The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, September 09, 1903, Image 3
ta a Cooler Clime.
I am writing, Mr. Editor, from a
section of the Land of the Sky known
as Skyland, X. C. To day is'the first
day of rest J", have taken since "leav?
ing home; but now lam quiet, un?
disturbed, lazy, halt-asleep, and I
propose tha* no one shall impose any
burden upon me-no burden of any
kind. I am sojourning at Bonny
Crest Cottage. To my left is the
railroad that clings to the western
slope of Brown Mountain-named
doubtless after me, ?>r then before
me; in fronts two or three hundred
yards away, is the Mineral Springs
Hotel, where the guests' heads pro?
trude from the windows like martin
heads' from gourds on a pole; to my
right and far away,-is Mt. Pisgah,
next to Mt. Mitchell, the highest
peak east of the Rockies. We made
the.ascentof Pisgah on Tuesday iast.
Of this journey I may say a word
further on, if I do not fall "asleep be?
fore coming to that part of my tor?
tuous narrative. In my rear, not
fifty yards away, is the first house
Bill Nye owned in this section, and
in which he lived while his more
pretentious home was being erected
near Fletcher. Four miles away,
southward, at Calvary Episcopal
Church, between Arden & Fletcher,
is Bill Nye's grave, unmarked and
unkept. At the head, a little tree is
growing, and some one has laid there
a rude piecd of stone picked up on
the highway. A memorial window
was s?t up in the nearby church by
Mrs, Nye; but the grave itself is neg?
lected. I am wondering if I could
not set on foot in South Carolina
some plan to erect a monument at
the grave of this man whose writings
we used to read with so much pleas?
ure from week to week. The story
is afloat here that Bill left fifty thou?
sand dollars to his widow, the result
of his labors with his pen, but all of
this was lost in the breaking of two
banks-one in Asheville and one in
the North-where Mrs. Nye had de?
posited her money ; and oat of the
wreck she saved nothing but the
money she recovered for her home
near Fletcher, which is known in the
Nye parlance as "my perpendicular
farm." Bumor also informs us that,
for years, Bill made a manful fight
against pulmanary troubles, and
when weakened away, died of some
brain disease. Daring all those
years of suffering, he continued to
send out the merry, sparkling letters
to the papers, which made his name
famous throughout the United
States. The fact is pathetic-he
loved to make others laugh, while~he
himself was slowly being consumed
by a malady 'incurable. Alongside
of Nye's grave is the grave of his
daughter, who died here in the
mountains, plucked from the treas?
ured jewels of his heart, and whom
he quietly buried away among the
hills,bat of whose going off he hadno
word to say in the letters he was
then engaged in writing, over which
the world would laugh and be merry.
How true it is,
"The face not always shows what's
in the heart,
Whether of joy or sorrow. Griefs
there are
Which stand like weeping angels in
the sou!.
With mournful pinions folded,
While on the brow the. rainbow arch
of peace may rest,
Though formed from mists which
rise from falling tears."
The Southern Railway bas abad
name here in these mountains. The
trains, like death, "have all seasons
for their own," and seem to run
without regard to any fixed and de?
finite schedule. The road bed,
though heavily ballasted with
broken stone, is * weakened by r otten
cross ties, and from time to time re?
ports come in of spreading rails and
run away freight trains which go
tearing down these frightful grades
at the rate of a hundred miles an
hour, to be crashed into splinters at
last when the powerful engines are
no longer able to stay on the spread?
ing rails. Between Salada and Mel?
rose, there is scrap iron enough to
. build a train of cars, all the result of
the vari?os runaways. These fre?
quent wrecks are the talk of the
tourist, and much harm will be done
to the flow of travel unless the
Southern system does something to
remedy them before another season.
