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Judge Benet's Sf of Clemson Col 1888; Repres -i A few days ago a> friend gave us a copy of The Greenville Daily News - ~ irw 1 1 K+V 1 888 I Saturday, i/evuuuci 1VVU) Av/vwy calling our attention to the report i { the speech of Hon. W. C. Benet, then a representative from Abbeville county, on the bill for the establishment of Clemson College. This called to mind the fact that Mr. Benet, on account of his known ability, was the selected leader to make the fight for our great agricultural college, which has already done so much and which promises so mueh in the future for the development of tte farming industry in the state. Tlie report of the speech of Mr. Benet is by Thaddeus E. Horton, then Columbia correspondent for The Greenville Daily News. It is as follows: "The outlines of the opening of the contest on the floor of the House yhen the bill to accept the Clemson *" ' ?ni1 aatahlish an Dequeui anu ucruc <? > ? Agricultural College in connection herewith was called up as the special order, have already been given in The News. The speech of Mr. . Bcnet, of Abbeville, who had been selected by its friends to lead the fight in its behalf will be in a sense kotoric, whatever might be the fate f the Clemson College. It is de> serving, therefore, of a fuller report tksn was possible to give it yesterBenet said that the great importance of this measure had been jroved by the fact that during the \ last summer's campaign no question 1 Tm'+Vi nna.tOTlfh Mi UCCU UUVIUMVU rr tM* vuv fti interest this Clemson College had aroused. The intelligent farmers tnm the up country, from the midAe country and from the low country had united in saying, "we want Agricultural College established and we want to send men to the Legislature who will advocate it," Tears before the starting of the so called farmers' element, he had felt aad had urged that a separate a^ricultural college should be established. He was not a farmer. The umber from Richland had conferred on him the honorary title of the ^Champion farmer of the State." He * was sorry he could not lay claim to the proud distinction. He had to confess, sad to say, that he did not knew the difference between a 'bull tongue' and a 'scooper*. (The agri. cattnralists smiled broadly at the ' Snooper/ but they were not sticking _ fur phraseology and Mr. Benet was mot laughed down.) But Mr. Benet continued, he was ant on the floor of the House as the representative of any class or clique ?r section or faction of men; he stood as a citizen of South Carolina far the interests of the whole State. He did claim to represent one class ~ , thai deserved the consideration of tte House, the boys of this State *Ao were too poor or were unable '< to take advantage of the South Carofioa College and its advantages but mho were anxious and eager to attend a pratical agricultural college soeh as Mr. Clemson's will provided far. - The fact should be borne in mind tkat the farms of this State are be> coming, smaller. We have a generation of small farmers whose sons seed education. They are surrounded by a race once ignorant and enslaved but now free and being educated by floods of Northern money seat down here for the purpose. He 'was not sorry to see that, but he -would warn his hearers that that net was only satisfied with its present con dition because' of its accepted inferiority. But if we made ap provisions for the education of the great army of boys, farmers aons, if they were left illiterate, while the rising generation of negro population was learning with astonishing rapidity, ther^ was a grave danger in the near future for the people of South Carolina. The Agricultural College was the demand of the farmers of the State, <ahd he was not ashamed to say that lie felt it his dutv to vote to satisfy that demand. But there were several objections urged to the acceptance by the State of the bequest of Hr. Clemson as provided in this bill. It was urged that a suit was pending m the Federal Courts for the recovery of the property for Miss Lee, the granddaughter of Mr. Calhoun, and