The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 17, 1908, Image 3
TAFl'S PLEA
4 ?
For Whits Republican Party in
the South.
CAN SEE NO DANGER
Of Negro Domination, ami Suys llare
Problem 1h Kli minuted Politically.
He Asserts That This HtntionS
^ Interests Art? No Longer Hound
l*p in Democracy.
New York, Dec. 7.?Presidentelect
William H. Tuft, who came to
New York today to address the
North Carolina society of this city,
was given a tumultous reception tonight
by the members of the organization
and prominent men from ail
parts of tho South at the annual dinner
of the North Carolinnns at the
Hotel Astor. Five hundred members
and guests of the society tilled the
brilliantly decorated banquet hall,
which was redolent of the pines of
the resinous trees forming the backv
/ground for more fragrant blooms,
which were scattered everywhere over
snowy linens and llag-draped
walls. Intertwined ensigns of the
State and nation wrro conspicuous
in the decorations of the banquet
hall, and larger llags were displayed
in front of the hotel throughout the
day and evening.
Mr. Taft, in the ourso of an
address, which was confined entirely
to the South and its problems
urged again that the voters of the
South should break away from the
outlived sentiment and traditions
of th*'ir past political affiliations and
cast their ballots in accordance
rather with their economic and real
political beliefs.
Mr. Taft declared that nothing
would give him greater pride during
his coming term in the chief executive
office than so to direct the policy
of the national government with respect
to the Southern States as to
convince the intelligent citizens of
the South of the desire of his adminstraton
to aid them in working
out satisfactorily the serious problems
before them and of bringing
them and their Northern fellow citizens
closer and closer in sympathy
and point of view.
White Supremacy Assured.
"I am not going to rehears the
painful history of Reconstruction or
what followed it. I come at once
to the present condition of things,
stated from a constitutional and political
standpoint. And that is this:
That in all Southern States, it is
possible, by election laws prescribing
proper qualifications for the suffrage,
which square with the 15th
amendment and which shall h-j
equally administered as between the
black and white races, to prevent
entirely the possibility of a domination
of Southern State, county or
municipality governments hv an ignorant
electorate, white or black.
It is also true that the sooner such
laws when adopted are applied with
exact equality and justice to the
two races the better for the moral
tone of the State and community
concerned. Negroes should be given
an opportunity equally with whites
by education and thrift to meet the
requirements of eligibility which
shall lay down in order to secure
the safe exercise of the electoral
franchise. The negro should ask
for nothing other than an equa.
chance to qualify himself for the
fr?o#hise and when that is granted
bjJRov and not denied by executive
diM-rimination. ho has nothing to
;f| complain of.
"The proposal to repeal tlio lath
amendment is utterly impracticable
and should "bo relegated to the limbo
of forgotten Issues. What we are
considering is something practical
something that means attainable
progress. It seem: to me to follow,
therefore, that there is or ought to
jflv
;/ he a common ground upon which we
can all ttand in respect to the race
question in the South and its political
bearing that takes away any
justification for maintaining the contil^'d
solidity of the South to prethe
so-called negro domination.
Tito fear that in some way or other
a social equality between the races
shall be enforced by law or brought
about by political measures reallv
bus no foundation nxoont in tbn tm
agination of those who fonr such a
result. The federal government has
nothing to do with social equality.
The war amendments do not declare
in favor of social equality; all that
the law or constitution attempts to
secure is equality of opportunity hefore
the law and in the pursuit of
happiness and in the enjoyment of
life, liberty and prosperity. Social
equality Is something that grows out
of voluntary concessions by the individuals
forming society.
nsons of Sentiment."
th the elimination of the race
question can wo say that there nr?
removed all the reasons why the
peoplifj^of the South are reluctant
to givo up their political solidity
and divide themselves on party lines
in accordance with their economic
and political views? No, there ar"
other reasons; perhaps only reasons
of sentiment, hut with the Southern
people, who are a high strung, sen\
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stive and outsjiokou people, consid
erutions of sentiment are frequently
quite as strong us those of some
political or bconomic character.
In the tlrat place, it is now nearly
4 0 years since the Bouth acquired
Its political solidity and the iutousity
of feeling by which it was main
talued and the ostracism and social
proscription imposed on those white
Southerners who did not sympathize
with tfm necessity for such solidity
could not but make lasting impression
and create a permanent bias
that would naturally outlast the reason
for its original existence."
