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m 7 -4-ii E<VABLISHED 18645. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, JUME t 1898. TWICE A WEEK, S1.50 A YEAR - .. .. - Ie SWOTT MW TH SUU AIF SAYS 1IE WAS WRONG IN SAYING IT WAS TAYLO1. Who Wrote that Message .iuding to Uls Catiug soup in an Official communt cation to the Secretary of War. Of course it was General Scott who wrote about the hasty plate of soup. Many letters from venerable men have refreshed me and my es teemed friend, Mr. Carnochan, of Rome, has sent me a kind message about ny mistake in putting the soup on Taylor. I find nothing in history about it, and hence such things can only be established from memory-the memories of our oldest people. I am gratified to learn from these letters that come daily that there are left so many good old men with intelligent memories-men of fou- score years and over-and who like all old people no% live in the past and love to recall the evento that happened fifty and sixty years ago. Taylor and Scott were both Virginians and were very superior commanders. Scott was ambitious and arbitrary. Taylor was modest, retiring, an upright and a downright man and duty was his watchword. His nomination for the presidency was forced upon him and grieved his wife greatly, for she said: "They seek to rob me of my husband and our children of a father." Her fears proved more than true, for the cares and anxieties of political life caused his early death, notwithstanding he had a cabinet of great and good men to share his burdens and relieve him of many responsibilities. Our own George W. Crawford was his secro tary of war General Scott was not only ambitious, but he was envious of Taylor and sought to embarrass him in Mexico by withdrawing troops from his command. At one time he reduced Taylor's force to 2,700 men, while he was opposed by 7,000 of the enemy. His subordinate officers advised a retreat or falling back to Point Isabel and there wait for rein. forcements, but Taylor said, "No, I will advance or die in my shoes," and he did and won a signal victory. There was politics in war then, just as there is now, and my prediction is that neither Fitzhugh Lee nor Wheeler will be permitted to make fame enough to endanger the repub lican party. War was politics in Burko's day and it is in ours. Scott was a brave, exacting and accom plished officer, but was courtmartial ed three times for political effect, as was asserted by his frionds. He fell short of his ambition to be president and his last words were, "Jamesi, take good care of my horse." Parties have abundant reasopi to fear the popular advance of military heroes. Six of our presidents have acquired office through military channels. Washington, Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Pierce and Grant. It is astonishing how suddenly and rapidly an unknown man can ad vance to the highest pinuncle through the fortunes of war, whether they be accidental or meritorious. Here be fore me are sixteen large volumes of Appleton's Cyclopedia, published in 186$1, and the name of Ulysses Grant is not in them, and yet within the brief space of eight years he was made president of the United States. 1Had there been no war who doubts but that Grant would have ended his life unhonored and unknown in his brother's tanyard at Galena. More p)robably he would be still liv ing, for tanyards are healthy places andl do not brood cancers. A few months ago Dewey was unknown outside of a limited naval circle, but now his fame is world-wide. What a commentary upon the science of government. A great manl like Daniel Webster devotes a life to its study and becomes a polar star of statesmanship, acquiring .by slow but sure processes the respecta and confidence of all nations, but is dis placed from power to maike room for a man'who knows nothing but how to fight. The wondor Is that we are r., still a nation and have agover.nment. But fortunately these military he roes are generally men of min'd and miorals and have been educated to have regard for the supremacy of Civi law. Uur military presidents made good presidents. Old Hickory was arbitrary and foarless, but he was unselflsh and had the good of the country at heart. Grant had more consideration foi the rights of the States and of the Southern poo ple than Stanton had or Andy John son. But the late civil war has paoised into