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THE PEOPLES JOURNAL VOL 12.-NO. 3, PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1902. ONE DOLLAR AYEAR ROASTING SECRETARY ROOT. EXPOSING I1S )EFENCE OF TIIVE ARMAlY. A Blistering Review of Army Conduct undi Muntngemtient in the P1hiilippin e. The New England anti-imperialist committee, of which Mr. Charles Francis Adams is chairman, makes public an elaborate review of the Philippine situation, which has been prepared by Mr. Moorfield Storey, counsel for the committee. The point of Mr. Storcy's argument is that the responsibility for the conditions in the Philippines does not rest primarily with our soldiers and oflicers in the islands, but with Secretary Root. The docu ment is a blistering review of the his tory of army management in the Philip pines from the time we occupied the islands to the present. IL is entirely 1 based upon official and authentic evi- I dence, and its statements are supported at every point by citations of the re ports of commanding officers, or of unimpeached testimony given before the Senate Philippine committee. None of the disputed allegations is relied upon. The whole discussion is intend. ed to lrave no loophole for charges of vagueness or of the use of information of questionable authenticity. At the outset Mr. Storey calls atten tion to the promises repeatedly made by President Roosevelt that 4ll cases of barbarity, or of violations of the 'r.ws I cf war, occurring in the Philippines should be visited with severe punish. 8 ment. These promises are then viewed in the light of Secretary Root's state- r ments on the same subject in speeches I and letters. It is charged that there is direct conflict between Mr. Roots ( contentions and the facts given in the 1 reports of the commanding officers in y the Philippines, which must have been t known to him. It is sought to show L that the Secretary has made no effort 1, whatever to carry out the promises of u rigid investigation and condign punish- li went made by the President, but has v concealed information known to him b from the public. Mr. Storey then re- a Views the history of the vrtrious inves tigations and courts martial instituted 1 at the request of the war department, v and maintains that, in every instance, v such investigations were either farcical b or designedly incomplete, and that the selection of the investigating officers or courts martial boards was such as to make it impossible to secure a convic tion. Speaking of the exceptionally notorious charges against Gen. Funston and others concerning the killing of prisoners, Mr. Storey remarks of the inquiry in this particular case that : t " No one can road this record with . v out seeing r " 1. That the first impulse of the o authorities was to punish the soldier 11 whose true statement led to the inves tigation. 11 " 2. That the attempt was made to c have an investigation where the wit- 9 nesses could not he had, so that it b would be possible to claim that no evi- l' dence was found to prove the charge, t when, in fact, no real attempt to inves tigate was made. U " 3. That the most serious charge c was not investigated at all." a Deliberate evasion and concealment c is then attributed to Secretary Root, a the charge being supplorted by evi- a dence chronogically dIrawn from ollicial a documents. On the strength of these It is argued that only by supposing Mr. t RLoot grossly ignorant of his duty as s Secretary of War can lie be relievedl of l1 the charge of deception. In the course of the argument it is I mamntained, from an elaborate com parison of statistics of the killed and< wounded in our own and foreign wars, I that the butchery of the wounded Fili-t pines was not sporadic, but was a gen eral custom in our arniy. This point is also backed up by direct testimony i of fresh interest. Mr. Storey also reviews the evidencei already cited, concerning the systema-i tic use' of torture by our ofilcers and soldIers, and by the Macabebes in our1 'pay-, fOr the purpose of eliciting infor mation. HIe considers it conclusive. From an claborate discussion of thea rules laid down in General Order, No. I 100, as comp)ared with the orders of Geni. Bell and others, the p)oinit is made that the mode of warfare pur sued by us in the Philippines is entirelyi out of harmony with the usages of civilized combat. In no view of the case, thinks Mr. Storey, can it be claimed that our plan of reconcentra tion, with its attendant burnings of houses and property, and its necessary accompaniment of extermination for1 all those found