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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. TRANSPORTS SUNK. About Two Hundred Japanese Soldiers Find a Watery Gravo. WA8 THE ACT LEGITIMATE ? The Czar Said to Bo Indignant at tho I Possible Barbarous Conduot Ills Admiral in Destroy iou tho Warship. A dispatch from St. Petersburg says Kassian torpedo boats behn.ging to the Vladivostok squadron sank a Ja panese military transport, the Kin shiu-Maru, of 4,000 tons, during the night of April 20, with all on board with the exception of 17 ollicers, 20 sbldiers, Oft of the crew and 85 Coolie carriers. The others, who refuted to surrender, were sent to the bottom with the ship. The oflioial report of Rear Admiral Yeszen to the emperor is as follows: "During the night of April 20 two Russian torpedo boats met at sea the Japanese military transport Klnshiu Moru of 1,000 tons, laden witli rice and military stores and about 1,500 tons of coal. The transport was armed with four Ilotcbkiss guns of ?47 millimetres. The Russians cap tured on board 17 ollicers, 20 soldiers, 85 military carriers, or coolies, and 05 of the crew, who surrendered. The remainder of the men, who were to form a landing party and who were left without ollicers obstinately re fused to surrender or go on board a a Russian cruiser, furthermore they ottered armed resistence to thc Rus sians. In the end they were sent to the bottom with the transport." Admiral Yeszen reports that be sides thc sinking of the Japanese steamer Goyo-Maru at Won San fGossan) April 25, thc Rus.ians sank at sea the. same evening thc Japanese stesfrnct" Nakamura-Maru, of 220 tons, whyase crew were saved. '.Khe satisfaction of the people cf St. PeteVrsburg at the exploits of the Vlatyivostok squadron i: temperen "wityl admiration for th< bravery of the/ Japanese soldiers w io were on hpiArd the sunken (r?uspert Kinsliiu \Maru and who preferrec to drown gather than surrender. \ Rear Admiral Yeszen's full report says that 2U0 men went down with tbe ship. The admiralty admits t lat the men acted heroically but holds that Admi ral Yeszen had no other alternative than to sink the traospi ri, since he could not spare a prize crew or hampes his swift squadron witli a Blower steamer. lt is lointed out that the officers un board the Kinshiu Maru appreciated the situation by ac cepting imprisonment lather than : * -t.h.. In tho case of the smaller Japanese transports sunk by the torpedo boats nt Won San, thecrew were sent ashore because there was no accommodations for them on the torpedo boats. The crew of thc Japan sse steamer Nakamura-Maru, as well ; s the Japa nese of thc Kiushiu-Maiu who sur rendered, have been taken to the Rus sian cruisers. Tho admiralty here professes igno rance as to the future plans of Admi ral Yeszen, but it ls believed he is in communication with Vladivostok by wireless telegraphy and it, is not likely ( to be surprised by the Japanese squad / ron sent to prevent his return. AN AWFUL ACJCI1>ENT. A Little Chilli Killed by a Train on tbe Southern. I The Lancaster Ledger says the lit jjtle IS mouths old son of Mr. Lucius ^if?ll, who lives at the Faster place vM^r Riverside, was run over by thc J^-^ound freight on the Southern last SatS.'J^day afternoon and died from its injurle?lan hour or so later. The little r.'ll'i^ slipped from the house and \ . ; Of while his mother had goo - oiit tu ..lend to something about lin- lot. Returning to tl ie house she O?issed tbc child and think ing it mig(it have followed her un noticed thevlol shi made search of the lot for it and had ; -no to the front of the bouse when din spied it several hundred yards av iy about the rail road track. S trd an approach train and ran u gel ber child and had it been possibli foi ocr to have made thc distance a m ute sooner she would have rescued her precious boy. .But before she could reach him the train was upon bira and ins little life was crushed out. As soon as thc engin? er noticed the child on the track he made every ef fort to stop his train ?but being on a downgrade the momentum of the train carried it beyond. The little body was badly mangled, one ann being cut olT, a foot crushed to a p. lp and thc skull fractured. Mr. Hell was in town al the time of the accident, ?iud hastened home on receiving thc distressing neus by phone. Mr. and Mrs. Hell have thc deepest sympathy of every one in the loss ot' their only child tinder such sad and distressing dieu instances. The burial took place Sunday at Salem burying ground. ItiHuiio ?llu > Convicted. At Bluiftoil, I lfd., John W. Terrell, a wealthy niau, who sever il years ago murdered his son in-law, Melvin Wolf, was sentenced to imprisonment. Terrell has become insane since ihr crime. The killing was sensational. Wolf taunted his mother-in-law and Terrell shot him ill the leg. While tho leg, which bari been .shattered by the bullet, was being amputated, Terrell entered the s?rgon's otllco and killed Wolf. Terrell, although In sane, will have to serve in prison, as lhere is nothing in the law as to the disposition of a prisoner who becomes insane aller c. ri viet ion. Judge SlinontoirH Successor. Tito president Wednesday sen! io tin: senate Hie name ol' Judge Jeter C. Pritchard, of the supreme court ol' the district of Columbia, as judge of the fourth circuit, lo lill thc vacancy caused by tho death ol' Judge Charles H. Slmonton. Judge Pritchard was a Itepublican senator from North Caro lina until appointed on thc bench of the district court. KILLING IN SALUDA COUNTY. Fight .Grow Out ot' tho Disputed Ownership