The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, May 21, 1902, Image 1
VOLCANOES OF
Til Ii WEST INDIES
Au Eruption on the Isluud of
St. Vincent-Details of the
Culunilty.
The foarful disaster at St. Pierre,
in the island of Martinique, whore
40,000 Uvea wore lost by a volcanic
eruption, was quickly followed by a
similar disaster on the island of St.
Viuceut, one of the Dritish West In
dies, which was threatensd evou be
fore the St. Pierre calamity. The cor
respondent of the Now York Herald,
writiug from tho island of St. Viuceut,
gives a graphic description of the situ
ation as follows:
Admonitory rumblings und earth
quakes in the vicinity of Soufriere
came two weeks ago. On Monday,
May 5, the lake in the old crater be
came greatly disturbed. On Tuesday
at 2 o'clock in the afteruoou iho moun
taiu began a sories of voicanio efforts.
Severe earthquakes accompanied these
terriblo noises and detountions suc
ceeded quickly. At 7 o'clock in the
evening an immense column of Bteam
issued from the crater and lasted un.
til midnight.
Torriblo explosions followed on
Wednesday morning, ami at 7 o'clock
there was another sudden, violent es
cape of steam. This ascended for
three hours, whon other material was
ejecte?. At, noon three craters ap
peared to open and began to vomit
lava. Six streams at oace ran down
the sides of tho mountain, making an
awful scene. Tho mouulaiu laboied
heavily for half an hour al ter the ap
pearance of lava. Fire (lathed around
the edges of tho crater, and there
were tremeudous detonations iu suc
cession, rapidly merging iuto a contin
uous roar. Th?s lastod through Wed
nesday night and until Friday morn
ing. The thundorings of thevc'uano
were heard throughout the Car' beau
sea.
The eruption began Wednesday. A
huge cloutl iu a dark aud dense col
umn, charged with volcauic matter,
rose to a height of 8 miles from tho
mountain top. Darkness liko mid
night descended and the sulphurous
air was laden with tine dust. A black
rain followed, a rain of favilla scoriae,
rocks and stone. Theie were bright
Hashes, uumerous aud marvellously
rapid. Thetm with thundering, the
mountain shocks, the eartbquukc roar,
the lava aud falling stones created a
sceue of horror. Large areas of culti
vation have been buried beneath the
volcauic matter.
On the Windward coaal seven planta
(ions are totally deatroyed. Sixteen
hundred and twenty deatha are already
reported. There are 107 cases in the
hospital at Georgetown under treat
ment. The deatha have been cauaed
chietly by suffocation by the sulphu
rous gas, aud burning lava masses.
A few of tho cases m the hoapital
are likely to recover. A new crater is
reported formed on the Richmond ea
tate near the aeanhore. The country
districts on the W indward coast nre lit
tered with dead bodies.
Kingston, the capital, and the whole
population are aafe. There have been
no accidents or deatha. Clouda of
dust are blowing over the city, how
ever. The royal mail steamer, Wear,
is transporting food and water to the
Leeward coast, Bailing veasels proceed
to the Windward coast on the aamo er
rand. Doctora and nurses have gone
to the scenes of distress. The major
ity of ihe corpses being found are cov
ered with ashes, decomposed and hard
ly ap; "oacbable. The dead are being
burleu in trenches, thirty in each.
A dispatch from the island of St.
Lucia, dated l.'Uh inst., says: " The
Soufriere volcano on the island of St.
Vincent is still in destructive erup
tion. The terrillc cannonade can be
heard a hundred miles away. Tho re
ports are followed by columns of
smoke, rising miles in the air. Im
mense ball* of colored iiro alao issue
from the crater. Lightning is playing.
Uorcely in the upper sky and the
whole northern part of the island is
one rnaaa of travelling (lame. It is
impoasibie to reach the district by land
or sea, and there is no means of eati
mating the destruction wrought to life
and properly. Kingston, the capital
of St. Viucont, is still safe, though
showers of ashes and pebbles are con
tinually fslling. The volcano itself is
Invisible."
The governor of the Windward Is
lands, Sir Robert Llewellyn, telograpbs
to ibe colonial ofllce in London from
?the island of St. Vincent, under date
of May Kl, as follows:
?? I arrived hero yesterday and found
the state of affairs much worso than
had been stated. The administrator's
reports show that tho couutry on the
east coast, bclweon Itobin Hock and
Georgetown, was apparently struck
and devastated in a manner similar to
that which dostroyed St. Piorre, and 1
fear that practically all living things in
that radius were killed. Probably
1,000 persons lost their lives. The
exact number will never be known.
Managors aud owners of estates with
their families, antl several of the bet.
ter class of people, have beeu killed.
A thousand bodies have been found
and buried. One hundred aud sixty
persons are in the hospital at George
town. Probably only six of this num
ber will recover. The details of the
disaster are too harrowing for descrip
tion.
??| gol, at St. Lucia, a coasting
steamer, which is running up And
down the leeward coast with water wod
provisions. Twenty-two hundred per
sons have rcc ived relief. I have
asked for medical aid from Trinidad
and Grenada. All the neighboring
British colonies are assisting gener
ously. Every effort is being made to
giapple with the awful calamity. All
the best sugar estates In the Camb
bean country are devaslod and tho cat
tle are dead. The eruption continues,
but is apparently moderating. Anx
iety la still felt. All the officers and
residents are co-operating with me.
