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il ' -1 . ? f 1... n The Abbeville Press and Banner.! BY W. W. & W. R. BRADLEY. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1904. ESTABLISHED 1844? WEST END. Happening and Incident)* of a Weeh Abont the City. June Ctb, 1601. Mrs. Willie K. Douglas and Miss Anna Marshall were Id the city last week tbe guests of Mrs. TempletOD. Mrs. Douglas and Miss Marshall are teachers at the Due West Female College. Mrs. Madge Caldwell came up from Columbia last Tuesday and was the guest of her I netce, Mrs. P. B.' Wells. BOOK CLUB. The Book Club met last Thursday aflernoon with Miss Male Robertson. After the program for the afternoon was carried out, delightful refreshments were served. A number of visitors were present at the meeting. Miss Eliza Mabry came home from Win throp on Wednesday to spend the summer months. Mrs. P. A. Sellers returned Friday from a ten days vit.lt to friends in Atlanta. Miss Rosa Maxwell will attend tbe Federation of Women's Clubs In Newberry next weak. Miss Maxwell Is a thorough club woman and will reflect credit upon the Book Clob. Miss Helen Smith Is home from Converse College to spend tbe summer months. Miss Annie Hawtborne of Latimer has been In the city lor the past week tbe guest of Mrs. Blake. Miss Marie Cheatham is home from Chlcora College where she graduated. Miss Cheatham Is a flue student and has made & good record In her classes. Mrs. W. D. Barksdale is In Greenwood spending sometime with her mother, Mrs. Durst. Miss Mary Means Cochran left last week for her home near tbe otty. Miss Cochran has oompleted her engagement with the firm ol ? Parker A Greene. Mr. Mc. Henry oame home from Clemson last Friday on business. Mrs. A. B. Cheatham returned Saturday from Limestone College where she bad been tr\ QttonM mmmonopmpnt. PierfilBfiS. ' Miss Annie White who has been teaohlDg a large school In the County, U at home for the summer. Miss Nettie Branson left Saturday for Chappels where she will visit Mrs. Edith R. Holloway for a few days. Miss Brunson will return to Abbeville and snend a few days before leaving for her home In Orangeburg Her friends here regret that she will leave Abbeville. Mrs. John ?. Bradley is in the city spending a while with her daughter, Mrs. J. C. Klugh. Miss Sara Henry came borne from Limestone Saturday. Mr. J. M. Wilkerson has completed his bouse above Mrs. Thompson's and has moved. The bouse Is convenient and roomy and In a very few months they will bavt> beautiful grounds,adding much to the place. Miss Hattle Brogtien of Richmond, Va., is here spending awhile with her uncle, Mr. E. C. Hicks Miss Brogden has been teaching in Tifmn. fla.. for the Dast vear and will re turn therein the fall. * AWARDING CROSSES. Friday morning, Jane the third, Crosses of Honor were awarded by the Daughters of the Abbeville Chapter to a number ofConfederate veterans, in the Court House. The Daughters were present and an interesting program was arranged. The exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. W Ilk Ins. Mr. T. P. Quar les arose and with a few appropriate remarks presented Gen. R. R. Hemphill, the speaker of the day. Gen. Hemphill spoke Interesting* if nnnn s na.tiKa that lies near his heart, oav log beautiful tribute to tbe privates 'who wore tbe gray. Tbe Crosses of Honor were given after tbe reading of tbe rales governing tbelr distribution. Miss Mary Hufiman of North Carolina Is bere visiting Miss Emma C. Wblte. Mibs Hoffman teaches at Converse College. Mr. and Mrs. James Lawson bave moved Into tbe house recently occupied by Mr. Will Fereuraon. Misa Eugenia C. Dameron and Miss Minnie Dameron of Jackson, Miss., are in tbe city, tbe guests of tbe Misses Cater. These young ladies have been attending Erskine College. MIbs Dameron has Just completed a four years course at that school. MIbs Lillian Gambrell Is at home from Denmark where she has been teaching for tbe past year. \ Miss Isabel EvanB was in the city several days last week. Mr. Will Barnwell was in Atlanta last week on business. Miss Ellse Long is at home from Converse College. Mrs. L. H. Rnssel has returned from Coin umbia where she spent some time with relatives. Mr. B. B. Allen of Lowndesvllle was In town Saturday. MIsb Helen White is home from Converse College. Judge J. C. Klugb bas gone to Orangeburg S to hold court. Mr. John Harden has returned from Mo ' bile where be bas been to attend tbe General Asse mbly 01 the Presbyterian cburcb. _ Miss Emma C. Wblte is at home from Spartanburg wnere sne Das oeen leacmngin the Converse street school. Miss Lioulse P. DeBrubl bus completed her four years course at the Methodist College Id Columbia and Is at borne to upend the summer. Miss Rosa Wilson was in Warrenton part of last week the guest of her slHter, Mrs. S. A. Allen. Miss Ethel Mills and Miss Mary MauldlD have returned to Greenville alter spending some time here as the guests of Miss Lee. Dr G. A. Neuffer went to Atlanta list week on business. Miss Marie Gary leaves Thursday ior Naw| berey where she will visit iriends lor a few days then go to Florence to attend the marriage 01 her iriend Miss Lucy Evaos. Mrs. Ellen