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gSSg.; CRIME IS RAMFANL" . Dr. Tairmge Says a fvlor.scon cf Swindle Is Abroad. A SERMON ON DISHONESTY. On Every Side Are Men Who Have Abused the Trust Reposed in Them. Banks Bankrupted and Funds Stolen. This, like many of' Dr. Talsnsge's disccurses, recommends ri-jht ?Ioinsr f >r this world as well a* preparation for t : e heavenly world. Text. J?*b v;i5. 14. ' it hose trust shut! oc .' sj'iuor s web. The two n:o.?t skilifui rc-nitu'^-Ts i:: au the world arc the bee and the spider. The one puts up :i sagsr manufactory aDd the other builds ter house for fiies. On a brishtsuuiKitr morning, when the sun conns out an-i shines upon the spider's web. bedecked with dew, the gossamer structure seems bright enough for a suspension btidee for aerial beings to eros< on. ]>ut aias for the poor fly which ;;i the I a ? r e : i>art of that very day ventures is a* d is caught arid dungeoned and lit stroked! The fly was informed that it was a free l?, bridge and would eo:*c iun:;!?$r, ttl the other eud of the bridge ilic toiJ paid was its own lift*. The next day ihrre comes down a strong wind..and away go the web and the marauding spider and the victimized fly. So delicate are the silken threads of the spider's web that many thousands of them are put together before they become visible to the human eye, and it takes 4,000.000 of them to make a thread as large as the human hair. Most cruel as well as most ingenious is the spider. A prisoner in the Bastille, France, had one cn frinoo that at thesoundof the violin it every day came for its meal of flies. The author of my test, -who was a leading scientist of his day, had no dcubt watched the voracious process of this one insect with another and saw spider and fly swept down with the same broom or scattered by the same wind. Alas that the world has so many designing spiders and victimized flies! There has not been a time when the utter and A 7 black irresponsibility ol many men uaving the financial interests of others in charge has been more evident than in these last few years. The bankruptcy of banks and disappearance of administrators with the funds of large estates and the disordered accounts of United States officials have sometimes made a pestilence of crime that solemnizes - - ' i j every thoughtful man ana woniau auu leads every philanthropist and Christian to ask, What shah be done to stay the plague? There is ever and anon a monsoon of swindle abroad, a typhoon, a sirocco. I sometimes ask myself if it would not be better for men making wills to bequeath the property directiy to the executors and officers of the court and appoint the widows and orphausa committee to see that the former got all that did not belong to them. The simyle fact is that there are a large number of meu sailing yachts and driving fast horses and members of expensive clubhouses and controlling country seats who are not worth a dollar if they return to others their just rights. Under some sudden reverse they fail, and with afflicted air seem to p ? 5 olinnet retire irom cut* wunu. a.iu c^ui ready for monastic iife. when in two or three }-ears ihey blossom out again, having compromised with their creditors? that is, paid them nothing but regret? and the only difference between the second chapter of prosperity ^nd the first is that their pictures are Mu.illos instead of Keusetts. and their horses go a mile in 20 seconds less than their predecessors, and instead of one country seat they have three. I have watched and have noticed that nine out of ten of those who fail in what is called high life have more means after than before the failure, and in many of the cases failure is only a stratagem to eseape the payment of honest debts and put one world off the track while they practice a large swindle. There is something woefully wrong in the fact that these things are possible. First nf all, I charge the blame on careless, indifferent bank directors an'? ooarus naviug m uuauviui institutions. It ought not to be possible for a president or cashier or prominent officer of a banking institution to swindle it year after year without detection. I will undertake to say that if these frauds are carried on for two or three years without detection either the directors are partners in the infamy and pocket part of the theft or they are guilty of a culpable neglect of duty, for which God will hold them as responsible as he holds the acknowledged defrauders. What right have prominent business men to allow their names t-) be published as directors in a financial institution, so that unsophisticated people are thereby induced to doposit their money in or buy the scrip thereof, when they, the published directors, are doing nothing for the safety of the insticution? It is a case of deception 1 --"LI. most reprenensiDie. Many people with a surplus of money not needed for immediate use, although it may be a little further on indispensable, are without friends competent to advise them, and they are guided solely by the character of the men whose names are associated with the institution. "When the crash came and with the overthrow of the banks went the small earnings and limited fortunes of widows and orphans and the helplessly aged, the directors stood with idiotic stare, and to the inquiry of the frenzied depositors and stockholders who had lost their all and to :he arraignment of an indignant public had nothing to say except: ?:We thought it was all right. We did not know there was anything wrong going on."' It was their duty to Ckiiljn . JLUC> OWUU A LA. CL