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: '?DO THOU LIBERTY GREAT. INSPIRE OUR SOULS AND MAfcl^HJR LIVES IN 'PHY POSSESSION HAPPY, OR OUR DEATHS GLORIOUS IN THY CAUSE." .]??_' . ? :'. VOL. XXVII. BENNETTSVILLE, S. C., FMpAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1903. NO. 14. SENATOR TILLMAN Speaks To a Large Crowd at Bishop ville Last Week. A SYNOPSIS OF mi SPEECH. The Senator Snys tbe Selection nt' n Democratic Presidential Nomi nen is Difficult. The Negro Question. Senator Tillmau arrived at liishop v?lle on Tuesday evening of last week and was escorted by thc reception com mittee to the Bisbopville hotel, which was his headquarters during his visit to thdt-town. After supper he was called upon in an Informal way by many olti/.ens, with whom he Chatted upon every sub ject but politics. After a quiet night's rest on Friday morning be was driven around Bishop* ville and vicinity and shown the im provements made ?n this lively and progressive little town, and expressed himself as highly pleased with thc evidences of enery and enterprise. At 11 o'clock he was escorted to thc Woodworth grove the "central park" of the town where lie was to address our people on the quc.stions.of the day. The turnout of the citizens at first seemed disappointing as the assem blage was much smaller than was ex pected, but it must be remembered that this is the busiest time in the year for the farmer and that several Important meetings are to be held in the next ten days, and they could not . well, at this juncture be spared from "their farms. It is estimated that from live to eight/hundred people were present, in cluding a goodly number of ladies, and ' that among those present lines had been entirely obliterated, Reformers and Antis, according to the old demar cation, intermingling to do honor to a man who had faithfully and strenuous ly served his state under the most ad verse circumstances. The meeting was called to order by Mr. Ralph ,W. McLendon, who re quested the Kev. T. W. Phillips to open proceedings with prayer. Senator Tillman met the people of Lee County for thc first time. I Ie said he had tried to come over when the country was in the throes of birth, but . the people did not seem to want, him. He was pretty well up on the geogra phy of South Carolina; had traveled . over every county but Lee several times. He thanked the people for their handsome vote at the last sena torial election and felt that he de served it. v.. He found it hard to say anything ." ~" .t-b? npxt.-pfosidentinl. election; everything ls in" doubt.' Parker, ot New York, and Johnson, of Ohio are spoken of as banner bearers but, in ' fact, no one seems to be prominent. Cleveland is a bag of beef, only lit for pitchforking. Bryan does not want the nomination and could not get it if he did; heis talking too much. The method must bo to adopt some par ticular policy or perhaps wait until the Republicans show their hand and then . formulate a platform which will appeal to the people. The Northern people are highly pro gressive-in industry, money-making and dishonesty. The Republican parti is built on that basis and all the leg - .islatlon is in the direction of fraud. He instanced the pension swindle as an example. All must play into the hands of the G. O. P. and by degrees all the money in the country will be diverted in that direction. He then told in his graphic way how he had gained for South Carolina against the government by playing Allison against Joe Cannon. The democratic party is sick. The silver question must be put asi .le for the present. Ile personally is as sound a free silveriteas ever, but it is best for financial reasons to avoid the issue iust now. Ile does not see much hope for democratic success in thc presi dential election. Sentiment enters largely into politics, lt was senti mont thab brought on the civil war. Mrs. Stowe's book, "Uncle Tom" and the feeling must be considered. Theodore Roosevelt knows how to appeal to this; he Is a straddler and a shrewd one; witness his action in the trust case and in the matterol the appointment of Crum as collector at Charleston. The only straw which shows the cur rent In the plank In thc platform en dorsing the fourteenth and fifteenth - amendments and declaring that they must be maintained. Th's meant the inauguration of a campaign to cut down Southern representation. This would mean a loss to South Carolina of three or four congressmen. If the idea prevails the fight may be made upon this issue and thc speaker would gladly welcome lt. ' On that is sue the democrats could carry the north as well as the south. But un less that or some similar mistake is made by them there is little elia ncc for the democratic party. In answer to an inquiry he said he did not care about talking about the frauds in thc postolllce department. A committee would be appointed at the next session of Congress which would give the matter a thorough in vestigation. The senator then warned the peo ple that the negro question was hy no means settled. The constitutional convention had arranged things for a time, but tho trouble was hy no means over.' Thc negroes were educating their .children and the rising generation would not be prevented from voting by the "illiteracy" clause. Being edu cated they would demand the bal ot and then-thc deluge. Thc neuro .question hangs over the Sou tl 1 like the sword of Damocles. Thc time must and will come when thc constitution of thc United States must be amended and the entire ne gro vote of the nation.eliminated for ever. The senator thinking that some of his remarks might have been thought lurid and Tillmanesque here made a handsome apology to thc