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BEN TILLMAN MAKES A SENSATIONAL SPEECH TO BROOKLYN SIL VERITES. Culls Them Infernal Fools. Nev/ IFork, Sept. 2.-Benjamin Ryan Tillman, senior United States ^.senator from South Carolina, came to town Tuesday to open the local cam? paign for those Democrats of the Great ; ex New York who staod by the Chicago platform and who insist that its essen? tial points must be emblazoned upon the standard to be carried by the approaching election. Tillman's reception when he arrived |? Io the city Tuesday morning was not such as to make bim enthusiastic. Oo the contrary, there was no r?ception at ii all. He expected that a committee was going to meet him wheo he arrived on the Hudson river steamboat Dean Rich? mond: but there was nobody there Sobe tock his gripsack and started for the Win asor hotel. The senator was not wearing the sil pitchfork with three goldbugs, to repre? sent Cleveland, Carlisle and Sherman, ..V ??xnpalec oo ita tinea, which 'was pre selfed to him by his admirers in bis - own state. When this was commented on be said : "Well, that was only a campaign button, you know You don't want me to wear it all my life, do you ? I suppose you folks aro nod here would rather wear gold pitchfork with Bryan, Tillman aod Altgeld GO the tines.'" After a quiet day Senator Till mao was escorted over to Ridgewood Park, -- a desolate picnic ground oo the out? skirts of Brooklyn, where the mass meeting that he was to address was to be held. It was a most undesirable place to hold a meeting, yet the crowd 1 ' was a big ooe. more than 3,000 mea being itt the pavilion It waa a? enthusiastic gathering, too, which met the Sooth Carolina fighter . with a brass band aod volley after vol ley of cheers. The meo crowded, around aod upon the platform oe which be stood, aod his solitary eye H?beamed with gratification as they burl ed all sorts of remarks intended to be complimentary at him. The interrop tuns were oot so pleasing to him, bow ever, during bis speech, for they made h impossible for him to keep traok of himself. "POEMAN OF SUGAR TRUST." Henry Nicholls presided over the meeting and made a short speech, io which he extolled tb% provisions of the Chicago platform aod berated the Dem? ocrats who left the party because of it. Former State Seoaror Francis M. 0; Bixby presented resolutions which de l||clared the true test of Democracy was io the support of the Chicago platform; that the municipal ownership aod ope* ration of street railroads aod gas aod electric light plants was necessary, aod that aa ti trust law? were imperative. Ti!]cnn was introduced as "the peo? ple's advocate and the foemao of the j Sugar Trost aod. every other form of j > monopoly " His speech was not argo- j roent, bot as-?errioo, interspersed with j jests aod jeers.' Here are some of the : thioes be-fftfd : "The Democracy was born 100 j years ago and went dowo to defeat j io its first struggle through the ef- ? foi ts of the ariatocra ? A new, re- j generated Democracy was boro in j Chicago last year, and it went down ?' to its first defeat under the blows of! the aristocrats and the influence of ? the tens of millions of tribute levied . upon them by Mark Hanna But j just as sure as you live that regener? ated Democracy will come to the front again in 1900 and will elect William Jennings Bryan. (Prolonged cheer "Tbe Repcblicao party in its thirty , years of rule succeeded, with the aid 1 of an*occasional so called Democratic president, io emancipating the black slaves of the south, . but it made white slaves of the working people of the north. ' Io 1860 the mill;onare was a rare bird, bot now there are thousands ?f them all over the country, and there are some men even with ?200.000. 000 It is missionaries by the thous? ands now, but it is paupers by the millions Read the history of Rome, of Athen? and of great empires which stood where there is nothing bot wilderness now. and you will find tbat they fell because the few en? slaved the many, aud then govern mente became corrupt. Wake up, or j before you know it you will have a king ! % Ci LLED THEM FOOLS. "Why is it that here in New Y^ork 1 you always have a political boss ? j It is because you are such infernal fools that yon don't know any better ; than to carry a yoke around your ] neck. You have just been swapping j bosses here year after year. The boss runs the machine which names tbe candidates, sod then you just go aod vote the ticket iike a lot of blind asses. (Laughter). "Who did you send to represent you at the Chicago convention ?" "A lot of dirty dogs !" shouted a listener. "You sent a delegation with Whit? ney and Belmont and Flower at its head," Senator Tillman went on, "and they traveled weet in parlor cars to keep the Democratic party from disgracie g itself. But the west aod the sooth had men, and they found oat that New York, Pennsyl? vania and New England were not the Qi whole United States, and by God they ain't ! "Why, in your local campaign here they are asking: you to give up all you won as Democrats last year What for ? To get some money from tha diriy Doodlers who have stolen your railroad . franchises and every? thing else. Sell your birthright fur a mess of pottage. But you say you have no money to run your cam paign. Well, don't get your money from your Whitneys, your Belmonte and your Flowers, for after election they will rob you of ?10 for every dollar they gave you. "They are singing the praises of dollar wheat. Who gave us dollar wheat ? Did McKinley do it ? No It was the failure of the crops in Europe. This dollar wheat will go in another year when India and Rus? sia and the Argentine raise another crop and the supply equals the de maud. The only way to bring last? ing prosperity is to remonetize sil? ver !" (Cheers ) Tbe New American Slavery. Among the articles in the Sep terober number of the North Ameri? can Review there is one concerning the Chinese residents of this cou n try, which is sure to excite wide spread anger and apprehension The author. Mr. Charles Frederick Hold? er, charges that these people, in San Francisco and perhaps in other large American cities, carry on a slave trade which is as vile and revolting as any traffic in human beings to be found in tbe world. His statements indicate careful study of the matter under discussion, and are made with such exactness of detail and specifi? cation that they will shock the moral sense of the public. Of the 20,000 Chinese in San Fran cisco, Mr. Holder declares that there are 3,000 whose only business is the importing and selling of women and girls from China These criminals, he continues, conduct a regularly or? ganized slave market, where their victims are bought and sold with lit tie or no attempt at concealment, and the business is so profitable that its leaders have grown rich and power? ful. The helpless creatures who are thus disposed of to . bidders at prices ranging ail the way from $150 to ?3,500, are mostly young girls, who have been stolen from their bornes in China by agents of the slave traders and brought into America by means of fraud, forgery and false certificates of residence. There are 2,500 Chi? nese women and young girls in San Francisco, according lo Mr. Holder, and he estimates that fully 1,500 of the whole number are slaves in every sense of the word, who have been bought and paid for as if they had been so many sheep or cattle. All efforts to suppress the mon strous business have failed. Now and then a miserable wretch revolts against tbe ci u el ty of her master and appeals to the courts or the church missions, is rescued from her living death, but these cases are rare. The victims are ignorant and supersti ticus, and having been taught by their owners to believe that they will be tortured and put to death by the officers of the law in case they apply for protection, they submit to their dreadful fate rather than provoke new evils by fighting against it The busi ness is so carefully organized and its profits are so enormous that the men engaged in it stop at no expense to defeat every legal attempt to destroy it. The traffic bas the acquiescence if not the sanction and approval of the powerful companies which coi.? trol all Chinese interests in San Fran? cisco, and with their protection, to gether with the ready trickery, ,per jury and fraud of its followers, it prospers and grows in spite of all ef? forts to eradicate it. That a trade so hideous as the barter and sale of human beings should thrive in this country-not only in San Francisco, but possibly also much nearer our own homes-is an insult and a reproach to Christian institutions. This wicked business has frequently been hinted at before now. and strange stories have been told of lawless customs that prevail among the Chinese residents of American cities, but it has remained for Mr. Helder fully to disclose the vilest of them and rb show that the slave market has been re established within the territory of the United States. His tecital not only war? rants, but demands a searching in? quiry into the social and moral af? fairs of the Chinese quarter in every American city For if his charges are in accordance with the facts, the?e outlaws from the Orient are boldly conducting a traffic in this country which is an outrage upon morals, justice and social institutions, and an infamous crime against the government -N. Y. Mail and Ex press. Johnson's Chill and Fever Tonic Cures Fever In One Day. LIVE QUESTIONS. A Series of Articles Contributed by Advanced Thinkers, TAXATION-THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION. **y Frederick M. Crundell, Public Libra? rian, St. Louis. m. To simplify the case, let ns suppose (?hat ten men are shipwrecked ou a fer? tile island capable of supporting a pop? ulation cf 100,000. They divide the land among themselves and agree to rec? ognize .each other's titles. Later 500 people are cast ashore from an emigrant ship. The ten men meet these on the beach and tell them they can come ashore only on condition that they be? come the slaves of the owners of the is? land. The wet and hungry castaways declare they will die first. They como from the United States, where people don't believe in slavery. "Well, they believe in owning laud, don't they?" "Yes." ''Very well, yon just agree that