The Manning Times, 1905-04-19

proach to modern civilization, and it is surprising that there has not been intervention ere this in the affairs of countries which are in a chronic state of revolution and where financial re repudiation - pudiation repudiation is not regarded as synony synonymoue - moue synonymoue with commercial dishonor. The mcre we concern ovrselves with these countries the greater the political bur burdens - dens burdens we shall have to bear. "In the admiaistration of these three inheritarces that are in many respects of an international character -there will be need at times of a strong navy. The civilization of the Philippines, the building of the isth isthmian - mian isthmian canal, and the straightening out of the financial affairs of small repub republices - lices republices whose fircal transactions have been questionable and intolerable will each be found a ficanclal burden that will prove a great tax upon our re sources and a political problem that will require the highest of diplomatic talent. "The lessons of the Russo-Japanese war are plain and simple, and should be to heart by all people. It is the concomitant features of both military and naval organizations that have been neglected by the Russians. For the; next few years, therefore, it should be in the special direction of developing the auxiliaries of naval strength and not toward augmenting the number of fighting ships wherein we should direct our best energies. "Our naval budget for the next ten years must be a large one, for if pos possible - sible possible we should provide for a progres progressive - sive progressive increase in actual fighting naval strength that would be equivalent to the net gain of a battleship. The bulk of the expenditures for increas increasing - ing increasing the effiaiency of our navy should, h)wever, be applied as follows: "(a) The preparations of plans for the immediate abandonment, at the slightest possible financial loss, of every distant possession that is likely to require a fleet to defend it. If it should be undersigned that in time of war we propose to abandon at least temporarily, certain territorial pos possessions, - sessions, possessions, neither the morale nor the credit of the nation would then be impaired by the seizure of such terri territory - tory territory by an enemy. "(b) Improvement of the channels leading to all shipbuilding plants, na naval - val naval stations and maritime distribut distributing - ing distributing ports. Tierse channels should be straigbtened, broadened and deepened for military, as well as for commer commerDial - Dial commerDial reasons. The importance to both the marchant marine and naval flets, of ships being able to enter and leave port at all times with safety, consti constitutes - tutes constitutes a very decided element of naval str-ngth. "(c) The building of a fleet of large and rast colliers, so that in time of war practically all the coal required for naval operations distant from our own shores, would be available for im immediate - mediate immediate shipment to the place where most needed. We should abandon the policy of placing any great reliance on axed coating stations, they will have to be defended by ships as well as by fortress: s, and will more likely prove 3, military detriment than a strategic advantage. by keepirg the coal afiat we could move this fuel to any tempo temporory - rory temporory base that it might be desired to stablish. The destruction between the base of operation and coaling plant is self-evicent. REHABILITATION OF NAVY YARDS. "(d) Tne rehabilitation of all navy rards to a condition where It would me possible, In case of necessity, to oulld any type of warship at any one >f these stations. While I do not be betieve - tieve betieve In undertaking such construc construction - tion construction at navy yards, the several sta stations - tions stations should be kept in readiness for :arrying on the work In case of emer emertency. - tency. emertency. "(a) The enactment Into law of a itatute providing that the elect of the graduates of tbe technical Institution, who have successfully undertaken a :ourse of Instruction satisfactory to the navy department, shall be ap appointed - pointed appointed as acting midshipmen, and shall, after two years of service at sea, have the opportunity of compet competing - ing competing with the regular graduates of the naval academy for commission In the naval service, thereby providing a re-1 serve cJ naval offcers for emergency1 purp'ses. purp'ses."(f) - "(f) purp'ses."(f) The establishment of a naval reserve and the appropriation of an. amount suffcient to send all members cf this naval reserve to sea in naval. vessels for at least one month of every year, and while performing this ser service - vice service to receive the same pay and smolument as oficers and men of cor corresponding - responding corresponding rank and grade in the navy. RESTORtATION OF MERCHANT MAINE. "(g) The restoration of our mer merchant - chant merchant marine. It would be easier to write several thousand words In ad advocacy - vocacy advocacy of subsidizing our merchant marine than to attempt so show In a brief paragraph the necessity of ex extending - tending extending such help. I have no hesita hesitation - tion hesitation in asserting that in view of our existing relative naval strength it would subserve military, commercial and national interests to stop build building - ing building battle ships and devote all or a purtibn of the money thus saved to placing upon the ocean a merchant marine that would help us to secure a greater trade of the world, and which, in case of war, would prove a military auxiiiary only one less remove in im importance - portance importance than the battle ship Itself. "(b) The recognition of the fact that the modern navy is an engineer engineering - ing engineering one, and that the training of both , lcers and men should be more tecunical in character. The time spent by apprentices and landsmnen on sailing vessel~s is practically wasted. "(1) The purchase of Denmark, France and England of all their West India po-scssions or the trading If possible, of the Philippines for the same, so that none of these Islands could be used as base of operations by a possible enemy against either the Isthmian Cana.l or our southern coast. "The regulation of the fiscal ar arrangements - rangements arrangements of some of the American Americanrepublics - republics Americanrepublics wculd be exceedingly simpli simplified - fied simplified if no European power held an) of the Islands of the West Indies, for so long as a single island in the Carib Caribbean - bean Caribbean sea is held by a foreign power, so long has that power a moral and political equity in concerning itself as to the administration of its neighbor neighboring - ing neighboring governments. DANGER IN DISTANT WARFARE. "U) In brief, it will subserve our finanial, naval commercial and