ladies pres ent if his language had been a little too fiery. Ile spoke loud, plain Anglo Saxon English and did not try to orna ment lt as his friend Lever did. And with a little pleasant chating at the j latter gentleman the, senator closed amid aloud applause. The meeting was a remarkably pleasant one. Senator Tillman was at his best. There were no "burning Is sues"; to excite his wrath or induce those "Hows o? vituperation for which he seems to have acquired a reputa tion, but spoke easily aud forcibly with enough of his usual fire to give his hearers and impressive Idea of the con dition of things through the country. Another enjoyable feature of thc occasion was the entire obliteration of the old factional lines. "Reform ers" and "antis," of the nineties, stood shoulder toshoulder.not to hail a loud-voiced agitator und an inspirer of strife, but to do honor to a man who had worthily worn the'senato rial toga and who hrs ably and fear i lessly discharged the duties of the high office to which he had been elect ed practically by the unanimous vote of lils state. LOOK OUT FOR THEM. Charleston linn Declared War on White ami BlncK Vagrants. Charleston has rightly declared war on all vagrants that loaf about her streets, and no doubt many of them will lloatin this direction and lt would be well for the authorities to keep a sharp lookout for them. Thc Charles ton Post says_ the idle, worthless negroes, who have been loitering about thc streets of the city day and night, must either go to work or leave the city or they will be arrested and sent to the chain gang. Several days ago The Evening Post published an interview from a well known business man, calling attention to the large number of negro idlers in thc city and urged that the police de partment make an active campaign on the vagrant class, and Chief Hoyle issued orders to the special squad of police olllcers to show the idlers no quarter. AH negroes, male and female, who are found hanging about the streets and who have no visible means of support will be arrested and tried before the recorder on the charge of being vagrants. Upon conviction Recorder Jervey will not deal with them lightly. Chief Royle said that the police department had never let up on the enforcement of the vagrant law, for the records In the police court show tiiat negroes and white men are con stantly being tried and convicted on thc charge of being vagarants and sent to thc public works. Only a few days ago four young white men were convicted under the vagrant act. The crusade against the vagrants will now I be actively carried on with renewed vigor. The campaign ls going to be lively and loafers will be arrested and sent to headquarters. --ilas thc-Cottoii Pevor. - - Porto Rico seems to have a well de veloped case of the cotton fever. News from that island say that with in a month the cotton ginneries being erected on tba water front of San Juan will be ginning the most pretentious and certainly the most significant cotton crop Porto Rico has raised with in the past forty years. The output will be at least 10,000 bales of some of the finest sea island cotton ever grown. The best yields will exceed l.flOO pound seed and liber to thc acre; and of sixty-eight experimental plots all will show a profit. Nothing but sea island cotton lias been planted, and thc tendency here is to encourage as far as possible the growing of that grade only. Within a year, it is con fidently expected, thc cotton boom in Porto Rico will be attracting wide spread attention. And it is not im probable that through such a boom thc rejuvenated industry will sillier by a later reaction. The recent decision of President Roosevelt that 90,000 acres of public lands in Porto Rico can now be sold leads to the reasonably supposition that a part of this land, which will doubtless be appraised at from 8-1 to 810 an acre, will before long, blossom with cotton. At least that's talk in San Juan. The cotton fever is in the air. At present no at tempt will bc made to grow short staple cotton on the island. A Terrille Tornado. A terrific tornado visited Patterson, M. J., Wednesday. During the blow which lasted about three minutes, two persons were killed and at least three score more or less injured. Half a dozen men were at work jacking up a house. When the tornado struck this building lt collapsed. Jos. Yan Dam was buried under thc wreckage and instantly'killed. Four other men were caught, but were dug out alive, although unconscious. At St. Joseph hospital the patients were thrown in to a panic. Rig trees in the grounds around the hospital were blown down, tile windows were smashed and the awnings carried off. Thomas Hancock, eight years old, was struck by a piece of shafting blown from a wrecked laundry building which com pletely severed his head from his body. Tiie monetary loss by the storm is estimated at between 8150,000 and 8200,000. As nearly as can be estima ted fifty-two houses have been blown down or so torn by the wind as to he beyond repair. About double that number are badly damaged and sever al times that number slightly dam aged. _ Thunderstorm In Ohiougb, Two persons were killed outright as the result of a storm at Chicago Tues day, viz, Bessie Jilerie, 2 years old, crushed to death by a piano blown from thc hands of movers, and Henry Temm, struck by lightning while standing on a street corner. Many persons sufiered from broken limbs and severe cuts and bruises due to runaway accidents. Thc storm was accompanied by a high wind, and thc hall, which formed in jagged pieces of iee while falling, played havoc witli plate galss windows throughout thc down-town district. Iifupcd to Death. A special to