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Governor McSweeney Replies to
;Charges Against Him.
HIS REPLY GIVEN IN FULL.
He Defends His Administration
and Presents His Caims for
Re. Ejection to the Office
of Governor.
Governor McSweerey has prepared a
statement rewarding his adinnistration
and position, which is intesestiog. le
says:
Fellow-Citizens:- in presenting my
claims as a candidate for aovernor I
desire to thank you for your suffrage
in twice electing me to the respon i-e
position of lieutenant-governor. In that
position I discharged my duties fairly,
fearlessly and faithfully, aid received
the proud endorsement <f the body
over which I presided. My platform
has already been announced in my
annual message and on the hustings, but
I shall endeavor to give it to you again,
for I believe the people should hear
fully the candidates a-king for their
suffrage. As 5o know. I -uaceded the
lamented Govercor tor toll out
his unexpired ter:.. and I co:;e before
you to ask your endorsemen:. I am one
of the people and have fought my way
through the world single handed and
alone, and I am not ashamed of my re
cord. Ever since I have heen in public
life I have continuously fought for the
people and 'heir rights.
I am an advocate of an ecomical
government wisely and judiciously ad
ministered with as small a tax as the
safe operation of the government will
allow. My service has not been lip
service, big professions and little deed.,
for I have never yet let an op;portunity
pass to help the young men sd young
women upward and onward in life, and
I have always endeavored to protect
and preserve the proud name of my
native state, for the proudest heritage
that I have is that I am a Carolinian.
Nor have my services to the old soldier
been wasted in sympathetic speeches,
in public and pri ate life I have silent
ly and q a:le 'ee all in my power to
smooth the road of the tottering Con
federate soldier on his final march to
the grave.
I am a firm believer in common
schools. It is to them that I owe my
advancement in life. My education was
limited to them; my heart is wrapped
up in them, and I would be as traitor
ous to desert the common schools as
the college man would be to desert his
alma mater. Starting out in life as an
orphan and penniless, the only friend I
had was the free public schools. I have
taken a special interest in them and
shall continue to do so as long as I can
be of service to them. I believe that
special attention should be given to the
education of children at our cotton fac
tories. When I appointed the state
board of education some time ago I ap
pointed as a member an able teacher of
a school of a manufacturing town im
order that the interest of the factory
children might have the benefit of his
experience, and that they should have
a representative on the highest educa
tional board in the state.
Lihewise I anm a consistent friend of
the- colleres, both state and denomina
tional. I glory in the i roud reco-d our
colleges have made in the pst and the
splendid unlimited future beform them.
School houses have done more for civi
lization and Christianity than all the
armies of conquest have ever done or
can ever do.
The material prosperity of our state
is exceedingly gratif~iag. While this
is not due to my administration, for no
governor can stop our march of pros
perity, yet I have done all in iny power
to help the grand movemnent along and
to establish confidence in our enter
prise and in our state government.
My opponents have attacked me be
cause I subscribed for the newspapers.
By such charges they expect to catch
the unthinking. Such a charge is an
insult to intelligence. All of my pre
decessors prop -:rly subscribed for papers
and paidl for ihem in the same way. It
is absolutely neceeary for the governor
to know whether pr-oolmmtions, adver
tisements for supplies and so fourth
have been publihe-i as r ail f. and to
keep posted as to &rand 5jacy present
ments, violations of the law, co-ad u.
of public officials, riots, lynchinugs and~
so forth. Only a few weeks ago a erirme
was committed in Florence county,
The prisoners were arrested, and had it
not been that the governor was posted
as to the state of feeling at Fiorence, in
a great measure through the newspa
pers, a c:-ime would have been commit
ed that would have been a foul blot on
the good name of our state and an in
sult to Christianity and a perversion of
law and order. And, my friends, I say
here in this connection that so long as
I am governor that I will exhaust every
available means of the state before I
will allow a mob law or lynch law to
dominate the government and rule the
lands.
But we are here to discuss measures
and not men. What is local option
and what would be the result of such a
scheme? It is so impracticable that
neither Governor Tillman, nor Evans,
nor Ellerbe, all stalwart friends of the
dispensary, ever once thought of sug
gesting such an idea and no honest
prohibitionist can favor it for it allows
that which he believes to be inherently
wrong. The result of such a scheme
would be a conglomeration of prohibi
tion and dispensary counties, each
bearing the burden and receiving the
ill-effect of the other, with no benefits
to either. It is a patchwork, crazy
quilt, theory and could only result in
confusion, and simply lives as a theory,
only upon the specious demagogic idea
of local self-government; for is it local
self-government; you cannot limit it to
a congressional district, for counties
may want it. Y ou cannot limit it to
counties for particular townships may
want it. You cannot limit it to town
ships for the numerous towns of a town
ship may want it.' And then you could
not only have a county full of bars or
dispensaries against the sentiment of a
o uunty, thereby defeating the theory of
local option. but you would have such
a diversity of the liquor business that
the revenues would be so small that
special officers would be a thing of the
past and illicit liquor traffic would be
untrammelled.
But local option is not a material
factor in this campaign. The issue is
c'early joined between dispensary and
prohibition. The dispensary is no ex
periment. It has been a statute law
for over six years and has~ been en
dorsed by every legislature since its en
actment. Political convictions have
endorsed it and none have dared to con
demn it.
It has proved to be the only practical
solution of the liquor question. People
alway hae and always will have lia
tl jiqior 'lict. The nore he sells
the greater his profit. The profit feat
ure is his only incentive and therefore,
wore the encouragement he offers the
buyer to buy more and more. That
beiug the case the best solution to
remove the cause that compels the un
fortunate to buy more and more. The
dispensary solves this.
