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CI tj I ESTABLISHED_1865: NT ER-TNEWBERRY, S. C., WEDNEDY APRL1,19.PIE$.0AYA THE SOUTH CAROLINA W-AY A Joint Debate in Posituabter General Bi, sel's Offive- Rapid Cro,4firing Betweect the Representatives of the Rival South Carolina Factious. [Special to The State. I WASH INGTON, April .5 -'-The hearing given the Ocala Congressmen by Post master General Maxwell to d.ay was a mighty interesting prceceding. It was held in the Post Office Department at 3 p. m. and lasted until 5:30. There were present Senator Dutler and Irby, Representatives Shell, Strait, Latimer and Talbert and ex-Representatives Johnstone and Hemphill. Senator Irby having taken his private stono grapher along, Senator Butler engaged one also and you will have, in two or three days, a full transcript of the argu ments. Irby and Talbert were loud and defi ant;'Strait and Latimer subdued and excusatory; Shell rather sh3; Butler, Hemphilll and Johnstone, cool and keen. A CONTE31PT1ILE INSINUATION. Senator Irby started out by saying that while his side was armed only with facts be had the authority of a gentleman for saying that SenatorBut ler had come stick in hand and pistol -in pocket. Senator Butler challenged the name of his informant. Irby said it was J. I. Tillman. Senator Butler said i4 was false; he had neyer carried a pistol in bis life; he was amazed that his colleague should repeat so ridiculous a statement in his presence. SAVE US FRO31 SUCiH DEMOCRACY! Latimer spoke first. He claimed he had always been, and would always - be, a Democrat; that while he had op posed Cleveland's nomination, be had acquiesced loyally and helped elect him. Mr. Henphill said the question was whether Democratic patronage would be given to aid in. opposition to Demo cratic principles. He had,the right, as a private cit izen, to make recommenda tions for offlice, and would continue to exercise it. The majority against him in the primary had only been 173, and Ie represented more Democrats than Strait. He was surprised to see these gentlemen here. If he had, like them, claimed that Cleveland was not a Democrat, lie would cot, like them, be fouud asking favors of him. Strait said that any assertion that he was not a Democrat was untrue. LATIER LAID OUT BY JOHNSTONE. Mr. Johnstone made a masterly sum mary of Latimer's record in opposition to Democratic principles, and asked question after question touching his presence at the St. Louis Convention, etc., which Latimer didn't answer. He propounded these final questions with great impressiveness, telling Latimer not to quibble or evade: First-"Do you hold the Democratic plat form adopted at Chicago to be super ior in its binding'lorce upon you to the platform or principles of any other party organization or 1-od3?" No answer. *Second-"Do you disapprove of, and are you in opposition to the platform of the Third party adopted at Omaha?" No answer. Senator Irby asked Mr. Johnstone if he hadn't voted for Latimer. Johnstone said he had, as pledged in the primary. A similar question was subsequently asked of Hemph ill as to Strait, and a similar reply was made. The effort was to sbow that these gentlemen had thus admitted the Democracy of their op p'nen ts. TALBERT'S BOMBAST. Mr. Talbert made a stump speech, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing, and pounded the -table until the noise resounded throcugh the corri dors. He insisted that this was a bumi liating spectacle; that he had always loon emocrat, "opposed .ratios of all kinds and all classes," and that the others ran on the same platform and were in the same & position, which he clairned was Demo cratic. Mr. Shell said he was not called on to defend his Demnocracy, as there was no question of it. Still, lie cherished Alliance principles as equal to any St her. He had attended Alliance con ferences in Washington with John stone in the last Congress, and could say that no man contributed more to success of the Alliance demands than did his friend Johnstone. J3)HNSTONE TAKEs CARE OF HISELF. Latimer claimed last fall that John stone had taken home from Washing ton letters from Livingston. Irby, interpolating: "And WVatson and Macuine." Johbnstone-"I didn't do an3 hing of the sort." Latimer-"'And fra Tillmuan, E~ve ret t and Moses." Shell said Johnstone had repudiated the su b-treasury hilt. Irby asked if he hadn't supported the sub-treasury scheme. Shell said he had favored the financial -aims of the Alliance. Johnstone emphatically denied that * he had supported the sub-treasury. He had made his fight against it in 1890 and last year. Shell admitted that Johnstone had said he didn't agree to the fiat money and unsound money doctrines of the Alliance. Postmaster General Bissell asked Irby if he wished to say anything. Irby s-aid he would wait until Butler had spoken. BUTLER AND IRE1Y. uiderstood that his colleague was run- 1nm ning this conferenee he would not be froi dictated to by him. When he was offi ready to speak, he would speak, and the not