The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, August 17, 1898, Image 4
(| BE THOU HONEST, j
Dr. Talmage Preaches on Various j
Methods of Getting Money.
ITS POWER IN POLITICS. |
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Its Use Is Fruitful source ot corruption.
Bribery is Villainy.
Violation of Solemn Trust
B&.:- Unpardonable Offense.
g?, Dr. Talmage in this discourse ar-j
p raigns the various modes by which some
fprs;' peoj^e get money that does not belong
to them and commends the fair dealing
that succeeds best at last; text. 1 TimO
k -T<U f o f wi 11 ho n r?Vi fall
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2?f?f into a temptation and a snare, and into
g?\v;. many foolish and hurtful lusts, which
|p?-- drown men in destruction and perdi
tion." That is th e Niagara falls over
which rush a multitude of souls?
namely, the determination to have
??? - the money anyhow, right or wrong.
X Tell me how a mau gets his money and j
p. what he does with it and I will toll you
his character and what will be his destiny
in this world and^the next. I propose
to speak today about the ruinous
modes of getting money.
Tn all our city, state and national elections
large sums of money are used in
in bribery. Politics, from being the
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science oi goou gu> eiLixucui-, no.o
been bedraggled into the synonym for
turbulency and turpitude. A monster
sin, plausible, potent, pestiferous, has
gone forth to <It> its dreadful work in all
ages. Its two hands are rotten with
leprosy. It keeps its right hand hidden
in a deep pocket The left hand is
clinched, and with its icherous knuckle
it taps at the door of the courtoom, the
legislative hall, the congress and the
parliament. The door swings open and
the monster enters and glides through
the aisles of the couneii chamber softly
as x slippered page, and thea it takes its
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I right hand from its deep pocket ana 01fers
it in salutation to judge or legislator.
If that hand be taken and the
palm of the intruder cross the palm of
the official, the leprosy crosses from
palm to palm in a round blotch, round
as a gold eagle, and tfcs virus spreads,
and the doom is fixed, and the victim
perishes. Let briber}', accursed of
?rod and man, stand up for trial.
The Bible arraigns it again and
again. Samuel says of his two sons,
who became judges; "They took bribes
and perverted judgment." David says
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hand is full of bribes," Amos says of j
some men in bis day, "They take a
feribe and turn aside the poor in tbe
: ^ gate." Eliphaz foretells the crashing
fclowsof God's indignation, declaring,
"'Tire shall consume the tabernacles of
n bribery."
The president of the American congress
during the American Revolution,
General Reed was offered 10,000 guineas
by foreign commissioners if he
would betray this country. He replied,
""Gentlemen, I am a very poor man, but
>^>11 tTAnl- L-i-ntr 1C Tint. PTtflTl<?ll tO
Ifcuyme." But why go so far when
you and I, if we move in honorable soeiety,
know men and women who by ali
the forces of earth and hell could not
6e bribed. They would no more 'be
bribed than you would think of tempting
an angel of light to exchange heaven
for the pit. To offer a bribe is villainy,
but it is a very poor compliment to the
man to whom it is offered.
II have not much faith in those peo- j
pie who go about bragging how much
get if they would only sell
out. Those women who complain that
they are very often insulted need to understand
that there is something in their
carriage to invite insult. There are
men at Albany and at Harrisburg and
at Washington who would no more be
ft approached by a bribe than a pirate
hnot uMth i few wmild dare to
(Attack a British man-of-war -with two
banks organs on each side loaded to
die touchhole. They are incorruptible
men, and they are the few men who are
to save the city and save the land.
Meanwhile my advice is keep out of
.politics unless you are invunrable to this
style of temptation. Indeed if even
you are naturally strong you need religious
buttressing. Nothing but the
.grace of God can sustain our public men
And make them what we wish. I wish that
there might come an old fashioned revival
of religion, that it might break
out in congress ana tne legislatures ana
bring many of the leading Republicans
.and Democrats down on the anxious seat
of repentance. That day will come, or
something better, for the Bible declares
that kings and queens shall become
nursing fathers and mothers to the
church, and if the greater in authority
then certainly the less.
My charge also to parents is, remember
that this evil of bribery often begins
in the home circlc and in the nursery.
Bo not bribe your children.
Teach them to do that wincli is rignt,
and not because of the 10 cents or the
} -orange which you will give them. There
is a great difference between rewarding
virtue and making the profits thereof
the impelling motive. That man who
is honest merely because ' 'honesty is
the best policy'' is already a moral
bankrupt.
jj*v My charge to you in all departments
of life, steer clear of bribery, all of you.
mon on(] Ttrnmi Tl fit. SftTTlf* tlTTlP
will be tempted to do wrong for compensation.
The bribe may be offered
gpv; in money:"'"It may be offered in social
position. Let us remember that there
is a day coming when the most secret
Si* transaction of private life and of public
life will come up for public reprehension.
We cannot bribe sickness, we cannot
bribe death, we cannot bribe the grave,
we cannot bribe the judgments of that
God who thunders against this sin.
"Fief' said Cardinal Beaufort, "nc!
