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VOL. XVII. NO. 30. TILLMAN AND ML AURIN. Tillman Charges McLaurin With Being Bought by Federal Patronage. McLaurin Brands the Statement as a Willful, Malicious and Deliberate Lie. The Senators Have a Fisticuff and tho Senate Declares Them In Contempt. Both Apologize to the Senate, But Not to Each Other. Washington's birthday was celebratod in tho United States Seuate by a fisti cuff botween tho Senators from South Carolina. Tho day set apart by tho nation to givo tho American people an opportunity to honor tho memory of Goorgo Washington, tho first President of tho United States, was tho occasion of a disgraceful and sensational scono In tho Senate chamber, and tho Senators from South Caroliua wero tho active participants in tho affray. Mr. Tilltuau, in iho courso of a speech upen the Philippine tnrilf blll) mado Borious reflections upon the honor of his colleague, Mr. McLaurin. In brief, he charged that McLaurin's vote in support of tho ratification of the treaty of Paris had been cast through the exercise of improper intluonces. His statcmeut was developed in a colloquy with Mr. Spoouer, of Wiscon sin. Mr. Tilhnan at flYst declined to mention names, hut when the Wiscon sin Senator reminded him that ho owed it to himself, to the Senato and tho country to " namo tho man," Mr. Till man indicated that ho rofcrred to his colleague from South Carolina. Lilllo imagining that his words were likely to be prophetic, Mr. Spooner remarked, sontontiouely: 1 will leave the Sena tor to tight that out with his colleague." Mr. McLaurin was not in tho cham ber at the time, being engaged iu com mitteo work, but ho was scut forjaud appeared just as Mr. Tillman conclud ed his speech. Pale as death, Mr. McLaurin arose, speaking to a question of personal privilege. Ho reviewed Tillman's charges briefly, and then denounced the statement mado by his colleague as a " wilful, malicious and aeliberale lio." Scarcely had tho words fallen from his lips when Tiilinan, sitting a few seats from him, with Mr. Teller, of Colorado, between them, sprang at him. McLaurin, who had half turned towaid Tillman, mot him halfway, and in an instant tho two Sonatots, haviug swept Mr. Teller aside, wore engaged in a rough and tumble list tight. Mc Laurin received a heavy blow on tho forehead while Tillman got a bad punch on the noso which brought blood. Assistant Sergcanl-at-Arms I.nylon sprang over desks to reach and sep arate the combatants and himself re ceived Heven.1 blows, lie got between them Anally, and by main strength wrenched them apart. Senators War ren , of Wyoming, and Scott, of West Virginia, two of the most powerful men in tho Senate, leaped to his as sistance and pinioning tho arms of tho belligerent Senators, forced them into their seats. Intense excitement prevailed in tho Sonate and in tho galleries which were thionged with people who had been attracted by the spirited debate. Every body was on his fcot. Not a word, however, was spoken. The Washington correspondent of tho News and Courier gives tho fol lowing account of tho occurrence: Washington, D. C, Fob. 22.?Sen ator Tillman and Senator McLaurin camo to blows in tho Sonate this after noon. McLaurin called Tillman a ma licious liar. Tilhnan sprang at his young colleague, dealt him a severe Mow in the face and McLaurin retali ated with an upper cut on Tillman's jaw. Tho belligerents,woro separated, the doois closed, and, in executive ses sion, tho two South Carolina Senators wore declared to he iu contempt of the Sonate, and their cases were referred to tho commit tee on privileges and elections for such action as may be deemed necessary. After the execu tive session the two Senators in con tempt woro permitted to apologize to tho Sonate and it is probable that the incident is closed for tho present. The coarso and vulgar performance of the South Carolina Senators sur passes anything of the kind in the history of tho United States Sonate. It is difficult to describe tho sensation created as the two Senators grappled each other in desperate encounter in the presence of more than a quorum of the Senate and well filled gal lories. It was Washington's birthday and Senator Spooner was delivering his speech in favor of Mio Phihppino tariff bill. There was a largo crowd in at tendance to bear him, and during the course of his spocch he became involved in a spirited colloquy with Senator Till man as to the part William Jennings Bryan played in securing tho ratifica tion of the peace treaty with Spain, by which the Philippine Islands came into the possession of the United Statos. Senator Tillman, with characteristic vim and brutal frankness, declared that the ratification of the Spanish treaty had b&en secured by tho vote of a member of the Senate in return for the disposal of Federal patronage in a cor tain State. Sonator Spooner interro gated Senator Tillman so closely that the latter was forced to admit that the subsidized Sonator wus his own col league from South Carolina. Senator Spooner replied that ho would leave the matter to bs settled with the junior Senator from South Curolioa. It was supposed that tho incident was closed, in view of the fact (hat (Senator Tillraan had lcpeatedly charged his colleague with selling his vote for the treaty in consideration for Federal patronage tn South Carolina. During the colloquy between Senators Tillman and Spooner, Senator