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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

HIS was the shortest of all the great
parliamentarian careers in our history
two years in the House and four years i'll
the Senate-and yet his fame is as great
as that of any of his contemporaries.
What would ii had been il his Senatorial
career had been as long as Sherman's or
Edmunds'. or Cockrell's or Morgans.
True, he was four years in the Conteder-
ate Senate, but his career there is only
tradition.
He was the leader of the Gull States
bar, and the equal of any lawyer OF his
day Some Of his fees were enormous for
the South-one SOS ,000. What he made at
the bar he lost as a planter lie was al
ways princoly and his hand was ever
open.
His last days were heroic-likc Grants.
Nearly his last words wcrc, know my
Rcdecmer hveth," and his very 'ast words,
Almost home.
! When he died there was queocheh a
great spirit The l2ayard 81 the senate the
lion OF the South.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

The generation is far enough away
from that debate to discuss it on its
merits. Blaine not only failed to prove
his charge against Mr.. Davis, but Hill
proved his negative, completely and tri-
umphantly proved it. 1t is happy for this
people that they have come to time
when this most famous speech of the
most brilliant man and most beloved
statesman the Republican party has pro-
duced would only call forth a jeer and
hiss if delivered even by Blaine in a
sitting of the Fifty-eighth Congress,
while the last public utterance of Jeffer-
son Davis would extort applause, per-
haps compel a tear, from the most ar
rogant and most intolerant Republican of
1903. Here it is for all mankind to com
mend:
"The faces I see before me are those of
young men; had l not known this l
would not have appeared before you. Men
in whose hands the destinies of our
Southland lie for love of her, break my
silence, to speak to you a few words OF
respectful admcnition. The past is dead;
let it bury its dead. its hopes and its
aspirations; before you lies the future A
future full OF golden promise; future
full of recompense for honorable endeav-
or; future Of expanding national glory,
before which all the world shall stand
amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside
all rancor, al bitter sectional feeling, and
to take your places in the ranks of those
who will bring about a contamination de-
voutly to be wished-a reunited country
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

you may bury him under a mountain
that will overtop Pelion and make Ossa
a wart, and he will rise again more for
midable than ever and more ready for the
conflict. He is bound to succeed. He
was born to excel"
1t was the good year 1856 young man
came out of Troup County, an Admir-
able Critchton, and made political tour
of Georgia. He was Wing, and believ-
ed in the teachings of Madison, held to
the interpretations of Marshall and
agreed with the expoundings of Webster.
Perhaps he was not the superior of
Toombs as a debater: perhaps not the
superior of Stephens as logic.an, but he
was the inferior of none of them in any add
mirable attribute of the human character
or any great quality of the human mind,
and he was a match for all of them as a
statesman, as patriot, and as a man. 1t
was when he first heard him that Toombs
paid him the splendid compliment and
clothed it in the classic speech that is the
quotation with which this paper opens.
Such was Benjamin Harvey Hill at the
age of thirty-two.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

Hill served a single term n the Ma
tional Housed and was then elected to the
Senate He was four years in that body,
and died before lie was three-score. As
a debater and an orator he was the equal
of any man of his time. His great
speech of May 10. 1879, is the finest eK-
position of the Constitution of the United
States in the English language. How
ever extraYagant that statement may
seem. it will be truth and soberncss if
the skeptic win but take the trouble, if
trouble il can be called-and to the in
tellgent mand it can be nothing but
delight-to read it and ponder it. and see
this luminous mind unfold and light the
inquirer to realization OF that wherein
cur government is national and wherein
it is federal. That speech ought to be
text book IN every school. 1t ought to
be in every lawyers office and on every
editors desk 1t is Madison and Web
ster combined.
The discussion of the case of Kellogg
by Hill and Carpenter must leave in doubt
the question as to who was the first con
stitutional lawyer and ablest debater of
the Senate-thc Senate of Blaine Ed
munds, Hoar, Conkling, Thurman. Vest,
Lamar, ingalls,, as well as the Senate of
Hill and Carpenter.
1t was Hill who unmasked Malone in
one of the most terrific attacks in the
history of the Senate. 1t was adroit, too,
and threw the little man into an ecstacy
Of rage. The burden of it was something
like this: Who Is this man so anxious
for the badge OF infamy? And then he
looked at Thurman, at Harris, at Vest,
at Beck. at VOORHEES,, as though it were
one OF them-never at Malone, as though
he was above suspicion.
But Hill got Mahones scalp. In the
very nature of things Mahoneism was
bound to die without official patronage.
When the quarrel came between Garfield
and Conklng, Hill served notice on the
| administration that Mahonism must starve
or Conkling should have Robertson's
scalp The result is history. Malone
did the Republican party incalculable
| damage. Men at the North began to ask
| how far on the road to reputation the
Republican PARTY would go if the patron
age OF the executive department was at
stake. when. to save the miserable spoiis
| of the Senate, that party made political
alliance with one whose whole political
stock in trade had been reputation?
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

