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THE EOPLE'S OUR _ VOL .-NO. 3. ~PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 8 ONE D6)L BILL ARP ON DRISYFUS CAS INNOCENT AND PERSECUTED) MAI More Talk About the War and ti Negro Proble ni-Slanders on th Soithern People. It is indeed singular how much sytr 1,.thy and what an intense interest th trial of Dreyfus has excited all ove the civilized world. The life or th it borty of but one man-a Jew of n great consequence-is at stake and ye t he world looks on with more concer than is given the Philippine war where thousands have died in battlI since the trial of Dreyfus b9gan. Th ,reat heart of the people believe th Je w is innocont an. Is being persecute, by the military because he Is a Jew Civilians everywhere are getting ior and more jealous of the military power and well they may be, for It 18 aggros Five, cruel and Intolerant when no Ie'pt under rostraint. Tho long suffering of Dreyfus ha lutonsified the pity of mankind and re calls the plea that Shakespearo makes for Shylock, " I am a Jo w ; hath not a Jow eyes and hands, sensos, affections, passions. If you prick us do we not bIeed. If you poison us do we not 6die ?" This persecution has bon going ?it for live years and the end Is not yet in sight. IL reminds us of the historic trial of Warren Haetings that begun in April, 1790, and continued until April, 1795. Never was a man so un justly assailed. The sublimest oratory and logic of Burke and Pox and Sheri dan catm down ipon hiir with wither ing and pitiless force. Burke spoke three days and amazed the world with his matchless eloquence, and the world pronounced lastings guilty before any evidence had been introduced for Burke's speech was an exordlum, a presentation of the bill of Indictment. Poor Hastings, frail, small and sekly, knelt at the bar and there heard the terribte denunciations of his accusers. The English nation was against him and even his friend and patron, Wil liam Pitt, deserted him. ilastings. as governor gcneral of India, had not pleased the party in power and was to ho made a victim. That was politics ihen, and it is politics now. It was like the execution of Mrs. Surratt and Captain Wurz in 1865, for two more in n',cent persons couL. not have boon found, but the thirsty public demanded son victims and these were chosen. In 1795 hlastings was triumphantly ac q itted on every charge and public upinion had already turned in his favor. Lord Macauley says that he administered the Indian government with more than the capacity of Riche lieu and John Stuart Mill says he was the best governor that India ever had. Well now, if )rcyfus can have such a happy ending to his long suffering and trial the world will be satisfied. Labort is already a hero-the brighbtest star in the galaxy. ie has made no olunder in act or speech during his long and arduous labors and when he declares with folded arms and gliston ing eyes and iipasbioned voice that i)rlyfus is innocOt the world believes uiim. If he is again condemned, Prance will b)e disgraced and degraded in the eyes of the great po.vers of the world. A governinent that cannot save one in nocent man cannot save itself when ro voiution comes. The next biggest, thing before us is the everlasting war that, like Banquo's ghost, will not down. It drags its slow iength along friom day to day and week to week until its blood and cost has almost ceased to agitato us and only its politics i6 considered. The (lues tion upperiost is will it roll McKinley in again or roll him out. Imperialism is a biggor presidential issue than silver or the tariff. But just now the question that seems to conlcerni the South Is what rstal! be done with the negro. in some p)ortions of the coumry there Is no disturbance, no) friction, no0 outrages of any kind, The two races are getting along as peaceably as in the years gone by. Them-e are whole counties down in lowver Georgia and whole dissricts in somne of the Western States whore the negroes as a 'nass are indIustrious and humble and give rno trouble. In upper South Carolina there is peace and har mony save an occasional disturbanec that bad men like the Tolberts pro yoke. Most of the outrages that pro P~oko the lynchings come from negrc tramps who have no settled home, ne family, nor occupaition, but go and come whcn thny picease. They are the sciurf of the towns aind cities-the over Iow-for cities brced crime and cor ruption both among whites and blacks, The last report of our pison commnis slon shows that seven counties with our seven largest cities furnish one third of all our comnvicts. lFulton coun ty alone has 281. The more remoti from these pestilential centers of crim< the few'r convicts. Pickons, Towni and Gihiner have none. Tw'ielvo coun ties have hut twenty-four. it is re markable that some countIes in thi black belt whore negroes predlomlnati show so goodi a recordl. Qultmfani ha hut two convicts and perfect peace anm good will prevails between the race and the negroes down there took ai much pride in the display and sucece of the late agricultural