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C*ttt*ittato4 An?. 3.1881. MTU? MWIJtHINQ COMPANY, ??Mtw a, c ? UJf ear anal mm snreere tnt InsniUtm.Si.it ?Mr HlWMlBt taMTtlOO.it tar tare* months, or at redueed ratea whie* euV will he ohargod -^-trOuten of respects e*M w ttetw for. Sil OF I Ml CANDtD %TE, TAFT, TAXLKA OF NIGGKR AMEND OondlUoffM In the Party Poll? ens Fifteenth Amend Mot Dren aa Sncoessf ol end Fourteenth* City, Feh. 10 ?Wm. I itary of wer. tonight wen gasest e? honor and chief spoeeesnnn Mi a banquet given In Convent k> a hell he UMe persons hy the Associates of Republicans of Mtssonri. /Is i sjlfsn a crest reoeetmn, .< gssjritary Taft's speech was a *en -arnl defense of the * spa oilcan patty I end especially of tan psttctee brought ?aa the fere by the ndeatalstration of 'ifneodor* Roosevelt. Secretary Taft spoke of the three war amendments of the constitution, the ISth. Mti aa( nth. The opera? tion of the ISth amendment, that which forbade any 8t*te to .deprive the negro of his vote on account of tots color or previous condition of servitude, had not, ho said, been as V aaccsmfai ae that of the ISth and 14th. The landers of the South had. many States, however, cast about shake tu? law square with the at tmf conditio*! by propeity and ed sjcstlonM qualifications erhlcl. rpr-uld yj^y^jj??)^? of the negro role: *TM?: avoid th^kollii tho speaker, "to were wont to overc* m* the color vote la tan Sout.'i. its* if indicates a turn f*r the better. It la said, however, ?ad with truth, trat th?se elect; mi J laws are Intended 10 be vnferced by mease of th?? discretion v? st^! in electioa eflleera so as to exclude the ineligible ooW r? d man with : 'gi?r and to allow the ln*ll|.tble waKen who ought nhv> to be excluded. K the In? fer? ef the franchise Depl .rable aa tni* Is. si 111 Ihe situation is nv no means a hopeless ene for the Southern negro. "The grcai*>t Mend the Southern, ssegro Is likely to have U tin- hroad rnlnded .Southern white man who sympathises with tho colored man and knows his value to the Sou'h. V Mor Je It unreasonable to hope that the saen who have already sought to ? come svithln the liw. and avoid vio? lence, trill nltlmately see the wisdom and rlgf?teosisnoss of the equal en? forcement of the law of eligibility " against w*Ute and black." Secretary Taft said that he was confident the* in the end! the ISth v amendment "will prove to he a bul? wark squnify gienefllclal with that ?% ehe llth and 44th amendments to Mm unfortunate, downtrodden, ktrug gdlng race " g es rats ry Taft enumerated ths vart ens paActee of the party in the past and said that only twees *ln all that remarksbV history of ft yesrs have we lost the confidence sf the people of the Untied Htstes to tsvt pot it of their turning over the government to a Democratic excotlve. "By reason of circumstances I need not detail." ho eofjllnu?<d. "she .nttu t nee of the Republican rany has teen little ftlt South af Matron and pison's line. It Is true that .n \l dry? land. West Virginia. Kentucky and Missouri, the Republic in pnrty has t?en rften tn ihs majority but In the ?Iber Southern States a erntest has seemed hopsUfrS. The time rms come, In my judgement, when It Is the duty t f our party to msae an earmst effort |o win to our party support the many Boitherner* who think with us on svery living national !*sue and have only been kept from our raukj by the ghost of the pott.' In concluding. Secretary Taft said: "Vigorous actte/ and measure* to stamp out existing abuses ard effect |r# reforms are necessary to vindi? cate society ss st present constituted. Otherwise ws must y ley id to those Who seek to Introduce a new or vier of things ou a socialtstio bests." Black ambition steige ft public gaaae.-Hraaleh, tried April. 1850. 