These things prevented his election TO
the United States Senate for the term be-
ginning in 1873 He was refused the nom-
nation for Congress in 1874, but the man
who was preferred to him died after cleo,
ton, and a convention was held to nomi-
nate his successor. The two-thirds rule
prevailed. Hills friends were in the min
GRITTY, but they refused to abandon him
The issue was referred to the people, and
Hill was elected In December, 1875. he
took his seat in the Forty-fourth Con
gress. He was now fifty-two years old,
the first lawyer and the first orator of
the South.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

Though he was a strong Union man,
Troup County unanimously sent him TO
the State convention that adopted the
ordinance OF secession over his solemn
warning; but when war came Ben Hill
was the Southern Cato. We fondly call
ed Allen G.. Thurman 1.-THE Old Roman,
but the most Roman of all American
statesmen was Benjamin Harvey Hill. Iie
never despaired and he was the reminder
OF that Roman Senate that exposed 70
sale the land on which the victorious army
OF Hannibal was encamped. II the Con-
federate Senate he was the champion OF
Jefferson Davis, and it il. praise enough to
say that he successfully Sustained and re-
turned the assaults William L. Yancey and
Louis T. Wigfall made against the admin
istration.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25

1t was the first Democratic Congress in
eighteen years 1t was the ablest Con
cress of the last half of the nineteenth
century Randall and Morrison were
there, representative of the Northern De-
mocracy Blaine and Garfield were there
representative of the Republican party
Lamar and Hill we're there, representative
of the newly enfranchlsed South. At the
last session OF the preceding Congress
Mr.. Blaine. the Speaker. had defeated
Buffers force bill, that would have made
Southern politics anything Grants adj
ministration desired. That did not suit
Mr. Blaine. who was no favorite of that
administration, and the tradition is that
he taught Randall. Beck, and Lamar a
parliamentary trick o. fence that sent to
the boneyard General Buffers bill. The
Republicans of States where Mr.. Blaine
was very strong resented that work, and
muttered and threatened things.
And Mr. Blaine who neither loved nor
hated the South, now came to realize this
sentence from George Eliot: "Our own
sofety sometimes makes grim demands OF
US" His political safety demanded of
MIN Y waving Oh the DIOOuE Silft. Inc
call was not in vain. He waved it and
did it magnificently. Here is passage:
And l here, before God, measuring my
words, knowing their full extent and i'm
port, declare that neither the deeds of
| the Duke of Alya in the Low countries.
nor the massacre of ST. Bartholomew.
nor the thumb and engines of torture of
/ the Spanish Inquisition, begin to com
pare in atrocity with the hideous crimes
of Andersonville."
| In another paragraph he said that JEFF
| ferson Davis was the author-knowingly
| deliberately. guilty. and wilfully--of the
gigantic murder and crime at Anderson
vile.
It fell to Ben Hill to answer that bloody
shirt speech. and IN the Mhole history Of
parliamentary eloqucncc * never was
a completer noI more tri mt answer.
IT is very quotable sped, Ut il is I'M
! necessary TO allude TO b wo points
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
About the Men.

We must pass the man with shiny
badness. for his case is hopeless. The
seeds of badness were planted in his
scalp. before any one knew that tiny
microbe is the cause of nine-tenths OF al
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-10-25
Within the Circle
OF YOUR ACOUAINTANCES
MANY SHOULD USE
Who Are They ?

The list includes: 1st Every lady with
falling hair, and every lady with dand-
ruff and itching scalp-the certain fore
runners of hair loss. (Herpicide stops
falling hair.) End. Every lady with
dull, brittle or lustreless hair; when yigor
and strength leave the hair. it is a nevec
falling sign that the sebaceous glands Of
the scalp are diseased, owing to a micro
bic invasion, and sooner or later the in
visible germ will go deeper into the hair
foIlces. causing hairs to slip out in grea.
numbers (Herpicide kills the dandruff
GERM 3rd. Every lady whose harsh
and why locks persistently refuse to be
controlled (1erpicI@o MAKES The hair
silky and mans geable) 4th. Every lady,
whose hair is heavy and stringy, from
an over abundance OF natural oil. (He70l-
eide makes the hair light and fuffy.) 5th
Every lady, either young or OLD, who
wants the daiutiest, most refined, most
refreshing. most delectabe and most arts
tocratic hair dressing on earth. (The
lyuOYrin~ orpS 1@p HarDiciQe1
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
FRENCH AUTO ARRIVES
FOR JOHN r. MLEAN