The dispenser gets his salary wheth
er he sells one drop or not, and he is
not allowed to indulge in the seductive
and disastrous credit system. It is of
no interest to him to sell impure liquor
or to seduce a minor or to give a free
lunch to the unwary. He is sworn and
bonded to enforce the law and his posi
tion is at stake. If he fails to enforce
the law, you, the. people, who give him
his position. can blame only your
selves.
How different is the blind tiger, the
prnreney of prohibition, whose only am
bition is to make dollars for himself
and drunkards for the state and whose
only claim to citizenship is based on
his brazen effrontery as a law breaker.
But it is contended there are tigers un
der the dispensary system. Certainly,
but the dispensary law does not make
tigers. D.o you suppose people patron
ize tigers because there is a dispensary
law. or because they wan: l'j ior to
drink?
It is the patronaze that makes tige: s
and ii it not natural to conclude that
if you abolish the dispensary that the
patronage heretofore going to the dis
per;ary ii go to the blind tigers,
t rcb % easing them ten fold.
'ie.n, when the dispensary g.oes the
special offirer must go, and with only
the civil officars, who are now unable
to cpe with the few tigers the chaotic
condition that must follow is enough to
stagger every citiz n who loves his
home and respects the law.
Under a rrohibition law a heavy tax
musit be levied upon every one to en
force the law whether h.- favors prohi
bition or not. But under the law every
tr:in negro who buys his flask of
liquer contributes a tax to the town
and county to see that he keeps the
peace. to work the road and to educate
the children.
Prohibition is a beautiful sentiment,
but a miserable failure in practice. The
.prohibitionist can use no stronger ar
gument than to cite the states that
have tried prohibition. Let us see the
result of such argument. Maine, Iowa
and Kansas have prohibition under
their constitution. Now compare these
states with South Carolina by the re
port of the United States Commissioser
of internal revenue for the year
ending June 30, 1899:
Maine-Number of retail liquor deal
ers 1,125
Iowa-Number of retail liquor deal
ers ;,730.
South Carolina-Number of retail
liquor dealers 324
The 324 credited to South Carolina
includes every liquor dispensary in the
State. Thus it is seen that the prohibi
tion state of Kansas with one half mil
lion population has ovtr ten times as
many illegal liquor licenses as South
Carolina. That Iowa with a fraction
over two million population has six
teen times as many and that the state
of Maine with about seven hundred
thousand population, (about one-half
the population of South Carolina,) has
five times as many.
Bear with me while I callvyour atten
tion to more unprejudiced and incon
trovertible evidence of the fallacy of
prohibition. A committee of fifty of
the most prominent citizens of the
Uited States includins: s-uch men as
Seth Low, president of the Columbia
university, and Charles W. Elliott,
president of Yale university, and other
men of equal prominence, not identi
fed with politics, were appointed to in
vestigate the operations of the liquor
laws in several of the various states
They report having found 182 places
where liquor was sold in the city of
Portand, Mc., not including pocket
pedlers, houses of ill-fame, express
companies, clubs, and certain oyster
resturants. That while the investiga
tion was in progresQ several new bars
were opened. TM P'ortland Express in
the issue of J':e 21st, 1894. contained
the followir' protest of certain liquor
dealers (prohibition town) of that city:
Some liquor dealers -complain that
their profits arc cut down by the com
petition of shops allowed to exist in the
vicinity of their own places of business
and that the regular collection of lro
tetion money may also be made of
thmn These demands are in some in
e auces said to be so excessive that the
dealers say that they swallow up the
lion's share of the profit and some
imes actually make them run more
direputable places than they other
wie would in order to get in money
enough to be able to respond to the
peretual squeezing.
In Augusta. Me., the capital of the
State, 622 places were found in opera
tion, or one to every 117 inhabitants.
Ellsworth, with 2 300 inhabitants con
tains 14 bars and tour other places
(apotheeary shops) where liquor is sold.
Throughout the entire State the sicken
ing array of figures comes. The same
account states that one dirty, filthy,
hell-hole, where the vilest liquor is
sold, is maintain"d to every 200 inhabi
tants or less. The committee reports:
"The conclusion must be that it is
impossible to state from the statistics
adduced just how far they reflect
2reater or less public inebriety. The
general impression is that drunkenness
is as prevalent now as ever before the
constitutional amendment went into
effect, if not more so.*
"The toleration of an open defiance
of the laws and the constitution indi
cate not merely a widespread lack of
sympathy with prohibitory measures,
but a carelessness of public sentiment
which of itself is grave. Citizens have
become so accustomed to this defiance
that little attention is paid to the con
tinuance of violations of the liquor
statute or to the contempt for law and
order generally which is an inevitable
c nsequenee.
"A local judge in speaking of condi
tions under a prohibitory law not en
forced has said: 'The value of the oath
has been reduced 50 per cent. in this
State. Perjury (for which the maxi
mum penalty is imprisonment for life)
is so common that it no longer attracts
attention. And it is not confined only
to the liquor element; the effect of it
is far reaching and growing. People
talk of it openly and without a blush '
"Members of the supreme judicial
court have said substantially the same
thing and prosecutions for perjury
conmitted during the trial of liquor
cases are not frequent. Closely akin
to perjury is the hypocrisy engendered
when people are called upon to support
a law that they do not believe in. The
support of prohibition at the polls and
in party platforms when it is so ill
enforced can be explain' d only on the
ground that men have scome hypo
rites. A judge of the supreme court
as ynoted in public newspapers, referr
ing to conditions in Cumberland coun
ty, alaine, said: 'It is a question
whether the prohibitory law makes
more hypocrites or more drunkards.'
ti say: It is . qustitst _hethd bore
then b:onc drunkard4 .r hypodrites
under the prchibitory law.'