convention ai did the whites. Now the question is such hartnony exists in Quitman wh cap,~ot it exist elsewherey Is It a settled thing that the tw~ races cannot live together ? F'or or I am not yet prep~ared to admit i There .ar'e thousands of negroes a over fthe- South who are docile, lav abiding, respectfui and industrioi and their labor Is needed. If Norther fools, fanatics and politicians woul let them andl us alone I feel sure w~ could get along in p~eace. It is not fal to judge the whole race by the excel tions that show up hore and thor< Force them out of politIes, establis the whipping pos5t and enforce the vi grant law andl In five yearo there wi be no outrages, no lynchings and t numborem of convicts will 1)0 reduced per cent. I believe this. If th 0e forcemenit of these laws reached sonr b~ad white mon let them suffer ti penaltics. TPhe time has come whc we must purge and purify the ball box just as we now p~urge the jury bo In some of the States the ballot -hedged u appnd with a property qual lication d? 68300 and the ability to ret and wrlf~e. It should go farther at require a good moral character just the jury box does. We all know mat i good negroes who should be allowed to vote and some bad white mon who y should not. The devil is not (ea(. Not very long ago I troubled myself e and spent some money in getting a white man pardoned out of the chain gang because his poor wifo liporturjcd me. He hadent boon out a month be i- fore he got into Another row andi was u put in the calaboose. There were two r cows in the pound near the calaboose e and next morning when the marshal o went after Pat to take Lim before the it mayor Pat was not in, but the cows n were. The devilish rascal had got a , skeleton key and unlocked himself out 3 and locked the cows in and now my t friends joke me about Pat and call him o my pet and I am out of the pardon I business. Well, now that man is rot . fit to vote, for he has deserted his 3 family and won't work. The negro paper says that Richard - Price, Governor Atkinson's faithful body servant, stole the governor's gold watch the day he died and now lan gulees in Nonman jail. Don't that cap the climax ? A good old negro by the name of Moody died hero a few days ago and was buried with great ceremony. His sons came from abroad to attend the funeral and one of them was so overcome with grief that lie de clared lie could not bear to see his dear old father put down in the cold, cold grave and so he stald at the house to weep and mourr. But when the family returned he had stolen the old man's best clothes and everything else of value and gone off on the train. Wll, I dont think that his sort should be allowed to vote, do you ? One table in this prison report sur priseus ie and that is the great in crease of burglaries over simple lar ceny by the negroos. Seven hundred and ninety-two convicts are in for bur glary and only 250 for larecoy. I sup pose the explanation is that for small stealing they are sent to the co.nty chaingangs and put to work on the public roads. For the unmentionable crime or its attempt there are 178 con victs. Judge Lynch does not get them all by a long shot. Thle prison report is interesting and instructive reading and shows the most careful and humane treatment of the convicts. The commission with General Evans at its head, are all kind, Christian gentlemen and no Stato in the Union can show a better record of its prisoners, both male and female. 3ut it is impossible to keep up with the lies and slanders that are circu lated by Northern politicans and Southern negro editors and educators. It is all a scheie to get money from the Northern dupes. Even as notable a woman as the wife of Bookur Wash ington, who is chairman of the execu tive committee of the National Asso clation of Colored Women, says In hor published addrees, " The white people preach and point to the immorality of young colored girls and yet the white people themselves are to blame for this condition of affairs, for in this convict. lease system the girls and wo men not only worked in the fiold with mon, but are shut up at night in the same colla with them. Can you ex pect a poor, ignorant colored girl to be pure and virtuous when she is shut in night after night with a man ?" General Evans writes me that no such condition exists in Georgia, nor has ever existed, and that for ten years past the female convicts have not even been worked on farms with the men, but have been leased to sepa rate contractors who work none but the women on a farm. The women (about sixty In number) work together, eat together, sleep together and ar: absolutely separated from men and boys and are on entirely different farms. Thoso women are not, confined in cells at ali, but live in a house far mlore ~cmfortable than they lived In before their conviction. The men and women do not meet at all at, any time or any where. [low is that ? What explanation can that woman make ? What can Booker Washington say about it ? Hie had better say something ab~out, It, for he hal had the support and encourage mont of the Southern peopie and he will be bold responsible for such mlalig nant slanders. This report shows that 40 par cent. of the convicts can read and write. Trhat 45 per cent are married. That 90O per cent are between the ages of seventcon and twenty-seven. That only forty wcee in slavery be fore the war and only eighteen are old enough to remember what, slavery was. This report shows over 4,000 colored convicts, including the county chain gangs, and 600 of these are from Fuli ten county. Atlanta seems to be a good nursery for crime. iAnother singular table in the report icalled the table of "'recin.