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Consolidated lng. 2,1881.
SUMTER, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 3,1897.
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% Farmers to M^et
PROMINENT MEN WILL BB
HEBB TO TAKE PART.
. . Amacg the many events of the com?
ing fair week will be the State road
congress which has already been called
and will unquestionably be very largely
attended. Besides this and the cotton
growers' convention, Col Hoi la way's
' idea of having a kind pf farmers' io
stitut%aod experience meeting on sev
er?1f ?rights bf the week, baa been
adopted.
The following aonoonoement in re?
gard . to these events was yesterday
made from the State fair society's head
' * quarters :
"There is to be a grand gathering of
the farmers of jbe State ie Columbia
oa Wednesday night *of fair week to
consider many matters of importance,
s Among the features will be an address
by Prof. Holmes of Chapel Hill. N
Cv, whose ?abject will be "The Pab?
ilo Road Problem in the Sou th. " The
address will be illustrated w'th magic
lantern views showing road building
both tn Earope and the Uojted States.
'.Gen. Roy Stone, director of the
office of road inquiry of the United
States department of agriculture, has
promised to be here.
"Daring the week there will , be
nightly gatherings of the farmers for
i? thaTdisooti8?on of topics of greatest, rn
4 t?fest tq them. % -
"Oo Tuesday eve ti og there will he
an address by some leading man, the
subject being *Tbe. private gard en ) or?
chard and vineyard ' This will be fol?
lowed, by an experience meeting,.. If
possTMe an address will be secured on
the subject 'Thoroughbred stock,
horses, cattle, sheep, swine and poul
. try.' to be followed by any other dis?
cussion.
"On Wednesday evening after the
cotton growers' convention's business ts
s done with: and the public road conven?
tion's business bas been transacted,
thjre will be an address upon the eob
jecV'Growiog Pare Seed, and Improv?
ing Seed by Selection,' followed by a
discussion and au experience meet?
ing.
**Oo Thursday evening there is fo
be an address by some one yet to be
selected on tbe subject of 'Relations of
Mechanics to. Agriculture,' followed by
discussion and experience meeting. If
time permits another address on 'How
Best to,Sustain Agricultural Organisa?
tions*' -wtjl be arranged for."-State.
Gov Atkinson on Lynching.
Atlanta, Oct. 27-Mob law was
severely condemned by Governor At?
kinson io his message to the Georgia
legislature, which convened here to?
day. The message bristles with a
scorching and seota*iooai arrack upon
the lawless spirit that fosters tbe lynch
law sa this State He says that f to ex?
terminate the practice of lyoohiog the
crime mast be made odious and shame?
ful He advocates stringent legislation
against the mobs and insists that the
legislatare pass a law laying every
county wherein such a eri^e is commit-'
ted subject to a large indemnity to tbe
relatives of the mob's victims.
The oortbero lynchers are spoken of
by the governor. Of this be says' :
"It is oo exoune to sav that the
northern people, who have l?sa to pro?
voke them to it, lynch. Let os not
takefbem as a standard, but rather
show a higher type of civilization in
oar State, and ereot here a standard to
which they may aspire."
The governor is io favor of arming
the prisoners aod allowing them to pro?
tect themselves from mobs. He says :
"The arrestiog officers should be
clothed with authority to take ?the life
of the assailants when resisting their
efforts to take a prisoner from h is cus?
tody, and it is his doty to take life if
oeeessarp to protect the prisoner and
retain bim in custody. This he should
be required to do at the hazard of his
own life, or the prisoner should be on
shackled, armed and given an opportu?
nity to defeod himself. The knowl?
edge on thc part of the mob that rbi?
would be done would d?ter it from pur?
going its lawless purpose and the law
should be permitted to protect the inno?
cent and punish theguiity."
Yellow fever has appeared in
Selma, Ala., and Dr. Gaiteras has
bas been requested to make an in?
vestigation.
The Cotton Growers
Called to Meet IQ Conven
?
tioQ in Columbia.
TBE ACREAGE QUESTION
j Colombia S ta rp, Oct 28.
President Wilborn, of the State
Farmern* Alliance, yesterday issued a
call which means the inauguration of
a movement towards securing a con?
vention of the cotton growers of the
Southern States for the- purpose of
taking definite action in regard to the
planting of next year's crop The
call provid?s for the holding of a
State convention in this city daring
the approaching State fair.