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nothing? Must I die. and so rich? If
;the owning of the whole realm would
save me. I could^et it by policy or by
purchase?by money." No, death
would not be bribed then. lie will not
be bribed now. Men of the world
often regret that they have to leave
their money here when they go away
from the world. You can tell from
what they say in their last hours that
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<one 01 wiuir cuiei suiiu?a ia im,;
have to leave their money. I break
that delusion. I tell that bribe taker
that he will take his money with him.
<xod will wrap it up in your shroud, or
put it in the palm of your hand in resurrection,
and there it will lie, not the
fe. cool, bright, shining gold as it was on
gppr-;- the day when you sold your vote and
your moral principle, but there it will
lie, & hot metal, burning and consuming
ycur hand forever. Or. if there be
enougn of it for a chain, then it will
fall over the wrist, clanking the fetters
of an eternal captivity. The bribe is
an
everlasting possession. \ ou take it
for time, you take it for eternity. Some !
day in the next world, when you are
longing for sympathy, you will feel on
your cheek a kiss. Looking up, you
will find it to be Judas, who took 30
pieces of silvtr as a bribe ana finished
the bargain by putting an infamous kiss
on the pure cheek of his Divine Master, j
Bite
Another wrong use of money is seen j
in the abuse of trust funds. Nearly i
every man during the course of his life, j
on a larger or smaller scale, has the j
property of others committed to his j
keeping. He is so far a safety deposit, j
he is an administrator and holds in his j
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hand the interest or tue lamnj ui ? uc
ceased friend, or he is an attorney, and j
through his custody goes the payment j
from debtor to creditor, or he is the j
collector for a business house, which i
compensates hiru for the responsibility,
or he is treasurer for a charitable in- j
stitution, and he holds alms contributed
for the suffering, or he is an official of
the city or the state or the nation, and
taxes aad subsidies and salaries and
supplies are in his keeping.
There is not a city that has not suffered
from the abuse of trust funds.
Where is the courthouse or the city hall
Or CDC Jitii ur LUC vx vuv .
pital that in the building of it has not
had a political job? Long before the
new courthouse in Xew York city was
completed it cost $12,000,000. Five
million six hundred and sixty-three
thousand dollars for furniture! For
plastering and repairs, #2,370,000; for
plumbing and gas works. $1,231,817;
for awnings, $23,553, the bills for
three months coming to nice little sum
of $13,151,198.39. There was not an
honest brick or stone or lath or nail or
i fnnt. nf nJumbinir or inkstand or door
knob in the whole establishment.
! That bad example vras followed in
! many of the cities, which did not steal
! quite so much because there was not so
much to steal. There ought to be a
closer inspection, and there ought to be
less opportunity for embezzlement.
Lest a man shall take a 5 cent piece
that does not belong to him, the conductor
on the city horse car must sound his
bell at every payment, and we ar-e very
cautious about small offenses, but give
plenty of opportunities for sinners on a
large scaje to escape?for a boy who
steals a loaf of bread from a corner grocer
to keep his mother from starving to
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death, a prison, out xor afifWfii.ers \miu
abscond with $500,000, a castlo qr f&e i
.Bhine, or, waiting until the offense is
forgotten, a castle on the Hudson.
Another remark needs to be made,
and that is that people ought not to go
into places, into business or into positions
where the temptation is mightier
than their character. If there be large
sums of money to be handled, and the
man is not sure of his own integrity,
I you have no right to run an unseaworthv
j sraft in a hurricane. A man can tell
by tiie sense of weakness or strength in
! the presBKGQ of a bad opportunity whe-v
j ther he is in a- soie place. How many
i rwrpnrst makf? an awfiii mistake when
they put their boys in banking louses J
and stores and shops and factories aod J
places of solemn trust without once diS'
j cussiug whether they can endure the
temptation! You give the boy plenty
of woney and have no account of it
and make the way down become very
easy and you may put upon him a pressure
that he eaapot stand. There are
men who go into positions full of temptation,
considering ouiy that they are
lucrative positions.
An abbot wanted to buy a piece ojF,
ground., &nd the owner would not sell it,
but the owDxtr finally consented to let it
.to him until he could raise one crop,
and the abbot sowed Acosnc?a crop of
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that the dishonesties which you plant,
in your heart and life will seem to be
very insignificant, but they will grow up
until they will overshadow you with
horrible darkness, overshadow all time
and all eternity. It will not be a crop
for 200 years, but a crop for everlasting
ages.
You have no right to use the property
of others except for their advantage,
nor without consent, unless they are
minors. If with their consent you invest
their nroDerty as well as you can.
and ifc is all lost, you are not to blame.
You did the best you could, but do not
come into the delusion, which has ruined
so many men, of thinking because a
thing is in their possession, therefore it
is theirs. You have a solemn trust that
God has given you.
In any community there may be some
who have misappropriated trust funds.
