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HOLY ROLLERS. : < Blasphemous Wretch Shot Dead by the Brother of His PRETTIEST VICTIM, Then the Deluded Qlrl Kills Her Own Brother, and the People of Oregon Have Arisen to Break Up the Impious Religious Sect. The "Holy Rollers," religious dupes of the most Infamous creature In the shape of a man that ever used religion as a oloak tor his evil designs upon ( women and youDg girls, are at last scattered and disillusioned. John i Crettleld, their diabolical prophet. shot dead by bbo brother of his latest ' and fairest young victim; the avenger promptly acquitted by )udge and jury j and proolpimed a hero throughout the ( State of Oregon anc! about to be pres t entcd with a medal by popular sub \ soriptlon when his life was sacrificed i at tire hands of the crazed sister whom | he avenged?these are the Incredibly tragic events which have shocked the ] now prophetless "Holy Rollers" Into ( a realization of their folly. They know that if they permit i their delusions to return, that if they i continue their grotesque practices, < the thoroughly aroused people of Ore- , gon will scatter them to the four winds. In the midst of his debauch | eries, which hlsidupes excused in their prophet, John Gretlleld bad planned an awful sacrifice as a means of further strengthening his divine pretentions among his followers. Upon that altar in the "saoreri" grove near Corvallis, Ore., upon which, at his com mand, his followers bad given to the llames their most valuable goods, their degs and cats and other domestic pets, he had ordered the turning ullve of an infant child. TT.OOrnthlnu n aa rn.rl <> awtvi / vuiug ?? wu viuo&vu J v;*ujr xuv plans for thin diabolic sacrifice of Innocent babyhood were all prepared. It was to be tho beginning of the greatest glorification of this beast of a man. The baby was selected and being tenderly nurtured for the orgy. The"IIoly Rollers" were all chosen for the howling and dancing and general devilment. But for Just retribution, of which an outraged and resolute brother of his girl victim was the lnstru ment, by this time that Infant saorifloe would have beem made amid flames and satantio frothlngs. In all the history of the rise and fall of religious sects, none has been organized and dominated by so selfBeeking, cruel and libidinous a scoundrel as this same John Orfflleld. In order to have the fullest warrant with his dlsolples for his iniquities, he tirst declared himself to be John the Baptist born again, and to that character went cn adding divine attributes until his followers looked upon him as the Saviour reincarnated. When he deolared in a recent communion service that the bread his dupes were eating was actually the flesh of his body, and the wine they were drinking the very blood from his veins, their sut'jugatlon was complete. After that he knew that any atrocity, any license, and hideous blasphemy he might commit would have their full and enthusiastic sanction. In this newspaper three years ago the grotesque ceremonies of the Holy Boilers were fully exploited in connection with the Interrupted purpose of their prophet to make a human sacrifice, the victim marked for this awful fate being a beautiful young girl named Matilda Johnson. Up to that time the only living sacrifices had been pet dogs and cats and other animals treasured by his followers. These people had already made themselves such a nuisance to the people of Cor vallls with their frenzisd shouting and their contortions as they rolled over the fioor with demoniac actions at their meetings?together with the bad Influence of all this upon the susceptible women and girls of the neighborhood?that the prophet had been obliged to run away till the excitement died down. His return was the oooaslon for frantic rejololngs. Oreffield rose in the midst of his people "God bade me return. Human beings cannot harm us." The effect of this declaration was electrical. The altar In the grove was prepared for sacrllioe and the wood was lighted. Back of the altar, with arms tossed wildly above bis head, the prophet shouted: "Subjugate all lustful desires. All that has price contaminates the spirit ana binders oommunion with God." Thereupon, the frenzied dupes oast their personal belongings into the llames. Jewels, money, cloth inor, furniture and animal pets were sacrificed. Little girls threw their dolls into the fire. A pretty young woman sacrificed her mirror, the emblem of her worldly vanity. Boys gave their most