McLaurin woe absent from tho chamber, attending a meeting of the committee on Indian affairs. He was notified that he was being attacked in the Senate by hfs colleague, so he hurried back to the chamber. He sent for a copy of the notes of the ofllcial reporter, giving the exact language of Senator Till man. After reading the notes carefully Sen ator Mclianrin was recognized and ad" dressing the Senate, denounced the totementof Senator Till man as "A wilful, deUborato aud malicious Ho." Tho assault caino when tho final word 44 lio " was spoken by McLaurin. Tillman sprang up like a Hash, jumped over tho chairs between him pud his colleaguo, and beforo he could be stopped dealt him a severe blow on the forehead, which raised a largo red welt. McLnurlu warded off the blow, which was intended for his eye, and retaliated with a ilorco upper-cut, lauding on Tillman's jaw. The two men clinched, but beforo auy moro blows wore ex changed Senator Warren, of Wyom ing, Assistant Sorgcant-at-Arms Lay ton, Senator Tillman's son, who was presout, and several other persons, separated tho belligerents. Tho encounter ouly occupied a few seconds, but it was fierce aud desperate while it lasted. The greatest excite ment provailed in the Souate and the occupants of tho galleries arose from their seats apparently anticipating a free Qght all around on the floor boluvv. Senator Toller, who Bits next to Sonator Tillman, arose aud called the two Senators to order as soon as he could recover from the shock which Senatorial dignity and decorum had sustaiued. Senator Foraker aud other Senators woro on their feet at tho same time, declaring that the dignity of tho Senate had beon outraged by the un prccdonted performance of tho two Senntors from South Carolina, aud mov ed that the Scnato proceed to executivo session. Tho galleries were cleared, the doors looked and for more than two hours the two Senators from South Carolina wcro subjected to sevoro censure by their colleagues, Democratic and Re publican, for the disgraceful encounter in open Senate. At the conclusion of ihn debate, in which neither Senator Tillman nor Senator McLaurin was permitted to participate, a motion to declare the two Sonators in contempt was unanimously adopted. A furthor raotiou was adopted to refer the case to the committee on privileges and elec tions for Buch action as the circum stances justify. It was halt-past 6 o'clock when tho executive session concluded and the Scnato resumed business in ipen ses sion. Senator Tillman sat quietly at his desk, surrounded by three or four Senators, with a smile of deQnnco on I bis faco. A short distance away sat Sonator McLaurin, cool aud collected, in conversation with Senators Racon, J of Georgia, and Patterson, of Colorado. I Sonator Blackburn, acting as media-1 tor between the two Senators, urged that Tillman bo allowed to apologize for his uuseomly conduct. There was a parliamentary squabble as to whether, uuder tho rules oi tho Senate, Sonators in contempt were allowed to bo heard in their own behalf. Sonator Teller bald thtjt both Sonators had indicated a desire to tnako amends, and the I Chair ruled that by unanimous consent both Senators might be heard. Senator Tillman took tho lloor first and apologized for losing his temper] and offending the dignity of the Sen ate. He remarked, sarcastically, that his experience as Governor of South Carolina for four years had perhaps unfitted him for meeting all the require ments of tho dignity and precedents of tho Scnato. Ho said he regretted his conduct and added, while he was sorry for what had occurred, he had acted under sevoro provocation. ? I am I sorry for what I did, but undor the circumstances I could not have done otherwise, and, while I apologize to the Senate, I have nothing further to say." Senator McLaurin was then recog nized, and declared, with great earn-l estness, that ho was not willing to ad mit that ho was in contempt, and ap pealed to the Rocord to show that his utterances had violated no rulos of the Sonato. He was proceeding to say that these charges made against him in con nection with his vote on tho treaty had been repoated so often that ho was tired and sick of having them thrust into his teeth. As a man of honor he could not hold up his head unless ho openly branded those accusations as malici ously false. Then, for tho first time, showing great excitement, Senator McLaurin was proceeding to say: ?? If I hoar auy more of this "?hero ho was suddenly interrupted by Senator Pat terson, of Colorado, who advised him to say no more. It was evident that the junior Sonator was worked up to the point of delivering a throat, but acting upon the suggestion of sevoral Senators noar him, he abruptly took his seat. Thus the most exciting incident tho Senate has ever known ended for the time beiug. To-night the Senatorial scrap is tho one topic of conversation in Washington. Opinions aro about equally divided as to who had the ad vantage in tho oncounter. Tho apolo gies which both Senators offered can hardly be regarded as duo reparation for tho disgraceful indignity inflicted upon the Senate, and many Democratic and Republican Senators express the opinion that precautions shall be taken to far as the committee of privileges and elections is concerned to prevent a recurrence of to-day's scene. Way down undor the surface it is be lieved that the friction between Sena tor Tdlman and Senator