Put them back or, if you have so hopelessly
involved them that you cannot
put them back, confess the whole thing
to those whom vou have wronged, and
you will sleep better nights,1 and you
^ill have the better chance for your
soul. What a sad thing it would be if
after you are dead your administrator
should find out from the account books,
or from the lack of vouchers, that you
were* not only bankrupt in estate, but
that you lost your soulj A blustering
young man arrived at a hotel in the
west, and he saw a man on the sidewalk
whom he supposed to be a laborer,
and in a rough way, as no man has a
right to address a laborer, said to lism,
"Carry this trunk up stairs." The man
carried the trunk up stairs and came
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him a quarter of a dollar which was
clipped, and instead of being 25 cents
it was worth only 20 cents. Then the
young man gave his card to the laborer
and said: "You take this up to Governor
Grimes. I want to see him."' "Ah,"
said the laborer, "I am Governor
Grimes." "Oh," said the young man,
"you-I-excuse me." Then thegovernor
said: "I was much impressed by the
letter you wrote me asking for a certain
office in my gift, and I had made up
my mind you should have it, but a
young man who will cheat a laborer out
of 5 cents would .swindle the government
of the state if he got his hands on
it. I don't want you. Good morning.
sir.7'
I do not suppose there was ever a better
specimen of honesty than was found
in the Duke of Wellington. He marched
with his army over the French frontier.'
aud the army was suffering, and lie
scarcely knew how to get along. Plenty
of plunder all about, but he commanded
none of the plunder to be takens
He writes home these remarkable word.
"We are overwhelmed with debts, and
I can scarcely stir out of my house on
accouut of public creditors, waiting to
demand what is duo to them." Yet at
Via fin-in flio liVonf'li nftjisantrr
were bringing their valuables to him to
keep. A celebrated writer says of the
transaction: "Nothing can be grander
or more nobly original than this admission.
This old soldier, after 30 years'
service, this iron man and victorious
general, established in an enemy's
country at tiie neaa or an immense
army, is afraid of his creditors! This
is a kind of fear that has seldom troubled
conquerors and invaders, and I doubt if
the annals of war present anything
comparable to its sublime simplicity."
Oh, is it not high time that we preach
the morals of the gospel right beside the
faith of the gospel? Mr. Froude. the
celebrated English historian, has writ
ten of his own country these remarkable
words: "Prom the great house in the
city of London to the village grocer the
commercial life of England has been
saturated with fraud. So deep has it
gone that a strictly honest tradesman
can hardly hold his ground against competition.
You can no longer trust that
any article you buy is the thing which
it pretends to be. We have false
weights, false measures, cheating and
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shoddy everywhere. And yet the clergy
have seen all this grow up in absolute
indifference. Many hundreds of sermons
have I heard in England on the
divine mission of the clergy, on bishops
and on justification, and the theory of
good works, aud verbal inspiration, and
the efficacy of the sacraments, but daring
all these oU wonderful years never
one that I can recollect 011' common
honesty."
Dr. Livingstone, the famous explorer,
was descended from the highlanders,
and he said that one of his ancestors.
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one ox uic mgiiiu.uucr&, uuv uav tiuiuu
his family around him. The highlander
was dying. He liad his children
around his deathbed. He said: "Now
my lads. I have looked all through our
history as far back as I can find it, and
T have never found a dishonest man in
all the line, and I want you to understand
you inherit good blood. You
have no excuse for doing wrong. My
lads, be honest."
I am glad some one has set to music
that scene in August, 1S81, when a
young girl saved from death a whole
rail fain of passengers. Some of you
Atif xrAcf 111 tlinf \*nnr An
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a stormy night a hurricanc blew down
part of a railroad bridge. A freight
train came along, and it crashed into
the ruin, and the engineer and conductor
perished. There was a girl living
iit liar father's cabin, near the disaster,
and *he heard the crash of the freight
train, and the knew that in a few moments
an express was due. She lighted
a lantern and clambered up on the one
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main bridge, which was trcstlework,
and started to cross amid the thunder
and the lightning of the tempest and
the raging of the torrent beneath. One
misstep and it would have been death.
Amid all that horror the lantern went
out. Crawling sometime and sometimes
walking over the slippery rails and over
the trestlework, she came ito the other
side of the river. She wanted to get to
the telegraph station where the express
train did not stop, so that the danger
might be telegraphed to the station
wksfti the train did stop. The train
[ was due in a few minutes. She was
anA milft off from tha telesrranh station.
but fortunately the train was fate. "With
cut and bruised feet she flew like the
wind. Coming up to the telegraph station
panting with almost deadly exhaustion,
she had only strength to
shout, "The bridge is down!" when she
dropped unconscious and could hardly
by resuscitated. The message was sent
from that station to the next station,
and the train halted, and that night
that brave girl saved the lives of hundreds
of passengers and saved many
homes from desolation. But every
street is a track, and every style of business
ig a track, and every day is a track,
nf
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come sweeping on and
sweeping down toward perils raging and
terrific. God help us to go out and stop
the train! Let us throw some signal.
Let us give some warning. By the
throne of God let us flash some influence
to stop the downward progress. Beware!
Beware! The bridge is down,
the chasm is deep, and the lightnings of
God set all the night of sin on fire with
this warning; "He that, being often
reproved, hardeneth his ijeck shall suddenly
be destroyed, an'd that without
remedy."
A ?00) DEED REWARDED.
