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?USTS, I i lo Prohibit F????? iterest by 7 IR JEFF DAVIS. Bonn tor from Ar t?o Timo lu His [o Against Trusts .Ho l>olivors o I vipecclY* JW *cl.Tvt?lle? With Sen sational Declarations, Passionate oratory marked the proceedings of , the Senate Wednes day. Senator Davis, of Arkansas, Who when elected declared that he .would attack thc trusts immediately [after taking his seat, fulfilled his ?promise although he was a few days iate in doing so. The speech was filled with sensational declarations and was given with that vigor for which the Arkansas Senator is fam ed injiis own State. Quaint phrasing pointed denuncia tiori^and evidences of intense emotion jharaVtferized his remarks. He was given direful hearing by the Sena tors.^ird the~ga'.leries was well filled jjtYmfiighout the time he held the floor. Beginning shortly before 1 o'clock he spoke for a little more than an hour. Senator Davis began by declaring that it was not his purpose to retain his seat in the Senate until his hair shall have turned gray before taking up his work actively in that body. He proposed to present quickly, fear ly and as intelligently as he might some of the living, burning ques tions before the American people. It was for that reason he had de termined to speak upon his bill to suppress trusts, pools, combinations, and conspiracies. After declaring that his bill, vigorously enforced I would killed the trusts Senator Da-1 vi3, with dramatic effect, challenged any Senator to step forward and con tost tho issue with him. Speaking of the annual appropria tion?? for the expenses of the Govern ment, amounting to $900.000,000, he turned to Senator Beveridge an add ed: "Pile up that amount of money on this door and let my good looking young friend, the Senator from In diana, start to count it. He would be as old as Methuselah before he could count half of it." The senator detailed appropria tions made for maintaining the White House. "And yet," he continued, "Presi dent Roosevelt has but five children -at home." The inadvertence of speech brought laughter from all parts of the cham ber. "Everything," declared Senator Davis, "is in a trust except acorns and persimons. "Holy writ admonished us to go into the vineyard and work, i have found nothing in the good book that warrants any of us going into the vineyard to corner all the grapes. ^^-PtSeSTdcnt;""h?--Baid, "has taken off the dollar the words 'In God We Trust.' lt's time to take it off. I wonder what the Grand Old Party is going to put on the dollar? "This panic was started by these trust magnates and stock gamblers in order that they might take from j the cotton producers half of their ' property," he added. "1 am for the under dog, Senator McLaurin," he said addressing the Senator from Mississippi, who sat before him, "Whenever you hear of a dog fight just say, 'JelF Davis is for thc under dog.' He read some statistics on the Standard Oil Company, and stopping out into centre aisle stamped his foot and said: "The Standard Oil is the old he trust of the country. It is the trust that has all the paraphernalia and ear-marks of a trust. 1 dislike Stan dard Oil. I hate the smell of coal oil. Petroleum makes me sick. Oh, sir, something ought to be done to cur tail the great power of this monstrous trust-John 1). Rockefeller's trti3t the great Standard Oil Trust. "I undertake to say," he continu ed, "that if this bill is enacted into a law and faithfully and honestly exe cuted, trusts will he wiped from the face of the earth and no longer will we feel their grinding and destroy ing grip on the arteries of trade and commerce." A domestic corporation found fix ing the price of any article would, by his bill, he said, have its charter for feited, and any corporation guilty of such and act would not be allowed to do business in the United States. 'The trust evil," said Senator Davis, "is a cancerous sore on the body politic, just as upon the human body. The only remedy, the only successful treatment io the surgeon's knife. Cut it out hy the root, destroy the virus before the whole hotly pol itic is affected and destroyed. Congress should not hesitate in the work of destroying the trusts be cause of any fear of unsettling busi ness, he continued. He spoke of the Sherman anti-trust law. "Has it proven effectual?" he asked. "Has it destroyed a single trust? Under its operation have they not grown Strong, defiant anti arrogant? Almost for seventeen years the Sherman an ti-t rust law has been up m our stat ute books, more than tour times as long ns it took the North to wear out. the South upi n the bloody field of battle. Nearly seven years of Mr. Roosevelt's strenuous term has pa.s ed with a'l the machinery of the G >v eaoment at his back with the great power of the chief executive m his han .-, yet i ask will some Republi can Si n "or upon the iloor tell me one trust th t h has even tamed, much less destivyt d. "Ah, Mr. President, it was stated by the metropolitan press before 1 entered this august body, flippantly, too, that before 1 had been in the State six months the trust magnates would have me feeding out of their hands. 