McLaurlu is due to the tight they are now engaged in 07er the ponding appointments of Hr. Koostor, as clerk of internal reve nue, and Postmasters Richardson, Chaf fed and Parcel! t at Greenville; Alken ami Nowberry, respectively. All of tbo appointments wero made at tho instance of Sonator McLaurin, and arc bciug held up in committee, it is said, indirectly, by Senator Tillman. TILLMAN SARCASTIC AND M'LAUKIN DEFIANT. Tho Washington coriespondontof tho Atlanta Constitution describes what ensued aftor tho light as follows: After they had been soparatcd and order restored McLaurin endeavored to continue. <ll will now proceed with my remarks, which wore so uncere moniously interrupted," ho began. He was call od to ordor. Thero was a hasty motion for an ex ecutive session and the galleries wcro cleared. For nearly two hours tho Senate was in secret session. Tho flagrant contempt of the Senators was discussed in all its buari' gs. Two voles wero takon, one upon a motion to go into legislative session with a view of permitting Iho offenders to submit apologies beforo their cuses wcro p;c< etl upon. This was defeated I by a vote of 18 to 42. The vote was practically on party lines, Senator Spoouer being tho only Republican to support the motion aud Senator Mallory tho only Democrat to volo aguiuat it. While thero was, of courso, general agreement that thero was no politics in tho matter at all, Democratic Senators generally thought in view ot the precedent thut would bo established it was essential to proceed calmly und not hastily. This being defeated, all voted for Senator Forakor's motion, declaring both Senators m cou lempt, and reforriug their cases to tho committeo on privileges ami eleclion<j. Senator Ilonr wuntcd both men placed under arrest by tho sergeant-at-arms, but this was not generally indorsed. Those who expected anything like apologies to each other from eithor Tillman or McLaurin wore disappoint ed. What they said concerning tho regret they felt for infringement upon the dignify of tho Senate was clear enough, but it was clear from both tho words and the mauuer of each that he felt ho would do exactly the same thing again undor similar circumstances. When tho doors opened and tho ox cited crowds filled tho galleries they saw Tillman rather Hushed in the faco and smiling with soveial of his follow Senators about him, while McLaurm was by himself, pale but apparently cool. During tho wranglo ovor tho desire for a ruling from the chair upon the question of whether cither could ad dress tho chair in his own rigbtoronly by sufferance of the Senate, neither manifested any particular interest in tho proceedings. Then followed the statements. Tillman spoke in low tones, his sen tences being clean-cut and incisive, ilis rcferenco to his lack of previous train ing in legislation and consequent un preparedness for tho niceties of Senato distinction when ho came here made everybody wonder whether ho was really humble or was indulging in a bit of characteristic sarcasm, but his ex pression of regret for his actions was sincere Ho had been ready to express regrets two minutes after the conflict, he said, but in the faco of tho lie passed towards him ho could not have dono otherwise than ho did. Senator McLaurin's statement sound ed more doflant. Ho said he had not realized that ho was in contempt in his utterances nor did he feel so now, but as the Senate thought otherwise he entered an apology. It was plain he was very much excited, and ho pro ceeded to recite his complaint against tho treatment ho had received. It looked as if ho would go beyond the limits of discretion. This he almost did as ho concluded with what was plainly a threat. "1 am done," he said, "except to say that if there is any more talk of that kind or any more?" Tillman turned in his chair. Sen ator Patterson, who sits in front of McLaurin, admonished him in a low tono and McLaurin sat down. The in cident was closed fcr tho present. HK NATO It TOLLMAN'S APOLOGY. " Mr. President : I have always esteemed it an honor and privilege to be a member of this body. I had never had any legielative oxporionco when I came hero and my previous service as Governor of South Carolina for four years had uniltted me in a measure to enter this august assembly with that dignity and regard, proper regard, I will say, for its traditions and habits and rules that is desirable. " I have been hero seven years. 1 have in that lime learned to judge men with a little more catholicity of spirit than I did when I camo horc. I have found a great many people bete in whoso personal integrity and honor and rogard for their obligations as gon tlemen I have implicit confidence; but I have scon so much of partisanship, I have soon* so much of what I considor slavish Bubmi88ion|to party domination, that I confess I have felt somowhat at a loss how to judge, mon who in ono aspect appeared to bo so high and clean and honorablo and in another apponrod more or loss despicable I say this bo cause of thO I act that one of t lie .Sena tor., has seen flt to allude to somo mat tors that occurred in the debate this afternoon. I now want to say that so far as any action of mino has causod any Senator here, or the Sonato as a body, or tho peoplo of the United States to feol that I have been derelict. and proper observance of the rules of and that I have not showu thatcourlesy this body, that 1 rogret it; 1 apologize