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BARBER STIRRED THE SOCIETY.
Former South Carolinaian Gets
Wild Applause in New
York?The True
Measure of a
Man.
The Southern society of New
York celebrated its tweutv
6fth anniversary at, the Waldorf
Astoria hotel last Friday night.
Among the distinguished apeakere
were Dr. Wood row Wtlaon
of Princeton univeraiiy end H-oi
William A. Barber former attorney
ganaral of Souih Carolina.
When his turn cam", Mr
Barber, speaking to the "O-d
Smith " tackled Elihu Root for
L<^ revolutionary speech. toed*1
to the Pennsylvania!!* ai ttie
same piece onlv a tew night
ago. The 8un aeys itiat BarKvi
stirred up the society and it*
? guests, and that there was wild
applauee from some sections of
the grand ball room although
there were also seme silent shots.
What Mr. Barber said woh it,
part as follows:
It seems fashionable nowadays
to discuss constitution?l
questions around tha dinner
table. (Laughter.) Only two
nights ago, on an occasion lik*
fhis, the distinguished secretary
* of state, speaking in this banquet
ball, gave bis boarer*
enough constitutional law to
give some peopla indigestion.
His viaws are always interest*
\ing, but especially when ha
speaka as the tribune of a cabi
net of which he is so important
apart.
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\LT IN piruill^ iu Jc ivuintucu
that since our constitution was
i \ adopted our oouotry has grown
* narrow atrip along ibs
Atlantic unur it miseries Ironi
ocean to ocean, and embraces
some 85,000,000 population. It
is pleasing to be told that since
the constitution was adopted
the genius of modern invention
has so destroyed time and distance
that every section of this
great country is in immediate
contact, and has intimate trade
and social relations with every
other section.
But with his conclusion tbst.
this increase in an a and population,
and this close business
intercourse demand either a
modification or a new construction
of the constitution we cannot
agree. We believe with
our fathers, that om people arej
slow to change; that the *ize of
the country and the exigencies!
of trade are less important than;
the preservation of individual!
liberty. We believe t.haj the
rights of each citizen today ar?i
the same as the rights of each
citizen of the sm - c. oo'tnr in!
1,81 Wi; believe these rights,
are and will continue to be. best
preserved hv an inexorable enforcement
of the old constitution.
Tf it he true na thnro io n 1
growing impression, that the
executive reaches out to control
the courts and, perhap*, get the
new construction of the constitution
that, is wanted we invoke
the warning of Chief Justice
Marshall that the very safety of
the republic requires the legislative,
exeutive and judicial
power to remain forever separate
* and distinct. Although we are
told that "we are moving forward
in a development of business
and social life which tends
more and more to the obliteration
of state lines and the decrease
of state power, as compared
with the national power,"
we will still teach our children
that the nation is divided into
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sovereign states. In our ecbools
wo may tee a few syllabi*
reformed out of our spelling, ,
but we will not see state ^
lines reformed out ot our ]
geography. ,
And too, some of us believe (
that the fixing of qualifications
for admission to the public
schools is amoDg the power?
reserved to the states, and that
the old constitution will not admit
the army and nnvy of the
United 8tatee to the deliberation*
rtf rmr uphnnl* Vmnrflfi And
again, not only becnuss we beUevr
?uch matters are reserved
to the states, but because we
ere a peaceable, preferring the
the reaper to the rifle and the
spelling book to the shotgun,
we respectfully oppose the st renuou?
sugg^s'ion that the power of
congtess be used to add shooting
galleries to our public
ecbools.
I have do patience with the
pessimist who sees nothing but
evil in bie own times. I have no
patience with the alarmist who
is blind to everything except a
dsnger signal. But any prudent
and thoughtful man, not only in
public affairs, but in private life,
ueed only look around him to
see that all things are not good
and that the road ahead ir
not clsar.
