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fHigh Handed Methods of Repub
lican Campaign Managers.
-^DEMAKD 50 PEE CENT OF SALARIES
Officeholders Must Give Vp or Lose
Their Jobs ? Cuban Scandal Xot
Confined to the Fostoifice?How the
Boer Envoys Were Received by
Mr. Bryan?Susrsrestion For a Joint
Debate?Concerning the Open Door
> In China?The Democratic Leader*.
} [Special Washington Letter.]
{ ''Stand and deliver!'* was the ominous
^command which Paul Clifford and his
irobber crew used to thunder into the
*ears of travelers on Hounslow heath
iand in the pleasant lanes of England.
~ '*4Stand and deliver!" are the dreadful
{words whispered in the ears of govern
ment employees at Washington and,
.as for that matter, all over the country,
.for there is no Republican officeholder j
big enough or small enough to escape j
{the modern highwaymen?the Repub
lican campaign managers. Kathbone, j
!Neely & Co. steal on a huge scale in
Cuba; the Republican campaign man
agers hold up and sandbag the defense
less employees here at home. Civil
service rules don't count when a cam
paign is on?no. not on your life, they
don't!
Blackmailers appear to grow with
what they feed on. In ISSO one Jay
Hubbell made his name loathed until
it became a hiss and byword by black
mailing employees out of 10 and 20 per
cent of their '.vages in order to raise
the slush with which to buy GarfiekVs
election. The haired of the American
people drove Hubbell into private life,
but Hubbell was timid at the business
compared with latter day Republican
managers, who demand and get GO per
cent! " "Iis true, and pity 'tis 'tis
true!"?that is. if the Washington Tost
is to be believed, and remember that it
is a stanch friend to McKinley.
Robbery and Blackmail.
Here is a short extract from a two
column expose which The Post makes
of a transaction which Involved both
robbery of the public and blackmail of
the employees:
Congress took SS0.000 out o? the treasury just
before adjournment and presented it to the em
ployees of the senate and house. This was in
pursuance of an old established custom?a custom
mere generous than, creditable?of votin g an ex
tra month's salary to each man cn the capitol
pay roll. Nobody ha? ever seriously contended
that there is any real justification for this givir;::
away of the people's money, but both political
parties do it. and i: has been dene so citen and
so long thai the big annual fri:t?it is a clear
gr*"?has ceasod to provoke more than a feeble
and passing protect from even the watchdogs of |
the treasury.
But this year's presentation to the force of cap
?tol employee- has had a sequel more scandalous j
than the presentation itself. Congress having lib- j
erai'y voted SSO.000 in the shape <>: extra salaries, j
the Republican comrrcssional commit ice has step- I
ped in and asked t'ie beneficiaries on the house !
roll to give up one-hail c: the sum they received
ior use in the campaign. In ether words, an ef- j
lort has been made to utilize 50 per cent of a
large appropriation o: public money as a nucleus
of a fund needed by the congressional committee
to aid in the election of Republicans to the Fifty
eeveatb. congress, failure to respond freely by
the employees has prevented the complete con
summation of this remarkable project, but it is
no fault of the congressional committee that it
failed to get hold of a considerable share of the
$80,000 so generously donated. There was a belief
that $10.000 at least would be voluntarily sur
rendered, but it is understood that less than half
ef this amount will be realized.
Give L'p or Get Ont.
How do the taxpayers of the land
like to have SSO.000 of their money pre
sented In one gob to a job lot of Repub
lican officeholders and then have the
officeholders plundered of one-half of
It to hold the freebooting administra
tion in power for fou: years more? It's
a pity that a resolute prosecuting at
torney does not get held of the black
mailers and send them to the peniten
tiary! We had to pass a new extradi
tion law in order to get Ratnbone and
Neely hack here from Cuba, but these
blackmailers are carrying on their ne
farious operations in the full light of
day at the Raleigh hotel, on Pennsyl
vania avenue, in the nation's capital. !
