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PARKER REPLIES. Says Blease Admitted Knowledge of tho Lanahan Matter IN A TALK WITH HIM At Wright's ITotol in Juno, 1000, and In Justice to All Parties Con cerned Culls on Blease to Name tito "High State Oillcial" Who Hep reaiontcd the Lanallan Firm Hcfore tho Stnto Hoard. To the Editor of the News ami Courier: Please pardon a few words in answer lo Senator Colo L. Please in his recent remarks in the Stuto Sonate with reference to my testi mony before the wiuding-up commis sion. Tho absurdity of the charge of conspiracy as made by Mr. Please must bo apparent, but there may bo soino conflit lons not understood by all. Neither Capt. Smyth nor my self was a supporter of Governor Ansel in the recent campaign. Ker myself, though I had the highest per sonal regard for him. I di fte rod with him on tho issues of the campaign and voted for another. 1 have never had a communication with bim or any one else referred to by Mr. Pleuse with reference to my .testimony, except, with Air. Avery Patton, lo whom, after having been .subpoenaed as a witness before the .winding-up commission 1 wrote on .December 30, urging bim "not again to pul me te the humiliation of ap pearing in a matter about which I know practically nothing." Tu this letter I have hail a reply and laid not soon Mr. Patton until I appeared before the commission a few days since. Mr. Please asks tho quest ion why I waited until after .Mr. l.aaaban's death to answer tho question as to who Mr. La?aban bad tobi mo was representing him in South Carolina. I agroo with him that it was Unfor tunate that the answer had to be made uubsequent to Mr. Lanahan's death, but I had no choice lu the matter. No ono knows hotter than Mr. Hleaso why the question was not an SWnn>H twn von ru a ern ti iUn <M??> n members of the investigating com mtttoo. Having boen excused by tho investigating committee from answer ing the question then, it certainly would have been improper and incon sistent for im.? subsequently to have rushed into print, to make public statements which I had asked the Legislative committee lo excuse mo from n.aking before them. Having beim excused then fi oin disclosing tho personage i cier, ed to by Mr. Lanahan. I was not called upon to itotO any denial by bim that Mr. Please was the person referred to. lt will he noted, however, that Mr. Lanahan never denied any part ol' the conversations referred to by me in my tesl Imony. Ile merely denied that he had told mo that Mr. Please represented him, which at thal time I bad not los ti lied to before the com mittee, because, as stated, I bad been excused. Mr. Please certainly surprises inc, however, in bis statement to tho ef fect, that ho had no idea that I re ferred to him in my statements be fore the Investigating committee. When I test Pied in .lune, 1900, Mr. Lanallan had been advised ol' my having been subpoenaed and of the necessity of my testifying to my con versation with him if the Court do creed that I should do so; further more the attorneys representing Mr. H. ll. Evatts had been advised he fore 1 testified of the purport of my lest imony. As tho Intimacy between Mr. Please and Mr. Evatts Was well known, I had presumed 'hat it had been com municated lo Mr. Please what my testimony would lie. v This, precaution was coiibrined in my own mind by statements of Mr. Please io me. On the evening of my testimony, whilst Mr. Ilaynsworth and I were supping together al Wright's llolel, Mr. Please, who had been laking slipper al a table some distance away, stopped al our table a momoltti and after expressing his approval, (d' Hie position I had talo n with roforondo IO testifying said in "ffccl thttl he was familiar willi all the facts with regard lo Hie employ mont of tho party referred lo b> no by Mr. Lanahan; that llO had llb npoligbs lo make to anyone for vol ing lo excuse mo from giving Ibo name, bul thai in j list! CO lo the party referred lo be wanted lo say that thal party bad not iiudersood fully tho service expected of .