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THOS. J. ADAMS, PEOERIET?R. EDGEFIELD, S. TH?DAY, JANtlARY 19,1893. VOL. LYE. NO. 51. JAY&OED'SfHE&MM Mrs. Dr. Felton Pats the Lash to | Two Eminent Georgia Preachers. m fr co Editor Constitution: I read Dr. Candler's manifesto in the Wesleyan Advocate, and the re ports of both sermons, by DrJ Hawthorne upon this subject in I the Constitution. I have been amused as well as. astonished that two doctors of I j divinity should have entered np- L on each a task in such a way, un-1 ( less some one has come from the I ? dead to make th* report veritable L and past contradiction,' for such . declarations, must be founded up- L on facts to make them tolerable to L sensible people. ' J Dr.-Hawthorne modified hisL assertions in his late sermona, and L I hope he will finally see himself L as others sea. him--sitting as ak judge over departed spirits--when I j. he fails io giv.e:his data for auch jj implacable judgment. Unless he is k became the Lord's vice regent for K .,. the Baptist denomination and ?; 'speaks by inspiration,^ what right l y -has he to locate any dead man in ^ Rhades" or in heaven, by his own k dictam? : 4 -When the Saviour was crucified, ^ i a thieif, dying for his crime, called Lj '. Bim Master and.believed on Him. _ The suffering "Christ said : "This h( ..' day " shalt thou' be ; with Me in - i Paradise." ^ ' L j v " ?Bri Candler, the great Methodist di?taier, say : 'May Gould cfied.in;LE - famouslyHoar does he' kuow ti "that.the Lord Almighty did notk( give" the money king a chance like cj tho thief on t he" cross? L . Perhaps these gentlemen roayli.^ consider me ont,of my sphere tb Lj! ask' snell qes tiona aa these, for ifl_ I remember aright both of tti?arj . . haye email opinions of women* in public malters, but there .is ^so much ?nf?r?sf; taken in the sub- j J ject that I may,s I ho/*,'.be par doned for malting inquiry for;the|?~ simple facts as "to Mr. Gr"111 '-: ; whereabouts. : I have b?en titi entertained <?>, "hear them otliers discuss Mr. Bocked college, and their high appreci bf those who give money to continued entreaties-no mi.;:., how the money was made. Mr. Rockefeller is a money king who counts his cash in about the same number.of figures with which Mr. Jay Gould had once counted "his, and it is refreshing to note -that Mr. Rockefeller's gift to a Western Baptist college has won hearty praise, and no rebuke from some pf our ecclesiastical wise men. Mr. Rockefeller is the head of the great-Standard Oil monopoly; He has gobbled up tens of thous and of poor, men engaged in this oil business. While. Mr. n Gould's railroad wreckage has been 8tupendous, Mr. Rockefeller's oil wreckage has been mammoth and terrific. I find myself constantly rec urring to this question, namely If Mr. Gould had bought some shares in Florence or Manchester or had be^n one ten of to give a million to Emory College, would either of these doctors of divinity have ticketed Jay Gould to hades or that lower place? I suppose not; and there is another question that comes in right al >ng here, namely-Can men rob, cheat, swindle and defraud their weaker brethren to amass great fortunes and then buy such a ticket to glory with this ill-gotten gain? The answer that is given to these questions will doubtless be eatis f ac tory to all sensible people who recognize in our Lord's gospel an evangel of* honesty and fair dealing to all men. I have no personal reason to defend Mr. Jay Gould to^. criticise Hooke feller, but I have the right as a member of -the Methodist Church to- question the right of any Methodist preacher to rise up aud tell the people of Georgia that a man died "infamously," who died peacefully in his own bed, surrounded and respected his own children, respected by his own* neighbors and followed to his grave by men well known in this world:s annals as men of reputa tion.and good character; at the same time eulogizing the same sort of men who part with some of their ill gotten wealth, to secure the zealous praise of those who Beek this wealth for uses dear to their vanity or their own financial success. It is told that. Mr. Gould gave co an fr< ex cb ha M nc ar dc th dc h< tb tri Pi P> G h< w ir tl Pi w r ri d P P tl I t< tl $1000 to Memphis in v time of] pestilence. It has also leaked out that he gave $5jG00 to help a worthy cause in a ne??ff Southern city, asking that the bequest he j kept a profound secret. These things are significant. They are suggestive. They indicate a desire to help the suffering, as well as to keep the right hand from betray Lng what "the left hand doeth. If he ; had sauta check to Oxford, ;o endow a chair oftheology, it is j possible there might h?ve been some readable' lectures upon charity, instead of anathemas, j hat smack of the time" of.. Luther | md the Pope 1 What'a difference t makes as to our point -of view. Take a case in-point. Old Com Qodore Vander??lti ih-h?s old ?ge, ;ave to his . young wife a- lot of aopey to carry out the cherished fish of he'r heart. No body suppos?s I e would have given one dollar to iashville without her influence, ie made his money very muoh as ay Gould and Mr. Roekefel eve made theirs. Yet nobody { ?ve the cheek to declare be died infamously," nor would, he. havt sen located in hades after he gave | i?8~money to his. wife. Arid oh I ow he is praised ! " The papers of y esterday tell of j [?t^vHiali?C.jG^n?