This, gentlemen, is but a like report
made of every other prohibition State
by this committee.
Hear me again, you men who believe
that Democracy has a stronger claim
upon you than prohibition, and hear
the arraignment of prohibition, Col.
Hoyt's pet theory, by the Democracy
of Maine. On July 11, 1900, the Demo.
eratic party adopted the following as a
pa-t of its platform:
"For nearly half a century we have
had statutory law prohibiting the
manuracture, sale and use of intoxi.
eating liquors. For nearly half that
time it has been embodied in the Ctat:
constitution. Since it was first enafted
scores of amendments, each more
stringent and the penalties more than
those preceding it, have been past d
'For nearly 2'' years the alleged en
for:ement of the prohibitory law has
been growing more and mare lax until
today in nearly every cit, in the State
a-d many of the larger towns there are
regularly establshed bars and saloons
where liqiors are sold in open, ft
grant violation of the constitution and
statutory law. Nearly every hotel,
m ay rest aurants, hundreds of so
ca'led drug stores and unnumbered
and secret saloons and barrooms in the
cities sell without restriction, save an
occasional seizare and fine for political
purposes.
"For years the prohibitory law has
been a poli:ieasl footbal. its hs p'eriti
oil enforcenent has be u uzed to con
trol the liq)r vote to icorea :e the i1
come of perj :red offiias and to swell
the corruption funi for campaign lur
poses. Through its instrumentality the
party in power has irnfi-need jiries,
cor:up'ed d:ffiaials sworn to enforce the
law; debauched voters, deceived the
advocates of temperance. betrmieed the
cause it professed to support, creating
a contempt and a disregard for all layws
and has made the good name of the
State a byword and reproach wherever
it is known "
Then you ask the question, if these
prohibition States are in such a deplor
able condition why do they not change?
The answer is evident. Tnc liquor men
are in the saddle and they, like the
liquor men of South Carolina, are per
fectly satisfied with prohibition. Think
of the condition of Maine. The prohi
bitionists cannot change. The liquor
men cannot be disenthralled. Do) you
desire snch a condition of affairs here?
Have you any reason why South Caro
lioa would not be in as deplorable
conditien as any of these States. If so
what is it? And if none, why change
a settled law for a disastrous experi
ment. Some of my competitors in their
freezied desire for office have made the
unwarranted charge that I have not
enforced the law. Try my recrd be
fore a tribunal over which neither I
nor my competitors have any control.
The reports of the attorney general s
office show that for the year 1899. the
only year reported to that office du; ing
which I was responsible for the en
forcement of that law that 32 mre
were charged with the violation of the
dispensary law than for the year 1898
Ninety-one more than for 1897; 213 more
than for 1895. Thec years 18S3, 1894 are
not considered as the enforement of
the law was practicmlEy stopped by the
courts. My record has been ex.ceded
by only one year and during that year
the constables were allowed to seize all
inter state liquor as 'well as to arrest
any man transporting contraband in
ter-state liquor which privilege has
since been denied by the court. During
the past six months of my administra
tion 167 cases have been sent to the
circuit court for trial and 106 men have
been convicted in the various courts of
the State. Does this savor of a non
enforcement of the law?
My competitors make reckless charges
of the non enforcement of the law.
Two of thenm have taken an oath to
support the law and the other two have
a moral obligation on their shoulders as
citizens.
If either of them knows oft any vio
lations of the law or has any such in
formation is it not his duty to see that
the law is enforced or renounce his
obligations as an officer or a titizen?
If they can specify as to any violations
I can and wi!! use their testimony in
the courts.
To simply assert, or charge. without
specifying and without proof is un
manly, unfair and un-American. 1
have done the best I could to enforce
the law. That it is not perfectly en
forced, never has been, and never will
be, is as true of this law as it is of any
other law. The federal government
with its unlimLited resources cannot stop
moonshining. Then how can a debt
ridden State do better than we have
done?
It has been suggested that the law
has not been enforced in the city of
Charleston. M1y friends, you may rest
assured that the State authorities and
oiers have done everything within
their power to enforc3 the law. For
the first six months of this year one
magistrate alone issued (No)t seard w
rants fer contraban'i liquor. Numbters
of cases have been sent up to the up
per court chargine persons with vio
lating the law. No opportunity has
ever been missed, so far as I know, to
enforce the law vigorou4ly. But what
in the result? Just as fast as we send
them up the grand jury unceremoni
ously throws them out. I cannot make
juries nor am 1 the guardian of the
conscience of any juror. We can only
give the court and jar'les an opportuni
ty to enforce th a law. If they decline
or refuse, our labors can go no further.
Now, in all fairness, can mortal man
do more? No force that 1 can use,
even to the shedding of blood, can force
a jury to write to find a true bill or a
verdict of guilty.
No men in the State have an oppor
tunity to determine whether the dis
pensary law has been enforced better
than the mayors of the towns. They
are absolutely under no obligations to
the executive department. Hear their
testimony.
The mayor of Newbervy says: "There
is to violation of the dispensary law in
town and I do not think there is any in
the county. The dispensary law has
been much better enforced during the
past year than haretofore."
The mayor of Spartanuhurg says:
"There is very little, if any, violation
of the dispensary law in the town or
county. The illicit sal of whi-key is
on the decrease. Tne law has tDeen
well enforced during the past yar-."