> ni when he accepted t he om plo} mont, and v. hen be did leam what was experted be docl I nod to servo fdr th?'i and re ceived less than two hundred dollars for bis compensation. I understood the slaloment of Mr. Please to be a diplomatic acknowl edgement of his connection with the matter, and, as, expressed in legal terms, ''a plea of confession and avoidance." Mr. Hlease now denies that ho had any connection with Mr. Lanallan. I may add that I am advised hy Mr. Wm. Elliott of Columbia, who was 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. Hloaso himself, and In Justice to tho memory of Mr. Lanallan, Mr. Hloaso ls now, lt scorns to mo, called upon to say who was tho "high Stato official," whom Mr. Lanallan bad employed, as ho has acknowledged full acquaintanceship in tho matter. Whilst I cannot con ceive that I havo been mistaken as to statements made to mo by Mr. La?a bais, still If there bo error In what Mr. Lanallan stated to me, Mr. Hloaso can clear it and should do so. Respectfully, Lewis A. Parker. Greenville, S. C.. February 17. 190S. AFTER THE EXPRESS COMPANY Railroad Commission Says lt Must Publish Ks Rates. The Railroad Commission has adopted an order relating to express rates which is very important. Hills tn line Ith this order have from timo to time been presented in tho Honorai Assembly and there have been some complaint In regard to tho policy of tho express companies lil regard to the matters treated In the order. Which is as follows: Columbia, S. C.. Fob. 12, 1008. To Ibo Southern Express Company. it ls hereby ordernd : ISL That on or by March 15, IDOS, tho Southern Express company nie with this commission, print and keep poslbd, and koop open to public in I inspect ion, at each of their olllcos or agencies in this State, schedules showing till rates and charges for tho transportation or carrying of any freight; and said schedules shall contain classlllcatlon of all freights. Said schedule of rates, elllirgos and classifications lo bo Opon to public inspection nt any Hmo during office hours. L'd. Thal no rab', or chang? of classification of any article, bo made until 30 days' notice he posted at all offices or agencies and not undi this commission bas had 30 days' notice and its consent given to tho proposed the proposed rate or change in class ification. 3d. On or by March 16, 1908. tho Southern Express company shall paste consplclously on each package received by it for shipment collect, a a label as herein set. out: Amt.. Weight. Date. 5th, On bach of these labels shall bo written in ink. Ol' indelible pencil, by tho forwarding olllco, amount col led or to he col looted i tho weight of tho package and the dato received for shipment H. L Caughman, Chairman, .lohn H. Earle, .j, M. Sullivan. Com missioners. TWO MORE .! PIX HOS To Pill Hie New Circuits Created Tills Session. Messrs. j. W. DoVorc, of Edge field, and s. W. c.. Shipp. ol' Flor ence, wore Thursday afternoon elect ed judges ol' Ibo two new -irr nils croa led by ibis legislature; Mr. .1 W. HeVore was chosen judge Ol' the eleventh circuit, con sistine, ol' Lexington, Saluda am! IM celie ! d. Ile was opposed liy Ml' C. M. Kind Mr. Ho Vere represents ICdgelleld in the house, and his Opponent, Mr. IO fl rd, is supremo court reporter. Mr ile Vorn defeated Mr. Sh rd by a void of SO to 70. Mr. S W. C. Shipp, of Florence, dofontcd Mr. W. V. Montgomery, of Marion, hy a vot? of 92 lo GO. Tlc twelfth ClrOtlll consists of the conn iles of Florence, Morry, Georgetown and Marion. The new jlidgOB will begin the dis ? barge of their dut ?es w it h t lie be gining of the spring terms ol' court in May. 4 SPEEDY .11 STICK. Quick Work in the Trial ol' a Con fessed Fiend, Committed lissa ll ll Thursday, ar rested and Jailed Friday. Indicted Die following Monday; tried, convicted and sentenced to be hanged Tuesday, is Ibo record established by lin Trn/.ow ell. Va., Circuit Court in Die case ol Hie Commonwealth against W alter llippoy, Die COnVOSSOd negro I rapist. fUppey was Died for assault on Mrs. Mary Danny. Mrs. Da ncey ' testified and in (he course of her St?ry Was several limos overcome, and tho Coill'l had lo wail tint ?I sim regained lier composure before pro ceeding. 