this island is ours, and yon may come ashore free men. " "But how does this island happen to be yours? Did you make it?" "No, wo didn't make it." "Have yon a title from its maker?" "No." "Well, what is your title any? how?" "Oh, our title is ?ood enough.. We got here first. " " Well, that's a good United Stares title, so we'll recognize it. But mind, we're free men. " "Certainly you are." But when it comes tc the business ad? justment the 500 find that before they are permitted to get a living off the land they must agree to pay to the 10 a cer? tain part of the products of their labor. The 10 confine their activities to in? specting the growing crops of their ten? ants and seeing that the stipulated rent is promptly paid. The 10 who do r ij ingiive luxuriously, while with the . JQ it is just as hard times as the landown? ers choose to make. Their absolute title to the land being recognized, all present and future inhabitants of the island are practically their slaves. We need not confine ourselves to sup? posititious cases. Here are two actual is? lands, one settled centuries ago, the oth? er within the memory of men now liv? ing. Few People Own the Land In Britain. In the United Kingdom more than one-fifth, probably one-fourth, of all the land is owned by 525 nobles. The united possessions of three of these gentlemen amount to nearly 2,000,000 acres, one thirty-sixth of the whole land of Eng? land, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Four-fifths of all the land of the king? dom is owned by about 5,000 persons. The owners of four-fifths of the soil cn whJch live 38,000,000 people "could meet within the compass of a single voice in one of the great public halls of the country, ' ' and out of the whole pop? ulation less than 300,000 own any land at all. In a general way you knew theso facts before. But did you ever think cf their full significance? Thirty-eight mil? lion people must pay tribute to 5,000 for permission to live and labor on British soil. Their only alternative is to take ship for seme distant country. The Evils of the Land Shark. And whither shall they go? Whero can they find a place within the boun? daries cf civilization that is without the iandshark waiting for some one toc?me and fatten him? To this country? Oh, the Iandshark is here, both the foreign and the native variety-(fortune's fig? ures) over 20,000,000 acres owned by English "acrecrats. " To New Zealand perhaps? Yes, that is as good a place as they can rind, for there the people have begun to suspect the cause of the com? mercial crisis from which they suffered a few years ago and to apply the rem? edy. With a delightful climate, a fertile soil abounding in all natural resources, settled by the most intelligent and ener? getic race in the world, why should this colony within the lifetime of its found? ers, suffer from hard times? Was it tar? iff or free trade, monometallism or bi? metallism, intemperance or municipal corruption? None of these. It was land grabbing. It wa^ the attempt of a few enterprising men to make themselves the landed gentry of tho country and thus live off the labor of others. But this is the nineteenth century instead of the eleventh, and laws made by the peo? ple may be changed by the same power. These modern "conquerors, " however? so far succeeded that more than half of the freehold area of the island is owned by 584 persons, and three-fourths of it is held by a little over 2,000 people. This 0,000,000 acres out of the total of 12,000,000 includes most of the desira? ble laud. It follows, therefore, of neces? sity that the great majority of the 600, 000 of white populatiou must pay these 2,000 men for the privilege of living on productive land (including all the cities and towns) or go off and try to make a living on unproductive land and away from the advantages of civilization. What does this mean? Simply that they are not free men. They live by permis? sion of the 2,000. They have the alter? native of paying tribute to these or go? ing off into the wilderness or the ccean. It follows also that the 2,000 landown? ers aro not, or at least need not be, pro? ducers. They are relieved from thc di? vine decree, and the extra burden is put on tho rest of the population. The working members of the community bear ali the expenses, pay all taxes. It must be so, for nothing is produced with? out labor,and if the 2,000 landowners are merely such it necessarily follows that they are net producers and can, there? fore, contribute nothing to the state. Do ! they not pay taxes on their holdings? you ask. Oh, yes. But where do they get the money to pay these taxes? From their tenants of course. They collect i rent from their tenants, pay over a por? tion of it to the government and pocket ; the remainder. Understand, I am supposing, what is quite conceivable, that they are nu rc landowners. Many of them probably j carry on industries of various kinds and are therefore producers. Some, on tho other hand, do not even live in the col- I ony, and the rent money goes to Eng- : land, as the bulk of Irish rent docs. The : inevitable results of ibis system of land tenure and inequitable