for it, I was ready to do that two minutes after I had acted, but under tho provocation which was known to all of you I could not have actod other wise than I did, and wh.lj I apologize to the Senate and am sorry that it ha I occurred, I have nothiug more to say. SENATOR M'LAURINS APOLOGY. Sonator AfcLnurin roso at the con clusion of Senator Tollman's brief ad dress, lie, too, was calm, but it was evident that ho was suppressing Ids emotion by an effort. He spoke with greater feeling than had been mani fested by his colleaguo, particularly when he told the Senate how sorely he had been tried by the accusations OA.BTOni/v. SALT RHEUM CURED BY Johnston's Sarsaparilla QUART BOTTLES. jrvsT Iben in Time. Blight Nktn Krnptlonrf aro a Warning of Something ITIoro Nerton* to Com?? The Only Salo War In to Hood tl?o Warning. Johnstuii'ti ftareaparllla la the Mont Powerful Blood Purifier Known. Nature, in her efforts to correot mlstukoB, which mistakes have come from careless living, or it may bo from ancestors, shoots out pimples, blotches and other imperfections on tno skin, oa a warning that more serious troubles (per haps tumors, cancers, eryeipelas or pulmonary diseases) aro certain to follow if you neglect to heed tho warning ana corroat the mlstukes. Many a lingcriug, painful disoase and many an early death has been avoided simply becauso thoso notes of warning havo been heeded and the blood kept pure by a right use of JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA. Miss Abbio J. Rando, of Marshall, Mich., writes: " I was cured of a bad humor after sum-ring with it for five years. Tho doctors and my friends said it was salt rheum. It camo out on my head, neck and ears, and then on my wholo body. I was perfectly raw with It. What I suffered during thoso flvo years, is no uso telling. Nobody would believe me If I did. I tried every medlolno that was advertised to cure it. I spent money enough to buy a houso. I hoard JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA highly Sraised. I tried a buttle of it. I begun to improve right away, and when I hau nished tho third bottlo I was completely cured. I have nover had a touch of it sinco. I nover got any thing to do mo the least good till I tried JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA. I would heartily adviso all wno ?ro suffering from humors or ?kin diseaso of any kind to try it at once. I had also a good deal of stomach trouble, and was run down and miserablo, but JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA mado mo all right." Tho blood is your lifo and if you keop it pure and strong you can positively re Bifit diseaso or faco contagion fearlessly. JOHNSTON'S SARSAPARILLA never fails. It is for sale by all druggists, in full quart bottles at ociy one dollar each. MXOXZIOriUV JOXVXJC3r OOUPAJTY, XJ1?TH.OIT, aflCKJI* Kor Salo by tho Laurens Drug Company, Laurens, S. C. which had been made against him from lime to time. His statement follows: " Mr. President: I did not realize that L was in contempt of tho Senate nor do I think now if my words aro read in tho Record that I was in con tempt of tho Senate, but at tho same time, as tho Senate has ruled that I am in contempt of this honorable body, I beg loave to apologize. *' I desiro to say, Mr. President, that I have been very sorely and severely tried. I was in attendance on tho committoo on Indian affaire when I re ceived a message from a friend in the Senate that my presence was needed hero. " Tho hist >ry of tho vote on tho Spanish treaty is known to all of you. There have been statements made in newspapers and insinuations that I had been influenced by improper motives in connection with my voto on that treaty. Knowing in my soul and know ing that God in Heaven also knows that it was false, when I was told that it was centred down to me I was so outraged by what I considered a most brutal assault upon my honor as a man, and especially in view of the fact that in the begmniug of tho session, after the action of my party associates. 1 inado a m?st careful and deliberate statement, explaing all those matters, I did not feel, as a man, that 1 could ........ i...i .1 ,,,, ..... hr>nH ?-?;.. it 1 AlA nni I ' .....v. U|> 7 UuMU ugltlll 11 L wilt UUb rcsout it in the place whero it was de livered, in the strongest and most forcible terms that I could employ. " With that, Mr. President, "i am done, except I have this to st>y : If thoro is any more talk of that kind or auy moro"? As Senator McLaurin uttered the last sentences of his address, intimat ing that if there was any further effort to press upon him the'Caccusalions which had been made against him there might bo trouble, there was an evident stir in the Senate Several Senators roBO to their feet, as if half expecting a renewed outbreak of trouble Senator Racon, of Georgia, and Senator Patter son, of Colorado, both of whom were silting near Senator McLaurin, urged him to stop where he was, Senator Pat terson saying: " I beg the Senator to lcfrain." " I will refrain then, Mr. President, said Senator McLaurin. As he re sumed his scat he mado an effort to compose himself as if to dispel any fear on tho part of those about him that it might havo been his intention to pre cipitate further disturbances by any violent comments. STATUS OK OUK SENATORS. The status of Senators Tillman and McLaurin is that thoy are still in con tempt of the Senato, and only by a voto