cherished toys. O. V. Hurt, a well-to do meichant, of Corvallls, with his entire family, joined the "Holy Hollers," abandonlog his business. His name was entered on the "Holy Bolls" kept in the aanotuary, a tent in the grove, within wbloh it was profanation for any but the prophet to set his foot. But when It was noised about that Oreffleld was i preparing for a human saorlfioe, and * that Miss Matilda Johnson was mark- ; ?d for that horrible fate, the sane men of the neighborhood revolted. They brought and proved such charges against Oreffleld that he was sent to the penitentiary for two years. The "Holy Rollers" regarded him as a martyr, and held their organization together pending their leader'* release. When Creffleld got out of prison it was soon apparent that he was going to make the most of his "orown of martyrdom." His dupes were ready to believe anything he told them. The basest part of the man's nature now oame to the surface. He proclaimed himself the Savior, but as it was ordained that he would one day die like ordinary man it was necessary that there be a fitting successor. Hp preached with shameless and lnoredible hardihood that the future prophet would be, like Jesus of N .zaroth, born of a virgin. When that virgin appeared among his followers he would recognize and proclaim her. In spite of the outrageous profanity of this declaration it drove many young women and mere girls into a religious frenzy. Thev left their homes and joined the 'Holy Rollers." Soon the events were linking into a chain of evinltable tragedy. Among the young girls who oame under the evil influence of Orctlleld were Esther Mitohell and her married dster, who had left their home in Portland, Ore., to join the "noly Rollers." Their fanaticism was complete. Crellleld, now kuown to be a iegenerate of a type without a parall >1, had his wicked will with both of bhem, and they gloried In their situa Jon. Rumors of their sisters plight orought their three brothers? George, Perry and Fred Mitchell?from Portland to reclaim them. George, the eldest, was twenty-live, while Fred, the youngest-, was only a boy of seventeen. While the brothers tried to get their sisters to go home with them (Jreftleld boldly proclaimed that Esther Mitchell was Indeed the virgin whom the Almighty had ordained to bcoome the mother of his successor. Learning that their sisters were both victims of the worst passions of the prophets, and that they were now Infatuated, beyond redemption?completely crazed?George Mitchell boldly declared that ho would avenge 4 T T 1 J 1 J ?-i11 J bimuj. no waiu no wuuiu Kin urtiueiu on sight. Upon hearing this threat the prophet slipped away In the night to Seattle, Wash., taking his chief tool, his wife and Esther Mitchell with him. Iliding In a house in an obscure part of the city, he gave him self up to the worst excesses. In the midst of his orgies he sent messages to his followers at Corvallls that on his return, which would be soon, he would carry out God's command to offer up a human ncrilice. This would mark the summit cf his elevation as a true prophet, and thenceforth his people would be free from persecution and would absorb all other religious seots. For this saorllice they must obtain a male Infant When George Mitchell and his brothers followed Grcllleld to Seattle on their mission of vengeance the "Holy toilers" were in a frenzy of zeal to carry out their leader's awful command. For a week George Mitchell walked the streets of Seattle with his hand on his revolver. One day he met Cretlleld face to face, and without a word sent a bullet crashing through uiH uraiu. no sioou caimiy Detune t?ne body of the prophet till the police o&me and took him to jail. Never was there a more complete vindication of the crime of murder than resulted from that brief trial. Neither the sisters nor the widow of the prophet appeared In court. When Esther was asked to testify for her brother who had avenged her, she evlnoed only the utmost hatred for him. The elder Mitchell had arrived to do what he could for his son. Now that he was free, father and the three sons went in search of Esther. All met at the house where the widow of Creffleld, and Esther were living. Esther submitted to a partial reconciliation. She agreed to go home with them. On the following day all went to the station to take the train for Port i&na. wnue waiting for the train they sat together on a bench In the waiting room. The train rolled up to the station. Esther motioned to George to