The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, October 25, 1899, Image 1

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THE WAR 18 ST_I,I, GOING ON. IHK LAST KPISTL.K OF DANIKL. X Ousts Reviews His Revelations and Asks the ?overuur to Act on Them? He Has a Quanliy ol Am munition in Reserve. To tho State Board of Control: A good hunter never gets out of am munition. In time of war it Id not wiee to Bhoot all your bullet?, oven at an enemy on tho run. I do not Intend to glvo tho dispensary conspirators a chanco to work tho persecution dodgo on tho public, and try and obtain tho public sympathy, diverting public at tention from tho serious charges 1 havo made. I havo said enough for tho present and will suspend my " re vel, .lions.' I havo plenty moro am munition. In fact, I have not tired my heavies; guns. There Is much more I can say which would prove as interest ing as what I have already Bald, But f havo made serious charges against the dispensary conspirators and have furnished proof, it is up to thorn and I can wait on them. If they remain silent they plead guilty ; if thoy an ewor, I will further prove what I havo already charged and put some now burd*":c on tholr shoulders. J am ready for them ; first come, first sorvod. Now, lot mo briefly rovlew what 1 havo said at longth, bo as to impress tho aaliont features upon tho publiu m nd, for the publiu can remedy tho evils and abuBOd I havo pointed out. I have charged that there is a con spiracy to get control of the dispcusary as a political and monoy-maklng ma chine. Tho conspirators are bound together by self-interest. Their plans and purposes can bo judged by their performances. They play for high .?.tako- and aro not all scrupulous as to their methods. Their only excuse for dismisbing me was obtained by doctor ing tho minutes of tho board. That Is a small matter for such honurablo gentlemen. Tho surreptitious addi tion of a few words to a resolution was nothing to men who would reBort to blackmail lo manufacture evldoi.ee to Bull their purposes, ll is but a short Btep from the lies 1 havo convicted two members of tho board of tolling me to perjury. Thoy solemnly pro mised mo a hearing. Tho other mem ber of this woll-assorted trio said ho did not know how he would vote on my ease until after I had a hearing, and ho too* precious good care not to lot me havo a hearing. Pshaw, any sensi ble man who has kept up with the matter knows that before tho board mot tho majority faction had fully de termined to depose Gommlssionoi Douthlt and myself by hook or crook:. Wo wore not puppete, who would bow down to them ; icither would wo turn . blind eyes to their questionable pro-1 ceedings and violations o. the law with whoso ad minist ration they were charg ed, therefore wo must be gotten rid of. i havo shown I was guiltless of any wrong, and that Mr. Douthlt was never givon any chanco to defend him self. I ask the public to contrast our treat ment with that accorded Webb, Black, Bryant and Young by tho majority fac tion. Had wo been guilty of any of tho things they wero guilty of, how quickly thoy would havo been used as tho basis of our removal instead of tho trumped-up charges to which thoy finally resorted. Wobb drinks on tho premises, violat ing a special order of tho board, pla carded throughout the building. Black keeps him company in disre garding that rule, and gets drunk and disorderly. But thoy aro henchmon of tho majority faction, and rules of the board do not apply to such. Thoy aro privileged to violato tho board's rules and oven to help themselves to the State's property as 1 have shown Vance and Bryant did. Haaelden said Bryant was a " G?d d?d thief and scoundrel" and boasted that he could Eut him in the penitentiary. If ho ad any such power over me or Douth lt, would ho not have used it ? Why this leniency to Bryant? Ah, Bryant is Robinson's friend and Haseldon could not anger Robinson to tho point of not voting with him. But ho bagged both ; ho made Robinson bellove it necessary for him to vote as Haseldon directed to save Bryant's scalp, and he made Bryant bellevo ho could not escapo the yawning gates of the peni tentiary unless he sworo against Dout hlt and mysolf and mi:do It " hot as he oould '"for us. I havo not only charged Black with drunkennoss, but I havo proved his utter Incompetence beyond the shadow of a doubt. He made scores of errors which would have cost the Stato or the dispensers heavily, had they not been dlscovored. All of his errors { may not havo beon oaught. Had I kmado ono hundredth of bin errors, Kwhat would tho majority of the board nave done to me ? But Blauk works Kn with thorn, ho is one of them, and ? so thoy do.not care how incompetent he Vis nor how much ol bis mistakes may " rob the Stale or the dispbusers. U.ack'o null is shown by the faot that, though Douthlt time and again reported him to Miles for drunkenness, Miles did not cheok his drinking, much less suspend him. Tho partiality thoy show their henohmen is further instanced by the way Elmoro Young's ignorance and in competence for tho position of recolv J ing olerk aro overlooked. But ho Is ^Milei's nenhew, and therefore privi leged to de as be pleases. And when hoVpleases to worry and annoy men working in tho dlsponsary, throwing water on them und paddling thorn, they must smile, and look pleased at receiving such marks of attention from th? nephow of the chairman, otherwise the chairman may do as he did to on: w bo objected to suoh ploa eantrlef, whom ho vUely cursed and whose loart he threatened to out out. But avorltism to dispensary em ployoeiund officers who toady to It is not iw whole extent of the majority faotlotR favoritism. Favoritism in tho pacing of orders for whiskey has been (oven and is aubjoot to a much worsef instruction than the favoritism to emP'yoeB and overlooking their in compftnce and violations of the boardfc>rders. I have shown how variola*hlskey houses succeeded in getting) orders by employing looal IfrgBIMf who knew nothing about tho flg business but who had a pull Bo majority faotlon. i havo R>ow valuablo thobo pulle woro ?izoof theordora they obtained, ?shown how ospeclally fortunate Hh house which got one of Hasel Hentlful supply of cousins as ttn H I have a! o shown that when ?thuoldon'n counlnB ceased to re HU house, Its whlskoy seemed to Hmte In his judgment, for he Bdvooatlng orders for It and it Hceaeed to get ordors. PJJthor evidence ol the oonsplr jflvo elted the aotlon of the ma ration in removing, without Hy reason, Dispensers Lynoh Hnan and the Hlohland oounty Oacontrol. It bltnnly further ^the ^termination of the