1 may share crumbs with a Lazarus, hut I swear to you today, by every God in the calendar, that I & shall never eat from the hands of J mammon, "I want to say to you, sir, and to the members of this Senate, that you need not lose any sleep about a cor poration getting its rights. You need ;iot lose any sleep about uti just dis riminations again d, them. They will tko care of themselves. But rather .mid our solicitude bc for thc man "Wi i H ii [linn i i in n linn Mimi imm who bears the burdens of tho Gov eminent." "This ls an age when mon have gone mad in their frenzied efforts for the dollar. This is an age when ?ioii?y is placed above man; when gold is placed above man; when gold is placed before God; when we would J se!! our seule, our Government, our all for one bright smile from the gold of mammon. What is money, Mr. President, that it is held so priceless. You cannot eat it, you cannot wear it; your shroud has not pockets in it, and St. Peter will not receive it for admission into the Golden Gates. '' When we look to the leading cause for this great wealth upon the part of these corporations and the causes leading to their formation, to the formation of trusts, we aro compell ed to go no further than Republican authority itself, and take the Bworn testimony cf Mr. Havemeyer, the great sugar king, who has gone to his reward, be it good or bad, who has gone to that land and that clime where St. Peter does not take sugar in his,' and where money is of no value." He recalled Mr. Havemeyer's state ment before the industrial commis sion, that "the tariff is the mother of trusts." "Under the operation of tho sys tem of government," he said, "fifty one men in the United States, multi millionaires, if you please, have imassed a total fortune of $3.295, 000,000. Of thia fifty-one John D. Rockefeller, the old king of the world, leads with $600,000,000; An drew Carnegie, the steel king of the world, follows with half this amount." The Secretary of Commerce and Labor has calculated, he said, that all of the property owned by 89,000, 000 American citizens is $107,000, 000,000, so that these fifty-one citi zens own one thirty-fifth of the en tire wealth of the nation. "What an alarming concentration of wealth; what an alarming concen tration of power," he declared. "In this day and time money is king; money is god. Without it the doors of opportunity are closed; the doors of society are shut. Yea, even in | some instances the doors of the church do not welcome so enthusias tically the man in rags and tatters as the man with millions. Now shall this condition continue? How shall this Government be saved? One way and one way only, that is to kill, de stroy the sources of all this evil- the trusts." He exolained that his bill would not permit corporations to sell their products in one part of the country at a" less price than they sell such products in another part. "What is needed to day by the trust magnates or this Union in or der to make them respect the law and obey its solemn mandates," he said, ''is that they be treated like or dinary felons; is that the strong arm of the law be laid against them just as it would be against a horse thief or any one else charged with crime. Land them in the penitentiary, place felon stripes, 'the doxology of a mis spent life,' upon them and you will see the trusts are busted and the peo ple will get relief. Ah, sir, one trust magnate in the penitentiary of the United States, one trust mag nate with felon stripes, one trust magnate as a living example and ob ject lesson that the law is greater than any man, that the law is above and beyond us all, that the law pro tects the weak and punishes the strong alike, would be the most wholesome example that could be set in this Republic to-day." lie declared that while he is an alarmist he is not an Anarchist or a Socialist. 'There is too much gold," he de clared, "there is too much glitter; there is gloss; there is too much of tinsel, and I say, sir, that unless times and conditions change it will not be long before the American statesmen will be wearing knee breeches with brass buckles and powdered wigs and bowing down to semi-royalty." ile spoke of the great expenses of the Government. "Our President," he said, "and I speak of him in the most respectful terms, besides his salary of $50,000 a years, and I say that is not exces sive, is paid by this Congress $25,000 a year for travelling expenses, and approximately $113.000 annually for living expenses. Ah, Mr. President, this is enough. This is unreasonable The President of the United States has live children, I believe, lt is true that he should live in accordance with the dignity of the position he occupies-the greatest Executive upon the face of the earth-but, Mr. President, I have you skinned a city block in the matter of family. I have eiidit children, and I don't lake $113, OUO for my living expenses. No, sir, the greatest President that over liv ed upon this earth, that was ever in augurated in this Capitol, in my judgment, was 'Old Hine Jeans, old Hickory Jackson,' who rode his horse to the White House dressed in a suit of blue joans." Ile denounced slock gambling and haid he would do away with gam bling in cotton, grain and the nec essities of life. A Good liing (lone. Good King Oscar, of Swo len, is dead. He was seventy-nine years old, and was a line old gentleman. lie was the grandson of that Mar shall Bernadette, who followed the fortunes of Napoleon and, though a peasant by birth, rose to be the king of Norway and Sweden. The late ruler never attempted to conceal the obscurity o? his ancestry, and over the door of the hoUse in which P.er nadotte was born rests a tablet which records that there "the peasant, Bcrnadotte," was born. King Oscar wm not only one of the wisest hut on^.of I he m ist democratic of rulers. He mingled freely wi'h his people and know their w m's and wishes well. Tho separatio x of No; vay and Swe