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J ... DITION. 'A XT" J , In Advance. p J f ' l daily EDmcrj. I4.00 par Annum, in Advance, , ' 2.00 for 6 Months,, in Advance O ! 1.00 for 3 Months, in Advance. WEEKLY EDITION $x.oo per. Annum OLD SERIES-VOL LXXI NO. 31,903... FAYETTEVILLE, N. C.. THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1906. new TJS-VOL. XXIIINO. 11,105. TJS v JLiLiLJS I I i urYiold Per Acre 0 KIf you want to dollars grow, feed I ydat,lleld with VlririDla-CarbJlna lor- iiiuzora. xooy will "inareaw : I yields per acre," and thua brlnirr! lnoreaea your down I tho oot of produot Ion, even If you uu fewer team and lou labor. We bave thoutandi of itrom teatf- monlala from farmer! who have trk-d I other make of fertilizer! and ueert I yirgiolaaroHna Fertilizers art by far the boat. They will jive you oropa that will make more money for you. Buy no other, even If ma dealer endeuvors to get yon to buy tome "cheap" brand )ut beonuao he may make a little more profit on that; Of oourao, that would be to his umeruat not youra. flRGINII CXROLINJI CHEMICAL CO., lMmno, Ya, lorfclk, Ya. Cnrtim, K.O. (Urlretoa, 1 0. Baltimore, Mi Uinta, Ga. lanuaa, Oa Montgonwr. lit, lenpaii, lean; fWfWV Is V- ,., ;, , ,p-..M PROFESSIONAL CARDS, NEIL A. SINCLAIR, . ROUEBT If, DYE. SINCLAIR & DYE, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW, ' 117 Donaldson St., Fayetteville, N. C. D. T. OATES, Attorney-at Law, Booms 2 and 3 K. of P. Building, yAYKTTBTILLE, N. - C. Q. K. NIMOCKS, Attorney-at-Law, Office K. of P. Building, -'phone 229, FAYKTTBTILLK, N. C. General law practice; Notary Public. H. McD. Bobinson, John Q. Shaw. (Notary Public) ROBINSON & SHAW, Attorneys-at-Law, Office 121 Donaldson Street, Fayetteville. N. C. Prompt attention given to all business. d. l. Mcduffie, Attorney-at-Law, K. of P. Building, rAYBTTEVILLK, N. - C. JOHN W. BOLTON,. 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O. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE a TftAoc Mama FA - m DcaioN , ' 1 1 tl 1 ' Copyrights Ao, Anyon aanrtlnf a aketoh and daamiMlon nay . autcklr aaoartaln our opinion fraa whether an ftiYentlon la probably patent iiMe. Cominunlna aarit fn Oldaat aaencj tot aoraruicpalmta. . Patenta taken throoah Munn kOo. reoejff ayaclal notloe, without o nurse. In the Scientific Jlarlca K hendeomely llhwtretd weeilr.- T,anrat elf. . filiation of anr aclentiao tournaL Terma. M a renrt ioar nioniue, e k bvhivjmi ifnummm. .Increase Y Beat tar v J I Coophe, 1 1 Colaa,Craua, I I ' Whoeaina M m TlHreaiatwX 1 "B"laon 1 I . arary bottle, - I I I eaVataSai I mmk km JEFEEHSON DID NOT COPY. Dr. James Bchouler, of Boston, au thor Of a "History of the United States Under the Constitution," delivered a lecture day before yesterday at the Johns Hopleins University on "The Rights of Human Nature." The ori gin of the 'Wfienable rights" recitea in the Declaration of Independence of 1776 was ' traced by Dr, fkhouler to familiar phrases of the common law, and particularly to John Locke's fa mous essay on civil government. Dr. Schouler said ; . ; , j " 1 1 "That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Crea- tor with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and happiness; that to secure these rights government is instituted among men these maxims form the text of our investigation in the present course. They were announced as self-evident, and hence had . become familiar in America. They were set forth as en dowments of man's Creator, and hence had formation in religious belief and were uttered solemnly and devoutly.- "Jefferson, who drafted this Declar ation, did not claim to have' origin ated such a philosophy, nor' did Franklin or John Adams, who served on the committee wilh him. John Adams in a letter of 1822, which was meant to serve history, wrote with somewhat captious jealousy that there is not an idea in the document but what had been hackneyed in Con gress for two years before; and in rproof of this be refers to a declaration contained in the journals of Congress of 1774, as also to a Boston pamphlet voted and printed in the town of Bos ton before the Congress met at all. The documents of Congress do not sustain such a statement; the resolu tions of the Boston town meeting Jef ferson says he never saw, but prob ably between 1770 4nd "1776 many town and, county meetings, were held in the various colonies which formu lated the maxims of Locke after a similar fashion and made them fa miliar to our people. "Life, liberty, property, home and family and the pnrsuit of happiness are the inalienable rights