maj i'it.v faction to control tho dispen -hi y from a to Izzard and QU all places with thulr partisans, which willonahlo thorn to wlold its full power in politics und also manipulate tho sales of liquor to tho advantage of firins ropresonttd by relatives or honchmon of tho ma jority faction. I havo shown in tho State dispensary how all corn Is not measured with the samo half bushol; how ignorance, in competonco and violations of rules are excused in honchmon of tho majority faction, while Douthit and 1 aro removed, without a hearing, on trumped up charges. Lynch, Book man and tho Klchland board aro re moved without ovon a chargo being made against them. But Dispenser Brown, at Choraw, was found short In his accounts. Ho admitted that ho had sold liquor on credit and not col lected for It. Soiling liquor on credit is a direct violation of tho dispensary law Itself and not u mero rule of tho board, but tho chairman of tho Chestortield board of control wrote horo that Brown was a good fellow and ho wanted him rein stated and given tlmo to pay up his shortage, which tho board graciously did. Is there a reason for making such a dilToronco in the treatment of tho two boards ? If so, what Is It ? In ono case, a dlsponsor violating tho law under which ho holds otfico, and from which ho gots his living, and in the other tho dispensers havo nevor been accusou Ol violating anything. Possibly follow fooling tnado tho ma jority faction wondrous kind to tho Chesterfield disponsor, for I have shown that Haeefdeu bought liquor on credit at tho Stato dispensary, thus violating the dispensary law himself, lie disregards tho dispensary law and violate i it, but he had mo removed for an alleged infraction of a doubtful rule of the board, which is not of near so much authority as tho law creating the board. lie not only bought on credit, but ho and Miles bought at the price to dispensors and not to con sumers, whereby tho county and town lost their share of tho proQt of the transactions. I havo cited another instance of Uaseldon's disregard of the rulos of tho board. When Dickson res'gnod the position of superintendent, it was a month before hlssnccesBor was olectod. The board ordered Haseldon and Vance to do the work of tho superin tendent during that time and they even gave him extra pay a week after Bryant took charge. He helped pass the order about tho superintendent's work, but that did not keop him from violating it. The Stato lost $30 on his account. No wonder Hasolden did not vote to punish Wobb for losing the Stato $112 by giving a beer diBponsury authority to run on after tho board had ordered hirn to close up. I havo charged that a former com miesioner gave a^ay -Stato property at tho dlepeusury, hilt was Dot disciplined by kho boHrd, I havo charged that Hasolden nsadu his term as chairman profitable by charging per diem for days he was con structively at work in Columbia, but really attending to his business at borne, uccording to his statement ol his plans to the treasurer of Groonvllle county I have mado various othor charges against strlkors and ox-oQlccrs of the dispensary, but who at present aro not charged with its management, which last 1 particularly wish to attend to. I havo attempted to show the people of tho Stato what manner of men havo control of tho dispensary. I havo ex posed their acts, aud if those acts have not been for the best Interests of tho Stato, it is not my fault, for some of them I tried my best to prevent, bo cause I believed them wrong. My efforts wore In vain, but that w*.s not my fault. I am roady to assist tho board or anybody who has the power to sift out all tho wrong doing and have the diRponsary law obeyed and carried out honestly and efllclontly and in behalf of the best Interests of tho people, not to tho prlvato or political Interests of tho honorable majority faction of tho board. '.riils brings the matter squarely up to the attention of Governor Mc Sweeney, who has a chance to signa lize his administration by attempting to purge tho board of its unworthy me.mbe.rn, tho majority faction. The statements I have mado are true; thoy havo not even been contradicted, much less controverted, and, I think, furnish tho governor Bufllclont ground for a request for the resignation of the men against whom I havo mado charges. If he Is not satisfied as to tho proof offered, he can obtain more. Ho is the executive head of tho government and he should see that all its branches are clean. If they are not, they should be lopped off and the public will sustain and endorse tho man who thus acts. I have now passed the whole matter up to tho governor and the people await hla action. D. A. Q. Ouzts. lIASKIiDKN KF/riJKNS THK KUIH. He Alms Directly at Ouzts and Al leges He Was an Kavesdroppor and Other Things. Mr. J. Dudley Hasolden, member of the Stato board of control, and chair man of the sub-committee of investiga tion, replies as follows to the charges made by D. A. G. Ouzts, the deposed bookkeeper: To the People, of South Carolina : I have delayed a roply to tho series of abusive tirades published in tho dally newspapers of the Stato over the signature of D. A. G. Ouzts until tholr concljslon. I have been satisfied that the people of tho Stato, who may not know this man Ouzts, at least aro suf fioently well acquainted with most of the men whom he has been maligning to defer a conclusion as to his state ments until a further and a contradic tory assertion should bo made. It has given me, personally, and the others whose fate it had been to incur his malice, pleasuro to know that this con ?donoe has not beea unfounded. It has been my polloy since I have been a member of the board of control, and it has been that of my two col leagues, whom the X-olerk of the X eom.nlHRlonor designates as tho major ity faction of that body, to glvo to the details of dispensary management the widest publicity. Tho dispensary Is the people's Institution, its ?manage ment is their business, and they of right are entitled to suoh Information as will oonvlnoe them, and keep them j convinced, that it is honestly and com petently condnoted. We do not at tempt to deny that it offers temptation to the dishonest who mcy seoure place and position in it, and have long re alized that Its best safeguard and surest protection against the thief and the rebate-taker Is an open board meet ing and the full glare of the public eye Into its Innermost workings. A realization of this fact, and of the further fact that the best way and the only way to purify it, rests in this publicity, prompted the maivlty of the board to give the faots allotted by tho