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TILLMAN AND M’LAIIRIN OUT Both of South Carolina’s Senators Send In Their Resignation. I PUB fill IS 1 Outcome of Joint Debate at Gaffney Was an Unexpected Denou ment and Tremendous Sensation. During the joint debate between Senators McLaurin and Tillman, at Gaffney, S. C., Saturday, the latter replying to a remark of McLaurin, stated that he was willing to resign his seat in the United States senate/ if McLaurin would and, with him, go before the people as candidates for re-i election, the one against .me other. The challenge was quickly accepted, and after the meeting was over both men wrote and mailed their resigna tions to Governor McSweeney, thus leaving the Palmetto state without a representative in the upper branch of the national congress, a situation which has not obtained since the days of reconstruction. Among those who realize the import of the resignations it created a sensa tion. It was the most startling and dramatic incident in South Carolina’s startling politics for very many years, and the very novelty of the situation leaves considerable doubt as to the procedure. The joint debate was ihe most inter esting political event in South Caro lina since the famous Tillman cam paigns of 1890 and 1892. Senators Till man and McLaurin occupy antagonis tic attitudes on questions of national politics, and as a result their personal relations have become greatly strain- j ed. This was made manifest in the course of their debate, and some of the passages between them were in tensely exciting. Tillman is the su- : perior of McLaurin as a campaign j speaker, but the latter is full of oar- \ neatness and spirit, and holds up his j end of the argument with vigor. He j had many supporters in the crowd and his strong points were warmly cheer- | ed. The majority of those present ap- i peared to be with Tillman, however, | and this gave him the advantage. Tillman's Version. “McLaurin made a bluff at me,” said Tillman after the discussion was over, “and didn't think I'd call him. I felt that after I had made an assault in his honesty and integrity of purpose, he tried to parry that by taunting me with the assertion that I wouldn’t leave my six years’ bomb-proof. I saw the opportunity to make a £en strike for democracy, and I was ready to take it, regardless of the personal sacrifice. I want South Carolina to say whether she wants two democrats or two republicans in the senate. If the people don’t want to re-elect me, I don’t care to serve them. I shall announce my candidacy to succeed my self, and will tf.ke such other steps as I find desirable. 1 regard it for tunate that this is au off year, so that we can discuss these national issues without any trading and combinations, the voters can live upon these issues wthout outside influence. If I relieve the state of eighteen months of Me- Laurin, I think I am entitled to some credit and thanks. If a commercial democrat isn’t a republican, I don’t know what he is. If McLaurin is a democrat, lam not. I want the people to decide between us." McLaurin’s Comment. Senator McLaurin, when asked about the resignation, said: * “Tillman made a bluff today and I called him. 1 put him in a position where he either had to resign and go into a sensational race with me, or confess he was bluffing and was afraid to risk his political scalp, though will ing to knife me in a campaign in which he was not a candidate and had nothing at stake. All I desire is a free, fair and open fight witn Tillman on the issue upon which we differ. I earnestly hope mat all others will keep out of our race and run for the other senatorship, so that Tillman and 1 may meet as man to man and fight it out. He said he was unwilling to bulldoze me into a joint debate with him. if I was afraid to meet him, and I hope he will not show himself afraid to meet me in the senatorial race. I hope he will not get any of his strikers into the race to dodge be hind, but will meet me in it alone.” Governor Ha 6 Resignations. Governor MeSweeney at Columbia. Sunday morning, received, on the train while preparing to go to Chicka mauga. the official resignations of Sen ators Tillman and McLaurin, dated at Gaffney, May 25th, to take effect Sep tember 15th next. When asked what he had to say about the matter, Gover nor MeSweeney said: “The resignations of Senators Till- Aggy May Visit Us. A special from Washington says: Aguinaldo is likely to come to the United States next fall and spend the winter in Washington. This informa tion reached the war department in the mail from Manila. Birmingham f-iumbers Out. k m AU the plunibers of Birmingham, 1 Ala., are out on a strike. The strike W ,s due to the refusal of the employers grant a seven-hour day on Saturday. man and McLaurin as United States senators was received by me in the mail this morning as I was leaving for Chickamauga, the resignations to take effect September 15th. I will not take up the consideration of these re signations till I return to my office. At the