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PLANTERS
LOAN AND
SAVINGS
BANK.
AU (?US TA, GA.
Pays Interest
on Deposita,
Accounts
Solicited.
L. C. Hajne,
President.
Chas, C. Howard,
Cashier.
YOL. LXVIII.
EDGEFIELD, S.C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER, 18, 1903.
nHE HTIWILBIINKOf I?GBSTI
L. C. HATHX, Prea't. 7. O. FOSS, Cashier.
Capital, $250,000.
?Surplus ! ft ft
Undivided Prfiots. 5 $1-W>?0
I Fadlltleo of oar nagnlacent Kew Var.lt I
(containing 410 Bafety-Lock Boxea. Differ-j
pat Sises are o ile re di to oar pa trent andi
S tao public at 83.IX) to.tlCUWfper annnm.
NO. 47.
THE PROPER **
SUPERVISION 0/ COR
DAD A Tl AM C By tn,ted statBS
I UlXA I \\)nO ClrCUlt Jud*e*>ETER
HE people at large cannot on present conditions enter
corporate ownership, and as individual property con
tinues to pass more and more into corporate owner
ship-more than one-quarter having already passed
THIS EXCLUSION OF THE PEOPLE WILL
ENLARGE. It need not be so. The incorporation
. of dishonesty and air castles has brought it on. Common decency
and reasonable methods in corporate organization, by bringing cor
porate ownership to a condi.ion where the people at la ige can safely
re-enter, will bring the cure.
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The American instinct for the acquirement of property asks no'
impossible guarantees, but it asks and it is entitled to have
KNOWLEDGE OF THE FACTS. Put the organization of all
corporations on a basis that is fixed, and, above all other considera
tions, simple and knowable ; compel them to start on assets reasonably
equal to their capital ; keep them subject to inspection, as banks and
trust comprnies are now organized and inspected, and uncertainty- '
not uncertainty of judgment, but uncertainty respecting the facts
upon which the judgment acts-will disappear.
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In this way, and in this way alone, in my judgment, can this
increasing class of the property of the country be brought back into
the PEOPLE'S ownership. In this way, and in this way alone, will
the government be saved the scandal of putting its stamp upon enter
prises that in many cases call immediately thereafter for prosecution
as schemes to defraud.
Let the aim here be clearly kept in sight. It is above all other
.considerations to REPEOPLEIZE THE INDUSTRIES that have
gone into corporate control. This means that there must be no
tinkering or mending, but reconstruction-the ENTIRE RECON
STRUCTION of what seems to be a settled policy.
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IT MEANS THAT WE MUST TAKE OUR CORPORATE POLICY
FROM ITS FIVE AND FORTY MASTERS AND MAKE OF IT A NA
TIONAL PO ICY; NOT A NEW YORK POLICY, NOR A NEW JERSEY
POLICY. NOR AN ILLINOIS POLICY, BUT AN AMERICAN POLICY.
MATERIAL WEALTH IS THE
* MEASURE OF PROSPERITY
By Rev. E. TRUMBULL Lee of Philadelphia ~~~
(E have been hearing a good deal lately about the con
dition and fate of industries whose securities a few
months ago were considered GILT EDGED. Some
thing must be done to allay popular alarm and to
avoid a panic, and so we have messages from Wash
ington. The treasurer of the United States says, "The nation's
prosperity rests on a sure and steadfast foundation."
, it St If
The secretary of the treasury says, "The prosperity of the
American people is no? measured by the price of stocks and bonds,
but by the output of our farms and our factories and the profitable
employment of labor."
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These words are assuring, are strong and wise and are a good
medicine for fear. But they state practically that THE MATE
RIAL WEALTH of our country forms a sure and steadfast foun
dation for and a standard of measurement of prosperity. In so far
as this is a statement made to meet dangerous conditions in the
money market it is true, but in so far as the statement applies to
express a general popular confidence *in MATERIAL PLENTY
as furnishing substantial ground to stand upon it is lamentably false,
like the Laodicean conclusion of our text, the three accounts of
which, are:
1 AM RICH.
I AM MAKING MONEY.