The ladies are making clothing."
Sir Alfred M. Hodgson, the govern
or for Harbadoea, has forwarded the
colonial ofllce the report of the colon
ial secretary, who has jnst returned
from a visit to St. Pierre, Martinique,
which confirms the worst accounts of
the disaster. The secretary compares
?the ignited matter, which destroyed
everything within an area of ten miles
long by tux wide, to buruing sealing
wax. He adds signiticantly, that
the services of doctors aro not re
quired as there aro no wounded pri
sons.
Governor Hodgson estimates that
two million tons of volcanic dust fell
on tho Island of liarbadoes.
In the destroyed city of St. Pierre,
tho work among the ruins is being con
tinued in an unsatisfactory manner,
says a Fort de France dispatch to tho
Now York Herald.
Tho doad aro being burned, tho py
res being fed with potroloum ami tar.
Great ilros are kept going, which at
night light up the entire island, aud
which, beiug scon at St. Lucia, led to
tho bolief that Fort do France had
burned.
Although thousands have been burn
ed, many still remain to be cromated.
Searchors, while walking through the
ashes, oftou stop upon what nppoars
to be charred a pillar of stone, only to
learn as it yiolds gruesoincly under
foot, that it is the trunk of another un.
fortunate.
Some of the walls of tho houses that
still stand, crumblo and fall at touch.
Some idea of the terrible heat that
pourod down from Mont l'olee may bo
had whon it is known that the iron
rollers of the l'rinolle sugar mills wero
molted as though thoy had been put
through a furnance.
The island of 81. Vincent is one of
the British West Indian group, lying
one hundred miles west of the Barba
does, and between St. Lucia and tho
Grenadines, it i* seventeen miles
long hy about leu indes in width, and
its area is 182 square miles. Through
the island, from north to south,
stretches a ridge of high, wooded, vol
canic hills of subordinate, irregular
massus, which extend to tho sea on
either side. The volcauo called tho
Soufrierc is in Ihn northwestern pnrl
aud tremendous eruptions have re
curred in it. It rises to a height ol
tbr e thousand feet above the sea
level. Iis crater is three miles in cir
cumference and live hundred feet
deep. Whilo the climate of St. Vin
ceut is exceedingly humid, tho average
rainfall being nearly seveu feel, it is
not unhealthy. The soil of the valleys
is a rich loam, and sugar, rum, molas
ses, arrowroot and cotton arc produced
in abundance. St Vincent has a local
government subject t that of tho
Windward Islands. Kingston, the
capital, is near the southwestern ex
tremity of the island, it had a popu
lation of 41,000 ton years ago.
Prof. Henry S. Williams", professor
of geology at Yale University, in dis
cussing the Martinique horror, said:
M Tho iron bit; at Martiuique was un
doubtedly of volcauic origin. It
might have been associated with earth
quake energy, as the-two sometimes
occur together. The thuuder and
lightning which accompanied the erup
tion are not uncommon at such times.
They were produced by tho tension in
the atmostphore.
" The volcanic explosions were duo
to water getting into the caviticB in
the earth and coming in contact with
the heated rocks. These explosions
are frequent in tho vicinity of tho sea
or riveis. The ashos spoken of were
really not ashes, but fragments of rock
thrown out."
44 How far down in the earth are
these disturbances?" the professor was
asked.
44 At various depths. Usually they
arc pretty deep iu the earth and may
be several miles down. The mnlter
thut. (lows out after an explosion is uot
real lire, but molten matter. It is red
hot and Hows down the mountain like
water and gives the impression of Are.
Gases are emitted, and taking lire pro
duce the tlame which is often soen.
The molten matter sets (Ire to any
thing in its course. The theory is that
the matter in tho interior of the earth
is under very great pressure, which
keeps it from becoming molten. Hut
as soon as it is thrown up, then it bo
comes molteu matter.
44 Earthquakes aro produced by a
sliding away of masses of rock and
then there is a settling of the earth.
At the Charleston earthquako the
criu-k in the earth was several miles
long. Tho earth Bettled only a few
inches."
THE SLEEPING PREACHER.
Au Interesting; Subject fur the
Scientist*! and Lovers of Ctt?
riosities*
Saluda County baa an extraordinary
freak in the person of a negro who
proaches admirable sermons while he
is asleep, and last week a test was
made by leading citizens with a physi
cian and stenographer at hand, which
seems conclusive thai ho is not a fake.
The Saluda correspondent of the News
and Courier gives the following ac
count:
The 14 Sleeping Preacher " was here
Thursday night and a large crowd
wont out to hear this strange man.
"Major Perry," for that is the preach,
er's name, was in the charge of Messrs.
li. i\ Boukoight and J. P. Bodie, two
of this county's most reliable citizens.
Perry has been living with Mr. Bouk
night, a few miles below this place, for
twelve or fouiteen years and, with tho
exception of a few nights, he has nover
failed to preach a sermon on going to
sleep during this long poriod.
1 \ rry is f>4 years of age, of medium
size, copper colored and wears a flow
ing beard. He was raised in Fairfleld
County, but not by a Baptist preacher,
as has bteu said in explanation of this
strange phoaomenon.