of the Sonato can cither bo recognized either to speak or to vote on any ques tion whatever. Tho Senate is operat ing under a clause of Section G, Ar ticle 1, of tho Constitution, which re. cites : " Each houso may dctermino the rules of its proceedings, punish mcm bois for disorderly behavior, and with the concurrence of two.thirds expel a member." Tho Sonate adopted a resolution de claring both Tdlman and McLaurin in contempt. By a votoboth were allowed to raako statements in which both apologized for their actions. But the Senate took uo further action, and the resolution referring tho raattor to the committeo on privdeges and elections iB still in operation, and until the com mittee is discharged or tho Senato re lieves tho South Carolina Senators ol tho contempt, thoy must romain silent in the Senate. This is the judgment of all Senators who havo considered the question and the presiding olllcer, I it is said will refuso to rccogni/.o their | tight to participate in tho proceedings until tho order of contempt is vacated. An Alleged Duel im Pkohpect. Milt Saul, a correspondent in Wash ington, sends tho following special to the Augusta Chronicle : It is possible that tho Tillman-Mc I, tin in light on tho Sonato iloor today will end lti a duel down the Potomac. Senator McLaurin, aftor adjourn ment of tho Senate, late in the after noon, called Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, into conference and asked him to be tho bearer of a formal challengo to Senator Tlllman. The challnngo was written out. Owing to the secrecy, which natural!) encloses such an affair, it is impossible tonight to learn any further proceed ings which might havo occurred. It is possiblo that Senator Pritchard declined to convoy tho challonge and that Sonator McLaurin sought olhoi friends. That tho challengo was written out, CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The- Kind Yon Have Always Bought however, is vouched for hy a conserva tive Southern Senator to whom tho first stop in tho affair was rolaled. When I called on Senator Fritchard tonight, he douicd that he had seen a formal challongo and said ho had no in formation to give out for publication. Senator Tillman would not be sccu and Senator McLaurin would not talk. Close personal friends of Senator Till man declared that ho will promptly ac cept a challenge from his colleague, if ono is received. His personal courage cannot be doubted, they say. BILL ARP PEELING BETTER His Experience as a Grip Patient ?Taking Medicine by the Clock Atlanta Constitution. This is a bright and blessed morn ing. I feel bettor?a good deal better. Think I will wnto a verso or two of poetry. If a sick man has good sur roundings it beats medicine Good, cheerful company to call and not slay long?good children to sympathi/.o aud watch tho clock for mediciuo time, good grandchildron to como and kiss you and go to nud from and talk and make a noise; a good wife to scold you and tell how imprudent yov have been, aud a good doctor to look at your tongue and choke you with a spoon handle so as to see away down tho esophagus. Hut nature has the best of medicines stowed away in tho blessed sunshine that give lifo and vigor to everything animal and vegetablo and revives the drooping spirits of tho sick. It has been a long and hard winter?the coldest and most disagreeable one hundred consecutive days that wo have had foryear8. How I envied the good people of Florida whilo I read Tom Sawyer's rhapsodies in the Clear Water paper ovor the advent of spriug with its peach trees aud yellow jessamine perfuming the balmy air with their fragrant blossoms. Hut it is coming? gentle spring is not far away now and a day like this is its luubiuger. If it wcro not for the daily catalogue of horrible things that headline the daily papers even a sick man couh* he bo calm and serene ou such a day as this. An aged country friend told mc that he had quit taking tho daily papors for it distressed him to read such things. " I haven't long to live," said ho, " and I don't wish to cloud my mind with a daily record of human misery." Hut most all people havo to mix up with tho nlTairs of nations and of men and keep post ed about everything that hap pens. Wo can't skip tho bad and read the good only. There is a fascination about horriblo things that wo cannot resist. They are tho llrst things wo look for. They oxoito our pity or our indignation or our wonder. Our child hood began that way for wo never tirod of Jack, the Giant Killer, and Hawhcad aud Hloody Hones and Hobinson Crusoe. And now tho oditor of tho press dispatches carelessly looks ovor tho little slips that are laid upon his desk and reads " Another explosion in tho mines?one hundred killed;" " Another railroad wreck?thirteen killed," and then rcBUtucs the little an ccdolo he was nnrratiug to a friend. We are all growing case hardened to pain and grief and suffering for the same reason that tho surgeon becomes caso hardened to the pain of bis patient. But ever and anon some new horror comes along tl.it shocks humani ty and astounds the world. I read three long columns last night about the horrors of adulterated food in Paris and bow 18,(500 infants died tho last year from poisoned milk. How the great incorporated dairy companies in tho suburban towns havo to deliver 800,000 quarts every night. It is skimmed before it is canned and then is watered 20 per cent before it is put on tho