The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, September 10, 1902, Image 1

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S NARROW ESCAPE, II IS CARRIAGE DEMOLISHED BY A TROELEY CAR. A Secret Service Ajjent Killed and Driver ScrlottHly Injured ? The President Slightly Hurl. The carringo in which President Rocsoveit ami his party wore being driven from Pit!sfiold to Leuox, Mass., was struck by an oleclric car and al most completely demolished. Tho President was slightly cut and bruised, Secrotary Cortolyou also injured, Win, Creig, of ihe secret service, was killed, acd tho driver of the coach sorioudy huit, Tho following account was given by tho Associated Puts the morninv? ?fter tho occtmonce : The Incident of tho United Sttiei escaped a n-agic death by only a fovv feot in a collision botwcen his oeuiage and a .i eleclr'.c car in tb's city, whi'o one of his most tnistcd guards, Secret Sei vice A^ent Wm. Craig, was iu stantly killed, and David J. Pratt, of Dallou, who was guiding the horses attached to the vehicle, was soriously iujured. Prcsidenl lloosovelt b'mso'.f was badly stakon up, but received only a slight facial biu:so. Secretary Conolyou, who occup'cd a seat opposite >he ctvef executive iu tho landau, sustained a r^inor wound iu the back of the hrad ro.' G jv. Chane, who sat b< ido the President, c-;tri caled htmso.f i\om tho wreck practi cally without a scratch. Tho c-r'ago was demol'shed by the ;mpact of the lapidly moviug or and the wheel horse on the e'.do nearest the car was killed ouliight, the crew and pausen, gors of the car cscap'ug injiuy. The IVesidont and poily were duv iog fiom Ibis eily to Leuox through one of tho piincipal thorough fees of Piltstlold, which was lined with cheer ing people and tho catastrophe oc cuircd iu plain view of hundreds, whoso happiness at tho advont of tho nation's chief was suddenly turned to grief. Thousands bad poured into tho c!ly in the ear?y morning from the nearby country lo see and hear the President, and b's address at the ciiy park bad been loudly cheered. At tho conclu sion of the exercises he wished to make abrief call on Henry L. Dawes, for merly United States Senator, whose house is but a short distauco from the park. The President's carriage, in which he had ridden from Gov. Crane's borne at Dalton, was accord ingly diivcn to tho Dawes residence and carr'ages contaiuing a number of other goni'omon in tho party followed. President lloosevolL's caM was a short one aud thon tho carriages relurood to the city square. After a few momeuts delay the jour ney toward Lenox was begun. Mean while the mounted oscort of police offi cers and the cairiages containing tho newspaper correspondents who have accompanied the Presidout on his tour had started off ahead on the road to Lenox and were some distance in ad vance of tbe President's equipage. Three or four other open carriages fell in line immediately benind the landau in which tho President rode with Secrotary Cortelyou and Gov. Oratio. Secret Service Agent Craig, who throughout tho Now England tour has been almost constantly at the President's elbow, was on the driver's box beside Coachman Pratt. Out through South street is a broad, smooth highway. The tracks of tho Pi italic Id electric street railway are laid in tho centre of tho road with am pie room for teams on each side, aud scores of vehicles of eveiy description followed along this road behind the President's party. Shoitly afier he left the park an electric car which had been tilled with passengers at that point, started to ward Lenox well behind the proces sion. It passed ah of the teams and was about a m>le and a half out from the city at tho beginning of Howard hill and was nearly up to tho Presi dent's carriage, which was traveling on the wost side of the highway. Just at the foot of Howard bill the road bent's a little aud teams are com pelled to cross tho Btreet railway tracks to the east side. The railroad . then continues at one bide of the street inttead of in the centre. Just at this point the up-giode of the hill begius, and but a short distance beyond the crossing there is a narrow bridge span ning a small brook. The trolley car approached the road, crossing under a good head of speed with gong clanging just as the driver of President's carriage turned his leaders to cross tbe tracks. On each side of the chief executive's cat riage rodo two mounted troopers of tho local cavalry company, and tho horsemen on the loft of the landau had turned on tho track with the trolley on immediately be hind them, though sorao yards distant. Alai med by the clanging gong, thoy both turned in their saddles and wavel vigorously to the motorman to stop his car. Almost at the same instant Gov. Crane, who quickly perceived the daugor, rose to his feet and likewise motioned to the motorman. The lat ter in great excitement desperately tried to slop his car, but it wan too late. It crashed into the carriage just as a lond mo^n went up fcom tho fren zied onlookors who thtonged the road aide, and who bat a moment before were cheering the President. The horaemen managed to got the frightened animals out of the way just in time and the car struck the rear wheel of the carriage on the left side and ploughed through to the front wheel of the vehicle, winch received the Ml force of the blow. The car* rlago was upset in the twinkling of an eye and one horse fell dead on the tracks. The ether three powerful grays attached to the vehiole stalled to ran and, dragged by them and pushed by the forse of the car, the