recent investigating commltteo to the public in all their uotails, instead of attempting to cover up and to cure tho defects laid baro thoroin wltbln a secret board meeting. Whether tho facts developed warranted the sunpen nlon of Mr. Doothlt, tbo public ean de termine. I boliovo that tho allidavlt8 published aro a suUlelont reply to any suggestion that tho romoval of tho commissioner was duo to any factional fooling in tho board. Until these affi davits brought to light a condition of affairs which surprised us, Mr. Dou thlt was in hearty accord and had the unroBorvod support of a majority of the board of control, and would havo it today but for theso facts. I bolievo that he has beon given a consideration that he does not doservo, in vlow of them, and I am astounded that two of my oolloaguos on tho board of control can strive to keep him in the position of commissioner. Shipping Clerk Black, in calling 8omo of tho facts ollclted to our atten tion (specific instances of mismanage ment affecting tho efficient dlachargo of tho position ho hold) was protectod by tho board In thus courageously doing his duty, and would havo beon protected, it matters not upon whom his charges reflocted. But, unlike Black, so long as Outzj held his job, bo had nothing to report to tho board, although ho knew that throe out of the five had recontly voted to retain him in his place, whilo tho othor two acquiesced because it couldn't bo helped, and hence would protect him ; although, like JoBophus Woodruff, ho kept his llttlo noto book, eavesdropping tho conversation and taking notes of the supposed errors and supposed dishonesty of Commis sioner Vance, to whom ho held tho po sition of confidential clerk. Tho facil ity with which dates and incidents are quoted is astonishing, and tho fact that they were taken at all at a time when Commissioner Vanco was befriending biin dally, and on two occasions saved him from dismissal, is equally estOQ* iahing to any fairly honest man. liut tho contemptiblo Uansey SnlPdiis, ?vho was beguiling himself Into Mr. Vance's confidence, knew, or thought he knew, how to play his gamo. Ho judged other men like unto himself, and doubtless fondly cherished his llttlo notj book, which was to serve him in such good stead, to blackmail his posi tion back again, whenover ho should bo ousted for .either of his failings, in competency or dishonesty. Of theso fallings, tho former of course had long been known to us, and tho latter we bad good reason to suspect, but un fortunately gave him the benefit ol tho doubt and rotainod him as a courtesy to a member of the board of control who lived In tho county from which he came, and to preserve If we could bar mony In the board, as wo know his dis missal would onrago two membors of the board who wero tied to him by bomo bund.- we were unablo to com prehend. That blackmail was contemplated by him and rellod on, Is plainly shown by tho threat, which he evon went so far as to give to tho nowspaperB, that he would lay baro certain lnsido history If his suspension wero made permanent. It will be noted by tho public that he did not "blow off his mouth," id his own classic language, until the board of control had invited him to it by making his suspension permanont?a very good evidence that the aut horltles thore did not fear its production. That they, or any of the gontlemon whom he has so maliciously maligned and slandered had no cause to fear his revelations will be Indisputably shown to the public In duo season. That tho worst that ho knows has not yet been told by him, ad ho says, It Is easy to be lieve, from our knowledge cf him, and of the opportunities forstealage which he has onjoy ed during tho six yeard he has been connected with the dispensary, but wo are equally certain that it will not bo given to tho public?at least by Ouzts. Tho public is not askod to take our word evon for tho statement that from inveitigations which have beon made of tho so-called chargos of this man, are not only absolutely groundless but aro outrageous lies, with a thin veneering of truth in minor particu lars only sufficent to give thorn pla isl blllty. A large majority of theso as sertions must have beon known to Ouzts to have been false when he pen ned them, as tho public must conclude when the facto aro glvon them. The other statements are buttwldtlngs of transactions gathered by this snoik from tho desks of his fellow clerks while their backs wore turned and In formation sifted through a keyholo In which Innocent pastime this saintly ex-clerk has occasionally beon found engaged. If tho mombors of the board of con trol have really troated this man with less consideration than|he deserved in his dismissal, as heclalms, and have at times beon loss harsh with the short comings of other clerks whom we bo Ueve to bo conscientious and honest mon?and these shortcomings wo aro glad to say aro not greater than is found among the employees of any mercantile house- doing an equal busi ness?as Ouzts claims that wo havo done, to this estimate of his charactor (and to this abortlvo attempted black mail, for we all havo namos of which we aro jealous, and thore aro some men in the Stute who aro only too ready to believe any assertion do; oga tory to an officer of tho dispensary,) and to this ..hum must he attribute tho tact. That many of tho daily papers of tho Stato havo dlgnlfiod his abusive and outrageous attack upon tho charactor of a Dumber of gontlemon with admis sion to their columns, makes this plain statement to tho public noc.essary. Wero the people of the State all acquainted personally with tho mon whom ho has maligned, and with Ouzts, no roply would be made, and we doslro this fact understood. In due time evldonoo showing the details ot all transactions that have been questioned that merit a reply, will be give nto tho public. J. Dudley Haselden. nfj/VOK IB ON TU IC V/tll PATH. He Hit? Ouzta In the- Kyo and Uses Ugly I.?iiku*ko?When Will the End dome? Capt. Blaok, tho shipping clerk at the State dispensary, comos back at ex-Bookkeeper Ouzts in the following communication: To the Editor of The State : Since X-Bookkeeper Ouzts has fin ished his book of revelations, I wish to oall the attention of tho publlo to the following faots: I have boon con neoted with the State dispensary as shipping olerk slnoe May, 1808. I served under Col. Vaooe, the commis sioner, till May of the present year. From the time I entered upon my duties In May, 1898, till Col. Vance left, In May, 1809, there was no reason for anybody to believe or suspect any wrong doing; everything worked smoothly, with the exception of one man; that