history and the one we are now engaged in will havo to bo called something else. It is continually spreading and no one can foretell what it will grow to. Of course it has got to keep on until after the next presidential el-ction-that is our politics, and Spain has her poli tics, stoo, and must,- preserve her dynasty. And so it is politics on both sides. The starving Cubans were in it at the beginning, but they are not in it now. The Monroe doc trine didn't apply to Cuba, but it seems that it does to the Philippines. We don't know whither wo are drifting, but must fall into line and exclaim, with Decatur: "My country -right or wrong-my country." That sounds well of course, but not so well as Davy Crookett's motto: "Be sure you are right., then go ahead." What we want is peace on earth and good will among men. I was down at Unadilla the other day -a sweet little village about fifty miles below Macon-and there I met an ex-major of the federal army. He had but one eye, and strange to say, had found the man who shot out the other at the battle of Franklin. He has been living in south Georgia for twenty-two years and says they are the best peoplo he has over found the kindest, frankest and most hos pitable. "When I was first sent down here," said he, "I was some what dubious about my safety and was cautious rund reticent, but soon got over it. I have traveled over this region for the Standard Oil Company as purchasing agent for twenty-two years, and am content to spond the rest of my life here in Georgia. Not long alter I settled in McRae I met a man whose face seemed familiar. It haunted me and perplexed me every timo I met him. One day we got to talking about the war and he askedmo where I lost my eye. At the battle of F.ianklin, I said. Por a minuto he looked at me very earnestly, and said what part of the field and whose command. I told him and added it was in a hand to hand engagement with some Geoncgia I roops. That was out- command, ho said. \Vo fought right there and it was hand to hand and I shot a federal soldier in the eye and we saw him fall and we ruahed on over him. Now this is no fancy, liut a fact. We have dig cussed it over and over, and strange as it may seem, I havo found my foe and lie is one of my best friends. Sometimes when I am asked which side I fought on I say I 20ii't knowv, for surely I wouldn't have tried to kill such a good, whole-souled pelo as these I have mingled wvith for the last twenty-two. years. Maybe it was some other war I was in. I said that to the Fitzgerald folks rnot long,.ago, and thoy laughed and one of thoem spoke up and said "maybe it was the old revolution you wvas in and sonmo Britisbor punched your eye out." Well, I liked that man and so does everybody who knows hi[n. He has no family, but is rear ing and educating three nieces down here m Georgia. They are good people who dare to come down here from the North and zottle among us. They keep on coming and my fe-ar is the good society up there will soon be broken up. I tell you, my brethren, there ar-c good pleople in every country-kind people, who would rahe do you at fao thanin juro you. The groat traveler, Liv ingstone, wrote that many year-s ago, and it is the t ruth. Our boy, Carl, who has boon living in Mexico for two years, writes that the Span iards whose more intimate acquiaint ance he has made are just as nice a people as he ever found anywhere. "Of course," says he, "they are for their country just like wve Americans are for ours, but we don't quarrel nor discuss the war to any disagree able extent." -Bu,t. Aa. nUin oK.FY APPOINTMENTS. A Lucky Thing for Somebody's Sons that the War is On, (Now York Evening Post.) Some appo'ntments to the army, classified according to reasons for apr-intment: - SONS OF FATnERS. Fred M. Alger, captain; father, Secretary of War. Russell B. Harrison, major; father, Benjamin Harrison. James G. Blaine, captain; father, James G. Blaine. John A. Logan, major; father, Gen. J. A. Logan. Fitzhugh Leo, Jr., first lieutenant; father, Gen. Fitzhueh Lee. Joe B. Foraker, Jr., captain; father, Senator J. B. Foraker. Edward Murphy, second, captain; father, Senator E. Murphy. A. C. Gray, declined appointment, lieutenant colonel; father, Senator Cirlay. William J. Sewell, captain; father, Senator Sewell. T. C. Catchings, Jr., .captain; father, Roprosentativo T. C. Catch imgs. John A. Hull, lieutonant