The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, January 26, 1898, Image 4
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THE BATTLE OF LIFE.
WORDS OF CHEER FOR WOMEN WHO
HAVE TO WORK.
An Honest Indepsndsccs Better Than Uncongenial
Matrimonial Bonds?".Every
Wise Woman BaUdeth Her Own Homt''
Was His Tex\
Thi3 sermon of Dr. Taimage is a
great encouragement to women who
.have to earn their own living, as well
as to all toilers with hand or brain;
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woman buildeth her house."
Woman a mere adjmet to man, an
appendix to the masculine volume,
an appendage, a sort of afterthought,
something thrown in to make things
even?that is the heresy entertained
and implied by some men. This is
evident to them because Adam was
first created and then Eve. They don't
read the whole story, or they would
find that the porpoise and the boar
and the hawk were created before
Adam, so that his argument, drawn
from priority of creation, might prove
that the sheep and the_dog were great
er than man. No. Woman was an i
independent creation ana was intended,
if she chose, to live alone, to work
alone, act alone, think alone and fight
her battles alone. The Bible says it is
not good for man to be alone, but
never says it is not good for woman to
be alone, and the simple fact is that
' many women who are harnessed for
life in the marriage relation would be
a thousandfold better off if tney were
alone
Who are these men who year after
year hang around hotels ana engine
houses and theater doors, and come io
and out to bother busy clerks and
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Eercnanis ana meenamcs, uoxng numing,
when there is plenty to do? They
are men supported by their wives and
mothers. If the statistics of any of
our cities could be taken on this subject,
you would find that a vast multitude
of women not only support
themselves, but masculines. A great
legion of men amount to nothing, and
a woman by marriage manacled to
one of these nonenities needs condolence.
A woman standing outside the
momiam ' olo+inn ic cottamI
thousand times better off than a woman
badly married. Many a bride instwad
of a wreath of orange blossoms
might more properly wear a bunch of
nettles and nightshade, and instead of
the wedding march a more appropriate
tune would be the dead march in
"Saul," and instead of a banquet of
confectionery and ices there might be
more appropriately spread a table
covered with apples of Sodom.
Many an attractive woman of good
sound sense in other things has married
one of these men to reform him.
What was the result? Like when a
dove, noticing that a vulture was rapacious
and cruel, set about to reform
it, and said, 4'I have a mild disposition
and I like peace and was brought
up in the quiet of a dovecot, and I
will bring the vulture to the same
liking by marrying him." So one day
after the vulture declared he would
give up his carnivorous habits and
cease longing for blocd of flock and
herd, at an altar of rock covered with
moss and lichen, the twain were married,
a bald headed eagle officiating,
the vulture saying, "With ail my dominion
of earth and sky I thee endow
and promise to love and cherisii till
death do us part" But one day the
dove in her fright saw the vulture
busy at a carcass and cried: "Stop
that I Did you not promise me that
you would quit your carnivorous and
filthy habits if lmaeried youV "Yes,"
said the vulture, "but & you don't
juus.8 my way you can leave* auu
with, one angry stroke of the beak
and another fierce clutch, of the claw
_ the vulture left the dove eyeless and
wingless and lifeless. And a flock of
robbins flying past cried to each other
and said: "See there! That comes
from a dove marrying a culture to reform
him!"
Many a woman who has had the
hand of a young inebriate offered, but
declined it, or who was asked to chain
her life to a man selfish or of bad temper
and refused the shackles, will
bless God throughout all eternity that
she escaped that earthly pandemonium.
. Besides all this, in our country
about 1,000,000 men were sacrificed in
our civil war, and that decreed 1,000,000
women to celibacy. Besides that,
since the war several armies of men
as large as the Federal and Confederate
armies put together have fallen
under malt liquors and distilled spirits.
so full of poisoned .ingredients
that the work was done more rapidly,
and the victims' fell while yet young.
And if 50,000 men are destroyed every
year by strong drink before marriage
that makes inthe 33 years since the
war 1,650,00(5^men slain and decrees
1,650,000 women to celibacy. Take,
then, the fact that so many women
are unhappy in their marriage, and
the fact that the slaughter of 2,550,000
men by war and rum combined decides
that at least that number of
women shall be unaffianced for life,
my text comes in with a cheer and a
potency and appropriateness that you
may never have seen in it before
when it says, "Every wise woman
buildeth her house"?that is, let woman
be her own architect, lfcy out her
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achieve her own destiny.
In addressing those women who
have to fight the battle alone, I congratulate
you on your happy escape.
Rejoice forever that you will not have
to navigate the faults of the other sex
when you have faults enough of your
own. Think of the bereavements you
avoid, of the risks of unassimilated
temper which you will not have to
run, of the cares you will never have
to carry and of the opportunity of
outside usefulness from which marital
life would have partially debarred
you, and th?t you are free to go and
come as one who has the responsibilities
of a household can seldom be.
God has not given jou a hard lot as
compared with your sisters. When
young women snail ma!ie up their
minds at the start that masculine
companionship is not a necessity in
order to happiness, and that there"is a
strong probaoility that they will have
to fight the bat'de of life alone, they
will be getting' the timber ready for
their own fortune and their saw and
ax and plane sharpened for its construction,
since "every wise woman
buildeth her house."
As no boy ought to be brought up
without learning some business at
which he could earn a livelihood, so
no girl ought to be brought up without
learning the science of self support.
The difficulty is that many a
family goes sailing on the high tides
of success and the husband ana father
depends on his own health and acu
men ior me wenare 01 ins souse nolo.