We are told that F. F. Sehrader, who I
is doing this precious business for the i
Republican congressional committee, j
assures a startled public that no coer
cion is used. Oh. no! Perish the
thought! But there is not an employee
who responds to Schrader's invitation
to walk into his parlor at the Raleigh
who does not know that if he refuses
to come down with the dust to the
tune of 00 per cent of his salary he will
lose his official head. So rather than
give up his job he whacks up.
Schr?der has been caught in the act
and in history will join Jay Hubbell.
of odoriferous memory, but no doubt
there are others at work in every de
partment of the government busy as
bees bleeding the employees in order
to re-elect this administration of puri
ty, sweetness and light Assassination
in Kentucky, blackmail in Washing
ton, plain but colossal stealing in Cuba,
are the starters in a campaign destin
ed to be the corruptest in the history
of the republic. All decent folk will be
compelled to hold their noses long bo
fore the frost of November nips the
Republicans on election day.
Like Bnnqno'i Gboit.
The Cuban scandals, like the ghost
of the late lamented Banquo. will not
down. The stench is so strong that even
some of the McKinley organs are com
pelled to give a lusty and far resound
ing snort occasionally to keep from
bursting- For example, that perferrld !
McKinley shouter. the Indianapolis j
News, has a Havana correspondent j
who, among many other warm things,
says: '
It seems a lit ilo unfair that the department c-i
posts i:i Cubs should be made the scapegoat fer a?i
tue corruption cn the island's administration
when it is well known in Havana that the postal
irregularities ani defalcations r.re but a bagatelle
in comparison with the stupendous frauds that
have been perpetrated and judiciously covered up
in this city alone, to say nothing of suburban
military railroads, etc. Havana has always had
the reputation of biing a warm place, but if ;.he
political pot continues to boil over much more it
will soon be pronounced too liot for comfort.
The military muddle is petting thicker than
ever. Genera! Adna II. Cha?fce. late chief of
staff, cot away just in time. Before Itaving h
remarked to a friend: "We all knew it would
have to come, and I thought the sooner the bet
ter, but those tender toes up there in Washington
wanted the cyclone staved off till after election.
'Keep quiet down there or t'.K; Democrats will
catch on, and then the devil will bo to pay.' So
we kept quiet until some jay squealed to congress,
and then?well, now the fat is in the lire, and no
body knows who stole the fish."
For months?in fact, since January?the
militai .?iithoritics in Cuba knew of the gross
extra*.agane?. the criminal carelessness and the
glaring i:iaec;:racics. not to use stronger terms,
that existed ii: the department of posts, but they
also knew of tlie amazing rottenness of the city
government, which was under military jurisdic
tion and for which army officials in Cuba were re
sponsible, and they hesitated to stir up such a
cesspool of corruption, realizing that all the vir
tues of the S125.000 electrozone plant and other
disinfecting fakes would not be sufficient to de- j
odorize Davis* doings, let alone purify the city j
expense account.
Besides, the constant admonitions from the
White House?"Keep Cuba out of politics"?could ?
not be ignored, so the military authorities in con
trol followed as long as possible the aduce of tbe
late Colonel Ingcrsoll, "Never look for what you j
don't want to find," and were happy.
On the Stool of Repentance.
Now, mark you. The News has been
a stanch supporter of the McHanna
administration. But rats desert a sink
ing ship. The same correspondent gets
oif this startling paragraph for the
amazement of a gaping world:
The real facts are that the present administra
tion lacks the foresight to discover, the courage
to denounce and the ability to bring to justice
the real thieves and political parasites, both civil
and military, that bave disgraced our occupation
of the island.
Whereupon the agile editor of The
News, determined not to be caught
as the ship goes down, makes a brave
leap for the shore, remarking on the
way through the air: j
But the people will net have it so. They will j
insist on knowing the worst in order that the j
proper remedy may be applied. The president j
cannot afford, no mtttcr how completely some cf
his friends may be involved, to ignore this mat
ter, and we cannot believe that he will. When
the whisky ring scandals touched the most 'inti
mate friends of General Grant, the members of !
his own official household, he said, "Let no guilty
man escape." Here is a precedent for President j
; lie Kin ley.
