FLAYS TRUSTS.
Speech on Bill to Prohibit Pool of
Interest by
SENATOR JEFF DAVIS.
The Newly-Seated Senator from Ar
kansas Loses Little Time in Hi:
Promised Crusade Against Trusts
and Capitalists.-He Delivers a
Speech in Senate Filled With Sen
sational Declarations.
Passionate oratory marked the
proceedings of the Senate Wednes
day. Senator Davis, of Arkan ,
who when elected declared that he
would attack the trusts immediately
after taking his seat, fulfilled his
promise although he was a few days
lite in doing so. The speech was
filled with sensational declarations
and was given with that vigor for
which the Arkansas Senator is fam
ed in his own State.
Quaint phrasing pointed denuncia
tion and evidences of intense emotion
characterized his remarks. He was
gien a careful hearing by the Sena
tors, and the galleries was well filled
throughout the time he held the
floor. Beginning shortly before 1
o'cloc- be spoke for a little more than
an hour.
S -nator Davis began by declaring
that it was not his purpose to retain
his seat in the Senate until his hair
shall have turned gray before taking
un his work actively in that body.
He proposed to present quickly, fear
ly and as intelligently as he might
some of the living, burning ques
tions before the American people.
It was for that reason he had de
termined to speak upon his bill to
suppress trusts, pools, combinations,
and conspiracies. After declaring
that his bill, vigorously enforced
would killed the trusts Senator Da
vis, with dramatic effect, challenged
any Senator to step forward and con
test the issue with him.
Speaking of the annual appropria
tions for the expenses of the Govern
ment, amounting to $900,00,000, he
turned to Senator Beveridge an add
ed: "Pile up that amount of money
on this floor and let my good looking
young friend, the Senator from In
diana, start to count it. He would
be as old as Methuselah before he
could count half of it."
The senator detailed appropria
tions made for maintaining the White
House.
"And yet," he continued, "Presi
dent Roosevelt has but five childrer
-at home."
The inadvertence of speech brough:
Mughter from all parts of the cham
ber.
-Everything," declared Senator
-Davis, "is in a trust except acorns
and persimnons.
"Holy writ admonished us to gc
into the vineyard and work. I have
found nothing in the good book that
warrants any of us going into the
vineyard to corner all the grapes.
"The President," he said, "hat
taken off the dollar the words 'In
God We Trust.' It's time to take it
off. I wonder what the Grand Old
Party is going to put on the dollar?
"This panic was started by these
trust magnates and stock gamblern
in order that they might take fromr
- the cotton producers half of their
property," he added.
"I am for the under dog, Senator
McLaurin," he said address.ing the
Senator from Mississippi, who sai
beforg him.
"Whenever you hear of a dog fight
just say, 'Jeff Davis is for tnie undez
dog.'
He read .some statistics on the
Standard Oil Company, and stepping
out into centre aisle stamped his foot
and said:
"The Standard Oil is the old he
trust of the country. It is the trust
that has all the paraphernalia and
ear-marks of a trust. I dislike Stan
dard Oil. I hate the smell of coal oil.
Petroleum makes me sick. Oh, sir,
something ought to be done to cur
tail the great power of this monstrous
trust--John D. Rockefeller's trust
the great Standard Oil Trust.
"I1 undertake to say," he continu
ed, "that if this bill is enacted into
a iaw and faithfully and honestly exe
cuted, trusts will be wiped from the
face of the earth and no longer wil]
we feel their grinding and destroy
- ing grip on the arteries of trade and
commerce."
A domestic corporation found fix
ing the price of any article would, by
his bill, he said, have its charter for
feited, and any corporation guilty of
such and act wouid not be~allowed to
do business in the United States.
"The trust evil," said Senator
Davis, "is a cancerous sore on the
body politic, just as upon the human
body. The only remedy, the only
successful treatment is the surgeon's
knife. Cut it out by the root, destroy
the virus before the whole body pol
itic is affected and destroyed."
Congress should not hesitate in
the work of destroying the trusts be
cause of any fear of unsettling busi
ness. he continued. He spoke of the
Sherman anti-trust law. "Has it
proven effe'ctual?" he asked. "Has
it destroyed a single trust? Under
its operation have they not grown
strong, defiant and arrogant? Almost
for sevenkteen y ear-s the Sherman an
ti-trust !aw has beer u'on our stat
ute books, more than four times as
long as it took the North to wear out
the S->uth upon the blooiy field of
battle. Nearly seven years of Mr.
Roosevelt's strenuous term has pass
'4 with all ine machinery of the Guy
e'e-nent at his back with the great
to<r of the chief executive in his
hamu.. ret I ask will some R 'pubi
ean Sea -- upon the floor tell me one
trust th..t 7i has even tamed, much
less destrowd.
"Ah, Mr. President. it was stated
by the metropolitan press before I
entered this august body, flippantly.,
too, that before I had bcen mn the
State six months the trust magnates
y ould have me feeding out of their
h. nds. I may share crumbs with a
Lszarus, but I swear to you today.
by every God in the calendar, that I
shall never eat fromn the hands of
mammon,
"I want to say to you, sir, and to
the members of this Senate, that you
need not lose any sleep about a cor
poration gettirg its rights. You nec d
not lose any sleep about unjust dis
crimnir:anions against them. They will
t- - care of th'emselves. But rather
who bears the burdens of the Gov
ernment."