Parker Norwood of Greenville, has oeen lu the city for the past lew days the guest of Miss Parker. ' Miss Mary Hill has goDe to Due West to i spend Commencement week with Miss Marj Galloway. Mr. Wallace Harris is at home from the ; Citadel. Mrs. J. C. Klugh basgona to Due West for the week. fp Dr. C. C. Gsmbrell was In Atlanta last week for a day or two. !.;i Mrs. H. V. Godbold left last Friday for New York after spending some time here with her Bisters Mrs. J. W. Thompson and Mrs. James Bowie. t Mr. Barksdale spent Sunday in Greenwood. S Mrs. Frank B. Gary and Master Frank Gary have gone to Florence lor an extended j visit. Mrs. B. B. Sams of Edlsto Island is '?tere spending a while with her son, Kev. W. B. Sams. fr. Miss Blanch Gary is at home from the College lor Women in Columbia. A Miss Nettie Hammond Is at borne from Atlanta where she has been visiting friends. r;on ft R Homnhlll ?/-v Tlnu Wao? 5 Tuesday. It was bis very pleasant privilege to present Ersklne College with an oil palntV lng of the late Dr William M. Grler, painted and given by Mr. William E. Hill. til Mrs. Andrew Lyon of Augusta Is In tbe city spending a few days wltb Mrs. J. H. McDlll. i Miss Belle Vlsanska went to Atlanta on Sunday. Vr Ml88 Ethel Nance of Monterey, spent last p| week here the guest of Mrs. Rlngan Thomp? son. Mrs. S. A. Allen was In the city part of last week staying with her sister Mrs. H. M. Wilson. Miss Wlnton Taggart has been quite sick fe for the past two weeks. Her friends hope for her a speedy recovery. The youngfst child of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. McDlll has been quite Blck but Is much (A better. Miss Lucy Henry has gone to Clemson to $1 attend the Commencement. Mr. Perrln Quarles was In Wlnsboro several days last week. V* Mr. Chalmers Hughes spent several days here last week. He Is working for the Southern and Is doing well. >*' Miss Wlnton Parks Is In Chester vlBlting iAliBB wuners. one win go to mcnmona va. and spend some lime with Mrs. Pemberton. Mr. John F. Livingston of Columbia was In town Monday. MIsb Mattle Barksdale come home from Limestone College, Saturday. Miss Barksdale was graduated from this college on Thursday, clark allen chapter. The Clark alien chapter of the Daughters ol the Cohfederacy held their regular monthly meeting Monday afternoon at the home ol the Ml*6 Gary, at this meeting it was decided to serve cream and cake. Thursday afternoon at six oolock on Mrs. Starkes' lawn This Is a central place and every one 1b invited to attend. Miss Grace Hmith has been elected Sponsot by the Sons of Veterans to the reunion lc Nashville. MIbb Smith will go to Greenville and join a party there and go to NashvlUt In a private car. Sunday night the meeting that h?d beet in progress In the Presbyterian church for tb< pant week olofied, Rev. A. G.'.McLeeH and Rev Frank Ward law. conducted the meeting. Services were held morning and evening and all of the services were well attended. LOWNDESVILLE. # XewH from (lie Seven Hill City rn Related by an Interesting: Writer. Lowndesville, June6tb, 1904. Our severe droutb was broken, yesterday a week ago, by a good rain, another Monday and another Tuesday, which made our people all feel good, and all vegetation, from lt? looks, bas fell good tor, and has since been "flourishing like a great bay tree." On Tuesday an effort was made by those ot)posed to the special school tax, in this district to have it abolished, by having before called for, and getting on tbat d?y, an election. The score, when the polls closed, was 52 to 11 in favor of the tax. Our High School has been quitesucessful under ibis new departure, and as this is the third election and as each time the pros have been In a creditable majority, aad the last time the biggest majority yet which proved conclusively.that the system is growing lQ favor, that this ends the matter, until a batter educational scheme is desired. Mr. Frnest Allen went to Anderson C. H. on Wednesday. Mr. P. C. Sober of Diamond Hill was over hereon business Wednesday. Mr. J. L. Jones went to Augusta on Thursday, and the next day went to Ridge Spring, Hia / *! ! hrtmp rn vlttlt his loved ones. Rev. R- W. Barber went over to Spartan burg Saturday to attend tbe coming commencement In Wofford College. Tbls Is tbe fiftieth one Bin ? tbe organization of that celebrated Institution of learning. Tbe venerable Dr. J. H. Carille has been connected In some way with tbe college since It was founded, was for tbe greater part of tbe balf century Its honored Pre-udeat. be was and still Is devoted to Its interests, several times be refused a mucb larger salary tban was given bim tbere, but sucb was no temptation to blm, be preferring to remain with bis beloved Wofford. Tbls course upon bis part, was unusual, as a different course would bave been more in accord with tbe dictates, or ratber rullug of buman nature. In sucb as In otber cases, money seems to be tbe ruling power. Miss Qussle Cunningham who bas been in Cbicora College lor two years, graduated and came bome last week. Mr. P. P. Benson of Little River, who spent several years in the land of flowers, returned sometime ago, to bis former