~ ists," whichl means, 1 suppose, tne "' return ers." The~re are 219 serving a second terml ; 47 a third term ; Ii a fourth term and 3 a fifth term. Trhey seem to like the business. A good whipping or two or three goodl whippinegs would have stoppled all those recidivists. If a man likes one kind of p~unishmlent so well as to go bac1k to it, it wouldl be wecll to change it and lot, imu try rn other. liut let us keep) on agitating andl dis ,cussing and hit no man boast that he knows It all, for lhe doesnt. BirLr ARl'. t. AN l'iDii'T mI'S AI'I'EA b.--A Ni ssis Il sippi Iditor muak~" tn is appeal to l-. r- Ilinquen'~t O~uuibers . " ish dow~ n is into your p)ockot and dig uip the dust; n the editor is hungry anu the paper d 'bout to bust. We've trusted you for e several months and did n, with, a smile, tr so just return the the comp1)limont andt >. trust us for a while. Or wife she . needs somne stockings and baby needs h a dress ; J1immy neceds sonic breeches, -. and so does Kate and Boss. Pu'md Is o:1 11 the pig train and i'eggy sick with e grief, and good gosh almighty, can'I >0 you give a man relief ? Shell oul m- those nickels and turn loose the dimos~ me turn 'em loose anid whistle, and we'i to have better times ; there will be fowei in paltces on the bosom of our pants t and we'd make the paper better if w< x. had half a chanco. Don't give us t,ha ia old story, long since gone to seed I- 'bout taking more family papers thai d~ the family w tint to road ; but help t< d feed the prlntor, andl he'll help thi as town to grow, and thus escape thi my sulphur in thenegonn down belo." BISCAUSE, SHE 1LOVED HIM. With evry luxury and dantinoss around her, with the millions of her aunt and uncle awaiting her, with the possibility of a wealty marriage, or even a title before her, the belle of Swampscott's schoolgirl sot, Adelaide Phillips Kennedy, has wedded her un cle's coachman. TLho Phillips lamily is ono of the wealthiest in or around Boston. War rcn Phillips, with his -brothers, inher ited the millions accumulated by their father, Eben 'hillips, out of oil and fish. Warren Phillips was amlotious. 11 married a girl of similiar inclina tion. Today the Phillips' namo and millions are a power in Massachusetts and their social prestigo groat. They have several splendid estates, the one at Swampscott being tho favorite, at which they spend most of the year. It Is one of the Iinest places on th., beauti ful North shore. The house is spacious and has an air of statoly magnificence about it, the groundo are beautifully laid out with graveled walks and groen hedge rows, flower beds and artIstic statuary and green lawns slope toward the greener ocean boyond. Yet the splendid setting did not bring complete happiness to the Phil lips home. There were no children to whom tho millions and the prestige they had won could descend. So when Mrs. Phillips' sIster died, nine years ago, theorphaned daughter, Addle, was taken into the Pnillips home jnd adopted as their own. Addie was then eight years old, a slip of a girl in calico frocks, with blue eyes, tawny hair and a pique-- expr ession. i'or her young life hat had its ups and downs, with censiderably more downs than ups. Her father, Nelson Phillips, not related to the Phillips family into which her mother's sister had married, was a fisherman. A few yards down on the opposite side of the road from the house shared by Nelson Phillips with another isher man's family, lived John Kennedy, stone mason. broad in brogue and !arge in family. His youngest son was Bur nard, a bright-eyed, go-ahead sort of lay who played hookey when he wanted %o, was loved and feared by every boy on the old Swamp road and was popu larly known as Barney. Addle Phillips was the bello of the Swamp, because she was the favorite of Barney Kennedy. Barney was six years older than Addlo, and had been through the classes at school long be fore her. So when school was out he helped her with her lctioms. At the modest age of eight Addle made her exit, bidding her adieu to jold haunts, old companionships, calico frocks and the precarious living of a poor fisher wnan's household. She also bade adlea to Barney Kennedy, and in a little black frock. whose sombreness was all that was left to remind her of tile life in the Old Swamp road, she entered the stately mansion of the Phillipses and started in upon her ncw life. Every advantage that wealth could afford was given to the little or. phou. Sho adapted horself readily