Advertising Seemed Altogether |oo
Expensive for Backwoods Wife,
t;I was running a paper down in Tennessee
then," prefaced the ex-newspaper
man, whose only work now is to
collect what other people owe him in
the way of rents and interest. "One
of the few fine looking women you find
in the mountains of that region walked
into the office one afternoon and said:
'Be youins the editor?'
"Upon being informed that I enjoyed
that distinction, she looked me over as
though greatly disappointed and then
told a long story of petty domestic difficulties
that had led to the disappearance
of her husband about two weeks
before. Now she wanted to put in a
nice advertisement telling that he was
forgiven and'that she longed to have
him at home. How much would 1
charge her?
" 'Two dollars an inch,' I answered.
' 'Taking a pencil and a sheet of copy
paper she figured laboriously for pretty
nearly an hour. At length she tore the
paper into shreds and was deliberately
walking out of the office when I asked
her if she thought the charge was too
high.
" 'I don't reckon I know anything
'bout yur business, suh. But I .never
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bee mat uiuun xiume^, let ei IUUC utiuulin'
of it. Joe's wuth it, but I couldn't
nevrr buy him back at them figgers.
He's six foot three in his bare feet, suh,
Joe is. At $2 a inch I make it ?150.
I'll just have to go oijt and' git his trail
and foller.'
"I didn't even smile, gentlemen.
There was something noble in her resignation.
I advertised 'Joe,' got other
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papers to copy uuu vyu iuuiiuuu mm up.
One morning there was a ten-gallon keg
of moonshine whisky at my kitchen
door, and I did not advertise for an
owner."'
The Deadly Razor.
In Saluda County recently Simon
Hailstock fell upon one John Payne
with a razor and with one blow cut his
throat from ear to ear. severing the
jugular vein and killing him instantly.
Both parties are negroes. It is said j
ill-feeling existed between them, which
arose from John Payne having thrashed
Simon's uncle recently for "examining
and sampling" his watermelons in the
nighttime."
Half Roasted; Then Drowned.
Advices from the orient by the empress
of Japan says: "An appalling
tragedy has taken plucc at Taku Bar.
A big junk laden with spirits caught
lire in the midst of a storm. Twentyeight
souls were first half roasted to
death, and then in a frenzy jumped
overboard and drowned to a man. So
high a sea was running that help was
impossible.
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ixew rusuu -cuuing.
Hereafter only letters will be returned
by the postoffiee t? the sender, unless
lull return postage is paid. No second,
third or fourth-class matter is to be returned
or forwarded to a new address
without additional postage. The new
law covers newspapers, books and packages
of merchandise.
Lost on a Steamer.
Details state that there were IS perfAT\C
/\f\ fiivATi cfnomnr .Tnccm tVin
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Columbia Exploration company, which
foundered in the Kuskowim river,
Alaska, during a severe storm on July
2Sth. It is thought all were lost. The
steamer Jessie, at the time of the disaster,
had in tow the barge Minerva,
loaded with supplies.
Hundred of Lives Lost.
Violent storms and floods it is an
nounced in advices just received nere
from the island of Formosa, have resulted
in the loss of hundreds of lives
at Tai I'eh. that island. Great damage
was done to property there.
?I 0 ~ !* I?aaai^
I A. ROWDY MEETING,
j The Candidates Curse and Draw
Pistols at Greenviile.
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| THE LIE PASSED FREELY.
| Thomas and Cray Have a Squally
Time. Other Candidates Conducted
Themselves Decently
and in Order.
Last Thursday was campaign day at
Greenville, and the old town had a hot
time in consequence. "Villain!" i:Ser
pent: .Liar: but 110 bones broken, no
blood shod. The reproofs valiant and
the counter-cheeks quarrelsome of previous
campaign meetings dwindle into
nothingness beside the lies direct and
the balheaded dams that hurtled across
the hustings Thursday. Dynamite
guns were utilimbered, causing correspondents,
whose fi <t thought was to
live to tell the story, to execute the
double shuffle to escape an enfilading
fire, that somehow didn't enfilade. The
vaudeville outdid itself, and there was
Iladean heat in tlie atmosphere. Tantalizing
Thomas, Gritty Gray and Eager
Evans, alias Belligerent Barney,
were the star performers. The other
members of the troupe remaining in the
wings during the pyrotechnics.
Those who looked for a hot time
during the railroadcommission tilt were
not disappointed. Commissioner Thomas
lampooned Gen. Gray on his native
heath, ridiculing his business record,
and Gen. Gray applied the lie without
it's and buts, which ended in a torrent
of epithets. Major Evans finally get[
ting into the breach and painting the
commissioner s record in black. The
story of the day is an unprecedented
one. After twenty speeches had been
made by conaidates for both offices
Chairman Austin read the following by
request:
"Railroad Commissioner Thomas offers
a reward of $50 to any o.f his com-.petitors
who, by Monday next, will
figure any just and reasonable rate of
fertilizer as the law requires, based on
the cost of service, over the different
roads of this State. The money has
been deposited in the City National
Bank of Greenville, and au order for
the same will be given to any one of
them complying with the above."