But one day he gets his feet wet, and
in three days pneumonia has closed
his life, and the daughters are turned
on a cold world to earn bread, and
there is nothing practical that they
can do. The friends come in and hold
consultation- "Give music lessons,"
says an outsider. Yes, that is a useful
calling, and if you have great genius
for it go on in that direction. But
there are enougn music teachers now
starving to death in ail our towns and
cities to occupy all the piano stools
jmd sofas and chairs and front door
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steps of the city. Besides that, the
daughter has been playing only for
amusement and is only at the foot of
the ladder, to the top of which a great
multitude of masters on piano and
harn and flute and organ have climb
ed. "
"Put the bereft daughters as saleswomen
in the stores," says another adyiser.
But there they must compete
with salesmen of long experience or
with men who have served and apprenticeship
in commerce and who
began as shopboys at 10 years of age.
Some kind hearted dry goods man,
having known the fatfier, now gone,
says, "We are not in need of any more
help just now, but send your daught|
ers to my store and I will do sis well by
j them as possible." Very soon the
! question comes up. Why do not the
female employees of that establishment
get as much wages as the male
employees ? For the simple reason in
! many cases the females were suddenly
flunjj by misfortune behind that counter,
while the males have from the
day-they left the public school been
learning the business.
How is this evil to be cured? Start
clear back in the homestead and teach
vmir daughters that life is an earnest
thing, and that there is a possibility,
if not a strong probability, that they
will have to fight the battle of life
alone. Let every father and mother
say to their daughters, "Now, what
would you do for a livelihood if what
I now own were swept away by financial
disaster or old age or death should
end my career?"
"Well, I could paint on pottery and
do such decorative work." Yes, that
is beautiful, and if you have genius
for it go on in that direction. But
there are enough busy at that now to
make ai'neof hardware as loDg as
yon Pennsylvania avenue.
"Well, l couia maxe recusuuiis m
public and earn my living as a drama
tist; I could render 'King Lear' or
'Macbeth' till your hair would rise on
end. or give you 'Sheridan's Bide' or
Dickens' 'Pickwick.'" Yes, that is a
beautiful art, but ever and anon, as
now, there is an epidemic of dramatization
that makes hundreds of households
nervous with the cries and
shrieks and groans of young tragedinnes
dying in the fifth act, and the
trouble is that while your friends
would like to hear you and really
think that you could surpass Ristori
and Charlotte Cushman and Fanny
Kemble of the past, to say nothing
of the present, you could not, in the
way of living, in ten years earn 10
cents.
My advice to all girls and all unmarried
women, whether in affluent
homes or in homes where most streng[
ont A/?rmr.mif?c arft crindinj*. is to learn
to do some kind of work that the world
! must have while the world stands. I
! am glad to see a marvelous change
for the better and that women have
| found out that there are hundreds of
practical things that a woman can do
for a living if she begins soon enough
and that men have beeu compelled to
admit it. You and I can remember
| when the majority of occupations were
I thought inappropriate for women, but
our civil war came, and the hosts of
men went forth from north and south,
I and io conduct the business of cur cities
during the patriotic absence women
were demanded by the tens of thousand
to take the vacmt places, and
multitudes of women, who had been
hitherto supported by fathers and
brothers and sons, were compelled
from that time to take care of themselves.
From that time a mighty
changa took place favorable to female
employment.
Among the occupations appropriate
for woman I place the following, into
many of which she has already entered
and all the others she will enter;
Stenography, and you may find her
at nearly all the reportorial stands in
our educational, political and religious
meetings. Savings banks, the work
clean and honorable, and who so
great a right to toil there,''for a woman
founded the first savings bankMrs.
Priscilla "Wakefield? Copyists,
and there is hardly a professional
man that does not need the service of
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many of the greatest books of our day
have been dictated for her writing.
There they are as florists and confectioners
and music teachers and bookkeepers,
for which they are specially
qualified by patience and accuracy,
and wocd engraving, in which the
Cooper institute has turned out so
many qualified, and telegraphy, for
which, sue is specially prepared, as
thousands of the telegraphic offices
will testify. Photography, and in
nearly all our establishments they
may be found there at cheerful work.
As workers in ivory and gutta percha
and gum elastic and tortoise shell and
gilding, and in chemicals, in procelain,
in terra cotta. As postmistresses, aad
presidents have given them appointments
all over the land.
As proofreaders, as translators, as
modelers, as designers, as- draftswomen,
as lithographers, as teachers in
schools ana seminaries, for which they
are .espscially endowed, the first
teacher of every child by divine arrangement
being a woman. As physicians,
having graduated after a regular
course of study from the female
colleges of our large cities, where they
get as scientific and thorough prepara
tion as any doctors ever had and go
forth to a work which no one but wo
men could so appropriately and delicately
do. On the lecturing platform,
for you know the brilliant success
of Mrs. Livermore and Mrs. Hallowell
and Miss Willard and Mrs.
Lathrop. As physiological lecturers
to their own sex, for which service J
tnere is a demand appalling and terrific.
As preachers of the gospel, and
all the protests of ecclesiastical courts
cannot hinder there, for they have
a pathos and a power in their religious
utterances that men can never
reach. Witness all those who have
heard their mother pray.
Ob, young women of America, as
many of you will have to fight your
own battles alone, do not wait until
you are fl.ung of disaster and your
father is dead and all the resources of
your family have been scattered, but
now, while in a good house and en
vironed by all prosperities, learn how
to do some kind of work that the world
must have as long as the world
stands. Turn your attention from the
embroidery of fine slippers, of which
there is a surplus, and make a useful
shoe. Expend the time in which you
adorn a c:gar case in learning how to
make a good, honest loaf of bread.
Turn your attention from the making
of iiimsy nothings to the manufacturing
of important somethings.
Much of the time spent in young
ladies' seminaries in studying what are
called the "higher branches" might
better be expended in teaching there,
something by which they could support
themselves. If you are going to
be teachers, or if you have so much
afsured wealth that you can always
dwell in those high regions, trigonometry
of course, metaphysics of course,
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JuaLLLL anu l coa axxu. ujlall auu
French and Italian of course, and a
hundred other things of course, but Li
you are not expecting to teach, anci
your wealth is not established beyond
misfortune, after you have learned the
ordinary branches take hold of that
kind of study that will pay in dollars
and cents in case you ar4 thrown on
your own resources. Learn to do
something better than anybody else.