to the now circumstances antd uncon sciously acquired a grace and elegance belitting her environment. The tawny yellow hair was brushed by a maid until it grow glossy and shone with glints of gold, and her face, protected from the sun, lost its tan and freckles and became soft and fair. Pri vate tutors trained her mind. Music was aided by her natural aptitude and her instrumental playing became more than a talent. As the girl grow in character, beau ty and accomplishmonts, the ambition of her aunt, Mrs. Warren Phillips, grew in proportion. There was no po sition which Adelaido could not fili and none which she could not win with all the Phillips millions for her portion. Nothing that could add to the comple tion of a perfectly cultured education was omitted in the life and training of Adelaide Phillips. Hler voice was cultivated. She was a crack whip and splendid horsewoman, and a stud of thoroughbred horses and correct traps were always at her disposal. She rode, drove, sailed a heat, swam, played golf, tennis and billiards and mingled with the most exclusive set of the countr-y. Bho was tall and a matur-o-look ing girl for her age. The furor-o she would create when she formally entered so ciety was alreadly promlised in the pop ularity which g rootod her es ery w here. Several years ago Mr. Phillips gave to Swampscott the land on which wvat built the P hillips' high school. There Adelaide completed her education and when she was graduated last month carr ied away as souvenirs not only i diploma and the gold medal, but the love anti goodwill of all her' school mates. On graduation day Miss Phil 111)s, gowned in whit~e muslin and rih bons, her hair caught in a simple gel (en coil on her neck, was voted th< prettiest girl of the class. in the very simpio muslin gown in which she graduated she wvas married to Barney Kennedly. HeJ had beer coachman in the Phillips family for two years. Having had no rich anni to place him in a fairy land all mnadt ready, he had been compelledl to work his own way out of the Swamps an& the pr-ogress had booni slow. it was e coinciidence that all of his service wal ini different branches of the P'hillip family. For years ho was a valet t< ,John Pilli11p5. a brothor of Warron When John P'hillps dlied, betweon tw< andl three years ago, he secur-cd th< poesition of coach man In Warren P h ii lips' home Adelaide Phillips vwas thet liftcon. Barney Kennedy was twenty one. An Mis Pe, hill ips had changed so ha( the adorer of her- infancy, lie ha< grown to be a manly, good looking fol low, w ho attendled to hia work ami suoedil~ ambitious to get ahead.- Mis Adelaide had never' found anyone wi sy impjathized with her love for horse q uite so) nmuch as Bairney did(. II, k now overy good poinot and ever-y bat ene,. So the long~ afternoons after- h igi school canme to be sp)ent at the stablc where Mi 15s Adlelido was taught grieat many thi ngs ahout the arh that shomuld( be ini the thor'ouighbred~l's necki andi the sti-aight that shoul b( e in hi legs, and the way to tell how ol h was, antI how fast he wasfand th sort of horsoi to he gentle wVi th, an the sort to rule with a short hit: an >the sort of tail that shtould never b spoiled by the jockey shear, and t~h sort of nostril that indicatecs the bree( ing that ounts. Anrd the afrternoor In the stables came to be very likt those afternoons in the long ago, who B1arney helped Addle with her lessom and taught, hen how to best, rido over rough places. Then there wore long drives througi the beautiful Swampscott Country, and Barney wasn't, always oefore her with his manly shoulders silhouetted against the distant hills, nor behind her In the family trap, where sho could hear only the crack of the whip or the occasional sound of his voice, but more often they were out In the runabout, Barney sitt. iug at her right, hand driving. And what moro natural, for after all they wore only giri and boy, than that their memories should tako them back to the old days. And so it happened that the court siip that startOd in Swampscott P Poverty llats " was resumed on its boulevards, and one of tihe greatest heiresses of Massachusetts throw over the chances for whic"I she was the on vied of all her friends. " have not acted on impulse," she said, when talking of the matter. "We wero Ongaged for nourly a year, and I had plenty of time to think It over, and to weigh all conditions justly. I know it will be no easy road, and the . xperienco of the last nino years may not be a help toward it1ting Ie for the life I shallshortly have to begin, but, we woro happy long ago, when V' hadn'1 woalth nor luxury ; ana in any event I am convinced I can find no Iasting iappiless with another. Even though that other might have wealth, positio or title, maturial things cannot satify the heart. I know women whose every wishes are satilled, yet thoY would sacrItice It, all for one momn1 of the real happines such as will ac tuate our lives and be tho motive for every sort of adyanceenut." Miss Phillips looked down at hio pretty white hands. ", I know what you are thinking,' she