John r. McLean's big new French au-
tomobile. purchased abroad month ago.
has been received in Washingtn-
II is OF the Panhard type. OF twenty-four
horsepower. and is a splendid looking
machine.
When the new auto reached New York
a week ago. it was thought too large for
forwarding in an ordinary freight car.
and word was sent to this city that It
might have to be taken apart for ship
ment. After some consultation. in
structions were sent to New York 10
forward the machine by express TO this
city. This was accomplished by the re-
moval of a part OF the machines top
The whole affair was. forwarded in bond
to Washington. and from the station
here was run by its own power TO Mr.
McLean's country home. Friendship.
on the Tenleytown Road The new auto
is much admired by those of Mr.. Nc
Leans friends who have seen it.
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
GORMAN'S PLANS UPSET
BY RA YNER' s CANDIDACY
This Opinion Entertained BY Many of Marpands Keenes
Political Experts.

BALTIMORE. Nd. Sept. 2s.-In the
opinion of many of the shrewdest po-
liticaI exports of Maryland. and of both
parties. the Democrats have the best
show TO win the State and a great ma
jority of the county and Baltimore cleo
tions this fall, providing they do not
make the error that is expected from
them.
The expected mistake Will have TO do
with the eandidacy of Isidor Rayner for
United States Senator. When Rayner
issued his declaration that he was a
full-nedged candidate for the seat now
held by Senator Mccomas. the German
and Rasin machines smiled. and in pub
lie interviews expressed satisfaction
that Ravner's influence and money
would be in evidence during the cam
paign to help pull the Democratic
ticket through.
But the bosses were not looking for
the great enthusiasm Rayner's candi-
dacy has aroused. Everywhere in the
city all classes Of men are fairly storm
ing the strongholds of the machines
with the demand that Mr.. Rayner have
the pledges of every nominee for the
Legislature on the Democratic ticket
III Baltimore
This would give the candidate twenty
eight votes TO start with. and as he 4,
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
IMPORTED MILLINERY
At KINGS PALACE
Fine Display of Costumes and Hats
at Opening

The fall opening of Kings Palace, $40
Seventh Street northwest. was held to-
day The store was prettily decorated
with palms, and the largest and finest
stock of imported millinery, cloaks, and
mantles OF every description which has
ever been displayed in Washington add
ed brilliant touches of color to the
whole. All day an admiripg throng Of
prospective shoppers filed through the
store.
The imported stock. which was bought
under the personal direction of Harry
King. is notable.
While in Europe this summer, Mr.
King visited all the celebrated millin-
ers and modistes in Paris, Berlin. and
London, and made a careful selection
of styles and models. which he brought
back TO Washington. Nowhere else III
the city are these TO be had.
Copies of these imported hats are also
ito be had. Great attention has also beer
given TO the selection OF the American
made hats and styles.
During the summer the store ha
been enlarged and remodeled and i'm
provements have been made in all de
partments.
Kings Palace is the outgrowth Of th
| pioneers of millinery in Washington
The firm has been established for NOR,
/ than fifty years In the city and neve
more firmly than IL is today.
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
TRAVEL PAY OVER SEA
DENIED TO SOLDIERS
Decision Given by Comp
trOller of the Treasury.
POINT RAISED BY PRIVATE
Claimed Pay, Clothing, and Travel AL
lowance From the Philip
pine Islands.

The question of whether a soldier s
entitled TO pay. clothing, and travel
pay for the sea portion of the distance
covered In returning from the place OF
his discharge to the place OF his enlist
ment is fully settled In an opinion given
by the Comptroller OF the Treasury.
He upholds a ruling made by the Aud
itor for the War Department and decides
the soldier is not entitled to such pay.
1t is held the soldier is entitled 10
transportation and subsistence only for
the part of the distance he covers in re-
turning to where he enlisted.
The point was raised by Chester e
Nevius. a private in the Fourteenth
Battery OF Field Artillery, who was
discharged in Manila. having enlisted
in Philadelphia. He returned by wal
of the Suez at his own wish and his
own expense.
He was given pay. clothing. and trave
pay for the distance from San Fran
cisco to Philadelphia. and could have
had transportation and subsistence fol
the distance across the Pacific had h
so desired. He put in a claim for pay
clothing, and travel pay for the dis
lance from Manila to San Francisco
which is disallowed
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
RECEIVER NAMED
FOR THE 500 COMPANY
Application Granted on Petition of
Stockholders.