The reading had scarcely concludcd
when Major Evans bounded to the
front and cried. ' "There's no use to wait
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until iuonaay, I want tnat money rignt
now!"' He began to calculate the rate,
Mr, Thomas endeavoring to stop him,
telling the chairman it was not fair to
let Evans speak out of his turn. Evans
stood to the rack, declaring he had been
challenged and would reply. After detailing
the amount of investment, debt,
earnings, etc, of the Southern Railway,
he figured that the average rate on all
money's invested, basing the rate of
inte?st at4J per cent, is 27 cents per
hundred or less, than carload lots for
eleven classes. "Now," he cried, "Mr.
xnomas, give me your money:
"You haven't said a thing." declared
Thomas; "that's all goose gabble."
"Oh," said Evans, "so you are to be |
the judge, that's where the slick scheme
comes in, I leave it to the people
whether I calculated a rate." (Voice:
"That's what you did.'") (Laughter and
.cheering,)
Commissioner Thomas began his j
speech, When he referred to the reward
Evans declared he had a string
if f!Anfir?ttir?cr Tin
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fought his colleagues on the board because
for four years they had robbed
the farmers of Greenville of sixty cents
per ton on fertilizers.
Voice: "Can you calculate that
rate?"
Thomas: "Yes; I am trained to it. I
saved the people one hundred thousand
dollars by my rate."
Gen. Gray interrupted with a motion
that the hve minutes time of tiie seven
candidates be extended to ten minutes,
"for," said he, "I want to show this
man up."
Mr. Thomas: *'Mr. Gray is a clcver
gentleman. He's a sample of the rest
of my opponents. He's a lawyer in
Greenville with a client, hunting a job.
The rccord shows that he has not had a
case in five years. I went by his office
today, and the grass was growing around
it. and a hole in the window was stop
ped up with a pair of old breeches. He j
has been a dead failure in everything
he has tried. Now, is it safe to entrust
such a man with this important
position?"
Gen. Gray sat still under-this assault
When his turn came he said he had not
lived in Greenville for twenty-eight
years for nothing, and "the people will
give the lie to this man's charges, as I
now do." As he said this he stepped
toward Mr. Thomas, shaking his finger.
"The people don't know it, though,'
declared Th<?mas with a laugh.
Gray; "TLey knew it is i}Ot true."
Thomas: <;Yes it is, every word of
it."
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unty. it siiuws iiu liu.su l i,ue instincts
of a gentleman when he comes
here with these words against me.;'
Thomas; "I'm just telling who you
are."'
Thomas was laughingly, sneeringly
cool, and Gray was crowding on steam
under his rising indignation. "This
man," he said, 1'has been abusing us
all and crying persecution. You know
my record as a lawyer. (Voice; 'You
are all right, go ahead.*) For years I
have not practiced. I have held public
office and my investments have given
me some incomc. A school boy can
ficrure his nronosition with the data be
fore him. Above ail it requires a man
of integrity and character for this position,
which he has not got.'"
Thomas: "You tell me that outside
and I will show you I have some manhood."
Gen. Gray's time had expired and a
hot colloquy took place as he backed to
i * ..r j j.?i
JUS seal. i uenuuuue yuu its u iuui ui
the railroads." he cpied.
Thamas: "That's a lie."
Gray, coming forward to this corresspondcnt's
table, which with one other
separated the two men. "And you are
a d?d liar."
Mr. Thomas kept his scat, looking
imperturbable, and banteringly rejoined
'"Oh, you old villain."
Gen. Gray was bursting with indigna
tion and he shouted: "You serpent you
arc worse than a serpent, you scoundrel."
Several other hot flings went
back and forth. Gray gorgonizing
Thomas with his gaze, and Thomas
laughing scornfully. It was a dangerous
moment. Several voices were heard
calling on Gray to sit down, and declaring
that no fighting would be allowed.
Then the smoke cleared away and
the first skirmish ended.
Major Evcns's speech followed. It
was a hot tomala. lie scorched Thomas
for his reward scheme, declaring he had :
unmasked him, and that he would leave ;
it to any committee to decide. Even if :
he got the money, he said. Thomas :
would get out recovrry papers and make i
a plea of gambling. What the people
wanted was an honest man who would ]
not trade with the railroads. (Voice? ]
| Eat him up.) brans declared that
Thomas* record was so black that the
! people would turn him down and elect
: a man of honesty and integrity. This
j broadside provoked "ho ho" from
j Thomas.
Kvans concluded in a capital speed),
pronounced by his friends the best
anti-Thomas efforts of the campaign.
. The above exciting scenes was foiInmA/l
rt mimV.AM />f
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other candidates, all of whom tried to
show why they should each have the
particular office they were seeking. Mr.
Featherstone was aggressive. He considered
it an insult to say that there
was no sentiment to uphold prohibition.
Mr. Archer appealed to the people not
to be carried bv a supposed condition
of society on the prohibition question.
Mr. Whitman was in a trouncing humor.
and made a characteristic specch.
Gov. Eilerbe declared that he had tried
to be governor of the whole people.
He said Col. Watson's charge against
him for not appointing Reformers as
officers of the first regiment was un- j
worthy of him. Stokes, Tillman, Jarnegan,
Tomkins and Haseldcn were lieformers.
but he tried to rise above partizanship,
making appointments re
gardless or political affiliations.
