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IR JEFF DAVIS.
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sational Declarations,
Passionate oratory marked the
proceedings of , the Senate Wednes
day. Senator Davis, of Arkansas,
Who when elected declared that he
.would attack thc trusts immediately
[after taking his seat, fulfilled his
?promise although he was a few days
iate in doing so. The speech was
filled with sensational declarations
and was given with that vigor for
which the Arkansas Senator is fam
ed injiis own State.
Quaint phrasing pointed denuncia
tiori^and evidences of intense emotion
jharaVtferized his remarks. He was
given direful hearing by the Sena
tors.^ird the~ga'.leries was well filled
jjtYmfiighout the time he held the
floor. Beginning shortly before 1
o'clock he spoke for a little more than
an hour.
Senator 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
up 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 I
would killed the trusts Senator Da-1
vi3, with dramatic effect, challenged
any Senator to step forward and con
tost tho issue with him.
Speaking of the annual appropria
tion?? for the expenses of the Govern
ment, amounting to $900.000,000, he
turned to Senator Beveridge an add
ed: "Pile up that amount of money
on this door 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 children
-at home."
The inadvertence of speech brought
laughter from all parts of the cham
ber.
"Everything," declared Senator
Davis, "is in a trust except acorns
and persimons.
"Holy writ admonished us to go
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.
^^-PtSeSTdcnt;""h?--Baid, "has
taken off the dollar the words 'In
God We Trust.' lt'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 gamblers
in order that they might take from
j the cotton producers half of their
' property," he added.
"1 am for the under dog, Senator
McLaurin," he said addressing the
Senator from Mississippi, who sat
before him,
"Whenever you hear of a dog fight
just say, 'JelF Davis is for thc under
dog.'
He read some statistics on the
Standard Oil Company, and stopping
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. 1 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 1). Rockefeller's trti3t
the great Standard Oil Trust.
"I undertake to say," he continu
ed, "that if this bill is enacted into
a law and faithfully and honestly exe
cuted, trusts will he wiped from the
face of the earth and no longer will
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 would 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 io the surgeon's
knife. Cut it out hy the root, destroy
the virus before the whole hotly 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 effectual?" he asked. "Has
it destroyed a single trust? Under
its operation have they not grown
Strong, defiant anti arrogant? Almost
for seventeen years the Sherman an
ti-t rust law has been up m our stat
ute books, more than tour times as
long ns it took the North to wear out.
the South upi n the bloody field of
battle. Nearly seven years of Mr.
Roosevelt's strenuous term has pa.s
ed with a'l the machinery of the G >v
eaoment at his back with the great
power of the chief executive m his
han .-, yet i ask will some Republi
can Si n "or upon the iloor tell me one
trust th t h has even tamed, much
less destivyt d.
"Ah, Mr. President, it was stated
by the metropolitan press before 1
entered this august body, flippantly,
too, that before 1 had been in the
State six months the trust magnates
would have me feeding out of their
hands. 1 may share crumbs with a
Lazarus, hut I swear to you today,
by every God in the calendar, that I
& shall never eat from the hands of
J 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 getting its rights. You need
;iot lose any sleep about uti just dis
riminations again d, them. They will
tko care of themselves. But rather
.mid our solicitude bc for thc man
"Wi i H ii [linn i i in n linn Mimi imm
who bears the burdens of tho Gov
eminent."
"This ls an age when mon have
gone mad in their frenzied efforts
for the dollar. This is an age when
?ioii?y is placed above man; when
gold is placed above man; when gold
is placed before God; when we would J
se!! our seule, 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 not 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 aro compell
ed to go no further than Republican
authority itself, and take the Bworn
testimony cf 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's state
ment before the industrial commis
sion, that "the tariff is the mother
of trusts."
"Under the operation of tho sys
tem of government," he said, "fifty
one men in the United States, multi
millionaires, if you please, have
imassed a total fortune of $3.295,
000,000. Of thia fifty-one John D.
Rockefeller, 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 doors
of society are shut. Yea, even in |
some instances the doors of the
church do not welcome so enthusias
tically the man in rags and tatters
as the man with millions. Now shall
this condition continue? How shall
this Government be saved? One way
and one way only, that is to kill, de
stroy the sources of all this evil- the
trusts."
He exolained that his bill would
not permit corporations to sell their
products in one part of the country
at a" less price than they sell such
products in another part.
"What is needed to day by the
trust magnates or this Union in or
der to make them respect the law
and obey its solemn mandates," he
said, ''is that they be treated like or
dinary felons; is that the strong arm
of the law be laid against them just
as it would be against a horse thief
or any one else charged with crime.