'Be Just am SUMT MAXIMS NEW POWER. Mot onto b Shoot Torpedoes ami Bout* *M?rougli sea a Mile it Min? ute. Fmm the New York American. A new torpedo that will hurl Hs*U at a battleship's hull faster than a mho a minute. A now submarine burpedd boat that will bore a path beneath the surface of the water at the -ate of ?0 miles an hour. A new motive power? motor.te?to propel the torpedc ard the torpedo bout so powerfully that if necessary it will shoot them rocket-like out of toe water. This Irinlty of inventions, evolved together, patented side by side by Hudvcn Ma.xhn will put at the dispos? al of the United States government the most destructive engines of naval warfare pons?sscd by any nation ot tho world. After more than two years of con? stant experiment, the famous inventor of smokeless povvuor and Max im do has so fur perfected theso three en? gines of war that he has Just applied for letters-patent and notified the gov? ernment of his success. The narrative of his triply crowned achlev-mer.t reads Ilk* a clastic ro mance of adventure, for Mr. Maxim, rtartlng out with the sole Intention of 'signing a torpedo that would sur? pass in speed tho slowim?vlng Whit ! head, found that he had Invented not culy wnat he sought, but also a mo live power so tremendous that it : hould revolutionize submarine war faro, transpose the despised torped": hunt Into the most dreaded fighting monster of the sea, and?later?may even be expectol to send a transatlan tfc liner between New York and Southampton faster than the fastest trains on the land. A deilcate blend of nitroglycerin e f.t.M-eotu n and one other drug, and the application of a new system of "j*< propulsion"? the wme principal ou wh'ch automobiles are run?Is th> tecrot f.t it all. At rhe outset Mr. Maxvn simply per? ceived that the fastest gasollne-drlven Whliehead torpedo??bot from the j tube of a torpedo boat?traveled to- | ward Its target never faster than a 1. athalf a mile a minute, and never farrrflK-. %M snw that the reason most of th* WhiterVads never reach their mart In warfare is because a Fpry war? ship can steam out of the way of therp after tht-y have started, or. bitter still, can blow up both the torpedo and it* torpedo boat with well-aimel rapid Art guns half a dozen times in transit. Therefore, it was Mr. Maxim's pur? pose t>? get some new scheme cf pro? pulsion into the stern of a torpedo so that it c?uld reach the warship before It could be rendered useless. The taming of nitroglycerine and ?un-cHton from high explosives into tractable means of boat propub?l?n was not a simple matter. Bat Mr. Maxim finally got It. AI? he found u way to set this mo? tive power going in the water, eg1 that the action of tho water turner* the combustion of the hlendid explo? sives into powerful jets, projecting the vessel forward in leaps as the Jets thrust out backward. The big problem with Mr. Maxim became how to tone them down so' they wouldn't shiver the torpedo to atoms each time he let >ne loose. But finally he succeeded in regulating them ?thrust them beneath lerere under perfect 'control, and when he got to sending them out backward from the stern of a half-ton t >.*pedo he found that they would send the torpedo nurtling through the wafer at any rate of speed he cared to name and as far as 1" miles with perfect elm. Now the Inventor had achieved what he had set cut for. And in his moment of success it dawned on htm thut he had achieved a thousand times more. For If a half handful of nndorlte would s-jnd a half t^n torpe. do a rrile and a quarter In a minute |a coupb- of handfuls ought to send a whole submarine boat through Ihl water Just as* fast. It took Mr. Muxlm but a little while to show that it would?and mere. And thus came Into being the model of the wonderful new motorite torpedo boat that is to fire the won? derful new torpedo. The Rev. W. A. Guerry was In Sum merton Tuesday and confirmed a cluss of young people at the Episcopal church. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Brown, of Spartan burg was fatally burned on Friday. Clemson College Is now offerinm a ceurse in cotton grading which prdtn Ises to become a very Interesting ag rtcultural study, I Fear not? Let all the ends Thou Aim ER. B. P.. WEDNES] COMWISSIONS HOT Ml PAUL JONES' ATTORNEY DRAWS FINE DISTINCTION Col. Carroll, of Kentucky, Furnishes Important Information as to Recip? ients of Liquor Graft,- But Repu? diates Charge That His Firm Prof? ited From The Unlawful Transac? tion. Columbia, Feb., 12?Attorney Gen? eral Lyon has been given certain in? formation aa to whom the commiss? ions were paid, said Col. Anthony J. Carroll of Louisville yesterday after? noon at the conclusion of his state? ment to the dispensary commtaion. He bad Bhov/ed the transaction which ap? peared on the books and stated to the commission that the othei infor? mation had been asked for by the at? torney general and had been given to him in conference with Col. Felder. 