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PARKER REPLIES. Says Blease Admitted Knowledge of the Lanahan Matter IN A TALK WITH HIM At Wright's ITotol in June, 1900, ami in Justice to All Parties Con cerned Calls on Please to Name tho "High State Official" Who Itcp resentetl the Lanallan Pinn lleforo tho Stale Hoard. To the Editor of the Nows and Courter: Flense pardon a few words in answer lo Senator Colo L. Blease in hts recent remarks In the State Sonnte with reference to my testi mony before tho winding-up commis sion. Tho absurdity of the charge of conspiracy as made by Mr. l?tense must bo apparent, but there may bc; sumo conditions not. understood by all. Neither Capt. Smyth nor my self was a supporter of Governor Ansel in thc recent campaign. Por myself, though I had the highest per sonal regard for him. I differed with him on tho issues of tho campaign and voted for another. 1 have never bad a communication with him or any one else referred to by Mr. Iliense with rOforonce to my .testimony, except with Mr. Avery Patton, lo whom, after having been I subpoenaed a.. a witness before (be windlng-up commission I wrote on December 30, urging him "not again to pul nu- to ibo humiliation of ap pearing in a inat'er about which I know practically nothing." To this letter I ImvO liad a reply and had not seen Mr. Dation until l appeared before the commission a few days si nco. Mr. niease asks tin? question why I waited until alter Mr. Lunation's denth to answer the question as to who Mr. La?aban bad told me was representing bim in South Carolina. ( agroo with him that it wan unfor tunate that the answer had to bo made subsequent to Mr. Lnnahan's death, but I had no choice in the matter. No ono knows belter than Mr. Please why the question was not an RWOr^a two von ru otro o fr * 1. f> * * n r\Q members of tho investigating com mittee. Having boen excused by the investigating commit too from answer lng tho question then, it cortninl.t would have been Improper and incon sistent for mo subsequently to have rushed Into print to make public, statements which 1 hail asked tho legislative committee lu excuse nie from making before them. Having boen excused then from disclosing tho personage referred to by Mr. Lanallan, 1 was liol called upon to note any (lou hil by him that Mr. titease was the person referred to. lt will be j.,1, however, that Mr. Da?aban never denied any part of tho conversations referred to by mo in my testimony. Ile merely denied thal he had told nie that Mr. Dlease represented bim. which at that time f had not I esl Hied to In-fore the com mittee, because, as stated, I had been excused. Mr. niease certainly surprises mo, however, in hi;; statement to tin- ef fect that ho had no idea that I re ferred to him in my statements be fore the investigating committee. Whon 1 testified in .lune, 1906, Mr. La?aban had been advised of my having been subpoenaed and of thc necessity of my testifying to my con versation willi bim if the Court de CroOd thal I should do so; further more lin- attorneys represent ino Mr. H. ll. l?vans had been advised be foi'O I testified of Ile- purport of my testimony. As the Intimacy between Mr. Dlease and Mr. Kvans was well known, I had presumed thal it had Leen com munlcated lo Mr. Dlease what my ? testimony would be. x This precaution was 'continned iii my own mind by statements of Mr. moase to me. On the evening of my testimony, whilst Mr. Ilaynsworth and I were supping together al VVfi?ht'8 Hotel, Mr. Dlease, who had been laking slipper at a table some distance away, stopped at our table a nionienl, and after expressing his approval,.Of IhO position I bad talo n with reference to testifying said ht effect that lie was fufi?tltur with all the facts with regard lo tho employ ment ?d' the party i ? feri'Od lp by me by Mr. La?aban; that ho had Ito ll pol ig log to make to anyone for vol ing lo excuse nie from giving tho name, bul that ill jUfdic.0 to tho party referred to he wanted to say that thal parly had not tilldcrsood fully (he servil e OX peet I ?1 of ll in w hen he accented th.nploymcnl. and when he did barn what was expected ho (lOCliUOd to serve fill Ihr, and re ceived less than two hundred dollars for his compensai lon, I understood the statement