o?' u Pistol. A dispatch from Batesburg to Thc State says Lien. Burton, a merchant of Monetta, was shotand Instantly killed Wednesday morning by Morgan Thrail kill, a promineut farmer of tho same section, and Lecky hurton, a brother of tlie dead man, was shot and seri ously wounded by ClarenceThrailkill, a son of tile other. The shooting grew out of a dispute concerning the owuership of a revol ver. Early Wednesday morning the two Thrailkills drove up to thc Hur ton store in a buggy and demanded a pistol that young Burton had in bis possession. Tile latter refused to give it up, saying that it bad been left with liirn by his brother and that be had no right to give it up without his, Lien Burton's, consent. Old man Thrailkill raised a gun to fire but young Burton caught, it be fore be could lire. While this strug gle was going on young Thrailkill, a j boy of ll) years, tired upon Burton witLi a revolver, indicting a serious wound in the grain. The mule that the Thrailkills were driving became frightened and ran away; this, it is conjectured, preventing them from killing Lecky Hurton outright. Soon afterwards hen iiurton came uo and was immediately shot down hy Morgan Thrailkill. Thc only remark that Ben Burton uttered was "What have I done to you?" being made after he was shot. lt is said that the Thrailkills were enraged and for a time after the shoot ing were perfectly wild. Ban Burton married the elder Thrailkill's niece, lie leaves a wife and two children. All the parties are respectable and well to do people. The elder Thrailkill was one of Hie tiniest farmers in this section of the country, ll? is a man ot' about 45 years ol'age, while his son is only ll). Young Burton, toe wounded man, is 24 and the dead mau was about 33. Thc two Thrailkills have gone to Saluda and surrendered. Solicitor Thurmond is on the scene to look af ter the interest of tile State. The county line betwei a Aiken and Saluda counties runs through Munetta, between Hie stores of thc Burton and of Stevens & Cato, where Lecky Burton was aller he was shot, and it is said that Lecky Burton was shot in Saluda county, wL.de Ben was killed in Aiken. CLIM ATE ANFfJlToP^ipORT. Four Pros ts and Iee Twice llctnrdH and Injures Crops ol All Kinds. Following is Section LMreetor Hailer's weekly crop and climate bulletin is sued last week: The week ending R.a. m., April.25, had a mean temperature of 57 de grees, which is nearly t) degrees be low normal, due to extremely low temperatures at Hie beginning of the week with gradually increasing warmth to about normal at, its close. Frost, occurred on the Billi, 21st, 22d and ^:!d. generally light, but heavy to killing in the northern sections, where vegitation was not sulliciently ad vanced to st)lier much injury. The frost of thc 22d was quite general and covered the Stale nearly to the coast. Ice was observed on the l'.)th and 201 h, and on the latter date the ground was fro/.en in York county. This temper ature was unfavorable for germination and growth, but did little damage otherwise. There was very light precipitation in nearly all parts, bul benclicial amounts in only a lew. The precipi tation on the 20th wits in the form of rain, sleet and snow in the western counties. The ground ls very dry, and has insuilicient moisture for the germination of recently planted seeds, and for the growl h of grain crops, and for plowing in many places. Planting operations made rapid pro gress, and arc. nearing e mplciion in t he east ern and centrai portions, bul 1 he pr?par?t ion ol' lands is rendered largely impracticable by the drought, except on light, sandy soils. Some, hoi lom lands are being prepared for corn. The season is about lo days late in the westorn counties. Corn planting is progressing Slowly in Hie west, although uplands are nearly lin ?shed, lu the eastern parts, all but bottom lands have, been plant ed, and considerable replanting bas been done. Stands are from fair to good, but arc being broken by birds : and worms. Tile cool weather ls in imical to Hie growth ol' corn, and bas caused some lo nun yellow. Cultiva tion is active in many places. Cotton planting is nearly ti ills) ted in the eastern parts, and about half fin ished in the western ones. Germina tion is slow and poor, and only a small part of the crop is up to poor stands, Some thal was up was killed by frost, and ls being replanted. Seed for re planting is scarce, lu the western par' ? only a small pori ion is up. Sea island cotton is not doing well, owing to thc prevailing low temperature. Tobacco transplanting is well ad vanced towards completion in Marl boro and Marion counties, lind made good progress in othor sections, with the, plants tine and plentiful. Most of the early rice, crop bas been planted. Much is up to good stands, but the cool weather bas stopped its growth and made it turn yellow. Wheat cont innes to improve slowly, except, in sandy lauds where ii. is not stooling well. The condition of ? als is variable, but they are very promis ing on moist, lauds and generally poor on sandy lands, where rain is needed. Both grains need rain. Melon seeds aro germinating poorly and some are rol ling in Hie ground. Peaches ap pear to be. safe on high grounds; but are badly damaged hy frost, in low places, Otliei fruits are more prom ising. Tie; weat ber was too dry and cool for truck, although shipments continue heavy. Gardens art: gener ally poor; Kpitleinic ol' Meanies. An Ollie i al of the New York heall li department reports an alarming spread of measles, many cases proving fatal being followed by pneumonia. The