Abbeville County home was In our town Thursday. Mr. WlllGlbertofMonterey was up on business Thursday. Mr. W.A. Templeton of Abbeville C. H., was registered at tbe Moseley House Thursday night. Mr. J. F. Barnes dfEiberton, came In Saturday to spend a day or two. Mr. Roscoe Horton who has attended FurI man University during the Just ended term came borne Saturday to spend bla vacation. Mr. Earle McC&lia and bis sister Miss Annie McCalla of Mlddleton Georgia, were over yesterday and attended services In the Methodist cburcb at 11 a. m. Miss Leona B.ake who has just ended a Western trip came here a day or two ago, and will remain wltb ber staler Mrs. H. A. Tennant and other relatives and friends for sometime. MUs Sallle Wharton of Iva, being on a visit to tbe family of ber brother In law Mr Jeff Bowman was In our town yesterday and tbe day before. It Is ? source of regret to the writer that be failed to speak of tbe deatb and burial of lhe little child of Mr. Jas. T. ?askln. He, tbe undersigned, was away from home at tbe time of tbe sad occurence, which acoouts for tbe omission. The remains of tbe little one wine laid to rest In this place in Providence cemetery tbe week belore last. We sympathise with tbe afflicted parents In this sore bereavement. Dr. J. R. Bingham, Pastor of tbe 1st Methodist church of Elberton Georgia came In yestesday mornlg, by tbe dirt, road, and de II VCIOU IUC WUJtUCUViOUIQUII QV> UiVU VI VUI High School, Id tbe Methodist church In this place. In honor of the occasion, as tbe other denomlnatloos were equally interested In Its success, there were no publlo'forenoon servloes In eiiner tbe Baptist or Presbyterian churches, and ihe services at the Metbodlst churob were attended by all, and gave to Dr. Bingham a large number of attentive and Interested hearers, and there being quite a number from a distance tbe commodious cburcb was filled to overflowing, a good many not belug able to get inside the church. Dr. Bingham took lor bis text, 24th verse of tbe 10th chapter of Hebrews, "And let as consider one another to provoke unto love and to works." He bandied his subject In an entertaining and Instructive way, and all were well pleased. He was assisted In the servloes by Dr. J. A. Brown of the Baptist 'church. A very sad accident occurred Dear here Saturday evening. Mr. Wheeler Loftls, who had been plowing started home; after mounting bis mule in taking up his gun, the hammer caught ugon a root tbe gun was discharged the contents tore his left hand on KuHlt) thot r?r T Wllcnn whn war called In, thought It necesary to amputate It which was done by him, cutting It off Just above the wrist. The time honored Press and Banner, and its ownership have severed connection, we of tbejold Issue, had well nigh concluded that tney were one and Indivisible, but It was not so to be. Troupe. ConffreRHmnn Aiken's Good Works. Greenville Daily Herald. The action of Congressman Wyatt Aiken in securing from the postoflice department authorities a mail service on train 2fo. II, is deeply appreciated by the people of Greenville and of other cities between Charlotte and Atlanta. The service was discontinued several years ago, and it is indeed good news to know that it will be put on again July 1. Congressman Aiken is one of the hardest worked men in Washington, but he never loses an opportunity to serve his constituency?and a good point about bis work is tbat when be takes hold of a proposition he never turn" loose till he accomplishes what he set out to do. ?? ? Dend Bcalt will be Ashfimed. News and Views. If you want to borrow money from a candidate you must travel some to make the application face to face. Those dear fellows whom many worthless but qualified voters seek to rob by borrowing a little change will not be so convenient to approach this year as no county-to-county canvass is required in this campaign. There was a good deal of pith in the answer of an humble servant maid who when applying for admission to the church was asked by pastor what evidence she had of her conversion? Her reply was "well?one thing, i sweep now under the rugs and door mats." Ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt have lost it savor, wherewith shall it be salted? Ye are the light of the world. Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good work and glorify your Father wno is in Heaven. THAT TIRED FEELING! If you are languid, depressed and Incapable for work, It Indicates that your liver 1b out of order. Uerblne w111 assist nature to throw off headaches, rheumatism and ailments akin to nerveousDess add restore the energies and . vitality of sound and perfect health. J. J. Hubbard, Temple, Texas, writes, March 22, , 1902: "I have used Herblne for the past two > years. It has done me more good than all the dootors. When I feel bad and have tbat tired . feeling, I take a dose of Herblne. It Is the , best medicine ever made for chills and fever." 