of the indi vidual under our American doctrine, and not, as in the Old World, rights which are treated as derived from sov ereign favor. As our Continental Congress recalled, after the war for independence had been successfully waged, the rights for which America here contended were the rights of hu- taan nature." The foregoing recalls the contro versy that used to be waged between the advocates of our own Mecklenburg Declaration and the supporters of Mr. Jefferson. If our recollection serves us, Mr. Jefferson gave no countenance to the authenticity of the Mecklenburg Declaration, while some of his politi cal opponents attributed his attitude towards the antecedent Carolinian manifesto to a fear that," if conceded to be genuine, il tended to convict him of plagiarism. Soberer critics of the time, however, pointed out what Dr. Schouler now calls attention to : ; that the maxims of both the Mecklenburg and the National Dec larations were familiar phrases of the common law and of Locke's essay. CURRENT COMMENT. One of the first measures to be ta ken up by the new British parliament provides that children of the very poor, attending the public schools, shall be furnished one meal dailyat the expense of the authorities. It is stated that the government has adopt ed this measure as its own, "subject to amendment for excluding the so cialistic principle." That is interest ing. We shall be curious to see how the ."socialistic principle" can be excluded from such an act. Free public education itself is a step in so cialism. The gratifying information comes that two important law provisions are carried in the postoffice appropri ation bill, one forbidding the Govern ment departments from franking any thing through the mails which an individual . cannot mail at regular postage rates. The other prevents committees, organizations or associa tions of citizens from enjoying the franking privilegf It is thought that a great saving will result to the Government in freeing the mails from furniture, heavy reports and supplies'of a nature which depart ments iiave been permitted to frank, but which an individual could not send by mail. ? ',. telegramlfrom Dallas, . Texas, says that the Court of Civil Appeals at Austin yesterday gave what looks like a final blow dealers in cotton "futures'' in Texas in reversing and dismissing the case of Jessie L. Nor ris against W. H. Logan. The com: plainarit sued Logan to recover mo ney furnished to buy "futures,"" alle ging that Logan had not -sold accor ding to directions. Logan filed a counter suit for money put up oh the margins. The court, dismissed the "case, saying it was gambling. The effect of the decision is that neither side can -eollect nieney In Texas on deals In cotton "futures." i I'Bubb to be General" is the rather startling head-line to a Washington dispatch in one of our contemporaries. Upon reading the text, however, it appears that that is his name, sure enough "Col. John W. Bubb, of the Twelfth Infantry, to be a brigadier general," &c, the ocial announce. meneads; and," curiously enough, he succeeds a Brigadier General with the remarkably alliterative name of C. C. C. Carr, and is selected by the president in place of one Captain Pershing, who .was thought 4o, have been'J 'slated" for the promotion. It is hardly necessary to Say that Gen eral Bubb comes from Pennsylvania, , the State which gave birth to Gen. J. Byrd Grubb, the gentleman who used to figure so often as a candidate for a foreign mission, finally "landed" as minister to Spain, and astonished the natives there with his lowly name and butterfly attire. In this Southern land of old-fashioned names, the poly glot nomenclature of the war's up heaval strikes the ear. uncomfortably. "THB REAL GOLD STANDARD PARTY Under the' above head the Rich mond Times-Dispatch, commenting on an article in Jtht Washington Post, says: . r-'1 ' " ,; ' In that" campaign 1896 the regu lar Democratic convention declared unequivocally for the free and un limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. - .. The Republicans declared that they were opposed to the free coinage, "except by international agreement with the leading nations of the world, WHIQH WE PLEDGE OURSELVES TO promote and until such .agreement can. be obtained the existing gold standard must be preserved." But the "National Democratic party," which assembled in conven tion at Indianapolis on September 2d, said : "We tnsist upon the main tenance of the gold standard and the parity therewith of every dollar issued by the government, and are firmly opposed ' to the free and un