^'s charities-a :ory thatisuot new by anytnearis -and perhaps Ker father ?made er hand the dispenser of many a ood ?nd welcome " gift. Whether ie?ath?r is roasting in Rev. Mr. andl?r's hell or cooling his heels | L Dr. .. Hawthorne's '.hades," one nag is!.pretty snre, that he knew JW to raise a good, worthy, modest j iarit?ble. daughter, whose' young) fe should hot be. thus poisoned j ecclesiastical bombast and leumacy^-not to mention bigotry ?dowX here in Georgia. I read an article in this week's r9sleyan Advocate . written; hy .'a acher, signed ^Be'Quiet," that would commend to all those who i py:closely after Dr. Candler ID luuciatihg? rich men who do not i^tg?? 'r 0*9 '-: Wi' ir??>~*? T r ::rf:i> . *r-* "--u-'rio;: ask: CM- W 'iCV] vers all sins, condones ali criiuco d protects the rich scoundrels >m investigation and church pulsion-in the . Methodist uren of the present time. If it LS become the mission of the ethodi8t Church to get money ? matter whepe from or how made, id to send everybody^to hell who >es not buy a ticket to glory rougn some of these'enterprising )ctors of divinity? Then the time is also' come to divinity? Then ie time has also cometo advise ieee wise men to clean up these revailing*: abuses before they resch another funeral like Jay L d's-when their words cannot jip or harm the dead man, but ill be faithfully reported to his inocent children only to wound ?em. A different course might roduco different results. But the question of Jay Gould's hereabouts brings up the point I ish to emphasise, namely : "Can ich men that get their money . by efrauding other people make eace with heaven by donating a art of it ; by such gifts swelling ie profits and funds of colleges? t so, let them go at it or they 'ill bo consigned to "Hades" be are the clods are rattling on heir coffins. . Respectfully, Mrs. W. H. Felton. January 7, 1893. People Who Fall Safely. A fal!, as a rule, injures a drunk n man much less than a sober one, ?ecause, tho Controlling power of he mind being rendered nil hrough intoxication, the body alls as an inert mass, and thus he chances of injury are lessened, br, strange thougii it may appear, t is no less a fact that the most lumerous cases of injury arising rom a fall are caused by the effort, voluntary or otherwise, to avert the cons?quences, thus straining the nuBcles and tendons. "'Very rarely ire-injurious effects from a fall cnown in a lunatic asylum, for ;he same simple reason-the mind bas no influence over the action of the body. Aud i HB a remarkable ind well known fact to those who have to deal with such cases, adds the Boston Herald, that whatever injuries are so caused heal much more rapidly than in the case of sane people, the mind having more to do with retarding or assisting nature's efforts than is generally known or realized. Our NewbOTi-y tetiter.""' MB, EDITOR : The holidays have j,been spent, and1 the boys are all back in. c??l?ge, -and with them came a ntribber 61: new students. The second term has opened with most flattering'-prospects. The stu dents ?t? all in .^ood health, with cheerful spirits ?.nd determined reS??tit???i to carry out the ' work set before them. The professors seem as hopeful as any of the boys pta/ Mayer and Houisal are giv ingvg on every Thursday a lecture oil j?nysology and hygiene, one in one . week and one the pext Although-these are very dry j sub j?cts, the doctors are making them yery practical, anet at the same time very instructive by perform irig many useful experiments be fore our eyes. Thus, another very useful'branch of instruction has been attached to the college. ! . Our boarding-hall is still ou a boom. Board at six,;dollars per month, think of it? We have been Torced toset a second table ?o ac ?ommodate those who-wished to board with, us. Our R. X M. is ?till the caterer, he makes a good me. Th6 military company is still moving on,, we hope to have it in tall trim soon. We aim to make i success of pur company if we ;an-and we can. - We will , drill hree hours per week. So you see ve can't help but succeed. - I. spent'a-very pleasa. Christ naa indeed, the moat pleasant of ny life. I visited myschool-chil Ireh, near Clintonward, and of jourse, we had. a very pleasaut neeting. Those 'people;in these ?ld pine-w?ods are still moving fong - in their usual quiet way, ittendmg