50cts a bottle. Sold by 0. A. Mil lord. I . > 1 1 f. THE PRESENT COTTON CROP. Southern Cultivator. The financiers seem to be greatly troubled about the present cotton crop. As a consequence thereof, the farmers are getting a vast amount of gratuitous advice. All these different classes of men who are interested in the handling, manufacturing and consumption of cotton seem to be greatly interested in advising the farmers. Strange to say, they seem to feel themselves perfectly competent to advise them. But a little close observation shows that each one of them advises to the interests of the clasB to which he belongs and all of them to the injury of the farmer. The buying class naturally want cotton to sell cheap, as it gives them a better chance to speculate in prices. The manufacturing class want cotton to sell cheap, because it enables them to make larger margins of profit. The consumers want cotton to sell cheap, because it enables them to buy goods cheaper. Hence all of these unite in a hue and cry, urging the farmer to make every effort to- increase tne productio nor cotton. It is wonderful how much interest these parties seem to feel in the welfare of ludian, the Egyptian, the African, and the German, and fear that the American farmer, in looking after his own interests, will fail to look after the interests of all these other nations. They would greatly prefer to see the toiling Southern farmer straining bis credit and his strength in the effort to cultivate two or three millions of extra acres of cotton and producing two or three million extra bales and selling the entire output at 10 or 12 cents, and thereby making about nothing as clear profit, rather than see him with comparative ease and comfort to himself cultivate the usual amount and produce the usual 10,000,000 or 11,000.000 bales and sell It, as they claim, at 18 or 20 cents. Thev Beem to be utterlv oblivious of the fact that the $300,000,000 or $400,000,000 extra which the small crop would bring to the South and distribute among the farmers and through them would produce such a state of business activity and prosperity as was never known in the South before. In other words they ask every farmer to prefer to raise twelve bales of cotton to the horse and sell it at 10 cents, rather than produce ten bales and sell it at 18 cents. They do not seem to care what becomes of the farmer in all this great battle in the financial world. They brazenly ask him to forego his own interests, to work to his own iniurv. to nlant. Droduceand crather an extra large crop, simply and solely for the benefit of consumers, manufacturers and foreigners. This whole line of argument impresses us as supremely silly. We hope the Southern farmer will have more sense than to follow any such advice. We hope they will look to their own interest, and make every effort to produce only a medium crop of cotton. NOT TOO LATE YET. Although the cotton crop is about all planted, and the acreage, large or small, is now about a settled fact, yet it is not too late for the farmers to consider this question. It will pay to run a row every twelve feet directly across the cotton row and plant it in corn. By planting any of the early varieties, they can yet have time to make good corn planted in this way. Corn raised in this way will cost nothing except planting and gathering for it will be cultivated in cultivating the cotton. You can thus add ten or twelve bushels to the acre to the corn crop, and cut down the cotton crop very little. ANOTHER POINT. There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of all the above-named parties to depress the price of cotton. And they go so far as to persuade the farmer to sell his cotton now for delivery. This is a suicidal policy, and can result in injury to no one except the farmer. A few things seem to be practically certain. There is a poor stand of cotton except in parts of Texas. The long protracted winter, and the few warm nights that we have had have hindered the germination and growth of cotton generally. The acreage is not snfficiently Increased to overcome these injuries. There is no outlook at present for a " bumper crop !" But whether the crop be large or small, it is clearly to the farmer's interest to make his arrangements to sell slow next fall. Nothing can greatly depress the price, except a mad rush to sell. If the cotton be marketed slowly a good price willjbe sure to maintain throughout the entire season. There is a short supply on hand among the manufacturers, and they can not get on hand a full supply before December or January. Hence it is the interest in every way of the Southern cotton producer to prepare himself to market j his cotton slowly next fall. Do not suffer the cries of speculators to fright{ en you into a foolish act to your own undoing. Let futures severely alone, and sell the spots slowly, and you will insure a tide of prosperity such as the South has never seen. Take Jesus Christ as your partner and seek his guidance first in all things. RYDALES TONIC A Nov Scientific Discovery for the BLOOD and NERVES. It purifies the blood by eliminating the waste matter and oilier impurities and by destroying the genus or microbes that infest tlie blood. It builds up the blood by reconstructing and multiplying the red corpuscles, malting the blood rich and red It restores and stimulates the nerves, {,,n friiiwv nf nerve force i^ausnijj