Ellerbe was followed by Schumpert,
who made a plea for high license as
against the dispensary. Then' came
Col. Geo. D. Tillman, who made a
characteristic speech. He was followed
by Col. "Watson, who claimed that it
would be a mockery for Prohibitionists
to vote for Featherstone, who had joined
the ranks on piobation only five
years ago, and against himself, as he
had never drunk liquor. {:Is this young
man," said he, to displace a temperance
- 'f " .4... 1 1 ' _1l
UKin ui siity years, who uas given an
his life to fight whiskey, who has educated
a generation not to touch it and
who has made it disreputable in his
neighborhood to handle it," He then
went on to say that the prohibitionist
did not expect to get prohibition as
they were making no fight for the legislature.
The other speakers were, Bellinger,
Mower, McSweeney, Derham, Epton,
Berry, Garris, Stansell and Sligh: The
candidates were handsomely and agreertnA
Kir tlii* r?ifi7onc nf
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Greenville.
CROPS EN" THE STATE.
Too Much Rain in Many Quarters Injuring
Grain and Fruit.
The temperature conditions were favorable
for crop development during
the week, and over the central belt of
counties, from the Georgia to the North
Carolina borders, sunshine and rainfall
were also favorable factors, but elsewhere
there were i^a^y and extensive
areas whe^e tfc? rainfall was excessive
ai^d sunshine deficient, conditions that
had a deteriorating effect on the staple
crops, particularly cotton, Reports from
York, Spartanburg, Union, Abbeville,
Anderson, Richland and from Marlboro
and Marion counties, and less extended
areas in many other counties indicate
that the corn and cotton crops are very
promising, as are all the minor rood
and forage crops, but these conditions
are not uniform over the State, and are
not the prevailing ones for corn, while
cotton, cane, peas, sweet potatoes, tobocco
and rice are making satisfactory
growth and development. Crops ^re
practically all layed by, biit generally
in q, fery grassy condition, however,
\yith numerous reports of clean, well
cultivated fields.
The condition of corn seems to lack
uniformity, with many fields where a
large yield is assured, but during the
woal" mn^Ti wo? rtamsifl'Arl
by heavy rains. Ears as a rule are well
filled and matured. Young corn is
"firing" on light soils, while much
stubble corn was injured by excessive
rain.
Fodder pulling has progressed rapidly,
and is under way over the eastern
and central counties; some fodder lost
by frequent rains in Berkeley and
Barnwell counties. In York and Saluda
counties the corn crop is reported
extra fine.
In localities where little or no rain
fell, and where normal amount of sunt
i t ,, "1
sninc prevailed, cotton maae seasonable
improvement in fruitage and has
put on a large July crop, but there is
complaint of rust and shedding increasing
rapidly, particularly from Dorchester,
Beaufort. Orangeburg, Lexington,
Barnwell, Colleton,-Sumter, Williamsburg
and Chesterfield counties; such reDorts
are not confined to those counties
but, with a few exceptions, include
portions of every county in the State.
In Abbeville a great deal of cotton
has been practically abandoned on account
of grass. Cotton is turning yellow
or red on certain light soils, where
growth has stopped, and is scaling or
firing in Pickens. It was injured by
rain in Newberry.
Bolls are opening slowly, and are
needing dry weather and sushine.
Sea Island cotton is in splendid condition
and clean of grass and weeds: is
blooming extremely, with some little
fruitage, but sunshine greatly needed.
Tobacco cutting and curing is nearing
completion in Florence and Williamsburg
counties and is .veil advanced
elsewhere, with a continuation
of favorable reports from all tobacco
districts.
With the exception of too wet for
rice on bottom lands in Bamberg county,
this crop continues to look promising.
It is heading in the earliest, or
kin I
tUUOb UiOUllUt/Oj awu uilii ^uiviu^/iv
weather, harvesting will soon begin.
Grass for hay has attained a heavy
growth. Cuttir.0 continues in Charleston
county, but has not generally
begun in "Williamsburg.
Sugar cane and sorghum arc reported
very fine. Sugar making will begin
this week. The condition of cane is
above an average over the entire State.
Sweet potatoes look very promising
as do field peas and peanuts. Some
peavine hay has been made.
In some of the western countics there
is a slut of watermelons, where also
peaches continue plentiful, but there is
a scarcity of apples and pears.
Typhoid Fever Rampant.
Privates E. L. Miller, Company A,
Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers: Kobt.
Vaughn, Company M, Nineteenth infantry.
and Daniel Fisher, troop M,
Second United States cavalry, died at
Atlanta Thursday of typhoid fever at
Ft. McFhcrson. There are now 4UU
eases of typhoid fever there of which
fifty arc in a serious condition. Extra
precautions to guard against infection
has been taken by Maj. Bubb. the
commanding officer, and the three
thousand recruits will be sent to other
camps as soon as possible.
The Firt New Bale.
A neAV bale of cotton was sold in Columbia
on Tuesday. August 9. This
11 /1 T* r T T
bale was raised Dy uapt. v\. jj. u. >\ nson,
who lives at Pleasant, in the upper
part of Richland. Capt. Wilson is
sixty-eight years old, and this fact
makes the honor all the greater for him
in bringing the first new bale to market.