limited coinage of silver and to the compulsory purchase of silver bul lion." The Post is right. There was only one gold standard party in 1896. The regular Demecratic party came out bravely for the silver and gold standard. The Palmer and Buckner came out bravely for the single gold standard. The Republican party tried to dodge between the two. Yet that party1 is very bold now to declare that it is the only and original, gold standard party. The record speaks tor itsell. The despised Palmer and Buckner party was, as our Richmond contem porary says, the only and original gold standard party. It was called the Palmer and Buckner party, but it wsreally the Cleveland party a pie-bald conglomerate of bolters and others which Mr. Cleveland sup ported against the regular nominees of the party that twice made him president, and which he paved the way for as described in the following quotation from the Washington Post : "It will be remembered that Grover Cleveland was reduced to the neces sity of calling in the' republicans to aid in repealing the purchasing clause of the Sherman silver law a purely republican measure, by the way. INDICTMENT OF INSURANCE OFFICERS. Three officers of the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company were on Thursday, in New York, indicted for alleged grand larceny in the first de gree and perjury in the third degree. They were Frederick A. Burnham, president; George D. Eldridge, first vice-president; and, George Burnham, Jr., second vice-president. In all, five indictments were brought against each officer two for alleged grand larceny and three for alleged forgery. The alleged larceny and forgery was brought about, according to the indictments, by payments of $9,000 of the company's money to law firms, the apparent puopose of which is alleged to have been to settle claims against the company, while the real object is alleged to have been to settle actiona which had been brought against the officers of the company as individuals. The indict ments on which a charge of larceny is based alleged that the officers em bezzled two sums, one of $7,500 and the other of $1,500, on October 24, 1901. This is a good beginning. Let the good work continue. TILLMAN'S NATIVE DIGNITY. Those who did not know the native dignity of Mr. Tillman, and had been accustomed to the toady atmosphere which has grown up in Washington since the old Southern regime passed away, took it for granted that the South Carolinian would be compelled, by the circumstance oTTTemgTentrust' ed with leadership in the matter of the rate bill, to call upon, the presi dent the president who had insulted him so grievously a year, ago, But Mr. Tillman made it plain at the out. set that the president, had now law fully nothing to do with the matter. In the following quotatiqrtrom the Washington Post (which is interesting and important in other respects), be accentuates this wholesome view' Says the Post; f '":"' ' "The more 1 study the bill," said Mr. Tillman, "the better I like it It has some defects, which we shall try to remedy, but, on the whole, it is a great deal better measure than I thought it was when I declared about two weeks ago - in an ' impromptu speech in the Senate that I feared a train of freight cars could be driven through it when the Supreme Court srot through with it. ' ' "I. have had 'no time to examine the tirdDosed amendments in detail. and until I do weigh them carefully I don't want to express an opinion about them. There is this, though, that I don't mind saying, and that is the bill is now before the Senate ' and has not yet reached the President for bis approval or veto.' Until itdoes, t, for one, do not see what the President has to do with it." ; , , THE NEW LEADER. . ,J- . ; Washington Foot. . Roosevelt, TillmanrHepbUrrl let us read the 133d Psalm. And why should not Benjamin R. Tillman lead the Senate in this, rate-making legis lation f He believes in it, and where he believes he gives his whole heart, mind and strength to the cause, John Randolph, of Roanoke, said pf Ben Hardin, of Kentucy, that he was "a kitchen knife whetted on a brickbat" Tillman is that re-enforced by a four pronged pitchfork, and something else besides. A less 'able man than Robert Toombs, morally he is just as strong, and though his speech has not the forensic rhythm of the great I Georgian's, it is just as emphatic and j just as readily understood. Besides, I it is agreed that, originally rate ma king was a Democratic discovery. We all know what admiration the President has for Mr. Tillman. If it is not as beautiful as the love