c. ..... throughout the entire nerve system. It speedily cures unstrung nerves, nervousness, nervous prostration, and all other diseases of the nervous system. RYDALES I ONIC is sold under a positive guarantee. Trial size 50 cents. Family size $1.00 MANUFACTURED BY The Radical Remedy Company, hickory, n. o. C. A. MILFORD. FOR SELF PRESERVATION, ; Yellow Peril Men Hit Bnek XXnrd At The White Peril. Tobio, end of April, 1904.?American sympathy is no more than our good right, for the United States are mainly responsible for the white periol confronting these islands. Up to the time when President Fillmore ordered us at the point of a hundred guns to open our ports to foreign commerce, we thought we had done once and for all with the outer world. But let us trace Japan's connection with the world of the white man from the beginning. In 1543 the first white men entered these islands, shipwrecked Portugese. They carried powder and rifles and relying upon these weapons, forced their trade upon us. They also brought us the Friars. The latter succeded in con verting a number of small princes, who in their turn coerced their subjects to embrace the new religion. Finally the Shogun, that is the actual ruler of the ancient empire, the Shogun himBelf became a Christain and instituted persecutions against the followers of Buddha. That unworthy .yellow man died in the year 1587: his successor was of adif ferent mind. Calling the monks to- ( gether he questions them as follows: "What right have you to preach religion, a purely spiritual and indivi- | dual matter, under pain of sufferings and death?" j " What right have you to make war ( on other religions and particularly ] their intepretora, our native priests,'' "What religion is that which enpowers its priests to steal men and carry j them across water as slaves?" , The monks failed to answer these j questions satisfactorily and the Shogun banished them from tne Japanese hem- j isphere forthwith. This, our first connection with the white man had lasted j forty years, and left a bad taste in the \ mouth. Six hundred thousand Japs , had been converted to Christianity, j and it was charged that many of them ( had conspired with the Spaniards, who at that time were masters in the Phil- , lipines, to turn Japan over to their rule. { The conspiracy led to the persecution r\f Tono* in 1 flOft P.hrlctiftll VTA VUHOViaU JU JL WW V"-* 1 <> v? v> worship was prohibited. There were , some martyrs and the Christian belief , was eradicated. Splendid Isolation. Then followed for Japan a period of splendid isolation. For nearly three hundred years our country remained hermetically closed against white influence. Only certain Ductb traders were allowed to visit our shores at stated intervals and at certain points. By these means the foreign world acquired our chief products: porcelain, bronzes, fans and lackered ware During the period when no foreigner's foot trod her shores, Japan was eminently prosperous. There was no more beautiful, no more fertile land undejrthe sun and no happier people. 'I'd 18 exceptional nutm uuuimueu uutil 1853, when President Fillmore sent Commodore Perry with a sauadron of four vessels to the mikado, demanding consent to the negotiation of a treaty of friendship and commerce between the two governments. The arrival of the Yankee sauadron precipitated a revolution ana after a show of force the American demauds had to be complied with. Immediately afterwards the white men began to overrun our harbor towns, creating bad feeling everywhere. After a few years, hatred of the foreigners had so increased, that a number of merchants were slain?just as Chinese and Italians are occasionally murdered in American cities today. Our punishment was swift and terrible. American, British and French men-of-war appeared in short order and began to bombard our defenceless cities. Palaces, pagodas, temples, piilarhalls, fh<? nrnndfiafc monuments of JaDaness architecture, were turnred to rubbish within a few hours. And to cap the climax, we had to pay seventy-five milionof franca indemnity. (Up to then, the yellow world owed not a copper to the white man.) It was the third lesson the Whites gave us?unasked by the way. And our wise men began arguing: Wonderful peoples, theue Americans and Europeans. A handful of them gathers within a few miles from our shores, wrecks our most precious monuments and works our architecture, kills yellow men by the hundreds?all without endangering the!;- own skin? and hands us a stunning bill. We must acquire the art of bombarding as a source of selfpreservatic.n." Accordingly we learned the language of cannons, and mastered other traits and vices of the white man. And while devouring foreign dishes, our appetite grew. We concluded that we must learn everything calculated to make whites superior to Japs in brute force?and I dare say we learned it. . We took over from the white man his political apparatus, his army and navy, bis economic and governmentsystems, his educational, industrial and agricultural methods, his commercial usages even. But mind, we never had the slightest desire to assimilate with the white man; our idea was