wrecked carriage wai moved 30 or 40 feet. Mr. Craig fell from his seat immedi ately in front of the car and it passed I completely over his body. Driver Pratt in falling struck the dead horse immediately in front of htm and rolled off clear of the oar, thus escaping a almllor fate. President Koosovolt, Gov. Crane and Sccrotary Cortolyou wore thrown together in tho bottom of tho carriage Almost immediately a scoro of men Jumped to the heads of tho frightened orsos and stopped their further pro gress. Gov. Crano was tho first to get to bis feet, escaping entirely unhurt. He turned immediately to tho Presi dent, helped tho latter to aiise and to gothor thoy assisted Secretary Cor telyou. The President's lip was cut and blood was flowing from the wound. [ His olothing was disarranged and ho was much shukon up. Secretary Cor tolyou had a sovcro wound in tho back of his head, from which blood was tlowing frcoly. Tho President quickly regained his composuro and tho three soon aftor re paired to t bo residonce of Charles It. Stovens, near tho sceno of the accident. Mr. Craig's body was found juet behind the car. His shoulders aud chest wore crushed and tho body frightfully man gird. Driver Pratt was found uncon scious in tho road, his shouldor was dislocated, his ankle sprained and his faco badly cut and bruised. Ho was immediately placed in a carriage aud taken to the House of Mercy, where ho was attended by Dra. Fiynn and Pad dock. Agent Cra'g's body was taken to the residence of Mrs. A. B. Slevous, ad joining the house to which tho Presi dent had repaired with Gov. Ciaue aud SecroU"y Coitolyou, aud Itter rc moved to uudei taking rooms. But a few moments after the collision Drs. I Colt, Thomas and Woodiuff ailived aud attended the President and his secretary. Ha!f an hour 'ator the party appeared aud resumed tho jouiney to Lenox. An anxious crowd surrouuded tho house and tho Prcsidout stopped long enough to assure the people that he was not injured in the least, aud to express b's g?oat grief at tho death of Agent Craig. CL"cf Nicholson, of the Piltsfield po lice, and Daniol Ryan, an otllcer of the Now York city department, who is on his vacation iu this c'ty, woro driving about 100 yaids p'iead of tho Presi dent's caii age and were among the fliol to reach Iiis side ofi,jr tho col lision. They immediately plpced under a)rest tbe moiorman of tho car, Euclid Madden, aud Conductor James Kelly. Gov. C.*auo in relating his experience, said thai he beard the gong of the ap proaching car iu ample time and he lose and warned tho motoiman to stop. Ho says that the man apparently paid no attention to his s^oal or those of the troopeis alongside, aud the car continued uutil it struck tho carriage with great force. No one on tho car sooms ablo to ex plain how the accident happened. Even the rroiorrnan and persons on tho front seat arc apparently uuahlo to toll why it was not avoided. It is claimed that Driver Pratl turncd to cross tue Ira :k sooner thau teams ordinarily make the turn, but he was forced f i do so because of the fact that his loam of four horses required more room, aud tho two troopers on the right of the cairiago also needed spaco to got "through. Motoiman Madden and Con ductor Kolly remained in tho station houso fiom 10 o'clock in tho morning, whon thoy were taken under ai rest, until 0 20 in the evening, when bail was furuhhod. The charges again3t them are manslaughter. Bail for the mo!ormau of $5,000 was fur nished by his bio,her, Maurice J. Madden, and Patiiik II. Dolan, man ager of the Pittsfleld Streot Railway company. Ke'ly was bailed in the sum of $2,500 by Mr. Dolan. Kelly is 25 years of age, slnglo, aud has been em p'oyed on the railroad for three yoars. Motormin Madden is 32 years old and b*as a wife aud five children. Gcoige and Hugh Craig, of Holyoke, Mass., brothers ot Wm. C'aig, tbe vic tim of the accident, ai rived to-n'ght and are in consultition with the milliont!i >. It ha3 been doc-ded to take tho body to Ch'cago for intormont, that city boiug Craig's homo. Euclid Madden, the motoiman, in telling his story says that the car was No. 20, which bad motors of 00 horse power. The car is not fitted with air brakes. On account of tho Presidential exercises he says that the running schedule on all lines of the company's streets wore disturbed. As he passed over the railroad bridge about .150 or 400 feet from tho scene of the accident he says he shut off tho power and put on brakes, the car then being on down grade. He says there were teams on both sides of the track and he was exercising every care to avoid an accident. In his opinion the car was not running over eight miles an hour; he received no warning to stop and did not see the mounted men oi Gov. Crano waving their bands, to come to a standstill. According to Maddon's story, there was plenty of room for the President's carriage to have passed on the west side of the trolloy track, and he would have had plenty of time to have passed the Pres ident's carriage bofotv tho turn was made to the east sido of tho road. Ho said that tbe leading hor?os wevo turn ed shorl across the track. Ho could not tell just how the car struck the carriage, but he says he reversed the power and went for the brako just as quickly as possible when he saw the horses turn on the track. He said it was dusty and with difficulty ho saw what was going on. Eye witnesses say tho President was calm and collected, and deplored the death of Craig. " He was the most fuitKul mau 1 ever know," said he, " ray children fairly worshipped bun." When