'Toe attorney general has charge of tho 'g^aff par** of the matter and \vr are probing into the manner of the transactions," remarked Cupt C. K. Henderson jleasantly-. This evoked a spirited rejoinder from Col. Car: oil, the handsom-3 son of the Blue Grass State wh) has been speaker of the house of representa^ tives over there and also managing editor of Col. Henry Watterson's .pa? per the Louisville Courier-Journal. 'Not 'graft,' if you pleaae, HA The Paul Jones company which I repre? sent will leave South Carolina with n loss on every sale made MM even if you should decide to pay my claim with all sorts of reductions made. Wo will quit net loser, oven then, and your proposition is that wo re? fund the commissions that we had to pay to get this business. "I re pol with as good grace as pos? sible tho imputation that 'graft' Is a fit term to be applied to our side Of the transactions with tho State dis? pensary, We have made nothing out of the business, and the 'graft' was on the part of the people in South Caro? lina With whom we had to deal. W* paid 'commissions.' but no ?graut.''This 'graft' in the dispensary was the in-: cvltutde result of a System which { as? sure you we did not wish to create,, nor did we seek to foster -or to Valid, it -up." The commisision then vieoit itffco ex session, it was net Mttfee pub? lic what>*? t>p na* ,.re of the in? formation which C d. Carroll RgejQ rrrw en to Attorney General Lyon, but It must have been sometJUng worth while, for Mr. Lyon came into the meeting as Col. Carroll w*u* oewdud-' ing and made a statement to the, commission in executive sessioa. j This information was ho part In Colo Felder'* possession when Col. CajM roll appeared before the ?oomri*ssion: recently, but Col. Felder -coulfl natj communicate qven to the com-? mission what he know at that time,! and Col. Carrol had to return tot Loulsvlllle and get released from eer-1 tain obligations so that the commis? sion could bo put in posseestlon of in ? formation which .could not go apon: the record as it will be u**<l Xu the prosecitions. , When Col. Carvoll was here seme time ago. Mr. Avery Pattoa objected to paying the claim of Paul Jones & Co. .on the ground that the state? ments filed by Co). Carroll gave a transcript of their books no fanther, book than 1908. "We paid no commissions U>r South Carolina business before the, year 1903," said Col. Carroll In a most matter of fact manner yester-, 1 day, and the commission smiled Cox ; the implication was strong that aftei 1903 it had cost the Paul Jones con? cern a little something to get orders from South Carolina. It Would Not llmrt. Said a well known buslnwas man the other day: "It would not b*urt you to occasionally mention our business in the paper. It would help to fill up. you know." Yes we might do it. We haven'i the least Idea on earth that it would hurt us, und it would, as he suggests, helpt to All up. We might do all this, but at the same time we do not have to do it unless we feel like it. it weuld hurt not him, neither, to come %nd say: "Give me a column or a half column of spaco for an ad? vertisement and here Is the money for it." By doing this ho would become u deserter to the grand army of dead-heads who expect the newspa? pers to continually note the Im? provements they make, by giving them free puffs, and for which they never pay a cent. It Is high time for all classes to learn that a newspaper is a business enterprise, the same as a dry goods store or a grocery, run for a living far lb) owner.?Esc. ?end ns year Jeb Printing. Language in the sVflftte, % > I underhand a fuiy in your words, tut not your words. Wh^Ji virtue is assailed in its strong? hold, as it was in the South Carolina Etnate chamber on Friday last, ht tne language of outraged innocence look to its moorings. We %Ui not recall when there has bfen within those his? toric walls, or without iliem. a flier pyrotechnic display than was then and there set jft Even as one read? the various "remarks'* of the senators as each in turn tope to the question of "personal privilege" the flesh still rises into little goose pirn pits and cc?d shivers run up end down the spine. -Such words! Such juicy, me.uth-fllli.ig epiiln ts! i?uch similes, metaphors, hyperlules, sr.i ell the ether foims of speech! And ever"; mother'* s ?n of the-m sizzling h/t' It was fine, and it was war. Mine honcr and my ilfe--bo*h grow In one; Take honcr from mo ana my '.ife is done The cllmotcric ? ff? ct o^uld not have tx.e.