EDITOR GONZALES
HAS PASSED
The Entire South Deeply
Mourns the
Lamentable Affair.
A SKETCH OF A USEFUL LIFE.
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Hundreds of Telegrams of Sympathy
Pour In From All Over jth j Country
Columbia In Deep Sorrow.
N. G. Gonzales, editor of the Colum
bia State, who was shot Thursday,
January 15, by James tl. : Tillman,
IJeutenant Governor of ISoutli Caro
lina, died Monday at 1 cj'clock p. m.
The Associate Press account on Mon
iay night said: j
"He was unconscious when the end
came, and it was painless. His wife,
his three brothers, A. E.
Gonzales, of The State,
Gonzales, of Coloton; his
and W. E.
and A. B.
sister, Miss
Harriet. R. E. Gonzaies, and members
of the editorial .staff of The State, and
his devoted surgeons were present.
The morning papers had informed the
public that hope had been abandoned.
A few minutes after the pnd came it
was known all oyer Columbia. The
whole city is" deep in sorrow. There is
do apparent anger, no display of indig
nation, but even to a stranger passing
through the city, the unnatural quiet
at' a time when the presence of the
legislature and the inauguration of a
nutnber of administration officials
should; make it more than unusually
animated, would 13 noticeable. On
the streets' the people talk in hushed
voices of the great calamity and in
the universal, silent expression of sor
row, all other emotions seem to be
lost,
Sketch of His Ute.
The following sketch of his life , is
appended: - .
Narciso Gener Gonzales was . born
August 5, 1858, on 'Edisto Island. His
father was Gen. Acvbrosio Jose Gon
zales, a Cuban patriot, who, in 3S50,
became an exile from his native land
and settled in Colleton county, S. C,
where he married Mis3 Harriet Rut
ledge Elliott, a descendant Of one of
the original landgraves or barons of
colonial Carolina, and ,was also a de
scendant of Governor Smith, the first
Governor of the State. ' !
Gen. Gonzales was one of the five
members of the original Cuban junta,
who declared the independence of the
island, adopted the present Cuban flag
ind organized- the first filibustering
expedition. He was second in command
under Gen. Narcio Lopez and ranked
as brigadier general. Gonzales was
the first Cuban wounded in battle for
the independence of the island at
Cardenas in 1850. He was exiled under
sentence of death. Gen. Gonzales was
strikingly like Gen. Beauregard, with
whom he served at chief of artillery
for South Carolina, Georgia and Flor
ida. He served through the entire war
as colonel of artillery ever rendering
that branch of Johnston's army at
Greensboro:
The family being ruined by the war,
K. G.' Gonzales received no education
except the careful training of his
mother, a noble woman. The stoicism
and fortitude with which Mrs. Gonza
les suffered the shock of the wound
and the operation was evidenced when
he was a child four years old. His
jnother was a refugee, in Darlington
county while Beaufort county was in
possession of the Federal troops. One
day her dress caught fire. The baby
boy in his devotion to the mother
whom he worshiped, smothered the
flames, saving his mother's life, but
burning fearfully his tiny" hands. He
gave no evidence of pain until her
needs had been attended to. It was
her careful training which developed
in him studious traits which charac
terized his after life and though in
later years regarded by some as a
stern and critical editorial writer, he
would to his friend sometimes repeat
tender bits ofverse committed to mem
ory in childhood.
After the war he began life as ""a la
borer on a farm in Virginia. After-"
wards he worked on the family home
stead plantation in Colleton county, in
1875 he studied telegraphy and was
employed at a small station in Hamp
ton county Varnville. In 187G he or
ganized the first Democratic club, in
Colleton county, and was campaign
correspondent of The Charleston Jour
nal, of Commerce, the straightout or
gan which championed the cause of
Wade Hampton in that memorable
year. For the next four years he was
employed in. telegraph offices in Sa
vannah and Valdesta. He left the lat
ter place in 1880 to serve as local re
porter for The Greenville Daily News
organized that year hy: the brilliant
writer, A. B. Williams, whom Mr.
Gonzales had met in the political
campaign of 1876.
August 5th. 1880, he began his ser
vice with The Charleston News and
-ourier as its regular correspondent at
Columbia; and .continued in that posi
tion until October, 1881, when he was
sent to Washington to act as its spe
cial correspondent in the exciting year
following the death of President Gar
field. He ' reported the . Guiteau trial
and execution and the long session of
the Forty-seventh Congress for The
News and Courier. In August, 1SS2. he
was transferred . to Charleston and
placed on the editorial staff of The
News and Courier; with the under
standing that he was ultimately to
become editor of that paper; but after
s a few month? , and owing to a disa
greemtmt with Captain Dawson, he
jwas again sent. to Columbia, where in
AWAY
1S83 he organized The News and
Courier bureau and continued in
charge of its news and business de
partment until the election of Bf R.