colonel; father, Representativo Hull. Hugh M. Gordon, major; father, Ex-Senator Gordoti. Stewart M. Brice, captiin; father, Ex-Senator Brice. Hiram E. Mitchell, captain; father, Ex-Senator Mitchell. John Earle, captain; father, late Senator Ea Seth M. M .iken, captain; father, late Representative Milliken. R. V. Thompson, Jr., captain; father, Ex Secretary Thompson. Britton Davis, captain; father, Ex Governor E. J. Davis. O. L. Woodbury, major; father, Ex-Governor Woodbury. W. B. Rochester, Jr., captain; father, Gen. WV. B. Rochester. H. S. Now, captain; father, Ex Congressman Gen. New. P. B. Strong, captain; father, Ex Mayor Strong. Erskino Hewitt, captain; father, Ex-Mayor Hewitt.. Lloyd C. Griscoi, captain; father, Clement A. Griscom. W.- E. English, coptain; father, W. H. English. . ORANDSONS. Alg Sartoris,first lieutenant;grand. father, Gen. Orant. Jay Cooke, third, captain; grand. father, Jay Cooko. C. E. McMichael, major; grand fathor, Clayton McMichael. NirPHEWW. George S. Hobart, major; 'ancle, the Vice President. WV. B. Allison, cap)tain; unle,O Senator Allison. Stephen G:ambril, J r., captain: uncle, Senaltor Gormian. HoN IN-LAw. IBeverley A. Road, captain; father in law, Sonator Money. clIILJDREN OF THE SOCIAL PULL. La rz Anderson, ca ptam 1. William A. Harper, captain. Wm. Astor CJhanler, oaptain. J ohni Jacob Astor, lieutenant colonel. Morton J. Henry, captain. 0. Cro&ghton Webb, major. Ex-Governor: John G. Evans, captain. Oflicers of experience in the above list: Seth M. Milliken, graduate of WVest Point; P. Bradlee Strong, J. J. Astor and George S. Hobart, militia' officers. No others. A hlappy Man. An erchange speaks of a man wvho, it is said, always pays for his local paper ini advance. As a ros It he has never been sick a day in his life, never had any corns on his toes, or the toot.hache; his potatoes never rot, his oats never rust, the weasel never kills his chiens, the frost never kills his beans, his babies never cry at night and hia wife never scolds. Thou tanals of sufibrera freom grippe have been restortud to healith bay One Mi nute Cough Cute, Ir quickly cures conghs colds, bror onts neuni etnnri p asiana amd all UEN. BLUTLII COMMISSIONED. Incidents of the Occasion-Alger anud Dutter Grow tsanitulacent- utler to Com sin a~ New South Atlantic Department. (Special to News and Courier.) Washington, May 31.-Major Gen. M. C. Butler received his com. mission today, and he is to be or dered to temporary duty at Camp Alger to assist Gon. Graham in or ganizing the forces there. It is the intention of the Secretary of War to create a now military department, composed of the States along the South Atlantic coast, and to place Gen. Butler in command. The now department; will probably consist of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida. The subject is yet under advisement, and the lo cation of department headquarters is still undecided. It is believed there will be a lively competition between Charleston, Savannah and Atlanta for the privilege of furnishing the site. Gen. Butler will proceed to his home at Edgefield, S. C., tomor row, and return hero in a few days and report at Camp Alger. In the meantimo the Secretary of War will cousidor the details connected with the establishment of thi new department of the South. The incidents ..tnding the oath. taking of Gen. Butler at. the war do. partment this afternoon were full of interest. Gen. Butler called at the war department and was cordially greeted by Secretary Alger. The newly elected major general and the Secretary of War indulged in some reminiscent conversation about the late civil war, when they were lead. ing opposing forces in the Virginia campaign. Gen. Alger recalled the fact that Gen. Butler rode a white horse, which made him a mark for many of the Michigan riflemen. Hit horse was shot from under him, but ho escaped unharmed. It was the relation of this incident which in. duced Gen. Butler to remark that he will go into the present war on a less conspicuous horso. While Gen But. lor and Secretary Alger chatted pleasantly about the former's now duties Adjut. (Ion. Corbin wont over to the White House and obtained the signature of President McKin loy to Gen. Butler's commission. In tht 'neantime the department no tary entered the Secretary's offico and admnistered the "iron-clad oath" to the Ex. Confederate general. Gon. John