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CI E AAIISIED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., FRIDAY, PEIiUIARY 1, 1901.TIEAWK,$50AYA CABBIE N %TION'S CRUS&DE. She seems to be as Mad a a March 11sere, nut he pronptly rels som. Truths that Hurt. [News and Courier.] Topeka, Kans. January 28.-To. day Mrs. Carrie Nation invaded the office of Governor William E. Stan ley, in the Capitol building, and for a solid hour arraigned the Chief Ex ecutive of the State for his failure to close the saloons of Kansas. Then in turn she visited the offices of At torney General Goddard, Count% At.. torney Nichols and ',heriff Porter S. Cook, and demanded of each that they close the saloons. A crowd fol lowed her. Mrs. Nation accused Governor Stanley of branding her as a law-breaker and demanded to know if he had a better method than she of ridding the State of saloons. "No, I don't know that I have," he finally replied. "But what can I do? I am powerless. The law does not allow me to do what I desire. The law gives me no privilege." "If necessary call out the militia," was Mrs. Nation's prompt reply. Then the crusader delivered a philippic that caused Governor Stan ley's anger to rise. "You can close every joint in Kansas if you will, Governor Stan ley"' she said with force, "but you won't. You are a law-breaker and a perjurer." She became more vehement ard her voice quivered. She repeated these words Gf accusation again and again, the words of invective pouring from her with a rush that would not be stemmed. Finally the Governor sbouted back: "You cannnot come here and talk this way to me. You cannot talk to me this way, I say. You are a woman, but I won't stand it. Yon will have to leave if 3ou cnnot-" I am a mother. I am a grand mother, and I represent the mothers of the State." The room was in an uproar. Then Mrs. Nation talked more calmly, pleading with the Governor to aid her. "You come with me and help smash saloons," she urged. And then she added, "If you won't help me, I'll go around and I'll smash, smash, smash, Governor. The devil seems to have a cinch on the men, but he hasn't a cinch on the hatchets and rocks." Finally Governor Stanley volun teered: "You get the prosecuting attorneys of the different counties to put the joint keepers in jaeil and I will use my power as Governor to keep them in. I will see that they are not pardoned out." Mrs. Nation fairly beamed with joy, thanking the Governor, and forced her way into Attorney Gene.. ral Goddard's private office "We want you to closie these joints, these mtarder shops," she said. She demanded that he remove those officials who neglec*ted their duty in allowing the saloons to run, and when he evaded her direct ques. tions and referred her to the county attorney. Mrs. Nation accused him of dodging. The Governor and Attorney Gen eral dodging," she Raid on leaving. "But there's no dodging my hatchet." She had lost her wraps and her veil during her raid on the Stat, House. - To County Attorney Nichols she repeated her demands and finally s aid she wished to swear out a war I rant for the saloon-keeper's wife who h' aa attacked her on Saturday night with a broomstick. Then Mrs. Na. tion and her train headed for the ofile of Sheriff Cook.. 4he sheriff soon was in a rage, under her scorching att ack and, rush lng towards a newspaper man in the crowd who had pointed at him, seized the. offender's collar arid made a motion to strike him Others ii. torfered. The chief of police hap. p4ned to be absient. from his office and Mrs. Nation harangued a crowd in the street. Topeka, Kansas, January 29.- The Kansas $tate Temtperance Union int annual Convention here today sub serihed over $100 to nnrohase a ganld medal for Mrs. Carrie Nation. The money was quickly raised, but Mrs. Nation subsequently refused to ac cept it. Later Mrs Nation addressed the Convention and was vigorously ap plauded. Sho said today that be fore County Attorney Nichols pushed resubmission on the people she would throw hi-r hateht at his had Mrs. Nation said nho wouhl !imain in Topeka utitil everN one of the 120 saloons are closed. "1 will petition the Governor every day," she said. I will s. e t ho Leg islature. I will talk and talk and talk. I will use all %he influence I can, and if this does not