Tillman as Governor in 1890, report
ing besides all the State campaign and
many famous, trials in different parts
of South Carolina. His antagonism to
Governor Tillman, indisposing him to
have such relations with him as the
policy of The News and Courier re
quired, he . resigned his - position an
that paper, to take effect on the close
of the administration of Governor
Richardson. His purpose now was to
leave the F.tate and seek a newspaper
opening in the Hawaiian Islands, to
which he was attracted, but being
urged to remain and become editor of
a dailv newspaper in Columbia repre
senting the views of the opponents of
Tillman he agreed to do so and with
his brother, Ambrose E. Gonzales, se
cured the capital necessary to start
The State, of which paper he was
elected editor and manager. He pur
chased the plant and organized the
office and the publication of The State
began February 18, 1891,. His manage
ment lasted for two years, but his con
trol of the editorial policy of the
paper has continued through its exist
ence of more than ten years. Mr. Gon
zales held no public office.
His interest-in the cause of Cuban
independence moved him soon after
the beginning ot the . revolution .of
1895 to offer his services to the insur
gents in the field, but they were de
clined on the ground that he could be
of greater service to the cause in his
editorial position. Before the breaking
out of the war with Spain he sought
the means of taking part in it on
Cuban soil, but being disappointed in
other plans for getting to the front,
he wnet to Tampa a few days after war
was declared and was there appointed
first lieutenant on the staff of General
Emilo Nunez, of the Cuban army, then
preparing an expedition for the relief
of General Maximo Gomez in central
Cuba. This expedition could not get
transportation until June 20, when .c '
sailed from Tampa in two steamers,
the Florida and Fanta, with a con
voy, the Peoria. It took two weeks to
make a landing. After being repulsed
at two points by the Spaniards the ex
pedition, disembarked July 3 at Paio
Alto, on the south coast of Cuba, a few
miles west of the central trocha; and
the next day General Gomez was
found and relieved. After six weeks
of extreme hardship and privations
campaign along the trocha. in
which he participated in one fight, an
attack on the fortified town of Moron,
at the northern end of the trocha, Mr.
Gozale.s, learning on August 17th that
the war was over, procured his dis
charge and embarked for home in an
expeditionary schooner, which after
various adventures reached Key West,
September 1, 1898.
His late journalistic career has been
his best work. He was an anti-imperialist,
a great admirer of Wm. J. Bry
an, and fought the "commercial De
mocracy" movement. In State politics
he had opposed the State dispensary
and was in the full flush of a hard
fight for the enaction of a child labor
law.
A man of temperate habits, of retir
ing disposition and of studious nature,
he has not sought to encircle himself
with a host of passing friends, but to
the small circle of associates he was
beloved; to the larger circle of friends
he was esteemed; and to the outside
world, friend and foe alike, he had al
ways been respected and honored.
IS THE OLDEST CLERK.
A Kentucky Man Who Has Held Office
for 60 Consecutive Years.
Richard White of Kentucky is the
oldest clerk in the executive depart
ment in Washington, according to a
correspondent of the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. With the exception of a post
master in New York state, who has
held his office for 74 consecutive years,
White is believed to be the oldest man
in point of service, as well as in years,
in the federal employ. He was ap
pointed in 1836, and therefore has
spent G6 years in the service of the
government. He was a personal friend
of Henry Clay, and the letter of Mr.
Clay to President Andrew Jackson,
recommending the appointment of
"my dear friend, Richard White," is on
file in the treasury department.
Mr. White was born in 1814, and
thus has passed the Biblical term of
human life by 18 years. In addition
to his record of long continuous serv
ice, he holds another record that is
without parallel. Nearly every gov
ernment clerk takes the full 30-day
annual leave of absence authorized by
law, and the majority of them also
take advantage of the 30-day sick
leave In each year. In all his experi
ence Mr. White has never exceeded 10
days in his absence from the depart
ment in any one year. "Throughout his
remarkable career he has been em
ployed in the office where the accounts
of the postoffice , department, are au
dited. He was appointed at a salary
of $640 a year. For a brief time he
:drew $1,000 a year, but five years ago,
because of growing feebleness, he was
reduced to $840.
