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m&. ' ' ' womefwh(Twork;! Or Talmage Speaks Encouraging Words to Them. SiMPLE FAITH AND TRUST !n God Afford Comfort for Those Who Are Oppressed and / Struggling for a Livelihood. This discourse of Dr. Taloiage is an sppeal for mercy in behalf of oppressed i womenhood, and offers encouragement to those struggling for- a livelihood; text, Ecclesiastes, iv, 1, "Behold the tears of snch as were oppressed, and they had no comforter." Very long ago the needle \ras busy. It was considered honorable for women to toil in olden times. Alexander the (ireat stood in ins^piace snowing-gar.. ments made by his own* mother. The * finest tapestries at Bayeux were made by the qneen of William the Cotqneror. Augustus the emperor would not wear any garments except those that were fashioned by some member of his royal family. So let the toiler everywhere be respected! The needle has slain raore than- the sword. When the sewing machine was invented, some thought that invention would alleviate woman's toil and put an end to the despotism of the needle. But no; while the sewing machine has been a great blessing to well to do families in many cases, it has added to the sUb of the needle the crush of the wheel, and multitudes of women, notwithstanding the re-enforcement of the sewing machine, can only make, work hard as they will, between $2,and $3 a week. * * t T A 1J T ine greatest Diessing mat couiu nave liappened to our first parents was bein? turned out of Eden after they had done wrong. Adam and Eve in their perfect state might have got along without work or only such slight employment as a perfect garden with no weeds in it demanded, but as soon as they had sinned the best thing for them was to be turned ont where they would have to work. We know what a withering thing it is for a man to have nothing to do. Of the 1,000 prosperous and honorable men that you know 999 had to ***" work vigorously at thebeginning. Bat I am now to tell you that industry, is last as important for a woman's safety and happiness. The most unhappy women in our communities today are those who have no engagement to call them up in the morning, who once having risen and breakfasted lounge through the dull forenoon in slippers down at the heel and with disheveled hair, reading the last novel, and who, having dragged through a wretched forenoon and taken their afternoon sleep and having passed an hoar and a half at their toilet, pick up their card case and go oat to make cails, and who pass their evenings waiting for somebody to come in and break up the monotony. Arabelle Stuart never was imprisoned in so darka dangeon as that. [jThercis no happiness in aB idle woman. It may be with hand or brain but work she must or be wretched forever. The little girls of our families must be started with that idea. The curse of American society is that our young women are taught that the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, tenth, fitieth, thousandth thing in their life is to get somebody to take eare of them. Instead of that the first lesson should be how under God they may take care of themselves. The simple fact is that a majority of them do have to take oare of themselves and that, too after having through the false notions, of their parents wasted the years in which they ought to have learned how successfully to maintain themselves. We now and here declare the inhumanity, cruelty and outrage of that father and matter \oTm rtftas tlipir danfhters into womanhood having given them no facility for earning their livelihood. Mme. <de Stael said, ''It is-not these writings that'll am proud of, but the fact'that I have facility'in ten occupations in any one of which I could make a livelihood." You: say you have a fortune to leave iheui. 0 man and woman! -Have yon*V~rmt*" ] ,aTned that, like vultures,-like hawks, i kc oagl? * riches have wings and fly awa. ? Though gyou should be sacccisi ul in leaving competency behind you, the trickery of executors may swamp it in a night, or some officials in 'our churches may get up a mining company and induce your! orphans ;-to.:put their money into a hole in Colorado and if. by the most skillful machinery the sunken money cannot be brought up again prove to them that it was eternally decreed that that was the way they were to lose^it and that it went in the most orthodox and heavenly style. Oh, the da nnable schemes that professed Christians will engage in until God puts his fingers into the collar of the hypocrite's rope and strsips it dear down tr> ihp hntfnm! Vmi no right because you are well off to conclude that your children are goiog to be well