the Augusta Chronicle says hy ticing one end of a rope around lils neck and thc other around a bush and then leaping over a clilf, William Roark, a farmer of Ashe county, N. C., ended his life after having made several threats of suicid ing. LEPERS M AERY. Some Hard Things Said About a Havana Hospital WHICH SHOULD BE REMEDIED. Habana Post DiBCOvcrs a Horrible Condition of Affairs nt the Leper Hospital in thc Cuban Capital. It is hard to believe that in a civi lized community and In this day and age of the world that such a condi tion of affairs can exist as does exist in almost thc heart of that city today at San Lazaro hospital, the place where the unfortunate people suffer ing from that dreadful and loathsome disease, leprosy, are ke"pfc. The Post has heretofore published stories about this hospital but never before has such a serious condition of affairs been known. Before The Post published about the patients from the hospital escaping and mingling with the peo ple in the streets, and going where they wished to go over thc city. Dr. Alfonso, the director of the hospital, took occasion to deny the story of The Post, but in an interview cel ebrated with him at the hospital a few days ago bc acknowledged that The Post was right. Allowing lepers to escape from the hospital and risk the spreading of their dead disease to other people is bad enough, and no censure is too se vere for this, but it passes belief that Dr. Alfonso and the board of mana gers of the leper institution would al low people afllicted with leprosy to marry and bring into the world chil dren alllicted with the cause. .But, horrible as this may seem, it is true. Some time ago two lepers named Juan Valdes and Ricardo Martin asked Dr. Alfonso for permission to marry two woman patients. Dr. Alfonso referred the matter to the board of managers, and ii is understood recommended that permission be given. The board of managers gave the permission, and thc two men spent all of their savings in titting up two rooms in the hospital for their brides-to-be. But the news of the approaching marriages reached the ears of Secretary of the Govern ment Vero, and the day before the marriages were to take place and af ter the priest had been secured the word came from the secretary of gov ernment that it would not be allowed. It was reported that marriages had been celebrated before ?? the hospital, but this could not be verified. Dr.. Alfonso was found to be a very hard : man to catch iii the hospital, -the.re porter" ' Ba^Ihg^W'ipa^ ' fore the doctor could be found In. In deed, the last time he was ndt in and had to be sent for. The failure or Dr. Alfonso to ever be in when The Post reporter called, led to the con clusion that he was trying to avoid the interview, though he was very courteous when finally found. The hospital is In a terribly unsani tary condition. Words arc not strong enough to express the condition in which The Post reporter found the toilets. One could smell the sicken ing stench long before one reached them. No conveniences of any kind, not even newspapers, were in evidence. The sanitary effects were new, hav ing been put in by the government of ? intervention, and their condition was due to nothing else than neglect, pure and simple. The most pitiful thing about the poor people, who are compelled to stop in this asylum, is that young boys, who arc suspected of of being lepers are kept there and In thc same rooms, eating and sleeping with lepers who have been there for years, playing games with men who have lost their fingers and in some cases their hands. If bliese children do not develop the disease whether or not they had it before it will not be the fault of Dr. Alfonso or the board of managers. There aro boys there from 10 to 14 years of age who have to sleep In the same ward with pa tients who have lost hands legs, ears, nose and eyes from the disease. What has gone before seems Incredible, but tlie public will hardly be prepared for the news that all of the slops from the patients are sold to an enterprising man for $10 dollars a month, to be fed to hogs. Pork fed on bread scraps, mcatand soup which has been handled and left by lepers, may not communi cate the disease toa person eating the pork, but it has not been demonstrat ed that it has not, and lt Is safe to say that no one would eat thc pork If tliey knew that It had been fed on such slops. Despite what has been said In de fense of the management of the hos pital there is no doubt in the world that the lepers do escape from the building and mingle when they pleased with the general public. On thc 20th of May two women escaped from thu hospital and were gone three days when they returned voluntarily. How many cases of leprosy will result from these two women, of course, can only bc conjectured. Thc Post repor ter talked toa number ol" thc inmates and they thanked Thc Post for call ing attention to the bad management heretofore. Tiley themselves said that they could leave thc hospital whenever they chose and showed The Post reporter how they could get over the wall. One even asked the repor ter to name a day and hour to meet him at thc ellice of The Post and he would escape and lie there on time. While talking with these patients thc reporter noticed a negro trying to bandage up his leg The poor fellow found it impossible almost to do so because bot h of his hands had been eaten olT at the wrists. Tho reporter called attention to this and the reply came that the lepers received hardly no attention from doctors but are simply shut up and allowed to cure themselves if they can. When asKcd by thc reporter as to the location of tho doctors who arc supposed to be connected