"This is an age when men have
gone mad in their frenzied efforts
for the dollar. This is an age when
money is placed above man; when
gold is placed above man: when go!d
is placed before God; when we would
sell our souls, our Government, our
all for one bright smile from the gold
of mammon. What is money, Mr.
President, that it is held so priceless.
You cannot eat it, you cannot wear
it; your shroud has not pockets in it,
and St. Peter will riot receive it for
admission into the Golden Gates.
"When we look to the leading cause
for this great wealth upon the part
of these corporations and the causes
leading to their formation, to the
formation of trusts, we are compell
ed to go no further than Republican
authority itself, and take the sworn
testimony of Mr. Havemeyer, the
great sugar king, who has gone to
his reward, be it good or bad, who
has gone to that land and that clime
where St. Peter does not take sugar
in his,' and where money is of no
value."
He recalled Mr. Havemeyer'sstate
ment before the industrial commis
sion, that "the tariff is the motber
of trusts."
"Under the operation of -the sys
tem of government," he said, "fifty
one men in the United States, multi
millionaires, if you please, have
amassed a total fortune of $3.295,
000,000. Of this fifty-one John D.
Rockefeiler, the old king of the
world. leads with $600,000.000; An
drew Carnegie, the steel king of the
world, follows with half this
amount."
The Secretary of Commerce and
Labor has calculated, he said, that
all of the property owned by 89.000,
000 American citizens is $107,000,
000,000, so that these fifty-one citi
zens own one thirty-fifth of the en
tire wealth of the nation.
"What an alarming concentration
of wealth; what an alarming concen
tration of power," he declared. "In
this day and time money is king;
money is god. Without it the doors
of opportunity are closed; the doorE
of society are shut. Yea, even it
some instances the doors of the
church do not welcome so enthusias
tically the man in rags and tatter,
as the man with millions. Now shal
this condition continue? How shal
this Government be saved? One wa3
and one way only, that is to kill, de
stroy the sources of all this evil---the
trusts."
He exolained that his bill wouk
not permit corporations to sell thei
products in one part of the countr3
at a less price than they sell sue,
products in another part.
"What is needed to-day by th<
trust magnet...s or this Union in or
der to make them respect the lav
and obey its solemn mandates," h4
said, "is that they be treated like or
dinary felons; is that the strong arn
of the law be laid against them jus
as it would be against a horse thie:
.r any one else charged with crime
Land them in the penitentiary, plac<
felon stripes, :the doxology of a mis
spent life,' upon them and you -wil
see the trasts are busted and the peo
ple will get relief. Ah, sir, on
trust magnate in the penitentiairy o:
the United States, one trust miag
niate with felon stripes, one trus
magnate as a living example and ob
ject lesson that the law is greate
than any man, that the law is aboy<
and beyond us all, that the law pro
tects the weak and punishes th<
strong alike, would be the mos1
wholesome example that could b<
set in this Republic to-day."
He declared that while he is ar
alarmist he is not an Anarchist or:a
Socialist.
I"I'here is too much gold," he de
clared,. "there is too much glitter
there is gloss; there is too much o:
tinsel, and I say, sir, that unles:
times and conditions change it wii
statesm 'n will be wearing knet
br eches with brass buckles an<
- owdered wigs and bowing d~wn t<
e i- yalty."
ne~ spoke of the great expenses o:
the Government.
"Our President," he said, "and:
speak of him in the most respectfu
terms, besides his salary of $-50.000 :
years, and I say that is not exces
sive, is paid by this Congress $25,00(
a year for travelling expenses, anc
ipproximately $113,000 annually foi
living expenses. A&,, Mr. President
this is enough. This is unreasonabh
The' President of the United States
I as five children, I believe. It is true
that he bnoulu live in accordance
with the dignity of the poeitio'n he
occupies-the greatest Executive
upon the face of the earth---but, Mr
President, I have you skinned a city
block in the matter of family. I have
eight children, and I don't take $113,
000 for my living expenses. No, sir,
the greatest President that ever liv
ed upon this earth, that was ever in
augurated in this Capitol, in my
judgment, was 'Old Blue Jeans, old
H-ekory Jackson,' who rode his horse
to th Wht os dressed in a suit
He denounced stock gambling and
~said he would do away with garn.
bling in cotton, grain and the nec
essities of life.
A Good King Gone.
Good King Oscar, of Swe len, is
dead. He was seventy-nine years
old, and was a fine o'd gentleman.
He was the grandson of that Mar
shall Ber-nadotte, who followed the
fortunes of Napokon and, though a
peasant by birth, rose to be the king
of Norway and Sweden. The late
'ruler never attempted to conceal the
obscurity of his ancestry, and over
the door of the house in which Ber
nadotte was born rests a tai.>!et which
records that there "the peasant,
Bernadette," was born. King Oscar
was not only one of the vWise~rt but
*ne of i he :h st denmeeradec of rulers.
He mnned freely w ith hi. people
and knew t~x ir w,.n~a and wishes well.
The separ.os o NA .A a and Swe
den ca~me a.; a e:Ju!I upc: his declin
ing years, but it w.as :.e of the in
evitable steps ir. the dt: ehpment of
i he two ~ untries. Ti:: ;ia;rests of
Norway as a maritime nati-,n were
not identia with thesr o'f A~dn
anid when the reqp est for a serre
consular system was pr-eferred, it
was refused by Sweden. Two years
ago Norway seceded from the union
and chose a king of her own. The
grief for the dead sovereign in Eu
rope will be deep and sincere, for,
indeed, as the Atlanta Journal says,
he was a model of that justice and
mercy which "doth become the
throned monarch better than hi
crown."