-n better if the cr;itM4eal pri iramme hat been car-!f'illy arranged with th?t end in view. The iirsc gentleman was a linos* teme, comparttively spjr/Hing, open li g his discourse with such simpic language :-.s "infamous falsehood" and concluding with lh-? expresrel belief that persons guilty of making "such si?'ternencs" shoulI ** be expellee" from the senate." This was but as tho spark that Ignited the fuses of the several bis guns, that then openc 1 fire in rapid succession. Let us hct r some reed language from the seem el personally privileged spokesman; t So help me ^Jod. ^o. long as I am a member i f the bar, no man or set of men shail say wh.?m I shall defend 1a the eeurts of this State, anel before I woulo*. allow myself to be Tllfiuence', "by the ..rabble I -would walk out of the coui't house .and quit my profes ' tlon in shame. And any lawyer who I would'OV so is nrttSdng less to an a pol : troon and a c??wavd and is anworthy to belong to th* profession. If I euer ! show the whh1 feather tci any way j accurred he rn> name anl aOcurecd .] te m> memory. Hut language had not ypt done its wrtst, as w?| Vext evidettcOd by p^r I'lrotaHy privileged spokesman x?*. 1: Hu: I scorn I put. the xcot of uiy uttermost contempt upon any charge from any sossres that 1 hive ever swerve I in the rightful iitcharge of ; mv public duty, as it hi given me to se<? the rigrw. e r that the thought i has ever lodged in my breast that did not breath fidelity loretMe* U the in? terest and heenxr of this state thnt 1 love ati I con teve no otWer. Let Mm gunge be unoonfin?*d. P*r rfno ally privileged spohanseom Ne. 4: But, if any man imputes to me ^vre r?g smotives for voting 3X1 I did on that measure, or charges srie with be? ting recweant to sny dutytc the State, that man hath not a fig leaf to cover lhis natoad indecency and it would be b&se flat*, ry to o?ll him a 'log. And lsrnguage shrieked ?r/liei.i the gewel fell ?The SUate. - i A>hn 1). JKockefeiiec. "Mr. Rockefeller uias given permis? sion to the poor around his Fercantlco estate to ge? on his premises and cut firewood. Hut then, some will com? plain because they have to cttt the wood.?QreeiiVllle Ptadmont. R. 9sL Littlejohn, of Jonesvllle, has been appoint ui to th*; West 3">oint Preparatory sctiool. A btrtejher In Mannhsg. convhtted of delivering a niece of saeat on Sun? day has been denied an appeal Jay Judge "i'lince. While throwing targets In the air and shooiing at tliem, a yonng white man in Abbeville axel el en tally shot and killed a negro man. Lloyd Smith of Easley won a cash prize of $25 offered by the Sonihern Seed Crushers' Association fee/ the best essay cn the uses of cotton seed. Mrs. U. S. Kistler*. of Saline. Kan., is a sort of syndicate woman. Over 1,7 00 pieces of flesh were grafted on her body when Fht was burned in an explosion. A California judge has just decided that a man eloesn't have to get out of the way of an automobile* but the mon knows better.? Philadelphia Press. It seems that after all North Caro? lina Is to be the third Southern State to drive out the saloons. The ponslbrilty of one person's fin? ger tip being Identified with that of another Is one chance in 64,000,000, ???? 4 I Truth'*." THE TKUJ I. 1908. New Se SENS ATION A L ST<) 1C Y. Mystery of Years Cleared?Old l)r William A. Rockefeller ami "J)r. William Letingston," Wim Lived as a Digamist Thirty-four Years, Proved to be the Same. New York, Feb. 5.?The World U authority for the following sensa? tional story: The body of Dr. William Avery Rockefeller, father of the "Oil King." John D. Rockfeller lies in an unmarked grave In Oakland Cemetery'; Frceportf 111. He died I in that city May 11, 19')6, aged I ninety-six years, (five months and j twenty.