of Da vid and Jonathan, it must now be as confiding as the friendship of Nelson and Colhngwood, for Tillman has in his Senatorial keeping Roosevelt and his fortunes, so far as concerns the present paramount in politics. The Hon. William P. Hepburn, we may be assured, is delighted. His friend ship for the grim South Carolinian is as "the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon' the moun tains of 2ion." There cannot be the slightest doubt that the eloquent commoner from Iowa hails, as Bona parte did De Saix. at Marengo, as Wellington did Blucher at Waterloo, the aggressive South Carolinian, bis coadjutor in chief in the greatest par liamentary grapple with abuse of the epoch. When these three, Roosevelt, Tillman and Hepburn, hold a council of state, depend on it there will be something doing 'round' that mahog any. It is not exactly the Ben Tillman "who fetched his pitchfork into the chamber of "the most dignified legis lative body in the world" eleven years ago, and metaphorically plucked the beard of some of our conscript fathers. That Ben Tillman re ligiously believed that there was but one honest man in the " national council, and he a gentleman from South Carolina with a pitchfork in his hand. This Ben Tillman is bravely over that. He has grown rapidlyj and is a healthy growth. His honesty is as sturdy, his inde pendence is as defiant, his methods as aggressive, his speech as blunt, his resolution as tenacious as ever. Nor is that all he is become one of the most formidable debaters in the Senate and mentally he is the most aggressive and intrepid public man in the country. It need astonish nobody if Mr. Aid rich's flank movement shall turn out a piece of "Roosevelt luck." At least we know that it will be a big job to juggle with a bill in the keeping of Benjamin R. Tillman. The Washington Post called Mr. Tillman "The New Administration Leader," but the following in yes terday's press dispatches from Wash ington exhibits the South Carolinian as in as sturdy a mood of indepen dence as ever: "Mr. Tillman gave notice that as soon as opportunity offers, he will address the Senate on the message of the President sent to the Senate yesterday on the coal in quiry resolution recently passed by Congress on Mr. Tillman's motion. He referred to the Presidential mes sage as 'a very remarkable document' and said that but for the pressure to proceed with the Statehood bill he would ask to be heard at this time." Oiks. "THE VERY TRUTH." Raleigh News and Observer. The Fayetteville Observer copies The News and Observer's edi torial containing Vance's letter, on the fight that would be waged by the R. and D. (the Southern) on any man who stood against their dictation, in which this paper said that a Vance was needed today to wage a fight against . corporation schemes. The Observer heads the article it copies, "The Very Truth." The people must be alert or the railroads, the insurance grafters, and the trusts will control the next legis lature and prevent the needed re forms. They control a portion of the Democratic press and politicians and tliey own the Republican party. The people must see that men are nomi nated whose faith, heart and record are right Doctors Are Puzzled. The remarkable recoveryiof Kenneth Mclver, of Vanceboro, Me,, is the sub ject of much interest to the medical iraternity and a wide circle of friends. Hp bays of bis case: "Owing to severe inflammation of the Throat and con gestion of the Lungs, three doctors gave me up to die, when, as a last re sort, I was induced to try Dr. King's New Discovery and I am happy to say, it saved my life." Cures the worst CoOghs and Colds, Bronchitis, Tonsilitis, Weak Lungs, Hoarseness and LaGrippe. Guaranteed at B. E. Sedberry's Sons drug store.. 50c. and $1.00. Trial bottle free'. If yon are trouble with Piles and can't find a cure, try WitchHaiel Salve, bnt be sure yon get that made by E. C. DeWitt & Co., Chicago. It is the Origi nal If you have UBed Witch Hazel Salve without being relieved it is proba ble that yon got bold of one of the many- worthless counterfeits that are sold on the reputation of the genuine DeWitt's Witch Hazel SMve. Sold by Aimtield A Greenwood, Druggists. It is not difficult to relieve blind, bleeding, itching or protruding piles with ManZan, the great pile remedy. It it put up in collapsable tubes with nozzle, and may be introduced and applied at the seat of trouble. Stops Sain instantly. Sold byMoKethan (Co, PEN PICTURE Or MR. TILLMAN. As Senator Tillman is now probably the most conspicuous figure in the United States the following "pen pic