with the institution they repl'cd that they scarcely gave them any attention at all and were seldom seen. Thc Post reporter could easily see that carelessness of thc worst kind .was: .lriVevldence.. Dr. Alfonso said that tho funds allowed by the ..state were insufficient and that conditions were due to this fact. He said that he had made repeated endeavors to gel a large appropriation for'the hos pital but that all efforts had so far been In vain, ne regretted the cir cumstances more than adv one. Re garding his consent to the marriage of two of the Inmates he would say nothing. No amusements of any kind were noted by The Post repor ter. "No library is there to help the poor victims while away the long hours before death finally overtakes them, aud they must remain there day after day, with nothing to occupy them other than to watch the ravages which .the disease is making upon them. Thc hospital used to have a school for education of the young boys loathe hospital. 1. ? school was taught by Senor Morejoo, a very intelligent Spaniard, who ls also a patient. Mr. Morejon speaks English lluently. When asked why he did not contin?e the teaching of the school he would not say, but another patient told Thc Post reporter that it was because Dr. Alfonso had told him that he was teaching the boys meanness and for that reason suspended the school. All of the patients insisted Chat Thc Post urge Secretary of Government Yero to visit the hospital and see for himself the conditions which prevail there. They say that their condition is becoming more pitiful daily, and they knowing the Integrity nf secre tary of government, want him to sec with his own eyes the condition.-The Havana Post. THE DEADLY HOT SUPPER. One Neirro Killed nnd Eight Others Wounded at One. The Charleston Post of Wednesday says "at a hot supper given by negroes one night last wecck at Bee's ferry in St. Andrew's a terrible battle was fought among negroes. One man, William Edwards^ was killed and nine are reported to have been seriously wounded. It is said that 100 shots were fired during the fight. Wednes day morning Paul Lucas was arrested on the charge of killing Edwards and Robert Robinson was arrested on the charge of being an accomplice. They were committed to jail by Magistrate Strubs. The particulars of the riot and the facts that lcd up to the trouble could not be learned here. It ls stated that whiskey was at the bottom of the shooting. Several days ago it was an nounced that a hot, supper would be given at Bee's ferry, near Drayton station on the night of July 20. The frolic was well advertised ?..hroughout and near. Tlrey brought pistols with them, for when the difficulty occurred and thc first shot fired the men pulled their revolvers and commenced to shoot In every direction. The riot occured about 3 o'clock in the morning. The negroes had been drinking more or less all night and having a good time with the girls, some whom imbibed freely, too, and aided and abetted in bringing on the trouble. When the shooting opened up in dead earnest the negro women took to the bushes and remained under cover until daylight. Edwards was killed early during the trouble by Paul Lucas, who, it is said, fired thc first shot, and Robert Robinson had a hand in the affair. Lucas and Robinson were arrested Wednesday morning by Magistrate Strubs' constable. It is expected that other arrests will be made. Agreed to Suicide. Gerald Jordan, a promoter who gives his age as 42, and his wife, Laura, twenty years younger, made two attempts at suicide in New York Wednesday. Mrs. Jordan says that they came to an agreement to kill themselves Wednesday night and swallowed laudanum. The poison did not take full effect and at noon' the couple drank more of it. Mr. Jordan apparently relcntod after tho second dose and called a doctor from the ground floor, who summond an am bulance. Mrs. Jordan recovered rapid ly. The man was slower in respond ing to the treatment, lt is thought that both will be well enough to be arraigned In the police court Thurs day. Jordan ls from the south. His wife says he has lost everything. ' One Negro lillis Another. At Spartanburg Tuesdav night two negroes, Hub Flack and Dock Jones, had a fight. Flack struck Jones on the head with something that dazed him. He walked to his home and lit tle was thought of the nITair. Tues day afternoon about 6 o'clock he died Constables have gone out to arrest Flack. Nothing definite ls known as to cause of quarrel or what the blow was given with. Killed Iii Accident. Mrs. Adelaide Hawley of New Mil ford, Pa., was instantly killed and others with her In an automiblc party were seriously-in jared by the overturn lng of their car, going at a tremendous rate of speed on Ocean Park way Brooklyn. Mrs. Elizabeth Elberts of New Milford, Pa., suffered a con?us sion of the brain and may die. Mrs Hawley's son was cut and bruised Two others escaped uninjured. Killed Over Cnrds. As a result of a free-for-all tight over cards at Opeklska, W. Va., on Tuesday night, Tom Carter was kill cd outright. Chas. Lewis was mortal ly wounded and William Jensen and Henry Horner seriously wounded All are negroes. Thc shooting, it is said, was done by Robert Hycr, also a negro, who made his escape and has not yet been crptured. Iiittle Hoy Killed. In an altercation at Belle Sumpte Ala., Joe Moore shot and severely wounded Sol Bumette and killed hi seven-year-old son, tho killing being by accident. The men quarreled over Burnette's alleged abuse of his wife sister of Moore. THE HOOK WOItJl. 