The following is the call for the
State convention of cotton growers
for fair week :
Ae president of the Farmers' State
Alliance organization of this State, I
have been requested by numbers of
the representative members of th?
organization to take the initiative in
calling a meeting of the farmers of
the southern States, with a view of
suggesting some action in the future,
looking to the regulation of the acre?
age of cotton, also to discuss the
plans and methods of marketing the
cotton crop so that the producers of
this great staple shall receive the real
value of the crop, and not be forced
to sacrifice the crop by unfair combi
nations, together with the manipula?
tions of the gambling cotton ex?
changes of the country, aided by the
unjust accumulation of all the money
of the country at one center at the
principal, time of the year when our
cotton is going into market. With
these objects in view I desire to re?
quest the cotton growers of the va?
ri?os connties in this State to meet
on saiesday io November and select
one or more delegates to represent
them at a meeting to be held in the
city of Colombia on Wednesday
night of fair week for the purpose of
discussing the matters -mentioned
above. /
J. C. WILBORN,
Pres't Farmers' Afiance of S. C.
HE RUINED A GIRL.
-- -
While Hypnotised - - Bushed to
Conway fer Protection.
Special to Tbe Stale.
Conway, Oct. 27 -Tuesday morn?
ing at about 30:30 Mr. Jeremiah
Smith, proprietor of the Commercial
House, was waked by some one knock'
ing at his door He went out and
found Mr. W* D Coleman, a special
deputy from Marion, with a prisoner.
Pr. Benjamin A Hill, a Baptist
preacher and a faith cure doctor. Br.
Hill was broght over for safe keeping
and lodged in the county jail
Both the deputy sheriff and the pris?
oner were interviewed by The State's
correspondent. The details as related
by the sheriff are these :
For some time past Dr. Hill has
been living in Marion and making a
living by preaching and curing peo?
ple by the laying on of bands He
possessed the art hypnotism and it
seems that some of his patients were
young ladies. Several days ago a
yoong lady was taken with toothache
and went to consult Dr. Hill about it
He advised her to go to the dentist
sand have it extracted, which she did
<In pulling the tooth the dentist
crashed it and gave her a good deal
of pain She went back to see Dr.
Hill and was hypnotised by him and
taken undue advantage of The \
young lady, whose name would not be j
divulged, was of a good family and
such conduct *was resented On j
Monday afternoon the report leaked
out and a mob soon gathered. They j
began immediately to look the doctor
up. They soon had him backed up
in C. A Wilcox's store. The sheriff,
his deputy and the mayor soon came
to his resue and be was spirited off
and brought here for safe keeping
While in jail the prisoner was inter?
viewed, but would not say anything
except that he was innocent He
called in Senatdr Scarborough, who
began by tryiog to see if he could
not get him out Mr Scarborough
telegraphed to the sheriff of Marion
county and received in reply a mes?
sage stating that no specific charges
had been made against Hill, and to
have bim turned loose So Hill got
off on the 2:45 p m. train, and flor?
ry's name was saved from the blot of
a lynching.
NEWS OF ANDREE.
Christina, Oct. 27.-Advices
which have just reachid here from
Spitzbergen, the group of islands in
the Artic ocean, situated midway be?
tween Greenland and Nova Zembla,
say that tjue crew of a wrecked ship
h?8 reached that part of the world
and that a rumor prevails that they
have brought news of Prof. Andree,
the-Swedish explorer who left Danes
Island, Spitzbergen, in a balloon on
July ll. last, in an attempt to cross
the North Pole.
Minister DeLome Gives
Official Information.
THE PLAN OP AUTONOMY.
Washington, Oot. 27.-The Spanish
midister, Senor Dupuy fDeLome, con?
sented for the first time to-day to speak
concern ?Dg the policy of autonomy
which the Spaoish government pro
poses to apply to Coba. This has been
referred to io general terms since the
advent of the Sagasta ministry, but
there has been lack of authentic details.
Before leaving for New York to day,
where the minister and his family will
6pend several weeks, Senor Deputy De
Lome gave the evolutions through
which autonomy bad passed, leading up
to tbe present policy, and the general
outlioe of the policy itself.