that it would be necessary for South Carolina to be a party in a suit against a descendent of John C. Calhoun striving to regain possession of her ancestral patrimony. Here he asked permission to introduce a narrative. Thomas G. Clemson, the speaker continued, was the son of a gentle' man of ample means living in Philadelphia. When very young he ran away to Europe and while there took a complete course in the very kind f studies he desired to have taught in the proposed Clemson College. He came back to America a graduate in agricultural science and at nee obtained recognition as an expert in chemistry and other branches of agricultural science. His services were so valued that on one occasion, for investigating a project looking to the opening of some mines in South America, he had been paid $20,000. That was where he got - ?M A?ft A** AVtn lllVM f A 1 A n A U1C muncjr luab cuauicu uiiu \aj icavc this great estate for the establishment of a College of Agriculture. Mr. Clemsn had paid for nearly half the Fort Hill estate before his wife villed it to him, and all the personal property was absolutely his own. Though so great a devotee of agricultural science, Mr. Clemson had one regret and that was that he knew so little of agriculture practically, and it had become his determination many years ago to establish a school where, boys could combine the practical with the theoretical in agriculture. As far back as I 1870, he had taken steps to convey his property to the State for that >eech in Behalf liege December ented Abbeville purpose. Mr. and Clemson made mutual wills each conveying the individual property to the other, and !??+>> ootppH that on the death of both it should go to the State for the establishment of a school of farming. This purpose was no outf;rowth of the Farmers' Movement, t had been conceived fifteen years before that started. Mr. Clemson had not known a single one of the seven trustees he named in his will. He simply knew of them as earnest and honest advocates of the cause of agricultural Education, and he had selected them with a view to having every section represented. But it is said that if we accept this bequest, Miss Lee, the granddaughter of Mr. Clemson, will be left penniless. The will shows that she will get $35,000. Mr. Haskell: "Please tell us how?" Mr. Benet: "Oh, I have it here; I'm <nlv trying to go slow." Mr. Benet then detailed the items of Miss Lee's inheritance. She was given by the will $15,000 in money; $2,000 worth of family silver; part of the Fort Hill plantation, worth $5,000; the old estate near Washington, at Bladenburg, worth $10,000; a debt of $1,000 due by her father to Mr. Clemson?in all $37,000, with a few minor bequests running the amount above that Mrs.; Clemson had, Mr. Benet said, in a conversation shortly before her death, answering a question why they were not going to. leave their property to Miss Lee; "Oh, she is amply provided for." Her necessities, therefore, need not be considered in the discussion of this case. In that subject, however, a curious thing had happened. About a year before Mr. Clemson's death, Mr. Smith, a merchant at Pendleton, had received an order from Gideon Lee to allow Mr. Clemson credit for provisions to the amount of $100. Mr. Lee had thought Mr. Clemson was poverty stricken, and that action showed he had no expectations from him. Mr. Clemson's investments had been a gilt edged securities and made with such financiers as Carcoran, of Washington, and Rion, of Winnsboro. In that way his estate had grown wonderfully.. Gideion Lee did not know that. The old grandfather, wifeless, childless and alone at Fort Hill, year after year, had begged Mr. Lee to let his granddaughter come to him. She never came. xet una was tae man who was now trying to get the General Assembly to vote against the Clemson bequest. Perhaps if Mr. Lee had known of this property he would have allowed his daughter to visit Fort Hill. Who knows? "Look on this picture and on that;" on the treatment Gideon Lee gave Mr. Clemson before his death and this 1 suit in the Federal Courts! Mr. Benet