to become hi9 equal in strengtn, w set up unaer his instruction, an impregnabledefencsive, no more, no less. At the same time we retained of our national civilization everything worth retainable, customs and ethics, our art, amusements, moral laws and religious 1 belief. Imitated PrnNsiauN and Frenchmen. Our constitution i9 framed after the Prussian pattern; it seemed the most promising to us, but our administration is French?we found that every European, not a Frenchman, envies the French plan, but when Field Marshal Yamagata returned from the FrancoGerman war, he persuaded the Mikado to adopt the Prussian system, drill and all. We continued investigating and adopting the best?hence our navy is constructed after the British plans. The United States furnished us with models for factories and macbinerv. Our banking system is American, so are our railways and trolley lines. Like the United Stetes we pay subsidies to shipping companies and hire out our Niagaras to the highest bidder. We adopted the American school system, and like the Yankees teach ] our boys plenty of mathematics, natual sciences, chemistry and mechanism, but little philosophy, Our colleges have great parks like those of America - - - and our college boys have occasion to ^,e practice the things taught them. sev What We Did Not Adopt. gra But we did not adopt American sky- seh 3crapers and French flats. Therein as eml in other things we regained superior full to our teacher. We retailed our small 0 bouses, the floors covered vith white mats, our scant furnishings, the little wh tables where pretty girls serve tea in diminutive cups. And we stuck to our aational dish?rice. Our high officials have rooms done in Western fashion to receive foreigners, but when the for- a jigners are gone, the yellow man hor quickly drops the swallow tail for his Om aational gown. All our social cere- con monies we retained, our ideas on fami- the ly life aud matrimony. To be always disl joyous is one of our foremost social du- peo Lies, now as always. We never show anc a sour face. In Japan no one thinks em af the two-children-system, nor of a p women running competition to men. mo For nearly fifty years American and ? European missionaries have had all dea Lhe liberty they asked for in Japan, but ?? 31 lorty-nve minions or yenow men ed, and yellow women, less than ninety ?' thousand adopted Christianity. Ask ret' any honest missionary, Catholic, Pro- iiv< testant Presbyterian, he will tell you, tea that the Jap Christians are unworthy ?? of the name. ner They are indeed. Why? Because " Buddhaism harmonizes better with big the teachings of modern science, par Buddhaism which, in the main, is the f religion so self-satisfied with respect tac to religious matters? The Christians gro tanght us. pro Reflect, nineteen centuries passed be- got fore the Christians abolished slavery, i and today, 2,000 years after the death rou Df the Nazarene, nearly every Christ- cofl ian nation is spending, on tbe average, all twice as much for war preparations; 0n for acts of destruction, than for the up- lasi lifting of humanity, including school- bul ing. From this general, rule the Unit- hig ed States of America are the sole honor- thr able exception, but, then, in theUnited his States, religion is a matter of private rou concern. ey( If you want us Japanese to become > Christians demonstrate that your reli- ()n i?ion keeps what it promises. The tail founder of Christianity decreed that am men should love one another. What Fo: showing has love and brotherhood in in aristocratically governed countries? th? Turn to Russia, whose religious pre- tht tensions exceed those of all other lands, kn In that Christian state, two hundred th< millions of men, women and children be! depend upon the good will of a single mc ft' L1^?J perHULi, master ui juis suujeuiB auu iui- me tunes. Del There i? small incentive for Japs to bel become Christians. Among several bel hundred millions of Christians, one. led Tolstoi preaches true Christianity and hei for that crime he was put without the j pale of the church. He practices what flo he preaches, but how many are there pa like bim? There are even few books br< in English, French, German, or any N< other Christan language preaching true ne Christianity. hu Christian morality, where is it? As eai Eointed out, we yellow men had the wi eartiest desire to adopt institutions "]j that tended to make Christian coun- cfa tries great, yet we utterly failed to discover superior morality either in your commercial usages, your industrial t development, your army and navy, g^, or even in your form of government. = If we must have torpedoes and submarine boats, Krupp cannons and dynamite, factories for consumptives, child labor and alcoholism, what Is tne use of getting excited about such trifles as > our polygamous habits and Geishas? ? Let us be frank, brutally frank, ' white man! Wherever you en count- ^ ered a colored race, you made war on * it, plundered it, cheated it, destroyed it. Where are the original inhabitants of America? There are not enough left to people a German principality. You went to Africa aud enslaved the blacks? They