The bale weighed 420 pounds, classed
middling, and?fought 8 cents per
pound.
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| The Spaniards Make Desperate
Attack on the Americans.
| THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The Mettle of Our Soldiers Was
Put to the Severest Test.
They FoughtWell and Won.
A dispatch from Hong Kong under
date of Aug. 9 says advices just received
from Manila show that a severe engagement
took place on July 31 between
the Spaniards and Americans near
Manila. The latter were victorious,
but had 11 men killed and 37 wounded.
The battle occurred on the night of
July 31.
A dispatch to the World savs: Gen.
Green's force, numbering 4.000 men,
had been advancing and entrencliing.
The arrival of the third expedition filled
the Spaniards with rage and they
determined to give battle before Camp
Dewey could be reinforced. The
trenches extended from the beach 300
yards to the left flank of the insurgents
Sunday was the insurgent feast dav and
their left flank withdrew, leaving the
American right flank exposed. Companies
A and E of the Tenth Pennsylvania
and Utah battery were ordered to
enforce the right flank. In the midst
of a raging typhoon with a tremendous
downpour of rain the enemy's forces,
estimated at 3,000 men, attempted to
surprise the camp. Our pickets were
driven in and the trenches assaulted.
Tne brave Pennsylvania men . never
flinched, but stood their ground under
a withering fire. The alarm spread and
the First California regiment,- with two
companies of the Third artillery, who
fought with rifles, were sent up to reinforce
the Pennsylvanians. The enemy.
were on top of the trenches when these
reinforcements arrived, and never was
the discipline of the regulars better demonstrated
than by the work of the
Third artillery under Capt.v O'Hara.
Nothing could be seen but flashes of
Mauser rifles. Men ran right up to the
attaching Spaniards and mowed them
down-with regular volleys.
The Utah battery, under Capt.
Young, covered itself with glory. The
men pulled their guns through mud
axle-deep. Two guns were sent around
in flank and poured in a destructive
enfilading fire. The enemy was repulsed
a,nd retreated in disorder. Our
infantry had exhausted its ammunition
and did not follow the enemy. Not an
inch of ground was lost, but the scene
in the trenches was one never to be
forgotten. During flashes of lightning
the dead and wounded could be seen
lying in blood-red water, but neither
the elements of heaven nor the destructive
power of man- could wring a cry of
protest from the wounded. They encouraged
their comrades to fight, and
handed over their cartridge belts.
During the night the Spanish scouts
were seen carrying oflt dead and wounded.
of the enemy. The American dead
were buried next day in the convent of
Maracaban. On the night of August 1st
the fighting was renewed, but the enemy
had been taught a lesson and made
the attack at lcng range with heavy
artjljery. The Utah battery replied
and the artillery duel lasted an hour.
One man was killed. He was Fred.
Springster, Firt Colorado, and two men
were wounded. On the night of August
2d the artillery duel was renewed.
Two men were badly wounded and are
reported dead, bringing the total dead
to 13, with 10 in hospital mortally
wuuaucu.
The Spanish are stunned and demoralized
by the great victory won by the
Americans against such odds. According
to reports brought by the refugees all
the advantages were so clearly on the
side of the Spanish that the soldiers '
and residents of Malite expected nothing
less than the driving of the Ameri- '
cans into the sea. Their hopes had :
also been buoyed up by the Spanish
press at Malite, which published lying ]
reports as to the woeful conditions and
weakness of numbers of the Americans. ;
The Spanish loss is very heavy including
several oncers. The Spanish 1
plan wa,a to turn sue American nank, <
make a joint attack on the front and (
right with the intention of killing as '
many as possible, to demoralize the
American force before the general ad- '
vance on jVlianila. They fought dog- gedly
to this end, but the steady fire of
the American rifles and batteries utterly
unexpected, caused the Spanish to
withdraw into the Malite forts and
trenches.
- Gen. Green issued this address to
the troops:
"Camp Dewey, Near Manila.
1 -The brigadier general commanding 4
desire to thank the troops engaged last I
night for gallantry and skill displayed *
by them in repelling such a vigorous ?
attack by largely superior forces of *
Spaniards. Not a a inch of ground was *
yielded by the Tenth Pennsylvania in- 1
fantrv and Utah artillery stationed in J2
the trenches. A battalion of the Third *
artillery and First regiment of California
infantry moved forward to their .
support through a galling fire with the
utmost intrepedity. The courage and (,
steadiness shown hv all in the encace- ^
ments is worthy of the highest commendation.''
C
THE KILLED.
In Sunday night's skirmish the fol- C
lowing were killed:
George W. E. Brown of the Tenth c
Pennsylvania. ^
Private Brady of the Tenth Penn- ,
sylvania.
Private Bowker of the First Wyom- (
ing.
Privates Hull, Brinton, Xoss and 1
Dtillwagciij all unaerstooa to oe 01 tne
Tenth. Pennsylvania.
First Sergeant Maurice' Just of the ^
First California. <
Private Dawson, Battery K, Third (
artillery.