I^VOiVXVU deluded the people with the idea that they were carefully observant. Calling themselves directors, they did not direct. They had opportunity of auditing accounts and inspecting the books. No time to do so? Then they had no business to accept the position. It seems to be the pride of some moneyed men to be directors in a great many institutions. and all they know is whether or not they get their dividends regularly. and their nances are used as decoy ducks to bring others near enough to be made game of. What first of all is needed is that 500 "bank directors and insurance company directors resign or tt end to their busine>s as directors. The business world will be full of fraud just as long as fraud is so easy. When you arrest the pre>ident and secretary Df a bank for an emu zzlement carried on for many years, be sure to ha\ j ! plenty of sheriffs out the same day to arrest all the directors. They are guilty either of negicctor complicity. '"Oh." some wili >ay, "better preach the gospel and lei business matters alone." 1 reply, if your gospel does not inspire common honesty in the J--I.: ? ..1 ueauugs ui men t,u'j suuuci ciuse up *afeg^ssinif i'iI'i i w>pa<ae9?*>mm'\ i" yr.-j? -jo?pej and pitch it ] '?'? the depths <>f the Atlantic ocean the better. Att orthodox swindler is worse than a heterodox swindler. The recitation of all the eatechi-ihs and crcedsever written Hii?! t-iiriakiotr of ail the communion 1 . ? , cha!ii*t;s thai ever ghitereu in the churches of Christendom will never j saw your soul unless your business character corresponds with your religious profession. Some of the worst scoundrels in America have been rue inters of churches, and they got fat on sermons about heaven when they most needed to have the pulpits preach that which would e: titer bring them to repentance or thunder them out of the holy communions where their presence was a sacrilege and an infamy. We must especially deplore the misfortunes of banks in various part3 of this country in that they damage the banking institutions, which is the great convenience of tho centuries anu indispensable to commerce aud the advance of nations. With one hand it blesses the lender. aDd A'ith the other it blesses the borro.vcr. On their shoulders are the interests of private individuals and great corporations. In them are the great arteries through which run the curreuts of the nation's life. They have been th resources of the thousands of financiers in davs of b:isi:ic.s exig:::icy. They stand ft r accommodation, fur facility, inr individual, state and national relief. At their head and in their lUjinasf-ment there are as much 1 interest and moral worth as in any class of lijen, perhaps more Iiovf nefarious. then, the behavior of those who brintr disrepute upon this venerable. benignant aud God honored institution! We also deplore abuse of trust funds, because the abusers fly in the face of 1 > - i j GlVine gOOdliess, wmca teems ucwimined to bless this land. "We are having a series of unexampled national harvests. The -wheat gamblers get hold of the wheat, and the corn gamblers get hold of the corn. The full tide of God's mercy toward this land is put back by those great dikes of dishonest resistance. When God provides enough food and clothing to feed and apparel this whole nation like princes, the ill O Ji.T i ? i., scrauDie 01 aisuuuest uucu tu &cy ?juh, than their share and get it at all hazards keeps everything shaking with uncertainty and everybody asking, "'What next?" Every week makes new revelations. How many more bank presidents and bank cashiers have been speculating with other people's money and how many more bank directors are in imbecile silence, letting the perfidy go on. the great and patient God only knows. My opinion is that we have got near the bottom. The wind has been pricked from the great bubble of American speculation The men who thought that the judgment day was at least - ^ ^ rr* r> "t * / ' . nnr> 1 OA o.UUU years on iouna ic m ioyo or iovt or 1S96, and this nation has been taught that men must keep their hands out of other people's pockets. Great business built on borrowed capital have been obliterated, and men who had nothing have lost all they had. I believe we are started on a higher career of: prosperity than this lana has ever seen?if and if and if. If the first men, and especially Christian men, will learn never to speculate upon borrowed capital?if you have a mind io take your own money and turn it aii into kites, to 3y them over every common in the United States, you do society no wrong, except when you tumble your helpless children into the poorhouse for the public to take care of But you have no right to take the money of others and turn it into kites. There is one word that has deluded more people into bankruptcy and state prison and ruin than ; ny other word in commercial life, and that is the word borrow. That one word is responsible for all the defalcations and embezzlements and financial consternations of j the last 20 years. When executors ! in crmi-'iilofo witTi f-liA fnwrl<; r>f an estate committed to their charge, they do not purloin; they say they only bonow. Winn a banker makes an overdraft upon his institution, he dees not commit a theft, he only borrows. When the officer of a company, by flaming advertisement in some religious par.cr and gilt certificate of stock* gets a multitude of country people to put their small earnings to an enterprise for carrying on some undeveloped nothing, he does .not fraudulently take their money; he only borrows. When a young man with easy access