untilthei. If Irby desired to speak, G let him do so, on hisown re-ponsibility, con and.not attenipt to dictate to him. rir Irby denied t hat he sought to dictate. V If Senator Butler stood neutral betwe'n Jim the "reform and "anti-reform" fac- cha tions in South Carolina, and wished to his remain in that position. then be cheer- joki fully accorded him the right. He had he not been so regarded up to this time. ling Butler ironically thanked him for his kind permi.sion. 4 IRBY TAKES THE FLOOR. ton, Irby spoke with passion, and so vehe- spec mently that he could be heard in the two corridor. He said he stood there as the dore State Democratic chairman, and was anti surprised, mortified, humilated and and chagrined, in common 1ith all good Bra people and true Democrats of South Hos Carolina, at this inquisition into the R Democracy of these Representatives. her( He argued that the trio were true will Democrats, who had submitted to the action of the National Convention- Di They had defeated these men who were si0o) now here trying to injure them in their daye party and put a stigma upon them. Sent RTDICULOUS ASSERTIONS. the Hemphill tried to interrupt him, but alref Irby shouted his refusal to be inter- way rupted, saying Hemphill was not a rep- curr resentative of the South Carolina De- don' mocracy. When the Third party showed Bas its head in South Carolina, I fought it he si as zealously and honestly as any man He I in the United States. Hemphill and was Johostone hadn't been for .Cleveland of it till he was elected and there was a co chance to secure the crumbs of office. -%V Johnstone tried to reply, but Irby re- prof fused to yield. Irby said he was to.d responsible outside for anything he the: said. Litt Irby went on to say that Johnstone mer and Hemphill had folded their hands No f in 1890, during the Haskell movement, resu but now came here to impeach the De mocracy of the men who had beaten them fairly as Democrats, and who E were as true Democrats as any in South heal Carolina. Gen Irby's manner was defiant and inso- in y lent. mai dent THE HUMILIATION BUSINESS. and Senator Butler said they had heard enough oratory, and he didn't think it necessary to say anything. He had G been invited there by the Postmaster Mr. General to be a listener, not a speaker. tion As a representative of South Carolina, was be, too, thought this a humiliating Pi spectacle; but these gentlemen had wan brought the humiliation upom them- woU selves. - agai Irby-"I deny it." to d The Postmaster General admonished TC Irby that as he had refused to allow Geo interruptions he must not interrupt. mo' told BUTLER NOT TO BE EULLDOZED. thot Butler to Irby-"IE don't 'intend to crati submit to any insolence from you. That allie sort of thing may be very well for a mer township meeting at home, but it's not the very becoming to act in that manner had here, and it's not going to win. I want Thii that distinctly understood." Senator Butler said he had had noth ing to do with the blacklisting. He g would be very glad to be relieved of all ence the.cares of patronage. . oegic Strait asked Butler if he regarded was him as a Democrat. ant Butler-"You must .vindicate your ator own Democracy, I've not impeached met it." ' and Strait-"I don't care whether you Hem answer it or not." Tp GREAT IMPERTINENCE. to p Butler-"Then it was a great imperti- fron nence on your part to ask me." refu Johnstone said he had always op- mac posed the sub-treasury bill. It was not Pos true that he had taken home letters graj from Macune and Watson, or Third mac partyites. Some Alliance fr:ends who Blai had learned to like him had written to the some gentlemen in South Carolina in T his favor, and he had taken home that by letter. He said it was not true that he wer had his hands in the Haskell cam. two paign.. did Hemphill said that he had made grei three speeches for Tillman. offik Irby-"It must be so, then; but I edit didn't remember it," of tJ TWO SIGNIFICANT INCIDENTS. eC Mr. Bissell did not say when he Het would render his decision, or what He it would be, but two incideDts are parn significant. tricl When Latimer said he would vote sho, with the Democrats on the organiza- wit] tion of the House, the Postmaster the General asked him: "Which is more wit important, the organization of the lina officers or the principles of the party?" ~ Latimer was rather stumped, but re -thet plied: "I think the principles that ef- evel fect our people more important than Der the men in offce," thai The other incident oeeurred after the oi hearing, when Latimer tried to ask Carl Mr. Bissell something abont his home so postoffice, Anderson. The Postmaster non General replied; "I'll hear you some wet other time." port Latimer: "I just want to ask you one othe question about it." Mr. Bissell-"I don't care to answer ind that now." ly THEY ARE VERY, YERY TIREP. and Latimer, Strait and Talbert took the to first train back to South Carolina. It qua Is presumed that they are tired. C Postmaster General Bissell will not spol render any formal decision in the case, dep but it is regarded as pretty certain that sent he* will begin soon the appointment of oert postmasters at the suggestion of the said Conservatives. He reiterated to-day his bad determination not to regard the re -He i and not to appoint post masters n beyond the delivery limits of the aes. These are of course adverse to Ocalaite policies. eorge Johnstone is receiving many gratulations for his masterly ar igment of Latimer. 