of Mr. Dlease to be 0 diplomatic acknowl edgement, of his connection with tho matter, and, as, expressed In legal terms, "a plea of confession and avoidance." Mr. Hlease now denies that ho had any connection with Mr. Lanahan. I may add that I am advised hy Mr. Wm. Elliott of Columbia, who wa? my attorney in tho proceedings before tho Supremo Court, that Mr. Hlease made to him practically the same statement as made above. In justice to Mr. Mease himself, and In Justice to tho memory of Mr. Lanallan, Mr. Moase is now, it Beoms to mo, called upon to say who was tho "high Stato official," whom Mr. La?aban had employed, as ho has acknowledged full acquaintanceship In tho matter. Whilst I cannot con ceive that I have been mistaken as to statements made to mo by Mr. Lana ham, still If there bo error In what Mr. Lanallan stated to mo, Mr. Mouse can clear it and should do so. Respectfully, Lewis A. Parker. Greenville, S. C. February 17. 1908. AFTKH THIS KXPKKSS COMPANY Kaib-oad Commission Says lt Must Publish Ita l?ales. The Railroad Commission has adopted an order relating to express rates which is very Important.. Hills In lille with this order have from timo to time berni presented In the General Assembly and th oro have boon some complaint in regard to tho policy of tho express companies in regard to tin* mat tors treated in the order, which ls as follows: Columbia, S. C., Fob. I 2. I 908. To tho Southern Bxpress Company. lt ls hereby ordered: 1st. That oil or by March 16, 190S, tho Southern FxprcsS company III o with thia commission, print and keep po Cod, and keep mien to public in inspectioii, at each of their olllccs or agencies in this Stato, schedules Showing all rates and charges for tho transportation or carrying of any freight; and said schedules shall contain classification of all freights. Said schedule ol' rates, eharr.es and classifications lo bo open to public inspection at any time during office hours. 2d. That no rale, or (bango of classification of any article, be made until 30 days' notice bo posted at all offices or agencies and not until this commission has hail ;5o days' notice and its consent given to tho proposed the proposed rate or change in class ification. 3d. On or by March 15, 1 908, tho Southern Express company shall pasto consploiously on each package received by lt for shipment collect, a a lahci as herein set out: Amt. Weight. Dale. 5th. On each of these labels shall be written in ink. o?* indelible pencil, by the forwarding ellice, amount col lect Or tO liO collected, tllO Weight Of tho' package and the date received for shipment. ll, L Cnugliman, Chai lina li, .lohn II, Marlo, .1. M. Sullivan, Commissioners. ruo .MOID: .IPDGFH To Pill the .New Circuits Created Tills Session. Messrs. J. W, lieVore, of ridge field, and s. w. G. Shipp. of Flor ence, were Thursday afternoon elect ed judges of tho two now circuit.-, created by this legislature. Mr. J. \V. DeVore was chosen judge of the eleventh circuit, con Histing of Lexington. Saluda and Kdgoliehl. Ho was opposed hy Mr. C. M Klii il Mr. DeVore represents ridgefield in tho house, and his opponent, Mr. Kflrd, ls supreme court reporter. Mr, DeVore defeated Mr. Slird lo a vole Of ?S9 to 7<?. Mr. S NV G. Shipp, of Florence, defeated Mr. VY. Y. Montgomery, ol Marion, hy a vote of a2 to 60, The twelfth ein nit consists of the coan lies ot Florence, Dorry. Georgetown and Marion. The new judges will begin tho dis charge of their duties with the be gining of the spring terms of court in May. * HP KIO I > Y .11 STICK. Quick Work in Die Tl'lnl of a Con fessed Fiend. Committed assault Thursday, ar rested ?iud jailed Friday, indicted the follow mg Monday. D ied, coiivlotod ami sentenced lb bo hanged Tuesday, ls (he record established by tho Tragowel I, Va., Circuit Couid In tho caso of tho Com mon weal i li against Waller Ulppoy, tho conversed negro rapist. Rlppey was Died l'or assailli on Mrs. Mary I lenroy. Mr... Dancey I est I Hod and in tho course nf hef ?dory was several limes overcome, and (he ( oort had lo wait until sie regained her Composure before pro ceeding. The recital was one of the miel harrowing hi the annals of crime in that section. The jury was out a short lime and when the vor dlcl was rel ni ned flippoy was sen tenced to hang on March 2f>. LAHMER DEAD. The Senator Dies Thursday Morn ing After a Short Illness. SHOCK TO STATE. Tho Seuiitor Was Operated On For Appendicitis at a Washington Hos pital on Sunday.