to his employer's money drawer or the confidential clerk by close propinquity to the account books takes a few dollars for a Wall street excursion, he expects to put it back. He will put it all back. He will put it all back very soon. He only borrows. Why, when you are going to do wrong, pronouDce so long a word as borrow, a word of six letters, when you can get a shorter word more descriptive of the reality, a word of only five letters?the word steal. The greatest evangelistic preacher the world ever saw, a man who died for his evangelism?peerless Paul?wrote to the Romans, "Provide things honest in the sight of all men:" wrote to the Corinthians, "Do that whish is honest,' wrote to the Philippians, "Whatsoever things arc honest;" wrote to the Hebrews, "Willing in all things to live honestly." The Bible says that faith ? i. 1? j j witiiiuut VYUrh.3 is ueau, vyuiuu, using liberally translated, means that if your business life does not correspond with your profession your religion is a humbug. Here is something that needs to be sounded into the ears of all the young men in America and iterated and reiterated if this country is ever to be delivered from its calamities and commercial prosperity is to be established and perpetuated?live within your means. Spend n^more than you make. And let us adjust all our business and our homes by the principles of the nViricti!ir> rplitrirm ()nr rplitrirm nnffVit. V W??. ? V ~-, to mean just as much on Saturday and Monday as on the day between and not to be a mere periphrasis of sanctity. Our religion ought to first clean our hearts, and then it ought to clean our lives. Religion is not, as some seem to think, a sort of church delectation, a kind of confectionary, a sort of spiritual caramel or holy gumdrop or sanctified peppermint or theological anaesthetic. It is an omnipotent principle, all controlling, all conquering. You may get along with something less than that, and you may deceive yourself with it, but you cannot deceive God, and you cannot deceive the world. The keen business man will put on his spectacles, and he will look clear through to the back of your head and see whether your religion is a fiction or a fact. And you cannot hide your samples of sugar or rice or tea or coffee if they are false: 3 ou cannot hide them under cloth of a communion cable. All your prayers go for nothinc so long as you misrepresent your bauking institutions, and in the report of the resources ! you put down moie specie, and more | fractional currency, and more clearing j house certificates, and more legal ten! der notes, and more loans, and more i discounts than there really are, when j you give an account of your liabilities j you do not mention all the unpaid divi| "deeds and the United States bank notes outstanding. and the individual depcs* I i?5; and the obligations to other banks and bankers- An authority more sera tinizing than that of any bank examiner will go through and through and through your fcusinesss. A missionary m one of the islands of the Pacific preached on dishonesty, and the next morning lie looked out of his window, and he saw his yard full of goods of all kinds. He wondered and asked the cause of all this. '"Well," said the native, ''our gods chat we have been worshiping permit us to steal, but according to what you said yesterday the God of heaven and earth will not allow this, so we b~ing backall these goods, and we ask you to help us in taking them to the places where they belong." If next Sabbath all the ministers in America should preach sermons on the abuse of trust funds, and on the evils of purloining, and the-' sermons were all blessed of God, and regulations were made that all tnese things rshould be taken to the city halls, it would not be long before every city hall iu America would be crowded from cellar to cupola. T .-v* a cntT in mnof c-til TiVlrl 11C I AJVZb ULiU OCI,J i. u wuu uw v v ?? manner to all young men, dishonesty will never pay. An abbot wanted to buy a piece of ground, and the owner would not sell |t, but the owner finally consented to let it to his) until he could raise one c.'op, and the abbot sowed acorns, a crop of 200 years Vud I tell you, young man, that the dishou estiec which you plant in your neari and life will seen; to 1,-e ycry 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. I have also a word of comfort for all who suffer from the malfeasance of others, and every honest man, woman and child does suffer from what is going on in financial scampdom. Society is so bound together that all the misfortunes which good people suffer in business matters come from the misdeeds of others. Bear up UQtJer distress, strong in God. He will see you through, though your misfortunes should be centupled. Scientists tell us that a column of air 45 miles in height rests on every man's head and shoulders. But that is nothing compared with the pressure that business life has put upon many of you. Q-od made up his mind long ago how many or how few dollars it would be best for you to have. TWt. to his appointment. The door v- S j soon open to let you out and let you i . Y>"hat delight for men who for 30 y ars have been in business anxiety when they shall suddenly awake in everlasting holiday! On the maps of the arctic regions there are two places whose names are remarkable, given, I suppose, by some polar expedition, Cape Farewell and Thank God harbor. At this last the Polaris wintered in 1S71 and the tigress in 1S63- Some ships have passed the cape yet never reached the harbor. But from what I know of many of you I have concluded