suffice, well, there are other moans." Mrs. Nation called upon the sheriff, the city attorney and the Probate Judge today, and urged each to on force the law against saloons. rotday in the Police Court she tio ticed cal.ndars containing pictures she held to be objectionable. The Judge prompt.ly took them down from the wall at. her request. Mrs. Nation at the Bar. (Chicigo Times-Herald.1 Dame Nature of red Kansas By all her ribbons swore That her bewhiskered neighbors Should quench their thirbt no more! hhe smashed a glass and chewed it, And spat the pieces out And tore i ut bunches of her hair And hung them forth upon the air And fiercely datced about. East and west and north and south She ran with all her might, And never did a onddened cow Present so f11 rce a sight! Shame on the Kansas woman Who sits at home and croons A lullaby when she might, be Demolishing saloons! The bourbon and the lager Are pouring out amain From "Frank's Buffet" and "George's Place," To irrigate the plain; And many a costly mirror Im cracked in forty ways, And all her actions are designed To frighten and amaze. Decrepit folk on crutches And laughing maids and men Behold her smash the windows, 4 And cry, "Go in again!" She grasped the shameful painting That hangs about the bar And tears it into little bits And scatters them afar. And, screaming in her anger, She spies a de-mijohn, And, as the fearful tiger Springs on the helpless fawn She takes it in her elutches And bites it full of holes! The man who tends the htar amid he That owns the institution sbe Knocks down with bricks and things and leaps Aeross their cow' ring forms and heaps 11cr curses on their souls. T'he Sheriff hurries forward An; bids ber' c. se a space; She pu!Ie his eart. and tweaks his o-e And roughly slaps his facel She rip-t the b)ar to pieces And knocks out all the bungs And, rouind about, five hundred meow Stand wit,h protruding tongues. She grasps the tall cop's whiskers Within her goodly clutch, And pulls them from his system And swoops to beat the Dur oh! Her bands are full of splinters, She feels them not nor cares, But keeps right on p)roceeding To regulate afTairs. And when her work is ended The men who stand around And. singing, see her eat the hoops: By which the casks were bound, Speedi off in all directions And thank their lucky stars That they may still get thirsty And drink at other bare. Ah, may her music ever Bulge till hier fight is won, For oh, I wot, she'll need a lot Before the job Is done! Hurrah for Mrs Nation Ten thousand times hurrah; For her who in her uood righs Band' Can swi,ng the fearsome bricka and' Herself become the law! CASTOR IA Por Infants andc Ohildrew. The Kind You Have Always Bought ears the Whbat was true of Christ on earth will be true of Him in yonr hart GAMILING IN COTTON. Great Erxceteilnnt in, tile New York Cotton Exchange Caufed by a January '-1iUevze." [News and Courier.] N4,w Y..rk, January 28.-Nover in the ktiowledgo of the oldest traders has tho cotton market shown the abnormnit.1 conditios existing to day. It. is no unusual thing to witnss a 6tqueezo" at the end of the season, but a corner in January is some thing out of the ordinary. Yet a January "squeeze" has been worry ing shorts in the cotton market here ror some timo past. Somo bli. vo bhat the deal culminated to day with a rise of 255 points; others believo hat the actual liquidation has not ,)eon fully comploted, and that, there rore, thore may be furthor sensational love lopments. The market., beyond lie special attention given to Janlu. try, has been almost lifeless. Closing Saturday at 10.20, Jan iary opined this morning at 10.30, md advanced rapidly to 12,75. The narket broke later to 11.50, which vas the level at noon. The greatest u2mps were from 10 80 to 12, from 12.25 to 12.60, thence to 12 76. At .he latter point a New York concern, -opresenting big New Enland inter ?sts, commenced to sell right and eft, and a little later a Greek house ilso sold. This stopped the rise and he market sagged off to 11.50. The air was filled with rumors of cotton :o be delivered from Fall River, and ipments are known to have been made this morning by express, guar inteed to be here in time for January lelivery. About 30,000 bales of Tanuary changed hands before noon. [t does not follow that