"No, no I" says some yocmg woman. J
"I will not undertake anything so unromantic
and commonplace as that."
An excellent author writes that after
he had, in a book, argued for efficiency
in womanly work in order to success,
and positive apprenticeship by
way of preparation, a prominent
chemist advertised that he would teach
a class of women to become druggists
and apothecaries if they would
through an apprenticeship as men do,
and a printer advertised that he would
: take a class of women to learn the
printer's trade if they would go
through an apprenticeship as men do,
and how many, according to the account
of the author, do ycu suppose
applied to become skilled in the druggist
business and piinting business?
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"Bat," you ask, "what would my
father and mother say if they saw I
was doing such unfashionable work V
Throw the whole responsibility upon
us, the pastors, who are constantly
t earing of young women in all these
cities who, unqualified by their previous
luxurious surroundings for the
awful struggle of life into which they
have been suddenly hurled, seemed to
have nothing left them but a choice
l>etween starvation and damnation,
"here they go along the street 7 o'clock
in the wintry mornings through the
slush and storm to the place where
they shall earn only half enough for
subsistance, the daughters of once
prosperous merchants, lawyers, clergymen,
artists, bankers and capital
ists, who brought up their children
under the infernal delusion that it was
not high tone for women to learn a
profitable calling. Young women,
take this affair in your own hand and
let there be an insurrection in all prosperous
families on the part of the
daughters of this day, demanding
knowledge in occupations and styles
of business by which they may be
their own defense and their own support
if all fatherly and husbandly and
brotherly hands forever fail them. I
have seen two sad sights, the one a
woman in all the glory of her young
life, stricken by disease, and in a week
lifeless in a home of which she had
been the pride. As her hands were
folded over the still heart and her
eyes closed for the last slumber and
she was laken out amid the lamenta?
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lions 01 Kinureu auu lneum j. muugun
that was a sadness immeasurable. But
I have seen something compared with
which that scene was bright and songful.
It was a young woman who had
been all her days amid wealthy surroundings
by the visit of death and
bankruptcy to the household turned
out on a cold world without one less an
about how to get food or shelter and
into the awful whirlpool of city life,
where strong ships have gone down,
and for 20 years not one word has
been heard from her. Vessels went
out on the Atlantic ocean looking for
a shipwrecked craft that was left alone
and forsaken on the sea a few weeks
before with the idea of bringing it j
_a 4. t">.?i. t ?un11 i
inio port. .Dm wuu siitm ever vuug
again into the harbor of peace and
hope and heaven that lost womanly
immortal, driven in what tempest,
aflame in what conflagration, sinking
into what abyss? 0 God, help! 0
Christ, rescue! My sisters, give not
your time to learning fancy work
which the world may dispense with
in hard times, but connect your skill
with the indispensables of life.
The world will always want something
to wear and something to eat,
and shelter and fuel for the body, and
knowledge for the mind and religion
for the soul. And all these things
will continue to be the necessaries,and
if you fasten your energies upon occupations
and professions thus related,
the world will be unable to do
without you. Remember, that in
proportion as you are skillful in anything
your rivalries become less. For
unskilled toil there are women by the
millions. But you may rise to where
there are only thousands, and still
higher till there are only 100, and still
higher till ihere are only 10, and still
higher, in some particular department
till there is only a unit, and that yourcoif
"P/m" arxrtiila -rrmi mar Itpat* wqotas
and a place through the kindly sympathy
of an employer, but you will
eventually get no more compensation
than you can make yourself worth.
Let me say to all women who have
already entered upon the battle of life
that the time is coming when woman
shall not only get as much salary and
wages as men get, bat for certain
styles of employment women will
hav6 higher salary and more wages,
for the reason that for some styles of
work they have more adaption. But
this justice will c:me to woman not
through any sentiment of gallantry,
not because woman is physically
weaker J nan man, ana tnereiore ougnt
to have more consideration shown her,
but because through her finer natural
taste and more grace of manner and
quicker perception and more delicate
touch and more educated adroitness
she wil], in certain callings, be to her
employer worth 10 per cent more or
20 per csnt more than the other sex.
She will not get it by asking for it, but
by earning it, and it shall be hers by
lawful conquest.
Now, men of America, be fair and
give the women a chance. Are you
afraid that they will do some of your
work and hence harm your prosperities?
Remember that there are scores
nf thousands nf mpn f^ninc wompn's
work. Do not be afraid. God knows
the end from the beginning, and he
knows how many p 30 pie this world
can feed and shelter, and when it gets
too full he will end the world, and if
need be start another. Gad will ha t
the inventive faculty, which by pro
ducing a machine that will do the work
of 10 or 20 or 100 men and women,
will leave that number of people without
work. I hope that there will not
be invented another sewing machine,
or reaping machine, or corn thrasher,
or any other new machine for the
next 500 years. We want no more
wooden hands and iron hands and
steel hands and electric hands substituted
for men and women who would
work and get the pay and earn the
livelihood.
But God will arrange all, and all we
have to do is to do our best and trust 1
him for the rest. L^t me cheer all
women fighting the battle of life alone
with the fact of thousands of women
who have won the day. Mary Lyon,
founder of Mount Holyoke Female
seminary, fought the battle; Adelaide
Newton, the tract distributor, alone;
Fidelia Fisk, the consecrated missionary,
alone; Dorothea Dix, the anf.el
of the insane asylums, alone; Caroline
Herschel, the indispensable reenforcement
of her brother, alone; Ma
ria Takerzwska, the heroine of the
Berlin hosDital. alone: Helen Chal
mers, patron of the sewing school for i
the poor of Edinburgh, alone. And :
thousands and tens of thousands of i
women, of whose bravery and self :
sacrifice and glory of charatcer the
world has made no record, but whose
deeds are in the heavenly archieves of
martyrs who fou?ht the battle alone,
and though unrecognized for the short
30 or 50 or 80 years of their earthly
existence shall tlrraghthequintillion
ages of the higher world be pointed
out with the admiring cry, "These are
they who came out of great tribulation
and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the Lamb."
