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RM Em 04 e a ~S QC,, D 85 E ll.Y U S A.Y*.MAY'-I>101 irolilla's Real fleroes. A I IhODY TO UUEAT X"FYAINIS 1 1OME. Urronco-Tho, Agod U onernI on inl Rebel Yells Rend dies Present the ILirat i9 onor--ou. IHailpton "lecti(I by the (Ireat 411hown 11111n--1(is %nfrowell wirln Rending Unumo. STIe State, May 10.] Arapton, who has been do Gordon as tho great. es e 8tate of South Carolina was honored yester ew mon are over 'hon erth. It is rare that it of man to have such ~rtQd Ao him by hundreds of of whom is himself a hero. ,,. on was much affected by t 'lfable demonstration of af n 'egard made by the griz. f of many a bloody bat ;'dashing charge; so much t rds Iho end of the ad iif en his voice was falter spoko with difficulty. full to overflowing. % that those who wit er forget. It carried t n that honor, chivalry .,ai t have a reward that no ot W ion can procure. 5.30 o'clock when the o01dt r terans in the city fell :nt6N H66 .Ulh6j intersection of Ger ,Is and "Uti streets for the purpose narchi -'Gen. Hampton's home . paying ,tri.te to him. The pro 0ession was beaded by Gen. Walker and staff/iad,Adjt. Flenniken of 'amp H1tion, bearing the division )lors,.)ndi'ol. J. Fuller Lyon, com -aanding the Abbeville regiment, bearing the tattered colQrs of the Tenth South Carolina Regiment. )Just Ai front wore Messrs. Asher Browne and C. D. Eberhardt of the .'Columbia orchestra, beating the kot tle and bass drums. Following the veterans wore the Sons of Veterans, headed by Commander Hunt and staff. In the procession of veterans also marched several of the fair sponsors. The old soldiers marched out Gervais street upon the north pavement, and the line was over four blocks-nearly half milo--in length. A number of Confederate groy uni forms were to be soon in the proces soin. As the procession passed a residence upon Gervais street a party of ladies and gentlemen gave throe cheors for the old boys. At Glen. Hampton's residence there were chairs upon the piazza, and the members of Wade Hampton chapter, daughters of the Confederacy, occu pied them. Near the centre sat Mrs. Waring, Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Kohn, the committee appointed to confer upon Gen. Hampton the Southern Cross of IHonor. Goen. Hampton was talking to Gen. John B. Gordon when the beat of the drum was heard. The two generals immediately said farewell, and Glen. Gordon going out, jumped into a carriage and left. Glen. Hampton then stopped out upon the portico and soon Maj. Hart met him and warmly shook his hand. The general soon afterward sat down in a large arm chair, as the march ing column advanced. On his left lappel (Gon. Hampton wore a reception committee badge; on the right was a beautiful Confed erate badge. As the veterans came up, Gen. Walker entered the yard and came upon the portico, warmly greeting Glen. Hampton, who had risen to receive him. Hie was fol lowed by the division sponsor and her maids of honor and others. The veterans lined up outside the fence, ton to fifteen deep. In front of the portico, in the yard, were a number of little children. (Gen. Hamptoa remarked ,that ho wished he had "horses for all those men out there." As soon as Adjt. Holmes oamo upon the piazza Geon. Walker turned to the veterans and ecolaimed: "Com rades, we have come to call on the greatest of all South Carolinians, Wade Hampton. I want you to wel come him with a good old Rebel yell. Now give it to him boys!" This was JiLUU "On. N aOr said: "You boys all know that I havo boon say ing too much already, and, besides, I think that this presentation should be mado by one who followed the great cavalry loader of South Caro lina all through thoso four years: I have, therefore, selected Maj. Hart, of Hart's battery, to prosent you to our groat chieftain." (Choors.) MAJ. HART. Maj. Hart, of Yorkville, of the celebrated hart's battery then spoke as follows: Gen. Hampton: You have hoard that yoll before, and you heard it in days when it meant something more than a tribute of love and af fection to you; when it meant terror to those who stood before it. I', is my pleasing privilege to present to you the assembled survi vors of two immortal Confederate armies-the one of Northern Vir gima, led by the immortal Lee, and the other the army of Tennessee, which followed the poorloss Joseph