den came as a cloud upon hH declin ing years, but it v/ds one of the in evitable stops in the development of the two countries. The interests of Norw iv ur- a m i.?imo nation were not identical with those of Sweden, and when thc roque si for a separate consular system was preferred, it was refused by Sweden. Two years ago Norway seceded from the union and chose a king of her own. The ?rief for the dead sovereign in Eu rolie will be deep and sincere, for, indeed, as the Atlanta Journal says, ie was a model of that justice and mercy which "doth become tho throned monarch better than his ?rown." BV?n when a girl doesn't want a /oung man to kiss her ll makes hor nod If bo doesn't want lo. II.wo ,toi( o) Kppu oim inmi a jo )uo IJOOUOO OIU SOipi) UUUlOAt ll U0tlA\ MARCH OF NEMESES. Tua righi: Na* Bs&t Lenjg, ths Battle Been Bloody, -:-r Now tho Trend is Toward Ku forced Abstinence and tho Whis key Demon Must GO. In 1811, nearly ono hundred years ago, there waa at the present site of Brookville, Indiana, a curious com bination in the way,of aman, says the American Farmer. He was preacher, farmer, distiller and bar keeper all rolled in one. He had come into the then territory in 1797. and was the first Methodist minister among the early settlers on the Whitewater. The town of Brook ville, in Framdin county, near the Ohio border, was laid out in 1807, ?ust a century ago, and this preach ing whiskey seller was a main actor in starting the place. On Sunday he preached regularly to his congrega tion of surrounding settlers, mostly small, farmers, and after services "set iip the liquor" to tho "sin-sick souls. Everybody drank in those days, what they called "drams," the white and water olear product of the old-fashioned copper, still. In fact, the first industry in every pio neer community was a distillery, be ing regarded as equally important with the mill that ground the grain. The preachers were all tipplers and many of tlu?m drank to excess and the very first of all the temperance reform movements in this country was organized for the express bene fit of the clergy. Times have changed. We want our readers, especially the farming class, to take note of the contrast presented between 1807 and 1907 and the eventful century intervening, i Take note of Parson Manwaring, mixing his sermons and whiskey in the same log cabin, where entertain ment was furnished "for man and beast," then look around in the ru ral community where you live and count up the farmers who drink liq uor to excess or even in moderation. A drinking preacher, of course, would no longer be tolerated. He is as extinct as the dodo. No liquor if served on the sideboards as it was in 1807 in every home. Drinking has be come unpopular and unfashionable. No fanner thinks of serving w iskey in the harvest field, as was universal "a hundred and even fifty year** ago. The churches are now all standing in solid column behind the temper ance movement. The W. C. T. U., the Y. M. C. A.. the Endeavorers and other Christian associations arc all working heroically against thc universal curse. The advance hafi been great and no class has benefitt ed more from the reform than thc tillers of the soil. There is not fl strictly farming community in thc United States where the saloon hat a particle of show in a standup vote, The farmer has become sober. ' He finds better use for his corn than tc run it through a still; better use foi Iiis fruit than to convert it into thc brain-maddening "apple-jack." Nemesis is marching on! Thu goddess, sacred in the old Greek cal enear to revenge, it? coming' into hoi own. The fight has been long, th( battles have been bloodv, the cen turies are strewn with millions ol men dead from drink, with counties: homes wrecked and ruined, witt blasted reputations, with scared cor sciences, with that hope de fer rec which maketh the heart sick. Johr Barley carn, generalissimo of thc hosts of evil, the beasts of prey, thc legions of devils, the fiends incarnate is being driven to thc wall. The seor pion is being surrounded with fire The bounds of .the hunted tiger grow less and less. The hosts of hunter.' pressen, remorselessly, mercilessly, armed with argument, business rea sons, moral suasion, decency, self preservation, the hopes of civiliza tion. At this beginning of the eighth year of the twentieth century, wc are able to report progress. The tem perance movement is sweeping thc country in an irresistible wave and soon, it is asserted, no whiskey will be sold in the United States except in the larger cities, into which the criminal elements of the country frill Hock. The trend is toward enforced abstinence and the makers of liquor are plainiy alarmed. Nearly 40,000, 000 people, about half the popula tion of the country, now live in tem perance territory. All the eleven Southern States have, not as many saloons as the one city of New York. Georgia ha*? full prohibition; Ala bama, majority of the counties al ready dry; Arkansas, two-thirds of the counties dry; Florida, thirty-sev en out of forty-liv counties dry; Kentucky, ninety-one out of 119 counties dry; Louisiana, seven-eigh thsof the country districts dry. Miss issippi, seventy out of seventy-five counties dry; Texas, two-thirds dry, and so it goes all along the line. The North is falling into line rapidly and the great red dragon is on the run everywhere. Whoever you are. whether you call yourself Reason, .Justice, Morrality, Sanity, Patriot ism, Decency, Civilization, hasten to enroll yourself in the great army of freedom so as to be in at the death of