Mr. Bouknight has been in the com
munity whore Perry was born and
raised and lived until 14 years ago,
and emphatically states that Perry diu
not belong to a preachor. The placo
of his birth was near tho present town
of Btdgeway.
Ono of the peculiar things about
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The Und Yon Have Always Bought
Bears th?
Perry's sermonizing lies in the fact
that his preaching dates from tho time
of bis being paralyzed ou tho loft sido
iu 1888. Ho was never known to
preach beforo theu aud ho has novor
failed to preach a sermon every night
siuco then save occasionally on Fridny
night.
A test made by your correspondent
revealed that Perry is very illiterate,
being scarcoly able to spell out the
simplest words, oveu with book iu
hand. He is extromely reticent on tho
subject of his nightly preaching, aud
if pressed will resent too close ques
tioning. Another pccularity notico
ablo is that Porry can go to sloop sur
rounded by a curious crowd as readily
and as quickly as a babe iu its mother's
arms.
Thursday ovoning Porry's wifo ar
ranged a bod in tho school building
here aud at 11.40 tho strange man un
dressed aud " turned in," apparently,
for the night. In lifteen minutes,
amidst the gaze aud hubbub of tho
crowd, he was sound asleep. Four
minutes later ho commenced to siug iu
low aud measured tonos au old hymn,
beginning " Come, yo that lovo the
Lord." After "limngout" and sing
ing two verses he slowly turned on his
right Bide and reverently repeated tho
Lord's Prayer, making but one change
in it, vi?, inserting the word '1 all" be
fore tho words " our trespasses." He
followed tho lord's Prayer with an ex
temporaneous potition, the logic and
language of it being us good as that of
the average while preacher. At tho
conclusion Perry turned on his back
and after a moment's pauso, staled
that tho text would be found in tho
12th chapter of Matthew aud 28th
verso. 'I'hin ho quoted aud a compari
son of tho quotation with the original
shows that he repeated tho words ver
batim. His discourse lasied forty-live
minutes and the roading of a Stenogra
phie ropoit mudo by Air. Tadlock shows
a closely reasoned (with some excep
tions) (S >spel ?ei mon, instead of being
n senseless negro harangue. Few
grammatical errors were made and
many of his citations from tho Jliblo
wore substantially correct. At times
he was really oloquout.
For tho most part he spoke iu a
smooth, conversational tone but oc
casionally ho became impassioned and
made the welkin ring.
Twico during the sermon ho had
something like convulsions, and when
ever seized by one of theso ho im
mediately loft oft speaking, his heart
und pulse ceased to boat and, except
for the strange movement of his mus
cles, one would sqpposo life extinct.
These convulsions lasted but a minute
and as soon as ovor be would com
mence his sermon just whore he loft
off aud in the same tone.
An cxnniinatjftu. of .thcajtea whilo
preaching showed tho pupils motion
lens and a bright light placed close to
his face whilo the lids were pushed
hack did not cause him to move or
flinch.
During his preaching period it has
always been found impossible to wako
him. Pins have been stuck into los
flesh, burning acids have been put
about his e\es, hut all to no effect, save
that he suffered from these experi
ments on awaking.
Perry is particularly severe in his
criticisms Of tho present -day preachers.
He stated that " we are told there
wore twelvo disciples or teachers, and
ono of these was a devil. But to-day
I think about eleven and a half out of
twelvo are dovils." In elaboration of
this statement he referred to tho "man
sent preacher" and " tho self-sent
preachor" anil " tho money-making
preacher."
Perry made no gestures at all, but
when under tho impression that ho
was reading from seme book in the
Bible would run tho lingers of his right
hand across the bed covering as if Fol
lowing the lines.
Ho closed his sermon with an enrnest
exhortation and when the ond was
reached lay porfectly still and slept
quietly until awakened by a physician,
Who closely watched him throughout.
On being awakened ho appeared
frightened for the moment. Although
he had groatly exerted himself soveral
times during his Bermon, ho stated that
he did not feel tired or at all exhaust
ed; yot his pulao beat rapidly and Ids
breath came quickly.
Whatever else may be said of tho
strange " Bleeping preacher," tho per
formance iB no fake. Time after time
various citizens in this county have
gone to Perry's home after night and
secroted themselves to detect the fake,
as they supposod, but Invariably after
watching him through the cracks in his
house go to bGd, and giving him time
to go to Bleep, ho would sing a hymn,
offer a prayer, announce ois text and
preach a sermon. Ffe nover uses the
same toxt and the body of his discourse
is always different.
He rarely ever fails, however, to
give the preachers "Hail Columbia."
The effect of this strange pheno
menon on a spec' .tor cannot be im
agined.
Perry's father is Paul to he a whito
man and he has Indian blood in him
also. This he shows unmistakably, as
docs Inn wife, who of late years always
uccompanies him to prevent the cruel
experimeuts which were at first prac
ticed by some in trying lo awaken her
husband while in the midst of a ser
mon. Men of a scientific turn of mind
have an interesting subject in the
"sloeping preacher," and Baluda Coun
ty in his person possesses ono of the
raystories of the now century.