-At Fina, Ho (Jot AJong All Hight, Hut Peritonitis Followed and Ho Soon Passed Away. Senator Asbury C. Lat! in er ?lied at Providence Hospital al Washington on Thursday morning after a few days illness. Ho was taken sick on Sunday night and was taken to thc hospital at once, where he was oper ated on for appendicitis. Ho got ion very well until Tuesday, when j complications set In, and the Senator i grew rapidly worse until Thursday morning, when he passed away at niuo o'clock.. Mrs. lattimer and two (laughtors were present when the cud came. Senator Lntiiner was about, fifty seven years old. He has benn in the Sesale nearly six years. liefere going to the Senate, he served len years in tho House a;- a Representa tive. Ile was a candidate lo succeed himself and would have been voted for In thc primary this Sumner. His remains vere bronchi from .Washington Thursday night in chtirgi of a committee of Senators and Re jresental ives On a special train and I Interred al Helton, at which place ho lived. Senator l.atimer was a high toned up-right gentleman. Ile bad been for years a member 6f tho Meth odist Church. He leaves a wife and several children. Among the prospective candidates developed for the unexpired term to be filled by the Lg i sta tu re, are IO Marion Racker of Anderson, K\ Speuker of the House Karak U. Cary of Abbeville, Senator LoCiand Wat kor of Georgetown. COOLISH YOUNG MAN*. Cots in Serious Trouble For Raising a Money Order. A foolish young man by the name Kingsmere. Deputy United ?States I Marshall A. Fisher, of this ?itv wen: j for Warren and returned willi him to this city on Tuesday. The foolish young man admits the charge and the only ox CU sc offered was thal he did hoi know wllj he did lt, The facts in the case aie as fol lows: Oil November :'. 1 il07. Mrs A, IO. Ilevei'ly, Warcn's aunt, purchas ed tl money order at the Hamborg post?nico for $1.81 in favor ol a Chicago mail order ho USO. Tho mon ey order and order for gonds were given to Warren to mail, bill before doing so he changed the Order lo $1).8I Olid added several articles for bis own use. When thc package arrived at tho express office it was delivered to War ren, w b<? removed t he art ides which lie desired for bis own u/- and car ried tbe balance to his aunt, w ho was porefctly ignorant of Ibo Irregular part ol tho transnotion. The matter was reported to the pdsloffiCC author ities by the Chicago house and tho Inspector was not long in locating t he guilty party. Warren was taken before Robert bide, Esq., United Staets Commis sioner, who hound him over Iii the Slim of three hundred dollars for bis appearance nt tho United states Court Warren is a yoting white man about twenty-two years of ago. Orangeburg Times and Democrat DRANK DISPENSARY ODY. [Georgians Closed North Augusta Shop for a While. The troubles of tho North Augus ta dispensary continue to exist. The people of the little South Cat ol lau town have tried to ?lose the liquor shop and failed Oil several occasions; bul the people of AUgtlsta have been more successful. The lillie shop WtiS (dosed, the third lime since ip opening during tho early aftornoon, because the stock had again been ex h,ne,ted. And the dispensary trade In or from Augusta is Increasing ev cry v. FULLED HIMSLI.I I toca use His Sweet houri Refused to Smile on Him. "Smile just once at nu, dear.' pleaded .lohn Tripp, aced :'n years, of his sweetheart. Mrs. listel' ['otlock Davis, ri grass w idow, li I years oi l al the latter's home al Indianapolis. Ind., on Wednesday night Failing lo get the desired smile, Tl'lpj bred two shots into hts i?ody und fell, mortally wounded, at her feet. Tripp was a railroad man, recently from La Fayette, Ind. * WENT PKOM THIS STATE. Mon Who Klled Another in Misninslp pi is From Spnrtunburg. J. F. Wilder, who shot and killed W. L. Uooth of Dallas, Texas, at lOpps, Mississippi, last Saturday af ternoon, is a native of Spurtuuhurg county. He has a brother living in Spartanburg and has many relatives in the county. Twenty years ago Wilder was running a saw