBIA, S. Q. , E PLANTS FOR SALE ni yojira oxporlonco in crowing cabbage, plants of vogotiblo plants for tho trade. And now:ha'V0 (?'cot plnnts and Cabhngo plants as follow?: l?arty Karg* Typo Wnkollolds, and llonloraon. Suecos* ? the b Ht known roi able varieties to nil oxpa lOtfl. Theso \ lanta n*o grown O' t in open fdr and . jld without Injury. PrltO $l.f>0 per 1,000. "Big lota .ess ration vogpt^blo plaits ftoni tliia point.- I profor skiding mb noy willi ordora. Yourordora , Whrm in noad of .vegetable pl.inta glyo mo r^g ss all o niora" to ... *N ^7 r - MEGGETTS S. C. Pianos and Organs At Factory Prices. Write hs at cnoe for our ?recial plarf of payments on a Piano or Organ, .ff you b ty either lust, uinonfc through us, vou get a standard make, one that ?111 last a Hfe'timo. Write Malones Music House, ? . ^ '?C : '. .}'! ....... Columbia..S.O., for catalogs, prlcos & ros Vf y . . " HY a ' AAA BANK DEPOSIT ^iwiiMii^iiin SSSi?tcSS vSt??JSSI ?aCR0?A.ALABAMABUiieKS800UJfi^M*???.?iv y / Mrs. Carrie Nation says that if tho deyil were' in Washington he would vote Vti?i Bopublioan tiekot. r.tit they don't allow a black man to vot<; there apy .11.oro than a white. Thc whole business is disfranchised. Tur. Florence Thnes~would liko^to havo cOmmiasiOht appointed in every community in tito sou tl ni o pick (juo thentgrocs who will bo sent, to Pun amtt to dig tho canal for t'nitrac tor ( )llver. Then we want a law pill ed compelling those selected to go. Lord Wolseley, himself a soldier of distinction, declared that he bad' mot many.great"mcn,.but Itobort ?C. Lee was thc only man before whose per sonality however stood abashed. Said Stonewall Jackson: "Leo is a pix' nomononv, lie ls tho only man I over knew wlioin 1 would be ready to fol low blindfolded." BoosovclC'1* doing a goo<l thing in ordoring tim negro troops to tho Phil* Ipplnea. Tlioy will be a bono of ooh? tcntion as long as they romain in |lu> United Bt at OH,