Land them in the penitentiary, place
felon stripes, 'the doxology of a mis
spent life,' upon them and you will
see the trusts are busted and the peo
ple will get relief. Ah, sir, one
trust magnate in the penitentiary of
the United States, one trust mag
nate with felon stripes, one trust
magnate as a living example and ob
ject lesson that the law is greater
than any man, that the law is above
and beyond us all, that the law pro
tects the weak and punishes the
strong alike, would be the most
wholesome example that could be
set in this Republic to-day."
lie declared that while he is an
alarmist he is not an Anarchist or a
Socialist.
'There is too much gold," he de
clared, "there is too much glitter;
there is gloss; there is too much of
tinsel, and I say, sir, that unless
times and conditions change it will
not be long before the American
statesmen will be wearing knee
breeches with brass buckles and
powdered wigs and bowing down to
semi-royalty."
ile spoke of the great expenses of
the Government.
"Our President," he said, "and I
speak of him in the most respectful
terms, besides his salary of $50,000 a
years, and I say that is not exces
sive, is paid by this Congress $25,000
a year for travelling expenses, and
approximately $113.000 annually for
living expenses. Ah, Mr. President,
this is enough. This is unreasonable
The President of the United States
has live children, I believe, lt is true
that he should live in accordance
with the dignity of the position 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
eiidit children, and I don't lake $113,
OUO for my living expenses. No, sir,
the greatest President that over liv
ed upon this earth, that was ever in
augurated in this Capitol, in my
judgment, was 'Old Hine Jeans, old
Hickory Jackson,' who rode his horse
to the White House dressed in a suit
of blue joans."
Ile denounced slock gambling and
haid he would do away with gam
bling in cotton, grain and the nec
essities of life.
A Good liing (lone.
Good King Oscar, of Swo len, is
dead. He was seventy-nine years
old, and was a line old gentleman.
lie was the grandson of that Mar
shall Bernadette, who followed the
fortunes of Napoleon and, though a
peasant by birth, rose to be the king
of Norway and Sweden. The late
ruler never attempted to conceal the
obscurity o? his ancestry, and over
the door of the hoUse in which P.er
nadotte was born rests a tablet which
records that there "the peasant,
Bcrnadotte," was born. King Oscar
wm not only one of the wisest hut
on^.of I he m ist democratic of rulers.
He mingled freely wi'h his people
and know their w m's and wishes well.
Tho separatio x of No; vay and Swe
den came as a cloud upon hH declin
ing years, but it v/ds one of the in
evitable stops in the development of
the two countries. The interests of
Norw iv ur- a m i.?imo nation were
not identical with those of Sweden,
and when thc roque si for a separate
consular system was preferred, it
was refused by Sweden. Two years
ago Norway seceded from the union
and chose a king of her own. The
?rief for the dead sovereign in Eu
rolie will be deep and sincere, for,
indeed, as the Atlanta Journal says,
ie was a model of that justice and
mercy which "doth become tho
throned monarch better than his
?rown."
BV?n when a girl doesn't want a
/oung man to kiss her ll makes hor
nod If bo doesn't want lo.
II.wo ,toi( o) Kppu oim inmi a jo )uo
IJOOUOO OIU SOipi) UUUlOAt ll U0tlA\
MARCH OF NEMESES.
Tua righi: Na* Bs&t Lenjg, ths
Battle Been Bloody,
-:-r
Now tho Trend is Toward Ku
forced Abstinence and tho Whis
key Demon Must GO.
In 1811, nearly ono hundred years
ago, there waa at the present site of
Brookville, Indiana, a curious com
bination in the way,of aman, 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 Framdin county, near the
Ohio border, was laid out in 1807,
?ust 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 iip the liquor" to tho "sin-sick
souls. Everybody drank in those
days, what they called "drams," the
white and water olear product of
the old-fashioned copper, still. In
fact, the first industry in every pio
neer community was a distillery, be
ing regarded as equally important
with the mill that ground the grain.
The preachers were all tipplers and
many of tlu?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 want
our readers, especially the farming
class, to take note of the contrast
presented between 1807 and 1907 and
the eventful century intervening,
i Take note of Parson Manwaring,
mixing his sermons and whiskey in
the same log cabin, where entertain
ment was furnished "for man and
beast," then look around in the ru
ral community where you live and
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 is
as extinct as the dodo. No liquor if
served on the sideboards as it was in
1807 in every home. Drinking has be
come unpopular and unfashionable.
No fanner thinks of serving w iskey
in the harvest field, as was universal
"a hundred and even fifty year** 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 Endeavorers
and other Christian associations arc
all working heroically against thc
universal curse. The advance hafi
been great and no class has benefitt
ed more from the reform than thc
tillers of the soil. There is not fl
strictly farming community in thc
United States where the saloon hat
a particle of show in a standup vote,
The farmer has become sober. ' He
finds better use for his corn than tc
run it through a still; better use foi
Iiis fruit than to convert it into thc
brain-maddening "apple-jack."