M. Wilson, chief of en gineers, witnessed the cereilony, and he remarked that lie could not keep back the flood of recollections of the bitter past as ho graspjed Geon. But ler's hand and wvarmly congratulated him upon his appointment. It was a touching incident to see two gal. hint old soldiers almost moved to tears, so firm is their bond of friend ship and patriotic devotion. When.Geon. Corbina roturnoed from the Executive Mansion lhe brought the~ commission, and also the pen the President had used in signing it. The pen wvas presented to Gion, Bunt ior as a souvenir for his wife. Johnson's Chil rnd Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day. Lee lDans Uncle Nam'se (lar. General Lee today wore for the first time the uniformi of a Major. General in the United States army, says a Tampa dispatch of the 27th inist. He made his~ first appearance on the streets this afternoon and was cheered whenever the people recog nized him. A little boy sked for a bottle of ' get up in the morning nt' fat, ats you oun," t he drngint,L r-c .g. ix.ed a houshlold tunmte for '-Dowitt'ia 1,1 110o Early lliset a." aLnd-gave htim a bott:0 of 1,hone r,'nmot,q lit.tle i-ji for cons~t ipot. .ick bcuaohe. liver and atomauch trotables. W. J' OWNERtS OFT11E INDIES. How the lh10d4 14ra Dinvided Aniong the European Nations. [Now York Tribune i In view of the inumier of islands in Wost Indian and East Indian waters, which are now being brought into public attention through the movements of the American and Spanish fleets, it will be useful to havo a statement showing exactly what insular co'onies are owned by European nations in thoso two wide ly separated points of the globe. Groat Britian's colonies in the Wost Indies include the Bahama is lands, Jamaica, %i ith the neighbor ing Cayman islands; about 50 of the small Virgin islands;. in the Lee. ward island ..roup, Anguilla, St. Kitts (or St. Christopher), Barbuda, Nevis, Ant-gun, Montsorra and Dom inicar in the W itidward island group, which continuos the chain of the Leeward islands to the southward, St. Lucia, St. Vincont, Barbadoos, tho group known as the G1ronadines, of which Grenada is the chief: To bago and Trinidad. She also has the continental possession of British Guiana, on the northern coast, of South Amrica, a little over a hun drod miles south of Trinidad. Tile Bormuda islands, th1ough well to the northward of the West Indies, being in about the latitude of Charleston, S. C., may also be included in the British island colonies in this part of the Atlantic. Of till her once iminorous island colonies int and around the "Spanish Main" Spain has retained only Cuba and Porto Rico, which two sho is now in a fair way to lose also. Jamaica and Hayti were once hers, as woro many others of the Lessor Antilles, having been discovered by Columbus, but all of these were taken long ago by other European powers. The French West Indian posses sions are in .ho Leoward islands, and include a part of St. Martin's, St. Bartholomew, Guadalope, Mario Galante, Iles des Saintes and Mar. tinique. In the samo group the Dutch own the small island of Saba, that port of St. Martin's which does not belong to Franco and the is land of St. Eustatius. In the south. ern part of the Caribbean sea, off the Venezuelan coast, Holland also has the three islands of Curacon, Oruba and Buen Ayro. The Dutch and French, respectively, own the other divisions of (Juiana, in South America. Denm ark p)~oesse thlo thiroe is 'ands of St. Thomas, St. John and Santa Clruz in the Virgin group, whbich have frequently been Hug gested for purchase by the United States. She has, besides, a consid erable number of islets near by. The islands of the East Intdies, the great Malay archipelago, are niot so evenly divided amionig t he European powers. In fact, with the exception of the Philippine, Caro line, and Ladrone islands, which be. long to Spain; Singapore, two other small islands and settlement of Sar awak, on the coat of Borneo, which are England's, and a few small Portugnese possessions-the whole of this vast group of rich islands is under the swvay of Holland. T1hoe miost impiortant of them-Borneo, Sumatrat, Java and Celebes-are among the largest and finest islands in the world. Borneo alone, eon tainuing 285,000 square miles, is more than three times as large as the State of Kansas, and Sumatra, the longest of the islands, exte(nds for over a thousand miles from north. west to southeast, with an average width of about 200 rnile's. T1hae Mo. lacca,s, or Spice islands, east of Cll. bos, are another important Dnuteh group, aInd still east. of these the D)utch own the western half of the great islands of New Guinea, the( eastern half of which is divided bo tween England and Germany. Iluemmos'u Arnie-n H-i.I. Th'le best Saivo In, the world for Cts, Uruise~s. MorE 5. 