outside of the protected zones is justidiable. At the close of the pamphlet the case against Secretary Root is summed up in the following language : " From this review of the record certin things clearly appear. "I. That the destruction of Fili pino life during the war has been so frightful that it cannot be explained as the result of ordinary civilized war fare. " Gen.'Bell's statement that one sixth of the natives of Luzon-that is, some five hundred thousand 'persons had been killed or (lied of dlengue fever in the first three years of the war, is etvidence enough on this point, espe cially when coupled with his further statement.4 ",'The lbss of life by killing' alone has been every groat, but I think not one man has been slain except where his death ger.vod the legitimate pur pose of war. It has been thought necessary to adopt what in other coun .tries would be thought harsh meas ures,' but which Secretary Root calls' measures of marked humanity am( iliag naninity. 2. That at the vory outset of thi war there was strong reason to believi that our troops were ordered by som<c otlicers to give no quarter, and that tc investigation was had because it wai reported by Col. Crowder that the ovidc,nco 'would implicate nany others,' Gen. Otis saying that the charge was ' not very grievous under the circumstances.' " 3. That from that time on, as is shown by the repoits of killed and wounded, and by direct testimiony, the practice continued. " 4. That the war department has never made any earnest effort to in vestigate charges of this offence or to stop the practice. " 5. That from the beginning of the war the practice of burning native towns and villages and laying waste I,he country has continued. " This was the inception of a policy ,hat was pursued till Samar was made i 'howling wilderness.' " 6. That the Secretary of War lever made any attempt to check or ntnish this method of war. " 7. That from a very early day ortue has been employed systemati ;ally to obtain information. "8. That no one hel ever been eriously punisied for this, and that, ince the first oflicers were reprimand. d for hanging up prisoners no one has eent punished at all until Major lenn, in obedience to an imperative ublic sentimsnt, was tried for one of uany offences and received a farcical entence. " 9. That the Secretary of War has ever made any attenpt to stop this arbarous practice. " 10. That from the time when Gen. )tis advertised a court-martial of renner for giving the information rhich led to an investigation, until lie Secretary proposed that Gen. Miles e retired for giving the clew which od to the publication of Major Garde er's report, and Major Gardener is arried for making it, the zeal of the rar department and of Mr. Root has een displayed against the accusers ud not against the criminal. "11. That the statements of Mr. toot, whether as to the origin of the rar, the progress, or the methods by rhich it has been prosecuted, have cen unreliable and misleading. " 12. That he has shown a desire ot to investigate, and, on the other and, to conceal the truth touching ie war, and to shield the guilty, and y censorship and otherwise has large rsucceeded. " That lie can exercise an influence ) prevent abuse is shown by his igorous language in disapproving the mcommtendatiou of a board that an tlicer suffering from chronic alcoho sin be retired. In this case he said: "'Immediate and severe discipline called for, and nothing else. My bservation has satislied gpn thnt the tandard of sobriety and good personal abits among the officers of the army s very high, but it would not long ro lain so if cases of this kind were to e condoned or disposed of in the man er which has been proposed in this ase. Oflicers who observe such cases nd fail to report them promptly for iscipline are remiss in the perform nce of their duties, And I desire the rmy to unterstaiid that t,bey will be 0 consideredl.' "' Had such words been1 used when tic first oflicers guilt,y of torture were entencedl to a rep)rimaind-if such mnguage had ever been usedl by him bout, any barbarity or outrage in t,he 'hihppines-can aniyone doubt its ifect? lie was silent in the face of ertain knowledge, andl by his silence e madle hinmelf responlsiblhe for all hat was done with his acquiescence. " 13. That Mr. Root, then, is the eal defendant ill this case. The re ponsib)ility for what has dlisgraced the nimerican name lies at his dloor. lie a conspicuously the person t,o be in restigated. The records of the war Lepartment should be laid bare, that ye may see what orders, what cable ~rams, what