long interests was liqidated to this amount, as the -lique bought as well as sold. There was a sympathetic rise in February and March, the former selling as Aigh as 9.00, and the latter 9.44, while the excitement in January was he greatest; but the general list made a reluctant advance of only 3 ind 0 points and ruled very dull. During the rest of the afternoon he cotton market ruled quiet, with January closing at 11,05. a net ad rance of 85 points for the day, and he other months I point higher to 3 lower. In accordance with the advance in Jnnuary spot cotton sold it 12 cents-an advance of 1 3 8 ,ents for the day. THE COUNTRY P2AIER. Da,n't see Much flffe'r.ne Eletweous P.ondle Dog Editorial Iu a (A,y Da iy and Notice oif a Big onbbago 1,. a C-iuntry Weekly It is a fashion, I know, among city rolk to ridicule the country par.er, tays a reformed traveling man, hut have been a regular subscriber to Ahe Uniionville Banner for over thirty years. There's one evening in a week that I look forward to with ret. Thbat's Monday night when I ight my old pipe, put on my slip pers and lie back in the battered rocker for a musing and dreaming aver the Banner. Yes, there it is, Ha9n't changed a font of type, I gness, in forty years. Same old, queer job type. Same old Washington press still grinds it out, I'll bet, as it did when I was a freckled boy and used to hang around the front door of the tumbling rookery where snowy hai red Editor Moore used to be picking up the ty pe or methodlically scratching down the fact that Miss Sallie Smith is visiting friends in our neighboring burg; or John Loftus is preparing to build a new barn. Most of the lumber is already on the ground. I turn to the front page first, of course, and here, in my 'Local News,' I ascertain that Miss Mary Stuart has quite a class of music pupils hero in 'own and also conducts a claas at P?attonsburg. Miss Stuart has a good uahlty of musical talent. Why, dlear me, dear mel don't it beat all how things do move! Why, I used to go to the high school mn Union. ville with Mary Stuart's mother. And many a time have I hung May baskets with her anid then hung over the old white paling gate and held her hand utntil an ominous raising of: sam upnea window indicate t.hat a parent of Mary's mother desired the daughter's presenco within. And, let's soe! Why, hore's some thing: Walter Thomas has been to tbe city this week, laying in a now stock of goods. Peter Figol is helping out in The Emporium dur ing Wailtvr's absencie. It is surpriti ing ho0w 8to boys'Il como up in the world in spito of proverty and dis tress. KIow who that Walter Thomas is? Well, sir, ho's the grandson of old Pap Thomas, its WO used to call him, who usmed to live away down thoro by the railriad in that little hat of at place. and had a abbage patch arout( tho houso. Desolate a looking placo tis you over 3aw. Pap was sort, of half witted id bad:a 0n Who I shOUld 811say was ful ly three quarters witted. A peaco able, law abiding well digger ho ulmO to be. Married a bright girl, really considertbly abovo tho aver Age, and hero the son's become the leading mnerchatnt in liimonville. This Peter Figel is a relation-son may be > an old foreigner who settled down a Unionvi!lte arid earned a living at ,obbling. Said to be of noble birth Lie was, an( mysterious gonerally. I shouldn't know the faces that would greet me1 on Main stroot, I itippose now. Most of 'em como up since I was a boy. I wonder who really has mado the truest suc 1ess, the boys who stayed at home or bhose who were going to conquor the great world outside. Thero were my .chool mates who married and sattled lown in Unionville, and their sonls and daughters aro today's young men and women. I was going to do 3uch big things when I struck the -ity that I couldn't exactly make up my mind to take time to come back and court Susie Williams. I kept putting it off and putting it off un Lil I should got a little better posi Lion until, first thing I know, Phil Kerns up and married her and I wats left. So, that's how it is, and bless me if I don't wonder sometimes as I muse over the old Banner if the boys who stayed to home have made such a miserable failure of it after all, So I read along to ponder over the memories that those quaint items in the Local News call