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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.
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CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
BI ears the
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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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ou (10 not know its storling worth. We
visi others to know that Alligator Lini
nent Is a true friend to all classes for the
'elief nnd cure of all pains. We guarantee
t, Bo you run no risk. Try it and we have
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dlong.
8 ll in Knowil How.
T TH TE
NE W
STORE.
Always has something nowjfor its cus
tomnora.
One for our customers and one for
oursolves ; we are not selfIsh, the re
mark hams been made that one man's
dolbur is as good as another's, that de
ponfls upon the man's ability to use
that dollar as to whether it is as valua
ble as some other man's, its all In
knowing how. One carpoenter can jog
along, patch fences, build chicken coops
etc., and that's the extent of his re
sources, while the same tools in the
hands of another can hew from the
roughest wood the most beautiful brie
a-bra~c. All men were not born mer
chants no more than all were born
carpenters.
,100 11-4 WhIte Bled Spreads only 58c.
TIhis is an opportunity.
Another lot 10.4 Sheeting this week
l0c a yard.
New additions to our 5 cent counter,
which so many remember with pleas
ure and profit, this counter consists of
Organdies, Lawns, Etamines, etc.
Special lot of Towels in fine Hem
stitched goods only 25c.
One lot nice sizo pure Huck Linen
Towels, qly 100.
An all Lnen two yard wide Damask
Special values in Napkins and Doy
New Window Drapery.
50 pairs dotted, figured and ruffled
Swiss Curtains only $1.25 a pair.
trimmed.etigs 0Lc and Insertion
ceetemair eaare agetrs for the
10 and 15 cents.
Make it a point to visit t~io New Store
at th lirt olp rtuty, at J. H4iMorgan &
MAHON & ARNOLD,
211 Unner Main St G~Nn V....-..