Shortly after my arrival in these
diggins, my friend, Motte Lesesne,
of Silver, bantered me for a trip to
Mt. Pisgah, I knocked the chip
from his shoulder, and ou Monday
last, we set out-two wagon loads of
us-several from Sumter-two from
Savannah, and sporads from other
places-six women, three men,
and two boys: We car?
ried blankets and quilts and bread
and canned food of sundry sorts, in?
tending to camp when necessary and
sleep apon "the palpitating bosom
of mother earth, beneath the blue
cauistor of heaven," as an ancient
frieud of mine used to say. We did
not exactly carry out our intentions,
as the sequel will show. After a
thirty-mile drive, we came at night?
fall to the home of a Mr.Warren, who
lives at the foot of Pisgah. His spa?
cious (?) home had three rooms,
plus a kitchen where the family ate
and cooked. We realized a sense of
relief, however, when young Warren
told us his father had entertained
nineteen boarders at one time. In
the large upper room, we fouud four
beds, with hay mattresses and pil?
lows that emitted an ancient and
musky smell, which one of our party
wished to relieve by asking if any
one could furnish him with a piece
of assafoetida. His idea was to dis?
infect the pillows, using a big stink
to counteract a smaller stink. In
this one room, on four beds, three
ladies and two gentlemen slept the
first night. On the return trip, three
of the ladies tried the beds again,
while three ladies and one other
gentleman beside myself, slept on
a common pallet in the front porch.
The women put me on one outer
edge and /riend Cathey on the other
to protect them, as they said, from
t!ie midnight assault of mountain
lions and other prowlers from the
surrounding forest fastness. Two or
the ladies who allowed me to share
their soft pallet on the porch are
kinswomen of Mrs. Abe Ryttenberg
-Mrs. Byck and Miss Sterne from
Savannah. The third was Mrs.
Douthit from Birmingham-a
splendid lady, whose husband has
far out-married himself, as is fre?
quently the case.
From the three room Warren
mansion, after a bath from the mar
ble basin of the little stream flowing
fast by the front door, and a break?
fast on bread, coffee and roasting
ears boiled, we began the toilsome
ascent of Pisgah. From the jump
tlie climb was precipitous, over a
pathway full of water-worn rocks
tor a mile and a half, then from the
Candler lodge over Vanderbilt's
graded trail to his hunting lodge on
LittlePisgah another mile and a
half. At the Lodge we bought din?
ner, which was well served by Mrs.
Kelly, the Lodge keeper's wife. The
last miie and a half was up the rug?
ged side of Pisgah proper, from
whose tall summit one could well
nigh see all the Kidgdoms of the
earth. It was about 4 p. m. The i
mountain top is bare and barren,
with the exception of a few huckle?
berry bushes and stunted shrubs,
none of which afforded the least
shelter from the burning sun that
beat down uponus without mercy.
After sunset, fires would have been
j necessary, but before that time, we
needed only shade and ice water.
We were 5V760 feet above the level of
i the sea, far away towards the. ceru?
lean blue-higher than we can easily
climb again.during ou? brief sojourn
on these shifting shores of time.
Our stay on Pisgah was brief; the
san was too torrid, and" we decided
to retrace oar steps tc meaner alti?
tudes. At the Lodge we asked for
food and lodging, but were refused.
Mr. Vanderbilt does not allow camp?
ing parties on his grounds, and wa
had to retrace our steps to the three
room Warren mansion.
Our party reached home after
three days, and we can all say truth
fnlly that we have scaled Pisgah.
We mutually agreed that we would
not take $50 for our experience, nor
would we repeat our ?xperience for
a like sum. We are Uke the father
to whom a son was born, who said,
"I would not take ten thousand dol?
lars for that boy, nor would I give
a copper cent for another one."
The.trip was full of experiences.
Besides the confused method of
sleeping, the men and women mixed
in hopeless confusion on the same
pallet, we had women riding astride
on mules without saddles, women
bruised from falls on t he rocks, wo?
men submitting to do surgical opera
tions as we opened blisters on their
i feet, women making their meagre
toilet on the roadside by a spring
branch in the open light of day, the
only promise exalted from the men
being that ?they should keep their
eyes shut, or not tell what they saw.
Friend Cathay complained that one
of his eyes was diseased and could
not shut entirely, but that his good
eye obeyed the order and remained
fast closed. I had reason to say to
Cathey, on several occasions, that
he paid poor tribute iso truthfulness,
and I think this was true on the oc?
casion named above.
