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THE PLANTERS LIAN ANO AVINGS BEK. ACi.?STA, ttl. Paya Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C H a yiie, ? President. Chis, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVIIT. EDGEFIELD, S.C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEE 11,1903. m THE ART Of GIV ING AWAY MONEY By Rev. Dr. ROBERT COLLYER of New York RUBING the ljist twenty years the leading America ambition has changed from MONEY GETTING 1 MONEY JIVING. Our millionaires are studyin the art of giving. Getting has become so easy, weah rolls in upon so many, that a vast fortune is no longe a great achievement. TO GIVE GENEROUSLY" AND USEFULLY HAS BECOME AN AMBITION. Our men of wealth give freely, gladly. There is no need t squeeze money out of them; just touch them, and, like a'full honej .comb, they freely pour fortfi a golden stream. They do not evei wait to be asked. They build libraries, hospitals, gymnasiums, colleges, schools churches. Every f*per we pick up contains accounts of vast charitiei and benefactions. ' * * ? : Never before in the history of the world has there been sue! -an- outpouring of wealth. Tlje only thing at aU comparable with ii was the giving of fortunes for the building of cathedrals in *he middle ages. The fact that our' men of wealth are devoting themselves more to THE ART OF GIVING than to the art of getting is due to the growth of our sense ..of social responsibility. - There-is a public sentiment which declares that the man who-gets': without giving has not realized the responsibilities of his position. He is condemned for having fallen short of ,his duty. . - OUR MONEYED MEN KNOW THIS AND IN THE MAJORITY OF CASES ARE QUITE READY TO FULFILL THEIR SOCIAL OBLIGA TIONS. ... There has been within the last twenty years a new realization of human unity. It strongly manifests jtself in these generous gifts. It is thc arising of a new ambition, and surely a NOBLE one. We hear much of the "money grabbing" of the present age, but those of us who have watched the progress of the nation during the lifetime of two generations know that the nobler ambitions are rapidly taking the place of the merely COMMERCIAL ones that formerly ruled us. "THE AMERICAN ? HIS REGULAR ARMY" . By SPRECKELS WILSON, British Military Expert H -T. s?ej^ -j_ .army America must, take into consideration the na titmir guard, a 1?UGE, AMBITIOUS, DILET TANTE, WIRE PULLING ORGANIZATION, abdut as warlike, scientific and efficient as the im perial guard of China. . . Americans always show themselves to be large pedants-that is the inevitable result of their rigid constitution-but never does this pedantry appear so ridiculous as in the discussions over the **gal status of the national guard. Is the force a national or a local one.^?^t it as a unir, obey the president or is it a congeries of atoms, each^^^g state governor? Fancy the destruction of prestige and authoriv.^niplied m sucfa a fantastic dispute! One PToup roundly declares that ^^anization is subject onlj to the orders of the governors of the resp^._ ^ ^ ^ no ^ from the president is legally competent to P**<^, member intQ active operation before an enemy not on state son. -^er tion, while acknowledging the authority of the president^ that Us order must come through the governor and that no caTT through other channels need be listened to. Another class believes in the fundamental authority of the national government and an nounces itself alwavs ready to respond to any orders received from Washington regardless of the channel through which such mandate mav come. ;\ *t * * ON THE WHOLE, IT IS MANIFEST THAT THE AVERAGE AMER ?CAN STILL TAKES LITTLE INTEREST IN HIS REGULAR ARMY. He still reserves all his enthusiasm for the volunteers, who-are often men of means and social position. The Englishman knows that the backbone of his defense and defiance consists of the regu lar armv. THE AMERICAN, ON THE OTHER HAND, HAS YET TO APPRAISE THE TRAINED PROFESSIONAI SOLDIER AT HIS REAL VALUE. A DEFENSE Of PARTISANSHIP j By FRANK S. BLACK. Ex-Governor of New York PARTISANSHIP is nothing but CONVICTION, whil. I nonpartisanship is the disguise which ambition alway ? wears when it travels under an assumed name. A nonpartisan is an UNBELIEVER. He, goe where the wind goes. He is ready to agree with thos who oppose, and the first word upon his tongue is compromise. H removes opposition only by SURRENDER. No nonpartisan wa ever found upon a summit unless partisans had raised him there Destitute of strong .beliefs, he is destitute of great courage. * * * The spirit which I profoundly admire is nowhere more exen piified than in Chicago. This wonderful settlement has proclaime lor many years the value of a consistent partisan purpose. CH CAGO IS BUILT UPON NO HYPOCRISIES OR SHAM! She has never claimed her sole desire to be to uplift the lowly ? curb the proud. x - is better equipped tha: TYPE and ] NO GENERAL PANIC PROBABLE ?'