Evidently The News is cn the stool of j
repentance, and it may seem ungra- !
cious to jog its memory with unpleas- !
ant things, but the fact is that, not
j withstanding General Grant's line epi- I
gram, several guilty men did escape, j
among them his military secretary, !
General Babcock, and at the ensuing ;
election the Democrats swept the coun- !
try, electing Samuel .T. Tilden presi- !
dent by a popular majority of a euar- ;
ter of a million and by a substantial
majority of the electoral college.
Two Fletares.
It will be remembered that when the
envoys of the two brave little South
African republics presented themselves
at Washington to seek the sympathy
of the greatest republic under the sun
in their heroic but unequal death I
struggle with the vastest monarchy ?
upon the face of the earth, the admin- j
istration. headed by President McXin- j
ley. gave them the cold shoulder and ?
The marble hand. Mr. McKinley and !
his premier. Colonel John Hay, recciv- j
ed 'them as private citizens only and
turned them away empty handed. |
Gaze first on that picture of heartless- j
ness and then this of American ;
cordiality. When an ovation was given !
these same envoys at Omaha. William !
J. Bryan was the chief orator. During j
his speech, which was American
throughout, he uttered these noble
words, which thrill the heart like
strains of martial music:
I trust the day will never come when a nation
fighting for liberty will look in vain lo the
American people for sympathy and aid. These
envoys have honored us by coming to seek our
sympathy, giving us a? Americans the opportunity
to assist them to gain that liberty which is so
dear to us.
It is to our honor tliat the Boers have come to
us to receive our sympathy. It is hard to under
stand the feelings of the man who has sympathy
for the "Boer cause, but who is concealing it for
political reasons. When a young man, I l???rd a
very able sermon which has always clung by me
on the text. "As he thinketh, so he is."
Why should any American citizen who feels for
the Boer fail to express himself as such? I do not
see how one can do other than to choose the
cause of the two republics in preference to that
of a monarchy.
Essence of Americanism.
Those words were fitly spoken and
are like apples of gold in pictures of
silver. I humbly and fervently thank
Almighty God that America is still
able to nurture a man such as Bryan.
His career demonstrates that the breed
of men tv ho formed this republic has
not run out. "I do nut see how one
can do other than to choose the cause
of the two republics in preference to
that of a monarchy." That is a simple
statement. It contains the very es
sence of Americanism. Two years ago
to those words and to that sentiment
there would not have been a dissent
ing voice in all this broad land; now
official America?Mark Hanna Ameri
ca?dissents toto crclo. I doubt if any
other nation since the morning stars
first sang together for joy has traveled
the road from republic to empire as
fast as has America In the last 18
mouths. Which represents most truly
the great body of the people In this
Boer matter ?Bryan or McKinley?
There can be but one answer.
Bryan and McKinley.
My more or less esteemed and always '
amusing contemporary, the St Louis j
Globe-Democrat, suggests that a joint j
debate between William J. Bryan and I
Theodore Roosevelt would be a fetch- 1
ing performance. Teddy's friends ?
oujrht to have The G.-D. arrested under
the statute against cruelty to animals.
The G.-I>. outrht to suggest somebodv
of Bryan's size, or, failing that which ?
is impossible, somebody who measures
up somewhere to his intellectual stat- j
ure. He Is easily the greatest living
orator, perhaps the greatest that ever
lived. Roosevelt would have ai mut as
much chance with him In an oratorical j
slogging match as Terence McGovcrn j
would have had with John Lawrence j
Sullivan when "Sully" was in his
prime.
I have not seen Bryan since A Dril.
' and am no more authorized to speak
i for him than is any other Democrat in
? good standing, but if The G.-l is really
j hankering for a joint del-ate in which
Bryan shall figure I en suggest one
which will add to the gayety of na
! tiens. Let William McKinley and Wil
i liain .7. Bryan have one joint discussion
t in each of the 4 ? states of the Union!
