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VOL. XIX. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1905. NO. 42. A SAD CASE. An Innocent Man Kept in Prison Twenty-One Years. WANTSIECOMPENSE. A Veteran Falsely Convicted of Murder Goes to Atlanta Penniless and Beni with Age. Can General As sembly of the Sate of Geor gia Meet lis Claim? The Atlanta Journal says bent with age, penniless, and just out of a hos pital after months of illness, Charles Franklin, the man who was sentenced for life to the penitentiary for murder by a Bibb county jury, and who serv ed twenty-one years before his inno cence became known when the real murder confessed his guilt, came to Atlanta last week to appeal to the leg Islature for recompense for his twen ty-one years' false imprisonment. Franklin is 65 years of age. He liv ed in Griffin twenty five years, served In the confederate army as a private In the Griffin Volunteers, of the Four teenth Georgia regiment, and then moved to Macon, and followed the trade of a carpenter. He met on the streets one day Fred Knight, a man, whom he characteriz es as having been absolutely worthless, and the two engaged in a quarreL A fight ensued, and Franklin came out the victor. Knight could not forget the humuihatic.n of that whipping he received, and he swore vengeance, and he got it. One morning, on one of the main thoroughfares of Macon, the dead body of Mitt Bryant was found, his throat having been cut almost from ear to ear. Several negroes appeared, and said they saw Franklin commit the murder. Though Franklin had served faith fully in the civil war, and had always had a good reputation, in the face of the positive testimony of the negroes, he was convicted of the murder and sentenced to serve a life sentence in the penitentiary. Oae of the negroes John Dayhawk, as he was testifying, dropped dead on the stand. 1RAT. MU'DERER CONFESSED. In February, 1901, Fred Knight, while on his death bed in Augusta, called for his sister, and asked her to write dawn his dying confession, which was, in effect that he had kill ed Bryant and had put it on Franklin, because he was mad with him. He committed the crime and got John Dayhawk to swear against him. His confession closed with the appeal: "*Tr him loose, turn him loose, for I am dylt g, and I am miserable." The letter was sent to the proper authorities' and the wronged man was given his freedom after having served exactly twenty-one years and eleven days. At the lumber camp at Adrian, Franlin fell in the machinery and lost his left hand. When Franklin came out of the pen itentiary his health was broken. Most of the time of the two years and more that he has been free has been spent in the hospital. Ill nearly all the time, and with one hand gtone, he has been compelled to depend on charity for his scant living APrPEAL TO LEGISLATUEE. Franklin got out of bed to come to Atlanta to appeal to the legislature for some manner of recompense for his imprisonment. He spent his last cent las night for supper. and was forced to appeal to the desk sergeant at the police station for lodging last week which was cheerfully given him. Franklin was seen at the station by a represestative of The Constitution. He did not have a word of iebuke for the man who wronged him, or the jury that sentence d him. "I have a wife in Griffin, and a married daughter in Fernandina, Fla.," he said. "These are the only relatives I have left. I wish I was able to ear my own living, but that is im possible. "Hon. Joe Hall, the representative of Bsibb county, is going to appeal tc the legislature to aid me, and I feel sure they will not ref use. I don't ask for any certain sum; but want the leg Islature to give me what they think ] deserve. "Since Knight's confession my inno cence has never been questioned. H~ had a grudge against me, poor fellow Almighty God had ruled that the ne gro, Dayhawk, should not tell that 1h on me. There was not anything elsi the matter with him. "There Is no use in going into th~ awful days I spent while imprisoned the torture of both mind and body, fo that, thank God, is ovar. I could hav begged the money for lodging, but pre ferred to con-e here." Drinas Poison. At Fulton, Mo., James R. Pent real, estate and insurance agent, an one of the best known business men i that part of the state, has committe suicide by taking poilon. He confesi ed to his partner and two other c.t zns that he has for the past fiftee years been securing money fraudi lently by illegal manipulation of mor gage notes and deer's. He was years old. He leaves a life inmurant policy for $22.000 in favar of h widow. To Butld Church Wit~h Tobacco Tag The Ba~leih News and Observi says J. P. Withrow, a well kno% mercant of Hol~lis nd Eler -or proposes to build a e ur a at Holl with tobacco tags. E r y tc bac< chewer can contribute his part to tbl cause. Instead of throwing away ti tags, just drop them into your pock and forward them to J. P. Withro Hollis, N. C. Mr. Withrow boug1 and sold $1,000 worth of tobacco ta last year, which fact will give a ye clear idea of how easy it will be colect enough tags to build a chure QUEER STORY A Dispensary Inspector Loses Sixteen Hundred Dollars Of Dispensary Money. Claims He Bad it When He Left Charles ton. But It Disappeared. The Columbia State says a very pe culiar story became known Wednes day when it was discovered that a few days ago Dispensary Inspector Clar ence L. Brown mystericusly lost