Tho pearl industry of Arkansas lins
reached a point of prondneuto
now among the enterprises of the
State. Not only are the pearls valu
able, but the mussel shells are being
utih/od in newly established button
factoiics. ^he valley button factory
o2 Newport, .mk., has been chartered,
and will soon sjart a factory of 100
saw capacity, jmploying about thirty
men, fourtoeu of whom have already
been contacted for In Iowa and Illi
nois. The capital stock of the com*
pany is $50,000, and it is backed ex
clusively by home men.
OABTOXIIA.
Signatar?
If
BIL.L AKP WANTS APOLOUY.
KoohcvcICh KeinurkH About
Je He thou DuvIh Were Wronjf.
Atlanta Constitution. ?
44 Once more unto tho broach, good
friends?ouco more." I would like to
know about what time Prusidout
Koosovelt is going to retract what ho
wroto about President Davis. It has
uow beou proven by the olllcial records
at Jacktjon, Miss., that Mr. Davis never
was Governor, nor was he ever a mem
bor of the Legislature of that State,
and in a public addross made after the
act of repudiation, be declared ho was
opposed to it and the debt ought to be
paid, aud this amateur historian de
nounces him iu his book as au arch
traitor and repudialor. Mr. Davis
fought in Moxico for tho honor of the
flag; won tho victory al Huuua Vista;
was desperately wounded and for flvo
years walkod with ctutchcs; married
tJouernl Taylor's daughter for his llrst
wifo and didn't run away with her,
either; was secretary of war under
Franklin Pierce, reniodolod ihe curri
culum at West Point and it stands to
day as he framed it; was a meinb.r of
the United Slntos Senalo whon his
Stato seceded and, like Goneral Leo,
ho wont with his people. He did not
seek tho presidency of the Confederacy
and insisted thut auothor he chosen.
[Now all this has long since boon
established, and if Mr. Roosevelt did
not know it ho could have known it.
He certainly knows it now, nnd if he
in a gentleman he will retract it and
apologi/.u to Mrs. Davis and the family
and to the snintcd shade of Miss
Winnie aud to the pooploof the South.
He called him an arch traitor and
arch repudiator, and compared him to
Benedict Arnold, and that slanderous
libel is in print in a book of so called
history and has poisoned the minds of
all tho fools, fanatics aud idiots who
havo read it. When is he going to ro.
tract?
Tho I )iio nulidiiitl Cyclopedia, edited
by distinguished professors of Colum
bia University and Dartmouth College,
says of Ah. Davis: "Ho was a ripe
scholar, a vigorous writer, a splendid
orator, a brave soldier, a true gentlo
man, an accomplished statesman, a
sturdy champion, a proud, true patriot,
a lover of liberty, a Christian hero?
this is tho .IclTerson Davis that history
will cherish." Genoral Leo was his
hosom friend aud couiidant and yet
this Bo-called historiau, this rough rider
and boat huutor, praises Lee while he
defames his friond, a man influitoly
his superior in every moral attribute
and every noble emotion. But maybe
ho will retract aud apologize, though
Tom Moore, says:
" But faith, fanatio faith, once wedded
fast
To somo dear falsehood hugs it to tho
last."
Mo hud belter retract, for aomo of our
old soldiers are very mad about it.
They are talking about suing him for
slander and garnisheeing tho govern
ment for his salary. Killing beurs in
the wildorness won't save him nor will
that little brush we had in Cuba. That
18 perhaps the biggoat little war we
have ever had, and every small politi
cian and stump orator who wants an
olllco jumps up and aays we are all
brethren now. Wo fit and fout and
bled together at San Juan und Santiago,
and then we crossed the wide ocean to
whip out somo niggors and we will
soon all bo on the pension roll. An
old veteran said to rao, " That little
Spanish war reminds mo of tho follow
who was drowned at Johnalown, and
when be knocked at tho gate St. l'etcr
didn't recognizo him and refuaed to lot
him in. 'Why, my dear air,' aaid ho,
'I am one of the .Johiibtown sufferors.
I was drowned in that Hood.' So the
good saint relented and let him in. Ho
wandered about heaven, looking at the
beautiful things and aftor awhile came
across an old man and said, 'Good
morning, old gentleman; glad to soo
you. Been bore a long time, I reckon?'
The old man aaid nothing. 41 am one
of tho .lohn si own sufferers. 1 was
drowned in that great flood.' The old
man did not reply, but turned and
walked slowly away. So tho fellotv
wont to St. Deter and asked who that
old man was. 4Ho would not speak to
mo.' said he, 'though I told him I was
in the groat flood at Johnstown.' And
St. Peter ropliod, 'That old man, air,
is Noah and ho had a flood of his own
to think about."
And now we read that all tho hor
rors of our civil war are being repeated
in the Philippines. In our war it win
tho white Yankees who made war hell
for us, but now they are making it hell
for the negroes in tho Philippines.
We were trying to smother what our
people suffered, but they won't let us
and now boast that General Sherman
I omul it the best way to shorten the
war. No, wo old man aud women
cpn't forget, and I hope that our chil
dren and grandcbildron will learn it all
in some Southorn history. The civil
ized world has not forgotten Herod
nor N?o nor the Duke of Alva nor
the massacre of St. Bartholomew,
where 30,000 ProteBiants were bulch
erod in a night. But when wi c,
Teddy repent, rotract and apologized
He has got It to do sooner or later or
go down in history as a malicious de
tainer of ono whose shoes he was not
worthy to unlooso. He and Miles will
get together some timo and some where.