1 ; j. ; Plan8 io Exterm?iato the "Germ of . "Mi ^'laziness" Being Made. THE SOUTHERN STATES ACTING. B ' - Will Tr ' to Eradicato the Disease, IVhlfch is Thought to Have .j?'eon. Ono ortho Plagues of 13Kyi>t. Although it lias beeb less 'than six montbn,' since Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, chief of the division of zoology of the public health and marine hos pital service, officially announced the discovery uf the hook worm, or "germ of lazlriess," preparations aro already under'way In several Southern States to utilize the discovery In combating thc disease. The State board of health of North Carolina, through Its secre tary, Dr. Lewis, of Raleigh, has taker, bhe'lead in the work, and it is confi dently (expected by scientist in Wash ington that the health otllcials of that State soon will make an important an louncenjent as the. result .of the ex periment they are now conducting, b'?r obvious reasons the experiments ire being carefully guarded from pnb ioity by thcotllcials both tn Washlng :on and In North Carolina, bub it ls jlvcn put" that a's soon as satisfactory ?esulbsdiave been obtained they will ie fully exploited in language that the ay man can easily understand. Tho;disease which results from thc ravages of the hookworm ls called uui ?lnariais by thc scientists. In common parlance it is known as laziness. Ap parently the disease raainlj is confined xi warm climates, for lt ls there that ihe hookworm abounds in greatest lumbers. Dr. Stiles thinks lb quite probable that the ancient Egyptians, icarly 3,500 years ago, were acquainb ;d with the parasites which he has ?amed'as the hookworm, and whose ?abibs he is sbill sbudying with the cn husiasm of amovice. The disease appears to have attained ts innist virulent form among the Bgyptians of that period, and was nuch'more damaging to its victims 1 ?han it ls now. However, unless aspe- ' alic hVfound for it there Is seemingly 1 io reason why in time it should not ! lave a's ruinous efl'ecbs in bhe United ( -states Sus it had in Egypb more bhan ' l|500i years ago. \ A' svady of bbe conditions of the- c nosb widely infected regions of the 'j South, mainly in Florida, appears bo 1 ihow uhab the paraslbe attacks chil Ircrfia the rhral. sections%t a very !arlyi(ge,!'?It Ka5 been satisfactorily iempi)Strated that children who go larefciited or permitted to loll around reely'.pn. the ground.in summer time '.' icp ?bi'^?d?oial victlmr, of the. hook-, yura. r?5.i7i;/i^?asi^^^^ets ? tarted ii thrives roarvelous^^-'CSie Jt njury of its victim, actually'arresting ? ihe developmenb of cerbain parts of the \ )ody and delaying the age of maturity ? ?o a noticeable extent. When full c ;rowth finally is attained the victim j 8 all through life indole.nb and shifb- ? ess. This accounts for bhe large num )er o' people in the South who are .onsidered lazy. In poinfof facb, they ire lazy, bub bheir laziness is due bo ihe presence in the systems of hook vorms and not to a natural indisposi- j .ion bo work or exerb bhcmselycs. \ In a severe case of bhe hookworm ( llsease bbc face is blotted, -the shoul lers droop, bhe abdomen is enlarged, | ind the arm and legs are bhin. It has i leen observed that the disease is most i lommon among the di rb eaters of bhe j ?outh and among people who ll vc in ihe sandy regions of that section. In leed, Dr. Stiles declares that nearly ?very case of the disease found during ( ils trips through thc South while budying the subjects was either liv- ( ng at the time in a sandy district or rad lived in such a district a few years leiore. Dr. Stiles also observes that ic would not expect to lind the disease iriginating in cities, and owns that| .hey are well paved and sewered. ?aved sbreets and grass lawns, he dc dares, do nob favor thc development >f thc hookworm. Another interesting discovery he has I nade in connection with the ravages if the "germ of laziness" is that the jest is more active in summer than In vlhter. This accounts, lu a large ncasure. for the apparent increase of azlness in hot weather. According to I ihe testimony ol' Dr. Stiles, thesymp :oms of the disease begin to Increase! n the spring and decrease in the carly winter. "The periodicity," says the liseovery or the "germ of laziness," tvill be noticed, of course, only In lo calities which arc above the frost line, ind it is easily explained when we take I into consideration the biology of the | parasites. It is probably thal bim-ucn? ional pcrlodiey of the symptoms noticed in our Southern States will be modified in the tropics, so that the symptoms will increase in severity in the rainy season and decrease In the dry period of thc year." One of the most interesting features | af Dr. Stiles' observations is this: "Uncinariasis," says bc in his report on the subject, "occurs in botli blondes lind brunettes, and in both the white ?md negro races, but, so far as my ob servations go, the disease is more | severe, or at least more noticeable, in blondes than in brunettes, and more severe, as a rule, In the white than In thc negro." Snakes IOncnne. Alloana, Pa., was thrown into a] Hood of terror and excitement Wed nesday by an accident ab a cage con taining 800 snakes. Tho door was! opened by mistake and the reptiles] mad? a wild break for liberty. Soon | ihe city was overran by them, spcad Ing terrors wherever they crawled. Uollcebor Albright, who attempted to ulosc thc cage and stop thc rush of the j snakes from their place of confine ment, was bitten four times. Aged Dudy Killed. Thc police were notified Tuesday morning at 1:30 o'clock that Mrs. Reid, mobher of lt. R. Reid, bhe well known expressman, was murdered in her home on Mounb Plcasanb Mass, some blme after midnight. lb ls rc- ! porbed bhab bwo men enbered bbc house and assaulted thc woman who was 701 years old. FRIGHTENED NEGROES. : . '" 'y-? -.?