over $1,600, which he received from a county dispenser to make up a short age in the man's accounts. Inspector Brown went to Charles ton a few days ago, according to his statement, and in the course of his duties went to the general dispensary of S. S..Matthews and checked up the books. He found the dispenser $1.648 short in his accounts and asked for payment of this amount. He was given a check, and one of Mattews' clerk's went with him to the bans to get It cashed. The money was ob tained at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and Inspector Brown came to Colum bia on the afternoon train. Dispen ser Matthews accompanied him Mr. Brown would make no statment con cerning the reason why the dispenser came, but it is prcbable from what can be learned that he held that the shortage did not exist, and so came to consult with Commissioner Tatum. Mr. Brown says that he parted with Matthews at Branchville, the dis penser going to Columbia and Mr. Brown to Barnwell, his home. Ar riving there, he found that his bank book, in which were the greenbacks, had disappeared. Not alone had the money which he had collected disap peared, but also about $500, some of which belonged to the dispensary He came to Columbia the next morn ing and reported the loss. Inspector Brown Is a bonded oflicer and when his friends learned of his predicament they made up the amount lacking and it was paid in to the dispensary's funds, pending further investigation. When the facts in this case were heard of Wednesday The State tele graphed its Charleston correspondent and instructed him to investigate the matter. Late that night the follow Ing dispatch was received: Dispenser Matthews was seen by The State's representative in the after noon and asked for a statementabout the shortage. He stated at first that he knew nothing abcut the matter, coupling the remaik with an inquiry whether Inspector 'Brown had charg ed him with beirg short in his ac counts. Showing no disposition to discuss the matter, Dispenser Mat thews was asked if he had ever been robbed-which might account for the shortage-to which he replied: "I know nothing at all about the mat ter." He later said that he preferred to say nothing, but when told he would be quoted in this way, he add ed, "I think it best." A member of the county board of control was seen about the story and he said that while he had heard the rumor of a shortage, be could say that the board knew nothing auout It ofi cially. "The stock is regularly taken and the reports sent to Columbia," he said, "and any shortage which might occur would be discovered through the Inspectors' examination. If such a discovery has been made, no report of it has been received .by our board." Mr. Brown could not be found un til late Wednesday night and would make no statement regarding Dispen ser Matthews' visit to Columbia. Commissioner Tatum was likewise taciturn. It Is almost certain, how ever, that the dispenser came to the city to deny the shortage. He had a receipt from Mr. Brown. The story is a very peculiar one and will be in vestigated to the bottom. Taere have been rumors of a shortage in Charleston for somie time, but it was learned Wedn slay night that they could not be confirmed. SHOT HIS BROTHEE. A Very Sad Accident Happened Last Week Near Marion. Mr. Jackson Powers the 17 year old son of Mr. Jos. W. Powers living 4 miles above Marion is lying at the point of death with a pistol ball In nis brain having been accidentally shot by his brotzer at about 8 20 o'clock on Tuesday night of last weEk The accident occurred on the back piazza of their father's home while te young man's older brother Drewe ry Powers was trying to repair a pis tol preparatory to the 4th of July shooting match. Drewery had opened the pistol thowing the bullets out as he thought but one remained and when he closed the pistol it was discharged passing thrxgh his hand before lodging it the brain of his brother who immedi ately fell. As soon as he recoverec from the first shcck of the fright he took his brother in his arms carried him into the house and finding tha - e was wounded in the head withoul taking time to put on shoes or ha Sjumped on a horse and ran to Marior - for medical aid. Drs. J. Q. Evans and E. M. Dbbli were soon there and though the: found the case almost hopeless per ,formed a surgical operation removin; a number of shattered splinters of th a skull and a small quantity of th d lacerated brain but were unable t -extract the bullet. They report tha very little hope Is entertained for th ' unfortnnate young man's recoveri - Jackson Powers is a popular youn C- :nan, a special favorite in his neigi 2 borhood and the pride of his fathe: who is grief stricken as a result of t ~terribe tragedy. Engine Botler Bursts. s- Four men were killedi outright an tr seven others so seriously wounde 'n that at least a portion of them wi , die, by the explosion of a threshir i machine engine on the plantation o Bush Emnes, near Axton, Henry coul s ry, Va., Tuesday. soldiers of the Rtevolution. , During the Revolutionary Wa it Great Britain sent 112 584 troops f s land service and over 22,000 seamen ry America, while the colonists had 23( to 000 continental soldiers and 56,00 ii miltia nder armns. A GOOD MEETING. Senator Tillman Speaks to a Big Crowd at Greenville. A TALK TO FARMERS With a Touch on the Dispensary. He Declares that the Legislature Is Responsible for The Dispen . ary's Present