taxation were a 1 financiaTcrisis abel the usual hardtimes a few years ago. The drones were over greedy. They didn't leave enough honey to carry the workers through the winter, and there was trouble in the hive. The New Zealand people were the first set of workers to "get on to" the true cause of hard times. The Diagnoses of the Doctors. Other people have listened to the diag? noses of various political doctors, who assured them, on the one Land, that it was lack of silver coin, and on thc eth? er that it was too much silver; that ir was too high tariff or too low tariff, or overproduction or foreign immigration But the New Zealanders concluded was just plain robbery, in the shape c a heavy toll laid on all industry by :. few men who had monopolized ono ci the two essential factors to ail produc? tion-land. The force of tradition kept them from applying a radical remedy. They have taken steps, however, to lessen the land monopoly, which, like the dragon of mythology, demanded its yearly offering of the people's blcod. They have stopped the accumulation ci holdings beyond 2, OOO acres. They have put a special tax on nonresident owners and placed a graduated tax on large es? tates in addition to the regular tax. They have exempted improvements np to the value of ?3,000 and have adopted an income tax. They now raise the bulk of their revenue from tho laud and the income tax, and New Zealand is the cue country in the civilized world frcm which no cry of distress has come dur? ing the last year. New Zealand, then, serves as an object lesson on the evils of land monopoly and the good results of even a partial reform. Budget of Taxation. Let me give a few facts and figures to elucidate the situation in Great Britain. Let us see if there is not in these some explanation of the poverty, that prevails in the United Kingdom: The total of imperial taxation, accord? ing to the budget ot 1893-4, was in round nuxgbers ?75, OOO, OOO. Two of the items are instructive. The direct tax on land was ?1,035,000. The tax on tea was ?3,399,375. Tho land tax is paid by the nobles, who by their very code are nonproducers. The te3 tax fell on the working population. The laud own? ers were apparently reached through the income tax and the genral property tax. But they didn't pay either. Their in? come is drawn from the rentals of their land and is therefore paid indirectly by the tenants, while, according to tbe terms of English leases, all taxes, gen? eral and special, are paid by the occu? pants of the property. Besides imperial there is lecal taxa? tion which for the year 1S9?-1 (the lat? est figures available) was as follows: For police , sanitary and other \vork.s.?13,CC5^3Ij For relief cf the poor. lO.OS?.OO? For school boards. 7,G49..r>Uj Total.?5:;, 643,105 Look at that. Ten million pounds fer poor relief and ?7,000,000 for education ; ?10,000,000 fer cure and ?7,000,000 for the more hopeful measure of prevention ! And nearly all of this money is paid by the great middle class, the majority of whom have to work and scheme and pinch to live decently and p-y their rates. The people of Great Britain, then, have to pay annually out of their earn? ings for the support of tho government a total cf about (in round numbers) ?128,000,000, over $600,000,000. But this is not all. The estimated rental cf London 15 years ago was ?25, 000. It is by this time certainly ?30, 000,000. The "New Doomsday Books" of 20 years ago gave the annual rental of the kindom outside of the metropolis as ?90,352,303. Setting off the fall in agricultural lands against the increase of urban rentals, it is well within the mark to call the total ?100,000,000. This, with the London rentals, makes a grand total of ?130,000,000. The Tollers Pay the Taxes. ? Here, then, is an additional mulct on the industry of the inhabitants. Cer? tainly no one will claim that the land? lord pays the rent. The people, there? fore, carry this double burden-?128, 000,000 for taxes and ?130,000,000 for ground rent. Is it any wonder that their shoulders s-oop and that the weaker backs are broken? Would Natural Tax Raise Enough Rev? enue? The question of the ratio of ground rents to government expenses has often been raised by opponents of the single tax. Some contend that a single tax on land values would not yield enough reve? nue. Others are equally positive that the amount would be so unnecessarily large that it would lead to extravagance. These two, it seems to me, may be left to fight it out between themselves. Whatever the decision may be, it has nc bearing on the question. Since land val? ues are created by the community they belong to the community, and until ev? ery cent of this is taken there is no jus? tice in mulcting the individual of his earnings. But it happens, singularly enough, that the two totals given above are almost identical-?128,000,000 foi taxes and ?130,000,000 for ground rent. It is clear from this that all the expenses of government, imperial and local, could be paid by a single tax on land values, and the people would thus be relieved of a burden of about $650,000,000, a year. This would do something toward abolishing poverty. Bat this is not ali of it. The increased importunities fen self support afforded by opening tile Jami i to the people would bring great increase to this amount. Thc fact is, this esti? mated rent value is far below the true i figures, for it avowedly takes no account | of (Iquote) "the vast extent of common ' and waste lands * * * claimed by these 525 nobles or the area of any lands net ratable for the relief of the poor. Their properties in roads and rivers ( the water ? is owned there, as well as the land), a.