were finally emancipated, it is true, but at the cost of a war leaving two millions of white lives on battle field ana hospital cot. Let's understand each other, white man; these things and more like them are not calculated to inspire the yellow race with confidence in your intergrity or your religion. You taught us that the white man is strong, but we fail to eee that his strength is wedded to kindness. In religion we found you wanting, but as for diabolical cunning we had no fault to find with ydu. Revolution of 1868. You remember our revolution of ififtfi Tr? h? frank it. was nnt inaucu rated to win the white man's admiration and sympathy. We revolted for our own good?to keep the White Peril at a distance as long as possible. Old Japan is dead, to insure the new Japan's integitv, we adopted certain foreign usages, vices and infamies. If they fail us in the present struggle, that does not say that we will be content to retrograde, that we will take upon ourselves a yoke we never bore? that yoke of servitude. Japs Know How To Die. Remember, the Jap is not an individualist; selfishness is not the alpha and omega of life with him. His aim is the greatness of the fatherland, the welfare of the people, of which he fbrms but an infinitesimal part. For his people's welfare he can die as well as live. To illistrate let me quote one of our native chronicles. Once upon a time the regent, Kotsuke was his name, was insulted by one of his barons, Takumi. He sertenced him ; to death by harikari, confiscating his fortunes and chatties and destroyed his strongholds. Then Takumi's vassals went into the mountain vastnesses, and swore to revenge their dead master. Ten years they prepared for the great work until finally they felt strong enough to carry out tiieir promise. During a dark night they overran the regent's palace and commanded him to kill himself as a punishment for the wrong inflicted upon the baron. But Kotsuke had grown old and weary and had neither the physical nor moral strength to comply with the difficult task of commiting harikkari. Thereupon the cousiprators, forty- 1 seven men, killed him and cut off his head. This they carried in solomn procession to Takurai's grave and deposited it there, to make it known to nil men that the baron's death had been properly revenged. In any other country but Japan, this act would have closed the incident, except for the interference of the author s. Not so with us. When the fortyen conspirators made good their v, they sat down on their leader's ve and commited harikari them- 0 res, every mother's son of them dis- ^ bowled himself slowly and faitby u ?f such stuff are the little yellow jj q who borrowed weapons from the 8j ite man to ward off the white peril. p IAT A POOR GIRL ACCOMPLISH ED t, L young minister was traveling on n se-bacfe through a mountain district, y a day he noticed groups (if people ii ling from every direction, many of m naving evidently walked a long s tance. It was not Sunday, yet these a pie were dressed in Sunday garb, t I everywhere was the deepest sol- t nity. In response to the inquiry if t rotracted meeting were going on as h untaineer answered: a Na^v, mister, but Miss Margaret's tl d." , c Miss Margaret ?" the stranger askinquiringly. D You-uns don't know Miss Marga- t She was the best womau ever a 3d, and she's dead." There were a rs in the man's eyes. Are all these people going to the fu- i: al?" * i 'Deed they is mister ; it'll be the d gest funeral ever seen in these e ts." v )eeply interested, the minister at- i ir\ rtno f\t tho all ant. a UCU UliliOVll wv VMV vr* H ups, and passed on with the long i cession. It was a never-to-be-forten scene. 'he meeting-place was a plain, t gh school-house. The cheap, plain \ fin, the poorly-dressed throng, were s forgotten as the stranger gazed up- s the still face of the girl lying in her i t sleep. It was not a beautiful face, ; it wore, even in death, a look of c ;h resolve and self-forgetfulnees that ( illed the looker-on to the depths of g soul. The throngs that.gathered 1 ind, beheld that face with streaming i ;s. t Vho was she? What was she? ly the teacher of that humble mounq school. She had come, a stranger, ong these rude, ignorent people. ] r the love of Christ she had labored, i season and out of season, to teach < 5 children, and also their elders, < ) better ways they had^ never own. Before she had been 'among 3m six months, the houses were in ;ter repair, ana Kepi m a cieauei, re home-like fashion. The rough inners were softened ; kindness and Ighborly love were manifest as never 1 fore; the Bible became a well-read, i loved Book. Many a soul had been 1 1 to Jesus by her simple words, and 1 r beautiful, unselfish life. \nd now she was dead, leaving her < ck bereft. Not one in all that com y were kindred, save as they were >thers and sisters in Chlsl; Jesus. iver was quetju luuic uuijr ujuuiuvu ver granted truer honor, than this mble,quiet girl, who entered one of rth's uark corners, mado it glorious th the knowedge of him who is the ight of the world."?8. B. T., in iristian Life. 