The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 24, 1906, Image 4
THE BATE BILL ?
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P&B8ED THE UNITED 8TUK8 J
SENATE FRIDAY.
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Summary of the Provisions of the
Bate Bill as it Finally a
Fasted. c
After 70 days of almost continuous
deliberation the senate Friday passed
the railroad rate bill by the oraotloal- i
ly unanimous rote of 71 to 3. T.ie
three negative votes were cast by
Senator Foraker, Republican, of Ohio
and Senators Morgan and Pettus, j
Democrats, of Alabama. There wa?
a somewhat larger attendance of
senators than ususal, but the at ten 1
dance In the galleries was by no J
means abnormal, and there was no !
manifestation of any kind when the 1
result was announced. There was, ]
however, an almost general sigh of
relief among senators. The bill has J
received more attention from the '
s.nate and from the oountry at large 1
than any measure that has been before
congress since the repeal of the '
purchasing clause of the Sherman act
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SUMMARY Or T1IK MILL. }
The prinoipal purpose of the rail- t
road rato bill passed Thursday is to <
permit the Interstate oommeroe com ,
mission to fix rates. The provision <
conferring this authority Is found In i
the fourth section of the bill and ,
amends section 16 of the interstate .
commerce law so as to accomplish
that result. That seotlons directs the |
commission to Investigate complaints j
of unjust and unreasonable charges on
the part of oommon carriers In the
transportation of persons or property
or of regulations or of practices af- ,
feotlng such changes. It also authorizes
an luqu ry as to whether the
rates or practices are "unjustly dls
crimlnatorv or undulv Dreferentlal or
piejudiclal or otherwise 1" violation
of the act, and In case any of these
conditions are found to exist, the
oorrmission is empowered to determine
and prescribe what will be the Just
and reasonable maximum rate and
what regulation or practice Is Just,
reasonable and fair. Further, authority
In given the commission to enforce
its orders and they are to go Into effeot
within SO davs and continue in
force for two years unless suspended,
modified or set aside by the oommlsskn
by a court of competent jurisdiction.
Other powers conferred by this
8 colon are: to apportion joint fares,
establish through routes and max
lmum joint rates and prescribe theli
division and to determine the compensation
to be paid to shippers doing
service for carriers. Section 16 cf the
present law is so changed as to pro
vide for an award of pecuniary damages
to oomplainants found entitled
and In case pa>ments are not promp
tly made in accordance with this
BaitrH t.ho hiinaflolarD <u untlnvrlioil ti\
w '? vt Viivy i/v/tivii V<?I j in uviuiiwiifiju wu
file bult Id a Ualtid States circuit
court to compel compliance. The findings
of the commission is to be recclyed
as prima facie evidence of the
facts in such suits and the petitioner
Is absolved from all liability for costs
Another provision renders legal the
service of the orders of the commls
sion through the malls and provides
that these orders shall take ?ffjot 30
days after service unlc&s suspended or
modified by the commission or tuspended
or set aside by the courts. A penalty
of $5,000 for eaoh offense in dis
obedience of the order is imposed,
and the penalty is to accumulate at
the rate of $5,000 a day in case of
oontlnuous violation. Orders other
than those for money payments are
to be enforoed by the federal oourts
through'wrlts of mandamus or lnjuno
tion and in case of appeal to the
supreme court, these cases are to be
given precedence over all others except
those of a criminal character.
The bill was amended by the senate
eo as to give the United States olr
cult courts jurisdiction to entertain
suits brought to annul or change the
orders of the commission and also to
provide against the granting of interlocutory
decrees without hearings and
making appeals from such orders direct
to the supreme court.
Other provisions extend the definition
of the word "railroad" so as to
make it include switches, spurs,
tracks, terminal facilities, freight depots,
yards and grounds and defines
"transportation" so as to make it embrace
oars and other facilities for
shipment or carriage, "irrespective of
ownership or of any contract," the
Intention being to make the railroads
responsible for all special oar service.
It >s made the duty of carriers to furLish
-uncial car service upon reasonai
le r (Aue t.
b.utiitt amendments include oil
pipe lines, express companies and
sleeping oar companies under the
head of "common carriers" and make
them amenable to the requirements
of the bill. Other senate modifications
prohibit the Issuance of passes
or the granting of special favors to
one class o( passengers over another,
prohibit railroad oompanles from
transporting commodities produoed
by themselves; require oomblnes to
put in switches at reasonable rcauest
of shippers; prohibit the granting or
acoeDtance of rebates, and reinstate
the Imprisonment penalty for violation
of the law.