I I am absolutely certain that Bryan will
j accept. Can The G.-D. bring William
j of Canton to the scratch? 1 trow not.
I and why not? Because The G.-D. knows
I full well that McKinley can't hold a
? candle to Bryrm in a full and com
I prehensive discussion of the issues
now before the American people.
I feel so certain that Bryan and
Democrats generally would favor
a discussion between the presi
dential candidates that, while I
am not authorized to speak for the
Democratic national committee, and
while that committee is not burdened
with funds. I feel perfectly safe in say
ing that rather than not have these lf>
debates between Bryan and McKinley
the Democrats will defray the entire
expense of the performance. If we
can't get the necessary money any
other way. we will raise it by popular
Democratic subscription. The poorest
Democrat iu the land would be willing
to contribute his mite in order to see
the peerless Nebraska tinnii the
present occupant of the White House.
This Bryan-McKiuley oratorical
scrapping match would attract more
attention than any debate that ever
took place on earth, and The G.-D. will
miss the greatest opportunity of its
career if it fails to join me in the ef
fort to pull it oil
The Open Door In China.
A recent declaration by a high Re
publican official at Washington recalls
the famous lines which Bret Harte
puts into the mouth of Truthful James: |
Do I s?ron? Do I drcr.m?
Do 1 wonder and doubt ?
Are thir.?? what they scck?,
or arc virions aix-ut?
Is our civilization a failure.
Or is the Caucasian played out?
The aforesaid declaration of the high
Republican ollicial is. in words and
ligures, as follows?to .vit:
"The so called guarantees relative to
the 'open door' in China are not worth
the paper they are written on."
Jupiter Olympus! What are we com
ing to? Fur many moons we have
been told, with frequent and monot
onous iteration, that the achievement
of the "open door" was of itself alone
amply sufficient to secure an immor
tality of glory for this Republican ad
ministration. At the annual banquet
of the merchants and manufacturers
of Baltimore last spring I heard my
brilliant and expansive friend, lion.
Charles Emory Smith, postmaster gen
eral of the United States, laud it to
the skies as the suminum bouum of
all diplomacy and in a rhapsody of
iridescent rhetoric place William Mc
Kinley and Mr. Secretary of State
John Hay on the pinnacle of fame for
having negotiated it. General Smith is
a handsome man. a prepossessing gen
tleman, an artist in the use of words,
and he enthused his audience and car
ried it off its feet, or. rather, out of its
seats on to its feet, as he pictured in
gorgeous colors how vre "vere, one and
ail. to l>e made rich beyond the dreams
of avari?e by reason of the "open door*'
policy. 1 confess that I was so wrought
upon by his flights of imagination and
eloquence that 1 began Iu my mind to
figure out the date when 1 could quit
practicing lav.- and lecturing and go
to living in clover on my part of the
divvy of the illimitable wealth to come
to us through this much vaunted "open
door/' i lived in ecstasy for weeks
afterward. Now comes this cold blood
ed, heartless, unimaginative, matter of
fact "high Republican official" at
Washington and pulls the underpin
ning out from under General Smith's
air castles in China as ruthlessly as
blind Samson pulled down the temple
by pulling down the pillars that held
it up. I feel a sad sense of personal
bereavement as i see my individual
portion of wealth through the "open
door" receding in the dim distance.
And so "the guarantees of the 'open
door' are not worth the paper on
which they are written?" Too bad!
One by one the r->ses fali. "The high
Republican official" who ruined Gen
eral Smith's speech and blasted my
hopes ought to be prosecuted for leze
majesty.
The Ticket.
It is useless to say that Bryan's nom
ination is a strong and popular one.
Also the platform is strong and popu
lar. It is generally conceded that the
nomination of Adlai K. Stevenson for
vice j ?resident strengthens the ticket
greatly in that section of the country
where it most needs strengthening.