the Bl?stant Beast. ROOSEVELT will go down in history as the freak president of the United States. His latest order that army officers ride thirty miles a day for three consecutive days has created consternat ion among them. The order does not include the coast artillery officers, and some newspaper sug gests that t hey he required to stand on their heads in the rain for so many consecutive minutes in order to prove that they are qualified for t he service. COLUMPIA is working for a sub treasury of the United States, and we sincerely hope she will get it. There is no better location in the South for such an institution, and it should be located there. Columbia is one of the coming big cities of the country, and it would he well for the government to recognize that fact in the distribution of its sub-treasuries and other public utilities.- -Orungo burg Times and Democrat. So far this season nieven persons have been killed in the' foot ball games and ninety-eight have been injured, and yet this brutal, deadly sport goes on. A game with so much brutality in it has a tendency to brutalize instead of elevating those vho engage in it. hw warns i hmm Against Going to His Home. j le Win. Delayed Until Daylight <md When l?e Reached, Hohne Find? Death 'Ciao. } When a Society for Psychical Ko search holds ito next meeting it might call before it. Charles Henry Durand, a farmer living al>out three miles from Caldwell, N. J.^ and hear his story of how his life was saved by a strange apparition he ?net in the roadway on Monday nightj Since tho death of his wife Durand has lived r.lone in tho farmhouse. He was on his way homo from / Peterson after dark Monday night, 'when his horse stopped still in the Voad and refused to move. The hoijse trem bled so violently that Durand strain ed his eyes in the darkness^ to learn what the animal had seen. He says he saw a flicker rift bluish light, which.moved toward him until it was beside his wagon, and then %took on a misty shape. litt says he 1 recognized the form and the voice of the apparition. It repeated to him three times the warning, "Do not go home for several hours." } With the cold chills rurtning up and down his spine and tho gooseflesh standing out over the body like a[ man with a chill he tried tojdrive on after the apparition was gor?n. The horse refused to budge. Tr0animal had broken out in a cold s\jvent. Durand says be unhitched the horse and blanketed him. It wjas then about ll o'clock. For two hours he worked with the horse, which seem-1 ed afflicted with the ague) After hitching up again, he drove) slowly to his home. j lt was then nearly 3 o'clock. He put the horse into the barn and went inside the house. The first sight that met his eye was a muddy footprint, Durand found that nothing had been taken, although the house was a bit upset. He found a windowlon the ground floor that had been [ppened in his absence, showing how!(he in truder had entered. The farmer looked into closets and outipf-the way places and then decided; to go upstairs. vVhen he started up'-he saw at once that some one ha* been there. There were footpriutfvton the stairs and in the hall leadinwto his sleeping room. I Lighting his way before Xv | and stepping cautiously, feeling \ that some danger was lurking all? ?ul of him. but determined to face u ht all hazzards and have the drea?jthat possessed over him, Duran*.] ap proached the door of his room: lit was open, as he had left it. When about to enter, Durandjstop ped and looked closely. Across the door at a height half way to I mee, so that his foot or shin mut trike it, was a string, instincti the farmer says, he felt that bing threatened his life. To the man of the woods, 1 to the snaring of birds and anim?? , the. string across the door sugget ^d a spring or a trap. Durand went'i Wn stairs and returned with an nil Vel la. He stood against the wal* ;he hall and with >;he umbreil?-v idle gave the string a pull. Ina fitly there was a report and a bulb. <jni beded itself in the end of the wall. i i Investigation later showed it w^s at 11 about the height of a man's chest. Durand then entered the re*, i and found a revolver fastened to a dress er. The string led from the trigger to the door, lt was ingeniously ar ranged to shoot the person who en tered the room. Durand believes that the person, or persons, who visited his home did so with the intention of killing him, and, not finding him home, arranged the trap. He says he has a suspicion as to their identity and knows the rea son for their enmity that prompted the attempt upon his life. His neigh bors say whatever feud there is must have existed before Durand moved into the neighborhood where he now lives. He believes the apparition in the road saved his life. He says he rec ognized the ligure and the vece, and it was of a nel son now dead of whom he was fond. Further than this he refuses to talk. Durand never has believed in spiritualism. His exper ience has pretty well unnerved him, although he is not the kind of man who is easily unnerved. Christmas Huyors. Christmas is almost here and every body is looking out for presents for the little ones and the old ones too. To these we would say buy early. The merchants have laid in their stocks of Christmas goods and are ready for the trade. It is perfectly evident that those who come early will get the selection from the full Stock i nd will thus have the advantage of later comers. The merchants will also be able to give more time in helping the cus tomers to decide on the appropriate thing and will thus in