go first and look for seats. She was next behind him. As George lifted his foot to the oar step, Ester Mitohell drew a revolver from her skirts, placed the muzzle within a few inches of her brother's head, pulled the trigger and he rolled dead at her feet. The murderess of her brother was immediately arrested. As she was being taken away, her two living brothers, Perry and Fred, sat on a station bench weeping in each other's arms. This is the story Esther Mitchell told in her oell: Mrs. Oreffield and I talked over the matter of killing George. The one that had the best chanoe was to do it. Mrs. Oreffield bought the gun. We were at the room about 4 o'clock this afternoon on/1 T f KnnrfKf T <\nl^ auu jl vuvukiiv X wuum uavo A UStlVr I chance to do it than Mrs. Crcflleld, as j my brother wanted to see me and be-1 lieved that he would think nothing about my going to the depot. Then Mrs. Oreffleld gave me the gun and 1 was to do it. We agreed that it must be done as soon as possible. I took the gun yesterday and my brother Fred walked with me down to the depot when my father went away. ''They wanted me to see George then, and I did not want to, because I oould not get the gun unwrapped. I had the gun wrapped up and oonoealed, and I refused to see George. When I went home I took the gun and.placed it under the mattress. Then I took it out about noon Tuesday and kept it with me. My brother Fred was up to my room to-day and said that Perry ?nd George were going to Portland Tuesday, I went to the depot and nw Perry get his tioket. At last I saw \ George and 1 shock hands yjlth blm and i was walking to the door with him. He and Perry were walking In 'rnntanri Fred and I were walking behind. At that time 1 had the gun In my ooat. I was walking to the door I and G.orge was In front of me. "That was the ohanoe I wanted and 1 shot him. My brother Fred grab* bed me and I sat down on his lap and put my arms about his neok. 1 sat there and the oflloers came. I Intended to follow him to Portland If 1 did not get a ohance at him there. I do not regret the shooting; 1 am glad 1 did it. I am not Jmaoe, nor do I propose to try to escape punishment. George Mitchell murdered a holy man. He himself was a detiled one. I have fulfilled my mission, and 1 am satisfied " Later the widow of Creftleld signed with Either Mitchell a joint statement to the tffeol that they had conspired together to kill Esther's brother. That both the woman and the girl are insane It is hardly possible to doubt. Yet scnLiment against them In that region so infested with "Holy Rollers" Is so strong that It seems not improbable that both may go to the gallows. But these tragedies will prove to be the deathblow to this horrible seot, which had no other cause of being than to pander to the voloes of Its prophet. Crcffleld leaves no leader strong enough to combat public resentment?and there Is no fear now that any Infant life Is menaced by the decoased prohct's plans to make a human saorlfice. \Vill Cure tho KvIIh. The Florence Times says: "Quite a nrivul nrrootoH Hin ni.nu #.? UMrtr. UV TWA UI^UU giVUVWU WI1U V/V-O \JM. A' iv/l tntlnes this morning an they beheld several negro women under guard hoeing the streets and clearlDg the sidewalks cf grass. We believe It Is the first time anything like this method has ever been attempted, certainly in South Carolina. Mayor Biown says that it is the only way to stop vag rancy and crime among these immoral women. Heretofore they have been fined and fed by the city and did not mind it but from the sound of their muttered curses this morning, it would appear that there is a strenous objection to the new method. Several more were up before the mayor today and were given a similar sentence." Strong Drink In Newberry. Senator Tillman spoke at Young's Grove Newberry county last week to about J00 people. During his speech he referr. d to Maine, Iowa and Kan was, 8<.called prohibition States. At this point J. II. Chappell, of Newberry inrcrrupled him and said: "There was more drunkenness in the town of Newberry last Saturday than I have ever seen before, audi have been here for thirty years, and one prohibitionists who spoke against the dispensary in the campaign last summer two years ago is soiling the cider now that makes many of these drunk." Hiding in a Hwaiiip. A, special from Mllledgeville, Ga , says that Joe Morris, tiic negro youth, who recently attempted to assassinate the family of George llloDd worth, a farmer living a few miles from Macoo, Is