Auditor Castle, in whose department
Mr. White is employed, says the vet
eran does his work to the satisfaction
of his chiefs in spite of his great age.
While no civil pension list is main
tained by Uncle Sam, it Is safe to say
that Richard ' White will be assured of
remaining on the government pay. roll
as long as he lives.
A New Discovery in Chicago.
Chicago women-have just discovered
that dew baths are good for the com
plexion. - - - " '
, GUATEMALA'S LOSS;
riie Damage to tbe Coffee Plantation by .
Volcanic Dust Hot rermiiii"".
' Thousands of acres of the best coffee
plantations of Guatemala have been
covered by volcanic dust to a depth of
several feet in the recent eruptions.
All reports speak of the plantations as
being completely ruined. . v
The loss is very heavy, for it will
take some years to bring a new lot of
coffee trees into bearing. But i t would
not be correct to "infer that the fertil
ity of the buried region Is permanently
impaired.
Volcanic soils are among the best in
the world. They contain large sup
plies of the salts that make plant food.
The mountain districts of Scotland,
formed mostly of old crystalline rocks,
afford very poor soil. This is the prin
cipal reason why the Highlands of
Scotland are not turned to good ac
count. Here and there, however, are
small areas covered with the outpour
lug of volcanoes -'which- became extinct
long ages ago. Where these outpour
ings of lava and volcanic dust are
found there are areas of fertility, green
islands among the heather and moss
n the almost barren Highland . slopes.
It was written centuries ago, in the
days of Milton and Tasso, that the
peasants living on the slopes of Vesu
vius Were fearless and cheerful even
when they saw the lava flowing from
its summit.' . They had forgotten the
tragedy of Pompeii. They could tell
about how far and how fast the. lava
Avould move and they retreated before
it without haste.
They knew that the lava would work
wrac damage for the time, but that
soon after it had cooled they would
again cover the fields over which it
had passed with rich vineyards and
sweet flowers. The lavas of Vesuvius
are rich in the elements of fertility.
It is just so with the lava fields of
our own country. One of the greatest
of them is in Arizona, extending from
the San Francisco Mountains south
ward and northward, and a part of
this region is covered with oue of the
finest growths of trees in the Terri
tory. The decomposition of lava blocks
mixed with the other needed elements
provides a soil that is very favorable
to vegetation. A large area in the
northwestern part of "the country is
covered with lava, and if it is ever
fomnl feasible to irrigate this region it
will be among the finest areas of tillage
in the land.
While Guatemala has suffered great
los for a time, the ruin of which' all
the cablegrams have spoken will not
be of a permanent nature. It is only
the improvements of the day thajt have
been ruiued. , ,
A few years more, unless further
outbursts occur will see the region
restored to its past prosperity as one
of the best coffee districts in the
world. New York Sun. .
The Study of Nature.
The study of Nature has taken a fast
hold on the publishers, If we may
judge by the number of Nature books
which adorn the book-stalls; and we
may believe that this indicates that
more and more people are going into
the Country each year, and are study
ing, in some fashion, at least, various
aspects of the outdoors. This is a
healthful pastime and one which ought
to receive, all encouragement. It is
probable that for many of the enthu
siasts Nature-work is little more than
a fad, but even so it is provocative
of good to all concerned. Nature Is a
simple, sound .old creature, -and she
does not readily lend herself to an
hypocrisy; it is better to go to her in a
simple, open-hearted way; but to go at
all is a benefit. Nobody can look up at
the white stars, or listen to the prattle
of leaves, or to bird-calls, or to the
quiet talk of the running water; no
body can.be for long in the healthful
sunshine and breathe plentifully of the
clean air, without absorbing something
that is good, without inaking all this
good outdoors a part of his own being,
without in a little washing his souL
Every body needs this renewal the fad
dists most so-let us be glad of this
new movement, and confident that the
world will he better for it. Woman's
Home Companion.
Guinea Pigs' Taili.
Now that the cavy is becoming so
precious a pet among women Who do
not care for children, attention is
drawn to the fact that if you hold liim
up by his tail his teeth will drop out.
There are men in the world who have
ideas of their own-on all. subjects,-and
are willing to back them to any
amount. Such a one is Captain Jack
Quitable. He was willing to bet rf
year's salary that the statement was a
lie; therefore, in a down town cabaret
one day the evidence was placed be
fore him. Two pretty guinea pigs were
produced for experimentation, and the
Captain (being of His Majesty's ser
yice) could not be induced to see-the
joke for a long time, even though un
able to find a tail by which to suspend
the little animal. , v I
Another remarkable feature of the
guinea pig is that its milk teeth are
shed before birth. Wonder if Captain
Jack wants to bet on that? When two
days old the infant is able to nibble
soft plants and eveli corn.. In three
weeks it is cast upon its.own resources.