many instan eos save the purchaser the trouble of deciding on an inappropriate gift. It is less than two weeks now until Christmas and to wait until the last few days will be a mistake which will be recognized too late. In selecting presents the tendency is to have articles which will be of some real use to the recipient. This is a most sensible tendency. One thing to be deplored about the habit of Christmas giving, is the balancing off of gifts in thc matter of val ues, and the seeming obligation rest ing on each one to give gift for gift. Put gifts with the taint of the com mercial spirit are nothing more than barter, and defeat the real purpose of the custom. To those who are going to remem ber their relatives and friends this Christmas, it will be in many ways advantageous to buy early and thus approach the glad season in a tran quil state of mind. Playert With D.Vnaiu?le. ?Near llrkitol, Tenir.,' four persons wore killed and cremated Thursday on the farm of John Duff, whose son, William, was playing with a stick of dynamite. Tho dynamite exploded killing tho boy and Mvh. Nathaniel Hams and .Mrs. KHJah Moody nod her child. Tho house caught bro and cremated Hie bodies} FULLY ARGUED. Some Legal Points Submitted to the Supreme Court For It? Decision lu .Ko-f even co to tho Formation of Now Counties lu Tills Htnto, The case of A. D. Parler, et al., Petitionen}, vs. W. Brooke Fogle, et al comnilsslonot'B of election for Or nngoburg County, respondents, WOB argued hefore the Stato Supreme Court at Columbia on Thursday on a petition for an injunction restraining the commissioners from holding ou election os the formation of Cal houn County, as ordered by the Gov ernor. Messrs. W. C. Wolfe, D. O. Her bort and B. II. Moss, of the Orange burg Bar, appeared for the potttios ers, and the board of election com missioners More represented by the Attorney General, who. had designa ted Messrs Bellinger .& Weloh to re present him in the case, as Messrs. Bellinger and WelBh have been tho legal advisers for th? new county advocates. In ht? argument for the injunc tion, Mr. W. C. Wolfe took the posi tion that tho form, practice and pro coduro in this case follows the case of Segars against Perrott, which form, practice and procedure re ceived the implied sanction of thc Court by a grant of the relief desir ed In that caso. A demurrer was In terposed in that case, questioning tho jurisdiction of tho Court in every particular in which Jurisdiction might mo assailed in this case, but tho demurrer was overruled. In Lamar against Croft another now county case, where the same question of jurisdiction arose, tho Supreme Court beld that the com plaint did not state facts warranting equitable rolief and that an action might bo maintained In oqulty to on joln tho commissioners. Mr. Wolfe cited also tho case of Croxton vs. Truesdell, in which the Supreme Court enjoined un election to de termine the location* and establish ment of a county dispensary. Mr. Wolfe nsked the Court to Inspect the reports of tho surveyors and de termine whether the surveys were sufficiently definite; also to consider whether the Governor had the right to permit the petitioners to amend their petition. Then tho third cause of action in substance stated as follows: "The plaintiffs and others residing within the proposed new county ari registered in their township, but al voting pinces without tho territory of the proposed county; but undei an Act of tho Legislature the do fondants have only arranged to opec voting plne.es within the territory which deprives petitioners of thc right to exercise their franchise ir tho proposed election, though thc plaintiffs are qualiled, registered electors. Tho Constitution provides that all persons thus qualified have tho right to voto, and Article 7 ox pressly declares that if they reside \vith,fn the area .of tho new count) thoy'will havo tho-right to vote, ye.? or no, upon their proposition. Tc deprive thom of this right would bc to abridge and deprive them of right: without due process *>f law und li violation of both tho State and Ked ernl Constitutions, where, as In th ll case, a polling precinct (township) is cut by the proposed boundary linc of tho new county and the vottnf place ctit without, and the electoi cut within the area of th^ propos?e county, there is an Irreconcilable con lliet between tho Constitution nm the Act of the General Assembly. Ir such cases tho Act of the Legisla turo must necessarily fall, and all ol the Acts of tho defendants thereun dor uro necessarily void. If thc Court does not enjoin tho defendant! the plaintiffs will be deprived fron voting and will have no other remed> or right of appeal, but would thm sustain irremediable damage and in jury." The fourth cause of notion, said Mr. Wolfe, challenges the legalit} of the entire registration system, but ho dwelt on only one point. Thc Constitution lays upon the Legisla ture tho regulation of tho right ol registration, and the Legislature in 1 007 passed an Act. requiring super visors of registration to open their books in each town or Industrial community containing 3 00 or moro inhabitants nt least 30 days before any general or special election. This Act has been compiled with. Itt conclusion, Mr. Wolfe said: "The plaintiffs do not ask that tin? election upon tho formai ion of this now county bo delayed for all limo, but simply that it be stayed until ?ill tho constitutional requirements in such cases bo complied with.*' In his argument Mr. Moss devot ed himself to tho conulo.t between Section 573 of the Code and Sectio? 