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t 0 4. THE PEOPLES JOURNAL I1 VOL 9.---NO. 22. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY,- JUNE 42, 1899. ONE DOLLARA YE N. HUNDRnIfP WIERI KILLVJED THE WORK OF A TORNADO. A Wisconsin ToWn literally Swep1 Away--Whio Desolate econes it Searching for the Dead. The town of New Richmond Wis. was destroyed by a fierce tornado or the 13F,1 inst. Fully ono.hundred corpses, twlae at many mangled people, forty acres o piles of bricks, shivered planks, scat tered heaps of household goods, deaL horses, through which the wind had driven sharp splinters of board, smoul dering fires where houses stood but yesterday, Vpd in.the midst of It all trees as bare of leaves as ever they .were in tho middle of winter, and for the most part' stripbed'bare. of bark this Is what the storm of yosterday wrought in the apaco of three minutes upon tho town of New Richmond. It will be several days before the number of dead in New Richmond Is accurately known, and it is doubtful if the entire number of fatalities will ever be chronicled. Indescribably sad are the scenes of desolabion wrought by last night's tor nado, tuat has practically swept out of existence the prosperous little city of Now Richmond. Out of 500 houses and store buildings comprising the town, fully 300 were wrecked by the storm, .or' destroyed by fire. Almost every . fami:y has. one or more members among the dead, injured or missing, and 1 ttle groups are seen everywhere, searching by the light of lantern or torch, for'"Ioved ones who may be buried in the piles of debris o~n -every hand. With frantid energy the search has been conducted all day and up' to 9 - o'clock 54 bodies had been, found, al tbough the number of dead certainly will' reach 100 or more. These have, for, the most part, been taken to the -Catholic and Congregational churchc which, although In the very stormtn path, ;niraulously escaped its futy. In these ' temporary morgues, the Bights aib such -as tO touch the hardest .heart. as* the grief stricken living re cog'al'd- trie. bodiek' horribly mangled and ' o'f tpe6 - dismembered remains of missing:44ar ones. Tho...*<!pnded iOnd temporary asy lums I'd tu:- tUiinjured dwellings -on either 'side of the path, where doctors anfurses from nearby cities and towns are:loig heroig woi k without slrep or test. As miin as possible of ..e'injf, d''whose chances for recov dry Aird considered good, are being sent to WlAP hospitals at St. Paul an-.' inne apolis, wlhlre. they will have better care. Tie-bitness portion of the city cov ered a aploo of four' squares each way and was built solidly of brick and stone. This .entire space was swept clear, qfouqtjWon walls and in some pIacus Masc's of 'debris alone marking where tuo bysiness places formerly stood. , 'T'eps on- -the streetswof the neighborjg &bsiidenco dlstrict were broketf clear oi or twisted and up rooted. ',L'he tornado ome up the river (gam .Iudiojn, whe;-e the-damage was coijp&ttiveJy., light. Following the g'n)traI-dors' of the river and the brancibtiUhb Oinba toad,'the storm gained in inf4quty. as it pr6gressed and waat'ith worst whop it struck the business centre of - Nbw Richumrond. Outlying resi4.eceis-in the path of thu storm were stripped of shiogies and boarda or sides wore blown oly, or, as more frequently happened, were torn asunder and the fragments wore scat tered to the four winds of heaven. Trees were uprooted and roadways blocked, washed away or so overflowed as to be made entirely unrecognizable. The desolate view of the New Rich mond of to-day is not one soon to bo forgotten. Along the -broken frag ments of their homes the peoulo1 wan *der helplessly, striving somewhat aim lessly and hopelessly to gather to gother what had been left to them., On the east and west limits of the city many houses were still staniding witu little or no damage and to these homes the occupants welcomed thecir 16s fortunate neighbors and frisnds,'gfvr ing them (.ach aid as ,gas pdasible,'abd the sy mfath y th at 18 ..so 3.mnbh.;t stricken souls. The propbrty 1980 c~an not be estimated at (Si4:tlgqp and.,rpay never be accurately .35nowvn. R .dis almost total, for the sD8InsurgmMIagenR report that no tornado'insurhod56 mw cared in thetown andjin o fly. i~tiall number of places, whero firejgoined'is the destruction of prop~erty,. 'Will 'tll business men be at all 6fdibndtseddor their losses. 