while the lawyers for the defense were Bomar & Simpson, Duncan & Sanders, Nicholls & Jones, George Johnstone and Samuei W. Melton. Judge Norton presided over that term If sourt. Turner was sentenced to be hanged on Friday, October 3, 1890. An appeal was taken to the supreme court. The case stood pending for about two years, during which time the prisoner stayed in iail. On July 14, 1892, a remittitur was handed down from the supreme court sus sustaining - taining sustaining the judgment of the lower court and directing another date of execution. At the January term of sessions, 1893, Turner was resentenced to hang by Judge Nerton, who pronounced the first sentence. The day assigned was was June 2, 1893. A strong effort was made to have Judge Nortcn grant a new trial on the grounds of after discovered evidence; but the judge held that he had no jurisdiction since the supreme court had passed on'the matter. Council for Turner then carried the matter to the final arbiter, the su supreme - preme supreme court, asking for a new trial on the same grounds as presented to Judge Norton-after discovered evi evidence. - dence. evidence. As a result an order of this court was received, staying executien until the appeal could be heard. On July 25, 1893, a remittitur was sent from tne supreme court sustaining the circuit court, and ordering a new date for the execution of the senteice. At the July term of sessions court, 1893, and on July 27, Judge William H. Wallace resentenced George S. Turner to be hanged, and the sentence of court was carried out by the then heriff, George B. Dean, on September 1, 1893. George S. Turner was a remarkable man in many respects. He was a plendid type of the physical man, mnd was endowed with a gracious supply of common sense and a tact for making money. He was born on THickety Creek, five miles from Gaff 3ey, on June 6, 1850. At the close of the war he was a lad without a dullar md lef t to hustle for himself. Lige many young men in the Reconstruc ReconstrucJion - Jion ReconstrucJion times, he was drawn into the Ku Elux organization, and when this ne ne-essary - -essary ne-essary factor for the preservation of 5he virtue and property of the south- I and had ceased to exist he had t 1 Leave the State for a couple of years. 1 :n returning he began to devote his i mergies to amassing a fortune. i Eowing the profit to be derived from stton manufacturing, he engaged in hat industrial business, along with i 'arming. He operated and owned the Engerville mill at one time,and later )wned the Lolo mill. At the time of t ais execution his wealth is estimated )y one who should be conversant with he subject at $50,000. He conduct- z d business strictly on business princi- I ?les, and met his obligitions. By 4 ature he was inclined to be imperi imperi)us - )us imperi)us and domineering, and while not a c erson to go away out to seek a diff diffulty, - ulty, diffulty, he would not be brooked, nor t *ould he allow one to cross his path. c [ntense prejudice existed against the t nan after his career of crime. Three s rears prior to the killing of Ed Finger ie slew a German named Metzkia and when tried was convicted and sen- t ~enced to seven years in the peniteni peniteniiary. - iary. peniteniiary. He secured a new trial from he supreme court and when the casec ~ame up again he was acquitted. 1 "Goodbye Suckers. Goodbye." "The American Mercantile associa associaion," - ion," associaion," of Kansas, Mo., has closed its 1 >ffee there and this notice has beenC asted on the door: "Goodbye, you suckers, goodby." The whereabouts >f the .fficers of the association is not 1 mown. The company's head omce, wa~s at St. Joseph, Mo. The majority >f the subscribers are laboring people, nany of whom ficcked to the concern's >ffices and gave pitiable evidence of 1 ~he distress they suffered in the loss of ~heir hardearned money. The sub subcribers - cribers subcribers had agreed to pay one dollar iweek for 80 weeks on the promise ~hat they were to reoeive $100 at the ~nd cf that period. A dispatch from t. Joseph, Mo., says a warrant has 1 :een issued for the arrest of Henry 1 Breninger, president of the American Eer:antile company, which collapsed sere. L. H. Miles, secretary, and M. i. Nordean, field manager, have dis disppeared. - ppeared. disppeared. Two thousand people in t. Joseph lost $30,000 by the failure.( Jilted Millionaire. A romance was shattered when Miss Pearl White married James L. Bancroft in Hot Springs on Thurs-r lay. She had known Harold P.i Rby, a wealthy young (Jlevelander,t since childhood. It is understoodf that they nad been engaged, as they rode, danced and played together fort he last two years. Mr. Roby is 1 special agent of the Northwestern1 Kutual Insurance Company, and is a on of Luther A. Roby, the capital capitalist - ist capitalist and copper man. He is a gradu graduate - ate graduate of Cornell, and his brother, Luke,1 is a noted football player. Roby is now wealthy, and will inherit nearly 1,000,000 when his father dies. Mrs. Bancroft is the daughter of W. J.1 White, the millionaire chewing gum manufacturer. Confessed To Murder. Isham Eiwards, who is confined at Jacksonville, Fla., with twa other negroes under sentence of death for the murder of School Superintendent N. W. Eppes, near Tallahassee, last August, has confessed the crime, de declaring - claring declaring that Caldwell and Larkins, the other negroes, are innocent and were not connected with the killing. The trio were convicted of murder in the first degree at the last term of the circuit court and received the death sentence. The confession was made public Wednesday and it is be believed - lieved believed will result in the release of Lar Larkins - kins Larkins and Cald well. The King and the Girl. It is reported that the young king of Spain declared to his ministers concerning his marriage that he did not want a stupid European princess, but would prefer a bright Amer American - ican American girl with plenty of life and money. While it is not at all likely that the young king ever made the remark attributed to him, it Is certain that he might do much worse, though it is equally certain that the bright Amerioan girl might do much btter.