I HAVE NEED OF NOTHING.
Mob Rule Our Greatest Menace
By Ex-Vice President ADLAI E. STEVENSON
WISn to utter solemn words of warning against an
evil of greater menace to public welfare than is to bc
apprehended from foreign foes-MOB RULE. In
many localities thc spirit of lawlessness has asserted
itself in its most hideous form. Mob rule has at times
usurped legal rule. Outrages have been perpetrated in the name
of summary justice. It need hardly be said that all this is in total
disregard of individual rights and UTTERLY SUBVERSIVE OF
ALL LAWFUL AUTHORITY. By the solemn adjudication of
courts and under the safeguards of law guilt is to be established and
the guilty are to be punished.
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Mob spirit is in deadly antagonism to all constituted authority.
Unless it is curbed IT WILL SAP TKE FOUNDATION OF
ORGANIZED SOCIETY. The lynching of a human creature is
no less MURDER when it is the act of a mob than when it is the
act of an individual. There is no safety to society but in an aroused
public sentiment that will hold EACH PARTICIPANT amenable
to law for the consequences of crime, cither perpetrated or abetted.
Let him be accounted a public enemy who would weaken the bonds
of human society and strike down what it has cost our race the
sacrifice and toil of centuries to achieve.
is better equipped than
TYPE and N."
H?^Send
WHY CITIES
ATTRACT
THE PEOPLE
By
SETH LOW,
Mayor of New York
HESE are days in which everybody tends TOWARD
THE CITY. It is easy enough to understand this
tendency, for in the cities are a greater volume
and variety of employment ai.d an equally greater
volume and variety of entertainment. The trend of
life in cities, however, has produced some results
the effects of which are only BEGINNING TO BE REALIZED.
It used to be thought that the city had done enough for the child life
of its population when it provided ample school accommodations.
It has come to be realized, however, in all the larger cities of the
country-certainly it is, in my own city-that the crowding together
of many people in the city as the city grows changes the environment
of children MOST UNFORTUNATELY. They are ape to suffer
for air in their homes, and they are likely ti be deprived of oppor
tunities for play. It has come to be believed with us, therefore,
that the city has no higher duty to its own people or to the nation
than to afford natural opportunities for its children for PLAY as
well as for WORK and for study. f
I THINK THERE IS NO INFLUENCE IN OUR DAY MORE EN
COURAGING THAN THE MARKED EFFORT THAT IS BEING MADE
IN THE VARIOUS CITIES OF THE COUNTRY TO LOOK AFTER
THIS SIDE OF ITS LIFE.
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There ia one thing to be said of every city-that just because it
draws into itself the best that is in the country round about it and
often from far afield it is UNDER SPECIAL OBLIGATION to
give back in some form of service that which it has so abundantly
received. I congratulate the people of Chicago upon the splendid
energy with which they have built upon the site of the old fort not
one city, but two-one rising, like a phenix, from the ashes of the
other-in so short a time a's a century. I wish that our cities may
take into themselves the elements of power that come from the
country, as the coal receives the rays of the sun and gives the power
back again in warmtli and light ; that it may bc thc object of every
city not simply to become great in size, but GREATLY TO SERVE
THE WORLD.
ENGLAND IS AT AMERICA'S MERCY
By Slr GEORGE BARKLEY, Member British Parliament
S things are at present England is AT AMERICA'S* j
MERCY commercially. She has no means of defend
ing herself. Now, we may all say we do not like war,
.Jbjlt.if-a.inan shnnt.*-^* n?tonally WISH v/-?5H^;f|
BACK. England is at present the dumping ground
for cheap goods of all kinds from the United States and from Ger
many and France. America sends to us everything she does not
want, but she has built up a wall in the way of protectiftn which pro
hibits us from sending our goods in return. OUR ONLY HOPE
IS TO ADOPT SIMILAR TACTICS-not that I believe in a
protective tariff, but I think it'would set the people of the United ?
