Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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i / President Bu< By Myrtle Reed ^ MOXG other things I was remarkable for |l I After he left th( jl I law, he became enj :M Robert Coleman, of . ? ^*1 is said to h m extremely sensitive. a rupture, for \ One day, out of t received a note from Miss Colenia Casement. There was no explanation fortl Srard that he discovered that gossi man with stories concerning him w chief-making imaginations. After all his efforts at re-establ I)e wrote to her that if it were her lie could not hut submit, as he had The break came In the latter pa elf into his work with renewed em In Philadelphia. Though she was too proud to a< Uful and high-spirited girl was sul December she died very suddenly, reek after she left Lancaster. The funeral took place the ne the girl's father, the heart-broken r tands almost alone. Ir is the on ' few lines is hidden a tragedy: My Dear Sir?You Have lost a only earthly object of iuy affection a dreary blank. My prospects are all cut off. an irrith her in the grave. It is now no time for explanatl discover that she. as well as I. has thors of it! My feelings of resentt re buried in the (lust. I may sustain the shock of her from me forever. The prayer whit I yet may be able to show my ve parted saint, by my respect and at ?Heaven bless you, and enable you 'Pbristinn. * I am forever your sincere and T ? Go to the Ai By Sydney Flower wmwmHE most optimistic pe present day affairs o otJ rn?S oa'' are in a UtJ I n-here conjugal happ J. Sw SXass. in the sh fi jj3 [jj mS j? home and without ti OOOPcjp 'e3S strIvinS. of ant; and counterplots, foil J uuu pieiuuiurt? riium^ duu again to beneficent nature for light When men desired the secret standing the greatest strain with t in the honeycomb of the bees. Sii ?ur need of readjustment of humai The male and female ants are ' Idle. They are of blood; and of t! simply being. To live, to feed, t agreeable lot in life of the male an a reasonable and correct method But this life of leisurely refinemei the portion of the male and feinal there was much of labor, and it i male and to forage for the daily ployment, the males struck work their wants. The females, in turn willing compliance toward a pass k. ages, came to understand that the L lay with themselves. The result v ants?the birth of the neuters. No all the work of the ant colony, in< cows, the housing and feeding of 1 the building of cities, the foragin supplies, is entirely carried on by these services rendered! With wh perform their duties! No frowns here, no snlks, no fluty done, and the joy of basking ?f the race?the royal males and f< Here, then is true harmony, tl we the right, then, in view of the disregard its obvious application tc The Boy Pro The Whole Con Movement By Alice Katharine XLY a short time ago, a ' ideas, who has a pari! ff of New York, was e I R u iu the boy problem. | "We have a clubi I men play pool or billi I hke that is not garni I The visitor, wliost t,1(' rigid days of her admit those abomina asked, "in the shadow of the sane "Certainly, madam," was the i monopoly of these amusements lo v selves. The saloon used them as . them to tempt boys back to. mom shelter, light, warmth, and comfort and tracts on a cohl street corner." In this one sentence is the who ment?to take a boy as he is. not ai -lacks.?Century. 15e Meaning By William Newco S SHOULD say that in gathering all comparing in om out the simple tr been wasted dnrii all that I had re see the wisdom t Is possible am! easy to understand. Learn to read the life story of < becomes complete; such knowledt every detail. * Learn to appreciate the fact t yellow?has some ideas and know that all are brothers, no matter i Train the mind to attune to their t will follow is surprising to one wli People are very much like a lii monies in the hands of one skilled /rota ail his or her surroundings, feu . chanan's ad Love Story the fifteenth President, James Buchanan, his lifelong fidelity to one woman. ; Legislature, and toe : tip the practice of raged to Anne Coleman, the daughter of Lancaster. ave been an unusually beautiful girl, and On account of her sensitiveness there noithw Mil lu> hlnniPlt. be blue sky, a thunderbolt fell. Buchanan n asking bun to release ber from the enlieoming. and it was not until long afterps and busybodies bad gone to Miss Cole* hich had no foundation save in their misishing the old relation bad proved useless, wish to be released from the