7ben leaving, Senator Butler taxed i Tillman with what Irby had rged, and found that be had made representation to Irby upon a ng remark of his to the effect that upposed he'd have to take a Gat gun with him to the meeting. SENATORIAL DIGNITY! iptain M. Gammon, of Charles who is a candidate for boiler in tor at Charleston, has stated that days ago Irhy withdrew his en ement from his paper, as he was -Tillman, but offered to renew it aid him if he would tell him how wley beat Stokes in Charleston. v's this for Senatorial dignity?? epresentative Brawley is expected on the 14th. It is hoped that he return earlier. GOING TO KEEP IT UP. L. D. Bass of Florence had occa to see Irby about an office ten i ago, and when he expressed to th.: itor his regret at the division in State, Irby replied: "Well, I've Ldy picked out my own man, any ; and as to a division, that has oc ed, and I'm going to keep it up. I t want any harmony." This, Dr. Itells me, is the substance of what Lid, conveying but plain meaning. iad no idea, in relating it, that it going to get into print, but I heard and he admitted it. NSERVATIVES ON THE FIELD. ASHINGTON, April 6.-There is :und quiet in South' Carolina circles iy, the Conservatives camping on field and the Ocalaites in retreat. le doubt is entertained by the for that they won yesterday's fight. :rmal decision is expected, but the Its will show in due time. SIGNIFICANT STRAW. c-Congressman Johnstone was tily congratulated by Postmaster eral Bissell to-day upon his bearing sterday's discussion. His dignified ner and unanswerable logic evi ly impressed both Messrs. Bissell Maxwell. LAYING IT ON TO LATIMER. ,orge C. Bradley, of Troy, writes Johnstone that after his nomina , Latimer when asked whether he for or against the Third party, re I -h-at-if be could get what he ted in the Democratic party be Id stay there, and if not he was nst it. Mr. Bradley dares Latimer mny it. -night Congressman Moses of rgia, who fought the Third party ement at the St. LouisConvention, Col. Johnstone and the writer that igh he was sorely in need of Demo ic aid there, and on the lookout for s, he could not discover that Lati ,either by word or deed, opposed Third partyites in that body. He always considered him, he said, a -d partyite. THE OTHER SIDE. [Special to ColumbIa Register.] ~ASHINGroN, April 5.-A confer was held to-day in the private e oftthePostmasterGenerallat which present Mr. Bissell, Fourth Assist Postmaster General Maxwell, Sen Irby, Senator Butler, Congress STalbert, Strait, L4atimer and Shell ex-Representatives Johnstone and ophill. 2e object of the conference was ermit the blacklisted Congressmen i South Carolina an opportunity of ting the charges of third partyism le against them and of record in the :office Department. Full steno >hic notes of the argument were Le by Messrs. M. F. Tighe and axenburg as the official record for Postmaster General. 2e opening argument was made by Mr. Hemphill. His remark~s e confined almost exclusively to points to wit: That the patronage not belong exclusively to the Con smen but also to the departmental ers, and to repeat the threadbare orials of the News and Courier and ie State besmirching the political .rd of Latimer and Strait. lonel Johnstone followed Mr. ophill on very much the same line. referred to what he called the Third :y element in Mr. Latimer's dis Sespecially, and endeavored to w that from Latimer's connection i the St. Louis convention and by charge that he continued to confer 1 Third party leaders in South Caro that he was not a Democrat. r. Latimer replied in detail' to all of e charges and denied each and -y allegation reflecting upon his 2ocracy. In general terms he said while there were differences of ion among the Democrats of South >lia, and that he differed with e of the brethren, yet when the ination of Cleveland was made he t in with all the Democrats to sup him in his public speeches and ~rwise. r. Strait, who was included in the :ctment, defended himself vigorous2 n a speech in which he gave facts figures to sustain his position, and efute the imputations upon the lity of his Democracy. alonel Talbert spoke next. He te with force anti emphasis. He lored the humiliating spectacle pre. :ed to the nation of having Dem ts arraigned like criminals. .He tthat this indictment came with grace from defeated candidates. wouldn't charge that the defeated they bad they deserved the worst cor demnation. He maintained that h was always a Democrat, and held t the position he had always taken i his interviews and speeches. He iL timated very