Craig saw the impending dan* ger and that a collision could not be avoiled ho was hea d to say: "Oh, my (Jod," and then he was hurled through the air and fell under the car wheels. When the President got out of the wreck he asked the motor man, " Why were yon running your car like that?" which brought only tho re sponse, " Because J had tho right of way." The President said that when he saw the car coming at such terrific speed be felt that all in the carriage would suroly be killed. According to another story tho President waa stunned for only a second, and springing to his feet where the trolley had stoppedlmd told Hu; motormau Ihat unless tho car had gotton beyond his eontrol, which did not seem possible, in view of tho way it had stopped, ho had committed au act of criminal rocklossuoss which had resulted iu tho death of at least one man. Oilicials of tho road deny that the motorman was instructed to lun through without stopping, and say the car was not runuing at r. high ralo of speed. BILL ARP ON NEGRO ORATORS. MISTAKES AS TO PKOGKESS OF THE BLACK FACE. In All the South There Was Notn Negro 1 . .son Nor n Con vict or n Chain Oaug. Atlanta Constitution. Of courso 1 was vory much interest ed in tho groat negro convention. So was every thoughtful mau North aud South, but there wcro some featuros about it that did not harmonize with tho views and niomorios of tho old masters. Tho oft-repeated assertion that forty yoavs ago tho negro emerged from bondage nud barbarism is a mis take. It is worse, for it is slander. Ono orator said that thoy had bcon in a savago state ono huudred ycp't? another said two hundred and lifty years?and their progross siuco free dom camo was wonderful. Somo of our young people of this age aud gen oration may carelessly beliovo that, for thoy have been taught it from the Notlh whoro it is universally believed. Bookor Washington may believe it, for ho is in his middle ago. But Evan Unwell and I and all other veterans, whether whito or black, know that it is not so. I don't want the old-time negroes slandered. Tho oralor might as well have said 2,250 years ago, for thoir ancestors were all in Africa then ?none of tho grown up negroes who wore set free had boon iu bondago more than lifty or sixl/ years and none were savages or barbarians. They compared well with the illiterate, while, pcoplo, and in fact felt above them and spuko of them as poor white trash. The close asso ciation for two or three generations of these slaves with their whito mnslors and their families educated most of them m good morals and manners and industry, which is a better education than books, and the truth is thoy were when freedom came infinitely superior to the race as it now is. Tho progress that Booker Washington and his as social 38 boast of is an alarming retro grade and degeneracy. When froo doni came there was not an outrage in all the Southern land nor was there a convict or a chaingaug nor a nogro prison, but now there aro 4,400 con victs and tho number increases faster than tho population. No?there is no upward gradation iu thoir morals. The higher education that these n igro colleges are giving to the few have no good effect upon tho many, and, according to Mr. Wash ington's own statement, ho is alarmed because most of his graduatos aspiro to bo loaders and teachers and preachers and bosses. They aro a pampered negco aristocracy and widely scattered as thoy are, they have not reformed tho race in morals or in honesty or an obsctvanco of tho marriage relations. I can assert with truth that at least one-third of the negro children in and around Carlorsvillo are bastards. There arc nine within a stone's throw of our house?aud yet their mothers arc voty good servants and make good cooks, chambermaids and washer women. Thoy lose no casto or social position or church membership by reason of their unchaeto and unlawful cohabitation, and the childron of those women are growing up without moral training and aro as notorious young thieves as tho Arabs of tho desert. The while people have got so accus tomed to their petty thioving that thoy do not prosecute them. Mr. Washington made another mis take when ho said that the number of convicts increased because they wore too poor to employ counsel. It is well known to tho bar and to those who at tend the courts that tho judge always appoints compotont counsel, and he loans to the negro and protects him as far as ho can consistently with his duty. I know that our judgo does. About a year ago he tried throe ne groes for a crimo in a neighboring county. They wore easily convicted, for thoy were guilty. He fined each of them $25 and tho cost and sen tenced them to ono year's service in the chaingang, but told them ho would hold up the sentence for a year, and if they could got any responsible white man to tako them in chargo and let them work out their fines and bring then: hack to the court at the next term and give a good account of them, he would not sond thorn to tho chain gang at all. Tho negroes found good mon without leaving the court house and tboy did work out thoir fines and behaved well, and thoir employers mode a good roport of them and they wore honorably discharged. How much bettor that was than the chain gang with all of its bad associations and brutality. The Southern people are uniformly kind to good negroes. Last year my faithful sorvant, Tip, came to see me, for he was in trouble. He had laid up a few hundred dollars and had bought a snug little farm near Rome for $800, which took all his money. The man he bought