lure" of him, which we take from the Charlotte News, will be Interesting ; The position which Senator Till man now, occupies in Washington is peculiar. " He is practically the lead er of what might be termed the "Roosevelt party" in the Senate. On the subject of the regulation of rail road rates he is to be the spokesman of democrats and republicans alike, who believe that the power to regu late freight charges and railroad prac tices generally should be vested in some governmental authority. A few weeks ago the suggestion that Mr. Tillman should occupy that posi tion would...baye . been received with shouts of derisive laughter. It was probably as a joke that Senator Al dricb made the motion that Senator Tillman should be in charge of the bill. But it is 1J0 longer a joke, and there is every reason , to believe that Senator Tillman's judgment that a substantial rate bill will be passed is well founded. Benjamin R. Tillman has been popu larly supposed to be an ignorant, vul gar ruffian, who, coming to the front on a wave of populism, seized the government" of the grand old State of South Carolina for his own selfish ends and tor ignoble pur poses. He has been depicted as a foul mouthed swashbuckler in the Senate, ready to commit acts of vio lence on the slightest provocation and prone to go to extreme lengths on almost every conceivable occasion. Yet SenatorTillman has the respect of nearly all his republican associates in the Senate. Most of them deplore his passionate outbreaks, but most of them now believe that his motives are good and admire the natural abil ity of the man. He is a rough dia mond, but much of the roughness has been cut off since 1890, when he first achieved gieat national notoriety by being elected Governor of South Carolina after a series of struggles unexampled for fierceness and acri mony. Senator Tillman conies of good blood. His clan settled on the East-' em Shore of Maryland several centu ries ago. He does not exactly know how they got to South Carolina, and he does not know why the change in the spelling of the name was made. And he does not care about that or about armorial bearings or heraldic devices, or things. "I suppose they made the change because it was easier to spell if T-i-1-1-man," he said the other day. But it is perfectly clear that the Senator comes from a race of fighters. They have been in a fight of some sort ever since George Tillman, the founder of the South Carolina family, went to that State and settled. George Tillman was killed at the battle of Ninety-six in the Revolutionary War. He served under Col. William Wash ington. He had a son, Fred, who also fought in the Revolutionary War. Fred Tillman had a son, Benjamin R., who was the father of the present Senator Tillman. He died vhen the subject of this sketch was two years old and had eleven children. He had several sons, all stalwart, adventur ous men. The oldest son went to the Mexican War and was killed in the battle of Cherubusco. A couple of sons were killed in South Carolina, another was killed in Florida, anoth er, James, was killed in the fighting around Atlanta. With the exception of the present Senator and Henry Tillman, who succumbed to typhoid fever, all these boys "died with their boots on." They lived in Edgefield county, which was famous for riots and negro killings during the recon struction period. Grant's adminis tration waved the bloody shirt, and it was Edgefield county that boasted that it gave the bloody shirt "a Ham burg edging" at the famous riot at the place of that name. All through that section men drew their pistols quickly and shot straight. They were not naturally bloodthirsty, but they had been brought up to set tle their differences in that way. Judge McKay, a veteran of the Mexi can War, now very old, said the other day when asked why he went to the Mexican War, that he went to "keep out of danger in Edgefield county." Still, it is a peaceful community. No man can get into trouble unless he seeks it or prefers to have argu ments settled with the shotgun. The writer has traveled through that sec tion of country and was treated with the greatest consideration. Every question he asked was answered court eously and every request he made of the hospitality of the citizens was complied with twofold. It was the way of Edgefield county especially and of South Carolina generally in those days to settle things offhand and quickly especially political mat ters. GOOD EARLY TRAINING. Senator Tillman's father died when the boy was two years old. His niothgr had a plantation of between four and five