There Are aiso changes in the law
relative to the reports to be required
of oo mm on carriers, and a penalty of
$100 a day is imposed for failure to
cod ply with the report requirement. ,
flhd commission is given access to
the aooounts of the companies affeot d
by the act, but examiners are forbidden
under penalty of heavy fine
and long imprisonment from divulging (
be facte ascertained. Fines of 9500
or eaoh failure to keep proper ao*
ount is provided. A falsification of
ooouots is made punishable by fine n
.nd Imprisonment.
Circuit and distrlot oourts of the
Jnlted States are given jurisdiction
>ver all oomp alnts by the commission
if failure to oomply with Its orders 0
md suoh oourts are required to issue ^
vrlts of mandamus compelllug such
tompllance. fc
KILLfcD H1M4&L1? *
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ro Avoid Boln( Ar routed tor Bobbing ^
Ills Bank. a
Irwin Tucker, president of the o
Savings bank of Newport News, Va., t
yimmltted suioide in his room over 8
:he baDk in Newport News Saturday. *
lust as Chief of Polioo Reynolds of o
[.hat olty opened his door to arrest Q
itm upon a warrant oharging him .
with defaulting in the sum of 910,000
Pucker heard Chief Reynolds ask a a
aegro porter on the outside as to the n
iooatlon cf his room and standing in E
front of a mirror put a bullet through Q
lis right temple as the door was
thrown open. ?
The first suspicion that Tucker was c
i defaulter was received Saturday t
morning in a note written by the d
uioide himself. This note was found ^
ihortly after the doors of the bank
were opened Saturday, It having been j;
placed on the desk of oashler R. t
Jarter Perkins Tucker admitted a
that he was short in his accounts and 4
said if any attempt was made to
arrest him he would commit suicide.
Immediately the directors of the t
bank were called together and a t
hurried examination resulted in the fj
issuance of the warrant. It was sus- C
pected that Tucker had left Newport t
News and the police of Norfolk and t
other neighboring cities were asked to i
look out for him. a
r "U. I I J.. .V. 4. 4? 1_ _
vjLJici xvoyuuiuB i/iitju wKiiu wj m?Ke i
an investigation of Tucker 8 bachelor
apartmenis over the Savings bank,
where the tragedy occurred. Antxaminatlon
of the safety deposit boi
in the Savings bank revealed the fact,
that Tucker's life was insured for
30,000, whioh will oover all of his
alleged defalcation. The Savings
bank of Newport News was largely
natronlz .d by the laboring classes of
Newport News. President Tuoker
was about 40 years of age. He wan
the son of former Mayor John 8.
Tucker of Norfolk, now a retired
lawyer of Washington, D. C.
Woman'* I'laoo.
For hundreds of years woman was
very much eircuinscribed in her sphere ,
1
of usefulness. She had to trod along ]
In the same old tracks that her moth- 1
ers had trod In or be astroclsed by so- ?
clety. Our fathers thought their 1
wives and daughters just a little too J
good and fine to come in contact with ^
the rough edge of the world, and hence j
the circumscribed sphere in which our t
women were allowed to move outside ]
the home circle, where in every well <
regulated family she reigned supreme. 1
Woman, in a general sense, was regarded
as inferior to man in mental
as well as physical strength. Our fathers
were not altogether to blame for
that. It came down to them from the (
days of Adam. lie did not have the
chivalrous feeling for women that
every true man should have, or he <
never would have attempted to shield
himself by casting the blaine of their 1
mutual sin on Eve, saying "It was J
th woman Thou gavest me!" Adam
was not only a coward, but an ungallant
coward, or he never would (
have dodged behind Mother Eve's ,
ivt.t.v.cnnta in truinir tn oqvn hlmonlf
|/VVVJ WU*VU lit \JA J Itlg fV OUIU IIIlUAUlli j
Time has changed all that, we are i
glad to say, and today woman is re- i
garded as man's most intimate friend
and safest counsellor, and if he were 1
asked who it was that inspired him to
all that is noble, true and beautiful in
this life, and with a hope of a better |
life, in the world to come, he would
answer as before, but this time with- i
out the stain and shame of cowardly i
equivocation, yet truthfully and joy- 1
ously, "It was the woman Thou gavest
me." Woman, the grandest and
noblest work of the Creator's hands, is |
man's equal in every thing, and man s
superior in many things. Teach your {
KauO noA< h n ??o a ! ?/" *?ar? ?? ?-? '1
uv/joi luvuubiai tu iiv>uui aim icvere wo- j
manhood, and thus inspire them toall i
that is true and good.