Nemesis is marching on! Thu
goddess, sacred in the old Greek cal
enear to revenge, it? coming' into hoi
own. The fight has been long, th(
battles have been bloodv, the cen
turies are strewn with millions ol
men dead from drink, with counties:
homes wrecked and ruined, witt
blasted reputations, with scared cor
sciences, with that hope de fer rec
which maketh the heart sick. Johr
Barley carn, generalissimo of thc
hosts of evil, the beasts of prey, thc
legions of devils, the fiends incarnate
is being driven to thc wall. The seor
pion is being surrounded with fire
The bounds of .the hunted tiger grow
less and less. The hosts of hunter.'
pressen, remorselessly, mercilessly,
armed with argument, business rea
sons, moral suasion, decency, self
preservation, the hopes of civiliza
tion. At this beginning of the eighth
year of the twentieth century, wc
are able to report progress. The tem
perance movement is sweeping thc
country in an irresistible wave and
soon, it is asserted, no whiskey will
be sold in the United States except
in the larger cities, into which the
criminal elements of the country frill
Hock. The trend is toward enforced
abstinence and the makers of liquor
are plainiy alarmed. Nearly 40,000,
000 people, about half the popula
tion of the country, now live in tem
perance territory. All the eleven
Southern States have, not as many
saloons as the one city of New York.
Georgia ha*? full prohibition; Ala
bama, majority of the counties al
ready dry; Arkansas, two-thirds of
the counties dry; Florida, thirty-sev
en out of forty-liv counties dry;
Kentucky, ninety-one out of 119
counties dry; Louisiana, seven-eigh
thsof 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
the great red dragon is on the run
everywhere. Whoever you are.
whether you call yourself Reason,
.Justice, Morrality, Sanity, Patriot
ism, Decency, Civilization, hasten to
enroll yourself in the great army of
freedom so as to be in at the death
of the Bl?stant Beast.
ROOSEVELT will go down in history
as the freak president of the United
States. His latest order that army
officers ride thirty miles a day for
three consecutive days has created
consternat ion among them. The order
does not include the coast artillery
officers, and some newspaper sug
gests that t hey he required to stand
on their heads in the rain for so
many consecutive minutes in order
to prove that they are qualified for
t he service.
COLUMPIA 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 institution, and
it should be located there. Columbia
is one of the coming big cities of the
country, and it would he well for the
government to recognize that fact in
the distribution of its sub-treasuries
and other public utilities.- -Orungo
burg Times and Democrat.
So far this season nieven persons
have been killed in the' foot ball
games and ninety-eight have been
injured, and yet this brutal, deadly
sport goes on. A game with so much
brutality in it has a tendency to
brutalize instead of elevating those
vho engage in it.
hw warns i hmm Against Going
to His Home.
j
le Win. Delayed Until Daylight <md
When l?e Reached, Hohne Find?
Death 'Ciao. }
When a Society for Psychical Ko
search holds ito next meeting it
might call before it. Charles Henry
Durand, a farmer living al>out three
miles from Caldwell, N. J.^ and hear
his story of how his life was saved
by a strange apparition he ?net in the
roadway on Monday nightj
Since tho death of his wife Durand
has lived r.lone in tho farmhouse. He
was on his way homo from / Peterson
after dark Monday night, 'when his
horse stopped still in the Voad and
refused to move. The hoijse 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 rift bluish
light, which.moved toward him until
it was beside his wagon, and then
%took on a misty shape. litt says he 1
recognized the form and the voice of
the apparition. It repeated to him
three times the warning, "Do not go
home for several hours." }
With the cold chills rurtning up
and down his spine and tho gooseflesh
standing out over the body like a[
man with a chill he tried tojdrive on
after the apparition was gor?n. The
horse refused to budge. Tr0animal
had broken out in a cold s\jvent.
Durand says be unhitched the horse
and blanketed him. It wjas then
about ll o'clock. For two hours he
worked with the horse, which seem-1
ed afflicted with the ague) After
hitching up again, he drove) slowly
to his home. j
lt 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 windowlon the
ground floor that had been [ppened
in his absence, showing how!(he in
truder had entered. The farmer
looked into closets and outipf-the
way places and then decided; to go
upstairs. vVhen he started up'-he saw
at once that some one ha* been
there. There were footpriutfvton the
stairs and in the hall leadinwto his
sleeping room. I
Lighting his way before Xv | and
stepping cautiously, feeling \ that
some danger was lurking all? ?ul of
him. but determined to face u ht all
hazzards and have the drea?jthat
possessed over him, Duran*.] ap
proached the door of his room: lit was
open, as he had left it.