Johnson. Those are the men who stand before you this evening, and who for four years carried on the point of their bright bayonets the ar gument for southern independenceo and the prayer for hberty. But well did they perform their mission. There are standing before you this evening men who stood before the red mouthed cannon at Malvern Hill and at Cemetery Ridge. Those banners, some of which we saw this morning, and some of which I think are here, have flashed upon scores of battlefields before you, the great loader. I see men here who fol lowed Lee's great line of soldiery that were nearly always invincible; men who fought under Hill, and Early, and Jackson and Beauregard. I see bafore me men who followed Joseph E. Johnston at Franklin, and who on a score of battlefields from Lookout Mountain to Atlanta fought Sherman and nearly always repulsed him. And, Gen. Hampton, there are men standing here who followed your knightly blade upon a hundred bat tlefields; wherever you led-for, sir, you always led wherever there was fighting to be done. (Applause.) There are men here who were with you when you took command of the Confederate cavalry in 1864, and where at Hawos shop you planted its dismounted lines before the advanc ing corps of Hardy and Sherman and wrenched Richmond from their grasp with an insignificant little body of dismounted cavalry. The excuse of these men then was that you had been reinforced. That wvas always their excuse; but. si1, there was noth ing in it. And so, sir, when Sherman met you at Trevalian Station, where the Enfield rifle was in the grasp of the cavalrymen instead of the useless sabre, Sherman as he rode away from the field wrote to his chief that he was met by Hampton's cavalry, but that it was reinforced by Early's division of infantry, and that their combined forces were too great for him. But, sir, you know that you, with a force less than half as great as his own, had compelled him to re tire from the field in utter disorder. And nowv, comrades, I present to you a chieftain worthy not only of your admiration, for Gen. Htimpton has always had that; not only of your love and affection, for he won that long, long ago, but worthy of the highest need of praise that man can bestow upon his fellow man. I pre sent to you one who has done more for South Carolina in peace, in wvar, and again in peace than all the era. tors and all the statesmen that ever came before or after. When in the dark days that followed disaster and dfeaot to our arms it was he who stands before you this evening, that lent that hope and courage to the hosts invincible manhood and woman hood-if I may please say it--of South Carolina that carried victory when defeat seemed almost the only result of the campaign. It was due to the sagacious statesmanship and the true courage of him that in a campaign which required greater courage than war, when South Caro linians fonuht for their liberty a second time, that a victory Was gained. Gen. I himpton, theso imon come to pay their respoets to you. They love yoi, theiy honor you, and as yonder sun whieh is setting inl the west marks the kcec ining hours of a poor loss day, so theso battlo-scarred horoes beforo you, with their gray hair and wriilded faces, indicate the declining day of their manhood. But such as it i.;, sir; it iF yours, and yours forevor. wIAT mN. HAMPTON SAID. Loud cheers followed this speech, and there were Robol yells as Goln. Hampton ros-) and faced his soldiers. There werc crios of "Hampton." Gon. Hampton placed his hand on his right breast and quiOt prevailed as ho addressed the groat gathering asg follows: My Comrades: I have indeed, as Major Hart has said, heard that Robel yell often before and when I heard it from my own men, from the men whom I had the honor to com mad, I know that we were safe. I think it is one of the British poets who says: "Tbe kites know well The long league's swell That bids the lomans closes." I might paraphrase thic by saying: The Yankees knew well The long league's swell That bids the Rebels close. My old heroes I hope it never will bo forgotten. I hope it will be trans witted to your children sn-1 fo your children's childron-if not for them to use to tell how it uscd to ring from the forests of Virgini, how it rang from Gettysburg to the west and how it always told of men who wore Willing to die for their sooth land, to