4 It is the a'verage redidont of N1.w Richmond who estimated the' loss el life most seriously. They. .claim thai hundreds are missing who Were bur ied in the ruins and were there inciner ate4 One such is C. A. Nelson, wh9:'odnq the Columbian restaurant, Pocated. dr Main street. His estimate of the losi is four hundred dead. He says tita) when .the rain storm which p~rec#kI60 the cyclone broke, not less than tWent) persons rushed into this lalco !'sahdl ter. He is positive that not .mdro t,hat four. beside himself escaped. io110 he heard , the roar, he rushed - Ip -rear doort but could not open it. .. iru instant the crash came. The i'uln , tumbled about his head and lef't hir just space enough to crawl out. 11 she shop was Mrs. Blroadbank, wi was killed. Nelson found only fou alive. He could hear screams an< groans. Since then he has seen noni of the survivors. -1 . Rev. Dr. Degan of the church of thb Immaculate Conception thus deseriba the approaching storm and'the imme diate results :* * "I wtas standing dnihe porch of mn holie,which is some three blocks wee of the- Omaha station, with my litt nephew. Pointing to the threatenin clouds, I said to him: *'Those cloud are cyclonic.' That was about 6:3( Tfhen' I heard a fearful sound. It wa like the- panting of fifty locomotives o an upgigg~o. I said to the boy: 'Ther is thQ cyclone.' In the southwest wve a great, 'whisking, black cloud, coni shaped, the apex in the earth, the fut nel in the sky. Already far ahead the centro( the air was full of lyin splinters, boards, feathers, 'beddin and everything. I told the boy to ru and warn thelIpeople in the houses the track. From all sides people wer running, cryitig for assistance, I too them and some people from the parne school house and hurried them into til cellar of, my house. They begged if . absolution and I knelt down and gave it to them. Even as I prayed the great black cloud of destruction was upon the village. Out of the general and t terrific war I could hoar the crashing and hissing sound as house after house collapsed. "1 ran out and was struck twice by pieces of flyinw glank. 1" Then the storm was gone. It struck and destroyed all the residences lying between it and the Omaha r tracks. The depot was right in its - path. As it crossed the track there I it went right up the main street of the town destroying every building in the business contre. I immediately began the work of rescue. It was awful. God keep me from seeing the like again. Every whore moans, shrieks and calls for help were heard. The wounded cried out for prayers. I gave them absolution while assisting in the work of rescue. Catholics and Pro testants prayed for them." A NEBRASKA TOWN STItUCK. No Houses Were Left an(I the Loss 01 Lile Was Fearful. A tornado struck the town of Her man, Nebraska, on the evening of the 13thuinst. and nearly wiped the place out of existence. Herman is a town of about three hundred inhabitants, in the extreme northern part of Wash ington county. It is on the line of the Cicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha railway. A. conductor on the evening train from Sioux City passed through the place not long after the storm, and he says not a building was left standing in town. Ho counted twelve dead bodies lying in the streets. The fatalities will undoubtedly run up to a hundred, if not higher. ' Advices received up to 11 o'clock at night stated that every dwelling in the town was destroyed except the public school and a small dwelling, both of which are on the outskirts. The force of the tornado was terrific, as scarcely one piece of many structures destroyed was loft intact. The scene in the streets of the once thriving and boautiful little town was one of destruction. Wrecked build ings and broken furniture were strewn all.around, while dead bodies lay in many places, the corpsos badly disfig ured and some of them hardly recog nizable. The moans of the injured mingled with the calls of the rescuers as they pursued their humanitarian task in the darkness and by the flickering gleams of lanterns. A rollef train arrived about one hour after the storm and the work of pick ing up the wounded was begun. Will ingg.hauds did wha6.they could to help the injured, and in the course of an hour the train pulled out for Blair with ninety-five injured on board. They were taken away as there was absolutely no place at Herman at which treatment could be administer ed. All the citizens of Blair threw open their houses to the wounded, and the unfortunates were cared for by competent surgeons. Many of the injured will dio, but some of them received but slight in juries. Twelve are known to have been killed, and the list will run up very much bigiler. For some two hours before the storm *took a disastrous form the clouds wore of a threatening color, and the air was hot and sultry. At 6 o'clock the storm seemed more threatening and the peo ple wore on their guard. At 6:15 It it was observed that the wind was blowing from the northwest and from the southwest and with increas ing violence. At (1:30 it took the fun nel-shaped appearance and boro down upon the town. The first, damage