explained Mr. Clemson's purchase of the Fort Hill pro- i perty under foreclosure of mortgage 1 as trustee of his wife. He had, how- 1 ever, paid of his own money the fol- ! lowing sums, due from the est&te: : to Amelia Clemson, $2,000; to Cal- 1 houn Clemson, by bequest, $2,600; 1 fees and costs, $1,300; executor's < expenses, $900. All these costs and 1 expenses Mr. Clemson had been 1 paid from his own pocket i As soon as the General Assembly < voted to accept the bequest, the per- 1 sonal property of the State, Miss ] Lee had no claim on that. The State : entered instanter into the possession 1 of $80,000. Was it ever necessary before in the history of the world to < stand and beg a people to accept 1 $80,000? Some objected to the conditions of the will. It was true that seven of thirteen trustees were named by the will, but that objection was ob- 1 viated by section 5 of the bill which ] required a two-thirds vote to authorize the expenditure of any moneys by the trustees, and gave the State complete financial control. The State could withdraw its appropriations if matters were not as desired. But some of the opponents of this bill said: "Why accept this bequest at all?; come with us and we'll help you establish a separate Agricultural College". It was very strange that the cry of the farmers. for a A/\1 A/vn Un /) mama IIMUAA/I AJ oxalate tuicg c iiau gunc uimccucu year after year, and now came this sudden willingness. He warned the friends of this bill to beware and be not deceived by that specious cry. Should a majority of the House and Senate vote "no" on this bill, what will then be our position? One of the most remarkable in the history of education! a universal cry from all parts of the State for a farmers' college. Mr. Clemson says: "Here is my fortune, build the college." South Carolina answers, "we will not accept it." The farmers would be compelled to accept the bequest on their own account and build a college at their own expense. Mr. Benet closed his speech with an eloquent appeal, he said, to the patriotism of the body, to every friend of South Carolina College, to every friend of the Citadel Academy, to every son of South Carolina, to consider this bill favorably, to put the public mind at rest and to take the grand old South Carolina College out of politics, for that would be the result. The acceptance of the Clemson bequest was the best measure that could be adopted for the perpetuation of the South Carolina College. If it were accepted, there would be an end to sectionalism in education in this State; it would be a triple bond to bind the State together. Mr. Benet spoke with eloquence that commanded the close attention of the House. He used few notes and talked with the air of one thoroughly posted on his subject." In this same-issue we find the following message from Abbeville: Major A. B. Wardlaw Dead. Abbeville, S. C., Dec. 14?Maj. A. B. Wardlaw, President of the Na tional Bank and a distinguished citi zen of our town, died this morninj at ten o'clock. T. P. C." We find too in this issue an ac count of the marriage of the lab Judge . James C. Klugh and Mis Caroline Bradley. The account wil prove interesting even now, and 1 is repeated here: The Wedding of one of the County' Foremost Sons to One of He Loveliest Daughters. Abbeville, S. C., Dec. 13.?On yea terday evening at half-past eighl Miss Carrie Bradley, of Troy, wa married to J. C. Klugh, Esq., of Ab beville, at the beautiful countr; home of the bride's father. The mai riage ceremony was conducted ii an impressive manner by the Re\i R. F. Bradley, assisted by Dr. H. 1 Sloan. The attendants were: Dr. G. A. Neuffer. of Abbeville and Miss Janie Wiaeman, of Du West, P. B. Speed, of Abbeville, am Miss Minnie Morgan of Pickens Frank B. Gary, of Abbeville, an< Miss Belle Neel, of Troy, Walter I Millar nf AhHoville and Miss V!qui Bowen, of Pickens, J. D. Chalmers o Abbeville, and Miss Mag&ie Lowry of Due West, Hayne McDill, of Ab beville, and Miss Nellie Pressley, o Troy, Wyatt Bradley, of Troy, am Miss Ada Cowan, of Troy, Dr. S. G Thomson, of Abbeville, and