hiding in a swamp near Mllledgevllle. A posse of men in buggies, on horses and afoot, all armed, surround the swamp. A report of a lynching has reached Milledgeville, but is unconfirmed. Bloodworth is in a orltiole condition from his wounds. I'wo Killo Vengeance for the murder he had commttted was visited swiftly upon an Italian named Salvatore Siammouco Tuesday after he had shot and mortally wounded his countryman, Salvatore Carodone, on South street, near Fulton market, New York. Hardly a minute after the shooting Siammonoo was stabbed in the heart ana instantly killed by Gulsseppe Tocjo. All three were peddlers who were buying tish at the market and engaged In an alteroatlon. I Il/it fa Ulwkt K tj uut/M Mrs. H. A. Leaptrot was shot and instantly killed and her husband probably fatally wounded Thursday night while sitting on the poroh of their residence near Oherry Valley, Ark. The shooting was done by three mounted men who tired from the front gate. The five Woolbright brothers were arrested on the oharge of complicity. Two years ago Leaptrot killed a member of the Woolbright family. More Thau Kvor. The Newberry Observer in reporting Mr. T. J. Harmon's speech who is a candidate for the legislature, says he "announocd himself in favor of the dispensary. Said more liquor is oeing cirunK now in Newberry county from blind tigers than was drunk in the days of barrooms 01 the dispensary; that every express cflBoe has become a barrom, and the express company Is getting rich. Tried to Assault Woman. When the steamer Henry M. Stanley was Wednesday two miles from Galliopolis, ()., a negro entered the cabin of a woman passenger and attempted to assault her. He was discovered and driven over the side of the boat by the captain. As no trace could afterward be found of the negro it Is belioved that he was drowned. Boy Hero Drowns With Bister. While a brother and sister named Sherks, aged seventeen and eighteen years, were bathing in Lake Erie, off Point Abino, Tuesday, they were : drowned. The sister was being oar[ rled out by the undertow when the boy went to her assistanoe. Their I bodies have not been rooovered. A C01T0N HARVB8TBR ' A N? w ProopM of Floklng Cotton Has Boon Invented. The following article appearing In the weeks Issue of the Manufacturers' ] Reoord, as a special from St- Louis, will be of Interest to the ootton grower b of the South: To meet the constantly growing demand for greater eoonomy of labor In harvesting cotton, the American Ootton Separator Co., of St. Louis, Mo., L. D. Klngsland president, through its general manager, Mr. W. A. Pat terson, has invented, secured patents and built marine.? upon the prlnolple of saving of the cotton crop on the same basis as wheat and other cereals have been saved for years. All grain, as everybody, knows, Is separated from Its natural hull by wheat or oorn separators, and the Inquiry tirst started In Mr. Patterson's mind was, Why not separate ootton from its hull by a similar method? From this Idea has been developed a cotton separator, and tho American Cotton Separator Co., of St. Louis, Mo., is now prepared to give to the planter or the ginner a machine that will accomplish this c work. c This method of securing the cotton t i^rrm frnm f hn t.lmo t.ho hnll Hroinnariu t v v" v v* v? w?iv/ wi i utuv v/pvun until the last boll of half unripe open 1 ed cotton after frost lias struck It Is d to gather or snap from the stalk the v boll, deliver It Into a wagon, or car, H lake It to the cotton separator, which ? sucks the cotton from the wagon or s oar and passes It through the machine and bf parates the boll from the lint, t In the process practically demonstrat > ed by the cotton separator not only ^ effective work has been done, but It Is especially effective after the frost has e struck It, as It raises the qualtity of t this cotton at least one grade, and In c 8( me instances has raised It two r grades. It Is believed that It will be t admitted by all cotton-raisers that a c man, woman or child can gather or ? snap the bi lls from the stem two or I three times as much weight during 1 a day as can be picked In the ordinary c way. It is also a well known fact I that It requires nimble lingers to pick 1 Cotton rapidly and successfully, and s even then more or less cotton Is left t In the boll. By the new method an t old man or woman, as well as a child ? of 12 or 14 years old, can pluok the 1 ool) and cotton frc m the stem. 1 rP ) 1 C/M i Mi 1 ( lr/> n I 1 V \ n (a / v M 1 /4 (n l\/\ I' a