done was about four miles west of Herman, at the Hawkins farm. Mr. Hawkins Is dead, arnd his barns and outbuildings are in a mass of ruins. In the viliage of Herman few building are left stand ing. The business portion and the re sidences-are piled up in a heap. The bank owned and operate'd by Rap reseatativo J. H. Chambers, is in a masjs of ruins. It was a substmatial brick structure, is home an eleL-ant frame building escaped. Noar the depot is a pilo0 of rubb'sh containing everything from a palr of rboots to dead and wounded horsos, hogs, cattle, etc., etc. . . .lya Council Bluffs travel was dining in th'e hotel, when sud doenly- the Wind, began to rise and grew vo'ry violent. I hastened to the win do'w and looked to the north. I could 'oo.two unmenso clouds, separated by quite a bit of sky, swirling and churn ing wrath fulfjy. I at'once felt that a Fcyclone wa~s-at hand. Our suspicions weroconfirmned when we saw that the t,%o divisions, of clouds were rapidly convergi-ng' into the traditional funnel shi d. .But while we looked It see med to us that'' tho, clouds would sweep to M d vWest anid .avoid the town. When it renohod a~ point to tho north weost we *iere terrified to sce it~ suddenly change..its courisc arnd make directly Sfor.4ho town. We. all burried into tile c;14adras 1:o more of tihl cyclone, Sbu wwknow by the frightful din that 6 aB s wat'.king havoc in tbe town. "When .it find pased we emerged from'n the cellar and round that the otlhd been .wrcels.d, and that r every buildirm in towvn-had been blown dIown with ithQ..exception of an isolated few ong tie duiskdis. . The cyclone had .swapt.ight. do~wn, thme minf street, .deph'ing-the buidiigs as though they it'eoggeeil'..- Tihe only brick build o4f lfhportapioe in the tuown was the W. 'A fter.Lib storm, 1 (10 nA rocall . eiqg i *I, presume thabt it, too,~ was d stt>.Oyell. The town was a pile of do Sbrie, aqaking with wat. :-In iron; aftusgo o.utldec. horsos, pigs arqd frame buildiu s all .heaped )toge~hat'.' Sona~of- the. niials were d sebrpo..wovoe still alive and~ ri crat . A1 could -iot say how mnany e wW ~fd.or h1oW many Wore injumred. b5s I e ~'eal dead andi many wouindied. 3OfIY.ursd,''tupb: were many still alivo .aftee the stofm, and lthey did pili t hey could to glidt' i'n- the work imneuo, Wheng the''fift brafri le ft I - camne' to g Blair. ' - . . : . g The :.o '0 'kid h dead a'nd n weoundeQ out of the dehns 15, progrbs e~ sing s1lyI and - is likelyi to prove k long anqy~illlquit,.taali. me -An artesian, well in Missoum i ham )r been sunkto n aopth of 11.0fn-t FAMILY SIECRET FOR YEARS A WIFE DISCLOSES H[lt LIUS BAND'S OL(MES. The Woman Says lie Confessed Mur der and Slit Charges Hin Witi Robbing a Now York Bank. The Philadelphia correspondent oj the Ncw York World says that afte many years of apparently happy mar ried life, respected by neighbors and friends, Mrs. Rosa McKinney has re vealed a most remarkable story, In which sho chargos that her husband admitted to her that, while robbing a house in Irvington-ou-the-Iludson, N. Y., he committed murder. 1ear of her own life, she says, moved her te Inform the police. Since his arrest stolou bonds and other property have boon found In their house, and some of the articles have been Identified as be longing to John Wendell, of No. 4.2 Fifth avenue, New York. Mrs. McKinney told her remarkable story to The Wot Id correspondent to day. She said : " I have been-married twenty years, and durieg that time I have had no happiness. My husband always kept me in deadly fear of him, and it was in fright that I ran from this house last Monday night and wont to the police and told the story of my husband's crime. If he should get out of prison I would not stay here another minute, for I know he would carry out the threat he often made to kill mc. About the killing of a man at Irvington in 1874 1 know nothing except what my husband Loid me. This was not told me until somo time after our marriage. After that I did not know of him doing any wrong until in November, 1896, while we were living at Mr. Wen dell's house as caretakers. Before that time my husband had' worked for numerous families in Now York, in cluding Lawyer Parsons, as coachman. Leaving this place, we went to Ireland, and my husband's folks urged him to buy a little farm. He did so with bor rowed money, and to this I lay all the trouble. " After that my husband's great do stro was for money, and when no saw his opportunity in the Wendell house ho said it was the chance of his life. I tried to coax him not to commit the crime and I was on the point of going to Mr. WonCell arid tolling 1:im about my husband's Intention, but Lny hus. band threatened to kill me if I opened my mouth, and as he had once shot at me I feared him. One day he