plainly to the PostmastE General that if his ibrethren were nc Democrats elected on the Clevelan platform that he (Talbert) was not Democrat. Captain Shell also made a few r( marks, which, however, did not cove the -points at issue, he not being ir cluded in the charges. The closing argument was made b, Senator Irby. He spoke as the chaii man of the Central Democratic Com mittee of South Carolina. His speecl was an able, exhaustive and yet con cise review of the conditions existinj in South Carolina after the nomina tion of Cleveland and out of which thi present personal charges against somi of the State's Congressmen had arisen He attracted the eager attention of th< Postmaster General at the outset an< held it by his intense earnestness an< array of irrefutable facts until the cls of his speech. He spoke boldly, defiantly and ag gressively. He did not seek to toucl the opposition with any phrases cal culated to intimate any compromis4 after their arraignment of Latimerr Strait and McLaurin. He maintaine that the elections in South Carolina whether primary or final, were con ducted by him according to the rule of the Democratic party, and that i there were any bad, faith or broker pledges that they could not be charged to the successful candidates. He calle attention to the fact that the Democra cy of the Reformers was not challenged until Mr. Cleveland's election offere the hope of a few crumbs of patron age to the anti-reform element. He laid special stress and emphasi. on the inconsistent position assume by the Democrats who followed the in dependent movement headed by A. C. Haskell against the regular Democra. cy in 1890, and the position they noi assume of charging regularly nomi nated and elected Democrats with be ing Third partyites. He also called special attention to thf fact that the Haskell movement and its adherents called to their supporl the Republican negroes of the State t( overthrow the regular Democracy. This, of course, is only a very briel synopsis of Senator Irby's remarkabl3 clear, logical and impressive defense o: the Democracy as it is now drganizd in South Carolina. He challenged con tradiction of any statement he hae made, and said he was personally re Bponsible for any allusion or facts brought out in the course of his re marks. He spoke distinctly, but im. petuou4ly. Those who heard him say that his speech was sufficient to estab. lish his reputation as an eloquent and logical reasoner and speaker. He han. died the subject and the accusers witi: gloves off. There was, of course, a good deal oj heat,in all of the discussions, but the pesonalties will probably be soon for gotten. Senator Butler, who was invited by Senator Irby, in deference to his sen. iority, to speak before him, declined, and closed the debate. He expressed his regret that the difference should have arisen, that heretofore he had noi interfered with local patronage, but hi charged that he had been treated dis. criminately by Strait and Latimer, ii their failure to give his communica. tions consideration. Dr. Strait asked him if he cor'sidered him a straight Democrat. Senator Butler replied that Strai must vindicate his own Democr acy. Strait said he did not care whethei Butler endorsed it or not. Mesars. Hemphill and Johnstone it reply said that they advocated Till man in their speeches after his nom ination, to which Senator Irby re joined that it was the first that he had heard of it. The official record will be given t< Postmaster Bissel to-morrow evening It is generally believed here from ut terances of the Postmaster that he can not fail to see the correctness of th~ position set forth by the State Chair man of South Carolina and to removi Messrs. Strait and Latimer from the blacklist, How He Popped the Question. A story is told by the Atlanta Con stitution of a bashful young Georgii swain, who called on his girl to pro, pose. Here is a sample of the con ver sation : "Miss Addie, can you sweep thi floor?" "Why, yes) of course I can." "Can .3 on cook?" "Can you wash?" "Yes, I can wash." "And scour?" "Yes." "WVell, can you cu t wood?" "I have, yes." "Did you ever hoe?" "Sometimes." "Pick cotton?" "Yes." "Can you plough?" 't o, I can't plough." "Woll, I can plough for both of us.' He got her. "Brace Up" Is a tantalizing admonition to those who atthis season feel all tired out weak, without appetite and discour aged. But the way in which HWod' Sarsaparidla builds up the tired frami and gives a good appetite, is reall2 wonderful. So we say, Take Hood's and it will br'aQe you up." For a general family cathartic w< confidently recommend HOD'S PILras THE WORLD AT PEACE. I The Longest Period Without Combat of D Arms in a Hundred Years. [New York Sun, April 6.] r To-day is the one hundredth year anniversary of the formation of the Committee of Public Safety in Paris, the beginning of the protracted and bloody commotions which did not cease for twenty-two years. These wars r cost the nations of Europe $5,000,000,000 in money and the loss of 2,000,000 lives. There was