cars. On arrival at their depots it is delivered in cans to 800 milk boys (garcoua) who get $1.40 a night and as much more as they can make by water ing tho milk from the hjdranls that are supplied from the river Soino, the UlthicHt river in all Franco. Quo hun dred detectives are employed to watch ihese boys, but vho boys havo detec tives, too, and are soldom caught or .irres ted. The suporintenncnt of police says it is impossible for one hundred men to iollowand watch eight hundred boys and ho now asks for two thous and. This wntorcd milk quickly couis and by tho timo it is delivered to tho re tailor at daybreak it has to bo watored again with a solution of bicarbonate of soda. This is the milk that supplies all Paris, and ie daily fed to infant childron and in a brief timo they take cholera infantum or diarrbie and die. The medical faculty all testified that this milk causod the death of over 18, 000 infants in Paris in one year and the mortality was on jhe increase, and ibis does not include the deaths of children over one year old. Those eight hundred boys are organized into a poweilul syndicate for protection and defence. Each pays into their treasury $4 a week, making a total of 814,000 a month with which to pay lawyers' fees and flues and tho wages of those in jail and to bribe tho city detectives uot to catch them when watering tho milk. They water it while the wagons aro on tho go?jump ing in behind with cans of wutor. The milk suspected is turned over to the city chemiste, who analyze and report and if the boys are arrested most of them cscapo punishment in some cor rupt way, but none arc dischargod. Thev go back at once into tho com pany's service. Hut l'aris is aroused as it never hns been and declares tho death-dealing business shall bo broken up if it lakes two thousand detectives to pur.-uo the eight hundred boys. u Our children aro fed on microbes from the river Scino," is now on every tongue. Other cities have taken up tho cry and Rouen and Dun kirk show a larger death rato of infants than l'aris, und now they say no wonder tho population of Franco is decreasing instead of increasing. We are poison ing three-fourths of all tho children boforo thoy are a year old and half tho remainder SOOH after. Seme Water, microbes aud bicarbonate of sodal ThiB exposure comes from late of ficial sources and is no doubt the truth or vory near it. Just think of it and shudder?18,000 innocent, helpless babes murdered in one year in one city. Torn Hood wrote a song about the poor sewing women that aroused all Lon don. If ho wero alive in Paris now what a pitiful subject ho would have for another song. What ashamo upon our sex, for it is not women who do these things, but men and boys. Tho mothers suffer in giving them birth. They nurso and cherish and clasp the little things to their bosoms and lovo and hope and pray, hut the desttoyor comes and then all she can do is to grieve and weep. England slaughtering the Hocrs and France her innocent children. What next? A graphic writer in The New York Press describes a different kind of hor ror that wo know not of, but is a living, breathing, seething thing that is not now, but has come to stay and grows bigger and more horrible as the years move on. He says: "It would have been unnecessary for Gustav Doro to follow Dante for a text in order to pic ture the horrors of bell." Tbc govern ment has established free baihs at Hot Spriuge, wheic thousands of the most miserable of all God's creatures con gregate aud bathe for relief and a cure from their loathsome diseases. These wretches lcavo their rags upon the cemented lloors which arc an inch deep in water, then stagger or reel or crawl naked as the (lends in the chambers of hell. From thence they crowd into a third room where tho water and the air is up to 110, and the stench of foul odors is horrible. In this room are two largo pools like vals in a tan yard, and the victims tumble into them like hogs into a mud puddle. No doctor, no soap, no towels, no attendants, and they are soon hurried out to make room more, for seven hundred a day is the mnxi mum. Ten, fifteen or twenty at a time soak their loathsome infirmities in tho nasty, lllthy, hot healing waters, and then reclolb themselves with their wet rags and go somewhere to dry. All are bcnelilcd and 10per centaro cured. What a picture! Their lives, such as they have made them, aro not worth saving, hut they cling to them and live in hope and defy despair. Ono hun dred and seventy-eight thousand of these human being passed through the free baths last year. Ono hath room is for white men,em for white women, ono for negro men and ono for negro women. Not far away is a magnificent hotel, and there is a fashionable ball going on. Tho rich, the gay, tho elite are there. One momenta man is waltzing with his wife, the next with some other man's wife, tho next with some body's mistress, and the next with ht? own it listless. Everything goes, and all is hell. A famous physician took his daughter there this season, but sent her homo quickly to keep her from the company of wealthy and diseased para sltis. Almost every ono who goes there rcgisteis under an assumed namo and plaja incognito during his stay. A Southern judge was recently called upon for a toast at a holol banquet and eaid: "Here's to the names wo left behind us " Hut the half has not been told?some of it iB too bad to tell. Every night tho