Mis Julia Kennedy, of Due West. Mr. Klugh is our Master in equity and is a young gentleman of sterl ing worth. He was educated at Wof ford College, and received a diplomi from the law school of the Univer sity of Virginia. He stands high ii his profession, and is one of ou: most prominent young men. Miss Bradley is the daughter o; Hon. John E. Bradley, of Troy. Shi is a young lady of fine personal ap pearance and i^aa winning, popula: manners. She is a graduate of th< Due West Female College, and b: her grace and culture reflects hono upon her Alma Mater. After the ceremony was oyer ai elegant supper was served. Th< bridesmaids were remarkable fo: their beauty and were of Course ver much admired. It is not often sue! an array of beauty is seen. Quit* a number of friends were pre sen to extend their congratulations. Thi many beautiful presents given shov that the bride and groom are hel< in high esteem. It was a delightfu social event, and everything passe* off pleasantly. The young coupli carry with them the best wishes o: a host of friends. W. L.M. It seems that preparedness wa even then being discussed. A corre spondent from Due West writes Th News as follows: THE COMING REVOLUTION. A Strong Argument for EatablUhin| Small Industrie*. Due West, S. C., Dec. 12. To the Editor of The Greenvilh News: Your splendid editorial on "Com mercial Revolution Coming," was bui the sounding of the key note of i bright era in our future history. Oui Southland is already indebted to yoi for the force with which your pen luu been wielded for it and the obliga fcion is still more enduring since th< editorial referred to has been carriec to the homes of the deserving. Wha' we need are diversified industriesindustries that will be profitable to t community at large and that can b< handled with small capital. If ovu people can not manipulate a cottor factory or an iron furnace let then: try something less ponderous. Small r enterprises will improve our con dition quite as much as and in lesi time uian muse eiiurwuus uims. It seems to the writer that canning factories could be operated with east and profit by Carolinians in almosi any section in the State. Green veg etables and fruits and fruits fine ready sale in both foreign and domes tic markets and at any season. Sucl enterprises would make 'the wilder ness and solitary place to be glad ant the desert to rejoice and blossom ai the rose." A crop of sweet peai could be grown and taken off th< gound in time to produce a crop Cj corn. A crop of corn could b< worked in time to plant and im prove the land'with clay peas. Toma toes could be forced and gatherec early enough to plant something else. Then, too, the cash for greei crops would be realized at a seasoi when our people need it most. I would do away with the necessity of buying goods on long time and a high prices. The enterprise wouu give profitable empolyment to wo men and children and thereby con vert consumers into producers. Ou: delicious fruit could be canned o; preserved or made into salable jelly I hope this subject will be agitate< and receive the attention it deserves Give your readers a hearing and a the same time let them hear you. Subscriber. Millar's Antiseptic Oil Known As SNAKE OIL Will Positively Relieve Pain in Thrw Minutes. Try it right now for Rheumatism Neuralgia, Lumbago, sore, stiff an< swollen joints, pains in the head back and limbs, corns, bunions, etc After one application pain diaap pear8 as if by magic. A never-failing remedy used inter nally and externally for Coughs n-ir\ ts tVT?1, ^OIUH, liruup, ouro xuxvau, i/iyu theria and Tonsilitis. This Oil is conceded to be th< most penetrating remedy known. Iti prompt and immediate effect in re lieving pain is due to the fact tha it penetrates to the affected parts a once. As an illustration, pour Tei Drops on the thickest piece of soli leather, and it will penetrate thii substance through and through ix three minutes. Accept no substitute. This greai oil is golden red color only. Ever] bottle guaranteed; 25c and 50c ? bottle, or money refunded. At lead ing druggists. P. B. Speed. JKHHRjlhQp