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ment of all women fighting the battle
of life alone, that their coiifiict will
soon end. There is one word written
over the faces of many of them., and ,
that word is despair. My sister, you
neid appeal to Christ, who comforted
the sisters of Bethany in their domestic
trouble, and who in his last hours
forgot all the pangs of his own hands
and feet and bear: ss he looked into
the face of maternal anguish and call
fd a friend's attention to it. in sub
stance saying: "John, i cannot ta&e
care of her any locger. Do for her as
I would have doc 3 if I had lived. Behold
thy mother 1" If, under the pres
sure of unrewarded work, ycur hair is
whitening and the wrinkles c^me, rejlice
that you are nearing the hour of
escape from ycur very last fatigue,
and may your departure be as pleasant
as that of Isabella Graham, who closed
her lifp with a smile and the word
"peace."
The daughter of a regiment in any
army is all surrounded by bayonets of
defense, and in the battle, whce?er
falls, she is kept safe. And you are
the daughter oF tho regiment commanded
by the Lord of Hosts. After all
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j u CLL C i*UL IUU uAbbxc \yx mv.
alone. All heaven is on your side.
You will be wise to appropriate to
yourself the words of sacred rhythm:
One who has known in storms to sail
I have on board.
Above the roaring of the gale
I hear my Lord.
He holds me. When the billows smite
I shall not fall.
If short, 'tis sharp; if long, 'tis light.
He tempers all.
T&ey Evidently 2Xean Business.
At a recent meeting of the cotton
growers of Marlboro County an organization
was formed for the purpose
of fighting the cotton seed oil trust.
/A11 ANVIMM Vk-T* lftmn WAfl AilAW^A/1
JLLie luiiuwiu^ uj mrya vym auuptcu
for the government of the association:
1. That this organization shall b9
known as Marlboro Cotton Growers'
Protective Association.
2. The membership shall consist of
ten or more delegates from Township
Associations, which are to be organized
by such committees as shall be
appointed by the President of this Ass
?ciation.
3. That the officers of this Associa
tion shall be a President, Vice President
and a Secretary, to be elected annually
on the 3d Tuesday in December
in each year.
4. Its purpose is to devise means of
reducing the acreage and increasing
the price of cottoD, and the correction
of the evils of speculation and others
that oppress the producer.
5. That this Association shall be a
part of and shall act in concert with
the National Cotton Grower's Association.
6. That meetings shall be held on
the 31 Tuesdays in January, February,
March, August and September, in
addition to the regular annual meeting
on 3d Tuesday in December, and at
such other times as may be called by
the President.
The following preamble and resolution
was adopted:
Whereas, the late Cotton Growers'
Convention declared againstrall trusts
and combines, and whereas the cotton
oil companies have organized a Trust
on cotton seed and meal, fixing prices
on both withcui regard to our inter- |
ests, and whereas these articles came
at once into the legitimate domain of
our revenue from cotton growing, and
the control of their prices is undemoA
An AMMAftA J A i V\ DMA
crauc as uppu^cu tu x rco lrauc, merefore
be it
Resolved, That as the bulk of seed
has already pased from our hands at
ruinous prices, we deem it advisable
not to pay more than $15 per ton for
meal delivered.
Says !: is Chicken Pox.
Oa the invitation of the local board
of health of Orangeburg Dr. Jas. L
Beckett, of Summerville, S. C., examined
the cases of eruptive fever at
the Colored Normal College, and pronounces
them chicken pox. Here is
what hfl savs:
Orangeburg, S. C., Jan. 14, 1898.
I certify that the cases of eruptive
fever examined by me at the Colored
Mechanical College are typical cases
of varicella or chicken pox. My conclusions
are ba'.ed on the following
symptoms: The eruptions in the
eight cases examined ara of successive
stages of development; in those pus
tules where desquamation has taken
place the scars left in the skin,
are destitute of that peculiar hardness,
kernel like, or tubercular elevation
which is a distinctive characteristic of
smallpox. In smallpox the scab falls
off in one solid piece; ihcsa scabs examined
are coming off in jciiesor
flakes, the eruption in these cases be
ing superficial, in the cellular tissue,
olengated, or globate in spots; whereas,
smallpox pustules are deep seated
with hard unyielding bases, which
nodular or tubercular feeling remains
a considerable time after the patient
is up and attending to his duties. The
papulae of smallpox are hard, resisting
and movable; in the cases referred to
eruptions are soft, jiald under the
touch and entirely destitute of the tubercular
hardness. In the negro after
desquamation the eruption, without a
single exception, always leaves a circumscribed
white spot on the surface.
In the case of Student Hicks, who is
entirely recovered the marks of the
eruption are a shade darker; therefore,
in my judgment, these cases examin- '
ed are chickenpox of an aggravated
type. James L Beckett, M. D.
" It is said that Dr. Beckett is autbori- j
ty in such matters, and that he has at j
tended hundreds of cases at various <
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and is therefore competent to pass an :
opinion.
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A FJOi'd L">glc.
la the same column a certain organ :
tells the workiogman that if he votes
for Bryan he will vote 47 per cent- of
his wages into the pockets of mine (
owners, and that he will vote to de- 1
predate not only the silver dollar but ,
all the currency to 53 cents on the dol- '
lar. How can free silver coinage put
47 per cent, of each dollar coint d into ]
the pccket of the silver miner and at
the same time reduce the value of the ]
silver dollar and all the currency de- j
nun/-?onf nrinr> if tn tho TTfllnp rf
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cents?