When about to enter, Durandjstop
ped and looked closely. Across the
door at a height half way to I mee,
so that his foot or shin mut trike
it, was a string, instincti the
farmer says, he felt that bing
threatened his life.
To the man of the woods, 1 to
the snaring of birds and anim?? , the.
string across the door sugget ^d a
spring or a trap. Durand went'i Wn
stairs and returned with an nil Vel
la. He stood against the wal* ;he
hall and with >;he umbreil?-v idle
gave the string a pull. Ina fitly
there was a report and a bulb. <jni
beded itself in the end of the wall.
i i Investigation later showed it w^s at
11 about the height of a man's chest.
Durand then entered the re*, i and
found a revolver fastened to a dress
er. The string led from the trigger
to the door, lt was ingeniously ar
ranged to shoot the person who en
tered the room.
Durand believes that the person, or
persons, who visited 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
bors say whatever feud there is must
have existed before Durand moved
into the neighborhood where he now
lives.
He believes the apparition in the
road saved his life. He says he rec
ognized the ligure and the vece, and
it was of a nel son 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 Huyors.
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 come early will get
the selection from the full Stock i nd
will thus have the advantage of later
comers.
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
eos save the purchaser the trouble of
deciding on an inappropriate gift. It
is less than two weeks now until
Christmas and to wait until the
last few days will be a mistake which
will be recognized too late.
In selecting presents the tendency
is to have articles which will be of
some real use to the recipient. This
is a most sensible tendency. One
thing to be deplored about the habit
of Christmas giving, is the balancing
off of gifts in thc matter of val
ues, and the seeming obligation rest
ing on each one to give gift for gift.
Put gifts with the taint of the com
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 buy early and thus
approach the glad season in a tran
quil state of mind.
Playert With D.Vnaiu?le.
?Near llrkitol, Tenir.,' four persons
wore killed and cremated Thursday
on the farm of John Duff, whose son,
William, was playing with a stick of
dynamite. Tho dynamite exploded
killing tho boy and Mvh. Nathaniel
Hams and .Mrs. KHJah Moody nod
her child. Tho house caught bro
and cremated Hie bodies}
FULLY ARGUED.
Some Legal Points Submitted to
the Supreme Court
For It? Decision lu .Ko-f even co to tho
Formation of Now Counties lu
Tills Htnto,
The case of A. D. Parler, et al.,
Petitionen}, vs. W. Brooke Fogle, et
al comnilsslonot'B of election for Or
nngoburg County, respondents, WOB
argued hefore the Stato Supreme
Court at Columbia on Thursday on a
petition for an injunction restraining
the commissioners from holding ou
election os the formation of Cal
houn County, as ordered by the Gov
ernor.
Messrs. W. C. Wolfe, D. O. Her
bort and B. II. Moss, of the Orange
burg Bar, appeared for the potttios
ers, and the board of election com
missioners More represented by the
Attorney General, who. had designa
ted Messrs Bellinger .& Weloh to re
present him in the case, as Messrs.
Bellinger and WelBh have been tho
legal advisers for th? new county
advocates.
In ht? argument for the injunc
tion, Mr. W. C. Wolfe took the posi
tion that tho form, practice and pro
coduro in this case follows the case
of Segars against Perrott, which
form, practice and procedure re
ceived the implied sanction of thc
Court by a grant of the relief desir
ed In that caso. A demurrer was In
terposed in that case, questioning
tho jurisdiction of tho Court in every
particular in which Jurisdiction
might mo assailed in this case, but
tho demurrer was overruled.
In Lamar against Croft another
now county case, where the same
question of jurisdiction arose, tho
Supreme Court beld that the com
plaint did not state facts warranting
equitable rolief and that an action
might bo maintained In oqulty to on
joln tho commissioners. Mr. Wolfe
cited also tho case of Croxton vs.
Truesdell, in which the Supreme
Court enjoined un election to de
termine the location* and establish
ment of a county dispensary. Mr.
Wolfe nsked the Court to Inspect
the reports of tho surveyors and de
termine whether the surveys were
sufficiently definite; also to consider
whether the Governor had the right
to permit the petitioners to amend
their petition.