'The recital was one of the most harrowing in Ibo annals of (lime in thal section. 'The jury wa., oui a short lime and when tue vcr diet was relurned Rlppoy was son tfenced to hang on March 25. LATIMER DEAD. The Senator Dies Thursday Morn ing After a Short Illness. SHOCK TO STATE. The Seuutor Was Operated On For Appendicitis at a Washington Hos pital on Sunday.-At First He (Jot Along All Hight, Hut Peritonitis Followed and Hr Soon Tossed Away. Senator Ashury C. Latimer died at Providence Hospital al Washington on Thursday morning after a few days Illness. Ile was taken sick oh Sunday night and was taken to the hospital at once, where he was oper ated oa for appendicitis. Ho got 'on very well until Tuesday, when j complications set In, and the Senator I grew rapidly worse until Thursday morning, when ho pussed away at nine o'clock.. Mrs. Latimer and two daughters were present when the end came. Senator Latinier was. about fifty seven years old. Ile has been in tho Sesate nearly six years, llefore going to the Senate, he served ton years in tho House as a Representa tivo. He was a candidato lo succeed himself and would have been voted for In the primary this Summer. His remains were brough! from .Washington Thursday nigh! lil C.httrgi of a committee of Senators and Ro j resent al ives on a Special train and interred at Helton, at which place he lived. Senator Latitud' was a high toned up-right gentleman, Ho had been for years a member of the Meth odist ('burch. Ile leaves a wife and several children. Among the prospective candidates developed for the unexpired term to be filled by tho legislature, are i; Marion H?cker of Anderson, Kx Speaker of the House Karak II. (buy of Abbeville, Senator LeOrand Wal ker of Georgetown. FOOLISH YOUNG MAX. Gets in Serious Trouble For liaising a Money Order. A foolish young man by the name Kingsmore. Deputy un lieu states Marshall A. Fisher, of this ?itv went for Warren and returned with him lo this City oil 'Tuesday. 'The foolish young Ullin admits the charge and the only oxctlSO offered was that be did not Know wh> he did it. 'The facts in th? case are as fol lows: Oil November I ?HIT. Mrs A. 13. Loverly, Wuron's aunt, purchas ed a motley order at the Hamberg postolllce for $1.81 in favor of a Chicago mail order house. 'The motl ey order and order for goods were given lb Warren to mail, bul before doing so be changed the order to $!).81 pud added several articles for his own use. When the package arrived at tho express Pillee it was delivered to War ren, who removed the articles which be de: ired for bis own tr/i and car ried the balance to his anni, who was j pen h dy ignorant of tho irregular part of the t ra usart ion. The matter was reported to the post?nico author ities by the Chicago house and the Inspector was hot lons. In locating the guilty party. Warren was taken before Robert Lide, Esq., I'nited staets Commis sioner, who bound him over in the slim of three hundred dollars for his appearance, at the United States Court. Warrol, is a young white man about twenty-two years of ago. Orangehurg 'Times and Democrat DRANK DISPENSARY DRY. ( .'?-orgia as Closed North Augusta Shop for a While. The troubles of tho .North Augus ta dispensary COU I lillie to exist The people of tho little South Carolina town have tried IO ?lose the liquoi shop and failed on several occasions; hm de people of Augusta have booti more successful. 'The little shop was closed, the third (into since Its opening during tho early afternoon, because thc Stock had again been ex hausted. And the dispensary trade in or from Augusta is Increasing ev ery day. RILLED I1I.MSELI Localise ll is Sweetheart Refused to Smile on Him. "Smile just once at me, dear,' pleaded John 'Tripp, aged ?0 years. of ins sweetheart, Mrs. Esler Pollock Davis, a grass widow, :.'I years, ol'I ai the Ritter's home ai Indianapolis, Ind., on Wednesday night. Kai I hr.; to get the desired smile, Trlpi bred two shots into lils body and iel!, mortally wounded, at her feel. Tripp was a railroad man, recently from LaPayetto, ind. . WENT FROM THIS STATB. Ma? Who Ulled Another in Missinsip pl is From