Promptly Declined.
A dispatch from Washington says
Senator Tillman has refusod to engage
In public debate with Booker Wash
lngton or even appear on the same
platform with him. Managers of a
spiritualists camp meeting at Anderson,
lad., have arranged a nice little 1
symposium on the race question In <
which they were to have participated.
He sent the following telegram to the 1
managers: "I am Informed that ar- 1
rangements are being made for a debate
between Booker Washington and <
myself at your plaoe. So far as Wash 1
lngton following me is ooncerned, 1 1
don't care, but I will not meet him on 1
the platform. If It Is a negro equality 1
orowd that I am to talk to I prefer 1
canoelllng the engagement." The 1
manager wired an answer to the effect 1
that the plan to have Washington <
present will be sbs.n^on?d, ]
WantM to *o Hack. ]
Col. J. 0. Haskell, of Columbia, i
has announced himself as a candidate for
the Senate from Rlohland County I
on an anti-dispensary platform. Col. i
Haskell Is a brother of Judge A. C.
Haskell who lead the bolting lnde- ,
pendant movement against Tillman
when he was first nominated for gov- (
wrnor. 1
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TH1* AMD MOW.
lepablloana Using Demooratlo Platlorm
aa Their Own.
Id 1806 the demooratlo oat loot
onvention adopted a platform, one of
he planks of which follows: 11 But for
his decision by the supreme court
the adverse decision on the Income
ax) there would be no deficit In the
evenue under the law passed by a
lemooratlc congress in strlot purau*
.nee of the uniform decisions of that
ourt for nearly one hundred years,
hat court having in that decision
ustalned constitutional objections to
ts enactment which was previously
iverruled by the ablest Judge who had
ver sat on that benoh. We deolare
hat it Is the duty of congress to use
,11 the constitutional power which r
nalns after that decision, or which
nay come from Its reversal by the
ourt as It may hereafter be constituted,
so that the burdens of taxation
nay be equally and Impartially laid,
o the end that wealth may bear its
lue proportion of the expenses of the
[overnment."
That plank was denounced bv re
mblloan editors and republican ora
iors, and democrats were oalled "anarchists"
because they presumed to
'oritiolse the courts.'*
The editorial remarks of the New
fork Tribune mado after the election
?f 1896 were fairly representative of
he tone employed by republicans
generally in the treatment of the
Ihioago platform, and particularly
hat plank above quoted. The Tri)une
said that the democratic move
nent of 1896 was "a malicious oonipiraoy
against the honor aud integrity
of tlie nation," and added:
"lis nominal head was worthy of
he cause. Nominal, beoause the
wretched, rattle pated boy, posing in
rapid vanity and mouthing resound
ng rottenness, was nottbe real leaner
>f that league of holl. He was only a
juppet in the blood-imbrued bands of
, the anarobl8t, and , the
evolutionist, and other desperadoes
>f that stripe. But he was a willing
puppet, Bryan wae, willing and eager
Mot one of his masters was more apt
han he at lies and forgeries and bias
pheraies and all the nameless iniquities
of that oampalgn against the Ten
Jommandments. He goes down with
the cause, and must abide with it in
the history of infamy. He had less
provocation than Benedict Arnold,
ices intellectual force tnan Aaron
burr, less manliness ind courage thar
hff arson l)avls. He was the rival of
them all in deliberate wickedness ana
treason to the republic. His name
oelongs with theirs, teither the mosl
orilllant nor the most hateful in the
[1st. Good riddance to it alt, to con
ipir&oy and conspirators, and to the
f >ul menace of repudiation and anarchy
against the honor and the life of
the rapubllo."
On April 18, 19oO, Theodore Roose
volt eleoted to the presidency oc the
u tinea soaies as a repuDL'CiQ, sent to
ongress a special message dealing
particularly with the deotsiou of FedBra)
Judge I. Otis Humphrey in the
beef trust case. Mr. Roosevelt referred
to the judgment In the beef trust
case as "a ralsoarriige of justice."
