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VOL. X.
SCHLEY IN CHICAGO
People of Windy City Accord
Ovation to Hero of Santiago.
ADMIRAL SPEAKS AT BANQUET
In a Few Words He Dispels Sugges
tions of His Entering Politics.
Resolutions Demanding Jus
tice For Him are Adopted.
Rear Admiral and Mrs. Schley left
Washington for Chicago Friday morn
ing at 10:50 o’clock over the Baltimore
and Ohio in a private car attached ta
the regular train. The car Was decor
ated with handsome flowers.
The crowd gathered in the Baltimore
and Ohio station numbered nearly 1,-
000 and it was demonstrative to a de
gree. There was a succession of ova
tions at all places where the train
stopped en route.
Rear Admiral Schley arrived in Chi
cago Saturday at 9:30 a. m., and was
greeted with a tumultuous acclaim
from thousands of people.
Strong Schley Resolutions.
At the depot the admiral was greet
ed by a delegation from the city coun
cil and a company of naval veterans
of the civil war. Alderman Frank
Fowler, on behalf of the city council,
presented the following resolutions:
Whereas, We recognize in Admiral
Schley’s achievements, his character
and his bearing one of the foremost
naval heroes of ail time, whose splen
did record at Santiago will forever be
the pride and inspiration of grateful
countrymen; therefore, be it
Resolved, by the city council of the
cit yof Chicago, That the city of Chi
cago, through its municipal council
and mayor, takes pleasure in making
pubii cacknowledgement of the distin
guished service rendered by Admiral
Schley to his country and extends to
him a heartfelt welcome.
At 11 a. m. the admiral was given a
breakfast by the reception committee
of the Hamilton Club and enjoyed him
self in an informal manner,
at the Woman’s Club.
4t the conclusion of the breakfast n
delegation from' ttie Cook county hoard
of commissioners waited upon the ad
miral and Commissioner Iloffmau pre
sented resolutions declaring that
“There has been yet no adequate re
ward nor official recognition of the
merits of some.of the officers who took
part in the w r ar with Spain, whose he
roism and fidelity were most conspic
uous, of whom may be especially enu
merated Admiral Winfield Scott
Schley, Captain F. A. Cook, of Admiral
Schley’s flag ship Brooklyn, and Cap
tain Charles E. Clark, of the famous
battle ship Oregon. Therefore be it
Resolved, That we consider it but
simple justice to these gallant officials
and men that their distinguished ser
vice should be properly rewarded with
out further delay, and we do hereby
respectfully request the authorities of
the United States government to
adopt with all due haste such meas
ures for this purpose as may be most
becoming.
The banquet began at 6:45 o’clock.
Saturday night.
Schley’s Speech at Banquet.
Adnriral Schley arose amid applause
aud said:
“Mr. President and Gentlemen of
the Hamilton Club: What I desire
particularly is to thank you most
sir.cejtly for the welcome that you
hare accorded to me. The glad tri
bute which I met on arrival at your
depot and in passing through your
stieets was such a tribute of confi
dence and esteem that it has touch
ed my heart most sincerely. (Ap
plause.) If in my long career of for
ty-five years have done anything that
is worthy of your approval, then my
satisfaction is complete. (Applause.)
“I desire to say most emphatically
that I have no desire to be other than
a sailor. I have no aspiration for
ar.y civil office, however high it may
be. (Applause).
“My one ambition has been to serve
J'ou faithfully, loyally, devotedly (ap
plause), and if I have succeeded in
doing that, the measure of my ambi
tion Is fun, a nd my only other ambi
tion is that I may retain for the rest
of the years that may be vouchsafed
for me your love, your esteem and
your respect. (Cheers.)
1 would not care to jeopardize that
b> seeking or accepting any office
where I should be condemned to fol
low always; rather to remain in the
on e profession that I have chosen,
where there are occasionally oppor
tunities to lead. (Applause.) That
1 want to say to you all from the bot
,om of my heart aud with absolute
earnestness of meaning. Gentlemen,
1 thank you."