die for truth, for honor, for manhood, for chivalry and for a great truth. I want you to try and teach to your children and to your children's children that ours was not a lost cause. I want you to tell them that we were fighting for the right. George Washington was a rebel but Leo was not. When Great Britain recognized the independence of this country she did not recognize the independence of the United States but of each sovereign State as independent and sovereign. There were 13 independent and sovereign States. They founded the union and they had the right to withdraw from it whenever they chose so to do. We were not successful-it is not given to mortals to command success. You have done more-3 ou have de served it. And now in your declining years and when mine have extended long beyond the period allotted to man, you, my old comrades, whom I loved, whom I trusted and with whom I felt as safe as I do now, I want to say to you all that all the love you have given me has been more than reciprocated; that all that I have over been able to do for you, for any one of you, or for South Carolina, has been more than repaid by the honors you have unsolicited con ferred upon me and by this the crowning honor of my life. I may not see you agamn. I remember a stora of an old bishop who when ready to retire from public life went to the abbot and said: "Father Abbot, an old man whose heart is broken by theostorms of state is come to lay his weary bones among you." That is all I shall ask of South Carolina-a few feet of earth where my kindred for six generations are resting. And I am proud to say that one or more of each generation since they were known in South Carolina has filled a bloody grave for South Carolina. (Applause.) I claim no credit for that. Every South Caro linian who was true was willing to give his blooll and his life for the old state. I am sure that I was 'willing to do so. I think I can say so to you, my men, that I never turned my back upon any of you when your faces were turned to. ward the enemy. The~greatost honor that I felt during the war was once when I came upon a poor private who was dying. I stopped beside him and he said: "I am happy to die fighting and I am proud to die fight. ing unde you." I pray that God will bloss you and will givo you p,eaco and prospority, givo it to the old State, givo it to each one of you and that you will go homo and tell your kindred that you havo soon your old comrado and that ho thanks you for them. Again the iobel yells burst forth as tho gonoral ceased speaking and sat down. Soaio on thon cried for Gordon but Gon. Walkor told him that tho old Confed4 had dono moro than the Yankees could over do --their coming had inado Gon. Gordon run. A PRESENTATION. Taking In IIhis hand a beautiful wreath of magnolia leaves Adjutant H1olmos then addressed (.ton. ulamp ton thus: (enl. Hampton: Your comn1ra1dos como to you today bringing hearts full of love, and words of estoom and praise and rovorenco. Thoy come also boaring a simplo gift which they want you to hang in tho room you most frequently sit in so that asofton as you may lift your eyes toward iU you may rocall tho men who nover once in war or in peaco faltered in their love for you. 'his wreath is made of leaves from a troe that grows in your native Stato. That tre was transplanted from the Stato of your ancestors. It was trans planted from tho Dismal swamp of Virginia and now grows in the yard of Lieut. Col. Judius lake, who him self gathered these loaves and they wero twined into this wreath by Mrs. Isancs, whoso father served in Texas and in the Confedorato States navy. We havo solctod theso leaves for these two roasons, and wo have bound them with ribbon of the blue and white of your State-tho Stato that will bo known hereafter for all timo as the StaLo of its savior, as Wado Hampton's South Carolina. By this timo the yard wasi filled with old 'soldiers wAhoso enthusiasm was boundless. Gen. Hampton rose and said: "My friends, I want to say that I thank you for the love and kindneFs you have shown muo and to assure you that this wreath shall long hang so that if I can so control it the last look I give on oarth will be on that memento of your kindness." THE CROSS nESTOWED. Mrs. Clark lWaring then in a most appropriate manner expressing tho most patriotic sentiments presented the Southern Cross of Honor