The mayor of Saluda say: ". Chere
has been no violation whattner of the
dispensary law in the town aod only
by a temporary pocket blind tiger in
the surrounding country among the ne
gros at picnics, etc. So far as it is
possible to tell, I would say that the
dispensary law has been better en
forced during the past year than here
tofore.'"
The mayor of Elgefield says: -'Te~
dispensary law is not being violated in
this town or county to my knowledge."
The mayor of Abbeville says: "The
dispensary lawv is not being violated to
any extent. Thiere are practically no
ihe mayoi bf Floflehu says: "The
iii.. sale of whiskey is de&rasing.
The dispensary law has been as well
enforced during the past year as here
tofore."
The mayor of Jhester says: "The
dispensary law is not violated in town
or county to my knowledge. I think
the illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing
The dispensary law has been as well
enforced during the past year as here
tof ore."
The mayor of Laurens says: "The
illicit sale of whiskey is decreasing
considerably in this city and in the
county. The dispensary law hay been
better enforced during the past year
than heretofere."
The mayor of Orangeburg says:
"There is no violation of the dispen
sary law in this city, nor have I- heard
of any in the county for some time. I
judge the dispensay law is being better
enforced than heretofore."
The mayor of Rock Hill says: "The
illi it sale of whiskey I do not think i.
increasing. It is sold mostly from
pocket blind tigers. I favor the law
and would hks to see it kept on the
statute books as I regard it as the best
solution."
The mayor of Ander3on says: "No
illicit whiskey is sold in this city."
The mayor of Winnsboro says: "The
dispensary law is not being violated to
our official knowledge or information.
The illicit sale of whiskey is decreas
ing. The dispensary law is as well, or
better enforced than heretofore."
I have earnestly endeavored to en
'orec the law without bloodshed, but
thi4 law, as all other laws, must be en
forced without apology to any man.
Now, my friends, I ask is all candor
in view of the conditions that exist in
prohibition States, and the record in
the enforcement of the law in South
Carolina, is there any reason to q'es
tioc or doubt the motive of the blind
tigers in joining forces with the prohi
bitionists. For whose benefit is such
an alliance? Let the past experience
speak for the I rasent. If prohibition
should win, its continuance would have
to depend, as in other States, upon its
old ally, the tiger.
Aain, the most enthusiastic prohi
bitionist does not hope for a prohibi
tion legislature. That means a contin
uance of the dispensary. Now, my
friends, who is the more likely to en
force the law-a man who honestly be.
lieves in the law, or a man like Col.
Hoyt, in whose nostrils the very name
of the dispensary law is a stench.
N w, my fellow-citizsns, in conclu
mi I thank the people of the State
or the support given to my adminis
trstion and am gratified for the harmo
nious work of all the members of the
administration. I have endeavored t>
fultill the duties of the office of gover
cor with the same fidelity and upon
the same business principles that has
always characterized my official and
private life, whether as a member of
the general assembly, as lieutenant
. vernor, or in the Democratic coun
ec:s. I am running on my record,
merit and fitness for the offi 3e, and not
upon the demerits of any other man..
I am running as an individual Demo
crat, unfettered by the nomination or
suggestion of any faction and bound by
no platform except that of Democracy.
i would rather my tongue should cleave
to the roof of my mouth than to dip
into the cesspools of slander and vitu
peration Neither my State nor any of
her honored citizens, such as my oppo
nents, .shall be slandered by me for
self-aggrandizement, and rather than
go into office by mud-slinging and bit
ter vituperation, [ will go to my grave
unhonored.
BE&UYIES OF DIVORCE L&W.
Pays His Wife to Let Rim Marry An
er Woman.
A disp'atch from Chicago says a mag
nifi::ent string of pearls, William Bate
man Leeds' gift to his bride, was not
the most costly part of his second mar
riage. Leeds formerly lived in Chica
go, is very wealthy and one of the prin
ipal tioplate manufacturers of this
country.
To obtain freedom from his former
wife to marry Nannie May Stewart
Worthington, he is said to have given
Jeannette Irene Leeds $1 000.000 in
bands and stocks. The former Mrs.
Leeds knew that her husband was en
gaged to the dashing divorcee of Cleve
land, but refused his entreaties that he
be freed from the vows he assumed 17
years ago in a little Indiana town.
Hie threatened to go into court him
self for a divorce, and Mrs. Leeds
smiled and said: "Go," but he did niot
go For five years he had not lived
with his Rife. Why they separated is
a secret that both have kept. Friends
guessed it, but Mrs. Leeds said noth
ing. She was absorbed in the educa
tion of her boy, Rudolph, now 14 years
The first Mrs. Leeds was approached
by her husband a month ago and asked
o UuI'a a cash consideration to release
him She~ %ad, the story goes, $1,000,
000 wns set m , much for a man to pay
who wanted to marry a woman half his
age. Leeds seemed to think his sec
ond love was rated at a high figure. He
tried to "bear" the price. Mrs. Leeds
first declined to go into the dickering
business.
The chief of the tin plate baronq, it is
alleged, at length sent $1,000,001 to
his former wife, who was living at the
Virginia hotel wuiting for the accept
ance that she knew would come. The
day after the transfer of all the bonds
and stocks had been made she sought
George A. Trude and told him she
wanted a divorce from Leeds.
"What about the alimony?" in
quired the attorney, as he seemed to
set down a memoranda of the points in
volved in the bill.