Other things occur to me which
might be of interest to your readers,
but I must forbear after mention i ug
our bride and groom who now have
the contract for furnishing amuse?
ment to our guests at the boarding
house. He is a tall and lean-look?
ing brother, of more than sixty
years; she a sister cf a possible
forty. They sit about the grounds
I in yital juxta-proximity, she with
I one arm about his neck. As soon as
j they enter the privacy of their room
the jocund sound of thc resounding
oscuiatory smack can be heard in
ali the adjacent rooms, while she re?
peats such mild terms of endear?
ment as, "You sweet old darling!"
or "My.precious love!" The old fel?
low seems to bear up under all this
with remarkable power of endurance
but a far-away, watery look in his
eyes seems to say, "0, give me a
rest!" Unless she does it, I have an
idea that the fellow will have to go
into the dry dock for repairs before
the honeymoon has half waned.
I have received orders from the
chief executive of my wardrobe and
bureau to accompany her to the
spring-hence the necessity is forced
upon me to discontinue this mean?
dering epistle suddenly at this junc?
ture. But for this mandatory order,
no one caa tell to what extremes
this letter might have gone.
With kindest memories of all
things past that are worth remem?
bering, and with best regards to
your numerous and pious constitu
,ents*.including yourself- and John
Buckner of fame unperishable, I re
I main yours to count on when your
demands are not too heavy.
C. C. BROWN,
Sky land, N. C., Aug. 29.
---? m emmm
Colombia to Negotiate a New Ca?
nal Treaty.
Bogota, Colombia, Tuesday, Sept.
L-The Senate has appointed a com?
mission to prepare a bill authorizing
the Government to negotiate a canal
treaty without violating the constitu?
tion, but the Government has not pre?
sented to Congress a message, which
is necessary, asking for reforms in the
Constitution to meet the wishes of the
United States regarding tribunals, the
sovereign control of the canal strip
and the hundred-year lease.
The general feeling is favorable to a
new treaty. Senor Macaro, the acting
President of the Senate, expressed
his admiration for the noble and sin?
cere policy pursued by the United
States and hopes that the canal will
be opened by them. F, says he re?
grets that he was obliged to oppose
the Hay-Herran treaty as being a
violation of the laws of the Constitu?
tion, but he will work strongly for a
canal treaty satisfactory to both
countries. Senator Obaldia, who has
decided to support the canal treaty,
has been appointed Governor of Pan?
ama.
To Convert Breathitt County.
Pittsburg, Sept. G.-A deputation
of Pittsburg Salvationists, under the
leadership of Staff Capt. White, wiil
leave on Wednesday for the feud dis?
trict of Kentucky and undertake the
work of reforming thi3 feudists. The
objective point will be Breathitt
County. The party will be made np,
outside of a few of the officers in the
work in this city, of the members of
the local army who. volunteer to give
their time to the work, and it is likely
that by the time the party is ready
to start next week there will be quite
a formidable array of local workers in
the party.
The reception which the members
of the army will receive in the coun?
ties to be invaded is a matter of grave !
doubt to many interested in army work,
but those who aro going seem to have
no fear of the manner in which they
will be treated.
Meeting of the State Sunday School
Convention.
Mr. Editor: I had the pleasure of
attending the State Sunday School
Convention in Greenville last week,
and as the only representative from
Sumter County, some of your readers
may be interested in an account of
the proceedings.
There were 125 Sunday school work?
ers in attendance from fifteen counties,
nine-tenths of them from t?e North?
western part of the State. There were
but four from east of the Wateree and
Santee rivers: Mr. Green from
Georgetown, Rev. K. McKas
kill from Williamsburg; Miss
Inez Cooper from Lee county
and myself from Sumter; one from
Charleston, and the balance from ten
counties along the iine of the Char?
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad
and westward ; so that the great eas?
tern and southern section of the State
was almost without representatives.
The good people of Greenville enter?
tained us most hospitably, and if there
was any lack of warmth on their part
it was not noticeable and was more
than made up by the weather! Hot?
Well, the thermometer may have been
higher in this part of the State, but
for genuine, penetrating, all pervading
heat give me one of those hollows
among the foot hills of the mountains.