off. A man died leaving a large fortune. His son fell dead in a Philadelphia grogshop. His old comrades same in and said as they bent over his corpse, "What is the matter with you, Boggsey?" The surgeon standing over him said: "Hush, ye! He is dead!" "Oh, he is.dead!" they said. "Come, boys, let us go and take a drink in memory of poor Boggsey!" Have vou nothiDg better1,than money to leave your children? If you have not, but send your daughters into the world with empty brain and unskilled hand, you are guilty of assassination, homicide, infanticide. There are women toiling in our nities for $2 or $3 a week who were the daughters oFmer chant princes. These suffering ones now would be glad to have the crumbs that once fell from their father table.- That wornout broken shoe that she wears is the lineal descendant of the $12 gaiter in which her mother walked, and that torn and faded calioo had ancestrv of magnificent DKfccade that swept Pennsylvania avec vSue-aw^Broadway deal without any ex xq me street commissioners. you live in an elegant resi^WCiuid fare sumptuously every day, ' - - ->"3etyour daughters feel it is a disgrace " V -. ^or them not to knowjhow to^ork. I ^denounce the idea prevalent in society * - " that, though 'our young women may embroider slippers and crochet and make mats for lamps to stand on without disgrace, the idea of doing anything for a livelihood is dishonorable. It is a shame for a young woman belonging to a large family to be inefficient when her father toiis his life away for her , support. It is a shame for a daughter to be idle while her mother toils in the mshtub, it is as honorable to sweep house, make beds or trim hats a3 it is to twist a watch chain. So far as I can understand, the line of respectability lies between teat wnicn ife useful and that which is useless. If women do that which is of no value, theii' work is honorable. If they do practical work, it is dishonorible. That our young women may escape the censure of doing dishonorable work, I shall particularize. You may knit a tidy for the back of an armchair, but by no means make the money wherewith to buy the chair. You may with a deli; cate brush beautify a mantel ornament, ; but die rather than earn enough to buy | a marble mantel. You may learn artistic music until you can squall Italian, hut never sing "Ortonville" or "Old Hundred." Do nothing practical if you would, in the eyes of refioed society, preserve your respectability. I scout these finical notions. I teil you a woman, no more tlan a man, ha^ a right to occupy a place ia this world unless she- pays a rent for it * 0.1 _t. . 1J A vast majority or mose woo wuuiu have woman industrious shut her up to a few kinds of work. My judgment in this matter is that a woman has a right to do anything she can do well. There should be no department of merchandise, mechanism, art or science barred against her. If Miss Hjsmer has genius for sculpture, give her a chisel. If Rosa BoDheur has a fondness for delineating animals, let her make ''The Horse Fair." If Miss Mitchell will study astronomy, let her rnouat the starry ladder. If Lydia will be a merchant, let her sell purple. If Lucretia Motl will preach the gospel, let her thrill with her womanly eloquence the Quaker meeting house. ft is said if woman is given sush opportunities she will occupy places that might be taken by men I say if she have more,skill and adapcedness for any position than a man has, let her have itl She has as much right to her bread, to her apparel and to her home as men have. But it is said that her nature is so delicate that she is unfitted for exhausting toil. I ask in the name of all past history wha*: toil en earth is more severe, exhausting and tremendous than that toil of the needle. to which for ages she has been subjected? The battering ram, the sword, the carbine. the battleax, have made no such havoc as the needle. I would that these living sepulchers in which women have for ages been buried might be opened" and that Borne resurrection trumpet might ibring up these living corpses to the Jnsh air and sunlight. We talk about women as though we had resigned to her all the light work and ourselves had shouldered the heavier. But the day of judgment, which will reveal the sufferings of the stake and inquisition, will marshal before the -throne of God and the hierarchs o< heaven the martyrs of washtub and needle.- Now, I say if the^e be any preference in occupation, let woman have it. God knows her trials are the severest. By her acuter sensitiveness to misfortu^, bv her hour of anguish, I demand that no one hedge up hei pathway to a livelihood. Oh, the meanness, the.despicability of men who begrudge a woman the right to wort anywhere in any honorable callingl I hear from all this land the wail ol womanhood. Man has nothing to anthaf wail hnfc He says she is an angel. She is not.