Mr. Taft referred to the trials
of the Reconstruction period which
accentuated the greater trial of the
past, and the slow returns of prosperity
to the South following the
civil strife, as further agencies that
help to keep alive the feeling engendered
by that controversy, and
continued:
But times change and men change
with them in any community, however
fixed its thoughts or habits,
and many circumstances have blessed
us with tiller influence in this matter.
The growth of the South since
1900 has been marvelous. The manufacturing
capital in 1SS0 was $1C?0,000.000;
in 1890, $f>r>0,000.000; In
1000, $ 1.150,000,000, and in 1 908,
$2,1 00,'000,000, while the values of
the manufacturers increased from
$150,000,000 in 1 880, to $900,000.000
in 1890, to $1,450,000,000 In
1900. and to $2,600,000,000 In 1908.
"The farm products In 1880 were
$660,000,000; in 1 890, $770,000,
000; in 1 900, $1,270,000,000, and
1 908, $2,200,000,000. The export*
from the South in 1 880 were $260,000.000
of dollars; in 1890. $206,000.000;
In 1900, $184,000,000, an 1
in 1908, $6 18,000,000.
"In this marvelous growth the
manufacturers of the South now ex
coed the agricultural products and
thus a complete change has com"
over the character of her Industries.
The South has become rich, and onl>
the surface of her wealth has been
scratched. Tier growth has exceeded
that of the rest of the country, and
she is now in every way sharing in
its prosperity.
State Kiglits an<l Democracy.
"Again, the Democratic party has
not preserved inviolate its traditional
doctrines as to State tights and other
issues and has for the time adopted
new doctrines of possibily doubtful
economic truth and wisdom.
Southern men adhering to the party
flllit I h <> linrnii flu/1 Ihrnnonlrna
through the influence of tratdition
and the fear of a restoration of conditions
which are now impossible,
supporting a platform and candidate
whose political and economic
theories they distrust. Under these
conditions there was in the last
campaign and there is throughout
the South among many of its most
intelligent citizens an impatience, a
nervousness and ti restlessness i "
voting for one ticket and rejoicing ii.
the success of another.
"Now I am not one of those who
are disposed to criticise or emphasize
the inconsistency of the position
in which these gentlemen find tliem'selves.
I believe it would be wise
if all who sympathize with one party
and its principles were to vote its
ticket, but I can readily understand
t lie weight and inertia of the tradition
and the social considerationthat
makes them hesitate. 1 believe
that the movement, away front
from political solidity has started
and ought to be encouraged and I
think one way to encourage it is to
have the South understand that Iho
attitude of the North and the Republican
party toward it is not one
of hostility or criticism or opposition,
political or otherwise; that they
believe in the maintenance of the
15th amendment, but that, as already
explained, they do not deem
that amendment to be inconsistent
with the South's obtaining and main
taining what it regards as its political
safety from domination of an
ignorant electorate; that the North
yearns for closer association with the
South; that its citizens deprecate
that resorve on tho subject of poletioh
which ho long has boon maintained
in tho otherwise delightful
social relations between Southerner*;
and Northerners an they are more
and mora frequently thrown together.
"In welcoming to a change of
party afTlliation many Southerners
who have been Democrats vo are
brought face to face with a delicate
situation which wo can only meet
with frankness and lust ice. In our
nnxiiety to bring the Democratic
Southerners into new political relations
wo should have and can have
no desire to puss by or ignore the
comparatively few white Southerners
who from principle has consistently
stood for our principles in the
South when it brought them social
ostracism and a loss of all nrestuac.
Nor can wo sympathize with an effort
to exclude front the support of Itepublicanism
in the South or to road
out of the party those colored voters
j who by their education and thrift
have made themselves eligible to exercise
the electoral franchise.
Matters of Education.
"We believe that the solution of
the race question in the South is
largely a matter of industrial and
thorough education. Some Southerners
who have ginn expr -sslon to
their thoughts seem to thing that
the only solution o." the nog") qucst'on
i.-i liis migration to AMca; but
to mo such a proposition is utterly
fatuous. The negro Is essential to
1UO BIG A LIAR
roil IIIM TO TACKIiti K.VYS FD1TOK
LAFFAN,
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Who, lit l>igiiitlcil hut Scorching
Wools, Hoasts Koosovelt, Refusing
to Handy Kpithets With Him.