Mr. Roosevelt also said "1 can hardly
believe that the rule cf Judge Humphrey
will be followed by othei
judges." Referring to the tendency
if the times, Mr. Roosevelt said:
' The danger nowadays is, not thai
Innocent men will be convicted of
crime, but that the guilty man wil.
n:o soott iree. This u especially the
ease where the crime is one of green
and cunning perpetrated by a man of
wealth in the oourse or those business
operations where the code of conduot
Is at varianoe not merely with th<
code of humanity and morality, but
witb the code as established In the
law of the land." Referring to Judge
Humphrey's decision Mr. Riosevelt
iald: "Such interpretation of the law
comes measurably near making the
law a faroe."
The plank In the democratic national
platform of 180<i for the adop
lion of which democrats were denounced
as anarchists is decidedly
tame in comparison with the lan
guage used by the president, elected
as a repuoilcan, in oonmentlng upon
the decision in the beef trust case.
In 189fi democrats pointed in a mild
way to the fact that ttc court's decision
in the income tax case was out ot
harmony with tne uniform decisions
for nearly one hundred years, and ex
pressed the hope, by Implication, that
the ourt as thereinafter constituted
might reverse the dechlon. J)ut Mr
Rjosevelt was not at all mild In nlr?
arraignment of Judge Humphrey's
decision. "A miscarriage of justice
he called it, and no added ' such interpretation
of the law comes me as
.... U1 . n... -1.4 1 a ..
uiauiy ucai ujakiuk hue U?W aiarOQ."
Yet some'jof the very lepublloan
editors who la 1896 denounced &8 "an
srohlsts" democrats who had Indulged
In the very mild reference to the lu
sooae tax deoislon are now enthusiastically
commending the president of
the United States, who was elected as
i republican, for the plain language
tie used when, in a special message to
wngress, he condemned Judge Humphrey's
decision.
Recalling the terrible accusations
made against them In 1896 bv the very
men who are today "out Herodlng
Herod," a democrat must vigorously
plnoh blmseif to be assured that he Is
not dreaming.
An old physician once declared that
half the sickness in the world was
mused by "stuftiing" and the other
lalf by "fretting."
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THE PLANET MERCURY.
Ilk* V?bi and For Like Cbbm, It la
Now a Dead World.
Mercury Is a body devoid, practically
If not absolutely, of air, of water
and of vegetation. Consequently It Is
Incapable of supporting any of those
higher organisms which we know us
living beings. Its surface Is a vast
desert. It is rough rather than smooth.
Whether this roughness bo due to
mountains proper or to craters we are
too far away from it to be able
yet to say. The latter is the more
probable. Over the greater part of its
surface change either diurnal or seasonal
Is unknown. Three-eighths of Its
surface Is steeped in perpetual glare,
three-eighths shrouded In perpetual
gloom, while the remaining quarter
slowly turns between the two. The
planet Itself, as a world. Is dead.
Interesting ns Mercury thus proves
to be, the Interest as regards the planet
Itself Is of a rather corpselike character.
Less deterrent perhaps is the
interest It possesses as u part of the
life history of the solar system, for
tidal friction, the closing act In the
cosmic drama, has brought It where it
Is. The machine has run down.
Whether It ever supported life upon Its
surface or not, the power to do so has
now forever passed away. Like Venus
and for like cause, It Is now a dead
world. And It was the first thus to
reach the end of its evolutionary career,
earlier to do so than Venus, inasmuch
as tidal action was very much
greater upon it than on Venus and consequently
produced Its effect more
quickly. Mercury has long been dead.
How long, measured by centuries, wo
cannot say. but practically for a vory
long time. Venus must have become
8o comparatively recently. Both, however,
now have finished their course
and h tve In u most literal sense entered
Into their rest.
SEEING SICILY.
Not to Know This I?lan?l In Not to
Know Greece.
There are some lands which have always
laid a spell upon the mind, upon
the imagination, upon the heart. Greece,
above all other countries, has entranced
the mind. The Imagination has ever
loved tlio east?Egypt, the Indies, forgotten
Asia, the almost as mysterious
Asia of today. For most of us the
home land Is the country of the heart;
for many, It may be, It Is Palestine,
where was lighted the fire at which
the hearts of Incalculable millions are
still warmed. Others are content to
say with Emerson in the fine essay on
"Heroism," "That country Is the fairest
which is Inhabited by the noblest
minds." But, above all other lands,
there Is one which has at once impressed
the mind, the imagination and the
heart of western peoples. When a famous
poet declared that on his heart
would be found engraved the word
Italy the words voiced the emotion of
a multitude in every country of Europe
and in the great northern continent
oversea.