Even when a gir1 do.,sn't want a
youtng man to kiss her it makes her
MARCH OF NEMESES.
The Fight Has Been Long, the
Battle Been Bloody,
But Now the Tiend is Toward I-:')
torced Abstincueie anid the Whis7
key Demon 31ust Go.
In 1811, nearly one hundred years
ago. there was at the present site of
Brookville, Indiana, a curious com
bination in the way of a man, says
the American Farmer. He was
preacher, farmer, distiller and bar
keeper all rolled in one. He had
come into the then territory in 1797.
and was the.first Methodist minister
among the early settlers on the
Whitewater. The town of Brook
ville, in Frane-lin county, near the
Ohio border, was laid out in 1807,
just a century ago, and this preach
ing whiskey seller was a main actor
in starting the place. On Sunday he
preached regularly to his congrega
tion of surrounding settlers, mostly
small farmers, and after services
"set up the liquor" to the "sin-sick
scu!s." Everybody drank in those
days, what they called "drams," the
white and water clear product of
the old-fashioned copper still. Ir
fact, the first industry in every pio.
neer community was a distillery. be
ing regarded as equally important
with the mill that grtund the grain.
The preachers were all tipplers and
many of th.:m drank to excess and
the very first of all the temperance
reform movements in this country
was organized for the express bene
fit of the clergy.
Times have changed. We wan1
our readers, especially the farmirg
class, to take note of the contresi
i presented between 1807 and 1907 anc
the eventful century intervening
Take note of Parson Manwaring
mixing his sermons and whiskey ir
the same log cabin, where entertain.
ment was furnished "'for man and
beast," then look around-in the ru
ral community where you live an(
count up the farmers who drink liq
uor to excess or even in moderation
A drinking preacher, of course
would no longer be tolerated. He i!
as extinct as the dodo. No liquor il
served on the sideboards as it was i
1807 in every home. Drinking nas be
come unpopular and unfashionable
No farmer thinks of serving whiske:
in the harvest field, as was universa
a hundred and even fifty years ago
The churches are now all standing
in solid column behind the temper
ance movement. The W. C. T. U.
the Y. M. C. A.. the Endeavorer
and other Christian associations ar<
all working heroically against th<
t universal curse. The advance ha
r been great and no class has benefitt
ed more from the reform than thi
tillers of the soil. There is not
strictly farming community in th<
United States where the saloon ka
a particle of show in a standup vote
The farmer has.become sober. H
finds better use for his corn than t<
-run it through a still; better use fo:
his fruit than to convert it into th<
-brain-maddening "apple-jack."
Nemesis is marching on! Thi:
goddess, sacred in the old Greek cal
-enear to revenge, is coming into he:
own. The fight has been long, the
battles have been bloody, the cen
turies are strewn with millions o:
men dead from drink, with countles
homeswrecked and ruined, witl
blasted reputations,wihsaeco
sciences, with that hope deferre<
which maketh the heart sick. Johr
Barleycarn, generalissimo of thi
hosts of evil, the beasts of prey, thi
legions of devils, the fiends incarnate
is being driven to the wall. The scor
pion is being surrounded with fire
The bounds ot the hunted tiger grov
less and less. The hosts of hunter;
press orn, remorselessly, mercilessly
armed with argument, business rea
sons, moral suasion, decency, self
preservatio'n. the hopes of civiliza
tion. At this beginnine of the eightl
1year of the twentieth century, w<
are able to report progress. The tern
perance movement is sweeping th<
country in an irresistible wave anc
soon, it is asserted, no whiskey wil
-be sold in the United States exceol
in the larger cities, into which the
criminal elements of the country wil
flock. The trend is toward enforc
abstinence and the makers of liquoi
are plainiy alarmed. Nearly 40,000,
000 people, about half the popula
tion of the country, now live in tern.
perance territory. All the elever:
Southern States have not as many
saloons as the one city of New York.
Georgia has full prohibition; Ala.
bama, majority of the counties al
ready dry; Arkansas. t.so thirds of
the counties dry; Florida, thirty-sev
en out of forty five counties dry;
Kentucky, ninety-one out of 111
counties dry; Louisiana, seven-eigh.
ths of the country districts dry. Miss
issippi, seventy out of seventy-five
counties dry; Texas, two-thirds dry,
and so it goes all along the line. The
North is falling into line rapidly and
Ithe great red dragon is on the run
everywhere. W~'hoever you are.
whether you call yourself Reason,
Justice, Morrality. Sanity, Patriot
Iism, Decency, Civilization, hasten to
enroll yourself in the great army of
freedom so as to be in at the death
'of the Blastant Beast.
ROOSEVELT will go down in history
Ias the freak president of the United
States. His latest order that army
officers ride thirty miles a day for
three consecutive days has created
consternation among them. The order
dosnt nld the coast artillery
offces, ndsome newspaper sug
gests that they be required to stand
on their heads in the rain for so
many consecutive minutes in orde
to prove that they are qualified for
the service.
CCMBuA is working for a sub
treasury of the United States, and
'we sincerely hope she will get it.