Any schoolboy can figure out that
if the value of the silver dollar depre- I
cia.tes to 53 cents or anything less than 1
its faca value the miner cannot make ^
47 cents by its free coinage at the
mints. Or, to put it the other way,
if the miner makes 47 cents, the value ,
of the silver dollar will have to be t
raised to the value of the present gold *
dollar, in which cas9 there will be no
depreciatiDn of the currency. The ]
gold standard advocate can take his i
choice of alternatives, but not both.
This is a fair sample of the kind of ]
logic with which the goldite agents ]
are flooding the country. It proceeds ]
on the assumption that the workiDg- 1
men are fcols. <
]
jduixoii'a
Iodoform Liniment is the "nee plu }
ultra" of all such preparations in re- v
moving soreness, and quickly healing i
fresh cuts and wounds, no matter how <
bad. It will promptly heal old sores
of long standing. Will kill the pois- j
on from "'Poison Ivy" or "Poison
Oak" and cure "Dew Poison." 'Will ]
counteract the poison from" bites of ]
snakes and stings of insects. It is a 1
guru uurc lur sure luxvau vv in curc
a ay case of sore mouth, and is a supe- I
rior remedy for all pains and aches.
Sold by druggists and dealers 25 cents 1
a bottle. 1
^gagai aaai
WHAT THE DEFICIT IS.
A STUDY ON RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES.
Tfce Figures In the Problem of Howj South
Carolina Sands Willi the World and
Herself-An Interesting Statement-.
There are few things more interesting
to the citizens of this State during
these times than their income. One of
these few things is their outgo. A
constant quantity entering into the
calculations of the outgo is the taxes.
What the State has collected fron?
her citiz ins is studied clcsely by the
payers. They may have value received
for their money, but they seek for
cheaper protection and care as they
seek cheaper shoes and cheaper plows.
The total receipts of the State has
been $2,253,076.06; the total expendi<J9
io*? izc Arr
LUl^O ?%J>J "34 ,
These amounts contain items that
do not belone to funds available for
use of the State Government, and
therefore cannot really be called receipts
and expenditures as we are discussing
th^m. These are:
RECEIPTS.
State dispensary ?1.117,000 34
State dispensary school 50,000 00
Sinking fund commission 2'J,064 68
Sinking fund for reduction.... 120,778 50
Morrill fund 23,000 00
Downer fund 245 57
Privilege tax on fertilizers 59,352 23
Direct tax fund 4,431 30
Permanent State school fund.. 703 31
Phosphate royalty 40:700 25
Clemson college bequest 0 44
Total receipts $1,451,285 72
EXPENDITURES.
flomcrtn orn* for PiO Pi DO OO
* I y vvj^v- ? ?
Sinking fund commission 3,648 GO
Sinking fund for reduction 39,032 09
Morrill fund 23,010 G1
Permanent State school fund.... 9G7 28
State dispensary -1,132,070 24
Direct tax fund 1,393 G9
Direct tax funl interest and
penalty 529 47
Downer fund..-. , 41 41
Total expenditures ?1,201,893 39
The receipts available for u?es of the
state government for 1897 are as follows:
General taxes $G77,'G34 25
General fund, dispensary 88,500 40
Sale of Con titution S. C 15 72
Sale of acts 382 85
Sale o:f general stitutes 100 35
Fees secretary of state 3.831 30
Fees incorporation of towns 200 00
Fees annual insurance license... 11,200 00
Fees additional 5,040 82
Fees governor's office ... 5 00
Refunds?Olemson college 10,000 00
Refunds?Stationery 05 75
Refunds?Pensions 1,953 90
Refund?State A. & I. soc., - 2,400 00
Docket fees attorney general GO 00
Total receipts .. 801,790 34
EXPENDITURES.
Governor's office.
Salary f!3,0C0 00
Private secretary 1,350 00Messenger
400 00
Conting't fund 4,051 71
Stationer/, etc 300 00 ?9,101 71
Secretary of State.
Salarv SI.900 00
Clerk"!..... 71 i 3 50 00
Costing't fund 200 00
Stationery, etc 350 00 $3,800 00
Comptroller General.
Salary $1,900 00
Chief clerk... 1,400 00
Bookkeeper .. 1,500 00
Pension clerk 586 09
Contingent fund 300 00
Stationery, etc 300 00
Priuting 279 77 $0,265 77 J
State Treasurer.
Salary ?1,900 00
Clerk 1,350 00
Bookkeeper .. 1,36000
Bookkeeper .. 1,350 00
Contingent fund 171 33
Stationery and itampa 177 15 ?G,418 48
Superintendent Education.
Salary $1,900 00
Clerk 900 00
Contingent fund 74 71
Stationery, etc 142 79
Printing * 495 75
Traveling expenses... 300 00
Board examiners 265 80 ?4,079 05
Attorney General.
Salary ?1,900 00
Assistant 1,35000
Contingent fund 150 00
Stationary, etc 75 00
Expenses 87G 87 ?1,351 87
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Salary $1,200 00
Clerk 900 00
Armorer 400 00
Contingent fund 150 00
Stationery 200 00
Inspection 500 00 53,350 00
Slate Librarian.
Salary $ SOO 00
Contingent fund 125 00
Stationery, etc 225 00
Books 63 00 $1,203 00
State House Commission,
2 Watchmen $ 80000
Janitor 116 IT
Engineer 650 CO
2 Firemen 350 00
Contingent 100 00
Lighting ground 2,877 30
Lighting basement 147 54
Fuel 900 00
Repairs, house 710 G4
Repairs, basement 49 86
$0,732 01
Judicial Department.