from then suddenly disap peared and Tip found out there was a mortgage on the farm of $500. "Where did the mau come from?" I asked. "Ho camo from Ohio," said Tip. " And you did not ask any lawyer to look into the title ?" << No, sir," said Tip. " He talked so fair and I had knowod him some time that I thought shorely he wouldn't cheat me." And now Tip is still working out that mort gage and the man cannot bo found. Reckon he is drawing a pension and holding an offlco in Ohio. What we wish to see is some good practical re sults of those negro colleges. Before the war every man of wealth who owned slaves had among them masons, carpenters, blacksmiths, wa gonmakers, shoemakers, etc.; my man Tip was a paperhanger and a good one, for my wife taught him, and he has made good money by it since the war. Tho negro of are naturally me chanics and improvo rapidly in their trade?, nut I havo not soon or heard of one from Tuskcgeo yet. Washington says ho is tiyiug to teach them that it is honorable to walk between the plow handles. Why, we can't get a wbilo college boy to do that, much less a col logo negro whoso education has all come Ti'om charity, aud these colloges keep bogging for more and get it. .But what frets us old masters is t>U this lommyrot about tho negroes hav ing just emerged from slavery and ' barbarism. 1 wish to declare to this gonoration that our old slavos had more common sense and far butler morals than those wo have now, and they had wives and children and they were not ashamed of thorn. It sweetens my memory to go back to tho good old faithful slock like Tip and Sinda and Aunt I'oggy and Virgil and big Jack and little Jack and Undo 8am aud Aunt Ann and hundreds of olhors who weie happy and contouted, and whose children havo got into the chaingangs through tho malignant legislation of oui enetnios. Harper's Weokly seems to havo repented of lato, but tho cruel work is done anl cannot bo undone. Tho most hopeful sigu 1 saw in tho proceedings and reports of that con vention was that given by a mulatto or coppor-colored negro from a negro town uoar the Mississippi. ,betweou Vicksburg and Memphis, whore thoy owned a good body of farming land and worked it and made good crops and had a good town of 2,000 pooplo and sixtcon stores and good common schools and several churches and plenty of good mechanics and a mayor and council, and thcro were no idlers, and if a tramp camo thero they waited on him and shipped him off on the lirst train?and thoro wasn't a whito man in the town nor did one livo in 5 miles of it. I am going to watch that town. Maybe that will help to solvo the raco problem. lUhh Anp. ANTIQUITY OF THE TRUST. Not a New Development in the Commercial World?The Diffi culty of Control. At tho convention of tho Ameiican Bar Association, which was recently in session at Saratoga, President U. M. Uoso, of Litllo Hock, Ark., in his annual address, discussed tho problem of controlling the trusts by legislation. He said : We arc by this lime familiar with whal arc called " trusts ;" so called, porhups, because thoy contain in their composition not a siuglo tiduciary ele ment. South Carolina has passed two acts cn this subject. The lirst act forbids all persons to form pools, trusts or combinations for tho purpose of regu lating or fixing the price of any article of trade or merchandise or to limit tho quantity of any artielo of manufacture or commodity, or of any repair, or tho promium of any iusurance. Heavy Hues are prescribed for any violation of the act and in addition any domestic corporation infringing its provisions shall forfeit Its charter, and any foreign corporation so offondiiig shall forfeit its right to do businoss within the State There has beon*legislation along the tho same lines in other States, develop ing, however, no new features. A German wiiter, who has lately Written a book about Amoricau trusts, counts tho Amoricau bar among these parasitic institutions, saying that we hold meetings for tho purpose of regu lating fees, a very surprising statement that could hardly havo been made by anyone save a foreigner unacquainted with professional lifo in this country. 11 is duo to the tiuth of history to say that no such meetings aro held aud that we can look upon the ponding contest for supremacy between tho United States and tho beef trust, if not with indifference, at 1 east without apprehension. Our country during tho last thirty years has witnessed a change of such magnitude as to bo without a singlo parallel in history. By moans of vast aggregations of money, corporate mo nopolies havo boon established in al most ovory branch of industry. What effect these tremendous creations will havo on our futuro destiny, morally, socially, financially, legally, no ono ventures to predict with any degree of confidence. If it is true, as said by Oliver Cromwell, that no ono goes so far as the man that does not know where he is going, wo are apparently entering upon along journey. Monopolies are as old as human bis. tory, and we cannot doubt that by their grinding oppression thoy kept men and women lying awako of nights long before tho first page of history was WlLten. They wore forbidden by tho laws of ancient Greece and Rome; thoy wore forbidden by the common law of England, and the common law was re inforced from time to time by statutes. For awhile during tho reign of Eliza beth thoy flourished. At ono time she had licensed more than fifty monopo lies to prey on tho community. Hume, tho historian, was amazed at thoir num ber and rapacity. In order to build up