Under tbe provisions of the treaty of
Zaojoo, conciaded in 187S at the close
of the last Cuban disturbance, it was
provided that Cuba was to eojoy the
same liberties as those accorded to the
Island of Puerto Rico. This latter
island bad the same liberties as those of
any province of Spain.' This brought
the Autonomist party? so called, into
existence, its essenti?l principle hoing
that of self government for Cuba, and
not treating Cuba as a province of
Spain, as was the system in Puerto
Rico That party adopted a platform
and in 1886 offered a complete pro?
gramme of autonomy for the considera?
tion of the country. ? peaceful agita?
tion of this autonomy programme was
then inaugurated. In 1893. for the
first time, a minister io a' Liberal
cabinet, Senor Maura, saw the mistake
of that system of rule known as "assi?
milation," wbiob treated Coba as a
Spaoish province, and he presented a
pian of reforms. This was strongly
opposed, and after two years of discus?
sion it was found impossible to put the
plan through the cortes. Theo a com?
promise reform measure 3 framed
which aokoawledged the personality of
Cuba as a separate body, but under tbe
Spaoish flag. Tbese reforms having
been considered in su Soient, oo ace ono t
of the state of the island, Premier
Cano va? proceeded to greatly enlarge
them, bis plan being, however, short of
absolute autonomy.
Now, Mr. Moret, minister of the
colonies io the oew cabinet, fulfills the
promise of the Liberal party when it
was in the minority and proclaims
autonomy as it had always been de?
manded by the Home Rale party of
Cuba.
Uoder; this policy as applied to Coba,
tbe island will have a system on the
Hoes of those of Canada, or of the
American States, maintaini'" its in?
dividuality on all internal affairs and
yet retaining its plaoe as a part of tbe
federal aystem It will have a viceroy,
or governor general, aa is always the
case io the maintenance of a colonial
system^ such as that of Australia, New
Zealand or Canada. . The island will
have itEi o?ro legislature, chosen direct?
ly by tbe people, who will eojoy uni?
versal suffrage From the majority in
the legislature the goveroor general will
choose bis mioistry, consisting of a
president of the ministry and four
ministers, oamely, minister of the
interior, minister of public works,
minister of public instruction, and
minister of finance. At tbe same time
Cuba will have representation io the
Spaoish cortes, as well as/ her local
legislature. The representatives to the
cortes will also be elected by the people
of Cuba, through universal suffrage,
and will not be selected by the minis?
try as han been erroneously stated.
The ministry will be responsible to the
legislature and not to thc goveroor
geoeral. The subjects before the legis?
lature will include those of taxatioo,
tariff, public instruction and all matters
of the internal administration of tbe
bland in the broadest sense of this term.
REMARKABLE, IP TRUE.
Alleged Deal Between Prance
and the Mahdi.
Paris, Oct. 28 -The Eclaire pub
1 ? e h e s a remarkable article to day,
to the effect that three French mis?
sions are now on their way to Khar?
toum, by forced marches, as the result
of an understanding with the Mahdi,
reached in 1896, by which Fracce re?
cognizes the Soudan as an indepen?
dent sute under the suzerainty of
the Sultau of Turkey, in return for
certain concessions.
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Spain's Reply is not Of?
fensive.
?
So Much Ascertained Prom
Unofficial Source-Sagasta
Will Probably be Al?
lowed Time.
Washington, Oat. 27.-The event of
the day at the state department was the
receipt of the long-expected cablegram
from United States Minister Woodford
at Madrid, transmitting the answer of
the Spanish government to bis repre?
sentations in the interest of peace in
Caba. This message began to come io
instalments at 2 o'clock last night and
it was nearly noon to-day before it was
all in hand at the state department.
It was BQt the length of the mes?
sage that occupied the wire all of
'bat time, bot the fact that it was ail
in gronps of figures and that it was
probably being filed in small batches as
it was turned ioto tbe complicated state
department cipher in Madrid All of
this work bad to be undone at the state
department and the message translated
from the cipher back again into good
English. This occupied nearly all of
the day/ so that it was half past 3
o'clock before the first fair copy of the
message ups turned out. It was not so
long ; in fact, there were a little less
than 1,000 words in the message, for
Mr. Woodford, instead of cabling the
Spanish answer to bis note had content?
ed himself with reduoieg the mai ter to a
brief outline. The first copy was taken
at once to the President, not being en*
trusted to a messenger, bot being de?
livered by Cbief Clerk Micheals in per?
son at (be White House. After due
opportunity bad been allowed the Pres?
ident to read the message, an applica?
tion W88 made for a statement of its
contents or nature. This was declined
by Secretary Porter and it was said
that under no circumstances would the
correspondence be made public before
consideration by the cabinet.
From unofficial information that has
reached certain administration officials
in advance of this message qf Mr.