-eight days. For fifty years he led a double life. Under the assumed name of Dr. Will? iam Levinggston. He farmed and sold medicine of his own decoction in Illinois and North Dakota. During those same years he occasionally ap? peared at the homes of his sons and among his old acquaintances in the cast as Dr. William A. Rockefeller. The proofs of this have been col? lected by a World reporter whose investigation has just been com? pleted. During thirty-four years of the fifty he had two wives. One was Mrs* Eliza Davlson Rockefeller ,the mother of John D. Roclcofeller. The other wras Mrs. Margaret L. Allen Loving* ton. The first wife, Mrs. Rockefeller, mother of the richest man In tho worhl, he married in New York state in IS37. She died in New York in 1890 at the ago of seventy-five. The second rvlfe?, Mrs. L^vingkton, he married in Ontario, O. This second wife 1s now living in Fre^port, ? 111., a charming, white-ha inert,' Chris? tian woman of 70 years. Rr. Rockefeller was 4 5 years old when he deserted his wife and famil} in Cleveland and went to Canada and, under the assumed name ol William Levingbton, married Mis: Mnrgaivt L. Allen, a pretty girl o: twenty. For 50 years she has livc< with him ns Jvs wife never knewinj until just before he died that her bus hand was a bigiimi--t. Until a fev years before his dearth she did no kno?v that he was William A. Rf>cke felkr or that he bad been indict od <r New York State. Even now sh> wil not say *hat he WVS wTl&atn A. 'Rock efc Her. 'Wo ?Tvd happily t >g. Iber fOi 5* years and I shall be a true womai to the end," she says. During the tiTSt yars of his iif. Dr. Kocko-foiler's whereabouts anc jthe existtince roT the other v ife wer> r known to his sons, John D? Willian and Frankk Rockefeller, and to hi son-in-law, Piorpont D. Briggs, c Cleveland. Rrt no oie else in all tlx world k-new. The ilrst Mrs. Rockefelltr llve< 34 years after he deserted her an( died without knowing thut her hus band had t?ten a girl of twenty ir hex- atcad. And all the -members o the RockefeioVr family except th^ii four jn?^n, ku^w nothing of it. The? did not know where the old man hv ed. The thw-e sons kept him wel pup-plied with money, but they guard? ed well the socret of his :ife anc whereabout*. He was first hidden on a ^arn ht Macon crmnt/. Rl.. about hah vray b'?tween Decatur and Cbnton. As the countijr settled up around him he moved it? Free port, HI., and in 18$ 1 he moved again to the extreme frontier In North Dakota, on a farm 30 miles from a railroad- On this farm he spent each so. mm or for 15 years, known to h's neighbors as Wll Ham Lcvlngston. Part of the time he owned the faim In his own name of William A, Rockefeller, but that se? cret was burled in the records of the county registrar of deeds. 18 miles away, and his neighbors never jsnew of it. For two years the newspapers and magazines of this country have searched for the father of John D. Rockefeller. Ida M. Tarbell began the hunt, and the results of her quest were published in McClure's Maga? zine In 1905. She traced the old man to Cleveland, to which city he moved with his family in 1S85. She lort him there. NEW PAPER FOR <i KEEN TILLE. Greenville, Feb. 6.?Announcement was made hen? today that a new afternoon paper, to be known ns the Greenville Evening Sun, will make its appearance on Feb. 17, with Mr. J. C. Gaillngton as editor and manager. The paper will be a seven column folio and will be published every af? ternoon except Sunday. Mr. J. C. Garllngton, the editor, was until a few days ago, connected with the Evening Piedmont of this city. The personnel of the staff has not yet been announced. The paper will be owned by local parties. E SOUT1IKON, Established June, rics?Vol. XXVII. No 28 MARKETS DULL LAST WEEK. Prospects Is That Matters Will he Un? settle^ Until National Campaign its Over. New York. Feb 10.?Speculative ac? tivity in the securities market came almost to a halt laat week in the midst of the uncertainties presented! by the accumulating evidence of shrinkage of