Now as to the work of the conven?
tion : There are ten counties in the
State organized along inter-denomina?
tional lines. I wish that every Sun?
day School in the State could have
been represented there by its most
ultra-conservative worker. I went
there fearing there would be too much
of the spectacular, too much froth,
to much "milk for babes" and not
enongh "strong meat of the word of
God. ' ' The. opening exercises Tues?
day evening with congratulatory and
complimentary speeches; the music
with its great pipe organ, piano,
violins and horns, a good orchestra
and trained choir and last but not
least a woman speaker on the plat?
form, seemed to fully justify my fears.
But when we heard the "words of
soberness and truth" that characteriz?
ed all the following exercises, the ear?
nest ^desire of each one to help to a
better knowledge of the Scriptures,
the study of child nature, and grown
up nature, too, with the best way of
reaching all classes with the truths of
God's word, and above all the utter
dependence of the most learned and
best trained minds upon the renewing,
enlightening, and sanctifying power of
the Holy Spirit, the fears of the most
conservative would give place to a de?
sire to help on this good work.
Besides the devotional exercises
which were a part of each session, the
following ."normal course," (we might
call it) in Bible study was very in?
structive :
1. "The child we teach," by Mrs.
Mary Foster Bryner, of Illinois, Field
worker of the International Conven?
tion. Every teacher in Sunday and
day schools, yes, and all parents who
are a child's earliest teachers, could
have profited by this lecture.
2. "How I prepare my lesson," by
Mrs. Bryner.
3. "Some useful ? and necessary
Helpers," by George C. Hodges, of
Greenwood. Prof. Hodges laid stress
upon the need of the very best school
rooms and furniture attainable accord?
ing to the means of the school and
church.
4.. "An hour of Modern Primary
work," by Mrs. Bryner.
5. " Round Table, conducted by Rev.
Thos. H. Law, D. D. Subject:
Home Department of the Sunday
School," and open discussion of samo.
This was a very interesting outline
of the plan for. getting the "stay at
homes" to concerted study of the
Bible.
6. "Home influences in Christian
training," by Mrs. Bryner was
another subject that would do "Home
Makers, " the fathers and mothers of
our land, good to consider more
seriously.
7. "Decision Day," by Rev. C. H.
Roper, was an able argument for draw?
ing the attention of children to the
need for coming out on the Lord's side
by openly confessing His Name and
joining His Church.
8. "Methods of Primary Union
work," by Mrs. Bryner showed the
great good of teachers' meetings. A
union teachers' club was organized in
Greenville to meet every Friday after?
noon when one of the teachers will
teach the next Sunday's lesson. Mrs.
M. A. Carlisle testified to the great
benefits the teachers of Newberry had
derived from such meetings for the
past few years.
9. "Use of Blackboard in Sunday
School," was left out by reason of
absence of Rev. W. B. Duncan who
was to lecture on it Mrs. Bryner
made such good use of the blackboard
in all of her work that a lecture on
the subject was not needed. We fead
object lessons in its uses.
10. "Next Sunday's Lesson taught
to a Primary Class," by Mrs. Brvner,
is an experience <juite a number of the
little boys and girls of Greenville will
long remember with pleasure.
11. "What is the Church accom?
plishing as a Teacher of the word of
God," by Rev.jH. R. Murchison, was
one of the strongest appeals to the
whole convention for more and better
teaching and preaching.
12. "An Approved Workman," and
"A Survey of the Field, the Sunday
School Work of the World, " by Mrs.
Bryner, followed ' by some sweet;
music, and the Benediction by Rev. J. j
W. Shell at 10.30 p. m. Thursday,
Aug. 27th, and the 26th annual con?
vention of Sunday School workers was
ended.
Rev. Mr. Shell was one of the dele?
gates from this State to the Interna?
tional Convention ia Denver last year,
of which he gave an account, and is on
the committee that selects the Lesson
Committee, and also will be a delegate
to the next World's Convention that
meets next year in Jerusalem ! The
above is about as brief an outline of
the work of the Convention as I can
make and give most of its good points.
Several of the prominent workers are
not mentioned, because their work
was along the business lines of the
organization and it would make this
letter too long.