weekly report shows for Greater New York 1,030 cases of measles with 37 deaths arf. due directly thereto und 135 deaths of pneumonia. A SPICY DEBATE. Dalzell and Cockran Lock in the House of Representatives. THE IRISHMAN TUBNS TABLES. -r Points Out Charges Against Him Woro Confession of Corrupt Methods on tho Part of ' Republicans. The heavyweights had another bout in the house on Tuesday of last week with Messrs. Dalzell and Cockran as combatants. The speeches were a renewal of last Saturday's debate but were more personal in their charac ters. As on Saturday the speakers were greeted with vociferous applause hy their respective colleagues aud the bitterness of party feeling ran high. Mr. Dalzell repeated his charge that Mr. Cockran luid received money for his support of McKinley. Tbe cbarire was indignantly denied by Mr. Cock ran. The. climax came when Mr. Cock ran offered a resolution providing for the appointment of a select committee of live members of the house to in vestigate the charge which had been made against him by Mr. Dalzell. Ile and other Democrats, including Mr. Williams, tim minority leader, de manded immediate consideration, but the speaker declined to pass on a point of order against thc resolution until he had examined precedents. To support his charges Mr. Dalzell said he would mention some facts and circumstances connected with thc his tory of Mr. Cockran. Ile then read from a number of documents to show thal) Mr. (Jockran started as a green hacker, amt In 189G stood with the McKinley side because lie was for sound money. "Kor souiid money in 1896,lie said, amid Republican applause,"trav eling all over the continent; in 11)00 in support of Bryan, gteenbacker snuud money man, tree silver man. He has been a Bryanltc and auti-Bry an-lte. He was for Bryan in 1900. ls he fur Bryan now?" Looking Mr. Cockran In Lhe face. Mr. Dalzell, speaking in derision, said that Mr, Cockrau "has been a Tam many itc and as such has been a mem ber of congress; he has been an anti Tammanyite and as such ceased to be a member of congress. Tue gentle man from New York is a Tammany ito now again and now again he is a member of congress." The Republicans were roused to a ililli pitch of enthusiasm and ap plause when Mr. Dalzell said Boftly: "Would not that make one suspicious that it was more than a matter of conscience with a gentleman haviug such a harlequin career?" HUMORS IK TUB AMS. The Democratic side of the house, he said, bad gotten hysterical when bc would not on Saturday disclose the name of his informant. Ile .hen read ihe New York Journal pub ?shed by Mr. Cockran's colleague, W. 1?. Hearst, in August, I8'.)(i, which theEiatemeht was made that Mr. Cockran was for McKinley "a position wnicli to those who remember his career in congress, dees not seem to involve such a strain on his feelings as might he supposed especially with rumors in the air of $250,000 checks out of Hanna's eduoa tional fund." Mr. Dalzell closed amid wild Re publican applause with a must bitter denunciation of Mr. Cocieran, lie re-: ' ferred to that gentleman's speech be fore the Democractic convention which sent him to congress in which Mr. Cockran said: "We have readied a point where the country is regarded asan interna t..'iial hoodlum." Pacing the Demo cratic side and looking directly- at Mr. Cockran, Mr. Dalzell declared: s "ll here heany hoodlums amongst a us tiley are not the 'product of Amen- i ^ i an institutions or American civiliza- I tion." Ile was interrupted with loud |1 and prolonged Republican applause. Cuni i niling, he said: "They are to be found rather amongst those adventurers who hav ing left their own country for their country's good, find in the lield of American polities prolilic source ofja notoriety and pelf, men who without 1 conscience and wit bout conviction lind .;1 an opport unity now with one party, j now with another lind a market fur 1 tin ir peculiar wares, among which is 1 not. respectability." I-w He took his seat amid another storm !1 of Republican applause. j1 COCKRAN IN RETLY. j Mr. Cockran had sat through the j entire .speech of Mr. Dalzell unmoved L and wailed for him to finish when, ?"j rising from his seat lie was greeted with tumultuous applause hy the l icmocrat s. Mr. Dalzell he declared, had thought it proper to justify i', charge of int,uny against a fellow member by searching the various channels |< "t brough which anonymous c ilumina lion circulates ina political campaign and with hands no cleaner than those willi which it deals, hurls it over a h ?dy of deliberative tuen." Mr. Cocktail denied the charge that he had received $ 15,000 from the Bal- j mer and Buckner campaign commit tee. He also denied in the most posi tive manner that he had ever received i money for supporting President Mc Kinley's election in 1800. He denied; Hie charge that he ever was a green- i hacker. If Mr. Dalzell believed the charges ?ie had brought against him, Mr. i fi ck ran said, it showed bim (Mr. Dal-1 Zlll) in a pitiable state. Ile was in nefainy an i did not know it. Ile had confessed to his own party's corrup tion. Ile. hail proved, if he had proved ?anything, that the presidential elec tion had been purchased, lt bad been ! charged that sixteen million dollars had been spent, hy the Republican campaign committee in that cam paign. Mr. Cockran said lie iiad never believed these charges himself. As to defending himself, he said: "1 can always protect myself from the gentleman from Pennsylvania t y choosing my own side of tile street. "Before I sit down, 1 shall ask this house Lo agree with me on this, that if what the gentleman ha? said ls true, I am unworthy of its member ship; if what bc said be false, be is un worthy of membership." Mr. Cockran was Interrupted with loud cheers from his Democratic col leagues. Ho continued: "This will take a wider range than our personal virtues. I shall ask for a committee to investigate this charge, and shall ask for power to send for persons and papers.'