mill en glno at Woodruff at GO cents a day. Ho left hore 15 years ago for Mis sissippi, whore ho operated a saw mill on his own account. He made money fast and is now worth about (?ne million. Another Supremo Court Needed. The Dorchester Eagle says: "There is complaint now that the county is put to unneccesary ex pense to care for one J. M. Walker, who has boen confined in the county jail for more than a vear. The case was tried nearly a year ago and Walker was sentenced to 15 years in thc state penitentiary, hut has remained in jail here pending a decision from the Supreme court. The county is paying $9 per month hoard for Walker and the hoard is getting tired of it. An investiga tion into tin; matter has hoon order by the supervisor." The Legisla ture has just established two more circuits to relieve the congestion of cases that accumulates in the cir cuit courts, and may ho at tho next session it caa be induced to establish another supremo court lo work (?IV the congestion of cases that Has ac cumulated on the hands of tho old one. An Object Lesson. In the hold of one hike steamer, 1 21 ,001) bushels of w heat were carried recently from Superior to Buffalo. Think of the pretty baking and loaves of bread involved in that sin gle boatload of grain, lt weighed about 25,260,000 pounds and will mill into 18,945,000 pounds of Hour, con vertible into more than 20.000.000 pound loaves of bread-three loaves a day for each man in Admiral Evan's fleet during the whole cruise of a year and a half. Assuming that ty tons capacity were hauled to Su perior to make that one cargo. Here we have an object lesson of the val* ue to farmers of water transporta tion and what the canaling of Our waterways will mean. Morgan and l^orkefollor. rho "interests" that inspired the Aldrich Currency bill will hardly Know it when the Senate gets through with it. ''Whatever the min?r eccentricities of ?t's varigated texture" remarks the New York Journal of Commerce, "one vicious pattern will run all through it. lt will provide foran emergency addi tion to tho regular volume of cur rency, secured b> a deposit pl mis cellaneous bonds and heavily taxed. This will bc a mere exaggeration of the radical defect of tho existing s\ em, gathering the corrupt hum or, with which it is infected into a m 'Hml excrescence." This severe criticism from the loading business ami financial newspaper of the country, should cause a Republican Congress to pause before it. further complicates our cumbersome finan cial structure by makeshifts. (out lolled hy ibo Few. Senator La Follette says that sev enty six men, holding 1000 director ships in the great business enncerns of the country, cont roi thc business of the nation and that the railroads are controlled by eight men. Ko wonder the last Republican National Convention rofUsod Senator I.a Fol lette a seat tn that convention, and that there is an evident conspiracy to keep him out of tho coming con vention. Tim Republican machine does not allow such home thrusts to bo made by I hose labeled Repubib cans._ I'"ou M KU Secretary ol'the Treasury Shaw is running about tho country like ti politician out (d'ti job, bul anxious to get one. TllIC Ohio Republicans are SO bit ter against each other that they, are appealing to the Courts to decide which owns tho "machine." Tun Ann d'son Mail thinks that Southern states that ? end Eorakcr delegates lo the Chicago convention should require them to h ave their razors at Inme. Nota bad idea. SUICIDE 3IMIISTIC8. Chlldloos Marriages a Causo-Rai? Higri /Moony ?aufmailio Nal.ons. Among l,U?w,uno suicides of all classes, it lias beim found that i??o mai riod men witli ch bu i on destroyoo their Uves; 470 married men without children; o.o wiuu?ti? wan and i,<.v> wiuowoiB without children, With respect to tho women, 45 mar rlod womon with and lbs without children coiuuiiltod suicide, while 104 widows with, mid without 01? spring, completed thc list. On tho race of things, says the Il lustrated London New?, it would ap pear that in childless marriages the number of mea suicides is douoled and in women trebled. Leaving flu case of actually insane persons out ot count, it would also appear that in males suicide is inore frequent titan in females. Equally interesting is that phase ot tho subject which denis wita the causes. One table dealing with 6.T51' cases snows one-seventh etiussd hy misery, one Iwonty-lirsl part by loss of fortune, one forty-third by gamb ling, one nineteenth by love uffaira One-nitlth hy domestic troubles, one sixty-sixth hy fanaticism, und bj foiled ambition and r?moise one-sev enth and one twentysoventh respect ively. The geography of suicide is also ol high interest. We t. ott Kays thc highest proportion in Europe ls shown by the Germanic raees, Six on y having "the largest suicide rr i of any country.'