With investigations and indictments
and trials exposing
greed in high places and grab
and graft abroad in the land we
turn with grateiul memory to
the eallier times whsn men
said with Henry Laurens of
South Carolina, "I am a peor
man?(4od knows T am a no or
man?but your king ie not rich
enough ta buy ma." Whan we
see the worth of a man estimated
by the xnouey ha has in
1 tb*a hante: in his houss. bis
olotass, his autemobiles, the
more da wa treasure the old
southern sentiment teat mass
ures the individual not by what
he has, but by how he gets it.
The mile post of progress ie not
a dollar mark. The label of
success is not a stock certificate.
Secretary Shaw denies that
the treasury department has
evercome to the relief of the
stock gambler*, but admits that
the said gamblers have gotten
advantage of the going to the
relief of the commercial world.
The relief generally comes when
the stock gamblers have ahsorbi
d all of liie available cash
and when the new cash is issued
they g"in tally get the most ol
that, .-o <l'< not see any very
great dilierenee in the charge
and the defense. There is hut
one tiling 11.a. liie government
em do i'o give r^ii'd to business
without aiding tl.- gamblers,
and that is to allow local banks
to make issue of currency when
the occasion demands it unner
Certain lixed regulations and
without the tax. The govern
merit h h already considered
Wail street tbe business of the
nations and Wall street is
nothing on earth but a big
gainbiing hell in which the
greater part Of the country is
fleeced at the pleasure of those
who can manipulate stocks to
pile up their own wealth.?
Florence Times.
A New York grand jury Frirlutr
inrlinfn^?A?*nfA W7
V??^ luutotwu VJI Owfl gC3 If JL OI IVILIO
and Charles S Fairehild, under
six counts for forgery. They
millionaires, the former a partner
of J. P. Morgan & Co., and
the latter a former Secretary of
the Treasury.
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Subatriba for TheChroniela
The Pure f?d Law.
The pure fool law peaoed
lvring the leet eLioo of eou|re?e
goee into efilct today. It
remeine to be ie4 whet good
reaulta the consftmera in the
country will wjlr? from it.
For many yeara ttts people have
been demanding ration by elate
and national legiU^tive bod tee
to protect themtragaintl the
adulteration of fotwutnfia. They
have secured udhl a bill* by
the congresa. Tilt there waa
need for it or thaitgat the act in
queation ia propsjjy enforeed
much geod will fIcMfrom it can*
not be denied; the mam
question and the the people
are, now ohiefly it|ere*ted io it
will it be enforoed ir be allowed
to reel a dead)ktter on the
statute books? A r4?n? article
in the Baltimore}8un shows
what a broad fiej^there ie for
exploitation by M*?ameat officiate
in the pr<na?on ?' *be
people against Redteration of
food stuff*. Thlle.j ?aid that
an expert in Nem^jrk who bad
made an inveewnon ot the
subject declarodwglt residents
of that city alonlaeid annually
one hundred Icif eeyenteen
million dollars bp "imitation
foods that are nrse than no
foods at all." 1
Atlanta, Dec||9.?Qeergia
Day at the JaqioifD Exposition
has been-&?. for Moo
d June 10, HMJlwith President
Roosevelt iiL? orator of
the day. Georgidbaildiag at
the Exposition wibe a reproduction
of BullocMall, the for
mer home of Preriot Roosevelt's
mother entfL front steps
of the origiual bajng will be
a part of the repfiStien. From
the^ stepe th^Lideat will
bis subject, "nTCommercial
Growth and ftfreos of the
South."
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. RepreeentaUvxrivingatea, of
Georgia, who is >ost active in
the proposed prooeedings
against the Ne< York coiton
exchange, today made formal
complaint to Po naster General
Cortelyou leiNew York
cotton exchange s guiRy ot
traud perpetrated through the
United .States m?Mr. Livingston
says ti: the New
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A UI K COllOU ejflJHUgCB COH18
the South $40,(2',000 by its
fraudulent raanitlations.
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The postmastt at Hattiesburg,
Miss., haappointed W iil>eri
T. George, negro, to he
rierU ii! tie* postoce, hut George
informs the civilervice that he
has skipped becaJe wiiit" meu
t beaten t<> moh iih if he accepts.