said quickly. " Well, what if they must be soiled with a littl hard work They can stand it just as well as otheii 'vomen's hands, atd just as well at Barney's. And som day wu will no have to, for we are young and strong and ambitious, and we've j.t a goot a chance to get rich ourselves as an3 one ever had. I know it whl be sort, o uphill work for a while and tihe road may be a bit stony, but I'm used t llarnoy's driving, you know. He hia: held the reins beside mie so long he might just as well continue always you know. And lie alway's drove cau. Giou 'y over the stoned, and-well we' never yet got to a hill too steel tha we didn t reach the top sonic time and L guess this one will not, prove th exct ption." Murs. Barney Konnedy looked up with a bright resolute sort of smile and thore Is every reason to believe that she will explodo all conventional theories about heiresses who marry their fathers' coachmen. OHio DLtMUiAlRES Fell BRYAN. Tim Ohio Democracy Nominatos ElI tor McLean for Goveori- -The Re iomilntlioti 111-YA itii tho Uh cao Platform' Entilorsod. The Democrats of Onio have nomi nated lion. John H. McLean, of the Cincinnati Enqiiirer, as their sandi date for Governor. He Is the strongebt Democrats In the State, and the En quirer is the most influential newspa por in the Northwest. The following is an abstract of the platform adopted : We heartily re-aflirm the entire Chi cago platform of 1,896 ; and we especi ally emphasize the financial plank therein, and we continue to demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold as equal in primary money, at the rate of 11i to I, indepen dont of all other nations in the world. The Hion. Wim. J. B3ryan still retain: our entire conlidence and we demiand his renomination in 1 I00(. We recognize the solemn fact thal our government cannot, be both Ro cublican andi imnperiai. We stand in ine with Washington Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant ant all other A merican patriots, livinag anc dead, In desiring the perpetuity o. our replilc. We are radically and unalterably 01) p)osed to impeI~rial ism in the United: States of America. When we havt. solved some of the race problems thbal confront us at home, then by example, we can p~roclaimi the lelssinigs thia' hlow from free Institutions and thu: pr'ocure "' benevoient assimnI lto without criminal aggression." We are opposed to entangling alli ances with foreIgn k 'ngdoms and emu Wo commend the action of Congres In declaring that our' war with Spali was for humanity, niot for cotinest. We proudly recognIzo the valor anm glorIous achievements 0. our gallan soldiers and sailors from llunker 1111 to this very hour, as being among thi most thrilling and glorious In the his tory of the world, but wo. pro~foundl: regret, that American soldiers at' beIng unlawfully used in the name o lib~erty, to crush and destroy dawvninj rep~ulicanisml In the Orient, andi wV' denroune the secret, and vicIous alli aince nIow In evidence between Englane and the tlopublicann admiinistratiot whereby thIs nation may become In volved in war with foreIgn nations. We (demand that the Cubans ant 1'lippi nes not only be purni'tted lbu oncouiragedI to establ Ish Indoplenden Irepubilics, derbing all of their gov ernimeinal p)owers. fromt then consent mi the governed. We dlenounce theb I (epulicaan pinrt, for. its 8N years of abject subserviene' to the shipping Interet of G;rea II ritai n and we denounce the Illanna l'ayne shlipp~lin' bill, which, If onactoi I into law, woui l futrtlbor shadke. Icou Sinterests. SWe are In favor of mranta!ni ng ou I splendid and eeient rnavy. iA large LtnitIng army in our repui , lie is a ter act to li het y. \VWe favoc th r- nilttivye andI referer t dunm, Line as age of the eIght h'ou , lbor' inw , the mtoroe rigid i nisp~oeton< tl inCS rand work shotE, thne proii 1tio) a of sweat. shops, and the abotlIieh fl of too conltract systertia of piiIson labo: 1 We d',e..'rij that all unlawful conl :1 bIiationrs of capi tal are the legiti mat fruits of ai 'obel stand ard and oth< c corrupt Iltopubicn lec ' V tiorns of thne ttri1l'. R alRl rt'nefW controlled by the trusts bo placed on the fre list. Wo denounce the attorney general of the United States, appointod from the stato of Now Jor-soy,tlio hot bed of trusts, for his refusal to enfoico the statutes of the United Statos against them, and comiend the attorney general of Ohio for his earnest efforts to enforce the statutes of Ohio against such illegal combinations, and plodge the nomine of this convention for attorney general to the enforcement of the statutos of the Stato agalust them. Political bosses are to be dotested and are inimical to our form of government. B3osses represent simply a concentration of political power, or a ring. They ivo and oxist through jobs mnd schemos loaded upon the tax payers. They substituto their rule of its voters. They select the nominees, who if elected, remain their tool and administer their ollicial powers iII the litorest of their boss and not for peoplo. The Lepubli can party In Ohio now is in