was Ouzts. He was always oreatlng trouble of some kind In every way that ho possibly could ; ho wanted to ruu everything : ho always disliked me, and, for sove-\l reasons, when tho board of control saw Qt to displace him as shipping clerk, I wat> put in his place; this, I have boou rollably in formed, nearly killed him. He had a talk at the time with sumo of the em ployes about me, said that I was no gontloman, etc., and that he would hnvo rather had his salary reduced $25 than to have lost his place as ship ping clerk, getting, as I *am told, so mucb a caso on certain brands of whiskey to ship them. All of this passed on till in January, 18U?, when the Legislature mot ; there had to be ono member of tho board of control elected toBucceod now X-Oommlesioner l 'outhit, then a member of the State board of control. Iiis opponent was Hon. T. C. Robinson of l'iekons, S. C, and from what 1 bad soon of Mr. ltobinson I thought bim tho right man, and a hotter man than Douthit. I wont to work for Kiblnson ; did all that was in my power for him ; ho was eleotod ; this added fuel to tiro with Ouzts and others. In May of this year Douthit was elected commissioner, and Ouzts was as noar heaven as he wanted to bo ; he said that ho would have a say when Douthit got in ; this ho has had, in the way of stealing, etc. He at once sot about to run tho build ing?all of tho departments. 1 found that ho was (cvory time my back was turned) going through my desk, look ing at my private papers, trying lo givo orders to my bands, etc. 1 told my truck hands to toll mo when they caught htm In my desk looking over my papors, books, etc.; this they did on many occasions. At last, a few iin)nt.hh ago, Mr. H. S. Thomas, one of my hands at that time, reported to me that Ouzts had been going through overything. I immediately wont to tho commissioner's otlico and told Ouzts that If I over caught him in my offleo again?a G?d d?n thieving scoundrel? ?examining my prlvato papers, I would shoot tho top of bin hoad off. 1 told him then and thero all I know how, and tho language could not be mistaken. 1 was so roueh with him Capt. Webb came down from up stairs and asked mo to stop ; l told him l would stop as soon as Ouzts, decided whether or not ho was going to tight. I offered to fight him in any svay ho wished, and, although he woighs about 275 pounds and 1 weigh about 140 pounds, tho cowardly cur didn't dare open his mouth. All of theso dntos that ho has given in the papers wore stolon from our of liccs, but a largo majority of them are Hos. IIa says I was drunk and disor derly. Woll, 1 suppose ho must have Deen a coward and badly scared whon I cursed him for all tho low -'s that I could, and told him that ho was a thief. Ouzts has taken all of the mistakes of the dispensary und laid them at my door; this, ho knows, la a low, coward* iy act. 1 am free to adir.lt that 1 do make mistakes, tho dally shipments running from 500 to 1,500 cases, but there aro dozens oi times when the goods are put in the wrong stack, and very often marked wrong at tho wires: this is caused in a great measure by putting new men to mark the cases, und this Is In a groat measure due to the fact that Ouzts was too lazy to do his duty. Mr. Collins, at tho hist of each month ever since I have boon con nected with the State dispensary, had to help Ouzts with or straighten his books. This would make it necessary for tho superintendent to put a new man to do tho marking ; then, of course, the errors would bo hea^d from all over tho State. I have nothing whatovor to do with tho marking, and therefore am not responsible for errors there. Letters from dispensers and others are given, and Black continues as fol lows : " This Is only somo as this infernal liar knows. I have sent as many as live cases marked wrong back to tho wlros to bo remarked at one time. 1 admit, as I said before, that I make mistakos, and believe every man does ; this, how ever, is not stealing. Wnon I make a mistake it is my uuty to correct it, which 1 havo always done; when a man steals ho should not be allowed to go at large liko this fellow Ouzts, but the penitentiary 19 tho proper place for such criminals." Statements from Capt. 14. 0. Webb and Mr. M. H. Mobloy aro piinted to show that Ouzts also made mistakes, and then BlaoK goes on to say tnat Ouzts has on several occasions suut cases of whiskey from the building ; this he might say was Bent to him, and no doubt some of it was, but too much wont away. Thero la now locked up in the desk that he worked at, at tho State dispensary, twenty or twonty-ono bot tles of whiskey?a regular " blind ti ger." He Is moan enough to aay some thing about Mr. Eurhardt getting a lit tlo over his regular wagea In the ab sence, of a auporlntendent, when I muat eay ho baa on all occaalona mado, when loft lu chargo of tho bottling depart ment, aa good a superintendent aa over aaw tho building; atlll Ouzts gooi North, visits whiskey moo, and stays three weeka and on his return draws his re gular salary and Mr. Collins, who took his place, 1 am Informed, only received $15.00 for doing Ouzts' work for three woeks. Why did ho visit for throe wooks whiskey men at tho North? Who p.ild for tho trip? Of course, wo all have an Idea. Lie .-a, too, th t ail of the. mombors, 1 I e though that he onlv mentions t in number, havo relatives in the in. ronaary. Suppose that they have, If they are competent and honest, whose business Is It but theirs ? The faot of the matter is, Ouzts has a nephew there himself, and wbllo ho didn't have the power to put him there it was his lutluence. One of tho moat cowardly things that I ever beard of was whon he triod to stab Mr. Miles in tho back by alapplng at Mr. E. I<\ Young in tho nowapapor. Mr. Young is an orphan boy, working hard to support hla mother and aunt, everybody llkua him In tho building, ho Is us true us stiol, tho right kind of blood runs through his voins, he Is honest and upright in ovory respect; this is tho kind of boy Ouzts don't llku If ho could be Inducod to steal ho would bo an angol. Ouzts says ho is not com petent and Bays tr at ho made lois of mistakes ; I bellove ho dous, liko any other man, mako some Thoro was a shipment from Tallapoosa, Ga., that Ouzts says was oheckod up wrong by Mr. Young, 05 cases of empty bottleB. Tho following will show what tho glass company had to say about It: Tallapoosa, Ga , Sept. 22, '00. Stato Hoard of Coutrol, Columbia, 8. C. Dear Sirs : Wo havo your tologram ordorlng one oar of half pints, also lettor confirming same and ordering one oar of pints, whloh shall receive our prompt attention. Wn aro now loading