entered a room where bonds and coupons were jiept in a tin box and he took them out. Then he stole some other things and we hurried out of the house. He had had trouble with the Wiendells and had thrca:ened to leave. For a few days we stayed in town, and when my husband failed to see anything in the papera about the rober-y h made plans for a trip to Ircland. There we remained until last November, when, having bold the farm, we returned to this country and came to Philadeiphia. " Up to our arrival hure not one of the bonds or coupons was turned into cash, and my hsband and I plancd to go Into a little business, suuh as milk, butter and egge, at the house. I coaxed him to return tie bonds and other stolen property. le had no idea then as to how to dispose of the cou pons and bonds, but in March last he found out and realized $1,500 on U $1,000 bond. Then he disposed o1 anothor through an auction firm lot $1,400, but he had not uoilcted that amount when he was arrested. " With so much money in his posses sion I luared him more than over, and h treated me mure cruelly than ever. On the night I oxposod him lie had made me sit in a corner, and threaten ing to kill oc if 1 mnovedl he demanded to know how much money I woeld take and leave him and never open01 my mouth about his doings. When I did not answer he walked into another i-oem, and as I thought lhe had gonc after a big rill he always kept In the house, I became fear-ful that he in tended to kill me and r-ushed out of the house. lBe hadl simply driven mnc tc deporationi, and I could not stand il any longer." The rille Mrs. McKinney referred tt and a box of cartridges that weighed about twenty-live p)ounds were seen by The WorlId reursentativo In the be d rooma of MeKiancy and his wife, whet they had baon kept over- since the faim ily returned froem lIreland. The bed room contains an expensive set o furniture, wvith dainty cushions am other furnishings. An espciali preu~ty apartmfenlt is the parlor, witt extravagant plush furniture and costla carplet and a collection of pictur-es I. heavy gold frames. Tihe dining-roonc is furnied in oak. The Mc-Kinne home Is only two stories high, but It 1 the most attractive house In tihestreet with pretty whito and blue stripet awnings at all the windows. After Mrs. McKinney had told he story to Special Oflicers William G Puastro and McFarland at the pollc< station, the ofllcers went to the Mc Kinney iresidence and were admittet by thu husband. Ho wvas told that hi wife was at the police station complaIn lng that lhe had threatened hoer lif and that he had better go there ani lix It uip wIth her. The officers had na r-ight to arrest him in his house, amn wvero desirous of getting him out. Mc Kinney said ho would net go to hih w.ife aind that he was awar-o that the ofllicors could not arrest him. Then hi saidi that If the oflicors had nothin1 else to say they could leave. Ollier Pastro did not want to maK a move that would lose them th much-accused man, so they left th~ house. Mcl~arland went back to tb station to tell Mis. McKinney to retur: home, and. IPastro romnained near t~h house to watch the husband. In a fev minutest the latter appeared at hi door .and looked up) arnd down th street. IlIeturining to the house h soon r-eappeCare2d, this time comning ou of the ally. 15y pi-oceeding thr-oug back alleys and walking across lots h got several Eiuar-e away from th house, gcoing in ant opposite dir-ectlo 'from the stationi-house, whlen Oll'ce l'istro plaed imi under arest an said he "guesseli" Mel< inney would g along " this timo.'' A't L.; ettion) thi charge of ci-uelty to his wifu waA pr< forrod against, McKinntey, and he dl not know any thing of the other chmargc untli the next morning, when he wil Dutectives Miller's offlice t the contral station. When told of his' wifes charges he becamo deathly pale and almost collapsed. It was evidently the intention of Me Kinney to go away, for when he was searched after his arrest by Oflcor Pastre there was found on him $4,500 worth of salable bonds, $1,150 in cash and a watch that Miss Rebecca Won dell identliied as her property when she appeared against McKinney at the henring on Thursday. The siearch of the house revealed $1.400 worth of Government and railroad coupons and a box containing twenty-throo unsot diamonds. McKinney probably never know the value of theso stones, but they were taken from the Wendell house and are worth several thousand dollars. That McKinnoy proposes to light ex tradition to Now York In the robbo'ry charge Is cprtain. Besides Howe and Humnmel, of New York, ho has em ployed a lawyer here to defend him. When ho ongagodThe latter in the courtroom at the hearing ho plunged his hand down into one of his trousers pockets, pulled out a roll of bills, from