Woodford 's as to the nature of the
Spanish reply, it is evident that in
neither language nor subject matter is
the communication likely to be taken as
offensive by our government. It may
be, it is true, regarded as insufficient to
meet the issue presented by Mr. Wood?
ford in his note, but officials of the
state department say that in view of
what has already been accomplished by
the new Spanish cabinet ic reforming
abuses in Cuba, in removing Weyler
and in projecting what appears to be va
liberal measure of autonomy, our gov?
ernment will cereaioly rear, at least un?
til congress assembles, and afford the
new Spanish government a reasonable
time to carry out its plans
Geo. M. Pullman's Will.
His Two Sons Given Only
$3,000 a Year Apiece.
Chicago, Oct. 27 - The will of
George M Pullman was filed for
probate this afternoou. ?o his
widow he 'left the homestead on
Prairie avenue. Sufficient funds are
also set aside to provide her with an
income of ?50,000 yearly during ber
life ; $1,000,000 each is left in trust
for his two daughters, Mrs. Frank O.
Lowden of Chicago, and Mrs Caro
lapo of San Francisco. An income of
but $3,000 yearly'is provided /or his
two sons. George M., Jr., and Sanger
W. Mrs Lowden is also given the
summer r?sidence known as Castle
Rest, on an island in the St Law?
rence river. About $15(\000 in
sums of $10,000 and ?20,000 is left
to various charitable institutions in
Chicago. A sum of $200,000 is
given for the erection of a manual
training school in Pullman, which is
also endowed with $1,200,000. Five
old employes are given $5,000 each.
Two sisters and two brothers of the
dead millionaire are given $50,000
each, and another brother gets $25,
000
If the estate shall be more than
sufficient to satisfy all the devises,
trusts and legacies named, the exe?
cutors are directed to divide the ex?
cess into two equal shares and add
ibe same respectively to the two
portions set aside for the daugh?
ters, Mrs. Lowden and Mrs. Caro
Iain.
The total value of the estate is
shown by the petition for letters tes?
tamentary do be $7,600,000. Of this
amount $6,800,000 is personal prop?
erty and $800,000 realty. Attorney
Runnels, who prepared the will, said
that these figures are a conservative
but fair estimate of the value of the
estate.
Stick to what j ou see advertised in the
newspaper wiien you get to the store. Don't
let a rvily salesman tbrovr you off the track.
You know what you want better than he
does.
Prof. Wallace on Histories.
?
Thinks Publishers and Book
Agents Have Stirred the
Pire of Patriotism
for Profit.
To the Editor of The State :
It is a worthy aod commendable sen*
timent that cherishes the heroism of
the soldiers of the Lost Canse, bat this
sentiment is sadly perverted in any at?
tempt to substitute sectionalism for
patriotism in the minds of oar chil?
dren.
Why this outcry against "partisan
histories" in the schools ? I'll tell you:
The time is drawing near for selecting
school books for another term of years,
and booksellers are working southern
sentiment for all it is worth to them.
Circulars written by Gen. Gordon
against "partisan77 h is tories are being
scattered broadcast by publishers and
agents who have a school history they
are trying to have adopted by State
boards of education. A mass meeting
wa9 recently held in Richmond at the
instance of Lee Camp of Confederate
veterans, to protest against "partisan"
school histories. Virginia is soon to
select school books for four years.
Prominent in the mass meeting was a
man who has lately written a school
history that he would like to have
adopted. A mass meeting has been
called at Nashville by a lot of people
who are not educators to prolest against
"partisan7' histories in southern schools.
There is no doubt a hidden hand in
that proposed meeting also.
Bo these people who are making so
much stir about ''partisan7' histories
really desire non-partisan histories
non-partisan from every standpoint ?
On the contrary, they are agitating for
histories that are intensely partisan
partisan to the south. There are just
two classes of people agitating this
matter : Those who have books to sell
aod those who are being used by them
to help sell them.
Is there any real sense aod reason in
the cry for southern histories for south?
ern schools ? Must we have a southern
history because it is southern? I
know four school histories by southern
authors, and not one of them is a good
text book. Of the twa now most
clamorously and pertinaciously before
southern State boards of education for
endorsement and adoption, one - is now
in use in the public sohools o? this
State ; the other, recently issaed, is
written by the so-called, ''fighting
parson." The first named is undoubt*
edly partisan, but not intensely so. Its
chief fault is its extreme heavi?
ness of style, which renders
the reading of it a labor to
any one and the study of it a posi?
tive weariness of the flesh to school
ohildren. I cannot so rrespass on your
space as to show this, but let me quote
here one or two representative sen?
tences.