To see Sicily, the old "Garden of the
Sun," as the poets have loved to call It, i
Is not to see Italy, though there may be
a measure of truth in Goethe's remark
that not to know Sicily is not to know
Italy. In a sense one might more truly
say of Sicily that not to know it is
not to know Greece. In nnother sense,
however, we have In this most beautiful
of Islands the lntensifiontion of
Italy. Whatever Is most Italian is in
evidence here, though it Is Italian of
the south and not of the north. What
a gulf divides them is known only to
those familiar with the whole peninsula.?William
Sharp in Century.
"nalla" Not Irish.
Those who arc not Irishmen sometimes
trespass on Irish property. A |
French cure, preaching about sudden
.death, said, "Thus it is with us?we go
to bed well and get up stone dead!"
An old French lawyer writing of an
estate he had just bought added, "There
is a chapel upon it iu which my wife
and I wish to he buried, if Clod spares
our lives."
A merchant who died suddenly left
in his bureau a letter to one of his correspondents
which he had not sealed.
Ills clerk, seeing it necessary to send
i the letter, Wrote at the bottom, "Since
writing the above I have died."
A SriiHinpnl and an Antoarnph.
A certain young lady, so the story
runs, wrote to F. Marion Crawford,
the novelist, requesting that he send
llOP 11 hit nf Ront linniil ' n n/1 1,1a f, i,f/-V
graph. The reply was:
Pear Miss A.?When you request a favor
that Is of interest only to yourself,
please inclose a two cent stamp. There's
your sentiment, and here's your autograph.
P. MARION CRAWFORD.
?Collier's Weekly.
A Simple Precaution.
Landlady (of country Inn on the eve
of a popular holiday to her daughter,
who is kneading the dough for a cake)
? Itesei, you'd better put a couple of
eggs and a hit of butter into the cake.
It looks as If we were going to have a
storm, and If the townsfolk don't stir
out tomorrow we shall have to eat It
ourselves.?From the German.
lAngnnve.
Language is a solemn thing. It
growa out of life?nut of its agonies
and ecstasies, its wants and its weariness.
Every language is a temple In
which the soul of those who speak It is
enshrined.?O. W. Holmes.
Feminine Fineane.
Duffer?My wife got a flver out of
me today with one happy remark.
Puffer? Let's have it. Duffer?She told
our boy Willie that she was his nearest
relative, but that I was his closest.?
Indianapolis Star.
Every day is a new life, every sunrise
but a new birth.?Jordon.
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SAVED BY COURAGE.
An Exciting Adventure With n Mnort
Chieftain. ^
Mr. Itecke, the uuthor of "Notes \
From My South Sea Log," tells of his a
tutor, who seemed to him the most u
heroic man In the world because he ^
had been through the tirst Maori war (]
and because of an adventure which ^
there befell him, und which ?s given as
follows:
Poor Guy?such was the tutor's name 11
?was a lieutenant, and he and two ^
companies were captured by the e
Maoris. They were taken Inside the p
stockade, and the chief, taking up one o
of the captured seamen's cutlasses, felt r
its edge and then fixed his keen eyes (j
on the young officer's face.
"I shall not harm these two men of
yours," he said slowly. "They shall go
safely back to your lines If"? He '
paused, and a grim smile distorted his
tattooed face. 1
"If what?" asked Guy calmly. i:
"If you will stretch out your right a
hand so that I may cut it off at the ^
wrist swiftly, no further harm shall ^
come to you, and you, too, shall go
free."
"Will you keep your word?"
"Aye. I, Te Atua Wera. am no liar."
Guy nodded, quietly took off his cout 1
and held out his left baud. n
"Strike," he said. r
The chief again smiled. "Thou art 1
as cunning as thou art brave. I said j
the right hand." r
Guy let fall his left and extended his ^
right arm. Te Atua Wera stepped ,
hack a pace, raised the cutlass?and
struck the point of it into the ground. 0
Then he bent forward and gravely '
rubbed noses with Guy, e
"Go," he said, "hut come hack no 1
more." So Guy and the two sailors t
were allowed to return to Despard's u
lines unharmed. r
SHORT LIVED DOCTORS. v
DlnfMfii Which Are Mo*< Dentil r < ^
(he lMcdlcnl 1'rofeMNlon.