States to thinking, and they would in time open their doors to us, so
that we could find a market for our manufactures. I should like to
see. the whole world adopt free trade.
"LABOR LEADERS MIST GET SEflSE"
By JOHN W. GATES
"lATlHAT with strikes and blackmail by the unions IT NOW
J-?J COSTS $2,000,000 TO BUILD A $1,000,000 BU1LD
ffs^J ING. That means that the public pays in higher rents,
for the builder must get his interest on his investment. Unless
labor leaders get some COMMON SENSE they will paralyze all
trades and their followers will find themselves out of jobs.
THE PRESENT INDUSTRIAL DEPRESSION
By CHARLES M. SCHWAB
|N the industrial situation I am an optimist. WALL
STREET DOES NOT REFLECT THE INDUS
TRIAL SITUATION. I do not feel comp?tent
to pass on the causes for the Wall street depression.
I am in the steel business. But I do know that they
cannot and will not directly affect the industry of the country. It
is true that there is a temporary diminution of the
great volume of business that we have been doing,
but that does not mean stagnation.
LABOR'S EXORBITANT DEMANDS HAVE DONE
MORE THAN A N'Y OTHER ONE THING TO BRING
ABOUT THIS SETBACK. THIS IS ESPECIALLY
TRUE OF THE BUILDING TRADE. OF COURSE,
TOO, CAPITAL IS NOT SO FREE AS IT WAS.
I believe that the country may safely look for a steady increase
in the volume of the steel business, and I look upon the steel busi
ness as the basis of the industry of the country and as the surest
indication of general conditions.
We cannot always expect to have thc unprecedented demand
that we had a short time ago. That was an ABNORMAL busi
ness condition. There may be a slight falling off now and then,
but the increase will none the less be steady.
In 1870 the steel products of this country were 1,000,000 tons.
This year they were 15,000,000 tons. That doesn't look like going
backward. And the volume will continue to increase. These little
disturbances, in my opinion, arc NOT ALARMING. They will
come at times from one cause or another. But I predict that we
will have PLENTY OF BUSINESS in this country for a long
time to come.
ever for turning out FIRS
E3W SUPPLY OF M ATERI
us your orders. Satisfaction Guaranteed. OUR WORD I
THE PULPIT
i AND THE STAGE
g By 'AMELIA BINGHAM ^<
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F a minister would reach the people who need a help
ing hand he cannot see REAL LIFE pictur?d hotter
than thrc.igh a good theatrical performance. The
theatrical profession is no worse morally than any
other profession, and it has a service to perform for
humanity as well as has the church. A minister is
gojpd, and he is EXPECTED to be good. Ho,OUGHT to be good,
because he is surrounded by good influences and good people. It's
qiate a different thing to go out and meet all conditions and kinds
of people. Ah, there's the test of goodness !
THE STAGE AND THE CHURCH MUST WORK TOGETHER. THE
CHURCH MUST PREACH AND THE STAGE MUST ENTERTAIN.
EACH CAN COMBINE ENTERTAINING AND PREACHING TO A CER
I TAIN EXTENT.
The theater reaches a class of people that the church does not
rejich, and each is helpful to its following. I frequently receive
letters from persons-and ministers, too-who say they have re
ceived helpful lessons from my plays.
YOU MUST DE AW A LINE BETWEEN CLASSES OF
BELAYS, and not go to those that you would not have members of
your congregation or families attend. Still, if the minister would
not grow stale in his preaching, if he would keep new ideas before
bis people, it would be well for him to attend certain plays.