thousand acres and be tween two hundred and two hundred and fifty slaves. The Senator's early education if it could have been con tinued on the lines-mapped out, would have been an ideal education for a Southern boy who was going to cope with national questions. His gov erness was a sister of General Chester A. Arthur," subsequently President of the Untted states. Her instruction lasted only about three years, when young Tillman was sent to the Beth lehem Academy. Following the fight ing instincts of his race, he fled from . Torture By Savages. "Speaking of the torture to which some of the savage tripes in the Phil ippines subiect their captives, -re minds me of the intense suffering I endured for three months from in flammation of the Kidneys," says W. M. Sherman, of Cushing, Me. "Noth ing helped me until I tried Electric Bitters, three bottles of which com pletely cured nie.". Cures Livercom plaint, Dyspepsia, Blood disorders and Malaria; and restores- the weak and nervous to robust health. Guar anteed by B. E. Sedberry's Sons, druggists. Price toe. the academy when he was sixteen to join the Confederate army. He did not join the army, because be was taken illrand during that illness lost his eye; He had to return to the farm, take charge of things for his mother, and from the time he was eighteen everything in connection with the Tillman estate devolved on Benjamin. . Young Tillman had a verv good bead for business and .fair executive ability,' He can get more work out of three or four clerks in the com mittee room ' today than any other man in Congress because he maps it out and knows exactly what he wants. There never was a man who tried to manage his plantation who could get anything like the work out of his bands that Senator Tillman can. He remained on the farm, manag ing it for bis mother until 1884. By that time the acreage of the Tillman estate had increased from the four-or five thousand acres that the mother bad to fifteen or sixteen thousand acres. Tillman was running be tween thirty and forty ploughs when the seeding time-came. Bad crops; -bad -times- and general hard luck brought about a crash, and this seems to have been the turning point in the career ot the young far mer. He began a campaign in favor of more liberal treatment of the farm ing class and for a change in condi tions in South Carolina. Recon struction had created a division be tween the classes in the eastern and western parts of the State almost as complete as that which the war had created between the land proprietors and slaves. Until reconstruction oc curred South Carolina never had a real popular government. It was so in form only. The coast counties-had been settled first, and, under the' parish system, organized after the manner of the Church of England. Each parish had a Senator, while the interior copnties, large in area, only had a Senator each. In this way there was a one sided and unfair rep resentation, and the city of Charles ton and the territory contiguous to it were able almost completely to domi nate State affairs. The farming clas ses in the rural communities suffered, and it was alleged that pretty nearly everything that was in the body politic was wrong. Failing in business, Mr. Tillman entered into politics to see thajt a few things were changed andhe organized the farmers against the ,' Aristocrats. " Then began a ' campaign which lasted uninteruptedly for almost twelve years. He ran for Governor in 1884, and was' beaten. Again in 1886 he ran for Governor and was beaten.- - In 1890 he made a third at tempt and was successful, and was in a position to carry into effect a num ber of ideas for which he had been battling. Mr. Tillman had said that not enough attention was given by the State to agricultural interests. He asserted that the constitution was wrong and needed amendment, not only as to popular representation among the sections, but as to the dis franchisement of the negroes. He contended that taxes were not paid by the railroads and also that the sale of liquor should be regulated as a State institution. He carried into effect all of these reforms. But during that time the whole State of South Carolina was in a tre mendous turmoil. There never was a political meeting in any part of the State that the women were not in a state of terror lest their husbands should be shot down and killed. There were riots, but these were not extensive in fatality, and when Till man had completed his programme he had provided for the primary sys tem in the State for the nomination of county and State officials, he had established the