1 of Article 7 of the Constitution, and quoted numerous decisions to show that tho statute In such case ir void and the election should bo re strained. Col. Herbert also made n general argument on this Hue. In their return to the rule to show cause, tho defendants, through their attorneys, made a number of points, some of which aro as follows: That the Governor is the solo judge of the matters coining bofo.e him In now county petitions, and that ho has pnssed on these malters Thnt the Governoi ?norely allowed tho amendment of tho petition for ?ho purpose of making the boun daries moro definite. They deny that the Constitution says all quali fied electors In tho proposed new county shall volo, but ll says the question shall he submitted to tho qualified electors, and that a lwo lli i rds vote of those voting is neces sary to form tho new county. That the defendants have merely followed tho order of tho Governor and the laws of the State, and they have not told tho managers of election, win are qualified electors and who arr not, but have mei ely given the man agers I heir views in accordance with tho opinion of the Attorney General. Thai while lt ls alleged, a numhet [>f electors In the proposed comly will bo deprived of voting, lt J? hot [ifl?get! that If permitted to vote they will cast their ballots against thc formation of tho now county, or thai their lining unable to voto will af Feet tho result. By a way of defence lt ls alleged In the rot urn that tho plaintiffs have failed to show any oquPy that ont I ?le.s I hem lo relief; that thc action. AS IT SHOULD BE. Statue of Gen. R. E. Lee at Na tloriHi Ciipi?ui. It WUl Be Placed Ju Statuary Hall . At an Early Dato by the* State of Virginia. A Washington dispatch to tho Atlanta Journal eaya tho statue of Gen. Robert B. Lee, which Virginia ie to send to Statuary Hall, with that of Qeorge WoHhlngton to represent her in tho gallery of tho immortals, will soon be In position. Tho sculp tor, Edwarl V. Valentino, of Rich mond, who enjoyed tho personal friendship of Qenorul Leo, has about completed his work ond. the bronzo will soon be caBt by tho Gorhnms, of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Valentine made several casts of Gen. Leo's features just a year of two boforo his death, and thoso who have been per mitted to seo the sculptor's latest work say he has succeeded in repro ducing a remarkable llkoness of the groat soldier. It ia said to equal his masterpiece, tho recumbent figuro of General Leo, at Washington and Lee University, over the crypt in which rest tho ashes of the Confederate chioftain. When the Virginia legislature passed tho bills some years age making appropri?t iona for the stat ues of Washington and Leo, there was considerable opposition mani fested by ono or two sonators at hav ing General Lee represented in bronzo in tho national Valnnlla. AB a reply to tho Virginia proposition. Representativo Weeks, of Kansas, in troduced a bill, providing for the oroetion of ft statue of John Drown on tho government reservation al Richmond. Ho ls said also in tending offoring a bill for the erec tion of a statue of Drown In Statuary Hall. Some ono suggested that lt would be appropriate for Virginia to retaliate by placing tho statue of General Leo, tho man who caught Drown at Harper's Ferry, on the one side, und that of Governor Henry A Wiso, of Virginia, who hanged him. on tho other. Mr. Weeks thereupon withdrew his hill for Brown's statue In Statuary hall, but Insisted on ids measure to place it at Richmond. The measure has not since been ' heard of, and Weeks was not return ed to Congress by his Kansas con 1 stituonts. ; Since the Weeks incident there has been littlo discussion of placing Leo's stature in the national capitol, and it is not believed that there will he any opposition to the statue hav 1 lng a placo in Statuary hall. Presl ' dent Roosevelt's admiration of Gen. ; Lee as a soldier and a man, and his 1 frank eprosslon of his opinion has ' had a great deal to do with tho pass ing of tho sentiment against the ' statuo of the Confederate leader hav ing a placo In tho capital. Tho statue represents Gen. Lee standing, his hat and gloves in one [ hand, with both hands resting light ' ly on the hilt "evania "sword: Tin ' sword is a copy of the one worn by ' Mio genoral, now in thc posession ot his son, Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr. The 1 figure is clothed In the uniform of a " reneral officer Of the Confederate army. '. While no date has been fixed, it is I now proposed that tho presentnlion ' of the statue bo made by Senator j Jown W. Daniel, of Virginia, who was Gen. "Jubal" Early's adjutant " general, and that the speech of ac ceptance bo delivered by Gen. War 1 ron Keifer, of Ohio, a veteran of the I Union army. Charles Francis Adams predicted a few years URO that tho timo would ; ".onie when a statue of Gen. Lt-*1 would he unveiled in the capitol of ? the United States. It ls not unllke [ ly that the prophesy of Mr. Adams sufiKostod the introduction of the hill In the Virginia Legislature. Virginia will soon send to 'ho cap itol ft reproduction of the celebrated Houdon statue of Washington, which. MOW stands In the state capitol at Richmond. There is now in Statu ary Hall a cheap plaster cast of this statue, placed there hy the fedora) government, lt has recently boen shoved to the wall, and the statue of Frances E. Willard, the founder if the Christian Temperance Union, placed in front of it. Tho way in which the Father of His Country now loops out from behind the petticoats has caused much comment. ACCORDING to Walsh's directory of Columbia, which has just been is sued, that city now has a population jf 44,151 being an increase in the l?.it seven years of 16.G51. This is a remarkable showing, but does not surprise us, as we have long since re garded Columbia as a comer. Before locating that sub-treasury anywhere else the governmcntshould study the Columbia figures.