which he counted $300, and handed It over for a retainer. Of McKinney's life here very little is known. His wife says that he would get. up in the morning and, after care fully dressing, would attend to house hold wants, then go out and remain away all day. Sometimes it would be late the next morning when he would return. The police are trying to trace his movements. McKinnoy made all the purchases for the home, including the eatables and his wife's clothes. ASS&ULTED BY A NEGRO. An Old Woman in Connecticut Is tle Victim This Tine-The Villain Ar reste1 and Lodged in Jail. Norwalk (Conn.) Gazotte, June 12. A dastardly outrage was committed Saturday morning by a negro upon Mrs. Margaret Roberts, an aged wo man living on the Ferry road in Strat ford. Mrs. Roberts lives alone in a tiny houso peculiarly isolated by a turn in the road but only a stone's throw from several residences on East Broad way, of which the Ferry road is an extension. Sbe is the widow of Thomas Roberts, an old man-of-war's man, who went down Stratford river in a small boat one day a dozen years ago and never came back. The empty boat was found drifting in the harbor, toll Ing of the unfortunate man's fate. Saturday morning, just befor-3 nine o'clock, Mrs. Roberts neard a noise at her front door and upon looking out of the winjow saw a negro attempting to force n entrance. Mlrs. Roberts was frightened, but there was no way for her to escape. The negro, a young man, failing to force the door with his shoulder, picked up a shovol that lay in the yard and succeeded in prying open the door with it. Mrs. Roberts screamed for help, but the brute tbrottled her, threw her to the floor, bound the helpless old wo man with strips of cloth that lay at hand and gagged her with a handker chief which he forced down her throat with a closed razor. The brute's de eign was carriedu out and the old wo man wasi left lying unconscious on the floor. Haif an hour later Mrs. Charies H. Bradley, who lives nearby, in pausing Mrs. Roberts' home, noticed that something was amiss with the door and ontored. Shu found Mrs. RIeLrts still unconscious and gagged. She lifted the unfortunate woman from the floor, released hor from her predica ment and gave her restoratives. Tho old woman was somewhat scratched about the face, but had not received serious p1hysicailinjurie. She sufered greatly from the shock but, her condi tion has improved rapidly, despite her great age. Mrs'. Roberts was able to give a co herent account of the assault and a close description of the black ravishler, wile loft the house immediately upon the accomlilshmu; nt of his purpose. Sunday morningr, Sheriff Stagg, ac companied by Constables Beardsley and LFrcyer, took the 8.30 train to Nor walk, taking their bicycles withI them. At Norwalk they reported the affair to tile polic, learning that no such negro as the one wanted had been seen pass ing through that town. TIhe Stratford oilicers' thereupon took the back track alonir the road and betwoon Westport and Greene's iFarms camoe upon the object, of their searchl fast asleet. under a tree. Thea negro was captured and haindcuiffed hofore he wao fairly aware of what was happening to hin. l1e Swas taken to Stratford by train andl locked up in the little brick calaboose. T1ho prisoner is a typical tough niegrc tramp, black and apparently about, 2: years of age. ie took hIs arrest coolly j and was given but little chance to talk, in fact he was not informed of the r cause of his arrest. .When seen at the lockup he said hk 3 nalm-was William Morrison and that .his home was in Newport. s -Thore is great curiosity to know what, tile census of 1900 will show to bc the world's population. There are ii igoodi many millions of the des3cendanLIte 3 of Adam and Evi, oa cthe old footitool, I and it is hoped by the now enumeration -to find out more accurately than ih known what the earth's oopulat'on is. 1 Latest unofficial estimates p~ineO the number at l,7i00,000O,000, but tihe actual Sfigures, ascertanied by the very nearly universal consuses, may record a wide 3 ly differing figure. 