national interests to recognize the fact that there should be no hesitancy to give up distant foreign possessions which we could not hold in time of war against any possible enemy. Now that we have taken It upon ourselves to build the Panama canal, and to give the widest possible interpreta interpretation - tion interpretation to the Monroe doctrine we in turn, must secure peaceable possession of every strategic point in the West Indies that bears upon the military defense of the canal, concerns the maintenance of doctrines that we have asserted. With the possession, or the dismantling of every West In Indian - dian Indian fortress that might be a menace If in the hands of any enemy, we now have a navy strong enough to meet any power in the world either on the north Atlantic or north Pacific oceans. or in the Caribbean sza. But for military operations in Asia or even in certain portions of South America only national humilation and regret await any attempt to stake our prestige and commercial development. by inviting or accepting battle in waters where we would have to estab establish - lish establish a base of cperation far distant from the home land." PLAGUE RAGING [N INDIA. Great Ravages Among People With Without - out Without Medical Attention. Reports are still reaching here of the ravages of the plague in India, and of the dire stress of the people in many sections of that vast country. Word has iust come to the office of the Presbyterian board of foreign mis missions - sions missions from one of its representatives In Saharanpur, a city of about 70,000 inhabitants, nearly 1,000 miles north northwest - west northwest of Calcutta, that the plague has broken out in almost every quarter of the city and is rapidly spreading throughout the district, which has a population of more than a million. The civil surgeon, according to the report of the missionarv, thir *j the disease cannot be stayed until the end of April or first of May. Conse Consequently - quently Consequently the Americans and Europeans are looking eagerly forward to the hot season, which they ordinarily r read. The natives are for the most part Indifferent, but those who c0-n afford to do so are fleeing to uninfect uninfectad - ad uninfectad reions. The government no longer attempts any quarantine. Even disinfection is not enforced, nor the segregation of the sick. The stricken people are left to their own devices, government having found that attempts to carry ut preventive measures are rendered futile by the unwillingness of the people to obey its Instiuctions, and that active opposition to sucn meas measareslts - areslts measareslts such as to endanger the gov govrnment - rnment govrnment itself. Badly sheltered, clothed and fed he poorer Hindus fall easy victims to the plague, and when they are at attacked - tacked attacked they tco poor or Ignorant to >btain the medical aid which might iave some of their lives. Out in the villages of the district no medical help [s available. Up to a month ago the hristian community of the city had F >een spared, and preventive measures were being used to keep of the dread ( lsease. Three Great Democrats. A dispatch from. Chicago says with lands outstretched In greeting, Win. ennings Bryan and Mayor Tom John- 1 on of Cleveland called together hursday upon the newly elected ~nayor of Chicago, Edward F. D~unne. 'We want to shake hands with the estern conqueror," said Col. Bryan. 'And I want to return the greeting is the idol of his party," responded dayor Dunne, who then stretched his iand ito grasp that of the municipal wnership mayor of Cleveland. Then ollowed a half hour's discussion of Jhlcago's problem. "The municipala wnership election in Chicago means nore than any man can tell," de-1 ~lared Col. Bryan, smiling broadly. 'I am here, like my friend, Tom ohnson, to participate in Thursdayt ight's Jefferson banquet but I am ere for more than that-to greet he greatest mayor in the west." Green Goods Gang. Information given the police by David Stormoul, of Virgin'a Beach, a., resulted in the arrest in New ork of a band of six alleged "green ~oods" operators. Five oi the prison prisonrs - rs prisonrs are men and the sixth a woman. The arrests were made after a detec detecive - ive detecive impersonating Stormoul had gone o a house on the upper East Side, and according to his statement in po poice - ice poice court here closed a deal to pur purihase - ihase purihase $3,000 for 8500. The prisoners, were turned over to the federal offi offiers. - ers. offiers. They gave their names as Geo. ilbert, 42 years old, freight agent, Alias George Cheevers; Joseph Lewis, alias Harry Paillips, 55 years old, a alesman; Joseph Stein, 45, cigar naker; Duncan McGregor, 22; a bar ender; Christopher Berger and Mrs. Berger.___________ New York shoplifters. A young man and two young wo women - men women attrhcted the attention of House. Detective John F~. Larkin at Altman's ecently. He followed them to the I scond floor. While the young wo en engaged the attention of a couple! f saleswomen the man stood by their side, near the counter. Finally Lar-. in says he saw him slip five silk waists into his side pocket. Larkin rrested all three. He says two pairs f silk hose, valued at $13, were found in the muff of one of the women. Tne side pocket of the man's overcoa~t had o bottom to it. The waists were dowr inside the lining. Altogether the stuff recovered was worth $106.50. Food Supply in Waters. The waters are almost as prolific In 'urnishing a food supply to mankine s the land. The ocean teems with fsh over areas that have scarcely been ouched in the drafts that have hither-1 to been made. An illustrating in instance - stance instance is the French fishing attempt in the deep waters off the west coast >f Africa. The first and experiment-1 al attempt at taking fish with trawls was successful beyond all expectation. resultIng in a catch of more than 7,-1 000 pounds, in the catch being many enormous soles and codfish weighing from 50 to 80 pounds each. There will never be a famine on land if only the1 seas can be made to yield their full fullfnood - fnood fullfnood trlbnte.