to their own business. was .telling one ot my. Mine Jre?k friends, pf our^expenses at Hew berry College aiid he remarked, Give a Dutchman', a;chance and ie will, if ^possible, haye things one up 'bjrown' and a?a:yery lit'tle ost." : B. ' Newberry, S. C. piece than are at pioc-o* j fr. Allen takes the position that ounting silver at 85 cents per a unce, the intrinsic ' value of a \ ilver dollar is only 65-71 cents, h ie would put in each dollar 400 ii raine of pure silver, whereas the f, ?resent dollar ouly contains 371i c ;rains, and he would number and p etter each coin, so that the govern- p oent would not be compelled to B edeem duplicates, a safeguard now ? ?eglected. Mr. Allen says he e ?ould reap a profit in coining ? -/bile the price of silver was any- i -/here under 129*29. The letter idds : "While it has always been possi ble to recognize counterfeit paper 3 money the pnsent silver coin can '. be produced at a profit of 53 per I sent, and a coin that cannot be ] detected. This is true of silver i money, whether foreign or Amer i - '. eau. Now, my proposition is 1 Bither to withdraw the -present i silver money before the excess be- : comes so large that it will bankrupt : the, government to redeem1 it, or ; combine with foreign powers who are equally in dangar and make the': old standard of .value. $1.2929, which will make a coin which . cannot be counterfeited without the use of base metal alloy, which is easily ? detected, and for which the government will never have to pay a face value." Live Fence Posts. A-willow stake set right end up in the spring, and with a few buds at its top, is almost certain to grow. In two or three years more its trunk will be large enough to nail a board on, and it can thus be used as a fencepost. Some who do this? let the tree grow as large as it will but it will hear shortening by cutting off its top and becoming an indestructible fencepost, taking little more room thou one that has no roots-American Farmer. The word-wide reputation of Ayer'sHair Vigor is due to its healthy action on the hair and seal]-. "This incomparable prepara tion restores the original color to gray and faded hair, and imparts the gloss and freshness BO much desired by all classes of people. Mr. Blinks-Hear that? The water pipes have burst again. Mrs. Blinks-No, dear; that is Polly kissing George in the parloi*. Bal-ley. Barley as a regular grain butlittle known in the., is, however, one of the^standardii i various parts of tho world, in the old world especially. All overf the Pacific coast of North America* grain is extensively grown, ta the place of our Indian corn element of food for", horses other live stockton the farm ranch. The California orop li bar ley is immense, there beingj. fi rale, no corn .cultivated* in jrh?t State except on a small-scale lin a few localities, and then the.prqiduct is confined almost exclusively to the roasting ear patch. Not; one, horse in a thousand in . .California; knows what corn is. It is a little remarkable that ?uji Southern people ' have so'lo neglected this valuable'grain J It i nore valuable as a horse food t ;oru, and it is far more titivated. There is also fm iconoray in growing barley. ?Wi ;he majority of pur Souther armers corn is one of "the ?rn ?roublesome and expensive .? he grains tc/cultivate. To grow inccessfully. requires long Jose attention, the season of; i culture and harvesting stretch* rom February to November... With the same expense of < iyation and labor generally;^ nt? a barley crop, the barley 1 >e worth largely more. ^ 5outhern farmer than t?e ^co. rop gives on our average lan? rhile the period of cultivation an larvesting embraces only i a [&yB each in the fall and sump One of the great i??t? r arley hag . over corn is-th^ nables the farmers to dispos*. be employment and feeding^"* oe hands through the longmonth f summer. Another advantage lie i the'fact, that one. of the. inos. aluable features of the barley^crop!' ornes in.the rich pasturo,or soflin? :hich;the plant afford! in the inter time when; green\food?^? ?arce and i important. . The season of the year. is now pproaching for" sowing barley. Ve would advise our planters wto ave not heretofore had experience o growing the giain to plant a sw acres as an experimental rop. The ground should be well ?repared, well fertilized and ?lowed deeply ; and then tho grain owed very thickly and harrowed n, leaving the land so that a icythe or mowing machine can iasly run oyer it.-M. V. M.jin ?ouston Post. Aunt Se hula's Four Hundred. "An old negro woman has establ ished a new theocracy at Grenada. Miss," said J. H. B. Miller, of Doffeyville, to a St. Louis Re public writer. "Her name is Scinda iud her follows!are called 'Scinda Band., They number about?four hundred. Scinda is their \ queen, and rules her .flock with an iron rod. They use .nofBible atv their meetings, for each member, is sup posed to know it . by heart. * Ii Scinda askes them a biblical ques tion they are supposed to have an answer at once, They have ; theil meetings every Sunday evening, and they, are interesting to observe. The congregation^ men and women, are decked out ic costly ribbons and beads.