>.?' 04 . M>-. Vt*. - ? . J .- ?... . J C.? Typographical Error in un Almanac Causon CoriBtcrimtlon. A "Gainesville, Ga., diapatcti. says: Rev. J.' D. Lovejoy, colored, pastor of the St. Paul Methodist Episcopal Church of Gainesville, has the negroes of that city wrought up toa high pitch of excitement over a sermon bc recently preached from Amos viii, 9. The occasion of the sermon was fur nished by a typographical error In drier's Almanac of 1003. In the November table of the rising ind setting of tho sun on thc 25th the astronomers calculate that the jun will rise at 0:60 a. m. and set at 5.0 p. m. Here is where tbe_ "devil" proof reader or printer comes in and makes the error upon which the colored clergyman's remarks are based.. In stead of the printer setting in up 5 01 p.- m , he substituted a figuro 1 in place of tbc iigure 5, and Rev. Love joy in looking over the almanac sees the error and comes to.the conclusion that this is the day set apart, for the anding of all eartly things. Therefore he takes his hlble and burning to Amos viii, 0, selects tho following scriptural for the text. "And lt shall come to pass in that flay, Baibh the Lord,'God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth lu the clear ?lay." With a voice trembling with ex citement and his frame shaking with apparent fear Rev. Lovejoy cited his bearers to tho scriptural quotations ind the typographical error in the almanacs as proof positive that the Turigm?nt Hay was near at hand and would surely arrive at? noon, Novem ber 25, next. Although there is one hour and one, minute's difference be tween thc going down of the sun_as appears in the almanac and tbe scrip tural quotations this matters not to either Rev. Lovejoy or his congrega tion-they both believe that the end 3f the world is scheduled for this par ticular day and time. With tile roar of the recent tornado itill ringing In their ears, Lovejoy ind his congregation are prepared to jelieve that a similar or even worse visitation may como at any day and jhc error of tbe almanac furnishes ibem with dates upon which they jan agree-and this time .Is the end ug of tbe world ;\pon which they lave decided. St. Paul Church was lestroyed in the recent storm and the ;reduility of this congregation uow mows' no bounds. -.>.. . A TRAGIC DEATH. v Lady-Thrown from a Wagon , and ? '. -, " .7 . Dies from Pall.- -. -- . . . -^The.SpXitanburg. Herald says Tues ? aV-- th Cvrprss ^??|V?id-th.^hl ty.- o.t .' th e. .ragic death of Mrs. Lee Bogan ?nS?n? ; lay afternoon. Mrs; Bogan, along vith her.husband and two of their ?bildren, started to a meeting on Sun lay afternoon at the Holiness church, t few miles above Cowpens. Mr. Bo tan lives a distance beyond Cowpens. L'hey were traveling in a one-horse vagon, to which a mule was attached. Tho mule became frightened, from lome reason, and became ungovern able. Mr. Bogan and the cbildr.cn umped from the wagon, and escaped without serious injury. The f righten :d animal carried the wagon and Mrs. [logan a considerable distance forward, inally striking the vehicle against a tree. Mrs. Bogan was thrown from icr scat, and in faliing sustained fatal injuries from which she died shortly ifterw'ards. Her death is a peculiarly sad one. She leaves a devoted husband and s?v irai children. She was a middle aged .vornan, and a useful, pious soul, who jxertcd her influence for thc better raent of her circle and her neighbors, [ri her humble sphere she labored faithfully, and eternity alone can tell the fruits of her work. Her remains .vere buried near Cowpens. A GrCUt Contras!. The Fort Mill Times says: "The naost unique marriage that has occur red here in years took place at the Palmetto hotel Thursday morning, the contracting parties being Mr. Li. L. ?utting and Miss Mary Ray, of Salis bury, N. C. The bride is a handsome young women, weighing probably 175 pounds and could have faced the tape near the (5-foot mark, while the groom is about 4 feet 10, and would tip the scales at about 75 pounds. A greater contrast could scarcely be imagined. Thccouple were married hy 'Squire McElhaney and left on the afternoon train for North Carolina." Cut Him Badly.' A serjoua and perhaps fatal cutting "anray took place about one mlle from Union Tuesday night about 10 o'clock. William Gilliam went to the home of his son-in-law, Richard Ridley, while under the Inlluenco of whiskey and cursed and used very abusive language. Mr. and Mrs. Hailey endeavored to get bim quiet, but he became more angry, and it is reported that he struck Mrs. Hailey and knocked Mr. Halley down with a bottle and jumped on him. When he did so Mr. Balley pulled bis knife and cut bim seriously. There are seventeen gashes. At last report Gilliam was in a critical condition. Shipping Colton Huck. A dispatch from Havre says a large proportion of the cargo of the General Transatlantic Line's steamer La Bret agne, which sailed for New York, con sists of cotton which has been re-ship ped to the United States on account of the American speculation in that staple. Tho Toy Pistol. Ten deaths have resulted from lock jaw in Cleveland, Ohio, since July 4. The latest vicltim was Joseph Stasko. He died as a result of a slight wound received in handling a toy pistol on .lilly 4. Thc I?Mrst Bale. The llrst bale of cotton of the crop of 1003 arrived at New York Tuesday and was sold at the door of tho cotton exchango for 20 1-2 cents a pound. The cotton was raised In Zapata coun ty, Texas, and was bought in Galves ton, Texas. WBAT A GBEAT NAVY MEANS. President Roosevelt's Fervid Oratory iii <. ' :t ? ?