A conservative estimate of what would
happen were the election held today
is that the Democrats would carry
Kentucky, Indiana, New York and
Delaware, thereby electing Bryan, and
by a handsome majority, and. as the
tendency is constantly In our favor,
he may sweep other states which voted
against him in 1S9G.
Spnrrow ("?rrh-rs.
A man in Georgia some time ago
caught some sparrows and trained
them so that he can o\ their cage
and they will fly hack a in without
any other inducement than the love of
their home. This trainer watched the
birds carefully ami made op his mind
that sparrows could he trained to do
the work of carrier pigeons and that,
as they were smaller, they would he
more valuable in case of war. He gave !
one <,f his sparrows to a friend who 1
was going a distance of . miles ami :
told him to free the bird when he had j
reached the end of his journey and a* '
the same time to telegraph him when 1
he did so. The bin! reached home and j
went directly to its cage, making the j
journey in a little over an hour and a
half.
From Licurcnan S. Carson.
(.'apt. K. Scott ('arson, father of
Lieutenant L. S. Carson, has receiv
ed from him the following' letter
which we are permitted to publish:
Enroute from Manila to Masbate
on board . S. A. T. Indiana. May
1, 1900.
My dear father:?We left Manila
on 21st ult.. en route to the islands
of Marindugue. Ticao, and Masbate.
We left the bay of Manila on the
Indiana, accompanied by the Hele
na. Villebois and the Baltimore.
We carried the 1st Battalion, Col.
Hard in, his staff, and Ma]. Case went
with us. Our trip was to capture,
and occupy these islands. We took
Marindugue with little resistance
the enemy flying before us, scarcely
in sight. Boac was the first city we
reached. It has a population of
18,'RX) people. There are eeveral
cities on it. Santa Cruz, the next
largest, has - , . The island has
48,000 people on it. Companies B.
and C. landed and marched up
through the jungle to the city,
Boac, the capital. They had some
fine trenches, and about 200 Mausers,
but they did not have the grit to face
us. The tewn and country was
completely devastated; excepting
chickens, hogs and empty houses,
there was no other sign of the in
habitants; every thing fled before
us. We tried to get them to return
after we got in town, but having
been once badly treated by the Span
iards, they mistrusted us. We
made an effort to get the colonel of
the insurrectos to surrender, but he
refused and was allowed to return
after his interview with our colonel.
He was sent for, for an interview.
We marched across the island 24
miles to Santa Cruz, expecting to
meet with resistance, but saw about
12 people in the whole trip. Every
thing had fled to the mountains.
Our trip the first half was a very
hard one. We crossed a small river
about 24 times within a distance of
miles. We' bivouaced on top of
one of them. We were all wet and
had to sleep or sit up on the ground.
It was impossible to carry blanket
rolls. The men could not stand it.
As it was, several gave out and had
to be helped along. It was about as
hot a day as that was you saw at the
review at Chattanooga.
We reached Santa Cruz on the
other side of Marindugue about 8.00
a. m.. the next day. but as usual,
everything had departed and the
town was comparatively empty.
Plenty of white flags were out. We
rescued two Spanish priests who had
been captives for two years. They
were certainly glad to get away. We
left Santa Cruz the same day and
joined the boats which had been sent
up the bay for us from the Indiana;
th<? latter went around the island to
meet it and shell the town if they
resisted. They had some fine breast
works but no one was in them. I
got some nice curios to bring back.
While on our trip to Boac I got a
fellow's gun. and cartridge box lull of
cartridges. It is in fine order. 1
think the fellow was too hotly pur
sued and dropped it. No one was
wounded in this capture.
We are now on our way to Masbate.
We will get there in the morning,
and will land. They have entrench
ments on the shore there too. I un
derstand, but I guess they will be
empty as usual. The insurrectos
have a powder manufacturing estab
lishment on this island. I understand.
We expect some resistance, but don't
thuiK this wiil he much.
I have been appointed Captain of
the Port. Inspector of Customs, and
Internal Revenue Collector by Col.