-Theil chants are as weird as the sobt and sighs of graveyatd trees. Thej dance to the music of the banjc and tamborine until they are nearly exhausted, and then they go home -Scinda is a democrat and com pels each male member to voti that ticket. She insists that the} Bhall be cleanly in person anc pay their debts. No m ere h an in Grenada county ' will refus' credit to a member of her bane for if they were to fail to pay i Scinda would dance their souls in to hell,' as 6he calls it. Mel J Cheatham, the only white mai ever executed in Mississippi, wo hanged for murdering one c Scinda's members about thre years ago." Topreserve a youthful appearanc as possible, it is indispensable thr the hair phould retain its natur* color and fulness. There is n preparation so effective as Ayer Hair Vigor, It prevent baldnes and keeps the scalp clean, coo I and healthy. ?ig Is Religion Dead. Xe'arn to understand the signs* I the. times. H you see the leaves' rn yellow and red and shine in |kll colors, know that autumn is at nd. The leaves ?will ?fall to the ound and snow will soon cover ^ ip; trees and woodlands and '^meadows. But when you see buds jon the branches, although they may "b e few and the weather, may old, still, know that spring is 'X Qi? door, and will enter soon, fling our- hemes with flowers, ifh joyous life, and with . love. leaves of dogmatic opinion Railing thickly to j the ground w dreary lookB the landscape, ow bleak the sky I How j cold td frosty, bow forlorn are the "olds of the chuches ! There ie the lend of religious life, you think; ?the future will be empty irreligios fcy-without faith in the higher purposes of life, without ideals to 'warm and fill bur hearts without ope. or anything except the bater?a! enj?ymentsr.of the present iife. And yet, my >friends, observe the signs of the time 1 There are [buds on the . dry branches of re ligious life whieh show- that the -p ia stirring in the roots of the ie of humanity. There are signs at the death-knell of the' old 'reeds forebodes, the rise of anew igion. Every one who. knows ^that naturo is immortal can see :Bnd feel it. A new religion is.growing in the |ieaf ts of men. The new religion ?will either develop from the old greeds which now stand leafless Sand without fruit,which seem use jess, as if dead, or it will rise from ;he- very opposition against the jld creeds, from that opposition -which is made not in the name "of jjfrrvojqus cynicism, but in the itame of honesty and truth. The beautiful will; not be destroyed to gether with^the fantastic, nor .the ?higher aspirations in life with su pernatural errors. Though all the creeds may crumble away, the liv ing faith in ideals will last forever. ?X. i. JJ? pe li J ??? i GS" "J-Lu:*.:" Ol ?Ll ? *uu ?JUJU Orii?. ele vating. It will/be fe?listic, for it loves truth. It will promote right eousness, for it demands justice. It will ennoble human lifo, for it represents.Jharmony and beauty. The new religion that will replace the old creeds will be an ethical religion. And truly all the vital questions of the day are at bottom religious, ' all are ethical. They cannot be'- solved unless we dig down to their roots, which are buried in the deepest depths of our hearts-in .the realm of religious aspirations. '<afiSi* j Life would not be worth living if it were bare of all higher a? pirations, if we could not fill our soul with a divine enthusiasm for objects that are greater than our individual existence. We must be able to look bayoud the narrowness of our personal affairs. Our hopes and interests must be broader than life s short span ; they must not be kept within the bounds of egotism, or we shall never feel the thrill n higher life. For what is religion but the growth into the realm of a higher life? And what would the physical life be without religion?-Dr. Paul Cams. What the Evans Bill Means. We have yet to hear of a single farmer or God fearing man, "who is not in favor of the Evans dispen sary law after having thoroughly read it. The only kickers we have met as yet, are the barroom keep ers and those saintly deacons who have been accustomed to drinking on the sly and publicly preaching prohibition.