Mr. Lallan replies to the President's
letter as follows:
"The editor of the Sun present.!
his compliments to Mr. ltoosevelt
and acknowledges his active s nihility
in respect of the attention
which Mr. Mooscvclt has heen good
enough to jHiy him in his letter to
the Hon. WinAm Dudley Foulke, of
Indiana.
"Notwithstanding the directness
of this challenge, the editor of thSun
declines a controversy with Mr.
Roosevelt. lie is by no means indifferent
tc tae implied complinfut
discernible in Mr. Roosevelt's tirade,
but Mr. Roosevelt has shown in his
frequent collusions with various persons
of distinction that he has an
overwhelming advantage over any
respectable antagonist in his, Mr.
Roosevelt's complete freedom from
any sense of personal obligation in
respect of tne truth. . ..e editor of
the Stin is fully alive to the extremi
ty of tho inconvenience which attaches
to a personal controversy with
a man who has shown himself canable
of suppression and perversion
of individual correspondence, an act
which, in ordinary life, would, in
the cognizance of any club or association
of self-respecting gentlemen,
entail his prompt erpulsion.
"In raying these things we cannot
disguise1 our chagrin and humiliation
that the person wt o is addressed
is also the President of tti
United State s
"It is curious that the Mr. FoulK 1
is a preferred repository of th<io-<
confidence's of the Presielent. ft was
to him that Mr. Roosevelt sent h.s
memorable letter denying that lie
was using the- Feeleral patronage !>
aid Mr. Taft's candidacy, a letter
which at once took its place among
the me>st valued incunabula of veractiv."
WO IA UK IX IHvATII COM IIAT.
Piece of Meat Causes Conflict at
the Hronx Zoo.
Now York, Dec. 7.?Hundreds of
visitors to the llronx zoo yosterdav
saw two gray wolves fight for twenty
minutes after clashing over a pi?-ee
of meat.
Despite the efforts of the keepers,
who turned the hose on them the
animals continued to battle until
one of them was so hady injured that
it. was necessary to administer ehlo
rotnorm to end its suffering';.
One of its legs had been bittmi
olT as clean as if severed by a ke -n
knife. The other wolfe was badly
mangled but may be saved.
the South in order that it ni.t.v have
proper labor. Th'ir ancestors wet"
brought here against their will.
They have no country but this.
They know no flag but ours. They
wish to live under it and are willing
to die for it. They nr) Americans.
The proposition to increase
the supply of labor in the South by
eirig'atson from Eiirc.ic, is seems to
me, instead of being In:micnl to ' localise
of the negro, will aid him. As
the inrlnntrlea r?t* tV??? Qntuli
.....?? ~ . . v,., v?. u i 11 v \ * 11 *. i 11 111:
to grow in the marvelous ratio ali
eady n.w.vn the demand for labor
must in rease.
"Primarily an industrial education
for the masses, higher education
for the leaders of the n *gro
race, for their piofeasional men,
their clergymen, their physicians,
their lawyers and their teachers, will
make tip a system under which thoi:
improvement, which statist'es show
to hav" been most not?wovthy in
lie iast 40 years, will continue at
the sitno rate.
'On the whole, then, the heot
public ruinion of the North and the
best public opinion of the South
seems to be coming together in "e
spect to an tne economic and political
questions growing out of present
race conditions.
"The recent election has made i?
probable that I shall become more
or lens responsible for the policy of
the next presidential administration
and I improve this opportunity to
say that nothing will give me greater
pride, because nothing will give me
more claim to the gratitude of mv
fellow citizens, if I could so direc
that policy in respect to the South
ern States as to convince their intelligent
citizens of the desire of the
administration to aid them in working
out satisfactorily the aeriou
problems before them and of bringing
them and their Northern fellow
citizens closer and closer in sympa
they and point of view. During tielast
decade, in common with lov-r.
of our country, i have watched with
delight and thanksgiving the bond
of union between the two sections
grow firmer. I pray that it may b given
to me to strengthen this movement,
to obliterate all sectional lines
and leave nthing of dlfferenc s between
the North and South save a
friendly emulation for the benefit of
our common country."
NAILWAY HtPORTS
ON PKItHONH KILLED AND lVJl'KED
BY THEM.
totals (iivcii on Number of Employ*^,
Postal Clerks mill Passengers
for Twelve Mouths.