such control. We commend a constitutionalI aImend mnt providing for the eloction of pro sident, vice president and United Statos Senators by a diroot vote of the )eO)1o. We favor such appropriations by the legislature its may b necessary to in sure the success of the ceuntonnial to b hold at Toledo. R I0llLA N Yd FI1R81' PljAaN TI1. Gaen. Wa<1e Hampton, of' Itevolu tionary F'ame, Planteel the Iir1t Cotton iII lUieIIIt County. To the Editor of The diate: As the farmers of Itichland are gathering the tiaecy staIle it may in tLerest them as well ,as seme of your other numerous readers to learn that it is exactly 100 years ago since the cotton plant was introduceod into Iich land county, and, although the gentle Inanr who planted this cotton was a prominent citizen, I don't suppose there is a teacher in the Columhia graded schools who could answer this question : " W li0 was the first mnaii that plaited cotton in lRichland ?" A striking instance of how we neglect our interesting, if not important local history. Well, this gentleman was Wade [iampton, whose name is 'so fatuiliar to the student of Our IRovolutionary annals. During that war le served under Mailon and Sumter, and in 11313, with the -rank of major general, he was placed in command of tile artmy en the northern frontIer. 1] J3 resigned his position in ISI. By land specula tbio&s lie acquired immense wealth, and when lie died, in J835, lie owned more than 1,000 negro slaves, at which time he was est~imatol 1.0 ho- t.he miost wealthy planter in the wholo Union. We have qalte full accounts of Gon. Hampton in the published diaries of two widely different mon-in tho second diary we have glimpses of him on thm tmntedi [irlh The firet duiry I alluded to Is the one of Ed ward Hooker, who was tutor of iiathematies at tihe South Carolina collego in 1807 to 1808. Mr. Llookor's diary is a very volumin11ous 1)110. V riting un(101' the date of November 5, 1805, he devotes several pagos to a philosophial vioN of Gun. llamiipton, who h11le Ov!'iently regarded as a most romarkablo man. Among other things, he observes Col. Laipton, I tinld, is Co11siduo-d by everybod3 about, herei a very singiu lar man ; one of a million. Tie lead Ing traits of hi - charaetor hro bol ness and originallty of schemio, remark. able foresight, in the judicious solec tion of means for the accomplilishment of this scheme and undaunted perso vorance in the applicatilon of these means." The other diary to whehh I alluded was that of the Ituv. Lecaz'er Williams, whose plersonal bil~story was stronger than a romance, end to wichm we may Irive some palsing allusion01. lBy somie, iieiazer Wiliamiis, is thought, to have buon1 1' son of Th'lomas Wi lim a i ~. mixed breed Indian chief, whol was the greatgrandson of the liev. .Juan Williams, tihe famous "redeemed cap tive " of Doorf'iold. Mass. T1hcro are, however, soveral plhauiblo roabons for suppiosing thnt, Eleazer Williams wa&s not the son of Thomas WVI larns-that lhe was not even an Indian, on tihe COnl trary, that he was Louis XVII, (If l'rance. lio became a nuosionary among the Indians. In tihe war of 181 2 he Wats app)ointced siuperiatentdent, ge:m oral of the Notthlern Indilan decpar't mient,. lie mlenltions Genl. H1ampton several times in his dhiary, and lie tvi dently didn't adinire his nil 'r-y genius. in the following extr:.c' -w ritten D)ect muher 2, 183, Mlr. \V T ilams appe)Lar. to Lt.3 tahken a ,3..>. j favorable view of tile general, as lie writo's "The general is a gentlemnil of warm temiperamien t, on1 a~ccoiunt of w hlch lie may have somietinties, gives unnecessary oiltmnce to thiose whro have a j'Wuntiicedl L'y 1 upon his pri1v attd acts .al nd military operations, lie has, un1 ,ldoubtedly, erred in the latter, ando thiIs, ,rnot, fr'om the heart,, bu0t, mn. jutdgmntt fando for adhori.1ng too mnuchi to ignor'ant. ,and evil advisers, but lie is a bravo and good oflicer, who sincerely w ishes~ to sustain the honor of his country. May li his noblo1 s0on, (who Is actinrg as hiis ab lle-doe campi), 111itateo his honored father in his patrlotlsmu."' M <:DON AI I2"l'UIM A N. L, telegram from Maryv ilIe, Sio1., an -1) n loe tihe deathl of (Georgo S. 1r. fVaughan, who was the subjtec of A bra haml I Lnol n's last ohllal act. Lie was a resident of Canton, L ew is county, Mo., at the outbreak of the wat', andt unti1%the battle of Sh Iloh followed tiho - fortuines of Genm. Mark 10. Green, I who'. raised a Con fetderatli regiimenot. rVaughan had miadle a visit tto Canton andl cari'ed a mlessHage to Gc-i. Grieen', wire from hetr husband, and was~ at temp htinig to rCtiiurn lien ihe was ca'p turedt near LaG range bly at coimpjany of Union solieirs. lie wats tried as ai spy - twice in St. L o Uis and ontce in Al tori, r II., andl each time Senlttenced~ to dleath, h ut the I nterventiorn of Senatdor J.1n n II. llenderson, who wits a1:cualintedu nt with hhn11 and induitcedl l'rideniit L, in .coin to interfere, saveu im r each titne. 1- The P'resident final ly shirr' ' '. 