that, though your ? -" tTAntr rnn voyage uj me uia.,y l?c vcij* mu^u, n*u into by icebergs on this side and iceberg on that, you will in due time reach Cape Farewell and there bid goodbye to all annoyances and soon after drop anchor in the calm and imperturbable waters of Thank God harbor. "There the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest." Desperadoes Held in Check. There are many indications that Manila is full of desperadoes who had * /"> nnnncMfn witli A fiiinaldo. I XU^UU&U VV VVV|^ViUvv *v*. ?Q The police are continually capturing men and women with weapons concealed in their clothing. The vigilance of the authorities in this respect is highly reassuring. Last Saturday about midnight two Englishmen accidentally encountered a gang of armed natives in a dark side street. The natives, fearing discovery, imprisoned, them until morning and threatened to kill them unless they maintained silence. Many native clerks employed by mercantile houses are missing. As it is impossible that they should have passed the lines, the inference is that they are in hiding in the city. Several attempts were made to assassinate Americans on the streets, but that danger is now at a minimum. The natives are terribly cowed and the precautions taken, especially against in- | cendiarism, are admirable. 4c fottoa Mik33 43. Prices. Not o^ly on Provisions, Clothing, Furniture and all the actual necessaries of living, but as well on things appertaining to our enjoyment and culture. This is specially true as to Pianos and* Organs. "Wise Manufacturers realize that in these close times prices must be exceedingly low, and they are meeting the emergency. Notice the latest advertisement of Ludden & Bates Southern 'Music House, Savannah. G-a., in this issue, and write them for their Four Ceits Prices. This is a wideawake-never-get-left and thoroughly reliable house whose offers alwavs mean just' what they say. It costs nothing to write Ludden & B.ites for Catalogues, Prices and Easy Installment Terms, which they send with pleasure. Farmers and Fertilizers. Whether it is owing to the agitation to reduce the acreage or whether the financial condition of the farmers is such that they cannot purchase fertilizers, the fact is that up to date less than half the amount of fertilizers has been bought this year than there was last. Those who watch the trend of events say that this means less cotton planting and more grain. This is said to be particularly true of the up country. In the middle and coast sections of the State it is said that about the same amount of cotton will be planted as last year, but even in these sections mure ititcuuiuu 13 uaug jjam w iuv, raising of home supplies.?Charleston Post. Did Up the Machines. A prisoner is in custody in Fort Scott, Kan., on the charge of making and ; passing connterfeit nickels. It is said i that he toured Missouri and ''broke" every slot machine he ca*?e across by playing spurious coin in it. It is a question whether playing counterfeit coin against an illegal device constitutes "passing"' in the eyes of the laf,. , The Appropriation Bill. The House of Representative* d^vnt- . ed considerable part of last week to the consideration of the appropriation bill. , r * 'i A.1. - i>10St 01 tne items iu me uiu were . passed as fixed by the committee on ways and means. The figures will be published as soon as they can be procured. The salaries of most of the officials remain at about the present figures. Fire Plugs Frozen. Belmond, a town of over 2,000 inhabitants in Wright county, Iowa, was visited by a" destructive fire Thursday. Tiie thermometer is 21 below zero, and the fire plugs are frozen up. Thirteen business bo'-eks and a number of residences werc; totally destroyed. The loss will foo?rup over $150,000. ? |WHISKEY PROFITS Annual Report of State Board oi Control for 1898. THE FIGURES CiVEN IN FULL. Largs Business Transacted and Much Money i-iandled. Expense of Board as >Per Diem and Mileage. ,The iigures presented in the annual report of the State board 9f control just "isSuid from the printer-..are of;interest, the statements being closcd'^eccv.bcr 31st. 1898. A summary'follows: ASSE-TS.. . . f'ocli in n t-r> trpocn rv* >: Merchandise in hands, of .dispensers . .... ...... 227,743.-99 Merchandise stock at State disnensarv 159.275.39 Supplies 31,172.66 Teams and wagons (inveutorv) 275.00 Machinery and office fixtures 2.S83.30 Contraband . 835 25 Real estate?purchase of property and improvements 33,615.09 Personal accounts due State for tax advanced on bonded spirits, empty barrels, and kegs, alchol, royalty on beer not received, etc. 1C ^38.44 Total assets'V": .$51S,718.26 LIABILITIES. School fund S395.690.46 Suspended accounts 174.61 Personal accounts due by State for supplies, whiskies, wines, alcohol, beer, etc 122,853.19 Total liabilities ?518,718.26 PROFITS. Gross profits on merchandise sold $376,355.53 Discounts on whiskey purchases 25-, 654.12 Contraband seizures 10,137.32 Permit fees 28.00 Profits from beer and hotel dispensaries (State's Share) 26,740.04 Amount of warrants issued prior to March 31st, 1897, and never presented for payment, passed to the credit of profit and loss account 6.04 Total gross profits $43S,921.05 Expenses 2S2,111.44 Xet profits .