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REVILES LEE ? Sone Pension Drawer at Chicago Slanders the Great Soldier. I r STILL AFRAID OF DIM Compares Great Southern Patriot and L/eader to Benedict Arnold, and Objects to His State Itemain ing in the llall of Fame, in (lie I City of Washington. Inveighing against the placing of the statue of Gen. ltobt. E. Lee, in the Hall of Fame, in Washington, Col. Jasper T. Darling, past commander of Columbia Post, G. A. It., Chicago, Monday night addressed the initial camp fires of the State encampment of the Illinois G. A. It. 'He compared Robert E. Lee to Benedict Arnold and prophesied that the acceptance of the statue of the Confederate leader would be a step toward pensioning Confederate soldiers and opening the way to the Federal Government assuming the burden of Confederate war bonds.. In part the speaker said: "So long as treason is considered a crime against constitutional law, the stat - f T s*nr\ li a vo no 11 (3 UL XVUUL Hi. IiCt9 vau uu ? v ' abiding place in that pantheon dedicated to the heroes of the Revolution, and to those whose achievements have contributed to the triumphs of this Republic." The main portion of the address was in support of the contention that Gen. Lee was not convinced of the justice of the cause for which he drew his sword and that he, therefore, should have no claim to the name of patriot. The speaker based his argument on a letter from Gen. Lee to his son, Curtis Lee, the text of which he obtained from a publication of a Southern historian. "Speaking of the impending war, the letter as published," said Mr. Darling, read: " 'The framers of our Constitution never could have exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance on its formation and surrounded it with so many guards and supports if it was intended to be v.*.*-,!*-anv momhpr of thfi Con U A Vf 1\ V-? 1A U J J *? V >vvr- ? - ? ? - - federacy at will. " 'It is intended for a perpetual union, so expressed in the preamble, and for the establishment of a Government, not a compact, which can be dissolved only by a revocation of the consent of all the people in convention assembled. . " 'It is idle to talk of secession; anarchy would otherwise have been established and not a Government by Washington, Hamilton, Jefferson, Madison and all the other patriots of the Revelution.' "The words of that message and his subsequent acts cannot be reconciled," said the speaker. "If his conscience dictated tJiat letter, then what accursed influence caused him to embrace anarchy just nimety days later?anarchy as he himself had pictured it? "What does all this mean? It moano^'mj a solid Sout.h. the Daugh ters and Sons, propose to make Washington a Westminster Abbey for the rebel uniform; and so not only vindicate, but glorify the rebel sword. "Then what? Simply another bill pensioning all Confederate soldiers. And long before this century reaches its meridian British bondholders will knock at liberty's treasury door and say: 'Redeem.' " THE WAGES OF SIN. Young lonely School Teacher Takes Her Own Life. Miss Minnie Alders, 20 years old a school teacher of Princeville, 111. was found dead in bed at a hote at Peoria, 111., with three bullei wounds in her body Sunday. On< had pierced the left lung and th< other entered her heart. Her com panion, S. T. Easterly, of Chillicothe 111., a freight conductor for the San ta Fe, is detained by the polio pending an investigation. No charg has been entered against him. Eae t?riv and Miss Alder came to Peori on Saturday and registered at th hotel as man a"d wife. Accord! ; to Easterly, the girl spent most o the time in tears. Ho said 1m lef her early Sunday morning and wen down stairs. He was absent abou 15 minutes, he said. When ho r< turned he found her dead. ? ? Tears Shoe to Shreds. At Wilmington, N. C., during severe electric storm Miss Caledoni Roderick was struck by lightnin* and her right shoe torn to shred* She was knocked unconscious bu f examined later by a physician show ed that no injury resulted other tha I the severe shock and a slight bur on her right foot. Snow Storm. Northern New Mexico was in th grip of a heavy snow storm Sunda night. The storm evidently is a cor tlnuation of the one that swept ovf IE southern and* eastern Colorado Sa urday. Considerable live stock wil be lost. ? WANT SQUARE DEAL FOR THE NEGRO BY THE SOUTHERN WHITE PEOPLE. Some Broad Statements Made at the Southern Baptist Convention on the Race Question. When B. D. Gray, secretary of the home mission board, responded to the call from hundreds of voices at t.he Southern Baptist