poker rooms arc in blast and thousands won and lost. The reader ponders and wonders can such tilings he in this Christian land, and in this God's country. Verily, the hum ble and tho poor who live around us on the hills and in tho valleys or down in the pincy woods should bo thankful for the health amd morality that comes from poverty. Burns novor wroto a truer verso than that which says: " And I know by tho smoko that so gracefully curiod Prom among tho dark elms that a cot tage was near, And I said to myself if then's peace, in thia world, The heart that is humble, might hope for it hero." Bill Am*. A novel project for tlio raising of ft $100,000 endowment fuud for Ani herst College, to bo presented to thnt institution in 1022, is under considera tion by tho alumni. It is proposed thnt 100 members shall each take out n twenty-year paid-up policy, in a re putable company, for $1,000, with the, agreement tlmtlho money shall be paid over to tho college at tho expiration of tho twenty years. The WoU ' s Greatest Cure for flalana X Ffjr all fnrmiftif Malarial polaon ing tak? Johnmn'/t Chill and Pevei* Tonic. A taint of Malarial polaon I ''-at In yp'jr bioo?l meann miner? and failure, Hloodinedlclncncan'tcure Malarial polnonlng. The antidote for It la JOHNSON'S TONIC, (lot a bottle to-day. Suti 50 Ctiti If It fiorei. fB|?|| Light Biscuit ^?Py^l D^iciotf s Cake I iKSl T>aiaty Pastries , Iii :??Fine P?cUings ^S^ilj^S^FIaky Crests TILT-MAN USING PITCHFORK His Apt and Caustic Reply to the Senator From Michigan. The Souato had under consideration the Philippine tariff hill, and a num ber of Senators took part in the gen eral debate on the subject. A resolution offered by Mr. Till man was adopted, directing the civil service commission to transmit to tho Senate a statement showing the apportionment of the employes in the various depart ments of tho governments from the several Slates and the District of Columbia, together with tho percen tages of employes in the departments. Mr. Burrows saidithnt.Cougrcss was dealing with Philippine questions as they were found now aud not as they had been in tho past or might be in the future. ? We hold," said he, " tho Philip pine islands by a title that ennncf be challenged by any court in Christen dom. We have become responsible for them to the nations of tho world. The pending bill simply provides rev enues suflluient to meet the needs of the government of the Philippines." While the Michigan Senator was reading the proclamation of President McKinley known as the " benevolent assimilation" proclamation, Mr. Till man interrupted to inquire if he con tended that the President had author ity to issue that proclamation. " No doubt of it," replied Mr. Bur rows. While tho treaty had not been ratified, he said, the President hud ample authority to issue such a proc lamation as a guide to the military commanders in the Philippines. " In other words," suggested Mr. Tillmail, " although that proclamation sedulously ignored the political status of the Filipinos, it was expected that I he 0,000,000 of people would accede to its provisions." Air. Culberson interrupted to say that the proclamation was considered so extreme that a part of it was sup pressed by Genoral Otis. Mr. Burrows declined to be diverted further from his argument by Mr. Till man as ,i the questions of the Senator from South Carolina evidently are not intended to illuminate the subject." Mr. Burrows contended that while the Filipinos desired a good govern ment they did i ot, as a whole, desire independence, because it was realized by the best informed of them that an independent government in the archipelago was neither practic able nor desirable. The Filipinos, he asserted, were not prepared cither by' education or experience, for indepen dence, and could not maintain it if it were granted to them. Mr. Tillman presented a number of public documents, as he said, in refu tation of statements made by Mr. Bur rows. These papers genera.ly bore upon the treatment by the Unitod Slates of the inhabitants of newly acquired countries and were intended to show that they have in the past been reeoived as citizens. He laid especial stress upon the difference of the circumstances connected with the ac quisition of Louisiana and those con nected with the acquisition of the Philippines. The former ho charac terized as Democratic expansion?and tho latter as Republican subjugation.^ Speaking of tho Philippines, hej said 4 that our conduct in those islands had been so infamous that it should cause a blush of shame to mantle the cheeks of every American. Quoting rrc8idcnt McKinlcy's nn nouueoment thai wo must pursue n method of 41 benevolent assimilation'" of the Filipinos, Mr. Tillman said thai tho assimilation which had been practised could be contrasted to noth ing so well as the parable of the lainb and the lion. It would he found, lie said, when they should pet up that the lamb would bo inside the lion. Ho spoke of the effort of building up American schools in tho Philippines M as mawkish sentimentality," uiying that tho system could be of no avail in viow of the fact that the teachers sent ovor know nothing of the language of tho Filipinos and the Filipinos nothing of tho English language. " And yet," ho said, " this is the system advocated by tho oleaginous Senator from Michi gan and presumably endorsed by his constitutors, tho people of Michigan." Taking this to be