forth. Well, you may poke fun at the country weekly as you will, but I fail to see why the fact thrt a resident of Tnronville has lately bought the place of another resident of Union ville, and intends to move into it, may not be as well worth chronicling in the local paper of Unionville as the fact that a dog of a famous ac tress died on the steamer is wo'rth two column pictures anid a haif aolumn description i city dailies. Blamed'f I can seo much difference in merit het waeen a poodio11 dog edi torial in a city daily and a big cab bage just laid 0n the desk of ye editors of a country weekly - Ex. IF rY - itOU A N1 DIOLLAIRH Voted by ihe IIouMo to the I'harlestoni lix p .aison-2 to 58 (Special to the Daily News.) Columbia, S. C., Jan. 29 --The house spent most of the day discuss iog the Charleston Exposition bill. It. pased the houses by a vote of 9)2 to 28. Mayson, D)eLoach and Mor rison were the only ones who spoke against the bill. The effort to cut down the appropriation from $50, 000 to $25,000 ailed on aye and no vote b)y 84 to 30. Ber th I8 m You llama Always BougM Signature satyings of the WViue. WVhen had men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one0, an uinpitied1 sacrifice in a contem ptible struggle. --Burke. WVould'it thou fa4hion for thyself 'a seemly li? Then dio eor fie over what is past And spite of 'l Itui on 13' I left b-b id. Li.ve each dra' a- if LIhy life was just begun.-Goethe. I have no pleasure in any man wvho (despises music It is no inven tioni of ours; it i'i the gift of God. I place it next to thisology .--Lnthar Gruemomt sight to Itenufort 11unter,. ISpecial to the Chroniclo.] Boniufort, S. C., Jan. 28.--A gen tleman of this town who roturned yesterday from a hunting expedition with soveral of his friends to Hilton Hmad island, gave your correspond ent the followi account of a visit thoy miade to the old family vault on tlhe William E. Bayllard plantation on Hilton H-cad: The vault, said the gentlemian, was substantially cotistiicted of brown sione, and in cL!nVtour was nearly squarv. The 111aHSivo entritneo dooi of iron, in anl excellont, stato of )rc-svai-vit ion, woro c)penl. Upon ontoring tohe party found a narrow vestibulo with mar ble doors leading into the interior of the tomb. Those doon wero (is plicd and broken, and viteiring through them into the innor portion of the vault a coilin was obsorved lying on the stone pavement.; its lid had ben displaced and upon lhfP ing it carefully aside a gruesome sight was disclosed to view. Witiin ro pxOd the r4mainls of a young wolian, which appeared to have suffered but slightly fromi tho ravagos of time. Hor long blonde hair wits perfectly intact, as were also her features. Gently t aking her hand, t he narrator, who is a physician, found to his as tonishniont that the flesh was as pli. ab!3 and soft. as in life, the arms woro coveroed with a growth of hair ai inch anl(d a half long. After a brief inspection of these remains, of one who in life must have been a wouian of rare beauty, the lid wis reverently replaced and the party resumed their investigation of tho antobollum tomi). Soveral old fishioned iron coflinH were exposed to view and these burial cass differed greatly from the modern metalic caskets and simply consisted of t,%o pieces of cast iron closely resembling a contour the human remains which they contained. The upper piece fitted snugly over the lower, extend ing clear to the bottom, where a line of rivets firmly seatled these endur ing coflins of a former generation. There were also several wooden coffins, evidently made .n the plan tation, and they, too, appeared to be substantial and well preserved. Por hap; a score of spaces for the recop tion of the doad aristocrats wero open, but had apparently never been utilized for the purposo for which they wero designed. Sad to relate, t here were evidlences that the hal lowved plaeo had been invadeod lby soldiers who worn stationedl on the iBland during the Spanish- Ame,rican war, andic the names of t hoso men wvore scratched up1onl port.ions of tihe interior walls. There were also ad daitional evidences of wanton discre tion about the p)lach Ini the bury ing groundl ad,ioining this ancient sepu11lchre were several marble slabs marking interments made as early as A. D., 1808: Over the