- Sbe knows she is not. She is a human being who gets hungry whet she has no food and cold when she has no fire. Give her no more flatteries. Give her justice. Oh, the thousands of sewing girls! Across the sunlighi comes their death groan. It is not such a cry as come from those who are suddenly hurried out of life, but a slow, grinding. horrible wasting away, Gather them before you and look intc their faces, pinched, ghastly, hunger struck. Look at their fingers, needle pricked and blood tipped. See thai premature stoop in the shoulders. Keai that dry, hacking, merciless cough. Stand at the corner of a stieet iE some great city 6 or 7 o'clock in the morning as the women go to" work. Many of tbem had no breakfast except the crumbs that were left over from the night before or the crumbs they chew on their way thrv^h the street. Here they come! The working girls of the cities. These engaged in bead work, +V>Aca i-n flnwoi* Tratinff in milllTtPrtf LUW0W AU MVITVi j in paper box making; but, most overworked of all and least compensated, the sewing women. Why do they not take the city cars on their way up? They cannot afford the 5 cents. If, oncluding to deny herself something i-c. she gets into the car, give her a seat. You want to see how Latimer and Ridley appeared in the fire. Look at that woman and behold a more horrible martyrdom, a hotter fire, a more agonizing death. Ask that woman how much she gets for her work, and she will tell you 6 cents for making coarse shirts and finds her own thread. Years ago, one Sabbath night in the vestibule of onr church, after service, a woman fell in convulsions. The doc tor said she needed medicine not so much as something to eat. As she began to revive in her delirium she said graspingly: "Eight cents! Eight cents! I wish I could get it done. I am so tired. I wish I could get some " sleep, but \ must get it done. Eight cents! JSight cents!" We found afterward that,she was making garments for 8 cents 'apiece and that she could make but three of them in a day. Hear it! Three times eight are 24. Hear it, men and women who have comfortable homes! Some of the worst villains of our cities are the employers of these women. They beat them down to the last penny and try to cheat them out of that. The woman must deposit a dollar or two before she gets the garments to work on. When the work is done, it is sharply inspected, the most insignificant flaws picked out and the wages refused and sometimes the dollar deposited not given back. How are these evils to be eradicated? Some say, "Give woman the ballot." What effect such ballot might have on other questions I am not here to discuss, but what would be the effect of female suffrage on women's wages? I do not believe that woman will ever get justice by woman's ballot. Indeed women oppress women as much as men do. Do not women, as much as men, beat down to the lowest figure the woman who sews for them? Are not women as sharp as men on washerwomen and milliners ani mantua makers. If a woman asks $1 for her work, does not her female employer ask her if she will not take 90 cents? You say, "Only 10 cents difference." But that is sometimes the difference between heaven and hell. Women often have less commiseration for wemen than men. If a womai steps aside from the path of rectitude, man may forgive; woman neverl Woman will never get justice done her from woman's ballot. Neither will she get it from man's ballot. How then? God will rise up for her. God has more resources than we know oi. The flaming sword that hung at Eden's gate when woman was driven out will cleave with its terrible edge of her oppressors. But there.is something for women to do. Let young people prepare to excel j in spheres of work, and they will be j >. - , - .>1. . " - fr?