a oar, *n whloh wo will put ono half pints a.d ono-half half pints, so that you can bavo some of eaoh, and as soon as we can get another oar sot In we will send another loaded ooo-half eaoh. We herewith enclose to you orodlt voucher for 05 oases, 27 112 gross error in shipuiont August .'list, and thanking you for favors shown, wo ro<nain, Yours vory truly, (Signed,) Dixie Glass Co. By C. A. Norton, Treas. As to my doing my duty, whether 1 was drunk and disorderly or not Is a matter with tho State board of con trol, and not Ouzts ; if it had been left with Ouzts he would huvu displaced me with his lies long ago, and instead of my making tho report that I did a month ago aud showing these things up, and doing so without any four of anybody they would havo had full swing and instead of their being out of the State dispensary, tho State dis pensary would havo been out of sight of tho people of South Carolina, and it would have only taken a short time for such men as Ouzts to sink it finan cially, and forever. lie has something to say about my working for Don. M. It Cooper at the lust election ; 1 am no Judas, 1 did, 1 worked night and day for him, and I am Indued glad that he Is elected, aud If 1 live till next summer will do so again. This is my 11 ret and labt com munication to the newspapers. Ouzts is not my equal. 1 would not speak to such a cur on tho stroets, but slap his dirty face if ho was to dare to speak to me. I am still in tho city of Colum bia, work at the State dispensary and liv >. at the cornor of Sumtur und Taylor streets, and In conclusion wish to say to the public, that Ouzts was turned out for dishonesty, and violat ing the orders of his superior officers, and my opin'.on of him I have exures ed tu him In tho presence of v i t not ? > ?. and havo not hesitatod to repeat It In this article. John BLACK. ITKMS OF UKNKKAh INTEREST. Quaint and CurioiiH Paragraph? leathered from VarioitH Hourccn. ?Men exposed to tho rigors of tho Alaska winter nevor wear moustaches. They wear full beards to protect the throat and face, but koop tho upper lip clean shaven. ?There is a lemon grove of 1,000 acres In San Diego County, California, and It Is said to be tho largost lr the world. It was begun in 1800, when 170 acres wero plant d, and It has beon an nually added to until it has reached Itn present siz i. ?Tho Atiantlc Transport Company, which gavo tho United States a ship for hospital torvlce In the war with Spain, has now done Great iV.tain a similar service. The admiralty havo gladly accepted the vessel, which will be named the Maine. ?Tho last Fodo.-al census showed that during tho ton years, 1807-1870, there wero 122,121 divorces In tho United States, and auring tho next ten years 1877-1880, thore wero 200,005 di vnrcos. Tho ratio of increase greatly exceeded that of the population. ?A correspondent writing from Tamoa says that the pay roll of the cigar factorlos In tint town last week was larger tba.i It had been for years One factory paid out $10,000 In wages, and is not working half as mar y bands as it would work If the labor could bo secured ?Tho Pennsylvania Stool Company has been awarded tho contract for the orectlon of an Iron ore plor, 1,000 feet in longth, to be erected near Santiago for the Cuban Steel Ore Company. This Includes tho orectlon of all bridges and viaducts. Tho price will reach almost $500,000. ?Ella Ewlng, tho giantess, has had built fo?* herself a now resldenco near Gorin, Mo. Tho house was constructed on a scalo proportionate lo Miss Ew lug's i,e.-ds. The doors are 10 feet high, und the cell'ngs and windows look like those of fabled giants' castles. The proprietress of this establishment is no* 8 feet 1 inches tall, and is still growing. ?Many years ago Robe rt Southoy wrote tbotfO words : " France pur chased the sovereignty of Corsica for 40,000,000 of llvrre?as if the Gonoose had been entitled to soil It; as If any bargain and saio could justify one coun try In taking possession of another against tho will of Its Inhabitants and butchering all who oppose the usurpa tion." It Is not very dillicult to find a present application of these words. ?French physicians havo for some timo boon recommending gout milk in plaOO of cow milk, especially for chil dren. Tho former, they say, Is rlehor In casolno and It carries no danger of tuberculosis. Goat milk Is nearly the same, in composition with that of a young mothor, and oven bettor, bo cause it contains more salts, which favor tho bony system. Goat cream or butter, containing all tho casoine is wholoaomo to woakly children. Goat milk Is said to euro constitutional syphilis in infants, and dyspoptlcs can tako It when cow milk disagrees with them. Cow butter is dangerous, goat butter is harmless, aud ought, accord ding to this theory, to tako Its placo. ?Dr. Richard J. Catling, lnvontor of tho Catling gun, has just celebrated bis eighty-?rst birthday. He 1b tall, ; broad-shouldered, of er Otic carriage and stately figure. He looks twenty years younger than the average man of his years. Ho Is well read in lltoraturo. delights In Dickons, Scott and Thack eray, and can quoto freely from Ameri can and foreign publications. Of course, his guns aro his hobby, though ho shows nono of tho occontricltted commonly ascribed to mon of gonlus. Ho Is a North Carolinian by birth but has made his homo In Cleveland, O., for many vears. Ho comes bonostly by 'als title of doctor, bolng a medical man by training and profession, but as a boy he took to mechanics naturally, and thirty soven years ago eoncolvod the Idea which bears his name. Although tho Inventor of jauch a murderous wea pon, tho doctor is ono of tho mildest mannered, most kindly dispositioned mon on earth. ?Tho Louisville Courlor-Journal says : "Senator Vest, is In West Vir gtnla catching mountain trout and cooking them as his friend, Wade Hampton, taught him to cook thorn in East Tonnessoo and Western North Ca rolina. First catoh your trout, though, in tho meantime, havo a good tire on tho bank of tho stream tha? you can roast a potato in bau embers. Dress your trout before the life isoutofit, dip in cold spring wator until it is cold. Put a rashor of bacon Insldo It, with butter, poppor aud salt, onolose In a green corn shuck, from which tho roasting oar has boon taken, tie up, open tho embers, deposit tho shuck and fish, cover up with hot embers and live coals, and by and by you havo a dish of fish that Luoullus would have given tho ransom of a provlnoo for. That is what Vest does every summer vaoation, and there is no tolling how long a man who doos that Js going to Hvo." Bun the j$ 1 he Kind You