a period of peace from 1815 to 1828, and then a renewal of warfare, intermittently, until 1848, when revo lutionary disturbances occurred in most European countries. The loss by war during the period then closing is computed at $500,000,000 in money, and at 350,000 in soldiers' lives. After only six years of peace the Crimean war began in 1854, and lasted until March 1856, the date of the treaty of Paris. Three years later the Franco Austrian war followed in Italy, and these two conflicts entailed upon the participants a cost of $2,000,000,000 and the loss of 550,000 lives. A brief two years of peace preceded the terrible civil conflict in the United States, the most desperate and momen tous of modern times. No computa tion of the indirect losses is possible, but the national debt, it is known, in creased from $90,000,000 in 1861 to $2,775,000,000 in 1866, an addition of more than $2,500,000,000, exclusive of the losses to the Confederacy, to the several States, and to individuals-very probably as much more. The fatali ties in the two armies are generally put at about 600,000. France's assault upon Mexico was made during the American civil conflict; so, too, was the sharp but short Schleswig-Holstein war in Europe. Therg was scarcely a day of peace before the war broke out again between Austria and Prussia; then came the Franco-German war, and these, with wars in Spain, China, and South America, cost $2,000,000,000 and 1,000,01;0 lives. On this followed another four years of peace, and then the breaking out of hostilities on the Danube and war be tween Russia and Turkey. In March, 1878, the provisional treaty of San Stefano was agreed upon, and since that time, for fifteen years, there has been no war between important na tions or in civilized lands. The world is at peace. For a longer period than has been observed before, during the present century or during the past onedundred years, there have been no conspicuous bloody conflicts. Many European nations have been paying the money penalty of war by t maintaining huge standing armies, ter ribly armed and perfectly drilled. But there has been no loss of life, no tell-tale story of widows and orphans, devastation of lands and homes, and no new Veterans crippled in active ser vice. The anthem of peae'e has saperseded the reveille for the time being, and may it long so be! The arts of thrift and trade are those most cultivated, and the general happiness is greater for this reason. In our own country the people, supreme in their own au thority, and stronger always than the official servants who perform the ron tine duties of administration, are se cure with but a handful of soldiers,. The territorial limits of the republic are soon to be extended, but only by pacific methods and for the equal ad vantage of all concerned. Happy is the era of peace! Canning Factories in the South. It is said that the numerous canning factories being erected throughout west Tennessee will, to a great extent, re duce cotton production, and build up truck farming and the fruit industry. Factories of from ten to twenty thou sand capacity are being started at Mi I an, Jackson, McKenzie, Sharon, Union City and other towns. Over one thou sand acres will be set apart for truck farming in Gibson County alone, and similar reports come from other coun ties. The demand for canned vegeta bles and fruits.is practically unlim ited, and will increase more rapidly than the factories can supply the goods. Now, we have in the South the finest fruit and truck farming regions in the world, and, by establishing numerous canning factories right here within a stone's throw of the fields, our farmers will find in a very short time that the new industry will make them far more prosperous than they.could hope to be under the all-cotton system. It is a gratifying sign to see the rapid development of this industry in some parts of the South, and it goes without saying that Georgia off'ers a very in viting field for it. Canning factories cost comparatively little to start, and their product can be sold in the home markets, in the eastern a.nd western1 cities, and sent to Europe, Asia, Africa and all the Spanish American coun tries south of us. These are facts worth noting and act ing upon. ARKANSAS 1s OFF. The senate Passes a Womaan Suffrage Bill. LITTLE ROCK, ARK., April 6.-The Senate passed a bill yesterday confer ring on the women of Arkansas the right of suffrage and making them eli gible to membership on school boards. One might as well stem the rapids of Niagara, as to expect perfect health while a Scrofulous taint exists in the blood. Through its alterative and pu rifying properties, Ayer's Sarsaparilla a removes every vestige of Scrofulous po nison from the blood. WOMEN AT THE BALLOT BOX. Electioneering at the Polls in Kansas Muc Like Men-Many of Them Come with Their Ballots All Prepared. KANSAS CITY, April 4.