There is no better location in the
South for such an institut~ion, and
it should be located there. Columbia
is one of the coming big cities of the
country, and it would be well for the
govern menit to recognize that fact in
the distribution of its sub-treasuries
and ot her public utiiities.- -Orange
burg Times and Democrat.
So far this season eleven persons
have been killed in the foot ball
games and ninety-eight have been
injured, and yet this brutal, deadly
sp(.:t goes on. A game with so much
brutality in it has a tendency to
brutalize instead of elevating those
SPOOK HALTS HORSEI
And Wars Farmer Against Going
to His Home.
He Was Delayed Until Daylight and
When He Ieached Ilonte Finds
Death 'Crap.
When a Society for Ps hical Re
search holds its nex': meeting it
might call before it. Charles Henry
Durand a farmer living about three
miles from Caldwell, N. J., and hear
his story of how his life was saved
by a strange apparition he met in the
roadway on Monday night.
Since the death of his wife Durand
has lived alone in the farmhouse. He
was on his way home from Peterson
ifter dark Monday night, when his
1 horse stopped still in the road and
refused to move. The horse trem
bled so violently that Durand strain
ed his eyes in the darkness to learn
what the animal had seen.
He says he saw a flicker of bluish
light, which moved toward him until
it was beside his wagon, and then
took on a misty shape. He says he
recognized the form and the voice of
the anparition. It repeated to him
1 three times the warning, "Do not go
home for several hours."
With the cold chills running up
and down his spine and the gooseflesh
standing out over the body like a
man with a cbill he tried to drive on
after the apparition was gone. The
horse refused to budge. The animal
had broken out in a cold sweat.
Durand says he unhitzhed the horse
and blanketed him. It was then
about 11 o'clock. For two hours he
workod with the horse, which seem
ed afflicted with the ague. .. After
hitching up again. he drove slowly
to his' home.
It was then nearly 3 o'clock. He
put the horse into the barn and went
inside the house. The first sight that
met his eye was a muddy footprint,
Durand found that nothing had been
taken, although the house was a bit
upset. He found a window on the
ground floor that had betn opened
in his absence, showing how the in
truder had entered. The farmer
looked into closets and out-of-the
way places and then decided to go
upstairs. When he started up he saw
at once that some one haa been
there. There were footpriuts on the
stairs and in the hall leading to his
sleeping room.
Lighting his way before him and
stepping cautiously, feeling that
some danger was lurking ahead of
him. but determined to face it at all
hazzards and have the dread that
possessed over him, Durand ap
proached the door of his room. It was
open, as he had left it.
When about to enter, Durand stop
ped and looked closely. Across thE
t door at a height half way to his knee,
so that his-foot or shin must strikE
it, was a string, instinctively, thE
farmer says, he felt that something
threatened his life.
To the man of the woods, ufsed tc
the snaring of birds and animals, the
string acrossthe door suggested a
spring or a trap. Durand went down
stairs and returned ivith an umbrel
Ia. He stood against the wall of the
hall and with the umbrella handle
Sgave the string a pull. Instantly
there was a report and a bullet im
beded itself in the end of the wall.
Investigation later showed it was at
about the height of a man's chest.
Durand then entered the room anc
found a revolver fastened to a dress
1er. The string led from the trigger
Sto the door. It was ingeniously ar
Sranged to shoot the person who en
tered the room.
Durand believes that the person, or
persons, who v'isited his home did so
with the intention of killing him, and,
not finding him home, arranged the
trap. He says he has a suspicion as
to their identity and knows the rea
son for their enmity that prompted
the attempt upon his life. His neigh
1bors say whatever feud there is must
have existed .before Durand moved
into the neighborhood where he now
lives.
IHe believes the apparition in the
road saved his life. He says he rec
ognized the figure and the voice, and
it was of a person now dead of whom
he - was fond. Further than this he
refuses to talk. Durand never has
believed in spiritualism. His exper
ience has pretty well unnerved him,
although he is not the kind of man
who is easily unnerved.
- Christmas Buyers.
Christmas is almost here and every
body is looking out for presents for
the little ones and the old ones too.
To these we would say buy early. The
merchants have laid in their stocks
of Christmas goods and are ready
for the trade. It is perfectly evident
that those who conme early will get
the selection from the full stock and
will thus have the advantage of later
corners.
The merchants will also be able to
give more time in helping the cus
tomers to decide on the appropriate
thing and will thus in many instan
ces save the purchaser the trouble of
deciding on an inappropriate gift. It
is less than two weeks now until
Christmas and 1to wait until the
last few days will be a mistalke which
will be recognized too late.
In selecting presents the tendency
is to have articles which will be of
some real use to the recipien+ This
is a most sensible tendency. One
thing to be deplored about the'habit
of Cnristmas giving, is the balancing
off of gifts in the matter of val-.
ues, and the seeming obligation rest
ing on each one to give gift for gift.
But gifts with the taint of the comn
mercial spirit are nothing more than
barter, and defeat the real- purpose:
of the custom.
To those who are going to remem
ber their relatives and friends this
Christmas, it will be in many ways
advantageous to buv early and thus:
approach the glad season in a tran
q u i l s t U i l l j ' i .di t '
Near- isto!. Tenn.. four persons~
were kille~d and cre'mated T'hursday
on the ifarm of John Duff. -whose son.