* In Norwn> the rate was very large for a lime. Its de crease bein;; atiiibu'id to the grcatei restrictions now laid on the liquor tra die. Tho Gellie rai cs juive a lo\V rule, und (his is evinced hy the ligures un Ireland and Wales. Mountainous re gions are said to show II lower rate than lowlands. In thc highlands of Scotland and Wah s. and ia tho high areas of Switzerland, suicide ls rare. 'Innes ami seasons abo operate, ap parent ly io Iniltience thc act o'" seit destruction Roughly Spca klug, lite curve line of suicide calculated through thc yeai. rises, from January lo .Inly, ami decreases for Hie omi half of the year, I bo maximum periods have Peen found io fall in May. .lune and .Inly. I believe in deed .lune is found to show a marked predominance ns a suicide month. One reason l.or such preeminence in tho warm season of i lie year is sci down as represented I? tue onset of hot weather affecting the system and tending lo disturb thc mental equil ibrium Tf ' ' .i iiiut-tciM menus of committing suicide from othei lands. Tin. most common European methods is liv means of naming, hut in Italy this mode of self-destruction is rare Drowning conn s next in order, and twice ns many wolli eil tis men perish in this way eiich var hi Kuropi Shooting is frcrjueui in linty and ii Switzerland, cm I h ron I is eommoii tb England and Ireland: il doe- mu seem to const it ute anywhere else a fro quent mode ,,f eliding life. Poisoning is a specially \ Mt-'. -> Saxon un thud of sui. ide, ive are fi ld While Sllffot'lltiOn lo 11|0 'lilies of car boulc acid gas, inhaled in a elos e room, is very I y tilca I of silicide in Prance. SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS. They Rim East and West Instead ol North and South. Although io thc Xor; h American exponents ol' thal prOjo-l there has seemed a discouraging luck of inter est in the l'an-A meru an Railroad HUM, there has r< ally h.en no ce.-su tton of the activity of I he kilter in pushing development in their more immediate sphoros . |.et us build tin- lines the country needs." they say. "and don't a l? us to go out of our way to lui Iber a nchctito which, however practicable from an engineering point of view would not pay us dividends in ibis century, and poss i bl > not in the next. "We concede thal we llilglll benefit indirectly through tho Increased sta bility of government thai would nd low the building of an Intercontinen tal linc, tait that benefit is mo remote to Interest us at a time when \Vo have amide opportunity for expending ?ill our UVltHobie funds in . 1 . con strue! ion of lines thai wi' I re turns from tho day i'm v .< pened." So ii happens thai " 'lu'rh has never boen so niue' |'j in run way const ruct Inn ,Hi A tuertea Us ni the pr "incut, almost without exe : ?ie now Hms aro followim: : alie's rather (hitit (Ito lio - running east and wei t rall-.'' i north and south. Re view views :-. 1 [tintern I'm going to India to nit six months. Miss Catchern And I suppose un 111 forget all about poor mo. Mr. llUlllom My ib-ar. it will lake a terrible berco elephant to lnaKe mo forget you. You can't matte a hagging woman believe that she hasn't the sweetest disposition In tho neighborhood. NEW YORiV. HIOTORY IN FLAQS. Dutch, Eng/i6'I and American Emblems 1 .l?t He.. . w aved over the City. The Ilrst t.., opean visitor to Man hattan Is'aiul was Henry Hudson who in 1009 ? ?led up tho river now bear ng n!s .c. The flag under which ?ie tailed was in. . . i the Dutch East India Cont nany, whim \\<IB the flag of the United Provinces of the Neth erlands, orang?!, white and blue ar ranged in three equal horizontal strines, in tile conti'? of the whlto stripe hoing the letter? A. O. C." Algemecno Oost- -ludlse Compagnie (General East india Company). From the time of the discovery no visitor came Into these waters O? wi. eli there is record until 1012, when Manhattan was Bottled under the East Ionia Company, which continued in possession until 1022 when iii gov ernment fell Into the hands of tho West India Company. Thc Ung of the Dutch West india Company was tho same as (nat ol Its predecessor save (hat il nore t'.io letters "G. W. C." Door.