Then tho third cause of action in
substance stated as follows:
"The plaintiffs and others residing
within the proposed new county ari
registered in their township, but al
voting pinces without tho territory
of the proposed county; but undei
an Act of tho Legislature the do
fondants have only arranged to opec
voting plne.es within the territory
which deprives petitioners of thc
right to exercise their franchise ir
tho proposed election, though thc
plaintiffs are qualiled, registered
electors. Tho Constitution provides
that all persons thus qualified have
tho right to voto, and Article 7 ox
pressly declares that if they reside
\vith,fn the area .of tho new count)
thoy'will havo tho-right to vote, ye.?
or no, upon their proposition. Tc
deprive thom of this right would bc
to abridge and deprive them of right:
without due process *>f law und li
violation of both tho State and Ked
ernl Constitutions, where, as In th ll
case, a polling precinct (township)
is cut by the proposed boundary linc
of tho new county and the vottnf
place ctit without, and the electoi
cut within the area of th^ propos?e
county, there is an Irreconcilable con
lliet between tho Constitution nm
the Act of the General Assembly. Ir
such cases tho Act of the Legisla
turo must necessarily fall, and all ol
the Acts of tho defendants thereun
dor uro necessarily void. If thc
Court does not enjoin tho defendant!
the plaintiffs will be deprived fron
voting and will have no other remed>
or right of appeal, but would thm
sustain irremediable damage and in
jury."
The fourth cause of notion, said
Mr. Wolfe, challenges the legalit}
of the entire registration system, but
ho dwelt on only one point. Thc
Constitution lays upon the Legisla
ture tho regulation of tho right ol
registration, and the Legislature in
1 007 passed an Act. requiring super
visors of registration to open their
books in each town or Industrial
community containing 3 00 or moro
inhabitants nt least 30 days before
any general or special election. This
Act has been compiled with.
Itt conclusion, Mr. Wolfe said:
"The plaintiffs do not ask that tin?
election upon tho formai ion of this
now county bo delayed for all limo,
but simply that it be stayed until
?ill tho constitutional requirements
in such cases bo complied with.*'
In his argument Mr. Moss devot
ed himself to tho conulo.t between
Section 573 of the Code and Sectio?
1 of Article 7 of the Constitution,
and quoted numerous decisions to
show that tho statute In such case ir
void and the election should bo re
strained. Col. Herbert also made n
general argument on this Hue.
In their return to the rule to show
cause, tho defendants, through their
attorneys, made a number of points,
some of which aro as follows:
That the Governor is the solo
judge of the matters coining bofo.e
him In now county petitions, and
that ho has pnssed on these malters
Thnt the Governoi ?norely allowed
tho amendment of tho petition for
?ho purpose of making the boun
daries moro definite. They deny
that the Constitution says all quali
fied electors In tho proposed new
county shall volo, but ll says the
question shall he submitted to tho
qualified electors, and that a lwo
lli i rds vote of those voting is neces
sary to form tho new county. That
the defendants have merely followed
tho order of tho Governor and the
laws of the State, and they have not
told tho managers of election, win
are qualified electors and who arr
not, but have mei ely given the man
agers I heir views in accordance with
tho opinion of the Attorney General.
Thai while lt ls alleged, a numhet
[>f electors In the proposed comly
will bo deprived of voting, lt J? hot
[ifl?get! that If permitted to vote they
will cast their ballots against thc
formation of tho now county, or thai
their lining unable to voto will af
Feet tho result.
By a way of defence lt ls alleged In
the rot urn that tho plaintiffs have
failed to show any oquPy that ont I
?le.s I hem lo relief; that thc action.
AS IT SHOULD BE.
Statue of Gen. R. E. Lee at Na
tloriHi Ciipi?ui.
It WUl Be Placed Ju Statuary Hall
. At an Early Dato by the* State of
Virginia.
A Washington dispatch to tho
Atlanta Journal eaya tho statue of
Gen. Robert B. Lee, which Virginia
ie to send to Statuary Hall, with that
of Qeorge WoHhlngton to represent
her in tho gallery of tho immortals,
will soon be In position. Tho sculp
tor, Edwarl V. Valentino, of Rich
mond, who enjoyed tho personal
friendship of Qenorul Leo, has about
completed his work ond. the bronzo
will soon be caBt by tho Gorhnms,
of Hartford, Conn. Mr. Valentine
made several casts of Gen. Leo's
features just a year of two boforo his
death, and thoso who have been per
mitted to seo the sculptor's latest
work say he has succeeded in repro
ducing a remarkable llkoness of the
groat soldier. It ia said to equal his
masterpiece, tho recumbent figuro of
General Leo, at Washington and Lee
University, over the crypt in which
rest tho ashes of the Confederate
chioftain.
When the Virginia legislature
passed tho bills some years age
making appropri?t iona for the stat
ues of Washington and Leo, there
was considerable opposition mani
fested by ono or two sonators at hav
ing General Lee represented in
bronzo in tho national Valnnlla. AB
a reply to tho Virginia proposition.