$438,921.05 Under the head of losses the following amounts are given: Supplies, bottles, corks, labels, tin foil, etc., $113,017.38; constabulary, $35,152.65; breakage ana ieasage, $1 250 48; freight and express charges, $76,019.65; labor, $15,041.21; rent of Agricultural hall. $11,050; litigation, $SS2; loss by fire at Eutawville, $4SS.34; shortage at Chester, $739.34; stolen from Hampton dispensary, $213 80; loss by fire at Kantowles, $1,339.19; loss by fire at Manning, $926.87; and other items, the total expense being, $156,S09.61. s Itemized expense account: Salaries, commissioner, $1,900.07; superintend ent, $970; head drayman. Sb'UU;. state chemist, $990.96; two clerks to commissioner, $2,400; three clerks to state board, -$3,625; salaries and expenses of t^o inspectors, $2,-700.67. The* expense account of the State board of control is given as follows: J. D. HASELDEN, CHAIRMAN*. Per diem..... $856.00 Mileage 392.70 Expenses to Laurens and return on official busines? 7.70 Mileage from Sellers to Dillon and return 1.10 Charges on official telegrams paid by Mr. Haselden 1.66 Expenses from Sellers to Dillon and Marion and return on official business 3.10 Expenses to Charleston and return on official business 7.00 Total $1,269.26 L. J. WILLIAMS. Per diem $436.00 Mileage 228.00 Trip to' Charleston on official business 34.70 Charges on official telegrams paid by Mr-^Williams 1.00 Total . $699.70 J. B. DOUTHIT. Per diem $iS4.00 Mileage..'. 248.00 Trip to Greenville (official).. . 11.00 Total $743.40 D. M. MrLES. Per diem $456.00 .Mileage 241.00 Total $697.00 31. R. COOPER. Per diem $528.00 Mileage 399.15 Telegrams (official) 1.50 Total $928.65 "WILIE JONES. Per diem $52.00 Total expenses of board.. .$4,390.01 RECEIPTS. The cash statement for 1898 shows the following: Balance in State treasury Dec. 31. 1897 ? 61,901.26 January receipts 82.437.84 February receipts 81,574.32 March receipts 89,733.83 April receipts 67,869.22 May receipts 80,093.54 June receipts 80,413.61 July receipts.. ... 72,499.76 August receipts < 93,436.03 September receipts.. ..... 100,594.05 October receipts. 128,533.53 November receipts.. 153,606.66 December receipts IS 1.207.22 Total : ,,'$1,273,900.87 j January di-burscments.. ..$105,593.57 February disbursements... 69,079.28 March disbursements 102.679.73 April disbursements...,.. 63.031.11 May disbursements 88,505.97 June disbursements 71.342.06 July disbursements 69,173 59 August disbursements 75j7S2.17 September disbursements.. 96.690.23 October disbursements 141,349 80 November disbursements.. 123.137.86 December disbursements.. 221.502.26 Total disbursements for year $1.227.S87.63 Balance in State treasury Dec. 31, 1398 46,073.24 Total $1,273,960 87 The year's purchases were a* follows January $ 59'864.27 February . 40,390.94 March 57,800.37 * geaataBBa * *"" M iV 'ly.ii.intn iir i April . .* 42.5113" j May, 53.210.75 J June - 5G.701 74 I July 40.40S I-2 I Aucust ~>9 9SO.>~i) I September 91.17f) <?7 : October So.7iM.47 ! November 172.5S9.3S Decaruber 110.44-i. i'J | Tot;1.! SS74.(i!'7.12 In a Bad Position Our Judgement is that the lie can party was never in creator dancer than it is now. Rejoicing in what is claimed to be a "great victory"' and ; having complete control of the exec a tive and legislative branches of the ^cverumeut, the leaders fee! that t hey have a frei- ri?in to :>- thov liba-;. ^ " w ~ - > c ~ -- ' J. hat every pic-ce of partisan legislation enacted by ihe next conarrcss in u: y w;lv rti-itiug to finances will be uivtated by the "money power" goes wiihou saying. Lt is almost a certainty that some olio of the various currency reforui bills now before congress, with perhaps a few trilling amendments in i matters of detail, will be enacted into law. This will not only commit the Kepubiicau party thoroughly to the gold standard, which it has so often condemned, but it will do more. It will ( include the retirement of aii national , paper currency ana surrender the entire control of our paper money to the banks, leaving ail business at their mercy. rm ; .1 .U.i. ......... t.? i JilS 15 il SCUeUiU ILlilL Crtll UCVC1 UU defended in the great forum of the people. We also believe that the prosperity wave based upou '"dollar wheat/' etc., has reached its height and broken upon the shoals. The war excitement will have passed away, and the people will be prepared to consider' calmly the questions of its management, and especially the bond issues and other financial measures designed to furnish the money for it prosecution. They will see that there was never a more unnecessary measure t: an that which authorized the issuance ofS500,000,UUU in bonds, pd they will not forget that the administration Dill torcea tnrougn the house by whip and spur provided for $100,000,000 more than that sum. They will see that Wall street influences absolutely dominate and control the leaders of the Republican party and that the interests of the common people receive no more consideration at their hands than maybe deemed necessary to enable them to carry an election, The masses of the voters cannot be deceived all the time. In 1888 Benjamin Harrison carried Kansas by 80,000 majority, which population considered, made it the banner Republican state. The next year it was swept by a tidal wave of Populism. If the allied forces will lay aside all selfish bickerings and thrust into the background everything except the great principles upon which tkey are agreed, we believe that their chance of electing a president in 1000 is now decidedly better than it would have been if they had elected a majority of the house. We grant that we wanted to carry it, and especially regret the unexpected losses in the senary/' Rut there is a "silvcer linitis ! nevertheless. and we look for a glorious sunburst in 19U0. Heavy on Strait. Ph speaking of the Strait address, which is published in ano-.her column, the Columbia Record