Williami. was playing with a stick ofr
dynamite. The dynamite exploded
killing the boy and Mrs. Nathaniel
Barns and Mtrs. EC~iah Moody and
her child. The house caught fire .:
FULLY ARGUED.
Some Legal Points Submitted to
the Supreme Court.
For Its Decision In Reference to the
Formation of New Counties in
This State.
The case of A. B. Parler, et al.,
petitioners, vs. W. Brooks Fogle, et
al commissioners of election for Or
angeburg County, respondents, was
argued before the State Supreme
Court at Columbia on Thursday on a
petition for an injunction restraining
the commissioners from holding an
election os the formation of Cal-1
houn County, as ordered by the Gov
ernor.
Messrs. W. C. Wolfe, D. 0. Her
bert and B. H. Moss, of the Orange
burg Bar, appeared for the petitios
ers, and the board of election com
missioners were represented by the
Attorney General, who had designa
ted Messrs Bellinger & Welch to re
present him in the case, as Messrs.
Bellinger and Welsh have been the
legal advisers for the new county
advocates.
In his argument for the injunc
tion, Mr. W. C. Wolfe took the posi
tion that the form, practice and pro
cedure in this case follows the case
of Segars against Parrott, which
form, practice and procedure re
ceived the implied sanction of the
Court by a grant of the relief desir
ed in that case. A demurrer was in
terpoied in that ca;e, questioning
the jurisdiction of the Court in every
particular in whic!a jurisdiction
might me assailed in this case, but
the demurrer was overruled.
In Lamar against Croft another
new county -ease, where the same
question of jurisdiction arose, the
Supreme Court held that the com
plaint did not state facts warranting
equitable. relief and that an action
might be maintained. in equity to en
join the commissioners.' 'Mr. Wolfe
cited also the case of Croxton vs.
Truesdell, in which the Supreme
Court enjoined an election to de
termine .the location and establish.
ment of a county dispensary. Mr.
Wolfe 'asked the Court to inspect
the reports of the surveyors and de
termine whether the surveys were
sufficiently definite; also to considei
whether the Governor had the righl
to permit the petitioners to amend
their petition.
Then the third cause of action ir
substance stated as follows:
"The plaintiffs and others residius
within the proposed new county arE
registered in their township, but a
voting places without the territor:
of the proposed county; but undc
an Act of the Legislature the de
fendapts have only arranged to oper
voting places within the territory
which deprives petitioners of the
right to exercise their franchise il
the proposed election, though tho
plaintiffs are qualiled, registeret
electors. The Constitution provide:
that all persons thus qualifie-i havy
the right to vote, and Article 7 ex
pressly declares that if they resid<
within the area of the new count:
they will have the right to vote. yes
or no, upon their pr'loosionl. TC
deprive them of this right would bi
to abridge and deprive them of right:
wit tout due process ,f law and ii
1violation of both the State -and Fed
eral Constitutions, where. as in thi:
case, a polling precinct (township;
is cut by the proposed boundary lini
of the new county and the voting
place cut without, and the electo:
cut within the ares of the p:-oposet
county, there is an irreconcilable c'on;
flict between the Constitution' ani
the Act of the General Assembly. Ir
such cases the Act of the Legisla
ture must necessarily fail, and all o:
the Acts of the defendants thereun
der are necessarily void. If the
Court does not enjoin the defendantt
the plaintiffs will be deprived from
voting and will have no other remedy
or right of appeal, but would thus
sustain irremediable damage and in~
jury."
'The fourth cause of action, said
Mr. Wolfe, challenges the legality
of the entire registration system, but
he dwelt on only one point. .The
Constitution lays upon the Legisla
ture the regulation of the right of
registration, and the Legislature in
1907 passed an Act requiring super
visors of registration to open their
books in''each town or- industrial
community -containing 300 or more
inhabitants at least 30 days before
any general or special election. This
Act has been complied with.
In conclusion, Mr. Wolfe said:
"The plaintiffs do not ask that thi
election upon the formation of this
new county be delayed for all time,
but simply that it be stayed until
all the constitutional requirements
In such cases be complied with.''
In his argument Mr. Moss devot
ed himself to the conuict between
Section 573 of the Code and Section
1 of Article 7 of the Constitution,
and quoted numerous decisions to
show that the statute in such case is
void and the election should be re
strained. Col. Herbert also made a
general argument on this line.
In their return to the rule to show
cause, the defendants, through their
attorneys, made a number of points,
some of which are as follows:
That the .Governor is the sole
judge of the matters coming befh...e
hi in new county petitions, and
that he has passed on these matters.
That the Governol 'nerely allowed
the amendment of the petition fot
the purpose of making the boun
daries mor'e definite. They deny
that the Constitution says all qutali
fied. electors in the proposed new'
county shall vote, but it says the
question -shall .be submitted to the
qulifiedI electors, and that a two
thirds vote of those voting is neces
sary to form the new county. That
the defendants have merely follo wed ,
the order of the Governor and the
laws of the State, and they have not
told the managers of election. ;'beh
are qualified electors and who are '
not, but have mexely given the man
agers their views in accordance with
the opinion ofT the Attorney General.
That while it is alleged, a number.
f electors in the prolposed county
w'ill he deprived of voting, i~t is not
lleged that if permitted to vote they
will cast their bal~lots against the .
ormation of the new county. or that
heir being unable to vote will af
'ct thie result.