Representativo Weeks, of Kansas, in
troduced a bill, providing for the
oroetion of ft statue of John Drown
on tho government reservation al
Richmond. Ho ls said also in
tending offoring a bill for the erec
tion of a statue of Drown In Statuary
Hall. Some ono suggested that lt
would be appropriate for Virginia
to retaliate by placing tho statue of
General Leo, tho man who caught
Drown at Harper's Ferry, on the one
side, und that of Governor Henry A
Wiso, of Virginia, who hanged him.
on tho other. Mr. Weeks thereupon
withdrew his hill for Brown's statue
In Statuary hall, but Insisted on ids
measure to place it at Richmond.
The measure has not since been
' heard of, and Weeks was not return
ed to Congress by his Kansas con
1 stituonts.
; Since the Weeks incident there
has been littlo discussion of placing
Leo's stature in the national capitol,
and it is not believed that there will
he any opposition to the statue hav
1 lng a placo in Statuary hall. Presl
' dent Roosevelt's admiration of Gen.
; Lee as a soldier and a man, and his
1 frank eprosslon of his opinion has
' had a great deal to do with tho pass
ing of tho sentiment against the
' statuo of the Confederate leader hav
ing a placo In tho capital.
Tho statue represents Gen. Lee
standing, his hat and gloves in one
[ hand, with both hands resting light
' ly on the hilt "evania "sword: Tin
' sword is a copy of the one worn by
' Mio genoral, now in thc posession ot
his son, Capt. Robert E. Lee, Jr. The
1 figure is clothed In the uniform of a
" reneral officer Of the Confederate
army.
'. While no date has been fixed, it is
I now proposed that tho presentnlion
' of the statue bo made by Senator
j Jown W. Daniel, of Virginia, who
was Gen. "Jubal" Early's adjutant
" general, and that the speech of ac
ceptance bo delivered by Gen. War
1 ron Keifer, of Ohio, a veteran of the
I Union army.
Charles Francis Adams predicted a
few years URO that tho timo would
; ".onie when a statue of Gen. Lt-*1
would he unveiled in the capitol of
? the United States. It ls not unllke
[ ly that the prophesy of Mr. Adams
sufiKostod the introduction of the hill
In the Virginia Legislature.
Virginia will soon send to 'ho cap
itol ft reproduction of the celebrated
Houdon statue of Washington, which.
MOW stands In the state capitol at
Richmond. There is now in Statu
ary Hall a cheap plaster cast of this
statue, placed there hy the fedora)
government, lt has recently boen
shoved to the wall, and the statue
of Frances E. Willard, the founder
if the Christian Temperance Union,
placed in front of it. Tho way in
which the Father of His Country now
loops out from behind the petticoats
has caused much comment.
ACCORDING to Walsh's directory
of Columbia, which has just been is
sued, that city now has a population
jf 44,151 being an increase in the
l?.it seven years of 16.G51. 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 governmcntshould study the
Columbia figures.-Orangeburg
Times and Democrat.
TDK United States Supreme Court
has decided that the railroad com
missioners of South Carolina must
not stop the through trains of the
Atlantic Coast Lino at Latta, S. C.,
or the accomodation of local pas
sengers. It ht ld that an rn-der of the
commission to this elfect interfered
with interstate commerce.
if brought at all, should be main
tained In the name of the Stale;
that the Court ls without jurisdiction
to enjoin an election ordered hy the
tower and authority; that tho plain*
Iff s have an appeal lo the
State board of canvassers if the
election when hold Is not held In
accordance with law.
In his argument, Mr. Welch, for
tho Attornoy General, cited decisions
to sustain the points made in ibo re
turn, and made n careful argument
on this ?ino.
TUNOS AND ORGANS
FOR THE NEXT FEW WEEKS.
WE ARE FACTORY AGENTS and
roprcsont only tho host Pianos and
Organs, that will last a life time
Wrlto nt once for our liberal ternn
and Special prices.
MAI.ONF'M \frsro HOUSE.
Columbia, S. tl.
WI Mi m SHOT,
Fo* Aiding in t? Kevolt Against
BrOxllUatt State.
Ilspntoh from New York soys.
lt han boon de?lultoly learned that lu
addition to George Vice, of'Now Jer
soy, Sam uol Parker, twenty-two
year? old, of Now York, ia among
tho filibusters recently arrested and
sentenced to bo shot at Minas Gereas,
Brazil.
Whon young Parker loft Now York
ho told his mother that he was go?
lng to Brazil with a mining party
and had obtained a good position.
Tiie State Department has been
appealed to and it is said the de
partment has promised to do all In
Its power to save tho lives of the
young Americans who were fool-]
hardy onough to attempt to capture j
a Brazilian State with a force of
only a few hundred men under the
leadership of a man who is said to
be a famous Mexican revolutionist.