Spnrtanburg. .T. F. Wilder, who shot and killed W. L. Booth of Dallas, Texas, at Rippe, Mississippi, last Saturday af ternoon, is a ?utir? of Spartauburg county. He has a brother living in Hpartanburg and has many relatives in the county. Twenty years ago Wilder was running a naw mill en glno at Woodruff at 50 cents a day. Ho left hore 15 years ?go for Mis sissippi, whore ho oporatod a saw mill on his own account. Ho made money fast and is now worth about on? million. Another Supremo Court Needed, The Dorchester Eagle says: "There is complaint now that the county is put to unnecessary ex pense to care for ono .J. M. Walker, who has been 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 the state penitentiary, but has remained in jail herc pending a decision from the Supreme court, flic county is paying $9 per month board for Walker and the board is getting tired of it. An investiga tion into the matter has been 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 he at thc next session it caa lie induced to establish another supreme court to work oil' the congestion of cases that has ac cumulated on the hands of the old one. An Object Lesson. In the hold (d' one hike steamer, 4 21,000 bushels of wheat were carried recently from Superior to Buffalo. Think of the pretty baking and loaves of bread involved in that sin gle boatload of grain. It 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 ft,;,. ...u - ?. - }.\,'"" 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 ami Rockefeller. Tho "interests" that inspired the Aldrich Currencj '.>\\\ will hardly know it when tho Senate gels through with it. "Whatever the minor eccentricities of it'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 the regular volume of cur rency, secured by a deposit of mis ta ! aneous bonds and heavily taxed. This will be a mere exaggeration of the radical defect Of tho existing s\ item, gathering thc corrupt hum or, with which it is infected into a hi ried excrescence." This severe c icism from the leading business and financia) newspaper of thc country, should cause a Republican Congress to pause before it. further complicates our cumbersome finan cial structure by makeshifts. Controlled by tile Few. Senator La Follette says that sev enty six men, holding 1000 director ships in the great business enncerns of t he count ry, cont roi tho business of thc nation and that the railroads are controlled by eight men. No wonder the last Republican National Convention refused Senator La Fol lette a scat In that convent ion, and that there is an evident conspiracy to keep him out of the coming con vention. Tho Republican machine does not allow such home thrusts lo be made by | hose labeled Republi cans, _ I 'OKMKII Secretary of thc Treasury Shaw is running about the country like a politician out ufa job, Ind anxious to get one. Tin; ohio Republicans are so loi ter against each oilier thal they aro appealing lo Hie Courts lo decide which owns the "machine." Tin-. Anderson Mail thinks that Southern slides thal send Foraker delegate's io the Chicago conven!ion should require them to leave their razors at homo. Not a bad idea. SUICIDE aiMllSTICS. Chlldloos Marriages a Cause-Rai? Hign AI,i../i,j uvrmahio Nut.one. Amoug l,0*Jg,Uv)0 suicides of ?ll classe?, it has beuu found that SJUo inarrlod mea with children destroyed their lives; 470 married men without chiidreu; o~i> wiuovtcis wno and l,t?vi Widowers without children. With respect to tho women, if? mar ried womon with and 158 without children cominittod suicide, while lu4 widows with, and '??? without off spring, completed the Hut. On tho raxie of things, Boys the Il lustrated Loudon News, it would ap pear that in childless marriages the number of men suicides is (louoled and in women trebled. Leaving the case of actually insane persons out ol count, lt would also appear that in males suicide is more frequent than in females. Equally interesting ls lhat phase ot the subject which deais wita tho causes. Ono table dealing with 6.W. cases snows one-seventh cans id by misery, one twenty-first part by loss of fortune, one forty-third hy gamb ling, one nineteenth by love affaira One-ninth by domestic troubles, one sixty-sixth hy fanaticism, and hy foiled ambition and remorse one-sev enth and one twentysoventh respect ively. The geography of suicide is also ot high interest. Westcott says tin highest proportion in Europe ls shown by tho Germanic races, Six ony having "thc largest suicide rr 1 of any country.'