* TUE ItEPUUMCANS SCORED. Mr. Cockran then reari his resolution reciting that Dalzell bad charged that Cockran had been paid ninney to a po litical party for support o. a candidate for the presidency; that if the charge was true it established such conduct as should unlit any man for member ship in the house aud providing for a committee of live members appointed by the speaker with power to compel attendance of witnesses for the in vestigation of such charge." Loud Democratic applause followed Mr. Cockran's reading ol the resolution. He then resumed and said that when that resolution was adopted in all Its terms something more importaut tbau his conductor the action of the mem ber from Pennsylvania would be made clear. "We will see," he said, "just how the election in 18UU was conducted, and wc will see whether in fact the presidency was bought or purchased, ar whether it was won in honorable political conllict or whether it repre sented as the gentleman from Penn sylvania would have us believe, tho skill in corruption which was pos sessed by tile managers of the He publican organization." If it be true, ?ie said, "that that campaign result id in sucli use of money as had been iescrihed, there was but one possible >af''ty for tue republic." The gentleman from Pennsylvania, Vir. Cockran said had asked him whom t was we would choose fi-r our stan lard bearer. 1 said there was a man ?ut in Missouri whom we might ciioose o nominate as our standard bearer, lecause the main issue, of this cam laign will not be "how we are to col ect revenue," hut he said amid Wild )emocratic cheers, "how we are to teep the thieves from stealing its pro eeds." Mr. Cockran deuied having referred a the United States as "an in ter na loo al hoodlum." Thc Democrats went wild as Mr. ,'ockran sat down aud tho speaker our.d dillieulty in resorting order. Mr. Cockran then asked immediate ction on ids resolution as a mutter of irivilcge, as did also Mr. Williams, tut Mr. Grosvenor objected, the peaker refused to rule on the point if order and Hie house adjourned until ?leven o'clock tomorrow. SAYS THE EARTH IS FLAT In?' orre.t-H Itcward to Anyone Who Can Provo lt. It is asserted that on the Niagara leuinsuliii-, tho fruit bolt- a! ...T.. if which tiiis city is the centre, Jive I tut of six persons believe that tho arth we live on is Hat and not globu ar, says the. St. Catherine (Ont. ) Dis ?atch. The chief exponent of this beery is John S. McClelland, city lerk of St. Cat herines, formerly edi or of a daily newspaper here. Mr. McClelland is well educated and las made an extensive study of as ronomy. After much investigation ie concluded that the earth is flat, nd rests on water instead of air; that he sun is no bigger than it. looks to he naked eye, and is only a few housand miles obovo the earth. The earth, Mr. McClelland thinks, s stationary, while the sun travels lack and fort h above it. The sun's utensil y is not sufficient to light the rhole earth at once, and thus when I is at one end of the world the other nd is in darkin: s anil night is ac ounted for. Mr. McClelland points to the fact hat/ the sun and moon are both seen bining at the same time, as unassail ble evidence that the earth is not mil-like shape. He scouts the gravi-; afion theory. There is no such1 bing as gravitation, he contends, nd he further asserts that the heory is merely an iuveiifion of as ronomers to bolster up t he supersti tion, ?us he calls it, that the earth isa rlobe. How could there be sutllcient gravitation or attraction, he asks cornfully, io hold on all the water her?; is in the world with it, revolving it. the rate they say it does? As for the moon, Mr. McClelland is iontident that ii is no more than ooo niles away. The theory that the .tars are as big as the earth is pro louiiced altogether ridiculous. The noon's light he points out, is of a thosphoric character, not at all like mat of t lie sun. The Hat earth theory has gained i'.rength about here in view of the act I hat recently Mr. McClelland is ated a challenge to members of the! Hoya I Astronomical Society, living hi rorontoand Hamilton, to meet him tn t he public platform and publicly ??seuss with him the question wheth! ir the earth is rund or Hat. and not me of the asl ronomer.4 has seen lit tc respond. Then Mr. Mcclelland post sd an ol?er. and it stands today, ti jay $100 for a single ,proof that th .-art li is round liku a h ill. Tried to Po I HO 9 Many. A mere accident; \Wj dnesday aver1 !il lin; poisoning off,00 students ( Lho military school Vat Sol?a. Tl; ?00k and one ofilcerof the inst itu! io, m entering the. kitchen on theschol, .aught a young st udent of the Soa mi versify in the act of putt inga j package of cyanide of potassium Ito tile food hi ing prepared. Thc Si lent was arrested, and later su icier! in his cell, lt has been learned tat Hie student was a member of an anarchist society, w hich had appi'U - iiil him to use ' lis means of ifuig away with all Hie students int lie military school..