Convention he did not prove disappointing, says the Baltimore American of Saturday. As the negro was the question for discussion, he seemed to voice the sentiment of all present when he 1 i said: "We have got to treat the negro right; we have got to get rid of some of our inherent meanness and give them a Just deal. The best thing to do for the negro is to set him a good example. There are 10,000,000 in our land, and not the hundreds of millions in Africa of this or any other race concern us as much as those in our midst." The Rev. Dr. George W. McDaniel, of Richmond, Va., in another address on the negro problem said he hoped to see the day come when the negro would be given justice in the Courts. "I blush," he said, "when I think of the negro given the limit of the law for a petty crime and the white man set free for the same crime merely because his skin is white and ho has the influence. Negroes are not Baptists because they know so little, but because they read with unbiased minds the Word of God. When we think of them and how they were the guards of our women when the men of the South were oh! to war?I say we need to do the negroes of the South justice. ' I>r. MoDaniel reported on negroes for the committee appointed to consider thr.t subject, tie stated, from the report, that the Baptists were doing nr. r to evangelize the 9,000,000 negroes of the South than all the other denominations combined. He said that $12,000 had been expended in the work, and that 25 negro missionaries were employed. Two hundred and sixty-five Bible conferences had been held, he said, for negroes, at which 1 9,555 pastors and deacons attended. ' Ho explained that the missionary work among Hie negroes was done by the home mission board of the Northern Convention. He stated that the relations between the white Baptists and the negroes were of the most cordial character, and recommended that the present policy be pursued in the personal activity of the pastors coming among the negroes in evangelizing them. An appeal from the Baptists of the North, asking that their or?thr\t tKn Cmith q(H t V> 0 m In t ^ U ; n ?v 1 V-li \J L MiV UVU1U MIV4 vtviu V.-.. , care of the negroes, was referred to a special committee, and may create a grave crisis in the Convention should it come up at a future session. The appeal came from the American Baptist Home Mission Society, with headquarters in New York. For years the sentiment of Northern Baptists toward the mgn has been gradually changing, and, as one of the delegates stated, "The Northerners have come to realize that the negro is no angel and we are not heathens." "They used to call us heathens," he said, "because we didn't go at the work very strenuously. Our policy has been to evangelize the negro and educate him in morals and the Bible. This appeal is very much out of place. T.he Northern Baptists want us to educate the negro along their lines by giving him an education in science, literature, philosophy and what not." 1 MAKES LONG FLIGHT. In Aeroplane and Is Given a $10,000 Prize. > 1 Glenn II. Curtiss flew from AlI bany to New York city in an aeroi plane Sunday winning the $10,00C a, prize offered by t.he New York World He covered the distance of 137 miles in two hours and thirty minutes, ant I came to earth as calmly and as lighi ,, as a pigeon. His average speed foi e the distance, 54.6 miles an hour, sur _ passes any record ever made by at a aeroplane in long distance flights e and in its entirety his feat perhapi g eclipses anything man has ever at f tempted in a heavier than air ma . chine. t t Killed Abont Game. At Anderson Hugh Alexander an< John Polite, negro lads of 17 am 13 years of age, respectively, quar relied over a game of checkers. Al * ? i ~ 1 1 .. M nrti n o /I f\ r g examer picavu up ? uuui^uu c?nv? a ed on Polite, the shot causing instan r death. Alexander attempted to rui 5' away, but was captured. it r. Must Remain. n The department of Illinois, G. A n R., at Freeport, 111., Thursday table* as "ill advised" the resolution call ing upon President Taft to take step to remove the statue of Robert E e Lee from the Hall of Fame at Wash y ington and return it to the custod l- forty-five thousand. ir I- A girl is awful smart to be II with a man so as to make .him he is the one. TILLMAN'S CONDITION THE SENATOR IS STILL RAPIDLY IMPROVING. The Dispatches from Atlanta Saying He Had a Relapse Were Entirely False. Dispatches from Atlanta Saturday to the effect that Senator Tillman had (.eveloped raeumatism follow'*!