Columbia, Dec. 11.?The railroad
commission is dally recoiviug reports
from tin; railroad companies on business
done in this State for the year
ending June 30. 100S. There are
3 2 of these reports and about onehalf
have been received. The blanks
are prepared by the interstate commerce
commission, which was very
late in issuing them to the State
commission. All the large roads
having reported and the copy is iiov.
being prepared for the State pi inter.
One of the interesting tables
sent in gives the number oi pert-em;
killed and injured for 12 months
Some of these roads give the following
figures:
Atlantic Coast Lino railway?Employes
killed, 2; injured. 329; passengers
injured, 29; other persons
killed, 6; injured, 20; total killed,]
; injured, as7.
Blue Ridge railroad Railway employes
killed, I; injured, I; oth?r|
persons killed, 2; injur'd, 3; total
killed, 2; injured. 4.
(Carolina & Northwestern railroad |
Railway employes injured, 6; pas-'
senders injured, 1; total injured. 1. i
Charleston & Western Carolina
railroad Railway employes killed,
1; injured, 24; passengers injured
11; other persons killed, 1; total
killed, 2; injured, f>:>.
Carolina Coast & Northern railway
Railway employes injured, 'J.
(Ireenville & Knoxville railroad
Kniployes injured, I.
Lancaster and Chester railroad
employes Injured. I.
Seaboard Air Line railroad Railroad
employes killed, 4; injured, (?2,
passengers injured. 8; postal clerks
injured, 1; other persons killed, 8
injured. 17; total killed, 12; injured,
88.
Southern railway? Railway employes
killed. 11; injured, 3h8; passengers
injured, 73; postal clerks
injured, 13; other persons killed.
13; injured, 21; total killed, 32;
injured, {>50.
The following roads report no accidents
to persons: Aleolu railroad.
Carolina & Western, Charleston
Terminal Company, (Jeorgetown A.
Western, Northwestern railroad of
South Carolina and I'nion & (llenn
Springs railroad.
Reports have not been received
from the Southern railway, Carolina
division, the Southern railway in
South Carolina, the Atlanta \
rnariotte Air l.inc and several others.?The
State. f
MAIL CAKKIKIl III KT.
Thrown From llis lluggy and IVrliaps
Fatally Injured.
Spartanburg, Dec. 7.?Jesse L. I
Wood, a well known letter carrier,
was thrown front his buggy early
Sunday morning and seriously injured.
The horse Mr. Wood was
driving took fright on east Main
street, just in front of the First
Presbyterian church. lie was
thrown violently to the sidewalk and
knocked unconscious. When taken
to his home it was discovered that
three of his ribs had been broken
and one of his shoulders terribly injured.
lie is threatened with pneumonia,
which makes his condition
trebly worse.?The State.
A Khymcd Wedding.
According to the Mexico Lodger
jonn aiooio, a \\ eiiston magistrate,
united a negro couple with this cor- |
eniony.
.Tim. will you take 13rt
Without any regret,
To love and to cherish !
'Till one of you perish,
And is laid under the sod,
So help you <Joel ?
Jim having given the usual affirmative
answer, Judge Stoble tinned
to Hot:
Ret, will you take Jim
And cling to him,
Roth out and in,
Through thick and thin,
Holding him to your heart.,
"rill death you part?
Ret modestly acuuiescod, and the
new lv mr?rvl'*l r> r? 11 n 1 <
?r ^ vwii|H' MIC III.")"
missed with thi>- benediction:
Through life's alternative joy and
strife,
I now pronounce you man and wife.
Oo tip life's hill till you get to Uric
vol
And saints your bride, you dusky
devil.
Dairy Pointers.
Whatever wo should give our
cows to eat we should never neglect
to proviod them with plenty of water
and pure nir.
Ventilation and cleanliness nr*
two matters which are going to cut
an important figure in the future
dairy business.
It may be set down as an absolute
fact, that an animal in an unsound
condition cannot give pure milk. *
Ronn-time. a man can perff.-m his
duly with a fairly decent grace if
ho can't find anything else to do.
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THIS PANAMA SCANDAL.
Former Senator Discusses Pending
Inquiry Into Matter. ,
Omaha, Neb., hoc. 10. Former
Senator J. II. Millard, of N< braska
who was chairman of the senate committee
on the Panama canal, when
the investigation was made by the
senate as to the d tails of the manner
in which this government acquire
I the IVn.i'i. ? canal, said in an
interview that "ie French govern
met ,i > no! u necttd !a any w;i> j
with the deal which was made j
throtiKh William Nelson Cromwel'. 1
who noted for the canal company,
and who blocked evevy effort r?f ' e .
com mil t *C to , t; *e the Iivt of st ock
hobe if. I the company to whom the
the $40,000,000 was paid.