SENATE CONFIRMATIONS.
tiew Collectors of Customs at Various
Stations in the South.
The senate confirmed the following
nominations Monday:
Collectors of Customs —B. F. Keith,
district of Wilmington. N. C.; M. B.
MarFarland, district of Tampa, Fla.;
r E. Stillman, district of Pensacola,
bia.; Tip Warren, district of Apalach
icola, Fla,
DADE COUNTY SENTINEL.
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH.
Largely Increased Number of New In-
Dustries Reported in the South
During the Past Week.
Especial attention is called to the
largely increased number of new in
dustries during the past week in the
south, being marked in the building of
flouring mills, electric light and wood
working plants and the development
of oil and gas fields and coal mining
properties. The organization of so
many new industries is practical evi
dence of the present prosperous con
dition of affairs in the south, and is a
matter deserving especial and wide
spread notice.
The more important of the new in
dustries reported for the week include
a? 10,000 box and barrel factory at
Portsmouth, Va., SIO,OOO brick works
at Crowley, La., $15,000 brick works at
Paris, Texas, a $25,000 plant for the
manufacture of building material at
Lawrenceville, Va., a $250,000 canal
and rice company at Houston, Texas,
a canning factory at Bryan, Texas,
chemical works at Blackshear, Ga., a
SIO,OOO coal mining company at Cedar
towm, Ga., a $50,000 coal mining com
pany at Charleston, W. Va., and an
other, with capital of $300,000; a $60,-
000 coal mining company at Clarks
burg, W. Va.; a $1,000,000 coal and
coke company at Grafton, Va.; a $30,-
000 coal mining and land company at
Knoxville, Tenn.; a $60,000 cotton
mill at Clinton, S. C.; a cotton mill at
Strawn, Texas; a cotton tie factory
at Beaumont, Texas; electric light
plants at Montgomery and Ozark, Ala.
and Lawrenceville, Ga.; a $20,000 light
and power plant at Dublin, Texas; a
$15,000 flouring mill at Acworth, Ga.;
and flouring mills at Cardwell, Ky.,
Porter and Yadkinville, N. C., York
ville, S. C., Decherd, Tenn., Jumping
Branch and Rupert, W. Va.; a $30,000
furniture factory near Durant, Miss.;
a furniture factory at Wytheville, Va.;
a $50,000 company to manufacture gen
erators and mechanical appliances at
New Orleans, La.; a $30,000,000 grain
elevator at Richmond, Va.; a $25,000
hardware company at Richmond, Va.;
an ice factory at Wharton .Texas; a
plant to manufacture iron castings at
Point Pleasant, W. Va.; a $20,000 land
company at Durham, N. C.; a $300,000
land company at Nashville, Tenn.;
lime works at Anniston, and Hunts
ville, , Ala ■ a $50,000 lumber company
at Cicala, tCa*; a SIO,OOO 'mineral' com
pany at Alexandria, Tenn.; a SIOO,OOO
mining and manufacturing company at
Wheeling, W. Va.; a $1,000,000 mining
and mineral company al Atlanta, Ga.;
quarries at Louisville, Ky., aud a $62,-
000 quarrying plant at West, Miss.; a
$250,000 oil company at Ashland, Ky.;
a $50,000 oil company at Jennings, La.;
a SIOO,OOO oil company at Beaumont,
Texas; also a $60,000 company; an
other with capital of $300,000 and oth
ers with capital of $300,000 and $ t J,500,-
000 respectively; a $15,000 oil company
at Dallas, Texas; a $300,000 oil com
pany at Galveston, Texas; a $50,000
oil company at San Antonio, Texas; a
$15,000 oil and gas company at Lex
ington, Ky.; a $25,000 oil and gas com
pany at Mill Springs, Ky.; a $250,000
oil and mining company at Paris, Ky.;
a $1,000,000 oil and gas company at
Beaumont, Texas; a $60,00J oil mill at
Valdosta, Ga.; an oil refinery at Dal
las, Texas; a SIO,OOO packing plant at
Fort Smith, Ark.; a $50,000 conrjany
to erect rice mills at Beaumont, 'Tex.;
a $30,000 rice and irrigation com.pany
at Fort Worth, Texas; a rope factory
at LaGrange, Ga.; saw mills at Robe
line, La., and Poplarville. Miss.; a $20,-
000 saw and planing mill at La Porte,
lexas; f. $30,000 shoe factory at Man
chester, Va.; a spoke and rim factory
at Pemberton, Va.; the contemplated
erection of a $3,000,000 steel plant at
Thomas, Ala.; steel works at Norfolk,
Va.; $250,000 stove works at Memphis,
Tenn.; a $125,000 tank manufacturing
plant at Beaumont, Texas; a tele
phone company at Alma, Ark.; a $20,-
000 telephone company at Abilene,
Texas, and a $200,000 tobacco factor.v
at Richmond, Va. —Tradesman (Chat
tanooga, Tenn.)"