handles the congressman without gloves. We quote the Record's article in full: "The time for the withdrawal from congress of Dr. Strait, the representative of the fifth district, is close at hand. He signalizes the nearness of that event by publication of a screed in this morning's State in which he makes a vigorous and wholesale assault upon Senator 3IcLaurin. The junior senator is amply able to take care of himself and The Record will not seek to forestall him. But when Dr. Strait makes an attack on the forty movement, that is a horse of another color, for the editor of The Reeord had much to do with the inception of the forty movement. When Dr. Strait says the forty movement 'has for its object the destination of the Pieform party,' he makes a foul and false ' 'imputation of treachery against forty? two (for that was the real number) of fl-ia rmrncf mf>n IP. the Re form party. Whatever may have been the effect of the forty movement, its ooject was the good of the whole state of South Carolina, ao object which it is ,noble to seek to accomplish, even in the expense of party or factional advantage. Possibly that principle is too lofty for Dr. Strait to appreciate, just as his intelligence seems too dense to grasp the difference between 'object' and 'effect.' The forty may have been misguided or mistaken. On that there moTT Vir> mom fnr ami ment. But it K/\y A. \S ^ q cannot be questioned that their motives were pure and patriotic. Dr. Strait's successor in congress was a leader in the forty movement, and that fact may account forDr Strait's animosity to the forty. It is probably true that the forty movement is responsible for bringing about a condition of affairs in South Carolina whereby men, of Strait's calibre are shoved into the background, to the advantage of men o: brains." The Good Old Days. A law was passed by the State of Tennessee in 17S8 which provided that the salaries of that commonwealth should be as follows: "His excellency the governor, per annum. 1.000 deer hides. '"His honor, the chief justice, 500 deer skins. "T!:o secretary to his excellency, the governor, 500 raccoon skins. '.'County clerks, three hundred beaver skins. "Clerk of the house of commons. 200 raccoon skins. "Members of the assembly, per diem. 3 raccoon skins. "Justice's fees for serving a warrant. 1 mink skin. If we would adopt the hide s;ale of paying the salaries of our State and county officers fewer men would want the offices. Mr. James M. Smith of Columbia. S C. writes: Dear Sir?It eivps Die frreat pleasure to say tnat tne Uiu vJrotn ritntmpnfr. hrmcrhr nf VOU has entirely cured me of eczema when everything I had used previously failed to give any relief. It is a great medicine. and I would not be without it in my house. I use it for almost everything, where any medicine is needed, and have gotten the best of results every time. Respectfully. James M. Smith. f s aS^oT' d ta I-IM a -. ?Tv' .-. .Vr.'iif -ir rwnn'riaVi'immT i v sm&ww&sx | 5 IVIakes the food more d i i I ROVAL BAKINQ PC ! ?"" ! "I PLA IN SPEECH : From Senator Tiiltnan on Fiiil pino Question. THE PRESENT AND FUTURE i i | Ws Can Shoot I hem to Death But is It Right? How The World Wil! Look Ai ll m it. For two hours or more the ?enat< Tuesday of last week had the resolutioi declaratory of a policy of this govern merit in the Philippines under discus sion. but no vote was readied and th< resolution went finally to the calen dar. 1 n accordance with the notice stiver Senator Tillman addressed the senat< upon the resolution making a chane tcristic and picturesque argument. Mr. Tillman said in opening that lu had listened to the debate upon the treaty with interest, but without takins part in it. He had contented himself with occasional little forays and witb indulging in a little guerrilla warfaie. '"The first thing that strikes me," said he, stin the reading of this resolution is its absolute uselessness and its cold-blooded purpose?its simple declaration of purpose to buy and sell those people of the Philippines for oui i-i j _i.? 12?1.1.. interests unu w i^uun; tuc.ii interests. If I mistake not the tiend of events the ratification of the treaty promises disaster to the party responsible for it. "If it was right,'' said he, in discussing the cbaoajfr-.of votes on ratification, "to defeat tlie~~treaty on Saturday, it was right to defeat it yesterday." He said that never in his legislative experience had he heard so many speeches against a proposition followed by so many votes in favor of the proposition. To his mind it indicated that certain senators had yielded to pressure.'' Concerning the constitution, he declared that the only scintilla now left of it was that which required that, a treaty could only be ratified by a twothirds vote of the senate. The ratiiica tion of the treaty, h^said. had deter mined that fact that in law the Filipinos were rebels against the United States. If they fire on our flag they would be regarded as rebels. That was the way the world saw it. However the trouble in the Philippines might terminate, :he Filipinos would be regarded as patriots who were fighting for their libcrcy just as much as were the Amercau revolutionists. "If any resolution is passed here we ought to pass one bringing peace to the Philippines, not disaster, "The question now is: '"Arc we to take the place of Spain as task masters and tyrants?" Turning to Mr. Lodge who was listening to the speech, Mr. Tilliuau inquired if the situation in the Philippines was not unique, was not unduplicated anywhere in history? "I think:" replied Mr. Lodge, ':that the