-Aiken Times The flippant, merry style ol journalism is always delightful ',Ve admire the humorific reporte] on the New York World who, ii writing up a murder tragedy, sayi of the victim : "The old lad: sometimes laid she couldn't affor< to move. She moved out yester day in a black casket." That light some touch will surely make th writer a great editor some da} Indeed, I think it will be recog nized at once by Mr. Pulitzer an rewarded without delay. Thin or gray hair and bald head so displeasing to many people s marks of age, may be averted fe a long time, by using Hall's Hai Renewer. Counterfeit Eggs. There has been quite a sensation in Washington recently on the subject of artificial eggs. A per son who claims to have invented a process for making them-patent newly applied for-has been ex hibiting samples and giving them away about town. Some dozens have been served in tho clubs, boiled, fried, poached, and scram that it would ba impossible for anybody to distinguish them from real ones. Externally they look exactly like the sort laid by hens. Break the shell of a raw specimen and the contents flop into a glass in as natural a manner as possible, the yolk and white unmingJed. It has been claimed that no imitation could ever be made to "beat np" for cake, but these do perfectly. The inventor says that his eggs are, mechanically^speaking, a precise reproductkm?pf nature. Corn>meal is the ?;??B;# their material.sThe white is 'a jfure albumen, of course, while the yolk is a more compli cated mixture of albumen and several other elements. Inside the shell is a lining of what looks somewhat like the delicate, filmy membrane formed by the hen, while the shell itself is stated to be made in two halves, stuck to gether so artfully that no one can discover the joining. The very germ of the chicken, with unnec essary faithfulness of imitation, as one might think, is counter feited. The eggs are mado of va rious shapes and tints. One will be able to buy, as soon as they are placed on tho market, counterfeit pullets' eggs or eggs laid by elderly hens; likewise select white eggs or dark-colored eggs, according to choice. Most surprising of all, they will .be sold for. only ten cents a dozen, and they never get : rotten. To confectioners and others who use large quantities of eggs the yolks and whites will be sold separately, put up in jars and hermotically_flealed. In this shape _ remark to the effect that "after the presidential good bye is read1 we had better adjourn in memory of the departing," and the allusion to the message as a plea for a new trial which had already been overruled, were subjects of general gossip in corridors and commitiee rooms. But Reed, if the leader of this feeling in his party, is by no means alone therein. The number in the party who have long since learned to feel that the White House had no longer any social attractions for them, and who have never crossed its portals un less backed by some strong party excuse, had become surprisingly large. This fact more than any other illustrates how fatal it was to the party to allow a lot of office holders, led by a railway magnate, in no sense in touch with the party's desires, to crowd a really unpopular man on the party. The secret of this so general feeling was never better, explained than Mr- Harrison himself in. this re cent message, ' where - he- - savs : "Perhaps no emotion cools sooner than that of gratitude." A man who can bring hsmeslf to believe that what really is, I am convinced, one of the most virile and lasting of emotions can be said to be one of the most evanescent, doubtless has that in his own character whch unfits him in an eminent degree for succeeding himself in the presidential office.-Town Topics. English Politics. It appears that between the principal men of the English polit cal parties there must be, as it were a secret or tacit understand ing and unwritten compact that the people shall be humored with the shadow of legislation, but de prived of the substance of it; thai a puppet show, decorous if possl ble, but amusing at all hazards shall be provided for their enter tainment, with the object of dis tracting their attention from sup posititious or real but immedica ble ills. I notice that each party while in opposition, exerts itsel strenuously to prevent the party ii office from legislating with effect irrespectively of the goodness o badness of any particular pro general verdict is posai. The party in power, on the j other hand, while affecting impa tience of the opposition, appears to be secretly relieved at being prevented from committing itself, to anything " drastic or definite. Current Literature. Why, among all our charitable I?eople, is there not some kind lady to perpetrate a society called say, ''The- Society for the Progagation of Pate de Foie Gras Among Crim inals"? There are many less worthy objects daily gathering wealth from unburdened million aires. '.' ~ Notice: OFFICE SCHOOL COMMISSIONEB, JSDOEFIELD, S. C. , The ptrblic schools in Edgefield county will betopen$Lon the 16th of Janua^p^jfJ^ iPORT, S. C. E. C. THE BEST COUCH-CURE and anodyne expectorant, AVER'S Cherry Pectoral soothes the inflamed membrane and induces sleep. 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