HI a r v : "My Boy? it isn't so much what yo a j the deal-? ; 5 It's the way you look< t \ You men who are sta 1 planning how to forge ? minutes tomorrow in ou ' fore our mirror and se< qrlHor? -niinnV) a UViViVVi yVIAAVAA Ul AfAlVllUV ' give your best "selling B Spring styles?many m r at $15 to ! Cason i r i 5 ~~ - VVUVVVVVVVVVVVVVV K 5 V .V I V HONEA PATH. V B t V ^ tc i m ! - Mr. J. R. Callaham is spending to- o1 : day in Union on business. - vi 1 Mrs. Frank Kneble of Greenville, 1 is visiting her father, Mr. C. E. Har- y ' per this week. ? Mr. and Mrs. Carl Greer will S 3 move to town n6xt week. They will occupy a cottage on North Main ? ? street. b * Mrs. J. W. Payne and little daugh- h t ter, and Mrs. T. 3. Einard of Ninety ? : Six, were the guests of Mrs. Ella T 1 Hudgens last Saturday. Mrs. G. E. Moore was summoned '< 1 to Federalsburg, Md., Sunday on ac- si r count of the serious illness of her a 1 father, Mr. J. W. Carroll. 3 Mr. C. E. Harper left yesterday ci 3 morning for Lancaster where he will g i J 1 J ~ spenu several uovo ao vuc guwk uj. ^ his son, Mr. W. F. Harper. a 3 Dr. W. H. Bannister and Misses c: Mabel Davis and Lillian Williams & " motored to Anderson yesterday af- b 1 ternoon where they spent several tl ? hours. c 1 Gov. Manning has granted a pa- ^ ? role to James McCord, colored, of a 1 Abbeville, convicted of assault with ? intent to ravish and sentenced to t< 5" serve 15 years. E 1 Miss Lou Latimer, stenographer n for J. K. Hood of Anderson, spent d Sunday with her father, Mr. Sher- ti r and Latimer, of the Broadmouth o r section. s? ; John Allen Knight, 19 years old, tl 1 died at the mill village Tuesday J t morning at 7 o'clock. He will be buc ried at East View cemetery today f" at 2 o'clock. tl Mrs. Mary Foxworth, who has b been house-keeper for the family of n Mr. M. L. Moore for several months, tl left Sunday for Columbia, where she r< will reside. a 1 Miss Frances McKenzie, who is h attending Greenville Woman's Col- f' ? lege, spent the week-end in Honea n 1 Path with her parents, Mr. and Mrs ? Jerry McKenzie. N The stores of Honea Path will tl * close at 6 o'clock, beginning Mon- tl day, April 30th. Take notice and e: - make your purchases before that o ? hour, thereby giving the clerks a T - few hours recreation. n Miss Amanda Burts of the Broad- ^ i mouth section, will leave Friday for n s Rock Hill, where she will spend sev- a - eral days as the guest of her bro rt.? U * P r. Rnrfs. ii * bllVi f llUil AVI -W? w*. t Drs. J. F. Shirley, H. M. Babb, S l H. B. Williams and E. R. Donnald, s< i of this place, attended the State S i Medical Association which held a c i meeting at Spartanburg last week, si The many friends of Mrs. J. L. J t Eskew whose serious illness was not- si r ed last week, will be glad to learn 2 i that he condition has shown marked lc improvement during the past few fi days. Mrs. J. S. Bolt is still in P HH R||BI|HHH^Hfi ^ tTTTT ft fI ^ i 7) - -. :.\t - ?"*""* " \ - " ei U a' u said that closed it is m*:' ... E ying awake nights h ahead?spend ten ? r store. Stand be- 1 e for yourself the is-Stern Suit will o: argument." < . p t( todels and fabrics. ^ ti $35. ... ci & McA noxville with Mrs. Eskew. |j= Because of the Union Meeting at ethany, which the pastor expects M > attend, there will be no preaching ,?* t the Baptist church next Sunday torning. Sunday school at 10 clock as usual and preaching serice at 8 o'clock in the evening. Prof. Bushardt and several of the !igh School boys left this afternoon >r Columbia to participate in the tate Oratorical and Athletic meet. ga Mr. J. W. Springfield is now oprating a public service car and will e glad to serve the public at any our, day or night. Charges reasonble. He makes headquarters at the ij? Top Clothing^ Co. ^ ^ iiir. uus Armstrong leu last, ween r ar Latta to accept a position as b jperintendent of the electric plant t that place. He has been connect* d with the plant here in various j apacities for some time and is re- t * arded as a competent man. j: g, Magistrate June Martin of Don- * * Ids, was a business visitor in the t 1 ity yesterday afternoon. He was ccompanied by Mrs. Martin. He , . ad no comments to make on either J?