replorts, are there. His tandard of humanity, his attitude t,o yard witnesses, the position wvhichi lie ias taken, the statemenits which lie ias made, all prove that lie is the last )erson to be charged with the duty of nvestigating charges which, if proved, ecoil on him. It is idle to expect, any real investigation from him. " Nor is it safe- to trust this investi gation to the officers who have been merving in the Philippine Islands. The zuilty men are their friends and com eades. They have been led to think What the honor of the army is served by acquitting the guilty or giving nomi sal sentences. They cannot help try ing to extenuate. They cannot help wvishing to diablieve." " What do the American people pro pose to (10 about thlis terrible truth? Shall Mr. Root continue to (disguise the truth? Shaull we hidle our heads(1 in the sandl, refuse to read or to believe the facts, devote our attention to gains and business, and hope that all this will be forgotten?" After insisting upon the importance of 19ctifying our record in the Philip. pines by visiting those who have been guilt,y of outrage with severe punish mont, Mfr. Storoy concludes by plac ing the responsibility as follows: " Our soldiers are not to blame for all this. They are like the rest of our follow citizens. Not a whit more cruel, It is the American people under falsc leaders which has set them to subju' gate.and has been content not to asi hoWy the work was done. We at hom< maty imitate the ostrich, but, hide Oul hoads as we inay, we cannot escapi our naionnal guit."> 1 THE OL ) NATIONAL ROAD. How it Figutre( in National P1oli. I tica for Many Yearn. lialtimoie Lluna. 'T'he good roads convention hold at Cumberland recently and the sugges Lion there made by the chief of the United States road bureau that the old national road should again be taken in hand by the Federal government recalls the history of one of the most interest ing highways in the United States. Its t glory has long since departed and the to service for which it was constructed is now performed by a number of rail ways. That service was to provide ani y avenue for travel and trallic between the eastern seaboard and the valley of 41 the Mississippi. The original design 1 was to build the road from Cumberland tl to Wheeling. At Wheeling the tralile a was transferred to boats on the Ohio river. East from Cumberland the road f( was built by a series of corporations chartered by the State of Maryland, o with money subscribed mainly by the ti State banks. Each bank as it received tc its charter was obliged as a condition p to invest a certain per cent. of its capi- p tal in .the stock of the turnpike con- d panies, and for this reason the road 1 was sometimes called the "bank road." ip For many years a great stream of at travel and traffic passed over the road from \Vheling to Baltimore. As many si as 16 coaches, carrying from eight to do sixteen passengers, passed each way tr daily. There were rival lines and re- of lays of horses at short intervals, and ir the speed was as great as 10 or 12 0( miles an hour, (lay and night. Many if private carriages and many persons on horseback were in the ever-changing pi procession. Some of the great figures tc in our history passed to and fro on this B celebrated highway. Henry Clay, the of father of the road, and Andrew Jack- in son, who .ut short its' career, went, in1 over it to and from their homes to p< Washingtou, and were always received in wherever they stopped by throngs of admirers. Those were the days of hero in worship. t1 Over this road came the famous In- Lh dian chieftain, Black Hawk, on his ai, visit to the "great father." Don An- pc tonio Lopez do Santa Ana rode all the way from Wheeling to Baltimore in a p1 coach named " Texas." his conquer- al or, Sam Houston, was also at times a C: passenger, as was Zachary Taylor, Wi- L liam Henry Ilairison and Davy Crock. fr ett. All these statesmen had to be It prepared to receive delegations and to ti make speeches whenever they put up s for the night at a tavern. The freight CO over the road consisted mainly of bacon or and flour brought east to Baltimore in C line wagons," ponderous vehicles G with hind wheels ten feet high, and Lh drawn by four or six horses. They n1e returned with loads of dry goods, cc groceries and other commodities for pr the stores of the Western States. All mi] these vehicles and the flocks of oxen in and sheep which followed each ot:.cr la in quick succession over the road caused thi a great demand for accommodations for cri man and beast, for provisions and