>'.:..: .?' . I Bolled Down to Hard'Facts. President Roosevelt's Fourth of July prohouncement'thdt '-we need a navy equal, Bhlp forsbtp, to the navy of any other nation," must mean, of course, that an American navy equal to the' British is a national necessity. If tho president ls right lt is worth while to to count the cost. The British navy, according to the latest official return, made at the beginning of the current year, included 540 vessels of 1,401,018 tons already built, and 78 vessels build ing, of .?00,850 tons. Against this total of 624 vessels, of 1,807,874 tons, comprised in the King's Navce," the United State had on thc same date 109 vessels of 278,259 tons already built, and 444 vessels,of :i00,484 tons, build ing; in all 153 vessels of 578,743 tons. From this it plainly appears that to realize Mr. Roosevelt's Ideal navy we must build at once battleships, armor ed cruisers and other varieties of the ship militant aggregating the little trifle of 1,220,131 tons. Now, what would this obst? The shortest way to answer the question is to reduce it to battleship terms. A first-class battleship aver ages 15000 tons displacement and costs at least 85,000,000 to build. To get even in the matter of ships built and building with thc british navy, as tho account stood on Jan. 1 last, we must therefore build the equivalent of more than 80 battleships at a cost of $400, 000,000. Admiral Melville has stated the actual first cost of our navy as it stands today, including the vessels now building, and the auxiliary ex penditures indispensable to maintain ing it afioatrdocks, coaling stations, training ships, etc.,-at $550,000,000. The same authority says the actual cost of creating a navy is double the mere first cost of building the ships. On the basis of this expert testimony. Mr. Roosevelt's navy, "equal ship for ship" the Great Britain's, would cost us $800,000,001) plus what we have al ready spent -Just to call it i oto ex istence. Mean-while the ships we liave are becoming obsolete or worn out. The New York, Indiana and Iowa are "laid up for repairs" that -will cost $500,000_for each. - Furthermore, Great Britain ls year by year increasing the pace -of naval construction. She has increased her naval expenditures nearly threefold during thc pastis years, and they now exceed 8150,000,000 annually. At our present rate of construction, unless the British pace ls lowered, we shall never eaten up with lier, but Bball grow rel atively weaker/ "We must "see" her $150,000,000 a year for naval purposes and add at least $70,000,000 a year to it in order to overtake her within 13. years. - This is in factaniunderestimate/ be cause it costs us 30 per cent, more to hui 1 d a.waratii g thjtnlji^ ?Ian ' and 30'pef cetit.r'<monr "to main-" tain it in service. Hence nearly one third must be added to the vast totals of cost above given for the realization of our fighting president's naval dream. Naval appropriations aggregating not much less than $300,000,000 yearly, and containing for 13 years to come, Is the unavoidable price to be paid for the whistle of a standing navy as big as Great Britain's. But what for? Do we really need it? Who threatens us? Or whom do wc desire to threaten? What is the the worldwide game of war for which Mr. Roosevelt would have us go into training? And would the game, whatever it is, be worth so costly a candle. A SAD CASE. A Physician Went to Aid a Man and . Found His Son. Thc Atlanta Journal says: Hearing that a man bad been injured by a Southern raliway freight' train at a point between Johns street and North avenue, Dr. W. O. Trammell, who ls the proprietor of a drug store at 503 Marietta stre?t, rushed to the scene as rapidly as possible to render what ever assistance might be in his power to thc comfort of the dying man. As soon as Dr. Trammell reached the scene he knelt beside the injured man to ascertain thc extent of his injuries, and as he did this he gave a scream of horror and fainted. Thc injured man was his son, Alwin Trammell, who- in a few minutes was dead. lt is . thought that thc car which struck . Trammell had been "kicked" and was silently rolling along the tracks in the direction of Trammell when lu attempted to cross, but so silently was lt moving that he did not hear lt and started across the tracks when he was struck. Henry Hunter, a negro fireman, was the closest wit ness lo the tragedy. Ile said at the coroner's inquest this morning that he heard a scream and turning saw a body doubled up beneath the cars. He immediately flagged down the train. Trammell was going in thc direction of Marietta street and was crossing the tracks at a place where there is no regular path. It Is thought that Trammell was returning to his father's drug store, 503 Marietta street, when he met his death, for in the afternoon he had left with a number of bills against em ployes of the railroad . working in the yards. To make a quick cut to Marietta street is thought to be his reason for crossing thc track at the point where lie was killed. The right side of Trammcll's face was struck by the wheels of the car. Thc wheels also mashed his right leg between the knee and ankle. Tlie body was removed directly from the railroad tracks to the undertaking parlors of II. M. Patterson, where It was prepared for burial. Trammell waa about 20 years of age and was em ployed in his father's drug storo. The verdict rendered at thc inquest Tues day morning, which was conducted at Patterson's by Coroner Stamps, was that Trammell met bis death by be ing struck by a freight car. No blame is attached to either the engineer or fireman of the train. Four Drowned. Jason Ramsey and three childreu wcredrowned by thc capsizing of a skiff on the Calfkiller, near Sparta? Tenn., on Wednesday. RED HANDED WAR. A kost Horrible Battle . W^o . It Lasted, Says a Dispatch. BLOOD FLOWED LIKE WATER DT . . - ? Cu ta nd. Whoso Streets Were Swept ; by Shot and Shell, Filling Them With Dond and * . ~. .'