FOUND AT LAST. Discovery of the Remains of Paul Jones in Paris IN A LEADEN COFFIN. The Excavations of the Old St. Louis Cemetery in Paris Brought to Light a Casket Containing a Body Identified as that of John Paul Jones. A dispatch from Paris says the re remarkable - markable remarkable search which Ambassador Porter has conducted for the -body of Paul Jones has been crowned with. success by the discovery of the body and its identification Toursday by the bighest French medical experts asun asunquestionably - questionably asunquestionably that of the famous American admiral who founded the American navy. Ambassador Porter cabled to Washington Friday night nightannouncing - announcing nightannouncing the successful results of 2 his long and difficult search. The - body is in a good state of preservation, considering that the interment took place one hundred years ago. Tnle circumstances leading to the final discovery of the body are partiO partiOularly - ularly partiOularly interesting. Gen. Porter has conducted the search far the last five years and when Congress recently took no action on the President's rec recommendation - ommendation recommendation for the expenses inci incident - dent incident to ther search the amraador continued the extensive labors at his own expose. A large force of work workmen - men workmen has been engaged night and day tunnelling and cross tunnelling the old St. Louis Cemetery. This constit tuted a huge operation embracing nearly a block, covered with buildings and requiring a system of subterran oan mining. Hundreds of wooden caskets were found, but not until Wednesday was. unearthed four leaden caskets'4hich gave promise of containing the body of the admiral. Three of them bore plates designating the names of the deceased. The fourth showed superfor solidity of workmanship. No plate was found on this casket, and it is sup supposed - posed supposed it was removed when another coffin was superimposed on it. The leaden coffin was opened in the pres presence - ence presence of Gen. Porter, Col. Bailly-Blan Bailly-Blanchard, - chard, Bailly-Blanchard, the second secretary of the American embassy, and Engineer Weis, who had been directing the ex excavation. - cavation. excavation. The body wai found.to be well preserved, owning to its having been immerced in alcohol. It was wrapped in a sheet with a packing of straw and hay. Those present were immediately struck by the resem resemblance - blance resemblance of the head to that of the me dallions and busts of the adailral. As was anticipated no uniform de - oration or sword were found, as all such articles had been accounted for after the turial. The coffn is shap shaped - ed shaped like a mummy-coffn which were common at that period, widening from the feet to the ishoulders with a round top fittinz over the head. The coffn was taken to the medical school, where Drs. Capitan and Papil Papillaut, - laut, Papillaut, distinguished professors of the school of anthropology, and recognized authorities on suell investigations, were charged with makin a thorough examination for the purposeof identi identification. - fication. identification. To faci itate this the'am the'ambassador - bassador the'ambassador furnished them with por portraits - traits portraits and medallions, two busts by Houdin and authentic descriptions of the color of the admiral's hair, and the height and measurement of his body. The identification was pro pronounced - nounced pronounced complete in every particular. Care has been taken to keep the body in its present state of preserva preservation. - tion. preservation. It will be placed Ina handsome casket and deposited In the receiving yanlt of the American Church on the Avenue do L'Alma until the ambassa ambassador - dor ambassador can learn the opinion of the Gov Governent - ernent Governent concerning the most appro appropriate - priate appropriate means of transporting 1t to the United States and giving a fitting sepulchre to the body of the Illustri Illustrious - ous Illustrious sailor whose place of burial has so long remained a mystery. Victims Of Vanity. Woman's vanity has proved a fertile tield for George Lavine, who, by flat flatcering -- cering flatcering his victims with the belief that they are social leaders, has swindled many women in Chicago re recently. - cently. recently. Levine pleaded guilty in Judge Tuthill's court to the cbarge of oper operating - ating operating a contidence game, and was sent to j ail pending an InvestIgation of his operations in Eastern cities. "I have been sent to you because you are, one ot the leading society women of the city," Levine said to his victim, "and you have been selected to share in the distribution of prizes by my firm for advertising purposes." He then pro produced - duced produced a package of envelops and de declared - clared declared each envelope contained money, ?he envelops he sold at prices ranging from $1 to 515 each, withl the stipula stipulation - tion stipulation that they should not be opened until he had been gone half an hour. The envelopes contained only blank pap:r. Tired of Life. A dispatch from Spartanburg to The State says Alec Vandiver Bay, a pauper, aged 84 years, made a desper desperate - ate desperate attempt to kill himself near the county parish Thursday. He was found lying on the ground near the parish church, bleeding from self-in self-infi - fi self-infi eted wounds In the legs, throat and abdomen When ciarried to the parish he said that he had tired of life, griev grieving - ing grieving about his little 'grandchild from whom be was separated when brought to the poor house a month ago. He gave the keeper $1 to give his grand grandchild - child grandchild and said that he would die. Bay used an ordinary pocket knife In stab stabbing - bing stabbing himself. His condition Is regard regarded - ed regarded as exceedingrly critical. Killed Them All. John Dow, a negro, shot and killed his wife and her father-in-law and mother-In-law and another negro wo woman - man woman at Sulphur R ack, Arzk., on Tues Tuesday. - day. Tuesday. The trouble began because his wife refused to go home with him.