By a way of defence it is alleged in
he ret urn that the plaintiffs have
uile'd to show any equity that enti
1 c. the tu mr.ef that the action.r
AS IT SHOULD BE.
Statue of Gen. R. E. Lee at Na
tional Capital.
It Will Be Placed in Statuary Hall
at an Early Date by the State of
Virginia.
A Washington dispatch to the
Atlanta Journal says the statue of
Gen. Robert E. Lee, which Virginia
is to send to Statuary Hall, with that
of George Washington to represent
her in the gallery of the immortals,
will soon be in position. The sculp
tor, Edwarl V. Valentine, of Rich
mond, who enjoyed the personal
friendship of General Lee, has about
completed his work and the bronze
will soon be cast by the Gorhams,
of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Valentine
made several casts of Gen. Lee's
features just a year of two before his
death, and those who have been per
mitted to see the sculptor's latest
work say he has succeeded in repro
ducing a remarkable likeness of the
great soldier. It is said to equal his
masterpiece, the recumbent figure of
General Lee, at Washington and Lee
University, over the crypt in which
rest the ashes 'of the Confederate
chieftain.
When the Virginia' legislature
passed the bills some years ago
:naking appropriations for the stat
ues of Washington and Lee, there
was considerable opposition mani
fested by one or two senators at hav
ing General Lee represented in
bronze in the national Vainalla. As
a reply to the Virginia proposition,
Representative Weeks, of Kansas, in
troduced a bill, providing for the
erection of a statue of John Brown
on the government reservation at
Richmond. - He is said also - in
tending offering a bill for the erec
tion of a statue of Brown in Statuary
Hall. Some one suggested that it
would be appropriate for Virginia
to retaliate by placing the statue of
General Lee, the man who caught
Brown at Harper's Ferry, on-the onE
side, and that of Governor Henry A
Wise, of Virginia, who hanged him,
on the other. Mr. Weeks thereupor
withdrew his bill for Brown's statuE
In Statuary hall, but insisted on hi.
measure to place it at Richmond.
The measure has not since beer
heard of, and Weeks was not return
ed to Congress by his Kansas con
stituents.
Since the Weeks incident there
has been little discussion of pfacing
Lee's stature in the national capitol
and it is not believed that there wil
be any opposition to the statue hav
ing a place in Statuary hall. Presi
dent Roosevelt's admiration of Gen
Lee as a soldier and a man, and- hi
frank epression of his opinion ha,
had a great deal to do with the pass
ing of the sentiment against th<
statue of the Confederate leader hav
ing a place in the capital.
The statue represents Gen. Le
standing, his hat and gloves in on
hand, with both hands resting light
1y on the hilt of his sword. Th
~ord Is a copy of the one worn b:
tne general, now in the posession o
his son, Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr. Tb
figure is clothed in the uniform of
;eneral officer of the Confederat
army.
While no date has been fixed, it ~i
now proposed that the presentatioI
of the statue be made by Senatoe
Town W. Daniel, of Virginia, wlic
was Gen. "Jubal" Barly's adjiutan
~ eneral, and that the speech of ac
~eptance be delivered by Gen. War
-ren Keifer, of Ohio, a veteran of th4
Union army.
Charles Francis Adams predicted
~ew years ago that the time would
~ome when a statue of Gen. Let
would be unveiled in the capitol of
the United States. It is not unlike
ly that the prophesy of Mr. Adams
suggested the introduction of the biL
in the virginia Legislature.
Virginis will soon send to the cap.
tol a reproduction of the celebrated
Houdon statue of Washington,.-which
iow stands in the state capitol at
Richmond. There is now in Statu.
try Hall a cheap plaster cast of this
statue- placed there by the federal
'overnment. It has recently been
shoved to the wall, and the statue
of Frances E. Willard, the founder
of the Christian Temperance Union.
placed in front of it. The way in
which the Father of His Country -now
peeps out from behind the petticoats
has caused much comment.
WILL BE SNOT.
For Aiding in a Revolt Against a
Brazillian State.
A dispatch from New York says
it has been definitely learned that in
addition to George Vice, of New Jer
sey, Samuel Parlier, twenty-two
years old, of New York. is among
the filibusters recently arrested and
sentenced to be shot at Minas Gereas,
Brazil.
When young Parker left New York
he told his mother that he was go
ing to Brazil with a mining party
and had obtained a good position.
The State Department has been
ippealed to and it is said the de
artment has promised to do all in
its power to save the lives of the
roung Americans who were fool
tardy enough to attempt to capture
i Brazilian State with a force of~
nly a few hundred men under the
eadership of a man who is said to
be a famous Mexican revoltutionist.
I! a woman hasn't anything else
to do with her husband's money she
buys a .lot of useless things because
they are cheap.
There is something wrong with the
bride who desn't select a homlier
irl than herself for her bridesmaid.
if br-ought at all, should he nmain
ained in the name of the State:
that the Court is without jurisdiction
ro enjoin an election ordered by the
power and authority: that the plain
iffs have an appeal to the
state board of canvassers if the
Aecion when held is not held in
icordance vwith iaw.
In his argument. Mr. Welch. for
he Attorney General, cited decisions
o sustain the noints made in the re
n this line. I
TO TEACH LOVE 3LUG.
Illinois Town Excited Over New
Course in High School.