A Broad Hint From .Japan.
Not only did the Japaneae ?ambas
sador at Washington, Viscount Aoki,
oot extend to Admiral Evans an in
vitation to take his battleship fleet
to Japan for a visit of ceremonious
friendship, but ho conveyed an un
mistakeable intimation to the Amer
ican naval commander, at the dinntr
he gave in Admiral Evans' honor, of
the Japanese wish that the licet
should not linger on the Pacific coast.
To a representative of The New York
Herald, Ambassador Aoki denied em
ohatically that he had extended an
invitation to Admiral Evans to visit
Japan with his fleet, and he gave the
exact text of his toast to the admir
al, writing it out for the reporter in
>rder that there might be no error
in quoting it, His words were: "I
propose to drink a toast to the health
of Admiral Evans and in particular
I wish you a pleasant journey and ?
speedy return."
The Charleston Post says "it ii
rather remarkable that the signifi
canee of this utterance has passet
without comment. It is as plain ai
inything can bc that the Japanese
ambassador intended to convey th<
lint that it would be more agreeabh
to his country to see the battleshi]
fleet on the Atlantic than on the Pa
cific coast of the United States. Dip
?omatic utterances are always made
with a purpose, and it is unmistak
able that the Japanese ambassadoi
intended to make known his govern
mont's objection to the transfer o]
thc tleet to Pacific waters, indect
it is clear now that hisentertainmen
of Admiral Evans was made to giv<
opportunity for such a hint in as del
?cate a manner as it could be given
The intimation was beautifully anti
gracefully made, but its force is none
thc less for that.
"The popular and tlyi official minc
is so engrossed with the financial dis
turbance that the utterance of thc
Japanese ambassador has not made
the impression it would have made
three months ago, but the signifi
canee has hardly been lost on thc
keen observers of the diplomatic
world, and it has doubtless been ful
ly considered at the State Depart
mont. The ostentatious expression
of a wish for Admiral Evans
"speedy" return from his naval ex
cursion is the direct expression ol
Japan's protest against the move
ment. The propriety of such an ex
pression might well be questioned
but it will doubtless be allowed tc
pass without official notice by thc
Washington government."
There is something wrong with thc
bride who desn't select a homllei
girl (lian herself for her bridesmaid.
\
TI1E ON
In Columbia, South Carolina, ma
thing In the Machinery Supply
J Write us for prices bofore pl
{ COLUMBIA SUPPLY
On corner opposite Seaboard ?
LOOK FOR TH
I? means that we are nuinufnctui'
and sales agents for complete I
Plauts, in steam or gnsoliue, S
my und Portable Boilers, S?1
Pktgers Planers, Shingle, La
and Cori? Mills und tiny tin
chinery. Our stock is
prices are right and oui
ar.teed. . Write for
GIBBINS .MACHIMOBY COMPANY
.Succtasie.il.
I have, Iud acvoral y<
ntl other kinds of vegeta
plants, Collard plant?, am'
I now have ready for
follow*! Early Jerssy W
and Henderson Successlo
eties to all experienced i
the open air near salt w
Prices: $1.00 Cor 60* pli
sand, 5,000 to 9,400 at $1
thousand. We have spec
this point. All orders wi
money with orders. I w
will save the chargea for rc
Other plants wilt bs \
I prompt and personal atten
. trial ord?r? i gu?rante?
D. ?J. DONALDSON,
BE
PLANTS FOI
Wakefield and Succession
luce, end largo type Cauli'.ov
bat grower! in thc world. W<
slot k for iO years, und il 's s.rfc to i
tuiuuhlt-. They have success'-ill y ste;
drouth and arc relied on hy thc most pr*
South. Wc gu?rante* full count ?nd site
PRICES) Carthage and lettuce f. o. h. Yoi
per thousand! 5 to 9,00ft at lt.?5 per thous
Cauliflower, $3.00 per thousand, quantities ii
Write your name and express
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References: Enterprise Bank, Chariest
?Hil i Iii i.mm?immMmmimmmm?ammxwwm
TO TEACH LOVE
IN TO
Tourac, ju High Behool.
Parents of tho high a?hOO] at
dents at Greenfield, III., an- t(xro
enlng to force tho resignation of-Prof
H. 0. Hussell, superintendent of tho
school, because he has introduced u
course In "love-making." Prof. Rus
sell and his wife, who ls Iiis RBg!siaat
say they will stick to their colors
?and soo tho experiment through at
?any cost.
A mixed organization of 23 pu
pils, IO of whom nie ?.;irls, consti
tute tho first class to re?oive formal
Instruction In the new branch. Prof.