-The strang est election contest that has ever take place in Kansas occurred to-day. ] was a municipal affair, and every tow in the State had a hand, but the resull are not the most interesting feature it. It was an election in which womei look the leading part. It was th Irst election in Kansas in which wc nen had full and free suffrage, an hey exercised it as fully and as freel; Ls the Australian voting system woul; 3ermit. The greatest interest was in Kansa Dity, Kan., the largest city in the State md in Topeka, the capital. In WichitL >lack and white women voted, and ii Kansas City, Kan., dozens of womei tood about the polls and "worked' or their friends. In that very lively and wicked towl drs. Anna Potter, the wife of the Hon li Potter, a millionaire land and cat le owner, was a candidate for Mayor ut at 9 o'clock to-night enough votei re in to show that she is bopeless] eft. "My lady friends told me," she said o The Sun correspondent this evening 'that they would vote for me, but Pn: fraid they have already learned th( vays of the men who make votinE >romises." Nearly all of the women voted ir quads. Four, six, and eight would g< o the polls together and crowd up clos( o the Judges. Few of them had an3 dea how to mark or fold the ticket ad each took a policeman to one sid4 Lnd had him show her how it wa. lone. Some of the women are accompanie o the polls by their husbands ani rothers, who manifested much prid( n their equal suffrage relatives. Th( icher went in their carriages and vote s decorously as a New York bankei vould have done. Mrs. Potter, th( roman candidate, appeared at th( rarious precincts in Kansas City, Kan. arly in the day. She had two bras iands with her, one of negroes and on( >f whites. "I hired the colored band for on( >urpose and the white band for anothei lurpose," Mrs. Potter said. That pur >cse is obvious. Sh4 was working foi he black votes as well as the white 'One thing that struck me very forcj >iy," she said, "was the gentlemanl3 onduct of the men. I did no& see th( lightest breach of good manners or heir part, and everywhere the womer re receiving courteous treatment." Mrs. Potter and her bands visited thi orecincts all the morning, but at non( if them did she do anything furthei han to call her lieutenants, male and emale, to her side, and counsel witi hem. She seemed confident all day hat she would win. In the negro districts the colored wo. cen who "worked" at the polls seemnet o have a strange idea of canvassing foi rotes. Instead of quietly asking foi upport, they shook their tickets in th4 aces of white ladies and in loud voice: lemanded their suffrages for favorit4 riends on pain of "gittin even." Il ook two influential colored preachern o show the wome a that such conduel rould do their cause more harm that ood. "Why, we doan mean nothin'," sait ne: "we's just lecturin', dat's all." At one of the polling places a young roman stepped to a Republican ward triker and asked for a ticket. Shi :lanced at it and, turning to a Demo rat, said: "Let me have a Democratic icket; I wouldn't vote this thing foi .11 Kansas City." With that she tore her Republicar chet to pieces and threw it into the in. The Democrats shouted at this nd the young woman voted and wen1 way. "De Democrats," said one old col red woman, "kai:t run things aftel Le wimmin gits to votin'." Armourdale, the packing suburbs oj rhich the Armours are owners, turned 'ut more hard "workers" among the romen than any other part of tb< own. One old man and his wifE eached the polls before they openet his morning. Several women rushed o the woman to offer a ballot, but shE ipened her reticule and showed that he had it. "Yes," she said, "and I am 70 yeari >ld this happy day, and now I'm al nost ready to die; but I would' havt ived to be a hundred to get to vote my entiments. J won't be satisfied unti see a woman in the Presidential hair at Washington." To-day's election settles the question, Vomen can vote and vote successfully, rfany of them had their ballots pre Eared, and none submitted to meddling y ward strikers. They came and rent quietly, and their presence put i top to all brawling at the polls. There was never such a quiet electior n the State of Kansas. The special olice were not needed. In 1887 tht Kansas Legislature passed a bill per nitting women to vote at municipal ~nd school elections. At the following lection only a small female vote was olled, and the bills introduced at thE ucceeding Legislature failed. At every session of the Legislatuit ince that time the equal suffrage so. :iety sent lobbyists to the Legislatnre *o secure the passage of a universa: uffrage bill, but the Legislators point d to the failure of the women to vot4 ~t the municipal elections and defeated Last summer, through the efforts o& tIr. Jones and Miss Anthony, both oj rhnm are ardent Republicans, the Re. publican nominating convention was induced to incorporate a plank in its h platform pledging the party to submit the proposition to a vote of the people at the next general election. Mrs. Mary E. Lease 'and Mrs. Anna L. Diggs secured a similar concession a from the Populists, and, both parties t being so pledged, the universal suff 3 ragists had no trouble in getting their s bill through the Legislature. ,f As soon as this had been accom plished, the suffragists at once set to . work to secure a full registration at the e municipal elections to prove that wo - men really wanted the ballot. They I were aided by the bitter political feel T ing in the State, and their success is I shown by the following table giving the registration in the six leading cities 3 of the State: WOXEN. MEN. Kanaas City, Kan..................3,483 8,286 Leavenworth ..........................2,34 4,6,1 Emporia................................... 