Journalist Harry Weldon Dead.
Harry M. Weldon, formerly sport
ing editor of The Cincinnati Enquirer,
died at his home at CircJeville, Ohio,
Monday night.
POSTMASTERS NOMINATED.
President Sends In Names of Candi
dates for Southern Offices.
The president Monday sent the fol
lowing nominations of postmasters to
the senate:
Tennessee —Giles Rives, Browns
ville; Robert C. Wilcox, Clarksvil'e;
Robert F. Haun, Milan.
Alabama —J. O. Thompson, Tuske
gce.
Florida —John C. Stowers, West
Palm Beach; George W. Duncan, Jas
per.
Georgia—William H. Smythe, Atlan
ta; Charles Robinson. Eatonton.
COSTLY FIRE IN MOBILE.
Alabama City Suffers Loss of $300,000.
Two Men Give Up Life.
Fire early Saturday in the wholesale
business district of Mobile, Ala., de
stroyed property to the value of $300,-
000, and caused the death of Richard
H. Vidmer, a leading society man of
Mobile, and Bat Thomas, a negro la
borer, from New Orleans.
Three firemen were injured, two
slightly and one painfully.
TRENTON. GA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 31.1902.
MEN TORN TO BITS
Score Ushered Into Eternity By
Mine Explosion.
REMAINS FEARFULLY CHARRED j
I
Horror Occurs In Pit Near Oskaloosa, '
lowa—ln Addition to the Killed
Many Were Badly
Injured.
Asa result of a terrible mine dis
aster at Lost Creek coal mine, near
Oskaloosa, lowa, Friday afternoon,
twenty-one dead are in an improvised
morgue and eight are in a temporary
hospital.
The dead are: John Gaspers, Frank j
Gaspers, Jim Stohl, Sylvester Creigli- 1
ton, Joe Herto, Andy Pash, Frank Se
cress, John Martin, John Biros, Mike
Praha, Jack Manley, Mike Fox, Jr., i
Mike Fox, Sr., Boone Fish, Russ. Fish, j
A. B. Crews, Jack Eider, Dave Walter, !
Sam Humphrey, Jim Humphrey, Alex /
Gray.
The injured, most of them seriously, !
are: Ed Secress, Ed Swamson, Jonas !
Mabie, Olive Mabie, John Jerkin, Wil 1
liam Harvey and George Gogo.
The explosion occurred at noon, and j
was what is known as a dust explo- ■
sion. The miners had just fired their i
usual noon shots, one of which proved |
to be a fizzle. The burning powder
ignited the gas and the explosion fol
lowed. Smoke and debris were blown
out of the shaft 200 feet high. Part
of the top works was torn away and
the vans and cages were partirjly
wrecked. This made the work of res
cue very slow, and it was 3 o’clock
before volunteer parties dared to ven
ture into the east entry where the
explosion occurred. When they
fought their way in a horrible sight
greeted them. The dear and injured
were terribly burned and mutilated,
some of them almost beyond recogni
tion. Fire had broken out, and this
added terror to the spectacle. £}#*
flames were finally controlled, and af
ter several of the rescue party had
succumbed to the fumes, all the dead
-were found and carried to the top of
■the. shfit. , ■,
It was nearly 6 o’clock Friday even
ing when the last of the dead was ta
ken out, and the scenes of anguish
among the families of the dead men
were pitiful. Nearly all of the men
were married, and leave families, in
poor circumstances.