ur, guutu, iiilc ait uiix: nruiiu, in uo ginning to be seriously affeoted wltb 1 labor troubles, and durlDg tlie cotton- f picking season often It Is dillloulfc to e secure a sulliotent number of banc's to c properly and quickly take care of the t developed orop. Even though a plant c er has been fortunate enough to ob- e tain a requisite number of hands for e his orop, he Is more or less annoyed 1 by their failure to constantly attend to the duty he has employed them * for. This Is not only exasperating, b hut is detrimental in the extreme to ? the savin* of the product of his year's i eifurt in the planting and developing of Ills crop. It Is claimed that It re- v quires three men to pick the cotton * rsised by one. With the new method e it Is claimed that the man that raises f the crop can plucie or gather it, and c that the separator will put his cotton In & better ooudltlon for ginning than v Is now done by the ordinary way of ? picking. N N It is estimated that at least 2,000, c 000 bales of cotton are lost through- 1 out the South overy year, known as > frostbitten cotton and scattered oot ? ton left in the Held unpicked by the c picker. With the Amerioa.i Cotton t Separator all of this cotton cau be ' saved, it is claimed, thereby giving 1 the planter the full fruit of his labor 1 and to the South millions of dollars that otherwise would be lost. It Is * an acknowlrdgcd fact that the cotton t boll possesses a nutritious character similar to that possessed by the seed. c This can be util.zed after having pass t ed through the sepaiator by grinding f it up and feeding to cattle, which is t! an additional great saving claimed t by the American Cotton Separator, c This cotton separator uses a series of j saws operated by a pneumatic system 4 o An Election How. p At Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday u J. G. Wellington, a saloon keeper, o was killed. W. J. Cooke, a Judue of n election is fatally wounded and a third o man less seriously injured in a fight at * a polling plaoet a few mlnutts afte n the dosing of the polls for the elee- o tion of county officers. B. E. Conn, Q the third man wounded was another p judge of election. He was not ser- * louHly hurt. The trouble arose over jj the county eleotlon, which was held n Thursday. Wellington insisted on be- t Ing present at the count of the bal- r lots and in an argument, Wellington p is said to have drawo a revolver and ii begun shooting. According to the b story told to the police, Conn rushed ii out of the polling place, secured a shotgun and began firing. The first t shot fairly riddled Wellington with t buckshot. Wellington kept on firing v Ait t _"? J -1 ?- - - - A\ uabii no urrpptu ana waea uie smoKe c of battle cleared away, Cooke was a found on the floor desperately wound- t ed, a bullet from Wellington's levol- c ver having pierced his side. a Oar Whisker Tax. To prove that the dispensary had deoreased the consumption of liquor c in South Carolina, Mr. Weston, can- r dldate for the Senate in Richland County, quoted from the figures of t the last United States oensua, which j showed that the average annual g drink bill of the people of the entire United States was $17.33 per capita, . while for South Carolina it was only J $2.98. ? W. R. Hearst will be the next [ governor of New York, and he will y make a good one too. i * raifi DEMON ALCOHOL ro BK PUT TO NEW AND USE! UL HfiRVIOB Made to Bun Engine* light Our Homes and Cook Our Food. All of our leaders who are familiar with the Arabian Nights' Entertain xients, and all who are cot have miss 1 id a great pleasure, will remember a itory of a genie who oould contract ilmself into a space so small as to be jontalned in a vial, but on being reeased, expanded like & modern explosive until he became a large giant, iversbadowlng the earth. While 1 jon lined in the bottle he was harmess, but when he got out^he threatened danger to all who approach. iVe have often thought! that this 1 'orclful narrative of Queen Sohehere:ade prefigured the spirit of alcohol. The Araoians first discovered this | potential agent, which is well deeorib:d uuder the image of the demon in j ifte bottle. Alcohol is not dangerous vhen bottled up, but when it gets out 1 if the bottle and into tbe man or 1 ither animal, there is a multipiicaion of devils, like those described in 1 he New Testament. It is more than { ikely that the belief in a personal ' Itvil, so prevalent in ancient davs, vas typified by this subtle spirit of | uch deadly