Situation. Brice Bill Not Fair. Senator Tillman addressed a large crowd at Greenville on Tuesday, July 4, at the celebration in the interest of the Southern Cotton Asscciation. The meeting was presided over by Mr. R Mayes Cleveland, who introduced Sen ator Tiliman in a very brief but an entirely sufficient way. Senator Till. man was greeted with more or less cheering when he arose to speak, and he showed that he was going to deal with the text when he spoke to the audience as "orother farmers." Glanc ing over the crowd, he said that he recognized many faces belonging to men who had been pulling the bell cord over a mule, and added that while he bad seen larger and hotter audiences in Greenville, he had never found one in a better humor. Now and then low rumbling thun der was heard, and, while expressing the hope that the rain would skip this section, Senator Tillman said be would give a great deal if it would fall on his Edgefield County farm. "We have met here," he said, "for a pe culiar kind of work. We have had celebrations and celebrations, but I cannot recall one that in all its phases will compare with this. This event ebaracterizes the freedom which the farmers won for themselves; it is a freedom from oppression, just such as our forefathers achieved 129 years ago. Senator Tillman referred to the true significance of independence Day. "There are a good many things in our Government," he said, "which I do not like, yet the Uaited Statss is the freest, happiest and best governed country in the world. I have been watching national affairs since I went to the Senate, eleven years ago, and now and then I have taken occasion to discuss them, but I am not here today as a citizen of the United States; I am here as a farmer to help you celebrate the victory the farmers won over the capitalists and the greedy speculators, who handle our product and have reaped the reward out of our business. "Now, there may be a doubt as to whether the rise in the price of cotton can be attributed to the Southern Cotton Association, although it can not be deniedthat happy results have followed the agitation of the move ment to circumvent those slick fellows In Wall street, who manage our af fairs and who keep tab on our work more closely than we can keep it, and who are more interested in what we have. Still they have had some mighty unpleasant half hours, out the smile comes to the man who held his crop and who is entitled to join in the celebration." Senator Tillman then explained in detail the causes which had led to fluctuation In the prices. He said that nobody had expect-ed cotton to sell at 17 cents, and there was no common sense reason why it should reach that point. It was simply sent there by speculation. He explned the causes which led to the downfall of Sully, and declared that there was no common sense reason why the mar ket had been forced down to 7 cents. Speculation did it, he said: "The law of supply and demand," he said "which ough to be stab'e, was re pealed by the Wall street managers They sad millions of futures, and that dragged +he spot market down with It. They wanted to send it low er, but the Association stemmed the tide, reduced the acreage and con sumption of fertilizers and then rolled the cotton under a shed and waited for something better than starvation prices. We have got to asert our in dependence. Now the people are able to combine and whip the conspirators and we have won our fight as farm ers.".. Calling attention to the figures is sued by Clemson College, which showed the big demand for fertilizer tags, Senator Tillman said be was af raid some of his friends had not re duced the acreage accoroing to agree ment. He explained the old story about this man and the other plant ing more cotton because he believed that the Association had reduced the acreage. "A lot of those fellows,' he said, "thought it smart to plant. saying to themselves 'now is the time to make my jack.' But regardless of the betrayal of some and the failure of others to stand pat, the aoreage 11was reduced, because old King Graas nabbed it by the neck and choked ii to death. It was reduced, whether it was planted or not The future 14 now bright and promising- I helt Smine, except twelve bales which m) awife sold while I was out in Ilnoi: stumpling for Parker. Here is a point When you hold your cotton put 11 u:der a shed or send It to a warehouse -don't leave it in the rain." He tolC gof the other causes which had helpet the market, one being that the worl< *was bare of cotton. " We have gol eome blooming prospects," he wen 'on, "but there comes a warning When you have a good thing don't b too greedy, don't wait for too higi a prices, If the new crop is only tei d million bales the staple may go to 13 111 4 or 15 cents, for the mills have soll g ocds in advance and they've got t )f buy cotton." . When Senator Tillman declared tha e had the best corn in South Carc lina a voice from the audience wante' to claim that honor, but the speake rwas willing "to gamble" that non r could beat the fields In Trenton. H o referred to the newspaper criticismc - the movement and the politics whic 0nad been injected Into it. He touche upon +.he history of the Farmers' All ance fifteen years ago, saying that it had come out openly to serve notice beh hh id e ttved worl o,n des and 1 that it would go into the political mill pond, into deep water, but it went into deep water and there were more men drowned