. Dying .Soldiers. A dispatch from Soledad, Venezue la, says for "hours on Tuesday after noon tho bettie between the revolu tionary forces at Ciudad Bolivar and the Venezuelan government army, commanded by General Gomez, has raged madly. Block after block was disputed, the government troops en tering the eley slowly. All the houses had been barricaded and the revolu tionists had been forced from (lat roofs called Azoboas. When the revolu tionists finally abandoned the houses, after having taken all that could be used for barricades or to otherwise stop the advance of the government troops they were immediately occupied by the government soldiers who bored holes in them sp- as to communicate with the next house. The city apr' pears to have been struck by a cyclone. Afc 7 o'clopk in the evpniug the gov ernment forces, which were advancing from all directions arrived near the center of Ciudad Bolivar. For two hours previously; S ri og bad diminished; bub it was renewed, with more vigor at 110 o'clock ab nighb and illuminated the sky. At 3 o'clock in the inornf ng when bbc Inhabitants of the commercial and - foreign parts of the city near tho Ala meda saw. the.advance of the govern ment troops they all abandoned their homes and sought refuge' in other parts of bhe.elby crossing thc streets amidst a hail of bullets and ; shells, the women carrying their chil dren; the strong helping the weak; many men in trying to protect the women falling, struck by bullets. " In the middle of the streets what with the tiring, the yell of the wound ed and the crying of the women and children, a berri ble scene was witness ed, bad enough to disgust anybody forever-with civil war. The govern ment.troops,, however, acted.with hu manity, especially bhe forces of Gen eral Rivas, who fighting bravely, was the first to order the attacking force be; merciful. Ab 8. o'clock bhe govern ment generals having effected a Juncr bure of bheir forces, norbh and spubh, and having received further supplies and ammunition, decided to push bhe abtack on thqeenter of bhe city., . ..?'. At. lo o'olo?k bhe.goverpmenb. troops titt?)??^pt;?re;^jfcpTe:. north side^of?fch?^ Alameda, >th?-publlo ; park* rdf r^Iua'aa ' "..! Baili var; which hasTje'en'def ended .by double row of barricades. Behind one of these, were found'more than 30 dead soldiers lying on top of each other while wounded men were seen on all sides.' Ab 10 o'clock the government commanders seeing that only the ar tillery could make a breach in the bar ricades of the Alameda ordered bwelve guns bo open Ore on them and afc the same time the Venezuelan fleet? which changed lbs anchorage so as to bring its guns to bear effectively on the city, opened fire. The soldiers on both sides have bad no food for two days, no ambulances are being used and yet the lighting continues. ' The old custom house and waterworks have been baken. The Dalton block, the property of the United Stabes counsel, where all the leading German and French families reside are now being afcbacked. The Jail is the centre of a terrible reslsb ance. All bhe defeated revolublonlsbs have concentrated there. It Is esti mated that more bhan 200 men have been killed in bhab vicinity. The ar billery of bhe revolutionists is fiercely replying to the attack of the fleet. Early in the af bernoon 5,200 govern menb broops stormed and captured bhe "Zamora," called the Sebastapol of Ciudad Bolivar. Nlneby-four dead re bels were found inside, among them being General Azanza, one of the rev olutionary leaders, whose head had been blown off by a shell. The escape., of the revolutionisbs after the capture of the capitol, winch is inevitable, seems impossible. They musb either surrender or die. At 7 o'clock Tues day nighb the custom house was taken after a ten-hours fight. Thc Associ ated Press representative counted sixty killed as a result of this fight. The Dalton Block, wher?>the Ameri can consulate and most of'the foreign business houses are located, was cap tured afc 5 o'clock. The revolutionists are without provisions and water, vtho supply pipe having been cub Monday. Their situation ls considered desperate and hopeless. The shops are being pillaged. A Foolhardy Practioo. For some years there has been a bendency on bhe parb of people giving or participating in public performan ces to run hazardous risks in order bo win bhe applause of bho populace, and bhe risks are many and varied. lb ap pears bhab the specbacle of a man looping bhe loop" on a bicycle is no longer suftlcienbly bhrilling to suit the crowd, and some new sensation involv ing peril human life is demanded. To supply this deficiency a young man hi Indianapolis the other day tried to make the circuit of the loop on a pair of roller skates. In-order to bring his center of gravity close to thc point of contact he had constructed a pair of skates weighing 100 pounds. But oven with this aid tho chances were Infinitely against him, for by placing the greatest weight at bhe base of the tali column presented by his frame he lessened his opportunity forbaloncing. So when he was making a trip he lost his poise when at the highe.it point of the loop and fell to tho ground, his skull being crushed. Ile died shortly afterward. There aro many varieties of this lifo risking performance now on view, all of which should bc pro nounced illegal and prohibited. They add nothing to tho public knowledge, and tho entertainment they afford is nerve racking and productive of an abnormal taste of hortor's,