There is precocity for you. Reminds
one of-some of the fresh youth of the
day.-Xew York VTress;
PrAfMt.
Better Cie poet's Alpine snows, , ,
Than deadly deserts of repo8e;
Better the martyr's Aery hour . ;
Than Buddha on the lotus flower.
It Is the level roadthat kills;
The secrets of the heavenward hill .
Are ethics of an endless quest.
And the novitiate is unrest. , (
Tha oDlate vapors of the plain I
Th! cTogsing marshes-leave their stain;
fth that we mlht take wlngrs and flee
Wfcare sky-born winds blow healthfully.
On. iof the clorlous lack of guile
That leaves the crowd toXawn and smile,
Thelevel road with all Us ills , : -For
the fine freedom or the niua.
Each year about $50,000 is expended in
sprinkling the streets of London with sand
to prevent horses from slipping ' j
Fibroid Tumors Cured, L
A distressing case of' Fibroid Tumor,
which baffled' the : skill of Boston doctors.
Mrs. Hayes, of Boston Mass., in
the following letter tells how she was
cured, after everything- else failed, by
Lydia R Pinkhams Vegetable Compound.
Mrs. Hayes First Letter Appealing to Mrs. Pinkliam for Help.-
"Dear Mns. PixKiiAr :- t have been under Boston 'doctors' treat
ment for a long time without any relief. They tell me I Lave a fibroid
tumor. I cannot sit down without great pain, and the soreness extends
up my spine. I have bearing-down pains Doth back and front 'Sly ab
domen is swollen, and I have had flowing spells for three years. My ap
petite is not good. I cannot walkor be on my feet for any length of time.
"The symptoms of Fibroid Tumor given in your little book ac
curately describe my case, so I write to you for advice." (Signed) Mrs.
E. F. Hayes, 252 Dudley St., (Rdxbury) Boston, Mass. . ,
Note the result of Mrs. Pinkham's advice al
though she advised Mrs. Hayes, of Boston, to take
her medicine whidi'she knew would help her
her letter contained a mass of additional instruc
tions as to treatment, all of which helped to bring
about the happy result.
" Dear Mrs. Pixkham : Sometime ago I wrote to you describ
ing my symptoms and asked your advice., You replied, and I followed
all your directions carefully, and to-day I am a well woman.
" The use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound entirely
expelled the tumor and strengthened my whole system. I can vralK
miles now. j
Xydla E. Piukham's Vegetable Cnmnnund is -worth tlvo tinU
lars a drop. I advise all women who are afflicted with tumors or
female trouble of any kind to give it a faithful trial.' (Signed) Mask'
E. F. IIayes, 252 Dudley St., (oxbury) Boston, Mass. , ; ?
Mountains of tfold could not purchase such testimony or tafcy
the place of the health and happiness which Iydia E. Pinkliam'
Vegetable Compound brought to Mrs. Hayes. j : ,
Such testimony should be accepted by all women as convincing
evidence that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound stands
without a peer as a remedy for. all the distressing ills of women; all.
ovarian troubles' tumors; inflammations ; ulceration, falling and dis
placements of the womb; backache; irregular, suppressed or painful
menstruation. Surely the volume and character of the testimonial tet
ters we are daily printing in the newspapers can leave no room for doubt.
Mrs. Hayes at her above address will gladlv answer any letters:
which sick women may write for fuller information' about her illne33
Her gratitude to Mrs. rinkham and Xydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound is so genuine and heartfelt that she thinks.no trouble is too
great for her to take in return for her health and happiness.
Truly is it said that it is Xydla E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com-
pound that is curing so many women, and no other medicine ; don't for
get this when some druggist wants to sell you something else.
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Where Everything Is Holy.
A recent traveler in Africa writes
of the native town of Sheik liusein
"Everything in and near Sheik Huseh
Is holy and belongs to the dead sheik.
It Is not permitted to cut wood near
the town, no cattle are sold anil Wq'
were asked not to shoot birds. rna
of my Somal having caught two bats
with a butterfly net in the holy tomb
r. largo 'assembly was held and the
poor fellow and myself were cursed
by the imam until I gave him soma
dollars to appease the wrath 0f tha
dead sheik;":
A creed is a chart and not a rehgioug.
compass. " -.- - ' '. . - So. 4.
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