engagement no desire to bold her against her will, rt of the summer of 1S19. He threw him>rgy, and later on she went to visit friends dmit it, there was evidence that the beauTering from a heartache. On the ninth of and her body was brought home just a xt day. Sunday, and to Robert Cole/nan, nan wrote a letter which in simple pathos Iv document which remains, but in these Lancaster, December 10, 1810. child, a dear, dear child. I have lost the s, without whom life uow present* to me d I feel that ray happiness will be buried on. but the time will come whev. yon will ; been mrn-h abused. God forgiv? the aunent against them, whoever they may be, deatb. but I feel that happiness ?uas fled di I make to God without ceasing Is tnat iteration for the memory of my dear, detachment for her surviving frict ds. May to bear the-shock with the forti'ude of a grateful friend. JAMES BUCIIAXAX. jZ? & lit! irson, If catechised, will confess that the f humanity, social, politicar and ecoxiomian of disturbance. Frequently in homes iness is present there lurks an adder in ape of cook or housemaid. Within the ?e home we find an atmosphere* of bootagonisins, even deadly hatreds, of plots towed inevitably by nervous prostrations iuls. Yet we may hopefully turn once 011 the path. : of a mechanical structure capable of he most economy of space, they found it nilarly we go uow to the aut lor help iu 1 conditions. by inclination and heredity sumptuously tie blood no service is asked save that of o enjoy, to be waited upon, such is the t: syeh also the lot of the female. Surely, of life for the perpetuators of the race, it and enjoyment was not in early times e ant. By no means. In the early days levolved upon the male to defend the febread. Revolting from this menial emand compelled the females to minister to . evolving from a mental condition of unsive hostility, gradually, in the lapse of ? remedy for this painful state of things 'as the creation of a third sex among the w, it is a fact of common k uow ledge that duding the milking of the aphides or ant" the young, the organization of armies aud g for food, and the laying up of winter the third sex. And how ehebrfully are at willing feet do these nimble creatures strikes. Their recompense the sense of in the approving smiles of the aristocrats ?males! he very aestheticism of existence, nave lesson here thrust upon our attention, to ? human affairs? \ hlem imon-sense Gospel of the i Fallows , a minister of the advance-guard in social sh house in one of the most Crowded blocks xplainiug his work to a visitor interested ooin," he said, "where our older boys and ards. or have any game of cards that they ding."' i religious ideas had not been revised since youth, gasped. "You don't mean that you tions under the wing of the church,'' she tuary, oue might say?" answer. "We think the devil has had a ng enough. They are harmless in them\ bait for drunkenness and vice. We use ility. You can't fight a devil who offers to those who have none, with good advice le common sense gospel of the new moves he ought to be, and to give him what he of Education mb education, in the broa^l sense, consists possible information uJTon all subjects, >*s mind the ideas of others, searching aths. and acquiring the power of impart o one's fellows in the simplest language. ' fifty-four I realize how much time has tg my -younger days in accepting as truth ad. and. without a shadow of egotism, I if knowing myself; tills nccompbshod, ali me of God's creatures, and your education re would complete the perfect cycle in hat each luunan-^vhite. black, copper or 'ledge which it will pay one to acquire; j "-hat walk of life one may find them. Uought. and the flood of knowledge which 10 has never tried this means. ie old Cremona?furnishing wondrous liariu the method of drawing forth the best in i ?