Chief justice 5 4,000 00
3 associate justices 9,?00 00
8 circuit judges 20,703 82
5 circuit solicitors 11,387 50
B circuit stenographers 10,000 CO
State reporter 900 00
Clerk supreme court..-?-. SOOOO
Librarian 80000
Messenger 200 00
Attendant 200 00
Contingent 500 CO
Purchase books 500 00
Purchase reports 1,800 00
?06,991 32
Health Department.
Salary health officers Charleston,
Georgetown and Lazaretta $ 2,900 00
Salary health officers Port Royal,
St. Helena, keeper hospital Port
Royal 1,575 00
Repairs on building St. Helena
and Port Royal 050 00
Maintaining quarantine 1,000 00
Board health 2,500 00
?8,725 00
Tax Department.
salary county auditors 24,120 09
Printing books 1,575 58
Expenses settlements 500 00
$2(5,195 G7
Educational Institutions
South Carolina college ? 25,000 00
Military academy 21,500 00
colored normal ana industrial
college 7,996 59
institute deaf, dumb and blind... 21,450 00
(Vinthrop 35,520 00
JMiscellaneous,
Penitentiary salaries 5,800 00
Sospital for the insane 110,500 00
Phosphate commission 1,939 26
Etaiiroid commission 7,400 00
Catawba Indians 800 00
[legislative expenses 51,085 18
Public printing 13,113 54
Boards registration 14,718 75
r. E. Breazale, codifier 400 00
i-dvertising notices election 77 38
Messengers of elections 1,084 20
Commissioners and managers
election 43 95
Loans State Soutn Carolina, including
interest 51,47917
^ension claims 102,507 (55
tension stationary and stamps? 150 00
'ntereit on public debt including
agricultural college 3tock 283,274 11
lepairs and improvements on
governor's mansion S5G G4
Sxpenses paying interest, N. Y.... 77 67
Refund taxes manufacturers 043 GO
Refund tasC3 treasurers 1,409 20 j
"rVater for public buildiDgs in Columbia
2.000 00 j
-Maintaining militia ? t>,009 UU
Examining books, State treasurer's
office and comptroller general's
office 1396 360 00
Claims passed *. 1,775 83
Premiums for excellence state fair 2.400 00
Joint resolutions 615 55
Joint resolutions 10 657 4S
Joint resolutions 11 382 03
Binding revised statues 134 09
Printing bonds and stock 1.000 00
Redemption brown consuls 281 26
Supervisor of registration salary,
Nov. and Dec. 1S*j5 449 82
Confederate historian 500 00
Confederate Rolls 313 20
Confederate Rolls 1896 202 S4
$331,263 OS
The grand total of all receipts of the
- avs4- * * oro afe r\c i
toiaic Aujuuui LU ^joyiv uu, anu IUC
cash balance all funds Janury 1,1897,
$377,39" 50; total $2,630,468 56
The total amount of expenditures
12,193,156 47; cash instate treasury,
according to comptroller general's
books, $407,312 03; total, $2,630,468 56
The comptroller's warrants outstanding?not
yet received by the treasurer's
office for payment?amount 10 $2 10630.
This amount added to the cash on
hand given above, is the cash in the
treasurer's hards 439 418 39.
Now to strip down the mattei to an
intelligible basis. The cash on hand,
availlable fcr uss for the expenditures
of 1897 was not $377,392 50; that in
eludes other funds not available lor
use such as sinking fund money, etc.
We have the following funds, available
for use in 1897.
Cash on hand $261,101 77. ,
Receipts available...... 801,790 34 '
Total $1,062 89211 .
Expenditures from this. 931,263 08
Apparent balance...;.... 131,620 03
Thi3 apparent balance is still not
correct. The item of collected tsxss
general fund in the receipts include
$285,33121 of taxes of 1897. This
amount forms part of the funds to be
appropriated by the present general
assem bly. It was taken from the in
conjii.g year to fill up a deficit in the
outgoing. I
Subtracting the apparent balance
$131,629-03 from the unauthorized expenditure
of $285,13131, you ascertain
that the State's deficit has been $153,50218.
.
TAXES OF COUNTIES.
%
WHAT THE FEOPLE MUST PAY THIS
YEAR. |
EgUmatfd Expenses Of the Co mmli a loner*
of the Various Counties of tJi* State (
for the Present fiscal Yew.
It' will be a matter of great interest
to taxpayers to know what they may
be expected to pay into the general :
coffer. The following are the esti
mates of county expenses as furnished
the comptroller general by the boards i
of commissioners of the various coun
ties of tlie state for the ensuing fiscal
year:
Abbeville, ordinary county purposes
three mills; for past indebtedness, i.
-T 'tal, three and one half mills.
Aiken county, ordinary county purposes,
three mills; for past indebtedness,
one half. Total, three and a half
mills.
Anderson county, ordinary county
purpDses, three mills; for past indebtedness,
one mill. Total, four mills.
Bamburg county, ordinary county
purposes, three mills.
Charleston county, total expenditures:
estimated at $52 660,000. No
estimate is given as to the rate.
Cherokee county, ordinary county
purposes, three mills; road tax, one
mill;; indebtedness, Draytonsville and
G-owdeysville, one mill; indebtedness,
Limestone, White Plains, Cherokee,
Nos. 1 and 2, one-half mill; interest on
railroad bonds, for Draytonsville and
Gowdeysville, two mills; sinking fund
railroad bonds one and three-quarter '
mills; interest on railroad bonds, one '
and a quart r mills; sinking fund rail
road bonds for Limestone, White
Plains and Cherokee, one mill; interest
on railroad bonds. Cherokee No. 1,
two mills; for Spartanburg jaiJ, etc., :
rtrro bd!f mill <
Chester county, ordinary county pur- ;
poses, five mills; interest railroad j
bonds, five-sixths of a mill; indebted- ,
ness, one and ODe sixth mills.