--That matter has all been settled,"
she said. "All I want of you is to get
me a divorce. Mr. Leeds wants it
quick, and you cannot proceed to rap
idly. A fairer and a younger woman
is waiting for him."
August 1, at 11 o'clock in the morn
ing, the bill for divorce was filed. Fif
teen minutes later Judge Bishop lis
tened to the tesiwony of a mi~ddle aged
woman, g'iietly drcrsed. Site said her
hsband :.ad djeserted her five years ago.
Ste kuiesv uf no cause for his conduct.
'he usual denial had been filed by
Leeds' attorney, but no defense was
made in court. Half an hour after the
filing of the bill the decree was granted.
That evening Mrs. Leeds the first left
Chicago for the east. She is going to
Europe with her boy.
Gainesville, G a., Dec. 8, 1899
Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator has
been used in my family and ILam per
fectly satisfied that it is all, and will
do all, you claim for it. Yours truly,
A. B. C. D)orsey.
P. 8.-I am using it now myself.
It's doing nie good. -Sold by The Mur
ray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all
A TRAGIC SUiCIDE.1
A Man Who Uses a Pistol to Avoid
Rescue.
A VERY STRANGE CASE.
A N, w Yorker Weary of Life
Puts a Ball in His Brain
While Dr.wning.
The Yacht Elith, Captain Parker, lay
in her berth at the inlet at 5 o'clock.
Every day she makes several trips out
to sea. Always the Edith has most pas
sengers on her evening trip. for she
s:arts when the sun is setting and re
turns when the dusk is gathering.
One of the first to go abroard this ev
ening was a young man who seated
himself in the bow. He was short, slight
and weighed not more than 100 pounds,
Captain Parker thinks. There was
nothing peculiar in the young man's
bearing, Fo. naturally, the captain did
not scrutinize him. But he noticed that
his passenger wore a black slouch hat
and a suit of serge somewhat the worse
for wear.
YACH ' SOON CROWDED.
Parties of two or three, sweethearts
sauc, some people irdustriously pursu
ing, good health, soon filled the boat.
When there were about twewty-five
aboard Captain Parker cast off and the
Edith put out over the calm, gently
rolling water, The passengers laughed
and joked. chaffed each other about be
ing gad or good sailors, or made unob
trusive love or watched others make
love.
Oaly the young man, who wore a
black slouch hat, sat alone in the bow
He was quiet, the passengers say, but
he did not seem moody, despondent.
Now, silent, he loooked out over the il
limitable expanse, now at the men and
women from whom he was about to cut
himself off.
They knew afterward he had made
up his mind and but awaited the mo
ment.
That moment came when the Edith,
having sailed seven miles, tacked pre
paratory to the run home. The man, so
young, so determined, knew, or suppos
ed, the water under him there was as
deep as he could hope for.
He arose and slowly and very care
fully, as if he feared to fa'l and hurt
himself, he picked his way to the very
bow. He took his hat from his head
and, with a gesture more graceful than
violent, cast it overboard.
He turned for an instant to those in
the boat.
"Good-by!" he cried, then leaped into
the water.
The women on the yacht shrieked,
seized the men, fearful, clung to them.
"Save him, Captain! Put about!
Save him! "We'll get him!" yelled the
men, and two or three jumped off and
pulled off their coats.
Obeying the tiller, which Parker han
dled, the iEdith quickly came about.
The young man, so weary of life, who
had risen from his plunge, glanced over
his shoulder at the boat and vigorously
struck out, swimming away from her.
He swam well, strongly for a minute or
two, even and again looking over his
shoulder at the Edith, as if he led in
a race agiost her. The yacht gainsd on
him. But he won the race.
He was not more than twenty yards
away from the Edith.
Women with agonized eyes were star
ing at him; others hid their faces. Men
on the boat were cursing their helpless
ness.
This calm but determined young man
ceased to swim; he appeared to "tread
wat r'' strongly, for as he rocked and
swayed erect in the green rollers his
armpits were above the surface.
With his right hand he drew a pistol
from one of his pockets, whose car
tridges, of course, were waterproof. He
put the pistol to nis headl. The people
on the boat saw a 11ash, in the thou
sandth of a second heard a report.
A little cloud of smoke wa3 lost in the
spray.
The most remarkable of suicides dis
appearcd in the calm, the life giving
ocean.-New York Journal.
A HORRIBLE ACCIDENT.
A Fast Train Crashes Into a
Full Omnibus.
Eteven persons were instantly killed
and 11 others, several dwhom will die,
were seriously injured Sunday night in
a grade crossing accidbnt three miles
east of Slatington, Pa., by a passenger
train on the Lehigh and New England
railroad crashing into an omnibus con
taining 25 persons. All the dead and
injurned were in the omnibus, and but
three escaped uninjured. At least
three fourths of the occupants of the
omnibus were ladies. The accident
occurred about 5 o'clock. The omnibus,
driven by a man named Peters, was
returning to Slatington from a funeral
the occupants had been attending at
Cherrysville. The coach belonged to
Henry Bittner of Slatington, and the
dead and injured were nearly all rela
tives of Sophia Schoeffner, at whose
obscquies they had been present. The
train was a special and consisted of an
engine and one car. At the poirt at
which the collision occurred there is a
sharp curve in the road and the omni
bus came along at a good rate of speed,
the occupants unconscious of any im
pending danger. As the bus swung
around the curve the engine and car
came in sight. It was too late to stop
either the omnibus or the train and as
the driver of the former whipped up
the four horses to cross the track ahead
of the train, the latter crashed into its
middle. The occupants were thrown
in all directions, bruised and bleeding.
The 11 dead were killed outright.