an empire in the East, Parliament granted a mono poly to the East India Company, which became so oppressive that its over throw was a matter of necessity. It soon loarned to charge 400 per cent profit on overy article that it sold, and tho tea that it sold became so inferior in nualitv that it had hardlv a trace, of the plant of that name. Of courso these results were not reached at onco; prices wore raised gradually and stealthily under prelenso of decreased production. Instead of fifty monopolies, we havo at present more thau 4,000, to say notbing of price and rate-fixing and profit-sharing pools, with buying and selling agoncios, exercising functions similar to those of the trusts, all or ganized for the purpose of fixing prices arbitrarily. Each day brings its report of some new and gigantic alliance, tho future of which can not be predicted, since most of these corporations are authorized to buy up the stock of any other corporation, so that they may at any time acquire supremo control ovor industries exitomoly remote from thoso ostensibly inviow when they woro first creatod. The first sriccoss of one of these combinations, fit successful at all, is alluring in a high degree. If the pro Iperly is capitalized at twice its value, I the lowest capitalization known, and the securities aro floated at par, Hie re sult is that tho formor owners find tboin8olves twico as rich as thoy wero before, and at a very trifling outlay of time, mouoy or energy, to say'nothing of a future of immense possibilities. Wo shall not be surprised, thoroforc, when told that many similar organ iza lions are startod with the deliberate intention of swindling unsuspecting, stockholders. The Supremo Court of tho United Stales and several of our Presidents havo more than onco called attention to tho gravity of tho situation, and wo can not suppose that mon occupying such high positions of responsibility would wantonly excite public appre hension. Thero is one form of tyranny that governments, however institutes, can not?at loast directly?exorcise. Ef forts havo often boon made to control prices by law, but novo?- successfully. The natural laws of trade always triumphed ovor tho artiflcal laws of men. But whoovor can control tho supply cau fix his own pricee, as wo soo in tho case of Pharaoh in Egypt. It was not as Jviug that he assorted that powor, for tho command of tho supply would havo given itlo him if he had boon a private individual. 1 J'rcsidout lloosovcll has said moro than once that tho powor of corpora tions over prices should ho subjected to public coulrol. Tho principal difll culty pertains to the remedy. If ox isting laws could bo enforced perhaps no new one would be needed. A remedy sometimes proposed wilh seeming confidence is that of publicity. Publicity is a good thing. Monopolies dolight in secrecy. It is said that the absent always suffer, and tho public aro not invited to participate in cor porate mcettugs. Very lately corpora tions are organizing under conditions that do not permit oven all of the stockholders to exammo tho books, that privilego being resorvod for hold ers of preferred stock alone. It may be that persons who rely on this remedy aro misled by the laws relating to the examination of the books of bunks, which are very easily examined. Banks havo only to do with a single commodity, ono that has fixed aud un varying values. Tho dilliculty is enormously increased when it comes to like examinations of the books of other corporate bodies doing uu ex tensive and varied business. In such cases it is not infrequently found that tho mysteries of modern bookkeeping exceed those of alchemy, reminding oue of the response of a railway presi dent to his legal adviser to a question as to what the books of the company would show rcgardiug a controversy then undor consideration. " Well," said the president, " as I foresaw long ago that this dispute would some time probably arise, and, not knowing ex actly what form it would assume, I kept the books in a lloxiblc condi tion." Flexible bookkeeping may justly claim a respectable antiquity. It formed ono of tho minor charges of Cicero against Vcrree;and a contem porary poot surmises that it was uti lized by the contractors that built tho pyramids. The remedy of publicity would only servo to prolong the pres ent situation. Another proposed remedy is tho modification of the tariff laws as far as they affect prices of commodities sold by tho trusts. This would open the trusts to the competition of tho foreign markets; and to that extent it would place a limit on tho powor to raise prices. It would not, of course, affoct all tho trusts, and hence it would bo inadequate, though it might prove very useful. Another remedy suggested is an amendment to tho Fcdoral constitution giving power to Congross lo control all corporations; a very drastic remedy, indeed, ono that would greatly strength en tho lobby, ono that might intro duce an era of political coiruption hitherto unknown. Lastly, it iH suggested that the Federal constitution should be so an.muled as to enable Congrc8B lo provont by appropriate penalties the slugging of rivals by local underselling, by m factor's agreements," and by similar devices. This would not pre vent tho investment of large sums in corporate, hands; and corporations with large capital would still have an ad vantage; but laws of that kind would no doubt bo rigidly enforced by the juries of tho country; and forcod sym pathy in favor of new and struggling enterprises would probably go a long way to redress the