1 icers, 8alt RhIEnnil, Fever Sore's. T tte r. t'happed" h Hands, Chl Iblatits, Ce rns, anrd cil SklIa Eruip tionts, andtl pe.i I Vv eureiis PI'tIes, or ii paty requ -ied . 1 tiara nd to give pewrfect nasat ion oe:~r I it, ny r- l'unded. Pr ice 26 centsi per- b,ox tWar sile by lbober*-"n A (Wldej n.tr W E. l'.huta. OLD CUBAN VAPITAU,. Poenoling About the Clty of Mutasas. Matanzas, although far smaller than the capital, is decidedly better built, tho stroets, being much more regular. Santiago do Cuba, the old capital, is situated on one of the most lovely bays in the world, but it is nothing like as oloan and prosper ous looking as Havana, although it has much hiantdsomer public gardons. Puerto Principe has the advantage of a charming natural position, at the hoad of a lovely bay, and its Alamoda, or public promenade, is marvelously beautiful, with its state ly rows of peacock acacias, orango trees, and cocoa palms. Matanzas i.I, after Havana, by far the most agreeablo plae of residenco in the island, and is situatod in a delight rully fortilo distriet. Indopendent ly of its famtous crystal caves, which aro of groat extent, and formed of tho purest and clearost of rock crys tal, Matanzas, close to the valley of the Yumuri, has the good fortune to be the most Eden-like spot in the West Indies. It is impossiblo to do scribo the charm of this "Happy Valley," so rich in its vegetation, and so dolightfully is it watered by the rivers Ymnuri and tributary streams, so delicious, even on the hottest sum mor days, is its atmosphere tempered by the Atlantic breezes. If the envious of Matanzas are attractivo, I cannot say much for those (of Ha vann itself. Tho two principal subur ban resorts. Marianao and Ciarmelo, art, not particnlarly pretty. They boast of a number of wooden rostaur ants, and puli gardeis blazing with every sort of gorgeous croopor, tho blnl convolvulis major and tho trumpet vino being the most. pro valent. Hero of a Sunday afternoon the European clerks, the Germans and their belongings, ospecially, forogather to dine and sup. Hither to no Governor his had suflicient en torpriso to make a road by the sea, on either Fido of the port. Thii might ho easily done and would be of tile greatest advalntIago to the city. If 1Lavana were over to fall into the hands of a more enterprising na tion than the Spanrishl it could be easily converted 'into a first-clasm winter station. F1rom Noveiber to the beginning ,)f April the climato is most enjoyable, anld the city has many resourcos such as a ma11gnifi cont opeia house, Incon: theatres, clubs, and several fairly good libra ries and sciontific and litorary insti tut ions.-Fornighmtl 3' oview. Take JONINSON'S CHILL & FE2VE R TONIC...mua Lue~riary Noten. IN HoNont OF TiHE' PRiEsIDENT. Prcsident McKinley is t.o be given the uniquo dlistiinctioni of having a nuimbter of a woman's magazine named for him and prepared in his honor. TIho July issue of TIhe Ladies' Ilome Journal is to be called '"The President's Numtiber." It will show the P.resident on horseback on the cover-, with the President's new "lighting flag" flying over him, a new. march by Victor H-erbeirt is called "Thie President's March"; the State D)epartment lias allowed the magazine to make a direct p)hoto graph of the or-igial parchment of the D)eclaration of Indepondonce, while the President's own friends and intimates have combined to tell some twenty new andl uinpublished stories andI anecdotes abont him which will show hirui in a manner not before done. TIhie cover will be printed in the national colors. IJLIAN inELi. AND TiHE' c'zAR. "Kodaks" are not permitted with - in sight of thme Czar of Iunssia, and he is coinsidered the maost, difhlilt man in all Earope to p)hotograph. Liliani Bell, who is in Ruassia for Thle JuLdios' Home Journal, persuaded the Russiani oflicials to allow her to be an exception to the rule, and she succeeded in photographin~g thme Czar so close that the R~ussian monarch julmpe(d at the click of the button. Miss Bell will toll how she got her photograph, ir. t he next issue of The Jolrital. A tortairl liv-er rob~ .von of a,hitl'on tand rut i sour hon th,. DSuWit I .ittl e Early3 lihcera ele,nu tI Do liver, cur.' com-it li ation a i l 11Stem (-h andt iive'r troublecs. W. E. QUAINT CURACOA. Fur One lHundred Years an Asylum for Pa ltie.al Fugitive" Ord Home of South Amerlcan Exilem. [From the Chicago Record.] Washington, May 10.