The Convention proposes through its
Executive Committee to try to organ?
ize every county in the State by send?
ing one or more trained workers into
each county where the local workers
want aid and organization. I hope
there are enough interested workers
in Sumter county to ask for this aid.
Prof. E. L. Hughes, of Greenville,
is president for the next year. Dr. W.
E. Pelham, of Newberry, is chairman
of the Executive Commitee, and "last
bat by no means least," Rev. W. I.
Herbert, of Columbia, is Treasurer.
Any one who would like to help in
this work by a ironey contribution can
send the same to Bro. Herbert. I
pledged a small amount for Sumter
county, but our liberality need not be
limited.
The convention will meet in Colum?
bia next year when I hope more of our
Sunday School workers will attend, and
by year after next have it to meet in
Sumter -.
Thanking you for the use of so much
of your valauble space. \
lam respectfully,^:
E. W. Dabbs,
Goodwill, S. C., Sept. 7, 1903.
THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK.
Further Terrible Atrocities in
Macedonia.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept 6-According
to reliable reports from Varna, at the
recent council [of ministers, presided
over by Prince Ferdinand it was re?
solved that Bulgaria should continue
to maintain an attitude of the strictest
neutrality in the Macedonian ques?
tion, . and further that the most string?
ent measures should be adopted to
prevent anything likely to cause a dis?
turbance in Bulgaria's relations with
Turkey. The war minster is reported
,to have spoken strongly in the council
against any thought of Bulgaria de?
claring war on Turkey ; first on ac?
count of the enormous expenditure
that such a war should involve, and
secondly, because the great Powers
would never permit Bulgaria to
reap the advantage if she were
victorious. Should Turkey attack
Bulgaria, declared the minister, the
present army could hold the Turks
in check for the first few days, while
the entire Bulgarian army could be
mobilized within three to twelve days.
Bulgaria would never declare war he
i added, but if war was declared against
her she would accept the challenge
fearlessly.
As an evidence of Bulgaria's peace?
ful intentions the council decided that
on the first symptoms of disorder on
the frontier martial law would be
proclaimed at Burgas, Kostendil,
Philippopolis and Sofia. The ministers
expressed the opinion that the Powers
would soon reach the conviction that
the Macedonian question could not be
decided without their intervention.
The Autonomye publishes the names
of fifty villages burned by the Turks in
the following districts : Reisen, thirty
villages; Kostur, fourteen; Krusbevo,
six and one monastery. The Turks
burned four village in the district of
Strushkopois and murdered the priest.
The population fled to the mountains.
The Turks have destroyed all the flour
mills in the distict of Reisen and also
every chuch. A fight is reported to
have taken place at the village of
Vetrsko, in the district of Kumanovo,
between a body of in&urgents and a
Turkish battalion. It lasted for four
hours and the Turks lost heavily.
Reports have reached the revolution?
ary headquarters here of atrocities by
the Turks in the village of Vekosti,
in the district of Delbre. The troops
and bashi-bazouks are said to have
surrounded the village and entered and
begun plundering the houses and as?
saulting the women. The other sol?
diers remained outside and killed those
inhabitants who tried to escape. The
Turks then set fire to the village in
-four places, burning twelve women and
children. One child was hanged. Al?
together sixty peasants were killed and
their bodies were left in the streets.
THE POPE DOWN ON THE TURKS.
Rome, Speteinber 6.-Pius X has
represented to the Austrian Emperor
the advisablity, especially on the part
of the Catholic Powers, of coming {to
an agreement as to. the best way to
stop the massacres in Macedonia.
Several Cardinals have expressed the
opinion that the Pontiff should public?
ly denounce the situation in Mace?
donia to the civilized world, without
distinction of religion, calling on all
the Powers to take common action on
humanitarian grounds.
THE SITUATION IN BEIRUT.
London, September 6.-A letter
from Beirut, dated August 29, de?
scribes the condition of affairs there
under the present vali as scandalous.
It says :
"Not only bribery and corruption
are rampant in every branch of the
administration, but a certain lawless?
ness is manifesting itself among the
Moslem element, which, if not sup
! pressed, is sure to cause trouble in the
future. Christians are oppressed, but
they dare not complain, whilst the
Europeans no longer enjoy the securi?
ty which existed a few years ago.