-: Blanglltr >l>y thc Trolley. Forty deaf , a month fron the operation of s^Vcct railway lim and of railroads err iring a city is aeavy toll upon huma?! life. Virtual 000 persons a ye ? lind des ttl umr thc wheels in Ol figo. Such an ggre Kiito killed in-*( day would stale the world, even v 'c the other. \\ days to be lmmuntq^ This sacrilicef life, year in and yiJ.rout should boppall Ing. but it (.Jes on seeinlnglas one af the Inevlta 'lc consequeuceof lifei In a great ci tv \ ? A SAD CASE. Twp White Women Shoplifters Ceu ! vi ted in an Atlanta Court. MAKE A PATHETIC APPEAL. Air?. Ella Hivers and Mrs. Edith IIIKRH Aro tho Nanice of tho \ Two Unfortunates, Who Hail from Charleston. ft'he Atlanta Journal says Mrs. Edith Riggs and Mrs. Ella Rivers, o? Charleston, S. C., recently arrested for .shoplifting, after having robbed many department stores in Atlanta, under Uve indictments charging larceny from the house, were convict ed i in the Fulton criminal superior court "Wednesday morning. Judge L. S. ttoan imposed a tine of 3500, cash on each of the women, in lieu of the payment of which they will serve a sentence twelve montbs on tire couuty public-works. The $500 aggregates a lincof $100 in each of the cases against the women, their counsel having agreed to abide by thc rinding and sentence in one case. The charges against the women were felonies, but on the recomendation ofxthe Jury in thc one case all were treated as mis.lc mcauors by Judge Roan, whose heart svas touched by thc pathetic scene which was enacted in the court roora. The tines have not been paid, but lt is understood that a movement is >n foot in Atlanta among certain mafltablc people to raise the Si,ooo by public subscription, several good ladijs having interested themselves in Llic case. Attorneys Harvey Hill and Van Asttir Batchelor, representing L!w; woiieu, elected to have the prisoners brie;) together. To save time they gptiited into an agreement with the .ullJitor that the result in one case ihodld hold good ip the five. Aller the jury had been drawn and thejovidence for the state introduced. Lhehttorneys representing the women, Lo the surprise of the court, the solici tor laud everyone else in tho room, ; ta Lld they bad a couple of witnesses lo introduce, lt had been thought that no testimony for the defense woula be offered, the counsel depend ing mtirely upon the statements of Lbeirjclients. UNFORTUNATE CU I LD H EN. TM nineteen-year-old daughter of Mr& [Riggs, who arrived, with lier broiler, from Charleston Tuesday ?ighl, was called. The girl Is an idiot ind } paralytic. She was assited to the Uand, but her feeble mind was v.nable of grasping. The sight was e. most pitiable ever seen tn it. ii room. 1 ne giri paid'fio' lttc'utlon whatever to the queries of he attorneys, she'disregarded the re nafkes of the judge and made no sign it recognizing lier mother, wdio sat peiping. Slie could gi vt no informa ,ioi or testimony regarding her naher. 'Jhe I rother was next called, ile S dxte :n years of age, and, like bis iisi-r, is also au idiot. But the boy solid talk. Occasionally a ray of ntilligeuce would break the mono on) of his gasping. When Harvey [HI asked the lad why he had came , ? Ltlanta, the boy mumbled feebly, 't-.see mama." Not once, however iictbe witness display any sign of re : ijjiizlng his mother, who was still veiplng. Irs. Riggs was placed on the 'and ,o Dake lier statement. She said: A .MO l ll IC lt S Al'l't?AL. 'Gentlemen of thc jury: 1 am ieb to auwer the charge of a dis ?rceful act. 1 fee! mortally ashamed. I hpc to be able under this terrible irdal to give you a true ?ketch of my larjllfc. 1 want to appeal to your ;erler hearts for whatever considera do; you think I deservo. When 10 | v /ers of age, I married the fainer of ibi two unfortunate children you lae seen. He drank very hard, neg e<cd his home and family. After i Jw years he was taken LO the insane islum. 1 was penniless and almost rindless. 'lo tell all of my sutler- '-" DH would take all day. The sad|a iii.it you have seen best tells the itYy. Whatever mistakes l have mile in the past was done for the sal k'.iion of my poor, crippled children. Fr ll) long years I have struggled fi> them. There is no booie in South L'rolina for unfortunates so atllicted. L fmt thora north, but they were re tied because I had no funds with ?yjh which to keep t hem. They can ' lither walk nor talk. No one can iderstand their wants but me. Dey need my care. 1 have never icu away from them before. In con a?ration of these helpless children ijd what my freedom is worth to "em, I humbly beg for mere v. 1 am cir only support and nothing but b i overpowering desire to relieve their i v ants would have persuaded mc to do 1 ?at 1 have done. i read of the (ckage with which I did my work in New York paper, lt was my lirst ?tempt, lt will be my last. Remcm ?r that mercy is all 1 ask. My life us been a living deatn. Brave men five fallen. I am only a weak ami /orburdened woman, if you feel tat 1 deserve no pity, then, for gaven's sake, look at the helpless lildren. They cannot, speak, but leir humble presence isa crying plea ir their mother's freedom." The jury was out only a few min ies before returning a verdict,.lind-1Z ig thc women guilty and recoin-L ending them to the mercy of fie .urt. .lodge Roan tined them $100 in each ise. rn.! Oulla Way. In Cuba, two hours before a paper distr.buted, a copy must be sent, | ' ith the editor's name, to thc govern entand one to the censor. When the iper is returned with thc censor's en irsemeut the paper may go t.i the lblic. Pitty Burned. The cave-in of a coal mine at Toe a, Seville, Thursday burled many iners. Fifty bodies have been ro gered. The of the miners were res ired, but all