?Ol HE fear of a general panic is nonsensical. The?lcoun try was XEVER IN BETTER COND?lOi financially. There have been practically nckfjssuei of securities in the last year and a half. Thej|wer< paid for then. Some one owned them. WH|re ii the money now? I tell you this is A RICH MAN'S PANIC. It's your big speculator who has been dumping h&fstocl on the market, not your small investor. The big fellows have beer pinched by bad investments like the big underwriting schemes,'-sud; as the International Mercantile Marine and the United States"Ship building company, and THEY HAVE HAD TO ' SELL OF! THEIR GOOD HOLDINGS TO PROTECT THE POOR VEN TURES. Why, I know men who went into United States Steel^with 40,000 shares. They haven't got 100 left today. They simply, had to let go. Stocks were nonsensically high awhile ago; now*they are nonsensically low. But this is a good time to buy formlose who select good stocks and nOLD ON TO THEM. JP One cause of the uneasiness has been the foreign distrust of American securities. United States Steel lias been the barometer of the American market abroad. But the bond issue of 000 ands the retirement of $200,000,000 preferred stock caused dis trust of the judgment of the Steel directors. Another cause of the shrinkage has been the fear thal we would get no CURRENCY legislation from the next congress. We ought to have a more elastic currency. I favor a $500,000,000 increase, with provisions that it could be called in if need be. THE LABOR SITUATION IS ANOTHER CAUSE. THE IRON AND STEEL TRADE IS ALL RIGHT EXCEPT IN BUILDING ?ONSTRUC TION LINES, WHERE ORGANIZED LABOR HAS TIED UP THE' IN DUSTRY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. ir ?>1 EQUALITY IS IMPOSSIBLE IN THE UNITED By Mrs. STUYVESANT FIS?. New York Sor'ety Leader jgfV RS. ROOSEVELT ??esses on $300 a year, and she looks it. I would not like to be a president-nor ' the wife of a president, for I would not like have to eat with negroes. Despite the efforts of President Roosevelt A kans will never have negro equality. American women should wear American gowns and not ize the Parisian makers. If some leadingwpg?^ States, like tbe_president[s jwife3Jl^??rj^rcy ancTcostly, the women would follow suit. There.will never be equality even among the WHITE PEO PLE OF ' THE UNITED STATES. There mil of necessity be two classes, aristocrats and the common people. We should noi be too democratic,^ as it is dangerous, and PEOPLE ARE NOT EQUAL ANYWAY. Europe is older and more worldly wise ttan America, and the Europeans cannot eliminate class distinctioni THE MARRIAGE OF AMERICAN GIRLS TO IMPECUNIOUS DR. EIGN NOBLEMEN IS VERY FOOLISH. THE NAVY~AND ITS ENLISTED MIN m By W. H. MOODY, Secretary ot the Navy OR the young man who enters the navy advantages ~ age LAY Wilson, dress to chances are larger SSN General Wilson, a man o There are, or at leas for under the last naval men in the navy of all to obtain the best men INDUCEMENTS are h before has the character ent, and it is improving doubt that within a few will not only have the st in the world, but it will a' in its navy than any otb In the old navy men and were recruited from lantic seaboard, but in the proportion of native service is as nine to one. ence and good judges of i city and from town to tov applicants for enlistment, there were a large numb ingly large number may b the next year. The reaso' service are so pleased wi duces their friends to eui" years, and landsmen mus twenty-five years when fi The importance of pro by the fact tliere are at training ship squadrons, total tonnage of the navy landsmen aboard them t terms and discipline is m n ever for turning out Fmn STEW SUP?LY OP M^flAL ind us your orders. Satfaction Guaranteed. QU W?j0R IT NOT BE PARROTS By Rev. MADISON C. PETERS of Philadelphia ?HE pulpit should not be a coward's castle. Preache should be PROPHETS, NOT PARROTS-hera! proclaiming the coming day. In many prominent pulpits in America today tl preachers simply DARE not be uncompromising ; their denunciation of sin and wickedness. Sue preaching would drive out the men whose ill gotten wealth mah them essential to the church because they can make large contrib tions, and many a preacher is compelled to credit his hearers wit virtues he knows they do not possess, and for the sake of his BREA. AND BUTTER is compelled to