S< nat'-r Millard says many of the
stat moots contained in President >
Roosevelt's letter to Foulk, wete (
wrony, among them being the statement
'hat the $40,000,000 was pail
| ihe French governm tit. Mr. W'illard
says this money was paid .1. P.
I Morgan & Co.
"The French government had 1
nothing to do with the sale of tie
canal property.' 'said Senator Mil- 1
lard. "About the only man who had
anything to do with that, so far as
our committee was able to find was
W illiam Nelson Cromwell. W'e were
never able to find the names of th>
stockholders of the company, which
he represented.
"I am certain there was no grafting
on the part of any government
ollicial in this country."
"Was Douglas Robinson or an> j
of the Tafts members of the syndicate?"
was asked Senator Millard, j
"1 don't know. W'e never could
get Cromwell to answer a question I
as to who the memb rs of the j
syndicate were. t'romwell knows.
(Jet hold of him or make him
answer, and you will know all about
the Panama deal."
PANAMA IN YIOSTKJATION.
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Democrats Want Inquiry Into 'I lint i
$10,?()(),000 Purchase.
Washington, Dec. 7. ? Democrats
of the House are planning to demand ,
an investigation of the purchase of
the Panama canal property and t-i ,
conformity with this program Representative
Rainey. of Illinois, in- ,
trod need a resolution directing the
Speaker to appoint a committee of ,
live to 'ascertain how much of the
$40,000,000 which appears on the ,
record to have hen paid to the
French company, was really paid to i
that company." (
It is said that the National Democratic
committee requested Itainey
Jo present the resolution, which (
provides that the committee shah <
ascertain if any portion of the $4 0,000,000
was directly or indirect 1\
paid to American citizens, to an
American syndicate, and if any
| member, or Senator, profited by the
t ransactioa.
<;<>\ HKNMIONT DYKKS llltKAK.
Five Dwellings and Lumber Plant
A idk Cii-iXk* % .?? #
Pino Bluff, Ark., Doc. 7.?The
government dyke at the foot of
Tennessee street gave way late today
and tonight the waters of the
Arkansas river are fast eating their
way toward t lie mouth of llardings
Bayou which crosses the city. Today
live dwelling houses and the
warehouse of the Arkansas Packet
Company, were swept away and tin
greater portion of the Candy Hardwood
mill was destroyed. Barracque
street for a distance of five
blocks east of Georgia street has
been completely destroyed and the
buildings on the south side of th*
street are being moved back as rapidly
as possible, with the water following
closely in the wake of the
work men.
GHi:.\T WATCH MAIN BUHAKS.
Trallle Worked at Brooklyn I'nfil
Mole is Bridged.
New York, Dec. 7.?A Rood sized
area in Brooklyn in the vicinity of
Washington and Johnson streets wn<
still wet today after Inst night's
deluge, caused by the breaking of
a tweiity-fonr-inch high pressure water
main.
With a roar that could be heard
iwr ijmm'kh me wai r snoi upward for
twenty feet. Bonding with it a shower
of paving stones, sprinkling evervhody
within fifty yea-ds. Traffic
was blocked until a bole in the
street ten foot square was bridged.
Police reserves and an emergency
crew from the wafer department
were called out to hold the crowd
in chock and prevent a panic. No
one was injured.
A Fast Flying Itird,
The most wonderful bird flight
noted is th migratory achievement
of the Virginia plover, which leaves
its haunts in North America and
taking a course down the Atlantic,
reaches the coast of Ilrazll In on"
unbroken (light of I hours, covering
a distance of 3,000 miles at the
rate of four miles a minute. Some
years ago some of these birds were
stranded In Orangeburg by a storm,
and several pepole who saw them
not d their swjft flight ft" they resumed
their journey Southward.
GINNER'S REPORT
or cotton <;i\ni:i> to dfcemIIEK
ONE.
I 1,01 o,s<2 I Hales UII?1 20,0:|.T Ginneries?Incn'aso
Over laist Year.