than there were fisher men. He said that President Smith had warned the Association that poli tics would not be tolerated, and then he ct.lled to mind that politica was thrown into the recent meeting at Greenville. He wanted to know why Smith nad not called McLaurin down, but a kind friend in the audience re marked that Smith was not present at the time. And then Tillman bs gan to apologize, declaring that Smith was not a politician, but was just a good man who loved to bear himself talk. He urged the farmers to make their farms self.supporting, leaving cotton as the surplus crop. "The idea has been advanced," he said, "that our mills should reach out into the world for new markets, and that there should be a protective tariff on cotton brought here from Egypt, England and Germany and other countries are competing with the United States in Chinese territory and yet our mills have captured it, and are in possession of the market. We have heard a great deal about the boycott by Cninese guilds against American products. That boycott is due to the brutal way our immigra tion agents have treated leading Chi nese people. We have got a CGiinese exclusion Act so rigid because the laboring classes demanded it to keep out competition. These inspector. ignore the best visitors from China, the men who are the sait of the earth over there, all because labor in this country hates the coolie and is afraid of competition. I am against the Chinese coming here for the reason that we have all the colored people we want. Let the coolies stay out, but it is not right to maltreat those lead Ing Chinamen who come here to study our country, conditions and people without meaning to stay. The Guilds have threatened to drive out Ameri can goods, and if the word is passed down the line your name is Dennis. I am much concerned about this mat ter, and will lend all my aid to pre v".nt it, but we Democrats are a few patoes in the hill at Washington, and we don't cut much figure." Senator Tillman did not see how the protective tariff would help the farms. Wnile on that subjEct he called at tention to the movement to organize a decent R publican party in South Carolina under the name of Commer cial Democracy, before McKinley's death. He mentioned his trip to Gaff aey a few years ago when he had a tilt with McLaurin, adding that he had told MJLaurin then what he thought of him. Q loting from his letter about bavi- g detected "the ass's ears of the office seeker" under the thin disguise of the cotton move ment, Senator Tillman said he had found certain embryonic candidates trying to hatch political eggs. He said again that a protective tariff on raw cotton would not help the farm ers, and then mentioned that he had voted for a tariff on lumber because he believed it would help the people of the low country. "In Washington," he added, "my policy, which some of the newspapers don't like, has been to get anything in sight for the South when I saw the chance, and I tried to get it right or wrong, honestly or dis honestly, because those people up there have been stealing from us long enough." It will not be difficult for those who attended former meetings at which Senator Tillman spoke, to see that he was going up hill; did not seem to have his heart in his words. "Oh," he said once, breaking off from his line of thonght, "I wish I had not been brought here under a check rein, martngaies and a crupper, holding me down to agriculture." Somebody in the a'udience wanted him to shoot a few into McLaurin. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum," Tillman shouted, ."that's Latin. It means that you must niot say anything but good about the dead. And if McLaurin is not dead politically, then I want to die." While he was talking about hogs a note was handed up from the audi ence. Tillman read it. "Oh!" he shouted, "it's just somebody who wants, to talk about the dispensary. There is not much for me to add. The Greenville News gave my views this morning, and you ought to get the paper ard read it. but this Is not the time to say It. Wait until next year. The real fight on the dispen sary will be in the Democratic prim ary, when those not registered and who are deprivEd of the right of vot ing under the Brice law will be en titled to vote. There are thirty thousand men in South Carolina whc can't vote under the Brice law. Yot have got no busiuess fooling with tui dispensary until the primary. Let al f the people dete m-ne it. I will saj his, tosever, that we have got t( put the dispensary In the pot to scalb nd clean It, and If we can't do thal then l'm in for killing it. If it's rot tn they've made it rotten. I will h4 in the race next year for the Senati if my health don't break down, and will see the men who are trying t murder it by underhand metnaods. will meet them teeth to teeth. have always called aspade a spade. I s not true that I have been tamed 11 the Senate, but now if you want t settle the dispsnsary, let's wait ani vote it out of th-: Stale, not cut of few countiLs. The latter plan wil give you a sort of negttive prohibi cien. After the dispensary y ou wil get prohibition and what next? Yo will have free liquor. S ,me of yo iil get it shipped in jugs, and th scool fund wiul be cut and othe hings will happern. Tdeza tne peopl will cry for high license. "Trrat, in its essence, is the o1 arrum system with constitudions imitations. I -'ant to say here tha nere is no warrant under the law fc