# an effusion of blood 011 the brain nod had been ordered to a sail'tar mm in that city for immediate tr?u meat f j this new affection are exa<aC?to | end misleading, according ro Dr. .1. V. Labcock and Col. August. Kohn of Cn)cinijia, uot.ii of whom hav ' 'ir.>i,i V UPHI1 P-Jinsts of Sfi'iatOi* Til iv-.i af Trenton. After a careful study of Ili3 st?.ator's condition, Dr. Babeock made the following statement: "I find Senator Tillman in a very comfortable condition; in fact, lie is rr.noil be*i r tnao i r-o'er expvlt-l to see him again, considering the nature of the attack he had last winter in Washington. His expression is good, and his speech natural. The only effects remaining from the paralytic attack are a numbness and dragging of the right foot and leg. "The treatment followed so far has largely been that of rest and diet and under this regimen }e has reached his present improveed condition; therefore the future management of the case will be along these lines and every effort made to secure for him rest, quiet, freedom from care and worry. For the pres* ent the senator has decided to return to the sanittarium in Atlanta, where experience in formed iluiej-s has resulted in benefit. Suggestions are frequently made that Senator Tillman spend some months abroad. This question cannot be determined at the present time, and its ultimate decision will depend largely on Senator Tillman's physical strength. "Considering th seriousness ? f his attack last winter his present I condition is all that his physicians could have any rig.ht to expect. ' "How about Senator Ti'l.nan.n Rheumatism?" Dr. BaUcock was asked. "Senator Tillman has no rheumatism, as far as I could see, or he could describe. He continues his gymnastic exercises, as he has been doing since his return from Europe, and says that sometimes his right shoulder joint is 'rusty,' meaning, I suppose, that motion of the joint is less free than 'formerly. This, 1 suppose, is the basis of the rumor that he has rheumatism." Col Kohn says: "This was Dr. Babcock's medical view of Senator Tillman's condition, I saw him about six weeks ago and then wrote an account of his condition, and to a layman's eye there Is the most marked and decided improvement in Senator Tillman's condition. Six weeks ago he had to be supported in walking; now .he can and does walk without any support. He used a Swiss walking cane, but he gets about without it. Six weeks ago he spoke in monosyllables; now he talks freely and starts discussions. He laughs and cracks jokes and is in the best of humor. This may mean much or little medically, but is indicative of .his feeling." STRUCK BY LIHTNING. Thirty Thousand Barrels of Oil Is Burned Up. A severe electrical storm, accompanied by rain and wind, vis;' :.J Sour Lake, Texas, Sunday morning between 12 and 1 o'clock, doing considerable damage to derricks and ot.her oil property. Lightning struck a steel tank belonging to the Texas i Oil company, which contained about 3 0,000 barrels of oil, valued at $4 a barrel. The tank and contents were totally destroyed by fire. This is the second storm in the vicinity, > within the past week, which has destroyed and damaged oil fields prop' erty estimated at about $150,000. J 1)1101) FAR FROM HOME. r * North Carolinhui Out West Mwt> 1 Sudden Death. ? b The decapitated and mangled bod) " of A. A. Icaru of Hudson, N. C., was " found on the track of the Northerr Pacific Railway near Lester, Wash. Monday. He had been drinking ant it is supposed lay down on the tracl ? - * 4 T , 1 and wont to sieep. j\. s\. icmu ?n< J 21 years old and came from Nortl - Carolina about a year ago, it is said - and was employed as a logger. J - cousin, George Icard, took charge o t the body and will send it to hi q home for interment. ? ? Hums Proved Fatal. Mrs. Joseph T. Patten, of Onaws l. Iowa, who was burned Thursday al rt ternoon while washing out a "rat I- used irt her hair, in gasoline, an s was hurried to a hospital, died earl j, Friday. " ? ? v Made IIim Leave. * Following thr? publication of al d offensive articles in his papei N. Hryant, a negro was driven on j ?