Hf
Attorney Gentil-elect. Lyon
has decided to a point as hj>
assistant in the rice ol Attorney
General, tbojHon. M. P
DeHruhl, of Abeville. Mr.
DeBruhl is high regarded in
this city where has practiced
la t for a ntimbe of years. He
has represented ^pbeville Countv
III f llO T.aniiJhir? ?r>rl la I
J * *- ?UV "AJUpl4tT U 1*11 V* AD
now roferee iij bankruptcy.
The latter office a has resigned,
bis resignation > take effect
January 15.
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President A.J. Oassett, of
the Pennsylvaia Railroad,
president of six >ther corpora
tions, and a (rector in 23
others, died sidenly at his
home in Philaclphia Friday;
his fortune is es mited at from
$50,000,000 to : r5,000,000.
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II Address Dr. Earl S. Sloan
Washington, Dac. 29.?8ecro
tery Teft made the following
statement today concerning hi*
I Presidential aspirations:
"For the purpose of relieving
the burden imposeed by recent
publication upon some of my
friend among the Washington
newspaper corrsspondents of putting
further inquiries to me, I
wish to say that my ambition ie
net nolitioal; that I am not.seeking
the Presidential nomination;
that I do not expest to be the
Republican candidate; if for no
other reason, bsoauee of whet
seems to be to be objections, to
my availibility which do not appear
to lessen with the con*
tined discharge of my own
official duty; but that I am not
foolish enough to say that, in
the improbable event that the
opportunity to run for the great I
office of President were to comej
to ?o. I should decline '><-*
tqis woalu net be true."
The independent oil companies
ere taking hssrt because
of the fight that is being made
on the Standard Oil company
and will ask for legislation that
will giee them a chance. We
suggest that a law which would
require all corporations doing
business in this state to sell
goods hsre as cheap as they are
sold by that corporation or its
agents anywhore, the freight being
considered, would get at the
root of the matter. For any
violation ot that law the offend
ing corporation might be brou ght
into court by any other poison,
linn or corporation who could '
give the allidavit and the court |
would fix the tine to the .*ta?o !
or the damages to the partyj
a<^orievtuj.?l'iorence i un-s. |
Strength of Sand.
Over thirty years ago I'd. lieauder- !
nouil, a French savant, proved by
exp.:;iimnt that a quantity ot dry
band, placed in a box ol' thin sheet 1
iron, or ev< 11 in a. canvas hag, and :
subjected to slight compression, j
forms a, nnius capable ot' resisting a i
pressure of sixty tons, without break- |
iug or even straining the box or bag. i
The Baud, however, remains perfectly j
divisible, so that it a small hole j
be made in the box or bag it will
flow slowly, and with so PUle force
laat a small piece of paper pasted
over the opening will check the llow,
even with trie sixty tons weight upon
it.
Washing in the Orient.
The Japanese rip their garment*
apart for every washing and they iron
their clothes by spreading them on
a flat hoard and leaning this up
against the house to dry. The sun
takes the wrinkles out of the clothes
and some of them have quite a lustre.
The Japanose woman does her washing
out of doors. Her wash tub is
not more than six inches high.
The harden! worked wnohorroownori
in tho world are the Coreans. They
have to wash about a dozen dresses
for their husbands, and they have
plenty to do The washing is usually
done tn cold water and often in
running streams. The clothes are
pounded with paddles until they shine
like a shirt from a laundry.
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Lead, kindlr lightl amid th' encircling
(loom.
I,*Ar1 Ko? ^*?
The night, is dark, and I am far from
hoai*;
Lead tbou me on;
Keep thou my feet; I do net auk to see
The distant scene; one step eaongh for
me.
I wan not erer thus, aor prayed that
thou now
Shouldst lead ate on;
I lored to choose and aee my path; but
Lead thoa me on;
I lored thegariahday, and spite of fenrs,
Pride ruled my will- Remember not
past years.
80 long thy power has blessed me, sore
it still
Will lead me oa
O'er moor and fen, o'er erag and torrent,
till
The night, is gone;
And with the. more those angel faces
smile
Which I'hare lored long since, and lost
awhile!
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