The house of the Italian oocsul was
lately rifled by burglars, and on Sun?
day, August 23, the American vice
consul was fired at. Arrests were
made, but it always happens that the
innocent is made to suffer for the
crime."'''
THE VALI OF BEIRUT.
London, Sept 7.-The Constantino?
ple correspondent of the Standard tel?
egraphs that the wedding story given
ont by the Vali of Beirut as an expla?
nation of the outrage on United Stat?s
Consul Mageissen is proved to be
false, and the vice consul's assailant
is believed to be known. It is known
that the United States will peremp?
torily demand the dismissal of the
vali, who, continues the correspond?
ent, by common consent, is ruining
Beirut. His disgrace would also
strike a blow at the baleful influence
of the Arab Izzet, a palace favorite,
whose creature he is.
London, Sept 7.-The Daily Mail's
correspondent at Monastir, telegraph?
ing under Saturday's date says :
"There is no doubt that a Turkish
war of extermination is proceeding in
the Okrida district. The massacres of
a century ago are as nothing com?
pared with those occurring daily in
the vilayet of Monastir. I have ob?
tained substantial ervidence to prove
that the Turkish Nizams (Turkish
regualr troops) are in most cases com?
mitting unheard of atrocities, which
are not solely the work of the bashi
bazouks as the authorities are seeking
to prove. The plight of the survivors
is terrible. Not daring to leave their
houses and subsisting on grass and
water, they resemble people in the
last stages of the famine. The Turks
are also losing heavily, judging from
the number of wounded arriving."
Among the instances given he gives,
in support of his statements, the cor-1
respondent relates that a priest's son
in one village was flayed alive and
kekt in this horrible condition for
several days to the delight of his tor
mentors until a merciful Turk shot
him dead.
Summary of Turkish Situation
From an English Standpoint.
London, Sept. 7.-The Balkan situa?
tion shows no signs of improvment.
Indeed in Constantinople, it is now
thought that war between T?rke}- and
Bulgaria is inevitable, but the Tur?
kish ambassador in London insists that
hostilities can only result from an overt
act on the part of Bulgaria. The Sofia
Government, on the other hand, pre?
serves strict neutrality, as advised by
Russia and Austria. The announce?
ment today of Bulgaria's attitude
caused an optimistic tone in the papers
and the market for foreign bonds and
Government securities became much
firmer. Roumania, too, is enforcing
neutrality, in compliance with the ad?
vice of Russia, having taken measures
to suppress the Macedonian agitators
within her borders.
The Pope's refusal to appeal to the
powers to act, save in the direction of
stopping the massacres in the Balkans,
is accepted as evidence that even the
Holy See appreciates the inadvisability
of intervening as this time.
Turkey is largely increasing the
number of her troops in Macedonia,
in spite of her depleted treasury, and
is determined to suppress the revolu?
tion before the Powers can intervene.
In the vilayet of Monastir the rising
has been ruthlessly suppressed, the
Turks having burned many villages and
committed grave excesses.
War Between Turkey and Bulga?
ria Regarded as Inevitable.
Constantinople, Sept. 7.-War be?
tween Turkey and Bulgaria is now
regarded here as inevitable. It is even
believed that the outbreak of hostili?
ties will occur before the end of Sep?
tember, when the reinforcements from
Asia will thave been concentrated
in Macedonia, and in the vilayet of
Adrianople. It is not thought that
there will be any formal declaration
of war, in view of Bulgaria's vassal
status, but that some frontier incident
will precipitate hostilities.
The Bulgarians and Macedonians
residing in Constantinople are in terror
of massacre. A large number of them
were arrested a few days ago as "pre?
ventive measure, " and they have not
yet been released. The fear of a mas?
sacre is probably exaggerated, although,
in view of the present excited state of
Mussulman feeling, an insignificant
incident might perhaps lead to a mas?
sacre.
The terrible accounts received re?
garding the conduct of the Turkish
troops have not surprised European
circles here, but many who have hith?
erto been optimistic in their views,
now accept the prevailing belief that
Turkey is on the eve of ja, ctastrophe.