* ~ ~ ma j rx City butters Most uisa: tory of i FIRE RAGID ALL DAY SUNDAY 0 Toward Midnight the Fire Began Eating Its Way Into thr Financial District?flayor flcLean Says the Loss Cannot Be Estimated. Baltimore. Special.?The most destructive conflagration in the history of Baltimore occurred here Sunday in the wholesale dry goods business district, raging practically unchecked during many hours, completely destroying scores of the laigest business houses in the wholesale district, involving losses which cannot be estimated. as the fire was still burning fiercely when night fell. Owing to the wide extent of the calamity it will be tomorrow before even an approximate estimate can be made, though it is certain that it has already exceeded $25,000,000. The fire was still burning at nightfall, but was under control. No loss of life was reported at this hour. BROKE OUT ON HOPKIN S PLACE. The fi;e broke out shortly before 11 o'clock this morning in the wholesale dry goods store of John T. Hurst & Co., on Hopkins place, in ihe heart of the business district, with a series of loud explosions, which were heard in remote parts of the city, and spread with fearful rapidity. In half an hour there were a dozen big warehouses in the wholesale dry goods and notions district burning fiercely. The entire fire department was called out,but was utterly powerless to check the spread of the flames, which were aided by the high winds, and by noon there were savaje fires in at least 3d big warehouses, and the conflagration was steadily eating its way into successive blocks, east, north, west and south. On Baltimore street, the blocks between Liberty and Sharp streets was soon ablaze, then came the next block east to Hanover and after that the block on the south side to Charles street broke out into flames, the Con?PAmnonv'c hnildins? ano SUliUillCU VIU.O VUIII? o, Ochm's Acme Hall burning fiercely. Meanwhile there were stores north of Baltimore street being similarly consumed. Mullin's Hotel caught another buildings near it caught. West of Liberty street, on the south side of Baltimore street, the block was doomed, and the big bargain house also <aught. Down in Hopkins' place where the conflagration started. Herat s building and other wholesale houses on both sides of the street crumbled and fell. The big dry goods houses of Daniel Miller & Sons and R. M. Sutton & Co. were soon aflame, and along German street?east and west, from the Hurst building?there were a dozen buildings burning. Mass & Kemper's big wholesale store, on Baltimore street, quickly succumbed to the flames. On Hopkins' place the Hopkins' Savings Bank and the National Exchange Bank were gutted by the flames. Across the street were the ruins of John E. Hurst & Co., and next to it Hochl. Jr., & Sons, were in flames. THE BLOCK A CAULDRON'. All these buildings were swept away by the flames, ana me wnoie uwn was nothing but a cauldron of Are. At 1:30 o'clock Mullin's Hotel, a seven story structure, at Liberty and Baltimore streets, was in flames from garret to cellar and its great height and narrowness acted as a torch. All the guests had been ordered out, and none, consequently, was injured. Though every bit of fire-flghting apparatus in the city was called into requisition as the flames continued to spread, at 10 o'clock six engines arrived from Washingtor and four frum Philadelphia. It is roughly estimated that there were 350 hose playing on different parts of the conflagration at the same time. FINE RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. Wall after wall toppled into the streets, and firemen ran for their lives. All kinds of_ wires had to be cut to clear the way for the fire fighters. The block bounded by Gorman. Liberty. Baltimore and Sharp streets was early found to be doomed, and the firemen turned their attention to saving the buildings on Baltimore street, east of Sharp, but the fire was beyond their control. Red hot cinders ignited the roof of Infuriated Negro Mils. Tarboro. Special.?Eecause she would not marry him, Randal Pitman, colored, shot and instantly killed Maggie Battle, a widow, here Sunday and probably fatally wounded her sister, Louisa Barret. Pitman had called, renewed his suit and as Maggie was about to consent. Louisa pretested, whereupon the man drew his pistol, shot both and then made his escape. H" has not yet been apprehended. v attii hrous Blaze in the His the South front Street Theatre at least half mile from the main conitagratio which shows to what distance tl fiery rain fell. The blaze was e tinguished by the firemen, assisted 1 citizens. For a time considerable alarm w felt at the City Hospital. The Siste of Mercy in charge of the institutic were all aj. their posts. ?.nd an effn was made to keep the fa*" of the cc few cinders fell on the roof of the ho fiagratlon af secret from the patients, piial, but were extinguished by tl physicians of the house staff. Eighteen women, two babies ai seven nurses wore taken from t! j Maternity Hospital, on West Lombai street, in police ambulances and give quarters at the city hospital. A worm who was ill in bed with typhoid fev was taken to the city hospital. CITY TERRIFIED BY