Have Always Bought Hl'ORY OF BOKIt AND BRITON. Tho Record of British Oreed ami Boer Determination for a Hundred Years. Columbia Stale. " I havo hut ono lamp by which my feet uro guided," said Patrick lionry on tho ovo of tho American Revolu tion, " and that ia the lamp of experi ence. 1 know no way of judging of tho future but by the past " So tho Boers cuu Bay in their issue with England, and bo can they justify themselves in their distrust of tho British amity which prompts tho dia patch of 80,uU0 troops to their horders. Should they, relying upon tho just and benevolent purposea.of Great Britain, have wailed until an army more nu merous, it ia boasted, than Wellington over commanded could surround them with its cordon of ateel ? That ia a question which is answered by their past, which itj illinium- i by ihe light of their experience. Tho record will show why the Doers do not havo confidence in the respect of Great Britain for their liberties. It will show that the present war is but tho culmination of a bloody feud ol gen erations, tho product of a century of British aggression, Time after time tho Dutch of the Gape settlements havo migrated from their homes, seeking in tho desert escape from tiie rule of Eng land, and aa often the long arm of Eng lish power has been stretched after them. To tho south and the east and tho west o! them tho Briliah sei/.od Iambi and hemmed them in, and ow tney arc cut oil from the north an well by Cecil Rhoden' now territory of British South Africa. There is no be yond. They are surrounded, and mi gration cannot serve ugain to preserve tbolr cherished Independence. The purpose of England ma?e known to them by long experience and by pres ent menace they have no recourse ex cept to light for tbeir liberties if tboy wish to maintain them. Though the chance of success be desperate It is btill a chance, and in wuiting ihere is no color of hope. The first wbito settlement in South Africa was made by the Dutch, who planted a colony at Cape Town in 1052. In 1(11)4 they were reinforced, as South Carolina wus, by an Influx of French Huguenots, exiled by '.he revocation of theElictof Nantes. sine years later tho little colony attempted to throw olT the Dutch sovereignty, but England sent a tleot to cooreo it and reestab lished tho authority of the i'rineo of Orange. This was done, England, how over, rctalulng control of the country until 1802, when Holland was given possession. Within four yiars it was seized again by Groat Britain and has been a part of the empire ever since. The Boers, disappointed in their hopes of Independence, were restive under Br'tish rulu and in l?.'i?, tbeir disullection increased by the abolition ot slavery in tho Cape Colony, they began to migrate to the northward. Largo numbers hold tbeir far-ins at u sacrifice and moved beyond the Orange river into ti o Kaffir country. Hero they had long and exhausting CObtllotS with tho nat vos, and a purt of them moved custwrd , crossed too Urakon borg mountana a nd established the In dependent republtcof Kata),thoromain taining themselves against tue pow erful Zulu nation. But too tinio came when they wore almost exhausted in warfare with tho negro boots, and England took that time us i> lit ono to seize Nutul and proclaim her tovor eiguty. This was in 1842, und the next your the Nutal Boers migrated again. One body wont to tho Orange Free Stute, by that time established, and the other proceeded farther north, to the present Transvaal. Tho Boer republic of Natal was extinguished and thut country has since reinalued in British hands. Those Boers who had remained In their first settlement north of iiio O. ango river retained their independence until 184;"), when they cume into collis ion with tho Griquas. The British govornor of Cupe Colony, Sir Hurry Smith, took tho side of the negroes, and together thej defeated the Boers. A British resident was appointed and In 1848 the colony was annexed by En gland us the Orange River British sov ereignty. I'rotorlus, a Boer leuder, led a revolt and expelled the British, but they returned In lorce und reestab lished the sovereignty of tho crown. Tho Boers wero never placated, and tho Btato ol the country was so menac ing thut In 1852 England deemed It wise to withdraw and two years later recognl/.od tho independence of tho Orange Froo Stuto. In 185!' PretoriU8, who hud crossed beyond the Vual where tho Transvaal republic waB forming, Induced Eng land to recognize tho virtual independ ence of tho country undor tho name of tho Dutch Af'dcan republic. Six years afterward ino nume was changed to tho South African republic. The ropubllc in 1877 was greatly weakenod by wars with tho natives und England took advuntago of its condition to an nex It. This high-handed act was bit terly rcsontod by tho Boers and in 1880 thoy revolted and I p. 18K1 thov routed ihe British in sevoral engagements, with tho result that tho Gladstone gov ernment withdrew its claims und rec ognized tho independence of the re public. A treaty in 1884 removed tho only remaining shadow of British suz erainty. Such is the record. It tolls for 100 years tho same Btory of British greed and Boer indomitabloness. England began with making conquest of the colony of a foreign country undor pre tense of restoring it to the motherland. Ub pooplo wont out into .bo wildernoss to maintain their lib "?ies and Eng land followed them. Whenevor those Dutch republics wero woakonod by wars with tho natives England ad vanced and annexed them, at one time aiding tho nogro trlbos to con iuer tho Boors and then soizing tho country us its spoil. Tho Boers mlgrutod while thoy could to got out of the way of England. When thoy could no longer migrate they fought. Now tho two survivors of tho three Dutch ropublics aro at tho end of their roBOurces. They seo that England has rcsumod hor old policy of making do mestic trouble the excuse for annexa tion. By tradition and lnherltanco, thoy feel, tho English are their onem Icb. It is a race contllct as woll as a political ono. Experience has taught them what tocxpect. They havo tbolr hack) to tho wall, and they tight. The sympathies of the world should bo with them in this final and horolc of fort to maintain their liberties. ?A KanBas ooldler, by way of illus trating tho civilizing Influences that aro at work in Manila, says that when tho olty surrendered to the Amorlcans thoro was not a saloon on tho main street of tho city, but that (Ivo months later ho countod 432. Bearatho ^ IhB Kind You Have Always Boujjit \ BRYAN CROSSES INTO OHIO. INVASION OF HANNA'S COUNTRY. i '.mi'in <h iVinii Hit* Hpcechrn on Im