Hardin. 1er Masbate. Maj. Case,
knowing that I had been appointed,
called me in his state room and ask
me would I be his quartermaster and
commissary. This is quite a lot to
do. but I considered it a compliment,
and said, "Yes/' I have a clerk,
interpreter, and will get a caramet
ta if I need it. I will be excused
from all duties with my company
except when there is a "scrap," and
then I will be allowed to go into it.
Most of the officers of ports newly
opened over here are filled with offi
cers of the army. I will stop now.
will finish before the Baltimore re
turns to Manila.
May 2. 1900.?We arrived in this
bay early this morning and saw in
the trenches and fort along tfie water
front about 200 armed insurrectos.
The Helena was in the bay and
cleared for action. Wo boarded
small boats and as w? were going to
make flank attack, the Helena let
go and shelled the fort, tearing it to
pieces. They stayed in their trench
es and as we landed they gave us a
volley and scooted ; no (me on our side
was hurt. We got a few of them and
captured several prisoners. They
can get through the jungle like a rat
in his hole. I took 80 men and fol
lowed them about '., nil le through
the jungle but could only get a
glimpse of them, when we let them
have it. The attack while we were
going up to the ?k?v by the Helena
with her rapid fire guns and our at
tack was simply grand. They left
and are said to be at the capital
about 5 Diiles away.
As soon as we are done unloading,
we will take that town. It is said that
all of the insurrectos have assem
bled oti this island?Masbate. They
are at Moba, the capital, and I guess
prepared for us. If they run like
they did to-day, we will make a short
order of them. Co. B. captured two
small brass cannons. We expect to
present the Indiana with one of
them. The insurgents here are arm
ed with Remingtons and they use
brass tip cartridges. I suppose these
are some of tiie guns Dewey placed
in the hands of the insurgents before
the latter turned agtunst us.
Along the water front are some
fine warehouses used by Spanish
people, but who now live in Manila.
I have one large one for my O. M.
and Com. stores. The residence is
quite fine. Headquarters will oc
cupy this. I have my ollices in it.
Well, we will get through unload
ing in about two days. We will
likely go up to the capital to-mor
row. We want to give them time to
prepare for us. There won't be |
much left of them when we get
through with them. We have two
Nordenfeit guns which we may use.
Well, I will close for to-night and
will finish after the battle is over.
Good night.
May 7th. 1900.?The colonel of the
insurrectos, well-dressed came in to
see Col. Hardin on 3rd inst. He had
heard of the proposed attack. Of
course he came under a flag of truce.
Considerable time was spent in con
sidering the matter. The insurrec
tos-Colonel said h<; was willing to
surrender, but the men were not, and
that before they would bring in their
arms, they would have t-> hear from
15 Presidents of various barrios.
They wanted 1? > days for this, as the
island was quite large. The Gov
ernor came with him. They are just
the slickest diplomats, you ever saw.
Military men, J mean professional
ly, make poor diplomats. At the
end of 15days we will be just 15 days
behind time. They have no idea of
surrendering, and it will be impossi
ble to get 15 Filipinos to agree to
anything. They have about 300 well
armed men up at Moba, but they are
poor shots and don't amount to much.
They are very scared of the gunboat,
Helena.
It transpired the other day during
the conference, that these Filipinos
knew the day we left Manila, and
the object of our trip. It is aston
ishing how quick they get the news.
They have a fine code of signals.
They burn ?ignal lights on: the
mountains at night. We see them.
We are anxiously awaiting these
todays to be out. when the capital
will be ours. It seems that all the
insurrectos have assembled over
here.
In Luzon they are pretty well sub
dued. There are so many islands it
will take quite a number of soldiers
to hold and garrison all of them,
which will be required.
We are occupying all the ware
houses along the water front. They
are owned by Spaniards, who have
deserted them and who live in Ma
nila. I guess they will come back
now. AVe live in one iine dwelling
right on the ba\*. The tide here
rises about 7 feet and comes right up
to the back steps. It is pretty hot
here during the day and at nights
when it is still, but soon the breeze
springs up and we feel very cool and
nice.