for age. The farmers along the route Cd never lacked a market for what they fr raised, and every few miles there was at a tavern where a meal might be had th for a quarter and a drink of pure corn T or rye whiskey for a " lip." As the Gi Baltimore and Ohio railroad was push- tr cd Westward the terminus of this trailic im shifted from town to town until the lLI railroad reached Wheeling in January, U 1853, and the national road ceased to c< be anything more than a local high way. 8 LIn his adidress at Cumberland Mr. L Martin Dodge spoke approvingly of the W idea of a transcontinental wagon road. t1 As the buildinxg of the national road b: progressed there was a design to ex- rt tend it to St. Louis, and it probably di would have reached that city before P1 the advent of the railroad but for Pres- ri ident Jackson's veto of the Mayesville turnp)ike bill in May, 1830. That veto gi carried consternation throughout the at land and blasted many hopes. The yi bill provided that the United States q1 should subscribe to the stock of the II company~ chartered to build a turnpike ul road from Mayesville to Lexington, Ky., and its veto was the announce ment that the policy of internal im provements was ended, at least as long C as Jackson was in the White IIouse. That policy had been steadily pur sued dluring the administrations of Monroe and John Quincy Adams. It was like the " American " or protec- 1 Live system, the conception of Henry Clay, aund began in 1806, when .Clay went into the Senate. IL was the policy of the Whig party, and was one of the causes of the division of parties which - took place in Adams' administration. For his Mayosville veto Jackson was subjected to the bitterest denunciation ii by the Whig papers, and nowhere (lid v the blo0w strike more heavily than in S Maryland. President Adams had brok- p en ground for the Chesapeake and 5 Ohio canal July 4, 1828. He wash vastly interested in the work, which ii ho said would exceed any of the " seven wonders " of the world. The United States subscribed a million (101- t lars to the capital stock upon condition i that it should be made wider and deep- e er than had been purposed, and no one a doubted that this was only a beginning, I and that thle United States would fur- i nish money to continue the waterway .1 to the Ohio river. But Jackson de stroyedl all these hopes. The canal company elected as Its president a member of Jackson's cabinet, his closest friend, Gen. Eaton, secretary of war. But 01(1 Hickory could not be cajoled into ap)proving What he con sidlered an unconstitutional measure. These clays the constitution seldom stands In the way of anything Congress , really wishes to do, and so, if it should )c determined to make a transcontin mntal road from Waaingtont to San "rancisco, it is not likely that the plan vould encounter at veto or cause any )arty divisions. \8iVEl'I'-TOOTII) NATION. n ited StateN' Conimpt 111ion of Sugar hIIM I ncreaed Greatly. The United States consumes now ight tiines as much sugar per capita s in the first quarter of the la-t cen ury, four times as much as the average or capita during the decade ending ,ith 1850, and twice as much as in any car prior to 1870. From 1870 to 1880 it averaged about U pounds per capita, from 1880 to 90, 50 pounds per capita ; in 1891I ie ilgure was i ti pounds per capita, ad hats ranged from l2 to 68 pounds or capita since that time, the figures r 1101 being 04.4 pounds. 'Tiis year growth in the consumption f sugar is evidently not, contined to to United States. The increase seems have been equally rapid in other irts of the world. Pigures recently iblished showed that the sugar pro iction of the world was nearly eight mnes as great in 190(1 as in is10, the ures for 1840 being 1,150,000 tons, id that for 1900, 8,800,000 tons. This increase in production and con imption has come laigely through the ;velopment of the bot sugar indue y, which increased from a production '50,000 tons mn 1840 to 200,00(0 tons 1850, 831,000 tons in 1870, 1,402, 10 tons im 1880, 3,61:3,000 tons in +90, and 5,950,000 tons in 9li10. During the same time cane sugar oduction increased from 1,100,000 ns in 1810 to 2,850,000 tons in 1900. sets in 18,10 supplied 4.:35 per cent. the total sugar product of the world; 1850 they supplied 14 211 per cent ; 1860, 20.43 per cent. ; in 1870, 34.40 ir cent ; in 1890. 