The best illustrations are always made by CONTRASTS. A
moral can be shown in a clearer light on the stage by having men
and,yyomen of different characters play together side by side, and
in art WE MUST ENDEAVOR TO BE TRUE TO. LIFE:
The minister employs contrasts in his sermon. He does not
always talk of HEAVEN, but tells of that other place so that his
hearers may better understand what is promised for the good and
for the bad.
"Shall we look to the stage for our preaching?" I recently heard
some one ask. I say emphatically, No. Ti we did OUR THEA
TERS WOULD BE EMPTY. Yet our profession is as goad as
any other and is composed of men and women with hearts and souls
like those of other human beings, and yet with all the work there
is no profession in which one's ambition to reach the top is SO
SELDOM REACHED as in this.
m ONLY WAY TO SERVE MANKIND
|HE changing of ji man's conception of the world in
volves inevitably the changing of the manner in
which he lives, and the change in his mode of life
not only aids in the changing of his possessions and
of his conception of the world, but still more influ
ences this change in DIRECTING HUMAN AT
TENTION AND ACTIVITY IN A FALSE WAY. To change
the mode of life while hoping by this means to change the qualities
of men and their conception of the world is the same thing as
placing green wood in the stove in the hope that somehow it will
burn.
This error is so evident that men could not be addicted to it
were there not a CAUSE tending to this DECEIT. This cause
is that the changing of the qualities of men commences voluntarily
and demands much from strifes and from work, while the change
in the mode of life is made easily, without internal effort, and has
the aid of a most important and serious activity.
IT IS AGAINST THIS EVIL, THE GREATEST SOURCE OF EVIL,
THAT I WOULD WARN MEN WHO DESIRE SINCERELY TO SERVE
THEIR NEIGHBORS BY THEIR LIFE.
It would be perfect if each could serve men as he pleases, but
that is impossible. There is ONLY ONE WAY OF SERVING
MEN, of improving their condition j it is to profess the doctrine
whence proceeds the internal work of the perfecting of oneself
and the perfecting of the true Christian, who naturally always lives
among men and not away from them; consists in the establishment
of better relations, more and more cordial, between him and other
men. The establishment of such relations between men cannot but
ameliorate their general condition, ALTHOUGH THE FORM
OF THE AMELIORATION REMAINS UNKNOWN TO
MAN.
AMERICAN HOME LIFE HAS CHANGED
By Mrs. FRANK LESLIE
THE aspect of home life has changed. Where are be
T
capped grandmothers of yesteryear? Gone. Instead
we find a frivolous, happy and youthful woman HOLD
I LNG ON TO HER YOUTH LIKE GRIM DEATH.
Where are our firesides and our roasted apples ? Turn
appl ei
ed into brilliant restaurants and crab salads. And why not? One
influence has. changed the four walls of home into a grand universe.
It is the EMANCIPATION OF WOMEN. Formerly woman
was the essence of home. Now she goes out into the world and
fights shoulder to shoulder with man. When she changed her
darning basket for a typewriter home life was turned about.
The American home is better today than any oilier I know.
The French home is in the street or else a restaurant. When it
rains in Paris the people groan. They find no happiness within
their four walls. Home in England is a woman's prison. She is
subservient to her husband. She is little better than an upper
servant, only she does not draw wages.
GIVE ME THE FREE AMERICAN HOME.
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T-CLAS WORK. NEW
AL just arrived.
rOR IT.
SNAPPY
FALL S?lTS AND
OVERCOATS.
FRESH FROM THE WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS MAKERS.
ELIGANT NEW FALL STYLES.
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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.
fW^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.
WA
I. C. LEVY'S SON & CO
AUGUSTA, CA.
Correct Dressers
for Men and Boye.
fi
th? Bauul-uazoak.