EXPLOSIOl j At 3 o'clock a tremendous explosk j of about 150 barrels cf whiskey ston i in the upper floors of So. 24 Hanovi street hurled tons of burning matt< ; across the street onto the roofs of l! i buildings opposite which the flremt I were drenching with water in a va ! hope to make Hanover street, the eas ! ern boundary line of the eonflagratio j Here an engine was buried by a fallir I wall, the firemen fleeing for the j lives. j The whole city w'as notified of tl | conflagration by a terrific explosio which occurred some minutes after : i o'clock. A sharp, spitting roar wej j up with reverberating thunder. Th ! was followed by a peculiar whistlir noise like that made by a sh ill win The churches in the central p?.it i the city were filled with worshipper niar.v of whom were frightened, an while no panics ensued hundreds < men and women went outside to s< j what had happened. In a few momen ; the streets and pavements all over tl ! city were crowded with excited peopl Another deafening crash occurred, ar dense columns of cinders and smol shot up over the cntral section i the city, and in a huge brown colum i moved rapidly toward the northeas Borne on the strong southeast wir the column of smoke, blazing cinde and even pieces of tin roofing sprcs over the center of the city, and a rai of cinders fell, compelling pedcstriai to doge red hot pieces cf wood. PL'OPLE DODGING FIRE BRAND Two more explosions followed, ar thousands of people hurried to tl scene of the .fire. Of all the spect: tors, comparatively few saw the fii itself. They could not get within half block of it. Even the policemen guan ing the approaches to the fire' had I shift their positions repeatedly ar ; dodge falling cinders. Pieces of ti . G Py 8 fept square were lifted into tl ; air by the teriflc heat, sailed itpwai i like paper kites, and when the i reached a point beyond the scene < : the mcst intense heat, fell clatterlr to the streets. RAGING WITH UNABATED KI R' f?:20 p. m.?The fire is still ragir [ with unabated fury. The fire depar mcnt is helpless with the flames stea< ! ily traveling eastward on Baltimoi and Fayette streets. The Union Tru | building has fallen in. The Carrolltc | Hotel is on fire. The Herald huildir is apparentv doomed, and the occi pants have moved out. The Sun preparing to move. Clouds of burnir cinders rover the whole city. FIRE NEAR COURT HOUSE. 10:20 p. m.?The fire sweeping ea: on Fayctteville street is within a sho distance of the court house, which o cupies the block bounded by Fayett Lexington and Calvert streets. Opp< Site is the postofTice adjoining th is the temporary custom house ar opposite to this is the city hall. T1 Calvert office building, at Favettc ar St. Paul street, is afire, and the Equi able building, which adjoins it. is no threatened. The main office of tl i Western Union Telegraph Company - "--"-i-i. located in tne r.quuaui*- uuuume. ? . the force Is leaving for a branch o flee. A number of buildings are beir dynamited in an effort to stop tl fire. 11:45?The fire is still eating its w? eastward on Baltimore street and c South and German streets, incliulir the financial district. Mayor McLan who has been on the scene all day ar night, says it is utterly impossible i make an estimate of loss. The fl: Fire Still Raging at 2 O'clock. Washington. Special.?A dispat< | received from Baltimore at 2 o'elos ' Monday morning says the fire is st ; raging fiercely. The postofilce buil ing is burning, also the $4,000.0 1 court house. The Holiday Street Tb j atre has been blown up with dryn 1 mite and the United States Espre | offices 3nd central offices of the Bi j timorc & Ohio Railroad are burned. * \ ' X % V. \ * officials say that thus far it will aggregate $40,000,000. 4 Crash after crash could be heard within the burning district, but even ? the firerr.cn could not tell from what i buildings they proceeded. In the seethI ins furnace of flames all sense of the >" disection of location of buildings was ! lost. Hundreds of merchants and business i men with offices on the threatened district were notified by watchmen and a i police. Many took steps to have their n. ; iicoks removed to a place of safety, be ' A. C. Meyer & Co., and the Carrollx ' ton Chemical Company removed boxes 5y I containing explosives to a point several squares away from the Are. as SOME OF THE BUILDINGS BURNED rs I Among the buildings consumed are >n | the following: Roxbury Rye Distilling Company; j Allen & Sons, leather; Sugar & Shear, ' clcthins: L. Stein & Co.. umbrella man A ufacturers; M. Friedman & Sons: K Crockin & Co., dry goods: Schwarz Toy ^ Company: Muliin's Hotel; Burgunder ^ Brothers, clothing; Maas & Kemper, manufacturers of confectioners' tools; I Lewis Lowry & Co.. dry goods; Dry *11 Goods Exchange: S. Xeuburger & Brother, dry goods; A. Sauber, clothpr ing and sponging establishment; A. C. Meyer & Co., druggists; . Carrollton ^ ; Chemical Company: William T. Dixon )n ; & Bro.. wholesale paper; Burger & Co., ?d | wholesale clothing; Blanke's saloon; er Thomas Burne & Co., liquors: James er j Gary & Sons, cotton mills. ofTice; ie Charles Burger & Co.. wholesale rlothin : ing; American-Cigar Company; Cook in j Sanders, local agent of Cluett. Peat 1 body & Co.; John Hurst & Co., dry n. goods; Hancel Miller & Sons dry ig | goods: Stanley & Brown Drug Comir j pany; R. M. Hutton & Co., dry goods; ; Diggs Curarn & Co., boots and shoes; ie Nolan's restaurant: C. Y. Davidson, n. gas-fitting establishment; F. Schleuns II & Co., clothing dealers: Oppenheimer, at Koshland & Co.. wholesale jewelers; is W. C. Katzem & Co.. clothing: C. J. ig ! Stewart & Sons, hardware; O'Connr-ll & d. | Banr,on. restaurant: building occupied J of j by the National Exchange Bank and J s. the Merehs:'s and Manufacturers' Asd, sociation; Hopkins Savings Bank; the r.f i Anminlnr! 1>v Thnrntnn Rr)2Cr-3 ! ^L I Ul.uniili, MJJ , ? *e i ? Co.. printers; Carr. Owens & Heine- | ts j man. and Blake's' saloon: Baltimore ! ie ; News Company; the Cushing Company, e. I book sellers; J. S. Mat-Donald & Co., j iti . jewelers; the Goodyear Rubber Com- ; -e'pany; Likes Berwanger & Co., clcthof i ing; the Welch Brothers Company, in 1 jewelers: the Consolidated Gas Ccmit. par.y; Oehms & Co.. clothiers; C. J. id j Dclaney & Co.; Huyler's Confectionrs j cry; Willing Kna'be Piano Company; , id Samuel Hunt's Sons, leather goods; the in James A. Armiger Company, jewelers; is: the Debrau Hat Company; Kranz Smith Piano Company; F. W. McAlS. i lister ? Co.. opticians: Bryant & ul Stratton. business college; R. Leitz & ie Co.. pianos: Imwold & Co., furniture; ) Granger & Co., tobacconists; Ambach e | Brothers. clothing manufacturers; - I Conrad Zeul's Sons, trunk manufactur a j_ | ers: the building occupied by Silbert0 | man & Todes, dry goods; Thalmier ul J Brothers, dry goods, and the Florence jn | W. McCarthy Company: Fussellbaugh,0 Blake Company, wall paper; Raschgan , | & Garner, window shades; R. Jandorf ,v ! & Co., boots and shoes; James Rob3f; ertson Manufacturing Company, metv, ' a!s; Peter Rose & Sons, harness and j saddlery; B. Cohen, notions; N". Pretz! felder, boots and shoes: John Murphy i". j Company, publishers. >g 1 : LATER?At 8 o'clock Monday morn1 j ing the tire was reported nnoontrolre | able, with loss fully fifty millions of st I dollars. The fire departments of New | ig York City, Philadelphia, Washington J" and Wilmington on hand and almost is ^ powetlese to stay the flames. News of the Day. st ; The presentation by the Prince of Monaco to the Academy of Sciences of rt Paris of a map of ocean depths, showr ing the nature and formation of all the p, bottoms sounded, has once more brought the personality of the Prince before the public. Beyond the fact that is he is paid $500,000 a year to permit id gambling in his principality and that ip he has twice been freed from marital . oMip-atinns?once from the daughter of the Duke of Hamilton, his first wife, t_ and lately from the Duchess of Riche. w lieu, nee Heine, of New Orleans, very ie little is known of the Prince. With js the gift of this deep sea chart has come the revelation that Prince Albert is a scientist, for most of the soundings f- recorded on this chart were taken by ig him or those with him in the cruises of his yachts, the Hirpndelle, the Princess Alice I and the Princess Alice If. lJ It is announced that Thomas Nelson :n Page, author, is in the near future ig to establish a technical school in Hane over, Va., teh county of his birth. The , , plan is to teach young men and girls the different manual callings, such as Lo carpentering. mechanics. coouiug, re cooking, sewing, etc. Telegraphic Briefs. The Russian reply was delivered to ' Japan at Toklo, and is expected ro lead to war. Mrs. Florence May brick is at the d- country home of the Sisters of the 00 Epiphany, at Truro, Cornwall. Joseph Chamberlain is exhausted a. by his political labors and will take a long rest. The movement for separating 1 church and state is gaining a fresh impetus in France. V - -- L ^ NOW OUT OF CUBA American Army No Longer Occupies / ' v.' the Country INDEPENDENT AFTER MANY YEARS The Last Indication of Foreign Occupation Has Been Removed From the Island. Havana, By Cable.?The last vestige of the American occupation of Cuba disappeared Thursday afternoon when the American flag was lowered from the Cabana barracks, and the last bat t2lion of American soldiers marched to the Tristornia pier and boarded the United States army transport Sumner. The Sumner had brought the Seventeenth and Nineteenth, company of United States artillery from Santiago, and these troops participated with the Twenty-first and the Twenty-second companies, who have been stationed here in the evacuation of Ca'oana barracks. , President Palina and the members of his cabinet, Gen. Rodriguez, commander of the rural guards, United States Minister Squires and the members of the legation staff took their places In the centre of the parade ground. After the soldiers had presented arms, the, ^ American flog was slowly lowered from / the stafT over the barracks, a salute of 21 guns meanwhile being fired from the fortress. The Cuban flag was raised in its place and also saluted v.ith 21 ffiins President Palma then addressed Mr. Squires and Major Brown, commander of the American troops, sayin?: "We are confronted by one of the most extraordinary facts recorded in the annals of universal history, the departure from our shores of the last troops the United States has kept in Cuba, after helping us to secure our Independence and the blessings of freedom. They could stay longer, under any pretext whatever, or an unjust* demand could be imposed upon us but on the contrary, the government of the United States identified as it is with the liberal spirit and noble character of the American people, willingly provesits disinterestedness and the sincerity of the aid it rendered us by taking these men away and showing, at the same time, that we have, 03 an independent people, the confidence of ono of the most powerful nations on earth. "This act of t/ie United States in withdrawing its troops from Cuban territory reflects upon it everlasting glory and makes us proud of our deliverers, for it means that nobody doubts our ability to govern ourselves, or to maintain peace and orde^ and guarantee the rights of all the Inhabitants of this island. This new oohsideration shown us, together with _ services we have previously received^ at their hands, will bind the Cuban people to the American people forever in a strong tie of sincere gratitude." Major Brown replied to President Palma and thanked him for his kina-A ness to the American officers and so"1?*diers. He said he believed he voicea* the opinions of his comrades In saying that there were no better people on earth than those of Cuba and expressed, the hope that Senor Palma would serve many years as President, adding that the first part of his administration was a guarantee for success in the future. After this reply, all troops marched past in platoon formation and boarded the Sumner. The Sumner will sail -tomorrow, leaving the Twenty-first and Twentysecond companies of artilley at Fort Barrancas, Fla. and taking the others to Fort Washington, Md. Safe Blowers Arrested. Roanoke, Va., Special.?Two men giving their names as William Ray mond and James Donohue were arrested here last night by W. G. Baldwin, president of the Railway Special Agents' Association of America, charged with cracking the safe in the National Bank of Rocky Mount, Va., two weeks ago, when $4,000 in silver was taken. Eleven bags containing $1,100 - _?i? ?'nnmi nn the men. ID Silver w ci c luuuu There is still $2,900 missing. The men had the money buried near Rocky Mount and went there from Roanoke to get it. Plan of Organization. New York, Special.?It was announ- 1 ced Thursday night that a plan for the re-organization of the United States Ship Building Company, satisfactory both to the bondholders, represented by Samuel Untermeyer, and to the Schwab-Sheldon controlling interests, has been reached, and that in consequence all litigation will come' to an end. Silk Culture Congress. Washington, Special.?Louis B. Magid, of Georgia, the president of the Silk Culture League of America, announced that he had called a silk, culture congress to be held next October at St. Louis. He announced that-' Secretary Wilson has promised to make an address. Mr. Magid called on President Roosevelt in the interest of tjie movement for the growth ci silk in the United States.