* tie war or politics nad refused to onfirm the rumor that he was seen l, working in his garden a few days ? go. ,feeli Mrs. A. M. Sharpe has received a -d ilegram from her brother, Paul h rock, formerly of Honea Path, but u t ow of New York, announcing the ^ eath of his only child, Lydia, aged .. . sn years. Mr. Brock, who is a son . f Mr. W. C. Brock, left Honea Path T?*:' everal years ago and is now with lie Edison company of Orange, New ersey, and lives in New York. . Mr. B. L. Morrison, a prominent irrS" armer living a few miles south of P~7; lis place, had the misfortune to ave about $700 in cash stolen a few ights ago. It is said that he kept ?yi tie money in a trunk in an up-stairs 1 Dom and that several parties were Pnof ware of the fact A report reached ere today that a clue had been . , ound and it was likely that the loney would be found. onpj The friends of Mr. and Mrs. Bert . f" [artin tenderly sympathize with lem in the death of their little iree-year old daughter, Anna Florace, which occurred at their home 5? n Brock avenue Sunday afternoon. ~v* he little one was recovering from jV?** leasles when complications arose rhich caused her death. The inter tent took .place Monday afternoon IW""' t Barker's Creek. Henry Jackson, colored, shot and istantly killed a negro man named am Boston on the L. 0. Dean place Ci suth of Anderson at 11:30 o'clock planl aturday night The shooting oc- refu nrred at Jackson's house and it is . lid that Boston's attentions to ackson's wife was the cause of the dred (looting. Both negroes were about thou 2 or 23 years of age. Jackson was der. tdged in the county jail by officers rom the sheriff's office.?Honea ath Chronicle. 4-1 \ I i . m -fe BOSTONIANS amoui Shoes for " n - ^ Men. I'" . . ; Blacks, Tans and Pat- ' at in English models and % ice and Bluchers. These . :> : ' . ' re the top-notch in qual- | y and style and the price " ' r. ; ; i very reasonable. ' Shirts, Ties, Collars, * [andkerchiefs, suit cases and bags, sox, umbrellas ad everything necessary ) fit men and boys. If an up-to-date stock P Merchandise and exerienced service appeals ) you?we await your jming with pleasure, and lis is your invitation to iSL llister i I ?= r ot a Bite of Breakfast Until You Drink Water *" ? ya a glut of hot water and phosphate prevents Illness and keeps us fit / \ Si ist a coal, when it burns, leaves id a certain amount of incomible material in the form of 3, so the food and drink taken after day leaves in the alimencanal a certain amount of instable material, which if not -i-i-i? -I.-?:?J * ??? ueteiy eiuiiiiittteu nuiu uic ojoeach day, becomes food for the ? ons of bacteria which infest the ils. From this mass of left-over e, toxins and ptomain-like poiare formed and sacked into the i. en and women who can't ^et ng right must begin to take mbaths. Before eating breakfast morning drink a glass of real vater with a teaspoonful of limei phosphate in it to wash out of t hirty feet of bowels the previous t accumulation of poisons anr is and to keep the entire alimencanal clean, pure and fresh. lose who are subject to sick ache, colds, biliousness, consti- ? in, others who wake up with bad !. foul breath, backache, rheu c stiffness, or have a sour, gassy ach after meals, are urged to a quarter pound of limestone phate from the drug store, and a practicing internal sanitation. will cost very little, but is suffi; to make anyone an enthusiast he subject. , smember inside bathing is .more rtant than outside bathing, bee the skin pores do not absorb irities into the blood, causing health, while the bowel pores Just as soap and hot water lses, sweetens and freshens the so hot water and limestone phate act on the stomach, liver, eys and bowql3.?Adv. , TOMATO PLANTS. in ship immediatley large, strong ts guaranteed to please or money nded. Earliana and Red Rock sties. Price 60 cents per hun, postage prepaid. $2.50 per sand by express. Cash with or- ' DIXIE PLANT CO. Charleston, S. C. -4. Box 613. tew i