Chesterfield county, ordinary coun- 1
ty purposes, seven miils; interest rail- ]
road bonds, one-fourth mill; indebtedness,
one and three quarter mills. ,
Total, nine mills. *
Clarendon county, for ordinary J
county purposes, four and a half mills. ?
DarliDgton county, for ordinary j
county purposes three mills; special i
road tax, one half mill; for robuilding j
court house (if we are allowed to re- <
build); one mill. ;
Dorchester county, for ordinary ]
county Dumoses, three mills; for inter- ]
est on bonds, one half mill; indebted j
ness, two and a half mills. Total, six <
mills. 1
Edgefield county, for county purposes,
five mills; past indebtedness,
one and a quarter mills. Total, six
and a quarter mills.
Fairfield county, for ordinary coun
ty four mills; indebtedness, one mill.
Total, five mills.
Florence county, for county pur
poses, four and a quarter mills; indebtedness,
one-half mill. Total, four
and three quarter mills.
Georgetown county, ordinary county,
six mills; indebtedness two mills.
Total, eight mills.
Greenwood county, ordinary county,
two and three quarter mills; indebtedness,
one mill. Total, three
and tbree quarter mills
Hampton county, ordinary county, J
five mills.
Horry county, ordinary county, five
and a quarter mills; ia the xownships
of Conway, Bajb^ro, Green Sea,
Simpson Creek, four mills to pay interest
on railroad bonds and balance
to found a-sinking fund for the re^
1: / 1
aempnuu ui uuuua.
Kershaw county, ordinary county,
four mills; interest on railroad bonds,
two aid a half mills.
Lancaster county, ordinary county,
five and three quarter mills; interest
on railroad bonds, L. and C. railroad, three
mills; Pleasant Hill townshio, *
for interest on railroad bonds (0 R.
and C. R R), three mills; Grill's Creek
township, interest on railroad bonds, \
(0. R. and C. R. R), four and threefourth
mills.
Lexington county, fcr ordinary pur (
poses, three mills; for past indebted *
ness, half a mill. Total, three and a '
1?It ?-1"Ditto* onH Sa 1T1 ft
unit uiiua, uiuau Uiiii -vl
township interest on railroad bor.d3,
two and one quarter mills; retiring
railroads bonds, one mill; attorneys' v
fees, ,one and a quarter miils. Total, t
four and one-half mills- Fork town- J
ship, interest on railroad bond?, two
miils; retiring railroad bonds, one ?
mill; attcnsys' fees, ore and one
fourth mills. Total, four and onefourth
mills.
Marion county, ordinary county pur- ],
poses, three and three fourth miils; ti
nflst indebtedness, one mill. Total,
four and threa fourth mill?.
Newberry county, ordinary county,
three mills; interest on railroad bond?,
three-eighths of a mill; past indebtecness,
five eighths of a mill. d
Orangeburg county, total $17,000.
It is also said by the county supervisor i
y
that the courts can be run cm coLiair-j
gent fusds if disoecsary is not too ?
badly crippled- The board asks for a i
levy of two and one half mills for oi- j
dinary expenses ard one hair mill for J
past indebtedness.
Ocoiifes county, ordinary, three and j
toree fourth mills; ToriQtertst on railroad
bonds, o*e mill; for sic king fund, |
one mill; new jail, one half mill; for
past indebtedness one half mill. Total.
seven a"ad one half mills.
Union county, ordinary, four mills;
interest on railroad bonds, two and a
quarter mills; sinsing fund, two mills;
roads, one mill; past indebtedness*, onefourth
miU. Total, nice and one half
mills.
Williamsburg .county, ordinary,
four and three-fourth mills.
York county, ordinary, three and
one half mills; interest on retiring
railrcd bonds, one mill; for past in
debteudess, one half mill. Total, five
mills. Tee county commissioners of
York county also recommend that a
special levy be made in the following
townships in said county to pay the
interest on the bonds issued by the
said townships in aid of the C. C. and
C. R. R. to wit:
In Catawba township, a special
levy of three mills on the dollar.
T . TV A _ i ^
xn jiioentzsr lownsirp, a . special
levy of two mili3 on the dollar.
In York township, a special levy of
five mills on the dollar to pay the interest
on the York township bonds,
and the balance of the B. P. Dickinson
judgment against said township.
>*twbo!d Goes Free.
Thursday at Spartanburg ex-Constable
W. H. Newbold was acquitted
of the murder ol Mr. J, H. Turner.
This casa has created state interest
on account of the many complications
that have arisen in it from time to
time and several sensational incidents
that have been connected with it.
Foard Dead In a Bath Tab.
A bill boy at the Hurford House
Canton, 0., found the dead bsdy of a
man ia a bath tub filled with water,
Thursday night. The remains were
recognized as baicg those of Luther
Hough, a traveling salesman for a
gentleman's furnishing goods bouse.
He registered from Jamestown, N. J.
A woman never really knows the
meaning of happiness and content until
she is the mother of a healthy,
happy child. The health of the child
depends on the health of the mother,
both before and after birth. Most all
of woman's weakness and particularly i
the weakness that most strongly infla
ences the health of children, comes
from some derangement or disease of
the distinctly feminine organs. Dr.
Pierce's Favorite Prescription will
cure troubles of this nature. It should
hft taken Tfipularlv bv e-rerv waman
during the entire period of gestation.
It gives strength to all the organs involved,
lessens the pain of childbirth
and insures the health of both mother
and child.
Send 21 one cent stamps to ccvcr
cost of mailing only, and receive free
a copy of Dr. Pierces Medical Adviser.
Address, World's Dispensary Medical
Association, Buffalo, N. Y.