potentialities. Cassio, in ' ihakespeare'a "Othello," gives utter- 1 .nee to this thought, when he says: 'Oh, thou iuvislble spirit of wine, if hou hast no other name by which ou are called, lot me name thee ; levil." j But the devilish disposition is to be ' ixtraoted from alcohol that it may oe amed to the uses of man A marvel- 1 ills transformation iu to occur by esson of the law receutly enacted by Jougress. By the process kuuwn as 1 lonaturizlng, alcohol Is to oe dehorn 1 id, an It were, have Its teeth pulled, lave the devil laktn out of It. Havug Injured man so greatly during tne leuturien, It is now to redeem Itself jy helping him. Originally it was ised to kindle internal tires, to set the inui allamu, to addle the brain, to nake maniacs. Njw, bltaocd change, lie tire is to be kindled on the out,ide to mike heat and power. Aloo10I is all right if left out of the blood, .t works beautifully In a stove, in a leater, unuer an engine, in a lamp, t will be especially beneficial lor armors, as it is especially well adapt d for doing what farmers constantly iced to have done. In many ways he minohievous old giant can be ailed down, put in harness aid forcd to do beneticlal work for the hunan race to make up for the damage nlhcted by ages of misuse. A lamp Is now made that produces , strong, high-grade light from acj10I, and the experts say a gallon of aiohol is wortn two of kerosene for ight.ing purposes. The thousands of mall power engines heretofore run vith gasoline, can all he served better .nd more cheaply wicu alcohol. These nglness are especially adapted to arm purposes, ror pumping warer, utling feed, Ullir>K silos, threshing :ralu, and the multiplied uses to vuich a stationary power on farms is adopted. The principle objection to gasoline, aside from the cost, is the i auger to the farm building from tire V gasoline tire cannot be quenohed vith water. On the other hand, water .eerns to scatter the gasoline and in ireane the danger. But an alcohol Ire is easily put out by the use of water. Experiments show that a galon of alcohol will produce at least 10 )er cent, more power tnau a gallon of [auoline. On the subjeot of heat, the howing Is equally favorable, the ques >lon being simply cne of relative cost. On this latter head accurate lnfornation was gathered by the commitee of Congress, wn.'cu will be of as>ecial Interest to our readers. A large llstlllery at Peoria kept a record for en year, which shows an average oost if 42 36 oents a buanel for corn used, L'he average production of aioohol was .76 proof gallons from a bushel of oru. The oost averaged 10.78 oents er prooJ gallon of aioouoi. Tne corn ised In making one gallon of proof al ohol was .21 of a bushel, ousting 8 89 ents; deducting this cost from 10.78 ents, the total oost of the a.oohoi, re have 1 89 cents as the oost of laking one gallon of proof alcohol ver and above the cost of the grain, here will, of course, be variations in rioe. acnnrrilriu in t.hA nrlAA nt niim lut other farm proriuots may be util led In making alcohol, a low grade of aolasses being especially adapted for ( he purpose, and many other things aised by farmera will answer the purpose. Thus the far(ner is benefitted a two ways, by increased demand for lis products to make the alcohol and acreased uses of the latter wheu aade. So it is manifest that with ax-free alcohol, and the people awake o prevent trusts and corners, there rill be opening to us an era of cheap aotor, light and heat proouotlon uoh as the world has not seen, and here Is no people In the world that an put such things to so mauy uses 1 a our American farmers. Blind llKom. | The Mayor of Newberry had four ( legroes up before him Wednesday for i unnlng blind tigers. They plead | :uiii>y and they were lined from $25 i o $100 each. If this Is kept up y dewberry will get rid of her blind ti :ers. It is now explained that Secretary raft was sent to North Carolina, be- J ;ause those " Blackburn people" had >een endorsing at some of their coun- ' .y conventions Vice-President Fair- ] ?nks as successor to President Roose- ' relt. The question is has Taft itopped the revolt. 