nose beer dispensaries. They ai just ordinary low saloons. Toe di! > pensary has been made an evil b /- th~ Legisature. I calied one L-egislatum : driftwood," but this one has demo; - alize1 the dispensary. The preset i body has the right and is in dut r bound to change the law and make: decent, .and It it does not, I will staum e the State to kill it. We have got 1 f clean it or make it go, and they hal i ot to give us better liquor!" Jul boefore closing Senator Tiiman con .x- eted Presidnt Smith, and callt attention to his good work for the farmers. The above account of the meeting was written by Mr. John Marshall for The News and Courier, from which paper we clip it. There were several thousand people present at the meeting and Senator Tillman was most enthusiastically received. Speeches were also made by Mr. E. D. Smith and Congressman Johnson. A FREE FIGHT. As a Result of Which Two Men Will Likely Die. Fourth of July Celebration Ended in Tragedy-Two Brothers Shot and One Man Cut. The State says as the result of a general shooting and cutting affray Tuesday, July 4, at Gaston, Lexing ton county, 15 miles from Columbia, Ed Reese lies in the Columbia hospi tal with a bullet wound in his abdo men and with slight chance for re covery, his brother, Joe Reese, is at his home in Gaston shot in the right hip, and Mack Jarrett, who is also at Gaston, is in a very dangerous condi tion with six cuts on his body. The fight occurred about noon and Ed Reese was brought to the Colum bia hospital about 7 o'clock Tuesday night. He was operated on at once and the surgeons found upon exami nation that the bullet had entered the abdominal cavity in front and just below the breast bone. In ploughing its way along, the bullet grazed the stomach and perforated the liver and intestines. He was in such a serious condition Tuesdar night that his re covery was regarr d as doubtful. A witness e* affair stated that the tragedy is '. e result of a quarrel between Mack Jarrett and Elliot Pounds, which began at a party near Gaston several weeks ago and was re newed at Gaston Tuesday while the citizens of the surrounding country were celebrating the Fourth at a pub. lic barbecue. These two men were cursing each other when Jarrett, who has only one leg, struck at Pounds, with a pair of knucks on his hand but only grazed the side of his head. P.unds instantly struck Jarrett a heavy blow, knocking him down, and as Jarrett rose he drew his revolver and opened fire. He emptied his pistol at Pounds but missed every shot. Jarrett then cursed Pounds, and Ed Reese, who was in the crowd, told Pounds not to take the insult where upon Jarrett applied the same epithet to Reese. Jarrett was still on one knee when he cursed Reese and Reese jumped on him. Rembert Moore. a friend of Jarrett's, had stood by with out interfering up to this time, but at this juncture he whipped out his re volver and fired at Reese inflicting the wound in his abdomen. Reese ran into Hutto's store a few feet away and secured his own pistol and loaded it. After Ed Reese had been shot and while he was in the store his brother Joe Reese, attacked Jarrett with a knife and slashed him fearfully about the body, inflicting wounds from which It is thought he will die. While Joe Reese was cutting Jarrett he was shot in the right hip by R'm bert Moore. Moore then turned to leave and Ed Reese, who had by this time finished loading his pistol, emp tied it at him, but none of his shots took effect, as Reese was growing weak from the effect of his fearful wound, and soon after sank to the ground. Moore made his escape and at last accounts had not been arrest The fight was fast and furious and that not one of the many bystanders was injured is remarkable as 12 shots were fired into the crowd standing in front of the store only a few feet away. Paul E. Hutto, the owner of the store, was standing in one of the windows and came near being killed by a bullet -which passed close by his head. Other bullets buried them selves in the door and window casing. Magistrate Hildebrand arrived on the scene after Moore had made his es cape. Jarrett and Moore are from North Georgia and have been at Gaston for some time running a shingle mill. The Reese boys ard~ ?ounds are young farmers in the neighborhood. All o1 the men are unmarried. It was alst stated that Moore is from North Car olina and that Jarrett is on a visit tc his brother who runs the shingle mill. It was learned from another source that some of the men, if not all oj them, had been drinking. Six Miners Klled. As the result of an explosion early Thursday at the shaft of the Tayloi Coal company at Searight, Pa., sL2 men were killed and four injured, oni fatally.- Three of the dead were ne groe~s and the other three foreigners The men were working about 20 feel below the surface when the explosiox occurred. The cause of tne explosiol is unknown. A rescuing party of fou: miners narrowly escaped death while trying to locate one of the victims Wen 70 feet down the shaft the con crete wall and timbering at the toj cved in, burying the men under hun dreds of tons of concrete and scaffold ing. Enough crevices were left in th wreckage, however, to supply the: with air until they were rescued. Tn men were nearly overcome whe: brought to the surface. ShoL L'teir Farter. 