S. <Shows 2,O.VJ, A 17 I tale*.
A tot al f?f 1 1.010,801 hale* of cotton
ginned from th> growth of 1008
to December 1, and 20,922 active
cinnerles, against 8,2 12,300 bale*
ginned a year ago were announced
n the bureau rt port on cotton ginning
Tuesday. The 1007 crop was
ll,0r?7,822 bales, of which 7.7.,r? was
ginned to I>ee??m l mm* 1, the 1906
mv|>, 1 2,983,101. *.vith <7.2 to I)".'ernher
I and 905 crop, 10,496. 105,
hales with .82,8 to December a.
In 1906 then* were 10,027,868 bales
and in I 905 8,689,663 bales ginned
to December 1. The r- port conn's
round hales as half bales and excludes
linters. It includes 200,818
round bales for 1908. 154.636 for
1907 and 227,11 5 for 1908. Sea
Island bales included 68. 197 for
190 8, 55,299 for 1907 and 11,250
for 190 6.
Today's report glvt s running bales
ginned to December I and active
ginneris reupoet I vely by States as
lonows:
Alabama, 1,17 1,401 haies and
3,429 ginneries.
Arkansas, "<76,153 bales and 2,073
glum ries.
Florida, 58,677 hales and 251
ginneries.
(leorgla, 1.736.737 11 ??i >a o ?.i
. .. .. II nil
4.384 ginneries.
Kansas, K?nteekv and New Mexico,
1.3 7 I hales and 5 ginneries.
Louisiana, 30 7,17!) hales and 1 , ;
I;> ginneries.
Mississippi, 1,U07,H01 hales and
3.12'J ginneries.
Missouri, 4a,7"?0 hales and 70 i?iiinerlos.
North Carolina, 5 3 4,002 hales and
2.0.3 1 ginneries.
Oklahoma, 432,077 ha'es and 073
ginneries.
Sou tl? Carolina, 1,052,547 hales
Mid 3.181 ginneries.
Tenness..<>, 278,070 hales and f.2r>
ginneries.
Texas. 3 200,221 hales and 4,001
cjin nerfes.
Virginia, 8.773 hales and 02 ginaeries.
The distribution -?f ?en isl ?nd cotton
hv Strife, is: CI or! da 2c,0j3;
CJeorgia. 32.1-73; South Carolina,
8,3 3 0 hales.
The corn ( ted stnt!?tirs of the
quantity ?>!' r>tt >n ginned this season
to November 14 are $0,505,809
hales.
Holes for Cuests.
flnests are requested not to speak
to the dumb waiter.
(Jiiesfs wishing to get up without
being railed can have >? If-raising
tlour fc?r supper.
The hotel is supported I y a beautiful
cemetery; hearses to hire, 2.%
( ( nts a day.
(!uests wishing to do a little driving
will find hammer and nails in
t he. closet.
If the room gets too warm, open
the windows and see the fire escape.
If you're fond of athletics and
like good jumping, lift the mattress
and see the bed spring.
[f your lamp goes out. take a feather
out of the pillow; that's light
enough for any room.
Any one troubled with nightmare
will find halter on the bedpost.
Don't worry about paying your
bill; the house Is supported by the
foundation. *
First. "Diving Dress."
, It is nearly a century since Adolph
Siebe invented the first crude "diving
dress," which, after the manner
of inventions has heen greatly in
111iu11 unco tnet) Today a
diver can remain eight hours deep
down under the ocean with as much
comfort as his brother workman nt
the surface. In this way the underworld
of the sea has really been op
ned tip, and on every hand has been
compelled to stive up tfs drowned
mold. "For ships carrying enormous
quantities of treasure- gold and silver
and precious stones, jealously
stored in the bullion room ? are Jus*,
as liaM to misfortune as their humbler
sisters. *
Took His Own Life.
St. Louis, Dec. 7.?Charles A.
I'.fKs iromer, Swedish vice counsel in
St. Louis, committed suicide today.
Eckst romer came into public notice
son: time ago through a controversy
with IVderal officials which resulted
in the revocation of his exequatur
by President Roosevelt. Later he
was reinstated and resumed his official
duties.
Commits Suicide.
New York, Dec. 7.- Leaving two
letters, in one of which he said he
had "suffered more than anybody
in tho world," Louis Evans, of
Brooklyn, a youth of nineteen years,
s-hot and instantly killed himself in
a hospi'nl where he was undergoing
treatment tor tuberculosis.
One of tho worst things ibout t^lng
rich teems to no how unhappy
it can make you not to be rich.