0:3.70 per cent. and 1900, 67.71 per cent. The per capita consumption of sugar the U'nited States is greater than at of any o:hcr country, except in e United Kingdom, where the an Cal colisumlption ranges from 85.91 mUnds, per capita. An interesting report describing the obable effect of the abnormally cold ad wet summer which Germany has perienced, has been made public at e State Department. The report is omt Consul General Mason, at Berlin, id is dated August 21. In the event at September is sunshiny, the report ye, the growing crop of sugar will bo nverted to one of the largest on rec d, in proportion to the area under ltivation. The sugar producers of armany, and of Austria, also, says e consul general, are entering on i w campaign under very discouraging nditions. Asido from the very low ice of sugar and all utterly stagnant arket, there is the still more depress g fact, he says, that the surplus of it year's sugar carried over is greater an at the beginning of any recent mpaign. The situation in Germany, it is stat , is somewhat better than in Austria, om the fact that Germany consumes home more sugar than Austria, and, erefore, is less dependent on exports. ie sugar consumption per capita for srmany is 28 pounds, while in Aus la it is only 17.6 pounds, both figures eager andt insign ilicant comp)ared with 0 per~ cail)ta of conlsumpitionl ini the nited States and1( Great, Brit,ain. Thle uisul general continues: "The effect of the export bounty steam has been to tax sugar out, of e reach of a large p)rop)ort,ionl of the orking classes ini Europe, and( the to nmost imiportanit result.s aimed at, Sthe Brussels conference were to peal the cause of countervailing ities in America and( reduce the retail 'ice of hiomie-grown sugar in the En pcan markets." Suimming up the situation with re Irdl to crops as a whole, Mr. Mason ye that thle Germtan grain crop~ this ir will be fully up to tile average in lantit,y, but that its qtality has been ore or less seriously dlamagedl by the Ifavorable weather. G nAcE LEss.--Because Mr. Von olnitz defeated Mr. Grace im the re mnt primnary in Charlest,on for State mlator, the Edgefield Advertiser inks that that cit,y has fatllen from ace. This amay be true, and there is other truth that, strikes us. Jud1(g ig fromi the reports of the second rimary, after thle gross irregtularities the( fIrst, the city contmnued in sin lat Grace might, ab)oundl, hut it didn't. -The Florence D)aily Times. On PnxT'IE'TY Mrs$TIxS.-If Cuba not really free she is putting up a ery serious bluff in that direction. lhe has ordleredl Uncle Sami off her oss5essions and1( the old1 man is no0W 3ratchiing his headl, wondorilig where 0 is at anld afraid to defy his pretty iistress.-T'1he Florence D)aily Ttimes. A Wna BIr BAsIl mu t.-Some of 10 newspapers are wondering wh3 10 News and Courier has lately been a shy on politics. The Sumter Item sys It was a wee bit bashful about it,ting everybody into tihe secret of its eing a Hleyward paper.-Greenwood ournal. CASTOR IA For Inf'into and Children. The Kina You Have Always Bought Bears the lignatare of a ')LITICAL SIGNS OF TO-DAY Are We Falliig into the WiyM of Ancient Rone? In the decadent days of Rome, when imperialism having stealthily under. mined the liberties of the populace, was confronted with the problem of diplomatically averting the mob, it was ascertained by ill-gotten power that to keep revolution quiescent it was only necessary to keep its stomach reasonably full. They were philosophers, those rot ten Romans, and the same philosophy --namely, that of the stomach-holds good in any age, in any clime. When all is said, the varied problems of human existence resolve themselves into the vulgar matter of physical sub aistence. And so, having stolen the material substance along with the political rights of the plebs, the patrician class organized their politics and their pred atory system of political economy on a free-soup basis, blunting the patriotic sensibilities and insurrctionary pro clivities of the great mass by a judi cious distribution of macaroni and thick dish water, with an occasional horn of bad wino thrown in for i paci ficator, when seine of the more ob streperous beefers aspired to humming bird's tongue and African snail. This, - together with the free circus and a handout of small coin upon important anniversaries, suliced to keep the emp ty-headed majority in tolerable sub jection while the earth was being ap propriatod from under their feet, and where gift diplomacy fell short, the husky arms of the imperial legions 1 were quite suflicient. Bly.this simple and tldirect policy the plutocracy of an cient ltome foisted a Julius Caesar o upon the body politic, and other less reputable Caesars, while, for them aelves they made life one long epicu rean