'A special from Tunica, Miss., say Sthat Mark and Robert Harris, t DeSoto county negroes, who kille Boh Maston, near Tunica, June 21 Cand who have since eluded capture Wednesday at their home near Wallh shot and killed their own father an 1dangerously wounded Aubrev Garc tnez, of Tunica, a young man who wa rin a posse that had gone to arrest thn Harris nego. Molly Pitcener Honored. eThe unveIling of a cannon over tbn grave of Molly Pitcher at Carlisle Pa., on Monday was marked by a imposing ceremonial and a parade, it Scluding 3,500 state troops, unmonn1 d cavalry and cadets; from the Ca: lisle Indian school, Grand Army pos1 and patriotic orders. Tae unveilin was performed by Miss Ellen Haj Kramer of Carlisle, Molly Pitcher greatgreatgranddaughter. GRAND TRIBUTE Of a Northern Preacher to the People of the South AT GEN. GRANT'S TOMB He Truly Said the World Has Never Seen Greater Heroism than that. of the Rank and File of the Armies of the Confederacy. Mr. Perry M. DeLeon, of New York writes as follows to the Atlanta Con stitutihn: "With some fif ty or sixty of my comrades of the New York Con federate Veteran camp I at!ended the memorial services at General Grant's tomb as a guest of the Grant post of Brooklyn. Two ad mirable speeches were delivered; ne by the Reverned Francis J. McCon nell, pastor of the New York Avenue Methodist Episcopal church of Brook lyn, and the other by Captain Gray bill, a Georgian now residing in New York, a member of our camp. I send you an cxtract from his eloquent ad dress which I would be glad if you would publish that our people may know how time with Its healings has extinguished all bitterness and. that gentlemen of the north now accord us unstinted admiration and fraternal re. gard." Here is the extract from the speech of the Rev. F. J. McConnell, referred to in the above letter of Mr. Perry M. DcLeon: "I have been speaking of the the union soldier as a peace-maker. In fighting for the union as against the secession, he fought for the world's peace. The establishment of a second republic on the western continent would have meant standing armies for both nations. It would have meant a line of custom houses along the Oaio river. The two republics in a military and a commercial sense would have been a perpetual menace to each other. In fighting against slavery the union soldier was fighting for peace, for slavery, even in the eco nomic sense, was a disturber. Its cry was always for more land. In the very fury with which he fought the union soldier was a peace maker. He aimed to settle the question so con clusively that after the war there suould not be enough of the original questions left to wrangle about. "But in these last days the union soldier can play a still further part as peacemaker, a part second in impor tance to the nation to none that he played on the actual baittle field. By precept and example he can preach the gospel of reconciliation with our brothers of the soutb, for, strange as it may seem, there are men in both north and south who have not yet heard that the war is over. "In this final approach to complete understanding there Is certainly a common basis for both north and south. We should not allow the south to outdo us in admiration for th bravery of the southern soldier. The world has never seen greater heroism than that z'f the rank and file of the Confederacy. Who can read, for ex ample, the story not only of the cam psaigns, but of the hardships of the army of Northern Virginia, without being amazed beyond all expression at the story of surpassing devotion to an ideal? We can agree, too, in paying tributes of praise to the genius of the southern leaders. We should all be proud of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Of course we reseve the right to discuss, in a perfectly friend ly way, the respective abilities of northern and southern leaders, but our admiration need not be confined to the leadership of the north. "Once more we all join in undying respect for the devotion of the entire southern people to a cause as sacred as life itself to them. We do not speak cf the southern people as trai tors or as sinners. We recognize the absolute sincerity of the belief of the mass of the people in their cause. The belief in their cause had come to them~ out of the past centuries. Who of us dare to say that if he had been born south of Mason and Dixon's line, of southern accestry, he would not have been a defender of slavery and an up. holder of secessica.. Especially do we ilad words falling us when we think of the sacrifices which the southern women cheerfully accepted for their cause. We nave read how the women of Carthage, in the long ago, consent ed to give the hair of their heads to~ be made into bow strings. It is said on good authority that the proposa: was once made that the wcmen of the Confederacy sell their hair for the benefit or the southern armies and is the proposition had been seriously -urged the women of the south would not have shrunk from precisely the same sacrifice for which we remem ber the women of Carttage. S"Some one asks. 'But what about ithe Codfederate fl.ig?' My answer it at hand. 'Let the Confederate flag not be put out of the sight or memory of American citions.' It does nol stand toaiay for a second republic, bul it should stand as a beautiful symbo of csmplete devotion to an hones1 conviction. Too many glorious asso cia.tions cirg to it to allow us to pui It away. If it is not treason for thi Eaglish-born American ditizens t< display the Englisnl fag beside thi Stars and Stripes, it ought not be un worthy for the southern veterans t< cherish the flag which he followed fo: four years of glorious battle, alon; with that other flag to which he noe gives his hearty and patriotic alle glance."