Physicians and a special train were sent
for and the injured were taken to South
Bethlehem. No watchman is employed
to warn teams or pedestrians of any ap
proaching train and those living in the
vicinity state that it is impossible to
hear an a; p-oaching train. A peculiar
feature of the accident was that the
horses drawing the bus escaped unhurt.
The way of the newspaper man or
the transgressor is hard. The Swains
boro Wiregrass Blade says: "It's a
great pleasure to run a c~untry newspa
per-its so nice to be able to do things
for accommodatien, you might publish
free notices of births. deaths, marriages,
etc , to the amount of a hundred dollars
or more and then send a man a bill for
$1 subscription and he will want to
curse you out."
Dr. Charles E. Page created quite a
sensation at the Washington conven
tion of Doctors by coming to the de
fense of the microbe. He held that a
healthy body generates its own germi
ides and that the microbe in such a
body stands about as good a chance of
doing mischief "as a mouse in a tight
room surrounded by a dozen hungry
A1'r T &Afl4G AP3
Bill Will Not Lecture Until Victuals
Are Exhausted.
'Tis home where the heart is, and
the most of mine is here. - lhe epicure
filled his stomach with choicest food
and exclaimed, "Fate cannot harm me,
I have dined today," and so I have
filled my heart with the sweets and
comforts of home. and feel defiant of
human misery. Fate cannot harm me,
for my nome is my castle where, as
Blackstone says, "the king of England
dare not enter uninvited." But an old
man did enter not long ago and said he
eamo to stay a few days if it was cm
venient. I saw his baggage on the iron
seat in the verandah. He said, "I
travel free and lodge free and mix with
none but the best people, and so I have
come to abide with you fora few days.
I hope it is convenient." Well it was
ent convenient, for my wife was at
Rome and my daughters away, and I
had never heard of him, and so I told
him it was not convenient. He seemed
surprised and asked me if was a Vir
ginin, I told him no, 1 was a Georgian,
and he said that Virginians seemed to
be scarce in this region and he feared
that old Virginia hospitality had not
reached here; that Bishop Nelson had
entertained him in Atlanta, and he had
found a welcome among all Virginians.
"What are you going to do with me?"
he asked. "I am lame and can't walk;
I was told you had a carriage and would
drive me anywhere I wihed to go "
"No, sir, 1 have neither carriage nor
buggy, but I will go dovn town and get
a vehicle and take you anywhere you
wish to go." Then he said that Brother
Bealer told him that if I would not take
him, there was a poor widow across
town who would, and he would speak
to her. So I took him there and left
him, and will pay his bill if Brother
Bealer dident. There are religious
tramps as well as sinner tramps, and
they are not angels unawares. I was
down in the wiregrass region for nearly
two weeks, and have most pleasant
memories of my new found friends, but
the last day was the best for I was on
my journey home and counted the
milestones as we speeded along. Happy
faces and loving kisses greeted me
when I came, and here I am going to
rest until the larder gets low and my
wife insists that I had better make
another venture. And now let the
procession proceed. Let the war go
on. It is none of my begetting; it
might have stopped at Santiago, but
our Yankee brethern seem to love the
nigger afar off and have bought 8,000,
000 at two dollars and a half a head,
which was cheap enough if Spain could
have delivered the goods. But they
have cost ten times that now and are
still in the woods. We used to adver
tise our runaways and say "Ten dol
lars reward-Runaway from the sub
scriber my boy Dick, 25 years old, 5
feet 10 inches high, black complexion
and very flat nose. The above reward
will be paid on his delivery to me or
his lodgment in the nearest jail." Why
not try try that on Aguinaldo and the
other runnaways? But if they catch
them I don't know what they are going
to do with them; they wouldent let
Aguinaldo set up a barber shop in
Manila no more than they would in
Boston or Chicago. Professor Council,
who is president of the colored
agricultural college in Alabama, under
stands this. He is the smartest and
best leader of his race, and when he
speaks or writes to the public always
says the right thing. 1 have great
respect for him.
But this awful muddle with China,
which was precipitated by our aggres
sion upon the Philippines, see'ms to
have no end in sight. Rev. Dr. Halder
man, of New York, who is said to be a
very learned man, says that he demon
strated a year ago from scriptual pro
phecy that the present year would find
all the nations at war, and there would
be a mighty struggle between Russia
and China, and that Russia-would even
tually gain the supremacy; but that for
a :time the hordes from China will
break ini an awful avalanche upon the
western nations and the greed, the
rapacity. the Christless, Goliless selfish
ness of Enropean nations will get its
reward, and there will be a terrible
balance sheet against those Christian
nations who have poisoned China with
opium and made them look upon all
Christians as rapacious foreign devils.
He says that the Chinese are fighting
for their homes and institutions, and
know that the Christian nations are
seeking to rob them, and that their mis -
sionaries are backed by guns and swords
and Godless soldiers rcady to kill and
slay. This infariates them, and they
look upon any white man as a devil who
should be slain. He says that while
this impending and destructive war is
ordained of God and foretold by His
prophets, yet the sin of it lies at the
doors of Christian nations. tDfenscs
must needs come, but woe unto those
by whom they come. The love of
money is still the root of all evil.
"Trade will follow the flag," is the
shibboleth of commerce, and if the fiag
has to be stained with blood it does not
matter.
These arc my convictions, and hence
I can't work up any enthusiasm nor
any revenge. In 1841 E agland took
Hong Kong. In 1848 England made
China pay $20,000,000 because she de
stroyed 20,000 chests of opium that had
been stored there by English merch
ants. In 1858 Russia grabbed all the
Armoor country, containing 600,000
square miles, and when the United
States grabbed the Philippines the sus
picious Chinaman said, "The Chris
tians are coming; they want mere." No,
it is none of my war. The blood of it
is on somebody's hands.