balance. Gon. Grcoly, chief of tho United States signal service., has sailed for Alaska, whore ho will superintend the building of tho government telegraph system from Valder to Eagle City. Is this the beginning of tho govornmont control of the telegraph ? It is an nounced that, owing to the dilliculty of maintaining laud lines from Dawson to Ashcroft, the government may lay a land cable over tho most difllcult mountains. At present during severe storms tho linos are interrupted by tho falling of trees, etc. Heretofore the tolephono Hold has boon divided botween the independents and the Boll interests. Tho iudepend enta have grown bo numerous in Now York State that there is alroady much rivalry for tho loll business of tho va rious districts. This delicate state of affairs recontly culminated in tho breaking up of a telephone convention and tho formation of two rival inde? pendent associations, ono with fifty throo duly accredited ccmpanios and the other with forty -nino enthusiastic adherents. Seven hundred peoplo were killed by a landslide near Mount Kasbek, in Russia.' CASTOR! A For Infants and Children. The IM You Have Always Bought NEW VIEW OF CHILI) LAHOH The Mill Presidents Ought to Seeure Uniform Laws on Pa triot ie O-rounds. Charleston News and Courier. Mr. Edwin Lehman Johnson, of Momphis, Teun., a widoly known con sulting specialist in cotton seed, its products, manufacture aud uses, is spending a few dayB m tho city, regis tered at tho Charleston Hotel. Mr. Johnson has devoted the best years of his life to tho study and pursuit of this calling and by close attention to busi ness, coupled with a great deal of nat ural ability, he has established a na tional loputation in his particular line of woik. Mr. Johnson has many ft lends in South Carolina, having re sided at ouo tinio iu this State. At prcsout ho is a member of the Mem phis Cotton Exchango and prominent ly idonlilicd with tho Unancial, com mercial and industrial cirolos of tho Tounesseo metropolis. Whon seen at tho Charleston Hotel by a rcportor for The News and Cou nor, Mr. Johnson was asked for an ex pression of his views on the child la bor question, a matter which has for some timo bcou ono of the paramount issues of the day both North and South, but particularly in tho Southern Stalo1}. u I cannot claim any special knowl edge of child or othor labor in the mills, my oxpe ienco having been ex clusively with tho labor iu tho allied industry of cotton seed manufacture," said the Tennesscean. "The require ments in this latter calhng are so so voro that nouo but able-bodied men cau moot them, aud 1 have uovcr seen chi'dron in cotton seed mills any where." ft "The child labor question, how ever," he continued, " is an economic ono of gicat concern to tho South and about which every Soulhornor ought to havo fixed opinions baaed on patri otic grounds. Wo will do well to for get all Northern criticism on this mat tor. Such criticism unhappily tends to i force us in self-defence to depreciate tho real evil and its magnitude. Tho right point of view is that wo ought in tho South to bend every energy to ward cultivating force, stamina and character in our white population, for wo arc all advocates of white suprem acy; and at the rato tho uegroes aro advancing and should advance, wc must raise up and rouse up our weaker white brelhron iu order to keep up with tho paco. The day of the 'poor white trash' has passed. Wc do not want aud must not have any such class in the future. " There is absolutely nothing in cot ton mil I work that weakens or ahusos healthy minds and sound bodies, It is as dignified as any other labor. jThat children can bo employed at it at all is proof that it is not a tax upon oithor miud or body. Hut in this veiy fact lurks the danger. Kxcept in rare cases a child ought neither to ho com pelled nor allowed to oarn its own livelihood, still less bo required to sup port its elders. Tho yoars of child, hood ought to be devoted to the de velopment of both body and mind. It requires no argument to show that a race of men and women whoso ontiro childhood has been spcut in working in cotton mills or any other mills will be an inferior race, both physically and mentally. Wc cannot afford to have any such lace in tho South. The public interest requires that our while childton should obtain even a better education than the chi'dron of the North. They must quit the cotton mills and go to school. " Tho negro child in Georgia, South Cnrcliua and other Southorn Slates is making far more of school privileges Hi,in the while child. No cotton mill employs negro children or tempts them away from tho institutions of learning. Our cotton mills aro de servedly the most popular of all our manufactuios. They have been fa vorcd above all olhors in public confi dence and public support. Southern mill own er 8 should show somo appre ciation of this and carefully guard agaiust the very just reproach that will be cast upon them if their In flu onco upon Southern life shall ho to lowc. in mind or body the standard of the white mau, woman or chUd. " It is a great surprise to mo that public spirited mon liko Orr, of South Carolina, aud Jordan, of Georgia, havo not takon time by tbo forelock and asked the Legislatures of overy Southorn Stato to cunct a uniform law in all of these States upon tho ques tion of child laber. I bcliove that chlvahy, patriotism, common sense and business prudenco, al< dictato such a courso. It needs only a few of our largest and best mills to sot their faces sternly agaiust tho abuses of child la bor to