entrance to the vault was the simple inscription: "Wmn. E. Baynard, Integrity and Fidelity." T1he doctor giving this information expressed, in conclusion, tihe hope that it would reach some dlescendant of the B3aynards, who would take steps to restore the tomb of his or her ancestors and seal it against fur ther intrusion by idle curiosity seek. era. w, 'r. W. Yhto February Num,ber of Framnk LesliI's i"p,ulamr Mothly. In a small room, overlook'ng Wash in..4ton Squtar.', ill New York Cily, upwardls of sixty three years ago, John Morse exhibited two cuirioius looking t ransnmittin~g machines to a few half- incredulous friends. Glradu ally tihe observers were convinced, but all agreed thuat telepraphic mes. sages could never be sect further than eight or ten miles. "Eight or ten miles," exclaimied Morse, "anid I can go around tihe world 1" TIhat prophecy, and far more than that, is ia eomp)hlshed, and the best his tor) of its accomplishment is the magnifIcent display of electrical won. ders now being installed in the Pan American Exhibition. In Frank Leslie's Popular Month ly for Febrnary will annnnr nn ad. mirablo account of the oloctrial foa tures of:the great oxhibikion. Thi articlo will bo elaborately illustrated. This February issuo of Leslio's Monthly is full of -ntertaining fea tures, and while the number has a decidoly individual charactor, it appeals by its variety to the most divorso tastes. For thoso who lovo tho witer, thro is tin article on the "Fishermen of tihe Grout Likes,p" I raco tiliiiod to ono of tho most fasei. nating of trados. For the lover of art thero is a plonsant Imper of romiliscones of Uidgwly Knight, filied with boatiful illIst,rations.. For tihose who prefer aiventire, the "'Saud Itogs of Caisson Sihlking" will piovo absorbing, aid all who iaro for the study of human natiro will read with koon interost, t he Irue history of "Tho Last of tho Fighting Editors," i Cluss which has givon to the jour nalism of the vest and South its piqluanlt lanvor. Tho strong, fiesh int''rest, in his t"ry which tho crowding vxperiences of the last four yours havo given to the men and wolimn of the United States, is abundantly reconiized. 'Tie best historian of our Navy, Mr. Jolhn 1t. Spours, contribute.-; i paper upon the "Miuting on the Sonrs,", that, oxtriordinary occasion when, to pro serve tho discipline of the American Navy, a son of tho United Stutes Secretary of War was hung at the yard arm. And wo wish to call at tention to a charming romance of history: "Grandsir's Charge,"% which takes for its toxt thi dritmitic sittlation dopieatod upon the maga zinm, the "Suilrrendor of Ge'ineoral Bir goyno.' A mong grout numbors of the American peoplO, i lovo for the study of genealogy is steadily waxing, blit wo doubt whether the Daughters iof the 11evolution or thoColonial Dames themselves Could pass an (xaminiat ion upon ihe general laws of dcont. It in intoresting to know thatt all of us Anglo-Saxons are cousins of Qumen Victoria, and equally so that. wo may call any prisoner of t ho Tombs cousin, and still bto well wit,hin our rights. The subject is treated by Mr. Duncan RosO. The fiction in this number main tains a particulary high stiandard. Among all Mrs. McCulloch Villiai's stories we rinemer nothing more effective than "'MrItna1's Cu'yus Ways,,' a story of negro life, and the "Salvation of Tobias Miler," by William R. Lighton, forms a capital sequel' to "The Caso of Sam Wooks," which appeared in Deember. We dho not like to close without ment ioning a paralo, entitled1 "W~ho's Lud?" It will mauko the readler laugh, t hen, then read again. Bears the INGTh Kind You ||ave Always Bought Signature of A Tope.r'n, iHbaucal i(xcuse. [.Philadelphia Record.] The originality of ~John Smith in furnishinig an e'xcusC for having been drunk so dleeply iml)pressed Magis trate Ackerman that he gave the man not only his liberty, but a dlollar be sidles, withI instruct ions to go anfd food up Smith, who gave his resi dlonce asl near 11 th and York streets, was airrestedl for intoxication, aid y esterday was hauled bofore the maigist rate. TIhe prisoner told the oflicial that he was niot a drinking muan, that his offence was the first he ever com)mitted1. "If you are not a drinking man t hen why did you get drunk?'' asked the magistrate. The1 