DENMARK RELEASES ISLANDS.
Treaty of Cession Signed at Washing
ton —Now Goes to Congi-ess
For Ratification.
A Washington special says: The
treaty of cession of the Danish West
India islands from Denmark to the
United States was signed at the state
department Friday by Secretary Hay
and Constantine Brun, the Danish
minister.
The treaty will be submitted to the
senate for ratification immediately.
In December, 1901, reports from Cos
penhagen, confirmed at Washington
indicated then that a preliminary
agreement had been reached betwe*SS
Denmark and the United States for
the sale to the United States of the is
lands of St. Thomas and St. Johns, in
the Danish West Indies, for
Santa Cruz, the largest of the
it was stated, would remain un/TtftMJr
Danish flag. The islands are
30 and 40 miles east of Porto Rico.
The population of St. Thomas is 12,-
000, and of St. John less than 1,000
The area of the two islands are 23
and 21 square miles, respectively.
.The population of St. Thomas is
mainly in the town of Charlotte Ame
lie, which is a free port, and this prob
ably is the only feature which makes
the islands of much value. The soil
is mostly unproductive and is but lit
tle cultivated. The best products of
the island is St. Thomas bay rum, the
ingredients of which are largely ob
tained in Porto Rico. Cattle are also
raised.
Cruz Bay is the chief town of the
island of St. Thomas, which is north
east of St. Thomas. The industries of
St. John are much like those of the lat
ter island. The population of the en
tire group is chiefly negro.
Santa Cruz, or Saint Croix, has an
area of 110 square miles. Two-fifths
of the land is in sugar plantations,
but coffee, indigo and cattle are rais
ed. The chief town of the island is
Christiansted. The population of San
ta Cruz is 18,000.
Following the invariable rule in
such cases, the state department offi
eials decline to make public any of
the details of the treaty.
DANES UNDEMONSTRATIVE.
Notice of Cession of Islands to Uncle
Sam Received Quietly.
The announcement which reached
St. Thomas, D. Yv. 1., Saturday of the
signing of the treaty by which Den
mark sells the Danish West Indies to
the United States, was received quiet
ly. There was no open manifestation,
but much anxiety prevails regarding
tte developments. Nothing official has
yet been received from Copenhagen.
Official Ora a of Dado County-
BILL ARP’S LETTER
In Impressive Vein Bartow Man
Lauds General Lee.
IMPRESSED WITH HERO’S GRANLCER
He Met the General on Two Occasions.
Calls Attention to Noble Work
of the Daughters of the
Confederacy.
"Duty is the sublirm jSt word in OUT
language.” That is w hat General Lee
wrote to ois son soon after General
Scott off< red b.im the supreme com
mand of ib.e northern army. Virginia
had just seceded and Lee saw on one
side th at there wero no honors to
which he might not aspire. On the
other side, if he cast his destiny with
that of his state, ho saw, or he
thought he saw, that miseries and
triads awaited him without number.
But to seek his duty aud, having
found it, it was ever the principle of
his actions. These strong and beauti
ful words about duty were not origi
nal with General Lee, and in his let
ter he has them in quotation marks.
The expression came from Rev. John
Davenport, a famous Puritan preach
-er of New England—the man who gave
ishelter to the throe regicides who
•condemned Charles the First to death
and after the restoration fled for their
lives to New England and were hid
den by John Davenport in his barn.
When this act of treason became
known among his people he neither
quailed nor relented, but preached a
sermon the next Sabbath from that
passage in Isaiah which says: “Hide
the outcasts. Betray not him that
wandereth. Let my outcasts dwell
with thee and be thou covert about
them from the spoiler.” It was in that
sermon that he made use of this- no
table expression: “It is my duty to
shield them, and duty is the sr.blimest
word in our language.”