arouse public soutimont bo that proper and juat laws will be passed. Tho exceedingly small additional profit in child labor will deter no just man from such a courso. h Wo want moro and better cotton mills in the South: we want them in Tennessee and Mississippi, as well as in tho Carolinas and Goorgia. Wo want moro Not thorn capital invested in such mills. If it is generally bo lievcd that our mills mako monoy only becauso thoy employ child labor, and that when child labor is dono away with such investments will not be protltablo, capital, knowing that such laws will inovitably bo passedt will be Blow tO invest in Southern cotton mills. But on tbo othor band, if it can bo proved, as 1 am confident it can, tbal these Southern mills can pay better dividends than English or Now England.nulls without child labor at all, then capital, with ab&oluto conll donee, will invest largoly in them. "Every man in the South, there fore, who desires to seo cotton mills multiply and exteud whorovor cotton is grown, should domand that abuses of child labor In Southorn factories cease and coase immediately." Mrs. Hannah Sutherland of Maiden, Mass., refused to return $10 in chango given hor by mistake by the conductor of a street car and has been sentenced to a year's imprisonment in the house of correction. OA0TOAIA. Bmh the lha Kind You Haw Always Bought Signature If Absowjiely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome} WOYAt BAKWO POWPtW CO., NEW YOWK. _ CONFESSION OF THE CRIME. Harttiolin Murdered II is Mother and Sweetheart ? -Ended Elfe by Suieide. For sovcral weeks tho authorities in Chicago havo been in quest of Bartho lin, whoso mother and sweetheart wero notoriously murdered, and ho has been hunlcd like a dog over since, but when found a few days sineo ho had committed suicide. A special gives l!ic following particulars: William Bsrthtlin has ended his career or crime by adding suicido to Ibe murders of his mollicr aud his swecllicart, Mm Minnie Mitchell. His body was found iu a held of flax, near Lowthcr, a suburb of lticcvUlo, Iowa. It was found in thickest of tho grow ing grain aud in one of the pockets was a letter eontaming a full coufes Bion of the two murders, which for atrocity have not boon equalled in tho criminal annals of Illinois. Tho letter was in Carlholin's band wiitiug, according to Ihoso who have had an opportunity to compare it with tho Oligluals of tho man's writing sent out by the poPce. After going into details of the hidden cvimc*. explain ing how, when and why the muvdeis wcro commuted, the writer signed his name, " Will Bartholin." The confession horo date of August 31, and it is presumed that Bartholin, hauuled by the Climes he committed, knowing he was being hunlcd liko a dog, and liuuiug himself cornoved, ponnilessnnd without a fricud to whom to turn to aid him, used the same pistol with which he had killed Minnie Mi chel' to end his own lifo. The body is badly decomposed from its exposure, but it will be kept at the morgue at Hicovillo until tho Chicago olllccrs have an opportunity to roach that city to make ideuliflcaJen doubly soro, although there is no doubt it is the remains of Batlholiu. The crime for which Bartholin was wauled was committed several weeks ago and since then unavailing efforts have been made to locale him. Why tho murderer killed his mother aud swcelhonrt is not known. Bartholin aud his aged mother resided togethor and he killed her at night as she was preparing to retire. He knocked her scusclcss by a blow on the head and thon strangled hut. The murderer then dragged the body to tho collar, dug a grave and interred it. Ho re mained in the hoti80 several days after mo murder and answered inquiries re garding his mother by the .statement wiiai she had gone to v'nt relatives. About a week after the murder of his mo.her Bartholin callod on his sweetheart and he and the gill wont OUl for a walk. Tho next day the girl wai fnuud in the street with a bullet iu her braiu and Bartholin had disap peared. Iii? house was then searched and the body of his mother found in the col'a . Bartholin was a scion of a noble Danish family, his father's brolhor bonroig tho title of baron. The body which was believed to bo that of William Bartholin was exhum ed and positively identified as thai of ihc Chicago double murderer. The Identification was made by William'; Mitchell, a brother of one of Bartho lin'?? victims, and Detective Andrew Powan, of Chicago. Banholiu's body was found la3t Fii day afternoon by J. (I. Pratt, a resi dent of l.liceville. Mr, l'ratt was driv ing to Elina and when passing a t'.ux Held saw the body lying against a black of Has. Thinking it was a man asleep, ho paid no attention, but on returning bo saw Ibe man still there and upou luvostlgalioo discovered he was dead with a revolver lying by his left baud. Coroner T. S. Car;.onlor was notified aud the body was removed to an un dertaking establishment at Ilicevillc. There J, B. McCook, editor of a Kico villo paper, discovered that tho dead ' man bore a sinking resemblance to the published pictures of Iho Chicago mur derer. The lext of a confession left1 by the suicide is as follows: ? To whom it may concorn: " I want to stale I am tho Bartholin the police are looking for. Also want to certify 1 had no assistance of any kind from any one. Thompson, Claffoy aud Counselmnn are all as in nocent as an unborn child and should be freed at onco. " 1 cauuot go into details in regard to tho crimes. They weic not planned. It was al' Minnie and I could do. My mind is wandoring. Such a