I see that General Gordon is going
up yonder on another mission of peace
-trying to mix up the blue and the
gray and make a compromise color that
will satisfy beth sides. He can't do it,
but maybe he enjoys the fun of trying.
Here and there you will find a gol*
hearted, clever Federal pensioner, but
most of the clever ones come down here
and stay. The malignant ones don't
come; they are afraid to come. That
is all right; let I hem stay there; we had
rather live with the negroes than mean
Yankees. Here is a paper (The Mon
roe Chronicle) that was sen-. me last
week-a marked copy--that is mad be
cause our people talk about ouilding a
Confederate memorial at Richmond,
and says it ought not to be allowed, and
that our loyalty to the union is all a
pretense, and that Bill Arp, a noted
rebel and writer, shows no love f'r a
restored union. He says that such a
memorial is an insult to the nation and
makes treason honorable and loyalty
odious; every Confederate monument is
a bloody shirt, ani the Republican par
ty ought to die, and die eternally, if it
ever allows the return of those rebdl
flags which are an insult to the union
dead and disabled veterans, Hie de
nounced our rebel sosgs and rebel trib
utes to treason: and there is a lot morelI
of such stuff, and it is in keeping with'i
General Shaw's utterances in Atlanta
about what we all teach our children.
Uld as I anm, I can lick that fellow in
good to maul some grace into his ma
lignant soul. I am afraid *e will have
to whip them again. But I at not go
ing to let every fool up there make me
mad-I haven't got time-I'd rather
work in the garden or play with the
grandchildren; they keep me amused,
and I can love them without a strain.
Last night I had to play Trimbletoe
with them, and had to be the elephant
and let them ride home on my back.
How far away that sounds-"Catches
his hens and puts them in a pens; some
lays eggs and some lays none; wire,
briar, li'nberlock, three geese in the
flock," etc. One of these little girls,
not yet four years old, disobeyed her
mother yesterday and was promised a
whipping. "Mary Lou, this is the see
ond time you have opened the ice chest
and turned over the cream. I told you
that if vc u did it again I would whip
you No v come along in the other
room." Sbe is a good child, loving and
smart, but wilful. "Mama, peas don't
vip me hard." Her older sister, Caro
line, had followed along out of sympa
thy Mary Lou saw her and said, "Now,
Talline, you go back; me don't want
you to see mama vip me and hear me
cry. It's none of your pisness; it's jast
my pisness.. You go back, Talline,"
and she laid herself across her mother's
lap ready for her bisness. The mother
couldn't stand that; she relented and
kissed her child, and the little thing
promised again.
And s) it goes on in every loving
family-pr-mising and repenting
from childhood to old age, we tin in
haste and repent at leisure. May the
L)rd forgive us all and bless the chil
dren, is my prayer - Bill Arp.
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A Big War Coming.
When the approaching crisis in China
shall have arrived very grave questions
will arise. Can the powers agree either
to maintain the empire intact, under a
reformed administration, or to divide
it up in a manner satisfactory to all
concerned? Will RussiA abandon her
pretensions? Will Japan let pass the
opportunity to acquire Korea? P'ossi
bly diplomacy, whiich has manyre
sources, may stave off the apprehended
conflict, but the conditions are evi
dently such as to threaten a war of
monstrous proportions.
McKinley Prosperity.
. The failures for May, as com
piled from Dun's Review, num
ber 947, as compared with 581
last year and 917 in the "calamit
ous" year of 1896. The number
for May, 1900, is the largest
ever known in that month since
the records have been kept. The
records for the two succeeding
months have been equally signi
ficant, as indicating the full
meaning of the McKinley pros
perity. President Gary of the
Federal Steel Trust, who cer
tainly has no motive for mis
representing the facts on that
side, said in a recent statement
of the iron and steel industry:
"The demand is not equal to the
production, and the latter should
ue curtailed until conditions
change.'' Production is being
curtailed at a rate extremely
disastrous to the irrterests of
workingmen. And this in spite
of the pressure which, it is
everywhere agreed, is being
brought to bear upon the trust
managers by their friends, Han
na and McKinley, to keep their
wor-ks open if possible until af
ter the election. The trust men
are good Hanna Republicans
and would be glad to comply
with this campaign request,
but there is a limit even to the
powers of a trust which has fat
tened upon the abnormal profits
of a short season of artificia!.
prosperity. The trust men ar-e
doing the best they can, but
the truth cannot be concealed
that the bottom is out of the
McKinley prosperity, and the
end is near at hand.
Trade and the Flag.
The New York World says the
official statement of the exports
from the Philippines during the
colendar year 1899 gives the
total at $19,256,091. Of this the
hemp exports were valued at
nearly $8,000,000 and raw sugar
about the same-only one-tenth
of which came the United States..
The remainder was made up of
copra, leaf tobacco and cigars.
The exports by countries, in-'
cluding gold and silver, show:
To China, 8S6,910,498; the United
States, $4,04,2.55; England, $3,
701,36:3; Japan. $1,98.5,896, and
Spain, 81,-170,231. So that
China, which has no "flag" in
the Philippines, got nearly $3,
000,000 more of the small trade
than we did, and England
almost as much. We receive at
New York on any steamer day
more imports from Europe than
come to us in a whole year from
our wonderful new possessions.