During the war it w r as m y privilege
to Sflfc Genera! Lee often, but
did I meet him f/ xCe t 0 face and
have a brief converse , t j on with him but
twice. Even then we did not know
how great a ma j he was. General
Johnston had wounded at Seven
Pines and Lee came from
West take his place. He
was alm'jgt a stranger to the Army
of Nor c h ern Virginia. He had been
in C'jn)m and but a week or two when
G'.-neral Black, of Rome, came to sea
fiis boys of the Eighth Georgia and
asked me to ride with him to Genera!
Lee’s headquarters and introduce him,
for he was desirous of meeting him
beftsr3 he returned to Georgia. Of
co#rse, I complied, for General Black
was a man of no small consequence
at homo. He was old and gray and of
(Commanding presence and military
ibearing. Introducing myself first, I
presented General Black, and af
ter we were seated-, I said
nothing, but paid modest and respect
ful attention. I was soon impressed.
with the. grandeur of the before
me, and, of course, as l „JBpanded,
I very naturally to
keep the IMg after
this the Seven Megan and
ended in \<Jrs defeat and our
■realize how great a
It was on the sixth
5 sent to his headquar
low Ridge to receive or
? I met him again. He
incovered and unarmed
or ms tent, and "Stonewall”
SAckson was asleep inside upon the
straw, and the servant had sot the
dinner tables over him so as not to
disturb his rest, for, as General Lee
said, “He needs it, and nothing but
artillery will awake him now.” A
I said that the army did not kno
at first how great a man Lee waj;
for He was one of the few great char
acters that develops and grows bright
er and grander as the years roll on.
For some years after the war he re
ceived but little praise at the north
and a great national cyclopedia gave
more space and praise to Old John
Brown than to General Lee, who ar
rested and executed him. But now,
in the International, of fifteen volumes
—a standard work, edited and com
piled by 200 of the most distinguished
scholars and professors of the north
ern colleges—the sketches of General
Lee and Stonewall Jackson are all
that we could ask for.
That of Lee closes with this para
graph: “In person, he was one of the
noblest types of manly beauty. Tall,
broad-shouldered, erect, with a digni
ty as impressive as that of Washing
ton, yet not so cold. Of habits as
pure as Washington, but more warm
ly religious and always maintaining
a calm, confident and kindly manner
that no disaster could disturb or
change.” The world knows him now
and venerates his memory and the
people he fought against have given
him a place in their hall of fame.
Verily, old Father Time is a good
doctor and Anno Domini the softening
solvent of all malignant passions. But
this is enough from me concerning the
great commander. It was the sublime
Christian faith of Lee and Jackson
that made their characters complete
and added luster to their military
fame. They were men of prayer.
For a little while I would ask youf
kind attention to those whom since
1892 have called themselves the
Daughters of the Confederacy. Their
mission has been and still Is and we
trust long will be as declared in Arti
cle 2 of their constitution: “Educa
tlonal, memorial, social and benevo
lent to collect and preserve tho ma
terial for a truthful history of the
war between the stales—to honor the
memory of tho- e who fell in our ger .
vice and to record the part taken by
southern women during the war and
Us aftermath, their patient endurance
of hardship, their patriotic devotion
during the struggle and to fulfill the
duties of sacred charity to the sur
vivors.” All of theße are noble ob
jects but the greatest of all is the
establishing of tho truth and preserv
ing It. The poet saith that “Truth
crushed to earth will rise again,” and
it has risen and will continue to rise.
Even that popular magazine, Frank
Munsey’s Monthly, in its last num
ber, has forever blotted out the malig
nant and fanatical story of Barbara
Freitchie, and only the last week the
ladies of Lexington, Ky., put under
the ban the drama of “Uncle Tom’s
Cabin.” It was the Daughters of the
Confederacy who did it and to their
widespread and influential organiza
tion the south must look for the
maintenance of the truth. Just think
of it. Within the past nine years
twenty-two states have been chartered
as grand divisions, including Califor
nia, New York, the District Columbia,
Dklahoma and the Indian Territory.