of them arc badly in red. FUTURE FOR 8WEET POTATO. Department of AKficulturc Making Experiments in Georgia. The Washington correspondent of The State says the day will, I be lieve, come when the sweet potato will lurnish the starch of the world The possibilities of tho potato are far beyond anything at present realized. This is the opinion of Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, chief of tho bureau of chemistry of the agricultural depart ment, whose attention has recently been directed toward the development of the possibilities he ludientes, and and who is preparing the way for interesting experiments in that di rection. The opinion I have quoted was given in the course of a conversation with Representative Brantly of Geor gia, who had called to h's attention the advisability of the department o-.' agriculture following up its experi ments upon the sugar cane of Georgia and South Carolina, Floiida and Ala bama, with a somewhat similar study ot the sweet potato. lt was largely through the intluence of Representative Brantley that the experiments now beiug conducted to develop th. cane syrup industry of those sou "jem States were begun. The successful results obtained at the government's experiment station near Waycross suggested the possibilities In a somewhat similar direction of the study by the government's exports of the sweet potato, and he has had sev eral conferences with Dr. Wiley on bile subject. The experiment station at Waycross is perhaps the most com plete of its kind in the world, and could be utilized for such investiga tion as tiie experts may be able to conduct. Mr. Brantley has made something nf a study of thc uses to which the ordinary potato which grows so abun lantly and so generally throughout thc Southern States could be put, and is convinced that there are great pos sibilities in tlie manufacture of glucose, itarcb and alcohol from it. In bis in vestigation, the facilities i f the Way cross syrup station naturally suggest ed themselves, and when he broached .he subject to Dr. Wiley be promptly , igreed that the intluence of the de partment of agriculture should be ex ited toward securing thc necessary ? ippropriations for the utilization of , ihat plant in the expert s ,udy of po tato possibilities. In another year the department ex- ; jects to complete its work with the ? ingar cane, or at least carry it to i practical completion. Dr. Wiley has igreed to recommend that in the next ( sericultural appropriation bill there ] re added tu the sum appropriated to i ,he department for experiment pur poses such amount as may be regard- ] ?d necessary to take up the potato ex- i >ci iinents aud carry chem on as th.-.se , ipen sugar cane have been conducted, , md he considers the Waycross plant ibo ideal place for such experiments, le is himself quite enthusiastic over | ?hi; possibilities of making the potato , :n j another great money-crop for j pb?; Southern States, and will do .vi 'ything in his power to make it ? hat. : A MASKED HIGHWAYMAN. \ ?roves to nc a Well-Known Young Society Mun. 1 i At San i ose, Col., on Wednesday I vheu the mask was tom from the < ace of a during thcif who hud been ? ?hot death in a wild dight, to escape i lis pu rsm rs were surprised to lind ? hey had killed their friend, Bert i Plmrndyki, one of the most proini- 1 lent young men ot that city. ; While ;i hali dozen of the wealthy aembers of thc Del mon te Social Club ; vere loungiug lu thc parlor of the i luhbouse they were startled by the ! ppearanc of a tall man wearing a . lack mask and carrying a large re- i olver in e ich hand. i "1 want your money and jewels, i aid the "'hold up" artist quietly, t 'and you will lind the easiest is tbe . cst way." i Following the direction of the mask- . d man. the trembling guests unload- I d their money and jewelry on a table, j [ nd the thief leisurely examined i ratones and rings before putting them u ito his pocket, ile lined the guests lt gainst the wall, told them he would t iii them if they stirred, backed out t 1 Hie room and disappeared. j. A posse ut armed men was speedily 1 rganized, and after following the i rial of the thief for an hour he was j iscovcred and driven to a corner. I Vhilo he stood at bay thirty shots .ere exelringed and the thief dropped ead, with a bullet in his heart. "Ifs Bert Thorndyke; poor Bert," aid tlie men whu had sent him to his catii. Thorudyke, withins wife and young aughter. lived with Mrs. (?. M. truce, his mother-in-law, a wealthy j ddow, and the exposurer was a fern ie blow td his family. An lOnglno U.vploi ed. Wednesday morning engine No. 20of tho Baltimore and Oblo, casi iou nd, while passing Tenth street In j Iraddock, l'a., exploded, fatally in uring three men and seriously injur ?g three others. Five buildings were .recked and partially demolished, and wo of them were set on tire, rcqulr- j ig the attention of the tire depart ment. The train was proceeding at a lir speed when the explosion occur ed. This was followed by a cloud Of team, cinders and ?lames which COD. inned to be propelled Into the air un il the engine reached Eleventh street ?block away from tho explosion. 