Parents of the high school stu
dents at Greenfield. Ill., are threat
ening to force the resignation of Prof
H. G. Russell. superintendent of the
school, because he has introduced a
course in "love-making." Prof. Rus
sell and his wife, who is his assistant
say they will stick to their colors
and see the experiment through at
any dost.
A mixed organization of 23 pu
pils, 10 of whom are girls, consti
tute the first class to receive formal
instruction in the new branch. Prof.
Russell has given them three lec
tures and they have written one set
of essays on themes allied to the
study of the literature of love.
'The Courtship of Miles Standish,'
Is to be taken up with a special view
to the lesson to be learned from
John Alden's experience. .A John
Alden Club has been formed in this
class. "Romeo and Juliet" and stan
dard works of fiction will be includ
ed in the course.
The pupils will be expected to
draw from their reading specific in
struction on the following interest
ing points.
How to take a heart by storm or
by seige.
How to detect the advent of the
grand passion.
How to behave if parental olec
tion is manifested.
How to pay a compliment.
How to encourage - a bashful sui
tor or corner an elusive girl..
How to allay unfounded jealousy.
How to propose marriage.
How to ask father.
The ettiquette of the engagement
ring.
Deportment during engagement.
A girl is expected to learn how
to promise to "be a sister" to him.
The boys will pick up intidental
points on how to elude persist'ent
young women with mistaken ideas
about affinities.
"DIVORCE BREAKFAST" -
Ts the Latest Thing in the Real *I
Society.
The "wedding breakfast" is com
mon enough, but a "divorce break
fast" is the newest thing in thesE
days of novelty. Recently at St
Louis Mr. Teny Ryan obtained fron
Judge Moyers, in the City Court, 1
ilvorce from her husband, Marlox
Ryan, and at the same time her sis
ter, Mrs. Mitaanda Hatfield, got
divorce from her husband, Charl:
Hatfield. As soon as the two decree
had been granted the happy divorce
took their mother, who had b~e
their principal witness, and celebrat
ed with a divorce breakfast at
fashionable restaurant.
A Broad'Hint From Japan.
Not only did the Japanese ambas
sador at Washington, Viscount Aoki
'lot extend to Admiral Evans an in
vitation to take his battleship flee
to Japan for a visit of ceremoniou
friendship, but he conveyed an un
mnistakeable intimation to the Amer
ican naval commander, at the dinne
he gave in Admiral Evans'.honor, o
the Japanese wish that the - Bee
.should not linger on the Pacific coast
To a representative of The New Yori
Herald, Ambassador Aoki denied emt
phatically that he had extended a
invitation to Admiral Evans to visi
Japan with his fleet, and he gave the
exact text of his toast to the admir
al, writing it out for the reporter ii
order that there might be no erro:
in quoting it. His words were."
propose to drink a toast to the healti
of Admiral Evans and in particula
I wish you a pleasant journey and
sp~eedy return."
The Charleston Post says "it il
rather remarkable that the signifi
*cance of this utterance his pass
without comment. It is as plain al
anything can be that the Japanest
amba.sador intended to convey the
injt that it would be more agreeabht
to his country to see the battleshil
fleet on the Atlantic than on the Pa
e ific coast of the-United States. Dip
lomatie utterances are always mnade
with a purpoie, and it is unmnistak
able that the Japanese- ambassado,
intended to make known his govern.
mnent's objiection to the transfer of
the fleet to Pacific waters. Indeedi
it is clear now that his entertainment
.>f Admiral Evans was made to give
opportunity for such a l-int in as del
icate a manner as it' could be given.
The intimation was beautifully and
gracefully made, but its force is none
the less for that.
"The popular and the official mind
is so engrossed with the financial dis
turbance that the utterance of. the
Japanese ambassador has not made
the impression it would ha' e made
three months ago, but the signifi
cance has hardly been lost on the
keen observers of the diplomatic
world, and it has doubtless been fazl
ly considered at the State Depart
ment. The ostentatious expression
of a wish for Admiral Evans'
"speedy" return from his naval ex
cursion is the direct expression of
Japan's protest against the move
ment. The propriety of such an ex
pression might well be questioned
but it will doubtLess be allowed, to
pass without official notice by the
Washington government."
ACCORDING to Walsh's directory
of Columbia, which has just been is
sued, that city now has a population
of 4.151 being an increase in the!
last seven years of 16.651. This is
a remarkable showing, but does not
surprise us, as we have long since re
garded Columbia as a comer. Before
locating that sub-treasury anywhere.
else the government should study the
Columbia figures.-----Oran~geburg
'imes and Democrat.
THE United States Supreme Court
has decided that the railroad corn
nissioners of South Carolina must
lot stop the through trains of the
Atlantic Coast Line at Latta, S. C.,
or the acc( modation of local pas
iegers. It held that an order of the
:ommissio)n to this effect interfered
TURNED TURTLE
Largest Schooner in the World
Upsets Off Scilly Islands.
TERRIBLE ACCIDENT
Fifteen Sailors Drowned in Capsi
Captain, Engineer and One Other
Only Survivors of the Thomas W.
Lawson.-Sank While At Anchor
in Broad Sound Scilly Islands,
Whre Captain Had Sought -Safety.
After successfully riding out of a
succe-.Aon of gales which she en-:
counteied all the way -across the
Atlantic and in which she lost a14
her like boats the American' sevfa
masted schooner Thomas W. Lawson,
was capsized in Broad sound,- Scilly
Islands.' where the Captain sought
shelter from the'fierce storm raging
along the coast Saturday night.