In all these there have been chartered
in aggregate of over three hundred
chapters with a membership of 26,000
good, loyal southern women. The
largest federation of women in the
world. Of this membership, Texas
aas the largest number, 2,435. Geor
gia comes next with 1,750 members.
But my friends, this great army of
laughters and mothers who, whether
ilive or now dead, instilled this love
if truth and unstained confederate
Donor in the hearts of their children,
they are the ones who sacrificed and
suffered and still were strong. For
inore than fifteen years I have ob
served a trait in woman’s nature that
is lacking in most men. She never
gives up. The sad results of the
war that wrecked the fortunes of
southern men hastened thousands of
them to untimely graves, but their
Widows still dot the land from Vir
ginia to Texas. The mothers of
these daughters endured more hard
ships and privations than their hus-
Sands and sons who were in the
irmy, but they never complained.
Goldsmith v wr<tte: *
“Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.”
But some cynical old bachelor para
phrased it:
‘Man wants but little here below.
For so the poets say,
But woman wants it all, you know,
And wants it right away.”
Well, she does want a!! she can get,
And wants it as soon as she can get
it, if not sooner, but if she can’t have
it she stirrenders cheerfully and ac
commodates herself to the situation.
During the war they actually smiled
it their own pitiful and distresseed
condition. They boiled down the dirt
!rom the smokehouse that had long
been saturated with the drippings ol
the hanging meat and made pretty
good salt out of it and divided with
their neighbors. They parched rye
ind gubbers for coffee and sweetened
it with sorghum and bragged how
good it was. They cut up their old
garments and made clothes for their
children. Indeed, it is always an
amusing entertainment to listen to
these good old mothers as they ree
clte and their trials
after Sfteri7?fl| had passed through on
his march Rohe sea. Not long ago
five of fy'se matrons by chance
mcMit our houf S and it was nip and
tibetween them as they told of
iM most amusing experiences. One
■Wd how her two boys and a little
Kiri had worn out their shoes, until
they would not hold shucks much less
feet and she found an old calf skin
that had long been hanging in the
barn and she soaked it in lime and
red oak bark and got about half the
hair off and took it to an old shoe
cobler ,and he made three pair of
Bhoes that would hold shucks, and they
fit the children pretty well, but the
red hair stuck out in little patches
all over them, and she laughed and
laughed until the children did not want
to wear them, because she laughed so
much. That was the origin of tan
shoes, though these were made of un
tanned leather. Another told how two
of her children never saw a raisin un
til they Avere 5 and 7 years old, and
were afraid to eat them, and said they
were bugs. Another told how she and
her boys built a fence around the gar
den by boring holes in the piank and
the posts with an old brace and bit
that her husband left when he went
off. And they made pegs and drove
them in, for there wasn’t a nail i> the
country. But good old Mother Akin,
whom everybody loves and likes to lis
ten to, told hom of her neigh
bors got out of meal and had some
how got hold of three bushels of corn,
and they rigged up a little rikety wag
on and a blind army mule and all three
started to the nearest mill, which was
7 miles away. They started early and
got to the creek, and the creek was
up, but they drove in, and sure
enough the wagon came uncoupled
right in the middle of it and. let them
all down where it was knee-deep, and
let the corn down, too, and the mule
went on with the foree-wheels and
stopped when he got over. But they
never gave up the ship nor the corn.