situation is unique in this that the people to whom we have taken 'iberty . and freedom have turned upon us." Mr. Tillman declared that th*e situa tion ia the Philippines was similar, to that which confronted Great Britain in the Transvaal and after reviewing England's trouble in Souih Africa, said that we wanted nothing in those islands except the power to control their foreign policy. i-()f course," he continued, "we can send tens of thousands of troops to the Philippines, and as the senator from Montana. (Carter), said the other day, we can shoot those people to death; but Li To ih nnnr?r?ihlp fnr | ougui \>e tu uu it. jlo iw us to do it?" Mr. Tillman then read some verses from Kipling's latest poem, "The White Man's Burden." which he regarded as exactly fitied to our case. "Every man in this chamber, bat five." said he. "who has had to deal with the colored race voted against the treaty. We of the South have borne 'The White Man's Burden.' It was handed dpwn to us by your father and mine and it clings to us like the shirt of Xessus." He maintained that we did not want to incorporate into our citizenship the mongrel population of the Philippines and inaugurate auother /ace struggle in the United States. '"There are two cities in the Pacific,'" said Senator Tillman, "over wluVa our flag breaks to the breeze. Over the one it is a harbinger of peace, good will, prosperity and liberty. JkOverthe other?Manila?it is coldi blooded and determined?to do what? To force upon these people a government whether it be satisfact^-v to them or not." The debate for the day on the McEnery resolution was concluded by Mr. L^dge in a brief speech in the course of which he stated souie of the facts relating to the insurrection in the Philippines against Spain and the part Aguinaldo took in it. | Further along Mr. Lodg?speaking of' I the restraints placed upon the Ameri- J can forces in the Philippines, said "'Stringent orders have gone from the president to Gen. Otis and Admiral Dewey to exercise the greatest care in their treatment of the Filipinos, and not by word or deed to provoke them. A fortnight ago Gen. Otis, in accordance with orders received from the administration. officially informed Aguinaluo that he had no intention of making an attack upon the Filipino troops. Senator Lodge concluded by reiterating his statement chat it was his belief that the Filipinos had made a preconcerted and prearranged attack upon our troops at Manila for the purpose of influencing action upon the treaty. Mr. Tillman secured the floor again to read a paragraph from Maj. Bell's report on the condition of the Filipino insurgents, ana concluded with-the declaration that the peace commissioners had gone to Paris with the purpose of buying the Philippines and that it was now the purpose of the administration authorities to kill the Filipinos like sheep. Atlanta in Luck. Andrew arnegie has offered the city of Atlanta $100,000 for a free public library. Mr. Carnegie makes his offer conditional to the extent that Atiauia shall furnish the site and appropriate $5,000 Thursday for the maintenance of the library. Mr. Carnegie recently gave $100,000 to the city of Washing-' ton for a public library. 1 B&KING | PUEE eiicious snd wholesome )WgS3 CO., N?.V VQSK. i I xii3 Same Everywhere. Ohio. like South Carolina, has a law which provides that when a ;-prion suffers death at the hands of a lynching : inoh the next of kin or heirs of the vie- . tim tray recover from the county peeu- : uiaiv damages in the st:Pi o? five tbousand dollars. The first i-a e under trie .new law in South Carolina was tried a i month or tsvo ago. and the verdict was i in favor of the county. Tills ccca ; sioned some rather tart criticisms from : the ^Northern and Western newspaper { press. The first case under the new * law in Ohio was tried a few days ago, 1 and. as in the South Carolina case, the l 2 verdict was in fa\or of the county. 1 1 The Savannah news says: "Wc 1 shall now await with interest the ccai- < , meats of the Northern ana Western J - newspapers upon this Ohio court and J jury. The lynching upon which the * 1 Ohio suit was based will be remem; bcied as the Click Mitchell lynching. < in which the negro was taken out and i killed in the streets of the town of Ur-. * bana. before an andience of 10.000 persons.*' I Lawless Negro Troops. ; 1 The Negro troops have been giving c , great tr nble in Arkansas and Georgia j by their lawless acts and general rowd- j ' ism. As the regiment from Arkansas t ' noccnrl flirnrorli Tnlra Miss., .come T1D- n known persons set fire to the ammuni; tion car, which was almost filled with cartridges and powder. It was entirely destroyed and the rest of the train was ; barely saved. Three Negro women, who were following the troopers, sre reported to have been killed in the burning car. A dozen of the men were injured. At Walker switch the burning car was discovered by trainmen and side tracked. The lives of the crew were in danger, as the cartridges-were I? i:?i.:? ? exploding iii every uuccuuu. xjj mt L tiiue the switch was reached the car was a mass of flames. The loss will be heavy. ' Killed Each Other. Bob Marks, a noted sporting charac- I ter and typical deaashot Texan, was killed in a duel Thursday with John \V. Bennett, proprietor of a saloon and ( gambling house at San Antanio. Tex. Marks had been drinking and announced as he left his own saloon that he was going to die with his boots on. He entered the Silver King saloon and threatened to shoot out the lights. Words were passed and revolvers were drawn. Marks emptied the