NEW HAVEN. Conn.,. Sept. 2S.-Judge
James Plat. in the United States circuit
court. this noon appointed a receiver for
the Consolidated Lake Superior Com
pany on a petition of majority of the
stockholders of the company, who were
represented in court by Judge Walter c.
Noyes, Of New London. Conn.
With Judge Moves we're lawyers Roth
ermel and Clement. of Philadelphia. who
represented the stockholders who are
taking the action to try and save the
plant from sale at auction to cover the
foreclosure by speyer & Co., on their
loan.
The request for the appointment for Z
receiver points out that the company
has in its plant $4,000, 900. and that the
entire property was pledged for a loaI
OF $4,000 600 TO Speyer & Co.. the broker:
OF New York.
1de application says that Speyer &
Co. have advertised the plant for salt
at auction on Thursday next. and tina
the receivership is desired to proven
this
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
HEBREWS RIDICULE
NEW COLONY SCHEME
Russian Members of Sect Want No
Protectorate.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2S--Russian
Jews almost unanimously ridicule the
idea Of founding a Jewish colony in
East Africa under British protection
No Russian Jew has any intention OF en-
gaging in agriculture. or even in the
management of any sort of husbandry-
The hundreds of thousands of acres
of land owner by Jews in Russia are
held only for speculative purposes. and
for the purpose of destroying the for
ests. There is not a single acre Guilt
waited by Jews in the whole empire.
Russian Jews. at any rate, would
never be satisfied with q protectorate.
They must have a sovereign state. which
alone would give then that diplomatic
voice the absence of which they regard
as the chief weakness Of the Jewish
cause.
1t is remarkable fact that. nOtwith-
standing favors bestowed OF offered
them by Great Britain. the whole weight
OF the Jewish vote and influence
throughout the world-and Russia is nc
exception--is cast for Germany agains
Britain.
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
ARCHBISHOP Kahn
DYING IN BALTIMORE
Hope for st. Louis Prelate
Virtually Abandoned.
PARALYSIS HIS ILLNESS
Catholic Priest Has Been Sanitarium
Patient Since Last
May.

BALTIMORE, Sept. 2s.-Archbishor
Kahn. of st. Louis. is dying at ST.
Agnes Sanitarium. this city. The
paralysis from which he has been suf-
ferer since last May has crept close to
the heart Il is a question Of hours
only before he passes away.
His physician. DIT. Charles O. Hill,
said this morning that the prelate was
low. and that at a consultation Of ply
sicians yesterday afternoon all hope vir-
tually was abandoned. By the positive
instructions Of the patient the ply
sicians In attendance refuse to discuss
the details OF the illness
At the sanitarium one OF the sisters
said that the archbishop has been grow
ing steadily weaker since his arrival
there on May II. She said Monsignor
Kahn had never expressed any other
conviction than that he would never
leave the sanitarium except as a corpse.
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
LIGHT OF THE W0LD,
A MISSI0NARY'S THEME
The Rev. DR.. SchOll Speaks at Church
of Reformation.

The Rev. George Scholl. d. D.. OF Bal
timore. who is engaged in foreign mis-
sions. occupied the pulpit of the
morning. He took as the subject Of
his sermon the phrase. THE Light Of
the World"
Despite the many wonderful advances
and discoveries along the lines OF art
and science, DR.. Scholl said darkness
still covers the earth from a moral and
spiritual standpoint
From this state OF things said the
speaker. the Lord declares Himself to
be the only remedy. He has risen like
the sun to diffuse light and peace and
salvation in the midst OF dark world .
Christ is the light OF the world IN
the sense that He is the Revealer. He
enables Us TO see and understand the
things that make for our peace. He
shows US what our relations are to
each other. 10 God. and TO the here
after He brings life and immortality
to light in the sense that under His
influence alone we grow up into the
stature aud fulIness OF a perfect man
hood
The giving Of the law is another
channel through which He is the light
OF the world. The Ten Commandments
are the very cornerstone upon which all
wise and beneficial human laws are
built. He is the light of the world
through His personal ministry on the
earth. All the clear and definite
knowledge of God we have is that
which He has taught US. He shows us
our own hearts and how. as His breth-
rem. we are related to each other and
10 God. l"
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
Mr.. HANNA DECLINES
THE JOINT DEBATE
He Refuses to Accept Democratic
Senatorial Nominees Challenge