- ' - r. V - ^ able after awhile to get larger wages. Unskilled and incompetent labor must take what ia given; skilled and cornj petent labor will eventually make its ! own standard. Admitting that the I law of supply and demand regulates j tkes^things, I contend that the de| mand for skilled labor is very great and the supply very small, biart witn tne idea that work is honorable and that you can do some one thing better than anybody else. Kjsolve that. God helping, you will take care of yourself, if you are after awhile called into another relation, you will be all the better qualified for it by your spirit of self reliance or if you are cilled to stay as yoa are you can be happy and self supporting. Poets are fond of talking about man as an oak and woman the vine that climbs it, but I have seen many a tree fall that not only went down itself, but took ali the viues with it. I can tell you of something stronger than an oak for an ivy to climb on. and-that is the throne of the great Jehovah. Single or affianced, that woman is strong wno leans on God aad does ner best. Many of you will go siogle handed through life, and you will have to choose between two characters. Young woman I am sure you wijLLljarn your back upon the useless, giggling, irresponsible nonentity which society igoominiously acknowledges to be be a woman aad ask God to make you a humble, active, earnest Christian. What will become of that womanly disciple of the world? She is more thoughtful of.the attitude she strikes upon the carpet than how she will look in the judgment; more worried about her frecklcs than her sins; more interested in her apparel than in her redemption. The dying actress whose life had been vicious said: "The scene closes. Draw the curtain.^ Generally the tragedy comes , first and the farce afterward, but in her life it was first the farce of a use, less life and then the tragedy of a wretched eternity. Compare the life and death of such a , one with that of some Christian aunt . that was once a blessing to your house, hold. I do not know that she was ever asked to hive her hand in marriage. She lived single, that, untrammeled, . she might be everybody's blessing. Whenever the sick were to be visited orthapoorto be provided with bread she went with a blessing. She could pray or sing ''Rock of Ages" for any . sick pauper who asked her. As she got older there were days when she was a little sharp, but for the most part auntie was a sunbeam, just the one for Christmas eve. She knew better than any one else how to fix thiogs. Ser every prayer, as God heard it, was i full of everybody who ftaa trouoie. The brightest things in all-the house dropped from her fingers. She had pe' euliar notions, but the grandest notion 1 she ever had was to make you happy. , She dressed well?auntie always dress| ed well?but her highest adornment was that of a meek and quiet spirit, . which, in-the sight of God, is of great , price. When she died, you all gather \ ed lovingly about her, and as you car. ried her out Jo rest the Sunday school class almost covered her coffia with s aDonicas, and the poor people stood at the end of the alley, with their aprons > to their eyes, sobbing bitterly, and the | man of the world said, with Solomon, , "Her price was above rubies," and J Jesus, as unto the maiden in Judfja, , commanded, ''Isay unto thee, arisel" j LOST TEN THOUSAND AT CARDS, ' The Son of Montana's Millionaire Senator a Gay Sport. The Washington correspondent ot tne ' Augusta Chronicle says: Nothing could more clearly illustrate certain J phases of Washington life as it goes on ' in the in side circles than :i little inci" dent which occurred the other night and is now the subject of discussion in 1 quiet quarters. It will be readily re> membered, of course, that the one subject which has engaged the greatest 1 amount of attention here duriog the 1 past few weeks?with the exception of r the Puerto Rican tariff bill?is the con1 test of Senator Clark, of Montana to retain his seat in the upper house in defiance of all the machinations which his old rival Marcus Daley, can bring ' to bear. Clark's income is fabulous, and he has a son who is doing everything in his power to reduce it witnin reasonable limits. The other night youDg Clark steered up against Representative DeGraffenreid, of the. lone that a quiet little game of poker would be the proper caper. Clark was game and in for ihe game. It was a matter of only a few moments to stir up a few friendly and congenial spirits. About the handiest was Harry Vansenden, who used to be the private secretary of lion. John Gr. Carlisle, of Kentucky. Vansenden is now one of the "men about town" and a very dashiDg fellow whose means of support are more or less invisible. A few other friends dropped in and before long the little quiet game was progressing with a spe^d which made the hair of even the affluent Mr Clark curl with more than ordinary crimpioess. It seemed to be somewhat inexplicable that every time the deal went round the scion of the Montana senator caught, not a bad hand by any means, but oce which his associates could just cover after having made the betting exceedingly lively. Charley, of the house of Clark, wanted to oe a sport, and he was game to the last, but when tht game borkc up after siting of over five hours the said Charley found out that he was just $10,000 to the bad, -the Associated Pres3 didn'tsend out the story. Thfc local papers didn't print the story, but it is a fact, just the same, that the son of the muchly-sil .3 i.? verea senator zrurn 1'iuuutua w?s uut only fleeced of a fortune, but was restrained from squealing because ho realized that it would jeopardize the chances of his distinguished father in his bittlefor a seat in the most august deliberative body on earth. Such are the inside chapters of Washington life, of which the outside world rarely ever hears. Bhode Island Democrats. The Rhode Island Democratic State convention met at Providence Thursday for the nomination of State officers and the selection of delegates to the Democratic national convention. jNa than W. LittleSeld wai nominated for governor. The platform adopted &a>& in part: 'Wo people should be annexed by the United States against their will and however willing to come no people should bo admitted exceDt to equal rights. A republic cannot afford to have a subject population. The constitution must always follow the flag ?a government of law and not of men. ''When a corporation possesses the power to arbitrarily raise prices or depress wages it is in effect a trust. Every such trust existing in the United States should be controlled by nationai legislation and when based upon a monopoly its special privilege 3hould be abolished." The Chicago platform is endorsed | and reaffirmed. passes" the sfjate i The Porto Ricans Will Get Their Money Back. .. SENATOR TILLMAN SPEAKS. He Advocates the Quick Passage of the Relief Measure and Jabs ' Republicans. Compliments McKinley. The Porto Rican appropriation bill wa3 passed by the United States Senate Friday. The bill provides that the sum of $2,095,455, being the amount of customs revenue received on importations by the United States from Puerto Rico since the evacuation of Puerto Rico by the Spanish forces on the 18ih of October, 1898, to the 1st of January, 1900, shall be placed at the disposal of the president, to be used for the government now existing and which may hereafter be established in Puorto Rico, and for public education, public works, and other governmental and public purposes therein. In discussing the bill Senator Tillman made a good speech. Mr. Tillman said there was evidently so much division among the Republicans that it appeared doubtful to him whether they would be able to enact any Puerto Rican legislation at all. He said it looked as if the Republican party had reached the end of the rope and that its Ia3t hope now was to contend 'that congiess was without limitations in the government of, or in legislating for acquired territory. Referring to the difference between the government's treatment of Hawaii and Puerto Ric) as to the admission of their respective products Mr. Tillman said: '"Senators owed it to themselves not to show such discrimination on the one hand and such outrage on the other." He was going to vote for the pending bill, he said, becauso the enactment of the measure into law was the only way to restore to the people of Puerto Rico taxes taken from them wrongfully and unconstitutionally. '"The Uoited States has not given the people of Puer rtHicoa cent and it is high time," ..wl hA ''thai, wo crivp hsot tn thpni uoney we have stolen from them." ^Ir. Tillman declared that the government established now in Puerto Rico *as worse than that forced upon the people by Spain, particularly as to the island's fiscal affairs, as, under Spanish rule the Puerto Ricans had at least a free market in Spain for their goods. This assertion Mr. G-allinger disputed, calling Mr. Tillman's attention to the fact that Spain levied a duty jpon Puerto Rican products, especially coffee, which constituted four-5fth3 of ihe export product of the island. Mr. Tillman read extracts from Gen. Davis1 report stopping ia the midst of the reading to exclaim, "iet's cast this legislation like honest white men; let's not have any namby pambyism and hypocritical philanthropy aboutit That is all I am trying to get senators to agree to now. There will be no trouble about the main question. That will either be adjusted by congress before aojournment or it will bd adjusted by the peo pie next November and don't you forget it." He thought the way to help the people of Puerto Rico to get on their feet was to give them a market through the meaDS of free trade with the United States. If a public soup house was started men who might earn their living with a hoe, or an axe, would sit down and wait for the soup to be handed around. The result would be to cut off the very labor necessary to rehabilitate the island as it should be