0 dlon the evenin" --f WILL TIlE PItESIDENT ikRiziiild 9 A Sonsatlional Iturnor' that He Will Declino to Itun l'or a Second Terin, Special to The Mountainoer. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 31, M89). Maiy of the cioso friends of Presi dent McKinley expect him to retire to private lifo at the end of hie term, de clining to be a candidate for ronomina. tion. Various reasons are assigned for this, the principal ones boing that the President has broken in health under the burdens of his oico ; that Mrs. McKinley finds the many cares f the Whito Houso too great for her stroogth ; and that the President por sonally doubts the disposition of tho Amorlean pooplo to ru-oloct a chief oxecuntive. Tho story was ibrought to Washing ton a fow ditys ago by a leading Western doliticlan. Ile served as a mnibor of to last 11 ouse of 1(oprosentatives, and has many closo friends in the Now I'ugland States. lo spont, his vaca tioni among theim, and stlates that keveral of thu strong3st MicKinley men in tho I'mst havo assured him, in pri vato, that they have positivo informa tion of the I'reideit's purposo to do, clino runonination. It appears that shortly before Elihu 1oot Wit alpIoIlted Serco-tary of War a4 ColferUce Of som)e importance was held in which a lumlor of loading it~pliciians from Now York and olseo whero took irt. 'The qualitications of Mie. Root were diseucssd at longth, and 1tJhose present took ouaslion at the .ei tiic to contider the general pitinIt bituation and the prospucts for 1100. It developed that, tho ad inistriationl has been watching closo0 1 th trend of polities in the Now Eog land States, and has boon far fran contunt with the lukowarm support given the expansion and genorn 'l'hilippinu poiley by the press. Ito forcicu to these conditions was made and it is stated that the I'residont ro marked tLat unicss stronger assur ancus were forthcoming of zealous sup port in the hitherto rollablo 1ipubli elin States, hie would not fuel (81)o8e3 to be a 4ndidato for re-olection. The gentiioon who attonded the confor onCO made a numbor of suggestion aiong the line of conivinicing the ['r0si dent that, ho is the logical candidatt for next year, blt tihey left the Whit( li ouse under thu distinct imInpressiot that Mr. McKinley docs not dsirm renomtiillation uinder prese ciconditions, and they are given as authority foi hi duteina'LlIation not to run agali 'iey were not opposed to his candidacy and hope yet to inmduco the lresident to accept renomination. They state howevor, in privato, and to thoir In timate friends, that Governor Roose volt probably will ho the choice of the convuntion, and will havo the warmni support of the prosent, administration and approval of Mir. MuKinloy. A lotr was recelvod at thu war do partient recontly from General L.w ton, commanding a division Iin the Pl'111jiilpie oXpressnllg hbi1 hopo that the Insurrection would be ended at the time hIs lottor should roach Wash ingn Lo). The letter for a ihort, time gave substaitifal uncouragullmnt, to the ofiulals. iCvonts have happened, however, which modifled decidedly th satisfaction at first produced by eln. Lawton's hopofuliness. A tole gran received from the Assochited i'rons corrospondent roached this city a few days aftor Gen. Lawton's letter. It statod that severe lighting was in progrossA, Mild that the Pfilipin os were oxlihiiting unusual aggressiveness. The tolegrai closed with the state mont that Geneiral Ots compollod the lewSpaper despatchus to hto rovised and evorth Ig omitted which (lid not " inagnify the American and iiiinimize Li IIiino opewr ations." ThIs do - aiatchm had to be sont to llong Kong, 600 miles from Nilanila, to insure its safe transission, hioyondl the censor'sr co)n trolI. Gen. Liw ton'. letter' was dated as~ far back as Ju'ny 12. Since that timet there have oentii successive suvere, but un for tunately t uuesivo engagemonts, and as the very latest accounts, not fron Otis, It, Is true, hut, from intulligent and dislutorested obsservors, state thal lighting Is cotntli.:-d, and the onem3 arc growing evef nure war likce, very little confort Is left, to he extracted fromi Lawton's uxpr'essions of hope and confidenco. TJhi bost, informnatlon avaiiablou at per Lnt Is that Otis will be retaIned until ho has had a chance to show whether or not, he can get rosults aftor all thbu re-enforcemonts are at hiand. if Ihecannoit, short work will be made of him. Either Lawton w Ill succeed h imi, ori Morriitt or Ml les will be placed ini oharge. The friends of the last named uxpress doubt, abhout the wisdom of elthor accept~Ing ctiommand. Thoero are many ex pert oillieurs (in duty In Washington who miaintain that tho wor-k of puttIng dow n, anti kooepinig thuoI 'iipi nos in order', is one that will task the ability of the miost e llcient, oficer. Tau noenlI tuimont, of practically all the 3f>,000l p revisi onal army will tax the rsour'ces of tho treasur'y department to provide funds for the largo ox pendi tures maiido necessar'y. In api to of the glib assur'ances of I topublicans that "th ore Is plenty of money in sI ghlt,"' It, is known that, the Treasury officials are