11 TILLMAN WAWT8 MANNING. And a Dfsoenaary Lifjctel ature Will Be Kleoted. The Washington correspondent of the Charleston Post says Col. II. Y. Simpson, one of the mcst prominent lawyers of the Laurens hjur, is in Washington, with his family on his X way to Atlantic City. While in Washington Col. Simpson stopped his routine of sight seeing long enough to tell something about bow politics are going down in South Carolina. "Senator Tillman was in Laurens a short time ago and spoke to the purple there," said Col. Simpson. "While from the crowd that attended the mn-tirg he appeared to* have a good many followers still, there Is not nearly the same enthusiasm noticeable that there once was when he appear* d In public. "The future of the dispensary and the question of who is to be the next Governor of the Svote are the two absorbing topics of interv-t. Senator Tillman m*y be able to pull Manning Into otllce^s the next Governor?that jeems to be what he is trying to do, though he has never said out and out that. Manning is his choice. It I s generally conceded, however in the State that Manning is his favorite. Whether or not the Senator's Influence together with that possessed by the Sumter man will rr?ke the latter the successor of Gov. Ii?yward, can not be told at this time. 'NfllYlot.tmo ?<./-? thn r^t T n .. rens voted out the dispensary, but Its advocates took the matter luto court, and It was held that the election under which the vote was tak< n was Invalid, hence the dispensary should uot be closed. It Is still open, but I think It only Jiuestlou of time when it will receive a majority of the votes :)f the people for it to close. Many of the counties In the State have already voted the dispensary out, the people :if those counties believing that the llspens&ry was not the best solution A the liquor question. "While It has not generally been cnown that Manning was the choice jf Senator Tillman, I think there is ao question of that being the case. I ilso think that perhaps the future jperation of the dispensary depends lOmewhat on whether or not Manning s elected and his Ideas adopted. Uuess he Is elected the dispensary may 3ave a liari tight though 1 do not loubt that the coming primary elections In tna different counties throughout the State will send dis* >ensary men to the Legislature. A()vioo to Voiiiik n 'Mi "Young men keep out of politics,'* jays Senator Piatt. That adviceyou Id be all right if Piatt had advised young men to keep out of lie pub lean machine politics, which are otten to the coro. Every citizen of i Republic should take enough ntercst in politics to investigate the policies of parties and vote?always roto?according to the result of his nvestigations. Young men cspecialy take an interest in the politics, for t is upon the young men of today ill at the government of the Repubic will rest tomorrow. Somo young nan of today will bo in a few years, president of this great county, or hovill be Senator, or lie will bo Congressman, or Governor of his state. What would happen if the young nen of of the country "keep out of politics?" Young men should invest igate how so-called Republican poley of protection that Piatt and otlijr Republican leaders stand for taxis them for the benefit of protected nterests. Young men should know vhy the cost of living is so great? , 18 per cent higher than when tlio >resent tariff law was enacted?and heir salaries have not increased irt ike proportion. Young men should nquire why they are compelled to iontinue in tlio employ men t of otliirs all their lives instead of as fornerly looking forward to bp their >wn masters. It is not td^ the inenest of Senator Piatt or the Repubican leaders that young men inves igate the plundering system that lie Republican party stands for, herefore they say keep out of pollics. Poisoned Them. At Jacksonville, Fla , Thomas Callaway and Fred Walters, hostlers it a livery stable, are suffering in<ense agony and are in a dying con nuon irom drinking whiskey given a tbem by Arthur Klne, hostler at >n opposition stable. Klne has been arrested and sent to jail jvlthqtot ball ;o await results. Investigation shows hat a law buanity of oroton oil was nix^d with the whiskey. What )rompted the deed is not known. Hoy Drowned. While bathing, with a launoh party o the North River, c ff Dyckman street Wednesday Fritz Ilolsteu, sixteen fears old, of No. 600 Fist O >o Flunired aDd Forty first street, Nsw York lived (IT the beat In twelve feet of water and did not come up. It is supposed that he struck the bottom was stunned and drowned. His body, was not recovered. Negro Killed by a Train. 4 An unknown negro man was killed ny an outgoing freight train in the 3outhern yards Wednesday morning ibout 8 o'clock at Atlanta, Ga. The negro fell from a oar, the wheels passing over his left leg above the ankle. No one knew anything of the dead man.