present I have nothing to say and no comment to make upon the action of these gentlemen.” The meeting has created great in terest all over the state on account of its being the first between the two senators since their difference became emphasized, and there was a large at tendance from other counties. Interest at National Capital. A Washington special says: Sena tor Tillman has resigned his seat in the senate for the purpose of forcing Senator McLaurin to meet him on the stump. That is the view which South carolinans in Washington take of the announcement that both senators have resigned. They are at a loss to un derstand, however, what object Sena tor McLaurin could have had in re signing, for they believe he can have no hope of re-election. Whatever may be the explanation o. the course of the junior senator, it is not doubted that these resignations are the pre lude of the most sensational political fight that has occurred in the Palmet to state in recent years—a fight in which personalities will be indulged in with the utmost freedom. Ever since Senator McLaurin broke over the party lines in the senate and refused to follow the democratic party in opposing the peace treaty, the Han na ship subsidy bill, the army bill and other measures, Senator Tillman has been axious to break a lance with his independent young colleague. Senator McLaurin. in his recent speeches in North and South Carolina, has resent ed the attempt of Senator Tillman and other leading decorats of the state to criticise his independent attitude, and has indulged in certain reflections upon Senator Tillman and others who differ with him, which incensed Sena tor Tillman so much that he issued a lormal challenge to Senator McLaurin to go upon tne stump and jointly de bate the questions at issue before the voters of the state. Senator McLaurin declined to accept Senator Tillman’s challenge on the ground that the lat ter was not a candidate for re-election to the state senate. McLaurin inti mated that he would cheerfully debate the issues of the campaign with any of the avowed candidates for the posi tion he now holds. Senator Tillman had just been re-elected for a second term in the senate, his election being practically unanimous. His resigna tion is doubtless for the purpose of placing him on an equal footing with the other rivalß of Senator McLaurin and thus forcing the latter to meet him upon the hustings. STREET CARS IN AWFUL CRASH Five People Instantly Killed and Many Hurt In Trolley Accident at Albany, N. Y. A special from Albany, N. Y., says: Electric cars racing for a switch, while running in opposite directions at the rate or forty miles an hour, cost five lives Sunday afternoon by a terrific collision in which over forty promi nent people were injured, some fatal ly and others seriously. The lobby of the local post office filled with dead and wounded, hyster ical women and children looking for relatives and friends, surgeons admin istering temporary relief and ambu lances raeng through the city taking the wounded to hospitals, were the early intimations of the accident. The scene of the accident was a point about two miles out of Green bush. on the line of the Albany and Hudson railway. The point where the cars met on the single track was at a sharp cure, and so fast were both run ning and so sudden the collision, that the motormen never had time to put on the brakes before the southbound car had gone almost clean through the other car and hung on the edge of a high bluff. One motorman was pin ioned up against the smashed front of the southbound car with both legs sev ered and instantly killed while the other one lived but a few minutes. Fully 120 men. women and children formed a struggling, shrieking pyra mid, mixed w T ith blood, detached por tions of human bodies and the wreck age of the cars. Some of the more slightly injured of the men extricated themselves and began to pull people out at tfte rear ends of the two cars, and almost every one was taken out in this way, and nearly all were badly injured. SAVAGE ACTS OF FILIPINOS. Perpetrators of Horrible Crimes Keep Military Courts Hard at Work. Officials papers received at the war department from the Philippines give the details of many horrible crimes committed in the islands, for which the perpetrators were tried before mil itary commissions convened from time to time. Many of them, for savage cruelty and pure wantonness, are unsurpassed. THE WEEKLY NEWS, CARTERSVILLE, GA. THE HUMORS OF TRAVEL. “Did Clara bring home an interest ing lot of photographs of her foreign tour?” “Yes —dreadfully funny; she didn't write names on them and can’t tell what more than half of them are.” Printing Without Ink. A company hag been formed to control the process of printing without ink, and in a • hort time it is expected that old methods will be revolutionized. There is one thing, how ever, that has resisted all innovations ; that is, Hostetter’s Stomach Bitt -rs. It is a wonder ful medicine for dyspepsia, indigestion, bili