The entire value~ of the comn
mer-ce for a y'ear does not equal
the cost of the occupation and
war a week.
A thrifty Indianapolis. Ind-,
Republican merchant put in a
big stock of McKinley-Rooseven
campaign hats, which he pro
posed to sell at 2~> cents a hat.
The expected rush dlidn't come
and after reducing the price
from day to day till he got dlown
t one cent. lie is now giving
them away to g-et rid of them,
and they are not going fast at
ONS #11iA20 EM A PAkt~fNdi
Fabulous Price Said to Have Been
Offered for a Beautitul Work
of Titian.
The preposterous report that some
one had offered ?200,000, or $1,000,000,
for Titian's celebrated painting of "Sa
cred and Profane Love," In the Bor
ghese collection at Rome, Is due, In all
probability, to the universal hunger
for astonishing people, although it may
have some color of possibility to the
Imagination of kindergarten finan
ciers, says the Boston Transcript. In
sensate prices have been paid for
Riaphaels, that in the National gallery
especially, which came from the Marl
borough collection; also for the works
of other old masters, but never any
such incredible price as this. Yet it
would be a hard matter to set the ex
act limit of value in the case of a sale
of Titian, more particularly such an
example as the absurdly misnamed
"Sacred and Profane Love." If there
exists in the world a picture worth
$1,000.000, who would be bold enough
to deny the right of Titian, the poten
tate of painters, to be the author of
that work? As to the picture known
by the title of "Sacred and Profane
Love"-a title which Titian did not give
It, and which has needlessly puzzled
many commentators-it is now gener
ally considered simply as a fanciful or
romantic composition.
But Franz Wickoff, a Germ'an critic,
has evolved a theory, which has a good
deal to recommend it, that this picture
represents an Incident in the seventh
book of the "Argonautica" of Valerius
Flaccus, the Latin poet, where it is re
lated that Medea, the enchantress,
daughter of Aecies, king of Colchis, un
willing to yield to her love for the
Greek Jason, Is visited by Venus, who
pleads for the lover and endeavors to
persuade Medea to follow her into the
wood where Jason is waiting. Titian
has represented this scene as taking
place in the open air; the dawn is just
breaking and rosy streaks appear on
the horizon. A young woman richly
dressed is seated on one side of a foun
tain, on the edge of which she has
placed a costly casket. Her right hand
is in her lap and holds a bunch of
magic herbs. Deeply moved, she gazes
fixedly before her, lending ear the
while to the persuasive voice of another
woman seated near. The form of this
woman, around which flutters a red
mantle, is of a marvelous. beauty.
She rests her right hand upon the foun
tain's edge and with her left holds on
high a vase from which issues a light
smoke. Between the two women the
god of love is splashing In the water
with his chubby little hands.
Mr. Wickoff maintains that in the
beautiful nude figure Venus Is easily
recognizable, even when her son is not
there to indicate her presence. The
woman to whom she spoke and who,
though unwilling to yield blindly, still
feels herself drawn by an irresistible
power, is Medea, who betrayed the
king, her father, and followed Jason,
the stranger and enemy of her people.
What An Opponent Says.
The Spartanburg Herald is
an eminently fair newspaper.
While it opposes Gov. McSwee
ney and supports Col. Hoyt it
scorns to do the farmer an in
justice. In a recent editorial
the Herald says: "We very
much prefer the election of Col.
Hoyt to any of the candidates
running, because we believe
that prohibition is better for the
State than the dispensary as it is
run at present. We believe
that a better plan than either
can be evolved, which would
come under the dispensary re
striction as laid down in the
Constitution: but the present
system of State 'ownership of
the saloon business cannot be
defended. It is wrong in prin
ciple and demoralizing in prac
tice. While we very much pre
fer a candidate who utterly re
pudiates the dispensary as at
present conducted, we are not
blind to the fact that Gay. Mc
Sweeney has refused to use the
"Octopus" as a political ma
chine for his own advancement,
but lie has shown clearly that it
was his desire and purpose to
enforce the. law with as little
friction and 'bloodshed as possi
ble. His methods have not only
brought about a decrease in the
illict sales, but have tended to
make the law more tolerable;
and common justice suggests
that it is not right for him to be
condemned when he has done
better than those who have gone
before him. We believe that
the Hon. Bunky. Patterson,
Senator Tillman and the Colum
bia State, if put on oath would
be compelled to testify that the
dispensary law in South Carolina
is far better enforced today than
at any time since it was enacted
not excepting the time when the
whole militia of the State was
brought into service."
Test Vote Favors Bryan.
According to a test vote taken
by the New York Journal re
cently, William J. Bryan will
sweept Greater New York in
November by at least 89,936
plurality. Out of the total vote
taken, 4,358, only 82 who had
no vote in 189G will vote for
McKinley this year, whereas
295 indicate their intention, onl
signed blanks, to vote for Wil
liam Jennings Bryan. Two
thousand, five hundred and fif
tv-six votes were recorded for
ryan, 1802 for McKinley, and
18 scattering. At this ratio, if
the total vote in Greater New
York this year is as large as in
196, when it reached 519,296,
the proportion of the two candi
dates in November should be:
Fr Brysn........ ... ....304,fl'
For McKinley .. .. .. .. ...--24,6
The Journal's advance poll of
the mayoralty contest two years
ago proved 'a wonderfully an'
curate test of the real vote. It
was a forecast the fairness and
completeness of which .were
proven fully by tihe official re
turns. This straw vote was
taken with the same degree of
onscietiousnless, and the fig
res may be accepted as prophe
ic of the actual returns in
N'rvmhabr next.

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