???? ?? -mmmm ?
Will somebody please set a stand
ard for the spoiling of Chinese csmes :
For instance we see it : Ccetoo, Obee
Foo, Cheefo, Che Fu and Cbe Fco ; aod
Tsuogiiyamen, Tsusg Li YameD,
Tsuog ii Yamen ; Prince Ching, Cheog
Ch'ing. These a*e only a few samples
o' the endless variations of those celes
tial tongue-twisters.''?Raieigh Post
There cai aod will be no common
standard until the learned meo of the
world gives us an International Dictbo
ary of Geographic Names and it is
accepted as authority in the cffices of
all editor? end publishers. Io the case
of a laoguage whose writteo characters
d ffer from ours each original writer on
the country attempts to indicate the
sounds of words by meins of his own
alphabet. Re sorxetimes misses, some
times hits ; but whether be misses or
bits he usually represents the sounds by
a combination of lettere differing from
other combinations. The loog e sound
is variously represcDted by e, ee, aod
i ; the sound by u, by oo, by e. ee, and
i ; the sound of u by u, by oo, by o,
by uh ; syllables are joined or disjoin
ed, or hyphenated. So it goes ?Tbe
State.
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Rev Dr. J B. Shearer, president
of Davids?o college, has secured pro
perty a: Fayetteviile, and will establish
n high school 3? ? preparatory feeder
to Dscidson. Most of the better col
leges bave feeders now ?land?lph
Mscon coiiecc the excellent Methodist.
Virginia coUege has rwo great feeder?,
one costing ?80,000 ?nd the other
885,000. One is at Bedford City and
the other at Front Royal ?Wiimiog*
tou Messenger.
The cultivatioo of the sogar beet j
still interests Americans as well as
Europeans. In 1889 Germany bad
1,090.521 acres. Franoe 685 391
acres, Russia 1,356,075 aores, Bel
gium 170,028 acres. Hollaod 112,878
aeree, Sweden 71,271 acres a?d Deo
mark 34,594 acres What tbe figures
are for this country we are not able to
give. Bat a great deal of beet sogar
is produced io some of the western
states.
William E Curtis, writing to the
Chicago Record, says :
"Senator Tillman exercised a great
influence in the convention, and now
ranks second in importance to Jones
among the Democratic leaders He
will take an active part in tbe man
agement of the campaign and spend
most of the summer and fall at Chi
cago Xo man in either party has
advanced so rapidly in prominence of
late years as Mr Tillman When he
came to the senate four years ago he
had only a local reputation, and !
that chiefly as the author of the dis
pensary law in South Carolina, but
he is now a fullfiedged public charac
ter, whose name aod influence are
known and felt in every state of the
union v
The Chioeee resideote of Berlio have
kept carefully ooder cover sioce the
news of Baron von Kettleler'e murder
was ooDfirmed. They have adopted
European attire, eveo sacrificing tbeir
pigtails, and are procuring wigs The
Chioeee minister is said to be frighten
ed worst of all. Ke is reported to be
sick abed.
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Within the next twenty days an
other brave South Carolina soldier
will be fightingp uon Chinese soil
A order was recently issued moving
one of the companies of tbe 7th
infantry, of which Lieut Ben Tiilman,
Jr , is ranking lieutenant, from
Alaska to China He is a son of
George Tillman
The fact is, as the New Orleans
Times-Democrat puts it, the Repub !
Means have no Philippine policy and
do not know what to do They very
likely meditate a colonial empire, the
overthrow of constitutional liberty
and a new era of stealing, but fear
to fay so in their platform
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Schedule No. 4?Io effect 12.01 a. m., Sun
day, December 24, 1899.
Between
Ca deo S. C, and Blacksborg, 8. C
west.
eas:
id cl 1st cl 1st cl 2d c'.