pander to prejudices in publi which in private he despises. The mightiest force in the world is the aroused conscience of great people, and the chief quickener and educator of the conscienc in the past has been the pulpit. The PRESS is taking the plac of the piilpit and is becoming the most important and effectual su? port , of virtue's cause. THE MAN WHO IS ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE CHURCH ll ITS PRESENT CONDITION ONLY GIVES PROOF THAT HE HA CEASED TO BE A LIVING FACTOR IN THE WORLD'S PROGRESS. I am not now speaking of Christianity, which is the life and ir spiration of our civilization, but I do say that the church is not lead ing the way in the new civilization. What influence the church ha she uses to conserve the heritage cf the past. But who dares say that the church is molding the future ? Witl a narrow conception of her mission the church has sat on a higl platform of empty dignity with folded hands while the Y. ML C A., the W. C. T. U. and hundreds of similar organizations aw DOING THE WORE which the church should have done. Reforms of the most important character not only receive little support from the church but have frequently to encounter its bit terest OPPOSITION. _ ' War With Germany Is Inevitable By Professor ALBION W. SMALL, University of Chicago - IN plain English the attitude of the Germans toward the United States is, "We like you awfully, but we've got to fight you all the same." This doesn't mean trade hampering, with tariff regulations. It means sooner or later SHOOTING TO KILL. The Germans are chip3 from the same block that produced us; rgyWrfodigve it is their first business to look out^for number one. them one of the mosfW^&nVa??'po^uve"iTin^^^mtn s?f pr?s^ ervation demands CALLING A HALT on American progress. Reputable German newspapers are continually ringing the changes on the theme, and serious books assert it as self evident truth. The spokesmen of both nations of course scout the idea, but I have no more doubt that Germany is DELIBERATELY CAL CULATING on the day and hour of her ability to give us a thrash ing than I have that from the moment Bismarck became the master nind of Prussia he was getting ready for Sedan. At any moment Germany may be pressing us to define our policy >n one or other of thc various questions ABOUT WHICH WE ^RE NOT SURE IN OUR OWN MENDS. The test is likely o come in South America or the Philippines. Germany needs an utlet for manufactured products and a place to invest capital where ; will be secure. ? LIKELY THE GERMANS WILL TAKE SOME POSITION THAT WE fOULD TAKE IN THEIR PLACE UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES. UT IF WE ARE NOT STRONG ENOUGH TO DO RIGHT WITH ONOR BY OUR OWN INDEPENDENT CHOICE WE SHALL FEEL DMPELLED TO SAVE OUR FACE BY FIGHTING BEFORE BEING IMPELLED TO TAKE ORDERS FROM GERMANY. S LABOR GOING TO EXTREMES? By A. C. BARTLETT of City Railway Arbitration Commission. Chicago jJIN the efforts of unions to secure for their members a greater jg-j share of present prosperity, too much of which will be ?J found to exist only upon paper, are they not liable to go AN EXTREME WHICH WILL RESULT IN FUTURE SERY AND DISTRESS ? If wages are forced to an unnat lly high level, will not the panic which will, as a consequence, precipitated in the labo? world on the advent of "hard times" d they are bound to come) be not only disastrous to workmen, more disastrous to unions? What is so certainly assuring and ;ening the coming of "hard times" as the radical and unwarranted MI of the EXTREMISTS UPON BOTH SIDES of the labor ition ? >W TO CHECK THE DIVORCE EVIL By Dr. GEORGE E. HOWARD, University of Chicago jVERY county in thc United States should be divided into districts, for each of which a registrar r lould be ap pointed. It should be the duty of the registrar to li cense, solemnize and register ALL MARRIAGES con tracted under civil procedure in his district and to li , register and ATTEND all marriages solemnized by reli celebration. be lawmaker cannot reach the ROOT of the divorce evil, nd the cause for divorces planted deeply in the social system, in false sentiment regarding marriage and family, and this ) removed only through more rational education and some sort DVERNMENT SUPERVISION. We can, by careful and ra statutes, render conditions, favorable for reform. j?rjifrivLfiia; LASS WORK. NEW just arrived. SNAPPY FALL SaiTS AND OVERCOATS. FRESH FROM THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MAKERS. ELIGANT NEW FALL STYLES, -O There is character and dignity in our CLOTH ING. There is the touch of the hand tailored gar ments-a made-for you appearance that stands the scrutiny of the most expert tailor MEN'S SUITS single and double breasted the best of all the best from $8.00 to $25.00. MEN'S OVERCOATS. None better for the price we ask for them anywhere $8.00 to $25.00. There are years of Clothing experience behind every garment we sell. JJ?