3 ~ ~ 3 -In LIberIa thore is but little ust Ifor clocks andl watches, for all the. a year round the sun rises at iiI6 i th , morning, Is vertIcal at noon ;1nd sets at a 0 In the evening. a -A cynIcal bachelor se,.,o Ad(amU's a wife was calledl 1ve because 'i 'In she t appeared his day of happln .S waIs at. ri an end. 0 CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought BI ears the a S3ignaturo of BIIL, ARP'S PEACE PICTUR19. LOOKS AT FLOWEBS AND BIRDS. le Agrees With Blshop Heber That " Only lai is Vile "-An English Editor Makes lin Mad. Last midnight that samo imocking bird was singing-making sweet music to comfort his mate who was brooding upon her nest. This morning no is singing again, and seems supremely happy as he makes nis little lights upward and returns to his perch with out a break in his song. There is a tiny wren not far away whose song is very short, but just as swoot, and he, too, is comforting his mato. Down in the pasture that fronts our groso 1 sue the milch cows grazing peacefully. In our front yard there is a hydrant and the crystal water is allowed to leak just enough to keop a basin full and it. everflows to a little grass-hiddon pool whoro the pigeons drink and batho, and whore the jay birds and thrushes and English bpar rows come and sip ar d go and never contend. Sometimes the poacouck wants a drink and the birds retire from his magnificont presence and await his lordship's pleasure. A neighbor's par rot has left his cage and is cawing in one of our tree tops. A neighbor's chickens are scratching in the leaves nearby. 1Plecey clouds are passing over head and give us altornato sun and shave. I hear the distant whistle of a loconotivo and the trembling, rumb ling sound of the train as it crosses the river bridge. I see children dressed in thoir Sunday clothes going happily to the city hli to take their part in con moncement exercises. Along our gar don fence the variegated cannas lift their proud heads in peaceful beauty, and not far away is a row of loworing peas arrayed in rainbow colors and ex haling sweet odors to the air. Apple, geranium and lemon verbonas sweeten the breezeis at our window. Looking northward from the verandah where I sit, the distant lIlls are piled upon each other in regular irregular-. ity, while more distant mountains give a back ground of corulean blue to the beautiful picture. Here I am ruminat ing-calmly and serenely happy in a big arm chair. ialf a hundred magni liceit oaks stand like God's sentiiols in the grove before me. lifting their leafy branches towards the sky lu ad oration cf their creator. The twining maduira vines and Virginia creepers intorlace the trellis at my hand and shelter me from the sun, while two dear little grandchildren are morrily swinging in the hammock not far away. There is nothing in sight this morning but peace and beauty. innocenco is in the air, the sky, the liolds. the traes,. the birds and flowers and childron-as. the good Bishop Ieber wroto: ".I1ere every prospect 1leases And only aan is vile Only nian ; not women ur 'childron, or boast or birds or llowers--only mun Is vile. What a contrast to the view before me is found in the columns of the morning paper, which has just been handed to me. How liocking aro the big head lines that t-ll of a single day's misery and disaster! When, ol, when, will all these horrible things cease to be ? Only man Is vile. If he was made in the image of God, why should he ho doing the deeds of the devil ? The cost of crime in money is a fearful sum. The cost of courts and prisons and guards and poicc ; the cost in loss of timo and labor ; but this is nothing compared with the cost in grief anu misery. Here is a letter that is but a sample of what comes to mc in my daily mail, for the poor creatures think t..at I can do something : " Lebanon, l'la.-My Dear Sir: Will you pleasu givo in the namo and ad dress of sonie orphan asylum in Geor gia that would pirobably take three poor little orphlamn girls into their home. "Their mother is dead (died of a broken heart) and the father is in jail and has been sentenccd to be hanged. "He is much distressed about his hielp)oss children, and begs that you get them into some orphan home. Thn family are of no kin to me, but I sympathlize with tihe poor little or pihan girls ini their very sad condition. " Please answer moe very soon and lot mo know If they will bo stut out because they live out, of your State. "C. C. GAINF;S, "'L'ostrmster at liiibann."' Now, Mr. Hemnphill Ianid Mr. Crumoley, can't you make room for these cht dIron ? Mamiv the good Lord have miercy upon)1 them' What is the world comng to? The11 old Mosaic law was :'"1 w ill visit, the sins of the fathers upon the children," hut the now law is :'" Snuffer little child-ren to conic unto mu, for of such is ?.be kIngdom of heaven." Some times I sigh lIke the poet, Cow por, and say, "' Oh for aL home in sonic vast wilderness," where rumor of oppression and deceit might never reach inc. When I read of murder and suichies and burglaries and arson and horrible outrages it mnakes mem sad and then there is always sometning in the same paper to make me mnad--omo lies and slandeor or seine Northern devil men t. Governor Northen mad agra sipeelh in Boston, andl I am glad It, has beenr orintod In paniph let forum, a&.d if I v-as the State I would orader enougb of theum to give a copy to every ch iul In thme tato that could rad, an~d I wouldi make every negro schomol teacher in thu