Many a man
r who would be
* 7Mh^l& starticdatthe
>5? v iv IJJ ! bare thought
?71? %Mo{ sitting
| I?frjg?d o wn and
systematic
IffiSgy" " tsiS ally poisoned
= dav after day
^ accumu*-a"
we^PlfSl \m& When the liver fails to
SpiSaS &? 5o its regular work of filterw
ir.g this bilious poison out
of the circulation, it goes on '
poisoning the entire constitu- ,
/ tion just as surely as if a man '
was drinking prussic acid. I
Every part of the body is polluted. The
digestive juices are suppressed and weak- I
ened. The kidneys and skin are clogged
with impurities and the lungs and bronchial
tubes overloaded with morbid secretion |
which eat away the delicate tissue, and
bring about bronchitis and consumption. 1
All the diseases caused by this subtle pro- |
cess of bilious poisoning are cured by the.
marvelous alterative action of Dr. Pierce's I
Golden Medical Discovery. It directly increases
the liver's natural excretive and 1
purifving powers; gives the digestive and
bloo<f-making organs power to manufacture
in abundance of red, rich, healthy blood, j
It drives out all impurities, and vitalizes \
Lhe circulation with the life-giving elements
which restore perfect nutrition, solid mus- (
:ular power, and healthy nerve-force.
" In Aucrust iSo;. I tvas taken down in bed with
i burning and severe pains in my stomach and ;
inder mv shoulders, and dizziness in my head,"
writes Ira D. Herring. Esq., of Xeedraore, Levy
Zo.. Fla. " My home physician was called and he
?id my symptoms were more like consumption
:han anything else. I lingered in this way seven
months trying- different kinds of medicine. Nothing
that I ate would digest, and I had great dis:ress
in my stomach. I was persuaded to try some
sf Dr. Pierce's remedies or to see what he thought
jf my case. I wrote him and received an answer
stating that my suffering was from indigestion
ind torpid liver, and advising me to take Dr. I
Pierce's* Golden Medical Discovery. The first j
mottle gave pleasing results. I have taken four J
sottles of the 'Golden Medical Discovery' and ,
!hree small vials of the ' Pleasant Pellets.' I am j
ible to do my work and eat what I could not ' '
before I took'these medicines."
/HILTON'S mm,
I I*E FOB THS LtVS? AND HI / I
KIDNEYS, as its nam3imparts, I j
is a stlmilator and regulator .to Bfl I >
these organs. Is t be best after I j
maals medicine to aid digestion HI I'
Prevents Headaches. CaresWl jj
Bdlioasne^s' Acts on tbe Kid-HEfj '
n?ys.within Thirty minutei after I j
taking, relieving acbes in themElj
back from disorder cf tbes eor-III j
gans. Relieves alJ stomazhBglj
T? entirely vegetable, U|
2M, :o; a?t??0?aUr^iiVi>7 T4" If
a4"S^SScoT????'8' I
| "'^ E wi, Ctaileton. I
Sold by dealers generally and by
i
TBE MORRAY DRUG CO., .
COLUMBIA, 3. C.
MCMILLAN>S GKIPPl
COXj5HC TEE. J
VILL RELIEVE THAT COUGH A5D t
GIYE TOU HEALTHFUL REST. 3
^ -ir-v -w"-? ^ -w-k 1/ A U\f A *
jrUUJJ Jb UJtt papaT"' I
jQOD FOR GBANDMA I ^
Waltebboso. 5, C. Feby. 27,1897.
Dsab Sib:?Having suffered several days
ritu "La Grippe" and getting no relief
rem many otner cougb medicine, I tried
IcMlllan's G-r'ppe Oougn Core, I can *
ruthfuily say I fouod it the beat remedy I
ave ever tried, before finishing the bottle r
7zs cured. Ksspectfully.
COL. B. STOKES.
25 cents for large bottle. For sale by al
Jruggists. If your .druggist doesn't keep r,
send us 25 cents and we will send it by
.'turn express.
w. 0. McMillan, Druggist,
Oct.29 Columbia. S. C.
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Is increased (en-fold by good Music. Make
the most of life by procuring a good
' ~?M
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Music has a refining influence, and keeps :r:v
your children at home.
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REMEMBER
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Vou only invest omce in a life-time, prorid* ^
ed you select a good Instrument:
I CHALLENGE ^
Any house in America to beat my prices.
quality and responsibility considered.
TERMS. I
jg
To those not prepared to pay cash, I will
give reasonable time, at a slight difference. -.
TIT ? . ^^ "8
w arranw,
I fully guarantee my Instruments sold as
represented.
DON'T FAIL J
To write for prices and terms, and for illustrated
catalogues.
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We take pleasure te calling yxnu^atte i ^Rj
' **" *" Bon
to a remedy ao long needed In carrytng
children safely through the crltig^
itage of teething. It is an lncalcolam
Massing to mother and child. If you ?q|
listurbed at night with a sick, fretful.""^^^^!
teething child, use Pitt*' CanninatlTe, it
(rill give Inatant relief, and regulate th?
toweli, and make teething ufe and e*?y.
Lt will care Dysentery and Diarrhea*.
Pitta Carminative is an instant -ellef to;
jo (is of infanta. It will promote digestion
"M
{ire tone and energy to the ncmsch ao1
wwela. The sick, puny? suffering chill 4
irill soon become the fat and frolicking cj
if ite household. It Is very pleasant w
he arte and only cost 35 ?n?? per i
told by druggists and by
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g? buyers. Easy payments. Write as. 2J3
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m
Lddress: D. A PRE33LEY, Agent
COLUMBIA, S. C.
m Mas
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andling, cleaning and pasting cottoa*
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simplicity and efficiency, a wonder.
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GANG EDGBfiS
and all wood working machinery.
1DDBLL AND T.1LBOTT ENGINES
are the best.
Write tc Bi3 before buying.
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l<3ecer*l Agent,
COLUMBIA, S. tC.