feast, interspersed with golden C chariot a'ds to digestion and to other aids unlit for mnodern publication and Henry Vattersoi. C It worked all right while it lasted, a (nd long subsequently furnished one 1 (libbon a mass of interesting data for I n historical warning to the Twentieth d century. But what we star.ce to ask was, Has it c(ie to this in American poli- i tics, and will it come to this inl Ameri- 8 can political economy? The bizarre ) case of 1)every is fresh before us-and i l)every was elected. The thing that < elected him was his adoption of the I Roman campaign method, nothing i more nor less. If D every knowns not classic Rome, he knows the dago and the New York plebs generally, and i knows their stomachs are lei and I their thirst keen. Straightway this c philosopher politician ordered beef a imd sheep and swine to be hecatombed I to appease the cravings of the inner t man, with rivers of lager to drown it t town, and when his unsophisticated c anemies laughed him to scorn, ordered more beef and sheep and swine and t beer. IIe drew no line on sex or age i or previous condition of servitude. It F was a free-for-all till-up, and out of the ashes of the harbecue and the sour < dregs of the empty kegs, behold the i reinstated amind radiant Ross Bill I Devery, with the nice, clean public at i his mercy. Of course, this is a disreputable in1 dividual case, from which nothing bet I.cr was expected; but wvhat, is t.o b)e said of the adopt,ion of t,he Rtoman met,hod of campaigni by a great p)ohti cal organizat,ion in a great American city? In Chicago the oIlher day the Cook County ltepubhlcans formally opened their campaign in Sans Souici park with free refreshments and1( uni versal gift distributions, and we are informed by the local press t,hat 70, 000 women and children p)acd the inclosure hike cattle out at t,he stock yards, andl pushed andl fought like so many bovines to get, at, the provisions tossedl out to them. To make the dIc gradling scramble worse, ti0,000 pen nics: were given away, and we are compla cently assuredl by one of the Rep)ubli can organs of the Windy Cit,y that " a number of pers~ons5 were injured, but, nonc) seriously." 'L'h3 same paper says the dlimensions of the motley crowd "10(d the gatekeepers to fear that, all Chicago was surging down upon them at once." iIas it conme to this ini America? we repeat. Upon sober secondl t,hought we see t,he superfluousness of the (lues lion. Existinig condlitions, brought about by Republican policies, have un douibtedly reached t,he frne-soup stage, andi the shockmng exhibition in the Chicago piark is only the logical sequence. It has begun now, and where will it end? But, really, isn't this a sad commen tary on the "unexampled prosperity " of complete Rtepub)lican supremacy? Atlanta Constitution. K(ing Edwardl's coronation revealed the existence of a remarkable criminal ini Aust,ralia. A native of England1, he received his lhst, sentence In 1853, one of ten years, for highway robbery on one of the Victorian goldilelde. Since then lie has spent forty- fivye years in the prions of Victoria anid New South Wales. iIe was recently ad mitt,ed to a benevolent asylum near Sydney, and lie received permission from the authorit,ies of th3 inst,itution to go into the city to witness the coro nation illuminations. On t,he way lie noticed an unguarded -house and the temptation proved irresistilc. Ile was captured while emerging through a window with some valuable p)lundler. At the age of 73 he is now beginning a four years term of penal servitude. At4t,aniled by tle Co-r--Jout-nl andl FTe Atlata News. Colonel William P. ('alhoun. in Aumiusta Chroiele. Henry Watterson, editor of the Courier-Journal of Louisville, Ky, and John Temple (raves, editor of The Atlanta (Ga.) Daily News, light ing 'sido by side the " stuart set " in society, piercing it with lance, dagger and sword, is a good sign. Here you find coupled together two warriors of tried valor, worthy of any man's steel. It makes the heart rejoice to see men of that stamp condomning the sins of which we call in this day and time society (?), the smart set or the -100 of our cities. The craze has spread to smaller towns, whose peopl consider themst Ives up to date, advanced and in the swim when they ape the coarse and vulgar manners of some of the people or the United States. Three years ago, I first call d atten tion to the awful state of society among certain people who set them iolves up as society leaders. Four weeks ago, while editig the Green ville Daily News, I again took the mat .er up and expressed