1?re it left the tracks, striking the Ide of the Polish Lutheran church, ,Ide. the cylinder head blow in the pposit.e direction, striking the wall f an icc house, breaking it down, 'he debris was widely spread, but aost of the damage was done to roper ty in the block which the cu llie traversed. What Strikes Cost. In the last twenty years, according o tho tlgures of the labor bureau at Vashington, there have been more han 22.U00 strikes, Involving a loss to mployeesand employers of over $100, 00,000. The loss to the workmen hemselves has been more than twice hat of their employers. ACCUMULATION OF WEALTH. It Can Only Bo Dono Honestly by Giv lng Value Received. One of the cardinal traits of ? gen* uine moral character ls honesty. It is a bond of social and commercial confidence. It is the basis of real prosperity. /We feel like nob only en dorsing the sentiment that an "hon est man ls the noblest work of God," hut also adding that an honest man ls the bedrock and bulwark of society and tbeBtate. A dishonest man ls a carbuncle up on the neck, a felon upon the Unger of the social bod j;. Ile causes a sight of irritation; trouble and inconveni ence pbe works couiusi^n and loss; and not infrequently communicates poison to thc entire social system. There is much complaint of a lack of strict honesty In the land today, and there arc many evidences te sus tain the complaint. We can scarcely pick up a paper without reading or thefts and defalcations, and the ope rations of fraudule.it and swindling scliemes, and the extortions of cor porate greed. (Jolncldent with the carnival of dis honesty ls the prevalence of the gam bling mania, and may it not be that these two things are somewhat related as effect and cause? The speculative spirit ls wide spread. It permeates and infests all classes of society from the lowest to the highest. In the lowest lt finds expression in crap Shooting and in the devices of gambling dens. A little higher up, as men grade society, it linds expression in laying a wager on thc bali gam?, and the cock tiglit and the hor.se race. Among the respecta ble lt linds expression around the card table of fashionable parlors and draw ing rooms, and reaches the climax of expression in what is commonly known as "dealing In futures." Timm, are many men who would not bet on a horse race or stake money on aganic of cards, but they will put up money as margins on cu-.ton con tracts and grain futures. Doubtless there is a lawful dealing in futures. As things are, lt is possi ble that in no other way cculd large dealers in thes9 products protect themselves against serious losses in certain cases in the course of bona tide transactions. Hut for the mass of men who en gage in this kind of dealing, it is nothing but gambling. They are protecting no legitimate interests, they are simply and solely indulging the gambllug spliit. Their dealings imouut to nothing-but a wager laid upon the future price of a product. Lt means that one man's gabi 's an other man's loss, and it leads to risks tha'j are not legitimate and Jafe. ' i But* Without'arguing the question, let us consider the result. Tue safest rule hy which to judge of tiie moral 3haracif:r of j.ny thing ?j tLe~ old jnc given by the Master Teacher, "By their fruits ye shall know them." What are the fruits of dealing upon Lhe exchange? lt saps the essentials A sterling manhood, honor, patient industry and economy. If 1 can make $f>0() by venturing. 3IOU upon margins, why hesitate to risk on the venture the 8100 in my bands as a trust. 1 can soon pay it back, and have a nice surplus for my self. If I can make *.">0() on the exchange in a day or a week, or even In a month, why need I be plodding along for $30 or $50 a month? And why worry myself with stinting and econ imizing at every turn and living plainly and frugally? And thus the tsscntials of noble, vigorous manhood collapse under the touch of the ma ign? transactions with their golden intici pattons. These dealings have unfitted many i man for any employment requiring concentrated and persistent toll; they lave 'made thieves of young men in .tores and banks; they have made de aulters and embezzlers of t'iose who lave bad t rust funds in their keep ug: they have brought man) a family o poverty, and many a good name to ?hame and disgrace, and many a life .vitil bright prospects to a suicide's "'rave and to a dark eternity. These transactions kindle a desire X) get rich in baste, and he who nakes haste to be rich will rarely, if ?ver, be honest, lt will ever be true ? ^ bat '"They that will Lc rich fall into j .cmptation and a snare and Into many . f( oolisb and hurtful lusts." The ;ambling spirit so prevalent today in nw and high circles, in the den and n the pit, is a giant foe to honesty, it is subversive of that aivient com oand sp ?keri fruin beaven, "Thou .bait not steal." Lf you would be an honest man, teep out of the Niagara rapids of ?peculation. There are deadly falls | inst ahead. You may never get rich, mt there ls something better than riches. This is not a popular doc trine at this hour, but that it is be cause the popular vision is disordered md distorted. But believe me, there is something more valuable than money and that is unsullied man hood. 1 do not condemn money getting, j 0 Du the contrary, I praise lt. Make j a ill the money you can and save all [.be money you can, so you use it for iud anil humanity. There is no vir ile in poverty. On the other hind ibere IS a fearful sacrifice of power md usefulness. PuL yourself down to lt; m.ike noney, but, see to it that you need a lean conscience r.