883 606 Fort Scott.................................1,385 2,240 Lawrence.................................1,000 2,460 Topeka......................................4,000 6,000 Atchison.......................... .........1,820 3,280 Wichita.......................2,464 5,065 The universal suffrage societies of all over the State sought to induce the better elemeut among the women to register in order to disprove the asser tion so frequently made by past legis lators that only the worst element among the women voted. The re turns from various cities show they have been successful in this also. The society will never attempt to favor any particular candidate and does not care whether a Democrat, a Republican, or a Populist is elected. The only desire is to have the women vote, and those who have been boom ing universal suffrage for years are to night celebrating. -Exact Knowledge. The importance of exact knowledge in many things cannot be overesti mated. A doctor was asked by a mother if arrowroot was healthful for a baby. He told her that it was? and the mother fed her child on that alone till it was nearly starved. Had she known that arrowroot contains little but starch, which alone cannot long support life, she 'might not have fur nished so apt an illustration of the proverb that "A little learning is a dangerous thing." The only story of the Frenchmen who were making a dictionary and defined crab "a small, red fish that walks backward," also illustrates the need of exact knowledge;- ACuvier said that the definition was excellent; only that the crab was not a fish, was not red, and did hot walk backward. An old lady is said to have been asked how to tell good indigo. "Pow der the indigo," said she, "sprinkle it upon cold water, and if it is good it will either sink or swim, I have for gotten which." It was the~same with AuntLharity's eggs. "Just take a dozen of 'em-no, a half dozen of 'em-no, it's a dozen well, raaly, I can't say, but it's either a dozen or half dozen-2and you put -'em in a pailful-no, a half pailful part full-no, it's a pailful-no-well, well, it's either a pailful or a half pail ful of water-and the good eggs will swim on top-no, the good eggs will sink to the bottom-no, tbat's n~ot it Ithe good eggs will swim-no, no, I de clare, I don't raaly know-b2t, any Iway, the good eggs will either sink or swim." It is not always ignorant persons who fail to observe closely. Coleridge and Wordsworth took a drive with a friend. After great difficulty the horse was unharnessed, except they could not get the collar 'off. One of them said it was a "down-right impossibil ity," and that the horse's head must have grown since the collar was put on. "La, master," said a girl, "turn the collar upside down." A funny story is told about a doctor who, writing a letter, asked a judge: "Judge, isn't e q u i the way to spell equinomical?" "Yes, I think it is," said the judge, "but here's Webster's dictionary; I can soon tell you." He tried to find the. word, but gave it up at length, and exclaimed: "Well, sir; I're always been a Daniel Webster man, but any man who will write as big a dictionary as this and not put in as common a word as equinomical, can't get my vote for anything here after." That was almost as bad as Mrs. Towser's "scarlet pneumonias," or the mistake of the university student who, when asked who was the first king of Israel, replied: "Saul"; and seeing that he had not hit the mark, tried to im prove his answer by adding, "Saul also called Paul." The gentleman who was told that his daughter did not get on well be cause she lacked "capacity" was rather inexact when he told the teacher by all means to get her one, and not to stand on the price. Such a mistake is ridieu lous. A little more correct knowledge of the English language would have been useful to the Frenchman, who, know ing that Dr. Samuel Johnson had writ ten "Rambler," said, when dining with him: "May I have the plaisir of to drink the vine with you, Mr. Vaga bond?