rehabilitated'. Mr. Tillman favored a civil government for the island, and criticised the expenditures under the present military system as expensive. "There is no sense, no justice and no honesty," he said, "in having those poor devils robbed simply because they , have come under our dominion." He thought the Republican party was in a dilemma, but thought it would come out all right. "You are the best organized party I ever saw," he said, "and no matter how you talk, I've' no doubt you'll all round up on the vote." Mr. Tillman referred to what he said would be the monumental salaries of the officials'of the insular possessions, particularly noting the members of the Philippine commission. Mr. Foraker informed Mr. Tillman that he had been .-lJ . L _ t il. I.: ? j LU1U lliai LUC Ul^llCSb 3<\iaiy Ul AUJ wriuber of the commission would be $10 000 a year. "That may be disapi?oiutiug to the senator," suggested Mr. Forakcr ".No," replied Mr. Tillman. "I'm gratified. I'm always willing to trust William McKinley, but it's his bad and wicked partners that I'm afraid of. He is a patriotic and noble man, although just now he maybe carried ofi his feet by the dream of appearing in history alon^sde of Jefferson and others who added largely to our territory." In conclusion he iu-s"!jeht congress to take its hands from the ihroatof the Puerto Bicans and give them a charice to govern themselves even if we had to guide them a little at first. Mr. . Allison then asked for a vote upon the bill and amendments aod the request was acceded to. Mr. Tillman urged Mr. Jones and Mr. Pelt us to mi U/J ATMAM/^ rn AT%fa TTT ki nVl f k Att k.t/) wiCiiULavy diiiL'iJuuicubo nmiu imcj ua^i offered in order that the measure might be passed without delay and just as it came from the senate committee. Mr. Jones withdrew his amendment, but >Ir. Pettus insisted upon a vote on his amendments, which, in effect, were the making of a direct appropriation for the relief of the Puerto Kicans without any reference to the tariff or customs dues collected. The amendments were defeated. The bill as reported by the senate committee was then passed without division, only a few scattering "noes" being heard against it. A Sad Suicide. A letter from Etta J&nc to the Spartanburg Herald says: "Willie T. Foster committed suicide near this place la?t Sat ur-lay about 3:30 o'clock by shining !>iui:>elf through the head with a breech loading shot gun. For some time he had been in ill health, both in body and mind, but it was not thought that he was contemplating self destruction until the fatal deed was accomplished. He was about twenty five or twenty-six years of age asd of a quiet disppsition and well thought of by everybodody. Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 8, 1899. Pitts' Antiseptic Invigorator in my family and am perfectly that it is all, and will do all, yon claim for it. Yours truly, A. B. C. Dorsey. P. S.?I am using it now myself. It's doing me good. Sold by The Murray Drug Co., Columbia, S. C., and all druggists. v tf.. * * NOT MUCH OF AN EATER ] He Ate Bat Little, But Yon Ought To See the Welsh Eat. t CaDtain B. "W. Morgan, every Inch a Welshman himself, likes to tell thlj story when there is another Welshman in hearing, says the Pittsburg News. He went home to dinner one day and found a paperhanger at work in tha house. He asked the time, and Captain Morgan told him it was noon. < "I gues3 I'll knock off and go home to dinner then," the paperhanger remarked. "Stay and eat with us," the captain taid, and the invitation waa accepted. Captain Morgan was attentive to his guest during the meal. He had a prodigious appetite. The captain helped him to roast beef several times, until * at last he had some curiosity to see t Just how much the fellow would eat ]( without crying enough. The game waa growing quite interesting when the fellow began to show signs of quitting. c "Will you have some of the plum pudding?" the captain asked him to v revive his failing appetite. j "M/\ thanks " ha renlied. "I've had , enough, I think." "Oh, take a small piece or the pudding," the captain urged; "it's genuine c English plum-pudding, and homemada at that" r "Well, I don't mind trying it," he * said. c The cap*din helped him to a section of the pudding weighing about a pound J and he a e it with much relish- Then ? he shoves his chair away from the ta- c ble and leaned back for an after-dinner J chat. c "I'm not much of an eater," he said, c not noticing the smile on the captain's { face; "It takes very little to satisfy . me. Say, you ought to see the Welsh , eat" "Are they hearty eaters?" asked the 1 captain. i "Hearty eaters?" repeated the