ousness, insomnia, constipation and nervous ness. It algo prevents malaria, fever and ague. Try it, and you will not be disappointed. A camel can carry on a day’s journey a burden of 400 pounds, which is double that of the ability of an ox. WHY MRS. PINKHAM Is Able to Help Sick ’Women When Doctors Fail. How gladly would men fly to wo man’s aid did they but understand a woman’s feelings, trials, sensibilities, and peculiar organic disturbances. Those things are known only to women, and the aid a man would give is not at his command. To treat a case properly it is neces sary to know all about it, and full information, many times, cannot be given by a woman to her family phy- Mrs. G. H. Chappell. sician. She cannot bring herself to tell everything, and the physician is at a constant disadvantage. This is why, for the past twenty-five years, thousands of women have been con fiding their troubles to Mrs. Pinkham, and whose advice has brought happi ness and health to countless women in the United States. 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The disbelievers who have smiled at Die notion of a live toad being found in a lump of coal will be shocked by an event which has just happened at Rug by., The oft-derided toad has appeared from the midst of the ruins of the oft discredited lump of coal. The exhumed hermit is, moreover, now alive, and is destined to be handed down to posterity in a hermetically ?**d glass jar. This historic toad was introduced to modern society througn the instrumen tality of a small poker, wielded in a utilitarian spirit by Mr. Clarke of Heu reux Villa, Bath street, Rugby. The happy event occurred, not in Heureux Villa, as might be imagined, but in Mr. Clarke's office, in North street, Rugby, where, one morning, three large lumps of Baddesley coal had been placed in the grate to encourage a disspirited fire. Mr. Clarke took up the small poker. He smote one of those lumps of War wickshire coal. It fell in pieces. Among them sat a good-sized toad of inky blackness. So Mr. Clarke informed a representative of the Daily Mail. If he had added that the toad winked, never so slightly, the scientific critic might have concluded that that toad was a joker. The toad did not wink, for the very good reason that it apparently had no eyes. It has since developed them. Stranger still, it has no mouth. Mr. Clarke fortunately rescued the toad from its peril and dropped it into a pail of water, where it revived. It is now able to crawl. Before it is con signed to its new tomb it is hoped that it will hop. As to its genuineness, there can be no shadow of doubt, but unfortunately the cavity in the coal could not be pre served, as the lump, which bad been smoldering on the fire for a considerable time, fell to pieces when struck with the poker. That the toad is not the ordinary com mon or garden animal is patent to the most casual observer. A Daily Mail correspondent had an opportunity of examining it at Mr. Clarke’s office yes terday. Much of its sooty appearance disappeared in the water, and it is now a dull brown. It has been sealed up in a glass, and is to be submitted to the examination of experts. As stated, it has no mouth, but small nostrils can be seen. There is a con stant motion in the throat, and also oc casional motions of the sides, as the lungs contract and expand. Although its eyes are exceedingly bright, it does not see. this having been proved by plac ing a lighted match close to the toad’s eyes without causing it to recoil. In shape it varies little from the or dinary toad, but its forelegs, instead of being underneath the body, grow out at right angles. It does not move with freedom, but doubtless its long incar ceration, coupled with the fact that in falling from the coal it dropped into the fire and was slightly damaged about the hindquarters before being rescued, accounts for this.— London Mail. A New Electrical Wind Register. 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DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS THE REMARKABLE CASE OF MR. WASHBURN, OF PENNSYLVANIA.’ The Break Basted Seventeen Years, In Which Period He Was Married and Blessed With Four Children Then a Change and He Was With Strafigers. A case that is said to he one of the most remarkable known to the medical profession is that of Charles Wash burn. aged forty-one years, who, with his family, resides at 92 Charles street. Allegheny. Mr. Washburn has just recovered liis memory after a lapse of seventeen years, and since the re covery can remember practically noth ing that occurred during that time. Mr. Washburn's native home was in Eastern Pennsylvania, but in what town he lias not yet been able to re call. According to his statement to bis doctors, made since the recovery of his memory, be left for Hie West in 1884, after the death of his father, to look up some property lliat. had been left to him. He remembers leaving Chi cago on the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, but can only recall that the train was wrecked a