The diseases which claim the most U
victims nraoiiK physicians relatively to ^
nil mules are gout and dialnites, and v
there is a high relative mortality from t
diseases of tlx? nervous system, clreula- j
tory system and kidneys, says the Bel- j
eutiflc American.
From the nuture of his habits the
n
physician is not subject to accidents,
and, though he is brought into contact
with Infection to a greater extent than c
other men, his preventive means are &
successful and his mortality from in- 0
feet ion is very low. Freedom from pro- longed
muscular strains and high blood ^
tension apparently saves him from u
arteriosclerosis; but suicide claims ^
many and so do the drug nubits ac- .
quired by the nervously exhausted. It
has been said that three-fourths of J
French morphine users are physicians.
The cause of the physician's early
death is evidently the excessive nerv- v
ous expenditure, insufficient rest and
defective nutrition, inseparable from s
his calling, with its broken and restrict- ^
e?l sleep, irregular hours of work, rest
and meals and worry when lives depend
upon his Judgment and the lack a
of a day of complete relaxation In each \
week. The physician who sees his pa- I
tients every day in the week, month r
alter month, and cannot learn to forget 1
them when be goes home merely burns c
the candle at both ends. He violates c
the law observed by every animal, that c
there shall be short periods of moder- ^
ate exertion Interrupted by longer periods
of rest when repairs are made. It ,
is not too much work as a rule, but ^
cattered work, which prevents rest. a
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I.oiik Speecheii. f
Much merriment has been caused by 0
the discovery that In the Egyptian
"Book of the Dead" an ancient declared
he had "not iulllcted long lectures" on
his hearers, but this Is curiously match- e
ed hy a plea for his soul uttered by 1
Hugh Grove (loyalist) at his execution '
May 10, 10t>5 (Vol. 3, Thurloe's Col- t
lections): "Good people, I was never r
guilty of much rhetorick, nor ever loved p
long speeches in my life, therfore you j
cannot expect either of them at my fj
death. All I desire is your hearty j
prayers for my soul," etc.
In view of the Egyptian discovery e
this seems a very close second for Eug- ('
land.?London Notes and Queries. b
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Our Flmt CoIun. )
The first coins really deserving the
name o. United States coinage were ^
struck off as "pattern pieces" by Ben- j
jamin Dudley at the instigation of
Itdhert Morris and were laid before
congress in 1783 as specimens of what 0
the coinage should bo. They were a b
"mark" and a "quint" and thus de- t
scribed: The "mark"?obverse; an eye, C
the center of a glory, 13 points cross Jl
equidistant n circle of as many stars. e
The "quint" is similar in design, the ^
value on reverse being noted.
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Care far IIyi?o<*lion<lrlH. y
A young lady of Cardiff who fancied 1
lie was ailing went to the surgery of ii
the family doctor and commenced the
interview with. "Doctor. I'm dying."
"Oh, indeed, I can recommend a very
respectable undertaker," blandly responded
the doctor. She felt quite well 1
after that.?Cardiff Mail.
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Oar SnrroandlnffR,
Even the strongest of us are not be- 1
yond the reach of our environment.
No matter how independent, strong "
willed and determined our nnture, wo ^
are constantly being modified by our J1
surroundings.?Success Magazine.'
Everytlilnfc Retnmed, ^
"Are you beginning to get any re- ^
turns from your literary work?" ^
"Yes, Indeed. I'm not getting any- ^
thing else."?Kansas City Times. v
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Oh, what men dare do. what men
may do, what men dally do. not knowing
what they do!?Shakespeare. P
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Keep tbe Record Stralgbt,
A short time ago the Connecticut
Association ' f ex-Union Prisoners of
V adopted a resolution protesting
gainst the proposition to build a moniment
toCapt. Wirz, the commandant
luring the war of the prison at Anlersonville,
Ga., where thousand Fedral
soldiers were contintd. The propsition
to build the monument origilated
witli the Georgia Daughters of
he Confederacy. The Connecticut
x-prlsoners protests against the "perpetuating
or thus honoring the name
f one than whom history lails to
eeord.a more maligant tiend;" and
leclares that "at this time, when the
titter memories of the past have been
oftened by the lapse of years, it can ^
te productive of no good to our united 1
ountry to endeavor to drag from ob- f
ivion the name of the blackest and
nost infamous character in history,
,nd thus to attempt to rebuild seeional
liris between the North and
South,las this project, if carried into
fTect, would most surely accoinpish."