Private MeKelrath, Battery A, Third (
artillery. - C
Private Winfield, Battery II. Third
artillery. c
On Monday night Private Springstead ^
nf tlnn First (^olnradn was killed.
Last night (Tuesday) the following
were killed. . C
Private "William Lewis Roddy of the C
Twenty-third infantry.
Private li. Bowers or the signal c
corps. f
Private Fred. Buckland of the Thirteenth
Minnesota. q
Some of the wounded in Sunday
night's skirmish were struck by shrap- C
nel.
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SOUTH CAROLINA. ^
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THIEF AJTD ROBBEH.
That is What a Western Evangelist
Turned Out to Be.
Whether to lynch or to canonize tho
llev. Myron llilgard, alias "Ponca
Jim" Lake, alias "Montana Jack/'
alias a dozen other wild Western name's,
is the question now agitating the residents
ot'^Gregory County S. D.
For four years the Rev. Mr. Hilgard
has been known as one of the ablest
evangelists in that part of South Dakota.
For nearly the -same period "Ponca
T i T O rtl' '* OTI/3 tViA rnct
tj iixi. x'xui^vuiua *J u.rw. auu tuv xv/cv
have beeif hated ami feared as the most
daring and successful cattle rustlers,
horse thieves, highwaymen and cutthroats
on the range. It wus only a few
days ago that the Rev. Mr. Hilgard.
"Ponca Jim," ';Montana Jack,"etal,
were discovered to be one and the same
person.
Hilgard was captured, after a long
chase and a hot fight, with a quantity of
stolen property in his possession and
his hands red with the blood of several
members of the attacking party. Many
of the ranchmen favor hanging him to
the nearest tree. In the face of the
overwhelming evidence against him,
however, his friends maintain that
there must be some mistake and swear
TWMMIA VllTil.
The Rev. Mr. Iiilgard located, with
his wife and three children, on a farm
near Bonesteel in the fall of 1894, announced
himself as an evangelist, and
began holding meetings in and near the
town, was master of a style of oratory
peculiarly suited to the rough punchers
and ranchmen who formed the greater
part of his audience.
Soon he received invitations to hold
revivals at other hamlets throughout the
cattle country. His life was supposed
to be exemplar}-, ins girts to charity
were liberal and his neighbors idolized
him.
About that time a series of bold robberies
commenced in the vicinity.' Cattle
were run out of the country and
sold at Eastern markets, horses stolen
by the score, lone travellers held up and
robbed and isolated farm houses entered
and ransacked. Those who resisted the
perpetrator of the outrages?all were
committed by a single man?invariably
eome out second best,
Once or twice the robber was pursued
by large posses and only escaped by
furious riding and evident familiarity
with the country. On one occasion
the fugitive disappeared over a hill top,
An rrto/^Tiinrr +lia nnrartorc civr
Hilgard himself sitting on the ground
in a draw at the foot of the hillock.
His horse had stepped in a gopher hole,
thrown him and inflicted serious injured.
Hilgard's explanation that he was riding
down the draw and received his
hurts in an attempt to clear the way
for the fleeing desperado was readily
accepted and the pursuit actually given
over that all might assist in caring for
the good man.
His final capture was due to an audacious
attempt to rustle a bunch of fine
Rtpprs rrn Xifl- TTamraill's raneh fourteen
miles north of Bonesteel. Hammill
appeared just as the animals were being
rounded up, and, after an exchange
of shots with the thief, gathered a party
of cowboys and started on his trail.
So hot was the pursuit that the Rev.
Mr. Hilgard, as the thief afterward ?
proved to be, was driven to take refuge
in an abandoned dugout: Here
he stood his assailants off for seven
hours, and surrendered only after being
wounded six times. Hammill and
three of his cowboys were also seriously
hurt, one of the latter so badly that
Vip will nr/VhaKlv dip
Ordinarily, short wdrk would have
been made of such a captive, but the
discovery that it was their "dear pastor"
Hilgard so completely overpowered
the punchers that he was brought into
Bonesteel and lodged in the municipal
calaboose. In the prisoner's pockets
were watches, rings and other articles
of jewelry, some of which- have been
identified by their former owners.
One of Hilgard's victims was held up
while tho evangelist was on his-way
from Bonesteel to hold a revival series it
Willow Creek, twelve miles distant,
rhe victim was himself at some of thf.se
meetings, but when he claimed to see
i resemblance between the speaker and
:he man who robbed him he narrowly
escaped mobbicg.
Several mnrders; it is said, may be
aid at the reverend gentleman's door.
few weeks ago the corpse of a ranchnan
named Graham was found hidden
n an abandoned well near town. Lilians
from the neighboring reservation
vere at first susDected. but evidence is
iow said to have developed which
joints strongly toward Hilgard as the nurderer.
Hilgara's jonrneys from town to town
o conduct meetings have made it com>aratively
easy for him to carry on his
awless career without discovery. Much
>f the minister's plunder must have !
>een devoted to charitable purposes, i;
lis captors believe he- actually com- i
uitted many of his iaost serious oflfen- |
;es to raise money with which to. re- I
ieve the necessities of poor families. j
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)ne 40 saw Winahip gin feeder and conden
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good as new, JiOO.
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