_________ ~At Toledo the most remarkabl fight ever made In an air ship wa performed by A. R. Knabenshue wno sailed through the air a dis Stance of three miles, landed on a te: story ottice building In twenty fiv 'minutes from the time of startini and then returned to the spot frox SIXTY LIVES LOST. By A Tornado that Passed Over Texas On Wednesday. Many Churches, Schools and Dwel ling Houses in the Track or the Tornado were Destroyed A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, says a tornado which struck Texas in the upper edge of Montague county, coming from the northeast, and swinging far to the southeast, Wed nesday afternoon, cost, it is believed, over 40 lives, injured a large number of people, and did untold damage to growing crops and cattle. Fortunately the tornado missed the small towns in the section through which it swept, but it seemed to take a fiendish delight zigzagging in such away as to take in the homes of many farmers and stockraisers in the section. At Jacksboro the force of the wind was terrific. Tne Baptist church and 20 other building were blown off their foundations and a number of build ings totally destroyed. At Montague no lives were lost in the town, but in the country there is great loss of life reported. 0 wing to the fact that wires are down in all directions it is difficult to get particulars. Ten persons are known to be dead in that neighbor hood and unconfirmed reports are to the effect that the list of dead will go as high as 40. Most of those killed lived on Salt creek along which the tornado swept with terrific fury. At Nacona the tornado passed a few miles to the south and the latest re -ports give the dead at 14 and the in jured at 41. Many farm houses were swept en tirely away. The Long Branch school house was destroyed, and the Baptist and Methodist churches at Belcher were practically destroyed. A reliable man at Nacona who has been over the scene says that reports were being received of the dead when he left there. He places the loss of life at 60. Owing to the widely separated homes and the fact that in many in stances whole families were wiped out, details and names are hard to get. The country through which the tornado passed is one of the richest farming sections of Texas, lying along the northern border of the State. The tornado lasted perhaps 30 min utes. Hundreds of head of stock in this vicinity were killea outright by tie wind. During the storm lightning struck a house and killed several persons *ho were in it. In some places hail stones fell as large as hen's eggs. MAN DROPS DEAD After a Hot Dispute With Another Man About Nothing. A dispatch from Lucknow to The State says Mr. W. J. Rollins died in. stantly Thursday about 12 o'clock, death resulting from heart failure. It seems the cause was from a dispute between he and L. H. Peebles, magis trate, Thursday morning while work ing on a ditch in the street. Some of the citizens agreed to clean the ditch and Rollins was overseeing the work. Peebles decided- he would help and secured a hoe and worked with the rest of the crowd. Some time, about an hour before they quit, Peebles made a suggestion as to how he thought the ditch should be dug and asked Rollins to hand him the shovel. Rollins did so, Peebles showing Rollins his ideas of how the ditch should be dug. Rollins said that he would not have It that way and that It should be finished as started. Peebles gct offended at Rollins for the manner in which he spoke, and left without fur ther words. About 12 o'clock Rollins started for a bucket of water at a well which he and all use out of and was obliged tc pass Peebles' house. Peebles was on nis porch and R'>llins stopped and told Peebles he had come to tell him aboul the ditch and commenced to explair himself, in the way he spoke to Pee. bles. Peebles being mad already or dered him to get away from his place, Rollins was standing on the sidewalk. talking to Peebles. Then Rollins weni to the well talking back to Peebies but did not curse, while Peebles usec strong language to him. When at thi well but a few minutes Rollins fell an: died instantly. Rollins leaves a wifi and many friends to survive him. Shot His Bride Wife. Euding a month's honeymoon. Johr L. Flynn, a Mississippian, after a des perate attempt to murder his young wife at Kaplan, La., has committe< suicide. Flynn was employed by large cotton house in New Orleans In May last C. F. Hudson, an ages Confederato veteran of Greely, Ccl. arrived in New Orleans with hi dau'ohter, Miss Virginia Hudson, t< eet Glynn by appoinment. On Ma: 27 the couple were married in a board ing house and the father returned ti alis home. Subsequently the youn: couple went to Kaplan, where appai ently they lived happily until Wed nes ay. Flynn fired two shots at hi wife ani then blew his own brain out. As to 'Pads." Much of the discussion of "educa tional fads" is beside the mark. Nc one man in 40 who protests agains she "fads" does so on the ground tha children are educated too much. Tha is not the basis of the objection at all but where a pupil is taught a smat tering of ornamental acet zplisb ments; a bare bone of science or; glimpse of higher mathematics, logic rhetoric, etc. etc.