-Remember the GRAND PRIZE DRAW ING FEBRUARY ist. Look into this, it will be worth something to you. Large stock of Boys and Children's Suits and Overcoats. I. c. LEVY'S SON & co- 1 m Correct Dxessere for Men and Boye. AUGUSTA, G#V HOG RAISING. An "Extrem/ Cotton riante/'a", View? on Honrs, Cattle ?nd Grass. < In the last few years the high price of O?Lit has drawn the attention of oar, people to raising hogs, nnd only in a small way has it been done economical ly and at a profit. I am an extreme cotton planter, but have always given, much attention to hogs, cattle and grass. Let the negro make all the cot ton he can, for lt is all he will success fully do on the farm. Then if you are a large landowner raise all the grate, hay and meat you can. You can get the negroes* labor cheaply when they are not needed in the crop. Make them plant almost exclusively cotton and sell them their rations and horse feed. Most of them want only a little money Christmas. I furnish that to them. ] Give all your idle and spare time to 1 you- stock and grass. To be a succ?s? must have knowledge, and that can be t acquired here only by long years of ex perience and a thorough reading of our southern magazines. You must know what kinds of grass and grains to sow that are suitable to our climate and soil. To raise hogs cheaply you must have good grassing for them every day in the year. Plant your corn next to your summer pasture, plant ground peas in the drill of your corn and fill all water furrows with peas and have your corn field fenced. "For "summer pasture you must -have red clover. Johnson grass, mellllotusl and Bermuda. Mellllotus and red clover, will furnish you good grazing in Febru?? ary, Johnson grass in March and Ber muda all through the summer. Then pull your corn last of September and turn your hogs in your groun? peas and field peas. As soon as they eat np one field sow it In grain early in Octo ber. Then put your breeding sows in your grain fields in July with their pigs. Leave them in then tilt last of March, take them off, and as soon as grain is in the milk I ?mt them back and let them eat lt up, Then plant again In corn and peas. I . feed pigs in pens liberally. They are the only hogs I ever feed corn to.' I sell my hogs off the pea field withe , t ' any corn, either groats or dressed, and I selLhogs from : October till ApriL Get you a good breed of hogs. I have tried every^breed of hogs, and I prefer the s'hireJiog. ^He^ls-jtnrIf^^rJ3Ms^ and his meat is very superior. You want good fences, and the best and in the end the cheapest fence is the wo- : ven wire. It costs about $75 per mile and will last a lifetime. It will take from $3,000 to $5,000 to go into the hog business; theu from, that $3,000 you should sell $1,000 worth of meat, be sides eating thirty or forty shotes a year and having your own meaL But hogs are like chickens-you must look after them every day in the year.-E. Napier in Southern Cultivator. INSURANCE . FIRE Insurance,HEALTH Insurance, . ACCiDENT Insurance, Fidelity and Indemnity Bonds of all description issued. Your Business solicited. GRIFFIN & MIMS A, G t IFFIN. E. J. MlMS Office Over May & May's Store. Groceries ! # PLANTATION SUPPLIES & I am prepared to save you money on Staple and Fancy GROCERIES. Always get my prices before buying. I repreeeut S ITH - BROS., of AUGUSTA, GA., and cad supply you with Gro ceries at Augusta Prices. Give me a call. Respectfully, Augusta Bee Hive Has just received a full and complete line of \LL AND WINTER GOODS insisting of CLOTHING for stout and lean men ; Clothing fo ths; Clothing for Men and Boys. Also a full Hue of Oveicoat uVn and BUVP. The finest assortment of Men's and Boys Hats il and comping line of (FURNISHING GOODS^ My Dress Goods Department consists of everything the ladies in Plaiu and Fancy Goods. SILKS of all shades ai.d prices. In ly-to-wear Skirts aud Shirts, I have the most complete line in ?Hy. Ei Hillery Department j Millinery Department is complete in every detail. All the rent styles of Walking Hats aud Dress Hats, of the finest quality atest Parisian styles, hoes. Shoes. miiiiiiiimmiiimiiiimi miiHiimmiimiiiiiiiiiiimiimi ly stock of Shoes is too well known to need any comments.. I for the tiny infants to the No. 14 brogans. All you need is to THE AUGUSTA BEE HIVE to be convinced that this is the .0 get your bargains. ABE COHEN PRO.