FROST HURT SOE. Weekly Crop Report by Fection Di Director - rector Director Bauer. Some Very Interesting Records in the Report Just Issued. The Weather Record. According to a weather report is issued - sued issued last week by Section Director Bauer, the early vegetables in the western part of the state were dam damaged - aged damaged by the recent cold snap. The report says : ' The week ending 8 a. m. Mordty, the 10th, began with high tempera tures and fair weather. Showery conditions with rain, hail, sleet and snow flurries prevaled from 4th to the 6th inclusive. The hail did some amage to tobacco and strawberries in the northeastern counties. The leet and snow were confned to the western and central counties and did very little damage. The snow oc ociurred - iurred ociurred in the western and central :ounties but was not general, and it melted as it fell. Tbe rainfall varied from less than 3alf an inch to over an inch. and was very well d:stributed and beneficial to growing vegetation and put the soi nto excellent condition for cultiva cultivaion; - ion; cultivaion; it was heavy enough to stop Dlowing over the western counties )ut scarcely interfered with farm ork in other sections. The frost on the 7th was general ver the state to within about six miles of the coast. It was killing >ver the western counties where' the inimnum temperature fell to about 4 legrees below freezing, and generally ight in all other sections. Tender ,arden vegetables, such as beans and komatoes, were more or less injured, md corn was nipped in the western :ounties, although the damage was light as there was but little up. ?ruit is in full bloom in the extreme vestern couaties, and the frost was. n places, quite damaging, but else elsehere - here elsehere it is not believed that fruit vas materially injured, except figs in laces and possibly peachEs. Farm work Is well advanced gen genrally, - rally, genrally, though bac.kward . in some ections where labor is scarce. . Corn planting is nearly finished in ihe eastern and central counties vhere most of it is up to fairly good tands; in the western counties lanting is well under way on up upands. - ands. upands. Cotton planting has been be beun - un beun in the eastern parts and will >e begun in the western ones text week. Some cotton is already p. Tobacco plant3 are small in Ma Maion, - ion, Maion, and they were slightly injured >y the hail which fell in sections. Lice planting Is making rapid pro proress - ress proress in the Colleton district and has iot begun in the Georgetown dis disrict, - rict, disrict, where the proposed acreage vill be smaller than usual. Some weet potatoes have been planted in he southeastern counties. The small grain crops are genferally loing well and look promising, but in ome sections the oat croP is poor ; ye Is heading. Pastures afford good ~razing in the coast counties. -Gar -Garens - ens -Garens vary greatly, being poor in >laces and backward, while in others arly vegetables are on the market. ruck was damaged slightly by the rost, especially strawberries and eans and cucumbers. Strawberries, ettuce and radishes are being mark markted. - ted. markted. Work of a Fiend.. Dynamite wrecked two houses at| ne o'cleck Wednesday morning at ~lossburg, a mining town ten miles rm Birmingham, Ala., on the South Southrn, - rn, Southrn, killing one whita girl, 10 years ld, and injuring two others fatally. he houses wer6 occuped by nonunion niners, working for the Tennesse )oal, Iron and Railroad Company. )ne of the houses was occupied by Lexander, white, and the other by Willam Cato, colored. The dynamite as placed on front porches In both stances. The Alexander children lept in tife front of the house and re eived the worst of the shock, the girl eing horribly mangled. The explosion at the negro Louse did not do much~ amage, the explosive being placed in ,n ron pipe. Tne explosion was heard or miles around. The fiends will be nched if caught. Thinks Mob Killed Him. The Italian ambassador has formal formaly - y formaly brought to the attention of the tate department the death last Thurs Thurslay - lay Thurslay at Lorton, Va., of Joseph Leanto in Italian laborer, woo himself had nortally wounded George Malcolm, a leputy sheriff in resisting arrest. It vas first claimed that Leanto, who iad run amuck and terrorized thie cam nunity, had committed suicide to avoid arrest. The ambassador repine repineents - ents repineents that there seems good reason to I ubt the theory of the suicide and hat it is an open question whether he Italian was not killed by a mob. (he state department has commnuni commnuniated - ated commnuniated with the governor of Virginia vith the request for an investigation ~nd statement. Monument At Appomattox, The first monument to be erected t Appomattox In memory of the Con Conederate - ederate Conederate soldiers who fought in the ivil war was dedicated o:1 Monia y. IDie monument was erected by the tate of North Carolina, whose troops vere the last of the Confediere fore is to -hold out against the victorious Jion army. The dcdication was made he occasion f or a great gathering at jonfederate veterans of both North Jarolna and Virginia. Gov. Glenn if North Carolina delivered the priv privipal - ipal privipal oration. Other speakers were Ans. Cox and Roberts, who.;e comn nands greatly distinguished them themelves - elves themelves in the fighting about Appomat Appomat~ox. - ~ox. Appomat~ox. A Birdlime Tree. There is In New Zealand a tree vhich proves fatal to birds in an al alogether - ogether alogether singular way. The seed essels give off a sticky fluid, and nany a fly find; itself imprisoned in ,he gummy stuff. These flies in their urn attract sma 1 birds, and they also get so covered with the fluid that they ire unable to flutter. The fiit, too, s an object of desire, ani birds come, s it were, glued to the ripe clusters zrhh they nrommorl to at