-whenl he can no read decently, spell correctly or adi up a column of figures and arrive a a proper conclusion, then is it tha the time spent on the "fads and frills is wasted, and the superficial educi ~tion is on a dubious and unsatisfaictor foandation. It is that sort of "fad that hurts. PAUL JONES Naval Hero's Body Formally Der livered to Uncle Sam. IMPOSING SERVICE. After a Hundred Years of Neglect the Remains of the Founder of the Amer. ican Navy are Honored by the People He Served So Faithfully. At Paris,- France, In the presence of the highest dignitaries of France, the diplomatic representatives of 'many foreign governments and dvil and na val officials ofithe United States, the body of Admiral John Paul Jones was Thursday formally delivered to the United States government. The cere mony was one combining impressive dignity with brilliant military and na val pomp in which the soldiers and sailors of France and the sailors -of America united in rendering honors to the illustrious founder of the Amer e an navy. The occasion was unique and prob ably without parallel as the funeral was that of a Revolutionary hero who had lain neglected in a foreign grave for over a hundred years. Seldom has an event awakened such widespread interest in the French cap ital. Dense throngs packed the Champs Elysees and other principal thorough fares to witness the imposing cortege which for the elaborateness of'its mil Itary features equalled the martial dis oay on the occasion of the visit of King Alfonso. The ceremony of delivering the body was held in the American church on the Avenue de L'Alma at 3.30 o'clock in the afternoon. The interior of this Gothic edifice was beautifully -deco-' rated with plants and flowers. At the foot of the chancel rested the basket wrapped in an American flag andit erally buried in masses of floral em blems. At the right of the altar sat Ambas sador McCormick, Senior Special Am bassador Porter, Junior Special Am-. bassador Loomis, United States Sena tor HenryC abot Lodge, Rear Admir al Sigsbee and other officers of the American squadron. Across the aisle - sat Premier Rouvier with other mem bers of his.cabinet, practically the en tire diplomatic corps and officers of the army and navy. The members of the diplomatic corps were in full uni. form. Scores of American sailors In the naves on either side of the altar gave a fitting background to the imposing scene. After brief religious servIce Gen. Porter, wearing evening dress accord Ing to the French custom, with the red sash of the grand cross of the Le gion of Honor across his breast, ad vanced alongside the casket and for mally delivored the body to Mr. Loomis, as the representative of the United States government, who ac cepted It in the name of the govern-. ment and commissioned A dmira Sigs. bee to transport It to the United States. As the surpliced choir took up "My County 'Tis of Thee" the entire assem blage rose and joined In the strains of the patriotic hymn. Eigbt brawny sailors from the Brooklyn thte' step ped forward and raising the casket on their shoulders bore it slowly from the church to the waiting gun carriage. This was draped with the national colors and was drawn by six black horses. The cortege was now formed and proceeded to the Esplanada des Inval ides. Arriving at the esplanada an Im posing picture was presented. The French government had erected alarge pavilion in which to deposit the coffin. The pavilion was richiy hung with crimson velvet, with martial emblems and battle axes, entwined flags and a row of brass field pieces along the front. The casket was depositE d in the cen Iter of the pavilion while the cortege passed, rendering military honors. Later It was borne to the invalides railroad station and placed in a funer al car where, guarded by French and American Sailors, It started for Cher bruog at 10 o'clock Thursday night. FRENCHMEN CHEER OUR sAILORs. ~A dispatenl irum Psrm sats tne un usual signt of a detachment of United IStates sailors and marines swinging through the central thoroughfares of Paris Thursday aroused great Interest and brought out an enthusiastic ova tion from the crowds along the line of march. Tne American naval con tingent numbered 500 men and pre sented a fine appearance as they emerg ed from the station. They were uni formed as a landing party, wearing the regulation gaiters and carrying rifles with fixed bayonets. They were escorted to the military school by a battalion of French infantry. All along the route the streets were lined with dense crowds eager to see the Americans. Women waved their hand kerchiefs and miniature flags and there was a continuous shout of "Vive les Americans." The Americans made -a most favorable impression by their a sturdy bronzed appearance and the s smartness of their movements. A &lany Sided Man. Who can beat this for a letter head? W. P. Knote, attorney-at-law, M. D., D N. P., harness. buggies, wagons, hog I tight fenze, sewing machines, separa Stors and ice. Farm implements. I Breeding stables. Farms and city pro ,perty, cattle, hogs, bought and sold. - Money to loan. Legal instruments - drawn; also teeth. Douglass, Butler a county, Ka~n., U. S. A. Wlnac Tney (sea. At a meeting of the ex cutiva com Smittee of the Southern Cott~on asso a clation in Memphis recently the sala ' ries of the'. flc ars were fixsd as follows: ,the president to receive 84,000, out of ywhich he must pay his clerk; secretary 8 2 500; the treasurer t-wo per cent of ti ralis and disbursements.