As t he News and Courier says it dees
tot matter to Capt. Wirz whether a
nonument is erected*i6,his memory or
tot. It would not add anything to
lis glory or take anything away from
lis reputation. He has been cruelly
nisrepresented and he paid the penaly
of his life at a time of great popuar
madness for his faithful discharge
if duty. He is called a "malignantlend."
a "murderer," and "the blackst
and most infamous character in
listory;" and a monument must not
te erected in his honor. But a moniment
has been built to General SherII!)
|i t llO m !1 tl mlift /lirl nrtf 1 ?
V..V/ n.iu U1U IIVJU Ullljf IUISreat
Drisoners.but made relentless
var upon defenceless women and chilIreri.fc
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^Thirty years ago Bfjjflfcdl, of Oeoria,
?made' !aTspeech in the United
itates Senate at Washington, in
vhich'he reviewed the unhappy hisory
of Andersonville and placed the
dame for theh,errible sufferings of the
federal prisoners there precisely
vhere it belonged, upon the Federal
uthorities at Washington. The
federal Government made medicine
ontraband of war?"I am not aware,
aid Mr. Dill, "that any other nation
n the earth did such a thing before
-not even the Duke of Alva, sir."
Vhen "the Confederate Government
inable to produce medicine, according
o its right under the laws of nations
t undertook to run the blockade and
ts ships were captured and its medclnes
taken.
When it was suspected that the
vomen of the North "would ciury
lUinineJand other medicines of that
ort so much needed by the Federal
irisoners'ln the South. Federal otlleers
vere charged to capture the women
nd examine their petticoats, to keep
hem from carrying medicines to Oonederate
soldiers and to Federal prisoicrs,
and they were imprisoned." The
federal ^Government made clothing
ontraband of war, and refused to exhange
prisoners with Abe Confederacy
>11 the ground that the exchanged
Confederates would only strengthen
ho fnrnno* r\f 4 tin ?.. J ? 1 1 ...?
HIV iv/1VV/O^v/i iiic ciiumy iii one Tit 1CI.
Phe fact is the Federal authorities,,
bandoned their soldiers who had falen
into Confederate hands to their
ate and hanged Wirz because of their
iwn cruelty to their own people.
In spite of their heartless ^desertion
their soldiers who were in Confedrate
prisons, the facts show that
here was less morality among the
federal prisoners in Confederate hands
han there was among the Confederates
who were contlned in Northren
irisons. In the report of Mr. Edwin
A. Stanton, the Secretary of War unler
Mr. Lincoln, made on the 19th of
uly, 1866, he showed that of the Fedral
prisoners in Confederate hands,
luring the war only 22,576 died, while
f the Confederate prisoners in Fedral
hands 26,436 died. In round numicrs,
according to the report of Sureon
General Barri^, there were 220,00Confedeiate
prisoners in Federal
tands and 270.000 Federal prisoners in
Confederate h. nds 22,000 died, while
f the 220,000 Confer crates in Federal
lands over 26,000 died. The ratio Is
his. More than 12 per cent of the
Confederates in Federal hands died,
nd less than 0 per cent of the Fedrals
in Confederate hands d ed* This
aye The News and Courier, is the
ecord and it condemns the North utterly
and forever. Hut the war is over
nd we must let it go. If anybody
vants to build a monument to Capt*
Virz, let him build it. It will do no
larm.
Oovtiri.umnt Mftua
It may not W*known to some of
).ir Folks that the Government of
no United States is making a minite
survey of the entire country, and
i issuing complete and accurate
naps of the parts surveyed?including
every road, every farmhouse,
very cottage, creek, together with
vater shed and elevation;?and that*
hese maps are for sale, so far aa
irlnted, at a merely nominal prloe?a
ew cents eaoh. The person to write
4 i ?
u ior lmormation is Ohas. D. Walott,
director of the United State
leological Survey, Washington, D.
). It may be that youi partioular
elghborhood has not yet been sureyed
and map|>kd, but perhaps it is;
?e have tnlrt von bow to flr?r< out.
Some people ask your advice for the
urpose of working it off on others as
iriginal matter.