* lu Norway the rate was very large for a lime. Hs de crease being attributed lo Ibo groatoi restrictions now laid on tho liquor tra (Ile The Celtic races liiiv? a low rans und this is evinced by tho ligure.- for Ireland and Wah.. Mountainous re gions are said to show a lower rate than lowlands. In Ibo highlands nf Scotland and Walis, and 111 tho high anas of Switzerland, suicide i rarc. 'I ones and seasons also operate, ap parently to Inlluence the act of sell dosi i ncl ion. Roughly spenklug, the curve lim? of suicide, calculated through the year, rises from .January lo July, and decreases for UlC sec omi half of the year Tho maximum periods have been found lo fall ni May. .lune and July. I believe in deed .lune is found lo show a ina riled predominance as a suicide mouth One reason for such proemitl?hee in the warm season of tile year is set down ns represented by lue ousel of bot weather affecting the system and tending to disturb the mental equil ibrium of [h? .01 uonieni ineans of committing suicide from olhei lands. The most common European methods is by means nf nanghig, hui In Italy this mode of self-destruct lon is rare j Drowning cums noxl in order, and twice ar; many W'OIUCll a men perish in this way each year in Europe Shooting is fn (picul m Illly and iii Switzerland. Cht thront ls common ?' longland and Ireland: it doc. not seem 10 const il ute anyw here nish a fro quell) mode pf ending life Poisoning is a sj.lally Anglo Saxon nu thud of suicide, we are told while suffoc ation bv the 'nines of car booie add gas. inhaled in a Closed room, ls very typical ol' suicide in Prance. SOUTH AMERICAN RAILWAYS. They Run East and West Instead o' North and South. Although lo tin North American exponents pf that proie 1 (hero has seemed a discouraging lack of Inter est in the Pun-American Kn?lr?.ul nu M. there has really been no cessa tion; of the activity of the latter hi pushing development in their more immediate spheres "Lot us build the linea Hie country needs," they say, "and ilOli'i ?1 h us to go out of our way lo further ll ncheino which. hoWeVcr practicable from an engineering point of view, would not pay us dividends iii ibis century, and possibly not in the next. "Wo concede that we might benefit indirectly through tho increased sta bility of government that wimbi fol low thc building of an Intercontinen tal line, hut that hem lit is loo remote to interest us al a (ino- when we have ample opportunity for 1 vptwditiR all our available funds in ? . con druci lon of lines thal iv li I re turns from tho day i'm y ?. en ed." 80 ii happens thai .? ' !idre has llOVCr boen so mttcl ly in rail way const mellon nb A inertia as al the pr iiontonl, almost Wit holli exe ;i? mw Hms ?ire followiltu alic's rather than (.he mi i running ea.-t and wa t ralbe' a no.lb and soul ll, Re view views. Sri Ittllitem I'm going lo India to iii! six months. ?Miss Cn tc lt elli And I suppose yoi lil forget all about poor inc. Mr. Hunton) My dear, it .viii lalee i terrible berco elephant tb make mo forget you. You can't make a nagging woman believe thal she hasn't the sweetest disposition in tho neighborhood. NEW YORK HISTORY IN FLAGS. Dutch, Eng'is'i .inti American Emblems I nat ric. ,;aved over the City. The first L ..opean visitor to Man hattan Is'auil was Henry Hudson who In biOi) ! ?led up the river now bear ag als.;<. The flag under which ne called wan tb. . il the Dutch East India Company, wann was the flag of thc United Provinces of the Neth erlands, ora;.ge, while and blue ar ranged in three equal luna /ont a I stripes, In the cen tr? of the white stripe being the letters "A. O. C." i Algemecne Oust -Indise Compagnie (General East India Company). From thc. time ol' the discovery no visitor rame Into