-Orangeburg Times and Democrat. TDK United States Supreme Court has decided that the railroad com missioners of South Carolina must not stop the through trains of the Atlantic Coast Lino at Latta, S. C., or the accomodation of local pas sengers. It ht ld that an rn-der of the commission to this elfect interfered with interstate commerce. if brought at all, should be main tained In the name of the Stale; that the Court ls without jurisdiction to enjoin an election ordered hy the tower and authority; that tho plain* Iff s have an appeal lo the State board of canvassers if the election when hold Is not held In accordance with law. In his argument, Mr. Welch, for tho Attornoy General, cited decisions to sustain the points made in ibo re turn, and made n careful argument on this ?ino. TUNOS AND ORGANS FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS and roprcsont only tho host Pianos and Organs, that will last a life time Wrlto nt once for our liberal ternn and Special prices. MAI.ONF'M \frsro HOUSE. Columbia, S. tl. WI Mi m SHOT, Fo* Aiding in t? Kevolt Against BrOxllUatt State. Ilspntoh from New York soys. lt han boon de?lultoly learned that lu addition to George Vice, of'Now Jer soy, Sam uol Parker, twenty-two year? old, of Now York, ia among tho filibusters recently arrested and sentenced to bo shot at Minas Gereas, Brazil. Whon young Parker loft Now York ho told his mother that he was go? lng to Brazil with a mining party and had obtained a good position. Tiie State Department has been appealed to and it is said the de partment has promised to do all In Its power to save tho lives of the young Americans who were fool-] hardy onough to attempt to capture j a Brazilian State with a force of only a few hundred men under the leadership of a man who is said to be a famous Mexican revolutionist. A Broad Hint From .Japan. Not only did the Japaneae ?ambas sador at Washington, Viscount Aoki, oot extend to Admiral Evans an in vitation to take his battleship fleet to Japan for a visit of ceremonious friendship, but ho conveyed an un mistakeable intimation to the Amer ican naval commander, at the dinntr he gave in Admiral Evans' honor, of the Japanese wish that the licet should not linger on the Pacific coast. To a representative of The New York Herald, Ambassador Aoki denied em ohatically that he had extended an invitation to Admiral Evans to visit Japan with his fleet, and he gave the exact text of his toast to the admir al, writing it out for the reporter in >rder that there might be no error in quoting it, His words were: "I propose to drink a toast to the health of Admiral Evans and in particular I wish you a pleasant journey and ? speedy return." The Charleston Post says "it ii rather remarkable that the signifi canee of this utterance has passet without comment. It is as plain ai inything can bc that the Japanese ambassador intended to convey th< lint that it would be more agreeabh to his country to see the battleshi] fleet on the Atlantic than on the Pa cific coast of the United States. Dip ?omatic utterances are always made with a purpose, and it is unmistak able that the Japanese ambassadoi intended to make known his govern mont's objection to the transfer o] thc tleet to Pacific waters, indect it is clear now that hisentertainmen of Admiral Evans was made to giv< opportunity for such a hint in as del ?cate a manner as it could be given The intimation was beautifully anti gracefully made, but its force is none thc less for that. "The popular and tlyi official minc is so engrossed with the financial dis turbance that the utterance of thc Japanese ambassador has not made the impression it would have made three months ago, but the signifi canee has hardly been lost on thc keen observers of the diplomatic world, and it has doubtless been ful ly considered at the State Depart mont. The ostentatious expression of a wish for Admiral Evans "speedy" return from his naval ex cursion is the direct expression ol Japan's protest against the move ment. The propriety of such an ex pression might well be questioned but it will doubtless be allowed tc pass without official notice by thc Washington government." There is something wrong with thc bride who desn't select a homllei girl (lian herself for her bridesmaid. \ TI1E ON In Columbia, South Carolina, ma thing In the Machinery Supply J Write us for prices bofore pl { COLUMBIA SUPPLY On corner opposite Seaboard ? LOOK FOR TH I? means that we are nuinufnctui' and sales agents for complete I Plauts, in steam or gnsoliue, S my und Portable Boilers, S?1 Pktgers Planers, Shingle, La and Cori? Mills und tiny tin chinery. Our stock is prices are right and oui ar.teed. . Write for GIBBINS .MACHIMOBY COMPANY .Succtasie.il. I have, Iud acvoral y< ntl other kinds of vegeta plants, Collard plant?, am' I now have ready for follow*! Early Jerssy W and Henderson Successlo eties to all experienced i the open air near salt w Prices: $1.00 Cor 60* pli sand, 5,000 to 9,400 at $1 thousand. We have spec this point. All orders wi money with orders. I w will save the chargea for rc Other plants wilt bs \ I prompt and personal atten . trial ord?r? i gu?rante? D. ?J. DONALDSON, BE PLANTS FOI Wakefield and Succession luce, end largo type Cauli'.ov bat grower! in thc world. W< slot k for iO years, und il 's s.rfc to i tuiuuhlt-. They have success'-ill y ste; drouth and arc relied on hy thc most pr* South. Wc gu?rante* full count ?nd site PRICES) Carthage and lettuce f. o. h. Yoi per thousand! 