fellow. "Say, they eat like a lot of , hogs." . , The Japanese Woman. ( The chief duty of a Japanese woman . all her life is obedience; while unmar- j ried, to her parents; when married, to ' her husband and his parents; when widowed, to her son. In the "Greater ( Learning of Women" we read: '< "A woman should look upon her husband as if he were Heaven itself, < and thus escape celestial punishment "The five worst maladies that afflict . the female mind are: Indocilit7, discontent, slander, jealousy and silliness. Without any doubt these five maladies afflict seven or eight out of ' every ten women, and from them i arises the Inferiority of women to men. j A woman should cure them by self-in- , spection and self-reproach. The worst | of them all, and the parent of the oth er four, is silliness!" The above extract shows us very clearly the position which women have, 1 until quite recently, taken in Japan. As a German writer says, her condition is the intermediate link between the European and the Asiatic. On the one hand, Japanese women are subjected to 110 seclusion, and are as carefully educated as the men, and take their place in society; but, on the other hand, they have , absolutely no inde- 1 pendence, and are in complete subjection to their husbands, sons and other relations. They are without legal rights, and under no circumstances can a wife obtain a divorce or separation from her husband, however great his offense. Notwithstanding this, in no country does one find a higher standard of morality than among the mar. > ried women of Japan. Faithlessness Is practically unknown, although th? , poor little wives must often have much to put up with from their autocratic , lords and masters. They bear all, how- ' ever, silently and uncomplainingly, ' their characteristic pride and reserve 1 forbidding them to show to the outer i world what they suffer. We Europeans might well in many respects imitate, ; and have still much to learn from our little cousins in the Far East?Corn- , qui Magazine. The Keeley Cure Inventor. Dr. Leslie E. Keeley, the inventor { of the Keeley cure for drunkenness, who died in California the other day, ? was a native of New York State. His 1 youth was spent in Michigan, whence 1 he came to Chicago- to attend Rush 1 Medical College. He graduated iD 1861 and then enlisted in the United ( States army as surgeon during the civil war. Late in 1866 he moved to Dwight, ( 111., where for thirteen years he pur- j sued a lucrative medical practice. ' , Early in his career as physician he con- * ceived the idea that inebriety was a , disease of nervou3 origin and was cifra- 4 ble. For several years he worked on this theory, and eventually began a ' system of treatment on patients at Dwight with the "double chloride -of ' gold and sodium.". At his institute he treated people suffering from the drink, I cocaine, cigarette and other habits. v Of his patients some 17,000 were phy- 1 sicians. It is estimated that about 4 I per cent, return to drink. The system consists of four week's treatment of hypodcrmic injections of the gold cure jgiven four times daily, together with a f tonic which is taken from time to time. 1 A Keeley League was formed of the 4k 3. _ ^ . _ * _i_ _t_ a.1 n graduates 01 tne cure, or wmcn mere ? were more than 30,000 members. The Keeley treatment is administered at the * 'Keeley Institute, Columbia, S. C. i I A Tolbert in a New Role. n A dispatch from Seneca to the Green- ii vilie News sajs the negroes there are angry after hearing the testimony in the trial of George W. Tolbert, postmaster, for tryieg to slay James Wat- J, son, colored, for accosting him about y the retention of mail Lt -is claimed p by some eje witnesses that Tolbert. r( came out of the postoffice with a large a club, followed Watson iato the street. rj chased him and beat him .with the club j( until be had fallen exhausted, and r) with an oath said: "Get up, d?nyou." Q TolU ri. claims that he has more money to spend on beating "Niggers.