Of the .crew of 1,- including- Pilot
Hicks. who boarded the vessel from
a life saver's boat during the 'night,
oniy three were rescued. They were
Capt. G. W. Dow-of- Melrose, Mass.
Edward L. Rowe, the engineer, of
Wiscasset, Maine; and George. Allen
of. Brdford, England. The schoon-\
er left Philadelphia Nov. 1.9 for Lon
don with a cargo of oil.
She had a hard battle -with the seas
nal the way across anI -when she en
tered the. Broad sound, her captain,
knowing the dangers of' the coast,
threw out his anchor-. Later, in
answer to his signals of distrea,
life savers put out two life boats and
found the Lawson anchored in a dan
gerous position off Gunner's rock.
The seas were running high and the
'gale was increasing and the life say-.
ers found that their efforts were use
less. One of the boats returned for
-a tug and the other wasrcompelled
to put back to shore bediause of the
exhaustion of their men.'- During
their absence the Thomas W. Lawson
turned turtle.
Allen, one of the rescugmd-mpgifis
not expected to Ulve, whll4 ,Capt.
Dow is suffering from a 'fratured.'
arm. His rescue was effee1'OnlJ
through the most superhu
i of the life savers and the ga
of Frederick Hooks, the son of.
L ot Hooks, who accompanied them
i their second trip in the liope of fnd
Ing Mis father.
Late in the afternoon after a
L search Capt. Dow and Engineer" Roe
were seen alive bn - the Heiwethen
rocks, to wheih they had clung for
upwards -of 15 hours, the- tremeM
dous waves preventing their makinig
a landing. Young Hicks plunged in
to the boiling seas and swam ashore
carrying a'life line by means of
which he and the captain hauled
baek to the boat the engineer who
t was .,ractically uninjured. "
5 After assisting Capt. Dow,. Hicks
. was able to reach the boatz unaided>
but thie efforts exhausted him - and
the doctors ordered- him' to remain
r quiet. Capt. Dr w .told the life sar,
fers that'- when he 'found 'his vesisel
t was doomed he, the engineer and
the pilot lashed themselves to the
mizzen rigging. When the .masts
fell the captain and the engineer
managed to get clear. They jumped
I to the deck, but were. washed over
t board, being carried by/the crurents
Sto the rocks where they were found.
Pilot Hicks, -however, seemed to be
entangled in the rigging.
A UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT.
A L-ectionary 'of Readings- in Paes
. tinian Syriac.
0::r search for manuscripts in the
Coj tic convents of Egypt was not re
warded by any b: -lhant success,
-writes Agnes Smith ILewis'-in the'Cenr
Itury. But several years earlier L sue
ceedled in obta'ning from i private
source a rmanus:ript'to-.wYch I desire
to draw the attention of the Americal
traveling pulc.
It is lectionary of readings from thie
Old Testament and from St. Paul's
'epistles, written in Palestinian- Syri
-ac; that is, in the dialect of Aramnaie
which was spoken in Galile durinug
our Lord's earthly life and -for two
-centuries 'afterward, fhe. tongue- whl
"be'wrayed" St.' Pete'r. -1t btars the'
same relation to' the Edessin or literh
ary Syr~ac as t'le Doric of ancient
Greece did to t2'e Attic, or as English
does to Seoteh. This manuscript Is.
absolutely unique of its kind; be.
cause. although three other copies of
a lec'donary in the sa'ne dialect..exist,
one in the Vatican Library .and>.two
at Mount Sinai, they contamn a text of
the Gospels, - while this one provides
us wa lessons from the. other books
of the Bible.
Several leaves have been torn from
the book, one from the mid'dle and
about eight from the end. The dealer
confessed to having sold these piece
meal to passing travelers. -The leaf
from the middle has turned up in
Germany, having been detected and
dted by Dr. Friddrich Schulhesst
the "Zeitschrift der Deutschen 3tr
genlandischen Geselischaft," voLl. vi.
page 153. Its text exactly fits the gap --
left in the manuscript purchased by
me. It is of some importance .-or
the history of Syriac .llttrature -that
we shouldiknow the date, and that -
will prootoly be found written on one.
of the leaves which have been lost
from the end.
- A Doctor's Rules for Old Age.' -
It is the theory of Dr. .James Sawh
yer. an English phys.cian of note, that
there need be no tro~,le about attain
ing the age of 100 years, if a few sim
ple ruies for health are faithfully' ob-.
served. Here are the principal re
qu;eents he niraakes:
Plenty of sleep. A full supply of
fresh, pure air. night and day. Eat
but li;.le meat, btit cat fat food of
some kind,.. ~baaly rice, corn meal,
nuts, etc., wodk do as wel! - as fat
food of some hind-probably ricE'corn.
meal, nuts, etc., would. do as well as
fat meat. Fat, he says. feds the cells
that destroy the germs of disease in
the body. Exercise is another essen
ta. aud cu.. try life !s recommended,
on account of puru -0* air. dl'
aganst excitement a: : ., : .)
tepe:, and encouie. .. et rest
.das or holidays.
The:: are good, sensible rules,-any
ho'v; although they cannot' insure the
1. erver that he will a hundred years
there is no. doubt but that their ob
servance will add several years to the
lix es of those who practice them.