Clemson College for the technical education of farmers' sons, he had regulated the sale of liquor, by making it a .State institu tion, he had adopted a new State con stitution which eliminated the negro as a voting factor and he had Iconi pelled the railroads to pay their taxes. His fighting against the railroads was very dramatic. The railroads appealed to the national authorities. The Governor ordered the attachment of rolling stock. Federal authorities appealed against the State. At one time five sheriffs were arrested for tying up locomotives on the tracks and locking their wheels. In the dispensary fight the "Dar lington war" broke out. The Gov ernor ordered out the troops to en force the dispensary law. The troops refused to respond and he called tor volunteers. All of the farmers in the State rallied to his support and the dispensary law was upheld. Some very exciting incidents oc curred during the various campaigns in which Mr. Tillman was engaged. One of the most interesting incidents was during the campaign against General M. C. Butler for United States Senator, in which Tillman was successful by vote of 131 to 21. He and General Butler made a canvass of the Senate, as is the custom in South Carolina, county by county, appear ing on the hustings and addressing he voters face to face. Feeling ran very high and at Orangeburg a tall granger walked up to the platform and handed Tillman a horse pistol two or three feet long. "Blow him full of holes, Uncle Ben," said the man who offered the horse pistol. Tillman, looking his admirer full in the eye, said: "You go and sit down, sir. We are not using horse pistols in this campaign." A riot could very easily have been precipitated at that meeting and at almost any of the other during the campaign. A dranfttic incident that is recalled by Tillman's friends occurred at Co lumbia in 1890 in the campaign for Governor. Judge Haskell, a Con federate veteran and an independent candidate, asked from the platform what Tillman's record had been in the civil war. "The gentleman knows what my record would nave been in the civil war if it had not been marred by mis fortune by which I lost my eye. If he means to impugn the bravery of the Tillman latum in the war, would ask Bishop Capers, who is in the audience, to come forward and say what he knows about the fight ingqualitiesof 'Jim' Tillman. Bishop Capers is f jjiscopal Bishop at Columbia' ' .-t as one of .thfr fighting Con' V.s and hap pened to-comn .e regiment in which James Th was a captain. He mounted the 'platform and .said that while he disapproved politically of the candidate for Governor he must say that James Tillman bore "the oriflamme of his regiment. " - On receiving this statement from Bishop Capers Tillman, with an inde scribable curl of his lipj turned to his opponent and, pointing to the State House, said: "There is a monument there, sir, to the memory ot a braver man than ever you dared be." THE PITCHFORK STORY. Senator Tillman will always be as sociated with the idea 'of the pitch fork.' This association grew out of a canvass between himself and General Butler for United States Senator in 1894, when they ruade the tour of the State. In this campaign at one of the meetings Tillman asked: "Do you men know what you han djp manure with?" "Yes," shouted the crowd, "apitch fork." "And that is the instrument," re plied Tillman, "with which I am go ing to handle certain eminent, so called men at Washington. Then he proceeded to attack Presi dent Cleveland, Secretary Carlisle and Senator Sherman in his famous speech in which he advocated bimetalism. The'question of free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 was coming to the front and the Tillman figure of speech went like wildfire through the country. It was a sort of signal for all 0e discontents to rise and call Tillman blessed. He made a speech Tu Denver, when he was presented with a full-sized pitchfork in silver, and badges were made which repre sented the fork, with Cleveland, Car lisle and Sherman each on a tine. All the time that the agitation for currency was being made Tillman op posed any departure from the ranks of the democratic party of South Car olina. He asked his State organiza tion to remain within the party and he also appealed to Tom Watson to remain in the party. There is no Senator who has figured half as much in debates in recent years as Tillman. He insists that it is not on account of his desire tor no toriety, because during half of that time most of the newspapers of the country scarcely noticed him. He says it is rather because