A REAR ADMIRAL In a Remarkable Speech Advo Advocates - cates Advocates Bryan's Views. CHICAGO PM iTFORM And Its Democratih Prineiples Is the Em Embodiment - bodiment Embodiment of Rear Admiral Melville' Speech. Says Abandon Every Distant Possession that Requires a Ficet. In a remarkable address before the American Academy of Social and Po Political - litical Political Science at Philadelphia Rear Admiral Melville, retired, declared that the first step toward increasing the efficiency of the American navy should be "the preparation of plans for the immediate abandonment, at the slightest possible financial loss, of every distant possession that is likely to require a fleet to defend it." Admiral Melville is one of the fore foremost - most foremost experts In naval engineerng in the world. For a number of years, and even after he had reached the re retirement - tirement retirement age, he served as engineer in rhief of the American navy. He is a man of widest experience and deep in inrormation - rormation inrormation cn all naval matters. He is one of the men who has done most toward the upbuilding of the new kmerican navy. In his Philadelphia address Admiral Aelville emphasized the grave respon respondibillties - dibillties respondibillties resting upon this nation by Its "three inheritances," the Philip Philippines, - pines, Philippines, the Panama canal and the ad adninistration - ninistration adninistration of the finances of bank bank-upt - -upt bank-upt nations, each of which he de de:lared - :lared de:lared is "llkely to prove a Pandora's .ox of evils and disappointments." Eis address has made a profound sen senation. - ation. senation. COST OF ARMY AND NAVY. Admiral Melville spoke in part as 'ollows: "Probably a study of our own army ill best tell of the expense connected vith the maintenance of an existing nilitary establishment. Even In 2eace time, the expenscs of maintain maintainng - ng maintainng eacti soldier of our army has eached the sum of .$1,300 per annum. - "If anything, the navy is a more xpensive institutibn to maintain than be army. Dividing the total naval ,xpenditure by the number of men iu he organization, we find that it is 20w costing the government abou ;2,000 annually for the support of lach sailor. "The battleship that can draw up in the resources of a completely quipped manufacturing and military >ase is at an enormous advantage as mpared with a similar vessel that 6ttempts to be, in great part, self selfupporting. - upporting. selfupporting. When the United States leciared war against Spain the naval trength of the two powers was about be same, so far as graphic charts and ,fficial statistics could show. -"The publin at large, as well as the engress, now recognizes the fact that he defense of the United States must >rimarily be intrusted to the navy. Juless a possible fce had some hope of ecuring command of the sea against he strongest opposing fleet that we ~ould assemble, no nation would un unlertake - lertake unlertake the task of fitting out a pos ible armada to attempt either the. >lockade or the invasion of our coast. "From henceforth we cannot evade he responsibility that attends our po poition - ition poition as a great Industrial nation eeking a fair porticn of the tradn of he world. As we have taken it unto ~urselves to assert doctrines that at atect - ect atect others, there will come occasion wben our military and naval strength, ather than the righteousness of our ause, may be the only factor that vill cause other nat-ions to accept our nterpretation of policies that concern ihem as well as ourselves. THREE COSTLY INHERITANCES. "During the past eight years there iave been three inheritances that we 1ave acquired, each of which is likely ;o prove a Pandora's box of evils and iisappointments to this nation. So ong as the reponsibility of adminis adminis;ering - ;ering adminis;ering these three inheritances re naimed with us, so long there will be Sprogressive increase in military and 1aval expenditures, and so long will t be necessary for us to weigh well ,he Important elements of naval con conicts. - icts. conicts. "The first Inheritance that was brust upon us by some evil genie was ,he Ptiilippine archipelago. These is isands - ands isands have been a tax upon the re reources - ources reources of every ration that ever pos iessed them. "It may be pertinent to call to mind ~hat when France seized Formosa, in 1885, the Eiropean press of China mnd Japan gave studied effort to showing how closely connected were Ghe Islauds of Japan, Formosa and the Philippines, and that it was but the lestiny of events toat this chain of slands should some day be under a single controlling power. "The second inheri tance that either assumed or was bequeathed to us by political necessity was the obligation to build the Panama canal. We are ~radually awakeniug to a realization that In guaranteeing completion of this work we took an internationa.l burden upon ourselves, whether this burden be regarded from either a military or financial standpoint. The latest estimate as to the cost of an isthmian sea level cost of an istImian sea level canal is abount $230,000,000. In connection with the question of cost of such a waterway, it may be well to remember that Trautwine, about fifty years ago, estimated that cost was about $16,000,000 or about7 per cent of the latest estimate. RECEIVERsHIP OF REPUBLICS. "The third inheritance from which we will never receive an Income or substantial benefit is our attempt to practically assume the receiverstlip of republics whose treasuries are empty as a result of intolerable national bus businiess - iniess businiess with administrative methods. The financial and political history of some of the American republics for the last forty yeas ordeArs upon a e-.