A consular dispatch from Sal?nica
says that according, to authentic in?
formation the insurrection in the dis?
trict of Monastir has been practical?
ly stamped out. Bashi-Biazouks,
assisted the regular troops in the work
of repression, which is said to have
been carried out with sanguinary
ruthlessness, the object of the Turks
being, apparently to exerminate, not
only the Bulgarian inhabitants, but
all the Christians of whatever nation?
ality.
LAXEG WASTE MACEDONIA.
Sofia, Bulgaria, Sept. 7.-The re?
volutionary headquarters received in?
formation today that the Turks have
burned, or otherwise destroyed, nearly
all the villages in the district of
Kastoria, near the Greek frontier.
The villages in that district were the
largest in Macedonia, each having
from 1,000 to 3,000 inhabitants. Among
the largest burned were Zagoritchani,
Dumbeni, Konomladi, Mokrent and
Kosinetz. Altogether about twenty
five villages in that part of Macedonia
have been destroyed. It is added that
three hundred women and children
fugitives from Zagorichani went to
the Turkish commander of the district
to seek assistance and protection from
the Bashi-Bazouks. The commander
promised them protection, but when
the fugitves left the Bashi-Bazouks
pursued, outraged and killed many of
the women and children.
The Turks have concentrated 18,000
soldiers in the Kastoria District, who
are openly burning villages.
TURKEY ANTICIPATES WAR.
Sal?nica, European Turkey, Sept.
7.-The latest orders received from the
Turkish Government are regarded
here as assurance that the Porte enter?
tains, serious apprehensions of war.
Sixteen battalions of the Mustahfnz,
or second reserves, have been called
to arms in the Sal?nica, Uskub and
Monastir districts, and the artillery
and cavalry reserves of the Adrianople
and Smyrna divisions have also been
mobilized.
The commander of the 3d army corps
bas been ordered to strictly watch the
Servian frontier, where it is thought
revolutionary bands will probably
! cross. _ _ _
Labor Agents Arrested.
Chester, Sept. 4.-At the instance
of the springstein Mill authorities, two
white men. J. M. Jernigan and W. E.
Sutherland, alleged labor agents, were
arrested here this week on the charge
of soliciting labor. The case was
tried before the mayor and Jernigan
was found guilty and given thirty days
on the chain gang or pay a fine of 815.
The proof against Sutherland was not
sufficient to convict, and he was given
his liberty. Jernigan stoutly denies
his guilt and says he has no money
with which to pay the fine and will
have to take the days.
Destructive Fire in Columbia.
About midnight a destructive con?
flagration started on Main street. It
originated in the soda fountain of Xe
papas in the Wiley building which
was a roaring mass of flames before
the alarm could be given and the de?
partment summoned. At 3 a. m. the
fire is still in progress and it is said
that the DesPortes and Mimnaugh
blocks are practically ruined. The
losses will be heavy. The Southern
railway offices, Howie's photograph
gallery and several other places are de?
stroyed. The firemen are getting the
fire under control.-State, Sept. 7.
LABOR TYRANNY IN CHICAGO.
A Mob Beats a Proprietor of a
Warehouse and Van Company
Chicago, Sept, 7.-J. J. Thornton,
the proprietor of a ware house and
van company, was assaulted today,
during the labor parade because lae
was driving one of his own teams with?
out having a union card in his posses?
sion. Thornton hitched three horses
to one of his vans in the morning and
took a score or mere of children out to
see the parade. He attempted to haul
nothing but his guests. For three
hours he stood with his wagon at the
corner of Jackson Boulevard and Clark
street and watched the parade and
when he attempted to drive away he
was stopped by some of the teamsters
in the parade, who asked if he had a
union card. He tried to explain that
he needed no card, that it was his own
team and that he was doing no haul?
ing. Several hundred men gathered
around the wagon and attempted to
pull him off. An escort of police en?
abled him to get several blocks away,
when a mob numbering fully 1,000
caught up with him. He whipped up
his horses and for nearly a mile he
was pursued, when finally the mob cut
the harness of his horses into small
pieces, beat the animals with canes,
compelling them to run away, and
then beat Thornton badly. Thornton
employs a large number of teamsters,
all of whom are members of the union,
and has never had any trouble with
the organization before today.