< j well as in forests and in all timber grow? ing woods, in markets, docks, harbors and canals, are all excluded." ; < Take JOHNSON'S ' CHILL & FEVER TONIC. A PERMANENT TRIBUNAL. A practicable plan fer settling con? troversy between America and England -that is what men want. Itwouldnci ^olve half the difficul? ties which surrounded the creation of , the United States supreme court, but these difficulties were surmounted, and that high tribunal now keeps the peace between 45 states. The definite question most interest? ing is this: Wiax you have a permanent tribunal which may be called together whenever it is wanted or will you cre? ate a new court whenever you have a question, as you did in the Alabama case or when you tried to save the seals in the north Pacific? The New York Bar association, in the able memorial which it presented j to the president, blocked out an intelli- ! gible and simple plan for a permanent tribunal. It Iras the merit that it can be readily set a-going. It can begin, and after it has begun it is so elastic that it will feel its own way and solve mest of its own problems. Suppose that the five great powers of Europe and the four great powers of America looked with favor on such a plan. The Bar association proposes that the highest court of appeal in each na? tion shall appoint one jurist from its own number to sit at the international court. These nine gentlemen would meet-one American, one English man, one Russian, one Frenchman, one Ger? man, one Austrian, one Mexican, one Chilean, ene Brazilian. They would or? ganize themselves as a court. They would appoint their secretaries, mar? shals and other officers. As a bright man said at a meeting where the plan was brought forward in New York, "They would hang out their sign." Whatever nations wanted justice could come and have it Suppose the nations named had agreed to the formation of such a court. Suppose Spain and Portugal had a quar? rel. Here would be at hand an impar? tial tribunal, ready to hear both sides and give a fair decision. In contrast with this the rather vague but rather popular plan of which one hears every day proposes in general "arbitration." This means that Spain would have one judge, sure to decide in ber favor; Portugal would have one, sure to decide against Spain, and the two would name a supposed impartial third. He would really decide the case. In contrast to this the Bar association proposes a permanent tribunal, as im? partial as it can be made. The Mohonk conference went square? ly to work to discuss the difficulties cf this or similar plans. It was urged with a good deal of force that no such court would have enough to do. It was said that in 100 years only 17 quarrels have arisen be? tween England and America and that that number is larger than would arise in a century between us and any other power. It was implied that we need net distress ourselves about other contro? versies than those arising between us and England. To this rather vague suggestion the fair answer is this: Little harm will follow if at first every nation is a little shy of the new tribunal. Let it show what it can do. When a great case comes, its machinery will have been tested. This is certain-that many cases will be brought before it which do not justify the clumsy and costly system of "arbitration," like that of Halifax or that of Geneva. Diplomacy will only be too glad to have a court like this, which can call and hear witnesses, can listen to argument, and can decide at once in cases which now toil on for years perhaps and have to be studied up anew by each new incumbent of of? fice and by the officers of administra? tion to whom such cases are in practice remanded. Judicial questions are best decided by judges. The pathetic and ludicrous farces which we call ecclesias? tical courts sufficiently illustrate the danger of unprofessional tribunals. It is very desirable that the agree? ment on which such a court shall be formed shall not be* an agreement lim? ited to two nations only. If England and America made a court, it would be evenly divided between men conscious themselves that they carried the preju? dices of birth into their decisions. But if England, America, France and Ger? many would join in the invitation nei? ther nation would have a controlling voice in its counsels. More and more, as time went by, and as its practice ma? tured in experience, weald it attain the catholic or cosmopolitan character which the world expects in its decisions. The Belgian pian, offered by Mr. Hodgson Pratt to the Mohonk confer? ence, proposes that the judges shall sit for three years only. This limitation