myself in no loubtful terms. Watterson and Graves are following hat lead; and right they are in doing o. It is right to let the world know hat such conduct as the " smart set " s guilty of is condemned by right hinking people. It is right to thus nake the attempt to purify society and cep it up to that high standard that ornerly existed. It is right, to con emn it, in order that the young men nd young women now growing up ay be protected from its evil in uences. And it is right for many ther reasons. The older marriea men and women annot be imjured very much. Their haracters are formed, but, good heav- i usl look at the young men and young i eomen and consider what the effect is < n then. Have you talked with some i f thetm who delight in being advanced, I nd who want to get into what their J erverted minds call society? To hear i hem talk is appalling. To hear them efend the kind of society moutiono(d i sickening beyond measure. t Aye, there is where the great harm t a being don . It is the inlluence that s uch had conduct is ltaving on the r oung. Somie of thet are inclinel to I .pe every fad of the fast set, and to 1: lefend their course by quoting from r he fast society people, who are trying 1 o pervert decent society and turn it y nto degradation. t I almit freely that the I.otoriety iven those pe-ople by the press has I uuch to do with the rmad atnd wild I areors of many people, who now con ider themselves in society. The pa- I ore make very little, if any, distinc- i tons. They do not count the cost of t heir conduct and its influence on so icty. There seems to be a desire among he fast set for each to out,do the other a their wild folly, and call it up-to-dat v ociety. There is, however, in the land an- r ther set of real society people, true r ncu, attd, ( b40 less then, trie wo. - en. Women who are as pure as it s possible fort mortals to be; men and 1 vomen they are who do lionor to their I ace. What, can they do? They seem o be p)owerless to stemn the tide or re all their erring brothers and sist,ers t.o sense of their dut,ics to society. Th'le ich fast, set, rolls high and the poor-er me0 (10 t.heir best, to follow. lil,INIt M AN HIrs ( CMiniN IC.--John Irislin, of l'ittsburg, Pa., former roller viho helped( Anitonio Vitnnac, aniothier 'oller, invent atnd p)atent a table for I arrying lhot ingots of steel t,o and rotm rolls mnechatnically, and ini whose< avor .Judge Buflington gave a decision ~gaintst the Cartnegic steel compjan)y, vheni told of his fortune todaiy said :1 'IThte news is too good to be true. Por seven years I have fought for my1 ights. I had given up hope. D o you nean it is true ? Oh I how I thanik 'ou for bringing me the gladi tidings. " I have lost, every centt I have made md I workedI for 40 long years. 1 Itartedl at the tradle at 12 cents a (lay. When i quit I was getting $11I. Oh I t,'s too goodl to b)0 true." lirislim is blind andl is 75 years of rge. IIis partnter dlied two years ago. lie left his interest, to JBrislin. If lirislini ever lives t,o secure his right,s 1o can recover at least $5,000,000 in royalties for infringements otn pautent,s. 1'his would fall heaviest on the Unit,ed itates Steel corporation. Brislin until. recently was a janitor in the Bakewell b)uildling, but lost his place through loss of sight. A writer in the Academy notes that the places where the story of " Robin son Crusoe " is supp)losedi to have been written are as numerous as the tra dlitions of Homer's b,irth. Gat,eshead at-Tyne, an inn in Halifax, a house in W hitechapel, a washhouse in Hartley, and Defoe's home in Stoke Newington are all pointed out to literary pilgrims as bemng respectively the birthplace of this famous pice of fiction. Stoke Newlngton is, at any rate, associated with the tranquil period of Defoe's rather unquiet life. There he kept his carriage and there his three daughters kept house for him, "admired for their beauty, their education, and their pru dent ,conduct," wrote a friend who married one of them. " So, the kaiser's son has fallen in love with an American girl," said the rapid-lire comimentor on men and things. " Well, if that's a patent of nobility, I gnues .. wereal ro... LtODO&VICL T UNl)R KNIFE. H1i We'Cstern Trip in Aban(oned And le 1as lte(turrel to Was1h inton1 for i Lc nfg Rest. ^N)IN^1'Ot., Sept. 2:3.