>r Hrookhaven, Miss., and his plan mid residence burned. MET IN FOG Large Steel Steamers in Collision in^the Night on Huron Bay. BABY AMONG THE DEAD Several Sailors Were Killed by Fall* ing Hatches Before They Could Jump Overboard.?It Is Not Now Known llow Muny Were Lost in the Accident. News reached Port Huron, Mich., Tuesday that 17 lives were lost in the collision of two bis steal freight steamers on Lake Huron, north of Point aux Barques, in a dense fog Monday morning and that the steamer Frank H. Goodyear of Cleveland was sunk in 4 7 fathoms of water. The steamer James B. Wood, of Cleveland, which struck the Goodyear, limped into Port Huron harbor Tuesday, with a big hole in her hull, carrying half a dozen survivors of the Gocdyear. The latter carries a crew of 23 men and several passengers. Capt. F. It. Heminger, of Algonac, Mich., who commanded the Goodyear; Chief Engineer Gibson, Steward Davis Barrett, one wheelman and two passengers, Mrs.. Thomas H. Bassett and daughter of Marine City, Mich., were saved and brought to Port Huron on the Steamer Wood. The only hope of the survival of the others who were on board the Goodyear lies in the possibility of their .having been rescued by the steamer William Siemens, \v*hich was near the scene of the wreck. Both the Wood and the Goodyear are big vessels, the Wood 514 feet long and t?lie Goodyear 43 G feet. The former is a steel s.hip. The Goodyear passed the Soo downbound at 10.30 Saturday and the Wood passed Port Huron up-bound at 7.20 p. in. Sunday. Many of the Goodyear's crew were killed by falling hatches before tiiey had a chance to jump into the water. All had life preservers when their vessel sank. The Goodyear's cook had his baby dashed from his arms from a falling hatch and the infant was lost. FIGHTING IN NICARAGUA. Fourteen Insurgents Killed and a Great Many Hurt. Two days fighting near Rama. Nicaragua, cost the Estrada forces fourteen In killed and twenty-niuc wounded, according to a report to afofft nAn?rtment from Consul Moffat, at Blueflelds. The casualties of the 'Madriz forces, he adds, were not learned. Gen. Menan retired, after the fight, to his retrenchments Large quantities of amunition and provisions, said to be the entire stores of the Madriz forces at Bluefields, he reports, were said to have been captured by General Mencada, of the Estrada faction. ATTEMPTS AT SUICIDE. An Alabamian Who Tries Various Ways to Die. At Cottonwood, Ala., W. J. Lord, a prominent farmer and a leader of the Christian Science sect, is in a precarious condition as the result of four alleged attempts to commit suicide. With his mind wronght up over the proximity of Halley's comet, it is stated, and believing that he had sinned against the Holy Ghost, Lord is said to have made an attempt to shoot himself. Unsuccessful in this, he jumped off a roof, and fell on his head, knocking out his teeth and sustaining other injuries. He then cut his throat and jumped Into a well. ? RAIN STOPS FIRE. f ? Timely Showers Prevent Destruction of a Town. i A fire at Texakana, Ark., which destroyed thre> business houses at 2 '* o'clock Sunday morning, caused a j Joss of $i 00,000. The flames origi tnated In the second floor of a cloth. ing establishment. The Norwood 1 building, one of the oldest landmarks * in the city, was destroyed. The fire 8 department, was hampered from the "? lack of water pressure and a heavy ? downpour of rain at an opportune ^ time prevented the flre sweeping one f of the principal business blocks of 8 the city and the city hall. They Got Scared. Boys sent up a number of flre balb loons with skyrockets attached dur * * j ~ Ing Wednesday nigiu at immuvga, Ala., and many negroes seeing them d and thinking the comet was going y to do damage, fled In terror. The reports reaching here say that practically all the inhabitants of certain quarters rushed away and gathered I- at another place and began at once r, to pray. it ? it One good deed can deserve anot-h er a long time without getting it. . BAJNK OF Conwaj CAPITAL STOCK 8URPLU8 LIABILITY OF STOCKHOLDERS.. SECURITY TO DEPOSITORS DIREC Robert B. Scarborough, H. L. Buck, George J. Holiday, We continue to j ay 5 per cent interee it youraccount robert b. scarborough, d. President. ^ |first natic A CONWAY f CAPITAL STOCK SURPLUS PROFITS TOTAL ASSESTS f DIRECT J. A. 'McDermott, John C. fB. G. Collins, H. L. Bi M. Burroughs, C. P. Qual 0.i/>/iAnanr In llln Ttlinlf f) f jn OllVilCOOUl lu UK, Hi jZc Horry County, and a pioneer ly allied with the recent deve /|K Republic. Backed by the G jLL United States Bonds, we are pr tomers any reasonable accoinm fll. A. SPIV MY, Cashier. NcjLjro and the Courts. Dr. George W. McDaniel, in an address on Uie race question before 1 the Southern Baptist convention said he hoped to see the day whsn the ngero would be given justice in the courts. He said he blushed when e thought of the negro being giver- the limit of the law for petty crimes and . >e whise ut.