these waters Of wi..ch there is record until UD2, when Manhattan was settled under tho East im.ia Company, which continued In possession until 1(122 when UM gov ernment fell into the hand:? of tho West iniliu Company. The nag of the Dutch West India Company waa tho same as Dial ol' its predecessor save Dial ii bore the letters "(!. W. C." Cooed, oyeoro West-Indose Com pagnie (Privileged Wost india ? oui pany) Th!; was lite dominant Hag t?. -04, when ibis island was bur rende ? lo the I'hiii'.'sh. nnd the Union aaek (crasses of England and Scotland; oC Cr? at britain supplanted toe Dicolor oi' Holl'Uid lind tue name of Mew Amsterdam was ( hanged to New Vork. Tho Inion .lack at present i:. di rived from . he union ol I he Guee cio-.-.-cs nf Si. George, St. An dr? w and si. Patrick, adopted in 1801, winn di" act bf uni?n with Ireland was- passed. lu i lie month (d' July, 1673, tho D'.??'.! "/'.Iii : po SSlotl O? tllO elly, svlileh they occupied until -Nov em) er I". Ili? I w hen by virtue of a henty "I petici between England aird Mollumi .!?. cu'oh Ja.h ug'aln fio?tcd pvc r lilli oilV . l*i?MU inis time Du re was tm intcr niplioti in tai' suprema? y Of the En glish lint i I the year M/a. when .".io memorable i . lc of I eisler, speedily terminated by his death, Occurred. Ile wa? a war'tii supporter or William and Mary, und it ls possible lina, while lie laid possession td ?he fort. Die Ila:, of William, not Dieu pro claimed King of Dug! nd, might have Heated oxer Now Voil;, lint Ihme is no re. 'iiil ol I his. WIM i' ii so however, il could have been inn for a very brief period, and the Kllglisll Hag waved undisputed uni il the era of Die American revoln ( niel of Die American Forces, and on his waj ?i take i.oiumano at. Cam bridge and Tryon, the English Cov_ amor, who luid arrived the day be fore. lt was about this time that tho it-a raising of any but the English ihijM -in .\cw Vork occurred. Before lils, indeed, liberty poles had been ai ad nilli i'll down again; hut now, March. ITT"., a I nion flag, with a rod li ld. was hoisted in New Vork upon . du- liberty pole on the Common bear ing D' inscription ''George Hex and Gie I inert ie; bf America." and upon i ho til he i side "Nu Popery.'' The jt.dlislt, nuder Dov. Tryon, va titod New Vork in 177fi. bill there is lib ron d which gives any positive Cate iis io i lie raising of Die Ameri < an li a u lure. The city was held hy American troop?, after this event, until Septem ber 1.1, 177?; when Washington ro Ileal?ii m o.o icm and afterward from Die Island, and the city was occupied by Slr Henry Clin,on and fi om that Dine bold i? Die D Pish until the cl?fo oi tin war They evacuated Ibo div November 2fi. 17.x:;. Since then no Mag Int Hie Stars and Stripes has iva ved o voi the city in token of pow er ami a lilllOrity. THE WALLS OG JERICO. Important Discoveries Being Made by an McUralian P-ofeinor. Professor Sellin's excavations on Die Silo "f the iinclenl eily of Jericho are yielding unexpectedly rich treas ured, lu his last letters lo the Vi enna Academy of Science the profes sor writes I hat over a hundred mon are digging al live deferent points. One of the most Interesting linds is Hie historical cit5 wall, built id burne lillie bricks, lt was some ten feet MI thickness, rising from a stone foun dation. <>u the western side of Die. . itv Hie wall was near!) forty feet in width. At another point a private house was found built over another house ot a still earlier epoch. Oilier discoveries include lamps, plates, elli's, needles, weights, mor tars nibl mills of lu mute and stone, sonic of very rough and primitive handwork; and elli ra very hm ly exe cuted, in the Iunci edy remains of rows nf houses ha\e been (lu'tcovered, and (lu ancli nt Hebrew lettering proves thal thc (dd lb brew charac ters were 111 lise. Professor S< Rib hopes to renew tho okra val lug Wol'lc mst winier. In tho mean lime he says (bat Die work al* rend) (bm has opened up n wealth of materia i for ile student of Die ur - israelite ami Canaanite period. Pall Mull Gazette. Two Kind; "A drowning man wPl catch ai a straw." "And so will a thirsty man."