drop in life in a short lime. Two months ago I was living in tho best company; to day hviug t*io lifo of hoboos?a mur derer, " 1 intonded to go into do'ails and tell all, but I cannot get my mind settled. Even my handwriting is dis graceful. " But abovo all things, I ask to clear everybody from under suspicion. Tbore is no second pauy; I am tho last. "W. U. Da.iholin." The average number of porsons kill ed by lightning in tho Unitod States each year is 7tfo, according to tho weather bureau reports. The last re port shows that 013 woro killed in 1000. In that year 073 persons were moro or loss injured by lightning. Tho mortality has boon unusually heavy in South Carolina this summer. Prof. Alexander Graham Holl of telephone fame is reported, according to the West ein Electrician, to be in torostcd in the construction of an air ship, the building of which ho is at prcsont supervising. It is said tho machine will utilize many principles of tho kite. OA.0TOnXA. Bean tho 1 h" Kind You Haw Always BoagM PLOWING TO BE A LUXURY. I)r Gutling'H Schciuo for Mak ing Easy the Tilling of tho Soil. From plowing to automobiliug seem" a fur cry, yot those two extremes combined in tho latest invention Dr. 11. J. Gatling, originator of 0 famous rapid firing gun which be;u his name, according to tho St. I -on. Rejpublio, At tho ago of 70 Dr. Gatling has conceived tho idoa of roplaciug farm horses with gasolino and changing tho adornment, of farmers' hands from callouses lo chauffeurs' gloves. In other wordb, plowing is to be revolu tionized, as was modern warfare. Aiany years ago tho cradlo took tho place of tho sickle, and that was later drivou out of the field by Iho rcapor, which, after a short but useful caroer, was roplaccd by tho solf-bindiug har vester, each, in its newer and bettor methods, cheapening the cost of r ,f> ducing wheat. Duriug all this tiu.<5, while tho methods of harvesting tue crops wore boing so much bottorc' 7 introducing labor saving machin very httlo progress has been mad ward cheapening tho cost of propm. Iho land for the seed. It has remained for Dr. Gatling to invent a motor plow, driven by a gaso line engine of sufficient power to pro pel the plows at any desired depth be tween one and twelve inches. The truck is built similar to those trucks used with traction engines, excopt that tho steam boiler is replaced by a strong platform, on which is placed tho gasoline engine. It is connected with tho traction gearing by a series of wheels; to this truck is attached a set of disc plows. With this machine it is estimated that ono mau can plow from thirty to tlnrly-llvo acres in a day. To plow this number of acres in ono day with the ordinary plow would rcquiro fifteen men aud thirty horses. All that is re quired to operate tho Gatling plow is for tho fanner to sit upon tho cushion ed seat of the truck and work tho con troller, which is not unlike those at tached to automobiles. If ho happens lo be indisposed, his wife can take his place. II is generally estimated that the cost of plowing under ordinary con - ditions is $1.50 por acre, and then tho further preparation of the ground by harrowing and rolling it costs anothei 50 cents per acre. 15y the process of plowing with tho Gatling machine, the ground becomes thoroughly pul verized and the rolling is not required. Dr. Gatling is having hia plow mado in St. Louis and is going to form a St. Louis company lo carry on its manufacture and distribution when it is ready for the market. As yet his plaus in this latter respect have not assumed definite shape. The sample plow is now nearing completion, and will soon bo ready for inspection. Left Baby With Pkbaoher.?H. II. Whitman, of New Decatur, Ala., nas just receivod a loiter from his cousin, Miss Cilloy, in which she re > latets a thrilling little iucident that has never aa yet found ns way into tho 1 newspapers. Miss Cilloy says \ " Recently Itov. Mr. Stewart, of Lawndersboro, Ala., was roturninsr, homo from ouo of his appointment He boarded a southbound train i Montgomery. Thcro was only on. vacant seat in the car, aud a portior of that one was occupied by a line look iug, well dressod youug man, who was holding a protty little baby girl in his arms. The stranger said the child's parents wore dead and thai ho had been appointed to tako her to au or phan's homo over in Mississippi. When the train reached Calera tho young man lurned to Mr. Slowarl and said: *? I seo an old friend of mine out thore, I waul to speak to. Would you kindly hold the baby until I re turn." Mr. Stewart did as requested. M Lator Mr. Stewart looked out t'.io car window and saw tho young man boarding an outgoing l^ouisvillo and Nashvillo train, and before anything could be dono to stop him the I .u pulled off and Mr. Stowart had ?bo baby on his hands. Ho took the i to his homo, where it was cared whilo and lator Mr. Stewatl got b . Iho foundlings' homo in Nash Tcnn., where she now is. Mr. Stow.' i . aud his good wife are thinking of adopting tho child, however." Lord Kelvin, tho distinguished Eng lish scionlist, is tho son of a small ten ant farmer aud might have passed tho rest of bis lifo among the turnips had he not chanced to be fascinated by an old sun dial standing forgotten and neglected in tho village churchyard. There wore hiddon meanings Id that mono which allured while thoy baflled him. Tho sludy of this dial changed tho tr nd of his life and gave to the world its most distinguished student of natural phenomona. OABTOniA. Bewi the _/} ?*? 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