-n ?vas set iicc when charged with the same crime simply because his skin Jo white and he d 'rfluence. The good doctor is clean off his base if he thinks for one moment that the negro does not get justice in our courts. So far as his properfv rights are concerned, th^ negro has "e san;-> chance before oui en i? that the white man has, a? d we have never known a jury to fail to protect a negro in his prrperty rights. On several occasions ju -ijs have given negroes negroes heavy damages for injuries on railroids or in factories or in mills. So far as the criminal Bide of the court is concerned the negro gets more than justice. Hundreds of them who should be convictel an 1 punished for crime are acquitted by white juries all over the South. The fact that more white men escape deserved punishment than negroes who deserve punishment furnishes no argument that the negro is done an injustice by the juries and courts. I If every negro guilty of crime is convicted and punished, and every white man guilty of crime is acquitted, no injustice is done the negro. He has only been punished for violating the law, which is right and proper. The injustice is done the law abiding public by the acquittal of white men who should be punished. The fact that white criminals escape punishment is no reason why negro criminals should not be punished. Instead of eternally harping on the failure of the negro to get justice, we should harp on the failure of our courts to convict white criminals the same as it convicts negro criminals. It is not a question of justice to the negro, but a questior. of t.he miscarriage of justice in the failure to convict white men for crimes they commit. There are not too many convictions of negroes that deserve punishment, but there are too manv acquittals of white men who should be punished. Trainmen Cremated. Two trainmen were cremated by 33,000 volts of electricity when a I sleeper on the Illinois Traction system collided with an electric train near Eovelace, Mo., Friday. * It is said that the reason why King Edward's ol>sequies are made such a holiday event is because things are so slow in England t.hat even a fun 11 Hlrr? n fostlvitV. It is a U lit 1 1 WW IV o nil V u . pity we don't adopt some of England's slow ways. ? ? Wlhen it is remembered that Teddy represents us at King Edward's funeral no fear need be entertained of the success of the solemn occasion. Teddy will show Uiem dull forefathers of ours a funeral strut that they will never forget. i At a dinner to be given in St. i Louis on June 2 the friends of Joseph W. Folk will launch his cami paign for t.he Democratic nomination I for the presidency in 1012. If Gov. ? Harmon succeeds himself as governor of Ohio this fall. Folk's friends will have to keep him on cold storage . until 1916 as Gov. Harmon would get the nomination in 1912. IiOHKY, r. S, C. % 5000T ioodi 50 0CK , 110 001 10RS D. V. Richardson, W. A. Joiinaon, Will A. Freeman, t on yeerl) deposits. Mid we bolieV. Ricfardson, will a. fhf.ema* 'ICE i RKbiliKNT. CaSHIEB ! >NAL BANK 1 $25,000.00 ? 2,500.00 125,000.00 ^ OHM: it Spivey, D. T. McNeill, ick, W. It. Lewis, 1). ttlebaum, J). A. Spivey. Conway, t.he oldest Hank in in Eastern Carolina. Clo3elopment of the Independent %][/ overnment and secured by ^0^ epared to extend to our cub- jLL odations. It. G. COLLINS, A President. ? PROFESSIONAL CARDS. H. H. WOODWARD Attorney and Councelor At Law. CON WAV, 8. C. n, u. ov//tnui>vuviu CONWAY, 8. C. Attorney at Law. H. H. BURROUGHS Physician and Bargeoa CONWAY, 8. C. a WOFFORD WAIT. Attorney at La/ Bank of Horry Building. CONWAY, 8. O. " ' THE WORLDS GREATEST SEWIH6 MACHINE JLIGHT RUNNING, Ifyon want el ttaer a V1 bratln g Shuttle, Rotary Shuttle or a Single Thread [Chain 8tUch\ \ Sewing Machine write to ? THE HEW HEME SIWIHE MACHINE COMPART ' ~'l Orange* Maes. If any sewing machine* are made to sell regardless of quality, but the New Home is made to wea* Our guaranty never runs out BtM hj aalharlsed dealers aalft FOR SALS BV BURROUGHS & COLLINS CO., Conway, S. O. Dr. B. D. Gray, on the floor of t.he Southern Baptist Convention at Baltimore last week, said: "We have got to treat the negro right; we have got to get rid of some of our fnheri ent meanness and give the necro a square deal." In what way is the negro not given a square deal in the South? Our good brother ought to specify. Such talk does the South great harm w.hen it comes from such a man as Dr. Gray. The negro has just as square a deal here as he ! does anywhere in the universe The petition to pardon Morse V securing many names, and some ol those who howl the loudest about the "man higher up" being brought to justice were among the first tfl sign it. The more money a man will spend on dowers for his wife the less h4 | will want to spend on necessaries for j her.