Now, why does not Teddy consider the
feelings of our people in his appoint
ments to Southern offices? Why did
be Dot give Havo.nn.ah a white man for
a collector ? Appointment* ol negroes
to ho postmasters and revenue collec
tors are au insult to us, and he kuows
The?Won* s Greatest
fore for Jiaiaria x
kW all formt of Malarial poison
,ng Uke John?.?n'a Chill ami Psvse
l'onk # A taint of Mslnrial poison
j?t Wi yoir bioorl meansmisery and
fnlliire. Illoori inerilctnescftn'tr.ur?
Malarial poisoning. Th? sntldoU
for 't U JOHNSON'S TONIC.
Bet a bottle to-day.
tat? 5t Cuts If It (im.
it If ho has such affectionate regard
f >r those in sjroes why not givo thorn
I ii place at Washington or Albany or
I Boston or a con* ut ship at 11?) ti or Sau
D uuingo?
These ollices are (he nearest of ?II i<>
our people. The poatoftioe is our
trysling place, a kind of Meccu. aud
the poatiunsler our confidant. That
I oflicer should above nil olhers be ac
, coptablo to the majority of tho pooplo.
Tho collector has tho commerce
of a city in his hands and under
his control, and that coinmerco is all
white?none of it comes from tho ne
gro race. What excuse cnn ho give
for such appointments? None, and
when is he going to retract and apolo
gize for that slander of Mr. Davis?
Echo answers whon?
Hi.. Akp.
MACHINE COTTON PICKINO.
A New Invention Thnt Gives
Promise of Successful Work
in the Field.
Manufacturers' Record, May 15,190*2.
For several years an inventor of a
cotton-picking machine has heen try
ing devolopmo nts of his invention in
, the Mississippi Delta. Two years ago
the iuvontor, Mr. Angus Camphell,
aud his backer, Mr. F. R. Morris, used
the inacbino to pick cottou in such a
way as to impress the spectators with
its success. The two goullomeu, how
over, were not satisfied with tho ma
ch ino iu every respect, and since then
they have neon remedying whnl they
thought to bo its weak points. Hav
ing perfected the machine, they signed
last month contracts for five machines
to pick 2,000 ncres of cotton in ihe
Delta next fall. In a letter to the
Manufacturers' Hocord Mr. .1. S. Weiss
of Greeuville, Miss., writes :
I have watched very closely for the
past five years the cotton picking ma
chine patented by Mr. Angus Camp
bell, which is owned aud operated. by
the American Cotton Picking Co. of
Pittsburg, Pa.
I am perfectly satisfied, beyond any
question of a doubt, that Mr. Campbell
has solved tho question of picking cot
tou with his machine, and it does even
better work than is claimed for it.
On tho 15th day of last October I
saw tho mnchiuu in operation at Cob
ouol Morgan's place alSheppanht iwn,
I a-.IIon; County, Mississippi, aud saw
tbe machiue pick 93,7 por cent, of cot.
t mi that was open on tho row, without
destroying tho leaves, bolls or stalks in
any shape or manner. 1 have also seen
the machiue at work beforo frost,
nover a grceu leaf, boll, bloom or
square boing hurt.
Ono could not tell that the machine
had boon in tbe Hold, excepting that
the lint was missing. Strange as it
may seem, tho machiue only tukos tho
lint, but of course if thoro happens to
be a pieco of a dead leaf on an opou
boll it takes it along just as one does
picking it by hand, which, of course, is
cleaned before the cotton is ginned.
1 think 1 am safe in saying that the
farmer*, of this great Delta only har
vested about 7/> per cent, of their ciop
I this season, aud I think it is a question
of a very short timo when Mr. Con* *v
bell will have bis machiue at a point
where ho will got 100 per cent.
As 1 before- Btatod that the machine
picked 03.7 per cent., however, the
other (i.y per cent, does not go to
waste, as the planter can gathor it if
he so chooses.
1 dod't think the machine will work
in very hilly land, but it does the work
to perfection in flat and low lands.
The machine will pick at least three
bales per day, and has already picked
as high as live. Every planter with
whom 1 have talkod and who has seen
tbe machine work is more than pl.iasod
with it.
In ray estimation tho cotton farmers
of the South are about to receive their
greatest boon. It goes without saying,
as, to ray mind, the question has been
Bolved regarding the harvesting of
cotton.
Tho signing of the contract indicates
a faith in the efficiency of the machine,
which, if realized, means almost a
revolution in agriculture and industry
in the South within the next few years.
The substitution of machinery for man
in gathering the cotton crop has long
been a dream, with most substantial
ren- ons why it should become a fact.
Agnin and again an invention to that
end has been announced, only to bring
disappointment without destroying the
hope. The success of the Campbell
picker must result iu an enormous
ecoi.omy in bringing tho cotton to the
gin, one estimate being that it will
neat ly halve the expense, in the encour
agcroeut of more scientific methods in
cultivating cotton, thereby permitting
a gi eater area of land and greater hu
man energy to be employed in the
raising of other crops. Of special im
portance, though, is the promise in the
invrutiou of tho release from the cot
ton Holds of a great mass of labor into
other lines of industry requited for
the full development of Southern re
sources, and a wonderful change for
the better from present conditions, in
which i lie. opening up ot a timber tract,
the extension of a railroad, the starting
of a cotton mill or the development of
a coal or iron mine draws often at the
most inopportun?) moment needed help
from the fields, or a sudden rise in tho
price of cotton tends to attract needed
help from manufacturing undertak
ings.