Like eucii of the viirious clans of the
Kurds, the bashi-bazouk can easily be
distinguished by his costume. His
shoes or "yemcnys" (meaning leather)
are red or black. His golflike stock
ings, which leave the knee exposed, are
elaborately embroidered in black, his
short Turkish trousers are of home
spun, while about his waist is a short
sash of wool or silk, surmounted by a
leather belt in rich colors a\id embossed
In red. This is divided into three or
four sections, in which he keeps his re
volver, his chibouk or pipe and his yat
aghan, always kept sharp. The bashi
bazouks never carry daggers, as the
Circassians do. A cartridge box hangs
from the side, as also a small sliver
snuffbox. They wear two Jackets
the under one with short sleeves and
the outside one with long. At the el
bow ls ar. opening in which they carry
in a leather bag written quotations J
from the Koran as a talisman to pro-}
is consequently denied his "people."
The casino authorities decline admis
sion on their own account to any per
son who on a previous occasion' may
have lost all his money at the tables
and may have Lid to ask for financial
assistance from them to procure a rail
way ticket for home.
To secure this money one goes to the
office of-the administration, which is
at the top of a steep staircase, and aft
er signing sundry documents the vic
tim has to sit to a photographer. This
photograph is preserved for future ref
erence, and the man who is on this
black list has**very little chance of re
newing acquaintance with the gilded
saloons until he has repaid the debt.
silver coins, from which Is suspended a
powder box.
Monte Carlo'? Black List.
It is usually imagined that any one
may enter the gambling saloons of
Monte Carlo and try his or her luck at
the tables where roulette, treute-et
quaranto and baccarat are played. But
the Trince of Monaco has made a rule
that no resident In his "dominion" is to
he allowed admission, and the privilege
In Old Nantucket.
Nantucket island is full of strange
names. Here are a few of them:
Coatue, Coskata, Nauma, Wauwinet,
Pocomo, Squam, Quidnit, Qualse, Ca
Tfoacha^Sankoty bead, Poipls, Siascon
ferritories of the late ,Sa($~?rosJwjft?~
nochmamock, Autapscot and Foconet,
the Shearing Pens, Shawkemo, Sbim
mo, Monomoy, Massasoit bridge,
Nopque, Wannacomet, the Washing
pond, No Bottom pond, Saul's hills,
Cain's hill, Hensdale, Popsquatchet,
Trofs hill, Maddequet, Whale House
lookout, Mlacomet pond, the Haulover,
Tuckernuck, Muskeget, Abram's point,
Jeremy's cove, Wigwam ponds and
Egypt
INSURANCE
FIRE Insurance,HEALTH Insurance,
ACCiDEN Insurance, Fidelity -
and Indemnity Bonds of
all description issued.
Your Business solicited.
GRIFFIN & MUS
A, Ga IFFIN. E. J. MIMS
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 represent S ITH
BROS., of AUGUSTA, GA., and cad supply you with Gro
ceries at Augusta Prices. Give me a call. Respectfully,
E, S. JOHNSON
ADVERTISER BUILDING
Augusta Bee Hive
Has just received a full and complete line of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
Consisting of CLOTHING for stout and lean men ; Clothing fo
Youths; Clothing for Men and Boys. Also a full Hue of Oveicoat
for MPH nnd Bovs. The finest assortment of Men's and Boys Hats
A fuil and complete 1 ii.e of
-^FURNISHING GOODS^
My Dress Goods Department consists of everything the ladies
," ed in" Plain and Fancy Goods. SILKS of all shades ai.d prices. In
Ri ady-to-wear Skirts and Shirts, I have the most complete line in
?v?illiixery ?epa^traent
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My Millinery-Department is complete in every detail. All t]
different styles <^f Walking Hats aud Dress Hats, of the finest quali
and latest Parisian styles,
Stioes.
iimiiuiiiiuiiiiiuiiifaiiiitiiiiin imiimniioiim iimuiiaiiiiiiiii
My stock of Shoes is too well known to need any comments
have for the tiny infants to the No. 14 brogans. All you need is to
all at THE AUGUSTA BEE HIVE to be convinced that this is the
lace to get your bargains.
ABE COHEN PRO