-Curacoa is 0 Dut0h colony anild the quaintest little island in the world. It is not bigger than the District of Colum bin, but has about 40,000 inhabitants and has played an important part in the history of America. It has be. longed at differont times to England, Spain and Holland, and its cozy har. bor lins been the scene of many a bloody battle between the navies of the Old World, as well as between the pirates and the buccaneers that infested the Ciribbean Sea for two centuries. It has been for one hun dred years and still is an asylum for political fugitives, and many of the revolutions that rack and wreck t o republies of the Spanish Main are hatched under the shelter of the pretentioum but, harmless fortresses that gutd its port. Bolivar, Santa Anna, and many. other famous men in Spanish-American history have lived there in exile, and until recent ly thero was an imposing castle upon one of the hills, called Bolivar's tower. There the founder of live re. publics lived in banishment for sov oral years and waited for rmscuo. The houses are built in the Dutch style, exactly like those in Holland: the streets are so narrow that the people can almost shako hands through their windows vwith the neighbors across the way, and the walls are as thick as would be noodod for a fort ress. The Dutch Govern. ment lives in a solemn lo-king old mansion fronting the j4hattegat, or lagoon, that forms the harbor, guarded by a company of stupid looking soldiers with i a few old fash ioned cannon. The entire island is of phosphates, and the Government receives a revenue of $500,000 from companies that ship them away. There is not a spring or a well or any fresh water, and the inhabitants are entirely dependent upon rain vater for existence, or upon supplies brought in barrels by schooners from the Venezolan coast, ninoty miles away, or upou distilled son water. As sometimes it doesn't rain for a year or two the natural supply is often exhiusted, ald a glass of im porte(d water is worth as imich as the sate amount of wilo or boor. (luraconI gives its names to a col brated lignor that was formerly manu11111fact urod from the peel of a peculiar speies of orango growing there, but miost of the fruit trees have boen destroyed by t he droughts, and the suply now 1Wcomles'S fromu other of the Weost. Indian islands. T1hie inhabiutants are most ly negroes. A few rich merchants, representing all nationalities, are said to have made their money by smuggling. It is a free port. No duties of any sort are charged, and as the amiount of merchandise imnported1 annually is about twventy-livo timnes as much as the i nhiabitants can consume, and1( the harbor is constantly filled with little schio(ners tha~t seem to be al - warys loading and unloading, there is goodl ground for the belief that contraband trade with the main coast is still going on. E~ach sEsam-. em leaves onongh goods upon the docks at Curacon to last the popn. ulation an entire year. What be. comes of it is a question for the cus toms otlicors of Venezuela and Co hombia to anisw~er. THF.r HoT SPniIN(lN OF ARRAC NsAN. 'g he~ M<a,us,itth,-1.neikeel MirJ(cleo est e (ozis rks. The hot waters, the mountain air, eguable climate and the rine forests miakce H[ot Springs the most wonder ful health and pileasure resort in the world, summer or winter. It is own 0(d and controlled by the U. S. Gov mrnent arnd has accomnmodlations for all classes. Tfhe Arlington and Park hotels anid 00 others and 200) boarding houses are open all siummer. Having an altitude of 1000) feet it is a cool, safe and nearby refuge diurinig the heated term in the sout h. For informat,ion concerning Hot Springs address 0. F. Cooley, Man ager usiness Mcii's Leagne, Hot Springs, Ark. For reduced excursion tickets andir particulars of the t rip see local agent or address W. A. Turk, Gon'l Pawa Agent, Southern Rly., WVashinigton, D. C.