This balancing of labor conditions is
likely to be accompanied by a balancing |
of agricultural ones. The use of cotton
picking machines must tend to limit
cotton-growing to sections where great
areas of land, devoted principally to
cotton, .nay be under one management,
as the use of suoh a machine by the
cultivator of one acre or. ten acres
would hardly be economical, if poaai
bio. Hence wight be expected in cot
ton-growing a radical change similar to
that induced by the adoption of ma*
chinery in the wide atrolchiug wheat
lields of the Weat. This change,
though, would injure no auinll cultiva
tor ready to adupt himself to it. lie
might lose if ho should attempt to
coinpeto with hand against tho ma
chine, liut if ho should recognize and
I tako advantage of the wider market
I for foodbtufts and other products
created by the conversion of cotton
pickers into rniuors, lumbermen, oper
atives and mechanics, ho would better
himself considerably.
The saw gin created i domand for
an oxteuaivo cultivation of cotton aud
an expansion of slave-holding. It was
possible under the old system, fr 'he
large cotton-growor to make c ?gh
from cotton alono to justify depen
dence, upon outside sources for the
bulk of bis supplies, though many a
well-managed plnntalion was self-con
tained. The destruction of the slave
labor Hyi,'"ui brought about an acces.
siou of whites to tho body of individual
cottou-growers, forced, however, for
tho while to depart from tho habit of
living at homo, and often unable to
apply most approved methods to their
cotton culture. Tho labor dilliculties
led thorn to the invent ion of devices
for the improvement of mechanical
handling of the crop after it reached
the gin, culmiuating in the round
haling piocos8. Necessities, too, gnvo
an impolus to tho movement for in
creasing tho amount of cotton raised
per acre, and for u return to the rais
ing of home food crops. Tho inven
tion of a successful cotton-picker will
complete tho chain of machinery, giv
ing to the American cotton-grower an
ml vantage which may never be emiallcd,
permitting him to enjoy nil i. < host
results of long experience with the
staple, aud yot swelling the rank? of
American productive lubor. It is hoped
this machine may ho a success.
BATTLE ROYALi I N.ATLANTA
Trouble Between Ne;v?'o Desper
adoes und OillccrH iu a Suburb
of the City.
In an effort to dislodge Will Rich
unison, a negro desperado from his
store in Pittsburg, a suburb"' hotweeh
tho city of Atlanta and Fort McPher
son, in which he bad taken refuge
after assaulting aud nearly killing Ex
Policeman S. A. Korliu, three police
men and ouo citizen met instant death
Saturday morning. Three negroes were
killed, while four white meu and one
negro aro probably fatally wounded.
Richardson, .v'th several other ne
groes, attacked Korlin Friday night
near his home, in Pitt-iburg, and beat
hitu nearly to death. Richardson llred
live shots at him, but none of them
took effect. Tho matter was reported
to the county police and they found
Richardson in a store at the corner of
Me Daniel and Amy streets. Thoy
called on Richardson to come out and
surrender. He fired on Hu m, seriously
wounding Owen Heard, a member of
the posse. Tho officers drew off a little,
waiting for daylight to rush the build
ing. When morning came, the officers
made another effort to cupturo tho ne
gro, and in a few moments four persons
had been shot down by Richardson,
who was pumping lead from a Win
chester with the accuracy of a sharp
shooter, Henry King, who was with
Richardson when he shot Owen Heard,
came out, and wasforcod by the officers
at the point of a revolver, to crawl to
the building nud lire it. The house
was burned, nnd Richardson's dead
body, charred beyond recognition, was
found.
The crowd which surrounded tho
house was immense, and tho negro,
firing with tho deadly nccurncy of a
sharpshooter, was picking off officers
as fast us thoy showed their heads. *
Tho officers attomptcd to arrest live
ncgroos suspected of having beaten
former policeman S. A. Kerlin nearly
to death Friday afternoon. Tho no
groes resisted arrest by entrenching
themselves in a house and the light
ensued. The vicinity is thickly set
tled with small negro cnbins. There
aro outbuilbings and barns and shrub
bory over the entire neighborhood
which provides such shelter that it was
posriblc to escape from house to houso
and dodgu boLweon fences without bo
dotected. As soon as information of
the light between tho negroes ami tho
police reached the city, wagon loads of
policemen heavily armed were hurried
to the scene of action and Gov < 'am!
lor ordered out a detachmont of the
State militia.
The shooting was followed by a
speech from Sheriff Nehns, of Fulton
County, advising calmness on tho part
of the crowd, aud the efforts of officers
thereafter wore directed towards con
trolling the temper of the white men
who were walking the stioets of tho
suburb with drawn weapons.