short time after leaving Chicago. He remembers a crash and the sensation of being hurled through the air, but from that time until he recovered his memory, a few weeks ago, his mind is a blank, or was at the time of his recovery. Mrs. Washburn says she met her husband twelve years ago, a few days after liis arrival in the city, and two years later married him. But Mr. Washburn on the recovery of his mem ory knew nothing of his marriage or of the fact that he was the father of four •children. He did not recognize any of the people he has known for the past ten years, he did not know anything of the neighborhood in which he has resided for the same time, nor did he know anything of his former oc cupation, painting, nor his present one, the grocery business. Electric cars wore to him as something springing suddenly front the earth, and he had hut a dim recollection of what electric lights wore. An electric bell was also a novelty, with the use of which he was entirely unacquainted. The tall buildings of the city amazed him, and the sights on every band were as strange to him as to a newly-born babe. For the past year and a half Mr. Washburn has apparently been ill. This caused his retirement from his former occupation, a contracting paint er, anil lit: embarked in the grocery business, conducting a small store at 72 Taggart street. Dr. Stanley G. Small, of Taggart street, had been his physician and was treating him for hepatic abscesses or abscess of tlie liv er. The frequent bursting of the abcesses caused great pain. On the night of February 23 he was walking the floor of his dining room suffering intensely. A daughter, who was in the room with him, accidental ly overturned a lamp. Mr. Washburn tried to grasp it as it fell, but as he reached for it he murmured, “Oh, my head.” and fell to the floor uncon scious. He was Immediately put to beil. and Dr. Small summoned. But all the efforts of th doctor were ap parently without resuit, as Mr. Wash burn remained unconscious until the next evening. When he regained consciousness the next day the events of the past seven teen years were entirely forgotten. He regained consciousness at the point where his memory had left him and his first words were: “Was I much hurt’;” Mrs. Washburn was in the room at the time and replied in the negative. Then he replied as to what hospital be was in, and asked his wife if she Was the nurse. She laughingly replied that she was his wife, whereat he grew indignant and told her that she was taking liberties with him. He then demanded to see the doctor, and to humor him Mrs. Washburn sent for Dr. Small. While awaiting the doctor, Mrs. Washburn again engaged her husband in conversation, calling him by his first name and telling him that he was the father of four children. “I’m not married,” he replied. “Nice thing for a man twenty-four years of age to wake up after a night’s sleep and to he told that he is the father of four children.” “But you are not a young man,” re plied his wife, and she handed him a mirror. When lie saw the reflection of his face he acknowledged that he did not look like a man of twenty-four years of age, but still did not believe that he was married, lie did not rec ognize the face as his, exclaiming: “.My tied, that is not me,” and pointed to a portrait, taken about the time of his marriage, as his own. Then Mrs. Washburn showed him tlieir mar riage certificate and brought in the children, which convinced him of the truth of her statement. A few days later, when his condition allowed of his being taken out, it was made apparent how complete the lapse of memory had been. When be saw a trolley car he wanted to know what kind of wagons they were, running without horses. The information that they were electric cars was practical ly no information, so far as he was concerned, and it necessitated an ex- I planation of how they were operated before he could be made to understand, j When he called on Dr. Small his ignor ance of recent events was again shown. At the doctor s front door he vainly tried to find the knob by which to ring tlie bell, and a woman who came up the steps behind him showed him how to ring the electric bell. This, too, the doctor had to explain, and he dimly remembered having once seen electric lights in New York. He did not know one of his neighbors, with ltiuny of whom ho had /been on intim ate terms, and when, after he regained his strength, it was proposed that he astonished the doctor and liis fardiv by saying that he knew nothing ab( Z painting, and that he had im v be. u a painter, notwithstanding that h e u i lowed this occupation for over t,. n years. Of the streets and city he dw played Ignorance, not even knowing the name of the latter. An astonishing feature of the case i that according to Mrs. Washburn’!! statement, during their entire married life she never noticed anything wrong with him. lie acted rational at all times, never smoked, drank hut verv little and, until the time of his illnoss began, had always worked hard and