prisoner picked up the Court Bible and, handing it to his questioner, he said: "You will find my reasons in Proverbs xxxi: 4-7." T1he magis trate op)oned the Bible at the place ind(icatod and found the verses to be as follows: "It is not for kings, 0 Lemuel; it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strone dIrink; "Lost they drink anid forget the law, and porvert thle judlgment of any of the afflieted. "(Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wino unto those that be of heavy hearts. "Let him drink, . and forget his poverty, anid remember his misery no moe." TIlM ARlMOUIR MILLIONS. Tie Emtile of it. 1). Armour Ig Only Fif to"n n illi1, ho Iayin9 Given Thirty 5iillion11s itO Is S01s Before h AIRt1lo hkim Will. Chicago, January 28.-The will of the late millionaire pork packer and grain dealer, ). 1). Armour, disposes of an ostato valuod at $15,000,000, according to statomonts made in an application for letters testamentary filed in the Probate Court today by Malvina B. Armour, widow of do cOnsed, and J. Ogden Armour, his sol, who aro made oxecutrix and Oxecutor and aro namod as logateep. Of tho testator's wealth $14,900,. 000 is in porsonal property an( $100,000 in reality. P. 1). Armour and Liester Armour, grand-childron of th testittor by his son, P. 1). Ar mour, Jr., i pen attaining the ago of 25, shall oaten receive $1,000,000, half of this from Malvina B. Armour, their grand-mother, and half from J. Ogdon Armour, their uncle. At 30 years each is to receive a similar tmiouut from grandmother and uncle. To this the children and their mo ther are heirs. The instrument is dated Pasaden, Cal., January 30, N100. L. C. Krautholl', an attorney long in the service of Mr. Armour, do vlarod that while the will does not mention Armour Instituto, Mr. Ar mour had mado provision for the in slttito boforo drawing his will at Plsadens. It is assorted that whei his health began to fail following tho 1jeitor wheat deal, Mr. Armour di vided $30,000,00) botwoen his sons, Philip 1). and J. Ogdon, thus rehov ing himself of considerablo respon sibility and saving the estate the payment of a largo inheritance tax. A TwontIetha Contury Forecasls. Nikola Tiesla, who thinks he has recuitly boon receiving signals from imrs, and who knows that he has discovered a now electric light which Aill burn without carbon or wiro and give out light without heat, has beoen making predictions of somo of the things that are to be achived in this twontici -entury, and in February "sulccess" lie sets out tle following: I--A system of wireless telegraphy by which a inessage can be sont clear around the world. 2-Electrical production of ozone for storilzing water, to rid it of its many impurities, 3--The manufacture of artificial food by oxidized hydrogon. .1-lThe flyinrg machiine will be ai fauct. lt will not bring universal pleace, as some suppose. Some nation will rule the air as well as the sea. 5---Future dlevelop)menits will tendi to diminish the number of individuals ngaged in battle. This will bring into use a machine which can b)0 operated b)y the fewest possible indi viduals. 6--The p)erfection of the telauto.. matoni, a machine having all its bodily movements controlled from a distance without wires. Telauto matics are applicable to any machine that moves on1 thle landr, in water, or ini the air. 7-The transmission of electrical energy through the earth without a wire. 8 -A system to dIraw energy from the sun1. 9-The electroly tic process of ox. tracting iron from ore, and molding it inIto required forms without fuel consumption. 10--The electrolytic manufacture of aluminium and its gradual exter. mnination of copper and, possibly, iron. 11-- self-acting engine capable of deriving energy from its own mo tion. To the average man many of these thlings seem but the visionary ideas of a dreamer, the predictions of a crank; but in the face of the achieve. monta of the past century and the wonmderful developments of science the man who thinks he is disposed to bo modest about disputing the fore casts of these dreamers. Indeed, those of us who are not qualified for leading in those discoveries are at, least willing to give to these wizards and wonder workers the tribute of our applause, and the aid of our re. spectful and admiring credibility.