<rl olean bands. Two Pi rc mon Killed, At New York two fireman were (Hied arid,'one mortally wounded by -he collapse of a wall at a lire in .lohn ? a Stanley's soap factory on West I w thirtieth street Wednesday morning. The men in the ruins are John Crean p ind Tims. Madigan. Two companies j if firemen on the adjoining roof had a fi larrow escape from death from an- j a ither falling wall. Men by working Inally got to the buried men. The oss is Slim,OOO._ Took 1'oiHon. George Lee Warren and frank ?Varren were sentenced at Yorkville in Tuesday to ton and live years re ?pectlyely for shooting Into a train ast January and wounding Conductor Ross. George died tho first night ho vas on the chalngang and Frank same neary dying, lt ls suspected .hey took poison. EXCITING, RUNAWAY Of a Pullman Coach Over Two Mil? Into Gar of Whiskey. WOEK'OF AN UNKNOWN NEGRO. Alon, Women, Boys and Girls, WMt? and Black, Scramble to Catch tho Spilling Corn Whiskey. The Columbia State says the peopl? of the mill dlstirctof that city wit nessed au exciting runaway "Wednes day afternoon. A Pullman coach, whose brakes had been released by ah unknown negro oh mischief bent, as the car stood on an incline at tho Seaboard's Gervias street yard, dash ed at a high rate of speed over the long trestle south of the city. In the coach at the time were a Penn sylvannia railroad porter, D. 0. Mur ray, who says he lives in Jersey City, and his helper, Joe Rubersten, a small negro boy who says he lives with his mother, Frances Robertson, at 913 Pendleton street. Both were asleep at tho time the coach started out, but were aroused before the coach reached the Seaboard's, malu line trestle, which starts at the south ern end of the yards and extends through the mill district to the rear oi thc Olympia and Granby mills, si [listance of nearly two miles. Over this elevated track the coach med at a rate of about 40 miles an hour. Murray tugged at tho brakes, mb without apparent result, his . lailure being due, he thinks, to his ' ixcitement and fear. At the end of ' .he trestle behind the mills stood a Seaboard box car loaded with 30 bar els of Wateree corn whiskey consign id to Commissinnnr T.atnm which had leen temporarily switched on to the nain line by a train busy in the mill liding. Murry and the boy retreated .o the end of the co ich furthest from ihe approaching danger. The box ?ar was telescoped and reduced to ?plinters by the heavy Pullman, vhieh was hurt but little. Neither K'cupantof the coach was injured. Ike Dreher, a yard brakeman, who was on Aie top of the box car as he saw the runaway coach rounding the curve ;oward him, did not hesitate long to yonder. He had just made his way lown the embankment when tho :ollision occurred. Thirty-six barrels of whiskey rolled lown the embankment unbroken. Tour were smashed and the contents treamed out of the werck and collect ed in the shape of a little lake, ?uickly a collection about 50 men, romen and boys, white and colored, rere on the scene with bottle, pans, lasses and buckets scrambling for ositions under the various little:^ Hearns of vlraUr-y pouring forth rom the wrecked boxcar. When tho fbite boys and girls began to dip.uo he whiskey in their caps and what essels they were able to muster into Brvice on short mtice, a white man ritti a deep-seated look of disgust on is face found a shovel and began browing dirt into the lake. The hildren who were running off to rink tho whiskey as rapidly as'they ;ooped it up raised a protest and line men who were also dipping into ne mine made remarks about the ian with the shovel being smart and [Vicious, but he heeded not and did ot stop until he had obliterated the ike. A wrecking train working from the ridge end and a freight engine from lie other cleared the track in less lian an hour, and no trains were elayed. The Pullman coach, which as dur- to go north with the Sea oard's 0.30 train, was hauled back to lie yards for repairs, lt was slightly philtered and broken in at tho col siou eui, but it is remarkable how tile it. was damaged in view of the omplete way in which the box car ad been wrecked. THE WEATHER FOR MAY. V hat the Conditions Muy Boas In dicated by 1'iu.t Itccords. The following data, covering a erlod of thirty-three years, have een compiled from the weather bu uau ?ecords at Charleston. They are isued lo snow the conditions that ave prevailed during May for the hove period of years, but must not e construed as a forecast of the 'eather conditions for the coming ion th: Mean or normal temperature, 73 cgrees: the warmest mouth was that t 1800, with an average of 77 de lves; Hie coldest month was that of SST, with an average of oo degrees, .'he highest temperature was 98 de rees, on May 30, 189S; the lowest emperature was 45 degrees, on May 0, ibul. The earliest date on which Irst "killing" frost occurred in au umn, November 0, 18S0; average ate on which first "killing" frost ccurred in autumn, November 30; verage date on which last "killing" mst occurred in spiing March 1; the nest date on which last "killing" rost occurred in spring, April 2, 881. Average precipitation for thc ion tb, 3.58 inches. Average mim er of days with .01 of an Inch or lore, nine; the greatest monthly recipitation was 8.ti2 Inches in 1883; lie least monthly precipitation was .4:s inch in 1681. The greatest mount of precipitation recorded In, ny twenty-four consecutive hours as <;.:?S inches, on May 1 and 2, 1083. Average number of clear days, 12; artly cloudy days, l l; cloudy days, 5. The prevailing winds have been .om the southwest, 20 per cent. Thc verage velocity of the wind is 11.2. 'he highest velocity of the wind was ; miles, from the northeast, on May , 1903. Iii? l'oiutocfl. Five hundred Greeley potatoes, hielt will weigh ono ton, will boone ' the ColouuSoe.xliibilsattho World's air. Another tine collection of tub rs, four tit which, placed lengthwise, ncr a space tho length of a yard dek will be sent from the Centen ial State to St. Louis. t