business and industries I in the country and the symptoms of political activity in the form of put lie utterances by persons conspicuous in political affairs. The .world of stock market has felt Itself inveighed against by both of the great political parties, and has conceived that the heat of the coming campaign -will see a continuance of this policy in the shaping of tho^ oratory and publicity incident to the canvass of candidates for the presidency. A discouraging effect on active opw erations In the stock market is ar? gued from this prospect and a sum? mer of dullness and neglect of the market is looked forward (to, which offers little inducement to present em? barkation on speculative ventures. The immediate effect of the neglected condition of the market has been to leave it open to shifting influences of small professional oi>eTarW?ns, with a dropping tendency present in a dull market. Bear operations have b.?e.11 manifest from time to time, accompa nied by more than usually reckless circulation of damaging rumors with? out confirmation. On the side of the business eonv traction the precept of the present de pression has been modfled in Mi hV* fluencc by Its opinion that conditions are working towards current newg, however, failed t3 mow the actuaY condition of any be tterment, and tne fundamental motive for the halt in the markets found in this fact. Sta? tistics of the iron and steel trade fob* January showed a processVf contrac? tion still in progress. Estimates, df 375,O#>0 freight cars idle on faU. G left-Do rtwrn for Inference r^f" r? revival in freight traffic. Rope its of railre>aef earnings coming to hand bore the clocr reflection of the effect** of 11 ie great decrease in traffic the* coan'JY ov.t. ?Tbe enforcement of economics I Bf the railroaels w as ' reflected upom the ecuipment companies and a strong in'pr^ssioT wes'created ry ihc announenment of the laving off of ter? th >usa!i#l men by ihe Baldwin Loco? motive WO| kp. There evidences of declining earn* } I ing power In the industries detracted from the influence of the cotifftfuadi - ease in the money markets to stimu s late the demand for secuiit'es. For f the high graele investment class of I securities with a (feed return well be? low the margin of assured earmngs i I there was se me Continued absorption I both here anl abroad. In this UotJ of investment also there was senwO , I check as the week pre.grvsFed. pari f I ly attributed to the growth of unce r tainty over the political and business prospect, but also affected by a tight? ening of the Lonelon money market. I I Money on call in New York prov ed> difficult to lend and this condition I I wsls not affected by some heavy spe? cial requirement during the week for payment of accrued subscriptions on stock issues. Money for mercantile purposes also was readily secured. Corporations are still resorting to short time note issues fcr meeting, capital requirements. The outcome of this week's sale of $r.0,000.00t> New York city 50-year 4 1-3 per cent bonds will be watched with much in? terest for the light it will throw or* the actual investment situatiom It took 44 men 355 da>s to count the $267,83t'.,166.2? in the New York sub-treasury. The cash balanced te> a cent. New specimens of grass and whit?' orchids never be-fe re known to exist in this country, have been discovered). In Cape May county, Now Jersey. A hank note that pasted through the Chicago fire Is one of the curio* preserved in the Bank of England., 'ihe paper was consumed, but the* ashes held together, and the printing: is quite legible, and is kept under glass. The bank paid the note The South sea island firhermaw throws into the water a poison ex? tracted from a certain bark. The fish, stupefied, at once come to the surface. and are gathered in by hand. Thcer flech is quite a* wholesome as thought they had been netted. By his will a rich tend owner named Bielau, who has died In Leon newltz, Saxony, leaves a large proper? ty to the military authorities, whicta In case off war, is to be sold, and two thirds of the money given to the sol? diers who captuie the first standard from the enemy, and the third part te> the first soldier who captures a gun