SOIL SUIOIDE. The South's Golden Opportunity Neglected Says a Michigander. WEDDED TO COTTON. He Calls Attention to Our Advantages for Stock Raising as Compared With Western Farmers Who Must Feed With a Fork Six Months in the Year We reproduce below from the Pro Progressive - gressive Progressive Farmer and Cotton Plant, an excellent agricultural journal pub published - lished published at Raleigh. N. C., a highly suggestive letter from a Michigan farmer on the golden opportunity for stock raising in the South. Our peo people - ple people have really "had cotton pulled over their eyes," as he says, or they would not have oeen so blind to the opportunities about them. "Soil-sul "Soil-sul,ide" - ,ide" "Soil-sul,ide" is a good word that he gives us to describe any system of farming which leaves out stcck raising. Read bue letter, which follows: Prof. B. W. Kilgore, Raleigh, N. Q. Dear Sir:-I tind The Progressive E'armer very interesting. So many bhings are vastly different from our mothods. It stems . as though you lra greatly favored. To day (Harchi 12th) the sun is shining on fielas glis glis5ening - 5ening glis5ening with snow. Here and there . *he earth breaks through and looks Lppealingly upward to the sun. Not wo hundred feet away are drifts all )f four feet deep. There are a few )are spots in the roads, but runner 7echicles are all In use still, and this s the seventy-seventh day of contin continlous, - lous, continlous, unbroken sleighing. There were L few days of sleighing previous to bat, but there was an Interval of )are ground. Fur seventy- seven days ne snow uas not boen wholly melted .ram my house roof. Do the planters sell their cotton ieed to oil mils and buy back the fer ferihzer - ihzer ferihzer meal? isn't this meal of more ralue tj fred farm animals than for .ertilizer? Certainly with your ber bernuda - nuda bernuda and crab grasses and vast store ] f cottonseed it does seem as though rou might ruin the beef trust by grow- I ng beeves and mutton for the great r nty trade of our Eastern markets. 1 Feeding lambs is followed to some r .xtent here; farmers with 80 to 160 1 Leres of land feed twenty to fity I ambs, where so situated as to pasture g ;he ewe., profitably. The industry is r A. a low ebb this seoson as to number 1 'ed, and the price to farmers Is close ;o 8 per cent (live weight) all this wimter. You may be assured there is t rood prcfit In that. The United States consumed 461, 461,00, - 00, 461,00, pounds of wool in 1903; three threeiights - iights threeiights of it foreign grown-3ay 90, 90,100 - 100 90,100 tons. What ails the South with I ts wide-spread hills and mountain ands clad in perennial grass-ideal tome for sheep-to go on making cot coton - on coton and tobacco, all hard work and oil-suicide, when sheep are soil con conervators, - ervators, conervators, ea-ily tended, and pay large >rofit as mutton, quite Independent of roo1? You are nearer New York than is owa, and I just read in an Iowa farm aper of one farmer who is feeding 2,000 sheen, a mere handful to what me usually feeds. The beef trust dis disouragedl - ouragedl disouragedl him and he sold largcely of mis co.rn crop, rather than teed beeves ,ud sheep as he has heretofore done. 3ut you see he is at the mercy of the et and railrosad trusts, while you eople are a mere step to the seaboard, and thence to market, independent of he trusts. If I were physically well I'd like to ~ry the South. It does seem as though 'our blessings are Infinite as compar compar~d - ~d compar~d with us, feeding farm animals with fork six months In a year. The South appears to he In the ~rasp of the tobacco trust and cotton ~harks. Still, its people go on im im3overishing - 3overishing im3overishing their sodls growing these ~rops; still trying to keep up fertility1 ith phosphate rock and imported ertilizers to the exhaustion of their ~ocket-books, while a vast market for oodi stuffs, meat particularly, lies in 1 he hullow of her hand-unheeded!I Argentina and Australasia sold us Lbout 225 000,000 pounds of wool in en years. Most of the time the South ay fage-down across the knees of the ~rusts squalling under the merited lows of the trusts' price slipper. 1 Think of Argentina, 10,000 miles Lway at the south end of creation, sell sellug - ug sellug us wool at seven cents, and the south, with all the blessing of a rn rnmust - must rnmust wool tardff, burning cotton to teep up the price! If that isn't a1 ~pectacte for gods and men! With illimitable resources in the zest pasture on earth, vast stores of ~ottonseed, inexuaustible possibilities .a corn, cowpeas, alialfa, rape, pea peaauts, - auts, peaauts, cane andi sorghum sirups, the south should have milions of head ,f muttonas and beeves, thousands of packing houses and fleets of ocean iners bearing refrigerator meats to tner lands. If New Z ealand can ship .oads of frczen rabbits to England, what ails your pe pe? Must they al always - ways always hold a pounu of cotton so near their eyes they can't see a dollar less than ar m' length away ? Perennial swine plague will make pork g:owing on extensive scale dif dificult - icult dificult mn the South, but what is wrong with mauttoa growing? 'Tis a clean clean3r - 3r clean3r meat and htaiihy always. The sheep isn't a scavenger. North Caro Caroina - ina Caroina could well ati rd to grant a )ou.ty on every well-bred sheep im imported - ported imported for breeding into the State; an every pound of wool grown and svery sheep carcass exported form :he State in ten years. To aid sheep breeders, England law nce compelled all her dead to be ouried in woolen shrouds-and see what an immense commerce in wool she built up an:1 holds to this day. But the South-oh, she has the cot. ton pulled oveir her eyes and sees not: H. Genesse Co., Mich.