Hampton Dispensary Burned.
Hampton, Sept. 7.-The dispensary
at this place was destroyed by fire
about 7.30 o'clock this afternoon. It
is not known just how the fire origi?
nated, but it is thooght to have been
set by rats. The amount of stock on
hand was about $2,300. Insurance on
stock about $400. The building was
owned by M. B. McSweeny, editor of
the Hampton Guardian, and is a total
loss, as he carried no insurance.
Dispensary Inspector Z. A. Searson
and Dispenser W. D. Reed were
among the first to arrive npon the
scene after the report of fire was
sounded, but the fire was under good
headway and it was impossible to
check the flames. Dispenser Reed
saved about S65, this being the
amount of the day's sales. He also
saved his books. The heroic efforts of
the citizens prevented the spreading
of the flames to some nearby build?
ings.
Hobson is an Expansionist.
Tuscalosa, Ala., Sept. 7.-Capt.
Richmond Pearson Hobson delivered
here today the first of a series of lec?
tures to be given in this district on
"America's Mighty Mission in the
World.'" He was greeted by a large
gathering and received the closest at?
tention. He closed his address with
an appeal that the American navy
shall be placed in the first rank, for
which he advocated the expenditure
of one and a half billion dollars for
new ships, covering a period of thir?
teen years, beginning with fifty mil?
lions to be appropriated at the next
session of Congress and increasing by
ten millions each succeeding year.
The Suffrage League of Boston, a
Negro organization, last Monday
night adopted resolutions'declaring :
"Inasmuch as Booker T. Washington
has glorified the revised constitutions
of the south, has minimized the Jim
Crow car outrage, has attacked the
wisdom of the fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments to the constitution, has
deprecated the primary importance of
the ballot, has preached to the color?
ed people silent submission to intoler?
able conditions and makes his people
a byword, he is not a fit leader for the
colored race, and no president who re?
cognizes him as a political leader
should receive the colored vote of the
north. Therefore, since President
Roosevelt has given him charge of the
appointment of all Negroes of whatever
state in the Union and has made Jain*
the Negro adviser as to all policies
affecting colored Americans in the in?
terests of our race, we call upon Presi?
dent Roosevelt to dispense with Mr.
Washington as our political spokes?
man."
The Panama Route,
Washington, Sept. 5.-That the
United States government has given
up hope of favorable action by the Co?
lombian congress on the Panama canal
treaty, was made plain tonight when
a high official of the state department
declared that the treaty was practi?
cally dead, although the Colombian
congress had until the 22nd of this
month to act upon it. Official advices
received here convey the intelligence
that the friends of the treaty at Bogota
have abandoned their effort in the in?
terest of ratification, and some of them
have departed for their homes. These
advices tend to show that the represent?
atives of Panama to the Colombian
congress will represent to their gov?
ernment the advisability of seceding
from che central government and tak?
ing up the negotiations with tfce
United States for the building of an
isthmian canal. Although Panama
does not control the entire proposed
canal strip, the intimation is made
that she has devised a means whereby -
this may be accomplished.
Theodore H. Price, once known as
the cotton king, is out in a circular in
which he says that the cotton crop in?
going to be enormous, and that there
is bound to be a big fall in price cf
cotton. While it would be advisable
for farmers to get their cotton to mar!
ket as fast as possible, there is no rea?
son why they should be alarmed bv
what Mr. Price says. The speculative
cotton market warps the judgments cf
cotton speculators to such an extent
that their opinions respecting the fu?
ture price of cotton are not the mest
valuable. It is probable that when the
receipts of cotton become large there
will be a drop in the price, but there
is nothing to justify Vie statement that
the cotton crop is going to be enor?
mously large.-Savannah Morning
News.
A few more nice hammocks to be sold
at cost to close out.- Two or three
which will be sold for $1 each are ex?
tra bargains. H. G. Osteen & Co.
Ask your physician if Glenn Springs
Mineral Water is not what you need,