five cham bers of bis revolver, shooting Bennett through the abdomen. Stretched on the floor, mortally wounded, Bennett fired three shots -it 'Marks, killing him instantly. Bennett died Thursday. ^ A youug married lady cue morning gave her husband a sealed letter, which c he was to read when he got to his office. , He did so, and the letter ran as follows: 'I am obliged to teil you something r that may give you pain, but there is no c help for it. You should know every- * thing, whatever ba the consequences. e For the last week I have felt that it must come to this, but I have waited uutil the last extremity. Do not overwhelm me with bitter reproach, for you will have to put up with your share of f the trouble as well as myself." Cold . perspiration stood in thick drops on the brow of the husband, who had prepared tor the worst. Trembling, he read on: "0urcoal is aft cone. Please order a | ton id be sent this afternoon. I thought you might forget it for the tenth time, and therefore wrote you this letter." But he didn't forget it that time. Tiie feeling is growing among many '* prominent Democrats, aud some Republicans, that the only plan to prevent the purchase of senatorial and other offices is to amend the constitution, giving the people the right to elect by direct vote. Even that old and emi- c nently conservative paper, the Philadelphia Record, takes strong grounds in favor of that view and asks: "Muse ^ the country forever witness the recur- <3 rence of these scenes of corruption?" j. It looks as if this is the only plan to prevent corruption and purchase of h offices. Ax inventive genius of Alexandria y Ind., is converting the flintiest and roughest of limestone roc-k into soft white wool. - lie expects to revolutionize the wool arl cloth manufacturing industry. The discovery was the result of an accident, though none the less A t] IT rA/?k* TT^G Veil UclU.it. VA J VI-L\x ivvu II MM 0 common building stone, and was used | for that purpose until the discovery ? was made. It can be spun and woven a nto soft, durable dress goods, suitable I for garments for both sexes. I Jerry Simpson, whose term in con- | gress will expire with the preseat ses- % sion, lives frugally in modest quarters ? and is believed to have saved $3,000 ? yearly out of his $5,000 salary. He | will retire to his farm at Medicine ? Lodge, Kan., and declares that in fu- 8 j ture he will devote himself to tilling ? the soil, having had enough of politics. | Great excitement-exists on the min b ing stock exchange at Colorado Springs 3 over a fabulously rich strike in the Isa- if bella Mine, at Cripple Creek. Assays from the strike run from $40,000 to S $100,000 to the ton. The stock jumped ? from 973 to $1.50 per share a few days ^ ago. Over 100,000 shares changed ^ hands. Six weeks ago the stock sold ? at 22 cents. _ S There has been a clash between the ? Americans troops and the Philipinos at ft Manila, and twenty American were i| killed. It now looks as if we have ? bargained to pay Spain twenty million ? dollars'for a protracted war. in which a . 1. -J., ~ iiiuuaauua ui uui wuuu juicu will be killed. A retiring army doctor has achieved pj some fanre at San Francisce by being f0 arrested " for being encased in a Lalf a mile or so of silk goods, wbich he was wearing as a protection against the 5 customs collectors. The little game of 3 smuggling didn't work and he had to e0 shuck his silk casing. w (IV Frozen Stiff. n? The body of h workiDgman about 50 da years of age was found frozen stiff in is the west bottoms of Kansas City Wed- ta nesday. - di t The. 0* ment is a^B covered by^B cures Piies^^B cles, Boils,^ Rheumatism, Sore Eyes. Sore V Iy Heat and ail skBB or money refunded. Oni^^^ cents per box. The discovery was a case of seeming necess^ tv. His little daughteiUiadS leanui case ui eczema ujl tu? head and eyes, and it finall^ ^ot into the upper lip, causing it to turn iaside out. He had her treated by leading?the best?physicians in Columbia and Charlotte for nearly two^ vears, and the disease con"' stantly grew worse. He be^an reading a standard medical journal, and saw many things recommended for ecze^ cna, and went to work nd Look of the many things and compounded this 'cedical wonier, OldXorth State Ointment, and cured, in the case of this little girl, one of the most stubborn cases of eczema; aftertvhich many other stubborn'* nented with and cured. Cuthbert, Ga , September 1, 1897,. ^ Ur Jasper Miller,? olumhia, S. C: Dear Sir?A fr.end of mine had eczema, is viVviit.ih, and he hid trie-t everything ??:om mended to him without success. 1 rt?ommended jour Oui North State Oiutmeo*. i e us( ' o*- e box, whish maJe a complete :ure. 1 uk? pu-asure ia recomar-ndint it o any c ne suffering from eczema or ?ny sm ffectiou. Yours truly. G. C. Bacot. for sale by all D<-*ler3 au<i '< ruggi^w at 2& cents per bos. Flniir Mill " wvaa > Machinery. 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PRKSSLtOV Not A Leap Year.?Next year rjs > * a 1A??\ rAow TUa nnf k/twitTdtl AlU?'. 1 jl. <x j tai. jl i-lv./ au.vuviiiiw. i. ain it this way: "Leap year; ev?rj~jr arth year, ia which a day is'added to te month of February an account o? 1 . x? . a : T - - \ +~M le excess 01 me tropical ye;tr hr. 48 raia. 46 see.) above 365 d ut one day added every four reacufl [uivalent to sis hours eacli M hicii is 11 lain. 14 see. more thawH :cess of the real year. Hence, iH pessary to suppress the bisse? L.v at the eud of every century whicM| not divisable by 400, while it is re- -0 ined at the end of those which tre [ visible by 400," *1 > i': ** -ZM