Russell has given them three lec
tures and they have written ono sot
Of eesays on themes allied to the
study of tho literature of lovo.
'The Courtship of Miles Standish,'
is to bo taken up with a special view
to the losson to be loamed from
John Alden's exporlonco. A John
Alden Club has beon formed in this
class. "Romeo and Juliet" and stan
dard works of Action will bo Include
3d In tho course.
The pupils will be expected to
draw from their reading specific In
struction on the following Interest
ing polntB.
How to toko a heart by storm ol
by seige.
How to dotect the advent of the
grand passion.
How to behave If parental objec* .
tion ls manifested.
How to pay a complimont.
How to encourage a bashful sui
tor or corner an elusivo girl.
How to allay unfounded Jealousy.
How to propose murriage.
How to ask father.
The ettlquotto of the engagement
ring.
Deportment during engagement,
A girl is expected to learn how
to promise to "bo a sister" to him.
The boys will pick up incjidontal
points on how to eludo persistent
yoting women with mistaken ideas
about affinities.
I
.DIVORCE BREAKFAST"
Is the Latest Thing in tho Real of
Society.
Tho "wedding breakfast" is com
mon onough. but a "divorce break
fast" is the newest thing in these
days of novelty. Recently at. St.
Louis Mr. Teny Ryon obtained from
Judge Moyers, in the City Court, a
divorce from her husband, Marion
Ryan, und at the same time hor sis
ter, Mrs. Mitaanda Hatfield, got a
divorce from her hueband, Charles
Hatfield. As soon ns the two decrees
had been granted tho happy divorces
took their mother, who had been
their principal witness, and celebrat
ed with a divorce breakfast at a
fashionable restaurant.
If a woman hasn't anything else
to do with her husband's money sha
buys h lot of useless things because
they aro cheap.
Uow to Cure Hheuuu
The cause of Rheumatism and kin
dred diseases is un excess of uric
acid in tho blood. To cure this terri
ble disease the acid must bo oxpellod
and the System so regulated that no
roi . Kt ". . Ill bi
sive quantities. Rheumatism1 is an
luternal dlseaso and requires au in
tern*! remedy. Rubbing with oils and
liniments will not euro, affords only
temporary relief at best( causes you
to delay the proper treatment, and al
lows the malady to get a firmer hold
on you. Liniments may ease the pain,
but they will no more euro Rheuma
tism than paint will chaugo tho flbro
of rotten wood.
Science has at last discovered .a
perfect and complete cure, which ia
called Rheumaclde. Tested in hun
dreds of cases, it has effected the
most marvelous cures; we hellovo lt
will euro you. Rheumacido "gets at
I the Joints from the Inside," sweeps
the poisonB ont of tho systom, tones
up the stomach, regulates the liver
and I'.idneys and makes yeti well all
'over. Fihenmaeide "strikes the root, of
the disease and removes Its causo/'
This splendid remedy is sold hy drug
gists and dealers generally at G Oe.
and $1 o bottle. In tablet form at
25c. and li Oe. a package. Get a hottle
today; delny? are generous. adv
LY HOI HM
king a tpeclalty of hnudliug
Line.
lacing order elsewhere.
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PLAITS FOR M tl
'ors experience in growing Cnbbage plants ?nd
ble plants (or tbo trade, vit: Sect planta, Onion
I Tomato plants.
shipment Beet poufs ?nd Cabbage plants as
akeflelds, Charlton l.nrgo Type Wakefields,
rt?. These being lite best known reliable vari?
mick farmers. These plants are grown out In
?ter ind will stand severe cold without injury,
mts. In lot? of I,?8? to 5.4C0 at M M) per thou*
;.J5 ?Kr thousand, 10.M0 and over at H.CO per
ial tow Expr?ss Mt*? on ?.egetablo plants from
II he ahipped C. .O. D. unless you prefer sending
ould advise ?ending money with Orders. You
fuming the C. O. D's.
ready la February. Your orders will have n?v
Son. When In seed of Vegetable planta give me
?satisf?celos). Address all orders to
.MKCGETT. S. C
( lilli,., Iii'.r rioston l-et
/ct. Crown Iront seka's of the
r have worked diligently fyi miff
say that to-day (hey are ?lii .. o'
iod th.' tiiost soverc tests of coij .uni
?minni' growers of every Section of tho
arriva! of ?ll goods shipped by express,
mg*, nisnd, SOO for $1.00; I to 5.00ftst tl.Sft
and; 10,000 ?nd over at $1.00 per thousand,
ti proportion.
Office plainly ?nd mail orders to
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on, S. C.; r*o*tfS*iiW, Enterprise, ?, C.
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