perialism, Trust? and tlio Gold Standard. Mr. Win. J. Drylin spent tho most of hist week in Kentucky, where he made telling speeches In 1 ohalf of tho Demo* craoy, and then ho crossed tho river for u three day's tour in Ohio. The tirst pluce at winch he spoke wus Greenville, in Darko county, and an immense crowd was present. Mr. John H. McLean, tho Democratic can didate for Governor, introduced Mr. Bryan as the unchallenged leader of tho Democratic masses. Mr. Bryan to avoid tho crisp morning air, put on a skull cap, which provoked geod uaturcd laughter, in respouso to which ho said : " My hair Is not as much pro tection us it used to bo. and you ou^ht not to complain if 1 am rotting a little bald. In 1890 they t/Jiid I was too young to bo l'resident. Then 1 hail to depond upon the constitution to protect me. Now 1 can depend upon my bald ness. "Tho Chicago platform to which you gavo such loyal support in 1811(5 is still the platform of the Democratic party and tho platform of the Ohio Democracy again endorses that plat form. 1 believe tho planks of that platform are stronger today than when they were written. 1 Mr. Bryan then entered into an olal irate defense of tho Income tax anti predicted a popular endorsement of tho proposition. Be cited tha efforts of the government to raise a re vcuuo to conduct the Spanish war bo cause of the decision of the supremo court against the income tax. Lie said the money quest'on was still un settled ana the light would be con tinued. Lie treated the matter of trusts in practically the same manner as char acterized his Kentucky utterances. lie claimed the Republican party said some trusts wore bad and others good. "Trusts aro actually so bad," said the speaker, " that a Republican eon* ventio \ in this State, a convention run by Mark Lianna, denounced them. " Do you know the difference be tween a good trust and a had trust ? A good trust gives liberally to a Re publican campaign and a had one does not. The Republican party cannon destroy the trusts. When the attor ney general of the United States is asked to intervene there comes the Riblical injunction, 'Remember thy Creator.' The Republican party \va: the creator of the trusts." Mr. Hryan denouuoed the increase of the regular army as being called for by the President two months bo fore there was any war or act of hos tility, which he construed as the basis of a republic to that of imperialism. " I dare the Republicans to dcfcn.l the title by purchase of l?.U??.OUO men," continued Air. Bryan. " They assert the right to be in the Philippines by purchase and that, too, after having paid a less price lor hu man beings than wo pay for hogs. " Let Cod chooso between this do linitiou of tho declaration of indepen dence and that which says all govern ments derivo their just powers from tho consent of the governed." Mr. Bryan said that when he lirst went to Cincinnati, in March, 1805, to advocate tho cause of free silv.r the tirst and foremost man to lend him as sistance and sympathy was John R. McLean. " Under his guidance," continued Mr. Bryan, " our party in this State polled more votes prior to 1890 than wo would have done otherwise and the only reason wo did not carry the State in 18U? was that there were more votes counted than we or the law machinery supposed to exist in the State." At Celina tho reception was ex tremely cordial. Mr. Bryan said in part : "This Is one of the States in which an important campaign is being car ried on this fall, and this oiecllou is not only important because you choose your State officer* this year, but be cause tho verdict at the polls will be accepted as your opinion upon the is sues which are now before the people. Some ono has likened government to a corporation in which every citizen is a stockholder, which from time to time elects its directors. Taking that idea of government the stockholders can soleo*.. anew board of directors w hen they choose, and tho directors ought to protect tho intorosts of the stock holders. "Tho voter has a right to expect tho officer to obsorvo the conditions and promises of tho platform. The farmer is carolul in tho selection of tho hired man and ought to be In the selection of tho public officers, but it is said he allows himself to go to sleep and never awakens until the affairs of tho nation have run up against a stone wall. 1 think the timo has come when no farmer can afford to be a Republi can. Tho farmer who supports that oarty stands in his own light, and is doing himself an injustico. I boliove tho mombors of the Republican party of an BftTllC: date had a great re changes within the party have taken place since then. Abraham Lincoln in 18:VJ wrote a letter in which ho de monstrated that ho believed in the man lirst and tho dollar afterward. Since thoso days tho party has placed the dollar lirst and tho man afterward, and if you Republicans who reverence the name of Lincoln want to change conditions, bring the party back to Lincoln's standard, you must employ an artist to draw the difference be tween Mark Manna and Abraham Lin coln, employ lng tho toboggan tdldo us a background. (Applause) " With Abraham Lincoln the man camo first, with Mark Banna nothing is gonulno unless tho dollar mark is blown in tho bottle. When tho Re publican party was organized It was with tho idea that political convictions woro stronger than party linos. The vicious dollar mark was not a conside ration then." Mr. Bryan then discussed tho in come tax a.id tho groonhacks with the accompanying right to issue money, claiming the Republican party planned to retire tho greenbacks in favor of ?,ho national banks, wito had inoro ln lluenco than tho common pcoplo, re calling tho fact, as an evidence of in consistency, that the Republican na tional convontion of IHHH donounccd Clovoland for demonetizing silver. Regarding tho trusts Mr. Bryan fol lowed his previous lino of argument, saying that " whon the Republicans toll you Boino of tho trusts arc bad and sumo good, toll thorn all look alike to you until tho l.oni sends angels to take care of thorn, and ho has not sent tbom yot." (Laughter.) Ho mado a passing rrforonco to Gov. Roosevelt's appoarance 1.. this State In support of a larger standing army, asked If it was for tho purposo of sc ouring the blessings of assimilation, and likened our Philippine policy to the colonial policy of England in I I ml in, suggesting that the? President vorenco for Abraham of iho United States- have the tltlo of *? President of tho I'nited States and , Emperor of tho PhllipplDOS," Queen Victoria being recognized us tho " queen of England and tho empress of India." Tho