*35 ?33 Eestera time. ?32 *34
m m STATIONS. m sa
12 50 Camdea 12 25 5 3:
4 ?C
4 ZZ
S 20
8 50
9 20
10 ?0
11 20
11 35
12 30
1 CO
1 20
2 30
2 50
3 10
4 10
4 45
5 30
6 00
6 25
6 35
7 00
m
15
27
40
10
15
35
:0
00
10
20
3 40
3 55
4 02
4 20
4 35
4 50
5 00
5 20
m
Camdea
Dekalo
West7ille
Kerchaw
Heath Spricgs
Pleasant Hill
Lancaster
River3ide
Spriogdell
Catawba Junction
Leslie
Rock Hill
New Port
Tirzab
Yorkville
Sharon
Hickory Grove
Smjrna
Blacksburg;
12 25
11 02
11 50
11 35
11 20
11 15
10 55
10 40
10 30
10 20
10 iO
10 00
9 35
9 30
9 15
9 00
8 45
8 35
8 15
a m
41C
3 15
3 00
2 25
1 00
12 40
12 20
11 ?C
10 40
8 2C
8 CC
7 30
6
G 2G
6 00
5 3C
a ni
Between
Blacksburg, S. C, acd Marion, N. C
wpst.
EAST
2d cl 1st cl
11 *33
Eastern time.
1st cl 2dc:
*32 *12
am o m STATIONS.
8 10 5 30 Blacksburg
8 30 5 45 Earls
8 40 5 50 Patterson Spriog?
9 20 6 00 Shtlbj
l? 00 S 20 Lattimore
10 10 6 28 Mooresboro
10 25 6 3d Kesriena
10 50 G 55 Forest City
11 15 7 10 Rotberfordton
11 35 7 22 Millwood
11 45 7 35 Golden Valley
12 05 7 40 Thermal City
12 25 7 58 Glenwood
12 50 8 15 Marion
m m
a m
7 43
7 32
7 25
7 15
6 55
6 48
6 38
20
05
a
40
37
17
00
m
m
6 4G
6 2G
6 12
6 00
4 5C
4 40
4 20
3 50
O ?e
\j ..?1
3 05
2 5 G
2 43
2 2C
2 0C
ra
West.
Gaffoev Division.
Eas;
1st Class.
15 1 13
EASTERN TIME.
STATIONS.
J 1st Clss*
14 1 10
m
1 00
1 20
1 40
m
? m
6 00
6 20
6 40
a m
Blackebnrg
Cherokee Falle
Gaffnej
a m
7 50
7 30
7 10
a m
3 ce
2 4G
2 2G
m
*Dany except Sunday.
Train No 32 leaving Marion, N. C, at 5
a ai, making close connection at Blacksburg, S
C, with the Southern's train No 36 for Char
lotte, C, and all points East and connecting
with the Southern's vestibule going to Atlanta.
Ga. and all points West, and will receive pas
sengers going East from train No 10. on the C ?
N W R R, at Yorkville, S C, at S 45 a m. and
connects at Camden, S C. with the Southern s
train No 7S, arriving in Charleston, S 17 ac.
Train No 34 with passenger coach attached
leaving Blacksburg at 5 30 a m, and connecting
at Rock Hill wi;h the Southern's Fionda tra:::
f.>r all joints South.
Train .No 33 leaving Camden, S C. at 12.53
m, after the arrivai of the Southern's Char
leston train connects at Lancaster, S C. wir?
the LA C R, at Catawba Junction with
the S A L. going Kait. at Rock Hill. S C, witb
the Southern's traijj. No 34, for Charlotte,
C. and all points East. Cmnects at York
ville. S C. with train No 9 cn the C W R
R, lor Chester, S C. At Blacksburg with the
Southern's vestibule going East, and tbe South
ern '* train No 35 going West, and connecting
a t Marion C with the Southern both East ana.
West.
SAMUEL HUNT, President.
A. TRIPP. Superintendent.
S.B. LUMPKIN. Qen'i Paeseng-r Ag*nt.