''The domestic tranquility guaran?
teed by tho constitution bad not been
enjoyed (by the south) for many a day.
and an interminable continuance of
strife and discord seemed to be io store
for all. The idea had been slowly
shaping itself In the southern mind, that
notwithstanding the affection for the
Union that the south h&l felt and mani?
fested since the founding of the govern?
ment, tranquil existence without the
government was preferable to continued
disturbance within.7'
The "fighting parson'7 is intensely
and bitterly partisan. He discusses
the "causes of the war'7 at great length,
rehashing arguments that have been
stale for 30 years and are about as in?
teresting to a school boy as a last year's
birdoest. Out of 424 pages he gives
138 to the civil war. Iiis style is
totally uofitted for a text , book for
ohildren. His sentences are long, in?
volved and obscure. Imagine chil?
dren 12 to 15 years old making credit?
able or even intelligent recitations from
extracts like the following:
"Yet even after this plaio declara?
tion of the President to coeroe sovereign
States who had simply exercised their
'inalienable right7 (as the Declaration
of Independence puts it) of chooeiog
their own form of government and their
own affiliations, the border States
waited ; the Confederate government
sent them commissioners to treat for
peace and for the equitable settlement
of all property rights and other poiots
at issue ; and 'Union men' all through
the couth, and many good men at the
north, 'hoped against hope* and de?
voutly prayed that better counsels
might prevail, and that the calamities
of war might be averted "
And again this:
"Io Meade's army four general
officers-Reynolds, Vine-nt, Weed and
Cook-were killed, and thirteen
Hancock, Sickles, Gibbon, Warren,
Rutherford, Barlow Barnes, Webb,
Stanard and Graham-were wounded ;
in Lee7s army five general officers
Hood, Hampton, Hetb, J. M. Jooes,
G. T. Anderson, K?mper. Scales and
Jenkins-were wounded.77
* Historians, like poets, are horn, oot
made. Any plodder can gather a mass
of facts and have them put into print ;
but if bc bas not that indefinable
talent or tact for putting bis facts into
attractive form, he. will oever enthuse
nor even ifttsrest children, and the
teacher who tries to instruct children
from such a book has a hard road to
travel.
Facts are stranger than fiction, and
history can be made more charming
than a novel by a real historian. To
my thinking, the best writer of Uni?
ted States history ie JohnsFiske. He,
by the way, has an excellent school
history, %but it is better suited for
high schools than for the common or
graded schools. I sm not personally
interested i? any author or any his?
tory, but Eggleston's comes nearest
to what I think a school history
should be. It is attractive and en*
tertaining ; the style is simple and
pleasing, and it is non partisan.
Before closing I wish to say that
people who write about schcol his?
tories ought to have an intelligent
idea of the kind of history best suit?
ed for children, and they ought to
have a practical and personal ac?
quaintance with the histories that are
now rivals for adoption in the public
schools. Confederate generals and
other veterans should not allow them?
selves and their organizations to be
used to further the schemes of au?
thors and publishers. The way to
inform oneself on this subject is to
get copies of the rival histories1 and
examine them calmly and carefully,
without prejudice and without regard
to where the author lives ; to exam?
ine with a view to encouraging a
broad patriotism, not sectional feel
ing3, and then select for the best in?
terests of those most vitally concern?
ed-the children themselves. If,
upon such examination, the choice
should fall upon a southern author, I
wonld be among the first to congrat?
ulate him. But it lis mighty poor
patriotism and less sense to choose a
southern schod book simply because
it is southern.
. WV IL WALLACE
dewberry, Oct. 26. 1897.
The Prohibitionists
What They Are Doing-Ex?
pect to Push Bill This
Winter.
The prohibitionistsof the State are
exceedingly active, it seems, just at
this time. They believe that the ' is?
sue will have to be voted upon at the
coming session of the general assem?
bly, and their committee's petitions
are being numerously signed all over
the State, they say. In many places
meetings have been held, and a great
deal of work is being done in every
quarter of the State Religious
bodies have taken the work up. Dur?
ing the past few days'lhe committee
has sent out some further circulars,
the contents of which are not: yet for
publication.
A meeting of the executive com?
mittee will probably be held in this
city the coming week. It is not on
likely that a State Prohibition con?
vention will be held in Colnmbia be?
fore the general assembly meets.
Tn the meantime many members of
the legislature are getting up schemea
of their own to offer as solutions of
the liquor problem. Mr. Patton of
this county is said to have a new
one.
The prohibition committee's bill is
now on the calendar bf the general
assembly and. they desire to press it
aa it stands, with but few changes.
It was introduced at the last session
and was allowed to come over till this
year -The State.
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tbis town, and they give tbe public what it
demands. They never offer as a substitu?a
something "just as good."
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