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Sept 2S.-The reply
of Chairman Dick. of the Republican
State committee. to Chairman Salem, OF
the Democratic state committee, declin-
ing the challenge of John H. Clarke
democratic nominee for United States
Senator. to a joint debate with Senator
NJ. A. Hanna was given out last night
Chairman Dick says in part:
81 regret that candor compels me to
say that l find some rather serious OBJ
iections to the conditions of your pro-
posal. There ought to be some such
quality as mutually in joint discus
sion. ! fear you have overlooked that
phase of the case. MIR. Hanna's party
has but one set of principles, while Mr.
Clarkes party has vast assortment OF
principles. sounding the entire gamut
from doctrine TO dogma-Democratic
Populistic, Agrarian, and Socialisitc.
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.

Eleventh Street northwest, between U
and V Ssrsets-U. G.. Black ct TX. TO
George w. Murray, lot 50, square 1872.
SO
Newport Place northwest. between
Twenty first and Twenty-second Streets
Jacob y. Belt ct ux. to Henry g.
Vance, lot 1873. square SO, so. Henry c.
Vance conveys same property 10 Annie
l. Beverley (iife) and Elizabeth l..
Tally (remainder). $40.
Rhode Island Avenue northwest. be-
tween Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Streets-Ben B. Bradford ct TX. to Gra-
ham B. Nichol. lot rs. square 100, $40.
Tenth Street northwest. between l.
and NJ streets-Jane w. Stausbury to
Rachel G. Pierce. lot 81 and part OF lot
81. square 369. $40.
d Street southeast between Four
| teenth and Fifteenth Streets-Louise J.
| Traynor TO James z. Evans. lot 4S,
square 1861, $40. James z. Evans conveys
same property to Lucian Il Thompson,
| $40
z Street northeast, between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Streets-Watson ]. New
ton ct ux. TO Joseph L. May. lot 80,
| square 1929. $40.
Addition to Rock OF Dunbarton-George
/ r. Robinson ct al 10 Connecticut Ave-
nue. Highlands Company. part containing
about twenty-four acres. $40.
West ckington-Francella S. Warren
et al to Sarah Skinner, lot 81, block
$40
Ninth Street southeast, between G and
l Streets-Daniel Ahern ct ux. to Charles
l.. Selecman. part original lot 10. square
$50, $40. Charles l. Selecman conveys
same property to Daniel and Kate
Ahern $40
! Street southeast. between Eighth
and Ninth Streets-Same to same. par
original lot s. square 9zS. $40. Charles
l. Selecmsn conveys same property Il
Daniel and Kate Ahern, $40.
/ Street northwest, between Twenty
third and Twenty fourth Streets-Fred
erick w. Krichelt to Maurice J. Col
bert. part lot u, square Al. $40.
Vermont Avenue and L Street north
west-Edward II. Childers ct ux I
David Joy Myers. lot 10, square ZIG. $40
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
RUSSIAN MINISTER
SEEKS YANKEE CASH
President Witte Is Anxious to OBJ
tain Loan.

ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 2s.-The
president of the ministry. White, is
travelling incognito in England. after
making a tour of the capitals under an
assumed name. His object is to interest
the big fipanciers to obtain money for
Russia's schemes of expansion in the
East, that, according to him, promise
golden reward.
Letters received here say that he was
unsuccessful in Berlin. but hopes to
have better luck when he meets a GER
tain American Senator"
IF we can't interest Lombard Street
our eye must turn to Wall Street" he
wrote to the Gear. II have great con-
fidence in Wall Street. and II / had but
the time would go to the United States
myself and present our case 70 her
wideawake fnanciers."
The Washington times., 1903-09-28
LAST OF ECONOMIES
EFFECTS FOR SALE
Quaint Cd Town to Be Only
Thing of Memory.

PITTsBURG. Sept. 2s.-The quaint old
town OF Economy, just a few miles from
this city. of which John S. Duss. the
famous bandmaster. was formerly lead
er. will soon be a thing of memory.
Mr.. Duss. who was the head trustee of
the society. decided to devote all OF his
attention to music. and left the old
town and it's management in the hands
of Mrs. Duss. who decided that it was
useless to continue the society.
Recently the property. which was val
ued at over s4,OOO,O00, was sold. with
the exception of small farm. Adver-
tisements appeared in the papers yes
terday offering for sale this remaining
property. and all of the cattle and other
live stock and the farm implements.