to Gon. Hampton, and had set down so that his little grand daughter could put it on his coat for thc Wade Hampton chapter. This wvas (lone, anid Maj. Hart loaned over and kissed the little girl. The genoral said he felt liko kissing the dear woman. Just hlero Miss Margaret Flinn, sponsor of Camp Hampton came up wVithl a beautiful floral design present ing it to the general, and naively said, ''Aren't you going to kiss me ?" The general surrendered and did kiss her then and there, while the sol diers cheered. A final rebel yell was given, andl then an informal reception was hold on the piazza, the soldiers crowding the one ever the oilher to shake the aged hlero's hand. CASTOR lA Eor Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought fers the Trip of Presient Mhcinley. New Orleans, May 1, 1901. W. WV. Finley, Second Vice Presi dent Southern Railway, Wash ington, D3. C, The President's i?pooial train reached New Orleans promptly on time this afternoon. TIho trip has been absolutely free from accident, mishap or delay, each arrival and departure being made according to schedule, and lhas been in every way notable. I desire to express in be half of the President and his entire party hearty appreciation, and to add that tile presence of Mr. L. S. Brown who has been constantly at tentive and thoughtful, has contrib uted very largely to the pleasure of our journey. (S) Gee. B. Cortelyou. W. LI TvAYLE A. . P. A. TO REbIT HOUSE. HIAL OF Till 11UIMIr.4 OF jtl"'jis_N TATIlIS TO B IUi F'N IC'RI ri:). Iallwrint Stylo to Iv Follow'd- New CUr puto, Clialrt4, De.skia nodt '-rvso lee ig - A h Ielit lo t cti tt I t : littstli Ab itw 4. atli(I G n iS t la - by thlt Itcymli Washington, M1ay 8.-Spociall Ipuliblillan vxtrlvagance, which 1has bon so iarked il ill insIlalr expe ditures, in the purchlif of gorgeous trilisports, il tlie klatihbonli charges (at, first allowed) for all sorts of per 011111 thinlgs, anl(d, in short, in abn1ost Oery depilrtmeat of goverimnent life, is now to bo exemlplilied inl the house of re)-esettit ives itself. WheN the ne,Xt congress convene, it will finld itself in a sceno of regulir magnili conce, well worthy of the imperial reignon whichN wo had entered. The o!k (lsks the eann seated chairs, so characteristic of democratic siiplio i0y will havo given place to mah1og any furnishings and heavy leather chairs the ceiling will be richly and newly frescoed by the le]ading artists of tle (ly, anid altogetlivir tho grand ball of the houso will bo reduced to It pIICO whoso tILwdry frippory Will be more "inl consonance with our now placo in th world." Nor will this refurnishing ho con fine,d to the elh-imber itself. Tho committeo rooms will bo fitted up in a stylo not vxcolled in tho handsoi (st pliVatj residences. The rugs, curtains, portivres, tabls, desks and chairs will b of the finest andi most expensivo 1qua1lity. 'Tlhe rooms will be fiited with groat plato-glass mir rors and frescoed in .ho best art. Most of the roois Ialivo mirrors Iid aro handsomely frescoed, but this )o as nothing to what they will ' ly rugs, lounges, curtains w1bity furnituro. (All is a restult of an appropri ation mado last year for renovating th 110 house, rofirnishing the chamber andl(] furnishing some now committeo rooms in the spaco formerly occupr d by the congrossional library. A coi. mittoo consisting of Congressmau Cannon, I)alz%ll and Itichardson was appointed to superintend the work. Probably all of tho members of the houso supposed that, the committoo rooms might bo litted up better than the old and with greator attempt at splendor, but it is doubtful if any of them looked for anything moro in the house itself than it has had for so many years. It was prestimod the 01ld (desks would be supplanted by new ones of simitar dlesign and ex cellence. But far otherwise is to be the caso. Tlhie leading furniture makers of the coiuntry were invited by the comn mittee to submiit plans and estimates for refurnisxhiing the house. A numa bor of them resp)onded, as thle con tract has conisitderable advertising value as wvell as immediate prolit. 