O KT AT LS OF OKSPKHATK STRUGGLE,
At t> o'clock Sat unlay morning the
group of officers who had boon walch
iug the house al night approached the
place and called upon thoso within to
surrender. Thj answer was a volley
of shots and County Officer Battle
dropped dead. The attacking party
retreated some distance and from be
hind trees and telegraph and trolley
poles commenced dring into the store,
in a few minutes the door of the
house wa thrown open and Will King,
a nogro, ran out and gave himself up
to the officers. Inside the house Rich
ardson had an unobstructed view in
three directions. One block away Po
liceman Tom Grant stepped from his
shelter to fire into the houso. A shot
from the besieged house killed him be
fore he could fire. Tbe attacking
pai ty sent word to police headquarters
and Chief of Police Ball dispatched
the reserves to the scene in several
patrol wagons.
The officers to whom King had
j|%?%/%!L powder
Absolutely Pure
Makes the food more delicious and wholesome
given liiin-.i 11' up determined to make
use of the negro and at tho point of n
rille they forced him to walk up to tho
rour of the house aud lire it. As soon
as the Humes started the olliccrs, ougor
to got tho iumuteB of tho house, stop
ped out of their shelter iu every direc
tion. Again thoro was shot from the
house and this lime Ollioor Edward
Crabtrce mel death. An instant Inter
there was another shot and County
Policeman Robert Ozburn fell dead.
The shooting had by this time at
tracted hundreds of people and nearly
every man who came to tho scone car
ried a rifle. Tho shooting into the
house became genoral, citizens and of
iW.are firing together.
Gov. Cundler was advised by tele
phone of tbo rioting and ordered oul
tho Ii ili ia. Capt. \V. W. Barker was
oulcred to proceed with lifty men and
a platoon gun to the scone of the
shooting and co-operate with the city
authorities and the sheriff of Fulton
County. Chief of Police llnll hurried
to the scene on horseback aud was
joined a few minutes later by Sheriff
[ N eine?.
! The desperado, Hichards.>n, had bee
lost sight of. The house burned rnp.
idly and a number of inmates were
8cou to run to the store, to a woodshed
and to a barn in the next lot. Orders
were quickly given to lire these build*
ings and in a few minutes several of
the buildiugs were hunting.
\V. T. Jackson, a street ear conduc
tor iu uniform, was one ot those at
tracted to the scene by the shooting.
As ho was Hearing the house ho was
shot iu the right hip presumably by
llichnrdson. A negro cabman, driv
ing a spectator to the vicinity of the
rioting was struck in the hand by a
bullet. Officer Spradlin, speeding to
the scene on his bicycle, received a
wound in the arm.
A main sewer which runs through
this part of the city was utilized by
two of the negroes a? a possible means
of escape, but to no avail. The crowd
had increased until at least .'{,(100 peo
ple, 2,000 of whom were armed, sur
rounded the burning area.
Milton Roaby, a negro, was seen to
emerge from the mouth of the sower.
A shout went up and the Hoeing negro
WRB-Hdwt-"dead-. --His body v/as sur
rounded and was literally shot to
pieces.
The crowd of enraged citizens had
scarcely ti Dished i his work when an
other negro was seen coining out of
tho sewer. He, too, made a run for
life and managed to get into the back
yard of one of the neighboring homes
where he wus shot to death.
Tho lire which had been started by
tho attacking parly spread rapidly and
soon the entire block of buildings, al
most wholly composed of negro houses,
was destroyed. The police wore busy
arresting the few negroes found iu the
vicinity. Two of them, Stave Nisbot
and Jim Singleton, believed to be
members of Richardson's gang, were
arrested. The police had great diffi
culty in getting out of the crowd of
enraged people with the colored men.
A mob of 2,000 surged around the pa
trol wagon and clamored for the lives
of the prisoners. The officers throw
ing their men into the bottom of the
wagon, drew their revolvers and forced
a passage through tho crowd, Una My
lodging their prisoners in safety iu the
county jail.
In less than an hour the block of
Wooden houses was burned to the
ground and a search of the ruins im
mediately followed. In a woodshed in
the rear of Richardson's st< re was
found a skull and near to it the steel
barrel of a rifle. It is believed that
the skull represents all that is left of
the negro who did the shooting.
This is tho lirst affair of the kind
that has over occurred in Atlanta. 1?.
was not in any sense a race not, but
was the result of a negro defying the
law. Notwithstanding that the entire
city was much wrought up over the
killing of the (.Ulcers, order was re
stored with wondorful promptness and
the passions of an enraged people were
remarkably restrained,
I n l, c ii i i.i> fuABON PROBLEM
Senator Tillmaii Speaks Out on
A Grave ImliiHtriul Ihhuo.
Sonnlor Tlllraan baa written thu fol
lowing letter to one of his constituents
and is dcaiious that it have the widest
circulation possible in ?South Carolina:
My Dear Mr: 1 liavo your loiter of
May 6. Tho House committee hns re
jected tho Lovering resolution, look
ing to a Constitutional amendment al
lowing Co.igress to fix the hours of
labor, and 1 am- glad of it. No such
amendment should over pass or be
come law. Tho people of the respec
tive States alono should control such
matters and they are. fully competent
to do so. Your looking at things from
only one standpoint is tho reason why
you have been misled into advocating
such centralizing and un-Domocratic
doctrines. Suppose, tor instance, that
Congress, under the ptossuro of or
gaui/.ud labor in tho cities, should pass
an eight-hour law for all workmen
throughout the United Slates? What
would become of tho agricultural work
ers of tho country?