Stateo re:~d a page aloud every day to his piup' until lhe had read it all, and if lie din't rund~ it to them, andn roaid It well and te' them that It was the truth, I would. turn them out -dogon him i, con found himn--I am tiied piaylng tax money to oduceato negroes to hate peoio. I don't helicyve there' is in negro teaceher Ia the State whoi tries to train tha nw.ro children in these things. Nor dIo 1 believe thbe negro prmeacehcrs are any bettor. A umos~t excellent ([mria'in lady of onur town aslked lher cJolorod nmid 2 be other (lay if her preauher overin orenached haot~ these horrible* crimes tLhat are now shlocking the go 0 peol~e of the Stat'. andl sheo said, "No, Imiaam ; he never' says an:, '''ing 'ibout it.'' Thec un .' lii ng fact us thaut i.hue eigroes doi not think it 'very much of a ci-ime. Arnd tauoy bolieve the other sh'le just as the Yankrees do. Ida Wells made big mor. ;y out of her lies years ago, and now ih. mand hier partners have ot up anot hm spenia ton on the Sam Hos case, and have had hundreds of thousands of pamph lets printed that contain that lying dotectivo story, and are sellinF them I all over the North. They don t care i cent if it dood cause more lynchings. And this thing has got all over Eng land. A friend of mino who lives near London, sent me a late copy of The London Chronicle, a paper as influen ,ial as The Times, and the editor ,oples a batch of lies taken from the est United States Howard assoolation -eport which says that slavery has )con virtually reostablishod in the southern States, especially in Georgia nd Florida, and that all the horrors )ictured in " Unclo Tom's Cabin" have en revived. That the illegitimate children born n the convict camps are kept In per )etual slavery, and that 'he female ] 1onvicts are outraged by the camp v >ticers at pleasure, and that a girl of I ieventoon who, ran away to avoid it, f vas caught by bloodhounds and strip- i ed and flogged amid jors. The report v ays thero woro 286 lynchings of no- < Proes last yoar, and forty-seven up to v 1pril of this year, of whom all wore c egroes but eight. Of all those, thirty- a wE were accused (?) of murder sixteen >f assaults on white women, fourteen or dofondlig themselves, two for im mdonco and thirty-soven for no crime, t 6nd twcnty-th.co for being trouble 011m0. The editor then says that the future >f the colored race is the gravost prob om that America has to face, cer ,alnly as grave as the extonsion of her mpirc over Cuba and the Philippines, 6nd that the United States Is paying a icavy debt for the Bins of her fatiars. L'he Howard association appeals to hu nanity to avert the solution by national lisaster, and says the negro trouble has secomo so great that it, is feared the lillculty cannot be settled but with ulood. Woll, now let's pause awhil I must go out into my garden and lot ny cholcr down-i will pick the beans or dinner ; 1 will throw rocks at my ioighbors' chickens; I will hiroacussin nan. Of all the fools on earth al '0nglisi fool is the biggest. Whose athors is that fool oditor talking 0bout? EntIgland never frood her own havos until 18415, but that editor doosent inow they over had any. Our South srn fathers never imported any ; they >ought ther, from the Yankees. Trad- r :rs from England and Massachusotts, vho kept up the slave trade In part ucrship until 1857. The lust slaver >ought was an American vsosel with mixed crew on the coast of Mada Zascar. A man told mo he heard a Chicago Irntumnor say, not long ago, that 1 ,nother drummer told him he heard ifa Boston banker who wrote to a Chli 3ago broker and asked him if he didn't want to put somo more money In New E'ngland rum to shi) to Africa. I 3xpect they are at it yet. Why it was i very respectable business both in Ntnglaud and Massachusettu just as long as they could lind a market for I he slavos. John Newton, the poet, thu SwL otst of all comnpolsers of hymns?, Lhu man who wrote Amazing grace, how nweet tho sound That flavedi a wretch like me," was a slave trader, and made big money :)ut of it. One thing is certain, Now Mngland rum is still made in Boston fron) Cuba molasses in large quantities, and I would like to know whore they ship it to and what for. South America Is still buying slaves from somebody. lit, pshaw, we are all brethren now, and sectional lines are blotted out I Just so-let us havo peacc. How swoot antd pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in uuity-I'm loving overy body now-oxcept somiu-l'ai going to lOvio that fellow Damnmers and Prench And ld zmi.er Julia Ward [lowe by piroxy i I can lini the proxy. Maybe Joo Wheeler will take the job. BILL AltP'. T1HIs 10XAMhi OFL H1 IOltIty. Judige Altdrich Praises antil Congratu lates Its Citizemns for! Avoidling a layncin Izg. D~aniel Chestnut