-Mrs. M. P. A. Crozier. The Man Who Gets the Trade. "The constant drop of water Wears away the hardest stone; The constant gnaw of Towser Masticates the toughest bone; The constant cooing lover Carries off the blushing maid; And the constant advertiser Is the ne who gets the trade." THE NBW MORMON TEMPLE. The Great Bulding Dedicated with Itn posing Ceremonl". SALT LA1E\CITY, UTAH, April . The new Mormon temple was dedi cated to-day in the presence of a great throng of saints. The building has been forty years in course of construction, the foundation having been laid soon after the settle ment of the pioneers in this valley. The building differs in appearance from' any other in this country. Its whole length, including to-vers, is 186i feet and its width 99 feet. There are six towers, three each on the east and west ends. The middle east tower is 210 feet high, surmounted by a statue of the angel Moroni heralding to the world the restoration of the gospel-a quaint figure 12 feet 51 inches, which was placed in position a year ago with ap propriate ceremonies. There are four Boors, including the basement, and each one, except the top, is divided into rooms of varying sizes. The prevailing colors in the - decoration and finish of the i-terior are yellow, gold, white and green. Delicately tinted onyx washstands are placed in the several corridors. The door and window hardwaie was made expressly for this building; the beehive ornaments, the door knobs, and with the design of th.e clasped hands is the motto, "Holiness to the Lord." In the basement these figures, including all locks, bolts, hinges, etc., are of brass; on the first floor they are of plated gold, on the second of plated silver, on the third of old silver, and at-ove that and in the smaller. rooms of old bronze. Electricity is used throughout for lighting, the church owning its own plant, which furnishes 1,000 lights for the interior of the temple. Electric wires run up the spires of a'. the tow ers, and a 100-candle power incandes cent light is fixed to the crown of the angel Moroni. The total cost of the building proper is $5,000,000; the furnishings, $500,000." CLOSE UP THE SALOONS! Liquor Dealers Advised by their rawyers Not to Spend Five Cents in eudsttnx the Enforcement of the Dispensary Law. (Special to The State.1 CHARLESTON, April 5.-The lawyers of the Liquor Dealers' Association have. ndered.adi_pinnnil -in m they say, substantially, -that "The~U quor traffic is not a legitimate business. In every city and State in the Union the business is subject to legislative en actment and police regulation, and i against that there is nothing to do. We.advise the liqudr dealers of the State not to spend five cents In resist ing the law." The opinion says, as to testing-the question of the constitutionality of the statute on the point of Federal prohibi tion of discrimination: "We -advise the liquor dealers of -the State not to spend five cents in resisting the law" The opinion says, as to testing the question of the constetutionality of the statute on the point of Federal prohibi tion of discrimination: "We advise that proper proceeding be taken to test that question, but that pending such proceedings and the deterdflination thereof, the provisions of the act be carefully observed. Some one who has license to sell liquor for the whole year will have to make the test case." The opinion, which is signed by Sim ons and Smythe, and Mitchell and Smith, and J. N. Nathans and Joseph H. Earle, Was read at a meeting of the committee to-night. No definite ac tion was taken, but the matter will be considered later. THE "JIM CROW" CAB CASE. A Negro Woman Gets Damages of $800 Against a Railroad. NEW YOR, April 5.-The jury in the United States Circuit Court to-day awarded Mrs. Mack W. Caldwell, col ored, of Brooklyn, $800 damages against the East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company, because a conductor forced her to 'ride in the car provided for negroes. Mrs. Caldwell and her three children had provided themselves with first class tickets from Johnson City, 'r'e:n., to Chicago. The conductor forced her to take the "Jim Crow" for negroes, where she said she had been annoyed by the profanity and unseemly con duct of other passengers. Her'husband brought suit for $5,000 damage? against the railroad company, and the case came to trial yesterday. The defense was that the laws of Ten nessee permitted the company to pro vide separate cars for people of differ ent color. Judge Wallace, in charging the jury, explained that the Constitution of the United States guaranteed equal ights to all citizens, irrespective of color. Caldwell is a respectable citizen of Brooklyn. The Spring, Of all seasons in the year, is the one for making radical changes in regard to health. During the winter, the system becomes to a certain extent clogged with waste, and the blood loaded with impurities, owing to lack of exercise, close confinement in poorly ventilated shops and homes, and other causes. This is the cause of the dull, sluggish, tired feeling so general at this season, and whioh must be overcome, or ~the health may be entirely broken down. Hood's Sarsaparilla has attained the greatest popularity all over the country as the favorite Spring Medicine. a expels the accumulation of impurities through the bowels, kidneys, liver, lungs and skin, gives to the blood the purity and quality necesary to goodr health and overcomes that tired feeling,