the position of tho people of that State, ho exclaimed, " May God have mercy on their pusil lanimous souls." Replying to Mr. Tillman, Mr. For aker Haiti that the people of Louisiana had not been allowed lo elect a Gov ernor or tho judiciary of that territory, and that the government established in I the Philippines is far more liable than the government established in Louis iana by Jefferson and tho Democratic Congress of that day. Interrupting, Mr. Tillman said the Pnsidettt appoints tho govornors of all territories, and admitting this, Mr. Foraker said that no more authority is requested now in the case of tho Philip pines. This 8lalemout led Mr. Tillman o say that Congress had granted no , uth rity for such appointment. ?Tho Governor of tho Philippines is tho Governor by appointment," said Mr. Forakor in reply, M and ho is as much as Mr. Claiborne was 'Governor of Louisiana, under Jcfforson'a ap pointment." Tillmau and Money ])olh colled al ien lion to tho fact that Claihorno's nomination had been confirmed by the Senate, while no such confirmation hud taken place in the caso of Govern or Taft. Mr. Foraker said thai neither in the case of Louisiana nor the Philippines had Ihe people been bought when tho territory became part ol* tho United S ales, and there is, ho contended, no more attempt to govern tho people of the Philippines without their consent than there was in the case of the peo ple of Louisiana, when Tillmau and Caimack made the point that an ear" promise of Statehood had been ma' in Ihe case of Louisiana. A WEALTHY ENGINE DRIVEL. Young Cornelius Vanderbilt a Successful Railroad Man and Inventor. Among tho young railroad men there is no one more talked about than Cornelius Vanderbilt. He has been successful in his chosen profession, that of railroad engineer, and there are some people who consider this remark able, simply because ho does not have to 1)0 a railroad engineer unless I wishes to. 11 is father did not loa1 Iii in as much money as he did 1 brother, and in the settlement of I' tale he received only $7,000,UOO. ? this trilling sum as a start, howovi i, ho has done very well. It has been only seven years siuco he graduated from Yale, but in theso seven years he has managed to do a number of things. He has worked in the railway shops and learned all about the making of an engine. He has patented a number of inventions of great importance in the railway busi ness. Ho has become a national guardsman and dabbled in politics a little, lie has become a public ollicial, being now a member of the municipal civil service board. Kfforts have been made to induce him to run for oflicc? but he is a very level-headed young man. Ilia best known invention is a patent lire-box for the economical working of locomotives, which has been success fully tried on nine of the principal railroads and which bids fair to come into general use. lie also invented a tank car that has many points of su periority over the old style car. The de mand for tank cms is greater than over before known ud this promises to be a very valu; . pat ut. Kver siuec he < < out of college he has been a very i and hard work ing young man. lit. i3 striving hard to prove that a sllvei .<poon in a boy's mouth does not u (ssarily press up ward so as to nhV ho brain. lie is convinced, evid- !y, that the only way to have a m 1 < worth having is to make it for yours- li. A great deal has been said and printed about this young man, but he is not a notoriety seeker. He is just as modest as any other man of his ago in his own business, and his frit nds say that the attention he receives in certain ways annoys him greatly. Not long ago he gave a supper to some of those in ins militia company. A great deal was printed of tho fact that one of his guests was a man v\ho drives a cab. At this supper he said to one of his friends: " I am havii a splendid lime tonight, but what w des me. is the fact that the papers ; going to have a 1 write up ' of it. wish they wouldn't. 1 wish 11 would let me bo." Tho papers h. their " write up" all right, but they did not get any of their information from the host. Mr. Vanderhilt is modest and does not like to talk about himself, lie has no press agent and does not under stand why the fact that he gets down to his desk at the New York Central Office in time each morning and atlonds to his business during the day should interest the public any more, than tho same fact concerning any other em ploye of tho road. Besides boiug an inventor, .. . Vaudorbilt ? al3<> something < * writer on mechanical subjects, ? has read several papers before tilic bodies. Ho has addrct e Amorican Society of Mechot ical en gineers and lectured at the Shefliold Sciontih'J school at Yale. Tho ad dresses nave attracted a great deal of attention. "M.m;yhna not been ablo to ',.?.op him from amounting to something," was what was recently said of him, by a wcll kuown railroad oa&n, who add I ed: " Tho odd thing about tn> is that ovory oue seems to think this is *?ery It is not probable that Mr. Vandor bilt when working in tho shops and poring over plans for boilers, wastes any time iu contemplating tho fac'. that he is sotting an cxamplo for other I young mon of groat wealth, but at tho tamo tune tho public attention ho has i.ttracted has boon largely on account of tho fact that he presents such a ttrong contrast to most young men sil uatod as ho is situated.?New York Commercial.