It took them about an hour to get
the corn and the wagon together
again, and with dripping garments
they hurried on to the mill. A photo
graph of the scene would sell as the
champion picture of the women of the
war. The good miller gave them dry
meal for the wet corn, and by sundown
they were all at home again and
laughed over it, and everybody laugh
ed who heard of it. Almost every
family within Sherman’s belt have
fireside stories to tell that would fill
a book. They are a curious medley
of the sad, the pathetic'and the araus
ing, and excite more fun than sor
row. How blessed are they who stMl
live, and how sweet are the memories
of those who are dead, for it is the
mothers of the confederacy who have
perpetuated the love of truth and the
love of southern patriotism In the
hearts of the children and inspired
those principles that have In recen’
years developed that grand organiza
tlon known as the Daughters of the
Confederacy, Our northern brethren
may boast of the Grand Army of the
Republic, but our mothers smile and
say, “I don’t see where the grand
comes in, for all who came this way
wero low Dutch and hungry Irish
who feared Dot God nor regarded
women.” Well, it in all over now,
and we are at peace, that blessed
peace that hath her victories more re
nowned than war. And thrice blessed
is the woman whom the dark ages
kept subdued for centuries, but has
come to the front and now stands side
by side with man and is always first
in every good word and work. For
two thousand years she was called by
name but twice in the Bible. Mother
Eve, and next came Sarah, the wife
of Abraham, and for another two thou
sand years was mentioned by name
only a few times, but at last she was
honored as the mother of our Savior
and was “last at the cross and earliest
at the grave.”
Within the last half century she has
made more progress in establishing
her natural and God-given rights than
in all preceding time. She Is the ac
knowledged head of ail religious, mis
sionary and charitable institutions.
She is the school teacher of the world
and in these United States constitutes
ninetenths of all the public school
school teachers in the land. In sever
al states she has the right of suffrage
and is eligible to office on the school
boards. Time was when she was al
most a dead letter in literature and
haidly ever noticed in the press of
the country, but now a great metro
politan paper or magazine could not
exist without a large space being de
vi, (p to her service and her fairy pie
tures made to adorn the columns of
every issue. Woman in this south
land is a power and woe be to the
men who scorn it, for they are always
cn the side of religion and good mot
als and purity in private life. With
cut them, the church, the prayer
meetings, the Sabbath-schools and
even the home would speedily decline
into that state that Grover Cleveland
called an “inocuous desuetude.” In
truth, she is the hope of the world and
her progress the best sign of the com
ing millennium. As to her influence
for all that is good in educating and
refining mankind, no man ever wrote
a more beautiful setence than that of
Sir Richard Steele, when he penned
that: “To look upon and love a fair
and virtuous woman and be loved by
her is a liberal education.” And so
let me say to the young men, these
sons of confederacy, don’t despair;
don’t grieve for a college education;
don’t lament your poverty; but get
married and your education will be
gin. Sometimes the course is long,
but it is happy. My own has been
running for nearly fifty-three years and
is not completed, for I have not yet
received a diploma nor taken the first
honor. I am ssill a school boy.—Bill
Arp, in Atlanta Constitution.
RAILROADS VIOLATE LAW.
So Alleges Interstate Commerce Com
mission In Annual Report.
The fifteenth annual report of the
interstate commerce commission was
made public Thursday. The report
.says that the law is being constantly
breken by the railroads. It is charged
that rebates are regularly given to the
large shippers. Congress is urged to
amend the law.
GUILTY PAIR SOUGHT DEATH.
"Dr.” Zeigler Kills Himself and Fatally
Wounds His Alleged Wife.
“Dr.” Harry J. Zeigler, of Lancaster,
Pa., fatally wounded his alleged wife,
Anna, and then killed himself at the
Wellington hotel, in Chicago. A note
left by him declared that he and the
woman had decided to die and that as
he lacked the nerve, Mrs. Zeigler had
promised to commit the act.
It seems that Zeigler already had a
wife living in Lancaster, Pa.
A “SHAME” RESOLUTION.
Introduced In th e Kentucky Legisla
ture Relating to Coronation Envoy.
In the Kentucky house of represen
tatives Friday, Representative Aver
diet, democrat, of Covington, introduc ß
ed a joint resolution condemning the
action of President Roosevelt in send
ing a special envoy as the representa
tive of this country to the coronation
of King Edward, and expressing the
shame felt by the legislature because
of this action.
NO. 37.
BOLD TRAIN HOLDUP
Seven Men, Unmasked, Get In
Work on Southern.