'Tins week the subcommittee met and1( carefully considered all thle designs and b)ids submittotd. In matny they found gootd features, but nionie wore exactly in accordance with the ideas of the committee. As the pla1co could not be0 alterrod without c' aulg ing the estimates the committee r-e jocted all of the tdesignsan b111lidti. The architect of thie cap)ito)l was given tihe ideas of the committee and di rectoed to pult thenm into shape and send them to each of the bidders, with it request for new bids. The committee has dlecidled that the new furnishings of tihe house chamber will be "in harmony with the dignity" of a great representa tive body, and shall 1)0 far richor than those of any legislative body in all the world. Instond of oak or pine desks the members are to have ma hiogany desks; the old cane-seat chairs are to be replaced b)y suibstan tial ones of mahogany and leather, and the frescoing will be gone over. A new parquetry floor will be put in and a gorgons new carpet laid. The1 committee hias decidled upon a change in the arrangement of desks, which will greatly alter the appear ance of the chamber andl may n't be viewed with favor b)y the membera until they get to the new order of things oneny the desksr .,-r SrtIpait -11ted frm1 cl ot her v a Spieo of about foul.lltlw,r ih s. Te n desks will bo joined tthorl. Thoy wil inl fact, be a t--lid, -iub"tanitil tablo init ta micircular form, runlliing from onlc) islo to tw otio'ther without a break. This follows tho plan of the reading romr of t0h ('0ng4rkeSsioial li'brary. As a rosult ach llelibier will bo giv vi1 about. I it.el1c.; hidlitionil spaco for b!i dc,k r(omv. Thip pcs wHill bo m1larked off, (hu-; differing from a table, (aCh dtsi havim",g a lid. Trho additional spa'e obtlined for tho desks wl permit the memers to uso B0ol chair4 1 ligh-tly larger in sizo thanl the lI ones and liluro nearly approaching thoso of tho svilito chalber in comfoll. New lounges aid Cairs ar to ho placed in (to, house lobby arid in tho 14moking and retiring o0011oS. In lort not.hing will bo spared to add to luxury and n11guilicenico of the house of repro senitat ives ulnder repub)licanr rule. J. (. W. INTERN'CVIEW WIT11, .111t. L.ATIMERil. W hatlit, Tlinshm otand Kay Aimit tIho At It'ged Citat,ga (of 'o,littent Setitimeit in thle Sit~t- tir Pool'n ioim Wil lit-- to 1.1e4t ( 4t Holt i da e,,. 11t the.1 l11'h,i1; to Ot14 Sitle. ISpocial to NOws arid Courier.) Wamingil (tonl, May W0.--toprose:. hativo Lat imer, who is agailn inl Wal ingtonl oil privato busielss, vas I.) (Ilested to oxpiri h's opinlionl of tih now fcolinrg onl political questitions which is said to exit ill Somlle pars of tho South. "I think that senltirmnt, if thoro is really uch aui it sontiiimnt , is iis - derstood horo," ho said. "it is an error to suppio that becauso certain of our colimunitiv's havo requvsted Mr. McLaurin to addro.-:i thom such invitations indicato ia chango of po litical sentiieit, or ai adopt ion or 0d(.o10-rom1nt of "o views whicl he nwonlcleiates, by tho people of thoso sections. 0hoso re<piests aro inl tho naturo of an inquiry arnd ir wilingnoss o, tihe part of sormo of our peoplo to liston to argumentit arId viows, Whicl, it is said, will inurO Lo thmir bonolit. A willingnoss to lhmar them expressod and their adop tiol aro quito difl'orent propositions. It may bo that, sone of the mnoliyod mn-bankers, m ill owners and cap italists--inclinle, as is statod, toward what aro siid to h Rtopublican principles. Whatovor may be tho truth of this statomont, they aro scattoring and in an iinconsidorablo minority. Thopeoplo of the South are Deomocrats by traidition arnd in'cli nation and it is D)emocratic prirnci pies for which they stand.'' "D)o you think it possible that withbin a reasonablo timo t horo wrl ho a blroak in the Souith ill thiis re spect1 to thle extornt of carryinig a Stato?"' was asked1. "'No, I do rot, reptliod Mr. Lati 1m10r. "I canl 8son no reasoni why the South shoruld ab)and(on thou priniciples which havte held it together for so long. I think that, day is remote, very remote; in fact, so remote that I would not at this timro give it seri 0ous considlorationl. "T1he( qjuestion of protection1 does niot figrr as at rongly with rus as it, would aippear at first thloughit. Of t he 10,000,000)t balos o f cot ton we raise b)ut 2,000O,000( are consumed at home and the romnamrdor goes~ into the open markets abroad. Tire ques Lion of our pIrotect iorn laws does not figure at all mn the sale of thiis latter cotton, the price of whiich, as wvell as orur home-consumed p)rodurct, isrgn lated abroad, I believe our 1peopl1e have ai kindly