not a little d isturbod, and already have been casting about, to discover niow articles ftr taxation for lntcernal revenuel. Tihe li)Lublican pat ty man agors wotiuld li k to avoidi anothur bond issue, whothier "popular '" or othcr wlse. TIhe~y woul~d also) like to he aide to) pr'omnIso thbe peopie that some of the troublesome stamnp taxes will be abel ihd in the near future. Tlhey cannot mit botth, wIih an army oif appr~ioxjmrately 100),000 in the fid. Theoy can avert mi ore hionds only by iun poying moert taixa and cer-taiii uarticles ro are ot the list, as8 protbabilIition, Drugsm wil be0 cal led upon to standI addititonal bur dens, anti the wlstlern of a heavy ta: oin all lirearims hI, bing considered. (O thing p* flast is settled. Thor< will ho ut decrease of taxes of an kind, a at this is suilicient to alarn the s wd (opublocan campaigner who have discovered that in man Stat/s the people, especially those I m1)deIrato circumstances, aro heartil tired of taxes for carrying on a war Have you examined our d-ok of Fall and Winter Shoes? 1f '16t be sure and see them at your fkgt'0po tunity. -We have the largost, without a doubt, the best stohk ; shoes over shown in oenville. We want to sell you your bhoos; this. fall, and we are prepared to sve you a great deal of money on thor., of our shoes were bought befdre the leather advanced, and we are going to give you the advantage of o6r god judgment by solling every pair a h s a we have just as choa) -as thaig could have been sold if there had :beon no advance. Every shoo in our house is made of_ solid leathor-we do not soli shoddy shoes, for a shoe Which is poorly inade and not solid, is not cheap-at agy price. There is more deception in.-shos6 4 than any article which you use. Shpes can he made which almost tiny, ote would think were all right, but will not wear at all. Your only protectionis to buy your shoes from responsible par ties who guarantce them. I, is always a pleasure for us to sliow our goods and we give everybody a hearty welcome in our sto-e. \i Another advantage in bujing from us is that we can fit everybody4and can suit you in afty klnd of shoo you want. All of our shoesare now, so you stand no possible chence of buying old,, shoes. Our i Dry Goods and Notions luyers are now in the Northorn markets ah'd are buying the largest stock. -hf Dry Goods over brought to this coutitry. Coiie an11d see us at the New Store. MAHON & ARNOLD, NO. 2xr UPPE1R bfAINLSTRET J. if. MonAN & Bno.'s OLD STAND. Agents for McCall Bazar Pat Lorne ITEMS OF1 GENERAL INTREST Quaimt amid Oprious Paragraphs Gathared. from Various Sourcm. -A philosophical statistloan calcu lates that in the year 2000 thero will be 1,700,00,000 people who speak En glish, and that the other European languages will be spoken by only 600, COO,000 people. -Rear Admiral Schley has accepted an invitation to visit Atlanta, Gal., during the coining fall. He will be the guest of Gov. Can pr, Mgyor Wood ward and the offlcial1of thp'At lanta Business Men's League. -0 the 250,000 canaries whichre raised every year in Germany 100,000 are sent to t la United States, 50,000 to Great Britain, Brazil, Chile and the Argentine Reopublic, and the remaIn der are so1" in Germany and in other countr. the 10uropean continent.' -T'ihe IllInois Bar association has adopted the suggestion that the legal profession throughout the United States celebrate on February 4, 1891, the olevation of John Marshall as chief justice of the United States Supremo Court, which took place on that date in 1801. -General Longatreet, as United State1, railroad commiassioner, is now traveling through the Nest, making his annual tour of inspection of the land grants and bond-aided roads, preparation for the. report to be sub mitted by him to the secretary of the interior next Novemnbeje. -Through the.innueg Gove 'or Wolcott, an honorary menber, theVo torian Club, composed'of Bostop 's ish residents, is trying to -got permije- - sMon to erect in the old cemeterV on lieaton Commons a monument in mnem ory of the 226 lEnglish soldiers who fell at Bunker 11111, many of whom are suppose5d to bo buried in this spot. --The citIzens of Spokane, Wash., are raising funds for the ereotion of a monument to John Robert Monaghan, who was killed in Samoa during the attack upon the British and Afirican marines by the follower, of Mataafa. Mon ag han was popular in, 8ppicana, where lie lived, and $2,00 hassalready ~ been subscribed toward the nonunient. Paul Brown, who died aAhis home .' near Sodalia, Mo., last week at the:. age of 108, was called the Missouri Samson. When he was 98 yearp old// he carried logs sixteen feet long from a clearing to his farmn house, where he . .~ sliit them into fence .t'aile. On 108th birthday he jumped over. back of a kitchen chair to show agility. -A Minnesota man capt."e fisher when it was youn of it and trained the fish and lay thorn a In summer the hb' river, where fisI' and set at liber' the air, and,, SIts victimr a (ish to Its 1. y -Judge n merly Stat, y Governor of >f city treasuror' -Glenn is 80 y a all of the dut