I agree heartily with tho idea of the
Smith Carolina legislature being com
pelled to prefect child labor in our fac
tories, as woll as provont the excessive
hours of labor among adults, and 1
shall lend ray support, with all the
oarncstness L possess, to force the next
Legislature to relievo tho State of the
odium now attaching to it. Tho cot
ton mill presidents may clamor for the
p ivllego of blighting the lives of tho
?an tho _ ^ The Kind You Haw Always
1 children who work Iu their mills, when
thoy should bo at play or at school,
and thoy may demand the right to de
clare dividends by this cannibalistic
process, but unless I mistako the peo
ple of our State the issue has only to
1)0 presented fully and bravely to causo
the Legislature to do its duty by an
overwhelming majority. (Jod forbid
that we should .ever have to seek roliof
from Congress in that or any other
proper reform of a local character.
I consider the notion of tho mill
owners in Aiken County in locking out
their employees ns tho most cruel and
iinjuslitiablc wrong I have ever known
of. It cannot bo disputed that men
have tho right to strike and quit work,
uor can it ho disputed that tho owners
of cotton mills bavo tho right to closo
tboir doors and not givo work, but the
elTort to force the King mill people to
return to work by punishing all tho
operatives in tho other mills, who have
uolhing to do with it and living oven
in a different State, is something un
heard of in tho South. Those mills
would never have been built but with
a view to employing labor for tho
mutual benclit of both the owners and
workers, and when the lockout came it
was too late for the operative to seek
employment on the farm, as no crop
could have been planted at that late
dnte. I hud rather see every cotton
mill in South Carolina burned down
and never have another one be built
than to have those who own them make
slaves of those who work in them.
The child labor business is cold-blooded
greed. The Aikcn lockout is a pro
clamation unspeakable in its infamous
cruelty and insolence. The unneees
saiy suffering it has produced and tho
souse of wrong will cause incalculable
injury. There aro men iu Aiken Coun
ty who, to my knowledge, have been
working faithfully and continually for
years and years in tho Horse Crock
Valley without the slightest friction,
and if all the operatives in that valley
could movo away and leave the mills
to rot down lor tho want of labor it
would be nothing more than just retri
bution for this high-banded and out
rageous action on the part of the
owners. 11. It. Till man.
An Unusual Feb.?After a large
wedding In Washington the 11 best
mau" stalled at hardly an hour's
notice for South Africa. On his re
turn to Washington, after an absence
of some eighteen months, he received
the warmest sort of welcome from his
old associates. A dinner given in his
honor alTorded the tirst occasion sirce
the wedding for donning evening dress,
and in the midst of the evoning, hav
ing occasion to feel in his waistcoat
pockot for something he electrified the
party by drawing forth a $100 bank
note.
Where had it come from? Who
had put it there? His fellow guests
had all sorts of suggestions to offer,
none of which seemed satisfactory.
Early the next morning tho truth
Hashed across his mind. He called
upon the clergyman who had performed
the marriage coromony.
11 You remember the fact, I sup
pose," said the visitor, "of marrying
Mr H-and Miss ?-about a year
and a half ago?"
" Oh, very well,'-' answered tho
clergyman. " 1 see them constantly.
They attend my church."
" Then I hope you will pardon a
rather delicate question, asked in strict
confidence. How much did you re
ceive as your fee on that occasion?"
" 1 will return frankness with frank
ness," and the clergyman smiled whim
sically. "It was the strangest fee
that ever caino my way. After the
A Curious Statkmbnt.?A London
physician of large practice assorts that,
owing to his extremely sensitive sense
ot smell, he can foretell tho coming of
death forty-eight hours. He says that
when a patient comes within two days
of death a peculiar earthy smell is
emitted from tho body. Tbe amell is
entirely diatinct aud characteristic and
manifests itself irrespective of the age,
sex, and disease or personal cleanli
ness of the dying person. When tho
tatal discaso is slow in its progress tho
odor makes its appearance as much as
three days beforehand, but when the
disease is of the galloping kind tho
doctor says he receives much shorter
warning. lie attributes the smoll to
mortificationi which begins within the
tho body beforo lifo is extinct. There
are one or two other cases on record
of men whose noses were acute enough
to detect the coming of doatb in this
peculiar way. Dogs probably also have
this sense, for hunting hounds have
been frequently observed to commence
a mournful baying a day or two before
their masters dio.
Another scheme similar to the
?Cherry Treo" affair has como to
?rief in too State of 1'onnaylvania.
Two men under the firm uamo of Van
\irk & Wobbios started about two
nonths ago, what they called the
? Kudless Chain f .otter." The post
otllce department sent a spocial agent;
lo Wilkosbnrro to investigate the mat
ter, and after the agent made his re
port, tho department ordered ail the
letters sent to tho dead letter olliooand
gavo orders that the businoss must
cease. Over 70,000 letters woro sent
10 Washington and they containod
ovor 8100,000 iu checks. This con
corn was doing business all over the
South.
A couple married recently in Dan
ville, Kentucky becamo acquainted
through tho spilling of a bottle of ink
by the man on Iho girl's gloves.
OABTOIIIA.
Bear? too _^ H? Kind Vou Have Always Botifllft
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