fooling for P'resident McKirley, because they believe him to be an honest mnr, wh1o hra gov ornod according to hris poliMoal p)rin cip)les, but they are not~ D)emocratic p)riniciplos, ande it is Democratic p)rinciples1 for which wvo voto. We would, thorofore, give his views re spectfuli considerat ion, as we gave im a cordial ando hospitable woel como to thre South, butl wheni it comies to saying that wvo would adop)t and vote for the principles for wvhich ho and Ils party standI that is a state mont which 1 (10 niot think is jarsti fied by any cond(ition at proseont ox istinig in I ho South to wich one may point. The p)resident's motives are, no doubt, the best, brut they are fromx his standpoint, and not from ours. We must, perforce, jndoge thingn from our own point of view and what we think will benafi ns mat.' ANOTHER BATTLE OF KEGS. TKE u Imp:11C1l sl>)MNS AR jtjj)l)l.jp,1 I N 'l 1 t t lv Hoa rd of o t m rol, 111 0lo lho Atherso '01ithla of the Attorney Gcnieral, ltvt ni i nii sot of Beer Dkiounmerm. [Nowv uafnd Courior. Colimbia, May .11 Tho Stato board of coniui, Ias faced tho muiisio 11111 tho boor dispolnsall,ry fight in Charleston is ovideItly on in full forco. 'Tho attorloy general of tho Stato ha1s decided that, the Stat.o board iats Io imoro to (1o with tho eleet'n of dispoinsaries thanl has thm Stato b0oa1rd of liealth, but the Stato board of directorsi do not think that tho opmnion is right, and they think that, the aiemen' 1111mit to tho act at the last session of (lit) general assombly was iitended to givo (Iho Stato board and not tho county boards tho right to (lvet, the beer dispensers, and so the Stato boarId took m1atters in h1and today and vlectod a full sot of beer dispoensorp. Soio timno igo the board voted to cnitint. Mossrs. L. C. Roessler and J. B. lyvr in oflick. Thie roteition ml olice wafit,ms au1gled to be as elTeo. tivo as a formal oletctiol), but today tho board formally elected ats boor dispenser' for Ithe city of Cliarleston 'NIl;sr.l. 1'. C. Roolislor, J. 13. H1yor, If. C. Wohlers, F. S. Torry andi' 11ugh Jergusonl. Th Stttat boar ignored tho Ho lection of Mfr J. S. Farinum by the Charleston County boird, and now the thing will 110 doubt como to i cril;is whon Mvssrs. Wohlorfi, 'J'orry and Jerguson apply for thoir com missions for tho hoor difpensarioH to which they have boo olocted. Gov ornor MeSweeiiey will bo aiiskod to i,sie or sign the commissions for the hoer ditspensors and he will declino to do so unLtil I,) has ioeuried t1io opinion and advic) of tho Attorney loneral for which ho is entitled to ask in view of tho nix-p and con. toition, and, of course, it is onsy to presumo what tho Attornoy Gonoral will adviso tho (tovernor to do in view of his provioiis decision that the county boards anld not the Stato board havo .ho solection of beor di penisori. The fight will be on in full force. It il, to fay the least, and in teresting contmit id both sides, no doubt, think they aro right and want to ha1V13 th1e im (r decided by the Courts. Tho Stato board today 11180 do cidmt to grant and ostablish another hoer dispensar'y in t ho cit.y of Spar tanfbulrg. T1ho county board for Pickens County wvas auit horizedoc to have a liqulor dlisp)ensary estabbshedIi~i in the town of Contral. wl1L1L1 URNi M1ATT"Ea. Tjo A F'OClis. have~' rea)lched( t.ho Scretar111y Of StaLto's oflio'( anId somethilng will bo heard ablouit thIe mat lor' dlefinit.oly v'ery soon. The11 Secretary of State will act 0on t he ad(vice Of the Attorney Geoneral ne)cessarily, 1un11(s8 tihe Courts ordoer otherwise. Mr. lRoesslur's~ case will bring maIltters8 to a focui u1nless he is to go oni with 11h0 businoss8 withiout a1 n1ow~ comission8101 or a ne0w bond(, wh1ichk will be i5nnie<u or( not (18 the Attorniey Gonora1'Jl decidos10 or the Courit, directs, if tatken to that t ribu na11. Mr. Itoesslor 1asks for a1 com mission01 (18 bori (disponsor for Char lesIon undo10 the aIction) of the Stalto board1. hlears the loKn You llave Aiwa s Bough) Bignaturo- . of Ancient and Modorn Prover;s. '"He who knows not, and knows (ot that he' knows not, Is a fool; avoidl hin."' "Hle wvho knows not, and( knows that he knowvs niot, is siinple; teach "Hle wvho knows and knows not that lie knows, is asleep; wake litin. ''But lhe who knows and( knows that he knows, is a wise man, fol low him.' '-Froin the Arab)ian Pro verbs.