'Whatsoever a man soweth, that all he also reap." Wkboot Mmk it Hse ntc yoor ning mm odnr COOKING COMPOUND mM t?k 44JUST AS GOOD" AS " ' Mk Palmatina Vfkm Yd Can Get PALM ATRIA inyfftiyif namam mrnmmner r. j aBg^afesai CWBMg f DON'T TALK TOO MUCH. Don't talk too much. You were given two ears and only ne tongue, that you might hear twice 3 much as you speak. People will like you all the more the ') ;sa you have to say, and the more you sten, or seem to listen, to what they If you rarely part your lips in comany, company may suspect you of be- "A ag a dullard. Thismay cause them "M o P^y you aQd pity, it is said, is akin o love. Company will certainly be aore inclined to love you for keeping our mouth shut than for always havQg it open. Many a one acquired a reputation for uperior wisdom simply by flattering nother's pride of speech by permiting him to talk on without interrupion. Many a one, indeed, has left with . be monologuist the impression that le is a bright conversationalist, where- , s, had be attemped to do his share of #j tie talking, he might have been de- p lared a bore. ' :Vv+*|! Don't talk too much. If you talk ouch, you are likely to say things; bough you may forget them as soon -W, s they are spoken, will be remembered ^ ?aiuBk jruu. If another loses his temper, as the say- <-.? Dg is, when one's temper is very mnch '-"ja q evidence, don't lose yours. At leaat $ lon't talk back. Silence is your most ^ ffectlve weapon. It will tear his very , itals, where-as if you rave and sputter ' '-;S t will only show that his words have ?$ truck home, and so give him pleas- . ^ ire. Don't talk too much. :lu2 If you are an ignoramus don't give -n he fact away by airing your limited vocabulary. If you are wise you will 1 ilways keep a bridle on your tongue, -4 md are, therefore, in no need of admo- ;*j lition. Be cautious about that which is sverybody's subject?self. Hundreds m >f things you may say about your- > $ lelf, and think that they will never be aeard from again. But they are alnost certain to be repeated, and in / 3 iuvu a ujouuci as iu mane you appear ridiculous or despicable. Don't talk too much. , v-;^sH Let others do the talking and be jjj happy. Let others exhibit their weak . minds. Let others uncover their shar $ iy past and their not overbright presant. But you? Don't talk too much.?Humanity. The Christian worker fights against . ^ the spirit of torpor, of indolence, of self-solicitude, and sooner or later beirinn to nnmpaa tVia ohewiA?fl? a' D J,?WW ?MV vuMtnwoJL U1 llitCUDO and continous application to work and activity. Learn the art of saying kind and encouraging things, especially to the ' % young. Take a burning interest in your work. Strive to pity as Christ pitied, to love as Christ loved, to work as Christ worked. There is no dotage to the Christian ufe. y -fM COUNTY MUTUAL | mi mrni I Jv'tX An * n*"nT*ro ? V/JC Abbeville Division. Abbeville, 8. C. -;'J? IT IS WITH PLEASURE WE 4 announce the fact that we have effected arrangements by which we are prepared to conduct tbe business of the "County Mutual Benefit Association of America" in Abbeville County, independent of tbe Parent Association whose headquarters are at Union, S. C. The purpose of tbe Association is to secure to the family of each member of the same who may die, one dollar f/M* ottCiPtt momKar rri rt cr fn Aa. 1U& V. * VI J UiVUIWI WlV/UglUg W IUU iiO sociation at the time of his or her death. The idea in ezlenso is to take one thousand persons, men and women, bind them together in a business way to help each other in time of need and trouble. It is more like a family affair than anything: else. You only pay when one dies. If you join now your first payment of $3.50 pays you up until first of January, 1905, unless we lose one of our members, when you would be called on to pay one dollar and ten cents to replace the amount paid out on account of the death claim and expenses. It is unquestionably the cheapest insurance khown of. You are receiving insurance at actual cost. Any white persons between the ages of eighteen and fifty-five, male or female, may become a member of the Association until the number of one thousand be reached; after that no one over thirty can get in, and he only to replace a deceased member. If, therefore, you are over thirty years of age this is the only chance you will have of joining. You owe it to your family, you owe it to yourself to provide something for their protection in case you are taken away from tbem. Consider the matter, examine and study our plan, act promptly and let our agents write you up at once. Remember that this is purely a home institution ; the money to pay death claims is in the bank at this place, being always collected in advance of a death ; the claim paid immediately on notice of death of the member; no waiting sixty or ninety days, with ever so much "red tape" to be observed in order to collect a death claim ?and that the officers of the company are your own people. If there is anv additional informa tiou as to the plan desired, call on either of the undersigned pr any of the company's agents and they will take pleasure iu explaining the same. U. E. HILL, President. W. T. BRADLEY, Treasurer. I Abbeville, 8. f., May 18, 1904.