he feels he -must say things and get them set right. One of the most sensational epi sodes in his career was in February, 1902, when be "punched" his col league, Senator McLaurin, onthefloor of the Senate. This occurred during the debate on the Philippine tariff bill. Senator Tillman charged that democrat Senators had been influenced by the republican executive, President McKinley, to vote for this bill and also to vote for the ratification of the Philippine treaty. Senator Spooner demanded that Senator Tillman should name an' man who had been so influenced. Senator Tillman said that he had information from the republican side of the chamber, but that it was re ceived in confidence. "Name the man," said Senator Spooner. "Name the man upon whom these influences were brought to bear. It is due to the Senate and to the country that he expose this thing and name him. A man who impeaches another in confidence is a coward." "I know," said Tillman, "that the patronage of a State was promised and parcelled out to a Senator since the ratification of that treaty." "What State?" insisted Senator Spooner. "South Carolina." "Go a little further," said Senator Spooner. Senator Tillman named Senator Mc Laurin as the republican who had been given the patronage of South Carolina in return for voting to ratify the treaty of Paris and otherwise aid ing the McKinley administration. This Senator McLaurin denounced as a wilful, malicious and deliberate lie, whereupon Senator Tillman struck him in the forehead. The two men clinched, and there was a great to do about it. In the end SenatorTillman was censured in a report by the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections and the whole matter was expunged from the Senate. . But for the fact that Senator SpOon e had goaded Tillmau into specify ing Senator McLaurin there is 110 doubt the incident would not have proceeded to violence, and Senator Spooner has frequently expressed the opinion that Senator Tillman was one of the best men in the Senate. Senator Tillman is a Shakespearian scholar, and wherever he uses a quo tation from the great master it is cor rect. Not having been in college, he never studied Greek and Latin, but he has pursued those studies independ ently since, and frequently astonishes cultured men by the correctness of his quotations. Senator Tillman's great delight out side of the Senate and political life is the cultivation of flowers. At his home in Trenton he leaves the man agement of the farm almost entirely to others, and while there superin tends the cultivation of flower beds. He has myriads of these flower beds. He studies the seasons and has flow ers abloom from early spring until late in the fall. He is a man of very simple life. He is almost abstemious in the Use of alcoholic drink and utterly abhors questionable stories. He swears like a trooper when the occasion spurs him to it, but that is, so his friends say, a part of his conception of the use of the English language. He is particularly careful ef his choice of words in the presence of women and never uses any phrases to offend the most delicate sense. The tar that is contained in Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar is harmless. It is not coal tar, but is obtained from the pine trees of our own native for ests. Bee's Laxative Honey and Tar is the best remedy for colds because it acts on the bowels thus expelling all colds trom the system. " Bee's is the original Laxative Honey and Tar, and is best for coughs, colds, croup, whooping cough, lung and bronchial affections. Sold by McKethsn it Co. FAYETTEVILLE MARBLE AND GRANITE WORKS, y Strictly First-class 1 Work., ' Call at my yard or write for prices. j Respectfully, E..L.BEMSBUKO, Proprietor, I ' Favetteville. N. C. Housekeepers Save 20 cents on every dollars worth of Baking Powder purchas ed by U9ing Car olina. For sale by Grocers Manufactured by H. R. HORNE & SONS 1906 GARDEN King - At McDuflie Drugstore. COOK'S TOILET CREAM possesses antiseptic and heat ing properties For Healing the Skin It Is UNEXCELLED ! A. J. Cool & Co., I)!i I'GGIBTfj and PHARMACISTS, (Nestdoorto PoatplKce) 'phone Ml. SEED TALK. It costs the same to prepare the boii and PLANT jour garden, no matte whether you use good or bad seed. You may SAVE a few cents on the PUR CHASE price if you buy cheap, unrelia ble seed, but LOSE the cost of the seed and the cultivation, and more than all, the opportunity of planting at the RIGHT TIME. THE MORAL: Bay Mst's New Crop hi FROM B. E. SEDBERRY'S SON. Palace Pharmacy. 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