provided well for his family. H e nev _ er did anything to lead her to believe that he was not in possession of liis senses, and her surprise was greater than liis when ho recovered conscious ness and did not recognize her. About three weeks ago Dr. Small turned the case over to Dr. Edward E. Mayer, specialist ou mental and nervous diseases at the West IYmi Hospital, and also assistant professor of the medical department of the Western University of Pennsylvania. Both physicians were at first reticent regarding the case, and it was only •after being shown that it had already become public property and that relia ble statements from them were better than the version of others, that they consented to talk about the case. Dr. Small said that he had been treating Mr. Washburn for hepatic abscess for over a year. “He seemed to suffer great pain in his right side.” said the doctor, "and whenever he was touched lie would fairly howl with pain. When he lost consciousness L thought it was the result of the ab scess again breaking and was amazed after his recovery of consciousness that ho did not feel the slightest pain. As soon as I arrived at the house I began examining him. He did not rec ognize me as anyone he had ever seen before, and thought I insulted him when I said that he had ail abscess. He insisted that there was nothing wrong with him, and when I handled him a bit more severely than usual he made no complaint of any pain. Nor has he (lone so since the recovery of his memory. He is a man of more than ordinary intelligence, and his children, who range from three to nine years of age, are also bright, not show ing the slightest trace of there having been anything wrong with their fatti er.” Dr. Mayer, though at first disin clined to talk, said: “I took hold of the case three weeks ago. Amnesia, the complaint with which he was af flicted, is not uncommon. It is often seen in insane cases which present al terations in personality and double personality, seemingly two minds in the same body. Cases of double con sciousness, in which the one is sudden ly obliterated, to reappear after a lapse of many years, are very rare. There is only one ease on record of sudden and total loss of memory. This is the case of Pastor Hanna, reported by Dr. Boris Sidis, of New York, and pub lished in his hook ou ‘Psychology of Suggestion.’ “Mr. Washburn’s case is not one of complete amnesia, as he always re membered his name. The case is of great psychologic interest, as it is one of the few that enable us to study the synthesis of consciousness and the cellular action and disaggregation of the brain. Also interesting is the re education of the man to the impres sions made during seventeen years and now lying dormant; the study of his dreams, the disassociation of the past from present impressions and tlieir eventual combination. All of these furnish much materia] for study and observation. The method of treating the case which I am following is pure ly one of suggestion. This consists of gradually separating him from any impressions that have been left upon his brain by the loss of memory, work ing back to the time preceding it, and then bringing his ideas slowly up to the present time. There is no hyp notic influence or anything of that sort used in connection with the treatment. It is all done through simple sugges tion, and 1 believe it will lead to his ideas being eventually brought up to date.”—Pittsburg Times. Farms of Porto Kieo. Of the 953,243 population of Torto Rico only 75,000 live in cities. On this island, but 100 miles long and thirty six wide, are 40,000 distinct farms, and one-fifth of the island is under culti- ration. The average size of a farm a Porto Rico is forty-five acres, of which twelve are cultivated. Seventy-one per cent, of these Porto Rican farms are owned by whites, and the rest by negroes. Ninety-three per eent. of all the farms are cultivated by tbeir own ers, a higher rate of owner cultivation than the United States can show, where the proportion is but seventy two per cent. Thirty-eight per cent, of the Porto Itioans are colored. In Porto Rico eighty-three per cent, of the colored people are of mixed blood. The percentage of illiteracy in Porto Rico is very high—about eighty-four. J his is higher than in any other coun try from which statistics are obtain able, except Guatemala.—The World's Work. The Court of Hustings* “Oyez, oyez, oyez! All manner of persons who have been five times called by virtue of any exigent direct ed by the sheriffs of London and have not surrendered their bodies to the said sheriffs, this court doth adjudge tlio men to be outlawed and the wom en to be waived.” It is autocratic, un grammatical, but delightfully ancient, aud was the proclamation of the Mace bearer at the Court of Hustings in the Guildhall yesterday. After all, tin* only business of this ancient court, which has not sat for some years, was to enroll a couple of deeds providing prize money for the School of Music and a scholarship for the City of Lou-