\ The ~ Negroes are planning an early date to j hold an indignation meeting, claiming f that many Democratic postmasters f would have treated them with more A consideration. The Republican county \ convention at Walhalla also denounced ? him in bitter terms as being incompe- f tent and unfit for the position, and will ^ ask the government to give them a man 1 who will treat all citizens alike. Mr. f Tolbert is from Abbeville county. y Murray's Hore- ! -a -a r ii 9 hound, Mullein i and Tar, for j coughs, colds, J La Grippe. A \ sure remedy, j Price 25 cents, j All Druggists. ^ THE MURRAY DRUG CO., j COLUMBIA, S. C. I / DEFEAT PREDICTED. I )emccrats and Republicans Says McKinley Has Lost Ground ________ t HE VACCILATES TO MUCH. Senators Beveridge, Hanna and Davis of the Republican Party Sounds Warning to Their Party. The New York Herald publishes inerviews with senators and representaives on the Porto Rican bill as folows: Senator Spooner, Republican of Wis:Ossin, said: "Whatever is done with the question Fill not serve to alter the result next November. Mr. McKinley will be retominated and re-electcd." Representative Richardson, Demoirat of Tennessee, said: "The great change of political eentinent that has swept over the country mhin the last few months is largely lue to the vacillating policy of the resident; and to the action of the Rejublicans in congress. It is, in my )pinioD, a practically sure indication of democratic victory next fall. That a sbange has taken place there is no loubt. The attitude of that party oward Porto Rico has been severely ebuked by men of every political beioF Tn q nr/ir/l flio KarmKli/?ona Viatre ?Vi* AM n-viMj uu< v est ground and the Democrats have jained ground." Representative Clayton, Democrat of ilabama, said: "I think the American people have created the Porto Ricans shamefully in iealing with them. I think that the jugar trusts have influenced the Repubican party. 1 believe now .^hat no natter what the Republican party may io its past action will go strongly igainst it in the coming elections." Senator Clay, Democratof Georgia, said: "I think that the majority of the people of ihe United States are in favor >f treating Porto Rico as a part of the CJnited States; that they are in favor of free trade between the United States md that island. I think that whatever iction may be taken it will now couBt igainst the Republicans and aid the Democrats. It will certainly help the Democratic party at the pohs." Representative Brundidge, Democrat of Arkansas: 'In my judgement the Democrats will win a most signal victory in the next presidental election and the recent backdown of President MeKinley on ihe Porto Rican question will very greatly aid in bringing about this result. It seems that the time has arrived whpn the administratinri pan not trust the people aod the people will not.trust the administration." Senator Shoupe, Republican of Idaho: "The president's attitude on the Porto Rican question will not lessen his chances of eleetion. He will be reelected." Representative Pierce, Republican, of Missouri: "The Porto Rican question wiil not act as the bomb that many Democrats think it will. The constitution did: oot follow the flag when slavery was the issue and it does not now/' Representative Bull, Republican of Rhode Island: "The Porto Rican question, Dor any phase of it, will have any effect to reduce the majority the Republican ticket will have in the coming election." Ti j i? n n if* -Representative v;apron, j.iepuDiican )f Rhode Island: "I believe that a complete understanding by the people will justify the president and the hou3e and will sorve :o add and not detract from the popular rote next election." Representative McCulloch, Democrat )f Aikansas: "The Porto Rican legislation thus far carried out is a blot on the admicistra.ion that cannot be wiped away. Mr. VlcKinley'a policy ought to and will de"eat the .party that supports it." Representative Robb, Republican of Missouri: "I don't think the Porto Rican legisofiAn 1 IAOCAT) lYf1VTnTrtnl<iT?'a trnfa " auvu >7111 IvOOvU 4AXA* B TVbV* Senator Beveridge, Repbulican of Indiana: "If we do not give free trade to Porto iico, Indiana and other stsifs of the rest will be lost to the Republican pary in the coming . presidential cam>aign." * , Senator Hanna, Republican of Ohio: "If we establish absolute free trade >etween the United States and Porto lico, we will lose every vote of organzed labor." Senator Davis, Republican of Hinlesota: "Unless we treat the Porto Ricans ,s citizens and give them free trade, must say here and now that Mckinley will lose Minnesota and the iorthwest. The Republican sentiment 3 running that way." - The Cuban Way. Svidently Cuba has not been entiref Americanized. Here is the way ecretary of War Root spent Sunday in lavana: The morning was devoted to gceiving the heads of various departlents of the government and confering with them, and at General Ludjw's residence at night there was a aimnfin-n trifTi ^^n/?incr trirlonflV tVin luban Sunday needs reform. | WOOD'S HIGH GRADE | Fan Seeds, Our business in Farm Seeds id x to-day one of the largest in this 0 1 Country. A result due to the fact ^ that quality has always, been our i first consideration. Wa supply a , all Seeds required for the Farm. 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