increasfcd empire and increased army aud increased taxation is to sup port tho theory wf Imperialism, lie challenged the Republicans to .lofond the policy of measuring human life by the value of uequired territory, ilo did not believe the American peopio would bo willing that one human being should bo sent to death in this way, and lie did not believe, if every Filipino were killed tomorrow, that you could get Americans to go the rev' and attempt to exist undor a tropiciy sun. He denouncod tho preaching t> God had been tho instrumentality our presence iu tho Philippines, I asked, "When God gets ready to spi to the American people, lie will U somebody else than Murk llunna a mouthpiece." Mr. Bryan did not ; lievo we could shoot or dynamite i civilization into the Filipinos nor lud"'' ho believe that in the f itter of ter ritorial acquisition wo bould sink to the low love! >l European nations, aQlrming tl wo should not trade the glory of a huudred years as a republic for the doubtful glory of an empire. " 1 am more int-rested in the prin ciples for which 1 stand than any more compliment you can pay nie,'' said Mr. Bryan in conclusion. " I would rather have a big majority for the candidates this fall, because I want these candi dates to win, und I shall be happy if you telegraph nie that McLean has a larger vote than 1 received in 1800." (Applause.) Mi*. Bryau in his addr058 at Van West, O., saul : " 1 no not fool discouraged by tho defeat Ol IS!?<1, for 1 felt when tho K). publicans wont into power responsibil ity wont with them. 1 felt, if wo wcro wrong in our position in 181)0, wo do served to bo defeated and if wo were right our position would he vindicated by experience. 1 believe the last three years have vindicated the position ta ken in 18111)." (Applause.) " We then said II e ^<>I<1 standard was bad and the Republicans made the special declaration that the gold standard was right, that it was the standard of civilization, and yet tho lirst thing a Republican President did was to send a commission to Europe to get rid of the gold standard. "Six months after elootlon the R >? publicans could find notoing to justify the gold standard. They rejoiced at the discovery of gold in the. Klondike and w.iy ? Because it meant more money and hotter times, just as wo told you in lH'.lli and as McKinley knew In lstr,5. If tfold from the Klondike would give us more money and hotter times why not upon our own mints'. Tho experiences of the past three years on the money question puts tho Republican party in tue attitude of the fellow traveling in the mountains who often met himself coming hack." Mr. Bryan concluded his address by denouncing trusts and the President's Philippine policy. At Defianoe, o., Mr. 15 -yan was i troduoed as the next President, '.vith reference to which he said : " 1 only have one ambition, shared by every citizen, and that is to leave this government to my children hotter than I found it. I want you to believe me when 1 tell you that i( the victory won by the Republicans In '00 inures to tho good of the people, i shall re joice with every Republican. 1 ex pect to he here for many years. 1 ay this for the benetit of those Republi cans who heap criticism upon mo." Mr. Bryan then discussed silver. "They have been burying this ques tion for years,' be declared) "and they are burying it again, bat I don't think they bury it weil. And why '. Because no tomb is strong enough to hold a righteous cause. (Applause.) rhey would rather bury the question than discuss it. I know these K pub licans. 1 know how careful they are of public money. I know when they ap propriate $luu,uuo to defray the" ex penses of the monetary conference in Europe to get rid of the gold stan dard, it must be a bad thing." THE GARDEN Ol' EDEN. A Itnili ond to Kim Through (lie Val ley of the- liupliratea to tho Persian Gulf. It is said that an English synu'eate has secured tho conceus on from tho Sultan of Turkey to build a railroad through the Euphrates Valley to tho Persian Gulf. If the schein.: material ize.;, the railroad will run through tho reputed site of the Garden ol Eden. Biblical scholars have reasoned that this tract was in Mesopotamia, the dis trict lying between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates, and if this is the case the railroad will traverse it. The. pro ject of building a railroad from Con stantinople to the Porslan Gulf was broaolic.1 many year-, ago by the Into Ferdinand de Lossops, but his attemp* , were In vain. England and Russia have noth tried to obtain a similar privilege. At lust Germany received permission to build a railroad from a port opposite Constantinople to A ngora, and the Anatolian railroad was the re sult. The extension of tins railroad from KonTah,'.irst to Bagdad and thence to Bassora on tho L^orjiarj Gjilf. has been a pet scheme ol Emperor WlLwUU+#> and, according to the New York Her ald, tho move which tho English syndi cate is now about to undertake is a re sult of the entente oordtalo between the two countries. To Great Britain it means a new and shorter road to India, as live days may bo saved, and to Germany it means a new lioid for colonization and a good feeder for a road already in Operation. Tho lirst year the Anatolian railway carried iflltl carloads of wheat, the se cond year 70U carloads of cereals. Tho railroad has done much to alter the character of the country, to build up towns, to open factories and bring good European colonists to cultivate the soli. One of the chief obstacles to the progress of the country has been tho shiftless Turkish inhabitants, who did not wibli to Use modern tools and have not sufficient ambition to try to get rich. They will not sit in the soats In tho railways cars, but squat on tho floor, so that at last it was necessary to take out the seats and leave the pas aonger coaches almost liko cattle, cars. Tho sparse population of the district through which the railroad runs Is an advautago for the new comers from Europe, who have no dilllculty in Und ing all the land they require. Tho climato of the different parts of Asia Minor and Mesopotamia la so va ried that tho greatest variety of pro ducts can bo raised successfully in dif I forent parts of this broad domain. In usiiiK cvon ho good il remedy as Alli gator Liniment, wo must not only havo faith, wc nne,i apply the compound and rub il well in . 11 will do tho Otirlllg, if VOU apply it lik'ht twieo or three times a dav. I.ong ntanduH! cases of KhcninaliHm and Neuralgia ami oilier painful troubles havo been cured, il may euro you. anyway if you fool dissatisfied you can not your money back. /