5 to 9,00ft at lt.?5 per thous Cauliflower, $3.00 per thousand, quantities ii Write your name and express W. a. UAH I , RN References: Enterprise Bank, Chariest ?Hil i Iii i.mm?immMmmimmmm?ammxwwm TO TEACH LOVE IN TO Tourac, ju High Behool. Parents of tho high a?hOO] at dents at Greenfield, III., an- t(xro enlng to force tho resignation of-Prof H. 0. Hussell, superintendent of tho school, because he has introduced u course In "love-making." Prof. Rus sell and his wife, who ls Iiis RBg!siaat say they will stick to their colors ?and soo tho experiment through at ?any cost. A mixed organization of 23 pu pils, IO of whom nie ?.;irls, consti tute tho first class to re?oive formal Instruction In the new branch. Prof. Russell has given them three lec tures and they have written ono sot Of eesays on themes allied to the study of tho literature of lovo. 'The Courtship of Miles Standish,' is to bo taken up with a special view to the losson to be loamed from John Alden's exporlonco. A John Alden Club has beon formed in this class. "Romeo and Juliet" and stan dard works of Action will bo Include 3d In tho course. The pupils will be expected to draw from their reading specific In struction on the following Interest ing polntB. How to toko a heart by storm ol by seige. How to dotect the advent of the grand passion. How to behave If parental objec* . tion ls manifested. How to pay a complimont. How to encourage a bashful sui tor or corner an elusivo girl. How to allay unfounded Jealousy. How to propose murriage. How to ask father. The ettlquotto of the engagement ring. Deportment during engagement, A girl is expected to learn how to promise to "bo a sister" to him. The boys will pick up incjidontal points on how to eludo persistent yoting women with mistaken ideas about affinities. I .DIVORCE BREAKFAST" Is the Latest Thing in tho Real of Society. Tho "wedding breakfast" is com mon onough. but a "divorce break fast" is the newest thing in these days of novelty. Recently at. St. Louis Mr. Teny Ryon obtained from Judge Moyers, in the City Court, a divorce from her husband, Marion Ryan, und at the same time hor sis ter, Mrs. Mitaanda Hatfield, got a divorce from her hueband, Charles Hatfield. As soon ns the two decrees had been granted tho happy divorces took their mother, who had been their principal witness, and celebrat ed with a divorce breakfast at a fashionable restaurant. If a woman hasn't anything else to do with her husband's money sha buys h lot of useless things because they aro cheap. Uow to Cure Hheuuu The cause of Rheumatism and kin dred diseases is un excess of uric acid in tho blood. To cure this terri ble disease the acid must bo oxpellod and the System so regulated that no roi . Kt ". . Ill bi sive quantities. Rheumatism1 is an luternal dlseaso and requires au in tern*! remedy. Rubbing with oils and liniments will not euro, affords only temporary relief at best( causes you to delay the proper treatment, and al lows the malady to get a firmer hold on you. Liniments may ease the pain, but they will no more euro Rheuma tism than paint will chaugo tho flbro of rotten wood. Science has at last discovered .a perfect and complete cure, which ia called Rheumaclde. Tested in hun dreds of cases, it has effected the most marvelous cures; we hellovo lt will euro you. Rheumacido "gets at I the Joints from the Inside," sweeps the poisonB ont of tho systom, tones up the stomach, regulates the liver and I'.idneys and makes yeti well all 'over. Fihenmaeide "strikes the root, of the disease and removes Its causo/' This splendid remedy is sold hy drug gists and dealers generally at G Oe. and $1 o bottle. In tablet form at 25c. and li Oe. a package. Get a hottle today; delny? are generous. adv LY HOI HM king a tpeclalty of hnudliug Line. lacing order elsewhere. CO., Columbia, 8. C. kif Line Passenger Station .very ETR?DEMARK ors *ovrer tallon kV Mills, th, Slave lng lu Ma* large, our c goods gunr Free Catalog. Rox 80, Columbia, S. PLAITS FOR M tl 'ors experience in growing Cnbbage plants ?nd ble plants (or tbo trade, vit: Sect planta, Onion I Tomato plants. shipment Beet poufs ?nd Cabbage plants as akeflelds, Charlton l.nrgo Type Wakefields, rt?. These being lite best known reliable vari? mick farmers. These plants are grown out In ?ter ind will stand severe cold without injury, mts. In lot? of I,?8? to 5.4C0 at M M) per thou* ;.J5 ?Kr thousand, 10.M0 and over at H.CO per ial tow Expr?ss Mt*? on ?.egetablo plants from II he ahipped C. .O. D. unless you prefer sending ould advise ?ending money with Orders. You fuming the C. O. D's. ready la February. Your orders will have n?v Son. When In seed of Vegetable planta give me ?satisf?celos). Address all orders to .MKCGETT. S. C ( lilli,., Iii'.r rioston l-et /ct. Crown Iront seka's of the r have worked diligently fyi miff say that to-day (hey are ?lii .. o' iod th.' tiiost soverc tests of coij .uni ?minni' growers of every Section of tho arriva! of ?ll goods shipped by express, mg*, nisnd, SOO for $1.00; I to 5.00ftst tl.Sft and; 10,000 ?nd over at $1.00 per thousand, ti proportion. Office plainly ?nd mail orders to ITF.RPKISE. S. G. on, S. C.; r*o*tfS*iiW, Enterprise, ?, C. ?C9*MSsMMS|sSssa>jS^^