seems to us unfortunate. The tribunal, when it exists, has to win its spurs and to earn respect in face of continual ad? verse criticism. Its members must be wholly free from dcubt, cr even curios? ity, whether they are to devote their lives to the august offices which it de? mands from them. Whatever dignity cr prestige it gains in its earlier occasions it ought to keep. It should be known to the world as the court %vhich has won such honor. If Europe comes to Ameri? ca for advice on a subject where Amer? ica has tried the great experiment and bas seen it succeed, Europe will learn that tho high court of nations must be a permanent tribunal. EDWARD E. HALE. THE RULE OF THE PEOPLE. The people are the rulers. Whatever or whoever else may triumph for a sea? son should learn this lesson. Bribery and intimidation may endure for a sea? son, but those who try to gran their own ends in this way must come to naught Tiie schoolmaster has been abroad in the land a long time; the forum and rostrum has discussed thousands of vital questions; mothers and fathers demand j of and urge their children to do right, j and, more potent than ill, the printing j press is filling the land with books and j papers, and our publications, consider? ing their numbers, are singularly pure ? and able. With all this moral force making for j righteousness we need have no fears of 1 the outcome. Besides, beltremeinbered that it is to the real interest of every one to do right and that for the most part every one knows this. Wrongdo? ing brings its sure punishment. A man may for a time escape temporal suffer? ing, but he cannot escape the law of righteousness. A man may get gain un? lawfully, and when he does this what he puts into his pocket is taken out of his character. We need not fret over? much about injustice. We reap what we sow. Some harvests are longer in ripening, but in due time all are ready for the sickle. It is well enough for all to be careful about gains and losses, about who goes into office and who stays out, and blind partisanship may cause us now and then not to do this, bu^ in the long run good and wise men will be elected. Goodness is not a sufficient qualifica? tion for office. The ignorant cr stupid good man is the most dangerous tool the demagogue has. A case is known in a western city where a wealthy, upright man is the unconscious tool of one of the mest notorious political bosses in the country. This boss hides his evil deeds behind the dull good men that he deceives and is thus able to deceive many more. A dull man cannot be ex? traordinarily good, but he can be re? spectable, and his respectability may become the lurking place for evil men. Let us have upright men for effie?, but let us also have wise men. There is abundance of them, but they too often eschew politics. We will have a new spirit of patriotism one of these days, and then we shall have most of the* of? fices ably filled. The people want and will have faithful and able servants. ' J. W. CALDWELL. The Royal Victorias. How do the royal family manage to distinguish between their Victorias? There is a Victoria in every family of the second generation-Victoria of Prus? sia, Victoria of Wales, Victoria of Edin? burgh, Victoria of Hesse, Victoria of Sleswick-Holstein, Victoria of Con? naught, Victoria of Battenberg, Victo? ria of Teck and others somewhat less nearly connected. There is no Victoria of Albany, the sole exception.-London Sun. Catarrh and Bronchial Trouble - Had no Appetite-Now Better in Every Way-A Delicate Child. "Some time since I took a sudden cold and could not get rid of it. Being subject to catarrh and bronchial t rca ble I coughed terribly. I lost my app^iie and grew poor and wea;: and I did not feel like work. I began taking Hood's Sarsapa? rilla. In a short time the cough disap? peared, I slept well, had a good appetite and I was better in every way. Last spring I was not feeling well, I had no ap? petite and no strength. I resorted to Hood's Sarsaparilla and soon felt more like work. My little nephew was a deli? cate child and had a humor which trou? bled him so he could not rest at night. He has taken a tew bottles of Hood's Sar? saparilla and now he has a good appetite and ?3 able to sleep." Miss ABBIE J. FREEMAN, South Duxbury, Mas3. Hood'sc parilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $1. Hswv/Pc Dille are the best after-dinner ?IO?U s Jr lila piii^ aid digestion. 25c. Searching for Clues There are any number of clues found by the detectives in A CONFLICT OF EVIDENCE This is another remarkable story from the pen of Rod? rigues Cttolengui, who wrote .'An Artist in Crime," con? ceded to be the strongest de? tective tale that has appeared in years. "A Conflict of Evi? dence " will add to the reputa? tion of Mr. Ottolengui and will fascinate all who have the op? portunity to read it. We have provided for the readers of this paper by pur? chasing the serial rights. The first chapters will soon be printed. 1)1!, 1, ALVA ?Di, DENTIST. office OVER STORE OF SUMTER DRY OOODS COMPANY oimmuce on .Main Street, Between Dry Goods Co. srui Durant & fon * OFFICE HOURS: 9 to 1.30: 2 to? o'clock. April 9. 2