and George Murrell, young negroes, have been convicted of attempting to assault two young we mcon at Socastec, Ilorry County, two months ago and sentenced to life im prisonment, at hard labor. They broke nto tho house of James tR. Smilth and entered the r'oom of thbe girls of tihe family at ight. T1he negroes were pursuedl by whlites and capturedl in a swampol. They confessed their guilt, but instend of being lynched were turned over to the shor'ilr. The girls, who are members of a hi ghaly respected family, entered the court-room when they were called to the witness-stand and retired imrmed I ately af ter testifying. Judge Aldrich, before passing senteace, congratulated the county of Ilorry that she had such young men as those whit captured the negroes anrd turned them over to the sherliff. 113 spoke as follows: "And just heroe I wish to saty to tile good people of llorry County that in thiis Instanco you are deserving of the highest praise anid commendlation of the peop1)1 of South Carolina andi of all this broad land of ours. You ar'e noted forc being a brave people physically. There ri o p)opJle on earth brav'er than tihe peoplc of hlorry County. That is the r'eputation you have made for yourselvos in war anid in peace; and thtirefure tnat the law in this county was resortegi to in the due administra tion of justico~ meians much. You (to the pirisoere) violated the law in de craitinug a pure home among a brave p)eople, ann yet the bravery of the pee pl1e of Ilorry County was adorned by that naig lie, virtue, a love of law, a do sire to suo the law enforced in its due and orderly course of administration, bravery over and above the instincts of r'ace, of anger, and no lyncher's lind was called upon to protect the rights of the citizens of this county. Ilhese young men Who arrested you, young men in the flush of manhood, in the dignity of American citizens, with a roverenc for law which character Izes all pure men, brought you here andi incarerated you in jail, from which you were brought ot trial in a court of justice, before a jury drawn according to law, duly tried and dull convicted. Such a spectacle is worth am thousand lynchings. "Lynch law means the destruction of lnaw. Behind th han of the lych ers may be the power of Sampson, but in the exorcise of that power they pull down the temple of justice upon the heads of themselves and their families and their posterity; and in place of peace and order, civilization and Chris tianity, they would hurl the country Into the lap of barbarism. "A land without law is a land with )ut liberty, and a land without liberty Is a land where the powerful oppress ,he weak, where might makes right %nd the only refuge for the humble and .ho poor is the courts of the land. In Aace of that in Horry County every nan can walk freely abroad, and every iouse, be it ever so humble, Is pro .octed even in the still hours of the ilght by the unseen but all-powerful irotection of the laws of the State of south Qoplina, and the people of lorry 0Outity have set a noble ex mple, an example that will find respect n the hearts and conscience of ever nan who has learned at his mother's noo the precepts of a divine law. It vill commq-d the respect of every itizon, of every thoughtful man and voman who in the progress of their ducation have learned to love, respect ind rovero the law." BALD-HEADED SOLDIERS.-" When he Tenth regiment comes home from ho Philippinos the people of western lonnsylvania must be prepared to wel omo an aggregation of bald-headed eroos." These were the words of Corporal olin J. McKnight, who arrived in 'ittHburg the other morning after a orty-day trip from Manila, where he ocured a discharged from Colonel lawklns' regiment while on the firing Inc. The soldier is going to his home t Groonsburg, and while taking off mis hat to some old friends who greeted in at the Rush house made the above omark about the bald-headed heroes. Its own hair was disappearing, and he 1at43ned to assure his visitors that he vas not alone in his alliction. " Yes," he said, replacing his head ear, " the heat in the country oc upled by our troops between Manila nd Malolos is intense enough to liter Ily singe your hair. Of course, we :opt our hate on. Death by sunstroke vas the fate of those who went bare ioaded, and we suffered continually uriug the (lay. Much complaint was rndo against our heavy campaign mats, but we received no reissue and uad the best of it. I am not exag ger iting the conditions when I say that noro than 50 per cent. of the American oldiers in ho Philippines are destined o becomo bald. When the boys come >ack you will think that they have >wen recruited from the front rows of he theater."--Pittsburg Chronicle I'olcgraph. 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