-Without the use of annesthotics, the patient dis Playing the coolest nerve throughout, an operation was this afternoon pre tormed on l'resident Roosevelt at the St. Vincent hospital Lore. Intense aux iety was telt by all who heard the an nouncenent that the P'resident must go under the kni!e as a result of an abcess on the left leg, an olltcoue of the recent trolley acc!lent at l'ittsliel(d. It was alleviated only when it was announced that the President had borne the operation well and was resting quietly. The hospital was at once p'aced Under the guard of twenty s;ldlicts. Every precaution was taken to insure the comfort of the patient. The operation was begun at a quarter past four and occupied only a few mo. ments. So well did the President look today, that when Cortelyou announced the operation at once, the news came like a thunderclap. It was then re membered that lie had limped while on the platform. This was explained by Cortelyou, who said the President was suffering from an abcess on the left leg below the knee. Drs. Oliver and Cook were immediately summoned in conference with Dr. Lung, the l'resi dent's surgeon, and the patient was driven at once to the hospital, where the operation was performed. It was at oncO decided to abandon the Wes tern trip. Cortelyou announced this evening that the President, will go direct to Washington, where lie will remain for a rest. All engagements have boon cancelled. It was announc 0d this evening that the Pres(lont, would leave for Washington on the 7:30 train. The discovery of the abcess 3o long after the Pittsfield accident, md the sudden determination to )porate, are responsible for the general mprossion that despite the reassur mg ,one of Cortelyou's announcement, the ['resident suffers from the injury of a 'ather serious nature. It is said this ivening that because lie had feared :omplieations as a result of the abcess he 'resident gave his speech on the ariff at Logansport this morning. This pecch he had intended to reserve for dilwaukeo tomorrow night. The 'resident and Secretary Root today Lad a long consulation, which gave ise to the rumors of international coni lications. These were set at rest thon it was learned what the real roub!e was. The exact trouble with the Prosi le.t, as the doctors put it, is as fol owe: In the l'ittsfleld trolley accident the 'resident received a blow upon the tuner part of the loft leg between the ankle and knee. ''Ie ofiicial bulletin on the Presi len's operation is as follows: " As a result of the tiaumatism bruise) received in the accident, there was found to be a circumscnibed col action of perfectly pure serum in the middle third of the left anterior tibial egion, the sac containing about 2 lunces, which was removed." The operation was successful and no >ad result.s are expected. It isthought ltin a short time the place will ncal. IlU'1TAL4 M5INICHl.l OF A BOY. h'& a ak J)ooley Shot by an Un k nowmn Colored Train Hand at M~elrose on3 Saturday. Yank l)ooley, a 13-year-old colored ioy, who was brought to this city on aturday eveningand placedi at Adams' :olored boarding house near the South in dlepot, died yesterday morning at 1 >'clock from the effects of a pistol shot VOud. Th incidents of the tragedy, is related by John D)ooley, the growni >rother of the deceased, who was pres mnt at the time of the shooting, are uteresting, and present a remarkable lemonstration of wanton brutality. These negroes, with a third com-. pamion, were walking down the track of the Spartanburg and Asheville rail roadl, towards tils cit,y on Saturday af ternoon last. About 1 o'clock they stopp)ed for a rest near Melrose station, andi seated themselves on a sewer pipe. While there a freight train came along, headed for Spartanburg. They arose, and as the train passed, casually walked along the side of the track. After the train passed Yank Dooley stepped back on the track, and at that time a negro train hand swung from the side of the car next to the cab with a pistol in one hand, and deliberately fired up at the boy on the track. The lad was struck in the abdomen and after tottering a distance, fell to the ground. Not content, the negro fired twice more at the other two peo. destrians, but without effect. The agent at, Meirose telegraphed to Tryon and other points down the line to have the negro on the train ar rested. The scoundrel had escaped, however, before the train reached Tryon. Yank Dooley and John Dooley were carried to Saluda, N. C., and later on in the afternoon were brought to the city on the regular evening passenger train from Asheville. Trho wounded boy was lodged at Adams' colored boarding house, where he died. Coroner Foster conducted the in quest over the remains yesterday at tornoon.-Spartanburg Herald. We have remarked that the Coufes sions of a wife are usually roasta of her husband.