-.Woy core West-lndose Com pagnie (Privileged West India I eul pa ny : Till ; was the dominant Hag ti. ''I, when ii>is island was su? rende i H> thc lOngl'sh. and the I nion ...ick (crosses ol' Kuglnnd and Scotia'..tl; ot Dr? ai Ordain supplanted tue Dicolor of Hoi!-nd and tue name of New Amsterdam was changed io New York. Tin? i nion .lack at present i.. di rived from the union ol the ihren crosses of St. George, St. An drew and SI. Patrick, adopted ill 1801, whr?i th" ad of union with Ireland was jul ?sod. In the llioilth ol' .1 ly. KIT:!, tho D'*'i?'.? fy.In : in: po ? sskn of tho city, which they Oci'Upled until Nov ember IO, (??i ! win n hy virtue of a treaty of peact between England and 11 ol la ml Me li..'on .la. k ..g in floated o\\ r (he eiiy. Kroiii this lime thoie was no Inter ruption i,; ihc supremacy ol Die En -.,'is:i until the year IS! !), wllCIl .".io iiieiuoi'ablc rf:le of Leisler, spec.illy terminated by his death, occurred. lie was a warm sappi ncr of William and .Mary, and il is possible that, while lui hild possession of Die fort, the Hag of William, liol then pro claimed Kiar, of Eng! nd. might have Moated over New York. Hut lhere is no reeoi d ol I Ins. \\eie ,i so however, it could have keen but for a verj brief period, and the English Hag waved undisputed until I he era ol' Die American r?volu i mei of the American Forces, and on Ids way ; > iako conimano at Cam ridge and Tryon, the English Gov ernor, who had arrived tho day be fore. I? was about this time that the I rsl ralslli|j of any hut Die English tla?! ?in New York occurred, lloforo his, indeed, liberty poles had been . e ' d and . ii down again, hut now, Man h, 177... a Union Hag. with a rod ld was hoi s :ed in New York upon . Mn. liberty P'de on the Common bear ing ih' inscription "George Hex and th?- liberties! bf America," and upon Ihr "iln? side "No popery." Tho li.di?Sh, under Govi Tryon, va liled N1 w York in 177:".. hut there ls np record which gives any positivo cale a- io i he raising of Die A mer i - i an Ila;; heve. The cit j wa? held by American troops, ?ote:- this eveiii. until Septem ber |*i i ?7?; wdien Washington rc Di'ultd io ii,i. lem and afterward from tile Island and the eily was OCC'jpiC'd hy slr Henry Clinton and from that time heh! the D Itlsil until Die cloro of Mn war. They evacuated the oliy \i \emher I7s::. Since then no Hag Tut the stars and snipes has waved over th? edy in token of pow er ?ind authority. THE WALLS OG JERICO. Important Discoveries Being Made by an Allait alian D"o?e< nor. Professor Sellin's excavations on tho - le of the ancient eily of Jericho are yielding unexpectedly rich treas ures. In his hot letters to the Vi enna Academy of Science the profes sor v lili;. Dial over a hundred irioh are digging at fi\" different poinn, One ol' Mu mos! Interesting linds is the historical ? itv wall, built of burne lillie bricks, ll was Miine ten feel MI thickness, rising from a stone foun dation. On the western side of Die elly thc Wall was nearly for I y feet in Width. At ?Inether Ix int a private house was found built over another house "of a still earlier epoch'. Other discoveries' include lamps, plates, cap:;, needles, weights, mor tars mid mills of bi onze and stone, some of ie ry rough and primitivo handwork, ai..! oMn rs very Tinily exe cuted. In the Inner ell) remains of rows ol' houses have been ui&eovcrcd? a tul ile .ii.i< ?.i I bia cw lettering; proves that i he old Hebrew charac ters were In use. Pro! 1st), S/ llii. !n pcs to renew tho excaVatiiift work next winter. In tho mean Hine he says, that the work al ready dom has Opened up tl wealth or material for lh< student of thc pre Israelite and Canaanite period. Pall Mall Gir/.ttc. Two Kinds "A drowning, man wPf catch at a straw." "And so will a .thirsty man."