EXPRESS SAFE HAULED OFF
Engineer Forced to Run Cars to Lonely
Spot Where Wagon Was
In Waiting for
the Loot. • ■iH'i
A carefully planned and audacious
express robbery took place about 7
o'clock on the Southern railway Mon
day evening when the passenger train
from Charleston reached nearly the
exact site of the successful robbery
of two years ago, near Fifty-Eight
station, five miles from Branchville,
S. C.
Seven men, or probably eight, were
riding on the platform between the
engine and baggage car, concealed by
the darkness. None were masked. At
the 55-mile board two men crawled
over the tender and covered the engi
neer, John Reynolds, with winches
ters. They fired two shots, one ball
passing through Reynolds’ cap’. Fire
man Cobb escaped by jumping off.
Conductor Black, who ran out, was
also covered and ordered back.
By order of these men a brakeman
uncoupled the express, mail and bag
gage cars, which were taken to Fifty-
Eight station, leaving the rest of the
train on the main line.
Loaded Safe on Wagon.
Here several shots were fired into
the express car and one man, climbing
up, covered Express Messenger Hall
with a winchester, compelling him to
open the door. Three men entered the
car and stripped the through safe. Af
ter threatening Hall with instant
death if he did not open the through
safe, and finding he knew nothing of
the combination, the safe was rolled
out on the and placed on a
two-horse wagon, which was driven
away. Then the engineer was ordered
to return to the rest of the train, and
he obeyed, bringing the train, with no
further incidents, to Branchville. Noth
ing was seen of the men or the safe on
passing Fifty-Eight.
There was only a small amount df
booty in the local safe, and no one,
other than officials of the road, know
the contents of the through safe. No
mail or baggage was touched and no
passengers were molested. The rob
bers took the pistols from only em
ployes who were armed, and resist
ance was out of the question.
Leader May Be Warren.
The leader is supposed to be the
notorious Barton Warren. Warren was
arrested charged with having robbed
the Southern express car just below
Branchville in the fall of 1899. He
was tried in 1901, and owing to pop
ular feeling in his favor and his able
counsel, the case resulted in a mistrial.
His bail was furnished, but there came
a revulsion in popular feeling and,
feanng conviction, a few days before
the next session of the court —five
months ago—he brutally murdered
Thomas Watson, his former friend, but
one of the principal witnesses against
hin:.
Warren has since been at large and
some say that he has been seen in
Branchville at night several times
since, though SBOO reward had been of
fered for his capture. Since the mur
der it is said there has been another
attempt before the daring performance
of Monday afternoon to rob the ex
press train between Branchville and
Orangeburg, and this, too, has been at
tributed to Warren.
Bloodhounds Wanted.
A telegram was sent to Columbia
asking for bloodhounds to pursue the
robbers. The post office at Walterboro,
twenty miles from Branchville, was
blown up with dynamite during Sun
day night and robbed of several hun
dred dollars. It is believed the same
robbers help up the train.
Jacksonville Building Bill.
The senate Monday passed a bill
providing for the improvement, repair
and addition to the public building at
Jacksonville, Fla.
OFFICERS ARE SCORED.
Right to Criticise Army Policy In Phil
ippines Discussed In Senate.
An animated and prolonged discus
sion was precipitated in the senate
Monday over the right of army offi
cers to criticise utterances made in
the senate or elsewhere on the conduct
of affairs in the Philippines. At times
it became somewhat acrimonious, offi
cers in the Philippines being taken
sharply to task for statements attri
buted to them in dispatches from Ma
nila. In the course of the debate, Mr.
Money said he favored letting the is
lands “go to the devil.”
DEFICIENCY BILL PASSED.
Republicans Forced Record Vote on
Item For Protection of Soldiers.
The house Friday passed tA urgent
deficiency appropriation blland de
voted the remainder of the Slsion to
private pension legislation. It then
adjourned until Monday. The repub
iicans forced a record vote on the
amendment to appropriate $500,000 for
the protection and shelter of American
soldiers in the Philippines,