WAGES OF SIN. Marion Parr Paid the Penalty for Murdering Clarence Shealey. IS FIRST WHITE MAN Hanged in This State In Eleven Years. The Last White Man Hanged Was a Greenville Mountaineer Named Morgan. The Trial and Execution of Turner. For the first time in 11 years a white man was hanged for murder in South Carolina Friday. Marion Parr, the . oung cotton mill operative, who killed the mill boy Clarence Shealey, was hanged in the Richland count) jail yard Friday be between - tween between the hours of 10 an, 12 HAving been found guilty by a jury of his peers, good men and true, he was sentenced to die on the gallows, and the righteousness of the verdict was attested by the confession which Parr made voluntarily to the minister not many days after his conviction. THE LAST CASE. The last white man hanged in South Carolina was J. W. J. Morgan, a mountaineer, who was Executed in the Greenville jail yard Friday, June 1st, 1894. Morgan had killed his father-in-law, L. Wash Hipp, another mountaineer. The killing of Hipp was on the 18th of June, 1892. The old man was shot in the back, the affair occurring in his own yard in the Dark Corner of Greenville county. Hipp's younger daughter, unmarried, had given birth to a child and she accused her broth brother-in-law, - er-in-law, brother-in-law, Morgan, of being the cause of her ruir. On Saturday, June 18, 1892, Morgan sent to the Hipp home and tried to get the girl to go before a trial justice and make affidavit that the charges she had made against him were untrue. She refused to do so. Morgan remained to dinner, and after the meal the father and daughter took their hoes and went out to work. Shortly af ter they had gone Morgan took his gun and followed. Coming up with them he fired into Hlpp's back, killing him instantly, 53 buck buckshot - shot buckshot entering his body. Morgan escaped to North Carolina but was captured and tried at the No November - vember November t4rm in Greenville, 1892. The verdict was guilty. An appeal was taken but the supreme court sustain sustained - ed sustained the rulings of the trial court and Morgan was resentenced at the March term, 1894, to be hanged May 4, 1894 His attorney, Capt. Absalom Blytnie, secured a stay of execution In order to make an appeal to the governor for commutation to life imprisonment but the appeal was refused and the sen sentence - tence sentence of death was executed on the first day of June, 1894, nearly two years to the date from the murder. Morgan was a magnificent specimen of physical manhood, a tall and stal stalwart - wart stalwart mountaineer, 38 years old. He had six children by his wife, and his wife and mother were constant in their attentions to him during his imprisonment under the death sen sentence. - tence. sentence. The sister-in-law who was supposed to be the cause of the trou trouble - ble trouble was also attentive to him during that time. Nine months before the hanging of Morgan another white man had been banged in South Carolina, in the county adjoiningr Greenville. The case of George S. Turtner, the Spar.4 tanburg man who was hanged for murder on the first day of Septembtr, 1893, is one of the most celebrated in the court annals of South CJaro CJarolina. - lina. CJarolina. THE TUELNEE CASE. On Friday, March 7th, 1890, Ed H. Finger was passing by the store of George S. Turner, near the site of the Valley Falls cotton mill, where Tur Turner - ner Turner successfully operated a cotton factory and general merchandise bus business. - iness. business. Finger and Turner were at outs. There was a "family affair" in which the names of a maiden sister of Finger and G. S Turner were coupled. A suit against Turner had been insti instituted - tuted instituted and this was settled in the courts by Turner. Finger was the brother-in-law of Turner Passing by the place of business, he engageax In some bantering and threateming remarks, which brought Turner to the front of the building according to the testimony. It is further said that Finger's attitude was one of defiance and he was armi d. Tur-ner was a man of unquestioned courage, and arming himseif with a gun he left the store and proceeded to the roadside. As a result the fatal shot was fired and Finger fell dead. Turner went to Spartanburg and surrendered. The Mznday after his surrender there was an attempt made to lynch Turner. A mob collected on the square of the city and moved to wards the county jail, where the prisoner was confined. The jail was then located on Broad street, the building now occupied as the city station house. At the jail Jo.hn M. Nicholls, the present and the theni sheriff, with John IE. Vernon, Eber Brewton and Ed D. Gentry, waited the approach of the excited torce. Sheriff Nicholls came to the front of the building and clearly and earnestly stated to the crowd that the only way to get Turner was to kill himself and his deputies. The doors of the jail were then l<,cked and the attack awaited. The mob took the sheriff at his word and dispersed. It was deemed prudent, however, to take Turner away from the city and he was "spirited" out of town at night by private ccnveyarlce to Union the Tuesday following the attempt at lynching. From a three hours' stop at Union the prisoner was brought to Columbia and committed to the Rich Richland - land Richland county jail, Sheriil Rowan re ceiving the prisoner. At the July term, 1890, Turner was' tried and convicted of murder, with without - out without recommendation to mercy. W. C. Cannon was foreman of the jury. 0. L. -Schumpert was assisted in the proseution by Mr. Stanyarne Wilson,